(Hinata's POV)
I'm a legendary beast. A nine tailed fox to be exact. My mother would always take care of me.
She gave me food, shelter, even keep me company when I'm bored! My whole life has been about me lazing around with my mother. She would go hunt at noon and brought back monsters for me to eat!
For us, nine tailed fox, our tails are our pride. The more tails we have, the stronger we are. My mother has 6 tail when she gave birth to me. That was around 3 years ago. Although right now she still has 6 tails.
My mother told me that if we successfully grow our 9th tail, we could have enough power to become Administrator! But she also told me to be careful because not many nine tailed fox succeed growing their 9th tail because other beast will hunt us down before that happened.
The one that hunt us down are usually dragons because they are at the top of food chain. My mother would sometimes bring me out to hunt with her. But growing tails takes a huge amount of time. And every time another tail grew, the next tail would take longer to grow.
After 20 years, my mother was beginning to grow her 7th tail. And that's when my life started to change.
A monster- or rather dragon, attacked us right after mother's tail grew. Since it was a surprise attack, mother weren't able to set up a barrier strong enough to protect both of us. So she used herself as a meat shield to defend me against the attack.
A beam came out from the dragon's mouth that attacked straight at me and mother.
My mother got on top of me and she created just a barrier just enough to cover both of us. But I could also tell that my mother has created another barrier on top of me. I tried to push her away but she wouldn't budge.
.....
And the attack came. It destroyed the surrounding area until nothing is left. Me and my mother were both in the middle of a giant crater.
I could hear Wings flapping, slowly getting farther and farther. I could still hear mother's breathing. I thought that if I'm quick enough I could get mother a medicine that could at least heal her a little bit. But as I was about to went and search for it, my mother talked to me through telepathy and said....
Survive
I was a bit confused at this statement but it doesn't matter because I already started to search for a plant that could save her. But everywhere I looked, there's nothing but a wasteland. After a few minutes of searching, I found a plant. I don't know what the use of it was but it is currently my only hope at saving her. I returned to mother and I tried to feed her the plant but her mouth is not opening.
I placed the plant down somewhere and begin to push my head onto mother's body. What scared me the most was that mother is not responding at any movement and touch. I went to her face and got closer.
She's not breathing.
I began to panicked but after some times, I calmed down. My mother sometimes said 'In life, there's always death. That's just the cruel way of this world. We fight to survive, we kill to survive. Its eat or be eaten. Its kill or be killed.'
I don't really understand what she meant but now I know. She was saying that dying is normal in. I wanted to cry but no water came out of my eyes. I sat down, waiting for something or someone to take me with mother.
I would rather die with you than to die alone, mother.
And that's when I felt chill down my spine. I perked my ear up to know where that 'thing' is coming from. But I heard nothing. It was just the wind. Then I looked around and saw a woman behind me.
Her eyes are closed, her clothes are all black. Its like an angel of death has come to me.
I tried my best to walked cutely towards her. The closer I got to her, the more my instinct is telling me to run. But why is it telling me this now?
Why not tell me when before that dragon appeared? Doesn't that mean that this person is stronger than that dragon?
I came to a conclusion that this person is on a level above the dragon. She's stronger than the monster at the top of the food chain.
If I can't even survive an attack from a dragon that didn't activated my survival instinct, how could I fight the one that activated it? That wouldn't even a a fight but a one-sided beating. Some beasts like me and mother has a locked instinct. It would never activated unless the person we're facing can kill us without trying.
That's when the girl said:
"What's this? Can you please not do that? I don't have a resurrection spell so I can't do anything to help you. But you look so cute~ Can I keep you?" She said, taking me out of my thoughts.
Wait, should I accept that request? Or is that an order? Will she kill me if I refuse? Will I be able to complete your final task mother? Or will I join her after she left me?
Even her voice alone was enough to give me chills. I'm nervous, very nervous. I feel like if I offend this person I would not be able to come out alive.
Although I was thinking of accepting, my body shook its head. Why did I do that? I don't know. Maybe because I want to be with my mother.
"Oh, It can actually understand me." The person said in a colder voice that's enough to get my fur stand straight. This would have been bad if she didn't continued talking.
"Well you, listen here. I can't do anything to save your mother but I can help your mother by raising you into and great beast. From my understanding, you are actually a nine-tailed fox but your mother only has 7 tails. I don't know what that means but you seems to already grew your 2nd tail."
Eh? How did this human knows I'm a nine-tailed fox? Mother said human thought of us as extinct ancient beast.... Is she not a human?
"Follow me and survive for your mother, or wait here for that dragon to come back and finish what it started. Now choose."
Before I could react to her first speech, she already said the second part. I don't know how strong this person is. And I don't want to find out by fighting her. I walked behind her and tried pushing her towards my mother. She was not budging but she began walking towards my mother. This almost made me faint on the spot but I was able to stay awake through willpower alone.
"Do you want me to bring her body with us?" She asked.
I nodded my head.
"Well I do have an inventory, so that's not a problem. Will you follow me if I bring her?"
Inventory....? What is that? Is it some type of magic.... I can't refuse that....can I?
I nodded my head, I don't know what inventory is but my only wish is to bury mother somewhere where she can rest in peace.
She placed her hands on my mother and my mother suddenly disappeared into thin air. But my mother once explained to me that some people has space magic. Space magic allows you to keep anything that you want inside a dimension created by the person himself/herself. But the only person that ever has space magic was the first ever Administrator and that was around 300 thousand years ago.
I was surprised but immediately composed myself. I decided at that moment that I would follow this person anywhere she goes. Be it the gate of hell or destroying the heaven.
To me, God is dead. I shall serve this person even if it mean going against the world.