The Full Moon

Chapter 1

"Ah woo," the trees swayed in the wind around me, talking to each other in an almost silent whisper. If I wasn't a hybrid with heightened senses for each creature- or so the said prophecy, I wouldn't have been able to hear it and even then it was only a slither of sound among the night. I stand with my rosemary, dried lemon and rose water bathing in the moon light, creating the start of a philter- a potion. I close my eyes, breathing in the night air and will a vision to come (my sixth sense as a witch is that I am clairvoyant) but nothing came.
"Ahh!" I let out in frustration. I hadn't had a vision in days and it was harder for me because that was the only extra sense I had so far and didn't know when I was going to get my next. I packed up my things and started on the trek back to the tree house I was staying at. I had found it empty when I was running as a wolf, I am a rusty brown red colour and have gold streaks through my fur which I got when I discovered my sixth sense as a witch. Anyway I was running from the council- they want me as a weapon against rogues of all magiks and I had said I would think about it. Later that night I snuck out and have been on the run since then. Which then had made me a rogue. That had been six days ago and so far no one had found me. As I reached the tree I climb into the small opening I concealed with magik, I fly up and settle on my bed, practicing magik until I fall asleep, thinking of a wolf with startling green eyes- I had been dreaming of it for a week, one day before I had left the council.

I woke up before dawn and watch out of the window as the sun rises. I then decide that I have to keep going- in case someone comes back to this place. I pack my things which consists of a backpack with some clothes and a few spell ingredients that I could lose and it wouldn't matter. The rest went into the small bag I carried on me, it could hold anything and everything because I had charmed it to be like that. I mutter the words of a spell to become invisible and then climb limberly from the tree and setting down the track to find a near by town.
I end up shifting to be my wolf because I hadn't let my wolf side out for a while. I race for hours until I shift back and stop to have a snack.
"Hmm, what should I have?" I murmur to myself, taking out some dry biscuits and chicken and an apple and some bread.
"I'd go with the apple and bread." A voice behind me says. Combining my speed from my vampyre and wolf form I grab all my stuff and turn around ready for an attack.
"I'm sorry for startling you." A girl tells me. She looks like she's been rolling around in mud; there are tears in her clothes and they're filthy. She looks longingly at the food.
"How long is it since you last ate?" I ask her, kindly.
"I....." She starts thinking back. "Three days ago I believe." I look at her in astonishment, and hand her the apple.
"Eat." I tell her and start to break of small pieces of bread to eat. I watch her and realise that she isn't human. "Erm, um I don't mean to sound rude but um...." She looks at me expectantly gesturing for me to go on. "What are you?" She stands up and walks a couple meters behind where she was.
She takes a deep breath and answers me, "I'm a witch, vampyre, wolf, mermaid hybrid and I have a sixth sense with each creature and they are all with heightened senses." I gasp in shock and jump up. "What's wrong?" She asks.
"I am a witch, vampyre, wolf and fae hybrid with a sixth sense for each creature and have heightened senses as well." I explain to her, while she looks at me with wide, shocked eyes.
"What is your name?" I ask her.
"Natalie," she tells me, "Natalie Potter. What's yours?" She asks me.
"Galatea but call me Gala or Tea." I tell her.
"Last name?" She asks cocking her head to the side.
"Snow." I tell her, a questioning look on my face.
"Your parents were Zachariah and Peony Snow weren't they?" She asks a look of sorrow in her eyes.
"Yes." I say gravely, as an unwelcome silence sets over us. "And they still are." I get up and pack the food away. "Are you going to come with me on my quest? I will tell you more if you do decide to come." She pounders it for a moment and then opens her mouth to speak but then closes it again.
"Yes." She answers me.
"Are you sure?" I ask her firmly, making sure she won't walk off.
"Yes, but first can we see each creature of each other's?" She asks me in an excited tone. I nod my head yes and gesture her to go first. She takes a breath and then shifts into her wolf form. She is breathtaking to watch. She is a black wolf and has purple streaks through her fur, she's a big wolf but not as big as I am.
I go up and touch her fur, "You're...... " I say at loss for words. "Beautiful." I murmur. I step back and she starts to transform. I hear the cracking and grinding of bone on bone. I close my eyes as this happens, when I reopen them I see a pale creature with bright azure eyes and long fuchsia hair. She holds out her hand and I take it. I gasp in shock and snatch my hand back, watching as it shrivels and then slowly returns to normal.
"I'm so sorry." Natalie exclaims. "That's my sixth sense as a vampyre and I felt you as a threat because you're so powerful." She explains to me. I nod my head, eager to see her other two forms. She starts to stretch and becomes taller. She becomes a tall woman with unkept, wild hair. She murmurs a few words- a spell I presume- and I get lifted up into the air, laughing with giddiness. She smiles as she puts me back down and she again starts to transform, this time into her being that is different from me. The mermaid. She has bright blue scales and pink and purple hair.
"This is my true form," she says with a musical voice. "When I got all my sixth senses and combined them I got to become my true form, which is this." I like this form of hers the best. It is the most beautiful, I decide. She shifts back to her human form and comes to sit down on the rock I was on, and I stand up and go to the place she was.
"What do you want to see first?" I ask Natalie. She pounders it a moment before answering.
"I don't care about the first two but I want to see your wolf and fae last." She decides. I nod my head and picture my witch. I stay the same size I am but my features begin to change. I have long blue hair that goes down to my waist and big purple eyes. As soon as I am done transforming I look at Natalie and she is looking at me with delight. I murmur the Latin words for a spell, "Postulante me sunt aquae." And I look down at the ground, bringing my hands up and down. Finally after a few moments water breaks out of the ground and my hands control it. Natalie gasps and I release the water. Next I shift into my vampyre form. I focus on blood and I hear Natalie breathing, and look up to see her staring at me. In my vampyre form I have blood red hair that comes down to my waist and bright green eyes (which is what I look like in my 'human' form, the only difference being the skin colour). My skin is an ivory colour- the same as my mothers. I wipe the tears away before they fall and start to change to my appearance once again, this time to my fae. I stay the same size but grow wings and change what I'm wearing. My wings are a gold and grey mixture that go with my midnight blue hair fantastically. I have pointed ears and the rest of my features are the same.
"Which has been your favourite so far?" I ask Natalie, in my soft musical voice.
"Your vampyre is very stunning." She replies in awe. I nod my head and shift into my wolf form. I like my wolf the most because I am most striking in this form. As I told you before I am a rusty brown red colour with gold streaks running through my fur, I have bright green eyes and I am bigger than an alpha. Natalie looks at me in amazement and I let out the most powerful growl I can muster and she bows her head in submission straight away.
I speak into her mind telepathically, "And now?"
"Your majesty," she starts, and I stare at her in confusion. "Your wolf is your most beautiful creature." I shift back to my 'human' form and stare at her. She has her head bowed and when she looks up I straighten and ask her what she was talking about.
"I am not royal." She stares at me for a while before answering.
"Can I see your neck?" After a few hesitant moments I nod and turn around. She peers at my neck and gasps. "Only part of your mark is there." She tells me. I turn around to face her and look in confusion.
"Mark?" I ask. She nods her head and I will myself to see through her eyes. I do it and find myself looking at myself from her eyes. I am in my vampyre form. I see my mark which has vampyre fangs, a crescent moon for my wolf, fae wings and a cauldron for my witch in the middle. Around that it has a royal crown, a sword, a scroll and a bow and arrow. Then around that it has a smoke wall and a pair of eyes. I return back to my body.
"I did it." I whisper.
"Um, that pair of eyes wasn't there when I first saw it." Natalie tells me.
"Oh yeah. That was because I just found my vampyres sixth sense." I tell her sheepishly. She nods her head understanding.
"Ok. Do you know what each of the symbols mean?" She asks. I nod my head yes, and she gestures for me to tell her.
"Well, the symbols in the middle represent each creature of mine. The fangs for my vampyre, the moon for my wolf, wings for my fae and cauldron for my witch. The next layer is what I am as each creature, I guess." I say realising that I might be a royal. "A crown for my wolf, a sword for my vampyre, a scroll for my witch and a bow and arrow for my fae. Then the outer layer must be my sixth sense. The smoke for my visions and eyes for how I can look from other peoples eyes." I tell her. She just nods at me. Just as I am going to ask her if I can see her mark. She asks me.
"Would you like to see my mark?" I nod my head and she turns around. But before I can see it, I am on the ground blacking out.