a giant mushroom is called a hufungus

Somehow they made it home but the toll was a heavy one. Hika was in the den, laying on his side, hardly able to move as his body had become more mushroom than wolf. He could hardly breathe, and was doing everything he could to stay here, to remain alive because there was a wolf that needed him. Someone that loved him.

Despite the pain, the listlessness, the feeling of drowning with every breath… Hikaru still wore a grin on his features. What you could see of them at least. Ooze poured from the lesions that sprouted the mushrooms, he felt like he was really coming to the end of his life. He wouldn’t go down without a fight, and he struggled with every breath.


"Hikaru"