After my body went into a cramp, which was quite unusual for vampires, I fell on my knees.
"Arrgh!!!" - suddenly a wave of heat spread through my body, as if all my organs were on fire, causing me unbearable pain.
***
At this moment, Alex's body was undergoing tremendous changes. The very structure of the cells was breaking down and rebuilding itself, becoming better than its former self.
The process was happening so frighteningly fast that even a vampire's eye would have difficulty catching the initial changes, and yes, this was just the beginning.
The boy, on the other hand, cringed in pain as he felt the changes take place, and when the wave of heat went around his entire body, he thought it was over.
But suddenly, Alex's chest began to heave furiously, as if something was trying very hard to get out.
Only a few moments later, his heart started beating again, beginning to pump blood throughout his body, but the change didn't think it would end there.
"Kha-ha-ha-ha." - The boy coughed in his throat, he had forgotten what it was like to breathe again.
That seemed to be the end of the fundamental change, but Destiny had other plans.
Just as Alex wanted to get up and change the disconcerting position he was in, he sprawled in the circle again.
The bones began to break distinctly, making audible crunches. The spine twisted unnaturally and broke, too. The boy's whole body was self-destructing, but that only seemed so at first glance.
With each crunch of broken bone, it was noticeable how Alex's body became much more massive than it had been before.
Not only did his mass stand out, but his entire body began to be covered in black fur, his eyes changed color to blood-red, his arms grew long claws, and so did his legs.
His clothes did not survive the metamorphosis and were torn to shreds.
If it hadn't been for the intense, searing pain running through his body, Alex would have been on his feet a long time ago. And everyone would have been able to see that the transformation was not complete.
Now he was in an intermediate state between the human and wolf sides.
Instead of a face, there was also a wolf's face, with a mouth with sharp rows of teeth clearly visible.
"Rrrr..!!!" - clutching the claws of his hands on the tile, Alex growled, and after his transformation continued, and now a young two-meter wolf appeared in front of the witch at the withers.
His gaze of bright blood-red eyes was terrifying. But Freya easily moved away from the shocked state.
And of course, for security reasons, the chains that were brought from the basement of the house, just in case, chained him. Although the chains were old, one might even say ancient, but they had a spell of general weakening on them.
***
"It's all over. Are you all right?" - I asked Alex, who at the moment was in the guise of a wolf.
"Rrrr!!!" - I heard back. Couldn't something have gone wrong after all? No, it's impossible everything was done correctly. Or is it all the fault of the semi-form in which he appeared a minute ago? Too little data...
While the witch was diligently thinking about the reason for this behavior, Alex in the guise of a wolf, straining, increased the force of pressure on the chain, and soon she could no longer restrain him.
*Punk~ Pank~*
The chain cracked in several places and fell apart, falling to the floor.
Without a second's hesitation, he lifted his hind legs off the floor and caught up with Freya in a leap. She clearly did not expect this.
"Kya!!!!" - shouted the girl who was already pressed against the wooden tile by the wolf's powerful front paws.
"Not....can not be." - confused and even somehow quietly she said, waiting for what presented itself in her head.
Here the Black Wolf let out a growl again, sharply bringing his muzzle closer, and when she opened her mouth....then licked her face a couple of times.
"And ...?" - the girl was taken aback, this was definitely not in her thoughts.
"What's going on?!" - all those who were in the house flew in anxiously.
"I don't like... being tied up." - Turning to the four at the door, Alex said with a smile.
"Oh, my God...you're naked!!!" - Hope exclaimed, and covered her pretty eyes and her face, reddened by the view, with her hands.
***
"Oh, right!" - I nodded gratefully, although I noticed such an oversight myself.
"Here, put it on yourself..." - Haley said calmly to me, but her rosy cheeks gave her away.
"Thank you!" - having taken some kind of dressing gown taken from nowhere....m-yes, everything is more wonderful and more wonderful.
"Freya, are you all right?" - Klaus asked the witch, who was still in shock and lying on the spot.
"Freya?!" - once again, Niklaus repeated for authenticity.
"A...It's all right." - finally she noticed that someone was calling her.
"I, perhaps, will not embarrass you and take my leave, I still need to test new abilities." - I mumbled the second part of the sentence under my breath.
I scrolled through the options in my head where it can be arranged and stopped at the simplest.
That desolate area and that dilapidated house are what you need to test superpowers. And as soon as I think about how nice it would be to be there now, I instantly disappear from my former place in the Michaelson family home.
***
The four vampires briskly swept past the road sign "Welcome to Forks" and turned into the woods, so it would be much closer and more inconspicuous to get to the Cullens' house.
A few minutes later they were already in place, a large two-story mansion appeared to their view, which was very often glazed. While they were inspecting the mansions of their friends, they came out to meet them.
"Glad to see you all! It's good that you could come!" - Esme came out of the house and greeted the guests good-naturedly.
Everyone in the Cullen family already knew that Alex would be temporarily absent even when talking to Emma.
"Well, don't stand on the street, come into the house!" - the woman beckoned the vampires into the house and they nodded and followed her.
"Yes...it's been a long time since we've been here." - when everyone was settled in the spacious living room on the sofa, Tanya drawled.
"Yes, you have a very nice house." - Emma added.
"Haha, thank you." - Esme replied with a little laugh.
"So what should we do before everyone gets home?" - Irina asked, to which Kate agreed nodded, thereby showing interest.
"Maybe...let's go hunting, a purely female team?" - Tatiana suddenly suggested an option.
Still, they had been on the road for a couple of days, so they were already a little hungry, so no one was against a snack.
As the hostess of the house, Esme also supported this proposal.
***
"Yes, I was right, this place would be perfect to test my abilities." - Once I was in front of the house where it all began, I spoke.
First of all, thanks to the stabilization spell, I didn't just change my race, I evolved into a new one, so I wasn't worried about my teleportation ability, and it was much better than before.
In the past the energy drain was very high, after a few, let's say about five approaches and that was it, I was empty, after that I wanted to eat a lot, and a vampire in the Twilight world can only eat blood, so in such situations I emptied half of the fridge...
I was not able to do that when I was completely empty and I didn't have enough energy for the next time, but if I left a little, then in the future it would recover quickly, literally a day and a half and it's done.
Plot holes, oh plot holes...how beautiful they are!
That's what separates great authors...from me), well, and a lot more, in general, I have something to strive for! 0)