Free Luke's Faith by Samantha Potter

tattoos could be so life like. I stepped back as the familiar blackness dispersed from the edges of my sight slowly filling in, leaving me in complete darkness again. This was getting annoying, like taking candy from a baby. Ugh!
    "Well?"
    "Oh, I'm so sorry, um, I don't know if I'm new here. Where exactly is here?"
    "Northshire."
    "Oh okay, excellent. I live just down the street then, near the old church.” I was slightly relieved to find out I was so close to home.
    Thomas interrupted us, his voice shaky, "You did it again! Your hair is now half black and half blonde. What are you?"
    "Thomas," I couldn't get a word out, he was yelling at me hysterically.
    I didn't have time to calm Thomas down before an arm wrapped around my body, picking me up and throwing me over his shoulder.

Excerpt from An Angel's Claim
    Nature's Deceit Book One
    By Lei Carol Samantha Potter
     
    Staring in shock, watching as Damon dropped straight to the freshly cut grass, writhing in place while smacking his body over and over as if he was being bit by a million ants.
    “SAM! QUICK, GO GET MUM AND DAD!” Josh couldn’t help but yell at his brother, dropping to his knees trying to see if there was anything crawling on Damon. However, just as quickly, Josh found himself collapsing to the ground with the most agonizing pain ripping through his body.
    Squeezing his eyes shut tightly as if that would wave off the pain, but finding all he could do was scream right along with his brother, knowing if he could speak he would be begging for mercy and for someone to take the pain away. He couldn’t take much more.
    The feeling of a million little ants, biting and ripping off his flesh as his bones elongated and ground together. But that wasn't the worst part, the worst part was when his jaw stretched out and sharp canine fangs busted through his gums, scratching his lips, causing them to break open and bleed.
    As quickly as the pain started, it was gone, leaving him lying on the ground with short, breathless gasps trying to get air into his lungs. After what felt like an eternity, he finally opened his eyes only to open his mouth to scream in fear. Except instead of a scream, a loud yip came out instead.
    It was the yip that caused him to pause and look around, seeing the half-stunned half-fear looks that covered his parents’ and brothers' faces. Looking back to what had scared him in the first place, he couldn’t help but stare at the giant golden dragon with silver at the tips of his scales laying on the ground in front of him, also panting for breath as if he had just ran a ten mile marathon.
    Looking down at what should have been his feet, only to find paws instead, Josh couldn’t help the fear that started to return, causing his heart to start racing once again.
    What the hell? He couldn’t help but wonder as he looked over what used to be his body, only now it was the body of a big black wolf.
    “Josh? Damon?”
    Glancing over at his mum, not only hearing the fear and concern in her voice but noticing he was able to smell the fear, which put off a touch of an acidic smell. Slowly getting up, wobbling a bit with the first few steps that he took on his newfound paws. Making his way to the only mum he had ever known, Josh knew he needed to comfort and soothe her, and hopefully she wouldn’t hate him for whatever just happened.
    Sitting down at his mum's feet, softly nuzzling her leg, trying so hard to not make a fool of himself as he let out a soft whine and a couple of whimpers. It wasn’t until she reached down and started to pet his soft but coarse fur, did he start to feel calm.
    That is until she scratched that spot right behind his ear. Once she started scratching that sweet, magical spot, it was as if a switch was flipped as his tongue dropped out to hang from his mouth, his right hind leg started twitching on its own and his big heavy tail started thumping on the ground.
    “I guess we don’t need to get them that dog they always asked