Last thing she remembered was crashing outside SIR, but now she was...home.Or a very realistic dream of home. It even had her father sat across her, smiling to him with deep gold eyes.

  “Dad…” Kiko couldn’t believe it. He was dead, what was he doing here?

  “Hey Kid. You really got the shit end of the stick, huh?” He asked, smiling his coy, fident smile, before leaning forward to pour some tea.

  “You’re dead…” She muttered, not able to believe her eyes.

  “Yea. Kinda sucks. But no Kitsune close to your heart ever truly dies. I get to be here, with nifty goldehat let me Look into your mind and make a perfect helper for your problems. If you want to get teical, I am not actually Drax, but what makes a person, if it is not memory aion? I’m as Drax as Drax was, which is why I feel fortable with the cim that I am him” Drax liked to talk, and Kiko liked his voice. So it was a good partnership between father and daughter. “I’m sorry I forced you to deal with all this so quickly. I thought I would be alive a lot lohan I was. We Kitsunes are born to kill the Beasts from Beyond. It is our calling and our nature. And I wao spare you that, I wanted you to have a normal life, not a life that would have you out there, against them.

  As a five-tailed Kitsune, I thought I was going to be able to keep you out of the life for a lot longer. But it seems something big caught me by surprise. Little bitch” He finished p the tea, and took his own cup, pushing Kiko’s towards her.

  “I…missed you. And...you...say you , look into my mind?” She muttered. Drax stared for a sed, as if looking through her mind – the way he said ‘look’ made it sound as if it was something different to using your eyes to see things – and then sighed and leaned back.

  “Yea. Fu' Blood Moon. Where were the ces of that happening to you, of all people?” He asked rhetorically, shaking his head. "Tell Asha about it when you wake up. They probably have you locked up somewhere because you did go psycho and obliterate fuys in a parking lot. But that will at least give them a reason" he selled, giving her a warm smile.

  This was was f. And, with everything she had heard, Kiko khat this was exactly what they were desigo do. Halluations that acted as a portable, personal therapist. What kind of situation would require this kind of modification, however, she didn’t know.

  “So I heard you had a retionship with Queenie” Kiko put in, slumping ba her chair.

  “Ha, ran into Queenie huh? Yea, she was a good'un ba the day. Fiery little tike. We had some good days with her" Drax would give a coy aed smirk.

  “Is she my mother?” Kiko asked. Her mother had left when Kiko was very young, and Drax was disgruntled enough to have no pictures about the pce. Though, from the rea of Drax spitting out his tea, she immediately knew she was not.

  "Va, No. No. We never got that far. Nor, I think, ever had any iion of that far to begin with. Your mother is a different womairely" Drax seemed to have quite a lot of feelings on that particur subject, so just ged to another one.

  "Va? Is that an old curse word or something?" Kiko asked, leaning in. If this was going to be a proper versation with a Dad-Equivalent, might as well make the most of it.

  "No, no. She'd kick my ass for using it like that, if I wasn't already dead. Va is the God of the Kitsunes, often appears as the feminine side of the Trinity. Ag is the God of the Lupines, and is the male side of the Trinity. Inari is the God of the Inu. And appears male or female as they will" he'd expin, befng into his cup. "Though, theology lessoo go on hold, you are waking up now" Drax excimed, and before Kiko could argue, she was in a rather empty room.

  Her body was sluggish and drowsy, her shoulder...was surprisingly good actually. Though the handcuff log her to the bed was less good. Not an out of character rea sidering what she did. She was clearly being monitored, as a few minutes after she woke up, someone unlocked the door and came in. T'was the doan from before, who o Kiko and wisely stayed out of reach.

  "I'm not going to attack you" Kiko told him, leaning bad rexing.

  "I'd rather keep a safe distanyway. It was quite the brutal video to watch. Though, there is nothing oests to imply what would cause that kind of rea. And Asha has no records of a Kitsune's fur turnihe man replied. That certainly cause Kiko's attention, and she sat up with a bolt.

  "My fur turned red? Holy shit...it didn't happen to be a bloody red, did it?" She asked, apprehensively.

  "...It did, yea. Why do you ask?" the Doctor questioned, looking up from his clip board.

  "I...this whole, thing started after the first guy started bleeding. My whole body felt flushed and filled with power. And this is going to sound terribly weird, but my dead father told me it's a Blood Moon thing" she expined, being as helpful as she could. Wasn't his fault she was kind of scary.

  "Blood Moon? But we make sure...." he'd mutter to himself before looking at Kiko. "Ohh....ohh...shit" the doctor would stare, eyes bulged, and then turning for the door and leaving Kiko in professional panic. She had been dealing with it before, helped by the Kitsuality. But now...that rea...it made her feel like a monster. And then an invasive voice came to her ears. Different to the one before, this one was seductive, but cruel.

  ‘They fear you now. Nobody will trust you again. Whatever you do, however you try to redeem yourself, they will always look at you different’ it said. The words were so true. The doctor's rea. Avoiding her like that, and then running away when he figured out what she was. No wonder Drax wao keep her away from this life, he wao keep everyone from realizing the monster he had given birth to.

  ‘But I help you, my dear. I make it so that you are never subjected to this pain again’ it promised. 'I will take your sadness, your despair, and treat yht. I will never see you as a Monster. Only as the glorious woman you be' the voice promised. Silky smooth and irresistable, Kiko gave into the hypnotic beauty of it a herself be taken. There was soft ughter in her head before she felt teeth sink into her neck, ripping into her. It was an agony she could not stand, but now she aralyzed, uo do anything about it.

  For a few moments she felt her emotions being drained and repced with something repulsive. Something she wao run from, to fight off. But the paralysis was total, and she could only sit here ahe creature take trol of her.

  Or so she thought. The voice, so haughty and proud, suddenly turned frantid frightened as a sed appeared. The creature that sunk into her neck screamed inside her head, before the shrieks became wordless and it faded away into nothing.

  Freed from the paralysis, Kiko’s hao her neck, ahe wound there, saw the blood from the puncture mark. Whatever had happened wasn’t in her mind, it was real....And that was very bad.

  "What the fuck?" she gasped, her head swimming as her emotions snapped bad burned out the repulsive rept.

  ‘You are the closest I have been in hundreds of years. People are moving away from us and towards them, and this may be my st ce. And I will not lose you to some abandoned sger. There is nothing wrong with asking for and receiving help, little one. Just don’t rely on it to save you from everything’ it replied, ringing in her mind. The voice was so powerful, so fident, so fearless. But then it faded away like fog in the noonday sun, a Kiko. Exhausted from the ordeal, Kiko tried to fight off the fatigue but failed and passed out again on the bed.