Deep In The Woods

The Morph, His Morph

    It's snowing. It falls down gently but you know there's something out there that's not. And it's after you. Jump, slide run, slip, get up, run. The full moon shining down on you giving you light to run. Your feet making tracks in the snow. It'll find you, he'll find you. Stop, look, hide. He can't find you under this rock, maybe he can but he won't fit. You wait for what it seems like days so you get out from under the rock, you look around. Your back toward the rock but when you turn he's there on top the rock staring at you. But your not afraid, not anymore. You put your hand out, he sniffs it then morphs. Into a human.
   "CACA DOODLE DOOOO!" Ahhhh! I'm awake. Wide awake for the first time in days. I'm not sleep walking I'm awake. The dream, no the vision. I will find out what it is, I will. But besides that I realize it's Saturday, so why is my alarm going off?
   "Good morning sweetie!" My mother says staring down at me.
     "What." I say tired, not because I didn't get enough sleep, but because of her nagging me all the time.
     "You need to start getting up earlier. So we can practice on the weekends. Now that you're up you can do whatever you want." She replies walking out of my room satisfied with annoying me. The dreams, right. I get out of bed put on some clothes and go right to my tree.
    I sit in my spot for a while thinking about how to avoid Bianca and her friend bullies until I hear the break of a twig like yesterday. I decided not to worry about Bianca and try to rehash the dreams I've been having. I'm in the woods running. A wolf chasing me but not to harm me, to befriend me. He needs me for something, he needs me to help him. But with what? And my me? "Crack" it's here.
  "Whose there?" Of course no reply. It's higher up from where I am. I need to go higher. I need to climb. So that's exactly what I'll do, climb. One branch at a time. The closet one is to the left. I grab the higher one on the right with my right hand and put my foot on the left branch. Then I just keep going higher and higher but when I get to a place where I can't go any further I just sit. But what I see is unfathomable. A wolf sits in front of me. His claws dig into the wood of the branch he's sitting on. His black gray fur stands on end watching me react. His icy blue eyes staring into my soul, breaking me down little by little.
"AHHHHH!" I scream and of course I fall right out of the tree. I was higher this time so the fall hurt way worse, I could barely even move. But the wolf glides down the tree like it's no problem at all, like he's been doing it for the longest time. Maybe he has. He just stares at me and I wonder why he hasn't eaten me yet. He comes closer, and closer until I can feel his breathing, if it even is a he. But for some reason I know it's a he, and I know he's not going to hurt me. So I put out my hand, without thinking. Wait, this has happened before, in my vision. He sniffs it and stands back.
      "Am I seeing things? Is this even real? Am I daydreaming again? Ohmygod my parents are gonna kill if dream lasts as long as the last one! Wake up, wake up, wake up." I say flustered and pinching myself. Now growling, he's gone impatient on my denial.
"Whats happening. I don't really have much to lose so if your gonna eat me don't waste my time?" I don't know why I just said that. Now would be a good time for Alex to show up. So the wolf can eat him while I run away screaming for me life.
Then I hear the cracking of bones, a cry, a howl. I have to tear my eyes away because for some odd reason I kinda feel it to. When I look up a boy the same age as me as taken the wolfs place. Where did he come from? What happened to the wolf- oh no no no no no. He didn't, he didn't. DID HE JUST MORPH??? Exactly like my vision, oh hell nah!
"Hi I'm Luca."