Legend has it that the deepest chambers in the ancient Shrine of Night are protected by extremely powerful guardians, a story that might be true, considering that no one has ever returned to tell after trespassing.
Some cryptic inscriptions seem to tell tales about how wearing the guardian's armors and amulets would potentially grant the wearer with the same strength, magic and immortality as the guardians themselves, which has led to many ambitious adventurers to intrude in an attempt to take this forbidden power.
Our brave adventurer, Feroh, has taken his chances at this. Deep within the shrine, he ran into one of the guardians. A nine-tailed fox like creature with an extremely radiant white fur and very large claws. The fight was long and painful, but our adventurer successfully managed to defeat this guardian, which, strangely enough, seemed to vanish into thin air soon after, leaving some pieces of armor, and a large collar with a bell laying on the ground.
Before Feroh was able to reach, these floated towards him, a collar with an immense bell tied up and tightened around his neck, deep dark red bracers attaching to his forearms, feeling rather large compared to his arms. Some sort of greaves attached to his feet, which he noticed to start growing longer, waistline torso and back armor pieces firmly wrapped his body, a couple of shoulder pads tightened to his shoulders, and a fox shaped mask attached to his face.
The guardian he just defeated appeared again in the opposite corner of the room, wearing a new set of armor. Feroh tried to grab his weapon, but to his dismay he found that those bracers were quickly becoming his size. He panicked as he watched his arms grow and swell, hands and fingers quickly ballooning and growing darker and more paw like, his nails cracking and revealing claws growing from underneath, painfully stretching their way out of his fingers.
Lacking firm grip, his weapon fell to the ground. In reaction, our adventurer tried to take those bracers off, but at that point he had already lost all his dexterity, his limbs no longer human, with forearms practically as large as his torso, and paws twice or maybe thrice the size of his head, sporting claws that were slightly over half a meter long. To further complicate things, his arms started to grow loads of thick long fur of an absolute pristine white, it fully hid the straps that he was so desperately trying to loosen up in less than a minute.
The guardian did not move, just watching Feroh transform. Feet growing longer and becoming digitigrade, more fitting to the greaves he was wearing, white pointy ears and a long snout soon followed to fit the mask. Finally, a very fluffy tail sprouted from his spine.
"What just happened to me!?", Feroh asked.
The guardian took one step forward, his eyes glowing bright yellow from within the mask, just like Feroh's eyes now.
"You defeated me, one of the guardians of the Shrine of Night, and you now bear the consequences of it, may you like it or not. You arrived seeking power, and you have received it."
Feroh shuddered, his newly grown fur poofing on end.
"What do you mean with that!?"
"You have received the powers of the guardians, the shrine has become a magic labyrinth to test you. Find your way through the labyrinth, and you will acquire the ability to transform back and forth and use our powers at will, you will effectively become close to being a divinity with free will."
"Does not sound too bad... what is the catch?", Feroh asked.
"Your body will grow a new tail every hour, if you have not left the Shrine of Night before you grow your ninth tail, your prize will become your curse"
Feroh trembled, his bright white fur standing on end once more.
"That sounds ominous, what will happen to me if I fail?"
"You will forcefully transform every night and feel completely uncontrollable urges of guarding the nearest shrine until daytime, just like the rest of us".
"I better get going".
"Good luck, keep your hopes low, no guardian have ever escaped their fate yet"
Feroh rushed through the corridors, spending hours completely lost. He found the exit, and started to running towards it, when his ninth tail sprouted on his rear. He crossed the large gate, wondering.
"Did I make it on time? I am out of the Shrine... right?"
His breathing became louder, more feral and anxious.
"...right?"
He tried to walk away, took a few more steps with great difficulty, and found himself dropping down to all fours like a wild animal.
"What is... wrong... with... me?"
He slowly walked to the entrance, still on all-fours, it took him a while to calm down, stood up on his rear legs once more and walked out of the gate, the first steps were easy, then they started to become more difficult.
"It was nothing... I am sure it was n..."
He snarled and dropped those large forepaws back to the ground, turning around and walking back into the Shrine, again on all-fours.
He resigned, and waited at the shrine, the night felt very long, but eventually, he could peek at the sunrise. His body changed back to his human form not long after, he tried to take off the cursed armor and bell collar, but realized he was unable.
"How am I going to explain this to anyone? Can I even do it? No... too dangerous"
He ran away from the shrine, hoping that if he would be far enough, he would be free from its influence. After the long day, he found himself transforming once more, and started feeling the urges, he dropped on all-fours letting out wild vulpine growls and ran towards somewhere... somewhere different. His new body allowed him to cover great distances pretty quickly, and he soon found himself at a new shrine, where he finally calmed down again.
He tried to walk away one last time, hoping this shrine might have a different influence to the one he escaped from. But found himself breathing noisily, growling and dropping on all-fours once more, walking back to the shrine.
No guardian has ever escaped their fate, and Feroh was not an exception to it.
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