Sovereign Lion Chp 2
No yiff in this chapter, but rest assured, there will be in future ones! Hee hee.
I should have known, it was a stupid idea to think I could simply walk home. By the time I got there, cops were already swarming the place waiting for me. No doubt they found out where I lived from the teacher's records. I stood atop an apartment building, looking down and watching the officers who were awaiting my arival, I hadn't shown myself yet."Hmm, I wonder if I could... nah, there's too many of them." I realized. I barely knew how to walk properly now, I wasn't about to take on an entire squad of police cruisers. I was still trying to figure out what to do, when I heard foot steps behind me and turned to see a man dressed in blue and red spandex with a skull mask on his face."The goddess Circe has taken an interest in you, mortal. You possess great magical affinity." He said, causing me to blink in surprise. I thought my psychic powers might have been from some kind of meta human physiology, but if they were magical in nature..."She has a task for you to perform, if you feel interested in coming to further understand your abilities. Or you could just sit here and deal with the police. Your choice." He explained, giving a chuckle at the end, as if indicating I didn't have a real choice.
I looked back to the cops for a moment and thought it over. If it was true... if I really did have magical powers. I turned to face the man again and nodded, "What's on the agenda?" I asked as the man seemed delighted by my response."Take this, it is a personal communicator that fits in your ear, Circe will provide you with the details, herself." He said, handing me a small item, which I accepted, noticing it was a circular ear piece. I fastened it to my ear, surprised that the new feline ears were able to accomodate the divice and activated the button. After a few seconds, the message began to kick in, with the sound of a female voice on the other line."Well this is a surprise. It seems you've obtained some of the magical powers from my own Beastiamorphs. I expected you to be another warlock dressed in flowing robes. Pffah!" the voice greeted, "I am the goddess, Circe, and I have a task for you, a test to see if you truly are blessed with magic." She began."I just got my powers less than an hour ago, how could you know about me so quickly?" I asked, genuinely confused about the whole mess. Circe laughed at my questioning as if amused by it and responded simply.
"It is not so easy to hide from the gods, mortal. Rest assured, I have my ways of finding those blessed with the power of magic, and you're the newest on my list. That Amazon Wonder Woman would try to convince you magic should be restricted, kept in the hands of those who are afraid to use it. Cowards, Magic is the power of the gods, the divine right to rule the world belongs to those with its gifts. I wish for you to teach them this lesson." She explained.I
waited as a breech of static crackled through the ear piece before she continued, "It has come to my attention your powers allow you to manipulate the minds of others. You will use your abilities to suppress and control the wills of common civilians, proving your superiority to them. Once they are properly enthralled, lead them to my general Glen, he will take care of the rest." she finished, and with that, the feed was cut and I was left to my own."The goddess Circe also decreed you are to have a change of wardrobe to better assist in her service." The skull masked man said, "These are for you." He added, handing me what looked to be a suit of armor made just for my new size. I looked it over and noticed the outfit consisted of some gauntlets, a chest plating, and boots. The outfit was mostly black with purple highlights. I frowned at the lack of pants, it seems I still needed to find my own.
"This is just basic armor for novices like you. If you wish for something better suited to your abilities, you will need to prove your worth to the factions." The man said, "Of course, you could just craft your own, but I doubt you'd make anything worth the effort just yet." He added with a crude laugh.I began fastening on the armor, starting with the chest plate and moving onto the boots and gloves. The armor plating felt cheap, like it was made out of some kind of reinforced plastic, rather than metal, but at least I would have some kind of protection. I noticed a beeping coming from one of my gloves and looked at it to see there was a mini map hologram displayed above it."That is your locator device, make sure to swap it out with higher armor, you only get one free locator. Green dots are non hostiles, red dots are hostiles, and orange dots are your primary objective." The man said, and with that, he was gone, vanished in a fiery pillar, leaving me to complete my mission.I looked at the holographic map and saw an orange marker not far from my location. I assumed that was General Glen and decided to begin heading over there. I took a deep breath and tried to relax myself before breaking into a sprint and watching as I zoomed down the side of the apartment building, and kept running as I reached the road, instead of splattering on the pavement. Nice to see I could screw the laws of physics. I was approaching the marker rapidly and could already see the signs of a struggle ahead of me. As if moving in slow motion, women dressed like ancient roman soldiers seemed to be doing battle with half beast creatures like myself. I blazed past them as I watched in amusement as a boar man cleaved one of the women's heads off, the blood fountaining out like an old porno fountain, showering scantily clad allies behind her.
"Hmm, should probably see somebody about that mental image." I joked with myself before I realized I was finally at the orange marker. As I came to a halt,
stopping my super speed, the world sped back up into regular speed, and the sounds of battle were clashing around me. I noticed that one Beastiamorph was standing out from the battle, he looked to be an albino rhino dressed in a chest harness and leather kilt. He was almost bigger than I was!"General Glen, I take it?" I asked him as he turned to look at me, surprised at first by my arrival, but then quickly adjusting himself as he realized who I was. As he began to speak, I realize he wasn't exactly as intelligent as I would have expected a military general to be."You Circe's new servant! Bring me enslaved civilians to be turned into Beastiamorphs! Go now, and if any Amazons give you trouble, impale them!" He ordered, thrusting his arms outward as if to emphasize me to get moving. I frowned, still not sure exactly how I was supposed to go about doing this with a battle going on around me, but I was going to try my best. I began looking around for what seemed to be an easy mark and found one.
An overweight man in a brown business suit walking down the street seemingly unguarded by any of the women. He'd make a good first target, and I was already moving in to attack. I tried to make my vision go pink like I had before, but all I managed to do was squint and wrinkle my forehead."Hey you!" I shouted, catching the man's attention, but as he turned and saw me, he yelled for help and took off running. "Son of a bitch." I cursed, "Wait, I have super speed, what do I care?" I asked myself and took off after him Sure enough, by the time he had taken three steps, I was already in front of him and grabbed him by the shirt."Stop fighting!" I demanded, glaring at him, and to my surprise, my vision began to turn pink again, sending the man into some kind of trance. As I blinked and relaxed myself in relief, the vision returned to normal and the man seemed to come back out of his trance "Okay, apparently I need to be forceful to activate this." I said, making a mental note before focusing back on the man. Once again, I gave a firm order, "Go meet with General Glen!" I ordered as my vision turned pink once again. At least I was starting to get the hang of it.
I released the man as he repeated my command and began shambling off towards the Rhino just 10 yards away. I smiled, at least I finally knew how to hypnotize people, tricky as it may be. Now I still had two other abilities I needed to learn to master. I looked at my paws, remembering I had fired energy blasts from them before and I needed to learn to master that, so I didn't blow up the next thing I pointed to.I tried to concentrate again, as if demanding the power to come forth, but it didn't work, my hands didn't begin glowing like before. Which was bad, because it looked like I had attracted negative attention when I turned to hear the battle cry of one of the women charging at me."Gah!" I exclaimed as I
saw her swinging a sword towards my stomach. I reflexively thrust out my arm in defense and as my paw slammed into her face, a condensed burst of energy exploded outward like a shockwave, knocking her off her feet and canceling out her attack."What?" I asked, looking at my paw to see it hummed with energy, I extended my arm again slowly and nothing fired out. When I saw the woman beginning to stand up, rubbing at her face I pulled my arm back and thrust it forward hard. As my muscles tensed up from the hard shoving motion, I felt a surge of power race through my limb and fire out from my palm as a condensed beam, sending the woman crashing back to the ground again, yelping as the breath was knocked out of her.
"Seems I need to be tensed up to channel it." I said to myself as I flexed both my arms and pulled them back to my sides. I tensed up my muscles and I felt the surge of power coursing through my limbs and building at my palms as if waiting me to strike. As the woman coughed, I thrust both arms forward simultaneously, and an explosion of power engulfed her body as she screamed in pain. When the purple light cleared up, the woman was laying unsconscious on the pavement, the sound beneath her cracked and blood leaking out of her nose."Damn, these women don't break easily." I said, realizing that an explosion capable of cracking pavement should have done more than give her a bloody nose. But I was happy she seemed to at least be unconscious by this point. I also noticed her eyes had rolled back into her head with a glazed look and rubbed at my fuzzy chin."Huh, are these psychic projections too?" I asked nobody in particular, it would explain the lack of physical damage if all the power was going through their minds, rather than their bodies. I shrugged as I began looking for another victim, but just to make sure my first task was completed, I turned back to see Glen force feeding some kind of drink down the fat man's mouth. The man yelled and collapsed on the ground as he began to transform rapidly, a thick coat of gray fur spreading across his skin as his mouth began to extend into a muzzle.
I quickly realized he was transforming into a boar man when I saw his teeth beginning to exent into a set of tusks and decided to hurry on with my task, racing off to look for another victim and leaving the man to finish his transformation. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anyone else who was left unguarded, the rest of the civilians seemed to be taking refuge near the Amazonian women and I realized if I wanted to finish this task, I'd need to shed some blood. I located two young targets who looked to still be in high school, one male and one female. They were cowering behind a wrecked car as two Amazons were fending off a tiger man who was attempting to reach the pedestrians. Perfect time for me to sneak in, as I began zooming forward, the world slowing down once again.As I blew past, I placed both arms in front of each Amazon's face and flexed my muscles for an instant. The charge of energy exploded as a shockwave once again, sending both women stumbling. By the time they registered what had happened, the tiger was already upon them, slashing away with his claws.
"This is fun!" I exclaimed as I loomed over the students who were now begging for mercy. I realized I could only make eye contact with one of them at a time, the other would probably make a break for it. I decided to choose the boy first and lifted him in the air as if he were weightless with one arm. Glaring into his eyes and finding that by this point, I was able to activate the hypnotism without complications, I gave him the command to seek out the general Glen, and just as I had expected, the girl was already making a dash for safety. I dropped the boy who began stumbling off to recieve his transformation.I decided to let the girl get a bit of a head start. Maybe it was because I knew with my speed, she had no chance to escape, or maybe it was my predatory nature kicking in, but I felt like enjoying a good chase. I watched the girl running and took in her appearance. She seemed to be in her mid teens, probably just a couple years or so younger than me. Of course, with my new body, I looked like a full grown adult by this point. She was dressed in blue jeans and a dark pink shirt that had a black skull emblem on the back of it. She wore a set of thick, black boots and black, fingerless gloves. From the looks of it, she was a tom boy, but didn't seem to be all that tough when trouble started, obviously.
Her hair was braided in a short, 2 inch tail, and was a dark auburn color, she was greatly smaller than me, being only about 4'6 in height, and probably barely reaching 109 lbs. This was going to be a good laugh. I took off after her when she had gotten a good 30 yards on me, but I didn't use my super speed. I just quickly jogged after her, making sure to control my legs properly. I felt a surge of primal adrenaline and joy taking over me as I played with my new victim. If she tried to round a corner, I kicked up my speed just enough so that I didn't lose sight of her, but still held back to let her keep the lead."You can't escape me, girl!" I taunted her, "I can catch you anytime I want!" I added. What came next, however, I certainly didn't expect. In mid run, she whipped around in the middle of the street and fired something from her finger tips. I had only a moment to realize it was a blast of frost before the attack struck me. I felt like I had jumped head first into a swimming pool in the winter time. My body was shivering within seconds of exposure to the attack.
"Got you!" she shouted with a grin on her face, showing that she had been luring me all along. I could barely move as I was trying to warm myself up again, the fur not helping as much as I had hoped it would. "I just got these
powers yesterday, so I'm not really that good with them, but I should be able to deal with you!" She boasted as she lifted her arms again and fired another blast of frost.This time, I was ready, and kicked in my super speed, watching as the world slowed to 1/3 its normal speed and dodged out of the way of the attack, racing towards her, I was behind my victim by the time her attack finished. As she turned in surprise, I clutched my paw over her face and squeezed it hard enough to get a good grip on her."Oh this is going to be more fun than I thought!" I said, flexing my arm muscles as the power began to surge through it, a compressed shock wave of energy radiated from my palm, sending her rolling across the street, giving a cute yelp of pain and clutching at her head from the blast. I smiled as I began to approach her again, but this time, she placed one hand on the pavement and the ground began to frost over.
At first, I thought it was just an attempt to slip me up, but when icicles began to shoot out of the ground, I realized the true attack. I took off to avoid getting stabbed from below, racing up the side of a building as she finally climbed to her feet."Neat trick!" I called down, "I'm new to this myself. So I could use a good practice match." I said, flexing my fingers as I felt power building into them. I saw my vision beginning to turn pink and was surprised, I didn't feel like I was activating hypnotism."These powers seem to awaken on their own!" The girl called up at me, "After I started using them enough, some tricks just came to me naturally. Like this one." She said, lifting her arms to the sides and I watched in surprise as she began to levitate into the air, rising up to the top of the building to meet me. Son of a bitch, she was a flyer, this would get very complicated if I didn't aim right!I did, however, realize what she was talking about. As my vision continued to glow, something began to awaken in my mind. A strange sensation as if asking me to trust in its power. A vision came to me of projecting something into her mind other than commands, and I realized what it was. As I smiled, I glared at her and attempted to use the power I had just discovered.
"Shackles!" I declared, lifting one arm to point at her and as the girl blinked in surprise, spectral chains appeared as if from nowhere and began to wrap around her, binding her arms to her back, and her legs pressed tightly together. I knew what the spell was, an illusion. I had convinced her that she was tied up, and her brain was reacting to it by paralyzing her muscles. The chains were not real, merely images conjured into her mind, yet she was squirming to get free, and her limbs unable to budge an inch."I have control over the minds of others." I said as I approached her triumphantly, "Your efforts have really worked up my excitement, I think I'll ask Circe if I can
keep you." I gloated, "You can call me Sovereign Lion." I introduced myself as I lifted the ice controlling victim into the air who was still unable to move, though her grunts and yelps for help were still a hassle."Now why don't we get you something to drink, slave?" I asked rhetorically and laughed as I began to carry her off towards Glen. I slumped her over my shoulder, one hand resting on her ass, and the other covering her mouth as I prepared to transform her.