lycanthrope

Stories Before Stories

Their home smelt of spices , which became Fenris most favorite thing about the house. Rize would often leave her spices out to dry, having the odors absorbed into the furniture and linings. Dinner was simple and filling , they sat in each others presence as the sun set.

Fenris shifted and laid himself on the floor and Rize happily flopped herself on him, nuzzling into his fur.

"My love......." she held onto him, and he looked down at her snuggling into him "do you know that legend the man spoke of today" she looked at him eagerly hoping he would speak up as before he mentioned that he knew it as a fairytale.

He looked down at her and morphed back into his human form and she fell back on him laughing. "To my people it is a tale of sadness, a fairytale of something that impossible to obtain"

Rize looked up in dismay "but the man said it was a tale of love, maybe like their princess stories of finding a prince"

Fenris hugged her " do you want to hear it, it's not a happy tale , it's not what humans make it to be"

"pleaseeeee!" Rize begged him

Fenris made himself comfortable and began the tale

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This story has been passed down for year and years amongst my people, the love of a magical maiden and werewolf was taboo and shameful to all those on the outside as by human standards they fear and hate what they do not understand, which led to the burning of mages or a witch according to their terms and the beheading of wolf shifters,

Within the wolf's daily hunting he came across a human trap warped with magic ,which wounded him, in attempts to escape he made it worse and decided to accept his fate, at this rate he will surely bleed to death, but his fate will have it that a magical maiden will cross his path and she helped him , freeing the wolf and taking him to her home, to aide and take care of him.

After spending his healing time with her the wolf realized that he was I love with the magical maiden and decided to reveal he was not just an ordinary wolf and shifted before her explaining that he could not shift before as he was too weak to change forms, The magical maiden was also smitten with the wolf shifter and they vowed to hold their bond sacred and live in the love they found to eternity and back.

Their love knew no bounds and they lived a happy life. One day a prophecy was released from the the human meditation place where their priest and saintess reside , that a mage will be the bridge between wolf kind and man kind, to stop the unjustified killings of the wolves

But once again humans fear what they do not understand and felt threated by the prophecy as they didn't want unity with a race they deemed monsters and will not accept help from a witch. The magical maiden and her husband lived in happiness, this human prophecy meant nothing to them, they carried on as they always had.

The humans became fearful of the couple simply because they were different and sent mercenaries to hunt and kill them , the wolf hid his wife and attempted to lure the killers away and was able to kill them , his wife not knowing there were more left the place he hid her and went to look for her husband only to be captured by the mercenaries and brought to the village

Soldiers bounded and beat her till she was bloodied and swollen, demanding that she call out to her demon lover to save her so he will come to save her and so that they can capture him as well

As any great lover she took her pain in silence, in hopes that he would not find her, knowing that they will surely try to capture him and kill him. They decided to tie her to a stake and sever her fingers one by one, she eventually let out a cry from the pain and her husband heard her and went running her way.

Pleased with themselves they lit her on fire her screams echoed through the forest as her husband ran against time to find her.

Outing the flames with the gust of wind he brought with him, but he was too late..... his wife his savior was gone he was not able to save her from the human trap the way she did for him.

In grief, rage and vengeance, killed the soldiers and everyone in the village. He took his wife's body and disappeared into the darkness and was never seen again.

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Rize was looking up at Fenris with her eyes wide open in disbelief

Fenris held her and kissed her head "see it isn't such a great love story like the humans tell it"

Rize smiled at him..... " he truly loved his magical maiden....." she said quoting his words from the tale, leaning towards him , pressing herself onto him "do you love your magical maiden" she smiled.

Fenris pulled Rize onto him , "I am truly......" took her hand and kissed her up to her neck "deeply " kissed her lips "in love with my magical maiden" their bodies pushed together heatedly against the floor, breathing heavily as their tongue intertwined in a deep expression of passion. Where they can taste their shared breath, Rize held him tightly as if he would slip away, they could feel the thud of their combined heartbeat as Fenris ran his hands over her body , removing the straps of her dress off her shoulders allowing it to drop to her waist. Revealing her tan skin and voluptuous beauty, as Fenris kissed every inch of the one that is his wife.

The moons delicate light had just turned the world a-flame by Fenris touch of her skin, Fenris love engulfed Rize fervidly as they both consumed each other that night.