Jiyu Spirited Away

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She was likely going to tick off everyone who thought of her as someone who needed protection once more! Early morning light shone through the silver moon, but it was still slightly too early for anyone to actually be up on a sunday, so Jiyu was safe for the moment. It had been a bit since she did solo jobs, so the female wanted to do another. Yet? She could think of a handful of people, who would not be so pleased she was wandering off on her own again, so she would take the mission she wanted and sneak out! Escaping had always been a strong point of her’s after-all. Kazehime ran away from home at ten year’s old and unlike her little sister, the dormant demoness had no place to run to, opening up situations where she really needed to run to preserve her life. When you were simply a little child? Than you could barely hold your own against the brutes in this world, especially a little girl, so she never even once attempted to make them back off her, she just ran and eventually escaped with ease. At first life out there had been hard, she’d barely gotten enough to eat on the ship’s, even less off them, and everyone seemed to want her to do something, most times they desired to force her into something she’d rather not do. However in the end she had outsmarted them by far, destroyed their cocky nature and left someone with more respect for the meek behind in it’s place. Jiyu made sport out of surviving, outperforming others and trying to be better than her peers. Even before she lost her mother and changed into the woman she was today, due to the hard years that followed? The inu had been competitive, strove to run faster than the other village kids, catch more fish than them, shoot arrows further, have better aim, be better at smiling or even just breathing was something she once tried to beat people at yet.  Hime truly acted like a princess sometimes, one that was a very sore loser, and got very upset when she was not at the top. Currently she was only halfway to where she wanted to stand in the wizard world, the place she needed to be in order to open her mother’s letter, and she had stalled! Even if she had chosen to allow enjoyment of her life, to take things somewhat slower, the pace had become a slow flowing lazy stream, she wanted to at least be in a stream that flowed semi-fast, so she’d have to make some changes to achieve what she wanted. Kaze knew she had relied on people a little too much, reaching a point where she seemed to have momentarily forgotten she could do things on her own just as well as she could do them with company. In order to remind herself of that, she’d have to prove it to herself once more. Kinda sucked really.

Bare feet touched to the wooden floor of the second floor, the inn part of silver moon, boards creaking slightly as she cussed under her breath. Considering the youkai living here? She would surely wake someone up from their slumber, if she tried to make her way down to the job board like this, Jiyu would get caught. “Jiyu? We going somewhere?” makoto spoke up from her place laying on the small single bed of the room, and her mistress clearly flinched slightly. “Ssh” all the spirits living here possessed some above human sense of hearing, and speaking so loudly, might wake up people as well. Kazehime didn’t want to take any risks, she wanted to leave before anyone could try to come with her, she needed to do something alone once more, no matter how crazy that seemed. “Yes, get my equipment and meet me outside.” her voice was so hushed it was almost not there whatsoever, her eyes narrowed slightly as she nodded towards the pile of armor, black clothing and weapons in the corner, offering a small smile to her pet. Once she had settled what she was going to do in order to get her stuff without making tons of noise and the way to silence her charge, the female thought on how to get downstairs without rousing anyone. Jiyu finally simply jumped up, the wind taking things from there, encasing her so that she could simply float there easily. If she never touched the floor boards, they would no creak on her again, and she honestly loved the quality time spent with her own element, so she accepted it’s aid swiftly, without any question to her beloved element. It was such a pleasant hug to be wrapped in, the wind caressing her skin sweetly, protecting her from anything in the world that was out to harm her. However she still felt more comfort in the arms of one certain man, it scared her sometimes to realize she felt as much for him as she felt for her element, something that made her who she was, the fact he had become that core to her. Maybe she could peek on the feline without him finding out? The wind mage glanced at the door of his room, but shook her head sadly, he might not even be in there, or worse yet he could be awake! Risk was not worth the pay out, not today when she needed to get away like this, she’d have to spy on him another day. Shaking off her perverted and rather shameful thought’s, the wind mage floated over to the stair’s, touching nothing as she floated through the corridor, shifting her body slightly to come to a halt at the bottom of the steps. In the room? There was currently no one, so she allowed herself to float over to the board itself, letting the wind boost her, considering she could not read everything due to her short, annoying and resented five foot height.  

Basked in a golden glow by the dancing morning rays of sun, she looked almost like an angel hovering there, pale porcelain finger’s tracing the harsh wood of the board, right besides every single task. By now? She likely had several people she’d saved in her quest’s, that thought of her as an angel or something akin to the heavenly being’s who blessed people. However her own experience with the holy being’s, was not so positive for she had been required to fight for her life and the life of her best friend, because they thought the two of them were demonic invaders! Sure she was a demon, and they were right about that, even though she lead them to believe otherwise. Yet, she couldn’t ge tover how glaring that hatred was, she despised that they had to hate another race so much, just its presence caused them to try and kill it. Surely one day that would have to backfire on the twisted sprites, turn around on them and make them they weren’t as good as they thought! Maybe she could actually invade one day, invade heaven and turn it into just another place, somewhere like peace village, a place that was serene and tranquil, not filled with black hatred like it currently was. Yet, she doubted that would ever work so simply, so she gave up the thought before it even got far in her head, beside’s no mission on this board was related to the other realm anyways. Shaking her head she started looking across the poster’s once more, hand shaking over the paper’s themselves this time, trying to keep the rustling to a minimum as she did this. Sadly, any crinkle in them made it harder for the poorly visioned mage to read them, so she had to straighten out the sheets to know what she was getting herself into. Kazehime was careful, using her whole hand to keep one page still, while her other worked softly on working out the crinkles, until she could make out each black piece of text against the white surface. Once she had the job’s clear before her, she truly began to consider which one she would conquer this time, twirling one strand of hair around her finger as she curiously stared at each page, trying to pick one that seemed right. She couldn’t take one that was too hard, if she did that than she might have to call for help later, but if she took on some task that was too easy, no one would ever notice her. In the end? Dangerous was what she did best, so she needed something that suited that sort of path, something she could get in trouble on, put not too much trouble she couldn’t make it on her own. This was going to be a hard task, especially when she had to make the decision this quickly, despite being a rash person most of the time, she actually hated being that way when she could avoid it!



Dear mage taking the time to read this request,

A horrible situation has recently befallen nazo! Numerous people have just vanished into thin air as of recent. Lately, they have just disappeared, gone who know’s were, missing. We know they aren’t dead because there are no signs of a struggle, no blood and no bodies have been found in the several months this has been going on. Do you have any clue what could be happening, good mage, neither do we. None of us know what is going on, but to us it’s almost as if something casually spirited them away while these innocent people went about their daily business, abducted them whenever they were least protected and least expecting it. Everyone is becoming frightened. If this isn’t solved soon, we fear something disastrous may take place, so we beg of you to come aid us, figure out what is going on and if possible return out people to us. Please.

That was what this job request said, and it made her wonder exactly what really was going on in that land, what could be making off with whole people like that! Her pale hand extended and reached forward, claws easily pricking the task from the board despite her lack of psychical strength, open palms waiting for the simple piece of paper to float into them, settle there for her and rest. If she left it up on the board someone would certainly follow her with how interesting this was, plus she was high enough rank to take this one entirely on her own, it might even end up being fun to do alone. Actually? Some sinking feeling about this told her it was something best done alone, there was something solid clawing around in her skull insisting that even if she thought it was too much, bringing someone besides for Maka with her, might make it even more impossible. Good thing she was confident enough that she would never need anyone’s help anyways, so he wouldn’t ask for someone else to accompany her. Even though Jiyu had no idea what was going on herself, something deep inside of her had a sense of what was happening and it was nothing good, instead it was something complicated and twisted, something that would take intelligence to get by. Kazehime would struggle with this one and she didn’t even know how dangerous it actually was yet. Normally there was an expectation of taking lives into one’s hands when you took on a job, but this would be beyond what she was used to, stretch out of the limits of what she had already done in this world. The wind user had never done anything that could prepare her for the steaks this time, most of her past mission’s were just like playing games. Little did she know that this time her games could really cost people their lives. However what the wind user herself could not accomplish, maybe something she had yet to discover would make up for it. Either way, she was taking on another task that was above her own head, far above it and she had no way of knowing this was above what she would normally agree to tackle. Of course that’s what made getting into trouble fun in the first place anyways.

Since no one was really awake right now? The wind user wrote out a nice little message for her guild. I’ve gone to Nazo to take on a job concerning people getting spirited away lately, I should be back in about three days. It was short and simple, but that was the best way to do something like this, construct it in a manner where she didn’t leave too much info, but if she didn’t come home for some reason, they knew why or could send help. The day she actually needed help thought? Jiyu would never admit it when that date came, she was too head strong, confident of her own power. Slipping the note under Iza’s door the female slowly slipped from the guild, closing the door to the cafe softly, the final step to not waking anyone up on her way out. Once she was outside of the guild, Kazehime looked around to see if her kitsune had made it’s way out here and around the build yet, considering she was floating here in her pajamas, and that was kind of weird. Not that she didn’t draw attention normally anyway. It would just be nice to get ready for this job sooner than later, and she could not do that until Makoto showed up with her stuff.

“So what are we doing this time Jiyu?” her fox's voice came from the alley and the wind user followed it down there, considering she couldn’t change in the middle of the street. Meeting up with her fox in the cramped alley, the floating girl pretended to sit against the boxes thrown there, because her wind was not going to let go so soon. “It’s a simple one, we just have to find out where people have been disappearing to in Nazo.” the two hundred year old infant looked confused, so the wind user chose to go into greater depth as she brushed out her long hair and tied it in an over the shoulder pony tail, tucking her feather’s into it. “Nazo is another place on this world.” her fox would never need to know politics, so she explained it in the simplest words possible, reaching for the tie holding her pajama short’s up, loosening it so she could slide them off. “Lately people have been vanishing into thin air around there.” as soon as her shorts came off, she started sliding the thin black cloth that served as her skirt, up her leg’s. Once she had her tail laying atop her skirt, she went for the pajama top laying over her bra, lifting it over her head, tossing it toward maka. “Take those back to my room.” the small creature ran off on her task as the mage slipped on her crop top, taking a few seconds to smooth it out before she picked up the gloves, placing them on easier than any other part of the magical item she used beneath her armor! Finally came the armor itself, the tediousness of tying her breastplate almost made her give up, securing her skirt almost made her flip tables, put the arm bracers were applied and tightened easy, so that made it alright. “Maka it’s time to go.” the female shouted it out, sliding her knife and fan into their places beneath her bracers, finally picking up her quiver, tossing it over her back and securing nighthunt to it, since she likely would not need to fight right away.

The set of them set off swiftly once Jiyu was ready, since Makoto had no equipment “Hey maka remind the next available time I should get you some armor at least.” sure she had become alright with the fox coming along, but kazehime still worried about the little creature! Jiyu would never stop worrying about the fox she had to overcome her worst fear in order to love. “Alright Jiyu~” the tiny creature sang it, sprinting beside her floating owner, looking at the wind wrapped girl, eventually choosing to leap up onto her shoulder for the rest of the trip out to wherever they were going. The duo stood in front of the gate that would take them to nazo, another world that would have their newest job waiting for them. “This is a portal Maka, sorry I didn’t explain them the last time you saw them.” she adjusted the foot tall kitsune in her arms, like a true infant, before aiming to walk through the portal. The last time Maka did something like this? It was on accident, so she wanted to make sure the little creature was more comfy with it this time. “Let’s go then.” when he heard no complaint she leaped into the massive magical rip, well floated through it, but she pretended to jump at least. All around them? Magic buzzed and hummed, but little did Jiyu know something was wrong, another shade slowly leaking into the normal portal theme, reaching out with the aim to take both female’s into its grasp! “HOLD ON MAKA!” by the time she realized something was wrong, they couldn’t go backwards, so he hugged the fox close to her, feeling the wind pulse around her, trying to help her, but having no way to do so. After this she would have to solidify her bond with it more, further the contract she was already in with it. However for now all she could really do was wait, float there, trying to see what would be brought to them by this. Remember that scratching on her head earlier? Well now it was something clawing to get out of her, attacking her mind straight out.

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Her body felt like it was being ripped into tiny pieces, shred into thousands of small barely visible pieces. The pain ripping through Jiyu? Was leading the young girl to believe she had contracted some sudden death illness without knowing it! The small scratches on her forehead that she felt sometimes, erupted into full blown claws trying to rip her skull open. Even her bones felt as if they were being ripped from her flesh, everything hurt and by now her vision had gone entirely black, pitch darkness, nothing besides the pure shadow around her, and her own dimming consciousness, oh and this searing pain that made her wish for nothing short of death! JIyu had no idea what was going on, she was beyond confused and honestly she was terrified. However she couldn’t even scream against the agonizing swelling in her throat, feeling as if she couldn’t breath. Kazehime was growing more frightened with every second, and she fought not to fall into slumber due to the pain, it was the one thing she couldn’t do! The very last time she had fallen asleep in this sort of misery, the wind mage had been blindfolded and bound so tightly she felt ass if her entire body would come apart at any given second, severed limb from limb by ropes. Yet the worst part had not even been that, the worst agony of all had been the fact for two years was utterly alone, dying for terrible thirst, horrible hunger and being tortured almost constantly. All of that was without the fact she forced herself to forget most of the time, the violation of her whole body, hands touching her or going much further than that, as she screamed for them to stop, begged for any sort of mercy, the kind that wouldn’t come for years. Jiyu feared that if she let herself fade to the darkness haunting her mind now, she would wake up back there. If she let go now? The mage would wake up to find that nothing she recently experienced had been anything close to real, that everything she experienced over the last few months was a dream! Kazehime feared waking up to that torture once more, and as she feared this, even as her body trembled because of it, retreated from even the touch of the wind. Slowly the pain grew worse, as the agony increased, made her sick to her stomach, as she felt the hunger, the thirst and the pain from that time return? Jiyu also felt something she had not felt before, something involving what happened to her, a sensation that had just been absent the whole time they tormented her, never emerged after he was rescued. The new emotion that flowed through the canine as she thought of what happened to her, was vengeance, the red hot angry need for revenge! For the first time her mind switched from preventing an event like that from ever happening again, to tracking down every man there and ripping his throat from his neck.

The sensation caused by rage, the skin tickling, spread over her whole body as her black world turned dark brown, she saw blood flowing all around her, and she let out a terrifying roar. Suddenly she felt as if a bubble of energy was surrounding her, and her physical form actually ripped apart this time. Unlike before the rage flowed, when she had simply been in pain, this time the female actually felt something tear open legitimately, and her body was losing something. Jiyu could feel thing’s pouring from her, and everything seeming to fall apart, she couldn’t breath because her body was coming undone. Leila had once thought portals were deadly, well maybe now the rash mage was learning why she should never jump into things before checking them thoroughly. Kazehime sobbed in her head as her skin lost all feeling, if it was even still attached to her body, the energy that she had thought was surrounding her, seeming to start fade. She was hopeless, useless! The sorceress considered the fact that if she could just listen to people for once, then this would not be happening, she’d be curled up at home with Marschal, reading to rose, writing a letter to leila, teaching Maka, living her life. Instead? She was slowly fading away, dying with her physical form in a state no one could save her from. The woman was losing it, no way to know what was going on or why, lost, destroyed as she struggled for any sanity in this place, even the rage starting to fade away. Suddenly she forced the happy wistful memories that were causing sorrow, to the back of her mind, trying to evict them, starting to fight once more. If this world wanted to take her life, it would have to try a lot harder. . No! This was not her own fault and she knew it, nothing happening here could be because of something she did. Instead was a matter of how hard she could fight whatever was happening to her, if she fought hard enough, then it would all go well! The rage returned full force, crawling all around her, filling the space her disassembled body did not, and she felt the energy around her pulling, beginning to lose her mind within this halo, Kazehime began to fight against her own energy with everything she had, pushing and pulling against it whenever she felt a touch, fighting with everything she could use. Taking her down would never be this easy! Even if this dimension was created to kill someone? She would come out alive because she did not want to be the one pushed down, never again would she be the weakest person standing around. No that was done, her time for revenge against anyone who had wronged her, that time had arrived. With that simple thought? Her energy responded, spiking once more, reaching out to every single torn up piece of her, displaced liquid and strand of being.

It felt different this time, as her stubborn will broke through prayers for relief in the form of death, her insufferable will to continue living, it all fought against the misery encasing her, she struggled as if this was the biggest fight of her life. Jiyu had to piece her body back together, strive to get out of this energy bubble, rebirth herself bathed in this rage. It could happen, had to take place, or she would never go home and these days, the girl wanted desperately to go home every day. Kazehime’s desire to return to Black Rose, to life, almost exceeded her desire to open her mother’s letter. She needed to think on a single thing, that would be the first step, right now it was all too much, she was thinking too many things. WIth whatever of her brain remained? The sorceress tried to remember things about herself, physical things, praying those memories would call her destroyed body back together. Honestly it was a long shot, but it was the only thing Jiyu could think of, so it had to work. Slowly she started thinking hard as she could, consuming as much mental strength as possible, all on one aspect of herself, anything. Suddenly her brain was struck with part of her body and instead of some disgusting dissolved soup of a person, she started feeling slightly more normal, focused. She had one sensitive point on her body, the spot she hadn’t told anyone about yet, somewhere she used as a one way ticket to pleasure village. Thinking about it she could feel warmth where the base of her spine should have been, and than thoughts of the appendage extending from there slowly flowed back into her head. Jiyu could remember the moment she felt her tail rip from her body, when she first took on her truer form compared to the human body she had once had. Recalling that she thought on the sight of the black appendage laying limp between her shapely legs as she lay there stunned on that day. Next she thought of time’s she had hid it, but could still mentally see it’s ebony from on herself, the ways she had used it, played with it, touched herself on it, played wonderful games she didn’t know she had been able to. To someone abused and violated the way she once was? Having a place that could please her when touched, that was not one of the normal two, it was such an important thing. So she remembered, and little to her knowledge, it was there still, but as her brain functioned, the tail got larger, much bigger than before, extending from something the length of her legs to twice the length of them, lashing from side to side violently. The bubble containing her? Was almost too small now that the massive appendage was thrashing about wildly within it, slamming against the energy walls.

It was when she felt her fluffy tail touching every part of her body, that exact moment, when her brain finally lost the battle. Jiyu fell into unconsciousness, floating helplessly in the bubble made from her demonic energy, nothing could reach her there and that was actually kinda nice. Kazehime had never even considered she could make any sort of solace from her own demonic energy, but she really liked this, warmth washing all around her unconscious form, tickling every single nerve pleasantly. Maybe she could stay here forever? Yet that would never be possible because this was not a place made to keep her safe, she had yet to discover that location. Instead? The location and power currently holding the young wind user, was a very precise sort of energy, transformation, against her own knowledge, Jiyu was going somewhere that her humanoid form was just not compatible, a place where remaining in that bipedal form could even cause her harm instead of aid her. Kazehime’s body knew thought, felt the energy of the other youkai and took steps to begin changing her into what she truly was. The bubble was becoming far too small for her, almost like a baby growing in the womb, and her shift was not even half done yet! Slowly her nails started lengthening, their curve becoming much more pronounced, a sickle like shape starting to be taken. Those razor sharp collections of cells, scratched against the bubble of her energy, and slowly forced it to stretch, kicking and punching with the claws slowing in their growth. It was shocking that she could make any dent in the bubble, considering how weak her body was, but apparently her claws were just that sharp, almost making slices in the thin film, so it expanded to prevent being torn to shreds before the form change could complete itself. Slender finger’s did so many things at once, becoming small, rounder, but yet at the same time they grew in size, exceeding the dimensions of her head, becoming large enough to support the new foot long claws peeking out from between hands that now more resembled paws. Once the size shift was done at the base, it spread up her arms and legs, making them longer, wider. When those changes were complete? Fur began to creep up, starting from where her claws met her body, and slowly expanding upwards, stalking along her flesh and making the transforming girl giggle in her blacked out state. Now she was with the tail and paws of her full form, both of them squirming around in the bubble, knowing the discomfort that would come with the final shift, that the agony would return soon enough. Hopefully she could sleep through the pain, but if she would get that lucky or not, was a fact that remained to be seen. Sadly she could not predict in her current state of sleep, if she would be able to go through the rest of this without feeling it. Jiyu might have chosen the wrong time to fade out.

Every single bit of life destroying pain she had felt before being forced to black out was not due to anything actually happening drastically to her body. That white hot agony? Had been simply the effect of her aura fully emerging to create a temporarily safe area for the girl to transform within. Nothing she experienced before was real pain, it was a phantom derived from never having felt her immense power emerge so fully before, she had not been hurt truly yet, nothing she thought had taken place in terms of her body coming apart, had ever actually happened. However there were changes her body would be required to make of itself, so that she could finish morphing and go about her business. These changes? Would be so much more agonizing than what she had experienced so far. It was only natural, because this time her body would be tearing itself apart, something would be crawling out of her so to speak. Jiyu’s current body was incapable of remaining intact if she were to take her full form, so she needed to shed it, reproduce more cells at an accelerated rate to fill in the gaps as she unraveled. Nothing about this final stretch was going to be even remotely easy, and she had no clue about any of it. Everything involved about this, was going to be pain like she had never felt before, well except maybe, no it was impossible to know what being torn apart felt like until it actually happened. Right now it was slowly beginning, her body pulsing as it decided what to play with first, bone’s starting to develop fracture lines, before they shattered entirely, new bone appearing between the shards keeping them from flying around like shrapnel inside of her body! After her skeleton system slowly began to morph into the blue print of a much larger beast than herself, everything else inside of her started to grow, expanding and morphing until not a single nook in her body remained empty, everything pushed together and screaming in agony. At long last, something called a breaking point had been reached, an event that meant she was going to die or survive, if there was even the chance of losing her life here. Luckily so far she had managed to remain out cold for the morphing that would have otherwise knocked her out again. Her inside’s could no longer be contained inside her body, so it seemed to explode inside the bubble, but in reality it did something much different, expanding and growing so fast it could avoid being broken by the pressure inside of her! Until everything started to slow, ticking away at a softer pace than before, the pain had jolted and knocked her out again, but it wasn't important, the transformation was almost complete. Seconds from now, she would be in her fullest form for the first time, it would be a glorious sight, considering all the trouble it was to achieve it. Of course it could also be quite a horrible event, since she had no idea it was happening in the first place. Only time would tell which way she would take this new shape.

The portal she had been traveling thought, suddenly came to an end, several feet in the air. “Jiyu!” her pet kitsune screamed out for her, yelping as she fell through the air, trying to direct her fall somehow. Eventually Maka ended up on top of the sphere of power that had earlier encased her guardian when they were flying through the portal. Actually? It was a hilarious sight, foot tall kitsune atop a orb that was teen feet in every direction from it’s center. The little fox was out sized by the pulsing blue light that somehow was solid enough for her to stand on, dwarfed by the thing encasing its precious surrogate mother, it was quite a funny sight indeed, no matter how distressed Maka was over this, the sight of something so small atop something so big was always funny, it would never be anything less than comedy gold. “Jiyu!” of course the comedic effect was kind of lost when you relied the creature screaming was a young infant in terms of it’s species, no better than a human toddler. Koto couldn’t survive on her own, if she lost the wind user, she had no idea what she would do with herself, and right now she couldn’t see the mage who had shown her back to a nicer more peaceful path, it made her feel sick to her stomach, and even more frightened than she had been seconds before, realizing they were falling and nothing could be done about it. The creature hugged her body down onto the circle that slowly descended to the ground, aided by not only the wind that tried to keep it’s contained mistress safe, but also the pure energy instilled within it, the destructive force and immense strength within. Pulsing it descended slowly, until it touched the ground softly, blue sparkles filling the air as it shattered. Maka fell the remaining ten feet to the ground, watching with wide eyes as the blue fairy dust slowly migrated away to reveal what had happened to the wind user. “JIYU!” she screamed the name again, whining as he saw a dog floating slowly to the ground, the blue dust shaped like a funnel from it’s neck upwards, slowly collapsing inwards until it formed a ring of energy around her neck. Kazehime remained unconscious as the power that had kept her safe condensed, migrating into sphere shapes, the blue light fading to leave simple blue beads about two inches large each, in the form of a necklace laying over a red line around her neck. At last the transformation was complete, there was nothing else left to change, the small fox looking in fear at the canine and wondering if it was really her guardian, or if one of them had been snatched away by this beast.

The small silver streaked figure trembled, backing away from the slumbering body, looking at it softly with fear in her eyes. Could that really be the Jiyu she had now spent several months with? Or was that something completely different from the girl she had entered this world beside, the female had no idea and she was not sure she wanted to know, purple body trembling as he found a nearby burned out tree to hide behind, looking out from behind it, watching the steady rise and fall of the beast’s chest. Makoto knew by scent, the way her heart beat, the way he breathed, that the fifteen foot long sleeping canine was Jiyu. However the fox was no less skittish than her owner,suddenly having Kazehime become so large alarmed her, it seemed the girl was twice or trice her own transformed size. How was she supposed to just walk up to that? Yet she knew someone needed to wake up the wind user, or someone may attack them before the duo was able to defend themselves, she just had to do something, right! Small paws crept forward, touching the ground with such care to make no sound, gulping as she crawled forward, preparing herself mentally. The kitsune knew her owner by now, scared as she was the fox knew her mistress would flip out when she saw what had taken place. If she woke Jiyu up wrong? Everything could become immensely dangerous, and that was the last thing either of them wanted. Maka took another deep breath, closing in with careful steps “Jiyu?” once more the kit called out to the woman she admired, straightening out her body slightly, standing more confidently as she adjusted to the idea of Kazehime looking like this. Honestly? It wasn’t so bad to have the mage look as if she was an animal, it was more natural even, since they were both youkai, to finally see Jiyu’s full form was a gift. However this left the question as to why the mage had not taken this body before. Right now, she could feel power coming off Jiyu in waves, tell easily that this form was so much stronger than her base one, so why was she remaining humanoid all the time, why not alway use this body! Maybe she could convince the canine to take on this form more permanently, alway appear as her inugami self, instead of the humanoid half demon body she normally took. Yes it had to be done, she had to convince her mistress to stay like this, it was adorable, it was gorgeous and best of all, she looked tons stronger. Also the fox figured it would fix her owner’s short girl problems, since even asleep like this, her shoulder was almost tall as jiyu normally was, meaning this form was way taller than the girl had been before.

Something cold and wet touched her cheek, making something that covered her face part lightly, force it to either side for the foreign object to nuzzle her further. An odd sound caught her attention easily, making her ears twitch, but it felt different from normal, as if they were heavier now for some reason. Every single nerve on her body, ached dully as if someone had put her through a wringer or something, taken her to the limit and then brought her back from it, maybe that was what happened, she really couldn’t remember anything. “Maka?” she knew the fox had come with her, so it had to be the little kid who was nuzzling her, right? Dazed Jiyu shifted her body carefully, taking the time to try and sit up, but failing to do so, settling for opening her optics slightly, being greeted by a blurry image, fog filling the air around her, blocking vision and oh wait, her vision was clearing up, it must have been her instead of the environment “Jiyu!” the foot tall kitsune sounded extremely happy, her body moving madly as she yipped and squirmed in place, almost purring as she stared. “Geez, you’ve never seemed so happy to see me wake up~” the female sung it out slightly, reaching her hand forward to grab maka with a gentle smile, only what she saw enter vision, wasn’t a hand “maka watch out!” she thought someone was trying to slap her charge with it’s paw, but the kit did not run, instead she let it make contact, and the wind user realized it had to be her hand, because she could feel Maka’ fur beneath it. Everything was slow to process in the wind user’s mind, tiny gears needing to oil themselves before the turning started, thinking begun and she was not going to like the conclusion she came to, she would not like it whatsoever. Kazehime slowly pushed herself back up to all- fours- she was on four legs, she knew that, her hands were touching the ground just like her feet, but only the toes touched, just like a dog! She was afraid to even think it, stumbling forward a few steps as with large eyes and numb body, Jiyu chose to speak “Koto, am I?” she sounded frightened to hear her pet’s response, looking over to the kitsune who now was dwarfed beside her. Jiyu had not finished the question but the thing asked was pretty clear, the dog wanted to know if she indeed was a dog now, if her body had somehow been morphed into that of a real canine or some hideous thing half way between. Jiyu had to know even if he would not like the response that was given to her now large form. The air fell eerily silent, nothing at all being spoken, neither of them moving, just the sound of thundering heart beats and frightened breathing. At least they weren’t alone and no enemies had approached quite yet, if they got attacked like this, they would just be screwed in general.

“You transformed, when we went through the portal, your body changed into. Should we find a pond for you to look at yourself in?” the kitsune seemed happy about this development as she slowly morphed into her larger form, one that was only half the size of her owner's new body, marching forward happily. Jiyu herself however was unsure how she felt about this new development, how was one suppose to feel when they were transformed into a strange body that they just could not believe was their own? JIyu did not know, because when she had taken her half demon form she felt safe in that,. It was something she started in, her body had grown new features, not changed entirely, this time she had become something completely different from before. Jiyu had no idea if she was suppose to march around happily like maka was doing, or if she should be upset, if this sinking feeling in her heart was and should remain, or if her pet had more of the right idea. WHat would someone else do when this happened? Well sher shouldn’t even be thinking that, because she doubted this would ever happen to someone else she knew! Her mind was turmoil as she churned over and over again in her head, trying to decide how she should feel about this, numbly following after maka while the fox tried to make her happier about this. “Oh come on you look like someone bit you Jiyu!” the fox pranced about, making loud banging steps with her paws, giggling at joy for her owner’s new form. Kazehime just couldn’t decide this time, it hurt to look at things this way, every single sound hurt again, and she couldn’t focus on barely anything, it was misery. Jiyu was slowly beginning to think she disliked this form, did not wish to maintain it, no matter what. She’d yet to see what it could do, and she hated it simply because it was strange. Maybe that was too judgemental of her? Jiyu didn’t know anything about this body, and her mind wondered if there would be good thing’s about it. However no amount of wonder would help her, she felt lost, and alone even with makoto right here with her, she was utterly alone. Maka? Had been born on four legs, taken a two leg form sometimes to appease her, but what if she could never go back to her own two legged form. Kazehime worried immensely, trying to think this over calmly, but only going deep into panic as her mind came up with horrible conditions. Leila had barely accepted her transition into an active half demon, how would her friend take her shift to this appearance! Marschal wouldn’t be able to kiss her in this body, she didn’t have lips, that was horrible. Izayuki! The female knew now that the first person she’d have to go to if she couldn’t figure this out on her own, would be the guildmaster, the one who convinced her it was alright to be an inugami in the first place, who told her being herself was alright. If anyone could help her with this? It would be the tanuki.

First she had to figure out how to get out of this world, that was her current task, she had to escape so she could get back to black rosee. Shit! There was no just going into town like this, so she’d have to hide from humans until the guild master took a mission and exited the village, without their guildmates, so she could confront her alone. Jiyu shook her head, there was no reason to think of how to get Iza’s help when she was not even sure that she’d be unable to transform back yet, the only thing she should worry about right now was seeing how she truly looked in this form, finding some body of water to cool her overheated body within! Kaze started walking with more conviction, striving in long strides, until it was hard for maka to keep up. “You're right we have to find some body of water.” she spoke the words in her velvet voice, the tone shaking as she strove forward, disliking everything going on around her, unable to find the scent of water right away, she simply strove forward, trudged on, trying to get her head cleared, running across the ground swiftly. “Slow down!” her fox cried it out, and she remembered Maka’s age, slowing down significantly, watching as the child morphed back to her smaller form. Jiyu made an odd move next, she crouched down and aimed to pick the kitsune up in her jaw’s, place the child on her back “ride here for now, alright? I need to find water.” she needed to see what had happened to her before it all became too much and she decided she wanted to jump off some cliff first. Kazehime figured there had to be a limit to how much of her the wind could hold and prevent from falling, she guessed this would exceed that, so jumping off something could kill her, it really could, and that might be nice, she probably looked hideous and would be hated the rest of her life for being a giant monster dog! How in the world had it come to this?! Jiyu couldn’t see any way out, only forward, paws slamming against the ground as she ran through this world without care for whatever else was around her. Yet, she doubted there was anything to step on anyways, plus she’d notice something significant around her to be squished, not as if the people could be the size of ants or something. Jiyu just had to make it through this deadish looking area on the outskirts of this new world, once she got deeper the girl was sure she’d be able to find some source of water to use as a mirror, finally see what had happened to her body!

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Jiyu was in a world made of youkai, a place humans did not normally come to, somewhere she would have never been able to find on her own. Yet to any casual onlooker? The female looked as if she belonged in this realm, nothing about her being off or suggesting she had come from somewhere else, her energy closely matching that of the creatures living in this world, yet somehow being stronger than average. Kazehime was growing in confidence as she walked around the area, not encountering any enemies or obstacles, it seemed as this would be a simple easy place to traverse, a relaxing change of pace from the dangerous missions she had done as of late. With how badly her body ached from through the portal and transforming? She could really use this change of pace, it was amazing to her, simple, easy and relaxing, it was perfect. Instead of running she now started walking along at a pace that was nowhere near rushed, a lax travel speed taking over as she made her way deeper in, rumbling happily with maka clinging to her back, right beneath the bead’s she could feel around her neck, the kitsune seemed happy about this, so what was there to worry about. Slowly the dead scenery started to fade away, trailing off in small spurts, as if something was ending death itself, pushing away the dark force with it’s brilliant light, painting long lively lines across the ground with everything it had within it to give! It was something that impressed her greatly, made her feel warm as she walked through the land with her kitsune staring at the scenery atop her back. “Pretty isn’t it maka?” they were mostly silent, but every once in a great while, one of them would speak up, as if the silence was just too much to take for them. “It really is.” the kitsune responded, her paws lying in the thick black fur now covering her owner, keeping them both warm against the slight chill that was filling the air around here. However no reason for this lower temperature showed itself, considering everything not dead was fresh, green, alive in a way it shouldn’t be with the falling temperature! Neither of them chose to question the strange things around them, it would do no good here, the quest right now was not to understand the new world around them, but to simply understand the change in Jiyu’s body, receive a fuller picture of it for the wind user. “Night’s coming.” it was unsure which one of them had spoken it, but the one to speak it didn’t really matter, the person who spoke didn’t change the fact that in this world, the light was starting to dim away, shadow’s turning their direction. Honestly, she was uncomfortable with spending the night in the open, so Jiyu began to run forward swiftly, hoping to come across a body of water and some sort of a cave before the night could close in on them. When one was out at night, so many danger’s could close in on them.

Finally they came upon a weirdly shaped pond that stretched around to the point it nearly drown the tree’s surrounding it, reaching for them as if it was some sort of living being itself, instead of a life giving liquid. Jiyu took a deep breath, motioning for Maka to jump down and wait to the side, shivering slightly, the canine walked forward, hoping the water would show her reflection at the same time she prayed the damn mirror would not show her image, so she would not have to deal what whatever she looked like! Kazehime tilted her head down and thanked anything listening that she was not something caught hideously between woman and beast, but rather fell entirely into one grouping, even if it was the beast one, it was better than an uneven, incomplete mix. Having her tail normally? Was one thing, but she didn’t want to be bigfoot shrunken down to a ‘you can play with it’ size. Being a werewolf, that was just something that would never appeal to her in any great light. So at least she was entirely canine, no matter the angle she looked at herself from, she appeared to be a canine! “At least I’m fully a dog.” the female spoke it out, letting Maka know it was safe to come close again, that she was kind of alright with this now that she knew what was going on at the very least. “I like it.” the canine laughed at her kitsune, shaking her head slightly as she nudged the tiny creature towards the water. “Drink.” they had went all day now without eating or drinking anything, so by now, her charge had to dying of thirst. Maka offered no argument, rushing to drink as Jiyu stood watch for any danger that might be lurking about, ensuring both of their safety. Watering holes could be very dangerous places, predators knew it was a life necessity, and would often use it for hunting as well as providing liquid to their diet’s. “Maka watch now!” the canine laughed, nodding slightly to show she accepted the wet mouthed foxes offer, bending her large head down and lapping at the water with her tongue, eyes still darting around every few seconds. Even if she trusted maka? Her head still rose, and she only drank for short spans before taking in her surroundings once more, never letting down her guard to much. Makoto was only a child, not suited to a true guard position yet, so she could never let the kid stand guard on her own, but Jiyu would let her pretend and practice, so that Maka would one day be able to do it for herself, on her own. Even if she was vigilant, Jiyu was soon lulled by what seemed to be an extreme lack of danger in this place. Despite the fact that normally meant an ace predator chasing everything else, she still felt relatively safe as most of the scents around here were stale, this was a place not visited often apparently, for one reason or another it seemed unused. Maybe they could stay the night here, it might just work out.

She was relaxing mostly, still somewhat cautious but much calmer now that she seemed to find the area was untouched by most other life forms. Nothing remained to be feared. Yet? She was uneasy and even suddenly pulled Maka’s small form closer to her body, as if she sense something wrong when the wind user could actually find nothing wrong within her limited vision range “Who are you?” Shit whoever was speaking to them, the entity was right outside of her vision range, a shape visible across the water, the canine took a single step back. Was it best to run away or was there another course of action here? Maka was too tired to run, and honestly she would be unable to make it far herself, it their opponent was fully charged up, than the two of them would be screwed to death. Kazehime chose the logical option here. “My name is Jiyu, this is my friend Makoto.” Doing something that was giving them a little bit of info, but not too much that they would be able to instantly use it against her, something to keep them at bay for now, give herself time to think., prepare herself if a fight was to take place. How could she activate takeover’s in this form anyways? Would it be impossible, damn it, none of this was easy for her. Suddenly the other shape came forward some more, rounding the pond until it was revealed to be four individuals instead of one entity. All of them appeared canine in origin, maybe wolves of some kind, normally colored pelts with a few odd markings here and there. All four? Gave off a demonic aura, that while less than her own, was still not to be disregarded, still something to be regarded, especially since there were more of them than herself and maka. In a fair fight? She would win for sure, but canines had nasty habits of tag teaming and working together better than normal enemies often did, especially when they were an official pack, like these four seemed to be. The first one to speak up after she gave her name, was a thick furred she-wolf that had broader shoulders than herself, and much more muscle, yet still held a feminine air. “I’m Lotila, the only girl in our pack.” it was very clear she was the only female in the pack, besides for the male’s having clearly visible junk, this girl seemed a tad bit territorial, like she’d get aggressive with any other female who stayed too long! The next to speak up had a little weird spade marking on his front leg “Call me Spade.” which kind of made sense now that he revealed his name, but he sounded more feminine than Lolita did for some reason, gentle smile and thin build that was to be envied by anyone who had trouble keeping weight steady. The third of the group actually had some cat like features that warmed her heart, but a black pelt that put her off slightly, she was unsure if it was a wolf or a cat of some sort. “I am called Binx” considering the fact it was with the other’s thought? She guessed that he had to be a wolf instead of a oddly morphed feline. Finally the most eye catching one, largest of them and yet smaller than she was, and with a gentle aura about him, he moved forward with a dashing smile and a tilt of his head. “I’m Ryder.” he gave the introduction, lifting his paw in an endearing appeasement gesture, sweet grin on his maw as she moved forward ahead of the other’s, aiming to reach her before them, but when she backed off, he stopping coming forward and sat down, almost as if trying to reassure her he was no threat.

The group of them looked really weird to her, it was odd to see them and understand them like this, while she was in the appearance of a dog as well, instead of the humanoid demoness she thought she really was. Jiyu was still entirely unaware this was who she really was, an Inugami with immense power and potential, waiting to get her own way and waiting to perform the acts of a goddess or something like that. Point was, Kazehime was not who she thought herself to be, because she was still missing half of her own story, and didn’t know hardly any folklore. “What are you and your friend doing in our territory?” she was shocked when Ryder spoke again, mostly due to the fact she had been paying no attention whatsoever, gotten entirely lost in her mind due to the fact this was all so new to her. How was she suppose to respond to him? Jiyu did not want to tick the small pack off, despite being smaller to her, they still retained nearly human height’s, they could fight her if they deemed it necessary, while she had no doubt her size and magic would aid in a victory, the she-dog did not want Maka getting caught in the cross fire of the battle, so she wanted to avoid any fight’s. “We got kinda lost.” it was no lie, but she also felt bad because it did not feel like she was being honest either, she had come to this pond of her own accord, but she truly had no idea it was there’s! The female didn’t know what was right here, but she could see the fact she was lost did not irritate them, so she figured it had been the right story to go with, instead of telling them the long version of how she wasn’t actually a giant dog and this whole thing was a huge mistake, she didn’t belong here. Now she just had to make sure the rest of this interaction went smoothly, so that she could make it out of this with no fighting, right now her body was too tired to fight. “Lost, how so?” was there more than one way to get lost? Jiyu was confused by Ryder’s words, but she guessed the male might have meant it in a deep psychological sense, seen her distress and uncertainty somehow. He had to be asking if she was physically lost or mentally turned backwards. What did he want to hear from her? If she told him the wrong thing, he might become upset with her, she couldn’t really fight off four large wolves right now, at least not easily and no without blood being shed from all of the six people standing here by the end of the fight. Kazehime decided she had to do everything possible to avoid needing to fight this pack, smiling at them as she spoke again. “Just really turned around, to be honest I don’t remember most of what happened, I just hurt everywhere.”


Had she said the wrong thing? Had she screwed up by claiming she didn’t really remember what happened to her, by telling them the Truth?! Jiyu was trying to figure it out, her fur rising as Lolita spoke out words that alarmed her, made her teeth bared and her eyes narrow dangerously, both girls glaring at each other “You looking for a fight?!” The wolf was snarling, crawling towards her and she was starting to urge Maka to climb one of the nearby tree’s, kicking up dust with her paw’s by instinct and snapping her jaws as she mocked pouncing forward, tail straight and posture aggressive. She had wanted to avoid the fight, she thought she made it clear, but the white female was still coming towards her! It was horrible, she glanced to the side, seeing Maka was cowering behind her legs and trembling there, not wanting to run encase the other’s suddenly became aggressive and gave chase. Spade and Binx moved forward when Ryder nodded at them, but the action they took shocked the wind user “Back it Loli!” Binx was the first to speak, setting his black from right in front of her own, taking on a defensive stance, Spade standing a few inches in front of him, head lowered as he glared at the white she-wolf. “You two dimwit's, Ryder tell them to get away before she hurts them, she responded, she want’s the fight!” Oh shit, she had been baited into this fight, Lolita had wanted it, not her, if she had not responded they likely would have let her go! Wait thought? If she was wrong, and they were about to battle her, why were two of them standing in a position to protect Maka and herself, were they going to turn on Lolita, she didn’t want that either, it seemed wrong, she was a stranger and the she-wolf was part of their pack. It was all very confusing, but slowly she lightened up her posture and allowed herself to check on Maka once more, encouraging the tiny kitsune to come closer to her once more, letting out a comforting rumble from the depths of her chest. While she took these action’s, ryder’s dashing brown and white form came forward once more, smiling as if nothing had went to chaos, as if he knew exactly what to do, confidence that Jiyu envied. “Lolita she has a child with her, she doesn’t want to fight you.” he was so calm as he explained to the she-wolf that no fight would be taking place, for a logical reason. She found herself growing fond of this male wolf, smiling softly as she looked at him, tail flicking back and forth slightly in a show of appreciation, a whine from her throat showing that as well. “But she responded to my threat!” the male rolled his eyes at Lolita, sighing out, placing one paw on Lolit’a forehead. “She has a child Lol, she was just protecting the kid.” Jiyu nodded to his words, watching as the white wolf stopped her aggressive advanced and offered a small sheepish sorry towards her. It was quite sweet to the female, that these four were so close they could seem to turn on each other to protect someone else, and be fine seconds later. Plus she appreciated the fact they were all logical, the fact they had believed her was proof of that, and they wanted to avoid a fight with something larger than themselves.

They surprised her once more, well Ryder mostly since he seemed to do most of the talking for them “You want to come back to our den tonight? We wouldn’t normally offer that to a stranger, but you two really look like death warmed over.” She backed up a few step’s, sitting down, plopping on her rear end with wide eyes, staring at the four of them who were calm in the face of her shock. Second’s ago? One of them had wanted to tear her to shreds and now all four seemed alright with her coming back to their den with them, the den of a pack was such a sacred place, Jiyu knew this because she was canine as well even if she wasn’t a wolf! Inviting a stranger back to your home, the place you one day might even hide your pup’s, it was so risky and something she would never do herself. Even if she did have a den set, which she didn’t. If she had fallen in love with another canine? Maybe she would have made one eventually for herself, but she was in love with a feline, something she knew nothing about the mating habits of. Plus? He already had ruminal, so there was no reason for her to consider getting pregnant, it just boiled down to there being no reason for her to keep somewhere typically used for rearing children before they were brought to the rest of the large pack, when she didn’t plan on having them any time soon. Also unlike most normal pack’s, her’s was mostly just Black Rose, which she found to be a very safe location anyways, even if she wanted knocked up, there was just no reason to ever make a den. Yet she had this ebbing feeling that if she went with them, her mind would change on having somewhere just for herself hidden away, something only her other pack mate’s would know about. Her room at the silver moon? Sometimes felt unsafe, because she was a dog whose sleeping place was known by who knew how many people! She put up with it, but the female was getting this feeling that she would no longer be alright with it if she went with them, experienced the safety of a hidden den for once. Either way, shouldn’t Lolita be stopping this? One day that she-wolf would likely keep her puppies fathered by one of these three or someone entirely differently, in that den. If they let her stay the night? She would be a loose end that could lead predators to them. Jiyu guessed not everyone was cautious as she herself was, and this for some reason she was not seeing, had to be okay, otherwise the female would have objected already. Kazehime looked at them unsure, as a reply started in her throat, not wanting to keep everyone waiting all night and knowing Maka needed a warm place to sleep for the night. “Yes, please, pretty please, that would be so helpful, I don’t know how much longer I can walk, my body is weak as it is, but today has been-”

Lolita shocked her by prancing up and putting one pristine snowy paw over her dark maw, effectively shutting her up and invading her personal space. It seemed now that she had been reassured by Ryder the formerly aggressive she-wolf changed entirely, suddenly being alright with her presence and maybe even a little happy over it, smiling as she fell back to all four’s, playfully bowing as she pranced back to the water to take a drink herself. “It’s alright we get it, everyone has those days deary, come with us.” Was it normal for Lolita to change that swiftly? Confusion showed clearly on the wind user’s maw, eyes stunned as the male wolves came over to her, one of them looking at her. “Don’t worry.” did she really looked like frightened of them? Oh wait, he was talking to Maka who was hugging her massive leg, trying to climb up and away from the wolves that would give them shelter for the night. “Maka, it’s alright.” the small fox seemed shocked that she would say such a thing, but Jiyu knew it was true, there was no other option, if there was she had screwed up royally. Thus the female canine was going to trust that these wolves only meant the best of intentions, pray that they did not plan to have her and maka for dinner at their cave or whatever their den happened to be. Space and Binx moved forward, away from their protective position’s, letting Ryder come up to her as they went to join Lolita at the water’s edge. Apparently their original reason for coming here before they saw her, had been close to what her reason for coming here had been, the water. Jiyu felt slightly better, realizing they had not tracked her or anything, she was not something they hunted through their territory, it really was just a mistake the lot of them had encountered each other, a fortune mistake for the dog, but it was in the end just an accident. Sometimes the best things in life? Were mistakes, or things you did not see coming, she had learned that a long time ago. When she first joined Black Rose it had been a normal day, coming off a ship and wondering how she would get on the next one going out, just meandering around that smoggy place, when she encountered him for the first time. Back then? She certainly didn’t believe she would come to be one of the guild’s powerful ace’s or even stay very long. The thing she expected least, was falling for the man who offered the place to her, chastised her for not taking care of her hair, the one who was so self confident and haughty she initially might have found him disgusting. However Marschal was so much more than that, he was protect, sweet, caring, in ways that she suspected most people overlooked or took for granted. Oh god, what if she could never go back? Suddenly the wind user found herself filled with sorrow and nearly didn’t hear when they told her it was time to get going.

As they walked along the path, lolita changed her mind on what was going on once more, and Jiyu didn’t blame her, she wouldn’t bring a stranger to her home either. Yet? So many people she met in her life, did that or the available equivalent of it. Everyone in her life, was so giving and she just kind of let them provide for her, in ways she barely noticed half the time, it started to disgust her now that she thought about it.Yet? Something else inside of her rose at the reverence and worship that could be interrupted as. What the hell was wrong with her?! Jiyu had never felt this way before, it was just like the rage that had followed her during her transformation, so new and shocking to her system, something she had no idea what to do with.“Are you three sure this is smart?” No it probably not smart to bring her into their home, Jiyu was pretty sure she was going nuts as the five of them walked along, any trace of sane mentality slipping away. What else was she suppose to believe, when she had no idea what was going on. Kazehime listened to them, but she seemed much less engaged than she had been earlier, more sullen and reclusive, keeping her eyes on only Maka. When the kitsune began falling behind, she chose to pick the kit up by its scruff, carry the creature with her, like a mother would carry it’s pup. “Of course it is, how harmful can someone so weakened be? Maybe she can even be helpful once we help her recover.” oh geeze, they realized how weak she was already, the female had thought she might get away with them not noticing, but instead they noticed fully. Where they housing her out of pity?! Jiyu suddenly started taking longer strides, holding her shoulder’s more even and her head higher, taking pity was something she did not do very well at all. If she would not easily take help from her best friends or the man she loved? Than the wind user was not about to let total stranger’s know how weak she had become over this day! There was strength left inside and she would use every single ounce of it! Ryder looked at her with wide eyes, watching her in something of awe and shock as she started causing them to pick up the pace, so they would not lose her somewhere in the territory. This? Was what she did, lead, dominated, behaved as an alpha, she was not weak, she didn’t need his damn pity! Jiyu smirked when he sprinted ahead, physically defending his alpha position with his behavior. While she had no intention of taking this pack from him? Jiyu suddenly enjoyed running along the soft ground with them, striving and striding in long bounds, the wind buffeting them as they made their way around the territory, deeper inside, heading towards the den. Even if she didn’t know where it was? They let her have the spot right behind Ryder and she enjoyed the unofficial competition the two of them engaged in.
They arrived eventually and she did not even realize they were outside the den, laughing with the four of them, nearly rolling on the ground as they spoke of the things they had seen while running here, corrected and complemented each other. Even though she had just met them? The four wolves were so warm, so giving, such sweet creatures compared to what she had feared when first seeing them, it was remarkably relaxing for the female, this experience was fantastic. Yet she couldn’t stay for a long time, this was just a night spell, come the morning she would no longer be welcome and she wouldn’t want to be welcomed either, her stay would have concluded. “We’re here.” she looked shocked when they said it, and giggles burst out within the group again, Lolita vanishing behind a few rock’s followed by Ryder and Binx, Spade staying behind for some reason, smiling gently at her. “Come on bitch, it’s gorgeous inside, even if you can’t see it from the outside.” she said nothing to being called a bitch, because after-all, she was a female dog and she had heard him call Lolita the same thing earlier, so even if it was rudeness it wasn’t just directed towards her. In delight she followed him, setting down maka and nudging the child to move forward, pushing them both slightly, eager to see the place she’d rest her exhausted form tonight, watching Spade vanish into a moss covered crevice. Even if she had been looking for a gave? She never would have found that pass the thickly grown moss, it was such a well hidden den, she quickly envied their ownership of it, thought they had some immense luck finding it. How had they found something so hidden anyway’s? She bet there was a great story behind it, one she would love to hear sometime. “You guy’s have got to tell me how you found this one day.” what was she saying? One day, this was the only day she’d see them, she would wake before them come tomorrow and sneak out like she did from the silver moon, cross out of their border’s, then they wouldn’t pursue her! Yet she was speaking as if she intended to get to know them, which seemed to amuse and please the four wolves who howled slightly, urging her to join in, giggling emitting as they all five howled happily. Finally she took the the time to observe the cavern, it’s immense size, the relative dryness despite this little trickle of water making a small puddle in one corner. Clearly? The water would not sustain them, but for a late night drink, it was perfect, and the remains of their last meal lay in the other corner, a well work divot in the floor showing where they slept. It was gorgeous to her, to most it would look ordinary or even dingy, but to another canine, this was a rare paradise.

She looked at Ryder, the male chuckling once more as he hated towards the indent in the floor, slowly descending towards it, but not going to the center of their sleeping space. “Come on, Jiyu, lay down here, you can have the center tonight with Makoto. Since I don’t trust the cold won’t kill you through the night.” She looked at him with wide eyes, aiming to scoot back, but being shoved forward by the other three wolves, so she fell down in the large circle, of which she took most of the room within. She was larger than them? Did they really think they could provide warmth for her or such things? The large animals should sleep towards the outside, it offered more protection for the smaller animals. Yet they threw out that logic due to her exhausted state, ushered her to lay down at the safest place in the cave, just giving her the spot. Kazehime didn’t know how to feel about it, curling into herself as Maka settled against her, rumbling happily and falling asleep instantly. She had to tell them she was not weak as they seemed to think she was! Jiyu could not let them think she was some helpless weakling! “I’m not that-” they seemed to ignore as Lolita lay in the crook of her neck, Binx spreading himself across one of her leg’s, spade resting against her hip and Ryder coming to lay against her massive head, resting his head on her large muzzle. “Night.” they just pushed her into the slot before, but now they were acting as if it had not happened, as if this was a normal thing! She heard Lolitla’s comment but she was barely able to even think straight, with all this warmth surrounding her. Normally? She slept only in Maka’s companionship, the kitsune always being somewhat too small to really keep her warm, and they barely shared a bed anyways. “Good Night” as Spade said good night for the evening, she realized that laying here, between them, was utter suicide, she could not lay in this place! The warmth was remarkable, it warmed her and made her so sleepy, she didn’t trust them, but her body did. Jiyu could only imagine how magical this would be with someone she did truly trust, someone her body and mind agreed on. If she endured this for the night? She might start crawling into someone’s bed when she returned to silver moon, once her mission was done! “Sleep Tight.” Oh damn, she couldn’t do that, but if she moved it would be rude. How was she going to endure this?! Jiyu was panicking inside, until Lolita spoke up once more.“Go to sleep you flea-bags.” this was only sleep, the white wolf broke the spell, snarling slightly as she cuddled up to Jiyu, the white wolf reminded her this was nothing special for dogs. While sleeping in physical contact could be important for humans and those in a human form? It was nothing for wolves and dogs, she was in a canine body now, this was nothing. This was innocent and pure, and nothing she’d try to repeat after tonight. “You guys, thank you so much, sleep well.” she heard them rumble their response, but barely even understood it, the only thing she heard was Koto momentarily waking to say “Maka night-night!” her last conscious thought was how warm she was tonight.

There was no pesky annoying morning sun making it’s way through the moss to wake her up, so the girl who feared the darkness, did not easily rouse on her own, laying there peacefully asleep instead of anything else she could have been doing. “You think she’s dead?” Jiyu’s idea of leaving before the wolves woke up, making a speed away, it was ruined as could be, because now all four of them were standing around her large slumbering form, Maka sleeping curled beneath her neck, soft snores coming from both of them. Honestly? It was an undignified way to be seen sleeping, but it was doubtful she would ever care, the day before had been quite harsh. “No come on, that’s ridiculous!” she couldn’t tell which wolf was speaking, or even hear them speaking, so it wasn’t important. These four? Could never wake up the inugami unless they made some move to hurt her the okami’s were not important enough to rouse her or ruffle her in such a way! Jiyu regarded them yes, but they were no threat unless they tried to be one, and she didn’t care enough to wake up just for them, not when she had been so worn. “But she isn’t waking up.” and she wouldn’t wake up for these guys, they just didn’t have the power to rouse the slumbering she-beast, and they likely never would since she intended to go home, not stay with them. “Maybe she’s a heavy sleeper?” well that was a better explanation than her consciousness ignoring them, which was the truth of this morning. Suddenly Makoto decided it was time to wake up, sitting up she used her power as an important person in Jiyu’s life to place her paws on the dog’s face, licking it as she rumbled before barking out “Koto says it’s morning!” and this was enough to wake up the young sorceress, her large body shifting.

Kazehime had a short lapse in memory, not quite recalling the prior evening, only seeing stranger’s around her when she woke. “Huh? Wha? Where Am I?!” For someone who had been kidnapped and held captive against her will for two years? It was a distressing sight! “Calm down Jiyu!” Ace was shouting it as her massive paw swept across the cavern, and yet she make no claw marks or anything, she just wasn’t strong enough. However her weak body was not enough for the she-wolf to not consider her a threat, now that she was acting up. “I told you we shouldn’t have brought her!” Lolita showed her disapproval, the anger she held that they had brought in someone was now doing harm to the area, her lips pulling up to a snarl that Jiyu returned. Binx spoke up swiftly before the girl’s could charge each other in the cave. “Shut up Lolita you damn alpha persona bitch, this isn’t helping!” but he chose words that might not be the best to use, honestly the words seemed too strong and threatening to make things better. “Quiet down guys. Jiyu? Please stop for just a second, we promise we won’t hurt you, yesterday evening we found Makoto and yourself in a horribly weak state at a pond in our territory, we invited you back for the night to keep you safe.” Ryder showed once more why he was likely the alpha, and even and logical temperament, soft smile and gentle voice, even as she growled at them in aggression. Hearing his words? The night before began to come back to her. “Yeah you slept here with us all night.” thing’s locked into place, started making sense again and she instantly calmed, seeming to see no threat in the wolves once more. Hopefully? They could continue to think the same of her, despite her little outburst. “Lazy bitch you slept in till noon! Feel better now?” she really could not figure out if the she-wolf was alright with her or not, it was confusing to say the least. One second the bitch wanted her gone. “You're a tsundere lolita.” the next she seemed alright with her presence, being a tsundere would explain that. “Am Not!” Wait if Lolita was a tsundere, what did that make her?! She sure hoped Marschal didn’t think that about her, she saw a lot of herself in the white she-wolf, thought they were also very different. Shaking off thoughts of home, better left for when she was not on a missions.“So you guys protected me and Maka all night?” she got down to the business of this, trying to figure out what had been going on before she woke up. “Well we’re pretty strong and not challenged often, so there was really nothing in our territory to protect you from expect Lolita’s bitchiness, but I guess you could word it that way, yeah.” so they had defended her, she supposed she should thank them for completing such a task, considering it must have been a hassle to watch someone so much bigger than themselves. It was also an honor to be brought to another canine’s den when you met them. “I’m sorry for being so much trouble, the two of us much be a big inconvenience. We’ll leave now, I’m so sorry I was just so-” Lolita cut her off once more and Jiyu became convinced the girl hated her, rolling her eyes at the white she’s comment. “Yeah you were a major drag” where the exhausted and weary suppose to be fun or something? She was surprised when Binx stood up for her“Don’t say that to her!” and than Spade made everything painfully clear “Well it was free mercy, not something we do often, didn’t we only do it cause she’s a dog like us.” she was still a dog, she had not found any way to transform back yet, it was a fact and not one she was fond of. “Than why don’t we let her make it up to us!” just what sort of work would that require? Because she wasn’t staying long and she was not going to do any sort of sexual favors for the male wolves. Oh wait Lol was here too, she’d wring them if they asked for that. “Make it up to you?” she felt safe enough to see what they wanted to offer her. Besides having a base to work from in trying to figure out what happened, it might be useful.

“Yeah you’d stay with us for a few days, help us hunt and stuff in return for the night you spent here for no cost, than you’d go on your way.” So that was what they had on their mind? It sounded alright. “Don’t plan on adding her to the pack do you? I’m the only bitch allowed in this!” and Lolita was still being herself. “You complained about her staying for free first!” but the cruel remark didn’t matter, because this could work, especially since she’d have Lolita to kick her out if she stayed too long, over extended her welcome. “It doesn’t sound that bad to me, I mean she’s not caused any trouble yet.” and the other wolves seemed to be alright with it as well. This would be alright, wouldn’t it? “I could do that, I mean I can’t say how good of a hunter i’ll be due to how weak my body is, but I have a great sense of smell and hearing, make a good tracker.” she could easily help them find prey in their territory! It should be easy enough. The female nodded her agreement, and looked at how they brightened up. Maybe she shouldn’t have agreed so easily? “Than it’s settled, you’ll stay with us for now. Come on Jiyu, we’ll give you a formal tour of the territory!” everyone but Lolita seemed delighted that they would be giving her a tour of the territory. “Oh now we’re giving her a tour? Grand.” but by now the she-dog was coming to the conclusion the other female was simply a bitch, no pun intended, actually there was a pun intended there. “Can we grab a snack while we’re out?” everyone was so hyper and open, but once more she heard ryder’s voice chime out towards her. “Don’t mind them, much, this should be the part that goes pretty smoothly.” he really was a kind wolf wasn’t he? Than she noticed a flicker of envy in Lolita’s eyes. So the girl thought she was trying to steal her boyfriend. Kazehime nodded to Ryder, but when he was not looking she shook her head at Lolita. “Alright, just please promise not to go too fast? Honestly I’m still a bit sore from all the walking yesterday, so I might be really slow.”
They nodded in agreement “That should be fine, come on!” hopefully her head shake from earlier was enough to communicate that she was not interested in the girl’s prize, in terms of mates, the inu’s gaze was far away from any of the wolves. Her gaze? Was in another realm, focused on golden eyes and pure white hair. Her very own prince charming, Jiyu did not need anyone else, she just needed him. “Did you enjoy today, Jiyu?” yeah she kinda had enjoyed the whole day, it was unique, seeing their territory. ”Can’t we go to sleep already?” it would be impossible to do without some form of conversation. So maka pipped up first. “Maka had fun.” Jiyu laughed before lolita spoke. “Someone should baby sit this tomorrow. Not me thought.” she wondered if she should tell them Maka could be their size when she wished. “It’ll totally be you!” na this was all much more entertaining to watch. “Yeah, I guess, it was different from what I’m used to, but not bad, I suppose I could say I liked it. Thanks.” they kept talking but it started getting blurry for her. “Time for bed everyone, we start a hunt early tomorrow.” than she could leave. “What are we hunting this time?” deer would likely be good, she smelled deer blood while they were out. “We didn’t find anything good while walking around today, maybe there’s nothing left.” oh geeze they were not paying attention where they. “Jiyu said she’s a good tracker she’ll find us something.” of course she would find them something. “Really? I doubt she can find something I can’t!” did lolita hate her that much? “You doubt anyone who isn’t you Lolita.” no the she-wolf was just a bitch. “If we’re hunting tomorrow, shouldn’t we head to bed tonight?” Spade was probaly right about that. “I guess so, but it’s fun to talk for a while first, isn’t it?” Binx was certainly right about that! “It’s pointless to talk the night before a hunt boy’s, the softie has the right idea, scoot it Jiyu we’re sharing the center tonight! Let the boy’s freeze.” oh so she was liked by lolita considering she wasn’t forced to the outside of the nest “Is that-” “It’s fine do it all the time~” “Damn it, how did we get shoved out tonight?!” “Because their chicks, let’s go to bed everyone.” “Good night everyone.” “Night, sleep tight.”


Jiyu was right behind Ryder when they closed in on the deer looking demon’s, watching the whole large herd, including their lead bull. Apparently? They had to hunt something from within that group, it actually it was rather concerning to her, nothing appeared weakened yet, and the other’s noticed it too. “This isn’t going to be easy.” it was Ace to state it, nodding to bynx they split up, and Lolita looked at Ryder timidly, nudging him, wondering if they would do the hunt together. Somehow? Jiyu knew she had to get to the point where she stood alone in this, so that Lol could have some time with him. Kazehime understood what it was to not have enough time with the man you loved, it was enough to make you wish that you could fall dead any second, it could break you so easily, it was destructive and impossible to endure. Every single time- no she couldn’t think about him right now, she promised this hunt to them, she had to fulfill her swear and then maybe she could get them to tell her some way home. “I smell blood, me and maka will flush out the bleeding one.” she spoke the words, without giving the dense Ryder time to reply. Honestly it sorrowed Jiyu, the white she-wolf was so shy, and the male was so dense! At least in her own situation, the man she loved already knew what their end result would be, had no doubt’s and somehow just knew who she belonged to, without her even saying it. Hopefully one day, Lolita would make the brown and white male see her feeling’s, because otherwise, her love would probably be unfulfilled forever, and that would be just depressing, she didn’t think that was something she wanted to see. Jiyu moved forward, shaking the thought off as she ran, once more wishing Lolita luck in the few moment’s she’d have to bond with Ryder before the hunt started.

“Ready maka?” the kitsune shifted, become large as the wolves themselves were, and Jiyu snarled, suddenly lunging forward, starting a panic within the herd. Maka knew what her job was, keeping the animal’s running around, so Jiyu had time to track within the chaos, watching her guardian sniff the air. Kazehime inhaled deeply and started following the scent of blood through the herd, going after whatever group it happened to be in, slowly narrowing down the number’s. Koto would cause a group to split, than she’d come through and detect which half had the bleeding animal, considering there were over thirty deer to check out! Eventually it was narrowed down to a group of three female’s, which her and maka herded back towards the other four wolves, the kitsune doing most of the herding, while Jiyu kept them running, using her nose to finger out which of the three cream colored beasts was injured. “It’s that one guys! The one in the front!” once she announced which one was injured, the other wolves were on it in a second, Jiyu joining them promptly, bringing her jaw’s down on the neck while the other’s prevented it from harming her. “Too bad this isn’t even a snack for you.” it was lolita and Jiyu giggled, wondering how she was going to feed this form anyways. Kazehime looked at them, laughing slightly. However, she felt herself beginning to fade, everyone wide eyed as a golden light surrounded herself and maka, falling upwards like star’s, shocking them. “You're not from this realm.” she wasn’t sure who said it, but before long, Jiyu found herself staring at the gate to Nazo, maka held in her arms, her human arms. “What the hell just happened.” it was all confusing honestly, but it was over now, the wind user sinking to her knees “I. I think I want to go home.” the wind guided her to stand, ushering her towards the exit of the portal area, numb look on her face as she tried to wander back home. Once she figured out what happened, she would come back and finish her mission, but first she needed to know what had happened to herself.