My name is Dominic and this is my story as much as my foster siblings. I have long semi wavy blonde hair that I now usually keep up in a ponytail during the day. Over the years I have been through many different homes most of them bad but they were only made worse by my unpredictable powers. I am very different from other foster children. My powers have gotten me in trouble more than once and it is why I tend to push people away. For the longest time I could not control my powers and it is the primary reason I have been moved to so many homes and had been labeled a problem child by the system. I am now thirteen and have a better understanding and handle on my powers. From what I can tell my powers consist on control over all the elements, telepathy, and telekinetic abilities, communication with certain types of animals and the biggest thing I transform into a fire breathing dragon.

I have sparkling purple scales and glowing purple eyes. My long blonde hair is also present along with a necklace that I have had as long as I can remember. The necklace was gold and scale like in appearance except for the charm which consisted of three rings that were copper and red like fire. I had had to hide it a few times as some of the foster families I had tried to take it and sell it.

The other thing that I had taken with me from my past what a toy raptor that I called Radar. He was robotic in appearance and had piercing blue reptile eyes. He was white and grey and even had a controller that could make him walk and growl and move his head and tail back and forth. He was my best friend and my protector. What do I mean by protector? I mean somehow he was alive and had defended me in several dangerous situations. Some human and some not so human. Being different tends to draw things like demons and spirits. Somehow Radar had run them off every time.

This latest foster home was one of the better ones I had ever been to. It was on a farm in Missouri. My foster parents were George and Lorain Johnson but we mainly just called them Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. Mr. Johnson was a doctor and Mrs. Johnson ran the ranch. They raised Quarter Horses for ranches, rodeo and special events. The ranch had been her dream. For whatever reason they had no children of their own but they did decide to raise foster children. There are five of us total. Me, Ella, Fox, Will and Jamie.

Ella was the only other girl. She had short dark hair, blue eyes and was seven. Fox had red hair brown eyes and freckles covering his face. He was eight. Will was the oldest among us and like me he had been labeled a trouble child due to him running away a lot. He was fifteen and had dark brown hair that was cut short and it stuck up. He was heavily muscled and dark eyes. He and I are really close. Jamie was the newest. He also had dark brown hair except his was a little longer than Will's and like me he had bright green eyes. He has only been here for six months. He was only ten

On the ranch we took care of the horses and did chores when we weren't going to school. In exchange for these services are given an allowance to buy things that we want for ourselves whenever we went into town. One of the things I bought was a laptop which I often had to share with the other kids. Luckily we have Wi-Fi here on the ranch which works out for me. I have been here for at least two years. I had become very accustomed to the hard work of caring for the horses and the foals. I had even learned to ride. I loved working with the animals it just felt natural. There was only one problem with this place. Ever since I got there has been a large wolf like creature that appears at the ranch every full moon. I'm not the only one who has seen him. Mr. Johnson says it is just a bear but I had my doubts considering what I was, I thought it was a werewolf but I didn't say anything. I had made that mistake when I first got my powers long ago. I learned the hard way to keep stuff like this quite. In fact I knew it wasn't a bear. I had come face to face with it a couple of times. As a result of the predator Mrs. Johnson had us move the prized horses into the barns at night. In each time it was a full moon and for whatever reason we hadn't been able to bring the horses in before it got dark. I had stopped the animal from attacking mares twice and had walked up on a fresh kill the other time. Each time I ended up getting bitten at least once. I found out the terrible thing that happens when a werewolf bites me. Two out of those three times I had terrible nightmares about turning into a wolf creature myself. It was a little different from the werewolf that I had bitten me. I was smaller, had a shorter snout and white fur. I still had long hair around my head and I remember feeling incredibly aggressive towards any living creature but most of all I remember the need to run which was difficult due to my very human like form. I thought they were nightmares except for the fact that every time I had these dreams I woke up in the hay loft of the barn but not only that but there was evidence. Claw marks that matched my hands and odd foot prints. This new curse only made me more cautious of being around the other kids.

With Jamie being the newest foster child it was my job as one of the older and more seasoned of the kids to teach him how to work the ranch. So far he was doing pretty well. "Hey Dominic, can I run some of my new jokes by you?" Jamie asked as we were grooming the horses. "Sure why not" I replied. "Why did the turtle cross the road? To get to the shell station." Silence. "OK what do you call a group of unorganized cats? A Cat-astrophe" nothing. "Why don't they play poker in the jungle? Too many Cheetah's." OK that one doesn't even make sense I said. "OK fine" he replied "What do you call an alligator in a vest? An Investigator" That one was pretty good I smiled. Jamie wanted to be a comedian someday. "It's OK Jamie" I said "It's not your fault I don't have much of a sense of humor" He smiled at this so your saying if my jokes make you laugh then they must be good" That's one way to look at it" I replied." I swear you are like the most optimistic person in the world" "What's wrong with that?" he asked. "Nothing." I replied. We walked out of the barn. I petted Ray the black barn cat as we walked out the door. "Hey I'll tell you what," I said "we can look up some really good jokes on my laptop later k?" "Sweet!" he replied.

One of the problems of living with so many people is you have to share your bathroom. Along with that I have to share a bedroom. It wouldn't be such a big deal if not for the fact that Ella snores so loud and I am such a light sleeper. After all these years I'm convinced I'm supposed to be a nocturnal creature. The fact that I can see really well in the dark helps too. Unfortunately that doesn't work here even though it is summer time we still have to get up early to work. One thing I loved to do when I can't sleep is read. Lately I had been reading Harry Potter books I had also picked up a book on Latin. I loved how some of the spells actually worked. One of the perks of being a dragon I suppose. After about an hour I put the book down. We were going into town tomorrow and I had been saving for an MP3 player and maybe a new book too