Thank you for reading the my story. please forgive any typos I tried to catch them all comments welcome and appreciated, good or bad.
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Seeing the full moon high above in this clear night sky makes me want to run. Yet every time I think about running I cant help but replay that dream in my head over an over. I'm chasing that beautiful woman, well half woman, and half tiger. Hell I'm still not totally sure what she is, all I know is that I cant stop thinking about her. I'm not totally sure if she is even real or if its my minds way if playing games with me. All I know for certain is that if she is real I've gotta find her. I'll know her if I ever see her. That I can promise you. Her eyes are absolutely unforgettable. They are a majestic blue, almost green sometimes. Depends on the way she looks at you. Mind you as I've said I'm not even sure if she is real but she is truly an amazing sight to behold least in my dreams that is.
As I lie here under the stars my wolf is clamoring to get free. Shall I give into my wild side? Let him run and chase nothing? Or shall I keep him subdued for a little while longer? I decide to let my instincts take over. Stripping out of the shirt and jeans that are inhumanly uncomfortable to me all of the sudden an toss them onto a tree limb, then stretch in a final preparation for my shift. In a single instant it happens with ease. My nose catches a sent not so unfamiliar to me. It's has a masculine hint to it and yet is ever so feminine. I can't help but chuckle to myself for I know just who it is. My younger brother. Well by brother I mean my twin. Some how we came from the same parents and yet have become very different.
The femininity that surrounds him baffles me I've always been absolutely certain that he should have been a woman. I run towards the scent to see if I can catch up to him. Not that he could possibly out run me. See having one parent that's a shifter the other who is half-human half shifter sometimes the genes get crossed.
Interspecies development sometimes can occur yet it hasn't happened for centuries until now with my brother and I. you see my brother, is not a wolf like myself. He developed into a shifter of an altogether different kind.
His name is Mato and to put it simply. He is a bear. A very big lovable, honest creature. He can shift into human form but prefers to stick to his wild side. He lives alone out here an once in a while we cross paths. Mato is what we call a two spirit. He can be either male or female. That just depends on his mood. I'm sure u can tell by now that he has chosen to be a male. Why else would I call him my brother right. Besides the fact that we have the same parents we have almost nothing else in common.
Finally I catch up to him about a mile or so down the unseen scent path. I hear a grumble and swiftly change before I get into his sight.
"Mato good to see you, how have u been?"
He shifts in front of me, which is probably the first time in months that's he's done so. I look at him with a bit of longing behind my stare. I have to admit there are times when I wish that I had the joys of the little things he has chosen for himself. Mostly though, the freedom. I envy such freedom. Our father has never claimed him. Said no creature like him could possibly come from his seed. So he was cast away as soon as he could fend for himself. Though he and I have stayed in constant contact threw nothing more then telepathy. I almost forget that I have a brother because we are so different but every now and again he will simply tell me that he's fine an not worry about him.
"Brother have you been taking care of yourself" Mato asks
I look at him for a moment then away at something meaningless off in the distance.
"Honestly? No as usual I've been getting by. But alas you know me. I always seem to manage though right?"
He wants me to tell him of my human life I know. But hell I don't even wanna think about it myself. The shit I deal with from the alpha, the messes I try to keep myself out of. He really doesn't need to know any of it really. He would try to convince me as usual when we talk to join him out here. Learn to just be my inner beast and nothing more.
"Dak, you are too quiet. What's bothering u? it's the alpha again isn't it? "
I simply nod at him knowing I have no words to answer his questions.
"Mato. I envy you. don't u know that? I love hearing of your life an not having to deal with my own."
he chuckles gruffly then changes back into his bear form
" follow me brother as your wolf."
So I strip an shift with ease. Shaking the shudder off. I sniff around a moment then look to him. He takes off at a full run not worrying about loosing me I easily follow his lumbering stride into a clearing. He stops in the middle of the meadow an flops down onto his back looking up at the sky like a child.
"Dak, do you remember the days when we would spend hours doing such silly things? Looking at the sky trying to see what stories the clouds would tell that day? Do u remember?"
"Yes I do. Those were the days huh. Not a trouble in our worlds in those moments."
I lay down next to him paws in the air. Enjoying the soft feel of the grass against my fur. How I miss the smell of the earth. The scent of mother nature herself.
Mato looked at his brother with a questioning look when Dak just spaced into his own little world making him shake his head in wonder how his brother could be intelligent as they all say he was. Dak finally snapped out of his mind numbing space out and looked at Mato with a questioning look but smirked nonetheless.
"Tell me brother, how have you been?" Dak asked as he crouched.
Mato just studied him before a fully answered.
"As I always have been Dak, fine and nature tuned as always. What is it that you want of me?"
Dak shrugged. "Cant I just come for a visit without it seeming that I want something?"
Mato snorted sarcastically. "Please, even though I'm your brother and I know that you care for me but I'm not stupid enough to believe that you don't want anything."
Dak sighed. "Ah, you know me too well brother, too well indeed. Well I just saved another female from fathers clutches and I'm getting really tired of his sadistic and sick ways of things. I need information as usual."
Mato raised a brow as he sat on a tree stump that acted like either a seat or a table depending on Mato's mood during that moment when he did eventually shift back to his human form. Dak waited patiently even though he really wasn't one that patience was a virtue with.
"Of course, tell me something that I don't know."
Mato sighed.
"What exact ally do you need brother?"
"There is something brewing in the air and I don't like the stench of it. Father is planning something and there is an outside source that appears to be working with him even though who or what ever it is has no intention on being loyal in the end,"
