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Viewer discretion is advised. Do not Flame. All credit goes to Rick Griffin, creator of Housepets!)\n[/center]\n“Journal entry #56: I have been having reoccurring dreams, visions if you will, I can’t very much understand it, even when I ask Tarot about it, even though she’s more of a psychic rather than a thnerapist, all she said was ‘I’m sorry, I can’t answer that, I don’t know humans all that well’. She still has me shocked that she knows that I’m human. The bad thing, my best friend, fox, doesn’t. Even worse is that Fox is the husky that I tried to kidnap when I was just a human, before I met Pete, before all of this craziness happened. I don’t know what to do next, maybe I shou-“ before he wrote the last words in his journal, Fox burst in, wearing camo, which included camo trousers and a camo version of his bomber jacket, and holding a super-soaker. \n“KING! THERE’S A 2ND BALLOON WATER WAR OUT THERE!” the corgi yelped in surprise and quickly hid his journal, turning around to meet the husky’s eyes, blushing seeing how blue they were, like sapphire.\n “F-fox! You scared me” fox closed the door, drying himself and setting the water-gun down. \n“What were you doing before I came in?” fox asked the smallish corgi, King pondered what to tell him, then got an idea, a brilliant idea, so brilliant that even grape would believe it, and she’s a skeptic. \n“I was writing a fake journal over the water wars, and a note to uhhhhh p-peanut! Yes Peanut, I wanted to see how he was doing on his side of the home front” \nKing fake-laughed, wiping some sweat off of his fur, the smallish husky looked at him funny but then Fox shrugged. “Peanut is MIA, again, and I need your help to try and get him, that means infiltrating the cat’s defenses COD-style!” \nHe grabbed Kings Collar and put 2 black lines under his eyes and put a water-pistol in his hand. “C’mon King, we need someone to help us in our fight against the cats.” Fox said to him, now close to the door, water-gun in hand.\n“What about the wolves?!” \nFox shook his head, the water falling off of his hot glistening fur, heated by the summer air. “They take this WAY too far.” And opened the door. King and fox ran out of the door into the watery hell that awaited them.\nThe cat defenses\nBabylon gardens\n3rd POV\n\tGrape yawned, it was day 3 of the second water wars, and they had captured their house and now is fortifying the defenses. Her fur mangled up from sleeping, her water gun, in the shape of some alien weapon, was glued to her side, scared of getting wet by their canine opponents. The leader of her ragtag resistance group came in. Captain Isis, she was a Persian cat with white and brown fur. An eyepatch covered her left eye, a captain’s cap covered her wildish hair, while she had a pistol holster to her side. She resembled Snake from the games Grape had played with her fellow pet, peanut, whom had a secret crush on her. It was obvious she was a Metal Gear Solid fan, judging from her costume. \n\t“ATTENTION MY CAT BRETHREN AND SISTERS!” She yelled out in the house, each cat, including Grape lined up to see what she has to say. She turned and started walking up and down our lines. \n\t“Have the slingshots been set up at the windows?” She said to one cat, whom nodded with a toothy grin on his face. “Excellent, and the mortars?” Another one replied to her, saying yes, noting that they placed them near the pool so that they can have an endless supply.\n\tShe came over to grape, then proceeded to smile at her. “Ah, Grape. It has been a long time since I talked to you. Ever since my owner got his daughter I’ve been a bit preoccupied.” She smiled and proceeds to hug Isis. \n\t“I agree, it has been a long time, Isis.”\n\tIsis looked at Grape. “How’s the mutt?” She frowned while she looked at Isis, looking as if she had just remembered something painful, Isis’s hate for dogs and anything that has to do with them, to be exact. “Peanut, is fine. Since you captured him he has been calm, all we really need is to give him treats and video games and he’ll be good. Without him the dogs will fall apart, Tarot is gunning for your head, Isis.”\n\tThe eye-patched cat laughed. “I’m not afraid of that weirdo.” She dismisses the cats and goes to sit down in the recliner, messing around with a toy mouse filled with cat nip. \n\tKing yawned while he’s walked through the control center, located at the good ol’ dog’s club clubhouse. Bino is talking while he has a mini-map of the neighborhood, explaining where the front is and how this war is playing out. He sees king and Fox.\n\t“Ah, Foxtrot brings King, great, we need another weirdo on our side.” The dogs proceed to laugh while king growls with anger. Fox just looks on. “Shut up Bino, and say what you need so we can do this mission.” \n\tBino nods. “Ok, you and King, Codename: Checkmate. Shall infiltrate the cat’s hideout, rescue peanut, and take our defector out of there. This guy.” He gives king a picture of Zack, a rabbit whom hasn’t been living in Babylon Gardens for long, and is a relative to Tiger and another cat. King nods and slings on a small backpack and puts his pistol and the picture in it.\n\tBino smiled. “Be careful, men, or dogs in this case. We have no idea what Isis is planning. And if you can please spray Sabrina with water. Fucking cat put a spell on my brother!” Everyone except the hardcore members of the club shook their head, knowing that isn’t the case at all, really. \n\t“Well, nonetheless it’s time for Operation: downpour to begin.” Fox says, everyone whoops and hollers while Fox and King leave, going to Grape’s house to do the mission they are assigned to. To Fox this wasn’t a game, this was the real thing, King on the other hand just wanted to be with Fox, his only best friend.\n\n“Nonetheless, we need to come up with a plan to get in there. So what I would do is wait until there is an opening and take it. Go in there ghost style.” Fox continued while they hide in one of the bushes near Grape and Peanuts home, the sticks poking in King’s back, feeling as if someone is trying to tell him something. He knows the home well, the memories stung in the back of his head, almost bringing the Corgi to tears, even. Those painful memories are what keeps him with, and absolutely fearful of Fox, it just feels right, but at the same time, really wrong to him. If he could, he would erase those memories away.\nBut he can’t, and possibly never will. That’s what forces those tears out of the corgi’s eyes every time he goes to bed, each night, alone in that empty room he rented from Miles and the wolves. While King was daydreaming Fox bolted and ran to another bush, then gone. King looked around, hyperventilating, wondering where he went, and not wanting to be alone, not now, not in this war.\nKing goes and sees 2 cat in front of a door and pulls out his water pistol, taking aim. Out nowhere though came 2 dogs and pelted them with water balloons, causing them to shriek and run inside of the house, with the door open. \n‘How convenient.’ The small corgi thought as he sheathed his pistol and ran in, quickly hiding inside of a closet, while guards walked around. He calmed his breath and looks around, mission impossible playing in his head, while he looks to his right, seeing Grape exit the room, seeing grape playing games and eating a bit, wagging his tail, giggling a bit. ‘Grape really is fond of the dog. But oh well.’ He thought to himself before the closet door opens. It was Zach. Their eyes widened while King waved to Zach. Before Zach called out he grabbed the rabbit and slid him inside the closet. Zach’s muffled screams and moans barely left the closet because of King covering his mouth with his paw. To Zach it’s like one of those movies he and his 2 brothers found under their keeper’s bed, except king was dressed in camo, not leather, and holding a gun, not a gag. He calmed down looking at king, trying to talk to the small dog. “Shut up. So why are you struggling? Are you the defector or not?” He nipped Kings Paw and looks at him. “I am you dumbass” \n\t“Then help me get peanut out of here.” \n\tKing went to grab the walkie-talkie and press the talk button. “Checkmate has found the target and will extract.” Zach snatched the walkie-talkie. “No. We need to get grape.” \n\tThe corgi rolled his eyes to the rabbit, going outside seeing the coast is clear and proceeds to the door in which they keep peanut, and went inside. Peanut looked at the small dog and smiles. “Hi King! Hi Zach! What’re you doing here?” \n\tKing opened the window, and it waited 2 dog soldiers, and smiled. “Mission complete.” And pushed the dog and the rabbit out, and closed it. ‘Wait, where’s fox?!’. The dog peaked out of the door, seeing his best friend tied up and proceeded to the backyard pool, where Isis stand, like an executioner at the gallows. King collapsed onto the room floor, panting as his eyes are wide. He knew what this was as he had it multiple times before, it was either a panic attack or even a breakdown of some kind. Zack put king up and put him onto the wall, he’s still panting. \n\t“King? King?! What’s the matter?!” Zach said to the dog as his pupils contracted and widened, king held his head, beginning to cry. “No…not now… go away!! These fucking memories…” King panted while Zach and peanut looked on. Out of nowhere Zach slapped King’s cheek, hard.\n\t“GET A GRIP SOLDIER! Whatever is plaguing you right now has to stop, if you don’t Fox will be casted into the pool. You have to save him King! Only you can. He is counting on you!” King snapped out of his fit, and looked up at Zach, and nodded. “I have a plan. Zach, run off, it’s about to get wet.”\n\tHe made his way to under the deck, seeing he was under everyone that was there. While he walked he tripped and fell onto the ground, feeling the rocks bite into his fur as he held in his yelp. He looked to what tripped him, it was a hose. \n\t“So, the almighty Foxtrot has stepped upon my door, once again.” She said with a big smirk, Grape was in the front, next to Fox. Fox looked down, silent, seeing king ready the hose, and climbing up the patios’ sides, about to ambush them. ‘You clever dog I knew I could count on you.’ He smiled and sighed a bit.\n\tFox looked up at Isis, whom was In front of the husky, grinning with her teeth exposed. “So, any last words, Mr. Fox?” Fox smirked. “Downpour.”\n\tBefore the cats could react, Fox tackled grape and jumped off the patio, Afterwards, king douses the cat army, and Isis, in water, soaking them to the skin under their fur. King continued to spray before Isis grabbed a water balloon and hit him directly into the face with it. “Fucking mutt!” She cursed loudly, drenched in water. The cats meowed and wiggled around trying to find their towels. Fox got up and picks grape up, water drips and goes into the grass with tiny blips of sound. \n\t“Are you alright?” Fox asked her, after she shoved him off a little bit. “I’m fine, how do you know I was the defector?” Fox shrugged and giggles a bit, before he spies a small pile of fluff laying in the dry grass, it was king, knocked out unconscious from the balloon, blood dripping from his nose, either that or water running out from his nose. Fox dashed quickly to the injured corgi, and picked him up, His eyes like saucers, wide and dumbfounded with shock. “Isis will pay for this…” he said softly as he hugged King. Fox looked around making sure there isn’t any cats.\n\t“Did you try kissing him?” Grape said, jokingly before Fox gone down and softly presses his lips unto the dogs. She dropped her jaw, hearing the fox sigh seeing that it didn’t do much. Fox clutched his body and held him up, and looked at grape. “We need to go. You saw nothing, Cat.” They ran out of the backyard hastily. After a few minutes king awoke, wiggling on fox’s shoulders. \n\t“King! You’re awake!!” Fox yelled out. King jumped from fox’s shoulders and looked to him. “Thank you fox for saving me.” Fox smiled and went to hug the corgi, whom accepted the hug then pushes him away. Laughing it off as a joke and pulling out his pistol. “C’mon! There’s a war going on.”\n6 hours later\nBabylon gardens, USA\n\tKing panted heavily, his tiny legs running in the darkness, his water pistol in hand, he heard moans and screams of dogs getting soaked by cats, water balloons flying willy-nilly, washing away everything in sight, the corgi padded to his door, opening and running inside and closing it, frantically locking it. As the final lock was heard with a click of the tumblers, he sighed in relief. \n‘My god, it was a war to end all wars’ he thought to himself, walking to the bathroom to take a shower. He turned on the hot water and began to shower himself, the hot water coursing down his fur, making him sigh and smile. Unknowingly, fox sneaked inside his house to give him one final douse of watery fun. Fox opened the window to King’s room, and walked in, giggling under his breath, he treads lightly into his best friends room, trying not to make the floor boards squeak while he went to the door, hearing the shower running and with only one dim light on. \n‘Ohh man I’m going to scare him good!’ he thought maniacally in the husky’s head before his ears perked, he heard the bathroom open up and quickly he hid somewhere inside the room. Before King came in Fox noticed a big black square object. Kings journal. Who knows what secrets hid in that black book of his, Fox pondered those secrets while silently reaching for it, but just before he could grab King came in, and fox retreated to his spot. Fox peaked to see king but couldn’t believe what he saw afterwards. King’s fur glistened in the dimly lit room while he dried off his fur, the corgi smiled brightly looking almost like the happiest dog in the world. Fox dropped his jaw almost. \n‘Oh my god, king looks beautiful, wait, what am I saying?! Here, now’s my time to strike!’ Giving a quick burst of adrenaline and courage in him, Fox jumped out, yelling something and shooting out a big burst of water. What was almost like time slowed down, the water barely missed the corgi’s face, and instead hit and got onto his journal.\n\tKing was both angered and speechless, he looked at his journal, now soaked in water, seeing black coming from it knowing the ink is now washed away, then to his so-called ‘best friend’ then back again. Fox was also speechless, he quickly dropped his water gun and held his paws up, surrendering and trying to calm king down, which at this point was futile and might very well result in king strangling him, but he tried anyways. \n“I-Im sorry king, it was an accident, I meant to hit you not your journal.” King stopped him. \n“Get out, Fox.” Fox rejected his friends request trying to help, but was met with a loud burst of anger from the corgi. \n“GET OUT!!!” he yelped as fox ran out of the house quickly, tail between his legs and tears in his eyes. With tears going down his cheeks, he slowly picked up his journal, even though the ink stayed the pages were soaked. He slowly walked through his house pondering what had happened. When he passed the study at first he didn’t noticed but a familiar voice echoed in the room, beside the dimly lit desk was the magical fox and game-master, Kitsune. \n“Hi king, I was just seeing how you were doing with your status as a free agent.” King glared at him with tears streaming down his cheeks. He couldn’t choke out a word, dealing with both his soaked journal, the fact that he yelled at his only friend, and that a fox-demigod-thingy was in his study. Or, well at least it wasn’t Pete, the asshole gryphon demigod who made him like this in the first place. \n“w-what do you want, stupid fox?” King stifled out in a smote of anger and sadness, Kitsune looked at him, then his book, then back again. \n“I see, you’re mad cause your friend soaked your book, you know I can fix that right?” Kings ears perked and placed the book on the desk. \n“You can do that?” the fox nodded, smiling at him. \n“Yes but I will be able to read your secrets the entire time I’m drying it, if you want I can even help you with love interests or any of the sort. With a price.” Kings ears flattened, knowing that he’s almost like Pete, willing to help but said help will come with a price, as usual.\n\t“What’s the price?” King said, breaking the momentary silence between the two, Kitsune smiled as a water balloon hit the window that was behind him, imitating a loud boom almost as if a thunder storm was going on outside.\n “There is no price, I’m not like Pete or his competitor, I serve as a moderator between the two, so they don’t end up destroying the world in some feat of frustration or jealousy or whatever” Kitsune chuckled a bit, waved his paw around trying to explain the long fight between the dragon and the gryphon, which sucked King, Tarot, and Sabrina into it. The corgi didn’t like that answer, judging how he crossed his arms and scolded the fox. \n“Bullshit, there’s always a price, I mean look at me! I got turned into a corgi because Pete wanted to ‘help me’” Kitsune snapped his fingers, stopping King from going into a rant. \n“And help you he did. Turning you into a corgi helped you a lot since you’ve been one hundred times nicer to the pets here in Babylon gardens ever since you got down to their size, literally.” He corrected king looking down at the dog, whom still had his arms crossed. King thought about it for a minute, thinking about his secrets; but then again its’ like getting your car repaired for free to him, king nodded. \n“O-ok, we have a deal.” King reached for the fox’s hand and grabbed it, shaking it. When he did he felt a rush of power, and a quick glimpse of what can be described as their aurora, it wrapped around them as if it was a light smoke radiating from his pours. The corgi’s aurora was a deep purple while Kitsune’s was a fiery ruby like red. \n“Good! Then we may start”. King tilted his head. \n“Start what?” before king could finish the Kitsune handed him the journal, completely dry. Kitsune smiled and with the snap and the book open, it flipped through the pages and it stopped on one specific page, that one page the one king never wanted seen, so he hid it in the middle of the book. It was when he had a crush on his best friend, Fox. \n\tKitsune looked at the corgi “this one right here, yes? You’re in love with your best friend. Your only friend, it seems.” He said with a grin. King blushed and shook his head. \n“Y-yes that’s when I had a crush on him, but now since I yelled at him, he would never want to date me now, I bet he isn’t gay either, I mean the girls love him and I really don’t like the idea of me coming out to him, let alone dating him.” Kitsune rolled his eyes. \n“Never know until you try.” He closed the book. \n“I’ll help you!” Kitsune smiled as king lit up, ears perked and tail wagging knowing any help is good help. Kitsune leans in to the corgi’s ear, making him blush a bit. \n“All I need you to do, is wake up.” King opens his eyes to a loud boom of thunder, he leaned up seeing he was in bed, looking as if he was asleep. \n“GOD DAMMIT!!” he yelled out before seeing a statue of Kitsune before going to bed, knowing he got trolled.\n\n\n\nThe next day\nBabylon gardens\nKings POV\n\tFinally, after a dream of a smiling fox, feeling his soft unmated fur next to mine as we were cuddling in a hammock on the ocean, I awoke happily but was struck hard with the burden of the events that had happened last night, knowing fair well that not only did I yell at my best friend, and…crush, but Kitsune, the game-master trolled me. After breakfast I heard a knock on the door, perking my ears before Miles, the wolf I was living with at the time who lets me use their house, went to open the door. \n“Oh, hello!..” I can only hear glimpses of the conversation, trying to keep efface and being calm, and serenity before hearing the two come in, hoping that it was just one of his friends coming to visit. Oh how I desperately hoped it was, I was in no mood to be playing with the dogs from the good ol’ dogs club. The treaty was signed and both Isis and Bino went their separate ways, ending the war completely, even with influence from the rich ferrets on both sides telling them not to. The two walked into the living room where I was sitting and watching TV.\n“King you’re friend came over to say hi from Australia.” I look over before nearing dropping my jaw, and sees the tall wolf talking with what looks to be an average built man, almost looking like myself before I was turned into the corgi that I am today. The man was around 6’1” hair short, yet rebellious, he was wearing a Metallica T-shirt, darkish jeans, and a grey and black plaid short-sleeve button down shirt. His eyes were brown, but when I looked at him his eyes were bright red. Oh fuck, its Kitsune! \n“Hey king!” he said before reaching to pet me, I let him, feeling his power in his hand while he strokes my long white ear. “Hi” I replied to him. \n“Oh Miles, my name is Fox, by the way.” We both perk our ears, I growl a bit under my teeth, cursing Kitsune’s name. “Huh, funny, King’s friend’s name is also ‘Fox’”\n I looked at him and gave a fake smile to the man. “Hi fox, how are you doing today?” He smiled and looked at me. “Want to hang out today?” he said grinning a bit too big.\n\tI put on my best fake smile I could, the one I wear when I’m around fox, usually, the cute showing of my fangs while giving a cute smile. “Sure Fox, let’s go to the dog park.” \nI took out my leash and put it on my collar, and hands it to Kitsune. \n“Miles I’ll be back soon.” I say walking out the door, he waved and closes the door and we make our way to it. When we got to the park I sit on the grass with him looming over me. \n“Like my look?” he said chuckling while the summer breeze wafts through the park, picking up various smells that felt like summer was in the air. King looked at the demi-god, his eyes were a blaze red, as they should, what caught him off guard is that he resembled much to his original form, before he got turned into a Corgi.\n“I do, it reminds me of myself before all of this had happened.” Kitsune sat down at a nearby bench, with me still collared. “Well, firstly, tell me about yourself before you were turned into a corgi.” I sighed, this story was painful, and is still painful each time I repeat it inside my mind.\n\t“My name is Joel Robinson. I am a human who once lived in Babylon gardens. I had known that I was gay ever since high school, I had been bullied all through high school simply because of that fact. I had tried to die, I had cut myself, but eventually I made it to graduation and beyond, I went to college and talked with this guy, who seemed nice but was only wanting me to join the group, he was paid to lie to my face, much like a recruiter for the US military, but back then I was naïve, unknowing. I had joined PETA simply because I thought I was going to make a difference in the world, but seeing the point of view from a dog’s standpoint I realize now that I was wrong. What Pete had done to me is something to which is what I deserve.” Kitsune had cut me off mid-sentence. \n“You made your point. I can work with that. Does Fox know you used to be Joel Robinson?” my eyes widened a bit then I looked down, and shook my head slowly. \n“No… my god I forgot all about that.” \nKitsune sighed looking at me with a sympathetic face, petting my head, making a feeling of relief wash over me, even though I had my ears clenched and my eyes wide. \n“You’ll be fine, I promise you.” I looked at him then hears the distinct sound of the dogs from Babylon, it was Peanut and Tarot. Quickly, I hid from them under the park bench, the shade cooling me off but my body shakes a bit drowning in fear while I sense what is inside the golden retriever, a powerful force. Kitsune looked under at the scared corgi, “what are you afraid of, they’re just two of your friends playing.” \nI looked up at him. \n“Tarot scares me.” Kitsune chuckled and then looked a tarot, knowing a certain feeling rising up from him, Tarots eyes glowing emerald and she has a blank look almost as if she has an empty mind or under complete hypnosis. They both walked over to us.\n\tTarot and peanut looks around knowing I was there, unknowingly peanut looks under the bench to see me, ears flattened trying to hide. \n“Hi king! Um, what are you doing under the bench?” seeing that I had nowhere to go I sighed and slid back out, undoing the leash for a bit. \n“I was getting hot so I sat under there for shade.” \nPeanut nodded and covered his head too and begins to pant, seeing that the hot summer day was getting to him too. I looked at Kitsune, who was in a deep, emotionless glare, meeting the eyes of Tarot. She growls lowly as her eyes changed color from plain golden brown to emerald. “Why are you here among the mortals, aren’t you supposed to be preparing our game together?” \nTarot spoke, her personality changing drastically, too drastically. She was under control of the spirt dragon again! \n“Why I’m helping a friend.” He says while he pointed to me, I just stood back a bit trying to get out of their way, while peanut tried to watch but seeing his tail wag was tempted to try and chase it. \n“You know the higher ups do not permit you to mess with his timeline. Remember when Pete tried?” \n“But he isn’t helping me change back, I can promise you!” I spoke before getting shot down by her. \n“Shut up human!” I cover my mouth seeing them argue, I can almost feel their words echo throughout space and time itself. \nTarot turned back to Kitsune. “I’m just trying to help him figure out ways to help with Fox.” Kitsune said to try and calm her down. Tarot sighed, and she changed back. “What happened? I knew the human yelled at the dog but why does Joel call upon you rather than me?” \nKitsune looked at her, eyes glaring blood red as if the iris were made of rubies. “I have sympathy for the little corgi, it’s not like I was just going to sit there and not help. I find romance and puppy love between a friend and another friend entertaining.” \nKitsune leaned back in his seat, grinning, they gone back and forth at it until I got frustrated, seeing two demigods bicker is literally like watching two kids fighting over a toy. One tries to go logical, the other is taking an emotional approach, all is missing is ethical, oh, that would be Pete. Ethos, Logos, and Pathos, all wrapped up into 3 demi-gods who are bitching and moaning at each other over some supernatural board game that resembled Dungeons and Dragons.\nAfter a while my frustration boiled over, I can feel my face turning red, my anger reaching its climax and I blurted out. \n“GRRRRRR, SHUT THE FUCK UP WILL YOU?! I’M HUMAN SO WHAT?! I HATED BEING A HUMAN, AND NOW, NOW TURNED INTO A CORGI, WHOM HAS BEEN THROUGH WELL ENOUGH, I HATE BEING YOU THREE’S FUCKING PLAYTOY IN YOUR SILLY WAR GAME!!” The spirit dragon was about to say something before I cut her off in a rant. “If you guys could stop bickering to one another I can solve this problem! Care not about war and petty games between you and the frickin’ bird, and help me! Help me, god damnit! HELP. ME.” \nKitsune grinned, and leans back in his seat again, pleased that I stuck up for myself. I thought for a bit, and tried to calm myself down, and sits down on the soft grass of Babylon Central Park with my ears flattened now feeling the repercussions of what I had just said. \n“We are, if you had listened, we were just talking who was going to help you, and she keeps saying for a male to find another male you need a woman’s help, I call bullshit, but whatever.” He snickered while Tarot began to faint, Peanut ran up and caught her, seeing her eyes turn from green to amber, and held her in his arms. “Tarot?! You ok?!” \nKitsune then looked to his side, a woman with dirty blonde hair, with the same getup as he does, and sat next to him. \n“There, now I can move around not using Tarot as my body now that I manifested in the mortal plain.” \n\t“Sometimes you three are going to be the death of me…” I said finally while I pant and close my eyes for a bit.\nKitsune got up and put me on a leash while the spirit dragon did the same with Tarot and Peanut. Kitsune looked to her with a concerned look on his face, almost as he senses someone is watching us, and she nodded as if it was almost a tacit agreement, and they begin walking. “Where are we going?” I asked but Kitsune shushed at me. \n“We’re heading to a diner, I just forgot, we forgot the lantern that we use to speak together.” My eyes widened and I covered my muzzle, and walked along with him, I uncover my muzzle and smiled, even trotting a bit knowing soon everything will finally be ok, for once in a long time. Boy was I wrong, or right. Unknowingly to me, Fox was behind the tree, watching, waiting, and had seen and heard everything.\n\nThe next day\nBabylon gardens\n3rd POV\n\tFox awoke in his bed, surrounded by his tattered room filled with U.S. Army memorabilia, his old Bomber’s jacket hanging on a lone hook near his door, the sun shines through his room while he tries to open his eyes. He was snuggling a plushy that he later kicked out of the bed, thinking it was the clock. He rubbed his head, a massive headache had settled in, so massive that hardly could remember anything, and he only remembered fragments of what had happened yesterday. All he remembered was that he saw King, and his beautiful smile, and soft fur with Tarot, Peanut, and two humans, who could possibly be his caretakers. ‘Ow, my head…what happened last night….’. His voice trailed off while he heard a knock on the door. He ran to it grabbing his collar and putting it on, hoping it was king, when he swung open the door he was surprised to see the Egyptian cat Sabrina standing at his doorstep, looking like she had a hangover mixed with the flu. \n“Oh, hey Sabrina.” He said trying to be polite but knows he’s aggravated. \n“Tarot wants you to come over for tea, and I’m here to escort you!” She said surprisingly peppy, maybe it was because she saw Bino’s older brother lately. \n“i-I don’t know if I can, I feel like shit after last night, a pile of doggy treats say that I look like shit too.” She looks at me with a smug look on her face. \n“She has nice tea for curing stuff like headaches, and can even bring back memories.” \nShe said no more as he quickly closed the door, and hey both walked over to Tarots, he expects to clear his head and to be able to remember. Fox wanted to know what happened yesterday, but is he ready for the truth?\n\nTarot’s house\nBabylon Gardens, USA\nFox’s POV\n\tI walked into Tarot’s house following Sabrina, the faint stench of burnt tea leaves gives me the impression that she was burning the tea, either that or smoking marijuana, he covered his nostril while Sabrina closes the door. I look and was surmised seeing a floating tea kettle and tea cup pouring itself in front of me. \n“Follow the cup.” Sabrina ordered me, without talking I slowly padded to where it was wanting me to go. It led to what looks like a common room, with pillows and a low table with Tarot and peanut sitting near it, I go and sit across from her, sipping on the tea which was surprisingly sweet, with a hint of….bitter almonds? I put it down scared now while she finished her tea, and open her eyes, which were a shining emerald. At first I looked at her eyes curiously, because I thought her eyes were Amber like, but I dismiss it as a past mistake. Something that I haven’t noticed already. \n“Welcome, Fox. I see you enjoyed my tea.” She spoke, a bit broader than she normally sounded. \n“Yes I did, thank you for inviting me, I was to” \nShe cut me off. \n“You wanted to talk to me because of you, Fox, only having fragments of your memories about last night. I’m glad you came to me for this instead of King, which would only make it worse, I guarantee that.” King? Why would he make it worse? I really should go check on him, to make sure he’s ok. “Because he would just ‘beat around the bush’ instead of just telling you, which is normal for him.”\nI looked at her funny, as if she was talking about someone else other than King. I know the fur ball too well, he wouldn’t do that, would he?\n“I also know that king is perfectly fine, but he’s in despair after he yelled at you though. We don’t know. All we could do is just try and access those memories.” Tarot spoke out. I was in shock to learn that King, my best friend, was having a hard time over his journal, I mean after all, it was fake… wasn’t it?. Tarot poured some a black substance from the tea pot into the purple colored tea cup, lined with amethyst, while I look at it, I feel as though it’s calling to me. \n“Despair is like black tea, it’s seemingly endless, as if you’re staring into a deep dark hole or looking into an abyss. But when you see, and go into the black tea, you know, there is a bottom, where the bleakest of souls are at. Memories swim in it like eels, and your friend King, is at the bottom. He’s drowning, Fox. To save him, all you have to do-”\nTarot passed me a tea cup filled with what she called ‘full moon drop’, I sniffed it, smells slightly sweet yet tangy at the same time. “-Is swim in it, and save him.”\n\tI look at it, sniff it a bit and sees the amethyst glowing around it, I take it in my paws, feeling the warmness of the tea.\n“Sip it, and it will show you the truth.” I bring it to my lips and began to tilt before Tarot stopped me. \n“All I offer you is the truth, nothing more.” \nAh, screw her Matrix references, I sipped it all down. Instantly my head cleared, I felt a sense of relief wash over me as if I was under the glow of a moon. I smile, breathing deeply in and out of my nose. The experience was almost divine, but I open my eyes. I remember. \nYesterday\nBabylon central park\nFox’s POV\n\tI open my eyes, gasping a bit, I’m in my bed, the blankets covering me while the faint sound of dogs playing is in the background. It was morning, the sun shines on this day like a big flood light, going through the tries to cast long shadows. I get up and look into my mirror, small streaks gone from my eyes down to my cheeks, a good sign that I cried all night last night. It instantly clicked. King. \n‘Oh god, what have I done? ’ I said to myself, and banged my head on the mirror, over and over again trying to draw blood onto my forehead, instantly to tears. I had hurt my best friend, that journal wasn’t fake! Why was I so stupid?! The doorbell rang, I snapped to my senses and grabbed my collar, putting it on while washing the tear marks out of my eyes. \n“COMING!!” I yell to whoever was ringing the doorbell. I padded over, the clicking of my claws echoed through the house. I opened the door, it was Bino. \n“Oh, what do you want Bino?” I said with a sulked look on my face. Bino crossed his arms and sighed, then turned his head to the side. \n“HE’S FINE GUYS, FALSE ALARM.” \nI looked over and see the members of the Good ol’ dogs club hiding in a bush. “We came over to make sure you’re ok, you haven’t come out all day yesterday.” \nI sighed and rubbed my eyes. “Thank you, Bino. For once you actually have been nice, for a change. I’ll be out..” I was about to close the door before Bino stopped me with his hind-paw. \n“I’m sorry about what happened with the whole watch deal. Plus I still think you should just keep this day to yourself, go to the park or something. Surely some pampering would do you some good.” I smile slightly to him. “I’ll take your word on that.” And closed the door.\n\tAfter eating breakfast I walked through Babylon Gardens, feeling the hot summer light on my fur, yet feeling also the wind breezing through, cooling myself down. Everyone was so happy and smiling at me. This day was going better than I actually planned, it made my overjoyed, I went into the dog park and sat near a tree, under the shade. I was never a hyper dog even when I was just a pup, and that I like to stay indoors. Sure, it was nice to play with my tennis ball, or with a Frisbee, it just made me feel comfort when I always be inside. With the exception of the water wars, I loved playing in those. And to play with King. King is something else. At first when I met him I thought he was a little strange, acting as if all of this around him was very strange, a queer thing to think, but I still liked him nonetheless. In fact, I may even have a crush on him. No, I do have a crush on him. I love hugging him, the feel of him hugging me, our fur mingling together, makes me feel like I’m hugging a nice and cute plushy. Kissing him during the water war to me was a once in a lifetime opportunity. That kiss officially sealed my feelings for king. While reminiscing on all the good times me and king had, I leaned against the tree when I heard King yelling. My ears perked. I was not prepared for what I was hearing at all. Tarot was yelling at a brownish man, who had King on a leash. \n“What happened? I knew the human yelled at the dog but why did Joel called upon you rather than me?” She said to the man, pointing to King. Joel? Who is Joel? Wasn’t he the guy who tried to kidnap me? After that my head started to hurt, like a pounding on a drum inside my head. Memories flood into my head like I just felt the floodgates open. Me being kidnapped all over again. Then, what came out of king’s mouth shocked me, made time stop in Babylon gardens enough for me to see a single tear drop from my face. \n“I’M HUMAN SO WHAT?! I HATED BEING A HUMAN AND NOW, NOW TURNED INTO A CORGI, WHOM HAS BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH, I HATE BEING SOMEONES PLAYTOY IN YOUR SILLY WAR GAME!!” King’s….human? No, that’s impossible, it can’t be true…can it? King continued to yell before the man’s eyes lingered, and he spotted me, I quickly darted behind the tree. \n \tWhat’s King talking about? He isn’t human…is he? I put an ear out to listen. King sighed, and looked at tarot and the man, and said. \n“I don’t care. I’m in love with Fox. I just can’t get him out of my head. But I don’t think he’ll love me anymore after I tell him….” Tarot turn to him with a questionable look on her face. “Tell me, who exactly are you. King, or Joel? And whom do you want to be?”\n“My name is Joel Robinson. I am a human who once lived in Babylon gardens. I had known that I was gay ever since high school, I had been bullied all through high school simply because of that fact. I had tried to die, I had cut myself, I tried everything to make this god damn pain to go away. But, eventually, I made it to graduation. I had joined PETA simply because I thought I was going to make a difference in the world, by kidnapping Fox I thought I was saving him from a life of bondage, to be under captivity of humans, who just simply don’t know the struggle of dogs. But seeing the point of view from a dog’s standpoint I realize now that I was wrong. What Pete had done to me is something to which is what I deserve. I want to be King. Joel is nothing now, and a new story must begin, I must move on. As King.” I covered my muzzle to keep myself from gasping. Instantly I pulled out of the bushes, after seeing king walking off with now a human male and female, Tarot, and Peanut. I couldn’t think straight. As the world was spinning around me, my head felt like there was an explosion going on in it. I saw a flash of light, almost as if a supernova was going on, my body became limp, and I finally collapsed near the tree, fainted. That’s when Sabrina found me and took me to my house.\nToday (as in right now)\nBabylon gardens, USA\nFox’s POV\n\tI looked at Tarot, then to Sabrina, then back again. I couldn’t believe what I had just seen. I had seen everything. It was as if Schrödinger’s cat kissed me on the lips, having me see the entire universe then in only a singularity, breathing life and death in me. I am back there, and back here at the same time. dI stood up quickly but then found that my legs could barely hold me up, and I collapsed down back onto the pillow, I pant heavily fighting back large amounts of tears enveloping my eyes. Tarot smirked. \n“Full moon drop has properties which help bring back memories, and did it not, according to your expression? Surely you must be angry at King for doing you wrong and trying to hide it from you.” Tarot laughed. Suddenly, a sense of rage filled me up as I stood back up again and grabbed tarot by her chest tuft, and picked her up, slamming her against the wall. \n“WHAT WERE YOU SAYING TO KING?! TELL ME!!” She freaked out and struggles a bit. \n“I-I have no idea what you’re talking about! Let me down!” \nI slammed her against the wall one more time. “Who is that man?! And why the fuck does King thinks he’s human when HE’S CLEARLY NOT?!!” \nShe gasped for air while my paws clenched her tuft, as well as her neck. “H-he’s been changed into that, by a demigod! He’s still the person whom kidnapped you! Snap out of your little fantasy and-AH!!” I clenched tighter. \n“SHUT THE FUCK UP!! I want answers!” She smirked while she keeps gasping. Her eyes turn to emerald. \n“Falling –GASP- down the rabbit hole, aren’t we, Alice? I told you all I offered was the truth no-GASP-thing more!” \nI pinned her to the ground, with her hands above her head, and one paw clenching at her throat. Tarot’s face begin to turn blue. “I’ll keep clenching tighter if you don’t tell me any answers! I’ll kill you if it means getting what I want to know.” Tarot’s eyes widened, and Sabrina went and put a knife to my throat. The edge prodding at my windpipe. \n“I’ll slit your throat before that ever happens, you fucking mutt.” She softly said in my ear. I stopped and thoughts a bit while I watched her continue to struggle before I came to my senses, seeing her eyes now Amber again, fighting unconsciousness, I release her and try fight back the endless waves of sadness and tears. Sabrina sheathed the knife, but still clenching it with her hand as I walk towards the door and stormed out of her house. \n“I told you he couldn’t handle the truth.” Sabrina smirked to Tarot. Tarot kept coughing and wheezing from the chokehold. \n“Damn, well I guess you win.” The cat smirked as Tarot placed fifty dollars in her hand. Tarot held up the Lantern. \n“That bitch was using my body, and ended up choking me, not her. The spirit dragon is up to no good, she’ll do anything to win this petty battle!” Sabrina’s eyes widened, while tarot used her magic to heal herself. \n“You rest here, I’ll warn King.” She placed the lantern next to Tarot and ran out of the door.\nApprox. 5pm PST \nBabylon gardens, USA\n3rd POV\n\tSabrina ran across the cul-de-sac, panting before accidentally bumping and crashing into Grape. “OW! Jeez Sabrina what’s the hurry.” \nSabrina was already up on her feet. Running to King’s house. “I’LL EXPLAIN LATER, GET PEANUT, TAROT’S HURT!” \nGrape gasped and ran to get Peanut. Sabrina came the door and frantically beat onto the door before King answered it, apparently in the middle of eating dinner, seeing him chewing on spaghetti. Sabrina stepped in and locked the door. Her fur fluffed up, shaking, scared and hyperventilating. \n“What’s wrong Sabrina? Is everything alright?” King leads her to sit up on the couch. Kitsune poked his head through the kitchen to see what the commotion is all about, looking at king and Sabrina. “What’s up?” She turned to the demigod, still in his human form. \n“Spirit dragon…Tarot…Fox…Knows…” Sabrina keeps trying to catch her breath while King widened his eyes, knowing this is what he had been dreading. “Wait what? Fox knows?! Knows what?!” Sabrina calmed down her breathing a bit, and looks at King. \n“The spirit dragon is manipulating Fox’s feelings, and ending up with Fox trying to kill Tarot…” King sighed and looked to Kitsune, whom is already turned back looking like a fox. “Man, I’m glad he didn’t kill her, otherwise he’d be the one you’d battle. That’d not be pretty.”\n“It’s time. Call Pete, we need to talk.” Kitsune opened a smallish cell phone and dialed a number. King growled and pushed the demigod into the study. \n“Sabrina, go in there and be our mediator, since you’re psychic.” Sabrina looked at king like he lost his marbles and pants, holding her eyes a bit. She walked up to him, and hugged him. \n“I’m a psychic, not a therapist, but I’ll do what I can.” She looked at King while they still hugged. \n“Stay safe, the spirit dragon is unpredictable.” \nShe went in, Pete stood behind him, smiling. “Why did you call me?” He boasted at him, looking down at the corgi. “Turn me back.” King demanded. \n\tThe gryphon laughed, and crossed his arms. “No, I will not do that.” \nKing looked at him, a smug look on his face while the gryphon chuckled. “The spirit dragon is going to win if you don’t. She’s manipulating my best friend to try to get to me…and I kind of have a crush on him.” \nPete’s smiles turned into a frown while he snapped his fingers, and with a big poof of smoke. King stood up, with his prison garb still on from that day. “Thank you, Pete. Now stay in the study, with Kitsune, and Sabrina.” \nThe gryphon rolled his eyed and walked into there, and sits down. “You got one hour, make it count!” He yelled before King closed the door. \nFox knocked on the door lightly. “King? Are you in there? It’s me, Fox, can I come in? We need to talk..” \nHe yelled into the house, which echoed throughout the house. King gulps and hides in the hallway that runs perpendicular to the Door. \"Y-yea, come right in Fox.”\n Fox pads in slowly, looking around with tear marks on full view and fully strong, making marks on the lines of his cheeks. Afterwards He stopped in the middle of the hallway. “King?...” he yells out loud. “I know you’re not going to like this but…” \nKing worked up the courage then walked out slowly, his 5’11” average body looming over Fox. Fox’s eyes go wide seeing his best friend, in his true form, he barely breathed and he stood still. King kneeled down to fox’s level and looked at him in the eyes. \n“My name is King. And what you heard while we were in the park was all true, every bit of it.” Fox looked down and closes his eyes. Then out of nowhere Fox jumped and head butts king in the head and tackles him, making him yelp and fall over, with fox on top of him. Fox grabs the collar of King’s shirt, and proceeded to Sucker-punch him 3 times in a row to his left cheek. \n“YOU SON OF A BITCH!!” he kept beating on King until his Punches turned into taps onto his chest, tears dripping off of his cheeks and onto King’s whom is crying as well. \n\t“Why.. Why did you lie to me, to all of us, why did you kidnap me, why turn into one of us?! WHY?! TELL ME GOD DAMMIT, WHY?!” King looks into Fox’s blue eyes which were filled with tears, he smiled and reaches up to pull Fox’s fur to the side and wipes his tears away. \n“Cause I see the error of my ways, I thought I was rescuing you, they convinced me it was for the greater good, I was wrong and I see that now… I’m sorry…” Fox looks at him and goes to hug the human sized King tight. \n“You should’ve told me in the first place…” King sighed then in a flash and a poof of pink smoke he turned back into the corgi that Fox knew and loved. King tilted his head towards the door. “YOU LIEING SON OF A BITCH YOU SAID AN HOUR!!” Pete laughed from the Study. “I lied!” \nKitsune turned to him. “Typical.” Pete quit laughing and replaced it with a smug look. “Shut up.” \nFox picked King up. “Please fox. I need you to sit down.” Fox went over to the couch in the living room and sat down crossing his arms. “Ok, what’s really going on?” Fox demanded, King flopped his ears down and thinks of what to say without spilling anything. \n\tKing opened his mouth, but nothing come out. Not a word. He thinks for a moment while fox looked onto the Corgi as his temper grew high and low while trying to put the pieces together by himself. ‘Fuck it.’ King thought.\n“Ok this demigod named Pete rescued me from going to jail, and he turned me into a dog as sort of an ‘ironic punishment’ yet, what he didn’t count on is that I actually love being a dog, and that I even have a crush on my best friend which is you-“\nKing slapped a paw over his muzzle to shut himself up, blushing intensely when he basically just confessed his love for his only best friend. Hearing Pete in the background laughing his tail off and Kitsune yelling at him because of said laughing, the pets outside scrambling to try and help Tarot, who is already healed up perfectly, which didn’t faze King nor Fox, not anymore at least, from what all they’ve been through. Fox looked at King with his ears flopped and with his face red. \n“I-I have a crush on you too.”\n\tKing goes to him and hugs the husky tight, both of them coming to tears, King drifted towards fox’s muzzle and connected fox’s lips with his, in one slow everlasting kiss. It lasted before a full ten seconds before Pete kicked down the door to the study. “BULLSHIT I AM NOT GOING TO LET HIM GO!! WE HAD A DEAL!” Pete yells at Kitsune while he walks out calmly. \n“For fuck sakes, end this stupid battle, and be the better man. Plus she’s been cheating by manipulating your piece’s emotions and the emotions of whom your piece loves the most.” Pete looked at him with both anger and shock painting his face. Then looks back to king and Fox, looking over at the demi-god. Fox goes up to Kings ear and holds it up to whisper to him. \n“Is he the one who turned you into this?” \nKing nodded in silence, as Fox shrugged, and goes to cuddle against the corgi, knowing that this is probably the closest he had ever been to king, and that it was wise not to question the demigod, since he did one of the best things in the husky’s short yet broad lifespan. Pete turned to King and rolled his eyes and waves his paws around. \n“By the power vested in me blah blah blah you are now free of my contract and are now a Corgi forever, there, you happy?” Kitsune, Fox, and King nodded, before a female human walked through the door, angry and storms through the house, a crackle of lightning followed her before she gone up to the gryphon, and shoves Pete to the side to get to Kitsune. “WHY THE FUCK DID YOU INTERFERE WITH THIS BATTLE?!?!” she yelled that echoed (literally and figuratively) throughout space and time, and the house. \nKitsune looked at her and crosses his arms, as well as Pete who stared at her with a stinging glare and crossed arms to show that Kitsune and he are allies. \n“What?” she said, trying to act like she doesn’t know what she did. King and fox ignored the bickering between the three demi-gods until they heard a fast yet light knock on the door. King got up and walked lazily to the door, while Fox looked on with a smile, knowing everything that happened is behind them and that their feelings were only a tacit agreement that got doubled.\n\tKing opened the door which stood Tarot and Sabrina, as well as Peanut and Grape, the summer winds raging as a storm rolls on the horizon, coming up to nearly eclipse the sun. Tarot, whom held the lantern in her hand, had red marks on her throat to where Fox had choked her earlier in their fight, which when seen by Fox made him whimper and leans into the couch hiding with his tail between his legs. \n“Um, Tarot, what are you doing here?” Tarot looked at King with an annoyed look, as well as Sabrina’s look was also with annoyance. \n“We’re here to talk about our ‘deal’ with the spirit dragon.” \nKing perked his ears up and looks at the Human female, but is now turned into an anthropomorphic version of the spirit dragon, still bickering to the anthropomorphic nine-tailed fox as well as the blue feathered gryphon. \n“Come right in.” king answered her and moved to the side. Tarot walked into the house approaching the spirit dragon while king locked his door, and go back to Fox, snuggling him and covering his ears. Tarot looked at her and the spirit dragon smiled and looked down. \n“Hun look I” Tarot cut her off by stomping on her foot, the dragon yelped and held her foot, bouncing up and down. \n“THE FUCK WAS THAT FOR?!” \nTarot coughed and looked at her. “For telling Fox and have him choke you, which in turned choked me instead!” \nKing turned to Fox, while Fox flopped his ears and gave a goofy looking smile, to both Kings delight and effortless love, typical Fox, worrying about him so much to the point here he nearly killed Tarot! Sabrina held out a chest to which Tarot took out two emerald like crystals. The spirit dragon’s eyes grew wide as if they were saucers while she looked on to the emerald crystals. \n“No… think about this, Tarot, please, thing about what you are doing?!” Tarot looked at her with no sympathy in her eyes then threw down one stone, shattering it into tiny pieces which turned into dust, and dissipated in the air creating a sour yet fresh aroma.\n “The deals off. First you hit on my boyfriend.” Grape looked to Peanut and Peanut smiled while hiding behind her, giving him a weird look. \n\t“Second of all you nearly killed me, and for that, the deal is off!!” She threw down the other crystal, also shattering it. The spirit dragon screamed out and clenched her head, feeling a gigantic headache, then looks at Tarot, then to Pete. Tears streamed down her eyes while the storm rages wild outside. \n“I’m so sorry…you win, Pete.” Pete smiled and brings her up to her feet and hugged her. \n“Thank you big sis.” He exclaimed while Kitsune smiled, a sense of warmth filled the room while the storm crackled and roared. Kitsune turned to the two demi gods as he opened a portal. \n“You two go home, I need to stay here for a bit.” The spirit dragon smiled, as well as Pete did, and held hands together. \n“Well, at least, being at peace with each other isn’t that bad.” She said to Pete as he nodded in agreement. They both walked into the portal. \nKitsune smiled and walked over to the two now lovers, the scent of cherry feels the air and a hint of bitter almonds, he sits near king and fox, whom are snuggling on the couch. \n“I’m glad I can be of service.” \nKing smiled and hugs the nine-tailed demi god, whom petted the corgi. “I just need for you to do one thing for me.” \nKings eyes shot up, and looks at him, knowing what he’s about to say, and dreads those final words, because, to him, this is a dream that he doesn’t want to wake up from. For fear that he will feel his lovers touch nevermore. \n“No, please, don’t say it!! Please!!!” He yelled tears filling his eyes, the demi-god grabbed him softly, holding him while he has a nice grin on his face, and goes to his ears and whispers. \n“Just, wake up.”\n\tThunder booms the air, as rain pours down like a firehose against the house, the winds crying out in the thunderstorm. King’s house in Babylon gardens, he woke up in his room, alone. King immediately bursts into tears when he looked around, seeing that he was alone in his room, alone in the world, with nobody to share his life with. The trophy of the Kitsune looked back at him, standing there sitting, with a solemn look on him, shining in the dim light with rubies for his eyes. There is also a trophy of a green eyed dragon, and a blue eyed gryphon standing on both sides of the fox trophy.\n ‘It was just a dream…all a dream...’ he continued to cry to himself, tears coursing down his furry cheeks, staining the fur, with his long ears pinned back, covering his eyes while he whimpers out loud, his weeping echoing in the room. Out of nowhere, or at least from King’s perspective, a paw softly touched his shoulder and massaged his back. He turned around. \n“Are you okay, King?” \nA familiar sound filled Kings Ears, as if something was just softly, gently calling to him, a husky with Sapphire eyes. As he smiled, with his ears perking up, he leans back to snuggle in his warm and soft bed, the soft grey and white fur almost enveloping him like a nice freshly washed blanket. Soft, metallic, yet beautiful blue eyes staring at him with a concerned look, the storm rages on outside of his home, before dissipating and calming down. King smiled and goes to press his lips against the husky that he was in bed with, and fades away into a blissful, great sleep. \n“I am now, Fox. I am now….”\n\n\n\nthanks for reading.","writing_bbcode_parsed":"A King, and a dog
By Luka the husky
(WARNING: Depictions of lemon, or Homosexual love, are the main topic as well as FoKing (Fox x King) pairing is in the story. Viewer discretion is advised. Do not Flame. All credit goes to Rick Griffin, creator of Housepets!)
“Journal entry #56: I have been having reoccurring dreams, visions if you will, I can’t very much understand it, even when I ask Tarot about it, even though she’s more of a psychic rather than a thnerapist, all she said was ‘I’m sorry, I can’t answer that, I don’t know humans all that well’. She still has me shocked that she knows that I’m human. The bad thing, my best friend, fox, doesn’t. Even worse is that Fox is the husky that I tried to kidnap when I was just a human, before I met Pete, before all of this craziness happened. I don’t know what to do next, maybe I shou-“ before he wrote the last words in his journal, Fox burst in, wearing camo, which included camo trousers and a camo version of his bomber jacket, and holding a super-soaker.
“KING! THERE’S A 2ND BALLOON WATER WAR OUT THERE!” the corgi yelped in surprise and quickly hid his journal, turning around to meet the husky’s eyes, blushing seeing how blue they were, like sapphire.
“F-fox! You scared me” fox closed the door, drying himself and setting the water-gun down.
“What were you doing before I came in?” fox asked the smallish corgi, King pondered what to tell him, then got an idea, a brilliant idea, so brilliant that even grape would believe it, and she’s a skeptic.
“I was writing a fake journal over the water wars, and a note to uhhhhh p-peanut! Yes Peanut, I wanted to see how he was doing on his side of the home front”
King fake-laughed, wiping some sweat off of his fur, the smallish husky looked at him funny but then Fox shrugged. “Peanut is MIA, again, and I need your help to try and get him, that means infiltrating the cat’s defenses COD-style!”
He grabbed Kings Collar and put 2 black lines under his eyes and put a water-pistol in his hand. “C’mon King, we need someone to help us in our fight against the cats.” Fox said to him, now close to the door, water-gun in hand.
“What about the wolves?!”
Fox shook his head, the water falling off of his hot glistening fur, heated by the summer air. “They take this WAY too far.” And opened the door. King and fox ran out of the door into the watery hell that awaited them.
The cat defenses
Babylon gardens
3rd POV
\tGrape yawned, it was day 3 of the second water wars, and they had captured their house and now is fortifying the defenses. Her fur mangled up from sleeping, her water gun, in the shape of some alien weapon, was glued to her side, scared of getting wet by their canine opponents. The leader of her ragtag resistance group came in. Captain Isis, she was a Persian cat with white and brown fur. An eyepatch covered her left eye, a captain’s cap covered her wildish hair, while she had a pistol holster to her side. She resembled Snake from the games Grape had played with her fellow pet, peanut, whom had a secret crush on her. It was obvious she was a Metal Gear Solid fan, judging from her costume.
\t“ATTENTION MY CAT BRETHREN AND SISTERS!” She yelled out in the house, each cat, including Grape lined up to see what she has to say. She turned and started walking up and down our lines.
\t“Have the slingshots been set up at the windows?” She said to one cat, whom nodded with a toothy grin on his face. “Excellent, and the mortars?” Another one replied to her, saying yes, noting that they placed them near the pool so that they can have an endless supply.
\tShe came over to grape, then proceeded to smile at her. “Ah, Grape. It has been a long time since I talked to you. Ever since my owner got his daughter I’ve been a bit preoccupied.” She smiled and proceeds to hug Isis.
\t“I agree, it has been a long time, Isis.”
\tIsis looked at Grape. “How’s the mutt?” She frowned while she looked at Isis, looking as if she had just remembered something painful, Isis’s hate for dogs and anything that has to do with them, to be exact. “Peanut, is fine. Since you captured him he has been calm, all we really need is to give him treats and video games and he’ll be good. Without him the dogs will fall apart, Tarot is gunning for your head, Isis.”
\tThe eye-patched cat laughed. “I’m not afraid of that weirdo.” She dismisses the cats and goes to sit down in the recliner, messing around with a toy mouse filled with cat nip.
\tKing yawned while he’s walked through the control center, located at the good ol’ dog’s club clubhouse. Bino is talking while he has a mini-map of the neighborhood, explaining where the front is and how this war is playing out. He sees king and Fox.
\t“Ah, Foxtrot brings King, great, we need another weirdo on our side.” The dogs proceed to laugh while king growls with anger. Fox just looks on. “Shut up Bino, and say what you need so we can do this mission.”
\tBino nods. “Ok, you and King, Codename: Checkmate. Shall infiltrate the cat’s hideout, rescue peanut, and take our defector out of there. This guy.” He gives king a picture of Zack, a rabbit whom hasn’t been living in Babylon Gardens for long, and is a relative to Tiger and another cat. King nods and slings on a small backpack and puts his pistol and the picture in it.
\tBino smiled. “Be careful, men, or dogs in this case. We have no idea what Isis is planning. And if you can please spray Sabrina with water. Fucking cat put a spell on my brother!” Everyone except the hardcore members of the club shook their head, knowing that isn’t the case at all, really.
\t“Well, nonetheless it’s time for Operation: downpour to begin.” Fox says, everyone whoops and hollers while Fox and King leave, going to Grape’s house to do the mission they are assigned to. To Fox this wasn’t a game, this was the real thing, King on the other hand just wanted to be with Fox, his only best friend.
“Nonetheless, we need to come up with a plan to get in there. So what I would do is wait until there is an opening and take it. Go in there ghost style.” Fox continued while they hide in one of the bushes near Grape and Peanuts home, the sticks poking in King’s back, feeling as if someone is trying to tell him something. He knows the home well, the memories stung in the back of his head, almost bringing the Corgi to tears, even. Those painful memories are what keeps him with, and absolutely fearful of Fox, it just feels right, but at the same time, really wrong to him. If he could, he would erase those memories away.
But he can’t, and possibly never will. That’s what forces those tears out of the corgi’s eyes every time he goes to bed, each night, alone in that empty room he rented from Miles and the wolves. While King was daydreaming Fox bolted and ran to another bush, then gone. King looked around, hyperventilating, wondering where he went, and not wanting to be alone, not now, not in this war.
King goes and sees 2 cat in front of a door and pulls out his water pistol, taking aim. Out nowhere though came 2 dogs and pelted them with water balloons, causing them to shriek and run inside of the house, with the door open.
‘How convenient.’ The small corgi thought as he sheathed his pistol and ran in, quickly hiding inside of a closet, while guards walked around. He calmed his breath and looks around, mission impossible playing in his head, while he looks to his right, seeing Grape exit the room, seeing grape playing games and eating a bit, wagging his tail, giggling a bit. ‘Grape really is fond of the dog. But oh well.’ He thought to himself before the closet door opens. It was Zach. Their eyes widened while King waved to Zach. Before Zach called out he grabbed the rabbit and slid him inside the closet. Zach’s muffled screams and moans barely left the closet because of King covering his mouth with his paw. To Zach it’s like one of those movies he and his 2 brothers found under their keeper’s bed, except king was dressed in camo, not leather, and holding a gun, not a gag. He calmed down looking at king, trying to talk to the small dog. “Shut up. So why are you struggling? Are you the defector or not?” He nipped Kings Paw and looks at him. “I am you dumbass”
\t“Then help me get peanut out of here.”
\tKing went to grab the walkie-talkie and press the talk button. “Checkmate has found the target and will extract.” Zach snatched the walkie-talkie. “No. We need to get grape.”
\tThe corgi rolled his eyes to the rabbit, going outside seeing the coast is clear and proceeds to the door in which they keep peanut, and went inside. Peanut looked at the small dog and smiles. “Hi King! Hi Zach! What’re you doing here?”
\tKing opened the window, and it waited 2 dog soldiers, and smiled. “Mission complete.” And pushed the dog and the rabbit out, and closed it. ‘Wait, where’s fox?!’. The dog peaked out of the door, seeing his best friend tied up and proceeded to the backyard pool, where Isis stand, like an executioner at the gallows. King collapsed onto the room floor, panting as his eyes are wide. He knew what this was as he had it multiple times before, it was either a panic attack or even a breakdown of some kind. Zack put king up and put him onto the wall, he’s still panting.
\t“King? King?! What’s the matter?!” Zach said to the dog as his pupils contracted and widened, king held his head, beginning to cry. “No…not now… go away!! These fucking memories…” King panted while Zach and peanut looked on. Out of nowhere Zach slapped King’s cheek, hard.
\t“GET A GRIP SOLDIER! Whatever is plaguing you right now has to stop, if you don’t Fox will be casted into the pool. You have to save him King! Only you can. He is counting on you!” King snapped out of his fit, and looked up at Zach, and nodded. “I have a plan. Zach, run off, it’s about to get wet.”
\tHe made his way to under the deck, seeing he was under everyone that was there. While he walked he tripped and fell onto the ground, feeling the rocks bite into his fur as he held in his yelp. He looked to what tripped him, it was a hose.
\t“So, the almighty Foxtrot has stepped upon my door, once again.” She said with a big smirk, Grape was in the front, next to Fox. Fox looked down, silent, seeing king ready the hose, and climbing up the patios’ sides, about to ambush them. ‘You clever dog I knew I could count on you.’ He smiled and sighed a bit.
\tFox looked up at Isis, whom was In front of the husky, grinning with her teeth exposed. “So, any last words, Mr. Fox?” Fox smirked. “Downpour.”
\tBefore the cats could react, Fox tackled grape and jumped off the patio, Afterwards, king douses the cat army, and Isis, in water, soaking them to the skin under their fur. King continued to spray before Isis grabbed a water balloon and hit him directly into the face with it. “Fucking mutt!” She cursed loudly, drenched in water. The cats meowed and wiggled around trying to find their towels. Fox got up and picks grape up, water drips and goes into the grass with tiny blips of sound.
\t“Are you alright?” Fox asked her, after she shoved him off a little bit. “I’m fine, how do you know I was the defector?” Fox shrugged and giggles a bit, before he spies a small pile of fluff laying in the dry grass, it was king, knocked out unconscious from the balloon, blood dripping from his nose, either that or water running out from his nose. Fox dashed quickly to the injured corgi, and picked him up, His eyes like saucers, wide and dumbfounded with shock. “Isis will pay for this…” he said softly as he hugged King. Fox looked around making sure there isn’t any cats.
\t“Did you try kissing him?” Grape said, jokingly before Fox gone down and softly presses his lips unto the dogs. She dropped her jaw, hearing the fox sigh seeing that it didn’t do much. Fox clutched his body and held him up, and looked at grape. “We need to go. You saw nothing, Cat.” They ran out of the backyard hastily. After a few minutes king awoke, wiggling on fox’s shoulders.
\t“King! You’re awake!!” Fox yelled out. King jumped from fox’s shoulders and looked to him. “Thank you fox for saving me.” Fox smiled and went to hug the corgi, whom accepted the hug then pushes him away. Laughing it off as a joke and pulling out his pistol. “C’mon! There’s a war going on.”
6 hours later
Babylon gardens, USA
\tKing panted heavily, his tiny legs running in the darkness, his water pistol in hand, he heard moans and screams of dogs getting soaked by cats, water balloons flying willy-nilly, washing away everything in sight, the corgi padded to his door, opening and running inside and closing it, frantically locking it. As the final lock was heard with a click of the tumblers, he sighed in relief.
‘My god, it was a war to end all wars’ he thought to himself, walking to the bathroom to take a shower. He turned on the hot water and began to shower himself, the hot water coursing down his fur, making him sigh and smile. Unknowingly, fox sneaked inside his house to give him one final douse of watery fun. Fox opened the window to King’s room, and walked in, giggling under his breath, he treads lightly into his best friends room, trying not to make the floor boards squeak while he went to the door, hearing the shower running and with only one dim light on.
‘Ohh man I’m going to scare him good!’ he thought maniacally in the husky’s head before his ears perked, he heard the bathroom open up and quickly he hid somewhere inside the room. Before King came in Fox noticed a big black square object. Kings journal. Who knows what secrets hid in that black book of his, Fox pondered those secrets while silently reaching for it, but just before he could grab King came in, and fox retreated to his spot. Fox peaked to see king but couldn’t believe what he saw afterwards. King’s fur glistened in the dimly lit room while he dried off his fur, the corgi smiled brightly looking almost like the happiest dog in the world. Fox dropped his jaw almost.
‘Oh my god, king looks beautiful, wait, what am I saying?! Here, now’s my time to strike!’ Giving a quick burst of adrenaline and courage in him, Fox jumped out, yelling something and shooting out a big burst of water. What was almost like time slowed down, the water barely missed the corgi’s face, and instead hit and got onto his journal.
\tKing was both angered and speechless, he looked at his journal, now soaked in water, seeing black coming from it knowing the ink is now washed away, then to his so-called ‘best friend’ then back again. Fox was also speechless, he quickly dropped his water gun and held his paws up, surrendering and trying to calm king down, which at this point was futile and might very well result in king strangling him, but he tried anyways.
“I-Im sorry king, it was an accident, I meant to hit you not your journal.” King stopped him.
“Get out, Fox.” Fox rejected his friends request trying to help, but was met with a loud burst of anger from the corgi.
“GET OUT!!!” he yelped as fox ran out of the house quickly, tail between his legs and tears in his eyes. With tears going down his cheeks, he slowly picked up his journal, even though the ink stayed the pages were soaked. He slowly walked through his house pondering what had happened. When he passed the study at first he didn’t noticed but a familiar voice echoed in the room, beside the dimly lit desk was the magical fox and game-master, Kitsune.
“Hi king, I was just seeing how you were doing with your status as a free agent.” King glared at him with tears streaming down his cheeks. He couldn’t choke out a word, dealing with both his soaked journal, the fact that he yelled at his only friend, and that a fox-demigod-thingy was in his study. Or, well at least it wasn’t Pete, the asshole gryphon demigod who made him like this in the first place.
“w-what do you want, stupid fox?” King stifled out in a smote of anger and sadness, Kitsune looked at him, then his book, then back again.
“I see, you’re mad cause your friend soaked your book, you know I can fix that right?” Kings ears perked and placed the book on the desk.
“You can do that?” the fox nodded, smiling at him.
“Yes but I will be able to read your secrets the entire time I’m drying it, if you want I can even help you with love interests or any of the sort. With a price.” Kings ears flattened, knowing that he’s almost like Pete, willing to help but said help will come with a price, as usual.
\t“What’s the price?” King said, breaking the momentary silence between the two, Kitsune smiled as a water balloon hit the window that was behind him, imitating a loud boom almost as if a thunder storm was going on outside.
“There is no price, I’m not like Pete or his competitor, I serve as a moderator between the two, so they don’t end up destroying the world in some feat of frustration or jealousy or whatever” Kitsune chuckled a bit, waved his paw around trying to explain the long fight between the dragon and the gryphon, which sucked King, Tarot, and Sabrina into it. The corgi didn’t like that answer, judging how he crossed his arms and scolded the fox.
“Bullshit, there’s always a price, I mean look at me! I got turned into a corgi because Pete wanted to ‘help me’” Kitsune snapped his fingers, stopping King from going into a rant.
“And help you he did. Turning you into a corgi helped you a lot since you’ve been one hundred times nicer to the pets here in Babylon gardens ever since you got down to their size, literally.” He corrected king looking down at the dog, whom still had his arms crossed. King thought about it for a minute, thinking about his secrets; but then again its’ like getting your car repaired for free to him, king nodded.
“O-ok, we have a deal.” King reached for the fox’s hand and grabbed it, shaking it. When he did he felt a rush of power, and a quick glimpse of what can be described as their aurora, it wrapped around them as if it was a light smoke radiating from his pours. The corgi’s aurora was a deep purple while Kitsune’s was a fiery ruby like red.
“Good! Then we may start”. King tilted his head.
“Start what?” before king could finish the Kitsune handed him the journal, completely dry. Kitsune smiled and with the snap and the book open, it flipped through the pages and it stopped on one specific page, that one page the one king never wanted seen, so he hid it in the middle of the book. It was when he had a crush on his best friend, Fox.
\tKitsune looked at the corgi “this one right here, yes? You’re in love with your best friend. Your only friend, it seems.” He said with a grin. King blushed and shook his head.
“Y-yes that’s when I had a crush on him, but now since I yelled at him, he would never want to date me now, I bet he isn’t gay either, I mean the girls love him and I really don’t like the idea of me coming out to him, let alone dating him.” Kitsune rolled his eyes.
“Never know until you try.” He closed the book.
“I’ll help you!” Kitsune smiled as king lit up, ears perked and tail wagging knowing any help is good help. Kitsune leans in to the corgi’s ear, making him blush a bit.
“All I need you to do, is wake up.” King opens his eyes to a loud boom of thunder, he leaned up seeing he was in bed, looking as if he was asleep.
“GOD DAMMIT!!” he yelled out before seeing a statue of Kitsune before going to bed, knowing he got trolled.
The next day
Babylon gardens
Kings POV
\tFinally, after a dream of a smiling fox, feeling his soft unmated fur next to mine as we were cuddling in a hammock on the ocean, I awoke happily but was struck hard with the burden of the events that had happened last night, knowing fair well that not only did I yell at my best friend, and…crush, but Kitsune, the game-master trolled me. After breakfast I heard a knock on the door, perking my ears before Miles, the wolf I was living with at the time who lets me use their house, went to open the door.
“Oh, hello!..” I can only hear glimpses of the conversation, trying to keep efface and being calm, and serenity before hearing the two come in, hoping that it was just one of his friends coming to visit. Oh how I desperately hoped it was, I was in no mood to be playing with the dogs from the good ol’ dogs club. The treaty was signed and both Isis and Bino went their separate ways, ending the war completely, even with influence from the rich ferrets on both sides telling them not to. The two walked into the living room where I was sitting and watching TV.
“King you’re friend came over to say hi from Australia.” I look over before nearing dropping my jaw, and sees the tall wolf talking with what looks to be an average built man, almost looking like myself before I was turned into the corgi that I am today. The man was around 6’1” hair short, yet rebellious, he was wearing a Metallica T-shirt, darkish jeans, and a grey and black plaid short-sleeve button down shirt. His eyes were brown, but when I looked at him his eyes were bright red. Oh fuck, its Kitsune!
“Hey king!” he said before reaching to pet me, I let him, feeling his power in his hand while he strokes my long white ear. “Hi” I replied to him.
“Oh Miles, my name is Fox, by the way.” We both perk our ears, I growl a bit under my teeth, cursing Kitsune’s name. “Huh, funny, King’s friend’s name is also ‘Fox’”
I looked at him and gave a fake smile to the man. “Hi fox, how are you doing today?” He smiled and looked at me. “Want to hang out today?” he said grinning a bit too big.
\tI put on my best fake smile I could, the one I wear when I’m around fox, usually, the cute showing of my fangs while giving a cute smile. “Sure Fox, let’s go to the dog park.”
I took out my leash and put it on my collar, and hands it to Kitsune.
“Miles I’ll be back soon.” I say walking out the door, he waved and closes the door and we make our way to it. When we got to the park I sit on the grass with him looming over me.
“Like my look?” he said chuckling while the summer breeze wafts through the park, picking up various smells that felt like summer was in the air. King looked at the demi-god, his eyes were a blaze red, as they should, what caught him off guard is that he resembled much to his original form, before he got turned into a Corgi.
“I do, it reminds me of myself before all of this had happened.” Kitsune sat down at a nearby bench, with me still collared. “Well, firstly, tell me about yourself before you were turned into a corgi.” I sighed, this story was painful, and is still painful each time I repeat it inside my mind.
\t“My name is Joel Robinson. I am a human who once lived in Babylon gardens. I had known that I was gay ever since high school, I had been bullied all through high school simply because of that fact. I had tried to die, I had cut myself, but eventually I made it to graduation and beyond, I went to college and talked with this guy, who seemed nice but was only wanting me to join the group, he was paid to lie to my face, much like a recruiter for the US military, but back then I was naïve, unknowing. I had joined PETA simply because I thought I was going to make a difference in the world, but seeing the point of view from a dog’s standpoint I realize now that I was wrong. What Pete had done to me is something to which is what I deserve.” Kitsune had cut me off mid-sentence.
“You made your point. I can work with that. Does Fox know you used to be Joel Robinson?” my eyes widened a bit then I looked down, and shook my head slowly.
“No… my god I forgot all about that.”
Kitsune sighed looking at me with a sympathetic face, petting my head, making a feeling of relief wash over me, even though I had my ears clenched and my eyes wide.
“You’ll be fine, I promise you.” I looked at him then hears the distinct sound of the dogs from Babylon, it was Peanut and Tarot. Quickly, I hid from them under the park bench, the shade cooling me off but my body shakes a bit drowning in fear while I sense what is inside the golden retriever, a powerful force. Kitsune looked under at the scared corgi, “what are you afraid of, they’re just two of your friends playing.”
I looked up at him.
“Tarot scares me.” Kitsune chuckled and then looked a tarot, knowing a certain feeling rising up from him, Tarots eyes glowing emerald and she has a blank look almost as if she has an empty mind or under complete hypnosis. They both walked over to us.
\tTarot and peanut looks around knowing I was there, unknowingly peanut looks under the bench to see me, ears flattened trying to hide.
“Hi king! Um, what are you doing under the bench?” seeing that I had nowhere to go I sighed and slid back out, undoing the leash for a bit.
“I was getting hot so I sat under there for shade.”
Peanut nodded and covered his head too and begins to pant, seeing that the hot summer day was getting to him too. I looked at Kitsune, who was in a deep, emotionless glare, meeting the eyes of Tarot. She growls lowly as her eyes changed color from plain golden brown to emerald. “Why are you here among the mortals, aren’t you supposed to be preparing our game together?”
Tarot spoke, her personality changing drastically, too drastically. She was under control of the spirt dragon again!
“Why I’m helping a friend.” He says while he pointed to me, I just stood back a bit trying to get out of their way, while peanut tried to watch but seeing his tail wag was tempted to try and chase it.
“You know the higher ups do not permit you to mess with his timeline. Remember when Pete tried?”
“But he isn’t helping me change back, I can promise you!” I spoke before getting shot down by her.
“Shut up human!” I cover my mouth seeing them argue, I can almost feel their words echo throughout space and time itself.
Tarot turned back to Kitsune. “I’m just trying to help him figure out ways to help with Fox.” Kitsune said to try and calm her down. Tarot sighed, and she changed back. “What happened? I knew the human yelled at the dog but why does Joel call upon you rather than me?”
Kitsune looked at her, eyes glaring blood red as if the iris were made of rubies. “I have sympathy for the little corgi, it’s not like I was just going to sit there and not help. I find romance and puppy love between a friend and another friend entertaining.”
Kitsune leaned back in his seat, grinning, they gone back and forth at it until I got frustrated, seeing two demigods bicker is literally like watching two kids fighting over a toy. One tries to go logical, the other is taking an emotional approach, all is missing is ethical, oh, that would be Pete. Ethos, Logos, and Pathos, all wrapped up into 3 demi-gods who are bitching and moaning at each other over some supernatural board game that resembled Dungeons and Dragons.
After a while my frustration boiled over, I can feel my face turning red, my anger reaching its climax and I blurted out.
“GRRRRRR, SHUT THE FUCK UP WILL YOU?! I’M HUMAN SO WHAT?! I HATED BEING A HUMAN, AND NOW, NOW TURNED INTO A CORGI, WHOM HAS BEEN THROUGH WELL ENOUGH, I HATE BEING YOU THREE’S FUCKING PLAYTOY IN YOUR SILLY WAR GAME!!” The spirit dragon was about to say something before I cut her off in a rant. “If you guys could stop bickering to one another I can solve this problem! Care not about war and petty games between you and the frickin’ bird, and help me! Help me, god damnit! HELP. ME.”
Kitsune grinned, and leans back in his seat again, pleased that I stuck up for myself. I thought for a bit, and tried to calm myself down, and sits down on the soft grass of Babylon Central Park with my ears flattened now feeling the repercussions of what I had just said.
“We are, if you had listened, we were just talking who was going to help you, and she keeps saying for a male to find another male you need a woman’s help, I call bullshit, but whatever.” He snickered while Tarot began to faint, Peanut ran up and caught her, seeing her eyes turn from green to amber, and held her in his arms. “Tarot?! You ok?!”
Kitsune then looked to his side, a woman with dirty blonde hair, with the same getup as he does, and sat next to him.
“There, now I can move around not using Tarot as my body now that I manifested in the mortal plain.”
\t“Sometimes you three are going to be the death of me…” I said finally while I pant and close my eyes for a bit.
Kitsune got up and put me on a leash while the spirit dragon did the same with Tarot and Peanut. Kitsune looked to her with a concerned look on his face, almost as he senses someone is watching us, and she nodded as if it was almost a tacit agreement, and they begin walking. “Where are we going?” I asked but Kitsune shushed at me.
“We’re heading to a diner, I just forgot, we forgot the lantern that we use to speak together.” My eyes widened and I covered my muzzle, and walked along with him, I uncover my muzzle and smiled, even trotting a bit knowing soon everything will finally be ok, for once in a long time. Boy was I wrong, or right. Unknowingly to me, Fox was behind the tree, watching, waiting, and had seen and heard everything.
The next day
Babylon gardens
3rd POV
\tFox awoke in his bed, surrounded by his tattered room filled with U.S. Army memorabilia, his old Bomber’s jacket hanging on a lone hook near his door, the sun shines through his room while he tries to open his eyes. He was snuggling a plushy that he later kicked out of the bed, thinking it was the clock. He rubbed his head, a massive headache had settled in, so massive that hardly could remember anything, and he only remembered fragments of what had happened yesterday. All he remembered was that he saw King, and his beautiful smile, and soft fur with Tarot, Peanut, and two humans, who could possibly be his caretakers. ‘Ow, my head…what happened last night….’. His voice trailed off while he heard a knock on the door. He ran to it grabbing his collar and putting it on, hoping it was king, when he swung open the door he was surprised to see the Egyptian cat Sabrina standing at his doorstep, looking like she had a hangover mixed with the flu.
“Oh, hey Sabrina.” He said trying to be polite but knows he’s aggravated.
“Tarot wants you to come over for tea, and I’m here to escort you!” She said surprisingly peppy, maybe it was because she saw Bino’s older brother lately.
“i-I don’t know if I can, I feel like shit after last night, a pile of doggy treats say that I look like shit too.” She looks at me with a smug look on her face.
“She has nice tea for curing stuff like headaches, and can even bring back memories.”
She said no more as he quickly closed the door, and hey both walked over to Tarots, he expects to clear his head and to be able to remember. Fox wanted to know what happened yesterday, but is he ready for the truth?
Tarot’s house
Babylon Gardens, USA
Fox’s POV
\tI walked into Tarot’s house following Sabrina, the faint stench of burnt tea leaves gives me the impression that she was burning the tea, either that or smoking marijuana, he covered his nostril while Sabrina closes the door. I look and was surmised seeing a floating tea kettle and tea cup pouring itself in front of me.
“Follow the cup.” Sabrina ordered me, without talking I slowly padded to where it was wanting me to go. It led to what looks like a common room, with pillows and a low table with Tarot and peanut sitting near it, I go and sit across from her, sipping on the tea which was surprisingly sweet, with a hint of….bitter almonds? I put it down scared now while she finished her tea, and open her eyes, which were a shining emerald. At first I looked at her eyes curiously, because I thought her eyes were Amber like, but I dismiss it as a past mistake. Something that I haven’t noticed already.
“Welcome, Fox. I see you enjoyed my tea.” She spoke, a bit broader than she normally sounded.
“Yes I did, thank you for inviting me, I was to”
She cut me off.
“You wanted to talk to me because of you, Fox, only having fragments of your memories about last night. I’m glad you came to me for this instead of King, which would only make it worse, I guarantee that.” King? Why would he make it worse? I really should go check on him, to make sure he’s ok. “Because he would just ‘beat around the bush’ instead of just telling you, which is normal for him.”
I looked at her funny, as if she was talking about someone else other than King. I know the fur ball too well, he wouldn’t do that, would he?
“I also know that king is perfectly fine, but he’s in despair after he yelled at you though. We don’t know. All we could do is just try and access those memories.” Tarot spoke out. I was in shock to learn that King, my best friend, was having a hard time over his journal, I mean after all, it was fake… wasn’t it?. Tarot poured some a black substance from the tea pot into the purple colored tea cup, lined with amethyst, while I look at it, I feel as though it’s calling to me.
“Despair is like black tea, it’s seemingly endless, as if you’re staring into a deep dark hole or looking into an abyss. But when you see, and go into the black tea, you know, there is a bottom, where the bleakest of souls are at. Memories swim in it like eels, and your friend King, is at the bottom. He’s drowning, Fox. To save him, all you have to do-”
Tarot passed me a tea cup filled with what she called ‘full moon drop’, I sniffed it, smells slightly sweet yet tangy at the same time. “-Is swim in it, and save him.”
\tI look at it, sniff it a bit and sees the amethyst glowing around it, I take it in my paws, feeling the warmness of the tea.
“Sip it, and it will show you the truth.” I bring it to my lips and began to tilt before Tarot stopped me.
“All I offer you is the truth, nothing more.”
Ah, screw her Matrix references, I sipped it all down. Instantly my head cleared, I felt a sense of relief wash over me as if I was under the glow of a moon. I smile, breathing deeply in and out of my nose. The experience was almost divine, but I open my eyes. I remember.
Yesterday
Babylon central park
Fox’s POV
\tI open my eyes, gasping a bit, I’m in my bed, the blankets covering me while the faint sound of dogs playing is in the background. It was morning, the sun shines on this day like a big flood light, going through the tries to cast long shadows. I get up and look into my mirror, small streaks gone from my eyes down to my cheeks, a good sign that I cried all night last night. It instantly clicked. King.
‘Oh god, what have I done? ’ I said to myself, and banged my head on the mirror, over and over again trying to draw blood onto my forehead, instantly to tears. I had hurt my best friend, that journal wasn’t fake! Why was I so stupid?! The doorbell rang, I snapped to my senses and grabbed my collar, putting it on while washing the tear marks out of my eyes.
“COMING!!” I yell to whoever was ringing the doorbell. I padded over, the clicking of my claws echoed through the house. I opened the door, it was Bino.
“Oh, what do you want Bino?” I said with a sulked look on my face. Bino crossed his arms and sighed, then turned his head to the side.
“HE’S FINE GUYS, FALSE ALARM.”
I looked over and see the members of the Good ol’ dogs club hiding in a bush. “We came over to make sure you’re ok, you haven’t come out all day yesterday.”
I sighed and rubbed my eyes. “Thank you, Bino. For once you actually have been nice, for a change. I’ll be out..” I was about to close the door before Bino stopped me with his hind-paw.
“I’m sorry about what happened with the whole watch deal. Plus I still think you should just keep this day to yourself, go to the park or something. Surely some pampering would do you some good.” I smile slightly to him. “I’ll take your word on that.” And closed the door.
\tAfter eating breakfast I walked through Babylon Gardens, feeling the hot summer light on my fur, yet feeling also the wind breezing through, cooling myself down. Everyone was so happy and smiling at me. This day was going better than I actually planned, it made my overjoyed, I went into the dog park and sat near a tree, under the shade. I was never a hyper dog even when I was just a pup, and that I like to stay indoors. Sure, it was nice to play with my tennis ball, or with a Frisbee, it just made me feel comfort when I always be inside. With the exception of the water wars, I loved playing in those. And to play with King. King is something else. At first when I met him I thought he was a little strange, acting as if all of this around him was very strange, a queer thing to think, but I still liked him nonetheless. In fact, I may even have a crush on him. No, I do have a crush on him. I love hugging him, the feel of him hugging me, our fur mingling together, makes me feel like I’m hugging a nice and cute plushy. Kissing him during the water war to me was a once in a lifetime opportunity. That kiss officially sealed my feelings for king. While reminiscing on all the good times me and king had, I leaned against the tree when I heard King yelling. My ears perked. I was not prepared for what I was hearing at all. Tarot was yelling at a brownish man, who had King on a leash.
“What happened? I knew the human yelled at the dog but why did Joel called upon you rather than me?” She said to the man, pointing to King. Joel? Who is Joel? Wasn’t he the guy who tried to kidnap me? After that my head started to hurt, like a pounding on a drum inside my head. Memories flood into my head like I just felt the floodgates open. Me being kidnapped all over again. Then, what came out of king’s mouth shocked me, made time stop in Babylon gardens enough for me to see a single tear drop from my face.
“I’M HUMAN SO WHAT?! I HATED BEING A HUMAN AND NOW, NOW TURNED INTO A CORGI, WHOM HAS BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH, I HATE BEING SOMEONES PLAYTOY IN YOUR SILLY WAR GAME!!” King’s….human? No, that’s impossible, it can’t be true…can it? King continued to yell before the man’s eyes lingered, and he spotted me, I quickly darted behind the tree.
\tWhat’s King talking about? He isn’t human…is he? I put an ear out to listen. King sighed, and looked at tarot and the man, and said.
“I don’t care. I’m in love with Fox. I just can’t get him out of my head. But I don’t think he’ll love me anymore after I tell him….” Tarot turn to him with a questionable look on her face. “Tell me, who exactly are you. King, or Joel? And whom do you want to be?”
“My name is Joel Robinson. I am a human who once lived in Babylon gardens. I had known that I was gay ever since high school, I had been bullied all through high school simply because of that fact. I had tried to die, I had cut myself, I tried everything to make this god damn pain to go away. But, eventually, I made it to graduation. I had joined PETA simply because I thought I was going to make a difference in the world, by kidnapping Fox I thought I was saving him from a life of bondage, to be under captivity of humans, who just simply don’t know the struggle of dogs. But seeing the point of view from a dog’s standpoint I realize now that I was wrong. What Pete had done to me is something to which is what I deserve. I want to be King. Joel is nothing now, and a new story must begin, I must move on. As King.” I covered my muzzle to keep myself from gasping. Instantly I pulled out of the bushes, after seeing king walking off with now a human male and female, Tarot, and Peanut. I couldn’t think straight. As the world was spinning around me, my head felt like there was an explosion going on in it. I saw a flash of light, almost as if a supernova was going on, my body became limp, and I finally collapsed near the tree, fainted. That’s when Sabrina found me and took me to my house.
Today (as in right now)
Babylon gardens, USA
Fox’s POV
\tI looked at Tarot, then to Sabrina, then back again. I couldn’t believe what I had just seen. I had seen everything. It was as if Schrödinger’s cat kissed me on the lips, having me see the entire universe then in only a singularity, breathing life and death in me. I am back there, and back here at the same time. dI stood up quickly but then found that my legs could barely hold me up, and I collapsed down back onto the pillow, I pant heavily fighting back large amounts of tears enveloping my eyes. Tarot smirked.
“Full moon drop has properties which help bring back memories, and did it not, according to your expression? Surely you must be angry at King for doing you wrong and trying to hide it from you.” Tarot laughed. Suddenly, a sense of rage filled me up as I stood back up again and grabbed tarot by her chest tuft, and picked her up, slamming her against the wall.
“WHAT WERE YOU SAYING TO KING?! TELL ME!!” She freaked out and struggles a bit.
“I-I have no idea what you’re talking about! Let me down!”
I slammed her against the wall one more time. “Who is that man?! And why the fuck does King thinks he’s human when HE’S CLEARLY NOT?!!”
She gasped for air while my paws clenched her tuft, as well as her neck. “H-he’s been changed into that, by a demigod! He’s still the person whom kidnapped you! Snap out of your little fantasy and-AH!!” I clenched tighter.
“SHUT THE FUCK UP!! I want answers!” She smirked while she keeps gasping. Her eyes turn to emerald.
“Falling –GASP- down the rabbit hole, aren’t we, Alice? I told you all I offered was the truth no-GASP-thing more!”
I pinned her to the ground, with her hands above her head, and one paw clenching at her throat. Tarot’s face begin to turn blue. “I’ll keep clenching tighter if you don’t tell me any answers! I’ll kill you if it means getting what I want to know.” Tarot’s eyes widened, and Sabrina went and put a knife to my throat. The edge prodding at my windpipe.
“I’ll slit your throat before that ever happens, you fucking mutt.” She softly said in my ear. I stopped and thoughts a bit while I watched her continue to struggle before I came to my senses, seeing her eyes now Amber again, fighting unconsciousness, I release her and try fight back the endless waves of sadness and tears. Sabrina sheathed the knife, but still clenching it with her hand as I walk towards the door and stormed out of her house.
“I told you he couldn’t handle the truth.” Sabrina smirked to Tarot. Tarot kept coughing and wheezing from the chokehold.
“Damn, well I guess you win.” The cat smirked as Tarot placed fifty dollars in her hand. Tarot held up the Lantern.
“That bitch was using my body, and ended up choking me, not her. The spirit dragon is up to no good, she’ll do anything to win this petty battle!” Sabrina’s eyes widened, while tarot used her magic to heal herself.
“You rest here, I’ll warn King.” She placed the lantern next to Tarot and ran out of the door.
Approx. 5pm PST
Babylon gardens, USA
3rd POV
\tSabrina ran across the cul-de-sac, panting before accidentally bumping and crashing into Grape. “OW! Jeez Sabrina what’s the hurry.”
Sabrina was already up on her feet. Running to King’s house. “I’LL EXPLAIN LATER, GET PEANUT, TAROT’S HURT!”
Grape gasped and ran to get Peanut. Sabrina came the door and frantically beat onto the door before King answered it, apparently in the middle of eating dinner, seeing him chewing on spaghetti. Sabrina stepped in and locked the door. Her fur fluffed up, shaking, scared and hyperventilating.
“What’s wrong Sabrina? Is everything alright?” King leads her to sit up on the couch. Kitsune poked his head through the kitchen to see what the commotion is all about, looking at king and Sabrina. “What’s up?” She turned to the demigod, still in his human form.
“Spirit dragon…Tarot…Fox…Knows…” Sabrina keeps trying to catch her breath while King widened his eyes, knowing this is what he had been dreading. “Wait what? Fox knows?! Knows what?!” Sabrina calmed down her breathing a bit, and looks at King.
“The spirit dragon is manipulating Fox’s feelings, and ending up with Fox trying to kill Tarot…” King sighed and looked to Kitsune, whom is already turned back looking like a fox. “Man, I’m glad he didn’t kill her, otherwise he’d be the one you’d battle. That’d not be pretty.”
“It’s time. Call Pete, we need to talk.” Kitsune opened a smallish cell phone and dialed a number. King growled and pushed the demigod into the study.
“Sabrina, go in there and be our mediator, since you’re psychic.” Sabrina looked at king like he lost his marbles and pants, holding her eyes a bit. She walked up to him, and hugged him.
“I’m a psychic, not a therapist, but I’ll do what I can.” She looked at King while they still hugged.
“Stay safe, the spirit dragon is unpredictable.”
She went in, Pete stood behind him, smiling. “Why did you call me?” He boasted at him, looking down at the corgi. “Turn me back.” King demanded.
\tThe gryphon laughed, and crossed his arms. “No, I will not do that.”
King looked at him, a smug look on his face while the gryphon chuckled. “The spirit dragon is going to win if you don’t. She’s manipulating my best friend to try to get to me…and I kind of have a crush on him.”
Pete’s smiles turned into a frown while he snapped his fingers, and with a big poof of smoke. King stood up, with his prison garb still on from that day. “Thank you, Pete. Now stay in the study, with Kitsune, and Sabrina.”
The gryphon rolled his eyed and walked into there, and sits down. “You got one hour, make it count!” He yelled before King closed the door.
Fox knocked on the door lightly. “King? Are you in there? It’s me, Fox, can I come in? We need to talk..”
He yelled into the house, which echoed throughout the house. King gulps and hides in the hallway that runs perpendicular to the Door. "Y-yea, come right in Fox.”
Fox pads in slowly, looking around with tear marks on full view and fully strong, making marks on the lines of his cheeks. Afterwards He stopped in the middle of the hallway. “King?...” he yells out loud. “I know you’re not going to like this but…”
King worked up the courage then walked out slowly, his 5’11” average body looming over Fox. Fox’s eyes go wide seeing his best friend, in his true form, he barely breathed and he stood still. King kneeled down to fox’s level and looked at him in the eyes.
“My name is King. And what you heard while we were in the park was all true, every bit of it.” Fox looked down and closes his eyes. Then out of nowhere Fox jumped and head butts king in the head and tackles him, making him yelp and fall over, with fox on top of him. Fox grabs the collar of King’s shirt, and proceeded to Sucker-punch him 3 times in a row to his left cheek.
“YOU SON OF A BITCH!!” he kept beating on King until his Punches turned into taps onto his chest, tears dripping off of his cheeks and onto King’s whom is crying as well.
\t“Why.. Why did you lie to me, to all of us, why did you kidnap me, why turn into one of us?! WHY?! TELL ME GOD DAMMIT, WHY?!” King looks into Fox’s blue eyes which were filled with tears, he smiled and reaches up to pull Fox’s fur to the side and wipes his tears away.
“Cause I see the error of my ways, I thought I was rescuing you, they convinced me it was for the greater good, I was wrong and I see that now… I’m sorry…” Fox looks at him and goes to hug the human sized King tight.
“You should’ve told me in the first place…” King sighed then in a flash and a poof of pink smoke he turned back into the corgi that Fox knew and loved. King tilted his head towards the door. “YOU LIEING SON OF A BITCH YOU SAID AN HOUR!!” Pete laughed from the Study. “I lied!”
Kitsune turned to him. “Typical.” Pete quit laughing and replaced it with a smug look. “Shut up.”
Fox picked King up. “Please fox. I need you to sit down.” Fox went over to the couch in the living room and sat down crossing his arms. “Ok, what’s really going on?” Fox demanded, King flopped his ears down and thinks of what to say without spilling anything.
\tKing opened his mouth, but nothing come out. Not a word. He thinks for a moment while fox looked onto the Corgi as his temper grew high and low while trying to put the pieces together by himself. ‘Fuck it.’ King thought.
“Ok this demigod named Pete rescued me from going to jail, and he turned me into a dog as sort of an ‘ironic punishment’ yet, what he didn’t count on is that I actually love being a dog, and that I even have a crush on my best friend which is you-“
King slapped a paw over his muzzle to shut himself up, blushing intensely when he basically just confessed his love for his only best friend. Hearing Pete in the background laughing his tail off and Kitsune yelling at him because of said laughing, the pets outside scrambling to try and help Tarot, who is already healed up perfectly, which didn’t faze King nor Fox, not anymore at least, from what all they’ve been through. Fox looked at King with his ears flopped and with his face red.
“I-I have a crush on you too.”
\tKing goes to him and hugs the husky tight, both of them coming to tears, King drifted towards fox’s muzzle and connected fox’s lips with his, in one slow everlasting kiss. It lasted before a full ten seconds before Pete kicked down the door to the study. “BULLSHIT I AM NOT GOING TO LET HIM GO!! WE HAD A DEAL!” Pete yells at Kitsune while he walks out calmly.
“For fuck sakes, end this stupid battle, and be the better man. Plus she’s been cheating by manipulating your piece’s emotions and the emotions of whom your piece loves the most.” Pete looked at him with both anger and shock painting his face. Then looks back to king and Fox, looking over at the demi-god. Fox goes up to Kings ear and holds it up to whisper to him.
“Is he the one who turned you into this?”
King nodded in silence, as Fox shrugged, and goes to cuddle against the corgi, knowing that this is probably the closest he had ever been to king, and that it was wise not to question the demigod, since he did one of the best things in the husky’s short yet broad lifespan. Pete turned to King and rolled his eyes and waves his paws around.
“By the power vested in me blah blah blah you are now free of my contract and are now a Corgi forever, there, you happy?” Kitsune, Fox, and King nodded, before a female human walked through the door, angry and storms through the house, a crackle of lightning followed her before she gone up to the gryphon, and shoves Pete to the side to get to Kitsune. “WHY THE FUCK DID YOU INTERFERE WITH THIS BATTLE?!?!” she yelled that echoed (literally and figuratively) throughout space and time, and the house.
Kitsune looked at her and crosses his arms, as well as Pete who stared at her with a stinging glare and crossed arms to show that Kitsune and he are allies.
“What?” she said, trying to act like she doesn’t know what she did. King and fox ignored the bickering between the three demi-gods until they heard a fast yet light knock on the door. King got up and walked lazily to the door, while Fox looked on with a smile, knowing everything that happened is behind them and that their feelings were only a tacit agreement that got doubled.
\tKing opened the door which stood Tarot and Sabrina, as well as Peanut and Grape, the summer winds raging as a storm rolls on the horizon, coming up to nearly eclipse the sun. Tarot, whom held the lantern in her hand, had red marks on her throat to where Fox had choked her earlier in their fight, which when seen by Fox made him whimper and leans into the couch hiding with his tail between his legs.
“Um, Tarot, what are you doing here?” Tarot looked at King with an annoyed look, as well as Sabrina’s look was also with annoyance.
“We’re here to talk about our ‘deal’ with the spirit dragon.”
King perked his ears up and looks at the Human female, but is now turned into an anthropomorphic version of the spirit dragon, still bickering to the anthropomorphic nine-tailed fox as well as the blue feathered gryphon.
“Come right in.” king answered her and moved to the side. Tarot walked into the house approaching the spirit dragon while king locked his door, and go back to Fox, snuggling him and covering his ears. Tarot looked at her and the spirit dragon smiled and looked down.
“Hun look I” Tarot cut her off by stomping on her foot, the dragon yelped and held her foot, bouncing up and down.
“THE FUCK WAS THAT FOR?!”
Tarot coughed and looked at her. “For telling Fox and have him choke you, which in turned choked me instead!”
King turned to Fox, while Fox flopped his ears and gave a goofy looking smile, to both Kings delight and effortless love, typical Fox, worrying about him so much to the point here he nearly killed Tarot! Sabrina held out a chest to which Tarot took out two emerald like crystals. The spirit dragon’s eyes grew wide as if they were saucers while she looked on to the emerald crystals.
“No… think about this, Tarot, please, thing about what you are doing?!” Tarot looked at her with no sympathy in her eyes then threw down one stone, shattering it into tiny pieces which turned into dust, and dissipated in the air creating a sour yet fresh aroma.
“The deals off. First you hit on my boyfriend.” Grape looked to Peanut and Peanut smiled while hiding behind her, giving him a weird look.
\t“Second of all you nearly killed me, and for that, the deal is off!!” She threw down the other crystal, also shattering it. The spirit dragon screamed out and clenched her head, feeling a gigantic headache, then looks at Tarot, then to Pete. Tears streamed down her eyes while the storm rages wild outside.
“I’m so sorry…you win, Pete.” Pete smiled and brings her up to her feet and hugged her.
“Thank you big sis.” He exclaimed while Kitsune smiled, a sense of warmth filled the room while the storm crackled and roared. Kitsune turned to the two demi gods as he opened a portal.
“You two go home, I need to stay here for a bit.” The spirit dragon smiled, as well as Pete did, and held hands together.
“Well, at least, being at peace with each other isn’t that bad.” She said to Pete as he nodded in agreement. They both walked into the portal.
Kitsune smiled and walked over to the two now lovers, the scent of cherry feels the air and a hint of bitter almonds, he sits near king and fox, whom are snuggling on the couch.
“I’m glad I can be of service.”
King smiled and hugs the nine-tailed demi god, whom petted the corgi. “I just need for you to do one thing for me.”
Kings eyes shot up, and looks at him, knowing what he’s about to say, and dreads those final words, because, to him, this is a dream that he doesn’t want to wake up from. For fear that he will feel his lovers touch nevermore.
“No, please, don’t say it!! Please!!!” He yelled tears filling his eyes, the demi-god grabbed him softly, holding him while he has a nice grin on his face, and goes to his ears and whispers.
“Just, wake up.”
\tThunder booms the air, as rain pours down like a firehose against the house, the winds crying out in the thunderstorm. King’s house in Babylon gardens, he woke up in his room, alone. King immediately bursts into tears when he looked around, seeing that he was alone in his room, alone in the world, with nobody to share his life with. The trophy of the Kitsune looked back at him, standing there sitting, with a solemn look on him, shining in the dim light with rubies for his eyes. There is also a trophy of a green eyed dragon, and a blue eyed gryphon standing on both sides of the fox trophy.
‘It was just a dream…all a dream...’ he continued to cry to himself, tears coursing down his furry cheeks, staining the fur, with his long ears pinned back, covering his eyes while he whimpers out loud, his weeping echoing in the room. Out of nowhere, or at least from King’s perspective, a paw softly touched his shoulder and massaged his back. He turned around.
“Are you okay, King?”
A familiar sound filled Kings Ears, as if something was just softly, gently calling to him, a husky with Sapphire eyes. As he smiled, with his ears perking up, he leans back to snuggle in his warm and soft bed, the soft grey and white fur almost enveloping him like a nice freshly washed blanket. Soft, metallic, yet beautiful blue eyes staring at him with a concerned look, the storm rages on outside of his home, before dissipating and calming down. King smiled and goes to press his lips against the husky that he was in bed with, and fades away into a blissful, great sleep.
“I am now, Fox. I am now….”
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