In the morning I
woke up when the shiny-aura- man walked into the room. He was carrying a bowl
of water and another bowl of food. He put them on the floor and sat on a chair.
He watched me eat. ”I’ll teach you how to transform”, he promised.
It took me a
couple of weeks to master the transformation completely. At first, when I
managed to do it, it was by accident. After I had done it a few times I started
doing it by accident. Whenever I was startled I transformed. I broke quite a
few clothes in those couple of weeks. All this time those two men were there
for me. The one who also transformed, he was a tiger. Larger and stronger than
me. He was called Stephan. The other man was a mercenary called Luis. We were
at a hide-out of Luis. Actually Luis wasn’t part of Stephan’s team, he was a
good friend. He had apparently taught lots of things about humans to Stephan.
Stephan was also from a zoo, but Luis and his friends spotted him first and
stole him. They told me that the zoo had quite a lot shapeshifters born in
there compared to other zoos. It still wasn’t very common. Sometimes, about
once or twice in ten years, they heard about magical animals being born there.
They told me
that I was stolen from the zoo by some runners. They sold me to a collector,
who wanted me as a status-symbol. Other party of runners broke in, found me and
sold me to a laboratory. After that they heard that the laboratory had magical
animals in there. They did their jobs well; Stephan said that they didn’t get
any money from that job. Everyone wanted to help. I had spent eleven months in
the lab. At that point I was a bit over two years old. I wasn’t quite an adult
yet, but I wasn’t a baby either.
When I had
mastered the transformation completely, Stephan left. He wished me best of luck
and said that he needed to keep going. His team had already left the area, and
he had to go back home. He promised that Luis would take care of me and teach me
about life amongst humans. I said goodbye to Stephan. That was the last time we
met. I would actually love to know how he is, or is he even alive anymore.
Maybe someday I will find out what happened to him.
My life
consisted of studying English so that I could communicate better, and
fighting-skills. Luis taught me to read and write. He also taught me unarmed
combat, sword-fighting and etiquette. English was hard to learn to read and
write. I had learned English by listening, and talking was a challenge for me
at first.
Luis had some
jobs to take care of every once in a while. I stayed behind, studied about
paranormal animals, explosives and survival. I took off sometimes, I went to
the woods as a leopard, learned to hunt on my own, learned to survive in the
wild.
After I had become
stronger in my human-body and were capable of protecting myself Luis started to
take me on his jobs as well. Mostly I sneaked around, protected my post and
planted explosives. I had fun, I liked to fight, I enjoyed the excitement and
the killing. Other people of the team were a bit scared of me. They didn't trust me completely, or at least that’s the impression I got. They didn't speak
English, so I got my instructions directly from Luis.
I believe it was
my vicious fighting that scared them. I didn’t hesitate to kill. I jumped into
situations head-on, killed with smile on my face and laughed at suffering
victims. I don’t even know if I have a gentle side. It was also startling to
the team when I transformed in the middle of the job, in the middle of the
fight. Every time I felt like I needed more strength I transformed and
attacked. As a leopard in the fight I tend to be even more vicious. Blood
tastes sweet when I lick it off my claws. I imagined killing my torturers when
I fought.
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