Faunus Wolf

Chapter 1 "The Accident"

     I groan in discomfort as I struggle to get on my feet. Something is not right, and it is not just the fact I'm in an immense amount of pain. This feels familiar and I don't know why. I try to search my surroundings trying to get a grasp on what is going on. I breathe heavily trying to catch my breath; the cold air is stinging my lung. I am surrounded by tall maple and pine trees. The maple leaves are bright orange, yellow, red. I can smell the sweet scent of the sap and the pine needles. I think it would make a great candle scent. I shake my head, the last thing I should be concerned about right now is candle scents.

     I change my focus back to my situation. A parting in the trees grabs my attention. I see a field, but not just any field, my home. The farm which I have always lived on. I rush towards the edge of the woods to get a better look, completely ignore how much it hurt to run. It looks different but only slightly, in the distance is my house, a small home, only one floor but it is all we need. It is not that though something else is off. I glacé around to see if I can pinpoint it. Out of the corner of my eye I catch my little sister, Maggie, riding her horse. Maybe she can help, I am very sore and kinda disoriented.

     Once again ignoring my pain, I rush as fast as I can towards her without out even thinking how dumb it is to run towards the rear end of a horse. As I am coming up behind her I call out her name, but I stop abruptly as the horse rears back throwing Maggie clear of his back and runs off into the pasture. I feel a rush a panic and guilt that feels way to familiar, almost like this has happened before.

     My adrenalin shoots through the roof, I sprint over to her and stop by her side. She lies unconscious on her back with her mouth hanging open. I can see her warm breath in the cold air. This only slightly relieves me. This all feels too familiar. I've felt this all before. I know I have. I look down to my own feet and it hits me; why all this feels so familiar. I stare down at my feet. If you can even call them that. Sliver-gray paws are where my feet should be. Everything comes rushing back at once.

                               ***

     I gasp, as I shoot upright in my bed. I'm in bed? It was a dream... not just a dream, a memory. A memory that will haunt me forever. It was the day it all happened. When everything changed and I hurt the person closest to me. Maggie lived from that accident, but the doctor told us she may never walk again. Maggie is paralyzed from waist down and it is all my fault.

     Every time I feel as if I can start letting the past go, I have the dream and it puts me back right at the start again. A never-ending loop of guilt and pain. I don't really know how to describe what happened to me that day. All I know is I was going about my normal business; you know farm work and such. I had just finished some work in the barn with Uncle, Josh Dalton. He lives in the house next door. Well, it is technically next to our but like a quarter mile down the road. Our farm is called Dalton's Farm. My mom and my uncle Josh inherited it when my grandparents passed away. But that was before I was born.

     What was I saying? Oh right, I had been taking a break and I went into the woods, there is a little river in there I like to skip rocks in, because why not? Then I was just struck with pain in my head and then I just spread everywhere until I could barely stand it. I felt like I was dying and I though I was too. It felt like ever bone in my body was breaking, remolding, and like my flesh was being torn apart. Needless to say, it sucks, a lot. I am just grateful that it was a one-time thing. Well, I think it was. It been almost two years since then and I'm still trying to figure it all out.

     I remember being very unaware of the fact that I had completely turned into a Wolf. Yeah, I know what you are thinking, how could you not know? Well, I became quite distracted when my sister got hurt that it kinda just slipped my mind. You know, shit happens. I know that I called out for help and that is when I realized something wasn't quite right. When I yelled out for help, I heard of my voice yelling for help. What other people heard was howling. My uncle was working in the barn and didn't hear the house when he threw Maggie, but boy did her hear me. He came rushing out of the barn and stopped just for a moment when he saw standing over Maggie. He had this horrified look on his face that I will never forget. That the exact moment when I realized something was fishy and I took one glacé at my self, panicked, and ran back to the woods. Keep in mind all this happened in a few seconds, from when my Uncle Josh saw me to me darting away. I turned back when I got into the woods to see what was going on. Uncle Josh was now at Maggie's said and our Mom was running towards them.