Fighting Faith

5

Three years later…

“Again!” she growled at me. She was mad that I was beating her ass. To be honest, I’ve been beating her ass for quite some time now. I still remember the first time.

She was so mad at me that she went running away and I couldn’t find her for two whole days.

We were training under a burning sun. I am used to the warm, hot and wet weather here in Florida. It was kind of complicated sometimes because when it’s hot, due to our body’s temperature, it felt as if we were always on fire.

That’s why Krystal always reminded me the North was the best for us as it was colder.

I never explained the reasons why I couldn’t go to the North.

She never explained the reasons why she couldn’t go either, she just mentioned over and over again she missed it.

I never asked. One of the conditions she would train me under was “no personal questions” and it went both ways.

Even when we didn’t know each other so personally, she has become the most important part of my life in the past 2 years.

She barged against me all of the sudden and my back hit the floor. I laughed at her.

Here we go again.

Three years prior…

Could wolves vomit?

I couldn’t believe my eyes that after what I believe was around three days running, I haven’t really slept or eaten anything. I forgot how to switch back to being human.

I was so hungry, exhausted and cold.

Where was I?

It was already nighttime, I had to rest, I had to shift back and I didn’t know how.

Could a werewolf die from starvation?

I didn’t know where I was at this point and the closest house I could see had all the lights switched off already. Were the people inside already sleeping?

I paced carefully until my legs couldn’t hold me anymore and I just laid on the floor below a tree.

It was so hot that I didn’t know if I was starting to be feverish again.

I was too large, I couldn’t go around a house without knocking something away.

I felt a stinging pain on one of my sides and I whimpered while standing up. Someone just shot me and another bullet went by just below my nose.

What was that? Who was doing that?

A loud cry left my muzzle while trying to stand up. I’m not a regular wolf? Wouldn’t that person know that I couldn’t be hunted down?

I tried running away the sound of the person hunting me. Were those the same people I tried to leave behind? Was this some kind of sick game they were playing and that’s why the let me go?

I started running again to the mountains. I could sense the weather going colder when I was at a higher peak. I couldn’t sense the pain again on my lap. Was it the adrenaline because I was running away?

I went inside a cave and checked myself. I think I needed to control my heartbeat so I could switch back.

I was starting to see dots within my eyes and the dark and cold cave I was in started turning. I tried to stay still putting my back against the walls in the cave. It helped for a couple of seconds until I started to see black.

I don’t know if it was everything mixed together but for some reason I was passed out within seconds.

My body was burning again, I felt my skin crawling and itching everywhere while my heart felt as if someone was crushing it.

When I opened my eyes the cave was still dark even when there was some light coming from the entrance. I was naked now which meant for some reason I shifted while in my sleep.

I started crying without a specific reason.

All that happened to me on the last couple of days came down on me and realization hit me. I should be running away my whole life now. If I wanted to live I need to run and hide. Faith Adler should be a ghost, someone who’s dead now for everyone.

Grams is dead so I was entirely on my own.

My biggest wish for turning eighteen was the fact that I was going to help her with everything, she didn’t have to work entirely on her own. But now, I couldn’t help her, there was nothing I could do for her, she was no longer here with me and no I was almost killed for the second time last night.

What day is today and where am I?

I could hear everything that was outside the cave, I could hear a river flowing down the hill and the sound of wild animals roaming free.

I looked at my side and there was just a small red mark near my ribcage. One new thing I learned; we can heal fast.

It looks like it had more than a week’s old, didn’t even look as a shot wound.

I started walking outside of the cave, I should probable go to the river and dive for a while. I just hope that it’s empty so I could have some privacy.

I think that the way I could help grams in heaven is having a great life and honor her memory, that’s what she would have love the most.

But the eagerness for vengeance was also something I could fathom. I wanted to kill that bastard who people called Alpha, I didn’t even know his real name.

Vengeance was something that today felt out of limits.

I’ll just focus on getting clothes and something to eat.

I got to the river which was extremely empty,. Aside from the deer that ran away when I came close there was no humans inside.

I jumped inside the water without hesitation.

I believe I’ve been running away for at least 5 days, I’m trying to go as close as the South as possible but I don’t even know where I am.

I kept swimming peacefully with the morning sun rays washing me in between the trees. It was so good to feel the sun in my human skin, it was so good to be clean again.

I think we start appreciating those little moments when you almost die twice in less than a week. Turning eighteen was not the best thing that could have happened to me, I guess after waiting for it so much I wished it never happened so I could still be with grams sitting on the couch and watching movies all night long.

“Hey!” I heard someone yelling at me so I dived instantly, remembering the fact that I was naked.

I saw a little girl laughing. She was probably like 5 years old not much more than that.

I still stayed under the water until just my head was outside of the water. I looked at her, she looked as she just ran away from her house. She was still with her pjs and she was holding a teddy bear as if her life depended on it.

I smiled at her knowing that she wouldn’t represent a threat to me after listening careful to our surroundings, she was alone.

“Hi, what are you doing here alone? Shouldn’t you be sleeping?” I asked her smiling and she motioned no with her head.

“Mom and daddy are screaming. She told me I should run here and hide until she comes for me when that happens” she answered timidly, screaming? Was her dad hitting her mom?

“Is it far?” I asked embarrassed.

I don’t think a guy should ever hit a woman. Much less their kid seeing it all.

She motioned no again with her head and I sighed, it’s not that I could do a lot being naked.

I came out of the water and went to where the little girl stood. She laughed innocently, covering her mouth.

“Don’t you own any clothes?” she asked and I remembered again I was not wearing anything on me.

“Oh, well. I lost them. Can you lend me some clothes?” I had to lower my body to her size covering my breasts.

I didn’t know what to do with this little girl but I couldn’t move on without helping her I was probably not good at fighting wolves, but I could do some good fighting humans.