Chapter 6Chapter 7Approximately a week after I started visiting the Giant's Club I awoke to discover that I had shape shifted during the night, I had taken on the appearance of a 300 foot tall wolf, but the number of tails I had remained the same, it took me a little time to get used to this new size and bulk, then discovering how to shift back to my normal species and size. It was also near this time that I met someone who would become very dear to me. I met her one day in the Giant’s Club, where she was trying to help someone who was feeling bad because they had just metamorphosed into something that they felt was not what they were. Her name was Akirath, and she was the first person that I felt comfortable enough with to tell my story to. She was a very unique and beautiful person, who had a horrific past of her own. We both tried to be there for each other, but things never seemed to work out for us, pieces of my history kept cropping up at inopportune times, causing blackouts and missed periods of time.
I continued meting new and unusual people during this time, meeting people who seemed trustworthy but later were found out to be anything but. I also discovered the Kenya Battle Dojo, a sparring arena where controlled martial arts and magical sparring were allowed and encouraged. I spent a lot of time here, growing more proficient with the sparring style I had chosen, learning new styles once I became skilled enough in the first. I also introduced two of the fighting styles which I had learned in my travels, even though the first one wasn't as well remembered as I wished it had been, the second style introduced definitely appealed to a large crowd, as it tapped into the darker, more animalistic nature everyone seems to have within them.
During my time exploring and trying to deal with my past, I came to meet a male fox by the name of Nihaler, who I approached, as he seemed to be feeling down about something. I learned that he was one of the leaders of a group of like minded furs, mostly foxes and their ilk, but he was having difficulties in finding reasons to keep everyone together. I listened while also telling him about himself, learning things about each other, including the fact that he was a nine tail kitsune. I spent alot of time with Nihaler, learning about the Pack of furs he was nominally the head of, though he did admit to the fact that being in charge of foxes is like trying to herd cats, rather difficult to do. I ended up joining the pack, as it gave me a place to belong, as well as a purpose of sorts. Among the pack I found many interesting individuals, such as Hitomi: a four tail kitsune, Glee: a very unique silver dragoness, ShadowWalker: an equine with taste and education, Ahst: A folf (half fox, half wolf), IceVixen: a special arctic tigervixen, Aylah: a tail-loving vixen, and LeafRunner : the other nominal leader of the group.
Recently I started going through my old journals, and telling the stories therin in a library I discovered in my travels, the OwlHaven Library, where groups of furs and people can tell short stories .. and I'll include them here, in this latest journal, in the format that I told them.
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"Once, many years ago, there was a special fox born to a pair of kitsune, he was the youngest of the twenty kits they had together and was named 'Saski'. From the start Saski seemed different from his siblings, catching on to things before they could be explained, learning the subjects faster than the teachers could teach him. He was taken before the elder of his clan of kitsune for testing and to find whether or not he would make a good candidate to become a kitsune. After the meeting with the elder Saski returned to his schooling with renewed purpose and a new set of teachings, for he was determined to be the best candidate for kitsune he could possibly be. The elder spoke to his family, "Saski will either chose to stay as a fox-mage or become a kitsune .." -->" |
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"The Elder continued, "Saski's' future is hard to see, as there are many possibilities to be chosen from, some of those choices not made by him but for him. The strongest of those futures is also the darkest as he will feel the greatest heartache before finding love once more out among the stars." Saski, unaware of this, studied hard to learn about his element and every bit of lore and history he could, researching his family tree as well. Upon his eighteenth birthday he approached the highest kitsune he dared and asked to be allowed to undergo the ceremony to become a kitsune. -->" |
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"That elder kitsune put Saski through every test he could to make sure he was ready and capable to become a kitsune, while also making sure that Saski knew exactly what was in store for him in the ceremony, that he in essence would have to 'die' to become a kitsune. Saski passed the tests as well he could, and called for his family to attend the ceremony, as was the tradition. On his nineteenth birthday Saski underwent the ceremony to become a kitsune and unknowingly took the steps that would lead him on the greatest adventure of his life as well as the deepest heart-aches any mortal or spirit should never have to endure .. but that's another tail, for another time." |
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"Once, in a time long past, there was a fox who went adventuring out among the stars, his adventures were many and some were even memorable, but this was among the first .. the fox was just a junior member of a security detail (think Red Shirt and you're not far off), when he got to make first contact of the most unusual kind .. he came upon what seemed like at fist to be a simple mirror, but then he realizes that the bush that was behind him wasn't mirrored in the image .. he had come across a species which could easily mimic anything which it studied or was around for any appreciable time. Now fortunately for the fox (and us) the alien wasn't hostile and was as determined to find out as much as possible about the group studying them as the group studying them was about the aliens .. a month later and the fox was out of the red shirt and on to bigger and better duties, having learned one thing truely immense - friends come in all shapes and sizes, some times even ones that are ours. The name of this fox .. Saski, and how many adventures are there to tell from his life? Well, Saski lived a couple millenia, and in fact still survives to this day, so I'm sure there are stories aplenty in his mind .. just ask Karou ^^." |
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