Chapter 3 Three

The next morning I woke to the smell of breakfast cooking. I stretched my aching limbs, got up reluctantly and roamed into the bathroom to take a shower.

The scalding hot water streamed down on me as I picked up my coconut shampoo and scrubbed my drenched hair, I have always loved taking showers, I'm not one of those people who sing their hearts out but I do find them extremely relaxing.

I squeezed my drenched hair and wrapped myself in a fluffy towel, I threw on some underwear and made my way over to my wardrobe picking out a pair of my well worn black combat leggings, a crimson red t-shirt and my black leather jacket. I put them on quickly and ran my brush through my hair, braiding it back out of my face. I didn't bother with makeup and followed the smell of breakfast down the stairs into the kitchen.

"Morning" sang my father as I walked through the door.

I paused for a moment and burst out laughing upon seeing my dad attempt to flip pancakes dressed in my old pink sparkly apron from when I was a child.

"What are you doing?" I chuckled clutching my sides.

"Being a master chef," he replied as the pancake flew out of the pan and landed on the stove making it go up in flames.

"And failing," I said grabbing the fire extinguisher.

I put the fire out and turned to face my dad.

"This is why you do the bacon and I do the pancakes," I said handing him the extinguisher.

"Well at least I did the bacon right," he said handing me a plate of bacon and eggs.

"Thanks" I replied sitting down.

We wolfed down our breakfast quickly.

"We better leave soon," he said looking up at the clock.

6:20 am

I washed off my plate and ran upstairs to grab my bag, slinging it over my shoulders I ran back downstairs and pulled on my black combat boots.

"Let's go," I said as I ran through the door eagerly.

We walked through the forest in silence.

"Hey guys, have you left yet?" I called through the pack link.

"Yeah just left," said Max.

"Yeah, meet to the right of the pack house?" Asked Zack.

"Sure" agreed both me and Max.

"Chase?" I asked noticing his absence.

"CHASE!?" I screamed.

"I'm up, I'm up," said Chase unconvincingly.

I mentally shook my head at him. We emerged through the trees and continued along the open area of the pack house square, in the middle of the open glade, there were people gathered around a stage with a large round table in its centre.

I saw Max standing with Zack where they said that they would be and turned to say goodbye to my father.

"Go with your friends," he said. "I'll go stand by the other parents.

I hugged him tightly and smiled.

"Don't burn the house down when I'm gone" I laughed pulling away.

"See you soon and good luck" he laughed letting go of my hand.

I smiled at him one more time before running over to the others.

"Hey" I sang.

"Hey" they murmured back.

"Where the hell is Chase?" I questioned looking around.

"Late as usual" sighed Zack.

After a few minutes of waiting, we turned around to the sound of rustling to see Chase jump through the bushes with his bag slumped over one shoulder.

"Look who decided to join us," said Max raising his eyebrows.

He walked over to us and yawned, running his fingers through his unbrushed mousy brown hair.

He literally looked like he just woke up, and knowing Chase, he probably did.

"What?" He asked looking at our amused faces "I think this new morning look is hot"

"Whatever you say," said Zack rolling his eyes.

"Now that you're all here, there's something I need to tell you," I said looking at all of their faces in turn.

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I quickly caught them up and they looked down at me their mouths forming an O shape.

"We knew you were different but holy shit Aurora," said Max shaking his head in disbelief.

"Your like some kind of superhero!" Shouted Chase excitedly earning himself a whack across the head by Zack.

"Can we not make a big deal out of this please, I don't really want everyone to know" I pleaded.

"Sure but we will help you figure everything out," said Max

"Thanks," I said giving them all a small group hug.

"Attention everyone" called Alpha Scott.

We turned to face the stage to see five people in hooded cloaks walking up to the table in the middle.

"You are all werewolves as I'm sure your aware" he called with a smile on his face. "But what you are not aware of is that some of you will have some extra gifts"

Mumbles broke out from the crowd and Chase nudged me and winked making me roll my eyes.

"Some of you could be hybrids and have a dormant side, which could potentially be awoken with some training, vampire being the most common among werewolves." he continued silencing the crowd,

"you will each come up and touch this stone which will glow a certain colour if you possess a certain gift" he explained.

We organized ourselves into a line and waited nervously. The first couple of people went up and the stone only glowed green, which meant that they were only a werewolf but when Cole touched it, it first went green and then turned red.

"Vampire hybrid" shouted one of the hooded people.

A couple more people filtered away.

"Witch hybrid"

"Another vampire hybrid"

It was Max's turn. He walked up to the stand and placed his hand on the stones smooth surface. It first gave off a dark green glow and then blazed with a light blue colour.

"Hunter hybrid" called the hooded figure.

He walked off to join the others who were standing by the group of four hooded figures.

Zack walked up to the table and held the stone in his hand. It turned green before glowing a brilliant purple.

"Angel hybrid!"

I looked over to Chase who was twirling his thumbs nervously.

"Guess that explains his golden eyes" I whispered knowing that angels have unusual eye colours.