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Okay, those that know me, already know that I kind of have a thing for transformations and that I also have a thing for Henshins. It took me a while to write this, but it's still not good enough in my opinion as the ending's a little off. Still, I saw a chance to enter a contest and I plan on entering it to see how well I did. The contest is being held here:http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4701859/ by TiranMaster, a writer who I feel… Well, forget about what I feel. The contest deadline is today and so Please enjoy the origins story of the character(s) who appears in a couple of my earlier works (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10149606/ and https://www.furaffinity.net/view/8657958/)
Inspiration for this story's premise came from the Manga: Cat Paradise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Paradise) and another hypnosis/transformation story that I'd much rather not mention as it's for Mature audiences while this story is clearly not structured that way itself.
Episode 1: I Want to Play. Fang’s Big Escape.
Long ago, shortly after the creation of the earth, spirits were made to be the protectors over all the species of beasts. Mankind was put in charge over all the animals. Despite not having a protector themselves, mankind ruled over all the beasts with sincerity. However, because they had no protector spirit they had forgotten their role as leaders.
Spirits of the world are becoming discontent with mankind. The spirits began stealing away humans to turn them into their own subjects. Upon discovering the corruption, Gaia, spirit of the earth, set out to counter the darkness that grew within the hearts of both beast and man. First, however, she’d have to find those worthy of this power.
“Come on child,” Alpha Wolf growled, “we have much hunting to do tonight.”
“Yes Alpha,” I nodded. I’ve been under Alpha’s command for… I don’t know how long. It’s been far too many nights without a calendar and too many days without a clock. I’m not even allowed outside for more that a few hours at a time. Until Alpha called for us, none of us were.
I’ve spent so much time asleep or half asleep in our den. When I wake, Alpha tells me what to do, where to go, what to think. Alpha protects us, sustains us. And yet, something in me still spoke the truth. I’m not really a grey wolf… I’m Child.
“Child, get down,” Alpha tackled me.
I hadn’t noticed that our hunting group of seven had stopped moving. I had nearly walked into human stone territory. Why was that bad again? Right, the humans have been hunting my master’s kind. It was in our best interest to stay away from humans.
Alpha took hold of my scruff, “what is wrong with you?”.
“Nothing is wrong,” I didn’t fight him, “Why do you ask Alpha?”
“You nearly gave us away to the humans,” Alpha commanded, “Pay attention.”
“You do know what kind of hunt we’re on don’t you, Child,” asked Alpha’s second in command, Beta.
“I’m told nothing,” I lowered my head, “because I am nothing…”
“Alpha, is it truly wise for us to bring this one?”
“Are you questioning my command, Beta,” Alpha released my neck.
“How dare you question our Alpha,” I growled, stepping forward to defend my Alpha.
“I mean no disrespect my Alpha,” Beta turned to me with disgust, “Child… I just meant that since he has no experience.”
“And how exactly did you expect him to gain his experience, Beta.”
“I understand my Alpha,” Beta bowed.
I smiled at this. I love my Alpha. Ever since he found me, I’ve admired his power and ability. In turn, I was also his favorite.
“Wake up Child,” Alpha commanded me. I hadn’t noticed, but Alpha had already sent everyone else off on their duties. I had just phased out again.
“Yes sir,” I stood in attention.
“What did you call me,” Alpha was angry now.
“Alpha. I said, yes Alpha.”
“You need to stop daydreaming Child. You belong to me,” Alpha growled deeply in my ear, “You have nothing to fear…”
“I know, my Alpha.”
“Good, because you’re very precious to me. Since I obtained you, our pack has grown back to it’s former glory,” Alpha was praising me, “but I need you to do more than that.”
“But I gave you everything, my Alpha.”
“Not everything,” Alpha circled me, “you abandoned your old life, but have yet to get rid of one thing.”
“What is that, my Alpha?”
“It’s not something that has a name in our tongue,” Alpha turned away from me, “Rather, it is the sounds that you make when you are alone.”
“My howling, Alpha?”
“That is not a howling,” Alpha snapped, “you must rid yourself of such sounds.”
“But it calms me when I’m alone…,” I whined.
I made this sound on those nights that Alpha was away. The others made their own sounds, but mine was always different than theirs. Some of those our hunters brought in made sounds like I did, but they quickly abandoned those noises for less… special sounds. My sound was the only thing that was truly mine and mine alone.
“It’s a sound that only belongs to the humans,” Alpha forced me to the ground, “you’re not human are you?”
“Of course not, Alpha.”
“Then rid yourself of their howling,” Alpha grinned at me, “and you’re going to do it this night.”
“How, my Alpha,” I was so eager to please him, even if it meant that I give up the one thing that was truly mine. Still, I thought that my Alpha liked it when I made those sounds. I always saw him smiling when he caught me by surprise. It was the only reason I didn’t think it wrong until now.
“Good, because I chose this target for that very purpose,” Alpha’s ears perked up, “here he comes.”
I could hear him too. A male human howling like I would. However I could hear another sound. It was similar to my own. No, it was happier, faster. I would move to this sound, but Alpha forbid that kind of movement. The man walked as he caused the thing in his arms to call out that beautiful sound. What was it called? A guitar. I liked this sound. I don’t know why I paid that thing so much attention. It was familiar to me.
“Strike now,” Beta called out.
The music stopped when the human was surrounded by our great hunters. I wanted it back. The human yelled in terror, but he had no place to run. He was frantic at first, but he eventually became more curious than frightened. He wondered why none of the wolves were attacking him, but not letting him leave either.
Alpha slowly stepped forward. He knew that the human wouldn’t understand our tongue, but that didn’t mean that he couldn’t understand what Alpha wanted. Alpha was so wonderful like that. He convinced the human that he wanted the guitar to be placed on the ground. Beta retrieved it and brought it to the side.
Alpha turned his head to me, “Watch carefully, Child. You’ll be performing this yourself some day.”
“My Alpha,” Beta interrupted, “we must hurry. The human thinks that he’s allowed to leave now.”
“Of course,” Alpha turned back around.
The group growled at the human to stay within the circle. Alpha slowly pointed to the ground. The human didn’t understand why Alpha wanted him on the ground. He didn’t want to make the pack angry. As the human lowered himself carefully, Alpha nodded approvingly. Alpha paced himself closer. The human almost retreated back to his feet, but the pack growled disapprovingly.
The human was forced to stay where he was. The Alpha gently licked at the human’s face. The human’s fear slowly washed away. When Alpha started to whisper in the human’s ear, the man was shocked at his sudden ability to understand Alpha. He was slowly brought into trance at Alpha’s sweet tender words. Soon, he was ready to allow Alpha to do what ever he desired. Alpha made a quick nip at the human’s ear.
What happened next was nothing that I was unfamiliar with. The human reached up for his ear reflexively, but almost as quickly returned to all fours. The human’s bindings faded away to be replaced with brilliant grey fur. All of his human features disappeared as his ears, muzzle, and tail grew out. When he opened his eyes next, they were no longer a human’s but a wolf’s brilliant gold.
“How do you feel now, Child.”
“Perfect Alpha,” the new wolf bowed to Alpha, presenting his neck just like I did so long ago.
“Good,” Alpha was pleased with the new child, but his focus was back on me, “Come here Child.”
“Yes my Alpha,” I stepped forward. I didn’t know what he of me. Short of taking the new wolf’s throat, Alpha had already completed the ritual.
“Get rid of that thing,” Alpha motioned to the instrument.
“Yes my Alpha,” I nodded as I stepped my way to the guitar. I knew what it was. I think that I had one of these once… before my Alpha found me. No. Nothing before I met Alpha matters. I began pulling it away by the strap, when Alpha snapped.
“I said get rid of it.”
“I am Alpha.”
“Child,” Beta stood next to Alpha, “when our Alpha said get rid of that thing, he means destroy it.”
“Destroy it,” I dropped the strap, “but it can make such wonderful sounds.”
“It’s human. It doesn’t belong in nature,” Alpha explained to me. It used to all make sense, but this… Alpha wanted it to be destroyed.
“Can’t you just change it into something else? Like a bird or-”
“Your Alpha gave you a direct order Child,” Beta snapped his jaws.
“Do as our Alpha commands,” the former human glared at me. He didn’t care for the guitar or the sound it could make anymore. I didn’t either, but to destroy it seemed senseless.
“But that sound…,” I reached out for the strings.
“Child,” Alpha snapped, I froze on the spot, “do you or do you not devote yourself to me and to this pack?”
“I do, Alpha,” I lowered my paw from the guitar, “but it doesn’t harm us and it’s not food. Why destroy it?”
“Because it’s human.”
“So was he,” I stepped forward over the guitar, challenging Alpha without meaning to, “but he gets to live.”
“Do you wish to die for that lifeless human…,” Beta had to think of what to call the instrument, “thing? For that awful worthless noise it creates.”
“It’s not worthless,” I snapped, almost awakening from my own trance, “Music isn’t lifeless. It’s beautiful and has more worth than anything that you… That any of you have ever given me.”
“What did you say…,” Alpha’s eyes flickered between anger and realization. Even the former human’s trance was breaking. They shook their heads as if he was waking up.
“Die for your subordination,” Beta took this moment to pounce. I took the same moment to shield the guitar from harm. Beta’s bite was deep into my shoulder and with it, my trance was fully dissolved.
I remember now… The reality of who I truly was came flooding back. I was human once, running away to the forest. I had a home, a family… I had lost them to a fire. I didn’t want to go to foster care. I’ve heard such awful stories about those kind of places. They couldn’t make me go.
I took my father’s guitar with me. He taught me how to play it, told me that I could always make a living off of the charity of others. All I had to do was learn how to play with my heart. I had forgotten that when I first met Alpha. No, not Alpha. That’s not who he is…
I was running as fast as I could. I came to this cove by a large river. I tripped on one of the rocks and fell atop of my father’s guitar. It was broken, forever. It wasn’t just my only way of getting money for food. That guitar was the only thing that I had left of my father. I was young and immature, so I did was any child would do. I cried my eyes out.
Alpha found me crying by the riverbed. I was frightened, but I had no place to run. I couldn’t swim and that wolf was blocking the only safe passage away from that river. Still, Alpha didn’t wish me any harm. The wolf just stared at me for the longest time.
“If you’re going to eat me, just do it already,” I shouted at the lone wolf. The wolf responded by laying himself down. He didn’t see me as a threat to him, but he didn’t see me as food either. I still didn’t trust him. I stayed up as late as I could making certain that the wolf wouldn’t eat me in my sleep.
I didn’t last more than maybe a few hours.
When I awoke next, I was surprised to find a large amount of berries on top of a flat rock. That wolf was still blocking the path, but wasn’t really watching me. He was eating what used to be a rabbit. So he wasn’t interested in eating me. I didn’t question where the berries came from. I was starved and I ate without restraint. I hadn’t thought that the wolf had brought them by carrying them one at a time in his mouth…
“Feeling better child?”
“Who’s there,” I quickly raised the neck of the broken guitar as a lame excuse for a club.
“Please… I’ve taken down beasts much bigger than you,” the voice chuckled, “even humans with much bigger sticks than that.”
“I’ve got a mean left hook too,” I spun around, searching for the source of the voice, “and I’m a biter!”
“So am I,” the wolf said before finishing his meal, “but it takes more than sticks and teeth to win a fight.”
“Ta ta ta Ta,” I stuttered, “Talking! Talking wolf!”
“No? Really?”
“Just what was in those berries,” I placed a hand to my head.
“Why is that so strange? I’ve always been able to talk.”
“Wolves don’t talk.”
“Well, excuse me,” the wolf turned his nose up, “I must not be a wolf then.”
“You rather admit to not being a wolf than that you can talk?”
“Of course,” the wolf walked past me to get a drink of water, “I can’t defend my territory if I can’t tell intruders to stay away.”
Now was my chance to run, but I didn’t think that was a smart idea. If I was delusional, then it’d be safer to stay were I was, even if it was with a wild animal. Well, maybe not so wild, but he could tear me limb from limb if he wanted to. Still, I wasn’t afraid, not really. I kept staring at him still wondering if it really was a delusion.
“Are you thirsty, child?”
“I am a little,” I scratched my throat as I walked closer to the river. I stopped when I realized how defenseless I’d be if I tried to get a drink.
“Then take a drink,” the wolf walked back to the entrance, “If I was going to cause you harm, I’d done it while you were asleep. You’d struggle less that way.”
“I guess, that’s true,” I got down on my knees, but I didn’t let down my guard just yet. I cupped as much water as I could in one hand, while keeping an eye on him.
“Are you always this untrusting,” the wolf tilted his head as he spoke.
“Wouldn’t you be if there was a…,” I paused, I didn’t want to anger the wolf, “powerful predator watching you.”
“You should try taking sympathy of one of their young,” the wolf stared right at me, “even as confusing a predator as you.”
“I’m not a predator.”
“Sure you are,” the wolf stretched his legs a moment, “when you grow up you’ll hunt down animals and steal their territories all while spreading your own home and family.”
“Actually, I don’t have one,” I curled up, “they want to send me away to foster care.”
“Foster care? What is that?”
“It’s where they send kids when no one wants them.”
“We just send ours out to…,” the wolf paused, “oh…”
“But they’ll never catch me,” I sniffled, before I remembered, “I just need to get this repaired… somehow…”
“I’m not an expert on human things, but that does not look like it can be restored.”
“Sure it can,” I smiled at first, but I wasn’t even convincing myself of that, “It’s all I have left.”
“Why would you want something so worthless?”
“It’s not worthless,” I snapped, “Music has more worth than anything in the world.”
“I don’t know. Give me a decent sized buck, any day.”
“I guess food’s a close second.”
“Even among humans, you are a strange one.”
“So says the talking wolf,” I laughed to myself, “so do wolves have names?”
“We call each other what we need to.”
“Well, they call me Lucas.”
“That’s nice, child.”
“You don’t want me to call you wolfy all the time do you?.”
The wolf paused to think about it, “Gabu. My mother called me Gabu when I was young.”
“Gabu,” I snickered.
My new friend growled at me, “you’re the one that insisted on names!”
“Sorry, I like it. Really,” I raised my hands defensively. I lowered them when Gabu had time to calm down. After a long silence, I decided to start singing, “Although my faith is shake’n, I am lost but not mistaken, As I keep on search’n for the sun. Dazed and confused-”
“What are you doing? You have no claim of land and yet you’re howling.”
“I’m not howling. I’m singing.”
“Singing?”
“Singing,” I looked at Gabu, “don’t your kind do that?”
“A long long time ago,” Gabu sat himself beside me, “I heard legends of a time before humans took over the forests. How every creature would sing out God’s name.”
“Why don’t you anymore?”
“I don’t know. Songs don’t seem to be that significant when you’re fighting for your right to live.”
“Well, my dad taught me that no matter how bad things get, then singing will make it all better,” I smiled, Gabu didn’t seem to understand, “Maybe if you sing with me you’d understand.”
“Wolves without territory don’t howl.”
“You mean you don’t have a home either.”
“I have nothing of my own,” Gabu looked about, “this territory is Sirius’ Sanctuary.”
“Who’s Sirius?”
“Sirius is the spirit and Protector of all canines,” Gabu explained, “because I have no pack and humans could hunt me down easily, then it’s Sirius’ job to provide me with a safe haven.”
“That sounds cool.”
“Not really,” Gabu laid himself down, “I’d never come here unless I was absolutely certain that I’d never recover on my own.”
“Oh… so we’re in the same boat, huh?”
“Boat?”
“I mean we both have nowhere to go and we have our own kind chasing us down. I guess all we have is each other,” I smiled at the random thought, “you know we could… learn from each other.”
“Are you suggesting that we stay together,” Gabu gave a quizzical look, “Why would I agree to do that?”
“Why not,” I wondered if it be appropriate to pet Gabu, “that way I have you and you have me. Then we’d both have something to howl about.”
“Well, it would be nice to have something to howl for again,” Gabu sighed, “However, will you promise to protect me as I protect you?”
“I can understand how you can protect me,” I almost laughed, “but how could I protect you?”
“I suppose in the same way, just with humans.”
“Oh sure, give me the hard job,” I joked, “okay, it’s a deal.”
Gabu quickly rolled over on his back, displaying his neck to me. He seemed to be waiting for something. I almost reached out to scratch his stomach.
“Well, what are you waiting for,” he asked, “I’m presenting my neck to you.”
“So what do you want from me?”
“I’m presenting my neck,” Gabu picked his head off the ground, “aren’t you going to take it in your jaws?”
“Why would I want to do that?”
“This is how my kind makes a pact with each other.”
“Really? Seems a little extreme if you ask me.”
“We are putting our lives in each other’s care, are we not?”
“Okay then,” I flipped onto my back, placing my hands behind my head, “but I think that I should go first.”
“Are you serious,” I’ve never seen anyone (let alone a wolf) look so shocked, “Aren’t you afraid?”
“Of course,” I smiled, “aren’t you?”
“Alright human,” Gabu nodded before sitting back upright. I kept my eyes open to watch him as he did his part. I didn’t want to show fear. I knew that Gabu was a wolf, but he was still my friend, right? I could feel his teeth gently gripping my throat.
This was real…
“Let go of me,” I shouted as the pain seeped in. This was also real. So very real!
“Beta,” Alpha was more angry at him than at me, “let that child GO!”
“He should die for siding with the humans,” Beta growled despite not letting go of my shoulder.
“Gabu,” I did what I could to not pass out, “please Gabu… help me!”
Alpha paused when he heard those words. He even seemed to have woken up for the first time in a long time. He was no longer Alpha, vengeful leader of the our pack. He was Gabu, my friend.
“Lucas,” Gabu’s eyes dilated from the realization, “let go of Lucas!”
Gabu pounced on Beta. An action that (though not forbidden) would start a fight for leadership. I did what I could to defend the guitar from getting damaged, by shielding it with my body. As Gabu and Beta rapidly bit at each other I was pushed out of the way, but I took the instrument with me. The rest of the pack didn’t stop me. It was punishable by death to interfere with a fight for leadership. Gabu knew that, but I couldn’t allow Beta to kill my friend.
“Gabu,” I shouted, leaping forward again. The rest of the pack blocked my path. I may physically be a wolf now, but I’m still a little boy inside. Well, not that little, but I can’t remember much about my time spent as a wolf. Besides, I was already wounded.
“Stay, out of this, Child,” Beta snarled in between attacks.
“His name Is Lucas,” Gabu returned the snarl, “and if you call him child again I’ll tear your tail off.”
“Oh forgive me Alpha,” Beta growled disrespectfully, “I keep forgetting how sensitive you are about your little human.”
“Raaawwwrrrrr,” Gabu leapt forward and wrestled Beta to the ground, “Submit!”
“I think not,” Beta’s eyes flashed bright gold as he doubled in size. Beta quickly shoved Gabu off of him as he turned back over. The rest of the pack stood in awe of the great beast of a grey wolf. Beta continued growing until was three or four times the size of a normal wolf. I could swear that he had also sprouted horns and tusks.
“What’s going on?”
“Sirius,” Gabu almost swore, “Lucas, that’s Sirius!”
“That is Sirius!” If I remember anything from being a wolf, it was that Sirius was seriously pissed off at humans at the moment. It’s why Gabu and I had started hiding in dens. It’s also why Gabu turned me into a fellow wolf and willingly suppressed my true personality. That didn’t stop this monster from finding us.
“Stop admiring him and run,” Gabu shouted before dodging Sirius’ attacks.
“I almost forgot about him,” Sirius turned his head to me.
“Don’t forget,” Gabu took this chance to strike Sirius behind the ear, “Your opponent is me!”
“Alright then,” Sirius turned back to attacking Gabu, “my pack can handle the child.”
“No,” Gabu was distracted just long enough for Sirius to land a blow. Gabu was sent flying over my head, crashing beside the guitar.
“Gabu!”
“Now for you, Child,” Sirius howled, “we’re going to be doing things my way. When I take the humans I’ll crush their human memories.”
“Sirius,” I growled.
“Why aren’t you running, human?”
“You don’t get it do you,” Gabu slowly returned to his feet, “Lucas is stronger than you. I’m proud to fight by his side.”
“Gabu,” I ran around to stand by my friend, “are you sure you can fight?”
“Then you shall die together,” Sirius signaled for the pack to charge.
“We’ll find out,” Gabu grinned at me for us to finish, “Together!”
“Just what I’ve been waiting to hear,” the wolf that was formerly a human stopped his approach. His eyes flashed a deep emerald green. Just as the pack converged to pounce, we were caught by the moonlight. Gabu turned into a shining ball of light. I turned back into my human form, given many parts of myself were shining more than usual. The guitar disappeared. I have no idea where it went. Now I wonder if it even existed at all.
“Prepare yourselves for the battle ahead,” a woman’s voice echoed through our ears, “Bring your strengths together and purify this corruption.”
“Who is that,” I searched for the source of the voice.
“Someone we can trust,” I could feel Gabu’s smile. Because of my faith in Gabu’s word, I returned the smile.
Before the two of us, there materialized a small metal object. It was round in it’s basic shape. Two violet crescents swirled in on the edges of a light blue moon. In it’s center were two more violet crescents that helped make the insignia appear more like an eye than a moon.
“Now hurry,” the voice urged us, “Restore the order.”
“Ready Gabu,” I grasped hold of the medal with my left hand.
“Ready Lucas,” the Gabu orb flipped in the air and changed shape.
“On Stage,” I shouted reaching out my hand to catch Gabu’s new form.
“Nature’s Furious,” I shouted as I loaded the medal into the object that Gabu had somehow become, I swung the object up and over my head, “Revolution!”
I pulled the trigger and a new light shone over and through us. My human form only shifted slightly. I became my true physical age of sixteen. I received a pair of tight black clothes and tight jeans ripped and torn in certain places. I received the first pair of shoes that I’ve worn in years. My belt sparked with huge metal orbs along it’s strap. The buckle had the same insignia that the medal had.
After this, the weird things started to form. My hair grew long, shaggy and grey, covering my ears, but not for long. My ears grew up and out on the top of my head. My nose grew out slightly and darkened. A huge fur collar puffed itself around my neck. A long grey wolf tail grew out from my rear as I spun in the air.
I could feel Gabu in the back of my mind as if he was standing right next to me. My heart pounded hard in my chest as the two of us became one. Together we weren’t Lucas the human or Gabu the wolf. We both knew that. As much as Gabu protested, I insisted on creating a new name for our self. When the light faded, the pack was knocked back and we already knew the perfect name.
“Wild Child of the Forest Night,” I posed, “Nature’s Fury… Furious Fang!”
We landed softly on the grass. The wolves that surrounded us didn’t know what to think. Sirius certainly didn’t, or so we thought. His shock quickly turned sour the longer he stared at us. He lowered his head as he began to encircle me.
“How dare you corrupt our beautiful form with your human features,” he snarled at me.
“I don’t think that you understand what’s happened here,” I kept one eye on the mutant wolf, “Gaia has blessed us so that we may undo your corrupted ways.”
“I don’t care if God himself blesses you,” Sirius snapped, “you two are going to die right here.”
I closed my eyes before I spoke again, “how very confident of you, but why not see what this new body can do before you decide it’s longevity.”
And thus the battle started. Sirius sent mental commands to the current wolf pack to attack first. I don’t think that Sirius realized that I also received any silent commands that he sent out to his current subordinates. Not that I needed to, the wolves’ attacks were highly predictable and much too slow. I dodged them without taking a single step.
Well, we couldn’t just stay on the defensive. We needed to attack. The next chance I got, I leaped high into the air. I was out of the pack’s reach as I focused my new energies. I could feel the moonlight gently and calmly flow through me. It wasn’t like pure sunlight, it could be molded into any shape that I desired. I didn’t have much time to think about it as Sirius decided to leap after me himself.
I spun mid flight to dodge. Sirius missed, but him just passing by me caused me to spin faster. The moonlight that I had collected, lengthened out into a blade. No, a Crescent. That’s it!
I used this moment to strike Sirius rapidly with crescent shaped moonlight. It wouldn’t be enough to defeat him, but it would be enough to help slow him down. Sirius landed on his good legs, but cringed as he landed. The rest of the pack didn’t take time to worry about him. They focused on where I was going to land. Which was a big mistake…
“Lunar Dance!” I accelerated my spin and released countless crescent blades upon the wolves. The ones that were originally wolves to begin with were quickly knocked out. My attacks had a slightly different effect on the ones that were originally human. In a shattering light, they returned to their original forms. They were still knocked out, of course, but otherwise unharmed.
“What have you done!” Sirius was furious that his subordinates were returned to their natural states.
“Returning the natural order of things,” I pointed a finger at the Mutant wolf, “and you’re next.”
Gaia’s voice echoed through my head, “let your true light shine this night.”
“Rock’n in the moonlight,” I snapped my fingers before pounding my heart. A new orb of light appeared. I tossed it into the air as it transformed into the instrument of my heart. I caught it as it slipped around my neck and right arm. A brilliant silver guitar with a howling wolf as it’s head. It’s name was pretty obvious, “Howling Guitar!”
“Rwaaawwrrr,” Sirius blindly charged at me.
I quickly strummed a G cord, before hitting a hard note, “Healing Howl!”
Sirius was blasted with hundreds of sonic rings. His outer form dissolved away until only his true form remained along with a sickening black spot stabbing into his back. The black spot turned out to be a, acidic dark crystal. The crystal vaporize away like dust in the wind. I finished playing another chord before turning around for one last note.
“You’d like an encore,” I made one last pose.
Sirius’s spirit returned to it’s natural colorings and collapsed back into his Beta guise. I sighed from the battle being over. Despite how calm I may have appeared, I was exhausted. In the next moment, my new clothes and form disappeared in a shattering light. I wasn’t naked, I had my old (and ill fitting) clothes back on me. Obviously, I had spent way too much energy.
“We did it,” I laughed punching the air, “Now let’s get out of here before he wakes up, Gabu.”
“…”
“Gabu,” I looked around. There were plenty of other wolves there, but Gabu wasn’t to be found, “Gabu, where are you?”
“Congratulations Lucas,” that human from earlier stepped forward, “I knew that you’d be worthy.”
“Gabu,” I asked even though I knew for a fact that this person wasn’t Gabu. He wasn’t even a he.
“No. My name,” the male’s form shifted quickly into a woman in a draping dress, “ is Gaia.”
“Where’s Gabu?”
“I’m sorry. The strain was too much on his body,” Gaia dipped her head, “Gabu is a spirit now.”
“But we won,” I didn’t want to believe it, “he can’t be gone.”
“Who said that I was gone,” Gabu snickered behind me. I turned quickly expecting to see my old furry friend. Instead, I found a small almost plush-like spirit of a grey wolf floating with a slightly blue glow.
“As I tried to explain,” Gaia walked at a curve towards me, “Gabu is now a spirit and it would only take a moment for him to materialize on this plane.”
“Are you dead,” I asked, not giving him a chance to answer, “Is he dead?”
“Calm down Lucas,” Gabu swirled around me, “I’ve been dead for a long while now. I was killed the day that Sirius finally found us in our den. When I was about to cross over, I asked Gaia to do something to save you, even if it meant I’d never see paradise.”
“Your faith in your friend touched me, so I granted Gabu’s request and gave him some more time in this life,” Gaia continued the explanation, “However, you were already under Sirius’s spell by the time Gabu revived.”
“I pretended to fall under his spell too, but I couldn’t think of a way to free you,” Gabu swirled around me, “I tried everything I could without raising Sirius’s suspicion. I almost gave up on you years ago, but your singing kept giving me hope.”
“Music is the voice of the soul,” Gaia smiled, “no matter how much Sirius tried to snuff out your soul, you would not allow him to take it from you.”
“So I’ll never get to see your furry face again,” I asked before punching a nearby tree, “I failed you. I couldn’t protect you.”
“I don’t blame you for failing, Lucas,” Gabu floated up closer to me, “especially when we were up against Sirius.”
“I’m afraid that Sirius was just the beginning,” Gaia mentioned, “there is a long road ahead of you both.”
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Inspiration for this story's came from
Inspiration for this story's premise came from the Manga: Cat Paradise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Paradise) and another hypnosis/transformation story that I'd much rather not mention as it's for Mature audiences while this story is clearly not structured that way itself.
Episode 1: I Want to Play. Fang’s Big Escape.
Long ago, shortly after the creation of the earth, spirits were made to be the protectors over all the species of beasts. Mankind was put in charge over all the animals. Despite not having a protector themselves, mankind ruled over all the beasts with sincerity. However, because they had no protector spirit they had forgotten their role as leaders.
Spirits of the world are becoming discontent with mankind. The spirits began stealing away humans to turn them into their own subjects. Upon discovering the corruption, Gaia, spirit of the earth, set out to counter the darkness that grew within the hearts of both beast and man. First, however, she’d have to find those worthy of this power.
“Come on child,” Alpha Wolf growled, “we have much hunting to do tonight.”
“Yes Alpha,” I nodded. I’ve been under Alpha’s command for… I don’t know how long. It’s been far too many nights without a calendar and too many days without a clock. I’m not even allowed outside for more that a few hours at a time. Until Alpha called for us, none of us were.
I’ve spent so much time asleep or half asleep in our den. When I wake, Alpha tells me what to do, where to go, what to think. Alpha protects us, sustains us. And yet, something in me still spoke the truth. I’m not really a grey wolf… I’m Child.
“Child, get down,” Alpha tackled me.
I hadn’t noticed that our hunting group of seven had stopped moving. I had nearly walked into human stone territory. Why was that bad again? Right, the humans have been hunting my master’s kind. It was in our best interest to stay away from humans.
Alpha took hold of my scruff, “what is wrong with you?”.
“Nothing is wrong,” I didn’t fight him, “Why do you ask Alpha?”
“You nearly gave us away to the humans,” Alpha commanded, “Pay attention.”
“You do know what kind of hunt we’re on don’t you, Child,” asked Alpha’s second in command, Beta.
“I’m told nothing,” I lowered my head, “because I am nothing…”
“Alpha, is it truly wise for us to bring this one?”
“Are you questioning my command, Beta,” Alpha released my neck.
“How dare you question our Alpha,” I growled, stepping forward to defend my Alpha.
“I mean no disrespect my Alpha,” Beta turned to me with disgust, “Child… I just meant that since he has no experience.”
“And how exactly did you expect him to gain his experience, Beta.”
“I understand my Alpha,” Beta bowed.
I smiled at this. I love my Alpha. Ever since he found me, I’ve admired his power and ability. In turn, I was also his favorite.
“Wake up Child,” Alpha commanded me. I hadn’t noticed, but Alpha had already sent everyone else off on their duties. I had just phased out again.
“Yes sir,” I stood in attention.
“What did you call me,” Alpha was angry now.
“Alpha. I said, yes Alpha.”
“You need to stop daydreaming Child. You belong to me,” Alpha growled deeply in my ear, “You have nothing to fear…”
“I know, my Alpha.”
“Good, because you’re very precious to me. Since I obtained you, our pack has grown back to it’s former glory,” Alpha was praising me, “but I need you to do more than that.”
“But I gave you everything, my Alpha.”
“Not everything,” Alpha circled me, “you abandoned your old life, but have yet to get rid of one thing.”
“What is that, my Alpha?”
“It’s not something that has a name in our tongue,” Alpha turned away from me, “Rather, it is the sounds that you make when you are alone.”
“My howling, Alpha?”
“That is not a howling,” Alpha snapped, “you must rid yourself of such sounds.”
“But it calms me when I’m alone…,” I whined.
I made this sound on those nights that Alpha was away. The others made their own sounds, but mine was always different than theirs. Some of those our hunters brought in made sounds like I did, but they quickly abandoned those noises for less… special sounds. My sound was the only thing that was truly mine and mine alone.
“It’s a sound that only belongs to the humans,” Alpha forced me to the ground, “you’re not human are you?”
“Of course not, Alpha.”
“Then rid yourself of their howling,” Alpha grinned at me, “and you’re going to do it this night.”
“How, my Alpha,” I was so eager to please him, even if it meant that I give up the one thing that was truly mine. Still, I thought that my Alpha liked it when I made those sounds. I always saw him smiling when he caught me by surprise. It was the only reason I didn’t think it wrong until now.
“Good, because I chose this target for that very purpose,” Alpha’s ears perked up, “here he comes.”
I could hear him too. A male human howling like I would. However I could hear another sound. It was similar to my own. No, it was happier, faster. I would move to this sound, but Alpha forbid that kind of movement. The man walked as he caused the thing in his arms to call out that beautiful sound. What was it called? A guitar. I liked this sound. I don’t know why I paid that thing so much attention. It was familiar to me.
“Strike now,” Beta called out.
The music stopped when the human was surrounded by our great hunters. I wanted it back. The human yelled in terror, but he had no place to run. He was frantic at first, but he eventually became more curious than frightened. He wondered why none of the wolves were attacking him, but not letting him leave either.
Alpha slowly stepped forward. He knew that the human wouldn’t understand our tongue, but that didn’t mean that he couldn’t understand what Alpha wanted. Alpha was so wonderful like that. He convinced the human that he wanted the guitar to be placed on the ground. Beta retrieved it and brought it to the side.
Alpha turned his head to me, “Watch carefully, Child. You’ll be performing this yourself some day.”
“My Alpha,” Beta interrupted, “we must hurry. The human thinks that he’s allowed to leave now.”
“Of course,” Alpha turned back around.
The group growled at the human to stay within the circle. Alpha slowly pointed to the ground. The human didn’t understand why Alpha wanted him on the ground. He didn’t want to make the pack angry. As the human lowered himself carefully, Alpha nodded approvingly. Alpha paced himself closer. The human almost retreated back to his feet, but the pack growled disapprovingly.
The human was forced to stay where he was. The Alpha gently licked at the human’s face. The human’s fear slowly washed away. When Alpha started to whisper in the human’s ear, the man was shocked at his sudden ability to understand Alpha. He was slowly brought into trance at Alpha’s sweet tender words. Soon, he was ready to allow Alpha to do what ever he desired. Alpha made a quick nip at the human’s ear.
What happened next was nothing that I was unfamiliar with. The human reached up for his ear reflexively, but almost as quickly returned to all fours. The human’s bindings faded away to be replaced with brilliant grey fur. All of his human features disappeared as his ears, muzzle, and tail grew out. When he opened his eyes next, they were no longer a human’s but a wolf’s brilliant gold.
“How do you feel now, Child.”
“Perfect Alpha,” the new wolf bowed to Alpha, presenting his neck just like I did so long ago.
“Good,” Alpha was pleased with the new child, but his focus was back on me, “Come here Child.”
“Yes my Alpha,” I stepped forward. I didn’t know what he of me. Short of taking the new wolf’s throat, Alpha had already completed the ritual.
“Get rid of that thing,” Alpha motioned to the instrument.
“Yes my Alpha,” I nodded as I stepped my way to the guitar. I knew what it was. I think that I had one of these once… before my Alpha found me. No. Nothing before I met Alpha matters. I began pulling it away by the strap, when Alpha snapped.
“I said get rid of it.”
“I am Alpha.”
“Child,” Beta stood next to Alpha, “when our Alpha said get rid of that thing, he means destroy it.”
“Destroy it,” I dropped the strap, “but it can make such wonderful sounds.”
“It’s human. It doesn’t belong in nature,” Alpha explained to me. It used to all make sense, but this… Alpha wanted it to be destroyed.
“Can’t you just change it into something else? Like a bird or-”
“Your Alpha gave you a direct order Child,” Beta snapped his jaws.
“Do as our Alpha commands,” the former human glared at me. He didn’t care for the guitar or the sound it could make anymore. I didn’t either, but to destroy it seemed senseless.
“But that sound…,” I reached out for the strings.
“Child,” Alpha snapped, I froze on the spot, “do you or do you not devote yourself to me and to this pack?”
“I do, Alpha,” I lowered my paw from the guitar, “but it doesn’t harm us and it’s not food. Why destroy it?”
“Because it’s human.”
“So was he,” I stepped forward over the guitar, challenging Alpha without meaning to, “but he gets to live.”
“Do you wish to die for that lifeless human…,” Beta had to think of what to call the instrument, “thing? For that awful worthless noise it creates.”
“It’s not worthless,” I snapped, almost awakening from my own trance, “Music isn’t lifeless. It’s beautiful and has more worth than anything that you… That any of you have ever given me.”
“What did you say…,” Alpha’s eyes flickered between anger and realization. Even the former human’s trance was breaking. They shook their heads as if he was waking up.
“Die for your subordination,” Beta took this moment to pounce. I took the same moment to shield the guitar from harm. Beta’s bite was deep into my shoulder and with it, my trance was fully dissolved.
I remember now… The reality of who I truly was came flooding back. I was human once, running away to the forest. I had a home, a family… I had lost them to a fire. I didn’t want to go to foster care. I’ve heard such awful stories about those kind of places. They couldn’t make me go.
I took my father’s guitar with me. He taught me how to play it, told me that I could always make a living off of the charity of others. All I had to do was learn how to play with my heart. I had forgotten that when I first met Alpha. No, not Alpha. That’s not who he is…
I was running as fast as I could. I came to this cove by a large river. I tripped on one of the rocks and fell atop of my father’s guitar. It was broken, forever. It wasn’t just my only way of getting money for food. That guitar was the only thing that I had left of my father. I was young and immature, so I did was any child would do. I cried my eyes out.
Alpha found me crying by the riverbed. I was frightened, but I had no place to run. I couldn’t swim and that wolf was blocking the only safe passage away from that river. Still, Alpha didn’t wish me any harm. The wolf just stared at me for the longest time.
“If you’re going to eat me, just do it already,” I shouted at the lone wolf. The wolf responded by laying himself down. He didn’t see me as a threat to him, but he didn’t see me as food either. I still didn’t trust him. I stayed up as late as I could making certain that the wolf wouldn’t eat me in my sleep.
I didn’t last more than maybe a few hours.
When I awoke next, I was surprised to find a large amount of berries on top of a flat rock. That wolf was still blocking the path, but wasn’t really watching me. He was eating what used to be a rabbit. So he wasn’t interested in eating me. I didn’t question where the berries came from. I was starved and I ate without restraint. I hadn’t thought that the wolf had brought them by carrying them one at a time in his mouth…
“Feeling better child?”
“Who’s there,” I quickly raised the neck of the broken guitar as a lame excuse for a club.
“Please… I’ve taken down beasts much bigger than you,” the voice chuckled, “even humans with much bigger sticks than that.”
“I’ve got a mean left hook too,” I spun around, searching for the source of the voice, “and I’m a biter!”
“So am I,” the wolf said before finishing his meal, “but it takes more than sticks and teeth to win a fight.”
“Ta ta ta Ta,” I stuttered, “Talking! Talking wolf!”
“No? Really?”
“Just what was in those berries,” I placed a hand to my head.
“Why is that so strange? I’ve always been able to talk.”
“Wolves don’t talk.”
“Well, excuse me,” the wolf turned his nose up, “I must not be a wolf then.”
“You rather admit to not being a wolf than that you can talk?”
“Of course,” the wolf walked past me to get a drink of water, “I can’t defend my territory if I can’t tell intruders to stay away.”
Now was my chance to run, but I didn’t think that was a smart idea. If I was delusional, then it’d be safer to stay were I was, even if it was with a wild animal. Well, maybe not so wild, but he could tear me limb from limb if he wanted to. Still, I wasn’t afraid, not really. I kept staring at him still wondering if it really was a delusion.
“Are you thirsty, child?”
“I am a little,” I scratched my throat as I walked closer to the river. I stopped when I realized how defenseless I’d be if I tried to get a drink.
“Then take a drink,” the wolf walked back to the entrance, “If I was going to cause you harm, I’d done it while you were asleep. You’d struggle less that way.”
“I guess, that’s true,” I got down on my knees, but I didn’t let down my guard just yet. I cupped as much water as I could in one hand, while keeping an eye on him.
“Are you always this untrusting,” the wolf tilted his head as he spoke.
“Wouldn’t you be if there was a…,” I paused, I didn’t want to anger the wolf, “powerful predator watching you.”
“You should try taking sympathy of one of their young,” the wolf stared right at me, “even as confusing a predator as you.”
“I’m not a predator.”
“Sure you are,” the wolf stretched his legs a moment, “when you grow up you’ll hunt down animals and steal their territories all while spreading your own home and family.”
“Actually, I don’t have one,” I curled up, “they want to send me away to foster care.”
“Foster care? What is that?”
“It’s where they send kids when no one wants them.”
“We just send ours out to…,” the wolf paused, “oh…”
“But they’ll never catch me,” I sniffled, before I remembered, “I just need to get this repaired… somehow…”
“I’m not an expert on human things, but that does not look like it can be restored.”
“Sure it can,” I smiled at first, but I wasn’t even convincing myself of that, “It’s all I have left.”
“Why would you want something so worthless?”
“It’s not worthless,” I snapped, “Music has more worth than anything in the world.”
“I don’t know. Give me a decent sized buck, any day.”
“I guess food’s a close second.”
“Even among humans, you are a strange one.”
“So says the talking wolf,” I laughed to myself, “so do wolves have names?”
“We call each other what we need to.”
“Well, they call me Lucas.”
“That’s nice, child.”
“You don’t want me to call you wolfy all the time do you?.”
The wolf paused to think about it, “Gabu. My mother called me Gabu when I was young.”
“Gabu,” I snickered.
My new friend growled at me, “you’re the one that insisted on names!”
“Sorry, I like it. Really,” I raised my hands defensively. I lowered them when Gabu had time to calm down. After a long silence, I decided to start singing, “Although my faith is shake’n, I am lost but not mistaken, As I keep on search’n for the sun. Dazed and confused-”
“What are you doing? You have no claim of land and yet you’re howling.”
“I’m not howling. I’m singing.”
“Singing?”
“Singing,” I looked at Gabu, “don’t your kind do that?”
“A long long time ago,” Gabu sat himself beside me, “I heard legends of a time before humans took over the forests. How every creature would sing out God’s name.”
“Why don’t you anymore?”
“I don’t know. Songs don’t seem to be that significant when you’re fighting for your right to live.”
“Well, my dad taught me that no matter how bad things get, then singing will make it all better,” I smiled, Gabu didn’t seem to understand, “Maybe if you sing with me you’d understand.”
“Wolves without territory don’t howl.”
“You mean you don’t have a home either.”
“I have nothing of my own,” Gabu looked about, “this territory is Sirius’ Sanctuary.”
“Who’s Sirius?”
“Sirius is the spirit and Protector of all canines,” Gabu explained, “because I have no pack and humans could hunt me down easily, then it’s Sirius’ job to provide me with a safe haven.”
“That sounds cool.”
“Not really,” Gabu laid himself down, “I’d never come here unless I was absolutely certain that I’d never recover on my own.”
“Oh… so we’re in the same boat, huh?”
“Boat?”
“I mean we both have nowhere to go and we have our own kind chasing us down. I guess all we have is each other,” I smiled at the random thought, “you know we could… learn from each other.”
“Are you suggesting that we stay together,” Gabu gave a quizzical look, “Why would I agree to do that?”
“Why not,” I wondered if it be appropriate to pet Gabu, “that way I have you and you have me. Then we’d both have something to howl about.”
“Well, it would be nice to have something to howl for again,” Gabu sighed, “However, will you promise to protect me as I protect you?”
“I can understand how you can protect me,” I almost laughed, “but how could I protect you?”
“I suppose in the same way, just with humans.”
“Oh sure, give me the hard job,” I joked, “okay, it’s a deal.”
Gabu quickly rolled over on his back, displaying his neck to me. He seemed to be waiting for something. I almost reached out to scratch his stomach.
“Well, what are you waiting for,” he asked, “I’m presenting my neck to you.”
“So what do you want from me?”
“I’m presenting my neck,” Gabu picked his head off the ground, “aren’t you going to take it in your jaws?”
“Why would I want to do that?”
“This is how my kind makes a pact with each other.”
“Really? Seems a little extreme if you ask me.”
“We are putting our lives in each other’s care, are we not?”
“Okay then,” I flipped onto my back, placing my hands behind my head, “but I think that I should go first.”
“Are you serious,” I’ve never seen anyone (let alone a wolf) look so shocked, “Aren’t you afraid?”
“Of course,” I smiled, “aren’t you?”
“Alright human,” Gabu nodded before sitting back upright. I kept my eyes open to watch him as he did his part. I didn’t want to show fear. I knew that Gabu was a wolf, but he was still my friend, right? I could feel his teeth gently gripping my throat.
This was real…
“Let go of me,” I shouted as the pain seeped in. This was also real. So very real!
“Beta,” Alpha was more angry at him than at me, “let that child GO!”
“He should die for siding with the humans,” Beta growled despite not letting go of my shoulder.
“Gabu,” I did what I could to not pass out, “please Gabu… help me!”
Alpha paused when he heard those words. He even seemed to have woken up for the first time in a long time. He was no longer Alpha, vengeful leader of the our pack. He was Gabu, my friend.
“Lucas,” Gabu’s eyes dilated from the realization, “let go of Lucas!”
Gabu pounced on Beta. An action that (though not forbidden) would start a fight for leadership. I did what I could to defend the guitar from getting damaged, by shielding it with my body. As Gabu and Beta rapidly bit at each other I was pushed out of the way, but I took the instrument with me. The rest of the pack didn’t stop me. It was punishable by death to interfere with a fight for leadership. Gabu knew that, but I couldn’t allow Beta to kill my friend.
“Gabu,” I shouted, leaping forward again. The rest of the pack blocked my path. I may physically be a wolf now, but I’m still a little boy inside. Well, not that little, but I can’t remember much about my time spent as a wolf. Besides, I was already wounded.
“Stay, out of this, Child,” Beta snarled in between attacks.
“His name Is Lucas,” Gabu returned the snarl, “and if you call him child again I’ll tear your tail off.”
“Oh forgive me Alpha,” Beta growled disrespectfully, “I keep forgetting how sensitive you are about your little human.”
“Raaawwwrrrrr,” Gabu leapt forward and wrestled Beta to the ground, “Submit!”
“I think not,” Beta’s eyes flashed bright gold as he doubled in size. Beta quickly shoved Gabu off of him as he turned back over. The rest of the pack stood in awe of the great beast of a grey wolf. Beta continued growing until was three or four times the size of a normal wolf. I could swear that he had also sprouted horns and tusks.
“What’s going on?”
“Sirius,” Gabu almost swore, “Lucas, that’s Sirius!”
“That is Sirius!” If I remember anything from being a wolf, it was that Sirius was seriously pissed off at humans at the moment. It’s why Gabu and I had started hiding in dens. It’s also why Gabu turned me into a fellow wolf and willingly suppressed my true personality. That didn’t stop this monster from finding us.
“Stop admiring him and run,” Gabu shouted before dodging Sirius’ attacks.
“I almost forgot about him,” Sirius turned his head to me.
“Don’t forget,” Gabu took this chance to strike Sirius behind the ear, “Your opponent is me!”
“Alright then,” Sirius turned back to attacking Gabu, “my pack can handle the child.”
“No,” Gabu was distracted just long enough for Sirius to land a blow. Gabu was sent flying over my head, crashing beside the guitar.
“Gabu!”
“Now for you, Child,” Sirius howled, “we’re going to be doing things my way. When I take the humans I’ll crush their human memories.”
“Sirius,” I growled.
“Why aren’t you running, human?”
“You don’t get it do you,” Gabu slowly returned to his feet, “Lucas is stronger than you. I’m proud to fight by his side.”
“Gabu,” I ran around to stand by my friend, “are you sure you can fight?”
“Then you shall die together,” Sirius signaled for the pack to charge.
“We’ll find out,” Gabu grinned at me for us to finish, “Together!”
“Just what I’ve been waiting to hear,” the wolf that was formerly a human stopped his approach. His eyes flashed a deep emerald green. Just as the pack converged to pounce, we were caught by the moonlight. Gabu turned into a shining ball of light. I turned back into my human form, given many parts of myself were shining more than usual. The guitar disappeared. I have no idea where it went. Now I wonder if it even existed at all.
“Prepare yourselves for the battle ahead,” a woman’s voice echoed through our ears, “Bring your strengths together and purify this corruption.”
“Who is that,” I searched for the source of the voice.
“Someone we can trust,” I could feel Gabu’s smile. Because of my faith in Gabu’s word, I returned the smile.
Before the two of us, there materialized a small metal object. It was round in it’s basic shape. Two violet crescents swirled in on the edges of a light blue moon. In it’s center were two more violet crescents that helped make the insignia appear more like an eye than a moon.
“Now hurry,” the voice urged us, “Restore the order.”
“Ready Gabu,” I grasped hold of the medal with my left hand.
“Ready Lucas,” the Gabu orb flipped in the air and changed shape.
“On Stage,” I shouted reaching out my hand to catch Gabu’s new form.
“Nature’s Furious,” I shouted as I loaded the medal into the object that Gabu had somehow become, I swung the object up and over my head, “Revolution!”
I pulled the trigger and a new light shone over and through us. My human form only shifted slightly. I became my true physical age of sixteen. I received a pair of tight black clothes and tight jeans ripped and torn in certain places. I received the first pair of shoes that I’ve worn in years. My belt sparked with huge metal orbs along it’s strap. The buckle had the same insignia that the medal had.
After this, the weird things started to form. My hair grew long, shaggy and grey, covering my ears, but not for long. My ears grew up and out on the top of my head. My nose grew out slightly and darkened. A huge fur collar puffed itself around my neck. A long grey wolf tail grew out from my rear as I spun in the air.
I could feel Gabu in the back of my mind as if he was standing right next to me. My heart pounded hard in my chest as the two of us became one. Together we weren’t Lucas the human or Gabu the wolf. We both knew that. As much as Gabu protested, I insisted on creating a new name for our self. When the light faded, the pack was knocked back and we already knew the perfect name.
“Wild Child of the Forest Night,” I posed, “Nature’s Fury… Furious Fang!”
We landed softly on the grass. The wolves that surrounded us didn’t know what to think. Sirius certainly didn’t, or so we thought. His shock quickly turned sour the longer he stared at us. He lowered his head as he began to encircle me.
“How dare you corrupt our beautiful form with your human features,” he snarled at me.
“I don’t think that you understand what’s happened here,” I kept one eye on the mutant wolf, “Gaia has blessed us so that we may undo your corrupted ways.”
“I don’t care if God himself blesses you,” Sirius snapped, “you two are going to die right here.”
I closed my eyes before I spoke again, “how very confident of you, but why not see what this new body can do before you decide it’s longevity.”
And thus the battle started. Sirius sent mental commands to the current wolf pack to attack first. I don’t think that Sirius realized that I also received any silent commands that he sent out to his current subordinates. Not that I needed to, the wolves’ attacks were highly predictable and much too slow. I dodged them without taking a single step.
Well, we couldn’t just stay on the defensive. We needed to attack. The next chance I got, I leaped high into the air. I was out of the pack’s reach as I focused my new energies. I could feel the moonlight gently and calmly flow through me. It wasn’t like pure sunlight, it could be molded into any shape that I desired. I didn’t have much time to think about it as Sirius decided to leap after me himself.
I spun mid flight to dodge. Sirius missed, but him just passing by me caused me to spin faster. The moonlight that I had collected, lengthened out into a blade. No, a Crescent. That’s it!
I used this moment to strike Sirius rapidly with crescent shaped moonlight. It wouldn’t be enough to defeat him, but it would be enough to help slow him down. Sirius landed on his good legs, but cringed as he landed. The rest of the pack didn’t take time to worry about him. They focused on where I was going to land. Which was a big mistake…
“Lunar Dance!” I accelerated my spin and released countless crescent blades upon the wolves. The ones that were originally wolves to begin with were quickly knocked out. My attacks had a slightly different effect on the ones that were originally human. In a shattering light, they returned to their original forms. They were still knocked out, of course, but otherwise unharmed.
“What have you done!” Sirius was furious that his subordinates were returned to their natural states.
“Returning the natural order of things,” I pointed a finger at the Mutant wolf, “and you’re next.”
Gaia’s voice echoed through my head, “let your true light shine this night.”
“Rock’n in the moonlight,” I snapped my fingers before pounding my heart. A new orb of light appeared. I tossed it into the air as it transformed into the instrument of my heart. I caught it as it slipped around my neck and right arm. A brilliant silver guitar with a howling wolf as it’s head. It’s name was pretty obvious, “Howling Guitar!”
“Rwaaawwrrr,” Sirius blindly charged at me.
I quickly strummed a G cord, before hitting a hard note, “Healing Howl!”
Sirius was blasted with hundreds of sonic rings. His outer form dissolved away until only his true form remained along with a sickening black spot stabbing into his back. The black spot turned out to be a, acidic dark crystal. The crystal vaporize away like dust in the wind. I finished playing another chord before turning around for one last note.
“You’d like an encore,” I made one last pose.
Sirius’s spirit returned to it’s natural colorings and collapsed back into his Beta guise. I sighed from the battle being over. Despite how calm I may have appeared, I was exhausted. In the next moment, my new clothes and form disappeared in a shattering light. I wasn’t naked, I had my old (and ill fitting) clothes back on me. Obviously, I had spent way too much energy.
“We did it,” I laughed punching the air, “Now let’s get out of here before he wakes up, Gabu.”
“…”
“Gabu,” I looked around. There were plenty of other wolves there, but Gabu wasn’t to be found, “Gabu, where are you?”
“Congratulations Lucas,” that human from earlier stepped forward, “I knew that you’d be worthy.”
“Gabu,” I asked even though I knew for a fact that this person wasn’t Gabu. He wasn’t even a he.
“No. My name,” the male’s form shifted quickly into a woman in a draping dress, “ is Gaia.”
“Where’s Gabu?”
“I’m sorry. The strain was too much on his body,” Gaia dipped her head, “Gabu is a spirit now.”
“But we won,” I didn’t want to believe it, “he can’t be gone.”
“Who said that I was gone,” Gabu snickered behind me. I turned quickly expecting to see my old furry friend. Instead, I found a small almost plush-like spirit of a grey wolf floating with a slightly blue glow.
“As I tried to explain,” Gaia walked at a curve towards me, “Gabu is now a spirit and it would only take a moment for him to materialize on this plane.”
“Are you dead,” I asked, not giving him a chance to answer, “Is he dead?”
“Calm down Lucas,” Gabu swirled around me, “I’ve been dead for a long while now. I was killed the day that Sirius finally found us in our den. When I was about to cross over, I asked Gaia to do something to save you, even if it meant I’d never see paradise.”
“Your faith in your friend touched me, so I granted Gabu’s request and gave him some more time in this life,” Gaia continued the explanation, “However, you were already under Sirius’s spell by the time Gabu revived.”
“I pretended to fall under his spell too, but I couldn’t think of a way to free you,” Gabu swirled around me, “I tried everything I could without raising Sirius’s suspicion. I almost gave up on you years ago, but your singing kept giving me hope.”
“Music is the voice of the soul,” Gaia smiled, “no matter how much Sirius tried to snuff out your soul, you would not allow him to take it from you.”
“So I’ll never get to see your furry face again,” I asked before punching a nearby tree, “I failed you. I couldn’t protect you.”
“I don’t blame you for failing, Lucas,” Gabu floated up closer to me, “especially when we were up against Sirius.”
“I’m afraid that Sirius was just the beginning,” Gaia mentioned, “there is a long road ahead of you both.”
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Thinking about… It really depends on how you look at it.
Short answer Yes. Why do you ask?
Long (winded) Answer:
Yes, because this was the start of the 4th set of one of my personal (Ideas for a hero TV series) out of eight. This particular story is Episode 1 after all. Still, I may never get around to writing the rest of the series myself.
See, I made these characters a little over a year ago and had been playing around with them for a while here on FurAffinity (as explained in the description). So in one way, yes there's a bit of follow up, but then again this was the first actual "Cannon" of Lucas and Gabu in their original world. As such, looking at either one of those links will lead to two alternate universe type of follow ups. Both about a year or so after this particular event occurs (in the story world, of course).
I put it in scraps because I don't feel like it's quite perfected yet. As the ending is a bit rushed and mostly filled with exposition. Still, I wanted to turn it in on time for the contest (which closed this past Saturday), so I did some final edits and extra spell checks. Although I could have just ended it at the point where Gabu said, "We'll find out… Together." and left the rest to your imagination. it would have still made a decent story, but the whole henshin thing is where I was planing on going anyway.
Sorry, I like to keep my thoughts documented. Here's a good spot.
Short answer Yes. Why do you ask?
Long (winded) Answer:
Yes, because this was the start of the 4th set of one of my personal (Ideas for a hero TV series) out of eight. This particular story is Episode 1 after all. Still, I may never get around to writing the rest of the series myself.
See, I made these characters a little over a year ago and had been playing around with them for a while here on FurAffinity (as explained in the description). So in one way, yes there's a bit of follow up, but then again this was the first actual "Cannon" of Lucas and Gabu in their original world. As such, looking at either one of those links will lead to two alternate universe type of follow ups. Both about a year or so after this particular event occurs (in the story world, of course).
I put it in scraps because I don't feel like it's quite perfected yet. As the ending is a bit rushed and mostly filled with exposition. Still, I wanted to turn it in on time for the contest (which closed this past Saturday), so I did some final edits and extra spell checks. Although I could have just ended it at the point where Gabu said, "We'll find out… Together." and left the rest to your imagination. it would have still made a decent story, but the whole henshin thing is where I was planing on going anyway.
Sorry, I like to keep my thoughts documented. Here's a good spot.
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