Many male voices were heard, "Whoa, do you smell that? We got a female in heat incoming! You think I can bang that? I bet she's good in submission! What kind of cat you think?", and Biva turned into Rajah's fur, shivering as Rajah growled and roared, "She's all mine! Don't even think about it!".
The message was quickly sent. Rajah, in a hurry, had asserted dominance amongst much of the others that many of them said nothing more after that. Rajah gave a quick proud huff before he turned to Biva, "Just stick close, okay, Biva? I'll make sure none of those others will even lay a single whisker on your fur.".
Biva nodded, rubbing her head against his neck, "I promise...You're my mate too...I wish I could turn this damn heat off...but I can't...I see cameras everywhere...", and Rajah growled, "You do?".
"See those small gray things at every corner of the exhibits? I bet they are sensor-activated by everything the animals do in the exhibits, or at least electronically controlled...", Biva chuffed in frustration, and Rajah exhaled, "So, we're literally watched every minute...", with a snarl.
Biva nodded, "And we can't dig or jump or climb...That Kraven guy got everything down to the smallest detail...", and Rajah grumbled, "And the sense of privacy probably doesn't exist either in the shelter dens...", realizing that they can't even shift back to human form to call for Carpet either.
"Now I see why Dad talks about luck...This is very bad luck for us...", Biva growled as the truck came to a stop before an empty exhibit, and they growled, stressed out by the men and the few women latching the cage to the crane, lifting off the flatbed, and into the exhibit door slider.
Their ears flinched at the sounds of metal banging on the top of the metal walls around the cage, and they growled, with Rajah snarling, "Let's go!", with the exhibit door sliding open, and they ran into the exhibit hallway, prowling and walking around, with the hallway exhibit doors opening up, with the cage door sliding close behind them, with the exhibit door sliding closed behind them as well, and they came into the exhibit area, with the hallway door closing behind them.
Biva, seeing so many men and the few women, and even a couple of children staring at her, she roared in frustration, unsettled to be seen as a...an animal, running into the lone shelter den, collapsing into a nest, with Rajah following her, his heart hurting to see his love of his life upset...
It was one thing when he was a slightly more than normal tiger back then when he was Jasmine's best friend and pet tiger, but now, he's ignoring the bad memories of being in the dungeons and being a prisoner, to be there for Biva who is experiencing this for the first time ever...
"You alright?", Rajah asked her as she gave a small nod. "Just afraid... angry... shameful...", Biva sighed as she continued to lay in the nest.
"I know the feeling all too well, I'm afraid...", Rajah nodded as he walked over to her. Biva sighed, "I don't even know how we got into this mess...I'm usually controlled and all...".
Rajah replied, "I agree as I was hazy myself, yet it was so clear...We somehow threw everything out of the window...I'm really sorry, Biva...I have dreamed of having you in my arms, to make everything so perfect for you, to learn the human way...But having you safe with me right now, I don't regret loving you...Even if we became mates the tiger way first...I should have known better that you were soon going into heat considering your age now...", with a frustrated growl as he headbutted her lovingly.
"It's alright... we'll... we'll find a way out of this... somehow... or hopefully we'll be rescued by our folks... they must be worried so sick.", Biva sighed as Rajah licked her cheek to try and keep her at ease.
Rajah whispered softly, "I bet...", and Biva nuzzled him, growling softly, "Make me forget one more time, Rajah...I want you...".
He smelled Biva's heat in response, coming back strong again, and Rajah growled lowly, "As you wish, my bright heart...", moving in to mount her, licking her ears lovingly, ignoring the sound of the den wall revealing a slit drop-off of fresh meat for breakfast time, chuffing lowly and huskily, "You're safe with me, you're my love of my life, my perfect mate.", before taking her scruff in his jaws roughly as he penetrated her once more, and roars of pleasure soon came.
Meanwhile, as it's midnight in New York City, as the plane went east and all, it's still the same day per sec, Jasmine bit her lip, "They're late, very late...Something's wrong...", as Biva's time of curfew since she's almost 16, is 10 PM.
"I agree...", Peter admitted. "No way they should be out this long... Both of them aren't the rebellious types... if they're late, there's only a few reasons for that and almost none of them are good...".
Gwen then nodded, "I'll go take a look around, and I'll call you when I find something.", before zooming fast to change into her outfit, and Jean replied, "Biva said that she and Rajah were going to check out Central Park after telling me upon finishing their homeschooling since you were busy on Sultana duties with Gwen and Peter helping you out since it was my turn to take care of the triplets today.", glancing at Jasmine.
"Alright, I'll see around Central Park first.", Gwen replied, as she knew that Biva takes the subway, and were probably busy showing Rajah around, since she can't drive Jean's car yet, before heading out of the warehouse, glad that she is Superwoman now, but she's, right now, a concerned mom.
Peter rubbed Jasmine's shoulder, "We'll find them, Jasmine. Best chance is that they missed the last night bus and is trying to catch the midnight subway home.".
"I don't know, Peter... right now... I fear the worst this time...", Jasmine admitted as Peter took a deep breath. He couldn't help but share the same worries with her at this moment.
Jean exhaled, "Jasmine, we taught Biva to defend herself ever since she was able to understand the whole story behind your origins, and Rajah, well, should I say more?", knowing that Rajah would never, ever allow anyone to hurt Biva for he loves her, and of course, he's literally a grown, big man per sec in his height and strength, not buff like a bodybuilder, but he can hold his own against anybody normal-sized.
Jasmine gave a small nod, "I know, but not knowing what happened, it scares me, and I'm worried, Jean!", and Jean hugged her, kissing her temple, rubbing her back as Peter joined in by her side, trying to comfort her for the next several minutes before Jean's phone rang, and she picked it up, "Gwen?".
"Found Biva's scarf in a tree...Tracks are messed up...I need Jasmine's help.", Gwen's voice replied, and Jean nodded, "She's coming with me, Peter will watch the triplets.", before hanging up the phone, and whistled for Carpet, "Gwen found Biva's scarf.", looking at her lovers.
"But no Biva or Rajah?", Jasmine's eyes were practically watering. "We'll find them, Jasmine... please...", Jean tried to help her as Jasmine took a deep breath and was trying to hold it in, climbing onto Carpet with Jean.
Peter kissed Jasmine's lips, "You will know what happened, Jasmine. You're smart...We will find them one way or another...I'll take care of the triplets, through they're deep asleep already, but I'll be close enough, okay?".
Jasmine nodded weakly, giving him a small grateful smile, and squeezed his hand before patting Carpet, "Let's go, Carpet. To Gwen...", and Carpet nodded vigorously before heading out of the warehouse.
It was a short trip, but Carpet placed them right by where Gwen was. Jasmine took a deep breath as she obviously tried to take in the scents. "Anything?", Gwen asked her as she walked up.
Jasmine shifted a bit into her tiger lady form, and she breathed, sniffing Biva's scarf before leaning down, "Yes...Barely...", following it to a point where she saw an obvious sign in the snow, sniffing, "Biva and Rajah tumbled down there...", walking down the slight incline carefully, sniffing some more before growling softly, "Catnip...", glad that she is controlling herself from the addictive smell, and she saw another sign of a two person hole in the snow, sniffing before her eyes widened, "They've shifted into their tiger forms...Why? It was still dangerous!".
Jean replied as she and Gwen followed, "The incline was enough to hide them from sight, especially with this part of the forest very dense. And today was very cold too...", and Jasmine snorted, "A private spot then to be playing and fooling around without worrying about people...", before taking up the scent, "Catnip is mixing it up, damn it, but luckily, their scents are still there...", following it across the glade.
"Still playing...", Jasmine replied, following it, "Becoming more intimate...", before getting up close to a tree, sniffing before widening her eyes, "Of course...Damn those catnip...".
Gwen asked, "What's wrong?", and Jasmine looked at them, "They got into heat, for their first time...", before both women widened their eyes at Jasmine, gasping softly, "What?!".
Jasmine nodded, "Catnip drugged them...", sniffing and following the scent closely, exhaling, "There...That's where they mated...Biva didn't push him off...", a bit upset that they became mates this early, yet the catnip was pushing them into it which wasn't their fault...
"Smells like it's going to be at least some days of that suffering heat...", Jasmine sighed before sniffing deeply and then widened her eyes, exhaling, "No...", her eyes swelling up in tears.
Jean squeezed her shoulder, "Jasmine?", and Jasmine whispered in horror, "They got captured by humans...They didn't turn back at all...I smell a tranquilizer gun with one of the humans...".
"Shit...", Gwen whispered. "Where? Which direction did they go?", she asked. "I don't know yet... the scent wasn't around long...", Jasmine said. "Whoever took them moved in a hurry... they knew what they were doing.".
Jean rubbed her shoulder, "They're together, Jasmine. No doubt about it...Come on, Jasmine, keep trying...", and Jasmine exhaled shakily, sniffing deeply, following the trail of humans, "They loaded them in a lead-lined truck...one of those van-trucks...The human with the gun knew when to wait and strike...Biva and Rajah...They didn't even notice...They were drugged by the catnip first, only focused on each other...exhausting themselves out...falling asleep...", signaling to Carpet, and Carpet flew over, with Jasmine climbing into Carpet's back, with Jean and Gwen hovering and flying behind her, following the scent before they stopped at an intersection...
Jasmine sobbed, collapsing on Carpet's back after kneeling to sniff, "The scent, the scent's gone...I can't find it in those car exhaust scents and everything! My baby!", holding Biva's scarf to her chest, and both lovers went to join her, hugging her, tears falling down their cheeks, relievedly invisible to the world.
Gwen choked out, "Carpet...take us back home...", and Carpet sadly nodded, flying back to the warehouse. The moment they got back, Peter didn't say a word; he knew in an instant it was terrible news. He just closed his eyes and started to cry himself.
"Is there nothing we can do?" Jean asked. "There has to be some way to track whoever took them down...? Maybe Genie and Eden could help? Or anyone?"
Gwen shakily replied, "The only two weaknesses I have are that weird kryptonite and lead. Genie got rid of any kryptonite after Professor Xavier showed him about the feel of the stone, throwing them into the sun, but lead, as people needs it to build and all...Jasmine said that the truck was lead-lined... so that means the truck would be anywhere...and if they have a place, it's surely covered in lead at least...I couldn't be able to find them...And my hearing over the city...I don't hear their heartbeats anywhere...".
Jasmine only sobbed harder as she clenched into Biva's scarf, having collapsed into Biva's bed as the others gathered around her in the bedroom. They had turned the other spare bedroom into Biva's bedroom years ago.
Peter exhaled, "If they are hunters, they wouldn't leave a paper trail so easily...especially when we don't know what the people look like...Eden might have a possible idea since she personally made Rajah human, along with the fact that she did de-age him from his elderly tiger form to his prime adult form...".
Jean frowned, "I...I could try Cerebro with Professor Xavier's help, but I don't know if Biva and Rajah being in heat clouds their minds or something since that they are trapped as tigers...yet they have that human presence in their hearts and minds...".
Jasmine choked out, "Anything is better than nothing...", tears still leaking as she sniffled, and Gwen nodded, "I'll call Eden's phone...", and Jean nodded, "Hope that the professor is having a late-night snack...I'll be back...", hitching a ride on Carpet.
"I feel a bit better with our chances with the genies and Xavier on the case. It's New York City... someone had to see something...", Peter bit his lip. Jasmine obviously wasn't saying much as Peter sighed and embraced her.
That early morning, with Xavier's help despite the very late hour, Jean used Cerebro, and she tried to track down Biva or Rajah, but unfortunately, it was very cloudy to find them at all, and the fact that Cerebro was initially designed to find mutants, Biva and Rajah's tiger powers weren't technically mutant powers...The best she could find was that the location of them were overseas, but not where they are, specifically.
And Gwen called Eden by phone as she was backpacking with Genie in Australia and New Zealand for their plans this year. Eden and Genie dropped everything and went to the warehouse through the portal in Agrabah, grabbing some of Rajah's hair in his palace bedroom, and Biva's hair from her bedroom in the warehouse.
She and Genie worked together before realizing that the hairs they used was human hair, not tiger hair, yet they kept trying to focus on the human hair through the soul tracking part of a magical orb, like a mystical tracker as Biva is originally human in her soul unlike Rajah in a way.
They triangulated the overseas locations and discovered that Biva is located in the south portion of the world overseas, but not exactly where, so basically, overseas would have meant South America, Africa, South Middle East, South Asia, Australia and Zealand.
"Anywhere in the southern hemisphere they could be...", Gwen sighed as the others were altogether again. "It's just so much territory to cover. If I knew even a general area, I could find them quickly. Maybe an hour or two... at most!".
"How does someone get two tigers out of the country so fast?", Peter asked as no one had an answer to that... but it did plant the seeds of an idea though it wouldn't sprout just yet.
Jasmine whispered, "And you're sure Biva is with Rajah?", and Jean nodded, "They're definitely in the same area when I tried to track them down. The hunters must be thinking of putting them on exhibit or breeding time as they're in heat right now...I mean, Rajah is a Bengal Indian tiger which is not too unusual, but Biva...she's a white tigress...".
"I hope we find them soon...I can't imagine how Rajah is feeling as he has been a prisoner and, in the dungeons, in a cage down there by Jafar...And Biva, she must be so scared...", Jasmine sighed deeply.
Peter kissed her on the cheek, "She's all our daughter, Jasmine. And she isn't alone. She has Rajah to keep her calm and all.", and Jasmine gave a small nod, "Yeah...", exhausted after the collapse of her tears and such, and Peter glanced at the other girls who nodded, cuddling over Jasmine on the other side, knowing that they can't leave the triplets alone with Jasmine grieving in worry, and they will still search every day as much as possible...
They just need to pray for a miracle that their eldest daughter will return to them safely with Rajah somehow...The week of being in heat was sufferable and miserable, but with Rajah every time when their heat flares up, they shield themselves from the other males and few females in the other animal exhibits, that is, when they're not forced to come out on exhibit for the rich society people Kraven privately invites, forbidden to take pictures and such.
Biva often saw Kraven and his minions checking on them, and there were a couple of days where they were separated, with Rajah and Biva roaring back and forward before getting tranquilized again, and now they are wearing clips on their right ears, feeling a forever itch deep in their backs.
Today, Biva can feel that today was the last day of her heat, and it was more potent than ever...She roared in pleasure as Rajah thrusted back and forward into her, "Getting close, my bright heart?", growling.