In this chapter "The girl" finally gets a name. She's my original character please don't take her. more chapters on the way. I've tried to put at least some angst in this chapter please tell me what you think of it! ~_^ P.S please read all of the bottom part of the page. Its kind of like a poll. Please!

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What's your name again?

Xelas looked at the girl through laughing eyes and said. "That's quit alright dear, now tell me one thing. How did you get here?" She asked as she took a drag from her cigarette and exhaled a graceful curl of smoke.

Well I… actually I don't know how I got here really. All I remember is…" She stopped not knowing what to say all she knew was that she was scared of both the josei and the man. And then doubled up in pain. The pain was like a fire burning up and down her body it burn her from the inside out. It was like no pain ever felt before it lasted for maybe ten slow and agonizing minutes and then it was all over and it left her feeling cold and burnt out. "Ahhhhh it hurts!!" She looked at Xellos and said, "You, what did do to me? AHHHHHAHHHHH!!!!!"

Xelas looked quickly to the girl then to Xellos. "You made her into a monster didn't you?" She asked him quietly so that the girl wouldn't hear.

Xellos looked at the girl and nodded. "I didn't know she was a lycanthrope until she changed her form, but then she was already a monster. What's happening to her?"

"Hmm, well it seems that the lycanthropy, and the monster in her are fighting for total control. If this keeps up she might either end up dead, go back to being just a lycanthrope, or be half monster and half lycanthrope." Xelas acknowledged calmly as she watched the girl now on the ground doubled up in pain. "She is a good meal though."

"Oh I wish I was dead!" Sobbed the girl as her body tried to heal it's self. She lay on the ground for maybe 20 minutes her, eyes changing back and forth from normal green eyes to purple split pupil eyes. After what seemed like forever from her point of view at least it stopped and she was able to sit up with out pain. She was scared but she felt something in her had changed and wanted to know what, so she asked hesitantly. "Umm, do you have a mirror?"

"Oh, of coarse." Xellos said as he took out a small mirror from his bag and handed it to her. He looked at her face as he handed it to her, and saw that her eyes had split pupils but where not purple. "I guess she's a half monster and a half lycanthrope." He murmured to his mistress.

"Well I see can't see any real damage," she mumbled to herself forgetting the two people she was afraid of. Then she looked closer at her eyes and screamed. Then asked very quietly, "What… what did you do my eyes?" Her eyes which were normally green, were now slightly purple.

"Yes, I suppose she is at that." She murmured back before saying out loud. "Well my dear, tell my all that you remember about getting here and that might help to explain your situation a little more."

"Well, umm… alright." The girl said, knowing that she could some how not refuse this women. "I… I can remember waking up on a…" the girl paused and tried to remember then said. "A marble table, then I heard…" "Heard what? What did I hear?" She grasp at the memory and said. "His voice say 'oh good your up' and then his smiling face. And I remember feeling scared and tense and then I threw a sheet over his head and ran," She stopped looking very embarrassed and wondered what the two people would do to her so she thought fast and apologized. "I'm very sorry about that."

"Why did you do that?" Asked Xelas as she motioned for the girl to sit on the steps that led up to her throne. "Why did you throw a sheet over Xellos' head and run away from him? And I want the whole truth, better yet start at the beginning from the whole day to this point." She told the girl firmly. "Oh and before I forget what is your name?"

The girl shivered but could not stop her feet from moving up to sit on the steps that lead to the josei's throne. As she got closer she saw that the women was as beautiful as she had thought when she was a kitsune but now she saw that the josei had a faintly beast like quality to her, the cool look of an animal hunting, again the girl shivered as she sat down. Now she was truly afraid. "My name is Soozooryoku(1." She said quietly as she stood and bowed deeply to both the josei and the man.

"Well, Soozooryoku please start at the beginning of your day. Then perhaps it will be easier for you to understand what happened to you." Xelas purred as she took a sip of wine and feed off of the girl's fear and stress.

"W w well I was finishing a painting when I ran out of paint. So I went out to the forest to get the colors I needed, along with some herbs and flowers." Soozooryoku, stopped for a moment as she remembered the rest of her story and then said. "A as I got closer to the middle of the forest, some bandits came up and…they demanded my money. And well, I made a comment and they got mad. I want to stop now, I don't want to remember the rest." The josei just looked at her and couldn't stop her mouth from telling the rest of her tale. It seemed they held the same power over her, and it terrified her to no end. "They…they told me that being pretty, having a smart mouth, and high opinion of myself were not good for me. They said that they wanted to see if my opinion was justified or not." She started to cry. "They demeaned that I be their camp whore."

"So you changed form and they chased you off the cliff, and after or during the fall your body reverted to human?" Asked Xellos.

"No, I would have to be very afraid of someone to do that. And I wasn't scared of those bandits. If I can fight I will. I don't like to give up my himitsu if I don't have to." She said quietly, and wondered why it mattered to her that he thought she would run. "It probably just offends my pride." She concluded her tale reluctantly but had no choice. "I told them that if they even tried that, I would kill them. Well they tried because all I had to fight with was my blunt little herb knife, if I had had my katana(3 or my ken(4 they wouldn't have attacked an armed women they were cowards."

"What do you mean if you had your katana of your ken?" Asked Xellos.

"Well… I was one of the ken champions of the town. I beat the town master when we were ten and he trained with the best in the swordsmanship world. If you can't do magic then you have to know how to swing a sword." Soozooryoku continued against her will her mouth kept the words to her story coming. "The battle was hard but I managed to kill two of the bandits but they backed me to the cliff. They thought that I would do whatever they wished if they would spare my life, the leader lounged to get my knife and I fell off the cliff. I think the fall broke half of my bones, the healing was brutal." She shuddered for a brief second with remembered pain and the tears kept flowing she hated reliving these memories.

"Well that explains some things but not why you ran from me." Xellos said. "Would you explain that?"

"Well I, I was scared the last men I saw smiling like that tried to rape me then ran me off a cliff." When the memories were finished and she was finally allowed to stop she was still crying but only a few tears were left in her. She looked at the ceiling which was now almost dark. "The ceiling doesn't reflect the sky does it?"

"Yes as a matter of fact it does." Xelas looked up at the ceiling and then said. "It's almost sunset."

Soozooryoku looked up into the ceiling and saw the sunset, she closed her eyes and her brows furrowed a few seconds latter there was a fox girl looking down at herself. (She would be the first to admit that she looked a little silly as a fox girl in a dress, her tail had no where to go so it just hung there and created a bulge at the back of her dress but she was to spent to think about that right now.) Soozooryoku and saw the lunar phase, she had four weeks until the next full moon. "Umm… what are your names anyway?" She asked the two people carefully.

"I am, the Dark Lord Xelas Metallium the greater beast, and this is my general priest Xellos Metallium the beast master." She said as she indicated Xellos.

"D D D Dark L L L Lords?" Soozooryoku Said in a terrified whisper, "Where am I? What are you going to do to me?" She edged a way from the to monsters and found the space where the stairs met the wall and cowered.

"Ah, I thought you'd never ask! Sore wa… himitsu desu(5!" Said Xellos as he appeared next to her and playfully as he wagged his finger at her.

"Xellos, stop toying with her and tell her!" Ordered Xelas.

"Oh, alright." He sulked, then turned to the still cowering Soozooryoku and said. "Well I found you two days after you had fallen off the mountain. I had herd from a gang of outlaws that they had pushed a impertinent flat-chested red head off of a mountain for trying to kill them. I went to see if they were lying and if the girl was any one I knew, that girl was you. I found you about two days after you had fallen. So I brought you back here and resurrected you into my servant, but the lycanthropy rejected about have of the monster in you so you are now a half were-creature and half monster mix."

She said nothing but started to cry with what little tears she had left and held her knees close as she did.

Xellos who had been happily soaking up her negative emotions said when finally her tears had run out and she stopped said. "What's wrong? Don't you want to be my servant?"

The monster in her asserted the loyalty to her new master as she said. "I am now your loyal servant. "No what am I saying? I Don't want to be any one's servant!" Her mind screamed but she couldn't take back her words.

Xelas looked at the girl and then at Xellos. She like Xellos had been enjoying the negative emotions and hoped for another round off the girl but was being diplomatic about. "Then what are you upset about? Hmm, tell your masters mistress what's wrong."

Soozooryoku looked up at Xellos then at Xelas gathered her courage and said. "I...I just want to go home." She blurted and then, looked down felling slightly ashamed. Thinking to herself "Why am I ashamed of my self? I did nothing wrong."

"I see, hmm." Said Xelas as she thought.

Soozooryoku began to wonder if she had made a huge mistake by telling both of the monsters that she wanted to go home. And said quietly. "It's just that when I was in fox form you said that you would see that I got back to my family." She looked up at Xelas and the at Xellos then back again.

Xelas looked thought full for a moment and then a clever smile formed on her lips as she spoke. "Your right that is what I said to you before. But you are a monster now and your home is here now. So put all thoughts of your old home out of your head. This is your home now my Island, Wolf Pack Island in my fortress." She looked at the girl and spoke again. "You have a room here now and will find it down the hall the first door to the left. You must be trained and we will get you a new ken and katana does that sound good?"

Soozooryoku's eyes where filled with sadness but couldn't stop herself as she said. "Thank you Lord Xelas," She turned and bowed to her. "Thank you master." She turned from Xelas to Xellos and bowed to him. She sighed and turned to go out into the hall muttering sadly to herself. "Now where did I drop my cape?"

"Hold on, my little kitsune." Xellos's voice floated over to her.

1) soozooryoku - means creativity – Authoress note soozooryoku means creativity but here a used it as a name that's because names often mean something.

2) Himitsu - means secret

3) Katana - means Japanese sword

4) Ken - means sword

5) Sore wa himitsu desu - means that is a secret

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Hi me again! Well to go how Soozooryoku's got to get off Wolf Pack Island. The trouble is I have four ideas how to do it and can't decide on which to use. (uh… ^_^!) so if you could vote which idea you like best when you review that would be great.

Here are the ideas.

1) She learns to teleport.

2) She builds a boat and tries t o sail off the island.

3) She swims for it but meets the Slayers who are boating for some reason (in the opening credits for next there's a shot of all of them minus Xellos and Martina in a weird looking boat).

4) Xellos takes her off the island for training.

Please I'm bagging you for input, I'm giving you options please help me out tell me which one you like best or tell me your ideas.