The Change by Mathew Harrison (ebook reader 7 inch .txt) 📕

"Who the fuck are you, and what do you people want from me?!" I snarled, feeling a strange pricking in my fingertips, and looking at the hand that wasn't around the girl's throat, I saw claws forming. I released the girl in shock, and ran to the mirror on my dresser, and I barely suppressed a scream. My eyes were glowing a luminous yellow flecked with black, my incisiors lengthened, and the bones in my face had changed, giving me a wolf like appearance. I turned around slowly looking at the two girls and asked, "What's happening to me?"

The girl who I just tried to strangle sighed and said, "We don't know exactly what's happening to you, but we can at least tell you what happened last night." she sat down on my bed and snarled, her eyes flashing red. I felt my body returning to normal appearance. "You actually already know me, even though you have never met me. I'm Emma, Phil's sister." I gasped, Phil's sister is a monster? I thought quietly.

"I am a werewolf," she continued, "in fact my entire family are werewolves, but I am the alpha, I am the strongest out of the family, and also the only one able to turn people into wolves." She sighed and rubbed her eyes, "Lilith here has had her eye on you to turn you into her mate, basically by turning you into a vampire she hoped to keep you for the rest of eternity. However, my family and the rest of my pack had no desire to let this happen, considering she ripped my father's throat out right in front of me and my siblings when they were four and I was six. So we had planned to turn you into one of us, so that way she couldn't have you, and so you could live a somewhat normal life. However, we were unable to keep her from biting you when she did, so I rushed to pull her off of you, and at the same time I scratched you, which is one way that we give people our gift."

Lilith stepped up and said, "As far as we know, you are the only person to have been bitten by a vampire and scratched by wolf at the same time. The viruses we transmit fight off the other's so to speak, as in if you were a vampire, a werewolf's scratch would have no effect, just like if you were a werewolf, a vampire's bite would have no effect." Her eyes turned black as her fangs slid out, and she bit her wrist. As she pulled away, I smelled the blood and rushed to her wrist, latching my lips onto it and drinking deep. It tasted like strawberries, the perfect ripeness, and as I felt arms grab me and pull me

Emma slapped me and shouted, "ENOUGH!" it broke though my blood haze, and I realized what I had just tried to do. She looked to Lilith and said, "Well that answers one question."

Lilith smiled, "Yes it does." she said.

I blinked stupidly, "Um, what?"

Emma laughed and said, "You appear to have both natures in you, you are wolf, yet you need blood. It appears the only way we can make this work, is if we both train him, we have to observe and find out what powers he has, and what powers he doesn't."

"I'm in agreement!" Lilith said, and I sighed. Really I have just discovered that I am a werewolf/vampire hybrid, I have no control over my powers, and I have strong attraction to both of the monsters that have turned me into this, while I also learn that my best friend and his family are also monsters! I ranted in my head. And the worst part of it is, I'm worried about how this is going to affect my chances on the football team! I felt a hand touch my face, Emma.

"I know that you are confused, but we will help you through this. However there is something that needs to be said." She looked over to Lilith and continued, "I sense that you are my mate, due to the connection we experienced last night, and Lilith has tried to claim you as hers by turning you. After we have trained you to control both sides of your nature, you will have to choose which one of us you will have, and which one of us you will kill!"

I blanched, "What do you mean, 'kill'?"

Lilith snorted, "The only thing our species have in common is that we don't do well with competition, when we mate, it is only one mate. That means, which ever one of us you choose, is going to have you kill the other, and there is no avoiding it!"

I looked away from the both of them, Mate? As if I would even consider  it!I But I was considering it, the strange attraction I felt for both of them flaring and fading as I grew furious about my entire situation.

"What, in the name of fucking hell," I started vehemetly, "makes you think that I would want to mate with either one of you?! In fact, what's stopping me from tearing your throats out, and drinking you both dry?" I felt my vision focus, and pressure grow around where my fangs were hidden.

Emma chuckled blackly, "If not for the fact that I'm Phil's older sister, and he would kill you for touching me, then how about that without my training, you'll kill every human in this town on the night of the full moon."

Lilith stepped up and said, "And, not only am I much older than you, which means stronger, without me to teach you how to control your feeding, you'll be discovered and staked by the rest of my kind before the end of the week!"

I blanched, feeling the pressure around my fangs dissapate as well as my vision return to normal. Shit, I thought, why do they have to be right?! "Fine," I said slowly, " I will accept your training, however I want time."

"Time for what?" they asked in a once-in-a-lifetime unision.

"To make a choice. I want to be able to learn how to control myself, but I need time to find who I am in all of this, and I want to be able to choose a mate," I said, my confidence growing with every word, "without feeling the desire to kill them. There has been too much manipulation from you Lilith, and Emma your family has told me too many lies. I could happily kill you both right now, if it weren't for the truth in what you said before. So, do we have a deal?" The part about killing them was a lie of course, but I needed to be able to decide, and I was telling the truth about the lies and manipulation. I wanted to find the truth in what was going on, as well as get to know the two of them better before I had to make my choice.

The girls looked at each other, and groaned. It was obvious that they wanted  a quick decision, the alliance between the two of them was temporary, and it was obvious they wanted it over so there could be bloodshed. I don't know what Emma did to Lilith to earn such treatment, but I could understand why Emma would want to start bloodshed. Emma held hands with her for a moment, and I saw her eyes flash red yet again as a strange aura formed around their hands. Emma reached her free hand out to me and I took it, and I felt a power surge though me that shook me to the core. "We agree with your request!" they both said in unison, and I felt the power flare.

Emma spoke up on her own this time, "We will give you until your seventeenth birthday to make a decision, but after that, if you do not choose, we will kill you, and then fight to the death. Understood?" I felt the power in her voice that shaped this deal, and I agreed. The power vanished from our hands as she said, "It is done!'

Lilith cleared her throat and said, "Well, that went well, now we will contact you when you are to start your training. You will train one day with me, and the next with her. In order to speed things along in the mating decision, Emma and I will have no contact for the next twenty-three months." Emma nodded her head in agreement.

I smiled, feeling accomplished and more confident than before, and said, "I will await your contact, who should I expect first?"

Lilith laughed and said, "Me of course, just because I have to make sure that you feed regularly, if not then you might kill someone sooner rather than later."

Emma just shrugged and said, "That's fine with me, so long as he doesn't recieve too much stress, he should be able to control the shift for a few days." I rolled my eyes, Stress, really? I thought in a peevish manner, I know I over reacted earlier, but Jesus Christ, it's be nice to not be made out to have the temper of a four-year old. As I completed this thought, Emma slipped out my window, leaving me and Lilith alone.

Lilith looked as if she was going to follow, but then stopped and approached me, "Look," she said, "I know it's hard to see right now, but I gave you the best gift in the world! You've aged to your full physical maturity already. You will never age again, and unless someone cuts you head off or stakes you, you won't die"

I stood there shocked and looked down at the rest of my body. My jeans were stopped above my calves, and my shirt barely covered my pecks. I ran to the mirror, and I saw that my facial structure had changed. My jaw was stronger, my face lost most of the child like roundness it had yesterday, and the strangest part was my eyes. My eyes were now a darker color, more like a ocean blue than the sky blue they used to be. If what she's saying is true, I'll be like this forever. I thought as she walked right up to me and she rested her hand on my cheek, I froze What the fuck is wrong with me?! I thought, Not only did this monster ruin my life, turn me into something that has to kill in order to survive, but she still  tries to approach me, and I can't find it in myself to back away. She drew her face closer to me, and my breathing sped up. "I know that you will forgive me, and that you will choose me, in the end." she whispered, I felt her warm breath tickle my face, and as I debated on what I should do, she kissed me.

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It wasn't like the kiss we shared the night before, my senses were dulled by her power and by my humanity back then, this one was extraordinary, it spread though my entire body like adrenaline, and I felt raw desire for her. I grabbed her shoulders and threw her on the bed, barely noticing the groan of the bed frame at the force of her hitting it, and in an instant I was on top of her, kissing her roughly and squeezing her hips so tightly that she had to have been in pain. Suprisingly though, she didn't cry out in pain, she moaned in pleasure, and wrapped her arms around my neck in a vice grip, clinging me to her. I had no idea what I was doing, I went purely on instint, reaching for her shirt and quite literally tearing it off.