"I-I was changed by the game and.. you! What happened to you! Wait! You remember I'm
supposed to be human?! But everything changed when I was cursed!"
"Yeah I remember! But wait-! YOU remember? But-but-, our transform was that everyone
would forget we existed who wasn't part of the pack!"
"I've been wondering where you and your family moved to! PACK?! What pack?!"
"Our Pack! The Big Bad Wolf Pack! Our Alpha Male is Master Jensen THE Big Bad Wolf! It's
really cool! But as long as you're here, you can become part of the pack too!"
For some reason, becoming a dog disgusted Mary beyond her brain's ability to process,
"NO! Uly', you have to change back! This Master or whatever! He's totally messed with your
head! This isn't you! You need to become human again!"
"Oh that's impossible," Ulysses grinned with his muzzle, "Alice worded a Transform or
Dare very carefully so that none of us can have our wolfhood stolen!--OOPS!" Ulysses
covered his muzzle in shock and alarm as he realized what he had just said, "Mary! Please
don't tell Sarah or Master what I just told you! I'd get in so much trouble! I think it's
supposed to be a secret!"
Mary felt horror scream through her, "No.. no no no Ulysses you're joking right?! RIGHT?"
"Uh, right I'm joking," Ulysses spoke, saying the single most unbelievable and miserably
carried out lie in history.
"Uly', come on... please no. What about your family? Our friends? Don't you care about
them?"
"Sure I do! But I care about my pack too! Maser says that after a year or two when things
calm down we can start bringing in our family and friends into the pack, or did he say
that? I can't remember..."
"ULY!" Mary stopped her paws and looked up at Ulysses, not liking how he was now taller
than her when it had been before the other way around.
"Sorry." Ulysses said thought not sure what he was apologizing for.
"Think Uly! Is this really what you want? Is this really how you want to be? Can you really
say that a bunch of wolf people are really your family-?!"
Sarah's face popped in Ulysses' mind, but before he could answer,
"Ulysses, are you okay, what's going on--" Sarah stopped and stared crawling out of the
bathroom to check on their advanced scout...
At that same moment, whatever had been delaying the Hardys and their guests was
apparently no longer a factor. The two sides stared at each other.
Then all hell broke loose.
Alice and Amy as instructed remained in reserve inside the safety of the mirror universe, to
remain there until Nicole told them that all the fighting was done.
Ashley stood nearby Nicole as a bodyguard, Nicole didn't have eyes in the back of her
head after all. Nicole stayed near the rear of the pack, ordering the males to block all exits
and to sweep the entire building from there until they found the old woman who matched
Serenity's description and to subdue or neutralize anyone they came across. Lawrence,
Zack, Nick, with Roger leading the mass of fur and muscle, Zack would have save of
course for his damaged knee.
Sarah stayed near Ulysses. Mary ran the same direction her parents did a moment later,
Ulysses grabbed Mary, Mary dug her claws into Ulysses' arm, forcing him to let her go as
he yelped in pain, and the more agile Mary avoided a swipe by Sarah in retaliation even as
Ulysses begged Sarah not to hurt her.
Serenity managed to actually move faster than the Hardys, she was old, but she wasn't
THAT old, and she still had a lifetime of rather physically active adventures featuring one
demented abuse of the curse or another to draw on.
Paul barely moved an inch as the wolves came his way.
Roger got Paul in a bear hug, forgetting a very important fact. Ape's 'feet' were for all
realistic purposes 'hands' as in fists.
Paul's black and orange legs jabbed like jackhammers into Roger's gut causing him to fall
over backwards and Paul then proceeded to kick off him as the ape then sent the plain
green wolf like titan into the other muscle bound monsters, falling like boiling pins.
"Tuu clum-zee." Paul grunted out.
Nick leapt foreword next but the great ape gave the beast a bear hug with his legs and
then did a double sided karate chop to both sides of Nick's neck right on some nasty
nerve points that caused Nick to topple over like a timbered tree now resembling a lumpy
gray floor rug.
"Hiiii-yaaaaa!!!"
Nick did a flying kick that Paul managed to side step (just barely) and Nicole rebounded
off the wall and came at him swinging as he stood on one leg blocking with three of his
limbs with equal precision, Nicole sweep under his single foot he was using to stand only
for him to enter a hand stand as he began to box with her using his legs. Then use one of
his arms to grab Nicole by the tail causing her to scream and fall over but managed to use
her mass to dog pile Paul onto the floor with her for the moment.
"FORGET THE STUPID MONKEY! Get the old woman!" Nicole shouted, "I'll deal with King
Kong!"
The three remaining conscious big males obeyed, and leaped over them, as Paul tried to
follow only for Nicole to grab one of his legs which then punched her in the face. Ashley
tried to interfere on her friend and packmate's behalf, but instead just got a backhand to
the front of her muzzle!
Nicole at this point had her pride on the line, no way she could use to a big ape and have
to tell her cousin Alexandra about it!
Sarah and Ulysses carefully snuck around the unconscious form of Nick the face smacked
Ashley and the dueling Paul and Nicole.
"Yuu bil-ilt fur ter-ring en' klall-ring, Ei bil-ilt fur grass-ping!" Paul said as he grabbed
Nicole's wrists and ankles and began to head-butt her as she tried to bite his face off.
Ashley grabbed onto him from behind, but was slammed into a wall as the orange and
gray beast dueled and lost her grip though leaving her claw marks on his back, Paul only
cry out for one instant as Nicole tried to break out of his grip to no avail and the two
continued their struggle.
+++++
"Mary! Mary!"
"I'm right here mommmy!" Mary answered right next to her mother, feeling glade she had
chosen to leave Lance in her bedroom after all, not wanting the poor stuffed animal to be
caught in the middle of this.
Paul bought them time, very precious time. It was daylight, they were in a populated
neighborhood in the morning, the perfectly logical thing to do was go outside. Sadly,
Nicole had known that too and had been precise in her orders.
Lawrence leapt barring the front door. "Madam Serenity I presume? Our Master wants a
word with you and Mr. Trevor... what the?" Lawrence blinked he saw Mary, Brian bunched
Lawrence in the muzzle, Lawrence punched back sending Brain flying into the couch the
wind knocked out of him.
"BACK WAY!" Madam Serenity shouted, she had never known any group that created
members via the game to ever leave witnesses. During the kidnapping saga, one 'scared
and obvious mentally disturbed woman' had gone right back to her parents for help, the
kidnapper ended up with two extra victims. Serenity knew by logic what would happen to
the Hardys if she just gave herself up.
A green muscle wolf got in their way, Serenity used the element of surprise: grabbed and -
THREW- the giant wolf over her shoulder laying him flat on his back breaking a table off
it's legs in the process. Serenity felt her shoulder blade crack as she did it, but ignored it
and just gritted her teeth.
Trevor stood up at the noise and screaming, but didn't get a word in as the party fled past
him, Serenity grabbing him by the back of his neck Trevor flying off the floor and
knocking the saucer of milk over onto the tiles.
However, the way out via the kitchen was quickly blocked by a large charcoal gray wolf
muscle monster.
"What-the-THEY'RE HERE! THEY'RE HERE!" Trevor screamed at the top of his lungs. The
Hardys didn't have time to be confused and alarmed by Serenity's cat talking.
"DEN-DEN-STUDY!" Brain gasped out, the wolves feeling like they have the mice trapped.
In a glorified game of cat and mouse, Mary appreciating the irony, they practically leapt
inside the study, Felicity locking the door behind them.
Trevor looked around and shouted, "What about Paul?"
"Still out there." Serenity groaned feeling lower than low.
"So are those things." Brain gasped out.
There was a chuckle on the other side, "Come out, come out wherever you are, where are
you? Are you HERE? No? Oh wait, you're HERE! No? Oh, naw, I bet you're not -HERE-" THe
door shuddered. "OW! SON-of-a!"
Brain breathed out holding his stomach. "We paid several tax returns and then some on
this room. That door frame is tempered steel, the door is reinforced. Those things will
have better luck smashing through the walls first. This is where we keep our family
treasures."
The door shuddered, then again, then again, and again, moving a micro meter each time.
"Are you a witch?" Felicity asked point blank.
"No I'm not." Serenity said.
"But your cat can talk."
"I'm a victim of the game, just like her." Trevor said simply.
"Why don't you use it change back then?" Felicity asked feeling very weird talking to a cat
in spite of her daughter's species.
"My curse is like Serenity's, I can't, and anyone I make friends with losses the ability to
understand anything I express to them."
"And you're not insane because?"
"I honestly wonder about that."
The door never once stopped shuddering.
"They're going to knock the door frame clean out of the wall." Mary shuddered feeling very
scared. The wall around the door began to crack. And fast.
"I don't suppose you have a gun or anything in here for house defense." Serenity sighed.
"Our daughter is seven years old, what do you think?" Felicity said simply.
"I turn eight next month." Mary grumbled.
Felicity took Mary by the shoulders and knelt down looking her daughter in the eyes,
"Mary, there is something very important mommy and daddy need you to do for us. It's to
help save us from those monsters. Can you do it?"
Serenity couldn't believe this, "What have I been -saying- this whole time?!"
"Madam Serenity, please shut up." Brain said simply.
"Now," Felicity said still holding her child and not breaking eye contact, "Did Madam
Serenity explain how the game you got a turn in yesterday works?"
"She explained everything." Mary said not wanting to confess to her mother she had
listened in on a conversation that her parents obviously hadn't wanted her to hear.
Serenity felt like she was an audience of a disaster movie unable to do anything but what
the planes crash.
"Now, listen to mommy very carefully sweat heart, we're all depending on you," Felicity
implored her cub, "We need you to ask us both Transform or Dare, and after a minute tell
us to Transform into civilized lion people who can stand up to the monsters and Dare us
not to use the game on unwilling people unless it's to transform them back or de-
brainwash them."
Serenity realized, "WHY DON'T WE DO THAT NOW? They could hear us if Mary shouts loud
enough!"
Mary remembered what Ulysses said, "No, they can't, Ulys', remember the boy I told you
about but you can't remember mom? He said that they worded their turn so they CAN'T be
changed back..."
Serenity heart sunk as did Trevor's along with the parents who felt no joy at the news that
the alternative wouldn't work. Serenity remembered she had told Julie about her own
curse.. of course Julie would tell that information to Jensen... 'This Jensen is much much
smarter than any 'harem owner' I've faced. Dammit no, there still has to be a way to save
them, THERE HAS TO BE! They have lives! Families! Hopes and Dreams of their own! Jensen
robbed them of those! I can't give up!' But now... who knew what other safety precautions
they had taken?
"Honey, please, do it now." Felicity begged Mary.
Mary wanted to scream this wasn't right, that she was really human, that she was really a
teenager around Ulysses' age! That... that if she waited any longer, she'd likely be trading
her scratching post in for dog biscuits.
"Mommy, daddy? Truth, I mean, Transform or Dare?"
Trevor saw the cracks around the door connected with other cracks. They would break
through in thirty seconds.
'We need more time.' Trevor thought. 'Are you watching Queen?'
The doorframe was pushed out of the wall... not enough for nearly seven foot tall wolf
men to squeeze through... however.
"BONZAI-COWABUNGA!" Trevor screamed at the top of his lungs leaping at the wolf
monster at the front of the pack smashing the door down.
"TREVOR Don't kill yourself now!" Serenity screamed in horror.
Trevor, using the book case next to the door, squeezed through the widening opening at
the door frame's top. Trevor felt his damaged rear leg rip anew in fresh spanking new
pain. And before everything was said and done, Trevor was sure he felt muscles tear, he
was too busy to notice.
Trevor landed squarely on the wolf's face, hissing and snarling up a storm, the other
wolves instantly distracted. Trevor never stopped clawing, claws digging into fur and flesh,
the wolf man took a step back from his fellows, their sheer size making maneuvering in
the enclosed hallway a nightmare.
"GETOFFGETOFFGETOFF!" The beast's claws shadowed downward on Trevor.
Trevor clawed onto the top of the wolf's head, and he felt claws of his bandaged leg dig
into something round, soft, vulnerable, that was cut open by Trevor's claws.
"MYEYE!!!" The wolf man screamed.
"That was for Queen! Tell the black gold ugly one I'm coming for him!"
The claws were on Trevor's back in a second, he felt their bone knives slice along his back,
Trevor leapt, and bit into the wolves' ear and leaping down, the ear tearing off like a piece
of canvas with the same ripping sound, blood slashed into the cat as Trevor let go of the
falling piece of flesh and then bit onto the wolves' tail.
The wolf man screamed even more now one eye closed forever and a stream of blood
where one of his ears used to be. The wolf man swung his tail as best his could to get
Trevor off, Trevor bit into nerves and bone not letting go, he did however lose a fang that
remained imbedded in the wolf's tail as the law of motion overruled Trevor's
determination and he went flying, hitting the hallway wall -just- missing a glass portrait
that would have cut up his inside, the impact was enough as he suffered a second impact
as he hit the floor a moment later, all the world upside down and inside out as his brain
and legs seemed to have opposing ideas about how to stand up.
One of the other wolves snarled while the other two tried to stop the bleeding of their
teammate, "Someone tie up or the break legs up or SOMETHING that little devil! I don't
care if we were to bring him back unharmed! I'm sure Master won't mind if the cat a
couple more broken legs after this ****ING STUNT!"
That was when the door, that they had all forgotten about for about ninety seconds, finally
gave, but it didn't go inside, it went outward!
Roger was caught off guard as the door and door frame (themselves still not broken,
opened, or damaged seriously in any way whatsoever) went into the hallway right into him,
smashing into the opposite side leaving an impression.
Trevor's blurred eyes saw a reddish gold and brownish gold humanoid shapes riding the
inside of the doorway as it came into the hallway on of the wolf. Trevor smiled lion very
similar to Mary's scent.
He heard an adult lioness snarl, no, that was putting it too lightly, he heard an adult
lioness -roar- in english, "This is our home! You're trespassing! GET-OUT!"
"THE HELL!" Zack had time to swear before he got a double pawed kick to the stomach that
made him grunt.
The two yellow shaped attacked in full force, and the wolves, simply not being as limber or
as fast as them, began to edge back.
Trevor felt wetness all over his back, he saw redness all over his gray and black fur...
'Dang... am I gonna bleed to death? How much blood does a cat have in it?'
A smaller yellow shape ran out of the room the larger wolves distracted that gently picked
him up off the floor and spoke in Mary's voice, "It's okay Trevor! I'm here! You're gonna be
okay! Promise!"
That was when a purple shaped crashed into Mary, and the two rolled around, Trevor
hitting the floor again.
"I don't wanna fight your Ulee!"
"I don't wanna fight you Mary! But you all gotta see Master and join da pack!"
"I'm part of a pride already! Please Trevor! I don't wanna hurt ya!"
"I don't either!"
Needless to say, both voices sounded like this was the last thing in the universe any of
them wanted to be doing.
Trevor felt elderly hands grab him and pull him into the study, and he felt a soft but firm
shape go against his back stemming the bleeding. "Don't you die yet understand?" Madam
Serenity's voice told him sternly.
A second later one of the wolf men screamed as one of the yellow shapes used leverage to
dislocate bones.
That was when they heard a great ape snarl. It was followed by a female wolf screaming
the words, loathing every syllable, "RETREAT!!"
The wolves retreated, the yellow shapes followed. One grabbed a chain for snow tires that
they had been planning to put away for months now that lay in the living room as the
wolves for whatever reason fled to the bathroom.
"Where do you think you're going?" One asked and threw the chains like a lasso also as it
wrapped around he angle of Ashley and pulled her own, she could actually appreciate the
irony as the defender on top of her landed pressing down on her and hog tying her with
the snow chains.
The two other yellowish shapes charged after the wolves, who retreated THROUGH the
MIRRORS in the bathroom. The defenders didn't hesitate, and smashed them all then
proceeded to do the same with the rest in the house.