Chapter 1- Its, Its,, Really cute.

It was a cold and winter night. There was a small quiet town, in the middle of the legendary mountains, varanas and elana. The streets were buzzing with people either talking about the latest gossip or riding their horses to some location. Even though the town was small, there was still a lot to do in it. It was a very religious town but they, for the most part was very lenient in terms of rules and what not, but they were very prejudice about things they didn't understand. In this small town was a young man called axel. He had just finished work with his boss yelling at him saying "u better not is late tomorrow or ill have your ass on a platter." "Sure if you could catch me u old bastard" he said to himself while putting on his coat. Axel worked at the local blacksmith in town, usually helping with the making of small weapons, his boss doing the heavier set not wanting axel to mess up. Axel was a very lean man, he was built but not to the point where it shown but just enough to make him look attractive to the opposite sex. He had light brown hair with black eyes. He was currently wearing a long black snow coat over him which had "black Smithsonian". As he was leaving he decides to go into the woods as the snow look quite beautiful covering the forest. As he was walking he thought he seen a bright blue light off to the east of him. He was curious and so he ventured off deeper into the forest towards the light. As he was walking towards the spot he thought was where he thought the light originated from the wind along with the snow started to harshly fall into the point to where axel had to squint he's eyes. His body told him to turn around but something in him told him to keep going and so he did. After he thought it couldn't get any worse the snow flared up to the point to where he was pushed backwards. He got back up slowly and pushed pass some thick bushes. When he got through the heavy and cold had stopped just as quickly as it had came and axel gave out a rather lost sigh as he walked into the edge of a big open field covered in snow. He was surprised as he had walked in the woods plenty of times and never has he seen this clearing of forest before. He shrugged it off as he saw a strange girl lying on a tree in the middle of the field. He bustled through the snow and was surprised as he got close to the girl.

Lying there in the bare snow was a beautiful woman with a purple robe on, along with other, very… odd features to say the least. She had black hair and thin whisker marks on her face. She had cute fox like ears resting on her head. The oddest thing about her was 9 black tails that moved slightly in the snow. Axel was quite dumbfounded as he just stood there and looked at her raw beauty. After several minutes of trying to wake her up he gave up, she was knocked out cold. He weighed his options of what to do, he could take her back to the town's hospital, which was a no cause people would have called her a demon and probably killed or tortured. So his only other option was to take her back to his house. He would not leave her alone and unconscious in the snow, he was not that kind of man; he was also not the type to take advantage of women in trouble, which was a pretty awesome trait to say the least for the main hero (cough). He took off his coat and covered her as it was dark and with his coat as now she would ultimately be hidden from wondering eyes in the night. He picked her up bridal style and carried her to his apartment on the edge of town. Luckily it was by the forest, so he didn't run into a lot of people.

He reached his apartment in peace and went inside after carefully juggling the strange girl while opening his door with his key. Axel's room was quite small as it was only made for 1 person, it had a desk, a small bed, a small kitchen and a medium sized bathroom, a dresser full of his clothes, and lastly a medium sized TV. He laid down the girl carefully into the bed and then sat down in his desk chair leaning into it with a sigh. After about 3 minutes of studying the girls sleeping form while now twirling a random pencil, he heard her stir. She sat up slowly as she rubbed her eyes and yawned slightly. She then noticed axel and nearly scream "what the hell a human, oh my he's looking straight at me" as she back up to the window that was near his bed. Axel put a finger to his mouth saying "shush, you are going to wake the neighbors miss" as he looked at her sternly. She complied with a nod as axel sighed for the second time in the past 5 minutes. "Ok do you have a name?" axel said as he wanted to find out what she was about and what she was. "My names… ahri, I am the daughter of graymandra, I was original a fox, I don't remember anything expect a man leaning next to a tree and then boom" after a pause she said "could u explain how I got turned into a human?" she asked quietly while looking at axel deeply. Ahri had always loved humans while she was still a fox, curious to how they looked so happy and cared for one other, and axel was no exception as she seized him up as he spoke. "I'm not sure Ahri, I just kind of found you lying in the snow with those clothes and u were unconscious in the snow" he said as he sheepishly scratched the back of his head. After seizing up axel, she then begins to explore her own body, right in front of axel. "Ahri please don't, not in front of me dam, go in the bathroom" he said covering his eyes and looking away with a slight blush. "Where's is the bathroom at axel," she said as she stopped exploring her body. He led her to the bathroom by the hand, to which he blushed while Ahri had looked at their hands touching. She walked into the bathroom and looked into the mirror. Wait a minute, she looked at herself and noticed everything was fine except, she still had fox like ears, and her jet black tails swaying lightly behind her. "I'm not even a full human… I'm a monster" she said as tears began to form.

(Meanwhile outside of the bathroom)

Axel was sitting back in his chair thinking about what he was going to do with the strange girl in the bathroom. He twirled a pencil and stopped as he heard crying coming from the bathroom. He went in and opened the door to find Ahri crying in the tub. "Hey what's wrong Ahri?" he said with genuine worry laced into his voice as he put his arms on his shoulders. He lifted her chin up and said "look at me Ahri and tell me what's wrong" as he looked into her crying eyes. "Im not even a full human axel, I always wanted to be human, and I'm not even close, I'm a monster, an ugly monster" she hiccupped as she finished and was surprised when axel hugged her tightly. "You're not ugly Ahri; in fact, I think you're the most beautiful woman I met in my whole life" he said shyly as he looked away as Ahri was looking at him intensely. "You're just saying that" she whimpered as she claimed down a bit. Axel looked at her sternly and said "you're the most beautiful woman I ever met and I would be lucky to have you as my girlfriend" he said but then thought about what he said and mentally slapped him. "Are you asking me to be your mate" she said with a hint of excitement. " Well, if you say yes, then it's a yes" he said quite confused.