{"sf1_id":562007,"sf2_id":"Rm0EqdLn","title":"March of the Tin Soldiers","author":"Kodyax","words":6631,"posted_at":"2013-07-11T09:52:00.000Z","tags":["Bear","Bull","Cheetah","Dog","Fantasy","Goat","M/F","Rabbit"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/562007-march-of-the-tin-soldiers","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/Rm0EqdLn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/e9/0d/e90d532a-23f4-4976-9414-35e614b6acce","description":"Something new I'm experimenting with. This is partly inspired by the Dolph Lundgren Masters of the Universe movie. And this is only part one. Golgotha's species is something I trip and fell on randomly but it's an idea that's been rattling around in my head for awhile now. So stay tuned, there is more of this series.","content":"March of the Tin Soldiers\n\nA white stone skull castle resting on black sand with a moat  \nof lava that connects with rivers of lava that geysers at random intervals  \nstands as the palace of a ten foot tall komodo dragon, a megalania really in  \nhumanoid form, black scaled with beads white as bone forming what looks like a  \nskeleton who looks out one of the eye sockets as suits of full plate armor like  \nknights going off to war made of tin and encrusted with runes with glowing eyes  \ncoming out of its helmet. Golgotha sits on a throne of bone in a manner most  \nbored as he has seen this display a thousand times before and truth be told  \nthere is nothing new or interesting about them since he built them so long ago.  \nHe rises from his throne and walks further into the Star Skull Citadel to a  \nchamber that reeks of spilled blood and shattered souls.\n\nIn his mind Golgotha is the great Draco Rex or Dragon King  \ndestined to rule all but always there has been one to thwart his schemes, a  \nmale never far from his mind that he longs to destroy. Fourteen fair maidens  \nhang naked from the ceiling, impaled on iron hooks rusty from all the blood  \nthey have been immersed in over the centuries that Golgotha has employed them  \nto suspend female flesh over his scrying chamber to prepare them for  \ndisembowelment at the hands of the room's master. With ritualistic precision  \nseven elves and seven dwarves are torn open so that their heart's blood drains  \ninto the sickening pool below.\n\nRising like a specter from the sanguine ichor is the ghostly  \nholographic image of Konrad the Conqueror, the savage unicorn paladin that has  \nplagued Golgotha's scheme since a time before even the false dragon himself can  \nremember. Then the stallion is cut down by a wicked dragon blade that Golgotha  \nhas never seen before.\u0026nbsp; The black bladed  \nkatana with a dragon hilt that projects an aura of pure evil alights its eyes  \nand speaks to the dread necromancer.\n\n\"Find me, Draco Rex, bind me to thy unholy service and I  \nshall bring you the power you desire and more. Bathe my tail in the purity of  \nhated foe's heart's blood and quench my thirst for death and desolation and I  \nshall serve you faithfully for eternity. I will help you take all of  \nTheorhetika as your rightful property. Dragon of darkness I beckon thee, claim  \nme for thy own!\"\n\n\"Interesting,\" Golgotha muses as the vision fades and he is  \nleft alone with his dying victims. \"I need to find this sword. Any chance I can  \ngarner to rid myself with this self-righteous thorn of a unicorn needs to be  \nexplored.\" He takes out a chalice made from the skull of a dwarf, dips it in  \nthe blood and takes a deep draught. \"Yes, I need to do some research and find  \nthis weapon of wickedness.\"\n\n\"Ah, the Devil Dragon Sword!\" A voice calls from behind  \nGolgotha and when he turns around to look at who would dare intrude he finds an  \nimpossible long serpentine body, white scaled with a black underbelly, the head  \nis that of a dragon featuring curling black horns and solid red eyes. A red  \nfrill traverses its back the entire length of its body as it displays a hood to  \nGolgotha the inside of which is the color of night. \"Long has it been lost to  \nthose who would bring eternal darkness to our world. Would you dare to seek my  \nliege?\"\n\n\"Aye, Linnorma,\" Golgotha says with confidence to his  \nconsort with a dark and sinister smile. \"If it will rid me of that accursed  \nKonrad...\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"That will be the very least it can do, my lord.\" Linnorma  \npromises in a sinisterly sibilant voice. \"The idiot savant sultan of chaos  \ncreated it a long time ago in one of his more lucid moments as a toy long  \nforgotten by now. Since then it has passed through many hands. Mostly villains  \nlike yourself but a few foolish heroes have tried to wield it thinking they  \ncould redeem it.\" Golgotha gives a queer glance at this but she continues.  \n\"Only to have it seal their doom and steal their souls.\"\n\n\"Where was it last seen?\" Golgotha asks with a sinister  \nsmile.\n\n\"A powerful servant of the puppet proxy Dagon wielded it on  \na world of little significance,\" Linnorma replies. \"It was lost when he fell,  \ndropping into a volcano where the hero who slain him hoped it would be undone  \nit would swallow it for all eternity.\"  \n  \n  \n  \n\"Somehow, I doubt such a fell tool could be destroyed that easily.\" Golgotha  \nspeculates. \"What world was this? And by what manner might I visit this  \nbackwater planet and by some happenstance claim such a prize as the Devil  \nDragon Sword?\"\n\n\"It's ignorant inhabitants call it Earth, my liege,\"  \nLinnorma informs her master. \"I know of very few ways of getting there. It's  \ncoordinates have been lost officially. Or at least the galaxy gate codex of its  \nlocation is a well guarded secret. But there are other ways.\"\n\n\"Dream manipulation perhaps?\" Golgotha asks facetiously to  \nwhich Linnorma nods. \"Do we even know if there is still a functioning gateway  \ngenerator in existence there?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;  \n  \n\"The Olympics, Nordics, Heliopolans and Judaeo all established themselves  \nthere.\" Linnorma relates. \"I know their gates still exist in some form.\"\n\n\"Find me a fool,\" Golgotha orders, \"One we can manipulate  \ninto dialing a gate we control so I may visit this Earth and find the artifact  \nI seek.\"\n\n\"I hear and obey, my master,\" Linnorma says with great  \nreverence and a secret sinister smile on her muzzle as she watches Golgotha  \nstomp out of the chamber. \"Now did he leave me anyone I can eat?\"\n\nMeanwhile, back on Earth, an entourage of six furs, a  \nrabbit, a bull, a goat, a tora inu, a cheetah and a grizzly bear, are in a neon  \ndrenched nightclub in Devillage,\u0026nbsp; on the  \nSouth Jersey coastline. The club is called Disco Inferno and is situated on the  \nboardwalk on a pier stretching out to sea and built so that at its lowest point  \nthere is a pit encased in reinforced glass that allows folks to view the ocean  \nfloor. Culture Club blares from the speakers with the song \"Storm Keeper\"  \ncurrently playing. Various furs are dancing all around the club as sharks and  \nother fish swim by the glass in the pit.\n\nJohn Henry Smith, sometimes call Spartacus by his fans in  \nthe underground fighting circuit is a tower of power at a commanding six foot  \nten inches with deep black fur covering the bull from head to foot and piercing  \nbrown eyes that scan the scene almost constantly. Tonight he is dressed as if he just stepped  \noff the set of Miami Vice with pastel blue pants, a neon pink shirt and a  \npastel purple jacket. A white belt girds his waist with white slippers over his  \nhooves.\n\nJanine Hussein is hanging on John's arm, the cheetah girl  \nhas dyed her hair pink tonight to contrast her blue eyes but otherwise looks  \nlike most any other queen cheetah. She is wearing a pastel purple leotard with  \npastel pink sleeves, neon pink leg warmers, neon purple dancing shoes and a  \nneon purple headband. The leotard is very tight on her, so tight that if you  \nlook close enough, her nips and camel toe can be seen through the fabric.\n\nIvan Tesla is seated at the same table as John and Janine,  \nthe goat has a glass of vodka in his hand and toasting John on his latest  \nsuccessful bout. Red is the order of the day in Ivan's attire which contrasts  \nhis white fur, gray eyes, black hair and goatee sharply with shoes, socks,  \npants, belt, shirt and jacket straight out of Hawaii 5-0 with a checkered black  \nand white tie completing the ensemble. He fiddles with a smart phone in ways  \nthat amuses everyone on his side of the table including John.\n\nLorelei Jones is seated on Ivan's other side, the pink bunny  \nwith blonde hair and blue eyes a little pouty at not being the center of  \nattention. At eight inches over four feet tall she is the shortest one at the  \ntable as Ivan is five-ten but she is resplendent and looks the most glamorous  \nin a golden zebra dress that shimmers in the flashing lights of the club,  \npatent gold dancing shoes and earrings to match. She is giggling to cover her  \nfeelings as she watches Ivan make a fool of himself.\n\nSakura Yamaha is probably the most conservative in the group  \nwith a black and white sailor suit with bell bottom trousers, white rings at  \nthe cuffs and collar with a red shirt and a red kerchief somewhat clashing with  \nher tiger dog fur.\u0026nbsp; She idly plays with  \nher pink hair as her black eyes scan the club for trouble worriedly. The  \nfoolishness around her annoys her as she stretches her five foot-seven inch  \nframe against the grizzly standing behind her lovingly.\n\nMichael O'Connor nuzzles Sakura and kiss her forehead as he  \nallows her to muss up his moss green hair, which looks kinda weird as his fur  \nis russet brown. He is only an inch shorter than John but he looks bulkier due  \nhis frame as is probably the loudest dresser of the six with purple pants and  \nshirt to match, green shoes, belt and tie with an orange and black tiger  \npatterned jacket. Mossy Green eyes gather visual data for his brain to process  \nas he divides his attention between the three girls.\n\nThe bear and the bitch kiss passionately which causes the  \nbunny and the cheetah to glower at their dates expectantly. Ivan is too busy  \nwith his phone to notice Lori and John is just smirking as he looks around  \nexpectantly for something else. Michael escorts Sakura out of her chair and the  \ncrimson Chinese dragons on her upper arms, thighs and back almost seem to wink  \nmockingly at the other girls as the bear is the only one willing to give his  \ndate a good time on the dance floor.\n\n\"John!\" Janine whines. \"Come on! Let's get out on the  \nfloor!\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;  \n  \n\"We'll get on the floor when I feel like it, woman!\" John thunders back. \"Where  \nis that damn waiter? I need a beer!\"\n\n\"Wasn't there one at the table earlier?\" Ivan jokes in a  \nRussian accent, \"oh, wait, Mike is a bear.\"\n\n\"I have half a mind to just get up and join Mike and Saki,\"  \nLorelei grouses as she gives Ivan a slap and then looks at Janine. \"I just got  \na wicked idea, genie, wanna hear?\"\n\n\"I'm all ears,\" Janine replies once she has sit besides  \nLorelei; occupying the seat Sakura vacated.\n\n\"You think we can shame John and Ivan into being less a  \ncouple of wallflowers if we started dancing sexy around Mike?\" Lorelei asks in  \na whisper.\n\n\"I doubt it, but I think I'd like to give it a shot.\" Janine  \nreplies.\n\nThe song changes to \"Rhythm of the Night\" by El Debarge as  \nLori and Jeanie slink away from the table to join the bear and the bitch on the  \ndance floor. Lorelei is a little more aggressive in her dancing than Janine who  \nlooks over her shoulder expecting John at least to come join them but he never  \ndoes. Sakura looks askance at the pair as she has her legs wrapped around  \nMichael's waist as part of the dance routine they are performing.\n\nLorelei already has a \"friends with benefits\" relationship  \nwith Michael which annoys Sakura somewhat but Lorelei is very bi and there have  \ntimes when Sakura has found Lorelei naked in Michael's bedroom waiting for him  \non numerous occasions and the silver tongued rabbit has charmed the clothes off  \nof the sensitive tora inu with her near constant heat inducing strange desires  \nin the dog girl. Sakura keeps telling herself she's straight, no matter how  \nmany times she and Lore have played together. The fact that every time they  \nhave, Mike caught them, watching at first but at Lori's urging he always joins  \nthem, much to Saki's delight and relief.\n\nIvan is an inventor and though Lorelei loves him dearly, he  \nis often too caught up in his work to pay much attention to her. Lorelei  \ndoesn't know much about what kinds of prototypes Ivan makes as he does all he  \ncan to avoid talking about it. But whatever Ivan does it's quite lucrative as  \nLorelei now takes to the stage when she wants to instead of as a means of  \ngenerating income, although the fact that when she does put on a show she  \nalways draws a crowd turns her on and that means that it will always be  \nprofitable.\n\nAt the table, John gets a call from his promoter, Don Kink,  \na sleazy rat that secretly tapes every time John gets it on with anyone and  \nsells the footage on the side. By trade John is a boxer, Mike is his bodyguard,  \nJanine is his maid and Sakura is his spiritual advisor. John invests in Ivan's  \ncrackpot ideas that somehow always manage to pan out in one way or another.\n\nDon is calling about a secret tournament with a $10 million  \npurse with fights taking place all over the metropolis. What Don fails to mention  \nis that each fight is against a monster that the company bankrolling the  \ntourney has created and the money is really just an incentive to get a bunch of  \nfools to commit themselves to competing. Nobody in the know expects the  \nfighters to actually survive and since John has been something of a problem  \nchild for Don lately he thought this would be a perfect way to get rid of him.\n\nThe fact that this is going to be a pay per view special  \nentices John, who loves to be in the spotlight, so he accepts and even consents  \nto have Mike included as well without consulting the bear on his opinion on the  \nmatter. Even if he has to face Mike in the finals and claim his prize, John is  \nconfident that when push comes to shove, he can take the bear. In fact he  \ncatches Janine dancing with Michael and decides that a beat down is in order to  \nteach his subordinate just where his place is.\n\nJanine will never admit it but she kind of has a crush on  \nMike, and has fantasies of being alone and naked with him in the shower among  \nother places. Lorelei has told Janine how attentive Michael is as a lover, a  \nsharp contrast to John who expects Janine to pleasure him every time they are  \ntogether. What Janine is unaware of, and in some ways John isn't really aware  \nof it himself, is that John has no real feelings for her other than empty  \npleasure of ownership.\n\nAfter Lorelei almost pants Michael, Janine goes back to  \ntheir table and finds John and Ivan discreetly making out. While she makes no  \nnoise to disturb Ivan and John she does back away to grab Lorelei for a meeting  \nin the lady's room. Janine is on the verge of freaking out insensibly as she  \nrelates what she saw to Lorelei.\n\n\"How long ago did you see this?\" Lorelei asks angrily.\n\n\"Not five minutes ago,\" Janine states as they hear the familiar  \ngiggle of Sakura.\n\n\"I think the coast is clear,\" Sakura says to someone as  \nJanine starts to discreetly look out.\n\n\"Don't even bother,\" Lorelei harshly whispers to Janine with  \na smirk on her muzzle, \"I know who the Jap slut is bringing in.\"\n\n\"Who?\" Janine asks in a bewildered whisper.\n\n\"You can't guess?\" Lori asks lowly in Jeanie's ear and when  \nthe cheetah doesn't change her look of utter confusion Lori sighs and shakes  \nher head before revealing: \"Mike, you dumb pussy! It's a classic move, do I need  \nto tell you why?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;  \n  \n\"I can guess that!\" Janine whispers back harshly with a look of annoyance on  \nher face. \n\n\"Can't you wait to go home?!\" Lori roars which causes Saki  \nto shriek but nothing else is heard except the sound of footsteps going out.  \nJanine gives her a look. \"Oh, hush, after what you just saw did you really  \nwanna hear them go at it?\"  \n  \n  \n  \n\"At least with them I know I'd be hearing proper fucking.\" Janine counters.\n\n\"You've never done it with another girl?\" Lorelei asks.\n\n\"Don't even suggest it, Lori!\" Janine thunders. \"It's not  \nhow things should be. A woman gets pleasure by pleasing a man!\" Lorelei gives  \nJanine a bored, annoyed look. \"What?\"\n\n\"Are you still in high school?\" Lorelei growls. \"Or did your  \nfather beat you as a child?\"\n\n\"That's none of your business.\" Janine counters.\n\n\"Janine,\" Lorelei starts but a murderous look from Janine  \nstops her.\n\nBack on Theorhetika, Linnorma gets wind of this exchange,  \nsince Lorelei dabbles in a few things to make her act seem more authentic and  \nat times more edgy. Linnorma coils herself and uses the blood pool to monitor  \nthe situation. With her senses sent a million miles away through space and time  \nLinnorma watches and hears all Lorelei says and does.\n\nAll six of them share a house on the beach in Devillage that  \nfeatures a stage for Lorelei to practice on and a ritual space for Sakura to  \npractice her abilities. Although the two share similar interests they almost  \nnever are in the same area at the same time. When the six get home in three  \nvehicles, Ivan drives a Honda Element, John drives a Hummer and Mike rides a  \nHarley, Janine needs to use the walk-in shower as Sakura goes to meditate in  \nthe shrine she has set up dedicated to the kami of Japan.\n\nOn the ride home, neither Janine nor Lorelei would talk to  \ntheir boyfriends, due to the mode of transportation it was too noisy for Mike  \nand Saki to converse. John decides to go a few rounds with the heavy bag in the  \ngym while Ivan surfs the net. As Lorelei joins Sakura in the shrine, Michael  \ngoes out to the beach and starts to go through katas that Sakura showed him.\n\nAs Mike goes through the motions of fighting imaginary  \nmonsters on the beach something washes up on the beach. At first Mike doesn't  \ngive it much mind as horseshoe crabs are common enough around here during the  \nsummer. It's only when it gets closer and he realizes the crab is about the  \nsize of a car that he starts to notice it.\n\nIt flings darts at him from its tail that Mike instinctively  \ndodges. When it starts to charge him, Michael wonders internally what is this  \nand goes through some of the legends he has heard over the years. Eye stalks  \nemerge from its shell to look at him hungrily and Mike says to himself: \"Fuck  \nfolklore, this fucker is something out of science fiction!\"\n\nMike is not too far off in his assumption as the mutant crab  \nis actually a bio-horror constructed by Vicious Organisms Invented Daily  \nincorporated. VOID labs is the main sponsor of the tournament John entered  \nhimself and Michael into and this is one of their preliminary bouts. Of course  \nMike knows none of this but he still bares his claws and rushes into battle.\n\nThe giant grab spins and hits Mike with its tail which  \ninjects a poison into him as it partially rears up to reveal nasty claws and a  \nboring mouth drill. Mike roars in anger at the thing which makes it more than a  \nlittle hesitant at getting any closer to him. Unfortunately for the monster,  \nMike himself is under no such compulsion.\n\nBleeding, and slightly battered but unbowed Mike surges  \nforward to attack using his natural weapons. After one slash, however, the  \ncreature brings a claw down on top of him, effectively braining him. While in a  \ndaze the monster hits him again with its tail and knocks him down.\n\nA remote camera is capturing all this on film for posterity  \nand the betting pool has already begun with more than a few wagers being placed  \nthat Michael O'Connor will become the first victim of the rampaging monsters.  \nUnfortunately for the gamblers, that last hit knocked something into place in  \nMike's head, and there are places in Mike's head nobody wants to see activated  \nif they want to live. There is a reason bears are respected as being hard to  \nkill and Mike is one bear than can be a crazy son of a bitch when his back's to  \nthe wall.\n\n\"That tears it!\" Michael growls at full volume, \"No more  \nteddy bear, you thought the claws were out before, now you get to see how good  \nI really use them!\"\n\nThe bio-horror has no comprehension as to what Mike just  \nhead but the folks at VOID Lads are looking at each other and giving themselves  \nthe \"WTF?\" look as they and those subscribers that paid for the pay per view  \nlive feed can hear Michael clearly on their TVs and monitors. Back in his  \noffice Don Kink has almost shit himself as he knows all too well what happens  \nwhen Mike gets THAT look in his eye and says the phrase he just uttered: it's  \npsycho time. Discreetly, Don places a bet with a bookie that Mike not only  \nsurvives but utterly murders the mutant freak trying to kill him.\n\n\"Jack!\" Ivan yells in sheer terror as he runs into the gym.  \n\"We got problems, man, there's a mutant horseshoe crab on the beach and it's  \nattacking Mike!\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"When did this happen?\" John asks with a twinge of concern  \nin his voice.\n\n\"Just now,\" Ivan reports nervously. \"And Mike is fucking  \ntaking a beating!\"\n\n\"Are you recording this?\" John asks calmly.\n\n\"Probably, why?\" Ivan counter inquires.\n\n\"Make sure it's available to post on our U-View account,\"  \nJohn orders. \"Because you know how Mike gets when he gets battered.\"  \n  \n  \n  \n\"Oh, God!\" Ivan says with a hand over his muzzle. \"Mike's about to go psycho!\"\n\n\"Yup, but break out those special rifles you've been working  \non,\" John requests. \"I think we may need them.\"\n\nIvan goes to his workshop to prepare his prototype energy  \nweapon, what he jokingly refers to as his atomic disintegrator, as John turns  \non the television and switches the channel to live feed from the house security  \ncameras. On the screen Michael is slashing the monster with gusto, as if this  \nwere some weird mash-up of a cheesy sci-fi flick on the dangers of nuclear  \nradiation and a slasher genre horror movie. John just shakes his head and calls  \na bookie to put a bet on this fight: Michael O'Connor to kick ass.\n\nOut on the beach Michael is acting like his namesake, the  \narchangel of war, and raking the monster with his claws. One of the claws has  \nalready been ripped off and the thing is actually starting to retreat.  \nUnfortunately for it, Mike is rather pissed off so letting it retreat, while  \nprobably the smart thing to do, isn't exactly in his mind as long term thinking  \nfor him right this second is unavailable.\n\nAs impossible as this might seem, Mike actually manages to  \nwrestle the monster to the ground, effectively on its back as he gets his  \nberserker thing going on. When the heart  \nof the monster is unceremoniously ripped out and the thing goes limp; then Mike  \nstarts to calm down. He spends a moment just kneeling there, breathing in and  \nout until he can see straight again and the realization of what just happened  \ndawns on him.\n\n\"Holy shit!\" Mike yells as he leaps off of the thing. \"Damn!  \nI just killed another one! Where the fuck did this one come from? I gotta talk  \nto Ivan.\" Then he walks back into the house and yells: \"Yo, Ivan! Where are ye,  \nbro!\"\n\n\"In my workshop, as usual, Mike,\" Ivan says over the  \nintercom, having seen Mike in the security cameras and is now starting to  \nbelieve the crazy stories Jack has been telling him about Mike.\n\n\"Well, get whatever examining doo-hickey you got in there  \nand get out on the beach,\" Mike orders, \"I just massacred some monster and I'd  \nlike to know what it is.\"\n\n\"I saw you on the cameras, Mike,\" Ivan radios back. \"I don't  \nwanna go anywhere near that thing!\"\n\n\"I thought you were a goat,\" Mike goads, \"You sound more  \nlike a sheep now. It's dead, Ivan, you can go out and look at it.\"\n\n\"I got plenty of footage while you were taking it apart,  \nthank you very much,\" Ivan calls back. \"Besides the cops are en route to pick  \nthe thing up. Feds more than likely.\"\n\n\"This is going on U-View isn't it?\" Mike asks facetiously  \nbut doesn't wait for an answer. \"I'm going to take a shower.\"\n\nMike walks into the showers and starts to lather up his fur  \nwith Janine still there soaking her fur under one of the other shower heads.  \nThe bear doesn't see the cheetah in here but she sees him. Lorelei is pestering  \nSakura, this much Jeanie knows as John is busy in the gym and Ivan is in his  \nworkshop so miss kitty is damn sure she has the teddy bear all to herself.\n\nJanine gets behind Michael, as sneakily as she can manage  \nbut with him as distracted as he is with thoughts of what he just went through,  \nshe could have sashayed up to him in full view and he still wouldn't have a  \nclue as she touches him; helping him wash his groin. Mike reaches back to see  \nwho is groping him and catches a glimpse of golden brown fur, a kind of  \ncontrast to his own russet brown and shakes his head ruefully. John will try to  \nkill him if he finds out that Mike fucked Jean but right now, some pussy is  \npretty much what he realizes he needs right now.\n\nWet kitty hand paws squeeze ursine scrotum until his prick  \ncomes out to play as the paws of the bear grope cheetah tittys. Unbeknownst to  \neither of them, Ivan has cameras in the showers that only he and Jack know  \nabout, mostly so John can do masturbation videos and they can edit them  \nlater.\u0026nbsp; So while the cameras are rolling  \nMike shoves his schlong into her pussy and kneads her boobs much to Janine's  \ndelight.\n\nIn the shrine Lorelei is meditating as Sakura lights incense  \nand does a little bit of housekeeping as part of her devotion to the kami she  \nprays to as part of her faith. While in her meditative trance, Lori draws the  \nattention of Linnorma on Rhetorika who zeroes in on her spirit. Phantom images  \nof her frustrations surround her astral body as she tries to sort out and deal  \nwith her feelings.\n\nLinnorma stalks Lorelei with great interest both as someone  \nto manipulate to open up the portal that will allow her Lord and Master to go  \nto Earth and claim the devil dragon sword but also as a potential snack. Lorelei  \nis dealing with her own head and doesn't notice the draconic serpent beginning  \nto encircle her in astral space. Back in the real world it looks like Lori is  \nbeginning to nod off but in reality her astral self has just noticed Linnorma  \nand has to deal with her so returning her body in the real world is just not a  \npriority.\n\nSakura senses something off in the chamber and it is  \ncentered on Lorelei which sort of skeeves her out. As she approaches the rabbit  \nthe dark feeling gets stronger and she realizes something is interacting with  \nLorelei and this makes the bitch even more concerned for her friend because as  \nmuch as she feels awkward when they play she does not wish anything bad on the  \nother. Sakura is not exactly a priestess but she is steeped enough in the  \nknowledge of the occult to perform an exorcism.\n\nJohn visits Ivan in the computer room and notices the  \ncommotion in the shower room. His eyes glower at the screen as he sees Janine  \nget the kind of sexual attention he had never thought to give her even when he  \ndid fuck her. In essence Mike is giving Jeanie a better experience than Jack  \ncould ever give her due to his lack of practice and frankly he usually is only  \ngoing through the motions when he gets the urge to do Jean.\n\n\"What the fuck is this?\" John asks Ivan indicating the  \ncamera in the showers.\n\n\"You never did Jan like that?\" Ivan asks in counter inquiry.\n\n\"Bitches are just cum rags,\" John says with disdain. \"I get  \nthe urge to do her but then I come to my senses as soon as I shove my cock in  \nher pussy. Even her tail hole ain't that tight.\"\n\n\"Not as tight as mine?\" Ivan asks sarcastically.\n\n\"No,\" John says angrily. \"I am going to kill him for this.\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;  \n  \n\"And how do you plan on confronting him?\" Ivan challenges and John gives him a  \nlook. \"Who knows about all the cameras?\"  \n  \n  \n  \n\"Shit, I don't want anyone knowing about those cameras except you and me!\" John  \nshouts in anger and dismay. \n\nIvan looks at him condescendingly which causes him to back  \noff and go to bed alone as the goat keeps surfing the web until he turns in. A  \nhalf hour later Janine and Lorelei join their mates and get totally ignored in  \nthe case of Jean and has her boobs groped in the case of Lori. Michael joins  \nSakura in the shrine a minute after Lori leaves and finds Saki on edge.\n\nSakura hugs her boyfriend as soon as he enters the room and  \ndemands he hold her. Mike just complies and nuzzles her lovingly. They retire  \nto their room after they stand there for five minutes just holding one another.\n\n\"What happened?\" Mike asks in a concerned tone.\n\n\"Lori tranced before you came in,\" Saki states. \"Something  \ndark was interacting with her astrally\"\n\n\"Anything we need to be concerned about?\" Mike inquires now  \nvery concerned about what is going on.\n\n\"Probably,\" Sakura replies opens the door to their room and  \nthey enter. \"How was your day post club?\"\n\n\"I fought something weird on the beach,\" Michael replies and  \nSakura gives him an inquiring look as they undress. \"A car sized horseshoe crab  \ncame out of the surf and picked a fight.\"\n\n\"Well the fact we are getting undressed right now,\" Sakura  \nstarts to say and sees a big bruise on Michael's stomach. \"That looks nasty.\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;  \n  \n\"I got hit there,\" Mike admits. \"Hurts like hell.\"\n\n\"Can we still play?\" Saki asks.\n\n\"Yeah, it's healing but not hurting now.\" Michael replies as  \nSakura licks his scrotum. \"Are you especially horny tonight?\"\n\n\"Maybe,\" Sakura answers with a giggle as she tries to get  \nhim excited. \"How badly did it hurt you?\"\n\n\"I got half beaten to death,\" Michael reports as he fingers  \nSakura's crotch. \"I think it had some sort of paralytic poison in its tail.\"\n\n\"It had something,\" Sakura says as she looks over where he  \ngot pierced while groping his crotch. \"I wonder if it was recorded? I know Ivan  \nhas a crazy security program for the house.\"\n\n\"I'm sure it was,\" Michael states. \"Ivan has a U-View  \nchannel. He already confirmed that the fight is going up eventually.\"\n\nSakura laughs and collapses on the bed they share and  \nspreads her legs as she smiles at him. Michael smirks and rubs the tip of his  \ncock on the lips of her labia as Sakura looks at him and shakes her head. Mike  \nthen lowers his muzzle to lick and suckle her breasts as he takes her.\n\nLinnorma is actually afraid of Sakura and Michael as she can see how they could  \ntag team and really destroy Golgotha's plans. She sees the escalating  \nlovelessness of Lorelei's relationship and downloads the information that the  \nbunny will need to activate the gate which just so happens to be in their town  \nas a part of a traveling exhibit. In fact she also puts in a post hypnotic  \nsuggestion for to visit the location and activate it so that when she awakes  \nthe next morning she goes through her email looking for an offer of employment  \nshe knows she received of performing at the science museum that the gate is in  \nrelated to archaeology.\n\nThe Nikolai Tesla museum of pseudo-science is very proud of  \nits exhibits that display items of questionable scientific value and the  \nacquisition of a recently unearthed gate and want to celebrate it in style.  \nLorelei Jones performing a science fiction themed show is a priority and  \ninitially Lori thought the offer was ludicrous at best and potentially damaging  \nto her reputation at worst. But after spending a night alone with Ivan beside  \nher and having a really weird she gets into the mood and mindset to give it a  \nshot.\n\nAs part of agreeing to do the act, Lorelei gets to see the  \nnew exhibit before it officially goes on display. Ivan, Sakura and Michael tag  \nalong for fun but John and Janine are meeting with Don Kink over the new  \ncontract and so they can tape a segment with Janine of having her escape from  \nan extreme situation for extra money from the networks. Unfortunately for them  \nDon Kink also has plans for them to get embroiled in the situation he's  \ninvolved in, betting that neither one will survive the onslaught of the monster  \nhe has set up for them to face. John is all set for a cage match against his  \nopponent when Don Kink springs his trap.\n\nJanine finds herself trapped in a maze with a quartet of  \nmonsters that resemble huge lumps of flesh colored red, orange, blue and green.  \nThe arena is set up like the Pac-Man game with dots of light on the floor that turn  \noff when she runs over them. Electrified walls spring up randomly to try and  \nkill the cheetah if she touches them but fortunately for her the same thing  \nhappens to the monsters if they touch it which gives her a plan of survival.\n\nAn octopus mantis creature steps into the ring to face John  \nand try to eviscerate him with its claws as John tries to box his way of out  \ntrouble. John takes one look at the thing he is going to fight and yells a  \ncurse to Don Kink as it's obvious that he's been set up. Don Kink just laughs  \nover the intercom and brags about he's going to profit from his death and asks  \nhim to be more entertaining than Mike was when he won his bout.\n\nDon Kink is in his office watching both Janine and John  \nsimultaneously and is disappointed by what he sees. Janine has figured out she  \ncan slide under a forming electricity wall to kill a monster ghost thing coming  \nafter her. Every monster Janine sends after ends up getting killed the same way  \nas Janine is quite nimble and while she acts the silly dumb floozy at times she  \nis still smart enough to trick the monsters into slamming into the death walls  \nmeant for her and disengage them once they drop into foul smelling pools of  \nslime and eventually Don just runs out of monsters to throw at her.\n\nJohn on the other hand has a harder time surviving his  \nencounter as he does his best to avoid the thing trapped in an electrified cage  \nwith him. Truth be told, John is scared shitless but he does his best not to  \nshow it as the thing gets closer and closer to him. But as much as the thing  \nfreaks him out there is no two was about how this is going to end: one of them  \nhas to die.\n\nThe monster is covered in a green exoskeleton in the general  \nshape of an octopus but having the compound eyes of a mantis and while the arms  \nof the thing look like an octopus on top they feature the serration of mantis  \nclaws on the underside. It wraps arms around John's legs and pulls him down to  \nthe canvas floor and launches himself at the creature's head.\n\nOnce he lands on top of the thing, John starts to punch it  \nas hard and often as he can. At first his fist bounce of its armor but with  \nrepeated blows he manages to beat his way into the brain case no matter how  \nnasty he gets cut. The fact that losing means dying gives a real incentive to  \nkeep at it and do his best not to lose.\n\nAt the museum Lorelei manages to charm her way to being able  \nto actually touch the machine which allows her to activate it. The machine  \nitself is a ring that suspends itself in a pyramidal frame without a visible  \nmeans for allowing it to levitate like it does with a podium of crystals set  \nbefore her. Manipulating the crystals attunes the gate to Rhetorika causes the  \npyramid to fill with amber energy and once finished an army of enchanted armors  \nmade of tin march out armed with halberds that shoot bolts of energy from the  \nspear point.\n\nLinnorma flies out and Golgotha himself marches with his own  \narmy and declares the museum as his domain. Furs run in panic as security  \nguards draw their pistols and start shooting. Bullets just bounce off the armor  \nof the tin soldiers and they in turn get cut down.\n\nMichael and Sakura look at each other and decide to retreat  \nas there are a hundred of them and two of them. Ivan is staring at them like  \ndeer in the headlights of a semi bearing down on it which prompts Mike to punch  \nhim in the stomach to get him to double over and thus be easier to be carried  \nout. Lorelei shrieks and starts running as she just freaks out.\n\nThe four friends beat out of the general area as fast as  \npossible and go home to find Janine trying to give first aid to John who is cut  \nup like nothing else. John glares at Mike as Sakura helps Janine and Lorelei  \nturns on the news. Unsurprisingly the big topic is the takeover at the museum  \nby terrorists.\n\n\"What did you do?\" John asks with great annoyance of nobody  \nin particular.\n\n\"I...I don't know,\" Lorelei says. \"I felt compelled to touch  \nthe crystals in a particular way and it just turned on.\"\n\n\"Was this related to that trance you had last night?\" Sakura  \nasks to which Lorelei just nods. \"I think you were contacted by something from  \nanother world or dimension.\"\n\n\"So, what now?\" Ivan asks.\n\n\"For one thing,\" Mike says grimly, \"We need to take down  \nthose things. Whoever this Golgotha character is, I doubt he will be satisfied  \nwith just the museum.\"\n\n\"And you're gonna stop 'em?\" John asks jokingly. \"These ain't  \nthe monsters you keep telling us you've taken out, Mike.\"\n\n\"John!\" Janine yells as she whaps John upside the head. \"Based  \non what we faced today if Mike has even a small clue on how to beat those  \nthings, he might be our only hope!\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"I think I can hack into the museum's security,\" Ivan says  \nas he types on his laptop. \"I'm in! Checking security cameras now...whoa! Who's  \nthat guy?\" He patches the scene into the TV's video feed showing a unicorn in a  \nbondage harness and a large metal shield as well as a big sword.\n\n\"My name is Konrad,\" the unicorn says as he walks in from  \nthe outside. \"And I need your help.\"\n\n  \n  \n\n"}