Chapter 3
(Dante's pov)
So...yeah...a dark dimension...great...I cautiously walk through the endless darkness but to my surprise...I can through the darkness perfectly...of course things were seriously scary by the minute...dead corpses on the ground nothing but bones...made me sick to my stomach as advert my eyes from the corpses as the sounds of growls of a possible canine were nearby.
Thankfully I went in some sort of building that had some lights on as I closed the door behind me in case something tries to get me.
"So you came..." I heard a voice.
I looked around a bit as I see a man walking towards me. Wait...he looks like me...
"Who are you?" I ask him.
"I'm you. I am part of your conscious. I also hold some memories that are sealed in your mind that your real mother sealed away." He said as he stopped walking.
"Then maybe you can tell me what's going on. I-"
I was suddenly interrupted of the sudden growl by the door.
"What was that?" I asked as I cautiously look out the window.
"Your inner demon...it's been sealed in your body for many years and wants out. If it sees you, it'll try to take control over you. Fight it...if you want control over it. It's rather rude to start a conversation with an univited guest." He said as he walked away.
As he vanished, red eyes were leering through the window and what burst through the window was some sort of demon fox growling at me as I quickly grab a steel pipe.
"So...this is the boy...I wonder..."
"Wondering how to kill me?!" I shouted at him.
"Kill you? Nah...I'll make you submit to me as I wield the power from your body that I deserve." He smirked.
He lunges at me but I gave him a nasty blow to the head with the steel pipe. He staggers a bit and tries to lunge at me again only to get kicked in the head knocking him out. I started panting a bit as my conscious walks back with a surprised look.
(A/N: I'm against beating animals in real life so don't think I do this for a living in real life.)
"Huh...even in that form he still couldn't best you."
"Guess he didn't put much of a fight." I said as poked the fox with the pipe.
"No...it's mostly the effects of the seal in your body that weakened him. Still...weaken or not you could've been in trouble."
"No shit." I sighed as I stopped poking the fox.
The fox starts to vanish as it's essence enters in my body. I dropped the pipe and sighed in relief. But...
"Brace yourself." My conscious tells me.
As he said that, I was suddenly engulfed with blue flames and to my surprise...it didn't hurt. As the flames died down...I look at myself a bit and noticed some huge difference. As if my conscious read my mind, he gives me a mirror and as I see my reflection...I look awesome! I have black fox ears, yellow eyes, a black fox tail and I have sharp claws.
"Shiiiit...I never thought I look like this...but this is awesome."
"This is your true form. A form that you kept hidden for a long time. ...I want to show you something so I can make a little more sense of what I'm getting at."
The area starts to shift and shape into a similar scenery as the dimension I entered but I see a fortress as I see an army of anthromorphic armored foxes marching towards a fortress as I see one of the foxes riding on a giant fox and he looks pissed.
"Whoa...who's he?" I asked looking spooked of how intimidating that one fox is.
"That's your father. Tyrannus...he's the head member of your family. He's a very cruel man and the reason why you given birth..."
"Wait..." I said as everything freezed.
"What?" My conscious asks.
"What...did he do? ...don't tell me he..."
"I'm afraid so...he raped her in hoping to have a successor in his lineage." My conscious said with complete disgust.
I covered my face and I'm not going to lie...I felt like crying...my real mother was raped just so that I can be born...this is fucking sickening...
"It's a disgusting act...I know."
As I uncovered my face, I looked at the army again and everything starts resume again. The army then charged at the fortress weapons at the ready as some golems showed up to defend the fortress.
"TAKE THEM DOWN! NOW!" Tyrannus shouted.
"I'M ON HER!" One of the foxes shouted
I noticed one of the foxes aiming his crossbow at a fleeing woman holding a baby...a rather familar baby...
"She's unarmed...and running away...what the hell am I watching?"
"That was your human mother. Well...more like your witch of a mother. She was running from your father so that you did not fall to your father's hands while her guardians started buying her some time for your escape."
As one of the foxes fired his crossbow at my mother, she vanished along with me. This angered Tyrannus as the battle went on. The scenery changed to Jump City as my mother takes me to my foster parents...she must've known them before...
"That's when you're life began."
"Wait...I don't understand...I was 23 years old in Conneticut not 18." I looked at my conscious with confusion.
"Really? Are you sure? Cause from what I learned you're imagination triggered a illusion out of fox magic."
I immediately facepalmed...is that what really happened?
"So the smoke bomb was..."
"Disabled your illusion. I can't believe Ignis was so stupid enough to use the wrong bomb..."
"Ignis?"
"Your father's servant. Be careful. He is unpredictable and might get than you less expect it."
"Last question...do I have any siblings?"
"I'm not entirely sure. If you do, then you probably have full blooded anthromorphic fox demons."
We were soon back to the dimension as my conscious vanished...as I went back to my house, I hear my conscious' voice echo one last thing.
"If you ever want to change back to normal or to change forms, use your fox magic to change forms."
Fox magic...hmm...interesting...so I gave it a shot...and it works. What I had to do is I put some concentration and it would work.
"Awesome..." I said as looked at my reflection back to human.
This was going to be great...