Author's Note~

Of the people that guessed, Littlecosma001 got it right!. That's awful, I gave good hints! Just like in the prequel! Where only Senna Bluefire got it right! :/


I woke up to a sting at the back of my neck. I felt and pulled a dart away, it was the kind that held poison in a glass vial, no bigger than a thumb nail. I pulled out a dagger that I kept under my pillow and tossed it at the door, I heard a grunt and a thud.

"Shit." I mumbled. Everything was getting dark, the edges of my vision were closing in and my body felt weak and hot. I passed out before I started to feel intense pain.


Boris's POV

"Morticia?" I asked, startled awake by a scream of pain. I looked at her and my eyes widened, she was changing right before my eyes. "She's been hit with an animal potion!"

Shit, she's going to turn into whatever animal she is at heart. She won't know how to deal with this, and if it's bad enough, she'll go into heat the moment she wakes up.

"Should I get Vivaldi? But I can't leave her, I don't know how long until the change is over." I heard foot steps quickly heading here, that solves that problem. "Morticia, you need to clam down, hold my hand or something!"

I knew it wouldn't work, she can't hear me through the pain and she's unconscious. She was withering, and clutching the sheets so tightly that she was ripping them. She was sweating and growing black fur all over her body.

"We heard-" I heard Vivaldi start. "Morticia! All you, get out of this wing of the castle! NOW!"

I barely focused on her as Morticia's body started to reform. She let out another ear piercing scream. My ears were bleeding, but I ignored it, she then slumped back.

In her place was a giant wolf. It's fur was the blackest it could be, it looked silky.

"We have ordered all the servants out of this wing of the castle." The Queen's voice was shaky. "We will help you watch her. She will need a female with her along with you."

"Y-yeah." How am I going to explain this to Morticia? I didn't protect her.

"Baka. Sono kao o tsukuru koto ni shinaide kudasai. Sore wa watashi ga son'nani warui anata o janpu shitaku naru."[1] Did she just talk to me? It sounds like that language she sometimes uses, and when did she wake up?

"Uh, koiishi, I can't understand you. You're not speaking English. I can understand what you say because you're an animal but that wasn't English." That sounded terrible, it hardly explained anything.

"Nani ga? Anata ga rikai dekinai nodesu ka? Watashi wa eigo o hanashite ita to omotta!"[2] She growled, possibly in frustration. She looked at me with tears in her eyes. "Koiishi?"

"Morticia, I can only understand the word koiishi. You're speaking in that other language of yours." She hung her head with her ears pressed back, her tail curled around her. I reached out and gently pet her head. "It's alright. At least you can understand me, right?"

"Hai!" She nodded her head yes. Then she looked at Vivaldi, and wagged her tail.

"How do you feel?" She asked Morticia. Morticia looked at me then laid down and put her head on her front paws. "What does that even mean?"

"She can't communicate with us at all. She's probably upset about it, and the transformation from the potion will make her body sore for a while." It hurt when I turned into a cat, but I was naturally a cat, while she is naturally a human. It had to hurt a hell of a lot worse.

"Well . . . what can we do? It's not like this can be kept a secret, the ones that did this will know and try to kill her." Vivaldi walked over and rubbed Morticia's ears. "We do not wish for our daughter to be targeted while in a weak state."

Morticia huffed and looked at Vivaldi with a blank stare. It looked like she was saying "I'm never weak! I have means to protect myself."

"She has claws and can out run anyone. She's not defenseless." Although, I might try to protect her like she is. "I think it best if we let her rest. She can't do what she normally would and that might darken her mood."

"Yes." She looked down at Morticia. "We will return in time to take you with us to the assembly. If you wish to not go, all you need do is tell us."

Morticia nodded and Vivaldi left, closing the door behind her.

"I, no, we are going to have to think of something." She nodded. "Nightmare will know what's going on, so he might be able to help, and, as much as it kills me, I'll have to ask for it."

Morticia rumbled and nuzzled my knee, she apparently liked that I was asking for help. I rubbed her head.

"This should wear off in a while. I don't know how long it'll take, but it should wear off." Unless it was some rare, permanent bullshit. I don't think I could take telling her that she'll be stuck in that form forever. "We should see how big you are now, can you stand up?"

She nodded and jumped, it was more like stepped, off the bed. I choked.

"Holy shit! You're four and a half feet tall!" She made a shrugging motion and shook her body. Then she stretched and yawned. I got a good look at her teeth, they were like razors! "Let me see your paws."

She held up each one, one at a time until I motioned for the next one. She could tear somebody up, I don't think that there would be anything left for Julius to fix if she attacked them in this form.

"You're big and you're strong, the perfect guard . . . wolf. You look too big to be a dog, and you have that rugged look of a wolf." She grinned, showing off her teeth and having her tongue hang out. "Cute expression. Let's get some more sleep before your mom comes to get us for the assembly."

She rumbled and jumped onto the bed, almost bouncing me off, and curled up. I curled up next to her, not bothering with the covers, she was warm enough to not need them.

.0.0.0.

I woke up to the toilet being flushed, which was weird.

"Morticia?" I called out and was answered with a bark and a lick to my face. I sat up and looked at her. "Did you just use the toilet?"

She rolled her beautiful gray eyes and nodded.

"I don't need to worry about that then." It was a relief. She started pulling me toward the door. "What? Where would you want me to go?"

She looked down for a moment before running off and getting paper and pencil, she then vaguely drew my clothes that I wore to the assembly, then she drew the Tower of Clover. It was very crude since she had to use her mouth, and if I didn't have an inkling of what she meant . . . I would wonder what she meant with all the squiggles.

"You want to go there now?" She nodded. "Okay. Come on, I don't want to leave you alone."

I opened the door to my room and let her in before picking up my formal clothes and changing in the bathroom. When I got out she had drawn a picture of Vivaldi holding a letter.

"Um, Vivaldi . . . write a letter to her? Why?" She drew the Tower of Clover again. "Oh, a note so she won't freak out when she sees us gone. Sure, just let me find some clean paper."

I quickly wrote a note to Vivaldi saying that I had taken Morticia to the assembly early, as per her request, and would see her there. I stuck it to the outside of Morticia's door and let us both into a random room at the tower.

"Took you long enough." Said Nightmare when we got into the hallway, which scared me but Morticia just nodded. "I know how to keep her out of danger while you're attending the assembly. The only thing is, she can't be near you, she has to remain hidden."

"Where would she be?" I didn't like that she would be away from me, but Blood and the twins' would shoot her on sight.

"Next to me, hiding in the booth where I sit." He looked at her and she gazed back. "You can come get her after everyone leaves. That seems to be the best way to keep her out of harms way."

"Do you agree to this, koiishi?" She nodded. "Well, let's get her there before others start arriving."

I nodded and followed him with Morticia next to me. She could easily take down the tallest role holder, and she could still do it in this form, she's just an amazing woman.

"Oh, kitty never did tell you how old he is." Nightmare suddenly said.

"I'm nineteen." I kept looking forward, even as I saw her turn to look at me. "I'm not that young."

"She's twenty-two, she feels like she's robbing the cradle, even though you're only three years younger than her." Wow. What the hell? "She was in the last game and didn't feel anything toward you romantically because you were younger than her. She felt the same for Pierce, and the Bloody Twins. She still feels that way, but she loves you, she told you, and is embarrassed that I'm saying this."

She started growling at him and he went pale.

"You, you wouldn't!" She smirked. "Fine! I won't say anymore about it! Just stop thinking that!"

She started to laugh, which sounded utterly demonic, and I took a step away from her. It was deep and masculine, I almost looked behind her to check, it was also twisted and throaty from her being canine.

"I now know what you would sound like as a guy when you laugh." I shuddered. I had never heard her laugh at others pain, but if it sounded like this, even if she was in animal form . . . it is terrifying!

"Sore wa anata ga watashi no kyōfuda to shinjiru koto wa muzukashī. Anata wa watashi ga nani o mitekimashita kekkyokunotokoro, sore wa anata o osore saseru to iu no ga watashi no waraidesu! Hahaha!"[3] She laughed more.

"I don't know what the fuck you just said, but please stop laughing." I asked her.

"Hai." She tried to at least muffle her evil laughter by closing her mouth, but it just made her snort.

"She said something along the lines of 'I can't believe that you are scared of me. After all you have seen me do, it is my laughter that makes you scared', than she laughed at you."

"Anata wa watashi o rikai suru koto ga dekimasu?!" She asked excitedly. Her tail was up and wagging, and her ears were perked up.

"No. I just got the gist of it from your thoughts." She let her tail drop and her ears droop, it was kind of sad.

"Watashi wa ima, kanashī."[5] She said in a dejected voice. I patted her back.

"Don't feel that way. We aren't from your world, we don't know that language at all. We only know what you tell us, and what I hear from your thoughts." Nightmare explained. It was true, I didn't know any of the words she told me until she said what they meant. "A lot of it is easy to remember, simple words, but the sentence structures are very hard to say and put together. From your memories I can see that this is your second language, how you can speak it so fluently is beyond me."

"This is her second, not her first, language?! What the hell?!" This hurt my brain. I'm by no means stupid, but to completely learn a second language, that had to be harder than hell!

"She knows five. How can you learn five?!" Exclaimed Nightmare. " 'Simple, I wanted to' is not an answer! I get mixed up on this one and it's all I know."

She snorted, trying to hold in her laughter.

"Lord Nightmare, I have some work that needs to be signed before the assembly." Gray's voice said as he walked around a corner, he must have heard the Caterpillar shouting. Then he looked up from the documents, his eyes got so big I thought they would pop out. "Stay still, Lord Nightmare."

"Gray, this is Morticia, that foreigner from earlier. She got hit with some kind of animal potion." Nightmare explained as the Lizard started to go for his knives.

"Oh, sorry about that." He bowed to Morticia. "My sincerest apologies, Miss Morticia."

Morticia inclined her head to him and she rumbled a pur in her chest, a sign of forgiveness among animals.

"You are forgiven." I looked at him. "I forgive you as well. You did almost attack my mate."

Morticia rumbled again, and knocked me over before licking my face and nuzzling my neck. I bared my neck to her and she gingerly held it in her jaws for ten seconds, then licked and nuzzled my face to show that I did the right thing.

"Animals are weird. Actually, Morticia is weird, she acts just like one even when she's human." Nightmare murmured. Then he raised his voice slightly. "We need to hurry before people start arriving. News spreads fast in Wonderland."

She barked and got off of me. I got up and started following Nightmare again.

"How long until we get to the main hall?" I know I'm whining, but it feels like it's taking forever!

"Not too long, kitty." He pointed to the end of the hall. "Just on the other side of those doors."

"Finally. We can keep her safe and I can make sure on one fucks with her." I've got my eye on you two.

"We wouldn't do anything to her, we both know that she's yours. Calm down, kitty. You being restless makes her restless. She can sense your emotions better in this state, she'll also know when you get out of range, so sit up front where I direct you. There's a spot up front where you won't be seen." Nightmare said with a smirk. We went through the doors and he pointed to a seat that really would be hidden from every point except the Caterpillar himself. "That's where you'll sit. Morticia comes with me."

She licked my face then jumped behind the huge desk in front and laid down.


Author's Note~

Google Translator, it might not be accurate. But, it's not my fault that my high school doesn't offer Japanese as a language. \_*-*_/ (That was a shrug)

Ya'll should know what "koiishi," and "hai" mean. If not, KOIISHI means BELOVED, and HAI means YES.

[1] Baka. Sono kao o tsukuru koto ni shinaide kudasai. Sore wa watashi ga son'nani warui anata o janpu shitaku naru. MEANS Idiot. Don't be making that face. It makes me want to jump you.

[2] Nani ga? Anata ga rikai dekinai nodesu ka? Watashi wa eigo o hanashite ita to omotta! MEANS What? You can't understand me? I thought I was speaking English!

[3] Sore wa anata ga watashi no kyōfuda to shinjiru koto wa muzukashī. Anata wa watashi ga nani o mitekimashita kekkyokunotokoro, sore wa anata o osore saseru to iu no ga watashi no waraidesu! Hahaha! MEANS It's hard to believe that you're terrified of me. After all you've seen me do, it's my laugh that scares you! Hahaha!

[4] Anata wa watashi o rikai suru koto ga dekimasu?! MEANS You can understand me?!

[5] Watashi wa ima, kanashī. MEANS I feel sad now.