Brief History: First Shifting.The Two Wolves In Him.

At the age of 12, Noah had shifted on the night he went in search of his father at a hill called Beca. His father went animal hunting that evening, promising to bring home a donkey, Noah's favourite. Noah waited patiently for him to return, but as minutes turned to hours and night grew deeper, Noah could not see his father. He became afraid.

The news he watched on TV with his mother in the morning flashed in his mind.

That morning, the news was about several humans who were bitten by werewolves.

When Noah's father told him he was going hunting that morning, Noah was terrified. Unknown to him that his father was one of the wolves that attacked humans, thus he was afraid that he might be bitten by werewolves.

At midnight, his father was still not back from his hunting. The distant gunshots he heard suddenly forced him out of his mother's embrace where he was sobbing and praying for him to return.

So terrified and believing his father was shot, he raced in the direction of the gunfire towards the hillside, his mother screaming and going after him. But soon, she lost track of him as her wolf took control of her body.

Unaware to Noah, it was the day of the full moon.

All alone in the forest, hearing strange tormenting howl, crying and calling on his father, a thundering light struck him. With force, it sent his body to the small rock beside him where his head hit hard on the strong surface of the rock.

His eyes started to alter all of a sudden. Noah was unable to comprehend what was happening to him as a terrible pain progressively tore through his body and eventually seized possession of him. Soon, he saw his body deforming, his fingers elongating and his bones cracking. The night was so painful that he sought help but found none.

He remembered reading a book at the age of 10, about humans who could transform into a wolf. He was surprised to discover that what he had read and believed to be pure imagination was actually happening to him.

Noah cried, trying hard to get away from the beast in his body.

Before his young mind could understand more of what was happening, he saw himself completely turn into a wolf, and not just a wolf, but two wolves. One was white and the other black.

But this was not how it was in the book he read. Why did his body form two wolves? He had asked himself.

He recalled how his black wolf urged him to drink blood from a girl he saw when he ran towards the roadside in his wolf form. His white wolf warned him to avoid drinking from the girl who seemed lost that night.

But he gave in to the order of his black wolf. He was not able to resist that little, poor, lost girl and when he woke up after falling into slumber drinking from the girl, he saw himself naked back into the forest.

Early morning, he sneaked back home afraid to let his parents know what happened to him, but his father he had gone searching for was the first to see him just when he was about to tiptoe into his room.

"Noah, where have you been?" His father took him by surprise.

Was this not his father he ran into the forest searching for?

He shuddered away as his father tried to approach him and by the cracking sound of the door, his mother also joined them in his room.

"I went searching for you, Father. I—thought you were shot by the wolf hunters." Noah's sober eyes streamed with tears.

"No, I was not shot, I'm alright." Alpha Maverick noticed how his son looked weak. "Son, is everything okay?" He sensed the pain in his body. The pain was not just of a little boy looking for his lost father but of something he was surprised by.

"Come here Noah, you made us get so worried searching for you. How could you go into the forest alone to search for your father?" His mother cautioned and tried to take his hands.

Noah restrained his shivering body from her quickly and cried,

"No! Father, mother, stay away from me. I am a monster! I'm a monster!" His body trembled as he remembered how his hands and feet had transformed. Once more, he fixed his gaze on himself, and the memory of the odd hairs on his skin, elongated nails, and head that turned into what appeared to be a terror in his eyes returned.

Yes...he had well-furred tails too, he remembered all these and without being told, he knew that he became that which humans feared; the reason for the deaths he watched on TV.

The love or acceptance of werewolves to live peacefully in the city of Crystaline never happened.

Now, he had fallen victim to being a target for human hunting.

"Father, mother. I—I turned into a wolf. I'm a monster, I'm evil." He mustered enough courage to let his parents know what he had become.

"No son, don't ever say that to yourself. Listen to me son, you're not evil, we too turned into that. We're sorry we didn't let you know about this beforehand because you're still a child to understand at this point. We feared you might tell the secret to your human friends. We were afraid those hunters might come after us."

"Son, we had thought you would shift at the age of 16 when you have come to know better which is normal in our pack. But, your first shift was different. That could only mean you're very special. So Noah, don't you ever say you're evil." His mother wiped his tears.

Digesting these facts, he understood that his parents were also suffering his fate.

As young as he was, his heart felt constricted to adjust to these changes in his body. All he felt was fear and tears.

Fears that human hunters may come after him and tears of remembering that young girl he had bitten and drank from at the roadside. The tears of seeing how she cried in pain and tried to get away from him.

He knew the little girl couldn't have survived it remembering how much he had drawn out blood from her and that much taste for blood, he was told by her parents, was not normal for a Shifter of the Red Dragon pack member who shifted for the first time.

"Son, I should have been there when you went through this pain. I searched for you when you went to look for your father but I lost track of you." His mother had blamed herself.

As he looked into the tear-filled eyes of his parents, it was as if both were fighting to claim the blame for letting their son go through such pain alone.

His parents had assured him that he was not evil. But how would he believe that when his body torments and transforms him into what humans feared? A Shifter as they named it, but surprisingly to him and his parents, he had two wolves in him.

Years passed by, and Noah grew accustomed to his new life. The life that hunting for raw meat to control the strong appetite he had for blood became a priority that must be on the list of his weekly schedule.

Good thing that years after his father became the Alpha, he felt more confident in his new life. But still, he and his parents didn't know why he had two wolves in him because it was not normal in the Red Dragon pack. No matter where they went to find an answer to his having two wolves, it seemed the eyes of the wolves' elders were blinded to know about it.