Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Wow.” I blinked several times as I readjusted my eyes. “Now it seems strange to look at things with my eyes.”
“You don’t think that you are using your eyes to see it?” Lyssa asked me as she latched onto the words that I had just said.
“No, I don’t think that it’s my eyes that are seeing those other things. It’s more like my senses, or my magic. It’s something. I mean, I can feel a small pull of magic that is tugging at my senses when I 鈥榣ooked’ with my eyes closed. I have been practicing with my magic a lot more. Since the battle ended, my mom has been training me, Reagan, and Talia a lot more. She even gives some lessons to the quads, but not as much as us. They are still too young to learn some of what we are working on. We are learning combat magic on top of practical magic. And when this ability takes over my senses, it definitely feels like magic.” I explained to them as best as I could.
“Oh my Goddess, Rika, that is awesome. You see what I mean, you are so amazing.” Ashle hugged me tightly. “Come on. Let’s go out for the day. There is a mountain that is waiting for us. After we exhaust ourselves out there, we can spend some more time in the spa.” She was bouncing in excitement.
“Do you guys want to see if my new ability works while I am snowboarding?” I grinned at them all. Their eyes all lit up in excitement. I guess that we were really doing this. New magic was like a drug, and not just for the one that received it. The ones that were there to experience it with them were affected as well.
We all geared up and got ready to go snowboarding. I wanted to take on this slope since last night, but I knew that I was going to wait until today. Now that I was about to do it, and use my new power, I could feel the excitement just pouring off of me.
We all rode to the top of the mountain in groups of two, when we were up there, we strapped on our boards and skis and started to get ready to head down the mountain. None of us were novices when it came to snow sports, so we went to the most advanced trail that was on the mountain. I wanted some excitement before we headed back inside for relaxation.
I tied the scarf around my eyes once again. I wanted to make sure that I had a good enough grasp on this new ability before we left here. And what better way to prove that then to put it to the test. At first, I just went a little way down the slope and then walked back up with the others. It wasn’t much, but it was getting me more and more used to my new power. And I was still seeing things with my eyes covered. I was seeing while technically blinded. That was so amazing.
I was still a little nervous to try and go all the way down the slope at first. I wanted to get used to it all first. I had come up here extremely confident and ready to take on the mountain, but I wasn’t a complete idiot.
OK, it wasn’t that I was afraid of getting hurt. I was a wolf, witch, and Fae tribrid, just like my mother. I wasn’t going to get hurt, but I might destroy the board that I borrowed from the hotel. And even though I had more than enough money to replace it if I broke something, I didn’t really want to have to deal with that. I wanted the rest of this trip to be fun. I wanted it to be happy and amazing. I didn’t want to be feeling down because I was doing something before I was ready. So, that was why I decided to learn the lay of the land first.
In my mind, this just made the most sense. And, thankfully, my friends agreed with me. They didn’t want to ruin the rest of the weekend because we did something stupid. Not only that, but humans would wonder how I wasn’t hurt if I were to crash really badly. No, this was a time for caution.
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Rika
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Well, things were going great so far. I had gone at most a quarter of the way down the slope so far, and things were going just fine. There were more and more people that were joining us up here on the mountain, but that was fine. They were doing their thing and we were doing ours. This was a ski slope though, and that meant that we couldn’t just hang around at the top of it for too long. We needed to start heading down soon enough.
When I finally started my actual run down the mountain, with no plans to stop, everything was going perfectly fine. There were no problems at all. I was able to see everything that was on the mountain. And not only that, but I was seeing everything for about two hundred meters in each direction. I was able to see so much that it was next to impossible that I was going to end up crashing into something.
And I say next to impossible, because that was when an asshole, a man that just didn’t care at all zoomed in front of my board and intentionally turned so that I would hit him. I was about to hit him. I was about to crash right into his skis and tumble with him to the snow. I knew that he was wanting to say that I did something to him. He was seeking some sort of damages from me. I wish that there weren’t people like that in this world, but I guess that there was no escaping them, not even at a resort like this.
The only thing is though, I didn’t crash into him. Something pretty unique happened the moment that the man swerved himself in front of me, something that I wasn’t able to explain or even process right away. It was just so strange and unique that it threw me through a loop, literally. And it was several minutes before I was able to calm myself down enough to even start processing what it was that had happened. When I did though, it was unlike anything else that I had ever experienced before in my entire life, but I didn’t dislike it either.
Just mere seconds before I would have crashed into that asshole that cut me off, I felt myself leaving the ground. It was like there was a gust of wind and I weighed nothing at all. I was blowing back and away from the man until I was a safe enough distance away from him. Only that wasn’t where I stopped. And when I looked around, I saw that I was literally flying on the wind.
I went to look down, to see what was happening to my arms, my legs, my snowboard, and that was probably a mistake. Because when I looked at those things, there was nothing there. It was like I had gone completely invisible, yet I could still feel my body there. I could feel my limps, my extremities, I just couldn’t see them.
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“Alright.” I said to myself calmly. I almost started to scream. I almost lost my cool, but I didn’t. I managed to maintain my cool for a little while longer. “What the hell is going on here?” I asked myself as I tried to move toward Lyssa. She was the closest to me at the moment. Then I remembered that Ashle was supposed to be behind me. As I moved, or rather swirled, I turned to look at the place where I had thought that Ashle would be.
I saw her, she was there alright, but she had come to a sudden stop and was looking around the immediate area like something was wrong. And as I got closer to Lyssa, I saw the man that had slid in front of me. He was looking around angrily and yelling about where I went. He was pissed off that he hadn’t been able to scam me into paying for his medical bills and whatever else would have come from the accident.
“Fucking bitch just disappeared.” He grumbled as he started to ski away. I guess he was right. I really did disappear. And all my friends were stopping and wondering where I was.
“Rika?” Ashle called out and alerted Lyssa. She was the one that had been in the lead.
“Huh?” I heard her say right as I started to speak to her. I had somehow moved closer to her, but I didn’t feel like I was walking or running. It was almost like a swimming motion, but more than that as well.
“Lyssa?” I called out to her.
“What the hell? Rika? Where are you?” She was panicking and looking around. I had heard my own voice when she heard it, and it sounded like a sound that was lost in the wind, something that was blown away and barely there.
“I am right here, Lyssa.” I told her in as calm and steady of a voice as I possibly could. “I don’t know what happened. I..I think that I became the wind.”
“Th..the wind?” She asked as the others started toward us. “What does that mean?”
“Well, what does this feel like?” I asked her as I reached out with my invisible hand and touched her cheek.
“Holy shit, that was the wind, but it felt like a hand as well. Rika, d..did you really become the wind? How?”
“I don’t know.” I said, this time, the others were close enough to hear me talking.
“Wow, you even sound like wind now. That is like some haunting howling shit.” Ashle was excited as she spoke up. “Here, touch my hand.” She pulled off her glove and reached for me. “I want to feel it too.”
I did as Ashle asked. I reached out and touched her hand. However, she wasn’t content with just touching my hand. She tried to grab it, and although I could feel her touch, she just passed right through me.
“That felt weird.” I told her. “Don’t do that again.”
“Well, I think that it’s official, Rika. You are part of the wind right now.” Kaede said in amazement. “Do you think that your ability to see so much was part of the wind? Or is it just that you’re part of the air or atmosphere. The air touches pretty much everything, but not the wind. You were able to see inside the room, where there was no wind. So, maybe, you’re more air than wind. And when air moves it becomes wind.” She was trying to explain away what she was thinking.
“That is actually a good idea, Kaede.” Sophia nodded her head. “I think that this is really what is happening here. I mean, think about it, she is invisible, her words sound like they are lost in the wind, and her touch is like a breeze, that all indicates wind to me, but it’s as you say as well. The wind is the air, and the air is what she became. I am sure that, on a perfectly calm day with absolutely no wind, you would still be able to use your other sight and move like this. You are part of the air, Rika. That is amazing.”