The AfterMath

CHAPTER 26: The One Voice

ANNA

We just entered through the front heavy doors of the council's building. This was it. In just a few moments, everything was going to change for the worst and there was nothing I could do about it. Without Isla, I am just as useless as a human.

Despite everything that is going on, is about to happen and all that I have been through already, I regret nothing.

We all have a purpose in life. Of course nobody ever thinks of it becoming a werewolf or anything but, we do have one. We are all meant for something great.

I haven't talked to Isla since yesterday and I still can't believe in how much of a deep sleep they have put her into. I can't seem to wake her up and what's starting to make me doubt a few things is the fact that Landon and everyone still isn't here.

While being pulled roughly still by a couple of Rivers' men with my wrists rope tied together along with duct tape over my mouth, as we followed Rivers and Sheira into the room where the meetings take place and all the council members happen to be at in this moment.

The doors are opened and inside we walk into the room. Then we stop in the middle of the room and look at all eyes on us.

"Good evening Elders, Council". Rivers greets them all.

"You have a lot of nerve stepping in here." One of the Elders who sits next to the head Elder states with disgust towards Rivers.

"Don't worry, this won't be a long meeting." Rivers replies with a sinister grin.

"What is it that you want?" He asks.

"Ladies and gentleman, in just a few moments, you will all bare witness to the revealing of the TRUTH that your head Elder here has been keeping from you." Rivers says as he smirks at the head Elder who has a really scared look on his face.

You could gasps along with everyone starting to whisper things to each other.

"What makes you think we will believe you?" One of the other Elders asks with a smirk.

"Trust me, you'll see very soon. But first..." Rivers begins to say before he turns around in a circle as he starts speaking to everyone.

"You do not disrespect...." The Elder began but was stopped and interrupted by Rivers.

"Disrespect?!" Rivers repeats with a smile of amusement on his face. "You all have no room to talk as you will soon see why. For years, the head Elder of this council and the one you have all believed and trusted in is not who you think he is." He tries to explain but telling by the looks on their faces, they are all confused still. "In fact, neither are the  other few Elders that stand beside him and sit next to him every meeting." Rivers smirks as he glances over at the few of them.

Everyone looks at the higher Elders who are the Head Elders' right hand men if you will. There's a moment of silence before the head Elder smiles and stands up to address everyone.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize for this man. Clearly he has gone mad. He wants nothing more than to turn you all against me and take over the council, along with everyone else including the humans. He is angry because his father was careless when he decided to play god and his experiment back fired eight before he was turned into a werewolf." The head Elder grins at Rivers which infuriates him even more.

Then Rivers begins to smile while remaining tensed and holding in his anger.

"If this is how you want it. So be it." We hear Rivers say under his breath. Then he quickly turns to look at me and nods his head to his men who hurry and force me to stand beside Rivers.

I next feel Sheira's long fingernails dig into my arm deeply causing my skin to break and blood start to come out.

"Everyone? This girl as you all know is the proof of just ONE of the many things that backfired on the Elders' plan. Anna here is a maroon wolf. The only one of her kind. The same kind that the Elders killed off to hide their mistakes." Sheira begins. "And you all know me, Sheira. I'm the witch that you all burned and thought you killed many many many moons ago. Though I warned you all I'd return, which I have." She grins.

"Why are you all allowing these people to stand here and disrespect us all?!" A woman from the council asks.

"Sit down!" Sheira fires at her.

The woman looked like she was about to say something but quickly had the look of fear on her face before sitting back down.

Oh no, I thought to myself, this was it. Sheira was already able to control that woman.

The next thing I know, one of the guys forces my head still as I look at Sheira and right away stares into my eyes and suddenly, things become blurry and I have what I would call an out of body experience as I lose the ability to think.

I feel myself begin to shift into my werewolf only it's more painful than I remember. My eyes become filled with black, my razor sharp nails grow longer as my fingers begin to extend along with the rest of my body while my bones snap and cause me to fall to the ground screaming in pain as my duct tape was ripped off by itself while my face conformed into my werewolf's and my wrists were no longer bound as they were apart from each other now on the ground while I am on all fours after the bulk of my wrists grew and ripped off the rope.

I next stood 7' 5" tall on my back legs full on in my werewolf form, growling at everyone as I looked around the room and saw the fear in their eyes.

"That's a good girl. Let them see the future. Give them hell and make them feel pain and fear." I hear Rivers mind link me.

"Yes Master." I reply in mind linking him back.

"Kill the head Elder, NOW!" I next hear Sheira say through mind link and suddenly, I feel myself leap high in the air up several feet as I leap towards the head Elder and land on top of him.

Screams and growls come from all over the room from everyone but I can't stop myself from clawing at the Head Elder and with one swift move of my arm, I end up throwing his men hard across the room and make each one hit the wall hard enough to crack it and make holes in them before I continue to attacking the head Elder. But he quickly kicks me off of him and he too starts turning into his werewolf.

We both go back at it with each other by clawing at one another and snapping our sharp pointy canines at one another while growling and when he throws me across the room this time, I get up and start looking around and notice everyone is looking at me with fear.

Except for Rivers, Sheira and their guys. They all have smiles of satisfaction.

I was getting ready to attack the head Elder again until I heard a voice.

"Don't! Listen to me carefully, Anna, this is Isla. You're wolf. I have woken up and you must stop this at once. They are trying to control you. Don't let them!" I hear the female voice begin to say.

I briefly next start remembering her and that this was not me but was right away stopped as Rivers and Sheira both interrupted the mind link and soon I was having multiple voices in my head.

What the fuck was going on?! It's starting to hurt my head.

Next I hear a loud and gutteral growl coming from in front of me and see it's the head Elder who is still in his werewolf form and leaps towards me, causing the both of us to go through a couple of walls behind us until we both land on the ground, but in a different part of the building though.

We go back to fighting one another and I forget about the voices for a moment, that is until I heard one voice that made the rest of them stop.......Our mate's.

Next chapter will be posted soon! :)