The Godsend Backfire: The Beginning by Harold Straugh (best e reader for academics TXT) 📗

a weird, little dance around me, “She’s made you one of the pack” Tapeesa said.

“What?” I asked, I didn’t want to be one with the pack, I wanted to leave.

I didn’t even get a response from them, instead Kallik yelled out, “Noooooo! I challenge him.”

I looked back at Kallik, then back at Mylicious, “What’s going on here?” I was confused.

“Not going to happen Kallik,” Mylicious spoke for me, but didn’t give the answer I wanted.

“It’s your rule, any existing pack member can challenge a new pack member if they feel the new pack member doesn’t belong. I feel he doesn’t belong, so I’m challenging him,” Kallik said, clenching his fist.

“I said, it’s not going…..”

“It’s okay, I will handle this brother,” I interrupted Mylicious, “If you want to challenge me, then I accept.  When I win, and if you survive, you’re gone, no longer allowed in this pack.”

“Fine, and I if I win, you leave, never to return and Yura is mine,” he growled.

“Yura isn’t mine to give away…”

“It’s fine, I have faith in you,” I heard Yura say behind me and when I turned around, she was there, the crazed look on her face, my blood had done something to her.

“I’m not putting you up like that,” I said.

“Are you confident you will win?” she asked.

“I am very confident.”

“Then do it.”

I didn’t have a chance to respond before Kallik attacked and he attacked in human form.  He was strong for a being in human form, but not as strong as I.  He tackled me to the ground and started to kick me.  I used my quickness to get away from the blows.  I grabbed him from behind and put him in a choke hold. He swung wildly, some blows hitting me, but I applied the pressure and he soon started to fade, I thought the fight was going to be over with soon. Then, I heard bones cracking and his neck started to grow, my grip around his neck started to slip.

He was soon transformed, but I was still holding on.  He bucked and threw me forward, which sent me flying off him.  I hit the ice, face first, hard.  I heard and felt the bones break in my face.  I skidded a few feet and when I rolled over on my back, I felt the sticky, warm that could only belong to my blood.  I got up, quickly, because who wants to lay around in the middle of fight.  I felt the bones pop back in place and the flesh wounds heal up.  I didn’t get to heal long before I got slashed at by Kallik.  I dodged one swipe, but got hit by the other, ripping through my clothes and flesh.  I went flying to the right, once again crashing onto the ice and sliding.  Kallik jumped up in the air and started to descend upon me. I got up and could see the massive, wolfen jaws, wide open.  I managed to grab onto the jaws, in the kneeling position, before they closed in on me.  Kallik tried to bite down, but I wasn’t going to allow it to happen.

With his jaws firmly in my grasp, I started to stand up, he tried to push me back down, but once again, I over-powered him.  His tongue lashed about wildly, he tried swiping at me some more, but I applied more pressure.  His back legs buckled and he fell to his knees.  His eyes were wide with fear, he whimpered as I moved his jaws further apart.

“That’s enough brother, I think you’ve won this one,” Mylicious said.

I looked at my brother, “Is it?” I asked and used all my force to dislocate the bottom jaw of Kallik, who cried out and fell over.

“BROTHER!” Mylicious yelled.

Kallik was on his side, still trying to claw at me. I put my foot on his throat and with a quick twist of his jaw, pulled it completely off from his face and tossed it towards my brother, “Now, it’s enough,” I said.

The jaw transformed back into its human form.  Mila and Tapeesa rushed to the aide of Kallik, taking his jaw with them.  Mylicious, Tarkik and Yura just stared at me at first.

“He will heal,” I said.

“I’ve never seen you like that brother, the look in your eyes, it was scary even for me.”

“I don’t take likely to someone trying to harm me,” I said, “Did you think he was going to walk out of here unscathed?”

“No, I suppose not,” Mylicious said.

“KALLIK…NOOOO!” I heard someone scream behind me.  I turned and looked, Kallik was in human form, leaping naked through the air at me.  I caught him the throat and before he could fathom what was happing, I then, wrapped my mouth around his throat and tore it out.  Werewolf blood filled my mouth, it was bitter and vile.  I tossed Kallik down as I was experiencing a pain of my own.  The werewolf blood caused my body to spasm, I threw up, green vomit that shot across the ice in a steamy mess.  I fell over, Mylicious and Yura came to my side, asking me if I was okay, I obviously wasn’t.  The spasm stopped a minute later and I learned that I didn’t like werewolf blood at all.

Mylicious helped me up and we stared at Kallik as the wound didn’t heal, instead he bled out in front of us.  His eyes glared off into the night sky, the stars reflective in them.  Mila and Tapeesa looked sad, the rest of the pack didn’t seem to care.

“Your bite won’t heal?” Mylicious asked.

“I guess it doesn’t and wolf blood hurts,” I said then started to laugh as I spit the remaining, green blood out of my mouth.

“Thank you!” I heard Tarkik say.

“For what?”

“Getting rid of him, if he would have