Chapter 3: Werewolves, Venison and Shower snakes, Oh My!

The unique position Lucifer and I tried last night had lasted long enough that we'd both climaxed twice before I passed out due to exhaustion while the sun was only just beginning to disappear over the horizon.

In the afterglow, we managed to discuss what sort of things he'd need to buy to make it LOOK like the devil was taking care of a plain old dog, and I managed to tell him what dog food brands I preferred before falling asleep mid-conversation.

It was still dark outside when I woke up again; after our romp in the sheets, I'd gone into dog form and slept at the foot of Lucifer's bed, platonically snuggled up between his covered legs to give him some idea of how a companion animal was supposed to behave.

There must have been a full moon coming up, because it seemed that I'd sleep-shifted into wolf form instead. A full moon for me meant a strong urge to be in wolf form and howl, and if the moon were even close to being full, sometimes I'd sleep-shift into wolf form when I fell asleep as anything canine. It wasn't that much different from the dog form I usually defaulted to… just larger, fluffier, and with pointier ears.

I could hear the piano playing in the main room, assuming Lucifer was behind it. The melody sounded familiar, but he wasn't singing at the moment, and without the lyrics I couldn't quite pinpoint what song it was.

I rolled over and intentionally fell off the bed, landing almost perfectly on all four paws with a soft thump. I silently padded into the main area, seeing the devil wearing nothing but a pair of navy-blue boxer briefs as he played at the piano, a half full glass of scotch resting on top of the piano and a lit cigarette in his mouth.

Lucifer looked up and stopped playing as soon as he saw me, pulling the cigarette out of his mouth for a moment and tapping it to let the remains fall in the ashtray.

"You shape-shifted in your sleep… it was mildly unnerving," he stated as he took another drag. "You neglected to mention the wolf part of you was actually werewolf."

I giggled a little and shook myself, shrinking and shifting back into dog form as I did so. I stepped into a ray of moonlight and stared out the window, looking for the source. Said moon wasn't quite full yet, but tomorrow night it would be.

"Well… sort of. Technically it's a reverse werewolf sort of thing. My dad is a wolf that can turn human at will. The full moon just brings out the urge to be in wolf form and howl… and sometimes I do shift in my sleep if it's close to the full moon and I'm already in canine form. But otherwise, we have full control over it," I explained, sitting in the moonbeam as I tilted my head in his direction.

"Reverse werewolf," Lucifer echoed, chuckling incredulously, "wonders never cease with you, do they?"

I grinned at him and approached the piano, keeping my head low in an attempt to avoid the cloud of cigarette smoke. "The moon's not quite full, but it will be tomorrow night. Can you do Werewolves of London?" I requested, my head almost touching the floor as I tilted my head to look up at him.

The devil chuckled, putting his spent cigarette down in the ashtray. "I'm guessing you want to howl along to it, right? I don't know it by heart, but…" he began to play the notes for the beginning of the song perfectly, and then stated, "I'll need to hear it again a couple times to memorize it."

"I have it bookmarked on my phone!" I announced cheerfully, I began to shapeshift into kangaroo form, but as soon as I sat up, I caught a whiff of the cigarette smoke and coughed, taking advantage of my current form's hopping ability and leaping clear across the room right back into the moonbeam. "I fucking hate cigarettes," I snarled, waving my paw in front of my face.

Lucifer chuckled at the sudden leap but waved his hand about to dissipate the smoke while putting a cover on the ashtray. "Right… you have a much more sensitive nose… sorry about that, but in my defense, you were asleep when I lit it," he apologized half-heartedly.

"Doesn't really matter… I can't stand the stench of cigarettes on someone… it's absolutely repulsive. Same with the hard drugs like cocaine… it just makes you smell horrible to me. I mean, I can't stop you from doing them since they don't really harm you, but just know that I'm not gonna want to be close to you just after you've indulged in that crap…" I ranted, leaning back and balancing on my tail.

"Noted," Lucifer replied, frowning. "I had no idea it was that bad for you… I suppose I can find another person to warm my bed when I have the desire to get high," he stated with a dismissive shrug.

"Fair enough I guess," I said with a sigh. "Uhh… anyway…" I sheepishly stuffed a paw inside my pouch, digging around for my phone.

Once I pulled it out, I shifted into human form, keeping my lupine ears and tail visible and the illusion of a tank top and shorts on. I stayed in the moonbeam as I looked up the song, and then turned the volume up and approached the devil at the piano again as I let a music video with the lyrics play.

"This is the only sort of situation where I'm glad my senses are dulled in this form," I stated. I could still smell the acrid stench of the cigarette, but it was nowhere near as overwhelming as it was when my senses were at their peak.

"Why not just stay in human form when I'm indulging in drugs and cigarettes, then?" Lucifer asked, focusing most of his attention on the music video.

"It's still too unpleasant for intimacy," I replied, leaning on the edge of the piano.

"Pity," Lucifer said with a shrug, and paid full attention to memorizing the song.

My stomach grumbled just then, and I realized we hadn't eaten any lunch or dinner. "Ugh… I'm hungry… I think I'll go out hunting. I'll bring back some venison to share… and you could even share some meat strips with people in the precinct, if you wanted," I suggested, and grinned as I shifted into the form of a falcon. "You'll get to taste what a dragon's fire does to the meat. It's got its own unique flavor."

"Sounds delightful, but I did order some dog-related things while you were asleep, including food. It should be arriving by dawn," Lucifer stated, now playing along to Werewolves of London on the piano.

"I don't wanna wait that long. I'll be back," I said before flying off toward the balcony at lightning speed; the falcon form I'd chosen was the fastest flying bird in the world, the Peregrine Falcon, though without the proper coloration it may have been difficult to tell.

I thought I heard Lucifer say something along the lines of "Just don't let anyone see you," before I'd flown off the balcony and out of earshot.

Once I was far enough away from Lux, I landed on another skyscraper and quickly shifted into kangaroo form, pulling my amulet out and placing it back on my neck before shifting right back into falcon form, the material shrinking with me as I did so. *

I took flight again and zipped off to the west, using the North Star as a guide despite the city's haze and light pollution making it difficult to stargaze. I hadn't been in LA very much in any universe, but a quick glance at a map not too long ago told me that I'd find more forested areas to the west, and thus more game animals to hunt.

It didn't take me too long to find a heavily wooded area, so I dove down to the tree tops to search for deer from the air. I shrunk into the form of a songbird to maneuver through the trees more easily.

Eventually I found a herd of whitetail deer, and among them was a single decently sized stag who stuck out like a sore thumb due to his rack of antlers. He was my sole target, as the rest of the herd looked too healthy to weed out a weak link, and I couldn't be sure from a distance if any of them were pregnant.

If I wanted to, I could easily shift into deer form to get close enough to sniff the females to check if they were with fawn, but the buck was a far more appealing target anyway. Not only was he slightly larger than the others, but I had an amusing idea in mind for the antlers.

I silently glided to the ground a few meters away from the herd, willing my amulet to hide the usual glow that accompanied my shape-shifting as I changed into drolf form. While wearing it I would just look like another deer to them until it was too late, and I was more than thankful for the stealth it provided.

Regardless of the disguise, I was still in hunting mode, and I crouched low as I stalked the buck, every muscle in my body ready to strike and kill.

At the last second the stag glanced in my direction and grunted a flirty greeting, and I faltered for a second. Oops, he was handsome for a deer. If I had been in the mood, I would have actually gone into deer form and mated with him, but Lucifer had recently satisfied those urges and then some, so all I wanted from this stag was food. Still, in my head I could hear a certain cartoon squid saying, "oh no, he's hot!"

I pushed those thoughts aside and lunged suddenly, my jaws aimed right for the oblivious stag's throat. My disguise wore off just then and while I swiftly snapped the buck's neck with practiced ease, the rest of the herd panicked and scattered into the woods.

I let out a little growl of satisfaction, and my stomach answered with a rumble of anticipation. I wasted no time and used my claws to rip the dead stag's belly open, diving in to feast on the internal organs indiscriminately and staining my white face with blood. I shifted into wolf form as I feasted so that my stomach would be a bit smaller so that I'd be satisfied just consuming the organs.

The only part I didn't eat was the large intestine, which I ripped out and unceremoniously tossed on the ground a short distance away from the carcass.

Once I'd hollowed out the stag's insides, I casually consumed the genitals for dessert, if you could call it that. I didn't expect anyone else to want to eat that part, and why let it go to waste?

Fully satiated, I stepped back a bit and glanced around to make sure nobody was around before I grew and shifted into my dragon form, the largest creature I could manage. I stood about two stories tall, my head poking above the tree tops awkwardly. I was thankful that I was deep enough in the woods that nobody would have been able to see me anyway unless they happened to be hiking at night.

The meat I consumed grew in my stomach with me so that I was equally satiated in any form I happened to take.

I lowered my head to hover just above the stag carcass, allowing the flame to gather inside me as I prepared to cook the meat.

I came from a particular line of fire-breathing dragons that could control their fire up to a certain point as long as their concentration wasn't broken, so I focused all my attention on it as I exhaled a steady stream of flame onto the corpse, willing the fire to only scorch and cook the meat itself and not the surrounding grass.

At my silent command the flames covered and cooked the meat, even climbing underneath to cook what was facing down as well. Years of practice told me how long to let the flames consume the carcass before it was perfect, and at that point I stopped the stream of fire and willed it to go out, which it did. The whole time, my hazel eyes glowed with an orange hue to signify I was controlling the blaze.

Satisfied with my work, I shifted back into drolf form and hopped into the air, hovering just above the ground as I grabbed the carcass by the antlers with one paw while the other paw hooked under the beast's chest. Grip secured, I took off back in the direction of Lux, quite a bit slower this time with my precious cargo, but it didn't matter too much.

When Lux was in my sights again, I landed on the same nearby skyscraper as I had before to take off my amulet and stuff it back in the kangaroo pouch. The next part would be a bit tricky, flying from the top of this building straight to the penthouse in drolf form without anyone spotting me. I was just thankful that it was still night time, although the barest hint of sunrise was threatening to spill over the horizon.

Back in drolf form, I made a very hasty flying leap from this building straight into the penthouse above Lux, unceremoniously dropping the stag carcass on the balcony with a rather loud "thump" as I landed loudly behind it, shifting back into dog form as I announced, "I'm back!"

The clatter may have startled the devil because I heard otherwise lovely music from the piano become suddenly discordant, like he'd hit a wrong note or two, and then stopped altogether.

Lucifer, now wearing his bathrobe, stepped onto the balcony and gawked at the sight before him. "I didn't expect you to drop the entire carcass on my balcony!" he exclaimed, glancing between me and the stag a few times before pointing to his face and commenting, "you've got a little something there," referring to the blood on my face.

"Technically it's not the ENTIRE carcass… I ate the insides already," I quipped, grinning at him. "Go ahead and tear off a chunk and try it while I go wash my face. The belly is open, and it should be easy to get some meat from there," I said, and trotted off into the bathroom to wash the blood off my face.

I shifted into human form to make it easier to splash water on my face and leaned over as I cleaned the blood off thoroughly.

Once I was clean, I shifted back into dog form and returned to the balcony, where Lucifer was awkwardly rolling the stag over onto its back to gain access to the open abdominal cavity.

"Ahh… only the males have antlers, correct?" he asked as he used his celestial strength to easily tear off a chunk of flesh from around the belly.

"Yeah, why?" I asked, though I could guess what he had noticed.

"You… ate the bollocks," he stated, grimacing as he looked over at me.

"I did. I didn't think anyone else would want that part," I replied with a shrug, "is that a problem?"

"Not really, no. A little flash of sympathy pain for a fellow male, but I trust he was already dead when you ate them…" he trailed off, glancing at the strip of meat he'd torn off, and then back to me. "I find myself wondering what they tasted like."

"A little gamey… and very salty," I told him with a shrug.

He just smirked and finally took a bite of the meat he was holding, letting out an approving "hmm" sound. "Mm, your dragon fire does wonderful things to the meat. It's delicious," he complimented, and continued eating the strip of meat enthusiastically.

"I told you it was good," I replied with a grin. I sat down and glanced at the horizon, watching the sunrise paint the sky with a myriad of warm colors.

Lucifer reached over to pull off another strip of meat from the carcass and commented, "You know… I haven't seen your full dragon form yet. We should rectify that soon."

"Yeah, it's kinda hard when it's too big to fit in the penthouse," I joked, still watching the sunrise. "One of these days… or preferably night… you can maybe drive us out to a nice and secluded area, and I could show you my dragon form in all its glory. Perhaps you can even ride me…" I suggested, and then stammered as I hastily added, "not sexually. Bet you've never flown on the back of anything non-angelic before!"

Lucifer smirked with a meat strip halfway in his mouth at the unintentional innuendo. "I bet I'm large enough to satisfy you even in that form if I wanted to," he bragged, and chewed thoughtfully before saying, "in all seriousness, that does sound like it might be fun."

I just shrugged at the implication and laid down on my side as I glanced between him and the sunrise. "I can carry you in drolf form, as well. Whichever you'd prefer."

"Either is fine," Lucifer replied with a mouth full. He gulped the meat down and added, "I may want a saddle though… your back is spiky."

"I can easily get rid of those spikes," I said, and to prove it, I let the silvery back spines rise while still in dog form, and just as smoothly as they appeared, they disappeared back into my fur.

"Why am I not surprised?" Lucifer chuckled, and then followed my gaze to the colorful sky. "Lovely sunrise."

I made a sound of agreement and sat in companionable silence as the devil ate his fill of venison. Finally, as he'd stripped both the belly and the right flank bare, he stood up and licked his fingers.

"I'm going to have a shower. Feel free to join me, but first I'd like you to slice up the rest of the meat and discard the carcass. In the future, just bring the meat back, I feel like most humans would frown upon discovering animal carcasses on the balcony," he stated, and began to retreat back into the penthouse.

"Uhh, I was gonna bring the bones around and chew on them to pass the time when we're in the precinct, or whatever. I'll leave the bones where they are in the future, but I'd like to hide this skeleton on the balcony somewhere so I can just go and snatch up a bone whenever I want for a while. Don't worry, dragon fire preserves carcasses for a long time so it shouldn't get funky," I explained, tilting my head at him.

"Fine. Just put a tarp over it, or something. Put the meat strips on the bar table, and I'll find a container for them later," Lucifer replied, hesitating in the doorway as he spoke before retreating to the bathroom.

I simply nodded and shifted into drolf form, making my front paws turn into the raptor-like claws that I'd shown off while sparring with Maze yesterday. I used them to carve up the rest of the meat from the carcass, piling it all up in the abdominal cavity until I was done due to being unsure of how clean the balcony was.

I stripped the stag bare until it was merely a skeleton, though I left the meat on the head alone due to it being very thin. I would chew it off the skull later. I did, however, cut the antlers off at the base, licking the bottom clean of blood. I planned to offer them to Lucifer to do with them as he saw fit, potentially even to wear them and pretend they were an alternate version of his nonexistent devil horns.

I shifted to human form to carry a whole armful of venison strips as well as the antlers on top and awkwardly wandered over to plop the load on top of the bar counter unceremoniously, then started licking the meat juice and blood off my arms.

I then headed back to the stag skeleton on the balcony and started dragging it to a corner, where I happened to find an unused tarp just sitting there, presumably to cover the hot tub in the winter. I tore off a rib bone from the skeleton before covering it with the tarp and headed back inside to put the bone next to the meat pile for now.

My chest still had meat residue on it from carrying the venison over, and I figured it wouldn't hurt to join the devil in the shower. I wasn't in the mood for anything sexual, so I shifted back into dog form and padded toward the bathroom.

I nudged the door open and was struck by the humidity right away; the devil must like it hot. I approached the shower and could see a blurry outline of Lucifer within, obscured by the fogged-up glass door.

"Lucifer?" I announced myself uncertainly, and he opened the shower door and looked down at me with a smirk. He still had shampoo suds in his hair.

"Finally decided to join me, huh? I was hoping we'd make the shower even steamier, but I won't object to an audience," he grinned and stepped aside, gesturing for me to enter.

"I just needed a rinse… not horny enough right now for sexy times, you're good at satisfying me," I replied, and entered the shower with him, sitting down and letting the hot water wash the gunk off my chest as I looked over in his direction and admired his nudity.

Lucifer shut the shower door with a smug look on his face and sauntered over to stand beside me under the spray, reaching over to give me a quick scratch behind the ears. The shower was large enough that the spray could easily hit us both, and he turned his back to the water and leaned his head backwards as he rinsed the shampoo suds out of his hair.

As he lathered up himself with body wash, I simply shuffled around and let the hot water spray directly over every inch of me. I rolled over onto my back to let it wash over my nether regions, keeping my genitals hidden completely out of sight for the sake of modesty.

Lucifer was far less modest, however, and deliberately took his time washing his twig and berries, looking at me and grinning as he ran his hand over himself and flying at half-mast in the process. "I see you watching. Why don't you shift into something else, and we'll have a bit of fun," he suggested, not getting any harder due to me being in dog form.

I was indeed watching him the whole time, and at the suggestion I looked away and blushed. I still wasn't in the mood, but I was still enjoying the show. I decided I was clean enough for now and rolled back over onto my belly and began to shrink, my limbs disappearing into my body and my hide becoming scales as I shifted into the form of a small snake.

Before the devil could even respond I started to slither up his leg, earning an intrigued "oh?" I crawled deliberately across his slowly stiffening package before reaching over to climb onto and coil up on his arm. "I don't feel like participating, but I wouldn't object to you giving me a show," I told him, and flicked my tongue out at him.

"Oh, but this form offers so many possibilities!" Lucifer replied with a grin before aiming himself back toward the spray to wash the suds off his crotch. "I'm quite skilled at handling snakes… but if it's a show you want, a show you shall get," he declared, and firmly gripped his erection with the hand that didn't have me draped on the arm and began to pump up and down slowly.

I periodically glanced from his crotch to his face as I watched him masturbate, more fascinated than aroused.

He closed his eyes as he worked himself over, letting out the occasional soft moan and grunt. He gradually picked up the pace, his hand and member becoming a blur. He backed up into the shower wall for support, and soon enough he let out a long, lewd moan as he came, his seed splattering on the shower floor and washing away with the water.

I kept my gaze focused on his face now, watching his blissful post-orgasmic expression as he panted, barely able to stay standing as his legs were shaking.

"Enjoyed the show?" he asked after a moment, making a motion like he was checking his watch, but it was me wrapped around his arm and wrist instead.

"Mmhm," I replied, nodding and flicking out my tongue again. "I think I'll stay in this form until we're dry. Scales are far easier to dry off than fur," I stated, and slowly crawled up his arm to wrap loosely around his neck and shoulders, looking like a scarf at first glance.

"Fair enough," Lucifer chuckled, and stepped back under the spray to give us both one last rinse before turning the water off and stepping out of the shower, grabbing a towel that was on the counter and drying himself off, and me by proxy.

He wrapped the towel around his waist and plucked me off of his neck, gently holding me by the midsection with one hand and the other hand just behind my neck. I let go willingly, wrapping my tail around the wrist that was holding my middle for support.

The devil held me so that we were facing each other inches apart, his expression unreadable. I leaned in and flicked my tongue out once more, licking him in the nose. He chuckled and squeezed his eyes shut as I did so, then opened one eye to peer at me again.

We exchanged a quick smile before he set me down on the floor, and I slithered out of his grasp to settle on the bathroom rug, which was surprisingly cozy despite being damp. I grew and shifted back into dog form, feeling far more comfortable with four legs than none. I sat up and looked back up at Lucifer, tail wagging slightly.

"Never a dull moment," he murmured, smiling down at me. He finally turned away and went through his grooming routine, brushing his teeth and putting some sort of product in his hair to style it, and headed out of the bathroom and straight into his closet to put some clothes on.

I went and laid on my stomach next to the bed, laying my head on my paws as I watched him get dressed for the day.

"Let's go down and see if those packages have arrived, shall we?" he suggested as he slipped his suit jacket on, the final part of his ensemble.

"Yeah. Maybe you can get a second vest for me that says 'security' on it for when we're hanging out down in Lux," I half joked.

"Now there's an idea. I do have several things to do down there today. Perhaps tonight I'll play Werewolves of London on the piano downstairs, and you can howl along and get it out of your system, as long as you can stay in dog form while doing so," Lucifer suggested, and then added, "your phone is still on top of the piano. The only other thing I did with it was snap a selfie for my contact in your phone, hope you don't mind."

"I didn't expect to do that in public… yeah, I can stay in dog form to howl, but then I'm gonna want to go back up here and be in wolf form for the rest of the night, I think," I replied, and then my ears perked up at the mention of my phone. "Oh yeah… I should put that back in my pouch," I said, and trotted into the main area to fetch it.

Lucifer followed me in as I quickly shifted into kangaroo form, snatched the phone off the piano and dropped in my pocket, and then shifted right back into dog form.

"I get why there's a bone on the table, but why the antlers?" Lucifer asked, standing beside the bar table and picking up one of the antlers in confusion.

"Oh, I thought they'd maybe make a good decoration, or… you could maybe strap them to your head and pretend that they're an alternate version of the devil horns that technically don't exist…" I suggested, grinning at him.

Lucifer gave me an annoyed and puzzled look, and I added, "I mean… it couldn't be any worse than the goat thing, right? At least stags are attractive… goats have that creepy horizontal pupil thing going on…"

"I guess not. I suppose I'll keep them around for a while, at least as decoration," he said, picking up the other antler and moving to place them on a side table next to the couch. "It's not what one would normally expect when thinking of devil horns, but I suppose that makes it interesting."

"Exactly!" I chirped brightly, my tail wagging. I stood on my hind legs to snatch up the bone off the bar counter and trotted over to his side as he headed for the elevator.

After a brief shift in and out of kangaroo form to put my amulet on, I followed Lucifer as he approached the bar and asked Patrick the bartender if any packages had arrived, and after said bartender greeted and petted me for a moment, he passed over several packages of varying sizes to his boss, who managed to awkwardly carry all of them back to the elevator, in addition to a couple of containers for the meat. I would have carried one, myself, but my mouth was occupied by the bone.

I didn't bother to take my amulet off this time considering we'd be headed right back down again after setting things up, but as soon as the elevator doors opened on the penthouse, it started to glow.

I dropped the bone at my feet to say, "Well, this is awkward. I don't think the portal will open up unless I step on the balcony but… this glowing makes me nervous anyway. Think you could hide my amulet in your jacket pocket when we're headed up to the penthouse and if we're hanging out but about to leave? It only works if I'm wearing it… and that way I won't have to shift into kangaroo form every time to hide it," I sat down and lowered my head to make the amulet easier to take off.

Lucifer set everything down beside the bar counter with a huff, before responding "sure," and moving over to pull the amulet off, inspecting it curiously for a moment as this was the first time he'd seen it up close.

The main choker part was an odd metallic purple color, with dark blue silhouettes of a wolf howling at the moon and a dragon breathing fire adorning the sides of it. The middle had a large sapphire in it, glittering in every available light source.

Lucifer hummed thoughtfully before casually slipping it into the inner pocket of his jacket like I asked him to, and then turned his attention to the packages. "Let's open these, shall we?"

I nodded in agreement and took one of the smaller packages, pawing and biting at it in an attempt to open it up. The box ended up a bit more maimed than necessary.

Lucifer opened the largest package first, Styrofoam packing peanuts exploding everywhere as he roughly ripped it open. Inside was a dog bed, and of COURSE he picked out a really expensive one. It was in the shape of a basket, one side cut out so that a dog could climb in easily. It was midnight blue in color with large stars dotting the sides, and as I sniffed it and rubbed my face against it, I let out a happy noise upon noticing just how soft the material was.

"Holy crap, this has got to be the coziest dog bed I've ever had," I exclaimed, looking up at the devil's face. "Thank you, but you really shouldn't have. I can usually take a nap just about anywhere and be content."

"Nonsense, I have money to burn, why not spoil my dog a little?" Lucifer responded with a smirk, reaching over to scratch me behind the ears before picking up the bed and heading to the bedroom with it.

"Well, I can't argue with that… uhh, how about you set it outside the bedroom? I'd just end up moving it anyway when you bring up a lady for sexy times cuz I don't wanna see that," I suggested, and he shrugged and placed it next to the steps that led up to his bedroom.

"What if I bring up another man, hmm?" Lucifer asked, smirking as he returned to open more packages.

"Well, if he's bisexual I might join in. If he's completely gay I might watch if it doesn't bother him," I replied.

"So, there is a chance of a threesome involving you after all," Lucifer stated with a wicked grin on his face.

I just smirked back at him and then dove into the package I'd torn open to pull out the contents.

Inside was a large bag of Blue Buffalo brand dog food and two large matching ceramic bowls for food and water, both with the image of a wolf pack running through a valley chasing an elk doe. There was also a couple different kinds of dog treats in there.

I let out an approving sound as Lucifer moved to put the bag of dog food in the corner of the bar floor, opening it up and scooping out a decent amount of food with one of the bowls. He grimaced in distaste as he set the bowl down on the floor. "I don't see how you could eat this stuff. It looks disgusting," he commented disdainfully, and then filled the other bowl with water from a spigot and placed it beside the food bowl, careful not to spill any.

"It's not as bad as it looks," I replied, and padded over to take a drink. I realized just then how thirsty I was and didn't even bother lapping at it like a dog normally would as I just stuck the end of my muzzle in and sipped greedily.

Lucifer poured himself a glass of scotch and asked, "do you ever indulge in alcohol, or is that not a good idea for you? I did some research last night that said alcohol was particularly bad for dogs, but…"

"My dragon half neutralizes everything that would be bad for me otherwise," I interrupted him, my muzzle dripping water on the floor as I glanced up at him. "I'll drink on special occasions, but I don't like any hard liquors. Sugary mixed drinks are the kind of thing I like… the less I can taste the alcohol, the better."

"I don't see the point of that, but to each their own. You're welcome to have a drink down at Lux on the house, as long as you actually wear some clothes," Lucifer said as he took the first swig of his drink. "I can see right through your illusion at this point, and it would be far too tempting for me."

"Ehh… I don't really like wearing clothes cuz they hinder my ability to shape-shift, but… I guess I wouldn't be doing that down there. I do have some clothes in my pouch for when I really need them…" I replied with a shrug and took one more sip of water before walking back to the pile of boxes and one package left. "What's in here?"

"I believe it's the toys," Lucifer said, and set his drink down as he moved to open the last box. He pulled out a cylindrical tube of tennis balls and smirked as he opened it up and dumped out the contents, allowing three tennis balls to bounce on the marble floor and scatter around the room.

I just stared at the balls as they bounced and rolled away, completely disinterested. "Meh. I'll play with tennis balls when there's other people around, but I really don't care to play fetch normally," I stated, letting my tail flick one of them away.

"Seriously? You could have said before I bought two cans worth," Lucifer grumbled as he just set the other one down on the bar counter. He then pulled out a long blue-and-white-striped rope toy from the box and asked, "What about this?"

I grinned and said, "Now you're talkin'. That one's fun to play tug-of-war with." The devil lowered one end of the rope toy down to my level so I could grab ahold of it while he picked up his glass and took another lazy swig, barely reacting as I chomped on the end of the rope and started pulling backwards, growling playfully.

I swung my head around and slipped around on the tile as I pulled as hard as I could, and after a moment Lucifer grinned and got caught up in the game as he chugged the rest of his drink and used both hands to pull me backward, just a little bit. "Come on, Is that the best you can do?" he taunted, stepping back to pull me along.

I just growled louder, my tail wagging furiously behind me as I allowed myself to be dragged, my jaws a vice grip on my end of the rope. "Ish too shlippery," I slurred around the toy, as if I could stand up to his celestial strength in the first place. My fur was terrible for keeping any traction on the floor without digging my claws in, and I didn't want to scratch the floors.

Lucifer wordlessly pulled me over to the couch, where there was a rug underneath. With my traction restored, I yanked backwards, twisting my entire head and neck in an attempt to tug him with me. He pretended to be pulled forward, just playing along, and then suddenly pulled back and effortlessly lifted the rope clear in the air above his head, bringing me along with it.

I held onto the rope for dear life and flailed my legs in the open air, totally not expecting that.

"Give up yet?" Lucifer asked, a smug smirk on his face.

"Not until you tell me to drop it," I grumbled, still holding onto the rope. I stopped wiggling my legs around, but my tail wagged, and I continued to growl playfully.

The devil finally set me down and we pulled each other back and forth for a couple more minutes before he finally commanded, "Okay, enough. Drop it."

My jaw trembled a little as I released the rope, my teeth smarting a little bit. Lucifer set the rope on the little table in between the couch and chairs and headed toward the elevator. "Right. That was fun, but let's head back down to Lux so I can get some business done."

I nodded and loped after him, grabbing my bone along the way.

While in the elevator, Lucifer silently pulled my amulet back out of his jacket pocket and placed it around my neck again, and I just responded by wagging my tail up at him.

The rest of the day was spent laying on the floor beside him as he took care of business in Lux, and for the most part I just chewed my bone and barely tolerated the volume of the music that was playing, a downside of having sensitive ears.

A few patrons stopped to pet and compliment me, and I just sniffed them politely and allowed myself to be pet, not sensing any ill will from any of them, but also not particularly interested in any of them.

At one point Lucifer brought a lovely young woman back up to the penthouse to give her a good time in bed, and I didn't bother to follow him, simply heading behind the bar to hang out with Patrick, who set down a glass of water for me. I lapped at it happily, my mouth a bit dry from chewing on the bone.

I returned to Lucifer's side once he came back down, looking particularly pleased with himself and only a little bit ruffled.

I wound up chewing through and consuming the entire bone toward the end of the day.

As the night approached, I felt an increasing desire to be in wolf form, but I kept it under control due to being in public. Finally, the club music ceased, and Lucifer approached the piano and beckoned me over, and I sat on the bench next to him ready to howl at the appropriate parts.

He began to play the opening notes and started to sing Werewolves of London, but he changed the werewolf's pronouns to fit me, and only he and I knew why.

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in her hand

Walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain

She was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fooks

For to get a big dish of beef chow mein.

Awooooo, werewolves of London…

Awooooo

Awooooo, Werewolves of London

Awooooo

At the chorus I closed my eyes and tilted my head toward the ceiling as I let several loud, powerful wolf howls escape me, secretly mildly annoyed at Lucifer for bothering to "awoo" along with me; not even an angel's voice could compare to a proper wolf howl.

You hear her howling around your kitchen door

You better not let her in

Little old lady got mutilated late last night

Werewolves of London again

At this point my ears had gone from floppy dog ears to standing straight up like a wolf's, but Lucifer and I didn't notice. It was thankfully the only physical change that I let slip.

The next part couldn't be gender-swapped due to the rhyme, so one might guess that the song was mentioning more than one werewolf.

He's the hairy-handed gent

Who ran amok in Kent

Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair

You better stay away from him

He'll rip your lungs out, Jim

Hah! I'd like to meet his tailor

We got a round of applause from the all the patrons in attendance once the song ended, and Lucifer basked in the praise while I just wagged my tail.

I leaned over to lick him on the cheek, and he just grimaced and used the fancy handkerchief in his breast pocket to wipe it clean, but he had a faint smile on his face regardless.

He started to play and sing another song, and I hopped off the bench and trotted toward the elevator. I stood on my hind legs and pressed the penthouse button with my nose, surprising a few people who happened to be looking in my direction.

Once the elevator doors closed and the cart gently lurched upwards, I let myself shift into full wolf form, resisting the urge to howl more. I didn't even bother to shift into kangaroo form to put my amulet away, as the urge to be a wolf was too strong. I did allow one paw to become a furry hand so that I could take it off, at least, and just held it in my mouth.

Once the elevator doors opened, I went over to the piano and set my amulet atop it before trotting over to the balcony. I gazed at the full moon for a moment before wandering over to the deer skeleton that was hiding under the tarp, grabbing the meaty skull before covering up the rest of the skeleton and heading back to the spot right in front of the balcony doors so that Lucifer would see me when he came back up.

I let out one last soft howl before indulging in my stag head dinner, chewing all the meat off the skull, including the eyes. I had my work cut out for me as I chewed through the thick bone trying to get to the brain, and it distracted me from the desire to howl.

It took over an hour to bite through the skull enough to get to the grey matter underneath, and when I finally uncovered it, my ears perked as I heard the elevator ding. I lifted my head to see Lucifer stroll in, apparently retiring for the night.

He took off his jacket and vest and then apparently realized we'd forgotten to pack the deer meat into the plastic tubs he'd brought up, so he set to work doing that, and I just watched him as I enjoyed consuming the buck's brain.

The devil then wiped down the counter and then came out onto the balcony to join me, sitting down on one of the chairs.

"Brains," he drawled jokingly, imitating a zombie.

I giggled and let out a zombie-like groan, playing along with the joke, and we spent a few seconds doing zombie impressions which quickly devolved into laughter.

Once we'd calmed down, I resumed eating silently, until the organ was gone completely. I went back to idly chewing on the bone as we spent a moment in companionable silence.

"Enjoying the moonlight?" Lucifer asked, starting to casually unbutton his white dress shirt.

"Mmhm," I replied, getting distracted by his bare chest slowly being uncovered. I let out another soft howl at the sight, tail wagging.

"Awoo to you too," he said with a smug smirk, letting his shirt fall open once he'd finished with all the buttons, but not taking it off just yet. He knew I loved the sight of a man in a jacket, vest or open shirt with nothing underneath. "Are you coming to bed? Either one… I'm very much up for a round or two in the sheets, but not if you plan on staying in that form. Too similar to the dog," he stated.

"Dammit… it's tempting… but the urge to be in this form is stronger," I grumbled, slightly frustrated now. "I might jump you in the morning."

"Something to look forward to, then," Lucifer replied with a devious grin on his face. "I'll leave you to your moonlight boning, then. You want your bed out here?" he asked, hardly skipping a beat at the innuendo as he got up from the chair and shrugged his shirt off.

"Yeah… I guess," I replied, unable to take my eyes off his bare chest.

He ducked back into the penthouse, and I just continued chewing on the skull as I waited for him. A moment later he came back out with the bed in hand, wearing nothing but his boxer briefs this time. He set the bed down and my eyes widened a little as I stared at him.

"Now that's just not fair," I whined, even more frustrated than before at the sight of him nearly naked, half-erect to boot.

"The invitation into my bed still stands if you want to indulge in a different type of bone," he teased, clearly amused by my frustration. "Otherwise… goodnight," he stated, and disappeared back into the penthouse, leaving me alone on the deck.

"Stupid sexy devil," I muttered, getting up to climb into my dog bed and letting the half-eaten skull sit just outside of it. Holy crap, it was cozy.

I kept chewing on the skull for a while as I tried to avoid thinking of how much I wanted to jump the devil's bones, the urge to stay in wolf form just barely overpowering the lust. Eventually I set my slow dinner aside and curled up in the bed, my tail covering my nose to protect from the chilly air, and drifted off into a very comfortable sleep.

*((A/N I forgot to mention last chapter that she would have taken the amulet back off again in the elevator, otherwise it would have been glowing due to the portal home being right outside the balcony and if she got anywhere near said balcony while wearing the amulet, the portal would open up. Would be pretty hard for Lucifer to explain away THAT phenomenon, so off the amulet comes when in the penthouse.))