Chapter 2: The Wings
The Ring Master stared at the stone mirror set in front of him, his fingers snaking around his ring as he fiddled with it as he watched the mirror. The mirror reflected Seto sleeping in his bed, though whatever he was dreaming was apparently a nightmare. A sneer twisted the Ring Masters lips, not nightmare was stopping him form making the transformation. He twisted his ring with a mighty jerk and watched as Seto began to flay violently, sweat accumulated at his Eyebrow. Satisfaction filled his face as a knock interrupted his thoughts.
"Enter," said Ring Master curtly.
A huge bulky man walked in with stump of a neck, button nose, and gorilla like arms, short stocky legs, and thick dark hair.
"It's the fox spirit sir. She's acting up again," said the man nervously.
"Tolea again? I thought I told you to keep her drugged!" hissed the Ring Master as he sent a threatening glare at the man.
The man jumped back in fear, sweat beaded his bushy brow.
"We do sir but it isn't working as well as it used to," answered the man.
"Do I have to do everything, you moron!!" hissed Ring Master. "Strengthen the dosage. She can be comatose for all I care! Just keep her under control, use her older brother and sister, Toby and Leanna, if you have to!"
"The werewolf and harpy?"
"That's a siren!"
"But sir what if they, I don't know bite me?"
The Ring Master slowly turned his head to the man, his patience clearly worn out as he furiously fiddled with his ring. The man backed away fear etched his face until he finally hit the back wall. The door instantly locked itself as the Ring master slowly stalked towards the man, his eyes glowed a deep crimson.
"They are less likely to bite you than I am," muttered Ring Master in his ear just before his jaws clamped down on the man's neck.
The man eyes opened with shock as a crimson aura surrounded him and Ring Master just moments before they sunk into his skull his skin turning into an ash gray. Within a few seconds he fell to the floor gray skin tightly stretched over his thick bones. Ring Master wiped a few flicks of blood next to his mouth before he fiddle with his ring again.
"Peridot!" snapped Ring Master to none in the room.
"Yes," came the distant voice of a woman.
"Tolea needs to be check up on, get Toby and Leanna to help you, strengthen her drug dosage."
"But sir!?"
"DO IT," snapped Ring Master to the voice before cutting off the conversation.
Later Elsewhere
Seto slowly opened his eyes as he sun struck his face, annoyed he thrusted his face into his pillow. What an awful night, Seto had been plagued by nightmares of carnivals and transformations. The good news was that his back was no longer itchy the back news was that it hurt. With a shake Seto finally got out of bed, he had an important meeting that afternoon about making a new game program for some game called Capsule Monsters anyway he couldn't be late. Seto slowly worked his way to the bathroom striping his clothes off as he went. (AN:// Ahh! Screaming fan girls in the ears! Ow!)
Seto looked at himself in the mirror a little in surprise, muscles rippled under his skin, but it wasn't so bad that he looked like he belonged to Dragon Ball Z they were just a bit more prominate than before. (AN:// QUIT SCREAMING IN MY EARS! POINTED EARS REMEMBER!!) But that's not what threw him off the most it was his hair and the small white little thing that barely poked out over his shoulders. Seto Kaiba's hair had defied normal hair growth and had tripled in length in a single night and now reached his shoulder blades touched some part of his body that was defiantly not there last night. Seto yanked back his hair and faced his back to the mirror looking over his shoulders. The lumps were still there but right in the center of both of them, no bigger than a sparrow were a pair of small white feathered wings. Seto reached back and lightly brushed his finger against it. He could feel through the wing as the feathers were pushed back. Panic instantly struck Seto.
"Calm down it's just a trick," murmured Seto as he grabbed one of the wings in his fist, "Yeah… there is no way that these are real."
Seto yanked at the wings only to yelp in pain, stumbling back a bit. Seto foot made contact with a bar of soap and before he knew it he slipped and slammed his head on the sinks edge. Seto clutched his head as he tried to rub away the pain. 'OW! IT'S REAL!' thought Seto as he realized the truth, 'There has to be something I can do to get rid of them!' Seto stomach churned at the most obvious thing, which was to cut it off. The thought was quickly abandoned as soon as it was thought up; it would be perfect for his hair but not the wings.
Seto sat there for a while but he couldn't think of any good ideas to get rid of the two new appendages. Finally frustrated and in a hurry Seto grabbed duck tape and a pair of scissors and began to snip at his hair. The bits tumbled down to the floor around his feet as he worked. When he was down Seto looked at his work in satisfaction, it was like his hair had never had the strange anomaly and the wings were safely duck taped to his back to solve later. Seto stared back at his reflection something had just flashed within his eyes. Seto jumped back in surprise as his hair instantly began to grow back only this time it was a good two inches longer.
"This is not good," muttered Seto to himself as his held his hair.
Seto smacked himself in the head. Now he was talking to himself!
To be continued…
Dragonelf 8:Thanks for the Reveiw they helped and to all those that read this story