Lions and Tigers and Hares, Oh My

"Don't take this the wrong way, but I don't trust you." Kino popped the end off her tail like a cap and plugged it into a socket beneath the co-pilot's seat. "We've gotten along well enough, but you still haven't proven yourself to the rest of us."

Will this distrust continue much longer? Or perhaps action is required on my end?

"It'll just work itself out, Mime. Give it time. As for you, Kino... Focus on your duties and watch Hermes for me. Today's job isn't exactly legal." Vydr stood from his seat near the communications equipment and offered his real paw to beautiful human woman waiting nearby. "I never would have brought you along if you hadn't mentioned Rose. Smuggling passengers without any documents is worse than cargo smuggling if you're caught, just so we're absolutely clear."

"I'll do whatever you require, Captain. I'm so close to finding Misses Ors and I can't afford to have her run out of reach again." The thirties-aged woman adjusted her basic dress and pulled out a very old Slate model from between her breasts. "I can barely afford to pay your fee. I feel like I'm ripping you off getting a deal for this if it really is so dangerous for you. Perhaps... you'd like to work out an additional form of payment in private?"

"No... No, I don't need that. Keep your panties on; I'm helping family. Besides, we're carrying cargo for my gran's tribe. We're making money either way." Void understood now that his paw seemed to be asking for payment, then took the woman's hand and lowered it with a smile. "Miss Ilse, if you really don't have much left for yourself you can keep your money. I'll take an excuse to visit my cousins as enough payment already."

Kino hid a smile as she sat down in her co-pilot's seat. "That's uncharacteristically kind of you."

"Maybe Nadi's rubbing off on me." Void offered his paw again, this time making it a bit clearer he wanted to take Ilse's hand. "Now if you're ready, let's get you into the station. Remember what I told you about?"

"Stay calm and act normal after we... do that magic thing of yours." Ilse placed her hand in that paw and took a few paced breaths. "Thank you, Captain. This means... more than life to me."

"Don't thank me yet. We haven't found out if your stomach can take a blink or not." Void shut his eyes and concentrated on a certain location within Vapor Furnace Prime, slowly opening them once he was certain of his coordinates. "Are you ready for this?"

"I am." Ilse nodded her head, but before she could raise it back up the world around her compressed into black. Then all of a sudden light came back into play, but a busy hotel lobby setting replaced Hermes' cockpit. "Holy shit..."

"Huh. Better first blink than most." Vydr stumbled over a suitcase as he led Ilse out of the baggage holding area hidden near the front desk. "Nobody usually looks back here. Makes a good spot to smuggle people through Customs in general, though in our case my cousins have a suite here for the moment."

"Misses Ors stays here, at such a fancy place? She must be doing better than when we last met. Good for her."

"I'm not sure about that. Pho and Em make a decent living, but Rose hasn't worked since having the kids." Void grinned as he found a familiar and expected face behind the concierge's desk. "Fleur! Fine afternoon, isn't it?"

"Ugh... Bonjour, Vwadrah. What brings you to my feene establishment today?" The finely dressed elk lost some of her professional posture upon noticing Ilse, resorting to her native French to remain discrete. "<This one is a little old for you, no? It changes nothing. What have I told you about bringing your prostitutes to my hotel, Vwadrah?>"

Ilse frowned, knowing full well how to speak the nearly-extinct language. "<I'm not a whore, thank you.>"

"Ah! A guest zhen, and one zhat speaks française! Bonjour et bienvenue, madame. Enjoy your stay at ze Bloom 'otel."

"Fleur, she's not a guest--at least, not with you anyway. Ilse is my fare." Void checked he was clear, then blinked a ledger into his paws from behind the counter. "My cousins are staying here, right? Ilse is looking to meet with Rose to finish some business."

"Business? Ouat type ouf business?"

"Nothing shady. You have my word on that, Fleur." Void gave up on scouring the book written in French and returned it manually. "Please, could you help us out?"

"I... suppose zo, Vwadrah." Fleur placed her ledger back where it belonged and nudged her snout to an elevator. "Zhey are staying in un-zéro-cinq."

"Thank you, Fleur. You're a lifesaver." Void tugged Ilse over to the lift and tapped the call button. "I don't really know the layout honestly, but how bad can a single level be to search. Room one hundred and five, in case you didn't get that earlier. I'm surprised you know French though."

"My... last employer was fond of exotic things. He had me learn a few outlived languages." Ilse hopped into the carriage first and tapped the button for the first level. "Now my business is with Misses Ors, if she's really here."

"You say that like you've been chasing her your whole life." Vydr leaned on the back wall of the glass elevator and peered over the courtyard. "What exactly is your business, if you don't mind me asking?"

"I owe Misses Ors my life, in more ways than one. She let me live a free life a long time ago, but due to her own business she became hard to find." The lift stopped and this time Ilse was the second to leave, hesitation kicking in now that she was so close. "I decided to give something to Misses Ors both in thanks and to apologize for... almost doing her a greatly regrettable wrong. The last fourteen years have been in pursuit of this goal."

"Fourteen years? Damn. Talk about commitment." Void checked the door numbers and frowned. "Oh-four and oh-six... Where's one-ohFive?"

"Is it this one?" Ilse pointed to a door recessed in the corner of the building. "It looks like it."

"That's the very one. The first few levels are strange with the odd numbers, but I guess this level uses them for filler? Corners? Something like that, I guess." Void pressed the doorbell button on the hologram outside the suite. After a few seconds he tried again and groaned when he noticed a noise on the other side of the entrance. "You know I don't need to respect the door, Rose. Open up. I'm not here to bug you for work today."

The door label plate clicked and buzzed with static for a few seconds of hesitation. "You sure about that? Who is that behind you, Vydr?"

"Someone looking for you. Come on, Rose. I'll vouch for her."

"...Alright. Just make it quick." The door slid open, revealing Rose with her arms crossed in mild frustration. "My kids are coming home soon. I don't like doing business around them."

"I told you, I'm not here for anything shady. l've just got a passenger looking for you. She sounds serious about it." Void stepped into the suite and passed Rose, immediately looking to fix himself a drink. "She's all yours, hon."

"Ah... Th-Thanks." Ilse moved up to the door frame, but didn't enter the residence without explicit permission. "Misses Ors, do you remember me? I'm--"

"Ilse? Damn, you grew up to be a hell of a babe. My husbands have good tastes." Rose turned about and went for a drink of her own, revealing a sharp dagger hidden behind her back. "Come on in. You're looking like you've made good use of your new life, huh?"

"I've made something of that second chance you gave me, but until now I've been lost." The human slowly paced into the suite and stood in the exchange of the entryway and living area. "I've been searching for you ever since you left me on my own."

Rose picked up a bottle of bourbon and poured a glass. "Really? You're still stuck on that? I told you to live your life."

"I decided I should live my life making yours better. People like you deserve all the support they can get, especially after forgiving someone like me." Ilse pulled an envelope out of a rear pocket and placed it beside Rose's drink. "Misses Ors, you deserve this more than I do. You freed me, so you should be my new master of the estate."

"Please, call me Rose. So what's this now?" Rose picked up the envelope and checked the thick documentation inside. "It's Dutch... 'The following properties are hereby granted to the owner of this document as fulfillment of... the last will and testament of the Count Otto Van Rechteren Limpurg..."

"Apparently I was the only person the Count trusted with his business. He left his entire estate to me in the event of an untimely death." Ilse bowed forward in a curtsy. "I don't deserve any of it. You're the one that earned it. I'm... leaving the whole of my inheritance to you, Rose."

"That's... I can't take that from you. You should use this to build a life for yourself, Ilse."

"No, I refuse." Ilse took a slow, deep breath as she bowed even further forward. "As the one who granted me a new life, I owe you my devotion. Just as I served the previous master of the estate, I will serve you as my new mistress. I'll repay my debt to you my own way, and maybe I'll find myself in the process."

"You were his slave, though. I'm not keeping you as a slave." Rose took a large sip of her drink as she thought about the scenario. "Let me see your ID. Maybe there's some kind of job we can find you that works as a compromise."

"I... don't have an ID. According to the law, I'm still a slave of the Van Rechteren Limpurg estate." The woman fell to her knees, prostrating in apology. "As property and not a person, I am not allowed to obtain identification..."

"As property..." Rose immediately shot Vydr an annoyed expression. "At least now I know why she had to find me through you. Vydr, I have a family. Think before you involve me as an accomplice to human trafficking."

"Eh, you've done worse." Void chugged the last half of his own drink, gasping as it burned his throat in a favorable way. "Look, the lady wanted to pay me the last she had to find you. If she's looking for my family that hard I figure it's worth the risk."

"Your last...?" Rose finished her own drink and groaned. "You gave this idiot everything you own? Talk about raping a girl's wallet, Vydr."

"He... refused to take payment, actually."

"Really?" Rose went to pour another drink, but paused in thought as she lifted the bottle. "Maybe you're not a complete idiot, Vydr. I still can't have an unexplainable slave in here when my kids come home. Doubly so, I think my husbands are coming back soon too. Think you can make Ilse quasi-legal for me? Then maybe we can work this out."

"I could try getting Salt to issue an ID off the books. She owes me for a raid I helped on, so..." Void stood and placed his glass in the kitchen sink. "Everyone without guardians on the station needs a registered profession. What do we put in that box?"

"Try... personal assistant. That covers a wide range."

"Got it. Just know that you'll owe me that favor after this, sis." Vydr took Rose rolling her eyes as acceptance of the terms and offered a paw to lift Ilse to her feet. "Come on, Ilse. I'm pretty sure Salt's going to be overlooking repairs in Residential Four. She's always at odd events like that."

Ilse took that paw and slowly rose. "We're going so far away? Isn't that the far side of the station?"

"Well I can get us there in an instant. Just got to check we're clear..." Void created a ripple in space to check the remote location in his head, scrubbing around until he found a clear spot. "Gotcha. That's close enough. Ready to go?"

"Another one of those 'blink' things? Ugh..."

Rose finally poured her drink and brought it to her lips. "Just don't take any of the furniture with you like that one time."

"I've had more practice since I was your size, Rose. We'll be back soon. See ya, sis." Void took a moment to focus, then forced the universe to fold around himself and Ilse. "Alright. Res-Four, right by their best convenience store. I'm pretty sure the broken line was... yep. Spetzbez lights flashing right around the corner."

"Spetz...bez?"

"My sisters, M and M, own the station. If the name Vapor Furnace Prime hasn't cued you to it already, they like to take strange liberties with naming things in the place. The services are usually Russian or Ukrainian or something. I think Spetzbez is short for 'special police' or similar." Void led Ilse over to the spot in question, ignoring 'Do Not Cross' holograms blocking off the pathway. "Oh yeah, this deserves security. Hydraulic oil spill--watch your step."

"Hey buddy, can't read the warnings?" A civet walked a light exoskeleton over and blocked Vydr's way. "We've got an oil leak. Get back behind the line until it's fixed. Both of these buildings have their rear entrances unlocked if you need access."

"Oh, sorry. We're actually just looking for someone else on the Spetzbez we thought would be on duty here."

A young bunny-feline hybrid girl walked up and presented a metal container. "Guess who's here with lunch! Sorry I'm a bit late today, but I had to figure out where they moved you."

The civet very carefully moved her augmented arm over and took the lunch pail by the handle. "Thank you, Ria. Your classes go well today?"

"Yeah, they were okay. We had a fun speaker in our drafting class today. She had a suit sort of like yours..."

"Oh, that might have been Paprika..."

You find her attractive. Mime briefly pointed to the cabbit's long tail poking from beneath her skirt. The sight of her rear is making your aroused. Do you desire her?

"Well--" Void corrected himself with a cough, remembering his thoughts could be heard by the Mimic. Well she's got a hell of a body, yeah. She's about my age too, though I look older. We're here on a job though, so--

I like when we have sex. Mime reached out the paw he made for his host and groped that bunny's buns beneath her skirt. Why not just have sex with her if you admire her?

That's not how it works! You can't just violate people like that! Vydr yanked his shoulder away and looked up to one bright red, surprised face and another blood red, enraged one. "I-I didn't mean t-to do that! Sometimes m-my arm just moves on its own!"

"Th-That's... oka--"

"You little shit!" The civet officer gave back her lunch, lifted Void quite painfully by the balls with her robotic grip, and hurled him into the streaming leak of hydraulic oil. "How's that feel, getting grabbed by your goodies!? You like that, perv!?"

"F-Fuck..." Void cupped his paws over his aching groin as he choked on oil. "I didn't... mean to..."

This is not suitable! Mime grabbed Void's wrist and then separated himself from his host. Toss me out of this substance! It burns!

Vydr did exactly that, chucking his other half out of the oil and leaving himself with less ability to fight the flow from splashing into his mouth. "Shit! I get it, but give me a paw!"

The officer stepped into the oil flow as she pulled out a set of pawcuffs, not at all concerned with helping the struggling otter. "Fuck, you're only half a guy? I wouldn't have guessed based on your actions."

The cabbit stepped forward, but didn't want to walk into the hazard. "Mom! Stop! Help him!"

"You should listen to your girl, Gin." A much larger, full-enclosure exoskeleton suit landed nearby, somehow slowing without the use of thrusters. "Get him out of that shit already, Gin. He's my brother."

"Salt... Ugh, gods..."

"Ah, sorry Salt. I didn't know." Ginivieve grabbed Vydr by the wrist and lifted him out of the oil. "Crap, you were looking for her, weren't you?"

"Y-Yeah..."

"So what in the hell makes you throw a handicapped guy into that shit, Gin? You know better than that." The exosuit split open from the rear and a white tanuki-otter hybrid hopped out. "Crap, that's not coming out for weeks. Hydro oil is nasty shit. What's gotten into you, Gin?"

"He grabbed my daughter's ass and... I may have reacted poorly." Gin found the otter's faux prostheses and grabbed Mime with her other enhanced paw. "I... guess I didn't notice how much of him was fake. Shit, and you don't even have sockets for this thing?"

"I told you, sometimes it's hard to control. I'm... not Linked to it." Void wobbled as he was placed on his lone hindpaw. "I don't think I can use my other arm and leg until we clean it. Fuck."

"I'll get you to the station. I think I've got some spare clothes there." Salt looked over her brother, then the human standing nearby. "I assume you were needing me because of her? Don't tell me it's something shady again..."

"She needs an ID. She's a former slave with no owner. It's not exactly illegal to issue her an ID... she just can't request one." Void groaned and rubbed his balls without thinking about his image at all. "Rose wants to hire her as an assistant. Set her up for us and we'll be even for getting you into that warehouse..."

"Right. Don't mention your slightly illegal involvement with the Spetzbez and I won't mention this slightly illegal ID. Got it." Salt stepped back into her exosuit and it closed around her. "Come on. You can ride on my back. The station's not exactly close enough for you in that state."

"Actually... our place is just around the corner." Ria gave up on keeping clean, placing the lunch box on the ground and helping support Void instead. "The least we can do after making a mess of you is to clean you up. Right, mom?"

"I... guess so."

"You're damn right you guess so. Do it or I'm taking you off duty for a week for unnecessary violence. Oh, and you're taking my shift while I do this, too." Salt offered a robot arm to Ilse. "Why don't you climb on my back and we'll get you set up with an ID while they clean him up."

"Can I...?" Ilse hesitated until she received a nod from Vydr. "Oh... Yes. Let's go, then."

"We'll meet you at the station when we're done, Salt. Thanks." Void hopped around and adjusted his balance against Ria. "So just how far is this place of yours?"

"About a block away, but... I've got time." The cabbit blushed again as her breast pressed against the otter at her side. "Let's h-hurry and get you cleaned up."

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20 Minutes Later

Family Housing Block 12

Residential Ward 4

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"This might be awkward. I've never... taken a guy home before." Ria tapped two fingers to the hologram by her door and the panel slid out of the way. "Dad? I'm home."

"Hey, honey. I'm just starting dinner. How was school?"

"School was fine. I just... um..." Ria avoided the kitchen and headed straight for the bathroom. "I got caught in that oil leak outside and need to clean up. Could you grab some of my clothes? Oh, uh... maybe my overalls?"

"Really? Your mom warned you about that, didn't she? Ria, we'll have to get your clothes dry-cleaned to get that out."

Ria stuck her head out of the bathroom as she balanced Vydr with Mime draped over his shoulder. "Just... could you get some extra towels and some clothes? Please, dad?"

"Yes, sweetie. Just worry about getting that mess out of your fur and I'll leave something by the door."

"Thanks, dad." Ria slumped against the bathroom door for a moment, then stood back up to help Vydr get to the bathtub. "Crap, I didn't think this through. Stupid instincts... I'll just sit by the toilet around the corner. There should be some good shampoo on the top shelf in there, if you can ignore the girly scent."

"You probably could have just told him about me."

"No, I couldn't. He's... overly protective. Yeah, let's go with that." Ria lowered the lid on the toilet and sat down, staring at her hindpaws. "I can't see anything like this, so... you can... you know. Just try to be quiet, please."

"Ah... Okay." Void peeled off his shirt and held it out for Ria to see. "What should I do with my clothes?"

"Oh, uh..." The cabbit took the soiled shirt and placed it in an empty clothes basket, blushing when she briefly caught a glimpse of the bare-chested otter. "J-just put them in here."

"Okay. Uh, might want to keep back from now on though..." Void shoved his pants down and jumped a bit to work them down his leg. She's nervous, but is that because of me or her father?

Probably both. Mime wiggled about, turning into a formless blob on the floor. He slowly pushed the oil out of himself and reformed into an arm and leg, grabbing his host to talk again. That contained solvents. Try not to bring me into contact with more solvents, Void.

Are you alright? You said that burned you...

It was painful, yes. I was thankfully able to break down the solvents once they reached my blood, which is mostly acid. Mime coiled up on the floor against the tub. The solvents are in your fur as well. Please clean yourself before we reunite.

You got it. I'll try to handle this myself, so you just rest. We'll... talk about your behavior later. Void sighed as he finally jumped out of his pant leg. "So... your name is Ria? You can call me Void."

"Oh, I guess we didn't exchange names earlier. I'm a bit frazzled, so... uh..."

"You're hiding a naked guy from your dad in your own house. I can understand how you feel." Vydr pulled down his briefs and let them fall, then hopped over to the faucet controls to set up a shower. "You don't need to be embarrassed, you know. That's a cute look on you, Ria."

"Th-Th-Thanks..."

"See? Cute." Void snickered as he opened the curtain around the bathtub, but froze when he realized there was a large lip and nothing near the ceiling to grab and pull himself over it. "Uh... This might sound weird. Don't worry though, I just have to slide into the shower."

"Oh, I guess that's... harder for someone like you... Do you normally have things to help you?"

"Back on my ship I have grips everywhere, yeah." Void bent down, planning to angle his backside over the edge and sit inside the tub. Reality differed in opinion on the matter, his oil-slicked hindpaw slipping and sending him toppling headfirst into his shower with a thud. "Ah! Fuck."

"Crap! Are you alright?" Ria went wide-eyed as she reflexively looked around the corner and found her eyes locked on semi-hard otter cock. "S-Sorry! I--!"

"Shush. You don't want to alert your dad, right?" Void struggled with flipping over for a moment before he noticed he was being watched, at which point his cock went harder than stone. "I-I'm f-fine! I do this a-all the time!"

"Really...?" After watching the half of an otter flail helplessly a few more times, Ria snapped out of her trance and averted her gaze. "Just, um... close your eyes. Close them and... promise you won't open them until I say so."

"Okay...?" Void did as he was told, his mind going crazy when he heard a zipper followed by the distinct sound of dropping clothes. He nearly opened his eyes as he was moved around, but found himself oddly calmed when he ended sitting upright in the water flow. "Oh... Thanks. I think I've got it from here."

"No, you don't. If you fall again my dad might hear." The water stopped hitting Void a moment, the reason coming to light when two paws helped lift him from behind. "Okay, you can... open your eyes now. But keep them forward!"

"You really don't have to do this. I can--"

"You can't really reach everywhere like that." An arm moved forward and grabbed the shampoo. "You can't see anything, so it's fine. Right?"

"I'm not, uh... I don't... think..." Void looked down at his raging erection and tried to cover it. "Th-This isn't, uh..."

"You... really think I'm cute?" Those paws slowly worked into the fur at Void's sides, gliding downward bit by bit. "I mean... it's only natural for that to... do that if you do, right?"

"I... can't really control that part of me, either. S-Sorry." Vydr tried to calm his breathing, but those paws kept going until they worked soap into the thick base of his tail. "I... do think you're cute, but... I don't mean anything by it. I mean, you're just really pretty and... I think your personality is nice..."

"So it's more than just looks?" Ria's paws moved forward, cleaning Vydr's outer thighs. Then she pressed against him, letting her perky breasts mush against his back, her nethers rest over his tail... and her cock poke into his spine. "Do you... still think I'm pretty now...?"

"I didn't... know you, um..."

"But I thought you... felt it earlier when you..." Those roaming paws of Ria's slipped over Void's cock, giving it a squeeze at the base. "You... You do think I'm cute. I mean, you're still..."

"Yeah, I can't... really help that." Void groaned lightly as he tried to focus on his balance rather than his manhood. "Maybe we should get back to cleaning...?"

"Well... I should check this out, right? My mom grabbed you pretty hard." Those paws ran up and down the whole of Void's hefty length, then moved to cradle and fondle his balls. "They don't hurt too much, do they? I've... hit mine a few times before and it wasn't nice."

"Oh, they're killing me... but I don't think they care right now." Void forced himself to lean forward against the shower wall, ceasing Ria's progress. "Maybe we should take this back a notch. I... don't want to do this the wrong way, not with you."

"You really do like me..." Ria sighed as she rebooted her instincts, her paws gaining some more shampoo and rubbing through Void's tail. "Okay. My head's about to explode anyway, so... we'll do it your way."

"We will? Uh... Yeah, we will." Void stiffened as those paws rubbed over his ass and undercarriage, though Ria thankfully was being as expedient as possible. "H-How about a date? Are you free... tomorrow?"

"My first.... date..." Ria mumbled something else below the hiss of the shower, then picked up with renewed cheer to clean Void's back. "Yeah. I have classes, but I'll be free around this time tomorrow."

"Good. I'd... I want to know more about you, more than just how pretty you look. You're too nice of a girl to just... you know." Void perked up as he realized how sleazy that might sound. "I mean, not that you normally do that with guys you just met! I just want to handle this properly!"

Ria leaned forward and hugged the otter until he loosened up. "I understand, silly. It's... a date. Now, let's--"

"Ria, honey? I couldn't find your overalls so--" A very disturbed hare dropped the towels and clothes he held near the door to the bath and stormed over. He grabbed a lone towel from a nearby rack and pulled his daughter out of the shower while wrapping her. "Ilaria, go watch the stove. Now."

"D-Dad, I was just--!"

"I can't believe you tried to bring a boy in here while you were in heat! Just... go! I'll have a little talk with this..." The father finally got a closer look at Vydr and immediately sobered up on his parental ways. "Shit... you really did get caught in that oil. Ria, please just watch dinner for me. I'll take care of this poor guy."

"Dad, you're not mad at me... are you?"

"No, Ria. You're just trying to help this man; I see that now. Don't... Don't worry about it, sweetie." The hare shoved his daughter out of the bathroom and returned to the shower, shutting off the water with the controls. "You're a complete mess. Otter fur is too thick to clean that way." The water started rushing in through the lower faucet, drawing a bath. "You need to soak it to get that sort of mess out."

"I... guess so." Void crouched down carefully, then fell backward onto his ass when he got low enough. "Thanks for understanding. I was having trouble by myself and she just... hopped in with me..."

"Well I wouldn't think she'd be interested in older men anyway. What's your name? You seem familiar."

Void fought back a snort of laughter at the mistake of his apparent age, the otter growing faster than normal due to help from his inherited nanites. "You can call me Void. What's yours?"

"Carmine." The hare took a deep breath, then started undressing himself. "You don't have enough reach like that. Now I get what Ria was thinking."

"You don't need to do that, sir.--"

"No, I do." The reason why became quite clear as Carmine sat in front of Void in the tub, the only thing between the male's legs being an unexpected pussy. "I'm sure you noticed my daughter was different as well?"

"Y-Yeah." Void snapped his eyes up to Carmine's out of politeness, but the hare took his paw and guided it to rub his slit. "S-Sir!?"

"I don't mind. We're both guys here as far as I'm concerned." Once Void stopped resisting, Carmine took his own paws and started stroking Void's length as the tub filled. "Look all you want. Prod. Play with it. Hell, even fuck it if you want. That's all the pussy you're getting today. Are we clear?"

"B-But..." Vydr retracted his paw and used it to pry away Carmine's from his manhood. "I can't. I... I think I like your daughter. I'd like to... date her, if you're okay with that."

"You're too old for her. Just take me as a consolation prize and never come back."

"I just look older than her. I'm really only about sixteen. Well... in three months I'll be, but..."

"You're fifteen? No... Lights off." The room dimmed to black, leaving the only dull source of light as Void's dim red glowing skin. "No way. You're... Gods, there's so many of you I can't even remember all your names..."

"Uh... Vydr, maybe? I just go by Void since nobody can spell my full name."

"Lights on." Carmine nodded to himself a few times as the lights brightened, then huffed a sigh when the water automatically stopped. "Ilaria and Iolvin's son. Right, you're the youngest."

"I... heard you call Ria that... My mother's name?"

"Yeah, I did. That's her full name." Car reached for some degreasing shampoo Gin used and began lathering Vydr's chest. "I was hoping for a boy so we could name him Ademeus, in honor of the other father... but when she came out more of a girl I had to pick another name. I chose the name of the strongest woman I know, your mother."

"That's... awesome, actually. I'm sure she'd be honored to hear that." Void took the hint and pumped some of the soap into his own paw as well. "Well... maybe I should back off then. If you're that close to my mom, I won't bother Ria with--"

"No, I'd like it if you two dated. Knowing your parents, you'd be a guaranteed catch for any lucky girl. Hell, you don't even care about her dick. That alone is a good sign." Carmine cleaned around the otter's bad shoulder for him, pausing as he took in Void's body. "Not to be cruel, but you take after your dad. He's handsome, even if he's missing half of himself. It only figures he makes handsome pups."

"Uh, thanks."

"What I mean is... I think I'd like it if you two worked out. My baby girl has problems getting close to anyone, for obvious reasons. She needs someone to hold. And if that person is a Rihzyet, all the better." Car restarted his efforts, finishing the shoulder and working on Void's hindpaw next. "Yeah, I'd like that. My daughter and my old captain's son..."

"Don't start planning things on me. We haven't even shared a coffee yet." Void leaned back and worked on his upper leg, hiding his persistent erection below the sudsy water. "She's pretty and all, but I'd like to know more about her."

"Good. Keep it that way." Carmine reached for that cock and gave it a few strokes. "But remember what I said. I'm the only pussy you're getting under this roof. If she's in heat, no dates alone. You can visit here... for dinner tomorrow, if you'd like. And if you get any urges, well... I haven't had a man since her father... and I suppose I could buy some condoms..."

"I... think I can contain myself. I don't want to disappoint Ria. Besides, you have a wife--"

"A girlfriend. We've never married, though we have thought about it." Carmine rubbed his slit, pressing two fingers into his cunt with a gasp. "Crap. Sometimes we sync up our cycles and... ugh, sometimes I sync with Ria's like now. I might just be a little overly horny right now, if you get my drift. Sorry about that."

Void relaxed a bit more and ran his claws through the fur of his leg. "How... do you deal with that? It's three girls and no guys around here."

"Well there's the shit hitting the fan. We just... have a lot of toys. It's not the same as a man, though... and unlike your family, we're not so into letting our children touch us. We tought Ria how to handle herself." Car resumed his cleaning, forcing Void to stop as he rubbed shampoo into his arm. "It can be rough, but we make do. Just... seeing you like that is tempting though. Yeah, I must be going into heat alright..."

"I wish I could help, but..."

"You have eyes for my daughter, I get that. One bit of advice though?" Car brought Void's paw back to his pussy, pressing it down until he reluctantly began pressing a finger inside. "It's just sex. She knows the difference between sex and making love. We taught her well."

"Right. Lots of toys." Vydr loosened up again, getting more and more into fingering the intersex hare. "I guess we can help each other if you're cool with it. I have a brother like you and... sometimes we have the same deal. It really does help him, so why not you too?"

"That's exactly what I wanted to hear, hon. Let's put out this fire before it really starts." Carmine rose up and grabbed Void's cock, angling it upward as their hips met with a squelch. "Ohgods, that hits the spot."

"F-Fuck... It's been a while myself..." Void reclined until his head rested on the edge of the tub, wanting to do more but unable to help with just the one arm and leg. "Go at your own pace, Carmine. I'll let you know if I'm gonna blow."

"I'd normally complain about doing all the work, but... I think I'll let it slide, handsome." Car started hopping his hips up and down, fast and hard right out the gate to the point the water started splashing out the tub. "Don't hold back. If you need to pop, don't fight it. Just relax..."

"Gods... Oh..." Void did what little he could to buck upward, but Car held him down and increased his humping. "Y-You're going a bit f-fast there..."

"Well you feel really good, Void. Gods, you've inherited your dad's gifts down here too." Carmine sat down hard at the end of each stroke, battering his cervix and yet still having a few inches of cock remaining. "I can't even fit that in me if I tried. It... reminds me of Adem..."

"Th-That's... a bit too tight, C-Carmine..."

"Gods, Adem... Ah! Fuck me, Adem!"

"Carmine, I'm gonna--!"

"Yes! Give me another kid, Adem--!" Carmine snapped out of his heated trance a bit late, looking down at Void's contorted face and then at his twitching cock. He rose up and off that spire, his pussy being blasted and coated in eerily crimson cum, but he wasn't quick enough to prevent his own cherry filling. "Oh... fuck. I wasn't supposed to do that."

"Wh-What...?" The soapy water slowly tinted pink as a very generous, almost impossible amount of glowing cum spewed from the otter. "Oh... Did you get... off in time?"

"That would be a negative." Carmine fell to his knees, having hidden his own orgasm as long as he could. "F-Fuck... I'll... have to get a... morning after..."

"Oh, crap. It just... snuck up on me all of a sudden. I--"

"No, I asked for it. I shouldn't have screwed you like that unless I knew when to get off you." Carmine shook a bit, the cum tingling in just the right way deep inside him. "Ouh... I think that did the trick, though. It's not all bad."

"Except you have a load of me inside you. Fuck, I should have just--"

"It's fine. I said I can get a kit and make it all better." Carmine slowly stood on shaky legs and stepped out the bath. He tapped the controls and the tub began draining, then another holo-button press started the shower again. "Jizz water isn't exactly good for the fur, as much as some people say it might be. Let's get you cleaned up properly and..." He looked at the very girly clothes he picked from his daughter's closet with a snort. "...dressed. I guess we'll need to find you some better clothes."

"In a bit." Void struggled a bit, but managed to get himself on his hindpaw and standing. He pulled Carmine back into the shower and clasped his paw over the hare's leaking pussy. "You're still a mess, and I'm still hard. Round two?"

"You're on, stud."

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40 Minutes Later

Bloom Hotel, Suite 105

International Ward 1

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"Come on, sis. Open the door."

"Who are you, again? I don't know anyone that dresses like that." Rose opened her suite's door to bawling laughter, the target of which being Vydr's outlandish pink robe for an outfit. "What the fuck happened to you? You're a mess and then some, Vydr."

"We ran into complications." Void sighed as he walked directly toward a decanter of whisky. "Laugh all you want, but it's hard to bum clothes off a bunch of women when you're this tall. I'll take flowery and fluffy over nothing."

"Well you look adorable. Come on in, Ilse." Rose grunted and nudged her head toward her children, the oily otter holding back on the volume of his drink in response. "So why are you all... greasy?"

"That leak I mentioned? Hydraulic oil. It doesn't play nice with my thick undercoat." Void sipped his drink and pulled a cheap Slate from his robe's pocket. "Ilse is all set. Salt looked up her registration and reassigned her to you. Sadly... she was an officially registered slave, so she can't be simply set free."

"Crap. So she's my slave now? Forever?"

"No, Rose. I'm your registered assistant." Ilse took the Slate and thumbed through the unfamiliar tech until an ID was shown. "I'm an independent person, but I have to remain in your supervision for ten years. After that I can apply to set myself free if my guardian--you--allows it."

"I see. Let me read this..." Rose enlarged the fine print into a small hologram about the size of a sheet of paper. "Okay then. So according to this if your master dies and does not leave your ownership to anyone, you require a guardian to rehabilitate you. That's... fair. I just... wish I would have known right when your master died all those years ago."

"This is still better than I would have had. Under Dutch law, I would permanently be a slave. Without a master, the government would own me..."

"Then I'm glad we have at least this. I'd say ten years is a drop in the bucket for me, but you're human..." Rose shut her eyes and took a deep breath. "No, this is still better than a life of slavery."

"That it is." Void took another sip of his drink and sat in a loveseat across from the kids. "So what's the plan now? Anything else?"

"Well I'd say to just leave it to me, but we don't have much room here and I'm not sure what my mates will say." Rose considered pouring her own drink but held back, instead sitting on the arm of the love seat and stealing a sip of Vydr's glass. "Ilse might have to stay with you a day or two while we figure things out. Ideally she'd share our large bed with us, but that's pending the guys' approval."

"Well why don't you get it, then? Give it a test run?" Void winked his tiny ears and nudged his head to the master bedroom. "I can hear the air system running in there. If they're home, why not greet them with a gift?"

"You think? I can't just walk in there with Ilse and no explanation."

"Sure you can." Void unbuttoned the top of Rose's blouse, admiring her false tits for a moment as the cleavage really started to show. "Just take all your clothes off and they won't need an explanation. I know I wouldn't."

"I can't force Ilse to--"

"I'd love to have sex with them again." Ilse was already topless and drawing giggles as she walked to the room. "They were the best I ever had. If that's all you'd ask of me, I'll gladly do this for you Rose."

"O... Okay then." Rose whipped off her own top and downed the last of Vydr's drink. "Wish us luck."

"I'll stay here a while in case things don't, but I think you'll be fine. I know my brothers pretty well, and above all else they'd do anything for you... or do anyone I guess." Void grinned as the two walked into the bedroom without any clothes, his attention then going to his empty glass and then the kids. "Your mother is smoking hot. She walk around naked for you guys a lot?"

"She used to avoid it, until we started doing it thanks to a few visits down to Vasily." Sprig smiled at the memories, his brother chuckling with him as they both decided to strip down. "Hasn't really stopped, though we can't really go to school like that."

"Right, the Academy frowns on naturalism." Void admired his nephews as they disrobed, followed by their sisters with a bit more hesitation. "So how's the crowd over there treating you four? I got hazed a bit too much looking like I used to."

Blossom took her shirt and folded it nicely to her side, in stark contrast to her brothers. "It was bad at first, but they stopped when they realized we had some backbone."

"Yeah, we've got more bite than you'd think." Bloom slid her pants off and folded them in just the same manner. "I just wish we didn't need to show that side of us."

Vydr looked over his own body beneath the robe, eventually tossing it open to join the four and let his oily fur breathe a bit. "Hey, I'm proud of you for sticking to it. You've got dreams and you're following them. That's commendable." The otter admired his nieces especially, hardly hiding his rising manhood as he stared at their singular, shared body. There was an odd but especially feminine curve up their triple breasts, leading to their split neck and heads. Even more enticing in its own way was their pair of pussies meeting between their legs. "I don't care if they look at you strange for being conjoined. Your two are as sexy as they come."

"R-Really? You're not just saying that?"

Blossom corrected her sister by nudging her large anvil nose to Void's erection. "I'm pretty sure he'd fuck us senseless if mom allowed it."

"Well she allows us to do it." Sprout reached over and placed one of his two paws on each of his sisters' pussies, rolling circles around their clits. "Want to show off for Uncle Void?"

"I'm pretty sure he's had enough already." Sprout reached over with his own two paws and pumped Void's cock, using his uncut foreskin as a sleeve. "I can smell someone all over you. You're also not getting really hard. You just have sex or what?"

"Yeah, three rounds. I... also think I might have a girlfriend now." Void took those paws off his sensitive length and politely shook his head side to side. "If you guys want to have fun, go right ahead." Void tapped his ear and the five went silent, allowing the moans of Rose and Ilse to be heard clearly through the bedroom door. "That's the sound of success. Now if you don't mind, I've got about ten showers in my immediate future after a nap. Have your mom call me if she needs anything. Oh, and tell your dads I'll drop by this weekend. Maybe we can all do something together."

Bloom gasped as her brothers climbed atop her body and shoved both their cocks into her shared pussies. "Yeah, th-that would be fun."

"See ya' then, Uncle Void."

"Later, Void."

"Have fu--Fuck you're b-big today!"

Void gave the quadruplets a quick salute, shut his robe, and blinked back to the cockpit of Hermes. "Those four are ridiculous together."

"You saw Rose's kids? Please tell me you didn't... watch them again..." Kino stood from her copilot's seat and feigned displeasure with a huff. "You did. You've got mating pheromones all over you."

"Well actually, I--"

"Getting lucky, eh? That the same Rose that's got twins for husbands? Yangurra?" Ginivieve stood from a passenger's seat and slapped Void on the shoulder. "We flew together during the war. How's she doing? She has kids now?"

"Aye, quadruplets. Don't tell twins to have twins, I guess. They're doing well." Void reached beneath his pilot's seat and produced a bottle, quite ironically of gin. "Care for a pour? After earlier I've been needing a few."

"Cannibalism. I like it." Gin smirked a bit, but the joke didn't take. "Nevermind. Make it a double."

"My kind of lady." Void walked over to the living area and pulled out two tumblers. "So what brings you here, Gin? Jen? Jan?"

"Just like the drink, and short for Ginivieve. I prefer the more boyish version." Gin didn't bother with a chair, sitting instead on the edge of the table next to the spot Void poured the drinks. "I'm here to make peace over literally busting your balls earlier. You didn't have to go see a doc over it, did you?"

"Nah, I haven't needed a trip to hospital just yet. Hurts like hell in the odd position though." Vydr slid the first drink to his guest. "Nothing this won't help with, yeah?"

"I grabbed you pretty hard though." Gin took her drink, but held Void's paw in place to rub the fur. "That shit isn't coming out without a fight, huh? And to top all that you're missing a thumb too? Shit, if I'd have known you were that bad off--"

"It's fine. I can cope with having less than most, and Ria helped get most of this shit out my fur." Void downed his drink in one go, gasping at the burn of the alcohol whilst pouring another. "Your boyfriend said she was named after my mom. That's making this a tad awkward right about now."

"Oh, yeah. I didn't have much say in that, honestly. I'm not the mother, if the liger in Ria didn't give it away."

"Liger? What's that, lynx and tiger? This Adem guy that's her dad... What's his story?"

"Had a bit of a chat with Car, I see. Well I think the guy was actually a bunch of big cats, but he definitely had tiger and lion in him. Lynx isn't likely wrong either. The guy was huge." Now it was Gin's turn to eradicate her drink. "I didn't really know the guy well, but apparently he had a split personality. Drove him insane until... Well, he's not around anymore. Please don't bring that up with Car."

"Nah, I'm locked up tight on it for ya'." Void poured another drink for Gin, the civet looking like she could use a few herself with the turn of conversation. "So... Carmine's a nice guy. I didn't want to bring this up like this, but... we had a chat about me dating your daughter. I'd prefer if I had the both of you on board."

"We're fine, Void. I can see we get along well enough, but if you still have your face intact after bringing up Ria you've got my Car's blessing too." Gin took her next drink easier, sipping instead of chugging. "You do know Car can read parts of your mind, right? Ria too. It's the only reason I let her take you home, because I trust her judgement of others."

"Shit, that so?" Void looked down at his crotch thinking of what he did with Carmine, his sore member causing him to wince from a lack of rest. "Right. They knew exactly what they were doing then."

"It still hurts? Shit, I've got to make us even then." Gin downed the rest of her drink and stood with her legs slightly apart. "Why don't you give me your hardest cunt punt. Just... pop it as hard as you can. I'm tough. Ain't gonna break me."

"Nah, I've... already taken enough of what's yours. Good on ya', but we're flat even mate."

"If it's about hitting a lady, I'm not one. Sometimes I even like it some." Gin sighed and undid her pants, shoving them down so only her panties were left to protect her. "If it's about not having balls, you can take a bare hit. Should make it sting a bit more."

"I'm not--"

"Don't let her fool you. She loves the hell out of being slapped." Gin's Tail, freed from it's fabric prison, swished into view over the table with a devilish grin over its toothy mouth. "If you really want to hurt her in a way she doesn't like, pinch her clit as hard as you can."

"What the actual fuck, mate?" Void's first reaction was to check if he was cross eyed from such a small portion of alcohol. Passing that test with flying colors, he then touched the odd tail mouth's lolling tongue. "Okay, that shit is real. I repeat: What the fuck, Gin?"

"I'd say to ignore him, but that's pretty impossible." Gin loosened her stance and sighed. "I call this guy Tail, for obvious reasons. He likes to talk a lot of shit."

"It's not shit. It's the truth. See?" Tail curled over and nibbled on Gin's clit with two of his large teeth, causing the civet to jump in pain. "She's never liked direct stuff to the clit besides tongues. Lucky me, I have that down pat."

"Fuck, Tail! Gah..." Gin wanted to close her legs now that her panties were damp and basically transparent, but she stood stiff and ready for more. "Just do something to me before he does, Void. Then I can stuff him away and--"

"Looks like the guy enjoys that." Tail rubbed against a large bulge in Void's robe, pulling the waist strap open with his teeth. "Oh yeah. He's definitely liking that. Maybe you should fuck her instead?"

"No. I can't. Fuck... I already... had sex with Carmine..." Vydr sat up in his chair to slow Tail's progress. "He was in heat and... well, we had sex. You don't owe me a thing. I owe you, if anything."

Void, she's already offered her pussy to you. I like the way it makes you feel just as much as you do. Mime reached out his paw and cupped Gin's wet sex through her soaked panties. Don't decide these things for just yourself.

"W-Wait, I--" Tail had a breakthrough in finding the proper positions of underlying clothing for Void's cock to pop free, then he promptly engulfed the entirety of that length of otter meat into his oversized maw. "B-Bloody hell..."

Gin hunched forward as her panties were pulled to the side, three fingers finding direct access to her searing hot folds. "Gods, kid... Fuck, I'll take th-that too."

Much nicer, yes. Mime pressed her thumb and pinky inward, then slowly wedged the first half of her fist into Gin's tight confines. I love it like this. I can meld to her and feel her pleasure as well.

"Damnit, Mime..." Void grunted and squeaked as Tail curled his long tongue around the whole of his cock and started sucking with all he had. "Gods, I can't... Fuck, this is too much..."

"Sh-Shit!" Gin fell to her knees as her orgasm quickly overtook her, the culprit showing as Mime's entire fist barely pressed inside her. "S-S-So g-good-d..."

"Ah, damn!" Void wasn't long to hold out after seeing such a display, his own peak washing a silly look over him as he started gushing red cum deep into Tail's assumed throat. "Oh, fuck... Gods... Gods damn..." He looked over to Gin as she seemed to hit a lighter, second climax and fought for renewed control over his partner's arm. Mime, stop. You've had your fun. Let the poor lady rest.

Oh, alright... Mime's paw slowly pulled itself free, inadvertently setting Gin off for a third bout of shuddering. It reminded her of being 'tied', whatever that means. It must be quite nice, though.

Maybe. I wouldn't know. I don't have a knot nor do I plan on taking one. Void watched as Tail slipped off his cock, slurping up all his cum with him. Then he locked eyes with a very frazzled Kino and shot his eyes wide open. "S-Sorry! I d-didn't--"

"Barbarian!" Quite unlike her normal self, Kino stormed off to one of the spare bunks and locked the door behind her, another shout barely bleeding through the walls. "You... idiot!"

"What was... that about...?"

"It was just about the best orgasm of my life is what, and that wasn't even your cock." Gin straddled Vydr in his seat, then leaned over the table. "Take me. Fuck me. Breed me. It's all yours, Void."

The scent in the air tingled Vydr's nose in much the same way as around Carmine and Ria. "You're in heat. All of you are..." Void tried to stand and move away, but upon watching Tail messily sharing his prize with Gin through a sloppy kiss something compelled him to simply lean forward and sink deep into the civet's heated pussy. "Fuck. I'll pull out when I'm--"

"No, you're fucking staying inside." Gin wrapped her legs around Void's calves and encouraged him deeper. "I haven't had a man in me for decades. I want to feel it, all of it."

"Don't you even know you're in heat? I can't. You'll--"

"Get knocked up? Fuck, I hope so." Gin gripped her breasts beneath her shirt and started kneading them as Void began to move in earnest. "Yes... Give me a gift to share with Carmine... Kittens of my own..."

"Fuck. I've fucked both my girlfriend's parents before her..." Void groaned as Gin started clamping her toned core muscles to milk him. "The things I'll do for love..."

Mime reached out and brought his paw down hard on Gin's ass, slapping it loudly before grabbing the base of her Tail tightly. Kinky. I like it.

We're having a serious talk about your behavior later... Mime tugged that Tail and the tightness it incurred nearly caused Void to blow his next load then and there. ...after we're done helping Gin, perhaps.