Zoo Keeper - ch10 - Protector
#10 of Zoo Keeper
I lay there, my kittens finishing their meal, keeping an eye on Rough, although to his credit he kept well away from the comatose woman.
"Gon jus do no in?" Sally said, padding over to the woman to check on her.
Purring I looked up from my kittens, "She didn't fall on anything, Rough seems calm. Probably best to just let her wake on her own." with that I lay back down on my side, closed my eyes and just let contentment roll over me.
Some time passed and I felt my kittens, full of milk, curl up against me and start sleeping.
"Ugh, what happened? I thought I heard a...cat..." the woman had awoken.
Sighing I leaned up and looked at her again and said, "You heard a cat say 'Meow'? Is that really so unusual?"
"But... how..." she trailed off quickly.
"We have some time to explain, so I guess you can have the whole story, or what I can remember of it." I said and began to explain everything to her, I am pretty sure it was a violation of the forms I signed when I started work, but I think they only apply to humans anyway.
"So you ran? You are spreading this?" she asked at the end.
I narrowed my eyes, "They made us run, they would have used me for experiments. I didn't want all of this..." I said.
"Wow." was her only reply, and I think I agreed.
Standing up slowly I said, "Yeah, but the cats out of the bag now, so I figure we s-" I froze.
The wind had shifted, I could smell cats, lots of cats. Male cats.
"Grab the kittens, we need to go inside your house, now!" I said, reaching down to grip one of my young by the scruff.
Sally and Rough followed my lead, the big male a little uncertainly.
"I... what's wrong?" the woman was left saying but when I turned to look, she had done what I asked, bundling up the remaining pair and following.
We waited for her to open the door then slunk inside. I took my burden over to Sally and put him at her feet, "Lock the door, quickly. All the doors. Go now!" I all but growled, feeling a prickling now.
Sally must have started to sense them too, after depositing her feline passenger at her feet she sniffed the air. "R hey com in?"
"What? The bad ones are coming here? Now?" The woman had spun around and was looking scared now.
I looked to her then, padded over a bit closer, "We will protect you, its jus-" I was cut off by the sound of gunfire. It wasn't single shots either, it was bursts of fully automatic.
Padding to one window I peered outside. A pair of army trucks were set up just down the road, soldiers arrayed around them. A small army of cats slinking through the grass toward them.
I saw their error. While they were doing a good job of keeping the ones in front at bay, gunning them down as they made themselves visible, my sight could see the slight movements in the grass behind them.
I wanted to run out and scream 'behind you', but I knew what them seeing me would yield, a quick death if I was lucky. I whimpered in sympathy, this was not going to go well.
"What's wrong? Why are you..." the woman said, standing beside me, "Oh god, how did they get behind them?" she added, now that the cats had made their move.
Some of the soldiers were betrayed by their own needs quickly, panting and whimpering as the big cats moved among them, others emptied their guns and, drawing their side arms emptied those too, only to succumb.
It was then I saw one woman, well, now a woman, running for it, bayonet in hand striking out at anything in her path. She was running right for this house.
I heard the sound of the door unlock and realised the resident had unlocked it, "In here!" she yelled, "Get in here!"
I saw the hunted soldier run blindly inside and together they slammed the door shut, locking it with a loud click.
"Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck." The panicked warrior was saying again and again.
Wary of the long bayonet the panting blonde still clutched, white knuckled, in one hand, I said, "That wasn't pretty."
Her eyes focused and the bayonet came up at the ready. "The fuck? You locked me in here with more of them!" she screamed, backing into the corner.
Of those in the room, the three of us cats seemed the most in control at that moment, Sally and Rough were both laying protectively around my kittens. Damn I could fall in love with those two all over again.
"Ma'am," I said, directing my voice to the houses owner, "go up, into the roof space, and hide. Don't come down until I tell you, and only me, no one else. You got that?"
She turned, looking at me, "What about her?" she asked, gesturing at the scared stiff soldier.
"They have her scent, they would hunt her forever now, hiding her would be useless. Go!" I ordered and, for her part, she did, trotting briskly down the hall out of the big lounge.
"What the fuck is going on? How can you talk? What do you mean 'hunt me'?" The soldier in the now, badly fitting, uniform said.
Sighing, "They got enough musk on you to change you, more than enough to make you feel pretty crazy, if you didn't have so much adrenalin pumping I can guess. That is one of the smells they will track you by. The other is the smell you are putting out now. Frankly, you stink of 'female in heat'. Every male within ten clicks will be after you." I told them.
She scanned the room, spying the larger form of Rough, "Why isn't he coming for me then?" she asked.
"He is very well behaved and I would ask you not to point that weapon at him." I said back with feeling, realising how much a threat to Rough meant to me.
She sobbed once, "I... I'm sorry ok? Look we were just told there was an animal control problem, that we were to shoot any big cats on sight. They never said anything about... about..." she couldn't go on.
"About them changing you and raping you? Look out the window to where your squad was." I said gently.
"Holy fuck...." she said, witnessing the sight of her squad, still at the mercy of the various males who had caught them, slowly losing themselves to the cats.
I dropped back to my paws, looking at the soldier, "They are lost, but we may be able to save you, it won't be pretty. I have an idea..."
"When someone says something won't be pretty it usually isn't. This situation reeks of SNAFU, if it gets worse, well fuck I will go down with a fight" she turned and crouched, looking into my eyes, "but if you keep me human, can get me through this..." I saw a tear roll down a cheek. She couldn't continue.
"Well, first I will explain one thing, until fully changed, and its the sex that causes the change, a person will revert back, slowly, to their original human self, even reverting their sex change in time." I said, "But if you go all the way cat, with no preparation or training, that's it, you are a cat." I explained. "Those males will hunt you around until they catch and breed you, making you theirs, or until another has you first..." I said, leaving the end clear.
"Uh, so your saying I should go let one of them do me a bit and what, ask him nicely to pull out?" she said with a laugh.
I shook my head, "No, I have only seen one of their kind who would have the willpower to fight that much genetic programming. Rough?" I said, calling my mate over.
He looked at me worried, sneaking glances at the soldier, "It's ok lover, get your furry tail over here." I made a soft mewling, calling him in a language he could understand.
He stood up and started padding warily to us, "Fuck, he is big isn't he?" the woman beside me asked rhetorically. "I don't like the idea of this, but your right, I sure as fuck can't see a better way out o-"
The door made a creaking sound as large claws connected with it, ripping at the solid wood.
"Guess the one about the devil you know is wrong. I know what they" she gestured to the door, now showing signs of stress where it connected with the door jam, "want to do. This guy at least seems reluctant. Does he actually understand that I don't want this?" she asked, working to remove her partially shredded pants.
"He knows he already has two mates who would be displeased if he acted like an arsehole. For his part, he is the first male cat I have actually been able to forgive." I said.
"Forgive? Oh you mean for your, uh, cond-" she was saying as the door gave way at one hinge, tearing open and collapsing to the side.
"Rough, take here!" I ordered my mate. Not understanding my words but, somehow, understanding the situation, he climbed the back of the soldier, pushing her to her hands and knees.
Two big males stalked into the room, their musk pouring off them in waves. I felt my own slight response to it, although thankfully my pregnancy was still too recent to allow them to bring me into full heat again. The soldier, however, was swiftly carried by the pheromones into a lust that her body, neither in its limited time as a female nor in its time as a male, had ever known before.
I watched Rough, realisation that the males wouldn't leave until they were sure he was mating with her, begin to probe for her. Experience with other cats not withstanding, it took him a few stabs to find her, but when he did she let it known how much she enjoyed it.
I watched him ease in slowly, bringing himself into her to the hilt, only to draw back, making his bright fleshy member quite visible between them. Wet sounds of sex began to fill the room, with the accompanying scents.
Seemingly appeased, the two males stalked out, obvious displeasure at their hunt being cut short evident, but there was nothing they could do now.
As indeed there was nothing to stop Rough mating the hapless soldier, complicit as she was now, to both their conclusions.
Again and again his hips stroked his rod into her, the sight bringing me further than the musk could have, I felt myself whining.
I paced over to Sally and my kittens, "Ake my mind off I." I said, laying down to the now wakeful bundles.
I felt their little mouths latch on, one after the other, stimulating a happiness that seemed to feed on the heat, converting it to a feeling of 'wellness'. This was a nice way to live, I thought as I lay down, feasting my eyes on my mate taking the soldier.
I saw him reach to her neck, gripping and pulling back, forcing her position to change and her back to arch into his thrusts. "Mmmm he seems almost done." I said dreamily.
"Look o be enj in isel" Sally said in odd little gasps, I looked and saw her lapping at her own folds, giving herself the small release her body, still swollen with kittens, desperately needed.
I saw Rough grip tighter, thrust harder, bringing a whining moan from the woman. "Here he goes." I said.
I heard him, having released his partners neck, roar into the air, claiming the female under him as 'His'. It was timed almost perfectly with two female moans of release, one completely feline to my side and the other, a soft, almost hesitant purr from the owner of the body he had just begun to change.
I saw him then, whine and lay down over her, letting himself relax a bit before pulling free. I sighed, "He really is such a considerate mate." I said, watching him lap softly at the now furred neck he had until moments ago been biting with such ferocity.
Some time passed, he removed himself and leaned down to her again, gripping her neck and lifting, carrying her over to us.
For her part the woman didn't look put out at all, simply glad to be touched by him, no matter his intention.
As we cuddled close I felt something was wrong, something I had forgotten...
"Oh, so you're having a nap now? Were you going to just leave me up there forever?" the house owner said, covered in cobwebs, from the hallway.
No cliffhanger this time, well no major ones.
Sorry for the 'cat out of the bag' pun, I guess you could say I just felt the storry needed some more mirth, like I had to be kitten it out with some more jokes.
*giggles*