A/N: This was an idea. Guess it will fit here.
This OC is based of the Dark Souls' boss Sif, which is a giant grey wolf that wields a sword. I've seen the lore behind it and it's probably the only boss in the entire game I do not want to kill, if I had the game that is.
It was late at night and darkness had long since replaced the light of the sun. The creatures of day have retired for the night and the prowlers of night have just begun to stir. The forest lit up once again, but only from the light of the moon.
Most creatures hide themselves from the dark because some aren't strong enough to defend themselves if a night creature came across them. This is true in a sense, but it's the darkness that scares them the most. The creatures that live in the night are considered oddities, outcasts at most to the other creatures.
To the night creatures, living their lives through the night shows superiority over the other creatures, who are too weak willed to live through the darkness. They instead see a sense of pride for their strong wills.
A small gray wolf walked across the forest floor, its paws trending on the grassy ground. It looked like a young pup, a month old at most. The wolf didn't looked scared at all, a strange thing since many pups like him would have been scared of the darkness.
A nearby rustling of a bush made it perk up his ears. He turned his head towards the disturbance and saw three more gray wolves emerge from the brush. Unlike the wolf, these were older wolves, adults.
"Hey, who's this runt?" the middle one said. "He doesn't look familiar."
"Cause he's not, where you from pup?" the one on the left asked. "The Legoars? Gwendlos?"
"Nowhere," the pup responded. "Don't belong to no pack."
"A packless wolf...how interesting." the one on the right mused.
"Well kid, even though you don't belong to a pack. You're still trespassing on our-hey! Where you going?!" the middle one shouted.
The pup had began to walk away from the three, not caring what they had to say and ignoring them entirely.
"Hey are you listening to me?!"
The pup stopped and turned around. "I'm sorry for 'trespassing' on your turf. I'm just passing through." he said before continuing to walk. He said this as if he said it many times before.
The middle wolf got in front of the pup and bent down to his level. "Look, kid. No foreigner just treads on this turf and expects not to be punished. It doesn't matter if it's an adult or a pup."
"Ok...but I'm still leaving." the pup walked around the wolf and continued on.
"Fyur, it's just a pup," the left wolf said as he walked up to him. "Just let him go."
Fyur glared back at the wolf and growled, causing the said wolf to back off a bit.
"You DARE mock me with your insolence, pup?! I will ensure your death will be slow and painful!"
The pup turned around and saw the older wolf charging him, teeth barred. He sidestepped left and avoided the initial leap towards him before turning to the enraged adult.
"This conflict is pointless-"
"You're pointless! You dare make a mockery of me by trespassing AND making me a fool of myself! Only your death will satisfy my RAGE!"
The pup ducked under a lunge and evaded the multiple swipes and attempt to bite him. "This needs not to go on further, just let me be."
"Never!" the adult shouted as he attempted to snap the pup in his jaws.
"Fine...it's your fault."
The pup's yellow eyes flashed blue momentarily, and then he started to grow. The pup's features turning to those of an adult, and grew to almost two times of what the adult wolf was, his teeth became extra sharp, muscles expanded, and his eyes became more wild. He almost touched the bottom branches of the trees above him.
The adult wolf looked up and started to back off. "W-what...what the..."
"So? Aren't you going to kill me?" the 'pup' asked, his voice several octaves deeper. "Isn't this what you wanted?"
"Um, l-let's talk this over-"
"No, no. I insist we settle it this way..."
The wolf turned to his companions. "Help me, dammit!"
The two hesitated as they looked between their leader and the former pup.
"My, my, a three against one? I find that not fair." he howled and a large, ornate broadsword embedded itself in the ground next to him. "So let's make it fair."
He gripped the blade in his teeth and flung it upward. He caught the hilt with his mouth and positioned it. "I'm waiting..."
The wolf growled and lunged at him. The pup jumped backwards and drove the sword into the ground in front of him, nearly impaling the adult wolf. The adult wolf tried to get into the pup's blind spot so he could attack him, but the pup was simply too fast for him to do that. If he tried to do anything, he ended up only getting stabbed or slashed at. At this rate he was bound to mess up.
As mess up he did.
He accidentally overcommitted on an attack and ended getting cleaved in half from the sword.
The pup watched as the adult wolf froze up from shock before dying. He simply sighed before turning to the two other wolves.
"Learn from this fool, and don't repeat his stupidity." he said before disappearing into the woods.
Some time has passed since the pup's run in with the wolves. He'd had already reverted back to his pup form and was exhausted, not from the 'battle' but from the transformation.
"Luckily, I don't tire myself out completely anymore," he said. "That's a plus."
He found a spot under some brush and made the spot comfortable before lying down.
He went to sleep in an instant his head touched the ground.
The pup hadn't slept for a few minutes when his ears perked up at something. Though he may be mentally old, he still had the curiosity of a pup. He got up and decided to investigate.
A quick search around the area came up with nothing, slightly irritating him. "Seriously, I got up for nothing? Lame."
He started to walk back to his spot when he started to feel extremely groggy. He was tired, but this was something else. He started to sway, his vision making the entire area around spin.
"Aw crap."
He fell to the ground and promptly blacked out.
The wolf slowly came to from his impromptu slumber. His body felt stiff, as if he didn't move in years. He slowly got to his feet and stretched, cracking the stiff bones.
"Ngggh, gah, what the hell was that?" he said, but then he noticed something. "Wait, does my voice sound lower? Am I in my adult form?"
He did a quick look over himself and saw that he was bigger, around the size of an adult wolf but not as large as his adult form. Hm, this is what I looked like when I was an adolescent. At least I don't look like a goddamn pup anymore, though I may look like a threat now, can't have everything.
He suddenly remembered what happened before he was put to sleep. "How long was I out? Felt like it was only a couple of minutes, but my body feels like it was an eternity." he said.
He took a quick look around and saw he was surrounded by stones and bricks. They were considerably withered, aged, and cracking, most likely from wear and tear. He could also see that nature had overtaken the place, grass and vines made themselves at home inside.
"Clearly not where I laid down," he noted. "I wonder where I am?"
He didn't even take two steps when his ears perked up. Not the only one here. I better tread lightly.
At the moment he noticed he wasn't alone, the wolf took a lower stance. He wanted to make a little noise as possible, and not risk a confrontation. However, if push comes to shove, he was willing to put up a fight.
Though he didn't expect the background to suddenly change and get slammed into a stone wall. "So glad my pain tolerance can handle that." he muttered as he picked himself up. "Now what-oh."
He looked up and saw he was facing a dark blue pega-no, uni-no...a unicorn with pegasus wings? Or was it a pegasus with a horn? Whatever it was, it was dressed in some kind of armor...and looked very angry.
"Who. Are. Thou?" it asked.
A/N: I kinda like where this story may go. Leave a review if you liked it.
Till next time,
-D.W