SRC-01 Cold Hooves, Ch 08
#8 of SRC - Meteor
This is an ongoing story I've been writing that occurs in the World of Veil continuum that is not part of any of my given serials. It is about a teenage human boy who stumbles through a curtain of magic to discover another world co-existing just off kilter from our own where he occasionally transforms into a reindeer who in turn joins others in the Stunt Core Union, and proceeds toward learning all the circumstances revolving around the work those in the Core do. This is Chapter Eight. Enjoy.
This was started on January 1st 2015 by me (Darrel James Vanwinkle)
Tags: Human, Magic, Magical, Feral, Reindeer, Wolf, Transformation, Male
Stunt Reindeer Core (cast): Meteor from South Timber (a former human teenager named Kristofer Falkner) Codine from South Timber (a stunt reindeer with switched colors) Captain Jumper (stunt reindeer trainer/coach) Surger of Glacier Falls (a stunt reindeer with an odd looking rocket marking on his forehead) Rapid of Cascade River (a stunt reindeer with a two-tone coat which resembles a river) Gusto of Swansong Woods (a stunt reindeer with a hearty outlook on life) Danger of Cavern Heights (a stunt reindeer who seems as if he might jump if you said boo) Laugher of Humor Meadow (a stunt reindeer with a touchy funny bone) Grave of Soul Creek (a heart-fallen stunt reindeer with dark skull markings on both sides of his head)
KF-SRC-01 Cold Hooves By Darrel James Vanwinkle (Ratseye/Pouchlaw) May 13th, 2015
Chapter Eight
After an extensively interactive and fun educational magic session with Salena in which Kristofer learned more than just magic, he emerged from the back room in his clothed human form where he gently hugged Comet. "And this is what I look like in my human form of Kristofer Falkner." He then let Comet look and scent him all over as he smiled just before his form sparkled and he resumed his reindeer form of Meteor. "Salena said that my form holding ability would get stronger over time. This was about the current length of my being able to hold my human form here in Veil for now. Santa and Mrs. Claus have had years of experience over me since they have been here longer."
Comet smiled. "Thanks for letting me see you entirely and permitting me to memorize your human scent. Now I can find you any time you are in your human form. I better get you back to Stunt HQ before Thunder sends out a search party. By the way, what did you think of Salena?"
Meteor blushed as he walked with Comet through Christmas Town. "She is a good kisser."
"Only a good kisser? My nose detected more than that. I am a married buck, Meteor."
"She insisted that I try it, Comet. She had to teach me how to do it."
"I am sure it was a good lesson. And she was right, unless you are going to be like Donder, you needed to know how a buck does it. You now have more of a respected buck scent."
"I smell like a reindeer in rut again? That smell is going to be nearly impossible to deal with in my human form back on Earth. I may have to use Lysol or Glade next time."
"Are you serious, Meteor? You considered spraying yourself with Lysol and Glade?"
"My hair smelled like a sweaty body builder's arm pit of the cervine variety."
You are exaggerating now," laughed Comet as they walked through Christmas Town.
After dropping Meteor off at the Stunt Core HQ, Comet continued home where his own doe was awaiting him. Meteor went inside and met up with Thunder.
After one sniff, Commander Thunder said, "So, Meteor... who was the lucky doe?"
"That magic using reindeer called Salena over on the other side of Christmas Town."
Thunder turned pale for a moment. "Meteor... Salena has been dead for over fifty years. I don't know who you met up with, but if they are calling themselves Salena, then they are hiding their actual identity for some unknown reason. If you don't believe me, you can go ask Santa Claus. It is in his records."
Meteor looked disturbed by that information. "I may just do that, Thunder. By your leave?"
"Of course, go on and learn for yourself."
Meteor departed the Stunt core and made his way across Christmas Town and as he neared the edge of town where the nearby forest met the road, he said into the trees, "Fenris? I've come across a mystery and I might need your help with this one."
Fenris then poked his nose out of the timber line and he approached Meteor who was just standing there. "What mystery do you have for me, Meteor?"
"Take a good sniff of the doe scent on me and see if you can find out who she really is. She told me that her name was Salena. And she has Comet and Jumper believing that she is that Magic using Reindeer on the other side of Christmas Town. Commander Thunder told me that the old Salena died fifty years ago."
"She did. I saw the body." He then took a good sniff of Meteor's body and licked his hind legs at the same time. "Got it, And I think I know the doe. I'll be back soon." And off he loped disappearing into the trees as he was fond of doing.
"I asked him to sniff me for the doe scent. I wonder what the lick was for aside from making me feel tingly all over my legs?" He then started off for Santa's workshop at the top of the hill overlooking Christmas Town.
The locals in Veil seemed to do the strangest things. and it made Meteor wonder what was really going on in that strange looking-glass world.
End of Chapter Eight