Her Curse

Chapter 1 - My Beginning

   My name is Adelina Jacobs. I'm a Nao in the class "Lycanthrope." But I didn't know this name till I learned it in school. What is a Nao? What is a lycanthrope? Well, Naos are people who would be considered monsters if this was Dracula time or something. Naos were welcomed into society after an agreement with our President and the leaders from the Vampires, Angels, and Demons took place in 1867. Since then, we've mostly lived in peace. Some people hate Naos, others hunt us for bounty money, we call them Killeo. The Lycanthrope class didn't come to be until a few years ago. A lycanthrope is a werewolf in simple terms. No one knew lycanthropes existed until one fateful day. The first lycanthrope ever known was caught after he bit a 10 year old girl on her way home from school. The story about the incident went viral almost overnight about the discovery of a new Nao class, not because a child was hurt. How would I know this? Well, I was that 10 year old girl. Let me tell you the whole story from my side.

   It was September 10, 2011, and I was walking the old, beaten dirt road through the forest behind my school to get to my house. The trees were skinny and most of their leaves were on the ground, yellow and green. "Fall is gonna come soon." I said to myself. "Then Halloween, then Cindy's birthday, then Thanksgiving, then Christmas, and New Year's!" I was kicking around a little stone as I rambled on and on. Then I heard a low growl, a low, deep growl from what sounded like a large dog... I turned around, nothing behind me. I looked to my left, nothing there. Then to my right, nothing but trees as far as the eye can see. "Nothing's here." I shrugged my shoulders and looked ahead of me.

I froze..

   It was right in front of me... A large dog with black fur, jewel-toned hazel and blue discolored eyes, and an angry snarl on its muzzle. I have never seen this dog before in town, and it's larger than any dog I've ever seen, too large... 'It's a wolf,' I thought to myself. I started to shake as I raised my hands up, hoping to get the large dog to back down and go away. "Nice dog.. er... Wolf? Nice wolf... Good wolf." The black wolf slowly started stalking towards me, like I was a helpless bunny. I stood my ground, even though my instincts were telling me to run away and find my parents.

   One step, another step. One after the other, the black wolf got closer. When he was 5 feet away from me, my instincts took over and, without thinking, turned around and ran as fast as I could. But I wasn't fast enough. Before I knew it, I was pinned to the ground by the wolf and felt something sharp dig into my shoulder. The wolf was biting me. I screamed bloody murder and my scream riveted off of every tree, leaf, rock, and bush around me... I blacked out, but not after seeing my own blood pooling.

   When I came to, I was in a hospital bed and I kept hearing something go beep beep beep. I looked to my side and saw a heart monitor and an IV drip in my arm. It hurt to move that arm. I then saw my shoulder, it was wrapped and it had a large red stain on it. 'That's right. The wolf bit me.' I thought as I remembered what happened. I looked to my other side and saw my mother by my bedside, soundly asleep. A nurse opened the door and saw me awake. She asked me how I was feeling, if anything hurt, all of that.

   Two days after, I was released from the hospital and my dad took me home while my mom went to work. We got home and my dad helped me into my bed. "I'm going to go do some grocery shopping and other errands, so I'll be home around the same time mommy gets home, okay?" I nodded my head and my dad smiled at me, kissed me on the head, and headed out the house. I wanted to sleep, but something felt wrong. I felt wrong. Different. I decided to get some water, so I climbed out of bed. Bad idea! Cause next thing I know I'm on my hands and knees. I started to shift. My hands turned into wolf paws and they had sharp claws growing out of them, wolf ears sprouted from my head, I felt a tail touch my leg and I saw that the tail was mine. I covered my face with my paws, but a muzzle broke through my little barrier. I finally stood up and saw myself in the mirror. My brown eyes slowly shifted to a bright violet, they almost seemed to be glowing. I fell on all fours and howled. Black fur grew all over my body as I howled. My transformation was complete. I was a werewolf, a lycanthrope. I kept this secret for 6 years. I never told my parents or my friends. I never transformed again and I did everything I possibly could to make sure I didn't reveal what a monster I became.

   I'm in high school now, well I'm a Junior. I'm on the track and field team. My best friend, Lucas Hunter, is on the swim team. My other best friend, Chase Maxinu, is in the school's band as the lead guitarist. I try to live my life normally, but it's hard when there's a wolf inside, talking to you and begging you to go on hunts. Well, never would I have guessed that my secret would come out and that I would hurt my best friends... Not in a million years. 

Translation-

Nao - supernatural being

Killeo - Hunters