I felt a sharp, burning pain throughout my whole body as I felt like my whole body was breaking apart. I would feel a snap in my arm then it would feel like my skin was being stretched until it snapped, and ripped like a rubber band to reveal Orange-ish brown fur.
I would continue to feel this same pain all over my body as my legs snapped and bent backwards, my chest felt like a pressure was building within it as it extended and barreled outwards. The pain finally settled down and the burning sensation calmed down as my new body was fully uncovered.
It felt like the skin before was a really tight covering that I could finally shed and this fur was the real me underneath. I felt free for a second but was then hit with such a hunger that I felt like I was going to die, until I saw the nurses and the thought of how delicious their flesh would be popped into my head.
"Security is on its way, Alaric, can you hear me? You need to get back on the bed." Jessica said as she raised her hands slowly towards the hospital bed.
"Jess.... I think we should run for it." Darla spoke up but as she did I quickly turned my head to look at her and drool started to drip from my mouth.
"Fuck.... Jess we really need to leave."
"We can't, if we turn to run then we will die for sure. All we can do is hope he can gain some control and hope security gets here quickly."
I could understand what they were saying but the hunger was getting to be to much for me to handle. It hurt to breath and my body was still popping all over with every little movement. I didn't want to eat them but the thought of how fulfilling it would be to drink their blood as and eat their flesh was just becoming so tantalizing that I took a step forward.
"Oh fuck this." Darla shouted as she turned and ran away.
A feeling of joy washed over me at the thought of chasing after the prey and I pushed Jessica out of the way as I ran after Darla. I tried running at full speed but I kept falling down and tripping as I wasn't used to the way this new body worked. I would underestimate the distance between things and end up hitting them a second later as my eyesight had increased to such a degree that was confusing.
I was taller and wider aswell and I would end up bumping into things not thinking I was so close.
"SECURITY, WHERE IS THE SHIFTER?" 4 men had arrived from the end of the hallway but soon stopped as they saw me a few steps behind a panting and crying Darla.
"HELP ME PLEASE, HE'S GOING TO EAT ME!" She screamed as she felt a claw just barely miss her.
The security team drew what looked like a variety of weapons, one of them had a gun looking thing that was attached to a pack that was strapped on their back. Another had a shield and a sword that had a red vein running through them. The other 2 had what looked like a sniper rifle and a Katana.
"STOP OR WE WILL USE DEADLY FORCE!"
I didn't pay attention to them as my prey was so close at hand. I bent down and prepared to leap at her but was soon flung backwards as something hit my shoulder and sent me crashing down the hallway.
"MOVE, MOVE, MOVE, CONTAIN THE SHIFTER!" The lead guard then grabbed his radio and sent out a call.
"Alpha to Base, Shifter is down, containment in progress."
Seconds later a voice came through. "Copy that Alpha, Proceed to Transport Bay 2."
I could only whimper as the pain from my shoulder was still hurting. I tried to talk but the only thing that came out was a mix of growls and grunts.
Jessica came over after the security team made sure to strap me down and keep me contained.
"Alaric can you hear me?"
I looked at her and slowly nodded.
"Good, what your going through is called the Turning, every human goes through this eventually. You on the otherhand were not supposed to turn for another few weeks. Werewolf type shifters for the most part are limited to the cycles of our moon, if its full you turn, if its a new moon your weak, but for some reason when we injected you with the primal shifter blood you started your change instantly. We need you to calm down so we can figure out what's going on."
I only whimpered as I didn't understand. Are they telling me something went wrong? If I'm early for the Turning does that mean something is going wrong?
"Ma'am please step back from the beast, We are transporting him to another facility." The lead guard spoke up and said.
I was starting to get scared more and more with the unkown. I didn't know what could happen to me now and something deep down just wanted to run away. So I started to wiggle and break free from the straps.
"BASE, SUBJECT IS FIGHTING THE RESTRAINTS, WE NEED BACKUP IN CASE OF BREAKOUT."
"Copy Alpha, Beta Team in route."
I managed to finally get a arm free but before I could work on escaping the others I got manhandled by 2 of the guards as the placed some kind of weird handcuffs on me that seemed to leech my strength away.
"Listen here pup, these are Wolfsbane shackles, they are specifically made for Werewolves, bastards are so damn destructive that the government has a farm just to produce the stuff to weaken us. So just calm down and relax, we will get you some help and figure out what's going on. We won't hurt you I promise."
The guard then looked right in my eyes and I could see that his eyes changed from a greenish color to more of a gold and his smile turned from a normal human smile to a row of sharp canine teeth.
"You have my word."
After he said that I could feel a calm wash over me as deep down I knew I could believe him.
A few minutes later another team showed up with more of the wolfsbane shackles and they put them on me, it got to the point where there was an itching feeling whenever I would bump my skin against them.
They rolled me through an out a large bay door that had what looked like a armored ambulance parked in front. They opened the door and inside was what an ambulance looked like. They had monitors, variety of life saving tools, anything you'd expect for quick trauma treatment.
"Alpha to base, Subject is secure in transport. On route to facility."
"Copy Alpha, good luck."
The vehicle was packed with me on the bed strapped with handcuffs and the rest of Alpha team guarding me. Well making sure I didn't escape but close enough. I did wonder however why they would constantly look out the windows and were holding their weapons extra tightly to their chest.
BANG!
The Vehicle lurched and seemed to partially tip as something huge hit the side of it. I couldn't see anything but by the looks in the eyes of the guards I could tell that whatever this thing was.... It wasn't something pleasant.
"ALPHA TEAM, TIER 1 RHICORN 9 O'CLOCK, BATTLE POSITIONS!." The leader yelled as they instanly hopped out of the vehicle and I could hear yells and painful groans but also what sounded like grunts and huffs as if some kind of animal was angry and about to charge.
I could lift my head up and look out the back doors but all I could see was the team as the 2 with guns were shooting something outside of my view.
"IT'S CHARGING! EVERYONE DODGE!"
What came into view next was insane, it was a huge body that was atleast as big if not bigger than the vehicle, I could only see a part of it's body as it blocked out the view as it ran by. I saw it's head and it looked similar to a Rhino but it had a huge spiraled horn growing out of it's head, It then had some kind of shield growing out of it's face, kind of like a moustache mixed with the front end of a snowplough.
It was massive and ran fast but shortly after it ran past I could see the team quickly dispatch it as it seemed to run out of steam and start to huff and pant.
They finished killing it with the katana wielder jabbing his weapon directly into the things eye all the way to the hilt. The one with a pack on pulled out what looked like a butcher knife that when he pushed a button on the side, lit up with a red arcing light along the blades edge. He then started to cut the creature up and field dress it right there.
I was a bit confused but whenever he would slice off a piece of meat it would drip some blood and I would drip some drool. It looked so tasty and I wanted nothing more than to tear into it right at that moment.
As I daydreamed about how it smelled and then creating an imaginary wishlist of things to eat with this thing as #1, I noticed that the guy then reached into the heart area and then pulled out a crystal that was jagged and looked like it was nothing but a rock.
"Success sir, it had formed a crystal core. We can finally repair Johnson's shield with this."
"Goodwork men, now let's continue with the mission."