James' mind would return to that night.
After he had stared at the full moon for a whole 30 seconds, nothing had happened, and he had just found the moon pretty, that was about it.
"Should probably get home now," He mutters to himself, before he twitches.
His body would twitch over and over again, and he would wonder what was wrong with him.
"My skin feels so weird," He would comment to himself as a lot more hair seemed to be growing on his body.
He would feel weird; his body was becoming hot.
He began to sweat.
"It's so warm." He would remove his shirt, basically stripping, as even after he removed his pants, he still felt very cold.
His body was steaming, and his skin now bore a red hue.
It felt like his body was heating up, absorbing way too much energy, causing him to heat up to a level he shouldn't realistically be reaching as a human.
Inside his body, his cells were multiplying like crazy, the cell division was going crazy, yet something else seemed to be added.
As his cells continued to divide, it seemed like some dormant genes were being awakened.
His eyes would glow a yellow colour, his teeth were getting longer, and he felt like his head was hurting like a mother fucker.
He went to a nearby tree for support, his body feeling ripped apart.
"ARHG!!!" He screamed in sheer agony as he felt his muscles being destroyed and healed instantly, only for the process to repeat itself over and over again.
His bones were being reshaped; he could feel it, deep in his soul. His body was twisting.
The shape of his jaw began to change, going from a human shape to that of a wolf.
He screamed, then howled in pain.
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His bones were crushed and rebuilt instantly. Fur began to grow on his body, his teeth got longer, and he had 4 pairs of canines ready to devour anything in their path.
His nails dug into the tree trunk. He didnt even realise it yet, but as he was squeezing the tree, he had managed to crush the tree trunk.
The power held within him now had grown so much that crushing this tree trunk was as easy as crushing a twig.
His muscle mass would double, then triple, then quadruple; his bones would fully destroy and rebuild themself in such a way that he was more a quadruped than anything else.
His ears would change to resemble wolf ears, fur by this point had covered his whole body; his muscles were extremely dense.
He felt it in his soul; something about him had changed.
His eyes were pure white, looking at the moon.
Then, compelled by forces within him, he howled at the moon.
"AWOOOOOO"
Saliva would drip down his lip. He felt hungry. His transformation is finished. His body had changed. He stood there, 10 feet tall, bipedal, his body quite muscular. He looked like a beast ready to kill.
His human mind had long since vanished, the pain had crushed it, and the beast instinct had crushed it even further.
Now all that remained was the beast's instinct to hunt, maybe find a pack, but hunting was its first priority.
He would growl a bit, looking at the full moon, and he would smile, his body bulging up a bit more as if he was absorbing power from the moon itself.
The beast would grin, looking down at the town, trying to find someone to hunt, the old, the baby, the weak; those were his targets. That wolf instinct stayed with him.
He didnt go for the strong, not because he feared there would be a challenge, but because an easy kill was much safer and more sustainable than a hard one.
It was like in nature, just because a lion could kill a Zebra or a wildebeest doesn't mean it would; if it gets he chance to snack on something easier, it would.
It was about survival and doing fewer actions for more rewards.
Yet before the beast could strike, its ears would perk up, the sound of a bush had been received, the bush in question was 200 yards away, but the beast didnt care about that.
The beast would raise its hand/claw and form a protective motion over its face, the moment it was done. A powerful kick would meet its guard.
BAM
"Tch", A voice could be heard saying. The attacker would jump away as the beast would growl.
"Your senses are sharper than I thought" Without hesitation, the beast would pounce toward the person who attacked him.
They would jump away quite skillfully, avoiding the claw strike aimed to split them in half. The claw strike instead went through the tree behind her, slicing that tree clean in half.
"A full transformation in 2 days, " the attacker would say, their brow furrowing. They were sure the boy wasn't infected; hell, even surveyed them for a bit, and saw no sign of an infection, and yet now, there was something.
"4 Pair of fangs....that not normal" The intruder would frown, the guy was supposed to have 2 pair, 4 were only for alpha or their kid.
The beast, upon realising it had hit no one, would pounce toward them.
Silver hair swayed to the wind, Luna did not feel like playing around, her nail became a claw, and she grew a pair of 4 canine teeth.
"This will be enough for you" The boy was a newly turn after all, she didnt expect much strength from him.
Newly turned had no control over their power and simply focused on raw strength; she was anything but newly turned. Dealing with one would be easy.
Though this was the time to test out how strong he was, consider this initiation.
She would rush toward him, in a split second, having covered the distance between him, the wolf's eyes seemed to widen as she kicked him straight in the face.
Kicking him with so much force, he went flying, crashing through 10 trees before stopping. The wolf's snout looked destroyed, yet, near instantly, the damage would heal, returning it to its prime form.
It would growl and howl, its eyes turning a deep shade of yellow.
The beast would begin running toward her on all four.
"How typical, " she would say, not looking amazed. She would tilt her head to the right, avoiding a claw strike, trying to take her head off.
The wolf would open its mouth trying to take her head, but she had grabbed the hand that missed her.
Using her inhuman strength, she would proceed to flip him over her shoulder, slamming him into the floor with so much force that he went 6 inches deep before the earth stopped him.
She raised her foot and slammed it down into the wolf's stomach with so much force that she made a crater in the floor.
"Weak, " she would say, she expected more, but it seemed like a newborn only possesses newborn strength.
His eyes seemed to have rolled to the back of his head, seemingly passed out. She looked bored; she would begin walking away. That kick would be strong enough to bring him back.
On the floor, the beast pupil would come back, it looked pissed, as if it wouldn't accept this.
"AWOO!" Luna turned her head around to see the beast standing back up, all the damage done to it, healing fast enough for the naked eye to see.
"You are a tough nut to crack" She would say bored, yet in her eyes slight trace of eagerness could be seen.
Without wasting a moment, he would rush at her; she would be on guard, as he threw a punch, she raised her hand to parry it.
Yet as his punch landed...only a single thought flashed in her mind.
Too strong!'
She was sent flying, crashing into the nearby tree. The tree shook, but did not fall. Internally, she would think he had gotten way too strong, way too fast, while also being thankful this fight was happening decently far away from where people tend to come.
SO all that wreckage would not be seen, and even if it did, by the end of this, when she was done whooping his ass, she would make it look like it was natural.
Yes, she was very confident in her ability to whoop his ass.
Standing back up, she would look at the beast, who seemed to be smiling. She felt something dripping down her lips, she passed her finger through it and looked at it.
It was blood...her own blood.
"You are stronger than I thought, " she would say calmly.
"But as I said at the beginning of this argument....not strong enough" She would vanish from sight, appearing above him.
He would raise his hands and block her. She would use him in order to push herself away, narrowly avoiding the haymaker he had ready for her gut.
While in the air, she would flip, landing on a tree and, almost immediately, blasting herself toward him at full speed.
He would manage to grab her in the air, smiling a bit as he slammed her into the ground with all of his might.
The beast would smile a bit, but have a confused look on his face. He knew he had slammed her into the floor, so then why was there no body?
Before he could think any further, from the shadow in the tree behind him, a figure would come out as if they had come from the shadow.
" I see, he grows stronger the more damage he takes" While he had started at 10 feet tall, he now stood at 12 feet tall of pure muscle, just raw strength and nothing more.
When the beast turned around and saw her, it grinned.
Rushing toward her at full speed, she would simply let herself fall into the shadow, narrowly avoiding getting her head chopped off.
The beast looked annoyed, yet as it turned around, looking to see where she could come from, there were a bunch of shadows around, and she could come from all of them.
It froze, from the beast's own shadow, a hand would appear, and before it could react, a giant hand came out, going straight through the beast, turning it into a doughnut.
Several feet away, Luna would come out of a nearby shadow, looking at the impaled beast. She clenched her fist as a chain made of shadow would wrap around the beast, treating him like the worst of the worst.
She lightly cleaned the blood from her lips. This was her fault for underestimating him; now, she would take him seriously, and he would not land another blow.
"AJHHHH" She looked at her chain to see it being ripped away, the beast had now grown to 13 feet tall, the holes which were impelled in its body by the shadow had vanished, she would watch as the huge hole in its chest was healing at a speed the human could see.
The beast would smile as if it had learned a brand new trick. Pointing its finger at her, before rushing at her.
She was about to slide into the shadow again to avoid the strike, yet she couldn't.... Looking down, chains made out of shadows were holding her back.
Her eyes widen a bit in shock...he shouldn't have access to this.
BAM
CRUNCH
He punched her so hard, the sickening crunch of her bones being broken could be heard, she crashed into the nearby mountain with so much force, the sound of it echo for miles away.
She would pull herself out, looking at her hand, which she had placed infront of her to protect her last moment, shit was completely destroyed.
She still had her hands, but the bones in that bitch were gone. She shook her hand around a bit, and within a few seconds, it was back to normal.
"You are more dangerous than I thought, " she would mutter. The ability to manipulate the shadow wasn't something a newborn werewolf had access to; it was something that took a while to master or even to show itself.
She was called a prodigy since it took her less time than usual to unlock it, yet this bastard, a wolf born a few days ago, was using it like it was fair games.
The countless shadow creatures by its side clearly showed it was gaining mastery of this new ability.
Well, enough playing around.
She clenched her hand into a fist, cocked that shit back, imbue that shit with darkness, the face of a ferocious white wolf appearing behind her.
She waited for the beast to blink....And then bam...from where she stood, 400 yards away, to where he was.
She covered that distance nearly instantly; the beast's blink had not ended before she had imprinted her fist into his back so deeply she had quite literally blown his back out.
The beast's eyes went white as her fist went straight through him, knocking his ass out instantly.
The beast would revert back to James, his naked body layed on the floor, a fist-sized hole in his gut, said hole was healing, but slower than before.
"You have quite a lot of potential, " she would mutter, looking at his unconscious body.
Welp, time to get him back to his house. She would leave the cleaning to either her pack or whatever forest spirit was nearby.
She knew where he lived, so it shouldn't be too hard to get him there, though he was butt ass naked.
She would sniff the air, and luckily, his ass had thrown his pants and shirt away before he fully transformed.
This would make her job a bit easier.
After putting his clothes on, she would open the shadow and watch as his body fell into it, yeah,she would carry him like this, cause why not.