It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining the birds were singing and not a cloud in the sky. It seemed a great day to meet people, but...Cerise was having trouble with that. She wanted friends badly, but it seemed where she went she found nobody that was willing to get close to her. Maybe it was the fact she carried around a stuffed dragon wherever she went. Most people gave her weird looks, and whispered mean things behind her back. But she had no idea of what people said. The few friends she made helped her with not noticing what so many people said. But she yearned for someone she could really confide in, someone that she would feel free to be herself with. She didn't know where to go to find that person, so she headed towards a lake. There, a young fox began sniffing around. Wondering where the kit's parents were, she came closer to it holding out her hand to show she would not harm it. Since it was hungry, it moved up to sniff her hand.<br/>"If only you could talk, you must be hungry to come so close. I wonder where your parents are? Poor little thing..."<br/>Then she saw something amazing, a faint wisp of a fox spirit coming closer to her. She gasped and rubbed her eyes thinking she must be seeing things. She heard a voice in her mind.<br/>"You want to help my kit?"<br/>Cerise stared, and mumbled yes wondering if this was some sort of dream. The feeling of the spirit entering her body should of been enough to prove this was real but the whole thing just seemed like something that might happen in a story book, not in real life.<br/>A change came over her body, she felt like putting away her dragon, getting a job and leaving the home of her mother. She felt a strange stretching sensation on her head, and looked in the water seeing that she now had fox ears. A tail also seemed to have sprouted. She gasped touching the ears and the tail. She wanted to run and tell people. But who would believe her? Where would she find others like herself?<br/>A voice spoke.<br/>"Wait here Cerise, by the lake...what you are searching for will find you."<br/>She looked around for the source of the voice, but saw nobody. Fox spirits, changes in herself  and body, voices that come from nowhere...it all seemed so strange and unreal. But despite the strangeness of it all, she knew that this was happening. What she had been hoping for all this time had become a reality!