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Suffering

Hikari glanced around. Rena's telepathic message had come in loud and clear.

'Exit by the window and jump down. Do not go to Kai. Follow my markings. The scent.'

Hikari hastily bounded to the sill only to see that Rena had become a dragon and that Kai and the others were lowered to the ground. She jumped and bounced off Rena scales.

Only to find that she had disappeared…

The injured cried in pain. But somehow Hikari felt that Rena was going through more pain that any of them. The pain of becoming a hideous creature for the rest of your life…

'I really don't want to lose everything… I won't let my world be swallowed by darkness!'

She scanned for Kai who was searching for Rena desperately. He was safe. She then began her search for Rena.

'She did say that she left behind clues…' Her thoughts trailed to what she had said.

'The scent?' She held her nose high and took a whiff of the air.

'A putrid smell. The smell of… The effects of final transformation!' She ran with the speed of any Olympic runner, one of the effects of being a morphite. Her heart knew that if she did not know the counteraction for the curse she would become a deformed creature and my life would slowly be drained away while undergoing the most painful of pains.

Memories. Awful ones. The kind that replay over and over in the recesses of your mind. In Rena –she was sure of it- there were hidden thoughts and memories that she doesn't want to relive. Kai as well. She saw it within his eyes.

He did not mind when she called him 'daddy'. After all… He always wanted a loving family.

'I don't know what happened to him. Only that He and mommy are such lonely people!'

She skidded to a halt where the foul air stopped.

At the edge of the lake.









The irony, just as a lake had spared her brother… It had stolen her family from her.

"Mommy! Daddy! Don't leave me!" Her knees buckled as she sank to the ground she screamed,

"Not again! Not again!" Tears poured from her eyes in a wave of sorrow. The whirlwind of memories began, sweeping her into oblivion.

Flashback

"I have come for her." A dark looming figure stepped into the candle lit cottage.

"Stop! It's too soon! Don't take her away from me!" She flung her arms apart trying to shield the creature from her line of vision. She clutched my mother's legs with two hands.

"What's happening mommy?" Hikari watched with wide eyes as the figure clutched the throat of her mother. Glasses shattered as Hikari's eyes glowed a deep red.

"Touch her and die." Every piece of glass floated up, their sharp edges facing the monster. It raised a snout then gave a laugh.

"Do you think that with trivial powers like yours you would be able to save your family? How much pain can you endure?" The creature allowed the candles light to shine upon him. A great white wolf! Silver claws and a gold tail, the ancient markings were on each leg in gold and spikes made of steel decorated his back. When he stood his legs rejoined themselves to create a human shaped structure, though keeping his wolfish features prominent.

She glared at the foul wolf that had tainted her household. Every part of this house had pictures of wolves on it. She knew why.

"My mommy thinks you're so great. She practically worships you! Yet you treat her like trash! You're a horrible incompetent beast! You can't even run your own fellowship!" The anger and rage poured out of her body. She felt each part of her body shape shifting.

"What a wide range of vocabulary for someone so small…" The wolf stared at the shaking woman who had risen all too quickly.

"My lord can you not wait till my daughter becomes 16? She has not yet learnt all about your magnificence. I just… Need more time!" Her eyes shone pleadingly and for a moment the monster appeared to be reconsidering. Too bad he didn't.

The door slammed shut extinguishing the candles. A gasp echoed throughout the room.

"You're not worthy of my time."

"The time of your execution is now." Stony silence followed.

"Mommy?" A new smell wafted through the air. Fresh blood.

Her hands became claws. Her mouth sprouted fangs. Every hair on her head stood on end, then shrunk and spread to cover the whole of her body. Her eyes became that of a large cat; her ears pricked and formed wolfish ears on her head.

"How dare you! I won't forgive you!" Her claws tore at the air; the wolf had dodged way too swiftly. Had he known exactly where she'd try to attack him? I golden spike pierced through her body. Blood gushed through her gaping wound.

"It's futile… Why do you keep fighting? Everything is predestined to happen. Even if you struggle, I would still absorb you. Your mother would still die even if I had not killed her. Why?" She held her gaze steadily at the beast, while leaning against the wall for support.

"You… You act like life is meaningless. Things can't change for the better if you let opportunities just pass you by. If I don't fight now I'd be an idiot. An idiot for letting you destroy my whole world without a fight!" The great wolf let out a hoot of laughter.

"You morphites are hilarious! You act like there is hope! Let me tell you that all your family will die tonight. The fire I will send upon your town will blaze so high even humanoids will see it. They will hunt your kind down and bring morphites to extinction. It is all prophesied!"

"Prophesies this!" She threw herself toward him. His eyes widened as she rammed into him and he crashed into the front door, breaking it to smithereens. He lay unmoving upon the grass.

She trotted over and stared at the body. The white fur was stained with blood and wood chips covered it. She twisted around as a leaf fell upon the ground.

"Morphites are really foolish after all…" She stared at the top of the cottage.

'Not. Not my father!' The wolf had ripped a hole through her father's chest, through his heart, ending his life instantly. Her little brother had transformed into a Neko-jin, he was probably eating ice-cream again…

"Nee-Chan! (Big sister!) Hanasayo! (Let me go!)" He tried to beat the wolf with little claws but he just held him a bit further away.

'He is succeeding in taking away everything I have! I don't know what to do! My little brother… He must live!'

Bounding toward the cottage she managed to gain enough velocity to scale the wall and landed neatly upon the straw thatched house. She grabbed his collar and faked a scratch at the wolf's nose so as to loosen his grip. She threw him as far as she could. He landed in the river and morphed to become a little koi fish before being swept away by the current.

"You may have thought that you saved your little brother."

"I just did."

"Don't make me laugh. I know that your little brother has no sense of direction. He'll die by nightfall. How do you expect a mere child to survive out here?" he smirked when he saw her fear stricken face. Her head bowed, and then she raised her head.

"He'll make it." Her face burst into a big grin.

"Because I have faith in him."

"Then you're a fool." The wolf howled a high pitched note. She felt all her strength being drained. She wobbled then fell upon the roof; small bits of straw fell upon the ground.

The last image she saw was the wolf padding toward her with his face twisted into a sneer. The last thing she felt was the straw beneath her aching body and the last thing she heard were the sounds of angry town's people.

The very last thing she thought was,

"I wish for your safety… My brother…"

End of flash back

Hikari couldn't remember how long she sat there nor did she notice the setting sun upon the horizon. All she could think or feel was the immense pain that came with losing a loved one.

'I made a promise to myself. I promised that I would never allow what's precious to be lost to me… I haven't even known them for more than a day but… still the promise of a new life, a home and… even… a family…' The tears burst from her eyes in bucket. She knew her nose was running and couldn't care less.

"Rena!" even her shirt was damp now. Water splashed upon the grass patch where Hikari had made herself comfortable.

"Dry your tears." Hikari looked upon a face that would make even the strongest of men scream. She fell backwards onto the grass.

Rena's face had become scaly; her hands were grotesque claws and wings of a bat still protruded from her back. Blood was caked over her body and her long tail was not spared from scars. The moonlight made her scales glisten as she pulled herself onto the grass. Hikari was too afraid to move.

"Are you afraid?" Rena looked at Hikari who shook her head.

'I have to be strong!' Her thoughts screamed.

"No. I'm not. Not anymore."

Rena coughed out blood, her vision blurring. Hikari caught her in mid fall, scraping her leg in the process.

"Rena!"