It was a nice sunny day, or a morning, or an afternoon, one of those, Grizzly didn't really care about time. It wasn't dark and it wasn't cold. He was walking along one of those runny water thingies looking for some of those wet flappy thingies that you kill with your mouth to be less hungry. He always wondered how the wet flappy thingies moved around in the runny water thingy, he could only kind of walk through it but it was like someone was hitting hin ankles to get him to slip and fall. It was truly rude, he thought. He didn't care for rudeness. The bite-to-less-hungry thingies were also rude when they didn't let him bite them. So much rudeness.

"Yup, I knew it" He said, walking into the runny watery thingy, getting hit on the legs to be prone to fall as expected. "Rude water" he thought. No slippery bite things either, where could they be? That was were they usually hung out being long and colorful and delicious and yummy, were they being those things in a different place? It didn't smell like they were there. Oh! Wait! There is oe of those flappy eat stuff there! It is on the hard rough thingie, the thingies that were all over the tree place, he never noticied that the water places also had those gray, stiff, rough, hard thingies too! Neat!

"Well, if the finny delicious wet things could be on the dry hard things, it's simply rude that they insist on being in the wet!" thought Grizzly. He noticed the little wet long thingy was not flapping, they always flapped, it was their thing. In fact, more than not flapping it was doing something else: being red in the middle and split in half. He didn't know they could do that either, they just dissapeared as soon as they were in his mouth and flapping around, maybe they were doing all that red-being and half-being afterwards. Grizzly realized they had far more potential than he previously imagined. He wasn´t any good at imagining but he didn't know that. He bit the almost half swim-thing and put it in his mouth to dissappear. But he did not feel less hungry when he bit down, in fact, the thingy was still there being all scaly and dead and nasty. He decided to put it into the outside, where the inside of his mouth wasn't.

"Why would you taste like that, thing? You taste like you most of the time and that is good because putting you in mouth maes me better all over, but now I do not even want to do the mouth thing to you!" He growled "Bad! Bad, I say!" he continued.

The taste of the dead bad wet slippery thing was different from all the things but it was quite similar to the smell he had been smelling for quite some time now. He turned to were the falling water thingy became the runny ater thingy after hitting more of the hard rough gray things. There was something else there: A flipped over futuristic car drenched in its own gasoline.

To Grizzly, it was a very strange other dead bear with a massive smell of "do not do the mouth thing on this". Maybe that was what made the fish die or making them taste like that red-being one did.

Inside the thing that was strange and dead and car-smelling, there was one of those person things, the kind that made that awful noise and that he had to maul down when they came to the tree place with things that gave off a "do the mouth thing" smell with them or when their female person-things were giving "come make bears" aroma, which less classy bears reffered to as the "come have the feeling that is good" stench. But Grizzly didn't call it that, it was rude.

But the person things never had a bad taste. That one looked to be asleep inside of the big broken thing, he could see it breathing through the air that is hard and can break things that let you see inside the car-beings. Grizzly was hungry so he walked over to the vehicle, finding more scale things that insisted of now being dead and ugly. "Real mature, guys" he thought.

He put a claw against the invisible hard thing, but that made it shatter with an awful noise and put a lot of stabby cristal things that got lost in his very pretty fur and did not stab him to make him feel bad pain. The person inside woke up, like its eyelids were heavy. It as not a female person-thing he was about yes percent sure about that. It had a big furr on the face above the nose and under the nose (it was upside down, he didn't understand that). It had the weird skins that they put over their skins, but these skins looked different, a bit like the skins of the scale-snacks, it was shiny skin-fabric with more shiny parts that glimmered on the sun that was there on the up, because, again, it was maybe the day or afternoon or morning, so the sun was being there.

The person thing then opened its mouth very wide and let out noise. It seemingly pinched the car-thing he was on and he fell on his head. He saw Grizzly and was maybe happy about it, he had a lot of energy as he looked around the vehicle looking for a gun. They were very naked, you could just see their skin which was very gross but also very yummy looking.

"Hey, friend, I am hungry so don't be rude and be food, that okay?" Grizzly asked politely, forgetting that people things are waaaay to stupid to know how to talk. It instead put his small-paw on his chest-part and the skin-skin made light, and when it saw the light, it made weird noises that weren't words.

"Spire! Come in, Spire! Code-72, I repeat, code-72! Spire! Spire! Do you copy? This is special class Monteneux, I am in some sort of national park, I have encountered an aggresive lifeform and my vehicle has been compromised, requesting permission to implement lethal force! I repeat, requesting permission to- DO YOU COPY?!" It looked very happy because it was sweating from the face and the eyes "Madame Directrix! Please! This is Hot Jacques! I am in imminent danger after fleeing pursuit! I request permission to use my weapon! Please remove the seal!" the skin-skin of the he-person only made noises like what the fallin of the water made and he looked even happier.

"I'm coming in, friend! If you can understand me, just know that I really want to eat you, so don't try to be away from me!" Grizzly said, politely.

The man thing was quite a good man thing. Unlike the men-things that sometimes came to the trees, he was not round all over and unclean and small and ugly. This one looked rather way too yummy. The body of the man-thing was very svelt, with pretty bumps that looked hard yet fluffy, and that face furr that curled just perfectly and his head fur was very flat and shiny and hard-looking. The skin coverings did very little to hide the small flesh-squares in its tummy and the two big rounder flesh squares bellow its neck, they were both quite fleshy and perky and good. The legs of it were pretty nice as well, also round and a bit hard but going up to two VERY fleshy circles of jiggly person-meat that had a very good texture when Grizzly put his teeth through them. The back of the good man thing was harder but in a very inviting way, in the sense that it invited Grizzly's claws to stab it to keep it in place while he ate. Usually, the being bitten noises of things were either none at all or very not good on the ears, but this person had a noise-maker that was not of the bad. It did the noise but the noise of the being pretty, like the ones that the flyey things did in the morning but more male and humany, but still very focused on being one of the good noises. And the other non-mouth noises? Fantastic! The man-man had some very good bones because they crunched and cracked in away that made Grizzly want to break more and eat them whole to maybe hear the good crack and snap inside his mouth. It soon went silent, sadly. Grizzly as finished with the leg and arm part of his food, but he couldn't eat the face-part... Well, he did, but he licked it a bit first (both because it had some sweet sweet person juice on it but also because and nice and pretty). The inside personparts were lie the rest he'd eaten: delicious, mushy and were in his own tummy so fast that he forgot the person even had them. He flipped him over and played around to see if it could move again and maybe be good in the person motion as well, but no, it insisted on being dead now.

When the man still as like a man but with pieces that were in Grizzly's stomach and holes of the claws, Grizzly saw the leg-between of the food-guy. "Oh, hohoho! I thought I was mouth thinging a person, not a person that has a slithery-bite thing in its leg-betweens!" He joked to himself, a truly very good joke that others would laugh at if they were there in his mind. The legbetween was certainly a slither-bite-original sin thing, or at least ot was the size of a small one of those. It was skinwrapped with only very little fur at the base and a skinbag underneath. It tasted like the rest of the good-man-meat but it was the funnest to eat, especially since he had taken off the skin-skin that hid its true skin before (while the man could still try to kick it to escape) and hadn't noticed how big or nice it was. He wondered if more person-things had legbetweens like that. He had only bitten and dissappeared female-person thingies, and their inbetween were not as impressive as the one of this one.

As soon as the man-skin slitherbite was void and red personjuice, a light cam out of what was previously the bouncy chest flesh squares. The light floated up off the carcass in strings and as it left that body, it lost most of the attractiveness it previously had. What was left of the legs became thing, pudgy and generally unremarkable. What was left of the flesh spheres riding the legs became flat, bony and generally unremarkable. In fact, the whole remains of the body were now generally unremarkable as the light left the now empty chest cavity.

The light was blinding but not bright enough to distract Grizzly from his breakfast/lunch/early dinner (again, no clue what time it was). The body was less appealing now, but it was certainly still yummy enough.

"You have done it, brave one!" A voice spoke, but actually speaking, in words that Grizzly understood.

"Finally, some conversation" said Grizzly "Bears usually speak bear but they nevr speak Grizzly, you know?" He looked up, the warm man-goo slipping off his cute and deadly snout. "Oh, wait! Are you the man-person I'm bitting away? Could you talk the entire time? It's rude to not talk when I was speaking to you!"

"No, no, I am not thtat man. He was Jacques Monteneux, my previous holder. I am NISH. Please call me NISH"

"I absolutely will! You are the first thing that introduces itself to me! I am Grizzly" He clawed the former man-thing and a chunk of it went under those dancing strings of light floating in the air as they spoke. "You hungry? This helps with that, friend"

"I have no need for sustinance, but thank you for offering!" The voice of those lights was sweet, even though Grizzly didn't understand entonation, there was certainly a friendly disposition on the words that appeared in his tiny mind "You have now defeated my host! You now have the right to receive my benefits!"

"Wait! Defeat?" Grizzly asked.

"Yes! You fought him and won!"

"That wasn't a fight, fighting is rude, I simply had a snack! Being hungry isn't fighting!"

"Right! I appologize!" It calmed him "You completely destroyed the sex appeal of my previous master! Showing yourself to be worthy of being my new recepient! Will you take his place?"

"Uh... His place? I have a place, the tree place!"

"No, I meant his place in the cosmos! My boons are normally received by only the most worthy, but men like the one you defeated have been missusing my abilities and ignoring their cosmic calling!"

"Uhh..."

"I appologize again, Grizzly... How could I put it?" The white light that made up NISH became a pale purple as it spun around and twisted in the air "Do you enjoy fun, Grizzly?"

"Uhhhhhhhh..."

"Wow! Nothing, huh? Okay, well... Would you want to be stronger than all things? To be truly free? To know all? Would you- I'm losing you, aren't I?"

"A bit, yes."

"Geepers, this is difficult" The strings of light unfurled and stretched ethereal and beautiful around the large body of the bear. It was like tendrils made of pure potential energy glid weightlesly around the massive beast forming a ring of promise, a chain of judgment as it measured the spiritual weight of Grizzly.

"Friend. I believe I am hungry again, and will not make food of a light thingy, you don't taste. So... I will be going to another place and do a thing that I don't know what it will be yet" said Grizzly, trying to exit politely.

"You..." The light around NISH became multi colored, a wonderful mirage of beauty and excitement beyond what any mortal being could express "You are perfect!"

"You're pretty cool too! I hope I can find another thing that will talk to me, but for now..."

"I need you!" The light expanded with a sound similar to a heveanly choir and the ringing of a golden bell "Grizzly! You are going o do something else, right?"

"Yes."

"Do you have it planned?"

"I'm not hungry now, so no."

"How about I take you to another place and let you do something else?" asked the being "It would be the same, right? Only you would have someone to talk to"

"Uhh... Wait... Yes, yes it would!"

"Would you like that?"

"Like?"

"Oh, well I... Would you be angry if I did that?"

"No."

"So I have your permission?"

"I guess?"

"INITIALIZING SYNCHRONIZATION"

The hands of fate opened into a thousand eager palms, light beyond light and joy beyond joy swirled around the mammal. All existential strings converging as a knot on planet Earth. The river split open and rocks pulverized to smitherines from the sheer force of the wind pulsating as Grizzly left the ground, floaring surrounded by a single shimmering line of destiny and magic. All colors and all lights shot off NISH as it entered Grizzly's body, enveloping it in mystic matter and making all mass in his body change and reform according to the celestial blueprints lost long ago.

"I, NISH, hereby tether my existence to yours. I deam you fit for omnipotence. My power is yours. My mission is yours. Planeswalker. Spaceweaver. Timescout. I have chosen you to be perfection incarnate!"

The light dissipated in a massive explosion that could be seen from space. In the place of the river and the waterfall, there was a crater. Broken rocks in a sphere with broken streams bleeding around every inch like a massive wounded beast. Smoke bled into steam and got lost among the clouds. At the center of the main crater, a body woke up, lazily and somehat clumsily.

"Rejoice, sweet master! You are now the 69th weilder of the Factor of All Beauty! The one prophesized to release my true potential! Arise with a new name and take on this new journey!" NISH spoke, the kind voice coming from inside the bear's mind "Hero of love, may the multiverse kneel to you!"

A single hand came up the side of the crater. A furry hand, masculine, gorgeous and transforming back and forth from a cute and lethal paw covered in gnarles claws, back and forth until it ended with an atractive combination of both. The being formerly known as Grizzly stepped out, naked fo the first time. His body was still covered in lucious perfect hair, but his body was now even more beautiful than that of the deceased Hot Jacques Monteaux. Every inch perfectly calibrated to the finest standards of human male excellence. Each curve following the golden ratio. Each muscle strand perfectly strained to be strong yet soft, fluffy yet hard, a fantastic contradiction that made him the truest Adonnis. He could barely move now that he was moving on two legs rather than four. He didn't slip or fall, he was too perfect for that, but it took some getting used to. He grunted, looking at himself all over. His hide, previously thick and robust was now thicc and juicy. And the front... well... Let's just say the previous wielder hadn't fully unlocked the fullness of those settings.

The head was unchanged. It hadn't turned human or had softened to have perfect cheekbones or piercing eyes witha modern and elegant yet casual hairstyle: it was a bear. A full bear. The head of a bear awkwardly mounted on the muscular neck of a perfect man's body covered in thick fur. Those dead black eyes that were simultaneously adorable on a teddy and completely despair-inducing up front. The entire head was like those eyes: equally charming and terrifying. A round fluffy face with a maw filled with razonsharp teeth.

He licked his lips and the small amount of blood there and talked... Still in his usual grunts and growls.

"You did a thing to me?" he asked "The down is now far away. Why is the down so far away now? I was close to the down! Wait! I was touching the down with four of my bear-things, now only two touch the down!"

Immediately, in front of him, in those same lights and colors, a massive portal appeared. There was rainbow light lining a pure white circular opening, it hummed in the noise a dying star makes as it dims. It spun, bright, inviting and mysterious.

"That is a new thing. Friend, explain the new thing!"

"This is your portal. Through it you will be taken to all worlds, all instances of existence through infinite space and probability! And in those worlds you will use the Factor of Absolute Beauty to claim admiration with every partner available to you! You have stopped being what you once were, you are now a traveler with no limitations"

"Uhhh..."

"Seriously? The Factor of Absolute Beauty should've made your intelect increase tenfold" said NISH, not realizing it had already done that "Do not worry, I will guide you though your journey. But the most important part is that you follow your insticts. What do you want to do now?"

"Go through the glowing thing. It smells like nothing and that is very strange"

"Then do so!" it replied, excited.

With a single step, the FAB extended from the flesh of the new pillar of beauty and formed some speedos around his crotch that were simultaneously elegant, slutty, tasteful and absolutely ratched. They had "nasty man" writen on the back in such a beuatiful and tasteful font that it reminded one of a cathedral or the concept of hope, the color was a deep red that also sort of looked... some sort of very elegant color for a speedo to be. Another impossibility wrapping the gorgeous mid-section of this cosmonaut, leaving some mystery surrounding his massive gurth and just how heavenly his rear end was to the touch.

"Friend" said NISH "You have also acquired a new name, do you undertand what it is?"

"I do... I am now Hot Grizzly" said Hot Grizzly, the 69th wielder of the FAB, stepping through the portal to his first new world to conquer.