Shift

-Adam POV-

After mom asked me to help the troops at the borders, I immediately went to action. I’m bad in waiting. I’m a very impatient person. So I slipped out of the house and went northward. Although I hate endurance trainings, I’m good in running. I’m fast - and right now, I’m glad being an Alpha. Soon I see the chaos in the woods. I spot Levi and mindlink him:

*For Goddess’ sake, Levi! What happened to you, where are the other warriors?*

*Adam. Please, leave. It’s not safe here. The arrows - there are people with arrows and they hurt. Don’t get shot! I.. I .. I think I’m dying, Adam. I know we lost at least three other wolves. I’m so sorry!*

I look at Levi’s wolf. His legs are bleeding and I see an arrow between his shoulders. It’s a wooden arrow, and it smells gross. I ask Levi where the others went, he tells me they went east.

I take a moment to take off my shoes - while I’m standing barefoot in the mud, I feel connected. Surprisingly not only to the wood. I feel the pack members wolves too! I run into the direction were the feelings of those wolves are the strongest.

ZZZZOOOOFF - an arrow zooms along my ear.

Damn, that was close. How am I gonna do this? I’m not a wolf. Although my senses are sharpened last week - I can’t see as good as a connected wolf can. I’m still an unconnected human. I can’t see as good as them, I have to trust my guts. My instinct. I try to stay close to the trees. I hear the wolves howling. On the ground, I see one of our warriors. Dead and bloody. This is not good.

20 feet away, I see an unknown human standing against a tree. He holds a bow, and he’s focussed on someone in the distance. Without a doubt I run to him and jump, ready to attack him. I feel the impact when my body make contact with his. He lets out a surprised yell: “What the…?”

He has no time to recover, I throw him a deadly right-hand hook. I feel his jaw crack under my knuckles. He falls on the ground. With my feet I give him a kick on his throat and I feel his neck shatter. I look around me, and see we’re losing. There’s something with those arrows, they are slowly killing us. And none of the outsiders is in their wolf-form. They’re all in their human’s. That’s strange.. And because of the arrows, our wolves are not able to get close to them, to take them out. What should I do?

That’s when I heard my mom’s voice:

*HELP!..*

Her voice is worried, stressed out and I can feel she is in trouble. I don’t even bother to listen how she finish her sentence. I directly turn around and start running back.

What went wrong? Why is my mother not able to finish James herself? So many questions.. It feels like the ground makes me float. I’ve never ran this fast. I love my mother, if I was patiënt enough and just waited in her office, she wasn’t in trouble right now. This is my fault.

I feel a sharp pain in my left arm. “Fuck!” I yell out loud. I look at my arm, but I see nothing. Then I realized: It’s mom! I feel her pain. Something went wrong! Oh no no no nooo! Not mother, she’s my everything!

I focus on my body, my aura is growing. I let it shine, as much as I can. My muscles react, and I feel they’re empowered of my aura. I reach the packhouse and run inside, upstairs - following mother’s feelings. I notice three guards at her door. One lays on the ground with an arrow in his chest. Damn. I look inside mom’s room.

There she was. Laying in the corner of her room, an arrow in her left arm. James standing confident next to her body. Is she, she….?? Then I saw another guy with a bow in his hands, I can only see his back. But I can’t miss his remarkable orange colored hair: Cliff. What the hell is he doing here? In a few seconds, I observe the scene. This all is feeding my anger. My fear of losing my mother, and the worries about her feelings; they’re intense and painful. This all gives me the power.

My feet are still burning from the fast run, from my burning aura and the energy of the woods.

I feel a voice in my head:

*SHIFT*