silence was all Ivan could hear. flickering his eyes he saw the stars.
Feeling a warm feeling to his right he moved his head to see a small little fire and what looked like a very hairy human.
"So your finally awake" he said
"who are you and wheres Roman" Ivan replied
"huh? I'm Roman" said Roman
"What?! But you were a big wolf moments ago"
"Yes and we completed the mission given to us by the system"
"so you changed to? A big dogman like me?" Ivan asked
"No, the system called it a demi-beast"
"wait if we completed mission, then that means I also changed" Ivan suddenly rose to inspect his body
"Nope your the same dogman as you were before"
"What Do you mean there's gotta be something that changed"
"i don't think so, try asking the system" Replied Roman
"system what changed to my body?"
--answer--
'Body became more compact and stronger but now requires more nutrients supplied to the body' said the system in there heads
"Oh yea wheres the beast?" Ivan asked
"It's over the fire, take a look"
Ivan looked at the pitifully small fire, which had a few twigs and sticks inside it. over on the side were 9 chunks of meat stabed into sticks and placed over the fire to slowly cook it.
"You know you could start a forest fire" Ivan said wirh concern
"It's just a small fire, its not like dry here. In fact its quite damp here i could bearly find any wood for this little thing you call fire"
"I dont think it will cook with this small flame" Ivan said with concern
"First you complain about a forest fire now you're complaining on the size of the fire, so which is it gonna be?!" Roman bursted out in anger
"We need to eat, we can always escape the forest fire and as you said its damp here so the flame will travel slowly plus it's not our land"
"alright lets look at this meat" Ivan stood up inspecting the meat ching on the stick. " It's nearly done" Ivan said
"glad to hear it" Roman replied
Both Roman and Ivan stared at the fire as if the flames burned their will to start any further conversation but after a while Roman broke the deadlock
"you know in the academy you used to play music a lot, so hopefully once we find our way out you'll play your iconic tune, that is if we get you a guitar"
"iconic tune?" Ivan asked
"Yes your iconic tune steppe wide"
"that one? it's not even iconic"
"It's what was always playing in our minds during the tests and trainings"
"No wonder you guys were falling behind heh, anyways where did you put the beast stone?"
"I ate it and turned into this"
"ah yea you did tell me that, but how did you absorb It?"
"system told me to swallow it, it hurt a bit but after a while it stopped and i started the fire and i also dragged your heavy body next the fire, oh yea you also make a great pillow for laying onto."
"that is very rude of you"Ivan replied cross faced
"whats plan for tommorrow sergeant major?"
"I'm no longer your major make your own plans"
"firstly im technically been tamed by you, whatever that means, so I'm like your dog"
"damn nearly forgot that, erm I guess we make way west"
"sounds good, good night"
"you're not going to eat?"Ivan asked
"Yes I'll eat before i'll go to sleep"
*system mission*
survive the night
Reward: transform 15% of skins surface into any species
"survive the night?"Roman asked "well all we need to do is sleep"
'Growl' a noise could be heard from the bushes
"I don't think we're going to be sleeping"Ivan said with concern as they saw a few large beast approach them