C2 Chapter 2 Misery loves me

Part1 Kept in chains

I was out for a long time. My eyes could not adjust easily and I felt a lot of pain throughout my whole body. I didn't know what was happening but surely I was somewhere in the dark.

"That's ok, now sleep. Tomorrow you will feel better," a woman's voice echoed through my brains.

Then I heard another male voice saying "what got into you? Now we are in deep shit."

I couldn't listen to the conversation any longer as I have lost consciousness again.

I groaned in agony as I felt myself waking again. I opened my eyes slowly but I could only see blurred. I noticed I had a better sense of smell and I could hear better too. What's going on?

I could clearly hear a conversation that was outside the room I was locked in.

"Please, do not tell anyone. It must have been the haze. Don't you feel it? It felt stronger than usual this time and I couldn't hold myself any longer. He made me feel uncontrollable somehow. I think he is more than just a stranger to me coming to think of it. There is definitely a connection. I could feel my wolf howling inside my chest like it urged for him."

That was definitely Mei, but whom was she talking to? Also, what the hell is she? I couldn't forget last night's images. Fangs, shadows, and, blue eyes glowing at me, no, but then the second time they looked Red. Yes. I remember that. I was not going crazy. All of this is real. I looked at myself and was naked. Naked in the dark with chains around me. The wound was gone but bloodstains were still there. I felt super hungry and I could smell food from the kitchen.

"Let me out," I screamed. "Let me out," I tried again.

Then I hear the door creaking and my whole body turned to look at who came in.

"Where am I? You better tell me now!" I barked.

I felt furious and Uncontrollable. That is not the usual me but I was terrified. I pulled at the chains trying to release myself. Mei came in and walked slowly and carefully towards me but she didn't get too close.

I could smell that she had food in her hands. She put the plate on the floor and pushed it towards me. I could hear her heartbeat and her breathing and that made me feel aroused. I could not control myself at all. I closed my eyes, looked away and tried to breathe hard.

She sighed and was walking back to the door but I screamed at her.

"No. You must tell me, everything."

I looked at her once again.

"Soon. Soon I will tell you. I promise. Now eat and rest."

I followed her with my eyes until she was out of the door. I was pissed off and I felt like screaming but instead, to my surprise I growled. I growled deeply and strongly, feeling every vibration of it coming from my chest. I scared the shit out of myself, wondering if this could all go away with just a deep sleep.

Mei came back in with a shocked expression. I noticed her eyes turning yellow as soon as we made eye contact. Then she bowed down at me and started sobbing.

"Alpha. You are our long lost alpha. It has been years since we had one. Oh my god, I must tell the others."

She rushed back outside now excited as I kept staring at the door surprised by her reaction.

I started pulling myself trying to remove the chains. Clang! One out. I pulled harder this time and managed to get both my hands free. Suddenly the door opened with a big bang and there were three people in front of me, one of them Mei. They all gasped at me and pulled themselves back.

"Impossible," one said to the other. Not just an Alpha. He is stronger than the others. How could he have done that?"

I stared at them at first, then I got angry.

"Let me go!" I growled and I felt the pain coming from everywhere so I fell to the ground with a moan.

I screamed as my eyes were burning like I had chili wiped in my eyes. I growled and huffed and then I sensed a change in them.

When the burning sensation stopped I opened my eyes staring straight at the two ladies and one tall man and saw their eyes widen. They gasped and Mei put a hand on her mouth. I was on all fours as my legs were still stuck to two chains.

"We are so sorry Alpha, but you need to stay. You are not in control of yourself yet. We will be here to help you. We will do anything you want as long as you promise to keep us safe when the time comes," the young redhead girl told me.

I looked at her straight in the eyes and growled and growled again. She ran away sheepishly and Mei looked at me with sorry eyes. I was breathing heavily and uncontrollably.

I could barely look at her. Something made me pull towards her, yet I was upset.

"You are making me feel some kind of way," I said with my normal voice. I looked away trying to calm myself down and I could hear her walking towards me.

She stopped right in front of me and knelt to come to my level.

"Me too," she said shortly.

I could smell the strong scent of her filling my nostrils. The smell of fresh cinnamon and oranges. I turned to look at her.

"Mate." she blurted softly like in contemplation, holding my shoulders tightly. The guy still standing by the door opened his eyes wide.

"What? So, that makes you the Luna!" he said aloud.

She turned her face towards him and they stared at each other for a while.

"No wonder I felt without control. My wolf called out for my mate."

She then turned towards me and blocked her mouth with her hand as she forgot she was not supposed to talk like that in front of me.

"Wolf? What do you mean? What am I becoming? Tell me. Its an order," I growled.

She didn't seem to have felt any fear in her, even after blurting out the words in such a manner. Her eyes kept looking straight in mine.

"Alpha, you are becoming a wolf, but don't worry. I will take care of you," she said hurriedly as she placed one hand on my face to caress me.

I grabbed hold of her arm and pulled her towards me. The strong smell coming from her made me uncontrollable. I brought her down on the floor so she would slide underneath me and kissed her hard feeling my arms flexing as I held one hand on the floor.

I heard the door close as we were kissing and I grabbed her waist to get her closer to me. I couldn't control my emotions.

Suddenly I feel a sting on my left side of my belly like a needle pierced my skin.

"Aaaaaaaaaarghhh," I yelled and growled at the same time.

"I'm sorry Luka, but I had to," she said, still grasping the injection between her fingers.

"What have you done to me?" I asked weakly as I was feeling dizzy. Then I closed my eyes shut once more.

"He is waking up again Jake, Steph!" Mei shouted.

I could smell her and feel her hands on my cheek and my head was resting on her lap. I opened my eyes and waited for the vision to adjust.

"What are you doing to me?" I said weakly, still half asleep.

"Shhhhhh, shhhh, don't worry. I am here. I will protect you don't worry. When you are ready I will explain, but for now, you have to learn to accept your wolf again," she tried to calm me down and now I was feeling more awake.

I stood up slowly from her lap, almost falling back down, and rushed to a corner holding myself in a crouch. I covered my face and my whole body with my arms feeling ashamed, naked and confused. I could not hold myself from crying. I was just a journalist with a story to tell if only things didn't turn out this way.

"I know how it feels like," she sighed breaking the few minutes of silence. "Please don't feel that way. We all felt that way when we turned for the first time".

I turned my face just enough to look at her still covering it with my hands. I growled lightly and turned my face back to hide it. I felt her standing up and I knew that she was coming towards me from the strong scent that was getting stronger. She stopped right next to me and lowered herself down to come to my level.

"Look. I'll tell you my story. Ok?" she said, reaching for my arm. "I was out into the woods gathering some flowers. I was still fifteen back then. My mum passed away from an internal inflammation that has spread up to her heart."

She sighed "whilst I was picking up some flowers for her to put on the grave I felt it coming."

She stopped and gazed at me for a moment.

"My wolf was getting released and I had no idea. I had no one to tell me who I was, and to make it worse I was alone. A sixteen-year-old birthday girl, with just my favorite dress and a pair of pure white slippers."

I looked at the place where I was bitten. It closed itself but I had a scar too that I hadn't noticed before. "I went through the change all alone. I felt like I wanted to peel off my skin and slowly I exposed my wolf. Once I changed I felt free so I ran and ran until I reached a river and looked at myself for the first time. The worst part is when changing back into human form. I'd rather not explain that part."

By then I was listening intently to her story and was now looking at her. She smiled and exposed her beautiful white teeth. I couldn't resist not to smile back.

I felt better now but I remembered that I had to contact my mother as soon as I woke up.

"I had to call mum this morning to put her mind at rest that I'm fine."

She looked at my eyes intently than she nodded and stood up to walk towards the door.

"Where are you going?" I asked her, looking upset.

"I am going to grab you the phone. Don't you still want to call your mum?" she left, closing the door behind her.

Part 2 The voice within

My skin was too small for my body and felt like I wanted to shred it into pieces just like she said what happened to her. I started to think of how much my future must change now that I got into this mess.

I had a normal life and just because of that stupid photo my boss gave me, I am becoming something else. Something I never thought was real. I was wondering if it was all but a dream. I closed my eyes tightly and rubbed them with my shaking hands, and then I opened them just hoping I would find myself in my bedroom waking up from a nightmare.

No, I was still there, naked and alone in that darkness feeling scared and worried at the same time. I started weeping feeling like everything I have worked for has been flushed away in a moment. My job, my friends. What would I say to my boss? Or to mum? Hey ma, I have just been upgraded from human into a wolf. Awesome right? I rolled my eyes, thinking how stupid I was for even thinking of telling her.

That's it, I have to start anew. I wept till I got tired, feeling frustrated with the situation and everything.

"You'll feel lighter, yet stronger. The best feeling would be of the wind touching your skin as you run smelling the freshness of the trees around you. The freedom is worth every inch of pain you are feeling right now. Trust me," Mei said earlier before leaving the room.

A vision came to me where this beautiful woman was wearing a white, more transparent dress that flowed down her thin waste. The light breeze made her light brown hair flow away from her face, revealing her beautiful face. The scent coming from her made me want to follow her. It was Mei. She looked at me and smiled, then turned away walking seductively on the grass that takes you to a large lake. I tried to stand from the ground but I was pushed back by the solid chains that were heavy around my arms and ankles.

"No, don't. It's not safe! Come back," I screamed out as I watched her walking into the lake, disappearing. I was brought back to reality by the clinging of chains.

I tried to stand up from the floor to walk just a little and try to relieve some of the stress I was having but my body felt weak and I fell back on the cold hard ground. The pain was slowly consuming me and I needed to scream out all the stress.

I felt my senses heighten and my vision became more clear in the dark. I closed my eyes and stood there in the silence. I started hearing people walking and chatting from the other side of the door. I tried to walk closer to it to listen to the conversation but the chains pulled my legs and stopped me from getting any further. I felt like a prisoner. I tried pulling the chains but I was growing weaker and weaker and my energy level was getting way to low for me to break free.

I laid on the floor and stared at the ceiling. Images of my friends and family were going through my mind. I imagined myself at a party having fun. My mother and father were there too dancing their asses off and giggling at each other. Aunt Linda sipping down some wine and smiling at her guests feeling proud of herself for being a good organizer. My cousin Katie flirting with my best friend Dean that used to follow me wherever I go. That would be very much typical of her. Then I was snapped out of it when I heard footsteps approaching which brought me back to reality.

I waited for a while before Mei arrived with my phone in her hand and she handed it to me. I noticed the time was eleven o'clock. I was worried about mum as she must have thought something was wrong.

"Don't tell her. Our kind must remain a secret. Promise!" She insisted looking at me with her head held a bit low.

I nodded and looked at the phone.

"I wasn't going to tell her anyway. She might think I am crazy and gets worried that I need to go to a psychiatric hospital."

I pressed mum on my call list and waited for an answer.

"Hey ma, I know it's late but I overslept," I lied trying to cover the truth from her. How would she believe what was happening to me?!

"Hey sweetie. Oh, God. You have no idea how upset I was getting. I almost called the police," she said shakily.

"I'm fine ma, don't worry. I'm working on the story. But I believe that it will take me longer than usual. I am going to stay in a motel for a while until I close the story. Is that ok?" I asked hoping she would believe me and that excuse would give me more time.

I waited for a while to get an answer. Then I hear a sigh from the other side.

"Ok darling. Be careful ok? Make sure to call often. Love you sweetie."

I looked at Mei and saw her nodding.

"Yeah mum, see you soon. Love you too," I hung up and then I placed my phone on the floor.

"So tell me Mei, where am I?" I asked her trying to get some answers from her for the millionth time.

"Underground," she said shortly.

I looked around and there were just one window, a table and a chair below it. Nothing more. Since I was still stuck in chains I wondered why they kept me in them.

"May I ask why you are keeping me locked in these?" I lifted my feet as I stood up from the corner and pointed at the chains.

"Sometimes certain werewolves get uncontrollable so we keep them in chains until they start getting used to their wolf. Most of us become werewolves first but if we remain pure we become wolf meaning we would be more in control and more gentle," she explained.

I stared at her for a while trying to consume all the information. I looked down at myself and gazed at the tattoo on my chest.

"What does it mean? The tattoo on your chest?" She asked as she noticed me looking at it.

I kept staring at it for a while then I looked at Mei.

"The wolf is a symbol of my father's favourite animal. He passed away a few years ago due to an accident. The owl symbolizes my mother's wisdom and the dove is a symbol of my late sister Mabel. The flowers I tattooed around them are a symbol of my love for them all."

She walked towards me and touched my chest with her finger moving it around the outline of each tattoo. She looked up at me with a concerned face.

"You love deeply and you have lost so much."

I looked at her with my passionate eyes. I moved towards her to smell her scent so close to mine and as I had my eyes closed she started to kiss me slowly. I felt a shiver down my spine and something inside me wanted to be released. I groaned as I felt the pain getting strong again. She pulled away from me and I could see her eyes started to change from blue to yellow.

"My wolf is calling for her alpha and mate," She explained.

I growled as I started to feel my bones slowly breaking. I could also hear them crack.

"Your wolf wants to come out she explained. You are holding it in and the more you resist the more painful it will be."

"Let me see the light, let me out!" something called out from within.

I opened my eyes wide in the realization that my wolf had just spoken to me.

"How? How do I do it?" I asked aloud, "I can't. I am too scared. I don't want to die," I screamed out feeling my head burn.

I lifted my hands on my head and held it tightly feeling the pressure. Then everything stopped abruptly.

I started to breathe in and out heavily, making my chest move up and down as I laid on the ground feeling weaker. I knew I couldn't hold back much longer than I already have but this was all unnatural to me.

I looked into Mei's beautiful eyes and a howl escaped me.

"You look ready!" She smiled and moved slightly backwards, giving me a nof of encouragement.