Summer Heat - Epilogue

"Papa, let me fly!" the little wolf girl giggled when Zen tossed her up into the air and with a big splash she hit the water. Tikki was just a bundle of energy and joy like her mother Tara. The girl was 4 years old now. Time sure flew by. Only a few of the girls that went to school in the first 3 years still were here, but right now there was summer break. Life calmed down a lot for the white wolf, even though his children made sure to keep him active and make his life adventurous. Some of the cubs stayed at school, even after their mothers left and looked for a job. Zen could not hire all of the girls, but a few still were there. Next to his sister, there was Tara. Roana was a care taker in one of his other schools now and Christine would start there as well after the summer break. She already left to get herself acclimated for the new school. Zina, the black panther, and Snow were the others that stayed after school Snow just graduated, but she asked her parents if she could stay and work here. Tammy and Sandy were still there with their mothers. Bertha was still in charge of sports and swimming classes and Paula finished her medicine. The final form, a pill, had been accepted by the society as well as the sleeves, that she named condoms. A lot changed in the last 4 years, especially towards the taboo of sexual topics.

Zen had tried hard to find out the reason, why there was a taboo on the topic. Eventually, with a lot of help by Mara and Sierah, who also still were at the school as teachers, he found out that a few hundred years ago, some religious party found mating impure. They taught that it was a sin and therefore it was banned. In the same era, a lot of wars happened and the population was declining and therefore, to please the strong religious party and in addition to make sure the population was rising fast again, the government put the ban on this topic. When Zen thought about it he still chuckled in amusement, when he thought about this taboo surviving into the modern age. The religious party, that originally had been strong, lost in power over the centuries and now the population was high and rising. Zen had to admit that he did a big part in increasing the citizens in the early years. The number of cubs in the last years, thanks to the medicine of Paula, had dropped significantly. Zen, with the help of Gilla, got contact to very high politicians with power and a good network and over the last 3 years they slowly softened the taboo and even though it still was some kind of taboo or seen as nasty to talk about mating and sexual intercourse, the topic was not banned by law anymore. This helped Zen and Paula to build a pharma-company with Paula as its head and produce the pills and condoms in large quantity. They even shipped it to other continents. Paula hired a team of scientists to improve the formulas as well as inventing new medicine. The staple, very highly requested by people, were however her first three inventions. The condoms, the pill that prevented pregnancy and the pill that would cause the pseudo heat.

A shadow darted past Zen followed by two others. The first shadow seemed to try to escape the others but they were like a blur under the water. Zen knew who it was though. Phil, the male otter, and Zorro, the male alligator, were chasing after Zaphira, Zorro's sister, again. Zen looked around to spot Steve, the male beaver, who usually was helping them to pick on the girl, but he was resting in the shadows under the trees a bit away from the water. These four were often in the water and it was their element. Being 6 and 7 now, they had grown up a lot and they all had started school already. To make them a bit more independent, Zen sent them away to one of his other schools, but for the summer break they came back and enjoyed the reunion with their father and mothers. A lot of Zen's old students visited him during the summer break with their cubs. It was not that Zen did not see the cubs often. He had the feeling that on the weekends during school time he spend more time on the road now than he spend resting, but he was happy. After the number of cubs increased, it got harder to keep them all at the school grounds and so Zen decided, that only the cubs would be where their mother was, if this was possible. For some, like Samantha, it was difficult, because she moved far away with her parents. They decided to send the children to a school close to her home and they visited every summer. Her parents still were oblivious about the children and with her now working as a life guard at the beach, it was easier to visit her kids without the grandparents picking up on them.

"How was Nelly?" Sierah closed in to them and Tikki climed on her back giggling. For the wolf girl Sierah was not only her aunt but also somewhat like a mother. She had nursed her in the past and they had a close bond, just as Tara had with Sierahs children. Sierah moved slowly because she had a big belly again. She was one of the few girls, that Zen decided to impregnate again this year. "She is fine and the little Issy as well. She told me to greet you." - "And is her father happy with his new position?" Zen smiled at his sister. "I think he loves it. I mean, he is the dean of the school, his daughter and granddaughter are there and I think he does a great job leading the cubs." When a few years ago his other school started, Zen put people in charge that he knew and that knew the prototype school Mr. Shields has been just one of them. Others had been Minna and Dott and Lena Minx, with her two daughters also teaching at her school. The school of Zen still was active and exclusively for girls, however a bit changed since he started. With the taboo lifted he was more open to the parents and when admitting the girls, they signed an agreement that they had active sexual classes. They could even tip a box if they agreed to Zen impregnating their daughters, which to the wolf's surprise quite some parents still did. At his other schools, the sexual lectures are mostly theoretical. It was part of the lessons for the children, males and females for all his other schools, to get naked during sexual classes and to explore their differences, but it stopped at that and did not go further, except for some special cases. If the cubs were learning more about actual mating was up to the parents, who could choose to have their children over 12 to enter intercourse with another cub, or even with one of the male teachers. The impregnation clause was also an option there, but it was very rarely chosen and usually it was Zen who visited the schools regularly who impregnated the few selected girls where the parents opted in. This all was always done after a long consultation with the cubs and the parents to make sure they knew what they were up to do. It was always the cub's decision in the end if they wanted to try out getting pregnant or not. Some refused, but some seemed to be eager to try it.

"And I met Tanja and Sissy there." He added. "Tanja was admitting Lim at the school. "Opt in or opt out?" asked his sister and laughed when she saw Zen smile. "What do you think?" - "Opt in all the way." Sierah guessed and Zen nodded. "Well, she is my daughter after all. I left the decision to Lim and Tanja, but the girl is all her mother as well." Sierah grinned and tossed the begging Tikki into the water, which made the girl giggle and splash around. "Well, there is still some time until she is old enough though." She joked and Zen agreed. Even though Lim was one of the oldest cubs, she was the cub of his first mating after the school has opened, she still was eight and a half years old. She still had a bit over 3 years until she would get into heat and choose her partner, if she did not change her mind until then. Zen was sure that until then she would have a boyfriend in school and the only difficulty would be to get his parents to agree with the deal. "How are the other foals doing?" his sister wanted to know while Tikki reached them again and started to climb up on Sierah again. Zen chuckled and picked her up to relieve his pregnant sister. "They are all fine. Abigale did finally tell Mr. Hoopers about the cubs and told him everything." He replied. "And I had a talk with him as well explaining him a few things. He sure was a bit angry but in the end, he accepted the facts he could not change. We agreed to having him play the father of Abigale's little boy Arn. He is all over his grand-daughters as well and I promised him to use my connections to get him a good paid job where he could be home more often. He finally saw that him being away so much led to his wife getting pregnant." - "Or some horny teacher who slipped her a drug." Sierah laughed while Zen tossed Tikki again. "You know it was an accident... not that I really regret it." He smirked and his sister playfully hit his chest with her fist. "Speaking of parents, did you know that our parents called?" Zen looked at her surprised. "Four years, I thought they would wait a bit longer." Sierah chuckled and Zen also had to laugh soon. He took the whole thing with his parents more as a joke right now or as a warning sign to never become like them. He was not angry at them anymore. "They said that they would come over around new year and bring the parents of Snow." She said and Zen wrinkled his nose. "Think they will pick up her big belly?" he asked but his sister jokingly slapped his arm. "You know that she will get her cub before new year. She will be all slim and pretty when they come." - "But I think we should ask the Flourenne sisters if they could watch the cubs during the time then. I am sure our parents would not even care about cubs dancing around them and they would not pick up the source of them, but I am not sure about Snow's parents." Sierah looked after Tikki who now had enough of being thrown around and swam to the edge of the pool and exited it to play with Zoe. The oldest daughter of Sierah was much calmer and had a very caring side to herself. She helped to watch over the little cubs already. "When I think that they are already as old as our youngest pupils in school. Time sure flows by." Zen said while watching the two cubs greeting each other and starting a conversation.

The following years to come would bear some adventures and some chaos for Zen and his big family as he became more and more a central figure for the country. He had been asked to get into politics a lot, taking his good connections and what he already managed to achieve in terms of sexual education in a few years. But Zen always refused. He did not want to live any other life than he did with his schools, his cubs and his many lovers. Even though he was still very affectionate and loving to all his girls, he moved into the father role more and more becoming responsible and thoughtful of the future. But every now and then there was a story that is worth to be told and maybe I will tell one of those in the future. But for now, I can only say: ...

... the lived happily ever after!