2:15, little a bit later than last time ^^

Knoax, with his brown fur, and I made our way through the crowd. Everyone was looking at me like I was an alien, touching my fur and my tail even though I looked exactly like them.

"Hey lay off the touching," I said lightly pushing their paws out of the way. When I did this most of them pulled their hands back and if I was made of fire. "Why are they acting like this?" I asked Knoax while we continued to walk through the crowd.

"I can't tell you all of it now, the person we're going to see will be able to tell you more, for now I'll just say that you're different." Knoax replied without looking back.

We exited the group and I could finally see where I was. It was an enormous valley walled in by two ridiculously tall cliff faces. The floor was filled with lush, green vegetation, and dotted with houses.

"How many people live here?" I said stopping to look at the unfolded landscape.

"Many, and we're not people, we are kitsunes, and so are you." Knoax said letting a smirk appear on his face.

"What's a kitsune exactly?" I asked.

"Ha, you are one, there isn't much to explain" Knoax said with a small chuckle.

We made our way down a series of walkways leading deeper into the valley. Many other kitsunes watched Knoax and I make our way down with the same attitude that the initial crowd had. After a few minutes we reached what seemed to be the bottom of the valley. A shade of wooden beads hung in front of a throng of trees.

"Well, here we are" Knoax said, stopping abruptly.

"What do we do now?" I asked.

"This is the part where you're on your own, go meet the priestess she will explain everything." Knoax said as he slowly made his way back towards the walkways.

"Okay then…" I said shakily.

I walked over to the bead shade and brushed it aside to reveal, what looked like, a small tunnel with an open clearing at the end. Unfortunately, the tunnel was just small enough where I had to crouch and shuffle my way through. The entire time while I was in the tunnel I was planning what questions I would have to get out of the way first. While I was mulling over my thoughts, the sound of a flute pierced my train of thought. The melody seemed to be coming from the end of the tunnel. It became stronger and stronger as I made my way towards the exit. Finally, I reached the end of the tunnel and stood up. I could hear the melody as if it was right next to me, but I could not see anyone in the clearing.

"Hello?" I said, while slowly walking towards the center of the clearing. No response, just melody. I reaching the middle of the clearing and looked around for anyone at the tree line, still nothing. "I'm supposed to meet the priestess?"

"And I am here" An anonymous feminine voice chimed through the wind.

"Well, can I meet you face to face?" I said turning around, continuing to look for the source of the voice. The wind picked up and a flow of leaves settled down in front of me. Out of that swirl of leaves came out, a beautiful, white furred, female kitsune dressed in some kind of, or what looked like, ceremonial garb. She had the flute in her hands; she had been the one playing it…

"Now you will know who you are tribal…" she said while circling me as if she was inspecting me.

"Tribal?" I said inquisitively, looking her in the eyes.

"I see you are very confused." She said with a slight smirk.

"Well, yeah, that's what happens when you kidnap someone and their entire body changes." I said with a small hint of discontent.

"We expected as much." She said still holding her smirk. "I take it Knoax notified you of what you are?" she asked.

"Yeah, he said something about a kitsune. It's not that simple though, is it?" I said shifting my weight to my other foot.

"We are guardians of nature, we do what we must to in order to protect the greater good." She said starting to walk toward the tree line, motioning for me to follow.

"Okay, that's cool, but how do I play into all of this?" I said walking by her side.

"That was the choice of the ancestors of our kind. Our kind is created by selection of those higher than us. You were secretly a kitsune, but under the guise of a human." She said, while brushing a branch out of the way.

"So your saying that everyone I have known as family, isn't actually my family?" I said, looking down.

"Yes, but your true family has always been there whether you knew it or not. The strangers in your life were all members of your kin." She explained.

Well that's a big hit to the heart of course. When you learn that your entire family wasn't actually your family, it gets you down.

"Why did I even live with humans then?" I said shaking my head back and forth.

"That is where your tribal heritage comes from, we kitsune were divided into different groups long ago. You, the Tribals, being one of them. Your group was tasked with protection human kind from destroying itself." She said while walking slightly slower. "Of course a task of that magnitude, required great power, and with that power came responsibility. But some of your kind could not handle the power and were corrupted by that power that was appointed to them." She signed. "With that corruption, the rest of the kitsune clans had to forcibly put your kind down. As punishment all of the members of your clan were transformed into humans."

"How do you even know that I am a Tribal anyway?" I said skeptically.

"I guess you didn't check your ears then," She said pointing to the tips of them.

I pulled my ears down to see that each ear had a white ring before the tip.

"Then why am I a kitsune now?" I said, stepping over a log.

"There are certain times when members of your kind who are deemed able are called upon, such as you. But the rest of the story will have to wait. For now, go get some rest, Knoax will be outside waiting for you." She said while coming to an abrupt stop.

"But what about everyone at home, I mean all my friends and family." Stopping next to her.

She seemed to sadden, "Knoax took you before it occurred, I don't have the heart to tell you what happened… we will talk tomorrow." She said while staring at the ground.

"But—," I said while reaching for her arm.

She took two bounds and then vanished into thin air only leaving a vortex of leaves behind…