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Dual Realities

Chapter 6: The Gladiator's Chosen One

March 10th YOE 35

7 AM (Chaundoon)

Shift change at the Infirmary within the Central Tower...

"Now, now Nezera you don't have to do this!!" The young yeti said backing away from the vampire bat as if she were trying to feed- on him.

"You brought this on yourself little yeti. Now look deep into my eyes!"

"I don't wanna!" Yogi protested.

"Look!" The life support specialist ordered the manufactured monster. "The pain you will feel is just and illusion an obfuscation; it will soon evaporate into nothingness within the next few minutes."

"Yes master!" Yogi moaned as the night medic started bandaging his wrist.

"For a artificial construct you get injured just as easily as the rest of us."

Meanwhile a red eyed female lion approached the infirmary. She was dressed in brown shorts and a yellow shirt. She also had a look of concern and worry which she tried to hide from her companion in the predawn darkness.

"Momma?" Beatrice asked the horny lioness who cradled her as the pair entered the infirmary.

"I don't know littlest cutie." The lioness responded as she prepared herself to mentally and physically start her shift.

"Shakara..." Nezera said as she greeted her relief after finishing with her patient. "Is this take your charge to work day?"

"Not exactly. I am watching Beatrice until Boris gets off from work." The red eye lioness responded to the pretty lady bat.

"Don't you mean until you can get him off?" The vampire bat grinned almost demonically as Yogi came out of his trance and started to look around.

"No, he is too tired; he has been working the night shift all this week."

"I see. But knowing you, it isn't for a lack of trying." The pretty lady bat said smiling. She knew the lioness all too well.

"Hey- you whammied me didn't you?" The little yeti protested indignantly.

"Why yes, yes I did." Nezera said to the little yeti. "But unfortunately you came out of it before I could drink your blood Blah, Blah, Blah!!!"

"ACK!!!" The Yogi recoiled in fear.

"That has to be the worst imitation of a vampire I have ever seen and it was from a vampire." Shakara observed.

"Kara?" Lady Ursa's daughter asked looking up at her sub-parent. It was like the youngling was trying to process the last few conversations she had overheard.

"I will tell you when you are older B bear."

"Nezera, you bandaged my wrist?" The little yeti asked.

"It was sprained not broken. That was all it needed. Never the less you would not let me touch it."

"So you really didn't have to whammy me then?"

"It was necessary." Nezera said. "Now rest your wrist for the next few days and it will be back to normal in no time."

"Alright, but you could have just used a local anesthetic." Yogi protested.

"Look into my eyes little one."

"Not again!!! Augh!!! Yes master."

"You will lose any memories of being under my hypnosis. I am your friend and am only concerned about your well being."

"Yes master."

"And your blood type and how tasty you taste from time to time."

"Yes master."

The lioness and the baby bear watched the back and forth interaction with some bewilderment.

"So... anything to hand off Nezera?" Shakara asked.

"It was mostly a quiet night until a patient arrived with a sprained wrist he wouldn't let me look at." The grey vampire bat said shooing Yogi out of the infirmary.

"So you were working on him?" The dark tan leonine female asked.

"Yes for the last forty five minutes. I was about to have breakfast when you walked in."

"Perhaps maybe you should help yourself to some blood supplies instead?" Shakara replied placing Beatrice on a chair at the far side of the room.

"Hey, I am a reformed creature of the night; I ask before I take." The bat said waving as she left medical. "Have a nice quiet shift."

(Vampires!) The devious lioness thought to herself.

And so Shakara put on a white medical jacket over her clothing and started her day. She checked all the medical supplies and the triangular scanner.

It was approximately twenty three minutes later when Shakara and Beatrice received their first patients of the morning.

The lioness heard the door of the infirmary open.

"Boris it is about time..." Alex's devious person started to say before she realized standing at the entrance was not a dark brown bear with a white v shaped birthmark across his chest but a female and male gorilla two of the knights from the newly formed knight core. "Kala!! Ananias!!"

"Gorwillas." Beatrice coo-ed from the other side of the room.

"What can I do you for?" The horny lioness said looking at the pair.

"Kala is feeling a little out of sorts this morning Shakara." Ananias said leading her inside.

"What are you experiencing?"

"Vertigo, dizziness and I am feeling a little queasy." The former leader of the vigilantes replied.

"Perhaps you should call out today Kala." The male silverback said gently.

"No, the core has been severely overtaxed lately and I would be adding to the problem."

"But having a knight not at their best isn't helping the situation either." The silverback replied.

"Hmm.... could the blessed day finally be here?!" The lioness said grinning ear to ear.

"Blessed what?" The brown gorilla female asked as she traded glances with Beatrice who just shrugged her shoulders. It was as if the youngling was quite aware of the dark tan lioness' antics despite her age.

"Here Kala have a seat on the table and let's have a look at you." The red eyed lioness said trying to stifle a giggle.

The female gorilla complied as Shakara fetched her triangular scanner returned to the table and gleefully started her analysis much to the gorilla couple's annoyance.

Shakara place her paws on Kala's forehead checking her temperature before moving then down to her neck which was a little uncomfortable for the former vigilante leader who allowed the weird touch. But the lioness' next action really alarmed her.

"So how long have you had these symptoms? A day, or two or three?"

"Well they developed this morning- whoa! Hey!" The brown gorilla protested as her knight uniform and everything underneath it disappeared in a golden glow and reappeared at the far side of he room next to Beatrice.

Kala then felt the lioness paws on her breasts groping, pawing and kneeding. "Well you aren't lactating yet. I guess that will be happing in time." She said moving on to Kala's tummy.

"OH!" Kala moaned.

"She is a little tender there." Ananias admitted.

"So tell me tall, grey and muscular who was the dominant one and who was the submissive one?" Shakara said winking at the silverback gorilla.

"What are you going on about?" He asked uncomfortably as the horny lioness stared back between him and his nude companion.

"Judging buy her symptoms she was the bottom. Did you wrap her legs around you as you entered her?"

"Shakara?!" Kala said blushing.

"What sound did this stud make when he climaxed and how much jizz did he produce?"

"Shakara!" Ananias said blushing as the simple medical evaluation went from G to R in its rating.

"Well she didn't." Ananias replied.

"And he didn't." Kala said as the lioness moved onto the scanning device.

Kala and Ananias watched as the triangular device was initially placed over the she gorilla's tummy then moved down to her groin then back up to her stomach and then back to her groin where it hovered lewdly, desperately looking for something anything in Kala's lady parts.

"There has to be, there must be!" The dark tan lioness said as the scanner moved back up to Kala's stomach and then back down to her groin. "Damn."

"Shakara what are you on about?" The female warrior asked her healer.

"No gorilla babies." The horny lioness pouted.

"Gorilla babies?" Ananias said looking at Kala the Shakara.

"Yeah, I was hoping you finally impregnated Kala. But it is just indigestion. Most likely something Kala ate."

"You sound disappointed. Why?" The he gorilla demanded.

"Well everyone in the city was hoping you well, impregnated Kala. I mean you two have been dating, courting romancing and even... I mean you have been together almost since we arrived on this world and you are the only gorillas in the city...."

"KARA!!!" Beatrice shouted.

Even the little bear cub understood that one.

"I see, the whole city was hoping for adorable, cute gorilla babies." Kala groaned. "She wants to know why it hasn't happened.

"Yes why hasn't happened Kala?" Ananias teased.

"Because it is hard to balance a career with a family. We are both knights in service to King Dragon."

"At the moment we are more focused on protecting all inhabitants of World Seven who have become our family." The silverback gorilla admitted.

"It is that hard? Lady Ursa has made it work." Shakara countered as she removed the triangular scanning device.

"That is because she has a lioness, her human and breeding partner to help raise her cub." Kala said looking at Beatrice who was all smiles.

The gorilla couple suddenly grew silent as if they had said something taboo.

"So has there been any word?" Ananias asked.

"It has been two days since they left to test the communications network and there hasn't been anything from big cutie and little cutie. I am starting to worry." Shakara replied.

"The bulk of the knight core and the prototypes are off on other missions.... we could ask Hue and Cassia to help, perhaps their spacecraft could pinpoint the last known location and we could spread out from there." Kala said thinking.

"Spoken like a true leader." The silverback said complementing his girlfriend.

"We will get right on it as long as my healer is confident that I am not pregnant and alleviates my indigestion and vertigo."

Shakara returned the gorilla warrior's clothes, settled her stomach with some lewd belly rubs which corrected her constitution.

As the two exited medical they passed a dark brown bear who was coming off shift to collect his daughter.

"There you are!" The red eyed lioness responded.

"Sorry Boris was running late. Working night shift is rather difficult. No word from pretty lady bear and little freckled boy?"

The red eyed lioness shook her head. "I think they are missing. Kala and Ananias are going form a search party."

"But planet is quite large and there is no communications network." The dark brown bear said picking up his daughter.

"They are going to enlist the Manassas' help." The lioness said to the bear.

"But Manassas' craft wasn't helpful when Kiwi went missing." The he bear responded.

"Well, we have to try something for all we know what took Kiwi, just might have also taken them!" Shakara gasped as the gravity of her words shocked her.

To Be Continued....

[MEANWHILE]

March 10 YOE 35

7 AM (Counter Earth)

During breakfast time at Lady Keiko's home in World Four finds a daughter and father watching a wrestling match on the hub....

And after a grueling all night edurathon we are down to the final two gladiators Ananias the silver back gorilla and Raier the red bull.

I think his official name is Raier The Red... Mike. The lemur announcer said to his co-announcer, another lemur.

_Regardless Dan, this up and comer is giving the incumbent gladiator a tough time tonight. Ananias has the strength and ferocity, but Raier has the speed and determination. _

_Technically the gorilla should have the advantage here but I think the endurance challenges have taken a lot out of him Mike and that is why we see the two with paws locked grappling- neither able to subdue the other. _

Take a look at their faces Dan, both are giving this wrestling match all they have as both try to push the other outside the boundary ring!

Although they are friends outside the ring Mike, the victor will have razzing rights over the other from now until eternity!!

Whoa, Dan! It looks like Ananias is doubling down he seems to be gaining the upper paw! Raier is recoiling, shrinking and yielding to the gorilla's power!!

Whoa!!! Mike, will you look at that! What a fake!! What an upset! The red bull moved out of the way at the last possible second allowing Ananias' momentum to take him right past his younger challenger who then suplexed him right out of the ring. Hello and goodnight! Match over! Raier Wins!!!!

"Hey aren't you two supposed to be getting ready for breakfast?" A female gorilla asked on her way to the kitchen only to find her mate and daughter on their sofa watching a hub sporting event.

"Someone woke up grouchy." A brown younger female gorilla said as she was grumbled at. "Grouchier."

"What?! He lost?! How could he! He had the knowledge, experience and strength!!" Lady Keiko's mate protested.

"Moyo, Heather, what are you watching?" The female knight said picking up her uniform from a nearby closet.

"Last night's gladiator match. Daddy just found out Ananias lost." The young female gorilla stood up greeting her mother.

"The incumbent was tunneled." Keiko said approaching the sofa.

"What dear?" Moyo asked.

"He was so focused on defeating that bull that he failed to read his opponent's moves to see what he was going to do next. Like you last night in our room... Moyo." The she gorilla said grinning to the he gorilla.

"Well you know what they say Kei, It is not whether you win or lose but who you are with after the game." The smaller adult said kissing his mate.

"GRR rightly so!" The gorilla warrior said kissing him back.

"And there they go again..." Heather said blushing.

"You shouldn't feel that way Heather, mommy has a very tough job and needs distractions to take her mind off of work. Besides if your mommy and daddy didn't love each other we wouldn't be a family and you would be forced to decide to live with just one of us." Moyo said correcting his daughter. "Fortunately that isn't the case."

"Sorry if I seem some what irritable this morning everyone. I just didn't sleep well."

"Perhaps you should take the day off then if you are feeling out of sorts Kei."

"Not a chance, someone has to keep this city safe." The gorilla warrior protested.

"Hold on." Her mate said as he made his way to the kitchen. After fumbling through some cabinets, he returned with a triangular scanner which he moved over the female gorilla's body. "Hmmm... that explains it."

"Explains what?" Lady Keiko asked growing irritated again as her daughter looked on.

"When you sit down to breakfast this morning you will be eating for two."Moyo replied.

"Mommy's pregnant!? Outrageous!!" Heather screamed.

"I am? I thought it was because I had to bust a few more heads than usual in the core yesterday." The pregnant warrior said shocked.

"Nope see right here there is a little gorilla inside you! Our family is growing!!" Moyo replied happily.

"I am going to be a big sister!" Heather screamed again.

"You are." The male gorilla said to his daughter.

"But mommy the knight core has been keeping you so busy lately and daddy has been busy maintaining the house when did you? How did you?"

"We made the time." The gorilla pair said in unison trying not to blush under their fur.

"So am I getting a brother or a sister?" Heather asked still stunned.

"You will have to just wait and see now won't you?" Was the gorilla warrior's answer.

"Can I be right by your side during the birth? I want to catch the baby when you push it out and to keep your from killing daddy if the delivery is too painful." Heather asked her mother.

"I won't kill daddy, maybe just rip off his genitals so he can't use them again... ever." Lady Keiko said to her daughter and husband.

"YIPE!" The smaller gorilla said hiding behind his daughter. "I rather like my genitals."

"Enough you too, now let's settle down to breakfast." The brown female gorilla ordered her mate and daughter. "I am very hungry."

7 AM Gladiator Training Hall, World Five....

A male silverback applied soap foam to his shoulders and was muttering to himself inside his shower stall about his loss while next to him a reddish adult bull just past his adolescence with a nice medium build, white horns and red eyes removed his brown wrist bands and matching loin cloth and stepped inside the adjoining stall before slapping his friend on his posterior.

*smack*

"So what happened out there old timer?!" Raier asked. "You seemed pre-occupied. Were the trials before our match too much for you?"

"I guess I was so focused on defeating you Raier that I didn't catch on to your trickery until it was too late." The male gorilla retorted.

"And now I have bragging rights for all eternity!!"

"Okay, okay I get it I am going to be the butt of jokes for some time to come." Ananias acknowledged.

"Most definitely!" The male cow said looking at the furry grey behind of his rival which kind of looked dimpled in the lights of the shower stall. Anyway, want to get a bite to eat? I need to gloat some more while you brood."

"Sure, but not with you." Ananias said turning on the water to rinse off.

"My, someone is sensitive this morning."

"Wrong, I am meeting someone." The silver back responded.

"Meeting someone or MEETING someone?" Raier said looking over at his friend.

"The second one."

"As in date?!"

"Yes." Ananias said turning his back toward the shower head. "My debtors believe my gladiator persona is in need of a makeover."

"Let me guess, first suggestion get a she beast."

"Yeah."

"So they set you up on a blind date?! You old gorilla! It is about time. Life is a lot more fun with a companion trust me! So do you know who is the lucky girl?"

"The gorilla warrior had to spend the next few minutes reminding the bull exactly what a blind date entailed.

8:36 AM Silver Diner, World Five...

Ananias looked at his cube. It was now thirty six minutes past the start of his date and Kala appeared to be a now show.

The restaurant was rather small and intimate there was a counter with stools facing the kitchen where diners could stare at the cook preparing their meals. Across from that where booths running along the windows where patrons could sit down on comfortable padding and eat off of silver tables while staring out into the street and watch pedestrians move about. Very nice.

The silverback gorilla tried contacting his date directly but there was no response from her communicator. Apparently the whole endeavor had been a waste of his time. He had been mindful to dress nicely and to make himself just right in order to look his best. Was she not interested? Why not then just tell him then?

Ananias contemplated what he should do. He stared at his cube for a few moments then at the far wall of the restaurant then back at the cube. As he was transitioning glances he crossed eyes with a petite blond haired dark skinned woman Two tables over from him. She was having breakfast with a broodish prideful individual, dirty blond hair, green jacket, tan pants and a very angry looking face- her eyes said it all- help me.

"Hutch, I am not sure about this, we shouldn't be here." She said whispered to him.

"You mean that we are outside our designated area Renee?"

"If we are found out we will be punished." She warned.

"And I told you that I don't care! You know the dissidents, alarmists, separatists all had it wrong. They tried protesting, civil disobedience, you know working within the system?" He said making quotation marks with his fingers. "Like, what did it get them?"

"I am scared to ask." The woman responded to her companion growing more uncomfortable with the conversation that now everyone the restaurant was listening in on.

"Crushed with the rest of the rebellion!"

"Not what we are doing is any better, Hutch aren't you being kind of loud?"

"And now it totally sucks to be a non-beastial; I mean you thought it was bad before- human you can't go there it is for beastials only, human you can't live here it is for beastials only. Human you can't participate in this sport it is for beastials only. But now it is human you can't go anywhere, you can't do anything, you can't be anything unless you have an beastial overseer to vouch for you because you know you might be a pre-rebel!!!"

Ananias noticed there was something particular about the woman's glance and her body language... he read it loud and clear she was extremely uncomfortable and didn't want be there, not with her present company.

"What the rebellion should have done is forced the beasties to listen to our grievances by taking out the pillars of their shiny new civilization. Perhaps things would be much different then they are now!"

"Hutch, everyone is starring."

"Let them stare Renee, I don't care if they listen in! Hell let them, they just might learn something!"

"Sir you are creating a scene, if you don't calm down, you won't be allowed to stay." A nicely dressed man said walking over. He appeared to be the diner's manager.

"You understand what I am saying right? We are being dominated... subjugated." Hutch said staring the man down.

The restaurant manager remained quiet.

"What's wrong cat got your tongue?"

"I think he wants us to hurry up and place our order." The blond replied.

The man silently nodded gesturing to the restaurant's owner, a stern looking nicely muscled clouded leopard dressed in a chef's apron who was starring at the commotion in the dining room from the kitchen.

"So this isn't your restaurant but his! Disgusting. The example that proves the rule!" Hutch retorted as his companion looked away uneasily.

That was when the clouded leopard exited the kitchen and joined his subordinate. On the way to the dinning area, he pulled out a scanner from his pocket and looked at it.

"Human does your overseer approve of you being here?"

"No." Hutch responded indignantly.

"Then you are in violation of the law." The leopard said forcibly picking up Renee's date by the scruff of his neck then lifting him to the doorway of the restaurant where he was collected by a passing by knight patrol.

" Mark my words there is a resistance coming another one which will not make the mistakes of the former!!" Hutch shouted as he was carried away.

Renee froze as the two knights a tapir and bushbuck looked at the clouded leopard chef who then looked at the manager who then turned his attention to her.

"And what about you miss?"

"Um, this is the worst date I have ever had!" Renee stammered.

"Not what I meant. Do you have permission to be here? Who speaks for you?" The leopard asked curiously.

"Well... I uh." Hutch's date said stumbling. She was in big trouble now!

"I DO." Ananias said speaking up.

"Yes, yes, he does." Renee replied as she jumped up from her seat and quickly sat down with the nicely dressed gorilla.

"Very well, what can I get you?" The diner manager asked.

"The house salad." Ananias responded.

"And your human?"

"She will have the Cobb salad."

"No bacon please." Renee said smiling uneasily. That was a close one!

"No bacon." Ananias echoed.

"Will do." The manager said walking away.

"How did you know?"

"Lucky guess."

Renee looked at the brute taking note of his dark eyes, stern looking face and the dark fur along his arms that contrasted with the grey fur below his shoulders. She couldn't stop looking at the apex on top of his head. It reminded her of a small mountain peek, but was normal for this species of gorilla.

"Thank you for that." She said taking his hands. "Um, you really saved MY bacon."

"Are all your meal conversations that... explosive?"

"Only dates; my last three have been disasters. Hutch was very upset that the rebellion lost; he talked about it all the time."

"Seems like he wants to start a new one." The gladiator commented.

"Tell me about it! The one before that was a narcissist and only cared about himself and the one before that was too vain." Renee lamented.

"So you have had quite the run of luck?"

"If you mean all bad. Well yes. I actually let Hutch convince me to leave our designated area without permission to dine here. If you haven't come along when you did... well thank you again." The blond said smiling releasing his hands from hers.

"So why did you choose this place to dine?"

"Hutch said the food was exquisite and it wasn't owned by beastials. It was run by a human manager."

"Who worked for a beastial owner." Ananias countered.

"Yeah I think Hutch figured that out just before he was tossed out. So the food is great here?"

"You are about to find out um..."

"Renee." The blond said studying his face.

"Something wrong?" The gorilla asked the woman opposite of him.

"Hmm... You look familiar. I know, you are one of those gladiators aren't you?" The woman said cocking her head.

"Ananias."

"Right you had that match last night on the hub. I thought you would be sleeping right now."

"I was actually on a date as well." The silver back said studying the woman's face.

"Well I guess I should get my meal to go then."

"No. It was a blind date. She didn't show."

"Wow, it looks like we both have had bad luck as of late."

"Indeed. Thank you for joining me, I could use the company. I dislike dining alone Renee." Ananias said.

"Yes. You are welcome.

"It is none of my business Renee, but I think your date had an ulterior motive."

"Such as?"

"Hutch's coming here was an act of open defiance against being segregated." The gladiator said to the blond woman as he stared at her.

Renee stared right back. There was a pregnant pause between the two that went on for a moment.

"Do you share his beliefs?" The silver back asked throwing it out there.

"The way things are right now I can see his point of view. Perhaps given our history before the high master's arrival and after, we deserved it. But Hutch just goes on and on about it!"

"At some point these restrictions will lessen provided there isn't a new resistance and more open defiance to the new rules."

"Perhaps. So what is it like to be a gladiator?" Renee asked her table mate changing the subject.

"Rigorous. You have to keep yourself in top physical condition. Eat the right things, exercise daily and obtain the right amount sleep in order to keep your body in harmony. Like any other athlete I suppose."

"Sounds like you have to be very disciplined."

"In addition to maintaining the physical, you also have to maintain the mental." Ananias continued.

"The mental?"

"Yes after a intense workout I like to meditate it allows me clear my mind of negative thoughts, emotions and feelings. Your companion..."

"Well, he will have a lot of time to reflect on many things now. Ananias, may I ask a personal question- why did you became a gladiator?"

There was a pregnant pause while the silverback pondered answering the blond female's question.

"If I intruded on something personal..." Renee stammered.

"My family has a tradition of serving the knight core. A proud distinguished tradition you see. It was hinted, no expected that everyone serve the High Evoluntionary in some capacity. I discovered at a young age that I did not want to follow this path."

"What did your parents say?"

"Mine were extremely disappointed. So disappointed that I was kicked out of the house and forced to fend for myself."

"Goodness!"

"So you see my dear. Not all of us beasties are privileged. I was on my own after that, I got into debt- a lot of it. At one point I was in so deep that I thought that my debtors would carve me up and sell me for parts."

"What did you do?"

"It was at that point one of them suggested this gladiator league and advised me to pursue it or else."

"Or else what?"

"I would be turned into designer handbags, belts and footwear."

"So you really had no choice?"

The silverback shook his head.

"I joined shortly afterwards. In time I became one of the leagues top performers."

"So you are slowly working off what you owe?"

The gorilla nodded.

"Well despite your hardships, it looks like all your efforts are paying off." Renee said reaching for the he beast's hands again. "You are quite handsome. I especially like the muscles."

"So Renee tell me about yourself." Ananias replied as he studied her hands. They were similar to his.

"Well, there is not much to say I was born slightly after the High Evolutionary came to power so, I never knew of a time without him as our ruler."

"What about your parents?"

"They were born and raised toward the end of the 90 year war. They grew up seeing how badly humans could treat each other and the planet. So when the new ruler came to power they welcomed the change. For them it was a dawn of a new era."

"Has their opinion changed over the last few years?"

"No. Even as rules were implemented and restrictions imposed, they constantly reminded myself and my brother that it was better than what they had lived through as a children. The high master had eliminated hunger and had eliminated war."

"Some would say that is only partly true."

"There are those who would say he also acerbated poverty and class warfare between the privileged and unprivileged. Yeah but looking back that was also present during the former government."

"You also forgot us beast people. What did Hutch say, beasties?"

"Unlike my date, I have not known a time without beastials. In fact I do find some rather attractive." Renee said batting her eyelashes with her breakfast companion.

"So what you are saying is that you aren't adversed to dating outside your own species?"

A wry smile appeared on the dark skinned woman's lips as their meals arrived.

"The last three men I dated were complete disappointments. Maybe it is time to try something different?"

And so the two talked and dined and talked some more. Ananias learned that Renee was a would be actress performing in community plays. She was striving for so much more.

But more importantly on that morning two complete strangers from different walks of life after suffering disastrous dates met in an out of the way place and formed a connection, a bond.

"That was simply delightful." Renee said finishing her meal.

"I agree I especially enjoyed the company." The gorilla said reaching for her hand.

The dark skinned woman reciprocated. Noticing how similar the simian's hand was to hers- four fingers and a thumb. Not much different than her own, only it was grey to mach his fur.

"Can I see you again?" The pair asked each other in unison.

"I will like that." The two responded in unison once again. Talk about being on the same wavelength!

"Renee, I think I should see you home."

"You mean so that I don't end up like Hutch?"

"Well there seem to be more patrols about."

"I would like that you big gorilla."

And so the dark skinned female let the gladiator guide her back to her home a small apartment, in a small building in the basement of World Five.

"I love winter mornings. Especially after a lovely sunrise." Renee said as her hand found Ananias'.

"Yes it is like a sort of renewal or restart no matter what has happened the day before."

"Yes. That is exactly right. Well here I am."

"A small intimate apartment in an small building." The silverback blurted out.

The red brick building couldn't have contained more than two floors and four apartments total, it was dwarfed by the other buildings surrounding it. But yet it was the prettiest and cleanest one on the block.

"Well we all can't be aristocratic can we?" Renee said winking.

There was a warm glow to her face. She was smiling and the gorilla smiled back.

The two said their goodbyes confident this wouldn't be their only date.

As Ananias was making his way home his cube sounded off.

"Ananias, I am so sorry I couldn't meet with you this morning. Something came up and I couldn't reach out to you before hand." A female gorilla on the other end said quite apologetically. "Can we reschedule?"

"Oh, Kala, I would like to, but that wouldn't be a good idea at the moment. I am seeing someone." The silverback said to his former blind date.

And thus another interspecies relationship was formed.

To Be Continued....