Thanks to glennscm the chapters will be longer than they were before, and if anyone else has anything that they have a problem with, feel free to tell me, as depending upon what it is, I will change it. So that means you should review^^; please?
After a few moons, she noticed that the days were getting shorter and colder, she had never been a summer person however, and this still annoyed her, as winter meant that she would have to start hunting more big game for the pelts, and food reserves, she shrugged the thoughts off as she walked to the entrance of her cave, and with a stifled yawn, she stretched. These past few months had been good to her, she was no longer under-weight, but nor was she round with fat.
She had learned much about the natural world in these last few months, through mere observation, she had learned how to make a warm bed out of sticks, twigs and mud. She had also learned how to move silently through the forest, never leaving a trail behind her, through trial and error she had determined which plants were safe to eat, and which were not, which plants were antiseptics, and which were poisons to use on her arrows, which woods were best suited for the making of spears, bows and arrows.
She had learned how to focus what she could only describe as energy, pure, raw energy that came from within herself, to do simple things, like levitate small pebbles, or if she concentrated hard enough, she could pinch blood vessels within her pray to kill it. However, she did this only when her other methods of hunting had failed and she was on the verge of starving, and it gave her a migraine.
Yes, it was true that she had learned much over the past several moons, but she still felt incomplete, like there was something missing that not even her small companions could fill, true, they made the feeling less intense, but she was lacking something vital within herself. She walked over to the stream, glistening like rubies in the early morning sun, stripped off her leather clothing sewn from many different animal hides, and waded into the brisk stream, she washed away the filth from her hair, and then started on the rest of her body, starting from the top down.
A small red fox approached the stream, and after sniffing the air, sat down on the streambed, and started to lick itself clean. "Guess I'm no the only one who decided that it was time for a bath you smelly fox," Christabelle said laughing to her self. The fox looked up from its right foreleg and looked at the small girl who had saved him from a hunters trap nearly six moons ago, as if to say, Me, smelly? Why don't you speak for yourself foolish girl.
"Come on Tristan, you know I was only teasing," she said in rebuttal as she splashed the fox, who gave her a death stare, laughing she began to swim lazily in the small stream. The early morning sun reflecting off the water like living flame, the bird song filling the air like a choir of angels, a large black bird landed beside the fox, and started preening itself. "Hey Shadow, have a good hunt?" Christabelle said to the raven in a curious tone, as she waded back onto the shore, and sat beside her two companions.
The raven shook its head and said, in a hoarse rough voice, "No, human." the raven then continued to preen itself nonchalantly. Christabelle sat up abruptly, panicking, she had thought that all of the local hunters knew to stay out of her woods, this was her home, her place, and no hunter was going to cheat and use guns to hunt in her woods.
"Where was the hunter shadow?" Christabelle said as she stood up and ran the quarter mile back to her cave, she was going hunting, and she needed her supplies, there was a reason that no one came here anymore, for any hunters, or backpackers who came through this area, would find their gear destroyed in the morning, along with other annoying, but mostly harmless pranks meant to drive them away. She passed through the trees with a practiced ease.
"Not hunter, girl like you," the raven said as she darted in and out of the trees, "innocent, no harm," the large black bird said once they reached the cave. "Watch, no trap. Follow, no noise. Listen, like pretty voice." Christabelle stopped putting things into the rabbit skin pouch that she carried with her always- it was her first kill. True, it had been expanded over the months, but the original pelt was where they all came together, it was at the center, as it was the center of her new life, this peaceful life- as she heard what Shadow was saying, as the bird had never told her to do anything that was unwise in the end, it may have seemed that way at first, but when all of the information came together, the bird was normally right.
"Fine I'll follow her, and see what she's all about before sending her away, happy?" Christabelle whined to the bird, the fox walked into the cave, and rubbed against her leg. "Hey Tris, we're going on an adventure, want to come?" the fox looked up at her, then, after walking behind her, the small fox nudged the back of her leg. Christabelle let out a small laugh, "Alright you two, alright we're leaving were leaving," she said then paused at the mouth of the dim cave. "Lets go tracking…" said as she stepped out of her cave. She needed to see who was making such a fuss in her woods, and deal with them.
So you got two updates in just as many days, review, please? I need to know what you all think, so that I can make this story better, also I'm thinking that she could go into any house but Hufflepuff, altho, probably more Slytherin than Gryffindor, but more Ravenclaw than Gryffindor. So R&R and merry may we meet again ^^.