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Astaroth Ankh: The loot and the hunter.

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Caution: this story contains some swearing, cruelty and violence.

The rejuvenation concept was created by Lurking Dragon. The Aspartian fox race, Draconian lizards and details about both races and Aspartia were created by Professor Bob. The rest of the anthropomorphic characters, races and details about the artifacts, the altered evolution and the unholy/false utopia were created by me.

***

It was raining buckets outside as a thunderstorm whistled angrily against the Dickinson's house. Stephanie yawned as she got out of Amanda's bed groggily. It was very difficult for her to fall asleep with all that wind roaring outside, especially when her remorse couldn't let her rest.

Stephanie was sent to bed earlier that night with no dinner and a hard cane punishment for picking up a fight with 'Mouse'. Her tongue felt bitter, so she jumped out of the bed and padded to the kitchen for a glass of water.

When she opened the cat-girl's dormitory door and turned on the hallway lights, she stood there paralyzed. She found out, much to her surprise that she was inside a cold, green-tiled room instead of being inside a suburban house.

What the fuck was she doing inside a hospital? Where are her human step-parents, or the Dickinson foxes for that matter? During what felt like thirty minutes she kept opening door after door, only to find empty rooms filled with stretches, chirurgical androids, medical equipment or office supplies. Where did everybody went?

Suddenly, she heard steps, and a woman passed by, wearing a white uniform.

She thought:"A nurse! Thank God, I'm not alone anymore."

She sighed in relief as she hurriedly padded towards that human. But when the woman turned her head... she had no face! No visible mouth, eyes, nose or even eyelashes. Stephanie screamed on top of her lungs. But when the fox-girl blinked her eyes, that ghostly apparition or whatever it was disappeared into the thin air.

Stephanie felt like weeping out of fear and desperation. Was she so bad that the adults abandoned her inside this horrible hospital? She lost her sense of time as she tried in vain to find either an exit or someone she knew. When she opened the last door, she found out that she was in the hospital morgue(?!).

Now that made her fur really stand out in fear! She felt like she was going to wet her diapers any second when... a fox-paw started to move? Steph freaked out and bolted out of that room while the orange-furred corpses got up and chanted: "GIVE US BACK OUR LIFE! GIVE US BACK OUR LIFE! WE HAVEN'T RECEIVED ANY JUSTICE!"

Just as she entered another room, she saw the remains of a very known fox, who shattered forever her first childhood as well as the lives of other foxes. It was the 'Blowfish' gang boss. She started to yell at the corpse: "You asshole! You and the likes of you not only ruined my childhood, but you killed my brother along with other innocent foxes from your own gang. You're nothing but a perverted psychopath! MURDERER!"

Stephanie coughed when she felt an ice-cold paw grab her by the neck with vice-like strenght. The old fox's corpse said: "You have no right to yell to me like that, because your own paws are also stained with blood. So... We'll meet again in hell. Perhaps the demons will allow me to rape you for all eternity." He put a handgun by Stephanie's mouth as the fox-zombie pulled the trigger.

BOOM!

Stephanie woke up shivering as she covered her face with a blanket. Then she realized that she was on her bed and what she heard wasn't a revolver firing, but a thunderclap that shook the venetian windows.

Stephanie sighed with relief. So, everything she imagined was only a nightmare?

She muttered to herself: "Stop worrying, silly girl. It was just a bad dream, and that degenerate fox is now dead."

At the first moment, the young vixen frowned when she didn't recall where she was until she remembered everything that happened the day before. She was having a sleepover in Amanda's room, but Amanda wasn't nearby, only the adult foxes. So on top of everything, her new human parents went on cruise vacation and send her with those who captured her. At least those foxes were snoring like a rumbling waterfall.

Just as the little fox-girl gathered a supreme effort and tried to free herself from the fox-centaurs tangled limbs, William grabbed her by the tail. He ordered the child to stay quiet by placing a finger on his lips, as he carried the delinquent fox to a sound-proof room near the kitchen.

William ordered her to take off her diaper as he took a switch hanging from the wall. Then he placed the fox-girl's belly on his knees, holding the vixen's legs between his legs while William's paw held Stephanie's neck. William lashed the girl without interruption for forty long minutes, in which William didn't gave himself a second to rest.

WHACK! WHACK! WHACK! WHAM! WHACK! WHAP! Argg! Wha-haa-haaaa! NO, stop it!

WHACK! WHAM! WHAP! WHAP! Yeow! No more please, it hurts! YEOW! Arooooo!

William kissed and then carried the semi-unconscious fox-girl back to her bed. William had a heavy hearth as he muttered: "I wonder why that irresponsible asshole (Stephanie's dad) didn't leave this child under someone else's care. It's true that most abandoned cubs fell a hole in their hearths when a parent is missing, but he could have left this girl under a relative's care".

Half an hour later Stephanie woke up feeling not her usual anger against her parents or sitters, but remorse and confusion. Stephanie wondered why those foxes didn't give her any slack, always keeping her under surveillance. Her first thought was running away, but that's impossible.

Even if she drugged the adult's drinks with enough drug to knock asleep an elephant, it would be pointless to escape. As a grown-up criminal, she and her former partners in crime would be able to survive anywhere, even in Aspartia, but with this body she was completely dependant of other adults for her protection.

Not only she was a mere child, but all her shipmates were sent to live with human families all over planet Earth as rejuvenated cubs, so the 'Blowfish' gang was disbanded for decades. Also, former criminals aren't allowed to communicate to any other 'Penitatas' without supervision.

She wouldn't be able to survive one hour in Aspartia with this weak, rejuvenated body. Stephanie then shuddered, thinking about the diseased kits in her home planet, begging for food while they raised their tails, waiting patiently for their rape.

It hurt her the most, because those kits reminded Stephanie of her own childhood. The irony of all this is that years ago she tried to look strong as a self-made thug, but deep inside, her hearth was falling apart with terror.Then she slapped and punched her own face as her ears lowered. Her little chest began to ache with sadness and remorse.

The regret she felt for the past actions she had made finally caught up with her: "I'm a stupid girl! Stupid! Why did I fear my former bosses so much? Why I haven't got the balls to blow the whistle? Why I didn't help those homeless foxes instead for letting them die of starvation? I'm still having nightmares about being killed by the agonizing foxes that I shoved into that airlock five years ago."

Then she added with sarcasm: "All for the money! Yeah right! I fell like a tiny, miserable roach."

So she took off her wet diaper and sweat drenched t-shirt and went to the bathroom for an early seat bath. To her surprise she found Amanda aiming her huge cunt and letting go a powerful jet of urine for a good forty seconds. Amanda looked at the door and found a delinquent fox staring dumbly at her.

Amanda asked: "Do you want to use the toilet?" Stephanie shook her head: "What I need is to get cleaned." The feline replied: "I am going to take a shower, so hop inside with me."

Stephanie pouted like the child she was when she saw the medicine cabinet locked. She thought darkly: "Just two dozens of sleeping pills and some whiskey should do the trick. Then all my problems shall be gone once I join my elder brother in death. Yes!"

Stephanie gasped and almost jumped to the ceiling when Amanda replied: "Steph, what are you waiting for?" The cat-centaur frowned at the fox girl' s reaction: "Come on! Hurry up, the water is getting cold!"

Amanda was startled when she saw the swollen fox-girl's face: "Steph!! What's wrong, honey?" Stephanie whispered: "Amanda, all of you know that it is impossible for me to pretent to be something that I am not. Especially yesterday, when I gave to your psychic brother a fork and he fainted, screaming as he saw in his psychic vision the foxes that I slayed years ago".

Stephanie continued: "I feel bad not because of what he said, but because of what I did in my former life and... Well, do you think that this life is worth living?"Amanda's face became ghostly pale as her mind flashed with alert lights.

Amanda was beyond horrified: "What do you mean? Child, don't think of doing something crazy! I was a professional thief and fencer of stolen goods, but I never thought of hurting myself. Am I wrong?" Stephanie lowered her head in shame.

Amanda hugged her as she talked in a soothing way: "It's true that what I've done doesn't compare with your crimes, but being repenant is the first important step for living a normal life, although your road will be a very difficult one. Trust me dear! My last hard-time cycle as a 'penitatas' will end in a year and a half, but all this will be worth it. I'm sorry, but you will have to pay a very high price for your actions, in pain, punishment and tears."

Stephanie fought tears as she began to whisper: "Oh well... fifty or so years of punishment. She's right, I have to give myself a chance, because I didn't faced all that danger only to die here. I hope I will be able to endure all the pain and... pay the price?

Money...

Amanda, please wait!"

***

Five minutes later...

Both adult foxes were almost speechless when they' ve heard Stephanie unussual request. Kate spoke: "Stephanie, do you know what you're asking? And where do you plan to get all this money?"

Stephanie smiled: "For the last time Mrs. Dickinson, I have to be responsible for all the deaths that I have caused. I know that the correction's council sentence is mandatory and I'll never be forgiven, but I'm doing this only for my own sanity. I've managed to keep contact with my former comrades, and most of them heard rumors about several bank accounts that may have billions of dollars, which I will pay to the relatives of all those who died on those travels".

"For me, there's no use in claiming that money because Black 'P's are vulnerable to any agression, so I'm giving that money to the furs who need it most. I tried to escape from that horrid planet Aspartia, only to become a cold-hearthed assassin which brought more misery to those foxes. You both know all that, and even Mr. Dickinson had seen his share of horror. Sorry sir!"

The fox girl yelped when she thought that his father grabbed her by the arm and was going to punish her, but instead she was cuddled and kissed by both foxes.

Stephanie mumbled sadly: "Time out! I don't deserve all of this!"

William answered: "On the contrary, we are very proud that you are correcting a part of the evil that you had made."

Steph answered between tears: "But I have killed so many foxes by my own paws, even if you're not counting those who died out of starvation and disease. My fur is reeking with the stench of putrid blood, even if that fortune will save the lives of some foxes and avoid the enslaving of others in orbital weapon factories across the galaxy. The dead cannot be rejuvenated. Stop kissing me!"

Katherine said mischievously: "Well, we could stop now, strip you and give your unearned spanking instead. Your step-brothers and sisters will be glad to help if we get tired."

Stephanie's eyes widened in horror: "Please, keep the kissing train."

William asked: "Do you need our help with all this problem?"

Stephanie exclaimed: "Yes, please! I need to contact the corrections council and try to get from them all the information related to my former shipmates or the passengers, so we can contact them, find and secure all that bloodmoney and give it back to the original owners."

So Kate and William spent the rest of the afternoon making holo-vid calls to every simgle fox from the corrections council passenger list. Unfortunately, most of the civilian foxes and even some criminals knew very little about the alleged money accounts. Apparently it was all a goose-chase, or a very sick joke.

Stephanie wasn't taking it very well: "Just forget it! It seems that all these rumors about that money were false."

Kate said: "But I thought you would like to save those foxes."

Stephanie replied bitterly: "I know! But we can't do anything without that money. Julius said once that bullets or the secret police are not the stuff that still decimates whole slums during the winter, it's the disease or the poluted water. I remember... that he said..." Stephanie began to sob bitterly when she remembered her demised relative. Kate craddled Steph and tried to comfort her to no avail.

William interrupted: "We have found a fox who knows something!"

Stephanie wiped her wet snout with one paw as she said: "You aren't saying that to cheer me up? Did you made contact with any of my shipmates?"

William kissed her forehead as they went to the bathroom: "The answer is no to both questions. This is a refugee who heard a rumor about the possible location of this money. But you and the rest of the cubs better get ready because this fox will arrive in three hours, so I want you in your best behavior."

William patted softly Stephanie's butt, and as natural she got the message.

She said desperately: "Don't worry! I'll count to one hundred before doing something that I would later regret, or I'll yell to mom or you if I want help." William kissed her again as her helped her get into the tub.

So the adults got dressed first and then got into the struggle of trying to groom and dress up the cubs. 'Lutin' and 'Mouse' were the last to get ready because they got their new clothes dirty with licorice ice-cream. Katerine spent twenty minutes until she found something nice for the cubs to wear.

Finally, when everyone got dressed and ready to receive the new visitors, Kate waved a paw and indicated both Aster and Amanda to get closer. She instructed to the cubs: "Both of you are the most mature cubs of the bunch, so I want both of you to keep Stephanie under surveillance."

Aster's big ears perked: "But mom, I know that Stephanie is a black 'P', but she's not that beligerant with us, unless we really upset her."

Kate replied: "It's true that she respects us more that her human step-parents, but she picked up a fight with 'Mouse'. So do as you are told and don't test my patience!"

Both youngsters yelled as they gave a military salute: "Yes sir!" Seconds later they looked at each other and started to giggle histerically. Kate smiled as she realized that the children's joke was a way to relieve tension.

*****

Meanwhile, in the town outskirts...

A tall Draconian female and a sulking, eight year-old fox chatted while they were driving towards the Dickinson house. She said in draconian: "Oh for heaven's sake, try to smile and stop giving to me that sour face."

The fox boy fushed as he said: "I'm sorry, but I can't help it. I just want to forget about that horrible illegal trip, and now some foolish survivor wants some information about a rumored 'dirty' bank account. If it was information about some lost relative I could understand, but this. I'm not sure if all that blood-money still exists."

The lizard female rolled her eyes and said: "Just try to cooperate!"

The reptilian-sitter and vulpine-child just parked their green hover-car on the unassuming suburban neighborhood and walked towards the blue house. They thought that the Dickinson's house looked like any other residence, but when a close inspection was made at the home's exterior, it gave some clues that this was no ordinary house.

The gardens and patio were covered inch by inch by a huge amount of microcameras at all the corners. There was one inside the garden fountain, and a lot more inside a dozen of false bird houses. All the doors were locked with retinal scans and blood-testing identification devices, which were cleverly concealed.

The reconstructed house had two concentric internal squares surrounding the external walls. This empty area served as an isolation zone which prevented any 'hard-timers' from escaping or any trespassers from going inside without authorization. This house was like a veritable prison from centuries past. All this to hold only a four year-old fox?

But the most intriguing feature of this house was that all the walls and ceiling were entirely covered by mirrors. Hundreds of mirrors everywhere!The fox-boy noticed that the medicine shelf and all the kitchen cabinets were locked. As an additional precaution, the knives, dinner cutlery, insecticide, and all harmful liquids were locked inside the cupboard with a magnetic lock. The fox lad chuckled for a brief moment as he wondered in the penitata's toy box and toilet seat would have such security measures anytime soon.

Just out of curiosity the fox boy hit the wall and winced in pain as the wall made a faint 'thump'. It was like hitting a mountain with bare paws. The wall didn't sound or vibrate like one made out of wood or concrete. Was the fuck was this house made of ? Naval-strenght super alloys?

***

Moments later the doorbell chimed and a tall Draconian female opened the door as Katherine and William greeted them. She brought an eight year-old fox lad with orange fur. The fox's eyes widened when he saw the winged brothers watching japanese cartoons on the holo-video. He stuttered: "What kind of foxes are you?"

Aster whispered to 'Lutin' as they giggled. 'Lutin' asked: "You won't tell?"

When the kit fox shook his head in responce the bats answered in unison: "We neither!" Both bat-cubs burst in laughter. The fox boy scowled: "That ain't funny!"

'Lutin' replied to the kit fox: "We aren't foxes at all, but a different species. Pehaps we will tell you a little about us, later. Our step-sister would like to request you some information about the Aspartian gang which held you prisoner on your way to this planet."

In that moment the kit fox's ears moved backwards as he saw a small vixen that he never before, yet he felt something familiar in her. When he finally recognized her, his anger triggered like a delayed action explosive. He muttered icilly: "It's you! YOU MURDERED MY GRANDMOTHER!" In that moment the eight year-old kit fox snatched a vase from one of the tables and threw it at Stephanie before she had time to react.

Amanda was in another room chatting with 'Mouse' when she heard Stephanie screaming. Her first reaction was to run towards the noise, but she frowned when Stephanie's scream was filled with pain and not anger. Amanda yelped when she saw that the older fox-boy was running towards Stephanie with a sharpened ceramic shard on his paw. Stephanie laid unconscious on the floor with a small line of blood on her forehead.

Amanda yelled: "STOP! What do you think you are doing?!" The fox-boy stopped on his tracks as he realized what he was going to do. He whispered: "No! I... I would have seriously hurt a four year-old kit if that feline didn't warn me? What have I done!" The fox boy dropped the ceramic shard like it was a white-hot iron.

The fox-boy started to cry as he craddled Stephanie like she was a long lost relative and started to kiss her. He muttered to Amanda: "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I just fell bad because she was part of the crew who illegally transported my grandmother and me to this planet. I thought they were responsible for her death. And... "

Amanda said: "I'm sorry, but you will have to explain what you did to the adults. Follow me!"

Then the cat-centaur addressed to her winged brother: "She's only knocked out, but I'm going to call mom and tell her to bring the medical transponder just in case. In the meantime, you know what to do."

In that moment Aster took the ceramic shard and cut his finger with it, leeting a few blood drops fall on the vixen's head. Aster's parasitic blood made contact and closed Stephanie's head wound, accelerating the celular division in the affected area.

Both Katherine and the reptile female were horrified by the lad's conduct. The lizard spoke: "I'm not in the mood to hear whatever reasons you had for hurting her. Maybe later, but not now. It was fortunate that the cat-girl stopped you before you really hurt that young vixen. So, what do you have to say in your defense?"

The fox boy lowered his head in shame: "Rage overcame me because I saw one of the foxes responsible for my grandmother's death, but I should really be upset with my grandmother and not that kit fox because we knew the risks that our elder was taking if she traveled to Earth. But grandma made up her mind, because she thought that it made no difference if we stayed on Aspartia or not. She said we were living on borrowed time, so taking that dangerous voyage made no difference."

"FUCK!", Stephanie muttered.

The lizard yelled at Stephanie when she heard the kit's foul language : "What was that all about?!"

Stephanie exclaimed: "That grandmother of yours sounds exactly like my brother. My brother Julius stole from a lot of foxes, and even got involved in a situation where he ended up dead, all for that voyage to Earth. It would have been better for Julius and I to shoot our brains off ".

The adult females stood frozen. Aster replied: "It's all true. She told me of this situation the first day she came here."

The Draconian lizard spoke: "I think that what this boy needs is a change in perspective. So for the next week this fox-boy shall be treated like a hard-time 'P'. I doubt that the correction council will allow me to punish you with no-blistering limits. Even if I'm not allowed you will not like what will happen to you the next days, but you will thank me later".

The lizard lectured: "It's for your own good, so you can think before acting. Also you're not to blame this vixen for your grandmother's decision, even though you might feel hurt by the decision that she made."

The male fox grunted in frustration as he looked at the floor, but then he looked at the reptilian female with a sad face: "Yes nanny! I'm really sorry for making you feel bad."

Katherine sighed: "Well, both of you go to the soundproof room and strip. I want both of you facing the corner when I'll come back with the switches."

Both fox kits lowered their ears as they marched towards the laundry room. Once inside, the fox-boy couldn't avoid stealing glances at the naked female near him as he tried to fight his own arousal.

Stephanie spoke: "I do not blame you for what you did, because I've done far worse against the fox who killed my brother. I bet you feel better now."

The little kit spoke: "On the contrary, I feel worse. I confess that for I brief moment I felt some satisfaction when I hit you with the vase, after what you did to grandma, starving her to death. But I had no right to hurt you or anyone else, no matter what you have done."

Steph retorted: "Now you're making me feel bad for what I said. During my youth I tried to deny the existence of those homeless foxes as they died out of starvation and disease. I thought that it would be better for them to die rather than me, but my brother and I almost became part of that group if my brother got enough stolen money to pay for a voyage in that factory-spaceship. Now I wish that my brother should have never brought that pretencious slut to that abandoned apartment. She tried to convince us that she was a 'aristocrat'. Stupid bitch! Well, at least her forgery skills helped me get out of that planet."

For a brief moment they looked to each other's eyes as they started to blush. In that second two strange kit foxes felt like they have known each other since their birth. Both kits got butterflies in their stomachs as their hearths pumped faster.

She thought:"I never realized how handsome he is. No, he's beyond handsome. He's gorgeous."

The fox lad thought: "I hate to admit it, but... she's cute."

The male fox tried to deny the attraction he felt for her and changed the subject: "I'm curious, if you had the chance to make those forged papers and escape from that hell... Why didn't you go to planet Earth with those bogus documents?"

Steph replied like an automaton, staring at the wall while her face didn't show any emotions: "It's simple! When your own survival is at risk, it's fairly logical that in such desperate situations you'll become greedy and throw your morals to the wind. Our group didn't have the skills to become workers. Most of the gang members had a price on his (or her) heads for crimes they commited before they joined the group, and knew only how to steal things and force anyone to give them what they wanted at gunpoint. We were forced to become social outcasts because we didn't have a powerful politician to protect us from the 'Green devils'."

The fox boy shuddered when Stephanie mentioned the 'Green devils'. He heard stories about how the paramilitary often exterminated whole slums and demolished the buildings. Then the soldiers would sell the properties to the highest bidder.

Stephanie continued: "So we offered the homeless foxes a way to travel to one of those orbital factories if you had no money. They would enslave you for all your life, but at least you will not starve to death. If you got a shit-load of money, we would bring you the closest we could to planet Earth. Although we were more shit scared with all that ordeal than the passengers.

Stephanie kept telling her story with a monotonous, unemotional voice: "We didn't know better because there's always the risk of an epidemic or mutiny. Well, Murphy's law went into action as two passengers got 'black blood' cholera. So my bosses ordered that none of us would interact with any of the prisoners unless there was a mutiny. It was a disastrous operation, especially since we couldn't open the corpses like chickens and disect the body organs. Perhaps that disease is what killed some members of my crew and a lot of refugees, including your grandma. I can still see my comrades' faces as they died." Stephanie had her tail between her legs as she began to cry silently.

The fox-boy cringed after realizing what her grandmother would have suffered, vomiting black blood until she hemorraged to death: "I do not know what to say. I'm sorry."

Stephanie tried to regain her composture: "I'm the one who owes more than an apology for mistreating all those foxes. I will even let you punish me for neglecting my duties towards your grandmother, but first I'll have to ask you about about a rumored bank account in possesion of the 'spider' gang. I suspect that you have some information concerning that account. My concience will never rest until some of those foxes are out of danger. That's why I asked my parents if you would come here."

The fox boy's ears lowered: "I heard some information which I need to confirm from a 'refugee recruiter', moments after he tried to rape me. That sick asshole wanted to buy my silence after he attacked me, but I threw his wallet away. Two days later some homeless foxes found his corpse in a gutter, along with the body of a twelve year-old vixen. Apparently the gang members who killed him believed that she was his girlfriend and confident. I never told anyone, but I wonder if grandma knew about my relation with him. . . Then, all that effort was made so I could escape. . ."

Stephanie kissed him in the forehead as her voice tone became sadder: "Never jump into conclusions if you're not sure about the facts! And I'm sorry to heard that."

The fox-boy held Stephanie's paw as he kissed her in the muzzle: "Thanks for saying that! And for your effort in saving those foxes." The two kits kept kissing as Stephanie smiled to him, silently begging for him to continue. Stephanie tried not to giggle as she felt the fox-boy's erection against her belly. She grabbed the fox-boy's butt and squeesed it with both paws as she tried to poke a finger in her lover's butt. They kept devouring each other with kisses.

Both cubs almost jumped to the ceiling as they heard Katherine humming the wedding march and saying: "That's so cute! I wonder if any of you are hidding a diamond ring. Got rice?" Both minors felt like they died in shame as the fox lad covered his erection with his paws and Stephanie tried to cover her nether parts. That was the most embarrasing moment in their short lives!

Katherine started to giggle as both cubs' inner part of their ears turned to a deeper shade of pink. The minors protested in chorus like non-rejuvenated children: "Were not lovers!" Katherine retorted: "Yeah, I can see it in the way you were embracing and kissing each other. Now I shall start by punishing you first little man, then Stephanie since she got a longer punishment. Both of you shall sit for an hour on the punishment stool." Katherine allowed the cubs to hold hands one last time before the cries began.

Two hours later, the nude cubs spoke in hushered tones as they prepared for their bath. The boy fox rubbed his well punished rear as he said: "I guess my reptilian nanny was right. After a week like this I swear I won't ever hit a person again in my life."

Suddenly, a husky voice was heard speaking in Draconian: "I'm very glad that you are able to recognize your mistakes." The orange-furred lad bit his lip in regret: "Thanks, but I still fell pretty bad for what I did. We had appologized to each other though."

The reptilian female said:"I'm glad for you foxie, but I will have give you forty tongue lashes. I'll do the same for the fox girl." The Draconian nanny placed Stephanie on her lap and gave her forty tongue lashes quickly. She walked a few steps before losing her balance. The drake allowed her to rest in the floor. So the Draconian nanny held the fox-lad's arms up while she gave some more punishment to the already repenant kit. She sticked out her tongue and...

SLURP! SLURP! SLURP! SLURP! SLURP! SLURP! "Yeouch! No more please! NO! Stop it!"

Steph felt a knot in her throat as she stood up and tried to hug protectively her new (boy)friend. The scaled nanny picked Stephanie up and harshly spoke to the young vixen: "What's up to you?! I've heard that you asked my boy about some dirty money. I must ask you, do you have some ulterior motive?"

Stephanie made a supreme effort to avoid yelling at the adult as she said coldly at first, then with a trembling voice: "The only motive that I have in doing what I intend to do is because I do NOT want any fox to suffer what I had. My brother was shot during a jail break and... (Sob) I had to shoot him to end his misery. (Cough, cough) So speak no further about this subject." Stephanie ran towards the hallway with a teary face. The Draconian woman shuddered as held a paw against her face: "I can't imagine the trouble that this fox-girl will bring to the Dickinson foxes! Why did they adopted her? If they try to save that rotten apple from herself those foxes will certainly end up with a broken hearth."

Stephanie was punching the wall while she angrily muttered things like: "No good, distrusting snake... She dared to question my honesty and what I had suffered..." and so on. Mouse stepped out of the way as she saw Stephanie barging into Amanda's room, ready to chew iron nails into a pulp and spit them. She said: "I do not care what he's doing, but I need to talk to Aster RIGHT NOW!"

Mouse stammered: "He's with 'Lutin' p-playing video games i-in his room." Stephanie realized that she scared 'Mouse' out of her wits and hugged her: "Don't worry, I won't hurt you. Sorry!"

Mouse smiled as she whispered: "That fox is a very slow learner, but at least she's trying to behave."

Aster was sitting behides his younger brother entralled in a shotting-strategy game and exchanging opinions like a pair of armchair soldiers.

'Lutin' exclaimed: "It doesn't matter that you won, you still took a great risk in dividing those plattoons. The only disadvantage that I had is that I can't make a psychic link with a computer chip. If not, you ass would be mine. Huh? What are you doing here, vixen?"

Stephanie spoke: "Aster, what would you do if no one believes in your honesty?"

Aster retorted: "It's simple! Prove them that they are wrong!"

Stephanie smiled at the Aster's answer and hugged the frowning bat: "Thanks for everything!"

Suddenly Amanda yelled from the hallway: "Hey Steph! Your boyfriend is leaving in fifteen minutes. You better hurry!"

Stephanie was shocked when she heard about the kit's sudden departure: "He can't leave until I give thanks to him and bid him farewell! Wait a minute... Boyfriend?! Amanda, go and lick my shitty diaper!"

The bare fox hurried and got dressed in a simple pink t-shirt and a fresh diaper before running downstairs. She zeroed on the fox lad and threw herself on him. Both kits lost their balance and fell, laughing. The fox boy placed his legs around Stephanie's waist as he hugged her back. Soon their tongues started to duel again as they desperately kissed.

Kate shook her head: "Both of you are incorregible! It seems that I'll need a crowbar to get both of you separated. You two have five minutes to talk and say good-bye to each other, if both of you can stop kissing." Both kits tried to hide their embarrasment with a nervous smile, but when they looked at each other they could barely hold their tears.

The fox boy pouted as he spoke: "So...I guess this is a farewell until the next time?"

Stephanie trembled while she tried to control her tears: "Please, don't say that! I... I... Ah, what the hell. I love you, motherfucker!"

The vulpine lad was almost speechless. He croacked: "Say what? Do I have wax in my furry ears? I almost hurt you seriously, and you said... "

Stephanie replied: "Yes, you idiot. I want that vulpine penis of yours stuck inside my cunt. I want your hearth and a litter of kits inside my womb"

The fox boy was pale as a ghost as his eyes widened. Stephanie felt his fear and concluded that he got weak legs and didn't want to make any serious compromises. She frowned as she realized that maybe she was acting too fast: "What's wrong? I thought that by the way you looked and kissed me, that you loved me."

The male kit stammered: "I thought that I did. But... you wouldn't understand."

Stephanie interrupted: "But what? If it's about your present or past life, calm yourself. You're talking to a rotten egg."- She tried to soothe her new friend with a lousy joke.

Her efforts backfired as he pushed her away, criying and sobbing: "I'm sorry Stephanie, but I can't hurt you. I care too much about you."

Stephanie cried: "I care about you too. Please don't leave me like this! You can use my hearth as a plaything. Wait!" Stephanie ran towards him as she thought: "Why is he so confused? What the hell happened in his life that's scaring him so much?"

Stephanie almost collided with 'Lutin' as she bolted to the front door. She asked: "Hey crazy bat, have you seen where did that kit fox went thru?"

The winged cub replied: "Apparently, he bolted thru the front door and ran towards the babysitter's hover-car."

Stephanie said: "Thanks 'Lutin', you're a big help. But why are you covering your ears now?"

Fractions of a second later, the cubs felt a powerful explotion that seemed to shake the very foundations of the house. It was like a small earthquake. Both Aster and Stephanie felt a horror like never before as they hoped that the explosion would have no consequences, but then they saw a charred victim trying to force it's way out as he tried to break the crystal windows. Soon the victim ceased to struggle and the flames finally claimed him.

Stephanie tried to run towards the blazing inferno screaming "Oh, no! NO! This can't be happening.", while Aster tried to desperately hold her so she could not get burned by the inferno. In the end Aster had to slap her in the face so she could regain a semblance of self-control.

Finally, she fell on her knees and cried bitterly as the brown bat surrounded her with his wings in a protective embrace. In minutes, the robotic fire squad arrived and extinguished the fire with a barrage of chemical foam. Soon after, the police and paramedics came and removed the corpse from the smoking wreckage.

'Lutin' felt that something as terribly amiss and tried to get near the corpse. But as soon as he came close to the stretcher and touched the body, a policeman scared him away. Still, the little bat confirmed his suspitions as he sighed in relief.

Stephanie was still an emotional mess, but she tried to remain calm for the babysitter's sake. She feared for the inminent truth, but she tried to remain stoic as she asked: "Well, what happened? He was killed, isn't he?" Stephanie tried to brace herself for the incoming blow.

'Lutin' said: "No. Whoever was inside that hover-car, it wasn't your vulpine friend." Stephanie's eyes widened at the news as she smiled. She covered 'Lutin's' face with kisses as the gray bat blushed. Then Stephanie frowned: "But then, who was the fox inside that wreck?"

Aster shook his head:"My kid brother doesn't know for sure. But 'Lutin' saw a vision in which that six year-old cub was assaulted and knocked unconcious by other Aspartian foxes just a few days ago."

Stephanie placed one paw over her face: "Why would anyone would want to kill that little fox? It's a cruelty beyond any logic to place him in that car, unless... That killing was just a ruse?!" Stephanie didn't know this kit, but she felt a pang of regret and sadness. She felt for the demised kit the same grief that she felt for one of her former shipmates. The winged cubs and Stephanie hugged each other as they mourned for the dead cub.

Stephanie padded towards the house: "I better go and give the news to the lizard. She'll be less sad once she knows that the victim wasn't our friend."

Aster waited until Steph went inside the house to ask his brother: "I noticed some hesitation when you told her about the dead kit. Do you know anything else about all this incident?"

'Lutin' said: "I waited until she wasn't here, but I think that Stephanie's lover was kidnapped by the same persons who killed that cub. It's obvious that the killed cub was placed in that car so the kidnapper could get more time before they could complete their objective, whatever it could be. I think Stephanie will not take it very well when she finds out that her boyfriend is nowhere to be found."

Suddenly, 'Mouse' gestured both bats to join her at her computer terminal. Both quiropters hurried as 'Mouse' told them: "Guys, you're not going to believe what appeared in the monitor."

Aster frowned when he saw the image of a grayfurred, fourteen year-old male fox in the computer monitor. He frowned: "I do not understand. Who is he?"

'Mouse' sighed: "That is supposed to be the most recent photograph of Stephanie's boyfriend."

Aster, and 'Lutin' looked again at the monitor before exclaiming profanities in rage and disbelief. Who was that fox? And did that kit was telling his true motives when he attaked Stephanie?

'Lutin' spoke: "This might sound crazy, but if my visions are correct, I might have one chance to rescue that fox alive. I hope that the holly ancestors will guide our paths and my asumptions are correct. If I'm wrong, we will be attending two funerals, one for the cub that just died, and the other... "

End of part one (to be continued)