Awake by Anaya Phoenix (best short novels of all time .TXT) 📖

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“my dad is always a pushy jerk, but don’t tell him I said that” I chuckle, scaredy cat, I want to tell her but wolves are very touchy. She cocks her head to the side and her eyebrows bunch together,
“you look different”
“well, thanks for the update captain obvious”
“your welcome super annoying” I stick my toungue out at her and she catches it, I start moving my head back and forth trying to get it off but she refuses to let go while she laughs hysterically.
“what’s wrong, wolf got your toungue?” it’s a terrible joke but I laugh anyway, she’s cute when she tries to be funny. I bite her finger and she yelps and wipes her finger on her dress, she feigns to be angry and her eyes swirl pink
“your gonna get it now”
“bring it on dog”
“with pleasure cat” she wraps her arms around my mid-section and I think she’s hugging me, until I feel her hands pull my hair. I let it grow a little longer and this is what I get, a crazy wolf tugging on it, I yowl and she giggles
“what was that?” she manages to say
“that was the mighty yowl, my dear, now if you would be so kind as to remove your hands?” I say in a british accent,
“I happen to like my hands where they are and do not see the point of removing them” her british accent is turning into a Scottish one and I start laughing. She lets go and frowns,
“I’m not good with accents” she mumbles, she looks at me again. Her expression clears,
“holy buggers” then she sprints toward the den’s leaving me to follow her.


Im 8! It didn’t dawn on me until now, I’m 8! That’s why everything is so big, I’m bigger! I hear him behind me but I don’t care, running feels so much better. My long legs carry me faster and I’m at the den’s in no time. I have no idea exactly why I ran here, I just felt like I needed to be here. Cat-boy runs up next to me,
“that was fun huh?” I laugh, although his sarcasm is a pain in the butt, he’s pretty funny. Then I remembered I have to ask him something,
“how old are you?” he seems taken back by this question but he answers anyway,
“I’m 12, and your 8” I smile, you bet I’m 8!
“what’s your name?”
“Micah, and your Elizabeth” does he know everything about me?
“what’s your favorite color?” we start walking toward the den’s very slowly.
“black, and yours is pale blue and light pink” unbelievable! Not even my father knew that!
“what’s my element?”
“water”
“what are you?” I know it’s rude, but I don’t think he’s a cat.
“I’m a puma, well a puma cub, but in three years I’ll hit puberty and I’ll be a puma” a puma. Wow. I’m about to ask him another question when I smell something. Like me, without the earth part. I look to my left and see the man that I saw before. He’s still pretty, so I smile at him, he smiles back so I deem him safe. I start to walk toward him but micah grabs my hand and hisses at the man.
“he’s not safe” he tells me, his voice is hoarse and his eyes shine a brilliant blue that almost has me hypnotized. Almost. I yank my hand out of his
“he’s like me, he’s as safe as I am” I tell him trying to get him to understand. He shakes his head and takes in a breath, he’s about to opne his mouth when I put my hand over his mouth.
“don’t you dare signal my father” I hiss at him
“too late” he murmurs behind my hand and then I smell him. Fur and earth and strawberries, I know the man is gone but I still turn around to face my father with sparkly green eyes.
“you know,” I swallow hard “you can’t keep scaring off people that I like”. He growls and I growl back at him, this isn’t my father, this is his wolf and he doesn’t like to listen. He morfs into his wolf and I’m confused, does he want to fight me? He isn’t looking at me though he’s looking behind me, on the ground. I sigh he changed too!? I take in a breath as daddy starts to move his shoulders he’s planning on attacking. No, I may not know micah well but if we’ve imprinted he’s mine and no one is going to take him from me, not even my father.


I wasn’t planning on changing, I just felt really threatened, but I almost get stunned by what elixabeth does next. She takes a breath and then her body starts to morf, she doesn’t feel any pain she just stares at her father and keeps her defensive pose. She remains like that even in her wolf form. Her legs are spread apart from each other and she’s my height, she growls at her father and shakes herself. Her father seems taken back but then he takes one look at me and growls, I move to the side and hiss at him. He leaps but she jumps and takes the hit for me, I yowl and morph back screaming.
“what is wrong with you?!” I yell at him as I rush to her side, she’s grabbing her side and is hissing air in between her teeth.
“it’s fine, it doesn’t really hurt… that bad” her voice is so low that even my ears have to strain to hear them. I look up at her father who still has his stupid eyes on me,
“sprite of danhmor hear me, your child calls to you in pain” I say loudly and instantly her mother is there kneeling next to Elizabeth.
“what happened?” she outs her hand over elizabeths hand , the one that holds her side in pain.
“he leaped for me but she jumped in his way, I think he bit her” I clutch her closer to me. That receives a glare from her mother but I don’t care, elizabeth’s in pain and I cant stand that.
“elizabeth, calm down for me to heal you, you have to stay calm” I feel Elizabeth loosen in my arms and I take a breath. She puts her hand over the bruised spot and closes her eyes, I look down and see her hand glowing green, and I feel Elizabeth take a breath. She opens her eyes and smiles down at Elizabeth,
“better?”
“better,” she sits up and looks at me, her green eyes sparkling. She opens her mouth to say something but then a whimper brings all our attention to her father. Who lays naked and on his side.
I was going to tell him to stop worrying and that he was practically squishing me to death when daddy grunted. I crawled to him and put my hand on his cheek, his face is contorted in pain and he’s sweating.
“what’s wrong daddy?” my voice is squeaky, I really don’t want anything bad to happen to my father. No matter how much smack I talk I woul never hurt him. He’s my father.
“nothing sweetie, I just had to” he grunts and holds his head and I peek inside. I scream out, his wolf is really angry at him, he’s screaming and cursing and it really hurts. I hold my head and grind my teeth,
“stop that, your hurting him!” I scream at him mentally
“you, you little brat, you continue to challenge me! Even when you know you cannot win!” he screams at me, I clench my teeth
“stop that right now” I say out loud, I stand over my father’s crumpled form.
“yes, I will admit you are my alpha and you are also my father. But that only applies to pack rules” I snarl at him
“so that means if I wanted to I could challenge you, and it wouldn’t matter if you were my alpha or not I would still kick your pushy butt” I cross my arms. I watch as my father’s eyes start to glow a brilliant green,
“you challenge me?” his voice is hoarse and very angry
“if it will get you to stop being such a butt head to my father then yes, I challenge you” I say resolutely I really don’t want to fight him,
“Elizabeth you don’t have to do that” my mothers voice says from somewhere behind me, but I don’t break my glare with my father. That would be a mistake I can’t afford.
“I have to, to show this wolf he doesn’t own me, you or daddy” I clench through my already elongating teeth.
“you know you cannot challenge your father, and he’s our alpha, oh god we’re going to die! He’s going to kill us!” my wolf says panickly in my mind.
“relax, ally, he wouldn’t hurt us, we’re his cub” I want to believe this so she doesn’t say anything she just chants to herself.
“let the challenge begin” my father says hoarsely, oh god maybe he will kill us.


Is she crazy!? Is she trying to get herself killed?! Jesus, we just get her back and then she wants to have a fight with not only her slpha but her father!
“Elizabeth, stop this you know he cant beat him” she twirls on me, her eyes are black and very, very angry.
“do you know what I’m sick and tired of?” it’s a rhetorical question so I don’t answer,
“people telling me what I can and can’t do and what I know” she steps closer and pokes my chest with her finger
“you don’t know what I know, you can’t do what I do, so just butt out” she pokes me with the last three words. She twirls to her father, her curly blonde hair flying in the air.
“so are you just gonna stand there screaming and throwing a tantrum or are you actually going to fight me?” oh god, it was good to live while I could.


I know I shouldn’t have said that. But I was sick and tired of standing there having a stare down while my father is in pain!
“as you wish daughter,” he’s testing me
“as it shall be done… alpha” father would be the wrong term. He gives one nod and together we change. I give myself one good shake and look at the blond wolf that stands before me,
“Elizabeth, you don’t have to do this” mommy says in my mind, I look at her
“believe me I have to,” I tell her then I shut her out. I look to my father again,
“you sure about this?” I ask, well my wolf asks him he gives one nod. We start to prowl around each other, growling but not attacking. But he makes the first hirt, it’s a little snip, not enough to draw blood but just a reminder that he could if he wanted to. We start to prowl again and this time I make the first hit. I bite his front leg and he yelps, I speed back before he can hit me. Soon it bcomes a dance, prowl, snip, growl. The rythym flows and flows until my father finally snaps. He snarls and tackles me in my stomach, I yelp this really hurts! He nips my ear, until I relax,
“submit daughter” he says to