There’s no such thing as too much energy. The hive understood this as one of the wolfmen slashed the throat of the hunter. The death gave the hive a surge in energy that quickly replaced the energy the hive had used to create You-Who-Are-Not-Bear and Smoky.

As the hunter died, only one of the humans was left. The human named Useless had several deep cuts on her body and was at death’s door. As another of the wolfmen went to finish her off, the spirits of the hive began an argument that would, unknown to all, change the world.

“Let’s stop the wolfmen from killing the last human.” One of the spirits suddenly said.

“Uh…why?” asked several of the spirits.

“The human is no longer a threat.” The spirit replied. “Let’s used her!”

“Use her for what?”

“Just stop the wolfmen first. If the last human died, all the talk here is for naught.”

“Okay…how do we do that?”

“The same way the fire spirits suggested,” the spirit said. “Let’s send a message to their minds.”

“We’re not sure we can do that.”

“So? Since when has that stopped us?”

“…You got a point there.”

The hive concentrated on the wolfmen, trying to send a message to them. They had no idea what they were doing, so they did what they always did. They relied on their instincts and their power.

*Stop*

To the hive’s slight surprise, all the wolfmen did as told. A few of them looked around the room but all of them stopped.

“Okay…that went surprisingly well.” One of the spirits said. “What now?”

“Let’s change the human.”

“To what? Not to mention no one has said why are we are doing this in the first place?”

“We are doing this because we want to see if we can!” the spirit said. “We know we can change wolves to wolfmen, so let’s see if we can change humans to…well, wolfman.”

“But why?” a spirit complained. “We don’t need to do this. We have the wolfmen and our beasts; why bother with more?”

“There no such thing as too much protection,” the spirit replied. “Besides…aren’t any of you curious how far our powers could go?”

That basically ended the argument. The hive decided to give this a shot and tried to do to the dying human what it did to the pups. The hive focused and poured the energy its energy into the human. At first, nothing happened but the hive remembered it took awhile with the pups so it continued to pour energy into the human. Still, nothing happened and the hive began to wonder if it was going to work. Then, the human started to glow.

Just like the pups, the glowing human got brighter and brighter before it began changing. Unlike the pups, the human did not get bigger or taller, instead the changes happened to the human’s body. The human’s ear disappeared, and then two ears appeared on top of its head. The human’s teeth got longer, and her eyes became two different colors; one turned red while the other stayed blue. The human’s hair turned white and strange markings appeared on her face. However, the strangest thing has to be the tail that grew out of the human’s back.

Then the human stopped glowing and the hive knew the transformation had finished. The hive stopped pouring its energy and found to its surprise how much it had lost. The hive had probably used as much energy changing the human as it did changing all the 5 pups. Some of the spirits within the hive quickly suggested the hive not try to change any humans in the future. It’s just doesn’t seem to be worth it.

Most of the hive agreed.

The human stood up and the hive saw that it was standing up like a normal human but the tail at its back told everyone it was no longer a true human. It had became something else and the wolfmen surrounding the new human knew it. One of the wolfmen walked towards the wolf…girl.

The wolfman began sniffing the wolfgirl and the hive noticed for the first time that the wolfgirl’s body was now covered with small fur. The hive focused on the wolfgirl but found nothing else that had changed. She did not have claws on her fingers, and her face reminded that of a human. She may have changed in some ways, but in others she had reminded the same. The hive wondered why this was the case and whether they could in the future control what was changed instead of leaving it to chance.

Then the woIfman took the wolfgirl by her hand and began to softly pull her further into the tunnels. The wolfgirl followed the wolfman in a daze and the rest of the wolfmen followed the duo. Before long, all 6 of the hybrids stood before the hive. The wolfmen stopped and the wolfgirl walked slowly towards the hive. The hive felt no fear towards the new wolfgirl but was surprised when the wolfgirl dropped to her knees.

“What are you?” she asked in reverence.

The hive had no answer. It didn’t know what it was so it answered the only way it could. The hive poured its energy into all the wolfmen and said;

*We are your creator.*

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