Dogfight

It is a beautiful sunshine day. It's warm but there is a chill to the air as fall is coming into season. The sun is slowly lowering behind the trees and the shadows grow. Cozbi who is my wolf is jumping trying to catch a butterfly fluttering around our head. Cozbi is all black and even though we are growng she's almost the size of an omega with the strength of a beta. Now you may not think that is much but we just shifted out first time less than a week ago and I'm only eight. No one has shifted that early and we have baffled the council which is made up of a bunch of different Creatures. We also talk to others from different realms which is a new one for everyone. We figured this out when I was six and I was playing with another little girl named Lilith. Everyone thought she was an imaginary friend till I was seven and Lilith gave me a rose for my birthday. Not just any rose it came from her realm and would grant one wish no matter how great or small. It was a black rose with blue tips and a purple glow. I loved it but my parents did not. Mom and dad scolded me for talking to strangers and took it to the council who told me I may need to be grounded. Now I know what you're thinking, a few days without television isn't that bad but for us to be grounded is to break our spirit so it's no longer free. We can keep ourselves grounded to our world. So at eight years old I was fitted to an enchanted collar to help me tether myself to this world. Even though Mom and dad made it look like a necklace everyone knew what it was and I was picked on for it making Cozbi grow resilient against the other kids. Mom and dad would take me away from everyone though and took off my collar which they do once in a while seeing as how I can't shift with it on. "Jess dear it's time for us to go! " Yells Mom. I know I should be grateful they spend the time with me so I'm not trapped but I couldn't bare the thought of being disconnected from Cozbi like that so I did what any eight year old would do... I ran. Cozbi is jumping around running through hollowed trees, swimming through the creeks anything we can think of to get away and hide our scent. We slow down and the forest is quiet. We come across a river and we decide to get in the water hiding in the branches of a tree that has fallen down. Me and Cozbi listen close and watch to see the results of our tactics. It's now dark but the moon is high in the night sky and if I was to get out it was sure to reveal us. We hear my mother's voice sounding pained and it makes us feel guilty. We look at the ringlets that form from the water falling off my hair trying not to focus on my mother other wise we would for sure come out of our hiding spot. We start to hear mother's voice fade and we are proud thinking we out smarted her until we felt a hand come through the branches grabbing us by the nape of the neck. This scared us both but Cozbi was the one yelping like she'd just been shot. Dad holds us up eye level with him giving us a disapproving look and we both put our head down in shame. "Shift" was my father's only command but Cozbi resists. No one is quite sure how she can disobey an alphas order but can. Dad looks at us with a fire in his eyes and repeats his comand."SHIFT!" With this command Cozbi let's go but not before we feel the burning throughout our body from her trying to fight my dad's orders again. When I'm finally done shifting I'm bawling looking at the ground because of shame for disobeying and what is getting ready to happen. My mother is running our way with my collar in her hand trying to soothe me. She Un clamps the collar and starts to wrap it around my neck and I begin flailing my arms and legs. "NO!... No!" I yell closing my eyes. I feel as if I'm falling and my back hits with a thud. I open my eyes and see rod iron bars in front of me and I'm laying on a hard concrete floor. Ah must had been just another dream. I sigh not that my life is much better now but at least I don't have to wear that collar. Now I'm stuck behind enchanted bars but I can still talk to my wolves. Yes you heard me right I have not one but two roaming my mind. There's only a select few who know about it. Well now that my parents are gone from this realm there's only the witch they talked to for guidance. Yes my parents died about two years ago. From what you ask? Well let's just say one of my wolves went feral. I don't blame just my wolf really she was just trying to protect me and after all the years of abuse she just finally snapped and as for my punishment I'm stuck in this hellhole known as the dogfights. This is not just regular dog fights though. This is like underground fight rings made for the lowest of the low to entertain the crowds with our blood and barbarian ways of killing each other. We are here till the day we lose a fight. The day we lose a fight is the day we take our last breath but we will never be free again. We will never feel the grass between our toes or the wind through our hair. Never again will we make our own decisions we are destined to die behind these bars.