(Sorry this is late, was celebrating Easter Sunday.)
Randy and Zelda Niemand struggled in the giant wolf monster's arm. Behind it they saw an
even larger and blacker than night furred wolf next to a relatively smaller reddish brown
female wolf monster. They were wolves, but they walked like men.
"Dad, you owe mom ten bucks, she was right, the game is very real." Charcoal black
monster said in a calm voice, still holding their necks tight.
There was video game noises in the background that suddenly stopped, and suddenly a
small horde of wolf monsters the size and shape of children came running into their view.
"Who are they?" The lone blacker than night one said in a little girl's voice sounding
annoyed.
"Are they gonna be new brother and sister?" The smaller male asked excited.
"I don't think precisely dear." The adult she-wolf said.
'It's good to see you again Mr. and Mrs. Niemand." The larger red-brown wolf boy said in
a polite and calm tone, "We've really been upgrading the house the last few week so
pardon the mess." The wolf boy then broke out into giggles.
The Niemands had had enough of this. Zelda and Randy both used the pressure points on
the charcoal wolf monster's wrists causing the paws to open involuntarily and land on the
floor. In less than a second Randy had done a thrust kick to it's right knee cap, causing
him to fall foreword with a cry of pain.
"ZACKERY!" They heard two women's voice cry out in dismay and alarm. The Niemands
turned to run out of the house but found a dark brown she wolf creature that looked aside
from coloring much the said as the reddish brown one locking their path. Randy charged
shoulder first at the she wolf not stopping as she grabbed him easily but the force of the
impact actually pushed the diamond shaped door handle into her back causing her to cry
out in pain and surprise.
That was when two heavy weight landed hard on top of them. Zelda saw pearl colored on
top of her and maternal material pressing into her back as Randy felt a gray and silver
mess on top of him. They used their sheer weight to keep them down on top of their
pressure on top of the back of their knees and elbows.
"DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN!" The pearl one snarled.
"YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO HURT ZACKERY UNDERSTAND?" The gray and silver one hissed.
Beatrice on the balcony just silently looked on as Maxine, Robyn and Millie all gasped as
the reaction by their two pack mates in defense of the one who had earned Nicole's scorn
before.
"They made up fast." Maxine commented.
Zack was sitting with hands on his damaged knee, resisting the urge to cry out in pain
more.
Kaylee looked at her mate, "At least it wasn't you this time dear."
"No," Jensen then said sounding regretful, "Instead it was another member of my pack
instead."
Kaylee looked at Jensen oddly but but said nothing more.
Jensen said, "Hope, Grace, help Pearl and June. Move them around so they can see their
child in the pack."
"This brings back memories." Mr. P said behind the pups.
Marcy and Kevin felt a return of shame and brother and sister clasped hands together.
Randy spoke first, "WHO ARE YOU! What are you! Where is our daughter! Where are the
Smiths!"
As they turned the Niemands around Zelda managed to kick Pearl in the stomach while
Randy bite Grace's paw.
"YOU LITTLE-!" Grace raised her claws, intending to rip his face off.
"DON'T." Jensen said.
Grace's claws instantly harmlessly went slack at her sides.
"We're going to need Julie after this." Kaylee spoke the obvious.
Everyone silently agreed.
"We should have given her MAGIC healing powers." Zack gasped.
Mr. P said, "The less we rely on mumbo jumbo the better! My grand kids are not getting
put back together wrong because someone said 'abra-kazo' when they meant 'abra-
wazo.'"
Randy looked at the creature that was as big as the blacker than night wolf but went on
four legs. Or was it a tiny bit bigger? Randy couldn't tell at this angle, and he had more
important things to think about.
"WHERE IS ZYLPHIA! DAMMIT!"
"WHERE IS MY DAUGHTER!" Zelda echoed.
"I'm right here mom, dad, thought daughter doesn't fit anymore, not that son will soon
enough either."
"ENOUGH WITH THE BS!!!"
Zackery said, "Always arrive when you mean to, not early or late. Jennifer is a shallow
selfish spoiled brat who needs a conscience. If you say you're going to do something do it,
don't threaten to do it. The disney magic died with Walt Disney."
Randy stared, "So you grilled some information out of my daughter! So what! So who are
you, ALIENS!"
the wolves all looked at each other, and ALL groaned. Almost.
Anne said from her spot on the balcony, "Thinking about it are people in another star
system developing faster than light travel and managing to find a random little blue dot in
the universe really that strange in comparison to a magic game where people are mind
controlled or changed?"
Terri and Sandi next to her other looked at each other, having no answer.
"Look," The black as night big one said, "I'm Jennifer Smith or used to be. This here is
Kaylee who used to be Kyle Perkins, you don't know her, him. Those over there are our
pups Jenny, Bart, Kevin and Marcy who used to be our parents. The gold and black wolf is
my great-grandfather. Everyone else present are our estate's work hands who weren't
turned into our shadow puppets or living statue guardian or deer for food. We also have a
couple police and their wife who are also now part of our family. We have a couple living
glass wolf pups who are touring the world right now and will be back by dinner time if
they won't want their father upset with them. Who is me. Zack, continue I'm out of breath."
Zack gasped, "Yes Master." In pain but continuing, it was nothing compared to the knee in
the groin he had gotten from Nicole. "Dad, mom, it really is me. That helping holding you
down is Grace and Hope, and that's Isabelle that you hurt trying to get out. Me and mom
were right the game of Glendale IS very real dad, sorry you lose that one. On the plus side
this lends credence to all the OTHER occult stuff we thought was baloney but you thought
was real back when you were a teenager but 'grew out of it.' Jennifer ended up
transformed into the Big Bad Wolf as spite by a geek we amused ourselves with who
thought he was smarter than he was, and she transformed him to get back at him. Then
the police came and they transformed them too. And finally they transformed everyone at
the manner. We were invited over the weekend and were given a four star welcome, which
you would have gotten too if you had shown up later today, sorry, and were transformed,
and since the pack's base ratio is 'four girls to one boy' for this generation, I needed to
become a male. It's actually rather empowering. Oh and the ones holding you down are
my two mates June and Pearl."
"... you're insane..." Randy gasped out.
"It was just a game..." Zelda lamented.
"A game we're learning we can't really trust. So you two are going to be given some extra
gifts to assure our future after we take care of people who want our pack to disperse."
Kaylee thought, "Thinking about it, what can Madam Serenity do to us anymore? We're
locked into our wolf forms, what do we have to fear from her?"
Jensen said, "Everything, because she KNOWS! And knowledge if the ultimate weapon."
"Bout' time you finally learned that..." Randy said matter of fact in spite of himself.
Zack laid down on his rear, being careful of his tail, giving them an unwanted view of his
sheath. "Look, mom, dad, didn't mean for things to get this crazy, you were supposed to
just peacefully forget about me like... ah, I suppose you don't even KNOW who Hope,
Grace, and Isabelle ARE then don't you? They're friends of mine and Master. Always were.
You'll remember then in a minute about. Transform or Dare?"
"DARE!" "DARE!"
The predictable response followed.
As did the reasonable re-respond. "This isn't a game! IT'S A CHEAT!" Randy snarled.
"Alice would fully agree with you." Jensen said simply.
However that was all Randy managed to get out before the Dare forced his mouth to work
for him, miming except with sound the words "Transform or Dare?" Along with Zelda.
"Dare." Zack said bored with this part.
"We dare you to ask us Transform or Dare."
"Transform or Dare?"
They heard their own mouths say in total protest of what their brains wanted,
"Transform."
"Very good." Zackery said, "Now we begin. Zackery took in a LONG BREATH! "Your
genders shall switch and become pups of the Big Bad Wolf Pack, loving and unbreakably
loyal to your pack and Alphas. You shall become as I've described. You shall be child
prodigy keeping your adult IQ scores and knowledge. The memories others have of you
will fade out of context once you've done the legal paper work for me to home school and
for us to enter legal limbo. They will come into context only if you contact them. Anyone
either of you touch who is not subservient to the pack and/or not a part of it and either of
you call a 'Big Bad Wolf' will become as such with their gender changing to maintain our
ratio with same memory cloak as you an absolute loyalty and loving devotion. Anyone in
that same criteria for the first change either of you touch and either of you call a 'Little
Bad Wolf' will change the same way only becoming pups of the pack instead much like yo
are. Finally, anyone you transform and you shall-" He spoke Alice's clause sealing their
fate and anyone they transformed.
Pearl and June didn't let go. Not as Randy and Zelda began to shrink, not as the fur began
to appear on them, not as ears moved and hands and feet warped into paws and claws.
Pearl and June then began to rip off their clothes as they began to become a little harder to
hold onto as they became small enough to squirm under their grasp. They were picked up
a dutiful Terri and Sandi to be burned.
Shoes, shocks, pants, underwear and pants, shirt, blouse, undershirt and blouse... all of it
being torn off by the increasing large she wolves on top of them. They grew larger and
more intimidating, and yet at the same time, why did they also somehow feel more
comforting? Just safe... to have them there. Because they were being held down, they
didn't get to see much of their own or each other's transformation. Jensen was very
disappointed in this, but a bitten leg and a replaced tooth had taught him of caution
before pleasure.
Zelda felt her breasts vanish, and something pushing out from both her rear and from
inside her vagina as her ovaries moved with it to the outside. Randy just had time enough
to feel a lady's breasts form on his chest before they deflated again, and felt his manhood
inverting on itself as something came out between his legs.
They soon felt her ears being squashed by the she wolves on top of them, and their bare
skin felt cold against the scratched wooden floors only for a few moment as the fur
covered everything and they felt their musculature rearranging in on itself.
They struggled more. Now Pearl and June bear hugged them both and sat up holding them
against their breasts, still squirming and now clawing but Pearl and June just grimaced and
shuddered as the claw marks the two put on them NOT letting go for anything.
"Everything is all right," Whispered Pearl, "Everything is fine, everything is all right, calm
down, there's nothing wrong, don't worry, I'm right here, nothing bad is going to happen
to you. I promise I'll protect and guide you, I promise. You don't need to struggle, you're
safe, I'm right here."
June said a similar mantra, "You don't need to struggle, I'm right here, you're safe and
sound, because I'm right here, nothing bad will happened to you while I'm right here, I
promise everything is going to be all right, stop fighting, you're safe, you're okay, because
I'm here with you."
The now clearly big bad wolf pup in June's arms took bite into her shoulder but still she
didn't let go. The pup in Pearl's arms also dug his claws into Pearl's sides but she didn't
get go.
Zack moved closer to aid but June and Pearl only hugged the pups tighter. Then their
struggling in their mothers' arms slowly lessened, and their eyes slowly widened in
childish wonder and amazement, then, slowly lowered in peaceful acceptance and
peacefully laid against the natural pillows they were being held against.
They stayed like that for two more minutes with no one saying anything until Pearl and
June finally let them go. They didn't run, they didn't fight, they looked up innocently at the
she wolves they had been biting and claws at before.
"Say hello... " Pearl said hesitantly, suddenly feeling very excited and strangely very scared
and happy all at the same time.
A little boy wolf with light pink fur looked up at the pearl colored she wolf, "Mommy Pearl?
"
"That's right sweetie." Pearl nodded feeling relieved and satisfied, but the fear and
happiness didn't fade. "Now tell mommy your name please."
"I'm Zelipe mommy."
"Yes... yes you are, you're Zelipe, my Zelipe."
June went through a similar ritual as she slowly let go of the little girl she wolf in her arms,
no longer fighting, no no longer resisting.
"Do you know who I am?" June asked almost hesitantly.
"You're mommy June."
"And who is your father? And your half-brother's father?"
"Papa Zack."
"And who are you? What is your name?" June asked looking in the girl pup's eyes that were
like brown rubies if such a thing could be described like that. Her fur shinned white as
freshly fallen snow making Lawrence's white look like kitchen floor tiles by comparison.
But also along her body like abstract line tattoos almost were red lines and and curves,
they didn't look like scars or cut, not in the least, they looked more like brush strokes of
anything. Her tail was fluffy and flowing behind her.
"I'm.... I'm...I... no... my name is... no I'm... I..." Her eyes looked locked in struggle, then,
everything became crystal clarity. She moved with regal repose and moved with near
angelic grace grace and leaned her head against her mother's body, "I'm Ammy, mother."
She said peacefully and calmly.
The two new mothers hugged their pups.
"Blech." Jenny said getting a swift short smack from her mother in response for her
rudeness. Bart wisely decided NOT to express his similar discuss.
"She's so pretty..." Marcy said.
"Yeah, she is pretty..." Kevin parroted both their eyes looked on her.
Chester was actually bowing at the beautiful she-wolf cub before him.
Jensen came over to June and Pearl. He saw the balcony was now full of the she wolves
present. "Shadows come!"
The shadows moved out of the office machine style.
"We'll introduce you to your governess, the triplets, and Alice and her half-sisters/cousins
later." Jensen said simply to the two pups.
"Yes Sir Alpha." Ammy bowed.
"Yes Mr. Alpha." Zelipe nodded too.
"Hold them up." Jensen ordered.
"Yes Master." June and Pearl said together and took the two pups in their arms and raised
them above their heads so all the pack could see them.
Jensen looked at his pack above him, "THIS! Is Ammy! Daughter of June and Zackery! Now
part of our pack and family! And this is Zelipe! Son of Pearl and Jensen! Also part of our
pack and family! Now forever and always!"
The entire pack clapped and cheered. Zelipe blushed from his position above his mother
and Ammy looked kindly at her father ignoring the crowd.
Jenny felt a wave of jealousy go through her at Ammy's applause.
++++++++
Felicity led her child into the house with Serenity and her group dragging behind for a
moment.
"That man she mentioned, the one who cursed Mary," Trevor asked Serenity before they
stepped inside, "That was him wasn't it? The man you mentioned before, the one who
turned kids into women and sold them off?"
"... " Serenity thought, "It was so long ago, I didn't realize they'd let him out for parole in...
thirty, forty years? I didn't write the date down. I figured he'd have gotten ten thousand
years in prison, but I guess his lawyer used the blind eye to the game the police have in
Glendale to weasel him an early release before he died of old age."
Paul growled and he made several sign language symbols, he might as well have been
speaking greek, but then said, "Hazz tuu enn-de."
"That's something we can all agree on Paul." Serenity said.
This wasn't some innocent mischievous prank prancing from person to person making life
a bit more interesting and special... this thing fed on spite and pettiness.
Paul was politely silent when Mary let off an off handed comment about there being no
such thing as demons, his grand-father had been an exorcist but much like Serenity had
with him and his brother, did not want to alienate an ally when their allies were very very
few indeed.
On the plus side, Mary's story suggested SOMEONE in the Glendale police accepted the
curse as very real and not to be ignored... for all the good it did them if they couldn't
convince the police to help with a couple brave speeches and a few guilt trip over not
doing more to save their fellow cops from a pack of brainwashed wolf people.
Ahead in the house, Mary shuddered as she saw the chair set up for an eight year old.
She saw the photos on the walls, all of them still had her... but now all of them had her
with reddish gold fur and the body of a lion girl. It made her sick to her stomach how
much she looked like a mundane lioness cub in the baby picture. Also, several years of her
life now seemed to be missing... 'Do I still have the same friends? Nobody seems to have
changed except me... and the stuff related to me... Am I still in high school? Am I back in
grade school? Do I have NEW FRIENDS?' Mary started thinking how it might be if her
'friends' suddenly found her acting like a complete stranger to them...
Serenity followed into the room, and took note of the lion girl in the family photos. Trevor
looked with wide eyes from his place in her arms. Paul crossed himself at the sight as he
followed behind.
Once in the living room proper (Mary took note of a very large scratching post that hadn't
been there before) Felicity called to her husband saying they had guests and got the reply
he'd be there in a second.
"Why don't you go to your room and play for a minute dear, I have some things I need to
discuss with your new friends."
Mary started, "But I wanna stay."
"Please dear, for mommy?"
Mary's eyes widened a bit she was being told to shrug off while the adults spoke like a, like
a, ... like a little girl...
"I'm sure Mary can stay right here." Serenity suggested.
Mary's hopes went up.
"Oh I'm sure there are some things you'd like to discuss privately first." Felicity said in a
slightly more forceful tone.
Mary didn't want this to rise and wandered as if in a daze to where her bedroom was, (she
hoped it was still there).
"I'm very sorry if my daughter caused any trouble to you or your pets Miss Serenity,"
Felicity said sincerely. "She can get excited very easily and wants to poke her nose into
everything. She actually once wandered into the lion's den at a zoo and the zoo keepers
spent two hour convincing the zoo's lioness to let her go. I'm sorry if she dragged you
along threatening to cry if you didn't."
Madam Serenity said, "I can assure you I came here of my own free will. Your daughter
seemed eager that she introduce you."
Of course if Serenity had told the truth they would have thought her stark raving mad, and
if Mary had tried to pack them up she would have ended seeing a child psychologist for
the rest of her new childhood. And if Trevor had tried to explain things they would have
had themselves committed.
A man who Serenity assumed to be Brian Hardy came into the living room wearing slacks
and light blue collar shirt. "And you are miss?"
The parents were rather delighted at their daughter making new friends. The fact that
these 'new friends' were a fifty year old woman who had an injured cat and an orangoutang
didn't lead to quite as many odd questions as it should have.
"So how smart is it?" Brian asked looking at the orange ape.
"He is a he, and his name is Paul." Madam Serenity said calmly if slightly forcefully.
"Oh I'm sorry.. I didn't know apes could be tamed this well."
"This one can at least." Serenity said simply. "But I must discuss with you something of
importance... you see I'm a private investigator and I've been looking into a pair of
vanishing police and his family." Trevor snuck out of Serenity's grip hopping on his
bandaged right back leg and followed Mary.
Serenity started as she felt it, 'Damn... the game again, by one of the big mass of changed
yesterday, on two people, then two back on, then on those two same people...'
"Are you okay?" Brain asked first.
"Just... a very very very bad feel."
++++++++++++
Mary was in her bedroom, or what was supposed to be her bedroom.
Family photos, home videos, her finger paint prints from preschool she kept in her bottom
dresser drawer... everything, changed.
But there hadn't been anything in that monster's 'transform' about reality changing... had
the curse decided on it's -own- to do this somehow?
There were a lot of stuffed animals.. all her boy band posters were gone replaced by one
of My Little Pony (as had a couple model horses she had had). Pink and white were her
colors now apparently. 'At least it doesn't look like a faux jungle.' She did note her bed
had been replaced by a very comfy looking hammock. All her shoes and socks were gone
except for two odd looking pairs of sandals.
Mary was positively petrified to see if she still had all her math books and novel or not..
then again, given the subject matter in some of those books might be a too gruesome for
a eight year old... But what if she was still at her old education level? Wouldn't she be in
danger of every single student who got worse grades than her? What would it do for their
rep if an eight year old got a better test score than them? She'd have to constantly look
over her shoulder! Could her parents accord a bodyguard? She STILL had all her education
in her head right? Right?
And how would she get any peace at all? She felt her blood turn to ice as she remembered
suddenly the new paper clipping she had seen in the hallway... 'Lion Girl Born.' Wait! She
did remember seeing it before right? It hadn't just come into being and she NOW
remembered it right?! Right?!
"Scared out of your wits aren't you?"
Said a melancholy yet calm voice.
Mary turned and saw Trevor sitting on her hammock, no easy feat with that leg.
"My parents did even question where the pink overalls came from! I left today wearing a
skirt and blouse!"
"You left a human too."
Mary couldn't think of an argument to that. Mary marched over to where she used to have
a stuffed lion, now it was a stuffed Husky... it even had the same missing ear from that
time it got caught on a coat hanger... 'Not Lance too...' Mary thought thinking of the name
of her stuffed toy and life long friend. That was it.
"Why should -I- be the only one who has to be like this-?!" Mary said sounding scary.
"Mary?" Trevor said sounding scared.
"Why shouldn't I just Transform or Dare my parents into lion people too? I can use the
game to make my friends the same age and species too? Then I don't need to be alone
this way right-?!" A look of slight insanity twinkled in Mary's eyes.
Trevor moved fast causing his bandaged leg to scream in agony and bit her in the leg, it
didn't draw blood through the overalls, but it very much got her attention. She kicked him
off, he landed into a giant panda stuffed animal.
Mary nearly roared, "What are you doing you stupid cat-!?"
"Mary! Listen! Don't listen to me, listen to yourself! This is how the curse -works!- It's not
some second voice in your head that you know isn't yours. You've been screwed over, and
you have the power to make someone else miserable too! It's how the damn thing -
breeds-! -Think-! You said you wanna be human again as fast as you can, how is warping
reality so your parents and friends are extras from Cats too going to make that easier?"
Mary started. Mary took the stuffed husky Lance was now and wandered over zombie like
to her hammock and sat down her tail going through the openings. She absentmindedly
stroke the stuffed animal. She hadn't done that in years.
Trevor looked at her staring ahead into nothing, why did that look seem familiar?
Trevor through a curve ball, "By the way, could you cut out that fake accent whenever you
talk to me? It's getting on the kooky side."
"?!... Accent what accent?"
"You know what I mean. You talked to Judas the same way. It's like Felidae
'Victorian English style' with the world's most thick African accent."
Mary realized she heard an odd accent to Judas' one when he was speaking to her... With
all the insanity she hadn't even noticed it, but now that Trevor brought up the idea the
realization hit her.
Mary thought about how Judas spoke to her, she had been too freaked out at the time to
notice, but the way Judas spoke was odd, there was an odd accent to it, like some mix of
thick welsh and new age speak or that was how it sounded to her.
'Is this because house cats and lions -don't- speak the same language naturally, or did it
become that way because I thought about how illogical it was?' Mary shivered, the less of
a mind of it's own she thought this curse had the better she felt.
Mary hugged Lance, knowing at least he always understood her. "I wanna be me again..."
She said sounding like any eight year old girl being forced to see how unfair the world was
before her time.
Trevor said nothing and just brushed up against her. The stuffed animal didn't seem to
mind the competition. 'Lance has always been understanding like that.' Mary thought.
The idea of her simply giving the turn to Trevor to make him human (which make or may
not have worked) and him then using the turn to make her human, didn't even enter her
brain.
It was almost as if something conspired to keep Serenity's companions in shapes immune
to the unfettered transformation powers of the pack's more unique members.