The Queen's Nightmares

[Kochou Mari]

"No! I didn't do anything! N-no!"

Sitting bolt upright with a scream, Kurakouhi realized that hell she went through was merely a nightmare. Standing up, Kurakouhi walked to the other side of her small room and curled up beside Shiromaru, who was lying on his own soft fur mat.

The white tiger opened his eyes not only to his mistress curling up beside him, but to the door opening and a young kaibutsu poking his head in.

The kaibutsu boy was obviously one of Kurakouhi's pleasure slaves, for he was quite attractive. His blue eyes searched the room, then settled on Kurakouhi, who had looked up, and Shiromaru.

"The Kochou girl is here...my queen..." the boy spoke, bowing low.

"Send her in," Kurakouhi said quickly, waving a dismissive hand. The boy bowed once more and opened the door so Mari, still sopping wet, stepped in.

"What do you want, Kurakouhi?" she asked, raising an eyebrow. "Soi-chan. I want her to know I do love her...and I'm...just an idiot.

"Aah. Of course..." Kurakouhi murmured, sitting down upon her bed and patting a spot beside her. "Come sit, Mari..."

"Wait...you know my name?" Mari asked, raising an eyebrow. Reluctantly, she stepped up beside Kurakouhi and sat down.

"Of course. I know everything that goes on in this world. I know that you and your superior are quite in love... Therefore..." Kurakouhi's left hand began to glow with black magic. "I will make you irresistable..."

Mari shuddered. "I just want to be able to protect her..."

"And I will be able to do just that..." Kurakouhi murmured, reaching forward and touching Mari's chest with her fingertips. A ping pong ball-sized ball of dark magic formed in the beautiful kaibutsu's palm. "With this, you will unlock strength you never knew rest dormant within you...you will be unstoppable..."

Gently forcing the ball of magic into her chest, Kurakouhi smirked. "Now, this will hurt... Quite a bit..."

The scream that tore through the room could've been heard all the way from the peak of the Fortress.

Once the splitting pain in her chest dulled to a painful throbbing, Mari saw through blurred vision that she was transforming. Black fur began growing all over her body. Her knees painfully cracked and reversed. A muzzle formed on her face, giving her the crushing jaws of a wolf. She was becoming a beast...a kaibutsu...

[Sato Koemi]

Shielding Miyako from the winds and any noise, the gargoyle landed softly on the balcony of the great Queen's bedroom. She glanced around and looked down as Miyako looked up from the safety of the gargoyle's breasts and blinked her big red eyes.

"Why is.. Yuzuki-oneesan here..?" she asked suspciously.

The gargoyle shook her head "I do not know. I was told to bring you here so you could meet with her.. I'll have to hold onto you still little lady."

Miyako fidgeted and growled almost angrily as the gargoyle tightened her grip onto her, she was unable to get herself free. The strength of the gargoyle seemed like a grasp of stone around her, "Let Miyako go!"

"I'm sorry, little lady. I cannot comply to that order.." the gargoyle replied, almost sadly. She glanced up and watched the beast inside the Queen's room begin to unfurl. The gargoyle stayed as far away from the entrance to Kurakouhi's bedroom, feeling no remorse, no pity or anything as she watched the shinigami slowly turn into what she was becoming.

Miyako had actually stopped to watch, eyes wide in fear, seeing both Kurakouhi and the shape-changing shinigami. She.. had seen that shinigami before.. but she couldn't place where. Here eyes widened even more as she saw what she was becoming.. The beast that attacked Karu in her nightmare.. Was she still asleep? Was all this still a really bad dream? She hoped so..

After a long, delayed, silent pause after the scream, the gargoyle bowed lowly, clutching Miyako tightly in her grasp "M.. My Dark Queen..? I have brought the little one to you.. as per your command.."

[Kochou Mari]

Mari was silent as the transformation continued, though her body was wracked with violent spasms as she continued her fearsome morphing into a ferocious wolf.

Finally, after what seemed like ages, the black wolf that was once a shinigami rose to her feet. Her entire form, now that of a lithe, powerful wolf, was covered in lustrous jet-black fur. The same reddish-brown hair she had in her more humanoid form was retained, and still covered her blind eye. However, her other eye, once a shining dark green, lost all luster, and dully scanned the room, before, on Kurakouhi's patting the bed, slunk up onto it, her head and front paws resting in the beautiful kaibutsu's lap.

Looking up, Kurakouhi smirked. "Excellent..." she murmured to the gargoyle kaibutsu. "Keep watch over her...I still have to take care of this little one..." Stroking Mari's head, the feline woman smirked. "I'll be with you momentarily..."

"And if she resists, don't hesitate to beat her into submission," she snarled, her eyes narrowing. With a single movement of her hand, the Queen of Darkness turned her head away. "You may go."

[Sato Koemi]

The gaargoyle bowed her head lowly, keeping her eyes averted like always "Yes, Dark Mistress.."

Miyako blinked and started struggling a little bit as the gargoyle took off in blinding speeds towards the Harem Room where most of Kurakouhi's pleasure slaves were either resting, eating or what have you.

The gargoyle set Miyako down in the middle of the room of male and female kaibutsu alike and turned, walking out of the door she came through silently.

The little foxgirl huffed angrily and ran at the door behind the gargoyle, only to be thwarted by some invisable barrier. She whimpered, holding her nose and looked at the gargoyle's sad, almost pathetic expression.

"This is Kurakouhi's newest pet.. treat her nicely.." the gargoyle woman said, walking out and shutting the door, locking it tightly behind her.

[Kochou Mari]

Watching her gargoyle slave take Miyako away, Kurakouhi watched with a disinterested look. However, as soon as the door closed, the Dark Queen turned her eyes back to the wolf laying beside her.

"Now, you will listen to me..."

The wolf opened her eyes, snarled, and was suddenly thrown against the wall.

Struggling to her feet, Mari was shocked to see a shadowy claw that had reared up from behind her, knocking her into the wall.

"Are you listening, girl?" Kurakouhi snarled. "You will listen to me. Now bow to me."

An invisible force pressed down on Mari's back, forcing her down onto the ground into an almost bowing position.

"That's better..." Kurakouhi gave the wolf a venomous smile. In her hands, almost as if by magic, was a black collar. It was made of sumptuous silk, and delicately embroidered with golden thread. "Now you will wear this, and you will follow my every order. Do you understand?"

Mari's muzzle was twisted into a vicious snarl, but her head moved up and down, as if she were nodding.

"Excellent..." Kurakouhi replied, slipping the collar onto the wolf's neck. "Now go. You will be my eyes and ears among the intruders..."

While Mari wanted to leap at Kurakouhi and tear her throat out, she knew that she wouldn't be able to figure out how to get out of this beastial form until she did exactly what she wanted. She wouldn't be able to do anything but listen.

Her paws moved, but not of her own accord. A part of Kurakouhi's magical power was sewn into the collar, giving her control over her lupine puppet even from far distances.

And with a yelp of pain from how badly the dark lightning surging through her hurt, Mari was gone.