Spirit Animals Oneshots

Devin x Conor - The Battle

A/N -
This is my most favorite ship in the world!!! Events take place after The Evertree book... Also, in this story, Devin hasn't quite joined the Redcloaks yet.
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Conor's PoV -

It was a cool winter night in Trunswick but regardless of the temperature I sat outside on my family home's porch. I loved the look of the moon and stars. I lay on my back staring up at the night sky. Meow, meow, I heard some cat meowing in the distance so I got up to go check out the noise. What if the cat was homeless? My family would probably take care of it. Meow. The sound was closer now. I wandered through the woods along a deer's trail. "What the..." I screamed as someone or something jumped on me but they immediately placed a hand over my mouth muffling my screams.

"Conor, quite," the man said.

He turned me around and sat me against a tree, still holding on to me, "You won't scream again, will you?" the man said, in the dim moonlight I couldn't quite make out his features.

Who was this creep anyway? I nodded my head in agreement just to get him to let me go. "Good," he said as he let me go.

The instant he did I jumped to my feet and ran as fast as I could to hopefully get home. With what seemed to be super human speed the man grabbed me again but this time he hugged me. "Please, don't be scared, it's me, Devin, I wasn't trying to hurt you," now I could make out a few features of his he looked like the old Devin Trunswick but with a few catlike features.

I gasped and stared in aw at him. "So what do you think, Conor, this is the new me..." when I didn't reply due to the shock of the situation he let me free from the hug, "I'm sorry."

Devin started to walk away. I noticed he had a cute cat tail that dragged the ground to show his sadness. "D-devin," I mumbled his name, "wait for me."

I trodded over to him and wrapped my arms around him, it was obvious he needed love. Then suddenly I felt the strong urge to kiss him. Blushing, I pressed my lips to his. I waited a moment and he actually kissed back. A few moments later we broke the kiss. "Conor," Devin mumbled my name lovingly, "You don't care that I look this way."

"No, I hate it, your too damn handsome," I smirked at him, "I can't compete."

Devin smiled back and hugged me, "But Conor your gorgeous!"

     I took him back to my house and we cuddled on the front porch for awhile. I'd never really had a crush on Devin before and I had known him for the majority of my life. In fact I use to think he was such a pain but I loved him now. He had changed so much since I had been his servant.

     Devin rested his head on my chest and we both stared up at the stars. I could hear him purring contently and every once in awhile he would let out a small meow. "Conor, Conor, I summoned a spirit animal," a voice called from the distance, Dawson.

     He ran up to us, still panting. Then he noticed Devin, who was now sitting next to me. "Devin, oh my gosh, your alive, I was so worried about you, you have no idea," Dawson stated excitedly.

     He hugged his brother. Now an animal waddle through the darkness towards us. "Oh, I almost forgot, Devin, Conor, this is Rumfuss, my spirit animal," Dawson motioned to the great boar that had sat down in the grass next to him.

     Both Devin's and my mouth dropped open at this news. Devin's brother had just summoned a great beast! Briggan walked over and sniffed at Rumfuss. "I have so many questions, Devin, why are you a cat and are you and Conor a thing now, because I totally ship you two!" Dawson wiggled his eye brows at the last part.

     "Uhhhh, I have features of my spirit animal from the unnatural bond of the bile, this happened after the second Great War, and yeah, Conor's my boyfriend," Devin replied and my heart fluttered a little as he said this.

     There was an evil laugh in the distance, "lucky me, I'll be able to add two great beasts to my collection," it was a voice that could only belong to one man, Zerif.

    Devin and I jumped up immediately, ready to fight. Devin shoved Dawson behind him to protect him. I heard Devin whisper to his brother, "take Rumfuss and run trough the woods towards the docks, we'll be right behind you."

     "I can't leave you, Devin," Dawson complained.

     "Dawson, don't argue, just go," Devin begged.

     Dawson nodded and made a run for it towards the woods. Luckily Zerif didn't seem to notice or at least he didn't seem to care. "Eh, I'll catch up to him later, it's Briggan, I want now," Zerif snarled.

Devin's PoV -

     "Not on my watch," I protectively stood in front of Conor.

     Briggan snarled at the man. Zerif didn't even seem to care about fighting, he simply opened a vile and dropped the contents, a black glob, to the ground. It squirmed a little but then changed at Briggan with alarmingly fast speed. Conor yelped and ran to protect his wolf.

     He tried to chop the worm in half but ended up creating two of them in the process. One kept pursuing Briggan but Conor called him back to passive in the nick of time. The other worm crawled up Conor's axe and onto his arm. Conor desperately tried to shake it off but to no avail. The worm worked it's way into Conor's skin.

     I growled at Zerif and wrapped Conor into a hug. A moment later I grabbed his hand and we ran into the woods following Dawson's footsteps. I checked behind us but Zerif wasn't pursuing. Finally, we meet Dawson at the dock. "You guys okay?" Dawson asked when he seen us.

     "I don't think you could call it okay," Conor said worriedly inspecting the worm, now embedded in his skin.

     I hugged him, "I'll take care of you, Conor."

     He was still worried but a quick kiss settled him a bit. "I love you," I stated.

     "I love you too," Conor replied and cuddled closer to me.

     We spent the night next to the dock. The plan in the morning was to take the first ship to Greenhaven. We all had to notify the Greencloaks of Zerif's plans. I was committed to helping the Greencloaks with their fight but most of all I was committed to helping Conor.