Zefenoria: Introduction

[Deathscyth Hell]

This is a teaser to my up-and-coming werewolf story "Zefenoria" which I am currently re-wrighting. I'm getting closer to the half way mark, and so I decided to post the introduction to wet your apetite and see how you like it. I will be posting the full story on here. Eventualy lol.
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It is the year 3011. Earth has long since been uninhabitable because of all the pollution humans have created there over the centuries and mass radiation leaking from outer space that slowly destroyed the earth in what is now documented as the “Electric Funeral”. Our story begins on a distant planet, in the Pegasus constellation, discovered around the middle of the last millennium. This planet is twice as big as earth, but with a much slower rotation so the gravity isn’t much different. The physical environment of this planet is similar to earth, only on a much larger scale. Most of the planet is either covered in large landmasses with grassland and forest, with no ice caps at the poles and very few actual desserts. This planet is known as Zefenoria. And with the move to other planets, mankind brought along its ancient creatures of Legend which mankind once believed to be only myth. On this planet, the most abundant of which are Were-creatures and Demons.
Were-creatures have now been accepted into society because most of them have found a way of controlling there forms. In the Northeastern hemisphere, Werewolves are most abundant, because there is always a full moon in the sky. This is only possible because of the angle of 4 moons that circle Zefenoria constantly reflect the light directly off one another, so at this point on the planet the moon always appears full. Whole families of Werewolves live there, the children of which must be taught to control their wolf forms from an early age. In most legends about werewolves, the site of a full moon would cause the sudden and uncontrollable transformation. While this would be true for the most inexperienced werewolves, once they have been taught how to control their transformation as a child, the moon merely gives a spiritual and moral boost allowing them to fight better. This is most true in a town in the centre of the hemisphere known as “Lycanthrocove”. One problem that plagues Lycanthrocove is demons. Some of the adult Werewolves in this town have to regularly battle demons because it is strait above a rift leading to hell. One of the key portals in this lift lies in the dense Formorain forest. If this portal were left unchecked, then it would put the entire civilisation at great risk. The main families that battle this threat in Lycanthrocove make a top priority out of keeping this portal secret, because if it wasn’t, it could cause mass panic and as a result, lead to a mass rush of demons ready to take advantage of the hysteria. Children are advised to stay out of the forest ware the portal lies for their own safety, but you and I both know not all kids listen to the voice of reason.
Out of the key were-families that lived in this town, two siblings who had already mastered their powers as werewolves regularly sneak out and provide a key action to the defence of the town. The reason for this being, the adults are quite over protective of their children in order to ensure their survival in these dangerous times. These two siblings have developed have developed a mysterious sixth sense that allows them to sense the activity of the portal and exact whereabouts that the demons will appear. Despite this ability being a huge help to the towns’ survival, the siblings had to keep this power and absolute secret because if the adults found out, they would never be able to use their powers to help the town again. Considering how over-protective the adults are, they would never believe that they have fully mastered their powers and would be a great help.
Now you may think you know everything that you need to know about werewolves. But the werewolves, and in fact, all were creatures of Zefenoria have their own unique abilities that are as different in the exact way they work as your fingerprints. The two siblings are no exception. Kestrel, the elder sibling at fifteen years of age, sports huge eagle-like wings from her back, which she uses to climb to great altitudes, swooping down or dive-bombing onto her opponent. Pyro, the younger sibling at thirteen years old, on the other hand, has a very different style of combat. In his wolf form, he grows huge claws of bone sharper than the edge of a freshly welded katana. But this is not his only trait. He also lives up to his name by being able to manipulate fire around his claws and hands, using them like white-hot gloves, burning through flesh and muscle.
The town of Lycanthrocove it’s self at first glance looks Farley primitive. Long wooden houses slink around the edge of the forest, with small interconnecting back allies every now and again. The streets are wide with enough space to accommodate a road in the centre, two tramlines either side with a pedestrian area on the far sides.
Looking closer at the town, the true technological and engineering achievements begin to show. The buildings are re-enforced at key points with deuterium so they can withstand the sometimes-prolonged harsh weather that the planet can whip up. The streets are laid out with barlum; a soft yet strong material that is cheap to produce occurs naturally and can provide needed grip for the vehicles that travel across it. The rails for the tramway are also made of deuterium while the sleepers that are embedded in the road are made from the durable wood that is found on this planet. The vehicles and locomotives themselves that pull the trains have changed in physical appearance very little from the ones we know today. However, the key difference is that carbo-electric engines power them all. The carbo-electric engines converts the secreted substance that are naturally found in trees all across the planet into fuel that produces a huge electric current that, depending on the quantity, can efficiently power any vehicle in almost any method necessary.
The reason for this mix and match technology is that when this world was fully colonised, the government passed a law stating that to preserve this planet as long as possible, all new towns must use the most amount of sustainable natural resources possible without compromising safety. There couldn’t have been an easier planet to put forward this act on. For humans and weres alike, this planet is full of planet natural resources that can be produced sustainable and also suit the needs of the daily functions of almost everything needed to lead a normal way of life. So because of all this, brining global harm is no longer a problem.

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Note: I apologise that it is not double spaced. It would be alot to double space if I did, so just stick with it for now .

[Deathscyth Hell]

Note: I've decided to update with just less than half of the story so far! There will be more to come in time, but for now enjoy this lot!
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Part one; Tchi’s beast awakens.

1

It is a cool Saturday evening in Lycanthrocove, and at the edge of the Formorian forest there is a regular sized detached house, with six rooms above six rooms below. The main hallway on the bottom floor leads to for of the six rooms with a straight staircase that leads up and makes two ninety degree turns to lead up to the top floor where four of the six rooms are positioned about 4 feet apart from each other with the other two rooms being at each end of the hallway. Outside the first room along, fifteen-year-old Kestrel waited outside for her brother. Like most weres, in their human form they weren’t a lot different to regular humans. Kestrel was a fairly slim build with a head height of five foot eight inches. Even without her wolf strength, she was no pushover. She had been studying Tai style boxing for over eight years and showed exceptional talent. Kestrel had deep blue eyes, relatively small nose and long brunet hair that stretched down just past her shoulders. She wore slightly baggy green jeans, a grey tank top over a dark green jacket that was a slightly darker shade than her jeans as well as green sandals that were the same colour as her jacket.
Kestrel taped her foot impatiently with her arms folded and called out into the room towards her thirteen-year-old brother, Pyro. “Hurry up Pyro! We haven’t got time to waist here!”
Pyro called back “Yeah, yeah, I know! I’m nearly ready anyway. Just be a bit more patient.”
“Why on earth do you spend so much time getting ready when we are going into the forest anyway? You know we don’t ware cloths when we are in our wolf form!”
“Don’t forget Kestrel, we have to look normal when we are heading out to the woods so that we don’t cause suspicion. If we rushed to get ready, people would wonder what we are doing and so increase the risk of us getting caught. We don’t want that now do we?” Pyro opened the door to his room and promptly stepped out facing Kestrel. He was about ten inches shorter than his sister, at about four foot five inches. He had a slightly heavier build than Kestrel and had passionately trained with his sister in Tai style boxing along side her at an early age. He also had a similar dress style to his sister, but blending in his unique tastes. He wore baggy, black jeans held up by a red belt with a steel buckle, a dark t-shirt with white kanji down either side translating into ‘Born to live, live to Die’. Over his t-shirt he wore a long sleeved black jacket with flame emblems on the end as well as black Velcro trainers. His hair was strikingly different to Kestrels in that it was not only much shorter, but also that Pyro had dyed it dark red with black tips as well as gelling his hair back into short, messy backwards facing spikes.
Kestrel poked fun at Pyro by sarcastically commenting “Dressed to impress again are we brother?” giving a slight grin on her face.
Pyro joked back in saying, “As always aren’t I? Plus I’m very impressive anyway!” They both chuckled for a moment, but just as they were about to head down the stairs they heard a small voice coming from behind them.
“Sneaking out again are we Onii-Chan*, Onee-San*?” The voice was that of the youngest member of the family and the third sibling, Tchi. He was a four foot eight inch seven-year-old boy who while had the same build type as his older siblings, was very different in his dress style and physical ability. He wore light tan grey shorts, a plain white t-shirt with a light green hooded long-sleeve sweatshirt over it as well as grey-laced trainers with green streaks across the side. He had natural jet-black hair that was longer than Pyro’s, yet cut short just below his ears. He had a considerably more rounded face than his brother and sister, and also wore moderately large glasses resting on the bridge of his nose. While he wasn’t nearly as strong as his older siblings, he did prove to exceed in his intelligence and thinking power. More so than would normally be expected at his age.
(*Note: ‘Onii-Chan’ means big brother and ‘Onee-San’, similarly, means big sister. These are normally phrases used in Japanese only, but in this case are used to show Tchi’s childish nature.)
“You know that kids aren’t supposed to head into the woods, why do you always have to disobey our parents and head out there yourselves? I don’t doubt your powers, but it’s for your own safety!”
Kestrel smiled and walked over to Tchi. She put her hand on his shoulder and kissed him gently on the forehead, which made Tchi blush slightly. “Don’t worry buddy, I know you’re concerned about our safety and that’s sweet of you. But we’ve done this many times before, so we’ll be fine. Now why don’t you go back to reading your book about crystals and gems?”
Tchi drooped his head slightly “If your so sure that you’ll be safe, why can’t you bring me along Onee-San?”
“It’s because you haven’t fully developed your wolf form yet.” Pyro called out “You should know that already Tchi!”
“I know, but I can still be of some help at least…” Tchi sniffed and tears began to roll down his cheeks. Kestrel wrapped her arms around him and hugged him tightly for a moment.
“Cheer up buddy, we just don’t want you to get hurt, that’s all. I promise when you fully develop your werewolf powers, we will train you and let us come with you. But for now, you just relax here and read your books. We won’t be long.”
Reluctantly, Tchi nods in agreement. Kestrel then gave him another quick kiss on the forehead and said her goodbyes before heading down the stairs. Just before she reached the door she called out once again to Tchi “If our parents come back before we do, tell them we went to our friends house and we’ll be back soon!”
“Alright, see you later!” Tchi called back.
“Bye little brother! I love ya!” With that passing sentence, Kestrel closed the door behind her and Tchi walked back into his room then sat down at his desk reading his book on crystals and gems, with the ever present look of disappointment on his face.

2

Tchi’s room was fairly small, only about twelve feet by ten. His wooden bed with midnight blue coloured thick blanket and soft fluffy pillow took up a considerable amount of the room. The carpet, wallpaper and curtains all match the colour of his bed covers and seemed to reflect Tchi’s current quiet and secretive personality. At the foot of his bed, he had a tall dark polished wooden cabinet and a chest of draws that were of the same quality wood, but also nearly as tall as his bed and roughly a quarter of the length.
The main light on the centre of the ceiling was switched off. It’s dull brown flower head shaped shade lay dormant and dark. Only the small blue reading lamp with the regular crumpled cone shaped shade was turned on, and lay sat stationery below a plastic clock which seemed to endlessly tick away on it’s white face and wood brown casing. Tchi sat with his head down at the flat pack wooden desk set, hunched over his book on rare crystals and gems, which he had an absolute fascination with. Either side of the book, sat two huge pearls, both of which he had to use both hands to pick up. He discovered these pearls roughly three years ago on his visit to the huge west coast of this continent, along a small stretch of beach surrounded by high mountain cliffs and since then have been his most precious possession.
Hunched over his book, Tchi let out a long sigh and started thinking to himself “I wish I could transform into my wolf form. Those guys do it so easily, how hard can it be? Then I’d be able to join them on their demon hunts and be with them more. I shouldn’t always be left behind like this…”
Despite his disappointment, Tchi generally accepted his siblings concern for him and continued to read. He was just starting to read the chapter on pearls, when he suddenly started to feel quite stuffy. This was quite unusual as the nights had been fairly cool recently. Never the less, he got up, leaned over his bed and released the catch to open his window. As the cool night air began to flood in, Tchi looked up to gaze at the starry night sky, thinking that he could pass the time by trying to find the constellation which he had been taught earth was once in. As he searched the heavens for the specific constellation, he caught a glimpse of the full bright white shining moon. It began to remind him of his brother and sister again, and so as he had done in the past he decided it was best to look away. But this time was different. He seemed to feel almost entranced by the moons hard and constant gaze. His heartbeat began to pick up pace as it started to thump against his chest like a hammer driving a nail into a large plank of wood.
A few moments after he hat started to stare at the moon, Tchi suddenly was knocked off balance and fell with a hard thump onto the floor, grasping his stomach with a huge crushing jest pain. He screamed in agony as the pain began to shoot towards his limbs, pulling them outwards likes something was trying to pull his body apart with a huge amount of force. He rolled over onto his stomach and continued to cry out in pain as his hands cracked outwards and extended, with his fingers and thumbs compacting themselves back into his hand while the fingernails thickened and rounded into serrated claws.
His shoulder bones shot up with his arms and joints snapping and twisting in their sockets into the four-limbed position. As his spine elongated and his body grew, his cloths began to tare apart at the seems and his jet black hair began to grow and tighten around his body, clinging and choking him all over while he tried to shriek out for help. He began to jolt from side to side, snapping his limbs back into their sockets as they continued to extend, fracture and grow outwards.
Despite his agony, Tchi for a brief moment managed to call out “Onee-San, Onii-Chan, help me!” After this, Tchi was herald onto his back by the force of his ribs cracking open then splitting themselves apart while his spine shot out of the his back before being grasped with a thick layer of muscle and fur. Tchi reared up onto his legs and let out a final huge cry, as his skull compressed down and forced it’s self out into the long wolf-like head. Finally, as his jaws locked into place with their new form and his ears shot up, he let out a huge howl before swiping his huge claws at the reading lamp, shattering it on impact.
While his physical transformation into his wolf form was completed, there seemed to be something missing. He turned and looked at his pearls, which suddenly shone with a bright emerald glow and began to rise up and float behind his shoulders. Growling fiercely, Tchi rushed over his bed jumping out of the window that led to an almost pitch-black back alley, crushing his glasses in the process. Tchi had his wish granted of being able to finally transform into his wolf state, but it seemed that the harsh reality of the situation had come back and bit him on the nose. All that Tchi now was a raging uncontrollable beast.

3

Deep in the Formorian forest, beneath the dark twisting trees intertwining so tightly that they appeared to be hugging each other, Kestrel a Pyro waited silently for their pray in a brief clearing that was no bigger than a boxing ring. In their wolf form, they stood straight upright on their muscular hind legs with flat, elongated feet. Their body was bulky and noticeably wider than their hips, carrying beefy arms that ended in curved menacing fingers with razor sharp claws sprouting out of the end. While their bodies and appearance at first glance may look a lot like a regular wolf, there were some noticeable differences, apart from their unique powers. Their body build remained similar in overall proportions to their human form, plus the extra thick layer of fur behind their head resembled something similar to their hairstyle that they have in human form. Kestrel’s was long and flat, stretching down just below her shoulders and Pyro’s was slightly spiked up in the back with red hints in streaks across various parts of his hair.
They waited patiently in front of where the portal was hidden, ready to strike at any moment at what might appear from the unforgiving trees ahead of them. Pyro wriggled his fingers and twitched his long claws in anticipation; summoning the fire that surrounded them at all times in his wolf form. The flames lay still in a small dim glow, mere centimetres from the tip of his claws. Kestrel began to flap the elegant white-feathered wings, warming them up for a quick dash towards the canopy in time to launch a deadly high-speed dive into the hellish creature that was soon to appear.
Not a moment later, their ears twitched and they swerved to the right just in time to spot the two nightmarish demons racing towards them out of the nearly pitch black undergrowth. The first creature was roughly 5 feet tall, had sturdy human legs and a bulky body covered in red cracked scales. A huge black horn poked out between the shoulders, with two giant tusks sprouting out either side. The arms were long and tick, ending in not a pair of hands or claws, but two menacing dragon heads with pincer like tusks curving towards each other out from the top jaw, and two backwards facing goat horns piercing out from the top of the skull. The creature’s final bizarre feature was a pair of huge bat-like wings attached to the centre of the back, with huge red wingspan that stretches at least double the length of the creature’s body.
The second demon was just as strange in appearance as the first one. It had a long thick blue serpent like body, which ended in a flat lump of bone that appeared to be some sort of club. It’s for and hind legs were thick and scaly like it’s body, but with very different forms of feet. The hind legs were flat and rounded much like that of an Elephant or Rhino, apart front small claws that encircled it’s base digging into the ground for extra grip. Its front legs had rounded paw like feet, but with a long dart like spike poking out just above the toes, which appeared to be dripping in poison. Its head, strangely enough, was that of a hippopotamus but with a key difference. It had long sabre teeth the folded out when the creature let out a ghastly roar from it’s over sized mouth. On the back of it’s head were to long and pointed metallic looking ears that seemed to be bolted on to the side of the creatures head in a strange lab experiment.
The two demons let out a foul sounding shriek that would damage most regular peoples ears. But Kestrel and Pyro knew exactly what to do. Pyro sent a raging flame across his sharp bone claws, then just as the twin headed demon got within striking distance, Pyro spun his body around then launched his claws sweeping straight through the demon, snapping out his arms in a wide cross movement, severing the demons body and arms and sending them crashing to the ground in a blazing inferno across every inch of it’s now sliced body.
Kestrel had a very different attack pattern. As the long twisting demon charged towards he, she bent her knees and leaped up into the sky, furiously flapping her wings to gain altitude. Confused, the demon tried to change it’s target to Pyro, but before it could even begin to step in his direction, Kestrel came swooping down in an ultra-high speed dive, crushing the demon below her wide open hands as she crashed down into it snapping it’s spine in an instant.
The battle was over, or so they thought. They both panted in exhaustion catching their breath after a battle that lasted no more than thirty seconds. Just as they prepared to change back into their human form, their ears twitched once again.
“What’s this, another demon?” Gasped Pyro in surprise towards his sister “I didn’t think that they were smart enough to set an ambush!”
“No, it’s not more demons” Replied Kestrel also with a surprised tone. “I can’t tell who or what it is, but it seems to familiar.”
After about a minute of pondering who or what this could be, they heard a rustle in the bushes behind them. Just as their ears picked up a deep snarling coming from that area, a large werewolf roughly the same size as them leaped out at a great speed with it’s claws drawn out like short but sharp stake knives. Kestrel and Pyro just managed to dodge the lightning fast attacks, but this didn’t stop the wild beast. It thrashed about uncontrollably, growling and roaring as it rampaged at the siblings constantly slashing with its claws and attempting to bite at them.
On his third dodge, Pyro noticed something about this beast that shook him to the core. “Look!” he called out to Kestrel. “This werewolf’s hair, it’s the same as Tchi’s!”
“Are you serious?” called back Kestrel in utter shock. “It can’t be Tchi, he hasn’t reached his first transformation stages yet, let alone a full werewolf!”
“I’m as surprised as you are, but look at the trimmed fringe haircut. It must be him!”
Pyro’s suspicions were confirmed when the feral werewolf howled up at the moon, two very large emerald glowing pearls floated up and levitated next to his shoulders. As Tchi opened his palm and pointed it out towards his siblings, almost as if on command the pearls glowed in their direction and shot out a huge bolt of lighting.
Kestrel and Pyro just managed to dodge it by spotting this beam of light before the lighting bolt struck. As they continued to dodge the lightning and ravenous physical attacks, Pyro called out to his sister “No Mistake, this has to be Tchi! He must have started his full transformation prematurely, we have to stop this now before he hurts himself!”
“We can’t do that Pyro!” Kestrel exclaimed back “He’s still just a kid, and he’s also our little brother. We can’t just attack him before he has full control! I couldn’t bare it if we hurt him…”
While kestrel ducked her head in shame at the thought of hurting Tchi, Pyro dived at her pushing her out of the way of an oncoming lightning bolt, which just grazed his ankle.
“Keep it together Kestrel! His wolf-form is still feral, we need to knock him out before he hurts anyone ells and himself.”
“But how can we do this without hurting him? He may never be able to transform again if we stop him suddenly”.
“That’s why we have to quickly render him unconscious. That way he’ll barley feel anything and be able to recover in no time. It may hurt him a little, but it’s a risk we’ve got to take.”
As Kestrel watched on as Tchi growled and snarled while he charged up his next lightning bolt, she realised that there was no other way of stopping him. “Alright” she said sharply to Pyro “If I launch you down from a medium altitude, will that be enough to render him out cold without seriously hurting him?”
“Yes, that should be fine, if we get him side on, the front of his body will take most of the impact”.
Kestrel nodded, and as Tchi fired yet another lightning bolt, Kestrel grabbed Pyro, then climbed right above Tchi before plunging down, tears streaming out of her eyes towards him.
“Gods damn it, we’re at to shallow an angle! No choice, we have to continue, there’s no turning back now!”
Right before impact, Tchi suddenly roared and tipped over sideways, giving just enough space for Pyro to slam into his side knocking him at least 30 feet forwards before finally coming to rest outside the clearing. When Kestrel and Pyro landed, panting from exhaustion they walked over to Tchi. His body lay there still, but breathing. Half curled into a ball, his limbs and bones slowly shrank until he finally regained his human form, laying naked and fast asleep on the ground.
A few seconds after, Kestrel and Pyro collapsed to their knees, with Pyro hunched over with his arms holding up his body and Kestrel flopping into her back, before they both slowly morphed back into their human form as well.
After a few moments to catch their breath, Pyro stood up and calmly spoke to Kestrel “I’ll go get our cloths. We’ll put Tchi to bed when we get back then decide what to do next.”
Kestrel nodded, then walked over to Tchi, who was sleeping like a baby with not a hint of a snore. When Pyro returned, Kestrel picked up her jacket and carefully wrapped it around Tchi’s body. After she got dressed again, she picked up Tchi and held him against he left shoulder with her arm.
As they began to walk back, Pyro spotted something odd on the left side of Tchi’s body. He had struck him from the right, so he didn’t spot this before. It was a small, sedative tipped dart that looked like how a professional assassin would use it. But this had clearly not killed Tchi and only had sedatives, plus he was very popular within the town and had no enemies, so it didn’t make sense how he would be targeted.
“Hey sis, do you know how this got here?” enquired Pyro.
“I haven’t a clue, no demon has ever used this kind of weapon”.
Pyro shrugged, and as they began to exit the woods, he caught something out of the corner of his eye. It looked like someone in a ninja costume, but with considerably long ears. But by the time he had turned round it was gone.
“Are you alright Pyro? What’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing. Let’s get going, Tchi needs his rest. He’s had a long day and I think he deserves a rest.”
“Your right. Pretty soon he may be able to join us.”
“Yeah, he might very well do” Pyro nodded “He might very well do”. He smiled at his younger brother as they slipped into the back alley towards home. Still, he couldn’t shake the feeling that someone was watching them earlier….

To Be Continued......