Chapter 4: Miles' Transformation

Night turned into day, and all the mythical creatures woke up. The two wolves, Gawain and Galahad, had gone out early to hunt and were out when Sonic and the others woke. Sonic noticed this, and shook his head with a smile, those two could eat enough for all of them! The king stood and walked out into the courtyard. Swift and Percival were out there already.

"How have you two been?" He asked.

Percival looked at him. "I've been fine; so is Swift."

Swift smiled and nodded. "I'm doing well," the teenage griffin said.

Sonic smiled. He nodded, and saw that the other knights were getting up as well. The king screeched to get their attention, and spoke. "Mordred has escaped his prison," he said. An immediate uproar answered Sonic, which he silenced with a single screech. "Enough," he said. "Mordred is coming to take his revenge, and we need to be ready."

Lancelot sighed. "What would you have us do, my King?"

"Find Miles and have him repair our armor. Also, Tails is now blind and deaf. I want everyone to treat him the same as he was before. Someone needs to guide him from now on. The blacksmith can do that." The others nodded, about to go about their duties, when Sonic remembered Tails' idea from yesterday. "Tails, you said that you can use vibration to sense things?"

Tails nodded. "I can use it to sense movement, but I will have to train myself to be able to pinpoint things exactly, I might even be able to fight again if I can learn to use vibrations to sense incoming attacks."

"That would be helpful," Sonic said. "Miles will be your guide. is that okay?"

"Of course."

Sonic nodded. He walked up to Miles and saw him. "May I speak to you?"

The two tailed fox nodded. "Of course my king, what do you need?"

"You know the Kyuubi, Tails, your doppelganger? He has become blind and deaf, and I would like you to be his guide."

Miles gasped, he hadn't known as he'd gotten back just then, having gone into town to get supplies for his forge. "Very well my king. I will do that."

Sonic smiled. "Thank you, Miles."

The Blacksmith nodded, the went to find Tails. The king followed him, and Miles saw the kitsune. He looked at Tails in pity and walked up to him.

Tails growled. "Who's there?" He asked.

Miles scolded himself, remembering that Tails couldn't see him. "It's me, Miles."

(The kitsune looked around. He whimpered, his hearing had faded overnight, and he couldn't hear anything. "I can't hear you!"

Miles' eyes widened in shock and he looked at the king. "My lord, he can't hear me! What do I do?"

Sonic shook his head sadly. "There's nothing you can do."

Miles sighed, then perked up as an idea came to him. "Can't you all speak to each other telepathically because you're mythical creatures? What if I become one?"

Sonic thought it over, then nodded. "That'll work," he said.

Miles bowed. "I will go and speak with Merlina then."

He walked away and saw Merlina. The sorceress looked at him and smiled.

"What do you want, Miles?" She asked.

"Could you give me a Mythical Creature form, Lady Merlina? I've been appointed as Tails's guide, but he can't hear me, if I can transform into a Mythical Creature, then I would be able to speak to him telepathically," He paused. "however, I will need to be able to transform back and forth, I'm the Blacksmith, and that means I need my hands."

"Of course. How about a kitsune like Tails?"

Miles nodded. "That sounds good."

Merlina smiled and cast the spell. Miles closed his eyes as the spell made contact, and waited for the transformation to begin. A few minutes later he had become a kitsune. But something was different...He was a female. Miles growled in shock, looking herself over before turning to Merlina, who was just as shock as she was. "What happened? Why am I female?!"

"I...I think it's because of the form you're in. Usually in folklore, Kitsunes are female."

"Then why didn't Tails become female?" Miles questioned mildly. Merlina didn't have an answer for that and sighed, deciding that her spell must have been flawed in someway.

"He does have a female form but doesn't use it that much," Merlina said. "Kitsunes can shapeshift, you know."

"They can?" Miles blinked. "I'm going to see if I can shapeshift back into a male then."

She closed her eyes and turned back to normal. When she opened them, she was shocked to see she was still female. Miles shrugged and became a kitsune again.

"I guess I'm stuck as a female then." She sighed and turned to leave when Merlina stopped her.

"Do you want to change your name or stick with Miles?"

The kitsune paused and looked back at her. "Miles is a male name, so why not?" She sat down and thought it over, tails twitching. She smiled as she thought of something. "What do you think of...Selim? It's Miles backward."

"That's a good name."

Selim smiled. "I think so too. Thank you, Merlina."

"You're welcome. What do you think about being a female?" The sorceress asked.

"It will take awhile to get used to, but it's interesting." She sighed and left.