Bitten Witch

Chapter 8

"Okay... I'm hungry," I turn to Tabby, "Where's the food?"

She blinks and smiles, "Just go and raid the fridge. Our home is quite literally yours now as well."

I nod and head straight to the fridge, I open the door to heaven and freeze, it's full of raw steak, I shrug and begin to unwrap it because I'm starving. I guess they're planning on feeding lots of people tonight.

Liam rushes into the kitchen, "Wait! You're supposed to cook it first!"

"So?" I start to eat the steak raw.

Lilith shouts from the next room, "Lex! Come on you'll end up in the bathroom again!"

"Your point!?"

I see Liam move towards me intending to take away my food and I growl deep within my throat at him and then I rush outside and into the forest. I hear yells behind me but I continue running while eating the steak. Eventually, I finish the steak and I stop running, realising I'm completely lost. I move to put my hand on my hips but my body doesn't move that way so I look down, I have paws, hmm this is new. I turn in a circle and hum. Just trees and I actually don't know which way I came from. I hope someone comes to find me, I'm about to try and find the way I came from so I turn around but then I spot a rabbit.

I crouch down and start to stalk the little brown hopping ball of fluff, I move so I'm downwind and when I'm close enough I pounce. I bite into its neck and its warm blood flows into my mouth, I then eat my meal and lick my paws clean, heh, I'm pretty good at this wolf stuff. I turn in a circle again, but I'm still lost. I give a wolf version of a sigh and just start to head in a random direction, and hope I find something to help me get home.

The wind rustles in my fur and I realise there's something free about being a wolf, I start to sprint and in my new speed, I rush past other animals sending them fleeing. I continue to race through the forest almost as if something was chasing me, I dodge past trees and jump over logs. I continue running feeling like nothing could go wrong but of course, something has to go wrong because I then fall off a cliff.

At first, I don't realise it but when I look down to see myself falling into a fast running river I kind of knew. I start to turn in the air and I look up to the cliff to see a figure but too soon I end up in the water.

I fall under the surface and hold my breath, I push off the bottom of the river and resurface only to smack into a rock. I wince at the pain but attempt to paddle to the side but the current is too strong, I kick as hard as I can to at least attempt to avoid the rocks but I continuously get slammed into them. I feel myself begin to lose strength and it takes everything in me just to keep my head above the water. I growl, 'God damn I'm not going to die here. I've got to think of something, I mean come on! I just found out I'm turning into a wolf shifter and... wait a minute. Water sprites? Help me!'

I remembered something from when I was a child, my Grandmother would always say to be careful of the wind sprites because they like to play tricks, so maybe there are water sprites, I mean I don't have anything to lose. I feel I'm about to cry when I feel myself being pulled to the bank of the river, my feet stop kicking due to my depleted strength and I sink but I'm still dragged to the side. I feel myself begin to lose consciousness but then I feel the sand under my feet, and using whatever strength I have left, I push myself up and gulp down the air. I lay down on the bank and look down to see that my body's changed back to normal, once again I am a naked girl.

I let out a breath and cough up some water, looking back to the river and surprisingly, there are little women made entirely of water dancing on the water's surface. I sit up and lean forward, I then bow my head to them.