Chapter Two

Food Or Friend

Cantaria's POV

I slowly start to awake from my slumbers. I blink my eyes a few times trying to wake myself. Then I hear something and prick my ears up to listen. My breathing slows and I concentrate hard on the noise I just heard. My eyes drift upward and then they lock onto the eyes of a red squirrel. We stare into each other eyes for about a minute.

Food! They idea rushes through my mind so fast my mouth starts to water. I start to lean back onto my haunches and count down from five. Five, four, three, two… I spring forward as fast as I can and leap towards the tree I saw the squirrel in. My claws dig into the bark of the tree and I haul myself up to the top. I start jumping from branch to branch. Then I see a flash of red fur and jump at it. My paw grasps the little body but then I loose my footing and fall from the tree. I manage to pull the red squirrel down with me though. I flip over and hit the ground on all fours. I hear the squirrel speak out something to me and then suddenly it turns from a hairy little body to a red headed human girl.

"Please don't hurt me!" She squeaks out to me.

I stare at her with my cat eyes, and then slowly I take one step forward and let my body transform back to human. "So you are a Spirit too?" I ask.

"So you won't eat me?" She asks in panicked little breaths.

I sigh, "No, I will not eat you." I say each word slowly for her to understand. Then we stand there both naked in our human bodies watching each other. "So what's you name?" I ask.

"Avie." She says quickely.

"Ok, hi Avie. My name is Cantaria and my village was attacked by Demons so now I'm just trying to survive out in the wild all by myself." I say trying to start a conversation with her.

"Me too." She replies, "But the Demons murder everyone in my village. I was the only survivor. Probably because I'm so fast."

"Ok, I agree you are fast, but can could please not talk so fast? It's hard to understand everything your saying."

"O sorry, sorry."

"It's ok. So your all alone?" I ask Avie.

"Yah, just me no one else."

"Well, would you like to live with me? We could gather food together and watch out for each other. I don't know about you, but I have been pretty lonely the last few days and would love company." I tell her.

"Really? I would love to! But I will only join if you make one promises to me." Avie says.

"Sure, what?"

"That you will never try to eat me AGAIN!" She says.

"I promise." I say starting to laugh.

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