Chapter 4-A Hybrid
"But that means..."Swiftshadow's eyes widened in realization.
"What?" Dovewing asked curiously.
Swiftshadow smiled at her."Erin Hunter or Lavendarheart as you know her is just like me! A hybrid! She left and wrote the series Warriors. She came back in her spare time. You guys never noticed. When she go missing?"
"Fourteen sunrises ago,"Ivypool answered tilting her head to one side.
"I was right them!"she said, positivley beaming."The new book came out a moon ago. So she left and began to write the new book. There's someone like me!"
"Yes, yes, there's someone like you,"Lionblaze interupted her."But, how do we know that you won't hurt us?"
"Ok fine,"she turned to Jayfeather."I know about Jay's Wing, Dove's Wing, Lion's Roar, and Half Moon. I know about the Tribe's ancestores and that you guys aren't the original three."
"How do you know that?"Jayfeather yelped."I only told-"
"Lavendarheart?" she said with a smirk.
Jayfeather nodded dumbly."I think that I'm going to go," Swiftshadow said softly."I need to build up my fresh-kill pile. There's also more stuff to steal from my twoleg house."she smiled and transformed. Holding up her hand, she said,"See ya."
She had jumped onto a tree branch when a voice from behind her said,"Will we see you again?"
Swiftshadow looked down to see Jayfeather looking at her."I say that we will,"
Swiftshadow sat on a rafter in the Old Twoleg nest, lisening to her MP3 player that she stole from her house. The song Haunted by Evanescence.
Watching me. Wanting me.
I can feel you pull me down!
Fearing you. Loving you.
I won't let you pull me down!
Three days had passed. Three event-filled days. On the first day, she had been hunting a mouse. She had looked up at the fly floating above her ears. When she looked back at her prey, it wasn't a mouse there, but a squirrel. Even though she was confused, she jumped and killed it. Burying it, she decided it was her imagination that she had been a mouse.
While hunting, it happened again and again. It was not her imgination. Swiftshadow had an idea to what it was but she needed to test it out. On the next day, she tried it out. Transforming into her hybrid form, she concetrating on her friend Anai. Her pink hair, particular hairstyle, and regular schoolclothes. Swiftshadow closed her eyes and concetrated harder. She suddenly felt something. A pull on her insides and a rubbery feeling that happened to be her own skin. When she opened her eyes, she looked at herself and smiled.
Swiftshadow was the spitting image of Anai. A doppelganger. From then on, she discover her power of transformation on herself and other living things. Being sucked into the past, she didn't realize that she had begun singing. It was a habit that she had developed over the year.
Long lost words whisper slowly to me..
Still can't find what keeps me here.
And all this time,
I've been so hollow inside.
Swiftshadow also didn't know that Jayfeather happened to be outside gathering catmint. He lifted his head, mouth full of catmint.What's that?he thought, puzzeled. Then his eyes widened.Of course! This is where Swiftshadow lives! Dovewing and Ivypool said that. So that's Swiftshadow.
Stepping inside the nest, Jayfeather set down the herbs and snifed the air. Swiftshadow's scent was above him."Swiftshadow?" he called knockingher out of her daydreams and making her fall to the floor.
"Ow,"she moaned."Hello Jayfeather,"she said, in a more cheerful tone.
Curious, Jayfeather looked into her memories and was suddenly looking through Swiftshadow's eyes. He was a twoleg with a twoleg pelt and he was in a large twoleg nest. In this memory, he knew all the words that the twolegs used. Like he was in a school and he was wearing clothes. Jayfeather smiled at a pink-haired girl.
"Which subject do we have next, Anai?" he said.
"Math,"Anai said.
He groaned."Why Math? I suck at Math."
Anai shrugged."You could read, but Laurel will be joining us."
Jayfeathert shrugged."I do have a good book. Troubletwisters. You guys really should read more book series than your favorite."
Swiftshadow must have realized that he was there because everything suddenly disapeared and Swiftshadow appeared, but she was diffrent. She wasn't a hybrid, but looked like a twoleg. Swiftshadow had curly blode hair with hazel-brown eyes. She wore a green shirt and blue jeans.
She glared playfully at him."What do you think you're doing here?"she asked in a fake sweet voice.
Jayfeather gulped."You could've asked?"she said pouting.
Suddenly she burst out laughing and he lost his sight again, coming back to the real was still laughing."You s-should have..seen the look on your face!"She laughed harder than ever and Jayfeather's pelt burned.
"Ah.. I havn't had a laugh like that in a while,"she said."But, anyway..why are you here?"
Jayfeather mumbled something."Sorry?" Swiftshadow said.
"I was out side gathering catmint when I heard you. I was wondering what you were doing."
"I was singing wasn't I?"
"What's singing?'
"What I was doing. It isn't talking, but...um..Here, I'll show you."she paused than began singing.
"Iiii'mmmmmmmm ddyyyyiiinnng agggaaain...
I'm going under..Trauted by you..
I'm falling forever..
"And that is singing."
Jayfeather blinked and admitted,"It's nice,"
"Thank you. Do you want to see something more instresting? Hold still.."
She put her paws(hands) on the sides of his head. In a minute he was standing on two legs. He still had a tail and was furry, but he had diffrent paws and something on his chest and back legs. Then he realized it.
He was a hybrid and he could see too.