Truth and Lies (A Logan Howlett Fanfic)

Oporation: Catnip

I put my shoes back on and stood in front of them. I then saw the look on Wade's face, and I looked at him. "Don't even think about it." I looked up at the trees as I said it. "Don't think about what?" He asked me innocently. "Flirting. Lets just say the last boy that flirted with me, well he hasn't been able to look at me for three years now." I replied, throwing myself into a tree. I jumped from limb to limb on the tree. 

When I got to the top, I leaned away from the tree and took a deep breath of the cool air. "Get down from there before you get hurt." Called Logan. I looked down and through myself from the tree. I heard them gasp, the air ripping at my body grew stronger and stronger, and whistled in my ears. Instead of going splat on the ground I landed on my feet, I looked at them, straitened into a standing position. 

I smiled at them and said "Oh come on, what did you think I would do, waste time climbing down the tree?" "It's what a normal human person would do." Zero stated. "Well i'm not normal." I smiled, tilted my head innocently, an instantly I ripped my body around. Scaled wings erupted from my back, I took on the complete form of a dragon, and half roared, half hissed at the object challenging me. I flicked my tail, almost hitting Logan with its sharp arrow like tip.

A bullet hit my shoulder and bounced harmlessly off my scales. A deep satisfied growl erupted from my large lungs. The thing that shot at me cursed and grumbled "I thought he said that this bullet would pierce any object, even a metal exoskeleton. I yet again growled, this time it was a warning. The man ran out of the foliage with a spear at the ready, screaming hysterically.

I broke the spear with ease, picked him up in my right front clawed paw, unfolded my wings, looked up, and flew strait up into the sky. He screamed and I flew even faster enjoying the rush of the wind. I found a federal prison, shifted into an angel with my fifty foot black wings, held him by the arms, and landed in the jail yard. One of the security met me and barked "What are you doing here mutant." I rolled my eyes and said irritated "Oh, please. You can drop the act. I found this man poaching a black bear in the Long Island woods."

The guard looked at me stunned, causing me to fight to keep a strait face. He grabbed the arm of the man I was holding my the neck. "Warden!" he yelled. A woman dressed in military attire marched out of the prison building. I bowed my head and said "Malady." 

"At ease, girl." Obediently raised my head, stood strait, and placed my hands behind my back. The warden walked slowly around me judging me. She stopped in front of me and told the guard to take the new prisoner to his new room. I watched silently as he dragged the man inside. "State your business." The warden commanded. 

I took a breath "Dropping off a poacher ma'm." She nodded, and stated "You are always welcome as a guest as long as I am warden here." I saluted,  and said "Thank you ma'm." She stepped closer to me and whispered in my ear, "I too am a mutant, I can hear thoughts Lierrra." I looked at her not with shock but interest.

I smiled, thought "To my grave I shall take this secret. Warden." and allowed her to lead me through the prison to the roof. "Until we meet again." she called after me, saluting. I flapped my powerful wings harder, returning home. It was late evening when I returned to the cabin and the team. Jessica stared at me with disgust.

"What, is the kitty upset that she is grounded?" I mocked. Wade snickered, and she glared at him. I smiled, trying not to laugh at him. She turned back to me, growled "Showoff." and disappeared down the hall. Then the sent of alcohol hit me and I had to fight to keep myself from gagging.

I turned, walked out the door down the porch steps, and looked around. I shifted my hands into paws and dug small holes in the weed patch that must have been a garden long ago. I then pulled the bunch of catnip I had and carefully placed the small, green plant in the hole, filling in the dirt around each small stem. Within minutes the large weed patch was dotted with small clumps of catnip. I heard the door handle move, swiftly left the patch, shifted halfway into a large black wolf, and walked into the light of the moon. 

"Shocking, it's the entire team; and they're all wasted too." I thought to myself. I then received an instinctual idea, the moon was full, the sky was clear, I was a wolf, and the team was there. I looked at the moon longingly, took a step, inhaled deeply through my mouth, though my head into the air, and released the air as a loud howl. The team stopped laughing and looked at me, howls came from everywhere, answers. I howled again, this time longer and changing tones as I continued the howl. 

The howls of my fellow wolves and myself continued for hours. Finally I made the final call, looked back at them, purposely shifted slowly, padded up to a dense piece of foliage, stretched, and layed down, curling up as much as I could, and laying my head on my front paws. I watched to team for a moment, allowing them to see me as a lone, curious wolf; not a single shred of human left in me in this form. Even my eyes were wolf's eyes, all iris, no pupil. "What is wrong with them, have they never seen a traveling wolf before?" 

 Finally they went back inside, I relaxed and drifted off to sleep listening to the lullaby called nature. I would never truly be human, and never understand them. I was so much different from them, I was glad that I was too. I kept thinking as I drifted off, thinking of so many things that I still needed answers to. Instead of gaining answers to my questions I gained even more questions.

For a few moments I laid in a dreamless sleep, then I woke to a new but familiar sound. I opened my eyes and found myself laying right next to a waterfall. I touched my paw to the water. It was cold, I drew back my paw, bent down and tasted the water. It was fresh and cold, like nothing I had ever tasted, there's not even a word that can explain it.  I then realized my surroundings, the ground was blanketed in soft, warm green grass, tall trees stretched from the ground, with leaves the color of the grass, the sky the bluest of blue, with no cloud in sight.

A safe haven, a wonderful place. I saw my mom and instantly I brightened up. "Mom!" I called out to her. She looked up, walked up to me, and said "Ah my child, I welcome you to Alcllay." She motioned all around her at the small ground that we stood on. I smiled and said "So that is what this place is called?"

She smiled and said "Yes, Blackmoon." I stared at her with confusion, knitting my eyebrows. She looked at me, chuckled, took my hand and led me to a sun lit spot in the grass. "My child, through your own experience and the little instruction and guidance I have given you; you were able to very well control and use your gift, now you must learn the language that comes with it." She kelt down in the grass pulling me along with her. "The language, what do you mean?"

"The gift you have received is one that only the female of our family receive. The language is that of which must be learned to understand the gift given." She tried to clarify. I blinked, then tried to understand. "The gift that you always told me I posses, you said it's unique, but you have the same one don't you?" I asked trying to make sense of everything I was now learning. "Lie, my gift is limited to animals that are real in human eyes, you as you did the day before today, became a dragon, with diamond hard skin; can become anything you can imagine." 

I finally understood more about myself. For hours my mother and myself talked as we walked, sat in the grass, and watched the fish swim in the crystal clear water. Laughing about stories that we shared, and talking about teaching me the language I needed to learn. I then remembered that I still had my father to return to in the world that I wanted to leave. I sighed sadly, not wanting to leave, and my mother noticed. 

"Oh yes, the world you are in now, and the world I can not return to. You must return to your father, it is almost dawn there. In the Earthly plain or Eaith." I nodded and looked at the ground, "I guess I must return, go for my morning run, and try to find something to fill the rest of my day." She nodded, "Till tomorrow, my beautiful daughter." I nodded, embraced her in a hug, took a deap breath with my eyes closed, when I opened my eyes I was looking at the cabin an hour before sunrise, through the eyes of a wolf.