I walk in my house, and grab the aspirin set beside the door. I had one hell of a pounding headache already, and my step dad hadn't even started in yet!

"Why are you home so late Leon? You're dragging your sister down with you!" He always favored Lola, even though she did the same things as me. "You really

should find some REAL friends to hang out with honey. Not... Not... HIM!" He spits the word out like it burns just saying it. I don't remember the last time I

heard him say my name, and I'm glad he might have forgotten it! I turn and walk right back out, not paying him any attention as he chases my down the drive

way, Lola right behind him. I'm glad she comes for my 'little walks' with me, I'm afraid what might happen if I left her alone with that monstrous ass hole!

"Leon, you really shouldn't get him going like this. You know when you come back he'll be..." I pull her around the corner, a knife just missing her leg and

bouncing off the ground with a spark. He was trying to kill us, not just me but Lola too! I hear a deep growl like at the school, why was this dog fallowing me and

getting angry when I do? It doesn't matter. If he tries to fallow us, I think I'll kill him! "Leon, Rose is coming..." I turn, Rose's dark hair seams to catch the light

and glow a calming dark red, her eyes stabbing thorough me with the confused look on her face. I hear my step dad walking down the road, and with out

thinking, I pick Lola up, running and grab Rose's hand. I don't know where I was running, or why I did not fight him, but I just needed to get away. "Leon, slow

down pleas!" I look over my back and around the still shocked Lola, we were almost to the school again. I stop, falling on my belly and just laying there, fighting

the tears that were burning my eyes. "Lola what's going on?" I guess Rose knew I am about useless right now, not much I can say with out choking on sobs.

Lola takes a moment to compose herself, finally coming to terms with what just happened "We are running away from his drunken step dad, my real dad, and I

don't think I'm going to go back." Her voice was icy calm like she planed this out and everything was okay.

I listen to Lola tell Rose about our past. She was born, she was a twin but her brother died at birth. Two years later, her mom found me at an

adoption house thing, she never said what one it was though. I was the same age, and to Lola's mom's surprise they knew my real birthday. We were born on

the same day, but for some reason they could not find the time of birth. When we got to the house, her dad was depressed and wouldn't even look at me. I sit

with my back to a tree, Rose had got a box of milk bones, ya know the dog treats, and I was the only one chewing on them. "Hey..." I look around in my dazed

way, "Where did the dog go?" Rose looks at me, slightly amused and slightly conceded. She trades a glance with Lola and they both look at the box of milk bones

I was eating. "You growled Leon." Lola tries to jump right to the point, but I'm distracted by the sound of a cat's meow. There are never any cats outside around

here. Lola is looking at Rose, as shocked as when the knife bounced by her leg. "Leon's like me..." Rose's soft, yet concerned voice drags my full attention to her.

"We... Aren't normal people." I look up at the sky, clear yet the smell of rain is on the air. Lola burst out laughing, clearly thinking that Rose was just stating the

obvious to calm us down. "What am I then Rose? A dog? And if that's the case, you must be a cat. So why are we sitting here like this and not killing each

other?" Every bone in my body was screaming for me to run from the answer, not to hear it, not to listen anymore. I just want to fade into nothing and vanish.

But as always, that didn't happen. "You are part dog, from what I've heard there was a few like that running amuck around here. But you are more then that.

So are you Lola." I stand up, sniffing the air again. Ravens, doves, and a wolf were near by. The longer I smell, the more animals I can pick up on. Lola's voice

had dropped down to nothing more then a whisper, "We should go with her and find out what's really going on." I nod, something weird was sure as hell going

on! I was almost 18 for gods sake! This was not what I had planned on. AT ALL! I always wanted to cook, be a chief, I was good with food being my life. Not

being part dog and what ever else I was. But, life gives you a lemon, you make a glass of lemonade and sell it back to life, right? So I'll make what I can out of

this... what ever it was. "Okay Rose, is there a place we can go to get a... crash course in this stuff?" She brightens up, nodding and smiling like there was

nothing she'd rather do in her extra time.

We arrive, vary late in the evening, at a small cabin in the woods. "I'm staying in town so I can get to school easier,

but this is where me and my mother live." Rose opens the door and smiles, trying to hide her blushing face behind her hair. Lola hesitates, clearly thinking there

must be some kind of trick at play here, but I stroll in, feeling completely at home and safe. "Nice home. Hello? Is Rose's mother home?" As if summoned by my

yelling, a short redheaded woman pops off the roof, cat claws coming out from her finger nails. "Who are you? What are you... Oh, you must be friends of Rose!"

She hides her hands as if we didn't see she was about to rip my face off, but, with an icy calm voice that is slowly becoming energetic, I answer her. "Yep. I'm

Leon, this is my sister..." I point to the now wall climbing cat woman on the celling. "Lola. As you can see by the sudden ears and tail, she's a cat person too."

Her mother eyes me slowly, glancing up to check on Lola. "You're not just one animal are you?" I shrug, as far as I know, I was an alian and not any animal, but

what the hell, why not test my luck a bit? "So far it's just a wolf thing." She nods, pulling a pen and notebook out from her purse and taking down notes at high

speeds, almost ripping the paper. "Okay, what can I help you with?" I take a mental note, she is short tempered and straight to the point, a no-nonsense-and-

get-things-done kinda person or cat person... Or what ever. "Rose said there were more like us, and that they might have answers." I shrug, trying to win at lest

cool guy points with Rose. If I die, as long as she is impressed, I guess it'd be okay by be. Her mother glares at me and hands me a note, on it is a shadow like

man with no face, all black pen ink, with a wolves jaw, cat ears and claws on his hands, and bird feet, one wing solid black and one white. "Erm... Nice art, but

what's this have to do with the answers I'm looking for...?" I look up, but she's gone and Rose raps her arms around my neck again, kissing my cheek. "That's

what you'll look like, but with your face. She see's the animal form of people." Rose tries to look at the drawing, but I quickly put it in my pocket. It was way to

weird for her to see! I feel her hands on my shoulder blades again, like just before the fight, and a sharp pain run down both my arms. I turn and look at her

slowly, she has a black feather in her left hand and a white in the other. I watch one single drop of blood fall and hit the ground, being drank in by the thirsty

dirt. Suddenly, my vision is filled with people, all in medieval armor, fighting to the death. Huge claw marks burned into some of their chest plates, others have a

monstrous dragon head, eating a man. I reach to my chest, unsure of what side I'm on when I see a man, he looks like a blood drenched Kaito, standing over

Len with a blade poised to slice his neck wide open. With out thinking, or hesitation, I dash at them, nocking the blood drenched man over and yelling. "I just

made friends with him you ass! You can't kill Len!" The battle goes silent as both sides glare at me. I get up and glare defiantly back at them all, ready to take on

the world, when one voice cuts through the silence. "Pick your side Leon. Not now, but remember this moment and when you need, save the right one." I wake

up on a soft bed, damn I must have passed out!