Moon Dancer By Red Darkpaw (a.k.a. Doug Evans) Code of furries vs. 1.3 FCFp3a A-- C- D H+ M P R++ T++++ W Z+ Sm++ RLE* a+ cn++ d-- e+++ f h++++ I++ j p++ sm* ;) Moon Dancer is copyright 1998 by Douglas W. Evans. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction for profit is strictly prohibited. Story text may be electronically re-distributed, provided it is not altered in ANY way. All characters and events in this story are fictitious. All names were created without regard to any possible real life counterparts. Any similarity to real life characters and events is PURELY coincidental. However, should you become aware of any such characters or events, please notify the author, because he would really like to meet them. Some character names are used with permission by their players. ____________________________________ Please send questions, comments, suggestions, or bug notices to Red Darkpaw at: Email Red_Darkpaw@yahoo.com The human at this address will pass on your message to me or I will bite him on his ... You get the message. ;) ___ Note from the Author _______________________ This is my second story. It is a test to see if I can write some yiffy material. I’ll be converting it to none yiffy for those under 18 so they can enjoy also. Be warned this story contains adult material (sexual situations F solo, M/F, and F/F) and is no suitable for individuals under 18. You have been warned. Hope you like it. Moon Dancer As I sat in the rocker, nursing my third kitt, rocking the small furry babe back to sleep. My mind drifted back to a time 10 years ago when this all started. I sometimes try and imagine the person I once was and find the memory fading, hard to recapture. I look at myself now in the semi dark room and see a creature that you may think impossible. A humanoid body covered in soft white fur, a head that resembles a foxes and a long foxy tail with the coloration of an arctic fox, white with black points on my ears and tail tip. That was one of the first shocks I received when I woke on this world. I found a world filled not with humans but with Humanoid type animals. Canids, felines, mustilids, marsupials, and all the other forms from the animal kingdoms. There were even some avian and reptiles but they were fewer in number. Another shock was that I was to discover was that I was no longer male. Being female was not something I could say was in my plans for the future. That was the biggest change for me. I had been male for all of my 25 years prior to the accident. To say the least the change took me a little by surprise. After 10 years here, it is hard to believe that I’m not a native to this world. My being here was truly not on purpose. Let me try and tell you what happened. It started about 15 years ago when I was in college. My name was Johnathan Davis. I had always been a sort of a computer nerd/physics nut. I spent as much time in the physics labs as I did surfing the net. I was also a member of a subculture on the net called furries. They are people into anthropomorphics. It would take many volumes of books to even try to explain that fully and I don’t have time for that right now. It can be look it up if you really want to know. Anyway, I was an otter. My character was a Canadian river otter, 5’10" about 150 #’s brown with a lighter shade on my neck chest, belly groan and inner thighs. A rather handsome one at that. I fooled around with these people for about 4 years. When I wasn’t in lab or class I was on the web sowing my wild oats with any fem furry I could find and a few guys as well that had fem characters. Enough said about that. I had to put him aside after college to work on my physics career. I wonder if that had kept me from going insane when I woke. I managed to graduate pretty high in my class and decided to go to MIT to get my Masters and Ph.D. That’s where the accident occurred. I had been working as a graduate assistant for a professor studying wormholes. He was trying to warp space and time. I was working the late shift on his latest experiment. Hey, how was I suppose to know the sun was entering a time of higher than normal solar flair activity and magnetic storm activity. I had spent a lonely night observing the distortion caused by the reactions of intense magnetic fields. This meant that measurements had to take of the field every so often. An ape could be taught to do this, but the PETA people raised a stink, something to do with cruelty to animals. So they had lowly graduate students doing it. I was standing no more than 3 feet from distortion field when 8 and a half minutes earlier, the sun’s surface had exploded in an intense solar flair. The magnetic flux would reach as far as Mars and be recorded as the largest in recorded history. Global communications would be down for months. As I stood watching, sipping my 4th cup of cold coffee. The magnetic flux from the sun and the earth’s combined with the reactor’s flux and intensified the distortion and shifted it 6 feet to the west. Needless to say I had about a second or so to watch the distortion field suddenly expand and shift towards me. I had time to say "aw fu.." as the field enveloped me. The explosion in the magnetic flux coils was attributed to a hydrogen leak on the floor below which was studying cold fusion. Several professors and students had been injured in the explosion and one student killed. His body was never recovered and believed destroyed by the explosion. ------------Somewhere a long way from Earth and several dimensions over---------------- You know the line "Second star to the right and straight on till morning" Tallus, a rather bored male skunk, was observing the distortion fields of magnetic fluxes when something happened. The field suddenly expanded and flashed an unbelievably bright. The flood of energy far exceeded the capacity of the coils being used. When he could see again, he looked over at the magnetic coils. They were a molten mess, but what really caught his watering eyes was the naked female fox lying unmoving on the floor of the distortion chamber. After picking his jaw off the floor, he hit the alarm and called for the paramedics. It took them almost 45 minutes to get the door to the observation chamber open. The door finally opened with a moan and shriek of twisting metal. The paramedics rushed into the chamber and began examining the fox on the floor for injuries. Professor Claton, a rather plump looking chow, stepped up and grabbed the graduate student skunk. "What happened to my experiment? It took me months to get enough funding to build them! Ruined all ruined!!!" he yelled at the still stunned skunk. "What were you doing with that fox in here?" The startled skunk tried to stammer his answer when the paramedics placed the unmoving fox on the stretcher. As they moved the naked fox, she started convulsing, her body arching then curling on the stretcher. The paramedics scrambled to secure the twisting fox before she could injury herself or others. One of the paramedics, a wolf named Tidus, curled into a ball as a flailing paw connected with his crotch. The other paramedics winced but managed to immobilize the female by the time they got her to the medic transport. It took another 20 minutes to transport the patient to the hospital. They moved her to the emergency room where the doctors could examine her. The attending doctor was Dr. O-Hare, a gray hare. The paramedics started giving the doctor the initial medical readings they took on the scene and while in transport. "BP 120 over 90 and steady, heartrate 120 and even, breathing 20 and shallow, eyes dialalated and unresponsive, also the patient had a seizures while in transport and had to be restrained." calmly reported the paramedic as they transferred the fox from stretcher to hospital examination table. "You better watch those paws, she took Tidus down with one blow." said a grinning paramedic good naturally. The exam went on throughout the night, nurses coming and going taking vital signs and blood samples. The fox had had no more seizures other than the initial one. The doctor was still puzzled as to why she had not regained consciousness, all the vital signs were normal and the initial blood samples came back negative for drugs or alcohol. The CAT scan had showed no damage and the brain waves looked normal if a little higher. He ordered more tests including a complete blood analysis and neuralgic scanning. The next day, all of the tests were inconclusive, except for anomaly in the hormones from the blood samples. In the initial blood samples there was a high level of testosterone and a lack of estrogen but later samples showed a shift to normal estrogen levels and a marked decrease in testosterone. All later blood samples showed normal female hormone levels. It was almost as if the blood chemistry went from male normal to female normal. This greatly confused the doctors and they could not come up with a reason why. The doctors just discounted it as lab error. The patient was definitely female. There was still no identity to put to the comatose fox. No arctic fox females had been reported missing and the skunk had been cleared of any wrong doings by the lab’s security camera, which showed him alone up until all the electronic equipment in that part of the lab had been destroyed by the magnetic flux. ------------------------------------2 Months later-------------------------------------------- The nurse had been looking after the female arctic fox for almost two months since she had been found is a physics lab. Aldrea, a female bobcat, shuffled around the fox’s bed, emptying the catheter bag and turning the patient so no bedsores would form. The media had run the story the first couple of days. When no one came forward to claim the fox the media lost interest. The story receded further and further until it was finally lost when a public transport had failed and crashed kill several aboard and injuring others. The nurse looked at the silent fox and sighed. She looked almost on the edge of waking. For the first week, Aldrea had expected the fox to wake any moment, but as the days passed into weeks she grew more somber and sad for the beautiful fox. She looked out the window and saw the pale moon a faint brown yellow in the night sky. It was going to be a full moon tonight and the second moon was going to be up too. "It would be the perfect night for the Moon Dancers." she thought. The Moon Dancers were a group of individuals who could feel the music of the moons when they were in the night sky. They could dance to that music and call forth its magic. Their numbers had been decreasing as technology grew and prospered. Now no more than a few were born each year to replenish their dwindling number. There were even those who had never seen the dancers dance and call the moon light to their bodies and work their healing magic on the living plants and creatures of the forest. It was said in the old times before technology, their magic was used to increase crop production, heal injuries, cure the infertile, and most important summon the moon Goddess for her blessing. The Goddess had not been seen in centuries and was passing into myth. "Well dear, it looks like it going to be a beautiful night for the dancers tonight." said the bobcat nurse to her immobile patient. Aldrea always talked to her patients weither they could hear and respond or not. She felt that it was only proper. As she left the room to continue her rounds, she failed to see that the moonlight coming through the window. It moved across the room toward the fox as the moon rose higher in the night sky. It finally touched the bed and creep across it to touch her hand. As the moonlight touched the fox, her hand started to glow almost with a light of its own. After a few moments the hand twitched and a finger moved. When the moonlight left the hand stilled and moved no more. -----------------------1 month later--------------------------------- Aldrea was on day shifts now, when she went in to check on the comatose fox. As she moved about checking the various tubes that kept the fox alive, she noticed a different scent in the room. It was somewhat covered by the scent of the medical cleaner used to keep the room sterile. After a moment Aldrea traced the scent to the fox. It was the scent of a female fox in heat. Her patient had come into heat. Most foxes only came into heat once or twice a year, depending on age and weither or not she had birthed a kit recently. Aldrea knew that the heat would run its course in a few days. She informed the Doctors that the fox had entered heat and left for the day. When Aldrea came back the next day, the scent of the fox was almost overpowering to her senses. She wondered how this could happen, she was feline the canid pheromones should have no affect on her. The longer Aldrea stayed in the room with the scent the more it affected her. She felt her own body respond. She felt her own sex tingle and moistening. The sexual urge overpowered her need to get out of the room and its enveloping scent. She moaned and ran one paw down her belly in under the waistband of her slacks as the other reached to cupped and squeezed her breast. Her mind was awash with fear and lust the scent caused her. She couldn’t help herself but to relieve the urge that built between her legs here and now. A growl escaped her lips as her finger parted her mound lips and found the swollen nub of her clit. The growl deepened as she rubbed. She bit her lip as her orgasm overtook her in order to keep from roaring her climax. It seemed to her to last forever, much longer than any other time she had ever masturbated or climaxed with a lover. Finally the orgasm eddied and faded. A sign of relief passed her lips. She slowly removed her wet paw from her panties. The rooms scent no longer had its overpowering effect on her. She looked over at the unconsciousness fox wondering how her scent could have effected her so. Aldrea quickly cleaned herself in the room’s bathroom and left the room. The other staff working that night wondered at the strange mixtures of scents in the room. A mixture of fox and bobcat scents filled the room. Needless to say, the rest of the staff had an erotic weekend for some reason or other as the scent of the fox in heat worked a sort of sensual magic on the staff. Part 2: Awakening --------------------------two weeks later------------------------------- It was another full moon tonight but cloudy. Aldrea was again on the night shift. She had managed to convince herself that she had not masturbated in the fox’s room and the scent had not effected her. Aldrea walked into the room and looked over to the fox. She noticed something different. One of the fox’s arms was laid over her belly. It had been lying down by her side when she had checked her earlier. The nurse walked over and checked vital sign again. On a hunch, she checked for some responses. A low moan escaped the fox’s lips when she pinched the foxes paw. Aldrea quickly checked for the response again and was rewarded by another low moan. She immediately called for the attending doctor. The Doctor Conrad, a rather handsome looking coyote in his mid 40’s, ran in after hearing the call from the nurse. He and Aldrea checked the fox’s reflexes again. With the nurses help he removed the feeding tub from the nose of the fox. As they worked, the fox moaned and tossed and turned as if trying to wake. Then with a start the fox opened her green eyes, an unusual color for a fox. Her eyes scanned the room, then fixed the doctor in a frightened stare unfocused. As the doctor leaned over and shone a light in the foxes eyes, the coyote’s face came into focus. Startled, the fox eyes flew open wide. Her breath came in ragged gasp as she fought to make sense of what she saw. "You .... your a coyote!!" Came the raspy voice, horse from unuse. It took a while before I could think. I must have brain damage, I thought, or they must have used some drugs on me and I was hallucinating. I found myself lying in what was some sort of bed. My eyes struggled to focus as I looked around the room. It looked like an ordinary hospital room except for the anthropomorphic coyote and what I recognized as a bobcat in a nurse’s uniform. "Wow, I must be dreaming." I thought "A furry’s dream come true." I shook my head as I tried to clear the hallucinations. That was when I noticed that my head felt different. My sense of balance in my head seemed to be different and I seemed to have something on my face. It blocked a small portion of my view right over where my nose and mouth should be. Some sort of oxygen mask with a black end and no hoses. I tried to move my arms and legs but couldn’t. They felt as if they were made of lead and did not respond to my will. I managed to turn my head toward what obviously was a doctor in a lab coat. "What??? Where???" was all I managed to choke out. The doctor looked concerned and spoke. "You are in a nursing home, miss." Miss? Was the doctor nuts too? The last time I had looked I was male and the date with Milissa Kensington would have had a different outcome than spending it in bed for 3 hours. That was when I recalled the lab and the expanding distortion field. "The lab...accident." I manager to croak out again and cough. The cough took all my energy and I almost passed out. The nurse spoke this time from the other side of the bed. "The lab doesn’t know how you got into their experiment, you nearly did not survive the accident." "What’s your name dear? There must be someone worried about you." "J...John....Johnathan Davis." I managed to say. My voice seemed to be improving but it still sounded strange to me. Maybe something happened to my neck when the distortion field hit me. A strange expression passed over the faces of the nurse and the doctor and they looked at each other. "Enough questions for now. You need to regain your strength. I suggest you lay there and relax. I’ll be back in a little while to check on you." Said the coyote doctor as he motioned to the nurse to follow him. Out in the hall, the doctor looked at Aldrea. "We had better keep a close watch on her. That was a male’s name she gave us. It may be a boy friend or someone close to her and the accident has probably jumbled her memory. We had better give that name to the Public Safety Force and see if they can trace it. I am going to call in a psychologist and see if he can help her. I want you to stay with her and keep her calm. I will prescribe a sedative for her if she gets too upset, but I do not want to give it to her if you can help it. She has been in a coma for several months." "Yes, Doctor Conrad." Aldrea said as she turned to return to the room. When the bobcat came back into the room I asked her, "Was I injured bad in the accident, please tell me?" "You have been in a coma for over two months. About ten weeks since you were found in the lab." Aldrea replied. "We could not find any major injuries other than a couple of bruises." "I feel so strange. Can I have some water?" I asked. "Oh yes, by the way my name is Aldrea, I’m your nurse this shift." My eyes tracked the nurse as she walked over to a sink and filled a cup with water and put a straw in it. That was when I noticed the short black tipped tail that poked itself out of her slacks. I had had a thing for tails in my furry days and had floofed many a fem’s tail on-line. "This was some dream." I thought to myself. "I hope I don’t wake up too soon though." As the bobcat turned and brought me my water, I managed to bring my hand up into my view. My hand and arm did not look like anything I remembered. Instead of smooth flesh there was a white furred hand, smaller than what I remembered. I rotated my hand and looked at the palm. It was covered with fur too, but with what looked like black pads on the fingers and various parts of my palms. Fear contorted my face as I reached up to feel my face. What I thought was an oxygen mask was in fact a muzzle. As I continued to explore my features I found more fur and lots of it. My ears were almost on the top of my head rather than on the sides. It was then that one of the remarks made by the doctor popped into my mind. "You are in a nursing home, miss." MISS! Both hands moved to my chest. Instead of a flat muscular chest I once had. My hands/paws met two mounds of flesh under the sheet. The nurse turned and walked over towards the bed with my water by the time my hands err "paws" had made their discovery. With stoic resolve I reached one paw down to my crotch and presses down. That discovery sent my already over taxed mind over the edge. A moan escaped my lips as I passed out again. Aldrea watched the fox’s paw finish feeling around her face. She was concerned at the startled look on the fox’s face. She watched as the fox reached and place her paws on her breast and then reach down and press her crotch. The look of utter fright and moan brought the nurse to the bedside fast, the glass of water in her paw forgotten. Aldrea watched the fox’s eyes roll back as she went unconscious. Aldrea called the doctor immediately. Conrad had just finished talking to the staff psychologist when the call came in from Aldrea. He immediately rushed to the patient’s room. It took them only a few moments and an ammonia capsule to bring the fox around again. Consciousness returned with the smell of ammonia. I woke with a start and went rigid in fright. What had happened to me when the distortion field had hit me? Why were the doctor and nurse furries. How come my body was now female? These and many other questions raced through my mind as my brain started working again. I reached under the sheet, everywhere I felt was fur and a hospital gown of some sort. I managed to draw the sheet away and look down. Instead of the body I was use to seeing, there was a slender furred body. I reached down and rubbed my paws down over the body and felt the pressure on my fur. This was my body! My heart and breathing raced as I pondered this revelation. I looked down again and watched my breast rise and fall as I breathed. This was too unreal. It was going to take some getting use to. Something twitched low between my furry legs, another appendage. It was the same white as my arms and paws, bushy, but with a black tip. A tail, I have a tail the thought struck me funny. I started to laugh with an almost hysterical note in it before I could bring it under control. Part 3 Decisions Decisions They left me after they gave me a sedative. It was only a light one and it managed to calm me enough for me to think without going into hysterics. I lay there correlating the little information I had. I had been transported to where anthropomorphic creatures existed. I was found in a lab. I spoke the language well enough to think it was English. This room was in a nursing home. The last fact was that I was a female anthropomorph. Though what type I had yet to ascertain. They had covered me back up after I had done my initial exploration of my body. I did not know what type of anthropomorph I was. All I felt was shape ears and a short muzzle, narrow white with a dark nose. From what I felt and saw I figured I was at least in the canid family. I managed to sleep a little that night. The sedative had helped that much. Several nurses had come in during the night to check my vital signs and such. Their poking and prodding only a mild inconvenience. It seemed something’s were constant no matter where you were. I did notice that my sense of smell seemed better than what it was. I could tell when the staff changed shifts. I had thought about telling them the truth about me. Then I thought they would probably think I’m nuts and put me away for a very long time. There they would over time convince me that I was crazy or worse. So I decided to pretend amnesia. It would not be hard since I did not have any idea where I was or how this world operated. I had given them my name before I realized what had happened. That was my only foul up so far. Maybe they would think it was due to the coma. With these thoughts I drifted off to sleep and dreamed of dancing. --------------------------The next day------------------------------- I woke with a start and looked round the room. I was relieved to find no one was in the room with me. It took me almost 10 minutes to figure out how the bed controls well enough not to have my feet high in the air. The hardest part was getting my eyes to focus. After starring at the controls, my eyes finally focused and I could see how to work the control. The pictures on the buttons were similar enough to what I was familiar with to understand them. As the head of the bed rose to a sitting position a slot formed under my butt. I was startled, until I realized my tail fit just right in it. I could imagine what a kinked tail felt like. I was now able to see the entire room. The room was still a little blurry. There was a glass of water with a straw on the table by the bed and I managed to get a drink without spilling too much. I got a better look at my arms, waist, and legs. They were covered in white fur that I had seem yesterday. My tail reached just passed my feet and was covered in the same white fur but the last four to six inches were black. As I explored my surroundings from the bed, the nurse walked in from the day before. Aldrea looked startled to see her charge sitting up looking about the room with her covers pushed back. "Hello, I see your up. I am your nurse for this shift. My name is Aldrea. What’s your?" She asked in a cheerful voice. I hesitate then replied in a small voice. "I don’t remember. I was hoping you could tell me." ---------------------------One Week Later-------------------------------------- "Amnesia!" The Dr. Conrad told the psychologist. "She says she doesn’t remember anything. She doesn’t know who she is or where she lived. Its like she remembers nothing before waking in the room. We tried to uses word associations to see if we could jar her memory. Nothing." "It is possible for individuals to loose a portion of their memories. It is very rare to loose all. It usually happens after some traumatic event. Most of the time, some or all of the lost memories return. The longer it takes the less it becomes likely that anything will be remembered." The psychologist informed Conrad. "According to Nurse Aldrea, she doesn’t even remember she was female and how to take care of herself. It’s as if we have a individual that been grown in a lab and just programmed to talk and no other information. She can do complex math in her head. We haven’t had her write or read anything. She seems almost afraid to try. Like she doesn’t want to find out weither or not she has forgotten even that." Conrad rambled on. "We checked the name she gave us when we first asked and found nothing there’s no Johnathan Davis anywhere that knows an arctic fox. Aldrea has started calling her Luna after the brightest and largest moon. It seemed appropriate, her fur is almost the color of a moonbeam on the snow. Just beautiful." Aldrea started calling me Luna after their largest moon Lunanostum. From what I can gather it’s supposed to be where their Moon Goddess is from. Most of the staff has started calling me the same. I got to look at my self in a mirror when they let me take a shower the other day after they showed me how to use the controls. I was shocked to discover I was an Arctic Fox. That explained the white fur and the black tips. I must have looked at myself for 15 minutes before Aldrea knocked on the door and asked if I was ok. As I looked at my body there was no denying I was female. A disconcerting thought after being male for 25 years. My breast were large and firm. If I thought about it for even a short time my nipples would harden and poke through my fur. This proved very embarrassing when that sexy bobcat nurse walked in and sauntered round. These hospital gowns hide very little. After this happened the third time I asked Aldrea if she could get me something a little more discreet. Also the male anatomy was gone from between my legs. I tenderly explored myself as I soaked in the shower. My hands worked their way down between my legs and touched my outer lips to my sex. The sensations that my hand produced in their exploration over my body had me weak kneed almost immediately. Definitely something to be looked into at a later date and time. I first had to learn as much as I could without betraying what I did and did not know. It must have been the most embarrassing thing I have ever did asking Aldrea certain information on female particularities. She informed me that I had come into heat about a month ago and would do so again every 6 months or so unless I was pregnant. It took a while to pick my chin up off the floor after I realized that pregnancy was a possibility and the shock wore off. This line of questions led to a discussion on female reproduction and hygiene. My ears must have gone red from the looks she gave me. Hey cut me a break this is all new information to me. All my knowledge was from the giving side of things rather than the receiving side. Aldrea almost had a heart attack when Luna asked about things that every female cub, kit, or kitten was taught from before they matured and started going into heat. She just couldn’t understand why I could know something’s and not others. She suspected that I knew some information and just needed to be reminded like remembering a line of a play when given the first few words. Aldrea must have felt that I was holding something back like a dark secret that she did not want to remember. The conversation on hygiene and reproduction had taken place after I had been able to get up and move about the room. It must have been obvious from my scent when I came out of the shower that I was rather aroused, because Aldrea’s ears turned red when I entered the room. The insides of my ears went red when Aldrea told me when I had gone into heat while in a coma and would do so again in about 5 months. Aldrea had to leave quickly afterward because the scent of the aroused fox was having strange affects on her and she was getting aroused herself. She wondered if something was wrong with her since other female scents had never affected her like this. She had always thought of herself as straight. Now she was not so sure. It seemed that every time Aldrea walked into the room, Luna would watch her closely and have to cover her breast as her nipples poked at the fabric of the gown. Luna eventually asked her if she could get her a different gown that was less revealing. After she had left work that day she went straight home and took a long shower. As she washed the loose fur and the days dirt and scents from her body her mind drifted back to the fox’s scent. Her paw moved lower to caress her mound and a finger entered her labia. This triggered another memory of the fox’s scent. Her mind was again swamped by sensations as her finger found and rubbed her clit. Her other paw rose to cup and squeeze her breast and tweak her nipple. The tingling in her sex grew to an urgent need for release. Her orgasm caused her to yowl as her body shuddered and bucked as pleasure filled her mind. After Aldrea had completed her shower, her mind turned to questions she never thought she would be asking herself. How could this be? Why was she so attracted to the fox, and female at that? She was feline! Am I lesbian? How can this be? Part 4 Freedom ---------------------------4 Months Later----------------------------------- Time passed slowly. I haven’t toughed myself in any sensual way since that first shower. The talks I had with Aldrea were long and fruitful. I gleaned as much useful information from my favorite nurse as I could. I did not know how I would support myself once I was released from the nursing home. Much to my relief I found out that the labs insurance was footing my bill until I got back on my feet. I would have a year or so to retrain myself and start anew. In the four months I was in the nursing home, I found out that I could read and write the local language. Most of the letters looked normal but there was 28 letters in the alphabet instead of the normal 26. I was in luck because the new two were used very seldom and had to do with pronouncing some of the avian words. I had gotten strong enough that they were going to let me out in a few days and I was now looking for a place to stay. I had gotten to know Aldrea well enough by then to ask her advice on finding a place to stay. She had smiled and offered me her spare bed until I could find a place of my own. Since there was a community educational facility near by her place I decided to accept her offer. I took with me my meager positions in a small bag provided by the nursing home. Aldrea lead me to the transportation tunnel that lead to her apartment. She practically had to hold my paw the entire way as I was scared to death of blowing my cover and gawk at the marvels of this world. She led me to her apartment and showed me my room. It took me all of ten minutes to put my stuff away. I then walked out into the living area and sat on the couch being careful not to cross my legs in a masculine manner. It still felt strange wearing panties and dresses. The hardest thing to got use to was the bra. How women were able to get that contraction on so fast still eluded me. It seemed to take me forever to get it on and get my breast settled right. I did seem to be amply endowed and Aldrea mentioned more than once she wished she were as well endowed. When that topic came up I had a hard time not stuttering and blushing. Aldrea came out of her room in a tight tee shirt and shorts. I felt my nipples perk immediately. If it were not for the bra my arousal would have been very evident. Here I was a female fox attracted to a female bobcat. What a mess? I tore my eyes off of her breast and must have blushed because I saw her eyes open slightly larger. I stammered something and looked away. Aldrea almost blushed when she went into the living area and saw Luna sitting on the sofa. She sat with her ankles crossed and her paws in her lap. When she walked in she saw Luna head turn and eyes open wide at the sight. She saw Luna stair blush and then try to look else where. It seemed she thought that Luna was as attracted to her as she was to Luna. Aldrea saw Luna blush again and look down. Well what to do now. We both seem attracted to each other but both of us are too scared to do anything about it. Thanks again Aldrea for letting me stay with you for a while. I did not know how I could have made it on my own." I said to Aldrea to break the building silence. Aldrea smiled and replied. "That’s ok. The nursing home usually does not want staff to associate too much with the patients. They felt yours was a special case with your memory loss and such. It would be best to have some one look after you for a while. Since we are about the same age and I had the extra room it worked out fairly well. I get a roommate to help with rent and utilities and you get some one that understands you better. They rearranged my schedule so I would be at work when your at school and off when your not. I even got a couple weeks vacation to show you around." "I know lets go shopping tomorrow for some clothes for you and maybe a bathing suit too. Spring is almost over and we can hit the beach." Aldrea asked as she walked over to the sofa and sat. "all right, I really do need clothes. The nursing home did not provide me with too much. I need to get all sorts of things. Brushes, combs, and such." I replied to Aldrea I rubbed the sore spot on my arm where I had gotten my epidermal contraceptive. The doctors were puzzled when they failed to find an old one in my arm. Well, its a good thing they were not mandatory and not every woman had them. Actually it was Aldrea who had talked me into getting it. She had reminded me again to my embarrassment that I would be coming into heat again soon and it best to be prepared for any event. Aldrea cooked a splendid supper. She even let me help in the preparation. She brought out a bottle of wine and we drank a glass before supper. We also had a glass or two during the meal. The meal consisted mainly of meat in various sauces but there were also vegetables in a wide array. I ate till I was stuffed. I never liked hospital food. After the meal we retired back to the living area with yet another glass of wine. As we sat and talked I started feeling really warm and relaxed. Some where in the back of my mind I thought. "I must be getting drunk, but how I only had a few glasses." I then realized that I was not 190 pounds any more but a scant 130 pounds. The alcohol must be affecting me different too. I set the glass down and said. "I’m getting hot I’ll go change be right back." I went to my room and took off my blouse, bra and skirt. I put on a tee shirt browed from Aldrea and a pair of shorts. The tee shirt was a little tight fit. It was stretched tight by my tits. I walked back to the living area after I had changed, stopping to made a quick run to the bathroom to relieve my bladder. As I walked into the room, it was now Aldrea’s turn to blush and look away. She could not hide her nipples as they hardened and poked at her tee shirt. I swaggered across the room swaying my hips as best I could. The alcohol must have stripped me of my inhibitions. I tripped on my shoes and landed on the couch giggling. I had saw that Aldrea had finished her glass and had filled it again along with my glass. I grabbed the glass and drained half before setting it back down. Aldrea giggled. "We had better stop drinking or we will both end up drunk." She said as she helped me get back to my feet. I could not miss the subtle change in her scent as she helped me up. It filled my head and caused my nipples to come to full attention. Aldrea saw my nipples straining the fabric of the tee shirt and blushed again. The inside of her ears reddening and her eyes dilating till almost the irises disappeared. She tried to stammer an apology. Something came over me and I leaned close and kissed her nose. Aldrea moaned and reached out and held me. She buried her head in my neck and breathed in deep. That’s when I realized she breathing in my scent. I held her close and licked her ear. Her scent still filled my head. My paws stroked her back. I heard a soft purr start as I felt her paw also rub down my back to just above my tail. She started scratching gently. It felt strange the way my body react to her touch. My tail rose slowly and my back arched. The purring grew in volume as my paw scratched above her tail. I started panting as her paws worked their way under my tee shirt. I continued licking at her ear as her muzzle came round and started licking my neck. Her paws moved round to rest on my hip. We stood there lost in our own thoughts and scents. We were both breathing hard, when we finally broke our embrace. We both step back and looked at each other and blushed. I reached out and took her paw and held it. The look in her eye was clouded with emotion. We hugged again as she lead me to her room. "You probably should know I’ve been attracted to you for quite a while now." Aldrea confessed as she opened her bedroom door. "You have got to be the most beautiful fox I’ve ever seen." She blushed again and looked down as we walked into her room. I sat down on the edge of the bed and held her paw and said. "Well I must confess to that I find myself attracted to you too. Ever since I woke up and saw you standing there. That is one of the reasons I asked you to get me the different night gowns. Every time you walked into the room, I couldn’t keep my eyes off you and my nipples would and poke out." I sat there blushing unable to keep my eyes off of her body. My scent must have been pretty strong by then cause I saw her breath deeply through her nose. Her scent also had an affect on me, it caused a heat was beginning to build between my legs. The next think I know I was pulling her tee shirt over her head and lapping at her furry breast as her nipples poked through her fur. The softest fur I had ever felt covered her breast and belly. The white fur extended down her belly and disappeared into her shorts to appear again on her inner thighs. All I heard was a purr of pleasure. I continued nurse at the furry breast as I felt her paws stroke my head and ears. The feel of her fur and scent filled my mind. I felt her pull my shirt over my head then lay me back on the bed. A growl of pleasure escaped my lips as I felt her rough tongue run across my own erect nipples. I lifted my hips as I felt her undo my shorts and tug them down with my panties. I watched her stand and remove her shorts and panties and lay beside me on the bed. The mix scents filled the air, driving coherent thoughts away. No words were spoken as we moved closer, held each other and kissed again. She then placed a paw on my shoulder and rolled me to my back. As I lay there, she started to once again lick and suckle one breast while her other paw caressed my other breast. I panted as her licking moved lower down my chest, nibbling my ribs and slowly licking down my belly. I had had a few girlfriends in college. We had enjoyed a few tumbles in the hay, but they had never let me perform oral sex on em. The only time I had been able to do it was on-line with my furry friends. Enough said about that. This would be a dream come true. She the moved to her knees and used her paws spread my legs wide. Aldrea knelt between my legs and leaned forward to continue licking my belly and the spot where my legs joined to my hips. Her paw caressed my mound. Another moan escaped my lips as she ran a finger up the outside of my labia stroking the fur moist from my arousal. I heard a gasp of pleasure when I raised my tail between her legs to rub her between her legs. I arched my back as she licked lower, my breath coming in short pants. I reached down to stroked her head and ears as I felt her hot breath on my mound. I held my breath waiting to feel the touch of her tongue on my sex. What I felt next was beyond description. After what seemed like an eternity, I felt the rough cat tongue take a long lick from just above my tail hole up to the top of my mound. All I heard was her purr. It seemed to vibrate through me. A low growl of pleasure sounded in my throat. I felt her place her fingers on each side of my sex. She slowly spread the lips of my labia and breathed deeply of my foxy scent. The rough tongue lapped across my open lips and entered. It felt as if someone had touched a hot brand to me as her rough tongue found my clit. My hips bucked of their own accord in rhythm to her licks. I could even feel the vaginal fluids flow to lube my tunnel. This just seemed to drive Aldrea mad with lust because she started driving her tongue deep into my sex. I grabbed her head and forced her muzzle against my mound trying to force her tongue deeper. She reached round to stroke a finger on my clitoris as she continued to feed on my nectar. At each stroke of her finger, pleasure fired up between my legs. The final thing that sent me over the edge and gave me my first orgasm as a female was when Aldrea nipped my clit with her teeth. I must have howled at the top of my lungs as wave after wave of heat and pleasure rocked my body. It felt as if I had lost complete control of my body as I came on her tongue, my fluids flowing freely from my labia. She lapped and sucked as my hips and pelvis bucked and bounced. It seemed to last forever before the waves of pleasure finally subsided and my rear once again rested again on the bed. Aldrea crawled up beside me and kissed me deeply. I tasted a faint sweetness on her muzzle. She looked deep into my eyes and kissed me again before lying beside me again. Her purrs sounded deep in her throat. "Wow, that was fantastic. I’ve certainly never felt anything like that. Now its your turn, Luv." I said to her as I slowly rolled her to her back. I raised myself on an elbow and looked over her chest and belly. The white did indeed continue down her belly and between her legs. She lay there purring and watched me through half lidded eyes. I slowly reached over and caressed her breast. The nipple poked through the fur. It was not dark like a human’s but the same color as her fur. I did notice that her fur on her left breast was half covered in the mottled color and her nipple was also darker. I leaned over and licked the nipple tenderly. I heard a small intake of breath as I took the nipple in my muzzle and started sucking it. My paw reached over and I traced a finger round the other nipple feeling it harden instantly at my touch. After sucking on the closest nipple, I leaned down and took a big breath between her breast before moving to the next nipple. I ran my paw down her belly and rested it there just below her belly button for a moment. I took another deep breath. Her scent filled my mind. I slowly reached lower and felt her spread her legs at my paw’s advance. As it moved down the outside of her mound I felt moisture on her fur. I brought my paw to my face and drew her scent deep into my lungs. I was shocked to hear a low growl escape my throat. I returned my paw to her lower lips and spread them and inserted a finger gently. A soft moan escaped her lips and the purring grew louder. I leaned over again and returned to sucking her nipples. Even when I was in college women’s breast and nipples have always been a fetish of mine. When I was on-line fem tails were also. I took another deep breath and started licking lower in a manner similar to what she had done to me. I sneezed when her fur tickled my nose. The resulting giggle from Aldrea made my ears blush red again. I was about to apologize when I felt her paw on my head pressing it lower. Taking it as a command, I wiggled my way down and spread her legs further. As I knelt between her legs, I took in the splendor of her sex surrounded in soft white fur with its pink lips visible just through the fur. I looked lower and saw her short lynx like tail with its black tip and dark stripes. I smiled and nestled myself down between her lovely furred legs. I smiled an evil grin and took her tail and nibbled the end. I was rewarded with a loud gasp and deep purr. "Ow, that smarts, Luna!" Aldrea mumbled from between her breast. "but don’t stop!" I giggled and nibbled once more before returning to the job at hand (err paw). My muzzle only inches from her mound, I breathed in her scent sharp and definitely feline. My tongue lapped out to lick the fur over her sex. I felt the vibration of her purr through her mound. Her taste was sharp and clean. I used my paws to spread her labia lips and drove my tongue deeper into her sex. My tongue lapped in and found her swollen clitoris and tickled it. Aldrea’s hips bucked in time to the strokes of my tongue. Between strokes, I drove my tongue deep into her hot tunnel. Her nectar was sweet on my tongue. I decided to try what she had done to me earlier. As my teeth closed on her clit, I heard her gasp. What happened next is hard to describe. Her body shuddered and hips bucked uncontrollably as her orgasm over took her. A feline yowl of pleasure escaped her lips as she bucked and rolled. I continued my attack on her sex. She must have came twice more before I felt her paws pulling at my ears trying to pull my tongue from her sex. I gave her clit one last lick before releasing it and crawling up to lay next to the exhausted bobcat. Aldrea was panting hard as we snuggled. Words were not necessary for what we had done and felt. As we fell asleep in each other’s arms, the world seemed not so lonely after all. Part 5 Dancer Reveled ---------------------------5 Months Later----------------------------------- It took me almost 5 months to get back into the routine of college and class work. The summer break was almost here and finals were round the corner. For all the different world and such, I found that I wasn’t that far behind anything except things on history and general stuff. I was fortunate Aldrea was there. She helped me through the most difficult parts and helped me find information I needed to make it through. The fact that I could do just about anything with a computer helped. My proficiency in computers and physics helped a bunch. Aldrea just could not understand how I could remember that and nothing else about my past. The fact that I did not come from this world not withstanding. I had been here almost a year now and had finally brought myself up to date on this world. You’d be surprised on how much parallel history existed. Aldrea and I now tended to spend mainly the weekend nights together. Her job and my schooling kept us apart more than together. The time we did spend together was to say the least interesting. She taught me how to please her and to please myself. It was also a wonderful way to relieve tension during finals and I used it fully to my advantage. I had gone into heat again and was rather troubled how it had affected Aldrea and me. It was almost 3 days before we had finally had the energy to leave the apartment. Three days of strenuous sex was tiring but fun. It was a good thing I had started on a Friday. ---------------------------2 Weeks Later----------------------------------- After finals were over, I decided to take a break and see some of the country round the city I lived in. Aldrea couldn’t get off so I ended up exploring alone. I really needed to get away and straighten out my feelings toward Aldrea. We had great sex but it seemed that it wasn’t enough for me. I was missing something. I planned to use this time to decide weither or not to stay with her or strike out on my own. I had been feeling different lately. It seemed that every other month, when the first and second moons were full. I would get edgy and claustrophobic. I usually would end up sneaking into Aldrea’s bed and spending a few nights there. This time I felt drawn to the park located about 250 kilometers from the city. I just had to get away from all the people around me. I managed to rent some camping equipment from an outfitter nearby. I also used some of my dwindling credits to buy some hiking shoes and stuff. I had earned those credits helping others with their computer assignments. I thought, maybe, a few nights away from it all would help my nerves. So here I was kilometers from anywhere following the map the park guide had given me to follow. I had done some camping while I was human and this would be no problem. Just a few days hike into the backcountry away from it all. I had set up camp in a tranquil glade just before dark. It took me about an hour to make camp a small distance from the trail and on the other side of the glade. The fire I made was small, really just big enough to heat some water for my dinner. You would not imagine the trouble of making a fire and having fur. One spark in the wrong place and you could have a nasty burn. And believe me, burnt fur stinks. After puttering about camp till dark, I decided to go to bed early and get an early start the next day. Sleep eluded me and after an hour or so, I crawled out of the sleeping bag and thought about rekindling the fire. As I sat there, the moons started their ascent into the night sky. I started feeling strange. My clothes seemed too tight, too confining. The night was warm and no breeze deflected the tiny plume of smoke from my fire pit. I had let the fire burn down to ashes and sat there wiggled in my clothes. Slowly piece by piece I removed my clothes. It didn’t cross my mind that I was undressing until I was almost completely nude. A light breeze had come up from the south and the air on my fur felt so good. I felt drawn to the center of the glade. As I slowly walked into the central area of the glade, the last of my clothes fell to the ground. The first moon was already high in the night sky, a bright light blue circle. As I reached the center of the glade the second moon rose above the treetops and bathed me in it white light. I felt almost intoxicated by the light surrounding me. It seemed to cling to my fur making it stand on edge and almost glow. The moons light seemed to wash away all thought and will. I swore I heard the most beautiful music coming from the light. I found my body responding to the music. Even though I could not find the source of the magnificent cords. My body swayed to the music. It moved in patterns matching the music’s rhythms. As the music rose and fell in my head so did the gyrations I went through. It was almost like a dance I was going though. I was lost in the sound and movement. My mind whirled, spinning unable to grasp what was happening to me. I began to get scared. I felt lost, frighten. What was happening to me? Slowly, through the sound and motion I became aware of someone else dancing with me in the glade. The figure moved in counterpoint to me. I noticed that the other persons coat was opposite of mine. Where my fur was white with black points the other figure was black with white points. Slowly the dance brought us closer to each other. As the distance closed between us, I noticed that the figure now matching my pattern was male and as nude as I was. As the moons passed overhead, we continued to move together in this strange dance. We would close and move apart never touching. It was like a ballet. Round and round we swirled unable to stop. It seemed to me that my fur was getting lighter and lighter as if it was absorbing the light from the two moons. Just as the smaller moon passed in front of the larger moon, we touched for the first time. The shock that went through my paw and up my arm caused my fur to stand on edge like static electricity. I felt the electric charge course through my body. It broke part of the spell that the music had on me. I was finally able to gain some control over my body. I felt incredibly weak and fell as I spun to a stop. My mysterious partner whirled and dived to brake my fall in his dark arms. I lay there in his arms for a moment before I looked up. There was another figure now standing before us. Her body was not a sharp outline but a kind of blurred outline that shone with a light from within. All she wore was a crescent moon on a silver chain. The moon hung between her smooth furry breast. Her eyes were no eyes at all but looked like dark orbs filled with stars. She smiled down at us, as we lay there on the ground. She reached out a slender paw as if offering me something. I reached out to meet it. As our paws met, a feeling of love and hope filled my heart as well a surge of energy. It restored my energy. She spoke but a moment to me. Her words echoed in my mind. "Finally a pair with the power and strength to renew the calling. Fear not my child. This male will fill the emptiness you feel, my wanderer from a distant land. You were called here to help heal a growing sickness in this land. When the time is right, I will answer when you two call. Together we will heal this wound." As she finished speaking, she faded from view. I gaped at the spot where she had stood. Looking back at the person holding me. I looked up into the astonished face of a male black fox. He held me close in his arms as if protecting me from something. I felt such a loss at her disappearance that I buried my face in his shoulder and started to cry. He just sat there and held me as I cried. He patted my back as I slowly fought to bring myself under control. I suddenly realized where I was and struggled to get up only to fall again into the stranger’s arms. He caught me again and stood up. He set me down on my unsteady feet. He continued to hold me close. It was almost as if he couldn’t let go of me. I looked again into his dark eyes which shown with a spark from the moons still overhead. I started to stammer an apology or something and promptly passed out. Part 6 An Exchange of information I woke the next morning with what must have been the worst hangover I have ever experienced in my life. Every part of my body hurt in one way or another, even my fur on my tail hurt. I lay there wondering if I was going to die. This was not the first time in my life that I had woken up with a hangover and couldn’t remember all that went on the night before. I froze when I finally opened my eyes and looked around. The tent I was in was not the one I had set up night before. Something felt weird too. I looked down and discovered I was wearing what went for a flannel shirt on this world and some sort of soft shorts. I sat there trying to make sense of where I was. Slowly the events from last night came back to me. I could pick up the scent of the stranger who had danced in the moonlight with me. I then heard the clink of someone cooking outside. The hangover made it sound like gongs in my head. I wiggled out from sleeping bag and discovered I was also in a pair of very big gym shorts with nothing underneath. I found myself responding to the masculine scent and feel of the shorts. The sensations it caused were very different from what I felt with Aldrea. I struggled to keep my libido under control as my head pounded. After looking about the tent again and finding nothing to identify my dark dance partner. There was another sleeping bag and some more clothes that smelled of the dark stranger. I reached over, unzipped the flap, and slowly poked my head out of the tent. It took only a moment to find the stranger. His back was to me. The scent and sound of cooking reached my nose and made my mouth water. He must have heard my stomach growl because he turned and smiled at me. "Well, look whose up." He said with a toothy grin. I sheepishly slipped out of the tent and took the plate and silverware he offered me. As I went over to the log on the other side of the fire I mumbled my thanks and looked around for the other female I has seen the night before. I sat down and wrapped my tail round my feet. I sat there in silence as I ate and watched him serve himself. "You ought to eat more. After dancing the way you did last night, you used a lot of energy." He said conversationally. I looked up again startled by his comment and felt a blush spread up my ears. I mumbled my agreement as I ate. We sat across from each other and seemed to mentally compare notes. Where I was a white fox, he was a dark almost black fox. He had white points where I had black on the ears, paws, and tail. He wore another flannel shirt similar to the one I had on but he was wearing jeans and had hiking boots strapped to his feet. The shirt was open at the neck and showed a small white patch on his neck. My anxiety grew because his eyes never left me. "I’ve never seen you before and I know all the Dancers on this continent." He said to me as we examined each other. "Dancers? What Dancers? What happened last night? Who are you and where is the other lady?" I blurted out as we talked. He stared at me in shock and amazement. "Why, I’m Rathan Harold, Field Inspector General for Ecologic Revitalization Department, I’m also a Moon Dancer. Are you sure you don’t know what a Moon Dancer is?" "I have no idea what or who you’re talking about. What happened to me last night? What are the Moon Dancers?" I asked again. He sighed and spoke in a confused tone. "Ok, I’d better explain what a Moon Dancer is. Over the centuries there have been individuals that have been able to hear the music in the moon’s light. They are able to harness the magic in that music through dance and their inborn talent." "They could then use that magic to heal and renew the land and its people. They were able to increase farm yields and herds fertility. Long ago, they could even call the Moon Goddess to appear and do miracles when the need is great enough. The Goddess would appear and the dancers could channel her magic and do wonders." "As the centuries passed, the Goddess was seen less and less. She hasn’t been seen in ages. Also the Moon Dancers numbers have dwindled also. Over the centuries their numbers have declined to the point where there are only a few hundred of us left. Fewer and fewer Dancers are born each year. The majority of the people have never even seen a Moon Dancer wrap the moon light about them and dance to the moon’s music." He stopped speaking and ate a few bites of food and gave me a curious look. I had stopped eating as he told me the story. The look of utter confusion on my face must have shocked him. "You really sure you don’t know what I told you?" He asked. "I found out I was a Dancer when I turned 14 and the full moons shown like a beacon in the sky. The Dance just took over my body and I let myself be lost in its wonder." "You passed out just as the dance was completed. I didn’t know where your camp was so I brought you to mine and let you sleep." He words filled in a few gaps in my memory. I looked down, embarrassed, and told him parts of my story. I only told him from the time I woke in the hospital till the need to get out into the woods. He looked a little better after I told him about my time in the hospital and such. "How can I be a dancer? I’ve been awake now for months. I’ve been through several full moons and nothing happened before. Why all of a sudden I find myself dancing naked at night with a total stranger? What’s happening to me?" The last question released a flood of emotion and I started to cry uncontrollably. The plate in my paws dropped to the ground and I covered my face with my paws. Normally if I was my old self I probably wouldn’t have been so emotional but having been transformed into a female put my mental state on edge. "I’m sorry." He said. "I didn’t realize." He stood quickly and came around to wrap his arms round me and held me as I cried. As he held me close, his scent filled my mind again. Again my body started to respond to his scent. I found myself breathing in his scent again and again. The scent seemed to calm me this time. It took me a while to get my self under control again. I tried to thank him for all he had done and apologize for spilling the food. He sat back and released me but stayed close. "I’d also like to thank the other female I saw last night. She must have helped you move me to your camp. Can you tell me where she is?" He gave me a nervous look. "You, you saw another female last night?" he asked quietly. The look he was giving me made me nervous again. "Yes, I did, wasn’t she with you?" I answered in confusion. "She was standing just in front of us before I passed out." "What did she look like?" he asked me. I thought a while and said. "Well, I really couldn’t say what species she was, but she was pale in the moonlight and was only wearing a sliver necklace of a crescent moon. The strangest thing were her eyes. They were black with what looked like stars in them." Rathan sat there looking at me with his eyes wide and his mouth open in astonishment. "I saw no one." He said. "You fell and I caught you. I saw you reach your arm out then start to cry. After that I helped you up then you passed out on me. After you passed out on me, I brought you back to my camp and managed to put you to bed. Do you know how hard it is to dress an unconscious person?" I felt my ears grow warm as I blushed. "Did she say anything to you?" he asked urgently. I held my throbbing head in my paws trying to remember what she told me. It was like trying to remember a dream. The harder I tried the less I remembered. I finally looked up in frustration. "No, it keeps slipping away. Its like trying to describe a dream." I told him. He looked shaken and spoke. "Well from the description you gave me. The female you saw last night matches the best description we have of the Moon Goddess." It was now my turn to stare open mouthed. I sat there for a moment, my head spun. I felt faint again and started swaying. Rathan reached over and steadied me. I managed to get up and stagger to the edge of the camp before I became disastrously sick. Rathan stood by me patting my back as I heaved my guts out. He went and got a wet cloth for me after I managed to get my stomach under control. "I’m sorry, I should have remembered. A person usually finds out he or she is a Moon Dancer around the age of puberty. The first contacts with magic messes up their system. They experience nausea headaches and light-headedness. It passes after a couple of days. I guess since you came to it late its affected you a lot stronger." He informed me. I looked up at him and replied, "Thanks for the warning." I tried a small laugh and sat down again. I avoided looking at the food still on my plate nearby. The smell made my stomach jump a little. I gave it a stern reprimand and tried to smile back at my host. "You really think I saw the goddess?" I asked in a small voice. "I don’t know." Rathan replied, "Its possible I guess, but no one has truly seen the goddess in centuries." "Thanks for the clothes." I managed to stammer. "Could you show me back to the glade so I can find my camp and get my clothes so I can give yours back?" I just wanted to get away and think. He looked at me concerned and smiled. "I think maybe you ought to rest a little while longer. We’ll go over there after you’ve rested more." We spent most of the morning exchanging information on Moon Dancers, the Moon Goddess, and what he did for the Ecologic Revitalization Department. It seemed this world had similar problems to ours in the early 70’s. There was the usual pollution, global warming, and resource depletion. The biggest problem seemed to be a nuclear accident that occurred a few years back. A reactor had melted down and exploded when the core reached the water table. It contaminated a fairly large area and the effects were still being assessed to this date. Literally thousands of square kilometers were uninhabitable. After a light lunch, which thankfully stayed down, we started for my camp. Since he felt responsible for me. He packed up his camp quickly and led me toward the glade. We passed through the glade on our way to my camp. I noticed a sapling in its very center. As I passed the small tree a glint of metal caught my eye. I stopped and called out to Rathan to stop. "Hey, what’s this?" I said. He stopped and looked toward where I pointed. Hanging from a branch in the tree was a silver pendent with two silver chains attached to it. The pendent looked just like the two moons in alignment. I reached out and picked up the pendant and chains. Just as I picked it up, the pendant split apart in my paws. I held two silver crescent moons each with its own chain. I look up into Rathan’s eyes. They were wide in astonishment. The pendent on each chain was an exact copy to the one the Moon Goddess was wearing the night before. Part 7 The Ties That Bind I held two silver crescent moons each with its own chain. We stood there looking at each other. Neither one of us could determine where the pendants had come from. Rathan had not seen them when he went threw the glade the day before. The glade suddenly got very quiet. Not even the wind stirred a blade of grass. The world seemed to stand still. We stood there, neither of us daring to say a word. Even if you ask me to this day, I still couldn’t explain what happened next. Rathan seemed to be held in a trance. He dropped his backpack and came to kneel before me. I looked down into his hazel eyes, and almost lost myself in their beauty. Unable to stop myself, I raised the pendant in my right hand to the sky and spread the chain open between my paws. After a moment, with the pendant held high, I placed it down over Rathan’s up turned head. As the pendant settled over his chest, he released the breath he was holding in a deep sigh. Rathan stood and took the other pendant from me and I also knelt before him. He too raised the pendant skyward and spread the chain open. After looking deep into my blue-green eyes, he also held the pendant up for a moment, then lowered over my upturned head. As the pendant settled between my breast, I felt a rush of what seemed to be power flow over me. Every hair on my body seemed electrified. Rathan and I will swear to this day that we heard a voice above us. "Now the bond is forged. Two will become one. Blessings on you my children. You have a long and interesting life ahead." Then the voice was gone. As I stood, Rathan wrapped his arms round me. We kissed. It seemed to be the right thing to do at the time. That kiss seemed to last forever. Neither one of us wanted it to end. There was an almost audible click as we came together. I felt my mind open a channel to Rathan. I knew to the depth of my soul that we were now bound together as no ordinary couple or pairing. Even to this day if we are apart for any length of time we suffer effects close to withdrawals. The bonding was also mental. I from that moment on, I could feel Rathan’s emotions as clearly as if they were my own and he could feel mine. Under the right circumstances we can even transfer thoughts. We broke apart and stood there breathless. "Oh my!" was about all I could say. I was flooded with Rathan’s emotions. Confusion, concern, love, disbelief, and lust to name a few. I was almost overwhelmed. My head had began to spin again and I felt the nausea begin to rise. I stumbled again and sat down hard on my tail. You don’t know what pain is unless you’ve sat down hard on a stick or limb. Now imagine having a 5th appendage getting caught and kinked. Rathan winced in pain also as the pain flashed across the channel linking us. A startled look came over his face. I could see he was picking up my emotions too. I think fear and confusion dominated my mine. We rarely communicate through the channel but we always knew how each other felt. The pain cleared my head some and I looked up to see Rathan standing over me. "What was that?" I asked in confusion. "Where did that voice come from? What did we just do?" He looked as confused as I did. "I don’t really know," he answered, "I’ve never heard of such a thing." "We seem to be linked mentally somehow," I said. Fear rose in my voice as I thought that he could now read my thoughts. I started to get up to run and fell again. He caught me and placed me on my feet. "Yes, but I’m only picking up your emotions," he replied. If he was picking up my emotions then he was getting a heavy dose of fear I had been experiencing all morning. "You have nothing to fear from me I just want to help." I could tell he was telling the truth through the link. I held up the pendant hanging from the chain round my neck. "What does this mean then?" I asked. "Well usually when two life bond they exchange gifts, usually bracelets or sometimes necklaces, and some even exchange ear rings." He tried to explain. "The gifts match one another and show others that the individuals are bonded. This would mean we are sort of life bonded." I felt my anger rise as he explained what he thought of the necklaces. He felt it to and tried to calm me. How could we be bonded? I didn’t even know this guy before this morning. But each time he held me I seemed to melt. "Come on, let’s find your camp. We’ll talk more later after we’ve found it." With that he headed off towards the other side of the meadow. He walked off toward the far side and left me standing there with my mouth open. All I could read from the new link between us was concern curiosity and a little lust/love. I had to run to catch up. I’m sure he felt my frustration and nervousness as we approached my camp. As we got nearer we found the clothes I had discarded on my way to the center of the meadow. I blushed again as he picked up my panties and turned to smile at me. I grabbed them and stuck my tongue out at him. He brow dipped and confusion clouded his emotions. I then realized that there was not an equivalent to sticking your tongue on this world. He had no idea what I meant by it. He finally worked out the emotions he felt from me and smiled again. I hurried round and picked up the clothes scattered about the camp and put them in my tent. "You must do a lot of camping." He stated as he looked about my otherwise neat camp. I blushed again. "I’ll just go change into some of my own clothes and give yours back." I said and walked toward my tent. "That’s ok you can keep them. I think we’ll be spending more time together than you think." He replied. I again looked at him in confusion. "Here sit down. I just remembered some more about life bonding." He said as he took my elbow and guided me to a log to sit. "I had a little time to think while we were on our way over here. I remembered something else. There’s another type of bonding called a Soul Bonding. It’s very rare and no one knows how it happens. The pair that Soul Bonds share an additional special bond. They are able to feel each others emotions and sometimes thoughts." "No one knows how this bonding occurs or why. It only happens once or twice a generation to any one family." He explained. "When a pair soul bond its for life the death of one is the death of the other. Its like one half cannot live without the other." I sat there in shock and listened to him explain more about life and soul bonding. I felt more and more afraid. His emotions helped sooth mine as he felt my fear at the new situation I was in. "It must be the Goddess, she must have some reason for us to be together." He said to me. I remained silent trying to work out in my mind what was happening. He knew what I was going through from the link we now shared He helped me clean up my camp and set his tent and camp up next to mine. Hardly a work was spoken since then. There was an attraction I now felt and was trying to resist it. Every time we got close, his scent would send my heart running. I cooked a simple supper for the both of us and sat down. "There’s something I should tell you." I said in a soft voice. "I’ve been living with a friend from the hospital and … well … she and I have been a little more than friends. She’s helped me out a lot after I first woke up." "You mean you’ve sleep with her as lovers." He said with a rye smile. "I may be a Moon Dancer but I’ve not been celibate either." As he leaned over and kissed me again. The emotions I got from him through the link set my heart running again. I couldn’t help myself, my nipples perked right up and poked out at the fabric of the shirt I was wearing. It was very obvious form that and my scent how he was affecting me. Sorry to stop short but my muse wants a role in the hay. J More to come!!!!!