Chapter 3

It’s been almost a month since everything happened. I’ve adjusted to being a hybrid fairly well; things are still super heightened and overstimulating, but it’s become easier to calm myself and keep everything under control. Willow has been an amazing teacher with all things Lycan. My vampyre side, it's a new trail every day. I’ve broken a lot of things with my new strength, and I’ve slammed into multiple trees trying to adjust to my speed. I’m still a work in progress. I’ve been feeding on animals to tame my thirst, and then eating them after to satiate the constant hunger from my fast metabolism. It’s been a hard adjustment, but I’m doing the best I can.

Willow and I are currently camping deep in the woods, she's been teaching me how to hunt and catch prey in my Lycan form. It’s been an amazing experience. When you're a wolf, it’s so amazing. You can pick up smells from miles away, see the tiniest movements, and hear everything. It’s been hard to focus all my heightened senses to help me stalk prey and catch it, but I’m getting better day by day, or so she says. 

“Ready to eat?” she asks me as she plops a deer on the ground. I cringe at the thought of more raw meat, but she insists that it's the best for a newborn Lycan, plus to blood helps curb my vampyre cravings. “I guess. I don’t think I’ll ever get used to eating raw meat.” She just shakes her head at me, “It’s not that bad.”

Alec turns to me, “Should we kill him?” I smack him in the arm, “What the fuck is wrong with you?” I felt weirdly protective, what the fuck is going on with me. 

I charge at him and he easily dodges me, I keep after him until I collapse on the ground panting for air. I shift back and slam my fist on the ground, I couldn’t get him once. He’s very agile and quick for only being a warlock. He watches me while I catch my breath, “You’re quick, but you have some learning to do. You should study your opponents and learn the best way to take them out. Being fast and strong won’t always be enough. You shift forms effortlessly and can withstand pain well, which is good.” I don’t have the energy to talk anymore, this man exhausted me in ways I never knew possible. Alec and Willow come back over to us. “That was interesting to watch,” Alec says. 

 I make the first move. I shift my stance like I’m going to punch him, he guards, and I take the shot and swipe his feet out from under him. He grunts, landing hard on the ground. I don’t give him he chance to recover, I tackle him fully down, locking his arm and head between my legs, squeezing hard. After a few seconds, I feel him tapping my leg, so I let him go and help him up.

“Simple, females are almost always stronger, plus she’s a hybrid. You will never fully match her power.” Alec walks off muttering under his breath. I chose to ignore his attitude and turn towards Lucas, “Do you need anything else? It’s getting late, and we should head home.”

“No, I have all I need for now. Thank you for your time.” He walks away before I can say anything else to him. Such an odd man, but to each their own, I suppose. I trail after my grumpy man and hug him from behind. “Don’t let him get to you. Let’s go home and rest, it’s been a long day.” I see Willow nod in agreement, we pile into the car and head towards home. 

I slept like the dead, and it still wasn’t enough sleep. I am so fucking exausted, I’ve been laying in bed for the last 20 minutes contemplating if food was worth getting up for. My stomach protests loudly for food again. “Ugh,” I roll out of bed and get dressed in a comfy outfit. Once downstairs, I make a big bowl of cereal because I’m too lazy to cook a full meal.

I go outside and find Willow and Alec sparing, “What is wrong with you two, don’t you know it’s okay to take a break?” They stop and come over to me. Willow places her hand on my shoulder, “Unlike you, sleeping beauty, some of us like sparing and working out normally.”

Alec tries to steal my food and receives a smack on the back of the head. “Don’t you know better than to steal a woman's food?” He looks at me with big puppy eyes, trying to sway me…It doesn’t work, I flick him in the forehead and he dramatically collapses on the ground.

“Willow, are we doing anything today?” Before she has a chance to answer me, I hear a scream and someone slams into the ground. She groans as she pulls herself into a sitting position. I stare at her in awe, she has beautiful white wings! Willow goes over to her and helps her up. 

Willow pulls her into a hug, “I see you finally got your wings! Congrats, girly.” I had no idea who this was, but she’s adorable. She has short blond hair with big brown eyes, freckles scatter her face, and she honestly reminds me of a little fairy with how short she is. They look fairly similar, except Willow has long blond hair and unique blueish purple eyes, and is a little taller. 

“Who’s this?” I ask as I walk over to them. The girl holds out her hand, “I’m Vivia! You must be Raven, I’ve heard so much about you, I’m so excited to meet you!” She seems very bubbly and energetic. I shake her hand, “I am, it’s nice to meet you.” We all sit together at the picnic table to talk. “If you don’t mind my asking, how do you have wings?” 

She smiles at me, “ I’m an angel. I finally earned my wings a few days ago! That’s why I wanted to come by and also why I crash landed, I’m still learning.” I did not know that angels existed; that's pretty awesome. “How do you earn your wings? I assumed angels would be born with their wings.”

“We aren’t born with them, despite all of history saying that. We have to earn them by doing good deeds and helping people. The best way to earn them is when you save someone who’s struggling and heal their broken soul, which is difficult. But I earned mine by doing good deeds, I finally hit the 100 mark.” 

100 true good deeds would be hard to do. She seems like a very sweet girl, so I bet she did it with ease. “We recently discovered a new, rare angel ability! Which allows an angel to turn a human into an angel.” 

“Woah, that is so amazing!” Willow exclaims. I look at Vivia, she's practically bouncing off her seat with excitement, “I have that rare angel ability!” she beamed at us. 

“That’s amazing! Have you had the chance to use it yet?” Willow asks her. She shakes her head, “Not yet, that is part of the other reason I stopped by. I was kinda hoping one of you would let me try out my powers on you.” She looks at us pleadingly. I don’t think I could handle another transition right now, as awesome as it would be. “I don’t think I can do it, I’m already struggling with learning how to control my hybrid powers, I don’t think adding more to myself is a good idea.” She nods, “I completely understand!”

“I’ll do it.” We both look at Willow, a little shocked. I never thought she would say yes to this kind of thing. Either way, I’ll support her in whatever she wants to do. Vivia claps her hands together excitedly, “Really? You’ll let me try my powers?” Willow smiles at her, “Of course, It would be fucking awesome to have wings! Let’s do this thing……Uh, wait, how does this even work?” Vivia and I both chuckle at Willow's sudden flustered words, leaving it to her to get a bit ahead of herself.