Heavy eyes fluttered and my vision cleared. We were out of the cave and in the middle of nowhere.

I let out a small cough, and grunts laced with a growl to clear my parched throat before looking around at my friends who were just as confused as I was.

We all struggled to our feet after sharing concerned looks "What happened?" I asked and dusted my black superman and blue denim jeans.

"I-I don't know" Mira replied and reached out to me for help "Last thing I remember is picking up a jar of eye balls"

"Yeah, I remember seeing that" I said and reached out to help pull her up but the moment her fingers touched, a jolt of electricity powerful enough to light up an entire continent ripped through my entire body, referring me blind, deaf and dumb.

Flashes of a gas mask hovering above me, examining my entire body until it made eye contact with me. These were memories. Foreign memories.

I was then thrown a few feet away from Mira. Shivering and twitching. The remnants of the jolts still canvasing my frame.

Until finally took in a deep breath. My paralyzed lungs were open, and instantly filled up with air. I took in a few more deep breaths until I was able to sit up.

It wasn't until I sat up, I saw that Mira also had the same experience. Her neatly comb blonde hair was turned to a smoky mane with tiny jolts dancing around in it.

"Nick, what was that?!" She asked me as she tried to catch her breath.

"I don't know" I replied and once again rose to my feet. This time, not dating to touch her or anyone else.

Ander and Malik, stood afar off, with utter shock on their faces. Their mouth agaped and their shoulders slumped like zombies.

"What?" I asked my other friends. Who pointed back at me. I looked at my chest and saw nothing but a black burn hole but when I looked back at him, I realized that he wasn't pointing at me but behind me.

My mouth fell open, as did Mira's when we saw that every tree behind me had been turned to a stumps "What happened?"

"You... You were struck by lightening... I think" Ander said and turned to Malik for confirmation "Right?"

Malik shook his chubby face "They were the lightening" he then turned to Ander and a menacing smile spread on his face.

When Ander saw it he grimaced "What?" He asked.

"What will happen if we touch?" He asked in an ominous tone before lunging at Ander "Come 'ere" 

"No, por favor. No no" He said as he tried to escape Malik's grasp but he was took late. The moment their skins touched... Nothing happened.

"Huh" Malik said and poked Ander again.

When nothing happened he repeated the poking at least a thousand times before Ander finally slapped his hand away "Stop. nothings happening"

"Why did it work for us and not you guys?" Mira— who was the only girl in the group asked and finally got off the floor before dusting her sundress with her skinny arms.

"Maybe because it only works when we touch Mira" Nick said and ran his hands through his afro "Probably"

The two boys then turned to her like predators spotting a prey and began slowly stalking her "Hi Mira" they both said.

She took a few steps away from them while calculating her means of escape "Hey, boys. Let's talk about this, okay? Let's have a normal human conversation. Please"

"Nope" Ander said and smiled.

"Hey, guys. Chill. We should probably be getting back to the pack. It's a little late, don't you think?" I said, in an attempt to stop them.

"Don't be a baby, Nick. We're not gonna hurt her. We just want a bit of that lightening magic" Malik said coyly and rubbed his hands together.

When the two boys has successfully cornered her, and wee closing in, I decided to put an end to it but the moment my hands touched their hands to pull them away, another wave of electricity shot through my body again.

I saw flashes of the gas mask again but with a few words "You cannot give the gift to these... Children!" I heard someone say.

"Yes, I can. They are not fully formed. It will be easier for their wolves to adapt" The person in the gas mask replied the white haired man behind him "They are my perfect creation"

I then crashed to the ground once again but this time, I was in a little more control of my senses. I quickly rose to my feet and ran over to my friends who were still shaking "Guys! Guys!"

I crashed to my knees beside Malik, while Mira ran to Ander "Are you okay?" I asked once his shaking had stopped.

After a few deep breaths, he replied "Yeah"

I helped him sit up and for some reason, even though I touched him, he wasn't engolfed by lightening "I want to go home" Malik said.

I nodded "Yeah. Let's go"

I helped him to his feet and saw that Mira was doing the same for Ander. We helped Ander and Malik until they were strong enough to walk by themselves.

"Let's never do that again" Ander said and we all nodded.

We walked into the woods for a few minutes until we started hearing the sounds of barks, growls, roars and caught the scent of smoke and blood.

"What's that?" Mira asked and started jugging towards the noise. We followed.

As we got closer, I noticed a lot of wolves that I recognized getting torn apart by other wolves, and I saw the smoke that engolfed some house "Its war. There's a war!" I yelled and ran full speed towards instead of away from like we had been taught to do.

The others followed me yelling as I did until we all leaped into the air and shifted.

When I landed, the same familiar jolt of electricity flowed through my body, energizing every piece of me.

I turn and found that they all had jolts of electricity flickering on the tips of the furs of my friends but while the electricity that flowed through then was yellow and blue, the one that flowed through me was purely red. Their canines were alsolonger, extending out of their mouths, like that of sabertooth cats and their growls much like mine were deeper, more menacing.

Once we were done admiring our power-ups we leaped into battle, tearing into the wolves like war knives through butter. Nothing and noone stood in our way.

The wolves who recognized our scents could not believe the beasts that rampaged through the battle field were the same pups  that wandered into the woods little over twelve hours ago.

In less than ten minutes, the battle was over and all the rouges had been obliterated. The pack wolves slowly surrounded us, they weren't sure if we were threats, if we were friends of foes.

I turned to my friends "Shift back" I said to then through the mind link.

Mira's white wolf then dropped the rogue feet that was trapped between her canines on the ground and started shifting back.

Our Alpha who stood in front of the pack with our parents behind him was in awe but he tried his best to hide it.

I growled at the others and they obeyed me immediately and started shifting back.

"Mira? Malik? Ander?..." The alpha said as he looked at my friends I ce he had shifted back to his human form "...Nick?" He asked once he had shifted back.

"Yes, dad" I replied him.

My parents came with blankets and covers me, my friends parents did the same "What happened to you?" He asked and crashed to his knees in front of me— as did my mother "How?" He asked again.

"I don't know" I replied as I tried to recall what happened at the lab but my memory was still fuzzy

"Ander, you are grounded for the rest of the year!" I heard his mother yell.

"For the rest of your life!" I heard his father roar! Normally we would be giggling and mocking him but there was nothing funny about this situation.

We were forteen year olds covered in blood and for some reason, our wolves almost rivaled that of our Alpha.

No, it wasn't funny. It was troubling.

"I don't know what happens to us, I swear. We found a lab and then this happened. Please don't be mad!" I said to all the wolves.

"We are not mad, Nicholas but new of this cannot leave this pack" I heard granny said as she emerged from the crowd "These four have been chosen to bear a gift and they must be nurtured"

"How mama?" My dad asked.

"The old ways" She said with a smile.