Running with my cousin through the woods. Trying to figure out if our human form can run fast enough. My aunt wants my cousin and I to find a mate in the next run before we hit our next heat. I was almost on my cousin when I blacked out. I woke up on a hard floor still in my wolf form. I raised my head and looked around me. Grey metal bars that matched the floor I laid on. It was bland and dull. All I could see past it was a hall with more cells. I stood up as a couple of bug looking aliens walked in with my cousin. The taller of the two opened my cell and threw my cousin in.

I was so excited to see she was okay that I rushed to her. As her arms encircled my neck I heard her in my head.

"Oh I'm so glad your okay."

She turns to the bugs as the start chirping something I couldn't understand.

"They thought we would fight. But since they found out we won't they plan to sell us."

"What do you mean sell us?"

"I forgot they haven't given you a translator yet. You have been on sedation while you went through your heat. They gave me a translator then chained me up. If you hold still they will give you a translator and a regulator."

"What is a regulator?"

"It helps you breathe on planets that aren't oxygenated."

I nodded and turned to wait as the bugs opened the cell. They came closer with a worm like thing they held it above my ear. I wanted to freak out but stayed still as they put it in. Rather creepy and slimy feeling but after a few minutes I could understand them.

"It works off your brainwaves feeding as it helps you understand. Now open your mouth and swallow this. It will help you acclimate to all planet types."

I did as they said and swallowed a yellow looking pill. I waited again as I felt my lungs change. I coughed a few minutes then sneezed.

"Good your body took that well. Now that you both understand me I will tell you what we are going to do with you. Since you won't fight for our entertainment then we are going to sell you as slaves. The planet we coming upon is a slave auction. You will be bought for any number of things. Most likely sex slave and gladiator but who buys you is no mind to us. Now we will leave you to eat. When we return it will be to retrieve you for the auction. Fare you well."

With that they set down what the cold food and left. I looked at my cousin turning my head in question.

"No I don't know what it is but yes we can eat it. Also as to your unspoken question of why you are still a Dire wolf and I'm not I don't know. My only guess is that these were the forms we were taken in so that's what stuck. Can you change?"

I thought of my human form of blonde hair and purple eyes my aqualine nose and full lips. As I continued I slowly started to change back. When I was sitting in front of my cousin in human form I spoke.

"I can it seems but I believe it wiser to stay as a dire wolf at least for now. So I can protect you. If I am a wolf then we can be sold together. Are you able to change at all or have you tried?"

"I agree. I don't know if I can or not this is the first time they have let me out of their sight. Let me try."

While I have blonde hair and purple eyes my cousin has red hair with purple eyes. The eyes come from our mothers who were twins. I watched as her hair melted into her red and brown coat with chocolate eyes. I nodded at her and she quickly changed back.

"Hurry up and eat then change back I don't know how long they will be gone. The more they think you are a wolf the better off we will be."

I nodded and quickly stomached the food they gave. It was formless, tasteless, colorless, and odorless. But it was filling. After the last bite I thought of my pure white coat, blue eyes and four legs. I shifted back and laid down beside my cousin. That takes a lot out of you shifting that much in a short amount of time.

"I think it best we sleep for as long as we can cousin. We don't know when we will get to again."

She nodded her head and laid against me. In no time we were asleep from exhaustion.