A/N- Hi, guys, after getting my story together I finally can get this thing going. I'm very excited to finally post a story on here after a very long time. I had to make a few changes here. Anyways I hope you enjoy the story and without further or due here's the first chapter of Where the Wild Calls

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves ~ William Shakespeare

Chapter 1

Just a Little Magic

The students in Mr. Samson's class were chatting among themselves before the bell rang. Mr. Samson wasn't even in the classroom, so most of the students got out their phones and texted one another or they simply just messed around. One student, in particular, didn't join in any of this nonsense. Sitting in her desk in the back corner of the classroom, Kassidy Kimler was reading a book. She preferred to read over talking-not that she was shy; she simply just didn't like to talk to people. She thought that some of the people in her class were loudmouths, distracting, show-offs, stupid, or just really annoying.

She was a lone wolf most of the time and she didn't seem to mind. She was mostly considered to be different among everyone in the entire school. She would always wear gothic clothing and gothic pieces of jewelry like chokers. She never liked skirts, dresses, girly girl things, or anything colorful for that matter. She didn't even like to do what most of the girls did in her school like get her hair, nails, toenails, and makeup done. Kassidy will put on eyeliner, but that was pretty much it.

Kassidy always wore her glasses when she was in school or anything related to reading and writing. She could see well and these were just reading glasses, but she preferred to wear them a lot. She always read a lot of books and because of that, she had to get reading glasses. She loved to read and because of her love of reading, she was planning on becoming an author. She was already working on a story and she was almost finished with it.

As Kassidy was lost in her book she then heard the bell ring and in perfect timing, Mr. Samson walked into the classroom. "Alright, settle down, class. Get to your seats and put your phones away. I know some of you can hear me, so don't act like you didn't hear me."

Kassidy finished the chapter she was on and placed her bookmark in her book. She then took a strand of her ruby red hair and placed it behind her ear and after she did that she placed her book in her leather bag and then focused her ocean blue eyes on Mr. Samson.

Mr. Samson was Kassidy's physics teacher and unlike the other students, she was not on his bad side. She was a good student in not only his class but in her other classes as well. She had some good grades and always had a good effort. She even had perfect attendance and never missed a day of school or skipped class.

Mr. Samson stood in front of the classroom and looked at everyone. Mr. Samson nodded slowly and then cleared his throat. "I know a lot of you are eager to get out of school since its Friday and considering this is the last period of the day, but if you listen to the lesson of today you'll be out of here in no time. We will have a test over this lesson next Friday, so I suggest that you get your notes out."

Without hesitating, Kassidy reached into her bag to pull out her notebook for physics and opened it to a blank page. Mr. Samson then taught the class the lesson for today and as he was talking, Kassidy took down her notes. She wrote in her notes like it was nothing and paid the very attention to Mr. Samson. A lot of the students in her class were very bored and didn't want to listen to Mr. Samson's lesson of today. Even though Kassidy had to admit his lessons were boring at times she didn't fuss about it.

Like her classmates, she wanted to get home, but for a different reason. A lot of her classmates were going to parties, but she didn't like parties that much. Every time she would go to a party she would instantly get bored. It wasn't really her thing.

Kassidy wanted to get home because she wanted to learn more magic. Kassidy was a witch and she had this secret for a long time now. The only ones that know about her magic are her family. She lived with her Uncle Matt, her Aunt Jen, and her two cousins Addison and Reese, and her dog, Raven. Sadly though neither her Uncle nor Aunt could teach her any spells. Her Aunt wasn't a witch, but her Uncle came from a family that could do magic, but her uncle learned only a little bit and after that, he didn't want to learn about it anymore and wanted to focus on something else. So Kassidy had to learn magic on her own from the books she was reading on spells and anything else having to do with witchcraft. She wasn't experienced, but her goal was to learn as much as possible so she can be a master at it.

She was taught the basics of being a witch by her parents when she lived with them in America like what herbs they used, the history of them, and easy spells. Her parents, however, didn't have the chance to teach her anymore because they died. Kassidy didn't even want to think about that horrible day and wished she could wipe it out of existence. She missed them terribly, but she sucked it up and continued with her life.

Mr. Samson stopped talking all the sudden in the middle of something he was saying. Kassidy looked up from her notes confused and when she looked at Mr. Samson, she noticed that Mr. Samson had his arms crossed and was furrowing his brow at someone. Kassidy looked to see who Mr. Samson was looking at and sitting right in the middle of the classroom with his phone out under his desk was one of the popular guys at school, Holden Brooks.

Holden was by far not only one of the popular kids, but he was a trouble maker and everyone knew that. He had angular fringe brown hair, along with brown eyes and was wearing a plain white shirt, along with some jeans, and sneakers. A lot of the students in school loved him; even the girls did. A lot knew though that he was already dating one of the cheerleaders, Molly Winslow.

"Mr. Brooks?" Mr. Samson asked. Holden jerked his head up at Mr. Samson and Kassidy saw that Holden turned off his phone without looking at it. "Are you listening?"

Holden didn't move, but he eyed his classmates that were next to him. He then looked at Mr. Samson and nodded. "Yeah…"

"What did I say then?"

Kassidy knew that Holden wasn't paying attention and this only made her roll her eyes. She did not like Holden one bit. She's heard that when he's not in school he's usually dancing for a dance team. She's also heard that he was very good at hip hop. She didn't like Holden because he danced, she didn't like him because of his attitude. She never talked to him and wasn't planning on doing that anytime soon or ever.

Holden stared at Mr. Samson, trying to form his words. "Um… you were saying some things…"

Mr. Samson narrowed his eyes. "Unacceptable, Mr. Brooks, I will not tolerate anyone in my classroom that will not pay attention."

"Well, it's not my fault you have the most boring class in this entire school. Nothing about this class makes me want to learn."

Mr. Samson walked over to Holden's desk in a few steps and didn't change his expression. "Two things: one that's another detention for you and two-" Mr. Samson held open his hand towards Holden, "hand over your phone." Holden sighed frustrated and placed his phone in Mr. Samson's hand. "One more time like that Mr. Brooks and I will double your detention."

As Mr. Samson went over to his desk to place Holden's phone there, the speaker came on. "Kassidy Kimler, please report to Principal Chester's office."

As soon as the speaker went off everyone stared at Kassidy. Kassidy got confused and wondered why she was needed in the Principal's office.

As Kassidy carried her leather bag she made her way to the Principal's office. Kassidy didn't want to come to conclusions that she did something wrong. She may look like a rebel, but she wouldn't go as far to cause any trouble at school. She wouldn't even go far as to use her magic here. She knew better than to use magic in public and if she did she knew her secret would be exposed. She has done her best to hide her magic.

Sometimes though, she wasn't too careful when it comes to her anger. She has anger issues and sometimes that can get out of control. Whenever she gets too angry, a fire will form all over her. Before she would start her day she would make sure to meditate and sometimes if she had to when she got angry she would try to take deep breaths to try and calm down.

Kassidy then saw the Principal's door and as soon as she got in front of it she knocked. She then heard the masculine voice of her principal. "Come in."

Kassidy opened the door and then looked at her Principal and he was sitting in a wheelie chair at his desk. "Hi, Principal Chester, you wanted to see me?"

"Yes, have a seat, Miss. Kimler."

Doing what the Principal told her to do she sat in a nearby chair and placed her bag on the ground. In the office, Kassidy saw some pictures with Principal Chester and his family, some of his achievements in picture frames, and on his desk, she saw it was very organized. Papers were stacked and a couple of pens and a pencil were neatly lined up. He had a pencil sharpener that was on the side of his desk and a desktop that was on his other side of the desk.

"Am I in trouble or something?" Kassidy asked.

The Principal adjusted his glasses and then he folded his hands on his desk and looked at Kassidy. "No, no, no. This has nothing to do with you being in trouble. You're a very hardworking student with decent grades and this is actually why I called you in here."

Kassidy gripped the pendant that was part of her necklace. The necklace was pure silver and the pendant was very round, shiny, and was a very nice blue color like Kassidy's eyes. This necklace was her dad's and he gave it to her as a birthday present. This necklace was part of the Kimler family and is magic. This necklace can transform Kassidy into anything Kassidy wanted to be and she's done it a lot. It can only work though if she said it and no one else because Kimler blood was in that stone and only a Kimler with magic can use it. Her grandmother gave her dad that necklace and she also gave her uncle a necklace just like it, except that the pendant color was purple.

"The reason is," Principal Chester went on, " is because I have something to ask you and this actually involves Holden."

Kassidy crossed her arms along with her legs. "Holden Brooks?"

"Yes. He's been failing his classes lately and if he keeps that up he'll have to repeat his senior year. Since I know you have most of your classes with him I was thinking you could be his tutor until he gets his grades up."

The last thing Kassidy needed was to be Holden's tutor. Why did it have to be her? Kassidy cursed inside her head but tried not to show she didn't like that idea. Kassidy breathed through her nose and tried to stay calm and repeated inside her head to stay calm.

"With all due respect, I'm not a tutor. Tutoring others is not my thing."

"I've seen your work, Miss. Kimler and you're by far the only student I can count on to help Holden. It would mean something if you did this for Holden. Why don't you just give it a try and we'll see how it goes and if there are any problems I'll ask another student to help him."

Kassidy had never tutored anyone, but she was counted on a lot by others. In fact, she used to play basketball back at her old school in America and she was one of their best players. When she moved to Canada she decided not to play basketball because it was too painful for her because she knew her parents would no longer be there to support her. So she decided to focus more on her grades and get into a good college. Maybe tutoring Holden wouldn't be so much of a bad idea.

If the principal is counting on me to do this, Kassidy thought. Then I should do it. Kassidy sighed and couldn't believe she was going to do this. "Alright, I'll give it a go."

The Principal beamed. "Thank you, Miss. Kimler. I'm very pleased with your answer. Before you leave school, ask Holden for his number and you can set up his time schedule to help him. I already spoke to his father about this, so he won't be getting out of tutoring until he improves his grades. You may leave."

"Thank you, Principal Chester." Kassidy grabbed her bag and made her way out of the office, hoping she didn't regret her decision.

Later at night, Kassidy was at home up very late. It was somewhere around eleven and everyone in the house was fast asleep, except for her and Raven. Night time was Kassidy's favorite time of day because this was where she really had the fun. In the morning through afternoon, she usually had school, had to do chores, had to babysit her cousins or she worked on using her magic. Sure she usually read or wrote her stories during her free time, but she never really gets to transform into something different during those times of the day because her Uncle doesn't want her to get caught by someone while she transformed. So for a few months now she managed to sneak out of the house at night and transform into an animal without anyone noticing her. That's how she liked it.

Kassidy slowly and cautiously opened her window while Raven watched her with her head tilted to the side. As soon as the window was opened, Kassidy breathed in the fresh air and smiled. She could already hear the wild calling to her.

Kassidy looked at Raven, kneeled on the floor, and petted her raven black fur. "I won't be long, girl. I'll be back before anyone wakes up."

Raven licked Kassidy's face while Kassidy still petted her. Raven was Kassidy's best friend and she didn't know what she would do without her if she lost her. Raven was very protective and was a very good watchdog and Kassidy trusted her.

Kassidy got up and carefully made her way out the window. Kassidy looked at Raven one last time and then she shut the window very quietly. Kassidy looked at her surroundings. Her house was pretty much near the woods, so she had no problem of being exposed by someone. She especially had no problem with her Uncle and Aunt finding out about what she did during this time of night.

Kassidy looked at her necklace and held the pendant, knowing what she wanted to transform into tonight. Kassidy closed her eyes and then whispered, "Transform me into a bat."

The pendant started to glow the brightest blue. The brightness then grew around Kassidy and as it did her body began to change. She shrunk, her ears grew, fur was growing on her, and she was growing wings on her. Kassidy felt no pain and she let the transformation do the trick.

The pendant stopped glowing and there was no longer brightness. All that remained was the new body Kassidy was in. Kassidy was now a bat.

Kassidy opened her eyes and she smiled at her new form. She was a silver-haired bat and she was a yale blue color and just like her hair, she had a mane that was ruby red. What she really liked was the fact that she could see her tattoos. On her forearm she had a bat, on her upper arm she had a skull with roses growing out of it, and on her back, she had a gray wolf-although it was kind of covered by her hair. She looked like a different breed of a bat.

Kassidy then took off and flew at a wickedly fast speed. She flew like the wind was part of her and flew by trees, flew through small spaces, and did some crazy tricks in the sky. She learned how to act like any animals; including bats. She was a natural in any form really and when she was in those forms she felt like she could do anything. No one could tell her what to do. She felt free from everything that's happened to her.

After flying for a while she eventually landed on a tree trunk and hung upside down. She looked up at the stars that were in the sky and smiled. As she was smiling she began to glow like the stars. She shined like she was an angel and she was the only thing that looked different, compared to everything around the forest.

I wish this could last forever…

As Kassidy minded her own business she then heard something snap a few feet away from her. Kassidy slowly turned to look behind her and as she did she stopped glowing. She looked around her, but she saw nothing. Kassidy shrugged her shoulders, thinking it was probably just another animal that ran by her.

I should probably head back before anyone wakes up.

Stretching out her wings, Kassidy let go of the branch and made her way back home. Kassidy didn't want to leave the forest, but she knew her family would be worried if she didn't get back home soon. Plus if her Uncle and Aunt knew they certainly would've grounded her.

Hiding in the shadows of the trees, two figures watched as their target was flying away. They were watching her for some time now and were preparing for their plans. They had their eyes on Kassidy and her family for a while now and were waiting for the perfect time to make their move. They were determined for this plan to succeed and they wouldn't stop until it was completed. When this plan was complete, nothing would stop them.

They watched Kassidy fly away until they saw nothing left of her. They then turned their heads towards each other and they chuckled.

A/N- I will post soon and have a nice day.