Au's note: the chapters in this sorry will have flipped P.O.V.s, the odd will be Nyoka's and the even will be Matthew's. Comments and votes are highly appreciated. Also, each chapter will have anywhere from 1,500 to 3,000 words, but this will be an exception because it is a preface.
My family, and I lived peacefully in our little deep in Amazon's forest. My mother was always a beautiful woman whom always was smiling. She had smooth tan skin with beautifully long, straight, black hair. My mother and I had the same shifter mark, a black snake swirled into a circle; mine on my ankle, my mother's on her wrist. I hoped that I looked like her, because I've only seen glimpses of my reflection in the river's water.
My brother looked exactly like my father with high cheek bones and short, dark brown, chopped hair, but younger. We were all able to transform into snakes; each of us a different breed.
One little known fact about our species is that we have to touch our mark to be able to transform.
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We did not have many luxuries, but if I could describe my old life in one word it would be 'perfect'. We were happy, heathy, and together; until they came. They came with cages, traps,
disease, needles, guns, and misery
It was the only time, I had ever seen my mother cry, and the only time in-which I saw my gentle father hurt somebody to try and protect us. My mother told my older brother, six years my elder, to take me and run. I was ten at the time, seven years had pasted since then. And I have not seen our parents since that horrid day, only to assume that they are dead, or some person's slave.
I have hidden my shifting ability for seven years, and had been taken in with an elderly human couple who could not have children. My brother 'looks over' me, or how I like to call it 'guard' me; since I'm the only family he has left; I can sort of understand why he does it to this extreme, though.
My adoptive parents home schooled me, and thankfully didn't asked about my lack of education. This year will be my first year in an actual human high school. Let's hope no one finds out about my scaly secret.
403 words. 12/24/16
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The Tale of a Serpent
Teen FictionBehind the world that many humans see, there is the culture and lives of shape shifters. Explorers and smugglers capture most of shifters population. With most of the rather small shifter population is enslaved, the owning of a shifter is a must hav...
