The shapeshifeter fired her bow... and Alespar smiled weakly as the bolt buried itself in his chest. He slowly rose to his feet, and a second bolt knocked him back onto his bed, where he landed against the wall in a crumpled heap!
"We're going to kill you, and your damned meddling friends!" hissed the shifter and the thugs stepped in, "Rodney! Yakus! Ernest! FINISH HIM! I'll go and find that damned little kitsune..."
The three thugs lumbered at him, wielding tools. One held 2 smithing hammers, another held a lumber axe and the third woielded a rusty saw! Alespar was weak... he slasged weakly with his sword... and the thugs leapyt at him!
"NO! FOX! RUUUUUNNNN!!!!!" H ehoped the littlekitsune would hear his cries hbut he knew it was hopeless... he would die, if the little kitsune just had a hope of escape!
Fox heard him. he changed back to his half human form. his eyes were blood red. he lept in the house, slamming one of the thugs into the wall. he jumped back and kicked another thug square in the face, sending him through the window. he looked at the last one. he walked towards him, dodging the slashes of his axe. Fox grabbed him by his throat and squeezed until he heard a sickening loud crack. "......."
Alespar choked... he was weak, maybe he was dying, he didn't know...
"Thanks... kid, yer a good guy, er, kitsune anyway... you've got to get out of here, the shapeshifetr is comin' for us! Leave me, I'll die now I know you can escape..." he coughed weakly again and slowly clutched both bolts and ripped them from his chest! blood flowed and made a red polm on his bed...
"It's OK, Fox... everypne has to do it..." Alespar slowly rose... "I think i know wo you are... and I can te;l you the truth of why I went into that cavern... I'm a werewolf. I've used potions for years to subdue the beast within but... before I started a savge, slaughtering whole villages. But I was tamed... by a fox, or a kitsune as I later learned... her name was Kara, and we had a child... but I was taken again by the beast in a rage, I killed her... and left my son to die. That was several years ago... I've travelled, trying to hide my identity ever since! When i saw Balazor, i thought he was like what I once became, I believed he was a horrible beast, that's why I never trusted him... I should have told someone bfore now, but I don't even know if I am a werewolf now, i've used potions to avoid my transfrmattion so long..."