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Procreation is one of the basic necessities of all living beings. Whether they are animals, plants or single celled organisms, all manner of life forms have a physiological need to reproduce. The problem with this need comes when certain species can no longer reproduce within their own numbers that changes occur to allow the continuation of their species. Sometimes the changes can be simple and call for a mass exodus to occur within a genus of beings, at other times nature finds a way to take make alterations to geographical areas to spread out a race and let them interbreed with others of a similar kind in other corners of the world. And then there is genetic evolution which usually mutates a species into a type that can adapt to their environment or to intermingle with another organism to sustain its own existence.

Commonly, these types of evolutionary mutations are known parasites.

And currently, ones of these parasitic life forms was crashing through the woods in the form of a gargantuan black wolf that was chasing after a frenzied tiger who was trying to move as fast a feasibly possible in an attempt to escape from his pursuer.

No one ever said nature wasn't without her sense of humor after all.

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Danny Osbern wasn't sure when his life turned into some kind of a backdrop from a bad B-movie, but he was currently thankful for all the time he had spent jogging back home in the city as he pushed his feline body to the max. Running on the balls of his feet, as his sneakers treaded across the thankfully dry ground, muzzle open in a hard gasp for breath while keeping his mind clocking every beat of his pounding heart. The six foot eight foot one hundred and sixty-six pound Homo Panthera tigristigris was praying that he was growing closer to where he thought the park's ranger outpost was as he listened to the crashing form of the other person, if he could be called a person anymore, behind him. If he had been of the right mind he would have realized that he had gone the wrong way from the start, as the ranger post was back the other way he was going, but currently fleeing for his life had left his wits a bit tattered as the primitive instinct inside of his head roared at him to go faster and faster. Eyes wide with fear for his life, the anthro tiger thought back to when everything started and wished with all of his heart that he had rolled over in bed that day...

It had started early in the week when he had been showering in the shared bathroom of his dorm that life took a kind of twisted upheaval for Danny. The tiger had been scrubbing his backside with the shower comb his mom had sneaked into his backpack when he had first gone away to college, when some had turned off the lights of the bathroom. Not sure what was going on, feline senses snapped inside of Danny's head as he turned away from the billowing water coming from the showerhead to crouch himself down in readiness for whatever was going to happen. Knowing his denmates, they probably were going to pull one of their juvenile pranks like they had when he first arrived at the dorms, Danny swore to himself that he would be ready for whatever was to come as he pulled his lips back from over his fangs and growled low into his throat.

Rumbling a quiet warning, Danny watched the shower curtain being pulled back and a hand reaching into to grab at him when something snapped in his head and he pounced on the unknowing owner of said hand.

"HOLY SHIT!!!" A voice shouted before crashing into the cold tiled floor with an 'oomph' as a soaking ball of fur grappled them down to the ground.

Danny smirked in triumph when he poised his gleaming teeth over the person's face and watched as they froze in instinctive fear from the large predator on their chest.

"Danny man, what the friggin' hell are you doin'?!"

A light flipped on and revealed the fallen form of a large Saint Bernard wearing nothing more than a half annoyed half confused expression on his face lying underneath the soaked form of one triumphant looking feline.

"Thought you could ambush me, didn't you Carly?" The rough growling tremble of Danny's voice made the dog grunt before pushing the other back up off of him.

"I don't know what you are talking about, you crazy cat! And don't call me Carly! You know I hate that shit!" The Bernard, when he could finally get up he looked back to see the smirking faces of two other males, one a large black wolf and the other a smaller tom cat, sniggering at him from behind their paw covered muzzles. "Thanks a lot you assholes!" Carl said with a huff.

Danny looked up to see his other two roommates trying not to burst out laughing as they looked down at the both of them with eyes dancing with overly excited mirth. Putting two and two together, Danny realized that both he and Carl had just become the blunt of the others joke. Growling and huffing, Danny shook himself off as hard as he could and cut off the contained chuckles while turning them instead into three shouts of protest.

"Douche bags! The whole lot of ya'." Carl snarled before climbing into the shower and throwing back the plastic curtain.

"Grow up already!" Danny snorted before grabbing a hanging towel from the wall and drying off his fur.

"Sorry man, it was just too funny to see what you would do when Carl snuck in on you." The tabby, Joseph, said as he wiped his face to get the water out of his eyes.

"Yeah, you don't have to get so upset about it. It was just a little joke." The wolf, Alestor, finished while shaking his head to get the water out from his face.

"Juveniles. I swear it's like I'm back in middle school with the rest of the eight year olds." Danny always considered himself much more mature than his denmates and never failed to let them know it, especially after one of their so-called jokes.

"Hey, we're not that bad! It's just a little fun between friends is all." Joseph teased before getting pushed aside by the pissed of tiger.

"Who's your friend!? And aren't you guys supposed to be getting ready for this field assignment? Dr. Botany is going to round everyone up in thirty minutes and I bet you two haven't even gotten your stuff packed yet."

Danny walked to his the room he shared with Carl, flanked by the wolf and tabby who looked between each other with unsure expressions.

"Huh? What are you talking about?"

"What field assignment?"

Danny dropped his towel onto the floor, unknowingly giving the two a good view of his tight ass and equally delicious looking fur before reaching for his clothes he had laid out this morning. Not even turning back to look at them, the tiger spoke up with clear defeat in his tone, "The weeklong field assignment she told us about last Friday, to the local campsite near the school for our midterms exam on microbiology instead of having to do a written test. Even you two couldn't have slept through when she made that announcement because she told us it was for sixty percent of our grade this year."

Both wolf and cat looked at the tiger as if he had grown another head before blinking and looking to one another. It was times like these when Danny honestly wondered if they shared a quarter or their brains with one another. Donning his blue jeans and his fishnet shirt, Danny turned to look at his roommates and then sighed when both dashed out of the room. No doubt they were going to call up everyone in their class to see if he was lying or not, the tiger thought before he went over to grab his duffle bag with all the stuff he would need for the week and his textbooks. Perking his ears and listening to the sounds of voices cursing and then a whole lot of shuffling going on, Danny put a hand to face and rubbed the bridge of his nose.

Five minutes later, Carl came into his room with a cocked eyebrow but Danny just waved him off.

Thirty minutes later, Danny and his denmates were sitting on the bus Dr. Botany had rented to take her class out to the camping grounds while calling out names and checking them off of a tablet she had in her hands. The middle age kangaroo looked around one last time as she checked the names off of the list and then went to start up the bus. Having only thirty in her Advance Biology course made it easy for the 'roo to keep track of everyone and cost efficient for the rental she bought so that made her happy as she plopped down into the driver's seat and then prepared to takeoff.

For Danny it was like being a chaperone as he rolled his eyes for the umpteenth time while looking over at Joseph and Alestor shuffle through their stuff for their ipods. Out of all of them only Carl seemed to have a good enough head on his shoulders and enough sense to plan ahead as the Bernard bobbed his head in time with the music he was listening to on his own music player. As the bus took off out of the school parking lot the noise level dramatically began to increase to the point where Danny found his ears lowering to shut out the volume to keep from getting a headache. A nudge at his side and a pair of ear pieces magically appeared to which the tiger was grateful when the Saint Bernard handed him and extra set of earphones plugged into the other side of the ipod in his lap. Tuning and looking at the dog with a grateful twist of his lips, Danny leaned back, popped the twin headphones into his furry ears and let the blaring rock music take him away to someplace where stupid roommates, who were growling at each other about not bringing each other's cell phones, didn't exist.

The next hour and a half of the drive to the state park was roughly enjoyable after that point; Carl's taste in music was something that Danny had always found himself appreciative of, not to mention the rest of the canine. Yeah he was a bisexual kitty in college, big surprise there when almost everyone else was trying to figure out who they were and what they wanted. Hoping that this trip would net him sometime alone to get to know his more, and probably only, able minded denmate, Danny looked out the window at the world of concrete and glass fading away to return to the green and brown hue of colors that it had once been. With his window halfway pushed aside, the tiger could smell the crisp scent of earth and pine and plant dander that made up the camp grounds getting closer and closer into his vision.

So close to summer the heat from the sun was almost stifling, everyone groaning and muttering about the heat as some fan themselves for effect as they hopped off the bus, but for Danny it was purrfect as he stretched out his muscles and rolled his sore joints while looking around at his new surroundings. Trees towered over everyone as if scraping the sky while clouds rolled across the blue field above with nary a worry or care. The scent of feral animals rushed passed his nose and Danny couldn't stop his stomach from grumbling when he caught the smell of deer and rabbit making his nose tingle. For a split second, the echoes of his ancestry kicked his logical, domesticated sense of reasoning to the side and pulled him in the direction of where the tasty morsels where hiding before common sense made him halt in his midstride, not to mention the broad paw on his shoulder, pulling him back to reality.

"Hey, camps this way man." Carl said before he turned the tiger back to where the others were headed.

"Y-yeah, sorry about that." A pat at his shoulder made everything alright again and soon Dr. Botany was herding her students into the ranger cabin to check in.

By the time everyone was listed and the rules of the camp had been handed out Danny and his denmates were going a large section of map posted on a wall outlining the area of the park and picking out where they wanted to do their observation and documentations.

"I think this place would be good enough," Danny pointed out a large area near the camp where the rangers had marked off several sections with posted sticky notes. "It looks easy enough to survey and to get back to incase anyone gets lost."

"Hey, are you talking about us?" Both Joseph and Alestor asked at the same time after Danny had given them a pointed look over his shoulder.

"Why, do you think you'll get lost?" The smirk on the tiger's muzzle was almost too devious for words as flicked his tail behind him before turning back to the board.

"Whatever." Alestor said before turning away in a huff.

"Right then, Carl what do you think?" Danny asked as he noted the dog looking over something he couldn't really see.

"I think this place would be better." Everyone looked to see a marked area that was actually a cavern that had a bright yellow sticky next to it. "It'd probably give us a chance to study microorganisms in a larger scope since temperature variations would create different environments for diverse species of single celled organisms."

"I'm a little worried about it being so far from the camp area though. If someone got lost out here," Danny started before he got cut off.

"What's the worst that could happen?" Joseph asked in a huff. "Not like we could end up dying out here since most of us know how to use our noses, right?" The tabby crossed his arms and then pointedly stuck his nostrils into the air.

Danny groaned in annoyance but he did have to admit that the other feline was right. Even he could smell the subtle odors of the anthros of his class over the fresh scent of grass and dander outside. Worse came to worse, the rangers would probably have someone come looking for them before nightfall if they didn't make it back by dark and what was the likelihood of all of them getting lost at the exact same time?

"Fine, you go tell Dr. Botany while we write our names on the board."

"Why me?" Joseph asked after looking at the three others who so much taller than him.

"Because it was your bright idea, now git!" Alestor said after swatting the tabby's behind and then turning to chuckle.

Joseph hissed but went over to the kangaroo while his denmates signed them up for that particular area.

Once everyone had marked their desired locales, Dr. Botany and one of the rangers, a well fit looking coyote, led them out to the camp ground where the cabins they were going to be using sat patiently waiting while going over rules and what-to-dos in case any of them get lost or hurt. Getting to their cabin and throwing down their packs, Alestor went to flop on the bed he claimed while Danny had Joseph help him out organizing the equipment they had brought with them to take their recordings. Carl set his things up nearest to where Danny had chosen to sleep and then went outside to sniff and look around, before taking a leak on the side of the cabin.

Night came fast for everyone and Dr. Botany rounded the class to make a campfire and then instructed them on what she was looking for in each of their reports. Unlike other professors, the kangaroo didn't see the need in subtle references and told each of her students directly what she wanted while adding that bonuses would be made for any extra effort put into their findings. One of the students was bold enough to ask her what she was going to do while they were off searching and the 'roo barely hid her smirk as she brought out a large portable DVD player and her collection of movies.

"This is your project; I already graduated so I'm going to enjoy the perks of having done so." She said to which got her a round of boos and some laughter.

A few more questions went around followed by some camp food then everyone turned in for the night. There were a few gripes from Alestor and Joseph as the two of them twisted and turned around in their beds. Both not used to sleeping on the super hard mattresses underneath and annoying their roommates to no end. Well, to no end before Danny shouted at them to sleep together on the floor making dead silence ring out in the room. No one said anything after that for the rest of the night.

By the time the sun rose up into the sky the next morning Danny and his denmates were just waking up and grumbling to themselves while yawning and making a single file line into the only bathroom. This of course caused obvious problems as four large males in a single, tiny urinal were not all going to fit so that left the biggest and most grouchy male to push the others out while he used the facilities.

"Why does Alestor get in their first? He's a wolf, he can go outside and take a piss," Joseph grumbled as he wiped the back of his hand over his face.

"Because he's the biggest of us and can bench press us, enfaces on the press part, if we pissed him off?" Carl asked bemusedly as he opened his mouth in a wide yawn then audibly clapped his chops together.

"Whatever."

Thirty minutes later, the four college boys found themselves headed out to the communal shower area with their towels over their shoulders and their clothes under their arms. They all took varied glances over the campsite and found that almost the entire class was in some state of wake or half wake as they shuffled around and organized themselves for day one of their midterm project. Going inside of the showers and finding that they had about as much privacy as they would in the school locker rooms, the guys stripped out of their night clothes and then proceeded to shower in the lukewarm water, all the while listening to various talk from others around them.

Most of said talk wasn't about much but a few pieces of information came in that made Danny's ears perk,

"Can you believe we have to do this dumb thing?"

"Better than trying to study for a test we'd barely be able to pass, right?"

"I guess, but man I'm so missing out back on campus."

"Missing out on what?"

"You know, that the party the seniors were going to be throwing for midterms. They have this summer thing where they invite the sorority girls over and see who can bang the most of them before break."

"Oh right. I guess it's just a loss for us then."

"Wow, talk about unmotivated. You'd rather be out here looking under rocks and in ponds for amoebas than trying to catch some tail?"

"Dude, I'm gay. The only tail I want is yours,"

"WHAT THE FUCCCC...!!!!!??"

That was about as far as the conversation got before Danny had to turn his head to see a slim looking Rottweiler hugging up and humping a broad shouldered and half head taller Doberman who looked like he was about have a heart attack. Eric and Rescale, Danny thought, the only two guys in the class that were completely clueless that they like each other, until now anyway. Heads turned to see both dogs groping each other, well Eric groping Rescale as the Doberman tried to fight off his horny best friend. Cheers and laughs rang out as everyone inside congratulated Eric for finally scoring some Dobie tail as he turned his friend around and then began to hump him against the shower wall. Whatever had caused the normally aloof Rottweiler to be so bold, it looked like it was paying off in spades as the two began to grunt and moan from their shared coupling, especially since Rescale was no longer putting up so much of a struggle.

Turning his head and looking at Carl, Danny wondered if he would get the same reaction. He shook his head in doubt a second later. The Saint Bernard would more-than-likely break his jaw if he tried that stunt. After all, they weren't been best friend like the moaning couple behind him, hell they weren't technically friends, just denmates who had to put up with two juvies. Sighing and trying to mute out the backdrop of the rising tenor voice groaning and huffing, not to mention the howling onlookers, Danny finished his shower and then turned off the water before shaking. Grabbing his towel, the tiger walked over to where it was dry and then got himself cleaned off before stepping outside, and into the throng of faces who were trying to figure out what was going on inside.

"Unless you missed Sex Ed 101 and 102, there's nothing impressive to see in there." Danny chided and went back to his cabin while leaving several students, many of them girls, trying to peek in and see what was going on.

An hour later, Danny and his group were trekking their way from the campsite up the trail that would lead them to the cave area they had claimed. No one bothered to talk about what they had just seen, each of them having their own thoughts about the two canines that had started openly shagging and not wanting to voice opinions until they had everything digested. Danny led the group without having been asked and noted each and every plant, rock and tree that lead them to where they needed to be, trying to follow the ranger's advice in case they managed to somehow get lost or separated from one another. Behind him, Carl was busy marking something down on a map they had been given by Dr. Botany while Alestor and Joseph kept from looking between each other. Both of them had their ears lowered onto their heads in embarrassment and probably a little self-consciousness at what they had seen. Danny figured that if everything went well, the both of them would be getting into one another before the week ended.

Twenty minutes later, all four college students found themselves at the mouth of the cave, staring into the looming dark depths with different versions of trepidation on their faces.

"Alright, we've all got flash lights so let's do this and get our reports for the day done before lunchtime rolls around." Carl quipped as he put the map in his paws away and reached in to drag out his illuminator.

Flicking it on with a claw tip, the Saint Bernard followed the yellowish beam of light into the darkness followed by Danny, then Alestor and finally Joseph.

Each young man looked around for several minutes, letting their eyes adjust to the gloom while taking notes, both mental and physical, about what they were seeing. Mostly, the cave was a hollowed out section of rocks and limewater that stunk of mold and stagnation. Their flashlights shown over grey rock like protrusions jutting down from the ceilings looking almost reminiscent of fangs from a maw. Cold water dripped down into large pools and when casting light on one of them Danny found that the condensation of liquid almost seemed to glow with a faint light.

Luminescent moss probably, the tiger thought as he raised his light up and found blackish-green algae floating in large groupings of the miniature ponds. He never bother noticing the few bits of weeds that were growing up around the pond, mentally checking them off as not being important even after he sneezed a few times from inhaling their pollen.

Curiosity getting the better of him, Danny went over to one of the large pools and then set his flash light down next to himself before reaching into his pack and taking out a small Petri dish. Gently thrusting his hand in and scooping out some of the algae and water, Danny collected a small enough sample to take back with him before sealing it tight and grabbing a marker to label his find. More than likely he could write up enough on these organisms alone to get him halfway started on his rough draft for his final paper for Dr. Botany. Putting the dish into his pack in one of the side compartments, Danny picked up his flashlight and then went to follow the others who were still looking around.

It was maybe an hour or two later when Alestor managed to do what every scientific team knows well not to do in a new and uncertain territory; he got separated from the others and then managed to find one of the only slope that led straight down. Yelping and tumbling, the big wolf dropped his flashlight, tumbled down into a roll and then managed to find one of the larger ponds that dominated the bottom of the cavern. Of course, being young and excitable as they were, Danny and the others came rushing right over and ended up tumbling down and landing right into the same pool, thought thankfully not on Alestor who managed to swim out of danger. The four boys coughed and sputtered before calling out to each other and checking to see who was still with them.

"Well this is fun. We come all the way out here and end up finding the only swimming pool for miles." Alestor chuckled as he swam around in the near darkness like a pup.

"Very funny, but I wonder how much you'll be laughing if we've caught some kind of viral bacteria from this water." Carl growled while shaking his sopping fur and moving over to where he had fallen from.

"What's the worst that could be in here? Maybe some plant spores or somethin'? This place is too cold to grow anything deadly in it." The big wolf grunted while kicking his legs underneath himself and paddling around happily. Danny was always amazed at how little it took to make him happy.

"That you know of. Who knows, maybe there's little microscopic critters in here that will swim down your sheath and into your cock and make it swell up to where you can't piss. I'd hate to see them have to amputate you just to make sure your bladder doesn't back up and cause problems for you downstairs." Carl said sickly sweetly while getting up out of the pool and shaking himself off.

Finding a flashlight, the Saint Bernard was almost run over when three figures splashed out of the water towards him and up the hill they had fallen down. Though Danny didn't want to admit it outright, he couldn't be sure Carl had been wrong about what he had said so he chose the better course of flight in this case. Thankfully, he and the others were able to find their flashlights, get up the wet, but not impossibly slick hill, and then out of the cave without anymore incident. However, on inspection upon getting back into the sun, the four of them were thoroughly soaked and covered in some kind of weird green gunk that smelled reminiscent of ammonia.

"Okay, so who wants to go back and tell Dr. Botany what happened?" Joseph asked while trying to wipe the mess off of himself.

"Now chance. There's no way I'm going to be called out for ruining this trip and having to make everyone do paperwork. We keep this a secret until we get back to campus." Alestor growled while setting his ears back and uncurling his lips from his fangs.

"B...but what about what Carl said? You know this stuff might be infectious or something?" The tabby tried not to show it but he was getting more uncertain and frightful with every second as he noted the green stuff not wanting to come out of his clothes.

"Calm down, Jo. More than likely it's just some kinda algae that dyes binds into clothing. When we get back to camp, we shower and then change clothes. If any of us start to feel funny we just tell Dr. Botany we're coming down with something and see if she'll let us bail out of the field work part of the midterm." Danny offered while walking over and trying to console the other feline.

Turning his head up to the tiger and then looking to the others, Joseph relented with a nod but still shuddered a little. Deciding to head back ASAP, the four college students make their way down the path they had come, wet packs dripping behind them in testament to their troubles, before getting around to where the campsite was and then darting for their room when they realized the coast was clear. Going in and getting out of their clothes, the four boys grabbed some extra clothing and their towels and then made a beeline for the showers. Thankfully, Dr. Botany was off somewhere so that left them in peace as they turned on the hot water and let it blast them clean while putting what had happened behind them.

Cleaned and refreshed, Danny and crew toweled dry and then put on their new clothes before going back to their cabin and looking over the remnants of their stuff. Most of it was useless now, the papers inside were soaked from falling into the pond and the packs themselves would need to be dried out before being useable again, however, each of them were able to memorize what they had seen from the cave and collect some of the algae substance from their bags and use the only microscope between them to analyze it. What they found, much to their relief was ordinary microorganism that they could discern from their textbooks as being nonlethal or aggressive when coming in contact with anthro cells. A round of sighs went off at this as well as some high-five's before Dr. Botany's voice rang outside and made them come running for lunch.

What neither or the four realized was that Carl's prediction had come true, in a manner of speaking, it was just that the organism in question had sneaked its way into a certain wolf and found its way down into said lupine's esophagus and into his stomach upon his swallowing some of the water in the middle of his plunge. The foreign invader was actually lying dormant and needed a trigger to begin burrowing itself into its host and begin taking over the bigger form it occupied but that trigger wouldn't be tripped for days to come. For now, the four teenagers were rounded up and made to help with cooking the meal for the day while being questioned on when they had gotten back so soon. Making a plausible excuse, enough to fool the older kangaroo anyway, the four wormed their way out of more scrutiny and settled down to answering questions about their finds while waiting for the rest of the class to return.

Night fell quickly and soon everyone was turning in for the day, some more than others waiting for tomorrow when they could continue working on their cataloguing. For Danny and his denmates, each male remained up for a better part of the night, wondering about how lucky they really were until sleep finally claimed them, but for Alestor, the wolf would end up tossing and turning until morning as something shuffled around in his stomach, refusing to pass through his intestinal track.

Day two of the trip found the four college students much more cautious of themselves as they went to gather samples outside of the cave they had claimed this time. No one wanted to say anything about before and everyone fought hard to push it deep into the back of their minds. Documentation was handled with ease because of it and observations focused more on plant and animal life than the microcosms that they were supposed to be working with, however self-preservation rooted all of them outside of the cavern. When it was time to turn back for the day, all of them fought not to run over each other to get back to where they assumed safety lay as some primal force of terror kicked their legs into high gear as they flew down the trail back to camp. None of them knowing that the danger they so feared was upon them, so close that it watched through friendly green eyes without even knowing it itself.

Day three followed the same as before, but this time with each of them treading only a few yards into the cave and never out of sight of one another. The same cool and somewhat stifling air of the giant maw seemed to loom over Danny and company in a mocking kind of way as the four of them huddled together and in a tight huddle whenever the air swept too quickly over their fur. Samples collected and flashlights whipping around like laser sight, the four boys were quick to get in and out of that place while trying to keep some composure about themselves and not tip the professor off that something was amiss.

Day four is when everything went to hell, but not in the dramatic kind of way that happens in movies. What happened could only have been called a mistake of a small nature that exacerbated itself because of a thing known as friendship.

It started in the morning with Alestor getting up and going to the showers way ahead of anyone else within the camp. Actually he had gotten up well before the sun had risen because of a hard series of cramps that were kicking at the inside of his gut. Not knowing what the problem was, the big black wolf made his way to the toilet to try to purge his inside but after half an hour of nothing coming out from inside of him, Alestor grunted and went to go and try to take a shower and see if he could loosen up his muscles from the tight clenching they were doing. Taking his towel and a change of clothes, Alestor crept out of the cabin and then over to the shower area while rubbing at his midsection. He never noticed the grunting and moaning that was coming from inside as he shut the door and locked himself inside with a pair of horny dogs who were going at it hot and heavy.

Eric and Rescale were once again going at it as they had been since day one of the trip. Now though, the Doberman had the Rottie against the wall and was pounding him as hard as he could against the wall. The wails of the other dog blotted out the sound of the door closing but not the water being turned on as the two of them broke free from their erotic coupling to look over at the pained wolf. Alestor grunted and waved at them to finish what they were doing, but the mood was completely lost as the two canines could smell something off about the larger male that had come into the communal area. Rescale pulled out and away from Eric with his Dobie cock sputtering thick pre into the opened hole at the underside of the Rottweiler's stubby tail before the two of them look to each other and then strode over to the wolf. Both smelling heavily of each other, sweat, sex and musk, Alestor tried not to let it bother him when the two of them began to fawn over him like some pup.

"Hey, you okay, man?" Rescale asked while gripping one of Alestor's shoulders and squeezing it.

"I-I'm fine...I think...stomach hurts though..." The wolf grunted as he reached up to tilt the showerhead down and let it caress over his tight abdomen.

"Want us to go get something from Dr. Botany's room? I think she has some antacids she keeps."

"Yeah...sure...just don't wake anybody up please...I don't want them knowing...okay?"

The two dogs nodded before turning on their heels and then making their way out of the shower room, completely naked but unmindful of their state of dress considering the situation. Both returned some seconds later with a small vial of pills and handed them over to the now whimpering wolf.

"Here, take these and tell us if you feel better later. We'll be up for a while so we can score you something harder if you still don't feel too good." Eric said before stepping back and then taking his boyfriend's paw and guiding him out of the room.

Alestor was grateful for the pills once he popped the bottle open and downed two white tablets.

It took several minutes but soon the cramps slowed to a stop once the antacids began to dissolve inside of Alestor's stomach and in a couple of minutes he felt better than ever as he let out a grotesque burp and then sighed happily while patting his stomach. Finishing his shower, the wolf resolved himself to going over and thanking the two males before he went back to try to get some more sleep, unbeknownst that the chemicals in the pills hadn't really helped him at all. They just made things ten times worse as the foreign object in his guts absorbed the chemical makeup of the antacids and broke them down to fuel its growth. What had been trying to combat the power of his own digestive juices was now relishing in the added buffed and halt of the inner material that would have broken it down and let him flush it out of his system without much more incident than a few more hours of the cramps.

Now though, Alestor finished his shower and then made his way out of the room with a smile on his face and happy wag of his tail as he strutted out in his full glory with the bottle of pills in his paws. Going over to Eric and Rescale's cabin he rasped on the door and handed the two the bottle with his thanks before going back to his cabin and then to bed. In the few hours of sleep he managed to get, the wolf rubbed his belly and didn't pay attention to the way it burbled and rose up and down into his paw, thinking it merely to be excess air that would come out later and not a new life form that was getting ready to dominate him.

By morning, all traces of Alestor's former pains were gone to be replaced by a hungry and yet happy wolf who was ready to conqueror the day. Breakfast finished, Danny and his team made their way back to the cave and inside its depths with Alestor leading the way. The four of them, having decided that they would return to that pond, cautiously this time, to collect better samples of the algae, would never be able to recall when their nightmare began, only that they wished they had never left their dorms when everything started and hoped that they would somehow see tomorrow once it ended.

Getting to the pond and taking out Petri dishes to collect the water, Danny, Joseph and Carl were stunned into silence when a naked and overly joyful Alestor jumped into the water and then began to splash around. Instantly, three flashlights turned onto the wolf to check his every movement as he kicked around and swam as if it were the most natural thing to do in an untested pool of water.

"Get out of their Alestor! Don't you remember what happened last time?" Danny shouted as he watched the black lupine pad around back and forth through the green goopy water, thoroughly soaking his pelt.

"Yeah! Nothing! Come on, if something would have happened it would have happened by now! Look at me," The wolf stood still and puffed out his chest to show his vigor before reached up an arm to flex. "I'm fine."

"Maybe, but it's still better to be safe than sorry. Come on and get out already." Carl grumbled before blinking and waving his flashlight around when he noticed the wolf was gone. "Okay, where did he go?"

"I-I don't know. I think he dove under." Joseph said as he began to shudder and tremble, his illuminator wiggling in his hand like a fish on a hook.

"Calm down, it's Alestor. He's probably just taking a dive to be funny." Danny said but kept his eyes peeled for his missing classmate.

The three of them waited for almost five minutes before Carl stood and then dropped his pack to begin shuffling out of his clothes. "Something's wrong. Alestor can't hold his breath that long. I'm gonna go in and try to find him."

"How are you gonna be able to see where you're going in that pea soup?" Joseph asked while biting his lower lip.

"Flashlight, remember. I was on the swim team once upon a time so I'll be good. Just clock me and if I'm not out on five minutes go and get Dr. Botany." With that, the Saint Bernard breathed once and then dove into the water. His light shone for a moment before disappearing into the murky gloom.

Mental stopwatches clicked together between Danny and Joseph as the felines counted each second until something popped.

Just when it was getting down to the five minute marker something bubbled up from the water. It looked like air bubbles but soon both boys could see a pale head coming up and figured that it was Carl bringing up Alestor. In a sense they had been right, Carl did come up out of the water but not the way he had gone down.

Wriggling and squirming, the large dog looked like he was twisting around and squirming on a hook as several something's had the Saint Bernard in their hold and were clenching onto him firmly before dragging him back down into the water with a quiet blurb like noise. Danny and Joseph looked to one another in awe before they heard a noise that made them turn back to the water to see something black coming up this time. Not sure what was going on, both felines backed up and then shivered as they found themselves looking at Alestor rising up from the pool with the same things that had been squirming and holding up Carl coming from out of every orifice of his body. They looked like...tentacles...the kind you saw from anime and horror movies as their tapered ends squirmed around and out of the wolf like living things as the wolf stood there while covered in green goop.

"A-Alestor???" Joseph asked hesitantly before the wolf rolled his head to the side and then opened closed green eyes to stare emptily at the two felines. "W-w-w-where's Carl?" The tabby asked and wished he hadn't a moment later when the limp form of the Saint Bernard came up like a ragdoll in the hold of the tentacles covering the wolf.

Danny's mind was almost shot as he watched what happened next and poor Joseph fainted as he watched the wolf open his muzzle to reveal several coils of tentacles squirming and wriggling about like tongues from that black maw. The coiling tentacles brought the, hopefully unconscious, dog over in front of the mutated wolf and then held him stead as Alestor reached out and grabbed the other before positioning Carl at his muzzle and then began to force him into his muzzle.

The body of the Saint Bernard should not have been able to even come close to fitting but somehow it did as Alestor began to gobble the bigger anthro up in heavy gulps with slimy, wriggly things helping him to force the other into his throat and then down to his inflating stomach. The once toned bulge expanded like a water balloon as the one hundred and eighty pound furry morsel was devoured whole with a single bite being taken over his body. Watching as the bulge ran down and then settled into the middle, Danny tried his hardest not to lose his bladder as saw the tentacles in Alestor's muzzle squirm back down into his throat and then disappear inside without a trace as the wolf closed his muzzle. Or more exactly, a large outline tucked too tightly underneath flesh and bone as faint traces of the Saint Bernard lay curled up in a fetal position. The tiger watched his former denmate's new appendages wriggle down into his belly and then begin to do something to the possible dead canine that made bile rise up into his throat. It was like watching a bad Sci-Fi flick as Danny kept his flashlight pointed on the wolf and then onto his belly which seemed to be forcing the Saint Bernard to come apart at the seams as he was...digested?...by the wolf creature.

In minutes the outline of Carl shrunk down and down until all that was left was a faint round bulge that seemed to be shifting down into Alestor's lower stomach track. The tiger watched as the wolf grunted and then groaned out a sick, watery growl from his throat before something popped free from his anal muscles to splash down into the water. A morbid sense of fascination took hold of the feline as he dropped his light down and then surveyed the object in question. To which he wished he hadn't as a canine skull floated up into the green tinted water before sinking down with a blurp and vanishing all together.

When Danny next looked up he shakily found Alestor treading the fountain of murk he was standing in and heading his way. In that second, some feral instinct kicked in and then tiger threw his flashlight at the monster that wore his former roommate's face, reached down to grab the unconscious tabby cat and hauled ass up and out of the cavern as fast as he possibly could. Adrenaline was probably the reason for his burst of strength but Danny didn't bother to stop and think about it as his one hundred and sixty-six pound frame kept hold over the one hundred and ten pound tabby who was like dead weight in his grip.

A howl like the kind you hear about from people from the Old country whisper about resounded behind him and a tight fist of ice clenched around the tiger's heart as he ran and ran as fast as he could, completely unaware that he had taken a direction away from the path he should have been on.

Reason gripped the feline some minutes later when he realized that he had to stop and figure out what had just happened. In his panic he had forgotten his pack as well as the others and looking around the tiger took a guess that he was somewhere far off from the trail that would have led him back to the others. A groan from behind him made the tiger snap his head back and see Joseph's bleary face blinking rapidly and looking up at him in confusion. Releasing the tabby and letting him come to grips with himself, Danny watched the tabby rise up to his feet and then look around with obscurity covering his face.

"W-what happened? Where are we Danny?" Joseph asked before his memory started to kick in and the events of a moment ago hit him like a freight train. "Oh my god, was that Alestor back there? Did he really just do that to Carl? A-a-are we next? W-what are we going to do?" The scared tabby asked in a flurry as he shook visibly and began to curl up into himself, tail completely between his legs and fur puffed up like a cotton ball.

"First, we calm down and then we think. Alright?" Danny said with more force than he meant as he tried to keep from yelling at the other cat.

Joseph nodded rapidly but didn't stop shaking.

A few minutes later, "Ok, I don't know what just happened but we have to get back to camp and then tell Dr. Botany what we think just happened. Agreed?" Danny watched as the tabby bobbed his head rapidly without saying anything. "Good, okay. Assuming that, whatever that was is not following up we should be able to just go back the way we came and get back onto the path." Another bob of the head and the two turned around...to be met by the sight the monster that they had just been talking about.

Neither boy moved but both their eyes became impossibly wide as their tails draped between their legs. The thing that was Alestor seemed to look at them with deep contemplation in its jade green depths as it surveyed the both of them without making a sound. There were no tentacles coming off it or around it as before and Danny was almost ready to believe that the whole thing was a mass psychotic episode brought on by whatever they had fallen into four days prior when the wolf opened his muzzle and a large wriggling mass of flesh oozed free from his maw to twist into the air.

The scream that came from Joseph was like the wail from the dead as the tabby turned and bolted without another word. Taking the same mindset, Danny ran the opposite way the tabby had gone and then moved as fast as his sneakers could carry him. The creature that wore Alestor's face turned its head back and forth between where the two felines had gone and then came to a decision as it rubbed over its taunt stomach which gurgled loudly. Getting down onto all fours, the wolf growled and sniffed at the ground, catching both cat's scents and then darted after the feline of its choosing.

This was how Danny now found himself playing a morbid game of tag with the monster behind him. His body was starting to burn out as he energy began to deplete itself and then left over reserves of adrenaline he had left were coming to the end of what he had left. His body felt heavy and his eyes blinked rapidly as sweat ran down his fur into his face. Panting, grunting and trying to will his body to move, the tiger knew that unless he found some place the wolf couldn't reach, he was going to end up the same as Carl. Looking up into the trees surrounding him, the tiger wondered for a second if he could try to climb one, he never had before but then again he had never ran for his life before. Not wanting to look behind him, the feline found a nearby oak and then dashed for it. Getting a handle on the bark of the tree, Danny gripped it with all his might, his short claws holding him fast, and pulled himself up.

When it looked like he was going to be able to climb the thing, something wrapped around his waist and pulled him back down to ground with a loud thump. Grass brushed up around him, but the tiger took little notice as he grunted and then clenched his eyes only to open them and see Alestor's face looming over him. In that second, two things hit him all at once. One, he was going to die. There was no one shouting in the background telling him to get up, no dramatic music started playing and no one was coming out to try to heroically save him from his certain doom. This was not a movie and even though he couldn't see it he felt the credits of his life roll by in the back of his head as he accepted his ultimate fate at the hands of this beast.

The second thing the tiger noted was that Alestor seemed to have gotten bigger than he had been maybe half an hour ago. The physique of the lupine seemed to have bulked with a strange new kind of muscle as everything from his arms to his tight abdomen, which had probably just finished breaking apart most of the mass that Carl was and sorting it out into proteins for its own growth, down to his tree thick thighs seemed to have swelled with new definition. Idly, Danny wondered how much of it had come from what had once been Carl before he sighed and laid himself down onto the ground and looked at the black wolf with the new appendages jutting somewhere out of his body. Looking up with golden eyes, Danny said a few prayers he knew by heart and then waited to be devoured. He hoped that he'd at least get a chance to see Carl at the end of all of it.

The wolf loomed over him and opened its wide muzzle, drooling tentacles seeking the feline's fur and flesh as what had been Alestor growled and licked over the tiger's body like a piece of meat. Whimpering, Danny closed his eyes and turned his head as he was slowly basted by the wolf creature's new tongues before everything just stopped. The slithering sound above him kept Danny's eyes closed by the feel of a heavy weight reaching down and grabbing at his crotch made the tiger snap open his eyes to look down at himself. Not sure what was happening and hoping he was not about to be both fucked and eaten, Danny watched as Alestor pulled back and then took hold of his shoulder and midsection with his gargantuan paws, pulled him up from the ground a ways, and then allowed several feet of tentacles to come out and ravaged the clothes he was wearing.

The scientific side of the feline noted how strange it felt to have those masses of flesh writhing all over him but at the same time it felt terribly erotic, in a frightful sense. Each slithering coil seemed to have a mind of its own as it pulled up his shirt to allow several others of its kind to push apart the seams of his clothing and then to tear it off of him with an audible ripping noise. Down below, several more seemed to be altercating between themselves on how to remove him from his pants when two slipped down into his waist, both equally slimy feeling, like the wet flesh of a frog or serpent, while stinking of a heavy odour that reminded the feline of gym socks and foot cleats, as they pulled at the clasp of his pants until his groin was exposed to the light of day. Relieving him of his lower garment, the twisting things reached through the legs of his pants down to his feet where they pushed free his sneakers from around his feet and then his socks to leave his lower paw pads bare. Soon to follow, his pants were shuffled away and then there lay two well defined males, in the middle of the forest as naked as the day they had been born with the sun streaming down their faces and onto their pelts.

It would have been romantic if it had been any other situation but it wasn't and as Danny mewled and tipped his head back to try to squirm free he found himself trapped in the arms of a male who may have once been a probable bedmate to him. Green eyes watched without much empathy, though some foreign emotion did flicker within their depths as Danny watched Alestor lean down to him and sniffed at the line of his throat. Almost as in curiosity of his entire being, the wolf left his mouth open and the Danny had to fight hard not to gag from the feeling of the tentacles on his body squirming across his fur and leaving a strange and smelly mucus like substance all over his body. Trying not to cry out and leave himself some form of dignity to greet his ancestors with, Danny looked up into Alestor's eyes and tried to ask what he wanted with him.

His answer came unbidden when the wolf let his head rise up and then two of the appendages in his muzzle dove for the tiger's throat. Going in and spreading his jaws, Danny couldn't fight as he whipped his head back and forth to get the things out of him before something caught the inside of his throat and began to gag him. Struggling for air became his main focus as the mass of flesh began to spill something down into his esophagus that was both thick like honey and hot like wine. Danny mentally wondered if it were some kind of paralyzing agent as his body began to grow heavier and his resistance much more subdued while darkness crept over his eyesight. Several seconds passed of these happenings with Danny's belly starting to feel full and somewhat bloated before the tips of said tentacle pulled back up to linger in the inner cavern of his maw and shoot the same thick slime into his mouth. Having little choice but to swallow, Danny rolled his eyes heavily towards Alestor's face to convey his fear.

Again, it made little notice on the wolf's face as more lines of squirming flesh wrapped from around the lupine form over his own and then began to touch and stroke every inch of his orange stripped fur. It felt like tiny fingers ghosting over his body but at the same time, not as many tentacles wriggled up and down his torso while collectively easing down to where his stiffening male flesh was starting to rise up from his sheath. Golf ball sized testicles being tugged on and then gently played, Danny moaned and bobbed his pelvis up into the attention he was getting without much thought and more than a little abandon. Never before had he been stroked and toyed with so thoroughly, especially not by such skillful manipulators like what those tentacles were doing to him. They seemed to know just where to touch him and yet they mapped over each line and curve of his form as if cataloguing exactly what he was and how he worked.

Over his shoulders they slid to trail down his back and across his spine like the fingers of a guitarist stroking his instrument. He shivered and moaned, grunted and whimpered but all of this seemed to do him little good to try to escape from his captive. The wolf's body was almost frozen in place, even though his ears did flick every once and again, as his extra limbs grew bolder and questioning of the tiger. Soon the thicker tentacles at Danny's groin began to curl around the pike of flesh standing up firm now from his crotch. Tugging and milking at the eight inch long and three inch wide tigerhood, the writhing mass stroked the tiger up and down harder and faster while gauging every subtle nuance of the feline's responding being. Down below, smaller sets of appendages were squeezing just hard enough at Danny's sac to make him growl and hump upwards in appreciation of the pleasure he was getting. Thoughts of his impending demise faded from his mind like dew in the afternoon as the Danny let himself go to the rapture of being handled so deliciously by the wolf.

Hands twitching with restrained ecstasy, Danny didn't take a good note that he was free to do what he pleased with his fingers, his mind too focused on the pleasure he was getting rather than the pleasure he could have be trying to give himself as he bucked and spread himself wide for all the attention those tentacles could give him. That may have been what lead some of them to ease down the back of his spine, with two curling around his tail and lifting it out of the way for others to come and delve into the tight orifice at his backside. Where all of them could have been coming from was a mystery in itself, however, where they went was no head scratcher as two more masses of tapered flesh made their way together inside of the tiger, stretching him wide with only their slimly coating lubricating his too tight hole. Danny tried to roar at this when pain flared up his backside like a explosion of fireworks, but the gushing white mixture of fluids in his muzzle had made him all but docile to the happenings below him as his rectum was forced wide open only to snap close around the bone thick tentacles sliding up into his ass.

Pushing up into him, the self-aware entities drove themselves up into the tiger, past his prostate and into his colon before pushing up into his stomach. There they noted the same murky fluid that had made the tiger so passive and pulled back out to convey its findings to the others. On their way, their outer coating was rubbed and massaged by the feline's overly aroused inner tubbing which hugged them tight before they popped out of his behind and into the cool air. Returning to the others, another altercation passed between the masses of flesh before an overly thick tentacle spearheaded itself to where the tiger hung loose down between his legs. Driving forward with less compassion as the others, the arm thick length appendage forced itself into Danny and upwards until a coughing growl echoed free with a slimy burp following the trails of fluids running through his muzzle.

Danny was almost at the breaking point by the time the tentacle in his ass finally made its way half through his back passage and into his guts. He burned down there, hotter than anything he could have imagined while at the same time he was getting the best mating of his life by nothing more than a curious new life form that had accidently found what sex was. If he had been anymore self-conscious Danny would have laughed at the irony that something that had just come into existence was dicking him better than most of the guys he knew, but the tiger was too far from gone to even care. Spreading his legs, biting down on the wriggling mass in his mouth and humping up into the air, the tiger resolved himself to just let it all go and take as much rapture as he could before Alestor finished with him. Eyes half way closed, the tiger grunted and squirmed within the touches of the tentacles groping along his cock and balls before mewling out loud and shutting off any extracurricular thinking his mind was trying to process over.

The tentacles sensed a change in their subject, Alestor's face remained blank but his nostrils caught the scent of submission from the body in his hold and then a sense of lupine dominance sparked from somewhere inside of the wolf's mutated brain that echoed out for him to have at the creature beneath him. The tentacles went into overdrive then, wiggling, squirming, flailing and all out twisting like snakes over and inside the tiger as they coated him in a heavy sheen of their syrup thick fluid and pushed Danny's body into a new dimension of bliss.

The thickness in the feline's rump thrust in and out of him with sloppy movements of its heavy form, the wet sucking noises coming from Danny's ass were a strange counter rhythm to the grunting groans parting out from the tiger's lips as he burbled white fluid from his mouth down his muzzle onto his neck and chest. Tail sweeping back and forth as much as it could, the feline's inner muscles gripped like a vice around the overly thick mass inside of Danny's rump as the tentacle shot up into past his gut to worm itself inside of his stomach to where a faint outline could be seen under his fur. Outside of himself, the appendages on his cock pulled upwards and then a single thin slip of a pointed head delved down into his slit and began to push up and down as if trying to hurry his climax along. Going further and further, the mass eventually hit a stopping point which made it come back up and then stopped at the entrance to cease all motion before expanding and shooting a tiny stream of liquid down into the cat's dick.

Eyes seemed to go wide as pupils shrunk, Danny was almost there, right at the edge of his orgasm but it wasn't until a sharp, almost painful tug at his scrotum sent him right off and into the darkness.

Ass spread wide, sucking and clenching, cock turning bright red at the head, scrotum pulling up and readying to release their load, Danny grunted and hissed before coming like a fire hose. The tentacle in his cock was shot out from the slit of his sex as geysers of cum rained up into the air, almost three feet before coming back down to splatter all over the feline's groin. More followed as Danny's body locked up tighter than a miser's wallet, as more semen hit the air and then arched to trail down over his head, onto his face, along his neck and then across the plains of his torso before jetting up just barely out of his urethral.

Though Danny couldn't see it at the time, he could feel something happening to Alestor as the tentacles of the wolf surged and released slimy residue all over and into him as if coating with a sheen of paint for his efforts. He felt so sticky and slimy and so dirty from the way the stuff was seeping into his fur on down into his skin but at the same time, Danny had never felt so good in his life. It felt like all of his dirty little thoughts and dreams and fantasies were coming true in a single moment and for that he would always cherish that moment.

When his orgasm ended, the tentacles ceased their own flow and then began to back up out of him while subtly shooting him down with their filmy fluid. The tiger tried to stay awake for whatever was to come next but his body was shot and his brain decided to just shut down and let everything...just...be.

The next time Danny woke up it was with blurry vision and a concerned face looming over him and his eyes attempted to adjust and to focus in on where he was at. White surrounded him as the tiger tried to rise up only to have ever nerve in his body go out on strike. Trying to open his mouth next to ask what was going on, the tiger found a glass of water appearing out of nowhere and soon tipping back to allow him a drink. Taking small, but grateful gulps, Danny nodded his head once he had had enough and then turned his head to look gratefully at the hand that had helped him when his eyes nearly popped out of his head.

"Hey man, glad you're still with us. You nearly scared the crap out of us when you passed out in the middle of that cave we were in." Carl answered as he stood over the bedridden feline before putting the glass in his hands down onto the table and then sitting on the tiger's bed.

"W-wh-wher-..."

"In the city hospital. So don't try to move too much, you just got out of IC not too long ago."

"Wh...what...ha...happ..."

"Amazingly enough you inhaled some kind of plant pollen that poisonous to felines. One of the rangers recognized the kind of toxicant that was running through your body and drove you to the hospital in his car so they could pump the stuff out of you. Good thing too," The Saint Bernard said with relief clouding his voice.

"Al...Ales...Alestor..." The tiger choked out.

"Hmm? What about him?"

"W...wh..where..."

"Oh he's back at the dorms with everyone else. You passed out on day one and have been here for a whole week. The ranger's ended up quarantining off the cave so that left us writing a paper on the organisms near the camp because every place else was already picked out." The Saint Bernard said while thinking back on something and opening his muzzle again, "You did babble something about Alestor and a monster on the way here, Dr. Botany figured it was from the hallucinogens running through your system when he and I managed to drag your heavy ass back to camp."

Danny sat back in his bed and relaxed at that. It was all just some kind of bad trip then. From the local plant life no less. It'd figure he'd be the only one to get it. But wait...

"Joseph...?"

"Oh him? Luckily he's fine, just had to smack him around to keep him from panicking when you dropped like a log all out of the blue. I tell ya', that guy is a really pussy some days and I don't mean in the feline sense, either."

Well that explained that. Guess all's well that ends well. Taking a sneeze, Danny reached up to wipe his nose before he hunkered down to fall back asleep. Turning to look at Carl one more time, the tiger had to smile as he watched his denmate remain on his bed peering down at him in concern before his eyes rolled back and he fell asleep. Wriggling onto his bed, Danny beat at the mattress and scratched at the side of stomach as he felt something trying to upset his belly but he dismissed it and doze off. Right now, sleep was the most important thing he needed in his life, even though he did have a slight cramp in his stomach.