Not long after Fenrir said that he would bring Shiro over everyone could see a blur of darkness and a blur of light scaling the mountain, as the blurs reached them they shifted to a black wolf and a white fox.
"You must be Inari Shiro, my name is Iskandor, this is my pack, Hikari, Lar, Serena and Aerial." Iskandor introduces. "May I form a temporary empathy link?"
"I already did so, sorry for the lack of etiquette there." Shiro apologizes.
"No need to apologize, I'm pretty laid back. I heard about you from Fenrir." Iskandor replies, "If you don't have a decent place to stay you are welcome to stay here, I know that typically foxes stay in packs but as your a lone fox things may be different."
"Then forgive me for abusing your hospitality." Shiro accepts with a bit of a laugh.
"If I may, how do you feel about Fenrir?" Lar chimes in, trying to tease Shiro.
"He is quite intriguing, he managed to pick up magic quite easily, has an abnormal growth rate, has the most unique appearance I am aware of and has been a great friend despite the near constant flirting." Shiro answers, causing everyone to laugh excluding Fenrir.
"Why does everyone like to tease Fenrir, I know I do it too but it's like we all silently agreed to tease him." Iskandor laughs. "I'm sorry bud but it seems that it won't change if Shiro stays around." As Iskandor says this he gives Fenrir a subtle wink and Fenrir catches it's meaning.
"Other than gender you two encapsulate Yin and Yang perfectly..." Hikari notes.
"Now that you mention it your right, more of your memory coming back?" Iskandor responds.
" A bit." Hikari answers.
"Shiro, do you have any questions for any of us?" Iskandor asks.
"How late do you want Fenrir home by?" She jokes, causing everyone to laugh yet again. At this Fenrir paws at Shiro and all but drags her away. Clearly neither hurt eachother in any of their antics, verbal or physical.
"If you two decide to mate let me know if I should expect cubs." Iskandor hollers towards the soon-to-be lovers. At this he gets a harmless ball of shadows to the face and a ball of light to the crotch. "I wonder if they could get humanoid forms down the line..." Iskandor ponders.
"That came out of nowhere." Serena says.
"Well, some say kitsune and nekomatas at one point were races of all animals..." Lar says.
"This world has catgirls!?" Iskandor asks with a bit too much excitement.
"Umm... Yes?" Lar answers, a bit unsure on how to respond. Iskandor then decides to run off through the labyrinth.
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"It's obvious you like me, when are you going to confess?" Shiro asks.
"I was going to confess over a freshly hunted meal... But now I have to do it now." Fenrir says, "I care for you Shiro, I don't know how or why it happened to fast or if we could even have cubs should we try. Whatever the answers may be I'd like to be by your side till we cease to be."
"I didn't realize that in such time you could learn to rhyme. Soon the sun will set like when we first met. You still have skills to hone but that can wait because I'd like to bone." Shiro rhymes in a way that only a vixen like her could.
"As much as I'd love to bone, I've still got skills to hone. Till I have a chance to shine you can't yet be mine. Be it bear or hare till we dine I can't make you mine." Fenrir says, they rhymes not quite as good as a sly fox but impressive nonetheless.
"I suppose we could dine first, however I'd like to turn this into a trial if you insist so much." Shiro says. "If you fail I am the alpha till you prove otherwise, if you succeed you are the alpha till I prove otherwise, and if you manage to neither fail or succeed we are equals."
"What is the challenge?" Fenrir asks.
"You need to gather 2 eggs from a hawks nest without the hawk noticing, kill a deer without it noticing you, gather enough rice for the both of us without getting wet and get 2 apples without leaving the ground to do so. Bonus points if you can do this all by sundown." Shiro says. And with this, they're off.
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"Come on Iskandor, it's not like you're going to find a neko by chance in the middle of the woods." Hikari says.
"We should get a better idea of our surroundings anyway, and make sure there aren't any cultist branches nearby," Iskandor counters, "and what does it matter if this was started by a search for catgirls."
"I guess your right but we don't have weapons on us and the others are back at base." Hikari said, trying to convince Iskandor to go back.
"It's alright, I've got to test out my earth magic and perhaps even armipotence." Iskandor says.
"How about armor?" Hikari asks.
"My scales are armor, unless it has incredible force my scales can't be cut through, it requires quite amount of force to peirce, however blunt weapons can still deal damage. That's why I've been working on this!" Iskandor says, stomping on the ground to have earth encase his lower body. "I can do the entire body but not from the feet alone... Not yet at least."
"When did you manage to learn that?" Hikari asks.
"While everyone was too exhausted after all the sex and were all passed out atop eachother." Iskandor answers. "I see a cave up ahead, and I sense something disturbing the ambient mana..."