Dear Diary Do I have a Story for you.

Story by NightTodd on SoFurry

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#1 of Diary of a Modern Druid


Chapter 1

I'd like to Thank Muljuladragon for helping with prereading.

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Dear Diary: Do I have a tale for you...

I was a normal man, living a normal life. Normal job, normal house, normal clothes, and completely out of my mind with normal.

About the only abnormal thing about me was I am a pagan.

Oh ya, my name is Paul, I'll keep my last name private in case someone reads this and thinks I should be put up in a padded cell. Where was I... Oh ya I'm a pagan, a druid to be specific. Not that I really knew much about the religion, I had studied my family and we come from a line that stretches back to the Celts and it always just felt right for me to be a druid. The reason I bring up being a druid is it is where my story begins

It all began on the Autumnal Equinox. I had set up a tent in the woods behind my home near a small stream, and fasted the whole day, burning incense on a small campfire so that I could purify myself when the first rays of the Full moon hit. I had some fruit in a bowl with me and after moonrise I'd have a picnic after I satisfied my need for ritual. Even if I had no clue if a real medieval druid would perform them it made me feel different, special, somehow. I did many things like this all year. I even slipped some things into my normal routine. Stuff like giving live flowers as gifts or live Roses to girlfriends after Lovemaking. As I sat watching the sunset I heard a rustling in the bushes and a whimper. I got up, my robes (yet another idea I had no idea of the truth of) slipping down as I stood and peered into the bushes. Another whimper and more rustling convinced me I wasn't hearing things. I pushed aside the bushes and in the fading glow from the setting sun behind me I found myself looking at a bundle of deep red fur. It was a todd... Oh sorry forgot some people are less studied. A Todd is a male fox, just like a vixen is a female fox. Back to the tale. The fox was whining now and trying to back away, I say trying because it was obvious even to me that it was hurt bad. It looked like it had a run in with a car, or maybe a tractor as there were some deep cuts visible. I figured he'd been making for the stream when he picked up my scent. I was in my addled mind a pretty poor Druid if I'd let a living creature die on me. So, making slow movements, I tried to get closer. He raised his head and tried to growl but even that sounded pained. His reactions told me he was in no condition to run or fight, but he'd end up killing himself trying if I got any closer. Now I'd had first aid training and thought I could help if he'd just trust me. Thinking for a second, I walked over and dumped the fruit out of my bowl and filled it with fresh stream water. taking a long stick I slowly pushed it over toward the todd. His eyes peered at me and he sniffed at the bowl. I could see that it was 2 things: Pretty smart and confused. I could see by it's body language that it wanted, no needed, the water, but it wasn't sure if it could trust the source. Finally he turned his head back to the bowl and keeping his eyes on me began to lap at the clear water finishing it off quickly.

After finishing he then turned his head to gaze at me with an expression on his face which seemed to say "Okay, now what?" I just kept my distance and kept looking at him trying to decide what to do. All of a sudden I heard more rustling coming from past him. He pivoted his head around with another short whine escaping him and sniffed the air. A few seconds later he growled and tried to turn around seemingly forgetting me as the rustling grew louder. Whatever was bothering him was giving me an uneasy feeling so I picked up the stick I'd used earlier and went through the bushes till I was between the todd and whatever was rustling the bushes. Coming up over the fence and through the trees ahead I saw a Man with a rifle bent down to peer at the ground before continuing on towards where my todd was hiding. Now normally I wouldn't have cared about a hunter except for two unrelated bits of info. One of the few pieces of real druidic info I had was you don't shed blood on the Equinox, that was one. The other was that he was currently stalking an animal on marked private property and no trespassing, namely mine. So I stood all the way up slowly so as not to get shot at, I heard those types are twitchy sometimes. When I caught his eye I called out, "Hey this is private property, what are you doing out here."

"Hunting foxes. They been eating my chickens" he said in a voice that was so cliche redneck it could have come from a Jeff Foxworthy joke.

Now my todd hadn't been eating much of anything the condition he was in so I knew the hick was feeding me a line of bull. So once again noting the position of his gun I said, " I don't care if your shooting the breeze, this is private property. If you want to hunt hunt your own property." I could tell he wasn't happy, also he was looking at me funny, that's when I remembered I was wearing my robes and probably looked to him almost as crazy as he looked to me.

"I'm sorry but I'm tracking one I got. Gotta get em afore he gets to his den." The man said looking like he was worried. No, not worried, he was scared.

I couldn't believe it, he was carrying a gun and he was scared of me just cause I was in the woods wearing robes. So going with it I summoned up my creepiest expression saying, "If your don't leave right now I'm gonna call the cops." That did it for him he shouldered his rifle and turned around, I followed him to the edge of my property and made sure he was over the fence. Once he was outta sight I turned back to my camp and pushed aside the bushes. The todd was nowhere in sight I looked around a bit hoping that he had just scooted under some bushes but I couldn't find a trace of him before I lost the sunlight. So sadly I went back to my tent.

As I reached my small fire I was shocked to see three figures sitting at my fire with hoods over there faces. Two of them were about my size and the third was a hand smaller. I let out a little surprised "Wha.." before one of the figures raised a robed hand stopping me.

He stood and said in a strange voice, "You passed novice."

"Passed what?" I asked, with a great deal of confusion in my voice.

The stranger pulled back his hood and I gasped as it wasn't a human head under the robes but a foxes, a rather familiar foxhead in fact. He was the todd I had just been frantically searching after. Only his features now looked smoother. I'd have said more humanlike but that wasn't the case he looked... it can't be described you'll know if you ever see him. "You are the first in your family for many, many ages to pass the 3 tests of initiation."

"Initiation? I was just doing what any good person would do." I said losing my cool and panicking visibly.

"You showed compassion, courage, and cunning." the Todd said. "Compassion in trying to help an injured creature, and again in searching until you could no longer. Courage in facing the hunter when you were severely shall we say 'Outgunned'. Finally cunning, you used his fear of the unknown to make yourself the one in a position of power." he seemed almost to be smiling fatherly at me although that was just a guess, it was after all my first talk with a fox.

"I don't understand. Why was I tested? Who are you?" I asked as the other pair stood and pulled back there hoods revealing that they too were foxes. The larger was another todd with a steel grey coat and the shorter was a vixen. When I saw her my breathe left me for just a second. She was ethereally beautiful. Her pelt was a tawny cream color quite unlike the foxes I was used to seeing in the area.

"We are the Guardians of your family Paul. The Moonfox Clan is what your ancestors called us for obvious reasons," he said as I had to almost literally tear my eyes from the Vixen. "I am called Veesau. I am the Chief, for now, of Moonfox," turning to the other todd he pointed "This is our Shaman Mist." Mist nodded his head as Veesau pointed at the Vixen "Finally we have Lia, she is a Watcher. It was she that decided you might be worthy of the Initiation. As to your 3rd question. All the different sects of druids had Guardians such as we and still do today. Your family as you found was once a respected druid family but your ancestors slowly turned away from nature and soon we were myth then we were forgotten. Yet still we Guard still we watch, and occasionally one such as yourself appears, One with both the mind to see and the heart to feel. But you are the first in an aeon to pass all 3 tests although your father and uncle nearly did so."

I was stunned, it was to crazy to be believed and yet a part of him couldn't help but believe. "But why test me. I'm just a kid playing at a lost religion, one that I hardly know a thing about." I said looking down.

Putting his pawlike hand on my shoulder Veesau lifted my head "Noone can become a druid without passing the test's that's why I called you Novice earlier Paul. Until you passed you were just a kid playing at a lost religion, now you are a man ready to relearn the religion your family lost so many ages ago."

I was shocked, My mouth moved but no sound came out. It was like a fairytale come to life. At this point Lia walked up to me and bowed to me "I'd like to apologize, " She said as I once again lost myself in her beauty. Her voice was as smooth as the cream her pelt seemed to be, " It was I who made certain you didn't find much info on the druids when you searched, It was so you wouldn't have anything to unlearn if, no when ( I always knew you'd pass the tests) you were ready. But still I was continually frustrating you, forgive me." I was thinking at the time as I stared into her emerald green eyes if she'd have cheerfully removed my arms I'd still forgive her. "As your Watcher it will be my job to start your training."

Now that snapped me out of my daze. "Training? What kind of training." I said trying not to sound like I was freaking out. I was, I just didn't want to sound like it. "I have a job. How am I going to work and train both."

Mist came up and whacked me on the back of the head just like my grandpa use to do and said "We're called the MOON-fox Clan, You work afternoon you train late. Remember we've been watching you your nocturnal just like us already." As I rubbed my head he continued, "As for what training, you wanted to be a druid without knowing a lick of nature magic or illusion. Heh I wanted to laugh at some of the strange things you did. Other times I was surprised when you did exactly what the old training requires when there was no way you could ever have known."

Lia regained my attention by the simple expedient of tapping me on the side and smiled at me making my knees water "You actually lucky that we decided to test you on the Equinox. It's one of the best times for a beginner cause, magically, everything is much easier then. Also, with a full moon on top of it the air itself will be charged magically." I heard a rustling in the bushes and when I turned to investigate I found that Veesau and Mist had vanished on me.

"What I'm starting now, but..." I started but she stopped me with a finger to my lips.

"I know your off for the next 2 days. Plus like I said this is the easiest time to learn." She said with a grin.

"How did you know I was off for the next 2 days?" I asked bewildered.

"What part of Guardians and Watcher don't you understand," she scolded me, and I felt really silly.

I turned away from her to hide my embarrassment. Hearing a faint rustle behind me I turned around to find Lia's robes on the ground and she was nowhere in sight. "Lia... where are you?" I asked speaking to empty air.

From behind me I felt a gentle push and almost jumped as a voice in my ear said "Right behind you. Time for your first lesson. Well, first 2 really." I turned around and my jaw dropped, Lia was standing there in the, well I guess skin is inappropriate considering, but she was quite nude. "Okay, first lesson is a freebie, we only wore the clothes so we could get your attention before you saw us as we are. Normally we do without, after all when you have a warm pelt who needs clothes."

If you could have been there you'd have probably laughed at my expression right then. I think if my mouth hadn't been so dry from all the surprises of the evening I'd have been drooling. Hormones taking control of my mouth for a second I said, "So beautiful...." I'll admit after the fact the sight of her in the buff had struck me dumb. It was painfully obvious to her as well (she still teases me about that from time to time). When my brain rebooted a few seconds later I was thankful for wearing robes. I'd have been even more embarrassed if she'd have seen the tent I was making in my briefs underneath the robes.

Meanwhile her ears came up when I called her beautiful. I didn't know it then but that's her way of blushing. After I regained my senses she sniffed a second and said "Aww... am I making you uncomfortable." She walked up to me and ran her hand around my waist and then poked at my robes to my embarrassment.

"How did..." I started to ask how she knew.

"Better sense of smell is all, and that's a pretty heady aroma. I'm flattered really." She didn't let go of my waist as she went around behind me and rested her head on my shoulder. "As for lesson two," She began as she yanked my robes off "I think you'll enjoy it. I'm going to open your mind to nature, in a time honored fashion."

Now I was no virgin, (at least not by much) but it was still a shock for me when she snatched my robe and even more shocking, not to mention just a touch painful, when she yanked off my boxers. Note to you angry-passionate people, Bill Ingval{1} was right that stings a bit. As she gently nudged me step by step into my tent, I gasped as I found myself, not in a canvas tent, but what appeared to be a crystalline encrusted cavern. "What the..." I began and once again was interrupted with an answer before I could finish.

"I put a Seeming in place, an illusion if you will." She explained as I stood dumfounded. "I'm one of the best in the clan at calling up Seemings. So what do you think of my Den." She asked making a sweeping gesture with her arm.

"This is what your home looks like? Do you bring all your students home?" I queried with a canary-eating grin.

She actually had the good humor to look flustered at that one ( and it's one of the only times I've seen that). " Your my first student. It's a Watchers job to not only watch and protect, but also to teach. Although I won't be your only teacher, I'm your Watcher. This is, and will always be, a singular position." She said turning her back on me for a second.

"You mean you've watched me all my life?" I asked afraid of the answer just a bit.

"No only since you came of age. I'm only a couple years older than you myself." She answered, getting back her composure a bit as I regained mine. Leading me around to a pile of cushions on the floor, we sat down. "But I did hear all about your younger adventures from Mist. It's his job as Shaman to look after the children till they come of age. That way he can use his abilities in certain situations." She smiled. "For example, In kindergarten when you hit your head on the teacher's desk when she was out of the room. It was Mist's healing you that kept a near fatal injury down to what only needed 48 stitches."

"You mean I'd have died?" I asked shocked at the revelation.

"Maybe so, maybe no. Thankfully we'll never know." She placed a comforting hand on my shoulder. "Sorry, to spook you I just thought you ought to know."

I leaned into her hand "I... This is all just so much to take in at once."

Now let me tell you something I usually have a pretty tight reign on my emotions. That night I lost my control, or I should say found out that I never really had control. Lia had already taken me on an emotional, not to mention hormonal, rollercoaster ride. I crumpled back onto the cushions and just sat there for a second. As I tried to regain my composure Lia came around behind me and embraced me.

"Let it go, Paul. If you bottle up the bad feelings you just distill them into worse, and the cork keeps the good things trapped as well." She whispered in my ear, her embrace a protective shield about me.

I took a few deep breaths and began "This seems like just the thing I've been missing all my life, But..." and shuddered a bit as if cold, "all my life I've wished for Magic and fairy tales to be real. Now I find myself at odds with my reality and the reality that's just been presented me. I'm afraid I'll go mad if I wake up tomorrow and find this is just a vision brought on by getting cheap incense at the wiccan store. I couldn't take it if I lost this..." I paused.

"And..." she Prompted.

"Well, " I began with hesitation "It's...We just met but..."

"Yes?" She prompted me yet again.

"I... I don't think I could take it if I lost you as well as everything else." I finished. There I had said it. I was sure then and there that she would get up and walk out, that even after all the flirting and innuendo that she would think I was some kind of pervert.

Hugging me tighter she said "There now that wasn't so hard." I tensed up when she said that positive that we were done. She then leaned beside me turned my head and kissed me somewhat awkwardly (you try kissing a muzzle with no experience and let's see how well you do). "I'm YOUR watcher Paul. I've Watched you for years and I've seen what kind of person you've grown into. I'll always be right there with you," she said after releasing my lips. She had a triumphant little grin-like expression on her face. She hugged me again this time almost possessively and I relaxed a bit.

"You don't think I'm a Perv? After all we just met tonight and I..." I paused.

"Want to know the truth. I've had a crush on you since You got dumped by the Richardson girl in High school. She practically tore out your soul. I wanted to tear out her liver and eat it, I was so mad." She said in a rush.

My eyes snapped open like I'd grabbed a live wire. "You mean that?" I asked needing and fearing the answer.

Her only response was to push me down and kiss me again stopping only when we both needed air. Lifting herself up a bit she began running a paw along my side, quickly resurrecting my flagging erection (she's good at that). She then slid down my body. Her fur felt like silk as she dragged her breasts down my frame. She then placed her muzzle at my crotch and inhaled. "Oh, Ya that's heady," She said before taking a slow lick from the base up to the very tip of my manhood.

I moaned at the sensation, then gasped as she engulfed me in her muzzle. "Lia... " I would have continued but as she began to make slurping noises I lost the coherency for rational thought let alone speech.

She continued in that vein (pardon the pun) for a few moments until I felt I would pop. She then pulled off me and said "Uh Uh, your not getting away that easy." She stood for a second and then straddled my chest. Her tail tickling my spittle moistened manhood, she began to murr as I used a little brainpower to bring my hands to her fuzzy breasts and gently cupped them. "Oh yes that's nice Paul. keep doing that," she said as I began to fondle her just a bit.

I felt a little dampness on my navel and a few seconds later my nose picked up an aroma faintly reminding of saffron or cinnamon. It had an effect on my mind, like a switch was thrown my hands dropped to her waist and I practically drug her across my chest till I could reach her crotch and inhaled. Turning her own words on her I smiled "Now THAT's heady." I flicked out my tongue and made a few tentative laps at her wetness. She made a noise almost like a cat purring and her paws clamped onto the top of my head as her thighs clamped onto the rest. Now as I said I'm no virgin so I took this as a sign that not only should I continue, it'd be in my best interest to do so. So, I began to alternate between long slow licks and quick darting stabs with my tongue. Her hands flexed on the crown of my head. She was making that murring on my long laps, and making little yips whenever I made the darting strikes. I found what I was looking for on one of my teasingly slow licks as she went from murring to a gasp.

"Paul..." she began her brush puffed out and standing up from her back, "I..." she too seemed to have lost the ability to speak as I began teasing her. I made sure my long licks were just missing her clit but for the darting stabs I'd quickly taste it and then return to the teasing laps. After what seemed like 15 minutes of this my neck and chin were drenched as she tensed up and made a long high pitched whine. Her legs clamped down so hard on my head I barely noticed as her fingers pulled out a few strands of my hair. After gathering her wits for a second she let go of my head and lay down atop me licking her juices of my chin for a second. "That was a surprise. You never did that to your other girlfriends," she smirked at me as my eyes grew wide for a second.

"YOU WATCHED THAT TOO." I cried out embarrassed.

"What part of 'WATCHER' don't you understand?" she asked, grinning, as she gave another lick at my neck. Then she shifted a bit as my member poked her in the thigh. Straddling my waist again she looked down on me with another grin "Aww, I'm sorry, you've been so attentive to me I almost forgot. It's time for your lesson." Shifting her weight and scooting back a bit I felt her sit back on my crotch until I felt the tip of my member hit the dampness of her inner thighs.

I looked up into her eyes with an unhealthy level of lust and asked, "Is this really a lesson or just an excuse for sex?"

She smiled at me and said, "Both...," and then leaned forward and pushed back with her hips, slipping onto me. Murring loudly she began to bounce on my lap as I panted in the vice-like grip that was now on my manhood rather than crushing my head.

Feeling a little tingle in my mind again I returned my hands to her breast and began mauling them as well as I was able as she bounced, murring, in my lap. I felt the tingle again as she popped, and I do mean popped, off of me. She crouched down on her paws and shook her rear at me her brush once again raised high and puffed out. I took my cue and knelt behind her before reentering her. She felt even tighter this way and as I pushed into her she murred and suddenly pushed back against me till I was completely engulfed in her groin. I Imagined I could hear her pulse in my head and used that phantom beat to time myself as I began to thrust into her. The beat seemed to get faster and harder as I continued till I couldn't keep up then it backed down to a more steady pace. After a few minutes she began to make little whining noises and the beat in my head cut out.

"Paul... I think I... I..." she began panting and then let out that long whining cry as she tightened around me almost painfully and then ramming back till I was as deep as I could go and kept grinding back.

As she pushed her hips back into mine and bore down on me, I felt that little tingle in my head again and pushed into her like a drill. With an almost inhuman howl of my own I lifted her up till she was sitting in my lap her brush caught between us, The little extra depth made her yip. Then I came into her as I felt her juices splashing out around me to dampen our joined crotches. Still joined, I lay back pulling her down on top of me. After a few seconds of panting and getting my bearings back I wished I had a rose, no a whole field of roses for Lia. "I'm sorry I don't have a rose for you Lia, this was unexpected, Not unwanted just unexpected."

She turned her head slightly to look me in the eyes, and with a wicked grin she said, "Look around."

My eyes widened in shock as I found the crystalline Cavern had transformed itself into an entire field of rose bushes. I looked at her and asked, "How... Did you... did you do this."

Her grin widened and said "I ended my seeming around the same time I mounted you Paul."

"You mean...?" I began.

"Lesson One Complete!"

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