Reflection or Reality?
1128 Words
Liam
The books and other items which had risen by his growl fell back in their places once he stopped. He stood in the middle of the library, completely shocked at the turn of events.
What the hell just happened? Where is Ira? How could she possibly leave the pack lands this quickly? Was another wolf helping her? He lifted his snout up and sniffed around, but couldn't pick up any foreign scent.
His wolf whimpered.
He lifted his hand and looked in awe at the huge paw covered with snow-white fur.
How is this possible? I am a rogue that Miriam picked up, or maybe she killed my parents and picked me up! How can I have this power? He had read about Lycans but never come across one. There are very few Lycans left on this planet thanks to them getting assassinated. This is ridiculous! How can I be a Lycan? Then my parents would have been Lycans too.
How did Miriam manage to kill them? Didn’t they have any powers? What powers do I have?
When he and his wolf had merged, he had felt pain and changes in the other parts of the body too. Now both he and his wolf were curious. Look at us! I am standing on two legs!! His wolf said in an astonished tone. He walked towards the bedroom to have a look at himself in the mirror.
After the battle of Myponga, all the guest rooms had been spruced up.
Rogue Land was entertaining visitors now, and they needed a decent place to stay.
While cleaning up Miro’s chambers to make space for Luna, Emily and Alpha Leo, they had come across a strange mirror. It was a part of an antique dressing table with an ornate design carved on its wooden frame.
No one could see anything in the mirror, but he could use it as a regular mirror. In fact, the mirror was big enough to show him his full body. He had found that odd and fascinating. And he had felt an inexplicable attraction towards the mirror.
He had moved it to his own bedroom.
He stood in front of the peculiar mirror and looked at his image. His huge body frame gave a formidable look to his standing wolf's body.
His wolf smirked in appreciation as his muscular frame looked powerful and scary.
'People are going to piss in their pants when they see us!' His wolf stated in glee. His wolf was a little sadistic.
He squinted at a tuft of light coppery hair on the left side of his chest. It formed a fist sized ball.
He lifted his right paw and concentrated to see how much control he had over his body. The front part of the paw transformed into a hand, and he ran his finger over the weird ball of hair on his chest. The hair felt softer than the rest of the body hair. And a strange tingling sensation shot through his body.
He jerked his hand away abruptly as if he had just touched a live wire.
His wolf snorted. ‘Never seen that before!’ The voice felt clearer than before and sounded more like his own gruff voice.
‘What is happening? He questioned both himself and his wolf.
‘Looks like some form of magic. My guess is as good as yours! Only my instincts are a little extraordinary.’
Liam rolled his eyes. His wolf could be so unhelpful!
All the pain in his body had subsided after this metamorphosis, but his head hurt with a dull throbbing pain.
People were trying to mind link him.
His anguish regarding Ira had settled down a little. He was going to look for her, find her and get her back here no matter where she had run off to! She belonged here in his room!
In his own thoughts, he did not notice how strong his feelings for Ira were.
As soon as he opened his mind link Kirra’s voice flowed into it. He frowned in confusion. Why would Kirra mind link? It was rude to enter a head unless invited. Especially because they were Alphas of two different clans.
‘Liam! Touch the mirror.’ Kirra coaxed in desperation..
‘Kirra? Why? What happened?’ Liam asked, confused out of his wits. He did not know what the urgency was!
‘I don’t have time for explanations. Do it now! I will explain later. I promise.'
He wondered what was going on, but he followed Kirra. Looked like she had an idea what was happening.
He ran a finger over the mirror and the mirror instantly turned blank and dark, with no reflections at all. It looked like a shiny metallic surface, which sucked in the light instead of reflecting.
Shocked by the result, he gasped and lifted his hand, breaking the contact with the magical mirror.
‘No, no, no! Continue to slide your finger on it.’ Kirra’s voice was so desperate that Liam did not argue and continued to move his finger on the cold metallic surface of the mirror.
He felt silly doing it, yet he had seen a miraculous change in himself today. So it was worth giving a try! Before the mirror turned metallic, he had also seen his own changed reflection.
Suddenly, the tip of his fingers picked up a dull hum of vibrations. A warmth started spreading through the tips of his fingers that were connected to the surface of the mirror and died out at the wrist. The tremors ran through the length of his arm.
The mirror sent out an eerie golden glow and its dark, black surface started twirling around like a galaxy moving in a spiral. It glowed like stars against the dark night.
A light coloured oval dot appeared in the middle of the spiral, like a third eye. It slowly started expanding, pushing the spiral aside and emitting white light.
A blurred image and shadows could be seen moving in the background as the oval spot continued to swell. Soon the spot became big enough for a man and he saw James smiling in the mirror.
‘Holy f*ck! We should get rid of that mirror in our bedroom. When I make love to Ira, I don’t want her brother snooping! I am not a fan of exhibitionism,' His wolf said in false righteousness. 'But I don’t mind slight BDSM.’ Liam’s wolf sniggered.
'Shut up! Ira is not even here!' Liam chided his wolf.
'She will be! I am going to get her back' His wolf sounded grumpy but quietened down.
Kirra laughed along with that, and Liam scowled. Kirra had intercepted his wolf’s untimely and tasteless comments.
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A/N
Ninght night lovelies.
Happy reading
- Writer
