A diamond hidden within the gray line

Chapter 28: Max's surprise and reveal leading to kamek's realization.

-Narration-

Though max is slowly able to see, he saw that a nurse had come in to check on his vitals. "I'm glad you're doing better! You gave everyone quite a scare..." She said to him. The nurse max saw was a female fox in her early 30's and while max saw her as cute, he actually swung in the opposite direction even though he never expressed any interest in relationships when he was younger. But he had the feeling that was about to change at some point. "I'm just glad..that i'm alive." Max says, who was able to sit up while the nurse nods. "You are without a doubt, a lucky koopa." She says with a smile, before slightly bowing to bowser before walking out. "What..? What is she.." Max began to say, before he saw his arm. "Woah.." He says, seeing his arm no longer had human skin, but that of a koopa. "Heh..you're just figuring it out, eh?" Bowser says with a chuckle.

"Got a mirror? I uh..i wanna see what i look like." Max asked, whose curiosity was getting the better of him. "I'll help with that." Kamek says, using his wand to summon a mirror in front of him.

-Max pov-

What i saw was...me. My hands now had four fingers instead of five, and each finger had claws that looked incredibly sharp. I used the mirror to look at my back, only to find that i now had a shell on my back that was colored electric orange with spikes on it with olive green circles. It didn't surprise me as much as i thought it would since i realized that i wasn't the only one with a colored shell. I did see that my necklace is still there, but i now knew what to call it.

Onward to my head...my hair still looked the same...orange short mohawk. Or halfhawk since it doesn't go to back of my head...hell, i don't think that's actually a word, but dammit it makes sense to me!

As for my head? Yep...my ears are gone, i should be freaking out, though i guess a koopa with ears would definitely look strange. I now had two fangs coming out from the opposite sides of my mouth, but they didn't hurt me in the slightest.

My head is now a navy blue color, and it kinda scared me a little bit because i genuinely thought my head was either bruised, or numb as i touched it with my hand....only to find that yes, i can feel it and it didn't feel bruised at all.

I would've felt like an idiot if a large crowd was here.

I then feel something sway on the left side of my hospital bed, and find that i now have a tail...a rather long one at that with two spikes on it, which i found fascinating, but i would deal with that later. "Why do i..look similar to roy?" I wondered. "Your guess is as good as ours..." kamek says, while making the mirror vanish. "The fact that you look like roy can be explained later..." Dad replies. "Do you..remember anything after you accepted that you were no human?" He asks, as i look down at my chest, which was bandaged up. "Barely. I just remember being so...angry..but i know that i had no desire to rage against my own family. I...i couldn't stop myself..." I say with as i was choking up on my words a little bit. "What you did during that time, wasn't your fault..." Dad replies, giving me assurance that it'll be ok.

The screams of people burning to death...even though they were trying to kill me...that's something i can never forget. i'm just immensely thankful that no one else got caught in the crossfire.

"The only time i could stop myself, was the fact that i saw fawful struggling to get that..weird, floating helmet thing. What he said about the dark star not being who we think they are...i think he's right." I reply. How so?" Kamek asked me. Shit..i can't hold back on this now...

-Bowser pov-

I was honestly half expecting him to freak out that he's a koopa now, but he's handling it better than i thought. However, i can easily tell that he's upset about the fact that he killed people...the fact that he stopped himself from simply ending fawful shows me that he has the unprecedented potential to control dark fury. Something that all before him were never able to do. I am however, very curious about what he meant by fawful being right...