Becoming Luna

'Everything is ready.' The three words flashed across the screen of Danica's cellphone. The message was from her best friend who had insisted on throwing a party for her that evening. It was Danica's eighteenth birthday and her friends had insisted she needed to celebrate it in style, after all it was her emergence into adulthood. At least that was what they had insisted despite her protests. Huffing Danica got up from her bed and walked over to her vanity allowing herself to study her reflection. Curly black hair surrounded her pale freckle covered face, golden eyes that were surrounded by thick lashes stared back at her with a look of annoyance in them. Even reflection her was against her evening plans, she thought with a smirk that caused her cheeks to dimple. No matter how much she examined herself she just couldn't possibly see the difference in 'child' Danica and 'adult' Danica. From behind her, her bedroom door burst open allowing Amy and Heather her two best friends

Danica lay in bed staring up at her roof as thoughts of the evening danced across her closed lids.  Everytime she had begun to drift into sleep the terrifying black wolf with glowing red eyes and razor sharp white teeth would appear and shock her awake.As she tried to sleep she allowed herself to drift back to her conversation with Mason before he had finally allowed her to escape into the comfort of her home.He had said that she was a werewolf and she would be changing in three days time.  The thought of it was absolutely absurd, but after seeing a wolf shift into a man nothing seemed impossible anymore.Unable to sleep Danica sat up and pulled her laptop from her bedside table.  Opening it she stared at the glowing screen in front of her before opening a search engine and typing in werewolf.All the links that appeared for her were for horror movie based information and urban legends.  Nothing remotely solid that could help her.

Warm sunlight played on Danica's skin as wind blew her wild curls around.  She and Mason were currently on their way back to town after finishing their discussion about her first change.  Having ultimately decided it was best to not overwhelm her with too much information in one day Mason insisted they focus solely on her first change for the time being.Even if Danica had been disappointed in a way she was also thankful.  Her mind was still on overload with processing everything and she wasn't too sure if she had room left to deal with much more."Are you comfortable?"  Mason asked from beside her.  He had been silent since they left the wild flower field, allowing Danica to be alone in her head.  "I can put the windows up and turn on the air if it's too hot.""Mmmmmm"  Danica murmured in the way of response.  "This weather is perfect, leave the windows down."Smiling she closed her eyes and further re

Mason's green eyes were a dark shade of green, much darker than the forest green they had been earlier in the day.   If he was pissed earlier, then he was on the verge of a rampage now."Get away from her."  His voice growled around already protruding canines.The man released a string of profanities as he took Mason in.  "Her mates here."  He said quickly looking to his partner."Grab her and let's get going!"  The woman snapped pushing him towards Danica.A guttural growl erupted from Mason at the female rogues words.  "Touch her and I will rip off the hand you do it with."  He warned.The rogues exchanged a glance amongst themselves as if debating on whether or not they should push it.   Deciding it wasn't a good idea they turned to make a run for it."Oh no you don't."  Mason was already making his way across the yard towards the fleeing rogues.He lifted the man who he had re

Voices whispering amongst themselves broke through Danica's pain free oblivion.  They seemed to be coming from right beside her, but she couldn't make out exactly what was being said as her head remained foggy.  Vaguely she felt soothing fire running up her arm as the warmth of a hand clasped around hers became evident. The agonizing fire that had been consuming her before she blacked out seemed to be gone and in it's place was a dull ache. 'Why,'  the voice in her head came in just a whisper.  'Why...'  It sounded absolutely lost as it repeated the same word.  Danica couldn't help the sense of loss she felt at hearing it.  It was almost as if a piece of her was missing entirely. Groaning she forced her eyes open to see exactly where she was. The room around her was lit by a small fireplace and candles.  Flickering warm orange and red light danced around the interior that was made of wooden logs and what looked