Rob

I knew it. I knew this was a bad fucking idea from the start. I warned Luke not to try this shit. Anyway, It was too late to cry about it.

We didn’t encounter any real difficulties with getting Pete to take the potion. It was a bit tricky since the blood had to be willingly given by the person undergoing the transformation. Had he refused, we would have had to dispose of him and start the search for a new candidate. The potion was finally completed when Luke added his own blood into the mix. Pete had gulped it down without any complaint.

The problems started after the bite and the triggering of Pete’s transformation. Pete was still passed out in his transformed state in the now covered bed of my truck. He’d changed into a white fur (That’s kinda rare) wolf about 7 feet tall, which was about what was expected from a girl wolf. The only real problem was with Luke. He collapsed about the same time as Pete did and was still unconscious. The possibility of him not waking up was definitely there. He might have bitten off more than he could chew this time, even with that absurdly large maw of his.

A pack with it’s alpha out of commission was extremely vulnerable. And if he never woke up, well let’s just say our life wouldn’t be smooth sailing going forwards. Right now, Luke was in the bed of the truck Sam was driving. Last he checked, Luke was sweating buckets and completely unresponsive. About an hour after we left the woods, we pulled into the shop.

Pete was still in his transformed state, mostly still now, except for a few twitches now and then. Luke was completely still, his chest barely rising from the shallow breaths that he was talking. Jay carried Pete up to his room while Sam and I transferred Luke from the bed of the truck to his actual bed.

“Oh shit..Shit…shit…shit…” mumbled Sam while pulling on his hair.

Yeap, my thoughts exactly buddy.

“What are we gonna do Rob? He’s not waking up”.

‘Oh really, I hadn’t noticed..’ I almost replied.

Sam was stressed out, just as I was. I had to show some leadership skills, since I was Luke’s second in command.

“There’s only one thing we can do, Sam. Wait. Luke brought our pack this far. We have to believe in his strength like we always have.”

Sam sighed before plopping himself down on the couch. I pulled up a chair and sat on the other side of Luke’s bed.

Jay was apparently still in the next room with Pete. I doubted he would come here. He was the only person in the pack who would be glad if Luke never woke up from his slumber. Jay was more like a prisoner of war than a bona fide pack member like me or Sam. At the other end of the spectrum was Layla. The bitch was obsessed with Luke and she was a slave to his command without him ever having to use any of his aura to influence her. She had somehow arrived at the conclusion that Luke using her as a cumdump made her more important than everyone else in the pack. I didn’t know if I could have taken her hysterical reaction to this situation had she been here. It was lucky that she wasn’t around. Thank god for small mercies.

Time seemed to slow down to a crawl as Sam and I waited silently, waiting for our alpha to wake up.

Luke

Things were proceeding smoothly. Pete had taken the potion and as soon as he was done, I had bitten him from behind. I had been warned many times by Rob that expending so much of my power would come with a severe backlash. But, I was still surprised by the impact of it as it hit me. It felt like all the muscles in my body had turned to liquid as a sudden fogginess covered my brain. I remembered seeing the ground swaying beneath the feet before darkness rose up to meet me.

I woke up to the familiar pleasant aroma of lilacs. When I opened my eyes, I knew that I was either dreaming or dead. Because, in front of me was the most beautiful face I’d ever seen in my life. A face I knew I’d never see again in my life. Peyton. My Peyton. She was smiling at me, holding my hands. She looked just like the way I remembered her when we were both 15.

“Are you real?” I asked her.

“Of course I’m real you dummy. I’m here aren’t I?”. She said in that mischievous tone that drove me nuts countless times.

“ You know what I mean. You… You died P”.

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“ I know, it was a real bummer. But just because I’m dead doesn’t mean that I’m gone. I’ll be around as long as you are”.

Her smile was just as infectious as I remembered. We walked, ran and chased each other through our old haunts just as we had during the happiest times of my life.

We ended up near a babbling brook. She was lying on my lap while I dipped my feet in the water, savouring the feeling of water running over my feet.

“We could stay here forever,” I said.

“Yes, yes we could,” she said, taking hold of my hand, with a look of utter contentment on her face.

I had to close my eyes for a moment as a light flashed in my eyes. It was from the sun catching the light on her bracelet. Wait, I knew that bracelet. I’d gifted it to her for her 15th birthday. I recoiled as a sudden image of the bracelet lying broken in the ground flashed in front of my eyes.

The scene in front of me reformed as I saw the bracelet broken and shattered on the ground in front of me. Lying a few feet away was the girl I loved. Her throat slashed open with angry claw marks that went all the way down to her ribs, her lifeblood staining the dried leaves below her. Her sweet eyes that were once full of life were now staring up vacantly. This was exactly how I’d found her body that fateful day. My hands were shaking as I clenched them.

The next instant I was lying in a hole in the ground, Peyton lying next to me. Hooded, faceless figures were looking down at us and as soon as I noticed them, they started shovelling dirt on top of us. I tried to move, but I found that I was paralyzed. Dirt was falling all around us, soon it’d bury us.

No, No…. I couldn’t let this happen. I’ll never be weak like my father. This was not how it’d end. I strained against the invisible bonds holding me down and directed every drop of my aura and willpower against it.

I screamed as the bonds strained and started to give under the relentless onslaught of my aura.

I sat bolt upright on my own bed, looking at the startled and relieved faces of Rob and Sam. I was back. My sheets were drenched with sweat and I was feeling exhausted, both in body and in mind. But, this was a good kind of exhaustion, the kind you have in the gym after a good workout session. I took a moment to compose myself.

I could already tell I had broken through a bottleneck and vastly increased my aura pool. I could feel a new unfamiliar thread connecting to me from the next room.

My pack had a new member. A new female wolf. The ritual was a complete success.

“Luke, are you okay?” Sam asked with a worried voice.

“I’m fine Sam, just feeling a bit tired”.

Sam and Rob both let out a sigh of relief hearing my voice. I got up from the bed and went to the bathroom. It seemed that Jay was in the next room. Not that I’d ever expected him to be huddled around my sick bed.

I washed my face and changed my clothes before heading over to Pete’s room with Rob and Sam. Jay was standing in a corner while Pete was lying face down on his bed. It seemed like he had finished the transformation. His blonde hair had apparently grown a lot and became silky as I could see it sprawled out over the blanket.

Rob went over and yanked out the blanket covering him and let out a wolf whistle. Scrawny Pete had really transitioned into a sexy chick with a great ass as we took in his bubble butt and slender waist.

“Daamn, I gotta say I like what I see from the back, now let’s see what the front’s like” said Rob before rolling her over on her back.

“Wow,” Sam said from beside me. I had to agree, even I was impressed. And I wasn’t someone who was easily impressed. The girl in front of us had the figure of a buxom, lithe beauty. Her breasts, although big, but not to the extent of being vulgarly disproportionate with her body, were nothing short of perfect. It almost seemed gravity defying in it’s movement when Rob rolled her over. The beauty of her bosom was further accentuated by her thin shapely waist that flared out into her beautiful hips. She seemed completely hairless from her neck down.This was a nice little bonus after the rewards I reaped tonight.

Her face was still covered by her hair. Rob bent forward and moved the hair out of her face.

“I gotta say, she’s a perfect 10” Sam said after taking in her face.

“Have to agree with you there buddy. What do you think, Luke? Luke, you okay man?” Rob asked.

It seemed to me like Rob’s voice was coming from miles away. I couldn’t believe it. Her face..no. While her face still had some features of Pete, I couldn’t believe how much it resembled that of Peyton.

‘What the fuck was going on?’

“Luke, You okay man?” I heard Rob’s voice ask again.

“Yeah, I’m fine.” I said as I composed my face.

“It feels like I can’t take my eyes off her”. Rob said, looking at her with undisguised lust.

I was surprised at the sudden jolt of anger I felt as my aura flared. Rob and Sam took a step back from me in alarm as my aura lashed out against them. I stepped forward and covered up her body under the blanket.

“It’s been a long day. I think you guys better leave now” I said.

They glanced at each other with worry, but they filed out of the room without a word.

I heard them walk down the stairs and leave through the door before I made my way to the door. I rested my head against the door frame.

‘What the fuck was happening to me?’