Misty's P.O.V

It has been three days since I have seen or heard from Wildcat, I miss him a bit.

I have nobody to talk to except Leggero and Ombra.

Ombra is very laid back until he doesn't get his way, he can become enraged vary easily. Leggero is very calm and graceful, she's the one who makes Ombra angry, she says it's for good reason though, they have apparently fought with each other all their life.

Today was a Saturday, a boring slow Saturday. Leggero was resting her head on my stomach as I stroked her softly, while Ombra was jumping on my couch,

"we should do something fun!" Ombra did twirls as he jumped, "lets go to the forest!" "No..." Leggero shot her head towards the dark wolf. Ombra stopped jumping and clicked his tongue, "please!" He bark running over to my bed, Leggero looked at me with her head tilted down.

"Nothing better to do." I shrugged as her jaw dropped open slightly, I got up and through on a warm red sweater and some black leggings then I through on my black converse and headed out the door.

"Misty!" The white wolfs angered whisper fell into my ears, I waved my hand at her and continued down the stairs, it's not like she could stay at the orphanage, Leggero told me that her and Ombra couldn't be that far from me when in their forms, so they either followed or got dragged by something.

"I'm going out!" I called to any adult in the room, I heard a few 'okays' before I opened the door and left to the woods.

{Time skip}

I carefully trudged down the hill, trying not to slip. I reached the fortress of sticks before entering through the small hole Zed made when we first came here.

I smelled the fresh air of the red forest before I walked down the path,

"Let's go into the woods!" Ombra yelled, I shrugged and turned off the path.

I was walking for a while before I heard twigs snapping. I gasped and quickly ducked behind a tree. "It is alright..." Leggero sat down and stared at something, I peaked out from behind the tree and saw horse bodies with human top halves.

"Centaur's!" I quietly gasped and watched as they  plucked berry's and put them in baskets that were hanging on their arms. "Wow..." "Wow indeed, Misty, this forest is home to many mythical creatures." I could hear the grin in the white wolfs whisper, "what are they doin'?" Ombra's voice speared though the gentle moment. "They are harvesting for their harras, or team for short." Ombra hummed as I took out my camera, I looked through the camera and had a nice shot before something black blocked my view.

I heard my wolves gasp before I slowly brought my gaze up. In front of me was a huge centaur with a black horse body and a tan human half. He wore glasses and had a bit of muscle his hair was red but you could see his black roots poking free.

"Who are you?" His voice was deep as he readied a bow at me, I heard leaves crunch behind me and I turned to see more male centaurs with their bows ready to fire.

"P-please, don't shoot." I kept my voice soft so I wouldn't startle them, "who are you..." The red haired horse man pulled his arm back more.

"M-my name is Misty." "Why are you here?" "I didn't know there were other creatures in these woods... I leave, I'm sorry if I startled you or any of your harvesters." He lowered his bow and waved his hand in the air, I heard the others lower their weapons.

"My name is Mark, I am the leader of my teams warrior centaurs. It is good to meet you Misty. I am sorry if any of us startled you." I nodded and looked past Mark, seeing as the harvesters had gone back to berry plucking.

"Come with me." Mark held out his hand and I carefully took it, he led me past the berry pickers and further into the forest.

We soon arrived to a small section with little straw huts and a whole lot of centaurs, from female to male and even children.

"Whoa..." Mark laughed at my reaction, "you are human, yes?" I nodded as I saw some kids look at me, I smiled and waved and they did it back.

"This is Chef, the leader of our team." I look up at a tall golden horse body with a pale old man with long white hair.

"Mark, who is this?" His voice was fragile yet powerful, "this is Misty, a human who stumbled along the gatherers."

Chef kneeled his horse body down so he could look at me better, "I am sorry if we had startled you, Misty." "No, no, it's okay. I'm really sorry if I startled your people, I didn't know there were other creatures in the forest." Chef put a hand on my shoulder and smiled,

"you seem a bit sad, would you like to stay here and eat with my team?" My eyes glistened at the question. "Are you sure?" I didn't want to intrude on there group.

"Misty... When you are offered something, do not hesitate to except, or the offer may be gone forever." I nodded and he grinned wildly.

"Mark, show Misty around if you will." Mark nodded and grabbed my hand before we started walking off.

Mark introduced me to some of his friends, it was great, they were all so nice. Leggero and Ombra vanish so I could have a break from their bickering.

Right now me and Mark were walking to a small stream since he said he needed a drink of clean water. I was looking at him when he stopped and went wide eyed, he kneeled behind some bushes and looked towards the water line.

I looked where he was looking and saw something that looked like a centaur, but it had a deer body, it was light brown with a few white spots on it's behind and a white fluffy stomach. It lifted it's head and I saw that it was a male. weird, I thought it was a girl since it had a feminine deer shape.

His hair was a light green and he was very pale, he was thin and very graceful looking.

"Who is that?" I questioned at an entranced Mark,

"that is a deer centaur, his name is Jack... He is a very rare deer." "How?" "He is very feminine, he is a rare male deer that can breed. As in he has female parts." Mark was staring at him with such loving gentle eyes,

"do you like him?"

"Yes..."

That was easy.

"Talk to him!" Mark glanced at me, "no, it is taboo for a deer and horse to mate." I scrunched up my face,

"you are going to let down this opportunity to speak to a person you clearly love because it's 'taboo'?" Mark sighed and I walked out slowly towards 'Jack'.

When I got close enough I calmly spoke, "Hello..." Jack shot his head to me and had a look of terror on his face, I sat on my knees and looked at the water, he took a few steps away before kneeling back down and drinking while still watching my every move.

"Your Jack right?" The deer grunted and wiped his face dry, "Mark told me..."

"Where?! Where is he?!" Jack shot upwards and looked out into the trees, "he's in the bushes hiding..." Jack chuckled and sat next to me, I saw he had cute deer ears where human ears would be, and he had light white dots going across his face. "I'm Misty." He smiled at me his antlers were small and trimmed down, "if you know Mark then I am okay with you, Misty." He ad an Irish accent which fit the way he looked.

"Mark come out!" He yelled, I saw Mark quickly bolt up and trot our way.

"Hi..." Mark shyly sat with use, "hello," Jack nudged the horse with his head,

Mark raised his hand and scratched Jacks deer ears making him smile and sigh.

"Mark likes you!" Mark glared at me and Jack chuckled, "I know young one." Jack kissed Marks cheek.

"Mark relax, lets go ask Chief if he would be okay with this." Jack gracefully got up and Mark grunted as he stood, "come Misty." Mark looked at me, I flinched as I saw he looked a bit mad.

I was picked up and placed on Marks back, "Jack!" Jack shushed Mark and we began to gallop back to the team...

{Times skip}

The centaurs seemed okay with Jacks presents, nobody stared or whispered to others, they would just smile and some would wave. a bang came from something falling and Jack threw himself towards Mark, he is skittish like a real deer.

We reached Chief and he smiled warmly at us, "you must be Jack." The deer nodded and bowed to the mustang. "Mark has said things about you in the past, he never said you were a deer though," Chief chuckled, "Mark! I sense that he is your soulmate!" The mustang whispered in Jacks ear, "he thought it would be taboo if you two mated, I wouldn't mind though." Marks jaw was dropped and I chuckled and talked to my new friends as we waited for dinner...

{Lazy time skip}

Dinner was actually really good. There was a lot of berries and fresh clean water.

The team ate like they were a family, all together, I watched Mark and Jack snuggle and nudge each other with their heads,

"thank you for joining us, Misty the human." I look at Chief and smile, "thank you for having me join you." He smiled warmly and everyone soon headed to their huts, Mark invited me into his and I happily went in,

I snuggled with the horse and deer, before I fell asleep.

{Morning}

I open my eyes slowly and see a white ceiling, "are you serious!?" I hit my sheets and look beside me to see my camera, I look through the feed with anger before I land on a picture

(Pretend their shirtless)

I smile and put my camera down, I sit up and feel something cold fall around my neck, I look down and see a beautiful necklace, it was silver and it was in the form of a deer,

I look at my nightstand and see a note,

'A unicorn came and told us that they had to return you to you team, we hope you enjoy the photo and necklace, the team hopes you come and visit again! Love Jack and Mark (and Chief)'

I laugh lightly and flop into my back, waiting to hear one of the adults call me down for breakfast...

This chapter has 1783 words, not including this part, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! I tried to make it longer then usual because I only had 800 or so words in my other chapters. I hope you all are enjoying this story so far! :) bye bye!