It was like any other day in the forest. I walked threw it hunting for food like normal. Soft whispers of the wind flew by my ears, I took my animal form, a wolf, and ran into the woods deeper. My grayish-blonde fur was blow back by my speed and it felt nice.

I came to a stop as I reached the path normal humans traveled. Usually it was empty except when funerals occurred, and frequently I had noticed that many people had been bringing bodies threw the area. It was a sad thing, but these were the same people who threw me out of the village and murdered my brother, Kasuka. I'll never forget that day.

Kasuka was a quiet and emotionless kind of kid. He and I kept to ourselves in our modest cottage on the edge of town. Since our parents deaths, I had taken care of Kasuka. I worked the lumber mill and thanks to my inhuman strength, I was a big help.

Kasuka was very creative and started up a small theater in town and got many of the people to start performing and coming to see the plays. He was an extremely good actor, so much so that a talent scout for a traveling act asked him if he would go with them. I kept telling him to go that it would be his way out of the town and to see the world. That I would always be here. But he refused to go with out me, and there was no room for a freak like me.

After he had returned from meeting with the lead of the act, he seemed off. He was pale and feverish. "Brother…." His voice was ghost-like and it scared me. "Kasuka, whats wrong?" He fell down onto his knees and I quickly caught him, pulling him close. "Shizuo… I… can't…" He then shifted into a wolf right before my eyes and scratched me savagely across the chest. Searing pain shot threw my chest and trying to ignore the pain I attempted to grab him but I attempted to grab him and He struggled and struggled and finally broke free. He went at me again and I fought back only to black out.

When I awoke, blood coated everywhere and as I stood slowly, I saw a trail out the door. I followed it out and into the town. As I looked around, people lay dead on the street, and when I reached the town square there laid my brother, and arrow shot threw his chest.. I ran to go to him, but to my dismay, a few men ran forward and grabbed me. I torn threw them but it was to no avail, before I knew it I was swamped with people and couldn't move.

Several days pasted and I refused to leave the house and wouldn't eat, and eventually lost my job. I remember laying there wondering if it was all a nightmare and if I would ever wake up…..Of coarse I never did. Upon the fifth or sixth day (how long I laid there eludes my mind at the moment) I looked up at the door, hearing movement and indefinable talking outside my door. Something wasn't right.

Suddenly the Men of the village charged the door and got on top of me restraining me and carried me out into the square. Due to the lack of food in my stomach and lack of energy I was brought out and shoved down before the elders of the village.
"Shizuo, Strongest man among us, we have figured out why. The town doctor dissected your brother and found out what witch craft turned him" The first elder spoke with a mighty fury in his voice. As he did, he motioned for the doctor of the town, Shinra, one of my closer friends, to step forward.

Shinra was a thin weaker man, but where he lacked strength of the body, intelligence was his high point. He was amazingly good with medicine and even as a boy he was fascinated by the strangest things. Including dead bodies.

His assistant, Celty, was extremely enriched with the knowledge of unnatural creatures, seeing that she herself was a Dullahan. Although the village was set on killing her, Shinra's late father protected her and threatened to kill himself if she was not allowed to live among us. She is harmless and although she doesn't speak she is really sweet and will help just about anyone with their problems.

"Shizuo….Your brother, well… he was a recently turned werewolf. Most likely turned by those talent troupe." Shinra's voice was shaky and unsure "Werewolves multiply by scratching or biting a person which also turns their victim into…one… of them…" Shinra looked down and away. "As you saw with your brother, they have no control. And that he only way they can stop is by…killing them…."

I felt my eyes grow wide and my stomach turn. So that was to be my fate…. I would be put to death. I felt my muscles tense up and I tried to spring up, sending a few people flying into walls and one into the well. More tackled me, holding pitch forks and knifes to me. I laid there ready to accept my fate.

Celty then stepped forward, holding a out the black notebook she used to talk to us. She wrote in quick hand writing " Please spare him as you did me. He has done nothing wrong and he of all people should be shown sympathy right now."

The elder read this and held up his hands " Celty you yourself had said he can't control himself. Why should we let him live? So that last night can be relived?"

She hesitated for a second as if to bite her lip, which of coarse she lacked, and she wrote in the booklet. "What if we let him go into the woods….. Werewolf's natural habitat is the woods, so he will have plenty prey and food to hunt…. And Shizuo, you know hates violence"

The elder thought over it " Fine under the condition we can blind fold him and let him go into the woods." By this point I felt much like a dog or something, but thinking back now, I suppose they weren't not far off.

Celty wasn't happy with the decision and neither was Shinra, I could tell. But it was better than the alternative. I remember being picked up and being put in a cart, being pulled by a mule and my hands bond together, and the last time I saw that tiny little village, I looked up at the church bell tower and standing next to the bell was a small being, in a black cape trimmed with fur at the top and bottom, it closed around there legs and came down to their boots along with two white puff balls hung from the capes pull strings. I looked up at the face surrounded in fur. A smirk graced the pale white face, and as the blind fold was brought up to my face, the being flashed there ruby red eyes and faded into oblivion. And all went dark.

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