RISE OF BAKUNAWA(Saga's Luna Story)

11. Luna: Wolf Goddess

What is happening!

I just only want to spend some quiet time in the clearing before going to class and now it's already evening, and I'm terribly confused, and in pain, and in a different body! If I'm dreaming right now, then I really, really need to wake up now, I don't want to be in this dream anymore! This is disturbing in so many ways!

Huge wolves fighting each other and not just one or two of them, there're dozens and dozens of wolves fighting each other. I tried getting up after the terrible pain I felt earlier, but I found myself in the same situation. I have paws for feet and hands. My limbs are wobbly and still aching from earlier and I don't know what to do! I'm not in my body anymore, inside a dog, a furry gold dog! A lightning flash struck the ground that almost hit me and I couldn't help but scream, but it's not a scream that came out from me but a sound of a dog that yelped in fright. There before me stand a woman wearing a white gown where the lightning struck seconds ago. Her gown was styled like it was from ancient greece, adorned with alot of gold ornaments from head to toe, holding a staff lit with blue flame on top of it and a crown with a half moon as the main piece resting on her forehead. Her black hair, wavy and cascading down passed her shoulders like a sea water in dark night. Her pale white skin, shimmering under the moonlight and is mesmerizing to look at-a greecian beauty; like a goddess. Her startling amber eyes is staring down at me with emotions I don't understand.

I heard another flash of lightning, and there another woman is standing on my other side. This one is different. A different contrast from the first woman. This one looks more local. Wearing a native traditional costume that can be found only from the tribes men of Ifugao[1]. If the first woman looks like a goddess from greece, this new woman looks like a native deity; long black wavy hair, down passed the waistline, however, only one eye is staring down on me, while the other is closed shut by a silver scar marking the eye shut horizontally. Her skin, a glowing reddish-brown complexion, firm tattoed limbs, neck and ankle, tight waistline and toned legs. She, too is adorned with gold jewelry like golden headband showing the different phases of the moon crowning around her head, large round earings, golden neck brace, bracelet and anklet.

The only thing that I see similar on both of them, is that they are both bare-footed. But the glowing light surrounding them, make it seem like they are not really in here. They look like a holographic projection but more realistic and life-like than that. But still look ethereal.

I realize that the fighting had stop, and I, too starts to calm down. I try to look around and I still see the huge wolves from before but I don't see the black wolves with red eyes anymore, the one they were fighting against. All of the wolves are looking at the three of us. Then one by one the wolves started to change into humans.

The first one to change gave me a surprise. It was the dark gray wolf in front of me, the one in my direct line of sight. The change was terrible to watch because, the cracking of bones is unbearable to hear, the groaning and growling added the painful change it gave from wolf to human. After few seconds of that painful change, the human that now stands before me is none other than Saga.

Saga who is now standing a few feet away from me, naked for all his glory as the day he was born. If this situation is not awkward enough as it is and not as confusing, this dream might have me doing something that might humiliate me. But, this dream is too wierd enough for me to admire his physique, and too confusing to register everything enough for my brain to comprehend the current situation.

After Saga's change the rest followed.

I hear my self whimper. I really, really want to wake up now, please...

'You are already awake. We are okay, don't worry.' A voice says in my head making me yelp in fright. Looking around; searching for the person who just talked to me. But everywhere I look there is no one aside from the two women beside, but none of them spoke, they were looking at each other not me. Now I'm scared again. Making my heart rate to speed up causing me to start hyperventilating.

What is really going on! What is happening to me!

No matter how much I try to experess myself, all I can hear is me barking non-stop and start thrashing around; wobbling and shaking and jerking where I stand

'Please, calm down. Don't be scared, I'm here...' the voice says again.

How can I calm down if something unseen is talking inside my head? I try to scratch my head, but I only end up scratching myuzzle anyway. Hoping that this way it wipe away the emtity talikng inside off of me.

This is making me go crazy. I'm going to end up in a mental institution because of this. Even if this is just a dream, I don't want this. This is a nightmare, not a dream anymore! I want to cry but I can't. No tear is coming out from my eyes, because I'm covered in fur. Whatever tear drops from my eyes, they were immediately obscured by my furred face.

All I can do is whimper my worries away. I want to leave, but with these wierd people surrounding me, I feel threatened. Scared. Frightened.

I feel warm hands cup my furry face, making me stop my frenzied thrashing. Tilting my head up to look at the greecian beauty. Her hands feel so delicate, like a mother's touch. I never experienced a mother's touch before. I never allow anyone to touch me, or be near me. But she feels different. She feels... home.

"Oh, my beautiful child..." she says in a voice full of warmth. Like a blanket that envelopes ypu in the cold dark night. "You don't have to be scared anymore. I know that everything right now confuses you. We are here to help guide you through these changes."

I know she says not to be acared but how? I just want to wake up, I don't want to be in this dream anymore. I want to tell her this, but all I can do is whimper in her hands.

"I know my child, but this not a dream. What you see in here right now, are all real and this is not a dream, child." She continued as if reading my mind.

What?? This is not a dream? I whimpered again. How can I go back to my old self? I don't want to be stuck like this.

"Calm yourself dear." She says. "I can hear your thoughts, I will guide you back, just focus on me, okay?" I nod and focus my attention to her and her words. "Close you eyes, my child. Relax and take a deep breath and envision yourself changing back to your human body, from paws to hands, from fur to skin and the realignment of wolf bones to human bones." I did what I was told. However, nothing had prepared me to the painful change of shifting from wolf to a human. My bones are breaking apart, trying to realign themselves into human form. Furs, shedding away, showing my tanned, human skin and my hands from paws, elongating to form my fingers and toes. All the while I was whimpering, groaning and yelping from the torturous pain of shifting until it changes into a painful scream of a woman, piercing to the now quiet night.

Is this how feels like? Being totured? It feels like dying.

Before I know it, I am already at ground, curled like an unborn fetus drenched in my own sweat and crying my pain away. I am so tired, so weak, so exhausted and aching from all of this. I didn't know whose arms whose hugging me, but I remember their warmth. How can I forget, I feel her love envelope me. A love that only a mother can give.

"Sleep for now, my beautiful baby. Sleep and recover your strength. We have alot to talk about. I will be here when you wake." She whispers in my ear, and then I feel it; a tiny warmth on my forehead before I let my tired eyes close and give in to my restless sleep.

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End of Chapter 11

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GLOSSARY

1. Ifugao - one of the Philippine ethnic/tribal community; they are commonly found in the Cordillera Region of the, one common place is Bagiuo; there are a total of 12 Ifugao tribes in the region.