I slowly opened my eyes, fighting against the drowsiness that tried to cloud my consciousness. The bright light of the rising sun hurting my eyes. I looked around and at myself, first, I am in someone's else house, and two, I am covered in strong smelling clothes, surely to heal my wounds. I try to stand up but the wound on my neck and my missing arm hurt. I had heard of ghost pains but I never had the opportunity to feel it, it's like having an ich somewhere you can't reach but a million time worse.
|Uggghh, where the fuck am I? When am I? Am I okay? Stupid ...... just check you status.|(Foov)
Name: Kizaku Foov
Age: 20
Race: Fae/Kitsune hybrid (Prior to change under your fate)
#cursed: Lycanthropia
Sex: Male/Female
Level : 535 (+20)
HP : 5,350 (+200)
MP : 10,700 (+400)
Strength : 420 (+20)
Agility : 150 (+20)
Endurance : 320 (+20)
Wisdom : 700 (+300)
Intelligence : 700 (+300)
Mind : 400
Points to distribute: 155 (+100)
Living skills : [Cooking : LVL 25] [Sewing : LVL 4] [Cleaning : LVL 12] [Appraisal : LVL 3] [Wood chopping : LVL 40] [Tracking : LVL 20] [Skinning : LVL 25]
Magic skills : [Illusion magic : LVL 50] [Fox fire magic : LVL 50] [Mana sensing : LVL 20] [Shapeshifting : LVL 20] [Light magic : LVL 30] [Fire magic : LVL 40] [Wind magic : lvl 20] [Holy fire magic : LVL 20] [Cursed fire magic : lvl 20] [#Cursed skill : Call of the moon LVL 0]
Combat skills : [Karate do : LVL 40] [Gun mastery : LVL 0] [Bow mastery : LVL 20] [Hunting technique : LVL 0] [Knife mastery : LVL 40] [Axe mastery : LVL 5] [Free-fighting : LVL 10] [Claws technique : LVL 55]
Inventory: Yukata, katana, bear voodoo doll, bear skin x 30, bear skull, bear claws x 30, bear eyeballs x 20, bear teeth x 40
SHIT !!! Fucking fuck !!! I wasn't hallucinating, I really did get cursed, shit, what's going to happen to me? Unlike most curses, Lycanthropia doesn't only affect me but others too. I try to stand up again and ignoring the pain I walk across the room. Almost falling down I start to use the wall to support my weight, my breathing is heavy and my wounds hurt.
|Come on Foov ... the door .... isn't that far *bbbwwweeuuuurggg*|(Foov)
I puke on the floor, bill and semi-digested food plastered across the floor, I keep walking to the door. I open it with the last strength remaining in my arms, and what I see brings me to my knee. The village is half-destroyed, some houses still have smoke coming out of them and I can see people, walking on the street, all bandaged, and some even missing some limbs.
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|HHHeeeuuughh ..... hhaaaeeeffff ..... hheeeeeeuuuuuugggghhh ..... hhaaaaaeeeefffff ....Brea .. th .... heeeughh .... hhaaaeefff .... can't ...|(Foov)
Hyperventilation can be a symptom of an accumulation of stress, you feel like you can't breath and the tip of your limbs begin to feel numb.
|Foov ?! What are you doing here ?|(Sakura)
Sakura comes from behind me and hugs me, my breathing starts to calm down. I look at her, she seems fine and I hug her back. Good thing she is okay, I wouldn't have been able to handle the destruction of the village and the loss of a friend.
|Where's my mother ?|(Foov)
|Foov|(Sakura)
|Sakura ... where is my mother ?|(Foov)
She hugs me even tighter so I know something is wrong. Did something happen ? Thinking about it, if the village chief had made a wall of flame and I had killed the alpha, why is the village in such a state? Did they manage to break through? But how? And when? Why did they attack us to begin with? I can't believe it is just because Roderick wanted to make fun of the village chief. And he said something about a 'master', if he cursed me that means he was an Alpha so why would he be calling someone 'master'? That doesn't make any sense.
Using the little strength I had I pull myself out of her embrace and look at her, she is crying .... why? Did I do something wrong .... or is she still shocked by the attack.
|Foov .... The first attack was just to weaken our force .... they came back after you collapsed ... and they took Io and your mother with them ... Sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry.|(Sakura)
WHAT !!! How dare they, how dare they, how dare they, how dare they ?!!!! Those bunch of barbaric muts that can't even walk straight, I'm going to murder them, tear them apart, drink their filthy blood and make it so even their souls won't be in for reincarnation, they will remain in limbo for eternity.
|Sakura, get away from Foov immediately !!|(Yu)
|What ?! Why ?! .. Foov what's happening to you ?!|(Sakura)
I can feel my arm growing larger and bigger, the same for my eyesight, which becomes higher. I can smell the scent of burning wood and decaying flesh, it enters my nostrils and clouds my mind like a thick mist in an autumn night. There is another smell, a weird smell ... it's sweet yet disgusting ... where is it coming from? The forest, I start to run towards it, I feel light, my wounds no longer hurts and my senses are heightened.
I pass by trees at lightning speed, I can see animals flee when they see me.
But I keep on running to the source of the sent. Not that I want to, my body and minds are literally charging to it without my soul wanting it. Is it something related to Werewolf instinct? How can a Kitsune even become a Werewolf? I mean, a fox is a canine-like a wolf but the Fox god is more of a playful god rather than an aggressive god.
Oh yeah. Since I will be running for quite a long time, I could explain how religions work in this world. So, it isn't very different than from back Earth except for the fact that the gods really exist but they aren't that powerful. Since Myths on Earth tends to repeat themselves there are still some differences, you know like all the gods that carries the Sun are in fact just one god. Also, the words 'god' define a species named the 'ancient one'. So you'll be able to find Zeus and Ra or even other gods, but of course, it is not that easy. Because you see, the closest outpost they have is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on Atlantia, yes, Atlantia exist, but everything that gets close to it either gets eaten by sea monsters or is blown up by the securities of their base. Their other closest base is on the moon and we believe they get there using the enormous space-elevator, that you can see from afar, in the middle of Atlantia.
The problem is the same, either get eaten by monsters or blow up by safety measure. Because yes, there are monsters in space and trusting what my mother said, they are even worse than the one we have here. Also, very few nations are able to go to space. In fact, except for very rich countries, like Japan, France, the USA, Russia and some other, most countries don't even have guns and are stuck in a dark-age-like era.
Anyway, I'm sure you guessed by the name but 'the ancient one' also includes some monstrosity like Cthulhu or other monsters of the Cthulhu Mythos. But they are said to be sealed so we don't risk much.
Anyway, I think my running time has come to an end. Right in front of me stand a gigantic castle, we must be very far away from the village since even one kilometer away from it you still couldn't see a castle.
I can't see anyone guarding the front gate but I can smell a thick scent of dry blood and hear dirty laughter and sinister howling.I seem to have taken back the control of my body so I look at my hand. I still have trouble with the fact that one of my arms is missing but anyway, my arms are covered with snow-white fur and the fingers are longer and furrier than they should be. At the same time, they don't look like the one Roderick had when he transformed, they are thinner and the claws seem to be made to cut and not tear apart.
Maybe it is due to the fact that I am a Kitsune? Maybe the fox god lineage is messing with the curse a little? Anyway, there is no point dwelling on it too much. I feel that castle is related to the attack on the village, therefore I shall destroy it after having rescued everyone. …. Wait for me, mom, it may be the last thing I'll do but I'll save you and everyone else.