The seething heat of the summer finally gave way to one cold, black, storm. The clouds rolled over the ocean, from beyond the horizon. The baking streets of Milcom steamed under the rain, as the buried heat met the chilly sea storm.
Brink watched the storm roll in overhead. He’d built a tiny study beneath the crags off the western side of Milcom. His wrist pulsed and turned his head.
“Got ‘em.”
The panther had been a problem. Not that Brink cared about the cubs. No, the panther made himself a problem by making himself known. Brink found it more than a little ironic the asshole went by the name Unseen, and made his M.O. more pronounced than a vampire’s. 
For perhaps two months, cubs disappeared around the port. First in the little fishing favelas, but then in the suburbs. Their remains were exactly what anyone expected. And of course, the shithead picked the water’s edge.
Of the four Undercreatures of the city, Brink was the second-youngest. He’d never gotten into much trouble with the other three. His empire was far smaller than theirs and he only really got a seat at the table because otters ruled the waves- a crucial trait for any criminal ecosystem in a port city.
Mostly, Brink ran bribes, cargo, and a little protection. He had no aims other than enrichment of his “family” and had no substantial grudges to settle. The other Undercreatures had their own quixotic fancies and ambitions and that was fine. Brink liked the water, benefits of legal disregard, and having his own slice of the world.
The panther fucked that up.
Brink rolled over and felt his way up the rocks. The storm blackened the ocean and he moved by memory and touch. Only the news of a solution to the panther could have taken him away from depths.


Lev and Bara hadn’t actually been trying to catch the sicko. The pair had been lounging at a corner restaurant, looking for some sluts to nail. Neither had much money, but Lev was convinced he could finagle something with the bitch behind the bar.
A scream from upstairs caught their attention. The bitch tried to tell them it was nothing. Bara and Lev hopped the bar and ran to the second floor. In perhaps the only bit of heroism the pair ever showed, they forced their way into the restaurant’s office without particularly considering what they might find.
They found a partially-beaten fennec boy, hiding under a desk. Atop the desk was a naked, wild-eyed panther holding a long, barbed erection and a meat tenderizer. 
The three locked eyes.
In perhaps the only heroic deed the pair ever managed, they rushed headlong at the panther. Bara caught a bite in his shoulder as he twisted the tenderizer out of the black cat’s grasp. Lev grabbed the panther’s other arm and tried to twist it behind the cat’s back.
Lev howled in pain as the feline’s nails whipped up his arm, leaving trickling red trails.
Bara hit the panther with a head-butt, which knocked the panther across the table. Before either dog could pin him, the panther kicked both in the gut. Lev doubled over and Bara only partially blocked the impact with his arm and he too curled over.
The panther leapt up and grabbed the pair by the scruffs of their necks. Throwing them into the table, he bounded for the door. 
A clunk filled the room as Lev and Bara regained their bearings.
The panther slumped face-first at the foot of the half-open door, as if he’d tripped on a shoelace. The shiny meat mallet laid next to his head. The naked fennec stood atop the table between them, his arm still extended.
“Ugh, the fuck?” Asked Lev, rubbing the back of his neck.
“You should come work with us,” said Bara, giving the boy’s round, whitish belly a slap.


The bitch behind the counter knew some sicko wanted time with the kids upstairs. She said she didn’t know it was him. Lev and Bara told her to skip town if she wanted to stay alive. They told the cub he could come to the warehouse with them, but he shook his head and after dressing himself, scampered off down an alley.
“Goddamn it, she coulda just sucked our dicks and none of this would have happened,” said Lev as they drove to the warehouse. “I can tune out a lot of sounds if I’m getting head.”
“Brink said he’d pay good money for this fucker,” said Bara. “Good money buys more than a dick sucking.”
“Yeah, well, now we gotta deal with this shithead,” said Lev.
“That’s the fun part,” said Bara.
They pulled into a loading dock and dragged the panther out. Bara had wrapped an ether-soaked rag around his nose and the cat had only managed to growl a few times during the ride. 
They pulled him into a meat locker.
Inside, the shadows of the skinned cow cadavers cast long shadows through the chilly air. The sterile industrial lighting stung the dogs’ eyes a bit as they dragged the panther to an open meat hook. Lev rifled through a cabinet until he found a bone saw.
“Hang on,” Bara caught his arm. “Let’s have some fun with him.”
“Fun?” Asked Lev.


When Unseen Panther opened his eyes, his arms were pinched over his head and the two dogs from before were staring up at him. 
“Hello kitty,” said Bara.
“Rgh,” the panther kicked a few times as he realized his paws were tied. “Who the fuck are you?”
“Just a couple of assholes,” said Lev. “But you’re the sicko.”
“Agh, just fuck off and let me down,” said the panther.
“Hah, so you can go snuff another cub?” Asked Bara.
“I have some cash at my place, a couple thousand.”
“So do I,” said Lev. “I was looking to spend some of that having some good dirty fun.”
“Fuck you,” said the panther.
“I don’t think this is going anywhere,” said Bara. “Let’s just let you down.”
Unseen howled in pain as the blades snapped through his wrists. The pair had hung him in a de-hoofing chassis and the thick steel easily severed his bones and muscles. He hit the ground on his knees. His wrists smoked from the thousand-degree cauterizing which sealed the wounds.
“Hehe, figured you wouldn’t like that,” said Lev. He kicked Unseen onto his back and dropped a foot onto his chest. 
Unseen’s dark red eyes glared up at him as Bara walked over to them with a muzzle. Unseen kicked at Lev as Bara knelt over him. The panther snapped the elder dog, then gasped for air as Lev put all of his weight onto the panther’s soft belly.
“Shut you up good,” said Bara, cinching the nylon straps around the cat’s muzzle.
The two grabbed him by his shoulders and threw him across a butchering table. Bara’s bony fingers dug into Unseen’s neck as he pinned the panther down. Lev snapped a pair of shackles onto the cat’s ankles and nodded to his partner.
“I’m not a faggot like you,” said Lev. “But, it’s only gay if someone finds out, right?”
“A hole’s a hole,” said Lev with a chuckle.
Bara stroked his penis a bit. The pair had been getting a bit hard just roughing the sicko up. Unseen growled at them. Lev grabbed the stumps of the panther’s wrists and pulled him taut across the table.
“Lift your tail, kitty,” said Bara from behind him.
The three stood in silence, then Bara twisted his mouth.
“Fine, I’ll do everything.”
Unseen Panther nearly broke out of Lev’s grasp as a pair of tendon shears snapped closed around the base of his tail. Blood dripped between his legs and his long, black tail landed next to him.
The end of Bara’s knot teased his ass a bit. The pit bull had a predictably plump knot, which he proudly sandwiched between the cat’s toned cheeks. Unseen struggled against the shackles, but could barely move.
Lev licked his lips as the cat hissed through the muzzle.
Bara was only slow while he opened the cat’s ass up. Once his knot bottomed out, he pulled back and smacked into Unseen Panther as if he were stabbing his feline victim.
“Hah, kitty doesn’t like being a bottom?” Asked Bara as he fucked the injured panther. He slapped Unseen’s ass, making his muscled cheeks ripple just a bit. “That’s how I know you need this.” Bara shoved Unseen’s face into the table as he pounded. “I wonder what you did with all of those cubs,” he smiled. “I bet you wished you could be a bottom then.”
The blood from Unseen’s tail stump dripped down and Bara eagerly watched it spread across his knot as he rutted Unseen. The bloody smack-smack filled the room and within a few minutes, Unseen stopped struggling.
“Oh, I thought you’d have more fight in you, kitty.” Said Bara, pulling his knot out and inspecting the panther’s stretched ass. “I was hoping to get more struggle.”
Lev loosened the muzzle and smiled down at him.
“Fuck you two,” said Unseen hoarsely.
“How’d you like a gut hook up your asshole?” Asked Bara. The rusty hook landed next to Unseen Panther’s head. “We’ll leave you upside down for the weekend,” he scratched the side of the cat’s cheek with the dull tip of the hook. “If you’re lucky, you’ll be dead when we get back.”
Bara caught his breath and masturbated for a few seconds.
“I can be nice, kitty.” He said in a softer voice. “Now that the fight’s gone out of you, I want you to do something for me, something easy.” He pushed in a few inches. “Ah, perfect.” He pet Unseen Panther between his thick black ears. “Tell me you’re a bitch, that you need my knot in your ass.” He humped the cat, slowly, teasingly. Their balls pressed together and Bara scratched the underside of his chin. “Call me daddy.”
He fucked Unseen for a few minutes like this. Unseen gave up growling and his clenched balls finally hung down in exhaustion, after being held up for so long. Sweat had started to form on Bara’s forehead when Lev released the cat’s wrists.
“I, I need your knot,” said Unseen quietly.
“Mmh, be more specific,” said Bara, slapping his ass.
“In my asshole.”
“Why do you need it there, kitty?”
Unseen was quiet and Bara put his paw on the gut hook.
“Because I’m a bitch.”
Bara could scarcely hold his phone steady as he pulled out. He’d been saving his cum for a week to dump in some bitch in heat, but this was so much better. 
The camera focused on the bloody mix of dog semen pouring from the immobilized cat’s anus. Bara spread Unseen’s cheeks a bit more and ordered the cat to push it all out.
“Group chat’s gonna love that,” Bara said between breaths.
“Aw, you stretched him out like a motherfucker,” said Lev.
“Sorry kid, I got first dibs.” Said Bara with a wink. “Tell the kitty to suck your dick, bet I got him mindbroke enough.”


Brink left wet footsteps which cooled into frosty puddles as he crossed the meat locker. The pair didn’t notice him until he was directly behind Bara. Brink grabbed the panther by the ears and yanked his head back.
Blood gushed over the table and poured onto the ground as the otter dragged a razor across the panther’s black throat. After being brutalized, Unseen barely reacted and merely gurgled at times as his life faded. 
His muzzle bumped the table as his head rolled to the side.
“Fuck!” Said Bara. “Ah! Sorry sir!”
Brink tossed the razor onto Unseen’s back.
“I don’t care,” said Brink, brushing some icicles from his whiskers. “But I don’t want him alive.” He looked at Lev. “You two are patrolling the harbor next shift; I want to make sure he didn’t have a friend.”
“Understood, of course sir,” said Lev. “I’m sorry, we-”
“He’s dead, that’s all I care about,” said Brink. He paused. “I’m sure Bara can show you some other ways to have fun.” He glanced at Bara. “No remains.” He hesitated and knelt next to the dead panther. “That’ll look nice somewhere.”
Unseen dripped blood from another wound as Brink left with his genitals.
Bara got to work skinning the body while Lev stood at the head of the table and cut more of the panther’s throat away. Unseen’s head dangled by a few strands of muscle and fur as Lev’s knot poked his windpipe. The panther’s throat bulged as the second dog popped his knot inside.
The corpse twitched a little as Lev’s balls smacked its exposed spine and rubbed against the dead nerve endings. Bara pulled the cat’s black pelt off and hung it on a drying rack. 
A few minutes later, both ends of the panther dripped bloody cum. Lev cummed into Unseen’s diaphragm and as he tugged his knot out, he ripped open what was left of Unseen’s voice box.
“Huh, damn, more fun than I thought,” said Lev as he pushed the last few lines of cum down Unseen’s neck.
“Yeah, I wouldn’t have gone for it, but big cats are kinda girly anyway.” Said Bara. “Thank fuck Brink didn’t care.”
“Let’s get rid of him before something else happens,” said Lev.
The two fed Unseen feet first into a grinder. The panther’s lifeless body jerked and flopped a bit as it sank into the clanking wheels of the machine. Rich red ground meat piled atop plastic trays slid out of the opposite end of the machine.
What was left of Unseen was priced at ninety-nine cents per pound and stacked in the bargain bin by the door of the freezer.
The cat’s eyes stared up at the end of the vacuum tube as Lev set the head into a brace. The taxidermist had an open order for any and all rare eyeballs; and he’d set up a little workstation to assist butchers who might find themselves in possession of a good set of eyes.
Once Unseen’s eyes were removed and sealed in a vial, all that was left was the head.
Unseen’s head landed in the urinal with a clonk. A pair of yellow streams hissed onto the head’s nose and into its open mouth. 
“Taste good?” Asked Bara, pissing across the panther’s tongue. By the time they finished, Unseen’s black fur was soaked in urine.
The head became a mainstay of the urinals of the meat plant. Within a few months, nearly a hundred dogs had peed on it. The fur peeled off and all that remained was a yellow-stained skull with a dried, leathery tongue poking out.
Brink solidified his place with the other Undercreatures after he announced he’d removed the sicko. Outwardly, little changed. When asked about the details, he declined to brag and merely said his guards had taken care of the problem. Even when the other Undercreatures pressed him for at least a photo of the body, Brink said he’d handled the problem and if more issues arose, he’d handle them as well.
But that was the end of it. Unseen had no partners, or even copycats. The cubs of the city slept just a tiny bit safer from that day onward.
Brink developed a taste for felines after catching Unseen. At the foot of his bed hung the panther’s barbed dick, along with his black scrotum and lifeless balls and Brink bred every feline cub he could get his paws on atop Unseen’s pelt.
Within a month, it was as if the cat had never existed.