Orion woke up, looking around in a panic. He was in the back seat of his mother's car. Then he noticed the bandage wrapped around his forehead. His head hurt worse than it ever had before. He couldn't remember much of his dream, just a young girl and a very tall man yelling at her. He shook his head and sat up.
He looked out the window and saw they were racing through the streets of a city. He looked in the front seat and saw his mother driving. She hadn't noticed he was awake now, and was talking into a cell phone.
"Chiron, I have no choice! He was attacked by a dracanae on his school bus! Besides, I'm already in New York City. I'll be there in an hour. See you." She hung up and sped the car up. She looked back and saw Orion was awake. She smiled and motioned for him to climb into the passanger seat.
Orion crawled over the seat and sat down. New York? He thought, Why are we in New York? We live in Pennsylvania. What's going on? He looked at his mother, who didn't return it. After about half an hour, they left the city behind and entered farmlands. Orion couldn't take it anymore.
"Mom, what's going on? And what was that thing back on the bus? Mom, answer me!" he said as she ignored him. He looked out the window, and quickly forgot his anger as he saw something coming towards them from the woods.
It looked like a regular man from the waist down, with green boxers on, but the rest of him was a bull, with shaggy brown hair and glowing red eyes. It carried a huge axe and it looked mad. Very mad. And the worst thing was it was charging straight at us.
"Mom, look out!" I yelled. She looked out my window and swerved the car into a ditch and avoided the beast. The good news: We dodged the monster. The bad news: He was really pissed. His mom pushed open her door and crawled out. Orion followed her. Pretty soon, they were staring at the beast, it's horns embedded in a tree. He saw us and started screaming. Well, as much as a bull can scream.
"Orion, run!" my mom said. It actually sounded more like an order. I tried to protest, but she gave me a Do-What-I-Say-Or-You-Won't-Be-Able-To-Have-Children glare. I nodded and took off in the other direction. "And don't look back!" she called back.
I ran for a few minutes when I heard the monster scream again. I turned around and saw it barreling towards me. I started running faster, but It was catching up. Then my hands started to feel numb. I look at them and saw they were growing hairier, and my nails were turning black and very sharp.
A wave of warmth passed through me, and next thing I knew, I was running on all four's, a few feet shorter, and I could smell everything within five miles. I took off, speeding up the road I had been on. I heard the beast's confused grunt, and somehow I knew it had stopped chasing me.
Up ahead, I saw a large hill. At the top was a pine tree with a golden blanket wrapped around it's branches, and a big lizard thing sleeping by the trunk. I headed for the hill and before the reptile thing knew what was happening, I sped past it and down the other side of the hill.
I saw a camp, with kids walking and running, going somewhere. A few of the girls noticed me, and started screaming, and soon everybody was looking at me. A few guys started after me with huge bronze swords, but I ditched them and started running towards the biggest building I saw.
There were two men on the porch. One was in a wheelchair, and the other was wearing a leopard skin sweat suit. They saw me and the sweat suit guy stood up. But I jumped over the porch railing and felt the warm sensation again. I crashed into the wall, a human again.
I tried to open my eyes, but I didn't have enough energy. I heard some yelling, and footsteps, but that was it. Then something strange happened. I saw a silver wolf in front of me, smiling at me. I tried to reach out to it, but I blacked out.
Hey, I rewrote this chapter after reading the reviews from before. Instead, I'll have him claimed in a future chapter. Thanks for the advice. Please submit any characters you think I should include. Thanks!