Everyone has secrets, even the most truthful.  Some are even dangerous, like mine. No one knows what happens to me everyday. It's a curse. Let me tell you how it all began. I was walking to Rachel's house late at night, my parents had fought and I needed a friend. Rachel is the total opposite of me, I wear black, she wears pink, I hate one direction, she adores them, etc. But all the same we met up at the park and chatted about life and how much it sucked. "Isn't Josh the hottest guy you've ever seen?!" Rachel squeaks in my ear "Sure, whatever." I mumble. We end up talking about make-up (she wears pounds of it, I wear black eyeliner), she studies my face, she stops, I just think oh she's being weird, but no "Hey, did you get contacts or something?" she studders "I don't need them, why would I wear them?" She hold's up a mirror, now I see, I gasp, my eye's are bright purple. They are glowing, what is going on? "Rachel, what did you do!?" "Nothing I swear!" I have a strange urge to dive for the forest, hide myself from human eyes. Then, out of instinct (More like a random force) I leap forward, my skin rips into fur, I go from bipedal to quadrapedal, what happened to me? Rachel looks like a deer in the headlights, eyes wide, mouth gaping open. I try to ask her what happened but all that comes out are whimpers and barks. I look down, my paws are the size of human hands, my coat jet black with few purple strands, I stand, I look straight into Rachels eye's (she's 6'5"). She screams and I howl, I run as fast as I can into the forest.
    Now here I am today, walking up to school, trying to forget what happened last night. I get slammed into in the hallway and drop my books. I end up late for class again, my teacher Mrs. Kepner scolds me as I walk in the door "Maybe if you weren't avoiding sunlight so often you'd actually be here on time." Bitch. As if I didn't have enough on my mind.  In class we droned on about cellular anatomy and shit like that. I needed to get out of there, I raised my hand to go to the bathroom. On my way there I noticed a small pain in my upper back but dismissed it. When I was done crying my eyes out in the bathroom stall I went to reapply eyeliner in the mirror. A black feather fell onto the counter. I had an itch on my back but when I went to scratch it I didn't feel skin, I felt feathers. I took my shirt off, stretched the things out and sure enough I had jet black wings. How was I going to explain this, I ripped holes in my shirt and let my wings go through those. Now everyone can see what a freak I am. I moped into the class, stepped in front of Mrs. Kepner and whipped out my wings, clear as day. "Freak" echoed throughout the classroom, what did I expect, praise? Oh well. I was so mad at the world, then Kayla, the school bully, strolled up to me and called me a freak of nature. I've had enough, I got so mad my skin ripped, fur came out and I tore her to shreds. I snarled at the gathered group of high-schoolers. I dashed out of the school, ready to face the forest before me.

    I go straight into the forest, inhale deeply through my nose, trying to pick up a scent. A tangy pine smell hits my nose, I follow the scent. I find a wolf pack, hunting for food. The beta attacks me before I can submit, he leaps toward me, biting down upon the ruff of my neck. I bite his neck, trying to make him let me go. I manage to get into a position and flip my opponent to the ground. the Alpha steps forward and speaks "Who are you, stranger?" I submit to him, he seems quite powerful "I am a lone wolf." "Get off our territory, now." I straighten up, tail held high and snarl at him "No." "Fine then, you may join, but on one condition." "What?" " You must pass a test. Attack my delta, if you can kill her, you may join." I look at the delta that has stepped before me, her coat a gleaming red, her eyes sky blue. I studied her position, she stood tail between her legs, obviously intimidated by me. I ran off, away enough so that they couldn't see me and sprang up behind her, throwing her to the ground and pnning her. I growl at her, she snaps her jaws, I bite her throat trying to avoid her sharp teeth. Soon she uses her hind legs and throws me off her. I lay in the dirt, play dead. She howls in triumph and I take my chance, leaping up catching her mid-howl. I rip her throat, windpipe crushed. I release her, and she slumps to the ground, dead. "Good, enough?" I ask "Yes good, you may join, follow us to camp and I shall give you a proper initiation." We walk to camp, I survey my surroudings, I can see wolves playing, talking, and other activites helping the pack. The Alpha steps up onto a giant boulder in the center of camp. "We have a newcomer in the pack. She was a lone wolf, but she has defeated our delta, therefore she shall be named. She shall be called..." he pauses "Nightpaw. Once you become a warrior you name will change but for now you are an apprentice." silence echoes throughout camp. I head toward the apprentice den, I get stares all the way there. What will become of me now?
    I wake up the next morning ready to go do something. My mentor was a warrior named Skyheart, she had white fur and the tip of her tail was red. She said we would go hunting today. We headed off into the woods, we stopped at this place where the sunlight hit this meadow just right, it was glowing. "Look around Nightpaw, what do you see?" "A meadow." "No look deeper." I closed my eyes took in the scents of the area, buttercups, dandilions and poppies, my ears picked up sounds of birds chirping and squeaking in the trees, I opened my eyes and saw a magical place, this was where it all began. I saw the fights of light and dark wolves, storm and ice, fire and water. "This is the begining of everything that has ever happened in wolf history. The epic battles between light and dark, storm and ice, fire and water, everything coliding as one." Skyheart looked at me, stunned "You have the gift of eternal sight, you can see the past, present, and future." We raced back to camp and she howled "WE HAVE FOUND THE GIFTED ONE AT LAST!!!" "Skyheart what are you talking about?" "Nightpaw she has the eternal sight." The Alpha looked down upon me, his gaze staring into mne. "I have one more thing to show all of you." I leap upon the rock and spread my wings, the wolves look upon me, eyes wide. Next thing I know I am bombarded b wolves chasing me out of the camp shouting "FREAK!" "GET OUT OF OUR CAMP" A young wolf steps up and howls. The riot stops,  he speaks "Nightpaw I am Moonpaw, your wings are a thing of beauty and these fiends no nothing of that." "Thank you." The Alpha steps up and says to me "You are a disgrace, you are a freak of nature. Get out and never come back." Moontail leaps upon the alpha, fighting him until Moontail gets beaten, he slinks away. I run off but take one last look upon the camp, I see Moontail limping away from the camp all together. They have banished him too.

He ran off, i don't know where he went, all i know is we are on our own now. Night fell quickly over the forest, i dug a den in a clearing about 5 miles away from my old pack. I howled at the moon, calling for Moontail. He returned the howl, he is close. I followed his howl, and found him a mile away from my den. "Are you ok?" i inquired "Yeah, no, not really." His right hind leg was torn, a deep gash running down his flank. "I'm taking you back to my den." "But it isn't right for wolves to share dens unless they are mated." "Oh well, too bad." "But..." "No buts." "Fine.". We retreat to my den, safe for now. In the morning, I hunt for herbs for his wounds, along with food for us both. "You don't have to do this." he says "Maybe i want to" he licks my muzzle, "What was that for?" I ask "I like you, a lot.". If i could, i swear i would have blushed. I licked him back then took care of his leg. The puncture marks were pretty deep, it took intense care to clean them without hurting him. We talked about what his life was like, and i realized he wasn't a werewolf like me. I couldn't tell him. He told me he was born into that pack, and his mom was Alpha female, and his dad was Alpha male. "What, you attacked your dad?!" "Yeah, I've always hated him.". I couldn't take it any longer, i had to tell him. "Moontail, I have to confess something." "What?" I closed my eyes, centered my soul into my human form. I opened my eyes and there i was standing in front of him, stark naked. He walked up to me, obviously freaked out, then he was human too. "Your a werewolf too?!" "Yeah, my parents never knew, i was the only one in the pack that was." "Wow." I paused then realized we were both naked, in the woods, alone. Awkward. "Um, this is kinda weird..." "Nah, i kinda like it, you are very beautiful." "Really?" "Of course," his eyes met mine, "I love you.". He kissed me, his lips meeting mine in perfect harmony. I didn't want him to but he pulled away, "So, whats your human name?" i asked, "Nick" "Well then Nick, I'm Raven." "Hi Raven.". We both changed into our wolves, went into the den, "So do you want to settle the dispute our sharing a den." i thought about it for a minute, am i really ready to mate with this guy?? "No, I want to get to know you first." He smiled "Ok" "I love you." "I love you too.". I changed into human form, and waited for him to follow my lead. He changed as well. Then as night grew dark, we bothe fell asleep. We slept the day away then the night as well. The next real day we got to work on stealing clothes for us, once we found some on a clothes line, we headed into town. As we were walking into a store i remebered that i was wanted. Crap. Oh well, i stole some food, water, and other essentials. Then guess who managed to run into us as we walked out of the store, Rachel. She was like "What the hell are you doing here? Who is this guy? Do you want to take refuge at my house, you can live in the barn." I replied somewhat like this "Nothing, a guy, sure.".  So from there we went back to her house, got settled in, made out, screamed and shifted, twice. Rachel hugged me and asked how life was. After a while she started asking a bunch of weird questions. "So who's this hottie?" she asked me, after she got over the shock of my werewolfism again, "Um, another wolf like me, i found him in my pack, we both both got banished. We're lone wolves now." "So hot guy, whats your name?" "Nick" he replied, annoyed by my friend. After another load of questions from Rachel we decided to head back into the woods. But right before that she asked us to shift right in front of her. At first we were like hell no, but then we were like hell yea. We shifted, and she freaked out, again. Finally Moontail got so annoyed by her questions and freak outs that he bit her. The look on her face was priceless.

"WHAT THE HELL!!!" "What" Nick replied in such a nonchalant way it just pissed me off even more. Rachel was just standing there, frozen, speechless, paralysed. "Will she be ok? What did you do?" "She will be fine her body is just adapting." "Adapting to what!!??" "Oh, um, i just turned your friend into a werewolf like us." He grinned sheepishly. Now i stood there frozen, looking at him and thinking "What in gods name is wrong with you.". His face tuned serious and started investigating Rachel. He whispered to himself, inaudible even to my acute senses. I strolled over to him determined to find out what he said. "So whats wrong." "She isn't waking up." "Is that bad?" "Yes, if she doesn't wake up soon, the her body may have rejected the bite and could kill her at any moment." "I hate you." "No, you love me enough to hate me." "Shut up." 
    Rachel, obviously hearing our little spiel, interjected saying "Awww you guys are so cute." whitch made us both jump back. "She's awake!" "No kidding." We gave each other  a dirty look. Suddenly Rachel grabbed Nick by the throat, shoved him against a wall, choking him "What the hell did you do to me? Am I a freak like you two?" "Yes." "You bastard." and with those words she started beating the snot out of him. I quickly shifted and jumped on top of her. She wasn't much use in her human form, so she quickly gave up. "Don't you ever touch him again." I snarled. I got off her, she stood, dusted herself off, and shifted. She was a magnificent snow white wolf, with crystal blue eyes. Another reason we were exact opposites, even in wolf form (Mine being jet black, hers being snow white.). This time she made the first move, she leaped at me, but i had a size and strength advantage. But she was lighter and quicker. I bit her ruff, she howled in pain then she bit my leg. I was trained at heart to withstand major amounts of pain at one time. I pushed her away from me, she hit the side of the barn, making her parents run to the rescue. They saw us fighting, i thought they'd run or scream, instead they got guns. They fired two shots into my side, blood matting my fur. Then shot their daughter once in her leg. All three of us ran into the woods and Nick shifted right in front of them. We overheard whispers from her parents "Werewolves, just what we need." her dad remarked "Were those the special bullets or regular ones." "Special." Moontail and i looked at each other confused my their words.  "Special bullets?" i asked Rachel "Oh yeah, my parents are werewolf hunters. Those bullets have wolfsbane in them, you'll feel it right about...now." She was right, it hurt like hell, she was immune to it because she was fed wolfsbane as a child. It felt like my veins were on fire. I whined, whimpered and  did everything i could to stop it, but i wouldn't stop. Moontail was freaking out trying to help me, i swear i saw a tear. "A slow, painful death is the best way to watch a werewolf die." "WHAT!!!" "You are going to die." Another pang of electricity kicked in frying me from the inside out. "You will endure this pain for a week, every one of your vital organs will shut down one by one until it reaches the heart." she said in a smart know-it-all way. Damn her.

Rachel smirked as she watched me writh in pain. A firestorm baracaded my defenses, and it hurt, god it hurt. I wanted to spread my wings and fly away, but i didn't have the strength to. Moontail was hating himself for not taking the bullet for me "It's all my fault." he cried "No, it's mine, i trusted this...this....murderer." I slowly stood up, the poison spreading even faster, but I didn't care. I needed her dead. "Yo, bitch, come here." she sauntered over to me "What do you want?!" "Your soul." I leaped at her, she blocking my attack, but her injury slowing her down. I bit her side, barely latching onto a layer of skin. She cried out but all she could do was stand her ground. I let go and latched onto her injured leg, pulling it out from underneath her. She fell, her torso hitting the ground with a definite crack. I gave up, I was too weak to fight much longer. I limped over to Moontail who was curled up by a tree. SNAP. We all heard footsteps through Rachels yard, and became alert to the immediate danger. "I KNOW YOUR'E OUT HERE, COME OUT AND GET ME." Rachels dad yelled into the woods a few yards away. Moontail became furious, he stalked out of our hiding place. Her dad noticed his off gray color in the night, but didn't shoot. "Are you Ravens boyfriend? Are you the one that bit my daughter?" Moontail snarled, her dad jumped back "I guess thats a yes. What should i do with you? No, I won't hurt you, I'll hurt your girlfriend." Moontail's eyes went from yellow to fiery red in an instant. He leaped at her dad, knocking him over, but as soon as he was on top of him, he had a gun to his head. "So you want to play rough do you? I'll let you go, this time, but remember this, I want my daughter back." Rachel walked out of the woods, bowed to her dad, and waited for recognition. She shifted, looked her dad in the eye and said "Let him go. Now." "Fine sweetheart." Moontail ran off towards me. Rachel was sent inside, and her dad followed but not without the evil eye on his way in. Moontail nudged me, "Are you ok? Can you stand?" he asked "Yeah I will live, for now, I don't know." I try to stand but fail and fall, Moontail helps me up and we head off towards camp. 
    Once we reach camp I crawl into our den, and instantly fall asleep. I dream of the future, Moontail and I watching pups play in a field, our pups. Then it exchanged to us as humans, in our house, making breakfast for our two kids. Was this the furture or just a senseless dream? I mean we haven't even done "it" yet. I wake up, sad to see them go, but am greeted by a loving sight, Nick by my side. We both must have shifted in our sleep. I tell him about my dream. He seems happy, content almost "That would be a wonderful life." He smiles, and i can't help but smile as well.