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For unknown reasons Aaron slept quite well after the first terrible training incidence; maybe he was so exhausted and tired in every body cell that he went into a so called 'hyper sleep' which was triggered when the anthrotransformer experience an extraordinary hard training, or the bed was just so comfortable than he ever had slept on. Some would say that it was both and some would say it was something completely different but whatever the explanation was he had a really energy restoring sleep which both roommates didn't know of. The salamander didn't really found interest in that matter and left the room to meet with his Master, and the malamute, Max, waited a bit longer to see if Aaron awoke in his presence but had to go when his own Master came and took with him even though both went off really, really early. Max left a note about the breakfast on the floor in front of Aaron.

About the schedule of when there were eating times it were yet to be sat in order since it was just a newly founded force and the Anthrotransformation was newly discovered, thus many kind of community and society had a negative, distanced relation with this new, surfaced anthros, even the Science. This kind of relation had also yet to be officially named; many professors and scientists had left some suggestion for vote for this phenomenon such as anthromalism, misceism (from miscellaneous), furism, speciesism and so on. There was one suggestion that achieved most popularity than the other name suggestions: "Xenism"; it was inspired by the Latin word "Xeno" which literally meant 'foreign origins' and those people or anthros who didn't like different species than their own were called "xenists".

Aaron slowly opened his eyes from his restoring sleep and felt comfortable and fresh than ever. He stood up, in animal form, and went down from the bed. In his search for his roommates he only found the note which said:

"You'll get informed about the breakfast at your first test and I assumed that your test would be today so no worries buddy. Max"

The note engraved a little smile on his face which Aaron couldn't hold back; at least he got one who cared and informed for him. It reminded him Rufus, the one who brought him to his room. He wanted to return the favor in any way if possible, to show his gratitude. To his surprise his wolf side didn't complain or argued about it.

"So how was your lover sleep, princess?" yelled one of the anthros from another room which was followed by taunting laughter. Aaron wanted to rasp at them but realized it would probably just worsen their talk about him so he did his best to ignore them and looked for a clock. There was a one on the inner wall of the room which said 6.12 AM.

"Master James could come and pick me up at any minute now" Aaron thought, still smiling. He would like to be at his Master's site now after the exhausting experience and prepare himself for the test.

Few minutes after James arrived with the military clothes on and seemed to be happy, of what Aaron didn't know but he began to wag his tail of joy and sat down in front of the room door due to the unwritten norm they both shared. "Nice to reunite with you again, Aaron, my companion!" said James, opened the door and went down on one knee to say hallo to Aaron. Aaron gave a happy bark but still sat firmly since his Master hadn't said the release word yet. James stroke Aaron with his hardened hand and clapped Aaron's head few times.

"He's a great Master!" Aaron thought while he got petted, enjoyed every second of it "I wonder if I would have died if it wasn't for him? I don't really remember much of my morning days before he came" Aaron had often dreams that didn't make much sense; something about being a loner or maybe an outcast. Aaron knew he had a mother who might be one of them who appeared in his dreams but he didn't who she was or his father. Wolves were usually in packs and held themselves together through thick and thin more than ever since the wolves and other animals had lesser and lesser habitats to live in, a consequence of growth of the humans.

"Come!" exclaimed James which was the word Aaron had waited for immediately moved from the place he sat and followed his Master by his side. He wanted to tell nearly everything that happened in the time they weren't together in about 12 hours and he had the chance to do so in the test time. To tell him about the condition in the training rooms, the training materials, the incident with the dragon and the roommates he shared his room with. The only thing he doubted to tell his Master was he got help from an anthro smaller than himself and that he got mocked for it, left his honor and pride damaged. It was the inner strife between the ancestor wolf and the modern canine that conjured this feeling about that subject. It would have been different if he received aid from an anthro who was as big as or bigger than he but the fact remained; Rufus was smaller than himself. They walked out of the Novices and Recruits building and as they did they got hit by rays of warming sunlight with soft breeze that went through the enjoyable air. Aaron thought that he must find some time to be with his Master while the summer still last but he didn't know if the military allowed the duo partners, as the trio partners, to have spare time together to do outdoor activities. Aaron gave a slight whimper and looked up to his Master who seemly had the same thought, like they shared their minds, and said:

"I'm sure that the military staff does allow the partners to have some time together outside, Aaron" James looked down upon Aaron with a lovely smile through his harsh face. Aaron was still wagging his tail and replied his Master with another bark of joy. They went through the building where the entrance to the base was which they entered for the first time a while ago and came to enter second time yesterday. James nodded friendly to the receptionist Mister O'Connell when they passed him and Mister O'Connell gave a "Good luck to you two!" back and returned to his paper work. They went to the right site of the entrance building, past the "Staff Only" rooms and meeting rooms and walked out of the opposite site they came in from.

This base was built to study and work with the anthros thus having a Science Section on the opposite site of the living area of the Masters and their pet anthrotransformers even though its name didn't gave an impression of it (Commando of Anthrotransformation Force). There were so many questions that the Science wanted answers of and some of the common questions were:

What make the Anthrotransformers able to transform?

Why are there factors that need to be filled before they can transform? If these factors were to be eliminated will it result ability to transform freely?

We humans have origins from the animals so why can we not transform?

All around the world the scientists, biologists, archeologists and so on were trying to answer the questions through both legal and illegal experiments with anthrotransformers, where some of them were forced to the experiments thus eventually resulting their periodical loss of their ability to transform. There had been rumors of few ones who totally lost their ability to transform and became what's called 'Damned'.

And then there are some questions that desired answers about mythology, myths and ancient legends:

Is the werewolf the "Anthromagus" or "Anthroterna"?

What about "Big Foot", is it also an anthrotransformer?

Is her almighty Goddess Helva related to the anthrotransformers? If so why?

As they approached to room 43 in Science Section number 3 James glimpsed few rooms where several people dressed in white did hopefully legal experiments with or without the anthros. At one point James thought he saw a humanoid anthro being one of the beings who was dressed in white but shook it off since he found it unlikely that even the anthros would do research about themselves. They reached the room where the test would be held which made Aaron a bit nervous, probably more than James. The rank of the anthro showed how good the Master can be and can have an influence in the Master's own rank position in the different rank order among humans in the military. There at the entrance to the room a fairly young woman in grey waited for their arrival and she look beautiful; her black hair was short and was cut in a curved line so the side front hairs were longest and the hair on her back shortest. She didn't have the thick glasses as many had but thin and smooth that matched her face. A red lipstick on her mellow lips would give the final touch.

"You must be James Oliver Brown and Aaron" she took few steps forward and reached out a little hand which was really soft to James surprise.

"Yes and what may I call you, miss?"

"My name's Clint, Nicole Clint. I must say you have a nice handshake; quite firm but balanced" she gave a welcoming smile and led them inside room 43 where another person awaited; also in grey dress code but a lot older, maybe in the end of 60's. He introduced himself as one of the leaders in the group called "Scientific Control of Limits" and held the name Kent Marv Grande and that Nicole was his assistant. After a usual introduction and little small talk about their status Kent asked Aaron to anthrotransform into humanoid after he revealed that there will be some tests in the time Aaron was in humanoid form, after all it was his first time. After his transformation was complete he asked about the one thing he wanted to know first:

"I want to know where and when my breakfasts will be held"

"Oh yes, Aaron. My memory isn't as it was back in my days, pardon me" he went to the other site of the room where they entered and came back with some delicious looking food on a plate "This is the 'first' reward, not the best but it'll come, my friend. Now bon appetite"

As he was in humanoid form Aaron began to eat with fork and knife which he still had yet to hone to the average standard of humans. The food was literally delicious; the steak didn't have a certain meat taste but several ones which was a scientific achievement so the anthros could eat it no matter their species. There was some cubic formed food which mainly tasted of potatoes but with few enhancements with taste of rice and a flick of nuts. Nonetheless he enjoyed the meal while James exchanged some words with Nicole and Kent. It reminded Aaron he had something to tell his Master but he first started when he was finished with his breakfast/ meal and after they finished exchanged words.

"He sounds like a reptile with order issues" pointed James and looked a bit worried which was hard to detect because of his harsh face but Aaron knew his Master quite well when it came to his facial expressions.

"Right? He just relentlessly assaulted me for no reasonable reason" Aaron lifted his invincible eyebrows and gesticulated with his hands "Can you do anything about it?" he turned to Nicole and Kent.

"Unfortunately not" grumbled Kent who held his one hand under his chin "It is not our department, my friend. That's the Novice and Recruits Staff's job to punish the rule breakers. Try it out there, Aaron, or maybe it had already been reported, I don't know"

"I've heard someone who got reported but I'm not sure who it is, perhaps it's the same assaulter you had, Aaron" said Nicole who also got worried about the incident.

"Maybe, but I'll report it anyway" finished Aaron.

The tests weren't really tests but the purpose was to make the anthro forget that was in a time test so the length of the humanoid form would be natural as possible. Aaron wanted to ask James about his own past that he found difficult to remember but James friendly denied the question and made some signs that it was not the time for it right now. Some of the test was about to test Aaron's intelligence where they asked about several subjects and themes in the history of mankind and the history of anthros so far even though there wasn't so much content in it. Then it came to the time where Aaron approximately had his known limit of being in humanoid form but to his big surprise he didn't feel the regression of the form which resulted in James being really satisfied and brought joy to both of them.

"Quite fascinating, my friend. Maybe the incident yesterday was the cause of the extra prolonged time in the humanoid form. The approximate time of the recruit level has long been passed" said Kent and looked at Aaron with great attention to see if he would regress.

But the time went on and it had passed nearly 4 hours before Aaron felt the start of the regression. In tests like these it was not allowed to prolong the time by will which was hard to control if the test subject was reliable but for now the testers had to trust the anthros and their Masters while the method to prove the anthros right in their reliability was being developed.

Kent wrote the information down on the scribble board he carried and instructed his assistant to inform the Staff of Novices and Recruits to prepare the shift of Aaron's living place to the Newcomers and Jr. Soldiers Section which was located beside his first (really) short time living place.

"I'm sure that both the reptiles won't be so happy about this. And the teasers in the room for that sake" smiled Aaron and looked at his Master who stroke and clapped his head of satisfaction.

This seemed to be quite the joyful day for Aaron and therefore he would wait with asking his Master about his own past. Now that he thought about he never really heard about his Master's past except after they met each other. That question had to be asked for another day. Now he wanted to enjoy his promotion which he achieved in a matter of a day after they arrived to the CAF.