The Collaring Ceremony

Story by LeiLani on SoFurry

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#2 of The H'otta Files (Extreme, Wild, Ultra-Sexy)

TauTiger on Furaffinity wanted a short commission featuring his tiger character Tau Switchblade and his beautiful mate, Katja. They love to roleplay with him as the dominant master and she as his submissive pet. So I was trying to think, "Okay, so we have a dom/sub story at long last. But what to do about it?" Well, Tau told me that Katja happened to be reading a human short story, about a woman attending her first collaring ceremony, and that got me doing some research. I had NO idea what a collaring ceremony was. ^^ So after some Googleing, I learned how it works. What you're about to read actually takes place at many of them - well, maybe except all the rampant, ardent and hot sex that follows. THE MORE YOU KNOW! rainbows This story is a "what-if" of sorts. It's how Tau and Katja might have first met and fallen in love. <3

Tau is TauTiger's character (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/tigertau/) and Katja belongs to Katja Switchblade, who hails from Second Life. :D


Katja Weiss glanced again at the printed directions next to her in the passenger seat, nearly slamming into a car stopped in front of her at a red light. The snow leopard jammed her foot on the brake and her SUV screeched to a stop inches from the other's back bumper. She caught a furtive look of disapproval in the rear-view mirror of the other car and flushed, looking away and pretending to find interest in the numerous curio shops and cafes that lined the village streets of Elko, Nevada.

When, and if, she found this place, she swore to herself, she would never use Google Maps again.

The light changed and she carefully moved forward, keeping an eye on the side-streets until she found one road that narrowed and then seemed to fade out into a beautiful canopy of apple blossom trees in full pink and white blooms. She followed this path until the trees opened up upon a large, wooded field, with a number of nice cars parked in crisscrossing rows. Katja wheeled her Suburban into an available slot near the back of the make-shift lot and sighed.

"Alright Kat," she said to herself in the mirror before taking out a makeup bag, patting on a fresh layer of purple lipstick, and brushing a comb through platinum-blonde hair with a few light blue streaks. "Showtime." She stepped out of her SUV and smoothed the black leather skirt over her hips, unbuttoning the top button of her light blue blouse and allowing a trace of her black lace bra to show, holding up generous spotted cleavage. Around her wrists, two pairs of bangles tinged together when she moved her arms, and she'd added a playful silver ring snug around her expressive, twitching tail.

She walked along the lot, listening to her high black leather boots crunch on the gravel, and headed towards the only building in sight - a huge two-story log cabin spreading out close to the edge of the woods from the back, while in front, two large oak doors stood open. Almost haphazardly, someone had posted a faded wooden signpost that read "Ceremony Inside!" in black magic marker.

Katja took another look around her and smirked. "So glad Shelly went all out." Her high school BFF, Michelle Mason, was finally tying the knot with her beloved tiger Rick Scott, and in the midst of squeals and laughter on the cell phone, she'd breathlessly asked Katja if she could attend last-minute. "You're going to have a great time, Kat!" she had said when the leopardess, with a bit of coaxing, relented and agreed to come. "In fact, who knows? Lots of nice-looking tigers will be there. Might actually get you out of the singles' bracket yet."

Katja had chuckled. "I like being single. No one bothers me, no pressure. I'm my own woman."

"Kat, you're 26 now," the black leopardess had prodded, "Time to start thinking about where you want to be in your 30s." Talk had then switched to the ceremony itself, which wasn't a lot. She was just told what to wear, what kind of food to expect and what time to get there.

Katja stepped inside the cabin and was immediately approached by a casually-dressed, young tigress with a handful of nametags. "Hi! Your name?" Katja told her and watched patiently as the girl thumbed through the pile for the right one. "Alright, Miss Weiss, if you'll just have a seat in the next room, um, on the left side, okay? You'll find your seat has been reserved. This is sort of a boy-girl thing. We're trying to keep everyone in pairs. Shelley was really insistent, in case the ceremony leads to something for others..."

Katja glanced into the other room, where numerous male and female tigers and leopards were already settled, drinking from wine glasses and conversing amiably. "Um...okay. Can you tell me whom I'm sitting next to?"

The girl grinned. "Uh, let me see." She pulled out a printout from her slacks and scanned it. "Tau. Tau Switchblade."

The leopardess raised an eyebrow. "Interesting name."

"He arrived a few minutes ago with some flowers for the bride. I guess he must know her pretty well." She looked around her nervously, then added with a whisper. "I hope he behaves. I'd hate for him to do something in the middle of the ceremony. Maybe you can sort of keep an eye on him?"

Katja blinked. "Me? What am I supposed to do? Tackle him to the floor if he gets up to charge the altar?"

The tigress giggled softly. "If you would..." Then she turned more serious. "Anyway, we'll be starting in a few minutes. You're just in time." She pet Katja's hip and ushered her forwards with a little push towards the ceremony room.

Inside, she was relieved that not many felines looked in her direction, too caught up in conversations between themselves, drinking or feigning interest in the program handout. She made her way along the rows of comfortable chairs to a spot near the middle of the denoted area, and saw her companion for the next hour staring intently at the floor. At first glance, she could easily see why the greeter girl might have expressed some concern.

The white tiger was quite large, yet with a lithe build. The black t-shirt molded a brawny chest and powerful shoulders, stopping just short of bulging biceps, each one sporting distinctive tattoos of Japanese origin. As she sat down next to him, smoothing her skirt primly, he turned to face her, nodding politely. Dark green eyes looked into her violets for a moment, lost in a straggle of black hair, and Katja noticed a silver hoop earring in his left ear, and a shiny silver necklace chain with a single claw burrowing into lush white fur.

"You must be Tau," Katja said, always ready to state the obvious when the usual ice-breakers didn't work. "I'm Katja, but Kat's okay." She folded her paws in her lap. "We're, um...I guess, sitting together." Yes, more obviousness never hurt.

The tiger chuckled and crossed his legs, stretching black leather pants. "Guess so," he growled, but the voice, though gravelly, was gentle. "Where you from?"

Katja smiled. "Vegas. I've lived there since I was a kitten."

"Yeah, me too. I kinda met Shelley maybe the second day after I first moved there. We were both probably no more than 6 or so. I pushed her off a swing, and she got mad and decked me." He started to laugh, "Since then, we've always had this friendship." He folded his arms to his chest.

Katja grinned. "She's nice, isn't she?" Inwardly she gulped, drawn to his tattoos and muscles. If Tau did indeed pull a last-minute grandstand, there was nothing she would be able to do about it. As if to assuage her fears, she continued hesitantly, "Um...you're...okay with all this, right?"

Tau looked at her strangely. "What do you mean?"

"I mean, this..." she gestured to the front of the large room, where a beautiful display of floral arrangements were situated on either side of a glitter-specked, gold-painted altar.

Tau laughed again, shaking his head. "Oh yeah, yeah, I'm fine with all this. I actually introduced Rick to her." He sighed though. "I'm happy for them. Guess sometimes it's just not meant, right?"

Katja grinned and found herself petting his arm. "You'll find yours. Or...have you already?"

"Have you?" The tiger leaned forward and faced her, brushing a long ponytail away from his shoulders.

The leopardess smiled, drawn to his eyes. "Well, not yet, no...this is actually my first wedding."

Tau looked surprised. "Really? Huh. Don't mind me saying this, but you're too pretty not to have gotten caught already."

Katja took the compliment in stride, the way she always did, by beaming brightly and then fumbling for something sweet to say about the complimenting individual. "Um...I...think you're very handsome too, tiger." She crossed her legs in front of her, realizing her leather skirt was bunching up and showing a bit more thigh. "So...tell me about yourself..."

By the time the ceremony started several minutes later, Katja and Tau were getting along quite well, and actually had to be hushed to stop talking as soft, sweet cathedral music from a recorded organ blared from the speakers in the rafters, drowning out any lingering chatter from the other guests. Katja turned around in her seat to look towards the back, expecting to see her friend walking inside wearing a beautiful bridal gown she'd be envious over for days afterwards. Instead, what she saw stunned her.

In the doorway, surrounded by three handsome and smartly-suited tigers, Michelle Mason was on her knees, completely naked, save for a white karada wrapped tightly around her black fur. The white mesh of ropes crisscrossed over her exposed breasts, along her arms and legs, around her hair like a net, and fitted snugly across her asscheeks. Her sex was completely shaved, and more of the rope was nestled tightly in between pouting netherlips, spreading the silky folds apart. Her arms were bound behind her in silk scarves and she looked miserable and complacent, so much different than she did when they last saw each other.

"What the hell?!" Katja whispered loudly to Tau, grabbing his arm. "What is this?! What's going on?"

Tau chuckled, "Wow, you weren't kidding. This _is_your first time."

"Huh?"

Tau pressed his nose close to her ear to whisper. "She's being collared today. What's happening now is, they're showing that she's become sort of a slave with no purpose in life, and she has no direction. The rope dress she's in indicates that she's caught in a meaningless, endless cycle, bound to nothing but misery and uncertainty."

"I...I don't understand..." she whispered back, and realized her paw was still on his arm. "This isn't a wedding?"

"Oh it is, Kat. Of course. It's just also something else, you'll see..." He gently nuzzled her cheek and despite her consternation and confusion, Katja purred softly.

Michelle waited, staying as still as she could, until the music finally faded out entirely and the whole room was pin-drop quiet. Then the three tigers gathered closer around her, and one of the felines untied the silk binding her arms, while another pushed Michelle down on all-fours. The black leopardess shakily crouched down and started to crawl slowly, almost painfully along the wood floor. As she passed each row of adjacent chairs, she looked up at the guests with a pained expression, her amber eyes welling with tears, and then continued down the aisle towards the altar.

Katja watched, fascinated, as Michelle reached the altar and stopped, waiting patiently as a robed priestess lioness entered from a side door and stepped forward behind the altar, facing the black leopardess and beckoning to her with a paw. Michelle then slowly rose back up to her knees as another tiger came in from the opposite side door, dressed to the nines in a resplendent black and blue striped suit and tie, and approached her, smiling nervously.

"With the bride and groom now present, we may begin," the lioness smiled as Rick sidled closer to Michelle and laid a paw on her shoulder. She looked up at him, and through her tears, smiled back. "Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mark an important and life-changing event in every cat's lives. The request for binding in the manner of marriage is one that is not taken lightly. It is a life-long bond, a promise, a vow of complete and unquestioning obedience. But it is also an escape..."

As she was speaking, Rick produced a small silver dagger from his suit jacket pocket and Katja's eyes widened as he held the sharp blade close to the hollow of Michelle's throat.

"Don't worry," Tau hugged an arm around her. "Now the fun happens..."

Rick waited for the lioness to gesture to him again and then slashed the mesh of rope around Michelle's neck and head, allowing beautiful blonde hair to spill free. As he made each cut of rope, the strands started to fall away, leaving Michelle completely naked. Rick then knelt beside her and nuzzled her cheek lovingly, closing his eyes, and the leopardess broke away from the usual protocol to giggle softly.

"See?" Tau grinned, "She's totally enjoying this..."

Katja bit her bottom lip. "I guess so..."

The lioness smiled at the loving couple and nodded, indicating they should both rise now, and continued speaking. "With the bonds cut, our sister enjoys a new world. With the bonds cut, our sister is free to choose her life..."

A young tigress, no more than 5-years-old, appeared at the doorway, struggling to hold a red-silk pillow in her arms, and then slowly walked forward, looking nervously around her as the guests started to chuckle or make adoring sounds. Behind her, a tiger about the same age, hurried down the aisle to catch up with her, holding a silver-and-black-studded white collar with lettering stenciled across it. As the two approached the altar, Rick turned and petted them in turn before taking the small diamond ring on the pillow.

"Richard Scott..." the lioness began.

"Rick to his friends!" someone shouted gleefully from the ensemble, and everyone laughed as the lioness stuck out her tongue.

"Rick Scott. Face your lovely bride, and with this ring, declare your vow."

The tiger grinned widely and turned to face Michelle, his brown eyes crawling over her beautiful nude form hungrily. "Michelle...uh...I..." He steeled himself, clearing his throat, and tried again. "With..this ring, a new circle is formed. One of love and of happiness. With this ring, we are now one of souls." He placed the ring over the leopardess' black digit and kissed her cheek. Michelle blushed furiously as Rick then turned to the young tiger holding the collar, taking it from him and nodding.

"Michelle Mason," the lioness smiled, "Face your sexy groom..." The audience tittered again, "and with this collar, declare your vow."

Michelle smiled and closed her eyes, taking a deep breath as Rick unbuckled the collar before fitting it snug around her neck. She opened her eyes and turned to face him, her eyes shining. "Rick...with this collar, a new circle is formed. One of dominance and of obedience. With this collar, we are now one of souls." She glanced down Rick's strong body, noticing he was already tenting noticeably through his fancy slacks, and bit at her lip, watching him intently.

"Rick and Michelle," the lioness concluded, stepping from behind the altar, and Katja could now see she held a leash in her paw. "as a token of your symbols of love and of obedience, I step forward now to bind your life contract..." She reached to Michelle's collar, and snapped the silver leash around the hook, fastening it tightly. Michelle bowed her head slightly and Rick reached down to squeeze her paw. "I now pronounce you husband and wife, master and pet, forever." Her eyes twinkled. "You may now kiss your bride, Rick..."

Rick grinned and nodded quickly. "Thank you, Brenda." He leaned forward, taking the black leopardess into his arms and kissing her deeply. The audience cheered and applauded wildly on their feet as the kiss deepened, and Michelle's arms tightened around him, really getting into the kiss. Rick then pulled away, starting to unbutton his suit and vest, while the crowd of felines continued to cheer, and Michelle blushed even deeper, covering her breasts meekly with her arms.

Katja, still on her feet, glanced beside her at Tau. "So...what...what happens now?"

The tiger smiled. "Well, we get to watch them have sex now."

The snow leopardess' eyes widened. "We...do?" She looked at the couple in front, blushing suddenly as she realized Rick was now naked as well, sporting a well-defined and swollen cock. As their bodies pressed together, she could only imagine how good that tiger-cock must feel grinding against tummy-fur like that. She suddenly realized she was getting horny, and the errant brushing of Tau's paw against her arm was making matters worse.

She watched, entranced, as Rick pulled at Michelle by the leash and forced her down to her knees in front of him, nuzzling and then lapping over his tiger-sex like a sweet lollipop. "Oh God, that's hot..." Katja whispered, and bit at her lip again, watching her best friend treating Rick's cock with so much attention. Michelle paused from her licking to look up at Rick, purring loudly, waiting for his signal. The tiger nodded slowly and then grasped Michelle's head in his paws, forcing her to take his long, thick length into her mouth to suckle.

Katja squeezed a paw between her legs, watching Michelle now deep-throating her love, taking his cock in several gulping swallows. Every so often, his length would pop free from her mouth, allowing her to get her breath back, and she would lick and kiss softly at the flesh, before returning it to her mouth and bobbing her head quickly.

"Ohh...She always gave great head..." Tau practically moaned beside Katja, and the leopardess could see quite clearly, through the leather pants, that the white tiger was in full and heavy arousal.

Katja couldn't help herself. "I give...it...pretty good myself..." She brushed her muzzle along his cheek and started to purr loudly.

Tau practically trembled and he felt his erection actually jerk and strain against the leather. "Sh...show...me?"

Katja giggled, and placed her paw teasingly over his groin, massaging his hardness. "Not here..." she whispered.

"We can, you know..." Tau nuzzled her again. "Look around you..."

Katja suddenly realized other couples around them were nuzzling, pawing at one another, and kissing passionately - and undressing. She blinked incredulously as a nude tigress in the next row forward suddenly turned and straddled the handsome male leopard she was seated next to, slipping her paws around his neck loosely and rocking in his lap. The couple kissed one another deeply in between soft moans as they made love in the seat.

"You see?" Tau stood up again, facing Katja and leaning his head forward to kiss her.

Katja found herself kissing back, looping her arms around his waist, enjoying lap after lap as their tongues met and then slid across one another. Out of the corner of her eye, she watched as Rick pushed Michelle away from his groin, and then used the leash to guide her onto all-fours, splaying her feet behind her and offering her shaved sex to full view. With much of the crowd now engaged in joyous, heated lovemaking, he grabbed Michelle's hips powerfully and thrust his cock as deep as it could go into her pussy. With a loud, strangled cry, Michelle jerked her head back, enjoying the deepest penetration she could take, and grimaced as he grabbed her collar and commanded her to be still.

Katja was now entirely caught up in the rapture of the room, enjoying sweet, deep and demanding kisses from the tiger. In time, her skirt was unbuttoned, and her paws reached for the tiger's pants, unbuttoning and unzipping them until she could steal a soft paw into his briefs to hold around him. Tau's paw brushed across her silk panties, and she let out a soft moan, feeling her wetness already building, a combination of her scent and her desire.

"Wait...wait..." she whispered hotly against his mouth and pulled impatiently at his briefs, until they slid down his powerful thighs and his thick erection leaped out. "Ohhh...that's...so hard..." Her paws eagerly grasped him, taking him into her warmth, her digits tracing his length slowly from his balls to the tip.

"Get down...on your knees...now..." came the tiger's urgent request and Katja found herself instantly submitting, kneeling down until his throbbing member brushed against her muzzle. The snow leopardess glanced up at him, her violet eyes filled with desire, and then started to lap slowly at his hard flesh, each lick of her sandpaper tongue causing his cat-cock to bobble. "Oh yeah...ohhh, k-keep doing that..."

Katja continued her attentions, oblivious to the moans, the yowls, the loud screams of pleasure coming from all around her, as more and more of the guests paired up and partook in their own pleasures. The air was practically filled with the stench of pheromones, feline musk, and the delightful afterglow of heated and heavy orgasms. She gathered up as much of Tau's hardness that she could into her mouth, and grabbed around his hips to steady herself on her knees as she swallowed his sex hard and fast, gulping down the taste of his cat-hood. As the tip of his swollen glans poised at the very edge of her throat, she stopped, trying not to gag, and relaxed her muscles, panting loudly.

"Enough..." Tau whimpered and tugged at her head. "Come up...I want to fuck you. I want to fuck you so badly, Kat..." His strong arms lifted her to her feet, and then raised her up, lowering her down gently over him. For the barest of seconds, his shaft poked against Katja's heat, unyielding, and then she sank down onto his shaft, and she let out a cry of pleasure and then a deep, loud moan as he nestled into her to the hilt of his arousal. Her legs wrapped around his waist, keeping her knees pressed against the sides of his thighs, and looked into his eyes as he slowly made love to her.

Michelle could feel her love's aching, jerking flesh deep within her walls, and clamped down tightly around him, following his motions as Rick moved his hips forward over and over, slapping his thighs against her ass with every thrust. As he started to move faster, his paws came around to grip her breasts hard, nearly tweaking her nipples in his lust. Michelle cried out in some pain, but quickly was silenced with a sharp slap to her ass. She was then forced down to the floor even further, her face pressed to the wood, while her ass stayed high in the air.

"Almost..." Rick panted behind her, thrusting quickly, "Take it...take it all...yeah, yeah...now...nowwww..." At the last second before his orgasm shuddered through his body, the tiger wrapped his arms tightly around Michelle's stomach and yanked her backwards as hard as he could, crushing his balls against her leaking folds as he came wildly and uncontrollably into her pussy. Michelle felt the coursing wetness of her mate's seed filling her, and she yowled loudly, having a euphoric climax of her own, her muscles clamping around his hot cat-cock like a vise and dousing it in a wash of her scent and juices.

Katja glanced at Rick cumming hard into her best friend, imagining Tau suddenly doing similar to her, and she lost herself, suddenly hugging her arms around the tiger's shoulders tightly and cumming on his cock in several gushings, lost in the sensation of orgasms and screaming Tau's name. As she came down from her climax, she panted hard, heart beating like a trip-hammer, and pressed her nose against the tiger's, swallowing hard, and embarrassed over the rush to her peak. "I'm...I'm sorry...I'm sorry..." she tried, and nuzzled his face, purring about as loudly as a motor.

Tau grinned and nuzzled her back. "You done? Because...I'm...really not..."

Katja nodded breathlessly. "I know...I know...poor tiger...let me..."

"No," he growled, "Be quiet now, pet..." He stopped her words with another long kiss, and then slowly lowered her to the floor on her back, his member still pulsing and throbbing deep inside of her. She mewled and hugged her legs around him again, tucking her feet against his ass, and clamped onto his body as tightly as she could as he slowly fucked her in the aisle, taking her with deep, hot thrusts until her pussy was once again filled with juices.

"Mmm...yeah, kitten..." Tau moaned, and then collapsed against her as several hard jerks of feline seed lodged deep within the snow leopardess' pussy, wetting her, the cum dribbling from her folds like froth. In time, he pulled his member free from her pussy, and Katja enjoyed one more triggering orgasm as his thick glans pressed and then brushed past her clit on the way out.

Around them, couples curled up against one another, spent, some practically covered in lustful drying streams of sticky, milky heat. Some purred and started to clean each other with tender licks and kisses, while others merely caressed one another, locked in loving gazes.

Rick slowly brought Michelle up from the floor and nuzzled her fondly on his knees, keeping a firm paw on her leash. The black leopardess smiled at him, then glanced around and spotted Katja and Tau, wrapped around each other and kissing passionately. "I think," she whispered to Rick, gesturing, "we might have another collaring soon..."

Rick laughed softly and then shushed her with a finger to her lips. "In time, my pet. It can't always happen for everyone, at least not right away..."

She nodded, watching the couple intently. "In time..."

Rick grinned and nipped at her chin. "I'm starving. Let's slip away and get some cake."

Michelle smiled and nodded. "As you like, Master..."

They and several others around them gathered up their clothes and crept quietly past Tau and Katja, who were lost in each other's eyes as they slowly caressed.

**

Katja shut the SUV door behind her and poked her head out the window to smile at Tau. "So, Friday night?"

The tiger grinned. "Friday. I'll pick you up at 8:00. I've been practicing a little Italian cooking and I'm eager to show it off for you. Afterwards, I've got a swimming pool out back. Bring something daring that you don't mind getting ripped off of you while in the water..."

The snow leopardess laughed softly then stiffened as his head came through the open window to kiss her deeply for a moment. "Mmmm..." she whimpered, "I don't know...how...I'll wait til Friday to see you again." Her paw played with his arm, stroking down to caress his large paw.

Tau cocked an ear and grinned. "Well...I don't have any plans." He gestured beside her. "Michelle obviously does though, huh?"

Katja turned to look at the passenger seat, and Michelle's gift laying there, a beautiful black leather choker collar, the gold-plated buckle and the silver studs from it gleaming as brightly as the stars. "Yeah, I guess she does..." she giggled softly and took the collar, looking thoughtfully at the inside of it, where the letters "KATJA" had been etched into the leather in silver stencil.

Tau smiled again, watching her studying the collar. "It's getting late, and it's a 6-hour drive back to Vegas. You want to...um...stop off at a hotel, my pet?"

Katja looked at him, uncertainty, apprehension and fear coming over her like gathering storm clouds. Her mind was a jumble of thoughts, all mixed and melded together, until there were only fleeting images of sex, of love, and of happiness. Where was her independence? She always liked being single. No pressure, no consequences, no baggage, no entanglements with her heart. She had once longed for the adventure of being alone, and relished the thought of never finding or needing true love in her life.

And then, she'd come here

...and now...

Katja's eyes glittered and she flushed a little. "I would, yes..." then added with a whisper, "Master..."

With relaxed, almost instinctive care, she wrapped the collar around her throat and smiled brightly, looking at herself in the rear-view mirror.

It was a perfect fit.

"Follow me now, pet..." Tau smiled and pulled away from the SUV, walking to his car and getting in.

Katja watched him drive away into the twilight, her heart pounding with new love and affection, and then started her truck and caught up to his car as they left the quaint trail of apple blossom trees behind for the village road ahead.

END