Beast Of The Moon
TWO

Miah stood over me and frowned, I guess she knew I was confused and in pain over this whole thing. She then sent me a warm smile and stepped back. “Go into the bathroom and think of your human form, your hair, height, skin, eyes, all that stuff and then come out”.

I nodded my head and went to walk off the bed, I ended up falling headfirst. I moved myself to walk on all fours and I slowly walked to the bathroom, slipping once or twice on the tan, tile floor. I used my new found large teeth to close the door, I caught my image in the mirror. I looked like a mega version of a wolf, I wined looking over myself, I felt like a monster.

I then did as Miah said and I thought about me, how I looked, dark hair, hazel eyes, 5.10 height, freckled skin. Soon I felt my size grow smaller, the golden hair on my hands disappeared and was replaced with my skin.

I looked over at the mirror and saw me, I stood up and ran to the mirror, I ran my hands over my face, just to make sure it was me. I ran my hands through my hair, I was back, or the human version was at least. I looked over at the shower and saw shorts hanging over the side. I walked over and picked them up and slipped them on.

Weirdly they were exactly my size which just made me feel more scared of this whole thing. The worst part was I have no idea who I am or why I’m here in the first place. I have no memory of anything or anyone that could have been in my life before this happened to me.

I sighed and grabbed the doorknob and twisted it, slowly walking out. Miah was sitting on the end of the bed, she looked up at smiled at me and said standing, “You passed the first step into this new life, it seems your wolf agrees with you” I raised my eyebrows in confusion, I thought I was the wolf?

I walked over to her and said in a scared tone, “Mind telling me what the hell is going on??“. She laughed lightly and said, “Ok, you might want to sit down for this” I sat down on the end of the bed, looked at her.

“Well, there’s no easy way to tell anyone this...” she took and deep breath and then said looking to the floor, “When we found you, you had just gotten hit by a car, on your way home from what we’ve been told was your girlfriend’s house”.

‘Girlfriend?’ I questioned in my head, I don’t remember her. “Well-um- you see that bite on your side?” she pointed to my chest, I looked down and I saw deep inset teeth marks, that went over my side, I ran my hands over them slowly, as I looked at them.

I noticed some distant marks similar to them ‘must be birthmarks’, I sighed heavily. I looked back up at Miah, “You-You were bitten, by a werewolf”. She spoke but before I could say anything, “Or I think you were, it explains why you are like this but the strange thing is you weren’t supposed to shift this early at all”.

She started speaking more to herself, till I cut her off, “Slowly please” I begged, she stopped herself and nodded to me, “Sorry just trying to figure all this out”. I stared at her wide-eyed, “You’re trying to figure this out! you’re not the one who turned into a!!!-” she cut me off by placing a hand over my mouth.

“Shut up, someone could hear you!!” she hissed through gritted teeth, I nodded quickly, suddenly afraid of her. She removed her hand and sat back down, she let out a sigh and stared at me for a moment. Then she said leaning forward.

“Let me explain some things, a werewolf, which is a human that can change into a wolf that can change at any time, and due to the size of your wolf, I can only assume, a Lycan bit you, making you a Lycan, allowing you to have a more advanced smell, larger wolf and more strength”.

She quickly spoke like it was nothing and slumped back down with a bored look on her face. I listened to her intensely, trying to make sense of everything, I was a werewolf, like the ones I had seen in movies, like Teen Wolf and Twilight. I looked over at her, “How can you be around me then??” she was human, looking at a werewolf.

She from her seat, she smiled and walked over to me, she took off her coat, then exposed her shoulder, there sat a huge faded bite mark that went from the top of her shoulder to her elbow. “I’m a wolf, like you” she spoke with a satisfied look on her face.

“But I’m only a simple werewolf, not a Lycan like yourself”. She covered her bite up and sat back down, crossing her legs, “You are one of us now”. I looked up at her and said, “There are more?” she nodded and said, “Much more, and you are one of us, we take care of each other, like a family, you are apart of that family now and it is my job now to take care of you”.

She gave me a motherly smile, then she said, “But until you learn to fully control your wolf, you can’t be around humankind anymore” I looked at her in sadness, “So, with your permission, I am going to tell your loved one you passed away from internal bleeding, and then I will take you to learn about yourself and what you are now”.

I didn’t feel really anything towards telling my ‘loved ones’ about my fake death. I didn’t remember them and not remembering someone is the same as not knowing them. They are strangers to me.

I looked at her and said, “Why can’t I remember my family or my girlfriend?” she looked at me sadly, “A wolf bite can do that to you, when I had my first change, I forgot about my friends, and it doesn’t help that you were bitten by a powerful wolf”.

I nodded to her then looked down, I was leaving a life I had already forgotten. She stood up and dusted off her hands on her coat, then said, “Well I’ll have a nurse go report the news to your family, then we’ll get you set up”.

She walked toward the door, then abruptly stopped and turned back to me, “I forgot, sorry, what’s your name??” She laughed at the end, I swallowed, trying to remember, man a wolf really does a number on you.

She frowned and folded her arms over her chest,

“I’m sorry, here, I’ll call you-hum-North!“.