The Change by Mathew Harrison (free ebook reader for ipad TXT) 📖

death, so I struggled to reign in my laughter.

"She compelled him Emma!" I shouted, "He'll stop at nothing to meet her, we'd have to imprison him or turn him!"

Emma smirked, and I saw the meaning of it in her eyes, "NO!" I roared, my eyes glowing and my claws coming out, "NO! I WON'T LET YOU DO THAT TO HIM!" I seethed, she knew how much I hated what we were, and she wanted to make my best friend experience that?! I'm not letting this happen! I thought violently. Emma moved slightly and before I knew it, my head was flying into the brick wall. I felt myself loosing conciousness, and before I blacked out I heard Emma say, "I have no choice now!"

Chapter 2

Jake's POV

I sat at home, counting down the minutes till the arrival of Lily, feeling more and more impatient as the seconds passed.I paced around my house repeatedly, thankful that my foster parents were out for the night.  With only a minute to go, the impatience passed, and was replaced with fear. Am I overdressed? Does my breath stink? Should I bring a condom? I thought these questions several times in that minute, and when the doorbell rang, I felt my fears evaporate and I strode to the door with that same strange confidence I felt this morning.

She stood there in the same clothes she was in before and I felt myself get hard almost instantly. God I really gotta get a lid on this! I thought, hoping that she wouldn't notice how excited I already was. She smiled, and gestured to me with her finger to join her, which I did without hesitation. I locked the door, took her arm in mine, and we started walking towards the end of town. I knew she had a car, so I was a little confused as to why we were walking, but I went with it for a while, until curiosity got the better of me and I had to ask.

"Lilly?" I said, softly.

She turned to face me, eyes glittering in the moonlight and said, "Yes?" in that sugar sweet voice that I couldn't get enough of.

"How come we're walking? I mean, I know you have a car, and while I love walking I thought you would rather drive."

She laughed lightly, put her hands on my shoulders, and with suprising strength pulled me down so she could kiss me. As her lips met mine, I felt all of my curiosity vanish, and wanted nothing more than this moment to end. Of course it had to, and as she pulled away she said, "So I could do that, without having to worry about traffic."

We approached the trees that marked the entrance to the woods, and the closer we got, I felt a strange forboding. I shrugged it off, blaming my usual shyness for not wanting to be somewhere alone with a girl like this. Little did I know, alone was the last word that described my situation. We began walking though the trees, me with an unbalanced step, and her with a step that said she had been here before. We continued for a while until she stopped suddenly.

"What's wrong?" I asked, seeing her tense posture, and when she turned, she had a vicious smile playing accross her face. I gasped, not because of the smile, but because of the fangs I saw within it. I turned to run, but she appeared right in front of me, I felt an aura of calm seep over me as her eyes met mine.

"Just relax my love," she said softly, and I couldn't move, I couldn't feel anything but the calm that was being saturated into my mind. "It will be over quickly" I saw her lean in closer to my face, but she wasn't looking to kiss me again, I felt a sharp twinge in my neck, and suddenly the world began to go fuzzy. I heard a howl that sounded a lot like a wolf, thinking that I was going insane. The next thing I knew, Lilly was being flung away from me, at the same time I felt four sharp points dig deep into my side, and tear through flesh. I screamed, feeling the pain override the calm that Lilly had forced onto my mind.

When I got my bearings again, I looked to see the same girl from this morning, the one I thought was comparable to a GI Joe, but there was something different about her. Her eyes were glowing red, her nails were so long they looked like claws, and her teeth resembled those of a wolf. As I stared into her eyes, I felt something in me change, I felt my fear wash away, and felt as if I looked at the sun, but was so mesmerized by the beauty I didn't even notice the burn. When I looked away from her eyes, I saw blood under the claws of her left hand, and touched my side. I realized that she had to have been the one to deal the damage to my side. While I stared at her, trying to understand what was happening, I saw Lilly charge her, her eyes showing her bloodlust. At that sight I turned quickly and ran, ran faster than I ever had before, out of the woods, back to the other end of town, and back to the saftey of my house.

I opened the door quickly, and I held my breath, listening for my foster parents. There was not a sound, so I assumed that there was nobody home. I limped to the bathroom, the adrenaline wearing off, and I finally was starting to feel my injuries again. I looked at my neck in the mirror, and was shocked when I saw that there were only two slight bumps on my neck where Lilly bit me, and when I looked at my side, I saw only thin white lines where I had been scratched. Even though my wounds were healed all of a sudden I still hurt, but it wasn't just at where the injuries were sustained, it was all over my body. I felt as if I had vinegar and baking soda in my veins, and my body was fighting itself. I somehow managed to make it to my bed, and as the pain intensified, I blacked out.

Emma's POV

I held Lilith by the throat against a tree, my claws ready to tear through her flesh if she even breathed. I couldn't believe that this was happening! Not only did this bitch think she could get away with taking my brother's best friend, but she bit him at the same time I scratched him, which was something I had never heard of. Vampires were immune to the virus werewolves transmit though the tooth and claw, just like we were immune to the virus vampires spread through their bite. There had never been a person who recieved both at the same time, which meant that he could turn into something that we had never experienced before. I should have just ran straight after him, and tore his throat out, but when he had looked into my eyes, I felt something strange. I felt as if he wasn't looking at the color of my eyes, but at my eyes themselves, and I couldn't smell any fear from him for a minute. As I was struggling to discover what it was, Lilith had so helpfully decided to spring on me, which renewed his fear and he ran off faster than I could have imagined. Lilith snarled at me, fangs gleaming with Jake's blood.

"Come on bitch! Let's finish this!" she shouted, and I rolled my eyes. As much as I hated to admit it, I couldn't kill her now, I needed her.

I set her down on the ground and willed myself to shift back to normal, after I did I said to her, "We can't now. I don't know if you noticed, but I scratched him at the same time you bit him. There hasn't been anything like that before, and I hate to say it, but we have to discover what he is going to turn into, BEFORE we can finsih this, so I'll make a deal with you." I held out my hand, " I, Emma Simmons, as an alpha swear not to harm you in anyway, so long as you take no lives in this town, until we have figured out what we will have to do with the boy. If you shake to this, you will be bound by an ancient wolf magic to uphold these terms, and you will not be able to violate them. Do you agree to them?" I stared her down, waiting for her to make her decision. It didn't take long.

"I," she muttered, "agree to your terms" and she took my hand. As power flared between our entwined hands, I knew the deal was set.

Chapter 3

Jake's POV

I woke up, after a night of strange dreams running through the woods with vampires and werewolves chasing me, to a stiff neck and a cramping side. I opened my eyes, and noticed there was a difference in the way I saw everything, it was more focused and I could see the heat and motion of everything around me. I also noticed that I could hear two hearts beating in the next room, and smell the roses from the neighbor's garden, it was as if I gained super senses. I jumped out of my bed, and felt the frame bend as I did so, and as I turned to investigate, I heard a girl's voice, "Impressive!"

I flew across the room, to where I could see her, it was the girl from last night and I felt my side twinge slightly in memory. She was standing there with Lilly, Wait what the fuck? Why is Lilly here with her?!

The girl said to me, "I have never seen anyone move quite that fast, but you aren't just anyone, not anymore."

What the hell?!, I thought, confused, Does this have anything to do with last night? Did what I think happened last night really happen?

As if she could read my mind Lilly said, "Yeah, everything that happened last night was real, and I know you have several questions for us. First off, my name isn't Lilly, it's Lilith, I'm a vampire in case you haven't figured that out yet, and the girl standing next to me claims to know you." she rolled her eyes. The other girl