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Demonia POV

I squint my eyes open and there's a bright light above me as I try to force my eyes open, everything feels different, stronger and vivid like everything is clearer, my senses are heightened and I can smell the people in the room, I can feel their... fear, longing and pain.

"Demonia!? Oh my god, call the priest!" I hear my mate's voice but I can't see her yet.

I can see shapes, something is wrong, I don't remember.. I fell, then I had the weirdest dream.

Someone touches me and I swat their hand away and growl at them in warning as I try to steady myself off whatever I am laying on, I hate this, I need to see, I need to have control, I don't know what is going on and that makes me..... angry.

"Please don't move, y-you hit your head when you fell.. wait until the doctor comes." Lilian tries to say but I shove past her shape as I stumble to the corner of the room where the large mirror stands.

I remember, it's all coming back to me, I... changed, shifted, but I was no wolf, I was something.. more, better, stronger, larger than any creature or wolf I have ever laid my eyes upon. I feel whatever it is inside of me, dragging its nail over my scalp, it makes my teeth rattle at the sensation, whatever is inside me has a mind of its own.

I can feel it, the hunger I once felt is alive and wanting to come out.

My sight starts to improve as I place both my hands on either side of the large mirror and stare at my reflection, in wait of what I try to control, I need to see it, I need to know for sure what I think is real, that she and the wish were real.

I sense Lilian, my mate behind me and I feel her emotions, she's scared. "You need to leave." I snarl out, not looking at her but focusing on my face.

"What?" She cries out frustrated. "Demonia you're scaring me! You died, I-I felt your heart stop, p-please sit and wait for the pr-"

"GET OUT!" I growl loudly out at her, no longer recognizing my own voice, it's much deeper, my growl made the room shake and made those inside the room with me and my mate scatter out of the room quickly.

Lilian stays, shaking in her spot, unmoving as she sobs quietly.

I rest my head against the mirror. "Please, I-I don't want you to see this." I swallow hard.

My skin feels as if it's stretching, ripping apart as if someone or something is pulling me apart from the inside, my face begins to change as I watch myself, I don't hear Lilian's cries anymore as I watch myself transform into what I dreamed was true.

Large canine teeth now stare at me as my jaw stretches and grows in size, the pain is excruciating but it doesn't last long until another part of my body is on fire and breaking, bending like it has a mind of its own, I'm growing larger, wider, something is controlling me as I change into this... new me, but I don't feel pain, I don't feel anything other than.. need, the need to consume, feed, take and break to my will, feelings I know very well but now it feels as though it's a part of me, living and breathing inside of me.

A voice inside my head speaks to me, in a dripping deathly tone.

'De..moniaa, we ..are ..one.. now.. to..gether we ..rule..' The beast says slowly as if it has never spoken my tongue before.

"Who are you? And what is happening to me?!" I demand the beast for answers in my head.

I can feel the beast inside of me, every single emotion as if we share the same body, his emotions become mine and it's hard to see who is exactly in control as I try to steady my breathing and hold onto my form as I bend and break to the beasts will.

'I am the other you, I am Sige.. now you let me control shift, together we strong'

"Don't you fucking dare take control of me, and don't fucking touch Lilian!" I snarl at the beast in my head and it snickers at me, almost amused by what I said.

'I will not hurt.. we thank mate.. and goddess, together we strong.. we must shift now'

"Wha-"

I feel my eyes and skull burn as I feel the beast take control, it feels as it something is burning into my chest but I can't move my arms with how much it hurts to move my arms, the beast within me has now made my legs shift into something... not human.. neither wolf, but monster, my hands are no longer my own as I see my reflection, they're larger, sharper, something out of a nightmare as I watch large claws come through the tips of my nails, out of nowhere, almost like magic.

That fucking white witch! What did she make me into? This is no wolf...

I'm a monster... some creature of terrors, I can barely look at myself in the mirror as I grimace from my newfound reflection, I'm something else now, I can feel everything and everyone around me, their heartbeats, their emotions.. every footstep in the palace I can now hear if I close my eyes, I feel my wings come through and knock over something in the room, my horns have become part of my form and I don't dare look at myself in the mirror, in fear I actually am losing my mind.

I did not ask for this, this is not what I fucking wanted! I-I just wanted to run with my mate, to be like her....

I didn't ask to become... this.. THING.

"...D-Demonia?" A small trembling voice whispers.

I whip my now large head around to stare down at my small mate, Lilian... she's.. scared of me, her tears have turned dry and she is now walking backwards from me, slowly, with each step she draws closer to the bedroom door.

"Wha- wh- how is this.. possible.." She mumbles out in terror, her beautiful eyes staring into my pitch-black ones.

I step towards her and hold my hand out, forgetting how large and sharp my paw is, she shrieks out as I almost cut her with a claw nail.

"N-No!" I breathe out and grab my hand. "Selene...." I start but Lilian moves backwards and releases a sob as she stares up at me sadly.

"Don't be afraid, not of me.. I will never harm you, I swear it." I promise as I get on my knees, my knees cause a dent in the floor as I kneel.

"I'm still Demonia, I.. my wish came true.. but I'm a monster.. I- she cursed me, s-she must have! You have to believe me." I look to Lilian desperately, trying to make her understand.

She swallows hard and holds her shaking hands as she stops moving backwards and takes a step forward, her face filled with confusion, fear and sadness as she stares at my new demon wolf form.