“It was dark, and the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was the moon's rippling reflection on the small puddle that had formed due to the previous day's rain. No stars were out that night, and I knew something was wrong because it was too quiet. I looked up cautiously, eyes darting in all places.
It was raining so much yesterday, and because of my lack of judgement, I slipped and crashed into a bush filled with thorns. My nose, body, face- every part of me was scratched up. It didn't look like I would be healing anytime soon.
Then, something roared, and suddenly, this huge thing with bright eyes (and quite an unattractive face) was running towards me with an alarming speed. At first, I just stared at it in confusion and shock. Its legs were rounded and were just turning and turning and turning- how was this animal not hurting itself?
I couldn't get away in time, but I guess it wasn't my time to die yet because the animal stopped in front of me. Curiously, I padded over to its side and tilted my head. There were humans inside of it- living, breathing humans. How was that possible?
There was a tiny human in the back of the animal, and because its face was pressed up on the side of the animal, it was able to see me. The little human started waving its paws around and pointing at me, and pretty soon, the bigger humans were staring at me as well.
I panicked, probably let out a little fart, and turned into a snake. Not a good move. I've caught the humans' attention, and they got out of the ugly animal and then I just ran away. I could hear noises behind me, and when I looked back, even the little one was coming after me. Despite them only running on two of their paws, they were still able to keep up with me. I panicked and kept changing from cat to snake to cat to snake to cat- I tried to dodge and turn and lose them, but they had these small things that projected light and it took all of my willpower not to go pounce on it.
I almost crashed into another cat.
There was a little cut on her ear, but I didn't need to say any words- she knew I was in trouble. The humans were still running after me, but they were a little farther away. The cat in front of me let out this ear-shattering shriek-slash-yowl-slash-yell, and the humans faltered. They turned off their light devices and paused.
At first, I thought they were gone, but then another monster with more humans came, and I started to panic. There were a lot of humans and monsters and humans inside monsters and there was only one of me. Well, me and the other cat. She nudged her head slightly to the right and started to walk slowly.
I followed her, but then she crashed into something, and instantly, the humans shone their light devices at us. We both ran, not daring to stop because the humans were right on our tails. She kept making these weird turns, but we couldn't keep running forever. Pretty soon, the caught up to the two of, closing in on a circle formation.
That was when I first found out I could turn into a bear.”