"I'll rid you of this world," Alcaeus's bones cracked as his wolf responded, "And this time, and I'll do it properly,"
He looked up to the sky, to the void Moon, and the howl that he kept out almost split the night.
The sound rolled from his chest as his spine arched backwards, his bones snapping and grinding as his body began to tear itself apart from the inside. His skin split down the middle of his back, muscle peeling away as something massive forced its way through.
Gold-red light exploded outward as Alcaeus transformed mid-laughter.
His Alpha demon wolf erupted into existence in a storm of bone and fire, its form towering far beyond any wolf that had ever walked this earth. His frame was enormous, and his shoulders crowned with jagged horns of molten black and gold. His fur burned like living darkness, and his veins were glowing beneath it as demonic power coursed freely through him.
When his paws hit the ground, the earth shattered.
