Ever wonder what immortality is like?

No...Yes, either way I'm gonna tell ya.

It's hell.

You see the only good thing about being immortal is that you get to see as time passes by and hopefully forgets you in the process...sadly that's also the bad thing about it.

You know the great Pyramids...Yeah I helped design them.
You know the leaning tower of Piza...that was just an accident of an unfortunately timed explosion underground.
You know the Eiffel Tower...actually that one was supposed to be a giant beacon to get me back home.

Yeah lets not mention that one...

...well I guess now that the cat's out of the bag. I'm not human. I mean what human has a tail, snout, can speak and a hundred and fifty different non-world languages, and can fly...in a spacecraft?

(And yes variations of the same language count)

Well now that I think about it, if you would stop warring with each other that is, you all might be able to reach the far distance of your solar system within...three galactic cycles. And no I am not even going to try to simplify that to standard measurements used on this planet. You'll understand once you have to redesign your entire measurement system...and physics.

Did you know I keep a mini-black hole in my pocket? No...well I do, and not even I know how it works I just know that it was hella expensive, will last for several tens of generations after I am dead, and is an easy way to get rid of people...or cities...that annoy me. Though I am ashamed to admit that I lost it to a certain group of Spartans and they almost wiped out the European continent...yeah they had to be 'disappeared' for that and it turns out that I didn't need to worry about any kind of retaliation because Sparta was wiped out a century or so later.

The saddest thing about this planet is that I don't get to see the stars anymore. I think that it was around the 1800's...maybe later, maybe earlier...that I first started losing sight of some of the known systems that I knew were inhabited or under siege. It's pretty crazy how fast things have changed since the early days of man. Man I miss the giant reptiles, at least they knew how to give me a good fight.

Nowadays you challenge some super powerful country or nation and they're like "let's drop a freaking bomb on you"...Every. Single. Time! And they've gotten pretty creative on how to do said thing too...one moment I'm making a deal with some nice people about where they've been keeping their weapons, minus a few limbs and teeth, and boom! The next I'm picking scraps of metal and propellant from my fur and trying to hold myself back from just jumping out of the crater and ripping apart whatever drone or plane they used to do it.

Well there was that one time with the angry jets that fly so close to the ground they sometimes barely miss a building or two, but I've since left them alone...I think they look cool and I think that if the humans do have any chance of winning any kinds of battles in space they better employ more kinds of pilots like those. I had to destroy one of them because they shot me in the face, and I wasn't exactly in the best of moods at the moment so I kinda, sorta ripped it into little pieces mid-air.

Yeah I'm pretty sure one of the governments around here has created a death quad of some sort with their only purpose being the capture or elimination of things like me or maybe they're just after me. Either way it's really been my only source of entertainment on this planet...you know kill one or two of them, knock the rest out, and then disappear for a few more years so that they can get stronger and invent new things...which has lead to my current predicament.

Yeah. I don't like being stared at through the so called one-way glass they have in these surprisingly comfortably dark rooms they have for alternative purposes with prisoners, but "there's nothing I can do about it so why bother trying to break out" right?

At least that's what the scientist in charge says. Really makes me glad that my weapon in a bracelet and not something that looks like an actual weapon or some sort that they would take...and that it's now been bound to my skeleton. Yeah nothing they have is going to getting it off anytime soon...nope.

Oh look! I've got a visitor.

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When I saw the report I was thinking that my second in command was losing her mind. This thing was like something out of a fairy-tale, or comic series: It looked like a bipedal blue and black furred wolf with crimson red eyes and purple claws, it stood at around seven foot one and had incisors large and probably strong enough to bite through a foot long support beam and rip it the rest of the way off without having any trouble.

To put it simply it was a furry, or at least that's what I've been told it seemed to resemble the most. I did my research on these 'furries' around an hour before coming in for a debriefing about the thing and from what I saw they seemed like something from a kids show or syfy animated film, but with a particularly erotic twist. My second wanted to interrogate the creature but given her visible reaction to seeing the thing I didn't think that would be a wise decision, and to be clear the reaction I saw was anything but negative.

I stopped just outside of the reinforced doors leading into the room and after waiting for the team to secure the room I entered myself. It was a six man team of the best men we had at our disposal and while I wasn't sure they would be enough I had to give my faith in their resolve. Until I saw what lay before me that is..quite literally in fact.

The creature lay in the far right corner of the room hugging it's tail and mumbling to itself. It had barely been an hour and the thing was already asleep, or was it seemingly asleep and trying to lure us in? The door secured itself behind us and I motioned for one of the guards to go over and wake it up, and there seemed to be a conversation among the six before one of them mumbled something under their breath and stepped forwards.

At that moment the creature decided to let go of it's tail and sit up. The six foot limb easily folded the steel table in the middle of the room towards the floor and stayed there, a subtle threat. It stretched it's long long limbs and dug the claws of it's hands and feet into the ceiling and floor while yawning, both of which were reinforced steel for good measure, before ripping them out slowly and setting their hands on their knees to look at me. It took all I had to remain in my position and not move a muscle at the extremely predatory gaze it had me in.

"Honestly that was one of the best naps I've had in a few centuries so I've decided I'll let you and your men live a bit longer because I'm in a good mood." The Nerve this thing had to speak like that in-front of a commanding officer in the middle of a military base!

"You would let me live just because you had a good nap? I don't think you understand quite how much danger we are to you..."

"No. No I do not." The creature said, "the fact that you haven't asked the question of how I can speak your language is a given to how you feel about me given the fact you've been studying me I assume. Second none of the weapons in this room of in this base will penetrate my pelt and nothing you have in this solar system short of something to harness the power of a star would be able to harm me, maybe irritate me, but not harm me. And third yes I do believe letting you live is a good reason for interrupting an apex predator in the middle of a very relaxing, long awaited nap. One of which I haven't had in a long time.

"So now how about we get down to business. I know that you and the lady behind that plastic have quite a few questions about me and where I come from, however I do not have to answer any of your questions and as you have no ability to force me to I have no qualms about staying silent. No it doesn't mean I won't answer some of them...just the ones I don't feel like answering."

"Alright then. What are you and where do you come from?" I asked and the wolf just smiled.

"Your species knows me under the consensus as a 'furry' and since I quite like the term I think I'll have your military use it for my classifications." The wolf grinned and my eye twitched in annoyance. The nerve this thing had..."Anyways you wouldn't be able to pronounce my biological name of species in your tongue...or with your vocal cords for that matter."

"Why not?" I asked and it grinned and let out a series of growls and rumbles that shook the very room with a hidden power I couldn't quite understand why by just saying their name and species, if it was either of the two at all.

"You didn't answer my second question from before. Where did you come from?" I asked and the wolf just grinned again.

"Very far away." Was all it said, still grinning as it stared at me unnervingly unconcerned about seemingly anything.

"Alright. When did you land on this planet? How did you do so? And are there others like you here?"

"A long time ago. An Explosion. And there are plenty of others like me here." It was really starting to piss me off but at least this was getting somewhere.

"How many more and what do you mean by an explosion?" I asked looking down to make sure my device was recording.

"Well I think that there's at least a few hundred million if not a few billion of others like me on this planet. How else do you want me to clarify that. I got sent here because of an explosion and there's nothing else to it."

"How can there be that many of your kind here? We would surely have noticed them if even a few thousand are like you" I asked and it tapped a claw on it's side of the destroyed table and finally lifted it's tail from the middle of it.

"Oh don't you know. There are plenty of species of wolves, foxes, ferrets, bears, and other animals running about on this planet...hell there are conventions your own species holds a few times a year in different places around the world where they dress up into costumes of creatures like me. That's actually one of the few times I love coming into a city and mingling with the locals."

It was doing all of this on purpose!

I slammed a hand on the table and tossed a file at it with several satellite pictures of it in different areas of the world with different descriptions about each.

"Stop messing around! You know what I'm asking about so why don't you drop the act and answer the question!" I growled and that seemed to have crossed a line. It's left ear seemed to twitch at the noise and its playful demeanor disappeared into the stoic markings of a well trained soldier of war.

"First of all I said I will answer your questions how I want to, not how you want me to. Second didn't anyone ever tell you not to growl at your peers? How about I show you how it's done." I stepped back unconsciously as did the soldiers as the creature moved for the first time since the conversation. It's tail dragged over and to the side where it ripped off the corner leg of the already broken table bolted to the floor, all of it's limbs set themselves on the floor, the hackles of it's fur stood at full length and it's face curled into a full snarl.

"No." It said before stepping back into it's previous position on the floor. "You can leave now." It said glaring in our direction, not just at me, but at the soldiers around me as well. It had taken all I had to not wet my pants under it's gaze earlier and even more to keep from running, and I am sure that the same could be said for the men around me. It made me admire their resolve and strength even more than I had already known.

I also knew that whether we listened or not we were going to be on the other side of the door in due time, so I decided to cut my losses for the day and leave for a break. Next time I was letting my second in command go at the creature, I'm pretty sure now that she would have a better time getting information from this creature than I was.

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Humans are such strange creatures sometimes. I had thought that the man before me was going to be much stronger than the six soldiers around him, for 'protection', but he was just like any of the stupid foolish creatures that I've encountered in the past. I still want to make sure that those evil birds of do's and don'ts were truly and forever dead and never coming back. Every single night I was living in the southern part of this planet one would find me!

It didn't matter if I was sleeping at the top of a damn mountain or in the deepest ravine one always found a way to peck my eye...literally!

Anyways as the human left I was wondering what was going to happen next and while I thought that he was going to go back into that room behind that flimsy material they call a window he didn't appear there. Though after a few moments one of the soldiers came opened the door to their room and said a few things...I was a bit preoccupied listening to the countless other things around me to notice what was said.

It didn't seem to matter though as the woman who'd been standing next to the male from earlier had stood up and made her way out of the room, where I could no longer watch...or listen as it was just so loud here. However it seems that I didn't have to wait long to find out as she walked into the room I was resting in, though the strange thing was that she was much more polite than the other human. She even knocked on the door first before coming in, thought she didn't wait for an answer it was enough of an improvement that I was intrigued.

"Hello human female." I said and she took off her hat and bowed low, almost at a ninety degree angle but not quite there.

"I apologize for my superior's actions towards you and what he may think of your kind." She said and I hummed disinterested in the other humans actions. He was a soldier and would likely never see past what was being given to him under orders and lies; however, this young soldier was not only admirable for her admiration of my kind, but she was also sensible and intelligent. "I'm keeping you." I growled and she tilted her head in confusion before snapping out of it and dragging in a chair, then the door closed behind her and she sat down facing me.

"You're not going to bring in more soldiers in?" I asked and she shook her head.

"What's the point?" She said pointedly taking out her gun, "Its not like these or anything else we have currently will even come close to harming you. I'd bet it would just be like getting attacked by a swarm of gnats, uh little flies. They annoy and pester but they don't actually cause harm, so why waste valuable lives just for one person to get away when those soldiers could be used elsewhere to actually win a fight they were trained for?" I was surprised. She was very insightful and it only made her all the more alluring.

"You have a good, thoughtful mind soldier." I hummed, "What do they call you here?" She stood up suddenly flustered and I smiled.

"I apologize, I didn't introduce myself." She said and took off her had once again, "I am Special Operations Amy Randall. I'm usually in charge of operations and training but I've got a few degrees in engineering, mechanics, and anatomy." She stopped, put her hat back on, and and retook her seat still a bit flustered.

"So you're a modern Strategist and Weapons Specialist?" I asked and she was about to correct me or maybe even add to what was said but instead she just nodded and I grinned. She would be the perfect one to help my in my mission. "Good. That's good."

"Good why?" She asked and I just kept smiling at her 'You will find out soon enough, don't worry.'

The rest of the time was spent asking each other questions. I answered most of them honestly, but as the soldier she was she kept on subtly trying to get information about what my mission here was in different ways without being too pushy and after a good two hours she got up again and aimed to leave. I watched as she took off her hat and bowed, but at the same time a voice transmission went through my bracelet and into my sensory system with an important announcement.

It looks like the rest of my crew was here...

"Stay." I growled and she froze a few feet from the door, turning around to face me curiously.

"Did you say something?" She asked and I grinned, so she could understand after all. That only proved my decision about her.

"Stay." I repeated and she lent against a wall and shook her head.

"I. I can't. I have things to do...this meeting lasted a bit longer than anticipated." She moaned and I grinned.

"Stay."

She tried to say something else, but her movements slowed as she slowly made her way to the ground, towards me and out of danger. "I--I..."

'Sleep' I decided to test something and her body instantly shut down into unconsciousness. I stood up, bending the ceiling under my will and reached towards her as the alarms sounded and a team tried to break through their well secured door. I looked at the one-way glass that held two shocked humans: one being the general and the other a scientist looking person I didn't care to remember.

Then I smiled and a flash of light interrupted my vision as the building exploded from the pressure wave of forced transfer.

Honestly I wanted to put this up yesterday, but my lazy butt wanted to watch a few movies I haven't seen in a while, so I hope that you enjoyed this chapter and please let me know if you want a short five or ten chapter story based off of these events.

Till next time! Ciao!