"For a moment, it wasn't him fighting. It was us."

The arena pulsed with unnatural silence after my scream tore through the night, the raw force of my wolf's aura rolling like an invisible storm through the assembled crowd. Students stumbled backward as if physically struck, some clutching their chests as they struggled to breathe under the crushing weight of my unleashed power. Even the Academy instructors, hardened by decades of managing supernatural conflicts, looked genuinely shaken by ...