Wednesday, March 1, 2006

   Ch2: Stray

I was walking down the silent road. No cars, nothing. I walked down to an apple tree and sat at a random porch. I took a bite out of the apple then placed the rest inside my backpack. I got up and put my backpack onto by back and walked into a near by ally. I laid next to a garbage dump and slept.

I woke up with something on top me. It smelt horrible! I got up and shook of garbage on me, then a voice called up top. “Damn kids should get out of the way!” cried an old man at me. I put my head down to the ground, grabbed my book bag and headed down to a lake, took a quick dunk and ran to the bus stop.

The boys, my age were there. They handed me a cigarette. I took a few hits then gave it back to them. The bus came and I went to school- as usual. Days mast and Miss Jay taught us a few things. School was boring ever since now. Back off to recess. I went outside and smoked with some kids for a while, until the time past and it was time for lunch.

I sat next to Michi and we became friends. He would never eat, and give it to me. I’d chat with him, then we become great pals. Except one day, a day on recess. Michi was hanging with me, even though he wouldn’t smoke, and then he looked at me weirdly. “something the matter?” I asked dropping the cigarette. He looked at me, “I can see it now. Show me, and ill show you” he said. I began to sweat. “what do you see?” I asked with hesitation. “the wolf” he said. I backed up and grinned, then looked around. “you want to fight?” I asked. He looked at me, “no fight, I just want to see what you look like.”

“but these people…” I said. “they don’t matter. Just act like they aren’t here” he said smiling. I changed wolf. I was a white wolf with brown eyes, black ears, a black left paw, a spot on my back, and a corn shaped spot on my tail. “better?” I grinned. Everyone stopped and looked at me. So I looked at them. A girl with blue eyes, brown hair wearing a white shirt and jeans came up to me and screamed, “PUPPY!!!”
She clutched my neck and squeezed so I couldn’t breathe. I struggled and fell onto my back, her still on me. Michi laughed, “okay, well, my turn” without anyone looking, he changed wolf also. Even though everyone else thought we were dogs. Michi, a white wolf with a black-top-muzzle, with green eyes and a black left paw, like me, stood there and looked at me.

“ready for that fight?” Michi said. “I thought you said there wouldn’t be a fight” I said, still speaking wolf. “you should know better, when two wolves cross paths, we must fight!” he said smiling evilly. “even you should know that.” I looked at him. “not near these people” I said. “Don’t worry, we’ll fight our way out of here,” he said staring at me. I had a bad feeling. Michi bared his teeth, so I did as well. This would really be my first wolf fight, all the other times I was just in the way, and I never did really hurt anyone. Lets see how far I have gotten.
The girl on me got off and ran away to the others. I leaned down into attacking position and growled. Michi followed. Both our pupils disappeared making our eyes just plain brown and green. Our hairs on our backs rose up, high. All humans, just sore at us. “ready?” Michi asked. “ready” I said confident. Michi jumped at me and ripped my shoulder, I flinched, then jumped onto him and grabbed his neck.

Already, blood was spreading. Boys and girls around us were running inside the building by now, the teachers making sure everyone went in. Michi, still on the ground, clamped my belly skin and ripped at it. I yelped, letting go and biting his muzzle. He wouldn’t let go of my side, so I kicked him in his leg. Then let go of his muzzle, he flew back yelping and running to a distance. Blood, dripping at my side, and my shoulder, not to mention his blood spots as well, were getting bad. I had to finish this before the school had no recess because of wolfs blood. He jolted at me, I dodged it and split his side, making him drop onto the ground. I jumped over him, pinning him to the ground and bit at his neck. He jumped up in pain and limped off away from the school. I followed.

I ran so fast I felt like I was In air, either that or my wounds were worse than I thought. I ran threw streets, following Michi. I was still running, I had to pass another road. It would be close with cars and all. I ran as fast as I could pat the road, a semi, just missed me by a hair. that’s was too close. I have to watch it for now on. Now we were passing a highway. How far will this wolf go?
I ran faster, trying to keep up. Finally, when I got close enough before we got to the highway, I jumped on him. Exactly on the curb, Michi spun around and bit my arm, and took off. I rolled onto the highway and when I went to run again, a truck hit me. I went flying threw the air, and I hit the ground, bleeding. My eyes slowly closed as the man in the truck came out and ran to me.
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