Nine Lives

Life Eight

A deep groan left Charlie's lips as she became conscious. One of her arms fell to the ground, feeling the grass under her body while her other went to her stomach where the arrow had been. Her eyes that were trained on the sky narrowed a bit as she felt a rather chiseled stomach.

"What the hell.." Charlie spoke only for her eyes to open wide and her body to shoot up. She held her arms out in front of her before patting down her body. When her hands went to her lap, a loud groan left his lips as he fell back to the forest ground. "I am a man this time? Are you kidding me.." he mumbled as he covered his eyes. Given the odds, Charlie was surprised it hadn't happened before now. Being placed in a male body could be very interesting and honestly, Charlie was ready for the experience. It was going to be very different then any of his other lives. He ran his hands down his face and chuckled when he felt the slight stumble on his jaw line. He wondered if he was attractive or not. Even in his first life he wondered what it would be like to have a male body.

After about 20 minutes of feeling up his new body, Charlie stood up from his spot on the ground and started looking around. He had landed himself in another forest again. There was no telling where he was. The only hint he had was that the weather was rather awful, raining and chilly. But depending on the time of year, it could be anywhere. So just like he had done when he ended up in Once Upon a Time, he just picked a direction and started walking.

It felt like Charlie was walking in circles for hours at this point. He never had a great internal compass so times like these, he normally would bring someone else along with him. However he didn't really have that luxury because he just got here. If he took much longer he would probably die before he even learnt what world he was in. Whoever was controlling his world jumping hadn't been very kind with his clothing. Only putting him in a pair of grey sweatpants and a black v-neck t-shirt. It definitely wasn't the type of clothing someone should be wearing in the middle of the forest, especially with this weather.

Just as he was about to give up, Charlie broke out of the seemingly never ending forest and ended up on a beach. His eyes skimmed the area as his bare feet came in contact with the cold sand. That was another thing he was lacking. Shoes. Charlie let out a sigh as he started walking forward, closer to the water. Again the beach doesn't scream anything special. He wished that he would get like a welcome packet to each new world he travels to, it would be extremely helpful.

"Hey look out!" A voice called out in his direction. Charlie turned the way the voice was coming from when a ball meant his face. He groaned as he fell back into the sand as the ball rolled away from him. "Sorry man tried to warn you." The same voice spoke a bit closer this time. Charlie opened his eyes and blinked a bit before his vision focused on a buff male with tan skin and short black hair. His eyes locked with the dark chocolate color of the male standing above him. Both of the males eyes widened for two very different reasons.

Charlie's eyes widened because he finally realized where he was.

Paul Lahote's eyes widened because he had just imprinted on this strange male who had wondered out of the forest wearing pajamas.

After the realization happened. Paul started shaking and Charlie looked visually terrified. He tried his best to back up by trying to get some traction on the sand. Not that Charlie was exactly scared of Paul, more like he was scared of getting phased on. Sam phased on Emily and she got pretty nasty scars. Paul was much less likely to stop at just clawing someone across the face because of his temper.

"Paul! Stop" another voice yelled out. It seemed to snap Paul out of the trance that he was in. He blinked a few times before running off into the forest, most likely to shift away from anyone. "Jared, Leah go after him." The same voice ordered before new feet came into Charlie's line of sight. His eyes traveled up the body and stopped at Sam's face. "Are you hurt?"

"N..no.." Charlie struggled out as he felt a bit light headed. His breathing was shallow and he struggled to catch his breath. Walking around the forest for hours then nearly having a shape shifter attack him really did a number on him. "I'm going to pass out.." Charlie managed to get out before falling back into the sand as his eyes rolled into the back of his head.