::Misapprehension 1:: (edited)
I woke up in a cold sweat with a gasp. Something was happening, I didn’t know what and I didn’t know why but inside myself a change was happening, and some creature was coming. My eyes shone with the color of the red moon outside my window and that was when I remembered. Tonight was a total lunar eclipse over the full moon. I had a very bad feeling about what was going to come next.
There came a change of sensation in my right arm as I stared at my ceiling. Not knowing what it was I was afraid to look in case it was something horrible happening to me. I began to feel the same thing happen in my left hand. What was going on with me?
Just as panic started to overtake me Yuna’s calming voice floated to me over a sea of pain and fear. ‘Calm down Razi. You’re only shifting.’
I may be a lycan but that doesn’t mean I was ready to hear that little jewel. Shifting? I was shifting?! I wasn’t supposed to be able to shift for at least another year, let alone be able to even think of attempting it for another few months. For that matter I didn’t even know what I changed into! How could I possibly be shifting?
‘W-what do you mean Yuna…’ I questioned as terror overcame me once more. I could feel the icy sweat pour over my body as the change continued to happen.
Again, her voice soothed me, ‘It’s only a side-effect of the lunar eclipse. It will pass soon. Don’t worry Razi; you’re going to be ok. I promise.’
‘You promise? You really promise?’ I couldn’t help but keep my voice from turning to a slight whine as the odd sensations continued up my arm. Concentrating on my right forearm I realized that I was growing fur, but I couldn’t feel any claws on my hand which I thought to be odd since most animals with fur had some sort of claws. What sort of freak did I turn into?!
Yuna was inside my head so I knew she could hear every one of these thoughts that I was having since I was unable to block her out; she knew just what to say to me. ‘Of course I promise sweetheart. Everything’s going to be all better soon. I promise.’ She drew my mind into our special mental plane away from all my past lives and hugged me tightly. I shivered with fear in her arms and clung to her desperately. She was my one lifeboat in this storm and I was not going to let her go until it was all over.
As the overwhelming comfort of floating in the purple and azure aura of our mental plane met me she smoothed back my hair and shushed me gently, ‘Everything will be fine Razz,’ her use of my nickname calmed me slightly. ‘Tell you what,’ she coaxed, ‘I want you to focus on my voice, my voice only. Do you think you can do that?’ I nodded. ‘Good girl.’
As soon as I made that promise to her a wave of pain crashed over my body and I screamed inside my mind, clutching her tightly. My mind was reeling and if my body had been standing up I’m sure that I would have collapsed. Each of my organs seemed to be shrinking in on themselves and folding in half. I didn’t know if this was a normal part of shifting or not. I didn’t even know if I was in my mind or had projected myself outward, or if I was even still conscious. All I could focus on was this immense pain. I had felt nothing like it, not even when I used to get jumped as a child on the streets of my hometown in California.
‘Stay with me!’ Yuna’s voice cut through all the pain and discomfort to rip me back to our plane. She had shifted herself into her half wolf, half lycan form and was holding me up. I wasn’t sure what she was doing but I began to feel better and my arms felt normal once more.
Looking up at her in confusion I saw a shadow of pain cross her features. What exactly was she doing? I was too young to understand all of the secrets of my race but I definitely knew that she was doing something to me to make all this pain go away. Before I could question her any on the matter she kissed my head and sent me away into my normal mental plane with a whispered, ‘Sleep little sister…you’ll need it.’
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