"Hey mom!" Mary asked her mother, "Where do you think Ulysses and his family moved to?
"
"Who?"
The barely teenage girl replied, "One of my class mates, he kinda cute for a boy."
"Don't remember him."
"Weird, I could have sworn I mentioned him once to you."
"Sorry dear I don't."
"Oh well," Mary shrugged, "I hope wherever he is he's happy."
++++++++
In the male den away from where Sarah carried Ulysses in the back yard, and away from
Zackery's 'throne room' in the room on the second floor facing the front yard where the
construction was going on, Zackery and Roger sat with each other. Nick was with Nicole,
apparently Nick was none too happy that Nicole had failed to inform him that magic had
been chosen to be used to upgrade his fellow males opposed to hard work he had been
looking for basic instructions for. All of the pack steered clear of the two as they had their
'discussion.'
"Zackery sure has changed." Lawrence commented. "Before he treated us as surplus, now
he's totally polite with us and treats as equals, maybe more than that, like we belong to
the same class of males as he and Nick do!"
Roger said sitting on the coach that acted like a large chair to the male big bad wolf, "Or
maybe it's us that's changed. He thought we were extra because we weren't titans like
him. If he wanted no other males around besides Master he wouldn't have been friendly
with Nick."
Lawrence thought in a cultured pose, "Hmmm, maybe he realized Nick was his only real
opposition and wanted to be on friendly terms with him, and now wants to be on friendly
terms with us? In other words he respects our power now, he respects our strength, he
respects us."
"Haven't you noticed that we're also respecting him now too? Like it was nothing before?"
The pastel green Roger honestly wouldn't have given any of this a first thought if not for
the pastel green Megan.
"Respect begets respect." Lawrence said simply. "And he is a fine and proper man wolf
titan like we are now. We are what the females want, and we have what we can give them.
We are beautiful."
"Maybe..." Roger thought, "Have you see the entranced look the she-wolves get near us
now? It's like our scent puts them in another world almost."
"They aren't complaining, they aren't being harmed, they're enjoying us more because of
us, and it isn't subverting Master's authority for they'd all still mate with Master in a heart
beat if he wished it."
"Not that he seems to -care- to mate with any besides the Alpha and Betas it seems for
now. And well... you get the feeling like we've become -more- like -Zack- somehow?"
"Not in the least. We're simply as hansom as him now, we're as good with the females as
him now, we're as powerful as him now, we're as great as he is now, we're as mighty as he
is now. Nothing more."
Roger couldn't argue with that, but he felt like there was something wrong with that
statement.
+++++++++++
The dynamic in the game had changed, and now Pearl was the one who wanted out of the
game while Megan, June and Beatrice were the ones who wanted to keep playing. Pearl
kept trying to produce good excuses to leave, but June kept holding here her with a
sublime grasp underneath the table.
Pearl just hoped June didn't do something insane like try and Dare Megan and Beatrice into
having no negative thoughts about Zackery... this would then turn into absolute insanity...
ugh, and all of this wasn't helping her hangover at all.
'On the bright side, the Master seems to be about done with recruiting new members. As
soon as the last handful are added, we won't even -need- the game anymore unless
someone barges in here to cause us trouble... So there's no need to worry about me using
a turn being discovered. ... ' Pearl sighed, 'The pack is our family now, and the estate and
whatever territories Master Bart and Master Jenny manage to get is our world. I just hope
we don't become like one of those communes that proves unable to support itself...'
+++++++++++
"Dat's the last of de paper work." Jenny said writing down the document in perfect hand
writing that matched her adult self flawlessly.
Bart sitting on the other end of the desk nodded finnish his pile, "Ditto her."
Kevin perked, "Caterpie!" Marcy added, "Sandshrew!"
The two older pups looks at them confused.
Marcy explained, "Play pokemon like... Mother did before she became mother."
The two pups looked at each other and shrugged.
"So everything is set with the shadows." Jenny said, "They'll be able to function as our
avatars in any business dealing with no hassle. And each are armed with a Turn in the
game if pushed into an extreme situation."
"And no one will question the paper work that says your three shadows were always
female. Luckily none of them had relatives in Glendale and their own relatives aren't likely
to check the records to something they themselves know to be different."
"Exactly." Jenny nodded. "As soon as the gate is complete, we send our shadows out into
the world, and they'll be our hands for insuring the estate stays legally and economically
stable. No one's coming to repossess OUR home!"
Martha came up to the two hugged them with an arm set each, "I'm so proud of both you,
as I know your parents are proud of you."
Kevin and Marcy of course were jealous as siblings will be, but they weren't about to cause
trouble over it. "Awww, we wanna hug too." Not much.
Taking the two older pups in one muscular arm each, Martha then used her lower arms to
hug the two younger pups, her left head nuzzling them while her tails tickled them
making them giggle.
Mr. P joined in the group hug rubbing his sides against the pups and Martha. Yes. This
was good.
+++++++++++
Julie thought as she finished dressing. Her daughters hadn't been able to write like this
before, meaning logically it had to be written by Alice or someone else... but, it was their
choice of words, and their style of speaking... had Alice written the note FOR them then?
Julie cursed herself for not learning more about Alice when she had a chance, then she'd
know what kind of horrid revolting unnatural -thing- now had her babies! She'd make it
pay! She'd make it pay dearly!
Julie thought some more, the letter had precisely stated not to have Madam Serenity or
anyone else -there- -with- her. Thinking that, Julie made a phone call.
"Hello Madam Serenity it's me. My daughters are gone. Yes all the mirrors were covered
up!!! I heard our dog barking and when I came out they were gone along with Chester. I
thought they were playing a game but I found a note signed with their names to come
back to Glendale alone. No. No I'm not picking you up. Yes they gave me a location, but
it's not one I'm going to give you. Why? Because the message said to come alone! I'm not
putting my daughters in danger! Any danger! I still have the ear phones you gave me to
block out sounds if it really is the game. .. Thank you for your help Madam Serenity, and I
felt it was just right for me thank you for everything you've done. NO! I said I'm not telling
you where! You'd come too! And that would endanger my babies! That's final! If anything
happens to me, please save my husband and children, please. That is all. Good-bye." Julie
hung up the phone as Madam Serenity still shouting on the line. She began packing up her
daughters' things and her own to begin the drive back to Glendale, the message hadn't
given a time limit, so she had no idea when she was supposed to be there... so she
assumed as soon as possible.
Back in Glendale, "Mrs. Butler! Mrs. Butler! PLEASE! If they have your daughters then they're
likely already transformed! Don't go! Mrs. Butler!.... dammit..." Madam Serenity cursed as
she realized Mrs. Butler had hung up on her. "Dammit... she's doomed... I only hope
Trevor finds something we can use to find this new harem."
Madam Serenity thought, she knew Trevor's fear of not being able to speak with her would
make it impossible to see her as a friend, but she still enjoyed his company... she had
been working solo for so long that it was rather pleasing to finally have someone to work
along side, to share her secrets with, to share their duty she had given herself of somehow
ending the game and saving it's victims. Sometimes Serenity wondered if the game
COULD be ended, and if all the turns were terminated, a new one would manifest in
particularly petty and spiteful person to start the cycle anew? She didn't know, and that
was why she had to try.
"Come back safe Trevor, and find out what we need to know, you're the Butler family's last
hope."
+++++++++++++
Samantha and Abbey, if not for the overwhelming desire to finally see their father again,
would have voiced their desire to explore every inch of the mirrorverse. They were amazed
at what they saw. The reflections of people walking around going through them like they
were ghosts. The way the stuff that was in view of the reflective surface was a flip around
of the outside world, and the way the stuff that had once been in view of a mirror was
now looking almost frozen in time until they interacted with it, and the stuff that had
NEVER been in view of a reflective surface was completely and utterly different!
Abbey actually found a record play dating back to the 1930s and some records along side
it in the corner of the room! The closet looked like someone had drawn it but had
completely forgotten the rules of geometry... but Abbey felt no fear. There was no need.
An inner voice, an instinct spoke to her, this was her world, her place, it would not harm
it's own.
"Come now," Alice said to her cousins/half-sisters, "We have to go and meet your father
before auntie gets there before us and all that."
"Just three step?" Abbey asked.
"Just three steps. I know where we're going so let me lead."
Abbey and Samantha obediently nodded. Chester wondered to Fenrir what was going to
happen next!
"Okay then, follow my lead, one," Alice took one step, "Two," The second step, and all the
world around them was in a blur, "Three!"
They were standing in a big mansion.
"WHAO!" Samantha did declare.
"Cool!" Abbey added.
"WHat-that-the!" Chester the little dog gasped in confusion and declared.
Alice looked at her cousins/half-sisters and their pet, and was mentally overwhelmed with
the questions that flooded her mind.
'The message Abbey and Samantha wrote at the house was done in pictures. This message
was written down in plain english. However they are using contractions when I most
decidedly do not do. Curious. and curiouser. They are now identical twins rather than
fraternal twins but don't act like two sides of a mirror like mother and Auntie do.
Curiouser. Chester is decidedly NOT part of the Big Bad Wolf Pack, yet he didn't become
like me when he entered... was that because they brought him into the mirror world, or
because he's a dog, or because he's not human? Curiouser and Curiouser. Can we
understand Chester because we are now wolves or because this is the world within
mirrors? Curiouser and Curiouser. And Samantha thinks of her mother now as he aunt but
still refers to auntie Fran as her mother most curious indeed!'
Chester wasn't wearing any victorian era pet attire either, Alice guessed that was because
he wasn't related in any way to Alice unlike her mother, aunt and cousins. Alice giggled
wonder what sort of clothes would appear on Jensen within the mirror world.
"Look at them all." Abbey said seeing all the ghostly reflections of all the she wolves
around them, Master had mirrors set up in almost every room for Alice to easily move
about the household.
"They're naked." Samantha said simply, not really alarmed or confused, just making an
observation.
"So are we in the world outside this world." Alice said simply.
"Really?" Abbey said thinking about how her body had turned to glass outside the mirror
before. "Alice, why didn't you say you turned to glass outside the mirror and we would
too?" There was no accusation in her voice or anger, only innocent and pure curiosity.
"I was worried that you would not want to be with me in here. I do not mind being glass
outside the mirror. But it is gravely lonely being the only person who is real inside this
universe."
Abbey and Samantha hugged Alice at once, "You're not alone anymore." "You've got us."
"I know... thank you..."
Samantha then pulled on Alice's tail causing a yip.
"Ow! What was that for?"
"For thinking we wouldn't come along with you over a nonsense thing like that."
"Oh." Alice then smiled and nodded.
"Where they all human?" Abbey asked gesturing at all the she-wolf reflections around
them.
"Every last one." Alice nodded.
"So many," Chester said, "All of them blessed by Fenrir so utterly and completely. Unlike
that crazy girl I saw who got cursed by Bast or something."
"Actually, it is the Game," Alice said, "The magic of Glendale that let anyone become
anything if asked properly first. Though I feel the same has some rather unfair bylaws, but
no use complaining about what can not change, and if one can do something about
something they should do it instead of wasting time complaining about it."
Abbey and Samantha looked at each other, then Alice and nodded. Chester's little brain
spun in circles.
"Where's daddy?" Abbey asked.
"Right this way, I know where they'll be, come along." Alice took hold of her cousins again,
"One, two, three." In the same blur of three steps (which wasn't any longer or shorter than
before), they were in a new room and saw two large identical dirty blond she wolves with
impressive chests next to a larger reddish brown she wolf with a small chest, and finally
one big and bad black wood who the girls easily realized was male. They actually blushed
and turned away at the sight. They were as naked as all the she wolves they had seen
were.
"Now don't be she," Alice took her hands, and stepped out of the mirror, becoming a
naked humanoid glass wolf child with two smaller identical ones behind her. Chester in
Samantha's arms remaining the same.
"Mother! We're back!"
"We?" Darla and Fran asked turning as one to the sight.
"Abbey, Samatha, meet your daddy, now your new mama."
"Mama?" The two identical girls asked in confusion.
Dead silence. The red and black wolves in the room remain totally silent and just
observed. Fran's eyes began to mist up, and thus so did Darla's.
Finally Fran couldn't hold it back anymore and charged at the two glass girls, Alice
stepping out of the way and Chester leaping out of Samantha's arms.
"MY GIRLS!" Fran hugged them both tightly kneeling down, her breasts like giant pillows
against her bodies. "I missed you so much! So much! I'm, I'm I'm, I'M JUST SO HAPPY TO
SEE YOU! I kept getting scared this day would never come! I kept being worried! I'm just so
happy to see you as part of our new family as last!" Fran practically broken down in tears,
as did Darla thought keeping some distance.
"New family?" Abbey asked, her head and Samantha's swimming at this giant wolf woman
who hugged them calling them her children and... it felt totally and completely and utterly
RIGHT!
Alice nodded, Fran too chock up from happiness to speak, "I am your cousin and half
sister. You also now have two more half sisters and two half brothers. My mother is your
aunt and the twin of your new mother. When aunt Julie becomes part of the pack, she will
be the mom of Abbey, while Aunt Fran is now the mom of Samantha! I guess that makes
Alpha Female your step mom, but do not worry, she is nice enough." She gestured at
Jensen, "And this is our father, your new father, and my father. Alpha Male, Master, Big
Bad Wolf Jensen."
Jensen calmly observed the two new glass wolf girls. They were easily the youngest of all
the ones who had been created, even if it was only indirectly by the game, and the two of
them were living unbreakable glass like Alice. And... he found himself thinking about how
so utterly adorable they were! And he felt proud at that they WERE his daughters... which
sent his head swimming at how it wasn't like the sweet nectar of dominance he was used
to feeding off of from his transformed victims, here instead, he honestly felt it like it was
HIS honor to be THEIR parent, the alien thoughts and emotions made him feel weird, he
had decidedly felt this with Bart and all the others, but these two filled the glass over the
top and now it spilled over leaving Jensen feeling odd.
Finally Jensen said, "I... I hope you find your new lives in the pack to be very happy ones."
Kaylee looked at Master completely shocked and somewhat a little alarmed at his tone and
expression.
"Th-thank you..." Samantha stutter, "Daddy."
"Yes. He is your daddy, and I am your mommy, forever and always now." Fran whispered
hugging her daughter.
Darla meanwhile to expression her own copy of Fran's emotions came up behind Alice
hugged her own child.
"Any regrets being my child Alice? Any at all? Even without the game?"
'No Mother, I promise, none at all. ... Do you regret having a glass daughter? Even if not
for the game?"
"I would have never ever chosen this life if asked." Darla answered honestly to her child,
"But now with you, my sister, my nieces and Master, I wouldn't trade it for a kingdom."
Alice peacefully leaned against her mother, "Thank you... mama..."
+++++++++++++
Trevor groaned as his trail had led him straight to a dentist office. It included a little boy
wearing fake wolf ears and was there apparently for a second set of fillings. Trevor
groaned again. He couldn't get in the old fashioned way, but could see plenty from the
glass window and door that made up the entirety of the office's front side. He circled the
place a few times. Not picking up anything more than a wavering scent. 'Looks like I went
in the totally wrong direction... so the wolves are coming out to take care of medical
matters? Who'd have thought... this means they're not completely beast things then, then
again they'd need speech and thinking to use the game anyway...'
Trevor however picked up a second trail of scents, identical to the first, yep, these were
the same two wolves... Trevor began to follow the second trail hoping it would lead him to
the wolves... after that... who knew what would happen. 'Here's hoping to God in Heaven I
don't get eaten...'