Transform or Dare?

Wolf or Dare: "Left" Means Looks-Left No Matter What

"Now play nice everyone!" Amethyst declared to her charges and guests once the battle had
resumed after Nane's brush with death.

Nane's near brush with death and rescue by Gretchen had gotten all the girls' attention, but
Nane being Nane had recovered quickly, and with Gretchen now her declared best friend,
the game was quickly back underway. Of course, Tano, Sita, and Saba were all very very
happy their youngest (she came out last) sister was alright. Normally Nane had control over
situations where she was in trouble (having been her own cause of it) but the bucks were
decidedly not this.

As the cubs and pups relocated to the front yard, Nane and Gretchen held hands smiling
with Giselle following her twin right behind them. Amethyst smiled at that, 'Only children
can be that direct and that quick to forgive.' Also, while Nane was loved by her sisters and
pride, her love of pranks had a bad habit of inhibiting her ability to make friends, Gary
would be happy, his biggest regret was that Fox wasn't there to see their daughter learn
more empathy.

While she wasn't a shiva-wolf like Martha her sub-omegas, she was still loved and
respected by the gem twins as their care taker and tutor. Nicole herself had wondered if
her Alpha Male had bumped his head while assigning her this task, but she had proven to
excel at it. Amethyst had been suspended from Nicole's self-defense classes for a year
after singing the theme from Kung-Fu Panda one too many times out loud in class...

Amethyst was many things: cheerful, optimistic, playful, hyperactive, seemingly impossible
to make unhappy, addicted to anything 'cute', and prone to breaking out into musical
numbers like she was a character in a disney movie, but stupid was in fact -not- one of
them. Thus why she was doing her best to stay OUT of the cross fire of the horde of little
lions and wolves as waged water war on each other.

Two sides with equal numbers and similar age range but very different abilities and tactics.

With Pence and Jay's scheme of a head on assault not having worked as well as it should
have, the twins turned to a different more unpredictable tactic.

While the yacht passengers would have nightmares for years on what they had done to
each other while Kurse's pets: it would be a life altering event for the white and gem
wolves having seen the 'benign' side of chaos in their dance. A dance that would be
ingrained into their bones forever.

And now that dance was being used to confound the cubs as the pups chaotic tactics left
the cubs very confused. There was a -rhythm-, to this dance, a set of something keeping
it from being mindlessly blind, but whatever it was left left the cub befuddled bewildered,
Mbili panicked and began firing shots wildly, accidently squirting Sita in the face, before
the pups as one on some unseen signal squirted Mbili at once leaving her a dripping mess
and out of the battle.

The cubs could have used their magic trick to mini-teleport to even up the score that way,
but that felt too much like cheating for Moja and Tano's tastes in spite of their younger
sisters' protests.

"The twins don't have magic, it's not fair to them." Moja said calmly, she wasn't impossibly
brilliant for her age like Bart and Jenny were, but she came across as more mature than
either of them which in it's own way scared the pride mates more than Bart and Jenny
scared the pack mates.

With the game now happening in the front yard (it wasn't like anyone hadn't seen the pups
playing outside the estate before) the fountain was now the more direct source of refilling
their weapons. This gave Nelson, Helen, and Leslie a front row view of the fun and game
as their water streams were used to refill the weapon guns on the spot. And like in any
conflict, as a major resource, it was coveted greatly by both sides, the three statue wolves
were flattered. Even as they watched the near twenty children play, all three statues
couldn't help but think of seeing them grow up, find their other half, have cubs of their
own, grow old, and be in the ground, while their own cubs repeated the cycle, and the
strange satisfaction Nelson and his two companions felt at knowing they'd be there to see
it all.

Unlike the resetting of stone that created the new always-were lives of the rest of the
pride and pack, the transformation of the statue wolves could also be described as 'fate
adaption' or 'fate camouflage' depending on what term was more comfortable to
comprehend, they could become flesh and blood at a moment by majority vote and then
statues again by their own will, and none would comprehend them as anything but as they
were at that time. Kira herself rather naughty in a playful way that she could see and hear
all with none even knowing 'she' was there except as a giant wolf bronze statue to decorate
the entry room's duel staircase.

"I wonder what their children will look like." Helen wondered.

"I wonder what their children's children's will look like." Leslie added.

"I'm wonder what their children's children's children are going to look like." Communicated
Nelson and they immediately began taking mental bets.

The water guns had been stored with a layer of dust in the basement (it was a wonder they
hadn't been sold off given the wolves' passion for selling off things that were of no further
value to the pack). The brightly colored (as was required by law) water guns were quite
small compared to the game breaker Super Soakers that were all the rage on the market
that left opposing kids drenched in seconds, but there was a reason why a family as well
off as the Big Bad Wolf pack didn't have the most expensive squirt guns money could buy.

One of the major downfalls of having a fur coat you couldn't take off was that once you
were soaked, you had to dry off the old fashioned way, and that could take quite a long
time... This inconvenience however was just a fact of life to them. But it did mean that
water wars were much much rarer among their kids on summer days than humans who
could dry off in a fraction of the time.

Meaning that this was going to be a long and grueling conflict for water supremacy! Toni
tried to hide behind her twin Paula and the cub Saba, however they had no interest in the
water war being brought into their nice peaceful neutral territory on Nicole's patch of grass
set aside for her lessons and she was quickly tossed out much to Toni's deep shock.

"I'm your sister!"

"You're a soldier at war and we don't want you conflict here." Saba said with a grin.

That was when Moja snipered Toni.

"Four of a kind beats two pairs!" Nane happily declared drawing everyone's attention to her
but she dodge having had years of practice. Giselle was even wondering if her twin had
turned traitor was aiming to miss with Nane.

Much like the daughters of Elise and Brian plus Fox's and Gary's daughters, the twins
remembered always having been together, never having been apart, thought they didn't
feel the overwhelming -need- to be alongside each other as the triplets did.

But weather the twins remembered their parents being lost during the crisis with Kurse like
the pride did Elise and Fox, or weather they had parents already among the pack, neither
Alice or Marie, or Madam Serenity or Gill knew yet.

Moja left herself wide open, and quickly retreated between some crabapple trees. When
Toni followed for revenge, Moja with a perfectly calm and cool look on her face pulled a
tiny string, releasing a mass of water balloons from behind drenching Toni utterly, taking
her out of the game.

"I'd... I'd expect that from Nane... but... but not you!"

"This is war, and Miss Amethyst didn't say anything about water balloons in the rules of
engagement." Moja said with a straight face and a totally calm demeanor still holding the
string.

The drenched Toni said, "You should have been one of us."

"I prefer meowing to barking, but thank you." Moja said evenly but politely in return.

Saba meanwhile was showing Paula her personal wrestling style which seemed to be a
strange mix of judo, tidbits of Nicole's martial arts, and a impressive helping of pseudo
'Krav Maga' police training hand to hand.

What amazed Saba was how quickly Paula picked up on the aggressive style, particular
when Toni had been playing the defensive though most of the water game.

Saba said to the Topaz colored twin, "You don't act much like your sister."

Paula replied wilily, "Oh and you're a carbon copy of your sisters?"

"Point." Saba and Paula then simultaneously succeeded in tripping each other.

Some had found it interesting that Kaylee and her three fraternal quadruplets were not all
mated to the same male. However the four of them found nothing strange about it, they
were unique individuals after all.

The triplets were unique in their unity, they took a very large amount of pride in that. Their
sense of oneness, sense of wholeness, and yet they never ever got the names of their
sisters wrong, ever, even if only Jensen, Kaylee, Bobbi, and the glass cubs were the only
ones besides who could tell them apart without ever failing once.

The triplets even outside the wolf pack were somewhat minor legends. They had actually
been tested a few times as cubs as their unity became obvious, the first being when as
infants they would cry and wake up at the same time. Some card tests proved they weren't
telepathic, but their emotional states seemed to echo off each other along with their
psychology when they got completely identical profiles on a psychological evaluation.
Again, the triplets were delighted by the news rather than agitated or worried about their
lack of differences. There was some inexplicable and truly comforting feeling at their
sameness for them.

Of course during their fifteen minutes of fame the media had eaten up some triplets that
actually acted as the comic books depicted them, much to the annoyance of other such
identical siblings.

It was actually a bit of confusion and discomfort to Julie and Fran when they didn't become
pregnant until two and half years after Darla, it actually made them feel as if something
was WRONG with themselves! The idea of -losing- their unity honestly scared them. They
had been overjoyed when Jensen had accepted all three of them as his beta female.

No one had a clue about the magic (and yes magic it was) that had made Alice and her
siblings become living glass and enter a reality that apparently genuinely existed on the
other side of the mirrors. The fact they were impossible to destroy as glass, and could
travel anywhere in the world (and possibly the universe) within a few steps, had been a
relatively close family secret shared between the pack and pride (much like the
quadruplet's talents). They didn't want their children being sent carrying bombs into the
bathrooms of third world dictators after all. They couldn't be killed as glass, but that didn't
mean they couldn't be buried under five tons of rubble or something equally horrid.

Nneli had always been entranced by Alice and her sisters since their transformation (their
magic induced mutation having caused fifteen minutes of fame themselves that had since
died off), she could always emphasis with glass art somehow. Nneli had actually pawed
over them at times, just to feel their living glass bodies -move-.

They weren't exact replicas of each other like their mothers (the most obvious being their
age difference from Alice), something that actually seemed to drag down Samantha and
Abbey ever so slightly not being exactly like Alice. And it had actually left the triplets
confused themselves that their daughters hadn't carried on their strange trait of being the
ultimate 'three of a kind.'

Abby and Samantha of course had been two and a half during Alice's fifth birthday, so they
were more confused more than terrified when Alice had turned into living glass. Alice's
name becoming an irony was not lost on Darla at all, and had only intensified Alice's
interest in Lewis Carol (and the near legendary author's interest in semantics).

There was no way to know how much Alice's growth and that of her sisters had been
slowed down by their time in the outside world but that seemed to be the last thing on
anyone's mind, most of all the glass pups themselves.

Amy and glass Marie (coming as a shocker to all parties involved that another such as
themselves existed, leaving Marie's mother a point of visiting Glendale herself with her
daughter eventually), didn't dare humor the idea of the three girls becoming the same
age... the price reality would extract from -that- revision neither cared to find out. Every
revision either eastern or western spiritualist invoked on the repairing of reality seemed to
cause an equal and opposite reaction (Newton would be proud).

Alice's and her sisters' indestructibility was something else neither dared touch. And the
triplet's daughters invincibility had been proven repeatedly in situations that were better
left forgotten. A ninja like burglar who had startled and shot Samantha between the eyes
which had simply rolled off her like a rain drop after impact not even leaving a mark.

A buzz saw in the garage shortly before Bart and Jenny had created their shadows had
slipped and gone towards a curious Abby's neck, shattering the buzz saw, actually leaving
leaving shrapnel that need to be taken out of Darla and Fran by Julie. Abbey had been
mortified, but her aunts and mother insisted nothing was wrong and it wasn't her fault. The
taking apart of the two cars that had been two small for the pack members and were worth
more as scrap than on the market had resumed soon after (it was a task that needed doing
after all).

And during a baseball game, Alice being her normal curious self had gotten a bat to the
forehead which left a dent in the metal bat but herself not even phased.

Given Alice's often overwhelming curiosity, along with her sisters slowly imitating her in
such regards... their invulnerability could have been considered a good thing in spite of the
less than apparent prices of not being allowed to die if caught in a situation they couldn't
escape from.

"Hey, Welcome to loserville." Mbili said smiling on her muzzle as Toni sat besides her
under the watch of the fountain statues.

"Thanks." Toni replied no trace of agitation or bitterness. Both thought of the same thing
at the same time and pushed each other into the fountain, both ended up laughing.

+++++++

The ship sailed through the evening and into the night again on it's dauntless trek back to
New Zealand, the fuel having been lost traveling to Big Bad Island under Glass' influence
had cut the cruise trip very much short and the And the psychological trauma to boot
wanting all to very much just go home.

The civilian volunteer group, 'Royal New Zealand Coastguard' had finally found the cruise
yacht after it had picked up it's radio signal. No one dared mentioned how the ship's
existence had for around twenty four hours along with her crew and passengers had
vanished from the memories and records of everything and everyone only to reappear
much tot he shock and alarm of everyone involved that they could forget such a thing!!!
The passengers and crew had no clue how much they should share, how much they dared
share, and how much they could share without being seen as lunatics. Though the world
did also have the problem of several million people around the globe but mostly centered
in the United States being suddenly mutated into utterly inhumane creatures and mutating
others with the words 'Transform or Dare' then all simply reverting, most only having a
vague sense of the true cause. No one of course noticing those who had mutated and
stayed mutated simply cause as far as existence was concerned they had been born that
way.

The two attempted suicides were still (rightfully) under careful watch, the pregnant woman
was having nightmares, and was becoming nearly hypochondriactic over what having been
mutated and back again and the act of depravity while her psyche and body had been
warped had done to her unborn child. The doctor on board assured her that there was no
sign of her child being malformed. But that didn't stop her visions or nightmares of her
child being born a chimera, clawing out of her, stillborn, or any other number of horrid
things.

The crew themselves felt a particular brand of anger and self loathing at having failed
utterly in their duty to protect their passengers and ship and having to rely on a total
outside force to save them from a forever of being -things- that could only think and
comprehend the current moment. The fact Marie/Martin had become the second Glass, the
first Glass being Samantha, who had brainwashed them all to coming to the island in the
first place, left her with a rather cold reception from many, they needed something to
focus their negative emotions on after all... maybe Marie not showing herself much was a
good thing.

None of the passengers or crew wondered at no one asking about Luna or Sunny.

Like glass Marie's mother Eliza, many of the passengers if their fate had been shared by
their loved ones or life companions instead of being blindly random, would have -much to
their horror and shame- not minded remaining things that explored their vices without
limit, without shame, and without regret rather than face the soul crushing depression and
anxiety that ran though them.

Jose, Dennis, Pedro, Mark, Amanda, Candice, Aaron, and Cindy: the passengers' children
likewise might have yearned for a return to that wretched state, if they were not left with
the horrid psychological scars of seeing their parents act like the way they did to each
other and themselves under Kurse's perversion. They had tasted a sick comfort at acting
like complete savages, without the rules imposed by the world of adults. The one
exception was the boy Mark... who had read 'Lord of the Flies.'

Maylene hadn't let her son Dennis out of her sight for anything more than a eye-blink
since being reunited. She also looked ready to break the arm of anyone who so much tried
to touch him. This had scared little Amanda when she had offered the boy a piece of cake
and she saw the look in his mother's eyes.

One of the passengers, a bald, middle aged, fat man named Gilbert had been round
masturbating in his room giggling to himself and then crying then giggling again, asking
Kurse to take him back. Of course, Kurse no longer existed in any shape or form, and the
passengers and crew knew this. All the same, Gilbert was placed under watch as well just to
be in the safe side. The first mate had even called in request an Exorcist to offer his
services to the passengers and crew once they reached port. The pregnant woman and
glass Marie were to be first in line, (at Eliza's request, she wanted to make as sure and sure
that her child didn't still have any of that horrid mad women's essence hiding within her,
she'd rather die herself than have Marie used again by those evil dead mad women).

Eliza with Rick was worried sick at Marie when she had gone into the mirrors and had only
said she was going to go visit the wolves in Glendale and explain the full story about the
witches... Eliza wished her child had simply stayed with her instead! Couldn't they all just
put this horrible, horrible event behind them and become a family-?! "Please Marie, I'll
always love you, I don't care -what- you are, you're still my baby, please, please, just come
home to mommy..." Eliza whispered to the mirror in her cabin.

++++++++



"Come along big boy," Said Robyn pushing on the rump of a buck whose name was Roland,
being side to be out of angle of those nasty hooves. "You came this here way you can leave
this here way too, ya know we ain't tryin' ta drown ya."

"Don't tell me you're starting too." Maxine said herding another buck to the waiting
waterline named Harry.

"Hey girlfriend," Robyn said, "There gotta be some old reason little Miss Alice gets these
deer ta always listen to her. And Ah ain't talkin' Aquaman telepathy either."

With the bucks showing no sigh of all out attacking the wolves since they were making no
moves on the does, the gargoyles were there pretty much as a formality. Northwest,
Southwest, Southeast, and Northeast, were stationed on the edge of the islands in the
respective spots using the sun as a crude compass.Frontdoor, the only male among the
stone wolf-dragon hybrid was facing each other on other ends of the beach the deer were
being taken one at a time by Alice and Abbey.

Being led along by a purple somewhat scrawny purple wolf who looked more scared of him
than Adam was of the wolf, Adam wondered were Samantha was. He had never seen the
glass wolves were apart before. It was rather disorienting, while they were the wolves' prey,
Adam did hope the blond/glass wolf pup was okay. It was quite a strange feeling for
Adam. But having seen the young life of the next Adam and Eve taken away before they
could even be born, he didn't want to see more young life stolen from the world.

Robert and Wendy stood at the end of the line, while Jessica and Rose flanked the start of
the line. Rose kept a particular close eye on her fellow pink wolves Maxine, Tourmaline,
and Coral, making sure they stayed on task and didn't start flirting with Ulysses again.
Ruby and Emerald had been called back to the island to make sure the bucks didn't break
rank as they were moved along on opposite sides, the two always working best as a pair.

Garnet (just glade Amethyst and the japanese she-wolves' breasts were on the other side
of the planet where she couldn't get smushed into them as seemed her curse), along with
Amber, Tourmaline and Coral were keeping the doe passive doing their best with body
language to imply they were into hunting right now. After all, they had brought the deer
here by similar means, so if the gold deer were as intelligent as the science books said they
were then the wolves should know the teenage wolves meant not harm. Caroline/Cobalt
and Opal while coordinating the actions of their fellow gem wolves were also keeping the
bucks forming them their line.

Once the race had reached the end of the shoreline, the deer turned ready for a fight that
never came. Good thing too. Humans had neither the speed nor strength of lupmen or
leomen, but dang, did they have -endurance!- Some African tribes would kill off their prey
just by endlessly walking towards it until the animal died from exhaustion. Lions were built
to hit the prey hard and fast from surprise. Wolves were more relatively similar in their style
of getting their kills.

With Samantha recovering from her ordeal as Kurse's 'daughter' that left Alice and Abbey to
lead the deer back to the mansion, meaning it would take a third longer this time to carry
on the task. The gallery wolves honestly didn't mind, now being filtered by glass Marie, Big
Bad Island wasn't look much the nightmare of a madman and more the fever dream of My
Little Pony meets the Care Bears. The gargoyles just endured it (they had no love of plant
life, it ate rock!), Ulysses and Orpal thought it was nice. And having been statues for years
and some even centuries, the gallery wolves had learned to appreciate art in all it's forms.

Maxine and Robyn wanted to get back to tease Millie about their new ages while they still
remembered being adults. Ulysses wanted to get back to Sarah and Mary (even if she
wasn't a wolf and five years younger than him, she was cute). The gem wolves were in no
hurry to get back.

While both girls wanted to spend time with their half-sister, they knew Miss Martha
wouldn't let anything bad happen to her, and Jack and Marcine's herd needed to be brought
back to the estate which was their -home-, not this distant island purposely in the middle
of nowhere east of no man's land.

They were glade that the lion cubs had offered to use their own talents to help the does
return to the manor after the bucks had been relocated. The quadruplets were magic
detectors and able to teleport the way the glass pups could in the world inside the mirror.
It meant Jack wouldn't have be separated from Marcie as long. And Harry from Betty and
Roland from Veronica, and Adam and 'Oh yes, I forgot for a moment, ... that the deer
Adam and Eve will never be together again...' Alice thought, she was glade that Abbey
didn't know about Adam's loss of Eve. The herd was their major food source, and how the
pack and pride didn't starve to death or was dirt poor from feeding itself, Alice felt they
deserved some respect, it was only proper.

Both girls had returned to the island after Alice had told Jack that it was not very proper to
attack a cub playing a game. Of course Alice did this without fear, she was indestructible
after all in the outside world, and none of the deer ever so much as thought of harming her
or her sisters in the world within the mirror that was Alice and her sisters' (and apparently
Marie's) world.

Garnet thought as she joined the doe Veronica in an informal staring contest, 'Our internal
clocks are all going to be so messed up when we're done here it's gonna take days for us
all to get over our 'jet lag.' Or is that mirror lag? Oh who cares.'

Meanwhile Jack and Tom the first bucks through observed the estate, being much as it had
been when they had first gone through the mirror world (a part of Jack curious on how he
knew what a mirror was!). He was glade the cubs and pups were out of sight. ~I know they
only hunt rabbits and never go after the fawn themselves... but I don't like it when they're
whooping and snarling when not actually hunting, it feels like mixed signals and
cheating.~

~They are merely preparing for when it's their turn to hunt sir, the adults know we'll kill
their pups and cubs if they tried to hunt us with no experience or skill to defend
themselves.~ Tom observed.

Jack looked back at the surface they had come out of, a mirror. Again, Jack was left
wondering how he knew what that was. It had nothing to do with something to eat or
something that would eat him, so why should he know?

'A good question Jack-Sama.' Amy thought looking up from what she had just written in
her own blood on the scroll she had with her on the roof. It said more or less in japanese
kanji:

Again, Jack was left wondering how he knew what that was. It had nothing to do with
something to eat or something that would eat him, so why should he know?

It felt only proper for Amy to address Jack as '-Sama', he was the Prime Buck of the Herd
after all, just as Jensen-Sama was the Alpha Male of the Pack. The irony being that the Big
Bad wolves followed more the white-washed theme park version of how a wolf pack
worked than the actual facts related to them in example the alphas being actual 'leaders'
rather than simply being at the top of the pecking order. Martha as a Omega was
surprising accurate in spite of Kaylee's original intent of sadism, Omegas often WERE the
nannies of the pack. The alpha being the ones in the pack with the most resources to
successfully breed a litter, other members of the pack could try, but weren't likely to
succeeded in raising them to adulthood.

The pride didn't have a single unified leader, but divided up it's leadership. 'I had better get
down soon, -Haha -Chichi of course wouldn't care much for me being on the roof alone,'
Alice thought (using the japanese term when addressing your own parents). Thankfully
with all the commotion below, no one thought to look above (as was typical of people in
general), only the statue wolves could happen to see her, and they didn't seem in a rush to
ask her to get down.

Adam and Roland meanwhile were brought the edge by the peaceful and trust worthy Alice
and Abbey (when everything was said and done, they had no scent, none whatsoever in the
outside world, and the way they acted, made them relatively non-theatening to the deer if
slightly unsettling). And then pulled into the thankfully calm water (pulling into choppy
water was impossible due to a SMOOTH reflective surface being required, a new limit Alice
had noticed, or perhaps now had always been there was that they could only enter and exit
mirrors that were the proper size, meaning they could no longer enter and exit through he
reflective surface of a stick of wrapped chewing gum.

"Please do not be alarmed or scared if you would kindly." Alice said using her formal and
proper style of speech avoiding contracting and being a precise as possible, "You shall be
back home after we pass through the mirror at the estate soon. Your does will be back
home again after you and the other buck are back home first. Please do not give me or my
half-sister that look. The does are as precious to the pack and pride as they are to you,
after all, we need you as you in your own way need us."

Roland personally didn't want to admit it, but sadly he had to agree with this strange wolf
shaped piece of glass (how did he know what glass was?). The Golden Deer due to their
unique fur, had pelts that were worth a fortune among humans, and being -much- smarter
than their stupid, -stupid- white tail cousins, some human were a little too eager to
vivisect their brains to figure out what separated them from their empty headed hillbilly
cousins.

'The pack and pride don't care about our coats, or our brains,' Roland thought, 'They just
want the flesh from our bones.' Thus after the pack or pride had taken down a member of
the herd, they could retrieved anything that was left of the hide to add it to their memory
collection of saying goodbye to the previous generation as the new one took it's place as
was their duty and fate. The Golden Deer felt a sense of pride in this generational
consistency much as the triplet felt at their own sameness.

Adam of course regretted that Eve had been unable to fulfill her duty, and he himself
regretted that he had failed in his duty to help her fulfill hers. The loss of Eve Jr. before she
could even be allowed to enter the world saddened Adam greatly. Another odd thing about
the gold deer was that they seemed to mate for life and had singular partners (and while
the buck will kill any interloper on the spot, they wouldn't harm the fawns born from such
a unlawful union, making it even more bizarre).

But even a previous trip through wonderland still didn't prepare the deer for what
happened next, and was likely the cause of Jack and Tom's panicking when Alice and
Abbey hadn't given them time to calm down (Alice blamed herself, she was the older one,
and should have known better).

Chester, and other mundane pets that Alice and her sisters had brought into the mirror
world had not had a change in appearance as people did when they entered the mirror
universe that Alice and her sisters felt instinctively drawn to as their home. Alice, Marie,
Abbey, and Samantha were only flesh and blood within the realm of mirrors, appearing in
dresses that resembled the one the legendary character 'Alice' written about by Lewis
Carol. Alice's dress blue and white, her sisters white and blue, while Marie's was black and
red with runes. All else who entered either became a glass wolf pup and/or ended up
wearing 19th century clothing until they left.

This all made things very interesting and very confusing when the deer entered the mirror
world, and ended up with harnesses like they were horses meant to draw buggies (like Tom
and Adam), a couple ended up with body paint right out of 'Princess Mononoke.' (Jack Sr.
and Marcine Sr.) and some even looked like they were dressed up like the reindeer of
Santa's sleigh! (Not all that impossible, after all, Santa's current imagine as a reverse
robber baron had been a American cultural invention).

This had confused the leomens and lupmens alike. After all, they were just clever animals
after all right? Welcome to rule one about personhood, you're personhood is in direct
relation to how much you can verbally fight back.

Alice and her sisters didn't seem all that surprised at all however. Amy also hadn't seemed
all that surprised. Being a person had nothing to do with limbs, DNA, number of cells, it
was the undefinable, undecipherable, eternal immortal soul that defined one as such. And
if you believed in vampire hunters, some swore by all they held sacred they had visions of
the spirits of those afflicted with vampirism to destroy the spirit's curse infested corpse.

But even among all this consistency reality had painstakingly put together there were flies
in the ointment.

The original transform or dare had been precise that communication between anything
other than another deer would be futile for Jack and Marcine and vice versa. Alice's words
should have been meaningless jibberish. However Alice acted as if the beasts understood
her perfectly and the beasts seemed to. If this was another cheat, it was chilling to think
what reality would seek as counter balance.

An entire herd of dumb mundane animals had been uplifted to true self awareness,
thankfully that one seemed to be more reality balancing itself out more a cheat.

But there was one thing reality was forced by it's very nature to abide by, that Jack and
Marcine had -names-, once something had a name, the name couldn't be then simply
taken away. And now thanks to Jack and Marcine naming their herd members in the
original timeline, all their herd had -names- as well, more than that, they had -human-
names, english ones at that as well. Odd in particular since it was clear that the names
were passed down from parent to child. What had been the -origin- of these names?
English had existed in the new world for less than a thousand years, and it was unlikely
these deer would have chosen new names as descendants of former Europeans had become
the new major population of North America.

If this was so, what would be the price for cheating one way dear communication? And
who was going to pay for it?

And if the deer being on Big Bad Island was a science experiment to test their adaptability,
where were the researchers? Where were the notes -on- the experiment? And why was no
one there to record notes on the deer returning home now to see how well and how fast
they adjusted -back- to their native home?

++++++++++

The mirror world where glass Marie was telling her story Lilly asked, "Could the natives see
what was happening? They weren't stupid."

Marie replied, "Remember, before the Europeans sough to crush their cultural and racial
identity to try and force them to think and act as if -they- were somehow Europeans, the
native Americans were a people of -nations-. And like any -nations- composed of people
they had enemies among themselves and -wars-, same as the Europeans who accidently
brought the plagues of Europe to them and often saw the people they met as less than
human."

"Indians had wars?" The idea to Casanda felt incomprehensible, the cartoons always
showed the 'indians' as fundamentally better and naturally superior in every way to the
settlers: in other words the exact opposite of the entertainment shown to children a
hundred or so years ago and just as deceptive.

"Yes, Native Americans -did- have wars before 'the white man' came. The Europeans were
actually able to expand at times by aiding one side of an opposing tribe. On a more
amusing note, Europeans honestly thought that a patriarchal culture was the natural state
for human beings, finding matriarchal cultures in North America shocked them to the
core."

"Don't you mean 'indigenous people?'" Betty asked Lawrence next to her all entranced by
glass Marie's tale of the three innocent girls who would become Gaal, Gamorrah and
Galgatha. And the one-eyed girl Marie Cruz who'd gather the four others who along with
her who'd end the witches' rampage at a terrible cost.

"Madam, Native Americans immigrated from Russia over an ice bridge some 20,000 years
ago, longer than humans have lived in England. Indigenous people is a vague and
misleading term much as the misnomer 'indians' is and was. And everyone is indigenous
somewhere. But none of this is really the -point- of what I'm telling you. So Balthilde
Volksheer asked Joseph Running-Bear to look after her granddaughters when she knew
her time would be over...."



Balthilde Volksheer, seer and indebted servant to puritan Ronald Wise had now made
Joseph Running-Bear the god father of her granddaughters (both the ones by blood and
the one in spirit). Doing this with a man you just met should have been considered
foolishness, but Balthilde's talents as a seer

"Now dears," Balthilde had said, "I want you listen to Mr. Joseph Running-Bear whenever
I'm too busy or away to be with you. He's a very nice man and he'll be kind to you."

"Yes Grandmother." All three girls replied, including Goldwyn who holding their friend. A
small black cat whom she had found shortly before fleeing what would one day be
germany.

"Black cats," glass Marie explained in her narrative, "In some cultures are actually
considered good luck instead of bad luck, but this black cat, considered a witch's familiar
for being in the presence of witches at all. But in either case, the black cat whose name
would be Herodias, functioned as a perfectly good mouser while on board ship, and had
the strange talent of slipping in and out of people's perceptions, including Balthilde's."

"They had their familiars already?" Lawrence asked, remembering Herodias from when he
had been Lance and Willy.

"No," 'Glass' Marie shook her head, "Only Herodias, they wouldn't come to own Lilith or
Salome a year and a two years respectively later. And 'Herodias' and she'd be ultimately
called wasn't technically Godwyn's familiar, yet."

After leaving Runner-Bear's home, Balthilde and her granddaughters happened by a
missionary who was speaking to some younger natives, "So you see the deer your father
killed was for the greater good, and Jesus in kind allowed himself to die for the greater
good."

Goldwyn carrying the cat Herodias to be looked at the young natives, and thought back to
when they had been departing the old world to save their lives. Of a spanish lass maybe six
months older than Goldwyn with dark hair cut short almost like a boy's cut, being led along
by a clergy man in the opposite direction that the witchlings had been going. The two's
eyes had met for all of five seconds, both looking curiously and innocently at the other
with no prejudice or fear.

Goldwyn brain was struck by lightning and using the simplistic myopic logic of a child
realized the problem, 'Children start out nice, but become bad when they become adults,
so if they stay kids, they stay good.'

Glass Marie in her narative said, "The sisters first use of unfiltered magic on a
unsuspecting child their own age after seeing how nicer the child is relatively to the adult
and decided that the best way to keep the child nice was for her to never grow up. These
'acts of kindness' as they saw them in their minds had rather tragic results."

Goldwyn explained her plan to her sisters who were all equally delighted at the idea,
knowing they were doing a good deed.

While their mother had been working, the girls had begun their sublime task of what they
considered, nay, what they KNEW to be a genuine act of goodness, after all, they were
smart unlike the puritans, so of course they knew better, so of course their conclusions had
to be right.

They found a little boy playing alone behind his house barely old enough to be playing by
himself near a fountain (VERY expensive).

"Hello." Said Gita, the eldest.

"Ugh. Girls? Who are you?"

"I'm Grisele." "I'm Goldwyn and this is Princess." "And I'm Gita."

"I'm Joey! Now go away, I don't wanna play dolls with girls, mama only gave a bit to play."

"What if you didn't have to go inside? What if you could stay out here as long as you'd like,
would you like that?"

"Huh? Sure, that would sound fun but-"

"OKAY!" The three girls cheered together.

Herodias calmly let the flow of perception both third eye and otherwise flow around her
owner and her subject, it wouldn't do if the old woman or the native interfered at this
critical point on her master's destiny. She also ever so slightly filtered the infinite chaos
herself, her owner couldn't suffer prolonged exposure, just yet.

The boy's arms went slack at his sides, a grin appeared on his face as his eyes went glassy
as if in a fever dream. He stripped himself till he was bare naked, the girls giggling at the
sight of him and he didn't mind in the least, nothing minded him. His clothes were quickly
eaten up by the grass and he felt the irresistible urge to climb on top of the fountain that
his mother had strictly forbidden him of ever doing so. He then felt his legs fuse together,
and something impale him through one leg, but feeling no pain what so ever. He felt his
feet actually become one with the fountain, feeling the rest of the fountain as if it was a
part of him, or rather, he was a part of the fountain. He then began to pee right in front of
the girls, but only plain water came out. He never noticed that he had stopped moving or
lost the ability to move, only enjoying the endless feeling of the water rushing up through
him and then out of him. His body then turned faded green, water stains forming on his
body as it became stone the same age as the rest of the fountain.

"He is happy," Whispered, 'Princess,' ever so lowley, "You have done, you have done very
good." And so a child with a life ahead of him, was now just a piece of sculpted rock and
primitive piping with what had been a little boy's soul ingrained into the stone as part of
the creative process as all artists left a tiny fragment of their soul behind in their work.

The girls clapped and cheered at a job well done. The fountain smiling inward even more at
their applause. Grisele took notice of the flowers, it brightly colored, it reminded her of
the tulips she had seen in the old world. A minute or so later the little boy's sister had
come out not giving the fountain a second glance.

"Oh hello." She said politely curtsying her sun dress and tipping her large brim hat in their
direction.

"Hi!" The witchlings replied.

The girls introduced themselves, the little lady not asking what they were doing in her
family's backyard.

"Your flowers are very pretty." Said Grisele, they remind me of tulips.

"What are tulips?" The girl asked politely in return.

She and Grisele then spoke if the flowers both of them knew, and Grisele asking how she'd
like to spend more time with her precious flowers.

Five minute later a smiling naked jade statue of a little girl with an open hand for holding
live flowers decorated the garden as well with vines growing around it's legs to imply it had
been there for years.

The wolf Marie said, "Their grandmother would do her best to explain calmly and slowly
that what they did was cruel. If she found out past 'Princess' or rather Herodias' hiding the
girls' activities from her."

++++++++

The same year the girls' fled to the New World, before a young woman had lost her eye
destroying something that was neither alive nor human by anyone's definition, before the
loss of that eye had given her vision while her other eye still provided her with sight, a
little girl cried, her beautiful long black hair having been cut short.

"You should hate them."

Marie looked up from her tears and looked at the black cat sitting calmly staring at her not
an inch away.

"Huh?"

"Those adults, you should hate them. They say they have God's gift, God's favor, God's
word, but when your parents got sick, they couldn't save them, you parents got ugly,
twisted, then slowly died. And they couldn't save them. They failed you, failed your parents
you should hate them."

"But ... they saved me." Marie remembered the old man who saw how she was sick, and
thought she was going to spread the same sickness as everyone else even though she was
sneezing and wheezing, when her parents had been bleeding in places.

The old man whom her parents had owned their rent to tried to burn her along with the
bodies of her dead parents, when the man in the bird mask had knocked the old man out
with his cane and taken her from there, then the man had taken off the bird's mask, and
coat, and put on the robes of a man of the Church when they reached what Marie figured
was his home.

"You should hate them! Listen! These people couldn't save your parents or anyone! Why
bother with them! Run away from this place!"

"But, I have nowhere else to go,"

"Any place is better than this!"

"No."

The black cat hissed and snarled leapt close, "Listen here you stupid-"

Marie screamed in alarm at the black cat's sudden action and swatted it away, accidently
impaling it against a discarded poker. Marie cried out at realizing she had done.

The man who had saved her rushed into the room to see what was wrong. Seeing the black
cat he got a short recount from the little girl. He took the poker the cat was still impaled
on and dumped it out the window.

When they left the house, and she spotted some girls with an old lady she assumed was
their granny, looking so happy, they were a family, she envied them.

She looked at the man who had saved her. She had to ask. "Do you really have God's
favor?"

He looked at her wearing his mask, "No one has God's favor Marie, because we are all
precious to Him."


'Highly skilled. Unofficial. And expendable. In my own way, I'm precious to the Inquisition
as well.' Marie thought years later.

"Miss Cruz, if I may ask, what do you plan to do with these 'witches' if they really exist,
and if you're really able to find them, and you're really able to subdue them?" Asked a lanky
young man who looked like he had just earned his robes as a cleric.

Marie remembered the last thing her god father had ever said to her,

Her god father placed his hands on her shoulders and knelt down looking her in the
eyes, "Marie, God's universe is one based on truth, remember that if nothing else."

Marie turned to look at him with her good eye and smiled, "They'll face the one thing
people who despise order hate above all else: due process."


However, back when the three witches were still very much innocent,

"Roland, Harry, Tom, Adam, Jack, can you play with Miss Volksheer's girls this afternoon?"
Said Misses Wise.

++++++

Serenity sat on the couch of Trevor's family looking though their family album, stunned by
how thorough the changes in the books were from what it had to have been before.

Madam Serenity could not be transformed, be it were wolves, vampires, magic, or even, as
it seemed, revisions to existence, she was a fact, static on her road of life from birth till
death, reality could not touch her or her memories directly. This did however make
adapting things much more trouble, she and Gill were alike in that way with their
respective curses. She wondered how long Trevor had left until his memories of his former
life dissolved completely.

"So many lions, so many naked bodies." Serenity said to herself, she had nothing personal
against nudists, but the sheer number of naked people in the photo she knew were once
humans was still shaking. She saw one or two people she didn't recognize from the police
station or Mary's family... she guessed the 'plague' was already spreading even with the
majority currently 'quarantined' as they healed up. She saw them dressed up in a few
pictures, mostly formal ceremonies, (much like Smith manor looking ready to die of heat
exhaustion in a graduation gown). And another naked save for a vest and sandals at a
restaurant with a 'no shoes, no shirt, no service' policy, it was somewhat disorienting.
Another thing disorienting was how many was female.

Trevor was a male and thus very precious to the pride. Being the only male of ten cubs
made him even more precious. The pack on the other hand had five males pups out of
nineteen pups of the next generation. Given the unbalanced gender ratio, male births
being precious and multiple mates was perhaps inevitable.

There was picture with a gold star around it of Trevor's first baby picture. It was
surrounded by a similar photo of -Mary- and eight other female cubs. Serenity was
surprised to see photos of her in a family album of Trevor's family, she had no logical
reason to be there. But there she was all the same. Serenity wondered almost what
damaged this did to multiple family trees, except of course great-great-great
grandparents were still human.

Serenity actually gasped in shock in a faded black and white photo changed from a dirty
man in a workers uniform with a pick axe changed to a naked but still dirty lion man
holding a much larger pick axe. Serenity got a chilling feeling and put down the album (the
rest of the family either outside or in their rooms) and using stealth born of two life times
of detective work and found Trevor's little, now big sister Sabrina at her bed saying a
prayer that included her great-great-great-great-grandfather.

'At least that settles if they're life after death.' Serenity thought deadpan. 'I know
technically this case is closed, after all, Trevor is back with his family and his death clock
may or may not have been removed... I guess I should just try to relax for a couple of days
and put my alchemy to good use to make enough of the cure to dump into the city water
supply... hopefully the million 'Transform or Dares' people witnessed will be enough for
City Hall to accept that they can't pretend the curse doesn't exist and perhaps something
can be, have to be, done about it.

+++++++

Mother Glen easily tracked Penny's scent to Kirk's home, her sense of smell was so precise
some figured it must have driven her mad from the input, except her brain seemed
perfectly able to handle it. What honestly SCARED most people was how shoulder height
was enough was to push the button on the crosswalk.

The average female lioness was three and a half feet tall on all fours, Mother Glen, was
monstrously larger (as larger from a normal lioness as Mr P. was from a mundane wolf).
Many wondered how she managed to feed herself without wiping out populations. In spite
of such fears and having evolved from a species that ate it's own young (something they
themselves had abandoned some time before the first century), the leomen proved to be
quite civilized right down to a person.

Mother Glen glanced at a store selling wigs, rather amused, even after all these years she
still found it funny how human women wanted to have 'manes' like males. Some wolves had
hair, others didn't. But all the lionesses were 'balled.' She had left some confused lion cubs
on occasion addressing a she-wolf or human woman as 'Mr' seeing their long hair and
thinking 'mane.'

Everyone politely parted ways for the Pride matriarch. Mother Glen commanded respect just
as Jesen and Kaylee were alphas of the pack but Mr. P still commanded much respect in
spite of his bizarre four legged status (Jasmine swore she heard both occasionally speaking
casually to the Herd between hunts about daily trivialities). Some wondered if they were
evolutionary throw packs or some magically induced mutants, but whatever the case, the
power they held sway over their respective super families and thus resources made even
lawyers quake in their shoes.

When she made to Kirk's family home, some cats cowered before her, some dogs fled in
terror of her, but she for her part simply reached with her right forepaw and rang the
doorbell.

Jeff opened the door (it was the male's duty to protect territory after all) and immediately
bowered his head and bow low till he was looking at the ground, "Mother Glen, it's an
honor for you to visit one of your homes."

"My face is up here."

"Yes Mother Glen." The leoman looked up into her eyes, almost entranced by her sheer
presence.

For great cats, it was out with the old, in with the new, the elderly extra weight...
apparently somewhere along the lines of evolution these lions had learned from the apes.

"Announce me."

"Yes Mother Glen." Jeff then turned and shouted, "Honey! Son! Penny! Mother Glen is here!"

Gloria came in at once and bowed her head, Kirk followed, and started at what he saw.
Penny wheeled in her wheel chair, wonder what the fuss way. She started complete and her
jaw hanged open at what she saw.

'Impossible, is that-'

"Penny, my sweet girl, what happened to you?" The giant snow white lioness asked coming
closer to the wheelchair bound naked pale almost white beige lion woman.

"I had a fight with---" Penny and Kirk were both so far unaffected by the changes in
reality, being so far away from the rest of the pride and pack, so Penny had to think about
what to say, "--police business."

"Is that so." Her grandmother, or the giant lioness she was pretty sure could be her
grandmother said calmly, "So Kirk... I see you're yourself again... how did that miracle
happen?"

Kirk looked at himself, 'himself?' Should that be 'herself?' Getting used to having that
THING between his legs and missing some companions on top was going to (or so he
thought) take some getting used to. "That's... a secret." He said not sure what he could say
that wouldn't come across being crazy right now.

"PLEASE tell me you've already booked the church this time."

Penny responded without thinking, "AFTER I'm out of the wheelchair... I... I want to.... I
want to WALK down the isle," Being the bride opposed to the groom, Penny (or so she
thought) wondered how she'd deal with that.

"I could carry you." Mother Glen said simply.

"No." Penny said a moment after realizing her grandmother wasn't kidding. Where those
'tattoos' on her -grandmother-? How could you even HAVE tattoos on fur-?!

"As you wish dear. ..." She sniffed, "Where are Sonia and my son?"

"I... haven't told them yet." Penny admitted meekly.

"And why not?"

"I-I-" Just looking into those brownish red eyes made Penny feel confused and small, that
much of her grandmother hadn't changed in the least. "Just wanted to hold off on telling
them because so much of the pride is hurt that I didn't want things to get more confusing
and complicated!"

"I see." Mother Glen said in that same calm tone. "I'll just have to call them myself then,
then we'll have a nice chat."

"WHAT?!" Penny -really- really really really wished her wish didn't get MORE complicated
and confusing and overtly complex than it already was!~!!!

++++++++

With the tri-shiva wolves Joy and Ingrid helping Beta-Julie with the recovering pack and
pride (and needing every bit of help they could get as attendants fell asleep from
exhaustion much as Fran had), Martha and her three males and other female were in the
Omega's quarters that had grown in size and shape, like many rooms in the house lately
though none save maybe Amy noticed to include a few more beds. A few more, not six
more.

Martha lay among the three males like her, their solid color eyes looked upon each other as
those they had known for years.

Zelipe couldn't help but notice, being still vaguely aware the shadows had been humans
before due to his own power having been used to alter three of them, that the coloring of
the highlights of the shiva bore resemblance to that of the gem twin wolves... could it
really be? But Martha was Omega the one who never bred... as were apparently the other
shiva wolves. As a bit of irony, the term shiva itself supposedly represented a male entity,
but western pop culture depicted it as a female.

Martha sat 'among' her the three males like her, Much like Kaylee and her 'chair' (Kaylee
was no longer spiraling into alcoholism as she was in the original timeline after her
transformation, but she was still fully enjoying the privileges that came with being the
head of a super family like the pack). Kaylee's three sisters accepted this much as Megan
and Margot got the idea by themselves to make themselves into frozen yet living stone
statue as a birthday gift to their Alpha. Though Kaylee now didn't try to humiliate her
sisters through it nor did she rub it in their faces.

They still however, had the power of their moonlit dance a power they would logically have
if they were the same as Martha, though if reality had always been for Zelipe, the Glass
pups, and Martha's kind, how did they know their power could transform non-wolves into
more of their kind and an 'instant loyalty' to boot that was -supposedly- removed by Amy
and likely reality still hadn't finished extracting the price of such cheating for yet. They had
all seen the price Kurse had played for cheating... reality had no sense of good or evil, it
would not give a slap on the rest to someone else just cause their cause and results were
more selfless.

Ingrid and Joy had a strange form of 'collation' awareness between each of their three
heads, meaning each head had a separate brain wired to the other two each capable of
seemingly of following a separate trail of thought though all three responded to the same
name (did that make them separately J, O, Y, and In, Gr, Id?). On the other hand each of
Martha, Maddex and Ryan's two head had the same brain controlling two heads.

Whitney and Adul on the other hand unlike the other five shiva wolves had only one head,
making them seem strangely out of place among their fellow mutants. Abdul was even
odder in that he didn't have four arms, though he still had an extra something in addition
to his extra tail like all the male shiva wolves did.

Martha's bed became almost like a chair made of giant pillows, Maddex on her left, Ryan
on her right, both playing with two of her arms and one of her heads, while Abdul lay in
her lab almost on top of her. Almost. Martha had had a very tiring day, and her loyalty and
devotion to the pups was still as strong as steel and unbreakable and unquestionable and
she still lived solely to attend to the pups when Alpha Female Kaylee could not see to her
own pups. But now, duty, wasn't the only thing she lived for.

"Whitney."

"Yes Madam Martha?" The silver with red-orange highlights made a mime curtsey with two
of her arms putting the two two together as she bowed her one head and her tails lowered
behind her. Martha's third eyes on her with two were on Abdul and one each on Maddex
and Ryan.

"Please Take Master Zelipe and find Mistress Amy, with many injured in our house we can
not be sure they will all be housed in the medical wing, while I trust in Mistress Amy it is
best to still too keep an eye on her, she is spiritually aware and the ordeal may have had
unforeseen side effects on her, it our duty to Master Zackery and Mistress June to see after
her even as Madam Amethyst is looking after the gem twins."

"Of course Madam Martha... please come along Master Zelipe."

Zelipe, while very curious about what was about to likely happen next, he also realized he
was very worried about his sister just leaving the way she did, she also looked like she was
about to cry. As it was, he let Whitney lead him out of the Omega's chambers, and Martha
DARED allowed herself a short while to enjoy herself with her males.

+++++++

That the glass pups couldn't be harmed in the outside world left some debate if the girls
COULD get sick or weather they should be injected with vaccines in the mirror world, and
weather they should be injected from the outside world, or be injected with a reflection of
it so it turned to glass like they were in the world outside the mirror. So far the girls were
healthy enough, but the triplets like any concerned mother wanted such questions
answered fast. So naturally, things fell upon Julie, as the pack's doctor. She didn't want to
experiment on her own family... but upon learning about glass Marie, she hoped the girl's
mother could provide some health tips on how to give vaccine to her own child and nieces.
However right now the mangled pack and pride took top priority, much like the surgery on
the Japanese wolves had been put on the temporary back burner.

The wolves healing from the very costly battle on Big Island with alter-stabs, bruises, and
broken bones aplenty were Yomato, Chiyoye (who had to lay on he back and have support
for her much extra biologically impossible chest weight that were bigger than her pillow!),
Zack, June, Hope, Grace, Isebelle, Megan, Margot, Ashley. Alexandra, Nicole. Millie.

And that wasn't counting the pride who had been gored, mangled, impaled, mutilated,
vivisected, and violated for the sake of innocent lives at stake as was their duty as police
and being the danger to them had come from their home of Glendale... the fact the lions
had been more injured in spite of it not being -their- war had not been lost on the wolves
at all.

The lupmens were taller than almost any human, and the leomens were larger than almost
any lupman, and the gargoyles themselves were still a fantastically monstrous size in
comparison! Maybe it was a blessing that gargoyles in spite of their fantastically small
population -didn't- eat, Lupmen and Leomen required impressive almost startling
amounts of protein themselves as it was.

Leomen males were eleven foot tall while females were a nine foot tall, Jensen, the tallest
of the pack, on the other hand was nine feet tall and Kaylee seven feet tall. Was it any
wonder their children of both species were taller than the average human child of the same
age? This was one of the reason Jensen preferred home schooling and the pride was on
the fence on weather it was a good idea or not.

Thankfully for reality all the injuries received by Nicole's assault team against the Hardys
could be easily handed over to the chimeras, who realistically shouldn't have been push
overs like that anyhow. The one exception of course being Lawrence's dislocated arm due
to being on the island at the time since reality seemed for some unknown reason unable to
undo injuries.

Thus also on the mend to varying lengths though not quite as brutal were: Nick, Roger
(who had lost his eye during a scuffle between Jay and Pence which he had shown
surprising restraint himself though the boys had been spanked until their hide was as red
as their fur), Sarah, and would have included Ulysses if he was not busy on Big Bad Island
(who had a few bruises apparently from rough housing with Mary in this timeline).

Of course, in their broken shape, neither Megan nor Margot were in a position to offer up
their birthday present to Alpha Female Kaylee, and likely the town could be de-cursed by
the time they considered themselves presentable to their Alpha Female again as eternal
witnesses.

The entire police pack was there healing, save for Penny who was wheel chair bound at her
own home, and Kirk who had not taken part in the battle being with Penny waiting on the
news of the surgery to put her legs back together.

There WAS one hidden blessing to all this insanity, the members of the pride who had
spent years, decades and (in Miss Armisael's and possible Miss Mal'akh's case) centuries as
pieces of art, could now FINALLY after the insanity had calmed down begin reading on what
they had missed. Mal'akh was stunned at how large the united states was now. Armisael on
the other hand was just plain impressed, but what shocked her to the core was the news
about the civil war, and two WORLD WARS! And of course Armisael was very confused on
how there now seemed to be only two political parties from what she could gather.

Mal'akh threw up reading the part on the Holocaust and prayed it was just some sick joke
by one the nurses but no avail, Mal'Akh began to wonder if the devil really was Hell bent on
seeing the Jewish people vanished from the face of the Earth after all.

The chapter on the moon landing had sent nearly all the former statue lions for a loop.

Arael seemed to take it all with a great deal more stride... either that or she was just very
very good at hiding her emotions.

Gabriel was actually requesting old NEWS PAPERS, apparently trying to track down members
of his family still around if any... All four of them were strangers in a strange land after all,
they and the gallery wolves had that in common, after all, they had been sharing the same
room non-stop for centuries for some of them, they couldn't HELP but feel a strange sense
of brotherhood.

On the roof Amy looked up from what she had just written.

'Even in the new timeline the pack members were still restored from statues by my power
and ¸Zel-Kun's...but we could never ever free the lions... they'd have becomes wolves no
matter what... and Penny was the one there... but the rules of the game precisely say the
person had to SPEAK not think or write, SPEAK a reply to the game, and HAS to be able to
SPEAK when asked the question or the turn is wasted and deemed invalid because it was
one of the few things that you -couldn't- cheat the game on. Does this mean... Penny-San
now has the same power except for lions instead of for wolves like myself and Zel-Kun?
The power of love transformation is something the lions are becoming oblivious to
themselves... so it can't be that. But that would mean Penny-San would have had to used
her power to realize she had it... even if the quadruplets had sensed she had magic, like I
do and the shivas do... Penny would have used it before that to save Kirk-san... or rather
Kathy-chan when Kirk-san was still female before reality shifted... ' Amy wondered about
asking the wolf pup glass Marie she didn't know. But thought that if Penny-San did have
that sort of power, she didn't seem the kind to abuse it... besides... there would be enough
lions to think about soon enough...

"MISTRESS AMY GET DOWN FROM THERE THIS INSTANT!"

Amy sighed and looked down to see Whitney-San with her brother waving her arms at her.

"Coming." She said in an even voice, taking her scroll written in her own blood with her
making very sure it was dry and secure first.

++++++++++

Mary after returning from the visit to Big Bad Island and hugging her half sisters and tried
to stay with her mother and father but had been pushed out by the shiva nurses politely
but firmly. They needed all the space they could get and couldn't afford to have Mary
underfoot. When she tried to explain her knowledge in animal medicine (and thus wolves
and lions) she had been brushed off, no one had listened to her.

'You think with super smart kids like Bart and Jenny they'd believe me!' Mary thought very
frustrated and agitated. For now, Mary remembered both reality, though her existence as a
teenage human was now like a dream she had woken up from.

Mary had another problem... school... with the chaos of Kurse there had been a liable
excuse and of course there was the gruesome mangling of most of Mary's pride. The pride
of course would be on the mend for more than a day.
It wasn't like she could go home by herself now being eight 'If that's still my home and the
pride isn't going to turn into a nudist commune like the pack is.'

As it was, Mary it seemed was destine to simply sleep in one of the room of the big bad
wolf pack's manor, (which scared her knowing how much she'd likely never remember
again once she took that rest) and get up, and ask of the pack or call one of her family's
friends if they could take her to school... to see the friends she knew she had never met
but her second set of memories devouring her old memories told her had been her buddies
since first grade and thought she was really really cool for knowing so much about how to
help pets and even setting the bone of the broken leg of one of her friend's kitties... and
the friends she KNEW were supposed to be her friends but now had never met. Even if she
convinced her parents to skip some grades.. her chances of meeting them again were slim
to none.. it just wasn't fair.

Mary as it was wandered from room to room, observing the soap opera like goings on
inside the giant house (humongous by human terms) the doorless rooms giving her a clear
view, it seemed the wolves had little to no sense of privacy. "Then again they walk around
naked, what does privacy have to do with anything they do? What am I saying? I'm naked
too now." Mary looked down at her naked furry body, the same colored fur as her parents.
Had it really been the curse, or just the impulses of a selfish child that had inspired her to
start the entire pride? Yes... The pride was, for all intents and purposes her creation, that
maniac monster with a face to match his inside may have turned her into this... but she had
helped it along.. not that she had much choice when the wolf pack had been bearing down
on them to turn them into brainwashed devoted loving slaves of the Big Bad Wolf Jensen
himself and Trevor had bought them the precious time they needed to save themselves via
the game.

"And now none of that happened, Trevor was braver than a adult of adult men I know...
and no one is going to remember it, not me, not him...." Mary sighed as she continued her
aimless wandering through the mansion, her ears perking the sound of laughter outside of
the girls she remembered being her half-sisters, and not being the least ashamed of her
father having mated with another female and thinking of Elise herself as a second mother.

Ironically, on her first day back at school, a little boy named Billy would tell Mary she was
very pretty, she would kill on the check telling him he was nice to say that, and Billy's
clothes would dissolve turning into shorts, then underwear, then nothing, becoming a
bright orange lion boy with no sense of shame or modesty who'd go on to tell his parents
about a girl kissing him that would transform them, and so it would cascade also with the
pack's own loved ones.

Even then though, both Alice and Marie had figured it would take over a thousand years for
the complete conversion of the human race even if the power was inherited and did NOT
die out with the first generation or second generation.

++++++

Jensen and Kaylee, the alphas of the Big Bad Wolf pack named after a less than honorable
ancestor and possibly mythical sleep in the gigantic and grandiose decorated master
bedroom recovering from the ordeal of the battle of Big Bad Island.

Fran slept where she had laid down, her fur keeping her warm as her triplets Darla and
Julie sensing her dreams, and finding the image of one of them just being a stranger and
two of them being husband and wife just plain weird and very unappealing.

Mr. P found Chester pigging out in the meat locker and sent the tiny dog out, and then
went outside himself only to get soaked in the cross fire as Chester had a moment before
from the water games.

Martha in her quarters right next to the cub's bedroom enjoyed a moment's rest and the
pleasurable company of her males Maddex, Ryan and Abdul.

The tri-shivas Ingrid and Joy worked tirelessly but happily and dauntless to look after the
brave wolves and lions who had distracted Kurse long enough to save the twins and
passengers, along with those who had defended the mansion fro the deadly Chimeras.

Whitney was besides herself trying to figure out how Mistress Amy had gotten up there to
begin with while Zelipe simply silently watched his sister. The little white wolf whose red
marks looked brush strokes holding her normal calm but serene demeanor.

Bart, Jenny, Kevin and Marcy, the pubs of Kaylee and Jensen, slept silently sleeping the time
away, perhaps for the better giving the chaos and confusion around them. Pretty much NO
ONE WHAT SO EVER, had gotten a wink of sleep last night after the all day (and thus all
night in Glendale) battle on Big Bad Island.

Gill himself was sleeping a entire all-nighter from dusk till dawn on the events around Big
Bad Island the mutation of so many of his men via the curse... just being glade the priest
brothers had the spark of intelligence to finally bring their rediscovered cure foreword to
end the evil thing once and for all. He drank some scotch he had been saving.

Roger, not as badly hurt as others, had helped in spite of the protests of Fran, and had
finally to his room and fallen asleep even before he had hit the bed, rather selfless
consider besides the gallery wolves he was the only one whose mates hadn't been harmed
technically from the whole conflict, his precious Amethyst being apparently unharmed from
her ordeal with Kurse... that purple colored woman was like tempered STEEL surrounded by
cotton-candy.

Pearl, Beatrice, Anne, Terri, Jasmine, Akane, Umeko, Eri, were practically mindless drones
as the triplets and the nurses simply told them what to do, having gone so long her upper
brain functions had nearly shut off and now simply did as they were told almost like
robots, but they endured and pressed on, these were their mates and sister-wives after all!

Alexandra stayed silent, her sense of duty to heal as quickly as possible to once again
serve Master Jensen remaining as strong as iron no matter what changes to reality might
happen. Nicole failed in her latest attempt to escape her hospital bed. Nick enjoyed the
sight. Isabelle simply chatted with her sisters, they may not have the same mate, but they
were still siblings after all, one could have more than ONE bound after all.

Pearl assured Zack and June that their children were okay (yes, THEIR children, even if Amy
was related to Pearl by blood she was still Zackery's child and that was good enough for
Pearl even if the four of them were a mix of different theologies).

Chiyoye endured as a ninja would, as did Yamato, as a samurai would, their heritages
being a rather large irony since ninjas and samurai had actually been NATURAL enemies
when they had been prevalent in Japan due to opposing origins, places in culture,
methods, and goals.

Millie just sat and read the comics that felt natural for the new teenage wolf to read... her
time as an adult male human feeling more and more like some odd fantasy as much as
being an adult wolf woman wondering if Maxine and Robyn had it easier where they were.

Robert, along with Wendy, Jessica, and Rose gave a big sigh of relief as the final buck was
bought into the mirror world... now came the does... they weren't sure if that was going to
be harder or easier.

Betty, her (now regretfully muscular like Roger) nephew Lawrence, and the twins Casandra
and Lilly listened intently to the blond and blue eyed (but not the same as Alice and her
siblings though she wore a re-coloring of their dress) Marie's tale, in the world within
mirrors inside now the living room reflection of the mansion (missing the giant bronze
statue she-wolf due to it never being reflected).

Ulysses, Robyn, Maxine, Coral, Amber, Tourmaline, Opal, Caroline/Cobalt (some whispered
she had a split personality but nothing was proven), Ruby, Emerald and Garnet did her best
to appear non-hostile to the does now that bucks were gone...

Trinity and Kimberly bumped into each other, the two single gallery wolves quickly drafted
into helping out the very injured wolf pack and pride. Maybe a hospital might have been
more logical, but Julie was as good as they came and was specialized in their kind, and
most o them were in no shape to be moved (in spite of Nicole's protests otherwise.... she
had thrown a fit when she though her red ribbon around her ear was lost until Nick found
it.. she fell in love with him all over again after that). Kimberly picking up the nurses'
instructions with amazing quickness. Trinity wished that five the gallery wolves hadn't
chosen to chicken out on life!

Luna and Sunny were now working the kitchen, trying to figure out which members of the
pack and pride didn't need to eat through a straw for a while.. finding Chester's thievery
gave the two newest members of the pack another headache.

As for Sarah, she had fallen asleep on her feet and still standing up. Beatrice had been the
one to take her to her room after realizing she wasn't just standing around thinking about
her adopted younger brother again. Her talent at healing the mind would have to come
after the triplets and nurses had finished patching up the bodies.

As Mbili and Toni continued to splash each other playfully in the fountain (the closet thing
the pack had to a pool) the water war continued between lion and wolf while Paula and
Saba continued their self taught one-on-one wresting game.

The sides even with Jay, Pence, Giselle Gretchen, Laura and Zulema on one side ; and
Moja, Tatuli, Neli, Tano, Sita, and Nane on the other.

Kira seemed content to be where she was right now, even if all the action was happening
in the medical wing, she didn't feel like moving and likely being caught while a non-statue
and being impressed into service. A bit selfish maybe, but she never claimed to be perfect.

Michelle on the other hand snuck into the medical wing with no one noticing her, and
assumed a yoga pose on a table, and became a glass orange red swirl colored statue about
one third to scale... and began to sooth the nightmares and dreams of those recovering as
they rested as her mind reached out. She had made her choice on what she was, but that
didn't mean she couldn't contribute.

Leslie, Helen, and Nelson on the other hand just observed the pup and cub in their basin
with amusement, adjusting their spray ever so sublime to hit them on occasion to have
their own fun as they had theirs.

Gary, and Brian as they recovered mourned the loss of their mates, even if Elise was not
Brian's prime mate, she was still the mother of his children as Felicity was (who had come
to see Elise as a sister-wife). All however, did have a dream of Elise and Fox telling them
that through their children, they would always be with their prime mates.

Arael, Armisael, Mal'akh, and Gabriel spoke to each over about the changes in the world
since they statue-hood and not knowing much beyond the gallery's walls. All hoped their
statue-mate Kirk was okay, and through him, Penny as well, none of them had heard word
if the operation had been successful or not yet.

The lioness Sasha, wished that she could fall asleep as easily Sarah had, but in spite of
herself all she could due was stared at the ceiling unable to concentrate to boot.

Mary attract by the noise (in spite of being tired herself), saw the water war, noticed Toni
and Mbili's discard squirt guns both still somewhat loaded, and joined in the havoc
wielding duel pistols, knowing she had nothing left to lose.

Mother Glen lounged in the den, a spot like in all the houses that pride own set aside
purely on the off chance she'd visit, satisfied when Penny's parents finally arrived. Kirk
looked at Penny in her wheel chair who looked back, both still aware of the mutation about
to be visited upon Penny's parents but knowing there was no way around it and prepared
to take their last good look at them as humans (ironically, Penny realized that she HOPED
her parents mutated... if they didn't, it meant either she didn't really love them, or they
didn't really love her...)

Kirk's parents Jeff and Gloria greeted Penny's parents with perfect politeness as the for the
moment humans didn't even so much as blink oddly as the naked giant lion people who
claimed to be 'Kathy's' parents.

Jacob and Marie were very quickly restoring Trevor's room, they couldn't leave it precise as
he had left it, they did have that dang moth problem! As for Trevor... he was playing catch
up with his sister... via Smash Brothers on the Wii... and managed to prove he still had it! ...
Sarbina 'Nala' added shyly if only he could do that good in the pack pride pub/cub smash
tournament...

Madam Serenity looked up from her research and smiled, 'At least they're happy....'

The golden beige lioness Bobbi, her memory of being a male human Bob fading like a
dream, but still having been cursed to do... some rather unpleasant things via the game
and having used it curse a serial kidnapper who had gotten off due to the court ignoring
the existence of the game still hard in her memory. 'Gotta learn to think before acting
girl... That's how you missed out on being Gary's prime...'

Bernie thought as she turned on her stomach to led the very painful disinfectant to be
applied to the giant claw marks on her back again, 'OW! UGH! Maybe if I had been in just a
tiny better shape I wouldn't be in this sorry state.' She really did need to join the other
lionesses in hunting more often then just going out... hunting was her duty as a lioness
after all...

The white and gold highlights lioness MJ did her best just to SLEEP. She needed, heck, the
all needed it, and it was less annoying than the Spider-Man comics she kept getting
handed (which she actually hated way too depressing, she preferred Avengers featuring the
Scarlet Witch). It almost made her wish her mother had named her Wanda instead of her
teammate....

Lexi's dark gold fur barely showed the blood, making cleaning a somewhat harder task for
her. Of course, like all the lionesses, they had to resist the urge to clean THEMSELVES,
which would only lead to more trouble, and while they had no animosity with her and the
pack (the fact they had been created to counter them dissolving in their minds) leaving
themselves vulnerable like this.... wasn't exactly something that they had much choice in
right now anyway. 'Maybe we SHOULD have started carrying guns after all... even if it
would have been just uber tranquilizers this trip...after this, I don't think criminal will be as
psychologically weak against us if word about us getting mangled like this gets out...' Duty
came before everything after all... maybe she should try to chat with that Alexandra girl.

Nilie's yellowish beige fur was brown and red when she had been brought in she was so
covered in blood (about half of it her own), MJ said she had gone bonkers and nearly
suicidal in her attacks after Fox and Elise had apparently been killed. Then again, Nillie had
never taken loss all that well, she had been proud of how she had never lost anyone on any
job or mission... now that record was broken forever...


The beige/brown lioness whose name was also Megan was out of the natural curiosity that
came with being a cat (making her think Alice and her sisters should have been born
females) and when two such people meet, began striking up a discussion with the pastel
green wolf Megan... it surprised the lioness how Megan was perfectly willing to turn herself
into a piece of rock just as a gift to her alpha female and STILL loved her brother just as she
loved her mate the intellectual Lawrence. She actually blamed herself for not helping them
through their feelings of inadequacies apparently and just letting them think muscles made
them more worthy as wolves... 'At least that girl Sarah doesn't try to pass herself as a
LICENSED psychiatrist..' The Megan lioness thought.

The lioness Wanda whose fur was light and dark red, 'And mother said I was crazy for
studying the occult... so all the magic books I bought turned out to be meaningless
garbage, and my mother began wishing she had named me Lisa instead after my -other-
grandma... but at least after all this, no one's going to doubt or pretend the game doesn't
exist ever again...'

What do you do now?

• --So What of the family the pack had originally that wasn't TFed? A added 13 years ago

• --Kathy's letter to Trevor (if she can find him)
• --Trinity becomes male to balance out reality
• --How does the pride differ from humans and lupmans?
• --What's the full story of Jack and Mercy?
• -- What is GIll's curse?
• --Feedback loop with the Messiah causes all christians to be lions?
• -More side effects of cheating reality
• --What's a foursome with shiva wolves LIKE-?! Hmm?
• -- Marie Cruz meets a forth Merlin 'man of the woods'

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