The Story of Owlves
We are a family of owlves. We have six members. We have four siblings. My name is Owlfibro and I’m the oldest one who takes care of all my brothers and sisters. Our parents went outside to hunt and get the food for us. My dad is an owl and wolf because strange magic happened to him. So that’s why when we were born, our faces were owlves and the rest of our bodies were wolves. We live in Greenland, where there is ice and snow. There are a lot of big and tall trees in the forest and it is very quiet. Our food is wild deer. In winter, it is hard to find the food because some of the animals are hiding in the deep forest and we need to spend a lot of time to hunt them. All of us always convinced dad to tell us about his secret about why he got an owl face and a wolf body. However he always hid it in his mind, except with my mother, who he told. When I was 10 years old and my other brothers and sisters were still young, our dad finally told us all the secrets. He said that when he was my age, he went to one deep forest alone at night, because he wanted to hunt the other animals. He felt so scared because it seemed like some animals were walking behind him. When he turned around to look, there was nothing and he was so quiet. About five minutes later, he turned again and saw a big animal that he had never seen before named Fink. Fink had a crocodile’s face and a leopard’s body. Fink said to my dad that he wanted to give one special thing to him because my dad was the first person that came into this forest. Also, Fink was the one who protected that forest. In that time, my dad didn’t think about anything bad about that magic, he just said yes to Fink for giving the magic to him. Then Fink said to my dad: “Are you ready? One.. two.. three!!” About three minutes later, my dad had an owl’s face and a wolf’s body. When my dad looked at his whole body, he was not happy because he thought that the magic was about making him stronger and more powerful than other things. My dad said to Fink: “Can you please change me to another thing besides this because other animals will say something bad about me and be afraid of me?” Fink said: “No, when other animals see you they will like you, especially the females, so don’t worry. I gave this to you, and you only.” My dad started to feel better and was about to leave that place. Fink said, “You also can fly because you have the part of an owl. You can stamp your right foot five times, then your wings will come out and when you stamp your left foot five times, the wings will close. Also, you can reproduce by sleeping near a female and saying to the gods in your mind that you want to reproduce, but you need to ask the female first. Then you just sleep like normal and the special system will make you reproduce with the female.” Dad just said thanks to Fink and left that place immediately. He never used his wings to fly because he just wanted to be a normal wolf with an owl face, but I hoped that he would fly with all his children one time. That is all the secrets that dad told us. Now I am 13 years old and it has been about 10 years already since dad hid the secret from me, but not from my other siblings. For me, I really wanted to fly, but dad said to wait until I’m 15 first, because at that age I will be good enough to protect myself. But I was still happy because I have two animals on my body. I will be a good brother for my other siblings and take good care of them instead of my parents when they are not here.