Sorry guys but I had kind of gotten lost reading other things on here but here is your next chapter (October 5, 2017). The picture will be explained in this chapter.

We left in the early morning and headed north, luckily this generation had a truck so that they could bring thing to and from the city that they apparently went to so often. We rode for almost the whole day with me playing bored games with my sister until she got tired and started to go to sleep. I wasn't tired because I guess that I was naturally a nocturnal creature, being both wolf and dragon. So I stayed up until it was well dark out, and I was starting to get restless ad so I slid open the little panel so that I could talk to the farmer that was driving. 

"Hey how much longer" I asked "I'm starting to get restless and bored back here" 

"Not much longer...in fact he should be seeing the lights of it right about now" he said looking around puzzled, and that it when I heard the howling. It wasn't friendly howling either, and so I shook my little sister awake. 

"Hey, hey you've got to wake up now" I said getting an umph out of her "we've got to go" 

"Just five more minutes" she said then she was out again

"Well" I said to myself "I guess that I'll just have to carry everyone then" so I then hurried out of the trunk and shut it behind me. 

"Hey!what are you doing" the farmer ask-yelled through the window

"I'm getting us out of there" I said, and then I shifted. I was always amazed on how I looked as a dragon. I mean who doesn't think that swirling silver scales isn't cool, and I love the visions that I could switch to. I immediately switched to night-thermal vision sot that I could see the wolves around us, the people in the car, and the city lights behind us. Then I started to fly, and that got a big fuss from the farmer.

"Hey you can't just leave us here!" he yelled

I mean I could, but I don't want to so just get back in the truck before I make it leave without you in it I said, and he looked slightly confused before he got back in the truck and secured it. I started to concentrate on the metal on the truck and feel it becoming a part of me, so I slowly lifted it up making the farmer scream and my sister stir a little. Then I started to fly and the truck wasn't far behind, but sadly neither were the wolves.

Isn't one chasing enough I thought to myself I already lost you bastards once but now I just have to do it again, and with a sigh I disappeared taking the truck with me into a void that I had 'created' and getting us to the city in a flash. Then I started to lower the truck and shift into human form.

"H-how did you do that" the farmer stuttered

" I don't know" I said flabbergasted "I never even knew that I could do that" 

"Well you might have to do it again in your near future so I might suggest that you learn to control your powers" he said "and see out a group that might be able to help u----" he slurred and then fell to the ground with a feathery object in his neck. Then I saw as one flew at me, and I caught it in midair, but fell to the ground a second later pretending to take it out and fall to the floor unconscious. I have to say that it was very hard going against my instinct to push my hands out to stop my fall, but I didn't and fell to my face regulating my breathing, making myself lighter so that someone could move me and making it seem like I was sleeping. Then I saw one hit my sister and even though she was already sleeping she visibly relaxed and started to sleep more peacefully. I heard footsteps coming to me, and I knew that I had to make the timing perfect otherwise I wouldn't be able to get us out of here. So when the footsteps were less than two feet away I relaxed and listened. They stopped right at my head, and then a pair of hands took me by the hair lifted up me head. Then satisfied let my head drop to the pavement below making it crack and dent with the force of my head hitting it. I had to keep so much control to now lash out or breath in sharp or unevenly, and then I felt something try to drag me, but sadly for them I has still immobile. 

"Hey Nick come over here and help me with her for a second" the man said, then I heard a trunk close and I assumed that my sister and the farmer have been put in the trunk.

"This one weighs like a ton man" he said and then the other guy started to try to lift me, but I wouldn't budge.

"D*** what do you think this one is...a bear or elephant like the other ones" a new male voice said

"Maybe but I think that this one is heavier" the first man said "she'll probably do good in the arena"

"No s***" the second man said, and then I heard a shifting of bones and the pressure around me got harder in some way. Then I felt two long and hard bone feeling and curved cylinders go under me and start to lift me up. When I was about two feet up I opened up my eyes as I began to roll down what looked like huge ivory tusks. Then I stopped and I was looking straight in the eyes of a mammoth. Then it sent the other a were screwed look, and then I felt something sharp hit my neck and darkness started to envelope me. I heard a grunt as I finally started to regain my normal density, and then I was tossed inside of a steel box and left for a second. 

"It's goo that we are just outside of the city limits because otherwise I wouldn't have been able to shift" the first man said

"Yeah" the second agreed "yes indeed" and I was plunged into a complete darkness. I woke up feeling like it was flying and I noticed that I was in a large metal box connected by a chain to a helicopter. That was a bad mistake on their part because I immediately focused on the helicopters rotors and the thing that connected them to the main system and disconnected it. I heard alarms blaring then something sharp hit my neck again and I fell unconscious. This time I woke up in a metal cage surrounded by either magnesium or plastic, but all that I knew was that it was preventing me from using my powers fully. I did sense a little metal in the substance, so I tried to shift it and blow open the door. I focused on that so hard the my vision lined with silver, so I gave up and made a comfy bed and some rooms for privacy, sleep, and entertainment. 

                                                  -------------------------<Unknown's POV>-------------------------------

The man was looking at the sleeping teen that showed so much strength, and she was only what sixteen. He watched in fascination, as he saw her eyes go a silvery sheen, and she radiated with power. The man was a light brown color with fuzzy hair that you couldn't even see it if you were five feet away. He had a sleek and build structure allowing him to get through tight situations and spaces easily, but other than that he was a very secretive man and many thought that he was too mysterious. As he watched the girl make her home in that medium sized prison cell a new appreciation for her opened up and he became fond of her because he wasn't the only one anymore. 

"Open up the gate. I want to talk to her" the man said to his highest ranking officer 

"Yes sir!" he said then turned to leave, and one of the scientists came in.

"I don't think that it would be wise for you to---" he was interrupted as a bullet went through his head

"No one tells me what is right or wrong" the man said "know one" then he stepped out of the camera room and waited for her to come to him. 

                       --------------------------------<Back to Emeralds POV>--------------------------------

"Whoa!" I said as the walls suddenly fell away and a maze started to form with my prison entrance being the entrance to it. 

Screw the maze I said to my self as I flew up and landed on the side of it. I sensed that it was all metal, and I was confused because I didn't know why they would give me metal when they knew that I could control it. So I focused on it and followed a path, and there was a man sitting in the middle of the maze waiting calmly. After staring at him for a little while I dropped down into the maze still having half of my vision on him and the other half on the pathway to him.

The hell with this I said, and brought the maze down but not before I reached my hand into one of the sides and pulled out a katana, short blade, and a pistol. Then I was staring at him face to face, and he was clapping with a pistol aimed at his face. 

"What do you want" I asked mad, as he started to walk around me pretending to examine me. I knew that he had already seen me because of the camera, but I didn't let him get out of my sight. So we both ended up going in a wide circle.

"I want to help you" he said looking like a tiger circling its prey. 

"Why" I said a little confused now.

"Because we are similar, but different at the same" he said

"No we aren't" I said "you don't even know what I am" 

"No I don't, but I know what you are and can do" he said

"Anyways get to the point" I said knowing that he wouldn't be like this if he didn't have a a reason for it. 

"I want you to join my team" he said

"Team?" I repeated

"Yes team, a team of soldiers that help the world" he said making me flinch 

"A team of soldiers" I said "you want me to be a soldier" 

"Yes" he said "yes I do. You would make an excellent addition to them, like they could train you to control your powers and you could help them with their powers and shifting" 

"Wait what do you mean shifting, I thought that you meant soldiers as in trained people" 

"No they are all just recruits so far, but with what you can do and make" he started "I know that they can be the best, or better" my comfort with the gun in my hands slipped and I wasn't sure what to do. Then I wanted to test something, so I put the gun away and got out the short blade. 

"I will join you if you can pass my test" I said and now it was his turn to be confused. So I immediately reacted and did my three maneuvers he blocked them easily. Then I sheathed my short blade and slipped out my katana sword. I then instead of doing a quick jab, left down swing, and a right left swing. I changed it up and did a down to up swing that would've cut him in half should he have not blocked it by jumping back and swinging his leg to kick it aside. Then I followed up with a long jab with he blocked with his hand. Then I recovered and swung down to his head, and he caught it with his hands. Then I stepped back and sheathed my katana, and pulled out my pistol. I aimed and fired three times, I never miss due to my natural instincts with weapons. Then I watched as the first one was pulled off coarse, the second was flattened by an invisible force, and the last was caught in his fingers. 

"Why did you do that?" he asked irritated 

"I wanted to test your reflexes, strength, and I wanted to see what type of power you have" I said "I can see that you have telekinesis powers, but otherwise that was a test and you passed. meaning that you didn't die and you are like me. I just don't know what you can shift into just yet" 

"You want to see my shifted form" he said then started shifting. He taller and more lion-like but with white fur, and a furry white scorpion tail that had a six inch stinger at the end  of a bulbous white furry sac. When he was done he  was a white lion-like Manticore which it rare because most Manticore's that I see look more like a scorpion than they do a feline animal, I heard a couple of collective gasps behind me well you could've just asked me he said in my head after he was done.

"Huh I see why you looked more agile now" I said

Now your turn he said in my head it is your turn to shift now

"No" I said "I don't want to shift in-front of you just yet. Maybe you'll get to see me in my form soon...if your lucky" then started to walk away, and I felt something like tendrils of power tightening around my arm. So I just ripped through them like they were nothing to me because they weren't and kept on walking. Even though I knew that his face was full of hurt, anger, and curiosity. Before I got to my cell I turned around and said "and by the way I will become one of your soldiers" then I walked in and slammed my door causing the sound to vibrate the hall that I was in, and I fell onto my comfy bed and slept. 

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