Chapter 1 - Gale Wolves (1)

When I opened my eyes, I was surprised to see that I was still alive, albeit my body aching all over. My head was still in a mess and my vision a bit blurry but I could see light coming through the slight opening of the elevator doors. Next to me were Armon and Lily who were also getting up. Surprisingly none of us were hurt, at least it seemed that way externally.

“Ah… w-what was that?” Armon said as he was leaned on the wall while holding his head.

“!”

I froze when I fully saw Armon’s figure with light shining on him. At first I thought it was just my blurry vision but now that they cleared up a bit, I can’t dismiss it anymore. He was a pretty big guy but what I’m seeing right now…

“Armon, did you get skinnier? Ah-?” The moment an unfamiliar voice came out of my mouth, I paused my question.

“K-ken? Why are you covering your mouth? What’s wrong, did you bit your tongue?” Lily got up too and looked in my direction.

“T-this can’t be… you’ve got to be kidding me!!!!” I scream as loud as I could, but the voice wasn’t mine.

“Ken, you… your voice…”

“Is exactly how I imagined Lux’s voice to be like!! It’s so beautiful, angelic even!” Lily’s face was all smiles now, even though we almost lost our life just a bit earlier.

“What!? That’s not the problem here! W-what is this!? What the heck!”

I’m honestly quite panicked right now. Armon and Lily might not be able to tell, but I can feel something is very wrong. I’ve never felt this sensation before, a feeling I’ve never felt around my chest and something seems to be missing, something very important to me. This uncomfortable sensation feels so off. I tried tugging at the wig on my head, but it didn’t budge at all.

“Did you super glue the wig onto me Lily!? What the f- Oww!” A sharp pain could be felt on my scalp as if I was pulling my real hair.

“This isn’t funny Lily, did you really glue it on Ken?”

“W-what are you talking about! I’d never do that to a friend! But… did you shrink Armon?”

“Wah?” Armon had a confused expression on his face before he realized that they were looking at each other eye to eye.

“Actually, talking about change… I don’t think it’s just his voice that changed. It’s kind of hard to tell because of the armor but his skin is even whiter than before, not just his hair and eyelashes that became white.” After taking a careful look at me, Lily pointed out some of the noticeable changes on me.

“Then, how come you didn’t change at all Lily?”

“Wait, Ken she did. It’s hard to tell but her hair is redder, well more of a light brown with red tinge… and… umm, well, her chest is… uh, bigger.” Armon’s face became red as he said the last part in more of a whisper.

“I… I didn’t know you were a pervert Armon.”

“I-I wasn’t looking or anything! I, what I meant to say was that I didn’t mean to look but… uh… isn’t it kind of an obvious change?”

“Ahaha, just kidding. But… now that you mention it, it is umm… bigger.”

The conversation took an awkward turn since Lily was the only girl and we are currently talking about boobs… it almost made me forget the weird feeling that I’m having, not. It kept on bothering me so I started taking off the armor.

“What are you doing Ken?” Armon asked when he saw it to try and change the topic.

“Umm, I don’t know. But there’s a weird feeling on my chest and the armor… feels heavy? Wait, these were made with plastic and coated with metallic spray and not actual steel, right Lily?”

“Yeah, I wouldn’t be able to actually make it with real metal. Still, it looks realistic doesn’t it, even though it’s just plastic. Hehe.” Again Lily praises herself, even at a time like this.

“Ungnh, gah. Huff, how do I take this off?”

“Ah, let me help… wait, did I really go into this much detail?” Lily stopped moving after taking a look at the breast armor.

“Something wrong?”

“Ah, yeah I know I added in these details but I never made it so that they’ll actually function… hold on. There… and there… andddd… this should do it.”

Along with a clank, the armor fell to the ground and I could feel weight being lifted off my body. I began stretching with my arms over my head, when I noticed that Lily’s eyes were glued onto my chest and her mouth wide open.

“Ahhh… oh, man that feels good. What is it Lily, why are you looking at me like that?”

“K-Ken… look down.”

“Eh? What are you on ab- Ahh! What the!”

Following both the gazes of Lily and Armon, I came to my chest. What I saw was something that almost made me faint, there were two bulges on my chest. It was petie compared to Lily’s but what I’m looking at can undoubtedly only be something that only a girl has.

“I hav-ve-ve… I-I have-ve… I, noooo!!!” My worst nightmare has become reality and now I fear that my little Johnny is with me no more.

“Ken… I… I’m…”

“Lily, let’s umm, give him… some time alone.”

Lily was about to say something but Armon cut in and took her outside with him, leaving me alone. Tears were running down my face right now as I steeled myself for a dangerous venture, to seek if my little Johnny has left me or not.

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“I-it’s not there… my son…” My soul shattered into a million pieces.

***

This is such an unexpected occurrence, but looking at Ken, I could tell that he took the heaviest blow. Thus, I promptly left with Lily to give him some grieving time. I am also shocked that all the muscles I worked so hard on now was gone. Believe or not, I used to be chubby but with Ken’s help I became who I am today.

“Why did we leave?” Lily asked with a confused expression.

“I know you wanted to say sorry but he just lost a best friend… he probably won’t even listen to what you’re going to say.”

“But, aren’t you his best friend?”

“Well, I guess it’s actually closer to a son?”

“Son?” Lily was still confused as to what I was trying to imply.

“Huff… nevermind. Just give him some time to come to terms with what just happened so far.”

“But… aren’t we all in the same situation?”

“Yes, but who had the biggest change happen to them? For you and me it’s not so bad, but him he’s stuck as something he’s been wanting to take off.”

“I know, and that’s why I wanted to apologize.”

“That can wait, don’t we have to check our surrounding? I mean it was just about night time when we were about to return to the hotel but look, the sun’s shining brightly above us right now. Not to mention we’re completely surrounded by a forest of sort.”

“You’re right. But is it alright to just leave Ken in the elevator like that?” Lily asked as she took a glance at our surrounding.

“Well, we haven't been attacked yet so it should be fine. Besides we’ll just take a quick look on our surrounding and come back here.”

“Alright. But let’s hurry back.”

“Yeah.” I nodded at her response as we walked off together.

I hope I didn’t sound scared to her, did I? Well, it doesn’t matter I need to have a look around to see if there’s something dangerous so that we’ll know if we should move away from here. Honestly, I never expected that reading all those manga and watching all those anime would prepare me for something like this. I’m still scared as fuck though…

As we walk, I could really tell the difference in body frame. My line of sight got shorter and my strides aren’t as far which almost made me trip a few time. I slowly got used to it but I’m still careful not to trip and hurt myself, that just spells bad news. The trees seem endless, yet somehow I feel like I know where exactly we are, it’s weird. I’m definitely not an outdoors person so this makes even less sense.

“Hey, Armon. I just realized that… well we all changed into the characters from my novel. Before you were a bit big for how I envisioned Rai to be but now, you’re a perfect reflection of him. Not too tall, slender but still having muscles. I think that’s not a wig anymore either.”

“Really? What is going on… it’s not like this is one of those fantasy stories… haha…”

“Haha… yeah I wrote about them but-”

“!” I heard a sudden sound not too far away and signaled for Lily to stop talking.

“What is it?” Lily whispered to me.

“I don’t know, but for some reason my senses seems to be really sharp. I heard quite a few footsteps ahead.” I also started whispering.

“Could it be people?”

“I doubt so, the sound is too soft, and has a weird rhythm to it unlike ours, it sounds like a four legged animal and a few of them… wait how did I know this” Random analysis just spewed from my mouth unconsciously.

“Armon… I think that’s them!”

I was still deep in thought about how I came to know that answer but Lily’s scream jolted me back to reality. In front of us were gigantic about the size of a small car, but their footsteps were as light as air as they ran towards us.

“Oh, fuck. Ran!!” Grabbing onto Lily I turned around and sprinted away as fast as I could.

It was a speed I did not expect and tripped a few times, just barely managing to balance myself before I would fall. This was a fruitless expenditure, in fact it could be considered a terrible one. Instead of finding something useful, we encountered giant grayish wolves with green eyes and patterns all over their body.

“Okay, this is definitely NOT Earth anymore!!”

BOOM.

Suddenly an explosion rang right next to us, barely missing by a few feet. I looked back and saw that the markings on the wolves were shining a brilliant green glow as the wind compresses into a dense ball of air that was launched right at us.

“Magic!? What the fuck, is this max difficulty level!? We don’t even know how to fight!”

Just as I said that I unconsciously drew the sword I had on my waist and slashed at the incoming Wind Bullet. The bullet split into two and shot off into different directions before exploding.

“W-what was that Armon?”

“...” I just stared quietly at what I had just done while keeping my feet on the move.

We were getting close to where Ken and the elevator was at but the wolves were still on our tails.

***

I had no idea where Armon and Lily went, since I’m still laying lifelessly on the elevator floor. That was until I heard an explosion from outside that jolted me back on my feet. When I looked out I could see my friends running for their lives with a small pack of gigantic wolves behind them. There was also a semi transparent greenish sphere flying my way too.

“Ken, careful!!!” Armon shouted but it was too late.

The sphere landed just in front of the elevator and blew up, sending the elevator into a crazy flipping ride. Finally landing with a loud thud, I landed on the anime merchandises on the floor.

“Oww.” I dizzily stood up while leaning against the wall.

Actually it was the outside wall of the elevator because I fell out as it was flipping in the air, almost hitting me when it had landed. Armon and Lily are helping me stay on my feet now, but we’re now surrounded by the six wolves that stood taller than us.

“You alright?”

“Yeah… somehow.”

“Woah!”

We each jumped a different direction to avoid collision with another exploding wind bullet. Using this chance, the wolves separate us with two wolves for each of us. With how big they were, it was hard to see where Armon and Lily were.

“Hey Ken! Don’t let their claws touch you, especially when it’s glowing green! They sliced through a few trees with those claws.” Armon shouted to me.

“Haha… how else can this day get any worse… I can’t say kill me either, since they’ll really do it.”

I was trembling, and it couldn’t be helped yet my senses seem to be on maximum alert. Suddenly the wolf in front of me lashed out at such an incredible speed that I could only see a blur. It was at this moment that my body moved on its own to avoid the attack and rolled myself to where my sword was at. It may not be a real weapon but it was better than anything else here. Unsheathing the sword, a white light seem to emit from the sword but I ignored it. With a kick, I lept towards the wolf, a move it did not anticipate and completely decapitated it horizontally.

“Wah…” I couldn’t comprehend what just happened.

I had cut through it as easily as a hot knife on butter. Seeing this the other wolf became enraged and rushed me. It moved like a powerful gust of wind, a gale even, completely uprooting nearby trees and mowed down the grass. My eyes went wide in surprise.

“How am I supposed to dodge this!?”

I didn’t even notice it but I had unconsciously whipped my leg up in a vertical kick, sending the wolf into the air before I swiftly disemboweled it. When I was done, the lightweight feeling I had disappeared and returned to normal. I looked over to Armon and Lily and saw that they also took care of their wolves. When our eyes met, I could tell that none of us understood what had just happened.

Auto Combat Ended. Please do survive your next fight without me.

A genderless voice resounded in my head, with just that one phrase and left. From this I got a vague idea on how I could move like that earlier. Though that question was answered, now a few dozen more have popped up.

“Did you guys hear that as well?” Lily gave a concerned look.

“Y-yeah.”

“By next fight… he, or well, it doesn’t mean right away right? As in this was just the trial or something and we have to do all of this next?”

“That… that might be it. In any case, we need to get out of here whether or not it happens.”

“Yeah, best safe than sorry.” Picking up the arm guard and and armor that I took off earlier I started putting them back on.

“Ah, let me help with that.”

“No, it’s fine. Let’s go.” Doing some last adjustment on the armor, I fixated my sword into its sheath back on my waist.

“Ah, o-okay.”

“Such a shame we wasted all that money on these stuff… haha… such as waste.” Armon said so as he looked back at all our anime merchandises that we placed back into the elevator.

With what that mysterious voice said stuck in our mind, we quickly departed from where we came to this world from.