Cursed
Hours passed while Ashton silently slept after falling unconscious after feasting upon the grown bear, his body had slowly reverted to his much smaller human form.
Slowly waking up and attempting to get the muck out of his eyes the night's events rushed through his head. By some manner of luck his inner beast only traveled into the cave and feasted upon an entire bear, while lucky he was bathed in blood, gore, and some awful smelling black substance.
'Must be the impurities my father had written about.
Holy fuck he said it would be painful but I never imagined I'd be ripping my own skin off. That is going to give me issues sleeping in the future.
Okay priorities, I need to clean myself up and practice changing between forms so I wont be slow if my life is ever in danger. Oh! I need to check my new status.
Hopefully I've gotten my mother's bloodline so I have an edge on those bastards, not only that my body feels much stronger.
My father said I'd get a huge jump in stats Oooo I can't wait!'
Name: Ashton Silverfoot
Race: Accursed
Soul: Cursed Beast (1)
Strength: 24
Finesse: 20
Vitality: 24
Intelligence: 12
Skills:
Bowyer: Beginner
Archery: intermediate
Survivability: Advanced
Hunting: Intermediate
Perception: Intermediate
Stealth: Intermediate
Sign language: Advanced
Abilities:
Bone Claws: Form claws of bone around your hand/claw
Life Steal: Restore your wounds with the blood of your enemies
Bottomless stomach: You can eat, and eat, and eat
Evolution: ???
'WHAT KIND OF HORSE SHIT IS THIS? My stats hardly increased in comparison to what my Father had said they would! Not only that I also didn't get my Mother's bloodline!
More frustrating what does cursed mean??? Okay I need to calm down maybe it's not all bad. What are abilities and how do I use them? Let's see Bone Claws huh?'
With just a thought Ashton suddenly had a slight searing pain in his hands as he watched the bones in his hands grow out and form shard claws covering each of his fingers, they were even malleable to the point of covering over his fist as he closed them.
'Huh aside from the slight pain this could come in handy with 24 strength im already four times as strong as an adult and if I had to guess hitting with these on should give me an impact even stronger than that or allow me to rip through things with ease.
I'll have to try these out on a tree but first let's see Life Steal? Restore my wounds from the blood of my enemies? Hurting whatever I'm fighting will allow me to heal??
isn't that worth the stat loss by itself? not many people can naturally heal as well as I've seen wolves but not only that I heal from harming things keeping me in the fight without needing to eat pills or elixirs. Isn't this cheating?
Bottomless stomach.... so I can eat indefinitely. Maybe it's like some mammals that eat an obnoxious amount before hibernating so they don't need to eat all winter. Does this mean that if I eat enough I don't need to eat for weeks or months even at a time?
Another great ability! What's this last thing? Evolution? I've heard that magical beasts evolve after living for enough time, fighting, and absorbing the natural energy around them.
Does this mean I've become more animal than man by this point? Maybe dad's book will have more information on this. I'll need to read it after cleaning and practicing my transformation.
Walking out of the cave absolutely covered in foul smelling liquids Ashton had to hold his nose closed to avoid throwing up 'I need to learn to control my senses now as they are all extremely sensitive luckily the sun is just now rising so I can take me time getting used to the light.'
Quickly finding a running stream relatively close by due to his enhanced hearing Ashton quickly hopped in hoping to rid himself of the foul stench and feel cleaner. 'If I start drinking this water can I keep my body hydrated for longer?'
Ashton thought to himself after spending enough time to insure all the shit was cleaned off of him he decided to test his theory. Swimming over to the shore he hopped out and started drinking handful after handful of water. No matter how much he drank he never felt overstuffed and like he was going to burst
'Perfect with this even if i'm in a dangerous situation or in a place without water as long as I store up enough I'll never have to worry about it. This also means that since I consumed well over half an adult black bear weighing at least 400 pounds I should be good on food for the next week at least.'
'Now that i'm by the creek I'll be able to clean myself off if I transform, and I have to rip myself apart again. Now let's figure out how to change my forms.'
Ashton sat by the shore searching within himself to figure out how to change. Ashton was unsure what he was looking for so he attempted the same thing he did when he manifested his bone claws, He simply thought about changing forms and from within he could feel his soul stirring and felt the beast getting excited.
No he felt himself getting excited, the feeling of becoming his true self soon took over. Ashton felt hardly any pain while wrapped in the euphoric feeling of being free from a mortal coil.
His body shed his own skin naturally this time the bone contortions and growth was hardly felt as Ashton stood to his full height fully transformed.
'Now that I've taken my beast shape I need to check my status once again to see how much stronger this form is in comparison to my human form.'
Cursed Beast
Strength: 40
Finesse: 38
Vitality: 40
Skills:
Survivability: Advanced
Hunting: Advanced
Perception: Master
Stealth: Advanced
Abilities:
Bone Claws: Form claws of bone around your hand/claw Increases Strength
Life Steal: Restore your wounds with the blood of your enemies
Bottomless Stomach: You can eat, and eat, and eat
Blood Lust: boosts Perception to the max when hunting
'That's the stat boost I expected to have in my human form but I can work with this.
A new ability while changed as well in addition to my skills in this form all being pushed to the next level at least. This feels magnificent my whole body feels riddles with power. However i'm not used to being this large, having these long ass limbs or a tail?
Makes sense wolves have tails so I would have one too but its very strange to have a fifth limb I can move around on a thought. Hmm my name isn't listed under my status anymore which isn't all that strange I guess only Cursed Beast.'
Ashton began to stretch his long limbs and perform several exercises to get used to this body. An awfully strange scene was playing out as a near pitch black wolf was standing on two legs reaching down well past to his toes then jumping up and down before getting on all fours preparing to take off.
Ashton used more strength than he is used to having and bolted head first into a tree falling back on his ass holding his head. Suddenly the sound of a tree falling down could be heard as the young tree he had just smashed his skull against fell down opposite of Ashton.
Getting up noticing his head wound had nearly instantly healed. Ashton felt nothing aside from a small bump on his large head. Ashton decided to try out his Bone Claws in this form.
Having thought of using it the bones from his elbow down to his claws slowly grew and extended out of his arms forming his bones on top of his fur.
The bones in question gave Ashton an amount of protection on the tops of his arms and extended the reach of his claws by at least five inches. Moving towards another young tree Ashton swiped one clawed arm towards the tree with all his strength cleaving through most of the tree causing it to slowly fall over a small push from Ashton.
'Well this is well past any amount of power I ever dreamed of having, and to think I wanted to be a simple hunter for the rest of my life. This power and this form is addicting."
*Crack*
In the distance Ashton heard a twig snap. Quickly swinging his head in the direction and focusing his senses he could faintly smell roses and the breathing of a human?
Sniffing the air he confirmed there was a human not 20 yards from him. Frozen in place as he didn't know if this person was a threat or just a human wandering through the woods the smell of roses had him convinced it was probably a female as a male wouldn't bother covering up his smell with a flower scented perfume.
'Hm what should I do? Should I just run or should I check her out to ensure she isn't a threat? But if she sees a large werewolf she will be terrified or she will outright attack me'
All while thinking and holding his chin in a very human manner the girl had continued moving through the woods catching a glimpse of the wolf man just standing there with a glazed over look in his eyes as though he was thinking impossibly hard about something.
"Uhm Hello there?"
A soft and melodious voice called to to Ashton