Eat or Be Eaten
Eleven

Everyone's already waiting for me at my locker, passing around a new paper clipping.
"Morning," I greet them all cheerfully. They all say it back, staring at my bag.
"Uhm, honey, there's something moving in your bag." Selena says, pointing at it.
"I know. It's Tigretta. She's playing with her new toy."
"You braught your cat to school?" Tempie asks with an eyebrow raised.
I shrugg. "She's my new guardian, so I figure she goes everywhere with me."
"Guardian?" Jake asks.
"Mhmm. Just like Shadowfax is my moms."
"Oh, I want to see!" Venus and Selena squeals. I put my hand in my bag and she climbs up my arm, to my shoulder. She starts to sniff the air around us and, when satisified no one was here to attack me, started to lick her fangs clean of the stuffing form the toy.
"She's absolutely adorable!" says Selena as she softly pets her back. Venus just nods, scratching under her chin.
"She lookslike you." comments Nick. "Well, when you are a giant cat, that is."
My attention is no longer on them, but on the news articl in Bens hand. "What's that?"
"Oh, uhm, seven bodies were found about four miles from here. They were each robbed of their hearts, liver and other small oragans with a bunch of bite marks. The police are saying it was cyoties or something, but cyoties don'e act like that."
No, they don't." I state blankly. "But giant, man eating wolves do."
They blink in aknowledgement. "You don't think-"
"Yes, Tempie, I do."
"What? You think Cherry did this?"
"Think about it, Nick. She's alerting everyone of her presence. And she's eating the major human oragans to get stronger.
Tigretta growls in agreement, her fur standing on end. "We still have two weeks till the next full moon. We'll just have to keep a close watch on her movements until then."

***

After school, the guys went to my house while us girls went to get food and movies. After training, we all hang out in either the living room to watch movies or my room to listen to music.
We pick out Twilight, New Moon and Transformers: Ruse of the Fallen. Even though we shouldn't, we were in love with the werewolves, the guys just pictured Megan Fox and Kristen Stewart naked.
We got popcorn and different types of chips, checked out and headed home.
We were half way there when Tigrette jumped out of my bag and looked out the right window, growling uncontrolably.
I pull over and she leaps out of the window. I take off after her, trying to get her to come back. No luck. She goes around the corner and out of sight.
I turn after her, to come face to face with the black wolf and Tigretta, who was now the size of an adult tiger.
Under the wolf was a man and woman, both alive, but just barely. Blood ran out of their stomachs where the wolf had tried to rip into them.
Tigretta jumped at the wolf and pushed him away from his victums. I shout at Temperance to call nine-one-one, changing into my form and joining the fight.
I wince as he bites into Tigretta's neck, my tail wrapping around his and yanking him off. I throw him away and help her up.
Selena comes from behind and pushed a knife into his hind leg muscle. He kicks her away with his other leg, snapping his jaws as he trns around to attack her.
I throw myself at him and pin him down as Venus gets rope to tie him up as a puppy.
"Try anything and I end you," I snarl into his ear. He growls back, but doesn't move.
I pick up Tigretta and lay her on my lap, as I get behind the wheel. Venus sits beside me with Selena and Temperance on either side of the wolf pup.
I race home, ignoring every trafic law ever written.