A lone boy who looks like he is sixteen years old jumps up and down the branches of the inner regions ancient forest. Wearing beast pelts and sporting the aura of a king the boy repels the other beasts from approaching him. Moving to the core of the forest the boy stops at the boundaries and lets his aura flare up before entering.
Absolute silence greets the boy as he enters the core region of the forest. After traveling within it he pushes a long bush out of the way and finds a mesmerizing sight. A beautiful clear lake with vibrant colors reflecting off of it makes it look like a diamond covered lake. Lush herbs sit near the lake with energy practically oozing out of the earth. Curling up on the ground nearby is a white colored nine tailed fox with a different color on the tips of each tail.
The moment the boy who, from his childlike curiosity and excitement is obviously Graphus, enters the white tailed fox notices. It slowly gets up but then groans in pain lightly under its breath which Graphus hears quite clearly. In the six years of fighting the local beast kings and harnessing his strength within the inner regions Graphus's senses have reached an all time high and his energy is at the level of his beloved mentor so hearing something so close is quite easy for him.
Now sixteen years old Graphus has learned a lot in his stay within the beast forest and has come to challenge the core region's beasts in order to complete his climb to power but it seems not all is as it looks. Staring into the pained look on the fox's face he then looks around the fox until Graphus spots two twin tailed foxes of similar color to the fox before him hiding in a bush nearby. Looking back to the large fox he realizes it is the mother of the two foxes and promptly lowers his domineering aura to a trickle.
Walking closer to the mother fox he smiles gently at her and waves a bit of his aura to her. Her eyes widen before bowing slightly to Graphus before letting out another groan of pain. Reassured the fox knows who he is now per his energy he gets closer to her and touches her lightly then pulses her with energy.
Immediately he knows what is wrong with her and gives her a sad expression in return. Nature affinity is powerful but part of nature is death therefore the healing abilities of the affinity are restricted to healing normal wounds and diseases. The mother fox depleted too much energy giving birth and it seemed some old internal injuries within her from a past battle opened up when she gave birth. She is now on her last leg and there is nothing he can do about it.
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Seeing the sad expression on his face the mother fox understands. Placing a paw onto Graphus's forehead and closes her eyes as she begins transferring her life time knowledge and energy into Graphus. Knowing the process from before, Graphus opens his mind up to her and feels various affinities entering his soul. Strangely enough the nature affinity within him consumes these affinities and seems to grow larger within his soul in turn strengthening his soul. The knowledge she transferred was her lifetime knowledge of both her own species and how to control the elements.
“Guardian of Nature, it seems that spirits wished us to meet. If not, why else would the spirits listen to my plea for help? My children have yet to even grow into adults and do not have the power to protect themselves from greedy humans nor the vicious beasts that will wish to kill them for the energy within them. In return for the knowledge and power I have granted you, please safe guard my children.”
Before Graphus could respond the light within the mother fox's eyes faded out completely. Her body turned into ash just like Graphus's old mentor did. As she turned into ash two white tails appeared as symbols engraved onto his right palm. Burning slightly into his skin he felt a connection to two other foreign minds.
“Mother!” “Mommy!”
Two small foxes bounded over to where the ashes collected onto the ground. Huddling together and weeping little tears, Graphus feels his heart tear up a bit and he is reminded of his old mentor that much more as he stares at the ashes. Not realizing that tears were flowing down his cheeks rapidly he got closer to the little foxes and hugged them warmly. The foxes heads instinctively fell onto his chest, rubbing onto him affectionately as they felt the strength and familiarity in his warm hold.
Laughing lightly he rubs both their heads lightly and realizes both of them are girls as his connection to their foreign minds stabilizes as they instinctively accept him as their care taker. Looking up at him with their aqua blue eyes and swinging tails, a smile spreads onto his face as he points at each fox in turn and names them.
“Lem.” “Len.”
Speaking to them through their link they instantly nod each time he speaks a name to them. Hearing a growling noise come from them and himself he realizes that they are all hungry.
“Food!”