August 5, 2010
My hands are trembling as I write this.
Last night, as I was attempting to sleep to recover my lost energy, I heard something moving next to me. I looked to my left and saw a fist coming at me in the darkness. I quickly handspringed away, and tried to focus on the dark figure before me. Was it the tiger?...no. It wasn't.
It was Chette.
She looked as if someone had taken a red marker and drawn an outline of her body, and that outline was glowing. Her eyes, faintly illuminated by the energy, were wild. She let out a scream, an otherworldly scream, and lunged at me. I quickly focused all my energy into my palm. It glowed like a star would against the night sky. As she came closer and closer, I skillfully made a palm strike right in the middle of her stomach. The energy disappeared, and she collapsed.
The red energy...visions of the wolf laying face down in his own blood ran through my head. I closed my eyes tight, trying desperately to think of something else, but it was to no avail. i didn't sleep at all that night, worried about Chette and worried about the red energy...why did it show up in Chette too? Was it present in all transformed humans? Why did she attack me? Somehow, I got the feeling it wasn't her fault.
The next day Chette woke up without a single memory of the experience, and gleefully insisted that what I experienced was a dream. I guess I can only hope she's right. There's no time to think of that now anyway. Once Chette and I are recovered (she says she's fine and ready to go, but with no sleep, I still need to recover) we are to take down the tiger once and for all. But the red energy...perhaps if we capture the tiger I could use my energy against his and see what happens. It's a long shot, but I'm willing to do anything to stop whatever this strange red madness is.
