Chapter 4

When we emerged from Ozcar’s teleport, I found myself standing outside the gates of a large, expensive-looking mansion. It reminded me of the ones I’d seen in travel magazines. It looked as though someone very rich lived there.

“Is this where HAYF lives?” I asked Ozcar, who had transformed himself into a more anthropomorphic version of himself, and was dusting his clothes off excitedly.

“Huh? Oh, yeah! This is his house!” He answered, pressing a button on the control panel just outside the iron gates. The speaker crackled for a moment, then a voice buzzed at us.

“Password,” was all it said.

“I like to Yiff it, Yiff it!” Ozcar replied, grinning at me as I shot him a blank look.

“Very good, sir. You and your guest may enter.” The gates slowly swung inward, and I noticed as we entered the grounds that a pair of security cameras followed our movements. We made our way up the long, winding driveway, and when we finally reached the door, it burst open with a flurry of activity.

“Ozcar!” Cried a slanty-eyed, flamboyant man, rushing forward and patting Ozcar vigorously on the back. “Welcome back! When Jade told me you were coming I couldn’t wait to tell the girls the news! They’re all dying to see you again, you stud, you!”

I could have sworn Ozcar’s face went a little pink, even though it was covered with fur. He got a rather distracted, goofy look on his face, and he even appeared to drool a bit, but suddenly he shook it off and reluctantly shook his head. “Welcome as that sounds, I can't. I’m here on a mission.”

“I see that,” HAYF – who I imagined this man to be – commented, eying me with obvious interest. He was tall, clothed in rich, vibrant colors, and his eyes slanted nearly to the point of closure. If Ozcar had taken a human form, I imagined that is what he would have looked like. “Who is this delectable little morsel with you? You simply MUST introduce me!”

I stiffened as I heard him refer to me in the same way that Gnozo had, but Ozcar’s lighthearted laughing let me know that I was in no danger. “This is Maus,” he explained. “She’s here to get the locations of our targets. Come on. Why don’t we go inside where there are fewer places for ears to listen.”

“Indeed!” HAYF cried, offering me his hand and bowing gracefully at me. “My home is your haven, my lovely,” he cooed at me. “Please come inside and sit with us in comfort.”

“Er... thank you very much,” I replied, nodding jerkily at him. I reluctantly took his hand and let him lead me inside.

Once inside, I was immediately aware of many curious, excited eyes upon us. It didn’t seem to bother either our host or Ozcar, so I tried not to let it disturb me. Just the same, I didn’t let down my guard.

“Silver-Glint is hoping you’ll make time for her,” Ozcar commented, gesturing toward a door as we passed it, which closed immediately and a muffled fit of giggles erupted behind it. “She misses you terribly, Ozcar.”
“You mean she misses her favorite plaything,” Ozcar laughed. “She wore me ragged, last time! It was like a girl with her doll after all those hours with her!”
“I can’t help it if you’re such a featherweight, brother,” Hayf laughed. “My girls are all strong, and they don’t hold back, even for my own kin.”

“Brother?” I gasped, astounded by this new discovery. “You two are related?”

“Oh, didn’t Ozcar tell you?” HAYF cried, his face brightening. “Ozcar, you naughty boy! You’ll have to be punished! Girls! Take him away for a sound spanking!”

“Wait a minute!” Ozcar roared, as nearly a dozen female kitsune seemed to appear out of thin air, squealing excitedly and grabbing onto Ozcar. Their tails twitched eagerly as they tickled and groped him relentlessly, until he was so out of breath he couldn’t stand. They then picked him up and darted off with him in tow.

“But... my mission!” He protested with a whine, reaching for me and HAYF.

“Don’t worry. I’ll take good care of Maus,” HAYF laughed heartily. “You deserve this.”

Ozcar didn’t get a chance to argue, as the maelstrom of fox-love disappeared around a corner and soon bustled out of hearing distance. HAYF chuckled, and I turned to look at him again, suddenly aware that I didn’t have Ozcar there to shield me from this odd character. HAYF was no longer human, as he had morphed into an almost identical copy of Ozcar, with the only difference being his ostentatious clothing.

“Shall we continue to my study?” He urged me, offering his paw. “I have something I think you’ll like very much.”
“Are you sure we shouldn’t wait for Ozcar?” I asked, uncertain of whether I should trust HAYF or not.

“Ozcar won’t be available for at least a few hours,” he chuckled in reply. “He’s about due for this, though. He hasn’t had any romantic encounters with our kind for several years. I would imagine he’s become somewhat ravenous for female company.”

“I see,” I replied, silently cursing the fact that I had yet another roadblock before I could start hunting the Sex Beasts. “I suppose we might as well continue then.”

“Don’t worry about him,” HAYF laughed, taking my hand and leading me further into his mansion. “Ozcar isn’t necessary for this anyway. He knows all of what I’m about to show you, so he can take some time for leisure if he likes.”

He led me through an arched doorway into an enormous library. The sheer number of books staggered the mind. What was even more amazing was the fact that I hadn’t remembered a room this size being able to fit in any of the parts of the mansion I’d seen from the outside. I wanted to ask about it, but I was being led into a smaller room in one corner of the library, so I decided to save the questions for later.

“Here we are,” he said brightly, motioning for me to sit in a large, comfortable-looking chair in front of a mahogany desk. I did, and he sat down in the chair behind it. “I’d offer you a drink, but I don’t think your laws allow people your age to partake in spirits, do they?” I shook my head, wondering what kind of drinks kitsune enjoyed. “Quite a shame,” he continued, leaning back in his chair and eying me approvingly. “I would think I could have you quite loosened up and willing to do anything I asked with MY drinks.”

I stiffened again. I didn’t like the way he was looking at me... studying me as if he would like to see me without my scant clothing. I realized again how little they actually covered, and I turned a little pink.

When I didn’t reply, he smiled and opened a drawer behind his desk. “Might as well get right to it then,” he continued. “This is what Jade sent you here for. Go on, take a look.” He handed me what appeared to be an antique scroll. I opened it and gasped at what I saw.

“There are things... moving on this!” I cried, dropping it in amazement. The scroll snapped shut again, and HAYF laughed.

“Those are dynamo-runes,” he commented. “A little bit of fox-magic, if you will. Before you arrived, I wrote the names of all of the known sex beasts on that scroll with my own magical runes. If one of the beasts should reproduce, their offspring will appear on the same scroll, with its own rune name. We don’t have time to teach you how to read them, but Ozcar can read them, and he will be in charge of the scroll. With its help, you will be able to track down any Sex Beast that is nearby.”

“How, exactly?” I asked, my curiosity getting the better of me. “They just look like a bunch of odd characters to me. Although... some of them are in different colors.”

“Indeed,” he said, smiling and nodding. “As you become nearer and nearer to a particular sex beast, its name will shift from black to red, going through many other intermediary colors in between. In addition, there are numerical values associated with each name, which will give the reader a distance in tails from your current position.”

“Tails?” I asked.

“It’s our way of measuring distance,” he laughed, pointing to his own fluffy appendage. “Just as you humans use feet, we use tails. They aren’t the same distance, but it will mean something to Ozcar and in time, will mean something to you as well.”

“I see,” I replied. “This is an invaluable tool!”

“It will definitely make finding the beasts easier,” he replied, adopting a more serious expression for the first time since I’d met him. “But it will not give you any indication of the strength of the particular beast you’re hunting. You’ll have to be careful. You won’t be ready to attack the stronger ones just yet. Jade informed me that through sheer luck, you were able to defeat Gnozo. Gnozo was but a child as far as the sex beasts are concerned. His strength and stamina were paltry, and you were very lucky. The only reason he had gained such a reputation was because of his voracity.”

“I see,” I said, taking his words to heart. “I’ll keep that in mind then. The last thing I want to do is underestimate these things.”
“Good girl,” he replied, nodding eagerly. “Now that we’ve settled that, I’d like to offer you a bath, and a place to sleep. It’s my understanding that you’ve not had either for a long time.”

I realized he was right, and only then did my fatigue begin to catch up with me. I grinned at him sheepishly and said that I’d love nothing else more. Laughing, he showed me out of the study and the library, and took me through the maze-like hallways until we arrived at a large bedroom. There was an open doorway leading to a bathroom inside, and it was just as luxurious and ornate as the bed was. Both looked extremely comfortable and inviting, and I thanked HAYF profusely for them.

After he left, I immediately turned on the bathwater and took off my clothes. I looked at myself in the mirror for a while, letting the hot water fill the large, oval-shaped tub. I looked at myself from many angles, checking to see if I had any bruises or cuts from my ordeals. To my surprise, I didn’t have any visible mark to give away the injuries I had sustained. Not even the deep gash Mr. Finn had given me was there. On top of that, all of my facial blemishes and the little imperfections in my skin had gone away. I’d never looked so... perfect before. It was an odd feeling. Just the same, I was extremely pale. I never could hold a tan to save my life. I cupped my hands around my breasts and tried to puff them up a bit to make them bigger. Maybe Jade had been right. Now that I looked at them, they were just a little bit small...

I tore myself away from the mirror then, deciding that it was all in my head, and what I needed most was a nice, hot, relaxing bath. The moment my legs touched the hot, fragrant water, I felt as though all the trials of the previous night had suddenly pronounced themselves in my joints and muscles. I sighed deeply as I lowered myself into the water up to my neck, and allowed the tension and fatigue to drain out of me, closing my eyes in languid contentment. I really had needed this.

After a good half-hour, I reluctantly emerged from the heavenly water and wrapped myself in a towel. I dried my hair with a second one, and after scrubbing every crevice of my body dry with the first one, I slipped into the bed, tired and quite comfortable. I didn’t even bother putting on my clothes. I was so used to sleeping nude at home that I didn’t think about it.

When I awoke the next day, I felt as though ten years of worry had melted off of me. At first I just lay still, enjoying the odd, tingling comfort I was feeling. Only when I began to notice that it was more than simply the mattress and bedclothes did I open my eyes. Somebody... or someTHING was down THERE. My blood froze as I realized there was a tongue licking my most private areas, lapping at me as a dog might.

I jerked away and tore back the blankets, cursing myself for not wearing my weapons. I then stared down in shock at the creature I had uncovered.

“Good morning!” Cried a short, slender kitsune girl. “It didn’t take much at all to wake you up!” She giggled and sat on her hind legs, licking her lips and flashing her bright green eyes at me. “I like the way you taste,” she explained with another giggle.

“Wha-.... huh?” I stuttered, grabbing a pillow and covering myself with it. “I... I’m not a lollipop! Why on earth did you do that?”

“Do what?” She asked me innocently, crawling up to me on all fours until her breasts rested on my knees. She leaned even closer and curled her arms around my neck. “I was only trying to make you feel good.”

“I... I don’t feel good,” I retorted, gasping as she slid one of her hands down behind my pillow and tickled my left nipple. “Stop that!”

She only giggled again in reply, and she gently lifted her face upward and licked the side of my cheek. I grit my teeth and tried to decide what to do. I was a guest in HAYF’s house. If I insulted one or more of his er... girls, would I hurt his relationship with his brother? More importantly, would it hurt our chances of using that scroll of his? I hadn’t taken it from him last night, and it was still in his study, for all I knew. What should I do? I had never had someone make a pass at me like this before. I didn’t know how to turn her down, gently or not.

“You’re so stiff,” she whispered in my ear, darting a tongue inside afterwards. I yelped in surprise and resisted the urge to shove her away. “Come on, sweetie. Relax. I’ll do all the work.” She gently pried the pillow from my hands and cupped my cheek in one hand, turning my face toward hers. She morphed then, and took on the shape of a human girl with long, auburn hair. She had an almost ethereal beauty in this form, with a small, slender body and a charming, beguiling face. Her eyes weren’t quite as slanted as Ozcar’s or HAYF’s. If she had been a human, she would have easily found a career as a model for any type of women’s clothing she could have wanted. Her round, supple breasts pressed teasingly against mine as she pulled my face to hers and kissed me. My eyes shot open in frightened surprise when I felt her soft, warm tongue enter my mouth and massage my own. So surprised and taken aback by this sensation was I that I didn’t even notice her snake her hand down between my legs. When I felt her fingers rub against my clitoris I squealed in surprise.

“So nice,” she cooed, pulling her tongue from my lips and tracing a thin trail of kisses down my neck and into the area between my breasts. I whimpered as the sensations of her kisses and her fingers caressing my sensitive regions overwhelmed me with feelings I’d never experienced before. I didn’t know what was happening to me. My will to resist was quickly breaking down. Was she weaving some kind of spell over me?

“I want to taste you again,” she begged seductively, continuing her trail of kisses downward until she reached the region between my legs again. “You’re the first human who’s ever stirred me like this. Please let me make you feel good.” She gently pulled my legs apart and slowly pressed her warm tongue against my vagina.

“Ah!” I gasped as I felt her tongue probing in areas I had yet even to discover myself. “Nooo....” I moaned, cringing as the strange sensations sent shudders through my body. I didn’t know what to think anymore. I couldn’t think. All I could do was react to the sensations I was feeling. She lapped eagerly at me as my own fluids slowly seeped through to combine with the moisture of her tongue. It was like a snake, her tongue. It undulated against me with such dexterity and fluid movement that it seemed as though it was a sentient being all its own. Again and again she cuddled my clitoris with it, and again and again she explored the limits of my virginity.

As she held me captive with the foreign sensation in my vagina, I slowly began to feel a strange warmth spreading throughout the region. It scared me at first, and I tried to inch myself away, digging my fingers deep into the sheets and biting my lip to keep from whimpering pathetically. But her persistence knew no bounds, and she eagerly followed me, quickening her pace and probing more and more deeply with every caress of her tongue.

As the warmth grew into a more intense, unfamiliar feeling, I began to lose my hold on my restraint, and began gasping and moaning in time to her licking. It felt as though I was losing control of my sanity. All that existed was the steadily increasing and admittedly pleasurable feelings within my vagina. “Oh God,” I moaned. “Please... I’m... I’m...”

Like an atomic bomb of euphoria, wave after wave of the most intense pleasure I had ever known washed over my body. Crying aloud, I buried my hands in her soft, auburn tresses and arched my back uncontrollably. It was the most intense feeling I’d ever felt. It was so good!

I sank back to the bed, my hands falling limply at my sides. I trembled violently and gasped for air as she pulled her face from my quivering vagina and slid her body up alongside mine. She draped her arm across my breasts and kissed me ever-so-gently on the shoulder. “That was your first time, wasn’t it?” She crooned, licking my cheek.

“First... first time...” I gasped, still shaking and quivering. “I’ve never felt anything like it.”

“I have,” she giggled. “Many times. Consider it my gift to you. Take good care of my little brother.”

I opened my eyes as I tried to comprehend what she said. “L-little brother?” I panted. “Ozcar?”

“Yes,” she replied, drawing circles around one of my nipples with her finger. “He’s not too bright, you know. He needs a strong woman to watch over him and keep him out of danger.”

I didn’t reply. I couldn’t. What was there to say?

I don’t remember exactly what happened then, but I’m pretty sure I fell asleep again. The next thing I do remember is waking up in bed, alone, and uncovered. I sat upright and glanced around the room. Had it all been a dream? I looked down at the pillow on the floor beside the bed, and I noticed a long, orange-brown strand of hair on it.