Tw: OOC Claude and swearings
'Whatthefuckwhatthefuck!Where the hell am I! I never asked for this!!!'
You whined in pain as an arrow whizzed on your body. You could hear the hunters following closely behind you laughing and competing against each other. They were about 7 of them and you absolutely have no idea what circumstances you were in.
You kept running. A destination nowhere in mind, just as long as you could escape from them. Suddenly, your eyesight began to blurry.
'Was it because of the bloodloss? Or was there something in the arrow?
Fuck, I'm so tired!!'
"Little fella! Seems your time is up HAHA!" You heard someone from behind you making you growl to yourself in annoyance. You began to slow down in exhaustion making you panic, but you couldn't do anything when you had blood loss, broken bones, being drugged and possibly concussion.
You, the stupid you, just had to make a mistake of turning your head behind you to snap your mouth at them angrily and yap because you were greeted with an arrow straight to your neck.
'OWWWW FUCKING HELL!!'
You cried out from the pain, and the last thing you saw as you jumped across a small stream was their panicked faces looking at the first person to cross the stream who was busted far away. You assumed it must be a barrier of some sort, well now you could rest.
Ehhh you must be confused about what's happening.
You are (Y/N)(L/N) an upcoming highschool graduate from (School) a man/hwa/nga/hua fanatic who is possibly killed by a stray bullet. You awoke to find yourself in a forest, all green! Hail mother nature! Ahem- and you noticed your vision looked quite low for the trees and bushes. What tallass trees it is then!
Not until you noticed you were on all fours(what🙈). You tried talking but all you could come up with was yapping and small noises of an.. animal?
You scouted the area for a possible body of water and saw one, you went near it and stared at your reflection.
'A.. fox?!? Excuse me?!'
You brought your hand up to your face and saw your small han- err.. paws.
You stared blankly at your reflection and splashed it with your paw.
'OH HELL NOOOO!!! WHAT IS A FOX GONNA DO?! WHAT DOES THE FOX EVEN SAY?! Oh that's a song right.. STOPP I'M HAVING A BRAIN DAMAGE!!!
AND WHAT FOX EVEN HAVE (Fur Color) (Eye Color)!! I'M IN ETERNALLY DEEP SHIT RIGHT—'
Your internal tantrum was cut short when you heard a bush rustle and multiple voices. When you turned in its direction, you came face to face with some ugly bastards as they stared at you, and you stared at them, and they gaped at you, and you ran as they pointed an arrow thing gun. Now there's where you are.
'Goodfuckingness, this is how I die a second time then. I was a pretty fox, I could have been delicious too, but look at me, I'm gonna be eaten, become some ugly decoration and decomposed for mother earth. I mean It's good I had some use but I wanted a dignified death. Fuck dignified death when you get shot around—'
'Isn't it about time I got saved by prince charming or something.'
And then you passed out.
Fortunately for your wheel of fate when you rolled the 000.0000000001% of surviving, you got lucky! As a teen with hair golden as it could be stared at your pitiful form with his cerulean eyes.
'How sad.' Was his thought as he picked you up gently and merry on his way.
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Beep Beep Beep
Was what you thought you'd hear as you awoke from your dreams and see the hospital..
Only to find yourself in a bigass bed surrounded by the softest cotton and silk sheets, ahhh you could live here for life.
"Hmm. Such a peculiar fox."
You heard someone mumble making you snap your head towards their direction which was a verrryyyy bad thing to do.
"What a stupid fox." You whined at both the insult and pain when you realized what state you were in. Your body was hurting all over.
'Holy shit this hurt much more than when I fell from the bridge!'
You didn't notice that you've gaped your mouth from the pain and drool had accumulated from the corners of your mouth.
"Disgusting." You heard the kid you saw earlier say making you snap your jaws in their direction. "What? Are you gonna bite your savior now?" And then you notice their hair and eye color that looked extremely familiar.
'What the fuck, did Clade have a son? Did Athanasia have a son?! No no, it's impossible, this kid looks depressed.'
"Hn~ What a strange looking fox, can I have it, Claude?" You saw from the door the villain of the society, the typical bad boy guy but with beauty.
"No."
"No fun." With that, the brat looking one left.
'Did I hear it right? Claude?? Exfuckingcuse me? This kid is depressed as fuck! Is this what a phase is?'
You probably shouldn't insult a royalty in front of them but this was your unhealthy coping mechanism from realizing where, what, and the hell was happening.
You sighed internally and made up the decision to be on his good side starting from now.
You leaned your head down in front of him.
He stared dumbly at you.
'IF YOU DON'T WANT TO PAT, THEN DON'T!'
You were about to move your head away when he brought his hand upon your head.
"Is this what you wanted?" You yapped in happiness. You must've look stupid but you had no choice.
Gosh, this was gonna be a long life. You hope.
~~~
It had been a month since you started healing and strangely enough you had fully healed when it should've taken at least a few months to do so even for a normal fox.
You weren't dumb, it means you had something special in you, but you wouldn't go as far to assume you were some main character or something. You wouldn't want to make a mistake just like that blob slime in another manhwa you read only to get eaten. We don't want you being roasted now, do we?
You constantly followed Claude, who was in his 14s meaning he hadn't taken the throne yet.
Aside from that, you had taken your own personal training. Instinctive training per say. Stealthily hunting birds, mices, snakes and offering it to the young lord which always brings him to a dumbfounded face. (It took you quite a while to get used to their taste but you couldn't deny, they taste delicious raw)
You were quite an overthinker and you didn't want assassins possibly assassinating your favorite person, even if he can defend himself anyways.
Speaking of his highness, you were currently dragging him somewhere, which was the lake Athanasia fell in, you absolutely adored that lake as it was beautiful. Fortunately enough, a boat was awaiting you both, Claude sighed in defeat and walked towards the boat, in which you jumped in after.
The boat started rowing on its own with Claude's magic.
"Happy?" He blankly looked at you as you yipped in reply to him.
You wormed yourself in his lap and settled comfortably. You purred in delight as he started to pat your head and rubbed under your chin.
***
"ANASTACIUS! DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH TOUCH HER!" Anastacius' eyes were livid with madness as he held you by the scruff of you neck painfully. He had his sword below and dangerously close to your neck. You whimpered in pain as his nails dug through your skill.
"No, can do brother. Let's make this extra painful for it shall we?" He cackled back at the desperate looking Claude. Your eyes widened as excruciating pain hit your gut making you howl out loud. The worst part? Anastacius had used black magic to increase your agony.
"[NAME]!!!" You saw through the corner of your eyes as Claude rushed, sword drawn. With adrenaline kicking in, you struggled through Anastacius' hold and managed to bite his arm, unfortunately, not tearing through but it managed to distract him as Claude thrust his word in his brother's chest and the sound of explosion reached your ears. As your adrenaline washes away, a tearing pain surges through your body. An ear splitting and pain howl that you, had not noticed has turned into a human scream. Everything inside your body felt like it was being broken and forcefully put back together.
Claude watched in shock and amazement as your body, which was formerly a fox, had shifted to a girl his age, but it quickly turned to fear when he saw your stomach still had the open sword wound. Clutching you tightly in his arms as he swerved around the halls to find help.
You felt at peace when you woke up, although you felt your lids heavy. As you opened your eyes, your sight blurred for a few seconds, and those few seconds, you saw something yellow? or is it gold? Above all, strangely enough, you could feel something in your hands clearly. Don't paws are supposed to feel only single things, but right now, you felt something intertwined with your hand.
"Fucking hell, I can't feel anything.." You mumbled enough for your ear to hear. Wait. Mumbled?!
You abruptly pulled the hand that you felt was intertwined with something and cupped it on your supposed face, only to feel a human face.
"I'm back to being human..?" FUCKING FINALLY! HELL YEAAAHHH!
A grin sat atop your face and you couldn't help but tear up in happiness. Though, only you were the one interpreting it as happiness.
"[Name]? Are you okay? Does it hurt anywhere?" You heard the blob of yellow speak before your vision finally settled.
"Claude— I mean Your Highness?!" All this time, his hand was the one you've been holding on to. You felt his hand nearing your face, before he wiped something off you. Your tears.
"Just.. call me Claude. Are you hurt? Why are you crying?" You couldn't help the chuckle that left out of your mouth. "It's tears of happiness. Now, I can love you much more in this form." Claude stared at you, blinking his eyes before the tips of his ears burned bright. Eh? Did you say that out loud?
"Don't.. Don't just say stuff like that!" By now, his face was burning red. Your eyes showed mischief before you quickly added.
" Oh you know, I really couldn't help but stare when you remove your clothes. And the time when your robe fell in front of me, I wanted to lic—"
"STOP!" Claude by now had thrown a pillow in your face making you burst out laughing, then the door opened and closed.
"Your Highness, is something wrong!?" You stared owlishly at the boy who'd just arrived.
"Sir Felix, alert as always."
"Who are you?" Felix pointed his now drawn sword at your face.
"Felix, stand down." You heard Claude say, Felix was about to retort but you spoke up.
"If I had PTSD of swords, I would have convulsed by now." The two men in front of you stared at you like you've grown two heads."
"Oh nothing.. I'm ya foxy [Name]." You waved at the now confused redhead before he turned at Claude and Claude nodded.
"You're.. human?" Just then, the door opened and closed once again before a boy with black hair and red eyes seemingly at our age entered.
Double Holy shit? Is this who I think it is? THISISACLAUDESHOT—
"My name is Lucas, and I can answer that. Her body, the fox, was supposedly a walking time bomb. She was taking in mana that was accumulating everywhere, and it had a limit. The last incident with black magic hastened it. And the result is this." He pointed at your human body.
"Though she has to be monitored carefully as both regular and black magic are circling inside her which is both amazing and horrifying. We don't know what could be the outcome if it bursts so we need to let it settle inside her."
"My recommendation is that she gets used to using magic which we can help her with. Now, if you'll excuse me." Lucas left out and silenced filled the atmosphere.
"Feels like I'm digging my grave again." Felix and Claude cracked a small smile at the dark humor. All in all everything was going to be right. Especially when Claude keeps his hand locked with yours.
~~~
Extra
"So I can't pat you anymore?" Felix commented with a grin.
"You can always pat me—" You were interrupted with Claude saying "No".
And when you both looked at him, he had an obvious jealous face.
Extra Extra
Almost a year later, the Lucas of the WMMAP was in for a surprise when he looked at the joyous Obelia.
He expected something dark and depressing like the other dimensions but when he looked at his father-in-law of another dimension, he was strange. He was smiling and laughing as he sat on his throne with a woman he wasn't familiar with.
But the blob of gold glowing in her stomach was surely familiar.
'It seems you'll have a good life here, Athanasia.'