The Joys Of Ignorance

When she accurately said how long they'd known each other for he did believe her for the most part but it didn't still didn't clear away all his doubts. How could he so easily just accept what she was saying at face value especially something that completely came out of nowhere. While he knew their was ways for Astral Beasts to transform he didn't know the specifics, so to outright deny that fact would be stupid as well and another thing was the fact that helped him edge towards believing her was that the lizard he was always with had always been something strange to him.

Most Astral Beasts at a weak level don't show high intelligence unless they're a mutant variant or a special kind of species. But the lizard he was with and had met was neither of those two cases and while he thought she was just a weak creature that couldn't do a thing to him in reality if what she was saying was true then he was basically carrying around a walking time bomb that could have killed him at any point at the beginning. "At least she was friendly to me or I would of died without even knowing what killed him let alone accomplishing anything I wanted." That though brought a slight cold sweat down his back because he was truly lucky back then.

"Well based on the fact that you knew I was with a lizard for the past two years it does lead me to believe you but it's still hard to fully accept it. Is it possible to show any proof?"

When he said that she stopped to think quickly but after a moment, thought of a way.

"Yes there is a way to do so but I would need to let you go and with your injuries and state at the moment I'm not exactly keen on doing such a thing."

"Well..I guess that's fair and if you can even say with confidence you can do such a thing I'll believe you for now, But I do hope you'll show me the proof I want."

"Ha you might be shocked seeing it though I hoped your prepared for when the time comes"

With that outta the way he finally settled down and was able to think more clearly without panicking or worrying anymore. The time that felt like hours or even days for him ended up being an entire week of him being unconscious was the first thing that came to mind when he settled down. That means his body had been healing for over an entire week and was still as bad as it was. Which was definitely a freighting thought to think about really. If he was any less lucky he'd be done for all because he let his guard down after seemingly defeating the King.

"I almost lost everything I worked for...."

He had finally got to the point after two years of making mistakes and doing similar things and finally stopped doing it but in the end the feeling of beating that Nature Spirit and the thoughts of what to come threw him off guard combined with his weakened state and he ended up getting snuck up again. almost all his effort he put in the past two years was so close from disappearing from his grasp. It was a scary thought to think of but thankfully this time around he got lucky and his pet or well he guessed womanly saviour rescued him in time. But counting on that to happen again was definitely dumb. He already hated getting saved once he didn't want to make it twice.

"The most headache inducing thing though now to think about was definitely her."

The biggest change in the end that happened to him after his fight turned out to be literally nothing he could of expected or guessed in his wildest dreams. The pet he had travelled around with and thought was weak turned out to be way stronger than anyone or anything he ever seen and she could turn into a human if she really wanted to all along.

"Wait a second...."

All this time he had thought of her as a pet and while he knew she had a good degree of intelligence at the time he always assumed it wasn't anything on the level of other humans or actual Mutant Beast or other species and during the entire time he had spent with her he had told countless stories and countless thoughts to her while talking to himself thinking nobody could hear or listen and the one that could wouldn't understand. But now with this revelation unveiled it turned out he was completely wrong and she heard and understood everything.

EVERYTHING.

"Hell she even saw me naked more then once..."

"Oh boy..."

When that thought registered in his mind he instantly stiffened up and started to turn a little red. How could he not knowing that and having all that happened to him was extremely embarrassing even for him. especially considering the fact that he never spoken to someone as much before technically and would never thought he was pouring his heart out to a creature that completely understood him.

"Awaa..."

Unconsciously a voice weakly leaked out from his mouth. Though she definitely heard with her sharp senses and when she refocused on him after thinking about some things she noticed his slightly face turning red while he was tension filled seemingly in pain. The first thought that went through her head was to quickly check up on him and make sure he wasn't suffering and soon as possible. She quickly crawled her hands all over his body to see if she could find anything amiss with her Astral Energy.

"Are you okay? Are you hurt? What's wrong."

Instantly questions started flying out of her mouth trying to figure out the problem as she continued to check his body. But in essence that only made things worse for the poor young man and instantly he became even more rigid while trying to mouth out to get her to stop until eventually he was able to wiggle his body free from her grasp. Though he was only able to do so because this time when she noticed him struggling she thought it might help to let him do what he needed to, so she just let him go without trapping him. After getting out of her grasp and landing on the rugged ground he could finally slightly start to calm down a bit. It wasn't that he was a super embarrassed person or anything of the like, it's just the fact that things like this were all new to him and he didn't exactly understand how to deal with them especially when he thought of what he had done in the past.

"Haaa..haaaaa...sorry about that I just got a sudden feeling of panic that's all."

"Oh is that all? that's good I thought something had happened to you. Thankfully it's nothing."

Looking up to meet her eyes he noticed a tinge of panic written across her face as she got slightly fidgety from seemingly being unable to do anything. Noticing that, he could finally take a breath of fresh air that helped settle down but at the same time he also noticed a feeling he had never known before wash over him. "Is this what it feels like to be worried about?" He wasn't quite sure but that's the only thing he could think of in this situation and that brought a small smile to his face.

"Thank you."

Seeing him smile at her like that and thanking her caused her to slightly tense up for reasons she couldn't quite tell while her face turned red causing her to avoid eye contact after a couple of seconds.

"No..Problem."

A small, quiet voice that he didn't hear leaked out of her mouth afterwards.