Changes

'Grab!'

"Urgh! Leave me Alene! I don't want to hurt you. Why are you acting this weird today?"

Frank shouted to shake me off.

"I can't ! My hands and body are moving on their own and…"

I couldn't even finish those words and suddenly my mouth unknowingly got stuck on his.

'Bite! Suck!'

"Gulp! Aaaah!"

'Huh?! What did I just do?'

My mind went blank for a moment.

'Urge for blood.'

"Aaack! My head."

'Why is my head hurting?'

Again it happened. This sting on my head but now it feels weirdly familiar and lovely.

"Ha! Ha!"

Calming myself and opening eyes which were blinded for blood, turning to Betty and Frank, I peeked huffing.

'Huh?! Why is holding his neck like that?'

"What happened? Frank! Are you alright?"

Approaching him, I stretched my hands but…

"Stay away…" Betty snarled.

"What?! Why?" I couldn't understand that.

Confused, I looked at them perplexed.

'Drip! Drip!'

"Blood! Frank, there is blood dripping from your…"

'Huh?! How is he bleeding? Ah!'

A sting came hard again and I fell to my knees hard on the ground.

'Flash!'

"Did I…"

Memories of me biting Frank flashed onto my mind and my emotional and spiritual status both shook and got hit hard like the ocean fell on suddenly.

"Alene! You're out of your control. Please leave and rest for a while."

Synge suggested to leave.

'But why?'

I didn't want this to happen. But today unknowingly I hurt the one whom I love the most.

I looked at Frank collecting myself and left running outside towards the woods turning into my wolf.

Tears tumbled off my cheeks as I ran but I didn't bother wiping them off.

The cold night looked creepy hot and burning like lava.

Cold air surrounding me turned into vapor and every breath I took in felt heavy while my heart couldn't find any calm and soothing place to stay and hold on for a second.

"Alene!"

'Huh?!'

I stopped. Someone was behind me.

'But who?'

Wiping off my tears and listening to the raging heartbeat, I stood looking back with piercing eyes.

"Wait! Where do you think you are going? And at this late hour.'

'Douard! Why would you come? If it was Frank, then it was understandable but… ha! Let it be! Now I don't want to even talk about this or that thing anymore. Just Like I left him behind and with a heavy heart I am ready to leave everything behind and do a new start.'

I turned to run off but at the same time…

'Grab!'

Douard grabbed my hand and shook me towards himself.

"What do you want, huh? Do you think running away will do good?"

He yelled at me.

But his words never changed what I felt. And now his concern is not only about one person but the whole of a species.

"Leave me alone!" I shouted with all my power and shook my hands off him.

"Wow! You can show such valiancy in running away but can't in the time of need. Okay! Go! But remember that one day.. You too will face this destiny however you run away and where to."

Douard quieted down after a cheap blackmailing type of words and stated me as a betrayer…

'But were you not the one who didn't save my parents even if you could? Just for selfish plans and war, you…'

I turned away as my heart got even heavier.

Tears tumbled off and a cry came from within.

"Alene! My child. Please, will you be brave right? For your mother."

'Smile'

'Huh?! Who is she? I have never seen her before.'

"Alene!"

Douard called me again.

My feets were stuck deciding whether to turn or run.

"Douard! What did my mother look like?" The question which I first asked him but got no answer came out of my mouth again.

Not to remember or cry for but for confirmation to what I was seeing in those visions.

"Silver hair and emerald eyes, with…"

"With a slim lotus body and red blush on the face…"

As douard was stating her beauty with words, I too joined and completed what he left in the middle.

"Yeah! Just like that. How did you…" Douard looked at me shocked.

"Visions!" I said with no interest.

"Okay! I won't stop you if what you decided is what you truly want. I… I am going. Take care."

He left jumping back towards the mouth of the woods leaving me behind with yet again the crossroads and with no actual help to decide.

I dawdled over several things and the vision and face of my mother crossed my mind every time.

'Would my mother really feel good when After her sacrifice, I just ran away and left all those struggles behind. And not even fulfilling her wishes. If I run away now my father's death will go in vain. I don't want them to stay alive after doing such an atrocity.'

Never did such thoughts of bravery occur to me.

"Alene! Ha! Ha!"

"Betty! What are you doing here? And who is with Frank?" I asked to the Betty who was huffing and panting after a long run in short bursts.

"Humph! If you worry that much then why don't you ask yourself?"

'Ask myself?'

"What do you mean…"

'Drop!'

"Frank! Why?"

Betty brought him on her back and dropped him to the ground.

'Huh?! What is happening?'

He was changing and turning pale and white as seconds passed.

"What happened?"

I ran towards him screaming.

Holding his head on my lap, I checked him with my aura eyes.

'His blood! It's mutating.'

'Srrrrr…'

Suddenly a white haze came out of his mouth and blood overflowed from the bite in his neck.

His breath stopped. But not only did his heart beat stop, my breath too stopped as I thought he was dead.

As I was about to burst in tears and scream.

"Cough… Cough…"

'Vomit!'

Frank woke up with a long gasp and coughing.

Vomiting a black blood, he looked at me smiling.

'Is he still joking?' I thought, confused, looking at him.

But this time was an exception and he changed for real today.

His vampire inside him and the werewolf merged.

'Synge? What happened? Do you know any further?'

"Your blood entered him and further awakened his vampire. That's all you need to know right now. I reckon, in the temple, there will be something unexpected going to happen."

After a long explanation, Synge went to sleep and as my vampire was calm after drinking Frank's blood, I too was calm and fine. For now I hoped.