Thunders Howl

I woke up to the scent of my mates both sleeping almost on top of me. I smiled, my massive inner pervert beyond thrilled two busty furry ladies are mine to enjoy.

Meanwhile the part of me that's a decent humans being hates that they now wish to fulfill the Den Mother duty and… breed. Probably forever.

Ugh… the choice is so obvious but fuuuuck! Sometimes I hate being such a fucking pervert.

I pulled myself out from them and headed to the kitchen. In a house with this many mouths, food in bulk is a must, even if the pups are still nursing they're also growing their teeth so that won't last long.

“The duality of my life…” I sighed, getting breakfast ready for my mates. “Happy for the horny…but there’s more to life than horny…”

I began cooking some eggs, wishing there was coffee here. If there was I haven't found any yet.

Once the meals were done I gave Magnolia and Belle their breakfasts, said morning to all my kids then headed out to find work. Much as I want to hunt that target down still, I need to work on my relationship with Sandra more. I… I know I can't build what we had before up, and so can she and Tina.

“I…just wish there was a way I can fix this…” I muttered bitterly.

“I thought I could trust you…”

I shook my head. “No…none of that…” I muttered. “Work first, then…trying to fix things.”

Work for a beast of my size was thankfully easy to come by. Dig a big hole, move huge boulders, help chop down and move lumber.

Thanks to my size and strengths It wasn't too hard to complete everything.

Eventually though I finished my jobs, got my various pays and now needed to figure out what to help Sandra with.

“She probably has…something’s I can help with…” I muttered, trying to think of stuff. “I can help hunt for stuff with her…help dig in the mine to find her something special…”

I mulled the thoughts over in my head and tried to think of something… Sandra… what would she want the most…

Then it hit me. She said we can't be in a relationship because as she is, she doesn't have a body, but what if I can get her a body that didn't come from someone dying.

Shopkeeper sells and buys anything… he might actually sell empty bodies!

“I am a goddamn genius.” I muttered with a growing smile, rushing off to find Shopkeep’s Shop and see how much it would cost to get her a good body.

I found the entrance and almost broke the door down as I came in, finding Shopkeep at the desk as usual, sitting with a tablet in hand.

"Hey." He said without looking over at me.

"How much does it cost to buy a blank body for a Shadow Hunter?" I asked.

"Depends on species, gender and other such features."

Features?

"Uh…what features we talking about?"

"Well, for starters will their body be small, tall, big, basically a Den Mother, single or multi gendered, will said gender organs function?"

"Oh…" I blinked. "Right…well…this is for Sandra…so…" I did some thinking, trying to come up with the best outcome here.

Okay so knowing her she'd definitely want something… sexy.

"Alright…so how about a hermaphrodite Nargacuga, that's…like the both of us, where we can shift between feral and anthro at will…and…might as well make her a Den Mother cause Den Mother's are sexy as hell."

"Okay, keeping all that in mind the price comes out to…" Shopkeep put his tablet down and pulled out a sheet of paper from his hoodie pocket. "50,000 rem."

I groaned at that number. "Ugh…I don't have the money…" I grumbled. "Got any jobs to pay for it?"

"Probably. What can you do?"

"Well, I can do a lot of things, got anything specific for me?" I inquired, cause all of my flings I've learned quite a bit of stuff

"Let's see…" They hummed, flipping the paper over and looking along some text It didn't have before. "I've got some Cargo stuff… some Population stuff… some beta testing stuff."

"Beta testing?" I inquired.

"Some things the others want to test before making them a part of a world or reality."

"Well…what do you all have planned?"

"Mostly some plants, a few new animals and monsters, and one new sentient species. I'm actually surprised you didn't ask about the Population one."

"Well, what about the population?" I asked. "And also, Beta Testing stuff always sounds interesting."

"Well, that depends on if you want to increase or decrease a population."

"Well…" I said carefully. "What needs killed?" I asked, drawing a line at breeding for money

"Well one of the earth planets was overrun by zombies. Last human died like, five years ago so someone has to go down there and kill all the zombies."

"That I can do." I nodded. "What kinda zombies we talking about?"

"Take the T-Virus, mix in some Green Flue and a dash of Cordyceps fungus."

I actually gulped… no wonder that earth died out… alone those are all fucking nightmares…

"Right…that's not gonna be fun but sure, let's go with that."

"Alright. You can slaughter the infected remaining population and then eat a few if you want, special monsters you're special breed can eat gives equally special abilities. And well after That I guess you can have the planet to."

“An entire planet to myself?” I asked in surprise. “Isn’t that a little…much for me? Also…good to know that I can eat the zombies and be fine and not get sick of turned.”

"The worst thing you might experience is gas. Maybe some diarrhea. And, well typically we glass the planet, turn back time on the sun and let something else grow there or just forget about it so, eh. Besides, this earth seems similar enough to your old one. Might find a few creature comforts."

“Eh, that’s fair.” I nodded. “Alright, let’s get going to zombieland.”

I roared as I slammed my claw into one of the normal zombies, before leaping over and devouring a Tyrant. The fact they used to be human didn't bother me as much as I thought. They tasted weird.

I sighed as I looked around. I landed somewhere in Ohio, and I've barely cleared out this town. Crap… at this rate I'll be here for years…

Well, at least Shopkeep said that time back in that other world won't pass either.

“Hopefully I get some buffs for eating these stupid things…it’s gross…” I grumbled, eating the rest of the Tyrant bones and all.

Surprisingly, most of the buildings are all still really well intact. Apparently this apocalypse ended humanity in less than two years. Feels weird, it does look so much like my earth, save a few differences.

“Honestly surprised it only took 2 years, you’d think people would have lasted longer…” I hummed.

With this place mostly cleared out I decided to look around, see if anything was useful or looked fun. Hmm… I did pass a game stop a while ago?

“Well…Shopkeep did say this place was basically mine…but how the hell am I going to carry all of it?” I frowned. “Well…might as well check it out anyways…” I muttered. Heading off to the Gamestop just to see what year it really was.

I arrived at the store ruins, oddly untouched but dusty and only a little messy. Hmm… looks like it was twenty twenty five. So, four years ahead of my old world… hm… wow, games here look to have an extra rating. E, T, M, and P. P? Weird, no box art on any of the P rated games?

Alternate realities are weird.

“I mean…is it for Porn? Cause if it’s that then the Adult rating exists…” I frowned, not sure what they mean here…but yeah this is weird.

I managed to pull the storage drawers open and a quick look- Holy crap… yeah, yeah Pnis for porn and… woah… the disc art is… very, very erotic…

I'll just put these away for later…

Let's see what else is here… Pokemon, Call of Duty, so far normal- Dark Souls 4? Okay that's new.

“Thought they would have been done with Dark Souls…” I hummed, having seen other Soul’s like games cause Dark Soul’s is a good game but still. “Gonna have to test this out…”

There were several that I know didn't exist back before in my home earth. I grabbed a backpack and filled it before walking off.

Let's see, clothes, auto shop, gun store, oh, adult toys. Well, my old collection is probably long gone… wonder if they'll have something I can genuinely use? I am like… three times my old human size…

“Gonna be a bitch to find everything for my size…” I sighed. “Closest guy was either Big Macintosh or some of the other monsters…” I shook my head.

I decided to look anyways, upset I didn't find anything I could use and moved on. I found a mattress store and gathered as many as I could and made a makeshift bed for myself. This is gonna be a long trip… but worth it. For Sandra.

I yawned, walking along the roads somewhere in what was once China. It's been… ugh, I don't know how long but I've been here for years. My feral form has actually gotten larger, and I've gotten so sick of the taste of the infected.

Still, I walk through the roads and places, looking for the remaining lingering infected. Can't be many left. I've been around about every road, through every building, and across every sea at least three times.

I sniffed the air, using my heightened senses to try and find any stragglers that I didn’t find yet.

I wasn't having luck… come on, where-

I caught the scent. Grinning as I headed towards the source. It was in an old school. I shifted to my anthro form, more easily slipping through doorways and eventually find my target. They looked like a child, bits of the fungus part of the infection replaced hair and patches of skin and they seemed to be… drawing?

I looked at the infected girl, seeing papers, crayons, pencils, and many bottles of water and bags of candy and chips. Both full and empty.

Is this one… intelligent?

“Uh…hello?” I asked.

They looked over at me, their eyes a bright blue with slit eyelids. It tilted it's head at me, then looked back to the papers and began to draw. I walked closer, seeing the sketches were of trees, the streets. Oldest showed them full of infected. Newest showed them empty.

The detail was impressive.

“You’re really good at drawing.” I said honestly…though I was slightly concerned that they were drawing of people that disappeared because of me.

They kept on sketching, stopping to eat some chips and went back to it… this is… new. None of the other infected I saw and… killed, did this.

"Huh. Looks like it mutated." I turned, seeing Shopkeeper next to me.

“So…what? Is this a new sapient being?” I inquired. “I never noticed this before…”

"Hmm, yes and no. Looks like the Cordyceps and T-Virus strands mixed and altered the brain. As a result the signals being sent mimic those the original host did. I guess you can say they copied the kids brain and began mimicking how it worked down to signals being sent, but clearly most memories were lost in the conversion. That was probably the Green Flu's fault there, given that one normally deteriorates the higher brain functions."

“So while the T-Virus and Cordyceps have been trying to copy the brain entirely, the Green Flu took out any higher brain function before it could create…fully sapient zombies?”

"More or less. The Green Flu deteriorates the higher brain function, accelerating adrenaline and aggression but being a virus it can't manipulate the host into self care, such as drinking water, sleep and eating regularly. T-Virus removes those needs and rapidly mutates the body over time. Cordyceps hits the brain and manipulates the host as well as growing those fungal plates along the body as a form of defense against the elements for the host body. Together in this strand this world dubbed the Doom Virus, they actively created superior, highly infectious and long lasting zombie type, but because of how the Cordyceps and Green Flu destroyed higher brain functions, the T-Virus part couldn't mutate the brain in time to activate and mutate higher brain function mutations… until now." Shopkeep said, kneeling next to the infected girl and looking at her. "Ah. I see… She already had higher brain function deterioration prior to infection. The Green Flu and Cordyceps weren't able to change anything so that left the T-Virus to mutate what was there, giving her the brain functionality of a normal child rather than what I imagine she was borderline brain dead back before."

“Well, that is an…interesting set of circumstances for this little girl.” I said honestly. “So, I suppose given enough time she can actually grow smarter or is she stuck like this?”

"In time, I suppose. She's an unexpected product of this worlds apocalypse. It all depends on how the world and those who remain here treat her. If you want to care for her, I can alter her slightly to make her no longer infectious and she'll be her own life form all together. Age, speak."

“Well…it would be wrong to just…leave her like this alone.” I said honestly, not wanting to just abandon an innocent child.

"Alright then." He said, putting a hand over the girl. There was a glow then it faded. Suddenly a anthropomorphic Nargacuga body… woah… that… is… hot. It's like Magnolia's body, but with added… down below stuff… that's also very perfect for what I've been missing lately.

I love Magnolia and Belle but sometimes I want to be on the receiving end for a change.

“Absolutely amazing.” I said with a warm smile. “Thanks Shopkeep…Sandra is going to flip when she see’s this.” I said warmly. “Oh…but what’s this ritual I’ve heard about with Shadow Hunters?”

"What about it?"

“How does it work and…Sandra said that it takes a life to do it…”

"For starters, a living body, which you have here." He motioned to the new body on the ground at my feet. "Two, the Hunter Shadow needs to carve the body open without killing them. Once they've done that they need to slice along their body, bleed into the new body, then gut and tear their old body apart piece by piece until what's left melts into the new body. Then the new body will begin to heal and once it has, the Hunter Shadow will have successfully possessed and assimilated into the new living body."

“What satanic ritualistic bullshit is that?” I asked in horror.

"The kind that puts a soul that is basically housed by physical darkness into a body."

“Oh…” I muttered. “Well…that’s gonna be a thing…”

"Yeah. Welp, have fun. This planet is yours now to and here." Shopkeeper tossed me an orb that looked like the earth. "Eat that and you'll be able to open portals to this world and wherever you are/where at the time."

“Awesome.” I said, grabbing the orb and eating it quickly, thinking having the ability to open portals would be awesome.

It was crunchy, and almost immediately as I swallowed it was like my brain had the spell and magic needed for the portals to open stabbed into my brain. Ouch… but, cool!

“Now I’m…quite literally thinking of Portals.” I said with a smile. “But…mostly planetary portals…” I said, pretty sure I can’t do some portal shenanigans to do something I kinda wanted to test.

"That spell will only take you between this planet and wherever you were before."

“Alright.” I nodded. “So off to home I go…and how long has it been since I started this?”

"Six seconds. And in case you were wondering you've been here for sixty years."

I blinked. “Holy shit…” I muttered. “I…I don’t feel any older…and I didn’t feel lonely…”

"Zigore True Alpha Dire Wolves have a life span of about a thousand years. Same with Den Mothers. Standard species variants are four to six hundred years."

“Ah…that’s a long life…” I said honestly. “Long enough to try and be a good dad and husband…that’s good.”

"And that's also why Den Mothers and True Alpha's are typically born once every six hundred years or so."

“Yeah, that makes sense.” I nodded. “Don’t want too many True Alpha’s or Den Mother’s running around.”

"Welp, have fun. Once you open that first portal, time between this world and the one you were at will sync up to match so, later."

“Later.” I said, opening up the portal and hoping that sixty years wouldn’t suddenly slap into me back home.

I arrived back outside my cave, nodding as it looked like no time at all had hit me. I then dragged Sandra's new body out and pulled it over my shoulder. Alright, time to go find me that woman, get her into this body… and maybe enjoy it myself~

"ARE YOU FUCKING NUTS!?" Sandra yelled at seeing the body.

“Do you really need me to answer that?” I asked. “I quite literally purged a zombie apocalypse world by myself to get you a body that you wouldn’t have to kill to get…I spent sixty years with the thought of being with you again, the right all the wrong’s that’s been made…so I guess I just answered you but eh.”

"Tony I… you… why?"

“I spent sixty years…I went through everything that we went through, before and after the incident…” I said, staring her in the eyes. “You are perfect Sandra, I love you, I love everything about you, you are, and always will be, my one true love…even if this new and crazy world finally gives me and Tina the harems we always wanted…we’d be remiss if it didn’t involve you, the one lady we were willing to lay down everything for.”

"Why? After everything that happened before… why?"

“Because it was the biggest mistake of mine and Tina’s lives…” I sighed. “We…we always regretted…we…” I teared up. “We could have been a family…we could have had it all…we were about to propose, we were about to have a child! We were…everything was going to be fine…but no…we just had to open our goddamn mouths…” I shook my head bitterly. “We thought you were still in the bathroom, we just…we just joked a bit, it wasn’t…it wasn’t supposed to…” I fell to my knees as I remembered what happened after that…”It’s all my fault…” I finally broke down…so many years to think this over, so much time to point out every flaw with what I said, every waking moment I had mulling over how I could have done something and…it all just meant nothing with how I fucked it up.

"I… I wanted that too… but hearing you two say that I just…" Sandra sighed, taking a seat on the ground across from me. "I was looking forward to having your baby Tony… even after you and Tina explained… losing my baby just… I couldn't handle it anymore…"

“When…when we heard that…we…” I shuddered, trying to at least contain some of the waterworks so I can talk properly. “It…was the worst thing we could ever hear…we…we didn’t know what to do…believe it or not, I…almost went through with a permanent vasectomy because of it…” I chuckled. “Yeah, ruining the best day ever with an out of context joke, then…then the fight we caused killed our baby…I almost threw it all away, cause if one mistake of mine could not only ruin our love but…kill our child…then why should I ever have another chance at it?”

"Heh… won't lie, hearing you and Tina are parents now… it did hurt. But, this body I have now can't have kids… and… I'm scared. I don't want to lose one again…"

“Honestly…I’m still scared to death over being a father, hell, when I did it with Magnolia the first time…I thought it was just another casual thing without babies…which that was a rude awakening when I also learned that I, as a True Alpha, always get women pregnant…but we…we can work this out Sandra.” I said, gently taking her hand and lightly squeezing it. “We won’t make the same mistakes again, we’re much older than we were before, wiser…and we’re finally…finally working through the problems…”

"I… I guess we can try. Won't lie… I have missed having a physical body… and that body looks so fucking hot- wait is that a dick?!"

“Yes, cause not only would it be better than a strap on for you…I…” I blushed a bit. “I haven’t been on the receiving end in a long time…and while being on top is always fun, being on the bottom is great too.” I pouted.

Sandra burst out laughing. "You always did enjoy that…" She sighed. "Tell you what, I'll accept this body, and being in your harem again, on one condition."

“Anything.” I said readily.

"After I'm done stuffing your butt, you knock me up." She said. "Then, I knock up your mates, Tina, and you. I know the All Makers can make you a Den Mother, and every so often you turn into a Den Mother again and be my personal bitch."

I blushed hard… mainly because that tone she was using was her dirty talk tone…

“And then me and Tina get to stuff you and make you our plaything every so often as well, cause I’m sure Tina would just love getting you knocked up as well.”

"Hm, she would, no doubt." Sandra said. "Alright, that can work… so, you wanna give me some privacy to get into this body? The ritual is… not pretty."

“Yes, Shopkeep told me and that is some serious Occult sacrificial bullshit right there.” I said honestly, getting up. “I’ll give you some privacy, hopefully this works out and…we can finally be together again.”

"Right. This should take maybe two hours so… I guess go try and do some prep work for… you know~"

I grinned, nodding as I rushed out. Finally!

To be continued...