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Chapter Seventy-One: Shifting\u00a0<\/p>\n
Natala (Emerald) POV:\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Pain, excruciating pain, that\u2019s all I felt. Like lava running through my veins as I felt my bones break and repair over and over again. My senses went black, then came back to life, the same thing happening over and over again. I vaguely remember hearing Da and the triplet\u2019s voices to take me under the moonlight. At first, I only felt my mates around me, but now I could sense other presences around me. My sense of smell was muffled, but I could vaguely pick out a few, with my mate\u2019s scents as the strongest. It was probably my family, but hell, if I didn\u2019t want to scream at them, this wasn\u2019t a damn show, and I didn\u2019t need them hovering around me. Everything hurt so much. No one had prepared me for this pain. I had honestly thought it would be like when I shifted into my wolf with just a little more pain, but that seemed like a walk in the park with how my bones were bending and twisting inside me. This shouldn\u2019t have been this painful; Lycans are evolved forms of wolves. I was already a wolf; shouldn\u2019t it be like a tweak of an adjustment? I felt my ball\u00a0<\/p>\n
and socket joint snap in my shoulder, which made me scream.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMake it stop, please make it stop.\u201d I cried.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I felt tingles on my skin as one of my mates held my face in his chest. My senses were so muffled\u00a0<\/p>\n
due to the pain that I couldn\u2019t tell which brother it was.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ezekiel POV:\u00a0<\/p>\n
My heart broke for my luna as I cradled her face in my chest. My brothers flanked me, gazing down\u00a0<\/p>\n
at our life as she withered in pain, as we did nothing to help her. The marking had taken a toll on us,\u00a0<\/p>\n
and we all slumped dead once our bodies touched the bed. Never once did anyone of us think her\u00a0<\/p>\n
shift would happen tonight. I couldn\u2019t help but blame myself and my brothers. Was it because of\u00a0<\/p>\n
the marking that she was shifting? We knew she was to shift, but no one had told her the extent of\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00edt, scared to make her more scared than she already was. Which, in my idea, was the stupidest\u00a0<\/p>\n
thing one could do; we should\u2019ve prepared her what to expect, at least not hide it from her. My luna\u00a0<\/p>\n
was strong, and her family needed to believe in her\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lycan shifting was one of the most painful shifts a person could go through. Where wolves stood on four legs and grew only a few more inches than their human heights, Lycans stood on two legs and grew way more in height. The transformation was brutal. Some hadn\u2019t even made it through the shift and would die. That thought alone had scared the s**t out of us all, but when my little luna was distracted, her parents and the triplets explained that wouldn\u2019t be the case with her because of the strong bloodline and that she had already shifted into her wolf.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou all need to back up and give her space; you\u2019re suffocating her.\u201d One of the triplets snarled at\u00a0<\/p>\n
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My brothers and I snarled back, our newfound aura slipping out of us. It didn\u2019t do anything to the triplets, but it allowed us to ignore the command and stand head-on with them. Seeing this, the triplets were pissed as f**k but f**k if I cared at this moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Azreal POV:\u00a0<\/p>\n
How dare the triplets tell us to back off from our mate when she was in so much pain? Didn\u2019t their dumbasses know that our touch would help? Of course, they knew they were just being dipshits.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As much as I wanted to call them out, I couldn\u2019t; they were our kings, our leaders and more importantly, my love\u2019s older brothers. She would no doubt blow a fuse if she found out we fought with them, and making my love sad was never going to be on my agenda. I only prospered to make her smile which I was epically failing at right now, as she let out another scream in Ezeakil\u2019s chest. Her bones had broken and realigned multiple times by now. You could see how they were slowly\u00a0<\/p>\n
growing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBoys, now isn\u2019t the time; Ezekiel is right; Natala needs her mates more than us right now.\u201d Said my love\u2019s mom: Danielle. As tears poured down her face as her mate held her tight in his arms.\u00a0<\/p>\n
You could see the agony in the supreme alphas\u2019 eyes, not only in his but everyone\u2019s eyes, her\u00a0<\/p>\n
brothers, the former king and even her aunt. It was like they were living the pain with her. We\u00a0<\/p>\n
weren\u2019t far off either, now that we had fully bonded, her pain was hitting us too, not in the way it\u00a0<\/p>\n
was her, but we knew what she was going through.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYour so strong, my love, so strong,\u201d I whispered in my love\u2019s ear as I removed the hair stuck to her\u00a0<\/p>\n
forehead due to the sweat.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Please, goddess, make it stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zeke POV:\u00a0<\/p>\n
My angel tears were hitting my heart like silver daggers. It had only been twenty minutes, but never\u00a0<\/p>\n
once did her screams die down. They only grew more louder as the pain she felt increased. She\u00a0<\/p>\n
had finally gotten through the first phase of her bones rearranging; they were slowly growing,\u00a0<\/p>\n
meaning she was going into phase two now. As he Lycan side was coming out, it was getting harder for Ezeakil to hold onto her. Eventually, letting go, but we all stayed close. All of us stroked\u00a0<\/p>\n
her naked, sweated-coated body in hopes of the mate bond reducing some of the pain.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy isn\u2019t the shift completed by now? You said she was strong!\u201d I said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHer wolf and Lycan are probably fighting for dominance in her head. She is the only wolf-Lycan hybrid to exist. The two souls would compete for hierarchy.\u201d I heard Isaiah say.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fuck! That was why I could\u2019ve sworn she was shifting into her wolf for a second. She had two of the most powerful bloodlines running in her veins. Of course, both species would compete; it was in their alpha nature. So not only was my angel suffering physically, she was probably caged in her head with both her Lycan and wolf spirit fighting one another.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Goddess! Please just make it end already.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sam POV:\u00a0<\/p>\n
The thought of my baby going through physical and emotional pain as both her wolf and Lycan fought for dominance was killing me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cStop\u201d my baby screamed out as fur started to sprout and then receed in her body.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her scream made all of us jump back at the same time, a powerful aura surging out of her that only made us waver for a second but her family as well, including the triplets. fd She was powerful. If her aura alone could make us wavier when she wasn\u2019t entirely in control, she would be capable of destruction nonetheless when she was in control\u00a0<\/p>\n
There has to be a way. This could kill her.\u201d I said, going back to my baby and stroking her back\u00a0<\/p>\n
I saw her family tensed form, fear in all their eyes. They weren\u2019t so sure anymore either if she\u00a0<\/p>\n
would make it out of this alive. I was about to give them a piece of my mind when1 heard the former king speak up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Re-mark her! It\u2019ll subdue her wolf,\u201d he said, then looked at the twins and triplets and said\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen they re-mark her, roll out your aura to the max and then Tristan command her Lycan to shift.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
he finished.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you out of your f*****g mind! A forced shift is the most painful thing anyone could go through.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Liam snarled as he shoved his brother.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou rather watch her go through this without knowing what would be the outcome.\u201d Sharled the\u00a0<\/p>\n
former king.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before Liam could get a word out, my baby\u2019s mom spoke up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWill it make it sop? Will my baby girl be fine?\u201d She said as her sister Michelle held onto her. Tears\u00a0<\/p>\n
poured out of both their eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The former king nodded. Michelle turned to us and said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDo it! My pup doesn\u2019t need to go through this.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
We looked between each other and nodded, then looked at my baby\u2019s brothers; they all looked disturbed. No doubt a forced shift was worse than being gouged in wolfsbane, but it only lasted a few seconds. They looked at my baby\u2019s withering body, then looked back at us and nodded.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I leaned down near my baby\u2019s ear and whispered.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll make it stop, baby. Just forgive us for the pain.\u201d I said and kissed her forehead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My canines dropped from my gums, as did my brothers, and we bit into my baby\u2019s neck, remarking her. She let out a scream and then went limp for a second.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cNOW\u201d the former king yelled.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Claim\u00a0<\/p>\n
We were hit with both the twin\u2019s and triplets\u2019 entire aura. The same aura that would\u2019ve dropped us\u00a0<\/p>\n
to our knees was only like a twitch now as we stood through it. But what came next had mine and\u00a0<\/p>\n
my brothers churn; I felt the pain that my baby did.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAHHHHHH\u201d my baby screamed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her body was violently shaking, her back arched as if she was possessed, fur sprouted\u00a0<\/p>\n
everywhere, and her limbs grew longer and longer. My baby Lycan\u2019s had come out in ten seconds,\u00a0<\/p>\n
hunched over on the ground as it panted heavily. Her brothers dropped their auras as we slowly\u00a0<\/p>\n
approached my baby. She had shaken us off when she shifted. Her fur was the same as her wolf,\u00a0<\/p>\n
white with an icy blue hue, and when she lifted her head and locked eyes with us. We were stunned,\u00a0<\/p>\n
the deepest blue we had ever seen, and they were glowing. Slowly standing, my baby was well\u00a0<\/p>\n
over six feet as large as our wolves, if not taller. She was beautiful, her aura calling to us. Her mere\u00a0<\/p>\n
sight had us dropping to our knees. Never once did see such an exquisite creature.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cGoddess! She\u2019s beautiful,\u201d I heard one of her family members say.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My baby turned towards her family, a purr leaving her chest as she gazed at them, then looked\u00a0<\/p>\n
back at us, and then sprinted into the woods. Not even a second later, multiple bone popping\u00a0<\/p>\n
could be heard. My brothers and I, along with her brothers, were all in our wolf and Lycan forms as\u00a0<\/p>\n
we howled to the moon and went to chase our mate. She had challenged not one but nine alpha\u00a0<\/p>\n
males.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game on, baby!\u00a0<\/p>\n
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