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Hello so before you start to read this, I want to apologise for my immense delay in releasing this chapter, so at the beginning, I just got distracted with video games, then I sorta forgot briefly and then struggled to write this XD and for some reason I couldn't think of what to do.
Again I do apologise and hope you lot can forgive me, I'll do my best to at least upload one chapter every Tuesday or Wednesday… anyway here's to the story and I hope you enjoy it, it's extra long as you can see from the word count. Hope it's ok :D
P.S. I know I do skip over some stuff as I said before I was not sure what to write so I decided to skip over some stuff and so I can actually release this chapter finally :/
This does not count towards the word count
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Once more Scott Grogally wakes up, this time to the sound of medical devices around him, as he is now within an unknown hospital room.
Looking around briefly seeing he has an IV in his arm, he decides to call out to a nurse for assistance.
Not long after calling for a nurse one pops up, leaning through the doorway, until his eyes lock onto Scott's.
"Ahh Mr Grimes, you're awake, it's good to see you up and healthy, it's been a couple of days since you were found in that unstable dungeon, you will be asked by some people what happened and how you got there soon, but first I think some people would love to see you. A kind smile appears on the nurse's face as he seems to call some people down.
A few seconds later, 3 people walk through the doors: Scott's mum, Dad, and younger sister.
They all rush to hug Scott, almost dog piling him on the bed.
Everyone is, or is close to, crying with joy.
As this happens, Scott briefly suffers from a headache. This headache brings memories to his head, of being kidnapped and forcefully sent into the unstable dungeon.
After wandering this dungeon he discovers a white fox trapped in a cage, freeing the fox they team up to get out of the dungeon.
The fox helps him become an awakened one to allow Scott to survive the miasma within the dungeon, also to give Scott a fighting chance against any monsters lurking within.
This white fox also provides Scott with a basic style for aura combat so Scott isn't completely useless along with the comment that he can't handle the stronger style just yet.
A bit later inside the dungeon the fox gives a contract to become his guardian spirit to assist the boy further and as a thank you for freeing it from the cage, hoping it can see the physical world someday with him.
{Pick 1 of the three styles present to help assert the memories and help yourself make an alibi}
{power combat } {speed combat} {counter combat}
{speed combat selected, you will be given a 1-star aura speed combat style along with training manuals to assist in becoming strong enough to use said style.}
{Please select the weapon you will be using along with the style}
{swords, spears, fists, legs, axes, exotic, guns, others }
{fists have been selected}
{fast fist has been granted}
{Remember you are not limited to just your hands, and you can buy additional styles in the shop at a later date}
An unknown gruff voice speaks" I apologise for ruining the family reunion. Still, we must understand how your son got into and survived that unstable gate as an unawakened, along with any detail about the dungeon if he knows any, I'll do my best to make this brief so you can get back to your family."
A man in a black suit stands in the doorway. He has dirty blond hair, a scar across his left eye, blue eyes, and a bulky build.
"Just to clarify I am from the Beru, also known as... P.g.g.a can you explain what happened to you Mr... Grimes?"
"Ye, mmm, I guess I'll start from the beginning, I was heading to work, right when I got into the city and off the bus, people in white clothing attacked me, covering their faces and bodies, it... It had a symbol on the chest, they.. They were an eye surrounded by flames."
"After that, I woke up in an unknown place tied up, It was dark so I couldn't really describe much, umm, it was damp and the ground was uneven, I think there was a metallic smell in the air."
"After a bit of time, a robed person came into the room and dragged me down a dimly lit corridor, I attempted to fight back but I think they were awakened so I couldn't do a lot."
"… they put me into some sort of ritual site, bones and the lot, a couple more robed people came into the room and began chanting something I couldn't understand and then a portal opened, before throwing me in, they also chucked some kind of white fox in with me and then the portal closed."
"This fox and I teamed up, the fox awakened me a bit into are journey."
"When we arrived in some sort of old city with ice statues and provided me with some kind of Krystal with red liquid inside, when I broke the Krystal I was taught some basic aura combat and I apparently agreed to some sort of contract with the fox, then I was knocked out and I woke up here."
"Is that everything?"
"Unmm, there was some kind of mannequin monster chasing us until we hit a forest, a small way out from the old city… oh and the city was in some sort of winter state but only the city." Scott is slightly pale from recalling the memories.
"Do you know where this so-called white fox is now?"
"I… I think it's somewhere here?, like I think I can feel its presence nearby."
"Can you describe where you are feeling its presence to me?"
A small amount of thinking later
Scott points to his chest "Some were here-ish I think."
"Interesting, it seems that the white fox was a magic beast or spirit beast, if what you say is true, then you now have a useful asset that will serve you for your entire life, well that is if you can get along with one another."
"Spirit and magical beasts are beneficial as you've experienced yourself, but if you bond with one and you don't mix well, it has been known for the beast to attack the person it's bound to, and if it's successful in killing them, it gains a massive boost in power and sometime evolves or can go into a frenzy going for anything in sight."
"So, to make sure that doesn't happen we will be providing you with beast master training when you get to the academy."
"Right if you didn't know, any time someone becomes awakened they are sent to the academy, this is to understand the powers they will develop and see if they want to go down the path of an awakened hunter also known as a hero or assist with their newly gained ability somewhere else and go back to a semi-normal life."
"Thank you for your time, Mr Grimes, I hope your recovery goes well. I need to go and report what you said to my higher-ups."
Then the man leaves.
Some time passes
After being declared healthy by the hospital Scott and his family leave for home.
Spending time with his family for the day Scott eventually gets a quest.
{ quest: prepare for the first transformation}
{learn when the full moon arrives. This is because every full moon you will be forced into the Polemos form until the sun rises, you hit 0hp or certain conditions are met}
{Reward for preparing will be 5 coins, the shop function and the map function.}
Scott quickly scavenges for his phone, eventually finding it in one of his drawers. He looks up the lunar cycle and finds out that the full moon is tonight.
He grabs anything he can think of and looks for a place where he can shift without hurting people, seeing on the maps app that there is a forest within the city districts and it is "close" by if you go by train.
"Hey Dad, my spirit beast or whatever it's called wants to go and explore, it mainly wants to go to a forest, and I don't really want to say no to its first request, so I'm going to be leaving in like 2 minutes.
I have everything I need and I'll be back tomorrow at some point, I'll text you or mum when I'm on the journey and we're I'll keep you updated and so you know I'm safe. Bye."
"Wait what?"
After a bit of time
After getting off the train I rush to the forest, doing my best to look as casual as possible.
Thankfully I get to my spot without issue so I quickly double-check my backpack.
"Fresh clothes, check."
"Phone, check."
Breakfast, check."
"Toothbrush, check."
"Water, check."
"Ok so I have everything, sooo, I guess I'll just wait until I feel something."
A small time skip later
"Unit commander, we're close to the site, and the readings are stable, no anomaly or changes have accrued."
"Understood, let's roll out."
The squad of four walks through the forest, searching for the escaped monster. They wear tactical gear with built-in armour made from monster parts, and their weapons vary, seemingly cold weapons like swords or axes.
But all carry a small knife, for close combat or as a backup weapon if it ever comes to that.
Two have bows while the one at the back has a small sidearm.
The last member(the small peacekeeper carrier) seems to have a unique GoPro or similar camera.
"Sup chat, so I know I said I'd do a dungeon delve for my next stream, and I still plan to but a sudden monster appears near the city forest, thankfully it's at best a rank 18, so it should be an easy mission for us." While he's talking he is staying vigilant.
If you were to see this person's stream it has around 500 views.
"Something has been here, there be tracks in these woods."
"Looks like it either got someone or it's a shape-shifter or changer like monster, might need to swap to silver weapons."
"Great, I hate using silver weapons they're horrible to maintain."
Following the tracks the squad head deeper into the forest.
After walking around for 10 minutes.
The leader's hand shot towards the side of his head and formed a fist.
The leader then points to the right, where if you had enhanced hearing you'd hear faint sounds of flesh tearing.
The leader puts their hand between their shoulder and waist with their palm outward and motions their hand away from their body repeatedly.
After this, the hand signs changed to end with extending their arm to the right.
The 3 other members start to spread out and head towards the right.
In a small opening, you can see a creature
Hunched over a deer corpse.
3rd squad member" flashbang out" they whisper into a radio.
The creature turns to the 3rd member, blood and flesh clinging to its maw.
Then a bright light bursts forth.
Two dimly glowing arrows from different directions pierce through the air and into the hide of the werewolf, digging in.
The leader then charges in with a dimly glowing axe aiming for the werewolf's head.
The axe coming down suddenly changes direction as a frantic claw smashes into the axe head's side putting the leader off balance for half a second.
The werewolf is still blind however and is unable to take the easy opportunity that just showed itself.
Attempting to listen to its surroundings, the werewolf's ears move and shift but the ringing persists, so instead, it swings its claws in as many directions as possible.
The squad once more attacked, with arrows, and axes, while the 3rd member was waiting to throw another flash bang.
With the werewolf's mad flailing, the leader is unable to land a killing blow instead leaving deep cuts along with arrows riddling its hide.
The werewolf slowly regains its hearing, the ringing persists but is reduced enough for it to hear the notching of an arrow.
Hearing this it leaps in the direction of the sound smashing into a tree trunk with its shoulder, then jumping up slashing wildly above it.
A scream is heard as one of the squad members' legs has been pierced by the werewolf's claws, flesh hanging lowly from the bone from a single swipe, seeming no armour surrounds the legs.
The werewolf's other claw reaches further up towards the scream, as it gets a hairs breadth from the squad member's face, an arrow beds itself in the back of the werewolf's hand, changing the direction just enough for the squad member to get out of the way with only a scar across the face and flexing the wolf's claw to get imbedded into the tree.
The squad member rolled off the branch they were on heading towards the ground, trying to stab the werewolf with the backup knife before hitting the ground, sadly the force behind it was not enough to harm the werewolf.
The member slams onto their side, wobbling up, getting to their feet they start limping in the direction towards their leader and away from the werewolf, as the wolf lands on the ground with a heavy thud.
The werewolf hearing the retreating prey it lunged in the direction, only to be hit in the
cervical spine with an axe head, cutting deep, but not deep enough to sever.
The wolf is sent directly into the ground, the werewolf slams its claws together trying to hit something, and its claws get a new coat of red.
Tearing through the lower half of the leader
His whole body now becomes a two-piece, an arrow hits the wolf in the side of the face before it can get up, and it stops moving.
"SHAWN!"
"Leader…"
The other members stay silent looking at their fallen leader, the moon shining brightly on their corpses.
One of the members slowly heads toward the top half of their leader, picking up his dog tags from around his neck as a rapid beeping can be heard just after.
One of the members takes out a device before saying.
" IT WASN'T ALONE, WE NEED TO LEAVE NOW!"
{emergency transformation enabled}
{the d+# joyful fox has taken control of the host}
{joyful fox has enhanced the werewolf to the max, temporarily becoming a white moon lycan}
{joyful fox has changed the werewolf making them become a frozen lycan}
{gain the rune of the survivor}
{temporary title acquired immortal moon lycan}
{gained temporary skills moon step, spirit sight, spirit contract, rune path, immortal's healing ability, moonlights chosen}
{gained access to joyful fox's unique magic demons bane black ice}
As they turn to leave, what they don't see is that the "dead" werewolf's back starts to stretch, its skin, flexes and bends, blood slowly pools underneath its body as it tears apart revealing a blood-coated white fur as it starts to grow in size.
Not long after a giant red stained white werewolf stands at 13ft/ 4m tall, it has black frozen claws, and its white fur ends with black ice covering the tips. Its back has an unknown tribal tattoo embedded onto it, a faint glow of power emanating from it briefly before fading out of sight.
As it stands there looking at its surroundings, it seems to almost fade in and out of the moonrays when hit.
Looking through its eyes we can see what looks like wisps with different kinds of colours, floating around the area.
One of the most energetic ones is a light green colour floating around the white wolf seemingly trying to grab its attention.
A grey coloured one above the rest just watching everything unfold, a red one brightly burning the weaker one around itself.
Looking around the white wolf finally pointed towards the green wisp, hearing a high-pitched voice "She picked me, she picked me!"
Right after looking in a certain direction, leaning forwards slightly its claws tear up the earth, dirt is flung back before the werewolf dashes, turning into moonlight.
The white werewolf seems to materialise in front of member 4, with their quick response time they pull out their sidearm and unload into the wolf… only for the bullet to drop down for its skin, the wolf unharmed.
The squad member's head comes clean off with a single slash of its claws before moving to member 3 doing the same thing.
Member 2, the last one standing freezes in horror as this towering monster stands over them.
The once white wolf now stained in even more blood lifts the last member with one hand and throws them up into the tree.
The member clings to the tree like it stands a chance of saving their life, and stares at the monster.
Its claws start to glow a light green.
"H-how can a stupid werewolf use magic?" Disbelief costs their voice.
GoPro camea thing pov
The tree the camera is looking at violently shakes as large chunks of the tree fall with a loud thud.
The lower half of the body falls first, then a part of the torso falls next, and finally the rest falls with a wet slap to the ground.
A heavy step can be heard behind the camera, before being roughly picked up.
Going into the sky the camera is soon met with a maw of teeth, before being pulled back, with black sclera and icy white eyes that seemly have a black shine on the edges blending the sclera and eyes.
A clear starry night and the full moon behind them, causing the parts of the werewolf to disappear and reappear.
A deep but slightly feminine voice, the voice comes out with an almost friendly warm tone through its rough exterior.
" A lovely night we had here, I'd love to stay and have a wonderful chat with you all, but I came with a message instead."
The voice once filled with warmth and friendliness becomes devoid of said emotion it once had.
"You see me now. What I am, what we're capable of."
"You hunted our kind in your ignorance."
"For Decades you hunted shadows and spilled innocent and not-so-innocent blood, believing us to be nothing more than mindless beasts, salivating horrors fit only for silver sword or bullet. Like always, your assumptions are both arrogant and catastrophically mistaken."
"Listen children of the moon, followers of the old gods of the wild, they slaughter my children without reason or remorse, we are not mindless dogs maddened by hunger.
We are the protectors of the wilds, protectors of nature, the guardians of the spirits and Mother Earth.
Humankind's civilisation currently only seeks to consume the sacred wildness and infect our ancient spirits. They have forgotten and failed their stewardship, we will enforce ours."
"Now humanity, listen to this personal, irrevocable vow from the frozen Queen: Let this be understood across every village and every hunting guild."
"There will be no warning shot. We will hunt whoever dares to harm Nature and her children. Those who pollute the sacred springs, those who slay the last of the ancient groves— we will hunt them to extinction."
"For my personal kin: I will mark and hunt whoever dares harm my children without just cause and or proof of malice. I will track you wherever you go, even if it's in hell, I'll make sure every earth spirit will never forget your fear and the dirt itself carries the scent of terror."
"I will claim that which you hold dearest with the effectiveness of the white salvation that once purged the corrupted planets aeons ago."
"If you continue to hunt my children the only peace you will find in the wild will be when my paw rattles your final breath from your body. Know this, it will not be swift like your pitiful quote hunts, it will be slow, agonising and absolute."
"You may hunt the mindless, the hide stealers and the maddened, but not the others."
"The hunt will change soon as our patience has run out, now feel my divinity, hear my call, and come forth and save this planet from its destruction."
The camera shakes violently once more as what seems to be a miniature moon appears behind the white wolf, before bursting, an intense blast of moonlight spreads across the world, then the camera drops, the white wolf slowly disappearing in the moonlight, falling to the ground and smashing ending the stream.
A Howl can be heard soon after seeming to shake the planet slightly.
The white wolf's divinity destroys certain places, filling others up, and providing power-ups to select werewolves, and some, linger in the air, waiting to pick a wolf or something worthy of its grace or knowledge.
Appearing before the hidden backpack the white werewolf starts to cackle as it enjoys the idea that it just gave the world higher-ups one hell of a headache.
After it starts to calm down to a smirk, it has fulfilled a promise to an old friend, and it provides a way for the werewolf to grow even further and pass on its knowledge of forgotten techniques and abilities they once had.
The white wolf collapses to the ground and rapidly shrinks turning back into Scott.