Filed To Story: Falling for the Alpha As a Student Novel
Zagreus said, much to her relief. “But I won’t be able to use my magic. It makes me powerless unless I have a moonstone.”Jazzy pressed her lips firmly together as she traveled to the window of her study and peered out into the night sky. A hazy light shield was surrounding the pack. She clenched her fists together furiously.
“They are protecting this pack,”
Jazzy said through her teeth. “How do they know where you are?”
“Do you see any orbs of light?”
Zagreus asked.
She squinted her eyes at the shield and on the very top she saw one orb of light where the shield was originally cast.
“I see one, yes,”
Jazzy said feeling and sounding annoyed.
“If there is only one then I doubt they know I’m here. Or else they’d all be here and trying to cast me out. They are here to protect this pack and I’m assuming others as well. There’s 4 of them all together,”
Zagreus said, trying and failing at taking a deep breath.
He was still hunched over and feeling a wave of pain electrocuting his insides.
“You’re powerless?”
Jazzy breathed. She stared down at her hands and felt less powerful than she had moments ago. Her brows furrowed together. “Will it affect me as well?”
“All dark magic is being cast away,”
he answered. “The only thing that will strengthen our abilities is a moonstone. I need to get out of this shield before I revert to my snake form.”
“Alpha Jonathan has a warehouse that is rigged to hold the strongest Volana. Will that work?”
Jazzy asked, holding onto one of his arms.
“As long as it’s outside this barrier;”
he answered. “I won’t be able to cast this dark curse next week unless I get my hands on a moonstone.”
“I might have one somewhere. I’ll look for it later. I need to get you out of here first,”
Jazzy said quickly as they made their way out of the study door.
“The curse is strong enough to cast away the guardian’s protection, but I won’t be able to do it without the stone.”
They made their way down the spiral staircase and into the foyer of Alpha Jonathan’s manor. Zagreus let out a low scream as he doubled over; Jazzy heard a bone cracking loudly. He was turning back into his snake form by force and when it’s done by force it’s extremely painful.
“Keep going!”
He growled. She held onto his arm which was now attached to the side of his body and pulled him along with him. Thankfully his feet still worked; at least at the moment, it did.
They walked outside and they went as fast as they could toward the pack border. He screamed again as agony arched his body.
“That Volana goes to the school of shifters in Higala. Which means all my magic there was probably undone,”
Jazzy seethed with annoyance.
“Most likely,”
he said, taking rapid breaths.
“But that bear we took over; we used your magic for that. Will that be undone as well?”
Jazzy asked.
Instead of answering, he screamed again in agony. They were almost at the border. Many guards had taken notice and were charging toward them, but one fierce look from Jazzy halted them.
She didn’t even need magic to control them; they were pathetic and weak creatures and their obedience toward her made her laugh.
Zagreus fell to the ground; Jazzy could see his snake-like eyes forming. Her heart raced against her chest at a rapid speed. She wasted no time; she used all her strength to grab him and drag him past the borderlines and out of the shield.
As soon as they made it to the other side, he gasped for breath as if he had just gone deep diving and was now just coming up for air. She was gasping as well and lay on the ground beside his frail and trembling body.
He was no longer shifting into a snake; his body was back in his control. He slowly formed his body back into the human form that Jazzy knew and loved.
They stayed like that for a long while as he struggled to regain his strength.
“We should keep moving. We have quite a while to travel to get to the warehouse,”
Jazzy said, standing to her feet.
“Are you sure it’s safe?”
Zagreus asked, finally managing to get to his feet as well.
“It’s rigged in our favor. Trust me, it’s safe,”
she answered.
He nodded and followed her through the forest grounds; it would take them an hour to reach the warehouse and they were going on foot. Thankfully, Jazzy felt her powers restored. She had a moonstone necklace in her jewelry box, but unfortunately, it was left in Starcove. She would have to get it if she wanted this dark curse to break the barriers of the guardian.
“As for the bear, if she has possession of a moonstone, we can keep control of her.”
“Where is she going to get a—”
Jazzy’s words trailed off as she remembered that day, she saw that Volana wolf; she wore a moonstone bracelet. Where she got it was beyond Jazzy, but she had it and they attended the same school.
That bear, Rachel, needed to get that bracelet before she lost control.
Third Person POV
Rachel walked the narrow hallway of the academic center as the sun began to set on Sunday night. Blood had stained her lip, and she used her thumb to wipe the remainder of it off before leaving the building and returning to her dorm.
She felt the darkness within her wiggle with delight as the blood it just consumed filled and strengthened it. Rachel didn’t understand her sudden craving for blood; as a bear, they didn’t drink or desire blood. But the sudden urge was too much for her to ignore and she would stop at nothing to satisfy the craving.
The warm pool of blood from her victim made the darkness inside her excited. Once she started, she couldn’t find the willpower to stop. Not until the heart of the victim had stopped beating and she stopped struggling against Rachel’s hold.
She had died and Rachel buried her deep in the basement of the academic center; somewhere nobody goes.
As she rounded the corner and pushed open the doors, a girl ran into her coming from the opposite direction, making Rachel’s head spin and the darkness swirl around her in fury.
“OH! Sorry, Rachel. I didn’t see you there,”
the girl, Rachel recognized as Mckenzi in her bear-shifting class, said.
Rachel glared at the girl and as soon as the girl looked into Rachel’s eyes, her smile immediately dropped. Rachel’s eyes were dark and becoming inhuman; Rachel couldn’t help the anger she felt despite her desperate efforts to keep her cool.
The girl gasped but tried her best to hold her composure. Though her body trembled, and she took a step back the girl said in a low tone, “I’ll see you later.”
She turned on her heel and began to run in the opposite direction. Rachel hissed an animalist and snake-like sound. She was about to run after the girl and have her for a late-night lunch, but she soon got a terrible migraine that made her stop in her tracks. She leaned against the building, panting for breath, trying to regain her rattled brain.
What the hell was going on?
The darkness that swirled around her was in agony.
It was past curfew and Rachel needed to get back to her dorm before she got in trouble. She couldn’t be caught out here right now, but she was in too much pain to move. Her limps were listening to her anymore.
It felt like her insides were being electrocuted and the more pain she felt, the angrier the darkness that consumed her felt.
“Rachel,”
she heard a low tone in her head; the voice sounded like her own, but she knew they weren’t her thoughts.
“It hurts…”
Rachel said out loud through her teeth.
“I know it does and it’s going to continue hurting unless you do exactly what I say,”
the voice said in return. “Do you understand what I am saying?”
“I’ll do anything…”
Rachel cried. “Just make it stop.”
“Where are you right now?”
The voice asked, urgently.
“Outside the academic center,”