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Counter Earth Chronicles - Dual Realities

*Chapter 25: Can You Feel The Fear? *

August 31st YOE 35

1:13 PM Entertainment District (World One)

"RELEASE YOUR ANGER! RELEASE YOUR MIND! RELEASE YOUR JOB! RELEASE THE TIME! RELEASE YOUR TRADE! RELEASE THE STRESS! RELEASE THE LOVE! FORGET THE REST!" The human protestors shouted to the beastials entering and exiting shops, stores, restaurants and entertainment venues up and down the strip that afternoon as I watched from a nearby alley.

(That has to be the strangest protest chant that I have ever heard.)

The crowd was about thirty or so second class citizens who were vehemently voicing their displeasure about the Overseer system and their increasingly marginalization and subjugation in beastial society.

Being a pet of an enforcer of the dictator- I was sheltered from what most of humanity experienced on this world. After learning that the humans on my planet destroyed it, I sided with the beastials upon my arrival on Counter Earth realizing that humanity here needed to be kept in check to prevent from destroying themselves and the planet. Now I am not so sure... what about outside forces that are neither beastial or human? The KLIS or the entity Sir Ram prevented from destroying the empire when he changed the timeline? ONE? Whatever, it is complicated.

The protest went on for almost thirty minutes until the Knights of Wundagore arrived- Sanda, Chemar, Cole and Springer. Four former colleagues I shared an adventure or two before I was stripped of my consultant position with the knights.

The four of them parked their hover bikes and went to 'talk' with the protestors.

"Alright break it up everyone!" The caracal said singling out two adult males whose clothing obviously revealed they weren't exactly getting by. The two were holding wooden signs.

"Hey! Hey! We have a right to be here!" One of the men shouted back.

"Do you now?" The cheetah asked. "You cleared it with your overseer?"

Some of the humans in the crowd nodded, but not all.

"So if we contacted them, not a single one would object to you all being here, protesting their hold over you?" The donkey asked.

Some in the crowd lowered their signs looking bewildered and scared while someone corrected Cole.

"Don't you mean dominion governor?"

"The high master does allow some dissent and disapproval but only to a certain point." The male deer next to the cheetah opined.

"How much is that?" A woman in tattered clothing within the group asked.

"About fifteen minutes." Sanda replied. "You have been here twenty nine."

There were a few audible gasps from the crowd.

"Round them up." Springer ordered. "All of them."

"Those of you that are here with their overseer's permission will be lightly judged and punished." Cole announced pulling out his service weapon.

"And those here without their overseer's position will be severely judged and punished." Chemar announced removing his service weapon.

I knew from past experience that the knights would use the paralysis setting on their weapons, haul in the crowd and sort through them- those who severely transgressed today would most likely be sentenced to experimentation with or without their knowledge. Another example of beastial domination over of humans.

In the past I would have said that the condemned should have worked within the system for change... follow all of the rules... stay within your lane.

(Not today.)

I quietly made my way from my vantage point in the alley to one of the parked hover bikes. I think it was Springer's which was parked behind Chemar's, Sanda's and Cole's. I decided to put my knowledge and experience to use from my time with Lady Ursa.

As the four knights were about to stun the protestors a hover bike mysteriously activated and went screaming towards the atmosphere.

"The heck?" Springer shouted.

"You forgot to engage the stabilizer again didn't you?" Cole asked his fellow knight.

"Cole, Chemar take care of that before someone gets hurt." Sanda ordered. "Springer, you and I are going to have an extensive talk about hover bike safety."

"Um, watch commander..." The deer said gesturing to the human crowd they were going take in.

The two remaining knights watched as the protestors scattered in all directions like startled zebras.

(Springer, you were always a putz.)

1:32 PM Exeter Station's Bazaar (World One)

"Ursa, any news?"

"No." The bear knight said responding to the image of a rat lady on her communicator as she wandered through a row of storage lockers behind some tents. "All attempts to find him have been unsuccessful."

"Well there is a reason for that, he knows our methods, our procedures; our ways."

"I am not sure if he is even in the five cities Lady Vermin."

"Sounds like the fight you had with him was quite bad." The rat lady said sympathetically.

"It was. I suspect that he may have hooked up with some individuals who left the empire permanently." The she beast said rummaging through another row of grey lockers.

"Ursa, we will find him. We have to for your sake." The rat lady said ending the communication.

"Not if he doesn't want to be found." The bear woman said underneath her breath.

Her Essence of Winter emergency supplies were running low. If and when they finally ran out she would start to succumb to her degenerative condition- her cold would come back, she would start to lose her mobility, her ability to function, to live, to be a knight, becoming nothing more than a large plushie doll.

The warrior bear thought about the times she had spent with her pet human over the years, the adventures they have had, the crap they had been through, the love they had made and it seemed like it had come to an end and so would she.

That was when her communicator alerted and she stopped at a particularly small locker halfway down the aisle she was in. It was surrounded by a wall of larger ones. She looked around. This particular area of the bazaar she, Lady Vermin and Alex had attended earlier this year was deserted.

She wondered why her communicator had led her to this particular spot at this particular location. The brown bear clasped the handle and swung open the door which was about the size of her paw. Inside she discovered four corked test tubes of this milky white substance with a small card. There was a hand written message on it:

Still mad at you, but unlike the master you serve I will eventually get over it... Maybe....

-A. W.

It appeared that her former pet was still fuming from their fight, but not enough to see her succumb to her condition.

"Alex." The bear said flipping over the card.

Months earlier....

April 10th, YOE 35

8:00 AM The Lair (Castle Wundagore)

I was all smiles on the outside as I bid my she beast farewell that morning. More knight core missions don't you know.

She had lost a couple of patches of fur trying to get unstuck from some weird immobilization goo she and Lady Vermin were splattered with trying to nab a elderly couple that had 'moved' away from the empire. She told me that Mara was still analyzing the substance trying to figure out who made it.

I think I already knew. On the inside that made me apprehensive. The leader of the new rebellion had reached out to me. After weeks of these subtile secret communications he wanted to meet. He said it was of a matter of great importance. That did intrigue me. That group did have their tentacles deep within the knight core here in the World One. I wondered if it was the same in the other cities of the empire? I offered right then and there. He declined. It would be a date and time of his choosing; one where I wouldn't be missed for a few hours since I was on such a short leash with my beastial overseer. That time was now.

After Lady Ursa left for the morning I sat on the sectional staring at the hub monitor for about an hour. I guess the new rebellion was making sure the coast was absolutely clear. Then came a game request. I accepted.

The great room of the lair faded away to reveal a boat on a large body of water. I was leaning on a railing at the stern. In the distance there were two islands separated by this large body of water we were in. On the right appeared to be a city whose architecture, decadence and magnificence resembled that of the empire. To my left another island and another city its make up was completely foreign.

"Magnificent isn't?" I heard a familiar voice behind me say. I turned around to see a bald headed gentleman with a black trimmed beard and slight wrinkles under his hazel eyes. He was wearing a green shirt and blue pants.

"Riz?"

He was the head of the neighborhood watch in the Stuyvesant community in the basement. Lady Ursa and I had met him during the Holiday Harmony incident some weeks back.

"What are you doing here?"

I remembered seeing Iya and Auggie in the crowd that had gathered that afternoon and all of a sudden everything clicked.

"You are Deer-feeder?! You?!"

(Careful Alex, he is much, much, much, much more than what he seems.)

I have run across characters like him before while in service to the knights. That maniacal Dowd in the Maximum came to mind.

The leader of the new rebellion did not acknowledge my question.

"What you are seeing here is the master plan Mr. Winter. Two civilizations the beastials and their dictator over there and humanity and over there." He said pointing to the two islands.

"You do know the High Evolutionary will not allow this? Look at the hidden colony- World Six for example. Even if it did some how come to pass, you know there would be at some point a war between the two nations which would be catastrophic for everyone involved if not the planet. I know because...."

"It happened on Gaia." He said catching me off guard. "I have studied you and your history quite extensively." Riz replied. "In fact two of my operatives hold you in very high regard."

"Well you also know that if humanity were to form their own civilization apart and away from the beastials they would just screw it up and end up fighting amongst themselves. The warring states period for example. Iya and Auggie came from that." I warned.

"Which was prior to the High Evolutionary's arrival on this planet. I am quite familiar with their history as well. This time around would be much, much different." The man said to me.

"Why? Because it would be a monarchy? Dictatorship? Theocracy? Democracy? What would be different?"

Deer-feeder did not answer.

(I wondered if he was a KLIS in disguise.)

I decided to move on. "You wanted to meet with me. How could you be sure that I wouldn't expose you?"

"You could have Mr. Winter but that would not have improved the situation you are in. I have said it before and I will say it again- you will never be redeemed Mr. Winter."

I directed my attention to the bald headed man with the nicely trimmed beard.

"You were hoping that things will return to the way they were before your transgression. They will not. With THEM you crossed a line that can't be overlooked."

"Yes the high master holds grudges for a long time." I said finally acknowledging what he had been saying to me during our past conversations.

"You have been labeled a pre-rebel Mr. Winter, there will always be doubt... that suspicion among your friends, acquaintances and lover that you may completely turn some day."

I started to state my opposition to his opinion- the many many many many missions I have gone on to assist the knight core, my beastial friends and my lover risking my life and then there was the time I spent in suspended animation in the Maximum. But Riz cut me off.

"The conditioning therapy, the programming sessions, the probation and the short leash will never ever end Mr. Winter unless YOU end it; face it, the life and privileges that you had ended that day you defied the High Evolutionary."

"But all that I did was question the decisions he made regarding World Six and de-evolving Spirt! What about everything I did before that in support of the empire?" I stammered.

"You were just a means to an end Mr. Winter. A way for a poisoned warrior (Lady Ursa) to continue serving the empire... A way for the beastials (Lord Tiger, Lady Vermin, Sanda, Chemar, Cole, Springer) to thwart their enemies... to extend their power and control (Sir Ram, Mara Goat) to those they deemed inferior. It has happened, it is happening and will continue to happen."

"And you know this how?!" I asked crossing my arms frowning.

"The fuzzies are experimenting on you." He said rather bluntly.

"Mara Goat has used me to test several of her inventions- the knight's service weapon enhancements and the prototypes. I especially love the prototypes."

"The tech on them is amazing isn't it?" He asked me.

"Yes." I replied remembering my first time in the copilot seat of the original blue coupe.

"And very easy to use against them." Riz added shifting the conversation.

"You lured me here stating that I was being experimented on. Can you back that up?"

"How long have you been in those conditional therapy sessions with Sir Ram?"

"Four going on five months. Wait, is that all you have?" I asked looking him in the eye.

"Remember the impromptu protest Sir Ram had you break up while on night patrol a few weeks back? As I recall you slaughtered those that attacked you without thinking. Why was that?"

"I thought it was a result of my indoctrination." I replied recalling that horrible night and how my mistress reassured me that my actions were justified.

"That was the pre-prototype and I am not talking about the hover vehicle you were seated in. Remember the errand Auggie and Iya sent you on to find out the whereabouts of a missing member of our community?"

"Yeah, I discovered that he had been released by the knights after being judged and punished."

"He wasn't. Was he?" Riz said raising an eyebrow.

"What are you getting at?"

"Yesterday when you went to see your healer for a love bite from your bear...."

I started blushing at that remark.

"Do you remember what happened during your visit?"

"She treated my puncture wounds and I returned back to the home I share with Lady Ursa." I said recalling the events of yesterday afternoon.

"And when you saw Aldor Cancel in the lioness' lab?"

"I was shocked when I realized it was him... wait... why am I remembering this now?"

"That was their second prototype Mr. Winter. We believe it is a device they are developing to control all the humans within the empire- to take away our free will making us subservient to them and ensuring the high master's reign now and forever."

(But since I am remembering what I was supposed to forget, it isn't perfect.)

"Why are you so shocked- remember the mind probe Sir Ram threatened to use on you the day of your arrival on this planet? It is just an extension of that." Deer-feeder said.

"And they have been testing it on me?!"

Riz smiled while he let me unpack the crux of our conversation.

"That Q and A session with Sir Ram where he asked me about the secret secrets that I had buried deep...."

"Let me guess you tried to prevent from answering but you did anyway. That was the first prototype."

"So Riz why are you telling me this?" I asked realizing the magnitude of what I had openly admitted to Sir Ram.

"I thought that you liked to stay on the cutting edge Mr. Winter? Well you are literally. Well that is all for now I will leave you to digest what you have just learned; All that you have just learned."

With that the game ended and I was back on the sectional in the great room.

April 10th YOE 35

11:11 AM Stuyvesant Neighborhood (World One)

"Riz, how was you gaming session?" Auggie asked as he walked into a small office the bald headed man currently resided in.

"Brief, but I did give our newest operative much to think about." The leader of the new rebellion said staring at the grizzled former Alliance solider from behind his desk.

To Be Continued....

[MEANWHILE]

August 31st YOE 35

1:13 PM World Seven (Chaundoon)

"Psi welcome back!" Ripple said greeting the sand dragon's healer as he made entry to the city.

"Welcome back shaman." Chemar said. "How was your expedition?"

"It went well; I was able to restock the infirmary's herbs and medicinal supplies." The grey dragon replied.

"I had heard they were critically low." The cheetah replied as the sky darkened.

"Well they were put to good usage healing two of the city's most prominent warriors."

"It is great to be up and about again." The she dragon replied.

"I hear ya." Chemar replied. "I could do without this though. The daylight has shortened."

"The imbalance has become exceedingly worse over the last few weeks." Ripple replied.

No sooner had she uttered those words, The day had faded into evening.

"I was looking into that as well. It doesn't make any sense." Psi replied.

"Everything is pointing back to the third moon." The she dragon replied.

"Is Penny still going to?" The cheetah asked.

"Yeah. I hope I got back in time." The living statue said to the knight and dragon defender.

"Yeah she is on Main Street outside the central hanger. I just hope this one does better than her past trials."

"Ripple!" The cheetah said chastising her.

"Well there was the botched experiment from four months ago, then the power bracelets that were supposed to inhibit the effects of the crazy and then the..."

"Ok so she doesn't exactly have the best success record." Psi replied as he readjusted his sack over his shoulder.

"Actually I think her lack of success trying to resolve this crisis is getting to her." The cheetah fidgeted as a chain-line of clouds moved over the city at an accelerated pace.

"In what way knight?" Psi asked.

"I think it has made her crazed."

"Chemar!" Ripple said chastising him.

"I also sense that the vibe in the city has changed." Chemar said fidgeting.

"How so knight?"

"Everyone has taken on a more somber attitude. Like this is the beginning of the end." As evening turned to night.

The shaman heard that cat's words but decided not to dwell on that. He walked past the two bickering guards into the city toward the central hanger on Main street where he found the head of medical sciences in a joint project with the planetary sciences division... yeah, she was crazed.

"This is going to work! It has to work! It Must work!! We are out of options!" The she penguin babbled out loud.

"Everything alright Penny?" The bare chested grey dragon asked coming over to check on her.

"Psi, this has to work, it must work- you, me the whole planet is running out of time!" The she penguin said as some torches were lit.

(Man this is crazy!!!)

Looking at that nicely chiseled bare chest, those perfect pecs, beautiful biceps and the rest of those magnificent muscles was enough to make her swoon. What was underneath his white kilt wasn't too bad as well. Penny had to constantly remind herself that he was sculpted that way. He was after all a former statue brought to life by the charm he wore around his neck. He was literally made to look the way he does. But he was so dreamy....

"Hey boss are you sure this is going to work?" I shouted over from where the blue prototype was parked at the entrance of the city.

"It has to work, it must work, we are out of options!!!" Was her response.

I traded glances with the meerkat mechanic in the driver's seat. "Is she okay?!"

"Well things have really gone down hill recently. Even taking into account that the planet is enchanted..."

"Meena that isn't too reassuring." I replied as she waved to red the prototype with Tilikun and Lady Ursa and they waved to Cole and Sanda who were in the white prototype. They in turn waved at the extraterrestrials in their sky ship above the center of the city where Gluay and Khai were assisting Hue and Cassia.

"Ok we are about ready to bring up the defense shield." She said pointing to each of the prototypes evenly spaced around the city.

"So exactly who came up with this defense shield?" Psi asked the she penguin.

"I got the idea from the Eeth." Penny said with a gleam in her eye.

"Really?" The shaman asked.

Four months ago....

April 9th YOE 35

11:51 AM King's Throne Room (Central Tower)

"Let me get this straight you want all the humans in our colony?" Masha asked the thing that was inhabiting Angi's body.

"Yes." Bine replied to the ugly female pitbull. "I am of the Eeth."

Everyone present saw visions of an ancient, proud civilization, on the far side of the planet living in pyramid like structures and worshiping a white glowing pearl.

"May we ask why?" Shira inquired.

"Are you kidding? Look at this body! See how weak, soft, flimsy and limiting this caporal form is male or female!" Bine said gesturing to himself and then me at the far side of the room. "It is like they are doing all they can just to keep breathing; this form is fascinating!"

(Um, thanks?)

The colony council members were taken aback by that comment and the indecent proposal; they traded glances with each other as did King Dragon, Duchess Jua and ambassador Umebo.

"In exchange for your colony's humans we will protect you from all that which is befalling the planet." Bine said inviting everyone to look out of the windows.

World Seven had been transferred to the Eeth's backyard- the plane of tranquility. The city rested on a slightly damp glass-like terrain. A magnificent blue sky with large white puffy clouds gently advanced overhead.

"It is very beautiful." Song replied looking around.

"And very peaceful." Naka added. "But to give up Kiwi for this?! No."

The female chakat agreed. "We love Kiwi as if he were our own."

"Alex is mine and mine alone." The brown bear said placing her paw on my shoulder.

*Ahem.*

A red eyed lioness nearby corrected the brown bear.

"Ours." Lady Ursa replied.

"Awww." I replied blushing.

"Mmmm...." The duchess said pondering.

"Jua!" Sorren said bringing his consort back to reality.

"The price is too high Eeth." The leader of the sand folk replied. "All of... this community we are more than the sum of our parts. Including the humans."

"Our humans are not property, they are part of our colony, family. The answer is no." King Dragon replied firmly throwing a glance at me.

"It is a pity." Bine said sighing. He snapped his fingers (well, Angi's fingers) and the central tower and the rest of World Seven re-emerged from the Eeth's backyard.

The being drew irate stares from the monarchs, council members, knights and medical staff present.

"It appears I have over stayed my welcome. I will return in four of your months if you should change your minds." Bine said exiting the throne room post haste.

"NEVER." Basil replied as the others around him agreed.

"We shall see...." Bine said looking back into the crowd.

Now....

"You see Psi the prototypes are placed at equal locations around the city- we are going to use them in concert with the Manassas' spaceship to generate a protective dome shielding World Seven and all of us from the effects of the dark moon."

"That looks like it is going to require a lot of power." The grey sand dragon observed.

"It has to work, it got to work, it must work!" The penguin babbled. As the darkness started to give way to light.

"Okay." The shaman said as the she penguin gave the thumbs up signal. That was our cue.

One by one each of the prototypes powered on as well as the skyship overhead. A translucent dome appeared over the city making it look like one of those shakeable snow globes I saw during the holidays on Gaia.

"IT'S WORKING!!! IT'S WORKING!! We are all saved!!!" Penny said hugging Psi.

"Alex!! I am seeing massive system failures!" Meena announced. The upper right monitor in the center stack confirmed it.

"Overwatch what is your status?" I asked.

*The power drain is too much for the prototype's systems..... can't maintain....*

No sooner had the words had been uttered the blue coupe crashed hard. Followed by the red and white.

Penny watched horrified as the shield dissipated in front of all who came to watch the event. Yet another Penny Penguin failure. Just as it was becoming daylight too.

"Meena what happened?" Penny gasped.

"The power drain was too much for the blue prototype and I would also say the red and the white as well." The meerkat replied.

I waved at Tilikun and my mistress and they at Cole and Sanda to confirm.

"Yup, they are all offline." I replied to the she penguin.

"Another failure. The city is now defenseless!! We are all doomed." My supervisor gasped.

"Penny." Psi said clasping her arms. "It is alright we will figure this out we are in this together- you and I. Besides we still have Attack Beast and the Manassas' sky ship to guard the city."

That was when the sky ship fell to the ground. Most likely it's power drained as well.

*KRAAAAAAAAAAAASH*

"Okaaaaay, just Attack Beast." The sand dragon said embracing the despondent penguin as daylight resumed.

September 1st, YOE 35

11:11 AM Mirrored Forest (Wilderness outside Three Rivers Pride Territory)

"Weird!" Naomi replied looking at her reflection. The other her pointed at her white loin-cloth and the fact that her companions had none.

"Don't get too close." Annette warned.

"But it is only my reflection along with all the plants and trees around us." Ms. Good countered studying her mirrored doppelgänger.

"Is it?" Annette warned as her own reflection smiled at the two of them shaking a paw finger.

Naomi realized that Annette's reflection was not mimicking her actions.

"And again I am reminded how enchanted and bizarre this backwater planet is." The teen said holding her co-slave's paw looking skyward.

The barren feline petted her friend on her head reassuring her before returning to their quest.

"Is this what we are looking for sir?" Annette asked the tribe's witch doctor.

He looked at the purple bulb Saber's slave was holding.

"No. It must have a multicolored stem." The young brave said gently.

The female with the wide butt and big breasts returned to the scavenger hunt she and Naomi were participating for medicinal supplies Pestle desperately needed.

"Something is definitely off with the sky today. Why does it keep changing colors?!" He said to himself.

First it was yellow with white clouds, then it changed to red, then blue and now orange. Something was not right. He thought to himself as the sounds of the forest were pierced by screams.

"Aiieyaa!" The freckled teen looked at her feet they seemed to be six feet off the forest floor. Her eyes then looked to her waist where she saw what had clasped around her and picked her up from the base of the tree she had been walking around moments earlier... it was the tree itself!!

Earlier....

August 31st, YOE 35

10:50 PM S'mar nation (Three Rivers Pride's Territory)

Annette wearily made her way through the center of the tribe's encampment. It had been a long day of chores for her. Saber had assigned her additional duties today. He was in a mood.

The barren female had noticed it too. The amount of laundry she and Naomi had to wash, stitch and repair was down significantly. Most likely due to the tribe's numbers dwindling.

It had been a rough four months for the Three Rivers Pride from skirmishes with other prides, animal attacks, hostile weather, creature attacks including the pyron incident, they had lost a lot of warriors. Right now the center of their encampment should be bustling with activity but it was the equivalent of a ghost town.

Saber was in a fowl mood because his plans for looting, plundering and conquering were placed on hold due to limited resources. Heck he even made her clean out the bog near the marsh- the tribe's community toilet.

Annette took her time coming back after bathing- she watched two from her tribe copulate in the bush amazed that they felt safe enough giving what was going on and wishing it was her the male was trying to impregnate. Well the tribe did need to ramp up their numbers.

Annette was brought back to reality as she heard a commotion from the hut she share with the leader of the Three Rivers Pride chief-tan.

"EEEKK!!!"

As she peered into the doorway she observed a disturbing but humorous exchange.

"Master!!! Master!! What is wrong?!" Naomi squealed as the lion/leopard/tiger/jaguar grinned fiendishly at his freckled slave girl.

"Oh nothing is wrong." Saber said licking his chops creeping in slowly like a predator who has zeroed in on his prey. "I feel like hunting."

"Oh, that is good. I remember reading that a predator is at their best when hunting and I know it has been a bad week... err month well a bad couple of months with everything that happened you could use the distraction my master." Naomi said trying to calm down as she was being backed into the corner of the hut. "So what are you hunting?"

"YOU." Saber grimaced. He had a laser light focus on the brunette freckled teenager.

"Um.... Why?" She squeaked.

"I am going to eat you." Was his cold, disconnected response.

"Now....now master I... I... know that I haven't been the most docile and obedient servant." Naomi eeped.

"Slave." The savage replied correcting her.

"I have a habit of speaking out of turn, stating what is on my mind, complaining frequently... well a lot... and not conforming to S'mar customs...."

The teen's words fell on deaf ears.

*POUNCE*

Naomi was on her back staring up at the ravenous feline as her fellow slave entered the hut.

"Help!! Help!! Annette he going to eat me!!" The terrified teen called out to her friend.

"So he is." The female feline replied rather coldly. "Let him."

"WHAT?!" Naomi gasped as her white loin-cloth was shredded.

She stared in horror at the drooling ravenous feline who was licking his chops. This was it! That snout, sharp teeth and tongue lurking above her breasts, lowered to her abdomen and finally her groin. Namoi felt her sex being spread wide before it was penetrated.

*OAH* She moaned as she was eaten out.

The girl laid back and moaned as her master sucked and licked her insides. The feeling was indescribable! She never moaned and gasped more in her entire life!

*Master I'm cu... oh.. ohh!!! Oh yes!!!!* she moaned as her release claimed her.

Had she? Saber removed his snout from her vagina to see long strings of goo. Yup he had made her cum.

When she could form a coherent thought again. Naomi grasped Annette's meaning. "Oh not eaten but _eaten..." _

Her co-slave's laughter reinforced that.

"You are next!" Saber said to his older more experienced slave.

Naomi held Annette's paw as their master tongue sexed their genitals. Before laying on the both of them.

Despite their playtime together his youngest slave sensed that his demeanor had not changed.

"Something wrong master? You seem quite irritable." The teen said as she ran her hand through the pride's leader hair.

*Pout*

"You overstep your position girl." She heard him say.

"Where I am from it is good practice to clear one's mind before rest otherwise sleep will become quite difficult."

"Naomi...." Annette warned.

"So you have become my advisor now?" Saber asked looking at his slave girl.

Naomi squeaked as the pride's chief-tan focused his attention on to her. His newest slave. She felt a raspy breath on her neck, then his chin fur as it made its way past her collar bone to her developing bosom.

"You have changed wench." The feline warrior hissed.

"I have master?"

"You are no longer that confused, scared, bewildered, off-worlder that wandered on to our battlefield moons ago. You have come a long way since then."

"Why thank you master Saber, that is the nicest thing you have ever said to me."

The freckled teen was surprised at receiving such a compliment. That was when she heard the follow up.

"Now you are only just scared." The savage teased his slave as Annette laughed.

"During my time living among this pride I have come to realize that my life is directly related to your prosperity; if there is no Saber the vicious, there is no Three Rivers Pride. If there is no Three Rivers Pride, the there is no Naomi or Annette.

"So you figured out how things work here have you? Smart girl." The savage observed.

"This doesn't exactly encourage me either." The freckled teen said realizing what her master was concerned about appeared to be true; there weren't that many braves in their settlement anymore their numbers dwindling due to the chaos befalling Chaundoon. So much so that what was left of entire tribe could fit in the chieftain's hut.

"Quiet Naomi." Saber said hushing her.

(Did he just?!)

*SMOOCH*

He leaned forward toward her, she did the same and they kissed.

"Feeling better wench?"

"A little sir." The teen studied his yellow eyes, whiskers, that toothy grin of his sabertooth teeth and his face that seemed to be sneering.

"Good."

The teen realized over the past three months that she had developed feelings for this, vicious, ruthless, warmongering savage that had taken her as his possession. Well not like she had many options- life on this side of the planet was hard, unforgiving and very very primal. There was no such thing as law and order only loyalty to one's tribe. To keep it healthy, to keep it strong. She would have surely perished soon after her arrival on this world if not for him taking her in.

Ok so she was his indentured servant, his slave- well sex slave- but she did have a roof over head, three square meals a day and duties to perform within the tribe that matched her status and position.

Yeah it was a primitive life without the modern conveniences she had grown accustomed to but there was a sort of purity to it. The minimal clothing, the bare backsides, everyone's genitals on display and the naming convention for the tribe's inhabitants. She did like the fact that when she actually checked out a warrior she could really CHECK them out.

*THOKK!!* *THOKK!!* *THOKK!!*

The kisser and the kissed were brought back to reality as something grazed the savage warrior's shoulder and Naomi's arm before striking the wall in the far corner.

"What was that?" She gasped.

It was followed by several more.

"It is an attack!!" Her master snarled.

"There!" Annette shouted.

In the entrance of the hut stood a silhouetted someone with a bow and arrow!

"Another pyron? Skin walkers? White Shadows? Black Shadows?"

Annette cast her net capturing the would be assassin just in time for her master to reach for his machete.

*SLICE* *SLICE* *SLICE*

The figure in the doorway fell, his head bouncing off his knees.

Naomi gasped. The felines did not take did not like intruders!

September 1st, YOE 35

12:01 AM

"It is just a simple scratch." Saber said playing the tough guy.

"From a assassin's arrow tipped with poison sir." Annette observed as the pride's new healer looked at the chief's wound. "If he had scored a direct hit..."

"He didn't, but I did." Saber announced looking at the severed head sitting by the entrance to the hut. "He completed his life's purpose by allowing me to end it."

"Here, apply this ointment, it should alleviate the immediate effects once it is activated." The healer ordered.

"Thank you. What was your name again?" Saber asked.

"Pestle sir. I began my training after Hammer succumbed to his- well became a pyron and his successor was devoured by a white shadow and his successor, my predecessor..."

"Died in the battle with Pantanal pride. Annette added.

"Yes you received your name just recently. Not much of a warrior..." Saber said staring down the young brave.

He wore a red cummerbund around his waist, armband around his arm, beaded neckless and a mortar strapped to his back. He was rather young, slender with only average sized genitals. Nice spots on his limbs and torso though.

"I am more proficient with the mortar and pestle than I am with the club or the blade Sir."

"Unlike your predecessors." Saber replied as Pestle started moving his paws over the savage warrior's wound and started chanting to activate the ointment.

"Everything-is-everything. I-am-one-with-everything. Everything-is-one-with me."

Naomi as in some kind of trance walked over to where her master was sitting- standing by his side as Pestle began chanting over the both of them.

"Also unlike my predecessors I quickly counter acted the poison from your would be assassin." The young witch doctor replied."

"Yes very good." Saber started to compliment the thin medicinal warrior but he had moved on to his slave's toe.

"Well it looks like your claw has fully regrown Naomi."

"Wow, my arrival injuries have finally healed!" The teen proclaimed as the slender feline creature observed her jubilation.

"It certainly took long enough." Saber said placing his paw on his slave girl's shoulder.

"Well humans are peculiar creatures- they heal at a rate much slower than we do and she is no exception." Pestle said pointing to her now fading scars on her left elbow and leg as the freckled teen started to gag. "Something wrong?"

"I feeling queasy." The teen said looking at the remains of their morning attacker.

"There will be more to follow; that warrior was from Pantanal pride I am afraid." Pestle said gesturing to the severed head next to the doorway.

Naomi felt like she was going to hurl. She knew coming in that there was a 'might makes right' mentality in this society. But it never prepared her for a site like this.

She had to redirect her attention to something else anything else. She moved her gaze to... to... Pestle's genitals.

"Annette."

"Master?"

"We are going to war. send word to my top warriors." Saber said grimacing. "I feel vengeful."

"Yes master." The barren female said bowing respectfully and departing the hut.

"Actually chief I would strong suggest you delay your plans." Pestle said crossing his arms.

"And why is that boy?!"

"Whenever the pride returns from war, the medicine beast is charged with treating the wounded, injured and deceased. My immediate predecessors were included in the last go round."

"AND?" Saber asked raising an eyebrow.

"I don't have what I need to at this time."

"You are low on supplies?" The freckled teen said.

"Very low." The young witch doctor replied.

"FINE... what do you need?" Saber asked drummed his claws impatiently.

"A team to aid me in procuring plants, herbs and medicinals?" He smiled at the leader of the Three Rivers Pride.

"And then I can have my revenge?!"

"Yes chief."

Now...

The tree appeared to be not unlike a weeping willow which Naomi had seen on Counter Earth, but when do weeping willows grab and hoist you off of the ground?

"Help! Help! Somethings got me!!!" The freckled teen screamed again.

There was some rustling in the brush below before Pestle and Annette appeared. The witch doctor had a bow staff at the ready for anyone that dare attack his chief's youngest slave.

Annette had was carrying the weapon of her namesake, a net ready for action. The two honed in on the distressed teen, but instead of coming to her rescue they started laughing hysterically.

"Bawha ha ha!!!" The young warrior snickered. "That has to be the funniest thing I have seen all day!!"

"Master Pestle, I assure you it is not!!! I was minding my own business and this tree attacked me!"

"You know why right?" Annette asked her co-slave.

"No." Naomi said struggling to free herself.

"It is a grab-you-gotcha." Annette said laughing again.

"What is a grab-you-gotcha?!"

"Your naivety is most amusing off-worlder." Pestle snickered again trying to keep a straight face.

"Naomi, stop struggling. Just don't move." The female feline said.

The teen did as ordered and was soon lowered to the ground. She turned and gave a stink eye to the faux willow tree only to notice that its branches looked like big hands.

How did she miss that?

"Why did it grab me?!"

"Because that is what they do." The barren female replied.

"Perhaps we should educate you about what is safe and not safe in the bush." The witch doctor said rubbing her hair.

"Please and thank you." The brunette teen said as the leader of the Three Rivers Pride came running behind them. His machete drawn.

"You three to me." He said motioning to Annette, Pestle and Naomi.

The trio did as ordered. Saber was fixated at something or someone behind the faux willow tree.

"Saber the vicious." Another S'mar warrior, a female said stepping out into view. "Keen senses as always."

"Kenja pride." The savage warrior growled looking at the interloper's markings.

"I knew it was a good idea to add him to my team." Pestle said placing assuming an attack stance as Annette readied her net.

Naomi looked around for anything to defend herself deciding to pick up a rock.

"Three Rivers pride...." The interloper said staring down the three.

To Be Continued....