Mia's POV

I was running in the woods terrified out of my mind. I didn't know what or who was I running from, only that I couldn't stop or else I would die.

The woods seem to be never-ending but I kept running even when the sharp edges of trees and shrubs cut me in various parts of my body.

My arms were bleeding and my feet were a mess. A bloody mess.

I finally burst through and there was a blinding light. I raised my arms to cover my eyes and whimpered as the adrenaline wore off leaving me with agonizing pain all over my body.

"You worthless piece of shit!" Screamed a voice I thought I'd never hear again. "Did you truly believe that getting a wolf would make you any different?!?!" He laughed sadistically.

It was the Alpha's son, Kaden. The one who tortured me the most. At first, they started as minor scoldings for mistakes I apparently made but soon those scoldings led to slaps, and then the slaps soon changed into kicks which led to broken bones and numerous bruises.

Soon I was announced one of the omegas of the pack, making me a punching bag for every one of those fucked up 'pack members' I had. The Alpha not only encouraged them but joined in on their own of a fucked up version of  'fun'.

Then I saw my parents, my brother the soon-to-be Beta, and the slut of a sister I had. All my parents did during those years was pretend to be oblivious to my visible bruises and scars and added some of their own.

Hell, I didn't even have a room to call my own or any clothes to wear. I lived in a small shack.

I was a curse to the pack and didn't deserve to live with them. So I was forced to live in the outskirts. The clothes that I had were stitched over and over as I tried my best to fix the torn hand-me-downs of my beloved sister. Note the sarcasm.

All of them were yelling at me and laughing at me.

"You're pathetic"

"Worthless"

"A curse"

"A whore"

"Useless"

"You don't matter"

"Your existence is pointless"

"Die already"

I couldn't contact my wolf. I continued whimpering in pain and agony. Not knowing how had I even ended up here.

I screamed in terror as I saw Kaden run towards me with his inhuman speed, a silver knife in his right hand.

I just stood there, frozen in fear as he leaned close to my ear, "Remember little Mia, you'll always be a weak and pathetic little thing." And then plunged the knife in my chest, right where my heart was supposed to be.

"MIA WAKE UP!!! GODAMMIT MIA COME ON WAKE UP! IT'S JUST A NIGHTMARE! MIA!" I heard a familiar voice shouting.

I shoot up in my bed, "Let me go please! Don't hurt me!" I screamed terrified.

"Mia it's me. It's Shadow. No one is going to hurt you everything is fine Mia shhhhhhh." I hear Shadow whisper calmly.

I opened my eyes wide while breathing heavily and sweating all over.

I looked over at her to see her on the side of my bed looking at me with sadness.

I moved towards her and hug her tightly and start to sob. "I-it was-was....so b-b-bad......I-"

"Shhhh it's okay, you are safe now okay? Shhhh it's fine. It was just a nightmare. Nothing else." she tried to console me.

I continued crying silently, the memories of the nightmare playing over and over like a broken record.

"I will torture every single one of those bastards so badly that they will be begging for death." I suddenly hear her whisper with noticeable anger in her voice.

That gave me some comfort but I disagreed a little. I will be the one to do that. Not her. I will get my revenge.

I pull away slowly and wipe my tear-stained cheeks.

"I'm sorry about your shirt," I whispered noting how wet it was with my tears.

"Oh don't worry about that it's fine. I can change," she answered back, still looking at me worriedly. "Do you want to talk about it?" she asked with uncertainty.

"Right now? No. But can I talk about it later?" I replied with a nervous tone.

"Yeah, sure! Of course! you ma-" but she suddenly gets cut off by the sound of thunder which makes me jump.

Wait, thunder? I turned around in utter confusion to look towards the window and saw that it was raining heavily.

Huh? How is that possible? Yesterday it was a good sunny day and now it was raining?

"Right, about that, everyone was confused as well because it wasn't even in the forecast. It was going to be a perfectly sunny day today ." She said noting my confusion.

"Ummm Mia if you still haven't figured it out, it's raining because of us," said Rowena suddenly, making me jump.

It would take a while to get used to someone constantly knowing what my thoughts were.

"What? Ho—" 

"Oh come on, it's kind of a duh situation don't you think?" She chuckled cutting me off.

"Wha- Ohhhhh right so we are supposedly the wielders of thunder right?" I answered, still doubtful.

I then see an imagine of her rolling her eyes appear along with her entire body. She was sitting on her front paws in the vast greenery that I created last night.

"Not supposedly, we are."

I looked back at the rain in wonder thinking how could I have such a power, but of course Rowena, the annoying wolf won't tell me anything.

"How do you think we should stop that? Not that I don't like it but you know people will get suspicious. Not talking about our pack but our neighbors...."

"You don't need to explain to me dummy I'm literally in your head and I always know what you're thinking" She huffed amusedly.

"Right okay so can you explain how to stop the rain already since you pretend to be such a know-it-all." I quipped back with annoyance.

"I don't need to pretend, I am a know-it-all, well compared to you I am,"  she answered sarcastically.

"And who's fault is that." I retorted, my annoyance increasing.

"Whatever. Anyway, so about the rain. You do know about this strange feeling in your chest right?"

I get confused for a second but realize that there was a strange feeling in my chest and it was just like Rowena said.

It was like this energy, like-like magic....it was as if the energy was coursing through my entire from my chest to my entire body. Like as if my chest was it's source. It felt oddly comforting and I liked this feeling. It felt like something lost long ago has been finally reunited with me.

"That feeling is there right now because of the rain. Imagine that feeling moving through your veins and concentrating in your right palm." I closed my eyes and imagined that feeling just like she said, and felt it moving through my veins into my palms. 

"Now imagine the rain slowly stopping. Like all of it moving in reverse. The drops going back to the clouds. The clouds becoming light in color and dispersing. Imagine all this while moving your right hand, open palm in an upwards motion."

I did exactly as she said imagining it all and felt much of the energy-type feeling leave my hand. 

I opened my eyes and gaped with my jaw hanging open and with wide eyes, I turned around towards Shadow as I heard her gasp.

There in my palm was a glowing light blue energy.....type thing?  It was constantly moving in a weird circular shape. It was an odd shade of color too then I realized it was the exact shade of Rowena's fur tips? What?

It disappears suddenly leaving me feeling kind of tired. I muttered in confusion to my wolf, "Rowena what the heck was that??"

"That was just a glimpse of our power. Oh, and did I mention it's just not thunder we control there are more things such as water too," She said nervously trying to gauge my reaction.

I sighed with frustration. "Must be one of your stupid secrets huh?"

To be honest I hate being kept in the dark. And Rowena's secrets were tiring. I'm not even gonna be surprised at this point.

I realized that Shadow was still gaping at me in shock, then she notices me looking at her and stares right back at me in wonder and amazement.

"OH, MY GODDESS! MIA! YOU CAN CONTROL THE RAIN!" She suddenly shrieked, causing me to cover my ears.

"Yeah I know, sorry I didn't tell you earlier. I was too excited at first about shifting and hunting and didn't exactly believe my wolf when she told me about me having powers then later I got so tired my body felt like a really heavy rock I couldn't even walk on my own and then now the rai-" I shut up realizing I was rambling.

She grinned. "Yeah I know, after shifting for the first time our body is drained of energy so I understand how you feel," She then grinned brighter, "Your wolf looks beautiful although a bit odd in color and very similar to Alpha Taylor's but I guess that might be connected to your powers."

I nodded knowing she was probably right.

Suddenly my stomach rumbled loudly. And soon I feel heat creep up to my cheeks knowing they were probably red as a tomato.

She laughed, "Well it's already around 9:00 am so let's go get breakfast."

I smiled at the prospect of eating, "Yeah, let me get a change of clothes first."

She stood up and walked towards the door.

Opening it she turned her head to look back at me, "Just walk down the hall and turn right, you'll see a set of stairs, go down them and you'll reach the next floor. Pretty sure by then you'll be able to smell the food so you can just follow the scent, I will be down there." Then walked out closing the door behind her.

I put both my feet on the cold hardwood floors, I didn't feel as exhausted.

Just as I stand up though I collapse back on the floor with a thud.

I groaned with frustration.

"Oh and also using your power will drain you of energy but if we practice enough it's going to get better with time," she said grinning like the idiot she was.

"Next time why bother to mention at all?" I replied, my voice filled with heavy sarcasm and annoyance.

"Alright fine sorry I know I should have told you beforehand and please understand that if I could tell you the things that I'm hiding I wouldn't hesitate a second to tell you but please understand that I have no choice." she finished with regret and sadness lacing her voice.

All of my annoyance instantly vanished at hearing the tone of her voice and I softly tell her, "It's okay, you know I love you right? and I guess I understand."

"Of course I know, I'm happy you finally understand. Love you too!"

She then starts licking my face making me giggle loudly.

I didn't realize that  I was back in my mind the same way when I had first shifted.

I decided to call this my astral body and this area my mind space.

I know it's a weird name but I love Doctor Strange okay? Though our realm is completely different from the realm of humans. Some Witches are able to make portals, they make it for werewolf and other supernatural businessmen in the human realm and for other things that we get over from the human realm. There are also unstable and deadly gateways to our realm. One example is the Bermuda Triangle. I don't know what and how it stops the humans from entering the Supernatural realm but that gateway is ancient and there are legends of how werewolves came to be related to that gateway, so no one knows.

And I know I was tortured and bullied but I did watch the movie on one of the pack's many lovely movie nights. Note the sarcasm.

They did those stupid nights to show to the blind and idiotic pack members that the pack was a safe place filled with fun and blah blah blah and some other shit.

Though I had gotten tortured later after watching when they found out I was there too. It was one of the ways which helped me escape reality. To get lost in books and movies and pretend once in a while to be in someone else's world was strangely freeing. That's the closest I could get to freedom back then. I sigh.

My wolf knowingly licks me all over, making me laugh loudly once again. "Okay, okay!! I'm fine stobh itt!" I giggled childishly.

Finally she relents.

I look at the beautiful greenery in awe. The mind is incredible and can do so many things.

Naturally, she loves nature and so do I. It was beautiful. We were of part nature after all.

Then I remembered that I had to go to the kitchen. Cursing I stood up and closed my eyes.

Opening them in the real world and I got up hastily trying my best not to trip and fall.

I headed over to the closet praying at least something was there for me to wear and my prayers were answered.

I noticed there were a few clothes that had a scent of Shadow's. I guessed she was the one who left them there for me.

I felt immensely grateful, at least I had clean clothes. I quickly picked a pair of leggings and a plain black tee-shirt. I noticed, surprised that there was a sports bra and underwear.

They were also free size, bless Shadow for her amazing brain. Though Shadow's clothes were a few sizes bigger, of course, I was still quite skinny. And Shadow had quite a lot of muscle on her.

I quickly headed over to the bathroom not as shocked as before but still having a hard time believing I lived in such a place and how much my life had changed.

Taking a quick shower I come out of the bathroom.

Then I realized I didn't have any shoes to wear not that I wasn't used to wearing them and hopefully no one would stare as they did in Blood Moon. My feet were filled with scars and were hardened. I had grown accustomed to walking bare feet so it wasn't an issue.

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I followed her directions and soon enough smelt the most amazing scent of food coming from somewhere near here.

Immediately I began following the smell.

I admired my surroundings along the way as best as I could, the architecture and everything else was amazing here but I was way too distracted by the smell, hearing my stomach rumble hungrily I increased my pace whilst walking down a hallway.

The hallway wasn't too long and soon enough I reached my destination.

My eyes widened in surprise at the huge size of the kitchen.

It was similar in size to my old pack's kitchen.
Just a little bit bigger.

And the theme was similar in the whole packhouse it seemed. Royal red and other shades of light brown, black and white.

It had all the things a kitchen would but in a much bigger size.

I suppose a lot of people came to eat in the packhouse then, unlike my old pack. Only the higher-ups could eat in the packhouse, it was quite insensitive and stupid according to me, the pack eating together was good for the bond to strengthen between pack mates.

I guess that's what's I should expect of Blood Moon I thought rolling my eyes.

There was a slightly taller table than average with tall chairs. It did not look like a dining table but rather just a table with chairs to sit on if one didn't want to go to the dining room, which I assumed would be a short distance away from here.

I saw Shadow sitting at one of her chairs, going through her phone.

She looked up, her eyes searching, when her gaze landed on me she smiled. I guess she smelled my scent.

I returned the smile and head towards her.

"Took you long enough." She chuckled lightly.

I sighed exasperatedly, "Rowena was annoying me."

"Ouch."

"Alright she wasn't exactly annoying me, we just had some disagreements," I said again, thinking what others would think about my strange powers.

"It's alright, I get it. My wolf and I also have disagreements all the time. It's normal." She said and then added, "I don't know if that's what you want but there are pancakes for breakfast. I can tell the cook to make something els-"

"Shadow it's fine, chill. I am thankful for whatever it is I'm getting for breakfast." I cut her off.

She gave a single nod and then said, "Wait here, I will get it in a sec."

"No—"

She glared at me, successfully shutting me up.

I sighed accepting defeat.

She got up and went towards the kitchen counters.

I then started to think about how I'm wasn't as submissive as I should be. Yes of course I didn't trust anyone, besides my new pack. Which I already had a hard time getting used to but the reason why I'm probably not as submissive is that I wasn't born an omega.

My parents were the pack healers. So I do have some sort of power from birth. I sighed wondering how I could withstand so much torture and still be able to talk and walk perfectly considering that every single bone in my body must've broken at some point in my life, that is before I shifted.

For some reason I always had this fire deep inside me, I didn't know what it was but it did not let me give up. No matter how many times I wished for death or how many times I was beaten unconscious and hoped that I wouldn't wake up.

I sighed, I'm not gonna cry. I had promised myself. I already did a pathetic job of fulfilling the promise but I will try again.

I guess through it all I always felt like I didn't belong in that pack. I don't think parents are supposed to torture their children either.

At this point if I found out they aren't my real parents I wouldn't care nor would I be surprised.

I will build a life here for myself and start over.

This is my second chance. A chance at the happiness that I craved all my life. To feel stronger. To not never be like my past helpless self again. And to prove those disgusting and lying bastards that I'm not weak or pathetic.

I don't want to feel that powerless ever again.

Hello Shadowlinks!

Questions for today,

Q. What's your favorite supernatural creature?