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Counter Earth Chronicles - Dual Realities

Chapter 38: You Can Find Me Where The Wild Things Are (We Go Down Together Part IV)

October 3rd, YOE 35

7:46 AM Sector 6988 (Circular Space Station)

"Well what do you think Ananias?" The yellow tentacled eyeball asked the silverback gorilla who was looking at the vastness of space on the other side of the window he was staring out of.

"It looks like a typical help wanted ad. Reads like one as well."

Help wanted! Residents of imperiled world seek assistance in the destruction of a celestial body believed to be responsible for planet's impending demise. Appropriate candidates will have a tool or weapon capable of destroying one destructive dark moon. Inquire within.

"Cassia, are you sure about this?" I asked the friendly alien as our gorilla guard started looking at the various creatures walking by the promenade. Man, there was a lot of them.

"Do not fear, it will be posted in the most common languages in this part of the galaxy." She replied.

"And how will the appropriate candidates contact our backwater of a planet?" The gorilla asked curiously.

"Yeah, I would like to know that as well." I piled on.

"It will be through our skyship. Completely discreet. Hue and I will screen the respondents and pass the promising candidates to the King and Duchess." Ms. Manassas replied.

Yesterday....

October 2nd, YOE 35

11:00 AM Central Hanger (World Seven)

"Will you look at all of us?" I replied staring at the scene.

"It is just another attempt to save our world pet." My fierce ursine warrior replied.

"If not the final one." Axe replied as the RV Titanous borrowed from the Nexus arrived.

"Okay good luck all of you, and Axe...." I said to the S'mar warrior standing next to his former chieftain who was flanking Theresa, Oliver, Dawn and Corbin.

"Yes boy I will keep them safe. They aren't just part of your family."

"They are part of our family as well." Club said stepping in for his subordinate.

It was still weird seeing those two savages wearing something covering their genitals. Also weirder still seeing how Dawn and Club looked at each other.

(Love is love, I suppose.)

I should talk. I am in love with a lioness and a bear.

"Lady Barq and I will be leaving now pet. We have to guide the rest of the away team to the large haboob that struck the city." My fierce ursine warrior said petting me on the head.

"And when you arrive?" I asked after kissing her.

"We will keep watch while the rest of the away team studies the interior." The badger warrior replied flexing her bicep.

"This could be quite an interesting mission." Oliver Justice commented. "The Chado we know controlled and operated a spacegate capable of traversing worlds."

"While a rogue offshoot has similar technology that allows them to traverse different locations on the planet." Theresa replied.

"I know right, if we could just learn how to use it, we could visit the other side of the planet in an instant." Dawn added.

"Now that would be a very useful tool." The former chief of the Kenja pride observed.

All of us noticed that he was holding Dawn's hand as he said that.

"Big brother, what about your mission?" Corbin asked.

"I will be posting help wanted ads with planetary sciences."

"That doesn't sound interesting." The mongoose boy replied.

"On every space station in this corner of the galaxy." I managed to slide into our conversation.

"Now that does sound interesting." He smiled.

"It was a special mission given to Hue and Cassia by King Dragon himself." I replied.

"Are you ready for that big brother?"

"Ready for what?"

"Foreign landscapes beyond your comprehension, meeting alien creatures you can't begin to imagine.... SPACE TRAVEL!!!"

"Corbin, I have met a few aliens in my time and have even been aboard a few of their crafts. I am more than ready."

Now....

"That is just, just wow..."

"Alex of Winter you are staring." Cassia said tapping me with one of her tentacles.

"That creature... it had forty eyes and looked like a walking potato!" I gasped.

"It isn't polite to stare- boy." The silverback said joining my double-take.

Well, our single eyed alien guide grabbed the both of us as she went to find the others of our away team.

The space station of sector 6988 wasn't new or modern- consisting of just three rings an outer, middle and central, it looked old and worn- but it served its purpose as a central meeting place for various species to converse and conduct commerce.

We found the rest of our away team in a circular conference room attending a seminar about a potential threat spreading to various parts of the known universe the entity that had conquered Counter Earth- ONE.

Hue, Milo, Panda Lee and Kala mingled with the participants of said seminar afterwards.

"Any bites dear?" The yellow tentacled eyeball asked the red.

"Unfortunately no one has a tool or weapon capable of destroying a moon." The red tentacled eyeball replied to the yellow.

"You seem rather shell shocked Kala." I said to the female gorilla.

"It is amazing to realize that there really is life elsewhere in the universe." The former leader of the vigilantes replied. "All over the universe."

"It does make one feel rather small." Ananias added.

"Ah you get used to it." The chubby wolverine replied.

"Yeah when we were traveling, we stopped off at places like this to barter for supplies." The she panda added. "It was also a great place to hear the latest gossip."

"Such as?" I asked pondering how this space station we were on had gravity.

"The synoptic- ONE claimed another planet a few galaxies over." Panda Lee replied.

"And the march continues." Milo added.

"It would be a good idea to make sure that anyone we ultimately contract out to- isn't of the ONE." Ananias said. "The last thing we want to do is alert the entity to our whereabouts."

Hue, Cassia, Milo, Panda-lee and myself agreed as we prepared to move on to the next space-station within the sector.

9:30 AM Naginata and Swordstaff's Hut (Three Rivers Pride Village)

"Um, what should I do?" Sticks asked Naomi and Annette as they followed Saber inside.

"Don't do or say anything unless ordered to." The female with the big breasts and wide butt said to her charge.

"Stand up straight, hands... err paws at your side and look forward." The topless teen in the white loin-cloth replied.

Naomi, Sticks and Annette stood aside the door of the hut to watch the chieftain of their pride talk to new parents Naginata and Swordstaff.

"A brand new warrior for our tribe." Saber the vicious said raising Naginata's cub. "Congradulations."

"Thank you sir." The brown eyed female who was wearing only a green necklace replied. "The birth was very quick, I was in the bush and I just started sneezing..."

"Then it happened." The pride's leader said finishing her sentence as her mate smiled.

"Annette, what type of weapon is that? I have never seen that before." Sticks whispered.

"A wooden pole with a curved blade." Annette said, pointing to where the former Kokee Pride boy was staring. "It is the weapon Naginata's is most proficient at and how she earned her name."

"It is similar in design and structure to her mate's weapon of choice Swordstaff's swordstaff." The teen observed.

"Quiet, the both of you." The barren female said to her fellow slave and her charge.

"NAOMI." Saber called out to his youngest slave.

Had he heard her, Annette and Sticks whispering amongst themselves?!

"Master?" She answered, approaching Saber, Naginata and Swordstaff.

"I understand you helped Naginata and our son back to the village?"

"Yes master Swordstaff. We happened on her just after the blessed event." Naomi said to the slender feline warrior wearing a reeded belt around his waist and nothing else said.

"Well thank you." He said, placing his paw on her shoulder.

"This is what it is all about girl." Saber said looking at her. The strength of the pride.

The teen had a moment of clarity; she realized how her and Annette's daily labors, their master's leadership and even Naginata and Swordstaff's offspring contributed to the health of the pride.

(Mind blown.)

Sticks watched the spectacle. The human female had been accepted by the pride as one of their own. Would he ever receive the same treatment?

"ASSASSIN!!!" Annette shouted.

Sticks glanced to his left just in time to see a long black blowgun penetrate the hut.

The sub-adult tried to knock the gun from the unknown assailant's paws before it fired. He was too late.

"Master!" The freckled teen shouted trying to push Saber and Swordstaff out of the way of the incoming projectiles.

*PFT* *PFT* *PFT* *PFT*

Naomi received four darts two to the back, two to her butt for her efforts.

"No!" Annette shouted running to the stricken teenager.

Naginata, Swordstaff grabbed their weapons passing their cub to Saber as they ran outside their hut.

Saber handed the newborn to Annette, and grabbed his machete. "I will find who did this!"

"Master! Naomi!" The barren female said.

"If she dies the assassin or assassins will die!!" He said running to join Naginata and Swordstaff in pursuit.

"Sticks fetch the elder! Now!" Annette shouted.

Apparently there were usurpers within the tribe. They came for the king, but had missed. A mistake Saber the vicious would make them regret that, and many other things.

"Naomi, stay with me, help is on the way." Her fellow slave and friend said taking her hand.

"Look at all the pretty animals! I see a lion, tiger, leopard and jaguar! Is this the Wasted Life concert?" The teen asked as the color faded from her sight and she passed out.

1:10 PM Chamber Of Offerings And Sacrifices (Perna Pride Village)

"Ugh!" Naka said, snapping out of whatever came over him.

The maned wolf realized that he was nude. His paws were on Song's hindquarters and his wolfhood was buried inside her sex. He tried to pull out only to realize they were tied.

*tug* *tug*

"What happened?"

"Apparently we did." The chakat said hearing cat calls and cheers.

"It was the lavender haze!!!" An ogre-lion shouted.

"I love it when they use the lavender haze!!!" A being resembling someone from the merfolk shouted.

"Do it again!!!" "Do it again!!!" "Do it again!!!" The prisoners in the central chamber demanded as everyone else was snapping out of whatever spell they had come under as the haze was dissipating. Song also noticed an additional sensation. She felt her big bad wolf buried in her rear, but there was something or someone on both her backs.

"It was definitely the lavender haze." That third person said.

"Kiwi?!" The wolf and cat gasped in unison.

Their boy still was also nude riding the chakat bareback, his hands oogling her breasts.

"Perna Pride were conducting tests." Mr. Goodfellow said to his adoptive parents.

"Tests?" Song said becoming embarrassed as they were surrounded by the tribe's warriors.

"Yeah two at the same time. Their gas weapon- the haze suspends inhibitions and self control. They used that to observe their prisoner's relational bonds and other things, they wouldn't tell me."

Yesterday....

October 2nd, YOE 35

11:00 AM Perna Pride Village (Marble Canyons)

*click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click*

"Naka what are you doing?" Song whispered.

"Trying to engage the Chado's device. If it would just work we could jump out of here...." The maned wolf whispered as Song carefully realized that two of the four chieftains were escorting them from their chamber to another.

She and Naka also noticed that the warriors of Perna Pride were different from Kenja Pride- in that they were slender, not bulky, chunky or beefy like Club or Axe. Yeah, they wore body paint, had scars , but their clothing was also different; they wore jewelry necklaces instead of bone necklaces and draped shoulder clothing instead of furred capes. Whatever, they still had their genitals on display for all to see though. It seems some things were consistent in the pridelands.

As they entered a narrow corridor then another, the gravity of the entire situation set in.

"Chieftain Black Scythe, Chieftain Red Sword, where is my son?!" Song asked panicked.

The procession stopped as the female warrior wearing the orange shoulder cape, with the curved scythe at her hip turned to address the concerned chakat.

"He is with my children. My son and daughter have taken a particular interest in him." The female feline replied.

"He is safe." Red Sword replied. "As long as you, well all of you comply."

"And Tonka?" The maned wolf asked.

"He is with Salamanca. She is treating your guides." The warrior carrying the red serrated sword announced.

Naka and Song flanked by several warriors of the pride, continued to follow the male feline warrior who wore a brown cape, brown belt and nothing else. Well there was the serrated red sword with him.

"This is the central chamber." Black Scythe said as they arrived at a large cave within the hillside.

"This looks like a common room." The beautiful chakat said looking around.

Naka and Song also noticed that the savages weren't the only ones to occupy the chamber. There were non-S'mar as well- members of other tribes they had encountered on Chaundoon. They were interacting with the prisoners there- playing, cooking, drawing, painting, building, dancing and even singing!

What was going on?

"You will reside here." Red Sword replied.

"For how long?" Naka asked.

"Until your guides recover. If they recover." The female chieftain said gently.

"That is also how long you have to convince us why we should honor your request." Black Scythe's brother replied.

"Welcome." Another warrior said approaching.

He was about the same height and age as Impale who had taken Kiwi.

He was accompanied by a merfolk female. "Hi, are you an offering or sacrifice?" She asked them cheerfully.

"That has yet to be determined." The warrior said to the green gilled fish lady.

"Oh Skewer." She giggled. "Welcome, you are free to roam around and talk and interact with our captors."

"But you can't leave the canyons." The feline warrior replied.

The chakat and maned wolf looked at each other.

Nearby...

"Stab, I am just teasing him. Do you not trust me?" Impale asked looking at his sister's two sai weapons.

"I do but mother thinks you have a tendency to torture our captives, a little too much- look at the human, he is about to wet himself." The female warrior, said placing her paw on Kiwi's shoulder. "You are called Kiwi are you not?"

The pre-teen nodded.

"I am Stab. The Marble Canyons are our domain. It existed long before us and will do so long after we are gone." She replied as they walked out of the adobe brick hut which led to the chamber the chieftains resided in.

"WHOA!!!!" The pride's village were a group of huts atop one of the hills that provided exquisite views of the surrounding canyons that looked like huge slotted bricks cobbled together. In between were valley's with various types of environments- forests, deserts, plains, marshes and jungles.

"Impressive isn't it?" Impale asked.

"I will say. It looks like a giant maze." Kiwi replied.

Within the various environments there were S'mar warriors training, hunting, fishing, sparing, cooking, cleaning as well.

It looked like a small microcosm of the nexus on Counter Earth.

"It is. Not everything there is safe though. Some of the environments within are down right deadly." The male with the javelin staff warned.

"Wow..."

"Which makes it impenetrable and inescapable unless you know the way." He said directing Mr. Goodfellow to three chairs in front of a red hut. "Escape is near impossible."

"I guess that means being invaded by other prides is just as difficult." Kiwi reasoned.

"It is." Stab said, directing the boy to sit down.

"So Tonka, Song, Naka, Bow, Pestle and I are at your mercy." Kiwi concluded.

"Yup, pretty much." Impale said, spinning his javelin-staff.

"Just do what you are told and you may survive the experience." Stab said menacingly.

"Now who's doing the tormenting?" The warrior asked.

Stab didn't answer her brother's question; she was busy examining their prisoner- well studying him...she examined his chin, shoulders, mouth, eyes.

"Salamanca was right, you are dehydrated, undernourished and sleep deprived." Stab said nodding to Impale.

The warrior disappeared into the hut returning with a bowl of what looked to be chunky oatmeal. He handed it and a utensil to Kiwi and instructed him to eat.

"Um, how do I know this is not poisoned?" The brown haired pre-teen asked.

"You don't." He teased.

"Brother, you are fascinated by him aren't you?" Stab asked.

"Of all the beings we have acquired he is among the most interesting." Impale replied. "He is furless. Tail-less, clawless and where his fur should be, it is smooth."

"Kiwi how did you arrive in the pridelands?" The female warrior asked.

Mr. Goodfellow tried not to look at the bare breasted female as he responded. He didn't want his nose to start bleeding again.

"I was abducted by the Chado. The short beings with glowing eyes; they took me, Song and Naka."

"Most Chado are aloof, but wise and kind." Stab observed.

"Sounds like you encountered some that were not." Impale commented.

"While wherever we were, we met and freed Tonka and then escaped." Kiwi continued.

"And while on your journey home you entered the pridelands and then stumbled into our territory." Stab said picking up the bowl from Kiwi and started hand feeding him. "How unfortunate for you."

"But very fortunate for us." Impale snickered.

The oatmeal was very good!

"Well little Kiwi you and your fellow trespassers will remain here until our chieftains figure out what to do with you." Stab replied as the three of them watched a very pregnant female carrying two buckets of water saunter by. She smiled at Stab, Impale and Kiwi.

"And if your leadership doesn't..." The pre-teen boy started to say.

"It would be very bad for you Mu Ha Ha Ha!!" Impale said, teasing him again.

The pre-teen started hyperventilating at that comment.

"Perna Pride is a little more enlightened than the other prides." The female warrior said, trying to cheer the boy up. "By now you and your party would have been made into weapons, tools or jewelry or have had your heads paraded around on a stick."

That caught his attention.

"Here the entire tribe would probably just taken you on a hunt." Stab said kindly.

"Really?!" Kiwi asked yawning.

"Yeah, you would be the prey if we didn't use you for target practice first." Impale said, making a menacing stare as Kiwi continued to yawn.

"Don't worry it will be a few days before the chieftains decide." Stab said reassuring the boy.

"Why am I yawning so much?" Naka and Song's charge asked.

"Well you did have a long journey here didn't you?" The male feline warrior asked.

"Yeah, well I never thought I would be this tired." Mr. Goodfellow remarked, still yawning.

"Oh, I put sleeping powder in your food." Impale smirked.

"Impale why?" Kiwi gasped.

"You looked like you could use some rest." Stab replied.

"Besides we love testing concoctions on our prisoners; it gives us a particular advantage against our enemies." Impale said, complementing his sister.

Stab took the bowl and Impale picked Kiwi up and slung him over his shoulder.

The boy was soon out like a light.

Impale looked at his sister.

"I think you put a tad too much in his meal. He is going to be out for at least a full day."

"Perhaps." The warrior said carrying the pre-teen into their hut.

Meanwhile nearby...

*achoo* *achoo*

"Paws off Perna Pride I can walk by myself." Bow hissed.

"Bow, wall!" Tonka shouted.

*KLUNK*

"Indeed you seem to be doing quite well on your own." Hatchet chuckled as Pestle rushed by to collect the former leader of Kenja Pride.

"Sister, it is not right to delight in the misfortune of others." Lyre chided.

The warriors standing behind Salamanca and Tonka snickered.

"Chieftains if I may, how is it that Perna Pride has four leaders?" Pestle asked.

"That is the secret to our strength." The female warrior wearing the necklace, shoulder band, wristband, with the oval weapon with spikes on its end replied.

"We are four siblings who decided to share power and rule equally." The female warrior wearing the green shoulder cape, necklace and carrying the lyre replied.

"Chieftain Lyre is our pride's composer, songstress, keeper of history and storyteller. Chieftain Red Sword is a leader. Chieftain Black Scythe is a planner and tactician and Chieftain Hatchet's powers of observation are legendary." The female leech replied.

"But that is not the question you wanted to ask." Hatchet countered.

"Where are you taking us?" Pestle asked.

"To my hut." The female leech creature said gently.

"Why is a leech creature working for this tribe?" Bow asked, trying to steady herself.

"Why is it that two warriors from different prides are working together?" Salamanca countered while the warriors with her chatted amongst themselves.

"I was on a mission to find the source of what is happening to the planet." Bow sneezed.

"She was trying to gain support from all the prides." Pestle added.

More chatter was heard from the guards with the female leech.

"It sounds quite difficult." Hatchet replied."

"If not impossible." Lyre added.

"It was regrettably." Bow replied.

"Not impossible. She gained mine." Pestle announced. "We were going to seek council with all the S'mar chieftains when we got caught up in the white death."

"Kiwi and I freed them from a block of ice." Tonka replied as they arrived at Salamanca's hut.

"Here we are."

"A reddish tan hut?" Bow coughed.

"The healer's hut." Tonka replied.

The two were taken inside and laid down on some small cots. The green leech immediately fixated on the nude female warrior. Dropping to her knees she rested her head on Bow's chest.

"Of all the!!"

"Bow, she is trying to help." Pestle announced as he was placed on another nearby cot.

"You are wheezing. Sounds like a severe chest cold."

"So?" Bow replied indignantly.

"If left untreated warrior, you would soon find it very difficult to breathe and if you can't breathe nothing else matters." The Perna Pride's witch doctor replied. Hatchet, Lyre and the warriors present agreed.

"Which means?" The female warrior asked.

"Bow won't be up and around for some time." Tonka replied.

"That one doesn't waste words does he?" Salamanca replied.

"No he does not. You also mentioned that I was also ill." Pestle said to the Perna Pride's witch doctor.

"Yes you have a fungus infection."

"But I feel fine!"

"You don't look it." Salamanca pointed to the thin healer's foot-paws and leg.

"Wow. I guess I don't." He replied.

"You two will be staying here until both of you are well enough to continue your journey. If we decide to let you." Hatchet and Lyre replied unison as they departed.

"You didn't answer my question healer, why are you with Perna Pride?" Bow asked between coughs.

"I am a peace offering." Salamanca responded rummaging through a storage locker.

"Peace offering?" Tonka asked.

"Yes, I was a gift given by my tribe to Perna Pride in the hope of establishing peaceful relations." The female said finally finding what she was looking for, a transparent liquid.

Gently she applied the substance to Bow's chest and then Pestle's foot-paw and leg.

"The four chieftains accepted. They soon realized that I had a talent for treating injuries, so I became an apprentice and ultimately the tribe's healer."

"Does Salamanca miss her tribe?" Tonka asked.

"Sometimes, but I know that because of my sacrifice, my people have nothing to fear from this pride. That is how the chieftains rule this area."

"So you serve them loyalty and faithfully leech?" Bow asked feeling a bit better.

"Though I am from a different tribe, they are my chieftains." She nodded at a guard. "I want you to rest. That is the only way either of you will recover. Tonka come with me."

October 3rd, YOE 35

11:00 AM Impale and Stab's hut (Perna Pride Village)

Kiwi awoke from the most restful sleep in his life to find himself in a hammock with Impale. Two arms encircling his abdomen, a chin resting on his head while he was being spooned from behind by the nude warrior.

It was clear for whatever reason this son of one of the Perna Pride's chieftains had taken a liking to him.

"Sleep well little Kiwi?" The savage whispered in his ear.

"Unbelievably." He responded as the warrior jumped down from the hammock.

"Good you have been sleeping for almost a whole day."

"I have been out for twenty four hours?!" The pre-teen asked.

"Rise. There is something I want to show you." Impale said side stepping the question.

The pre-teen followed the male savage from his hut to the central chamber. As they arrived there was this lavender haze and all inside were mating like it was the end of the world. He watched a familiar chakat and wolf going at it in a secluded corner.

"Looks like your guardians love each other very much."

"What is this?" The pre-teen asked taking in the scene.

"Just testing out a gas that incapacitates our enemies." The slender savage sneered.

"Incapacitates them how?"

Impale then whispered something to Kiwi causing the boy to blush.

"It is a great way to observe our prisoner's relational bonds, besides it is harmless."

"So you say." Mr. Goodfellow replied.

"I do have a question though- it is obvious your Song and Naka love each other. But how do you feel about them? Let's find out shall we?"

*shove*

Before he knew it, Kiwi was inside the chamber and underneath the effects of the haze as well! He disrobed and climbed aboard the chakat's back- upon which he started kissing her neck and fondling her breasts as the wolf took her from behind.

*ARROOO!!!*

Now...

"The canine and feline are mates or very close to it. They consider the human boy their offspring." A Perna Pride warrior observed.

"Well they were going at it for quite a long time." Another replied.

"Get them cleaned up, while I inform the chieftains." A third replied.

"How long is quite a long time?" Song moaned.

"Ninety minutes." Kiwi replied.

"I think we just revealed more information to our captors than any interrogation session could have." Naka replied, trying to pull out from Song's beautiful hind quarters.

To Be Continued....

[MEANWHILE]

October 3rd, YOE 35

7:46 AM Oasis Tavern (Dark Forest)

"Spirit not the knot! Not the knot!" I shouted as I was shoved lovingly face down and forward on our bed, the tian mountain dog fixating on my rear.

"Yes your Lady Ursa and Lea were right, you do have a cute butt." He commented ignoring my pleas.

Ever since we first met in the Maximum, my emotional support animal threatened that one of these days he would make me take his knot. I thought it was all bravado, some type of bluster... I never thought he would do it. He did.

I watched as his left arm brushed mine as he kissed my neck while aligning himself with me just right.

*AWK!*

There was a tinge of pain then a weight on my shoulders and lower back followed by a teasing sing-song.

Together forever and never to part, together forever we two. Don't you know I would move Heaven and Counter Earth to be together forever with you!

"Spirit you didn't!" I said underneath my partial beastial boyfriend.

He smirked as he tried to pull out.

*tug* *tug*

"You did." I gasped.

"Promise upheld and fulfilled. I love you, my little comfort animal." He declared.

"I love you, my emotional support animal." I countered. "I guess we won't be going anywhere for a while huh?"

"Hey, we deserved some downtime after this past mission."

"Yeah the disarray in World One has been a benefit to the rebellion's operations." I replied, feeling his breath on my neck.

"I know something we can do in the meantime." He said- his voice assuming a tinge of playfulness.

*UNFF* *UNFF* *UNFF* *UNFF* *UNFF* *UNFF* *UNFF* *UNFF* *UNFF* *UNFF*

(I should have seen that coming...)

Spirit's movements were slow at first becoming steady, confident and deliberate; he was enjoying wearing my tail or imagining wearing my tail if humans had tails. I had done the same for Lady Ursa on nights when she was unable to sleep because of work related stress.

On second thought, forget that memory.

After the rebellion's October surprise on the Knights of Castle Wundagore, the empire was in such disarray that Spirit and I were able to relocate a few more clients from World One to the Oasis in the aftermath.

After the completion of another successful mission, we took some time for ourselves. Well, a lot of time.

The tian mountain dog slowed down his movements and was moaning as he hiked up my rear to be even closer to me.

"Alex there is something I want to show you... something I need to show you..." He said in ragged breaths... his eyes closed.

"Uh, what's that?" I asked, enjoying his warmth and the closeness of someone who only loved me for me.

"HOW MUCH YOU EXCITE ME!!! ARRRRROOOOO!!!!!"

I felt his testicles contract, his penis spasm and a second later my tian mountain dog erupted like a geyser.

As he came down from his high he wrapped his arms around me, pulling me close to him. I could have melted.

We stayed like that for a good twenty minutes before he pulled out.

"See I didn't shift, you had nothing to worry about, lover." Spirit said, kissing me again.

"I noticed that your transformations are less frequent, Spirit. It is like you have gained some type of control." I said looking up at him and the mess he, well we, had made on the bed and other places.

"I think the rebellion is very close to understanding the animal to beastial transformation process Alex."

"You mean Deer-feeder's people?"

"The same."

"So you will be able to drop the partial beastial label then?" I said pulling him on top of me.

"I have a follow up test this morning." He replied as I snuggled him.

"Can I come?" I begged.

"Okay, I think we should get cleaned up first. Especially you." He grinned.

9:30 AM Apothecary (Oasis Settlement)

"Alright Spirit, I want you to clear your mind." Monica Sales, the settlement's physician ordered.

She fit the part of a colonial doctor. Blond hair, fair skin, pleasant looking face. She wore a white shirt, brown blazer, brown pants with a stethoscope around her neck.

"Good, now will the shift."

The tian mountain dog dressed down to just his undergarments. He then closed his eyes and willed it to happen.

*POOF*

He shifted into his quadrupedal canine form. His black shorts still on him. That was a good thing. I did not want to see how different his genitals look from his beastial form.

"Good." Ms. Sales replied, placing the scope on his chest and checking his vitals. "Now clear your mind and will the shift again."

*POOF*

The quadrupedal canine became a bipedal beastial again.

Spirit looked at his arms and legs. "Remarkable."

"We haven't quite figured out how to turn you into a full beastial, but in the meantime we can teach you how to limit your transformations... lessening the randomness of it all." Ms. Sales said smiling.

"Outstanding! It is not perfect, but it will do!" I said hugging my emotional support animal.

"Do I need to give you two some privacy?" She teased.

"Nah, I yiffed him stupid this morning." Spirit said, channeling Sorren. "But, I wouldn't mind a second round!"

I rolled my eyes in response.

_1:10 PM Deer-feeder's Study (Stuyvesant Neighborhood) _

Riz Site sat quietly at his desk pondering future operations for the new rebellion. The Oasis was exhibiting explosive growth. But it roughly catered to those fleeing World One and World Two and was rather difficult for his operatives to reach from the other cities in the empire.

Perhaps he should establish secondary human cities near World Three and World Five? The former location of the hidden colony [World Six] might be a good spot. The inhabitants and beastial rejects that defied the High Evolutionary by living there were of particular inspiration to him. But did this fall within the confines of his objectives? He referred to a notepad off to his right containing the overall master plan:

Revenge Against That Damn Ram [Take away all that he holds dear]

1. Stop/Delay/Prevent deployment of his mind control weapon.

2. Mara Goat.

3. His Colleagues [except Lady Ursa].

4. The Beastial Empire.

5. His Life.

Thanks to the KLIS he had accomplished most of that list. The aliens had dealt a crippling blow to the empire's enforcers here in World One. But could more be done? What about Worlds Two, Three, Four and Five?

What about damaging the empire so much that it couldn't function anymore and/or collapses?

Could humanity on this world be liberated?

More thought and strategic planning on the next step for the rebellion was definitely needed.

6:44 PM Heartfirst neighborhood block party (World One)

Dash Young was eating a hot dog from a local vendor and taking in the sites from his neighborhood's first ever block party as evening turned to night. There was food, comedy, poetry, music, dancing and lots of socializing from the residents of the Heartfirst neighborhood. There had been a high turn out and it had been major a success.

Or was it that everyone was celebrating what had happened to the beastials within Castle Wundagore?

Regardless, everyone in the neighborhood had been behaving themselves. As such there had been no intervention or harassment from the knights or the knight core.

(Uh oh, there was one now.)

The owner of Action Man odd job service, thought to himself as he was approached by a female ursine in a blue one piece form fitting uniform, sword on her left service weapon on her right. She wore a neutral expression that softened when she had found the target she had been seeking.

"Commander Ursa?!" Dash replied as she arrived at his position.

"As you were." The bear knight said, calming him.

"Did someone do something wrong?"

"No one is in trouble human. Everyone is obeying the rules." She said standing over him.

"Then why are you here?" Mr. Young asked, looking at the fierce ursine warrior.

"I am here to see you Dash." Lady Ursa said, placing her paw on his shoulder.

"Have I violated any rules or curfews overseer?"

"No. You are a model citizen. The truth is I don't want to be alone right now." The bear said to the twenty year old human that resembled her ex.

"I see."

"I just needed to get out of the castle." The she beast admitted. "Too many memories."

"Come, follow me." Dash said standing up.

The blond haired man guided the knight through his neighborhood pulling in some curious stares from its residents before arriving at his home, a small modular apartment on a upper floor of a building.

"That is a curious design." The bear said looking at a bunch of multi-colored cubes stacked on top of each other.

"Believe me, it is actually very spacious." Dash replied.

Once inside, the brown bear discovered his domicile consisted of a single bedroom and a small kitchen/dining room/family room/living room combined into a common area with a nice view of the neighborhood. It was a step up from living in the bowels of the city.

Lady Ursa made herself comfortable on a black and white striped sofa in the room's center.

"Congratulations on the promotion by the way. Can I get you anything?" Dash asked, being polite.

"If you want." Was her answer.

Wow, that was an open invitation! Mr Young went into the kitchen and came back with a cup of green tea.

"I heard about what happened at the castle. Are you okay?"

"No. I won't be for a long time, many of my friends and colleagues were taken by the aliens."

"I see." Mr. Young said, handing the bear the cup. "You didn't want to stay at the scene of the event- understandable."

"Thank you." She said taking the cup from him.

"So if I may commander, how are you handling the stress, the survivor's guilt? Are you seeing someone?"

"Yes, YOU Dash Young." The bear knight said, placing the cup on a nearby table.

He walked right into that one!

"No, I mean a therapist." The freckled entrepreneur clarified.

"She was also taken by the aliens."

"Oh. For what it is worth. I am sorry." Mr. Young said, clasping the ursine warrior's paw.

Their eyes met.

*pounce*

Before Dash realized he was on his back mouth to mouth with this powerful she beast that could easily had ended his existence with a swipe of her paw. It was a notion he found terrifying yet exhilarating!

To Be Continued....