Chapter 4-The Morph

I bit my lip, waiting with Marco as the others went to get the pieces of the blue box. "So..."

"What?" Marco looks up from the hay he was playing with.

"Is this how your life always is?" I ask.

"No...It's usually worse. It's usually that we're at a meeting deciding if we're gonna try to die this way, or another." Marco says dryly.

I laughed. Two seconds later a hawk swoops right past her, missing her by a hair it seemed. "AHHHH!"

Marco covered her mouth again, lighter than last time "Quiet!" I didn't bite him this time.

They're coming! Tobias called out to them. And Marco...you should get off her.

In the attempt to cover my mouth he had knocked her over and landed on top of her. He got up sheepishly "Sorry."

I nodded. "It's ok."

Suddenly Rachel walked in. "Sheesh, Rachel. Do you walk around in some kind of spotlight?" I mutter.

All of them, except Rachel, look over at me. Suddenly they realize that I walk around in the same kind of spotlight but a different kind. Instead of being kind of shielded of dirt and muck, I seemed to be shielded of dark and evil. How ironic because I, myself was quite troublesome.

Cassie handed me the blue box. "Put your hand on one side of it. Wait till you feel a shock, kind of."

I waited, feeling slightly foolish, until I felt the shock. I gave the box back to Cassie feeling no different than before but knowing that in some weird way I was.

Jake smiled "Well, our first stop better be the Gardens."

Me look at him as if noticing him for the first time "Huh? Where's that?"

Cassie spoke up. "It's a place that's like a half zoo, half amusement park. There's a lot of animals to choose from and I can get to them because my mom works there."

Later at the Gardens

I feel the cheetah eyes on her and I don't move. "What do I do?" I say slowly to Cassie.

"Just move slowly and put a hand on her back."

"You make it sound so easy."

I reach out and slowly pat the cheetah on the back. I feel the cheetah resting, kind of. I run out of that room as quickly and quietly as I could. I lean against the wall, panting.

Marco and Cassie both turn to her. Cassie talks first. "Are you sure you want to try this morph first? The instincts are hard to control in the beginning..."

"And I want to go home in one piece." Marco says.

"I'll be fine..." I think hard about the cheetah; it's speed, grace, and beauty. Suddenly I felt my body changing.

My face extended, forming jaws full of shiny long teeth. My legs got long and the I fall on my hands, now paws. Out of my butt comes a long tail. I still hadn't changed color, so I was a cheetah with a black shirt and pants on. Then came the color. And the instincts. I wasn't hungry. Good, because those two humans looked good. But they'd work for later. I was tired to I stretched and layed down.

Then the humans started talking. At first I had no idea what they were saying. I really didn't care. After a while, though I understood but still didn't care. "Bonnie demorph..."

Hmmm. I'm tired. Leave me alone.

"DEMORPH! Now!"

That brought her back to her senses. I demorphed and leaned back against the wall. "That wasn't too bad," I said.

"It gets worse" Marco assured me.