*Please Read* Sorry for removing my Gallagher/Heist Crossover but I thought it was getting really crazy and I had a bad case of writers block. My new story is going to be the Gallagher Girls as shape shifters. I love the series 'Otherkin' by Nina Berry; I can't find it on FanFic so I'm writing my own story. I'll add those characters in later, but I'll explain who they are so you don't have to read Otherkin to understand, although it might help. I'll try not to add spoilers.
Chapter One
As I walked up to my school, the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women (or Shape Shifters), I finally knew I was home. I looked at the side of the building that had our school's name carved into the stone and mentally added 'Shape Shifters' under the beautiful writing. Of course the people of Roseville didn't need to know they were living less than a mile away from hundreds of people that could shift into something that can bite their neck off (minus the Rats). But we aren't only Shape Shifters that can turn into deadly animals, we're also spies. Double whammy! So if you're of the right mind, don't mess with us.
My mother is the headmistress and one of the best secret agents the CIA has ever seen, or so I've been told. Although by all the stories she's told me that are of my clearance you'd have to be one of the dumbest people alive to not figure that out. My father is part of the United States council for shape shifters, representing the big cats. I am a spy and shape shifter-in-training. Everyone expect great things from me since I have very powerful people on both sides of my family. Every other summer I go visit my grandparents from my dad's side and they teach me special shape shifter things, making me the best shape shifter in my class, and every other summer I go visit my Aunt Abby, and she teaches me special spy things, making me the best spy in my class, also. My mother isn't a shape shifter, but because she was married to one of the most powerful shape shifters in the world and having a shape shifter daughter, I guess gives you the clearance to run a shape shifter school. Being that she's a human, I'm half human, which gives me special abilities that the other shifters can't do.
I arrived home two weeks earlier than the other students like usual, this is the most personal time I get with my mom and I want to take full advantage of it. I want to go say 'Hi' but I need to go put my bags away and claim my bed. Once I reach my room I fling my bags on my same bed in the corner. I look around, and everything is the exact same as I left it. I take in the room as this is the only time I will be able to see the room without clothes strewn everywhere. "Home sweet home," I sigh to myself. I open up my dresser and closet and put all my clothes away in my little sections of each. Macey has the most room because she always brings a truck load of designer clothes every year. Literally, she actually has a truck, and because her father is part of the United States council also, she gets an empty room to put all her stuff. Every time we shift she refuses to wear the regular clothes given to us. "Grey is so not my color." She told us her first year here, which is ironic since her wolf coat is about as grey as it gets, but her big blue eyes always drag your line of sight away from her body. In human form she has pale skin with long, thick, black hair and the same blue eyes. Her nose, unlike in wolf form, is a little button, add that with big, pouty lips and you have the gorgeous Macey McHenry. Rumor has it she was offered a spot on Vogue but her father made her decline because he was afraid that'd draw unwanted attention to our kind, although, personally, I think he just can't comprehend how gorgeous is daughter is, and doesn't like that every boy she's ever met automatically is head-over-heels in love with her.
My other roommate Bex is a bear shifter. Her cappuccino colored skin matches her big fluffy coat, with big brown eyes that make you want to run up and squeeze the life out of the big brown bear. Her father is part of the Britain council and her mother goes around trying to bring peace between the bears, but being that they're solitary animals it's a big job. Many of the bears, no matter how much they decline it, are falling prey to hunters everywhere, but you can't break their natural nature of being solitary.
My last roommate is a bird shifter, although you'd never guess she's the smartest in the class, with her having a bird brain and all. She doesn't mind it though and says that it just keeps her one step ahead, and ready to outsmart anyone at any moment. She transforms into a beautiful parrot. Her parents are head of a small parrot flock, and when she graduates she's expected to become the next leader but she says she wants to do something bigger with her life, she just doesn't know what.
Last, but not least, I am Cameron Ann Morgan, a natural cheetah shifter. My father and I are some of the last cheetah shifters to live, so the councils treasure us. I am naturally fast in both my forms, which gives me very strong legs, but I can give a good punch too. I've been working on my endurance and now I can not only go fast, but I can go fast for an extended period of time, unlike the wild cheetahs. Being a cheetah I am a bit small, only not as small as Liz, but I can blend into any crowd, and in cheetah form I can hide in tall grasses and in some trees.
Most of everybody's nickname is their animal, but my roommates and I are the only exception. Macey is Peacock, Bex is Duchess (as much as she wants to change it we always call her Duchess on comms), Liz is Bookworm (uh, duh), and I am the infamous Chameleon.
In just two short weeks all my friends will be back home. As soon as all my stuff was packed neatly in the dresser I ran to my mom's office to say hi. I knocked on her door, "Come in!" I heard from inside. I skipped through the doorway, "Hiya!" I said and smiled. She smiled back and got up to give me a hug. "I missed you." I told her. "I missed you too." She said to my hair. Her office phone started ringing and she looked back and frowned. "Are you expecting anyone?" I asked her. She removed her arms from around my back and walked over to check caller ID, as if she didn't already know. "Cam, honey, I need to answer this real quick. I'll talk to you later?" She said, telling me to leave. I nodded and left the room. As soon as I turned around she started talking into the phone, and due to my strong hearing senses I could hear the other side of the conversation. "Are the rooms ready? We are getting them ready to come in a month." I didn't hear the rest of the conversation as I walked out the door, due to her extra sound proof door and wall. That was really weird. Who's 'them' and where are they going? Are they coming here? I wondered about this as I walked to my favorite hiding place in the walls.
I walked up flights of creaky old stairs to get to my tiny little room that had windows on all the sides. I felt free up here, I only ever felt freer outside. Up here I could see the trees and the wind blowing their leaves, with the sun peeking through the branches. Autumn would soon be upon us and all the leaves will fall. I felt my middle purr as the cat inside me begged to be let free for a little while. I sighed, giving in as I undressed, not wanting to ruin yet another outfit. As soon as I felt my bare skin I could feel my fingers turn to claws and my soft skin turn to fur. My sight became strict and I could hear the trees crashing into each other. I started purring to myself and I lay down, basking in the sun. That's where I fell asleep for the night.