When the wolves come knocking by Becca (best fantasy books to read TXT) 📖

to eat" Alice decides, getting up. I get up too, but when my feet hit the floor, I feel dizzy. I put my hand aginst the wall to steady myself.

"You okay?" Alice asks, worried. I take my hand off the wall, "Yeah Im fine" I say, and go into the bathroom. I shut the door behind me. I look in the mirror. My hair is a mess, and my eyes look diffrent. I don't know how though, they just do.

I splash water on my face, and fix my hair leaving the bathroom. "Lets go" Alice says, opening the door. We walk down and through the halls silently. I guess no one heard us, or maby it was me keeping the sound in. When we get down to the main part of the school, all the teachers seem to be in chaos.

Kids are whispering about there being a extinct royal family. I already know who they're talking about. We sit down at the table after getting our food. Sam, Nick, and 3 others sit there. "You here the Arlago family is gone? That Demetri guy got killed in some freak storm" one of the guys with blond hair says. I don't say anything but clench my teeth. Alice and Nick both quickly look at me. "Ow!" the blond crys out, looking at Alice. "Shut up" Alice hisses. She proubly kicked him.

He looks over at me. "Oh, sorry" he says, seeming to rember who I was. I shrug. Everyone continues talking. Nick whos sitting on my right side, slides his hand under the table and takes mine. He squeeses it reassuringly. It feels warm, and right in my hand.

When we're done, I still have to go to fighting with Nick. "Are you okay?" he stops walking when were on our way to the gym. "Im fine" I shrug. "You arn't acting 'fine'. Why didn't you say anything back ther?" he asks. "Because I don't have anything to say. Was I susposed to say somthing?" I ask annoyed.

Nick is silent. "You didn't have to. But you would have if you were 'fine'" he says. "Well, I am fine. Can we go now?" I ask angerly. He starts to walk without saying a word.I quickly catch up to him, but don't say anything. "Adgility. Like gymnastics, did you ever do gymnastics?" he says once we're inside the gym.

"Yeah, a little" I answer. "Just do what you did then" he says, nodding twords the gymnastics things. I did it when I was 10, then quit. I should have told him that. "I..um.." I say, hesitating. Did I mention I broke my leg in gymnastics? "You'll be fine. I'll help you" he says, his face softening.

We walk over to it. First, we just warm up. Im still angrey at him, but its going away. When he tells me to try the horizantl bar, I stop. I broke my leg on that. I think the pill is wearing off, because it feels like weight is just crashing down on me. "Try it" he coaxes. I sigh, and do it.

Its not as bad as I rember. Im better at it now. My hands curl around it solidly. I flip myself around it a couple times, then jump off. I dont land on my feet, I land on my butt. Nick is trying not to laugh, unsucessfully. "Shut up" I grumble, getting up. "You do it" I say changellingly. He shrugs, and does it easily.

When hes done, and lands perfectly, I say "Gymnastics is a girl sport" and rub my tempals, headache comming on. "It is not" he says, smiling. "Watever" I sigh. "Can we be done now?" I ask. "Why? you okay?" he asks, sounding a little worried. "People really need to stop asking me that. Im fine" I say.

"Okay, lets go. But Im staying with you. Alice still has to help some other royal all day, and she asked me to keep you company. But thats really not the reason why I wanna stay with you" he says like a know-it-all. He is really annoying today. "Fine. You choose where to go" I say, not wanting to go anywhere really.

"The treefort" he suggests. I shrug, and fallow him out.

We walked in silence for the most part, he once in a while asked about my classes. When we got there, me and him easily climbed up, powers assisting us both. When we're both at the top, i sit down and lean aginst one of the walls. I scearch for the little voices of nature, but I cant hear them.

I can fell their presance, but I cant hear them, its like their muffled. I try to focous on them more, but it just gives my a headache. "Can we talk about what happened?" he asks, sliding over next to me. "No" I quickly snap. I am not talking about it at all.

"Please? I just want to see if I can understand" he pleads. "No" I repeat. "Why?" he questions. "I don't want to talk about it. I don't even think you would understand" I mumble. "You dont know that, and you can't just ignore it" he says, adgitated. "I can and I will. Im not talking about it, theres no benifit to it" I say, standing up. At first Im a little dizzy, but I quickly push the feeling away.

"Its not right to. And it would benifit me, I want to know you" he says, copying me and grabing my hand. "No you don't" I say, backing up and shaking of his hand. Images flash through my head. He dosn't want to know me.

"I do want to know you. There is nuthing you could say that would make me care for you any less" he says, akwardly saying 'care for'. "I dont want you to. I can't tell you, just leave it" I snap. "You can tell me, I know you can so stop. I want to help you, but I-"

"Shut up!" I pratically yell at him as my head is throbbing. It felt like I got hit by a baseball bat. I clutch my head and crumple with my back to the wall. Not again.

"Did you take it?" he asks, instantly kneeling next to me. I nod my head. "Then why....?" he trails off, confused. I focous every ounce of power I have into pushing the pounding back. It slowly subsides.

"Im fine" I sigh, once its down to a dull throb. "Are you sure?" he asks, concerned. I nodd, exaushted. Doing that, it took all my energy away. "Lets go back" he says, getting up. "No" I say, not wanting to go back yet. I dont want it to happen like that every time Im here.

"Are you sure? You don't lo-" hes cut off. "Why do you come here?" I ask. He seems taken aback for a moment. "Because its peaceful. Surrounded by nature, I can feel all of it" he says. "I cant hear them, I cant hear the trees, or water, or anything" I whisper. I look up and meet his eyes.

I wonder what he sees in my eyes. Or more like who. Maybe a sad, beaten girl. Or someone whos been throught too much to give up. In him, I see love, I see someone who can take almost anything, and wont let anyone touch somthing he cares about.

He looks worried. "Why not?" he asks, sitting down next to me. "I dont know..." I think of the reasons why. "I used alot of it.....before.... and everytime I take the god damn depression pills, I cant hear them" I whisper, my eyes drooping.

"Than thats it" he says, resting his hand on mine. I let my eyes rest for a moment.

I feel it. Somthing's happened. I have to help her. I jump up, startiling Nick. "What?" he asks, jumpping up. "Somethings happened. Alice is hurt" Im filled with energy as I land on firm ground and run.

I have no clue how I know it, but I can feel it, I heard her cry out. I run as fast as I can, and the most baizar thing happens. I feel my bones shift, and fur grow. I turn into a wolf. I fur is golden wheat color. I run faster, and I can smell the fire now. I hear Nick behind me, I think he changed too. He is catching up to be in a few minuintes. His fur is black, and sleek. "How do you know?" he asks, but its inside my head. "I dont know, I heard her, I felt it. Shes caught in the fire" I think at him frantically.

He dosnt say anything more, and we run back to the school. The fire is near the back, a little ways back where an addition had just been put on. People were running frantic, and I felt myself change back. I was greatful to still have all my clothes on. I looked around, Alice wasn't anywhere in sight. Where is she?

I thought frantically as lound as I can to the powers surrounding me. The power was all built up inside me, and I was going to burst.

In the building, stuck in a room, she was trying to get a little boy out,

they answered. I didn't even look back as I dove into the burning building. Im not stupid eaither, I pushed most of the fire out of my way, I only got burned a little. "Alice!" I called out. I heard her cough, and I went into the room.

"Cher! Be carful" I heard Nick call out behind me. I hadn't even known he fallowed me. Alice had been hit by a board that had fallen, and was eaither dead, or passed out. I didn't look at the little boy too long, he was fine, not including some minor burns. "Alice!" I yelled shaking her. She didn't move, or make a sound. I franticaly felt for a pulse. None. "Damnit Alice!" I yelled, tears forming in my eyes.

Then I let it all go. All the power I was holding back, let it go. It flowed from me to Alice. Light burst out from around us. She instantly coughed. "Cher? What..?" she asked, sitting up. "Fire, we need to go!" Nick called out, his voice ragged. I pulled Alice to her feet, and Nick grabbed the boy. The house was falling down, fire everywhere. I coughed from the smoke that I started breathing in. The fire burned my skin.

I couldn't run, I felt like I was going to pass out. I had brought Alice back to life, and I had used every ounce of power I had to do that. We stopped suddenly when the floor in front of us crumbled. Alice swore, and Nick looked at me. "We have to jump" Nick called over to us. I swayed a little, I couldn't even stand. "I can't" I croaked out. Nick looked at me, relization flashed in his face.

I guess her knew that if I used too much, it took alot out of me. I had used it all, and I had taken everything out of me. The cealing crumbled above us, and fell.

But it stopped mid-fall, frozen in the air. I looked around to see who had done it. In front of us, two people, one girl, another boy, stood in front of us. Water and air users. The fire around us was put out mostly now. A gust of wind pushed us off