Chapter 11: Star-Heart Days: Part 2: Wolf Woods
"Damian, are you heading out?" Wendy asked as she rushed out the front door
The said man turned back to see the young lady catch up to him "Uh yeah I'm heading to the mall to get some parts I needed." Damian stated then he noticed Wendy with her purse "Are you heading out as well Miss Mason?"
"Yes as a matter of fact I am I was heading to the mall like you." Wendy said walking up next to him
"Really" Damian exclaimed face getting a little heated
"Yes I was planning on doing some shopping; you don't mind me coming with you?"
"Uh, n-no not at all" Damian replied quickly
During the conversation high up in the wave roads were two figures were the two unsuspecting people. One was a male who had red eyes, sickly green skin and orange hair. He wore a white bodysuit and armor with two red diamonds on his chest a white helmet with an orange spike sticking out of it, on his right arm was a huge bulky gauntlet type arm that had a plus sign on it. The second person was the wearing the exact same thing except his bodysuit and helmet was black and the orange gauntlet was on left with a minus sign on it. The figure in black who was sitting on the waveroad stared at Damian and Wendy in curiosity
"Hey Gemini W"
"Yes Black"
"Wolf had beamed himself into that human right?" G. Black question
"Yes that's right" White stated simply
"Then why is he not transforming?" Black stated puzzled "He should have taken the host's will or made him succumb to the sadness and negativity in his heart by now."
Gemini W. thought for a moment before coming to a realization "I have two rough theories right now; 1) He's waiting for that man to move to a more populated area to cause havoc in hopes of drawing MegaGirl out."
Gemini B nodded understanding "Okay and what's your second theory?"
"That wolf by some miraculous way got subdued by his host will and is now trapped unless his power is fully awakened."
Gemini B. stared at the sky in wonder "What do you want to do?"
G. W. noticed that Damian and Wendy were starting to leave and smiled almost wickedly "Let's follow them and will wait and see which one of my theories is correct and if it is my second one then we'll…intervene."
And with that both EM beings pulsed out right behind the unsuspecting pair
-X-
Meanwhile back a New Time Square mall Geo, Sonia, Bud, and Zack were still competing along with a handful of other people to win the satellite telescope. Throughout the time though everyone started to get tired I mean how could they not they've been throwing for about 30 minutes. So the ref called for a 15 minute break to stretch, take a breather, and/or get some water and snacks provided by the event staff. Right now Geo and Sonia were sitting in the food court bench talking with Mega and Lyra while waiting for the break to be up.
"Kid I don't understand why you're doing this." Mega stated quizzically "Because it seems pretty impossible to hit a target 60 feet in the air."
"True…" Geo mused finishing her water "But look at it this way while it may seem tedious it's the prize that makes it worth it."
"And besides when it comes to these types of events they're never easy, there's always some sort of challenge." Sonia added "I remember three weeks back to an eating contest where you had to eat a set of bowls of ramen."
"That doesn't sound too bad." Lyra inquired
"Ah but here's the catch you had to keep eating for an entire hour if you couldn't do it you were disqualified." Sonia stated
Lyra wide eyed "Really wow, then I take back what I said."
"I'm not too familiar with human health and biology but I'm pretty sure that eating for an entire hour straight can't be good for you." Mega said
"It's not" Geo stated while eating a chocolate bar "That type of contest is mostly for…'heavyset' people and people with bottomless stomach."
"Like you" Sonia retorted
"Yeah like me" Geo said obliviously only to blush a deep shade of crimson when she realized what she answered to. Mega snickered while Sonia and Lyra giggled as Geo glared at her
"What? Deep down Geo you know that it's true." Sonia stated putting her hands up defensively
Geo narrowed her eyes and was about to make a retort until the whistle went off, everyone stared at the ref "The break is over all contestants please report back to the event stage!" he shouted
Geo sighed and looked back at Sonia "I'm gonna let that comment slide Sonia." Geo mused as she stood up and took Sonia's hand "Come on lets head back."
Sonia smiled and rolled her eyes playfully as she followed her girlfriend back to the event.
-X-
As the competition started back up again Damian and Wendy were currently at the Garden Store where Damian was finishing up getting the parts he needed to repair the gardening tool after paying for everything he walked out the store to an awaiting Wendy
"Well Ms. Mason I got all the parts I needed to fix the tools" he said while adjusting his bag "I hope didn't make you wait too long."
"Oh no, it was no trouble at all." Wendy said quickly
An awkward silence befell on both of them few several moments until Damian faced towards the entrance of the mall "Well seeing as how I have everything I need I guess I'll be leaving now I don't to keep you from your shopping."
Wolfe started to walk away until Wendy grabbed his hand suddenly his hand "Ahh Damian wait a minute."
The confused gardener looked back a Wendy who at the moment had suddenly become interested in looking at her feet "Is there something you need?" he asked
"Ah w-well I was hoping that-" her face flushed to deep crimson "That you would spend the day with me."
Damian got taken aback slightly at what she said as he tried to fight off a blush "Really I mean are you sure you don't mind."
Wendy nodded "Of course I don't I always enjoy your company you always seem to brighten my day whenever you're around."
Unable to fight down his red face any longer Damian nodded meekly "Well if it doesn't bother you I guess it won't be so bad."
Unfortunately it was at least for him, it started out when both of them headed out to a clothing store and Wendy had decided to try on some clothes which were fine for Damian at first, until they got to the changing booth. As soon Wendy had went inside to change Damian paled when he saw what was on the door. On the door had a moon insignia on the door and it wasn't just any moon but a full moon to which made him experience an even severe headache that he was already dealing with. His headache miraculously stopped when he felt something behind him; he looked behind himself and wide eyed at what he saw.
Behind him swaying around slowly in random directions was a wolf's tail. It didn't seem real in fact it didn't even look real it was actually bluish-green, kinda blocky, and had two black lines running circling around it but regardless it was still a tail. Desperate to hide it before anyone saw it he slapped his hands over the tail in an attempt to cover it and just in time to as Wendy was already coming out the changing booth. Once they were done in the clothing store much to Damian's delight they decided to go to a dessert shop to get a little snack which was fine for him
Until he realized that the dessert he was having were moon cakes and cookies
When he saw the treats he immediately started shifting around in his seat. Wendy took noticed to this and immediately asked if he was okay; not wanting to worry her Wolfe played it off acting like it was nothing to which fortunately was accepted and the subject was dropped. While they were eating Damian's body started to twitch slightly causing the said man to stop for a brief moment to acknowledge it but because he didn't feeling anything growing out of him…yet (A/N: Again ignore how wrong one of my sentences sounded it's my bad T.T;) he absentmindedly brushed it off. It then started up again but more violently and then suddenly Damian felt something on his head. Hesitantly he slowly moved one of his hands up to the top of his head and almost paled at what brushed against.
Small but noticeable perky wolf ears twitching
"Oh no" he whispered harshly "Not here"
"Damian"
The dark haired man looked at Wendy who had a quizzical look on her face "Is everything alright?"
"Yeah yep everything is fine." He answered quickly and somewhat sheepishly "My head was…uh…itching that's all."
His hand which was still over his head clamped down on it and started rubbing a little violently to emphasize what he just said; he slowly lifted his hand praying that it had disappeared sighed when he didn't feel anything. After they finished eating Damian decided on movies for their next activity and all in all despite the fact that Damian was sitting through a chick flick it went pretty well until guess what…he ran into trouble…again. You see thing about romantic movie is that 1 out of 10 of them are bound to have a scene that has the main couple have a tender moment under certain settings such as sunsets on the beach or on a pathway full of cherry blossom trees.
In this case it was nighttime on a balcony in front of a full moon. Damian wide eyed before growling lowly brandishing an irritated tick mark; at this point in time he wasn't even surprised anymore in fact he was starting to get annoyed by this
"You've GOT to be freaking kidding me right now." He thought clearly pissed off "Can't I get a break for 5 min- mphf"
He stopped mid rant and looked down at his mouth to find a white muzzle like mouth with tan colored fang teeth. Looking at Wendy for a quick moment who was at the moment was too busy tearing up at the touching scene he looked away and started struggling to hide this new feature for the remainder of the movie. As soon as he got it to disappear the movie was over and he was glad it was gone to because as soon as the movie ended Wendy turned to face Damian.
"Wasn't that a great movie Damian?" she asked
"Uh…yeah it was" Damian said hesitantly
"Which was your favorite part?"
"Uhh I don't really know." He admitted sheepishly; he was technically telling the truth though he had been so busy focusing on the stubborn wolf mouth he really couldn't watch the movie properly. Hearing this answer Wendy sighed
"Sorry I couldn't give you a better answer." Damian said shamefully
"That's okay I feel the same way"
"Um…what" Damian asked a little stupidly
"I agree with you the movie was just so beautiful there's really no best part to me." Wendy explained
"I…see"
"Well come on let's head to our next stop." Wendy said as she latched herself onto Damian's arm
As the pair walked away Gemini Spark Black and White were watching the whole scene as Black started growing somewhat disgusted by this "Wolf chose this man?" he stated mockingly amazed "How pathetic"
"Let's not worry about what type of host he chose and focus more on why he's not doing anything to his host." G. White said seriously
"Whatever" G. Black shrugged "But all-in-all from what I'm seeing it seems that your 2nd theory is correct."
"It would seem so"
"So what do you want to do?" G. Black asked his brother earning him a malevolent grin
-X-
"Geo are you okay you look a little uncomfortable." Bud asked
The said girl was clutching her stomach and was wiggling around real funny "Really shouldn't have drunk all that water during the break." Geo muttered as the feeling in her started to feel worse
"Geo what's wrong?" Sonia asked concerned
"Bathroom" Geo mused
Sonia, Bud and Zack looked at each other confused "What?" they all said at once
"BATHROOM" Geo screamed as she bolted for the nearest rest room plowing through anyone who was unfortunate enough to be in front of her "KEEP ME POSTED ON THE EVENT!" Geo screamed back to everyone
The people who were watching the scene could only stare in amazement at how a 10 year old girl could plow through a crowd of people like a human tank and in heels no less. Zack broken out of his stupor broke the silence
"Sonia I hope you don't take offence to this, but your girlfriend is well…a little interesting." He said slowly causing the ex-pop star to laugh sheepishly
"I know but in the end that's what I love her."
Back with Geo she sighed heavily in relief after relieving her bladder and was making her way back to the event grounds. As she was walking back Geo noticed a bright green light in the corner of her eye, she was a little blinded for a moment and was curious as to what happened
"Mega what do you suppose that was?" She asked
"I don't know but it's probably not important, best to just ignore it and head back to the event grounds."
Taking his advice Geo just shrugged off the now absent light. Just as she was about to start moving again a loud scream carried out throughout the whole mall causing to get Geo's full attention now
"Okay, now THAT is something I can't ignore." She thought before she started running towards where the scream had taken place.
-X-
Wendy was slowly backing up into a wall scared to death at what she was staring at in front of her; Damian Wolfe a kind and caring man who Wendy had secret feelings was now a transformed into a creature that stood in front of her towering over her menacingly. The being was a 10-foot hunched forward wolf like creature which consisted of a black body with green armor it had huge orange forearms with huge tan claws. The bottom half of his body was turned into green wolf hind legs with spiked knees. Damian's head took on the form of a wolf with a white muzzle and tan fangs. It had a silver collar with in the center of it was a wolf insignia. The wolf being glared down at Wendy with its blood red eyes while the said woman visibly paled
"D-Damian" she said barely above a whisper "Is that you?"
At that moment Geo had arrived where both Wendy and Damian was and went wide eyed at what she was seeing "What is that thing?"
Damian perked up as he sniffed the air and turned to face Geo while growling lowly, Geo gasped slightly as Damian lunged towards her claws stretched out.
-X-
Back down with Sonia, Bud, and Zack they along with the other contestants were currently looking at the upper levels of the mall; all of them had heard the scream from Wendy and were wondering where it came from
"What do you think happened?" Zack asked
As if to almost to answer his question a huge explosion had occurred from one of the upper levels. Flying out of the smoke and towards the ground was MegaGirl who made a cry of pain as she slammed into the ground writhing a bit in pain.
"Does that answer your question?" Sonia asked as they watched the scene unfolding in front of them
As MegaGirl moaned softly while getting up she snapped her eyes open when she heard the wolf being jump from a top floor towards her. MegaGirl jumped up and blasted Damian with her megabuster blinding him slightly she then jumped towards Damian and charged her fist with energy before punching him in the face sending him into a wall. MegaGirl breathed heavily as she looked at her opponent intently
"Okay like I said before what is that thing?"
"Kid I recognize that frequency now." Mega started "That being over there is Wolf and boy trust me when I say he's a handful."
"What do you mean?" MegaGirl asked
"Well he's…LOOK OUT"
MegaGirl snapped out of her distraction a little too late as she saw Wolf freed and already lunged towards her. MegaGirl closed her eyes ready for the attack only never to never to receive it. She opened her eyes slowly to see Wolf's claws inches from her face and slightly twitching and struggling. MegaGirl noticed a set of strings wrapped around its arm, she followed them to its source and immediately sighed
"Good timing" she praised
Sonia who was now transformed as HarpNote smiled warmly at that comment before looking at Wolf "Sorry pal but that cutie over there is off…" she pulled her strings strongly causing Wolf to fly over her head and slammed into the ground behind her "…limits
MegaGirl straightened herself a bit "Took you long enough"
HarpNote placed her hands behind her back and swung her hips from side to side playfully "Sorry I would've been here sooner but I got distracted by a pair of cute shoes in a store window not far from here." She joked "Maybe when we're done here I'll go back and get them."
MegaGirl couldn't help but giggle at that response, HarpNote smiled before looking at the crowd
"Hey everyone" she called out "There's about to be some serious fireworks here and I doubt any of you would want to stick around and see the explosions, so unless you want to get caught in the crossfires I suggest you ought to clear out!"
Taking the girls advice everyone ran to the nearest exit as fast as their legs could carry them. Soon the mall was practically a ghost town.
"Now that that's settled, who do we have to today?" HarpNote asked facing the down wolf like being
"That's Wolf" MegaGirl said as she walked up beside her "And if I had to register a guess he's an FM-ian am I right?"
"Yup and like I was saying before he's a bit wild so be on your guards." Mega said appearing next to MegaGirl
"Mega's right" Lyra stated as she appeared next to HarpNote "Wolf is not a pushover like Cygnus or Taurus make sure to be care…what?"
Geo and Sonia stared at Lyra wide eyed "You're agreeing with Mega for a second time?!" they said in unison
"I am?" Lyra blinked "Wow what is wrong with me today?" this earned a loud 'Hey' from Mega
"Well regardless lets be sure to give ol' wolfy a warm greeting." MegaGirl said taking out her saber
HarpNote nodded as she readied her guitar, both girls looked at the transformed being who was now at the moment getting up with intense eyes. The wolf being glared at the girls growling lowly
"Omega-Xis, Lyra" he snarled
"Hey look at that, dog breath can actually form sentence with real words than with unintelligent howls how cute." Mega joked causing all the girls to giggle while Wolf just growl even louder
"See you still haven't gotten rid of that poor sense of humor Omega-Xis." Wolf said
"And I see YOU'VE learned how to start charging into battle without common sense." Mega shot back "What happened you become a second Taurus now?"
"DON'T YOU DARE COMPARE ME TO THAT BEEF RIBS FM-IAN!" Wolf roared
"Geez…touchy" Mega muttered
"Let's just get straight to the point: hand over the damn key and maybe I'll go easy on you." Wolf negotiated
"Or how about this: you release whoever you're possessing and turn tail and run with your tail tucked between its legs or we'll whip it and you to every corner of the mall." MegaGirl suggested "It's two against one not very good odds Wolf."
"We'll see about that you brat." Wolf said readying his claws "And one more thing in this form you will refer to me as: Wolf Woods."
MegaGirl and HarpNote looked at each before at Wolf Woods before all three of them started walking around in a circle not taking their eyes off their opponent. Each opponent stood there waiting for their enemy to make the first move unaware of the three person audience looking down at them two of which were grinning malevolently while the third was staring with a worrying look in her eyes
Flashback:
Damian and Wendy had just finished spending the day with each other and was about to down to the ground level of the mall until Wendy had remembered something
"Ah Damian before we leave I have something for you." She said as she dug through one of her shopping bag
Damian watched her curiously as she pulled out a silver metal band with grace like markings and attached onto his left arm which fitted perfectly on him. He stared at it weirdly before looking back at Wendy
"Um what is this?" Damian asked politely
"Well you've always been a big help to me and my father around the garden not to mention taking your time out of your schedule to spend the day with me take I figured that this is a way to show you a token of my appreciation." Wendy explained as she examined it "Do you like it?"
Damian nodded "Yes I do thank you Wendy"
Wendy smiled as she picked up her bags and headed to the elevator "Well we best be getting home now huh Dam-"
"AAAGH"
Wendy turned around quickly to see Damian dropping all his bags clutching his head in pain screaming "Damian is everything all right?!" she asked
Instead of an answer Damian started glowing bright green before revealing his transformed stated. Wendy backed up from Damian slightly while the wolf being glared at her; it howled in anger before creeping up towards her while the terrified woman let out an ear piercing scream.
Flashback End
Wendy shook her head from that memory before looking down at the battle between MegaGirl, HarpNote, and Damian while clutching her chest "Damian…what's happened to you?" she mused
-X-
Back on the ground the battle between the three EM beings had started and was pretty much even. Wolf Woods had slashed his claws upwards towards MegaGirl who barely dodged it and had retaliated by blasting him in the chest causing him to stagger backwards. HarpNote took that chance to use her machine gun strings to tie him up while she summoned her two trademark pink stereos speakers and blasted her Shock Notes towards him. Wolf Woods saw the attack and jerk his body backward causing HarpNote to lose her grip on the guitar strings freeing him. Wolf Woods jumped over the Shock Notes and behind HarpNote, he then brought his claws downwards on her to which HarpNote stopped them with her Guitar. Before he could even use his second hand he was blindsided by an energy blast courtesy of MegaGirl.
Wolf Woods nimbly did a backflip to land on the wall properly before landing on the ground. He then howled loudly causing three dark beige-green wolves to appear and charge towards the girls. MegaGirl and HarpNote brought their sabers and slashed at the wolves destroying them not noticing Wolf Woods appearing behind MegaGirl delivering a harsh upper claw slash. MegaGirl was sent flying and crashed down painfully; HarpNote quickly rushed up to her partner.
"MegaGirl, are you okay?" HarpNote asked concerned
Said girl rubbed her head and nodded slightly "Yeah I think so."
Suddenly HarpNote went wide eyed on what MegaGirl had landed on "Uhh Geo"
"What?"
HarpNote bit her lip and pointed under her meekly; MegaGirl followed her finger to under her and almost instantly got a huge hitch in her breath. MegaGirl saw that what she crashed on top of had an antenna and small keyboard and monitor; she picked up the broken monitor with her now trembling hands
"The X5 Satellite, it's destroyed." She said her voice shaking while HarpNote put her hands on her shoulders
Wolf Woods rushed up to them and saw MegaGirl's weak state and just couldn't help but smirk "Aw what's wrong MegaGirl?" he called out "Did you break your 'wittle' toy?"
Wolf Woods then started letting out a huge boastful laugh that was immediately cut off by the sounds of MegaGirl's fist giving a loud impact of collision across Wolf Woods' face causing the poor being to be sent flying towards and through a wall. Everyone wide eyed while MegaGirl frowned as her armor took on a familiar black color. While that was happening everyone who saw what happened everyone was filled with mixed emotions
Mega and Lyra was shocked at what Geo had done
HarpNote jumped back slightly at the sudden attack
Wendy who was still watching the fight yelled out a brief shriek before looking away
Gemini White stood there wide eyed at the sudden assault
Gemini Black gave an overdramatic wince look while going 'ooh'
And MegaGirl was silently cracking her knuckles while seeing red or in her case purple
"Okay Wolf" she said darkly as her armor turned black "Let's play"
-X-
Up on the wave road the Gemini Spark brothers were looking down at the sudden turn of events. White kept an impassive face while Black gave a low whistle while watching the sudden change in MegaGirl's look and attitude as well as the severe beat down she was giving Wolf Woods
"Well this is an unexpected surprised, at the rate this is going Wolf won't last long." He stated
White didn't respond and just kept watching the battle with a somewhat disappointed look on her face
Flashback:
"G-Gemini is that you?!" Wolf said disbelieving staring at the twin EM being
Gemini sparks had beamed themselves into Damian unexpectedly while he was walking around; after treading around for a little bit they had found the wolf FM-ian incapacitated and really pissed off
"Hello Wolf how's it 'hanging'?" Gemini Black snickered
Wolf growled "What do you want?"
"Apparently here to help you with your predicament seeing as how you're all 'tied' up." Gemini White stated as he brought out an electrical blade from his gauntlet hand
Before Wolf could even ask anything both Gemini Sparks had sliced through all the bonds that were holding him up. Finally free Wolf rubbed his sore wrist while looking Gemini skeptically
"What's your angle Gemini?"
"What angle, do we need a reason to help out a fellow FM-ian?" White asked a little too innocently
Wolf narrowed his eyes but reluctantly shrugged "I…guess not"
"Besides we just want to get the Andromeda Key back and we can't do it without you." Black pointed out
"But what about your-"
"While we may have found someone to merge bodies with there's no doubt in our minds that we may have trouble beating her and that's without adding that traitorous Lyra to the equation." Black explained "Adding her in would just make our chances slimmer."
Wolf nodded slowly understanding their point, Gemini Sparks inwardly smirked and figured they ought to kiss up to him some more for their plan to work
"But you Wolf, if you went up against Omega-Xis and Lyra you'd have a better chance at beating them." White stated
Black smirked "Especially if we use your natural ability."
Flashback End:
Gemini White turned to face his twin arms folded "Black I think it's time we unlock Wolf's true potential."
Black grinned "Alright then let's do this."
-X-
Back on the battlefield HarpNote was currently watching the battle between MegaGirl and Wolf Woods…if you can even call it that though. HarpNote watched how MegaGirl was effortlessly and senselessly beating the wolf being around with no signs of a break or easing up on the brutality; Least to say she was downright scared. Lyra was no different she was plain shocked at how Geo the girl who helped her along with Sonia show her the errors of her way act this heartless towards Wolf; yeah they were enemies but that didn't mean she should be this brutal to them. While the two were having their own thoughts MegaGirl was firmly planting her foot hardly against Wolf's face making the FM-ian groan loudly in pain; she took out her buster and pointed it at Wolf Woods
"Okay Wolf I'm in a bad mood so I'm only gonna say this once." MegaGirl said darkly "Release whoever you're possessing and get the hell out of here or I'll blow your head off; you got till the count of three."
Despite the position as well as the condition he was in Wolf still remained prideful and merely scoffed at her causing MegaGirl to sigh
"Your choice: One…"
She lifted a finger
"Two…"
She raised a second finger while charging her buster: Wolf Woods' eyes widened in horror, Wendy covered her face fearing the worst and MegaGirl gave a trademark sadistic grin
"THREE!"
"MEGAGIRL"
MegaGirl stopped in her tracks from firing her buster and looked back at HarpNote who looked like she was on the verge of tears "Stop…please stop MegaGirl this isn't like you, you've already beaten him so there's no need for this. Please the girl I love wouldn't have become so heartless."
Just like before when Mega stopped her from killing Bud and Taurus Geo's armor turned to its natural blue color and her eyes returned to normal "Sonia…I"
Before she could even say anything Wolf Woods started trembling under MegaGirl...and not in a good way. He slowly got up and threw her off of him making MegaGirl slam into a column. As soon as she got up MegaGirl and HarpNote were shocked to see Wolf in his new state: his claws were bright yellow and all of his armor was either bloody red or orange. Wolf Woods started seeing red as he glared at the two girls; he bared his fangs roared out a menacing howl.
Gemini White saw Wolf's new stated and smirked devilishly
"Wolf's frenzy has finally begun."
End of Chapter
I'M BAAAAAACK and better than ever. After a long and gruesome 3+ month long wait I'm here with a new installment of MegaGirl Starforce. At lot of things kept me from this which was test, summer school, and not to mention my final year of camp to which my I add was very, very emotional *Sigh* anyhoo now that I'm back I can start working on my stories again as a matter of fact I have chapter 12 in progress right now and hope to upload it real soon. But for now I hoped this has satisfied you. As usual I hoped you enjoyed the chapter and until we meet again
See you next time ^.^