I woke up on the ground next to the burned down fire that Kayla made last night. I looked around and didn't see Kayla anywhere. I saw a small piece of paper on the ground and on it were instructions on what to say to the weird lady. But the problem was what I should choose. I wanted to be human so I wouldn't worry about the changes, but I didn't want to die sixty years or so later. I want to be with Danny, and if I choose to be human, Making Danny a wolf would have been for nothing. I knew what I wanted to do.
I waited around for Kayla to come back to our campsite. But when the sun was higher in the sky I knew that Kayla wasn't coming back for a while so I walked to the tent that the German lady was in. I searched my mind for all of the German knowlage that I might have. "Kann ich kommen in?" I took two years of German in high school, so I knew what I was saying.
"Ja." The voice came out of the tent.
I walked into the tent, and I saw the lady sitting indian style on the mat close to the back of the tent. "Ich habe meine..." I didn't know the german word for decison.
She must have known what I was talking about, "Entscheidung?"
I smiled and sat down in front of her and nodded.
"Ein Wolf oder einer menschlichen?" She said.
Kayla couldn't have made this any easier, "Do you not know any English?"
The lady smirked, and spoke in a heavy German accent, "I do, but not well."
"Thank you. I don't know much German." I sighed in relief.
She laughed, "Well, I know some to know what you talk about."
"I have made my decison, I don't really know if it is the right one though." I looked down at the black fur that was starting to grow on my forearms.
"What decison that you make is the one you live with for rest of life." She was grim.
I wanted so much to be free of the changes, but I wasn't sure that I could pick both. "I pick to be...a wolf."
"Ein wolf? Are you sure?"
I was uncertain, "No, but I do not want to die in sixty years."
"Ja, now we go outside. I not want tent destroyed." She ushered me outside to a place between four trees.
"I'm ready." I closed my eyes, knowing the next time I open them I will be a full wolf.
"I only speed up process. Will be painless. But will make stronger"
I opened my eyes again. "Okay." I watched as she brought out a leather bag and spread a strange powder around me in a large circle.
She started chanting in German, and I knew better than to try to follow along, I wouldn't be able to keep up. I saw the circle start to glow and a stream of light rose from it and started to circle me, like in a spiral pattern. The light was so bright, and it kept brightening until all I saw was white. But other colors started to add themselves to the light. Mostly blue, but purple was in there as well. Then green and gold entered the swirls of blue and purple. The colors grew closer to me and I felt the instinctive urge to cringe, but I couldn't move. And it seemed the colors entered me and the light died down until I saw the forest around me. I shook my head to clear it of the spinning colors.
"Is done." She dipped her head. She seemed shorter than she would have been. Maybe by a half foot but still. She walked away until she disappeared into her lit tent.
I dipped my head in gratitude, 'Thank you.' I walked until I found a still pond. My mouth was parched. I looked down and saw an altered me. My eyes were the clearest and brightest blue that they could ever get. I could say that they were glowing. But on my face I saw purple tips along with my gray. I looked around and saw my claws were a faint gold. My tail tip had blue and purple. I was different. I was sure that no one has ever looked like this. But was the most drastic was that a lot of my gray was gone and my fur was the darkest black that could ever be available. It was night personified itself.
I tested if my powers still worked, I tried to unfurl my wings, but it didn't happen. I smiled as much as a wolf could smile. I looked at the pond and tried to see if my color change could work. I flashed my eyes to gold and back. 'So that one still works.' I let my mind project my force field and walked to a tree, when I got close enough the massive tree snapped. 'And that one too.' But I wondered if Kayla or anyone else would recognize me.
I ran back to the campsite, and I laid down where I was the night before and placed my head in between my paws. But I heard someone approach and I sat back up.
"Alex?" Kayla said as she came out of the woods.
'Yeah. It's me.' I sighed.
"Why did you pick this?"
'I want to be with Danny and I don't want to die in sixty years.' I was quiet.
"I'm sure that he would have followed soon after."
I was angry now. "Well, you could have told me this earlier. Okay I was content on the idea that both Danny and I would be human. But You had to stop it. I didn't know that you would die. Maybe If I stopped both of our younger and human selves. You wouldn't be dead and we would both have lives. But now I'm stuck like this for thousands of years." I was yelling now.
"..." She was speechless.
"Okay, I'm sorry, look I have to go." I got up onto all fours and I ran into the depths of the woods.
