CHAPTER 4 A male wolf and a mate

Messiah Jordy

As I continued to run as fast as my legs could carry me, I suddenly began to recall the events of the changing ceremony in my father's garden last night. It was the very thing that had led me to this exact moment.

I could remember standing in the garden, my gaze dancing from one pair of keen eyes to another. I was scared to my teeth.. and that night had the power to make or break my family forever.

My friends were around me, but I was in no mood of talking to anyone, I continued to wonder how my parents were feeling. I wondered how they would feel if I got a female wolf.

I thought about how humiliated they would feel, I thought about how I would be mocked and laughed at, I thought about how terrible my future would be after all these happened. I was so lost in thought that didn't know the time was far spent.

"Messiah Jordy, start preparing already. We're all set for the event except you, and it's almost ten." Zachary reminded me.

I rushed to the bathroom, bath and wore a black shirt on an Ash coloured suede trouser, a brown leather belt on my waist and a pair of brown suede shoes, though it seemed casual, but I must confess, I looked good on it.

I changed the style of my wine coloured hair from side fringe to a side part. I stood in front of my dressing mirror for only the goddess knows how long just admiring my stunning self.

I could only imagine how beautiful I would have been if I were allowed to be myself, if only I was allowed to be the baby girl I was created to be by the moon goddess.

"Oh MJ King, you look so dashing on this outfit that I want to elope with you." Zoey teased.

"You're definitely something else. Jordy." Jamal complimented me.

I got compliments wherever I went that I almost forgot my problems.

At exactly ten pm, the event started in earnest.

Like the other years I had been attended the wolf transformation event, they sang, danced and did other things to entertain the guests till it was 11:50 pm when the moon was almost at the middle of the sky.

"All the celebrants should assemble here." The master of ceremony said and all of us that turned twenty this year came out.

The crowd cheered happily calling our names, as we started coming out. We were more than I expected and it took time to assemble us together.

Almost all the celebrants were happy, except me I guess.

"In the next sixty seconds, you all would morph into your wolf and probably meet your mate today, I shall leave the middle for you in the next twenty five seconds and the crowd will count from twenty to one for you." The master of ceremony said. Shortly after, he dropped the microphone and left.

I didn't know when they finished counting, but I suddenly started hearing the sound of bones cracking, I looked around and saw different wolves around me.

Some others were still in their changing process, but I stood there.

I was like a stranger in their midst. There was so much growling and howling, groaining and wailing, but I felt nothing. I was silent, my nose did not even twitch.

"What is happening to our future alpha?" I heard from the crowd.

It was happening already. My humiliation was starting to take shape and form.

'What is really happening to me, dear moon goddess?' Tears welled up in my eyes, but I could not muster the courage to let them drop.

I stood fixed watching everyone around me changing to something, while I stood like a spectator watching them. It sucked, but it hurt me when the crowd began to mock me.

I could only imagine what was in the heart of my parents, some people had already began to call me an omega alpha. My eyes fell on beta Luther's mate, she had a mocking smile on her face.

Mom was at the verge of crying and so was dad, but he was doing everything to keep it to himself.

All the while I felt a pair of eyes on my body, I turned and my eyes caught beta Luther's, we were staring at each other. He whispered something to my dad's ear making him frown.

I turned to leave in anger, but I felt stuck to the ground. I struggled to move at least one of my legs, but none of them conformed to my wish. Anger started to boil in the pit of my stomach.

'Dear moon goddess, what have I done to deserve such torture form you?' I asked her again, as a drop of tears strayed my face.

"Don't move Messiah Jordy!" A strange voice commanded me out of nowhere.

I looked around to check if I would see who was talking, but no one was close enough compared to what I just heard.

"Who are you?" I asked, still trying to run away from the crowd.

"He's an omega." I heard from the crowd, but this time, it was the least of my problems.

"I'm Axl, your wolf." The voice replied and I stopped struggling at once.

"I don't like doing what others are doing, I want to be different. Matter of factly, I fancy Grand Entry." She bragged and immediately I started having strange feelings.

I felt my bones cracking, my skin shredding itself, my eyes changing. My head started aching, banging like someone was hitting it. I felt a burning sensation from within me that made me wanted to scream.

"What is happening to him?" I heard from the crowd, but it felt a bit distanced.

I kept hearing voices from the crowd, but it was becoming more distant and it felt like I was going to loose my sanity.

I opened my mouth to scream, but what I heard was a growl, to my surprise and that of everyone present. I looked down at myself and saw four limbs on the ground.

'Wow!' I exclaimed in my head, excitement bursted through my veins!

'I have a wolf, I'm not an omega after all!'

I could not explain the joy I had felt in that moment.

Everyone got up and started clapping, cheering and screaming in excitement, like an interesting drama show just ended.

Axl turned to the crowd and the first person her eyes fell on was beta Luther, she couldn't help but notice the kind of look we were getting from him.

'That man...' Axl started in my head. 'Is up to no good.'

'I know.' I replied offhandedly.

'Something wrong?' Axl asked.

'You know, before today, I have always been scared of having a female wolf on this day, as a matter of fact, I wasn't happy all through today for the same reason, but with the act you pulled earlier, I realized that having you is everything.' I replied grinning from ear to ear.

"Mate!!" I heard a little distance beside me.

"Mate!" Axl growled, and turned to see a grey coloured wolf with golden yellow eyes looking at us in awe.

"Mate?" I heard voices around me gasp.

I didn't know whose wolf it was, because I wasn't concentrating when everyone started morphing, but the reactions I saw wasn't what I expected, even my so-called mate wasn't left out.

Why were they reacting this way? Was it because I have a female wolf? Well I don't care, all that mattered to me was that I have a wolf.. and.. a mate.

'I'm not a female wolf.' Axl replied my thought. '..and what if he rejects us, I mean your mate?'

That was the first word that changed the course of my entire life, up to this very moment.