Chapter 3: Change
_Unsheathe your claws, Broaden your stride, Go forth, to war, Protect the Pride. Spring forth, striped one, Crawl close, those black. Under your paws, Skulls of foes shall crack. ...
Chapter 2: A Warm Welcome Home
_Silently crawl through the night. Protect your pride, duty and right. ~Teaching phrase of the Cats_ "Please tell the assembled your version of the events, Major." Tank nodded and stepped up to the podium, recounting what had occurred,...
Chapter 1: Awaken, The Brotherhood
_ _ Tank sighed as he trudged along the dusty path. Another day with nothing but iguanas in the traps. There'd been signs of something larger out there, but the footprints didn't hint at prey. Almost a foot across with four...
Chapter 4: Wasteland Wanderings
_ The Den_ As usual, he awoke abruptly, feeling wide awake even as his eyes only began to open. He yawned and stretched his arms, pulling...
Worlds Apart - Chapter Twenty One
Before the sun was even over the horizon, Dan's eyes snapped open like they hadn't since he'd fallen asleep in the middle of his freshman exams. What the... He sat up straight in bed. Disoriented, he looked around him for something familiar but saw...
Worlds Apart - Chapter Twenty
The stream of people emerging from the shuttles slowed to a trickle as friends and family reconnected on the planet's surface. They clustered in small groups, waiting for someone - anyone - to tell them what to do next. Dan's attention was drawn...
Worlds Apart - Chapter Nine
Chapter Nine "I can get it." Bo's left hand held one end of his cumberbund behind his back while his other hand fished around for the buckle. His oversized body spun around in a tight circle, ignoring the fact that as far as his right shoulder...
Worlds Apart - Chapter Eight
Chapter Eight A few minutes after leaving Dan, Victus found his mate swapping stories with the black battle varius in one of the ship's pubs. The two men were swapping military stories with fervor, and Victus didn't have the heart to break them...
Exposure - Chapter Eleven
"So what is a homecoming queen?" Sophia asked, regarding the ballot with the air one normally reserves for junk mail. "Does it carry true power, or is it just another childish popularity contest?" "Kinda," Tony admitted, "but if you see someone who...
Winter Help – Chapter Six
That night for the first time, Bubba came to sleep in my bed with no better reason than because we both wanted it that way. It just felt like the right thing to do, like we were boys again, sleeping in the same bed because there was nowhere else for us...
Exposure - Chapter Ten
Chapter Ten. They walked to the gym side by side, Jason in his letter jacket and Dox in Jason's extra shirt. It happened to be one of Dox's favorites, an outrageously garish tropical shirt with palm trees and hula dancers on it. It didn't look as good...
Exposure - Chapter Five
Dox was looking in Jason's general direction, but his mind was wrapped up in hs daydream. It was a good one, involving Jason, a blanket, a picnic lunch, and a warm spring day. Dox sighed contentedly and let his jaw rest on his paw, his lunch...