Return to Wolf City

aren't you girls going to introduce me to your friends Tamra asked as they flew

oh yes we are sorry mom Vanessa said with a grin flying to the left of us you will see a dark-winged celestial

carrying a pretty red-headed maiden in his arms

this is Takehiko Primordial celestial and last of the heavens gatekeepers and his mate Sacred Maiden Bethany

who is responsible for the recent celestial rains

and the breaking all the evil curses that the witch has cast since thousands of years ago the heroine

of our group who will set the gods free

hello Your Highness it is my pleasure to meet you Queen Tamra Takehiko said

Nice to meet you Takehiko please just call me Tamra no need to be Queen this or Your Highness that I hate putting on pointless airs she said

Sergio chuckled you were always like that he said

yes well, the fox clan is far from being the kingdom it used to be, let's just be honest here,

It's been a long time since I sat upon an actual throne with a territory and people to rule, there are only six of us foxes left in the world so what am I queen of exactly? she said

her words made Sergio smile sadly while she was indeed correct but to think the fox clan was once so large that they populated nearly every woodland east to west alongside the wolf clan

and now to have such a mighty clan reduced down to only six survivors it was most sad indeed

hi I'm Bethany she said introducing herself and lightening the mood I'm the sacred maiden apparently I have special powers

but I'm human and a history student, I like to study

mythology, legends, ancient artifacts, artworks, I'm studying to be an archeologist at university

or I was until my life got turned upside down by all this celestial stuff its nice to meet you she said pleasantly

so you're like Lady Taishen here! Tamra said you know she also started out as a scholar who was mixed up in our world

and became a celestial and since you are a human with a special ability

there's nothing stopping you from also seeking the path and become a celestial yourself,

you have a celestial mate after all that will certainly make things easier for you Tamra added smiling it's very lovely to meet you too

thank you Bethany said why does that feel like the nicest thing someone has said to me since this all began?

Sergio nodded and smiled

Tamra has a silver tongue dear she can charm the pants off anyone Taishen said but what she said is very true

before I was a celestial I was a human scholar with ties to the celestial world and because of those ties

I kept getting drawn into various things that went on and eventually I became a celestial myself along the way

so there is definitely hope for you yet so you don't need to think about being a human in the celestial world and that you don't belong here

and what about these two interesting tigers here Tamra asked

to your right the two male tigers who have not been saying much this entire time Vivian said

Prince Ziesoo and his mate Taekwon

hello Tamra he said bowing his head we pay our respects to you our apologies for not greeting you properly actually I am not a prince anymore either so just call me Ziesoo

not a prince anymore? what happened? she asked

to make a long story short Tiger Clan cannot have a male Queen Taekwon answered so

his father fought with him and gave him an ultimatum to choose between his title or me

and Ziesoo choose me so the title went bye-bye

oh dear me I am so sorry Tamra said your father has always been a stubborn hot head since back in the day when I knew him

It no matter I have no regrets I can live without a crown but I can't live without my mate Ziesoo said

indeed she agreed with a smile you made the right choice you both do know it's possible for celestials to change their genders though right?

they both nodded yes we do know but I think you should tell that to Ziesoo's dad Taekwon said

because of the way he reacted claiming Ziesoo betrayed the tiger clan for marrying me without consent and screaming treason you wouldn't imagine he was a clan leader who should know that

Tamra shook her head pursing her lips in a disapproval

to this very day, I miss my mate dearly and mourn that my girls would never know their father in fact

I would not tell any of my girls they could not be with their mates furthermore I would encourage them to bond and take their mates seed

so that they can begin the rebirth of the fox clan of course I am not rushing you girls you are all very young yet but the rebuilding of the clan is of great importance

and on that note, I'm prince Justin of the wolf clan and Anna's mate and leader of our team

it's nice to meet you Tamra you are my future mother in law he smiled offering his hand

she smiled at Justin taking it and shaking his hand

I heard you rescued my girls and brought them back from the west

during the witches recent attacks,

thank you so much for doing that and making sure my girls were safe

you don't have to thank me actually anna and I were already planning to return east with the girls Justin replied

because she and her sisters would be maturing soon and coming into their tails they could not continue to stay with their adopted human parents anymore

I went west to meet them when the witch attacks just happened coincidentally at the time so we took the opportunity to leave and

come east and their parents had no objections because it was the safest option for them at the time with all the chaos going on

and then the rains fell and they erased their memories of us right afterward so everything worked out anna finished

so what about you Tamra? what have you been up to all these years? Lady Taishen asked

to start that story we would have to go back to when I fled fox clan carrying seed

with my handmaiden Odessa and her newborn son Nike she began we were on the run

from one place to the next for years the black witch would always find us so we couldn't stay in one place for very long

we also couldn't seek help

we soon learned that seeking shelter from other celestials

would only anger the witch she would kill everyone who gave

us sanctuary we would be endangering the lives of people who were so kind to us

I decided for the sake of the fox clan's survival to give birth to the seed I carried if I could give birth and hide my children among the humans

then even if I died they would survive and the seed would not die with me so I nurtured the seed and carried them to term

hiding and running while heavily pregnant is not an easy thing to do luckily I had Odessa and Nike to help me

after giving birth I kept the girls with me for a few months but I knew I had to hide them

the witch was drawing close again so Odessa found an orphanage in the countryside and we came up

with a plan to split up Odessa would take the girls to the orphanage while

Nike and I ran and led the witch away and then we would reunite with Odessa at a certain place

the plan was carried out and we waited to meet up with Odessa but she never showed up

her body was found a few days later she had been murdered we knew it was the witch

that had caught her I knew she had hidden my girls well so Nike and I ran eventually we ended up in the mountains of India

we found a mountain infested with demons Nike was about six or seven years old at the time

I thought it was a den of powerful demons the demonic aura was so strong around the mountain

after I investigated I discovered the demons that lived there were actually Burrowing Lizard demons

and the reason why the mountain stank to high heaven is because burrowing lizards are actually a lot more timid and weaker than they appear to be

they are weak against bright light because they live underground they can't see very well either

all of their senses are adapted to living life in the darkness which

relies more on their senses of smell and hearing rather than sight

they only become aggressive if they are provoked

their auras are more to scare away would-be hunters

than anything else, if they get attacked their first defense is not to

fight but to run away and burrow themselves deep into the earth

and they can dig and create tunnels very quickly they are built for moving dirt and rocks

their teeth are capable of breaking boulders of the hardest kinds of stone so they can literally dig their way into places

very deep under the earth that no one else can reach I decided to hide in this mountain, the demonic aura there was strong enough to hide our celestial auras from the witch

and it would be the last place she would expect a pair of celestials to hide further

more the aura there is so strong that it scares away humans from the area no one dares go to that mountain

so I killed one of the lizards and took over its nest, the lizards have created a cave tunnel network that runs throughout the mountain

so Nike and I could go down the mountain every few months to a small town there to purchase food and necessities that we needed and

to see if there was any news the witch would pass by our mountain from time to time we would hide deep in a cave

hardly daring to breathe for fear she would detect us but we were able to stay hidden

there for a long time much more than we expected right under her nose

I trained Nike and he would hunt the lizards to cultivate from them

so he could grow his tails out and since there were so many of them and they continued breeding

the demonic aura stayed strong on the mountain and we stayed hidden even though we had killed a few lizards every now and then

then one day the witch went west we took advantage of the situation while we could Nike went down the mountain to stock up on supplies and such

the lizards in the mountain suddenly retreated even deeper underground during the time the witch was in the west

we thought it was a bit strange but didn't think too much of it

but then Nike came back yelling about how the black witch was dead and the news was on the celestial network

after seeing that we quickly packed up and headed for wolf city right away we have been traveling ever since

then two days ago we were passing over those woods and the spiders webbed us and dragged down our cloud

we were tired from traveling for so long so we were not expecting such an attack

and so close to our destination so I admit our vigilance was a bit lacking at that time

we fell into the woods and been stuck there trying to find our way out I'm very grateful you guys came along actually

the girls all hugged their mother

that was the short version I'm sure anna said there is a lot more that happened during the years you were in hiding that you haven't told us yet

indeed but we will catch up Tamra said I will tell you all my stories and more

I have so many about fox clan and the old days and your father I wish to share with you girls

we should take a picture Yuqi said now that our family is together again we don't have any family photos

she's right we should take some anna said Vanessa made a clone as the girls gathered around their mother spreading their tails out in a beautiful fan formation Vanessa's clone used her cell phone to take the pictures

Nike! Justin! you guys come join too! Bethany and Takehiko and everybody Yuqi called let's get a team picture

everyone stopped for a moment so they took pictures we are going to be arriving soon Sergio said as they could see the hotel in the distance now

Vanessa posted the pictures to the network

Kitsune clan welcomes new members Queen Tamra and Nike survivors of the eastern fox clan

emerged from hiding on their way to wolf city

trapped by demonic jumping spider infestation in the woods southeast of the celestial library their cloud was shot down by the spiders as they traveled overhead

on our way back from a visit to the celestial library we also crossed the same woods and

encountered the infestation trapped celestials and woodland animals

evacuated the woodlands and rescued the celestials

eliminated Demonic jumping spider queen and hatchlings cleaned out infestation and

gained celestial rewards level-ups and massive item drops collected from dead hatchlings

welcome home Queen Tamra and Nike congrats to our youngest sister

Yuqi on finding her true mate Nike

she posted the previous battleground pictures they had taken as well as the new ones

creating a storyboard using the pictures

soon her post was getting a lot of attention on the network

congrats on you girls finding your mom the house mother commented

thank you we are very happy to be reunited with our mom she wrote back

Welcome back, Queen Tamra!

happy for you!

congrats!

so happy to see the return of fox clan!

wow, Queen Tamra is alive! how wonderful!

congrats to the cute fox princess and her mate!!

and such comments were posted

guys we are landing now lady Taishen said getting everyone attention they soon touch down in the tree line outside the hotel

everyone changing back to their human forms Chione tucking herself inside Anna's jacket pocket once more

we are back Justin said anna next to him taking his hand they walked into the hotel