'You know,' Julio commented, 'If the others are killed, with the exception of your Akira, it
just means a change of clothes. But if Tamthis turns them into more happily little love
puppets, then this place will no longer be safe.'
"They're my sisters, brother, whatever, they'll win. Besides, I doubt what they are now can
be transmuted into loyal toys this time."
'That might be true of the angel brigade, and they might go down fighting, but your
brother isn't.'
"He's a kitesune."
'And Tamthis is more powerful than him by light-years. And then there's the fact that even
if Tamthis doesn't transmute any of them and comes here calling for us, this place might
still be in the blast radius of those genies, without Jasmine to tell them what NOT to blow
up, Mecca could end up glass.'
"What do giant robots have to do with anything?"
'Ugh. Mecca, not Mecha, it's the holy land of, oh never mind, I'm just saying we should
vacate.'
Keiko thought for a moment, "You have anywhere in mind in particular?"
'Do you?'
"Hmm. Maybe, maybe not, hard to tell... did you just feel that?"
'Yes. It's started.'
"I just hope Akira/Anna doesn't get killed."
'Wish you there?'
"Not in the least. Don't take me wrong, those are my sisters who are fighting and dying
out there right now, but I also know that in a high stakes super battle on that scale it's
best that I stay out of the way."
'You don't think you can contribute just cause you can't blow stuff up?'
"No. Not at all. I'm just not a fighter, I'm a trickster, it's how I was remade, and I wasn't a
martial artist or soldier before Karther kidnapped me and turned me into his toy anyway."
'Ah. I see. Still my original point still stands, I believe we should vacate.'
"Don't you mean -you- vacate and I come along because you're stuck with me until you
undo that tick transformation I put on you?"
'I know better than most that mixing magics only leads to disasters, but there are more
bags of tricks in this world than science and magic and I know a couple of those too.'
"How convenient for you."
'What do you expect? I'm just in this, and anything, for the knowledge. I don't like the idea
of Tamthis taking over the desert landscape and the genies blowing it up even less, but if
I've been taught anything from being alive as long as I have it's how to -move-on-!'
"What if I just stayed here and play solitaire?"
'I'd be bound to our agreement to remain this form until your friends won or lost.'
"My -family- won or lost. And thank you, how surprisingly honorable of you."
'I take offense to that. I seek the universe's ultimate programming guide, not the cheat
book.'
+++++
"What is going on?" Kathy asked scared and confused, "What are you all doing-?!"
Jennifer, the singular shiva vixen in the harm room, stood dumbfounded for a milisecond
before Tamthis' programming shifted the four sister from honor guests to targets. She
ignored Alexandra since she hadn't changed in a burst of light into a full armored fox
woman with only one tail and a pair of wings.
Alexandra calmly approached Kathy, the kitesune fell on a collection of soft pillows and
began skirting away from the slowing approaching one. A blast of sand rock sent tiny
pieces into Alexandra's flesh, she ignored them but tore off her face veil all the same, if
everyone else was done hiding then so was she.
"... Alexandra?" Kathy asked her mind not comprehending this in the least.
Alexandra started, "You know me?" A tiny part of her dared to hope.
"Y-yes, of course I do! You were supposed to become part of my Tamthis' harem with me,
weren't you? Why are you doing this? I've been wanting so badly for you to come back to
us, but not like this... Alexandra please tell me why?!"
'This thing, she, knows me?' Alexandra thought. She merely stared at the kitesune who
cowered before her, before the absolute insanity her perfect little world had exploded into.
One part of Alexandra wanted everything related to Tamthis wiped from the face of
creation, including his creations, it was only right. But... "We are here to kill Tamthis." She
said plainly.
"What?" Kathy pepped out.
"We are here to kill Tamthis."
"Alexandra... HOW CAN YOU? He's our king! Your king! My king-!!" 'This is all just a bad
dream! Bad, bad, bad, bad! I'll wake up! Yes! Wake up! Wake up!'
"My king is dead. And soon so shall yours."
"MONSTER! MURDERER!" Kathy screamed as she proceeded to try and claw Alexandra's
eyes out. Alexandra wasn't a weak harem thing, she had been a laborer, an overseer, a
thinker, a doer in her master's house, just one among many, but one who worked hard.
She took hold of Kathy's paws, nearly crushing them. Not giving it a second thought she
head butted Kathy, it was enough to render the fragile and dainty thing unconscious.
Alexandra let go of her paws and let her hit the floor of the room. 'Stupid. I should just kill
this but... why does it keep coming back to but? That look in her eyes.. does she love that
killer? Of course she does, it's what she was made to do. But then...' Alexandra looked out
a window at the flawless orderly city, some fled from the havoc heard in the palace, others
simply carried on doing what they were doing, as they had been made to do. 'But then
what am I?'
At the city walls, Lucy's ears perked up. She felt it. It felt like her sisters, and yet did not,
however one feeling screamed out from all the others 'threat.' Her body turning to a hot
desert wind she tore above the city towards the palace.
Natalie prowling the city too stopped, sniffed the air, and howled, her all male pack
howled with her. Their master was in danger. Nothing else mattered as they tore through
the streets and kitesune alike as the wolves raced to protect their master.
What was for a moment a contained skirmish in the palace, was quickly turning into an all
out battle. Four angels against one multiple armed vixen, it was hardly a fight. In the mean
time of Alexandra and Kathy's drama, Jennifer had attacked relentless and ruthlessly. It
seemed that Tamthis had learned from Karther's mistakes and had rendered Jennifer
unable to go under from electric shock from an electric gauntlet or pass out from pain by
a non-leathal laser. The end result had been sad but predictable as Jennifer lay on the
harm floor all four of her arms severed and her legs broken, it was the only way she'd
stop fighting. Lisa without a moment's hesitation began the slow process of healing the
armless vixen's injuries to keep her from dying of blood loss. Then she applied her cross
to Jennifer's forehead to undo the former human male's brainwashing. Sadly, this wasn't
quite like Karther's brainwashing and was mixed with the insanity that Karther had
trapped in his castle walls. It took more than just a quick motion to for the combat
oriented messenger to restore the vixen's original mind and free will, and hearing the
crashing of walls behind her and the feeling of a hot desert wind, as her three sisters
formed a protective circle around her, she knew that more than a moment could be very
well too much to ask for.
Jasmine let out mad battle cries as she gleefully cut down the horrible arab stereotypes
clothed as fennec kitesune, however the shiva wolf, Roberta, blocked her first strike, then
her second, then her third, then Jasmine retreated back four point two feet to avoid the
blade of the wolf's weapon. Even as Amir Tamthis stood to engage Kyriel who felt
strangely familiar to him in more ways than one, he poured power into Roberta to put her
on par at least in part with the senior messenger, so Amir Tamthis would not have to deal
with two of the messengers at once.
Kyriel thought, 'My first fight in my life, and I'm going up against what used to be the
person who almost ate the soul of one of my parents. Great. And since he's an innocent
victim and my other parent's best friend in there buried under Tammia, buried under a
wolf beast, buried under Tammy, I can't risk killing him. Yep!' She thought with pure sarcasm that neither Jake or Tabra had, 'What a wonderful way to start out life... here's
hoping it doesn't get cut short!'
"I'm here to save you."
"I don't need to be saved."
"You're screwed in the head, you don't get to say so!"
"I think more clearly than anyone here."
"I disagree."