Shade's Adolescent Problems
Shade shivered slightly with discomfort, now that he doesn't have his cloak on he feels exposed to everything. The elements, disease, prying eyes, and most of all the two little kids who will not stop staring at him. Earlier the wolfess struggled to get the cloak off him, the commotion almost caused the neighbors to come and see if someone was trying to break in. It worked however, she managed to wrestle the, surprisingly very heavy, cloak off of him.The Vixen seems very embarrassed when she saw Shade's bare skin, even if he was wearing a long sleeve shirt, at first. She managed to get that off him to, leaving him in his short sleeved black T-Shirt and his black leather gloves to cover him. He still has his black jeans and boots on, luckily, it would be very awkward if he did not. Shade sat there on one of the two beds in the kid's room, his pale arms and face now uncovered as they stare at him. His medium almost long black scruffy hair covered his ears and almost his eyes, which are a slate green. The fox boy and wolf girl sit on the opposite bed, staring at him, afraid to ask anything of him. The wolf girl is hugging a small plushy of a anthro wolf knight, while the boy simply leans his shoulder on hers.Finally the fox breaks the silence, "Why did you have a shirt on top of that shirt?"Shade sighed at the question and rubbed his arms slightly, "Because that shirt is to protect my arms from being seen if my cloak gets taken.""But, wouldn't your face be seen?""I have a hood on my other shirt..."The fox boy tilts his head at this, the idea of someone being that introverted creeping him out slightly, "That's a little extreme."Shade's eyebrow twitches at the reply, "So is chasing me around the house and pinning me against the wall as you try to strip me. That did not stop your mother did it?"The wolf girl blushes slightly at this and hugs her plushy tighter. Serva chuckles nervously at this and rubs the back of his head, "Yeah... Sorry about that."Shade smirks, clearly agitated by the wolfess' actions from earlier, "Oh its fine. I am certain that it will not happen again, since I am leaving as soon as the sun rises tomorrow."The fox blinks in surprise at this, suddenly realizing that he never asked where the stranger is heading, "Where would that be?"Shade tilted slightly to the right, acting like a cross legged statue as he keeps the exact same pose as he lays on the bed, still glaring at the kids, "Where is what?"Clara speaks up now, speaking shyly, "W-Where are you g-going?"Shade calms down at this, the question bringing his senses back to him like a slap in the face. He untenses his body and lays down normally, with his head propped on his fist as he stares at the two pups. No longer glaring at them, "I... I don't know."Both Clara and Serva blink in surprise, the fox speaking up again, "You mean to tell me you
don't know where your heading? How long have you been traveling?"Shade lays his head down on the pillow, his gaze now looking down at his gloved hand, "About... a year or two now? I am not sure anymore."The wolf girl flinches at this, "You do not know that either? Do you not have family who miss you by now?"Shade blinks slowly, trying to hold back his emotions as he remembers the last day he saw Lily. How peaceful it was back then, and her happy childish gaze at him, "Yes... I have a little sister, a older brother, and my half brother. That's why I am traveling, to go to our new home."The duo climb off their bed and walk over to him, stopping on the edge of the bed as they tilt their heads. Serva asks with concern in his voice, "You miss them don't you?..."Shade slowly nods and hugs himself tighter, "Lily is probably worried about me by now... I hope she is ok."Clara climbs onto the bed and whimpers slightly, sitting next to his hand as she holds her plushy tighter, "Is Lily your sister?"Shade nods again and sighs, deciding that he should not think about these things too much before bed. He then rolled so that his back is facing the two pups, curling up and hugging himself for warmth as he lays on the bed. After a few seconds he finally speaks, "Goodnight..."The two get the point and slide into the other bed, going under the covers and hugging each other for warmth.Shade tries his best not to think of home as he falls asleep, but it is unavoidable. Which causes his sleep to be a rigid ride of drowsiness and sadness. At every memory a tear threatened to escape his eye, only to be held back by a shivering Shade. Eventually he did manage to fall asleep...----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Shade's Dream;Little Sadhe walked down the isles of giant bookcases with his little sister. The twenty foot shelves make him and his sister seem even smaller than they normally are, being almost ten times shorter than them. Each one with several multicolored books of varying sizes and shapes, to most it would seem like a very cluttered mess. Not to mention the amount of bookcases there are in the library, Necranists libraries tend to have alot more fiction writing ironically than Vitanist libraries. This one being a small one, there are only thirty bookcases, but even for such a small amount any child will see them as frighteningly humongous. However LiLee loved it all, for she came here alot. LiLee in her tiny white dress that is a little too large for her, makes her trip whenever she tries to run. However she is not running today, because she knows how angry the rodent librarian gets when she does. Her very thick and soft fox tail wagging happily behind her as she follows her brother. While her tiny kit ears are
folded back with annoyance at his silly reaction over the library.Sadhe, slightly scared by the enormous bookcases and the sheer amount of them, wants to hurry up and get LiLee's books she wants to check out and leave. Wearing his normal adornment of a grey tunic and black pants with a black belt, in truth the tunic itself is black, however when paired with the belt and pants it always looked grey. His adult sized canines sticking out of his mouth as usual, making his speech come out slurred with what his sibling call a 'Shaded Accent'. It has become so bad of late that he has decided to simply talk like all Necranists do, with hand gestures and portraying emotions with their eyes. However this only works half the time because Vitanists still use speech and his brother still does not understand how it works.Finally they reach the section of books that deal in human magic, which to Sadhe's surprise is bigger than he expected. Lining a entire bookcase with its volumes, every shelf on it seemed to have it. With the bottom shelves being very small to store the easiest to read novels and gradually getting bigger to store the more advanced volumes. This is so the children have a much easier time getting their hands on texts, since children loved reading the enormous amounts of fiction that these libraries held. That does not mean that they only hold fiction however, in fact the ratio of fiction to nonfiction is normally around four fiction for every one nonfiction title. "Where is the ladder?..." LiLee asks her brother, who was getting lost in the several detailed spines of the books.Sadhe snaps out of his daydreaming and looks around. He has never seen a ladder in the library before, the thought never even crossed his mind until today. He looked around the corner of the shelf to see if there was one nearby. Seeing none he turned back to his little sister and shrugged.LiLee pouts at this and crosses her arms, "Then how am I supposed to reach my shelf?"Sadhe smiled and pointed at himself, suggesting that he could do it since he is much taller. 'LiLee can't be too smart, so I'm sure I can reach the shelf for her.' He thought to himself.LiLee simply shook her head and pointed at a shelf just above the middle one, which is just over the ten foot mark, "But my shelf is up there Sadhe..."Sadhe blinks dazedly at this, staring at where she pointed, "Up shere? Bus shas's so high up. You can's read shas well lissle sis."LiLee pouts again and thrashes her tail angrily, insulted, "What do you mean? Of course I can. Just because you and Lee are older than me does not mean that you two have to be better than me at everything. Besides, I am the only one who actually reads."Sadhe pokes her in the nose, making her blush and rub it, "Lee reads as well. You've seen him reading shose medical shings in his room. Nos so mension all she plans shings he reads."LiLee gives Sadhe a harmless glare,
"Those 'plant things' as you call it are called Botany Texts, and that is all he reads. I like to read alot more than one subject."LiLee smiles proudly at this, doing a little pose by lifting her chin up and placing her hands on her hips in triumph. Her fluffy tail wagging slowly behind her, "Yeah bus he also goes ousside more ofsen shen we do..."LiLee rolls her eyes and pokes him in the nose now, making him blink and flinch, "Well unlike us he is a Vitanist, and like all Vitanists he likes going outside more."Sadhe tilts his head and sits down cross legged, "I shoughs is was because he was a plans, nos because he is a Visaniss."LiLee rolls her eyes again and tries her weight on one of the bottom shelves to see if she can climb, "Oh please, Lee is not a plant. That is just a rumor."Sadhe opens his mouth in pure awe at this statement, "Are you blind? He has leafs growing ous of his sail. Nos so mension how his sail can even surn inso a weird wooden vine shing."LiLee whimpers slightly and steps back as the shelf creaks from her weight, proving that she is definitely not allowed to climb, "Those leafs are there only because he climbs trees so much. As for the vine tail, I do not even know how that rumor got started."Sadhe blinks again at the ridiculous amount of denial she is in, "Are you serious? He uses his sail so grab shings as she dinner sable all she sime! Nos so mension how he bleeds shas weird green ssuff plans bleed wish."LiLee sighs and looks back at him, "First of all does it really matter if he is a plant? He is still our brother. Also that 'green shuff plansh bleed' is called chlorophil, do you ever listen to him?"Sadhe closes his mouth and rolls his eyes, "Of course I do, bus shas doesn's mean I underssand him half she sime.""Look can you just help me here? I want to continue my series, and I will not be able to if I can not reach that shelf." LiLee points back up to the shelf with both her finger and her tail.Sadhe is about to respond to this when they hear something strange behind them, and a weak voice whisper to them, "Shhh... No yelling in the library please."LiLee blushes and hugs her tail in timidness, never being very social with strangers. Sadhe however turns around to look at the stranger, curious and unafraid.It is a young boy about Sadhe's age. He is wearing long loose fitting clothes, and even has a hood on. Which even for Necranists, who it is not considered rude to wear a hood indoors, is strange. They can not get a good look at his face behind it, and he is holding a small book. He was apparently reading before they interrupted him.LiLee hides behind her thick furred tail and responds shyly, "S-Sorry..."Sadhe stands up, they were in fact nearly the same height, the other boy being a inch taller than him. Sadhe smiles kindly and rubs the back of his head, "Sorry. My sisser wansed so ges a book from one of she shelves
up shere, bus we can's find a ladder."The cloaked boy tilts his head slightly, "Why do you talk weird?..."Sadhe flinches at the bluntness of the question, glaring slightly in annoyance. His voice a little louder than he hoped, "Well why do you wear so much closhes?!"The stranger flinched as well, looking down in shame, "Because... I'm tired of being looked at funny..."Sadhe blinks at the strange response and tilts his head, "Why would you be looked as funny?"The cloaked boy looks around to make sure no one is nearby before he responds, "Do you promise not to make fun of me?"Sadhe nods, LiLee now timidly hiding behind her brother as she continues to hug her tail for comfort. Sadhe responds for them both, "We promise."The strange boy waits a little bit, gathering up the confidence he needs to do it. Then at last he pulls his hood back, revealing what he hides from everyone. Sadhe and LiLee blink at first, wondering what exactly it is. The boy seems to have something crawling under his skin, something that looks rather large and painful. The more they look at it the clearer the shapes come out. The boy has chains under his skin, literal metal chains. The long links of them seem to be moving periodically, almost as if they are being pulled by a timer. The boy seems completely normal other than that, having pale skin and pure black hair, just like every Necranist.The boy blushes lightly at the staring, pointing to one of the chains at his cheek, "These are my chains... They are like the veins under your skin expect they are well... bigger."Sadhe blinks and leans closer, LiLee staying behind him, "Does is hurss?"The chain boy shakes his head, making that weird sound be heard again, "Do your veins hurt?..."Sadhe blushes slightly at the strange yet helpful question, "Whas is shas sound you keep making?"The boy blinks in confusion and tilts his head, only to make the sound be hear again, "What sound?..."LiLee speaks up now, her voice soft "That clinking sound, the one that happens whenever you move."The boy looks down at his pale hands confused. He then moves his arm slightly, trying to hear for the noise. Soon he hear the noise however, it being a part of him he never really notices it anymore, "Oh. That is my veins moving around."He demonstrates this by waving his free hand from side to side. Making the clinking sound of chains be heard clearly.Sadhe is about to ask something, however his sister beats him to it, "What is your name?..."The boy blushes slightly at this, looking down shyly, "My name is..."----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hannah and Sydney Household"Vinen..."Shade's eyes open as he says this, his mind fogged with sleep and nostalgia.
Looking around at the small bedroom he starts to remember where he is and who he is. The small bed he was laying on is now only supporting his left leg, apparently during the night he fell off the bed, due to the rest of his body being on the cold carpeted floor.'It was just a dream... no. It was a memory. I remember now... That was the first day I met Vinen, and that was the first day I learned just how much of a bookworm Lily is...'Shade slowly sits up, his mind so fogged with sleep it hurts to change its position. Looking to his left he sees a small mirror on a nightstand. Staring at his reflection, a young adult with pale skin, black raggedy hair, and vivid green irises with bright rose red pupils. This only reminded him to cloak his eyes, which he soon does, his eyes slowly fading their color until the are a normal slate green iris and black pupils.He does not bother with the rest of him, his cloak is made to hid the rest. At the remembrance of his cloak he jolts up to his feet. Glancing around the room for it, but all he sees are the two children sleeping and nothing belonging to him. Wondering the time he looking at the window beside the kids, the small amount of light verifying that it is dawn.Shade quickly yet silently walks to the door. Opening and closing it without causing too much noise. Now in the hallway of the house he rubs his head to try and remember what happened to his hood. This only caused him to grimace when he remembers that his clothes were stolen by force from him. However he is not sure what happened to them afterwards. Surely the wild, evil, and cruel wolfess has brought his clothes into her room, in case he chose to leave without saying goodbye.'Yeah... That sounds like something that evil b*tch would do... Maybe that was a little harsh, she did after all help me... Wait, she is a female canine, and female canines are called bitches... Now I'm confused... is it mean or is it simply stating fact?... Oh what am I doing?! I need to focus.'Shade shakes his head to clear his thoughts, tip toeing his way to the adult's room. Upon reaching the wooden door he knocked on it twice to see if they are awake.No reply...He decides that perhaps they are still asleep as well. However his need for his clothes are much greater than most common courtesy. So he gently opened the door, only to freeze at the sight inside.On the large queen sized bed is Hanna and Sydney, asleep. However they are almost completely nude. The only piece of clothing that is on them to cover their modesties is the wolf's black panties and the fox's red pair. They are both cuddling each other in their sleep, their tails wrapped around each other as their noses touch in what looks like after love embrace. Hannah, who is the closest to Shade, has a pair of large bubbly cheeks resting on her hips. The fox's endowments are hidden from view, the only thing other than the wolf hips that are visible are the
two's squished together cleavage.Shade's eyes go wide and he slowly closes the door, his body shaking with awkward shyness. His mind racing to try and forget everything he just saw as he stumbles down the hall. His face blushing a bright red as his eyes stay motionless, he flops onto the living room couch, which is surprisingly comfortable.Deciding that his clothes can wait for him, he lays on the couch to wait for everyone to wake up. It is the best option it seems for him, since his mind is too scrambled now with virgin shyness.'Panties... Tails... Hips... Lesbians?... Perv... Private.... I think I'm going to have a heart attack...'