Chapter 151

[Third Person's PoV] 

Yukime held her fan over her chest to the side. Her ears were longer, and her fangs and nails had grown. Bluish markings appeared on her face as her magical aura intensified.

"Take a good look, Gettan. This is the true appearance of the Fox Spirit Tribe. Against the current me, you have no chance of winning!" she snarled.

"Hahahahahaha!" Gettan started to laugh maniacally.

Yukime looked at Gettan strangely before watching him reach into the inner pockets of his yukata and pull out a bottle of pills.

"I should have killed you when I had the chance," he snarled back as he downed the bottle and bit down on all the pills.

As he did, he started to grow taller, and the cut on his chest rapidly healed, becoming covered by black fur that began to grow all over his body. His mouth and nose soon extended, turning into a snout, while his ears, tail, claws, and fangs grew longer and thicker.

Gettan let out a large howl towards the moon, which shone down on them before looking at Yukime with a large grin that exposed his massive canines while he salivated.

He turned into a blur as he appeared by Yukime with claws aimed right at her jugular. Yukime instinctively reacted and blocked it with her fan, but Gettan swung his sword, which was in his other hand.

A large cut appeared across her chest, tainting the white snow red with her blood. Yukime cried out in pain and had to take a couple of steps back.

"You should have joined us when I offered. This power could have been yours. But it's too late now!" he yelled as he once again turned into a blur. As he ran towards Yukime, everything was going in slow motion for him.

He grabbed his long katana with both of his hands… paws?… and aimed his blade towards her neck.

That was until a long black furry arm came out from her shadow and blocked the sword with its claws. Their clash created sparks as Gettan looked on in horror.

Due to his form, his instincts were more astute than normal, enabling him to sense the danger that a single arm possessed. He then felt a shiver down his spine as he heard a growl directed towards him.

"Step away from my daughter!" Yukihime growled from Yukime's shadow. She pushed Gettan back and placed her hand on the ground before another hand appeared. She then pushed herself up from Yukime's shadow, slowly revealing her entire figure.

Gettan could only watch as a large purple and black monstrous fox, ten meters tall and on all fours, started to appear with Yukime underneath it. All nine of its tails swung around wildly. Her giant fox eyes narrowed toward the three-meter-tall Gettan.

"Mom, I'm fine. I'll heal quickly, don't worry," Yukime said, looking up. But Yukihime didn't take her eyes away from Gettan.

Gettan gritted his teeth. He hated feeling so powerless, which was one of the reasons he had joined the cult in the first place—for more power. Gettan's brain suddenly short-circuited.

"Did you just call that thing 'Mom'? And did that thing call you its daughter?"

Yukime smirked as she used most of her magic to heal the wound on her chest.

"What do you think?" Yukihime growled, the power of her voice reverberating through the area.

"That voice… But you're supposed to be dead. I killed you myself. I witnessed it happen. So how? How are you alive and in that form?"

"You'll find out soon enough," Yukihime grinned as one of her tails stretched out and swung towards Gettan, taking him by surprise.

Due to its power, he went flying back, his figure being imprinted on the snow as he rolled.

When he stopped, he saw a shadow above him, and when he looked up, he saw a giant paw coming down towards him.

He rolled away as the paw came crashing down, sinking into the ground with all its bestial strength.

As Gettan rolled towards safety, Yukihime's tail came swatting down, breaking most of his bones and making him scream out in agony.

Yukihime's tail then wrapped around Gettan's broken body and brought him close to her. 

"Your first mistake was killing me… Your second was thinking you could go after my daughter and not face the consequences."

The last thing Gettan saw was Yukihime opening her maw and moving it towards him.

Even with his broken bones, Gettan tried to break free but couldn't. He then began to plead when he realized how helpless he truly was.

"No! Please stop! I shouldn't have killed you! I'm sorry!" Gettan saw Yukime walking towards them. "Yukime! Please! Stop her! Remember all our good times together!"

Gettan didn't manage to say another word as Yukihime's jaw shut close over him, causing blood to gush out from between her fangs.

Yukime winced and looked away as it was too gory for her to stomach. Yukihime then spat it out to the side.

As she did, her form started to shrink, reverting to her regular fox lady figure. She wiped her mouth as she stood up in her yukata. "Disgusting," she spat to the side once more.

They all then heard Cid's voice, "That was quite the performance you guys put on, and that form was new, Yukihime. How did it come about?"

They turned towards the voice and saw Cid, surrounded in a purple outline, slowly float down towards them with a hand in his pocket. Yukihime put both her hands in her yukata sleeves and bowed towards Cid in respect. "I'm glad I was able to please you, my lord."

"As for the form, I don't know how it came about. I was just so angry and wanted to protect my daughter. My body acted on its own."

"I see. Then it appears there is more to Beastmen than we know. I'll have to look into it. Congrats, Yukihime."

Although Yukihime nodded, her tails betrayed her emotions as they rapidly swayed side to side, happy at being complimented.

Cid then turned towards Gettan's corpse and slightly pointed to it with a limp hand. "Erect."

From the corpse's shadow, a tall wolf wearing samurai armor appeared. It walked towards Cid with a katana in hand. Once it reached him, it knelt on one knee and presented the katana to him.

Cid took the shadow sword and swung it around, appreciating its appearance before knighting the samurai. "From here on out, you are to be known as Sushi."

Sushi felt power coursing through his soul as he bowed with a fist on the ground. "Gladly, my lord."

"Oh, it talks. Cool," Cid said, then gave him his sword back and started to walk away.

"Is that how he brought you to life, mother?" Yukime asked in awe.

"Yes."

Cid then walked towards the tree he had been sitting on and lightly tapped the ground with his foot. A small pillar began to rise, and on it was a bright ruby stone.

"What is that?" Yukime asked curiously.

Cid picked it up. "Sorry, you can't know." 'So this is her resentment…'

"Forgive me for prying," Yukime bowed.

But Cid just waved her off. "Don't worry about it. Anyway, onto what I wanted to talk to you about."

Yukime looked at Cid in confusion as Yukihime went to his side. "How would you feel about becoming a part of Shadow Garden?"

Yukime, hearing this, grew surprised, then smiled at him. "You have helped me out more times than I can count."

'I can, it's only like three times,' Cid thought but didn't say out loud.

She then bowed to him in the same way Yukihime had. "If it means I get to repay my long life debt to you, I would be more than honored to become a member of Shadow Garden."

The End... Of season 2 that is!

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A/N: Now for some after words...

Truly, I think this volume went on to be so much Better than volume 1. I had more experience and i had more fun which is the most important, it was just overall better.

Now like I did last Volume I would like to know which part of volume 2 was your favorite. believe it or not my favorite part was writing Celeste Pov. I didn't expect myself to enjoy that part as much as I did.