(Dude, sorry about the delays on this one again, had personal business that needed taking
care of.)
The damaged tabby cat boiled over from his spot in Madam Serenity's arms and snapped
back at last, "I gave Mary the word for my curse for HER, not because I think being stuck
as a cat is -better!- And she gets thumbs, bipedal legs, and a human life span -and-
people are gonna treat her as a person. Give me those and I wouldn't be moaning as
much. I don't have a choice about being stuck like this, I gave Mary what I DIDN'T get! A
choice! Jennifer hasn't given anyone a choice! So don't go dumping ME in the same basket
as -him!- "
Serenity wanted to physically scold Trevor on his actions but she didn't want to break him
further than his body had been already. "Trevor, be polite. Gill's been enduring things
longer than you have."
"That's no reason to dump me in the same boat as the enemy!"
"That's cause-"
"Gill! PLEASE! Don't... just don't... if we do, we're going to end up divided, which is the last
thing we need and is the one thing the wolves would love more than anything."
Gill for that virtue alone chose not tell the mangy cat what he thought.
Madam Serenity asked, "Do you still have that 'special spot' set aside for me in the lab?"
Gill sighed, "Yes, your key will still work too, just don't ask me what possessed me to keep
that garbage. That stuff's as awful as the curse if you ask me."
"I'll get to work in the alchemy lab then, I should have enough cure wiped up for a two
dozen wolves soon on top of what I've already made."
Gill pointed out, "That's not enough for seventy two victims. Not to mention... my 'men.'"
"I trust you can send someone to pick up a few things from the chemist. Paul, you look
after Trevor and hand out the cure I brought with me to the lionesses, write down the
instructions on how they're to use them on the wolves."
Paul nodded as Serenity handed off the tom tabby to the orange great ape.
"I don't suppose you could do some fortune telling to figure out where the wolves' island
is?"
Serenity sighed, "It's going to be more than a little hard to locate it if I don't know
precisely what I'm looking for. Island full of wolves people? Sounds simple and straight
foreword right? Except I need a -name- to work with, otherwise I could end up pointing
us at a nature reserve."
"Then get to work on the cure first, we'll work on your using your hocus pocus if we find
an empty manor Unc'."
"Don't worry I was going to."
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"What about that one?" Yomato pointed at the one that the lioness had seemed to
intentionally place herself between the wolves and it. It was a solid gold statue of a
woman looking almost lolicon in her figure in a 'come and I shall please you' pose. Not
that any of the wolves there knew the different between solid gold and gold plated.
"... it's just a statue. It's dead. Nothing but solid gold. It's nothing to us. Ignore it." Amy
said lying through her fangs. It seemed only she could feel when one of the statues around
them had a soul, not even Zelipe could (which was odd consider the same Transform had
been used to reincarnate them both). Thus no one questioned her words, and of course,
who in the pack would even remotely consider the possibility that they had lied to each
other? In particular a cute little thing like Amy? Thus no would question her call that the
statues she pointed out as just statues were nothing but, "These are all likely camouflage
or someone using the 'superstition' of the game to cover up a kidnapping or murder,
which no one could tell from a statufication since it's not like anyone could ask the statues
if they used to be human anyway..."
All the wolves present nodded completely believing everything Amy said and seeing no
reason to even bring it up if asked about it later.
Amy knew what she saw, she did not know how she saw what she saw (and again she was
quite sure her brother (wife in their previous incarnation) didn't see it either), and she saw
a red thread as thin as spider silk connecting with the pink of the fallen lioness and the
thumb of the statue she had been perhaps defending. Amy also noticed threads
connecting to that statue and the lioness as well. If Amy had known, she would have been
perhaps enlightened to see that every statue connected by these red threads had once
been a cop.
Amy was somewhat confused when she realized she could see the similar thin red threads
connecting the four oriental she-wolves to Yomato. Everything in her screamed the same
thing, these connected statues, were NOT meant to join the pack.
All the same, this again left Amy confused and bewildered about herself, 'WHAT am I? I
should be just like Zelipe... but there is something different about me...'
"You're a little bad wolf."
Amy turned and saw Zelipe touching the lioness. They waited a few moments, nothing
happened. 'So... their forms are locked too... just like ours. They left the human race
behind. Just like us. And... is she willing to die to protect those dear to her? ... Just like us?'
"Nothing?" Zelipe asked confused.
"I guess their forms are sealed too." Umeko calmly observed, seeing past the mountain of
flesh connected to her chest like the other oriental she wolves.
"Yes... it would seem so." Amy commented calmly.
The small army of twelve wolves presents were disappointed at this, but of course there
were more important matters to attend to. Amy and Zelipe began their work, Amy
carefully and sublimely leading her brother away from any of the statues with the
connecting red threads that apparently only she could see.
The unconscious lioness was left bleeding on the floor.
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Penny dreamed, she dreamed in was in the armor of a Valkyrie wielding a sword with a
glowing white blade underneath a clouded crimson sky with a flood of darkness around
her with countless glowing yellow eyes set within wolf heads that rose and sunk within the
blackness claws stretching out from it.
Behind her was a draw bridge, which connected to a castle floating above a bottomless pit.
"None of you are getting near her... you got that-?!" Penny vowed. The darkness swarmed
at the lioness in armor, who swung her sword slicing through the black masses cutting
them in two. "I won't give up! Not now! NOT EVER!"
There was no end to them, but there was also no end to her endurance, she continued to
cut stab and slash at them, never stopping for breath, never tiring and the dark horde,
made not one inch of ground.
'Give in... give up... surrender... become part o the darkness... then she shall become part
of the darkness... then you shall be together forever... so says three witches of beautiful
anarchy: Golgatha, Gomorrah, and Gaal. Let it all go. You've already set one foot to
become part of it all... take the second step... let it all go... so says Golgatha, Gomorrah,
and Gaal.'
"I didn't... I DIDN'T BECOME PENNY TO LET GO OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN! I
became this way to save Katie and to make sure what happened to her doesn't have to
happen to anyone ever ever ever EVER AGAIN!"
Penny did a horizontal slash with her sword, cutting the attack blob of darkness in two,
forcing it into a retreat.
According to the opinions of many who experience it, love is not a singular feeling or
emotion, and comes in many different shades and dimensions. there is love between
friends and teammates, love between family, romantic love, and love for one's God and
one's people, and each of these has as much right to be called 'love' as the other three.
+++++++
While the other she-wolves had been given womanhood of various sizes playing to both
Kaylee and Jensen's perverted sides, the bust lines of the statues had been, and in fact had
been intended to be nothing short of silly even when compared to the bouncy Amethyst!!
Kaylee had said the term in pop culture was 'gag boobs' used as a satire on absurd bust
sizes used in other popular works.
Julie had commented and her sisters had of course nodded thinking her logic as they had
been made to think the same, "I think we're going to have to eventually place the four
orientals over the knife for breast reduction. Things that size are going to get in the way
nearly any ordinary house hold duty. I'm surprised really, oriental people weren't known
for such absurd sizes..."
Kaylee had said before they had left, "That has to do totally with the wording of the
Transform used."
The new japanese wolves had heard none of this as the triplets had whispered carefully to
their Alpha Female to the rear before proceeding.
Now Julie would see the moment of truth to see if these new wolves created by Amy and
Zelipe would be reborn into the pack with similar oversized disabling breasts the size of
beach balls. How they were managing to stand up at all and move as quickly as they did
was a medical mystery to Julie.
It also took her mind off the strange feeling of guilt and shame she felt... she had hurt a
cop, naw, a teammate. She felt a nagging feeling of guilt and shame for Darla and Fran felt
a persistence of those emotions. While Darla and Fran had turned in their badges as Frank
and Daryl, the bound between them and their fellow cops remained. And now they had
broken a sacred pact, it almost felt like they had attacked a PACKMATE almost!
All triplets thought the same thought, 'As soon as we're done here and gone from this
room the better.'
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'I am a statue. Just a pretty statue. that's all I am. That's all I shall ever be, that's all I have
ever been. Eternal art. Eternal beauty. I am pretty, I am beautiful. I am art. All humans
shall age and die, but I shall be eternal and beautiful and loved by all and remembered by
all, all through the ages... '
'Katie... I love you...'
'Katie? Whose that? I'm 'Woman Laying Back Waiting' that is my title, that is my name, that
is who I am, that is what I am, that is all I am, all I have ever been, all I shall ever be. Katie
is.... Katie is... someone who... somehow... someway... somewhere... she is... walking
down a park with a lanky young man talking about becoming a 'martial arts guy, like in
Karate Kid?' Huh? An ordinary looking man asks her an odd question? She answers. He
tells me to ask him a simplistic question after posing a certain way and smiling? ... She
hears the man she was with screaming? She is... she... she does... she can... she... loves
him too?'
+++++++++++
Fifteen minutes later, Penny faintly heard someone tearing the expensive curtain down
from the room's barred window... she felt someone warp them around the ruined knee,
she felt them finally stop the bleeding.. damn why did it have to be so cold?
She heard something, a deep gruff voice.
"The rest of you spread out and see if you can find anyone else who got left behind... I
doubt it but it's worth a try... I'll call the police and get some help for her!"
"Right Kirk!" She heard a number of female voices replying, something of their tone
sounding familiar, but knowning she hadn't heard them back at the station with her pride
but... she smiled lions, like her, one was male, and others were female.
"Penny! PENNY! Can you hear me! It's me! Please hold on! Just hold on! I promise you'll get
help soon! I promise!"
Penny stirred awake, that voice, she had never heard it before, but why.. why was it
familiar? She didn't smell the wolves anymore who had handed her butt to her but... this
new smell, it made her relaxed, at peace, safe... she knew she could trust who was
speaking, help would be here soon.
She struggled her eyes open... she saw large pale beige shape with a gold mane
shadowing over her. "K-kat-tieeee?"
"Not.. not quite... I'm here Penny... I promise... we aren't separating again..." She felt two
big strong arms embrace her and.. it felt so.. it felt so RIGHT to be in those arms...
"KIRK! We can't find any of the others... I think the curator either moved them, or the
wolves got them." Said another the female voices.
"I should have known... Arael, find the curator, make sure he's okay, he took very good
care of us and spoke to us, we owe him. Armisael, call the police. Gabriel, cover up or
smash every damn mirror you can find. Mal'akh... help me keep Penny awake."
"Right." Four female voices responded.