Digital Wreck (OC Background story).

Rage

This routine went on for about a month, until one day, I spotted what was doing all this. What I saw shocked me beyond words. I was laying in a tree, watching the morning sun. A man in dark black clothes with brown hair walked up to the tunnel door. He was carrying a huge elk like it weighed nothing at all. He dropped the elk on the ground near my tunnel, next to the boulder. What he did next was what shocked me. He got on the ground near the door, and started to change. Not taking off his clothes, he closed his eyes and suddenly a tail poked out from behind him. His human ears vanished, and brown ones sprouted on the top of his head. Dark fur grew out of his body and his clothes melted into that fur. His bones started to crack and his legs twisted to look like a wolf's. They grew claws and so did his fingers. Soon, his hands and feet grew into the paws of the wolf he had turned into. The wolf sat on the ground and scratched on the boulder before running off into the woods.

However, he didn't go far, and as he sat down to watch me come out from behind the boulder like I usually did, I dropped to the floor behind him. His head whipped back towards me, and he backed away, growling. "Do you remember me?" He stopped growling, and his head tipped to the side. He whined and pawed at the ground. "I'll take that as a yes." I sat on the ground. "Why didn't you tell me?" His head tilted to the side. I sighed. "Why did you not tell me that you could change into a human?" He paused, not backing up any more. He suddenly bared his teeth at me, and ran away. I could have sworn I heard him crying. I jumped into a tree and followed him towards a clearing. He dove into a hole. I jumped to the ground and squished myself through the hole. He was still ahead of me, and he emerged into the cave before I did. When I crawled through the opening, I saw an amazing sight. Huge crystals hung from the cavern's ceiling, and grew from the granite floor. He had changed again, and was leaping up the side of one of the bigger crystals, and onto a beautiful silver platform. Next to the platform, there was a door carved into the crystal. He opened it and vanished inside. What the heck?

I had no need to climb after him, I just floated up. When I stepped onto the platform, I kept my 'ether' form. I had started calling it that for a month. The door swung open before I could even knock, bringing me face to face with the wolf? Human? What is he anyway? "I'm an elemental." What the heck? Did hear me? Did I say that out loud? "No, you didn't say it out loud." He can read minds? "That is correct." He can read minds. But then again, I glow like a computer that's on its brightest setting... I rolled my eyes and sat down on the platform. He sat beside me. "So. You were an elemental and I thought you were just a regular wolf." He nodded. "Can we be friends?" I dunno. Are you going to kill me? "Why would I do that? You saved me, remember?" "Hmm. Normal people don't usually walk up to strangers and ask to be friends, you know. But then again, we are not normal people. Are we even people?" I buried my face in my hands. "I'll find them..."

My hair, eyes and skin lit up and my hair started to float in the air. I felt something on my back, and when I looked back, glowing red wings swished around behind me. I felt the urge to touch something, so I placed my palm on the platform. It started to glow, so I lifted my palm. A trail of the glowing light was still connected to my hand. As if by instinct, my hand reached back towards my wings, and it connected. The trail of light flew towards my wings. When it connected, my wings shoved downwards. I floated up off of the platform. The trail of light spun into a silver translucent bubble around me, and the platform hovered underneath me, with the boy holding on for dear life. I set the platform back down and settled. The bubble vanished when I cut my hand through the string of light. The platform stopped glowing. He glared at me. "Never do that again." I rolled my eyes. "Fine." We sat, just chatting. He had mentioned that he was lonely. "Listen. I have to go now. Now that I know the way here, I'll be back tomorrow." He held out his hand. "I'm Rage." Rage? That's a cool name. I am Lyric. "Lyric, huh?" I laughed. "I think that you should be called Digital. You, know, because you 'glow like a computer on its brightest setting.'" You heard that? Actually, that does seem like a good name. I have to go now, okay? He nodded and I left the crystal cavern. He's nice.

I followed the path that we'd taken when he'd run. The tree branches supported my weight well as I leapt through their branches. I jumped down when I got to my den, and dragged the elk inside. So... the moose, deer and elk that have been turning up at my door were from Rage. I thought of my dream from so long ago. I still remembered it. Could it have been a premonition? Could it still happen? Have I avoided it? Hopefully... I stalked towards the mouth of the den. Over the next couple of weeks, I visited Rage, and we just talked and got to know each other. We occasionally practiced together. Sometimes during practice, I would notice Rage staring at me. I don't know how to tell him that I'll be leaving the forest for good and going to a different state... One day, after practice, I headed home as usual and went inside, but something stopped me, and I turned back around.