Howl of the Heavens 20

   As night falls on Pine Ridge Versa in her human guise with her traditional leather cloths on with the image of the hunter Mike given to her from Rhuen fresh in her mind she walks right down the road with the Jones’ residence in sight and a mission in her mind. Past the main streets, past the shops, past one small bar, past many mail boxes that signified drive ways, with her children following from the shadows of the forest, and she travels. Along a long drive to an old one story house backed up against the forest Versa has found her target.

    She stops out side the house and sniffs the air, "yes" she thinks to herself and to her children who are outside the view of the streets in the forest line, "this is it, the smell is just as Rhuen sensed to me these are the humans that helped that foolish hunter. Well my children lets meet these Joneses shall we."

    With a wicked smile she walks up to the door and rings the bell. The door is answered by the human she recognizes from the trading post, "Nick" she thinks, "I thought the scent was familiar."

   Nick Jones had been inside reading his latest video game magazine when he heard the door bell ring; he looks up and realizes his grandfather is out back so he puts his magazine down and answers the door.

    He is struck speechless by the beautiful yet some how familiar stranger at the door and he barely staggers out an, "Uhm can I help you? I mean do you need something or someone?"

   Nick has to make a mental effort to keep his eyes "above the horizon" as he talks to this drop dead gorgeous woman. She interrupts his chain of thought, "I am looking for Jeff Jones is he in right now?"

   Nick comes back to reality and answers, "yep, err I mean I'll go get 'im for yas".

     Nick runs out back where his grandpa is working on a new chicken coop. "Hey grandpa there is a lady at the door for you."

     "I'm not expecting any one.” He states confused as he puts down his hammer and follows Nick inside, “Is it that Samantha lady that was here a while back?" he asks as they walk through the kitchen from the backyard,

    "Nope" replies Nick, "I've never seen this lady before, I think, she's kinda familiar but I don't know where I seen her before." as Nick enters the living room from the Kitchen he sees the woman standing in the living room.

   Nick thinks it odd that her eyes seem even bluer than when she was at the door and she looks angry for some reason. Jeff follows behind him and is struck dumb at what he sees before him.

   The very thing that has haunted his nightmares for the last few years, "Versa" he says quietly out laud.

   Nick looks at his grandpa standing there scared stiff and the wicked evil smile on the woman's face as he realizes who "Versa" is.

    He exclaims, "What the fu..." which is cut short as Versa lunges forward faster than the blink of an eye and pins Nick against the wall with one hand holding the collar of his shirt.

    As Jeff stands frozen at the junction between the living room and Kitchen and Nick pinned to the wall Versa speaks, "Arrogant little Humans, I have defended this land from the evils of this world and the other side for longer than your very town has even existed and yet you two decide to bring some worthless little hunter here to kill me."

    she turns to Nick and says, "You, I know from looking into your mind just now have nothing to do with bringing that hunter here, that blame rests all with Mr. Jeff Jones here, his thoughts have betrayed him just now.”

   Jeff had started to think about how he had asked Rick to call the werewolf hunter. Versa turned back to Nick still in her grasp, “However I can not allow you to tell any one of what you have seen."

    As she raises her hand she stops what she is doing as she is distracted by Jeff suddenly bolting into the kitchen.

    "Coward,” says Versa with sly smile, “he would leave his own grandson to my mercy and run. He is even more worthless than I thought."

    Just as Jeff passes the kitchen table and reaches for the back door he is almost hit as Versa flings Nick into the kitchen table knocking him out cold and shattering the table. Jeff barely makes it out the back when he is face to face with two animals resembling to him giant black foxes; one with a white spot between its front paws on its chest.

   They growled baring their large teeth and backed Jeff back into the house.

   "Rish my son and Riska my daughter." Versa states to Jeff as he backs up into the house.

   Jeff looks down at Nick lying on the ruined table and looks up at Versa then back at Rish and Riska and in a trembling voice asks, "What…what are you going to do with us? ,”

   with a sudden serge of courage he chokes out, “you know no matter what you do you won't get away with it."

   "And what exactly makes you think that my little prey?"

   "Mike. The hunter I brought here is going to hunt you all down and kill you that’s why!"

   To Jeff's utter horror she simply laughs and says to him, "Mike the werewolf hunter lies on the forest floor right now as we speak."

   She turns her attentions away from Jeff, "First I shall deal with the younger one, Nick. His name I believe, it’s a shame I must punish you mortals, but you must be taught not to meddle in the affairs of the gods after all."

   Jeff can only watch as Versa shifts her form; her cloths appear to tighten on her voluptuous body as she increases in size. Her hair doesn't seem to change, however her face changes to that of a grey furred fox and an overly long fluffy tail comes out a flap that wasn't apparent before in her pants and her moccasins vanish in a blue electric haze as her feet become the digi-tride paws of a canine or feline with three toes. She has taken on her seven foot form while still wearing cloths that now fit like skin tight leather dominatrix clothing.

   Versa picked up Nick by his wrists with her right hand and held him up this way against the wall.

    Jeff tried to move back only to be stopped by a low growl from Riska and Rish and to his surprise the two twins uttered, "stay here or we eat you. Go on move we want to chase you.” followed with a little snicker afterwards.

   Jeff was convinced he could do nothing but stay there and watch and wait to see what happens. As Versa held Nick against the wall Nick slowly and groggily came too, forgetting where he was. His first fuzzy sight was Versa’s cleavage in her now skin tight clothing.

   Nick’s first dizzy response was a whistle and to say, “Whoa” in a lewd manner.  

   Versa grabs his chin with her free hand lifting his face to hers, the sight of her grey muzzle and piercing blue eyes was enough to abruptly snap him back to reality as she said, “those sounds shall be the last ones you ever make.”

   With her index and middle fingers on her left hand she props his mouth open and forces her clawed hand into his mouth pressing down on his tongue, he could feel her claws touching the back of his throat. Nick in his desperation to escape bit down on her hand shattering several of his teeth, his only thoughts during this pain were, “God Damn it, her hand is like fucking metal or something!”

   Before he can continue his thought he is cut short by a searing pain in his mouth and tries to scream but is gagged by Versa’s hand. He sees a small column of smoke rise from his mouth and a strange blue light being emitted from his mouth, or more properly Versa’s hand.

   The searing stops and Versa says, “I have burned out your impudent tongue human.”

   She pulls out her hand ripping several of Nick’s teeth out of his clenched jaws in the process. He watches in horror as Versa’s left hand starts to glow with a blue fire and with a quick gesture Nick falls on his rear to the floor. He tries to scream as he sees his smoking hands lying next to him separated from his arms. He looks down and sees the smoking cartelized stumps where his hands once were. Versa had both severed his hands and cartelized the wounds preventing him from bleeding to death.

   She looks down at Nick who is now paralyzed with fear and shock “This is your punishment,” she says in a tone as if scolding a small child, “you shall never speak nor write of what you have seen here today. However consider yourself lucky it could have been worse after all.”

   Jeff could only look on as his grandson was “punished” by Versa,

   “My God what have I done?” Jeff thought watching his grandson sitting on the floor.

   Versa turns to Jeff and said with a grand gesture, “At least you admit all this was your fault little human.”

   Versa shrank back down to her human form and walked towards Jeff with a broad smile on her face. Jeff backed up in fear only to be reminded of the ones behind him by a low growl from Rish and Riska. Jeff looked behind himself quickly and turned back to Versa who was now standing uncomfortably close to his face with a smile on her face that sent shivers down his spine.

   “There is no escape,” she said, “my children are just waiting for you to run so they can chase you down.”

   She leans in and whispers to him, “In fact they want you to run, they came with me just for that reason.” S

   he pulled her head away and Jeff looked back at Rish and Riska behind him and instantly turned pale with fright, he had never seen such malicious smiles on the faces of anything, not to mention their large canine teeth adding to its effect. Versa placed her left hand palm down over the right side of Jeff’s face covering his ear in her palm and slowly turned his face to her’s.

   Before Jeff can react he feels a sudden sharp electric buzz through out his body starting from his ear. She had paralyzed him, but he doesn’t have any time to think about that as a searing pain strikes the right side of his face especially in and on his ear as though a probe of pure fire was piercing his skull. He tries desperately to scream but can’t move at all let alone move his mouth to scream. The terrible heat on his face feels like its worming its way into his head and approaching his brain.

   Jeff thinks frantically, “Oh dear God help me, I have to get away, get help, please God save me, Jesus protect mig, Gob gelp geem goobs glibby glooloob.”

   His thoughts turned to gibberish as Versa’s burning touch penetrated his brain. Versa removed her hand from Jeff’s face and he collapsed to the ground gibbering meaningless sounds with a look of terror upon his face and smoke rising off the side of his head. Versa walked out the back door with her children in tow. They met Rhuen who was just waiting outside of the gleam of the back porch light in his shadowy trench coated human form, and together they headed back to their den.      

   An hour later in the Brooksville Lodge with in the mind of Samantha York a very strange dream is occurring. Samantha in her dream finds her self in her typical lab setting winning a prize for her discovery of the new species of canine, when suddenly every thing freezes and a strange anthropomorphic fox creature standing roughly six feet tall appears next to her, and that wasn’t the strangest thing about it, it was completely made of a light blue fire. It had sky blue eyes in which the color was solid taking up the whole space of the eye socket with no signs of eyelids or tear ducts. This creature takes Samantha by the hand, and suddenly she finds her self in a bubble with this creature flying out of the dream. Then out a yellow wall that seemed to encompass the whole dream, and through a black inky sea, then up to the surface into a world with a purple sky that seemed to be filled with a blue light like that of a full moon’s night. They floated over a large river system that flowed into the black sea.

   Suddenly she finds her self on the ground of this strange land with the bubble and the strange fire creature gone. She found herself in a forest by the river filled with strange thorn covered black trees with dark purple leaves. Out of a nearby black bush with black leaves a small black fox with a mane of hair, an oddly long and snaky tail and strikingly haunting blue eyes emerged.

   This black fox speaks to her, “Samantha York, please sit down on the rock behind you.”

   She finds a rock behind her that wasn’t there before  and when she turns back after sitting down sees the fox sitting on a another rock that wasn’t there before.

   The fox speaks to her, “I will keep this short and to the point. You are mixed up in something beyond your understanding, even beyond the understanding of those fool hearty humans who seek to harm me, my mate, and my children. My mate seems to think your heart is pure and only seeking knowledge so I will warn you about this, and to make sure you know this is more than a dream I shall give you a way to test this warning. That sheriff you met before is a member of a bunch of control freak priests called the Order of the Knights of the Golden Cross, Now repeat that name.”

   Samantha says, “The Order of the Knights of the Golden Cross”.

   “Good” said the black fox, “They all have on their collars a little symbol, it’s a pin of a gold cross with wings on the side polls of the crucifix and a gold halo on the top part. Also he is not the only one, that hunter Mike and another you have not met yet are also members. Be warned if you team up with them you will get no mercy from me.”

   Before she could protest she found herself back in her normal dream and back to the reward ceremony in it, this was short lived however as the whole dream turned black and she found her self being pulled backwards by a giant grey furry hand over her midsection that appeared to a cross between a human hand and a paw of some sort with black claws in place of finger nails. This hand pulled her backwards into a giant feminine frame with her head backed up against the lower abdomen or upper thigh of this frame, she looked up to see above her two very human yet fur covered female breasts and a strange fox or jackal like muzzle that turned down allowing her to see this forms dark blue eyes looking back at her.

   This creature looked familiar, like the animal she had seen in the cave. Although she felt un-easy at the strangely aroused feeling she was getting by being held by this being, she felt oddly comfortable next to it.

   She looked on as the giant female creature opened her great jaws and spoke, “Awaken my dear.”  

   With these words Samantha shot up right in her bed breathing hard. She got up from her bed and wrapped a robe around her pale well toned naked body as she walked over to the window and looked out to the south to see an approaching storm eclipsing the moon and stars.