Chapter 1
I quietly stalked the deer, waiting for it to let it's guard down. It was looking out into the fields, hearing the other sounds of the forest. It finally gave up, and ate a patch of grass. I got into a pouncing position. I leaped. Landing on top of it, I snapped it's neck easily. In it's eyes, I saw a beautiful white wolf, with it's teeth bearing. Me, in my shape shifting state. It stared one last second, than it's eyes rolled back. I made sure it was dead, not wanting it to go through anymore pain, and sunk my teeth into it's body. The taste of the flesh was delicious. The blood was as sweet as wine.
If you haven' noticed, my shape shifting animal is the white wolf. I was born like this. my parent's were also shape shifters, but they're dead now. While hunting, poachers came and shoot them down. since then I haven't gone back to my human state since then. They shot my parents. They are the enemy.
Movement. My ears perked up. Something else was in the woods. I hid in the bushes. I sniffed out the smell. A human. I growled softly. Most likely a poacher. I crouched, prepared for the human to come into sight.
But it wasn't a poacher. It was a boy, probably my age if I were in my human form. He was bleeding. Even though I didn't know the boy, I felt a deep sorrow for him. I came out from behind the bushes, not thinking at all. The boy stopped and gasped. I whimpered, trying to get him to understand it was okay. He stepped back a little. We were gonna get nowhere like this.
I went behind the bush, and concentrated on shifting back to a human form. I slowly made the change, not having changed in a while. It was finished, and I was taken aback. The clothes I had worn, were still there. Oh, I forgot, they didn't shred, but expanded over time because of the shape shifter skin it was made out of. I made my way out of the bushes to face the boy.
He just stared at me, confused. I would be too though. In goes a wolf, out comes a girl. He stepped back a few steps. "It's ok," I tried to assure him. I could feel his tension decrease a little bit. I stepped closer to him, and he didn't flinch. "How old are you?" I asked him as I stepped forward a ways. "seventeen," He answered. "Me too," I told him, just to make him feel calmer. I was only a foot away fro him now. I reached up to stroke his face. I don't know why I did it, I just know that now it was the right decision.
Immediately when I touched him, a jot of energy rushed through me to him, and back towards me. I gasped in shock, he stopped the breath he was in-taking. But worst of all, I felt love for him. I tried to break away from the feeling, but I couldn't. It was pulling me in. I had to try to think straight. He was the vermin, like the poachers. He was gonna try to pull me in, then kill me. But a little voice inside my head whispered that he wasn't, and it was right. But I couldn't listen to that at the moment. I held on to my thought, and pulled away. My hand moved away with a last jolt. I moved away and breathed heavily. That wasn't my smartest idea.
The boy looked at me like I did something to him. Probably the way I was looking at him. My breathing slowed down. What was I supposed to do with this human now? I felt this weird attraction to him, which couldn't happen.
I've been gone from the night world, but I still remember the rules. We aren't allowed to fall in love with humans, yet here I am, with this human who just happens to wonder on my turf. And I'm falling for him. What do I do now? More importantly, what can I do now? There's a word for how I'm feeling, and it's not good at all. Even though I don't want it to happen, I can't control it. This human, was my soul mate.