After The Storm (Chapter 2)
#2 of After the Storm
Ok, here is the second chapter of 'After The Storm'. its a short chapter. im still thinking on what to do next so don't expect the next part uploaded very soon. just been busy with work and personal issues. but I made the effort to put this up so you guys don't go unsatisfied. oh and chapter 3 will maybe have yiff it it. you'll just have to wait and see ;3
I woke up next to Liam, he was still asleep and latched onto me as if I was a big pillow. It was kinda cute. I smiled and gave him a soft lick on his ear making it twitch. I gave a soft giggle and nibbled at it. He tightened his grip as I took it in my maw and 'nomed' some more. He gave a soft moan and slowly opened his eyes... those beautiful violet eyes. No wonder I fell for him before. He was absolutely gorgeous. What came next was a bit of a surprise. He quickly got up and pounded my chest yelling at me.
"GET OUT OF HERE YOU CREEP!!!"
"OW, OW, OW, WHAT THE HELL LIAM?"
"GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT"
He leaned back and kicked me out of the bed sending me into the wall and to the floor. I gasped for air, that kick hurt like hell obviously but it hurts more when you just wake up you know?
"WHAT THE FUCK HUN?" I shouted at him
He jumped out of the bed and went for a baseball bat in the corner of the room. I struggled to my feet and followed behind him. He reached out and grabbed the bat. He took a blind swing that I ducked just in time as it flew just above my ears. I grabbed his shoulders and put him against the wall making him immobile.
"baby it's me, see? I'm not going to hurt you"
He struggled in my paws shouting and kicking my legs. I held his head and put mine to his. I looked straight into his eyes and tried to calm him down. He looked back to me, I could see the fear in those eyes. I caressed his face to help him calm down.
"that's it hun its ok, It's me, are you ok?"
He gasped and started to shake, he dropped the bat and threw his paws around me.
"what happened to you?"
"what do you mean? I'm fine"
"you look different. I thought you were some other fur trying to hurt me."
I frowned at the comment. I let go of him and walked to the mirror.
"by the gods..." is all I managed to say as I touched my face to only see the stranger in the mirror do the same.
I might not have said it before on what I looked like. I was a typical grey wolf. Despite my mother's side. I had a grey coat, white muzzle, greenish eyes and a black stripe on my right arm which resembled something of a tiger stripe. But the wolf that was in the mirror was something completely different. This fur was black as night like my father must have been in his youth, he was darker than the night sky except his ear tips were like a neon blue, his right arm had stripes but these ones were leading from somewhere on his back over his shoulder, down his arm to his paw. One stripe had the same blue as his ears and the stripe was really wavy like a flowing river was tattooed there. The same went for the other except it was red. This wolf was definitely not me but it made every single move I made. Of course it had to be me, it was mimicking me for god's sake! It was scary, I touched my face and looked closely. He had my green eyes.
I started to tremble at this new sight. I looked away from the mirror hoping what I saw was not real and I was just having a fucked up dream again. Liam came over to me and held my paw. I looked down and saw my arm. It was like the one in the mirrors, I was scared... my legs gave way and I collapsed... well I was but Liam held me up. You know, for a little guy, he sure knew how to handle himself.
"whats happening to me?"
"I don't know but let's go to the infirmary to get you checked out"
I nodded and with Liam's help we walked out of our dorm and down to the infirmary.
Later on I was sitting down waiting for my name to be called to go on in. it was about 8 am and some furs were staring at me. I would just smile and wave at them.
"Anthony L" spoke a raccoon
I got up and walked on over holding Liam's paw. I got some looks as we passed by but I honestly had other thinks on my mind other than the usual homophobe. We sat in the doctors office and he gave me an odd look. He must have known me before.
"hey Anthony... new look?"
"I didn't do this"
He looked at Liam and back at me
"It's just happened to me."
"who did this?"
"I don't know. I woke up like this"
He just looked at me. The 'don't bullshit me' look.
I took off my black hoodie and showed off my chest.
"I was grey last night and now this. I need an explanation."
He looked me over for a bit before saying he had no idea how to start. I was getting a bit ticked at him not trying. He kept coming to cosmetics but I know for a fact that my fur wasn't dyed. I had enough; I put on my hoodie and walked out. Liam followed close behind.
"where are you going?"
"for a walk"
"where?"
"the bush"
He grabbed my paw ad stopped me
"why are you going there. Isn't that where..."
He stopped there so I finished for him
"I died... yeah, that's where I'm going. So far its where I'm getting my answers"
"I'm coming with you"
I gave his paw a few squeezes
"thank you"
With that we walked out of the college and to the bush. The sun was high so everything was lit up well and it was easy to get to the field.
"we're here hun"
He looked around nervously
"this is where is happened? How did you get all the way out here?"
"can't remember"
I said with my head down, I was taking him to the tree line... where I died. I sat on the log I busted up the night before, Liam sat with me.
"so what now?"
I leaned forward with my muzzle in my paws.
"I pick up from last night"
He looked at me confused
"you were here last night?"
I nodded
"so umm... did you remember anything?"
"yeah... I saw myself"
"what do you mean?"
I pointed to the ground in front of us by the stump
"that's where I died"
Liam's ears dropped and he moved in closer to me.
"I didn't need to hear that babe.... I'm going to have nightmares now."
I giggled
"sorry but I'm here now. I might not be 100% ok, but I'm ok"
I pulled him into a hug and gave a quick lick on his ear.
"ok baby, but aren't you here to get your answers?"
I kissed his lips and stood up. I looked back at him and saw his face. He looked like he was in his own little world, so cute. I walked around a bit and took off my hoodie. Feeling the cool breeze in my fur felt great. I looked back at Liam on the tree, remembering from last night. I kicked that tree down. Can I do it again? I walked over to another tree and looked it over. pretty thin should be easy but I don't think I should do it in front of Liam. Might scare him to death.
A few hours past and I got nothing.
"get anything hun?"
"nah, not today honey. I think this place already gave me enough"
He walked up to me and put his paws on my waist. I giggled and did the same as I leaned down and kissed him.
"let's go home hun. Need to get back"
"OH SHIT I GOT A LECTURE TO GO TO"
I grabbed my hoodie and we both ran back to the grounds. We made it in time for Liam's lecture but I still had no classes. I guess the headmaster was giving me some time to settle down. I went back to the dorm and sat at the computer. I played some 3-D pinball for a while before going down to the cafeteria for a coffee and sandwich. I wolfed down the not so tasty meal and walked outside with my coffee sipping it as I go. I went exploring around the grounds and halls, met some furs that knew me and said hi before going about their day. Some furs even gave me some dirty looks. I guess these guys aren't my friends. I kept on walking and felt a paper ball hit the back of my head. I turned around to see Liam running to me.
"hey babe, sorry but I couldn't resist. The lecture finished earlier than expected so I have the rest of the day free now."
I took a sip of my coffee. Just as I did that, Liam took it and had some
"Woo, sorry needed a kick"
"heh you can finish it off, I was just about done anyway. So what did you wanna do?"
"might head back to the dorm for some rest. Wanna join?"
"yeah ok but im not sleepy"
"then snuggle time"
"deal"
We made our way through the corridors, I started to remember some places. The room labled 12R23 was.... I'm sorry, IS my science lecture room. The one further down on the right was the library. And if you turn left and go up the elevator, turn right and head down 6 rooms, you have our dorm. I smiled, 'hah take that, now I'm starting to come back' I thought to myself as we entered the elevator. We stood there and rode it up to the 4thfloor. We exited the lift and made our way to our dorm. My ears twitched. I could hear something and it wasn't good. I tightened my grip on liam's waist and slowly pulled him behind me as we walked.
"hehe umm whats up hun?"
"shh! Someones in our dorm."
"oh c'mon don't be silly"
"then why is our door open?"
"the door isn't ope" he cut himself off ".....ok that's weird, who do you think is in there?"
We were getting closer but it was still a fair distance away about 10 to 15 meters away.
"I don't know but I can hear them"
"wait... you can hear them? Don't bullshit me babe but you cannot hear that far"
"well I'm telling you that I can hear them. I know it's weird but trust me on this."
"ok well, what do we do with the random in our room?"
"deal with him. Simple!"
"simple? Hun... last time I checked we don't do fights."
"well as I see it, he's in our territory and he's trespassing, so I'm going to deal with him"
"rrriiigghhhttt. Umm are you sure you're Anthony?"
I looked at him with amusement "well, everyone's been calling me that so I might just be him"
"oh hardy har har. Its just that... you were never like this..."
"well I guess I have changed a bit cause I'm really ticked, let's get this guy"
As we got closer the noise stopped. Quickly I rushed into the room and saw a Tall jaguar wearing a white leather jacket and cargo pants. In his hand was mine and Liam's wallet.
'oh typical, go for the wallets. Not the computer' I thought
"HEY STOP!" Liam shouted as he came in behind me
The intruder looked at us in shock and bolted to the window. He leaned out and grabbed a rope. 'ok this guy already planned an escape. This seems a bit funny though. Thief already has planned ahead of the victims.' When I saw his head disappear over the windowsill I instantly reacted. But not in the way anyone else would. Yeah I was pissed that this guy just made off with our cash. But I think being pissed triggered this. I felt hot. Really hot, like the night I kicked the tree. I was burning... literally. I didn't notice at first but the red stripe on my arm glowed and my entire arm spontaneously combusted into flames. Liam jumped back and screamed as I reached out without thinking and literally launches a flame at the rope, burning through it instantly sending the jaguar plummeting down 3 floors into the hedges below. My arm still stretched out, the flames receded to light smoke and the red stripe stopped glowing and my arm was relatively 'normal' again.
I was panting, still looking at the burnt rope still tied off to the pillar. I turned to face Liam. He had his paws over his maw and was breathing panicky.
"you ok?" I said trying to phase out what I just did
*shaky breathing*
"hun? You ok?"
"w-w-w-what happened to you?" Liam said shaking
I reached out to touch his paw. But he backed off a step
"baby, please don't be scared of me. Please"
"I'm not scared of you. Just..... t-that!"
"its gone. This is the second time it happened. I'm still freaking out about it, It's new to me too"
He looked down at my arm "you mean this happened before?"
I sighed and sat on the bed "yes, the first time it happened was last night"
I began telling him what has happened so far, every detail. Liam came over and sat next to me but at a distance. It hurt that he was apart from me but wouldn't you if you're boyfriend just shot fire from his arm? As cool as it sounds. Its frightening.
After a while I stood up and left, walking into the hallway and to the elevator. I reached down and pressed the ground button. The door was closing. I looked out to see if liam would come. The doors closed. The large metal box slowly descended to street level *ding* the doors opened and was greeted to an empty hallway. I left the campus grounds and walked back to the field.
I stood at the centre and looked up at the night sky.
"no moon. Pretty dark heh"
I looked around, everything was so dark.
Sigh "let there be light" I raised my arms and snap my fingers. Sparks emit from them and my paws light up. I lower them and hold them in front of my face and examine them. I turn my paws at different angles and twiddle my fingers in the bright orange inferno.
"painless but very real. I can feel the heat but I can't feel the burn, not even my fur reacts to the flame" I say thinking out loud I clench my fist and make a throwing motion and open my hand. A ball of fire flies from my paw and goes off onto the sky.
"woah!" I shout
"ok, lets see what we can do"
I tense up my arms and my mark glows once more emitting flames that travel across my forearm up and across my chest to ignite my other arm. My entire torso was a blaze and if someone saw me from a distance they would defiantly flip out. Then again, anyone on fire is instantly the source of a freak out.
I crouch down a few inches and tense up my whole body and a full-on fire storm erupts from my chest and arms and swirls around me, as if I was in the middle of a flaming tornado. Still no pain but I felt.... Drained, so to speak. I grew drowsy and lost my balance, my flames turned out and I collapsed downward to where the grass used to be, before I burnt the crap out of it and left nothing but soil. My heart pounded and my vision faded, last of what I saw was the landscape on its side.
ok, so that's chapter 2. feedback is always good to see. I love talking to you all