When Lunar Wolves Rule

When Lunar Wolves Rule: Part 3(First Part)

I Visit the Banther Tribe

“Lilac, sweetheart, come down stairs we need to speak with you!” My mother calls to me, from the living room. I rush downstairs, skipping the bottom step. I ask mom and dad who are sitting on the couch “What’s up mom…I-Is something wrong?” Now before I continue you must know that I’m currently 9 years old, and for some reason I have developed a stutter. Dad darts his face to his phone, and starts typing like a mad person. “Babe, would you please not rage type, you’ll cramp your fingers again,” mom says worried, but annoyed at the same time. Dad nodes and eases up a bit on the rage typing then he looks up and says “Pumpkin…you know the Banther Tribe right?” I nod slowly, where is he going with this, “Well our, er, services are needed there, and well we can’t just leave you and Nico here alone now can we now?” I just say “Daddy…you are doing that t-thing where y-you stall too long and then i-it stretches out for hours.” He looks to mom for support, she says slowly. “We need to go to the Banther Tribe and you and your brother are coming with us, so go pack ok.” I ran upstairs to tell Nico, but he obviously knew because he was already packing. I decided not to bug him and go to my room to pack. When I’m done I sit on my bed and sigh nervously, it’s not that I’m not excited about it, I was…but since my mother I had never seen or even met another magical creature. Then Nico popped his head in the door and said, “Mom and dad said they told you. You must be really nervous, meeting other magical creatures and all.” I nodded and said with my dumb stutter, “Y-yeah but It’ll be super fun t-too…and plus they have so many c-cakes to try!” He smiled then left, I jumped up and went to the jewelry box mom had given me for my second birthday, there was a crescent necklace. She designed it to help me go into my wolf and human form until I could control it. I put it on and jumped off my balcony and ran through the forest. I could hear the wind whistling past my ears, my paws in the dirt, and I could smell everything ten times better than in my human form. I stopped at the big tree and rubbed up against it. It smelled like her, sweet and gentle. But at the same time deadly and fearless, I loved going there even at such a young age. I didn’t tell you this before but I still had a lot of memories of my past life, that's why I didn’t cry so easily and was smarter than most kids my age. But I wanted to live my life to the fullest, mostly because I hadn’t gotten that chance in my previous life. But we aren’t going into that yet. I just came here to get a whiff of my mother's scent, when I was done I raced back to the house and hopped straight into bed.

It was a busy day in our small home town, we rushed past tourists coming off the airplanes, and finally after what seemed like forever, we got to our plane. I fell asleep right away. When we got to the Banther Tribe I was flabbergasted, it was huge. I’m pretty sure the buildings were as high as the sky. It looked like there was a festival going on, when dad said “Banther Festival happens every year, ain’t that amazin’ luv?” I giggled and ran up to a cotton candy stand and begged for dad to buy us some, Nico chimed in “She isn’t gonna stop asking, plus I want some too.” He was trying really hard not to smile. Mom and dad said as long as we stayed in town square we could explore on our own. I separated from Nico pretty quickly, I was still nine in this life so don’t judge me. I was so happy and curious by this big new place that I wasn’t watching were I was going, and bummed into a girl about my age, she turned around she had blond hair and blue eyes, she held up her hand and said calmly “Well you must be new, I’m Kimmy, you ok girly?” I nodded and told her my name. After about an hour of hanging with her I realized how late it was getting, I called dad and asked him where he was. Kimmy said “I should get going too, see you around new girl,” she smirked, and whispered something in my ear that took me by surprise. Later that night I lay in the hotel bed thinking about that girl. Your secret is safe with me. Who was she? Did she know what I was? I would soon find out the next day that she did indeed know what I was, but how she knew is what was really shocking.