Chester had been, of course, asleep. If Chester had been awaken, the tiny Chihuahua
would have likely barked and stirred up a ruckus which would have inspired Julie to end
her shower early, and have seen Alice for the first time and would have gotten her children
away from the reflective television and would have prevented her daughters from
becoming part of the Big Bad Wolf Pack. But Chester had been snoozing, the dog oblivion
to the changes, and since Alice had been on the other side of the mirror, she gave no
scent for the dog to trace. Chester just kept on dreaming of being the size of a mountain
and stepping on self-important cats as if they were ants.
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Alice took her cousins/half-sisters paws and gently pulled them out of view of the
reflective surface of the television's glass. It wouldn't do any good to have them seen by
their mother until after they had their plot finalized. Alice remembered the Transform
that had made into Alice had said those who were not part of the pack who she brought
into the mirror would become like her, but then gave an abridged description of her state.
She hoped all the details were included, (liking not minding not breathing, eating, sleeping
etc, in outer world).
Abbey and Samantha politely waited for whatever Alice had to say, and Alice remembered
that anyone she transformed via this method according to the Transform would listen to
her as well as love and be loyal to father. 'Of course 'listen to' can mean a lot of things.
And this game, while showing to be rather proper when taking in the spirit of most details,
has shown to be very sloppy at times.' Alice remembered the error of semantics that had
resulted in Zackery not being bound by total and absolute loyalty to Jensen. One thing
Alice did notice was that her cousins/half-sisters didn't become seven and a half year olds
but remained five year olds. 'Is this because they were already little girls?' Alice wondered.
Part of Alice did feel this damaged their symmetry somewhat, but The Game was rather
unruly about such details and Alice figured she should take what she could get.
"Now please," Alice began, "Tell me everything you remember about the strange lady."
Alice figured they had until Aunt Julie got out of the shower, then it would be time for her
cousins/half-sisters to do their thing.
"Will we get to see father soon now Alice?" Abbey asked.
"Yes. I promise. We'll go right to your parent as soon as we get your mother to come along
to where to meet."
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"So dear, I mean Master." Kaylee said leaning against her mate, "What SHALL we do with
Zackery's parents? And don't forget we need to explain ultimately to the school why
Zylphia is no longer attending."
Jensen said, "I know, that is trouble. We'll have to do something about that. We'll need to
have the school informed Zylphia will be home schooling from now on. With a Dare that'll
be simple. Transform it could get complicated, unless we include a timer like we did with
Jack and Marcine."
"You make it sound like you aren't going to decide what to do with them." Kaylee said
simply as she and mate sat in the tea room as Darla and Fran (both worried the longer
Alice took and wanted to get removing Master's bandages out of the way as lightning fast
as possible so they could go back to their plot involving luring Julie back to Glendale).
Darla barked that Alpha Female wasn't paying attention as much as she should have (the
dummy to practice on would be there in a day). First-Aid, Martial Arts: Kaylee personal
felt she was almost back in high school.
"I don't know what they're going to become... I'm going to let Zack decide."
"WHAT?!" Kaylee said as did Fran and Darla.
"Of course I'm not giving him a turn back, one of the clink will do it, and the others will be
there as witnesses. I intend to test his loyalty to see if it's worth using a turn to make him
magically loyal to me."
Kaylee wondered, "Once one IS loyal via magic, and the Game has come and gone, is it still
magic?"
"Good question but not the real point. The point won't be see what Zackery turns them
into precisely, it's to see if he tries to include a detail that makes them loyal to him over
me or something else that'll grant him an unfair advanage. Otherwise, as long as he keeps
in a part of them making it legal for Zylphia to just vanish, he can make them into wolf
paper weights, a loli fountain, wolf pups, gargoyles, or two more of your anime she-
wolves for all I care."
"I see." Kaylee said, hoping for the busty anime she-wolves. While she didn't like the
extras, she also couldn't help but feel the excitement at creating new ones like an artist
like creating a master work from a block of marble.
"There you go Master." Darla said, taking off the bandages showing the fully healed legs a
couple of tiny scars from Kevin and Marcy's fangs.
Jensen tested out his legs and flexed the muscles. "Good as new."
"We're very happy to hear that Master." The twins declared happily.
"So am I." Kaylee hugged him from behind pressing her breasts against his back, "So am
I... "
"Master.." Fran began.
"Can we.." Darla continued.
"Get ready for..."
"Yes you can." Jensen finished.
"THANK YOU MASTER!" The twins declared happy to be back on the road to getting their
dearest Julie into their new family. They only hoped Alice was doing well with Abbey and
Samantha.
"Sister." Darla asked as they left the tea room to continue their plan.
"Yes Sister?"
"I do believe I now love Julie the way you love her." Darla commented kindly as they
walked in perfectly step with each other.
"Well sister, as you've been reminding me, our Transform did include for us to feel the
same."
"To act the same, look the same, think the same, feel the same, and be the same Sister."
"Indeed."
"So now I wonder."
"As do I wonder sister."
"Once Julie becomes our triplet, how precisely shall we love each other?"
Fran put a paw on her twin's shoulder, the other dirty blond did the same a moment later,
"That's a very good question sister."
"But there's only one way to answer it isn't there sister?"
"Yes. For when we bring Julie into the pack."
"I hope my daughter is doing well with yours." Darla said.
"I'm sure she is sister."
"Don't jinx it sister."
"Sorry sister."
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"You're not a licensed foreman are you?" The foreman asked Caroline.
"No I'm not. But it's how my pack expects me to take care of things, and thus how I do. I
oversaw the revision of the entire house."
"And the house didn't collapse on itself? No offense but I'm honestly impressed, this isn't
kids playing building blocks and with a house THAT big... well, here's hoping your glues
and thumb tacts all hold."
"Humph. I'm just here to make sure you don't touch something you shouldn't."
"Don't worry we'll have your new and improved gate up before the start of the work week."
"This sure is interesting, right kiddo?"
"Sarah!" Caroline said not amused, "You and Ulysses shouldn't be out here! I'm out here
only on orders, none of the pack is to go outside on the front yard until the gate is fully
upgraded."
"Come on Caroline, we're just here to see how things get done."
"You can find that out on the educational channel."
"All they show now are 'Day in the lives of lumberjacks, day in the life of antique dealer,
and day in the life of a car restorer and seller,' and if you're really lucky 'history of a
technology' if you're lucky."
"That isn't my concern Sarah, you're ignoring orders."
"... I'm just showing it to Ulysses that's all."
"He's not five. He's not a pup. So -please- just go back inside."
Ulysses lowered his head, and leaned closer to Sarah, the cubs, the males, the females,
even if he got older he had the feeling he still wouldn't belong with Zackery and the
others.
The lavender Sarah put a around around the purple Ulysses's shoulders, "Okay kiddo, let's
head back inside..."
At least he felt at home with Sarah nearby, he was always so confident and cheerful, he
looked up to that.
++++++++++++++
Pearl June and Beatrice continued to play cards, mostly at Pearl's insistence. Pearl played
with a nasty headache, leading her to making some impulsive and reckless decisions. June
was doing well with pin point precision. Beatrice was in the middle of the three in the
game progress, but both Beatrice and June were quickly becoming bored with the game.
Pearl smiled nervously at the two again and again. Pearl looked rather annoyed. Beatrice
was wondering what the point of all of this was.
Pearl spoke nervously, "So how's the weather?"
The silver/gray June said flatly, "Couldn't care less."
Beatrice, "Seems rather sunny like it's been all week."
Pearl shuddered, "Guys, I mean, come on, let's have some fun."
"Hey June! You in here?" Said Megan coming into the room finding her partner in
construction, "You've been avoiding me and can I just ask why?"
"You aren't with your brothers?" The plain green Beatrice asked the pastel green Megan.
"We aren't joined at the hip, and, something about him since his upgrade makes me feel
uncomfortable somehow." Megan didn't feel uncomfortable speaking about her brother to
her former fellow work hands, after all, they were Big Bad Wolves like her.
The pearly Pearl asked making herself smiling, "What's to be uncomfortable about? We're
all members of the pack right? And we're all loyal to and love Master."
All the she wolves nodded at this.
"Come on," Beatrice said, "Pull up a chair, this game was getting boring but maybe you
can help liven it up."
"No need for that! Maybe we can play something else!" Pearl said not wanting someone not
in on the secret of the unauthorized turn and the Dare June was under to be nearby since
that would defeat the whole purpose of this and make it utterly pointless and a waste of
time.
"Come on now Pearl," Beatrice said, "We're all members of the pack right? All family."
Pearl tried to say something but found no words to say.
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Trevor sighed, he almost felt like he was just walking in circles almost. At least he hadn't
run into Queen yet. He had a feeling the longer he was out here the more Queen finding
him was just a matter of time. Still. Glendale's cats saw things nobody else even bothered
to worry about a cat seeing, and could certainly smell things that humans could never
hope to. Madam Serenity's gamble that Abbey and Samantha's 'imaginary friend' was
really connected to whoever had been using the game like it was going out of season -
was- their only lead. Well, that and the crazy old man who talked about the walking dogs.
So the blond wolf in the mirror was slightly more likely to be connected. Heck, who was to
say that imaginary friend -wasn't- the girls' father transformed? It was no more insane
than the death biological sentence Trevor had been given.
And given the rivalry and dislike between cats and dogs, it made sense that cats would
keep track of their hated enemy's movements and any new ones in town. Trevor just
hoped that four giant dogs that moved about like they were humans was enough to catch
some cat's attentions. And of course Trevor happening to find that particular cat and being
able to tell Trevor something interesting.
Trevor did run into a large cat sitting on the sidewalk with a collar looking out into
nothingness, not exactly unusual for a cat, but there was something about those eyes that
sent shivers down Trevor's tail.
"Uh, hello." Trevor began.
"Hello." The male cat said in an empty monotone.
"Uh, you okay?"
"I was part of a long well bred and expensive breed. I was worth a fortune. Then my
Master died in an accident. And I wandered about looking for my way home, losing my
collar, and a bunch of low class peasants found me... they took me in and treated me as if
it was common... then... then they destroyed me... they took away my line... my future is
gone... I was destine to breed to continue my line tracing it's roots all the way back to
ancient Egypt and Bast... but now... I'm less than nothing...."
Trevor took several steps back, "... Not many people, I mean cats, I mean us, don't ask you
how you're doing do they?"
"No...."
"Uh... do you know where a group of mollies are?"
"Heh... spread your seed where you can when you can young tom, otherwise you'll wake
up one morning in a cage to find your human has betrayed you..."
"Do you know where they are?"
"The weed garden with the wild catnip. The old man never ever comes out anymore, and
his dog can't smell a thing and is blinder than blind..."
"Uh... thanks... " The last thing Trevor needed was catnip to render him dooped up. "Have
you smelled or seen a bunch of very big dogs? That walked on two legs like they were
humans?"
".... yes.... a big bad black one built like a tank, and a dark one colored like dog poison."
'Chocolate.'
"She had those weights on those chests all adult human females have."
'Breasts.'
"So... any idea where they were going?"
"I don't saw them once. Yesterday I think, or was it today? Or the day before yesterday?"
"Uh... right.... look, do you remember what way they went?"
"They went through the park, that's all I know."
"Thank you..."
"... welcome young tom."
Trevor left the neutered male to his self pity.
In the park Trevor saw several cats with owners, most of them only gave him a few
glances, though a few kitten with their queen waved at him saying he was cute. Trevor felt
sick to his stomach. Now he just needed to find the scent of the giant dogs that had come
through here... and figured out to tell it apart from all the other dogs that came through
the park on a daily basis. "Perfect."
Trevor came up to a pair of mollies owned by an old woman reading 'Great Expectations.'
"Hello."
"Hi there cutie."
"What do you want?"
"Er," Trevor began, "I need to know, have either of you seen a couple of strange large dogs
lately that walk like they were humans?"