The Twisted Fate

Ethan's POV

"Good morning! Good morning Good morning!"

I opened my eyes in a jolt.

"Shut up fatso!"

I yawned and shooed at the only living thing that had been beside me for a few years now. It was a talking parrot!

I call him Mr. Fatso as he always eats too much. It is his duty to wake me up everyday with a loud shrieking voice. Sometimes he makes rattles and rumbles in his cage so early in the early morning if I don't wake up after his loud siren . Yes,it makes me so annoyed at times!

"I should have eaten you that night along with your siblings!"

I yelled at him.

I rubbed my eyes and sat on my bed . My eyes half closed ,as it was still so early in the morning and my body was aching so much! Last night,it was another night of my nightmare....

I stretched my hands over my face as morning sun rays began to scatter through my rugged thatched hut.

Yeah,another day begins...

I stood up abruptly. The veil that was covering me up fell on the ground. I could see my naked reflection on the life-sized mirror stood infront of me,the only luxurious thing in my shabby cottage.

I looked carefully from closer .

My body was full of cuts and bruises. There were dry leaves sticking inside of my curly brown hair, and a deep cut on the right side of my belly,slightly up above the navel.

"I see! Nothing serious then! Hah,Mr. Fatso!"

I said with a chuckle and put some water inside his cage .

I wrapped myself around with a piece of clothing while looking at Mr. Fatso gulping down some water with the help of his beak.

I stepped out of my hut.

I enjoyed the sunny rays that were coming through the leaves of the trees. The deep dense forest was welcoming a new morning with all it's charm. I should have felt a little bit of peace if I could remember what I had done the previous night,,,how many of the creatures that I killed last night,,, If only I could remember and could hold back!

My life is cursed!

I let out a mournful yell from the deep inside of my heart....

Yes, I'm a vicious creature that roam in the earth, I'm one of a kind that everybody should be afraid of,,everybody should stay away to a safer place farther away from me.... I'm not..I'm not a human...

I'm a werewolf!

Every full moon night,I transform into the vicious beast and have to leave my house. It's not in my control. I can't help it myself. My whole body writhes with pain and grimace but I can't help it. I can't help the urge to kill or to taste the smell of fresh blood. I have to get out in search of my instinct,,,, for the call of the wild and also in search of my mate!

Though I know , my kinds had gone extinct a long time ago. Whether by fighting with each other or for the lack of food or for the leadership of the pack. And also for the killing and hunting of us. For a very long time,werewolves were being hunted by humans as they always thought of us a danger to their existence.

They were not in the wrong though. Look at me! I'm a threat!

My dad was a werewolf and my mom was a mere human. I don't know how they fall in love with each other and eventually I was born. My dad was killed by a hunter and my mom fled with me in her arms deep inside the very forest. I grew up in the woods along with other animals. My mum never let me go outside of the jungle or never let anyone try to find us. I heard that my grandpa was one of the great hunters and killed so many of our kinds (werewolves) with his own hands and saved many villages. Sometimes I wonder,being a daughter of a werewolf hunter herself, how did my mom fell in love with a species of our kind.

All her life,she tried to protect myself,fled from one part from another inside of the vast dense forest far away within the human reach.

Taking care of a wolf-child was a tough one for a mere human being . As I couldn't help myself at the transformation time during the full moon period . She kept me inside of the house,tied me up as I could easily run away deep into the woods and could probably be killed by other animals as I was so little back then. I scratched the walls and yelled and howled the whole night. I scratched and wounded myself and howled hopelessly being tied up inside as I wanted to respond to the call of nature. But I couldn’t....

The next morning was always a tough one as I saw my mom's teary eyes as she cleaned up my wounds.

"You have to fight back ,Ethan! You have to hold back the urge!"

Said my mom with tears in her eyes.

"Mom I can't!"

I used to sob and rub my face on her chest .

"You should learn to fight it back ,my boy! You are a human as well as you are a werewolf. When the time comes,you have to choose for yourself how you wanna lead your life as. Then we can go back living with the outside human world!"

She always told me to fight the urges. But it never happened. I couldn't help but transform into something I didn't even want either . I couldn't help but hurting myself and others even though I hated it. It was something I was cursed with....

My poor mom died when I reached my teen. Breathing her last, she warned me not to leave the place as the outside world was so dangerous like a creature like me. May be,she guessed it right - even if I wanted,I could never hold back my urges to transform into a something that anyone could ever accept....

"Why did you marry him,mom,,,then you and I should have never been like this!"

I was crying so hard,holding her frail hands inside of my fist.

"Don't you say this to your papa!"

Breathing heavily she scolded back at me.

"He was the best part of my life that ever happened to me! And I am blessed with you ,Ethan! Things would have been easier if he had been with us now,,,but I don't blame myself that I fell in love with your dad.... I'm so sorry my boy that I couldn't protect you with my life as your father told me before he died. You must live,Ethan! You must ! I'm so sorry my boy! Stay away from humans! Don't you ever leave the forest,ever! Protect yourself! "

She touched my crying face.

"You are not like your dad,Ethan,, as you have my blood running through your veins too."

She said after a while.

"You can live like a human if you really try hard to hold your urges back - I really wish that you can do that one day! I don't want you to live all your life alone without anyone by your side,my child! I really hope,you'll be able to fight it back! "

"Yes,mom... I will..."

I sobbed so hard as she breathed her last the very moment on my hands... I closed her eyes and covered her with a cloak.

I became all alone since then....

All alone in the deep dense forest just by myself...

Not right now though, I have Mr. Fatso with me whom I found one of the cursed night's of my life. Though I attacked the nest and all the other one's died, I didn't know how I could never touch him. May be,I held my urges back that night while trying to kill Mr. Fatso along with other birds? If I did,that meant,I really have a little bit of human left inside of my heart,right?

So,when the time comes,will I be able to leave the forest and live just like a normal human being along with others?