The white tigers held us in place; we didn't move for our own reasons. I looked at the male tiger that moved his face closer to Lily's. His small muzzle smelled her forehead and made his way down her face and smelled her lips. Lily always wore some sort of scented lip gloss.
The male took his time smelling her cherry lips and made his way down her neck and finally to her opened blouse, he smelled then licked her cleavage once, Lily snarled, somehow got her hand free and slapped the male, who quickly recovered and growled at Lily who knew that she had just made a mistake.
I felt the female remove her mouth slowly from my neck, I was going to react when an unfamiliar voice spoke.
"What are you doin'?" It was a female voice, with a slight Texan accent, I couldn't help be get slightly aroused.
The male stopped and looked at the female behind me, his facial expression changed. I was so used them acting like nothing more than animals that it seemed strange. His face changed to somewhat of a smile.
"Just havin' some fun." He replied with a similar but slightly thicker accent.
Lily pushed him off, quickly got on all four, and jumped the female on my back, knocking her off me.
They rolled around on the floor missing each other with their claws and teeth. Some hair pulling, hissing, and name calling was involved. I stood up on two legs as the male tiger stood behind me.
"Talk 'bout a cat fight." He said placing an arm on me but quickly removed it as Lily had tossed the female white tiger with her feet towards us; we both dived out of the way. The female tiger twisted and landed on all four as Lily jumped on her back and they continued to roll around the floor.
"What are you guys?" I asked standing up
He stood up and dusted himself off "Relax" he started "we just were making sure that you weren't with that oaf of a man, Grayson."
He moved near me "We should do something." I said as the female tiger ripped a piece of Lily's blouse, through the mid section.
"We should." He replied.
"We could take bets." Said Jeff, feeling the need to say something.
We both turned to look at him.
"That's my sister, you're talking about." We both said in unison then looked at each other.
We both moved to remove our respected family member from each other, but not before sustaining some scratches of our own.
"My name is Richard, Richard Oblivion." Said the male extending his paw to me, I shook it.
We stood to one side of the cavern; it was odd seeing both of them standing like humans. I noticed the female white tiger adjust her top strap and straighten her black and white hair, which reached her waist.
"I'm Jonathan Talbain." I replied and signaled at the red faced cat-woman by my side "This is my sister, Lilian."
"Nice to meet you." Said Richard, nodding respectfully at Lily, she looked at him. He signaled at the female next to him "This is my sister, Alexandria." She reached and shook my hand politely and then tried Lily who shook it reluctantly only because I elbowed her when she didn't.
Richard stared at Jeff expectedly.
Jeff flinched and moved closer to introduce himself, "I'm Jeffery Gonzales." He extended his hand, which the pair shook. His human hand disappeared under their tiger paws.
"Sorry about earlier..." started Alexandria "We didn't recognize you and thought that-" she trailed off as she started to cough violently, she turned away from us and Richard stood by her side holding her supportively. She finally coughed up a blue and black ball of fur that she probably swallowed when she had her mouth around my neck.
I looked at them as Richard turned to look at me "Well that's one way to get inside her." He said as Alexandria slapped him slightly in the chest, he laughed it off, and I smiled.
Alexandria coughed a few more times and finally turned around; her face beamed red. I noticed her white eyes, they were beautiful. She smiled as she noticed me looking at them.
"Good lord, sorry 'bout that..." She said coughing one more time as she fanned herself with her left paw, "Like I was saying, we were hoping that you weren't with Grayson..."
"But... Aren't you working with Grayson?" Asked my sister accusingly, her body color back to normal.
"Well...Yeah...But he doesn't care for us anymore..." She adjusted her top once more.
Richard moved behind his sister and adjusted her loose strap "We were hired to protect the entrance to their experiment room." Richard said finishing working on his sister's top, he taped her back twice and continued "He took us in when I was only 12, Alie was 10...Nobody would take the two of us in...Whatever we are."
"We're called Darkstalkers." I informed him.
They both muttered the word.
"Nobody even bothered to tell us, even that." Alexandria said sadly.
"What are you doing here, anyway?" Richard asked curiously.
We explained our lack of a plan to save our friends. We explained who we were and our status.
They both looked at us as we explained our story, they stared in awe. It was clear that they haven't had anyone but each other to talk to in a long time.
"Can... Can we join you?" Richard asked, hopefully. "We haven't left this place since we started seven years ago. We are known as nothing more than guards... They quickly forgot our names... Simply referred to us as 'hey you' and sometimes not even that."
I thought it over, I knew what the answer would be and so did Lily and Jeff.
"We are the only ones that could open the doors." He continued.
I raised an eyebrow "Alright you're in..." I said.
"Yeah!" Said Alexandria jumping towards me, she threw her arms around my neck and kissed my cheeked twice.
"We won't slow you down, leader." Said Richard, shaking my hand once again.
"Leader" I muttered "yeah I guess I would be considered the leader..." I continued.
"Come on, Alie." Said Richard pulling Alexandria from me and carried her under his arm, who didn't protest, till they got close to the door. He let her drop, she landed casually. They both crouched down and jumped on their pedestals and placed their right paws on the wall. They both scratched down in unison and the doors slowly opened. They jumped off and continued walking on all four again till they reached an elevator and turned to look at us, flinched then stood up as the three of us walked in. There were several unlabeled buttons, Richard pushed a button and the elevator doors closed; we headed up.
"Most of them will jam the Elevator on purpose...Only Grayson and we know the correct ones" Richard informed us.
"By the way," I asked "What do you call yourselves when you're in these forms?"
They looked at each other then at me.
"I thought so... I'm Dog, she's Cat".
"Umm" started Richard.
"Alexandria... You're Alie and Richard..." I noticed his right tiger ear: white in the front and black with a small white spot in the back "you're Spot at least until I can think of something else..."
"Can I be Tye? Like short for Tiger?" Richard replied.
"Sure... Tye." I replied.
"What's he called?" Alexandria asked pointing at Jeff.
"Mexican." I laughed out.
"Hi Mexican!" Said Alexandria and I couldn't help but laugh out. Alexandria looked at me confused as Jeff punched me in the arm.
We reached the top as the second doors behind us opened. I started walking out but stopped when I saw Grayson, sitting in the middle if the room, staring at us.