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Chapter 6: Elijah

Chapter 6: Elijah

After we grab Isabella we head through the huge, beautiful, and elegant house to the back door. Serah leads us outside and there is a huge, what looks like a maze. "Okay, Iz and I know our way through the maze." Ah so it is a maze. "You can get lost easily, so stay close. Okay?"

"Yeah, okay."

I follow Serah as we run through the maze. We turn and twist many times and to me it feels like we are going in a circle. All the time when we are running we are competing to see who can run the fastest. I am suprised at how fast those two really are, I mean I'm a quarterback and I actually have to run or even sprint to keep up with them. All of this time I feel like there is something inside of me fighting to get out and frankly it scaring the crap out of me. Finally we reach an opening and I am stunned by what I see. There is a vast clearing and an even more vast forest beyond that. Serah and Isabella look at each other and smirk seeing that I am out of breath and they are barely even breathing hard.

"What's so funny?" I say.

"Oh just the fact that you are kinda slow." Isabella says.

"Oh really? I don't think so."

"Well then let's have a race. All three of us."

"Okay I'm down. Where are we racing to?"

"See that one small pine tree, in the front of the forest line, there?" Isabella says as she points to it and Serah and I nod. "Well we are racin to there. On your mark." We all get into position. "Get set." I smirk. "GO!" We all take off at a sprint and both of them are in front of me, so I push myself even harder. Then the feeling that there is something inside of me pushing to get out gets worse, until it is unbearable and I stop, bending over, clutching my knees, and breathing very heavily. The girls rush over to me and whisper to each other, but to me it sounds like yelling.

"HE'S CHANGING!"

"HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING TO HIM!"

Then what ever it is rips out of me and I feel free. I look down and see black furry legs. I try to say What the heck? and it only comes out as three barks.

I hear a voice in my head say, it's okay. Relax, you need to relax.

I try to talk back and say What am I?

You are a shifter.

What the heck is a shifter?

A shifter is a person who can shift from human form into an animal. And appearantly for you that is a black wolf.

Okay and how do I shift back?

Um... I wouldn't do that yet. When you shifted you shredded your clothes, so if you shift back...

I will be naked.

Exactly.

So then what do we do?

We finish our run an get you aquainted with your wolf form.

At that for some reason I am very happy, what in the world is happening to me? I already told you that.

Woah you can hear my thoughts?

Yes, oh and just so you know this is Serah.

I thought so, are you a shifter too?

Yes.

What do you shift into?

I shift into a auburn wolf and into a black leopard.

Wait does that mean that I can shift into something else to?

Um no, that's just me. My dad shifted into a wolf and my mom shifts into a black leapord, so I can do both for some odd reason.

We start walking through the forest in silence. Then I ask why don't you shift?

Do you want me to?

Yeah I wanna see what you look like in shifted form!

Which one do you want to see first?

Wolf form.

Okay. Serah starts running and takes a running leap as a human, but when she lands she is a beautiful auburn wolf with icy blue eyes. I run towards her and do what my instincts are telling me to do, I rub against her. When I do that I her a snort towards the right of me and see Isabella smirking at us. I am suprised to hear a growl and look around to see who the sound came from and realize that that sound came from me. Isabella puts her hands up in surrender and runs back in the direction that  we came from.

Can I see your leaperd form now, Serah?

Yeah sure. Serah starts running again and shifts into a sleek black leaperd with beautiful dark blue eyes. Woah your eyes changed color!

Yeah they change depending on what form I'm in.

Cool, so do you want to run now?

Abso-fuckin-lutely. She says and purrs. That purr is a sound that my heart will remember forever.

We run through the forest racing and chasing each other in a playful way.