let the punishment fit the crime

halazoa londress looked across the field in front of her castle from her balcony the beautiful devastation she had caused with her magics littered the bloodsoaked ground the pathetic rabble continued trying to attack her you'd think they give up but the kingdom of derringer seemingly has an endless supply of soldiers but she was bored with killing weaklings. but what's this she sees a little boy

wading through the corpses turning them over and looking at their faces .

she teleports down appearing behind him shes asks whats hes doing.

with a face that can only be described as emotionless the boy says looking for my mother's body she was a knight in the army she had grey hair with streaks of black and red.

nobody else had hair like hers so I thought I could find her.

halazoa responded oh her she was strong enough to survive my magic so I kept her for my experiments.

wanna go see her? she said with a twisted smile.

she started walking not waiting for the kid to follow after a minute he ran after her when he got close a root raised up from the ground tripping him he falls on his face.

he gets up his lip bloody and hes covered with dirt he turns to look for her but shes already by the gate she waves at him to hurry and the gates behind open on there own as she walks inside the gates start to close.

the boy runs just making it as the gate slams shut knocking him down again thankfully this time hes uninjured.

it's dark inside the castle so it takes a minute for his eyes to adjust the first he sees is the blood stained entryway with trails of dried blood leading different directions suddenly one of the bloodstains lights up glowing menacingly he bravely follows the strange ichor down the dark hallway and up the stairs.

he enters a large room halazoa is sitting on a massive throne covered in various levers and buttons it looks more like a pile of scrap metal than a throne.

hey kid how's it going did you want something?

nnnot a kid he stutters name is cagvin gall yyyou said I could see my mmmom.

halazoa asks are you sure that's what you want ?

yyyes please she is all I hhhave.

halazoa smiles and pulls a lever and a cage comes out from a nearby wall inside the cage is a massive beast its fur grey with streaks red and black.

cagvin looks into its eyes and recognizes his mother immediately what have you done he screams the stutter gone from his voice .

.....

9 giants surround a floating blue orb looking at the scene through it like some kinda fortune telling orb.

they are arguing about if they should intervene and give the boy some of their power.

the giants come to an agreement and four of them decide to share a portion of their power.

the rest decide not to intervene.

....

suddenly voices fill cagvins head

the godess of sadness durgafoss shares her power with you when you shed tears they strengthen your body.

the God of burning rage angorious

shares his power making you a berserker.

the god of balance galurnt shares his power making your defense rise drastically in the presence of powerful enemies.

the godess of magic hexonja shares her power giving you a barrier that protects you from magic.

....

halazoa sees the boys skin start to glow with an unearthly light and realizes the gods are meddling again with a frown she pushes a button letting the boys mom out she tries to run at halazoa but dark magic flows out from her hand and into her "loyal"(mind controled)

pet she turns around with a low growl lunges towards her boy with tears in her eyes.

the bawling child bellows out in anger and grief giving into his berserker rage grabs his beastly mother grabs her by the jaw and slams her into the marble floor.

he starts towards halazoa whilst she hurls various magics at him fire,lightning,poison,ice nothing works,damnable gods she mutters to herself I'm not gonna let some kid kill me.

she covers herself with a barrier of her own and collapses the castle on top of them.

the rubble floats in the air locking back into place looking good as new the boy lies on the ground his body broken the magic barrier unable to withstand the physical damage of a collapsed building .

halazoa walks down from her throne waving her hand at the boys mother healing her the beast gets up and limps over to her broken boy a twisted wail coming out of her.

cagvin opens his eyes as his moms tears drip down onto his face he tries to lift his arm to comfort her but it wont move instead he says it's okay mom its nnot your fault .

halazoa sees hes still alive so she reaches out hand with dark magics and says

eat him.

....

the gods look away unable to watch the beast eat her son but they can still hear the crunching sounds .

durgafoss calls out the other gods bloody tears forever falling from her eyes.

if you had shared your power too this wouldn't have happened.

angorious bellows out exactly its your fault

you cowards chose not to intervene.

quiet you imbecile I'm trying to think the god king uonn (uooh-on) lashes out at angorious.

the rest of them are silent too none of them wish to get on uonns bad side.

uonn finally speaks it will take all our combined power but I think the punishment should fit the crime.

we curse her strip her magic and turn her into a wolf without a pack see how long she survives

alone without magic.

something like this would weaken us for a long time but I think its necessary she has grown too powerful she has been researching divinity and how to kill gods,also if she keeps killing our chosen heroes it will weaken us eventually.

hexonja responds exactly humans are our only form of entertainment and they might go extinct shes already wiped out over half the population.

yes currently their is no balance in the world something must be done galurnt says.

the youngest god talinenger the god of progress says according to the universal library cursing people never goes well.

every time it happens the curse is broken by true love just saying.

the triplet gods of fate matron,detra,and silvoga say in unison it does not matter it is set in stone we must do this.

so the gods face the orb and focus all there power.

....

halazoa wakes in unfamiliar forest it's dark so she lifts up her paw to cast light orb.

her paw? she stares at it for a minute unable to really see but when no light orb comes out she starts to panic.

suddenly a massive growl echoes through the trees and halazoa darts off running faster then she ever has before.

she reaches a clearing with small pond and slows down seeing her paws in the light of the sun she tries to yell but all that comes out is a pitiful whining sound.

she walks up to the pond and sees her reflection

a wolf looks back at her and she realizes the damnable gods must have cursed her.

she doesn't have time to worry about it though

cause a huge bear stepped out from the cover of the trees growling at her.

oh I'm sorry was this your pond shes says(in her head) I'll be going now and takes off the bear running after her.

she thought it would get tired but it's been chasing her for a long time and she was the one who was getting tired.

she sees a hollow log and darts inside she hears the bears heavy foot steps hitting the ground and lowers herself against the rotting bark bugs crawling over her she silences a whimper and tries to hold her breath but she just ends up scratching

her nose but luckily the bear must not have seen her go in because she hears it footsteps(paw steps?) receding .

the bears gone but halazoa is reluctant to leave the safety of the rotting log she thinks about eating some of of the bugs but dosen't feel desperate enough to resort to such measures.

.....elsewhere

Davies jestalt was an old man to look at him you'd probably think hes around 40 but he's actually 174 Davies is the last pure blood werewolf pure bloods live about 400 years on average .

he lives in seclusion because there are people who would use him to breed *war beasts whitch are werewolves born into military service he was caged for more than 50 years breeding soldiers.

the poor women that they forced into the cage with him rarely survive birthing and if he refused to father more children they threatened the womans family ,eventually he escaped but payed a heavy price to get back their breeder they started executeing the war beasts his children but he knew they wouldn't be any better off even if he went back so he got as far away from the nobility as he could .

so here he is in the cabin he built himself where hes been living for 17 years.

all he does every day is chop wood,hunt and carve wooden figures what he wouldn't give for a book not that he has anything besides

carved woodland figures and animal skins.

davies tried to tell himself he wasn't depressed just mind numbingly bored.

he hadn't shifted in years the nobles had magis that could track the activated curse magic so on the week leading to the full moon

Davies has to seal himself away in a special cage built for him by a powerful witch he had rescued from being burned at the stake years earlier.

trapping himself in a cage month after month unable to run free as a wolf was excruciating for a pure blood more so than it would have been for a lesser beast .

there were a few days before he had to go through it again but before that he needed to hunt so there would be plenty of meat for the beast or else it,ll break free.

hes wearing shorts and a weird hairy grey vest with lots of pockets he grabs a bunch of small cages that have been lashed together and fastens them to a makeshift stretcher using it to drag them along the ground without making too much noise he heads out the forest.

.....

part two:hey I'm a wolf too why are you trying to eat me?

halazoa was tired and hungry so despite her fear she ducked her head out of the log only to see the bear chasing a fox away from her she breathed out unaware she had been holding her breath she didn't wanna risk heading back the water vaguely remembering some book she read about predators stalking water sources.

she saw smoke in the distance though so maybe there was a cabin nearby it was pretty far off though and the humans might kill if they see her

so best she can hope for is a stolen chicken maybe some eggs? instead she'll try to find some food first.

thinking hard about it she draws a blank on where to find food ,but just when she was gonna give up a little bunny ran past so she immediately took off after it.

running through the woods was fun actually though the bunny was annoyingly fast. everytime she was about clamp down on it it changed direction then it ran into a cave but came right back out she started to chase after it when she heard a low growl behind her she slowly turned around only to see a bunch of wolves come out of the cave.

she thought to herself shit that's one smart bunny she doesn't know how to communicate with them so she try's growling back at them but it comes out like more of a whining sound.

this only serves to antagonize them.

one of them lunges and bites into her side she squeaks and rolls around trying to break free seeing it's not working she leans back and clamps down the wolf's tail the wolf let's go and she is gone running threw the dense forest she looks back and there right behind her the wolf who's tail she bit leading the pack with fire in his eyes. hey I'm a wolf too why are you trying to eat me!

dont look back dont look back she tells herself

and barrels right into a wall of cages being dragged by davies.

she scrambles to her feet and tries to growl at him but still not quite being able to figure it out it still sounds like whining the man just smiles at her kinda creeping her out .

she hears the wolves coming darts behind him lowering her body to the ground.

seemingly amused davies looks at the wolves surrounding them he dosen't look bothered .

one of the wolves jumps at him to attack but he just punches it the wolf goes flying and slams into nearby tree going limp there pack leader out for the count the other wolves turn tail and run.

Davies looks back at the little wolf cowering behind the cages it looks really scared and keeps looking back at the crumpled body of the pack leader so he pulls some jerky out of his vest offering it to her she snatches it gobbling it up greedily. next he pulls out some bandages cleaning her side and wrapping it up she looks up at him with stars In her eyes

thinking my hero hmm hes not bad looking either she stands up and and rubs against him trying to convey affection.

he Pat's her head saying your not a normal wolf are you. he gathers up his cages and tosses her some more jerky and starts to walk away .

she grabs hold of his shorts with her teeth she looks up at him with her best puppy dog eyes trying to look cute.

he sighs and says come on then and starts walking again halazoa follows after him feeling kinda embarrassed but shes never gonna survive in the woods alone so she happily follows Davies back to his cabin.