Experiment #248

Chapter 43- Spar

TIKI POV

It's been a week since I've tried shifting without a monstrous look and I've come very close.  It was yesterday when my wolf form looked normal except for the wings.  My fur has changed color though, it's white with black fur all around my neck and a thin circle that looked like a moon on my forehead.  

Carlos has been watching me for the most part, but the past couple days he has been walking the territory, saying something isn't right.  He came back early this morning and said he didn't find anything, but his instincts tell him it's still there.  He decided to ignore it and watch me so he's sitting in front of the house looking at my new wolf form.

"That's really good progress you've made when I was gone.  Just need to do something about the wings, can you hide them?"  He asks and I shake my head no.

"Ok that's fine for now, it's not like we're going anywhere right now."  He puases then asks, "Do you want to spar?  It's just that I haven't been able to find that giant wolf to fight against."  Oh yeah, I think he mentioned that he has been sparring with that giant stone dog in his dragon form.  

"Don't worry, I'll shrink my dragon size."  I'm not worried it's just that I don't know if I will be able to control myself and if I can't control myself then my monster look will reveal itself.  Now that I think about it, it probably is a good idea that I spar in this form.  I can practice concentrating and moving at different speeds.   

I nod and he transforms into Zayrreth except instead of his ginormous size he is now slightly bigger than my wolf size.  

We circle around a couple times, sizing each other up when Carlos strikes first.  He aims for my neck but misses when I jump to the side.  He growls and leaps at me again and I dodge out of the way again and again.  He growls in frustration and flaps his wings, flying above him and opens his jaws and blows fire at me.  I block the fire with my wings and that's when I realize Carlos wanted me to do that.  

Before I know it, I'm tackled to the ground.  We tumbled a few yards and he's on top of me.  His jaws are almost piercing my neck and he is stepping on my wings so I can't use them.  I growl at him and try to push him off of me, but his teeth poke my neck giving me a warning. 

I snarl and try to think of a way to get out of this situation.  Sasha will want blood so I can't let her loose.

"Use my power."  It's that voice again!  "My power can help you."  In an instant, I feel my insides get incredibility hot and I feel Carlos loosen around my neck.  Then just as the instant passed, I knew what to do, I spread this overbearing heat to my wings and Carlos leaps off just as fast as I get up and see the scales on his talons are melting.  Zayrreth screeches as if he's in pain and I'm not losing this chance to take him down. 

I bite him with my teeth by his wing and fly up above the trees and fling him away.  I watch him as he makes a loud bang as he crashes to the ground.  I stay in the sky watching as the dust clears.  I then smell a familiar scent and see movement not far from where Carlos crashed to.  I move my eyes away from the dust cloud to look and that was another mistake as Carlos appears out of the dust cloud coming for me.  He grazes my side with his claws.  Sasha then moves inside me, letting me know she senses the intruders too.   

I look at Carlos and can see how he grazed me he grew bigger!  I bet he's angry now, which means this fight is going to get even harder.  He punches me on the cheek and i go flying down to the ground.  I groan but quickly get out of the way as Zarreyth breathed fire in my direction.  I growl at him as we circle each other on the burnt ground.  

"You have more power!  Use it, use all of it!"  Zarreyth yells and attacks even faster.  He tackles me to the ground and pins me on my back.  He gets ready to breath fire as I close my eyes and tell myself, it's coming.  But it never does, as a memory of a little sea creature pops in my head.  I open my eyes and see that same sea creature by my side.  That's when I notice Zarreyth isn't on top of me anymore instead in front is him trapped in a bubble full of water.  

He tries to get out using anything he can but he can't move.  I look back at the little sea creature and it coos at me.  

I remember now, its not a sea creature.  Its a elemental that I named Champ!  Changing back to my human form, I pat Champ's head and crawls on me happily.  All of a sudden, the water bubble bursts and Champ shrieks and heads straight for the tattoo on my arm.  As soon as it made contact, the tattoo glows and she disappears.  Carlos grabs my arm and points at the bonding symbol on my arm and yells, "Just wait until next time!  I'll get you and then take you to the desert and leave you there!!"  I roll my eyes.

He lets go of my arm and smirks at me.  "Nice sparring, you kept your semi normal wolf form the whole time."

"Yeah, I had to keep concertation on that though, plus Sasha wanted to get in on the fight too."

"If we keeping doing this, you'll be able to fight with ease and not focus on your form so hard.  Especially when you fight at full strength when I'm in my true form too."

I nod and what he says next excites me.

"Let's go hunting, I discovered a few pests around us."