"You should consider Trevor," Judas said calmly lounging about like any cat. "That you are
a cat."
"I know." Trevor said looking at Judas lazing about in a sunspot wondering how he was
going to be getting about with one leg in bandages.
"What I mean is, you are a cat, period. If we are to assume a soul exists, a non-material
thing, weather felidae have one or not is besides the points in this venture: the point is, if
a soul is a non-material thing, then why would it have such material things such as
gender and species even apply to it?"
"You've... thought about this a lot..." Trevor said feeling VERY uncomfortable about this
discussion and really not sure he wanted it to continue.
"I spend a good deal of time indoor, thinking is something I have a great deal of time for."
"Good is called 'He' in the bible." Trevor tried to deflate what Judas was saying.
"And there some translations Father tells me when he has no one else to talk to that there
some translations that God is translated as 'she' indeed. He doesn't know how much to
trust those translations or not, but God if God did indeed exist before everything, then
logically, would that not mean God existed before there was a gender to begin with?"
Trevor shuddered, now feeling decidedly uncomfortable, "I have MEMORIES of my life as a
human being! I've .... I've ... I have the identity of a human being! This body is completely
the wrong shape for me!"
"Exactly." Judas said calmly, "You have been raised -as- a human the majority of your life,
and have been -treated- as a human, so of course you act like one and think of yourself as
one. But if you really are a human in a cat's body, then would you feel the same if you lost
your memories of being human? Or would I suddenly think of myself as a human trapped
in a cat's body if I had your memories instead of my own?"
Trevor felt sick. He remembered a story he read once when he was very very VERY bored,
about a man who woke up in a raccoon's body at the zoo, but it turned out the man's
memories and knowledge were COPIED OVER into the raccoon...The raccoon had never
been human.
"I remember what happened to me."
"And I am not saying you WEREN'T human, that is besides the point, as is many things,
your are felidae now."
Still feeling ill Trevor said, "I'm not letting go of everything my parents taught me just
because my DNA got raped!"
"And I am not abandoning my faith simply because the mollies all think I'm utterly insane.
That does not change -what- I am however."
"Forgive me if I'm starting the end of the world by saying it here, but I noticed your the
first cat I've met who hasn't used the word 'Bast' once."
"When one's God says, 'You shall have no gods before or after me' one should take it
serious."
The Lutheran cat decided not to discuss -that- issue at any further length not for all the
tea in China. He still felt ill.
Trevor asked, "Are you sure you're not a human who was Transformed into a cat and had
his memories erased of being human?"
"If I am, then it doesn't matter, if I am not, it doesn't matter: what I am, is what I am after
all."
"... Judas, have you ever tried to convert other cats?"
"On occasion... once one tried neuter me themselves so I wouldn't 'infect future lines of
the superior race' along with calling me a 'traitor to Bast.' Why do you ask?"
"Because... there's a whole giant pack of werewolves in that estate."
"Why are they called 'where-wolves?' Don't you know where they are?"
"... Never mind. The point is that Madam Serenity and I are going to need a LOT of help
getting Julie and her family out of there... and since Serenity said the police stay as far
away from the game as possible, the four legged kind might be our only option."
"Trevor, you might not have the experiences, but you think you can get cats to WORK
TOGETHER?" Said the black cat to the tabby.
'I am a coward.' "... I can try..."
"You seek the impossible."
'I am a coward.' "I've given up on -that- word a long long time ago."
"At least take time to heal." Judas said imploringly.
'I am a coward.' "I can maybe galvanize them if I show what a threat the wolves are to ALL
of them. Self preservation and all that."
"Maybe, but seriously you're in no condition to go anywhere on your own. And they wont'
trust you if you have your human with you."
Trevor sighed, 'Hopefully that wolf pervert will act like all the other harems Serenity
described to me and just exist in sex limbo not changing or progressing besides the
occasional new victim... I hope...'
+++++
"Yes Mitch Hurteng it's me the woman you talked to earlier today... I'm glade to hear that...
listen... you MUST get of Glendale... yes your brother in Frostdale will do. Tell no one at all
where you're going and don't leave any traces that could point where! Those big dogs you
saw could be looking for you now! Please! This is for your own safety! ... Thank you Mr.
Hurteng! Thank you! Call me in a week or so and I should be able to tell you if it's safe to
return. The dog creatures are created by the game. YES THAT GAME! No it is not fiction!
Trust me, just avoid returning to Glendale for some time for your own safety.... thank you
Mr. Hurteng."
Madam Serenity hung up the phone and sighed, "At least he'll be safe from the wolves'
wrath... assuming they're not already at his front door. Not that it would matter by the
time we got there."
Father Michel asked, "Would then going to his house then at least provide you with some
information?"
"Among those changed were two police officers, they covered up the last place the wolves
were perfectly."
"I see.... I'm sorry I'm not able to offer you any more assistance than my prayers on this
matter."
"So why haven't you used it before now? The powder? You must have encountered victims
of the game since then."
"Sometimes I think the game has a will all it's own. It's like it tries to -avoid- me whenever
I carried the powder with me... it was written centuries ago to help undo curses... but it
got lost in the files and I only began translating it when I was forced to admit it was true
what my father said about the game not just being a fantasy of spiteful teenagers who the
game seems to gravitate towards."
"Before I was cursed to be always and forever be a black human woman I would have never
believed any of this. People like to ignore what's outside their universe."
"It seems so. It was my brother who convinced me after we had translated the scroll to
simply use the powder to END the game with us, rather than leave it out there and use it
restore ourselves."
Serenity could admire the priest and his brother for that kind of self sacrifice, even if his
logic and information were somewhat bias. Something she had NO intention of debating
with him least she alienate the first person in a long time who seemed to fully embrace
the desire to end the game like she did.
Japan in theory only abandoned creating a nuclear weapon because they supposedly
focused on creating a microwave death ray instead and had it up to killing test animals and
possible people in a controlled environment when the bomb was dropped. Germany was
only a year or less away from developing an atomic bomb when it surrendered. And Russia
and China developed the bomb on their own years later.
Was it an evil that should have never been allowed into the world? Considering that nuking
an incoming astroid would only make it break up into a hundred smaller pieces to make
the damage spread out over a larger area, Madam Serenity had to very much agree.
But sadly, it seemed like an evil that would have come about in one form or another due
the march of progress. Like the short story of the Emperor of China killing the man who
invented the flying machine a thousand years ahead of it's time seeing it could be used as
a weapon of war. Some discoveries it sadly seemed couldn't be stopped.
This made her think of desperate parents and families in the know endlessly trying to bury
and cover up the existence of the game so it would never be used again, but somehow,
each generation rediscovered the game and the havoc began anew.
'Perhaps Father Michel did the single smartest thing anyone has EVER done with the
game.'
She looked at the scroll supposedly scribed from the legendary Merlin himself. Serenity
wondered which Merlin. Merlin itself was a title meaning 'man of the woods' and there had
been three men in history to carry that title. The first one usually agreed upon being as
the one connected to the historical King Arthur.
"Have you tested it's effects? The powder?"
"Several times. Outside the church and in it. Our turns were completely negated."
"Good." Serenity nodded, "This is be very useful later, thank you, but until I find someone
who has a turn that hasn't used it I'll have to wait until I can begin curing the victims of
this harem. Trevor and I can't be transformed, period, by the game or otherwise, so we're
in no danger at least in that regard."
"What are you going to do now that you know where the harem is?"
"The police will do nothing, the curse is something they avoid like the plague. And
everyone at the Smith's is a brainwashed slave more than likely. Even if they're likely to
have the IQs of blow up dolls. The harems I've dealt with before were situated in some
house of the original pervert, overflowing by the time it was done. And the harem owner
usually had an ego the size of a small planet by that time too. Then I could go undercover
when I was younger and intimidate the little rat into undoing his own damage by ordering
his slaves to... however if Julie is now one of them... my element of surprise and bluff are
all gone. I'll need to completely rethink my usually strategies."
A large naked orange ape leapt off of one of the book shelves, having moved with the
speed, invisibility, and precision of a ninja. It landed right in front of Serenity looking at
her with solid black eyes, around it's neck was a crucifix depending the Savior.
"Paul!" Father Michel declared his monkey tail wavering about behind him.
The orangoutang took Serenity's hand and as gently as it could kissed her hand.
"One... of those sub clauses I mention is that clothes mostly just dissolve off him."
"...Yes... " The orangoutang grunted. Though it came out more as a low 'yee-ass.'
"Also orangoutang lips and throat weren't built for human speaking, or at least his
weren't. Talking... is a struggle for him. So is writing...she wanted him to be
indistinguishable from a zoo animal she said but fully able to 'enjoy' it. Thankfully she did
a sloppy job."
'Paul is the one who suggested they end their turns forever?... ' Serenity suddenly had a
great appreciation for this man. "Does he know sign language?"
"He learned yes. But how many other do?"
"Point taken.... "
The orangoutang take a large piece of chalk and went over to a nearby blackboard and
wrote out in crude letters:
LISTENING. WILL HELP. BODYGUARD.
"Paul..." Father Michel said in an unknown tone.
"Thanks for the offer but no." Serenity said.
U NEED 1.
"You're not invulnerable to being changed again like I am and Trevor... if you're hit with
the game you'll become a slave to some sex freak."
U B KILLED OTHERWIZE.
& EAR PLUGS.
The orangoutang showed off the kind that could be snuck into the ear channel and be
impossible to remove by accident and impossible to tell if you had them on.
"..... I gave Serenity some ear phones, they didn't save her."
U NEED ME.
".... Please just don't make me regret it."
1 CONDITION
"What's that?"
NO BANANA JOKES. SICK 2 HADEDS OF THEM.
"I promise...."
'What a circus act I've turned into.' Serenity thought.
+++++
"Awwww." Kaylee lamented in a playful way, "I was looking foreword to when one of the
she-wolves did something stupid and was added to the gallery, it would have been so fun
to watch! Now though if we're glued into our upgraded form we can't use the Game for
that. No fun."
The triplets said nothing, she was Alpha Female, what she said was not to be talked down
to by them, but that didn't stop them from shuddering at the idea of her finding such a
thing amusing. The Master and Alpha Female the triplet thought decidedly needed their
guidance: after all, they had to service them utterly and look out for Master's best interest.
The way the Alpha Female left the room had a slight sway on her steps.
Was the Alpha Female tipsy?
"I guess she really was depressed over losing her video games." Said Darla.
"Video games?" Julie asked.
"Alpha Female started out as a geeky male teenager who loved games."
"I'm sure she'll get along perfectly with the children then." Julie said confidently.
"She's usually busy with Master, that's what Martha is for." Darla explained to her triplet.
"Martha?"
Samantha and Abbey said, "Our Nanny!"
Alice said in turn, "Our Governess."
"You'll see once you're all introduced formally to the pack." Fran explained to Julie.
Julie just nodded, overjoyed at the idea of meeting all of her new family, and thus Fran and
Darla were overjoyed at Julie meeting all of her new family.
+++++
Kaylee in spite of being ever so slightly drunk (compared to the complete banged out state
Pearl had been in) was able to find the clink and Zackery on the top floor of the household
looking out the window at the tireless foreman, Caroline and day workers tirelessly
working on this task having been promised an impressive amount of money for their
efforts.
All in all it would still take them till tomorrow Sunday to finnish upgrading the gate into
the SWAT Team proof barrier it was going to be.
Grace, Hope, and Isabelle surrounded Zack to his sides and back, feeling his muscles and
body, while at the same time watching his every move and memorizing anything he said to
be filed for possible subterfuge to Master.
'Not that it's about to matter anymore. Sorry Zack, all your fun and games end right now.'
Kaylee snapped her fingers, "Girls, come."
"What is this?' Zackery asked.
"I want them, I get what I want, so they're mind." Kaylee said matter of fact doing splash
effect with her hair, not even trying to hide her spoiled attitude.
Grace, Hope, Isabelle and Zack included, couldn't help but admire how Kyle had gone from
worthless geek to flawless inner circle material with her new attitude. The click heard the
command and obeyed. They were used to supporting Jennifer during cheer leading, but
Kaylee had turned their gymnastic skills into them being her portable chair. Their girls got
into position without even having to be told. Kaylee loved it. However this wasn't what
Master had sent her for.
She looked at them, milk chocolate Hope holding position with a perfectly straight face
showing neither resentment nor joy, a face of duty. 'Every every natural color mixed' Grace
her eyes closed her ears perk for Kaylee's next order, they were made to serve her after all,
the face of resolve. And dark chocolate Isabelle had her eye closed tight, braced herself
for Kaylee's weight, looking a tiny bit scared, a face of innocence almost.
'So that's what I'd look like with those expressions.' Kaylee thought, 'thinking about it now,
it's almost a shame I don't feel like wearing dresses, I could use them to try them on for
me, I wonder how some jewelry would look on me though like an Egyptian queen..oh-oh!
Okay, focus Kaylee, you know what Master wants so better hop to it!'
She leaned in closed to Hope and whispered in her ears, "Master says, 'Now.' "
"Now?" Hope asked confused.
"Now."
The clink broke up, and in one fluid motion had Zack's arms and shoulders pinned down.
Kaylee then came in front of him and used her legs to pin those down. He was easily
stronger than she was, but he wasn't resisting anyway, this was why he existed now after
all right? To please any female pack member who wanted him?
"Kaylee?" Zackery asked, "I'm kinda surprised, I thought you only had the hots for Jen."
"I do. You, Lawrence, Roger, Nick: you aren't worth my time. Master is the only one I want
or need. Let the rest of the pack have you pale imitations. Now then, Hope, do it."
"Transform or Dare Zackery." Hope said in a cold cold voice.
"WHAT?!" Zackery said in horror.
Kaylee said still laying over him looking down domineeringly, 'Is this what Master feels
with me? No wonder he loves it!' "You see Zack, when you and the girls were made into
park of the pack, it seems some parts of the transform, like your parents still
remembering you, and not having absolute loyalty to me, or Master... now we were going
to just let you do as you will unless you did something against Master, but now with
trouble brewing we're planning on sealing our wolf forms so we can't be made back into
our old inferior selves: I'd -kill myself- if I had to be Kyle again personally. Oh and if you
chose transform you end up a skinny lanky gender ambiguous wolf like you teased
Lawrence and Roger for being... and if you chose Dare... you become as loyal to Master as
any of us... you better chose quick before time runs out.'
"Which one do you want?" Zackery asked totally honest though very scared.
"What?"
"Which one would give you the most pleasure?"
Kaylee stared for a second then burst out laughing, "You were dedicated to your job at
least! What gives me pleasure is seeing what you chose! Five seconds!"
"DARE!"
Kaylee pouted slightly, "I was lying, I thought it might be amusing to have a girlie man
around her still to contrast the wolf titans you four guys are. And that little boy who is no
child of Master is not what I mean."
Zackery said what he said for what he had been remade to be, "If it gives you more
pleasure, you could just Dare me to give you another go and to say Transform next time."
"......" Kaylee blinked again. The Clink actually stunningly impressed by Zackery's attitude
and dedication to his function. "Pst. Naw." Kaylee got off him stretched for a bit and
walked in a short circle before the setting sun, looking like the picture of female beauty.
"With you saying that it kinda takes the fun out of it. Hope, fix him."
"So he can't have kittens?" Hope asked with a slightly sadistic grin.
"No, so he doesn't try to act like he's more important than he is anymore and is loyal as any
of us to Master."
"Oh right."
Kaylee looked Jensen in the eye, her body an outline against the darkening sun, "Don't
worry, Master's chosen you're free to transform your parents into whatever you please, be
they pups, art, or more she-wolves when they return. The choice is yours. But now that
Master is planning to use the game to make it impossible for someone with a turn to steal
away our wolfhood, you need to be taken care of before hand... It's nothing personal Zack,
it's simply for the good of the pack and Master's wishes."
Hope said, "For your Dare Zack, you are to be one hundred percent loyal to Master and one
hundred percent respectful of Kaylee and the Betas. You will be loyal to THE Big Bad Wolf
and will relish your position and any other task the rest of the pack asks of you and only
use your turn to expand the pack."
The clink let Zackery go.
'Now for the fun part.' Kaylee thought. "All of you! Line up! Stand at attention!" Kaylee
assumed her 'commander pose.'
"Now smile."
They did so.
"Think about the Master or all the females you'll service."
They smiled more.
"Now who do you love?"
They said together, "The Master. Jensen. Alpha Male of the Big Bad Wolf Pack!"
"What do you serve?"
"We serve our pack!"
"Who do you obey?"
"Our Alphas!"
"What is your purpose in life and creeds-!?"
"To service and please Master in all things, to protect Master and the pack from all that
would threaten us and him! To insure the estate remains a safe haven for the pack forever
and always! To dream of a Glendale where all wear wolf ears even if it remains but a
dream! And to never ever form labor unions!"
"Right turn!" Zack and clink obeyed.
"About face!" They turned one-eighty degrees.
"Left turn!" Now they had their rears to her.
"About face!"
They turned to face her.
"And bow!"
They did, still smiling.
"Who is Alpha Female in this pack?"
"You are." They all said together like a well trained army.
"Zackery, down on all fours."
"Yes Alpha Female."
Kaylee strutted up to him and laid down on top of him her maternal material hanging over
the side as she put her fingers underneath her jaw.
"Now all of you lay down in front of me."
The clink did so.
"Look up at me."
They did so, she looked down at them from her living furry low couch. "Now, tell me
everything you know about Master when he was still Jennifer, when you first met him, er,
her, and all that. Be sure to give me all the juicy details."
"Yes Alpha Female." All four wolves present said.
+++++++
"We'll have the job done first thing in the morning. It's too dangerous to do this sort of
work at night." The foreman said to Caroline.
"I see... " She was SO tempted to make them she-wolves with night vision then and there.
But she wanted Master's permission. Also, she thought about Pearl was the only lesser she
wolf that Alpha Female remembered the name of properly due to her matching name and
fur color. 'Well, if Master thinks we need the numbers, you might be added to our pack
soon Amber, Ruby, Amethyst, Topaz, Tourmaline, Jasper and all the rest of you oh yes, I
need to do some quick reading on names of different jem stones for all of you.' True, the
Master's pups were worried about being able to manage so many she-wolves... but the
more the merrier right?'
"So see you first thing tomorrow beautiful?"
"Oh most decidedly, your men don't mind working on Sunday?"
"Not for the amount you're paying for."
"Oh I see." Caroline nodded.
The day worker left taking most of their equipment with them. Caroline returned to the
estate. As soon as she stepped inside the front door Beatrice and Pearl ran past her saying
it was dinner time and that it was time to formally introduce new pack mates.
Caroline stepped to the dinning room the slab of meat in the middle of the room. While
the Master had desired no rank among the lesser wolves, for a sense of order the pack
had developed their own positioning. The six shadow stood to the side with her legs apart
and their arms behind their backs.
Martha was to the far back of the room with her hands together and her heads and tails
down as an Omega should. Alice was next to Darla and not in the mirror world for once.
Bart, Jenny, Kevin and Marcy flanked their mother. Kaylee herself of course was on
Jensen's right side. Fran was on his left side. Mr. P of course was behind the pups.
The males were evenly spaced about, Zackery had the copies of Alpha Female with him
plus Pearl and June. Roger had his sister Megan, Anne, Maxine, Robyn, and Millie.
Lawrence had around him Ahsley, Margot, Alexandra, Jasmine and Beatrice. Purple Ulysses
was being hugged on one side by Sarah, with Terri and Sandi together as always.
Alexandra was next to her cousin Nicole who was sitting in Nick's lab. Caroline chose to
be next to Nick.
Jensen stood to his full height, "She-wolves and males, it is my honor that I introduce you
to your newest pack mates. First, my two new daughters, Samantha and Abbey. Daughters
of Fran and our other newest member."
Coming in through the kitchen two five year old glass she wolves entered the dinning
room and waved about and totally drank in the full attention they were getting. Caroline
had seen them about and yes, they were very cute. They were like a glass sculpture of
innocence brought to life!
"And I'd like to also introduce you to our pack's new doctor and now THIRD beta, and
regents should Bart and Jenny be forced to lead the pack without myself and Kaylee at any
point. Mother of Abbey, Julie!"
Nearly all the wolves gasped as a THIRD twin entered the room, using the same graceful
step as the other two did, her movements just the same as theirs, looking at them with
those same blues eyes surrounded by dirty blond fur.
"Hello all of you. I am happy to have all of you as my family." Julie said.
Kaylee held up a tiny sign that said, 'Cheer' and the wolves did so with zeal.
"The living stone gargoyles outside exist to protect us,"
"Gru-"
"Nownowjenny-" Kaylee put a paw around her elder daughter's mouth.
"And Jack and Marcine's herd outside to ultimately provide for us. We shall insure our pack
continues and survives and prospers!"
This time Kaylee didn't need to use the sign as the Big Bad Wolves cheered.
"For the sake of survival, and to be prepared for anything, Alpha Female Kaylee has
selected an island in international waters that'll serve as our last resort should be forced to
abandon the estate."
This caused several of the she wolves to gasp, in particular knowing how zeal the Master
had been about it before, she wondering if someone has used a Dare on him.
"This island is intended purely to be our new home should we forced into an armed
confrontation with the army. I have no desire to use it, but I do not wish Bart, Jenny, or any
of my children to be in danger... Alice, Abbey and Samantha will take us through the
mirrorverse to safety if it should come to it. But there is a human who knows of our
existence as part of the game, and who can not be made into part of the pack due to her
own curse of the game... she may seek to steal away our wolf hood... for that reason
preparation must be made."
"Master." Caroline spoke up, "If it pleases you, may I suggest that I use my turn, and in
turn they use their turns on their present fellows, on the foreman and day workers
tomorrow? To make them into gem colored she-wolves who perhaps can manage and
maintain our new secondary home to preparation in case we should ever need it? This'll
increase our numbers while not putting any new pressure on the estate."
".... I'll give you my decision in the morning Caroline, but if I say yes, you are free to select
one to stay male if you desire it, and make sure to include the clause of their human pasts
being no more. Also, since you brought up the idea, you shall be in charge of the new she
wolves and relocate to the island with them."
"M-Master... I-I don't know what to say." Caroline spoke amazed at once again being
given such a responsibility.
"Say nothing yet. I haven't said I had approved yet."
"Oh yes of course Master!"
"Also, so you all know, the investigation of Zackery is over. Zackery's attitude has been
repaired. His impertinence has been removed, you are to welcome him to you with open
arms if you will have him. "
There were murmurs among he she wolves at this.
"I command it."
The murmurs stopped at once.
"Also it appears we have a traitor among our mist!" Jensen said point at Pearl instantly!
"Pearl! You have used a turn without permission and on your own pack mate!"
"Turn her into a statue!" Kaylee said cheering wanting to see the spectacle.
Jensen snarled at his Alpha Female, "Kaylee! DOWN!"
"... yes Master..." Kaylee sat down lowly and demurely.
"I am Alpha Male of this pack and I pass judgement. Pearl, do you have anything to say in
your defense?"
"I think Zack is wonderful and shouldn't have been talked down that way. And I feel he's
good stock and shouldn't have been banned by Nicole. I only Dared June so she wouldn't
make the pack reject him more! ... I accept any punishment you give me Master."
"And your punishment is to become part of the gallery. Zackery."
"Transform or Dare."
"..... Transform."
"You will be a statue, just a statue, nothing but a statue, none shall remember you ever
existed save as a statue..."
In the dinning room there was now a polished marble statue of a she-wolf with a plaque
of a name no one knew called 'Pearl.'
"Pearl? PEARL!"
June shook Pearl several times.
Pearl started, "Uh? Oh! What?"
"You blanked out there for a minute."
"Sorry.. having a daymare after Master said Zackery had been 'repaired.' "
"Just means we don't need to hide ourselves liking him anymore, nothing major."
Pearl breathed a sigh of relief, 'Just a vision, it wasn't real. Master won't do that to you...'
"As I was saying," Jensen continued, "I've had our queen of semantics Alice work out a
properly phrased Transform that will permanently lock us within our wolf forms. Once that
is done, no spell or Turn will be able to steal away our pack."
All the wolves present gleefully howled at this revelation. Pearl realized that as long as
she wasn't called on first her use of the game would forever go unknown once the new
sweep was done.
"Master." Lawrence said standing up, "From what we've seen, besides only working on five
people at a time and only functions within Glendale and of course the exchange of terms,
The Game HAS no limits!
If it can epongue our human pasts, and enable people not to question our existence, why
not test it to see if we can Transform each other into lords of the planet Earth?!
Master you've commented among us during meals that those who have used the game
before us were all petty, small, and narrow minded, they never saw the -real- potential
this power had! I think we might still be thinking too small!
If we've been able to make Julie into a expert doctor for a species that only existed in story
books a week ago. Then why couldn't we Transform each other into sorcerers?! Heck! Why
not Transform each other into demigods?!"
Kaylee ears and eyes perks at the mention of possible semi-godhood.
Jenny also found the idea of the princess of a wolf pantheon not entirely unpleasant.
Abbey wondered if that kind of power would mean she could visit Camelot, Narnia, and
Neverland.
Samantha was curious, but more for it's own sake.
Alice wondered where all this nonsense would go.
Marcy and Kevin was thinking about Disney's version of Hercules.
"Even if the effects of a Turn we find can't extend beyond Glendale, Alice's expedition
proves that we remain our new selves even outside of Glendale! We could use a Transform
to give ourselves an effect that anyone we interact with becomes a new Big Bad Wolf with
the gender ratio we have now and mentally and emotionally loyal to the pack as a whole!
And everyone THEY interact with, and so on! And the new Big Bad Wolf none the wiser or
perhaps anyone who is not a Big Bad Wolf yet, we could spread from Glendale and
transform the world silently in days! We wouldn't even NEED to fight a war! It would be
the most silently peaceful cultural conquest that history will never remember!
If you don't want that kind of paper work Master from being Alpha Male of the world:
then just imagine everyone inclined to wait on you and Alpha Female hand and foot like we
do and never give it a first thought! We can grant our gift of our upgraded selves to all
humanity! We could end rape, murder, discrimination and war! Yet everyone would still be
a unique and individual Big Bad Wolf united in our loyalty to a pack that numbers in the
billions! We don't even need to do more than say hello to some random people on the
buses out of Glendale and everything will take care of itself from there! We could use the
game to give ourselves the power to defend ourselves from ANY threat, to give people
world peace but without the price of happiness and uniqueness! It'll be no more uniform
then how all of humanity is now anthromorphic apes!
Or we could Transform ourselves into minor gods! We need to make sure our new lives
can't be stolen from us yes, but imagine ALL the possibilities of what we can do with the
power we now hold! The witches who did this figured who'd ever get this power would
get use it to fulfill some random revenge fantasy and move on! But you Master! You!
You've seen the big picture! Now think about the even larger picture!"
Jensen was stunned silent by the grand vision and possibilities laid out before him, he
could greatly appreciate them.
The teal Sandi said, "Isn't that assuming the game COULD do all that?"
The white Lawrence said, "The game in theory taps into the infinite chaos that is
everything and thus nothing that 'exists' outside god's universe, I truly doubt anything is
NOT possible!"
"Like us all becoming ultra powerful magic users and military geniuses without a day of
study, or minor deities, or releasing a reality cascade virus that'll slowly turn the world into
chummy and devoted wolf people like us?"
"Exactly!"
Among the seventeen minor she wolves, sitting next to Sandi as always: The blue green
she-wolf Terri thought of a legendary animated japanese movie she as a he had seen
once, and a singular quote popped into her head, 'What if a amoeba was granted the
power of a human? Amoebas don't build motorcycles or atomic bombs. They just eat up
anything that gets in their way.'
Terri spoke and implored, "And what would we DO with that kind of power Master?"
Jensen looked at Terri surprised to hear the minors having so much to say. "Eh?"
"Master even if we were given divine power and knowledge by the game we'd still have
mortal desires and impulses. Gods shouldn't have those! Look at what it got the
Olympians! What's... what's to keep us from blowing up the world next time we have...
have PMS."
All the she wolves blushed at this, the former males blushing just a little bit more.
Jensen realized he had been here before, he was back at the same mental road block he
had thought of back on the first day he had created his pack this week. What would he
and his pack do once their survival was no longer a question?
Mr. P sighed, "I hate to say it but: A population needs fifty members to survive short term,
we only have thirty-eight, to survivel long term it needs five hundred members. We're
simply going to eventually need more Big Bad Wolves.
-But-, from what Kevin and Marcy told me they read on-line, we're playing a so-called
'game' with a CURSE spat out by a trio of being executed witches who lived to spread
discord! The damn thing could just be waiting to backfire on us!! The less we use the
damn thing the better! It was damn made to make people's lives MISERABLE and
encourage others to be jackasses with no consequence! How much can we really trust it?"
++++++++++
"Of all the place to pick for us to hide out until we've faced off against the wolf harem...
why this place?"
Trevor asked curiously.
"Because it's the one place that the wolf harem will never ever come to and have no idea to
look for us here." Madam Serenity said, Paul holding several of her bags behind her at his
own insistence. She was an old woman after all.
"Still.... this house ... where the old guy saw the wolves come out us? Aren't we tress
passing?" Trevor asked laying on the couch.
"I pulled some high stakes bluffs, counted on the police's phobia of the game, and
basically we're in a 'don't ask, don't tell' position with mooching off of here until the
month runs out and they shut off the utilities."
Paul made a very deep and disapproving frown a Serenity.
"Don't worry. I didn't threaten anyone, I just pointed out they wouldn't want to sell a house
with a curse on it and I promised to sweep it for such, and since they can't legally
acknowledge curses exist, but at the same time can't risk selling a cursed place in
Glendale, we're free to stay while I do my work... and I am undoing the curse here... I'm
going to undo the curse on the people who lived here."
Paul accepted this and continued to move in Serenity's bags.
"So now the wolves will come to an empty house." Trevor said.
"Yes... that should leave them confused for a bit, maybe they'll think we fled town and
drop their guard... if we're lucky... that aside, YOU little cat need time to HEAL... that
monster could have bitten your leg off and almost did! You're on the mend! Deal with it!"
"... this is going to be a long few days..."
"If you even heal that fast..."
"Ugh..."
"Look it's not like as a cat you'd normally do more than eat, sleep, and stare into space
anyway."
".... very funny." Trevor said in a very unfunny tone, then turn a pencil turned on the TV, it
was on the shopping channel and showing off a scratching post. "Pst, liars, the owner of
the pet store kept getting returns on that brand... "
Serenity didn't say anything, ANYTHING that took Trevor's mind off of Queen's death and
the time he'd spend needing to heal were all good things!
'In the mean time I'm going to learn every bloody thing I can about the Smiths, wolves, and
anything else that I'll need... don't worry Trevor, I'm not going to waste my time while you
heal watching the soaps..."