^{Back dating to Summer 2023}

No one chooses to be a Werewolf. No one. And if they did, they were out of their minds. Colby, a ten year old little girl at the time had a fate coming to her that she never planned. It was all but perfect. And it was all because she didn't care to stop.

Every summer, the Vidler's take a couple weeks to travel somewhere together as a family. It was the best the family was able to do after a quite extensive and heavy work schedule and academic year. During the summer of Colby's tenth year, the Vidler's had wanted to travel to a different part of Scotland than they had done a couple years back. It was one of their favorite adventures: hiking the highlands and witnessing the natural beauty of the world from its high grass to its babbling creeks. The Vidler family of four consisted of Colby, her brother Darius, and her parents Cassie and Jacob. Her brother Darius was four years younger than her. They were quite the opposite of each other. Colby was fierce and calculated with her thoughts and actions, never really caring to hold back her thoughts to others-- whether they were helpful or hurtful. Darius was quiet and shy, calculative in thought by a different means. Colby was the type to jump in the face of danger while Darius tried to hide. It was their differences that determined her fate.

The Vidler family were hiking together across the plains of Scotland where there wasn't a town nearby to be seen. As the sun was beginning to set, they decided it was best to camp out the night and continue on their hike in the morning. As Colby's father was magically setting up their tent and her mother was organizing some of their belongings together to make for a smooth night, both Colby and Darius were playing tag in the field, enjoying the free range.

As the sun was fully setting, the sky began to darken, showing a cascade of bright stars. A vision they were unable to see back in London with all the electrical lights. They had also seen a large, full moon, shining brightly in the sky. It was like a nightlight in the dark. Her parents, knowledgeable of what it may mean, had told both of their children that they must stay in the tent at all times at night. Of course, to any child, that meant testing boundaries and seeing how much to get away with.

Colby was tossing and turning in her bed for what seemed like hours. Perhaps it was since her parents and brother had already been fast asleep. Colby couldn't help but to want to leave the tent. The sky was beautiful and the moon was mesmerizing. As she got out of bed and put her shoes on quietly, she heard a noise behind her. Her brother seemed to have woken up and grabbed her arm, urging her not to go out. Colby shrugged him off and teased him about being too weak and scared to join her. But of course, he went along with it because he looked up to his bigger sister.

Quietly opening the tent, they ventured out and looked around to find that everything seemed normal. Quiet, but normal. There was a sense of security that Colby felt with the large moon gifting light around the field. Colby had decided to go on a little walk. Her brother, urging her to not go, was brushed off once more. To Colby, it was obviously safe. Her brother, not having the power to stick to his guns, followed her once more. The more they walked, the further they were from their tent.

It wasn't until, from afar, that they heard a howl. Colby heard it, but didn't think much of it. Her brother, on the other hand, was shaking and scared. Colby gave a small speech to her brother to toughen up and that everything was going to be alright. It had to be, right? Or their parents would not have chosen to set up tent on a full moon night. Colby kept walking, jumping over a small babbling creek. That was when she saw a vast valley ahead of her that looked beautiful in the night. The darkness of hills and the swaying of the grass was mysterious.

As they both watched the valley and the sky together in peace and quiet, was when they heard the scatter of footsteps behind them. Colby tore her eyes away from the beauty in front of her and looked around. Her sense of security was slowly coming to an end. There was someone-- or something-- here watching them. Colby, a free thinker, began to calculate in her head what might be happening. Perhaps it was just a nighttime hare scurrying through the field. In her view, there was tall grass, but also medium and large rocks that were scattered about. As she looked around, there was one rock that was moving ever so slightly. Colby's heart raced. She leaned over to her brother, who seemed beyond petrified of what he might be hearing, and she whispered for him to run.

The minute she said the words, both of them began to run back to their tent which seemed a long ways away when in fear. Darius, young and sprite, ran as fast as he could to the tent with Colby a few steps behind him. As they were running, they could hear the heavy steps running after them, and soon a howl thereafter. It only made Darius run even faster, but it made Colby skip a step where she lost a bit of her footing. It was enough for the creature behind her to catch up. As Colby had gotten her running pattern back in action, it was too late. She had felt a sharp pain on her shoulder blade in her back. She screamed from the pain and shock, using her elbow to send a blow behind her, hitting the creature right on the nose and in turn, letting go. Tears flowed down Colby's cheeks, and she kept going, finally making it to her tent where her parents were out and awake thanks to Darius' screams and shouts ahead of her.

Her father, an Auror, had scurried the family back in the tent and had created a shield to protect them and himself from the creature that was approaching them. With time and impatience, the creature had given up and ran back out into the field.

Colby, bloodied from the attack, was hyperventilating in her mother's arms. Her mother, a Healer, was working her magic to clean the wound. It was then she realized that they was not just any animal who attacked her daughter. There was no way to fully heal deep bite on her back. Colby's father confirmed that it was a Werewolf who had bitten Colby. Both of her parents had stayed quiet, knowing the fate of their daughter. They knew it was not worth teaching her a lesson about not listening to their rules. No... That lesson would be taught on its own for the rest of her life.

Every full moon, Colby is given Wolfsbane by her mother and is still locked up in the basement of their home for an extra safety measure. Colby can often be heard screaming in pain in the basement when transforming; her bones shifting and body transforming into a beast of the full moon night. Her fur color is similar to her hair where it is light brown with lightness on the tips of the fur. Her snout is small and her eyes change from her usual green to a piercing yellow.

For every month that passes, Colby began to shift in personality. Her bubbly and innocent personality became more angry. She was still the same girl who was calculative and would speak her mind, however, her childlike demeanor was vanishing and she now feared each full moon every month rather than bask in its beauty and glow.