Jonn Wolfe
(Verified Sarcastic) (Not a Wolf)
- Location
- Beyond Sanity Since 1971
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Ouch.
Whyfor it hurt so much? Pain Sucks. 😿
Ouch.
Whyfor it hurt so much? Pain Sucks. 😿
Broken Adventure
- Thread starter theaceoffire
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- Crossover
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- Location
- France
Well, from what I see he is basically trying to "learn" planeswalking without a spark, so I am not surprised that things are painful...
Well, Off We Go!
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Interesting side effect from refining your own soul: You become more... stable.
Adam could feel the influence from this reality fade significantly after his several sessions. The biggest one was a lowering of raw sensual lust. Not gone, but it wasn't a constant urge in the back of the mind.
Also, even as a wolf he was rapidly remembering how awesome meat was. Something about his old (plant) soul encouraged vegetarian life style. That wasn't gone either, he would always love salad more than any man likely should. Just... not willing to never eat anything but grass and trees.
After a few days of recovery and some charges saved up for the journey, he took stock of his situation.
One technological soul (Worm Realm), with 'Recovery', 'Fire Manipulation', 'Research', 'Technomancy', 'Conversion', 'Transfer'. Though 'Recovery' should be considered something similar to 'Nanoscopic Manipulation' or something.
One magical soul (My Little Pony Realm), with 'Growth', 'Harmony', and 'Consume'.
Squishy now stored her current power charges in the tech soul fishbowl, and they lay like sea shells on the grains of power sand. No real limit now to storage, but it DID make his entire existence revolve around technology first and foremost. Not the worst outcome really.
He only gained one charge per 24 standard earth hour time span. Regardless of what planet or reality he was currently living in. But at least he didn't HAVE to 'use or lose' them now.
Still, he had waited over a week and now had 10 charges saved up. None of this 'slow crawl into madness due to an uncontrolled soul' issue he ran into coming here.
Also he had stayed at the Apple Clan's farm for a few of those days, building up reserves of biological slurry to store in his soul. Ate some metal and gems with 'Consume' to store those materials there too, which showed up as neat rocks in his fishbowl.
So... 'Recovery' was fully supplied.
Finally, magic. His Tree soul now breathed through that hideous mouth, passively converting energy of any type that tried to escape his body or soul into magic, storing it for future 'Growth' use.
Narwhal had tried to convince him to name the thing... but it was a magical soul. That would do... who knew what to it. Names had power. Call it 'Betty' or something could make it mutate into any bizarre thing. So it was firmly named 'Tree', like a boring person would do. Her complaints were very much ignored.
Moving on, the magic was constantly absorbed or converted, then compressed into small pebbles that slowly covered the roots of the Tree thing. So... magic reserves were built up to respectable levels.
Honestly, that part he cheated with by having Mai's wolf/house/tree thing pass the excess power she purified. Otherwise building up this level of reserve would have taken ages.
Nightmare Moon and a surprisingly shy mental Twilight said the raw information about existing magic had already been gathered, though external Twilight had insisted on all kinds of random books and scrolls being added all the way up till a few hours ago. And the two mental versions were more than a bit hush-hush about HOW they gathered so much information so quickly.
And Luna was... very insistent that he not visit Celestia. Something that made Nightmare Moon snicker about for far too long. Point is, Princess Luna DID bring some copies of the related Time magics for him to review. Which... well, he was touched at the trust shown. To ensure no future issues, he burned the copies after memorizing the contents. No reason to risk others getting these spells.
Didn't help with his actual product though. It relied too much on a world with existing magic, and couldn't make anchor points to times where magic use was restricted or non-existent... so would only work in places that had a long history of magic use.
He took another breath. Calm.
Narwhal, Dragon, Nightmare Moon, and Twilight had been 'secured' by Squishy deep inside his simulation. Mai had decided after much thought to just... stay here. Her bond with the three little fillies was honestly stronger than her connection to Adam anyway, and the idea of living as his personal AI hadn't been as appealing as joining the 'Cutie Mark Crusaders'.
It surprised him that he felt a bit hurt at her leaving. They hadn't spent a ton of time together, and he had a tendency to do things alone, but he HAD been there from the start of her existence. Still, he just made sure that the girl's Celestial Garden and giant body were both working as best as could be and wished her well.
With his mental companions secured, he focused.
Squishy poked him the options.
Acceptable penalties to lower the cost of 'Transfer' while still getting to a USEFUL Realm. First, the usual suspects: No safe travel. Arrive at an 'interesting' time. No language package. No reality insertion.
He could only risk those with others because his preemptive refinement should keep the flames of the Abyss from consuming his soul to the same degree as before.
Hmm. The costs were much lower than before. Almost a dozen times or more cheaper really.
Squishy pointed out that not only was his soul stronger now, but that there were two separate parts that could support each other. This not only reduced the pressure of the travel but the increased durability reduced how much energy was needed to protect his existence during transit. So... he had a surplus.
Then... what positive options did that leave available?
A quick list had quite a few nice choices that didn't even get mentioned the first time. Thanks to 'Harmony' he could ignore most social options, those would be picked up easily enough. 'Growth' and 'Recovery' would allow any body modifications required. Hmm.
In the end, he selected 'Avoid Realms with Overwhelming Power' and 'Discrete Entry'. If he popped into Dragon Ball Z or Naruto or whatever during a big boss fight, he could get vaporized a few times without even noticing. Not all gods were as laid back or friendly as Princess Luna or Celestia.
That brought the cost right back up, even a bit more than the initial jump... but still affordable.
Selection criteria? He wanted Time Manipulation Abilities, sure, but he didn't need the full power set. While it would be NICE to twist reality forward and backward or whatever, he knew the issues with temporal modification.
Slow down time, even to near standstill, in a local area? Sure. Speed it up locally? No issue! But affecting all of your current reality? Or going to your own past?
The costs of gaining those level of power would take far more time and danger than Adam was willing to put up with right now.
So he was willing to settle for time travel when transiting between Realms only. More versatility or power could be picked up later, but that was the core of his actual need.
Instantly, the ballooning cost of the transfer dropped back to reasonable levels again. Thank goodness.
The unknown destination chosen (Please don't be Dr. Who's Realm, that place was a MESS of time travel), he felt Squishy prepare for initiation.
With a subconscious wince at the upcoming experience, he grit his fangs.
"Transfer: Abyss."
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Twilight watched with some regret as her most recent friend suddenly... just stopped. The blue flames vanished, leaving empty blue crystals for eyes... but the rest of his wolven body just seemed empty.
With a sigh, she levitated the new 'House Pet/Plant' upstairs. He may not return for some time, but at least she could water the thing and give it good sunlight. And the low level magic purification his body generated would make her Tree House Library feel a bit more homely.
Princess Luna was far less worried. Adam's lifespan was long enough that the two would no doubt meet in the future at some point if he returned. Hopefully after Celestia got over the teasing.
Neither pony noticed Pinkie Pie adding glasses and a mustache to the wolf, but then again the party pony could be fairly stealthy when she wanted to be.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
What. The. Hell.
Gently Adam floated through the gray Abyss, flames roasting over his souls.
It didn't even tingle.
If anything, this was damn boring!
Squishy, the hell!?
After some ranting, the embarrassed jellyfish poked an explanation.
He may have... over prepared.
The magic alone would have protected him by generating enough material to burn off as a protective layer instead of the fire reaching his powers, mind, or soul.
Not to mention how hardened his soul had been once entering the pony Realm.
But the additional levels of refinement? The massive amount of resources and magic prepared?
What tiny amount of energy consumed by the ever hungry Abyss was replenished near instantly by passive recovery rates. He wasn't even touching his damned reserves right now!
As he drifted through timeless grey flames, he... well. Pouted.
Squishy was quick to point out that his highly refined souls would be very beneficial. Master effects that could normally bypass the mind or body would no longer have hold on him, as his soul could just 'nope' the heck out of it.
Soul based attacks like the killing curse would be laughed off.
Her list got stranger and longer, but all he could think of was the hours of mind numbing pain he had WILLINGLY gone through in an attempt to get home... only to find out that instead of barbed wires and poison it was blankets and cookies.
This was the issue with pushing into unknown territory. Sometimes you were unprepared and naked in the snow, sometimes you bring a nuke to take out a bee hive.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Time... well, the ability to track it at least. It just didn't work here.
Without the constant pain distracting him, he rapidly 'woke up' his mental companions and just wasted time talking in the Simulation.
They did learn pretty quickly NOT to show the Abyss to anyone else besides himself and Squishy though. It uh. Well, the girls didn't handle it well.
But after that they spent internally somewhere between a few hours and maybe a day or so talking about ongoing projects, dream construction ideas for Adam's future naps, Dragon's designs and redeveloped schematics that both did and did not include magic improvements, and so forth.
Outside? Yeah, time didn't exist here.
Eventually, he was pulled back to focus on the incoming Realm boundary. Unlike before, where a new soul was near torn from existance and shoved into his being, he could feel... options. Templates.
Human was there, but it wasn't HIS type of human, if such a thing existed. It would be as strange to his soul as the timberwolf was, even though visually and biologically they should be very similar.
But the other options were... very wide and varied. Having experienced this once before, and now with the ability to actually make a choice instead of blindly grasping at the nearest point of salvation, he considered the many bizarre shapes.
Many, if not most, were interesting and powerful. On the other hand, as he felt the body and minds available, many came with mental issues. Apathy towards others, anger or rage towards non-similar species, deep hunger for the flesh or energy of specific species or even human careers. Odd.
In the end, he felt a sort of connection with a... strange thing.
It sort of looked like an elephant pig.
Still, it felt... pure. At least, it wasn't based on the concept of corruption or sickness like some of the others. Twilight was going through his memories and the magic stuff, but no one really knew what the heck it was other than 'cute' and 'tiny'.
Thing was about the size of a cat really.
With a mental shrug he fell into the template, then directly into the new Realm.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
In a dark bedroom, a shadow twisted. Turned. Then... sort of popped.
And Adam 'Adventure' Burns was... sort of there.
Still a soul though.
Bones and flesh rapidly twisted from 'Recovery', a small ball of meat growing into his new... whatever he was.
Surprisingly strong bones, his skin became grey and leathery while white and black fur covered his back and chest. And uh. His ears.
He had big ears now. And a trunk. And tusks.
He looked down at his... paws? Those were tiger paws. Even had the stripes, though the tough skin was still grey overall. And his paws were THICK, at least partially like an elephant.
Adam's confusion only grew as his body began gently shifting colors. It was now slowly forming shades of dark green. Like... Green leathery skin on his trunk, the white fur turning a very light green hue, the stripes near black emerald colors. The hell.
'Growth' was working with 'Recovery' now, as he felt strange organs which were NOT meat growing inside his body. And... well, he had lungs, but no stomach. So... no digestion.
Did the green part mean he was a plant again? That didn't seem right. His tiger claws couldn't even scratch the stuff, and it didn't feel like bark or moss.
Idly his trunk scratched his fur covered neck. At least he could do that even without hands now. And what the heck was his tail? That wasn't Elephant OR Tiger. Looked more like... donkey? No, Ox. Yeah, that was an Ox tail.
Even as his body slowed in growth, he could feel the density of his muscles and bones began to increase... while his weight dropped? How!?
Worse part, this wasn't magic. Not exactly. SOMETHING being grown within was causing non-physics related changes to his existence, but it wasn't powered by the energy Tree consumed.
Just as things were winding down, he could feel... instinct drop in. Something fundamental to his actual self, it felt like. And Hunger.
A very... VERY strong hunger. Like he was missing something.
It reminded him of the raw craving he had after first forming his Timberwolf form, the need for any sort of magic to fill the void.
By the time he regained focus, he realized he was now on a bed. A huge bed!
No wait, he was cat sized. A normal bed, just... big to tiny him.
Was that a girl?
He was in a girls bedroom.
The. Hell.
Still, she looked... pained. Fearful. Hurt?
Adam tried to keep track of all his new parts. Ears were normally just THERE, but he kept wiggling them now. His trunk was all kind of confusing, at least he had practice with tails before. And his hunger was rapidly causing him concern.
Did he want to consume this child? That... seemed very off. Nothing about the template suggested baby eating or child chewing.
But he was pulled toward her skull.
Huh. No, it was... sort of. Not quite her actual body really.
His trunk reached outside of... here. Somewhere else.
Black slime tried to escape his grasp. Flexing muscles he didn't have and pulling in ways he never knew, the mass of twisted fear and rage was just... plucked.
Like a pear. Just... tugged away.
Instantly the girl relaxed into the bed, a soft smile on her face.
Meanwhile, cat-elephant-tiger-Adam was stuck looking cross-eyed at the black orb held by his trunk.
It was VERY easy to smell it when your holding things with your own nose.
It was... decay. Rage. Fear. Layers of filth, picked up from every day experiences. Twisted by suspicion and uncertainty. Of self doubt and past failures.
The texture was both slimy and gritty, sand and oil with mucus.
Color didn't quite... work on it.
With absolutely zero hesitation, he stuffed it into his mouth.
Eyes crinkled with delight, he savored each flavor. Somehow he knew what it SHOULD taste like, how it should repulse everything he had.
But... it was amazing. Filling. Energy of some sort was flowing through his system even as he gently reached into the other for whatever scraps of hatred and self doubt remained.
Cake? Keep it! This stuff... Mmm.
Well, no point to having a stomach if your food is conceptual.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Hours later, Asako Higurashi gently knocked on her daughter's door. "Time to get up!"
Thankfully the laundry was already handled last night, the cleaning done earlier this morning. So she had more time than usual.
Her concern for her little girl had grown in the last few weeks though, after some disagreement with that nice wolf boy or some such had caused her to... well. Not pout or whine, but mentally recede?
The story she got from her girl's friends was that it was more an excuse so that she could come home and... recover. Recenter.
She sighed. If she could hold back the trauma and danger her little one had to suffer, she would be the first to volunteer. And she did what she could. Prayers, specially prepared food with what little good luck charms she could make, secretly working with her father-in-law to try and... do anything to help. But the spiritual realm existed everywhere, and would always be drawn to her regardless of any protective intentions.
Unlike her poor past husband, rest his soul, Asako herself was not gifted. Some sensing abilities, minor cantrips or rituals, nothing useful. She had always felt that being a loving mother was more important than trying to find peace with the spiritual side of existence... right up until her daughter gained the responsibility.
She tried to never show her self doubt or fear in front of either child of course. Thankfully her son Sota was too young to really understand the danger her little girl was learning to face, and even after the arguments she had with father-in-law, the older man still helped support her small family and her ever struggling daughter.
Her frown passed as she knocked again. "Sweetie?"
With a gentle push, she opened the door.
Paused.
And closed the door.
Right.
Best get father-in-law.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Kagome felt someone gently push her shoulder. "Go way. M'Tired."
An older voice didn't let her go back to sleep. "Kagome, you need to very carefully wake up."
She frowned, hugging her pillow tighter. "Dunwanna. Sleepy."
The grip tightened for a second before relaxing. "Child, you need to stay calm but wake up. You have a guest."
Slowly she blinked awake. "Wha?" It had to be too early. This was the first time she had gotten ANY damn sleep and it didn't matter HOW much her friends wanted to visit or that stupid mutt wanted to bother her, she was going to get some rest!
The old hand wouldn't knock it off though. She groaned. "Grandpa, can't you just tell them to go away? I was finally having good dreams for once!"
The old voice hummed. "Not surprising, really. I suppose I will have to focus a study session explaining Baku traits and habits."
The heck? "What?"
He sighed. "Could you very slowly open your arms dear?"
She blinked, absently squishing her pillow tighter. "Why?"
Her eyes focused on her Grandpa... who looked very exasperated. "Because while normally a peaceful creature, you still shouldn't squish a spiritual being."
What?
Her eyes dropped down to her pillow.
Her warm, furry, squishy pillow. With tiny tusks and a trunk.
Which was apparently snoring.
"Is this a fluffy mini-elephant?"
Grandpa hummed. "Closer to a Tapir really, if anything. Still, please stop squishing it."
Why couldn't NORMAL things happen to her!?
Adam could feel the influence from this reality fade significantly after his several sessions. The biggest one was a lowering of raw sensual lust. Not gone, but it wasn't a constant urge in the back of the mind.
Also, even as a wolf he was rapidly remembering how awesome meat was. Something about his old (plant) soul encouraged vegetarian life style. That wasn't gone either, he would always love salad more than any man likely should. Just... not willing to never eat anything but grass and trees.
After a few days of recovery and some charges saved up for the journey, he took stock of his situation.
One technological soul (Worm Realm), with 'Recovery', 'Fire Manipulation', 'Research', 'Technomancy', 'Conversion', 'Transfer'. Though 'Recovery' should be considered something similar to 'Nanoscopic Manipulation' or something.
One magical soul (My Little Pony Realm), with 'Growth', 'Harmony', and 'Consume'.
Squishy now stored her current power charges in the tech soul fishbowl, and they lay like sea shells on the grains of power sand. No real limit now to storage, but it DID make his entire existence revolve around technology first and foremost. Not the worst outcome really.
He only gained one charge per 24 standard earth hour time span. Regardless of what planet or reality he was currently living in. But at least he didn't HAVE to 'use or lose' them now.
Still, he had waited over a week and now had 10 charges saved up. None of this 'slow crawl into madness due to an uncontrolled soul' issue he ran into coming here.
Also he had stayed at the Apple Clan's farm for a few of those days, building up reserves of biological slurry to store in his soul. Ate some metal and gems with 'Consume' to store those materials there too, which showed up as neat rocks in his fishbowl.
So... 'Recovery' was fully supplied.
Finally, magic. His Tree soul now breathed through that hideous mouth, passively converting energy of any type that tried to escape his body or soul into magic, storing it for future 'Growth' use.
Narwhal had tried to convince him to name the thing... but it was a magical soul. That would do... who knew what to it. Names had power. Call it 'Betty' or something could make it mutate into any bizarre thing. So it was firmly named 'Tree', like a boring person would do. Her complaints were very much ignored.
Moving on, the magic was constantly absorbed or converted, then compressed into small pebbles that slowly covered the roots of the Tree thing. So... magic reserves were built up to respectable levels.
Honestly, that part he cheated with by having Mai's wolf/house/tree thing pass the excess power she purified. Otherwise building up this level of reserve would have taken ages.
Nightmare Moon and a surprisingly shy mental Twilight said the raw information about existing magic had already been gathered, though external Twilight had insisted on all kinds of random books and scrolls being added all the way up till a few hours ago. And the two mental versions were more than a bit hush-hush about HOW they gathered so much information so quickly.
And Luna was... very insistent that he not visit Celestia. Something that made Nightmare Moon snicker about for far too long. Point is, Princess Luna DID bring some copies of the related Time magics for him to review. Which... well, he was touched at the trust shown. To ensure no future issues, he burned the copies after memorizing the contents. No reason to risk others getting these spells.
Didn't help with his actual product though. It relied too much on a world with existing magic, and couldn't make anchor points to times where magic use was restricted or non-existent... so would only work in places that had a long history of magic use.
He took another breath. Calm.
Narwhal, Dragon, Nightmare Moon, and Twilight had been 'secured' by Squishy deep inside his simulation. Mai had decided after much thought to just... stay here. Her bond with the three little fillies was honestly stronger than her connection to Adam anyway, and the idea of living as his personal AI hadn't been as appealing as joining the 'Cutie Mark Crusaders'.
It surprised him that he felt a bit hurt at her leaving. They hadn't spent a ton of time together, and he had a tendency to do things alone, but he HAD been there from the start of her existence. Still, he just made sure that the girl's Celestial Garden and giant body were both working as best as could be and wished her well.
With his mental companions secured, he focused.
Squishy poked him the options.
Acceptable penalties to lower the cost of 'Transfer' while still getting to a USEFUL Realm. First, the usual suspects: No safe travel. Arrive at an 'interesting' time. No language package. No reality insertion.
He could only risk those with others because his preemptive refinement should keep the flames of the Abyss from consuming his soul to the same degree as before.
Hmm. The costs were much lower than before. Almost a dozen times or more cheaper really.
Squishy pointed out that not only was his soul stronger now, but that there were two separate parts that could support each other. This not only reduced the pressure of the travel but the increased durability reduced how much energy was needed to protect his existence during transit. So... he had a surplus.
Then... what positive options did that leave available?
A quick list had quite a few nice choices that didn't even get mentioned the first time. Thanks to 'Harmony' he could ignore most social options, those would be picked up easily enough. 'Growth' and 'Recovery' would allow any body modifications required. Hmm.
In the end, he selected 'Avoid Realms with Overwhelming Power' and 'Discrete Entry'. If he popped into Dragon Ball Z or Naruto or whatever during a big boss fight, he could get vaporized a few times without even noticing. Not all gods were as laid back or friendly as Princess Luna or Celestia.
That brought the cost right back up, even a bit more than the initial jump... but still affordable.
Selection criteria? He wanted Time Manipulation Abilities, sure, but he didn't need the full power set. While it would be NICE to twist reality forward and backward or whatever, he knew the issues with temporal modification.
Slow down time, even to near standstill, in a local area? Sure. Speed it up locally? No issue! But affecting all of your current reality? Or going to your own past?
The costs of gaining those level of power would take far more time and danger than Adam was willing to put up with right now.
So he was willing to settle for time travel when transiting between Realms only. More versatility or power could be picked up later, but that was the core of his actual need.
Instantly, the ballooning cost of the transfer dropped back to reasonable levels again. Thank goodness.
The unknown destination chosen (Please don't be Dr. Who's Realm, that place was a MESS of time travel), he felt Squishy prepare for initiation.
With a subconscious wince at the upcoming experience, he grit his fangs.
"Transfer: Abyss."
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Twilight watched with some regret as her most recent friend suddenly... just stopped. The blue flames vanished, leaving empty blue crystals for eyes... but the rest of his wolven body just seemed empty.
With a sigh, she levitated the new 'House Pet/Plant' upstairs. He may not return for some time, but at least she could water the thing and give it good sunlight. And the low level magic purification his body generated would make her Tree House Library feel a bit more homely.
Princess Luna was far less worried. Adam's lifespan was long enough that the two would no doubt meet in the future at some point if he returned. Hopefully after Celestia got over the teasing.
Neither pony noticed Pinkie Pie adding glasses and a mustache to the wolf, but then again the party pony could be fairly stealthy when she wanted to be.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
What. The. Hell.
Gently Adam floated through the gray Abyss, flames roasting over his souls.
It didn't even tingle.
If anything, this was damn boring!
Squishy, the hell!?
After some ranting, the embarrassed jellyfish poked an explanation.
He may have... over prepared.
The magic alone would have protected him by generating enough material to burn off as a protective layer instead of the fire reaching his powers, mind, or soul.
Not to mention how hardened his soul had been once entering the pony Realm.
But the additional levels of refinement? The massive amount of resources and magic prepared?
What tiny amount of energy consumed by the ever hungry Abyss was replenished near instantly by passive recovery rates. He wasn't even touching his damned reserves right now!
As he drifted through timeless grey flames, he... well. Pouted.
Squishy was quick to point out that his highly refined souls would be very beneficial. Master effects that could normally bypass the mind or body would no longer have hold on him, as his soul could just 'nope' the heck out of it.
Soul based attacks like the killing curse would be laughed off.
Her list got stranger and longer, but all he could think of was the hours of mind numbing pain he had WILLINGLY gone through in an attempt to get home... only to find out that instead of barbed wires and poison it was blankets and cookies.
This was the issue with pushing into unknown territory. Sometimes you were unprepared and naked in the snow, sometimes you bring a nuke to take out a bee hive.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Time... well, the ability to track it at least. It just didn't work here.
Without the constant pain distracting him, he rapidly 'woke up' his mental companions and just wasted time talking in the Simulation.
They did learn pretty quickly NOT to show the Abyss to anyone else besides himself and Squishy though. It uh. Well, the girls didn't handle it well.
But after that they spent internally somewhere between a few hours and maybe a day or so talking about ongoing projects, dream construction ideas for Adam's future naps, Dragon's designs and redeveloped schematics that both did and did not include magic improvements, and so forth.
Outside? Yeah, time didn't exist here.
Eventually, he was pulled back to focus on the incoming Realm boundary. Unlike before, where a new soul was near torn from existance and shoved into his being, he could feel... options. Templates.
Human was there, but it wasn't HIS type of human, if such a thing existed. It would be as strange to his soul as the timberwolf was, even though visually and biologically they should be very similar.
But the other options were... very wide and varied. Having experienced this once before, and now with the ability to actually make a choice instead of blindly grasping at the nearest point of salvation, he considered the many bizarre shapes.
Many, if not most, were interesting and powerful. On the other hand, as he felt the body and minds available, many came with mental issues. Apathy towards others, anger or rage towards non-similar species, deep hunger for the flesh or energy of specific species or even human careers. Odd.
In the end, he felt a sort of connection with a... strange thing.
It sort of looked like an elephant pig.
Still, it felt... pure. At least, it wasn't based on the concept of corruption or sickness like some of the others. Twilight was going through his memories and the magic stuff, but no one really knew what the heck it was other than 'cute' and 'tiny'.
Thing was about the size of a cat really.
With a mental shrug he fell into the template, then directly into the new Realm.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
In a dark bedroom, a shadow twisted. Turned. Then... sort of popped.
And Adam 'Adventure' Burns was... sort of there.
Still a soul though.
Bones and flesh rapidly twisted from 'Recovery', a small ball of meat growing into his new... whatever he was.
Surprisingly strong bones, his skin became grey and leathery while white and black fur covered his back and chest. And uh. His ears.
He had big ears now. And a trunk. And tusks.
He looked down at his... paws? Those were tiger paws. Even had the stripes, though the tough skin was still grey overall. And his paws were THICK, at least partially like an elephant.
Adam's confusion only grew as his body began gently shifting colors. It was now slowly forming shades of dark green. Like... Green leathery skin on his trunk, the white fur turning a very light green hue, the stripes near black emerald colors. The hell.
'Growth' was working with 'Recovery' now, as he felt strange organs which were NOT meat growing inside his body. And... well, he had lungs, but no stomach. So... no digestion.
Did the green part mean he was a plant again? That didn't seem right. His tiger claws couldn't even scratch the stuff, and it didn't feel like bark or moss.
Idly his trunk scratched his fur covered neck. At least he could do that even without hands now. And what the heck was his tail? That wasn't Elephant OR Tiger. Looked more like... donkey? No, Ox. Yeah, that was an Ox tail.
Even as his body slowed in growth, he could feel the density of his muscles and bones began to increase... while his weight dropped? How!?
Worse part, this wasn't magic. Not exactly. SOMETHING being grown within was causing non-physics related changes to his existence, but it wasn't powered by the energy Tree consumed.
Just as things were winding down, he could feel... instinct drop in. Something fundamental to his actual self, it felt like. And Hunger.
A very... VERY strong hunger. Like he was missing something.
It reminded him of the raw craving he had after first forming his Timberwolf form, the need for any sort of magic to fill the void.
By the time he regained focus, he realized he was now on a bed. A huge bed!
No wait, he was cat sized. A normal bed, just... big to tiny him.
Was that a girl?
He was in a girls bedroom.
The. Hell.
Still, she looked... pained. Fearful. Hurt?
Adam tried to keep track of all his new parts. Ears were normally just THERE, but he kept wiggling them now. His trunk was all kind of confusing, at least he had practice with tails before. And his hunger was rapidly causing him concern.
Did he want to consume this child? That... seemed very off. Nothing about the template suggested baby eating or child chewing.
But he was pulled toward her skull.
Huh. No, it was... sort of. Not quite her actual body really.
His trunk reached outside of... here. Somewhere else.
Black slime tried to escape his grasp. Flexing muscles he didn't have and pulling in ways he never knew, the mass of twisted fear and rage was just... plucked.
Like a pear. Just... tugged away.
Instantly the girl relaxed into the bed, a soft smile on her face.
Meanwhile, cat-elephant-tiger-Adam was stuck looking cross-eyed at the black orb held by his trunk.
It was VERY easy to smell it when your holding things with your own nose.
It was... decay. Rage. Fear. Layers of filth, picked up from every day experiences. Twisted by suspicion and uncertainty. Of self doubt and past failures.
The texture was both slimy and gritty, sand and oil with mucus.
Color didn't quite... work on it.
With absolutely zero hesitation, he stuffed it into his mouth.
Eyes crinkled with delight, he savored each flavor. Somehow he knew what it SHOULD taste like, how it should repulse everything he had.
But... it was amazing. Filling. Energy of some sort was flowing through his system even as he gently reached into the other for whatever scraps of hatred and self doubt remained.
Cake? Keep it! This stuff... Mmm.
Well, no point to having a stomach if your food is conceptual.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Hours later, Asako Higurashi gently knocked on her daughter's door. "Time to get up!"
Thankfully the laundry was already handled last night, the cleaning done earlier this morning. So she had more time than usual.
Her concern for her little girl had grown in the last few weeks though, after some disagreement with that nice wolf boy or some such had caused her to... well. Not pout or whine, but mentally recede?
The story she got from her girl's friends was that it was more an excuse so that she could come home and... recover. Recenter.
She sighed. If she could hold back the trauma and danger her little one had to suffer, she would be the first to volunteer. And she did what she could. Prayers, specially prepared food with what little good luck charms she could make, secretly working with her father-in-law to try and... do anything to help. But the spiritual realm existed everywhere, and would always be drawn to her regardless of any protective intentions.
Unlike her poor past husband, rest his soul, Asako herself was not gifted. Some sensing abilities, minor cantrips or rituals, nothing useful. She had always felt that being a loving mother was more important than trying to find peace with the spiritual side of existence... right up until her daughter gained the responsibility.
She tried to never show her self doubt or fear in front of either child of course. Thankfully her son Sota was too young to really understand the danger her little girl was learning to face, and even after the arguments she had with father-in-law, the older man still helped support her small family and her ever struggling daughter.
Her frown passed as she knocked again. "Sweetie?"
With a gentle push, she opened the door.
Paused.
And closed the door.
Right.
Best get father-in-law.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Kagome felt someone gently push her shoulder. "Go way. M'Tired."
An older voice didn't let her go back to sleep. "Kagome, you need to very carefully wake up."
She frowned, hugging her pillow tighter. "Dunwanna. Sleepy."
The grip tightened for a second before relaxing. "Child, you need to stay calm but wake up. You have a guest."
Slowly she blinked awake. "Wha?" It had to be too early. This was the first time she had gotten ANY damn sleep and it didn't matter HOW much her friends wanted to visit or that stupid mutt wanted to bother her, she was going to get some rest!
The old hand wouldn't knock it off though. She groaned. "Grandpa, can't you just tell them to go away? I was finally having good dreams for once!"
The old voice hummed. "Not surprising, really. I suppose I will have to focus a study session explaining Baku traits and habits."
The heck? "What?"
He sighed. "Could you very slowly open your arms dear?"
She blinked, absently squishing her pillow tighter. "Why?"
Her eyes focused on her Grandpa... who looked very exasperated. "Because while normally a peaceful creature, you still shouldn't squish a spiritual being."
What?
Her eyes dropped down to her pillow.
Her warm, furry, squishy pillow. With tiny tusks and a trunk.
Which was apparently snoring.
"Is this a fluffy mini-elephant?"
Grandpa hummed. "Closer to a Tapir really, if anything. Still, please stop squishing it."
Why couldn't NORMAL things happen to her!?
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- Location
- Barquisimeto
HAHAHAHAHAHA! God, Inuyasha this will be amazing. An OP super demon Tapir going to the past and be basically the opposite to the stereotypical demons of the series.
- Location
- Scotland
Hmmmm interesting; a setting I'm not too familiar with.
Should probably be "responsibility".
- Location
- Kent, WA
Hahaha, this should be fun! Though a quick Google search says that should be baku...?
Jonn Wolfe
(Verified Sarcastic) (Not a Wolf)
- Location
- Beyond Sanity Since 1971
Lost, but that last bit was funny. 🐘
Finagle007
[Verified Great Old One]
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Ahh, haven't seen THIS before. Inuyasha, eh? This should be interesting...
- Location
- In the Dream
Another great chapter and it makes sense with what Adam was asking for time travel between dimensions without any world ending threats going for him.
Hence Inuyasha with the Bone Eater's Well sending someone five hundred years in the past and then five hundred years in the future by just jumping down a well. Good choice can't wait to see what you do with this world err worlds if he goes through the well.
Hence Inuyasha with the Bone Eater's Well sending someone five hundred years in the past and then five hundred years in the future by just jumping down a well. Good choice can't wait to see what you do with this world err worlds if he goes through the well.
- Pronouns
- She/Her/They
Well a tapir is a real animal, so i think it's more that when she asked if it was a mini elephant they said what it looked like. Baku look like tapirs so it would make sense to say it looks like a tapir.
Fragnostic
Cheshire
- Location
- Neko City
Oh! So this was at that time... <nods>
<looks around a bit>
Can someone remind me what part was this?
It's been AGES since I last read Inuyasha...
- Location
- In the Dream
Geeze it has been ages for me as well. Lets see....since she is back and her mother has met Inuyasha I think he first came back during the episode or chapter with the Noh Mask meaning after Inuyasha has gotten Tetsusaiga and met Shippo but before Miroku and Sango have joined.
But more then likely this would be after both have joined meaning Kikyo is also around and Naraku would be doing his evilness things.
Kagome comes back and rests multiple times throughout the story so without more context I can only guess sometime after episode 26 or 27 near the end of the first season and after Naraku's backstory has been revealed.
Of course we could be before Inuyasha and Kagome have met Miroku and Sango. We will just have to find out next time so stay tuned on the next episode of Broken Adventure!
- Location
- norway
Hell yes, an inuyasha self-insert that doesn't boil down to "I'm not like the other girls"?
Count me in!
Count me in!
Vhalidictes
(Verified Demon)
- Location
- Las Vegas
I actually can't comment, which is sad. That (not) said, he's sure visiting some non-traditional worlds.
The randomness is a good thing. I can't wait to see where he goes next!
The randomness is a good thing. I can't wait to see where he goes next!
- Location
- US
Eh, from reading comments and a wiki page, possibilities include teleportation, dream manipulation, mind reading, size changing and time travel. Not an exhaustive list I'm sure.
But, the whole point of the jump is gaining a start of time manipulation, and the species he became feeds on dreams. I would expect those two to feature heavily. Thematically, perhaps this will be a spiritual soul, to go with the existing tech and magic ones.
But, the whole point of the jump is gaining a start of time manipulation, and the species he became feeds on dreams. I would expect those two to feature heavily. Thematically, perhaps this will be a spiritual soul, to go with the existing tech and magic ones.
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- Location
- Michigan, USA
Dont forget maybe learning super powered weapon smithing abilities...
- Location
- In the Dream
I'm thinking something more like a refinement of Consume or maybe Adaptation. Due to the majority of the Manga being about creatures devouring other creatures for strength or to improve themselves.
This includes Inuyasha and his sword eating or absorbing traits to make it stronger so he can defeat X villain. I think even Sango had a part where her weapon absorbed some poison to make it stronger.
This includes Inuyasha and his sword eating or absorbing traits to make it stronger so he can defeat X villain. I think even Sango had a part where her weapon absorbed some poison to make it stronger.
Cause You Got to Have Faith!
- Location
- Here
Adam woke up on his back. Sprawled with all limbs out, his trunk meandering to his right, ears flapped open.
Thankfully, his alien body was really flexible. This particular pose should really have caused him to sleep poorly.
Still, his bed was soft, it was still early, and although he vaguely felt something warm was missing he was too comfy to care about it right now.
Eventually he felt Squishy poke him.
With a mental sigh, he enabled 'Research' and 'Harmony'. There. Now the girls could analyze the outside world without him having to move.
He was asleep again in moments.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Nightmare Moon and Twilight were holding in squee's as Narwhal cooed over the image. "He is so... fluffy! And cute!"
Dragon sighed as she tried to focus on the research. "Right. According to the documentation the older man is showing the rest of the family in the other room, Adam is a Baku."
Narwhal snorted. "He is a cutie fluff baby is what he is."
Twilight poked the image. "Look at his little nose!"
Dragon grit her teeth. "Right. So Baku's seem to be a type of demon or spirit. Of which this world is stock full of, and are of many types and natures."
Nightmare Moon clapped her hooves together. "Look! He is wiggling his paws!"
Twilight was hopping. "He thinks he is running!"
Do. Not. Hurt. Them. Dragon continued. "His new body consumes nightmares and dark thoughts, and historically his kind were hunted because his skin when harvested and refined can discourage evil spirits and keep away decay, poison, miasma... which is some sort of spiritual poison gas, and disease."
Narwhal was thoughtful. "We could make tiny dolls or stuffed animals of him, but can we make mental versions in here? Like, not full AI's, but with maybe puppy level intelligence?"
Twilight was instantly fascinated. "Project Adorable Fluffy Elephant Kitties is a go!"
Dragon just... stayed calm. And continued to review the new information 'Harmony' was pulling in.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Kagome couldn't BELIEVE how good she felt. Weeks of stress and terrifying memories and images of what could have been gone for a full night.
It almost made up for the sudden homework on a Saturday. "So bottom line, this one WON'T try to eat us."
Grandpa held his place in his notes and looked up. "Normally not, no. Of course, normally if a Baku stays with you after eating a nightmare, there is a risk of it just... continuing to eat. Hopes, dreams, and so forth."
Seeing her concern, he waved one of the talismans he held. "I've had protections against that sort of thing on your bedrooms for years now, and the Baku didn't even try. Just... this one is odd."
Her little brother Sota looked up from his own, badly written, notes. "Like... how?"
Grandpa sighed. "Normally, only a small portion if any of a spiritual creature would materialize in the real world. Only someone like Kagome or another priest or priestess could interact with them." He pointed toward her bedroom. "THAT thing is 100% real. Physical. It even snores."
Seeing the kids confusion he sighed. "It would be like finding a actual dragon. After all those years, physical beings with spiritual nature barely exist anymore. Only beings back in the past, like those friends of Kagome, are formed of actual real world material."
She frowned. "Do... do you think it followed me here?"
He shook his head. "No. These spirits were originally found in China, not here in Japan. They showed up here years later. And this one feels... strange. Too real. And it has some sort of magic, I think. I could only feel it when directly touching it though, so I am not sure."
She sighed. A magical cat-elephant-spirit-demon. Great.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Waking was slow. And really only because he was being carried by a giant.
No, damn it, he was just small.
Adam blearily looked up.
Welp. Clearly a woman. Thought those were cushions.
Didn't recognize her. 'Harmony' felt it was alright though. Good enough.
Her sudden hug caught him off guard though. "Squeak!"
...
What.
She seemed equally startled, looking down at his confused self. And hugged him again.
His trunk let out another. "Squeak!"
...
He was a stress ball!?
Narwhal's voice suddenly echoed in his ears. "Honey, you sound adorable!"
...They were recording this, weren't they?
Squishy poked 'Yes.'
Squishy, for the next few hours or until I come to terms with this, could you please block the girls from communication with me?
The chorus of 'Aww' thankfully went silent. Thank goodness.
"Squeak."
Great. He can do a deadpan delivery of an adorable chew toy noise.
At least the giantess got the point and looked a bit sheepish. "Sorry."
"Squeaker Squeak Squeak Squeakin."
That... well. This body was not built for English. Or whatever the hell they spoke back in Worm. Or here.
Thankfully she let it go as she carried Adam into another room.
Oh, it's that girl from last night! She seemed much less stressed now. Though more nightmare fuel had already built up again. Yummy.
Now that he was not ravenous or newborn though, he could sense more than just those delicious black slime pellets.
...Actually, he could sense all kinds of things. What the heck?
Squishy gave a poke.
Apparently as part of the process of becoming this creature, all of Adam's power charges decided to just... use themselves. Something of this new soul was guided by... not a thought process.
It was like his body was partially connected to another layer of existence. Not directly to anyone in particular, but something out there was just... connected. A part of him.
Was it even restricted to one Realm? Barely. If not careful, it felt like it would just move directly into his new soul and live there. Not that it was alive. Sort of. Huh.
Anyway, the new soul and the new power.
Internally, unlike the fishbowl or tree, this one was a... wooden gate? Two poles, a bar, three short poles, then a wide curved wooden structure on top.
'Harmony' was thankfully quick to help out. It was a gate. Specifically, a Shinto Gate.
And even though the gate was on no actual ground, at least not currently, there was a bubble around it forming a sphere. Invisible. Ageless.
Honestly, a bit like a snow globe.
Most concerning... the gate led somewhere. To that place that belonged to Adam, but not.
He felt Squishy pop into the sphere and go through the gate... and was gone.
Then back. And gone again. And returned.
Yeah, that felt strange as hell.
Hanging from the gate were white cords of power. And attached like decorations were white cards.
The one that glowed was the new power.
'Tithe.'
Huh.
Even as information poured into his mind, begging to be reviewed, he focused on this single power.
It was unlike any he had experienced before. All the technological stuff allowed him to review, build, project, or work with physical matter. All the magic stuff allowed him to perceive, absorb, control, and grow energy. But the biggest difference was they were HIS abilities. Used by him, for him, etc.
This new one was almost a SOCIAL ability. Tithe had to be accepted by someone who willingly gave consent. It would take a small portion of their potential, of what they were, of what they gained in life, and deliver it to him. It was a choice.
In return, they would gain a sort of connection to him. Allowing him to work through them, help them, give guidance.
And not just 'Eat your Vegetables', or boring stuff like that. Not just remote healing through 'Recovery' or allowing them to use 'Harmony' to learn languages.
When magic, technology, rituals, or abilities tried to force changes on his follower... he could determine the effects. Or just use his own energy to throw the whole mess away. When powers developed or grew, he could help give his followers self control or grant direction and development.
And this energy taken from his people, it could be gathered by his followers as well if others also had faith. This second level of connection was far weaker, but he could still grant minor boons or partial use of his powers. Even without meeting someone, if their belief grew strong enough a connection could eventually reach the same level as the initial 'Tithe' followers.
Odd.
Strange as it was, he was still surprised that after literal months of effort and training, of all the ideas he had or plans he made, all that time being a soul, refining souls, examining beings... this was the first time that he had experienced actual Spiritual energy.
This Realm was faith based.
It was a strange experience.
After realizing that part of his soul was just... floating out there, in danger of being examined or left behind when he moved on... Well, instead of carefully monitoring the gate's connection, he permitted a full binding.
'Conversion' and 'Consume' both were chosen and activated, and Squishy reached into the Gate and sort of... pulled.
Everything... vibrated.
Now the shrine soul gate just started spewing white flowers. Each one a small portion of faith, of 'kami', which meant spirit, essences, gods, or all kinds of things. The white flowers were slowly gathering under the floating shrine, until the Shinto Gate seemed to rest on a hill covered in white beauty.
And with 'Tithe' now socketed, a glowing white charm on those white strings... the power currently being converted into raw magic by 'Consume' was now giving a portion of power directly to the Gate. Even some of the energy from 'Transfer' and 'Conversion' was being drawn away.
As he watched the snow globe slowly spin, another white flower exited the portal and fell to the mounds below.
Huh.
He shouldn't have to burn this new soul to make it more stable, right? Cause... those flowers seemed flammable.
Squishy assured him that whatever this 'kami' stuff was, it was far more stable and yet more... ethereal? Abstract? Conceptual?
It would handle Abyss Flames even better than the magic coating. Then again, the magic handled the Abyss by sacrificing itself. Not really self sustaining.
In fact, unlike regular magic, the more kami one gathered the more external kami was drawn in. Faith grew faith. In fact, faith to beings or ideals similar to his own would be more likely to choose him than another if he was closer or cared more than the deities mentioned... or if they didn't exist.
This was partly why beliefs tend to gather into Pantheons rather than just brutal rulers or dictators of spiritual might. Why beliefs can grow into deities themselves rather than spread over millions of minor beings of belief. Mostly.
Ah, he was letting 'Harmony' get into his head too easily. He relaxed his laser focus and tried to just let the new process happen and stabilize.
Suddenly another hug. "Squeak!"
"Right, he also makes cute noises when you hug him. Are you sure he is a Baku Father in Law? I don't remember this flower thing."
He blinked. And dozens of actual flowers in the real world fell off, letting his trunk move the rest so he could see through the mound of vegetation.
The poor woman holding him was now standing in a small pile of... well, it wasn't pure kami. It was actual white flowers with no stems or leaves, full of energy, just being converted from the ambient faith flowing through the room.
What was this, a shrine or something?
...Oh.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Sota raised a hand. "Does this mean he isn't potty trained?"
Kagome sighed, rubbing her forehead. Thankfully her cat Buyo wasn't in here, or he would be jumping right in to make this flower mess worse. "I'll get the broom."
Grandpa hummed. "No, I think we should keep these. I can feel strong, pure energy held within those blossoms. Might even make good material for talisman creation. Asako, could you please put the Baku down on that cushion and get the larger storage box from the supply room? I'll examine these closer."
Kagome watched her mother cheerfully leave the elephant thing behind and head off to get some storage.
The squeaking, adorably furry, apparently lazy elephant thing. Baku. Whatever.
Even as she tried to focus on the now resumed lecture, the urge to squeeze the small thing a few times grew stronger.
That squeak was adorable.
Thankfully, his alien body was really flexible. This particular pose should really have caused him to sleep poorly.
Still, his bed was soft, it was still early, and although he vaguely felt something warm was missing he was too comfy to care about it right now.
Eventually he felt Squishy poke him.
With a mental sigh, he enabled 'Research' and 'Harmony'. There. Now the girls could analyze the outside world without him having to move.
He was asleep again in moments.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Nightmare Moon and Twilight were holding in squee's as Narwhal cooed over the image. "He is so... fluffy! And cute!"
Dragon sighed as she tried to focus on the research. "Right. According to the documentation the older man is showing the rest of the family in the other room, Adam is a Baku."
Narwhal snorted. "He is a cutie fluff baby is what he is."
Twilight poked the image. "Look at his little nose!"
Dragon grit her teeth. "Right. So Baku's seem to be a type of demon or spirit. Of which this world is stock full of, and are of many types and natures."
Nightmare Moon clapped her hooves together. "Look! He is wiggling his paws!"
Twilight was hopping. "He thinks he is running!"
Do. Not. Hurt. Them. Dragon continued. "His new body consumes nightmares and dark thoughts, and historically his kind were hunted because his skin when harvested and refined can discourage evil spirits and keep away decay, poison, miasma... which is some sort of spiritual poison gas, and disease."
Narwhal was thoughtful. "We could make tiny dolls or stuffed animals of him, but can we make mental versions in here? Like, not full AI's, but with maybe puppy level intelligence?"
Twilight was instantly fascinated. "Project Adorable Fluffy Elephant Kitties is a go!"
Dragon just... stayed calm. And continued to review the new information 'Harmony' was pulling in.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Kagome couldn't BELIEVE how good she felt. Weeks of stress and terrifying memories and images of what could have been gone for a full night.
It almost made up for the sudden homework on a Saturday. "So bottom line, this one WON'T try to eat us."
Grandpa held his place in his notes and looked up. "Normally not, no. Of course, normally if a Baku stays with you after eating a nightmare, there is a risk of it just... continuing to eat. Hopes, dreams, and so forth."
Seeing her concern, he waved one of the talismans he held. "I've had protections against that sort of thing on your bedrooms for years now, and the Baku didn't even try. Just... this one is odd."
Her little brother Sota looked up from his own, badly written, notes. "Like... how?"
Grandpa sighed. "Normally, only a small portion if any of a spiritual creature would materialize in the real world. Only someone like Kagome or another priest or priestess could interact with them." He pointed toward her bedroom. "THAT thing is 100% real. Physical. It even snores."
Seeing the kids confusion he sighed. "It would be like finding a actual dragon. After all those years, physical beings with spiritual nature barely exist anymore. Only beings back in the past, like those friends of Kagome, are formed of actual real world material."
She frowned. "Do... do you think it followed me here?"
He shook his head. "No. These spirits were originally found in China, not here in Japan. They showed up here years later. And this one feels... strange. Too real. And it has some sort of magic, I think. I could only feel it when directly touching it though, so I am not sure."
She sighed. A magical cat-elephant-spirit-demon. Great.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Waking was slow. And really only because he was being carried by a giant.
No, damn it, he was just small.
Adam blearily looked up.
Welp. Clearly a woman. Thought those were cushions.
Didn't recognize her. 'Harmony' felt it was alright though. Good enough.
Her sudden hug caught him off guard though. "Squeak!"
...
What.
She seemed equally startled, looking down at his confused self. And hugged him again.
His trunk let out another. "Squeak!"
...
He was a stress ball!?
Narwhal's voice suddenly echoed in his ears. "Honey, you sound adorable!"
...They were recording this, weren't they?
Squishy poked 'Yes.'
Squishy, for the next few hours or until I come to terms with this, could you please block the girls from communication with me?
The chorus of 'Aww' thankfully went silent. Thank goodness.
"Squeak."
Great. He can do a deadpan delivery of an adorable chew toy noise.
At least the giantess got the point and looked a bit sheepish. "Sorry."
"Squeaker Squeak Squeak Squeakin."
That... well. This body was not built for English. Or whatever the hell they spoke back in Worm. Or here.
Thankfully she let it go as she carried Adam into another room.
Oh, it's that girl from last night! She seemed much less stressed now. Though more nightmare fuel had already built up again. Yummy.
Now that he was not ravenous or newborn though, he could sense more than just those delicious black slime pellets.
...Actually, he could sense all kinds of things. What the heck?
Squishy gave a poke.
Apparently as part of the process of becoming this creature, all of Adam's power charges decided to just... use themselves. Something of this new soul was guided by... not a thought process.
It was like his body was partially connected to another layer of existence. Not directly to anyone in particular, but something out there was just... connected. A part of him.
Was it even restricted to one Realm? Barely. If not careful, it felt like it would just move directly into his new soul and live there. Not that it was alive. Sort of. Huh.
Anyway, the new soul and the new power.
Internally, unlike the fishbowl or tree, this one was a... wooden gate? Two poles, a bar, three short poles, then a wide curved wooden structure on top.
'Harmony' was thankfully quick to help out. It was a gate. Specifically, a Shinto Gate.
And even though the gate was on no actual ground, at least not currently, there was a bubble around it forming a sphere. Invisible. Ageless.
Honestly, a bit like a snow globe.
Most concerning... the gate led somewhere. To that place that belonged to Adam, but not.
He felt Squishy pop into the sphere and go through the gate... and was gone.
Then back. And gone again. And returned.
Yeah, that felt strange as hell.
Hanging from the gate were white cords of power. And attached like decorations were white cards.
The one that glowed was the new power.
'Tithe.'
Huh.
Even as information poured into his mind, begging to be reviewed, he focused on this single power.
It was unlike any he had experienced before. All the technological stuff allowed him to review, build, project, or work with physical matter. All the magic stuff allowed him to perceive, absorb, control, and grow energy. But the biggest difference was they were HIS abilities. Used by him, for him, etc.
This new one was almost a SOCIAL ability. Tithe had to be accepted by someone who willingly gave consent. It would take a small portion of their potential, of what they were, of what they gained in life, and deliver it to him. It was a choice.
In return, they would gain a sort of connection to him. Allowing him to work through them, help them, give guidance.
And not just 'Eat your Vegetables', or boring stuff like that. Not just remote healing through 'Recovery' or allowing them to use 'Harmony' to learn languages.
When magic, technology, rituals, or abilities tried to force changes on his follower... he could determine the effects. Or just use his own energy to throw the whole mess away. When powers developed or grew, he could help give his followers self control or grant direction and development.
And this energy taken from his people, it could be gathered by his followers as well if others also had faith. This second level of connection was far weaker, but he could still grant minor boons or partial use of his powers. Even without meeting someone, if their belief grew strong enough a connection could eventually reach the same level as the initial 'Tithe' followers.
Odd.
Strange as it was, he was still surprised that after literal months of effort and training, of all the ideas he had or plans he made, all that time being a soul, refining souls, examining beings... this was the first time that he had experienced actual Spiritual energy.
This Realm was faith based.
It was a strange experience.
After realizing that part of his soul was just... floating out there, in danger of being examined or left behind when he moved on... Well, instead of carefully monitoring the gate's connection, he permitted a full binding.
'Conversion' and 'Consume' both were chosen and activated, and Squishy reached into the Gate and sort of... pulled.
Everything... vibrated.
Now the shrine soul gate just started spewing white flowers. Each one a small portion of faith, of 'kami', which meant spirit, essences, gods, or all kinds of things. The white flowers were slowly gathering under the floating shrine, until the Shinto Gate seemed to rest on a hill covered in white beauty.
And with 'Tithe' now socketed, a glowing white charm on those white strings... the power currently being converted into raw magic by 'Consume' was now giving a portion of power directly to the Gate. Even some of the energy from 'Transfer' and 'Conversion' was being drawn away.
As he watched the snow globe slowly spin, another white flower exited the portal and fell to the mounds below.
Huh.
He shouldn't have to burn this new soul to make it more stable, right? Cause... those flowers seemed flammable.
Squishy assured him that whatever this 'kami' stuff was, it was far more stable and yet more... ethereal? Abstract? Conceptual?
It would handle Abyss Flames even better than the magic coating. Then again, the magic handled the Abyss by sacrificing itself. Not really self sustaining.
In fact, unlike regular magic, the more kami one gathered the more external kami was drawn in. Faith grew faith. In fact, faith to beings or ideals similar to his own would be more likely to choose him than another if he was closer or cared more than the deities mentioned... or if they didn't exist.
This was partly why beliefs tend to gather into Pantheons rather than just brutal rulers or dictators of spiritual might. Why beliefs can grow into deities themselves rather than spread over millions of minor beings of belief. Mostly.
Ah, he was letting 'Harmony' get into his head too easily. He relaxed his laser focus and tried to just let the new process happen and stabilize.
Suddenly another hug. "Squeak!"
"Right, he also makes cute noises when you hug him. Are you sure he is a Baku Father in Law? I don't remember this flower thing."
He blinked. And dozens of actual flowers in the real world fell off, letting his trunk move the rest so he could see through the mound of vegetation.
The poor woman holding him was now standing in a small pile of... well, it wasn't pure kami. It was actual white flowers with no stems or leaves, full of energy, just being converted from the ambient faith flowing through the room.
What was this, a shrine or something?
...Oh.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Sota raised a hand. "Does this mean he isn't potty trained?"
Kagome sighed, rubbing her forehead. Thankfully her cat Buyo wasn't in here, or he would be jumping right in to make this flower mess worse. "I'll get the broom."
Grandpa hummed. "No, I think we should keep these. I can feel strong, pure energy held within those blossoms. Might even make good material for talisman creation. Asako, could you please put the Baku down on that cushion and get the larger storage box from the supply room? I'll examine these closer."
Kagome watched her mother cheerfully leave the elephant thing behind and head off to get some storage.
The squeaking, adorably furry, apparently lazy elephant thing. Baku. Whatever.
Even as she tried to focus on the now resumed lecture, the urge to squeeze the small thing a few times grew stronger.
That squeak was adorable.
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Oh, the adorable shame of it all.... 😹
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That's not cute squeaking...
That's his ribs you monsters!
It's been a long, long time since I read Inuyasha, but I distinctly remember it running off tropes, mainly the old 'ha ha abuse' tropes which didn't age well. Try not to focus on those too much if possible, they tend to make ff very samey.
Also: I never watched the series, but apparently there's a bunch of anime only characters and arcs, so I expect to have to resort to a wiki often.
That's his ribs you monsters!
It's been a long, long time since I read Inuyasha, but I distinctly remember it running off tropes, mainly the old 'ha ha abuse' tropes which didn't age well. Try not to focus on those too much if possible, they tend to make ff very samey.
Also: I never watched the series, but apparently there's a bunch of anime only characters and arcs, so I expect to have to resort to a wiki often.
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