The Cold Wolf

Chapter 20 Last Gleaming Light

Icy was resting, he kept holding onto hope, Anna was gone to search for anything outside the hideout. The same roar from the truck was heard again. The roar stopped, a door was heard opening, Icy thought Anna would be getting off and immediately shutting the door to enter the hideout, but she got off and closed the door, opening the back trunk to take out what was within the back. Icy heard her grunting, so he thought of going outside to see if she needed help. As he got to the door of the outside, he would see that she held a metallic box. "Mind giving some assistance, please?," she asked Icy. The Cold Wolf ran towards Anna, assisting her with the box, gently walking to the entrance of the hideout. On his way in, he saw the truck slowly disappear on sight, even the pad below. He kept going without even questioning the disappearance of the truck. Anna and Icy kept going until they reached the testing room. They set down the metallic box onto the slab. Anna pressed a button within the box, only for it to disappear, with a cubic capsule falling onto Anna's hand. There were three foxes, flopped onto a sort of pile of fluff. "I don't know if these are really some, but maybe they are like us!," Anna gasped out. Icy then questioned "Why? You just got a bunch of foxes, this blue one concerns me slightly." Anna picked up what seemed to be a regular colored fox. "Look at this one, it may seem like an ordinary fox, but if you see here on its stomach, the fur pattern is different, see it has a green radioactive symbol on it, not only that, it seemed to drool some green liquid, I tested it with some dirt when I found out, and it seemed corrosive," she said. Icy then looked at the other two foxes. He gently held the blue one, only to feel some small metallic fur, which almost seemed like small blades covering the blue fox. Icy set down the blue fox, only to then hold another fox, which seemed to be a gray fox. A black scarf seemed to be wrapped around its neck, and a feeling of light was contained within the gray fox. He then set down the gray fox, only to hold the ordinary colored fox. The fox felt heavy when picked up, though when holding the fox, he heard as if his stomach was sloshing, growling as liquid bubbled from the inside. "You said he drooled a green liquid, right?," he asked concerningly. Anna nodded, though replied "The little guy shouldn't be aggressive, he's in his mammal form, so he shouldn't bite for now." Icy then felt a sort of small shake, a twitch on the fox's body. Grunting and moaning was heard quietly as pain still eased in his body, eyes of the fox slowly opened, and then screaming was to be unleashed. Icy dropped the fox as the fox turned into its hybrid form. The screaming woke up the other two foxes, only for them to reveal their hybrid selves as well. "What the hell!? Who are you three!?!?" Anna cried. The ordinary fox burped and drooled more green liquid over his black and green coat, he seemed to be wearing regular pants, though no shoewear, and a wrist blade wrapped onto his wrist. The blue fox immediately got up to his feet, shifting his arm into a blade, straight towards Anna's throat, but yet to pierce her muscle. The gray fox watched in fear, unknown of what to do in a situation he never experienced. The ordinary fox yelled "Stand down, Henry, don't assume they'd kill us, if they did, we would've been dead fighting that strange gold guy afterwards!!" "Don't trust every savior, because they may cut your throats at the end!!," yelled the blue fox, named Henry. The gray fox then cried out "Can someone please explain what is happening!?!?!?" Icy grew shy once more and responded "I don't know either of you two, but I know you, strange ordinary fox. I saw you when I had an ice dragon, which I lost during my journey here, why were you with the dragon!?" The ordinary fox slowly collected his memories, realizing the whole situation and confusion of The Cold Wolf. "Who are you...?," the ordinary fox asked. "Icy, I-I'm Icy Fengári, you?," Icy questioned. The ordinary fox then responded. "I'm Ultima Bolt, The Phantom Fox." Icy then realized the reason the specter spoke to him, the specter wanted to guide Icy to Ultima, in an attempt to not only gain more powerful allies, but to help someone as powerful and special as Icy. The Cold Wolf put his hand out, Ultima grabbed his hand as Icy pulled The Phantom Fox up to his feet. Both glared for a moment, realizing a possible new journey that they may soon go through, to face both consequences and rewards that fate may offer in the future, but this was unknown until they went through the deeper parts of the reality they were in.