Silver Fog
The gallots ran fast for lizards, but not faster than the wolves chasing them out of the town’s back gate. From his saddle Reid checked behind him to gauge the wolves’ progress. But the pack thinned each time he checked.
‘Where did the rest of them go? Did they give up the chase?’ he turned to his right, “Oh fuck! Naja! they’re surrounding us!”
“I know!”
Unlike the gallots, the wolves could traverse the bush filled sides of the road, surrounding the fleeing duo. The wolves trotted to high elevations on the road sides, and from those heights they jumped at Naja and Reid.
“Naja duck!” yelled Reid, pulling and firing his forty-five at a grey wolf flying at Naja.
Pop! Pop!
The wolf yelped from the shots and missed clawing Naja by a hair. Two more wolves, a dark grey and a black spotted, leapt at Reid from his right and left sides.
‘Damn, I can only hit one!’ he aimed and fired a direct hit at the black spotted on his right, and felt the breath of the dark grey on his left.
“Reeeeid!” Naja screamed.
The full weight of the grey wolf knocked Reid off his gallot sending him tumbling through a bush. But the wolf saved his claw for the bigger target, the gallot itself. The gallot squealed as the dark grey struck it down. Afterward, more wolves surrounded and tore the lizard steed apart.
Reid recovered his gear and rifle from the fall, dropped to a knee and aimed at the advancing pack.
“Reid, jump on!” yelled Naja from behind him.
Reid spun one eighty and Naja scooped him up onto her gallot. She jumped the gallot over the wolves, stomping two in the landing. One wolf tried to block the gallot’s path, but the steed chomped down and crushed the wolf’s shoulder while fleeing with Naja and Reid.
Reid sat backward on the saddle and fired rounds at the scattered wolves behind him. After a quarter of a mile the wolves ended their chase, stopping dead in their tracks.
“Why’d they give up so suddenly?” Reid asked Naja.
“Because they’d die if they breathed this silver fog.”
“Wha-” gulped Reid. A fog surrounded them as they galloped through a mountain pass.
“This fog kills Canids, but does strange things to other beings,” said Naja.
“What do you mean...cough..ahem..cough, Naja..I’m having trouble breathing. ..Naja..” Reid coughed again and blacked out.
Rispar
Reid awoke in a bed in a well lit room. In the room doorway Naja spoke with an older woman, another Elf.
“Naja, your partner is awake,” said the older Elf, who excused herself and left the hallway.
Naja spun, confirmed Reid’s consciousness, and jumped on the bed with him.
“Captain, you’re so beautiful! How do you feel?” asked Naja.
“Oi, my head hurts a bit, where are we?..Ahem...ahem..What’s wrong with my voice?”
“We’re in Rispar and nothing is wrong with your voice, it matches you perfectly. Here’s some water...and a mirror...hee!”
Reid sipped the cup of water and cleared his throat again. Naja shook her head.
“Hi, all that clearing won’t change your voice, but in two days it should be fine,” said Naja, holding up the mirror for Reid.
Reid glanced in the mirror, then snatched it from her hand.
“...Naja?”
“Yes lover!”
“Why?..What? …”
“What are you asking lover? Are you going to ask me why all of sudden you’re a tall beautiful earth woman?”
“Naja!”
“Reid please calm down! I told you the silver fog has effects on beings. I guess in the case of humans...it ...flips your gender.”
“Naja! I have breasts and, oh no, I’m missing my, oh boy!” cried Reid, feeling for missing parts.
“I’m sorry Reid! If we didn’t take that mountain route the Canids would’ve captured us, and I assure you this is temporary like..food poisoning, hee!”
“You are food poisoning!” barked Reid, jumping up in front of a long mirror.
Reid examined herself in the mirror wearing only her brown army t-shirt and brown boxer briefs. She recognized her face, only now it was smaller and her brown eyes bigger. Reid’s black hair remained the same ‘soldier’ haircut.
“Captain Reid! You're the prettiest tomboy I’ve ever seen!...Every male and female on Cionis would fight romantic battles to have you!”
“Eh? I don’t know...something’s wrong...it’s one thing to become a woman, but why do I feel so girly?” Reid asked examining her new long legs and sexy hips.
“Oh, yeah, that fog changed your chemistry a bit..sooo...in your mind you’ll 'think' like a woman, just like me! And umm.....I’m sorry Reid but you’re turning me on so much! Yaaa!”
Naja grabbed Reid and yanked her onto the bed, tits and all.
“Naja, no!”
“You mean, yes!”
Naja’s eyes burned with lust as her hands caressed and clutched Reid’s curved body. Naja then slid Reid’s boxers down.
“Hey- Hey!” protested Reid.
“Ssssssssssh..Captain!...You don’t know what a woman feels like...so I’m gonna teach you..ya!”
Reid lost herself in Naja’s blue eyes and touch. Naja cupped Reid below, then entered her.
“Ah!...”
“Heeee, first time someone visit you there? Ya, its wonderful..girls are special that way, you’ll see~”
“....Naja..” begged Reid
“No worries, Captain.. I have more for you..and you will love me..”
“.......Ah...”
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Earthwoman
Reid awoke to someone banging on the door, Naja lay asleep next to her. Reid shook her awake.
“Hey, wake up, the door!”
“Ya~ oh, I’m coming!” Naja yelled to the person knocking.
Naja hopped out of bed full on naked and wrapped herself in a sheet to answer the door. Reid, pulled herself up and entered the ‘bathroom’ inside their room.
‘Squatting toilet? Gross...A bath tub? Hunh, not much different than earth.’
Reid used the facilities, for the first time as a woman, then re-entered the bedroom. An older lady Elf waited in the room to greet her.
“Hello Reid, my name is Bridana, I’m Naja’s aunt.”
“Oh, pleasure to meet you. Forgive me, I’m not decent-”
“Haha, its ok. From what I understand you’re not even a woman,” she chuckled.
“Right...there’s that too. Where’s Naja?”
“Hopefully reuniting with her sister,” Bridana answered.
“Uh...Naja has a sister?”
“Yes, but Reid...I believe this is what you’ve traveled for.”
Bridana unwrapped and displayed a rectangular device the size of an old cordless phone.
“Hey, that’s a GPS!” Reid yelped taking the device from the Elf.
“Yes Reid, this is the ‘Key’” she whispered.
He flipped the device and read the burned stenciling in the back.
US ARMY D.O.D. 999582621
Major- J. Gantz
1999 Keymaster Industries, St. Louis Missouri.
“Gantz? 1999 Keymaster?....Bridana, was this man here, this ‘Gantz’ person?”
“Yes! He was a great man, he healed people! We called him Doc-ter,” she answered bright eyed.
“I see, where is Doctor Gantz now?”
Bridana turned away.
“That device, it can open something he called…’Wormholes’…”
Reid examined the device again, ‘What is she talking about? This is an old school military GPS device.. But if this can open a wormhole it may get me home..or kill me.’
“Wormholes! Yeah...I think I understand what he meant, please continue. I need to know everything,” said Reid with a serious tone.
“Reid, the warlock Faynus stole this device and he opened a hole that sent large rocks the size of cities storming down on any population that defied him!” she explained.
“The good doctor, a soldier like you, entered Faynus’ stronghold and reclaimed the device. But while disabling it..he...sent himself away...and the device was left behind, along with all of the items he carried here."
Reid opened the GPS’ battery door to check the size.
“Four double AA’s...crap, I only have two.”
“Reid? Are you familiar with this device?” Bridana asked with hope.
“Well, if you’ve seen one of them you’ve seen em all, but I need a set of double AA batteries to work it. Hey, you said Gantz left his gear behind, would you happen to have any of it?”
“I’m sorry, no. All of Doctor Gantz’ equipment is held by The warlock Faynus. He’s obsessed with everything Doctor Gantz owned, to include the Key device.”
“Sounds like a nice guy~” Reid quipped.
“He was once...but now this world struggles under his grip as he takes land to mine for power, for stones like these,” she displayed the blood eyes rubies.
“Oh yeah, I ..hmm..Naja retrieved those rubies for you, by the way where is Naja again?” Reid asked, and a thunderous voice answered.
“Thanking her gods she’s not here or I’d tear her apart, earthwoman!”
Reid spun toward the voice. Six Canids blocked the doorway from the hall, two of them in full wolf form, growling. Reid faced Bridana.
“Oh, Bridana...did you just sell Naja and me out?”
“Hmm...yes and no. As I said Naja will rejoin her sister, as a prisoner of Faynus,” she answered.
“Oh, ok so you sent her to Faynus?...Wow, you’re not a nice aunt are you?”
“Reid, in time you will under-”
“Enough! Come earthwoman, you have-”
“Hey, fuck you man!” shouted Reid, hurling a chair at the Canid in the doorway and running into the bathroom to jump out the large window over the tub.
‘Ah man, I got no shoes!’ Reid jumped two flights to the grass and soil, cutting her knee in the landing, ‘Ow, and I’m naked!’
Wearing underwear and a t-shirt, the barefoot captain ran down a side alley, zigzagging between buildings to throw off her wolf pursuers.
‘Crap! Think Reid, think! Ah, I’ll lose em in the people!’
Reid scanned for a crowd. She ran left toward a market street with outdoor vendors, when…
A werewolf’s punch slammed Reid’s stomach, blasting the wind out of her slender frame. She collapsed on the ground gasping for air.
“You are pretty tough, earthwoman,” said the assaulting wolf, who shape-shifted before her eyes from a dark grey wolf, to a tall, well built tanned man.
“Earthwoman, my name is Kerod, and I think it's best you come with me,” he assured Reid.
“...I’m ..Reid..and I...think you’ll have to carry me…” grunted Reid, curled in a fetal position but keeping eye contact.
“Ha ha! Not a problem, but tell me, have you ever ridden a wolf before?” asked Kerod, staring down at the gasping Reid.
“Eh? You’re not hitting on me are you?” asked Reid, tragically serious.
Kerod gaped back in disbelief, “Ah...I don’t think you’re my type, earthwoman, haha!” he laughed.
“Oh..in that case...wolf riding sounds like fun..yay..” muttered Reid, still sucking wind.
“Haha! That’s the right answer, Reid! Good for you! Ha ha haaaaaaa!”
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Next chapter we’ll meet the Canids (the werewolves), and find out more of Naja’s fate!
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