Ethan slowly opened his eyes. He stretched and looked around his room. Everything was like his room at home. The walls were black, the pillows were dark purple and there was a clock with a lighting design around the edges. He suddenly saw a black panther by his bed side with a note in his mouth. Ethan took the note out of its mouth and watched as the panther left his room. He sighed and read the note.

Dear Ethan,
A month ago you swore your allegiance to me, may I say I am very impressed. As a gift I am allowing you to stay in your human form. Be warned I can take away this gift at any time. I will see you in my meditation room at 5 pm tonight, until then do whatever you like. Just do not leave the castle.

-Chase Young

Ethan sighed a sigh of relief and fell back on his bed.

I thought I messed up last time, I thought for sure that Chase would turn me back into a white wolf Ethan thought as he ran his hand through his messy black hair.

He glanced over at the clock that was on the wall and it was 5 am.

Grandpa, why did I have to inherit your gift? I never wanted the ability Ethan thought as he closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep again. Then a black panther came back into room and nudged Ethan's hand and sat by his bed side. Waiting for him to wake up, the panther's eyes revealed sadness for this child.

Meanwhile miles away, somewhere in the sky.

Rachel sighed as she looked out her window and just gazed into the clouds.

"Excuse me?"The girl next to her said. The girl made a face and poked Rachel in the back.
Rachel took out her ear-buds.

"I'm sorry, I was just thinking about some things." Rachel said while trying to smile. The girl smiled back at her.

"Hi I'm Kimiko." Kimiko said while shaking Rachel's hand.

"Hi Kimiko. I'm Rachel" She said while smiling.

Kimiko had her long black hair in two pigtails while wearing a simple but gorgeous gold kimono that matched her blue eyes.

"I like your kimono!" Rachel said in a quiet voice, smiling gently. Kimiko returned the smile.

"Thanks I just came back from a visit in Tokyo, where are you flying to?" Kimiko asked while studying Rachel.

Rachel wore her brown hair down, simple dark blue sweatshirt with matching pants.

"I'm going to China to visit my grandma" Rachel said while smiling.

She seems special Kimiko thought to herself.

"Why are you flying to China?" Rachel asked while putting her ipod in her sweatshirt.

"I live there and to see" Kimiko said but she couldn't finish the sentence because she was blushing so hard.

"Let me guess…a boyfriend?" Rachel said while smiling.

Kimiko slowly nodded and giggled.

"Hey do you wanna exchange numbers? So that way, we can still talk?" Rachel asked. Kimiko took out her cellphone and gave it to Rachel, and Rachel gave hers to Kimiko. After a few minutes they exchanged cell phones.

"So tell me about him!" She said to Kimiko happily.

Kimiko and Rachel spent the next few hours talking about boys, make up, family life, and pretty much everything else a girl could talk about.