Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“You better not go back on your words, Fido, cause I hate liars.” I glared at him with defiance practically oozing out of my eyes.
I knew I wasn’t going to beat Joaquin in a fair wolf fight. But I wasn’t just a wolf now was I? I had many tricks up my sleeve, and the point of me learning so much is so I could put it all to good use.
I Quickly shifted into his favorite thing to think of me as. One minute he held himself propped above my wolf form, pressing my front legs to the ground. The next, I was twisting to the side and rolling out from under him while he looked confused at the empty space where my head was just a few moments ago.
As soon as I had rolled and hopped out from under his large, looming presence, I shifted again. I spun on the spot as a rabbit for just a second and the next I was standing above him on my hind legs, looking down at him from a higher place than I had thought I’d ever be while standing on my own two legs. This time I took the form of a bear. These front legs would be larger and more powerful when holding a prey in place.
I didn’t waste any time though, I just lunged forward and wrapped my front legs around his upper body, pinning his arms to his chest. I was slightly stronger in this form, but not strong enough it seemed. No sooner had I pinned his arms to his sides did he start to force them back out. With his muscles flexing and his shirt ripping under the strain to the fabric, he pushed my massive, claw tipped paws away from him and pushed me backwards.
I stumbled for just a moment as he rose to his feet and started toward me. I didn’t waste a second of my time though, I knew he was coming. I shifted again, this time to the form of an eagle, soaring into the air. I flew higher and higher, ten feet, twenty, thirty, finally I was at least three hundred feet off the ground. Thanks to the excellent vision of eagles, I could still see everyone on the ground clear as day.
I hovered for just a moment as I planned my next move. Once I had my mind made up I pointed my beak down and pressed my wings back, driving straight toward my husband’s face. I knew he would move at the last second, out of the way of the leathally sharp beak, while still trying to catch me out of the air.
Once I was close enough for him to step to the side, just like I predicted he would, I shifted. He thought I was going to attack as an eagle, but he didn’t expect the three hundred pound tiger that landed with deadly accuracy right against his chest.
Joaquin was knocked off his feet instantaneously, slamming onto the ground with the wind being forcefully pushed from his lungs. I heard his head slam against the ground and the crack of more than one of his ribs from the impact, but I knew he would heal and I had to prove myself here.
With my face just inches from his I snarled at him, baring my wickedly sharp, three inch long, snowy white teeth. It would have taken me no time at all to rip his throat out if he were a real enemy. It would have been done in an instant while he was trying to catch his breath. I had won this round and he had to admit that.
“Fine, I yield. You would have killed me just now if I was Edmond.”
“Not to mention, he wouldn’t have your advantages.” I reminded him.
“The strength and speed?” He wondered.
“Knowing what I can do.” I told him with a smile in my voice. “But I’m glad you admitted defeat. Save some face in front of your friends sweetheart.” I joked with him before licking the side of his face with a quick flash of my large, pink tongue.
That was the end of me holding back. I started fighting with them for real, and I quickly learned everything Lucas had to offer. I would add it to everything else to make a style that was all my own.
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Riviana
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The days that I didn’t have wolf training I had Witch training. It was difficult at first, but I eventually got the hang of it. It didn’t take long for me to get used to the flow of magic through my body but it was still exhausting.
Moving magic took a lot of effort and drained a lot of energy. I was beyond tired everyday that I worked with Crawford and Eldrige but I had a lot I still needed to learn. There were a lot of things that they wanted, and needed, to teach me before we went back home.
We started first with shielding magic. Shielding myself and others would be a great thing, especially if I were hanging in the back of a fight. It would even come in handy when I was in the front of the fight.
So, I started with blocking things. First it was just how Joaquin told me they trained Vincent with his shockwave magic. Crawford, Eldrige, and Gabriel took turns throwing different things at me. I admit, I got hit a lot at first. But it only took me about twenty minutes to make a shield that would protect me from the small projectiles.
After that little task was done, I needed to make a shield that would stop people from entering. I had to keep people away from me like a shield was meant for. This was using the magic more as a barrier than a shield.
This part was harder, and I admit, it took me two days worth of practicing to make one strong enough to actually work like it was supposed to. I could keep all three of them out when I wanted to.
I also practiced using these shields as prisons. If I could make a shield around someone I could stop them from moving altogether. After some practice I managed to make shield prisons of various sizes. I could make them large enough for several people, or small enough for just one person.
Crawford also gave me the task of forming a shield that let certain people in while keeping out the others. This type of shield was by far the hardest. I could set parameters, like keeping out enemies, keeping out men, or keeping out specific people. But this type of shield required a lot of concentration and a lot of magic. But the benefit was that those allowed in could just keep walking like nothing was there, and those being kept out would bounce off an invisible wall.
Over a few lessons I worked on making shields that would keep out specific people, like keep Crawford out but let in Eldrige and Gabriel, or some variation of that. I was the most drained on these days, they were the worst since that first day. But I did it, and I was immensely proud of myself for it.
After shields, apparently, the next logical step was bindings. I was going to be able to either block people with my shield or magically tie them up. And I won’t deny that my mind went somewhere it shouldn’t have when I heard the word bindings. Bad me, stop thinking like that during training.
It felt weird at first to tie up my friends and instructors. But I started using the bindings as part of pranks to make the practice go easier. People didn’t find it as funny as I did when they suddenly found their feet magically bound together when they were trying to walk. I laughed a little more than I should have when they fell. But I was nice and never let anyone get hurt. I used my other magic to make a last minute soft landing. I’m a kind hearted prankster, to everyone except Joaquin cause he’s fair game.
The bindings were very simple magic to learn. That or I was just starting to learn it all faster. But I was able to move on from them fairly quickly.
The next thing I wanted to work on was my whirl wind. I knew I had a mark for it under my warlock side and I had done it once before so I knew I could do it again. I just needed to practice, practice, practice.
I tried remembering and imagining everything that I had thought of that night to make the whirlwind happen but that was to no avail. I had thought about the wind, about tornados, and moving. It took several days of meditating and trying. But after a while I finally got it, sort of. I managed to move five feet.
It took me another week of practice to move anything more substantial, but by the time I was done I was moving all over the training grounds. I managed to move at least fifty yards by the time the week was over and the feel was exhilarating. At not once did I ever get dizzy from spinning around inside a miniature tornado.
I could also use my mind link like it was a cell phone. I had been using it with my guards and other pack members back home, but I could use it with the warlocks now as well. And now that I had it figured out, they could use it to contact me now too.
The others would need to practice their part on their own, using it to speak to each other as well as to me, but I could apparently use my mind link to contact people from a long distance away. And if they concentrated really hard on their mind link to me, assuming I had opened one to them before, then they could contact me as well.
If someone tried to call me, for lack of a better word for it, I would end up hearing a small buzzing inside my head and just instinctively know who was on the other end. I tried it a lot with Joaquin and my guards while they were training, effectively bothering them while they were busy, but I found it fun. And we had them practice the link the other way, calling me as well.
The real test I put it through was when I called home to mom. She didn’t expect the buzzing then the words coming from inside her head out of nowhere, but she was happy to hear from me just the same. That was how I learned that I had no distance limits on my mind link. And, I had a gut feeling I could use that link to call in reinforcement that I hadn’t even met yet. I felt it as what I was effectively calling the alpha summons.
This alpha summons meant that I would contact every alpha in the world. I would summon them to my aid. Or, I could narrow it down to a specific area. If I was fighting somewhere and needed back up, I would contact the alphas that could get there in time and they would be compelled to come help their queen. That would come in handy too, huh.
