Chapter 13 - The Pack

The small group of four quietly trekked the forest heading towards Mt Tanzawa, the moon slowly moving through the night sky signaling the coming of a new day in a couple of hours.

The group walked out into a clearing and Styxx stopped in his tracks. Wondering why he stopped Tara was about to ask, but Styxx spoke first.

"This should be close enough,"

He turned around and spoke to the girls,

"Cover your ears because this is going to be loud,"

The girls didn't question his words and raised their hands to press down on their ears.

Styxx put two fingers in his mouth and whistled. The sound was loud and traveled for kilometers, there was probably no man or beast near the mountain that didn't hear it.

Once the whistle was over the girls uncovered their ears and looked at Styxx. The girls let go of his tails once he turned around to talk to them.

"They should be here soon, once they arrived the journey would be much faster,"

"They? Who's 'they?" asked Tara,

Styxx smiled,

"Some helpers that will give you girls a ride home…"

10 minutes later, the ground began to tremble and the sounds of branches breaking seem to head towards them.

"Awooooo!"

Suddenly, a howling big black wolf broke through the tree line and jumped into the clearing. Startled, Tara quickly put Bastet and Fenrir behind her to protect them.

And just behind the wolf, two giant bears barreled into the clearing knocking trees to the ground.

The bears then roared at the wolf, scaring the girls even more. They thought that accidentally walked into some type of territory dispute between these ferocious beasts. If at some point the girls had looked at Styxx, they would have seen the grin on his face when the animals appeared, and they wouldn't be so scared.

The beasts growled menacingly until finally noticing Styxx just standing there smiling at them. The wolf howled and lunged at Styxx.

"Look out!" warned the girls,

*BAM*

Styxx slapped down on the wolf's head smacking it into the ground. The wolf yelped in pain as it hit the ground with a loud thump.

"Alpha, what did I tell you about bullying your sisters?" Styxx said,

"…"

"Eh?!" the three girls exclaimed,

The wolf got up off the ground and started to yip and howl towards Styxx.

"I don't care if it was a race, you know they aren't as fast as you, you're a wolf and they're bears," Styxx said,

The girls seeing him talk to the animals as if he understood what they were saying, just attributed to his quirk and paid it no mind.

The wolf, Alpha, spun around and sat down sticking its chest out in triumph. The bears still growling behind the wolf sat down with loud thumps.

"Besides, Charlie was here first, so he is the real winner,"

A wailing laugh appeared behind the girls, almost scaring them to death.

"Kyaaa~!" they screamed as they hid behind Styxx, grabbing on to his tails,

Perched upon a rock, a great big gray bird with big eyes and wide mouth was letting a sound like it was both wailing and laughing at the same time. In the middle of the forest at night that bird cry sounded incredibly creepy.

The wolf bark-howled at the bird that continued to laugh-wail at it.

"I don't care if you blame the evolution of wolf-kind because you didn't get wings. Don't threaten to rip his wings off!"

Styxx then called out to the girls,

"It's okay, these are my other followers so there's no need to be scared,"

He then turned to the animals and said,

"Okay guys, it's time for introductions,"

The bears got up and walked towards Styxx growling and purring before just stopping in front of him, the wolf barked, turned around, and lined up next to the bears. The bird flew off the rock and perched itself on Styxx's shoulders, rubbing its head against his.

"It's okay, I'll introduce them to you," said Styxx softly to the girls,

The girls finally let go of his tails and slowly move to the side, lining up next to Styxx.

"This black beauty with a high sense of pride and competitive spirit is Alpha, she's a genetically modified wolf," Styxx said as he gestured towards the wolf that was as tall as Fenrir and Bastet just sitting down.

Alpha howled and nodded towards the girls as if acknowledging them. Styxx then moved on the bears.

"These two giant balls of fur are Beta and Delta; they are genetically modified, grizzly bear twins. But, don't let their size and demeanors fool you, they are just a bunch of naughty cubs,"

The bears huffed and puffed and let out whining sounds towards him, they seemed to be offended by being called cubs.

"Yeah, you're still cubs, you need to be at least their age to be adults," Styxx said as he pointed at Fenrir and Bastet.

The bears lifted their bodies and stood up on their hind legs before comically waving towards the girls. Seeing this funny scene, the girls couldn't help but giggle and wave back.

"And this is Charlie, you've already met him. You need to be careful of him he likes to scare people with his weird and creepy bird sounds," Styxx said as he rubbed the bird's head with a finger,

"Fun fact about Great Potoos; even to this day due to their creepy bird calls they make they are treated like witches in some parts of the world and some are even burned to death."

Charlie let out a sound similar to a man retching his heart out and pecked the side of Styxx's head.

"Okay, maybe it's not a fun fact, sorry,"

The wolf and the bears seemed to smile and let out howls and grunts as if laughing at Charlie.

Charlie took off and flew over the three beasts pecking their heads with each pass. They swiped at him and try to bite him, but Charlie was too swift and fast for that.

Styxx took a knee between the girls and the animals, Alpha was the first to approach so she got head pats first.

"I rescued them from villains that were experimenting on them trying to create monsters… I guess in some ways they succeeded… they have similar circumstances to you girls,"

The bears approached Styxx and began to rub their heads on him.

"Except for Charlie, all three of them are just over a year old. Beta and Delta shouldn't be this big until they're like 8 years old, they modified their genes to mature faster and continue to grow until adulthood, become smarter. I estimate by the time they're adults they will probably be the size of buses and Alpha maybe the size of a car,"

Styxx then turned to the girls,

"They aren't pets by the way, if that's what you were thinking… they are free to leave any time they want but the problem is if I do leave them to themselves they will eat everything in the forest within a year, and then they will be forced to hunt in the cities for food…. So, instead, they can live their lives here in the forest, but I'll provide the food they need to survive,"

Styxx then smiled at them,

"Welcome to the pack, girls,"

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1) it seems everyone has mostly joined the Harem Sect as far as I can see and I read some very good points from both sides. but I want to let you know I am still undecided for now, I want to wait until Styxx interacts with more people to see what i should do.

2) I haven't dropped this! I already warned you guys of my horrendous update schedule on the first page! Remember?! if I am going to drop this or put it on hiatus, ill make an announcement, other than that, you're going to have to wait... sorry! lol