Chapter Seven: The Acceptance

Emma’s POV

I was shaking as I felt my heart rate speed up. My muscles started to ache dully as I felt the urge o rip someone’s head off.

“Emma you are shifting. You’re going to die and be re-born several times” someone said as I felt my muscle stretching tightly over my small, shaking body. I felt hot and sweaty but not like before. I wanted to sleep but something was telling me not to. “Emma I need you to drink this for me” someone put a golden coloured liquid to my lips; they force it down my throat when I would drink the cold, gruesome liquid.

I saw red, blue and black dots dancing across the yellow room, over the faces I couldn’t put names to.

“Shh it’s going o be okay” A light, angle like voice soothed me but when I looked around no one’s lips had moved. “I will help you through your shift” the voice said again as a gut reaching pain stabbed at my heart. It felt like my heart was burning and somehow was shrinking. The pain was worse than the burning. I felt vomit fill my mouth and I was shivering with cold. My body was aching, as if everything was shirking to an impossible sizes.

“Its okay” the voice said in its angelic voice just as my heart stopped

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I gasped for air as something pushed me back to life. I felt the urge to live but the sudden need to scream but I couldn’t. My throat was burning with an excruciating, piercing pain. It felt red raw. I taste the metallic taste of blood fill my mouth and spat it out as fast as I could. I wanted to scream and shout but my voice wasn’t working. I couldn’t even cry.

“You’re going to be okay” The voice soothed me.

My teeth began to grow and expand before thicken to large points. I had fangs, and then my fingernails and toenails began to grow and change into clams. What was happening to me? I questioned myself

“You’re shifting” the voice replied. Had I said that out loud?

My skin was prickling again as tiny hairs began to grow over my contracting body. Every bone in my body was breaking, forming new a shape. My spine enlarged and my vertebra pushed out as, my skull and face crumpled and extended into a new face. My nose grow outwards painfully into a snoot and my eyes moved to the side of my head. I shooting pain pricked at my deep blue eyes. I had shifted.

What use to be my hands were now paws covered in ash coloured fur.

“Is it over?” I went to ask but a growl escaped my lips not human words. I puzzled, how was I suppose to know what was happening to me, how was I suppose to communicate with them?

A chuckle sounded in my head. What was that?

“It is me” the voice in my head said. Was I going mad? “No, I am your wolf, Aoife!” the voice chuckled lightly.

“So I can talk to you in my head?” I asked the voice

“Yes and I you!” the voice sounded like it was smiling.

“So is it over?” I asked

“No you have to turn back and forth in till your body can pick which form to stay in for the rest of the shift” Aoife explained softly

“Will it hurt?” I couldn’t help but ask.

“Yes but the pain will become lesser as you go on”

Turlough’s POV

“Mate” Teagan howled in my head.I was sat outside the room listening to my Emma shift; her screams became silent as her throat and vocal cords ripped to reform her wolf’s. I should be there with her.

“We need her Turlough; we need to be with her. To help her” Teagan screamed in my head as I sat with my head in my hands.

Shifting into your wolf was not like it is on TV. Your hearts starts to shrink. You start to go into liver and kidney failure as every organ shirks to the size of a wolf’s organs and then your heart stops only to be brought back to life by your wolf. When you try to scream out in pain you can’t; your throat and vocal cords are torn apart so they can form a wolf’s. Your fangs, claws grow as every bone in your body begins to break and reshape into a wolf. Your fur in forced through your skin and then your eyes change to your wolf’s! You’re no longer human!

I began to shake feeling myself shift I embraced my wolf. The first shift is so painful because your body doesn’t understand and try to stop the shift. Your body learns over time and it becomes less painful. I shifted into my smoky grey wolf that is when I felt it... the pull. I need to get in that room before any other male!

I growled as I leapt at the door putting all my weight against it. I burst through the door into a lemon yellow room. Everything was much brighter in wolf form. I growled at the people in the room, sniffing the hair to smell her. Her scent soon filled my airways and I turned to see a beautiful sliver wolf with flecks of coal brushing along her spine and tail.

“Mate” my wolf howled at me as I looked into the eyes of this she-wolf.

Was this my Emma? In wolf form she was beautiful I couldn’t help me give her a wolfy grin.

“Turlough” Rafela’s voice snapped at me. “that is my door you have just broken”

I gave her a wolfy grin too.

Emma’s POV

A smoky grey wolf with fleck of inky black and bronze brushed through his coat gave me a wolfy grin.

“Mate” Aoife howled at me

“What that is Turlough?” I asked puzzled at her outburst.

“Yes but his wolf is called Teagan” She Explained

“Can I speak to him when I am a wolf?”

“Not yet. You have to be accepted into the pack or he has to mark you?”

“What is marking?”

“I’ll tell you later”

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It took another two days in till I finally stopped shifting back and forth. During that time Turlough spent time with me in both forms; when I was a wolf, he was and when I was human, he was. We never spoke but it helped me knowing that I wasn’t alone.

“When can I leave this room?” I asked Rafela as she took my temperature, blood pressure and blood sugar levels.

“Soon” she said storing out my sheets as I moaned about being stuck, staring at the yellow walls that hurt my now enhanced eyes. Since my shifted I had noticed that everything was brighter, louder and stronger in smell, but what were even more disturbing were my feelings for Turlough were stronger.

“Emma” a gently voice said. I looked up to see Ryan at the door.

“Where’s Turlough?” I asked suddenly.

“He’s on duty” Ryan said to me like it meant something, What did he even mean by that?

“What do you want?” I asked eyeing him.

“Well now that you are a werewolf and all you need a pack” He said not making eye contact “And as I have been told we would be a good pack for you to join” he said more bitterly.

So Avery had told him to make me apart of his pack, but did I want that?

“What does being in a pack entail?” I ask watching him close as he made his way to a seat by my bed.

“Well since Turlough’s mate you are a Beta Female”

“What is that?”

“You’re second in command after Avery. Anything happens to me and Avery you become in charge becoming the Alphas or you become Alphas in till our children become of age.”

“You have no children?”

“Not yet no” Ryan said firmly

“So if you died now I and Turlough would become Alphas?”

“Yes but I don’t plan on dying yet” he said bitterly

“Thank god” What d Beta’s have to do?”

“They keep the Alpha on task, at the top of his game. They are the Alpha’s best friend and helps him with problems”

“So what are the other ranks in a pack?” I asked wondering what rank I could have been in.

“You have the Alpha male and female which are the leaders of the pack, then you have the beta male and female (the second in command), then a Delta which normally is a beta in training but he is my third in command. You have the Sentine which are the patrollers, you have the Elders who are old wolves who pass on their knowledge and teach the young wolves. You have the hunters who go out and hunt down food and danger. The Shaman, ours is a witch and a healer or pack doctor. Then the scouts, who travel to other packs to pass on messages, make ties and warn them of dangers. We have the pack warriors who fight and defend. You have power shifters who are werewolves with powers and then you have the omega, the lowest of the low.” Ryan explained

“So I would have been an Omega if it wasn’t for the fact that Turlough was my mate?” I asked

“No you would have been rouge” Ryan said “You would never have been accepted into my pack”

“Okay...” I rolled my eyes “ so how do you accept me? Do I have do some kind of test or something?”

“No! Turlough has to mark you or I have to bite you”

“What bite me? Why?”

“And then Avery has to as well” Ryan said brushing off my questions with no thought at all.

“When are you going to do this?”

“Tonight in front of the pack, it is called The Acceptance”

I hope you like it!! I haven’t checked it for mistakes so sorry if there is!! :DD

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