June had been in the forests for what seemed like hours now, she'd been searching for a long time and had no luck. All she found was normal elk's. She sighed as she rubbed the back of her neck, she found nothing and was close to giving up. She started to walk away but she heard leaves rustle near her, she quickly looked and her eyes widened as she saw a great white beast stand before her. It was the elk that Sinding told her about. It's fur was as white as snow, it's eyes gold like the sun.
June quickly pulled back an arrow and shot it before it could get away, the elk cried out in pain and than fell to the ground. She walked up to it and examined it closely. Suddenly the spirit of the elk appeared right before her. "Hello fellow hunter!" It talked! June blinked and looked at confused. "Are you Hircine?" She asked it. "I am. It appears you have been looknig for me." He spoke again.
June examined it. "I am hear to return this to you." She held the ring out to him. He looked at it. "Ah my artifact that my little rebel stole from me." He was referring to Sinding. "I will accept it but I wish to ask you of something more." He looked up at her. June raised an eyebrow. "I want you to hunt down this rebel beast and kill him." He commanded. "Kill him? He has done no harm to me." June furrowed her eyebrows down at him. "Yes but he has done harm to an innocent yes? Why let him get away with that so easily Dragonborn?" She looked at him surprised. "You know who I am?" She asked him.
"Of course, me and all of my Daedric brothers and sisters know of you." He said with amusements in his voice. "So how about it?" He asked her again. June thought about it for a moment, he was right. Beast or not Sinding murdered an innocent child and deserved to be punished. "Alright but I'm only doing it for the girl he killed. Don't think I'm doing this for you." She crossed her arms. "Of course! He is in what he thinks his is sanctuary. It is called the Bloated Man's Grotto, now go." Hircine commanded and than disappeared.
June made her way through the forests and found the place that Hircine told her to go to. She went inside and found corpse's laying around with shredded to pieces but one of them seemed to still be alive. It was a Khajiit man. She hurried over to him and kneeled down in front of him. "Sinding...Killed other hunters...Find him and kill him for..The name of the Hircine.." The Khajiit than finally died from loosing to much blood. June sighed and got up walking further down the path.
"Hello there friend." Sinding was ontop of a ledge above her. She looked up at him seeing that he was still in his beast form. 'I still can't believe the myth is real...' She thought to herself as she examined him. "Friend?" She asked raising an eyebrow. "Yes, you helped me get rid of the ring." He replied. "I'm sorry to disappoint you but I am no friend of yours. Hircine has sent me to kill you." She said with a cold voice. "I figured he would send someone after me. Look if you let me go than I'll stay away from society, I now know that I can't be around other people. I've learned from my mistakes." He said with regret in his voice.
June just shook her head. "No. I'm not doing this for Hircine, I'm doing this for the little girl you killed. You need to answer for your crimes." June glared at him a little. "I..I see.." He let out a sigh. "Than so be it but I will not go down with out a fight." He than turned around and than jumped off the cliff. Once he did June heard screams. "Son of a." She quickly took off down the path trying to catch up to him.
She followed a trail of bodies till she reached the end of the path and there stood Sinding covered in blood. "Come on then!" He yelled as he rushed at her. June quickly moved out of the way and than shot an arrow at him. The arrow stuck him right in the back, he roared in pain and also anger. He turned back towards her and bolted for her again. June tried to ready another arrow but he came at her too fast and tackled her to the ground. "Oof!" He was heavy and was crushing her. June quickly put a hand on his face trying to hold his head back from her, he was trying to bite her neck.
It was hard because he was strong, Sinding put one of his claws down on her shoulder and gripped it tightly. His claws were digging deeply into her skin. June cried out in pain as he tore her skin open, this was defiantly a rock and a hard place. June knew what she had to do and she knew she had to be quick. She quickly let of his face and punched him hard to make his stagger for a moment so she could grab her dagger from her pouch. He growled at her and than went right for her neck again but before he could get to it June shoved her dagger right into the side of his head.
He collapsed down right on top of her making her cry out in pain again. "Dammit!" She cursed as she pushed his giant limp body off of her. She groaned in pain as she held her arm and rolled to her side, he cut her deep and she was quickly bleeding out. "Stupid.." She got on her belly and slowly got up on her knees still holding her upper arm. She looked over at the beast's body making sure it was dead. A blue light started to surround it and a spirit that looked like the human form of Sinding walked out of the corpse. June blinked and looked up at it. "Well done." It was Hircine.
She looked up at him and was about to speak but pain that suddenly spread through out her body stopped her. "Ah!" She cried out as she fell to the ground completely. She felt a rush of many emotions swirling through her body, she could feel herself start to change into something else. "It appears you have been harmed by the beast and so the beast blood now flows with in you." Hircine grinned as she knelt down in front of June. "Just as I planned." He sounded amused as he watched her struggling with the pain. "W-what?" She slowly looked up at him, her eyes were beginning to change from green to red.
"Yes, I knew you were going to contract the beast from my little rebel. I put these things in motion." Hircine laughed. June glared at him, she opened her mouth to speak but the pain struck her again and all that came out was a painful cry. "The first change is always the most painful." He observed her. "But I can take this from you.." He started to say. June already knew where this was going. She looked back up at him. "What do you want?" She asked through her teeth. She could feel them begin to form into fangs.
Hircine grinned with pleasure written all over his face, it was like he enjoyed seeing her like this. "You're companion." He answered. June furrowed her eyebrows down at him. "Sera?" She was confused. "Yes, I desire her. I want her to be mine. Give her to me and I shall release you from this curse. But deny me and you shall suffer forever." He continued to watch her. June quickly glared at him. "No! No way!" She refused. Hircine glared at her. "You really think you have what it takes to tame the beast! I will offer one last time, give her to me or suffer forever." He got closer to her glaring at her deeply. "Oblivion to you! No way! I will not do that to her!" June yelled at him.
Hircine glare increased as he stood up from the ground. "Very well Dragonborn! From this day forward you will be a wild beast, one that will kill and be feared! But just because you denied me doesn't mean I can't have her. I will have her!" Hircine started to back away from June. "Good luck Dragonborn." He mocked her as he slowly faded away. 'No, I won't let him!' She thought to herself as she tried to deny the pain and change.
She started to get up but it as just too much and knocked her back down to the ground. "Aaaah!" Her voice became a roar and her muscles started to expand making her armor tight on her. She quickly took her armor off, it was only making it more painful and once she was completely naked fur began to grow from her skin and than everything went dark.
Seradia was sitting at one of the tables in the Inn and just finished one of her books, she looked out the window seeing it was well past dark and June was still not back. 'Well that's weird..' She furrowed her eyebrows down as she got a little worried. 'Maybe it's just taking a bit longer and she'll probably be back by morning.' Seradia tried to make herself feel better. She waited a little longer for her but she still didn't come back. She decided to go ahead and pay for another day for their rooms and go to sleep. 'I'm sure she'll be back.' She kept trying to make herself feel better as she laid down in bed and went to sleep.
Moring came and Seradia just finished getting dressed, she hoped that June returned and she went to her room to see. A frown quickly appeared on her face as she saw that the bed was empty. She quickly walked out of the room and walked up to the Inn keeper who was behind the counter. "Excuse me but have you seen my friend around? Blonde hair, rude." Seradia explained.
The Inn keeper just shook her head and continued to clean the mugs. Seradia panicked and ran out of the Inn. June was never gone this long and it made her worry. Seradia asked around town and many of the citizens told her that they saw her go into the woods. Seradia quickly went to the woods and looked around for her.
Seradia had been looking for hours and there was no sign. "June!" She called out to her many times and there were no responses. "Dammit!" She cursed as she started to run around looking frantically. "Where in Oblivion-" Seradia began to speak to herself but a low groan in the distance cut her off. She quickly looked around and went where she heard it. She came to a hill and at the bottom of it was June. "June!" Seradia yelled as she slid down the hill and knelt down by her side.
She was completely naked and covered in blood, her shoulder was badly wounded. "Oh June! What happened to you!" Seradia took off the top layer of her robes and laid it on top of June to cover her up. Seradia tried to heal her with her magic but for some reason it wasn't working. "What do I do.." Seradia covered her mouth as she looked at June. Her breathing was slowing down and most of the blood on her didn't look like it was hers. Seradia just sat there trying to think and than she heard voices and footsteps in the distance. Her heart leaped in her chest and she quickly got up from the ground. "I'll be right back! Just hold on June!" Seradia said and than quickly ran up the hill and towards the voices.
"Think that will be an end to the bear attacks?" Farkas asked Aela. They had just finished a job not to long ago. A farmer asked for the companions help because his farm kept getting attacked by a pack of bears so Aela and Farkas tracked down the bears to their den and killed them. "I hope so." Aela said. She than stopped and started to look around, Farkas looked at her confused. "This is a pretty nice hunting ground, how about we catch some game before we head back home?" She smiled at Farkas. "Sure, why not." He said with a shrug.
Aela quickly got out her bow as she already heard something approaching them. "Well this will be quick." She said with a smile as she started to pull back an arrow. Farkas watched her till he suddenly picked up a strange scent in the air, it was not the smell of an animal. "Wait!" He said quickly grabbed her arrow stopping her from shooting it. "What the hell Farkas?" Aela glared at him a little bit. "It's not-" A girl stumbled out from the bushes cutting him off. She had tripped over a root that was sticking up from the ground.
They both looked at her and examined her, she was in a tank top and leggings. She got dirty from falling to the ground. She had medium length brown hair and pale green eyes, she was a Breton. Seradia sat up dusting herself off and than looked up seeing the two strangers staring at her. She quickly jumped up and ran up to them. "Please you must help!" She quickly pleaded. They both looked at confused. "Calm down. Tell us what is wrong." Aela said stepping towards her. "It's..It's my friend! She's badly injured and I don't know how. Please I don't think she has much time!" Seradia begged them to help her. They both nodded and than followed her through the forest.
"There!" Seradia yelled as she slid back do the hill and to June. Their eyes widened as they saw it was June and just by the smell in the air from her they already knew. She had the blood of the beast. "She needs healing. Please help!" Seradia looked up at them. They both exchanged looks and than nodded. Farkas quickly went down the hill and scooped June up in his arms. He could sense the beast inside her was wild and un tamed.
"Come on, we will take her back to our home Jorrvaskr." Aela said as she watched them walked back up the hill. "There she will get the help she needs." Aela looked at June in Farkas's arms. "Thank you! Thank you so much!" Seradia was relieved tears began to weld up in her eyes. June was her best friend and she didn't know what she would do if anything were to happen to her. As they began to hurry through the forest something caught Seradia's attention. She stopped and looked to the side seeing a white fox with gold eyes sitting in the distance staring at her. It looked like the one before, she stared at it for only a moment and than ran off quickly catching up to them.