With the death of every single turn… nothing existed that could keep the curse alive . . .
With the death of the game, magic reawakened to the rest of the world and could function
again now that mana was not being pulled from around the world to a single point in one
town.
Only Marie-Eliza's efforts with Judias kept the sudden torrent of three hundred plus years
of sealed up magic turning the entire planet into a pink sky, purple plants planet
populated completely by dancing flowers and various kinds of fae.
And suddenly magic could work again on planet Earth like the rest of the universe. In all
it's divisions, breeds, incarnations, and types: mana was what powered magic, mana was
generated by anything that existed, flowers, emotions, fantasy, dolls, space, fire, radio
signals, even the void of nothingness generated it's own kind of mana. And the infinite
chaos, which enabled one to WIELD magic, and enabled magic to function, now had mana
again to act as a medium between magic and existence, between magic and the sapient
mind.
Rick got his wish to be a little girl . . . eventually . . . after it mutated into a fixation, that
devolved into am obsession, which twisted into a mania. The birth of his daughter years
did not help matters as it should. He dived into magic . . . but was as foolish and reckless
as the witches . . .
Marie-Eliza could have stopped the react that Rick invoked that engulfed him, his family
and his house years later . . . but chose not to. It didn't threaten the entire landmass of
Australia. And if she stopped this, Rick would simply find his ideal of being a little girl not
what he thought it was and become simply MORE fixated or try to figure out why nothing
happened and hurt his family and himself even more.
The police found a house sized doll-house, and four little girls all responding to the name
'Rachel' wondering where their mother was. All would grow up engrained into their psyche
the need to 'FULLY READ THE DIRECTIONS AND WARNINGS' when performing any sort of
magic.
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Amber was actually slightly disappointed that Akane-Mu Umeko-Mu Chiyoye-Lambda and
Eri-Mu hadn't either kept their oversized double beachball plus breasts… or hadn't gone
totally flat chested.
Yamato didn't care about the size of his wives breasts, he was just happy that they could
live their lives easier now without such distracting inconveniences.
Following the advice given to him, Yamato-Lambda did decide to help Nicole with her
martial arts classes. Nicole did indeed welcome the help, thought she did on occasion butt
heads with Yamato over the best way to do about teaching the younger pack members.
At his wedding Ulysses looked at the purple smiling angel statue with her great wings and
spread out arms like she was hugging the bride and grooms, having no idea that a statue
was missing at the shrine or that the angel statue hadn't been there a year ago, or
yesterday for that matter.
Wendy, Jessica, Rose, and Betty and Robert kept good ties with the manor's living statues.
As did Triny and Kimberly. Kimberly was determined to find a man if it killed her. She was
beginning to consider of the leomans as a mate. It wasn't impossible. They were all species
of Man after all.
Kimberly said, "We pink furred wolves are a special breed. Ya know they're still hoping
Lupman and Leoman crossing breeding will produce the first pink lioness."
"Pink was considered a manly color long before it was considered a girlie one."
MOnkey King aka Kira was able to recruit other wolves, leoman and humans to Alpha
Kaylee's gallery over the years, though to call it kidnapping would be unfair. Any of them
were free to live and continue their lives whenever they wished, even if Kayee insisted on a
service performance art contract to seal the deal.
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Somewhere, across deserts, oceans, and up mountains, a collection of Lupman skeletons
lay. They had left their families back in America in Glendale, planning to be the first
Lupmans to climb Mount Everest WITHOUT breathing equipment. A risk a thousand times
over, some called it even suicidal, but people of history where those who took risks, those
who dared.
Felmans actually had scaled Mount Everest first, their bodies requiring less oxygen,
gargoyles didn't breath, but were not a species known for ambition seeing things age of
old age around them. Humans had been a close second. Leomans and Lupmans were only
able to reach the top without falling into unconsciousness and needing to be carted back
down once Oxygen masks had been invented. A few dragons in ancient times had
supposed tried and succeeded, but hadn't come back down the most sane of sorts.
The felmans simply didn't require as much air, when the amount Lupmans and Leomans
required made scaling the mountain a herculean effort on the best of days for the most
experienced climbers.
These Lupmans, whose fur had been the colors of precious stones, had sought to challenge
the mountain. To prove they were stronger than it was . . . The mountain proved itself
superior. The last member of their group had actually died about a dozen yard from the
very peak . . . but snow had hidden the bones.
One of Marie-Eliza's avatars using the astounding power of Kurse, found them . . . she
collected their journals . . . She'd let the pack decide if they should remain here on the
mountain they had challenged or returned home later. She gave the journal to Madam
Serenity, who gave it to Martha . . . who knew she had some more tears to work through
the teen wolves . . .
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A few years later Madam Serenity with some help from Marie-Eliza found some other truths
about another set of twins.
"What about Jay, Pence, Toni and Paula's parents?" Anne asked.
"You're their mother. And Megan, Ashley and Margot are their aunts, and Lawrence is their
father. Jay and Pence's parents died trying to provide for them. Toni and Paul's parents -
ABANDONED- their pups. Trust me when I say it's better they weren't raised by them
anyway, they wouldn't have turned out for the better."
"How do you know all that?"
"I got some DNA testing . . . please don't ask why their DNA was doing on profile . . . "
"Thank you then… for at least providing me with some answers…"
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"I've got to ask." the copper Gillian II said to Patrick, AKA Mr. P, the gold and black four
legged wolf.
"Ask what?" Mr. P asked innocently at what was the celebration of the senior Pride
members to the death of the game.
"Are you unhappy that I'm back in Marilyn's life? You two know each other so dearly it
seems… I don't want to intrude upon any happiness the two of you have. It would be
uncivilized." Gillian II asked, looking small.
Mr. P laughed, "Sonny, and yes I say sonny, I'm much older than I look. Snow White and I
are FRIENDS. We're not THOSE KINDS of friends either!"
Gillian looked relieved that Mr. P had not said 'just friends.' "So, the pet names, Blackie,
and Snow White-"
"Look," Mr P. continued, "They're not pet names, they're nicknames. I know you've seen the
world's past on without you, and you've had to outlive your children which is something NO
parent should ever have to do, believe me, I've had to deal with that myself… but believe
me when I say that I'm not attracted to Snow White that way. We're kindred spirits, sure,
we've both had to deal with not having hands, and not being able to sit in chairs, and often
not able to look some people in the face… but that isn't love. There's a difference between
being companions on a journey, and being part of a whole… you're part of Snow White's
whole. So seriously, there's no one better to help teach you . . . and don't forget, you've
got lions who have been 'out of the loop' a lot longer than you. No no no, I'm not trying to
make you feel bad about there being people less fortunate than you, there always is. What
I'm saying that Arael and Armisael and Gabriel, and Mal'Akh Bialyk too, hopefully have you
as a bridge, I know you've hardly been frozen a hundred and fifty years like some of them
or more so, but seriously they need help adapting to this world one step at a time, and they
need you as that stepping stone…. SO SERIOUSLY! Don't worry about me getting between
you and Snow White! My only wife I ever had is waiting in heaven for me right now. Snow
White is all yours if she'll have you."
"Thanks Patrick."
"Call me Mr. P, just about everyone does."
Mr. Glen meanwhile was on the roof. She wondered how much time she and Blackie had
left, there was no way to know how much more time their uniquely long life spans would
last. However long it was Mother Glen was happy to have lived long enough to see the end
of this horrid game. "Now I just need to figure out who to select as a successor for
Matriarch…"
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Fox and Elise' funeral, involved much of the pride, though their fellow police were allowed
the closer seats. The leoman who couldn't attended due to their duty or some other harsh
regulation, did allow themselves some time out of their day still to send a message of
sympathy to the eight cubs, Gary and Brian. As per Nane's Transform in the previous
timeline, a statue of the two was made in the honor of the two fallen police officers, mates,
Primate Mates, and mothers.
It was all most could do to keep from crying as they retold Fox's antics that Nane had
picked up on and Elise's sense of duty that Moja had picked up on. There was more than
one speech about how Elise and Fox survived through their daughters. With nothing to
bury, the funeral ended with the unveiling of the statue.
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When Jensen's wives came back from the Caribbean vacation pregnant, Kevin and Marcy
were overjoyed at the idea of having more siblings. Bart and Jenny were worried their
parents wanted kids who were more 'normal.' And Alice, Abbey and Samantha were all
worried THEIR mothers wanted girls who were perfectly in sync with each other where Alice
had over a year in age separating herself from her cousins/half-sisters.
Bart and Jenny might have been collage degree level smart, and Alice might have known
language better than most adults, but they were still children, and naked to the same
vulnerabilities and doubts that all children faced. This was of course part of the reason why
Bart and Jenny turned all the Omegas except Martha into their shadows using the turn they
got from Bobby (who they eventually tracked down and made an 'honorary' member of the
pack as an apology of tricking and using him).
Alice, Abbey and Samantha had even run away into the mirror world and had taken Bart
and Jenny with them…
Marie-Eliza thankfully provided the parents and siblings with a door into the world where
everyone including Lupmans and Leomans wore victorian era clothing and where the laws
of existence faded the further you were away from the last thing that had been reflected.
It had taken days of searching even with Marie-Eliza's help to track them down to the
mirror world version of Big Bad Island. And had taken a number of heart felt words that no,
Jensen and Kaylee were HAPPY their children were so unique and brilliant, and no, the
triplets DIDN'T care their babies weren't in perfect sync with each other.
"But we want to be like you." Abbey said at last.
"Being in sync," The triplets said in one voice, one tone, as they took their daughters into
their arms, "Feeling the same, thinking the same, acting the same, BEING the same, is what
makes us unique dear! Just as being the beautiful little glass wolves you are is what makes
you unique… we wouldn't trade you for the world!"
It shocked Kevin and Marcy most of all… to learn their elder siblings were jealous of THEM
for being normal!
When their children were finally home and finally in bed, the triplets went to the roof, the
star gazer club having already gone to bed.
"Do you regret that we're identical?" Fran asked Darla and Julie.
"Not in the least." Julie replied to her sister.
"Nor do I." Darla added.
"And I don't either… I know a lot of other triplets don't like us for being the way we are
but--"
"Let them feel what they want to feel, they leave us alone, and they don't bother our
family." Said Julie, very happy to have the burden of looking after so many finally off her
shoulders and enjoyed very much the vacation she had gotten and to have children safe
and home again.
"And we're still not certified doctors, and Julie is still not a certified cop." Said Darla, "We
have different roles the three of us even if our hearts and minds are reflections of each
other."
And Fran said smiling, "And we understand each other on a level that's not possible for
anyone else with anyone else, even Jensen, thought I wouldn't trade him for anyone else."
Darla and Julie nodded.
The three triplets leaned into each other, hugging each other, but none too hard least they
unset the tiny new lives developing inside themselves. The three smiled at the same time
and together like mirror images stood up and howled in one voice at the moon.
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Caroline and Cobalt did eventually fuse back into one, and that was when Opal finally
married her now that she was no longer a them. She was neither personality, but a unity of
the two, and that was how she liked it.
Tourmaline Ruby and Emerald chose to become Opal's wives… rather than Opal rather
asking them… it made for an interesting wedding.
Gargent and Amber, chose to remain single and become the official permanent Lupman
presence on Big Bad Island. Not everyone needed to get married to find happiness after all.
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Amy wasn't very surprised when Marie-Eliza invited her for tea, she was surprised when
she asked Zelipe to join them. Zelipe was quite happy to take up the offer. They asked
permission from their parents, Zackery, June and Pearl of course. Who saw no reason to say
no. Having tea in the mirror verse however, was a surprise.
"Don't worry," Marie-Eliza assured them, "I brought the tea and everything from the
outside, nothing will turn to glass in your bellies."
Zelipe looked quite relieved at that.
The two pups hadn't expected Eliza herself to be there as well, apparently acting a
chaperone. Eliza in a red and black version of Marie-Eliza's black and red dress, but didn't
have the runes that Marie-Eliza's dress had.
Amy was dressed as a Shinto priestess with the symbol for 'Ookami' that would mean wolf
or great god on her robes. Zelipe looked like your typical working class lad, complete with
a small flop heat with holes for his ears.
Where Marie chose to have tea was a surprise for Amy and Zelipe. They had tea at the edge
of the universe. After all, there were reflective surfaces on more than just Earth.
This far out, the laws of reality were completely absent. Impossible shapes floated by,
inferred and ultra violet were in the visible spectrum while green was not. And stars the
size of grains of sand drifted around them.
Zelipe asked the obvious question first, "What's beyond the edge of the universe?"
"EIther infinite nothing, another universe, you just step back into this universe, or nothing
in the sense you can't even go beyond the boundaries, I don't know…. Heh, want to find
out?"
"Er, not today."
"Good. This is tea, not an adventure."
Amy nodded, "Adventures are good and all, build character, but you have to eventually
move on in life."
Eliza said, "Life is an adventure in of itself. Remember that."
The three pups nodded.