Tammia hadn't just change the two guards' gender and upgraded their magic
status, both now sported a second pair of arms! All of them brandishing a
wicked looking scimitar! Tammia hadn't bothered to alter their attire when she
'upgraded' them, thus the new vixens were attired in just loincloths and sword
belts (now with three extra holders for their weapons).
This might have thrown off Vicki and the others, but the nine vixen had been
female for so long that seeing a naked female body in of itself rose no
reaction out of them other than how a male would react to see another male
naked, a slight feeling of alarm and revolution.
Keiko wondered if this meant they themselves could now all be considered
gay. Then again, since they were all currently female, Keiko managed to
reason that technically they were all still straight (well, she jumped to the
conclusion as such, being Karther's loyal sex toy she hadn't really talked that
much with her fellow slaves.).
Luna didn't waste time wondering about such things at the moment. All she
knew was that two heavily armed (ugh) people were coming at them and
were brainwashed just like everyone else in this castle. But that didn't mean
that being cut to pieces by them would be any less lethal!
While 'T' had restored their free will and Ego, the vixens still had the combat
knowledge in their heads that Karther had given when he changed them into
weapons to try and kill 'T' for daring to interfere with his fun and games of
stealing people from their lives and making them his little dollies to play with.
Thus, Luna proved to be very good with the spear she was holding deflecting
the four sword trusts directed at her beating heart.
Vicki didn't remember Karther having any female fighters, men were for work,
girls were for pleasure in Karther's mind. But something about them was
familiar. "Robert? Gene? That you?" Vicki asked, having been with Karther
long enough to remember the names of his other work hands.
The two Shiva like vixens didn't respond, just mutely continued their attack.
Vicki wondered if this had been a quick fix transformation that had left their
minds in pieces, leaving behind all the reasoning skills of a machine.
Thankfully there were still nine of them and only two of the Shiva guards. But
Vicki wondered how long that was going to last. Luna was continuously being
forced to retreat or back up, the shiva vixens were like walking sushi
machines. Trying to get a hit in would reduce whoever tried to bloody chunks!
That was when another of her sisters (she had thought of them like that for so
long it was hard to think of them as otherwise), Lucy, stabbed the halberd
Karther had given her into the floor and used it as a vault to get in a flying kick
right at one of the Shiva vixen's heads knocking it on it's back and putting
them between the rest of the group and Lucy.
Luna took advantage of the relief and jabbed at the other Shiva vixen's side.
The fallen Shiva vixen however stabbed all four of it's swords in the ground
then double kicked Luna back into her sisters, given the shiva vixen time to
stand back up.
Luna cursed, if this hallway was wider then they could make better use of their
numbers! As it was only about three of them could face the shiva vixens at the
same time.
Vicki held the cross around her neck T gave her, wondering what she feared
more, dying in a place no one would ever mourn her passing, or becoming
Karther little toy again. Both outcomes made her shudder.
+++
Alexsandra had served Karther for as far back as she could remember, true
that wasn't more than a year or two, but that didn't matter. She existed for the
sole purpose of serving her master, nothing else mattered in the slightest! It
was her meaning, her reason for living! She had felt something happen to her
master. While the other foxes in the castles were content to go about as they
were -programmed- to do, Alexsandra, either due to an idiosyncrasy in her
brainwashing, or maybe some actual emotion that had somehow evolved
from Karther treating her like an actual sentient being, had decided to seek
her master out. Most of the foxes didn't question her, the ones that did she
simply lied and said had been called to her master's presence, which wasn't a
complete lie to her she rationalized. Having been a slave to Karther for so
long, maybe even longer than Vicki, Alexsandra was fairy able to navigate the
castle's changing shape. However, she felt something else, it felt like her
master's power, the one that had always been at the back of her brain telling
her that everything was all right, seem to be gone, this made her almost panic!
Was the master gone? Hurt? Alexsandra's search became all the more frantic.
+++
One moment they were fighting Tammia, the next they were back home
watching foot ball. The image shattered a second later.
"You can't use illusions on a brain with two minds." Tabra said matter of fact.
"You want to screw with our brain you're going to have try a lot harder!"
Though honestly if the angel fox hadn't been of two minds, she could have
been easily trapped in that illusion totally unaware of the untruth of it.
"Tabra." Janice asked as they dodged a direct energy blast from Tammia. "I
need to know, if we did what you said would happen. Become one person,
would we be strong enough to save Tammy?"
"I refuse. I won't let that happen until we've been stuck together so long we
can't stop it. And if we forced it, the new person who'd exist because of our
merging would be mentally unstable because we had -forced- the fusion
along. Why do you think most collective intelligences are so insane? Oh right,
you wouldn't. Sorry."
"Then what choice do we have?!"
"Tammia may have taken her master's power, but that doesn't mean she
knows fully how to use it or handle it. All her magical knowledge was
implanted in her, not learned, and that always leaves holes. And you can't be
-given- skill, she's can't use the huge amount of magical power she has to it's
full potential!"
"I guess that's some good news."
Another spell blast, this one that -curved- as they dodged, knocked into the
angel fox, and she sent into a wall. The angel fox blasted it to glass, which
was positively useless for Karther's stolen magic to animate.
The angel fox saw that the blast that atomized their jeans and shirt.
The Tabra half of her said, "Mental note, next time you chose something wear,
picking something that can take a lot more punishment, it's distracting with
these things swinging around during a life or death fight!"
"Excuse me! I haven't had a chance to life a normal life as a fox girl and I hope
I never do!" The Janice half of her retorted.
"You might change your tune if your only other option is to be Karther's toy
again!"
"I can't let that happen! Tammy! Please remember! We're supposed to be
guys! Not foxes! Not queens or angels! Just two ordinary male humans! Don't
do this!"
"It is your mind that is confused and clouded my other body, we'll have to
correct that one way or another!" Tammia replied tries to lower the castle
ceiling right on top of the angel fox, a blast sphere of holy light turned it all into
useless sand.
"Ugh!" Janice moaned holding her head. "Do those always give us such a
headache?"
"No, somethings they give us an even -worse- headache!" Tabra returned.
"Which is why I really hate doing them!"
Tammia declared. "Come back to me my other body so we may serve our lord
as we always have!"
"She's crazy!" Janice gasped.
"Her brain washing, combined with the magic Karther gave her, on top of what
she took from him, is seriously rewriting her awareness and thinking process.
Just pray
"I don't pray! I do!"
"You'd be surprised how closely related they can be some times! Mind on the
fight!" Tabra yelped, smashing some sand stone hands that rose out of the
ground. "This is pointless, we need to lure her outside of the castle."
"Isn't it all just sand out there?"
"A machine is useless outside the power grid. Once outside the castle she
won't be able to animate the sand anymore!"
"Best idea we have I guess!" Janice muttered. A dart of shot from the angel
fox's wings and stuck Tammia in the gut, drawing blood.
"You'd hurt your own body?" Tammia said confused.
"Come and catch me!" Said the angel fox backing off, baiting Tammia, and it
was working.
"So what should we call ourself when we become one person?" Janice
asked.
"Drop it." Tabra retorted.
Tammia meanwhile, the magic continuing to change her, enabled her to grow
six tails, the max her current magic level could allow without her body
becoming magically unstable.