Faded by Jordan Wadley (free reads .txt) 📕

A blood curdling scream left Sapphire's lips when the pain hit full force; the girl visibly relaxed as her shifting continued to take place. Sapphire could only scream in rage when tears threatened to spill. The others were beginning to finish their transformation but Sapphire's transformation was taking longer since the pain was doubled.

Kyle watched in horror as Sapphire continued to scream in pain, yet still holding herself up and watched to make sure the others were fine. Sure enough each of the younger and older members that suffered through the pain relaxed as their bones shifted. Kyle knew shifting was painful and agonizing yet he felt nothing, he felt peace. Savanna's snout began to form but the painful look on her face vanished, replaced by a confused whimper.

Sapphire's growls and whimpers intensified and Anne ran over to the small girl.. The pain she felt in her abdomen increased as Anne touched the sensitive skin.

"You need to-" Sapphire cut herself off when a muffled rumble escaped her lips, her tongue already forming. "Tell them… to hurry their tr-transfomation. I-I-I can’t h-hold their pain any-" Another scream left her lips while the others began to finish the last of their transformation. It dawned on Anne almost instantly what she had been doing for the new shifters, her eyes shifted from Kyle’s confused face to the others.

"I don’t have time, everyone hurry your transformation," Tears leaked down Anne’s face watching Sapphire scream out in agonizing pain. "Shift now! Sapphire is taking your pain, and she can feel it all!"

Horror flashed across Kyle’s face as well as the others, their eyes shifted to Sapphire in curiosity. It was physically impossible to take pain of another shifter. Sapphire's eyes snapped open, her normal cloudy eyes glowing a bright glassy blue with the tears forming in her eyes. They were all extremely thankful about her newfound ability, thankful she had taken their pain in order to keep them safe.

Pain was all Sapphire could feel. The numb feeling in her spine intensifying as the tingles sprout out throughout her entire body. She knew she should be frightened that the others knew of one of her abilities but the pain clouded her thoughts. She now had her pain multiplied by four, she could vaguely hear Anne’s soothing words but it did nothing to help her when her bones snapped one more time. All of her bones had morphed into something completely different and horrid.

Xavier watched Sapphire wither in pain; she was left whimpering still awaiting for the rest to finish their shift. He knew she was going through pain, more pain than imaginable. She took Kyle’s pain as well as Savanna's while going through their first shift. Xavier pushed his wolf to the surface with as much pressure manageable and waited with no pain as his fur sprout against his legs. The layers of fur covered his pale skin from the tretorous winds.

Sapphire gasped when the pain eased slightly, and Xavier could only breathe out a breath of air once he stood on all fours. He barked at the rest to hurry up, without any hesitation they closed their eyes to concentrate on the transformation.

Savanna, the youngest of the small group, sat next to Tyler’s large grey wolf. Savanna knew Tyler was the dominant one of the two, her small white wolf didn’t even compare to his large grey one. Soon Xavier and Kyle stood next to Savanna, Kyle’s brown wolf stood tall like Tyler but still not as big.

Finally, when Tom finished his transformation and morphed into a large wolf with gold fur sprouting across his tail, Sapphire's whole body shook with great force sending her tumbling onto her back.

Tyler whined for her to roll over and shoved her with his snout, almost instantly a threatening growl was immited from the back of her throat. She, out of all of the wolves, was the Alpha of the group. Her black armor began to spread across her still growing wolf’s body and her tail twitched warning the others to back up. The second layer of shiny black fur spread across her body allowed great warmth.

Anne watched with awe as Sapphire forced her shoulders back, standing taller than the rest and howled with great force to the night sky. The other wolves joined into her cry by fault, neither understanding. Sapphire crouched down low allowing Anne on her backside almost as if bowing in respect.

Anne’s scrawny fingers gripped onto Sapphire's warm and silky fur, enjoying the soft sensation that Sapphire sent her. She knew of many of Sapphire's abilities, including her emotions radar, a snicker left Anne’s lips before she could help it. Sapphire hated it when Anne called her ability an emotion radar, her ability to calm and sooth those around her.

Sapphire yipped at the others in glee; each and every single one of the large wolves pounding their fur into the undergrowth soil, leaving no mercy as they swept the distance in record time.

The warm breeze of the night soared through Sapphire's knight shinning hair, her wolf’s heart swelled with pride when she saw the awe filled joy in their eyes. Sapphire was happy that she didn’t have to physically prove herself the Alpha in the group because it saved her time and another life.

She howled once more at the stars twinkling with joy across the night sky, the Tyler’s howl was just as loud as hers and she also understood his dominance.

In many packs, like the one Sapphire was running with, they had the Alpha; the wolf that holds the top dominance in the pack, leads them through battles and keeps them standing strong. Like the everyday world Sapphire also understood that a ‘second in command’ always stood next to the leader of the group. Some may call this person the Beta. Sapphire stood as the Alpha and with the power literally leaking off of Tyler, she also understood that he would stand next to her in battle as her Beta. Xavier was the third largest wolf in the pack assuming he was the Third in Command; he stood dominance over the other new wolves but held no authority over Sapphire and Tyler.

This is Sapphire's pack, she knew this from the beginning but with each and every one of the members now looking up to her she knew she couldn’t leave them. She would travel with this pack until time said otherwise; Sapphire loved the people that ran beside her. Whether it was the fate of the night or just her heart, the bond that swelled in her heart reminded her they more than emotionally intact now. They were the beginning of a pack, one that would lead a life filled journey to remind the world of their strength.

Please Read: I won't do this everytime.....

Ahh, please vote? I'm pretty nervous about this book... and of course my other book. But I'd really appreciate it if someone could critique, give me some ideas. I'm winging it here, well not technically but, in a way I am. I'd just really appreciate it if you voted or commented to let me know you're thoughts.

If you don't that's cool too..... but you should.... really bad..... Just click the heart? huh? click it... oh, okay... that's cool..... -.-

ANYWAYs... Thank you for at least reading this far. I'll be posting the next chapter in a few days and if it has mistakes: chill out people... we're all human. I think 0.o I really hope you're all human. If not, I hope this book doesn't offend you. Don't eat me.

NEXT: I realize 98% of y'all won't read this. I never do *sigh* oh well. Hopefully anyone who reads this MIGHT comment or vote. Hmmm, don't worry I'm not going to comment on EVERY chapter. I find that annoying, sometimes I just skip over em but they CAN be important people. SO READ!

:) Hope you enjoyed the book, please let me know what you think. I'll never get better without a little help peeeoppple. <3 See ya!

Publication Date: 01-09-2014

All Rights Reserved