In 1675.
The bobcat hated the wolves that went on two legs, hated them, hate them, hated them!
Wolves had never been in this part of the world until those two legged wolves arrived and
began to muscle out other top predators. The bobcat loathed their presence, but there was
nothing to be done about them... Some babcats had tried, and even without the cheating
of the arrows from humans, these two legged beasts proved their superior. Yes, the
bobcats hated them so dearly!
The bobcats hadn't exactly been able to get a hold of Gold Deer all that often before, but
now it had become absolutely impossible!
The bobcat hated them all, two legged freaks of nature. The bobcats had many enemies,
coyotes, wolves, also saw them as 'business rivals' that needed to be eliminated.
Hunting past midnight, which in of itself was unnatural, the beast smelled some small
humans, and a few other scents he didn't know, but didn't care.
He found them, standing clear in view, no adults in sight or smell, standing up straight
ready to be knocked over under a full moon: these creatures were begging to die! He saw
and smelled the bird, snake, and cat they were holding.
But unlike the house pet one of them was holding, the Bobcat's body was almost
completely solid muscle!
He came slowly to them against the wind. One of the girls finally noticed his glowing eyes
and saw them, the one with the cat, and smiled and waved making friendly noises. He
guessed she thought he was no different from the round in the belly feline loafer in her
arms. Too bad for her.
He leapt, snarling, fanged bared, the girl fell backwards on her own... only now did he
notice she was missing an eye... It was like in the split second before he leapt she -knew-
what was going to happen, but that was impossible!
Oh well, instead he landed on the blond girl with the snake around one arm, the snake
had to be weak and cowardly or it wouldn't be around a human. He landed hard against
the human child and she fell back the wind knocked out of her. The bobcat was going to
enjoy this. Then like lightning he felt something wrap around his neck. He tried to claw at
it but his forelegs weren't built for such a feat and drew blood but couldn't get a good
swipe. That was when the bird from before began pecking at his face! What was this?! This
wasn't natural! Therefore it couldn't be happening!
He rolled off the girl, his lungs screaming for air, he felt bones beginning to crack, he had
to breath! He had to breath! He blacked out.
Gita got up scared looking at the unconscious wild cat as Daisy slithered off him and back
to her, claw marks on her long body. Solome flew back to Grissele.
At once Gita used her magic in a way she had only once before and actually -healed-.
Scales and muscles reconnected themselves, and Gita felt the backwash at the alien use of
her magic and struck her dizzy, and she knew, she knew! A look of recognition filled her
eyes as she embraced the serpent.
"Your real name... it's Lilith."
"Yes Mistress... that is my true name..." And Gita felt everything Lilith was, her embracing,
the taste in the air, the coldness in the air being the same coldness within, the discomfort
of being in a skin one size too small when shedding... Gita felt it all.
Gita saw the bobcat with it's bruised and damaged neck. One thought crossed Master and
Familiar's minds.
Lilith's eyes glowed, and Gita used her newfound power with perfect precisions. The
bobcat felt himself feeling stronger, fresher, injuries healing, at the same time, like his
muscles were getting punier... that didn't matter so much, cause soon he felt he was
someplace warm and wet that kept pushing him further along... like returning to mommy's
womb.
Grissele petted Solome while Goldwyn and Princess looked on with straight satisfied faces
as the bobcat cub was swallowed whole, and was soon nothing more than a bulge in
Lilith's body.
Both Princess and Goldwyn felt no pity, no empathy, only a grim satisfaction as the animal
was punished for hurting her sister and her sister's familiar. The two looked at each other,
"Do you want to look away?" Goldwyn asked, "He is a cat."
"We are NOT the same! He's a wild animal. I am a Felis, he's a Lynx, I am better than him!"
Goldwyn thought of all the adults who thought they knew better, of all the adults who
would never take the direct solution, who would never do something unless it was within
the rules, always molding children of the next generation into clones of them... 'I'm better
than them too!'
And that was when it clicked. "Princess! Your one true real name! It's Herodias!"
"Yes! Yes Mistress It is! I am Herodias! I am so glade you finally know! And I am so glade
that your sisters are now connected to their familiars! They can help you for a while..."
Goldwyn wondered what she meant, but she felt something different about Herodias
somehow, something that seemed slightly off.
"I found a nice male tabby around Glendale owned by one of the priests named Barabbas.
Sorry I did not inform you of him my Mistress... But I do believe I am now carrying his
kittens... " Herodias was also glade the connection was now made, Herodias for a cat was
now reaching middle age, but now connected to her Master her lifespan and thus her
service to her Master would extend so she might continue to serve them.
Goldwyn hugged her, but carefully, "Oh that's wonderful news Herodias! That's wonderful!"
At the same time, Golwyn had a want, no a need! She needed to test her new combined
link with Herodias. She looked at Gita and hew she wanted to test her newfound focus and
precision with Lilith. Right now!
Sadly being past one in the morning, the girls would have absolutely no luck in hunting
down a person to be awake at this hour to test their magic on. Of course for Goldwyn and
Gita, that just meant tomorrow morning would be entertaining indeed.
"Faries!" Gita declared.
"Dolls!" Goldwyn returned.
"Fairy Dolls?" Griselle offered as a compromise.
Her two older sisters looked at each other and said as one, "Naw."
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Winter of 1675
Now letting her hair begin to grow out, and now dyed blond instead of her natural black,
Marie Cruz shuddered at what she heard on the other side of the arches that divided the
path she was on.
"Draco Fire? What kind of silly name is THAT for a dragon? Draco means 'dragon' and 'fire'
how unimaginative can you get-?!"
Marie felt sick inside as she thought, 'You don't know him.'
"I didn't have a choice in the name was given." Came a low voice, almost like a grunt.
Two other choir boys were talking to the lad whose visible flesh was covered in bandages,
complete with a small turban on top of his head and a cloth mask over his mouth. Of
course he wore much the same outfit as the lads speaking at him.
Marie knew the story, 'Dragons are normally known for having over the top names that get
more over the top as they get older...' To another dragon, Draco's name would translate as
'Less Than Nothing' for it's simplicity and unremarkability. 'Draco was handed off to the
church as a throw away peace offering when he was still in the egg...'
Marie's basic desire to climb over the stone barrier (it was only six feet tall, easy for her)
and tells these boys to leave him alone... But if she did that, there was a good chance they
might still recognize 'Maurice.'
So Marie bit her lip and fought down the fowl tasting bile as she stood there as Draco took
the taunting without so much as a twitch and continued on his way.
'Draco I'm sorry...'
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Glass Marie's relatively large audience of Lawrence, Betty, Samantha, Maddex and his
daughters, and Lilly and Casandra listened intently, none of them the least bit tired,
sleepy, or hungry. Police Chief Gillie was likely to explain to the pack's various employers
and employees that the Big Bad Pack was involved in a police operation to save the world
and would with proper prodding grant them the leave they needed all to recover and to
look after their loved ones until that time.
All of her audience listening with attentive ears on the origin of the curse of Geldnale
'Transform or Dare.'
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Tabitha hoped Wanda was alright. Her roommate hadn't come home from duty that night,
or the night before. Of course Wanda was with the police, so that made her worry all the
more. Of course she called the police station, but first they told it was 'police business'
and then that 'she was recovering from severe injuries received in the line of duty.'
Tabitha of course was now double worried, and on TOP of that, she had been turned into
an insane Rihno-Woman with Six Breasts by the out of control Game of Glendale
apparently being very real (she'd have to apologize to Wanda about that) and being
returned to a normal human being when 'Kurse' was apparently destroyed.
Tabitha was NOT sorry to no longer be a giant gray skinned creature with all the sanity of
a bag of jellybeans. And she was all the more worried about Wanda.
"Of course, I can't exactly lie and say I'm her sister... and trying to lie about being her
dewring (pronounced dew-ring, word for female/female union) would be even more
obvious a lie, we're not even the same species, and I'm not that good an actress. Okay, I
like Wanda, but I don't swing that way, I guess in a way it's MORE comfortable to be
around her since no one gives the couple jokes since we're different species... I'm not a
furry and she wouldn't turn me on anyway. I was into fantasy because it offers an escape,
Wanda's into fantasy hoping one tiny bit of it will turn out to be real... I guess she wins out
on this one... "
Of course in a reality where lion people and wolf people were real, the furry fandom
offered much less of an escape for human beings seeking an ideal, and thus was
considerably smaller, but ironically the ones who remained were more accepted.
In the old timeline, Wade had been rather impulsive, not really thinking how the change in
species would work out, let alone gender, and just how permanent it would all be.
Tabitha 'Tabby' (yes she was aware of the joke) walked around the apartment, it was an
odd mix and match since the two of them needed different sized items of most of
everything. On the other hand this created an easily balance between the two since neither
really used the other's stuff without permission. Besides, Wanda was always polite and
considerate with her. If she was a guy Tabby would call her a perfect gentleman.
Tabby remembered one year at high school prom where Wanda was worn a mane wig to
pass as a male and be her date at the prom when Tabby was dateless due to bad luck, and
their performance had been passible enough to get them to the runners-up at the 'Prom
King and Queen' competition. Tabby was VERY glade that one had never become public
knowledge.
Wanda looked around the two person apartment again, "This place feels so empty without
her... Okay, that's it, I'm going down to the station tomorrow morning and demanding they
tell me where the person who pays half my rent is bedded up!"
That was when the phone rang. Tabby calmed herself out of her melodrama and picked it
up.
On the other end a woman introduced herself as one of Wanda's friends whose name was
familiar. Tabby explained Wanda was out, and the woman asked some simple questions of
where she was. Tabby answered she had no idea and after being told about trying to get in
contact with one of Wanda's pridemates they didn't know by name, Tabby suggested they
send the letter to the police station, since the pride there would pick it up and be able to
give to Wanda who'd be able to hand it over to the pride member the woman was looking
for her. The two said polite goodbyes and hung up, and Tabby went to bed wondering
when she'd get to interact with her best friend again.
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"You know... " Father Mike said, "If we are going to go with your method, in order to retain
it's potency we're going to need more than we can produce with the stocks of materials we
have."
Father Paul signed, 'Already. On. Order. Be. Here. By Time. We Are Done. With. What. We.
Have.'
"I love you brother..." Father Mike breathed out. Serenity also hugged the ape. Judas
purred and rubbed against his big orange fur.
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The now four grinning busty fountain heads sat now in the quiet of the night. Kira
thought to the others, 'Well, that was fun. And while us all being the same really does give
me a nice sense of wholeness togetherness and all the other things I sure our triplets feel,
I think with Michelle gone the spell is kinda broken and I'm gonna head back to the entry
way... hey Nessie.'
'Yes?'
'As long as you're being a girl, I think I'll try at being a guy for a bit.' Kira thought.
'Okay Kira, as you wish.' Nessie thought, none of the statues had bothered to ask Kira how
she got a name like that considering she had been stone for 200 years and they weren't
sure Japanese were even part of America yet.'
'Thanks for understanding guys.'
Helen thought, 'If we tried to force you to stay in a form you didn't like, we'd be no
different from the bastards who left us not able to even goodbye to our families...'
Kira disconnected from the water system, the pipes vanishing from her rear and those
inside her becoming flesh and blood for the moment. The very dark brown female's
breasts shrank down as she assumed what was more or less her default form as her
features became more unique from that of her fellow art. In the empty front lawn she gave
her fellow souled-art a salute and calmly walked into the entry way though the mansion's
double doors.
'Looks kinda empty without me... well, that's about to be fixed.'
Assuming a more sitting pose than before, Kira's body became bronze as she stepped into
position. Her body grew and grew, becoming as tall as a leoman and beyond as her chest
flattened out, her shoulders became broader and her hips thinner her tail keeping it's low
angle. Then of course her reproductive organs inverted on themselves and went into a
protective sheath. Her, his body completely bronze he dominated the room becoming tall
enough that he'd bump the double floor ceiling if he stood up. The wires and the controls
for the gate and intercom appeared on a hatch at his backside. He was then wired into
the city's home's and thus the city's power grid.
'Heh, look at me mommy I'm Zeus!' Kira thought, of course he didn't really bear any actual
resemblance to the greek god, but the pose was similar somewhat to one of Zeus' many
statues.
Sunny and Luna walked into the entryway, looking exhasted, "And I thought WE ate a lot."
Luna lamented.
"We eat normal, they eat a lot." Sunny retorted.
"Everything is relative."
"I knew the hurt Pride are sleeping the medical wing by default, but what about everyone
else?"
Luna thought about it as they sat down in front of the massive bronze lupman statue
without so much as a glance.
"Well, Mother Glen doesn't have a day job. So she can stay freely. But the others I'm sure
are going to have to call in to tell their bosses that they won't be coming in tomorrow, not
all the Pride are in the police you know. Though given what's happened to the
quadruplets, I doubt anyone is going to complain about them missing a few days of
school. And Mary, you know how bright she is? She's not as smart as Bart and Jenny, but
still, that girl could be high school and fit right in."
Sunny shook her head, "I seriously doubt she'd 'fit right in.' Her ninth birthday is next
month."
Luna tilted her head, "You know that?"
Sunny shrugged, "I like to take notes about people."
Luna nodded, "Right."
"But seriously, where are they going to stay?"
Luna went through it in her head, "The cubs will likely go into the pups bedroom for a
while. The rest can rest in some of the guest rooms I'm guessing... speaking of which, I'm
too tired to go our bedroom tonight, do you think anyone will complain too much if we
just conk out here?"
"Are you kidding?" Sunny said and then yawned, "That seems to be what the majority of
the Pack is doing anyway! Two more or two less aren't going to make a difference."
Luna shrugged at that.
Kira made a modification to his body inspired from species of marsupials and the omegas.
Sunny turned her head and looked at the statue, if she couldn't have lupman perfection in
Alpha-Jensen she could at least look at the ideal version.
"Hey Luna."
"Yes Sunny?"
"Take a look at the statue."
Luna did as she was asked.
"Doesn't it look odd to you? The statue?"
"Now that you mention it... maybe a little... but it's had the double pistols since Alpha-
Kaylee had it commissioned and built."
"Personally I think it's her way of balancing out the bouncy ladies outside."
"Agreed... But I'm serious, doesn't it seem to be missing something?"
Both lady lupmans stood up, slowly made their way to the giant statue.
Sunny suggested, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Luna cringed, "Alpha Kaylee would kill us."
"She didn't kill us for making advances at Alpha Jensen."
"No but she came very close to mauling us! We were just lucky that we ran faster than her
until she calmed down! And I need I remind you that was YOUR idea too! I went along just
so you wouldn't get your head bitten off."
"I knew you cared Luna."
"I always have Sunny. You're my best friend. What did you expect?"
"Come on, they wouldn't fit us anyway, let's just touch'em for a bit so we can say we have."
"Oh all right..."
Luna reached out and touched one of the unsheathed pieces of bronze. Sunny did the
same with less hesitation and worry.
"There." Luna said simply.
"You know..." Sunny said, "I we might be able to fit after all..."
"Come on Sunny! This is going too far!"
"Oh lighten up Luna, I know you want to."
"No I don't."
"But just LOOK AT IT! Isn't something seriously wrong? You can't tell me you don't feel it
too! Tell what what feels wrong!"
Luna did look, and it clicked her mind like a flood gate, "We.... WE'RE WHAT'S MISSING!"
The two lady lupman at once began to position themselves on the metal shafts, as they
began to grow to sizes that would make even a leoman tremble and should have caused
their spines to break in two from the added weight. However their complex almost artistic
fur patterns quickly became shinny and darkened to a bronze as they grew to be as
gigantic as the statue and mounted themselves.
Bliss washed through both of them as they mirrored each other, placing one leg on the
inside of the statue's thighs and putting a hand on the opposite end of the statue' neck
and turned a loving smile at him the rest of their bodies proudly on display foreword to
anyone who saw them. Wiring went through their bodies as they turned to otherwise
bronze as up their throats were a speaker filled their throats hidden from view in the dark
recesses of their mouthes.
They were connected to the estate's power grid, and thus the city's power grid, and thus
they were connected to Glendale herself. Herself? Yes, herself.
All was silent in the entry way of the three giant lupman statues.
Pleasure continued to flow through the two 'new' statues.
'You're welcome ladies.'
'WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?' Luna wondered in her mind.
'Don't worry,' Said the male voice that echoed in their thoughts, or were they echoing in
his thoughts? 'Being connected to the power grid really does give a great sense of
interconnection to Glendale herself, yeah I'm pretty sure Glendale is a lady, blame it on
sailors calling their ships 'she' all the time.'
Luna thought as Sunny was still humming to herself, 'What is this... you.. you're the
statue...'
'We're the statue you mean.' Thought the male voice, 'The name's Kira, I'm pretty sure that
can be a guy's name. Don't ask. If you chose to leave the perception camouflage you'll
mostly remember just an odd dream.'
'Perception what now?' Luna asked.
Kira then went a calm explanation to the nature of his abilities, exempting certain details
unless asked, and introduced the others.
'You're all alive?!' Sunny thought in amazement.
Nessie explained, 'Alive as anything is... only the spiritually aware really seem to
remember their time with us in detail...'
'So why us?' Luna asked.
'You were close by, the things you mentioned got my interest, so I invited your
subconscious, you accepted subconsciously, and the rest followed... Besides.... Alpha
Jensen is a dunce for not noticing two lovelies like you.'
Sunny blushed in her mind, 'You're not just saying that?'
'Souled artwork's honor I mean it. And you two have no direct family outside of the pack.
No mates. No pups. Your only real friends are each other. And you got a taste of the
lifestyle I heard from the battle on Big Bad Island. So I thought I'd show it to you civilized
like opposed to the jackass hacks who call themselves artists who kidnap, enslave and sell
people.'
'So... no one will notice while we're gone... no matter how long?' Luna asked thinking
objectively.
'So far. We haven't tested it long term really on what would happen if you step back out of
our world and back into theirs after you stay like this for say years.'
'Years?'
'We have eternity to watch through since we can renew ourselves if we ever begin to wear
down from the elements if we chose to.'
Luna asked, 'How can you live like this?'
'The sense of peace. The sense of detachment and reason that comes from being an
outside observer. Being the ultimate eternal witness. Knowing you won't outlive your
closest buddies. I thought of making myself a relief at a theater so I could see movies for
free until my packmates pointed out that would be stealing. This lifestyle comes with it's
costs, oh yeah it does, but it has a few decent trade ins too.'
'We have responsibilities.' Luna said.
'And this is ours. What WOULD be cheating if we were just art when there was work to be
done and weren't art when there was just play to be done. Connected like this I can feel
both your emotions, I can tell Sunny you find this entire thing exciting and interesting and
maybe that big break you wanted... and yeah, I can make myself appear like Alpha-Jensen
if you like, though I think you'd have to make yourself look like Alpha-Kaylee so she
wouldn't get mad.'
'Make ourselves?' Sunny asked, 'You mean we can alter ourselves now too?'
'The longer your connected, the longer I think the magic of ours rubs off on you. Or we
think so, we haven't worked out all the details yet.' Kira admitted.
'Luna!' Sunny declared.
'Yes?'
Sunny said almost sultry. 'I can tell you find this kinda enticing too...'
'Maybe, but I'd rather not make this kind of decision until the pack WASN'T low on work
hands to help things along until we're all healed.'
'Can we come back here after we leave?' Sunny asked.
'I don't see why not.' Kira admitted, 'And I can wait ten thousand years for you lovely
ladies, since I don't have any mates or sister-wives technically, I'll even keep this form
until you decide one way or another... but... can you please at least try it out for the night?
You were too tired to go back to your rooms anyway, consider it a trial run.'
Luna thought about it, 'Okay.'
Sunny thought, 'Luna! Look inside my mind! I have a great idea! This is going to be great!'
A minute later, the two female bronze statues turned to gold (Sunny) and silver (Luna) and
a sun outline formed out of the back of the gold one, and a crescent moon outline from
the silver statue. Their bellies grew slightly larger as if they were in the first few months of
pregnancy then opened up revealing a clock face on each other. The clock face on the gold
one not only showed the time and the relative position of the sun, but had a slower hand
to show solar eclipses. The giant clock-face in the belly of the silver one also showed the
time and date, along with the pattern of lunar eclipses. Both grew long hair that came over
their shoulders almost covering their breasts but not quite (which remained the same
size).
'You're a regular Athena and Aphrodite!'
'Which of us is which?' Luna asked mentally smiling getting in the spirit of things.
'I'll leave that for you two lovelies to decide.'
Both girls found they loved the sense of purposing and belonging that came from Sunny's
idea, and somewhere in the back of their minds, they felt as if their spiritual presence in
their current form made the estate a little more efficient... that was a good thing with so
many hurt and needing attention right?
Both of their minds leaned against Kira's and rested waiting till morning.
Leaning on each other's shoulders, a yellow and white, and a pink and white lupman came
into the entry foyer next crossing to the other side of the mansion. Both looked up at the
statue.
"Oh Kira you didn't..." Kimberly said.
".... Wanna rest here and join in?" Trinity found herself asking.
"No way, we pink she-wolves are a precious resources, like red-heads and humans. I'm
not risking getting to like that lifestyle!"
"Too bad, it would make a full sub-pack if you did... can you make it to your room alone?"
"I'm tired not drunk..." Kimberly remembered of the plain green Beatrice and the 'colored
like herself' Pearl mentioning one time that Pearl had drunk herself nearly to the point of
blood poisoning over an even neither apparently wanted to discuss but related to the
dynamics of her relationship with her sister-wives or something or other, Kimberly hadn't
really overheard the rest and one of the lupmen needed their bedpan changed (ugh).
Beatrice seemed happy that Pearl had Zelipe.
"All right. See you in the morning." Trinity seemingly through will of her own, perhaps due
to her time as a statue wolf herself and her connection to them like the rest of the gallery
wolves, she became a equal to scale electrum lupman cub sitting between the legs of the
male with a slowly turning starchart in their belly. Words of welcoming from all three
other entry way statues echoed in her mind.
"See ya in the morning." Kimberly nodded and headed upstairs to the rooms of the other
single lupmans.