Filed to story: Wolf Crying Mate of the Alpha by Jazz Ford
‘I’m going to find someone to help. I’ll be right back, Magnus. Whatever you do, don’t shift.’
Everyone is panicking and fleeing the library. Pipsqueak disappears into the crowd. The entire school can probably hear my screams of pain. There is no use fighting my wolf anymore. I’m exhausted and barely conscious.
I stand on all fours and sway for a moment from exhaustion. My wolf exits the library and enters the school corridor. Anyone in the corridor quickly runs into the nearest classroom and locks the door.
Dozens of students stare out the windows. They tremble at the fierce size of my wolf with my snarling large teeth on show. I have no control over my wolf. He won’t listen to me.
‘I know you want your mate and we will find her one day, but we need to keep Nina safe.’
He lets out a ferocious growl. He has picked up a scent. I realise it’s Moss’s scent.
‘We can’t harm Moss; I know you hate him. I hate him too, but we are the future Alpha of this pack. We can’t go around killing someone just because we don’t like them.’
My wolf ignores me and is now in pursuit following the scent up the corridor. He stops at a locked door and howls. Moss is in the room.
My wolf rams into the door.
‘Magnus?’ Nina says behind me. Pipsqueak is next to her. ‘My wolf shakes his head, letting her know he is in control.’
‘I know Magnus can hear me. You need to give him back control.’
My wolf growls low.
Nina steps closer and kneels in front of my wolf, something no one else would dare do, not even Pipsqueak. She is so incredibly brave, facing my fierce, unpredictable wolf like this.
Her fingers caress the fur on my face and glide down my back. My wolf whimpers and lowers himself down and rolls onto his back.
Nina giggles as she scratches my belly.
No one can believe their eyes; we aren’t mates, yet she has the ability to have control over my wolf. It is unheard of and nothing anyone has seen before. I sit up and she wraps her arms around my neck. My wolf has completely calmed and completely forgotten Moss is only meters away.
My wolf is giving me some control back. I lower myself and whip my head back, gesturing for Nina to hop on my back. I want to take her somewhere, do something special for her.
With no hesitation, she smiles and climbs onto my back. I’m so large it’s like she is on horseback. I run back down the corridor and out of the school grounds with great speed, even faster than Nina could ever run. She screams with excitement as she holds onto the thrilling ride. We glide through the woods to the mountaintop. I let out a huge, dominant howl. Anyone that can shift does so and howls in return as a sign of respect. Nina spends an hour on my back. I don’t stop and I don’t slow down. My wolf is so happy to be running free and with Nina with us. He hasn’t even thought about our fated mate and is content. We finish our run by the lake. I run and thrash through the water. My fur is soaking wet. Nina swims around and laughs when I shake my body, causing droplets to splash onto her.
‘Magnus.’ She laughs.
My wolf collapses with happiness on the grass. The sun shines over me and dries my fur. Nina wrings the water from her shirt out and sits with her back against my belly.
‘I have never had so much fun, Magnus. You ran faster than I could even run. Wasn’t it the best feeling? It was so thrilling and so much fun?’
She turns her head to see my response but sees a giant sleeping wolf, passed out from exhaustion. She snuggles up to me and falls asleep.
Hours go by and I wake up dry to find Nina asleep against me. I spend the next half an hour silently watching her sleep until she wakes up.
Her eyes open and her lips grow wide with a smile. She sits up and pats me gently.
‘You’re going to have to shift back, you know. Did you want to do it now while I’m here or privately back home?’
Even though it will be extremely painful either way, it’s easier when Nina is with me. I focus my mind and whimper. She knows I’m going to shift now.
The pain is horrendous, but her touch helps soothe me through the process. I sit up in my human form, completely drenched and weak.
Nina throws her arms around my neck and hugs me. I place my hands on her back and make the most of the moment, knowing once I’m mated, I will never get to hold her like this again.
‘Let’s go home.’ She smiles.
She helps me stand and we trudge home. She has my arm over one shoulder, so I don’t fall. As soon as we arrive home, Leon and Seth quickly take me from Nina and help me to my room, where I pass out for the rest of the day and night.
‘He needs to stop shifting. What if one of these shifts kills him?’ Mother cries as I come down the stairs.
‘Mum please, I had no control over the shift. My wolf wouldn’t even listen to me, even after we shifted.’
‘You realise if you have no control over your wolf and you are shifting against your own will and your wolf’s only agenda is to kill people, the council will demand you to be locked up in the dungeon. Not only that, you may lose your rank as Alpha and they would then give it to Flint.’ My father says in a serious tone. ‘They have already summoned me to see them today, and it is probably because of your attack against school students yesterday.’ He says, slamming his fist on the table. He falls back into his chair and rests his forehead in his hand in frustration.
‘But I didn’t attack anyone. No one got hurt.’
‘You were going to attack someone, though. Students stated you were trying to break down a door to get into a classroom. You terrified everyone at the school. If it wasn’t for Nina, you would have hurt or, even worse, killed someone and would already be in the dungeon as we speak. And how Nina could calm your wolf without being your fated mate is an absolute mystery. People are spreading rumors she must be delving into witchery or magic of some kind to tame and ride your wolf. I told them Nina is into no such thing and to not spread misinformation about her, but I fear the rumors will spread, anyway.’
‘What do we do?’ I ask.
‘I think Nina and you can stay at home and school here for the next couple of weeks until the rumors stop spreading.’
Seth set up two desks for Nina and me in the packhouse. Dad thought Seth would be best at being our teacher. He was the most boring teacher and would drag on for hours, talking about the same topics. I scrunched up a roll of paper and threw it at the back of his head. Nina and I laughed but stopped when he turned around, unimpressed.
‘Which one of you threw that?’ Nina and I both shrugged and tried to hold in our laughter.
Later on, we made paper airplanes and threw them in the air. They flew and crashed into the whiteboard.
‘Are you two going to listen to the lesson and learn something or not? This is the last semester of the year until you both graduate.’ He huffed.
Almost two weeks after Seth’s gruelling home-schooling goes by. It’s now the weekend of Zak’s wolf ceremony.
‘I think it will be okay for you to both return to school on Monday,’ Dad says.
‘Thank goodness Dad, I don’t think I could handle any more lessons from Seth.’ I laugh.
‘Me either.’ Nina says. ‘I’ll see you at the ceremony tonight.’
‘Wait, where are you going?’ I ask.
‘I um… I’m going to see Moss…’
‘What! But why?’
‘We haven’t spoken to each other ever since your ceremony. I was going to talk to him at school that day about some things, but you ended up shifting and we haven’t been back at school since. He has been wanting to speak to me and I want to talk to him before I see him at the ceremony tonight.’
‘Do you want me to come with you?’
Nina bursts into laughter.
‘Because that would go down so well, wouldn’t it?’
‘Fine, I’ll see you at the ceremony tonight.’
She hugs me goodbye. I decide to hang out with Josie, Flint, and Zak.