~ It was a weird sight when this thing first appeared, after Ion had taken down his most heated target, one that he had been Hunting ever since he took his arm and nearly killed him. He unlocked what he thought was his ultimate power by doing so, though that form did scare him a bit, thinking he would loose himself to it, as he started to over rely on transforming into a floof dragon. Over time he did learn how to control it better, though he still wanted to find a way of not having to rely on it so much. This lead to Ion refusing to transform, even in the most dire circumstances, wanting to get through the fight with his abilities as a natural fox, but it was at this point that something else started to happen. Not only did Ion gain his new form when defeating his most hated enemy, but his senses started to change, he felt more in tune with things around him he could not explain, like he could feel there was something more around him, something unseen and then it happened. At first Ion's comrades were worried about him, thinking he was seeing things every time he told them about this phenomenon, thinking the effects of being a Contract Hunter were getting to him and his bruised up body or the stress of the dragon form was becoming overpowering. He would tell them stories of when he fought alone, when the circumstances started to get dire, when he refused to transform into his dragon form, that sometimes a being that looked just like him, only with larger ears and blue eyes, would miraculously appear and fight along side him. This didn't make too much sense to his friends but then he also told them about one time when he was sick and Zephyr had to got out and do his Hunter duties, that he got out of bed to quench his dry throat, only to collapse not far out of his room from overheated exhaustion. Then when he woke up a bit latter, he was tucked in bed with this familiar caring for him, trying to cool his fever and giving him sips of water, but up to that point, none of his comrades had seen or experienced what Ion was talking about, even when Zephyr came back that day Ion was sick, there was no one sitting in the chair he left beside the bed, it looked like no one had been there since he left in the morning.
Even though Zephyr wanted to believe Ion, there was just something in the back of his mind that had doubts about what Ion saw or was experiencing, as he was starting to get very worried about his mate, though there was one person who did believe what Ion was experiencing was real, his Hunter mentor and the leader of the Ravagers division of the Hunters, Narche. Though even with her encouragement, the reactions of the rest of his friends, especially his mate Zephyr, placed doubt into Ion's head of what he was experiencing, was it real or only figments of his mind, as his conscious might be getting to him after these years or he might just be overly stressed. No, it had to be real, he could feel a somewhat familiar presence from this being, one he could not put his finger on, but it was there, plus how else was he able to get out from those battles he thought he was going to loose when he didn't transform. Then during one battle were he was out on a Hunt only with Zephyr, when things started to awry, the familiar appeared once again, this time not only Ion experienced his presence, Zephyr there with him, could see the familiar too. The now three boys were able to take down their foe, and once the battle was over, it finally hit Ion who this being was. The eyes, those ears, that smile and laugh, it all came back to him. That time when he was seriously hurt, and he felt that his being, his very soul was drifting to the other side, there was one thing that pulled him back, one person that carried his soul literally on their back, back to the waking world. Somehow at that moment they became one, he lived on inside of him, he was now back here with him and Ion could call upon him in any time of need. When Ion called out the familiar's name, he laughed and finally spoke, "so you finally remember, you have finally figured it out" after which a large smile showed on both their faces. Ion embraced his familiar, as they reformed into one being, with the words echoing through his head, "remember I am always with you, you can call upon me anytime." Now Ion had what he believed to be his ultimate power, that he could now fight along side someone who he thought he lost forever, that the three of them were back together and he could now finally be apart of what they always wanted, he could now finally live out his dream in some way, their journey only now had just begun. ~
