Shit!
Oh, shit! Oh, shit! Oh, shit!
How the heck did I get in the middle of Witches' territory?! I don't freaking know! Damn, despite the unstable treaty between Shifters and Witches they still hate our guts. That doesn't say that we don't hate them. Of course there are a few who are more amiable towards each other; maybe I can find someone. I just have to get away from their Hunters on my back. Witches either want us dead or...not...dead. And the Hunters are the ones that want my kind dead.
Slipping into a back doorway I shift. My clothes do not shred or fall apart when I shift. We do not know where they go, we're assuming another dimension or something, I don't know it's magic. So when I shift back I'm not naked, even though you would appreciate the view I'm not holding a peep show.
Where there was a handsome, charming, charismatic young man with brown hair there is now an equally handsome and charming and charismatic young tortoiseshell tom with a mixture of black and brown fur.
I slink to a shadowy corner before the dumb Hunter comes. A bumbling idiot peeks in and, seeing nothing, trips on his way out. I snicker from my hidden nache. Even as a cat I'm smarter than them. Of course cats are naturally sneaking and clever, me being one just makes them more awesome.
I creep out. Now I just have to get back to my Destruction without any other diversions. Suddenly, a pair of hands grabs me around my middle. Yowling, I scratch at them but they dodge my claws. They must know how to work around a cat. They carry me off.
The hands are strong and big with calluses, man's hands. With me firmly in his grip he admonishes me for escaping. Next thing I know I'm being crammed into a small cage, my black eyes glaring mutinously at the man who took me. Bald with bushy grey eyebrows and mustache he pats the outside of my cage and takes away his hand before I can swipe at it.
When he leaves I work on the latch but it doesn't open. Le sigh, what I wouldn't do for thumbs right about now. Giving up I look around at my surroundings. I would mistake it for a pet shop if I knew I wasn't in Witches' territory. And the bubbling cauldron in the corner of the shop. And the yellow sign saying 'Don't drink and fly!'
Lying down on his front paws he figured he would just escape when the next witch came in for a familiar.
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I just finished a text response to my friend in Hoenn, she is in a real bind and needed advice. Watching the sending icon my mother came barging into my room unannounced. She never knocks yet when I go to the bathroom without knocking I get a lecture.
"Leaf, dear, it's time to get you your familiar! Do you know which one you're going to get?"
Did I mention I was a witch?
I'm actually getting my familiar really late in the game. Usually around ten or eleven you get your familiar for life but my parents wanted me to wait for something better. At seventeen all of the kids at school have familiars by now and you'd expect me to be jealous of them. I wasn't. What I seen my parents do kinda made me off on the idea.
"I was thinking of a tortoise."
Mom wrinkles her freckled nose at my choice. "A tortoise?"
"They're supposed to be very wise."
"You're wise enough for your age. Get something fun like a cat."
I barely suppressed the urge to roll my eyes. "Half the girls in my grade have cats."
She walks over and pats me on the shoulder. "That's because they're traditional." Brushing her lips over my forehead. "Be ready in ten minutes, we'll be going then."
Walking out I push the door shut behind her. Grabbing my purse and items I quickly type May a response of my condolences for her mother getting her a tutor.
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I received a response from my friend in Kanto. She offered condolences and everything but that still doesn't help! I bit my lip. Just because I failed my spells test I'm getting a tutor. My mom knows how I feel about tutors! I just don't like them! Besides, spelling is my worst subject and she should help. She's my mom after all!
I sigh. I feel close to tears but I won't allow myself to cry over something this stupid. I hate tutors. They don't help at all and after half an hour with me they give up and think I'm stupid.
My familiar, attuned to my feelings, rests on my head in comfort. I actually have familiars. It's rare and unique that anyone gets more than one. But they are just butterflies. They don't have much magical power in their little bodies to help me much and it's sad that they have such a short life span. They have babies and then they become my new familiars when the adults die. My favorite one is sitting on my head. She's different colored than my other familiars and lasted the longest.
"I'm fine Beautifly. Just a little worried about my new tutor." I got up and slipped a few milkweed leaves in the butterfly kit thingy in my room.
Walking out of the house in my jacket against the nippy wind I walked to the nearest cafe. The green and white striped awning shielded the large windows from the sun. Above the awning in large blue cursive 'Spellbound' blinked with neon. Briefly running a hand along the brick wall I walk in followed by a chime. The cafe was nice and opened and quite large, every Friday they had bands come in and people would dance and listen to them.
Ordering an apple cinnamon muffin and white hot chocolate for me and sugar water and rotting orange slices for my five butterflies who followed me in (I'm a regular, they're used to me) I sat down at a table in the back. Beautifly flits off my head to join her brethren in drinking the juice out of the rotting orange slice. The smell of it is cloyingly disgusting and I can taste it on the back of my tongue but I grew used to it a long time ago.
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A/N: Hola my peeps. This shall take over One-shot Wednesday for Halloween!~~ I love Halloween! So that's why Halloween gets a longer story than the Fourth of July did :P It shouldn't be too long. Hopefully not…
This is the prologue and this is going to be alternating first POV's between Leaf and May. I just put Gary in there 'cuz… *shrugs* I felt like it :P
A Destruction is a group of wild cats :3 It could also be a clowder but destruction is more awesome
Tell me, what are you guys doing for Halloween? :3 I'm going to be Ursula the Sea Witch! xD
Guess what the dividers are supposed to be!
