# Third Earth - Book Six

Author: Logan Storm
Tags: Anthro, Anthropomorphic, Archive, Human, Story

The following material with in this folder is an archive of nine books in total I wrote at Bad-Dragon starting at 27th April 2010, I am placing the story here while I remaster it here on sofurry, you will see just how horrific the spelling, typos, missing words and sentences at times are compared to my more modern work here on sofurry.  
  
So please bare this in mind before commenting about how bad the spelling, typos, Grammar and missing words are missing.

**CHAPTER SIX**

Light glistened from the protective paint of the human ship of the line, its massive   
 paddle wheel churning through the ocean surface its captain dressed in white and gold   
 raised a telescope to his eye looking across the waves at the sight of white sails.  
  
**“Hmnn a Forth Rate Ship of the Line, sporting the paw print flag!”**   
  
 The captain mused to his junior officers before asking.  
  
**“How many bronze cannon and what bore would such a vessel have?”**   
  
 The young faces looked up at the captain most barely sixteen, their families having   
 purchased them a position in the Navy; he kept his gaze firmly on the furry vessel   
 some distance away.   
  
**“Erm…fifty to sixty bronze twelve pounders sir!”**  
  
 Came one the young officers his voice having yet to break, the answer was correct but   
 he still waited a few seconds to make the junior officer squirm.  
  
**“Correct, her hull is wooden while her teeth point to starboard and port with one or   
 two in her stern.”**   
  
 Lowering his telescope he turns to his first officer and bellowing loudly.  
  
**“Stern and Bow turret, two points abaft the port beam, elevation ninety degrees!”**   
  
 The order was repeated by the First Officer into a highly polished brass cone linked to   
 a net work of tubing to carry the order to where it was needed, in moments there was   
 a hissing sound of steam escaping and the noise of massive gears and cogs as the two   
 turrets began to turn; taking aim as the three long barrels on each began to lift up at an   
 angle.  
  
**“Fire!”**   
  
 The Captain Bellows an order repeated by the First Officer down another of the cone   
 like devices, there was a silent stillness for a few brief heart beats then the massive   
 barrels jerked back a quarter of the way into the turret as one by one flame slicked   
 around there muzzles.  
  
 Across the distance the captain of the ship of the line a grizzled old Otter was   
 watching the strange looking vessel, wondering how some thing as heavy as metal   
 could float not that it looked like it could prove any real threat since it only had six   
 guns three on each end so as long as he kept to the side of it he was sure he was safe.  
 That was until the two turrets turned something that for a brief few seconds that   
 would prove most fatal made him just stand and stare in disbelief.  
 It went against everything he knew to be right in the world, water was wet, the sky   
 was blue and cannons where fixed mounted on any vessel; there was a load whistling   
 sound followed by an explosion just behind his vessel showering the main deck in   
 water.  
  
 The captain was in shock and denial at how any thing could have that kind of range,   
 by the time his first officer began to take matters into his own paws and sounding   
 general quarters the other five rounds struck home tearing through the deck and hull   
 as though it was paper, in moments the large wooden ship of the line was taking on   
 more water than could be removed by the crew forming a chain to desperately keep   
 the doomed vessel from sinking.  
 The sound of whistling came again as another volley began to descend as they where   
 fired upon again striking the powder room causing the furry vessel to explode.  
  
 Back on the paddle ship the Human Captain smiled passing the telescope to Junior   
 Officer in way of a reward for having answered his little quiz correctly, the youth   
 watched excitedly at the destruction of the abominations vessel.  
 The smell of the cannon fire was still fresh in the air some thing that the Captain   
 found exhilarating.  
  
**“Death to the impure!”**  
  
 The junior officer cries out swiftly companied by those in ear shot each shouting the   
 same thing, the captain smiled approvingly as the First Officer speaks in to yet   
 another of the cone shaped devices.  
  
 “Engine Room Maintain course full ahead!”   
  
 The sound of the paddle wheel grew louder as it began to pick up speed.

** **

 

**                                                                                            -OOO-**

** **

James grumbled quietly to himself, it had been all most a week since his mistresses   
 cruel game she had played upon him, his sore rear had yet to forgive him, every   
 muscle in an don his body felt stiff and heavy.  
 He hadn’t spoken much since that day and had bee n some what unwilling to service   
 his Mistresses needs not that this had really stopped Volkoff just taking what she   
 wanted.  
  
**“Come now James can’t we just all put this Behind us?”**   
  
 Tanya smirked slapping his backside making him jump a few feet and let out a loud   
 cry much to the Ferrets amusement, the Contessa Volkoff sighed shaking her head   
 more to the awful joke Tanya had come out with.  
 Turning her attention towards the old Turtle waited patiently one of his apprentices   
 carrying a pile of material roughly sown; it was the day of the fitting for James new   
 clothes some thing the Lizard Mistress hoped would improve her pet’s mood.  
 While she had no qualms about abusing her slave she did prefer it when he mated   
 with her willingly.  
 Giving the master tailor a nod to proceed she watched James ready to intervene   
 should he try to prove difficult, she couldn’t really blame him though she had to admit   
 the Rabbit did go a bit crazy, the male had been still going hell for leather when both   
 herself and De’Floar finally came too from their afterglow.  
 Still she was sure a little pampering would help soothe him it did her when she was in   
 a bad mood.  
  
 The Turtle approached helping James ease into the blue print or as most tailors would   
 call the basted suit long sleeved tunic and hose, both items where only given basic   
 stitching to show how the whole outfit would look when fully completed; it was   
 incredibly comfortable though the cuffs easily came over his hands and the hose   
 proved slightly short in the leg.  
 But this was to be expected and why the second fitting was preformed, white paint   
 dabbed in lines had been applied for where the lace for the chest of the tunic would   
 be, the Turtles apprentice was taking down the corrections required as the Master   
 Tailor called them out.  
  
 All in all the James was starting to enjoy the attention as the Turtle finished with the   
 tunic begins to work on the hose come braies, this proved slightly more embarrassing   
 as the old craftsman began to call out more figures to be jotted down, with this done   
 James felt a little sad at having to remove the basted suit as it felt good to be covered   
 again but he eased carefully out of the articles’ of clothing none the less.  
  
**“This should tide you over human until all the is complete”**   
  
 The Turtle smirked clicking his short scaled fingers, the Salamander apprentice   
 putting the parchments with the figures scratched into it fished his claws into his nap   
 sake pulling out a crimson jerkin and tights, they were not of any high quality but far   
 better than the simple length of silk and cord that acted as a loin cloth.  
  
**“Thank you!”**  
  
 James spoke a genuine smile of gratitude playing across his lips as accepted them, in   
 moment she was getting them on enjoying the feel of material against his skin once   
 more.  
 He had completely forgotten about the Rabbit incident as he looked down admiring   
 himself, Tanya had dragged the vanity mirror over for him to truly get a good look at   
 his new clothes.  
  
**“I add my thanksss Massster Tailor”**   
  
 Volkoff spoke bowing her head slightly in thanks a motion to which the Turtle   
 returned saying with a deeply respectful and submissive tone.  
  
**“It is my pleasure to serve her ladyship”**   
  
 With this he and his apprentice slowly with head bowed backed out of the chamber   
 leaving the Mistress alone with her two slaves.  
  
**“Looking good there James, if the mistress approves? I’m going to have to get you out   
 of those clothes and into me!”**   
  
 Tanya winked mischievously to which James could only blush brightly.  
  
**“ You have my consssent to do ssso!”**   
  
 The moment the words left the Contessa’s lips than the Ferret was all over James all   
 but dragging him roughly over to the floor cushions her small muzzle parting his lips   
 as her tongue forces it way along his own, her tiny paws proved highly dexterous as   
 they eased him free of his new clothing before he even realized what was happening.  
  
**“W..Wait what are you…..munph!”**  
  
 He never got to finish that sentence as her muzzle attacked his mouth once more, he   
 could feel the soft silky fur of her body slide sensuously against his warm skin   
 sending shudders of pleasure up and down his spine.  
 Finally freeing his mouth so he might breath she turns around grinding her firm   
 bottom against his swelling man-hood sliding against it between her cheeks, it felt like   
 he was being assaulted in a good way by a slinky as her long torso turns slightly as   
 she kisses him deeply for a third time.  
  
**“I need to go ssspeak unto De’Floar ssso play nicely!”**   
  
 Volkoff smirked leaving Tanya to finish off the mood adjustment on her pet, there   
 wasn’t much reply save for a muffled plea for help from James something the Lizard   
 Mistress ignored as she left leaving the two mammals alone.

 

**“Oooo so thick and long, you know back in training when I was a little ‘Kit’ learning   
 how best to be a good little slave one the things we where shown was how to   
 accommodate such girth, have to say I recall it quite vividly because it hurt so much   
 for a long time until I got older and my body could handle it better.”**   
  
 Tanya moans slowly easing away from James before saying down with him, her   
 smaller figure slipping between his thighs as her muzzle came with in a breaths inch   
 from his fully erect member, easing a paw slowly around his shaft she eases his   
 foreskin down as her soft warm tongue began to ease along his bulbous tip her eyes   
 growing wide as she found the taste to be some thing she could quite easily grow to   
 enjoy.  
  
**“Mmnnn!…\*slurp\*..mmmmn…tastes good…better than \*slurps\* I would have   
 thought mmmmmn….humans are good finger licking good”**   
  
 Tanya moans as her tongue works slowly down along his length before easing back   
 up again, James gasped barely able to move as he felt the touch of one of her fangs, a   
 look in her eyes daring him to try and push her away or pull free.  
  
**“My instructor was a pony damn was he well endowed true not as big as a your   
 normal common horse but still more than most could handle, all most killed me when   
 he tore my hime and liberated me from my virginity but damn that flared head of his   
 when it inflated inside of me the pain was horrific.”**   
  
 She continues to say all the while her small paw easing back and forth along his   
 length with the occasional caress of her tongue along the pouting lips at the very tip of   
 his exposed bulb like end.  
  
**“Should have seen the bodies of those that failed that first lesion with him but I   
 passed…..only just, the hell he put me through as I grew up…but I should thank him   
 really you should feel how strong my inner muscles can be as they manipulate any   
 thing eased up inside of any of my holes”**   
  
 With this last sentence she lifts her head up over and slowly down over the very tip of   
 his man-hood taking him partly into her muzzle trapping the thick girth between her   
 fangs, he was trembling now as she looked into his eyes with her own, there was a   
 twisted sadistic glint in them as she suckled firmly; a dribble of pre-cum had escaped   
 and her tongue began to slide around the engulfed section of his muscle teasing yet   
 another dribble to leak out as she worked him so expertly.  
 He could feel the warm all too familiar pressure building swiftly as he felt the   
 pleasure beginning to build only for her to release him from her muzzle and return to   
 squeezing and stroking him at a slow pace with her paw as she deliberately calmed his   
 bodies need to release.  
  
**“Oh the things that mnnn basted would do to me was disgraceful but being a slave it**   
 didn’t really matter so long as no permanent damage was done, you see ponies are   
 about six dreb’s long that’s I think if I recall my math’s correctly about twelve of your   
 human inches in length.  
 Kinda big for most of us smaller sized mammals thankfully we Ferrets like the Otters   
 and Weasels have such nice elongated torsos..see!”  
  
 Tanya whispers into his ear easing her self up along his body so the fur of her chest   
 and torso pressed and caressed his skin sending yet another shiver of delight through   
 James’s senses.  
  
**“Mnn I hear you had some training with a equine and survived your self, a Shire no   
 less, most impressive mnnn, bet you can’t wait to ease up inside this little piece short   
 cake hmnn?....sink that thick twitching end up inside of me and fill me so incredibly   
 full of that delicious cum so that my belly slosh’s about like some ol’fat cow?”**   
  
 James gasped loudly with a sudden intake of breath as he felt his tip being brushed   
 against her moist lower lips teasing him even more, she grinned evilly as she watched   
 his expression and how she was making him suffer.  
 Nudging his shaft firmly between her lower lips she begins to slide against it rubbing   
 her self against his rock hard staff and enjoying how it caressed against the hood   
 where her cliterous was hiding forcing it to swell and add to the incredible sensation   
 she was feeling.  
  
**“mnnn so hard so incredibly thick mnnnn I think you might stretch me more than my   
 instructor did but in much better way, do you want to fuck my tiny defenseless body   
 James?.…oooooo….it feels so good, I so want you inside of me!”**   
  
 Tanya moans panting deeply as she rides against his entire length as she simulates   
 intercourse; James was having trouble just trying to breathe at this point much to her   
 delight.  
  
**“Breath James…come on deep breaths in…uhnn….out…in…uhnn oh yes..yes   
 …uunnnn”**

She cries out trying to help him to focus on breathing only to turn her self on even   
 more, she could feel the intense pleasure rippling and flowing through her as she   
 eases her hips back and forth with a firm yet slow rhythm that was starting to pick up   
 pace the more aroused she became.  
 Laying down over him she could feel each of her eight nipples rub against James   
 driving her more and more wild with lust, her nail like claws began to dig into the   
 cushions next to them as she pants for air herself now then she felt it the quivering   
 jerk of his thick hard length spewing its seed between her fur and his skin the   
 sensation was just to much and sent her over the edge forcing her to hit her own   
 orgasm.  
  
 Playfully she nips at his nipple her muzzle tilting up wards as she did so before   
 flicking her tongue over the other while she just laid over him basking in the   
 intoxicating sensation of her after glow.  
 Slow coming back to her senses she smiles reaching up running her tongue along his   
 lips before staggering to her feet and walking a little unsteadily to the large hand bowl   
 and jug to clean her fur so it would not become mated and stiff.  
 It only took a few seconds then she was back next to him laying their on her side as  
 her small warm tongue began to slide along his warm silky skin cleaning off their   
 combine sexual juices, a groan left James’s lips as he felt her moving down further   
 and further until her tongue was easing around his balls sending his mind spiraling out   
 of control.  
  
 In moments her muzzle eased up along his limp member before parting and easing   
 down over the flaccid muscle suckling and squeezing firmly with her inhuman lips as   
 she cleaned him, her nimble tongue slipping down through his foreskin stretching it   
 gently as it slides and moves beneath the fold of skin to make a thorough job.  
 This alone was enough to make him swell and harden yet again much to her delight,  
 Easing astride him her tail end facing him she lifts her small taunt rear up for him as if   
 gesturing what she wanted.  
 It took a few moments for his mind to click on to what she was doing but when it did   
 he leaned forwards easing her tail aside and running the flat of his tongue along her   
 lower lips as her muzzle began to push back and forth along his aroused member.  
  
 He could feel her moans of pleasure vibrating down along his entire shaft forcing a   
 dribble of pre’ to once more slip down along her tongue as he nudges his own   
 between her lower lips pressing it against her entrance as he tastes her own arousal.  
 James was putty in her hands as she pushed his bulbous end down to the back of her   
 throat before easing backwards into her muzzle over and over again with slow   
 deliberate motions.   
  
**“Mmmmmmn James....yeah just like that ooooo…yeah that’s it”**   
  
 Tanya moans against his length holding only his bulbous end between her jaws as she   
 closes her eyes enjoying the stroke of his tongue along her entrance, occasionally   
 dipping into her stretching her slightly as its thick softness slides inside of her hot   
 passage way to sample her juices directly.  
 Rocking her hips back she kept him inside of her as she rides his tongue with shrilled   
 cries of pure lust along his thick twitching man hood trapped inside her moist panting   
 muzzle.  
  
 His eyes widen as her hips tremble and her body quivers he could tell she was close to   
 her own climax now as he curls his tongue back to assault her g-spot sending her over   
 the edge as she pulls her head away from his length and lets out a loud shriek.  
 James’s face was suddenly drenched as Tanya reaches her peek spraying her juices as   
 her body and mind felt as if it was being torn apart but in a wondrous way.  
 Collapsing forward her rear pushed up into the air James smiled at the sight he had to   
 admit she was well toned and her curves where to die for, leaning back he let himself   
 rest knowing full well the Ferret wouldn’t let him get away with beating her this time,   
 so he was going to need all the strength he could get.  
  
 Sure enough the moment she came too her eyes narrowed as she tensed her self ready   
 to turn and pounce so she could force him to fill her womb with his seed, but she   
 never got that chance as she felt his bulbous end nudging against her tight hot little   
 opening slowly stretching her as she realized her rear was still proper up in the air as   
 if offering her self to him.  
 She could feel the bulb shaped head stretching and pushing firmly into her sending   
 shivers of pleasure and shock through her, Tanya was starting to pant and gasp as   
 James began to sink gradually down through her passage way, it felt so good not as   
 big as her instructor had been nor was his tip flared; it was as if made for pleasure   
 alone and she loved it, she loved every last inch as he sank all the way in pausing as   
 his end touched her cervix.  
 Tanya felt panic hit her as she could not bare the thought of he human sopping   
 because he couldn’t go any further, she wasn’t sure how human females did it or   
 weather their cervix was penetrable or not but she for one didn’t want James to stop   
 not now not when she wanted him to breed with her.  
  
**“P..Please James….do it..please!”**   
  
 She found her lips saying much to her own disgust for doing so, but it worked she   
 could feel him baring down applying more pressure and weight slowly forcing the   
 pouting entrance to her womb to dilate and give way as that amazing bulbous tip   
 enters her womb making her feel so complete.  
 The touch of his pelvis against her pert little bottom made her blush brightly as she   
 squeezes tenderly with her inner muscles letting him get used to how hot and tight she   
 was inside, this time she wanted him to last for much longer before releasing.  
 Slowly easing back the few inches her cervix would allow before his tip reaches the   
 entrance of her womb he pushes back in slowly firmly making her paw like toes and   
 fingers curl and dig into the cushions bellow her, with steady grinding strokes she   
 could feel his thick long muscle pushing and pulling inside of her as she drooled and   
 groaned deeply with every single motion of his human shaft stretching and brushing   
 against her inner walls.  
  
**“F…F..FUCK!……ANNNNNH!......OH FUCK…A..A..A..ANNNNN…YES!”**   
  
 Tanya whimpered between tightly clenched teeth, she could see stars forming before   
 her eyes as her vision blurred in and out of focus from the sheer sensation as James   
 began to move faster and harder; his hands holding her hips keeping her from   
 collapsing as her limbs felt like they where turning to jelly.  
 The pressure and heat deep with in suddenly explodes sending her careening into a   
 mini climax followed by a second more powerful one then a third and forth as he   
 continued to breed with her.  
 Time it self seemed to stop for her as only the ecstasy of that human length driving   
 through her body, she was taking him in ways other small furs could never and it felt   
 so magical to her as she cries out again loosing count to how many times her body   
 came to an orgasm not that she cared any more.  
  
 Then it happened she could feel it, the sudden stiffening of his hips as the fitted so   
 perfectly against her rear followed by some thing warm splattering against the insides   
 of her womb, his hands gripping her hips firmly for a few seconds before dropping to   
 his knees still held deep inside.  
 She felt so good so amazing and alive yet so incredibly exhausted at the same time,   
 Tanya felt him easing up along side her holding her close, neither able to speak but   
 words where not needed as they shared the moment of being one.

** **

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**                                                                                            -OOO-**

** **

Looking around nervously De’Floar turned back to a hooded figure just like the   
 Contessa the unknown guest was of snake like origins.  
  
**“Ssshe sssuspectsss nothing mistresss Ssselph, but are you sssure this is the only way;   
 ssshe and I have been friendsss sssince we where sssmall our familiesss have a close   
 bond I would not wish to be the one to ssspoil sssuch an alliance over one ssslave   
 even one as magnificent as thisss one”**   
  
 The serpent through back the hood on her robes to look the Contessa in the eyes with   
 a firm unwavering glare.  
  
**“Worry your ssself not you will be brought under my name and protection, asss   
 sssecond twice removed to the Emperor himssself; they will not dare lay a finger on   
 you while you hold the name of my houssse.**  
  
 **Her properties and businesses will be yours to do with as you see fit, with the   
 exception of one thing…..the human James O’dale; he will as an offering of fealty to   
 my house become my property as agreed, and you shall rise is stature to Duchess one   
 a rank below my own.”**   
  
 De’Floar lowers her head in both respect and submission to the Archduchess, Selph   
 could still feel the amazing sensations and emotions that Human had given her that   
 and he was the only witness alive who knew of her shame of being enslaved.  
 Though she was unaware of the Golden Retriever being still alive who, the   
 Mercenaries he had led had been hunted down by hired assassins.  
  
**“Asss you command I ssshall obey”**   
  
 The Contessa hissed humbly appeasing Selph as she flipped the hood to her robes   
 back up once more with a cruel smile.  
  
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 Having chosen to travel across the forests and mountainous terrain towards her   
 objective Shadow Claw had made surprising time, she had not met with any imperial   
 guard that would patrol the land for any criminal element; it felt strange as if   
 deliberate in some way even more so the closer she came to the town of ‘Sawbeck’.   
 She had been running straight for a good five days and even for a body as disciplined   
 and trained as her was it still needed food and water, she could go for a week with out   
 eat as could most but her body would perish after a third day with out water and her   
 water pouch was empty.  
  
 It was no t by chance but by careful planning that she was near a forest spring, the   
 map back where she had used to locate her destination was highly detailed allowing   
 for her to plan her route carefully.  
 Though he would have preferred meat as would all feline species she would make do   
 with what berries, nuts, roots and edible wild fungus she could scavenge but for the   
 moment water was her primary requirement.  
 That and sleep but for the moment she could not afford even an hour save she should   
 loose time, she had to return with the Human to ‘Claw’ Harbor by a precise date or   
 loose her way home; and while she could go for some time with out sleep or food and   
 only water she doubted the Human could so the less time she spent getting to him the   
 more she would have in getting him to the rendezvous in time.  
  
 Filling her sack from the spring she could feel and hear the almost peaceful sounds of   
 the forest and its inhabitants, the soft pine smell and the crunch of vegetation beneath   
 her booted paws as she take a few deep breaths, replacing the topper and strapping the   
 water pouch back into place the scent hit her as the wind changed direction.  
 It was brief but enough, she was being stalked, they where reasonably skilled but not   
 skilled enough as such as the mistake her stalker had just made was a grievous one by   
 her standards.  
  
  
**“I know you are there, I smelt you, reveal your self kin of my people or are you more   
 Lion than Tiger?”**   
  
 She challenged to which a give a way growl was issued from behind her, the corners   
 of her lips smiled as she turned her head slightly taking in the sight of the three   
 brothers she had met in the harbor tavern some time back.  
  
**“Well Met, but then your skill’s as you have shown are not that of some novice unlike   
 my brother here”**   
  
 A voice issue do her left, now she was impressed though his word shad betrayed the   
 third member of their party as she knew their had been three of them when they had   
 last met; sure enough he came out from hiding to her right.  
  
  
**“You have your purpose as I have mine, keep me not from mine for I would guess we   
 all have precious time from which we can not waste”**   
  
 She growled sternly making the youngest of the brothers step back something that   
 twisted in her gut, it was an unforgivable act for her kind to back away from anyone.  
  
**“Forgive my brother and spare him his life he is still learning and is a fool”**   
  
 The oldest brother spoke hurriedly with an apologetic tone.  
  
**“Do not let it happen again, had I the time his life would be forfeit such an action”**   
  
 Came the Tigresses reply as she slowly turns to face them.  
  
**“Please one moment, mayhaps that our tasks are not to un-similar or at least close in   
 proximity, it would be unfortunate for either of us to fail in our missions because   
 the actions of the other party.”**   
  
 Shadow listened to the older brothers words, she had to admit they held some   
 element of logic to them, with a deep sigh she eyes them coldly saying.  
  
**“Very well but if you fall behind I leave you behind, I head to a location between Port   
 Black Scale and Sawbeck Town”**   
  
 The three brothers eyes suddenly light up as if she had just struck a cord with them.  
  
**“Our task lays in Sawbeck, though we can not go into fine deatails I can reveal it   
 involves a human”**   
  
 Shadow quirks her brow a little.  
  
**“Hmnn is the human Male, if so doe sit revolve around his termination?”**   
  
 She growled her muscles tensing beneath her fur ready to fight, the tiger spoke swiftly   
 to pacify her not wishing to engage in combat with some one of a far higher level of   
 skill to his or his brothers own.  
  
**“Be at ease kin of our people, it is not to end his existence it is the life of his current   
 owner that we are charged with ending, he is of no interest to us, rather it may be our   
 employer who has designs on coveting the said human.  
 Mayhaps as bold as the suggestion maybe that we join our collective abilities and both   
 acquire success in our given tasks?”**   
  
 Shadow listened and slowly nods, she would agree to this only so she could keep her   
 eyes on the three brothers to ensure no harm came to James, though she felt fortunate   
 that fate had for once smiled upon her enough to bring her closer to her prey.  
  
**“Very well we have an understanding”**   
  
 She growled coldly her stomach deciding to betray her by sounding angrily for nourishment.  
  
**“We have provisions a plenty that we are willing to share with a comrade, it would**   
 prove far substantial than what you might locate from the wild?

The older brother offered stifling the younger brothers almost fatal mistake at   
 smirking from Shadows grumbling belly, the Tigress keep up a stern front as  
 was the way of her kind replied in a respectful yet still cold tone of voice.  
  
**“I accept though as a gesture of good will between us and to cement this formed   
 alliance as temporary as it may be”**

** **

**“Is this wise brother?”**  
  
 The youngest of the tiger brothers asked the elder.  
  
**“We are but hunters, amongst the lowest of the ranks of our people, she is a warrior   
 her prowess is far superior to our own, even combined we would be hard pressed to   
 even go snout to snout with her.**  
  
 **But our clients though different have tasked us with objectives that coincide, we   
 would be fools to ignore the opportunity to join forces with a full fledged warrior, and   
 trust me if even half of what I have heard about the Kimono Warriors from the house   
 of the Dragon is true we would sorely need her assistance!”**  
  
 The older brother whispered before smiling to Shadow his head partly bowed while   
 keeping his eyes firmly upon her, holding out the dried Jerky and Hardtack to the   
 Tigress who took it.  
  
**“So what is your plan, you do have one don’t you?”**   
  
 Shadow asked sternly, the older Brother stepped in front of his brother to hide the   
 younger males narrowing eyes and bared fangs; last thing he needed was for his idiot   
 of a sibling to pick a fight none of them could win.  
  
**“Yes we do, a day’s run from here is one of many hidden tunnels leading into the   
 town manner house where our target will be located; the prey will be sitting down to a   
 meal when we strike.”**   
  
 Shadow mused this over it was simple and extremely basic but it was a plan none the   
 less one most likely to be primed by the employer that had the details all worked out   
 but either lacked the stomach to carry out the actual killing or could not afford to get   
 their own paws dirty which sounded about right for a noble.  
  
**“Any guards? I doubt any one of noble blood would go anywhere without at least one   
 or two body guards of some reasonable skill.”**   
  
 The Tigress asked firmly as she partly soaked the Hardtack into some water to soften   
 it, there was no way to truly bite into the thick hard biscuit without breaking a fang   
 without softening it up first; it was a great source of sustenance as long as it was kept   
 dry it could stay edible for years though it needed to be baked four times before it was   
 ready to be used as rations.   
  
**“Yes, from what our employer has informed us the target will have two Kimono   
 Dragons guarding her”**   
  
 The Brother replied slightly hesitantly, Shadow smirked biting into the softened   
 biscuit as if in thought.  
  
**“I see why you offered the alliance now, it would make getting my paws on the   
 Human more difficult if his owner has Security of that magnitude.   
 I can keep the guard occupied while you strike but bare in mind I cannot keep both at   
 bay for long and one will eventually break free to attack the three of you, so need to   
 back me up the instant the prey is down.**  
  
 **Also be ready for betrayal from your employer, after all we will be the assassins and   
 the ones taking the blame for this, it would there for make sense that the employer   
 will try to make themselves seem like a hero by slaying the assailants and leaving no   
 one alive to dispute or discredit it later on.”**   
  
 The three brothers paused a moment mid bite of their own strips of sun dried salted   
 meat, they hadn’t thought about that; the money had been substantial and mostly paid   
 up front and there was no way any self respecting tiger would take payment and then   
 not do the task,   
 Even the older brother had not even contemplated a double cross.  
  
**“Your employer may not try to end you, they may honour their deal with you, but   
 don’t rely on it.”**   
  
 Shadow noted with a sigh as she spoke from experience with her Hardtack finished   
 she made short work on her Jerky wishing she’d started on that first as her jaw ached   
 a little, but her words had filtered through into brains of the three brothers.  
  
**“Thank You, your words have given us much to think upon”**   
  
 The older brother mused firmly his tone normal and not as submissive, his mind was   
 full focused on this new possibility of betrayal, he hated to admit it but the three of   
 them had so much still to learn.

** **

** **

** **

**                                                                                            -OOO-**

** **

Laying next to his owner the Contessa Volkoff, James smiled happily every thing felt   
 so good and right with the world; all was calm and orderly with hardly any unpleasant   
 surprises.  
 If it wasn’t for the nagging pain and loss of his wife back home he every thing would   
 be perfect, he was fed and found wanting for nothing, it was a good life a roof over   
 his head and now even some high quality clothing ye sit was a nice peaceful existence   
 that he getting used to.  
 Not that he had much choice in the matter but still if the Mistress was to take him   
 home and remove his collar before offering him his freedom he wondered if he would   
 actually leave her now.  
  
 This last train of thought made him shiver at even daring to think like that, was he   
 starting to become domesticated and tamed by the Volkoff, even if he was; was it   
 such a bad thing she had proven to him not all of the Scalie Empire where as cruel and   
 twisted as the stories back home had led him to believe.  
 Where it not for the slave thing he was sure things would be different hell he could   
 even see himself being close friends with them.  
 Again he felt a sense of shock fill him at thinking this, James needed to find a way to   
 escape, to get home to his wife and their child.  
  
 A part of him began to scream at him for such folly he was for the first time ever safe   
 from harm and was waited upon hand and foot, he was living the life of luxury, only a   
 fool would give up what he now had to go back to working his hands raw while under   
 the risk of being abused every day against his will.  
 Shaking his head clear he wondered what was wrong with him why was he so   
 confused at his state of mind, he could still feel the coolness of her juices leaking   
 along his skin as her inner thighs brushed and moved against his leg, she was still   
 completely out of it from her after glow.  
 It had been quite the mind blowing breeding session with the Mistress but then it all   
 ways was, the touch of scale against his skin was as exhilarating as was the caress of   
 fur.  
  
 The one thing James could decide upon for sure was life was good and nothing could   
 go wrong to ruin such a peaceful paradise, hanging up in the mistresses wardrobe was   
 his new set of clothes; she had forbade him warning them until the small private   
 banquet the Contessa De’Floar was putting on for just the Mistress, Tanya and   
 himself.  
 They where all due to leave in morning to return back to the Volkoff Manner so the   
 two friends intended to make the most of one last meal together which he could more   
 than understand.  
  
**“Mnnnnn Jamesss!”**   
  
 Volkoff moans a she felt the Mistresses smooth hard scales of her chest move across   
 his own her mouth parting as she eases her long lizard like tongue slowly down along   
 his tongue.  
 Running his hands gently along her beautiful well formed rear he squeezes just how   
 she like it causing her to react positively towards him, her claws gently slipping   
 between his fingers as she continued the deep passionate kiss.  
  
**“Don’t ever think about leaving me my beloved pet, it would hurt ssso much to have   
 to punisssh you!”**   
  
 She moans breaking the kiss and easing back down to lay against his side, her leg and   
 arm draped possessively over him, not that he minded quite the opposite he found   
 himself enjoying the touch and attention of his Mistress so close to his body   
  
 James smiled softly he was sure by now with all the times he had filled her body with   
 his seed that she was pregnant, there was normally outside of breeding season only a   
 fifty percent chance of such a thing happening and a hundred percent when the female   
 was in heat.  
 James smiled tenderly his hand running along her strong well formed scaled   
 abdominals with a tender caress; his touch was swiftly rewarded with another deep   
 passionate kiss by the Contessa who hissed lovingly into it.  
  
 He did not want to admit to himself but there was a bond forming between them   
 similar to that between himself and Dorothy, the longer he stayed with Volkoff the   
 harder he knew it would be if not impossible for him to leave her side.  
 This concept only added more fuel to both sides of the argument raging deep inside   
 his mind and what about the Ferret Tanya he felt close to her even though it had been   
 only a couple of weeks and she did have a tendency to smack him about when ever   
 she got bored or he wouldn’t do what she wanted, she was in a way like some   
 incestuous sister to him.  
  
 But even if he was to leave how would he get back home or even avoid his owners   
 guards, the Kimono-Dragons would easily tracking him down and over power him   
 with out even breaking a sweat.  
 No he needed a sound proof plan before he could commit himself to any escape that   
 was again if he could bring himself to do so.  
  
**“Mmmmmmmn!”**   
  
 Volkoff moaned as her claw like hand eases around the back of his head running   
 slowly through his hair and drawing his cheeks between her maw as if locking jaws   
 with a male of her own species.  
 Breaking the kiss she gives a deep contented sigh before laying her head back down   
 against the nape of his neck once more.  
  
**“Where it not consssidered an act againssst the imperial law you would ssso be my   
 mate, you would be my Count and I would be your Contessa, it would be gloriousss!”**   
  
 The Female Lizard whispered softly into James’s ear as she licked her long inhuman   
 tongue along his soft warm skin tasting and taking in his scent, enjoying his flavor as   
 they lay there basking in the moment of pure bliss where nothing mattered at all.  
  
**“If it’sss wrong and a sssin to fall in love with onesss pet then I am a sssinner and   
 happy to be ssso”**   
  
 She whispers to James once more.

** **

**                                                                                            -OOO-**

** **

A league a way from the town of Sawbeck four large shadows darted through the   
 cover of dusk all most effortless as their bodies moved swiftly all most like blurs in   
 the eerie ghost light of the setting sun and the rising moon.  
 The cold air had a tangible taste and smell to it a sure sign of a frost was gong to   
 encase the surrounding land in a dusting of frost, even with their thick orange and   
 black striped fur there was bitter bite to the chilling wind as it lightly blew through   
 thick wild flora.  
 A figure waiting by the distant tree line waited patiently their hands fumbling with   
 flints to light a lantern to better see in the oncoming darkness, his scent revealed him   
 to the four felines as a male and toad, there was some thing else a distinct smell of   
 vanilla incense normally used by the people of the empire to drive way evil spirits   
 when out and about at night.  
  
 It was their contact, with silent growl Shadow followed the four male Tigre’s as she   
 brought up the rear making sure they where not being flanked, the ground between  
 them and the Toa became shorter and shorter in mere seconds until they where upon   
 the amphibian making him jump as they seemed to appear from no where.  
  
**“Tyranus preserve me, must you mammals all ways be so soundless, it’s just not   
 natural!”**   
  
 The toad whimpered wiping his cheeks with a handkerchief his heart racing rapidly   
 from the shock, the Tigers choose to ignore this comment though the tigress gave a   
 deep rumbling growl that could be felt more than herd, the Toad was swift to soil his   
 tights and unleash the contents of his bowls as the sound vibrated through his very   
 body.  
  
**“Would be wise not to insult our friend here she is not as forgiving as we are”**   
  
 The older brother noted with a smirk.  
  
**“Y..yes..Yes..very good..I..I shall endeavor to remember that next time Sir’s and   
 Lady..th..this way please?”**  
  
 The toad gulped gesturing them to towards a trap door amongst a thicket of bushes   
 inside the tree line, in seconds the five figures where making their way down the   
 ladder into the secret passage way to the De’Floar Town Manner House, it was to   
 dark for the Toad who had to use his lantern to see the way but for the felines it was   
 as clear as day thanks to their night vision.  
 The older Brother reached grasping the toad just as he began to slip on the uneven   
 ground, the over fed toad nodded his gratitude before carrying on down the tunnel   
 towards their rendezvous with their employer.  
  
 It was surprisingly more warmer beneath the surface of the earth than up above, what   
 ever the reason she was glad, she could tell by the subtle changes in the three brothers   
 they to shared her relief not that they would show it, to show weakness is to invite   
 destruction some thing drummed into all her kind from when they where cubs and   
 through out their life.  
  
**“We are nearly there”**   
  
 The Toad announced quietly, but the four could all ready detect the decedent smell of   
 a nobles home long before the they reached the end of the tunnel, it was then Shadow   
 felt more than smelt the scent of the Snake’ a shiver ran down her spine.  
 It was a shiver quite different from the caress of the cold icy wind it was some thing   
 else a sense of foreboding.  
  
 Selph waited patiently her eyes closed as her tongue flickered back and forth tasting   
 the air using her heightened sense of taste to follow the approaching tigers, she could   
 detected a forth stronger member to the team, just the scent alone was enough to   
 make her wince at the sheer savageness of this female.  
 The Arch-Duchess would have to be careful more so with this unexpected surprise,   
 but in the long run it wouldn’t matter her plans where flexible enough to be altered to   
 accommodate this new element being unexpectedly added to the mix.  
  
**“Mistress the mamma….uh the contractors have arrived”**   
  
 The Toad announced submissively to the Arch-Dutchess changing his wording as a   
 deep growl sounded from Shadow upon the word ‘Mammals’, Selph smiled amusedly   
 further portraying the calculating and vastly cruel glint in her snake like eyes, the   
 brother found themselves unable to match her glare though Tigresses returned the   
 glare matching the coldness with her own.  
 For what seemed like an eternity neither female broke eye contact as if any moment   
 one of the other would launch into attack then Selph laughed venomously a glint of   
 respect for Shadow clearly present in her scent.  
  
**“Well met, though I am sssurprisssed a warrior of your caliber would trouble   
 themssselvesss with sssome thing like thisss?”**   
  
 Shadow refused to allow the female reptile bait her into lowering her guard, slithering   
 aside Selph made room for the Tigers pass by her words a chilling hiss.  
  
**“Thisss way, beyond this door is a room where armour and weaponsss await to be   
 chosssen”**   
  
 Shadow walked passed keeping her feline eyes firmly fixed on Selph, she was glad   
 the brothers employer was supplying weaponry and armour for their use, it had been   
 unwise to bring any of her own while traveling as it would b easier to claim to be   
 escaped slaves and break free latter than to be caught fully armed and executed on the   
 spot by any imperial patrols.  
 The three siblings kept their heads bowed as they passed the Arch-Duchess some   
 thing Shadow would have to talk to them about; such an action was unbecoming of   
 any Tiger.  
  
 The dirt walls stank of stale sweat from all manner of fur’s and Scalies probably all   
 slaves there was also some thing else, some thing quite familiar to her, the scent of   
 death.   
 Shadow wondered how many slaves and servants where worked to death or silenced   
 permanently once it was completed so its existence remained hidden.  
  
**“Beyond this door is a sssecret entrance into the dinning chamber of the De’Floar   
 manner where your target will be located, once the two Noble sssit down to their meal   
 ssslay them both.”**   
  
 Selph noted as the Toad eased a wooden slot across to reveal a small hole big enough   
 to allow one to see the entire chamber beyond yet not be noticed by those in the hall   
 itself.  
  
**“It is clear Mistress!”**   
  
 The Toad note releasing the catches that held the secret door in place and easing the   
 down open, slithering out Selph pauses to look once more at Shadow before taking   
 her leave.

** **

** **

**                                                                                            -OOO-**

** **

Looking around the feasting hall James gasped in awe, along the walls lined vast   
 portraits of every one to have held the title of Count/Contessa De’Floar, either side of   
 the only visible door in or out two large foreboding suits of plate armour stood   
 proudly; large halberds clenched between the metallic and leather gauntlets to give a   
 most dramatic pose.  
 The fine plushness of the carpet was deep and wonderful to the touch beneath James’s   
 bare feet, a shudder of pure comfort rippled through his body with every step he took;   
 His mistress smiled an all mothering smile at him as he walked just behind her as any   
 good slave should.  
  
**“My dossse not young Jamesss look dapper in his new clothesss”**   
  
 De’Floar laughed softly as she cocks her head to one side,   
  
**“Indeed he doesss, it wasss well worth the gold ssspent to make my dear pet look   
 even more fabulous”**   
  
 Volkoff replied with a sense of pride over how she had customized her property.  
  
 One the servants eased out a chair for Volkoff just across the table from De’Floar   
 while a chair much further down was drawn back for James.  
 It was unusual for a slave even a beloved pet to be allowed to eat at the same table as   
 their superiors but didn’t say any thing about in fact they never spoke at all save for   
 when spoken to; such was the protocol when serving a meal of feast.  
 James looked down at the cutlery there where so many knives and forks and spoon he   
 didn’t know which was for which as several bowls of clear liquid was served first his   
 mistress then De’Floar finally and last of all a bowl was placed before him.  
 Thinking it to be soup he looked for which spoon to use only to stop mid way to   
 selecting one at random to see his Owner dipping her claws into the bowl to clean   
 them ready for the starter course.  
 Blushing he smiled faintly before doing the same with his fingers.  
  
**“Mnnnn you may well enjoy thisss disssh, I had the fisssh pack it in ice asss it wasss   
 brought fresssh this morning from one the local cossstal villages, it guaranteed to be   
 fresssh and oh ssso deliciousss.”**   
  
 De’Floar mused all most boasting at how much she had spent on the starter alone, it   
 was a common thing amongst the nobles and wealthy merchants to show off their   
 wealth in the most elaborate ways possible.  
 As each bowl of water was removed a plate containing a porcelain dome was placed   
 before them once more in the same order, with a nod from host of the meal the servant   
 lifted the domes up and step away.  
  
 Looking down James looked at the small square of toast, the crusts had been cleanly   
 removed and a large portion of black ball like substance was decoratively piled upon   
 it,  
 Cocking his head slightly he looked up at to his mistress with a bemused look about   
 his face which brought both lizard and snake into an uncontrollable fit of giggles.  
  
**“It a disssh know as Caviar Jamesss dear it’s quite delightful, ussse the mother of   
 pearl ssspoon or it you’ll taint the tassste”**   
  
 His mistress noted mirthly, De’Floar continued to smirk as she watched him as if   
 knowing some thing he didn’t know, James tried a little of the small black spheres   
 fining it to be of a strange taste, slightly fishy yet salty at the same time.  
  
**“Thessse sssturgeon eggs are truly wonderful”**   
  
 Volkoff mused making James freeze mid gulp of a second spoon full and go slightly   
 green while forcing himself to continue swallowing and a shudder of revolution,   
 causing yet another round of laughter at his expense.  
 The Lizard shuddered slightly as she caught the scent of some thing mammal on the   
 end of her tongue, she couldn’t quite pin-point what it was but it sent alarm bell’s   
 ringing in her head but she shrugged the feeing of unease off putting it down to the   
 caviar confusing her senses.  
  
 A servant began to pour a measure of vodka into a shot glass that was line dup with   
 several other cut crystal glasses each having its own purpose during the meal,   
 Downing the shot with absolute ease a second was added swallowed whole as she   
 finishes off her starters the toast left untouched as mere garnish.  
  
**“Ssso tell me dear how is every thing going with that dassshing Brother of yoursss?”**   
  
 De’Floar asks her curiously while the plates where removed and fresh finger bowls   
 where supplied.  
  
**“He ssstill courts me ssseeking to gain my claw in matrimony, poor boy really does   
 need to find sssome one more hisss level, as I am way out of hisss league; though I do   
 have to admit he isss most fetching to look upon, his dowry however isss sssome what   
 lacking.   
 Though I do hear the humansss do thingsss the other way around where the female   
 bringsss the dowry to the male”**   
  
 Volkoff notes dipping her fingers into the fresh dipping bowl before drying them   
 upon her silk napkin as her friend gasps in shock.  
  
**“How sssimply ssshocking and backward, you would think they would understand it   
 isss the femalesss who are dominant sssince we are the egg bearersss and it isss we   
 femalesss who choose who is worthy of our favorsss.”**   
  
 James listened interestedly, he didn’t know much about how his own race did things   
 since he had been born and raised in the Fur Empire so was more familiar with those   
 customs and laws.  
 It was interesting to hear a little even a snippet of information regarding his heritage,   
 as James listened as the second starter was brought forth a soup this time, it smelt   
 delicious but he was understandably suspicious about it wondering what it might be.  
 Plucking the courage as he watched His mistress and their host sip daintily at via one   
 the spoons he looks down finding the same one as the others where using and began   
 sampled it his eyes tightly closed as if expecting it to bite or taste vile.  
  
 It was cold James’s first thought then his taste buds began to tingle as the flavor made   
 itself known, his eyes widened as he began to slurp at it none to graciously;  
 He guessed it was cold for a reason since the dish it self was also cold proving it had   
 not been hot in the first place and had only gone cold.   
  
**“My, My it would ssseem your pet has a fondnesss for Gazpacho sssoup!”**   
  
 De’Floar smiles playfully to her dear friend, Volkoff shook her head slowly in   
 amusement making a mental note to have James taught the proper protocol for fine   
 dining when they got back home.  
 It was about the time James had finished his bowl in quite the undignified manner that   
 one the portraits began to silently slide open.

** **

** **

**                                                                                            -OOO-**

Like blurs four orange furred shapes launched into the room form the hidden wall   
 cavity, there was no need for slow purposeful motions as the targets would have all   
 ready detected their scents so they needed to hit hard and fast to prevent them from   
 raising the alarm and summoning any guards before they were ready to deal with   
 them.  
  
 The Contessa Vulkoff barely had any time to react as the scent she had tasted earlier   
 returned but even stronger than before turning to confront her assailants she found   
 something wasn’t quite right her claws should have eviscerated them yet they still   
 stood there something dripping from their short Gladius style blades what was more   
 strange was the fact she couldn’t feel her body either.  
 Something was kneeling only just with in her field of vision as she realized she was   
 on the floor looking up at her attackers, it was her body its arms and head missing; she   
 had been decapitated and was dead.  
  
 She could see the look of horror on her pets face and with her last thoughts she bid   
 him good bye as everything went dark and the final abyss engulfed her as she made   
 her way into the presence of her god ‘Tyranus’.  
  
**“NO!....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”**   
  
 James screams in shock and pain, his mistress had been so good to him, protected and   
 cared for him with such love, he did not believe she deserved to die like this; true he   
 intended to escape some day but he did not wish her any ill what so ever.  
 It was at the sound of the humans cry that the door burst open and two large Komodo   
 Dragons came bursting through splintering the wooded door like it was nothing, their   
 heavy armour and equally as formidable halberds readied as they looked at their fallen   
 mistress, rage filling the very pit of their stomachs along with shame for failing her in   
 life; their eyes showed they intended to avenge her in death and slay her killers.  
  
**“THEY KILLED YOUR MISTRESS!”**   
  
 The Contessa De’Floar bellowed pointing at the intruders.  
  
  
**“YOU WILL DIE YOU FILTHY MAMALSSS!”**   
  
 One of the guard rumbled his eyes fixed on the three brothers as De’Floar watched the   
 three male Tigers eagerly awaiting their demise before realizing one was missing the   
 forth, Shadow Claw; unlike the brothers she had chosen a large two handed hammer   
 perfect for dealing organ pulping damage with devastating concussive force.  
 The Hammer head made contact combining technique with the weapons weight and   
 the wielders strength to shatter the Snake’s skull as it made contact spraying the wall   
 behind her with shards of bone and brains as well as other gory matter.  
  
 From the reaction of the Human she found herself starting to regret having teamed up   
 with the brothers, it would make abducting him that more difficult she only hoped he   
 hadn’t seen her yet as he was still staring at the other tigers and the lizards remains.  
 Turning to face the two oncoming guards she raised up her weapon as they charge not   
 towards her but the three tigers the other side of the table instead of her.  
 Behind them she could see Selph slithering up from behind grasping James who was   
 still a paralyzed state of shock and taking her leave.  
 Normally she may have left the Brother to fend for themselves but to give chase she  
 had to go through the two enraged Guards, with a deep sigh and firm growl she   
 tightens her grip around her weapon it’s hammer head a good eight inches in length,   
 drawing the hammer back into a striking position she pushes herself over the table   
 using one the chairs to vault into the air bringing the business end of her war hammer   
 against the side of one of the komodo's head pulping the brain within as the impact   
 causing the skull to crack and shatter at the point of impact despite leaving only a   
 large dent in the helmet.  
  
 The Guard falls hard and quick while the second turns to face her bring his Halberd   
 around to strike at her with a thrusting motion spear tipped end of the multi-use   
 weapon.  
 Pivoting aside Shadow barely manages avoid being gutted as the Brothers join the   
 fray trying to get in close with their short swords as one went high while another went   
 low, the third going head on only to be gutted by the axe half of the Guards weapon   
 while the follow through sliced through the younger brothers throat.  
 The eldest brother managed to perch on either side of the massive lizards shoulder   
 pads bring his Gladius down though the joints in the armour, his great tiger like   
 strength pushing the blade deep though the scales and into the Guards flesh but it   
 didn’t even slow the Komodo down as a massive claw like gauntleted hand grabbed   
 the last of the three brothers by an ankle swinging him like a club against the table   
 stunning the big cat before bring the spear head of the halberd through mammals   
 chest.  
  
 As the Lizard turns to face off against Shadow she growled swinging her weapon,   
 everything had happened so fast it had been quite impossible to prevent the brothers   
 from meeting their end not that she cared, they had been merely a means to an end for   
 her but it did mean she would have to deal with Selph on her own and without back   
 up.  
 The Hammer head struck the thick carapace of the Guards Chest Plate sending him   
 spinning across the room end over end his internal organs turned to so much goop   
 from the hammer blow powered by the thick cords of muscle in the tigress’s body.  
 Pausing to focus her mind and get a grip on what she was doing the Shadow took off   
 down the corridor after Selph and her primary objective held immobile in the Snake   
 Woman’s arms.  
  
 Some ways down the corridor James was still finding it hard to handle what he had   
 just seen or why anyone would brutally kill his owner like that, it made no sense to   
 him, it felt like his world had come crashing down around him; all he could see as the   
 scene replayed over and over again in his head.  
 Three male tigers bringing three leaf shaped blades piercing Vulkoff’s scales and   
 muscle while easing through the ligaments that held the arm to the shoulder and the   
 head to the neck; the strokes where precise and pre-planned though in his current   
 state of mind James wasn’t able to think anything rationally.  
  
 He still wasn’t aware he was being carried away be an old acquaintance, one he had   
 hoped never to see again, passing by the room he had spent many a night in with his   
 now late Mistress Tanya watched as some unknown female rushed past carrying   
 James in a catatonic stupor.  
 The Ferrets eyes narrowed suspiciously as she followed the fleeing female wondering   
 what she was up to with her close friend and fellow slave.

** **

** **

**                                                                                            -OOO-**

Moving as fast as her paw like feet would take her the sound of Shadows boots rang   
 out loudly as she pushed herself as much as she could, normally she would have   
 preferred to stalk her prey with stealth but the time for silence and shadows was over.  
 She could not allow the item of her mission to be spirited away or slain not now not   
 after coming so close.  
  
 There was a new scent a Ferret it was following Selph, the Tigress wasn’t sure if it   
 was a possible ally or an additional foe but she would deal with this new variable   
 when she caught up with the Snake.  
 Her large powerful legs pumped beneath her pushing at blinding speeds across the   
 marbled floor, soon she was on all fours to increase her pace; it wasn’t considered   
 very civilized to resort to the ways of their living ancestors but it was some times   
 effective none the less.  
 Even many of the other canine and felines races practiced this though never spoke of   
 it aloud; it was some what embarrassing even for her own people to admit to doing.  
 But all the same it was allowing her to gain ground of the serpent she could hear   
 Selph’s hisses as she slithered as fast as her leg-less body would allow.  
  
 Shadow was catching up with the Arch-Duchess now she could see the back of the   
 reptilian females head.  
  
**“RELEASE THE HUMAN OR PERISH!”**   
  
 Shadow bellows though she planed on killing Selph any way or at least make it quick   
 and painless if she stopped and surrendered up the Snakes prize; Shadow wasn’t   
 surprised when her words where ignored if any thing she was happy as she loved it   
 when they choose to flee it allowed her to chase them down and tear their organs out   
 with her bare claws.  
  
**“He isss mine now! My property to do with asss I sssee fit!”**   
  
 Selph hissed back at the Tigress, but Shadow with every passing moment the distance   
 between them shrank until finally Shadow’s large paw like hand grasped firmly   
 around Selph’s tail yanking her off balance bringing her to a sudden stop before   
 releasing and jumping back as the serpent released James as it turned and attempted to   
 coil around her only to find her pursuer just out of reach.  
 Selph shrieked out at the Tigress in pure rage fueled frustration at the arrogance of her   
 assailant not only daring to pursue her but to avoid her attack as well, didn’t the   
 Tigress know who she was or how powerful her position in imperia court made her;   
 but the large powerful feline didn’t know or even care for that matter the Snake was   
 just an obstacle in the way of her main objective, some thing to be removed by any   
 means necessary.  
  
 Shadow pivoted and twisted aside of yet another strike waiting for the opportune   
 moment to strike, the problem faced with opponents as agile prehensile as Selph was   
 there was no real blind spot as their whole body can twist and turn in ways no normal   
 humanoid body could, add to that razor sharp claws; coils that could crush a person to   
 completely rendering every bone in their body to little more than rubble while pulping   
 all the internal organs pretty much made for a lethal killing machine but when you   
 include pair of fangs capable of injecting a neurotoxin based venom then you have   
 some thing best to be avoided if possible.  
  
 Though in this case that wasn’t feasible so Shadow waited using her feline agility to   
 keep just out of striking distance, Selph was getting ore and more enraged at the   
 inability to inflict any damage on her foe; completely unaware she was playing right   
 into the Tigresses paws.  
 The amount of energy being wasted by the serpent was slowly taking it’s toll now, her   
 breathing was coming in more and more deeper gasps, like all anthromorphic snakes   
 her body was designed for short engagements not drawn out combat, she was slowing   
 down now and Selph began to realize the Big Cat’s plans.  
 A soft chuckle left Selph’s lips as she coiled up to conserve strength turning slowly on   
 the spot to keep the tigress in plane sight and disrupt Shadows plans as much as   
 possible.  
  
 Shadow cursed silently to herself as she was forced into a stalemate, it was some thing   
 she could not afford since it would not be to long before more Komodo Guards   
 arrived and she highly doubted they would be pleased to see her especially with what   
 transpired mere moments ago.  
  
**“Your plansss have failed, sssurrender and I ssshall make it quick and painlesss!”**   
  
 Selph hissed having regained her breath and a measure of her strength some thing that   
 only added to the list of problems now facing the Tigress, changing tactics Shadow   
 circled her way around towards James who sat their on the cold marble still on shock,   
 but Selph darted forwards her coils acting like tightly wound springs propelling her   
 fast than they eye could see.  
 Only her refined instincts allowed shadow’s body to jump back out of reflex, coming   
 back up to her feet in a crouched position the Tigress growled in annoyance much to   
 the Snakes glee at giving her opponent a taste of her own medicine.  
 It was taking to long but there was nothing Shadow could do about it, Selph had   
 successfully turned the tables in her, the coldblooded noble was getting under the   
 felines fur now.  
  
 Out of no where a reasonable sized china vase came flying through the air hitting   
 Selph in to back of her head dropping her hard and fast, Shadow looked down the   
 corridor in front of her wide eyed to see Tanya padding along with a very twisted   
 smile playing across her muzzle.  
 Ferret’s, Weasel’s and Otters where different variations of the species wise very much   
 akin to how Canines and Felines tended to be and where extremely dangerous going   
 form sarcastic to sadistic in less than a heart beat; her Ex-Lover Shrill was evidence of   
 that.  
  
 Shadow watched the Ferret kneeling next to the human cradling his head in her lap   
 and sighed softly, the female was a potential ally if she handled the next few moments   
 correctly.  
  
**“Time is short if you care for the human then come with me I will explain more latter   
 but the Snake there between us has assassinated the Contessa Vulkoff and De’Floar,   
 your Human witnessed it.”**   
  
 Shadow noted telling Tanya only some of the truth none of the lies.  
  
**“So she sought to kill him for what he saw…..Okay for now I shall follow you but   
 once we are safe you had better explain this properly!”**   
  
 Tanya noted with a dark sadistic tone to her voice, Shadow nodded in agreement   
 stepping over the unconscious form of Selph to heft James up over her shoulder; she   
 gave a slight grunt as he felt like a dead weight in his current condition.  
 Stepping back around to the Snake she raised her foot ready to bring it down hard on   
 the temple and end her worthy opponents life when James whispered some thing as he   
 started to come back to his senses.  
  
**“please no ….no more killing”**  
  
 The Tigress growled slightly lowering her foot back down to the floor again and   
 heading off back the way she came, she only hoped she could get back to the tunnel   
 before any one caught up with them.  
  
**“James your to kind for your own good!”**   
  
 Tanya sneered waiting until James was to far away to see what she was about to do   
 next, with swift pounce she landed feet first on Selph's rib cage with a sickening   
 crunch sound of the snake’s ribs giving way and crushing the serpents lungs.  
 She jumps again mashing yet more vital organs before jumping repeatedly on the   
 jerking upper torso before finally stopping an evil glint in her eyes before running to   
 catch up with Shadow leaving the broken dead Selph behind her.

Shadow was grateful to have the back up in the form of Tanya, more so since her   
 former allies where no longer around, She was at a major disadvantage now she had   
 her objective; combat would prove complicated as not only would she have to focus   
 on the enemy but also keeping the Human from being taken or worse accidently killed   
 in the heated whirlwind of melee not an easy thing to accomplish in the most   
 favorable of situations.  
  
 She had herd the sound of the Ferrets actions towards the enemy even smelt the   
 reptile blood from half way down the corridor, shadow was chuffing happily, it would   
 have been a bad idea to let the Snake live, such enemies all ways found away to come   
 back at you in the future.  
 She’d been forced to spare the serpent to keep the human on side, last thing she   
 needed was to have to break his arms and legs to keep him compliant while trying   
 escaping.  
 A few more strides and she was through the dinning hall’s entrance.  
  
**“BY TYRANUS NO!”**   
  
 A voice was bellowing near the decapitated body of the Contessa De’Floar, four   
 Komodo Dragon head raised up to look at the Tigress as she came bounding in, the   
 one who had spoke pointed at shadow and roared in pure hate filled fury.  
 There was no verbal command given but then none was needed as the five Guards   
 Scrabbled over the great dinning table eager to get their claws and halberds on the   
 Feline.  
  
**“SHIT!...THIS WAY!”**   
  
 Shadow bellows over her shoulder to Tanya before vaulting through the still open   
 secret panel, dropping her hammer she scoops up the three brothers backpacks with   
 out pausing to stop.  
 She could hear the heavily armoured guards clambering through into the confined   
 space of the tunnel behind them but while normally highly effective and useful as   
 their armour was it only proved to be cumbersome and make navigating the darkness   
 that much more problematic.  
  
 Tanya like most of her kind didn’t have any problems with the darkness and was   
 easily keeping pace with Shadow as they began to put distance between them and   
 their pursuers.  
 It was going against every thing she had been brought up and educated to do yet for   
 some reason it didn’t seem to bother her that she had just murdered some one who   
 was for all intent purposes her superior after all she was a domesticated slave born   
 into a life of servitude yet she was acting like a wild save.  
  
**“Not far now keep up for another few minuets and we’ll be out of here”**   
  
 Shadow called back to Tanya as rumbling sound filled the darkness, it could be felt   
 just as much as felt which could only signify one thing to Shadow the bulky armour   
 from their pursuers had caught on the support beams lining the sides and ceiling of the   
 tunnel.  
  
 Some distance back the remaining guard bellowed in pure mindless hate, his brothers   
 in arms had in their haste powered through when parts of their helm and shoulder   
 pads became caught up in the support struts, tears and ripping through with brute   
 strength and bringing the tunnel down on them.  
 The dust had settled but he was not done yet as he abandoned his armour and halberd   
 and began dragging his laws through the dirt and wood in frenzied action, blood   
 began to flow freely from between his fingers but it wasn’t his; it belonged to his   
 buried comrades but rather than digging them out he was digging through their   
 slaughtering them as he slashed and ripped his way through towards the still open   
 section of the tunnel.   
  
 Tanya was glad when they finally arrived at the ladder leading out of the tunnel that   
 had suddenly been filled with an aura of pure savage rage that made even the darkness   
 around them seem like day, holding James for Shadow while she climbed up she   
 passed or with considerable effort passed the human up to the awaiting paws of the   
 Tigress before scaling the rungs of the ladder as fast as her small petite paw like feet   
 would allow her.  
 Emerging into the night air, frost was starting to form all around on the surface as   
 Tanya shuddered at the cold, even with her fur she could still feel the chill especially   
 in what coverings she wore.  
  
 Pulling out a couple of the robes from the back packs she tossed them to Tanya, she   
 was sure the human would freak out if she tried to put it on him in his current state of   
 mind.  
 Rummaging through the pack’s she drew out several strips of thick sacking like   
 material, while not that comfortable or as effective as normal foot ware wrapped   
 around the foot several times would do the same job or at least temporarily any way.  
  
**“The Sandals..Loose them they’ll just slow you down, wrap these around your feet   
 then tie them off, make sure to do his to”**   
  
 She rumbled firmly her paws putting the hard-tack and three still full water bottles   
 into one back packs she put it down next to Tanya watching her ease him into the   
 cloak before starting on the strips of thick material for the feet.  
  
**“Since I’ll be carrying the Human so he doesn’t slow us down you got the pack there,   
 do NOT stuff your self on the sly, we’ll talk about what happened while we move, its   
 not safe to stay here to long”**   
  
 The tigress added raising her snout to the air taking in the surround scents and shaking   
 her head painfully as the freezing cold air made her regret her actions, the cloaks   
 would help the Ferret that she was sure about but the human worried her they didn’t   
 have fur and did not fair well in such temperatures as this.  
 She’d have to get some distance between them though before seeking shelter.  
  
**“Done!**   
  
 Tanya smirked admiring her handy work, part of her education when she had been but  
 a Little Kit was dressing a master or mistresses wounds, so the feet wraps where of   
 little hassle for her, Shadow gave an approving nod though she wasn’t about to   
 verbally praise Tanya she was suitable impressed.  
  
**“Okay let’s go!”**   
  
 The feline noted hefting James up into both arms keeping him close to her chest, it   
 was some what more harder to run and carry James this way but it allowed her to   
 share her body heat with him as they moved.

** **

**                                                                                            -OOO-**

** **

With bellowing roar the last of the Contessa De’Floar’s komodo guard’s burst free   
 from the opening in the ground the ladder torn to splinters from both weight and sheer   
 aggression of his climb up from the tunnel below, his body caked in dirt and blood   
 several strings of sinew and flesh not from his body hang from his powerful form.  
 With only fangs and claws he took off in pursuit of his quarry no longer thinking like   
 a rational sentient being but like his living ancestors.  
  
 To Komodo Dragon honour was every thing and the life of those they protect is every   
 thing to them nothing else mattered not even their own life, if their master or mistress   
 ordered some ones death or sexual violation it would be done and to their mind set   
 would be an act of honour since they where serving their master or in this particular   
 case mistress.  
 But for Komodo Dragon to fail in their duty to protect is both unthinkable and   
 inexcusable, there is no greater loss of honour than this; the only way to redeem their   
 lost honour was to kill those assassins responsible or to die trying.  
 Any thing or one who gets in the way will be torn apart as they follow their prey to   
 the very ends of their dearth it self.   
  
 The guards tongue flickered as he picked up the taste of their scent despite the sheer   
 agonizing pain from the cold frost in the air engulfing his entire tongue he does not   
 stop or cry out in pain, his mind reverting to primal nature making the body nothing   
 more than a berserk engine of pure destruction.  
 His clawed feet rip up deep gouges of frozen turf as he charges after the Tigress and   
 two slaves, he cared little about the slaves though if they got in his way they would   
 die as well; from what little logical functions his brain could process he was a good   
 ten hours behind them.  
  
 His dark green scales blooded and darkened into a all most blackish glint as he   
 breaths deeply taking in deep breaths to keep his blood oxygenated as he tirelessly ran   
 through the night air, logs shattering under clawed foot as he charged on through   
 rather than around or vaulting over them as any individual with even a single sane   
 thought inside their head would pretty much do.  
 Even as the footing became more precarious his pace didn’t slow down once causing   
 him to slip and slide forcing him to loose more distance between him and his prey   
 much to his growing frustration.  
  
**                                                                                            -OOO-**

Putting a good distance between Shadow continued the steady pace slowing down   
 when needs be, every now and then she’d dart between the densely populated trees to   
 make any one tailing them slow down or struggle their way through either way   
 slowing them down considerably It would give enough time to keep James warm with   
 her own body heat at least until morning when the sun could do that for her when the   
 set off again.  
 Shadow was impressed with the Ferret to some degree not that she had any intentions   
 of showing it, the small female was keeping pace with her making short work of the   
 obstacles.  
  
**“We climb, then rest”**   
  
 The Tigress noted firmly coming to a stop by a large thick tree, her breath could be   
 seen like the smoke of some mythical fire breathing creature, laying the human down   
 by the tree she spins Tanya around and fishes out some of the rope from with in and   
 ties it around his body then around her waist before unsheathing her claws.  
 Tanya watched curiously, the feline was the first Tiger she had ever seen; the tales of   
 their feats where the stuff of legends that until now she had never really believed but   
 watching as the tiger jumped from where she was standing to a good fifteen feet   
 straight up Shadow’s claws digging into the bark as she drags herself and the dangling   
 human up with her with swift nimble ease.  
 For the ferret who had never climbed a tree before it was slow and clumsily going if   
 not extremely exhausting but about half way up she was starting to get the hang of it   
 using her own little claws and thighs to help shimmy her way up in a most un-lady   
 like fashion.  
  
 By the time Tanya had reached the upper branches her limbs where sore and ached, a   
 deep sense of dread filled her when she realized they would have to climb back down   
 the next day and start running again, the Ferret mused over the idea of playing ill so   
 the Tigress would carry her to but decided against it not wishing to be left behind to   
 fend for her self.  
  
**“Well at least that \*pants\* warmed us \*gasps\* up!”**   
  
 She groaned settling down on one the thick branches that even Shadow found herself   
 fitting quite comfortably on as she sheathed her claws before hoisted James up and   
 drew him close under her cloak, paws rubbing at his arms then back to get his   
 circulation flowing.  
  
**“Two Cup’s fill them both with water be-careful it’s all we have, and one of those   
 square bisects each.”**   
  
 Shadow rumbled focusing on warming the Human up, she paused before adding.  
  
**“Break your Hard Tack the biscuit there in half and dunk each half in the water to   
 soften it up or you’ll break your teeth literally.”**   
  
 It wasn’t so much a kindness Shadow had done informing the Slave Ferret about the   
 Hard Tack’s some what tooth breaking properties rather keeping her from screaming   
 out all night in pain from the shattered remnants of her fangs and keeping them all   
 awake all night.  
  
**“As agreed I shall tell you what you wish to know, the three Tigers laying dead back   
 at the estate?....they where hired to kill Vulkoff as De’Floar by that third Snake that   
 you saw when we met.  
 As for me I tagged along with the three Tigers to infiltrate the property and grab the   
 Human here, I have been hired to bring him back home; by that I mean to the Fur   
 Empire where he was stolen from.”**   
  
 It was the truth pretty much even if she left out the part where she took De’Floar’s   
 head from her shoulders, Tanya looked at shadows face and the uncaring eyes for a   
 few moments and shrugged her shoulders.  
  
**“Fair enough, you used them to get in then came after James there so who owns him   
 back in the Fur Empire?”**   
  
 Tanya asked her eyes watching Shadows every expression, the Tigress gave tired sigh   
 as if bored with having to explain any thing, though this in it self was an illusion to   
 bring the Ferret further on side rather than forcing the Tigress to have to watch her   
 back or waste time and effort killing the female.  
  
**“His mate or at least one of them I don’t really care for whose who paid good money   
 to get him back, we don’t have slavery back there, though some individuals do try to   
 make their fortune kidnapping and selling their own kind to those in the Scalie   
 Empire.”**   
  
 Tanya looked shocked at this statement unable to understand how any one not of cold   
 blooded origins could not be a slave it sounded to far fetched to be wrong though it   
 did make sense after all what would wild slaves be if not slaves to begin with.  
 It flew in the face of her education as she was raised as domesticated slave like all of   
 her family had.  
  
**“What…What is it like to be a wild slave....I mean what you are?”**   
  
 Tanya spoke this time with a more humble tone to her voice taking Shadow by   
 surprise this time.  
  
**“Hmnnn interesting question, well for one thing you have more freedom in the sense   
 no one dictates what you can, and can not do well as long as it’s not against the law   
 though some do tend to break the law because they wish to; because they have the   
 freedom to.  
 Though if caught they end up being put before a court of law and harshly punished if   
 found guilty, the punishment depends entirely upon the crime it self.**  
  
 **There are many other things different such as you get paid when you perform   
 services such as being a maid or a dancer for example, though contracts are made to   
 which rules between the employer and employee agree to.   
 But even then they can not do any thing against you such as sexual abuse or beat you,   
 if they do they you have the right to defend yourself; as well as have them arrested by   
 those that enforce the law.”**   
  
 Tanya followed every word spoken soaking up every last detail and gesture used by   
 the Tigress as she soaked half her half hard tack into the tin cup of water to soften it   
 up.  
 More and more examples came forth as the night went on at time pausing to press the   
 soft gooey bisect to James lips, he would eat if only instinctively before pressing his   
 face up against her soft chest fur for warmth and comfort just like a small cub.  
 The more she talked the more she found herself seeing the interest the small ferret   
 was showing was genuine, she began to wonder if it was possible to untame a slave if   
 I was then there would be hope for the Human she had been sent to bring back.

 

**                                                                                            -OOO-**

** **

The night had gone by with out incident though there had been much discussion about   
 the merits of freedom and being born into slavery, both had its merits or in the case of   
 being born into servitude was as long as the owner was a kind or fair Master; Mistress   
 like the late Contessa Vulkoff had been before her demise.  
 Shadow had then as she did now felt a twinge of regret not that it showed on her cold   
 stern features in anyway, but while she had no love for most nobles this one seemed   
 for her faults; such as being a slave owner may well have been one the few good   
 members of nobility.  
  
 What was done though was done, the past was just that and could not be undone so it   
 was brushed aside for now as the Tigress focused more on the present and her   
 mission; She could feel Logan stirring against her chest where her large powerful   
 arms where wrapped around him to add extra layer of fur around him.  
  
**“UGHNNN!”**   
  
 Logan moaned rubbing his head, he could feel the softness of some thing so   
 incredibly soft and warm all around him even through his clothing it felt some what   
 heavy though not to much so, he wondered if it was some other slave his mistress may   
 have had him sleep with.  
 As his eyes slowly opened he felt like his head was going to burst apart from the   
 pulsating pain he felt just behind his right eye and along the temple; the sort normal   
 felt from sleep deprecation or eye strain some times even extreme stress.  
 It was then he remembered the nightmare about the death of the two reptilian nobles   
 at dinner, he was glad he had woken up and it had been all a dream, especially being   
 reunited with Selph again.  
  
**“No human it was no dream, I wish for your sake it had been and that you had   
 awoken in the arms of your true love but I fear this is all real”**   
  
 Came Shadow’s deep stern rumbling voice, he could feel the words vibrating through   
 his body, it was all he could hear for a few moments as the ambient sounds of the   
 forest during the morning began to filter through to his brain as it finalized its reset   
 after the traumatic incident he had experienced.  
 His vision even though he now had his eyes open was blurred and colourless for a few   
 seconds until moving shapes began to focus becoming more clearer and solid and   
 colour filtered in.   
  
 A tear ran down his cheek as he realized the word he had just felt had spoken true it   
 had not been a nightmare, it was realty; he could clearly recall the three male tigress   
 kill his owner while the larger one had gone after himself and Selph, she had not   
 killed any one he cared for or at least he had not seen her do so.   
 Question after question filled his mist filled mind but most prominent was, if she was   
 wit the other three why did she save him? It was a question he had no answer to.  
 He could here the faint familiar sound of Tanya sleeping near by.  
 Her quiet mixture of whistle and snore was quite distinctive and brought him at least a   
 little sense of comfort that he wasn’t entirely alone.  
  
 The sun was starting to break through the clouds of the over cast skies, dawn had   
 come and while it was still cold with a fine layer white frost across the ground the   
 sun’s rays where warm and welcoming.  
 Bring her knee back Shadow delivered a none to gentle shove into Tanya’s side   
 rudely awakening the Ferret from her slumber, the smaller female opened her eyes   
 with a start before giving off a array of very unlady like curses aimed at the Tigresses   
 sexual preferences.  
  
**“Shut it and get the bags ready we’re moving out!”**   
  
 Shadow rumbled unfazed by the string of abuses words, her large paw like hand   
 cuffed firmly against the back of James head knocking him out cold much to Tanya’s   
 shocked expression.  
  
**“H..Hey why did you have to do that?”**   
  
 The Ferret asked shocked out of her foul mood.  
  
**“He’ll be easier to carry as a dead weight than fidgeting and he’d just slow us down if   
 he was allowed to run with us”**   
  
 Shadow replied casually in response before undoing the rope around her waist,   
 carefully the large feline began to position herself so as to ease her way down the   
 trunk of the tree, using gravity rather than trying to physically resist it to help her get   
 down to the ground.  
 Tanya watched the controlled decent carefully making sure to take in every little   
 detail for when she made her attempt to climb down since she was sure the tigress   
 wouldn’t just hang around for her or be willing to catch her if she jumped down.  
  
 Reaching up she gestured for the Ferret to ease James down to her, Tanya smiled as   
 she used her feet to roll him off the branch and into the Tigresses; Shadow caught the   
 unconscious human with little effort before laying against the tree and gesturing for   
 Tanya to jump down.  
 The Ferret looked nervously down at the larger female all most suspicious that she   
 was being tricked and that she would break her neck from the impact of the fall, after   
 all why should she trust the Tigress but such thoughts where pushed aside; shadow   
 was asking for her trust by doing this.  
 Taking a deep gulp of air she launched herself off the wide branch, her eyes tightly   
 clenched as she felt the air racing past her for what seemed like an eternity until the   
 sudden stop as she felt the powerful soft warm fur engulf her; breaking her fall.  
 Opening her eyes the Ferret saw Shadow looking down to her with a reassuring   
 though briefly given smile, second latter she was dumped back on her feet while the   
 Tigress scooped James back up and dumped him over her shoulder.  
  
**“Thank You!”**   
  
 Tanya whispered a looking away feeling a little awkward as she received a rumbling   
 grunt in response, with no more words spoken they began the next stage of their   
 journey at a steady running pace.  
 It would be several hours latter that the pursuing Komodo Dragon would arrive his   
 frost bitten tongue useless from it’s regular exposure to the freezing temperatures  
 during the night as it’s breathing was labored and ragged, flies and other insects   
 buzzed around the rotting blood and flesh caked to his scales, looking down he could   
 see their tracks, giving a rasping growl the large rage driven male took off his body   
 over-ridden by his hate filled fury for the Tigress.  
 He was getting closer now some thing that helped ease the pain of his broken ribs and   
 jarred shoulders from where he had spent the night scrabbling and falling over his   
 own feet in the pitch darkness.  
  
 Razor sharp teeth and talon like claws where broken or cracked from the impact   
 against rocks and hard tree trunks when ever his footing had given way but all the   
 pain had done was to add more anger to his enraged mind.  
 The thought of tearing the fur from his prey and peeling away the skin beneath and   
 feasting on the flesh with in, this was all that was keeping him going that and the   
 unmistakable pain of hunger clawing away at him from within; he used this to drive   
 himself on, to force his broken body to keep going.

** **

** **

**                                                                                            -OOO-**

The days that followed went through the same routine with a paffing of the paw from   
 Shadow to awaken Logan from his unconscious state at night followed by a cuff to   
 knock him out once more followed by additional cuffing as required during the day as   
 the tigress and Ferret ran.  
 A routine James was becoming more than a tad tired off especially since his head felt   
 like it now had more bumps upon it than a hill side, he had more than defiantly had   
 enough of being knocked up side the back of his head every morning his legs felt all   
 tingly and slightly numb from lack of use.  
  
 This time though he had different plans as morning came his eyes began to focus and   
 clear to the first rays of light, the moon was still setting as the sun was rising in the   
 opposite end of the horizon it was dawn.   
 James took a moment to feel the familiar cushion of the tigresses warm soft fur against   
 his back her large powerful arms wrapped loosely around him.  
 Slowly looking up his body moved slowly inch by inch hoping not to awaken the   
 sleeping feline as she slept.  
 Her eyes looked close but he couldn’t be sure if she was asleep or just resting, he still   
 felt considerable pain and loss at the death of Vulkoff but the need to keep from being   
 knocked out and not allowed to move under his own power had taken precedence over   
 any mourning he may have needed to do.  
  
 Taking a few deep breaths he eases his hands along Shadows massive paw like hand   
 marveling how it easily dwarfed just one of his own, he could easily see how light   
 cuff of her paw could easily send him to dream land with a single love tap from it; he   
 defiantly didn’t want to feel business end of her fist if she really meant it.  
 James checked again looking up at her face before slowly lifting it with some effort   
 up off his chest and slowly down to his side, he gave a silent sigh of relief before   
 moving on to getting up from of off her; like before he took his time to extract his   
 person from hers.  
 Looking across the large branch he could see Tanya sleeping heavily, with a couple   
 of deep breaths to commit himself to his course of action he made his way step by   
 step towards the trunk of the tree and looked down almost wishing he hadn’t; he was a   
 good twenty feet straight up.  
  
 There was no way for him to safely just dangle from the branch and drop down   
 without breaking his neck or at the very least injuring himself and human’s didn’t   
 have claws to allow them to climb up or down trees like some the other races on third   
 Earth.  
 But he could try to shuffle down the tree using both arms and legs wrapped around as   
 much of the thick tree trunk as he could and edge himself down to the ground.  
  
**“Come on James nothing to it, don’t think about it just do it”**   
  
 He whispers to himself grasping the trunk close to his body, his thighs drawing tight   
 around the hard rough bark while his fingers and arms gripped as best they could,   
 with a supreme effort he edged his entire body round the trunk and free from the thick   
 branch, breathing deep slow breaths to calm himself James could feel gravity pulling   
 at his body trying to rip him down to ground.  
 It was not going to be as easy as it had seem in his mind, every muscle in his body   
 screamed at him to stop putting so much stress upon them but he couldn’t afford to   
 listen to the pain not unless he wished to fall; with a grunt he hunches his upper body   
 down before little by little lowered his lower half to gradual gain more and more   
 space towards the ground below.  
 By the time the moon had full set below the horizon and the sun was all most up he   
 was inches from the ground, when finally his arms and legs could handle no more and   
 he let go landing on his buttocks wincing from the impact; it had not been to   
 gracefully but down was still down.  
 Getting to his feet a little wobbly he could feel the ground finally in the first time in   
 days, it felt wonderful; a sensation he realized most people took for granted.  
  
 A sudden chill filled him as he felt the hairs on the back of his skin stand on end, a   
 deep empty sensation formed in the very pit of his gut as fear began to engulf him;   
 many would shrug this off as over active imagination or some other logical rational   
 thing but in truth it was what all life feels when some thing unwholesome is close to   
 hand.  
 James never saw what hit him as he was sent flying across the ground as the mindless   
 Komodo Dragon swatted James aside with a strike from the back of his forearm, the   
 Human wasn’t the coldblooded creatures prey, the Tigress was.  
  
 A bellowing roar was emitted from it’s mouth or what remained of it this was swiftly   
 replied by a rumbling counter roar that could be felt through James’s stunned body as   
 Shadow leapt from the tree claws unsheathed only to be caught mid air by the Lizard   
 and slammed hard into the ground winding her before she could even realize what had   
 happened.  
 Even in his mindless savagely brutal state of mind the Komodo guard had enough   
 sense to keep up the attack bringing his other clawed hand down hard into her midriff   
 it’s talon shaped fixed claws on the ends of that hand had long since broken off in hiss   
 reckless pursuit of the Tigress.  
 The blow still hit hard with the force of sledgehammer as it made contact, had   
 Shadow’s musculature not been as it was her intestinal tract and a good number of   
 lower organs would have ruptured.  
 As it was she was winded and battling just to draw in breath as the claw less hand   
 clenched into a fist to deliver another blow but this time with enough force to finish   
 her.  
  
 James some what groggy shook his head clear seeing shadow down and helpless at   
 the hands of the Komodo didn’t think only acted, had he had time to think he may   
 have hesitated and she would have perished right there and then.  
 Grasping up a rock he charged in bringing it down against the side of the Lizards knee   
 causing sickening crack to fill the early morning air as the knee-cap of the large   
 monstrous male to crack but not shatter; it was enough though to put him off balance   
 as Shadow through sheer desperation brought her legs back and kicked up into the her   
 assailants chest sending him flying across the ground.  
  
 She watched the Komodo get to his feet favoring his damaged knee, hers senses fully   
 alert and ever muscle in her body coiled and tensed ready to spring with every ounce   
 of power they could unleash, the monstrous lizard hobbled towards her as she waited   
 for him to draw into pouncing range before pushing off from the ground barreling into  
 the reptiles body her claws ripping through the thick scales while her fangs clamped   
 around his neck puncturing and squeezing tightly suffocating the massive male with   
 all her strength.  
 Even in such a mindless state of rage he could realize the danger he was in and began   
 to flail at her with his hands grasping and slapping at her all most making her loose   
 her grip several times until James brought his rock down against the side of the   
 Komodo’s head knocking him out.  
  
**“That’s..That’s enough..he’s defencless now!”**   
  
 James panted but Shadow didn’t let up on her killing rip around his throat if any thing   
 she adjusted her self then snapped the Lizards neck ending the fight completely,   
 James looked away deep down he knew it was inevitable; the Komodo would have   
 just come after them again and again until but even with this knowledge he still   
 didn’t like it one bit.  
  
 Pulling her mouth free and spitting on the ground trying to remove the foul taste of   
 dried decayed blood and flesh combined with dirt and what ever mixture of other   
 ingredients that bombarded her taste buds she rolls over on to her well tight well   
 rounded rear to catch her breath.  
  
**“Thanks Human, that was quite the battle we just had, you know you could have   
 stayed out of it and escaped rather than coming to my aid like that?”**   
  
 Shadow rumbled softly with a feint smile her large paw like hand dragging James into   
 her arms, it wasn’t so much of an affectionate expression rather to keep him from   
 actually trying to run off.  
 She was under no illusion she could easily catch him with very little effort on her own   
 part but after such a swift yet brutal fight she really didn’t want to have to do that.  
  
**“I doubt I’d get far beside how could I put my own need before those of some one in   
 need, I was raised to do the opposite of that, ma’am and the name’s James..Not   
 Human.”**   
  
 The Tigress laughed heartily at this running her large fingers along his face with a   
 gentle tenderness to her touch.  
  
**“You’re a Strange one Huma….James, your level of kindness will only be rewarded   
 with suffering and exploitation in this uncaring world”**   
  
 James just smiled not needing to replay as he spoke from the heart with his reply to   
 her statement.  
  
**“I didn’t help you for thanks or reward, it was done because for me it was the right   
 thing to do, it’s who I am what I am”**   
  
 The Tigress growled disapprovingly at this like her mother had done to her when she   
 been but a cub and dared to spoken such folly, to her the world was cruel and you had   
 to be just as cruel to survive in it if you weren’t your just prey to be eaten alive by the   
 darkness in peoples hearts.  
 Yet this Human seemed to be the exception to that he had survived even taken on one   
 of the strongest warriors the scalie empire could produce even after all that had so far   
 transpired.  
 Part of her just wanted to tear him apart and be done with him rather than let such   
 weakness continue to exist yet the other part a more dominant part was growing more   
 and more curious about him.  
 For now though they still had a ways to go before reaching their destination, James   
 never saw it coming as she cuffed him lightly knocking him unconscious as she had   
 every morning for the last week or so.

** **

** **

**                                                                                            -OOO-**

The last leg of the run had only taken half a day some thing shadow had been   
 gratefully for, but even that would have been drawn out to a couple of days had they   
 allowed James to run under his own power, the tigress was steel feeling the pain and   
 soreness of her bruised midriff.  
 Tanya had been some what annoyed that she had missed out on watching the fight,   
 stopping several meters from the tree line the smoke from their destination, they   
 would have to wait until night fall before making an attempt to sneak in.  
 For now shelter under a weeping willow would serve as shelter as it began to rain.  
  
 Laying Logan down on the moss blanketed ground she watched Tanya curl up against   
 one the large protruding roots of the tree and slowly drifting off in a some what   
 carefree lazy manner, with a grunt shadow sits down next to James frowning slightly   
 before turning her gaze down to his face; her expression softened slightly as she once   
 more ran her thick strong fingers down along his cheek her eyes tracing the features   
 of the Human’s face.  
 Shadows mind raced as it tried to figure him out to understand how his mind worked   
 but it just didn’t make sense to her, his sort where never meant to survive in the world   
 save for those few in sheltered lives such as the children of nobles and incredibly   
 wealthy merchants not a commoner like James.  
  
 Reaching down she closes her eyes parting his lips with her muzzle, her long rough   
 tongue slipping down along his as she imitated the best she could the kind of kiss   
 humans performed, her large fangs leaving indents in his cheeks as she kissed deeply.  
 Opening her eyes she pulled away breaking the kiss wide eyed in shock at what she   
 had just done, her mind was growing more and more confused with every passing   
 second now.  
 But the kiss had felt good even if had been with some one from another species, she   
 blushed much to her own annoyance for doing so, she wondered for a second if she   
 might be going into heat as it might explain her actions but she knew for a fact that   
 had all ready happened and passed on by long before even accepting her current job.  
  
 Panting deeply she bites her bottom lip running her large paw like hand slowly down   
 along his chest, her feline lips quivered in excitement as she watched the slowly   
 increasing size of the bulge in his hose as her fingers drew closer to it, second latter   
 she was touching and caressing his man-hood through the material.  
  
**“Nicely sized……for a human”**   
  
 She whispers to her self as she grows more bolder and brings her muzzle back down   
 to his mouth parting it once more with her jaws, she felt her body tremble as their   
 tongues once more made contact; she could no longer keep more carnal lustful   
 thoughts from entering her mind as her need to take him inside of her body engulfed   
 her even more now.  
 Shadow had felt the impressive shape of a humans reproductive muscle before when   
 she had introduced Lord De’vil to the sexual pleasures of mating outside his own   
 species.  
 But James was far thicker and longer than the Noble had been and that thought only   
 made the uncomfortable need growing deep between her thighs become all most   
 unbearable.  
  
 Pulling her face from his trying hard to pull her self away she saw his eyes looking   
 into hers they where so soft so tender and kind she felt as if she could just melt into   
 them and she hated him for that.  
 She wanted to just slap him and run, run as fast as her legs would carry her but she   
 couldn’t her body seemed to have a mind of its own as she lowered herself back down   
 taking his mouth to his once again though this time she felt his hand running along the   
 back of her head as if drawing her down into the kiss.  
  
 Part of the Tigress wondered if he knew she wanted no needed this so every much   
 because the moment her jaws eased along his cheeks every thing felt okay as if it all   
 made sense that nothing at all mattered at all.  
 Loosing her self she began to push closer her paw easing up along his leggings before   
 slipping down under them, a spark of pure excitement rippled through her the moment   
 her large pad like palm touched his bulbous head then eased down drawing his   
 foreskin along with it as she teased his member with firm yet loving strokes.  
 Pulling free from their embrace shadow eases out of her cloak and slipping astride   
 James hips a wicked glint in her eyes as she smiles devilishly down at him before   
 slowly easing him out of his clothing one piece of garment at a time.  
 Her fundoshi style garment quick to be pulled and tugged undone and frown aside as   
 soon was his hose like tights freeing her prize, leaning down she slammed her mouth   
 to his while her eight swollen nipples brushed against his skin making her back arch   
 and a muffled moan to leave her muzzle.  
  
 James closed his eyes enjoying the warmth and feel of shadows soft white fur that ran   
 across the front of her body, the touch of her nipples scraping back and forth along his   
 chest sent his mind reeling as her rasping tongue moved all the way along his tongue   
 dominating it playfully.  
 When he had come conscious the first thing he had become aware of was the   
 incredible sensation of her muzzle clamped around his mouth just how Moon Blaze   
 the alpha female would when kissing him.  
 His initial reaction was to hold her and draw her in close even if it wasn’t the Lioness   
 the touch and power felt reassuring, but now there was another urge a more primal   
 and desperate need that both shared and wanted so badly.  
  
 He could feel the slick juices sliding against his length as it pressed against the groove   
 of her lower lips with every grind push of the tigresses body, James gasped and   
 groaned into the kiss as he felt her paws pressing and running against his naked skin.  
 Paw like hands easily capable of crushing the life from him with out trying seemed to   
 some how brush lightly with a sensuous caress.  
 Shadow was suddenly grinding and moving more desperately now as her muzzle   
 pulled free and the rumbling chuffing sound left her feline lips he could feel the extra   
 pressure of her mound against his pelvis as she rides faster, he could see her eyes   
 starting to glaze over as she collapses over him barely able to move.  
  
 Reaching down lifts her hips slightly before guiding his bulbous head to her tight hot   
 entrance, he could feel the heat as she gasps and shakes like it was her first time, he   
 smiled reassuringly hushing and cooing to her as she slowly lowers her self down   
 forcing her opening to stretch and engulf the tip of his man-hood slowly.  
 James was barely in but it all ready felt like he was entering into a tight vice like   
 inferno, pushing down further the tight grasp of her inner muscles squeezed hungrily   
 as they tried to draw him in further, refusing to let him go as she began to pant.  
 Her chest heaving heavily against his while savoring the feel of bulb like end pushing   
 deeper and deeper into her depths, James could feel himself pressing against her   
 cervix before suddenly with distinctly familiar sensation she felt it dilate and stretch   
 to give him free passage to her very womb before closing back up behind the bulbous   
 head allowing only his shaft to slide through it until his life giving seed was sown   
 inside of her.  
  
 Her rumbling moans began to vibrate through his body as he felt every sound she   
 made, seconds felt like an eternity of pure endless pleasure until her hips sat firmly   
 across his pelvis sheathing his entire muscle hilt deep inside of her body.  
 Groaning softly as Shadows entire body quivers in its attempt to become accustomed   
 to being filled so deeply by something so alien being buried inside of her, a few more   
 seconds past by as her mouth clamped around his in the way only an anthromorphic   
 animal could with a human.  
 Then it began, her body slowly rising up squeezing tightly until his bulbous end   
 reached back of her cervix where it could no longer pass through in its current   
 swollen state before slamming down back down hard making James arch his back as   
 he jerks from the sheer force of the initial stroke of her hips.  
 Again and again the Tigress hips rise up only to plunge the few inches her body could   
 work with back into her hot tight and very moist passage way, the way he whimpered   
 sounded so adorable to her as she gradually began to pick up speed moving with a   
 aggressive rocking motion; her muzzle pulling free from his human mouth she tilts

her head back to pant down gulps of air while letting loose her lustful moans .  
  
 James tried to push upwards when her body forced its way down against his own but   
 there was no way he could keep pace with her let alone match her strength, the   
 pressure of her first orgasm with him began to build inside of her much faster than she   
 had expected as James’s hands eased down over her powerful rear cheeks kneading   
 and holding onto them for dear life much to Shadow delight.  
 The touch of the human’s hands along her body sent shivers of pure ecstasy running   
 through her body in-spite of the sting from the bruised area of her body, she knew she   
 should not feel like this but she began to understand why his mate along with those   
 who hired her felt so strongly about his return to them.  
 His kind heart to her kind, to those of her species was a weakness to be beaten out of   
 them when they where young or failing that their life would be ended by that child’s   
 own mother; yet this Human was unintentionally challenged this with his very existence.  
  
 Twice now he sought mercy for those who would hunt him down and end his life, for   
 her this was the sign of a weak, cowardly fool unworthy of living yet he had clearly   
 proven his courage in taking on the Komodo Dragon with only his hands and a rock.  
 It confused her so much that it infuriated her yet here she was in act breeding with   
 him instead of tearing his heart out with her bare claws but she only found herself   
 more and more intrigued.  
 The humans where a confusing contradiction some sought to kill those not human   
 while other chose to live and have children with the other sentient races instead.  
  
 Her eyes suddenly closed tightly as she clenched her jaws tightly stifling a growl only   
 to feel a moan suddenly leave her lips as her back arched and a sense of euphoria fill   
 her, she was close to climaxing and it felt so overpowering.  
 Shadow didn’t even contemplate even trying to pulling the male beneath her out from   
 within her if anything she could feel herself letting go of all control pounding with   
 every inch of her formidable strength as she desperately sought out the blissful   
 release of pleasure.  
  
 James could feel her body pushing more and more harder against his pelvis as it raises   
 and slams back down with short sharp thrusts, it hurt so much yet in a way that only   
 increased the sexual sensations he was feeling; he could feel the heat building inside   
 of her as his bulbous tip was drawn to where her cervix held his man-hood prisoner,   
 plunging him to back of her womb with such force James found stars dancing before   
 his eyes.  
 His vision blurred in and out of focus as he felt himself reach his peak stiffening as   
 his hot sticky seed was milked free from his aggressively jerking member, her inner   
 muscles continued to milk and force him to flood her body with his fertile cream.  
  
 Shadow felt the sudden blast of his warm stickiness exploding inside of her sending   
 her over the edge forcing her to climax with such savage fury everything went black   
 for a for a few seconds as she leant back her paws clawing through the moss beneath   
 them her body arched and shoulders thrown back.  
 The Tigresses jaws tightly clenched as her cries of ecstasy where kept as silent as   
 possible.  
 James felt the female collapse seconds later over his sore trembling body, his hands   
 still clutching desperately at her buttocks as her chest heaves heavily against his face   
 all making it hard for him to breath with her weight bearing down on him but he had   
 survived her unrestrained love making.  
 His excessive training from his late-owner had saved his body from being crushed and   
 completely pulverized by the large feline.

** **

It was the best part of an hour when shadow claw’s mind had clamed down from her   
 sexual high, all most straight away a sense of guilt and shame filled her as she looked   
 down at the now sleeping human.  
 Rolling over on to her side she gasped feeling James’s semi erect member slip free   
 from with in her, running a paw lightly across his chest she winced at how she had let   
 her instincts just take control; she had for all intents purposes violated the male.  
 She had forced him to breed with her, while he may have seemed okay with what was   
 happening at the time the Human didn’t really have the choice as she completely   
 dominated him leaving him with no choice but to let her take what she wanted from   
 him.  
  
 It sickened her greatly that she had done this deed upon the same person who had   
 saved her from a crazed Komodo Guard, how could she have been so ungrateful as to   
 force herself upon him after he had shown such courage, worse she could have killed   
 him after all it was well known how weak human bodies where.  
 Her mission could have been over as a failure and her honour as well as that of her   
 clan tarnished; if he had been found dead and brought the body back that would have   
 been one thing but to have ended the Humans life herself in a fit of carnal desire…No   
 there could be no justification in that.  
  
**“Why?”**   
  
 She whispered softly to him not really expecting any reply.  
 Shadow trembled as she felt his warm skin against the pads of her paw like hands, the   
 warm flush of joy replacing her guilt for a few seconds before it returned again.  
 The feline bite her bottom lip as she ran her other paw along her stomach wondering   
 if the seed she had taken into herself had started the process of new life, there was a   
 fifty fifty chance outside being in heat when breeding with humans another bonus of   
 the anthormorphic evolution for most of the sentient races of third earth.  
 Shadow wondered how she could explain being with cub to her clan or the Humans   
 mate, she had really done it this time, it was at that moment James turned in his sleep   
 to face her; his arm easing across waist as he slept; this simple action pushed all her   
 doubts and thoughts from her mind and caused her to rumble softly.  
  
**“Guess I’ll cross what ever bridge comes my way when I come to it”**   
  
 The Tigress whispers again a smile playing across her muzzle as she leans down licks   
 his cheek softly.  
  
 As night slowly began to fall Shadow softly squeezed James side with her large paw   
 like hand gently rousing him from his sleep to be greeted by her face, he smiled to her   
 making her feel a tingle ripple through her body.  
 Waiting for him to a-waken fully and be capable of understanding her she eases her   
 self up slightly on her forearm as she laid on her side next to him and began to speak.  
  
**“It’s time to get up Huma…um James, do not worry I wont be rendering you   
 unconscious you can walk from now on but I will need you to follow my instruction   
 carefully as we will be sneaking into Claw Harbour where a ship awaits to return you   
 home to your mate.”**   
  
 The last word filled her with a slight tinge of pain and jealousy, she didn’t know why   
 that or she refused accept why.  
  
**“I see okay, what ever you say I’ll do”**   
  
 James replied as he felt a set of small paws ease along his bare chest from behind as   
 Tanya slipped in from behind a wicked teasing smile about her face as she watches   
 shadows face while running her small tongue along his bare shoulder.  
 She was rewarded for her actions by a slight narrowing of the Tigresses brows that   
 suddenly stopped as the large feline realized the Ferret had just played her.  
  
**“Lets get ready!”**   
  
 The Large feline growled firmly a little annoyed with herself for playing into Tanya’s   
 paws like that, getting to her feet she hunts under the sheltering branches of the   
 weeping willow for the discarded clothes her vision unimpeded by the relative lack   
 of light, the moon had risen fully but the rain still poured down.  
  
**“The clouds will dull the moons light, we can easily slip in to the harbour no, as long   
 as we don’t alert any of the patrolling guards!”**   
  
 Shadow grunted tossing him his clothes but keeping the cloak like cape and pushing it   
 hard into the ferrets chest smiling as she enjoys watching the small ferret stumble   
 back wards.  
  
**“Put that on it’ll help mask you in the dark, that loincloth and top will just scream   
 here I am to any on the wall.”**   
  
 Tanya winced slightly rubbing her some what sore breasts before slipping the cape on,   
 she could smell James’s scent strongly on it sending a small shiver of delight running   
 through her body.  
 Drawing it around herself fully she looked over to see James finally dressed and ready   
 to go if not a little stiff from the earlier vigorous exercise, looking around James could   
 just about make out the outlines of Shadow and Tanya even then only at a very close   
 distance so he was grateful when the Tigress took his wrist firmly in her paw to help   
 guide him out from beneath the branches of the willow tree.  
  
**“That’s better, not perfect but better”**   
  
 James mused silently to Shadow as he emerged out into the pouring rain, his field of   
 vision was only marginally better but at least he could see a little further now; the   
 large Feline kept a hold of him just to be sure.  
 She was more than aware of the limitations of Humans darkness, while Tanya in   
 mean time like others of her species suffered from being nearsighted her sense of   
 smell more than made up for it.  
 The terrain proved no problem for the females but for James who could make out   
 some out line sand shapes up close found the going much harder, it was only   
 Shadow’s occasional arm reaching pulls with her paw that kept him up right and not   
 falling flat on his face.  
 The smell of the civilization filled his nose as the wind shifted down wind, he could   
 smell the smoke form chimneys as well as the foul rotten eggy scent of the ocean as   
 they breached the tree line a god five hundred meters away from the wall   
 fortifications to the harbour it self.   
  
**“Keep close to the shadows and keep your heads down”**   
  
 Shadow whispered firmly with a stern no nonsense tone to her voice as she watches   
 the light from lanterns moving along the battlements on top off the wall to predict the   
 movement of the patrol.  
  
 Up on the battlement six lizards kitted out in leather armour marched with bows   
 holstered in their quivers along side a number of arrows.  
 Some reptiles and amphibians of Third Earth had retained their ability to see in the   
 dark over their evolution some never had such an ability in the first place and relied   
 heavily on an external source of light such as a flaming torch or other means of   
 illumination to help them see at night.  
 Passing past the flowing river that passed under the bridge section of the wall the   
 patrol commander shone the lantern down over the water for a few seconds, they had   
 only a few days ago repaired one the bar like fixtures that kept the wall secure against   
 any one trying pass through the river it self after having come free.  
 Satisfied all was well the brown scaled lizard signaled for his team of arches to carry   
 on with a flick of his claw, turning around they began their silent long mundane   
 march back the way they came.  
  
 The Tigress smiled to herself as she listened to the foot steps as they moved away,   
 they sentries where busy watching the harbour side of the wall for any one trying to   
 get through into Scalie Territory to worry about those trying to break in from the other   
 side.  
 The feline hadn’t planed on using the way she had originally used to get passed the   
 wall deeming it likely that it would be closely watched and more than likely   
 reinforced in some way.  
 No she planed on by passing the wall all together as it stopped against the natural cliff   
 which while its steep chalky face was directed out towards the sea the back was a   
 climbable surface sloping up wards a good fifty feet before reaching the actual wall it   
 self; Shadow was sure even a cub could climb it which meant even James should be   
 able to.

 

** **

**                                                                                            -OOO-**

** **

James winces as he feels the cold bite of the night air whip around his cheeks chilling   
 him to the bone, his hand where starting go numb which was al most a relief as they   
 had been hurting since the first quarter of the climb and they where half way up the   
 sloping rock face.  
 Tanya and Shadow had made short work of the climb despite the Ferret’s continued   
 muttering and silent complaints about how this sort of thing was unsuitable for slave   
 of her caliber, a comment that received a dark and aggressive growl from the Tigress   
 for using the ‘S’ word.  
 Every ligament and muscle in his body was protesting against every hand hold he   
 pulled himself up by.  
 Focusing his attention to his hands and not down at his feet save that he inadvertently   
 looked down at how high up he was James focuses his breathing working his way up   
 for what felt like an eternity of pain and cold, it was a new level of physical suffering;  
 He was glad they had ditched the backpacks before climbing since they had no real   
 use for them now.  
  
 Looking up he could see Tanya’s tight firm rear moving as she eased herself up along   
 the surface of the rock face, any other time he would have been able to truly   
 appreciate the view but right then such things where furthest from his thoughts.  
 It had taken a good while to draw level with the other two but one more step and he   
 would be there, or he would have as the protruding rock his hand was clenched   
 around decided to it no longer wanted to live and broke free from the rock face.  
 There was a surreal feeling filling him as if floating on air for a few seconds as he   
 began to fall realizing he was going to die, there was no way he could survive such a   
 fall.  
  
“GOTCHA!”   
  
 Growled Shadow her large paw like hand clamped firmly around his wrist and   
 hauling him up on to her back with greatest of ease while her other paw remained   
 anchored to a more sturdy hand hold than his had been.  
 James clings to her back his heart still racing from the near death experience, beneath   
 them a good thirty foot was the town’s wall and below that a further twenty foot   
 drop to the ground.  
  
“Hold on tight, but don’t choke me!”   
  
 Shadow growled sternly with a commanding tone to keep the Human from panicking   
 as she and Tanya began to climb across rather than up as they by passed the wall to   
 keep visitors in the harbour and out of the rest of the Scalie Empire.  
 Moving swiftly her paws leaving finger shaped indent from where her vice like grip   
 was holding aloft both his own and her weight with such frightening ease the two of   
 them where in moments inside the Harbour Town itself.  
 Tanya was enjoying herself greatly now that she had stopped her complaining and   
 started focusing on her climbing, though James wished she would stop show boating   
 as she clambered after them side on like some less than graceful spider along the   
 kitchen wall.  
 The massive grin playing across the ferret’s muzzle while the Tigress began to climb   
 down to the ground, James was glad when his feet made contact with the cobble   
 stones of the street even if Tanya was a little reluctant to give up on her new found   
 fun.  
  
“Okay lets get moving we’ve wasted enough time as it is!”   
  
 The Tigress growled quietly her words directed mostly at the Ferret not that Tanya   
 seemed to care she was still grinning like an idiot as she followed on behind, her eyes   
 wide as she looked at all the buildings around them.  
 Slipping a hand down side of her left boot Shadow felt around for a small purse of   
 coins, a sigh of relief left he muzzle as her finger tips brushed against it; many   
 travellers would often place purses of silver and gold in their boots for safe keeping   
 from accidental loss of should they be robbed by pick pockets.  
 The group took the back streets keeping mostly to the shadows to avoid the night   
 patrols from the harbour guards, slowly but surely they made there way to an inn it   
 was still open with lights shining fiercely through the windows and the odd occasional   
 drunk being thrown out none to gently form the front door to the establishment.  
 A wooden sign over the door of a serpent coiling around a keg of ale seemed to be   
 almost animated by the light from with in hung over the door.

** **

** **

**                                                                                            -OOO-**

The rain hammered aggressively over Pride Village, few of its populous dared   
 ventured out during the onslaught, even for those who could see in near blackness   
 found their vision limited by the oncoming downpour.  
 Near the outskirts, a short walking distance from the tree line of the local forest, the   
 home of James O’dale, Dorothy lay on the bed her body still sensuous and sleek   
 despite the obvious bulge where her off spring continued to grow.  
 The white furred Rabbit smiled softly as hr paw ran across her swollen belly with a   
 mothering touch, she was eight months along now and still no sign or word about her   
 mate.  
  
**“What’s wrong thy friend, what ill thought troubles thou so?”**   
  
 The large powerful Lion asked easing her tiny paw into his own dwarfing it easily, a   
 tear had rolled down the young lagomorphs fur covered cheek.  
  
**“I wanted James here to welcome his child into the world to hold his offspring in his   
 own two hands, but I fear I have been to blind with denial to see the true..maybe he   
 isn’t going to return”**   
  
 Asland grimaced at her words, he wanted to believe that his good friend would return   
 as well but he was more of a realist than the beautiful female that he laid next to   
 trying to comfort.  
  
**“A Tiger was sent yonder to draw back our wayward James from across the waters,   
 one’s friend should rest thou’s wiry mind and focus upon thine child”**   
  
 He finally replied in a hushed rumbling tone to which Dorothy replied with a pleading   
 voice.  
  
**“Thank you Asland, but if he doesn’t, the child will need a male influence as well as   
 that of it’s mothers; would you be that presence for it?”**   
  
 Looking at the rabbit he closed his eyes as he deliberated this turn of events, he was   
 not shocked by this as he and Dorothy had been spending so much time together that   
 many in the village even his pride amongst the many family branch lines had gossiped   
 about them being a couple.  
 The words spoken was in approval and respect seeing a good friend taking the   
 responsibilities of the lost father, nothing had been said to his face but it wasn’t hard   
 to over hear the gossip even in a large village.  
  
**“One would be most honoured thy Lady!”**   
  
 He replied at last his eyes opened and his expression softened; she smiled tenderly   
 raising the back of his paw to her lips and kissing it slowly.  
 The small Rabbit felt a sense of relief fill her knowing no matter what happened her   
 child’s future would be assured.  
 The sound of rain against the glass set in the window held a comforting rhythm to it   
 as she rests her head back against one the pillows, she watches Asland slowly drawing   
 back the blanket from her naked body; easing his muzzle between her thighs running   
 a long rasping tongue along the groove of her lower lips teasing her cliterous from   
 hiding all most straight away.   
 The Lion chuffs reassuringly to her as he pushes his muzzle closer assaulting her   
 swelling nub with a few well placed strokes of his tongue causing the bunny to squeal   
 in pure delight before gradually easing it up through her entrance making her little   
 toes curl and feet scrabble against his large broad shoulders while his hand like paws   
 gently draw hips down towards his face helping to ease his tongue further into her   
 moist hot passage way.  
  
 Dorothy could feel the soft rough bristle rasping along her magic spot as it curls back   
 on itself sending her screaming in sheer pleasure as he grinds and pushes his muzzle   
 with a strong dominating motion driving her all most insane, the small pregnant rabbit   
 was panting and drooling as the warm pressure swiftly began to build as she felt   
 Asland work his oral magic upon her insides.  
 Flashes of light danced before Dorothy’s eyes as her vision continued to blur in and   
 out of focus with every lap and stroke of his tongue bring her to the very brink of her   
 climax before stopping and easing out making her look down at him with a panicked   
 and desperate expression in her eyes one the lion responded by bring himself up to   
 kneeling position between her thighs and nudging his tapering tip against her   
 quivering entrance for a few seconds letting the very tip prod into her opening.  
  
 He could feel the heat of her passage way against the very end of his Lion-Hood as he   
 listened to her pleading and begging him to finish her off, it was an amazing boost to   
 his ego to hear her beg him instead of the other way around for a change.  
  
**“Please…Asland fuck me please…oh y all that’s holy fuck me please!...I need it…I   
 need it so badly Asland fuck me please!”**   
  
 Her voice wailed desperate for that hot stretching sensation f being filled and   
 hammered into by some virile stud of a male, to have her body turned into a trembling   
 wreck from being forced to act like some pleasure toy.  
 With a smug smile planted about his face the Lion answered her pleas with but a   
 single action, his mighty hips driving forwards to stretch and part her passage way   
 with but a sudden thrust that delivered his massive length hilt deep inside of her   
 making her body jerk and scream uncontrollably.  
 The soft spines along his length scrap against Dorothy’s inner muscles as he draws   
 slowly back her cervix closing a little too late to keep him trapped inside of her   
 womb; looking down at the bulging eyes of the small white furred bunny he grins   
 wickedly driving himself sheath deep forcing her back to arch and her chest to push   
 up towards him while her shoulders pressed firmly into the blankets beneath them.  
 again and again he powers into her petite form before finally letting the pouting   
 entrance to her womb finally clutch tightly around his intruding girth.  
  
**THOU SHALT TAKE IT ALL!.....THOU’EST SHALT TRULY TAKE WHAT   
 ONE GIVES UNTO THOU!”**   
  
 Asland roars as he starts to pick up speed making the poor little female jerk around   
 like some rag doll beneath him as he pistons like the wild animal of his ancestors, he   
 could hear her scream and moan in such orgasmic pleasure that it he could all ready   
 feel himself close to flooding her insides with his feline seed.  
 Shaking his head from side to side he tries to hold back as long as he could but the   
 inferno at the very base of his shaft was just to much to deny for any longer, beneath   
 him the tiny females pelvis was bucking and pushing in towards her lovers violent   
 pelvic thrusts taking everything he could give her as she swiftly reached the edge of   
 her climax for a second time and mercifully was pushed over the edge as Asland's hot   
 sticky cream explodes into her greedy little womb.  
  
 Panting and gasping for breath both where frozen pressing hard against each other as   
 the moment of their carnal release washed through them for a few brief moments that   
 felt like a bliss for eternity before collapsing in exhaustion from the rampant   
 unbridled rutting they had just performed.  
 Laying on his side next to Dorothy his thick lion-hood still buried partly inside of her   
 he looks at her through barely open eyes with a look of devotion, an expression return   
 by Dorothy’s as she laid there on her back gasping for air and a stupid grin playing   
 across her lips.  
 Slowly easing their arms around each other the Predator and the Prey species began to   
 drift off into an exhausted yet blissful sleep.

** **

** **

**                                                                                            -OOO-**

** **

The coiled snake inn filled with low life’s and the most underhanded cut throats in   
 Claw Harbor but also a place safe from the prying eyes of others, here informants   
 would not last even the first few seconds of stepping through the front door as one   
 Baboon found out as he hoped to make a quick purse of coin.  
 Five steps through the door way was all it took, he didn’t even see it coming or who   
 had done it as a thin red line formed across his throat from one side all the way around   
 to the other.  
 Walking past a cloaked individual walked past him, the primate didn’t even have the   
 time to drop to his knees as he was dragged back out from behind and into a near by   
 darkened ally way where his valuables where stripped from him including his clothes   
 not to mention his boots.  
 It was the fate of all who try to pry into other peoples business, patrons paid through   
 the snout for their privacy to perform shady deals or to hide from the local Harbor   
 Patrol, amongst them a large female Tigress plus two others or so the closely guarded   
 room register book for the inn read.  
  
 Up in the top floor nearer the rear of the building rather than by the stair case leading   
 to the lower floors Shadow Claw stretched out with a soft chuffing moan as she lazed   
 back in the long tin bath, it was filled with warm water not to hot but not to cold just   
 right for her.  
 Between her thighs James blushed brightly while Tanya laid back against the other   
 end of the metal bath her feet grinding and pushing against the base of James poor   
 man-hood as Shadows large paw like hand softly eased his foreskin back and forth   
 pushing and pulling it up and down all the time the Ferret’s own paw was working   
 between her own thighs enjoying their little bath time together.  
  
**“Take your time to cum James”**   
  
 The Tigress sighed contently, it wasn’t an act of lust but rather a way of getting any   
 buried needs out of the way so neither of them would be awoken to being sexually   
 used when they shared the only bed in the room.  
 It was large enough to accommodate them all, the problem was in their sleep in such   
 close proximity to each other; one wrong stretch and she could quite easily have his   
 reproductive organ hilt deep in either of the females.  
 Not to mention having body against body contact would be enough for any red   
 blooded male to become erect as they sleep making such an accident more than likely   
 to happen, this was that wouldn’t happen it would also help them to sleep easy.  
  
**“SO BIG…….OH TYRANUS…YOUR SO BIG JAMES….YOUR TEARING ME   
 UP INSID E OOOOOOH TYRANUS YES! YES!…YES!…..YES! JAMES MORE   
 GIVE ME MORE!”**   
  
 Tanya cried out in pure bliss as her paw moved ever faster while her hips bucked and   
 lifted all most fully out of the water allowing James to see her fully engorged fingers   
 gliding through her entrance, even Shadow found herself blinking slightly as she   
 ground a little harder into the his back.  
 A twisted glint filled Shadows feline eyes as one of her large like hands reached out   
 dragging Tanya closer lining her finger filled entrance against James’s bulbous end,   
 the ferrets eyes open wide as she feels his tip against her knuckles and pulls herself   
 free from with in herself more than willing to swap over for the real thing.  
 A gurgled cry left the humans lips as he felt his tip press against the hot slick opening   
 then ease up inside the tight lust full passageway.  
  
**“P..Please….N..No it’s to….to ah…ah..ah…ahnnnn!...to much please!”**   
  
 But the pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears as the elegant long torso pushed down   
 forcing him gradually all the way down along his shaft until his bulb like head   
 touched and pressed against her cervix.  
 Had it been a woman that would have pretty much been as far as it would have gone   
 but neither of the females where and with bodies evolved for cervical penetration it   
 sure did not end there either.  
  
 James panting deeply opened his eyes to see the ferret twisting one way then the other   
 as her hips strained and pushed until eventually the pouting entrance to her womb   
 dilated and gave way allowing her to take him down to the hilt with a sharp ecstatic   
 moan.  
 No matter how many times he experienced this sensation it never got old, his pelvis   
 bucking up against her helping in the cervical penetration of Tanya’s hungry   
 demanding; the Tigress rumbled enjoying the show as she held him down close to her   
 despite his back arching.  
  
**“No mercy for the weak!”**   
  
 Shadow growled playfully using her hips to aid his own driving the Ferret wild she   
 felt her self lifted off the balls of her feet as they eased against the Tigresses powerful   
 muscular thighs.  
 With deep grunting groans Tanya jerked and pushed against each of the incoming   
 barrage of pelvic thrusts squealing and crying out for more, James could feel her inner   
 walls spasm and grasp at his man-hood.  
 It felt as if as she was trying to draw him even deeper as the bulb like tip brushes   
 against the very rear of her womb sending shivers of utter pleasure, it didn’t help   
 either that James’s body sandwiched between two different layers of silky fur   
 brushing against his warm soft skin.  
  
**“F….FUCK ME JAMES…FUCK ME!”**   
  
 Tanya begged her muzzle parted revealing her sharp impressive fangs as she trembles   
 and shakes in barely suppressed need to climax, this sight alone would be just to much   
 for any hot blooded male to take.   
 Bucking his hips once, twice then thrice James goes stiff seconds before releasing his   
 virile cream deep inside of the lustful Ferrets body her entrance sheathing its way   
 fully to the very hilt of his member.  
 Laying back the pouting cervix entrapping him inside of her finally releases him now   
 that his purpose was fulfilled and her body had what it wanted.  
  
**“Mnnn good boy, now it’s my turn!”**   
  
 Shadow rumbles into his ear while easing his semi limp muscle out and gently   
 stroking it back to life inspite of his whimpering whine for her to stop; some thing the   
 tigress had no intention of doing until she was sure he was ready to continue.  
  
**“T..This is inhuman!”**   
  
 James gasps some to which the large feline rumbles a soft chuckle as her words fill   
 him with both dread and arousal.  
  
**“But I’m not human, besides I take what I want, and what I want is you deep inside of   
 me, Human!”**

** **

James laid their against shadows front her chest rising against his back, she nips at his   
 ear playfully making him squeak in a way she finds most amusing, as shapely and   
 well formed as her body was she still wider than he was.  
 If the Tigress where to lay over him al that would be visible would be his flailing   
 arms and hand and maybe his feet, with strength more than proportionate to her size   
 she could easily snap him like a twig should the urge take her yet the felines control   
 was such she could tenderly hold him like some new born cub even hold her own   
 weight for hours on end as she rides astride him.  
 In short she was as formidable on the battle field as she was between silken sheets.  
  
 Watching Tanya shakily leave the tin bath to dry herself he realized there would be   
 more room for Shadow to do as she wanted now and the deep twisted rumble from   
 behind him showed she knew it all to well.  
 It all happened in a heart beat, he as suddenly part laying part leaning against the back   
 end of the metal tub with a growling she-cat towering over him on her knees, two   
 large paws slamming either side of his head to grasp the rims of the bath.  
  
**“Time for some fun!”**   
  
 Shadow spat with a dark yet lustful tone to her voice, deep inside she was fighting her   
 self trying hard to regain some control as the lust full side of her that desperately   
 wanted to claim him as her own property and bare him as many cubs as was mortally   
 possible for her kind.  
 James whimpered a few bubbles easing up from around his hips in fright, his man-  
 hood though stood up bold and defiant as if to demand she backed her word sup with   
 action, despite himself he couldn’t help but feel a sense of desire and need form in the   
 back of his mind.  
  
 The way the large feline lowered her face to his and took a deep inhale of his scent he   
 was sure she could detect it to that and his fear some thing that only seemed to turn   
 her on even more.  
 Parting her muzzle he could feel her fangs brush lightly against his skin as her long   
 rough tongue eases in along his own dominating his mouth if the strange human feline   
 kiss.  
 Shadows thighs ease down around his waist drawing tightly around him keeping him   
 held beneath her, James’s face suddenly submerges beneath the water for a few   
 seconds from the sheer force of her mounting him though the kiss didn’t break even   
 once instead one of the females large paws eased up under his head drawing him up   
 above the water while the other eased down between them grasping his man-hood   
 firmly before sliding the loose skin down over his bulbous tip before guiding him to   
 her hot slick entrance.  
  
**“Mnnnnnnn so big..for a human that is!”**   
  
 She rumbled breaking their kiss and pushing herself down, a deep intake of breath left  
 James lips as he felt her stretch around the very end of his member forcing him   
 gradually up through the tight greed grasp of her passage way, the muscular walls of   
 her body drawing him up further into her until finally she stops letting his bulb like   
 head touch and press against the pouting entrance to her womb.  
 Rumbling mischievously as grind herself against him watching him squirm and   
 writher beneath her, her paw that had been feeding him into her like some fine cuisine   
 eased back to the rim of the tin bath for leverage while the other kept her Humans   
 head both in place and from sinking beneath the water.  
  
**“N..not so ..so rough please!”**   
  
 He begged as his pelvis creaked under the pressure of her hips moving in a slow   
 circular motion, his body was neither laying down or sitting upright which left him at   
 a most precarious position for mating with the aroused Tigress.  
 She just growled quietly to him, the sound was deep and vibrated through every part   
 of his body in a show of dominance to the poor male beneath her.  
  
**“Your weak and pitiful human like all your kind….and I love that about you!”**   
  
 She whispers with a stern voice that carried a mischievous under tone to it.  
 Raising herself up slightly she allowed all but a few inches escape her hold before   
 pushing back down hard still not allowing James to penetrate her womb just yet, a few   
 more times of driving him aggressively up through her stretched entrance she began   
 to rock her hips back and forth in a firm swift manor.  
 He could feel himself slipping and sliding through her muscular tunnel as she took her   
 pleasure from him with growls and cries of pure pleasure as she began to get lost in   
 the moment enjoying the sensation gained from the motion of his strange un-feline   
 member buried inside of her.  
 She loved feeling that bulbous end his kind possessed stretching and pushing back   
 and forth without causing her any discomfort that a male form her own kind would   
 cause her.  
  
**“THAT’S IT JAMES! BREED ME..BREED ME HARD!”**   
  
 Shadow roared bring her hips down hard forcing her own cervix to dilate and give   
 way trapping him fully inside of her womb, her claws unsheathed themselves as she   
 bearded her fangs in pure lust, James could feel the razor sharp implements against   
 the back of his head not penetrating but still giving a physical sign of there presence.  
 The pleasure wasn’t all one way though as waves of ecstasy hit James with so much   
 force he was forced to see sparks of light flash before his eyes while the sound of his   
 body threatening to give out to the power being unleashed against his body could be   
 heard alongside the slapping of fur covered hips on skin coated pelvis.  
  
**“BREATH JAMES!”**   
  
 The Tigress moans loudly panting hard as she notices her little lovers cheeks going a   
 slight blue in colour.  
  
**”BREATH OR I’LL RIP YOUR THROAT OUT!”**   
  
 This time he responded more out of fright as he took in a few deep breaths or at least   
 the best he could with a sex crazed jungle cat riding him.  
 The pressure and het building at the very base of his shaft began to build with more   
 and more intensity as her short sharp jerk like thrusts showed the Tigress was not too   
 far off herself.  
  
 Minuets seemed like seconds as the past by at alarming speed, the touch of his bulb   
 like head easing against the walls of her womb was driving her crazy as her cervix   
 kept her human prisoner within her, demanding a tribute before letting his escape its   
 clutches.  
 It was a tribute that was soon paid in earnest as his body stiffened and the burning   
 pleasure erupts forth sending him crying out against her wet soft fur, her own climax   
 was shortly followed as her claws dug and scratched against the metal of the tin bath.  
 Shadow’s bellowing scream like roar filling the air as she goes stiff on the outside   
 while her inner muscles spasm uncontrollably; milking him for every last drop of his   
 highly virile seed.  
  
 Still gripping close to her his hands up under Shadow’s arms, his face was buried   
 against her chest panting hard while his chest heaved heavily much to her delight as   
 she leans against him gently enjoying the touch of his naked warm skin against her   
 Fur.  
 The Tigress left her Human's thick now semi erect member still up inside of her   
 body for a few more moments enjoying the feel of this union of bodies, though   
 deep down she felt a spike of emotional pain knowing once the mission was over   
 his true mate would claim him once more.

** **

**                                                                                            -OOO-**

** **

It was early dawn the sun had only just begun to rise and the moon was slowly setting   
 in unison like some strange yet captivating dance that to those who watched seemed   
 like an eternity.  
 James was awake yawning as he sat up right rubbing his eyes, he didn’t remember   
 much from last night save for Shadow drying and putting him to bed followed by her   
 and Tanya’s warm soft fur pressing against his skin.  
 Looking around the dimly lit room bathe din the early first rays of light James could   
 make out the Ferrets sleek body wrapped around him her hips by his head while the   
 rest of her long body curved around until her head rested on his chest.  
  
 It took few more seconds for him to register that the Tigress was missing, looking   
 around he noticed her clothing was also missing which even to his clouded semi   
 awake mind that she had ventured out for some reason or other.  
 He was sure she would return at some point after all why would she go to so much   
 effort and trouble to find and drag him this far just to abandon to leave him here now,   
 sure enough as the sun began to rise higher into the sky as dawn became morning the   
 sound of a key turning in the lock to the rented room could be herd turning moments   
 before Shadow came walking into the room carrying a bag.   
  
**“Don’t say I don’t get you nothing!”**   
  
 Shadow rumbled sternly though James wasn’t fooled any longer by the gruff cold   
 exterior the big cat put forward, he had seen the softer side of her and was hard to see   
 any thing else.  
 Tanya slowly began to stir grumpily as her head was removed form his chest, he   
 smiled softly finally able to get up and shuffle over to Shadow; his feet still partly   
 asleep.  
  
**“Morning Shadow!”**  
  
 James whispered trying to not wake Tanya up, reaching over he eased his arms   
 around Shadows waste and draws himself in close to her embracing her, he didn’t   
 know why only that it felt okay to do so.  
 The Tigress craned her head down slightly looking at him biting her bottom lip, her   
 first instinct was to hold him in her paws but she couldn’t let herself do so he had a   
 mate which meant she would be leading herself towards heart ache if she gave into   
 her emotions.  
  
**“Morning Human, try these on”**   
  
 She gruffed gently using her free paw to politely push him away.  
  
**“Thank you, may I ask what’s inside?”**  
  
 James asked.  
  
**“You can ask, though doesn’t mean I’ll answer you”**   
  
 She teased tossing him the worn sacking bag, with a grunt he caught it falling onto his   
 backside with none to emergently; with in he found a pair of rough used moccasins of   
 a light sandy colour, it wouldn’t really match his clothing but James didn’t care it   
 make a huge difference from using strips of material wrapped around his feet to walk   
 around in.  
  
**“Thank you, it must have cost a small fortune?”**  
  
 He gasped gratefully to which shadow simply replied as one side of her up lips eased   
 back to reveal one of her fangs in an amused smirk.  
  
**“No not at all little one, the cost was very little if any thing I’d say it was…a steal!”**   
  
 The Tigress watched the human ease each of the foot ware on, she had gauged them   
 to be about his size true they where a tad longer in the toe area but then they had not   
 really been crafted for humans, but they did fit well enough which was what mattered.  
 Shadow was glad he liked them though it had mostly been to keep James form getting   
 and nasty splinters in his feet when they where traveling by ship, a lot of deaths at sea   
 wasn’t down to just skervy, accidents or being thrown over board by acts of nature or   
 some unhappy ship hand.   
 No one the majority of deaths came from infections from splinters off of a vessels   
 wooden deck.  
  
 Tanya was finally up though some what grumpy looking, her yawn revealed her own   
 set of sizable fangs as she stretched her whole body in ways that looked as though   
 someone had snapped her torso around, it was quite disconcerting to watch.  
  
**“There’s some thing for you to ware in the sack as well Tanya, it’ll be more practical   
 than what your using now especially when we hit the open ocean!”**   
  
 The Tigre winced feeling a tad uncomfortable as the Ferret scratched the middle of   
 her back before turning her elongated waist back around, with a grunt for a thank you   
 she headed over to where James had put the bag down before looking and turning her   
 snout up in disgust.  
 However even with his distaste for the garment she still resigned herself to warring it   
 since the other option was to parade around on a vessel filled with sexual starved   
 males who would without provocation pounce and use her as little more than a toy to   
 relieve their urges whether she was willing or otherwise.  
  
 Shadow smirked as she watched with much glee as the Ferret feeling quite repulsed   
 began to dress herself, Tanya was used to having the more refined treatment to be   
 lavished upon herself as a top quality slave.  
  
**“Fine!”**   
  
 Was all the Ferret would say as a pout played across her lips,

** **

**                                                                                            -OOO-**

** **

The early morning light of the sun was stifled by a fog rolling in from the sea   
 blanketing the harbor district not that this seemed to keep the normal day to day   
 activities from continuing as normal.  
 Street vendors continued to call out to passers by to come gather and purchase their   
 wares, how ever it did benefit the more criminal elements such as the pick pockets to   
 apply their trade with impunity or at least for the most part as one scream out into the   
 pitch white fog as his wrist was bent into an awkward impossible angle with a   
 sickening crunch.  
  
 Shadow snarled quietly to the would be thief his broken wrist still in her large   
 powerful paw as she applies more pressure dislocating the badgers elbow with gleeful   
 ease before finally releasing the male and continuing on her way dragging a rather   
 concerned looking human behind her.  
 Tanya paused for a second to drive her knee firmly between the all ready injured pick   
 pockets groin as the sound of a silent high pitched squeal left his lips, cupping   
 himself as he drop to the ground face first the Ferret hurries off before she looses sight   
 of Shadow.  
  
 James was still feeling sympathy for the poor Badger as he was part pulled part   
 dragged with his wrist and hand clenched firmly inside the tigresses paw, he could   
 here parts of conversation from door ways form figures to feint to make out yet save   
 for their feint outlines.  
  
**_“Hey Hear About Keeper Jones?”_**  
  
 One voice had said swiftly answered by another.  
  
**“No what?”**  
  
 The first voice was swift to continue so it might begin to gossip and converse.  
  
**_“I here he was attacked in the early hours of the dawn as he arrived at his store,   
 they robbed him of his clothes and foot ware but left his coin purse alone”_**   
  
 This slight piece of knowledge made James feel a little uneasy as he remembered   
 Shadows words at the Inn but he kept quiet after all by accepting and warring them he   
 had become an accomplice to the crime and was now just as guilty as she was.  
 James suddenly felt some thing else that overshadowed his guilt a sense of warmth   
 that she had performed something most would consider wrong so he might have some   
 thing nice to ware.  
  
 It was still morally unacceptable by civilized standards but he couldn’t help but lean   
 his head against her arm and smile up at her, looking down Shadow glared at him   
 with her stern dangerous ice cold eyes before looking away sharply as if to keep from   
 blushing.  
 He could see beyond the facade the large feline put forward as a mask to fool the   
 world, there was more to her than some vicious cold blooded killing machine he had   
 seen her true heart.  
 James was sure she would make some guy extremely happy that or extremely worn   
 out and close to death, he wondered what kind of male she would like; all he could   
 think of was some large over muscular tiger that could match her strength for strength   
 but not much in the brain compartment.  
  
 It was then he could smell some thing not to pleasant it was a rotten egg like smell it   
 had been present since the night they managed to sneak into the claw Harbor but it   
 was even more prominent now, it really made his nose wrinkle up in disgust.  
 Even Tanya was gagging slightly but then again she was more used incense and   
 perfumed oils filling the air than real world smells.  
 Slowly it dawned on James they had arrived at the docks he could even hear if he   
 listened carefully the slapping of waves between the stone of the docks themselves   
 and the wood of the vessels moored up along side.  
  
**“AVAST THAR!”**   
  
 Came an all to familiar voice, one which suddenly filled James with dread, one he   
 hoped never to hear again.  
  
**“I see ya be successful in ya hunt matie!”**   
  
 The voice calls out again, it was Scar Fang and as the wind changed direction she   
 could smell his scent clearly; a growl leaving her lips followed by a cruel chuckle that   
 filled poor James with dread.  
 Shadow felt his resistance to being pulled up along the Gang Plank with her and   
 turned to look at him with a frown that soon became puzzled expression as terror was   
 written across his face.  
  
**“Come on damn it!”**   
  
 The large feline rumbled with a stern forceful tone to her voice.  
  
**“Don’t ya be to harsh on the lad matie, he an I have some history”**   
  
 The Wolf Herm smirked from behind the veil of fog, James was trembling physically   
 now as the only thing keeping him from running was the Tigresses firm grip upon his   
 hand and wrist.  
  
**“But donna ya be worrin’ about Ol’Scar now me lad, she wont be causing ya no   
 trouble, t’was me own fault that the pride saw fit pay this ol’sea dog a visit “**  
  
 The voice was closer now as a shape began to form as a trim shapely female form   
 began to form as it emerged from the fog, Scar Fang was now standing before James a   
 that sly half smile playing across he muzzle.  
  
 This was to much for the human to handle, he feinted on the spot much to Shadow’s   
 displeasure as she was now forced to fling his limp weight over her shoulder.  
  
**“Any thing you want to tell me?”**   
  
  
 Shadow Claw growled frustrated.  
  
**“Aye there be plenty to tell but tis a long tail, one best told over a tankard or two as it   
 leaves me with a bitter taste in me mouth so it does, bring the human aboard then we   
 talk!”**

** **

** **

**                                                                                            -OOO-**

James gave a slight groan as he slowly began to come around his head felt somewhat   
 heavy and his stomach was jumping all over the place as if tying itself in knots, every   
 thing was dark at first even with his eye lids flickering open.  
 Eventually he could see blurred shades of grays, whites and blacks then shape began   
 to form though rudimentary in nature as colour eventually began to filter in while his   
 line of sight began to focus and images became more recognizable.  
  
 All around was lined with wooden plank like walls including he ceiling and floor,   
 their was a circular window in one of the walls with a hinged iron plate covering it, he   
 soon realized why he felt the strange nausea and uncomfortable sensation in very pit   
 of his gut as where ever he was moving from side to side some how.  
 The décor of his surrounding was bare consisting of a single cot which he was   
 currently laid over a small table and chair bolted to the floor as was most likely his   
 bed.  
 The dim source of light was coming from a lantern fixed to the wall as the flame   
 flickered and danced safely with in its confines, with these few details filling his some   
 what addled mind he put two and two together and concluded he must be aboard a   
 vessel; probably still docked and waiting for high tide to set sail.  
  
 James tried to speak only to feel garbled illegible sounds leaving his lips, in an   
 attempt to sit up right he felt dizzy and feint before passing out once more.  
 When next he came to he could feel a presence sat next to him on the bed as the straw   
 matrices bowed slightly.  
  
**“Ya be awake now matie, guess tis sure to be quite the shock ta see ol’Scar   
 again, though this ol’wolf can’t be surprised that such a tender tit bit like ya self   
 would react so”**   
  
 Came a far to familiar voice, a deep shiver of fear began to well up within him some   
 thing the shadow cloaked figure could smell and more than likely see.  
  
**“Dontcha be worrin' abou’me little James, this buccaneer hold no grudges ta ya me   
 lad, for tis your lion friends who did me wrong an to them that ol’scar olds her   
 grudge.”**   
  
 The gravely voice rasped with some regret to its voice, a large grey furred paw   
 reaching out and running across his trembling cheek as if to reassure James she   
 meant no harm.  
  
 Twas a fools notion what I did unto ya James, the signs where there in the form of ya   
 lion friend but ol’scar chose to think with her dick rather than her brain and brought   
 ruin unto one of two things she be lovin’ more than life it self.  
 Ya shall return ta ya mate that this sea dog swears even if it be meaning that ol’scar   
 has ta tear down the very gates ta Davey Jones Locker ta do it.”  
  
 It was then eh felt a muzzle part his lips as canines pressed against his cheeks and a   
 long inhuman tongue slithered down along his in bizarre mimic of a kiss that the other   
 races of third earth made since they lacked the same lip structure as the humans and   
 most primates.  
  
 For a few seconds he closed his eyes half expecting his body to be ravaged and   
 pillaged sexually, to feel intense pain as he is violated.  
 But nothing happened slowly opening his eyes he felt the Wolf-Herm break the kiss   
 and holding up the lantern to his face letting him see the sincerity in her other wise   
 dangerous and highly un-trust worth face that a life time of piracy would create.  
  
 Scar Fang looked down at the human she could smell his fear still but that was to be   
 expected after all she had done to him, after all that she had done to so many others;   
 he would be a fool not to be.  
 Some times she scared herself with some of the impulses that filled her mind some   
 times, it was only the clam mind set of her mate and business partner that counter   
 balanced her reckless and over emotional actions, in turn she counter balanced his   
 lack of action when his attempts to smooth talk and out think a problem failed.  
  
 Of course the Golden Retriever hadn’t been to amused about finding out the identity   
 of their mysterious passenger was as it seemed he to had made the foolish mistakes of   
 tempting fates wrath with harming the human as well.  
 She was sure that destiny had plans for James be it a cruel fate or a glorious one she   
 had no idea only that some thing was watching over him and the ancients ancestors   
 have mercy on those dare try to a grisly end.  
  
**“Ya be resting now matie, tis best to let your body gather its self before trying ta find   
 ya sea legs”**   
  
 Scar noted getting to her feet and taking her leave to attend to attend to other matters,  
 It was her last words that finally clicked some thing in his mind as he realized he was   
 at sea not in a vessel held fast in dock via mooring lines.  
  
**“Tis not wise to ease drop Jack!”**   
  
 Scar noted stepping out of there door to the Golden Retriever standing their, walking   
 together they made their way up stair case to the quarter deck, despite her harsh words   
 and cold tone there was warmth in her eyes for her lover and business partner.  
  
**“My dearest lady, it may indeed be most unwise to listen in on the conversations of   
 one whose profession is as disreputable as my own, but it does make good business   
 sense.”**   
  
 Jack smiled slowly his tone smooth like some civilized gentleman.  
  
**“Though I do wonder about the allowing the bane to our existence to find birth and   
 safe travel upon this vessel, was it not this very human that brought much sorrow to   
 us both?”**   
  
 The Wolf-Herm stopped mid step turning to the canine the softness in her eyes   
 replaced with a cold steely glare.  
  
**“Speak ta me not like some mark, ya seek me ta throw da land lubber over board to   
 feed da deep with his carcass, but two things make such an action folly, the first being   
 the Tigress that came ta scalie home land.  
 She must’ve been paid well ta venture this far ta get ‘im back an ol’Scar for one   
 doubts we have the paw power ta handle her wrath!”**   
  
 The Retriever paused to think about this and he had to admit his crude yet beautiful   
 mate was quite correct their power was only second to that of the whale and elephants   
 both of which where peaceful and pacifists at least for the most part.   
  
**“And the second reason light of my life?”**   
  
 He whispers slipping his paws into hers as he licks her muzzle tenderly soothing her   
 savage glare, she blushed before giving a growl to cover her sudden show of   
 weakness.  
  
**“Da second, ya smooth tongued dog; be fate, look ta what befell us both when we tried   
 ta shanghai the human, t’would be a fools errand ta send him ta Davy Jones; better we   
 do thing legit than risk all that we have accomplished and achieved.”**   
  
 Jack sighed at such superstitious rubbish it was to him merely coincidence and a tad   
 helping of foolish greed on each of their own part to their own misfortune with the   
 human.  
 For himself he should have kept moving rather than stopping to try and breed James   
 with the Wolf and Snake, it gave the Lions a chance to catch up, while he was sure in   
 the case of his beloved Scar fang she should have know by the Lion escort the human   
 had accompanying him, no there was no mystical force about it.  
 At least that was what golden Retriever thought any way. But for the time being it   
 wouldn’t hurt to humour his pirate lover.

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Latter on else-where in the vessel down in the lower decks where the crew would live and sleep   
 Tanya groaned deeply as she squeezed her inner walls around the twitching shafts of   
 two otters their quivering members firmly ledged inside of both her lower openings,   
 pushing and pulling for all their worth.  
 A third pressed his tip to her muzzle which parted to allow entrance into her mouth as   
 this new male started to grind his hips against her face pushing him self to the back of   
 her throat with a deep grunting sound.  
  
 For Tanya it didn’t seem out of place as it was what she was bred and raised for, to   
 give pleasure to others, for the crew it was a chance to abuse some thing other than   
 each other during a sea journey.  
 A few had tried it with the Tigress with disastrous results but the Ferret didn’t   
 complain or try to resist not that it mattered as they where all pretty pent up and in   
 need of some fun.  
  
 Tanya was moaning against the invading muscle pushing and puling down through   
 her throat now as the other two crew members stiffened pouring their seed deep into   
 her tight hot body, with drawing they where replaced by two fresh and desperate   
 tapering members.  
 One of which released the moment it was ease dup into her, with a disgruntled cry the   
 premature sailor was dragged out of the way for a fresh male to take his place pushing   
 himself up inside of her over lubricated passageway.  
 While those present where enjoying themselves for the Ferret it didn’t really do much   
 for her it lacked some thing though she wasn’t quite sure what, she could feel them   
 pushing their way up into her body but she couldn’t feel the strange blunt tip   
 tantalizing and teasing her.  
  
 There was no such thing as lazy hands or rather paws upon most sailing vessels and   
 while shadow added her crazy insane strength to that of the crew and James once he   
 was able to gather himself together would most likely be put to work aiding the ships   
 carpenter.  
 Tanya had proven a more problematic since her body was ideal for any form of   
 manual labor or most domestic chores but the crew had swiftly found a use for which   
 some of her training helped her excel at and for the remainder of the journey moral   
 would be at an all time high even if there was increased numbers of crew trying to   
 slack off to have some entertainment.  
  
 Tanya’s eyes closed tightly as she tried envision how it felt when James was driving   
 himself through her tight little body, this helped a little but it wasn’t enough to help   
 her reach even a single climax as each male pounds into her for their own pleasure   
 and nothing more.  
  
**“WHY YOU MANGY BUILGE RATS AH’LL KHEEL HULL THE LOT OF   
 YOU!”**   
  
 Bellowed a deep gravely voice from the stair well, the Captain Scar fang was not   
 amused, even though the Tigress up on deck was able to take up the sudden slack the   
 crew members currently in differing states of undress had abandoned their posts to get   
 some tight hot tail.  
  
**“GET YOUR TAILS BACK UP ON DAT DECK BEFORE I FLAY THE FLESH   
 FROM YOUR BONES YOU SKERVY FILTH MONGERING FREE LOADERS!”**   
  
 The Scar Fang growls causing them to none to gently to pull free from Tanya making   
 her yell out painfully and fall forwards on to the ground as she loses her balance, with   
 cutlass drawn she swipes at one of her pirate crew members ho was taking far to long   
 to get up the wooden plank like stairs nicking a piece from his ear to remind him   
 never to cross her again.  
  
**“Sorry for dat me dear, let ol’scar fang at least give you what the crew could not”**   
  
 Scar noted easing her sword belt off followed shortly by her long elegant coat to   
 reveal the white blouse beneath, a sly smile filled the one eyed wolfs muzzle as she   
 offered a paw to Tanya helping her back up to her feet.  
  
**“Thank You Captain!”**   
  
 The Ferret noted accepting the paw and getting to her feet only to be feel her back   
 pressing up firmly against the main mast that continued on down to the level below,   
 the Ferrets eyes widen as she feels Scar ease her feet up off the ground pinning her   
 against the wooden mast.  
 Keeping Tanya held in place the pirate captain eased her hose down revealing her   
 sheath and the redish tip of her canine member poking out.   
  
 Tanya gasped slightly as the tip brushed against her clit a few times before dipping   
 and flicking out from the top of her entrance teasing her a few times then pushing   
 forwards as it dips in one more time Scar pushes her entire length out into the Ferret   
 stretching her as it swells   
 In moments the wolf-herm’s as pressing against her cervix.  
 With a little leverage the pirate captain was soon pushing a little deeper as the pouting   
 entrance to her preys womb dilates and gives way she pushes the last few inches.  
  
 Pausing for a few moments to get used to the sensation she of how hot and tight   
 Tanya felt around her shaft she enjoyed the view of the pinned females expression of   
 shock and pleasure as her knot began to swell just beyond Tanya’s vaginal entrance.  
 The engorged muscle was applying more and more pressure against Tanya’s   
 erogenous spot send sparks of light to dance before the ferrets eyes, a deep   
 whimpering pant could be herd from Tanya as her small paws held firmly under   
 Scar’s shoulders her body trembling and gasping for breath.  
  
**“Brace your self wench”**   
  
 The Captain noted grinding firmly between Tanya’s thighs making the ferret grip   
 tighter to the white blouse of the pirate as her body was plundered in away she never   
 felt before.  
 Tanya was grateful she was being held off the ground with her back pinned to the   
 main mast and her thighs up over Scar’s hips , shaking she buried her face against the   
 nape of the wolf’s neck while the thick large ball shaped muscle moved a few center   
 meters with every grinding stroke of what few inches Scar Fang could use to have her   
 pleasure with.  
  
**“OH TYRANUS….AH..AHHHHH!...IT’S TEARING ME APART!”**   
  
 Tanya screams though her words are muffled by Scar’s body , the small ferret jerks   
 wildly like some stuffed doll as she hold on for dear life her mind spiraling out of   
 control, the pressure and heat building at her very core with such force and speed she   
 felt as if she was going to pass out.  
 It was a different kind of pure unrelenting pleasure she was feeling not the same as   
 she had felt with James but no less intense of amazing it was just a different kind of   
 intensity that was blowing her mind completely.  
  
 Grunting and snarling Scar strokes become hammering jerks as she felt her moment   
 of release makes it presence know to her, she could feel Tanya completely at her   
 mercy and unable to do any thing other than scream into her neck.  
  
**“GAHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!”**   
  
 Scar growls stiffening as she blasts her hot fertile see dup into Tanya’s womb sending   
 the Ferret over the edge in to her own climax then darkness as her mind collapsed in   
 on itself as she passed out a look of pure ecstasy playing across her face.

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