Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“These powers that you got for your birthday, Rika, they are amazing.”
“M..my birthday?” I said the words in awe. “I had almost forgotten that. You are right. I woke up with these powers on my birthday. I am nineteen now, and my mom shifted on her nineteenth birthday. She already proved that magical things happen for our family on our nineteenth birthdays. I can’t believe this. It’s amazing.” I tried to move around again and the wind in the area picked up a little.
“Hey, don’t move so fast.” Isabella said with a laugh. “That was a big gust.”
“Sorry, I was excited and moved really fast.” I laughed at them and heard my laughter like a ghost in the wind. “This is pretty fun.”
I wondered for a moment if I was able to move them with the wind. Not like a tornado, not really, but would I be able to make an upward draft to pick them up? I sped toward the ground, turned, and then sped up again underneath Lyssa. I got her off the ground, but it was hard to keep her positioned right.
“Damn.” I said as I caught her before she crashed. “Sorry.”
“No, it’s OK. You’re exploring. We can work on this more later though. I hear more people coming.”
“Yeah, me too.” Alexa said as she turned to look up the slope. “Can you get back to your other form?”
“I will try. I don’t know how, though.”
I closed my eyes and started to think about the way that I normally was, how I looked and felt. I also thought about calm winds that barely blew or gusted. I thought of what I wanted to be doing when I rematerialized, where I needed to be standing. And when I opened my eyes, I saw that it had worked. The wind was gone, and I was back standing in my human form.
“Cool.” I smiled at them all.
“This was amazing.” The others agreed.
“Well, let’s head back down the mountain. Then I think we should try to think about all that has happened today.” Kaede looked at me seriously.
We did as Kaede had suggested. We made our way down the mountain and back toward the room. We ordered food and talked about things in the room for the rest of the day. We did go to the spa again, and to another restaurant for dinner, but we talked a lot during the day. And when we got home late the next afternoon, after some much needed retail therapy with my friends, I knew that I needed to talk to my mom about what had happened. I knew that she was going to want to know all the details about this new power of mine, and that was why I was glad that I had explored them a little bit. Not as much as becoming the wind thing, but my extra sight. And that was still there when I woke up today, it might have even been stronger today than it was the day before.
Still, I was wondering what my mom was going to say about it. What she was going to think about me gaining more powers on my birthday like that. It was pretty amazing in my opinion, and I was thinking that she would agree with me.
This weekend had been completely unexpected, however it had also been amazing. I knew that I also needed to thank my sister for making it happen. She truly was a good person, and I knew that I needed to appreciate her more.
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Riviana
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Well, I hadn’t been expecting any of what I had been told today. First, earlier this afternoon, Reagan told me that he had shifted into a Lycan. And he had shown it to Joaquin as well. That was amazing beyond belief, but that wasn’t the end of it either.
Just now, Rika had come into the room in a rush with a smile and nervous eyes. What was she going to tell me? What was going to be happening right now? Was it going to be another secret like her brother’s had been?
“Wh..why do you look so expectant, Mom?” Rika asked me as she looked between Joaquin and I. “And you as well, Dad, why do you look so strange?”
“Well, you came to us in a hurry, Rika. With everything else that has happened today, we’re just a little excited. I mean, it has to be something good, right?” Joaquin was trying not to blow it that he was expecting something really major here, and he was blowing it.
“What do you mean? What else happened today?” That made her frown and look away in worry. “Did something bad happen?”
“No, it was nothing bad, sweetheart.” I took her hand and assured her. “You see, it’s just that your brother came to see us earlier. And he had something really exciting to tell us. I think that your dad is just excited that you have something to tell us as well.”
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“Well, what was it that Reagan had to tell you?” She knew that I had to be talking about Reagan. That helped me to know right away that she did have an important secret to tell us, but she wanted to know what her brother’s was first. I didn’t have a problem with telling her, because it was going to become common knowledge in the family soon enough anyway. And I was sure that he would want his twin sister to know what it was that had happened to him. They were close after all.
“Your brother is taking after your father even more.” I started to explain, but Joaquin took over.
“He’s a Lycan, like me. He can turn into the true werewolf form. It’s amazing. He had a form that is just like one of my other forms. The only one that he doesn’t have is the Phoenix, and that might come later. I was so excited when he told me that I changed into my Lycan form. And he showed me his. It was amazing.”
“Oh, wow.” I could see the shock and awe that was in Rika’s eyes. Whatever it was that she needed to tell us, it wasn’t that she was a Lycan as well. So, what was it that had happened to her during her birthday celebration?
“So, Rika, what is it that you need to tell us?” I asked her, prompting her to start explaining why she had come to us in excitement.
“Oh, yeah.” She shook her head and smiled. “Sorry, news that Reagan is a Lycan was a little out of left field, I hadn’t been expecting it.” She laughed. “I am so happy for him.” She was still smiling despite what she heard, so I knew that she wasn’t feeling discouraged about his news. That was good, I didn’t want her to think that her news wasn’t important.
“So, what is it?” Joaquin asked her excitedly. I could feel the waves of emotion pouring off of him and almost laughed.
“Well, I woke up yesterday to something being really different. Even before I opened my eyes, I was able to see.” She was grinning madly.
“You could see? With your eyes closed?” I asked her in wonder. “How was that possible?”
“I didn’t get it at first, but I was definitely seeing. I can’t see the patterns of clothes or what is on a picture or TV screen, but I can see everything that is solid. And I can see what is behind something as well. It will go up to about two hundred meters in any direction.” She was excitedly explaining it all to us as she told us what happened.
She said that she could see things that were behind her, behind other items, all of it. And she could see it even with a blindfold over her eyes. She didn’t need to open her eyes to see, and that was what made her and the others start to figure it out. That and what happened next.
“YOU WERE FLYING?!” Joaquin bellowed the question after Rika told us what happened when they were skiing and snowboarding.