In the room of the new mansion that belonged to Nelson and his four mates, were
gathered the gallery wolves minus of course Betty who was still on Big Bad Island.
The eleven wolves, two males and nine females, sat, stood, and leaned in a semi-circle.
"So everyone's decided whose going to and whose not?" Asked the black furred and gray
chested Robert to the rest of his sub-pack.
Everyone nodded.
"Shouldn't we wait for Betty?" Trinity asked.
"She has Lawrence she said, her nephew, you know exactly what her answer would be
anyway." Nelson the plain brown and tan brown reply mix male replied.
Everyone again nodded at this.
"So has everyone looked over this and approved?" Robert asked.
"I don't approve of any of this." The almost blond almost brown Wendy replied.
"And it's your choice not to." Helen replied, whose fur was gray and white and whose
pattern was like Ashley's and Millie's.
"We VOTED Wendy," Robert reminded her, "It was a majority in favor."
Wendy crossed her arms and turned her head.
"So did you read it over and approve of it?" Robert asked.
"If I can't convince you otherwise then yes..." Wendy replied crossed.
Robert hugged her. "I'm sorry dear."
"You can still join us." Said Kira.
"Not a chance." Wendy replied.
"Your choice." Kira shrugged.
The white and pink Kimberly laid back and stretched, (unaware of her fellow pink's
Maxine's split into Ming and Xing) "I don't see why we're being so careful, I mean, if the
witch's ghosts or whatever are gone now then the game is just a game now right? It can't
cheat anymore."
"Doesn't mean you can't screw yourself over by saying something very stupid," Wendy
pointed out, "There was a story of a little boy who found a wishing marble, saw a lion,
panicked, and wished he was a rock, but rock's can speak, so he couldn't use the marble
to turn back, if his parents hadn't picnicked on that rock and wished there son was there
with them, and the marble apparently chose to be kind, he'd have stayed that way."
"Which is why we included more than a few fail safes." Nelson said.
Robert said, "So... everyone who wants to, step on the other side of the room, everyone
who doesn't want to, stand by me."
Nelson, Helen, Leslie, and Kira all walked to the other side of the room instantly.
Robert, Rose, Kimberly, and Wendy assembled on the other side.
Jessica, Michelle, and Trinity looked somewhat divided.
Trinity after a few moments of looking between the group stood by Robert.
Michelle and Jessica looked at the two groups look, whispered a few things to each other,
hugged and stepped apart.
They started to walk towards one group, then both instantly changed their minds and went
to the other.
The red and green Jessica stood by Robert. Michelle chose to be with Nelson.
"Are you positively absolutely sure? All of you?" Nelson asked the four she wolves with
him.
Helen shrugged, said, "A lot has changed in just fifty years... I had no family, no heirs, I
had actually had a ton of debt when I was stoned, and... I really want to see how the world
will change in another fifty years, another fifty after that, and another fifty after that."
The black and brown Leslie nodded, "If there is no afterlife, then I'd rather not face
oblivion. If there's a judgement day, then I want to be here on Earth to witness it."
Kira said, "I murdered five people who I decided were guilty but the law decided were
innocent... then it turns out the estate owner I idolized -really did- just pinned the blame
on his slaves for murdering his wife... I'd be sentenced to life in prison or executed
anyway."
Wendy implored, "No one has to know!"
The very dark brown Kira shrugged, almost amused, "I'd know."
"Michel?" The garish red and green Jessica asked.
"I want to see it Jessica!" the red-orange MIchelle replied actually sounding excited. "I
WANT to see how long this country lasts. I WANT to see if China, Mexico or the Native
Americans take over the country. And... I want to be a witness to seeing if this new pack of
our survives... I'll be the ultimate eternal witness."
"Unable to move, unable to speak, unable to taste--" Wendy began.
"I've gotten used to it." Michelle smiled and nodded.
"Besides," Nelson said, "Alpha female loves living statues, and the five she had are now
part of the pack... we shall be our own gift to her... "
Robert said, "Just in case the effects of the game fail you, our families will look after you
and for you forever then."
"This isn't an end silly!" Kira laughed putting her hands on her hips, "This is just another
beginning."
Robert sighed, and then spoke the words that had been spoken to him, when he had been
Rebecca, a heiress looking to run away from high society went a man with a devil's beard
had offered her a way to escape it without saying how...
"All right then. Transform or Dare."
"Transform and Dare." The five replied together.
"You will become statues of the scale you wish, of the material you wish, you shall never
be broken, people will not pay you mind if you wish, you will be fully aware as shall be
your senses able to look and hear and feel in any direction you wish without using your
eyes. You may sleep when you wish as long as you wish. Your poses will be as you wish
them and absorb the knowledge around you as you wish it. You shall never be neglected
or forgotten or damaged. You will be able to speak to each other mentally over any
distance unless you wish yourself some privacy. Any number of you may become flesh and
blood again and art again, at any time by majority vote so you'll never be able to abandon
each other. Your memories will be flawless. You will be at peace with yourselves in your
statue state. People will recognize you as a wolf whose become a statue or a statue made
in the image of a wolf as you wish it as you wish it. If you are ever stolen or lost, you shall
ultimately find your way back to each other and be among people in a practical amount of
time before becoming lonely. You will go to where you want to be for your transformation
and no one will stop you or delay you. Your bases will have small plaques with your
names on them and a small message of your choice. Our lines' fates will always be bound
to yours. This is your transform and dare."
"Thank you." Michelle said blinking away tears.
The name on the out side of Nelson's room changed to Gallery. Kira and Michelle walked
out of the room and split way instantly.
Kira walked until she was right at the mid-staircase in the entry hall between the two sets
of stairs. She grinned, put her feet apart, and put her hands on her hips and stuck out her
hips and chest. Her body transmuted to bronze, a glaze very closely resembling her fur.
The stone base appeared at her feet as she grew to a 150% scale statue till she was larger
than even the largest of the male pride members. The name Kira appeared on the base
along with the message, 'Live Like You're Dying.'
Beatrice entered the foyer a minute later getting some more towels for their beaten and
broken pack members and allies and took one look at the statue and said, "I'm glade
that's one job we'll never have to do again." Beatrice reminisced remembering helping
carrying and assembling the dark bronze Alpha Female had wanted so badly.
Michelle walked straight to the library. She calmly opened the door and saw Kaylee, "Alpha
Female." She nodded.
"Red-Orange." Kaylee nodded back.
Martha suppressed a groan. She had been careful not tell the children that she could turn
people into loyal and devoted wolf people during the full and new moon by them seeing
her dance (causing them to dance with her as they changed).
Michelle saw the human children and saw the book they were reading, and she waved at
them, they nervously waved back.
Michelle stood in front of the window, arched her back, put her arms above her head, and
stood on her digigrated feet perfectly balanced. She closed her eyes, wore a serene smile,
and was red and orange swirled glass, becoming half scale, her shadowing creating a light
show almost. Her name appeared on the base, along with the phrase 'Eternal Witness.'
Kaylee who had observed the entire transformation came up to the statue and began to
run her hands over it.
"Mistress." Martha said, "Be careful! You'll scratch it!"
Kaylee didn't stop grinning or feeling over the statue (who was enjoying the feeling very
much), "Don't be a worry wart Omega, this thing never scratches..."
Jenny said, "I'm surprised Alice doesn't find that thing creepy."
"If I was to find the statue Michelle creepy, does that mean that you find the tailor's
dummies found at the clothing shop creepy?" Alice replied.
"Point."
"It's not like we go there anyway!" Marcy giggled.
'Kira? How do you feel?' Michelle asked.
'Like a million bucks! You?' Came Kira's mental voice.
'I'll tell you after I finnish reading all the books in the library.'
'Huh? You can do that?'
'Our senses aren't bound that way anymore remember?'
'That'll take you what, a thousand years?'
'Eleven hundred years actually I think given how fast I read... ' Michelle began to read a
book that was in the far corner of the room closed and on the bottom shelf. 'It was the
best of times, it was the worst of times.'
++++++
Back in the 'new' Gallery, Helen, Nelson, and Leslie all remained life size. Their bed
vanished replaced by a viewer's couch and some art magazines. The three became highly
polished marble, Nelson red marble, Leslie black marble, and Helen white marble. Nelson
assumed the pose of 'The Thinker' (a contrast on his 'come and get me boys!' pose his
original stratification had.). Helen was in a fantastic dancing pose looking to be a photo
shoot of the moment. Leslie in a sitting/reading pose. Nelson's base read, 'Thinker 2.0',
Helen's 'Live Every Moment' and Leslie's 'Learn All You Can.'
Robert came up to Nelson and put a paw on his marble shoulder, "I promise Nelson, even
without the dare, our families will always look after you."
Kimberly could have sworn for a moment that Nelson's emblem changed to read 'Thanks
dude.'
++++++++
The parents driven by cocern for their children would become living stone lion/dragon
hybrids like the gargoyles.
By the time the rescue would come, the wolves would split pyically into twins again. The
island was free of Kurse's insanity and malice, it was not free of her power: that was now a
natural part of the this place much like Glendale. But the collective will of the parents, and
the collective will of the former twins, would take the reins of this power even if only
subconsciously and only if it's ability to change things only extended as far as big bad
island but like Glendale were just as permanent. And to exist, in of itself gave one a right
to exist did it not? And the parents, had much stronger drive and will right now than any
of the passengers put together. It would change those who genuinely wished it... even if
the person was only aware of how truly badly they wanted it subconsciously. Now being
filtered by Marie rather than Kurse, it would stop short of murder or suicide however.
Free of Kurse's overwhelming hatred for civilization, the island bean to bloom colorful
flowers with no repeating patterns making each step a new experience. The dirt clearing
becoming a tile pattern, changing once every twenty four hours so the dance may not ever
be exactly the same. The trees themselves growing in ways that were unpredictable... and
yet.. never crashed into each other or struck one another. The shape, color, texture, and
flavor of the fruits that would grow were equally unpredictable... but not maliciously so as
Kurse herself had been.
The collection of souls known collectively as Fox and Elise gasped and fell onto her hands
and knees.
"You saw it too?" 'Fox' asked.
"We did." 'Elise' answered.
"You know that'll screw up a lot of families if that happens." 'Fox' said.
"We know." 'Elise' nodded. "That's why we can't let it happen. And..."
"Say it, it's alright, we're feeling it too." 'Fox' encouraged, letting 'her' know not to be
ashamed.
"We can't live like this sisters!" 'Elise' implored, "We're suffocating! We're being crushed to
death! It's maddening! The four of us can't survive like this."
"We feel the same way too." 'Fox' nodded.
"There's a way we can fix this if we want." 'Elise' thought.
"We know." 'Fox' answered, "When you stop and think about it, I think it's what was bound
to happen from the beginning. Fox and Elise knew what they were giving up. Little Ami
might have been able to force our bodies back together, but our souls are our own. It's
nice Fox and Elise get to be remembered but..."
"We're not them." The midnight lioness said, "We can't be them, we'll never be them. All
four of us have Elise's memories, and her skills but..." 'Elise' hugged 'herself' , "You know
if multiple personality wasn't a load of bull, this is what it would feel like most of us bet."
"Ditto." 'Fox' sighed. "So, figured out how to say it?"
"We've been talking about it among ourselves ever since the pride and pack left." Elise
said.
"We figured. Well, I'm Nane and I figured you guys were gonna try something stupid. I'm
Saba and figured we'd wait a day to see if we could adjust. We're Tano and Sita we're
wondering if we should be bikini dolls again this time."
"I'm Tatuli, and I'm Neili, we're wondering if we should be art again this time too."
"I'm Tano, and seriously, we know this is selfish of us anyway, but this is still something
we gotta do anyway, if that makes sense." 'Fox' said.
"Barely." 'Elise' replied. "I'm Moja, and this could be seen as killing two birds with one
stone you guys know, or three."
'Fox' laid back, "Nane here, and seriously we all know there's no right solution here. There
never was. The grown ups are gonna get hurt or they'll change themselves, since Marie,
that's her name now by the way, we can feel it through the filtered chaos, won't be able to
install enough fail-safes before it happens... Saba here, It's like that Futurama cartoon,
"You gotta do whathca gotta go."
'Elise' nodded, "Right. To sum it up, cheating against a cheater is cheating in of itself. And
someone always ends up paying. And it might as well be us."
"Gill's gonna be mad at losing two officers."
"Hopefully the eight of us will be good cops once we're adults again. And until then I'm
sure we can help out."
"Okay, have all four of you say it together or otherwise it won't work." 'Fox' said.
"Right." 'Elise' nodded. "Won't this count as a changing of our forms though?"
"We'll still be civilized lionesses with our 'real love clause' so I don't see how."
"Okay then... on three, one, two, three:"
The two bodies said to each other together.
"Transform or Dare."
"Transform."
"Become four separate bodies for each of your souls, be as real as any other soul, have as
much right to exist, Elise and Fox were our respective mothers, they gave their lives to
save the world. We're looked after by the rest of the pack. Our mothers are remembered as
heroes. With full decked out honors, statue in her glor-NANE!- -Sorry...- We will make it
through the police academy in record time in a good way. We can go anywhere in the
world in three steps as long as know where we are going and as long as we can survive
there for a realistic amount of time. We can take anyone with us as long as they were
willing and won't be immediately harmed by the new environment long term or short term.
They WON'T be transformed in ANY way. We can sense magic and it's nature, type, area,
intensity, and mechanics at a practical distance. Our heirs, and their heirs and so on and
so forth will all be humane and civilized and also have their power and use it wisely for
other's sake. The four of us will be able to speak to each other mentally if we wish it
unless we want privacy."
There was a faint glow of light.
Moja looked at the world and her three sisters, all of them were Mary's age (well younger
by eight months). Tano and her sisters were much the same that way. All of them were
bald as proper lionesses are. Moja and her sisters had midnight colored fur and yellow
eyes with a hint of rust colored fur in it, while Fox's daughters similar color to their
mother and bright blue eyes but with a ting of fur color like one of the pride's males.
Nane began giggling and doing several back flips running up a tree and then did a hand
stand.
Tano sighed, "Come on sis, we have some families to save."
"I know, like super man!" Nane struck a dramatic pose.
Moja, remembering their connection when Kurse's puppets, thought, 'She and Amber
would SO get along... wait... they DO get along like that year at the squirt gun tournament
she and her... FOCUS GIRL!'
"Alright! Here we go!" Moja said loudly getting her sisters and the other four set's
attention.
++++++
"Calvary's here!" Nane declared teleporting right on top of the library table.
"OFF THE TABLE OFF THE TABLE!" Martha's two heads barked before Nane scratched up
the top of the table by forgetting to sheathe her claws... again...
"Meaning all of us." Said Moja teleporting in the doorway. Tano and Sita teleported in on
either side of the color glass statue on the window cill kicking her legs while Saba
teleported into an empty chair with her legs up on the same table her sister was standing
on.
"Legs down!" Martha said.
Saba instantly obeyed, having felt Martha's wrath the one time she had dared defy the
nanny's divine will.
Mbili, Tatuli, and Nneili were tempted to teleport right on of the book case but instead just
teleported in one of the corners.
"Hey Nane." Kevin said to Nane waving.
"Hey Kevin." Nane replied jumping down.
Kaylee wondered, that girl could make friends so easily but could get them in trouble
almost as easily. At least she knew not to do anything stupid on Kaylee proper!
The six human children stared in shock.
"You're cool!" Mark declared.
"You're all naked!" Dennis yelped.
"So are all of them." Said Moja flatly. "We're you're emergency transformation free ticket
back to Big Bad Island free of charge, anyone who wants to go back to their families please
go now the flight is leaving at once."
"Can't you say? Most of your pride is already here." Kevin said.
"Sorry, this is our responsibility." Moja said calmly.
"I promise we'll come back after we've adverted a disaster." Tatuli promised.
"You are not indestructible like I am and my half-sisters cousins are. You shouldn't have
to take risks." Alice said sternly.
"You gotta do," Sita began.
Saba finished, "Whatcha gotta do."
Everyone looked at Nane and Tano. Tano crossed her arms and the young lioness said,
"Don't even think about it, -normal- identical don't copy each other."
"Normal is completely subjective a term. What if it was normal to be slug people?"
"Point." Moja nodded, "So the guys all wanna go to your families?"
"YES!" All the kids said together.
"Then hold on tight. Mbili, Tatuli, Nneili you take the girls. Sita, Saba, Tano, you take the
boys."
"Who made her the boss of us anyway?" Tano lamented as she took hold of Jose, "Okay
cutie, here we go! One-two-three!"
Nane made a dramatic bow and took three step a moment later. Moja though took a look
at the glass statue, REALLY looked at it. Then she thought, 'Well... if that's your choice...'
Moja bowed to Kaylee and Martha and said, "Tell our dads we're still okay."
"I will little Miss Moja." Martha nodded.
Moja took three steps.
+++++++++++
Tired and burned out, the gem wolves, plus Caroline, Betty, Lawrence, Robyn, and Maxine
had fallen asleep right right where they lay... it was just too tiring .. everything that had
happened, that could happen, it had finally caught up with them.
The parable was slightly different in each one of their minds, for no two people are the
same (save the triplets, irony). But the underlying truth remained, and each knew, this was
their own mind, not some by product of the game or the island.
We shall focus on Caroline's inner mind world.
Caroline stood before a wolf cup who looked much like her only a couple decades
younger. Her hands and feet were encased in solid steel sawed off cones shapes, putting
her small body into an 'X' shape. Around her neck was a chain connect to the top of the
ceiling of the dark gray room.
She looked at Caroline, scared, hurt, lonely, like a tortured animal.
Her voice was passive, and defeatist, "You grew up fast sis.... I don't... I don't I would have
minded growing up... it's another path to explore after all but... I thought we'd have done
it together."
She looked so .. so... SO LONELY...She reminded Caroline of the child in 'Those Who Walk
Away from Omelas.'
'And anthrax can look like baby powder.' Caroline thought for a moment, But this,
Caroline -knew- there was nothing evil or dangerous about Cobalt, because she was her.
"Why am I locked up?" Cobalt asked innocent, not understanding.
Caroline thought, thinking of a million reasons, but strangely, all of them fell flat when
faced with the practical application of those reasons.
"I don't know."
"Can you let me out then sis?"
"No."
"Please."
"No."
"I thought we were sisters, twins."
That was like a knife through the gut. "Cobalt.... I don't want to see you hurt... but I'm
scared that if you just do what you want... you'll hurt someone... and not even realize it..."
"So I'm bad?" Cobalt asked, she blinked away tears as any child would in her situation.
Caroline was at a complete and total loss on how to answer that! It was KURSE who had
been evil! The twins at the end had been doing precisely what ANY of the pack would have
done, protecting their -home.- And had any of them been even remotely different before
the cascade struck them all?
"Cobalt."
"Yes?"
"Transform or Dare."
Cobalt gasped, and blinked away tears, figuring she was now dead, and her sister was
going to change her into a paper weight. And knew there was no escape. "Transform."
"Become a little girl, who can understand the bad things Kurse did, and the bad things she
did to innocent people."
Cobalt gasped again, and in her child hood terms, saw the wicked witch of the west turn
countless people into frogs, an entire ocean of miserable frogs.
Also, the shackles and heavy weights all shattered. Cobalt fell to the ground, sobbing.
Caroline knew it was perhaps narcissism at it's worst, but she knelt down and hugged her.
That was when everything went white.
Caroline/Cobalt awoke right where the seventeen pack members had all gone to sleep. She
looked at herself and gasped. She looked at Opal and realized the same thing had
happened to him. She felt her throat at hearing her different sounding voice.
She was a teenager.
She looked around, seeing the same thing had happened to nearly everyone, all being
around, or maybe a year or two younger than Ulysses' age.
Caroline/Cobalt shook her head. "I guess this is how we split the difference... the old
Caroline ceased to exist when Kurse split her, we both changed in the short time we were
apart... we couldn't become the same whole... I understand now..."
She saw that the vast majority were now teenagers like Ulysses..Amethyst was the only
one who didn't seem changed outwardly. Caroline also realized some were child twins
again... only now flesh and blood with no flower birthmark (and unlike the triplets had
independent emotions and thoughts)... but she understood.. these were the ones who had
become too unique in their minds to be safely fused back into one person.
The tall Amethyst awkwardly stood, she blinked several times, looked down and nudged
her own F sized woman hood. Her face brightened and she giggled, then she burst out
laughing and started doing cart wheels and began singing 'Do you hear the people Sing?'
from Les Miserable.
"And before you say anything kiddo!" Amethyst grinned, "Louisiana Purchase 1803! Let the
rest of the world worry! Let everyone else get weight down by insecurities and worries! I'm
free! Free! Ha ah!"
+++++++
The two women who had been the two other 'muses' for the statue Kaylee and Jensen had
become pushed their way to the front of the crowd, stepping around Dennis' mother and
approached Sasha directly.
The taller one had tan skin, dark brown almost black hair (with a bust that -almost-
rivaled the twins), the other one was only slightly tan with decidedly black roots but was
dyed blue (who was almost a flat chester in spite of clearly being an adult woman). The
taller one pulled the shorter one along and gesture to herself and her companion showing
none of the fear the others did.
"I'm Sunny, and this is Luna."
Luna put her hands together, "We talked about it and well..."
Sunny took a step foreword, "We want to be part of your pack!"
Sasha didn't believe this, "WHAT?"
Luna put her hands up defensively, "Look, we booked passage on this cruise hoping to
become trophy wives and of someone rich and good looking... "
"And we known through the linked mind we had for a bit with Jensen and Kaylee, yes we
know who they are, that he's taken four times over already and you kinda have a quota for
this sort of things. But we wanna join! We kinda know it's spur of the moment, but so was
our entire scheme, and since we saw inside your big guy's head, we know he's kinda a
nice guy. How many other rich guys can you say that about with one hundred percent
certainty? We have only a few funds to offer your commune, but I have a degree in fine art,
and Luna has one in acting. If you want us, we're yours!"
Sasha asked, "Do you realize what you're asking?"
All the other passengers thought they two were crazy.
Sunny declared, "We were inside your boss' head! We know precise what we're going for! A
big bad wolf whose no longer so bad who was a spoiled selfish brat until some time last
week! You're a nudist commune and have an incredibly altruist mentally for your own kind.
You're also relatively well off. We want in."
Then Luna used the most powerful word in the english language. "Please?"
Sasha sighed, this was their choice, it wasn't like they were hurting anyone by it, it wasn't
like they were hurting someone who didn't have a say in the matter.
"Transform or Dare?"
"Transform!"
"Become part of the pack, our pack, the big bad wolf pack, love and be loyal to both
Master Jensen and your packmates and the pack itself and each other. Comprehend
everything you do, have done, and shall do, and that of your pack mates, with perfect
objectivity."
All the other passengers took a step back in total and utter alarm.
Both women grew in height as muscle mass appeared while remaining lithe, and relatively
petit compared to the rest of the pack. The claws and digitgrated feet grew, as her heads
became those of wolves save for a more word forming throat and eyes with sapience. The
tails came in the same time as the fur. Not unexpectedly, Luna's body took on the same
fur pattern as Ashley and Millie, her torso light gray, while her fur light blue, with a
crescent moon with two small stars birth mark formed on her left hip, her hair formed into
a pony tale. Sunny's fur took on golden brown and sunflower yellower pattern (brown on
body, yellow highlights) with a stylized sun birthmark on her right shoulder. Their busts
grow or shrank until they were equal size.
The first thing Sunny said was, "WHAO! I was a really gold digging beotch wasn't I?"
"Only slightly Sunny, only slightly," Luna nodded with a smile.
"... You only stayed with me to keep me on the straight and narrow didn't you?"
"You're my best friend... what did you expect."
Sasha only stared as the two new wolves hugged each other, the passengers slightly
mollified and quite weirded-out by the bit of drama.
They then stood side by side, smiling, and, said together,
""Now! Who do we serve? Who do we obey? Who do we -love-?!"
Sasha startled, realizing they must have read this from Kaylee's mind too.
"We serve the pack! We obey our Alphas! We love Master Jensen The Big Bad Wolf!"
"What is our 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!" "About face!" "Left turn!" "About face!" "And Bow!"
"Do all your new recruits do that?" Mary had to ask.
"Yes." Ulysses confessed.
Feeling very awkward Sasha said, "Welcome... to the pack."
Two new names engraved themselves on a room plaque at the Pack Estate.
+++++++
Jenny started. "The shadows."
Bart turned to his sister. "What the heck happened to the shadows?"
"Where are the shadows? It wasn't the brainwashing of a Transform but the power of a
Dare that altered them! And that wasn't done on the island, it was done long before the
curse began to become self aware, and personally I think we've used up our 'ex machinas'
for today!"
Bart also realized, "And Jack and Marcine..."
Jenny followed his train of thought, "They were transformed to attract the deer herd and
basically create the super stock needed for healthy plentiful deer that could feed the pack.
Does that mean Jack and Marcine were now always deer?"
Bart raised the stakes, "And then there's the gargoyles! Where they now 'always' living
stone, animated statues, or whatever? Or do they still have families' whose the memories
of the transformed human's existence of was stolen from their families?"
The two eldest children of Jensen realized they had some record searching to do besides
their still transforming memories.
++++++
"Yep it's all there still girlfriend." Nicole teased (her arm in a cast where it had been
broken in three places and had pierced skin, and Nicole also using a crutch) looking at
Millie's rear, "Sorry girl, looks like ya'all stuck with that widdle heart on yer butt!"
Millie sighed, so much for that hope. She, nor anyone else noticed when her age reverted
to where she was now around the teenage year that Maxine and Robyn were now. They
were three of a kind after all... Not that in Millie's opinion Maxine had matured in those
years (gotten more clever maybe...).
++++++
Glass, or rather now Maria was still a blond she wolf identical in appearance to Samantha,
and with her black dress with red trim. But the look of utter insanity was completely gone.
She entered the sea side's reflective surface, and came out the other side near the
passengers. The gargoyles still playing security around the island for now.
"MOTHER!" She shouted.
Eliza turned, not knowing how she knew but she knew.
"Martin... Martin my little boy?"
"... I'm sorry mama..." She said, not sure how to break her new name.
"What did that horrible horrible wick DO TO YOU?" Eliza ran and embraced the glass child,
not screaming, not running, not denying, only holding her child crying for her.
"There's your folks... go on..." Nane said gesture to the crowd behind the rocks.
"Are you sure we should?" Dennis ask suddenly nervous seeing the wolf women and lion
girl...
Sita and Sabe looked at each other, gave a thumb's up, then pushed Dennis foreword,
making him trip and fall into the sand.
The two boys who had been still on the island turned and gasped, the eight cubs beating
a hasty retreat as the attention came the returned kids.
Needless to say, the parents were very very overjoyed paranoid having no place here after
all they had endured.
"So they won't turn into statue guardians now?" Tatuli asked.
"Nope." Moja replied, "That future's been adverted... They'll get back on the ship and
that'll be that... "
"How about we all get some sleep now?" Tano yawned rubbing her eyes.
"That's the best idea you've given all day." Nneili nodded.
(Back to you people.)