Part 11. Finally Opening Up 

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I soon joined video on the voice and kinda posed.

“Oh it’s the Skunk guy. Whoa. Nice clothes. Slick looking.” Snickers voiced.

“How you doing dude? Munk was worried about you last night. After he was scared being in a place with a huge animal feral skunk.” Dusty voiced.

“I only get told of his complete shutdown mentality as he busts down the door and wanders aimlessly in the room i’m chilling in. Then i’m having to rush for information on what is going on. And you just kept hanging me for loop Dusty.” Munk voiced.

“Man i’ma go to your house Dusty and whap that head of yours so much it’d probably fall off. You butt. You knew what was going to happen. This first time Munk had a roommate and on top of that is going through the hardest of changes. Give the guy a break.” Snickers voiced.

“I TOLD HIM ALREADY. So get off my butt.” Dusty voiced.

“It’s ok guys. I’m back. I think the mental changes are done. The last dream i had was a fazing effect that kinda was like a recap of understanding. I was a human in a desert landscape with my feral counterpart. But it spoke my voice and i spoke it. As time went on. I slowly started to understand my animal self and it understood me. Once we both changed into basically a mirror effect. It faded away as if absorbing into me fully. Like it was the final step. I returned to the woods i was trained in and gave a goodbye to it for the help before waking up. So i think it’s finished. The bond binding fusing of the animal side to my human side is finished. I’ll course still be part animal with some animal acts of times. But now i understand about it all like it’s second nature.” I voiced.

“Yeah that’s kinda how mine was.” Dusty voiced.

“So long as i keep my understand of both sides. I shouldn’t fall feral.” I voiced.

“Dang. Dusty why didn’t you tell me you went through this?” Snickers voiced.

“I’ma tell my life story to every. Yup. Makes total sense. That’s like your mom showing us pictures of when you were a piglet. How embarrassing.” Dusty voiced.

“Well it does help everyone know what happens. I been recording him for the high ups to know what to expect from others. The more we can get and understand of the process the more we can prepare. LIKE SOMEONE I KNOW……Oh right. ME. Who was in a room with a feral mental hybrid.” Munk voiced.

“Deserves a good spray in the face anyways.” Dusty voiced and whispered.

“Dusty you really think we didn’t just hear that?” Munk voiced.

“SCREW OFF!” Dusty voiced.

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“Sorry can’t do that. Already got my chair on my butt.” Munk voiced.

“Maybe he needs a squeaker toy?” I voiced.

“OH i should ship him one of our famous farm corn plush toys. Has a squeaker inside it if you squeeze it.” Snickers voiced and laughed.

“Shouldn’t he already have a billion of those? Company should’ve gotten him a box of toys to mess with when he was changing like Spots.” Munk voiced.

“I bet he threw them away. To big…..Sorry small of a man to play with such toys.” Snickers voiced.

“What’s smaller? Him or the toy.” I voiced.

Snickers and Munk laughed.

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“Uh. I smell something fishy.” i voiced.

“They’ll get over it.” Dusty voiced.

“Did you….” I voiced.

“Did what? Mute their cracks? Maybe…..” Dusty voiced.

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“Wow the fag.” Munk voiced.

“Ok i’ll be right back. I’ma drive up to this butts place and stomp his house into the floor.” Snickers voiced.

“NO no no no. Just leave it.” I voiced

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“To late.” Munk voiced.

“And it’s just us now.” I voiced.

“Yup.” Munk voiced.

“Let me guess. Locked him out of voice?” I voiced.

“Mhmm. For now.” Munk voiced.

“I’ma uh leave this for you guys to deal with. Whatever is going on. So i’ma get off.” I voiced.

“Yeah sorry.” Munk voiced.

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I laid my back back on the chair and sighed. “Don’t do anything rash.” I mentioned to Munk.

“It’s cool. Dusty kept pausing trying to delay when i had to deal with you loosing yourself. I wanted to respect your space and try to move out. But he kept being a butthole.” Munk told.

“I still feel sorry. Stupid change.” I said.

“Na. You’re ok.” Munk said and turned to look behind himself at the upstairs door. “Oh they’re here.” Munk mentioned.

I turned with a ear flick and look to Munk. Then i looked back to where he was looking. “Huh? who?” I questioned and twisted my body to half sit-stand on my chair pushing myself to look over it the back.

“The vision guys are upstairs. They’ll be doing some eye measurements to get the right contacts for your new goggles.” Munk told.

My tail rose and i glanced over at Munk. “Don’t worry. They are good people and won’t harm you. But you might be bit taken back. One is a. Well a hunter. But they are nice like Wolf.” Munk told.

“Let me guess. A Eagle?” I questioned.

“Eh heh. Yeah. But they are good with vision. I mean who better than a vision specialist then one who has the best vision.” Munk said.

“How they gonna work without hands?” I questioned.

“Oh they’re a gryphon.” Munk told.

My tail lifted up and hung on my back. I lightly cackled. “Aren’t those guys super big? How they gonna fit in here?” I questioned.

“It’s ok. I get bit frightened to. And they are just slightly bigger than us on fours.” Munk told. 

I closed my eyes and tried breathing. “K. Tell them they can come down and setup. I’ll try to keep from freaking out. But i’m still new to hold this back. So i can’t say i might give warnings to them to not do stuff.” I told.

“Don’t worry. They already know. The Gryphon is wearing rubber tipped claw gloves on their feet and claw fore legs. Though can’t say that helps. Even me. It’s the beak that is quite scary. So if you think you’re scared it gives me goosebumps.” Munk said and soon mumbled about it’s clear for them to come down.

Soon the door to the room opened. The first thing to walk in on fours was a large 5 foot tall from shoulders a white body eagle front and wolf rear side gryphon wearing some black feet gloves. Along with what looked like some kind of cargo bag harness clothing across it’s body. The clothing and harness were a dull tan color. Soon after the gryphon walked in and turned to look at me and Munk at the desk. Another creature walked in. A lightly tint blue grey 5foot tall Bilby with it’s black tail and white tip end swayed behind. It’s pink skin color ears like rabbit ears stuck ontop of it’s head. It looked similar to me and Munk as a hybrid with fur across the body except for the neck and face. They wore a light semi dark red shirt similar to my design and brown shorts. “Hello!” The bilby mentioned. There was also a device on was a small device connected around it’s neck with a speaker. Which i guess could be some translator as the creature clattered and soon the device audio said ‘Hello. How you guys?” It said.

I tilted my head slightly and just stared in ‘whaaaaaa.?’ kinda way.

Munk waved and hopped off his chair to stand leaning on his desk. “This is Shelly. And Chel” Munk mentioned.

“And before you say it. Yes were both female. Thank you.” The Bilby mentioned with a female low leg bow like a princess. The Gryphon did a front kneel bow before both got back up normally. “We were contacted to under go some tests on your eyes. Hearing you were affected by the Naturalistic change. Which also affected your eyes. So we brought the tools to do some tests to get the right judgement for improving your mid and far range vision again.” The Eagle made low bird noises that soon got translated in the device.

As i listened to the bird talk. My gaze went to their neck device and made me wonder about it.

“Spots?” Munk questioned as he glanced over to me and looked back to the gryphon.

“Oh?” Shelly said and looked to the Gryphon following my gaze. “I think he’s interested in your translator.” She told her partner who side glanced in a way kinda looking back to Shelly. Few chirps and screech came. “OH. Yes this is quite a fancy tool. Lot tend to use these since we can’t really speak in human tongue that you can. And the animal world is limited on universal speech like humans have. So this helps broaden our spectrum from our own species to other creatures.” Chel’s device said.

“That’s so cool. Does it detect other animal sounds to translate to. Or just specifically set to one so it doesn’t mistakenly speak out another who tries to catter at it?” I questioned from my seat still.

“Heh. Looks like he’s into tech like you Munk. We’ll set up while you two mingle Chel.” Shelly said.

Chel nodded and moved to the middle of the room to lay down as Shelly started pulling out equipment that looked like some advance version of a eyedoctor stuff. Some bird noises went on from Chel again. “It can. But it’s set specifically to mine. But if you wanna try it out. I can have Shelly adjust it for open com and it’ll translate your cackle noises.” The device spoke.

I soon used a hind foot to stretch out behind me and kick my chair to slightly spin away from the desk. Once it was 90degrees from the desk. I turned around and hopped off it landing on my fours. I was still weary of the gryphon. Both the new scents were strange. One surely a threat foe. The other wasn’t as much. So i crept slightly closer to them before sitting down about the distance i could see them clearly.

“Can i try?” I asked motioning to Chel.

“Sure. Let me adjust it.” Shelly told and after a few seconds of messing with the device on Chel’s neck side. She gave me a thumbs up and went back to taking stuff out.

I made a cackle noise like i did before. “Go away.” It voiced. I changed the vocal cue and tone slightly making slight unnoticable difference to my cackling chitter noises and soon. “Food. Smell. Good. Oh. What. I see. This does work.” It voiced out.

“Wow that translate really accurately.” I spoke normal.

“You knew what you were saying in animal?” Munk questioned.

I looked over and nodded. “The dream taught me to understand my animal noises. And even though some sound similar or same. It’s hard to explain. But there are changes in the cue spacing, and tone differences that make a different tell.” I mentioned. 

Chel lightly screeched and gave a nod. “Awww yes yes. He surely had a great dream to teach his animal nature.” The device voiced.

“Maybe you want one?” Munk and Shelly mentioned almost at same times. Then realised what happened and laughed.

“Uh. Would i really need one? Do naturalistics really lose their voice?” I questioned looking at the trio.

“Huh. Not sure.” Shelly said. 

“I heard some creatures do under stress or excitement. But it’s rare. Not sure of Naturalists. But if you don’t. That’s ok. Just make sure you give me a thumbs up if you ever do and are ok. So i don’t need to worry on having you freak out yelling at me with random cackling noises and hisses.” Munk said.

I chuckled and nodded. “I will Munk. You really helped me out and i don’t wanna be a jerk. So i’ll try my best.” I mentioned.

“K All set. Just have a seat here and Chel will run through the course.” Shelly told and stepped back. There was just a basic seat with what looked like a stand where one would put their head into a box. Then some devices next to it and another box that looked like another would look into.

I slowly walked over on fours as Shelly gave me some distance to stay back. But the Gryphon didn’t move since my guess was they had to be the other person to look in the device while i did.

Once i was near it. I gave the things some sniffs to see if they were harmful. But nothing besides the smell of the creatures and bag smells. Nothing seemed off or dangerous from what i could tell. Besides smelling a mix bird wolf standing 2foot from me. So ignoring the threat smell from the gryphon. I stood up to sit down and stick my head into the device. It had a background that was fuzz in the image ahead. After a second i heard a shuffle and it made me pull my head out to see the gryphon moved and stuck theirs into the other device.

“It’s ok. She needs to see what you see so she can judge how to fix it.” Shelly said.

I gave a slight nod and restuffed my head in to look at it.

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After the tests were done. I quickly got some distance again as my nerves started to get to me about being so close to a creature. It felt safer being farther away from them. So after i was finished i quickly jumped off the chair and bounced on fours a little aways before twisting to lay on the ground looking at the two.

“Sorry did we scare you?” Shelly questioned. Chel had that bird head tilt go on in confusion by how i ran away.

“No. Just being so close for so long started flaring my body up. I know you guys are kind and all. But to get used to a creature that is a threat smell. Got my nerves on edge.” I mentioned.

“Oh. It’s ok. We know. At first time i met Chel as a partner. I was sketched out to by her. Not only is her size as large as me. But those claws and beak. Eeeep. Plus yeah you are a predator so you have that smell of death we can detect.” Shelly said. Chel shook her body lightly and made some screech noises.

“Aww don’t worry about it. I know. Guys are food commonly for hunter animals. And you probably have the instincts really large since you’re still new to the whole animal traits. So makes sense. It’s ok. I understand no need to explain. But we got what we need. So we’ll let you two goofs enjoy rest of the night.” The device said.

“Oh and if you want similar device to hers. Just ask the high ups. They’ll easily throw one your way. We’ll pack up here and go. I’m sure our driver up stairs is waiting. They’re a werewolf. So they can pose human for us and drive us around. So think you having to deal with Chel here. Just be in my shoes. Heh.” Shelly told.

“Wow a werewolf. Lucky them for being able to pose human then us.” Munk said.

I was like o.o. “Ok thanks. I’ll think about it. And again thanks for the help.” I said.

As they packed up and finished quietly. The two soon made their way out of the room closing the door behind after a wave of goodbye and we gave ours back.

“She’s brave. But i bet they are nice people but if i was up there i’d probably not get near them.” I said.

“It can get to you. Even me sometimes. So i understand. But guess we are sorta on the same level. I’m a chipmunk and way easy to likely kill. You’re a spotted skunk. That’s roughly just bigger than me. But have that spray. Probably only thing holding animal like that from wanting to attack would be you. Me. I’d be toast on a bun.” Munk said.

“If it was the wild world. Yeah.” I said and looked to Munk. “Aren’t you glad you have a sprayer for a room mate?” I chuckled. Munk also laughed.

“Welp since their leaving. I’ll go up and get some food for you to bring down for tonight. Then head off to bed. Enjoy the night. Or if you talk with the guys have fun with them.” Munk told as he soon walked over to the upstairs door to and went on up. Leaving me to just lay a bit ways from the desk on the floor on my belly looking at the room in quietness.

After about 10mins. Munk came back down and setup my food, checked my water, and then went on into his burrow after giving me a goodnight wave bye. Vanishing into the floor and leaving me to have the night alone once again.

I didn’t move from my spot. I just laid down after crossing my arms in front of me to lay my head on them. I then closed my eyes and tried to think about things.

There were many things i wanted to know, But some i didn’t. So many complexity of everything that sometimes it’s hard to want it or not. Waving between one or the other was just annoying. So after awhile i just cackled in annoyance to it all and shook myself after standing on fours. I went on to play a bit with my toys and let myself out to wild on for awhile. As time flew on. I switched back and forth from playing to also programming my new phone and setting it up. Lucky there was a cloning system i could use for putting the other ones to be identical. So if i set up one for a pc laptop. It’d have similar setup functions and i wouldn’t need to reput everything to way i wanted.

After eating and drinking, Then messing with some games on my computer and phone. I soon took to going to sleep and heading into my burrow since it was sunrise and becoming morning.

After i got in my room. I curled up on my bed and cackled to myself telling myself goodnight before closing my eyes and letting the real world slip away again as i entered the dream world. What dream would be next or will it just be a fade of nothing was up to the future to show me.

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