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The Freedom of Slavery

By: astartevenus



Nancy Everett woke up from a deep sleep, wondering if she was having one of those messed-up dreams she often gets last night. Then she wakes up a little more and takes a good look around. Nope, definitely not her apartment. She looks down to see what she was sleeping in, and it is definitely not her comfy flannel pajamas. She never sleeps nude, and would never wear a collar and her scars were gone, so she decided that she must not have been dreaming, and that fate had one hell of a sick sense of humor. She must as well, as she finds the irony of her situation to be the only thing funny about it.

She is a clinical psychologist, who often helps victims of domestic and sexual crimes as she trained as an advocate when she learned of the high level of such crimes in her area. The irony, she was helping a victim of rape and human trafficking as a pro-bono at the local women's crisis service. She had a deep passion for helping others, and as she had been a victim of domestic violence and sexual assault herself, wished to give back to her community by helping others who had suffered similarly. 

"Irony slaps me in the face big time. I had just been telling my last client that slavers would never take her again, when later that evening, they get me instead. Only, I don't think we are on Earth. Great way to introduce other life forms, up close and way too personal for my taste."

She thinks for a few moments, trying her best to process everything while she is still alone and before she is set on the auction block. All the other beings around her are so diverse, some are in tanks of what looks like water, some are more like a hybrid of humans and the big cats from Earth. Most look humanoid, but there are a few that looked like jelly with sense organs, or other things she can't fathom. Her collar looks like solid metal, but as she scratches at it, she realizes that it was padded with fur or a fabric she had never felt before. She was in a cage surrounded by mostly the cat hybrids, and doesn't see any other Earthlings.

"Earthlings, this is the first and last time I will probably ever use that word. I wish there was someone I could talk to about what is expected of me. I hate not knowing what to do."

All she could do was look around and wait. She didn't have to wait long before she was being taken out of her cage and put in restraints. She only struggled long enough to make sure that her feet and legs had stopped tingling, then she got up and followed the slaver to her fate.

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She was waiting in a long line of slaves to be put in the auction. She saw a few humans now, coming off the stage, and they were fighting as if they were going to their deaths

"And in a way they are," she thought idly. "They are being man-handled quite viciously. I wonder if these slavers have a sense of honor. Maybe I can bargain information for my cooperation. Fighting isn't getting them anywhere, and from the stories I remember from sessions, it won't do any good. I have to try. They seem to have a wide variety of species, maybe they will understand me if I ask." 

While she waited in line to be put up, she took her chance to ask a question.

"I only want to ask one question then I will not struggle till I am bought."

The being, a massive reptilian hybrid that looked like he would bench 400 lbs, looked at her like it understood, and nodded at her.

"One question for 2 hours of peace is a small price to pay, ask your question."

"What type of slave am I being auctioned as?"

"A sex slave, that is all you are capable of being because of your gender and because you are human. Be warned though, you have as good a chance of being bought by a master that beats you as one that only wants you for your body."

"Thank you for the warning; it may be the last bit of kindness I ever see, so you have my gratitude."

"You're welcome, now be quiet and keep your promise and don't make me regret this." 

. She realized right then, that she had to say good bye to parts of her personality that would be deemed disrespectful. If she wanted to live, and avoid getting beatings she earned, she had to remember how Max had trained her to behave. That would help her survive longer. She hoped that her new master/s were not the bastard/s that Max was though, because she knew she could never live through that again.

When it was her turn to be put up on the auction block, she said one last good bye to freedom, and stepped into the world of slavery.

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She was then put up in a vacuum tube, for lack of a better term, that kept her floating in mid-air and spun her around the large stage so that everyone in the large building could get a good look. Her restraints were linked to four brackets that kept her well spread and allowed the manipulation of her arms and legs into various posses. And the auction did take 2 hours at least, and she was thankful that she had humanoid prospective buyers. All the while she thought of the various questions she would ask when she was sold and found out which of the various species bought her. She soon had her answer, and was more than a little relieved that it was a small pride of those cat hybrids. From the looks of it, her owners were a tiger, a leopard, a panther, a jaguar, a cheetah and a lion hybrid. This was to prove interesting.

"Masters, I wish to thank you for buying me and wish to know what my duties are."

Of course they didn't understand her, but her kneeling in submission seemed to get the message through. They asked the assistant to translate, from what she could tell. They all looked at her with various expressions of amazement, distrust, satisfaction, and curiosity. 

"They will tell you what you need to do once all the necessities have been handled. You will be tattooed with their mark, you will have a translation device put in, and you will be prepared for them to use you any way they please. I will answer three questions for your cooperation in these."

"I will do so if you will also inform my masters of a few things. I never got a chance to inform you of some health conditions I have."

"I agree to tell your masters what you think they need to know and answer three questions. The only reason I am doing so is because I heard of the deal you made with Malic, and that you honored it. Your cooperation will make things easier, so talking to you seems to be a fair trade."

"Let's get started then."

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As she was getting her owners marks on her upper arms ad across her back, which were the various cats' paws of her masters and what looked like a form of hieroglyphs, Arabic, Cyrillic, and Norse runes combined to make a writing system; she told the assistant about her contacts and about her birth control device called an IUD. The assistant was glad that she told her, but said that those had been found in the physical exam, and had been taken care of. She was also aware of the human female reproductive cycle, and would inform her masters of what was needed to take care of it. She then said to tell her masters if they were lacking any additional information. 

"Now the last thing I need to tell you about is something that is not as easy to find or fix.

On Earth, people are capable of having more than physical problems. They have mental problems that can make them not able to function. I have three of these types of problems, and if things are not handled right, they can be made worse."

"We know of these types of problems, so thank you for alerting us of them, which ones do you have?"

"Post-traumatic stress disorder, panic attacks, and major depression. I was in an abusive relationship, and was tortured in that relationship for almost 10 years. I was sexually assaulted and it was my breaking point a few years ago, the last day I was in that relationship and I ended up having a fear of males and sex. I can handle being around males for the most part, except if they are being aggressive toward me or sexually aroused around me. I don't want to get myself in trouble for having a panic attack like I was throughout the auction."

"Definitely a good thing you told us, but Malic suspected that you were having problems. He said you were too calm, and that you reeked of fear and panic when he answered your question. I can't guarantee your masters will listen to me when I tell them of this, but take it as a good sign if they ask you about it."

"Thank you, now my first question is what is the proper behavior for addressing my masters?"

"You are never to look them in the eye unless they tell you, you are to address them as Master, and you are to bow to them and show the back of your neck. This can be done when standing, sitting or kneeling, but you must always show them your neck. We are going to put in the translator, you can get used to your new language by asking me the other two afterward."

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When she woke up for the second time that day, she was a little woozy, but felt better as she came to the realization that Nancy Everett had died, and she had yet to be renamed, but she knew from her experience as a battered woman and from her resulting rape, that once she had a new identity, things would get much easier for her to handle.

The assistant walked into the room and lead her to a room that was a combination of a public bath and a spa. She also spied some things that freaked her out a little, though when the assistant told her she was going to be prepared, she figured that these would be part of it. Anal plugs, cleaning supplies, and what looked like hair-removal lasers. 

"Ask your second and third questions while we prepare you. Make sure to tell us if you feel any tearing as we apply the plugs. You shouldn't, but you looked to have had trauma occur in that area, so we are going to be extra careful."

"Thank you, I did when I was assaulted. My next question is: what do you know of the culture and attitudes towards slaves of my masters?" 

"I see that you are smart as well as adaptive. They did choose wisely. The planet they are from is called Felicanid, one half of the planet has one species, and the other has another. If I was to guess, I would say that your masters are of the guardian class that protects the den-site from warriors of the other species or warriors from other den-sites. If they are a guardian pride, one of them is a healer, and he will be the one who will take care of your needs. The harzan, or strong one of the group, will be the one who delivers punishments and is the one the others look to for making the final call on everything, though none of them are a true leader except their tsarzan, or planetary strong one. Be warned, your masters have two abilities that you always need to remember, predatory senses and telepathy. They will teach you to how to handle the later, but do your best to conquer your fears quickly. They will want from you only two major things, from what I can tell in what others of their kind have looked for and what they said they wanted in their purchase, submission and intelligence. They like to have a slave that knows its place, but is able to talk to them. Their culture prefers to keep slaves as healthy and happy as possible as a sign of status, so only if you are being punished will you be harmed."

At this point, all of her hair that she normally shaved, as well as all of her pubic hair, had been permanently removed, she had been washed, given a full body scrub, had her anal passage thoroughly cleansed, had her skin oiled, and they were getting ready to start putting in the anal plug.

"My last question is am I able to carry their young?"

"Breathe in through your nose, out through your mouth, and bear down while we insert the plug. I don't know for certain if you could carry their young, I have heard rumors that they have the technology to make it so that you can eventually, but you can't right now. I have also heard that they have been having fewer and fewer female young survive, and so are buying slaves to make them able to carry young and help boost female numbers that way. But I would wait a very long time to ask your masters about it because their species as a whole seems to be sensitive about the topic."

"Thank you for answering my questions, I had hoped that by cooperating that this whole process would be easier on everyone. How much longer till I go home with my masters?"

"They are coming to get you now, and it will take 3 day cycles to reach your new home from here." 

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Just then her new masters arrived with a gold and copper colored collar and matching anklets and bracelets that looked like they had little bells on them, but were actually gemstones that looked like rubies, emeralds, sapphires, opals, topaz, and garnets, that hung down slightly. Only the collar had a single copper bell that reminded her strongly of a cat's collar with a bell. 

"Only now I'm the cat and they are the humans who care for me," she thought to herself. 

She immediately bowed her head and upper body, showing the back of her neck. The lion put the collar on, the jaguar put on the bracelets and the tiger put on the anklets. The cheetah and leopard stood back and watch her reactions throughout this process. Once the jewelry had been placed, the lion, jaguar, and tiger all joined the cheetah and leopard. The panther came up to holding what looked like a leash that matched the collar. 

"Alza, you are being a good ama, so you can walk yourself to the ship, but you rebel in any way, we will leash you. I am Lezar, and I am your harzan, or main master. You will obey my orders first, and I will be the one to decide your punishment. On the trip back to our home, we will give you some lenience as we teach you the rules. Once home, even if you do not know the rule you broke, you will be punished to enforce your obedience. That is part of our culture, so I am sorry now for any damage that occurs because of this. Take these three days to learn as much as you can about us, your new home, and the rules. Do you understand?"

"Yes Master."

"You will call me Master Lezar, and you will look up at us now while I introduce you to the rest of my brothers." 

"Yes Master Lezar."

"Your carzan, or main care-taker, Gobin."

The cheetah stepped forward, and she bowed her head.

"Your darzan, or main watcher, Helius."

The leopard stepped forward.

"Your ezan, or second care-taker, Ilan."

The tiger stepped forward.

"Your farzan, or second watcher, Jahar."

The jaguar stepped forward.

"Your garzan, or second master, Kalba."

The lion stepped forward.

"Now, you know who is which rank, who do you go to if you have a need?"

"My carzan, Master Gobin, Master Lezar."

"And if he is busy?"

"My ezan, Master Ilan, Master Lezar."

"If both of them are busy, you ask Kalba, then me. In that order. Your watchers are only to watch out for and eliminate danger, so only when you are in extreme peril, do you ask them. Care-takers are the ones who take care of the needs of the group. The watchers are the combination of scouts and assassins on your home planet, and they take night watch when needed, and they protect the group from surprise attacks. The masters are warriors, but they must be capable of the duties of a care-taker or watcher. Kalba is the warrior arm, and is better at being a caretaker, while also being unable to defeat me in hand-to-hand combat and stealth. We all won our ranks through combat and natural skill. Remember that." 

"Yes Master Lezar."

"Then walk with your head up straight, looking straight in front of you at all times. If you need to look down, do not lower your head. That bell must not ring when you walk in public, so you will get plenty of practice on the journey home. Follow us now."

"Yes Master Lezar."

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The walk was almost perfect, Alza's bell ringing only when she was about to trip and looked down in reflex. Her masters were impressed, and continued giving her lessons and building upon her knowledge. 

"I will teach you about behavior in public and about the public. I have heard that your alphabet is the same as ours, it just looks different, and so I will answer your question before you ask it. Yes, the letters in names and titles are a sign of rank, with A being used for slaves, and B for servants and criminals. C is used for the lowest titles and rank, but not for names. You will follow orders according to which letter has the highest rank, if you are ever given multiple orders, and you never obey anyone with a lower title than ours. If you do not know the title of someone giving you orders, you look at one of us and we will nudge you if they are to be obeyed. So, if I tell you to stand and look me in the eye, and Kalba tells you to sit down and look at the floor, which would you do?"

"I would stand and look you in the eye till you told me to follow Master Kalba's order, Master Lezar."

"Very good Alza. The highest letter used by a living being is T, and it is the name, title, and rank letter of our royalty. We are a combination of a merchant class and a warrior class on your home world, which has titles L-P. We are currently a Malzan pride. We have the possibility of getting a Palzan title, but the ranks I gave you for each of us is the rank within our familial pride, so they will not change. So, if you know that someone has a Nalzan title, and they give you an order, what do you do?"

"I obey, Master Lezar."

"The only time you do not obey is if it is in conflict with an order from one of us. If so, you look at one of us and we will nudge you."

"Yes Master Lezar."

They had walked on board the ship, which Kalba was flying, and had left the auction house and the planet it was on behind. It was then that Gobin took over the role of tutor.

"I am to teach you about your duties to us, our duties to you, and to make sure we understand how to care for your needs. Halma told us that you wanted to make sure we understood a few things that could impact your well-being, but were wounds that would that time and patience to heal. We do not fully understand what she was telling us. Please tell us about what she called your 'mental wounds'."

"I was in a relationship with a man, on Earth we often have relationships before we permanently bind ourselves to one person for life, and he would come home and beat me if everything was not perfect when he arrived. He continued this, and would beat me so much I bled if I didn't have sex with him. He also did other horrible things, most of which I had forced myself to forget. This includes what happened the night I left him, all I can remember is that he had had a bad day at work, and was more upset then usual at any mistakes I made. To make it up to him, he wanted to have sex with me. I for some reason said no, but I don't remember why, and he proceeded to beat me and rape me for hours. The last thing I remember is blood, lots of blood, and a whole body pain as well as feeling raw and bruised from his use of all my holes. When he passed out drunk, I cleaned-up as best I could, called the nearest shelter, and left him for good. All this caused me to have nightmares, I tried to kill myself repeatedly, I could not be in the same room as a male, and I curl up into a ball, shake uncontrollably, and become unresponsive if a male is aggressive toward me or is sexually aroused."

Her masters all stared at her with shock, anger, pity, and compassion. Gobin walked up to her and cradled her in his arms as he saw that she was shaking, crying, and had an air of not being here, but trapped within a darkness he couldn't fathom. The others, except Kalba who was flying, gathered around their brother and new slave in a cocoon of comfort. They knew Gobin would need their strength to bolster him when he was flooded with her emotions. She clung to him like he was the anchor to her soul. He whispered her name, and got no response, he shook her lightly, and she pulled her head back to look him in the face, not meeting his eye. He put his paw under her chin, careful not to scratch her with his nails so he could look into her eyes. As a healer and an empath, he knew that when he looked into her eyes he would see the pain and terror that still haunted the depths of her soul. He was glad his brothers were surrounding him, because from the moment their eyes met, he was drawn into the dark swirls of her memory-provoked emotions and nearly drowned from their intensity.


The Freedom of Slavery Ch. 02



Alright, this is the next part, as requested, and it is formatted properly, as chapter one was a pilot to see if my story got any interest. I am still writing, but I do have another chapter ready. Enjoy!

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Alza was lost in the memories of a beaten and tortured Nancy Everett. The beatings, the name-calling, the belittling, the terror of making Max unhappy, and the sex she had been forced to give so that she could eat. The replayed the rape, or what she later joking called the grand finale, and her time at the shelter. She remembered the creation of each of her many scars, cutting to give herself the sense of life that only pain can give, then the deeper cuts, those with a purpose of ending all pain. Then, there was a sound, a sound that she always found comforting and made her wonder where the cat was. Then she left the dark despair of those memories to be confronted with the reality that there was someone holding her and stroking her back, and that the sound was coming from them. She started, looking around and caught the eyes of five of her masters. She quickly remembered she wasn't supposed to look them in the eye and lower her gaze.

"Alza, look at us, when we are in private you may look us in the eye." Gobin whispered, knowing she was on high alert and would startle easily.

"How do we treat these sorts of wounds? On our planet, such things do not happen, because such damage to any female who does not deserve it is punishable by death to her attacker. It is also rare that anyone tries to kill themselves for any reason."

In a hollow, dead, and far away tone she replied:

"My advice on how to handle these 'mental wounds' is to get me used to your presence while you are naked and work me through my panic by being a calm, non-threatening group that is touching me in soothing gestures. If I am handled too harshly, and I seem to be giving up, hide all weapons and keep me by the pride-member who I have a strongest bond to. If I panic in public, I apologize now if I shame you in doing so, it would be best to get me out of the situation as fast as possible till I am calm, and then give me the gentlest treatment possible. Masters, this is what I was trained to take care of on my home world. This is my advice, which you can ignore at your discretion, but from what little I know about the culture I am now in, these are the most effective treatments I can think of."

She was still shaking and crying softly, but her master's purrs seemed to help, though from the way she was cowering and clinging desperately to Gobin, her masters could see that she thought she was going to be beaten for giving them the advice.

"Look at me Alza, see what you mean to us, do not be afraid, little one." Gobin coaxed.

Alza looked at Gobin, and felt like he was giving her all the love a being is capable of giving in that look. She felt safe, like a child is comforted by their parents after a nightmare.

"Master Gobin, what is going on, why do I feel you pushing a comfort package on me? Are you empathic, will you teach me how to handle my emotions?"

"What are you talking about? Yes I am empathic, and you being one explains a lot."

"A comfort package is what I called the love, compassion, safety, calm and comfort combination of emotions I have been trying to learn to give my clients, Master Gobin."

"I will teach you what I can, so you are a healer of mental wounds?"

"Yes, Master Gobin."

"Amas on our world often have a second use besides pleasuring their masters, and I could use a second opinion about a few of the people I treat. We have people, like Helius, who can affect the minds of others for good or bad. That is one very good reason not to look a stranger in the eye in public. If you think you can handle it, Helius and I will work with your emotions and memories to ease their passage into extinction. And make sure that an enemy will never be able to use them on you as a distraction to us in battle."

"You can do that Masters?" she said while looking at Gobin and Helius.

"Yes we can." Helius said in her mind.

"I wonder if he can hear me send a message...."

"Yes, and the correct end to that message is..."

"Sorry Master Helius, I didn't know..."

"It is alright, just remember to think it next time, we will not always read your thoughts, and I will teach you to recognize each of us as we communicate with you mentally. I will also teach you how to block others from your mind, though if you do it to any of us outside of practice you will be punished."

"Yes Master Helius."

Just then Lezar got up from the controls and said: "I have put the ship on auto-pilot, and we should get some food and sleep for tomorrow will be a busy day full of teaching."

So they all headed off to the kitchen, after showing Alza where the bathroom was and the main room where they would be sleeping. They all helped prepare what turned out to be food similar to what she was used to eating back on Earth. Meat that looked like steak, which was fully cooked for her but they ate them raw, and a small platter of fruit and a small salad. They also gave her a vitamin blend that they mixed in a blender with something that looked like milk.

"We were told that you can't eat raw meat, and to be healthy that you need these things called fruits and vegetables. We also need to make sure that you drink this vitamin shake once to twice a day. Is there anything else you need to stay healthy?" Gobin asked.

"Do you have fish; fish has some protein and vitamins that red meat does not that I should eat once or twice a week, Masters."

"When we get back you can help Ilan catch fish, as he is the only one of us who likes them," said Lezar.

"Yes Master Lezar."

After they ate their meal, Gobin took Alza into the bathroom.

"It is time to remove the plug, and I need you to tell me if you think you can sleep in the room with all of us naked? None of like sleeping in clothes, we can, and will if it will help you get used to us easier. We only wish tonight for you to get used to touching us and we touching you. Can you do that?"

"Yes Master Gobin, I think I can if it doesn't stay completely dark. I am also terrified of the dark, and usually sleep with a blanket and nightlight."

"We are used to camping with a fire burning all night, so it shouldn't be a problem."

"I never got a chance to that you all for buying me and being understanding masters. I know how lucky I am that you bought me, and hope that my actions can express what mere words can not Master Gobin."

"What has happened to you is a tragedy, one that will never be repeated, and the males on our planet cherish our females for the sacrifice they make to bring cubs into the world. We will do the same for you because of the sacrifice you will make for us to serve your purpose. Come, sleep with us and feel the comfort and peace we have for you."

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When they walked into the main room, there was a small light that gave a light glow to the room, there were pillows, cushions, furs, blankets, and the males had light sheets covering their bodies.

The brothers had all agreed that any penetration was to be asked for, and that surface licking was okay in all areas non-sexual at any time. Until she told them otherwise, her permission was needed for any sexual contact so that she would never fear them. That for right now, with her memories fresh in her mind, she needed to be in more control than was normal for a slave; their fear of making her psychological damage worse fresh in their thoughts.

As Gobin began to undress, Lezar and Kalba slowly lowered the sheets from their bodies till they fell to the floor. Alza knelt and approached cautiously into their open arms, wanting to study her new masters more carefully.

"You may touch us Alza, but let us know when you feel comfortable with us touching you. We want to explore you as badly as you want to explore us," Lezar said with a slight smirk.

"Yes Master Lezar, I think I can handle one at a time, but I will let you know when I am ready for more."

As she said this, she reveled in the luxurious fur the panther had. While his face had a definite feline shape and appearance, it was completely clean of fur. The top of his head, ears, and neck all had fur, and he had clear-colored whiskers, his eyes and muzzle had no fur.

"Master Lezar, are you a jaguar or leopard panther?"

To say that Lezar was startled was an understatement. The others were just as shocked, for even others of their own species never bothered to ask and just thought he was a leopard as they were the most common panther.

"I am a jaguar panther, and I am pleasantly surprised you asked that. You definitely deserve to be rewarded for good behavior, don't you agree brothers?

They all assented though Gobin was the first to point out, "As long as you feel comfortable with that Alza."

"Masters, it has been a very long time since a male has cared for my needs, sexually or not. If I could just fully explore you all, that will be reward enough for me."

"Take what we gladly offer Alza, we wish to know what you sound like in ecstasy," Kalba growled, obviously excited at the prospect.

"I wish to know what your nectar tastes like, sweet one," Jahar said, purring at the thought.

"Brothers, let her get a little used to us, we have seen what she has to offer, it is only fair to let her do the same," said Ilan, though from the bulge under his sheet, he was equally affected.

So they all gathered round close, watching their new slave enjoy the buffet that lay before her. She focused more on Lezar, fascinated by the knowledge that if she looked close enough, she would find the rosettes of a jaguar. Lezar was fully aroused by this point, his cock at least 8 inches and dripping with his excitement. Alza ignored that for a few minutes, running her hands through the fur on his chest and rubbing her face in it. When she started rubbing her face in the scent glands near his cheeks, her masters all got even more excited.

"Do you know what you are doing Alza?" Lezar asked in a husky tone between his purrs.

"Marking myself with your scent, Master Lezar. I want to have you all scent mark me so I can truly feel owned and loved. I did it with my cat at home all the time to try and form a mother or friend bond with her."

The others approached slowly, and when she nodded at them, they started scent marking her and purring. She lay back and let them for a minute or two before she went back to exploring Lezar some more. The others backed off to see what she would do next. She eyed the noticeably throbbing cock for the first time and looked up into Lezar's face with a look of anxiety, fear, and surprisingly, hunger.

"You can touch or lick it Alza, the biting end is up here," Lezar said, pointing to his mouth.

She reached out with her hand, stroking it, noticing that it was the only other place where fur was absent. The dripping tool was fully un-sheathed, and felt thick and meaty in her tiny hands. She bent her head forward to taste it, and moaned at the addictive flavor of salty-sweetness. Lezar growled at the sensations running up and down his spine at the pleasure she was giving him. Alza slowly worked the massive piece of meat into her mouth, sucking, slurping, and bobbing till it hit her gag reflex. She worked the other four inches with her hands while she enjoyed the first piece of man-meat she had had in a long time. "Now this is a treat," she thought to herself. Lezar was growling, yowling, purring and swearing under his breath, "apparently we bought a cat who likes cream as much as we do," he said to his brothers. "Let us just hope we can get some cream for ourselves soon, this is making me so hot," Kalba replied.

"Alza, you are doing so good, you are gonna get my cream soon, you like cream?"

"As much as I can handle, Master Lezar," she replied back.

"Oh, here it comes, oh ALZA!" Lezar shrieked as he gave her the cream she asked for.

As he settled down, she swallowed her well-earned cream and gave him some kitten licks to make sure he was clean. When she was finished, she looked up at five other very hungry sets of eyes, and suddenly got a little nervous. That was the first bit of sexual contact she had had in a long time, and she was normally a tigress in the bedroom, but a six to one ratio may be a bit too much for her to handle.

"Alza, that was amazing, but from the look on your face, I can tell you are overwhelmed at the thought of taking care of us all. That will rarely be the case, two or three of us is the typical number, and we would never push you to take more then you could handle. But my brothers and I do want to taste your cream, which is already flowing steady for us, I can smell. Why don't you relax and let us give you some pleasure?" Lezar coaxed, already starting to stiffen up at the prospect.

Alza laid back on the cushions, watching the hungry brothers come closer and start nuzzling, sniffing, and licking her. When she felt the first swipe of a rough tongue, she jumped and yelped:

"You have cat tongues too Masters? How did I ever get so lucky?"

"Just lay back and enjoy Alza, you deserve it." Jahar replied as he licked toward her breasts.

While she is having her arms licked by Gobin and Helius, her legs licked by Ilan and Kalba, Jahar dives in and starts teasing her breasts with light brushes of his fur, then starts licking around her right breast, starting from the base of her chest all the way to the now firmly erect nipple in a spiral. Alza is moaning, thrashing, and begging for more by this point, but the party has only started. Her then flicks the nipple with his tongue, then gives it a lick with the full contact of the rough burrs.

"Master...Jahar, oh, God...that...feels...awesome, what are you doing to me," Alza pants.

"Giving you pleasure my dear Alza, pleasure that you will have from now on."

He then gives the same treatment to the left breast.

"Jahar is obviously a breast man, with the talent he's showing me," Alza thought as he paused to switch back.



"Yes, as are Lezar and Gobin. Just wait till they get a turn," Jahar replied with a purr, deciding to ignore her lack of Master in her thought.

"Oh, God, that feels so awesome, I...think...I'm...gonna...cum, but this has never made me cum before. Masters, please, so...close, more...oh...God, oh, Ja..Jesus!" Alza pants and screams as she experiences her first breast orgasm.

"And now for the cream," says Lezar, who looks her in the eye as he approaches her drenched pussy for a taste of paradise.

Alza nods weakly before she moans and arches her back at the sensation of Lezar's rough tongue grazing her clit. The others have lined up behind him for a taste, and as each one leaves and is replaced by another; she gets another massive jolt to her pleasure sensitive clit.

"Oh...God, oh...Masters, that...feels...so...good, oh...please...more,"

Finally, all the brothers had a taste, and all agreed that is was indeed divine. Kalba then came back, and gave her the licking of a lifetime, getting every drop of nectar from every little crevice of her folds, making sure never to put his tongue inside her, she would have to tell him it was ok.

She thrusts her hips up into his tongue, panting, moaning and cursing at the amazing sensations Kalba's talented tongue was giving her. He circles her clit, gently sucking it for a moment before he fully licks it.

"Oh...Master...Kalba...you...make...me...feel...amazing...so...close...oh God, oh fuck."



"Scream my name in ecstasy, only then are you allowed to drop the Master," Kalba assured her, as he had noticed she had wanted to scream Jahar's name earlier.

Which is precisely what she did, shaking, and clutching his head in a vise-like grip as she rode out the waves of her orgasm. Kalba moved so that Ilan could get his turn at licking up all the cream.

"Masters, please, I don't think my body could handle any more tonight, I am so tired right now."

When they looked at her, they could see the exhaustion on her face, her eye lids drooping, and realized they had the rest of their lives to hear her screams of delight. Gobin went to get a washcloth to wipe the sweat and juices from her body as the others moved closer with their sheets so they could cuddle around her.

"Is there one of us you wish to lay on Alza?" Gobin asked softly.

She moved to lay by Gobin and Helius, knowing instinctively they would protect her from her nightmares better than the others. Kalba made sure he was touching both of them as he curled up around Alza's other side, while the others curled up around them all, with Jahar facing the doorway.

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It was a good thing they were huddled together so close, because that night, Alza had one of the worst nightmares she had had in a long time. The brothers were awakened not by the thrashing, whimpers, or out right screams, by the time these got to their worst they were wide awake. No, what woke them were the pulses of terror, and they were bad enough that Gobin was affected just as badly, even with his strongest mental shields.

"If these are an example of the mental wounds somewhat healed, I never want to see fresh ones," thought Lezar.

While Helius and Kalba picked up Gobin and took him to the other side of the room, trying to rebuild his shields and calm his mind, the others huddled around Alza, trying to wake her up.

"Max, please, I cooked your steak how you always like it, the potato is baked properly, and your beer is chilling in the fridge...Please, Max STOP, the baby, I thought you wanted her, please, punch me anywhere but there."

"Helius, what the hell is she screaming about, I don't remember her saying anything about a child?" Lezar yowled in worry.

"That is because she didn't. We will have to find a way to shield Gobin and me from her psychic distress if we want to find that out. Kalba is barely taking the edge off of the attacks while trying to help me shield Gobin. We may need a palzan or may even need the tsarzan to help us shield. From what I could tell of their planet, Earth has millions of people in worse shape than her, though few of them are as strong of an empath," Helius hissed back in agony from the strong waves on his own shields and the strain from trying to rebuild Gobin's.

"I thought Gobin's shields were stronger than yours, what with the extra training he had perfecting them," Ilan commented.

"They are against emotional attacks, but he is shielding us all from the brunt of those while her mind is projecting her past pain, and he was never taught how to block that, I am blocking that for us all, which is why my shields are taking the biggest hits, because I gave you three the strongest ones since you are at ground zero."

Just then, it stopped, after 10 minutes of torture that made their worst battles seem like a tea party. They were exhausted from the strain, and knew that they had opened up one hell of a Pandora's Box when they asked Alza to talk about her past. The only major problem they had, how do you destroy the darkness without destroying the box?

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As Alza woke up, she looked into the worried faces of three of her masters. "Where are the others, what happened, oh God, I must have had one of my night terrors." She sat up slowly, and looked around, spotting Gobin and the others on the other side of the room, and they all looked ashen, as if they had seen a ghost, but exhausted as if they had tried to scale Mount Everest.

"Masters, what happened, why does everyone look like they just fought 3 months in a WWI trench?" Alza asked.

"If you are making a reference to an epic battle, my dear ama; that is exactly what happened. You are a VERY strong empath, and you have psychic projection capabilities that almost were too much for us to handle. If you had kept dreaming much longer, we would not have been able to handle it," Helius panted.




The Freedom of Slavery Ch. 03



Here is chapter 3, chapter 4 is in the works. Warning, the flashback may be disturbing for some viewers, as will some of the other trauma discussed. 

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"I seek an audience with the tsarzan, my carzan Gobin was attacked by a massive empathic and psychic blast from our new ama. She was asleep, and one of her dreams caused her to send out the blast. He almost went insane from it and has been almost unresponsive since the incident almost 3 days ago," Lezar begged the gatekeeper.

"That wouldn't happen to be the Malzan, carzan Gobin Shadow-bane, would it?

"Yes, and we have put our ama in our shield room till that additional issue can be solved."

"Okay, we will give you emergency status, because as far as I know he is the strongest empath outside the compound walls, and if your ama tore down his shields and the rest of you could barely save him, then Zorcon save us all."

And with that, a few more guards were positioned around Helius and Kalba as they carried and shielded Gobin on his journey to the judgment hall. In the judgment hall the tsarzan had been told of the story, but only when he saw the look in Gobin's eyes did he believe what he had heard.

"This was done by a human with no training, while she was asleep? How can that be?" asked the stunned tsarzan.

"Your Sacredness, she has mental wounds that have scarred her deeply, and she is an empath. She had told us of what had happened to her and how she got those wounds when she had the same look to her eyes.

Her nightmare lasted 10 minutes that evening, though we had done our best to make sure the damage from re-telling her memories had been minimized. She told us that part of the trauma she had included nightmares, but we didn't think anything of it till she awoke screaming. She was laying on Gobin and Helius when it happened, but I do not have the abilities that my darzan Helius does," Lezar replied.

At a nod from the tsarzan, Helius stepped forward; "I got a full hit from the blast as well, but I am better trained against projections and other psychic attacks where as Gobin specializes in emotional attacks.

Our ama Alza was giving off some extremely strong blasts of both, and while he shielded us all from the emotional blast, he had to sacrifice his stronger shields to those closest to Alza so that they could calm her down, so his own shields were not strong enough to stop both the projection and the emotions evoked by her dream, which was a nightmare the likes of which I have never seen, nor would wish upon my worst enemy. I can project to you a toned down version of it, if that would be helpful," Helius said with a bow.

"Let me see Gobin first, then if you are up for it, I will shield you as you attempt to bring him back. Rumors of your power and efficiency at walking the minds of others have not stopped at the compound wall. I wish to see for myself if what I have heard is true."

"Yes your Sacredness, anything to bring my brother back to us."

As Gobin was brought close enough that the tsarzan could look into his eyes, he was horrified to see what was there. He had to put on his strongest shields, for it was obvious that Gobin was lost in a darkness so vast, it was unfathomable.

"Helius, I need to see the projection that triggered this without any of the emotions attached, and Lezar, I order you to bring your ama to the compound immediately. Is she currently a danger?"

"As far as I know your Sacredness, she is still asleep from the deep slumber we gave her do you wish her awake or still asleep?" Lezar replied.

"I will need her awake and stable later, for right now, I want her asleep till she is in the compound shield room, then you may all stay with her till I need you."

"Yes your Sacredness, I will go get her now."

"Take your garzan with you, as well as my sarzan, just in case. Lockhoy, I need my walzan, just in case."



With two quick bows and whispers of "Yes your Sacredness", both Lezar and the tsarzan's assistant ran to follow their orders. Everyone knew that a potential cluster-fuck had just landed, and if the tsarzan had summoned the walzan from his sacred temple in the forest near the compound, then this cluster was epic.

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With the sarzan in toe, Jahar, Ilan, Kalba and Lezar brought a still asleep Alza to the compound.

"Your Sacredness, she has had very little training under the circumstances, and barely knows any of the basic rules of conduct. She is a very well-behaved ama, but her mental wounds are rather severe and her natural instincts are easily triggered. Do you believe this will reflect badly on us?" Lezar asked.

"I don't see why it would. You have had her for 3, 4 days at most and she has been unconscious for most of them due to the circumstances. She has been unable to process the full concept of being on another planet and ama to a pride of what on her planet are lesser beings. She is bound to be a little off-kilter. I presume you have taught or started to teach her the basic walk and bow protocols? "

"Yes your Sacredness, and she walked almost perfectly from the start. She has made only one or two minor errors since, and they were mostly telepathic. I was shocked at how well she has behaved, to be honest, but she seems to be very smart and adaptable."

"Then you have nothing to worry about, and I will vouch for her conduct if the tsarzan feels like being a stickler for the protocol rules. I think personally that you should always give someone at least a week to adjust to a major life change before you nit-pick them."

"Thank you your Sacredness, you have put my mind at ease."

As they took Alza down to the shield room, she started to stir. The party shielded her until the door to the shield room was shut tight, then they put her on one of the cots in the room to finish waking fully.

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Back in the judgment hall, the walzan had arrived and was shielding the entire room from psychic and empathic energies, which was empty except for Gibor, Helius, Kalba, the tsarzan, and the walzan.

"Alright, the room is secure, there is no way this is going to leak anything, so lets get this over with quickly so that my walzan can double shield the shield room."



At that, Helius gave the tsarzan the most traumatizing thing he had ever experienced, and it wasn't even his memory.

They were looking into a brownstone single bedroom apartment, and a woman was cooking dinner with her back to them. She had on a shirt and skirt that matched, because it was the only dress-like attire she had that would accommodate the little bump she was showing.



She had an apron on over her skirt to protect it, and the plain color shirt she was wearing hid most of her bruises well. She was pan-searing a steak, and the oven was cooking a baked potato, she was tossing a salad for herself while the steak was cooking, and it was hard for her to toss it properly because if she jerked her arms too much, it aggravated the still-healing broken clavicle.



Max was expected home any minute, and the food was ready to be served, so she got the baked potato from the oven, perfect as usual, loaded it with butter, cheese, and sour cream on the side in a separate saucer.



She placed the steak on the cooking plate, so as not to dirty his dinner plate with the juices, and cut it into perfect squares, and put the squares on the dinner plate, with a saucer on the side for horseradish, which she got out of the fridge.



She then took the plate and saucers to the table, put the horseradish on the table, and went back to check on the beer. She found it was perfectly chilled. Max walked in at that moment, saw the table, and gave her a dirty look.

"Natalie, I told you, I wanted ketchup and horseradish, where is my damn ketchup, and what about my beer?"



"Max, I was just about to get it, I was checking on your beer, I know you like to have the ketchup and beer at the same time."



"Not good enough, you know when I come home, I think you need to be reminded who runs this house."



"Max, please, I cooked your steak how you always like it, the potato is baked properly, and your beer is chilling in the fridge..."



Max had cornered her in the kitchen and was giving her some new bruises under her shirt. He worked his way from her ribs and was aiming at her stomach.



"Please, Max STOP, the baby, I thought you wanted her, please, punch me anywhere but there."



"Why do you need a baby when you can't even take care of the few responsibilities you have now?"



"Please, I'll do better, just please let me have her."



"You had your chance, but I want what's mine before it gets too messy."



With that, he dragged her by the hair to the bedroom, threw her on the bed, ripped her clothes off, and took off his own after tying her hands and feet to the bedposts.



"What is mine?"



"This body."



"Who controls its use?"



"You do."

"Be happy my drinking buddies are all busy tonight, otherwise I would fuck this baby out of you for your disobedience. Instead, I am gonna just fuck you and punch it gone."



With that, he proceeded to rape her in all three holes, and while he was dry fucking her ass, he began punching her stomach in counter rhythm to the violent pumping of his own body into her bleeding anus. When he came in her ass, he pulled out, and kept on punching till he noticed blood gushing out of her vagina.

"So much for your little Nancy Drew, now go get me my beer and ketchup."

The tsarzan looked up at Helius after he had finished viewing the horror this ama had endured.



"No wonder the emotions were so powerful, you don't have to show me those, I can guess well enough. Did you check to see if Gibor was cycling through that?"

"I do not believe that he has been cycling through that, thank Zorcon, but through his memories of the den site massacre that killed our family. I am not sure though, as I did not want to end up like him and leave my brothers down two good men, Your Sacredness."

"Alright, then let me attempt to bring Gibor home."



The tsarzan shielded himself good, then dove right in to Gibor's mind. And it was as Helius expected, Gibor was stuck in a cycle of the den site massacre, and the tsarzan found Gibor within moments.

"Gibor, come with me, you are stuck in the past when your brothers need you in the present. You are safe, come home with me, there is nothing left for you here."

"Yes, Your Sacredness. Thank you for finding me, I thought I would be lost here forever."

As they both left the black hole of Gibor's memory, the haunted look left his face and color returned to his eyes. As he blinked them a few times and looked around, his brothers raced to his side to hug him.

"Welcome back brother," Helius murmured.

"Yeah, welcome back, I see we found out the hard way that our new ama has a few surprises, aye," Kalba joked.

"Talk about a Pandora's Box, I am afraid of what the hell else is in there," Gibor replied.



"Well Gibor, while you are resting with Helius and Kalba, the rest of your brothers and I are going to find out. Another sarzan from Moonblade arrived yesterday to ask if she could look for a suitor here, as all the males from her den site have not appealed to her. I will ask her to help with the shielding. My sarzan will shield you all in the shield room."

"Yes Your Sacredness, and thank you again."

"Lockhoy, what is the status of the ama?"

"She is semi-conscious, and though the circumstances have allowed for little training, she is very well-behaved for an ama, trained or otherwise. If her mental wounds can be healed and she can be fully-trained, I believe she would be worthy of being your ama, Your Sacredness.

I checked Lezar's, and Jahar's memories of all the events from viewing at the auction to arrival at the shield room here at the palace. They got lucky and chose well."

"Thank you Lockhoy, have my sarzan make sure the ama stays in a comatose state while she is transported to the judgment hall. I want Selena to come to the judgment hall as well to help shield. Sistenza is to stay with the brothers in the shield room once the ama is here. Lezar, Ilan, and Jahar are to come as well."



"Yes Your Sacredness, at once."

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"Where am I? Why is everyone so edgy, like I am a bomb that could go off at any moment?"

Then Alza remembered waking up in the ship, and seeing Gibor, Helius, and Kalba as far from her in the room as possible. She remembered having a night terror, the one that was always tough for her and made the next few days after it hard to handle as she did her best to forget it.

The only bit of that night she ever wanted to remember was the name she had given herself when it became paramount that she change her identity and leave the state. Nancy, the name her daughter would have had had she lived to be born. She cried at the realization that the locket she had had made was still back on Earth, and her Masters may never let her replace it.

"Alza, we are on our home planet, and you are going to be taken to the tsarzan to have your bad memories removed. You almost drove Gibor insane with your nightmare, and so the tsarzan has deemed you a level 9 danger with those memories. We are going to be escorted by the saran, who will put you in a comatose state until we are in the judgment hall." Lezar told her.

"Please Master Lezar; let me keep the memory of my little girl. She was all I had ever wanted in life, to have a child to love. After that night, I changed my name to the one she would have had, Nancy, just to keep from killing myself. The thought that only one Nancy was going to have her life cut short, that is what kept me alive for months."

"We will think about getting you adapted to carrying our young, or making you a memento, if that is what it takes to get you to willingly agree to have your memories removed. This is one of the few things that an ama gets to bargain for, so we shall give you a fair price.

We right now only believe that the tsarzan will remove your memories, because that is what is normally done with a level 6 or higher danger level. We will make sure to ask for the gaps to be filled in, as we believe you should not be further punished by what another did to you," Lezar relied.

"Thank you Master Lezar, why is it so important that I agree to have them removed, if I may ask?"

"Good question Alza, if you are unwilling, it will be impossible to remove them because you will naturally reinforce them in your mind, and your mental shields will make it hard for anyone to go into your mind in the first place."

"Lezar, I am here to escort you to the judgment hall and to bring your ama in a comatose state. Will she allow easy entry?"

"Yes, Your Sacredness, I told her you were coming and should allow for easy entry. This is the first time someone has done this, so I would ease in cautiously."

"Ama, you have heard of hypnotism?"

"Yes Your Sacredness, though I was never successfully put under when it was tried on me."

"I am much stronger, but thank you for the warning. So, you know that you are going to listen to the sound of my voice and do as I say as you go under."

"Yes your Sacredness."

"Alright, I shall begin then. Look into my eyes, do not be afraid, I will not harm you, you are safe, I want to help you."

The mantra was said over and over until Alza was in a haze. She was told to just relax, think of nothing, and to come back when she heard her name. So, she basked in the emptiness of her mind, while she felt like she was being carried somewhere.

"Alza, come back, we are here."

As she came back into consciousness, she looked around a massive hall, like a sultan's throne room in style; open, lots of light, cushions and throw pillows, a throne with a male that was indeed a white Siberian tiger. He was massively built, but he exuded a power that was more powerful that mere muscle.

Like the sarzan, the tsarzan was ROYALTY, and was willing to prove it given half a chance. And on his right was a figure that just screamed GOD, and made the tsarzan look like a peasant. This male was a tiger, but no tiger had sterling silver and 18k gold as part of their fur color. He was also white and black, as the tsarzan and sarzan were, so she guessed that this was the walzan.

There was also a female on the tsarzan's left that looked to be a sarzan, so she was either a foreign sarzan or possibly the mate of the tsarzan. On the outer sides of the throne were two guards who were both lions and what looked like the vizier, who was a cheetah.

The guards had halberds with nasty looking serpentine blades on the end and a bearded axe. She did not look any of them in the face, as she had been told that to look anyone in the eye besides her Masters was a bad idea, and with these individuals it seemed like a suicidal idea.

So after she looked around and got her bearings, she knelt and bowed her head, showing the back of her neck. A pillow was tossed under her as she knelt, and as she didn't know if it was proper to address the tsarzan, she just waited as her Masters bowed and addressed him.

"You were right Lockhoy; she is well behaved for one with her level of training. And smart enough to know that when she doesn't know how to act, to do what she does know and keep quiet. Ama, when you come into my presence, you are to do as you just did, but also to cross your arms across your chest as you bow and address me as Your Sacredness. Would you like to retry your entry?"

"Yes Your Sacredness, Thank You Your Sacredness."

"Before you get up and retry, I will tell you the proper leaving protocol. You are to rise up, cross your arms, and bow while saying Yes Your Sacredness. Now try it."

With a proper execution of his orders, and a soft, "Yes Your Sacredness", she got up and left the room through the rear doors. As she came back in, she followed his orders about her entrance perfectly and waited for further instructions.

"That was perfect Ama; your behavior is to be rewarded. I, as well as my walzan and Selena here are going to shield the room and walk through your memories. I will be the only one in your mind, and if I deem fit, we shall discuss what is to be done with your memories. What has your Master told you of what is going to be done?"

Alza looked at Lezar for approval, and with his nod she said, "I was told that I am a level 9 danger, and that the normal procedure is to remove the memories, but that I have to be willing for them to be removed, and that I may bargain for them.




The Freedom of Slavery Ch. 03



When I was told they were going to be removed, I asked for the memory of my little girl to be preserved, as it was the only thing that kept me alive for many months after I lost her.

My Master Lezar seemed to be willing to honor my request, and told me of the bargain and that he would be willing to give me a fair price, Your Sacredness."

"I can honor that as well, but discussion of what to do about your dangerous memories will come after I have seen them all. Do you have permanent physical scars from any of them?"

"I may have internal scaring from the forced abortions, Your Sacredness."

"Lockhoy, have the Royal Physician come to give a consult. If I am going to remove her bad memories, I want them gone for good. I will look at what we are dealing with while we wait"

"Yes Your Sacredness."

"Ama, are you willing to let me look at your memories, with the knowledge that the others will be shielding me, the room, and the others in this room from what awaits?"

"Yes Your Sacredness."

"Alright, relax as I project myself into your mind, and then direct me to where they are hidden."

"Yes Your Sacredness."

As he dove in, he realized that level nine was mild compared to what could have happened. She had dark memories that he only had glimpses of that made him wonder if he would be driven insane and unable to be rescued if he didn't have his walzan as a life line. His walzan kept him from experiencing the emotions of the memories, which was Zorcon's blessing indeed.

The view was bad enough to give him nightmares, and he saw the years of torture, and the fact that that bastard had viciously aborted 4 other babies, but the last had been within her the longest. Cigarette burns, knife play, whippings, studded beltings, ginger root torture, and her desperate cutting, her 3 attempts at committing suicide that she managed to stop herself from completing.

And the gang rapes, the brutal assaults, and the demeaning sexual favors. He saw them all, and on his way back out, he saw glimpses of the nursery, her joy at becoming a mother, her hope that she would have a son, or a daughter, or twins that she could devote her life to loving, and that would give her the courage to leave a man who deserved to die a thousand deaths for all the suffering he had caused.

"You are commanded to get her adapted, or to adopt if she proves to be incapable. Her price demands no less. She could have had 5 children, but her husband aborted them all. She will not be content without it. And make a locket with the name Nancy on the front out of silver. Plus what ever else she names," the tsarzan sent.

"Yes Your Sacredness," Lezar replied back.

"Ama, you deserve much for the pain you have suffered, and will suffer again as they are removed. I have set a beginning price for you, which is a guarantee that you will want to have the memories removed. It is also a price that you may have been hesitant to ask for, as you are very smart and resourceful. I have demanded that that your price start at adapting you to carry cubs or adopt if you are proved incapable and to replace the locket you left behind.



You may ask for two additional things, and if they seem to fit and your Masters are agreeable, that will be your price. You will have all of your scars, if there are any internal ones, removed whether a bargain is reached or not. 

You will also be trained in a second profession, as you were told, and that you would make an excellent mental consultant for Gibor, as you thought. What else would you like as trade for having to relive all of your memories, and to live with altered memories for the rest of your life?"

"I would like to think this through for a little while, as what this entails sounds rather extreme. Could I talk this over with my Masters as well as a doctor and think it over, Your Sacredness?"

"A wise decision, you may have one hour to ask all the questions you need to and come to an agreement."

"Yes Your Sacredness."

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When they were escorted to a guest room, the Royal Physician was there waiting for them.

"The tsarzan said that he needed a consult, and that you wanted some questions answered by a doctor. As I examine you to determine if there is internal scarring, I will answer your questions. You may look me in the eye when needed and if it makes it easier to talk to me. You may address me as doctor."

"Yes doctor, my first question is when I am adapted, what are the chances of successfully having cubs?"

"If there is scarring, and it is easily repaired, you can be successfully adapted. You will have only a 1% lower fertility rate than a normal female of this planet if you were able to have children on Earth. The tsarzan told me you had forced and brutal abortions that looked like they could have made it to full term, so I would give you my estimate of 30-49% success at having cubs.

The normal average for our females is 50% for the first litter, peaking at 80% by the third litter, and five litters being the record as I know it. We have 2-8 cubs per litter, with 8 being the record as I know it. Most litters have 4 cubs."

"You answered a couple of my other questions, so the others have to do mostly with the results of your findings, doctor."

So, the doctor proceeded to have Alza lay back and relax as he ran a scanner that looked like a hand-held portable MRI all over her body. There was some scarring to some of the veins in her arms and legs, as well as extensive minor nerve damage. As the scan for internal damage to her womb had been inconclusive, he detached a wand and a small square screen from the machine.

"As you saw, the external scan was inconclusive, so I am going to have to do an internal, you can watch the whole thing with this screen. You will feel a slight pinch when it gets to your cervix, but you need to remain calm till I pull it fully out or you will get damaged."

"Yes doctor, this sounds fascinating."

So he inserted the wand up into her womb, and then up into her tubes and ovaries. She was able to watch this part on the small screen she held, and saw what looked like eggs up in her ovaries, as well as fleshy growths. She had noticed that the doctor didn't like the look of those growths, so she asked: "Will you remove part of those growths to see if they are cancerous doctor?"

"We do not have the 'cancer' illness you speak of till we are very old and dying. I think those could be 'cancer' or scar tissue, either way, when you are adapted, these ovaries will be removed because you will grow new ones."

"So, what exactly will happen when I am adapted doctor?"

"You will have surgery to remove these ovaries because they are the main producers of your reproductive hormones. You will basically be having your hormones rewired with the female hormones of our planet. If your current system cycles similarly to the way ours does, it will be a matter of hormone injections and waiting for the new ovaries to grow and produce the hormones you need.

If your cycle is more extreme, that is where the 30% fertility rate comes in, as we will have to monitor your hormone levels to get them equalized properly while your ovaries are growing, and monitor them for a few cycles to make sure your ovaries grew equalized. Luckily, our planet's reproductive cycle is more human than feline."

"Thank you doctor, I think that answers my questions for now."

The doctor then left to go tell the tsarzan his findings.

"Alza, do you agree to the terms now that you know a bit more about what being adapted entails?" Lezar asked.

"I have a couple of basic questions Master Lezar, like what determines cat species and fur pattern, and how will we make up for the memories that will be lost. I think I can come up with some plausible replacement memories to fill in the gaps, but will the tsarzan take my suggestions?"

"Every time you ask a question it reminds me that we bought a treasure worthy of the tsarzan. We are born with the cat species and pattern through what our abilities are and the strength of our personality and soul.

Jaguars and leopards are stealth and camouflage hunters, so while strong, we are also cunning so we often have abilities and professions along those lines. Cheetahs are the most dog-like of the cat world, but they are also the fastest, so they are often the messengers and have the strongest purely mental abilities.

Tigers are an interesting one, as if all the cubs in a litter are tigers, they all pick something they like and their abilities form from their interests. However, in our case, Ilan is one of a litter, so he specializes in whatever the rest of us are lacking.

Lions are always warriors, because they are strong, tough, and can shield others physically and mentally. The only reason Kalba is not harzan is because I stealth attacked him. The tsarzan may take your ideas into consideration, as your ideas will probably work the best for filling in memory gaps, as they are your thoughts."

"Then I think I know what else I want, and I hope this is not too much to ask. Masters, the two other things I want are days. Days where I am equal, not an ama, and I want them to be spaced out so that they occur once every half rotation. I don't have to go out in public or anything, it could be just a private celebration, but I want to be able to wear clothes and not have to follow ama protocol.

If those are too much then I want to explore nature possibly go camping. Or, I want to be able to have bedroom outfits made and be taught to read so that I can keep learning. I will be happy with any of these or a combination of them. I hope I have not been too bold Masters."

"I love all of your ideas, but I must admit the bedroom outfits intrigue me," Lezar said.

"I think one day of freedom, one or two 'camping' trips a year, and some bedroom outfits would be a price we all agree on. Alza, you will have to be taught to read and have to study many books to help Gobin, so it wouldn't be fair to cheat you of another option when that is already going to happen," said Ilan.

"I agree with Ilan, though I want the bedroom outfits first. Those sound fun and kinky," said Jahar.

"I agree with Ilan as well, that is definitely appealing to all of us, and I agree that one day of freedom in a cycle of 730 days is not a bad idea. It will help you adjust better I think, as you have been free for so long, though you may have more privileges than you think as an ama.

That you want to go 'camping' is excellent, as we are often sent on border patrol, so it will be easier for us if you are willing to go with us. Before that happens though, you need to have empath training to stop you from having problems with your abilities and some basic first aid training, so that you can help Gobin if one or more of us is hurt," Kalba replied.

"You raise good points as usual brother, so I agree as well," Helius said.

"I agree, but no camping for the first year, so that we can train you to fully understand the plants and wildlife so that we don't have to watch over you every second. I think some exploring would do better for this year, so you can get used to the surrounding area," Gobin said.

"It looks like we have come to an agreement, do you accept the terms?" Lezar asks.

"Yes Masters, I agree."

"Then let us tell the tsarzan that you agree to the terms."



The Freedom of Slavery Ch. 04



Alright, now for chapter 4, and I am writing chapter 5. Hope you enjoy this story so far, encouragement keeps the muse going, so please let me know what you think. 

* "Ama Alza, do you agree to the terms as follows for the price of your memories: You will be adapted to have cubs or your Masters will adopt. You will have all of your scars removed, and you will train to be an ama-healer and assist your Master Malzan, carzan Gobin Shadow-bane in his clinic. You will have the locket you left behind replaced in memory of the child you lost.

Your Masters have graciously agreed to three additional items: one day of freedom, which will be in public or private in which you will be a carzan for a day, and will be allowed to ignore ama protocols as well as wear clothes.

You will go with them during border patrols, but only after you are deemed ready, but until then you will be taken to explore the area as preparation. You will also have bedroom outfits made to your specification, of which you are allowed two now, and one a year afterward."

"Yes Your Sacredness, I have made an informed decision and willingly agree to have my memories altered, though I will have to relive them."

"You also came up with possible scenarios that could replace the memories?"

"Yes Your Sacredness, I was happily married to a man, and we lost all the children we were expecting due to me being a carrier of Ta-Sachs, as well as one of them dying due to birth defects from severe Down syndrome.

Her name was Nancy, and she was to be the one that would have survived and be loved no matter what, hence my deep attachment and the locket. After she miscarried, my husband committed suicide. I chose to move away from the bad memories and start over, and the rest is history."

"I like this scenario of yours, it is simple, it explains everything, and it seems like it would cover the bad memories perfectly, as it is sad but has no terror or torture. Alright, you will have your scars removed first, and then I will remove your memories and replace them with your suggestion."

"Yes Your Sacredness, thank you."

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Her scars were removed, and it amazed her how much better she felt now that proper blood flow got to her hands and feet. She also felt weird because she had no idea that she had any nerve damage at all. It was painless, as the nerves were not severely damaged, it just tingled a little as nerves re-grew in the damaged areas.

"You will get your adaptation surgery and treatment tomorrow, after your new memory has had a chance to solidify and you have gotten used to your new role here."

"Yes doctor."

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The memory removal was just as painful as expected, as the tsarzan could not shield her from the pain of having her brain rewired, but also because he had to dig through every neuron of her brain to make sure the memories were gone. All that could be done was to shield everyone else, and only Lezar, the tsarzan, the walzan, and both sarzans were in the room. Lezar was there to comfort her, everyone else to shield the room and everyone in it.

The tsarzan needed his full power and concentration to remove the memories. It was dusk by the time it was finished, they had started the removal process at noon, and they had arrived at the palace at the dawn. Alza was still a little shaky, but the tsarzan had figured out that her agreeableness at being a slave came from the knowledge she had learned through her years of torture and the stories of suffering from others.

So he had to tweak her memories a little more to make it so that she had only heard of all the suffering she and others had endured, but had not actually lived it. In the end, Alza's scenario was perfect for him to build on, and the result was that they still had an ama worthy of the tsarzan leaving the palace, with a danger level of 1.

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When the brothers arrived back home, it was time to make dinner and enjoy an evening of entertainment, or sleep like the dead. While dinner was being made, Alza was introduced to Ara, the rag doll house cat her Masters owned. They cut up small chunks of meat and fish for Ara, which barely made her move from Alza's lap. The vitamin shake was made for Alza, as well as a small platter of fruit and a small garden salad.

The brothers ate what looked like a full rack of beef ribs, two shoulders, both hind quarters, all the normal cuts of beef, as well as most of the internal organs of a cow. They gave her two well-done flank steaks and some milk. They ate in silence, apart from the braking of bones to suck the marrow.

"Masters, what creature is this, it looks and tastes like beef, but it is at least twice as big?"

"This is a jungle bull, which is just like your Earth bulls, but more along the size of your water buffaloes. One jungle bull can feed us for three days on patrol, but we like to eat more regularly than once every 3 days, so you will not see us eat this much in one sitting often. If we are eating 3 meals a day, it can last us up to 2 weeks. Especially if Ilan gets a fair catch of fish," Lezar said.

"Well Masters, I am sorry I can't finish all this food, but it was so good."

"Don't worry Alza, we have many of the appliances you are used to on Earth, but they are more advanced. We can put this in the fridge for breakfast," Kalba said.

"Brother, you forgot that Alza is having her surgery tomorrow. She just ate her last meal for the next 18 hours," Gobin reminded.

"Does that mean not strenuous exercise either?" Jahar whined, with a wink and a smirk at Alza.

"Whatever she feels up to for the next week. I am glad that the Royal Physician is performing the surgery, as he has the healer's touch. It will make the procedure much easier for him," Gobin commented.

"Master Gobin, what is the healer's touch?"

"It is an ability to instinctively know what is wrong with a patient or what the best decision for treatment is or what the likely recovery is. He may have less experience with humans, but his instincts are still usually right. He just prefers to back it up with some tests when the tsarzan asks for a consult on a judgment."

"So, Alza, what do you feel up to?" Jahar asks.

"Master Jahar, I think I feel up to 2-3 hours worth of strenuous exercise. But I want to give you the images of the first two outfits first, and the locket, in case I forget them tomorrow after the surgery."

"Well then Helius, by all means, let us see what our ama wants to order," Lezar said, with a smile.

So, Helius picked the images of a belly dancing outfit, a two piece bra and shredded skirt with gold coins dangling off the skirt strips and bra. It was made of a royal purple fabric, with cymbals, a matching veil and matching scarves as additional accessories.

The other image was straight out of a porn store, and it was a naughty nurse outfit, complete with the stethoscope. Then came the memory of the locket, which was a silver locket with NANCY written in calligraphy across the front, and inside was a lock of hair that came from Alza.

"I must admit Alza, you have good taste, and I for one want to see you dance with that dancing outfit on," Jahar said in a husky voice.

"We shall order them tomorrow, while you are in surgery," said Lezar.

"Now let's go exercise, as I have a lot of tension to work out," said Jahar.

"I want first round, after all, I was down for the count a good portion of the trip," said Gobin.

So they all ran into the sleeping area, where a giant nest of pillows and cushions was evident.

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"Alza, can you handle all of us tonight or do you want to pick a few of us and go from there," Ilan asked huskily.

"I think Gobin and Helius deserve a treat for taking care of you so well during your meltdown, while I know Jahar and I want a go at sucking your breasts," Lezar husked.

"I think that I want you all to scent-mark me, have it be part of our nightly ritual, then I think I want to have Master Gobin in front, Master Helius in back, and Master Jahar as my dessert," Alza replied breathlessly.

"She seems to be getting some of her spirit back, those memories were one hell of a personality changer," thought Lezar.

"You won't hear me complaining about this change, I just hope that her obedience is just as good as before, I would hate to have to punish her and break this lovely fire," Jahar replied.

So they spent a good five minutes scent-marking their spirited ama, rubbing their scent glands all over her body and rubbing their fur over her pleasure-awakened skin. The sexual tension had been at a low simmer, but by the time Alza said she couldn't take anymore, the tension had reached boiling point.

Jahar started teasing her left breast with his hands while Lezar started teasing the right. Alza took a good look at the treat she had asked for and found herself staring at a 7 inch monster, and she hoped she could handle all that yummy meat.

Gobin started licking his way up her left leg while Helius started licking up her right leg. Ilan arrived with the oil, and took out the plug so that he could pour some into her prepared backside. Once a generous amount had flowed in, he put the plug back in after giving her a few strokes with it till they were ready.

Meanwhile, she got an eyeful of what Gobin and Helius had to offer. Gobin had a 10 inch pole that made her grateful that he wasn't more than 2 inches thick, or she would have been trying to handle a baseball bat. Helius had a generous 7 inches as well, which she knew was just enough to feel great without causing pain when he pumped her ass full of meat.

She started licking Jahar's cock, enjoying her dessert of man-meat to the fullest.

By the time Gobin and Helius got to the tops of her thighs, she was so horny she stopped licking Jahar long enough to say: "Masters, show me how hot I make you, give me your meat, I can't take the teasing anymore, it feels like forever since I had a decent workout."

"Alza, you naughty girl, you will have to wait for your treat till you make Jahar happy, all the while we tease you till you cum," Kalba said, while stroking his own 9 inch monster.

With that said, she went to town on Jahar's cock, stroking what wasn't stuffing her mouth with her hands, licking and sucking as much meat as she could, swallowing inch by inch until she had all seven inches.

Meanwhile, Gobin was licking her pussy like a starving man, avoiding her clit but licking every other inch of her delicious flower, while Kalba had replaced Jahar on her left breast, and Lezar was still teasing her right, licking in circles around her breast from her chest up to her nipple, then grazing that with the barbs on his tongue before taking it into his mouth to suck.

Kalba and Lezar were doing the same naughty things to each breast, but in counter rhythm. Helius was fucking her with the plug, slowly pushing it in and pulling it out.

"Damn Alza, you sure know how to drive a man crazy, and I know how much you love cream, so here it comes. Oh...Alza...so good...oh...OH...ALZA!"

As she swallowed every last drop of cream, she too saw fireworks, and when Jahar was released from her ravenous mouth, she got what she had begged for, Gobin plunged right in to her drenched pussy while Helius removed the plug from her equally drenched ass and dove right in, giving her each inch of his meat slowly so as not to cause her pain.

Once Helius was fully seated, they both proceeded to pump her full of meat, but in counter rhythm, so that there was a slight see-saw motion going on.

Kalba stepped forward, still slowly stroking his meat, and offered it to Alza. She was too caught up in the raw bestial fucking she was getting to notice, and the violent motions made it rather hard for her to keep her body still enough for her to swallow him even if she had noticed.

So, Kalba just shrugged and proceeded to jag off so he could cover her in his cum when his brothers filled her up. As the writhing mass of bodies exploded in orgasm, Ilan, Kalba, and Lezar covered her face and chest in their own offerings.

"Masters, that was awesome, and I want to have this be a nightly event, but I am worn out. Maybe after a short nap I will be up for more."

"You were amazing, but we all got our fill for the night even if you sleep the whole night through. Don't feel obliged to make us all come in your luscious body, we have years yet to do so," Ilan chided.

"Besides Alza, you need to rest for the surgery tomorrow. You want that to be a success don't you?" Gobin reminded her.

"You're right Masters, I should save the major marathons for when it counts, so I can have you all do your best at giving me your beautiful cubs."

And with that said, they all proceeded to lay down to sleep, but her Masters had a harder time ignoring her last comment, and with a final 6 gun salute to take care of he problem, they were finally able to sleep.

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The next day, they rose early and got ready to head to the Royal Physician's medical center. The sun had barely risen making it around 6ish. Just like they had last evening, they put on the collar and bracelets and anklets, and because they were going to be walking in public, the leash.

"You remember why we have to put the leash on, right Alza?" asked Lezar.

"Yes Master Lezar, because I will be walking in public. The three reasons are: protocol, safety, and ownership. An unleashed ama is a free ama, free for the taking because she was unwanted.

A tight hold on the leash with little slack indicates that the ama is untrained or is rebellious. A loose hold on the leash and plenty of slack means you trust me as your trained ama to know when it is okay to stop and look at something closer and when it is important that I stay by your side."

"Very good Alza, and which are you at this moment?"

"I am an untrained but well-behaved ama, Master Lezar, so you will keep a tight hold on the leash to tell others that I am untrained, but you give me some slack because you can trust me with it."

"And what is important to remember about walking out in public?"

"I must keep my eyes from meeting any but yours, I must not let the bell ring if I can help it, and I must not speak unless it is needed. I must walk as if I am proud of my owners, but not as if I am better than them, Master Lezar."

"And what about if others interact with you?"

"I must wait for you to tell me if they are of a title that is to be obeyed; otherwise I am to ignore any orders but yours or my other Masters, Master Lezar."

"I think she is ready to face her first truly public trip brothers, what do you think?"

"I think that we had better get going because her appointment is at high noon, and we will have to walk a little slower to get her used to walking in public without ringing the bell. And if we leave now, we may get to stop by the market for a treat for her if she has done well," Kalba said.

"I think she will do very well for her first real trip. It was a shame that we couldn't do it yesterday, as the mornings are always more crowded." Jahar stated.

"I agree, we should have practiced yesterday, but Kalba is right, we need to leave now if she is going to be able to learn with her first attempt being a morning crowd," replied Gobin.

As if to answer the query without wasting any more time, Ilan and Helius were already walking to the door.

"I guess that answers that, just remember Alza, it will be really crowded, so we don't expect perfection yet."

"Yes Master Lezar."

And with that, Lezar grabbed her leash and the others formed a barrier around her as they walked out into the street.

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To say it was crowded was an understatement, but from her memories of what NYC was supposed to be like, it was not that bad. Yes, people were jostling her Masters as they went by, but they had walked what seemed like 4 blocks already and her bell had only rung once, when her Masters had been jostled the first time and she flinched in reaction.

It was a crowded street filled with plenty of people, and it reminded her of what Agruba looked like in Aladdin. Except that it had wood and gray stone colored buildings, and that the people around her had fur.

She saw what looked like cubs running amok, as well as females and males on their way to their shops or stalls. Some looked like they were on their way to the compound, and they looked like warriors, so she guessed that these were either guardians like her Masters or were warriors. She even noticed a few amas and their Masters, and, like her, they were walking inside a barrier made by their Masters, though some of them obviously had more training than she did.

They continued passed another 3 blocks through a place that looked like it held small businesses. They stopped at one store long enough for Gobin to point out that this was his clinic. They passed by another store Lezar owned that dealt in outdoor and hunting equipment. The others ran and owned stores as well, but they weren't on this street. Kalba was a weapon-smith, Jahar was an apothecary, Ilan ran a luxury goods store, and Helius helped out at the clinic.

Most things were sold in the marketplace, raw materials and food, but the craftsmen and bakers had stores. Items that were really expensive were also sold in stores, like jewelry and clothing. So Alza saw plenty of different shop signs that indicated what was inside.

When had walked another 4 blocks, they left what seemed like the residential and small business area, and she had to stop for a second and stare. This was insane! She was seeing a massive market place that was already filled to the point that the only way forward was to push your way through, and it was noisy, colorful, and it STUNK!

Rotting fruit and vegetables, dung from the cart animals, dung from the animals being sold, rotting fish, and sweat was mixed in with sickly-sweet perfumes and spices, and other things she couldn't quite place. She was glad that her Masters let her stop and stare, and then she realized her bell hadn't rung when she stopped, so they were expecting her to stop.

"Alza, would you like to see the market or go around it now and see it later? You have been doing so good so far that you deserve the choice, especially as this is a hard place for a beginner not to get into trouble. We have time to walk around it, or to browse a little so that you can pick out a treat," Kalba asked softly.

"Masters, if it is not too much trouble, I would love to see it some other time, but I would also love to see if I can find a worry stone, because it helps me calm down when I feel overwhelmed. Maybe we can walk through some less crowded part to browse?"

"Excellent suggestion, and what are we looking for as a worry stone?" Ilan asked.

"I don't know what kind of rocks and minerals you have here, Master Ilan, but I hope you have semi-precious stones or mineral rocks that have a calming effect like my hematite back home did."

"I think we can manage to find something similar, I think lirentes is what we want, right Gobin?"

"That would be the only stone I know of that doesn't absorb mental abilities nor has any other medicinal properties other than its calming nature. What do you do with your worry stone Alza?" queried Gobin.

"I rub it in my hand and hold on to it when I get nervous, Master Gobin."

"I think that we should be able to get you a stone you can hold while you are in the altering room, and it is at the compound end of the marketplace so we can walk around.

It is usually less crowded there because that is where the minerals are sold for healing purposes and some people can't handle being around them. We shall start your healer's kit while we are there since we still have a few hours."




The Freedom of Slavery Ch. 04



"Thank you Masters, for everything, and a chance to have babies as well. Do amas really not like being altered so much that they can demand such a high price for it?"

Oh shit, brothers, help this is a slippery slope!!" Gobin practically screamed, but he was able to block Alza from noticing.

"Don't look at me, I am not the doctor brother mine," Jahar replied.

"Alza, we were able to give you such a high price because you are so well-behaved and because you have a skill-set our planet doesn't seem to have. Also, we are going to enjoy some of the benefits from your price, so we thought to even it out with things we will enjoy, such as those bedroom outfits, as well as some things that we will get no benefit from, such as your locket," Lezar said, coming to Gobin's rescue.

"Nice cover brother, but I doubt she will fully buy it," Ilan complimented.

"Also, we want to enjoy your delights in our full forms sometimes, and it will be easier to get you pregnant in our cat forms," Gobin managed to add.

"Wait, you have other forms Master Gobin?"

"Damn good dodge, changing her whole thinking process and covering a gap that she might have used," Kalba commented.

"Yes, when we enter the medical center, you will see our human forms, but because we are all the coloration when we are human, our planet generally stays in their hybrid forms so that we have differences. We only go into our human form when entering a medical center or when we need healing, and that is instinct because fur can hide injuries. In our hybrid form, we are only different from the human form by our outward appearance; we have all the same organ placements and body functions that a human would. We can fully change into our animal halves, and that is our truest form. We aren't like werewolves that need the moon to change, or have to obey the whims of a full moon and must shift because it is full. It is however best if we shift into our animal form once or twice a month to let them roam around and be free," Gobin replied.

"We will be seeing how you do with the altering before we say that you might become like us. If it happens that in giving you a new reproductive system to match our females in turn gives you an animal and hybrid form, then we shall be glad to have her. That is the main reason why amas from other planets are rarely altered, because it has a chance of changing them into one of us," Gobin added.

"I am guessing that that can be painful and have lots of interesting side effects, right Master Gobin?"

"We got so lucky to find such a smart ama. Yes, many things can go wrong, including having only a hybrid form and losing your human form all together. You having an empathic ability is actually a major plus, as you have a higher chance of gaining a cat, and we know you would likely become a cheetah or leopard," Gobin answered.

"Alright Alza, if you want to get your worry-stone, you can ask your questions mentally, but for now we need to get going. We only have a couple of hours before your appointment, as it is now 8ish," Lezar reminded.

"Yes Master Lezar."



The Freedom of Slavery Ch. 05



Okay, this chapter may be a little confusing because of the times, like the end of the last chapter, but there is a reason for it and the time thing will only be used sparingly afterwards. Otherwise, enjoy, I am working on the next chapter.

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They arrived a half hour later at a much quieter part of the market, and she found that they had as great a selection of minerals as Earth did, they were just extremely different. For one, most of them glowed or levitated, or both.

Some of them made Alza want to move away from them as fast as possible, which made her bell ring. When her Masters noticed this, they chided her gently, but picked her up and moved her quickly from the stones' influence.

They stopped by a merchant selling a wide variety of stones, but none of them gave her the creeps, so she stepped closer to take a look while her Masters talked to the merchant.

"I am getting a beginner's healing kit for my ama, as she is going to be my assistant at my clinic. I also want a medium fegentes. I want a small lirentes for her now, and we can bargain for the others in a moment. It is her treat for good behavior, so I want a smooth and pretty piece," Gobin ordered.

"For the lirentes, I have this tray that you might be interested in, and all the pieces are 5 silver."

Alza and the others looked at the thumb-sized rocks the merchant indicated.

"This is for you Alza, so pick them up and tell us which one you want," Lezar said, as he guessed what Alza was waiting for.

Alza started picking up a couple of the rocks, which felt like they had just been picked up out of a cool stream. The feeling of calm and water gently lapping at her senses filled her, and then one, which had a slight ridge that was barely felt, seemed to call to her.

It was a mixture of turquoise, amethyst, peach coral, and the rainbow coloration of the inside of an oyster shell. It was shaped with a slight L bend to it, and she knew that it had chosen her as much as she was choosing it.

"This one Masters, I think it chose me as much as I choose it, is that normal?"

"Very impressive, Master Morgain, to have such a unique selection. Yes, Alza, for some veins of lirentes, they can choose who they belong to, and if you lose them, they will find you.

It sounds creepy, but it is a protecting stone as well as a calming stone if it chooses an owner, which means this vein was hard to find. I must now insist Morgain that I give you 6 or 7 silver for such a fine piece," Lezar replied.

"But I already have the other order I can bargain with, as all of my goods will be just as impressive, so I can lose a silver or two in exchange for the gold or two I can get instead," the merchant retorted with a smile.

"Well then, the bargaining begins, but before I hand it over to Ilan, I want to add that services are also on the table as well as money, though our ama is not," Lezar said, with a bow toward Ilan, the real bargainer in the bunch.

"Will you be wanting small as well as medium pieces for the kit?" the merchant asked, with a glance at Gobin.

"Yes and the cleansing kit as well."

"The cleansing kit is 2 gold, but that includes supplies as needed for 2 years. The fegentes is 10 silver. The focantes is 50 silver. One small and one medium corentes are 20 silver and 83 coppers.

10 small and one medium magentes are 20 silver, same for the 10 small and one medium fegentes. One small and one medium epentes will depend on her level, either 15 or 30 silver.

One small and one medium cornates will be 25 silver, upon testing. One small and one medium orantes are 10 silver and 50 coppers. The small and medium psychantes are 1 gold and 50 silver. One small animantes is 80 silver," the merchant replied.

"We do not know what level empath she is yet, so we will make those purchases later. So the total you wish to start is 5 gold, 85 silver, and 33 coppers correct?" Ilan clarified.

"Yes or the equivalent in trade. I have a mate who is pregnant and my brothers also have pregnant mates and cubs, so I would be willing to trade some free clinic appointments with Master Gobin and his assistant," the merchant offered.

"I charge 20 silver an hourly appointment, plus remedy costs. I charge 50 silver for births, regardless of how many hours I am there, plus supply costs. I am willing to reduce the costs to 15 plus remedy costs for 5 appointments with my ama assisting and 40 for births plus supply costs with my ama assisting for all the currently pregnant mates of you and your brothers," Gobin offered.

"If you would sign the service trade contract, to be fulfilled within 5 years, I would agree to the price of 1 gold right now, which would be deducted from the contract."

"I agree to write my offer and sign the service trade contract for a total of 4 gold, 85 silver, and 33 coppers worth of my services with my ama assisting, if you write our product receipt and sign it," Gobin replied, finishing the formal verbal contract.

And so, the purchase was made, and the names of all who were eligible for services under the contract was agreed upon. Ilan, smart bargainer that he was, made it impossible for any future cubs to be added to the contract after they were born, which the merchant didn't catch till after he had signed the contract.

"Alza, you now have a training kit as well as prospective clients. You will spend much of the next few months learning to read, studying the books I have on healing, and watching me work, but you will also learn to work with all the stones in this kit.

The reason stones are rarely used on humans is because not all humans can interact with them, but you proved today that you are able to, so any future treatment will include mineral healing," Gobin said.

"Which of the other stones will be with me while I am in the altering room Master Gobin?"

"The medium fegentes, as it helps with female hormones, and even if you weren't getting altered we would have gotten you one when we saw that you interact with the stones.

It will help ensure that the alteration is a success, though we will need to monitor you to see if you also gain a cat in the process."

"Good girl for noticing that we have been avoiding letting others know you are being altered. Untrained amas rarely get altered, and we don't want you to get too much attention right now as you haven't had any empathic training.

Ilan will go order your locket and bedroom outfits, and we will get you a special scent for your bath tonight while Gobin stays with you in the altering room," Lezar purred.

"Thank you Master Lezar, and Kalba was right, I do have more privileges then I thought I would as an ama."

After picking all the stones for the kit and Alza picking the fegentes, they left the market to go to the medical center and the second biggest change in Alza's life in a week.

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They arrived at the medical center at 11ish, having taken an hour in bargaining and another to pick all the stones. For the last hour, Alza's stomach had been protesting its empty state rather loudly, so they had been glad to make it to the medical center before others started commenting on her Master's lack of care.

As they walked through the doors, Alza was astonished to see her Masters in human form. They all had the same color eyes and hair, and they all had the same facial appearance. It was like being surrounded by clones. The Royal Physician had slightly different facial features, but he too had hazel eyes and black hair.

Though her Masters had told her that this would happen, she was still shocked by the reality.

"Alza, it is time for your appointment, so be the good ama we know you are and listen," Lezar said patiently.

"I thought we had another hour to wait Master Lezar?"

"The Royal Physician was happy to switch the appointment from 12 to 11 because his 11 o'clock wanted to have a later time," Lezar replied.

So Alza was lead into a room where she was attached to some monitors. Gobin mentioned that she could interact with the stones. The Royal Physician was extremely happy that was so, and that they had bought her a fegentes, as that would aid him immensely during the altering.

So, with a small cornates on her heart and the fegentes over her womb, she was slowly knocked out for the surgery.

During the surgery, the Royal Physician, with Gobin assisting, took out her ovaries, tubes, and uterus, as her new hormone cocktail would reject them anyway. The fegentes went silent and dull as they were removed, which was a good sign that she was ready.

They then pumped her full of female hormones while she was stitched back up so that the process for growing a new reproductive system could start. She would be knocked out for quite a while, as the remaining human hormones tried to combat the new alien ones.

When the fegentes started glowing, but not pulsing, they then injected the male hormones at a slightly lesser dose to combat the human testosterone still left. Once the fegentes started pulsing, they knew that Alza's body had completed the hormone battle, but only time would tell whether the human or alien hormones had won.

They slowly back off the sedative, and waited for Alza to come round. Once she started slowly waking up, they knew it was ok to move her to a resting room.

"Alza, we are done with the altering and we are going to carry you on a stretcher to the resting room, where you will stay overnight with us. As I was helping the Royal Physician during the altering, I know that you did fine and only time will now tell what is going to happen," Gobin told her gently.

"Master, why do I feel so strange, like a part of me is restless and anxious about being vulnerable? I feel the need to find a dark hole and hide from danger while I heal."

Gobin decided that Alza could be forgiven for forgetting his name as she had said Master, and she had just woken up from surgery. What she said after her little slip though, made him elated and worried.

"Doctor, should she be feeling her cat so soon? Doesn't it usually take a couple of days to make itself known?"

"I don't have an answer besides possibly the rewiring of her hormone center in the brain may have damaged the altered memories and she remembers danger when vulnerable.

But it could also be that her cat is acting like a newborn cub, except that she has no mother's scent that would make her feel safe. When we set her down, I will leave and you can hold her and purr and release some scent into the air to see if that works."

"Thank you Doctor, I will do just that and hope she responds."

"Alza, what do you remember? We need to make sure the sedative wasn't too strong, so go as far back as you can in as much detail as you can," Gobin prodded gently.

She proceeded to recall the last 5 days perfectly, with the expected gaps when she was unconscious or asleep, and also recalled the auction and her sale.

"Master Gobin, it gets a little fuzzy before that, but I see lots of jumbled images and a locket. It makes my head hurt to focus on them though."

"Alright, you did good, don't force yourself, but if in the next week or so the images are still fuzzy, Helius and I may need to see what is going on. Rest now, it sounds like you are going to have a cat, and I can't wait to see her."

When the brothers returned with food and an overnight bag with clothes for everyone, they found Gobin holding Alza and purring.

The room smelled like he had released some of his scent. Alza was asleep, and her scent had changed slightly.

"Brothers, we will have a new cat to be introduced to soon, as she woke up with signs of a cat stirring. As I hoped, my scent made her feel safe enough to calm down and sleep. Slowly one by one, release a little scent and let's see how she responds."

The brothers quietly put down their burdens and as Lezar released a little of his scent into the air, Alza's nose twitched slightly, and then she settled back down. One by one, the process was repeated, but by the time Helius had released his scent, they noticed she had started to purr as well.

"Damn, those outfits are going to have to wait awhile now. I was looking forward to the naughty nurse," Jahar whined.

"But Jahar, now we will have a pretty kitty AND a naughty nurse to play with. I think I can wait for the outfits if I have a pretty kitty to occupy me," Lezar commented with a smirk.

"Besides, I thought you were partial to the belly-dancing outfit," Kalba reminded him.

"I was, but I like the idea of faking a hurt that only she could cure me of," Jahar countered.

"Enough, it will be a rough couple of days for Alza, which means a dry spell for us, and I haven't even had a go yet," Ilan said, slightly...frustrated.

With that said, the brothers set up for an overnight stay, and waited for Alza to wake up.

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When Alza woke up from her nap, she found all of her Masters sitting around the bed eating lunch.

"We brought you some food Alza, put for now you need to have broth and this mash we got for you. Over the next few days, you will transform bit by bit into a cat. We heard you purring earlier, so we know that the process has already started.

While you are eating I will check to see if you are growing a new reproductive system yet. Once that has fully grown, we can take you home, but you need to stay here so you can get help immediately if something goes wrong.

I will be staying with you, as will Helius, but the others need to open their stores as they have customers waiting for orders. Until you leave, we will sleep here with you at night," Gobin told her.

"Yes Master Gobin, I can't wait to find out what my cat looks like."

With that, Gobin took out his focantes, and picked up her fegentes. He concentrated really hard, for the fegentes was being stubborn, but it finally relented and decided to cooperate. While looking at the focantes, he ran her fegentes over Alza's belly were her new organs would be, and was startled to see a small, but fully functioning system was already in place.

It looked to be the size that a newborn would have, but after confirming his eyes weren't deceiving him, he saw that it was growing before his eyes. It looked like what would be in a five year old now.

"Lezar, please track down the Royal Physician and tell him that while there is not an emergency, he may want to come running anyway," Gobin said, looking ashen and slightly shaky.

As the Royal Physician came with his own kit, and saw with his own focantes what Gobin was talking about, he called one of his staff for the body scanner, which would confirm the findings.

"Doctors, we figure that this is not a problem, but what is going on? You both look like Alza has grown another head or something," Lezar growled impatiently.

"It isn't something to be worried about, it is just freaky. Her new organs are growing very rapidly, and they were visibly growing as I examined her. That is what is making us nervous.

Here, look for yourself brothers, knowing she has only had 3 hours to grow them," Gobin replied

As everyone looked at the viewing screen of the scanner, they were just as shocked as the doctors. What they saw was a healthy adult-sized female reproductive system. To say they were shocked was an understatement.

"It usually takes a day for an altered ama to complete the formation of new organs. I want you to stay overnight, just in case your other changes are just as rapid, though I could release you now. She can have meat, and it looks like she will need plenty of it soon, but you need to remember to still give her vegetables, which you all should be eating too, and fish occasionally," the Royal Physician said, with a glare at her Masters.

"I still follow the required diet, but I can't stand the taste of fish," Gobin interjected.

"Well, she is fully capable of giving you cubs now, so feed her right. I would still give her the vitamin shake till she has fully transformed. But Lezar, you need to encourage better eating habits so that your cubs don't gain your bad habits."

"Yes Doctor, we will start eating our greens and maybe learn some new ways to cook fish, right brothers?"

They grumbled, but agreed that for the sake of any future cubs, it was worth it.

"Besides Masters, I am sure we can come up with some spices or something to make anything taste yummy."

"You're right Alza, so finish your mash and we will go get you a proper meal before the market closes. And here is your shake; you will need plenty of food once you start fully transforming," Ilan replied.

"Doctor, while you are still here, can you tell me about the transforming process?"

"Everyone is slightly different, but the body takes one bit at a time to transform. Usually it takes about a week, as the limbs then the torso transform, with a tail added, and then the head is last. They will transform into cat form, and can't change back in human form until a full transformation has occurred.

This happens with Felanids as well when they hit puberty, if they were born human, so this process is normal, yours is just faster than anticipated. For some reason, if our young are born as cubs they have no problem from birth changing forms."

"Doctor, could it be that those people were more human in personality than cat? I know that I have many habits and tastes that are more cat-like than human, such as I hate feeling wet, dogs have always annoyed me, and I like luxurious fabrics.

My cat and I used to have fights over who would get the most comfy pillows and blankets, which I of course won. Could that be why my cat is emerging more quickly than usual?"

"That is a thought to consider, especially as your panther has decided to let herself be known," the Royal Physician replied, pointing at her right leg.

"I was wondering why my leg was tingly and my cat was telling me to take your up on your offer to stay for the next 24 hours. If I am hearing her right Doctor, Masters, then I will be fully transformed within that time.

At the moment, the lower portion of her leg was a cat leg, but the fur and transformation was traveling upwards as they watched.

"Masters, do I have spots or rosettes? My cat won't tell me, she just told me to see for myself, but I don't want to risk moving right now."

Her fur was extremely dark, so no one could see what she had yet, but as the transformation reached her hip, it stopped for a moment.

"Brothers, Doctor, look at her ankle and tell me I am seeing what I think I am seeing, because this is impossible," Gobin exclaimed, shaken by what he was seeing.

They all had to blink for a second, but as it had reached up her "calf", they realized it was indeed possible for an altered ama to have white tiger stripes, the usual sign of a sarzan.

"Alza, did your cat tell you it was a tiger or panther?" Lezar asked, shaken.

"She is telling me to wait for the other limbs to start getting fur before I demand answers. I am sorry Masters, apparently my cat doesn't approve of my social status and its protocols, because that was the third time she has been impertinent and has wanted to say much worse."

"As you have a cat and if the coloration continues as it does, you may have a different social status anyway. The tsarzan needs to see this Doctor, and tell him that her cat is being shameful, not her. I have been hearing the tail end of things when she has asked her cat questions because it is projecting to me, not her.

I can tell Alza because the cat voice has a distinct purr, so I know that you are trying to be good while your cat is basically being a brat," Lezar said.

The other leg had started transforming now, and the fur was as black as her left. The tsarzan had arrived, and after talking with her cat himself, was convinced that Lezar was right, and settled in to wait for what surprise her cat was guarding so closely. It was only 3 hours later when they were able to figure out what this leg's pattern would be, and it was a reverse jaguar rosette pattern, golden brown on black.




The Freedom of Slavery Ch. 06



Okay, in this chapter we meet Alza's cat, and things get interesting. Most of the basic everyday details have been given, so it will start sounding less formulaic and more like a story. I love feedback, but if you have issues with how things are in the story, just bear with me, and I will see what I can do to fix it. Enjoy! 




In the morning, around 10ish the brothers woke up to see a beautiful hybrid on the bed instead of the cat they had last seen. She was a perfect combination of Alza's human features and her cat's deadly grace. 

She had a panther's jaw on her more human skull, but her cat had shifted her facial features so that she was able to keep a human brain, her skull had the jaws, snout, eyes, and ears of a jaguar panther, without the rosettes. Her scent had changed, she now smelled like a female cat with a slight hint of musk, and they noticed that she had kept her tail. Not all hybrids kept their tail, so the fact that Alza chose to keep hers was interesting. As they watched, she started to wake up and look around.

"Good morning Masters, I apologize for my cat, but when I told her she should not be so rude, she swatted me with her paw, not even bothering to sheath her claws, and told me it was her time to be free, and I could enjoy being caged for awhile. Masters, is that normally how cats act when they haven't been free in awhile?"

"Your cat may have been upset at being vulnerable as well as finally being free. Our cats like to run and hunt and be free from all restraints, but she couldn't do that. It doesn't excuse how she acted, but it is understandable," Jahar told her. 

"I summoned up a big stick when she let me out and gave her a few good raps on the flanks for behaving that way when you have done nothing but care for me. I also told her that I can recommend tail clamps if she decides to act like that without talking with me first. Masters, she told me that we have to give you some options for punishments, but other than a couple that I don't know that I could handle, she didn't give me any ideas, so I will give one of hers and two of mine."

"From what she was showing me last night, we would have to get some toys from Ilan's private section of the shop, but you would have to be cleared for 'active duty' for her naughty ideas," Jahar said, smirking.

"Yes Master Jahar, you are precisely right, hence why I thought they were bad ideas."

"Jahar, do I want to know what I would have to grab?" Ilan asked, blushing slightly.

"One or two of everything, and we would even have to have a couple of things custom made, because apparently sex is a big business on Earth and they have literally millions of options of toys. Our Alza used to be VERY adventurous," Jahar said with a leer.

"Okay, back on topic, but since the rest of us are still curious, what was your cat's suggestion Alza?" Lezar asked, adjusting his pants to accommodate the slight bulge. "Masters, the one idea of her I agreed to present was that I had to walk home with a dildo in me, in human form, and have me bell ring less than five times or I would be spanked for each one after that. My first idea was that I had to get my tattoo without any pain meds and I could not make a sound or I would be spanked. My second idea was that I be left in a room by myself for an hour after I had been aroused, and tied so that I couldn't take care of the arousal."

"I like your cat's idea, but that would be too hard for you right now, so good thinking on that. I like your first idea, but I would add that you had to learn to read today, and finish one beginner's book as well," Lezar said.

"I think being kept indoors for most of today, getting a tattoo, and learning to read are going to be perfect punishments for a new emerged cat, as all of those will test her patience and your control," Kalba said.

The others agreed that Lezar and Kalba would stay with Alza while she got her tattoo, since they had her papers to prove her new status, and that the others would pick up groceries and check on their stores. When everyone got home, Gobin would spend the rest of the day teaching Alza to read, and control her cat.

"Alza, to help you until we get home, Helius will help Jahar walk your mind so they can talk with your cat. If she is rude, they will take care of it with no need for further punishment. They will try to convince her that it is in her best interest not to give you any trouble till we get home," Lezar explained.

Then, suddenly, Alza saw Helius and Jahar walking up to an image of herself in her mind.

"It is just us, you can come along while we find where you cat decided to hide for the moment," Helius told her.

"Masters, I can just lead you to her instead, though I have to warn you, she is very pissed at the moment, something about halting the processes of nature and other rude things she said about you all."

They found her cat in a jungle setting, but her cat was somewhat occupied fighting with a ghostly image of herself. She managed to tackle it and make it submit, before turning to her visitors.

"Alza, what do you want from me, I gave you control for now, leave me alone so I can stop the heat cycle from coming, that is enough of a problem without you bitching at me adding to it."

"I see what you mean by her being pissed Alza, but are you telling me you should be in heat now?" Jahar said, stunned.

"Yes, and what you saw me battling was Mother Nature, and I won for the moment. As you already know, I am Kali. I don't want to have to split my focus right now, and while I probably should apologize for being a complete bitch right now, I think I have good reason, since I am newly formed, haven't even had a chance to run and be free, and I am fighting to delay the greatest urge of them all to give Alza and the society we live in the time to realize I am here to stay. 

Oh, and while I am at it, you were right thinking I am not a low-ranking cat; I could probably give you a run for your money once I had some training. You will have a week, by the way, before I can't fight it any longer. Were I a weaker cat, she would have jumped you when she woke up from the surgery, by the way."

"Okay, Kali, I can understand why you are acting like this, and I think your battle is enough of a punishment for your rudeness. It is also obvious there will be no disturbing you for integration training. We only have a week? And do we really need all those toys?" Jahar asked.

"Yes, Master," she said with a sneer and a contemptuous flick of her tail, "we only have a week to get Alza here ready for the fuck session of her life, the most intense feelings ever, and to lock her up away from every other male in the den-site, possibly even the next den-site. The toys are for when all of you are exhausted and limp, because that is the side effect of me fighting to give you a week. Our first heat will last 12-14 days at full strength."

The brothers looked at each other, with the mirrored expression of "Oh fuck" on their faces.

"Thank you Kali for the warning, but can you do us one last favor and show us your mark before we leave you to it?" Helius asked, waiting to see if she would swipe his head off.

She drew the equivalent of the yin-yang symbol, the differences being that instead of black and white, it was blood red and turquoise blue, with the symbol for life written in turquoise in the spot where the white dot would be and the symbol for death in red where the black dot would be.

"Halzan indeed brother, she could be on the same level as us with enough training," Helius whispered in awe. 

With that, they left Kali to her battle and to tell their brothers that Alza was beginning to show a pattern of always keeping them on their toes.

@@@ "So, what did she say, is she going to be a good cat?" Lezar asked impatiently.

"Brother, we got a MAJOR problem, and to answer your question, yes, she will be a good cat, but she is occupied at the moment," Jahar said.

"It can't be that bad, so what is it?" Gobin asked, perplexed.

"It can be, and then some. Her cat, whose name is Kali by the way, is fighting Mother Nature to give us a week before her heat cycle comes with a vengeance. Kali said it is going to last 12-14 days, at full strength, with a scent perimeter of the entire den-site, maybe even going as far as Moonblade or SunSwallow. Oh, and her symbol is the eternal balance, which means she is a halzan at the very least." Helius informed them.

After a few moments of stunned silence, the brothers started cussing in their own creative ways, half of which were physically impossible or highly improbable. The gods were cursed, but luckily they chose not to smite them for such vulgar use of their names.

"Apparently the tsarzan does have a problem to deal with, even if it is not an ama-sarzan anomaly. No, he has to deal with an ama-halzan who will occupy his best defenders for two weeks, and who could cause a war by going into heat," Lezar lamented.

"At least it isn't a war on two fronts; Kali only mentioned the possibility of affecting another den-site. Do you remember when sarzan Sistenza went into heat for the first time?" Kalba replied

"How could I forget, we had to warn Moonblade and SunSwallow 4 days in advance, yet we still had to fight off half their warriors when she started giving off scent in the middle of the night," commented Ilan.

"Masters, what is going on, why do you all look like you are preparing for D-day?"

"If you are making a reference to an epic battle again, then that is exactly what we are preparing for. We need to get you cleared to return home quickly and get your tattoo done. We need to tell the tsarzan about what is going on and have him figure out how to speed up the proclamation ceremony, and get our shield room reinforced or use the tsarzan's level 9 containment room. At least we have a week, but that is still cutting it close. Is that all or is there something more we should know?" Lezar said, thinking.

"Kali mentioned that she is going to wear us all out and still be in full cycle, so we better bring toys to keep her occupied," Jahar commented dryly

"Dear Zorcon, as if we didn't have enough problems, we are going to have a nymphomaniac for 2 straight weeks! I am sure we will have to get toys so she doesn't fuck our dicks off," Gobin muttered.

"Alza, your cat has just told us that if she wasn't battling to give us the time to prepare, you would have been begging for us to fill you once-twice an hour, every hour, since you got out of surgery. That is what your cat is telling us is going to happen for not the usual one, but two weeks! Luckily, every a couple of days you will sleep for a few hours, but you will be humping something the entire time. 

You will attract every male within your scent perimeter, and they will try to get to you to mate with you. Only with a scent-proof reinforcement chamber can we guarantee that we will have some peace, because we will have to leave to get food, and then others will get a whiff of your scent. 

We will have to go through your proclamation ceremony within the week, and it may cause your cat to lose the battle, which would get all of us attacked by every male in the den-site, maybe even the tsarzan. You will have almost everything being put on hold again, but at least this time we can blame the tsarzan for part of the problem," Gobin explained.

"And here is the good Doctor to the rescue," exclaimed Helius.

"I heard quite a ruckus, and when I figured out it was coming from in here, I went to get the tsarzan, which is becoming quite the routine I might add."

"And we shall wait till he gets here to explain the potential cluster-fuck we have now," Lezar replied.

@@@ When the tsarzan arrived, the brothers told him and the Royal Physician what they knew. She was cleared for light activity, but any strenuous activities were to be saved for her heat cycle. It seemed that much would need to get done in that week, but the proclamation ceremony would be held in 2 days, the tsarzan's shield room would be prepared and the freezer would be fully-stocked to last 16 days, (to get everyone in the day before and to give the cycle an extra day), and the tsarzan would change the guardian rotation so that the brothers' shift was next month. 

Ilan and Alza would pick out the "necessities" from his collection in the back room, and Ara would be watched by the neighbors. But, other than doing some training and getting their business affairs in order, the tsarzan would take care of everything.

For that day, Alza would get the agreed upon punishment, but she would have to learn to read quickly because the next day she was to learn some focus training with her healer's kit. So, after she got her calzan tattoo on her shoulder, she had her symbol tattooed on her back in a cat paw along side her Masters' tattoos. 

When they got home, Alza was left in Gobin's hands for her book reading, while the others got their shops ready to be closed for two weeks and checked on the items they ordered. Alza was asked if she knew how to read hieroglyphs. 

Apparently, the main alphabet and symbol language of Felanids was middle kingdom hieroglyphs and some Norse runes. Since she had seen hieroglyphs and runes before, but never learned to read them, she was given a codex with the basic symbols to learn.

"Master Gobin, may I ask a few questions before I dive into learning these symbols?"

"If it will help you concentrate better, then yes you may."

"Why does our species use hieroglyphs? I thought those were part of an Earth language, and there have been a lot of strange parallels to Earth, why is that?"

"Damn, you had to ask the questions that will take a while to explain, didn't you? Ok, the short version is, when the monotheistic religions started kicking out the old religions, the gods got tired of it and decided that since they made Earth, they could make a couple of new planets, with a creature of their choosing being the human counterpart. 

So, the Egyptian gods who were part of the original pantheons became our gods, and we made new names for them. Many of the gods combined for strength, as some didn't have a strong following on Earth which made it hard for them to leave. The longer a god or goddess was worshiped, and the more worshipers they had, the stronger they were. 

The ones that chose cats as their chosen creature made us as their human counterpart. A different set of gods chose dogs, and another chose bears, but all three sets of gods made this planet, so they all have their chosen ones here. Other planets have birds, reptiles, monkeys, fish, and all the other scientific families. 

Because some people on Earth still believe in the old gods, we occasionally get bits of Earth knowledge, just as Earth occasionally gets bits of our knowledge, but we evolved differently as a society and people, and the gods are not as heavy-handed as they were on Earth, so we worship them, and as most of our chosen gods want nothing more than the balance of order and chaos, we worship them through upholding the side of order. The Canids and Ursids have one god that they share that makes them our mortal enemy, your Earth god Set." 

"Why do I have Cyrillic and Arabic in my tattoos as well as hieroglyphs Master Gobin?"

"Those are the languages of the Canids and Ursids, so our neighboring trouble-makers would know who they stole you from."

"Master Gobin, where do the Norse runes come in, and how do you know about chakra healing?"

"Odin replaced his Valkyries with our royal caste of walzan, tsarzan, and sarzan, hence why they seem to have the wisdom of the ages sometimes. While the gods were deciding how to divide and make the new planets, some of the gods exchanged ideas. The Buddha noticed they were leaving and advised them to talk to the Hindu gods before they left about their sacred texts. The chakras were one of the ideas they took with them."

"Master Gobin, wasn't the jaguar a powerful symbol of some very war-like cultures? Did those gods leave as well?"

"Thank Zathera, no; the winged jaguar and those blood-crazed gods were left back on Earth. They weren't strong enough on their own, even combined, to leave, and none of the other war gods wanted anything to do with them. Zathera is the goddess of healing and the mind. Now enough questions, start reading these books on working with healing stones," Gobin told her. 

And so, with the codex as a guide, she was able to read the basics of how to focus the mind into a meditative state so that a piece of the person's will could be focused upon a stone. The easiest to influence was the focantes, because without a person to focus it, it had no purpose. 

Since her first self-working would be to confirm she was pregnant and the sex of the cubs after her heat cycle, she was told that it would be easier if she worked with her focantes and her fegentes if she wanted to apply anything she was reading, as those would be the most important stones for her to use on herself. So, when she had read the basic idea of what to do, she asked Gobin if she could practice with her focantes. So, Gobin brought in her healer's kit.

"If you can tell me which one is your focantes, you can work with it. You can work with your fegentes later, not today."

"Yes Master Gobin."

She picked up the clear flat rock that was glowing a milky white. As she had picked the right one, Gobin sat nearby with his own reading while she practiced focusing her will upon the focantes.

"For right now Alza, don't think about any one chakra; that makes it really difficult; just try to get it to change color. In its simplest use, it can tell the mood of a person and give you the corresponding color."

While she had read about that, she had wanted to try to focus it to give her a picture of her cat, but Gobin's idea seemed like a better start. As she was calm right now, according to what she had been reading the focantes should turn a sky blue if she focused correctly. A few minutes later, with a good deep breaths, she opened her eyes to feel a slight warm radiating form the stone, and it was glowing a light blue.

"Very good Alza, now come over to me, I will feel a different emotion, and you have to tell me what you find. If you get it right, when everyone gets back, we will try the full gambit of emotions with them."

"Yes Master Gobin, this is kinda fun." 

It turned out, that it took her longer to focus her will to read someone else, as for the first few tries, she still had the same color blue, and Gobin assured her that the reading he was giving was a different color. 

Within 20 minutes, she had successfully got it to change to a pulsating red, which when she looked meant anger if it was pulsing faster and frustrated if it was slower. Sexual frustration had streaks of pink shooting through it, but she saw none of those.

"You are giving off frustration, right Master Gobin?"

"Correct, now go read on the magentes and fegentes then you will be done with your punishment."

"Yes Master Gobin." 

@@@ After dinner that night, in which everyone was eating their greens, though the brothers grimaced at having to eat vegetables; they decided to do some training to pass the time. 

Because they all knew that next week they would be getting all the sex they could want and more, they instead taught Alza various different protocols and their meanings, and explained more about the proclamation ceremony; the various formal words and what she needed to say. 

Once she had been training about how to act in various situations for a week or two, a protocol tester would give her various scenarios that she would have to tell him the correct answers for, as well as act some of them out. 

Basically it was like getting your driver's license, but in this case she was getting the status of being trained, i.e. she could be trusted to behave. Then she would have the freedom to shop for herself, treat her own patients, and speak in public on her own behalf, as well as leave the den-site. 




The Freedom of Slavery Ch. 07



Ok, more excitement, please don't be mad with the seriously annoying cliffhanger, I am going to finish it quickly! It will be worth the wait, as the REALLY good stuff is coming, as it is hinted about in the chapter. Enjoy! 

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Luckily, the evening market was much calmer than the morning or afternoon markets; mostly because all the food products couldn't last 8 hours in the sun, so all the food shoppers had come and gone. The evening market did have some food vendors, but these were treat vendors, such as candy and dessert vendors. Their wares would have melted in the day's heat, but as the temperature dropped slightly, the merchants had no such worries. It made it easier for Alza to walk around and enjoy the market's splendors. The group stopped at a candy vendor so that Alza could get her treats.

It turned out that candy meant either plain saltwater taffy or sugar crystal rocks, either on a stick or in pieces that could fill the palm of a hand. Alza got a pink hand crystal, a blue hand crystal, a rainbow stick of crystals and two pieces of the saltwater taffy. Then they went to the silversmith's store, which was in a different part of town in which the fastest way to get there was through the market.

When they got to the silversmith's shop, Alza took a good look at all the finely crafted jewelry on display. She saw leashes and collars, anklets and bracelets, chokers and earrings, toe-rings and body piercings, waist-lets and sword or dagger sheaths. All were ornately designed with flowers, big cats, mythical creatures, and some characters she hadn't come across yet.

"Masters, what do these symbols mean?"

Lezar leaned over to see what she was looking at, "Those right there are prayers to Zorcon, as they are asking for the blades housed within the sheaths to never fail their owner. These on the waist-lets are to both Zathena and Xixi, the protector of females and goddess of war and female warriors and the goddess of fertility and femininity. They are thanking the goddesses for the beauty of the female and asking that she forever have the choice of what happens to her body and who she shares it with.  

These on the collar are also prayers to Zathena, but they are asking for the protection of a female ama and that she forever have the choice of what is done with her body and that she stays in the hands of good Masters."

"Does my collar also have prayers to Zathena Master Lezar?"

"Yes, you can look at it when we get home, but yours also has our marks on it, where as this one has no owner marks. Would you like a silver as well as a gold ama set? Or would you rather get something else?" Lezar asks.

"Can I see what our cubs would get when they are born Master Lezar? I assume as cubs must have leashes that they need something like what I have?"

"Good thinking Alza, their leashes should be a different color than yours. We can get silver leashes later, but cubs are given leather harnesses to wear, as cubs grow so fast that it would be harmful and expensive to keep replacing their collars if we got them like yours. As soon as you find out how many and the sex of our cubs, we will get their leashes and harnesses." Lezar replied.

"Brother, you forget, the magentes or fegentes brooch, she could help us pick a style for those now," Ilan reminded him.

"And would you like to see my selection of those Lezar?"

"If you don't mind, and when we have picked the style, we would like a pair of earrings in the same style with the stone chip additions," Lezar ordered.

The smith/merchant led them over to a display case. A wide selection of various styles; such as Celtic knots, flowers, paw prints, and various symbols that looked to be prayers; all were displayed in lengths of silver chain with a stone setting that was empty.

"Masters these look so small, how do they fit properly?"

"Once the magentes or fegentes is placed inside, it has a magic that changes the length to match the growth of whomever the stone belongs to. When the cubs are born, we will have a stone seller, probably Morgain, come with a wide selection of magentes and fegentes so that our cubs find their stone.

Then we will wait a few days, then come and pick up the necklaces or brooches and have the stones placed inside. Which reminds me; we should do that with your fegentes. Master Merrock, do you have any brooches for a medium fegentes?" Lezar asked.  

"If I can see the stone for a moment, I will see which in the selection could support it."

With a look at her Masters, for which she got a nudge in reply, she handed over her fegentes which she had been holding onto since she got it. With a quick feel at the weight of it, and its size, he took a look at what he already had out and pointed out some of the more necklace length brooches. As she took her fegentes back, it guided her hand closer to one with mini dragons forming the links of the chain.

"Looks like we found the one, if you could set it for us, we will browse some more and bargain at the end." Lezar stated.

As the smith/merchant left to set the stone, the brothers and Alza debated over a few choice designs.

"I like the idea of continuing the dragon theme, seeing as how Alza seems to like them," Kalba commented.

"But I think we should wait till we know whether we have males or females or both. Dragons may not work if we have a cub that is more feminine, to which a flowery pattern would look better. We could also have a cub that could be of our strength and so has the crossed swords like we all did," Ilan said.

"I think we should just go with the paw prints, which work for either gender, and have the leashes be engraved to fit the personality of each cub. We all know that every cub born has a cat, so it isn't like necklaces won't be appropriate," added Jahar.

"I like that idea Master Jahar; I think we should go with that."

"Well, Alza has spoken, and as the mother-to-be she would know best, so we shall ask for those when the time comes," Lezar said.

"Here are some empty earring sets with paw prints, I think these will be perfect for our mother-to-be," Gobin said.

At that moment, the smith/merchant came back with the brooch, as well as the locket they had originally come for. He also had one of those contracts she had seen when they had purchased her healer's kit. Just like last time, Ilan took over the bargaining, and her healing services were offered.

"I was hoping that this purchase could be used to get a new war bow at your shop Lezar, is that not on the table?"

"At the moment, Alza is still in training, and she is to be proclaimed tomorrow, as well as she is to go into heat soon. We want to train her when we can, and this is only the second bargain she has seen, so we were hoping would be willing to let her practice her bargaining skills with you?" Ilan asked.

"In that case, the pre-orders of the cubs' necklaces and her earrings I will gladly bargain with her on, or would it be easier to bargain the whole purchase?"

"The locket was part of her altering price, so we must buy that separately," Ilan said.

"She had her memories altered as well as her body, but on orders from the tsarzan, nothing is to be said that would indicate she had her memories altered for at least a week, and it has only been three days," Gobin cautioned.

"Ok, the locket is 20 silver. You can pay that up front while I bargain with your ama for the rest of the purchase. Your brooch is 20 silver, to pre-order the cubs' necklaces is 5 silver for a minimum order of 4, for which upon purchase they will be 10 silver each. Your earrings are 5 silver; which brings your total to 45 silver."

"My Master Gobin would have to watch over my appointments, as I am not fully trained yet, but I am willing to do 2 appointments at 20 silver each, with the extra bonus of a possible third appointment to cover the upon purchase price. Whatever is left, will be paid in coin at purchase, in three weeks. Does that sound good Masters?"

"Why three weeks, I should be able to get it within two, as you will know how many cubs you will have by then?"

"Her heat is going to last two weeks," Gobin added dryly.

"Dear Zorcon, ok three weeks it is, with 2 appointments confirmed for me or my brothers, with the remaining balance to be determined upon purchase of the number of necklaces. That works for me, but does she have a signature?"

"We haven't had time to show her, or get her symbol stamp, but if her name will suffice for now, as well as our family symbol, we agree," Ilan said.

And so, Alza signed her very first service trade contract, and was given her first purchase receipt. It was a major step toward becoming a trained ama, and so to celebrate, the brothers decided to let her pick out the toys they would use during her heat at Ilan's shop, which was just a few blocks away.

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While Ilan's selection was very small compared to Earth's standards it did have a surprising variety. Though Alza had not seen anything that would have indicated they knew how to make motorized anything, she saw at least two or three different vibrators. She saw four sizes of dildos, what appeared to be anal lube, harnesses and play whips, blindfolds and limb restraints made of cloth, rope, and metal.

"Masters, are those vibrators, I didn't think you were able to make such things?"

"We have primitive batteries, but they are solar powered and have three hours of use before needing an hour or so in the sun. They are really only used in novelty items such as these, as they naturally make whatever they are used in vibrate. Let me guess, a favorite from back home you never thought you would see again?" Ilan queried.

"Vibrators and dildos on Earth are known as a girl's best friend, and are often used as substitutes when their sexual partner is gone or not available, Master Ilan, so yes, I had quite the selection for when I didn't have a man in my life."

"I guess that we will be needing quite a few sets of batteries once our batteries are dry, right Alza?" Jahar said with a leer.

"Yes Master Jahar, one clit vibe and this larger dildo here, as well as a few days worth of batteries should last me through the dry spells," Alza replied with a wink and full body shudder.

"I want to also get some cloth and metal restraints, but Ilan, where are the clamps?" Lezar asked with disappointment.

"I keep them hidden, because very few of my customers ask for them and most are repulsed by them. A full set Lezar or just the nipple clamps?"

"A full set, plus the sparker," Lezar replied with a mischievous grin.

"Lezar, you are getting as bad as Jahar, but all right. We don't want to use the sparker often, and definitely not once we know she is pregnant," Gobin cautioned.

"Masters, what is a sparker?"

"It is used to give a mild electric-like jolt to the clamps, mostly the clit clamp. Because it uses the body's own electric field to set off the "spark" to is mostly a once a session sort of thing; as it can cause permanent harm to the body's electrical flow, to the point that it can stop the heart if used too often," Ilan answered.

"It could kill the cubs if I am pregnant, couldn't it?"

"Alza, we promise to only use it once during the beginning of your heat, we would never endanger our cubs. But if it still makes you uncomfortable, we will not get it, ok," Helius told her.

"I guess as long as we use it safely, and I can use it on some nipple clamps on you, I am ok with it Masters."

"I like this idea, it has potential," Jahar said, imagining Alza teasing them with it after they had used it to give her a massive orgasm.

"Jahar, save that kinky shit for next week, and speaking of kinky shit, we need cock rings and harnesses for us," Kalba said.

They finally agreed on all the toys they needed; a clit vibrator, a full set of limb restraints made of cloth as well as a set made of metal, a medium-sized strap-in dildo, (which was something Alza had never seen before), a full set of clamps and the sparker, six cock rings, a large dildo that could be attached to the wall, and a mounting rack.

The last item was for her comfort in cat form, as it supported her weight and took the male's full weight off her hind quarters. It had a platform for her to balance her upper torso that was cushioned, and it had a platform on top, that the male spread his weight over so that his full weight wasn't on top of her.

"Kali got a look at the mounting rack and said thank Zathena you decided to get that, as we will need it."

"After hearing that we will be fucking like mad for 2 weeks, even we will need a little help balancing our weight after that!" Jahar said.

At that moment, everyone's stomachs started to protest the late evening hour at the same time.

"Ok, let's go feed our ravenous selves, then do a run through of the proclamation ceremony, how does that sound?" Lezar stated.

With that said, they all went home to prepare for the momentous ceremony tomorrow.

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Even with the practice run last night, Alza and Kali were still nervous. Their Masters had explained that the tsarzan would give a brief introduction of who she was, who her owners were, and what he thought she could contribute to the den-site. She would be in the middle of the arena wearing a black cloak, the color of death.

She was to wear this as a symbol of the death of her old life and identity. She would not wear her ama jewelry or her leash and collar while in the arena, because as soon as she was asked by the crowd to prove her worth, she would shed the cloak and transform into her cat, and then battle the sarzan. As the tsarzan was male, and she was female, he would have an unfair sex advantage.

All she had to do in the battle was show her abilities, minus the empathic one, and last as long as she could in physical battle with the sarzan. She was a strong empath with no training, so the crowd would have no issue not seeing that, as her lack of training could cause others to be effected.

"Masters, what about my poisonous claws? They don't drip, and they can kill upon entering the bloodstream, Kali told me so."

"Just show what you can without causing permanent damage. The physical battle is the important thing," Lezar told her.

So, there they were, in the middle of the arena, their Masters in a ground level box seat, waiting for the crowd to finish getting to their seats and the arrival of the tsarzan and sarzan.

"Males and females, citizens of the den-site, may I have your attention. We have gathered today to proclaim the new citizen status of a female ama. She will be given the title of ama-calzan, but her actions here today may warrant warrior training. Her name was ama Alza of the brothers Malzan Shadow-bane. Her new name shall be ama-calzan Alza of the brothers Malzan Shadow-bane.

She has an empathic ability that has not been trained, her cat can imitate other cat coats, though her coat is non-patterned black, and she has poisonous claws. She will be trained as a healer, as her training before becoming an ama was that of a mind-healer. Her trainer in this and her empathic abilities will be Malzan, carzan Gobin Shadow-bane.

I think that she will bring to this den-site a capable healer of the body and the mind, an ama worthy of going through patrols with her Masters and being a battle healer along side her Master Gobin Shadow-bane, and a potential mother of gifted cubs. Let her now prove my words."

Those were the words that Alza and Kali had been waiting for. They had already decided to show the same coat pattern that she had finished with during her transformation, and to keep the poison from their claws. Now it was the time for Kali to prove the tsarzan's words, and be worthy of her Masters and her den-site.

As soon as the tsarzan said the words, they whipped of the cloak, and within the blink of a second, Kali stood before the crowd in all her unique glory, and roared like a lion. The sarzan then stepped into the arena, amid cheers, and shifted into full cat form, roaring a reply to the challenge, though everyone knew it was a losing fight for Kali.

Kali was a magnificent specimen of her panther species, but the sarzan was a Siberian tiger, which as a female she could weigh up to half a ton. Kali was only a tenth of that, at 100 lbs, so while the sarzan had brute power, Kali has speed and agility. The sarzan was not allowed to use any of her abilities, except in defense, but Kali was expected to show that she was capable of defending herself and able to put up a decent fight.

Kali made the first move, as was expected of a potential warrior, and ran in a frontal charge at the sarzan. The sarzan braced herself for impact, but at the last second Kali jumped over her and hamstringed her left hind leg.

While the sarzan was pleasantly amused, she would heal nicely as Kali had done a very clean cut; the rest of the crowd cheered with impressed elation. Gobin, who was not ten feet from the action, could see that Kali had cut the tendons clean through, which he had not taught her how to do.

Kali then turned her coat into a full lion coat, matching the color of the arena floor perfectly as she trotted around to face her opponent. That brought startled gasps, as the tsarzan had said nothing of chameleon blending, because neither he nor her Masters had known.

When the dust had settled, Kali moved in a slow stalk toward the sarzan's right flank, as if to hamstring both back legs. That wasn't her plan at all. She wanted the sarzan to pivot to protect her right rear leg so that she could instead go for her left front leg, and give it a clean break.

As the sarzan did what Kali hoped, she rushed in, did a back flip over the sarzan to land on her unprotected left side, and gave her a clean break to her left front leg. She also gave her a claw wound on her shoulder upon impact.

Even though the sarzan was impressed, she was not in the mood for clever battle tactics being used to kick her ass, especially when an untrained ama was doling it out, so she ignored the pain and before Kali could move away, she fell with a controlled drop onto her. With Kali carefully pinned so as to cause no broken bones or other damage, the sarzan gave a roar of challenge, trying to convince Kali to admit defeat.

"Bitch, you win this time, but that was a low blow. My next move was going to allow us some dignity without making it seem like I was throwing the fight. All you would have had to do was give me one good swipe of your paw when I leap back over you and I would have landed on my back so you could do the choke-hold. I guess getting laid for the next two weeks while under your roof by my six hung Masters will just have to work as the perfect pay-back."

"While I should tell your Masters that you have quite a mouth and no sense of respect for authority, I like your spirit and I know you are right. When I first saw Lezar I hoped he was my mate, but that was not to be, as my mate died on patrol along the Felicanid border before I could ever meet him.

Luckily, I know he will be reborn soon in the den-site, so I can wait. Good show by the way, I am impressed, and I will be among those who will speak for you to be allowed to become an ama-halzan once you have been trained."

"Lezar, your ama is impressive, but I want to see her as a patient as soon as she is healer trained. If she is this good in battle, and her battle prowess was barely mentioned, I want to see how good her real talents are. I will pay half price, the other half being my word that she is worth going to as a healer. I will also mention that I believe she is worthy of becoming an ama-halzan at her training tests."




The Freedom of Slavery Ch. 08



This has been my favorite chapter so far, and not just because of the mating scenes, but because it is the most real the characters have been so far. Yes, this chapter has a cliffhanger as well, but again I am writing the next chapter as quickly as I can. Thank you all for the encouraging comments, they make my muse do the happy dance! Enjoy.

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While the tsarzan had his work cut out trying to keep the whole den-site from panicking, Lockhoy ran to get the walzan, and the brothers got packed for an extra three days at the compound; Alza and Kali started working on their bond, or at least Alza was.

"Kali, we have shown we can be one, why are you still fighting the connection to become one?"

"You have to promise on your life that you will let the walzan tell them, which he will by the end of the day. Promise, and I will tell you."

"I know I probably shouldn't, but yes I promise. Are you sure that no one will be able to pick up on our conversation right now?"

"Since you promised, I will tell you from the beginning, and it will answer your question. We aren't just god-touched, we are gods-touched, as in multiple gods, as in almost in the same league as a walzan when it comes to the gods.

It is because we are unique, we are a bishop in the chess game of the gods. Our powers, and those of our cubs and mates, will be determined upon what is needed to keep the balance in this area against the Canids and Ursids. Zathena herself is shielding this conversation, and Xixi has been helping me stop the heat from coming.

While the walzan has been told to wait for us, he didn't know that we were what he was waiting for, so he will be getting in on things soon."

"We had a flashback on the way here and our memories altered for a reason, and while the altering was necessary, it will be reversed eventually, but the gods will help us deal with it by letting the memories come back only as quickly as we can handle them.

You could not handle them on your own, your personality by itself was not strong enough to not be damaged from them. With me to help you, we will conquer them. As to why I am fighting the connection, it is because we have two mates instead of one.

Don't worry, we will connect, we just can't until we let the walzan handle the reaction to that issue, as having two mates is not only rare, it is not seen in a hundred years rare.

You think the reaction by the tsarzan was bad now, it would be MUCH worse from our Masters if they didn't know before we started our heat. I am ordered by the gods not to tell anyone, not even you who they are, but know that we have met them."

"Can you at least tell me about the whole 'mates' thing and what the bad reaction would be? I am guessing that is what got the tsarzan so damn pissed."

"He had good reason to be pissed, as we are going into heat, our mate would sense it in his soul that it was time to find us and fight off other males, if he wasn't close enough to smell us. Our mate, in his mind and as it is most of the time, would have to be our equals or stronger than us, which he will find out is going to be really damn difficult to find.

Our full strength will match a walzan's, though we will only be that strong in battle. If our Masters weren't our mate, they would fight to the death to keep us and breed us, upon instinct, as our scent would cause them to not think rationally.

He knows this, and is praying to the whole damn pantheon that one of our Masters is our mate. Poor bastard is going to have a heart attack when he finds out we have two mates! He will think our Masters signed their death warrants when they signed our contract."

"While it sounds like he has good reason to be upset, at least tell me it will be resolved peacefully?"

"It will, but I can't say any more than that, as I have already said too much."

"Ok, so can you tell me about the gods' connection and how it will affect our mates and cubs?"

"Our cubs will be god-touched as well, and our family will go down in history as the Warriors of the Gods, though when it is known to everyone in the den-site, we will be known as the Equalizers.

Basically, Set and Loki have been hiding some mischief they have been working on. The gods call it mischief, I call it a cluster-fuck that will bring Ragnorak, the Apocalypse, and make the threat of the Cold War seem like a tea party.

When the gods left and made these planets, they swore they would never allow for prehistoric Earth species to be made or allowed to live if they appeared. Set and Loki brought back the short-faced bear in the Ursids, and the dire wolf in the Canids. They already have a small family of each, though they have few abilities, thank Zorcon.

Our gods will keep to the oath, but Odin kept a card up his sleeve for years, knowing that Loki was up to no good. We are Odin's spare ace in the hole."

"I think this news will get some very interesting reactions from the tsarzan when he hears this. I already think what he said earlier fits this scenario better than my 'mates' issue."

"Trust me, the gods are waiting just as eagerly as you for the entertainment, though they are more patient."

"Alza, it is time to listen to your Masters because I have been calling you for the last five minutes and gotten no response, and it had better be a damn good one with all of us already on edge," Lezar said, barely keeping his anxiety and temper from his voice.

"Master Lezar, please forgive me, Kali has been telling me about what the gods have been telling her, and I am even more sorry Masters, but the gods have ordered that the walzan be their voice in this matter, not me."

"Okay, if the gods, as in plural are involved, I can wait," Jahar said, looking skyward fearfully.

"Luckily, we will be able to get some answers soon as the walzan is on his way," Lezar said, slightly relieved.

Alza now noticed that she must have been on auto-pilot for awhile. They were in the shield room that had been readied for her heat, and all the toys and clothes were here.

Just then, Lockhoy came in to announce that the walzan was here and wanted to speak with Alza. The walzan came in, and in a gravelly, yet whispy voice said; "I have been ordered by the gods to talk to the cat known as Kali in private, and afterward announce their message to you all, the tsarzan, and the sarzan. Please wait in the judgment hall for us."

With that said, the brothers left the room, wondering what new cluster-fuck Alza had up her sleeve now.

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"Alright, ignore all the titles and protocol for now, we both know that we will be equals at one point, so let's cut to the chase. You are the mother of the Warriors of the Gods that I have been told to watch for, which I suspected as soon as you arrived on this planet.

I was hoping you wouldn't cause this much of a ruckus this quickly, because that upsets not only this den-site, but it starts to worry the other walzans. But, the gods' will is the gods' will, and apparently shit is bad enough that we have to really move things along.

I will be helping you and Kali blend together and learn to take the gifts the gods give you without going crazy, I know that much. But the tsarzan tells me you have a 'mate issue'. Really, really, come on, as if you weren't already going to cause the biggest ruckus since the planet was created, as far as we know, you have to add this to the mix?"

Though that last remark was obvious meant for the gods, Alza answered anyway; "I can't help being complicated, but I think the idea is that two is better than one when trying to speed up the creation of a kick-ass army."

"Good one, I like your spirit, no wonder the gods like you. Ok, now Kali and I need to have that conversation about this 'mate issue' though I am afraid to hear the answer."

So the walzan proceeded to the jungle glen that was Kali's mental home for the moment and got the shock of his life when Kali told him how she was able to get so much of the gods' plans for her and her family.

"Kali my dear, I don't think you will have any problems with whatever the gods throw your way, if you could get Zorcon to spill the beans."

"Threatening him with reversing my destiny or becoming the harbinger of doom for his own people if he didn't tell me why the fuck I had to fight Mother Nature herself for more time, then have a longer than normal heat cycle, then find out that I can't connect with Alza because it would cause a wrinkle in his plan, that is how.

It didn't hurt that Zathena and Xixi were just as pissed and were threatening to kick his pompous ass of his high horse. Their words, not mine, I am not that crazy."

The walzan laughed at the balls this cat had, and that she was still in one piece after pulling that stunt, on Zorcon no less. With a sigh, he left the glen and returned to tell Alza;

"Time to grab the 'oh holy shit' bar and pray. There are some days were I don't know if I love or hate being the voice of the gods."

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Alza and the walzan walked into the judgment hall, and the tension in the room was so thick it was bullet-proof, but the walzan's next words would change all that.

"I know who their mates are, and I need everyone but their Masters, the tsarzan, and the sarzan to leave. And if the gods catch you eavesdropping, woe be tide you, as they will not be happy and are in the mood to smite somebody."

This caused all but the requested to leave the room like their tails were on fire, and did they have a rumor to spread that was killing them to keep quiet about. When the gods were in the mood to smite someone, you would sew your own mouth shut if you had to.

The tension in the room had also been shattered; it may have seemed bullet-proof but it wasn't shock proof.

After warding the hall from eavesdroppers, just in case, the tsarzan asked the million dollar question.

"Did you say 'they have mates' as in plural?!?"

"Yes, you heard me right, as the voice of the gods, I said they have mates."

This brought on the excepted shouting and cursing, though it was censored enough that the gods wouldn't be tempted to smite anyone.

"The gods are waiting for your true feelings, tell them how you REALLY feel, they won't smite you. It is the only entertainment they are going to get for awhile after all."

That opened the flood gates, and the whole pantheon was doing impossible and highly improbable things to each other to the point that even Zorcon felt his ears burning. When the ruckus calmed down, the walzan continued; "Her mates are in this room, so that should make you feel better, and they are even brothers."

"Will you just spill the beans already before I die of heart failure? Do the gods actually want me dead?"

"Jahar is mated to Alza and Gobin is mated to Kali. Zorcon himself promises that it will not be a problem, and that the rest of the brothers will be able to raise their mates from birth. The most important thing that the gods wish known has yet to be said, so please bear with me."

After a few moments of silence to let this all sink in he continued: "I was told a year ago to watch for a female who would be the mother of the Warriors of the Gods. These warriors were the only protection that Zorcon could come up with when the gods Set and Loki decided to start the Epic Fight.

Your ama is the instrument of the gods, brought by the will of the gods to save us all and restore the eternal balance. Set and Loki started out as trouble when they refused to give up their identities and merge with other gods to form a new pantheon.

Odin elected to keep part of his identity, while also merging with Ra and Osiris to form the god we know as Zorcon. And we are now glad he did, for he was able to keep his one eye on Loki full time and see that he was up to his old tricks again.

Loki and Set have managed to secretly create prehistoric hybrids, and that army is growing up and training to become the Scourge of the Gods. Alza and her cubs, as well as her Masters, are to be our answer to such monstrosities. Alza's life span will now equal our own, but the gods have yet to decide if she will die at around 500 or 1000."

"Ok, so what do I do about giving her a title, is she an ama-walzan, must she be trained for combat and healing, please tell me you have some answers about how to handle this mess?"

"She is no longer an ama, for one, and she will have the title of Palzan in time. It is up to you how you handle the people of the den-site when you tell them this, but I would think that having a savior who could give a short-faced bear a run for his money should help."

While she knew all about what was being told, Alza still had to sympathize with everyone else, what with the barrage of bomb shells that the walzan kept dropping. But she was still a bit shocked at hearing how long she would live, and how long her species as a whole lived.

"Did you say short-faced bear, as in Set and Loki broke one of the creation oaths to bring about the Epic Battle, or did I hear you wrong?" Lezar managed to ask, still heavily in shock.

"Short-faced bears and dire wolves, and Loki has been sleeping with some of his subjects in an attempt to bring Feneris back, but Odin saw that coming and has been aborting the fetuses."

"Thank you Odin, I am happy to hear a little comforting news."

"Lezar, you need to order a full warrior's kit for a stealth fighter; including armor, bow, and survival kit, Gobin you will need to start empath training and get a battle-ready healer's kit, Kalba you need to forge a full knife set, two women's swords, the training weights for an adult dual swordsman, the training weights for 5 cubs in training, and training swords for 5 trainees.

Jahar, you will have Alza help you furnish her battle healer's kit, and show her how to find the needed plants for when she has to pick them in the wild, Helius, you get to work with me to help Alza and Kali blend, and to accept the memories that the tsarzan altered. The gods know that she will need to use them to get stronger, and as shock treatment during the war we will be forced to fight.

Ilan, you get the best and worst job of all, raising cubs. You will have the help of Alza and your brothers, but it will be your job to make sure they have all their needs met while preparations are made.

We only have a year before the first small invasions start, but we are going to work with what we got."

"I presume the gods have planned what the best use of the time we have is, but what do the gods require of me?"

"You and the sarzan have the most flexibility, as you have to get the people of not only this den-site, but of Moonblade and Sunswallow to accept this and take action. The other walzans are in the arenas throughout our half of the planet telling their people that the gods need them to follow our lead, and what is going on.

The good news is, with a few people being blinded or cooked by lightning, we should be hearing from emissaries soon. So, the gods have simply told you to prepare our people, they will handle their saviors."

"I can live with that, but you can tell our people what the gods have spoken in the arena tomorrow, not me, I don't have the gods' authority like you do.

Jahar and Gobin will be with Alza during her heat and the rest of you can get the supplies gathered to keep you busy."

And with that settled, the tsarzan started getting the ball rolling while the brothers took the instrument of the gods with them to have a good stiff drink!

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"Ok, if I understand this correctly, we are the saviors who will turn the tide in the Epic Battle, which until now had been only legend, and Gobin AND I are mates to the same female, who will possibly give my brothers their mates, which sounds like incest, and oh yeah, she is no longer an ama, but will become as powerful as a walzan and have the title of Palzan eventually. What the Fuck!" Jahar shouted, still in shock but starting to have the information sink in.

"Jahar, these are the gods we are talking about. If they don't fuck up some mortal's mind every once in a while, they get bored and smite someone for the hell of it. For the last year they haven't been doing that, so what do you expect? It was obvious they had something up their sleeves," Kalba said sensibly.

"I am just a little disturbed about my mate possibly being my niece, but then, that is just me," Helius commented dryly.

"I just can't get past the fact that the gods decided to pick on us. What did we ever do to deserve having our world flip upside-down and sideways?" Lezar added with a slight whine.

"We were born awesome, our mother told us that. She told us that we were too perfect not to be god-touched some day, and boy was she right in spades!" Ilan said.

"Well, it looks to me like the gods had it out for us since conception, and our lives have been pretty damn good for the most part, so the gods must know how to give us what we need, though I am still confused as to why I am Kali's mate, when her personality is stronger than mine, and Alza is Jahar's mate, and they are equals?" Gobin stated.

"Because the gods always seek to balance the soul energies of mates, you Gobin are more gentle and tame when it comes to your cat and your nature, and Kali is aggressive and wild. Jahar is more cat than human, and Alza is more human than cat.

I came by to let you all know that Alza has been chosen to bear a walzan when the time comes, and that you will probably not be visited for some time, but I figured if the gods told me now, that it was safe to tell you now as well. While you are otherwise occupied, I will start with the business of being the emissary for the gods when the other den-sites start sending messengers," the walzan said, bemused.

"What should we do for the next three days?" Gobin asked.

"You can start with the empath training, while the others start working on getting Alza's 'war-kit' started. Do you really want to deal with Alza's lust causing all the males to go crazy? Get her influence radius to a smaller area and less concentrated, or there are going to be problems.

The cubs will need to have the fundamentals of their kits finished as well, but the gods said that the number of cubs for this litter is still up in the air, though five is what seems to be the likely number."

"Looks like we have a busy few days ahead of us, let's turn in early so we can get an early start." Lezar said.

The walzan left the still shocked family to their meal, hoping the gods knew what they were doing in causing all this ruckus.

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The next day, Alza woke up feeling ready for anything. What she didn't expect was that anything meant a lot of sitting and mediating, and that she would have to learn to control a power that she had thought weak before her transformation.

Her empathic ability had only gotten stronger when Kali came into the picture. On Earth, she had had to struggle to influence other people's auras. Now, she was surprised she hadn't caused someone harm from the strength of her aura's influence on her environment.

"Alza, the only reason you have been safe to be around is because Kalba and I were shielding you. Right now, the shield is off and I am happy to note that you aren't feeling any strong emotion right now, for your radius is quite large, the whole den-site could be affected.




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Luckily, the walzan is shielding the room, so you don't have to worry right now. Even though we are in the shield room that we were in last time, with this first exercise the walzan wanted to be sure nothing would leak out, and the tsarzan is shielding me. One of your memories that was traumatizing has been retrieved, and you are going to learn to bring in your panic from remembering it.

The first viewing I know will be hard, but I want you to concentrate on your emotions, and control them as the feeling is in full swing. When an empath is panicking or afraid, they release the emotion out into their environment because if they kept it within themselves they could cause their heart to stop in fright.

You will visualize bringing it back into yourself, and releasing it through your feet into the ground. The second time you see it, I want you to stop any of your emotions from leaving into the air, and force them to exit into the ground.

Today's emotion is panic or fear. Tomorrow we will work with anger using the grounding technique and how to toss an emotion to someone without overwhelming them. Get comfortable, then Kali will show you the memory and help you see your emotions," Gobin instructed.

So Alza got comfortable in the middle of the floor, and walked to the jungle glen where Kali was.

"You ready?"

"It's not really bad, right?"

"No, we should be able to handle it without having a panic attack, though it will trigger a fear response, ok?"

"Alright, here goes nothing."

What she saw was a man coming at her with sadistic glee dancing in his eyes. He started shouting that she was a useless slut that needed to be put in her place. Just as the first blow landed, it ended.

"Ok, now visualize the emotion you felt, and look around the room," Gobin instructed.

She saw pulsing threads of gray; they were spilling from her and bouncing back slightly from an invisible barrier along the walls and ceiling. They were also bouncing off Gobin, but when they hit her she noticed that was when she felt her heart speed up a little.

"Ok, when the next one hits you, keep it inside yourself and send it into the ground through your feet, after that, draw a few of the threads back to you and do the same thing until the threads are no longer outside of you. Once you start drawing them in, you also need to stop more from leaving, so keep that in mind," Gobin told her.

While the first thread did her bidding easily, keeping more threads from leaving was hard. Kali sunk her teeth into a particularly stubborn thread and stomped it into the ground. But eventually they started leaving through her feet only, and when she started pulling the threads from the room, they came like dogs called back from a run, and obediently followed the other threads into the ground.

"Very good, snack break then onto the second part of the exercise ok,?"

After drinking some water and eating some cheese and crackers, she got comfortable and got ready to see that scene for the second time. As she started feeling the fear, she had to fight it to leave through only one form of exit. Instinct was telling her that she risked death by keeping the fear in her longer, but she slowly overcame the instinct and pushed the emotions into the ground.

She wasn't entirely successful; she did manage to get most of her emotions to obey. She was too tired to fight the loose threads at the moment, but a few minutes rest would help.

"Very good, both of you did great. While some still left and is floating around the room, it was a much smaller amount. Training uses up energy, so we will keep having snack breaks, but that was impressive for just starting out. After you take care of the ones in the room, I need to tell you about your emotional reservoir.

I may need to guide you to it the first time, but after that you will know the way. It is where long term emotions are, such as love, hate, jealousy, anger, or lust; but the most dangerous is fear. We are going to find and clean up your reservoir, then stop for the day," Gobin told her.

After a quick lunch, Gobin projected himself in Alza's mind so he could guide her to her emotional reservoir. But, he soon found out that it was in Kali's jungle glen, so he asked Kali if she knew what to do, and let her guide Alza instead.

"It is quite simple, my pool here is not really water, it is where your emotions 'well up' inside you and where they 'stew' for long periods of time. Come take a closer look and you will notice colors swirling around in there. The trick is, you must always keep some 'water' within the pool, or you will be incapable of feeling emotions at all, let alone controlling others' emotions.

Think of the different colors as fish, while they really represent emotions, the ones you don't want to keep or those that get too big for the pool must be caught and tossed out. I've been 'fishing' out a lot of lust, anger, and fear, so we need to work on getting those under control, but I will handle our emotional reservoir, you just need to know where it is so you can learn to handle emotions in various ways."

Alza took a good look at what Kali was talking about, and did notice some pink and grey 'fish' in the 'water', but the 'fish' were just balls of emotions, and the 'water' was just a visualization that made it easier for her mind to picture the place where her emotions resided, since water and emotions are both fluid.

After watching Kali 'fish out' one of the 'fish' that had gotten too big, she left Kali to it.

Alza and Gobin finished training about mid-afternoon, and she spent the rest of the time reading about epentes, which she would use when she had some training.

Once she was in control of her emotions enough for her to be in public, she would get a level 9 epentes, the highest level that could be sold, for her kit. In actuality, the walzan would help her train her abilities to level 10, which she was capable of, but that she would not have access to until she had accepted and dealt with the memories the tsarzan had altered.

The level 9 epentes would be used for her clinic practice, as it was just barely capable of handling her at her full strength, but it would be used in her focantes work to visualize the digestive system and how the body is affected by emotional upsets.

The level 10 was for when she needed to use her skills in the field as an offensive weapon, or as a defensive shield against emotional attacks made by the enemy.

The walzan had told her that there were three magical sets of nine level 10 epentes, nine psychantes, and nine animantes. She was to have the unclaimed stones of the sets, as they had been saved for use by the chosen one.

There had been other chosen ones, for every time Set and Loki had tried to pull a fast one the gods responded in kind. She was just the most recent, and by her being able to handle them without going insane she would proved to all that she was indeed their new chosen one.

For that to happen, she would need to embrace her past, understand how she and her cat formed one being and how to use both sides of her nature to the fullest, and understand what the path the gods chose for held. Oh, and have super warrior babies and a demi-god cub.

That night, her dreams were filled with wonder at just what she the gods had dealt her.

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The next two days, she learned how to handle anger, and its many levels. After practicing how to ground various levels of anger, from annoyance to murderous rage; she learned how to let out a little anger, which came out as annoyance, and how to toss it to someone.

Then Gobin tossed it back to her so she could feel what that felt like. When she tossed it back to him, he bounced it off his emotional shield and back at her so she knew what that felt like as well. They kept up the toss and bounce routine with the levels of anger getting higher and higher.

The first day they managed to get to a level of anger that is given off when someone is angry and snaps at people before Alza started having trouble keeping it contained in the ball. The second day, about mid-morning Kali put a halt to the training.

"While I respect the need to train a currently level 9 empath how to control their anger, I am tired and can't hold on to the lust any longer, so stop playing catch with emotional dynamite and get Jahar back here because the lust keg is gonna blow. We need to lock this place up tighter than Fort Knox by mid-afternoon or you are going to have one horny horde at the compound gates."

And so, the week of abstinence was broken with a vengeance!

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The doors had just shut behind him with a resounding thud when Jahar got the first whiff of his mate.

"Alza, you smell good enough to tempt Zorcon himself, but even if it is blasphemous to say, he can get a number and wait in line."

He saw that the mounting block was set up with plenty of cushions around it; the clamps, sparker, clit vibrator, a dildo, and a cock-ring were within reach of a gloriously naked and horny Alza, who was getting her pussy pounded from behind by Gobin.

"Sorry we couldn't wait, but she has been giving off faint traces of scent for the last hour, and when she started trying to take care of the cravings by herself, I just lost it," Gobin told his brother, panting from exertion and pleasure.

Alza was about to comment as well, but her explosive climax derailed whatever thought she was about to voice as she screamed Gobin's name. As she came down from her climax, she looked up in lust at an equally naked and horny Jahar, who, with a naughty grin, grabbed the nipple clamps in both hands and put them on her engorged nipples.

With a yelp at the pleasure/pain this inflicted, she waited for what she figured Jahar was going to do.

"Naughty Alza, you just had to tease my brother and make it damn near impossible for him to wait. Well, my mate, you now get to enjoy the sparker. When I am inside you, if you move before I tell you, I will have to tie you up and spank you.

I will let Gobin enjoy you for a few more minutes while I get the rest of the stuff I plan to use on you."

He came back in a few minutes with the cloth restraint set, as a reminder for her, and a blindfold. Gobin had been thrusting inside her clenching warmth since Jahar had left, and was keeping himself from bonding with Alza by a mere thread.

He knew that Jahar would kill him, if Kali didn't beat him to it.

He was to be Kali's mate, so he couldn't cum inside her while she was in human or hybrid form until Jahar had cum inside her and given her the mate bite. She would bite him where the neck met the shoulder as well.

He would do the same for her while in cat form, and give her a similar bite, and get his bite from Kali. Afterward, Alza and Kali would fully combine their souls, and then the ritual for a three-way mating would be done, in which Jahar and Gobin would have to bite each other while fucking their mate. While it was a long process, it meant lots of really hot sex and a permanent close bond to two people he loved.

"Alright Gobin, while I am happy you had the clarity of mind to put a cock-ring on first, its time for me to claim my mate."

With a groan, Gobin left the hot tight pussy he couldn't wait to fuck, took off the cock-ring and sat in a chair nearby that he had put leather restraints on earlier so neither brother would interfere with the mating process.

"Just tie me up, but I would love it if you used the newly installed restraint rings from the start."

Upon hearing that, Alza moved over to where the rings were, bringing the rest of the toys with her. Jahar tied up Gobin, knowing in a little bit it would be him in that chair, and gave his brother a look of sympathy.

He then tied up Alza so that she was spread eagle in the air, unable to move or stop any of his wicked plans. He put the clit clamp on her, which brought a gasp of pleasure/pain, and put the blindfold on. He grabbed the vibrating dildo, into which he placed a battery, and teased her clit with its now vibrating tip. He grabbed the sparker while he watched Alza writhe in pleasure from the vibrations, and switched the dildo to vibrate against her nipple clamps while he gave her a light jolt on her clit with the sparker.

Moaning and writhing in pleasure, Alza started flowing like a river with her juices. Jahar saw that she was close, and so he took the battery out of the dildo before tossing it aside while he upped the shock on the sparker. He then plunged into her tight, needy pussy, fucking her hard and balls deep with every thrust. He slowly upped the voltage with every few thrusts, till suddenly she screamed out in climax, milking his cock for his cum, which a few thrusts later he gave her, biting her as his barb struck deep inside, triggering a secondary climax from Alza, and her need to bite Jahar, which she did.

While his barb kept them locked together for a few moments, Alza finally formed the presence of mind to ask; "Jahar, what in the hell was that pinch/stab feeling I felt? I never felt that with you guys before."

"That was my barb, it only releases when we have sex with our mates, which confirms that the gods were right. When it releases, and you rest for a moment or two, you need to change into your cat form so Kali can do the same with Gobin. Kali is going to have to find a way to bite Gobin while he is still attached to her, so you can't use the mounting block as it will block both of you from biting."

A few minutes later, the barb released and Alza was untied so she could rest and get her strength back. Jahar untied Gobin, and took off the clamps and made sure that the clamps and the restraints hadn't caused any damage before he plopped down next to her.

Gobin came over with some finger snacks and a glass of water, and then went to get a dish of meat and a bowl of water ready for when he and Kali had exhausted each other. Then he plopped down on Alza's other side for a short nap.

The loss of Alza's warmth had woken up Jahar, and he was tied up in the chair because Alza had known to wake him up and tie him there a few minutes before she shifted. If she hadn't warned him that Kali would kick his ass if he made so much as a sound while she was taking her mate, he would have fought to stop her from biting too early.

Gobin woke up to Kali's nose nuzzling his throat, then biting him and breaking skin where she would place her mate mark. Before he could react however, she released him and swatted him with her paw.

"Mate of mine, I know what I am doing. Don't make me force you to submit by kicking your ass, so follow my lead. I need to have it already open because when you bite, it will put me in a confined position.

I won't be able to turn my head much because you will be clamping into most of my neck muscles used for turning my head, so I need to have my spot marked before hand. Mount me and bite me, but don't enter yet so I can check if I marked it right. If they look right, then get the party started."

Gobin changed into his full cheetah form, and the marks moved slightly, but he did as she asked. Kali was getting impatient with Gobin's humping and antics to get her to move her tail aside.

"Ok, I am going to check if I can reach and clamp onto my marks. Once we have made sure that I will be on target we can get the party started. I figured you just wanted a bite, not half the flesh from your shoulder and neck region missing or lacerated all to hell, so either cool off so we get this right or I can see if it might be possible to save your impatient ass from a bleed-out."

With that thought, she showed him exactly what would happen if they weren't careful, which killed Gobin's erection momentarily and had him sliding off her like she was about to rip his throat out right then.

"Ok, I think we should give me a second then, because our earlier fucking then watching you and Jahar has but me on a hair-trigger, though the thought of half my neck and shoulder gone was a good start."

After a few deep breaths, they tried again, and Kali found that her instincts had guided her right. Gobin got off her again, but this time they both knew that it was on. Gobin rubbed his body along hers; blending their scents and when he got to her hind quarters he nipped her tail as he smelled her, trying to convince her to move her tail.

After a swat at Gobin's face for his cheekiness, she moved her tail aside and grunted her assent. Gobin mounted her for the third time, this time thrusting his cock into her waiting pussy. He held the scruff of her neck in his jaws as he started hammering her pussy with animalistic fury.

Soon, both of them were nearing their climax, then Kali let out a scream as she reached her peak, then Gobin released her scruff to bite the right side of her neck where it met the shoulder, as Jahar had done to the left. As he bit her, his barb shot out and latched them together for a time.

He let go so that Kali could get at his right as well, but as she had said, her neck muscles were out of action for the moment and she just managed to find the holes her upper canines had made and closed her jaws on the lower marks.

Without the holes to latch into as a tooth-hold, she would have sliced half his flesh off in an attempt to place her bite. Gobin was glad she had kept her cool enough to place his safety above her urges, and now knew the answer as to why Kali was his mate.

Her cat was strong, and his was weak; so she needed a cat that could be under her protection and he needed to be protected. It was the main reason why he was the carzan; his cat was the least dominant of his brothers, meaning he was the one they protected the most and whose voice outside his healer's opinion was valued the least.

Now however, it looked as if Kali was willing to allow for an almost equal balance of dominance, as long as he never tried to make her submit and listened when she said that things needed to be done her way.

When the couple was able to separate, Gobin shifted back to his hybrid form so he could untie Jahar and get something to eat. Jahar brought over the meat and water bowl to a thoroughly exhausted Kali, and then went to go take care of the erection he got from watching the mating. Kali yowled at him, then nosed a cock-ring, flashing her teeth in a mischievous and threatening grin.

Jahar got the hint, and hoped round three was not long in coming. Kali ate the meat and drank some water before plopping down on the pile of cushions for a nap and so she wouldn't be upright when her soul fully combined with Alza's, as that normally knocked people unconscious.

She would feel the same sensation later, when all three of them combined parts of their souls in the three-way bond, but at least she would have company in unconsciousness.

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The human Alza stood before the cat Kali in a void of their mind, a space that had been left neutral so that neither would have the advantage. While this place would still remain for when one form was needed over the other, once the ritual was complete, their mental bodies would combine to form her hybrid form, which would be her permanent mental image of herself.

"Two souls become one, one mind, one body, one soul. For better or for worse, one mind, one body, one soul. Equals till the strengths of one form are needed, ideas heard and respected, knowledge and instinct honored, one mind, one body, one soul." Alza said, starting the ritual by kneeling and holding out her hand.

Kali repeated the ritual words, placing her paw in Alza's hand.

"Gods will be done, so shall it be," they chanted together, completing the ritual.

As they said 'be'; they both felt a tug toward where their hand and paw met, before they fell into each other and only their hybrid form was left. This form watched as another figure appeared, a white cloak hiding its features.




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"You are now an extremely powerful creature; you have created yourself without much help from the gods and have no real identity. You are no longer Alza, nor are you Kali, though you may choose one of those names. Who is the creature before me who is to be the savior to her people and the mother of the Warriors of the Gods?

No longer a mere slave forced to live and serve her Masters, nor can you claim a name who is best known for his destructive powers. You are a mortal with the powers of life and death, yet you are to be a mother, the greatest power to create life. You have the choice, who are you?"

The figure faded back into the void, still whispering; "Who are you?"



The Freedom of Slavery Ch. 09



Sorry this latest chapter has taken so long, I have been busy with life, and for the next few months I will continue to be busy, so chapter 10 may be a while in coming. There is no cliffhanger this time, so I hope that helps. Enjoy! 

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The question bothered this new creature, for neither Alza nor Kali were appropriate names any longer, just as the voice said. And while a mythical name was something to consider, it was useless to take up the name of a woman already famous who had her story already written. 

She was a blank slate, yes much of her path was set in stone, but the twists and turns in the road were her's to find and make. Slowly, letters danced before her eyes, and she gathered them and threw them to land as they chose, seeking answers through chance. The letter M would not leave her hands, and so she concentrated on what other letters she was drawn to. Malki, that was the name that would be written as the mother of the Warriors of the Gods, the chosen one.

Malki walked from the void, leaving behind the survivor that was Alza and the proud warrior that was Kali, to embrace her new role with the hearts and minds of both to be used.

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The newly formed being who had named herself Malki understood one very important thing. This was her secret name, to be recorded for her death song and the history scrolls, but to everyone she knew, she was still to be addressed as Alza or Kali, though she would chose Kali, as Alza was her ama name, and she was no longer an ama. 

With this in mind, she woke from unconsciousness to embrace her mates and tell them that she was to be addressed as Kali. Neither brother questioned this, as they knew she had found her secret name, as they had when they reached adulthood. 

"Does this mean that you are one, and we are ready to complete the three-way bond?" Jahar asked, trying to seem innocent, and failing.

"It means, my mates, that you must scream Kali when you reach ecstasy, and that Jahar has some continued waiting to do."

They had discussed earlier about why the mating instinct chose for things to occur a certain way, such as human/hybrid mating bites being on the left shoulder and cat mating bites being on the right. It was for a purpose, the three-way bond. Kali had the different bite marks in each shoulder to prove which part of her was mated to Jahar and which part was mated to Gobin. 

In cat form, the bites are much deeper; in hybrid form, they look more like vampire bites as the canines are not as pronounced as in cat form, and a fully human jaw is incapable of making a mating bite, so it is fairly obvious as to who done it. They would all have to be in hybrid form for Jahar and Gobin to be able to bite each other. Gobin would be fucking her ass, as it simulated the cat form mating, and Jahar would fuck her pussy, as it was his anyway in this form.

Even with the plan already worked out, the participants ready and willing, and the need to complete the mating becoming unbearable; Kali still decided to put Jahar in his place and force him to stay bound in the chair while she and Gobin got warmed up. 

"Jahar, put on a ring and sit in the chair. Gobin, put a ring on and help me strap him in, Jahar needs to learn some restraint."

They both eagerly followed Kali's orders, knowing she had something naughty planned. Once Jahar was tied up, Kali climbed on and started riding him hard. If he started fighting the restraints, she slapped the offending limb, and it wasn't long before his arms started forming a bruise. Up and down like a jackhammer, she started panting and moaning in his ear from the exertion, but her motions had one goal, to have him climb his way to a climax so fast that he was flying. When Jahar had started begging her to let him cum, she climbed off and took off the cock ring. 

"If you cum before you are able to complete the bond, I will leave you hot and bothered for a full hour, teasing you to the brink before backing off, all the while you are strapped to that chair with a ring on and begging like never before to cum. Are we clear?"

"Yes Kali, where has this Dom been hiding? I think she shouldn't come out to play very often, or she might find she isn't that strong."

"She plans to come out whenever you decide to be an impatient horny little shit, though right now she is just making a point. Gobin, it is your turn honey, though this is mostly just to make sure my ass can handle a good pounding."

She forced Jahar to watch as she got Gobin just as bothered, having him slowly work his cock up her ass; then letting him pound her ass hard. 

"Alright, let the real fun begin, take that ring off while I untie Jahar, then I want you both to fuck me so hard I will walk funny tomorrow."

As soon as Jahar was released, he pounced on Kali, though he made sure that Gobin was ready on his end.

"It will be best to put her in the floor restraints, as they will be able to support her the best; you get her legs I'll get her arms."  Jahar told his brother, to which he received a nod in reply.

They both tackled Kali and managed to put her in the floor restraints, her body splayed out in an upright position, defenseless and asking to be ridden hard. Then they both started running their hands up and down her body, Jahar flicking her nipples as he ran over them. When the brothers had waited long enough, they started filling her holes with their hungry cocks, feeling each other as they pushed into her holes. When they bottomed out, they paused to savor the feeling.

"Don't stop now; you're just getting to the good part. Just fuck my brains out already!" Kali all but whined at them, humping them as best she could.

"Kali, you teased us to distraction, and you are about to find out why payback is a bitch," Jahar whispered in her ear.

"Besides, it isn't like you won't enjoy every damn minute of our cocks slowly fucking your hungry holes, sliding in and out with agonizing slowness..." Gobin whispered in her other ear, before nibbling it.

And that is precisely what the brother proceeded to do, as Jahar pulled his cock slowly from her depths, Gobin waited till he started slowly filling her back up before beginning his withdraw. Kali could do nothing but beg them both to fuck her like the animals she knew they could be, and writhe in pleasure.

"For the love of all the gods, I am so close I can almost taste the pleasure, and you won't let me cum. Please, before I go crazy, just let me cum." 

That last plea finally broke the brothers' restraint, and they answered her prayers, fucking her so hard that her body was visibly see-sawing from their movements. Growling, panting, sighs of pleasure and the sound of flesh slamming against flesh were the only sounds to be heard till:

"Oh gods, I am ready, are you ready Gobin?"

"Yeah, here it comes Kali, the grand finale, you joining us?"

"Yes damn it, give me your pleasure, and complete the bond, I am sooo ready for this."

And with a shout from all three of them, they had one massive orgasm, Jahar bit Gobin's unmarked left shoulder while Gobin bit Jahar's unmarked right shoulder. As soon as the spasms finished, the brothers withdrew their by now sore cocks from Kali's equally exhausted holes. Jahar untie her hands while Gobin untied her feet, and she collapsed in Jahar's arms.

"I am glad we all are bonded and all, but I kinda hope my heat doesn't make me horny for awhile as that was insane! I need some food and a nap, and probably a bath."

"No shit Sherlock! I need the rest, and my poor dick needs time to recover. I will bathe you while Gobin feeds you, then we can all curl up for a nice long nap!" 

With that said, food appeared like magic, along with a glass of ice water.

"Gobin, my mate, you read my mind. Ham and cheese cracker sandwiches are just what I was thinking sounded good."

"I try my dear, I try."

A few minutes later, Jahar had finished setting up the bath, and Kali settled into a vanilla scented tub of luke-warm water, and Jahar proceeded to lovingly wash her with a washcloth while Gobin fed her the sandwiches.

"This scent, it smells like vanilla, yet it doesn't. What is it?"

"It is called chandros, and it has calming and healing properties. It calms the mind, but it also calms down muscles enough that the pain lessens, which with Felanids is the key to minor healing. We are able to heal ourselves up to a major chakra disruption or distressing injury as long as we don't feel pain," Gobin explained.

"So, it is a tranquilizer and a muscle relaxant in one? Cool."

"What is a tranquilizer?" Gobin asked, curious.

"It is used to either knock someone unconscious or to relax a distressed mind. It can be in serum or pill form, and is used for both humans and animals, though there are different ones for different species."

"Interesting," Gobin replied.

"Not as interesting as your scent is becoming Kali, you feeling a little horny?" Jahar asked his lust evident by his resurrected dick, but the concern and love was evident in his voice.

"A little, but I am hoping to get a little rest before my hormones demand another round. I still can't believe we have two weeks of this insanity to live through, how are we going to function?"

"Hopefully once it gets dark your hormones will let you sleep, after all, you can't nurture young if you are too tired to make them in the first place," Gobin said, looking skyward with a pleading look.

"Let's at least get you out of the tub and dried before trying to get some rest." Jahar said, also looking skyward in a vain hope of getting some rest.

After getting their mate dried and supplied with plenty of sandwiches and water near their nest of pillows, the brothers got their own food and water, knowing that any moment they would be drawn into another fuck session, either Jahar or Gobin getting the scent, and the gods only knew when they would get another chance to refuel.

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12 days later:

The mated trio emerged, exhausted, sore, and yet extremely happy. Kali had forgotten to take out the dildo she had been fucking herself with just hours ago before she had passed out. At the moment, she was being carried by Jahar, but Gobin noticed the dildo, and they stopped to remove it. As they walked from the compound back home, the brothers caught up with each other after the two week separation.

"Well brothers, when will we find out the results of your mating? It looks like it was successful, as I can see from here that your bites are scarring nicely, but Alza looks like she will sleep for the next century," Lezar asked the brothers he had missed for two weeks.

"She is Kali now, she had her final transformation and has her secret name, and when she wakes up we will have her tell us the good news. We know she is pregnant, we just don't know how many cubs or the genders yet," Gobin told his brother.

"After all the abuse my poor dick suffered, I should hope she is pregnant!" Jahar exclaimed.

"You know damn well you loved every minute of that 'abuse' you suffered, and you were even projecting occasionally, so I have an idea that Kali would be commenting about the 'abuse' her poor pussy had to endure as well," Kalba added dryly.

"And it isn't like you didn't have a pound of chandros to help with the pain," Helius added.

"And the toys were available if you couldn't get it up, so don't give us this 'she fucked me so much my dick is about to fall off' bullshit. I ran out of inventory when the den-site found out about Kali asking to get some toys, she started a trend that has everyone going nuts about toys right now," Ilan said.

"You're just grumpy because you got jealous of the fact that we found our mate and she went into heat. Don't worry, the stick that was born up your ass just needs the right person to pull it out, and I hope you find them soon," Jahar said, not in the mood to handle his brother's prudish nature.

Ilan would have replied, but Kali woke up and all eyes turned to her.

"Well, it looks like I missed the reunion by a few minutes, but it is nice to see you all again after our absence. Since we will be home soon, the all important questions of the hour will be answered soon. How are the preparations coming?"

"Your warrior kit is ready, the armor needs to be fitted, your swords are ready and three of the cub kits are ready. We also had a room cleared for you three if you wanted it, or it could be the cubs' room," Lezar told her.

When they walked in, Kali grabbed her healer's kit and set about figuring out if she was pregnant, which was a resounding yes, and how many she had, of which she counted four, and what the genders were. The verdict: she was having three females and a male. 

"Congratulations Kali, brothers, on your bountiful success," Lezar told them.

"May your daughters be as beautiful and fierce as their mother, and may your son make his fathers proud," Helius congratulated.

"I couldn't have said it better myself," added Kalba.

"I just hope that they are not adventurous little rascals like Jahar, but knowing my luck they will trump their father, or be the little shits that put their caretaker to sleep so that the others can run amuck like Gobin did," Ilan muttered, still bitter about all the chaotic change he was in the middle of.

"Brother Mine, now that I am not otherwise occupied I can help you remove that tree from up your ass. Get over the fact that we are gods-touched and don't ever insult my children, one of whom could be your future mate, ever again or we will have words," Jahar promised.

Just then, Kali had an insight, courtesy of her cat and Xixi, who for the most part hated thinking about males as anything but play toys and breeders, but a few special males had a place in her devotion.

"Darlings, can I talk to Ilan alone for a few minutes? And no eavesdropping, your curiosity will be sated in time."

The brothers left them alone, but only after Jahar threaten him with disembowelment and worse if he messed with his mate, and Gobin threatened to make him a drooling idiot for the rest of his natural life.

"Mates, what makes you think I can't kick Ilan's ass from here to earth and back? He knows I'm gods-touched, and when we were done with him the gods would smite him just to prove a point. I think I'm fine."

With continued grumbling, they followed her request. As soon as they were gone and she had checked for eavesdroppers, of which she found Jahar with his ear to the keyhole and knocked him out cold; she turned back to Ilan with a smile.

"My point has been taken, now where were we? Oh yeah, how have you been able to pretend you are straight?"

Ilan went pale, slumped to the floor, and curled up in a ball and cried, his sobs suppressing all sound but shaking his body violently.

Kali hugged him to her and rocked him like she would her cubs when they were crying. Soon, Ilan was able to calm down enough to ask in a very shaky voice; "How did you know? I have been faking it well for years by absorbing the emotions and urges of my brothers and projecting those feelings and urges as my own. They have never even guessed before."

"A little bird told me, well, as a goddess you can't really call her little. She told me that you are not afraid of how others will react, because it is a non-issue. You have been afraid of the chaos you could create since you were very little, and being different in any way can cause chaos. Well guess fucking what? You get to come out to your brothers if my son is your mate whether you want to or not. 

You will be raising our children, and they will not be allowed to have the idea even enter their heads that being gay is abnormal or something to keep hidden. The gods chose for you to be who you are so they aren't upset, and they knew that you being gay is nothing to the chaos I will cause. Your brothers will be pissed it took you so long to tell them, and that you never told them about your ability, but they will love you anyway. 

Then there is me. Me, I say get that stick out of your ass, it will be filled with something better soon, and get your ass out of the closet before I come in with a shotgun to force you out. If by the time my children are born you have not said anything, you will have me to deal with, and you will be lucky if I only kill you."

Ilan gulped, wondering if the gods or Kali were more dangerous for a moment before deciding that gods trumped mortals any day, but he was still not going to piss her off.

"I think I will bite the bullet now. It sounds to me like making you wait wouldn't be the greatest idea if I want to have all my body parts intact. Can you at least hold my hand while I tell them?"

"It is the least I could do for scaring the hell out of you, but before we call them back, we have to be sure of one thing."

She put his hand on her stomach, where her son was growing into the healthy cub he would be born as, and, Kali felt a bond start to form between her son and his future mate.

"You do realize that my son will be a demanding little shit now that he knows he has you wrapped around his finger, right?"

"As long as he knows that he will have to grow up before he can kick my ass, I think I'll survive." 

Kali called the brothers back in, but seeing that Kali was smiling and Ilan was nervous as hell, the brothers calmed, all except Jahar.

"Why are you holding his hand? He has been nothing but a jackass since we came home and you are supporting him?"

"I see you woke up from your nap as grumpy as you were before it, so I guess I need to add some pretty colors to your other eye?" Kali asked, innocently.

"He just better have a damn good reason for being a prick, I am sick of dealing with his shit and don't want our cubs to learn his bad habits."

"Oh he does my dear, and if you say a word or move an inch before he is done, your eyes won't be the only thing with new colors."

"So spit it out already, it can't be that bad if Kali is threatening to rearrange and redecorate my anatomy."

"I'm gay, and Kali's son is my mate," Ilan said, unable to look his brothers in the eye.

"Ok, while this is unexpected, it is about time you told us, damn you would think after 35 years of living with us you would know we wouldn't care," Jahar said, still annoyed, but figuring that that was a fairly good excuse.

"How did you fake it? I know when we were on the ship you were just as worked up as the rest of us, and any other time we have shared females," Gobin asked.

"I have a minor mimicking ability, it only works on you all, and I have the easiest time mimicking you Gobin, so that is what I did. I was taking bits of emotions and urges from both your and Jahar whenever we were with Kali. When we were with other females, I used Lezar and Helius."

"Will you raising your mate affect the treatment of the others?" Kalba asked sensibly.

"I will do my best for it not to, though I am only mortal, so I will not promise that I won't have that issue. If it comes to their safety, I will have Jahar or Gobin help me."

"I can live with that, but you need to except yourself and learn to live with the fact that while we may be giving Set and Loki more power with all the changes we cause, they made the first step and we have the gods' blessings because we will help save our people," Kalba told him, reading him like a book.

"How the fuck did you keep it from me? I have the strongest mental abilities of us all and I never suspected you were hiding something," Helius said, annoyed at the thought that Ilan was able to pull the wool over his eyes.

"Simple, I used my mimic skill to cover my true urges whenever I felt you in my mind."

Lezar interrupted Jahar from adding anything else. "I think that this is enough excitement for one day, we all need to get used to the fact that our brother was not hiding this from us, but from himself. We all need to take this in stride, and hope we all survive the wrath of a pregnant female long enough to see her cubs. Does anyone else have anything to share? Cross-dressing? Being bi? Wanting to change gender? Fetishes?"




The Freedom of Slavery Ch. 10



Okay, here is the next part as promised, and I have an idea for an editor, as this thing is getting massive, 96 pages in word. Though I can't guarantee anything, I will be trying to remove the single chapters and putting up a few sections of the story, after I have fleshed out some parts and made it flow better. If you are still confused about a few things, I will be posting a separate piece that will hopefully make things easier.

During the next few weeks, it became obvious that her former masters were going to be a handful. She started her day with the walzan, helping to fully integrate both mindsets and to allow for instinctual trust of each set's abilities, which would be the difference between life and death when outside of the den-site.

Then, she, Gobin, and Jahar would pick an illness or injury that would need an herbal remedy, and did field training in finding and preparing medicines for every illness or injury she might have to deal with as a battle healer. After a few days of learning new material, she was told to lead them and prepare all the remedies she had learned with their guidance, and then given new material.

This was her pre-training work-out as well, for as soon as she got back from her three hours of training, she rotated between sword, knife, and archery training, which took up the rest of her day until dinner, after which she had empath training for an hour before bed. While most of her training, such as her mental abilities or healer training, were injury free and therefore safe, battle training was a whole other ball game.

While Kali was an excellent tactician and natural fighter, able to plan many of her moves with precision and efficiency, her more human side was having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that she was a killing machine, and could make most action movie heroes look sloppy.

This made it hard when the two minds split for some reason, logic vs. instinct being hard to overcome, but luckily the integration was still mostly smooth. Those slip-ups however, led to injuries, and no mate wants to injure its other half, which caused one hell of a ruckus.

Because Kali was training with each of the brothers in a rotation, Gobin and Jahar were able to stop their attacks mid-motion so as to avoid injury, while the others could not. It led to the brothers often being upset, because a normal bruise from an improper block would upset Gobin and Jahar because their mate got hurt, the brother who caused the injury was upset for injuring his mate by proxy, and the other brothers were upset for the same reason.

The only thing that kept the confrontations blood-free was the fact that she was using dulled training knives and swords until she had the muscle mass and muscle movements ingrained into her instincts, she was fully padded, and she hadn't started showing. When a month had passed, she had stopped using dulled practice blades three days before she noticed she had developed a bump. When she did notice it, her more human side finally flipped out to the point she lost her hybrid form.

"Kali, what is going on are you ok?" Gobin asked, as he ran toward the bathroom.

He stopped short when he saw his former ama on the floor of the bathroom in front of the mirror, with a familiar haunted look in her eyes.

"Aw shit, Jahar, Helius, get back here now, our prime time for training has ended, and it isn't looking good!"

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As the brothers ran into the bathroom, the noise startled a reaction from Kali, and she backed herself into a corner in fear.

"What is going on, my cat is being more impatient and bitchy then usual, saying that we have known we were pregnant, why should the first physical sign freak us out, but I know the signs I used to have while on Earth, and I have had none of them, so of course I'm going to freak out."

"Kali, I think you have been sub-consciously forgetting you were pregnant so that you could continue training, even though it is something that no mother-to-be would be doing. Of course, part of that forgetting also had help.

We have been giving you anti-nausea herbs in your breakfast, it is a tradition when pregnancy is announced, as well as not doing any of your training that would have put you in danger of falling, over-exertion, or injury anywhere near your stomach. So, for the sake of us all, we are now trading in your weapons training for clinic training, until you need to stay in seclusion." Gobin told her soothingly.

After a few minutes, she was finally able to wrap her brain around the fact that it wasn't she that was encouraging the forgetting, she would never have endangered her children, no matter which mindset was in charge.

Gobin's reassurance had stopped the mental bitch fight over who was needing a reminder of how a mother should act, as he was right, no mother would have been training with weapons, especially regular weapons.

The three brothers saw the transformation of not only her body, which had gone back to hybrid form, but her face and eyes, which had showed a haunted look of shock before, but now made them wary, as she had a murderous gleam in her eyes now that made them wonder who was going to be the flesh confetti.

"Has the walzan arrived?"

Those words spoken in a deadly calm made them scramble from the room like their tails were on fire, because in their minds, he had it coming. Only the gods would fuck with a pregnant female in this manner, because only they could handle the results. The walzan may be able to take care of himself, but the brothers weren't going to hang around to find out if he stayed in one piece or became flesh colored specks, as they were also part of the cover up and didn't want to join the walzan in his fate.

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The walzan had been told earlier in the week to watch out for the expected backlash, so while he was nervous about how quiet the house was and the fact that the brothers didn't greet him at the door, he was not surprised. What did surprise him was the fact that Kali was seated calmly in her usual chair, waiting.

"So nice of you to join me, but I don't think our brainwashing appointment is still on for today, but if you wish to leave this house in one piece, I advise you start talking, fast."

"The gods wanted to be sure you had at least some basic training, because there is a high possibility of a raid not long after the cubs are born, and you may be the only one able to defend them at some point."

"Will there be a need for additional training, or can I rejoice in being pregnant?"

"Three days a week, no more than an hour to hone your skills and to keep your edge. As long as you can handle that, I won't be needing to help you handle it."

"I can handle it, and the next time I speak with the gods, they will be getting an earful about warning a female before she goes insane and gets the urge to remind them what happens when you piss off a pregnant female."

"I remember now, you weren't really given adequate notice about much of anything, let alone how strong your protective urges would be, though I let the brothers know the training needed to be done. Note to self, learn from this before you end up dead from feminine wrath."

"I see we understand each other, now, how about we get to business before I let my cat loose on your ass?"

"By all means, let's see how your old memories are doing and how well you are handling them coming back?"

Which was the best thing he could have said to save his ass at the moment; as Kali and the former Nancy had been comparing pregnancy stories in a sense, with the realization that she was pregnant, Kali had begun remembering the joys of impending motherhood, and comparing her easy first month to the absolute hell she had experienced starting two weeks after she had gotten a positive pregnancy test.

When the walzan had entered her mind, her mind-self started showing him around the places where her memory was coming back, like the general contractor of a building under construction showing an inspector around.

They could see parts that had fully come back, like the pregnancy memories, some that were still hazy, like her life before she had been abducted, and parts that hadn't even begun to heal, like the years of abuse and forced abortions. The walzan was indeed just like an inspector, he was looking for spots that weren't healing properly for signs that she could have a reaction anywhere from a minor shock like she had had earlier to a full blown panic attack like she had had on board the ship.

While nothing looked dangerous at first, he saw that delving too deep into the later part of her previous pregnancies would be a VERY bad thing, and cautioned her as much, saying that those memories should be left for last.

"Why, are they bad?"

"No, they are traumatizing for a female who is expecting to keep her cubs, traumatizing enough to possibly cause you to start a natural abortion to mimic the memories. They are just memories, but the gods have deemed it important for you to remember them, even if they will be hard to handle. So, leave them alone until after the cubs are born.

As I can see some bleed through, I would be willing to channel the power of the gods to put up a temporary seal on those memories, if the gods wouldn't demand it. Are you willing, or do you want me to walk with you a bit more and stall the inevitable?"

"I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, because they need my cubs to be safe and grow up into their badass army, so they had a good reason to risk my wrath, though they won't do it again anytime soon!"

After a thorough search to see if everything else was in good order, the walzan left her mind and started the inner dialogue needed to ask for the strength of the gods to help him, which was granted with few questions asked after he explained that there was a possibility of natural abortion otherwise.

"Oh, the gods forgot to inform you of something I am sure has been troubling you all, about a possible issue of incest. Well, it won't be an issue."

"Ok, do I get a full explanation or am I supposed to just take their word for it?"

"You need to have all the brothers with you when I tell you, or there will be issues. The gods have been keeping a very big secret, which I can only share once, at the proper time, which is deemed to be now."

"Does the tsarzan know?"

"It has always been a need to know kind of thing, and he was the last person who would ever be on that list."

"Well, I am guessing this means I am not the only 'special' one in the family? Gods forbid we have anyone else in the family who is also 'special'."

"You have no idea, and there is going to be a big ruckus after the reveal, so be as calm as you can, for yours' and the cubs' sakes."

"While we are waiting for the 'big secret', are we able to do the housekeeping you said was needed or were the gods just in a mood to screw with me after I did some serious blaspheming?"

"I had to distract you from the memories being blocked so that the gods could fix the problem, which they did, with a time limit of half of one of our years."

"Great distraction, I'll give them that."

"Our other work that would have to do with strengthening your mental powers to become our super weapon of mass annihilation has to be put on hold because by doing it, it could destroy the block prematurely."

"So, we shall be seeing you after the cubs are born and weaned to start the major work?"

"Yes, but I will be by this evening after dinner to let you all know the big secret."

"Ok, but I do have one question, why now?"

"You will know why after I tell you."

And with that parting remark, the walzan left Kali to work out a revised training schedule until the cubs were born.

"Jahar, Gobin, get your butts back here, the walzan has just screwed up everything, though he left in one piece, if we don't get some issues worked out, I can't promise the same for you two."

And since they both knew that the cat was out of the bag, and that Kali might be in the mood for some fur rugs if they didn't hop to it, they gave each other one look, and ran back to placate their upset mate.

"Kali, we were only doing the gods' will, we didn't want to deceive you, it was killing us all that we had to hide something so big and wonderful from you, and we knew you would do anything to protect your babies..." Gobin blurted out in a rush, and probably would have continued if Kali hadn't held up her hand for silence.

"While I am amused you think I would skin you over something like this, I realize you had good intentions, hell the gods put you up to it with the reason of saving our children and your brothers' mates, but the fact of the matter is you need to fix something else, my training regime.

I also need to know how this pregnancy will progress differently, as it is on a six-month timeline correct?"

"Yes, you would have been feeling nauseous two weeks ago, and not been able to keep anything down, which is why pregnant females are given anti-nausea herbs the same day as pregnancy is confirmed. In another two weeks, you will start getting some of the swelling in your legs and feet, which is only minor, but will make it dangerous for us to hike up for mountainous herbs like we have been doing.

Your breasts have been growing a little, but the walzan helped you forget that. The fegentes helps with hormone regulation, so mood swings won't be an issue, and weight checks are done every month for health assessment, of which I was going to ask the walzan how we were supposed to get around that, but you fixed that issue.

You will mostly be doing clinical work from now on, and get certified. Besides, you have your trade appointments to fulfill, so that is probably what we should do for most of today." Gobin said, relieved to still have his fur attached.

"And our sex lives? Or the fact that I still have to do some weapons practice so that I maintain my skills? And the biggest question of the hour, what if some of the cubs want to be born as cubs and others as human infants, what then?"

"Um... well, with the fact that you are carrying four, we can guess that the gods will have some pity on us and have them all born as cubs, which would mean you would have to stay in cat form for your last two months.

As for the weapons practice, now it will only be safe if Jahar and I practice with you, because mates don't really attack each other, even when feral. It can happen, and weapons practice is a prime example, but other than that, mates can't really harm each other, so even when you practice cat fighting skills during the last two months, only we will be safe sparring partners.

And as for sex, only the fact that we are exhausted every night has been preventing that, and, again, those last two months are going to be extremely high in restrictions, for health reasons, but sex in cat form is unfortunately on that list. Your body will be in a fragile state that any rough activity must be kept to a minimum, and the womb will be the last place you want rough activity."

"So, if I wanted to jump you both, now would be a good time?"

"For Jahar, not me. I will have to wait until a few weeks after the cubs are born, and hope you don't go into heat. But don't worry about me if you feel the need, I can be happy watching, just like Jahar will have to be when your kitty wants her mate."

"Why do you have to wait? What if I want you both?"

"You are Jahar's pregnant mate; he is going to be overly protective of you when it comes to other males. Our brothers are fine because he knows they don't want to steal her away from him, but I am in danger if I get too close to you in a sexual manner. The reverse will be true when you spend your last two months in cat form."

"Ok, that makes sense. The walzan is coming back after dinner with a big secret not even the tsarzan knows, but the gods say it has to do with the incest problem not being a problem."

"Ok, what are the gods going to throw at us now?" Jahar piped up.

"I have a few theories, but I am going to wait for the walzan to tell us. Mean while, I want a quickie before we head off to the clinic."

"I'm up for that!"

"Yeah, I can see that Jahar, but the question is, are you up to making it a good quickie?"

"Why don't we find out?" Jahar said with a growl as he practically pounced on his mate.

With the knowledge that their brothers wouldn't be home for a long time, the brothers didn't feel the need to run to their shared bedroom, and everyone was undressed in seconds, with clothes thrown about in disarray. Though Kali really wanted to draw this out and make the boys chase her down, she knew if she wanted some action, it better be quick and to the point.

"Jahar, would you be able to handle it if I wanted to suck off Gobin while you fuck my pussy?"

"I'll try, but as this is new to all of us I can't be sure of anything."

"If you're willing to risk it, I want you both any way I can have you." Kali said as she lay down on the couch.

With a final look at each other, the brothers went for it, Gobin waiting until Jahar had pushed Kali's legs aside and thrust into her wet depths. Gobin felt it was safe, for the moment, to then approach Kali's mouth so she could suck him off. Though Jahar was showing signs of seriously not liking what was going on, Kali appreciated that he focused on them rather than on the fact that Gobin was stuffing her face as greedily as he was her pussy.

Ironically, while the brothers were ignoring each other in deference to making their mate happy, they were pumping her mouth and pussy in sync. As one withdrew, the other pushed in, at first slowly and gently, then faster and harder, making them moan and Kali scream in orgasmic bliss through a mouth full of Gobin. Sensing their mate was satisfied, the brothers stopped thrusting and withdrew, quickly moving to opposite ends of the couch.

"Oh gods, Kali, you have no idea how awesome that felt, it seems like forever since we had a chance to enjoy ourselves, and now I am so damn close, but I really am sorry to say that I don't feel comfortable with Gobin here."

"I am glad you brought that up first brother, as I love the forbidden aspect of this, but I feel like you are going to kill me any second."

"We will discuss this more later, but for now let me take care of you Jahar, and Gobin hopefully that is enough for you. I understand how this doesn't feel right, and it makes it hard to enjoy something that you feel instinctually is wrong, and I appreciate you both trying to overcome that to please me, and don't feel you have disappointed me. We will work this out, but for now, Jahar, you think you could give me some more, because I'm still hungry."

With relief, Jahar walked back to his mate and stuffed her still hungry pussy to the brim.

"That's it Jahar, fuck me like there is no tomorrow, because I want us to cum at the same time."

"Yes my mate, anything you want." Jahar panted as he gave it to her hard and fast, thrusting in and out of her pussy like the wild beast he was sometimes.

Gobin stood well back, but he still had a nice view of his brother filling their mate's hungry hole and so was able to take care of his still throbbing cock. The sensations flowing freely through the bond with his brother and mate helped him keep in sync with them, and when they came, so did he, with explosive results.

After a few minutes rest, Jahar got up off Kali and took the damp towel from Gobin, which he had used to clean himself, to clean up both Kali and himself. Only after he threw the towel on the floor in the laundry room did he realize that all three of their scents were on it, and that he had willing put Gobin's scent all over Kali.




The Freedom of Slavery Ch. 11



I am back! Life handed me a hard final year of college and I finally decided to get back to something fun after trying to find a job and coming back disappointed. 

I am sorry it took so damn long to come back, but I am in the process of writing two chapters, and just to clarify: this story ends after the epic battle, and Lezar's story will then be started, then Kalba, then Helius and Ilan last. 

Also, I did speed a few things up, because I am not an expert in waging and defending against war, so I figured that if I didn't know it, then neither did my audience and so add in the obvious and gloss over the rest. Enjoy the latest chapter!

That night, upon mutual agreement that answers were needed straight from the source, Kali used her previous acquaintance with Zathena to open up a channel so they could have a woman-to-woman talk.

"Alright, I think I can understand what your position as gods is in this mess, seeing as how rules were supposedly made up to make it harder for planetary-wide wars/genocides, but can you at least tell me the history behind this looming cluster-fuck, maybe a little of the battle plan? 

As your War Lord General, it would be a bad idea for me to go into battle uninformed, but more importantly, I am sick of all the fucking surprises! Please, for the love of all that is holy, help me understand what the hell is going on."

"I love mortals for the exact reason of they get so sick of our bullshit that they are willing to bite our heads off, even knowing we love to smite them just for fun! But to get to the problem at hand, yes, the person who needs to be the most informed has this entire time been the one with the least knowledge of the history, culture, and politics behind what she is going to be cleaning up. 

There have been arguments over how much information to give and to whom going back two of our years. Right now, the current argument is over how much information to give YOU, mostly from the standpoint of giving you enough to be informed vs. overwhelmed. I think you did right by coming to one of us and getting our attention to the fact that in figuring out what was best for you, we forgot to ask what you want. Too late to be careful what you ask for, because I'm going to give you the Spark-notes version."

"In the beginnings of the gathering to leave Earth, all of the gods from the mostly forgotten pantheons came together to speak of rules, guidelines, and procedures for creating and maintaining the proposed new planets. 

It was suggested that the gods take three things into consideration when doling out the new planets: which creatures they wanted as their sentient beings, an equal balance of order vs. chaos, and that when one pantheon seeks to disturb another, whether to destroy or just give them a bad day, the pantheon under attack has limits to how it can retaliate. 

Those limits were specific because it is a common occurrence: the methods first employed by the enemy are to be the methods used to defend, all gods are indestructible, but demi-gods, super-beings, ect., can be destroyed, even if given immortal status, and also, the thing which every single god had to agree to before any of us left, equal populations to both sides. 

That last one is not only pertaining to the planetary guideline of each side of the planet is ruled by an equal, yet opposing pantheon, but that if one side creates demi-gods, super-beings, ect., the other side MUST follow suit, and only the deaths of EACH sides creations means that they are out of play. 

So, in short, we had a group of gods that decided they liked canine and ursid animals, and we had others who liked felines, both pantheons had differing modis operandi, one for order the other for chaos, and both sides strive to reach the peak of each without succumbing to the fact that they need to embrace order or chaos to be able to reach their peak again. You are the major mortal player for the side of order that is reluctant to embrace chaos, but knows it has to anyway, so it is going to enjoy it while it lasts. In this pantheon, we have a god or two that were kept from integration, because one was a goddess of chaos, the other was the watcher. The Canids have the same thing going on; Anubis is the Canids version of an ambassador, sort of. He was set to the task of watching over his father Set while still on Earth, but was at first unwilling to take up the task in the New Order. Osiris said he would be willing to give some of his essence to Anubis alone, which was why he was able to keep his single-god status. 

Odin, he refused to give up a portion of himself if he was going to be on the same planet as Loki, as they were mortal enemies during Ragnorak and he would be damned if he was going to give that or his hard earned knowledge up. But he did agree to give up some of himself to create the ruling male god of a pantheon, and help create a new form of the Valkyries for his new world, so his refusal was agreed upon as he had logical points. 

A little known Greek goddess is our ambassador, Eris or Strife. She was tasked with, as she puts it, 'pulling the stick we gods of order insist in shoving up our collective ass out and giving it a twirl'. She has the qualifications, as she was the one who threw the golden apple with 'to the fairest' written on it into the middle of a party she wasn't invited to, which started the Trojan war. She keeps her single-god status because she got Hecate to give her some of her power the same as Osiris did for Anubis. 

The reason I am telling you about Eris and Anubis, well, they are most likely going to switch sides at some point until this is over. That will be the sign that the war has truly begun, not just some posturing and name-calling. You will know this has occurred when you meet one of the Holy Order of Anubis, better known as an Anubite. The Daughters of Eris will also send one of their own to the Canids, but personally I would rather have the Anubites any day."

"Ok, this has been extremely informative and all, and I get the picture that you the gods must do what you were created to do by the myths, legends, and doctrine you came from, but what am I going to do once this meeting occurs, why are they special, and most important, how should we be preparing the armies, as far as I know I am the only one who has been getting special training?"

"Now that you know all the political bullshit we gods must go through every couple of millennia, that we are creations of a sentient species and are held to follow the limits given to us from the very root of our power, those who worship us. We need mortals to help us keep the balance so that we don't destroy the planet in a pantheon war. 

There are few checks and balances among the gods, those being the neutral entities that then get tired of the squabbling and take matters into their own hands. The Holy Order of Anubis is treated like dirt, scorned, and hunted by the Canids when they get bored, partially because they only worship Anubis, but also because they are jackals. 

They all have the power to channel Anubis' power for a time, as they are his personal creation. They practice the art of mummification, because if they didn't, they would become insane. They can speak to the dead, up until the point they are mummified or given a ritualistic burial. They also have the power to destroy a person's soul, if they are impure. Impure typically means that they are depraved and sadistic and lack empathy, hence why Canids hate them, even if they are cousins. 

Once you have met the Anubite, you will send your scouts and counter-scouts to clear the way for war, I thought that was fairly obvious. The armies have technically been prepared, with specialized training given to a vast amount of feline warriors throughout our half of the planet. Once the babies are born, you will learn how to communicate with the walzans, tsarzans, and sarzans, who have been warned by now to get supplies, create fortifications, and enhance the skills of all who are needed for war. 

The reason you are put on alert so early? To put it simply, all resources harvested in vulnerable areas such as farms must move their crops to a more fortified area or make their current location fortified. All of this has been going on, as well as the merchants rationing what they sell. The ancient storehouses are being fixed and filled, and no new slaves are being purchased, the amas are simply being told to contribute to the effort or be sold. 

Before you say anything on that, some of them are willing to be sold because they still harbor hate for their masters and would rather sabotage the war effort then aid it, they are not being mistreated, simply given the choice. Of course, most of the amas had previous masters that have treated them much worse, and so they would definitely rather help than give up their better life. 

You are probably going to be one of the few females actually going to war in the army; most females who become warriors are not in the main army, but in the elite forces such as scouts, counter-scouts, and assassins. You will be learning the skills of all combatants by the way, including how to scout, how to spot and get rid of scouts, and every conceivable method of killing, just in case the 'main army strategy' as I have come to call it falls through and we have to have guerilla groups instead. Ilan won't be going to war either, as he will be in charge of raising the babies and helping the tsarzan with home defense, as your den-site is one of the closest to the world border and it will be part of the front line. 

Much of the future is still being decided, but have faith in the fact that you are part of a cycle, this is not the end, it is the beginning of the rebirth of an age. For the end of the world to occur, it must come from a space object such as a comet or meteor crashing into the planet, so this will end in a truce, or the war creations on both sides kill each other. That is up to you mortals to decide."

And with that said, Zathena left the now content Kali to get some much needed sleep. 

@@@ The next morning, Kali woke up to the town crier announcing another meeting in the arena that was mandatory. She took comfort in knowing what the purpose behind her being here was, finally, and in the fact that a little bubble of ignorant bliss had been placed around her. She was able to take her time, and the time of the brothers, to learn as much as she could in the limited time she had before the gods got tired of squabbling and turned toward war. 

She also understood WHY all the extra time was given, even if the gods did decide to shock the shit out of their mortal subjects for their own amusement and to get the ball rolling in earnest. And shock they did, as apparently 'Epic Battle', 'short-faced bears', 'dire wolves', and 'prepare for war' had not been a clear enough message. It turned out that, once the word War Lord had truly been let out of the bag, it ran like a bat out of hell. 

Almost none of the defensive to-do list had been started apart from combat training, weapons and armor being made, and supplies being stockpiled. 

Fortifications and preparations for a possible siege had been the last thing on the tsarzan's mind, until the walzan had come to see his progress. It turned out, after the walzan had left them last night, he stopped by to ask about how the siege preparations were going, even when he already knew the answer. At the blank look, he laughed and mentioned the small fact that the gods felt the tsarzan was being blind ignorant based on how things had been going, and decided to clue him into the fact that his den-site was going to be on the front lines of a legendary epic battle, and that he had better be doing something about it. Hence, the mandatory meeting, at least for everyone else. 

She and the brothers were busy getting her training done, and now, actually planning the offensive push. Set and Loki technically had a head start, as they had been building a good portion of their offensive in secret, so they could concentrate on their defensive strategy for now. 

Her forces had to build up their offensive and defensive plans at the same time, but with the fact that order was a neurotic obsession with her gods, they had made sure that most of the details relating to defense were routine, which made her wonder if there were any Teutonic gods integrated into her pantheon. 

The tsarzan had forgotten about all of that in his fervor to ready his den-site to wage an offensive war. Luckily, it was not too late, and the issue could be resolved easily, i.e. he was now to concentrate on ONLY the defensive part of the planning while Lezar, Ilan, and Kalba concentrated on preparing for offensive war. 

Kali, Gobin, and Jahar would spend at least half of their time to creating basic plans for a large army assault, guerilla gangs, and sieges. Then they had to do their best to foresee any contingencies, and have plans B-Z ready to go for all three scenarios. Plus also finish up the last of her medical training, combat train for an hour three times a week, get the plant guides finished, and start her assassin training. 

All of this in the next Earth year, hopefully most of which would be done before the cubs were born. 

"Kali, we had best get to the meeting soon so that everyone can be reassured that they can place their trust in you and that you are really going to be a War Lord. I can hear the tsarzan's pleas for order from here." Gobin said, trying to coax her to finish her breakfast.

"I guess I should go and let them see that I have been working my ass off to save them, shouldn't I?"

"It would a good thing, yes, especially as preparations for an offense are one thing, preparing for the worst, a siege, is quite another. Everyone is going ape shit because of the simple fact that we wouldn't need to prepare for a siege if we weren't going to be attacked. That mentality is what could destroy this den-site before the war even truly begins. If the morale of an army is low, it is already defeated. 

Help raise their morale, let them know that you will stop at nothing to defend them and destroy our enemies." Jahar implored, thinking that talking to the troops would put things into perspective for everyone.

"Alright, let's go and rally the troops, though if I hear one Seig Heil, I will be upset."

At their questioning glances, Kali simply replied: "Nazis.", which gave it away and they assured her that third Reich zealots never made it to this planet, so no worries. With that settled, they went to attempt to stop any riots.

@@@ At the arena, they met the tsarzan before he entered to give the announcement, and were met with a thoroughly harassed looking male who looked like the tsarzan. He was so stressed about all the work that needed to be done that he looked worse than a frat house after finals. His face was gaunt and haunted, with a stare that seemed unfocused, his body was much thinner and he had mats in his now dull fur. 

He visibly perked at the sight of Kali however, and fell to his knees in joy, looking like a man who had found salvation.

"War Lord Kali, oh thank the gods you are here. I was hoping I wouldn't have to deal with this insanity by myself for much longer, and I see the cubs are coming along well. I am hoping you are here to take up the mantle and help me assure our people that this is the gods' will and give me the duties of defensive coordinator?"

"Yes, I am, though reluctantly, is the walzan here, I need to talk to him first."

"He's right there, I'll leave you to it, let me know when you are ready to make the announcement."

With that she walked over to the walzan.

"I only have one question, I talked to Zathena last night, and she almost gave me an information overload, but I need to ask this; do you have any idea what our equivalent for the dire wolves and short-faced bear are going to be?"

"Why, saber tooth cats of course, and the gods actually decided that you won't be it! Doesn't that make you feel special, that someone else gets to be just as special as you?" 

"Just peachy, but is that it?"

"As far as I know, yes, though I'm sure the gods would love to tell you all the details if you asked them."

"No thanks, I need a bit more time to digest the insanity they already told me. Alright, time to become a War Lord and get this show on the road."

@@@ Kali, with Jahar and Gobin flanking her, proceeded out into the arena with the tsarzan and walzan to declare how this mess was going to be fixed.

"Males and Females, I know you all have been trying your hardest to get the war preparations under way, but we have a further announcement. Though she, and myself, just learned this yesterday, we have found ourselves witness to the rise of a War Lord." 

This led to the expected ruckus, but within a few minutes the tsarzan waved a hand for silence.

"As I said, we just learned this yesterday because the gods are fickle and because our War Lord needed basic training, which we all know would be impossible for her if she was aware she was pregnant. The gods kept this, and her status, from her so that she could get some basic combat skills in case she has to defend her cubs. Now, she is aware, and can take the burden of preparing for war from my hands. 

I will still be busy, but the gods have given me a different task. The fact that we are so close to the border means we are going to be on the front lines. We have a high chance that we will be under siege, and we must prepare. 

The gods have spoken, and they have told us that the mythic cycle of renewal has come to pass, and that we are to prepare ourselves like our ancestors did when the last War Lord saved us. I will now focus on the reviving of our rooftop farms, sheltered wells, fortifications, and bunkers. Warriors, I give you your War Lord."

With much ruckus, Kali stepped forward with Gobin and Jahar by her side. She too had to ask for silence, but when she spoke, they all listened.

"I do not expect you to follow me blindly and obediently, no matter if I am the War Lord General and I could kick all your asses with little effort once I am fully trained. You have not one, but three War Lords, though the gods have deemed me the overall leader. 

This will be because I will be trained to kill and destroy the minds of the enemy with my thoughts, and without even seeing them, because I will have the ability to channel the power of the gods, not simply be a messenger, and because I will have had the best training in tactics and strategy, given to me straight from our gods of war. 

Know that this is not what I am now, for now I am just a pregnant female who wishes nothing more than to learn all she can from mortals and become a mother to healthy cubs. Before we must face our enemy, I will be the walking weapon of the gods, and my family will be the immortal army that combats our greatest enemies. You, my people, will help me destroy those that our enemy uses as fodder and keep them from destroying us from shear numbers. I will be the one, with my fellow War Lords, to face down the short-faced bears and dire wolves, with the wrath of our gods. 

And I do this not for any one person, not for my mates, not for my cubs, but for the fact that if I don't, I may as well kill my loved ones humanely before the Canids get to them. Help us prepare to fight, in the field and from our homes, for the lives of our loved ones, that they may be spared a tortuous death."

With that said, she waited for them to digest her words on bated breath. Then, slowly, one by one, the people in the stands got on to one knee and bowed, fists raised in salute. 

Not a single person remained standing or sitting, moved by her honesty. After a few moments, they rose and a few came down to the ground level, indicating they had questions.




The Freedom of Slavery Ch. 12



Okay, this is a long awaited chapter, so enjoy! 

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Lezar and Kalba came back with a few minor wounds and most of their men were in the same boat, but one or two needed immediate medical attention and were dropped off at the medical facility. Luckily, the wounds were not life threatening, just deep and needing to be stitched up.

"The mongrels were pretty damn good, Jedo and Katar got jumped and had their necks chewed on and chests scratched up, but killed the bastards before they could really do much damage.

No major vessels were bit, amazingly, and Jedo made sure he kept a souvenir; one of his attacker's teeth got imbedded into the muscle in his shoulder when he used the hilt of his sword to knock the rest out and get it off him. We wanted to display the mutilated bodies as a warning, but we decided we are not quite barbaric enough for that and so we dug a massive pit and lit the bodies on fire. Kalba also kept a souvenir, but his is at least useful."

Kalba then came forward with a leader token and a massive pelt. "I thought we could use this to train our warriors on the scent of Canids and then turn it into a front door mat. Or maybe we could use it for target practice. Much more useful then a tooth."

"Yeah, but it makes a great story about how badass Jedo is. Maybe he could start a collection, a tooth for every Canid he kills. I know I will." Jahar said.

"Are you not forgetting something you bunch of bloodthirsty curs? We have a guest who is also a Canid, who wants us to rescue his fellow Canids, and who does not need to be further stressed after nearly being killed by the mongrels you just finished torching.

Take that piece of shit flea-bitten mangy mongrel's excuse for a fur coat out of my house then get your asses ready to mount another rescue or I can get you ready to be torched."

"Yes Warlord General, I'll just pop into the medical facility to get patched up then I am on it, but I do need a guide. Will our guest be up to it Gobin or should I just follow the tracks and hope they lead all the way there?

I am sorry honored guest if I insulted you; I personally consider you and your brethren to be a separate species from Canids and more like us than them. I would be honored to rescue your sacred order from our enemies." Lezar said, with a nudge at Kalba who was trying to escape back out the door.

"I concur with Lezar, and I hope you accept our apologies. I ask for forgiveness for speaking without being sensitive to my audience and would be glad to save your fellow brethren."

"By the time you get back, Aton should be good to travel if he is carried for the first 24 hours. I know that the temple of the Holy Order of Anubis is out in BFE and at least 4 days travel from here, so he should be back to fighting form by the time you get there.

As Aton said to us, there is a least one dire wolf in the mess and about 20 battle packs to clean up, so take the army and whoop some ass. I want to start collecting these leader tokens like the Germans collected the Roman eagles, so

I am expecting at least 20 when you get back. I also want a tooth from the dire wolf to compare size differences." Gobin ordered, hoping to get a more macho image so he could feel like a Warlord.

"Gobin, dude, just show the troops what you can do with a scalpel and no one will fuck with you. I saw what you did to that prisoner that Helius wanted help interrogating. He didn't even notice he had been gelded until the next day, and that was only because you let him go the next day.

I know how much of a badass you are, so save the posturing for the little punks who will need it." Lezar told his brother, laughingly.

With that parting shot, Lezar and Kalba got rid of the pelt and took care of their wounds before coming to pick up Aton and getting the army packed for the journey and the rescue.

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This rescue mission was a great first field test of the communications network and the training of the warriors. Ilan got a work out too as his supply trains brought in extra medical supplies and brought home the bodies of fallen warriors.

Luckily, of the 150 warriors that were sent to battle, only 10 died, and after the first one that died in transit, a medic that had been working to save his brother and drained his own life energy into his brother, Gobin met the healers rotating back to base and went into the field himself, determined to make sure that the healers took care of themselves and those brought into their care.

After 4 days in battle, the dire wolf had been sniped by a stealth fighter using his throwing knives to finish him off before he finished off Lezar.

Needless to say, the fighter was well rewarded with an extra medal of valor, which the whole ceremony needed to take place after the cubs were born because the highest ranking officer did the ceremony, and she was very pregnant and while not sick with worry, was not happy about her mate not being with her.

It took a total of a month to find all the mongrels, but the siege had been broken after 15 days, so the Anubites were able to make their way through the camp, helping the war-weary warriors with morale and the healers with fresh helping hands.

Aton and his brethren arrived a week before all the warriors were confident they had killed all the Canids involved in the siege, as did most of the army. Only Lezar, Kalba, Gobin, and two other battle packs were left with the clean up.

The Daughters of Eris had been involved with the siege, and their cloaking abilities had allowed for the enemy camp to be hidden for quite a long time. When they saw that the army had left, they thought the whole army had left, so they took down the cloaking barrier and when the dust settled from that last battle, the souvenir total came to: one bracelet of the Daughters of Eris, one dire wolf tooth, and 22 leader tokens.

Most of the warriors had also started making necklaces of Canid teeth from each of their kills, and the number of teeth from that was rather impressive, with a total of 140 kills.

With one month until the cubs were born, Kali was impatient for them to just be born already, having had little to do but lay and worry or focus on learning the ceremony for bestowing battle honors.

"Ok, one eye of Horus for valor in battle, one ahnk for every life saved through perseverance in healing, one scarab for each promotion in rank, and one sun for each year served in that rank.

The falcon of Horus is the symbol for a lalzan or higher and two means malzan, three is a nalzan, and four is a palzan, of which are supposed to be defenders only having earned that right, but the male that saved Lezar is a palzan who trains stealth fighters correct?" Kali projected, tired of trying to figure out all these ranks and symbols and the ceremonial words while her mate was still not here.

"Gobin is two days out, is healed from the scratches he got when a patient was struggling, and conserving his energy so he can be here with you and not pass out the second he walks through the door.

You will have to give every person who was out there medals, including Gobin, so the least you can do is learn to identify them so you can call them by their rank like they deserve. Speaking of, what should be on his lapel?" Jahar scolded, understanding in his voice.

"Before I place his new medals, he will have 65 ahnks, two scarabs, two falcons of Horus, 19 suns, which still confuses me, and 8 eyes of Horus."

"You earn the first 15 in active warrior ranks halzan, jalzan and kalzan, and battle packs are able to pick defensive or offensive duty when they reach lalzan.

Defensive duty would take 5 years to get to the next rank, but offensive raises your rank in two years, defensive duty palzans are required to retire, but offensive palzans are simply switched to defensive duty until the full 20 years are finished.

In the case of recent events, if you can still function as an active duty fighter, you may petition to be put into the field and we call it the warrior's right. A warrior has the right to defend his family as long he is not a liability on the field.

Some, like Mandar and his brothers, chose not to invoke that right because they know that training is as important as fighting or that they could be better elsewhere."

"Okay, that makes sense, some of the ways you do things here differ vastly from how it is done on Earth, but I think it is for the better. No one is forced to learn more than basic self defense, no one is drafted into the army and forced to fight, and you even have options open for ways to keep a warrior's pride even if they are old or less capable due to war injuries.

You don't even wear uniforms except for the ceremony, which is smart if you have to shift into cat-form to kick some ass. Valor medals are what I think they are right? They are given if your actions save another's life while putting your own at risk?"

"More than that, you have to have been willing to sacrifice your life for the person you are saving, which is rarely an issue, but some of the younger warriors try to one-up each other with their medal count and they do something brave just to get a medal. Once you have proven yourself willing to do so, any further acts of valor are rarely questioned."

Just then, Kali realized why she had been antsier than the situation warranted. She started feeling labor urges, the urge to make a den and find her mate, who often did the delivery with a doctor supervising.

"Jahar, get the den started and I'll give Gobin a reason to get his ass home now."

"Oh gods, why did you have to start this early? You should have another month yet."

"Not according to them!"

"Gobin, get your ass home now, your cubs decided to arrive early!"

"You are still just in the urge stage right? Ask the gods, beg them if you have to, to give you another day, though at this stage you could have anywhere from a few hours to a week until they come. Helius has helped me deliver cubs before; make sure he is with you and Jahar just in case.

I am going to shift to cat-form and run like hell, but it will still take me at least 12-16 hours to get to you. Hang in there, cubs are rarely a problem, even early they can come out with very little post-natal care needed, but even so tell the tsarzan so he can have his physician on alert."

"Just get here in one piece and be ready to greet your children."

With those reassurances of her mate moving like a bat out of hell trying to get home to help her bring their cubs into the world, she headed off to see how the den was coming. There were plenty of pillows, vats of warm water and blankets, the fegentes and magentes her cubs started with laid out along with her fegentes and her focantes.

She made sure to tell Jahar what Gobin had said, and the tsarzan was put on alert, these were the start of the army of awesomeness after all. Lezar and Kalba were also running with Gobin, and Helius and Ilan were with Kali and Jahar, so this was going to be one massive family event, a bonding that was needed for them all to feel like a family.

With all the preparations and a moody pregnant female to keep happy, they had not really been bonding all that much and this was seen as a major make-up for that lost time.

"Xixi, please make my cubs wait for my family to be together to greet them. Grant me this one joy in this time of war."

"Of course dear, we are fickle, not cruel. If we didn't grant you this, I would have to get really creative in my personal name-calling to make up for it. We are giving the travelers some psychic Red-Bull, courtesy of Zorcon. I think he just wants to see his grand-babies meet their mates, the big softy."

"I'll tell him you said that, just to see the look on his face."

It turned out, with the psychic Red-Bull, nine hours to make a trip that should have taken 48 was indeed a record, go god power! Gobin and the others washed up and were greeted with a massive buffet of food when they went to check in on the mother-to-be.

"Get your asses in here and eat, Xixi can't make them wait much longer and I am sick of all the damn kicking! Gobin, eat and deliver because I think your son is coming first."

Gobin greeted his mate, grabbed some food, used the focantes to see where the babies were positioned, and said, "Mate, I do believe you are right, I am surprised he didn't pop out hours earlier. Also, they look full term, so this may be because of our demi-god status that they grew so quick. Now give one massive push so I can greet our son."

Kali gave one massive push and the male cub just slid right out. Gobin caught him in a damp blanket, got him out of the womb sac, and rubbed the fluids off his fur while encouraging the mucus out of his mouth, nose and lungs.

After a few seconds, the cub gave a massive cough and roared his displeasure, just like the lion coloring he had, though he also had a couple of black and white stripes of royalty on his back and chest.

"His name is Leandro, lion-man. Here comes one of your daughters, hand him to Jahar, then Ilan."

Gobin handed Leandro to his other father, then Jahar handed him to his mate after he cut the cord. Gobin got ready to catch his first daughter.

"You ready to push?"

"You ready to catch?"

"Then give me my first daughter."

With a push, Katerina was born and held by both her fathers before Kalba got to hold his mate. Jasmina went to Lezar and Iris went to Helius. Katerina was a leopard, Jasmina was a tiger and Iris was a panther, though it was hard to tell if she had rosettes or spots, but like their brother, they had the royal stripes.

"Alright, give me a few minutes to recover, then bring them back to nurse so I can interact with my cubs. Oh, and you may want to stay back for a few minutes while they are feeding, or I will not be responsible for limbs being sliced off."

After a final quick physical by Gobin, each of the cubs was brought over to nurse and Gobin sat near Kali's head to tell her what he found.

"They are all fine, Iris is currently the runt, she had a slight rasp in her breathing that is slowly evening out, so she is fine. Katerina needs to have her ears looked at more closely, as I think I did not manage to get out all the fluid but that can wait until she is done eating.

Within a couple of days, not today, they need to go to the medical facility to examine their human and hybrid forms for smooth transitions, but I think they look beautiful and healthy."

"How long will I need to stay in cat-form? I want to actually hold each of my cubs like I would if they were born human."

"You only need to do it when they are hungry, so in a few hours after they have eaten and rested, you should be fine to hold them each individually. I will go get some of the play toys we have been collecting."

"Good, the last thing I need is to all of a sudden have four crazy cubs pouncing on me and themselves because they became active before they should.

If they were able to be born a month early, does that mean they might be active little terrors in a few days? Will their eyes open within a day? I am sick of all the damn surprises!"

"Well, Zathena or Xixi should have some answers, but I think you should expect almost full developmental time needed for a cub for each of the stages, though they may put on weight faster."

"I think I will get some answers, but I have missed you so stay with me for a little while, okay."

"I missed you as well my mate, our cubs are as beautiful as their mother."

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Kali decided to try her luck with Xixi first, but if Xixi passed her on to Zathena, that was fine as long as she got some answers.

"Xixi, I have a few questions and I don't know if they fall under your purview or Zathena's."

"It is about the cubs, right? Well, until a week has passed they are still under my guardianship as they are considered by the gods at least to have survived well enough to be protected by Zorcon or Zathena.

To answer your question about how they are going to develop, they will take about six days to open their eyes and crawl, two weeks to start standing for short periods of time, and their baby teeth should start coming in at two weeks as well.

They won't be actively walking and playing until week three and by week six, you can start weaning them fully to solid food. To first start giving them solid food at about three weeks, start with meat ground into small chunks and soaked in milk. The meat should be cooked until they are fully weaned, and each week make sure there is less liquid and more solid.

Add some mashed fruits and vegetables on a side platter at week five, as well as some fish. After they have been weaned fully, you can start taking them outside on leashes.

Trust Gobin with the medical aspects, he has a whole pantheon of gods and a whole mortal family who will skin him if he is wrong, so he knows not to take chances."

"Will all of my cubs follow this same time frame?"

"Highly likely, we are talking about demi-gods here."

Then Kali had a very scary revelation. "The 'Army of Awesomeness', it is not going to survive is it? My cubs will die in this war, won't they?"

"I can not say for certain, Set and Loki will be trying their damnedest to kill you all, that's for sure. But, often we gods become so attached to the mortal pawns we create that we call a truce. Set and Loki both have done so in the past, as have we, so both sides proceed as if that possibility is the eventual outcome.

That is the only bit of order that Set and Loki willingly embrace, because surprisingly both are very protective of their families, and they always contribute some DNA in the process of making their armies.

Do not let it upset you, because you have the most power to affect the outcome. You have the power to contact them yourself, but I caution you from doing so until you can bargain a truce. Make the most of the destiny you have been given, and make us proud."

"Thank you, with all these powers and all the training I have been getting, it makes it seem almost too easy. Please tell me you didn't bring Murphy's Law with you? That would royally suck!"

"Well then it royally sucks, Murphy was one hitchhiker we could not get rid of, hence the over-preparation."

With that parting remark, Xixi left Kali to explain to Gobin what he should expect for the cubs' growth rates. By the time the new parents had finished comparing information, Leandro lifted his head to let out a massive burp.

This prompted the brothers to poke their heads through the door, which then got them growled at for their bravery. Gobin got up with a kiss to Kali's head and went out to talk to his brothers.

"So, when can we be with our mates, brother?" Lezar pleaded.

"Are they healthy, is she fine, are they napping now?" Jahar asked.

"I will be going back in there in a minute to make sure everything is good. I am sure Kali won't mind if you were in human-form over by the other wall.

Jahar will go in first, as it is his mate that just gave birth, and then one at a time you all can probably visit. I will ask her though when I go back in. Now, are you all good or do you have more questions that need to be answered right now?"

"Can we tell the tsarzan that it went fine, or should his physician come by for a visit anyway?" Kalba asked.

"Tell him that we will be going to the medical facility within the week, everything went fine."

With his brothers reassured, Gobin went back in to check out Katerina's ears and Iris's breathing. With a more thorough cleaning, Katerina was put back for a well-deserved nap. Iris's breathing was deemed normal, but Gobin used his corantes and focantes to make sure the lungs were fine, and when he was reassured that that was the case, Iris also was placed back to snuggle with her littermates.




The Freedom of Slavery Ch. 12



"So, are you up to having the others come in to hang out?"

"They can all come in at the same time and cuddle their mates for a little while after I get to hold them."

The brothers, having eavesdropped at the door, rushed in eagerly over to where they had been while Kali was in labor. Kali shifted into hybrid form and picked up Iris, holding her with all the love that Nancy and her other unborn children would have received if they had lived.

"Gobin, go take my locket and have it inscribed with the names of our cubs instead. Now that I have real children rather than wishful memories, I wish to move past my sorrow and rejoice in these gifts I have received."

"Yes my mate, I am so happy to hear you say that you are ready to move on. I could tell sometimes when you were worried that these cubs would end up like the others, and I am sorry I was not here when that worry was at its worst."

"I forgive you, because you were here when it mattered most, to help bring them into the world. Also, get their collars ready, and you may as well bring back some harnesses so we can get them used to the smell of them."

Kali walked Iris over to Helius, after telling him to stay in hybrid form or else while cuddling her cub. Seeing him properly cowed, she handed him his mate and went to pick up Jasmina. After holding her for a few minutes, she made sure Lezar was ready and then he got to cuddle his mate. After Leandro, then Katerina went to their mates, Kali laid down for a well deserved nap before the little ones needed to feed again. 



The Freedom of Slavery Decoded



Ok due to the fact that earlier on in my writing of this story, I was told that people were left in the dark and quite unhappy about it, I decided to take some questions asked that had been either not answered or were hard concepts to follow. Also, I admit that I have been mostly going with the plotline in my head, and that once all the chapters have been posted, I will go back and add in things. Therefore, I am writing this to highlight a few parts that may be confusing: 

• When Nancy is abducted, she is 38, as she went to college at 16. She met Max during her senior year of bachelor's degree college, and he let her get her master's before he got paranoid and physically abusive, when she was 23. She was in a program that let you earn your master's and your doctorate at the same time, and when she left him, she was able to transfer her program and finished her doctorate 2 years later when she was 32.

• The main character goes through many changes in personality and mindset. This has been reflected in the style of writing throughout the chapters, to help link it all as a whole. This may be the most confusing part, as the style does change drastically, but as information is added, or events occur, there is a reflect in change of attitude and behavior of not only the main character, but the others as well.

• Also, for a more clear understanding for what is going on, which when I do the major revisions this will be made more obvious, the main character has DID, or Dissociative identity disorder, formerly and more commonly known as multiple personality disorder. I have also used reactions that some people have put into question for some of the characters, but what is important to know about her mental status is that most of her personality integration was complete before she was abducted, hence why she was able to "act" a personality that she knew would help her survive. 

It is why she was able to handle the fact that she had another personality that had always been hidden, waiting to emerge. It is also why her adaptation went so smoothly, her cat was a dominate personality that she knew and had already trusted to help her survive in worse circumstances that now had a physical form.

• The Felanids have long lives, including reproductive lives, by which I mean that when she gets adapted, she now has the same life span they do, though the gods have deemed her to have a longer life span because of her role in their plans. Her reproductive life will end when she is around 80, as that is when it normally ends.

• Population control is carefully managed by the gods, which is why viable reproductive life has been extended. There are two dominate pantheons on each planet, and each one has to have an equal population, give or take a hundred. This was mandated to prevent overpopulation, world wars, and worst of all, jihads. 

Religious wars are strictly forbidden, though if you are defending yourself it is okay to push the envelope a little to balance things out. Discrimination against species is not an issue, it is more that the Canids are created by certain gods, therefore they follow the edicts of those gods and can't really change to follow the Felanids gods. 

• The gods are obsessed with balance, think Egyptians balance between order and chaos, and those who are opposed to it are the harbingers of chaos, think Set from Egyptian mythology and Loki from Norse mythology being the main problems, but every god or goddess who ever represented chaos is also involved, except the Mesoamerican Aztecs, Maya, and Inca, who were to crazy and bloodthirsty to leave Earth before it was too late. 

• This level of obsession with order is reflected in the civilization of the Felanids, as they believe that their actions give powers to the gods of order or the gods of chaos, and the gods of chaos are seen as cruel masters at best, sadistic and demonic representations of pure evil is more accurate. That said, they have their lives OCD planned out so as to reduce the amount of chaos they generate.

• All the other pre-Christian pantheons left Earth before Christianity converted or destroyed all their followers. They created new planets, with the dominate hominid species being determined by favorite Earth species, hence Canids being dog species people, Felanids being cat species people. The gods then split, merged and formed a new pantheon for each of these hominid species, in which each god or goddess is a blend of multiple gods or goddesses from Earth. 

• When timelines are given, it is usually to reflect the fact that an event is occurring rapidly, or to give a sense of the passage of time. One section has a pre-warning about that, but it was needed to show the rapidness of the event occurring.