Red Fox Luna

Prologue

The 9 year old girl waited nervously, buried in the shadows of the looming trees. Her first transformation was looming near and every second felt like hours. She walked in quiet interest as the sun set, staring at the mesmerising colours of blues, reds and yellows as they bled into each other. It was time..

As the moon began to rise, she could feel the pull, the need to be free and to run through the streets roaming as much as she pleased. She could feel her self changing, her hearing more acute, her eyes seeing all the small details and her sense of smell stronger too. Her nails became claws as she sank to her knees, doing exactly what her parents had told her to do. Teeth became sharp knives and bones cracked and creaked as she changed. The girls breathing picked up speed. She was a wolf..

That night, she ran. Unlike most newly changed, she just ran instead of hunting a rabbit or deer. She paid no attention to anything around her except the cool breeze in her fur and the crisp air of autumn. She stopped at a lake, to greedily lap the cold water, only then seeing her reflection. She stopped immediately when she saw the colour of her fur:red, bright red. Every shred of happiness dissolved as she gulped. No one would find out-not even her parents. Or they would kill her and leave her to rot.

Just like the rest of her kind...