Hey everyone! I'm back, with a new story! Enjoy:
Chapter One: Therianthrope
Seven year-old Frank Zhang was puzzled. Frank was at school, and the journal prompt was, If you were a superhero, what would your superpower be?
Gosh, there was too much to choose. Frank would love to fly, or control water, or be invisible. But he just couldn't picture himself flying. He was never a Superman kind of boy. Controling water would be cool, but he's in Vancouver. In Canada. There would be no need to use water.
Invisible? Well, little Frank was already invisible. He's sitting at a table alone. Everyone is chit-chatting with their friends at their own tables. Frank has absolutely no one to talk to.
Once, the teacher tried to introduce him to the other kids, thinking they would play together and be happy. It was not so. Frank walked over with a small smile on his face to the table with the other kids. The other children gave him a little smiles and they all stopped talking to each other. There was an awkward silence for a few minutes, until one of the boys asked a bunch of the kids to play with at recess with him. Frank wasn't invited.
Frank did a mental scroll of all the superpowers he could have.
Seeing the Future... uh-uh.
Power over air and lightning... again, not the Superman type.
Lazers out of his eyes... that ought to hurt.
Changing into any animal...
Super strength... with Frank being a klutz, that would not be good.
Wait, go back up.
Changing into any animal, where did that come from? It sounds cool. Frank thinks back to the time when his mother took him to the zoo, and the tiger was growling and prowling and just being brave and awesome. It would be pretty amazing to be a tiger, just for a few minutes.
And maybe, Frank would get more attention! Everyone would come up to pet him and the kids would want to play with the nice tiger. But, when Frank turned back to himself, he would be alone. Hey, it's better than nothing.
So Frank started writing.
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