| Back while Demifox Fred and Demifox Astra (nicknames that they had
agreed to ....and increasingly seemed to fit them) were still prisoners
of the demifox folk they had (between chess games) been doing various things.
Yes, they both knew that perhaps Malachi....er....their Malachi
had lied and this was just some last draconian trick to have them act as
two delivery people to bring the Crystallic to one of her allies. That
there really wasn't a way back to humanity for them. But they hadfought
to dispel such thoughts from his mind and from his heart. They still believed
that their humanity could be reclaimed. And they would never give up while
they still had hope. And so, between chess games, they had spent his time
observing everything around them, investigating the cell - all its nooks
and crannies, and above all else engaging in an accelerated regimen of
their
fighting arts. So they practiced, stretched their strange bodies to its
limit, learned its strengths and weaknesses. Fred found tail, an extra
appendage he doubted he would ever get used to, still kept him slightly
off balance, but for the most part he was now more than prepared to deal
with three or even four unprepared demifox guards. Astra, however, was....both
distressed and pleased that . . . she seemed to have an easier time with
her body than Fred (pleased that she was having a bit less trouble with
the tail....but why was it.....seeming more and more natural)?
Then, after being picked up by those strange....silver eyed men.....the
teleportation here had....been jarring on them, but something at the time
seemed to have changed more than just a simple displacement in location
could explain. The sudden acceleration was a big clue. However, Demifox
Fred had been.....amazed how....strange the more normal seeming human Fred
who'd aided in Demifox Astra's deliveries had seemed. He seemed too.....large!
That and the other human Astra. Demifox Fred.....kept expecting to see
a tail and fox ears on her....and their absence seemed......a disfigurement?
Demifox Astra had at first, upon finally delivering her final cub (the
last of the three male kits, bringing the total to six kits total)....was
going to tell the others to keep those.....monsters well away from her.
Dump them somewhere....but had looked at them.....and her heart melted!
They looked....adorable! And....they were her's and Fred's! And
then she'd looked up and over to Fred....and felt her heart go out and
join his.
Maybe I was always in love with him, she thought her herself
as she reached out and touched Fred's furry hand, My heart fluttered
when I laid eyes on him back in the caverns the first time....
He'd sure shown interest when he looked at her naked body for the first
time....... Though he'd been a perfect gentleman......
"We have much to adjust to," Demifox Fred finally sighs, shifting back
to his more human form, patting the head of one of the more adventurous
kits, "But two questions come to mind. First, just why did you choose
to remain a human fox when a chance to return to humanity presented itself?
And second......."
"Just how am I going to feed them all?" Demifox Astra asks, pointing
at her two breasts.
"Hurmph," Fred the Manfox coughs, "Try your full fox form."
"Wha....," the demifoxes blink, then blink again as they remember that
fox females have six teats......
"That...would work," Demifox Astra nods.
She goes over to a corner and changes, with some trepidation, fearing
it would seem.... unnatural and unpleasant. But as her kits feed, a foxy
smile plasters itself on her muzzle. It's actually is rather....satisfying.
Demifox Fred just stares, but then turns back when Fred the Manfox coughs
to get his attention.
Fred the Manfox pulls out his own PDA and shows a map of his world....which
had red spots all over it.
Thanking God that he and the other Manimals had learned from the dragons
how to cause their clothing (and items carried one their person) to fade
in and out upon changing forms (else the only manimal present who'd be
able to speak would be Astra 3...who...unlike other Manimals....could speak
any spoken language instead of the yips and animal noises that manimals
naturally made), the fox manimal explained.
"For the longest time I'd been able to hold out the hope that I'd be
able to return to human," he explained, "I had, unconsciously, accepted
being a humanoid fox. If I hadn't I'd have gone insane. That's how Matrixs
work, understand. It's accept or insanity. But still I wished to be able
to serve my Allaria and that meant as a human being, it seemed.
But the cursed Lizards destroyed my Allaria......"
"And your last reason to return," Demifox Fred says flatly, a sinking
sensation in his stomach.
"At least your actions allowed you too keep you most important and precious
item intact that all D'Honaires have," Fred the Manfox says softly, "Your
honor. You didn't compromise your honor by trying to betray your Synizn.
And if we do get back to Terra Prime....I'm sure you'd find welcome
amongst the others of my family....."
The looks of surprise and nodding by the demifoxes made it clear that
wasn't an angle they'd thought of at all in all of this.
That's about the time when a grim faced Rule 1 and Agent 1 appear with
a bit of news...... and a bit more....
See, the Higher Ups just Ordered them to make the offer of Championship
to the newest inhabitants within the Red Pyramid. This will be the last
time such will be allowed in this manner. After this, the future
and previous offspring of the Champions will...upon their 18th birthday,
be given the choice of living out their lives as mortals.....or forevermore
becoming Champions themselves.
That was how things were going to changes....
-
 Yep, things
had changed and now the Rule speaks.....
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