Fang

I could hear voices all around and the smells here were way different than I had ever smelled. I stayed still for a moment trying to gather my thoughts when I heard Ian say.

“He is waking up now. How bloody much did you give him Allison?”

“A full dose, I didn’t know how well his metabolism was.” She answered sounding defensive.

“So you gave him enough to put an elephant down for a few days?” Ian asks sounding mad.

“I was trying to play it safe.” Allison shoots back. “He’s only been out for 6 hours though.” She adds after a moment.

They continue their conversation but I ignore them trying to focus on the pounding in my head.

“Welcome home hunny.” A sweet friendly female voice sounds softly in the new pack mind.

I try to sit up and for a second only manage to tangle myself up my head not sure if it should use human muscles or wolf ones to do what my pounding head wants it to do.

“Where am I?” I send out a little more forcefully than I mean to.

The sudden flood of curious minds pocking at mine is unsettling and painful. I change before even opening my eyes. The form I feel myself taking is familiar and comforting. If only the rest of my wolf pack was here with me now.

“See why I said to leave him on the ‘carpet’” Ian’s voice joins the pocking minds.

The sweet female issues a soft growl at him and I see a glimpse of Ian’s wolfish grin before opening my own eyes. It’s hard to focus with so many new minds to content with.

“There now don’t fret.” The female voice tries to sooth my mind while at the same time projecting the image of a human with a stick chasing others away. With the image the other minds retreat until only the ones I’m already familiar with and the woman remains. “You had to be given some ‘medicine’ to help you sleep in the plane. If you had transformed inside you could have injured yourself or damaged the plane.”

I am grateful feeling like I can breathe a little better now. “Who are you?” I send to the female.

I open my eyes but close them again quickly trying to get my head to stop spinning. When I finally manage to open them partly I see a blur in my peripheral view and then a human female appears in my line of site. She smiles brilliantly and then puts her human limbs around me.

“Ugh humans smell.” I can’t help thinking and she stiffens a little.

“What is she doing? Where are we? Who is she?” I send to Ian looking around to see if I can find him.

The female is in my way of looking to my right but she straitens up letting me go. Her face is contorted in what looks like pain and water is leaking out of her eyes.

“Ian?” I call even more confused now. Stepping back from the female I see Ian standing a few strides away looking solemn.

Before he can answer Michael in human form walks in to the small den we seem to be in and says. “Hunny.” They speak softly and then Michael puts his limb around her and takes her away. Ian changes then follows them putting a piece of wood in the opening of the den as he goes.

I lay down closing my eyes allowing my mind to rest. My body doesn’t give my mind much respite when the need to relieve myself quickly becomes very urgent. I try to leave the den by pushing against the piece of wood Ian had moved but it won’t move and there is no other exit I can see. I start running in a tight circle trying to hold it in. There are things in here and I can’t help bumping them over.

“What on earth are you doing in there PaleFang?” Ian asks before moving the wood away thankfully providing me with an escape route. Relieving yourself inside a den unless absolutely necessary is frowned upon in wolf packs especially when you are grown and know better. I rush out past him now desperately in need of a nice tree or even just a small patch of ground would do at this point. There are little trees standing in odd looking things but this is a pinch and it will do. I run closer relieving myself.

“My but they weren’t kidding when they said you were isolated.” A female Werewolf pup thinks watching me. She is new and I don’t acknowledge her since she hadn’t introduced herself. Ian is laughing and trying hard not to look at me. Since the first time I set my eyes on Jeep Ian has had me confused. Half of what I do seems to make him laugh and the other half seems to fascinate him to no end how am I to learn if he is too busy laughing or testing me to teach. I roll my eyes at him and sit back on my haunches.

“You should have told him about bathrooms, you big Oaf.”The female pup growls softly pushing him aside to come and stand next to me. Her thoughts are even quiter than the others and I can only hear specific things from her. I have an odd feeling that she is shielding her thoughts but according to Ian that is not something Werewolf’s are able to do or thought to do.

“Jane.” She thinks the word at me looking straight into my eyes. She is as big as I am in my wolf form and I feel funny all of a sudden. “Jessie.” I give her my human name as I presume this is what she means for us to exchange names. In my pack after an exchange like this we also exchange scents and not wanting to offend her I quickly jump up offering her my butt first.

“Don’t you even dare, Ian!” She growls loudly then turning to me she dutifully sniffs and presents her butt.

I don’t know why she is so mad at Ian but this little bit of normal exchange in what feels like a really bad nightmare of new things is calming my nervesa lot and I am grateful feeling an odd comradery with her.

“Why don’t you make yourself useful and go show him what to do next time?” She suggests to Ian. She nods at me then leaves not looking back.

I try to scan Ian’s mind to see where Jane fits into the pack but his thoughts are not on her and I can’t delve. He is feeling a little embarrassed though.

“She is right as per usual. I should have thought to at least show you an image of what is acceptable in this regards. Come.” He motions heading for yet another opening in the den walls.

This den confuses me a lot there is many openings with wood coverings but as far as I can see no way out into the open. I had explored caves with tunnels before and it makes me think of a cave more than a den. The fact that I can’t find the way out yet nags at my mind but I ignore it wanting to learn what Ian is finally able to teach. I should have known it would turn into another joke for Ian but then I had to admit my first time in a bathroom was quite funny to be fair.

Before we enter yet another little den separated from the main part with another piece of wood that Ian thinks of as door he tells me to change to human form. It is cramped inside with the two of us but we manage to squeeze in next to a white thing he thinks of as a toilet standing next to another thing he thinks of as a bath tub. I expect him to show me that this white thing is like the human version of a tree but I’m wrong yet again.

First he positions mein front of toilet and opens it up. Inside is a little pool and I jump to the conclusion that since I had already relieved myself he wants me to drink my fill before he can show me how to empty my bladder in a human way. I kneel down next to the little pool and try to figure out how to stick my head into the toilet without getting it stuck in order to get to the pool. Wolf tongues are so much more useful than human ones.

Before I can even take a mouth full Ian grabs my shoulder holding me back thinking ‘Germs!’ and I see a variety of the most discussing creatures in his mind. I can’t help reacting to this new threat the only way I know how. If these germs want to attack us I will show them a thing or two. I change to my new Werewolf form feeling that this form should be able to handle almost anything but the room is too small and in doing so I bump into Ian who goes crashing into the bathtub in turn sending me crashing into the toilet who must not like being bump because while shifting I feel it biting deeply into my shoulder. As I change I watch my blood spraying in an arch through the air hitting the den wall. My head still hammering from the medicine Allison gave me now feels even worse and I am seeing black spots.

I try hard to find the germs Ian had seen but I can’t see clearly and I can’t move without toilet biting me and I can’t seem to change properly I feel stuck between human and Werewolf. “Help me!” I send frantically thinking of DenMother and LongFang but instead I feel Michael and the nice female rushing to me. I can’t feel Ian the germs must have gotten to him he is absolutely silent.

“Oh No! Michael help him!” The female thinks appearing behind Michael in the opening. I growl for them to stay back I still can’t find the enemy.

Michael understands my growl and scans my thoughts. “Germs?” He questions confused. I am still trying to complete the change but I only manage to bleed worse. Understanding as to what I am trying to fight dawns on Michael slowly and then he is at once furious and filled with laughter before forcing calm on first himself and then the female. Walking towards me slowly he does the same for my mind as well. “Chill Jessie, chill.” He says soothingly slowly approaching me. His cautions behaviour is baffling since I can see he is cautious of me not what I am trying to protect us from.

I give up this is too much my body shudders violently then rearranges into wolf form. I close my eyes and give into the extreme exactions claiming me. “Why did my mom have to curse me this way?” Is the last thing I think before the world goes black again.