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Gold Star Potion Shop is a magical shop that is run by a witch named Maple Goldstar. Maple wants to use her potions to help people. She moves her shop around according to where it’s needed most or where she will be able to make a decent income. Since the world she lives in is a fantasy medieval setting, it doesn’t have modern science and technology so potions and magic are more relied upon for everyday life. Currently she has set up shop in the village of Shipton, a small fishing village that has been dwindling lately and needs fertility potions. The witches’ potions can do all sorts of things. She has the usual health potions, potions of haste or slowness, mana potions, antidotes, and various common spells.

Other potions range from transformations, to learning a new language instantly, to changing colours of hair, eyes or skin, changing gender or personality, becoming part animal and many more. Maple has to find, buy, trade for or make the ingredients herself, which leads her to travel to different areas of the world so she can ply her trade.

Maple grew up in an orphanage after being abandoned by her unknown parents and doesn’t have a family of her own, though she has made friends wherever she goes. One day, something happens that changes Maple’s life forever. A visitor from another world arrives in her own. In her world there is magic and different animals and plants than modern day Earth but there are no anthro or furry races. The new visitor is definitely not a human, elf, gnome, dwarf, orc or any common race, more like an animal that became humanised. Maple has always wanted a family of her own and maybe her new friend can help her dream come true, while the witch will help her new friend to find his way home and try her best to keep him out of trouble.

Name: Mazeru
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Height: 9 feet
Weight: 661 pounds
Race: Chimera
Appearance: Mazeru is a large chimera, having the grey head and neck of a crocodile, but with pointed ears, forward facing golden eyes, and goat horns, alongside a double row of teeth and a forked tongue. His upper body sports the fur and forelimbs of a tiger, whilst his lower body is covered in green scales and has the legs of a Tyrannosaurus, with his tail much more flexible and somewhat wormy in shape. From his back are the blue wings of a bat. His flesh and blood are a rich shade of blue.
Powers: Flight; extraordinary jumper; atomic fire breath; extremely heat and magic resistant; immense strength; super regeneration; adept swimmer; mutagenic DNA; animated severed tissue

“Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival . . . a survival of a hugely remote period when . . . consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity . . . forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds. . . .”

That was what the moon priest had once said to Mazeru, such a quote still remaining strong within the chimera's memory. He had encountered the priest and his cult when he had come across the courtyard that led to their large mansion, the likes of which the cultists resided in and worshiped that which they called a god. Though Mazeru hardly knew of the full story, from what the moon priest had informed him, it seemed that they were worshiping some sort of monster, the likes of which Mazeru had never seen before. The monster in question was some kind of draconic alien, a strange creature that seemed out of this world. Just why would such a cult treat this animal as their god?

Mazeru resolved to investigate this strange phenomenon to learn why, deciding to sneak into the mansion one evening. Slipping into the building without anyone noticing, the chimera crept his way throughout the great halls of the mansion, the walls looking to have been crafted some ancient blue stone, seemingly dripping with a blue ooze and radiating with a strange presence that slightly unnerved Mazeru.

Soon, the chimera came across a room full of bookshelves, these in turn being stuffed to the brim with books of all kinds. There was also a white altar placed within the center of the room, stacked with the skulls of small theropods and lizards alongside strange glowing blue leaves.

Unfortunately for Mazeru, his curiosity got the best of him as he stepped up to the altar. For as he made contact with the strange looking altar, a wormhole suddenly appeared above the chimera as the altar began glowing blue, drawing in the air surrounding him. Caught completely off-guard by this sudden anomaly, Mazeru tried to run away, but he just couldn't make it before he was sucked up into the wormhole.

And so that was the reason why the chimera found himself crash landing into this strange new forest. Crashing through several trees and landing down hard on his back, Mazeru rolled onto his stomach and pushed himself back to his feet. The minor injuries he had sustained from the landing already healing up, the chimera took in his newfound surroundings, letting the gravity of the situation settle in. Where was he? For that matter, when was he? Was he even in his own dimension anymore?

Mazeru had only a moment more to examine his surroundings when his ears twitched at the sound of someone or something moving nearby. Was there someone else here? Were they a threat? Could they help him?

The chimera was proceeding to look around for whoever was nearby, when Maple's illusion made its presence known to him, making him jump slightly as it appeared.

Although taken aback by the illusion's appearance, Mazeru was at least glad to meet someone who might help. "Where am I?" The chimera replied with his own question. "What is this place?"

Mazeru was silent as he listened to Maple's illusion explain where he was. Well, he was at least glad he was still in the same time period, but the news of where he was certainly worried him.

"I come from Urth," The chimera answered. "I'm not quite sure what happened to bring me here, but I don't think I belong here."

"I hope so," Mazeru concurred, though he was unsure if such a thing could be possible. Still, this world's rules may very well not be the same as his, so anything could be possible.

"A witch, huh? I've met a few witches in my world, though I doubt any of them could have the power to bring others to different worlds."

"A fair point. Might as well get used to where I am now before anything else."

Mazeru had his doubts upon hearing Maple admit to only vaguely recalling otherwordly travel in this world. Clearly it wouldn't be of any help for him in this situation.

"Yes," The chimera responded to Maple's wondering about witches. "If witches in this world are shapeshifters that use primal magic."

"My name's Mazeru," He answered the witch, watching as her illusion approached him. "I pretty much can only eat meat."

"Hmm," Mazeru replied, his suspicions confirmed by Maple's answer. "So this world really is different from my own. Potion makers from my world typically aren't witches, and they're otherwise not so skilled in magic."

The chimera shifted into a more comfortable position, laying upon his chest as he faced Maple's illusion. "Depending on what lives in this world, hunting should be no problem for me. Fish is acceptable."

Mazeru listened on to the warning Maple provided him, the chimera wondering if such types of folk would be any different to what he was used to facing in his own world. A simple woodcutter or explorer was cannon fodder for him where he came from, but could he really say the same thing for here? "I'll try to see if I can just avoid potential conflict as much as possible."

Blinking in surprise as the potion bottle materialized before him, Mazeru cautiously took the item. It was meant as a helpful tool, of course, but would it prove beneficial to him? Would it really do as what she claimed, or perhaps due to him being an outsider to this world, would it have some strange unforseen effect on his biology?

"...Thanks," The chimera responded, being quite careful with the potion bottle as he handled it.