It was the next morning and I didn't get much sleep last night with Ms. Okami's lessons and all. I did get enough sleep to wake up and help Kira with her chores. First chore was to feed the wolf-man. He was breathing heavily when he saw us coming with meat in the buckets and my heart was beating faster then usual. I haven't seen anything like that before.
"Don't worry, as long as you don't upset him then you're fine." Kira said as I followed her to the cage of the wolf-man.
"He already looks mad to me." I said while going next to Kira and throwing in a piece of meat like Kira did earlier.
"He's always like that." She said as the wolf-man calmed down and chewed on his piece of meat.
"Interesting." I said as we went to return the buckets and go on to our next chore. We did a couple more chores which weren't too hard, but some took a while to do.
While I was getting some water in the bucket which was for Krystal's fox and some of the other animals that were with the performers, some of the chores included helping some of the performers out also, I was standing up and then I turned around. I saw a boy, just around my age. "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to…"
"It's o.k. My fault. I was wandering around the woods when I spotted you. Hi, I'm Leon." He offered his hand and I shook it.
I didn't trust him that much, but he seemed like a nice guy, "Hi, I'm Ella. So, what were you doing out here?" I said while picking up my bucket of water and started to walk back to the tents and Leon was following me.
"I just wanted to take a walk. I could ask you the same thing, what are you doing out here?" He had such gorgeous blue eyes and he was around the same age as me, he was blonde.
"I was getting some water for my…family." I lied, but the Cirque Du Freak was like my family.
"Well, here's my stop." I said while reaching the tents and then I spotted a wolf on his wrist. "Hey, cool tattoo."
"Oh this, this is like a birthmark. So, will I see you again?"
"I'll be around. Bye." I smiled while walking back to Krystal's tent. Then when I looked back, Leon was gone and I shrugged. I then finally reached Krystal's tent and I went inside. I poured the bucket of water in the water bowl for the fox then went back outside while putting the bucket just outside the tent. I then walked around the tents just to look around then I bumped into Darren.
"Oh hey Ella, didn't expect to bump into you." Darren said.
"Hey Darren, I was just walking around. By the way, have you seen Ms. Okami?" I said while looking around.
"Actually, I have…she was just in the tent talking to Mr. Crepsley. Come on, I'll take you to her."
I nodded and followed Darren and looked up at the sky, noticing that time does fly since it was almost dark. We then finally reached to the tent and I followed Darren in.
Ms. Okami spotted me. "Hi Ella, I was just talking to Larten over here, he's an old friend of mine."
Mr. Crepsley looked kind of scary at first, then he flashed a smile making him look friendly. He has a scar running along the left side of his cheek. Mr. Crepsley then bowed to me and I bowed back. "Nice to finally meet you, Ella."
"Nice to meet you too, Mr. Crepsley." I smiled so he wouldn't get a bad impression of me since I hate it when people think bad of me. My fangs were showing and I instantly closed my mouth. I almost forgot that I had fangs, my claws were also growing a bit too. I didn't really howl at the moon yet, but I'm progressing on my howl.
"Ready for tonight's lesson, Ella?" Ms. Okami asked.
"Yes." I nodded then looked over to Darren. "Sorry Darren, lessons call." I frowned since I was starting to get to know Darren better and I kind of liked him.
"Don't worry about it, I have lessons tonight too, they can be such a pain." He chuckled and I giggled.
Later that night after Ms. Okami told me to take a break, I was walking around when I heard something clang and it was coming from the cage of the wolf-man. I decided to go investigate and when I got there, the moonlight shined on the figure just enough for me to make out who it was. The figure of the person was…Leon! And he was holding something in his hands.
"Leon! What do you think you're doing?" I couldn't help but jumping out and stopping whatever he was doing while the wolf-man was growling at Leon.
He got startled and dropped the thing he was holding in his hands and turned to me. "Ella? What are you doing here?"
"I'm with the Cirque Du Freak, what are you doing here?"
"You mean…you're one of them?" I knew what he meant by one of "them"
"Yes, I am." Then I showed my fangs and my ears. I don't have a tail yet.
"I'm here to kill this...beast. He's dangerous!"
"He is not a beast! Get away from there!" I couldn't help but get mad, even though the wolf-man wasn't a personal favorite of mine, but he was still family.
"No, I'm here to do a job. I can't believe you're a…half-wolf. You can still get out of here Ella. Come join me and the wolf hunters."
"You're a wolf...hunter? NEVER! I will not kill my own kind. I rather die then kill my own kind."
"Suit yourself and to think you were…" He was trying to find the right word.
"Normal?" Just then Ms. Okami's voice came into range then I looked back to where her voice was then turned back to deal with Leon, but he was gone. I went to where the wolf-man's cage was, he calmed down already and picked up what Leon was holding. Just right then, I wished that I never even bumped into Leon.
