The moon shines brightly above me, the moon spirit Luna is almost full. When Luna is full, she can grant magic to people and animals. My ears prick up as I hear footsteps from around the bend. I have always been curious about humans, so I jump into a nearby bush. A group walks past, and I am about to hightail it out of there when the very last human catches my attention.

He is holding what looks to be a flame contained in a small black case. The boy smiles and laughs, he seems very interesting. I am curious. Tomorrow night, I will go to the fairy garden, so Luna can grant my wish!

On the night of the full moon, I run to the fairy garden. I howl up at the moon and Luna floats down, her white hair billowing around her face. She lands on the petal of a moonflower and says 鈥淲elcome my wolfling, what brings you to my garden?鈥�

鈥淚 want to turn into a human.鈥�

鈥淪tand inside the fairy circle. I will give you some magic, but you have to return by midnight tomorrow or I will send my pets of the night to come get you. At the witching hour, they will turn feral and destroy everything in their path.鈥�

There is a flash of blinding white light. When I can see again, I am a human. Even though I am wearing a grey sweater and black pants, I feel like a naked mole rat without my fur.

When I get to the village, people are bustling around carrying interesting skins and decorating their dens. This must be for Halloween, a human celebration Grangran spoke about when I was a pup. As I turn around, a pile of unidentifiable stuff walks into me.

鈥淥ops, sorry,鈥� says a boy's voice as everything falls.

I freeze for a moment. He is the boy from the forest.

I help him carry the stuff to his den, they turn out to be decorations. We set them up and when we are done, he pulls a black case from his pocket. When he touches it, it lights up. I gasp. It is the flame. Up close in the daylight, I can see it is not burning and there are no actual flames.

Noah decides I need a costume. We spend the rest of the day together looking for one, chatting and laughing. We decide on a witch costume as he is being a wizard. We then go trick-or-treating. We are having so much fun I don't even notice it's midnight until the town clock strikes twelve.

鈥淚'm sorry, I have to go,鈥� I say to Noah. I drop my candy bag and start running. I trip because I am not used to my human legs. Noah is right behind me.

Just then giant white animals with crazy eyes and red drool emerge from the forest. 鈥淲e are all in grave danger. We need magic to contain them.鈥� I say.

鈥淒o you have real magic?鈥� asks Noah.

鈥淵es, I say with a gulp, but I will be different, and you won't be able to understand me.鈥�

A roar from a giant white bear breaks up the moment. I put all my energy into transforming the magic from my body. With a flash of white light, I turn back into a wolf and a semi-transparent sphere expands to cover the creatures. They try to break it, but the sphere stays strong.

鈥淐ool鈥� Noah says quietly 鈥渂ut what now?!鈥�

I nod my head in the direction of the sphere and then the forest. We start rolling the sphere into the forest. When we arrive at the fairy garden, Luna is waiting with her arms crossed.

鈥淵ou are late鈥� she snarls 鈥淵ou trapped my pets and showed a human my magic."

鈥淚 am sorry, great and powerful moon spirit. How can I fix this?鈥�

鈥淜ill the human.鈥�

鈥淲hat, no!鈥�

鈥淭hen I will do it myself.鈥�

Luna flies toward Noah chanting magic words. I jump up, bat her with my paw and land next to Noah. Her incomplete spell flies towards us. Noah pulls out his phone and the spell hits its screen before wrapping around both of us. A flash of white light pierces through the dark. When I can see again, there is another wolf standing next to me. Luna grimaces and floats back to the moon, pulling her monster ball along with her.

鈥淲ow, that was intense!鈥� growls Noah.

His phone lies broken on the ground. He goes over and touches it with his nose, it doesn't light up. I look at him and grin.

鈥淒on鈥檛 worry, we have the whole forest to entertain us. Come on I'll show you!鈥�

鈥淥owooooooooo!鈥� we howl and run into the night.