prologue
After drinking more heavily than normal at my latest watering hole I made the mistake that seems to plague me the most. I decided that since I was feeling good and this amazingly hot chick kept looking my way and even sending drinks my way via that bartender. I figured what the heck why not see if I can get laid, how is this a mistake you might wonder? I was born with a rather unique "birth defect" genetically I am a man and a woman. I learned as a teen that it was easier to hide as a male after a few beating from guys that found out I had a cock regardless of having moderate sized tits and a pussy... and when I went with girls it was a problem when I expressed a curiosity about how it felt to be loved like a woman.
This time around I got one of those gender purist. Soon as she got me stripped and saw my tits that keep bound tight almost painfully so and my cock she went off on me about how wrong it is to change your body. I got dressed and left as fast as I could she called the cops as I left so now I'm going down back alleys and avoiding the cops as I try to get home, I know what happens if I get caught a beating and dropped in the pod where any others that decide they want to try to rape me will and I will get assault charges tacked on in turn, I think I have a mostly empty bottle of rum that I can take a few big gulps of and use as an alibi I just hope it works.
While I've been thinking about my life and how fucked up the world is I've just gotten to my door before I have a moment to panic that I may have left my keys behind. Patting myself down for my keys for the third time forcing myself to go slowly I find them under the cloth I use to bind my tits down. Unlocking the four locks on my door before entering and locking the door behind me and sighing goin to the kitchen to see if I have any rum left. Finding the bottle I was looking for and seeing it nearly empty I take it to the couch and sitting down taking a big sip before I start to breakdown... this makes it what the seventh time this month? fuck I need something stronger to numb myself with a higher proof or switch to something else? just as I'm about to laydown I heard the sound I was expecting. Loud banging followed by open up its the police!
Looking through the peephole in my door to make sure that its not some hoodlums planning to make my night worse... Fuck its James and Alicia. James is okay gay as a bag full of rainbows but Alicia was one of my high school bullies. Bang, Bang, Bang. Open up its the police! I start unlocking the door slowly one handed raising the bottle to my lips as I open the door slowly draining it and almost staggering. Are you okay John? James asked in alarm. I don't open the door all the way but enough for it to be obvious I was attempting to go to bed before they so elegantly demanded my attention. Yeah I'm okay just getting ready to go to bed James... how can I help?
We got a report about some one fitting your description breaking into some ones house while they where in the restroom; Alicia said smiling. I've been home trying to rot my liver I half lied glaring at her as I noticed her hand drifting to her taser like she wanted to use it. Now why would you want to do that? James asked in alarm picking up on my near suicidal mood. Sighing trying not to let a new round of tears start I responded honestly while glaring a at Alicia. James do you know anyone person who would love me as I am, would see me for more than a freak of nature? Oh that sounds like and admission of guilt to me. James arrest this dumb thing and we can finish our night on patrol. Alicia practically screeched.
Looking at James since he was the senior officer I asked do you really need to? hoping to hell he would buy my story so I could avoid a corrupt towns "justice" system. Do you have a therapist? James asked. no but I think I found a new bartender if that counts? after a moment of trying to figure out what he was on about. not quite. I could come by tomorrow and help you look for one if you like.... or I will need to take you to the emergency room for an evaluation. Okay I'll see you tomorrow James. I said knowing he was trying to help in his own way. what! Why?! Alicia yelled at James. taking that as my cue I gently closed my door locking all four locks before heading back to the couch. Forgetting I drained the bottle I tried to take another drink. Fuck! I yelled realizing there was no more in the house flopping over on the couch resigned to cry myself to sleep.
The next morning I woke up and thought I was in a park or something at least I had my pants on and a tank top on running my hands over my checks to see if my last shave took, I can grow a beard but it comes in patchy so I shave with a straight razor fairly often sadly there are days that my beard seems to have its own ideas how soon it should try to come back, fortunately I did not even feel any stubble today I could vaguely pass for you garden variety woman if I shortened my stride a little and added the slightest sway to my hips.
I should tell James about my sleep walking being that I have no clue where I am. Moving down a wide dirt path, maybe road would be more accurate, getting more and more uneasy as time went by till the path went through a gully. Almost the same time I realize I skipped my hangover considering how much I drank last night. I hear a heavy thud behind me followed by someone very close demanding my money or my life.
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Great I wake up lost and now some asshat wants to mug me growl making a strong haymaker right toward the source of the voice of the woman...with dog ears and tail? surprising both of us and bruising several of my knuckles on her jaw line. Hearing some thing metallic hit a stone I glance down real fast to see what looks like a five inch long medieval dagger, I lost it all the crap I have dealt with over the last month and some came bubbling up and I began beating this dog-woman like she owed me money.
She was better at defending herself than I was at hitting her but with a months worth the abuse and rage fueling me; I managed to power through her defense till she offered up the money she had stolen and the equipment if I let her go, I shit you not that was exactly how she worded it, being I was lost I told her to get me to civilization and she could keep half. Surprisingly she accepted. I was lead to a small cave nearby where everything had been stashed I kept a sword and round shield, a spear and some kind of leather armor and a bag the woman instead that contained 400 k valis. I am now worried that I am following a crazy person or maybe just maybe I woke up in a brand new world... how would that work? Maybe I could be myself for the first time ever without some one telling me I have to be male or female only.
After walking for what felt like forever we toped a hill and in the distance I saw a walled city with a tower that disappeared into the clouds. Where in the heck am I? I muttered the other woman looked at me like I was the crazy one now. You are three miles outside Orario the tower you see is The Tower of Babble you should probably tell the guards you wish to be a new citizen of Orario find your way to the guild and register as an adventurer and find yourself a familia...otherwise try to keep your head down good luck I think you may need it more than you want to admit. My mugger then guide turned around and hauled ass back the way we came. guess this is the best I could hope for with my luck.
By the time I made down to the gate there was a long line with guards checking the people entering the city asking to see papers or if they were adventurers or merchants and asking if they wished to be new citizens. when they finally got to me i told them that I wanted to be a new citizen they pulled me aside and wave a woman with real bunny ears over. Doing my best not to stare at her ears as she came over and introduced her self as a member of the guild and looking at my clothes as if they where oddly wrong for travel. When asking me why I wanted to become a citizen I told her that I thought I would have better opportunities to succeed in life as soon as the words were out of my mouth something on her wrist lit up scowling at me as if I was a naughty child she told me that at best that was a half truth and that if I wanted in to the city I had to be completely honest...
I broke down again, and told her how I woke up not knowing where I was or how I got there how my guide abandon me about three miles or so out side the city and how I turned a mugger into my guide and got my equipment and that I did not know how the money worked and that I had never heard of a valis as a currency that I would have to use. She was surprisingly understanding even helping me to understand which coins where worth how much and got my papers straightened out, however by the time I paid the fee of 1,000 valis for a six month citizen ship a guard came over wanting to know what was taking so long the lady from the guild said that I had my papers in order now but that she was going to take me to the main guild hall and that I was going to be further assisted from there when the guard looked like he was going to argue she got in his face and said.
No buts this is how it is going to happen understood? nodding the guard turned around and went back to his post while I followed the apparently scarry bunny lady into the city and to the main guild hall and to a counter much like you would see for a bank in an old western movie mixed with office cubicles right to the corner with a door where she was told to wait and someone would be out to assist her in find a Familia that should be a good fit for me. I want to say it was close to half an hour later be for another person came out she had fox ears and several tails with orange red hair and fur John right if you will follow me to one of the tables, soon as we were seated she waved over a member of the the staff and requested tea and snacks be brought out then introduced her self as Rubia.
Soon we had narrowed my possibilities down to an exploration Familia and if I could not get into on of those enter a job in a restaurant and wait for another deity to descend and try again, when I was informed that several exploration familias where holding public tests to find new recruits this afternoon and that sometime a deity would watch for what ever reason even if they were not publicly recruiting and scooping up particularly promising people for their own familias. I asked what this would entail hopping that it was something I could handle. Normally it is a fighters tournament but this time it has been sponsored as a mock battle if you choose to participate it will be a 100 vs. 100 grand battle.