Finding Calypso

Reborn

Chapter Eleven

~Calypso~

We are almost back home when we pull down an unfamiliar road leading into the forest. As we drive deeper into the wooded area, the road turns to dirt. My body is fevered and my eyes are closed.

I feel the patters of foot steps around us, and I begin to shiver. I hear my mother say

"She is burning up Matt, what do we do?"

The car comes to a halt so hard my body jerks around in the back seat. My door opens when I feel arms pull me out and lay me in the grass.

I open my eyes seeing I'm surrounded by men and women. I can hear Seraphine say

"I'm sorry, something must have happened that broke her chains. There is no stopping it now"

At the sound of her voice I muster up the words.

"I'm alive"

I feel my mother crouch beside me and say

"Of course you are"

"No" I say and push her hand away as she tries to console me.

"No. No. She is alive" my eyes crack open to see Seraphine silently command everyone around us to leave.

Seraphine crouches beside me and whispers

"What did you say?"

I reach up to her and she sees the wounds on my hands. She grabs my hand to examine the burns.

"Calypso try to focus." Seraphine says, looking back to me.

My body was so hot I felt as if I was being held over a fire. My chest rumbled, and I could hear growls escape my lips. The clouds were casted over, and my body craved to feel the cool rays of the moon.

I can hear my mother ask

"What can we do for her?"

Seraphine answers

"There is nothing to be done. It will happen shortly. I think you two should go."

My mother cries

"No" when my father agrees with Seraphine.

"I think you should go, I will stay right here, I won't leave her side" My father replies.

My mother begins to protest when my father cuts her short.

Seraphine then says

"We will be lucky if her beasts lets us live when she realizes what we've done"

I hear foot steps approach us and escort my mother away.

Seraphine addresses my father and says

"I imagine it will be better if you go as well" but my father doesn't respond.

"Well, let's speed things up" Seraphine begins, when her voice turns to a rumble, and a howl escapes her mouth.

Sounding off in the woods around us I hear dozens of howls join her.

My eyes fly open as I feel the clouds part and the moon shine upon me. I feel my lips peel back and my body feels like needles as hair extends out and a howl escapes my lips.

The sound was not like the ones around me. It was more powerful demanding authority.

Instantly, my mind clears as I come to realization of all that I was blind to. I remember the night I was born. I remember being taken away from my family. Given to humans! The thought nearly makes me spit.

But that is not the only thing I feel.

I feel the psychic connection between my sister and I. I realize the one I've been dreaming of this whole time has always been my twin.

Her life began to flash before my eyes. I see her living the life we were supposed to live together. Then I see her taken, imprisoned, and our kingdom divided.

I can feel she sees me the same. A smile twitches across her face behind the same bars I was before earlier today as she whispers

"Hello sister" as she connects with me psychically.

I can feel her relief now that she knows I am coming for her. Coming to release her from her prison.

I jump to my feet standing on two unlike the beasts that have surrounded me. Submitting to me in my presence.

I look much different then them. My body still holds a humanoid form, my face is my own, but my body is sleek with white and red fur. My tail is long an bushy, and grazes the ground as I walk. It is strong, like another limb that can be used in a fight. My fangs just slightly longer then the rest of my teeth and resting on my lips, and my claws are sharp and yellowed. I can speak in my beast form unlike the wolf's before me.

I look to their Alpha, Seraphine still in human form, face turned, neck bare, expecting an attack. I walk up to Seraphine wanting to wrap my hands around her neck with the anger that flushes through my body. Remembering she is the beast that curried me away moments after I was born.

When I hear my father whisper my name.

"Calypso"

My eyes turn to him wanting to kill the human that dares address me. I walk toward him, and look deep into his unafraid eyes that challenged me back.

My beast laughed at this as I could feel her tame down and allow me some control. I can feel my beast reliving all the moments we had with this man that I now know isn't my true father. And my beast realizes she does kind of like him. Like a pet.

I feel my beasts utter disgust for humans, and I challenge her at that thought. To my surprise she submits, and I feel her fully retreat in my mind. As she does my body begins to turn back to its human form. The clouds begin to cover the moon again.

I have control but I am not the same. I now know who I am.