The Fox and The Cat (Lesbian Story, OLD)

Chapter 31

Sarah walked up to Merlin's tree and examined it. "You want me to what?" She asked.

"Just talk to it." I told her.

"It's a tree."

"That tree is your great grandfather, now talk to it." I growled.

I wondered if by her talking to it, would it maybe trigger another vision, or maybe Merlin would try and talk to me again. I prayed to Elysium to have them help me in this endeavor.

Please let it work.

"Hello Grandfather?" Sarah called.

"Perhaps you should ask him for help?" Akeno suggested as she looked at the woman who was halfway underground, reaching out but still frozen in the bark of a tree.

Sarah turned and glared at Akeno who shrugged. Sarah then sighed and looked at the tree again. "Grandfather, I know you will not answer, but I really need your help... I don't want to die."

I yelped in pain and Sarah and Akeno both turned towards me as I put my hands on my head. It felt like a hand reached through the back of my head and grabbed hold of my right eye.

The pain subsided quickly, but when I opened my eyes, I was no longer in the forest, but Merlin's tree was still there, and Akeno and Sarah were gone. The face on the tree shifted slightly, before it's eyes opened and locked onto me.

"So, you've heard me call out to my Granddaughter, and now you come to save my Great Granddaughter? Where were you when she was dying right in front of me?" Merlin asked.

"Elysium had just told me of her fate." I explained. "For some reason it wants Sarah to live." 

"The only way to stop it, is to change her body, because that is were the curse is." Merlin answered.

"What do you mean?"

"A demon must change her." Merlin said. As he did, Alice's image flashed before my eyes again.

"You want Alice to change her?" I asked.

"Who's Alice?" He questioned.

"Elysium must have completely decided her fate already." I sighed.

"Elysium is hard to understand and even harder to follow. I'm afraid that Elysium may not be trying to help us as much as itself for a later date. It must sense something is threatening it, and it wants the best there to protect it." Merlin explained. "Be weary Fate Weaver." 

I sat bolt upright, and Akeno and Sarah jumped from where they were sitting by a camp fire. I was back in the forest, sitting near Merlin's tree. Instantly I looked at the face, finding it's eyes closed, like it's been that way for millenia. 

"Are you alright?" Akeno asked.

"Why did you make a fire?" I questioned, trying to catch my breath.

"Because it was night." Sarah answered.

"Was?"

"Look up."

I was honestly surprised when I was met with the sun instead of the moon. "W-What? How?" I asked.

"It seems your visions are becoming more draining on you Mikky." Akeno said.

"Mikky? You mean Master Thief?" Sarah glared at me.

"What?" I looked down at myself finding the tattoos covering my body. I looked back at Akeno who looked guilty.

"When you went into your vision, your tattoos turned white and lit up. They were glowing brightly, and so was your eye. There was nothing I could do to hide it."

I rubbed my head, the throbbing was still there, but it was faint now. "What the hell was that about Elysium?" I sighed.

"That wasn't Elysium." Sarah answered as she poked the fire with a stick.

"How would you know that?" I glared.

"Elysium would not have been so spectacular about it. You wouldn't have even fainted if it was just Elysium. Whatever they made you, the Weaver of Fate as you said, was what you just used."

"How do you know that?" Akeno asked softly, not trying to spark an argument.

"I could sense it." She answered.

"I know you're a powerful mage and everything, but mortal races can't sense things like that." Akeno retorted.

Sarah raised an eyebrow at her. "You say that as if you're not one."

Akeno didn't miss a beat. "I'm not one. I'm a Fire Fox." 

"So a demon then?"

"Indeed."

"If that were true, there wouldn't be a deer standing behind you?" Sarah rolled her eyes.

Akeno flinched then looked over her shoulder. And sure enough there was a huge Elk standing a few feet behind her. Akeno growled and stood up and started shooing the Stag way. The Elk grunted before turning and walking away.

How that massive beast managed to sneak up on us (me especially) I have no idea. Perhaps it was there when I was asleep?

"That, and you wouldn't have been able to push the Curse away." Sarah stood up, holding the stick she was using to poke the fire. "So tell me, what are you?"

Akeno looked over her shoulder as she was still facing where the Stag had ran off. Her scarlet eyes looked almost menacing. "Do not ask questions you do not want to know the answers to."

"See, that's why I'm asking." Sarah retorted.

Akeno's tail swayed in her annoyance, her ears leaned back against her head like she was surpressing a growl. "I am The Nine Tailed Fox of Krate. Nature is my shroud, and Fire is my weapon." Her eyes seemed to glow ever so slightly, like she was expressing her power. "Do not tempt my anger Mage." 

Sarah just watched her, as if waiting for something to happen. "You expect me to believe I'm standing before a Goddess?" She scoffed.

Akeno's hair and tail caught fire, her eyes now obviously glowing. "How dare you mock me!"

"I'm not mocking you." Sarah answered. "I'm stating a fact. You're a woman with fox ears and a fox tail, that doesn't mean you're a Goddess. Show me your form, then I'll believe you."

Akeno wasted no time, allowing her flames to consume her body before her huge fox form stepped out. The tattoos glowed white from the hot flame, and her feet were ablaze in a bue flame. As always, her fur was on fire too. However, this time, she did have Nine Tails. Was it her anger that gave her all of them?

Sarah stepped back a bit, seemingly shocked that she was now face to face with a Goddess, but Akeno did not hold her form very long, and instead changed back quickly, this time putting out all her flames. "Do not question me again." Akeno warned before she stepped into the forest, without even so much as glancing at me.