Chapter 4: The Black Wolf

• Psychiatric Hospital•

After Ashley left, Dr. Reynolds walked in and

stood behind Grayson.

He looked at the man and finally spoke.

"Grayson.... it's time for test runs." Dr. Reynolds choked out due to how hard it was to even think about those horrid tests. Grayson was different from just a while ago. Every time his "fiancé" came to give him tea, Grayson would be silent after and therefore it was a great time to run their tests on him.

Grayson kept staring at the wall. After a few moments, he finally nodded and just stood up to leave the room. Dr. Reynolds just sighed and followed right behind him. They went to a room and there was the head director with a couple other doctors.

Two of them led Grayson to a chair where they had him sit and strapped his body from head to toe. Today's tests was a continuation of seeing how Grayson healed from wounds and how he reacted to pain, and it be followed by injecting him with a serum to force him to shift into wolf form.

One of the doctors grabbed a scalpel from the tray of tools and walked over to Grayson. He looked at Grayson for a few moments, but Grayson didn't look at him. He just looked straight ahead at the wall where he knew Dr. Reynolds and the head director were looking through the invisible window.

The doctor quickly sliced his exposed arm. The cut was so deep it looked like it needed stitches! Grayson didn't even flinch. His face was hard as stone. The doctor was shocked and froze on the spot. How could someone not flinch at this kind of pain?? Not even have some kind of reaction? As these questions wandered through his head, the skin healed almost immediately, all that was left was a faint scar. The doctor took an involuntary step back upon seeing this. He looked back at the invisible mirror.

A voice over the intercom instructed him to move on. It was the head director, he was unfazed by that and in his mind, he knew that would happen.

The doctor kept it up for hours and hours. He kept using the scalpel and went as far as stabbing Grayson in the leg, arm, and abdomen!

The doctor continued to cut and stab him everywhere. Across his chest, legs, back, every part of him was cut. There was so much blood that it looked like a massacre had taken place.

Little did they know he was experiencing the pain in silence. Grayson had to endure their torture on him for past 8 years, so this was nothing.

• Argent Residence •

Akela was cleaning up the kitchen after the big pancake breakfast her family had that morning. She was washing the dishes when suddenly she felt a sharp pain on her arm.

She clutched it, this felt like something was cutting into her skin, but there was nothing there. The pain was only there for a couple seconds and quickly subsided.

A couple minutes later, Akela felt excruciating pain throughout her whole body! She fell to the ground and just clutched her legs while letting out bloodcurdling scream. Tears rolled down her eyes as she gritted her teeth from the unbearable pain.

Sawyer came running in as soon as he heard her screaming. He was freaking out seeing his Luna in such a vulnerable state. "AKELA!" Sawyer knelt down to her side and held onto her. "Luna, what's wrong??" He could feel her pain even though it was probably nothing compared to what she was actually feeling.

"Grayson..." was all she could whimper out before passing out from the pain.

Three small figures came rushing in soon after and when they saw the aftermath, they were horrified. Their poor mother was lying on the floor. "Mom!" cried out Aspen.

"We have to get her to the medic, Sawyer!" Felix said as he bent down to be by his mothers side.

Beta Sawyer scooped her up and ran to the small cabin behind the main house.

...

•Back at the Psychiatric Hospital•

It was finally time for the last test of the day, and Grayson still hadn't moved since the experiment started. They had the vial of serum and planned to inject him with a needle. However, this was different from previous injections. Others were strength enhancers, hormone serums, pain injections that made his whole body feel like it was going through a shift, and some that completely changed his body.

Before they would give Grayson the serum, the doctors unstrapped him from the chair and had him strip to his undergarments. There they finally injected him and all quickly exited the room.

Soon after they left, Grayson knelt on all fours when the serum started forcing his bones to crack into place. His breaths were becoming ragged and sweat was running down his body from the rise in body temperature. Grayson was groaning in pain, and immediately after those groans turned into low growls.

"Wait! Head director, don't you think this is going too far by forcing him to change? Will he be able to recover from this?" The head director ignored his questions, and just stood there looking at Grayson shifting.

In the next moment, a wolf appeared on all fours. The wolf had a shiny black coat that was darker than the night itself. His stature was much larger than a normal wolf. He was absolutely magnificent. A beautiful beast.

The wolf looked around with his blue eyes. He snarled at his surroundings and started walking towards the exit door.

Some guards came inside and blocked the exit. The director saw this and said, "Don't startle him, surround him and proceed with caution." The guards only nodded and proceeded to slowly walk around Grayson.

Once they surrounded him in a circle, they started closing in on him. Grayson saw this.

He pulled his ears back and growled at the invasion of space. When the people saw he was feeling cornered, they knew they had to act fast in getting him under control.

Little did they know that you should never be near a werewolf when they're in their wolf form. Their carnal desires take over and they need time to find themselves again, especially when forced to shift.

Grayson lunged at the guard who had a taser in his left hand, and bit his forearm causing him to drop the taser. Another guard stepped forward and tased Grayson, but he wasn't affected and kept shredding the man's arm.

Grayson finally let go and the other guards swarmed him. He started seeing red and started attacking each guard, one after the other. Throwing one across the room, biting another's shoulder until there was no one left in his path. All while the head director and Dr. Reynolds were watching through the one way mirror.

The black wolf looked to the wall where the mirror was. He knew they were behind the wall, with those serums over the years, Graysons senses were stronger than ever to the point he could practically see through the wall.

He slowly walked toward it while growling with his large set of teeth showing. The men were scared for a few moments but remembered that a wall was keeping them from harms way.

Grayson stopped right in front of them. His piercing blue eyes not at all showing the dullness that once consumed his eyes. He stood there, completely still, until he huffed and sprinted to the exit.