KIRA:
“Don’t you know how to knock, you moron?” I yell at Adam as I struggle to get a nearby top on. It’s a sort of body hug and the only thing I can grab quickly to cover up my naked torso.
“The last time I checked, there isn’t a door at the entrance,” Adam, shielding his eyes from my view with his hands says.
“Then at least you could have waited outside a little before barging in here like that. What the hell, Adam!”
“It’s not my fault that this is my room too,”
“And so? Can’t you respect my privacy? Would you like it if I barged in here while you’re in the middle of a jerk-off?” I counter his defense. I’m not about to let him hear the end of it yet after putting me in this situation.
“That’s if you ever catch me doing one,” he says, looking all pleased with himself. He still has his hand over his face but I can tell because of the smug smile plastered on his face.
“What’s going on in there?” Mother’s voice resounds from the parlor into the room.
“Nothing, mom. Adam is just being a jerk as usual,” I say loud enough for her to hear.
“Can I at least put my hand down already?” Adam requests.
I scoff. “Fine,” I forcefully say, still feeling embarrassed about the incident. Such a jerk.
He hastily complies as he puts his hand down. After that, he heaves a sigh of relief which has me pondering on what could make him feel relieved. Is seeing my naked chest region a relief for him? Is that it?
“I still can’t imagine what just happened,” were the words he utter that triggers me.
I click my tongue against the roof of my mouth and say, “You didn’t have to remind me about how embarrassing it was. Why are you even here?”
What he does is to first take a look around the room. Is he trying to spot something out of the ordinary? The dude can be weird sometimes.
“Mom says to tell you that you should be quick with what you’re doing. She needs you to assist her in cooking dinner,” he announces. “Are you coming?”
I immediately decline. “Tell mom I won’t be joining her. I’m so weary now that I could collapse.”
He frowns deeply at me. “She’s not going to like that,”
“Or it’s you who’s not going to like that. I know you are trying to avoid assisting her with the meal and that is why you are trying to get me to do it instead,” To further taunt him, I casually collapse on my bed. “Now go on out. I need to take a nap,”
I hear him grumble but cannot see what action he performs as a means of complaining. And it is all because I have my eyes closed so I could make him realize that I do not want to talk to him. Soon after, I hear retreating footsteps which means he was leaving the room.
It wasn’t until I was sure that he is not around did I proceed to open my eyes and then sit up on the bed. There was still something that I needed to tackle and right now I am so eager to do it.
“Hey, voice in my head,” I say, trying hard not to be heard by either Adam or mother. I’m sure they might have heard a bit of my initial conversation because I had been a little loud.
‘You know you could talk to me without the whole household knowing about it,’ was what the voice tells me in a sort of mockery way.
“And how do I do that?”
‘By using your head. Try to communicate with me with your thoughts and you will see that it works because I am in you and will be able to process what you are thinking,’
“Well, if I’m going to do any of that, I need answers first as to what is going on here. Who or what are you? And why are you in my head?”
Silence ensues for about a minute. And that one minute is one awkward one because the silence makes it seem like I have just recovered from being a nuisance. When I eventually get a response, I finally realize that I am not in a weird zone.
‘So, you mean that with all the time you have spent going over this, you haven’t known who I am or why I am in your head?’
I do two things at the same time as a result of nonchalance — I scoff and then shrug. “Am I supposed to know? The only explainable reason would have been that I am acquiring a spirit wolf which I know is not possible at the moment because I am just sixteen—” and I take a brief pause there because it seems I just discovered something. “Except I actually have a spirit wolf now...”
‘Exactly,’
That response is enough to put my head in disarray. Did it just tell me now that I have a spirit wolf? Is that what it is confirming to me?
“What are you trying to say?” I have to ask as I try to comport myself.
‘That I am your spirit wolf, Kira. That’s what I am,’
I do not know when I inch backward so I could rest my back on the bare wall. All of a sudden I feel cold and I’m sure the news was not doing me any good.
“How can you be my spirit wolf? I’m just sixteen. Should I spell it out for you? Sixteen! How the hell am I supposed to have a spirit wolf at this age like I am some special wolf? It doesn’t make any sense.”
‘It’s because you see it as something that makes no sense. But you have to believe me when I tell you this, Kira. You are a special one. A real special one and that is the reason the moon goddess decided it was time to acquire a spirit wolf even when you are two years away from your eighteenth birthday,’
How can this happen? I mean, how? I’m totally surprised as hell at the moment that my thoughts are not generating the right set of information. I need to talk to someone about this or I might just lose my mind trying to decipher how it all came to be now.
My mind is foggy as of now. I’m just trying to keep my cool while my system makes a complete procession.
“I still can’t get my head around this,” I mutter as I run both of my hands through my hair. Not out of frustration but to feel much better from the seeming burden on my head.
‘Take your time. I’m sure you’ll be fine in no time,’
“I’ve got a question,”
‘Ask away,’
First I try to stay well-composed before uttering anything. It would be a miracle if I get through this with the thing in my head in no time because I feel like I am being tasked with the most difficult condition on earth.
“What would happen to me now that I have you? Does this now mean I can do the things that the others can do? You know, the matured wolflings like my father, mother, and even Bradley. Is that it?”
‘You most certainly will be able to,’
“Wow,” I suddenly recall something from earlier today. Right at the time I was escaping from the reach of the warriors in the Night Blaze pack. “Wait, does that explain the adrenaline rush that got me to safety? And the fact that I was not tired while running like a mad dog? Or how I was easily getting over cuts and bruises?”
I can swear that I feel the wolf in my head nod her head. It felt kind of strange and at the same time familiar. ‘It was all me. I passed a little of my energy into you which aided your safe passage into your territory,’
“You... you saved my life?”
‘Nope, our life.’
I’m too stunned to realize that I have fallen into a well of emotions concerning what I just heard my spirit wolf say.
And finally, I am up on my feet. “So do you think it is safe for me to reveal myself to the others? The others do not take lightly an early bred wolfling because of the rumors of such getting mightier in strength than the others due to their special existence,”
‘For now, keep it to yourself. Maybe the others can know later but first, try to understand how having a spirit wolf affects your existence. It’s going to be for your own good,’
This is a new challenge for me. How well I am going to take it or even handle the pressure is left for me to sort out now. But I know that one way or another, I will pull through. I so much love challenges.
“And what’s your name?” I decide to ask the wolf whom I suddenly feel a sense of safety toward now. Guess connecting with her this much was enough to produce such.
‘Alexia...’
REID:Hunter spun around the moment we step foot on the premises that we should not have entered. From the corner of my eye, I can see that he has his pistol held out but not pointed at me. And what warranted that? It’s because we were presently surrounded by several men in red who have guns pointed at us.I look at the ones directly at my front, a dry smile starting to make its way to my lips. Of course, I anticipated this so it was no surprise that they showed up.They are the warriors of the Red Legion which is where we had planned to come. Known to be deadly and quick in finishing enemies off due to their intense killing routine as training. To get past them would take a miracle, as so I heard. Fortunately, I didn’t come with my men or it would seem like I came here for an attack.“We come in peace,” I announce loud enough for all of them to hear. My hands are raised high above my head in an act of surrender just so they could get the memo that we are not here for a clash.“Yet yo
REID:As I try to settle in, I notice how the interior of the building is nothing in relation to the structure outside. The edges inside were smooth and not some oddly shaped design with no definite explanation. Feels like a roundhouse inside a square-shaped structure.Where we are now is plain. And when I say plain, it truly is. Nothing of quality to show for it as they seemed to neglect anything that would make the room stand out.I just have to overlook all that as I focus on the Elder who is comfortably seated and looking right ahead of us through those eyes that seem pretty dead. The pupils were not even part of the regulars and if I had any other conviction, I would say he is blind.I’m totally uncertain about what to do. I have no idea if I am to speak first, judging by how the settings around here were. One thing I know now is that I have got some serious explaining to do once my father finds out that I visited the Elder.‘Hunter, should I go ahead and speak?’ I mind-link Hunt
KIRA:“So, Alexia, we are here now,” I say as I take a look around the woods. Won’t lie, being in here is giving me vibes from two days ago when I was on the run away from the warriors of the Night Blaze pack, even though I am not in their territory at the moment.‘You should try using the mind-link just as I’ve taught you. It’s going to be embarrassing if someone catches you talking to yourself,’ Alexia, my newfound spirit wolf, speaks in my head which startles me a bit. I’m still not used to this whole thing about having a living entity in me. Pretty sure it would take me a while even though I have come to accept my new identity.“It’s sort of difficult,” I say as I bend to pick up a stick on the ground.‘Just shut your mind off other things and you will see it would work. Takes quite a lot of practice but in no time you’ll get used to it,’I start to consider what she says. She’s right about it being embarrassing if caught. But it doesn’t change the fact that I’m not used to this w
KIRA:Slowly I turn around, mustering enough courage not to reveal my emotions. “Wh– What are you talking about?” I ask.The distance between Bradley and me was a little much now due to walking out on him a few seconds ago. So what he does first is to cover up the distance a little.“I only asked a simple question,” he says, his eyes seeming like they could see through me.“That didn’t seem like a question to me,” I rebuff.“Do you have anything to hide?”Anxiously, I peel my eyes off him for a brief second before looking back at him. “Do I look like I do?”Bradley folds his arms below his chest. “You tell me,”“Well, I don’t. So stop questioning me like I’m doing something wrong,”So I turn around once again to leave. I do not even bother to listen to note if he was on my tail but I am sure he is.He proves he is directly behind me when his voice gets straight to my ears. “You could have just said ‘no’, you know? You didn’t have to be so dramatic about the whole thing,” was what he s
REID:I bend over to take a look at the slimy-looking substance on the pavement. It looked strange and possibly with no viable explanation of what it is by merely looking at it.“You said you saw what it looked like, right?” I say as I stand up to my feet and then turn around. Standing there was Hunter and Ryu, the pack head warrior that had put a link through to me during my visit to the Elder.The statement I made now was directed to him because he had been the one to inform me about the second wipeout of a household in the pack. And that is what I am trying to investigate with him.“Yes,” he responds with a nod.Briefly, I stare at the substance again on the pavement and then back at Ryu. “So what has it got to do with this?”“I think it has a lot to do with this. Because this is the only evidence that something actually happened in here. More like a remain,”“This looks like some kid made a mess of things and not like an evidence that something happened,” I say, proceeding to proc
REID:Ever since I took up the role of Alpha, my father has since moved out of the pack to go establish himself as a lone wolf. Although I won’t necessarily call it that way because the warriors and maidens around him indirectly make up a small territory. And not to forget him being with my mother and sister.The only time I ever get a visit from him is when it involves a serious issue. And I’m certain that is the reason he came around today.My best guess would be it was about the disappearances in the pack. And I hope not to be proved wrong, especially after trying to keep the other thing discreet.“To what do I owe this visit, father?” I ask him as I watch him from across the table separating us in the parlor of the main quarters.I noticed something about his expression despite him looking fascinated with his old territory. He looked distressed. Feels to me like he has been going through a lot. But I would like to doubt that because the man I know hardly has time to put too much o
KIRA:The whole atmosphere feels different now that I’m here. I wasn’t even dreading being here, but I can’t help but observe the oddity of it all. I guess being away from a place for a while changes your view about the place. But mine changes every time I do such a thing.School has always been my least favorite thing. Especially since the time I became intelligent enough to know that there were quite a few other things I could do instead of trying to be educated. Like who the hell thought it was beneficial for young ones to go through school?My dislike for school contributed a lot to my negligence. I just hate being here. Nothing about the environment gave me a feeling of satisfaction. And if it hadn’t been for my father who came back home last night and forced me to school today, I’m sure I would have begun my second consecutive week away from the educational sector. If that even makes sense.I hold on tight to the straps of my bag which I have strapped on my back. This was done a
KIRA:“What is going on?” I whisper to myself as I take a look at my hands that just performed some magic. How did I suddenly become this strong?I do not want to believe what is happening, but looking at the floor and seeing Sophie right there brings me to the realization of things. It really is happening. I just put the mighty Sophie on her butt.Looking around, I see that students like us have gathered around to witness the scene. Instantly spikes up the nervousness in me. I should get away from here this instance before things get out of hand.But before I can make any move, Sophie is up on her feet, looking ready to have another go at me. Although she looks humiliated, the fiery side of her won’t back down.“Sophie, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to hit you,” I start to apologize to her because even though I had just done something as magnificent as that, I still am scared about going against her. Who knows if that has happened as a mere fluke?But it seems Sophie is buying none of it