Zoo Keeper - Epilogue - pt2
#20 of Zoo Keeper
You wanted more, my muse came up with more, there should be a good few more chapters in this.
There is violence, there is death, this is the real world...
You are warned.
I growled, "No, I am not going back out there without him, that's all there is to it, find me a way to be with him and I will do my duty, otherwise I will keep shuffling papers." I told the Senior Sergeant.
"We simply will not let you go out with him in the same squad, its been a rule since your ancestor set up this military and it will continue to be a rule. Unless you plan to go out there as a pair and scout for us then you will be required to serve within a squad." the feline all but snarled at me.
I was surprised for a moment, "Just the two of us?" I asked and received a shocked look back as she read my intention, "Fine, that will do, I won't go out there without him at my side, and if that is what it takes, I will do it." I said, feeling suddenly the fear ebb from me.
We had done fine together, just the two of us, I had since raised his kittens and slowly let myself fall back closer to human, but we were a pair, and no one would split us apart now.
"Very well, we need a sweep done of this area, get your gear together by oh six hundred tomorrow and head out there with him." I could see the look in her eyes, she almost hoped we would run into something and have our little problem removed from her paws.
I saluted and left, feeling a lightness inside me that I really shouldn't have to feel given it would be just the two of us out there.
Reporting into supplies I arranged for ammunition for the trip and a pack, my rifle as always was in my locker, in pieces and ready to be assembled.
~"You have gotten permission then?"~ the thought came to me then, like a warm purr.
Laughing I thought back to him, ~"Yes love, we can go together, but it will only be us, I don't think they want to risk anyone else around me."~
~"Then we will be safer."~ he stated rather smugly, ~"You are twice the warrior of any of the others, we will be fine."~
I purred softly, his thoughts warming me.
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And we were safer, we found isolated groups of both felines and stores called in the larger groups to deal with them, and in one case found a small town of people who had defended themselves somehow against the big cats, they were so thankful to be rescued, in another generation they would have gotten to inbreeding to survive.
Then, a month before my duty would be done and I could begin my real career and settle down, we were asked to do one last patrol, it was a close in run, but would take some time due to the area covered, seemed like a milk run.
Three days out we found ourselves being chased by a small pride of males, out pacing them easily, our bodies honed to speed and stamina by over a year of such activities, suddenly a blur came out of no where and thumped into me, knocking my gun away.
I turned to yell at my mate only to scream in horror, the new feline had landed heavily on him even as our pursuers caught up.
Reaching for my bayonet I was about to charge in when I heard a telling sound, I had heard it quite a few times before when my love had protected me.
It was the sound of a spine being cut by cat jaws.
Going into a fury I threw myself at the cats, cutting out indescribably in my blind rage.
Something cut through the haze of vengeance, and that was a pair of teeth clamping down on my own neck, not just gripping but almost testing to see just how much it would take to separate my vertebrae.
The fight left me as I started to hyperventilate all my rage stolen at the fear for my own life, I think I managed two breaths before darkness wrapped around me, stealing me to a dream world.
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They were both there, both my loves, and we were almost together again, but no matter how close I got to them I could never reach them, but still I ran on.
With a start I jerked awake and realised I was in an old church, patterned glass windows letting in a kaleidoscope of colour that painted the world around me a multitude of shades of blue, red and green.
~"My new kitten is awake, good."~ I felt, reverberate in my head.
Shaking myself I looked straight to the 'speaker', a big, dark feline, scars patterned in his fur who seemed to be watching me with an almost paternal look, ~"Who... who are you?"~ I managed to reply.
His movement was as sudden as it was violent. Leaping to me and grabbing me by the neck he threw me to the side, sliding across the ground to thump into the wall, ~"I am the leader here, you dared come into my domain, with a male!"~ he roared loudly into my mind, even as he was dead silent, standing above me again.
It was then, I tried to fight, I got slowly to my paws, unsheathed my claws and stood loose in a fighting stance, growling softly.
~"That's something I have not seen before, very well little queen, fight me, but know this, your loss will mean I own you."~ he purred softly, the thought slipping into my mind like poisoned honey.
Lashing out with a paw I tried to catch him over the face only to have him not there. His huge paw darted out, faster than I could follow to clash with my shoulder, claws partly out. I let out a screaming growl.
~"Stay down!"~ he yelled into my mind and I felt something new, a force, an order, demanding that I do exactly that.
Snarling and screaming I fought it, rising to my knees to swing at him again, my paw, claws fully out connecting with his neck.
He didn't even flinch.
One big paw lanced out to knock me down, ~"Go down and stay down!"~ his mind growled at me, the anger and violence gone from his thoughts now, all that was left was a calm purpose.
And that force, stronger, more insistent, ripping into my mind and its defences much like he had done physically to my mate, seeking my mental backbone, my core.
I whimpered, fighting the mental attack, any ability to physically fight him lost as I felt more and more disconnected with myself.
All of a sudden it found 'me', and the grip it took on my being had me yowling out, but laying still and low, my head to the side, offering the big male my neck.
Unable to fight any more, I waited to know what he would do with me.
~"More fight than any queen I have tamed so far, more fight even than my own sons."~ he said, suddenly leaning down, muzzle close to my ear, ~"Maybe enough fight to bear me a true son."~
His mind had sounded of contempt, and I got a feeling he was neither pleased by his current mates or their kittens. Something inside me, something very feline, roared at the challenge, railed and pushed at the vice like grip he held on my mind. But that queen inside me, strong as she was, could not break my will free.
Instead she embraced the idea of a potential mate, stronger than herself, and I felt a shiver pass over me as that instinct flowed into me. And while he had a tight grip on my concious mind and will, that instinct was free to roam.
Feeling a snarl I railed back at him, ~"Then they were not good enough!"~ with a snarl.
The grip on me lifted slightly, ~"Oh, the kitten has pride? Do you think YOU are good enough?"~ he said condescendingly.
Though my mind was a little freer, I could do nothing to stop that part of me that was now in control, ~"I don't think, I am. Prove to me you are good enough."~ I threw back at him, and I felt him rise mentally as well as physically.
~"More cat than you think, come then, I will show you why you are not worth my time."~ he said, disdainfully and to my surprise I felt the grip within me release.
I stood, snarling and growling, but I had already surrendered, I had given in, and before I knew what I was doing I had offered my rear to him, tail pulled to the side, ~"Prove yourself then."~ I practically purred and at that moment I realised some part of me, something deep inside had embraced his power.
He didn't reply either verbally or mentally, the first I knew of his plans was his chest fur on my back, sliding up to my shoulders.
All at once it came to me and I was about to try and run when his mind clamped down on me again, seemingly freezing me in place.
His mind came now, almost like a whisper, ~"No queen, give in to it, don't fight it."~ even as I felt his breath at my ears.
I wouldn't, I threw my thoughts at him, the hate, the loss, the agony of losing my mates and he let it all hit him.
~"But I am stronger, I won't die so easily."~ he said, still making no move to take me, ~"Give in, accept me as your master, and I will be there, always."~ purring now, and some part of me, a part that was the source of all those fears and agony, accepted his promise.
Accepted him.
Giving in to him was the hardest thing I had ever done in my life, I had lost so much, and yet here I was, setting myself up to lose again.
~"Lose me? Just try and find something that can kill me."~ he murmured back to me, feeding that part that had given in, and it grew larger, spreading its subservience to the rest of me until I was once again, still and ready for him.
~"Please, never leave me."~ I said, begging it of him, of the universe.
~"My queen, it would take a great force indeed to separate you from me now."~ he said, punctuating the phrase by pressing into me.
I yowled out, my body was barely ready for this, I was not in heat, he had not given me any pheromones, but I wanted every second of it.
Pumping himself, making my body react with its lubrication even as his own supplied his pre-seed for the same task, I felt him build the fire within me.
Beginning my own motions, rocking back into his thrusts, my cries became more and more insistent as I felt my pleasure rise, even as I felt his spines start to grip and itch my insides, causing the hair raising pain and heat combination that always made a feline lover so very amazing.
His teeth gripped at my neck, holding me firm but not with the same ferocity as he had when capturing me, I felt a phantom of that pressure within my mind, gripping, showing his dominance, but not restricting me too much.
A particularly rough thrust threw my body into a release, unannounced, and I was growling, purring and whimpering all at once as the pleasure within me bound the pain of his spines up and presented it to my nerves as the most wonderful thing ever.
While my world was revolving around that moment, his pace began to increase into a pistoning that I felt sure was shaking the very ground, I pushed back, despite the sudden pain in my neck, the price for doing so, and yowled at the increase in both pleasure and the ever stimulating pain, exquisite in their dual dance over my body.
Suddenly I felt his member flare within me and I cried out loudly as he took one last withdraw, drawing lines of flame along my tunnel, making me respond by pressing up into his weight, into his jaws and into the embrace of his mind.
As the hot seed began to flood my insides I whined, feeling my body being hurled again and I welcomed any and all feeling, pleasure, pain, the press of him on my back, the heat of the sun through the coloured glass on my fur, even just the feel of the wood under my paws, it all combined to draw out my orgasm as I felt him pump more and more into me.
My body reacted, slipping further toward feline, paws becoming less hand like, my body would now have more problems just standing upright, and I would be more susceptible to the feline urges.
Another thing, something different from every other time I had felt this, I felt his particular genes slide my fur, my body and my very mind, more like his. My colour darkened, my body mass grew a little and I felt a blossoming of that same power he had used on me, and I instinctively knew just how to use it.
~"That was just the beginning my queen."~ he said, and the 'my' was a very possessive one, but one I found myself purring to hear.
His hips began again and I squealed out, the sensitive path within me stimulated again so soon. But he remained above me, holding me down, keeping me his. ~"This is only the beginning."~ he purred, hips cycling against me, and I found myself revelling in the thought.
Don't cry, don't feel the least sorrow, you wanted this, now Paul will pay your price.