Dust lay silent in a very quiet forest, unconscious and unaware of his surroundings. He slowly opened his eyes, and everything was in a blur. All he could see was a splash of green and white showering over his vision. All of a sudden, everything flashed into focus. He was caved in by pillars of trees, and fresh blades of grass stood tall and proud as the waterfall splashed with crystal clear, unspoiled, refreshing water. He d blinked and stood up as he brushed leftover grass from his body with his just discovered paws. He stood before the slowly rippling water, but something different looked back in his reflection. A blue jackal carried by dark legs, peppered with tattoos that matched that same color. It radiated an eerie, cyan aura as it stared. Dust realized; that weird jackal was HIM. He tried his best to swallow this, but something about it didn't feel right (Besides his whole body transforming). He cupped his paws and dipped them into the clear liquid.
He stared at his newly found paws as he felt the life of everything around him; every single living creature. He knew had something to do with the strange form he was possessing, but he didn't know what it meant. Where am I? When did I take a form such as this? Why am I even alive? Dust had so many questions, even more than when he had found out that he was the Legendary Sen-Mithirarin back in the Blackmore Mountains. But his questions were needed to be put at a hold, for he needed to find a way to get out of this forest. As he paced through the forest, he encountered the strangest of creatures. It was a variety from enormous bugs, to electric mice. He progressed further, encountering even more strange beings. But out of nowhere, a strange two headed beast stood before him. It was about the size of a dog, and had two heads that had some sort of black hair covering their eyes that followed down to their back. The rest of its body was blue, with two purple stripes going down at the sides. It stood on all fours, both heads yapping and roaring at him. That's when he heard those relieving words; "Dust...Arise!" A strange sword flew into his hand, Dust gripping onto it.
The beast roared with its twin heads and charged at them, Dust in his usual stance. He quickly stepped to the side and grabbed the beast by its left head, and threw it upwards. Before the beast had time to recuperate, Dust leaped up and slashed the beast right in the stomach, making it yelp. They both landed onto the ground, the beast groaning in pain from the strike. "Not as tough as you thought you were, huh?" Dust taunted the beast. It got up, and, began to form some sort of orb in its mouth. All of a sudden, a huge beam shot out of this eerie orb. Dust tried to dodge it, but his leg got caught in the blast. Dust examined the wound; it seemed to be fine, just severely bruised. Dust charged at the beast and kicked it right in the stomach, knocking it out. "That's enough…" Dust said, walking away. An opening of light caught Dust's eye, he made it out of the forest. He glanced at Ahrah, but then noticed that he was not the only one who changed. Ahrah had changed into a double-edged blade, with a golden rim at the blade and a golden guard and an eyeball in the center. It had a long, blue tail-like object at the end that held its sheath.
"Is something the matter, master?" Ahrah asked, blinking with his one eye. "The new looks take time getting used to, that's all. And do you know why were even in this form?" Dust asked. "We took these forms to blend in and so people won't question us." Ahrah replied, calmly. Dust nodded and made his way through the passage that held whatever was beyond the forest. Dust stared at the civilization of the many odd creatures, but they weren't all bugs and birds anymore. The variety was much more expanded, there were all very different, but Dust thought of it being easy to blend in, being a weird, blue jackal with black legs and a white coat with no sleeves attached to his body. The variety was now expanded to bugs and birds to dragons, lizards, dogs, cats, etc. And he could feel the life of it all, and he felt that this strange mystery was beginning to unfold. He walked through the civilization, noticing that everything got all quiet as a trio of bigger-looking creatures walked towards them.