Beth looked down at the little bundle of happy she held, wriggling his tiny pink paws and generally being sweet enough to cause cavities at
twenty paces. She tickled his tummy and was rewarded with a purry giggle and a little paw tickling her own tummy.
Will watched with a small smile of his own, his jet hair framing his face and emphasizing his large green eyes.
Beth glanced up and was stunned by what she saw. Without even trying, Will had managed the same level of cute as terry. His little blue paws
poked out from a large poofy white diaper, and large green eyes shining. Terry looked up as well and Will blushed as he realized what they
were looking at. "K-kyu?" He asked, before he was buried under a massive fluffy pile of hugs and purrs.
Finally, he felt truly happy.
Chapter eleven: Fool's fire
The viewing pool suddenly jerked to a halt again, and flashed red as a clock appeared, turning backwards once more.
"Flashbacks, this is better than a movie..." Absinthe chuckled, dipping back into a popcorn bucket. Where had he gotten it? who knows, such
is the way of absinthe.
-denshire falls, five years ago-
Will sprawled out on one of the porch's deck chairs, studying the lantern in the bright afternoon sun. The cane he'd propped up against the
chair rolled a bit as he moved, prompting him to shift his weight. Which of course caused his diaper to crinkle beneath his sweatpants.
Terry watched for a little while, quickly losing interest and focusing on the ball he was playing with instead. His own diaper was quite
prominent, even beneath the loose red shirt he was wearing, and his tail was now quite obviously bigger than him.
Will pressed his paws against the lantern's glass section, mildly suprised to feel it shift like metal, rather than glass. It's center no
longer aflame, and in fact the glass showed nothing but the dull green metal back of the lantern.
The roar of an engine made him look up, just in time to see Terry toddling out into the road after his ball. "T-ter... IGNUS FATUUS!" He
shouted, grabbing his cane long enough to use it to shove himself from the chair. Within the blink of an eye he was across the road, left arm
wrapped protectively around terry and the right buried almost to the elbow in the car's grille. At about this time the belts stopped turning
and the fan just inside the grille clicked to a stop. Blood rapidly began to trickle down Will's arm followed shortly by a throbbing ache. He
brought his left hand up and then smashed it down on the car's hood, not leaving much of a dent, but clearly emphasizing the "SON OF A
BITCH!" that escaped his mouth.
Later on he'd realize he had no recolection of what happened from when he triggered the lantern up until he found his arm buried in the car's
front end.
The driver managed to fumble his door open and immediately ran off in the opposite direction, clearly shocked by what he'd just seen.
Beth had heard the commotion, and stumbled out to see what was wrong, immediately grimacing at what she saw. She phoned shinji and within
minutes, the old wolf shambled out to see to Will's injuries.
After a moment studying the scene, he lifted the hood and then immediately closed it, "pull your arm out, there's umm... well... you're
getting fitted for a prosthetic. I can't repair what ain't there." He said, and ducked out of the way to vomit in the neighbor's conveniently
placed azalea bush.
Will slipped terry's patch over his good eye and whispered, "Sit still a moment," Before tugging his arm out of the wreckage. True to
shinji's words, all that remained of will's forearm was three inches of friction burned skin beneath the elbow.
He didn't seem suprised, but glanced down at the lantern at his feet, "You're a jinx. did you know that?"
The lantern pulsed it's light once as if smirking, and then went dark.
Will grimaced as shinji lined up parts in preparation. "I'm going to give you a basic removable prosthetic. Removable because the base will
need to be resized as you grow, like Terry's."
Will managed to chuckle and toss up a joke, "At least I won't look like captain hook."
Caught by suprise, shinji laughed along, "Levity is good medicine. You keep laughing and you'll live forever. It's a proven fact."
"Is that what happened to you?" Shinji stared at Will once the question was asked, again suprised by Will's perception. Of course, that
luminescent green glimmer in the boy's eyes was new...
"I don't know what you..." He trailed off and then spoke in a whisper, "Who am I kidding... Yeah. Yeah thats pretty much what happened to me.
So I guess this makes me an old fart."
He set Will's arm straight and removed the rag wrapped around it, quelling his nausea and focusing his talent. He whistled softly and
gestured here and there. As Will watched, the parts arrayed on the table began to float and center themselves around his arm.
"You're a... wizard?" He asked.
"Nope. This was once an art where I came from. Metallurgy it was called, some folks thought it was alchemy or magic. But it's really just
understanding metal on the most basic level." He explained, as wires aligned themselves and straightened out to accomodate posts and casings.
"I don't even know if it's teachable anymore. The last person I knew to be able to use it besides myself died long before babylon collapsed."
Will nodded, "I knew there was something different about you."
"Let your jaw go slack, I'm going to sink the base and connect the nerves at the same time. It'll hurt more, but at least it's just onece
instead of several times."
Will went slack and tried to relax... The jolt that shot through him was comparable to the lantern's pain bolt. He roared out loud and his
fingers left furrows in the arm of his chair.
His head nodded forward and he seemed to be unconcious, but shinji heard him murmuring, "move damn you, move.... just a twitch... move!"
"It doesn't work like that Will. You need physical training over several months like Terry did."
"I'm not letting this get the best of me... MOVE!" His metal right hand twitched and to Shinji's absolute shock, clenched and unclenched
several times.
He leaned back in the chair, exhausted but with a smile prominent on both sides of his face. "Well, I just wet myself and got a massive
migraine in one go. But, it works." He said, turning it around and moving his metal fingers. And then, with a yawn he closed his eyes and
appeared to be asleep.
Shinji picked him up and carried him upstairs to his room, where Terry waited. "Your brother is either brave or crazy."
"Will's Will. He a stwong fopsy." Terry said, grinning and snuggling up close to His big brother.
Beth studied Will's new hand, "Shinji, you're friggin amazing."
The old wolf blushed, "Nah, just a little artsy fartsy."
Will smirked and opened an eye, "The artsy's cool, but when he gets fartsy..."
Everyone laughed at that.
Chapter twelve: Wolven sammich with mayo, or Howdy do ms. sinclaire.
-Denshire falls, present day-
Alistaerh slumped over his desk, ears drooping and tail sagging against the floor, "How am I supposed to explain this..." He whispered.
Terry turned around, sitting backwards in his chair, "I've known since day one. Ya don't have to explain anything."
Alistaerh went wide eyed, "B-b-b-buh wha, how?!?!?!"
Terry merely smiled, "We kyu's have very big ears. 'crinkle crinkle'. I understand why you tried to do what you did, and it's cool. All is
forgiven."
Alistaerh whimpered softly, "I still feel crappy for it though. I don't know what I was thinking..."
Terry suddenly hopped up on alistaerh's desk and licked him full across the face.
There came a giggle from the front of the room which made both Terry and Alistaerh spin around.
At first Terry wan't sure what he was seeing... The girl standing there was furless! So his first thought was, "human?" but that was quickly
struck down by the shiny black button nose, and fluffy ears. and then further shot down by the tufts of fur around her wrists and ankles, not
to mention the franticly wagging tail tossing her skirt left and right. it was at the peak of said wag that Terry caught a glimpse of
something white and crinkly...
Ember picked the moment immediately after that to lift up the back of the newcomer's skirt to make sure of what she'd seen.
The hairless crested pup spun around, only to be greeted with a full face lick from Ember, "Hiya! My name's emmie, what's yours?"
"Shido! Crimson Princess Shido Sinclaire!" She said grinning from ear to fluffy ear.
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