A/N: Hello again and welcome to the second chapter of my story. First of all I would like to thank all who reviewed. You all win a cookie redeemable at any walbog. Anyways on to the disclaimer
""Speech
''Thought
"''"flashback voice of the Kitsune
Disclaimer I don't own Sould Calibur II, though I wish I did. The design for the armor and the sword that is named in this chapter are mine. Take them without permission and I shall flame thee to hell. Thank you for your understanding.
The sun shines down on the limp figure of Jay. The sun going through his eyelids pained him slightly. "Damn," Jay says slowly as he rolls onto his stomach, holding his head. He slowly opens his eyes and looks at the green grass beneath him. 'Wait a sec,' he thinks as he jumps looks around. He seemed to be in a large green field with a forest nearby. From the sunlight filtered through the tree leaves, he could see a small herd of deer watching him from behind the tree line. "Am I dead?" he wonders a loud as he looks down at his hands. Instead of his own smooth brown skin, he sees the jet-black scales from earlier. He quickly stands up to assess how far they had gone over him. It seemed that that had covered his entire body. He tries to touch his face, but instead brushes a mask of the scales. "What the hell is going on?" he asks no one as he continues to look over his body. The scales had formed what looked to be a form fitting armor. Down the right side of the armor, there were light blue scales that formed a fox from his shoulder all the way down to his calf. Down the left side, dark blue scales had arranged themselves in the shape of a roaring dragon from his shoulder to his calf. He then slowly began noticing things seemed to be sharper and clearer in his vision. He instinctively sniffs the air and notices several different scents. 'What is going on?' he thinks silently as he hears a twig snap.
He whips around and sniffs the air. From the scent, he could tell it was something cold-blooded. He could hear it hissing silently as it neared him. But what could it be. Suddenly, it stopped. The area around him became too silent. 'Something is about to go down,' he thought gravely as he stayed still and listened. A sharp twang comes from his left, followed by a whizzing sound. He instinctively jumps backwards and a second later, an arrow slices through the air he had just occupied. 'Some one is hunting me. But who?' His eyes begin to scan the tree line slowly and he tries to listen harder. Then he heard the sound of a drawstring being pulled back. His eyes instantly shift and zero in on the sound. 'There.' He runs towards the sound. Twang whizzz He steps to the left to evade another arrow, but continues forward. He was through the tree line and staring down his opponent. It was a large lizard creature in what seemed to be light armor which covered its chest and abdomen. It growls audibly as it looks at him. "You are good warrior. But I am hungry. You are now going to feed me," it says as it drops the bow and arrow and draws a short sword and a small shield. Jay's instincts quickly took over at the sound of the threat. "You dare," he says in a voice much cooler and confident than his own, "threaten me you insignificant beast. I will have to teach you a lesson." The lizard man lets out a roar and bounds towards him, sword raised high.
Jay sidesteps the lizard man's initial vertical slash. He then slams his knee into the lizard's unprotected neck and sends it stumbling back. "You should have never crossed the Kori Kitsune. Now you will die," Jay says as he moves toward the lizard. The lizard man tries vainly to stab him in the stomach, but Jay grabs the lizard's wrist, turns the blade around, and thrusts the short sword hilt deep into the monster's neck. As the lizard man fell dead at his feet, Jay steps back in shock. 'What was that? Did I do that?' he wonders as he bends down and looks closer at the beast he had just slain. As he moved closer, the beast let out a slow death rattle as the last of the air escaped its lungs. "Seems that I did," he says to the dead creature as his stomach growls loudly.
'Oh great, now I'm hungry. What am I going to eat?' he thinks as his gaze is drawn back to the dead lizard. "'Feast upon it.'" Jay turns around quickly and looks for the source of the voice. "Who said that? Who's out there?" he asks, keeping his voice even and calm. "'Feast upon the soul and flesh of your slain enemy.'" "What? How?" he asks aloud, still looking for the source of the voice. Suddenly, his hands were out of his control. They quickly pulled off and out all the armor and metal from the body. They then settle on the flank of the fallen beast. Jay watches with fascination as ice slowly begins to creep over the monster's body. As the ice covered it, the body itself began to shrink in size. Jay soon caught on to what was going on as he felt his energy begin to return to him and his stomach stops growling. It seems that his body was absorbing the lizard's. "How can this be happening?" Jay asks aloud, but no one answers. As soon as he finishes absorbing the body, he leans against a tree and looks at the spot where the lizard used to lay. Nothing remained. There was no blood or bones, only the metal that it had used to protect itself. "This is amazing. Now if only I had a weapon," he thinks aloud as he slowly closes his eyes.
Suddenly, a faint voice echoes in his mind, 'master..' 'Who is it?' he responds lightly. 'master…,' the faint voice calls again. 'It sounds so familiar, who could it be?' he wonders as he tries to connect with the voice. "'Icer'" The name flashes suddenly into his head. "My sword. My companion is so weak. He needs souls. Do not worry my friend I will come for you," he says aloud as he closes his eyes. His vision changes as soon as his eyes are fully closed. Mostly there is nothing but shadows, but a faint blue spot appears slightly in his view. 'There you are. I am coming my companion,' he thinks as he takes off in the direction of the spot.
A/N: Hope you liked it. R&R, flames will be given to the brother of the Kitsune. Take care till then.