royal scouting brigade and the wizard who was once a witch

the curse energy present at the area halazoa was placed by the gods was detected by the nobles search magic even after 17 years they still haven't given up especially now because over the years they depleted their stock of war beasts and in this world werewolves were born not turned and only pure bloods can sire children so the nobles jumped on the first sign of curse magic seen in years like a starving neet on a bowl of spicy miso they were quick to action dispatching the elite royal scouting brigade to find davies.

the leader of the scouting brigade was a cruel looking older man feared by both soldier and civilian alike a man named benrmtar(ben-nerm-tar) skalkleth he was known to seek out the enemy's of various nobles regardless of their crimes or their guilt.

they say he was once in love with a corrupt noblemans daughter who was killed by townspeople when they rebelled against her father and that he hates low class citizens more than anything.

after years of searching benrmtar had finally found that foul beast one of his scouts reported seeing him dragging some cages through the forest .

he and his men get ready coating their knifes in a paralytic toxin as they silently move through the forest surrounding Davies cozy little cabin.

davies was carrying the cages down to the basement two at a time them being filled with various animals his special cage had a time release function as long as it was fully stocked it was able to keep his inner beast fed until he came back to his senses.

suddenly a loud howling could be heard followed by vicious growling and musket fire.

hearing the muskets in the forest,davies knew it only meant one thing that those damnable nobles had found him.

davies rushes up the stairs almost tripping he stumbles through his cabin and bursts through the front door and sees the wolf he saved darting around nipping at their feet one falls over and she leaps on him showing no mercy.

davies pulls his axe out of a tree stump getting ready to fight it looks like a woodcutting axe but it's pure white and has slight glow about it.

made from light wood a product made from the core of the extremely rare star gleam willow a type of tree that grows near meteor impacts more durable than even the most expensive metals in the world it can only be carved within an hour of harvesting before it hardens making it impossible.

the wolf runs at him knocking him out of the way of a musket blast before leaping at the one who fired it.

it's not long before they make short work of the scouts the last one getting an axe in the back for trying to run away .

.... not far from the cabin benrmtar dared not breath of course he stayed at a safe distance whilst sending out his men but he did not expect the skirmish to be so one sided not that it matters now that he confirmed that the monstrosity is alive and well he disappeared off to report his findings to the nobles.

....

halazoa is covered in blood and hates it when she had her magic she never had to get bloody just freeze her enemies in a block of ice,set them on fire,turn them to stone etc. magic was just a much cleaner way to fight and even though she was a wolf now her sense of taste hadn't changed it was absolutely disgusting having to bite someone she wanted to throw up every time she tasted blood.

breathing heavily she collapsed a knife sticking out of her back she looked up at davies as he rushed over saying something about how she saved his life.

I did? she thought silently as everything went dark her last thought was that's not like me.

....

Davies carried the wolf inside and bandaged her up and piled up some blankets for her to sleep on and leaving out a few pieces of jerky for her when she wakes up.

he makes his way down to the basement solemnly before locking himself in the cage.

it wont be long now he says out loud starting to sweat profusely.

his bones cracking he let's out a inhuman wail the pain making him lose himself .

....

halazoa wakes up in a panic trapped by the blankets she rolls around for awhile trying to get free riping and tearing at the blankets she wiggles through the hole she made looking back at the shredded blanket she stares at it blankly for moment before flopping around in embarrassment.

horrified at the thought that she halazoa the most powerful wizard in the world was bested by a blanket!

then she rolls over and finds the jerky davies left for her completely forgetting the evil blanket.

after eating she try's to look for the old man

discovering how to track scents she follows his smell to the basement door unable to open it she scratches at it whining and barking at the door uselessly.

she can feel the mans pain through the door

but had no power to help him about to give up when the voice of talinenger the youngest god

said

whilst stuck in the form of a beast fear not there still hope if u do more good with your paws then you have done whilst wagging opposable thimbs.

do this and whilst you may never regain your dark magics on two legs will you plod again as long as kindness and virtue is your path in life.

with that bratty gods voice still ringing In her ear

halazoa stopped scratching at the door and jumped onto the countertop to wiggle her way through the tiny kitchen window before ungracefully landing on her backside .

hopping to her feet she darts around the cabin

running around the back to a cellar window she slams into the glass pane multiple times cracking it after a couple of tries it shatters knocking away the excess glass with her paw she wiggles through the tiny window she hits the basement floor getting the breath knocked out of.

breathing heavily she scrambles to her feet

her claws slipping on the smooth stone floor

she skitters across the floor like a newborn calf trying to ice skate.

finally getting herself under control her eyes start to adjust to the darkness she sees the massive magical cage recognizing her work immediately she realizes who the old man is the same young man that saved her from being burned alive years earlier when she was a young witch she didn't like having debts so she had a conversation about what he needed and ended up making the cage for him.

after that let's just say that wasn't the first or last time humans tried to kill her maybe that colored her actions against them but that's just an excuse.

knowing what the cage was built for she knows she cant really help him till he turns back into a human.

luckily he has stores of jerky down here so she wont starve while she waits for him to turn back.

she eats no more than five peices of jerky she wants to save some for him when he turns back

then curls up by the water heater for warmth.

....

the Gods have gathered once again all except talinenger who is absent yet again the youngest god was the only one actively against cursing halazoa as he became a god to protect humanity talinenger has been many things but he started out as a hunting dog he was on a hunt with his masters and he contracted rabies while defending them. knowing he got injured protecting them they refused to have him put down even going so far as to lock him up and paying to have various scientists and doctors come and try to cure him confused and not understanding why all the painful experiments were being preformed on him he thought he did something wrong and was being punished.

while the experiments were not successful in curing him they did make him smarter enabling him to temporarily resist the virus for a time and was able to run around in a fenced enclosure while men armed with trank guns stood ready nearby his family was at the fence a man with three daughters the oldest being the one he protected from the fox at this point he was so confused and scared he didn't remember their names but he remember them smell and weakly wagged his tail at their arrival.

the youngest screaming at her father

but dad why cant I pet talinenger you said he was getting better! her dad says tally is honey but we have be careful until were sure hes all better

never having understood more then a few words at a time tally found it interesting to finally understand them all knowing that they were trying to help him was wonderful he finally understood he wasn't being punished.

he heard the dad talking okay okay listen I'll pet him today and if things go well you can pet him tomorrow he stood up and open the gate walking up to tally he reaches down to pet him giving him scratches and tossing him a treat

he reaches in for another one but being smarter tally knocks him down and rips open the pouch spilling out the treats confused and thinking hes gonna take them back tally growls at him

a little scared he rushes to the door when a loud boom from a gun in the nearby woods tally gets spooked and darts out of the cage with a maw full of treats and runs off into the woods.

from there its a classic tale of isekai he stumbles into trafic confused and weak from hunger gets hit by a car and because of his higher intelligence is reincarnated as a human from there he set out on the average adventure fantasy eventually taking out a few demons and ascending to godhood yada yada.

anyway

the other gods were arguing constantly

half of them didn't trust tally and the others couldn't decide if they agreed with him because they looked down on him due to his origins.

in the end the conference of gods was useless and nothing was decided.

....

the truth is tally has been with her from the start

he was the rabbit she chased and the porcupine that quiled the bear getting it chase after her .

he had even taken on her form to steal prey from the wolves that targeted her .

he was the one who influenced the curse magic to have a similar frequency to that of pure bred werewolves.

because as it turns out halazoa is the great granddaughter of the family that refused to put him down all those many years ago the last remaining time to what he still considers the happiest time of his long life.

in his mind the suffering he went through to become a God wasn't worth it the other god are old and petty except for durgafoss who's noble but kind of a downer.

but yes hes been there the whole even during the battle with the royal scouts he was slithering along the ground as a poisonous snake biting scouts who got too close to killing them the poison is designed to make the victim feel really good before giving them a quick death.

even now he was in mouse form watching her sleep from a nearby hole in the wall.

....

halazoa woke as daylight streamed into the broken window shes really thirsty she looks at davies snorring away in his massive beast form.

the cage weakens him making him very tired being awake at all is very painful and in those moments she howls alongside him trying to share his pain and maybe lessen it a bit. she eats a few pieces of jerky but is too thirsty to eat any more than that.

then a dripping sound suddenly goes plip plop

she looks over and sees water leaking from a hole in the wall leaking into a bucket then she glimpses a small mole digging into the ground but of course she doesn't thank the mole did it that would be crazy next thing you know birds and mice will start making her a dress like it's some fairytale. yeah right she thinks like that'll happen.

....talinenger poke his head up peeks out her

whoa that was close I thought she saw me then he hears her make the fairytale crack and considers making her a doggie dress just to mess with her he thinks while chuckling to himself.