Chapter 1 : how she came to be
when Josephine Fantôme was 11 she lived in a small tribe of mages who were all shifters called Red Snow , and they stayed on the top of a mountain that was far north of Bosco and was known for its snowy climate, short but beautiful springs and red oak forest. Little was known about the tribe beside the fact that they lived in cabins on the mountain and that everyone in the tribe had a red snowflake tattoo. Josephine lived there with her mother and father, one day when her and her parents were walking the perimeter of the village hunters had come to capture and kill her people. They had killed her parents but before they could kill her she sounded the alarm that would tell the people in the village to put up the cloaking magic to surround the village. She was not fast enough to get away from the hunters and was captured by them, she was later sold to the be in the gladiator fights in Pergrande. Whenever there was a person around she stayed in her shifted form of a tiger she didn't like fighting and killing people but if she did not kill the she would be killed. There were never any guards around her cage, and they never put magical canceling cuffs on her because why guard an animal, and what animal has magic right. So she made a plan to escape, on night she would change in to a mouse and just hightail it out in to the open then change into a bird fly the fuck away as fast as she could and figure the rest out later. One night after a what she considered an easy win ' I mean come on the squirrels in my forest back home were harder to fight then that guy' she thought after he had fallen over from just a swipe of her paw. She thought it had been strange that her opponent had been so weak because most of them had been really strong and big and she had the scares to prove it. Anyway after the fight when the guard had left she set her plan into action, she was very focused on getting out she knew this place was bad because she could smell blood and the stench of infections that came from the floors above and below her. She did not want to know the horrors of what had and probably will happen in the coliseum, but then she came across a room where she heard a boy only a three years older then her being cornered by a noble who was only wearing a robe. She scurried closer to the cracked door and saw the fear in the boy's eyes and the disgusting smile on the nobles face and all plans of escaping were thrown down the drain. Her mama and pap had told her about situations like this even though she was young they wanted her to be prepared for the darkness that could be in people hearts. So when the boys eyes flicked to the ground like he could do nothing about his situation like he thought no one was going to help him; all that went though Jo's head was a growl of ' AWWWWWW HHHEEELLLL NNNNNOOO, HE IS NOT TOUCHING HIME!' The next thing the noble knew he was splayed out on the floor at the feet of the large he had seen fighting a gladiator earlier that day, blood gushing from a deep raged gash in his throat. The boy with purple eyes and dark hair looked up and saw the noble at the feet of the coliseums tiger and had no idea what to do so he just stood there frozen to the spot. His fear turned in to confusion as he watched the orange a black tiger turn in to a 12 year old girl with plum colored hair and wearing a tattered old blue shirt that reached to her knees. Jo walked softly up to the older boy, like her mama had taught her how to approach a scared and injured animal when she spoke her voice came out as quiet and smooth as she could. Hi, my name is Josephine, you can call me jo, what's your name and are you ok", Jo said grabbing one of the blankets that was on the floor of the room and slowly handing it to him. The boy took the blanket threw it over his shoulders and said in a scratchy voice
I don't have a name and I'm not dead so I think I'll be ok, thanks for saving me", a ghost of a smile appearing on his face as the look of fear slowly starts to drift from his eyes.
You're welcome, since you don't have a name can I call eagle cause I get that kind of animal vibe from you so", she said twiddling her fingers thinking maybe she and he could be friends. Before he could answer her Jo's eyes got really wide and she said very fast trying to keep her voice quiet and even, "guards are on their way I am going to turn back in to a tiger so they don't blame you for this, I'm going to growl at you, so try to look scared ok.", Eagle said ok just as guards came into the room they looked to the dead noble then to eagle then to Jo their eyes bugging out when they took a second look at Jo realizing there was a tiger in the room. They turned around and ran out of the room screaming 'TIGER' lol little bitches. Seconds later they came back with more guards and took eagle and Jo back to their cages. Over the next year Jo and Eagle became like brother and sister, with her sneaking in to his cell so they could create plans on how they could escape, or just to talk to keep from going insane. But one day they got caught and the guards slammed rusty cuffs on to Jo and dragged her from Eagle's cell kicking and screaming; Eagle tried to fight them after all he was becoming one of their best fighters but one of the guards knocked him out. The last his beautiful purple eyes saw her, she was trying to attack the guard that had hit him, tears pouring from her grey eyes, and as another guard grabbed her from behind her tattered old shirt bunching up to her hip; were he could see a red snowflake tattoo was. After she settled down they took her to the man that rans the accursed coliseum, her tears dried up eyes stone cold she would not give him or the man with a yellow suit that was sitting in front of his desk the satisfaction of seeing how truly afraid she was.
Well who do we have here", the man behind the large mahogany desk asked his black eyes landing on Jo a strange look crossing them. The guards told their boss how they found her his eyes growing wide at the news that a girl had somehow snuck in to another prisoner's cell. Then he thought for a moment and looked to his companion and said, "why don't you take her for your experiment, no cost", the yellow man looked at her. His eyes glowed a deep dark green for a moment then he stood up shook the other man's hand, yanked Jo by the chains binding her magic and walked off dragging her behind him. They got in to a large black cheap looking carriage that was parked outside the coliseum the man in the yellow suit pushed her into the back of the carriage. He sat down in the driver's seat he hooked the cuff that would channel his magic into power for the care on his wrist and he started to drive. After about an hour Jo saw that the scenery had changed from busy city, to country backroad and she could not stop thinking about eagle - I hope he's gunna be ok - she thought after another hour had past the car stopped in front of a large white broken down building. Yellow suit opened the door and dragged her out of the carriage swung her over his shoulder like a sake of potatoes and walked through the building with her hitting his back telling him to, "put me down you jerk", he complied once he found a room that would lock he tossed her into it and locked the door. She banged on the door a couple of times but the door was too strong for her deciding this was not working she just sat down right by the door and kept her ears out. After she could not see any sun light come through the bottom of the door she heard people start talking and did not like what was being said. As it turned out the man in the yellow suit was a dark seith-mage who had mage-scientist friends who took a sliver of a shadow dragons soul and a light dragons soul and sewed it in to jo's. They wanted to see if her soul being sewn together with two dragon souls would turn her in to a dragon slayer. She was listening so closely to the voices outside the door that she didn't realize the room she was in was filling up with white gas all she knew was that she was starting to get really very sleepy and that she could not keep her eyes open. And when she opened them again she saw a people on the ground bleeding and someone holding her by the back of her shirt saying how this was a mistake and that he was not going back to jail, then he opened up what she remembered the healer in her village called ' a gate to the voids where all sorts of nasty things hid in wait'. She tried to scratch and bite at the man in the lab coat but to no avail, all that could be heard in the abandoned building was Jo screaming as the man chucked her into the voids.