OK. So I haven't posted any storied on here for a while so since I just finished a chapter of a new story I thought that I'd share it with you! So TADA! And hello to all the people that actually read this stuff! I thank you!
Now here's the story:
Slowly and quietly I prowled through the frosty woods. The
wind was howling and nipping at my already cold body. I huffed and puffed as I
picked up my pace, eager to get out of the wind. I tried to stay low and out of
sight. I was getting close to my current home and I couldn’t afford to be
spotted this close to it.
Snap, went a twig,
I spun around to find the source of the sound. Standing in a small clearing was
a girl around mid-teens. Her blond hair was in pigtails and her eyes were on
me. Silently I swore, how could I have been so careless? Why was I not looking
out for people. I growled and slowly stalked towards the girl, her eyes grew
wide with fear and she started backing away. I leaped at her, aiming for the
neck. She stepped back and suddenly disappeared. I landed in the snow and spun
around to find the girl laying on her back. She had tripped over a log. I was
about to attack again when I saw the bangle on her wrist. Just her luck, the
bangle was dark blue and red. I snorted and sat down on the frosty ground. The
girl was startled by my snort and scrambled over the log, as if that log would stop me from harming her.
There was a number of long seconds where neither of us moved, we just sat on
the frost ground staring at each other.
Finally she worked up the courage to ask “W-what the hell are you?”
I grunted and jerked my head up. I wanted to say ‘Well I’m not really human’
But I was afraid that if I spoke then she would turn tails and run. In all
honesty she had a good reason for asking what I was, I didn’t look like any one
animal that I had seen photos. I looked like a bear sized werewolf with horns
sticking out of my fore head. My shaggy brown fur kept out most of the cold but
it didn’t have a huge defence against the wind. My eyes where green, the only
things apart from the colour of my fur that allowed me to resemble my human
form.
When it was clear that the girl wasn’t going to get much more of an answer she
asked a new question, “What, what do you want with me?”
That question I couldn’t really answer without speaking either but I tried to
mime it to her. I lifted up my hands, which did actually look like a hands just
with claw instead of nails. And I pointed to my right wrist. The girl frowned.
I sighed and tilted my head to the side. Take two; I pointed to myself then to
my right wrist, but this time I parted the fur to reveal a bangle like her own.
Then I pointed to her and held up my wrist. This is the message that I was
trying to give her, ‘My wrist, bangle. Your wrist, bangle?’
The message seemed to get through to her or at least the part where she was to
checked her wist for a bangle. She looked at her bangle, then back at mine.
“Our bangles are the same” she said. Sweet relief! My crap miming was getting
somewhere. The only problem was explaining where she was, how she got here and
what having the same bangles means … crap in other words that meant that it
just left everything to explain to her. And just to my luck, “What does it mean
if we have the same bangles? Also do you know where I am or how I got here?”
All I could do was face palm, which was a bit of difficult task when avoiding a
snout and horns. The good thing was that the girl seemed less afraid of me so
that meant that I could give talking a try. The bad thing was that she was not
dressed for the snow and it was getting late. So I took the gamble and hoped
that the girl wouldn’t run away and get herself killed.
“The bangles mean we’re on the same team” I said. The girl gasped and crawled
backwards.
“Y-you can talk?” she asked while pointing a finger at me accusingly.
I rolled my eyes, “Yes, yes I can” I replied
“You can speak English?” asked the
girl, dumbstruck by the fact that I could talk.
I sighed “Dose it sound like I’m speaking French?” I asked, “Actually don’t
answer that because this place has an automatic translator, so any human
language can be translated instantaneously.”
“What, so you’re not speaking dog or monster language?”
I stared at her and tried to portray an annoyed expression, “If I was speaking
any other language other than a human language it would most likely be wolf,
since I resemble that the most.” I said, “Ok, now let me make this very clear,
I’m not a dog. So don’t go calling me a bitch ether”
“Uh …”
“I’m female” I said as I sat up to show my chest.
“Oh right” she said glancing at my chest then quickly looking away with her
cheeks burning red. I tilted my head, I
hadn’t giver her much to look at. I was entirely covered in fur, it looked like
I was just wearing a tight fur jacket. I huffed and stood up.
“Come on follow me, I know a place that’s out of the wind” We both walked towards
my shelter. The girl was slow and her teeth where chattering but after a minute
she began to talk.
“S-so how can you sp-peak English?” chattered the girl
“Well believe it or not I’m human” I said and turned around just in time to see
the girl raise a sceptical eyebrow.
“You don’t look that human”
“Yeah well if I had some clothes now I would change and prove it to you” I
said, “But I doubt that you’d want to see my naked butt”
“How do you know I don’t” whispered the girl. I stopped in my tracks and turned
to look at her. The girl’s eyes widened, “… D-did I say that out loud?” asked
the girl who was now turning a brilliant shade of scarlet. I gave a small
chuckle then turned my head back to the front to continue walking. We had a few
moments of silence which must have been awkward for the girl, so she spoke up,
“So if you are human then how did you become, this creature” half way through the question I picked up a sound and
missed the other half of the question. I froze. The girl almost rammed into me
because of my sudden stop.
“Um, what’s wrong, did I offend you?” she asked. I just shushed her and put my
hand to my muzzle indicating for her to be quiet. I crouched down and slowly
stalked towards the sound. The girl began to follow me but I signalled for her
to stay. The sound of feet crunching through snow was getting louder. It was
coming towards me, and I to it. A person quickly came into view, he was rugged
up in warm clothes and he was carrying a crossbow. A soft growl began to rumble
in my throat. Slowly I moved behind the man, keeping my steps quiet and in time
to the man’s. I was getting ready to pounce when the man turned around and
spotted me. He began to move he crossbow but I was faster. I leaped at him
knocking the crossbow to the side with my hand and sunk my teeth into his neck.
We hit the ground with a thud. I held my jaw in place for a moment longer then
I released him.
The body dropped from my jaws and I turned around to see at the girl standing
behind a bush. Her eyes where filled with fear and with sadness.
“You killed him. Why did you kill him?” she whispered
“He would have killed us” I said plainly while straitening up.
“No, you could have just knocked him out!” argued the girl as she moved towards
me.
“He’s seen us, I couldn’t let him go” I said as I began to dig a hole in the
snow.
“I still don’t see why you needed to kill him!”
“This place is a death trap”
“So?!” she said, “You don’t need to make it more deadly than it already is!”
I turned to look at her, “No you don’t understand, in this place its kill or be
killed!” I said almost yelled at her.
“You could have let him go!”
“If I did then he would have just come back with his friends, then they would
kill us!” I said as I pulled the thick coat off the man and dragging him into
the shallow hole.
“Maybe if you weren’t such a monster then they wouldn’t be trying to kill us!!”
I let out a half-hearted laugh, “Yes, yes blame it on the monster! Blame it on
me! Look! This monster is what I have become, this is what I have done to try
and get out of this hell hole. I am nothing but a heartless monster now, a
being of spite and anger.” I said looking at my claw tipped hands. The girl’s
eyes softened and she reached out trying to comfort me. I spun on her and
growled, I will never let anyone get close to me again. Never will I ever let
anyone get close enough to fake a friendship, never ever again will I allow
myself to be stabbed in the back by someone that I trust!
The girl stepped backwards and raised her hands, “Wow, hey I wasn’t going to
hurt you” said the girl. I growled a second longer as a warning then I let the
growl die down. The girl waited a moment to make sure that I had finished
growling at her. “Well since you know more about this place than I do how about
you tell me the ropes” the girls continued in a calm voice, “The sooner I know
them the sooner I can get out of your hair, I mean fur” I stood up to full
height on my hind legs, which was about six foot six. Upon seeing my full
height the girl nervously swallowed but stood her ground. I studied her for a
moment longer then I dropped to all fours.
“Have you read the Hunger Games?” I asked as I finished burring the man.
The girl seemed confused by the question but answered anyway, “Yeah, and I’ve
seen all the movies to”
“Well to explain this hell hole simply it is like a giant Hunger Games
tournament. Except you don’t fight to escape, or win anything. You fight to
live” I explained
“That’s a little depressing. So what there is no way out of this ‘tournament’?”
asked the girl
I hesitated, “Well there is two ways out; One is in a body bag and the other is
if your broken enough to be bounty hunters or guards for this wretched empire”
“What do you mean broken?”
“I mean that you have to be mentally broken and you have to be insane enough to
do anything to get out of this game or your will is to broken to resist the
orders that the give you.” I said as I covered up the blood.
“Is that what happened to you? Did they order you to become this, monster?”
The question made me freeze. It, the question, it was a question that I wasn’t
expecting so soon. All I could do was sigh, “No, I chose to become this
monster. I thought it might help my chances of getting out of here. And my
chances of protecting myself.”
“Ok that makes a bit of sense, but how would you improve your chance of getting
out? I mean you said yourself that you have to be dead, insane or ‘broken’ to
get out”
I gave her the man’s coat and she slipped it on without a word, “Yeah well
there was a rumour going around about ten months ago, two months after I was
brought here. The rumour was that some of the people watching this tournament
liked some of the players and wanted them as their guards. It was said that if
you were one of the stronger, faster and one of the more dangerous competitors
in the tournament then you stood a chance of getting out of here without being
broken or killed. Of course I know now that it was just a rumour” my voice had
gone quiet
“I-I’m sorry” said the girl gently.
My anger flared “For what?!” I asked almost snarling at her, “You didn’t do
anything”
“Bu-” the girl began, then she gave a shaky sighed and continued, “No I guess I
didn’t, but it doesn’t stop me from feeling sorry for you. You where tricked
after all!”
“Stop making excuses for me” I said quietly, “I’ve stopped making excuses for
myself. What I did was for selfish reasons only. No more, no less. And any
punishment I get is what I deserve” I turned my head and started padding way on
all fours.
Finally we reached a small cavern in the side of a cliff,
currently known as my home. The girl hesitated at the entrance for a moment then
slowly entered. The cave appeared to be empty with small clusters of rocks
throughout the space. It was out of the wind and it was dry. I made my way over
to a cluster of rocks at the back of the cavern. I then started moving some of
them to reveal a mud brown backpack and a navy blue blanket. I tossed the
blanket to the girl.
“Thanks” she mumbled. I pulled out the bag and started to rummage through it, I
them made a satisfied noise when I found what I was looking for. I turned back
to the girl who was now sitting against the cavern wall with the blanket
wrapped around her. I strolled over to her, sat down then held out my hand to
reveal two mushily bars. She looked at the food then back at me.
“Sorry it’s not a lot. I don’t usually have these. Uh you’re not allergic to
anything are you?” I asked
“Only penicillin” she said softly as she accepted the food. “Are you going to
have one?”
“No” I said, “I’ve already eaten … It was before you came” she nodded and began
to eat.
“What’s your name?” she asked between mouthfuls
“My name?” I asked
“Yeah your name, don’t tell me that you’ve forgotten it that would be to
cliché”
“Ha yeah that would, my name is Adeline. What’s yours?”
The girl smiled, “My name is Jane”
“Let me guess your last name is Eyre?” I asked smiling
“What? No!” said Jane giving me a small shove, “I’m not a book character!”
Jane’s eyes widened when she realised that she had shoved me, although I paid
no attention to her worry but continued to teas her.
“Ok what’s your last name then?” I asked with a grin, which in all honestly
probably looked creepy with all of my teeth.
“Thomas, my last name is Thomas. What’s yours?” asked Jane when she realised
that I didn’t care about her touching me. I had time to calm down after my
outburst of anger and I realised that I needed to get use to her, Jane was
probably going to be around for a while.
“My last name is Robertson” I said
“Wow, your name is so, normal”
“What where you expecting something like Wizouskie?”
“Uh yes actually, or maybe Sullivan” said Jane ginning
“Oh yes I’m totally a giant pink poke-o-dotted monster with blue fur” I said
lifting up my fur
“You know you do actually look like you could be something from Monsters Inc.
you just need some green stripes”
“Uh no thanks! Green’s not my colour and besides no one will take me seriously
if I have stripes!”
“Fine what about checks?”
“No~” I said holding up my hands, “No, no, no. no! I’m not having my fur dyed”
“Aw” pouted Jane
“No Jane” I said losing my playfulness tone. She immediately stopped making
faces. I stood up and wandered back over to the bag.
“What are you doing?” asked Jane
“You’ll see” I said pulling out some clothes and slipping on the sports bra,
leggings and old ruined pants. The difficult part was getting my tail into the
self-crafted hole in the back of both the pants and leggings. Once I got them
on I carefully slipped on a singlet. The leggings and bra where uncomfortable,
I hate having them on, they rub against my fur, tugging at it and scratching
me. I stood up on two legs then took in a deep breath and let it out. Slowly I
began to shrink, my fur and horns started to reseed. Bones cracked, popped and
reshaped, slowly making me more and more human. When I was finally human I gave
a shaky sigh. It was much easier to change into a beast than changing into a
human, changing into a human was slightly painful and a little draining. I
grabbed a parker, boot and socks from behind the rocks then relocated myself
next to Jane. She stared at me as I pulled the parker over myself and put on my
shoes and socks.
“H-how old are you?” she asked
I looked at her, “I’m eighteen”
“You, you’re so small!”
“The word is petite and I’m only slightly smaller than the average height thank
you” It’s true I’m not what you would consider ‘large’ by any slandered. I’m
rather thin and have what’s considered and ‘athletic build’ the only reason
that I’m now actually living up to that build is because I’m actually ‘working
out’. That’s if you consider working out to be running around the forest,
killing people who see me and hunting for food. Chest wise I have nothing have
impressive, in fact if you find one of the small size in your shop that would
be about the size of mine.
“Hey your eyes, their green, like before when you were, you know a monster”
“Uh yeah, the colour of my eyes stays the same and the colour of my fur is the
same colour as my hair” I said. We were quiet for a few moments. Now that I was
sitting next to Jane I could get a better look at her. She was more on the
taller side but she wasn’t ridiculously tall. Her soft blond hair was pulled
into pigtails and was slightly over shoulder length. Jane had adorable brown
eyes that looked like they would never be angry and her fair skin was turning
pink from the cold.
“You’re barely wearing anything. Don’t you get cold? Or are you like Jacob in
Twilight?” asked Jane
“Ha no! I’m freezing my ass off right now!” I said “I’m only warm in this kind
of weather when I have fur”
“So, uh can you do wolf things like track people? You know by smell?”
“When I’m a beast yes. When I’m human, no. I bring none of my abilities from my
beast form with me. When I’m human I have no super hearing, sense of smell or
abnormal healing abilities. So when I’m human I’m just a regular human.”
“But when you’re a monster-”
“When I’m a monster” I said “I’m not someone you want to mess with” Jane looked
almost scared at that remark but her fear quickly turned to curiosity. Eyes
bored into me. It was as if she was trying to figure out if I was a monster at
heart and soul as well as body. I let her look all she liked. I knew that the
monster had clawed its way into every part of me. And it wasn’t coming out any
time soon.
“So um … what’s your favourite colour?” asked Jane as she tried to keep the
conversation going.
“My favourite colour is light blue or aqua” I replied, “What’s yours?” I asked
“Green, particularly emerald green”
“Ah nice, greens not my favourite colour but I love having trees and plants
everywhere. I find that look at a places and say that it’s not green enough or
it need more plants. Yeah so not my favourite colour but I love it being
everywhere”
“Yeah, green being everywhere just looks right”
“Oh yeah!”
“Say does this place have any oddly coloured trees?”
“Huh?”
“You know are there blue trees around here?”
“Uh no. As far as I know this place has a mixture of habitats from Earth. As
well as climate, vegetation and wildlife. To the regular eye this place just
seems like a collection of habitats and creatures but I’m telling you know it’s
not. These habitats are too close together. Realistically biomes or habitats
such as these would never be this close to each other.” I said
“What do you mean?” asked Jane
“Oh right I should have given some examples. Uh well about four day’s walk from
here there is a Rainforest habitat. This is imposable for any naturally
occurring event. This woody forest and the rainforest habitats are too
different climate wise for the two to coexist almost side by side.”
“Oh ok then how is it possible?”
“This entire area than we are in is a giant dome and it was crafted by aliens!”
I said, finally glad that I could share my hypothesis with someone.
Jane looked at me with disbelief. “Aliens, really? Aliens? … Have you actually
seen any of these aliens?” asked Jane
sceptically
“Well no” I said sheepishly
“Than that is the lamest idea I have heard. Excluding the fact that you have no
evidence to back it up with.”
“Seriously? I can change into a giant wolf with horns.” I said trying to imitate my horns with my fingures, “Are
aliens really that farfetched?”
Jane hesitated, “Well ok you have a point there. But you still don’t have any
hard evidence to back it up with”
I gave Jane a dull look. “Seriously I’ve seen people shoot lightning from their
fingertips. Who has that ability? Really”
“Uh well there’s Electro, um there’s a lot of fire benders, um I don’t know other
people”
“Electo’s fictional and so are the fire benders from Avatar.” I said, “Unless
people have developed mutant abilities or are able to bend back at home than I
doubt that people do that naturally”
“But your abilities-” started Jane
“I told you I chose to be like this, I was literally offered the choice to be a
monster. Ok” I said, “Here people can get the opportunity to gain abnormal
abilities like shooting electricity or changing shape”
“Ok so there are more people like you?”
“Well not exactly. You see only two people are able to have the same ability” I
tried to explain, “You see there is only going to ever be two people who can
control electricity and only two people who will be able to change into a
werewolf with horns”
“Ok so there could be another person out there who can change into the giant
wolf like you can?”
“Yes but they don’t have to exist at the same time. I’ve heard about two people
who could shoot lazars from their eyes. But
you see the first one to get the lazars died a couple of years before the
second person got lazars.”
“Ok so it’s possible but there might not be” said Jane who was catching on
fast.
“Yeah” I said
“Is it possible or me to get and ability?” asked Jane causally
“Well, yes but I don’t know supposedly there is only one in every twenty or so
are offered a chance to get an ability, so don’t get your hopes up” I said
gently, “Ok?”
“Yeah ok” said Jane sounding a little disappointed.
“Hey don’t be sad. Sometimes getting an ability isn’t all it’s cracked up to
be. I mean people try to kill you more often because they don’t like people who
aren’t on their team to have an advantage”
“Well if I get a super power then it’s too bad for them!” said Jane
enthusiastically, “I’m not going to just let them kill me. They can try all
they want but when I get a super power it’s going to be amazing!” Jane threw
her hands up in the air, grinning wildly as she did so.
I couldn’t help but smile, Jane was to enthusiastic and happy it was hard not
to feel her joy. “Yeah, yeah miss almighty, you might want to go to sleep we’re
going to need to get some supplies tomorrow”
“Ok” said Jane, “Can I lie on your lap? You know if you don’t mind”
I hesitated, “Uh sure, if it helps you to sleep” I said as I stretched out my
legs.
Jane shrugged then lay her head on my lap and curled up into a ball, “Thanks”
she said then her breath slowly deepened and she fell asleep. I couldn’t sleep,
my mind was whirling with the events of today. How did I end up getting a new
team mate? Why me? Are they trying to
give me a friend or are they trying to break my heart again? I let out a deep
sigh. It seemed that I was already opening up to Jane. But I was still
reluctant to trust her. After what happen to my team last time, I didn’t know
if I could handle being betrayed again. Glancing down at Jane I could see how
peaceful and comfortable she looked, despite lying on the floor of a cave. I
let out a scoffed, she feels comfortable in the hands of a monster, how ironic.
(Drawing of Adeline in wolf form, by me)
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Sorry it's a bit of a long one! I hope that you enjoyed it! I plan on writing more but of course I always plan on writing more and how many of my stories are finished? One, just one and that story is only a one chapter thing that I had to finish for school. SO yeah I plan on writing more but I'm not sure how far planing will get me.