His eyes glowed with excitement seeing lightning control as he was itching to try out his new power.
Thinking for a moment, if the ape beast wouldn't let him leave. He might as well train and complete his daily tasks. It was something he had to do no matter what.
He motioned with his hands while speaking to Nuka about a place that he could train. It took a minute,but his words eventually got through. They walked outside and Nuka grabbed him jumping straight down without any kind of warning.
Damon screamed at the top of his lungs thinking how insane the beast was. It seemed like minutes passed before he could see the ground. Now that the ground was in view, more panic set in as he believed it was his end.
Meters before hitting the ground Nuka grabbed a vine slowing them down suddenly almost to a complete stop. Damons body jerked and popped in pain as Nuka slung from the vine to the forest floor.
"What the hell, there isn't a better way down." Damon shouted and then covered his mouth realizing he might offend Nuka. It just flew out his mouth without him thinking about it.
He stood up bending his back attempting to stretch when a sharp pain dug in his side. He took off his upper armor and could see a large handprint from where Nuka was holding him.
"Sorry, not on purpose." Nuka said with a concern face.
Looking up at the beast Damon could tell it truly didn't mean to hurt him. It was the first time he had saw a look of concern in its eyes.
"Oh it's ok, I think you broke a rib though."
He was also thinking how crazy it was for her to break one of his ribs from just holding him. The landing did jerk him around, but it was because of her grip he was now injured.
With a flick of his hand a bottle of Elixer appeared, as he gulped it down the wound vanished. Nuka looked at him in awe and began poking where the wound was.
"Hey, calm down with the pokes. Your hands are really rough. You can hurt me again."
Nuka pulled it's hand away but Damon grabbed one of its fingers and gently placed it on his side.
"See, feeeeeel. Don't poke."
"How, you were hurt and now you not."
Damon did his best to explain to Nuka he could do certain things. He didn't explain in great detail, but just in a way Nuka could kinda understand.
"Strange beast, Sorcery." Nuka said pointing at him.
"No, no, I am not a beast. I have powers and abilities like you, but mines are different."
"Can you unhurt me?
"Well I guess so, I mean I never tried it on aaaaa, uh someone like you, but yes it should help you."
Claws sprung from Nuka's ape like fingers which surprised Damon. Usually beasts with claws would have some natural way of showing they had claws no matter if they could be seen or not.
"No, wait wait, wait , wait."
It dug a hole into its forearm and told Damon to heal it. Damon was speechless because of its sudden actions, he didn't understand at all. Taking in a deep breath while rubbing his forehead he took out another bottle of alleviate hoping it would work on beasts as well.
Nuka sniffed the bottle and turned it up without hesitation. Damon twisted his lips while thinking of the ingredients.
"I hope it can't tell what the ingredients are, I'm sure it'll be pissed if it knew literal piss was one of the ingredients he thought with a slight smirk.
The wound on its arm closed and completely healed making Nuka eyes light up with excitement. During its little test Damon hadn't thought about it till now but he used oversee on Nuka.
It was a grand prime beast called a Kitsune, but something else got his attention. It had no weakness or strengths and beside its name was the word trickster. He decided not to read into so much as of late he had been thinking the worse, but he still pondered on the word trickster. It being a grand prime beast didn't surprise him at all considering what he saw from its strength against the wolves. It was practically playing with them.
The next moment Damon was being picked up and Nuka was climbing using the vines. He hung in it's arm like a rag doll in total defeat with an irritated look on his face thinking what the hell was going on.
It didn't take long for the view of the ground to disappear and they were back at the tree home. Nuka guided him to another section telling him to move fast.
He now stood in front of another leaf bed, but this time a humanoid fox beast was resting. It was skinny as if it hadn't ate in days with patches of faded red and white fur. Its jaws were sunken in and it's breathing was very shallow.
Nuka slowly turned the humanoid fox over on its stomach revealing a deep wound on its lower hip. The wound had turned green and its flesh looked as if it was rotting.
[ Mid matured Kitsune [rarity-unknown ] [ trickster]
[Strengths unknown]
[ Weakness unknown]
"There it is again, trickster." He thought looking at Nuka from the corner of his eye.
"Help, unhurt." It said with eager eyes.
Damon looked at the fox beast with so many questions. Another humanoid beast, and this one was only a mid mature beast. That was unheard of.
As beasts evolve through maturity ranks, they grow stronger and more intelligent but it's only been 12 encounters with humanoid beasts and all of them were at the prime level, which created a history that only beasts at the prime level could gain a humanoid form, even then it was beyond rare, but Damon was in front of two, Nuka and the fox. It was not at the prime level, but it was still a humanoid beast.
Damon had many questions and he planned to ask them especially after what he was about to do.
"If I help, will you be honest with me and answer a few questions." He asked Nuka in which she hurriedly agreed.
Damon wisped out another bottle of alleviate and slowly poured it into the fox's mouth, making it gulp weakly. It took a few seconds longer than usual which Damon believed because she was so close to deaths door.
The little humanoid fox wound began turning pinkish red as new muscle and tissue stretched out and began forming. It's faded red fur slowly grew out blooming and spreading like flowers turning vibrant as a small white glow surrounded it.
Looking at the humanoid fox now, Damon saw how beautiful it truly was. It's fur had a silky shine that brought a feeling of warmth to Damons heart. To see the beast go from near death to perfect health made Damon appreciate what the system could do even more.
"Mother." It said in a confused tone as it slowly opened its eyes.
Damon look turned serious as it's voice literally sounded like a young girl. Turning to Nuka Damon could see tears running down its face as it walked over hugging the fox.
Nuka's body began releasing a blinding white light and its shape began morphing. Damon stepped back not knowing what was going on. The next second a tall humanoid fox beast with seven tails was sitting on the bed embracing the smaller fox instead of an ape beast.
It's fur was like a LED light that lit up the entire place with its snow white coating.
"Thank you." It turned and said to Damon.
It's voice was feminine, clear and fluent as day. Damon stood there with his mouth wide open and buckshot eyes. He wanted to move, he wanted to talk, but had no words, none that he wanted to say outloud atleast. Seconds passed and the only thing he could think of, was the word trickster.
"I'm sorry I deceived you, but you must understand deceiving is our way. It's our life, I had to be sure of your heart." Nuka said now standing in front of Damon. She was still tall as ever and more beautiful than the ape like appearance she had been portraying.
Trying to ignore everything that just happened, he asked the one thing that had been on his mind since he had got there.
"Why did you help me."
"Because you're young and weak compared to the dangers on this planet, like my Nexas." It said turning back looking at the fox, who was almost just as tall as Damon.
Damon tried not to feel some kind of way, but he was getting a little agitated with how the beast always called him weak. He thought he had gotten stronger. He knew he wasn't no where near its strength remembering how he got hurt from it just holding him a little tight, but damn it, it was annoying as hell being called weak all the time.
A little time passed and Nuka introduced him to Nexas and they all conversed for a while. Nuka was very interested in the strange sorcery that Damon could use so he explained to her how it was possible and pulled out all the ingredients needed to make the alleviate elixir.
He didn't tell her the main ingredient was beast urine from a grand prime beast though fearing she would be upset. They spoke about eachother abilities as she recalled him summoning clouds when he was fighting the wolves.
He showed them by demonstrating. Nexas was blown away. With his new skill, environmental control, he could summon clouds at their level and make them produce rain, however he only made shapes out of the clouds.
"Can you make a birdie." She asked excitedly.
"Ughhh, it's tougher than it looks, but I'll give it a try."
To his surprise he made a small bird very easily. He even made it glide around the room, He guessed all the cloud shaping training was paying off because originally he couldn't do such a thing.
"Your ability is unique and beautiful, but that is all. You must get stronger.... and you must as well." Nuka said to Nexas.
Damon had enough with the weak and get stronger sayings. He knew he needed to, but wanted to know why she constantly talked about getting stronger and so he asked her to tell him more about the sick beasts.
Now that she wasn't playing dumb in the form of an ape. He wanted to understand about what was going on and how she and her daughter was so smart and could speak like humans.
It took a few hours, but he had finally got the information he needed. In short, all of the beasts on planet Sactus were evolving because of a strange entity and power. It was also the thing responsible for the infected beasts.
Many beasts were evolving no matter their maturity level at an incredible rate. Nexas was born as a humanoid fox while Nuka evolved into hers naturally as her power grew.
Many more beasts were obtaining more humanoid forms and Nuka believed it was because of the planet itself, trying to give other beasts the power to fight back against a evil power that threatened its existence.
She had no real proof it was the planet itself, but just felt it was. Over the years she gained speech and knowledge, but so did many other beasts including the infected ones. Damon learned it wasn't just regular beasts or infected beasts, it was also infected beasts on her level he had to worry about.
She had no clue how or when the strange power began or how it infect others. She only knew it was killing the planet and taking over minds of many creatures. She also told him that the area where she first saw him with his friends was one of the areas that hadn't been infected yet, but was soon to change.
"So what are you going to do, you can't keep running and eventually the whole planet will be infected." He asked.
Nuka didn't know, She had been relocating for years and yet it wasn't enough.
"I'm not sure about this, but where I come from, might be able to help. Matter of fact, help could be on its way as we speak. The only thing is they will see you as a major threat, because of you're a humanoid beast. Which is crazy because some of my kind that are different races can look or change parts of themselves to look like beasts."