Jasmine's sped to the door was thwarted by her tail being grabbed. 'Blast that useless
thing!' Jasmine cursed as the pain went straight though her spinal cord. She was quickly
followed by one of her legs at the ankle, both her arms at the wrist, and finally a switch
over from the tail to the other foot.
Jasmine turned her head to see Roberta had recovered much faster than she should have
ever been able to. Bits of sand came in from almost nowhere to fill in the holes made by
Jasmine's shots. 'Cheap trick!' But her attention was drawn away from this the shiva vixen
grew a third pair of arms! Both new hands held a scimitar that would cleanly cleave her in
two if they both connected with her waist. Jasmine wasn't about to give the puppet a
chance however and sent a -massive- electric charges through her body and into
Roberta's, forcing the nerves to react involuntary and releasing the Arab messenger.
In a split second Jasmine did a summersault taking advantage of her body's limber form
and kicked the shiva vixen in the chin knocking Roberta back multiple yards. Jasmine
landed perfectly on one foot and twirled around, forming body armor on her form in the
same motion, including her tail, she wouldn't be caught unprotected twice. Neither it
seemed would Roberta be caught off guard again.
Jasmine's spiritual sight could actually -see- Roberta's nervous system rearranging itself
to prevent Jasmine's trick from working twice.
Net, spear, spiked shield, and diamond hard gladius formed from sand that the palace was
made from, the atoms of the silicon rearranging in ways that would have alchemist dying
from the sheer illogic. Then again, kitesune magic was never known for being too
consistent with itself.
Gathering herself however, Jasmine was pleased, 'Good, Tamthis is feeding more and more
power into his guardian, okay baby girl, if you want to prove your parents weren't fools so
badly, I've give you the chance. What the? The others in the great hall, they're all, going
somewhere else? Where? Hmmm. Good. Less distractions for me means less distractions
for the newbie.' Jasmine felt no regrets, Vicki and her sisters were all soldiers now, they
knew what they were signing up for.
Akira sat underneath the table munching on his leg of lamb, 'Dang! Wish I knew enough
about electronics to summon up a tape recorder. Good thing those guards didn't look too
closely at my faux techno-toys before... I could make a real fortune selling this fight to the
news networks.' Akira had been a direct victim of forces he didn't think had existed until
he was one of Karther's love puppets, he had no desire to see those things remain hidden
even if he was now one of them. 'I need to relax more.' In a puff of smoke Akira was Anna
again, 'I still think Akane would be a good name for this form.... wish this leg of lamb
didn't have a sandy taste to it.'
++++++++++
Keiko looked at the fox and wolf people, their preset programming disrupted by the huge
battle breaking out in the palace, they were now winging it, after all they had been told the
attack would come from the outside not inside. 'Oddly, this makes them more like people
than when they were just happily playing their role. I like oddly.' Keiko thought giggling to
herself. She had never really appreciated the freedom of thinking that kitesune had, logic
was an acquaintance, reason a long distance friend. That wasn't to say she couldn't call
them up when needed, but she no longer felt a need to be close to them. That made her
think, (which kitesune were actually fully able and completely willing to do despite what
some thought).
"You feeling any more crazy or furry from snacking on my blood?"
'No, not really. I've been alive a very long time, and I've learned to take precautions. If I was
your average Joe, I'm sure I'd be feeling some 'interesting' side effects. But the same
immunity I've created to protect me from were-beast and undeath curses work very well
against the much less aggressive but much more sly magic traits in your blood.'
"Heh."
'Dissapointed?'
"Naw. Just amused. Unlike just about any other kitesune on the planet save for Anna/Akira,
I can laugh at myself."
'I'm impressed.'
"Never waste a good laugh, no matter the source."
'Many would disagree with that.'
"They're note kitesune."
'Neither were you until a few days ago.'
"Point...With all these people panicking, it's time for some fun I think."
'Coming here was so not a good idea.'
"Oh come on, the battle is in the palace... what could go wrong?"
'Famous last words. And please, don't turn into a dijinn or something of the like, you'll
have loyal subjects attacking you from every which way. Or people trampling other people
to death in their desperate attempt to flee from you.'
"What are you my conscience? ... "
'Just the voice of common sense, which could have prevented the very sticky end of many
kitesune I've run into over the centuries.' He quickly added, 'And seriously, I don't think
the kitesune species can afford to have you end up a throw rug.'
A fennec bumped into the japanese kitesune, took one look at her and said, "Out of my
way Jap!"
Julio could taste Keiko's blood boil, 'Don't do it. You won't prove anything, and you won't
solve anything either, besides, these people have been programmed to be this way. Your
sisters are busy taking out the cause, you came here just for some fun and games right?'
Sigh sighed, "Right.... "
'Just be careful, mixing magics is dangerous remember? You zap these people into
anything you'll make it that much harder for them to be restored to humans later.'
"Oh please~.... you think I don't have any magic tricks besides poofing people into other
things? I am much more original than that." 'Guess that crosses off turning the men into
wives and the wives into men.'
'Oh and one VERY big warning here Keiko, you maybe too distracted to feel it, but I can
feel it, or rather, I can SEE the patterns. This city, it'll assimilate anyone whose not already
part of the setting. Be careful little kitesune or you're going to get turned into just another
character in Tamthis' arab fairy tale setting."
+++++++
"Traitor! I don't want or need your pity!" Kathy screamed as she quickly sprang to try and
claw Alexandra's eyes out. Alexandra however had been a working woman, not a pleasure
pet, and easily enough able to keep her at bay.
As the truths continued to pour into Alexandra's brain, she shuddered as deeper truths
began to worm their way into her brain, she couldn't stop them now, she had opened the
door, and they would not be stopped now. 'No! Nononono! Those are just dreams!
Dreams! They aren't real! They can't be real! No! No! No!' Alexandra grimaced.
'A pop-ad came up at his screen, odd since he had protection against that sort of thing.
He moved to close it when he noticed what it said, and figured since he was dumping this
computer soon anyway it didn't matter if it caught a virus. It was 'Do you want to be a fox
girl?' Finding it amuse he clicked yes. 'Would you be willing to leave your current live
behind?' Thinking about it, and not having that high an opinion of his own life he clicked
yes again. 'Would you be willing to leave the person you are behind?' Again, not thinking
too much of himself, he clicked yes again. 'Would you be willing to learn a new culture?'
finding it an unique challenge and knowing this was just a spam trap anyway he clicked
yes one more time. 'Do you not want to be lonely.' He clicked that one on instinct. 'Are you
sure?' Dang this was an odd pop-up ad, must have gotten a nickel for every click or
something, he clicked yes one last time.
With the first click, the tails had formed, then the fur, then the gender, then the whole
species, and finally, the entire mind-set. 'What an interesting dream I am having.' Said the
new kitesune vixen. She had walked to the dream room's door, and opened it to the
waking world. She discarded the clothes from her dream, burned them, and put on the
clothing waiting for her in the waking world. She saw the most handsome sage kitesune
she had ever seen, exposed and wearing nothing but a cape. She fell to her kneels and
said without a first thought, 'My prince, command me.'
'Rise.' He commanded.
She did so. Dang, was he just hansom!
She asked what brought her prince here, he informed her he simply wished to see how his
favorite servant was doing. 'I'm his favorite!' She thought with glee.
He asked as a test what her duties all were, which she easily answered. He seemed rather
surprised when she kept inching towards him. Satisfied he left, saying under his breath
something about 'too slow' and 'stupid rules.' '
The absolute truth struck Alexandra's mind. 'I asked for this.... I did this... to myself...'
That was when reality came back and she realized Kathy had her hands around her throat,
she had taken advantage of Alexandra's flash back. Reality didn't stop just because you
were dreaming. She quickly struck the points that women hurt at, and got her off herself.
"I don't want to hurt you Kathy!"
"You want to murder our king! That's good enough reason!"
In the blink of an eye Erica was front of Kathy and gave her a punch so fast and so hard to
the gut it almost buldged on the other side, Kathy fell on the floor quite unconscious.
"That didn't feel good... not at all..." Erica muttered in almost dissapointment. She looked
at Alexandra, "Sorry, but I had a feeling she wasn't going to calm down."
"It's... okay..." Alexandra muttered. 'But... what is the point of her? And what is the point of
me?'
Lisa meanwhile was thinking, 'If not for Jasmine and her dijinn I might be able to make her
whole right now.' Sadly, that had not been the case, and Jasmine's pushing of the deadline
had left Lisa, like her sisters, refined into fighting machines. Lisa still knew some basic
healing techniques and how to use them on others. She could speed up the healing
process while not damaging the person's life span, 'but regenerating destroyed limbs is
going to take more than what I know.' The legs were easy to heal. But the shiva's vixen's
lost four arms were not so easily revised.
Jennifer however was oblivious for at least a few more seconds on her missing body parts,
Karther had made her immune to pain and system shock after all.
"What do you remember?" Vicki asked the shiva vixen, "Do you remember where you are?
Do you remember who you -really- are?"
Jennifer looked at the angel vixen in some level of confusion and growing dread, but
managed to answer anyway, "Sergeant Gene V.C. 10293847." She on reaction from years
of conditioning. "And... I can feel it comin' back... you were all runnin' from who she used
to be." She tried to move her arm again and simply looked in Kathy's general direction.
"And I was supposed to stop ya... then one of you darlin's went all crazy-er."
"Where did Karther kidnap you from?" Erica asked.
"He didn't... kinda... some orange haired man with an odd hop in his step came by the war
vets home... and he asked if any of us would be interested in -doing- something with
ourselves rather than sitting around waiting to die. My son hadn't visited me in a year
since I along with a couple others wanted some more details. He said he wanted people
with all our combat experience... so she shoved a contract under our noses with a bunch
of legal bla-bla-bla. Yes I know I should have known better! Don't give me that look! Yes a
couple of our friends said this guy had to be a con artist or something.... after we all
signed it... turns out it was 'or something...' and damn what a something... "
Luna had to ask, "How old are you?"
"Before I came all here? Sixty-Nine. Now hurry up and give me back my winkles before I
start thinking that boobs and fur aren't a bad trade off for an extended-lease from the
grim reaper!"
The angels vixens all looked at each other, only Luna cringed, the idea of being in
Jennifer's helpless position scared her. Lisa said, "I'll try, and my sisters will too." However
there was one part of the shiva vixen's story that frightened the angel soldier very much,
"Do you know where the contract is that you and your friends signed is?"
"No." The amputee grimanced, "I don't." She finally looked at the right angle, she finally
saw the two stumps on one side, and the two stumps on the other. Snap, crackle, pop.
"My arms? MY ARMS! I GO FROM TWO TO FOUR TO ZERO! Heheh! MY ARMS! Bwahah! Can I
get six with interest? Or do I get four breasts next? Hehehehh!" One clonk on the head
later, Jennifer was as silent as Kathy.
"Luna!" Vicki snapped at the angle vixen soldier holding one of the shiva vixen's limbs she
had just used to knock her out with.
"... saw it in a movie?"
"You watch too many movies!"
"They're coming!" Lisa's pools of blood widened in alarm as she felt them, "Lucy, Natalie!
Others! They're coming!"
"What we didn't need!" Vicki said, "Lisa, you look after Alexandra, Jennifer, and Kathy, yes
Kathy! Luna, Erica, you watch each other's backs and keep Natalin and the rest occupied!
... I'll try my hardest to subdue Lucy."
The three other angel vixen nearly nodded in acknowledgement. That was when they felt
the hot desert wind, and the howls and snarls coming up from below.
She formed on the marble railing of the harem house's massive balcony and window in
plain sight of the angel vixens. Erica and Luna felt sick, Lisa felt pity, and Vicki just felt
horrorfied. She LOOKED like an angel to mundane eyes, but that was all. 'It's like... she's,
her soul is a patch work doll.'
Those orbs of obsidian met Lisa's orbs of crimson. "Lisa, the rest of you... you've come
home... and ... you all feel so powerful... I felt a threat and found you... come.. let's go
protect our new Amir."
"No way!" Luna said, too tired and too burned out from everything life had thrown at her to
play a part. "You're sick Lucy! And we're here to help cure you, Natalie, and yeah, even that
new king of yours!" 'It's what Janice would have wanted.'
"Heh. We are not ill, we are free of such things now, but I see that you lot are all not quite
right in the head, don't worry, our Amir will have your head back on straight soon
enough."
"I'm Sorry Lucy." Vicki said calmly walking towards her, tossing aside the shawl and
forming her body armor around her. With a hand motion she willed a halberd into
existence. "That's not going to happen. But I will save you or die trying, that is a promise."
"Don't make promises you can't keep."
"I'm not. I'm going to either save you or die in the attempt..."
Luna and Erica would have joined their eldest sister, but they had been given their orders,
and would trust that Vicki knew what she was doing.
That was when the door smashed down, and a huge wolf beast covered in muscles, and
similar creatures behind it but with fang like horns between their legs. The lead wolf beast
howled and growled at the angel clothed in vixen bodies.
"Ah Natalie you're here!" Lucy said cheerfully. "Let's put our sisters back in their right state
of mind so they can help us protect our Amir, doesn't that sound nice?"
Natalie nodded and growled. Yes that sounded like a very good idea.
"Natalie..." Erica said in pure dismay... 'Please please let her be in there somewhere!'
"We're going to say you, all of you." Nicki said holding her crucifix.
"That's the evil thing that clouded all our thinking before!" Lucy pointed.
"... It is not evil... it is love and self sacrifice... of one's own free-will!!"
Natalie had heard enough, she snarled and leapt at her her misled siblings, they would
become with the sand she was...
Lisa grabbed the three mundane vixens in the pillow infested room and brought up the
best defensive barrier she could. She looked at Alexandra... who seemed to be in a state of
shock... 'At least she looks like she's still thinking. Luna, Erica, Vicki, and you too Kyriel,
may God be with you sisters.'
Several seconds later, the room exploded as the powerful forces collided, Vicki and Lucy
into the sky, with Luna and Erica landing with Natalie and her pack in the streets below.
And Lisa, doing her best to keep the non-combatants from dying.
++++++++++
'Okay Kyriel, what do you do now?' She thought to herself. 'If I try hard enough, I'm sure I
could blast Tamthis to atom and come out of it with this body still alive. But that would kill
Tommy in the process. Hey! ... I can remember his male name! Janice/Jake was freaked out
that she couldn't! Or remember her own male name for that matter! Cool!' Kyriel folded on
her legs as a sand stone fist the size of a semi-truck flew over her head. 'Ugh! Not going
to make keeping me alive and finding anything left of Jake in there any easier! This is so
stupid! Tommy was the new comer! Jake had been Karther's slave for much longer than
that!.. In fact... it was Jake... who suggested Tommy be added to the harem...' Kryiel shook
her head and took flight as the ENTIRE floor near and around her exploded into jagged
spikes! 'Stop it Kryi'! Now's not the time to feel Jake/Janice's guilt right now!~ Besides she
was brainwashed, she would have never done that in her right state of mind! Now move-
move-move!' Tamthis tried to bisect Kyriel with a scimitar twice as long as he was, the
weapon forming of the sand and dust even as he sliced with it and wedged itself in the
throne room's stone floor. Tamthis instantly discarded it and the weapon returned to sand
as quickly as it was called form.
Kyriel had to do a corkscrew spin to avoid the chains and bondage gear that formed out of
the ceiling even as she did her best to avoid the spikes on the floor. 'This isn't working.
And he's being infinitely more imaginative than Karther was when he fought T'. So ... how
do I win?' A memory came up in Kyriel's head, a cheap kung-fu movie that both T' and
Jake had once watched ironically enough. T' watched it to try and understand human
subculture better, and Jake cause he had nothing to do that afternoon. 'Win... by not
fighting...'
'Mom, dad, you two so owe me for this one.' Kyriel blasted the stone spikes to dust and
landed and ignoring Tamthis assumed a semi-meditative pose.
This was enough to make Tamthis hesitate in confusion for a few seconds. Which was all
Kyriel needed to order her body to give up the ghost. Tamthis and Jasmine BOTH started at
this, costing Jasmine an ear by Roberta! Kyriel's body simply slumped over and hit the
sandy ground with a thud.
Tamthis' limited spiritual sight never saw the angel leaving her meaningless shell behind
dove right into Tamthis' head.
++++
Kyriel landed softly, looking around, it was pitch black. 'Great, now where am I?'
Spreading her wings slightly she saw a traditional American living room carpet... with a
great need for vacuuming with all the sand everywhere.
Kyriel didn't question when she was suddenly in a maid outfit doing exactly that with a
'777Miracle' model vacuum cleaner.
"Woman! Who commanded ye to remove my precious sand!"
Kyriel turned around, and did not curtsies as a she normally would and a maid should at
seeing the person before her. He was a muscular fox, tall, MANY tails, only wearing a cape
and his manhood exposed. It wasn't Karther.
"Good sir, I am removing your sand for the TRUE master of the house."
"--I-- am the true master of the house servant!"
The kitesune man was sitting on a royal European throne with the made from sand and the
rest out of red velvet gold and jewels, rising high above the couches and coffee table in
the living room.
"Rape her!" Said a massive male humanoid wolf also adorned with many tails chained to
the throne on one side, "Rape the maid!" Half of his body was made out of clay.
"Eat her!" Said a massive female humanoid wolf also adorned with many tails chained to
the throne on the other side, "Eat the maid!" The opposite side of her body was made from
clay, and had the same glowing green eye.
"No..." Said a sultry voice behind Kyri' the angel fox maid turned to see the epitome of
womanhood laying on a couch like a roman queen. She had glowing yellow eyes, long
wavy black hair, and was managed to have a flawless figure without her proportion being
absurd. "Let us give the maid pleasure, then have her give but pleasure, so pleasure be all
that she knows and does, for pleasure is the only real goal of living after all."
"Please..." Said a fox woman who looked very much like the first but with fewer tails and
with a slightly more sane figure, but still had the aura of magic about her, in fact,
something of her felt slightly familiar to Tabra's memories. She was sitting rather than
laying on a couch next to the first woman. "Miss Maid, have you seen Karther? Have you
seen my loving prince Karther? I am his betrothed but I can not find him anywhere... please
little maid... where is the prince of all kitesune that I am destine to marry?"
Kyri' looked down at herself, and again didn't question when she found her biological age
had been cut in half and her maid outfit had shrunk to match her new size and shape.
"Marry?!" Said a kitesune lass with some more muscle on her bones and with a less
fantastic figure but somehow a bit more absurd. She lepted onto the couch's back edge
and tittered back and forth on it like she was on a permanent sugar rush. "That's silly!
Who wants to -marry-?! Just have sex! Who cares about any of the rest! It doesn't matter
who you have sex with as long as you do. It's not like we have any other purpose in life
anything." Kyri then noticed the plastic sheen and little too uniform nature of her fur. The
lass' eyes moved and looked but they were made from glass or plastic. She reminded Kyri'
of a doll. 'Not that... I've ever had a chance to play with any...'
Kyri' felt something soft in her arms and didn't need to look to see that it was the plush
foxy stuff animal she owned. She dropped her vacuum cleaner.
"Hey! How about letting ME join in the fun already?! I agree with most of your guys as it!
Well, the ones who are guys! Let me have some of the fun too already!" Said a male crude
and rude voice.
"Most... illogical... your joining in there actions would result in your elimination as a
separate part of the awareness and only add to their natural presence." Said a proper
spoken and very calm voice.
"Here's a question-who care?!-" Said the crude and rude voice again.
"Hey little girl! Yeah you! You're not from this house hold are ya?! Ya said you want the
proper own back right? That's me! Or at least I think that's me--" Said a voice that
sounded very familiar a set of memories not Kyri's.
Kryi' turned around, still holding her toy and still in her maid outfit, she saw three people
chained to the wall behind the throne and blind folded and gaged, so how they were
talking felt Kryi' curious.
The one on the left speaking in a rude manner was somewhat muscular in appearance and
whose expression seemed to change every few seconds. He also had wolf ears and a tail
but was otherwise human.
The one on the right was.... a Vulcan? And dressed when he belonged on a Federation Star
Ship. He was the one speaking in the calm and proper voice. Seeing him caused something
in Kryi' to stir.
The one in the middle... Jake's memories screamed to the surface... it was Tommy... only
now sporting fox ears and a tail.
"It would appear," Said the vulcan chained to the wall, "That your spiritual presence is
being treated as a new idea to this mind or spiritual scape, whichever it might be. And like
any new idea introduced to a mind for the first time, it is attempting to... assimilate you."
Kryi's eyes widened as she turned around and fired the phaser rifle that had been her
plush toy at the borg drone right behind her. It quivered and fell over backwards, it then
dissolved into green light.
"Forgive my poor choice of words." Apologized the vulcan.
Kryi' looked at the weapon, tossed it aside like a dead thing, and picked up her toy again.
Kryi' looked at the rude man, "The Id, or as Sigmund Freud original put it 'The It?' " She
looked at the human man chained in the center with fox ears, "The Ego? Or rather, The I?"
"And that would logically make me the Super-Ego or 'Over-I' as was the original
translation."
"Jake didn't think Tommy was into that sort of thing."
"He is not. But but it was mentioned on a fansite when trying to figure out the relationship
between the Borg Queen and the collective."
Kryei slowly turned in a full circle at everyone in the living room, now seeing the grassy
estate through one window, an endless star scape through another, and an endless desert
through a third window. There was also a locked closet door labeled 'Subconscious' that
something occasionally kept trying to bang out of.
"The technically correct term is unconscious mind." Kryi' said remembering more of Jake's
memories. The closet sign refused to be altered.
Wasn't there something important she was supposed to be doing? Something very
important? Something to help a very dear friend of her mommy and daddy? What was it
again?
'Be careful T', sometimes you will be forced to enter a living human's mind or soul, and
remember while there you're on THERE territory and you have to play by their rules. But
the most dangerous part is that SINCE you're in effective their reality, you're going to find
yourself pushed and pulled into something to FIT that shape... you need to remember to
hold onto at least the core of yourself or you'll LOSE yourself.'
Kyriel gasped and dropped the stuff toy. She remembered Michael's basic warnings and
instructions for when T' had chosen to be an Angel to walk among humans... 'Have to hold
onto the core of myself... have to hold onto the core of myself.'
She looked at all those present. 'The It, The I, The Over I. Tamthis, the Wolf Beast King.
The Wolf Beast Queen. Queen Tammia. Lady Tammia. And Tammia...'
Kyriel looked at the three aspects of Tommy's mind behind Tamthis...'Only the Vulcan
looks completely unaffected.'
She also realized between her and the Id, Ego, and Super Ego, was Tamthis and the Wolf
Beasts... Her little girl body shook. She shook her head. 'Hold onto the core of yourself
Kyriel. Remember, you are Kyriel!'
Queen Tammia looked at this with amusement. Lady Tammia in curiosity and a strange
concern. Tammie, just wanted to see what fun and games were about to begin.
'Remember T', no matter what form you're put into inside someone else's mind scape, no
matter what role your made to play, as long as you're able to remember what you need to
do, you can still win.'
"Don't worry Uncle Mike, I'll remember." Kyriel said.