Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
At that moment, a little delayed from the others, my parents came running into the room. I had a feeling that one of the guards went to get them, since the sound didn’t travel up to their room very well, they wouldn’t have heard me screaming like that.
“Talia!?” Mom was looking at me with wide, shocked eyes.
“You shifted?” My dad, dead tired and stating the obvious, stopped in his tracks as he looked at me.
I stood and walked over to the middle of the room. I wanted to see what I looked like. They were all staring at me like I was not normal. And I saw why when I looked in the mirror.
My wolf was not a normal color. Like my mom, I had one that was different. Actually, our dad’s wolf was odd now as well. And Reagan and Rika had wolves that weren’t normal, but I felt like I was the closest to mom’s level of different.
Instead of a solid colored wolf, I was looking at one that was a deep purple, like wine. The dark purple color was broken by streaks of lavender that ran through my fur. And my eyes were glowing a bright violet. I was different in all ways possible. I didn’t know why, but my wolf was unlike all of the others.
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Alexio
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Things were tense in the castle right now. Talia and the other kids weren’t allowed to leave. Those murderers that we were chasing all over the world were now here in our own city. Talia’s last vision was of her friends and classmates being murdered right very close to the place that we slept at night. Things were just getting worse by the day.
Talia and the others were a little upset about the current situation. However, whereas the other kids were upset about not being able to go to school and see their friends, Talia was the most upset about the potential loss of life.
In the two days since she had had the vision at school, Talia had seemed to be stressing more than I had ever seen her before. In the many years that I had known her, she had always done her best to hide the emotions that she didn’t want people to see. It was like she was trying to prove that she was stronger than they thought or something. These last couple days though, she has looked like she was about to crack. This case, and these visions, they were getting to her in a very bad way.
Right now, at this very moment, it was four in the morning. I was still awake right now, because Talia was still awake. As her guards, Rudy and I had dorms that were next to her room. They weren’t meant to be a place that we used as our permanent residence or anything, but I spent more time here than anywhere else. I didn’t have a mate or a family. Talia was all that I had. My work was my life and that meant that my life revolved around her at the current moment.
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As I listened to Talia pacing around the room I thought about the future. As Talia got older and older, I knew that she would eventually find someone to be with. She would have a mate and he would help to protect her. Just like Joaquin helps to protect his wife even though she has a lot more guards than almost any one person needs. Talia would be that way in the future. Maybe, when she found the man to make her happy, I could find myself a mate. That would be the time for me to do so. But until that time came around, Talia was my main focus.
And as my main focus, I didn’t like letting her suffer. I didn’t want to know that she was hurting and there was nothing that I could do about it. As her guard I was supposed to stop things from hurting her, that was my job. But the only things that I was truly able to protect her from were physical. These emotional problems were out of my realm of expertise. And knowing that was even harder for me.
I guess that both Talia and I were suffering. She was hurting because of the case. I was hurting because I couldn’t stop her from hurting. I felt like a failure of a guard that wasn’t able to do his job at all.
I think that Talia might have finally fallen asleep. While I was thinking about these useless things, and how I needed to improve myself, I stopped hearing the sound of her pacing. She must have finally settled down enough to sleep.
She usually has a hard time sleeping, but not this bad. I was used to her being up until one or two in the morning sometimes, but not pacing her room until she passed out from exhaustion.
“Hahh.” I sighed as I finally relaxed in my bed. “What am I going to do Talia? What can I do?”
I was just starting to drift off to sleep, to get what little bit of it I could, when I was startled awake. The sounds that I heard were so frightening to me. What I heard was the sound of Talia’s agonized screaming coming from her room.
“AAAAHHHH! AAAAHHHH! AAAAHHHH! AAAAHHHH! AAAAHHHH!”
The very millisecond that I heard Talia’s voice begin to scream I was on my feet. The next millisecond I had my shirt back on and was sliding my feet into my boots. I wasn’t wasting any time here. None at all.
“AAAAHHHH! AAAAHHHH! AAAAHHHH! AAAAHHHH! AAAAHHHH!” By the time that she screamed again, I was out my door and running toward hers. I wasn’t the only one either. Rudy was only seconds behind me as we raced toward her door. And the other doors in the hall, all of them, opened as well. The other guards, all the other children, were running toward us right now. They were scared because of the screams and worried about Talia.
“What is happening?” Reagan, the big brother and proactive protector, called out as he raced toward me in his pajama pants.
“I don’t know. I am finding out now. Send one of the other guards to get your parents.”
After yelling out those orders to Talia’s brother, who I didn’t have that sort of authority over, I slammed into Talia’s door and broke it off of its hinges. I didn’t care. The door could be fixed easily. Talia might be in real danger.
“TALIA!” Rudy and I both screamed for her the moment that we were in the room, but she just screamed in agony and fear once again.
TALIA!?” I called her again as I ran across the room toward her bed. I could already smell the sharp tang of blood in the air and that didn’t help me at all.
“WHAT HAPPENED!?” I could hear the fear in Rudy’s voice. Not that he would be hurt, but for Talia.
“AAAAHHHH! AAAAHHHH! AAAAHHHH! AAAAAHHHH! AAAAHHHH!”
“TALIA!” I skidded to a halt next to her and I just wanted to scream myself. “TALIA WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU!?”
Rudy and I were both kneeling next to the bed and trying to find out what was wrong with Talia as she screamed over and over again. As the sounds came from her mouth I could hear the sound of blood bubbling in her throat. What had done this to her? Where had all this blood come from?
Talia wasn’t listening to me or Rudy though. She didn’t seem to be capable of it. And the more that I spoke to her without her being able to respond, the more frightened I became.
“TALIA!” I lifted her into my arms and started to check her for injuries. I needed to know where the blood had come from. “What happened to you? Who hurt you? How did this happen?” She didn’t answer me though, she just continued to scream like something had scared her to the brink of insanity. And while she screamed she sobbed. The tears were leaving large streaks in the blood on her face. “Talia, please, you have to stop screaming and talk to me.”
All of the siblings started to unleash a barrage of questions. I didn’t know what to tell them because I didn’t know what was wrong with their sister. If I did know I wouldn’t be as scared as I was now.
“She doesn’t appear to be hurt.” Rudy noted as I finished checking for injuries. He was right, but that didn’t help the situation.
“If she isn’t hurt, then what happened to her?” The older brother asked as he walked closer to us.