The Keyblade of the Fox 3
The odd pair landed on Destiny Island. Donald and Goofy waved as they left the realm. Sora sighed heavily as he stood there looking around his home.
"Come on Destiny."
The fox followed him in her beast form. She didn't want anyone to know that she had a humanoid form. Her ears twitched back and forth trying to catch the smallest hint of danger to herself or her Master. It was part of the honor code that she had to protect her Master. It was her duty to do what he wished of her. There was hope that he wouldn't be like her previous Masters and use her only for their own selfish gain. The home she approached was modest. It was two stories and it looked homey. She scented the air. Something made her snort in disgust. It was the heavy scent of sex and darkness. Sora left her alone in the living room.
Destiny looked around her new home curiously. Like a cat she had a natural curiosity for thing. Her senses were kicking into overdrive as she mentally imprinted everything that she smelled into her mind. She nosed things around considering in her beast form it would look less suspicious. This time she was the size of a Great Dane. A scent stopped her dead in her tracks. She whipped around and saw silver haired male glaring daggers at her. A threatening growl escaped her. If this man was trying to start a fight then she'd gladly give him one. She knew him to be Riku, the bearer of the dark Keyblade. Riku didn't know about her much like Sora didn't. The King made her stay out of sight but help them in anyway that she could. She had grown quiet annoyed with this silver haired boy. The scent of sex was heavy on him. He smelled of that girl that Sora was in love with. Her growls became louder as he approached her.
"Destiny?" she heard her Master call to her.
Destiny didn't take her eyes off of Riku. Something about him didn't sit right with her. There was this insistent urge to attack the dark Keyblade Wielder. Sora came into the room oblivious to Riku's presence. "There you are I was wondering where you got to."
Then he noticed her growling and her hackles were raised. His smile vanished as he looked at Destiny curiously. He saw Riku standing there.
"What's this animal doing in here Sora?" Riku asked.
"She's what I won in Hades tournament."
Sora ran his fingers through his hair nervously. He had a feeling that these two would never get along as long they lived in the same place, which made him wonder why it was that the fox hated his friend so much. He'd have to ask her later.
"Hades had a tournament?"
"Yes, the King summoned me to enter in order to get her out."
"Why didn't you wake Kairi and I?" Riku demanded.
"Because you two were having sex what was I suppose to do? Knock on the door and interrupt?"
Destiny inwardly smirked at the backbone Sora was displaying. She hoped that he kept that backbone. There was something about the strong willed Sora that made her want to trust him.
"You know about that?" Riku started. "Sora I never meant…"
"It's okay Riku I accepted it a long time ago. It hurts still but I've gotten over it."
He turned his back to his friend and moved away from him. "Come on Destiny."
Riku could have sworn he saw the animal smirk at him before following Sora out of the room. Her tail thrashed back and forth. Something was different about that fox. And he wondered what the King thought was so important about the animal that Sora needed to enter a tournament to save her.
Sora walked down the hall with Destiny beside him, his hand resting on the ruff of her neck. She felt his hand tighten on her fur. Never before had a Master willingly touched her in her beast form. The fox wondered what this Master would bring with him in the way her life would lead.
'Are you all right Master?'
"Yeah I'm okay Destiny. It just hurts still."
Destiny moved forward and stopped in front of him almost making him trip over her. Both his hands were resting on her back now digging into the soft fur. "Destiny?"
'You're innocence is gone but don't allow what has happened in the past to ruin your life.'
"What would you know?"
'Come with me and I'll show you.'
She led him outside and grew bigger. 'Get on.'
With grace he hauled himself up on her back. His fingers dug into her soft fur as she started slow and then gained speed. Sora laughed as he felt the wind rush past them as her strides became long and smooth.
"We should do this more often," Sora suggested.
'If that's what my Master wishes.'
"Destiny I want you to be my friend so stop calling me Master. It's just Sora."
She turned her head to the side and looked at him. Her ears twitched as she looked forward. "I guess you're going to refuse and keep calling me Master?" he asked softly.
'I cannot refuse an order you give Sora, so I guess I will address you by your give name.'
"That's better."
For some reason even in his head the way she said his name made shivers run down his back. With the Master thing he could easily ignore it because Master made her seem more distant. Her pace was slowing down greatly. Before to long, they were standing beside a waterfall. The mist sprayed heavily on the rocks as it hit the bottom and there were thick blankets of moss covering the rocky surfaces. Sora looked around in awe. Sure he had seen plenty of waterfalls but this one invoked something different in him. The boy slid from the huge fox's back. She changed into her humanoid form.
"It's beautiful," Sora whispered.
"It is isn't it?"
Destiny looked around and found a patch of grass and lay down. "Come on join me Sora and I'll tell you about myself."
The boy nodded and plopped down beside her. His back rested against her side. Sora noticed how warm she was like a rock warmed by the sun.
"My life wasn't an easy one to say the least and more often than not there was more heartache than a child should go through…"
Flashback
A small kitsune kit slowly approached her home. There was something wrong but she couldn't play what exactly was wrong. Her instincts were telling her to run but her feet kept moving forward. Stopping every now and then to scent the air she approached the castle. The guards that normally stood post at the gates were missing. They had been away from their post for a long time. Then a blood curling scream resonated through the walls. Without thinking she rushed forward towards the screaming. Once she entered the halls of the castle she found the missing guards. Their bodies lay strewn all over the place. Blood was chocking the air around her but she kept moving forward. She had to find her parents and little brother. Fear was clenching at her gut at the thought of any harm befalling her family. What she found made her stomach roll. Her family was laying about the royal chambers. They were in various states of death but the most recent one killed was her mother. With slow careful steps she moved towards her mother but a shadow grabbed her and darkness fell over her eyes.
She woke up bound in chains and in a cage.
"So the little kit has finally awakened."
The kit would have moved to look at her capturer but the chains prevented it. "I think that she'll make a good sex slave. I'm told that youkai have great stamina. What say you Takashi?"
"I think your right but it'll take a lot of work."
"Work that we'll enjoy."
Both men laughed as she coward in fear. Her instinct was driving her insane. She was growling dangerously.
End Flashback
Sora looked pale and sickly.
"Sora, are you okay?"
He looked at a loss for words. She didn't say her past was pretty in the least, though his reaction was unnerving. Sora moved forward and dragged her into a hug. Her arms hung limply at her sides not knowing what to do.
"How did you manage to not let the bitterness get a hold of you?"
"A kind stranger bought me."
"Kind stranger?" Sora asked in confusion.
"Yes, let me tell you…"
Flashback
Destiny curled up in a tight ball. She had been a slave for over eighty years. Her body was shaking. She was being sent to a slave market considering her previous Master had died and his widow hated her. The youkai often bore the marks of the wife's wrath. Normally she'd pace back and forth in a cage but when at a slave market her senses were on fire and she couldn't move. They had slapped a collar on her in humanoid form to keep her from changing into her beast form. It wasn't to long before she was standing on stage in almost nothing waiting for the next person to claim her. Her eyes unfocused themselves as the bidding began. She didn't want to see the leering faces of the men that wanted to own her, though she could feel their heated glances on her form. The auctioneer shouted prices out in that fast speech that she didn't care to hear. To her the man was signing her life away in his fairest voice. Once the man stopped she figured that someone had bought her. She was dragged from the stage and brought before someone taller than she. Kind friendly eyes stared back at her.
"Come this way young one," his soft voice called to her. "His Majesty is eager to meet you."
"Why?" she asked softly even though it was customary for the slave not to speak unless spoken to.
"He saw your sad eyes."
"Sadness often comes with the lives of the sex slave."
"Where we are going that skill won't be needed unless you find someone that you can love," he reassured her.
"I find that hard to believe because no man can resist the temptation for long."
"He's already married."
"That didn't stop my previous Masters."
She knew she'd suffer for her out spoken nature but it had to be said. The man snorted in disgust. He reminded of her of a kind old dog that she had met once. Shaking her head she knew that it would be a test of time before she could trust these people.
End Flashback
Sora looked enwrapped by the story. Destiny hated most of her life but in a way it shaped who she was now. The kitsune youkai sat there in a calm state waiting for her Master to come back to the real world.
"Who was this kind Master you spoke of?" Sora asked quietly.
"An ancestor of King Mickey and the man that reminded me of a kind old dog was an ancestor of Goofy. Ever since then I have been in the service of his family."
Destiny sighed heavily as she changed back into her beast form and curled around her Master. Her tail rested in his lap. Her head rested on the ground beside him. Her ears twitched every now and then. Sora absently petted her tail.
"How is your fur so soft? I thought animals lost that softness as they grow older."
"It's a youkai trait."
"You're speaking."
"It takes a lot of energy to mind speak."
"Then why do it?"
"To keep up the façade of a stupid animal. Only you need to know otherwise."
Sora just sat there staring at her before shaking his head and continued to watch the water topple over the edge of the cliff. His hand still absently buried in her fur of her tail.
