Unexpected Heroes

34- lectures and punishment.

APOLLOS' POV.
Pandora warbles, and shoves me.
She runs off, in the opposite direction.
I call, "Where are you going?"
She calls, "Visiting Libbys' dragon!"
And took flight.
Wow. Thanks.
I walk to the kitchen, and begin to make a sandwich.

5 min later...

I lick the Peanut butter off my fingers.
A loud slam hurts my ears.
I growl, but a stinging lights up my face.
I stand up, searching for my attacker.
Let me see you, coward.
My dad walks up to me, enraged.
I snarl, backing up.
He demands, "Why were you at the Angered Shifter Center? Huh?"
I growl, "I got in a fight, got tied to a tree right before sunset in wolfy form. I got stuck in that form, picked up by the pound, and then I spoke up and ended up there."
I begin to leave, when a hand grasps my shoulder.
Its' owner growls, "Stuck? You got stuck? That is your excuse?"
I nod.
It was my biggest mistake.
I'm sitting in a folley, doors locked.
Not by choice, though. I'm locked in.
I hear Pandora screaming in the mind link.
I don't move.
I can't do anything for her.
Then it turns to warbles of protest, and laughter.
Huh, must be enjoying herself.
I throw a stone at Echo through the archers' opening.
She looks up, and smirks.
Oh it's on!
I turn wolf, and growl at her little friend. He looks up at me, and glares.
I remember my cat form... how slim it is. How agile.
I measure the window.
Plenty big enough.
I turn into a tiger, and leap out the window.
I leap from a window.
What drugs did they hit me with in the forest?
I feel the air glide past me.
I see Otice rush out, screaming.
I see the ground getting closer and closer.
I go into a dive position.
I land gently and quietly.
I stare at Otice, smiling.
Otice seems horrified.
He mumbles, "I'm dreaming. He wouldn't... jump. Would he?"
I call after him, "Yes, I would!"
He seems bafled, and rushes off.
I turn wolf, and canter to the woods where I was tied up.
I call the wolves.
They gather, sniffing me.
I tell them to be carful. I tell them the story of what had happened.
The leader boomed, "What a jerk!"
I shake my fur, loosing sweat into the air.
I suddenly ask, "Is Libby in this pack?"
The leader stares for a while, then asks, "You mean the Albino Female? Yes, she is here."
Libby trots to her pack leader.
Then, she looks at me.
She gasps.
A strange look dances over her .
I ask, "What?"
She mumbles, "What is around your throat?"
I look down.
I ask, "The tags? I had my school ID, and it turned into dog tags. Why?"
The leader asks, "May I see them?"
I nod, and remove them from my neck.
The leader sniffs at them between his paws.
He turns human, and scratches the tags.
He smiles, and turns wolf.
He commands, cheerful, "Scratch the paint off. Trust me, those aren't IDs."
I begin to scratch. When the paint comes off, I leap away.