Chapter 3 Spellbound

Moonlight woke up very early in the morning. It had been twenty eight days since her family had died, about a moon's length. That's how cat's tell time, in moons. Bunnies tell time by the way the drops of dreams are positioned in the sky.

Moonlight spun into cat form, and raced out of the safe haven. She barely ever went out, only when she really needed to hunt. Moonlight didn't want to kill all the animals in the haven, so she crept out to hunt.

It was night, the mists of a dreamy night. Moonlight felt a pain. A pain she knew only too well. The pain she had when she first became a cat, her soul getting pulled apart. Moonlight ran back to the haven and drank from the fountain. The pain instantly vanished.

Moonlight realized something. She probably had to drink from the fountain, every time this happened, or she would die. Moonlight was bound to this fountain, bound to the spell and the curse of the cat, spellbound.

The next morning, Moonlight walked out of the cave, strutting gracefully like the cat she was. She opened the haven door, and leaped out. Moonlight didn't hit the ground, though. She had landed in a person's arms.

"Oh what a cute little cat!" The lady said. Moonlight looked up, to see an old person looking down at her. "Oh, I would love to take you home." The lady carried Moonlight to her car, and plopped her in it. The car started to thunder, and it shook little Moonlight.

If Moonlight was a real cat, with a real family, she wouldn't have left the den for another 2 moons. Moonlight didn't want to leave, so she devised a plan to get out of being a house pet. that night.

Later that night, Moonlight crept out of the pillow the lady had set up for her. She climbed out the window and raced into the forest. Moonlight ran faster, and faster, trying to get far away from the human's house. Moonlight ran and ran, trying to find the safe haven.

Moonlight ran into a river. Now, she knew she was completely lost. There were no rivers anywhere near the haven. Moonlight saw little swans, trying to knock each other down. Moonlight smiled at them. It reminded Moonlight of her first home, but she couldn't grasp on why.

Moonlight had been traveling for two moons, she was starved to death, but hadn't had any 'spellbound' attacks yet. Moonlight's stomach churned over. She hadn't eaten anything since she left the woman's place. Her eyes were blurry. Hunger tired her. She fell down, half dead from lack of food.