My Brother's Bestfriend Is My Mate

Recovery.

I fell asleep on the sofa next to Axel, and as I woke up, he was gone. I went to his bedroom and searched for him, but no one was there, not even Alex. I went to Axton's room, but he was gone too. I checked the spare room that Nox uses and he was also gone.

Maybe they took him to the hospital, hopefully he was okay.

When I checked the time, I realised it was 7:30 am. Which means I only slept for three hours. I crawled into my comfortable bed and dosed off.

I woke up to a loud noise downstairs sometime later. I ran downstairs to see what it was, maybe the guys were back. As I ran down, I saw Axel and Alex playing pool. I ran over to Axel and gave him a hug, and I'm sure I heard him whince.

"I'm sorry, I'll be careful. Where have you been? " I asked Axel, happy he was okay.

"It's okay, and we've been to Aunt Lucy's and Uncle Charlie's house." Axel replied.

"Why didn't you go to the hospital and where are Nox and Axton?" I asked them confused, Axel seemed fine.

"Do I look like I need the hospital? And they're still there, I think." Axel replied.

"But last night, last night, you were a mess. I had to clean you up, there was blood everywhere." I told him concerned.

"Last night? Last night we ate your spaghetti bolognese and then we watched movies. You went to bed halfway through the first movie, Don't you remember? " Axel, asked me very confused.

"No, last night you were right there, and you were covered in blood, and I cleaned all your wounds all night, and I even slept down here on the other sofa, so I knew you'd be safe." I pleaded with Axel, pointing to the sofas.

"You're funny, AJ, but that didn't happen, or I'd still be there wouldn't I? I looked at Axel, and then I looked at Alex, and they both looked so confused, like I was going insane.

"Okay." I replied, as I ran upstairs grabbed my MP3 player, placed the earphones in my ears, walked to the back door (The only door we used) and went for a walk. I needed to clear my head, and lose some anger somewhere.

As I took a few steps up the beautiful grassy hill, my arm was tugged at causing me to spin around and fall.

"Come on, you're not going anywhere today. Back to the house." Alex grabbed my arm and tried to drag me towards the house.

"Get off of me, Alex. I'm going for a walk, you can come with me if you want or not, but I am going." I told him sternly, getting up and walking away.

"AJ, this isn't the time for this. Get in the house, you can't be out now."

"Why not? Alex! Huh? Why isn't it the time? Why is it never the time? My whole life is never the time for this and I'm sick of it!" I scream at him as I turn around pushing him, closer and closer to the house by his chest.

"Tell me, Alex. When is it my time? WHEN IS IT MY TIME?!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, I don't know what came over me, but it felt like a huge power erupted from my chest. I turned around, put my earphones in and carried on going for a walk.

I checked behind me and Alex was standing in the same position, still shocked at me. I did feel bad, but I carried on going, all my mind kept telling me was, that it was the right thing to do.

I walked for what felt like miles, it started to rain shortly after Alex was out of my view, but it was nice on my skin. The air smelled so much fresher when it rained.

I came to a halt when I saw the rain washing away blood down the riverbank. Just a big patch of blood, drizzling down into the water. I checked closer, there was a big puddle of blood leading from the grass to the riverbank and then down the riverbank on a few rocks, there was so much more.

I was confused, clearly my brothers had lied to me about what happened last night, something did happen to Axel, I wasn't imagining it, it felt all too real anyway, but they were somewhat telling me the truth about what happened, he did fall down the riverbank, but only because he was hurt first.

I wondered why they kept lying to me. Maybe one of them hurt him by accident while they were angry and they were just ashamed to tell me and decided to keep it between themselves. I didn't know. I sat down near the bloody patch of grass, just watching the rain wash it away.

I felt like someone was watching me. I looked around but couldn't see anyone. I shook the eery feeling away. It was probably my imagination, this place gave me goosebumps, but I needed to stay. For some reason, I knew I needed to stay.

Suddenly, my eyes were flashing before me. A white beam came almost blinding me, then the imagine of three boys, one standing next to the tree and the others transforming into beasts, some sort of dog, wolves maybe. Alex formed into a light brown coloured wolf, with some dark brown patches in his fur. Axton was a snow white coloured wolf, big plain white. He towered over Alex.

They were attacking each other, fighting, When they came to a halt, seemingly smelling the air. Axel moved from the tree to take a look around when another wolf type thing, jumped up from the riverbank and attacked him, then another one jumped up and also attacked him, two big grey wolves.

Who I'm assuming was Axton and Alex, had made their way further away from Axel but hearing him scream, turned and ran at him, only to be tackled by two more grey wolves. They fought them off no problem, and then Axton roared loudly at the top of his voice. For some reason, I just knew he called Nox. Within seconds Nox was there clear as day, but I don't remember losing him that fast.

Nox gained some speed and ran towards them and transformed in the air, he transformed into what was clearly a bright white wolf, with streaks of grey and black down the sides of his body, and what looked like spikey hair on the top of his head, with smudges of black covering his ears, he was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen, so gorgeous.

Nox, attacked the wolf who was guarding the wolf who was attacking Axel. Axel's body lay unconscious on the floor. As Nox ran towards Axel, the wolf realised he was being targeted and dragged Axel's body over the riverbank. I screamed in horror as I watched my brother's lifeless body, crash and bump into everything before he hit the water.

Axton and Alex were sprinting towards the wolf who had just thrown Axel's body over into the river and attacked him, while Nox, leaped over the wolf and dove into the water, swimming towards Axel. He transformed back into a human and swam Axel back to the river top, where he performed CPR, for a long time. Nox was screaming at the top of his lungs. Axton and Alex ran back in their human forms, both screaming at Axel to wake up.

Why didn't I hear any of this at the time?

Axel woke up, spitting up blood and water. He hugged Nox and his brothers and he stood up, but he collapsed on foot.

Nox lifted up his pant leg, and there was flesh hanging from his leg, but it wasn't like that when I cleaned it. When I cleaned it, it was only a gash. That was pure flesh hanging on by a bit of skin.

Alex gave him some water to drink and he downed it within seconds. Alex and Axton grabbed Axel's arms and wrapped them around him, lifting him slightly off the ground and walking him towards home.

As they got quite far home, there was me. Running up, snail like, compared to what I just saw. Stopping to take breaths.

As I'm walking up, two more dark grey wolves are searching behind my brothers and Nox. I don't know how they knew, but Nox ran back towards them. As I help carry Axel home, Nox is destroying these wolves, properly tearing them apart.

He waited there a little while, sitting in his wolf form, as if, as if he was meditating.

I realised that he was waiting for more wolves, closing his mind so he could hear any sounds in the distance.

We had just gotten in the house when one more wolf attacked Nox. Nox hurt it badly but didn't kill this one, he instead started asking it questions. Beating answers out of him. I'm not sure if he got the answers he was looking for though.

He waited a little while longer and nothing else came. He dragged all the wolf bodies into the river and ran back home.

My eyes flashed again before I realised where I was. It was still raining, and all the blood that I had been staring at had been washed away. I checked the time on my mp3 player and realised I'd been here for two hours.

I realised this was a dangerous place to be, so I grabbed my things and started walking towards home, taking my earphones out so I could hear anything.

I was quite scared about everything I just saw, but I knew it was true.

I kept thinking about what had happened. What were my brothers and Nox? Who were they? I didn't know any of them.

I think I understood what Nox was trying to tell me, we didn't know each other very well. He wanted me to know this side of him. I was thrilled if I was completely honest. I was scared, but I was thrilled.

There was a question though, that kept popping in and out of my mind.

'If they are wolves, what am I?'