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Counter Earth Chronicles - Dual Realities

Chapter 9: I Can't Explain What You Can't Explain

February 14th YOE 35

Early morning somewhere in Chaundoon's Wilderness

"I can't believe the rumors were true!" Arthur exclaimed taking in the magnitude of the deities' celebration.

The royal chamber the Ghost Hunters had discovered was full of activity- there were musicians playing, dancing- Minka and Midnight Black as were many of the subjects of the deities were engaged in that. There was also drinking, singing and even a little debauchery as a griffin was chasing around a scantily dressed avian to much of the crowd's amusement.

A figure approached the hedgehog from the revelers. "Would you like to dance?" What looked like a cross between a salamander and dragon asked the leader of the Ghost Hunters.

"Your mouth moved!" Arthur exclaimed.

"Yes, yes it does do that." She replied.

"I was under the assumption that every being here was telepathic."

"No just our gods Haas and Selene, unfortunately we their subjects aren't. By the way you didn't answer my question."

The female looked like she was from Duchess Jua's clan- the sand folk. Perhaps a distant ancestor. She was orange and red, had quite the pleasing face with green penetrating eyes and small cute horns on the top of her head and was dressed in a white layered sash skirt but nothing else.

The hedgehog boy forced himself to try to stare at only at her face but was having a lot of difficulty- she had a bosom, a very lovely bosom. "Sorry, I am not really a good dancer."

"Gee, that is too bad, your companions seem to be quite good at it; they really are enjoying themselves." The lizard like she beast commented. "You on the other paw seemed pre-occupied."

"Well, it is not everyday that you see images on mural come to life or their leaders allow you to join their nocturnal celebration." The boy hedgehog commented as he looked at the spectacle around him.

"Oh, that? It happens every now and again when our gods' power is at its peak. They allow us to return to the physical realm, where you are now."

"Physical realm?" Arthur asked.

"This place." She replied.

"Really what is this place?" Arthur said looking over the marble chamber the celebration was taking place in.

"My you are a curious one."

"I am the name is Arthur and you are?"

"Haden. I suppose I could show you around. It is not often we are visited." She said offering her paw to the teen.

"Just how many visitors have you had?" The hedgehog boy started to ask.

"Actually you three are our first." She said starting the tour. "Here is the north end of the chamber. The south end looks exactly like this. It is really quite small once you leave its center."

Was Haden trying to be funny?

"So just enough space to sing, dance, drink and be merry." Arthur said cupping his chin.

"Yes to celebrate life." Hadan admitted. "You should celebrate life it is very fleeting." She said batting her eyelashes.

"Have you ever left the chamber to go outside?"

"We can't. We are bound to this place you see."

The hedgehog boy realized that the female had a bit of mystique about her. Which made him even more curious.

"Why is that? Because you and everyone here are dead?" The leader of the Ghost Hunters gasped realizing what he was asking.

Haden smirked, then grasped Arthur's paw lifted it up and placed it over her chest, much to the boy's embarrassment. Her breast type was definitely a size E. He then felt the beating of a heart.

"Sorry to disappoint you, but I am very much alive. Why did you think I was dead?"

"Well, uh my friends and myself have a interest in the paranormal. You see we investigate strange things. We found the inscription outside and saw the mural...."

"Which is what led you here. Since you are here now, that means that things must have settled down planet wide."

"Why was there a time when it was unsettled?" Arthur grew curious.

"There was." Haden responded.

"Well it is not like that now, everyone we have encountered on this world have for the most part been very friendly like yourself." Arthur said trying not to blush as he locked his eyes on Haden's other eyes- the areola rings around the nipples of her pleasantly shaped breasts.

"Wait, you are not from around here?" The lizard like being asked.

"Well myself and my companions are not of this world. We came here five months ago from another."

"Really? Due tell!" The female said inviting the teen to sit down like she was conducting a tell all interview.

"A little over a year ago my planet was the victim of a massive cataclysm- our ruler, his empire and all he created was felled by a dark entity that had been slowly gaining in strength."

"Incredible. No one noticed?" The she beast asked transfixed.

The hedgehog boy shook his head. "I suppose there were hints, but our leader and his forces did not detect it in time... they were dealing with other matters. When the fall happened, many died, his cities burned and there was much chaos. In the year that followed some of those that survived braved many horrors in the aftermath and eventually found their way to Chaundoon, this planet."

"So your civilization and all that you knew ended?" The dragon like being said taking Arthur's paw.

"Yes, all that is left is lawlessness and despair." The hedgehog boy thought of those who were left behind on Counter Earth.

"I know the feeling." The topless female replied.

"Did the same thing happen to your civilization? Is that how you came to inhabit a this place?" The leader of the Ghost Hunters asked transfixed awaiting his companion's response.

"You really want to know don't you?"

Arthur shook his head eagerly. "Yes, if you don't mind, details please."

"Well it is a long tale- one of ambition, power, sex, loyalty, betrayal, scandal, and murder."

(Serious mysterious!) Arthur thought to himself this is going to be good...

"Basically neighboring civilizations near us grew in power and size and wiped out ours." Haden said abruptly.

"That was oddly very brief." Arthur said disappointed.

"The whole story would take much longer than the time we have left to tell." Haden said soft peddling. "So before your world came to an end you and your friends must have investigated a lot of strange things?"

"We did."

"Tell me about it?"

"Well...."

So while Minka and Midnight Black continued to revel with Haas' and Selene's followers. Arthur regaled another of his subjects with tales of the Ghost Hunter's investigations. The good, the bad and the ugly....

"So you and Minka became prisoners of a evil being in another realm?"

"Yes. That was the first time that we became aware of worlds outside our own dimension." The hedgehog said to his companion.

"What was it like?"

"It was a desolate place of magma and fire. In actuality, the being was a proxy of another and took joy in tormenting his prisoners. Some how he could search our minds finding our darkest fears and make them into reality."

"How did you escape?"

"One of my team agreed to stay if he let the rest of us go." Arthur replied remembering that awful, awful day.

"Oh my."

"He accepted. That is how we were able to leave. She is still there."

"I am sorry to hear that. Do you think about her often?"

"All the time actually." Arthur said as he noticed his hostess started to fade in and out. "Haden is something wrong?"

"It is morning! Our time together is nearly at its end." The dragon like being said standing. "We better head back."

The two walked into to the royal chamber where god Haas and goddess Selene were over seeing their subjects.

The grey canid clapped his paws and instantly the musicians stopped playing, the dancers stopped dancing and everyone stood and looked at the deity who bowed his head.

The servants, artisans, musicians and the rest of the subjects nodded and started fading away.

"I enjoyed our time together Arthur. Remember us." Haden said grasping his paws as she disappeared.

Arthur soon found his companions. Both were on the ground near the mural. The hedgehog boy knelt to check on them. Midnight Black was passed out and from the smell on his breath, apparently the akita had a tad too much to drink. Right next to him was Minka sound asleep with a big smile on her face. Was it from all the partying or something else?

(Well, this was one of the more enjoyable cases he and his team had investigated)

Arthur thought as he watched the deities and their subjects fade into nothingness. Their images soon reappeared in the mural- god Haas, goddess Selene surrounded by their servants, artisans, musicians and subjects. He even spotted Haden holding a large palm frond.

The teen turned around to see to his sleeping friends. He was going to have one unbelievable story to tell Masha! As he started to walk away, a paw reached out of the mural grasping the surprised hedgehog pulling in within!

He was taken across a black void. The hedgehog boy tried to break free from the grasp but was unable to move at all. That was when he noticed that he was starting to fade like Haden had before she disappeared from the royal chamber.

Date Unknown

Location Unknown (A place outside of conventional time)

"Minka, Mr. Black?" Arthur said rising from where he found himself. Receiving no acknowledgement he examined his surroundings and himself- he was in a small dark alleyway dressed in a brown tunic- no shirt, undergarments or anything else.

What just happened? Let's see he, Minka and Midnight Black had encountered beings from a long lost civilization. After an awkward meeting with their rulers, they were allowed to frolic, dance and celebrate with them, then morning came and they returned to the mural they had emerged from, he watched them go before something happened and he became part of what they had investigated. Actually someone had pulled him into the mural. So this place he now found himself in was no longer the royal chamber. It looked like an alley between several tents?

The leader of the Ghost Hunters attempted to leave the alley but despite seeing a exit ahead of him could not move forward. It was like he had hit invisible wall despite it appearing to lead out of the alleyway. Like a mime in a box he placed his paws on the barrier trying to see if there was an exit or at least a way around it.

"Minka? Mr. Black?" The boy called out again trying to feel his away around. It was like he was in a package blocked on three sides. The opposite end of the alleyway was still seemed accessible though.

Arthur turned around and walked in the only direction he could. He emerged into bright sunlit walkway.

"WHOA!!!"

He was in the center of a hamlet. Was this inside the mural? On either side of the walkway were tents. At one end of the walkway was the end of the settlement at the other end a flat top brown pyramid. There was something at the apex, a temple- from its entrance was a long set of stairs which led to the walkway he was now standing on. Surrounding the pyramid were rainforests as far as the eye could see.

Looking around the hedgehog boy noticed that it was bustling with activity; he recognized many of the worshipers from the night before and they immediately noticed him!

"Arthur? What are you doing here?" Haden asked running up to the boy. She had been carrying a pitcher full of water from a well.

"I don't know. I think I was pulled into the mural." The boy said looking around.

"You shouldn't be here." The she beast said.

"What is here?" The leader of the Ghost Hunters asked.

"A small pocket dimension where we now reside. Come with me, we better tell the deities, they won't be pleased."

Hesitantly Arthur took Haden's paw she led him up the stairs to the top of the pyramid and into the temple while balancing the pitcher on her head.

The deities temple was composed entirely of marble. Marble floors, marble ceilings and marble walls as well ornate shrines of various designs. The thrones they sat on were even marble but painted different shades and colors on an elevated platform that benefited persons of their status.

Below the platform were numerous worshipers who bowed and prostrated themselves in front of Haas and Selene. It was a weird site for the hedgehog boy to process. He recognized those present- artisans, musicians, servants and subjects- the hieroglyphics on the rock structure he, Minka and Mr. Black had found.

As they entered, Arthur realized that the salamander/dragon's hunches were spot on- the gods were not pleased.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" The canid deity demanded standing up from his throne looking down at the teen. He was wearing eye shadow under his eyes, jeweled earrings with tassels along with decorative shoulder necklaces, golden belts around his white tunic.

"God Haas." Haden started to say. The grey canid looked at her and held up a paw finger indicating that she should be silent.

Arthur interpreted the situation and dropped to his knees in front of the god and goddess. He realized his future here where ever that was going to be determined right here, right now.

"ANSWER THE QUESTION!" The canid deity ordered. His mouth not moving.

"Wha? I... am not sure... I watched all of you disappear from the chamber... I was about to see to my friends and then... and then... I was pulled by something into the mural... across darkness and I found myself here. Where is here?" The boy asked.

"A SAFE PLACE FOR OUR SUBJECTS." Goddess Selene said joining her mate. She was wearing gold earrings, lavish two piece bathing suit with a blue shawl.

"You mean a realm?" The leader of the Ghost Hunters asked.

His question was left unanswered.

"Well I didn't mean to intrude sir, madam. However if you could send me back to my friends I will be out of your fur."

The grey candid looked at the white canid and she at him before they turned to address the hedgehog boy.

"We can't do that." They said in unison.

"Can't or won't? Are you holding me against my will?" Arthur looked up from his kneeling position.

(Gee this seemed oddly familiar.)

"We are sorry mortal but at the moment it is not within our power." Selene said gently.

"You mean I am stuck here?! For how long?" Arthur gasped as Haas approached him.

The being clasped the boy's left ear.

"He speaks the truth. You are carrying much with you boy- fear, pain, loss, sorrow, darkness, nothingness, thirst, misery and loneliness all from your previous journeys." The grey canid announced.

"Well you won't be returning from this latest journey. Not for a while." The goddess responded.

"It would appear our adventure seeking explorer has become part of that which he sought." The god said glancing at his mate. "What should we do with this outer-worlder?"

Haden raised her paw.

Arthur watched as the salamander/dragon approached the well adorned deities kneeled and said something to the two that he couldn't quite make out. They nodded.

And so the deities took in the hedgehog boy. Arthur became a menial servant of their court. In doing so, he started to realize how Flo felt being slave to the wolf demon in the realm of fire and magma forced to serve the dark being for the rest of her existence.

Was he to suffer a similar fate?

In the short time that he had known the god Haas and the goddess Selene they did not appear to be evil. In fact they were revered by their subjects. A scene he would see played out daily. All would give thanks to the deities for the place they resided, the freedom they had from pain, oppression, misery and suffering, the air they breathed, the food they ate and the water they drank.

The hedgehog boy would do the same.

The days came and went and Arthur waited on the god and goddess paw and footpaw. but it was hard to tell how much time had passed in the outside world because he had been removed far and away from the outside world.

"More wine master Haas?" Arthur said presenting a jug to one of the two seated canid deities.

"Yes, thank you servant." The grey canine god said as the hedgehog filled his cup. "Now resume your station."

With that Arthur placed the jug off to Haas' right. He then walked behind him and then the white canid deity appearing just to her left. He then picked up a palm frond and stated to fan her.

The hedgehog boy although curious about the civilization he was apart of, also longed for home- he missed his friends Minka and Midnight Black and the rest of the inhabitants of World Seven. As time passed Arthur's emotional state changed. He served the deities loyally and faithfully but he grew very homesick.

The god and goddess noticed.

One morning as the deities were in their bathing pool- Selene was being attended by two female numbats. She held out her arms as the two scrubbed her back, sides and chest before moving on to Haas where they repeated same activity.

The two were talking amongst themselves while being bathed. Perhaps it was about whom had brought their hedgehog servant here or when they would be able to return him back to where he belonged. But it seemed to be about him.

Arthur was ordered to approach. He poured water on the two canids rinsing them. Their hedgehog servant seemed distracted that morning.

"Haas, it would appear that the newest addition to our court is sad my love." The beautiful white canid said to her companion.

"Why? He is here because he expressed interest in learning more about our society dearest, did he not?" Haas responded.

"Yes, but has he? He served the both of us loyal and faithfully never asking anything for himself. What have we given him in return?" Selene responded.

"We took him in, given him purpose we also filled his belly and allowed him a place to rest."

"True dear, but I think he has grown homesick; he misses his companions and what life he had before." The white canid said to her mate.

"Hmm... I guess he can only learn so much from us through observing." The grey candid said trading glances with his mate.

"He does possess a curious mind and a thirst for knowledge." Selene replied staring at her mate. "What have we done to satiate it?"

"Very well." Haas said.

"Sir your royal penis has been throughly cleaned." One of the numbats said bowing respectfully.

"And your royal vagina has been as well my goddess." The other numbat said bowing respectfully.

"Sata, Sorrell we have one more task for you." The goddess said smiling.

The grey canid gestured to his sad hedgehog servant boy.

"Yes master." The brown stripped numbat responded.

"Yes master." The black stripped numbat responded.

"YOUNG ONE." Haas said rising from soaking pool to stare down Arthur.

He was really squeaky clean. So clean he sparkled.

"Yes sir?" The hedgehog said lowering the pitcher and placing at his side.

"You will accompany these two." Selene added. "They will teach you about this civilization you are now a part of."

"Yes master Haas." The hedgehog boy said bowing. He then followed the females out of the private bath, the court and outside of the temple.

"WOW. This view never gets old." Arthur exclaimed.

"This is your first time outside of the temple isn't it?" The brown stripped numbat asked.

"Well not since my arrival; I have waited on the deities paw and foot-paw."

"I think that was a test to see if they could trust you." The black stripped numbat responded.

"I see so is this place inside the mural?"

"Well yes and no. This is a small reality Haas and Selene created when they rescued us from destruction." Sorrell commented smiling.

"This is all that remains of our civilization." Sata added.

Arthur followed the two topless females who he realized were sisters looking at their tunics down the stairs of the pyramid.

"Yes. We are beyond grateful that anything survived at all." The two females said in unison. "We give thanks to our deities for their generosity, kindness, love and mercy every day." They said as the boy examined the pyramid structure. Its intricate detail. It was comprised entirely out of stone and assembled together.

With that the two females led Arthur down the walkway and into their hamlet.

"So everything here is artificial, the air, the sunlight, the rainforest?" The boy said looking into the blue sky with white puffy clouds.

(How is that even possible?)

"We are free to move about but there are limits." The black stripped numbat warned.

"Come see." The brown stripped numbat said.

The two led Arthur away from the walkway and into the jungle. He followed them marveling at the vegetation. They walked for a half mile before stopping.

"Here." Sata said touching an invisible barrier.

She bade the hedgehog boy to do the same.

Arthur felt the wall. It was transparent and interrupted their path.

"This is the physical extent of this reality." Sorrell replied.

"It looks like the forest goes on forever but it doesn't." Sata added.

That was the same thing the hedgehog boy had observed the day he arrived in this reality.

The two numbats led him back to their hamlet. Arthur learned that the pocket dimension in which they resided was small but it was paradise; their paradise, no hostile neighbors, fear of war, being conquered, strife or conflict- all here liked it that way.

"This one on the right." Sata said motioning. "It is not much, but it is home."

"You will reside here with us while serving god Haas and goddess Selene. Have a look around." Sorrell said opening the flap to the large tent.

Inside were three rooms. The main contained a simple table, some chairs, a fire pit, wash basin. the second was the bedroom blankets and pillows and the third appeared to be some type of recreation room. The boy hedgehog saw several instruments including a lute, harp, tambourine. It appeared the numbats were not just royal bathers- they were musicians within the deities' temple.

The females watched as their guest went from room to room studying the contents in each in detail. There was some similarity to instruments on his world.

"Do you like Arthur?"

"It is quite impressive. I know a archeologists from my community who would be quite intrigued." The leader of the Ghost Hunters admitted.

"But they are not here and you are. So you will have to be intrigued for them." Sorrell teased as she grasped his paw leading him to the bedroom. Sata followed.

The females sat the hedgehog boy down on a blanket with very soft pillows.

"I take it that I will be here for some time?" The teen asked his hosts.

"You are very preceptive." The black stripped numbat said.

"Goddess Selene did say he has a inquisitive mind." The grey stripped numbat added. "To answer your question yes. I am afraid our deities can only return you to the physical world when their power is at their strongest."

"You mean to the chamber with the mural?" Arthur asked as he noticed that both sat down on either side of him.

The two females nodded.

"That doesn't happen too often." They admitted.

"Because much of their power is spent maintaining this place." Arthur said dropping his gaze as the females removed their tunics making themselves comfortable. "So Mr. Black, Minka and I were lucky to stumble upon you when we did."

"There is something else you must know young one- time flows differently in this dimension."

The numbats had his attention now.

"How differently?

"For every 'day' that passes here, we think weeks pass by in the physical realm." Sorrell replied.

"Oh. So it is quite possible months and years may pass before..." The hedgehog boy said.

"Yes." Sata said sitting right next to the teen.

"So for the time being you will remain a member of Haas' and Selene's court; their servant." Sorrell said sitting on the other side of the teen.

The numbat sisters were completely naked each grabbing an arm of the shocked teen. They left nothing to the imagination. But they were lovely to look at none the less.

"Sata? Sorrell?" Arthur gasped as the beautiful nudes smiled at him.

"There is one more thing." The black stripped numbat said.

"Um what is that?"

"Goddess Selene has noticed that you have grown quite home sick in the past few days. It has affected your performance." The black stripped numbat said grabbing the boy's shoulder.

"God Haas has charged us with alleviating your sadness and depression by any means necessary." The brown stripped numbat said grabbing the boy's other shoulder.

The leader of the Ghost Hunters found himself hoisted, his clothing removed and lowered onto Sorrell's lap. Before he could say anything Sata was on his. She wrapped her legs around the hedgehog boy and then her sister.

Arthur was hugged from behind and from the front by the beautiful nudes- he felt their bosoms on his chest and his back.

"I think we will start with curing his loneliness, don't you agree sister?"

"Indeed sister."

"OH Sata!!" Arthur gasped as his penis entered a vagina for the first time in his life. It was a literal tunnel, warm, soft with a very pleasant organic smell.

The numbat sisters made love to the hedgehog boy. Kissing, squeezing and hugging him and his member. What a memorable first time it was for Arthur.

"Our masters said that you had a thirst for knowledge little explorer." Sata exclaimed in ragged breaths.

"We decided that we will satisfy that thirst through full cultural immersion." Sorrell gasped.

"That's right. We will tell you our stories, we will sing you our songs." Sata moaned.

"You will learn how we sang, danced, lived, and most importantly how we loved." The black stripped numbat female said fondling the teen's scrotal sack.

Arthur was enjoying his cultural immersion so much his loneliness evaporated as he was about to experience his first full blown orgasm.

*GAHH!!! OH SORRELL OH SATA!!!!*

"Wonderful simply wonderful." He heard one of his companions exclaim.

So this is what it was like to get laid? He really missed out while focusing on the paranormal.

"My so, so, so much. It was like it was his first time." The other companion exclaimed.

"I think it was." Sata said looking at the jizz leaking out of her sister. It was quite thick.

The two nudes embraced the boy.

Arthur looked at his semen, its thickness and viscosity- this came from him? The reproduction process is really fascinating.

"This was your first lesson in your cultural immersion." Sorrell said tracing her paw finger on the boy's chest.

"It was?" Arthur moaned.

"Yes. In our civilization there is no such thing as a teenage virgin. It is a societal norm." Sata imparted.

"Serious mysterious!" The hedgehog boy said without hesitation. "I would like to explore this further if you don't mind."

"He is such a bright boy." Sata observed.

"Agreed sister he will fit in nicely." Sorrell added.

To Be Continued....

[Meanwhile]

February 14th YOE 35

Early morning (Counter Earth)

The leader of the Ghost Hunters was in his bedroom studying a item he had obtained from their recent case at the 3.0 Boutique. Arthur manipulated the metal sphere in his right paw turning it over and over and over again. There didn't appear to be a notch he could pry it open and to look inside.

Where did this thing come from and how did it work?

Just then the door to his room opened and in walked his father.

"Dad?"

"So you are still up!" Mr. Speedwell said greeting his son. He was waring a blue robe and slippers.

"Yeah, I couldn't sleep." The hedgehog boy responded to his father.

"Well, you aren't the only one. It's Minka. She wanted to talk to you about that paranormal investigation you two went on after you had said that you weren't going on any more paranormal investigations." Mr. Speedwell said rather sternly.

"About that... sorry, it was a favor to a friend dad."

"You are a good boy." The elder hedgehog said kissing his son on the forehead. "So that was the thing that was causing the haunting?"

"Yeah, the night of the investigation it was playing this strange melody and causing items within the store to move on their own." The younger hedgehog replied to the elder.

"That is weird."

"It gets even weirder." The boy said to his father.

"I am listening."

"Minka and I saw ourselves within the sphere with another individual. It was as if we were watching a movie."

"What were you doing?"

"We were exploring these ruins outside a forest somewhere. I don't think it was on Counter Earth- the sky looked weird and the plants we saw looked even weirder. Just as it was getting interesting that was when the sphere shut down."

"Has it done anything since?"

"No it is like we had seen too much."

"Now that is serious mysterious." The father said to his son.

"AHEM!!" A impatient monkey girl said interrupting the father and son's bonding time.

"Yes Minka sorry." Mr. Speedwell said removing his son's cube from his robe's pocket and handing it to him.

"The gang and I are are going to visit the the city archives later this morning. It might be a good idea for you to join us." The cheeky monkey said yawning.

"Yeah, good idea Minka!"

"Ok now off to bed with the both of you; no more of this paranormal talk."

"Yes Mr. Speedwell." The monkey girl said ending the communication.

Arthur watched as his father placed his cube and the sphere on a table on the other side of the room.

10:24 AM a young hedgehog teen inadvertently slept in....

*beep* *beep* a communication cube chimed from across the bedroom.

"Hello?" A groggy hedgehog boy answered.

"Arthur, where are you?" A perturbed she monkey asked on the other end.

"Oh! Yes, yes sorry! I overslept!" The younger Speedwell said jumping up from his bed. He collected his things and started to head out his bedroom.

"Overslept?" His father asked as his son frantically looked for a jacket in their foyer.

"Yeah Minka and I were going to research the sphere a little more. Maybe we could determine what it is or where it came from."

"Alright be careful and be home by dinner." The elder hedgehog said hugging his son.

"Right dad. See you later."

10:54 AM City Archives....

Arthur made his way to the city archives where he found his fellow paranormal investigator deep within research. But not the kind he had been expecting.

*Sigh*

"Hey Minka sorry I am late do you have anything?"

"Yeah, I think Akitas are my favorite breed of canine especially the beastial type."

The hedgehog boy peered over the monkey girl's shoulder to see what she was looking at on the research table - reference counter. Jan's sexiest akita collection.

"This was what you were researching?!" Arthur said rolling his eyes.

"I still can't find the one we saw with ourselves in that sphere. I take it he isn't the centerfold type." She smiled. "But that tight butt and those muscles- simply fabulous!"

"Ahem, did you come up with any information on our mystic object?"

"Nothing. I even called in some friends..."

The hedgehog boy looked up to see some familiar faces Milo and Panda Lee. "Hey guys!"

"Hey yourself." The chubby wolverine boy said to his friend while the panda girl hugged him.

"Sorry I am late. I was doing some of my own research with my eyelids." The hedgehog boy blushed.

"So was Minka." The panda girl countered.

"So did you find anything?" The leader of the Ghost Hunters asked.

"Nothing on the extraterrestrial front." Panda Lee replied. "Milo and I combed what information was released."

"You mean what they were willing to admit." The chubby wolverine boy chimed in.

"Yes that and it wasn't much." The panda girl admitted.

"Mmm maybe we should come at this a different direction?" Minka said looking up from her akita collection.

"What do you mean?" The wolverine boy asked.

"Remember when you and Panda Lee encountered those extraterrestrials who were living here in World One?"

"You mean the Manassas?" The panda girl asked.

"That was right, you were in their home!" Arthur exclaimed.

"Yes you mentioned it was very metallic like. Did you see any objects like the sphere?"

"That was several years ago Minka."

"After they figured out we knew who they were, they threatened to erase our memories." The panda girl said.

"But you pleaded with them not to right?" The monkey girl asked.

"Yeah we did, but it doesn't mean they didn't replace them with false memories." Milo replied.

"The fact that you can recall the event now means they didn't." Arthur countered.

Milo and Panda Lee thought for a moment. Then shook their heads.

"No. I don't remember seeing anything like that in their home." Panda Lee replied.

"Yeah." Milo agreed.

"Well nothing on the paranormal front and goose eggs on the extraterrestrial front, that just leaves the history angle." Minka replied.

"Yeah has anyone seen Cody or Primrose?" Panda Lee asked.

"They are here too?" Arthur exclaimed.

"I left them in the history section." Milo admitted.

Meanwhile....

"This view of the city is magnificent isn't Cody?" Primrose said to her time traveling companion.

"It is. I will never ever take all this for granted- again." The white furred cat said taking in the view from the window.

"No argument from me on that either. Even with all its imperfections." The rabbit remarked to her friend.

"It makes what we went through to get it back and what we personally lost more than worth it." Cody added. "Even with the human dissenters."

"I think that element will always be present regardless of whoever is in power- look at the time period Dr. First was from. Our time period before the fall and now this current period after Sir Ram and Mara's correction." The rabbit girl interjected. "And the only price we paid was the loss of our youth."

"We agreed we wouldn't talk about this ever again." Cody warned.

"Yeah. so why are we still talking about it?" Primrose countered.

"Maybe we still feel guilty about making ourselves look younger than we actually are?"

"You could call it that, I call it picking back up where we left off after we spent all those years with Sir Ram and Mara trying to undo what was done. Regardless, I would do it again without hesitation- I mean my parents, your parents and are friends they are all alive!" The rabbit announced. "Which means you need to act a little less younger then you are now." Primrose warned Cody Spencer.

"What do you mean?"

"You were quite immature when you were thirteen remember?"

"Yeah, I do remember some of that and I seem to recall you were more shy and reserved."

"Hey You Guys!!!" The monkey girl shouted greeting the adult cat and adult rabbit masquerading as their younger selves.

"It is still amazing you two started your growth spurt before rest of us." Arthur said greeting the Cody and Primrose.

"Um, yeah- I guess it is one of those things." Cody said trying to act like his thirteen year old self.

"I take it you four didn't have any luck?" Primrose asked the Ghost Hunters and Alien Hunters.

"Nothing on the paranormal side and nothing on the extraterrestrial side." Milo admitted.

"Did you find anything in the history archives?" Panda Lee asked.

"Nothing. Goose egg." Cody admitted.

"So that metal sphere...." Primrose said.

"Remains a big unknown." Arthur said thinking out loud. "There is simply nothing on it."

"What about YOUR archives?" The chubby wolverine asked.

"Huh?" Minka asked.

"We checked the extraterrestrial angle both current and past." The she panda said.

"Primrose and I checked the time angle present and past." The he cat added.

"I assume you and Minka checked recent paranormal events, what about your archives?" Milo asked.

"In Flo's van." The hedgehog boy admitted.

"It is hard for us to... to..." The monkey girl admitted.

"Still we need to check it out." Arthur said.

The four teens and two adults masquerading as teens made their way to Flo's van which had been parked in an long term garage near the arts district. Arthur, Milo, Panda Lee and Minka made entry while Primrose and Cody kept watch.

Once inside the four of them started reviewing all of the Ghost Hunters' cases looking for any objects similar to the metal sphere that was found in the 3.0 Boutique ultimately the four of them hit a dead end.

"And that is the last of the files." Arthur said halting playback.

"So this object remains a riddle, wrapped inside a enigma, housed inside a glass case." the chubby wolverine said picking up the sphere.

"Milo!!" Panda Lee shouted as the metallic sphere came alive once again.

"Arthur! Check this out." Mika called out to her partner.

The hedgehog, joined the panda and monkey as they crowded around the wolverine.

"Hon hon, not like that. Move your paw like this." A yellow multi-tentacled eyeball said to the panda girl.

"Right! What does that do again?" She asked.

"It activates the scanners. You can now see what is immediately around the ship." The eyeball replied.

"And what does that button do?" Milo asked the red tentacled eyeball next to him.

"Engages and disengages the viewscreen." Was the creature's reply.

"That is Hue and Cassia!" Panda Lee shouted looking at the projection from metal sphere.

"And we are with them... on some type of spacecraft!!" Milo exclaimed as the projection went dark.

"Yeah, the sphere has a tendency to do that from time to time." The monkey girl replied.

"Was that a image from the future or something else?" Milo asked.

"We have been trying to figure that out for weeks." Arthur replied.

"Mysterious object what exactly are you?" Minka asked as the sphere projected one more image. One of a nearly nude wolf demon laying flat on a table. He was being worked on by a completely nude orange orangutan.

"A little lower slave." The dark being ordered.

Obediently she moved lower massaging his neck.

"Like wow, you have a lot of tension there master. Perhaps you should start stretching more before your fights?" Flo suggested.

"Less talking and more kneading slave." Diamantopoulous ordered.

"You betcha!" Flo replied as she moved downward to the wolf's trapezius muscles.

"Mmrrr. You are one of the better acquisitions I have made." The wolf demon freely admitted as he enjoyed her administrations.

To Be Continued....