when the king rows from his set to dismiss the other leopard that there was just the two of you as the king speaks and said, "However, I am still left with the same problem, now that your a bit calm about this." the king frowns. "I am still in need of a champion, but I can't wait around forever for another human to stumble into the world of the kingdom. The worlds were once connected," the king softens his tone a bit as you then sense a hint of regret in him. "I wonder if the humans have changed, or have this realm changed? It doesn't matter now, it is what it is," he says determinedly.
"Well, It appears I must make use of you, whatever the circumstances," he continues. You did not like the sound of that. What sort of use was he planning with you in it? You were already trapped inside a body of a leopard. how Could things get any worse? "You will serve as a candidate support as you obviously have an affinity for the divine, but it appears you have had no training. Now that my leopard has turned you into the form your in now, you are permanently connected to this world. However, the bond you have to the human world has not been severed as the the bond is to great." You were listening intently at this point while wondering what he has in mind with you. "I will use this to the full effect," he avows while moving in closer to you as you back up slowly to hit the wall behind you. staring straight into your eyes while kneeling.
"You will return to the human world - " he starts to say.
this made Your heart leaps with joy as You were getting out of this crazy divine world, jungle, or this hallucination. All hope is not yet lost as You can just go talk to a shrink about this insane dream and get yourself back to normal. However, you then realized that the king was not yet finished.
" - and will serve as my eyes in the human world while bringing along my leopard servant that just left a moment ago. By using your body that my servant will be able to enter the human realm and carry out my wills." he orders while the leopard from before came in next to you and sits down that you looked around uneasily. "I will require a champion, a successor to my position, the one who is worthy of such a title. by Using you, my servant will find, protect, and nurture those who are acceptable candidates in the human world, and eventually bring them back the worthiest to this realm," he smiles in a toothy grin, which causes you to shiver inside the body of a calm leopard while sitting next to one. Does this mean that you will be a prisoner while being near the leopard, controlling your life? "You are going to be marked as evidence of your bond with my servant and the realm here. Do your duties well and you may very well earn your freedom back, once your labor jobs have been completed." the king then points to the center of the leopard's forehead, as well as yours then everything goes black.
you weren't certain how long you have been out once you came to. feeling groggy, you open your bleary eyes and find yourself to be lying on a dirt path, surrounded by fallen leaves and tree limbs. Lifting your head that you don't see a thick jungle undergrowth, but moonlight filtered through pine and elm trees. Slowly, you come to the realization that you are on the same path you got lost from. "Was it really all just a dream?" you wondered as you then looked down.
Looking down at yourself that you felt a rush of embarrassment when you realized of the fact of being completely naked, desperately ignoring the concurrent relief at seeing your human body when you see a leopard sleeping next to you. What happened to your clothes? Did you take them off in the throes of some fit or hallucination? and why is there a sleeping leopard laying right next to me? Shaking your head to clear the cobwebs, you insist to yourself that the jungle, the temple, the king, and this leopard were merely figments of your addled imagination as you thought of get yourself checked out by a doctor, as soon as you get out of here. Determined to find something to cover yourself up with before anyone comes down the path and finds you sleeping with a leopard while labeling you a pervert. you roll yourself to get to your feet and stand up.
Something soft brushes against the back of your legs. Thinking you had backed up against a bush that you turn around to find there a bush near you on the path. relief of something else back there as you you reach behind your head for a scratch that you pause in fear and pass your hands over your head, hoping to brush off whatever it was sticking to you...and froze in fear. Your hands passes over something soft that when you do is when you feel a strangest sensation you have ever felt in your life, but it felt oddly familiar as your hands were still touching them. is Like you had felt this sensation before, and yet recently. It was the sensation of...
You didn't want to believe it. It can't be true. Maybe if you don't touch them, you can convince yourself that it was just another hallucination. However, you knew deep in your heart that it was real. Taking a deep breath as you found a small pond near you and the leopard, you look into the pond at the spot where your hands were touching.
Sprouting from the top of your head were two gorgeous, spotted, fur-covered...leopard ears. As you gawk in disbelief, your ears twitched with nervousness as if to confirm its existence. Gritting your teeth, you concentrated a bit, and easily folded them backwards behind you. You exhale heavily, and hyperventilate a bit, as you come to terms with the fact that you can control your leopard ears almost perfectly. as You were just standing there, naked with your leopard ears on your head on the forest path that you were at a complete loss for words while fearing on what to do next. that's when the sleeping leopard awoke.
The leopard king definitely did marked you as one of his own as you thought on what to do.