[color=lightblue] Austin Anderson
[color=lightblue]~*~*~*~*~ Hurt badly ~*~*~*~*~

[color=lightblue]The man leveled the gun at the girl that had been so nice to me. He wanted to shoot her, to hurt her. Rage began to build as my body shook in fury; a deep growl arose from the back of my throat before I took off running straight at the man. My claws pushed their way back out of my toes and fingers as I leapt in the air preparing to tear him limb from limb for threatening my friend.

I was inches away, just mere inches away from giving this guy the worst pain in his life when something that felt like a truck hit me in my ribs. Darkness threatened around the edges of my eyes as I sailed through the air, this time in a new, out of control direction. I must have hit a wall or something hard for all I know is that my motion stopped while in mid air, this was again followed by more pain which caused the darkness in my vision to leap forward and I fell into a deep slumber.

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”Wake up, please wake up.” A faint voice called out, the darkness in my eyes seemed to fade and my surroundings began to come back into focus. I wasn’t on the hard ground or anything but laying on something soft. My surroundings began to fade into view and I found myself in a semi dark room, the only light coming through was from an open window. The dirty white wallpaper in the room was pealing and in some parts turning a thick black. A thick musk filled the air and stunk it up as if the house hadn’t been clean for years. To my side laid my friend, she was laying on what I found out quickly was a bed, stroking my head softly.

Slowly I rose up onto all fours only to collapse back down, a deep pain in my side had lanced out and I knew trying to stand up again would provide the same result. “Take it easy, we’re at a huge house that one of us suggested. We’re all okay you just need to rest.” She whispered softly her hand stopped stroking my head and moved out of my field of vision. When it returned she had some small nuts in her hand that looked almost like the size of candy bars to me. “We found some dried food, it’s not much, but you should eat it.” I leaned forward, tentatively smelling the food to make sure it isn’t poisoned before softly pushing my face into her hand and grasping one in my mouth.

I quickly chewed it up and dug my face in her hand again, grabbing another and another until it was all gone. “You we’re really hungry.” She stated more than asked as I laid my head back down on the side of the bed. Pain seemed to rack my body over and over and it had just become too unbearable to stay awake. “You could…change back.” She asked, almost scared to mention it.

Changing back hadn’t really occurred to me yet; I had no idea how to change back, I didn’t even know how I changed in the first place. I gave a slow pitiful glance up at her before closing my eyes and concentrating on my new young self. Seconds with by with out nothing and then the tingling sensation happened, followed by what felt like stretching and more stretching. My bones began to re arrange and snap back into place as if I was popping a double joint back into place. My face flattened back in an almost painful, getting it in the face with a frying pan type of way, and all of my fur fell out onto the bed. “Am..I back?” I asked slowly before rubbing my raw vocal cords.

My eyes fluttered back open and I moved to an upright position on the bed. The girl, who ever her name was, was slowly walking back to me, a pair of raggedy clothes in her hands. “We found clothes before we left, I got these for you.” She said almost sheepishly, her eyes still closed. I quickly thanked her and got dressed in the surprisingly fitting dirty old clothes before sitting back down on the bed. “Can I look now?” She asked peeking one eye back open.

I smiled slightly and nodded as she slowly opened both eyes. The next part is what shocked me; she leaned forward and hugged me tightly, tears threatening at the edge of her eyes. “I thought you might have died.” She whispered into my ear softly as I began to wrap my arms around her. We both embraced into a tight hug for a few seconds before we both let go. “I guess I should introduce myself, I’m Kali..” She paused for a second deep in thought. “I’m Annri.”

I guessed the new name was fake which was probably a good idea, we couldn’t go around looking different and saying our old names. “I’m Austin.” I smiled cheerfully and stood up. My ribs did not ache anymore, it seemed as if any damage that had been done was now repaired when I changed back.

“You looked more like Simba when you were a lion.” She grinned, my cheeks began to flush and I looked down for a second and then slowly looked up to match her gaze.

“If you want you could call me Simba.” I said softly unsure how she would take it. She slowly reached out and touched my cheek and then sat down on the bed patting the seat next to her, I slowly sat down and matched her gaze. “You should see if you could turn into a animal like I can.” I suggested.

She pondered it for a second and then looked over at me, a bit unsure. “I don’t know how to really, and I guess it would be scary, I mean does it hurt?” She asked, thousands of questions seemed to rush out at once. So many that I thought my head would spin from all of them.

“No it doesn’t hurt, not really, and I can try and show you how to do it.” I offered.

She seemed to hesitate for a few seconds more before nodding that it was okay. I smiled and got up off the bed and moved away so that she could lie down. “First you need to just relax, I guess, I mean until you master it.” I spoke up, acting as if I knew exactly what I was doing, when in reality I was just trying to copy how I transformed back in the first place.

“Yeah right, relax after everything that happened today.” She rolled her eyes nervously. She had a point there, how could any of us relax after what had just happened to us? How could we relax when we knew we were going to die in just a few days? Which now began to seem huge, if we were going to die in days, why wait for things, why not take chances? With this as the only thing in mind I slowly leaned forward and kissed her cheek softly. “What, was that for?” She asked suddenly shocked, her face as deep of a red as mine.

“I just think you’re really pretty, and I figured if something bad was going to happen to us, I wanted to kiss a pretty girl before it happened.” I said a bit childishly, I couldn’t actually believe that I had just said that. I mean I had kissed lots of pretty girls before in my life, yet at this moment none of those kisses seemed to matter. They were as if they were parts of another life, right now all I cared about was Annri.

“Thanks.” She blushed an even deeper red as I slowly reached out and touched her hand. “Okay okay, relax.” She breathed before closing her eyes.

“Alright, now focus on yourself, focus hard on it and you will start to feel something tingly.” I said, slowly moving my hand away. Any second now she was about to transform and I was a bit worried of something ripping out and scratching my hand if I kept it near her for too much longer. Yet as the milliseconds ticked by and changes started to occur, I began to wonder in anticipation what she was going to change into.

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