Kaylee asked, "These will be the last ones won't they? Besides Fran's immediate family,
your school friends will be the last ones won't they? The old man we're turning into a pet
and into a bodyguard for the pups, so your friends will be the last ones we'll be adding to
the pack won't they?"
Jensen thought for a moment and nodded, "Yes... Bart still has his Wolvesdale fantasy, but
that's all it is, a fantasy." That was when finally a thought to the future hit Jensen. Being
Jennifer she hadn't really though beyond high school or even what collage she'd be
applying for. So thinking of the future wasn't something he was used to at all, but finally
something did flicker in his big bad black furry head, "If Bart wants to try and take over
Glendale with the game and possibly destroy the pack in the process after I'm big, old and
gray and on the way out that's his business. But for now, thirty-eight total with my friends
and Fran's family will be more than enough." It was clearly uncomfortable for Jensen to
even speak of himself being old, as Jennifer the idea had been just plain alien.
"Maybe since the Big Bad Wolf is fictional, a story, and you are now the Big Bad Wolf and
we are your pack we will never age since stories are timeless?" Kaylee suggested to better
her Master's ever so slightly negative mood.
"We'll cross that bridge if we come to it."
As usually Kaylee was slightly torn in there being one less female wolf who would distract
Jensen from her, but on the other she didn't want her Master's selection of females
decreased by one iota, but her Master had said they would use this new male to nip Nick's
idea of a power structure in the bud (in spite of it being perfectly wolf nature TO have a
power structure), and so for the greater cause she would go along with as her master
wanted.
"I take it that we'll be adding to our numbers after that the old fashioned way?" Kaylee
looked happy about this part.
"Yes." Jensen nodded rubbing one of Kaylee's maternal material.
The twins would make note of this later, that Bart's safety measure of having some males
around to service the seventeen lesser females, and Jensen's new design to have one more
to keep them in check: they had effectively insured that the pack would have a future even
if Master was ever lost. The idea of Master's end was incomprehensible of course, but all
the same was the new ratio within the pack had guaranteed for the short term at the very
least the pack's genetic future.
++++++++++
"Excuse me aunite," Alice turned around to faced the twins, "But where is your old house?"
The twins echoed sighs.
On the other side of the mirror a minute later, Alice wondered.
Why didn't auntie want Alice's cousins to join the pack as glass wolves like Alice was. Her
mother and auntie were twins in all things, so Alice would logically at one point have to
find herself a sister and her cousins would become glass wolves like Alice...
Were mother and auntie ashamed of Alice?
Alice shivered at the thought, the game had made her Darla and the Master's child,
though she had only existed since that morning... While Alice couldn't deny what she felt
for her new mother, she wondered for a moment if her mother felt the same.
Still, her mother and auntie had said very much -not- to bring any of auntie's former
family into the mirror world to become like her so Alice would obey her mother... she only
hoped they changed their mind later.
Alice took three steps in the empty world that she was the only resident of. "One, two,
three."
++++++++++
"Here are the shipping boxes ya'all ordered." Said the man from the delivery service truck
after one of the shadows had phoned in the request for some free shipping boxes (which
shipping the company was actually rather eager to provide).
"Thank you." Margot said the red-violet she-wolf as she signed for the empty flat
packages the pack would be needing to sell off the junk they no longer had use or need
for. She noticed him starring at her chest but said nothing.
"Ya know miss I wouldn't all if ah got ta know dat body I mean you a bit better."
Margot knew precisely how to give him a body like hers for him to know what to do with...
however there was a chance he'd just chose transform and they'd be left with a truck
outside the gate with no reason for being there.
"Sorry, I'm rather committed right now." Margot said handing the clipboard back to him as
she lifted the two piles of massive cardboard boxes with minimal effort. The truck driver
only left after she had gone inside the swinging of her tail having him effectively
hypnotized until she entered the estate and the delivery man returned to his rout.
++++++++++++
"You there, Nicole." Kaylee said to a gray furred wolf carrying the last piece of humanish
art the pack no longer found easy on the eyes.
She stopped dead in her tracks, put down the bronze statue and bowed, "Actually it's
Alexandra Alpha Female."
'Oh right, no ribbon,' Kaylee thought, 'All the wolves were supposed to be uniquely
colored, Nick is dark gray, June is a gray silver pattern, but Nicole and this she-wolf are
the same shade of gray like Roger and Megan are the same shade of green. Is Alexandra
related to Nicole? I'll have to ask that later.' "Alexandra, do you still have your turn?
Master's old school friends will be arriving this evening under the pretense of a sleep over
to be the penultimate additions to the pack via the game."
"May I suggest Ulysses Alpha Female?" Alexandra said not ceasing her bow, "All the other
males' turns were used to convert the other groups and he would be a good way to round
things out."
Kaylee thought about that making sense, however, "The master said he desired a she-wolf
that still had her turn at the game, do you still have your turn?"
"I do Alpha Female, only Maxine has used her turn when she brought Millie into our pack."
'Oh right the late comer.' "As soon as you're done with your task you're to report to the
Master's new bed room for instructions."
"Yes Alpha Female." Alexandra finally ceased her bow and took the bronze statue and
carried into the room where Lawrence and Ulysses were waiting.
+++++++++++++
"Do we -have- to do this?" Nick asked. The game had precisely said he would revel in any
task given to him by the females of the pack, but he reveled in some tasks more than
others.
Nicole looked at him, "There are NEVER EVER going to be equal or greater number of
males to females in the pack, so a normal sized room is good enough for the pack male's
den. But a common den for us and the Alphas will need to be larger. We asked Caroline
remember that these two rooms would do."
"We converted three rooms onto the single den for the she-wolves."
"The Master can use the she-wolves den if he ever wants all of us at once... now let's get
started!"
"Here we go again."
"One two, one two, pow-pow-pow!"
++++++++
the blue green she wolf looked at the teal wolf as they carried out the smashed remains of
the former walls, "You hear that?" Terri asked Sandi to the sounds of what could have
been a series of sledge hammers.
"Yes I do! You know what that means!"
Terri nodded, "Yes it means we have -another- pile of sheet rock, wood and insulation to
take care off after this!"
"At least we're not going to have any trouble sleeping tonight..."
++++++++
Abbey and Samantha were long home from Kindergarten and the afternoon cartoons had
ended (their parents didn't have cable, and it was doubtful that that Julie would have let
them watch cartoon network since it's demographic shift). Leaving two five year olds
home alone was the last sane thing any mother would do, and Julie was on the phone still
making futile calls to the FBI who kept giving her the run away, inspiring her to go to her
computer to dig up references on FBI policy and calling them again. The fraternal had
figured out that they were NOT to bother their mother while she was like this.
In their bed room the girls were engaged in a calm tea party with their stuffed animals.
They were remotely curious to where their father was but figured he was doing something
very important and everything was going to be alright.
They offered some more tea to their brown and yellow rabbit who happily accepted it, but
the blue and yellow frog would have none, which was very rude of it indeed.
"Hello." The girls turned to their open closet door and saw in the door's mirror was a
yellow colored wolf wearing a blue and white dress like in one of their picture books, she
was standing on two legs and had long blond hair. The wolf curtsied and said, "How are
you?"
The girls never having seen a wolf in their mirror before inched a ways a bit, Samantha
back (older by three minutes) and Abbey foreword (younger by three minutes). "I'm fine."
Samantha replied.
"We're having a tea party, who are you?" Abbey asked curiously.
"I am Alice,"
Samantha gasped, "As in Alice in Wonderland?"
Alice tilted her head, "Sort of."
Samantha asked, "Is this like that Little Mermaid cartoon where the author goes
underwater in a submarine and meets Ariel and is inspired to write a book about her?"
"I never saw that." Alice said, the blond wolf looked at them both, "How old are you?"
"Five." "Five." The girls held up their hands for added impact. "How old are you?" Abbey
asked.
"I am seven and a half." Alice said, there was a sound of slight disappointment at their
differences in age. "Are you Abbey and Samantha?" Alice asked remembering the names
Alice had been given when Auntie had given her directions.
"I'm Abbey Butler!" Said the blond girl pointing at her chest.
"I'm Samantha Butler!"
"It is nice to meet you." Alice said.
"You're not gonna eat us up are you like the big bad wolf?" Samantha asked.
Alice shook her head, not saying anything on that subject, after all, her father's reputation
was fully deserved, "No I'm not, I'm just here to give you a message."
"From the queen of hearts?" Abbey asked.
"From little red riding hood?" Samantha wondered out loud.
Alice shook her head again, "Nope! The message is, 'that your daddy is safe and sound
and looks foreword to see you again soon.' "
"We didn't know daddy was in trouble." Samantha said.
Alice said smiling, "He isn't in the least, he's perfectly fine, that's what the message said
right?"
"Oh right." Samantha answered.
"Where is your mama? I have a message for her too." Alice asked.
"She's busy," Abbey said.
"It is quite important you see."
"She's REALLY busy," Samatha added, "She sounds unhappy, and she said to not bother
mama when she was really busy."
"Oh I see, then it would not simply be proper then would it." Alice said, "But I did promise
to give her the message."
"Maybe you can give it to us and we can give it to her?" Samantha asked.
Alice thought about it, they were her cousins, (for less than twelve hours) she was sure
could trust them. "That seems perfectly reasonable. The message is, that your daddy loves
your mama very much."
"Okay." "I'll remember." Abbey and Samantha said.
"So would you like to join us for tea?" Abbey asked.
"Sorry I can only have tea in here." Alice apologized.
"Then can we come in there with you?" Abbey asked curious as to what was on the other
side of the mirror.
Alice looked said, "I would most certainly and greatly like that, but sadly I promised I
would not. Maybe next time I see you you'll get to come inside and then I take you to your
daddy."
"That's not fair." Samantha said, "We should be able to come in with you."
Alice nodded, "I will ask auntie and mama if I can next time I see you... but mama said to
come right back home after I told you that your daddy was safe and that he loved your
mama so I really need to go, maybe we can have tea in here next time I visit."
"I wanna go inside now!" Abbey said.
Alice sadly shook head, "I want you to to, but promise are important and you should never
break them. It was nice meeting the both of you, I hope we do get to know each other
better soon." Alice curtsied with her dress and walked out of frame.
Abbey tapped and knocked the glass but it was utterly solid much to Abbey's
disappointment.
The girls tried to pass along Alice's message twice and both times were shoed away both
times telling their mother about Alice's visit (which she didn't have time for their
pretending). The girls finally decided they'd have to skip the part about Alice and just tell
their mother the message.
"Mommy... daddy loves you very much." Abbey said putting on her best cute face.
Julie stopped, looked at Abbey knelt down hugged her, "I know sweetie, I know he loves
me, and I know he loves you too."
The girls were very glade they got their message delivered for Alice. And waited eagerly
for when she would appear again.
+++++++++++
The noise of construction was still going strong within the house as the sun set (as was
the sound of panting tired wolves becoming more audible). Normally you don't let kids out
after dark, but wolves had night vision which the cub managed to enjoy a little bit of night
exploration, but Martha was quickly told to bring the children in and was able to do so
with only a slight display of course.
Isabelle was dropped off by her parents carry bags of junk food, two movies, and several
board games. Hope and Grace had walked together to the manor both only carrying duffle
bags, while Zylphia had driven herself there with her suitcase in the back seat.
"Need some help there 'Bell?" Hope said with a smirk on her short trim sandy blond
features.
"I've got it." Said the long haired full figured long haired platinum blond nearly tripping
over herself and her junk.
"I don't think so." The black haired medium length Grace took one look at Isabelle and
took off about half her burden.
"Thanks." Isabelle replied.
"Welcome."
"Well, like, this is, whao... check out these ugly characters." Zylphia pointed, the tallest girl
in the group and single curly brunette.
"When did Jen's parents have -these- installed?" Isabelle asked pointing at the nasty
looking gargoyles surrounding the estate.
"When we weren't here obviously." Hope pointed out.
"Do you guys hear something?" Grace perky an ear.
"Sounds like someone's building something... or tearing it down." Zylphia said.
"Well, let's go see if Jennifer's been brainwashed by martians and is build them a space
ship." Hope said without being the least bit serious in said theory.
"Like, foreword troops." Zylphia led the way through the front gate.
"Wonder what all the packages are for?" Isabelle wondered.
"Rich folks," Hope commented, "They want something until they have it."
Zylphia took the lead, with Hope and Grace should to shoulder, and Isabelle bringing up
the rear.
"Did you see something moving in the upstairs window?" Grace asked.
"And?" Hope asked wondering what the point was.
"Looked like a furry."
"Like Jennifer could EVER be into that!" Hope pointed out, "She thinks furries are the
absolute most demented freaks in the cosmos! She doesn't even LIKE ANIMALS! Remember
when you got her that pet cat and she tossed it back to the pet store without even taking
the muzzle off? If it was a dog it would have broken a hip."
Grace nodded and sighed, "I remember.... She can be so closed minded at times. What's
wrong with being a furry? It's not like they're out to mutate people or something." They all
looked at her. "Not that... I like that sort of thing of course..."
"She's not all bad." Isabelle defended, "She's fun to have around as long as you don't
mention animals, furries, mother nature, magic, mysticism or stuff like that."
Zyphia said, "Let's just like find out if she's okay first okay? She made up that excuse
about the phone so maybe she'll be willing to admit what's wrong face to face."
The noise of construction seemed to die down as the four seniors got closer. They were
curious about that.
Finally, Zyphia opened the front door...
Zyphia stared. Isabelle nearly fainted. Grace gasped. And Hope's mouth looked like a big
round hole.
The main foyer looked like it and the rest of the inside of the house was in the middle of
being taken apart (or put back together again). Rolled down from the stairs was a red
carpet that normally wasn't there with gold trim that you normally reserved for dignitaries.
But that wasn't what got the girls attentions.
Flanking either side of the red carpet. standing at attention with their feet together arms
at their sides and their smiling faces facing the girls were wolf people. All of them were
naked except one wearing a red ribbon around one ear. All of them were taller than even
Zyphia.
At the very beginning of the line on the right was a wolf woman creature thing that
seemed to have two of almost everything with six eyes like a insect three on each head
with it's tails flat on it's legs. Opposite the wolf-woman-creature-thing was a orange and
white one with her tail raised slightly higher.
These pairs continued on ten more times, all of them women except for one dark gray one
near the very end who was clearly a guy opposite of a white furred strangely flat chested
she-wolf. Around eighty percent of them were colored colors that had no right to exist as
a fur color but did reminds the girls of Isabelle and Zyphia's anime collections, as bright as
ink and paint. There were also quite a few greens.
At the very end of the lines were two identical dirty blond ones that had chests that were
relatively larger than any of the other she wolves there. But Grace thought at them, 'I've
seen bigger.'
On the stairs themselves were much small wolves, with the proportions of children. Two
red-brown ones on the right and a a black and red-brown on the left. A glass sculpture of
one sat down in the middle. At on the top of the stairs walked out, was the biggest and
baddest wolf the girls had ever seen walking on two legs flanked on one side by shorter by
two whole feel still impressive she wolf who only the twins surpassed in figure size.
"Welcome!" Said the big wolf in a rough voice, "Hope you guys had a pleasant trip over!"
Zylphia shouted, "WEREWOLVES!"
Isabelle screams, "ALIENS!"
Hope said, "WHAO!"
Grace stared in amazement, "COOL!"
"Please... go ... inside..."
The girls slowly turned around to see the gargoyle from before (the only male one they had
seen) now standing right behind them and pointing it talent towards the door way.
Only Isabelle screamed this time.
All of them inched inside.
The orange one and creature-wolf closed the doors behind them 'for them.'
As the girls stepped inside the wolf people hup to and switched so they were facing each
other.
"Zelph! Bell! Hope! Grace!" The biggest beast wolf now with open arms as he slowly came
down the steps on one side of the glass sculpture and the red-brown side wolf down the
other. "Great to see you could all make it!"
At an unseen signal eighties pop music began to play.
"Come along now... don't be shy..."
The girls took a step back, then remembered the stone monster outside and the other
ones they had seen, began to step closer.
"Millie, Ulysses, take their bags." Said the red-brown she wolf.
"Yes Alpha female." Two of the wolf girls broke rank and took the girls' luggage.
"Don't sort and organization it until -after- they've gone through it themselves." The
biggest one said.
"Yes Master." The two said together as the two wolves hurried off with the girls' property.
Then the sculpture moved, -on it's own!- and spoke in a little girl's voice, "Presenting! And
display! And self-representing! Master Jensen, Alpha Male of the pack, and the one and
only Big Bad Wolf! And his Alpha Female Kaylee!"
All the wolves except the twins and cubs clapped.
Kaylee smiled as best as a wolf could, looking very pleased with herself and the reception
the girls found themselves in.
Jensen raised a hand and ended the clapping.
"Hey girls, sorry that the house is this way, we're in the middle of renovations... but I can
promise we're gonna have the night of our lives!"
"Where's Jenny!" Grace demanded.
"Which Jenny do you mean?" Asked the sculpture, "The Jenny you know, the Jenny who you
spoke to, the Jenny you used to know, the 'Jenny' that is, or the Jenny that used to be?"
The twins look at it and the sculpture became quiet.
"Like, the Jenny whose our friend!" Zylphia declared.
"Right here." The Big Bad Wolf pointed at itself.
"YOU ATE HER-?!" Isabelle gasped.
"No..." Jensen said in a flat tone, "I did not, I am her... it's a very long story, and you all
deserve to hear all of it..."
"I'm outta here!" Hope turned to run and got back handed by a smiling pink wolf that
floored her.
"Nope! Sorry! You guys are stayin' and that's final!" Jensen said putting his hands on his
hips.
"That's Jennifer." Grace sigh.
Hope got up rubbing her face and a bit dizzy.
"Now come along!" Jensen said in a 'my way or the freeway' tone all the girls knew
precisely well.
As the girls got close all the wolves turned again so they were all looking at the girls'
backs, and giving the girls a view of the she wolves tails.
The girls took a few steps up the stairs, the pups moving to the sides for them.
"Alexandra, Darla, Fran, Pearl, with us," Kaylee said, "The rest of you, back to work!"
Pearl followed thinking, 'I think she keeps picking me cause she remembers my name the
easiest.'