A/N I thought I should be a good person and update alot of chapters for my readers since they've waited so long. :) Though I am sorry for the long wait; I just kept forgetting to do so, not that that's a good excuse or anything. :/

Anyway on with the story! P. S. I don't own the story or characters. :)

Chapter 8

Free Parties- places where Masters with Pets could go to, to watch their Pets have sex with either a chosen partner or with another Pet in the Ring.

Third POV

"Look at that mongrel. He's got a kiss mark [hickey] there again. I wonder if it's true that he's being taken by Master Iason." A female Pet gossiped jealously to her neighbor.

"Of course he is! Even though it's been over a year, he hasn't shown his face at one of the Free Parties even once!" Her neighbor insisted. "Though everyone knows the Academy Virgins don't get any practice before they are paired for breeding and he hasn't been connected to anyone yet. It's not normal. He's the only one who hasn't had a formal pairing, yet."

"There isn't anyone weird enough to even want to pair with a slum mongrel."

"I wouldn't say that. They say Master Iason s just keeping Riki crushed in his hand."

"Ooh. Huh?" One of the gossiping Pet noticed Mimea standing nearby. "Mimea! When did you...? Mimea?"

"What is it, Mimea?" The other Pet asked as she shook Mimea's shoulder, slightly. "You're spacing out."

"It's a fight." Mimea said, pointing behind them.

"Huh?" The other two Pets turned just in time to see a fight break out between some of the male Pets and Iason's Pet mongrel, Riki. Riki was wearing her usual boyish outfit once again and she really looked like a boy, too as she fought. "Ah, it's that person again."

"Well, It is a slum mongrel. There's no helping it." Glancing at the fight as it continued, she said, "Let's leave before we get involved."

"Yeah, you're right. Mimea, let's go." The two Pets got up to leave, but when Mimea didn t rise to follow them, one of them asked, confusedly, "Mimea?"

"Go on ahead." Mimea said, waving a hand slightly in their direction. "I'm going to stay behind a while longer."

"Huh?"

"I want to keep watching him fight." Mimea said distractedly as she stared at Riki as Riki defeated the other Pets with ease and stood there smirked at anyone who looked at her.

Chapter 9

Lillian's POV

Heading back to Iason's apartment with a slight scratch on my face from a surprise hit with a empty bottle from a Pet and a lucky punch from another from the Saloon, I thought to myself with a angry scowl. 'I'm getting rusty, but there's nothing I can do about it! Iason that jerk has locked up all my weapons from me so I can't continue to train myself to stay in shape!'

Frustrated and mad at myself, I entered the apartment just as Daryl appeared, carrying a bunch of towels.

"Welcome back. R...Riki! Those wounds on your face!" Daryl cried out with horror as he accidentally dropped the towels he was holding in shock.

"It's nothing. Leave me alone." I told him as I headed to my room, feeling very tired at the moment.

"Please wait, Riki! Riki-!" Daryl didn't take the hint I gave him and rushed after me with a medical kit in his hands.

"Shut up! I said it's nothing!" I yelled as I stormed into my room, angrily.

"Even a small wound that seems like nothing can be a danger to your life. I can't leave you untreated. The management of your health is my responsibility. You're not the one that'll be punished for it later, I will!" Daryl yelled back at me, furious as well.

In these many months being Iason's Pet, Daryl had grown very used to me and my tempers. So used to them, that he would on occations yell and scream back at me, much to Iason's amusement whenever he would catch us having a shouting match.

I looked at him for a second before laughing bitterly. "Heh. Oh yeah. You're the one that makes the food, and picks my clothes, too. You're also the one, who cleans me up after Iason is done 'playing' with me; I can't do anything for myself!" I growled angrily, clutching my fists as I turned away from Daryl.

"That's the job of a Furniture. Now please, let me see the wounds on your face." Daryl insisted as he grabbed my arm, firmly and sighing, I gave in.

Still holding my arm, Daryl sat me down on a chair, before moving my hair to the side so he could clean the wound on my forehead first.

The medicine stung slightly and I couldn't help wincing a little which caused Daryl to pause for a moment.

"Are you all right?" Daryl asked me and when I nodded to him, he continued.

A short silence passed between us as Daryl worked and my thoughts turned to why I went to the Saloon anyway.

The Saloon was both an easy getaway to escape from Iason's presence for a while as well as a good place for my Assassins to report to me at. It made it easier on my Assassins to report to me in such a place as everyone in the Saloon mostly either ignores me or avoids me when I'm there, so no fear of discovery.

But I do have my days when there are some brave Pets who'll try and look good by provoking me, not that it looks good on their side.

Then my mind flashed back to that afternoon when I was at the Saloon and had overheard something that some of the Pets had been talking about.

"Daryl?"

"Yes?"

"The Pets at the Saloon said Elites don't usually touch their Pets at all...is that true? Do they really just watch and enjoy?" I asked him softly, looking at him as he pulled away after applying a bandage to the wound on my forehead as well as the corner of my mouth.

"That is what I've heard as well." Daryl said, shrugging his shoulders at me before he left to go pick up the towels he had dropped as well as put the medical kit away.

"So then...why does he do so with me?" I asked out loud to myself, confused. "Why is he always...so...? My words and thoughts were interrupted at the sound of the door opening.

"It seems like you had another spectacular fight at the Saloon. How are your wounds?" Iason asked as he walked towards me.

Grabbing my chin, he tilted my face up. "Looks like they won't leave any scars. So? Are you going out to the Saloon again tomorrow?"

"As if I'm going to stay closed up in this boring place all day." I told him as I jerked my chin out of his hand. "A slum mongrel doesn't go down so easily. When we're hit, we pay it back twice over. That's common sense. As if I'd just back off after being mocked by them."

The reason in the first place for the stupid fight was because those other Pets had mockingly told me that I was a freak because I was supposedly female, but I had such a boyish name as well as a boyish figure.

They all wanted me to strip to make sure I was truly female. I taught them good; none of them was left without some sort of bruise to their person.

"As you wish, the Saloon is the only place in which Pets can behave freely without being bound by shackles. It's more or less convenient. But understand, Riki," Iason once again grabbed my chin and holding it tightly, turned my face back to him so that our eyes locked together. "Don't overdo it. Scandals that may leak to the outside are prohibited. Whether you started it or not, I won't hear any excuses. Don't forget that." Iason warned me before dropping my chin and leaving.

I glared at his back with a hateful look till the door closed behind him then I got up to fall limply onto the bed.

"Riki, this way! Hurry!" Mimea said as she led me somewhere.

"Wait, Mimea. Where are we going?" I asked her as I easily kept her in my sights as we ran.

"This way! Right here!" Pulling open a door, we both slipped inside and Mimea closed it.

"What is this room?" I asked, looking around. It seemed to be some sort of closet or something.

"It's my secret place." She said before giggling.

"Hmm," I said as I slightly ignored her while I looked around carefully. It literally looked like a closet. I could see lots of cleaning supplies as well as house supplies. Looking right above me, I saw an air vent and as I calculated its size, I figured that I wouldn t be able to climb inside and escape. Before I could think about anything else concerning the closet I was in with Mimea, my thoughts were suddenly interrupted.

"I'm glad. I was worried that because you'd been injured, they wouldn't let you out anymore." Mimea said softly.

"Why's that?" I asked a little annoyed. 'It was tiny scratch, why did people freak out at the sight of it?'

"Well because Master Iason really looks after you, right? So-"

"It's not like that!" I yelled angrily and seeing that I had startled her, I covered the bottom of my face with my hand and looked away, trying to cool my sudden temper.

"You're the only one...who always remains beautiful."

Stunned at this sudden declaration, I looked back at Mimea, my hand dropping.

"The parties and gatherings are fun, but if you're approached by someone, you have to put up with whatever unlikable person it is. As long as your Master doesn't say no. It really is sad." Mimea said, sighing.

"So I'm a little jealous. Until you came, everyone was like that, even if they didn't realize it. To think that a Pet could look after itself..." Mimea's voice trailed off as she smiled at me with admiration.

"So I can kind of understand why Lusa and Stee would see you, having been taken from the slums, as an enemy." Mimea said, softly.

"What happened to them?" I asked, curious.

"Lusa's still here. But not Stee; I guess yesterday was his last day after all."

"So he was sold off to a Midas male brothel." I stated casually, losing interest fast at the conversation.

"Because he was bred pure from the Shiruru Family, he had a lot of confidence in himself, you know? He thought that even if he was separated from Mistress Aisha, he'd always be able to stay pretty. Because of that, he didn't even take the hormone survey. As long as he had the looks, he could become registered, and have the right to join the Pet Academy and be reprocessed." Mimea said, sadly, sighing.

"He was...seventeen, wasn't he? But he's only ever did it with women, right? I'm sure that place must be hell for him. But..." I let my voice drift off as the air filled in what I was meaning.

"You're right."

"Is it all right for you to be here with me, Mimea?" I asked suddenly. "Your Master really doesn't like me."

I had met Raoul once before and let's just say that we didn't like each other at all. He hated my very presence and I loathed the fact that he was a Blondie so we avoided each other whenever possible.

"Wouldn't it be bad for you if he found out about this?" I asked her with worry. She was such a small fragile thing; anything at all, could break her easily.

"It's all right. No one tells on each other. You could get execute for it. And besides...I like you."

Confused and a little startled, I tried to laugh it off. "As someone who came from the Pet Academy, you're pretty strange."

"Hey...kiss me." Mimea whispered to me as she looked up at me, beseechingly.

"Huh!"

"Kiss me..."

Chapter 10

Third POV

In a Billiard Hall, Iason was found playing alone when Raoul appeared looking quite upset about something.

"Did you know there are some unsettling rumors spreading among the Pets recently, Iason?" Raoul asked as he leaned slightly against the Billiard table.

"No." Iason said simply before striking the balls making a cracking sound.

"It seems your Z107M and my Mimea have been suspicious." At the sudden news, Iason's aim went slightly off as he struck the balls.

Seeing this, Raoul commented, "It's unusual for you to miss one. Or is it that even you can have your skill disturbed by unexpected news like that."

"And...?" Iason drawled as he glanced over at Raoul before taking aim once again.

"Looking as if they've caught a demon's head, the Elites have been whispering." Iason struck the balls perfectly again while Raoul continued, but changed the subject. "I've been thinking recently about pairing Mimea. With a pedigree, of course. I don't want to attract any useless bugs. As you know, Mimea is of an improved line that I've bred myself."

"Are you trying to tell me to keep Riki locked in her room?" Iason asked as he struck the balls once again.

"I'm not. Show her at a Free Party. Because it's been over a year since you first showed her face at a gathering and haven't once shown her at a Free Party, you'll only make yourself a target for unsavory rumors."

Pausing slightly, Raoul took a deep breath as Iason cleaned his cue before aiming again. "If you're going to say you find those moronic sex-freaks tiresome," Raoul said, coolly. "I won't try to force you into excessive pairings. But show her at a Free Party. Show her, and have her take a male. Or if not a male, a female is fine. Just pair her!"

As the sound of balls being striked once again, Raoul continued still. "Since she's come, the Pets have changed, and she's been having an affect on everyone."

"So if you make her pair with a male, it'll put an end to the rumors. In the meantime, make her pair with another Pet. At least then the criticism surrounding you will fade a little." Raoul pleaded to Iason.

"No. I have no intention of showing Riki at a Free Party." Iason stated calmly, looking over at Raoul as he straightened up.

"Iason!"

"If you're worried about the gossip, I'll leave her in her room for a while. Is that all right?" Iason asked as he slowly cleaned his cue.

"What do you plan to accomplish by locking her away? You're the one that said she's a female in her prime with no Control or Imprinting on her. She's a troublemaker! Iason bent down once again to take aim, but seemed to not be listening to Raoul's words even as Raoul continued.

"Just by keeping her in there you won't change the minds of the Pets, no, not just the Pets. There are even the rumors spreading with great interest among the elites. If she's a Pet, use her as a Pet! Don't leave her on her own any longer!" Raoul yelled, frustrated.

As the balls connected softly as if in a quiet warning, Raoul cringed slightly.

"I understand what you're saying." Iason said as he glanced at Raoul. "However...I have no intention of showing her at a Free Party now or ever."

The sound of Billiard balls connecting sharply fade into the background as the two Blondies looked at each other; one unconcerned and the other frustrated.

Chapter 11

Lillian's POV

"Crap! Even taking a cold shower, yesterday's spiked drink won't wear off." I growled to myself as I remembered finding out a little too late that a pair of Pets has somehow spiked my fruit drink with something. I was slightly tipsy before I finally figured out what it was: alcohol.

I had come so far as Iason's Pet that I was losing myself in my dishonor towards own my people. I was breaking traditions, customs, and Laws left and right.

I was forgetting who I was!

"I like you...Riki..."

My thoughts echoed with Mimea's voice even though she wasn't there and I shook my head as I murmured to myself, "Mimea. Why? We don't fit together. At all!"

"I like you...Riki... Its fun, being with you. Riki, I love you."

"No! You're just imagining everything up!" I said as I pounded on the shower wall in front of me. "You and I don't- its not-!"

"You know," Mimea's voice came back to haunt me. "Pretty soon my partner is going to be decided. Once the pairing has been set, I won't be able to see you freely anymore. I don't want that. I don't want that! You see? So please...! Riki!"

"What kind of stupidity is she thinking of!" I asked myself as I leaned on my right side on the shower wall. "If I take Mimea, I won't be able to turn back. He'll discover something like that. And it won't end easily for Mimea or for me. We'll be sent off to Midas...or worse, killed!

Shaking my clouded mind, I slowly figured out that Mimea thought I was truly a male even though I was positive Iason had called me female many times in or near her presence. I felt like crying and laughing at the same time because for the first time since I chose to look like a boy, my brilliant disguise was coming back to bite me in the rear.

Stumbling out of the shower, I wrapped myself in a large towel and wiping the steam off the mirror, I looked at myself.

Only to see the Pet Ring, standing out on my flesh.

Not quite feeling the tears of pure despair streamed down my face, I said softly to myself. "As long as this Ring bites into my flesh, the head of Bison and my Clan is nothing more than a Pet!

Laughing brokenly, I covered my face with one hand as I slumped to the bathroom floor. "Isn't it a laugh?"

Third POV

Inside an Aircar, Iason was sitting quietly, watching people and buildings go by when he heard the sound of rain against the car.

"Rain...?" Iason said softly.

"Show her at a Free Party. Show her, and have her take a male!" Raoul's demanding voice rang through Iason's mind.

"You don't understand, Raoul. Beside I, myself, don't understand how I could become so attached to that mongrel. In my mind I know it's foolish, but even so, I cannot cut loose from her. How pathetic for a Blondie of Tanagura." Iason said softly, smiling faintly.

"It seems your Z107M and my Mimea have been suspicious."

At that whisper of thought, Iason lost his smile as his eyes narrowed slightly as he thought out loud, "I thought that recently she has become very obedient in letting me take her to gatherings, but I never thought it'd be something like this."

"Mimea, is it? Riki." Iason whispered softly as he looked out the window. "What will you do? Keep walking as time passes until you're finished as my Pet? Or accept destruction and bear your fangs?"

"And which of those do I desire?..." Iason took a deep breath as he thought about himself. "Raoul I'm sorry, but I'll be using Mimea as my stepping stone. I want to know what Riki is thinking and what she'll do...as well as how those things forged in my mind will change." Iason whispered as he made up his mind.

Chapter 12

Third POV

All the Pets at the Saloon were gossiping once again, but this time in concern for a fellow Pet, Mimea.

"Hey, have you heard? Seems he and Mimea finally did it. Mimea even lost her virginity!" A Pet whispered to another.

"What? You re kidding! Master Iason's Pet is female!" Another answered back in a whisper as well, shocked.

"Really? Oh well, it seems that Mimea did something then. There's also a rumor going around that Master Raoul complained to Master Iason seeing as Mimea isn't a virgin anymore and the last person she was seen with was Riki." The other Pet said, shrugging slightly. "Mimea's really an idiot; of all things, to choose that slum mongrel in the first place."

"And Enif, the jealous idiot, no matter how much he loathed Riki, tattling on her like that as well as adding to Mimea's story. He's gonna get beaten for sure." The other Pet said, wincing.

"But still, I wonder what will happen...to Mimea and Riki..." The Pets paused slightly in thought and worry.

Lillian's POV

I cried out in agony as Iason activated the Ring again. Because of that dang Enif, I was now being punished for a crime that I didn't even commit!

Mimea thought I was a guy and upon telling her that I wasn't a male; she didn't believe me! Said I was lying, so here I was with Iason punishing me because of Mimea's stupid actions and Enif's lies.

"Zatracene!" I grounded out in pain, breathing hard. "...the ring...please-Guh!" Iason had me chained eagle-spread out on the bed as he activated and deactivated the Ring over and over again.

I knew upon entering Iason's apartment and seeing Iason hardened eyes, I knew that something had happened. I broke every rule that Iason has told me to never do as I struggled to get away; I bit, punched, scratched, kicked, and anything I could to save myself, but as always Iason proved to be very much strong then I was.

"Well? Does that answer you a little?" Iason asked me as he stood a ways from me, looking at me.

Crying, I pleaded with him. "Please...stop it...!"

"You're not listening." Iason told me. "You touched Mimea knowing she had a man picked out for her, didn't you? Raoul came snarling to me that you've spoiled everything for him. This is an obvious punishment."

I screamed out in pain, not hearing Iason tell me something as the Ring shocked me.

"Don't tell me you thought you could just take Mimea on a whim." Iason told me softly.

"It wasn't a game!"

It was Mimea's voice, but she was talking over a screen. "Mimea...!" I gasped out in surprise, looking over at her face on the screen.

"So you didn't hear when I said I'd let you see her. Think of it as a date by screen ." Iason told me and I quickly looked at him, nervously.

"Riki!" Mimea cried out in worry.

"They often say that love is blind." Iason took deep breath before he slowly walked around my spread out form and I watched him in fear. "Seems that you Pets don't understand you have no right to choose for yourselves."

Pausing slightly above my head, Iason said softly as he leaned down and caressed my face. "So, Riki. You're going to let her hear it clearly from your own mouth. It didn't have to be Mimea. You were only interested in another woman's body. It could have been anyone as long as they cooled your lust."

"Isn't that right?" Iason asked me softly just as he tapped on my Pet Ring and I felt it constrict tightly around my neck as it stopped me from answering back to him or to Mimea's pleas, not that it would have help me any as Mimea started protesting without waiting for me.

"That's a lie! It's a lie! Hey, Riki, it's a lie, right?" Mimea asked with tears in her voice. "Everyone's just trying to push us apart. Do you know who Master Raoul chose for me?"

Without waiting for me, she continued, "James! He says it's because his lineage is good. I can't stand it. Not that sex freak who has nothing, but his looks. When I think about sleeping with him and having his child, it makes me ill. You're different than the others, right? You love only me, right? Riki-"

It was then that she finally paused and looked at me, but my eyes were clenched tightly closed in pain as my Pet Ring constricted even tighter around my neck.

Wanting to know just what Iason thought about Mimea's lies, I slowly opened my eyes slightly to see Iason standing near the shadows, arms folded across his chest, very cool and poised as always, but something caught my eye. Out of the corner of my eye, I thought I saw one of Iason's hands curl into a fist before tremble with an emotion, but my thought process was interrupted by Mimea s voice who started talking once again.

"Riki Why are you quiet? Say something! Riki...Riki, why? You coward! Riki!"

As soon as the screen turned off with Mimea leaving with tears in her voice as well as running down her face, I groaned out softly as the Ring loosened around my throat a little.

"Now you've learned from this experience, haven't you?" Iason asked me and slowly started walk around me slowly like a predator; Iason coming in and out of my line of vision. "Though, I m sure, you knew it would end this way from the beginning. Even so, did you love her? Did you want to take Mimea, even knowing you'd be burned?"

Slowly, I looked at Iason through tear filled eyes as he stood next to the bed with almost a look a pure fury, but that couldn't be right...right?

"She's a fine woman you wouldn't find in the slums where free sex among men is most common, you couldn't find a fine woman like that. Did her invitations cloud your eyes? Or..."

Iason leaned down over me, moving closer as he whispered, "Did you only want to soil my reputation? Though I don't think you'd dare tell me that now."

I groaned as the shock waves slowly started to fade away as relief took its place.

"You want me to let you go?" Iason asked me as he fingered my Pet Ring.

Breathing heavily, I choked out through the Ring, "Please...release...the Ring...!"

I cried out and jerked against my chains as the Ring gave me another tiny shock as if in warning of what was to come.

"Don't tell me you thought it would end with such a slim punishment like that." Iason uttered softly as he straightened up.

With a heavy voice, trying to breathe through my agony, I finally figured out that the only way I would get out of this alive and whole was to pretend that I did what he thought I had done. So I choked out, "Mimea and I... only... did it once..."

"One time or a hundred times it is the same to me!" Iason interrupted me, coldly. "You took Mimea! That's more than enough!" Iason snarled angrily, but as the Ring was activated and I cried out in pain, I completely missed the hidden meaning behind Iason's furious words.

"You wish to be released, yes?" Iason asked, softly, but when I didn't answer, Iason suddenly yanked my face to his as he continued. "What's wrong? Don't start pretending for me now. How about crying out honestly for me?"

As the Ring shocked me, I did so for him just so he would release me from my suffering.

"That's it." Iason said, praising me. "Just like that."

"I won't...anymore... I won't...do it again, so...so please, let me be...!" I told him, still pretending as I looked up at him as tears streamed down my face.

Iason answered back in a low voice as he moved into my space, "I'll let you go... eventually. However, I will first continue to punish you as many times as it takes until you fully regret having taken Mimea!"

I cried out as Iason reactivated the Ring. "You are my Pet, Riki. I will drive that fact into the marrow of your bones!" Iason whispered to me angrily, his eyes ice.

My pained voice echoed off the walls as the punishment continued for many hours later...

A/N And that's it for this section! :D Tell me what you think! R&R please!