Suzuki woke up her head throbbed from what felt like a hammer blow to her skull. She moaned lightly as she opened her eyes taking in her humble surroundings. Light streamed in through a small window beside her makeshift bed, a pile of straw on the floor. The sing song of birds filtered in to the small room she occupied bringing a smile to her lips. As she sat up rubbing the sides of her temple she smiled her hair slippingng forward like a cowl covering her features. Then she remembered. She got up in a hurry looking left and right in a panic. She scrambled off the straw she had lain on throwing it into the air and ran to the door grabbing the hilt and opening it in a rush.
As the door opened she looked out at a chest at her heads hight, muscled and wide and she let out a little yelp swallowing and looking up. As she did her eyes widened. Before her stood the beast.
"Hello small one" the beast smiled down at her. She yelped and took a step back slamming the door in his face. She pressed her back to the door her chest heaving with every panicked breath she took. Who had brought her here? That thing?!? It wasn't possible. No creature half a meter taller than her previous self with tusks sharp as knives and just as long jutting from their mouth could be. She quickly began devising a plan to escape when she heard it speak.
"You're not being very kind to the one who carried you half the forest in the rain" the beast chuckled in a deep voice which carried into the room easily. For some reason her body clenched instinctively in fear as she heard it and she urinated falling to her knees losing strength in her legs. She touched her face which was wet with tears. When had that happened? She thought. Why could she not control her bowels? Why had she collapsed?
The beast pushed into the room and looked down at her sighing "I understand that you are an elf, and a royal one at that, but to piss yourself at my voice?" He knelt down picking her up and stroking her hair. "You have nothing to fear, i am strong and in this godforsaken land that means everything..."
In his hand her once golden locks were shining a pale white. What had caused that? She had heard in her previous life from Gabe that hair could turn white from stress and fear but never had she heard of it being so sudden. She tried to gather herself and talk but her throat felt stuck and she wasn't able to. He chuckled at her and gathered her small body in his strong chiseled arms.
"Of course an elf would fear our kind" he said calmly as he carried her out of the room her nakedness fully exposed to him "I am an orc after all" he carried her easily down a flight of stairs overlooking what seemed to be a mess hall. The mess hall was large containing a long oak table made to seat up to thirty people lined by chairs. Small beings curiously winged and flying carried silverware and cutlery placing it at the table in a orderly fashion. Suxuki stared in awe forgetting for the shortest of moments that she was in a beasts arms as these little winged girls flit around some placing cutlery others scattering what seemed to be rose petals.
"You're wondering what this is for arent you?" He asked rhetorically as he carried her to the head of the table where two seats sat one next to the other taller than the rest and more fashionably embroidered. When she didn't answer he rumbled on "This is to welcome you to the family"
Suzuki looked up at this beast shocked and slightly fearful. There was no way she would be part of *his* family. He again smiled down at her his grin revealing teeth that could devour her much as they had devoured the wolf. She shivered in fear which he misunderstood for cold. "My bad" he said carrying her out of the mess hall down a wide corridor "let us find you clothing"
They went down the hall and to her shock other girls were walking about peacefully happily waving at the sight of the beast. A girl with pointed furry ears crowning her head smiled waving at the beast eagerly "Master Kumanji! Master Kumanji!" She giggled racing up beside him and pressing herself against him. A tail sprouting from the small of her back resembling what looked to be a foxes with hues of reddish orange bursting brightly in the morning light flicked back and forth eagerly. She noticed Suzuki and frowned sniffing at her "A new girl?" She asked quizzically "whats her name? Where's she from? How did you find her? Who did you kill?" Suzukis eyes widened in fear again as the beast, Kumanji, chuckled "Curiosity killed the cat Mei" he looked at Suzuki "and the cat caught yours" Suzuki feared him instinctively despite his warmth and attempts to liken himself to her. "She seems a bit scared" Mei said "perhaps you should leave her to me?" Her tail swished energetically across the floor captivating Suzuki. "That is not a bad idea" Kumanji said placing Suzuki on her feet. "She will need to be ready tonight" Mei stepped forward and took Suzukis hand happily "I'll make sure she has everything she needs!" She then turned to Suzuki "Follow me!" She then turned and started dragging the unprepared and still quite shocked Suzuki down the hall.
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Mie brushed her hair humming a very sweet tune. Suzuki had to forcibly keep herself from shaking her head to the tune instead tapping her feet in time as she stared at herself in the mirror. She sat naked on a seat made of wood polished till it shone in front of a mirror decorated by vines and flowers from the wall which happened to be a trunk of a large tree. "Youre hair is so gorgeous..." Mie ran her hand through Suzukis hair golden in the streams of sunlight streaming through the round windows along the wall. Suzuki smiled lightly "T...thank you" she said blushing lightly. She looked at her reflections absorbing the pointed ears and the green eyes and noticed her golden hair slowly change colour to a light green washing down in a wave from the roots of her hair down to the bottom. Mie gasped in awe at the change dropping the brush she held. "Your majesty!" Mei got up before her and bowed "i didn't know!" Suzuki knelt down beside her her hair flashing to a grey as she held Mies shoulder "Please don't kneel, I am nothing special! I dont even know who I am" Mie looked up at her and got up lifting Suzuki with her. "What do you mean?" Mei asked curiously "everyone knows that the royalty of the elven race have changing hair colours"
Suzuki sat stunned "I have forgotten myself..." she said shakily "please remind me who am am. I remember nothing save the night I was taken by the beast..." Mie's head turned slightly on an angle curiously "The beast?" She asked. "Yes... him" Suzuki replied shaking her head toward the door. Mei laughed her ears and tail twitching furiously. Suzuki blushed and her hair turned red in a ripple. Tears rolled from Mei's eyes as she laughed "You mean Kumanji? He is just another man" she said between bouts of laughter "and he's asserting his place in this world" Suzuki blushed her hair turning a deeper red "you say i am royalty" Suzuki spurted out "what do you mean?" Mei cocked her head and said "your hair... your hair is definitely that of elven royalty, a magic bestowedby the highest of eleven magicians and warlocks nobody can replicate it" "so that makes me special?" Asked Suzuki curiously "if you were a man it would make you near unstoppable amongst the elven kind, you would attract armies and lords to your side but as a woman it is but a status symbol for your spouse marrying into elven royalty in fact no matter what race you married into their hair would have the same qualities" Suzuki got up frustrated at the idea that she was helpless to everythinghappening to her and her very being in and of itself "And what per say is our place in this world?" Mei looked at her in a way which made her feel as if she had just asked the dumbest thing in the world "thats obvious isn't it?" She said her ears flitting "we are here to please those who are strong, that's what women are for right? The stronger a man is the more women he can keep? I mean Master Kumanji has thirty of us. You are to become his thirty first tonight..."