If there was one good thing about my size, it was that I could go where others couldn't. Maybe that's why I caught his eye. I would never come to understand my importance until after I chose to rebel. I was a young girl when I was recruited to be the shark's assistant. Shark was someone like me, someone who was different in the way I was. He took me under his wing and treated me like family when I had none. When I grew older, he told me the only way to control people was through fear, so that's was I did. I am ashamed of the things I did, but I was a scared teenager back then - what did you expect? The only man I ever knew to be family was telling me I was not strong, that I would not be his family unless I used my powers to make people fear me.
One day changed my life though. I decided I had enough of his actions. By no means am I saying shark and I are equally matched. I was a gangly, thin, and a disheveled teen girl. Shark was a powerful man who easily towered over me. The fight rules were as followed: we could use our powers - just no bodily harm. The first one to change back to human lost the fight.
The circumstances created harsh results. If I were to lose, I would be banished from my home - as a repentance for my crime against our leader. If by some miracle Shark lost, I would become our leader. As you could only imagine, the odds were not in my favor. I was the only one who lasted the longest with Shark. This is because I managed to freeze the water around his form before he turned into a shark. This bought me a few minutes to escape. Though I never truly lost, I was still banished for even challenging him. The only reason nothing worse than banishment happened to me is because I turned into a fennec fox. Then, no one was able to catch me. When I had made my way to my new home, New York, I changed my name to the title which saved me. Instead of being known as Marie Cloud Alvarez, I am now known as Fox Cloud Alvarez and no one would ever catch me.
