Hidden Lycan. (COMPLETE)

Chapter sixteen

My beast roared to the surface and was between Eli and the other man before anyone could have registered my movements. Even I was shocked, but I was taking the back seat on this and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get control back. I stood with my back to Eli, eyes boring into the man I'd never seen before with my hand shoved in his chest squeezing his heart. Everyone around me stood stunned, but I couldn't bring myself to care. "Wh..who are y..you?" The man gasped out. I growled "Who I am doesn't  matter." I sneered in a voice that wasn't quite my own. "What matters is you and your lackies have decided to attack someone I happen to lo..care about."

Another man stormed forward his face hard and angry. "How dare yo.." I cut him off, using my free hand to grasp his throat tightly and with a quick twist and a sickening crack, he went limp. I dropped his body to the floor and stared at the other men who were now staring at me in fear. "Anyone else?" I hissed. They all shook their head, backing away into the far wall. "Good." I said turning back to the man before me. "It would be so easy." I whispered, giving his heart a squeeze making him gasp. "What exactly did you intend to do attacking the way you did?" The mans gurgled response angered my beast. But a hand landed on my shoulder. 

"Fallon. I need you to calm down now and let him go. I am not hurt, we are not hurt." Eli's gentle voice came from behind me. But I heard it, the one tone I never wanted to hear, the one I knew I would hear if they ever found out. Fear. My beast cowered back into me whining giving me back control. I pulled my hand from the man's chest with a whispered scream before looking to the man on the floor. "I didn't mean...I couldn't.....I never" My arm covered in blood, a body motionless beneath me, all four guys staring at me in fear and something else I couldn't place. "I'm sorry." I whispered before summoning my beats speed and running out the door. 

Since we were healthy now her speed was incredible. We were down the stair and in the forest in the blink of an eye. I stopped long enough to look around, smelling the air for any sign the guys had been here. When I was sure there was none I rushed to the creek and frantically scrubbed at the blood on my arm. I wanted it off, it had to come off. What did I do? "What  did you do?" I asked my beast, angry at her for the first time since I could remember. Would have killed mates she whispered. "Mates? What does that mean? You scared the only people who ever cared. No, we scared them." I corrected sadly. What am I? Eli said something about a Lycan, but I couldn't be sure that's what I was. How could I be when I never saw one before? 

When I got the majority of the blood off I crawled to a nearby tree, curled my knees to my chest and hugged them to me. I tucked my head into my knees and cried. I cried for everything that was taken away from me, everything I've never had, and now everything I had but lost. I never wanted to hear the fear in their voices or see it in their eyes, but I did. I guess it's fort he best I left it means I can't hurt them, we can't hurt them now. 

Rustling from the trees nearby had me on my feet in a heartbeat. I didn't know if I could summon my beast the way she had come to me today. She came on her own, she wanted to protect Eli. I brace the best I could for whatever might come out, it could be nothing but a rabbit or something but you never know. I however never expect to see all four guys walk out of the trees and towards me carefully. 

I backed away from them with my arms in front of me. "Don't." I said firmly. "Just don't. I won't hurt any of you too, I can't. Please, just go." I pleaded with them. They eyes one another before Eli stepped towards me. "Fallon, what happened?" He asked soothingly. I dropped my hands and wrapped them around myself. "I don't know." I whispered. "I saw you, all of you in danger and my beast she took over." I shook my head closing my eyes. "I didn't want, never wanted it to happen again. But I couldn't stop her. I asked her why she did it after I left, and she babbled something about hurting mates but I don't know what that means. I never wanted you to find out like this." 

All eyes on me were now wide with shock. "Are you sure she said mates?" Eli asked carefully. I furrowed my brow in confusion but nodded nonetheless. "Do you know what you are?" He asked. I shook my head "Not a wolf like my father, that much I know. Whatever I am scared them enough that when I first changed at six they tried to kill me. My beast's instincts took over and she protected me, killing them both. It wasn't but a few hours after that the.. I was taken." 

"Can you show us?" Eli urged. "No." I barked stepping away. "I don't know if I can control her. I don't want to hurt any of you." Alaric sighed. "You won't hurt us." He said. "If what you said about you beast said about mates is true, she won't hurt us. She protected us today." He finished. "Protected Eli you mean." Xavier huffed. "I..I don't understand." I murmured. "Just know we will not be hurt." Eli assured me. 

"I don't know how. I never changed on purpose before. I haven't changed at all since I was six." Lucas stepped up beside Eli. "Do you know what your other form looks like?" He asked me. I nodded hesitantly. "Picture that form in your mind, then imagine that form taking shape over your human one." I didn't answer but closed my eyes and inhaled deeply. "Do you want to come out?" I asked my beast in my mind. I felt her sudden wave of excitement at the thought. "You must behave. Don't take over. Promise me you won't take over completely." She didn't answer directly but I felt the wave of calm that went through me.

Okay, well, lets see how this goes. I pictured the beast form she had shown me. Large and tall, extended feet like paws, sharp razor claws, muscled all over with no sign of female or male gender to be seen. Ears perking on top of my head, long snout full of fangs that could cut through bone like butter. And my entire form covered in beautiful black fur. As I imagined all of this tingling covered my body and when it stopped I slowly opened my eyes.

I now towered over the four men who were gaping at me. Peering down at myself I knew why. I was a wolf, but I wasn't a wolf. I already knew this though, I just never knew how imposing this form was. I walked over to the creek and looked down at my reflection. A yelp that sounded more like a whine left my snout. I was horrifyingly scary. "Please don't be scared of me." I pleaded with them. "I would never hurt any of you." As if to prove this, I very ungracefully sat down in front of them. "How did you just speak in our mind?" Alaric asked. I c****d my head to the side. "I didn't know I did. I thought I was just talking." I told him honestly. 

Eli was the first to approach me. There was no hesitance in his steps, no fear in his eyes or features. Just awe and respect. "You are a lycan Fallon." Eli told me as he circled me. "Do you know this makes you royalty?" He asked. "I don't want to be royalty." I argued. "I just want to be normal. Live normal. I want to be able to get over what happened to me. I want a family, love, children some day. I don't want to be a queen or princess or whatever this form makes me." 

"A wolf's human side can choose their mate or mates Fallon, but if your wolf or beast as you call her does not agree with your choice, the relationship won't work. The wolf will not mate with someone he or she finds unworthy." There was that word again. "What is a mate? My bea..lycan said mates, plural. But I don't understand." Eli rubbed the back of his neck nervously as he turned to the others. Each of them seemed to take a step back, giving him lead on this conversation. "A mate is a person your wolf's soul bonds to. The other soul has to agree to the bond before they can truly be considered mates. But for a wolf or lycan a mate is like a soul mate in human terms." 

In my shock I reverted back to my human form, fully clothed thank God. Soul mates, these guys or at least more than one was my soul mate. I stayed in my seated position in front of them shell shocked. "You're not frightened of me?" I asked. Eli chuckled, while Xavier and Lucas snorted. Alaric gave no response but I could see there was no fear in his blue gaze. 

Eli grabbed me and hauled me to my feet. "We are not frightened of you Fallon. Quite the opposite actually. But we need to keep you hidden, if anyone found out a lycan existed you'd have a bounty on your head. We will protect you." Eli assured me. "Didn't look like she needed much protection to me." Alaric said dryly. But the usual snark and ice wasn't there. "That was not Fallon, that was her lycan protecting one of her mates." Eli said never taking his eyes off mine. "You?" I whispered my eyes widening. "You? Accepted me? You're a wolf?" 

His smiled faltered a bit. "About that. Your friend, the gold wolf you showed me your painting of. That was me. That is my wolf form." I couldn't help but laugh. "I knew there was more to the wolf. I should have put two and two together." I finished, tracing my fingers down Eli's jaw line. "It was all in the eyes." Eli shuddered at my touch and closed his hand around mine. "You are not angry?" I shook my head. "No, I am just happy to know you didn't avoid me all that time." 

"Wait. Eli, your wolf was around her? and didn't harm her? I remember that one time, I just assumed you managed to remain in control, but more than once?" Xavier gaped. I looked over to the other three men and smiled. I didn't know whose wolves had accepted me, but I knew Eli's had. His wolf had been with me for weeks. "Yes." I said, answering for Eli. "His wolf has been my companion by the docks almost daily the past few weeks." All three men shook their head in disbelief. "What am I missing?" I asked confused. Eli sighed sadly. "I am considered a feral. A wolf who has trouble containing his wolf's basic instincts, who can't constantly keep the wolf from taking over. It makes me stronger, more powerful than most other wolves, but also more dangerous." 

All I could think to do was shrug. "I happen to like you the way you are. Though I think you have too much stress on you. And if were being honest I can't always control my bea...lycan." I corrected. "You are unique parvulus. Truly remarkable." A warmth spread through me as Eli pulled me into him and held me tightly against him. I don't think he's ever let anyone close to him. Never let anyone know who he truly is, what he truly feels. I feel like he has never told anyone of the weight he bares and the horrors that haunt him. But I do know that I wanted to help him, be there for him and support him in any way I can. I still not sure what this whole soul mate thing means, but if it means I get to keep Eli, and the others then I'm all for it. Because I never want to lose them.