The Mistaken Alpha

Chapter 18

Lana’s POV

I stripped off my clothes and threw them. I hated that costume, and I was glad to be rid of it. Echo could tell that I wanted to rip costume to shreds.

Shifting for your first time is not easy. Take off the ridiculous costume.

But I want to shred it to pieces as we shift. It will make it that much more satisfying.

Your first shift will already be exhausting, and you will feel suffocated with the change. Trying to shift in the costume will only cause you to resist more and to start panicking.

I begrudgingly started to strip the costume off. I wanted to see the costume on the ground torn to pieces, but I had to trust Echo. She was looking out for me.

Once the costume was done, I got down on my knees and wished and willed for the shift. I’m not exactly sure what I was expecting. I knew it would be painful, but I guess you really have no idea how painful it is until you go through it for the first time.

All at once the air was knocked out of me as I was getting ready to do a face plant. I barely managed to put my hands in front of me before my face was in the dirt. I tried gasping for air. Mentally I knew that I was taking some shallow breaths but physically it felt like I was suffocating. I had to place my forehead into the cold dirt to try and stop the sudden heat wave I was feeling. I could hear my heart pumping loudly as blood rushed to my face. I wanted it to be over with.

Think about shifting. Picture fur on your arms and paws where your hands are. Visualize the change. This will not be easy; you must push through the pain.

I tried to concentrate on my arms like Echo said. I tried to picture grey fur on my arms. It felt like forever while I was still gasping for air and feeling excruciating pain through every limb in my body. I started seeing black spots in the corner of my eyes. I knew I had to keep pushing through or else I would blackout. I visualized grey fur and paws.

The pain instantly got a thousand times worse. I screamed out in pain and shut my eyes closed. I was sure everybody could hear me for hundreds of miles. My scream was bloodcurdling and pierced through the quiet forest. I continued to scream when suddenly it stopped. It all stopped. I was able to breathe normally again, and I could not hear my heart anymore. I did not feel myself burning up and the pain stopped.

I slowly opened my eyes to see paws and fur the shone off the moonlight. I was not able to see what color I was as it was dark in the forest. My brain instantly thought of the small stream that was not far away. Echo knew what I wanted to do, and she bolted for the stream. As we approached the stream, I started feeling nervous. All omegas were a neutral tone of browns and greys. I knew by blood I was not an omega, but I was worried that after all the years of abuse I went through, my wolf would be an omega like I was always destined to be.

As Echo slowly leaned over the water, I started to see the coloring of my wolf. I was not the color of an omega. My fur was silver, and it seemed to sparkle under the moonlight. I was overrun with happiness that Echo and I howled for the first time in pure happiness.