Tiger

My stomach called as I was thrown explosively through the air. I was shocked to see that I was in midair. Panicked, I recognized some jungle below me again, which after a closer look turned out to be the jungle from which Luke had sent me away. I instinctively looked for my bright yellow light and was relieved that I could fly and thus save myself from falling into the depths.

I slowly came to rest and did a few laps over the giant forest. After a while I discovered some banana trees and eagerly headed for them. Wings are really practical, I thought, while I munched one banana after the other while flying and my stomach was happy about the meal.

Satisfied and satisfied, I tried a landing on the spot, which, as before, went badly. My light withdrew as fast as a rubber band and my wings were gone before I was even near the ground.

»Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah« With a scream that would have been movie-worthy, I fell down on bushes, roots and strange plants. "Yuck," I mumbled to myself, rubbing my ass. I stopped moving when I heard a rustle behind me. A growl reached my ear.

I felt a deja vu as I turned and looked into the wet eyes of a tiger. "Okay, Luke, what's all this shit about?" I looked at him, annoyed, and waited for an answer. "Honestly, I really don't want to be hexed anywhere by you again just because you might look good, which you definitely don't do and ..." When the tiger opened its huge mouth and gave a harsh growl ejected, I noticed that his eyes were gray. Not the beautiful, attractive gold-brown eyes that Luke had had.

Oh, you shit! Trembling with fear, I sat in the grass, waiting and silent.

He will eat me, HE WILL KILL ME!

Panic seized me and I suppressed the normal instinct to flee and concentrated on the tiger in front of me. He crouched in attack position.

I am an angel! I reminded myself. What did I learn?

I tried to calm myself down enough that I could feel inside myself. The lights of the skills I had so far shimmered like a rainbow. Blinded by her beauty, I didn't notice at first that some colors were still missing.

Mhmmm ... there were yellow, red, blue and purple ...

green is missing!

The color suddenly occurred to me. I frantically searched my mind for a spark of green light. Finally I found the light and pulled on it. Unruly as it was, it could barely spread in my body and threatened to withdraw again at any moment. I prayed fervently that it would help me fight the tiger. I closed my eyes and let the green flow through me. An incredible force spread in my body and threatened to burst inside me. But I managed to curb her and held her tightly. I opened my eyes cautiously and saw the tiger in front of me, its mouth open in attack position. From one moment to the next he jumped up and a scream escaped me. "Neeeeeeeeein" I ducked and put my hands over my head. But nothing happened. I heard a loud bang and shortly afterwards a low whine. The tiger lay on the ground and doubled over. The light had completely faded away and the dizziness spread inside me again. I fell over and saw only black.

"Uah.", I straightened up and touched my head. "Why does it always hurt so much," I slurred, still a little dazed. Maybe it's just application and practice. I ignored the pain in my head and looked for the green light. This time I just tried to take away a little of the light. Just so little that I saw a tiny spark in me. I noticed how a protective wall of energy was building up around me. Only now did I notice that the tiger was still lying next to me on the ground.

"Oh God, I didn't kill him ..." But I noticed how the tiger flinched at alternating intervals.

I returned to my light and kept my protective wall constant. "It's okay, I just have to concentrate properly." I let go of the light and realized that I'd better get out of here before the tiger woke up again. I spread my wings and flew away with no aim.

After a time when I really just flew around without knowing a specific destination, it occurred to me again that I was back in the jungle from which Luke had sent me away. So he had to hang around somewhere, I thought. Of course, I was keen to meet him again, as I still had a word or two to say to him.

Below me I saw a clearing and decided to land to look a little further on foot as my wings were starting to hurt. Shortly afterwards my feet ached and I leaned exhausted against a palm tree and stretched my legs. It wasn't really planned, but through all the exertion I nodded off and dreamed ...

I was sitting on a sandy beach and looking out over the sea. The wind loosened my topknot and blew some of my long strands into my face. I enjoyed the cool breeze and buried my hands in the soft sand.

"Estelle?" I knew the voice, so I didn't turn around. Fingers touched my sun-warmed shoulders.

"Domenic," I replied, enjoying the little caress of his fingers on my skin.

"Why did you send me to Luke in the jungle?"

I noticed him stiffen. He didn't answer me. The silence seemed infinitely long to me and finally I turned around. But instead of Domenic standing right behind me, it was Luke who looked at me confused.

“Luke?”

“Estelle, what have you been up to now? I was just hunting ... "

" I haven't done anything at all! Who dumped me in the jungle? I provoked him, triumphant that he lowered his gaze and stared at the sand. Moment. He wasn't staring at the sand, hey! He stared at my butt! I turned around furiously so that he could no longer look at him and I could look directly at him. Suddenly he turned into a tiger and tried to snap at me while I got up screeching and sprinted onto the palm tree closest to me to climb it and save me from the tiger, which snapped at me like a piranha after its prey.

With a jerk I came back to reality and a tiger snapped at me. I jumped to my feet in a high arc, reflexively flew up and looked at the tiger from above.

He gawked up and gave a snort. "That's not about ..." I managed when the tiger transformed into a human form. I figured it was Luke and let myself slide slowly to the ground - the landing was gradually working. But when the man turned around, it wasn't Luke, I looked into a stranger's face. And now I realized that I wasn't in the jungle anymore. The man who had just turned back wasn't a tiger either, but a puma. I stared at the man, paralyzed by his gaze. His eyes were jet black and showed no friendliness.

I took a step back and almost tripped over a rock. The sweat of fear began to run down my forehead and I was finally able to have a clear thought. I was just about to get my light when the man roughly grabbed my arm.

"You stay nice here little one!"

I shuddered from his deep voice and cleared my throat to get a decent tone out of myself.

"What do you want from me? And where am I anyway? ”I looked around and found myself on the steppe. Well, it's not much better than a jungle or a desert, I was annoyed.

“I dragged you out of this hideous jungle. Aren't I nice? ”His grip tightened and he gave me a sneer. I already hated this man.

His smile disappeared and I could guess why. Think about pizza, think about pizza. I whispered to myself, since he could apparently read minds too. I pushed the pizza idea into the foreground and took a sparkle from the light to protect myself something. "What do you want from me?"

"I love angels." He gave me a sneering grin again, so that his teeth flashed white. "Especially as pretty as you."

Oh no, he doesn't want to eat me too. Just like that other weirdo.

An adrenaline rush ran through me at the thought. I jerked my arm loose and darted up so fast that he didn't even notice.

He was now standing under me, puzzled, and stared at me. Now a sneering grin slipped from me. "No thanks, I don't like cougars." I flew away, again without a goal. I just wanted to get out of here. Get out of this world.

Domenic is in a lot of trouble.