Becoming Beezus

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Beezus

A cool breeze swept over her skin and through her hair as she slowly walked through the forest. Fall was always her favorite time of the year. It wasn’t too hot or too cold, there was a sweet woodsy smell all around, gentle gusts of wind, and her favorite part all the colors. As she walked through the path, she had made from all her trips into the woods, she slowed her breathing and took her surroundings in through all her senses. Birds chirping far above her head while the chipmunks ran down along her feet with the leaf-covered ground.

The leaves crushed beneath her worn-out tennis shoes as she made her way to her favorite spot on the far end of the forest. Her parents owned the farthest home in town, and it was right by the entrance into the beautiful foliage. She had been coming here since the day she accidentally found it the first time she had to shift. It was such a scary experience but as soon as she had seen the moon from the cliff, she felt calmer. After that night this place always seemed to clear her mind when she needed it.

The musty earthy smell of the trees, the happily bubbling sounds of the water below, and the entrancing view of the rest of the forest that laid below the cliff. This was her happy place, beautiful and peaceful. It was like she could hear nature calling her name and wrapping her into a warm blissful hug.

Ever since her twenty-first birthday, her heart has been restless. She seemed to have a desire to come out here every day. In her pack the day you turn eighteen you are supposed to able to sense your mate but unfortunately, she never did. By twenty-one, you were supposed to have found your mate and started the courting process. All her friends had found theirs except, her youngest friend, Josie who had just now turned eighteen. She had told her the morning she woke up she felt her mates longing cry. If she is as quick as her other friends, she’ll have found him by the end of the month.

“I don’t know what’s wrong with me.”

She blames the fact that her father had mated with a human which is so near next to impossible. It wasn’t that she didn’t like her mother, she loved her mother beyond words. She had a smaller frame with long hair and eyes that made you feel warm and loved. It didn’t bother her that she wasn’t a wolf. It was just that she was like her mother, quiet, never easy to anger, and never longed to let her animal instincts take her away. Those weren’t the characteristics of a wolf. Even though, she wasn’t a wolf you, could tell that her parents’ bond was unbreakable. They completed each other but at the same time were just alike. It always made her want a relationship like that but now at twenty-one with so sign of her mate’s existence she kind of just gave up.

She knew her pack found her atypical because she didn’t travel all over the area to find her mate, but her parents never seemed to mind or treat her differently. They showered her with unconditional love and never forced her into looking for her mate. How could she even begin to? If she couldn’t feel their presence, then how she was supposed to start looking?

She told herself that she just simply didn’t have one. Not every wolf had one nowadays. Once you reached twenty-five in her pack without finding your mate you became a caregiver or a front line guard because unfortunately, you weren’t going to find them. Rouge wolves started attacking their town when their current Alphas father was the Alpha sense then fewer and fewer found their mates over the years. You either found them quickly or not at all. So, to make sure that everyone was taken care of and that everyone felt like they had a purpose in the pack they had implemented the rules.

She liked the idea of being a caregiver. She loved nature and children and her pack. Even if she could never have children of her own, she would be able to tend to her pack and tend to the young wolves that were found or that had lost their parents. Her mother was so good at this even without all the special healing opportunities female wolves had.

She shuddered at the thought of becoming a guard. They were sent to a faraway location to train and become strong. Only after finishing training were, they allowed to return home. The idea of leaving her parents and her home. She didn’t think she could bear it. She wasn’t a fighter. It just ‘wasn’t her’ she often told herself.

The current captain of the guard is the youngest one her pack has ever had according to the girls in town she’d never met him but from the way people talk, there’s a reason he’s said to be the strongest wolf in the pack. His father is our pack’s alpha. That usually meant that he would become the next alpha when he turned twenty-five, but when she was younger rumors had said his mate was killed by a rogue wolf. So, he went to fight and train others instead of being Alpha.

“Alpha Austin”, she smiled for some reason at the thought of him being alpha.

“What’s wrong with me”, she sighed. No time for day dreaming.

The sun started to set, and she knew that her parents would be wanting her back at the house.

Ever since the last increase of rogue wolf attacks they’ve insisted that she be back before nightfall.

With one last look at the sunset, she breathed in the air that had started to get a chill to it and then headed back home.

Austin

“Again!” he yelled.

He had to get this group into shape as quickly as possible. Knowing that the rouge wolf problem was getting worse put him in overdrive.

“We need a break... please,” the men said in complete exhaustion.

How are they ever going to be ready to fight if they want to take a break every two seconds? He wasn’t running a spa here.

“One more round then hit the showers!” He said with an irritated tone.

Sighing in relief the wolves started going at each other once more.

What has his life come to? Ever since that day all he could think about is how he should have been stronger, faster, more worthy of being an Alpha.

Trying to picture her face he thought back to that night like he had a million times before.

“I’ll become what you saw in me. Untilthen,I’ll be working everyone every day till we’re damn perfect.”

“Captain you, have an urgent message from the Alpha.” Aiden, his second in command said.

“Read it to me please.”

He rubbed his brows. After what happened with his father they hardly ever spoke unless he was riding his ass for something.

“Sir, I think you’d better read it.”

Grabbing the letter from his hands he quickly began reading.

“What do the hell does he want” signing

His Royal Highness Alpha Ciro

and his Luna Dahlia

Request your presence for a pack meeting this Friday. Failure to show will result in termination from the guards and exile from the pack.

“Are you fucking kidding me!”

“What are your orders, sir? Should we pack?”

Why? Why the hell would they want me there?

They know how he feels. They know he won’t want to be anywhere near the village. He made himself perfectly clear that he didn’t want to rule, and he certainly didn’t want to deal with the pack’s table again. They could all rot in hell for all he cared. Why would his parents be so formal? Besides the occasional letter to catch me up on the stupid politics, they haven’t bothered to try to talk to me in years, and now suddenly, they are forcing me into a meeting he wants nothing to do with.

“Sir?”

Trying to keep his temper in check he took a big breath.

“No.”

“No? But sir! You read.”

“Enough!” Roaring, unable to contain his anger anymore.

“I meant no to both of us packing. You’ll be staying here. I’m not going to have my men become lazy and unable to do their job while I’m gone.”

“Sir, I’m sure we can find some.”

He cut him off again. Growing more and more irritated. He needed to run NOW before he lost his cool. He quickly started to gather some extra close and head towards the door.

“ I meant what I said. You’ll be staying here, and I want the men doing double while I’m gone.”

He walked as quickly as he could towards the forest around us as his body began to lose control of the anger and the rage inside him. Bones began to crack and shift. He fell to his knees, getting down on all fours as his back began to break. The hair on his body began to grow longer thicker. It soon covered his body as he let out a howl.

After his shift was complete, his emotions began to return to normal. He began to run, and as he ran the earth beneath his paws turned up.

“Faster!” he told himself.

He began to feel the rage coming in a wave again. It was useless to try to outrun it. He had tried for so long to overcome it. Nothing worked for very long. Soon he lost himself and his world turned red then black.