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Counter Earth Chronicles - Dual Realities

Chapter 39: Sometimes The People We Think We Know Best Are The Ones We Don't Know At All (We Go Down Together Part V)

October 3rd, YOE 35 [Continued]

7:40 PM Dash Young's Home (World One)

The male human and female beastial kissed passionately. Dash felt something electric and erotic about being dominated by the bear woman. There was something about her, that ferocity, her bulk and her power. Maybe those muscles?

For the bear's part she realized that her companion resembled her ex in a lot of ways but he was only a stand in.

"Wait one second." The freckled human said as he fumbled with his shirt, undershirt, pants and everything else.

Lady Ursa watched amused.

"I can help with that." The golden eyed ursine said as she aimed something at him.

"Madam knight!" Dash gasped before a claw tip appeared on his lip.

"Watch."

A golden light encased both their bodies. When it had dissipated their clothing was on the floor in the corner of the room.

"Nice trick." The owner of Man of Action odd jobs services commented.

"I know another." The bear said, grabbing his scrotum with her paw. "Why don't you stand for me?"

Dash did as ordered. As such his testicles were massaged softly, gently as the fierce ursine warrior tried to coax an erection from her companion that evening. Dash leaned into her. He soon felt another paw on his left ass cheek. He felt himself getting aroused.

"Perhaps we should move this to a more intimate venue?" The brown bear suggested.

"Umm... hmm... was all her gentleman of the evening could manage to say."

He let the she beast carry him up the stairs into his room like they were a married couple. Upon their entrance, she made herself comfortable on his bed. He joined her inspecting the Knight of Wundagore in the nude.

"MMM... these are really soft." Dash said squeezing the bear's breasts admiring their shape, form and firmness. He then licked her nipples and the areola rings around them.

"Not many have seen them like this and lived to tell about it." The warrior cackled grabbing his penis. Gently she guided him to her opening. "I want to feel you. All of you."

That was all the invitation he needed. The blond haired man entered her. He was shocked at how warm beastial coochie was. That was before her inner hand took control.

"Why don't you show me what you can do? Alleviate my loneliness?" Lady Ursa suggested.

Dash Young complied; he planted both of his hands on either side of the bear knight and started rolling his hips back and forth, back and forth losing himself within the incredible sensations he was feeling. Who knew sex with a beastial could be this fantastic?

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

With the sensations he was feeling, you know it didn't take long...

"Here it comes madam knight! UNNNNH!" The freckled human replied as he came.

"My turn." The bear said, pulling his face to her chest as she came. "AAHHHH!!" "Thank you human."

"You are most welcome. I really need to get a girlfriend." Dash admitted as he laid on her.

"You are going to let me stay the night?" The golden eyed ursine asked.

Dash did not know what came over him. Perhaps it was the fantastic sex, maybe it was the companionship. He soon found himself asleep in the crux of her arm, her paw groping his bottom. His hands on her chest. What a wonderful end to a wonderful day.

October 4th, YOE 35

7:40 AM Dash Young's Home (Heartfirst neighborhood)

After the fantastic night, morning came. Dash prepared breakfast for his guest at her suggestion before kissing her and sending her off as he started his day.

"Can we see each other again?" He asked the ursine knight.

"Count on it." The brown bear said, kissing him on his forehead.

As the bear departed the apartment building her communicator sounded off. She answered as a picture of a big horned sheep in a white lab coat appeared.

"How did it go Commander Ursa?"

"It was as you predicted Sir Ram. I used direct commands."

"Did the subject comply to those commands?"

"Yes. The evening, the night and overnight for that matter, were most memorable."

_"Good. We will start deployment in this neighborhood and spread out from here to the rest of World One, World Two, World Three, then World Four and World Five." _

"Brilliant strategy Sir Ram." The new commander of the Knights of Wundagore replied.

"Mara also thinks she can tweak our device so that the KLIS will be affected too when they come back. If she can, we may be able to return what was stolen from us."

"Among other things." The bear warrior smiled as she planned her endgame.

12:02 PM Corey and Rumble's Lair (Forests Near World Five)

*GRRRRRRR*

The black haired teenager grumbled.

"...what is it..?" The brown werewolf asked.

"Another disturbance." Corey said to his wolf. "For some place that is supposed to be away from the empire our little corner of the forest seems to be increasingly not."

Rumble watched as a beastial communications crew ambled out of a arriving hover vehicle. It was the same communications crew that had been erecting poles with the orange bobbles throughout the forest in the past few months.

"Those communication relays were the start." Seemed to be the start of all this.

*SNORT*

"What is it?" The teen asked his werewolf.

"...watch..."

"That is the same communications crew." Corey whispered watching a sergal drill a small hole into the ground.

Another member of the team, a rhea lowered a young sapling into it. Before packing soil at its base.

"I get it, they are planting trees today. That is a bit of a change. So they are taking a break from bringing civilization out to the middle of nowhere huh?" Mr. Collins quipped.

*sniff* *sniff*

"Rumble what is it?"

"...don't know the air smells different..."

"There does seem to be a lot of ozone about today. Perhaps a storm is coming?"

The brown werewolf looked toward the sky. There was something coming but not a storm.

"...let's go...!" He said tossing Corey and his back and fleeing in a nick of time too.

*KRASH*

The pair barely made it out of the impact zone.

"...what was that...?" Rumble asked when they were a safe distance away.

"Something that ruined that communication's crew day." Corey sarcastically remarked as he watched what appeared to be a meteorite smoldering where the sergal and rhea had been working previously.

It was something much more than that. The black haired teen and his werewolf watched in amazement as a vertical hatch opened on said meteorite and a figure stepped out. Something not from Counter Earth.

"NO WAY!!" Corey Collins whisper-shouted.

"...there goes the neighborhood..." Rumble grumbled.

4:26 PM Master Koala's Lab (World Three)

"In the news today a communications crew reforesting a forest near World Five was killed when they and their hover vehicle were crushed by what looked like a meteor. But are you ready for this? It wasn't a meteorite but a spacecraft! Right after the incident the occupants were taken into custody by the Knights of Sovereign." _A female martin reported. _"They were charged with planetary trespass and are being interrogated as we speak. No word if they were the aliens involved in the Castle Wundagore incident. One thing is for sure, right now it is a very bad time to be an extraterrestrial on Counter Earth..."

The news report went in one ear and out the other of the koala who as you guessed it was engaged in research. Alternate reality research.

"Alright Alternate Counter Earth, why are you so dark?" He asked out loud as his dragonfly camera passed through the event horizon of his reality observation machine.

According to his notes his camera should be on the exact latitude and longitude of where his lab is located, but in the other reality.

"What the?" The koala exclaimed.

There was no sign of World Three! He spun the camera around- there was a lake of lava and numerous volcanoes in the distance belching ash into the atmosphere but not a soul to be found. Fascinating! What would he find in the remaining cities of the empire on this world? More investigation was needed.

7:17 PM Deer-feeder's Study (Stuyvesant Neighborhood)

"Riz we have a problem!" Auggie shouted as he ran into the small office the bald headed man currently resided in.

"Augustice what is it?" The leader of the new rebellion asked, staring at the grizzled former Alliance soldier from behind his desk.

"Bad news. I was reviewing the footage we were able to obtain from Castle Wundagore during the KLIS incident looking for THE WEAPON."

"Not a top tier priority any longer operative." Deer-feeder countered.

"Actually I beg to differ sir."

"Explain." The leader of the new rebellion ordered.

"See for yourself." Auggie said.

Riz took a primitive holo recorder from his operative and started to review the close circuit video from within the castle. He watched as castle staff a moment before the incident going on about their daily duties in corridors, labs, offices, detainment centers- one by one started disappearing as if something or someone were phasing them out of existence.

"That was the moment the KLIS started abducting every beastial, what is your point operative?" The bald headed man with the nicely trimmed beard asked the blond haired man.

"Keep watching. This was recorded from the loading dock thirty minutes after the attack." Auggie said, redirecting Riz's attention.

The two watched as a deflector shield deactivated and a big horned sheep nervously exited from a white coupe before re-entering the castle.

"SHIT!" Riz exclaimed.

"He is a slippery one indeed sir." Auggie admitted.

To Be Continued...

[MEANWHILE]

October 3rd, YOE 35 [Continued]

7:40 PM Chamber of the Four Kings (Perna Pride Village)

"Chieftains the prisoner has returned." A warrior with spear in paw said bowing.

"Do you think that canine will convince us this evening?" Black Scythe asked her two sisters and brother.

The four siblings looked at each other.

"No." The four said in unison.

"Bring him in." Lyre ordered the warrior.

"Good evenings chieftains." Naka said sucking up. "I wanted to thank your for your continued kindness during my and my group's detainment."

"So you liked the personal bath you, your mate and offspring received after we tested the lavender haze on you?" Red Sword asked the maned wolf.

"Um, well yes. It was quite enjoyable. Pleasurable even." Naka replied.

"Good to know." Red Sword replied.

"I also suspect he enjoyed the lavender haze and the events immediately afterwards." Hatchet said to Lyre.

"Ahem, my caravan has been well taken care of, we have enough food, water, exercise- even entertainment and diversion activities. This pride is much different from the others I have heard about in the pride lands." The knight said to the chieftains.

"You mean in that if we weren't who we are right now, you and your party would be dead?" Hatchet asked.

"Yes ma'am." The wolf replied.

"I feel an however coming." Black Scythe replied rolling his eyes.

"Yes sir a cage however shiny and sparkling is still a cage." The knight said bowing respectfully."

"Very well then prisoner, why should we allow you passage through our territory then?" Lyre asked strumming her musical instrument.

"Because we are travelers from a far- taken from our home, our tribe by force. We managed to escape our captors and now are just trying to reach our village." Naka said bowing.

"Yes, the rogue faction of the Chado. They have been devastating tribes and separating families for a while now. You and your group are just the latest." Lyre replied.

"If you were in my exact position what would you do?" Naka asked the four siblings.

Red Sword, Black Scythe, Hatchet and Lyre looked at each other.

"Denied!!!" The four sibling rulers said in unison.

The maned wolf was grabbed and escorted back to the central chambers.

October 4th, YOE 35

7:40 AM Impale's and Stab's Hut (Marble Canyons)

Again Kiwi had the most restful night of sleep ever. His accommodations were quite exquisite; while he was still a captive of Perna Pride it was obvious he was not being abused.

Although Impale and Stab did constantly tease him about what would happen if the tribe's leadership did not grant him and his caravan safe passage through their territory.

He was allowed to see Naka, Song and Tonka for little while each day before he was bathed, spoon fed and groomed.

Impale kept joking with him that he and his sister were going to force him to dress like a S'mar warrior. They were amused that he always turned red when they said that.

As dawn broke Kiwi noted how wonderful his nightly accommodations had been, the bedding while snug, was more than comfortable and his pillows were really soft and warm.

"Sleep well Kiwi?" The female savage asked her captive while running her paws over his chest.

Mr. Goodfellow opened his eyes to see where he had been sleeping- on a nude female savage warrior. He turned red again as Stab laughed.

"There is no need to be embarrassed boy, If I did not desire to share my hammock with you, then you would not continue to draw breath."

"I thought my pillows were extra soft this morning." Kiwi said trying to hide a nose bleed.

"I could say the same thing about my prisoner." She said teasing him.

"I see you two are awake." Impale said standing.

"So it would seem." The female said rolling out of her hammock. The motion flipped Kiwi out and down as well. He was caught by the feline warriors.

The pre-teen boy went to the window of the siblings' hut to look outside. The light was just starting to find the canyons. That was when he felt a paw on his shoulder.

"Not that way. You are going back to the central chamber. I think the pride has some more materials they want to test on their prisoners." Impale said.

"Or we can take him with us on morning patrol." Stab suggested. "There are enough in the chamber to test vapors, mists and the haze on."

The pre-teen boy watched as warriors grabbed their weapons. Impale his javelin staff and Stab her sais and little else.

"So what is this morning patrol?" Mr. Goodfellow asked following the warrior siblings trying not to look at their bare backsides or bare front-sides for that matter.

"We check our territory for intrusions from friend or foe." Impale replied.

"And if you find any intruders?"

"They are dealt with." Stab said, showing the boy her fangs.

Either way it was an opportunity for the pre-teen to see the entirety of the Marble Canyons.

"This way prisoner." Impale said placing his paw on Kiwi's shoulder directing the boy where to walk.

Black Scythe's children took Kiwi around the boundary of their territory. It allowed the pre-teen the opportunity to see the many environments within the canyons.

"Over there is the Wicked Woods." The male warrior said.

"You don't ever want to go in there." The female warrior commented.

"Whoa." Kiwi said looking at the haggard, dark and gaunt trees.

"Over there is the Chasm of Infinite Despair." The bare breasted female said directing his attention.

"Looks deep." The brown haired preteen said to his guides.

"It is a great place to dispose of carcasses." The female warrior sneered.

Kiwi wisely decided not to ask for a clarification.

"Right there on Death Peak, well below it, is the cave of confusion." Impale said pointing to a lone mountain.

"Many a foe of our pride has met their end there." Stab said proudly. "Next to it is the Swamp of Sadness."

"Wow." It is a dark and dreary place. Mr. Goodfellow commented.

"You see that, a few canyon's over? All that sand?" The slender male feline asked pointing.

"Yeah." The pre-teen commented.

"That is the Desert of the Damned." The warrior with the javelin staff pointed.

"I take it no one goes there?" Mr. Goodfellow asked the S'mar warriors.

"No one goes there and comes back alive." Stab said, booping the boy on his nose.

"Want to take a look see?" Impale teased.

"Wow, there are so many environments here. How do you know which are safe?" Kiwi asked his guides.

"By name. Obviously you would want to stay away from something named the Marsh of Mystery, Terror Lake or Wicked Forest of Very Scary Things." Stab said.

"We are going to pass by those soon as well." Impale added.

"Please can we just pass by them? I have no desire to visit." Kiwi replied.

"Do you see it outsider?"

"You mean the pond over there?" Kiwi asked Stab and Impale.

The siblings nodded.

"This is Peculiar Pond. Inside is the...." Stab started to say.

"The geyser that emitted that mist." The brown haired pre-teen replied.

"Yes, a natural defense. There are many in the canyons, some natural and some we put there to incapacitate intruders." Impale grinned.

"And my group fell for it." Kiwi said dejected.

"Yup." Impale said, teasing him again. "Isn't that right sis?"

Stab was off to the side looking at a set of tracks.

"What is it?" The warrior carrying the javelin staff asked.

"The Yowie. This is the furthest we have seen them inside our territory." Stab replied. "We better report this."

"Right, let's finish up." Her brother replied.

Kiwi looked at what the S'mar warriors were looking at. He saw six dots on the ground in two columns of three. It didn't look like much to him.

The trio walked to the very edge of the Marble Canyons. An ominous sky with gray clouds stretched out far and wide. No one could see the ground.

"This place looks foreboding." The brown haired boy replied to the warrior felines.

"This is where the S'mar Pridelands end." Impale said placing his paw on the boy's shoulder.

"What is past this point?" Kiwi asked.

"Nothing." Stab added.

"Literally nothing?" Kiwi asked his handlers.

"Lands end... the gray nothing...." The bare breasted female with the sais replied.

"There has to be something!" Mr. Goodfellow said objecting. "Has anyone gone through there?"

"Many have. But none were ever heard from again." The female feline replied.

"This place is foreboding and inhospitable." The male feline replied. "This was the direction you and your caravan were headed when we intercepted you."

"If we had allowed you to continue, it would have been as if you had fallen off of the planet itself." Stab said.

Kiwi stared into the gray nothing. It seemed to stare back. So if Naka and Song did convince the chieftains to let them pass, this would have been their next destination? Creepy.

10:10 AM Haboob (Wilderness Near World Seven)

"Careful my Dawn." Club said as Dawn and Corbin entered the sole chamber inside the sandstorm.

"Not to worry Lady Ursa and Lady Barq cleared out the occupants so it should be relatively safe." Dawn said to the feline warrior.

"Relative being the operative term." The mongoose boy replied.

"Even so I want both of you to remain in my sight at all times. I would be devastated if anything happened to either of you." The feline warrior said to his new family.

"Right." Professor Stern and her son replied to their protector.

"Here it is, the staging platform Lady Barq and Lady Ursa said the Chado were using." Corbin said, kneeling.

"It looks exactly like our spacegate." The blond female replied.

"Any idea who built it?" The former Kenja Pride chieftain asked looking at the writing on the walls and floor in and around them.

"I always thought it was the Chado." Dawn said, studying the structure.

"Are there any S'mar stories or legends about the Chado?" The mongoose boy asked the savage warrior.

"Our stories speak of a tribe that can magically visit other worlds." Club began. "They kept to themselves fearing their knowledge would be a tactical advantage in warfare."

"There is some truth to that." The professor replied looking at the detail of the platform and structure of the chamber.

12:02 PM Chamber of the Four Kings (Perna Pride Village)

"Who goes there?" A feline warrior wearing a shoulder sash asked blocking Naka with his spear.

"Do you even have to ask that?" The maned wolf shot back.

"Oh yes the weird looking canine." Another feline warrior said, looking over his shoulder.

"I am here to see your four chieftains."

"It will be just Lyre and Hatchet." The first warrior replied.

"But you will have to await your turn, they are in meetings." The second warrior replied.

"Really?" Naka asked, turning to where the guards were looking.

Inside the chamber were two beings that looked like Chaundoon's versions of lagomorphs. They had long ears, earrings, tan, brown, dark brown fur with white spots, blue eyes, long buck teeth, fuzzy tails and broad smiles on their faces as they swayed, danced, cartwheeled and performed in time to Lyre's lyre.

Naka looked at the two guards. They were transfixed to the lithe and flexible twins green and purple two piece bathing suits.

The female in the green bikini finished her performance in a left armed handstand while her twin in the purple bikini held her sister's splayed legs wide while pirouetting on her own.

"What is going on?" The maned wolf asked the guards.

"A tribe is seeking a non-aggression pact with our pride." The first guard answered.

"Lyre and Hatchet will see you now." The second guard added.

Naka entered the chamber watching the female chieftains stand from their white chairs on the elevated platform in front of him. The performers kneeled in reverence as their fates and their clan's future were being determined at this exact moment.

"Sister offering or sacrifice?" Lyre asked turning to Hatchet.

The female who wore a necklace, shoulder band, wristband was silent. Before she smiled at her sister.

"Offering." Hatchet responded.

At that moment the twins lost it. They jumped from their kneeling positions and cheered and shouted. Before remembering where they were and who they were in front of.

"Well done girls." Lyre said, complementing them.

"You and your clan need not fear our tribe." Hatchet added pointing to her weapon.

"Thank you chieftain Lyre, you are most merciful and kind." The female in the green bikini replied.

"There are a few stipulations." Hatchet added.

"Yes my liege?" The female in the purple bikini asked.

"You must remain here in the Marble Canyons with us for the rest of your days and dress like a S'mar. That is the price for peace."

Naka watched the offerings to the Perna Pride remove their clothing bow and exit the chamber. There were broad smiles on their faces.

"Well if it isn't our favorite canid captive." Hatchet said as Naka again entered the chamber.

"What can we do for you today?" Lyre asked.

"The same thing we have been doing everyday since his caravan's arrival." Hatchet shot back. "Hear his pleas while deciding if he is ultimately going to be an offering or sacrifice."

12:32 PM Central Chamber (Perna Pride Village)

"How did it go Naka?" A beautiful chakat asked she received a sensuous massage from another of the pride's captives, a beige sand dragon.

He watched the guards return the maned wolf to the central chamber before he returned to kneading Song's foot-paws.

"It didn't." The knight said dejected.

"Well while you were gone I have been talking to our fellow prisoners including Pulse here and found out something interesting."

"What is it Song?" The wolf asked his cat.

"All of them were donated to this pride by their respected clans."

"Wow. For what purpose?" The captured knight asked.

"Peaceful coexistence." Pulse replied.

"And the promise of not being annihilated by this pride." Song added.

"I just witnessed that." The maned wolf said without thinking. "Maintaining peace through the threat of aggression."

3:16 PM Staff's Hut (Three Rivers Pride Village)

"Elder?" The chieftain of the Three Rivers Pride said addressing the witch doctor.

"Naomi reacted well to MY antidote. If she were in anyone else's care should would be dead."

"I see. Well done." Saber replied to the old feline. "How is she?"

"She will be up and about by tomorrow." Staff replied.

"I wish to see her... now." The leader of Three Rivers Pride said to his subordinate.

"Of course."

The freckled teenager was resting on a cot in an adjacent hut. She still felt pain from where the poisoned darts had landed on her back and backside. But it was beginning to subside. That and her constitution had returned.

She felt a soft paw and its pads rubbing against her face. She opened her eyes to find the leader of the Three Rivers Pride at her bedside. He was wearing the furred cape she had stitched back together days before as well as the red bandana and beaded necklace she liked.

However his fur was frazzled and unkempt. As if he had had something on his mind. Was it her?

"Master?" The brunette asked surprised.

"How are you feeling Naomi?"

(Something was up, Saber said her name instead of wench or girl!)

"Better, my head is clearer and the room has stopped spinning. What happened?"

"An assassination attempt from usurpers. You got in the way." Saber said grimly.

"Actually I think it was Sticks who tried to intervene, he stumbled and redirected the poison darts."

"And what was meant for me hit you. Because of that I survived. Thank you." He said rubbing his paw against her face again.

"Was Sticks injured?" Naomi asked, scared to know the answer.

"The orphan was grazed trying to protect me." Saber sneered.

"That is a relief." The human female sighed.

"He is a bumbler and a screw up, but his actions proved his loyalty to me and this pride; I will deal with him later."

"Master, Sticks has been trying very hard to fit in." The brunette said to the savage warrior. "It has been hard for him since he lost his parents."

"I will take that into consideration girl." Saber replied trading glances with his youngest slave. "What?"

"I know that look. You are about to do something aren't you?" The freckled teen said to her superior.

"There is to be a culling this afternoon... the rotted out pieces will be removed from the whole." The savage said, showing the girl his machete.

"Whoa, I guess there isn't much value placed on life around here." Naomi blurted out loud.

"There is girl, yours belongs to me." Saber the vicious said kissing his wench on her cheek. His whiskers tickling her. "You are not allowed to risk yourself without my permission understood?"

"Yes master." The teen replied wrapping her arms around the feline warrior. They shared a kiss before he departed.

4:26 PM Village Fountain (Three Rivers Pride Village)

"Conspirators of Atreus Pride and Conspirators of Kokee Pride! You were offered a opportunity to join this pride! To reclaim the honor and status you once had with your respective tribes. You rejected that opportunity and secretly tried destroy this pride." Blade said, standing in front of eight bound and condemned warriors.

"Following our traditions on such matters this pride will now destroy you." Barb said taking her place next to Blade.

"Atreus Pride will own you all!" Two kneeling felines shouted in unison, their arms and legs bound.

"Atreus Pride is dead." Torch announced.

"As is Kokee Pride." Rings added as Saber the vicious approached. "You were done in by the white death!"

"Change of plans." The savage chieftain announced.

"Sir?" The pregnant warrior asked.

"Instead of culling the usurpers, let's have a hunt." Saber said, licking his machete.

"Chieftain?" Torch asked.

"The whole pride against these eight. If any of them survive, they go free."

Naomi heard the shrieks and war cries from across the village as what seemed like the whole tribe had left on a massive, massive hunt.

6:10 PM Salamanca's Hut (Perna Pride Village)

"Open your mouth and say ahh." The green female leech said to the white male leech.

"AH."

Salamanca looked at the coloring of the only other leech besides herself in Perna Pride's territory.

"Looks like you are recovering as well. You have a healthy color and have started to add some weight."

"Thanks." Tonka replied.

"If you would really like to thank me... I could use an assistant around here."

The boy nodded.

"However, you must resist the urge to drain my patients. Even if you are thirsty..."

"Come see you?" Tonka asked.

"Exactly." Salamanca replied walking over to Pestle who was sleeping on his side. "Hmm...."

"This fungus does not want to respond to treatment." She said looking at the healer from Three Rivers Pride's leg.

"Is it getting worse?"

"Yes. I need to devise a new treatment regime if we are to save him." The witch doctor replied.

"Water sucker." Bow coughed trying to catch Salamanca's attention.

"Yes, what is it?" The green leech asked walking over to the former leader of Kenja Pride.

"Why do you give a damn about us? Pestle and myself?"

"There are many here that are in need." She replied.

"Without treatment Pestle and Bow could die." Tonka said abruptly.

"Tonka is right your illness was brought upon by the white death. I also suspect being entombed in ice didn't help either." The healer said, placing her paw on Bow's chest. "I wish for you to overcome this and survive."

"How bad is it?" The female warrior asked.

"You are responding to my regime. It is just going to take time. Which is a good thing because the leader of your caravan has yet to convince the chieftains to grant your group safe passage through the canyons."

"What happens if he doesn't?" Tonka asked.

"You don't want to know, water sucker." Bow replied.

"I think I could convince our leaders to keep you on as a helper; it would be nice to have another of my kind around to talk to, and Stab and Impale have taken a liking to Kiwi. But as for the rest of your group..." Salamanca's voice trailed off as she walked to another room of her hut.

Tonka followed. There the two observed several more of Salamanca's patient's partially sedated. He looked at them curiously.

"These two are suffering from the crazy and have been for some time; I have been trying to find a way to restore them to normal...."

"Salamanca!!"

"Coming! Tonka, can you keep an eye on them?"

The leech boy nodded as the Perna Pride's witch doctor left the room.

"Hey you there? You got anything to drink?" A warrior asked.

"Um..." Tonka looked around. He found a bottle with some clear fluid in it on a nearby table. He let both of the partial sedated warriors drink from it.

The reaction was instant.

"AIIEEEE!!!!"

Salamanca re-entered the room just in time to see her two patients running by her and out of the hut at top speed.

"Tonka what did you do?"

"I gave them this." The boy said, showing her the bottle.

"This is liquid laxative! Who-ever takes this will umm, err... go a lot."

"It ended the effects of the crazy." The leech boy said proudly.

The green leech looked at the white.

"Yeah it does, just be sure to administer it near the community relieving spot."

"They didn't make it?" The boy asked.

"Hey Salamanca! I think someone had an accident!" Bow called in from the other room.

"No." The two leeches said in unison.

7:17 PM Saber's Hut (Three Rivers Pride Village)

"Naomi!" The barren female shouted as the brunette teen entered. "You aren't supposed to be up and about for another day!"

"I heard a culling was taking place." The teen said adjusting her white loin-cloth.

"Took place." The female feline with the pink flower in her hair said, correcting her friend. "The tribe hunted the eight that tried to end our master's life and destroy this pride."

"Hunted and killed." Naomi and Annette heard a voice behind them in the doorway.

"Master welcome home." The two turned and bowed in reverence.

"There will be additional portions of eyeball soup in the days to come." Saber the vicious replied.

"Okay, no need to ask how it went." The teen commented seeing splotches of blood on Saber's blade and fur.

"Now there is one more matter to attend to." Saber the vicious said moving in between Naomi and Annette. "Bring him in."

The three watched as a sub-adult with a youthful frame, wearing a front facing loin-cloth, big ears, small fangs with spots on his shoulders, arms and legs nervously entered the chieftain's hut.

"Yes my chieftain?" He kneeled uneasily.

"Boy as of now I am no longer your chieftain." The Three Rivers Pride leader began as he picked up his machete.

"MASTER NO!!!" Naomi and Annette gasped. Sticks closed his eyes expecting to be culled.

The savage chieftain passed his weapon to his eldest slave and his bloodied fur cape to his youngest, then redirected his attention to the orphaned former Kokee Pride cub.

"From this day forward boy you will address me as master."

"Am I to be your assistant?" Sticks asked looking up shocked.

"No."

"Your errand boy?"

"No. Think smaller."

"Servant then?"

"No. Smaller still."

"Then what sir?"

"Slave." The chieftain said addressing his females.

"Looks like someone has found their place." The teen said hugging the boy who could have doubled as her sibling.

"Rather someone had their place chosen for them." Annette said, patting Sticks on his head.

"You three draw my bath. Now." The savage chieftain ordered.

"Yes master." Naomi, Annette and Sticks said in unison.

The boy left the hut to fetch water from the village fountain.

"Annette."

"Sir?"

"You may not have given life to him, but as far as I am concerned, that bumbler is your child. Love him, care for him, look after him, teach him, and most importantly keep him out of my fur."

"Yes master, you are most kind." The female with the big breasts and wide butt replied.

"And tolerant! Don't forget tolerant!!" The freckled teen replied.

"Naomi what are you doing up and about?" The lion/tiger/jaguar/panther asked judgmentally.

"Well....." The freckled teen started to say.

7:45 PM Weather Observation Tower (World Seven)

"So bored." The white werewolf complained to the brown. "How did we let ourselves get snookered into becoming weather observers?"

"...you were tired of picking sand out of your fur..." Rumble mumbled.

"Well that sand storm was rather large, nasty and did bury a lot of the populace." The former human replied.

*SNORT*

"And we spent hours upon hours digging out our friends." Corey replied.

"...you also said that you would do anything to make sure it didn't happen again..." Rumble chided his fellow wolf.

"Yeah, I did- didn't I? So here we are. Well hourly observations....the suns are still trying to decide if it is sunrise or sunset. The sky still can't decide what color it wants to be. But no indications of inclement weather- sandstorms, sentient storm clouds or the like."

"...what about spacecraft...?" The brown werewolf asked.

"What about it?" Corey asked. "WHOA!!"

*WHOSH*

The white and brown werewolves observed what could be described as a metallic bowl shaped craft, with various antennas on its top, bottom and sides descend from the atmosphere moving toward the direction of the Manassas' sky-ship just past the city's limits.

"...don't see that everyday..." Rumble mumbled.

"I sure do hope they are friendly." The former human thought out loud.

To Be Continued....