Xqulth: So…last chapter that is going up unless I get at least 2 reviews because this is ridiculous you cruel cruel people. I have to go back and read the chapters to make sure some of this makes any sense to the plot…what so ever. So I want 2 reviews! TWO! I know how many people at least LOOK at this story…oh there will be foot notes at the bottom of this chapter too…
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"I don't wanna go." Zoey whined slightly as we walked out of the dining hall.
"You pretty much have to now that Neferet knows about it AND she okayed it." Damien told her sadly.
"You can't say no to your mentor, especially if your mentor is the high priestess of Nyx." Stevie Rae added, with an equally sad tone.
I snorted, "Watch me." Clenching my jaw I realized that I had let my accent slip again.
"Yea, but your mentor was Dragon. He let you do whatever you wanted." Stevie Rae pointed out.
"Who's Dragon?" Zoey asked.
"Professor Dragon Lankford: fencing extraordinaire. You'll probably see him tomorrow eventually." I said, again accidently letting my accent slip when I said 'fencing extraordinaire'.
"Wait a minute," Zoey said, "If you're Scottish, why do you speak with an American accent?"
I sighed and stuffed my hands in my pockets, "When I got here, I used a lot of Japanese mixed into my English and my English was in a Scottish accent."
"It was pretty cool actually." Damien put in and I flashed him a small smile.
"Anyway, Aphrodite and the rest of the Hags from Hell started picking on me and making fun of my whole diction." I kicked off my flip-flops, "So I decided that I wasn't gonna let them get the best of me. So I learned to talk like this and beat them at their own game."
"But you used your accent before." Zoey pointed out and I shrugged,
"When I'm mad or any other extreme emotion, I have to focus on the accent and my form." I clamped my mouth shut when I realized my mistake.
"Form?" I froze and looked at Stevie Rae.
"Hey I'm gonna stay with you guys tonight."
" 'Kay." She said
"I'm gonna go get my stuff now." I said and ran down the hallway to my room. Changing into my sweatpants and cami, I pulled my dark brown hair into a pony tail and grabbed my pillow and blanket. As I passed my mini-fridge, I grabbed two cans of Mountain Dew. Barefoot, I made my way down to Stevie Rae and Zoey's room. When I got there, Z and Stevie Rae were sitting on their beds. I had let my form slip halfway when I got to near their room and Z was gawking at me.
"Hey, what took you so long?" Stevie Rae asked. I shrugged and threw my stuff on the floor, "You're freaking Z out."
"I know."
"Wha- How di-." Z gaped like a fish and I chuckled.
Grinning, I showed her my sharpened canines. My ears and tail twitched a bit as someone went running past their door. Yes, I did just say my tail twitched. Looking at Z, I plopped onto the floor, Indian style, and began my tale, "So about a year ago, my parents were getting shipped out of Japan. They worked in the military with new technology. When I was born, they were stationed in Okinawa(1). So anyway, we were at the airport with my brother, Obaachan-." Zoey gave me a weird look and I realized that she didn't know any Japanese. I gave her an apologetic look,
"Obaasan is 'grandmother' in Japanese and replacing the 'san' ending with 'chan' makes it more endearing. So I was at the airport and I go to get food from the McDonalds' and there's this guy that just keeps staring at me. I decided to ignore him. My brother and I get our food and we turn around to find the creepy guy standing there, he points at me, says something weird and the next thing I know, I'm sprawled on the floor. But I wasn't human; I was a fox. A little white fox. With a black-grey Mark.
"My brother freaks out and runs towards our parents and I manage to turn human again. Once I do, there's this woman standing in front of me. I've seen statues of Nyx and this wasn't her. She actually looked like a statue I had see of O-Inari-sama(2). I don't know if it means anything but yea.
"So my parents come over all calm like and there's a man standing behind them. They tell me that his name is Dragon Lankford and that they are sending me to Tulsa, Oklahoma with him to go to school at the house of night. When I got here, Dragon took me under his wing and became my mentor. You'll meet Dragon tomorrow, he teaches fencing, like I said. He's awesome. Just saying." I opened a can of Mountain Dew and took a drink.
"So why was your Mark blue earlier?" Zoey asked,
"The same reason why you see me without a tail and ears." I told her, taking another drink
"Why are you sleeping in here?"
"What is it with you and all these questions?" I asked her back.
"I don't know." She admitted.
"She has no roommate," Stevie Rae, "So sometimes she sleeps in here or with the Twins if they've been quiet." I had curled up under my blanket while she explained. Zoey got up and turned off the lights. That night (day) I fell into a dreamless sleep, which was incredibly odd for me. And for the first night (day) in a long time, I slept through the whole night.
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Xqulth: So I added a bit of Kitsune legend in it because I find it absolutely fascinating…and I have an unnatural love of foxes… anyway… and yes, I do know that foxes are more similar to dogs then they are cats but OH WELL!... REVIEW OR NO MORE CHAPTERS!
one of Japan's southern prefectures, and consists of hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over 1,000 km long, which extends southwest from Kyuushuu (the southwestern most of Japan's main four islands) to Taiwan. Okinawa's capital, Naha, is located in the southern part of the largest and most populous island, Okinawa Island, which is approximately half-way between Kyūshū and Taiwan.
the Japanese kami of fertility, rice, agriculture, foxes, industry and worldly success and one of the principal kami of Shinto. Represented as male, female, or androgynous, Inari is sometimes seen as a collective of three or five individual kami. Inari appears to have been worshipped since the founding of a shrine at Inari Mountain in 711 A.D., although some scholars believe that worship started in the late 5th century.
Worship of Inari spread across Japan in the Edo period, and by the 16th century Inari had become the patron of blacksmiths and the protector of warriors. Inari is a popular figure in both Shinto and Buddhist beliefs in Japan. More than one-third (32,000) of Shinto shrines in Japan are dedicate to Inari. Modern corporations, such as cosmetic company Shiseido, continue to revere Inari as a patron kami, with shrines atop their corporate headquarters.[1]Inari's foxes, or kitsune, are pure white and act as his/her messengers.
