The Curse of The She-Werewolf

Livonna finally stopped howling and just lay down, feeling how the raindrops were flow down her wool. She had no idea, where to go or even what to do. So long she was a loyal servant to Dame Athanasia, but now she was free once again, and she had no idea what to do with this freedom. All alone, not need to anyone, betrayed and broken - a lone wolf, but not proud and independent, as they almost always were shown in the old books. She sighed. Long time ago she wasn't Dame Athanasia's lap dog. She was a monster that was hunting in the night. But she wasn't born as a werewolf...

When Livonna was telling her past to Falaen, she didn't lying. Almost. Of course, she didn't tell him many things about herself, but the main part was true - she was raised in a family from a lower-class, so she never had any chance to get a proper education. But she always loved studying even while she had almost no time and money for that.

When she grew up she had no choice but to find any job, so she left her ancestral home and moved to a nearby town, where she became a waitress in a tavern. Almost all the money she was earning again and again went towards food and rent, but she always tried to by a new book, when she had a chance. And one day she spent her money to a book instead from paying her rent in time, hoping that her landlord won't notice that before the weekend, when she was sure she will be able to pay.

At the next morning Livonna was preparing to go to work, when the door of her cheep flat suddenly swung open with a loud crash, and a tall robust man appeared at the threshold.

"Livonna Grau! Where are you planning to go, I wonder?" he shouted. "Did you forgot, what a day was yesterday? If so, I'll be happy to remind you!" he struck a thick leather strap over his palm.

Livonna gulped nervously.

"Oh, master Codogno! Good day!" she curtsy. "No, I didn't forget anything! I just was short on money, so I hoped, that you will give me a little delay. Just three or four days more, and I will pay you for my flat."

Codogno frowned.

"I don't need your stupid excuses! I need my money. And I warned you several times - if you need some delay, warn me in good time! I have every right to throw you out right now!"

Livonna looked at him pleadingly.

"Please, no, master Codogno! I will pay you right at this weekend! I swear!"

Codogno shook his head and took Livonna by her arm.

"You'll pay me right here and now, or you can start looking for a new flat immediately!" he dragged her to the door.

"Please, I am sorry! I will pay you, I promise! I just don't have enough money right now! But I will pay you as soon as I'll have! I promise!"

Codogno dragged the girl out from the flat and stopped, frowning.

"Well, maybe I can give you a little delay."

Livonna sighed in relief. But before she could say anything, Codongo continued: "I will pay me this evening, or I will throw you out. And I don't care, if you have nowhere to go, wench! And right now I'll give you some stimulus not to forget our deal!" he lifted her skirt and raised the strap.

Codongo had a very heavy hand. Livonna was jumping and hopping in place at each stroke of the strap across her bare buttocks, bawling and screaming in pain and desperation. She wanted to run away, but she knew very well, that in this case Codongo surely will just throw all her things out from the flat like a garbage.

"And this will be an example for all of my tenants - if any of you will overdue rent or will try to cheat on it, I will show you no mercy." every his word was followed by a heavy stroke of the strap, making poor Livonna scream and weep in pain. When Codongo finally stopped, she continued jumping and hopping in place, just like she was dancing a kind of war dance, for a few more minutes, rubbing her terrible sore bottom.

"Ow! Ow! Ow! I am sorry, master Codongo! I will pay you this evening! I promise! I swear! Ow! My poor bottom! Boohoo!!!!" Livonna wept bitterly.

Codongo nodded, still frowning.

"And if you won't pay the rent this evening, I'll give you another walloping and throw you out! Is that clear?"

"Crystal clear... Ouch!" Livonna finally stopped her dance of pain and lowered her skirt, still rubbing her bottom.

Codongo nodded and walked away, leaving tearful girl alone.

With a very sore bottom under her skirt and restless restless thoughts in her head Livonna had difficulty remembering customers' orders. Usually she had no troubles with them and was always getting a good tips, but this day she was lucky, that no one wanted to complain. And the worst thing was the fact, that she had almost no chance to get the money she was need so much before the evening. She was almost desperate, but suddenly she got an idea.

A new customer, Reginald Front-de-Bœuf, baron of Finsterwood, ordered "Shadowbanish" one of the most expensive wine the tavern ever got. Livonna went to the wine cellar and pour some wine from a barrel with the wine the baron ordered and some wine from a barrel with one of the most cheap wine in the tavern. She sniffed and tasted from both portions and shrugged.

"I don't seen almost any difference... Maybe the baron also won't notice, if I'll replace the wine he wants with this cheap wine? And then I'll finally get the money I need!" she thought, feeling the jug with the cheap wine.

Livonna put the order in front of the baron and moved to the next customers. Time to time she sneaked a peek at Front-de-Bœuf, but he was just enjoying his meal. The sneaky waitress was almost sure, that her little mischief managed well, but suddenly the baron called for her.

"Excuse me, girl, but what is this?" he asked in annoyed voice, pointing at his goblet.

"'Shadowbanish', milord," Livonna curtsy. "Just as you ordered."

"Don't play games with me, wench!" the baron replied more annoyed. "I know very well, what an excellent taste 'Shadowbanish' has. And this is surely not 'Shadowbanish'! Call the innkeeper! Now! I have few questions for him!"

Of course Livonna's little trickery was quickly found out. Baron of Finsterwood was furious and insisted, that dastard girl should be punished for her villainy. Livonna tried to talk herself out of trouble, saying that she just mixed up the barrels when she was pouring the wine, but nobody listened her. The innkeeper said the bartender to drag the guilty waitress into the cellar, where they striped her out from her clothes and tied her to the barrel with the cheap wine she served to the baron.

Livonna already was punished few times for the bad customer service. Just like all other waitresses. The usual punishment was bare bottom belting from the bartender or the innkeeper himself, but this time he ordered to give her a good dozen with a cat'o'nine tails. And while poor Livonna was bawling and screaming in pain out loud, promising never to shortchange customers again, the innkeeper had a talk with Front-de-Bœuf. The baron made him agree, that after such a insult he has a right no to pay for his meal, and that the dastard waitress should be fired immediately. So right after her whipping, which left almost no untouched place over her buttocks and back, Livonna was threw out from the tavern.

Weeping in pain and despair, Livonna was walking down the street. This surely was the worst day in her life, and she couldn't blame anyone but herself. And the worst part was that she still had no money to pay the rent. Could this day become any worse? Livonna stopped and carefully rubber first her terrible sore bottom and then aching back, sobbing. Suddenly she heard laugh and music. She almost came to a town fair. And that gave the poor girl a new idea.

Trying to act as if nothing had happened, Livonna walked across the fair, looking around carefully. Her new plan was simple - to steal something valuable and then sell it somewhere else. She knew, that would be wrong, but she had no other choice. But luck didn't smile on her. She had stopped in front of many counters, but marketers and customers were watchful enough, so she didn't get any chance to steal anything. Finally Livonna stopped near the stage, where a beautiful Gypsy woman was performing a passionate dance. Livonna noticed, that Gypsy's golden pendant was almost failing from her neck because of a frayed rope at each her move. So she just waited, until the Gypsy moved near her and seized the moment to catch the pendant. Then she slowly turned around and walked away.

The rest of the day Livonna spent trying to sell the stolen pendant. She knew few buyers of stolen goods in the town, but non of them made a bid which was enough for her. She even didn't try to get more money than in she was so terrible need to pay the rent by selling it, which meant that she would starve until she will find a new job. When the first buyer offered her his price for the pendant, which wasn't even a half of the money she need, she refused to sell it and went to another one. And then to another one. And then to another one...

The sun has set. Livonna put the pendant on and sighed, looking at the rising moon. She didn't get the money to pay the rent. And now she had no choice but to return to her flat, which already was no longer hers, get another whipping and become a vagabond. She sighed and turned away from the moon. Suddenly she felt strange. Very strange. She fell on her knees, feeling that something is happening to her body. Something strange. Something weird. She finally could stand up and looked around. Then she screamed out loud. But a wild beast's howl drowned out her scream. The wolf was staying right in front of her in a doorway. It was showing off it's teeth. It's hungry eyes were glowing in the dark. Livonna screamed louder, still hearing a wolfish howling instead of her own voice. She reached her hand out to touch the beast and fell only cold glass under her fingers. Under her wolfish fingers. The only beast there was herself, and she was staying right in front of the closed basement window.

A large grey she-wolf was running across the streets. She had no idea what to do or where to go. All she wanted was just run away. Somewhere far from the town. In the woods, where she would be able to live by herself. Where nobody will find her. She stopped near a house at the end of the street and howled long and hard. First she heard, how the dogs started responding her with the howling from all over the town. Then the window she was standing under suddenly opened and something terrible hot scalded her back, bottom and hind legs. Poor she-wolf howled even louder, now in terrible pain, jumping and hopping around.

"What's the matter, mutt? Don't you like it?" she heard a female voice. "Than go away and never come back if you don't want to get some more!"

Still bawling in pain, she-werewolf ran away in the night.

And while Dame Athanasia and Kajira were talking about the past, sitting in a warm room in front of a fireplace, and Livonna was recalling her own past, lying under the heavy rain in the forest, Wolffang still was walking through the streets under the heavy rain, desperately searching for Livonna. She entered another gateway and stopped in fear. Two young elven women were walking down the street right in front of her. Wolffang held her breath. She would recognise this two any where. Van'Elle and Flavia! Did they finally found her? Or Or did she still have a chance? The orcess tiptoed back through the gateway.

"What was that, Flavia? Did you hear something?" Wolfang heard familiar voice.

"No, Van'Elle... Are you sure, that we will found anyone... Ow! Was is it really that necessary?!"

"Yes, it was! And I will give you a proper spanking, if you will continue this arguing! No go and check that gateway!"

Wolffang decided not to wait. She rushed to her heels without looking back.

Spanking Breeze

Wolffang was a quite young and very ambitious orcess. She was a thief and always wanted to make a really great burglary or even a robbery. When she heard about a dwarfs's merchantman laden with the dwarfs's gold, she thought that it's her chance to make a name in gangland. She asked the captain for a couchette on a board. He thought that just a one passenger won't be a big problem, and agreed.

When the ship went to the open sea, Wolffang sneaked to the chest and picked the lock. When she opened the chest and saw the golden coins, she laughed in triumph. Suddenly a heavy hand in a mitten lay down over her shoulder.

"Well, well, well! What do we have here?" the dwarf captain asked in a stern voice.

"Whoops!"

"Madame Wolffang, I suppose? What do you think are you doing here?"

"I can explain! This is not what you are thinking about!"

Orcess gulped. Without any more words, the dwarf pulled her by hair away from the chest.

The captain forced the thief to stay on all fours, stepped on her hair and raised the cat o'nine tails.

"Oh, I know how to teach a naughty thievish girl a lesson!" he said and give Wolffang's upturned butt a powerful stroke. Few seconds later the lash's strokes over a bare skin and the orcess howling filled with pain were heard for a miles around the ship.

"Oh, what a surprise! I never thought, that a green skin can turn red! Did you know that, Wolffang?" the dwarf teased poor orcess, while continue thrashing her plump bottom properly.

"OUCH!!! EYOOW!!!! YARAAAA!!!! My butt! That hurts! That hurts terrible!" unlucky thief bawled in pain.

When the whipping was finally over, Wolffang's buttocks and even thighs were full covered with a searing stripes. The orcess hardly stand up but started the brat war dance immediately, trying to get even a little relief from the sting.

"OW!!! OW!!! OUCH!!! Hurt! Hurt! OW!!! Butt hurt! OW!!!! My butt hurts so bad! OUCH!!! OW!!! I will not sit down for a week! OW!!!" the orcess complained.

"And now listen me very carefully, scumbag! If I will saw you anytime anywhere again, I'll think that you want to get another very thoroughly thrashing! Understood?"

"Yes... OW!!!"

"Ok "lady", you've had enough punishment, time to go!"

"B-b-u-u-t-t, you can't dump me in the ocean!" the orcess stutters.

"Oh, your fine, the land isn't THAT far away!".

"Au! Ow! Au! But my's bottom is so sore! I can barely walk! How can I swim?!"

"Poorly, I'm guessing!"

Wolffang tried to protest but a powerful kick made her fly out from the board.

"Remember, tell other orc skanks what happens when you mess with a Dwarf!" the captain shouted.

"OUCH!!! Oh, no! The water is salt! My butt is so sore! EYOOW!!!" and with a loud SPLASH Wolffang disappeared under water just to bobbed up few seconds later, moaning in pain and awkwardly swimming to the waterside.

Bad Reputation

"Boohoo!!! But Miss officer, isn't this too harsh for simple pickpocketing?"

"Well, maybe this would be too harsh for simple pickpocketing, but you blamed an innocent wolfess, who got the same punishment before we caught you!"

"Oh, wolves just have bad reputation, you know! They are used to that!"

"Well, you, foxes, also have bad reputation, so you should get used to this!"

"Ouch!!!"

The Spies and the Plans

 "So, it's you, the notorious Dame Athanasia?" the greenskin girl sipped a bit beer from her mug, "Well, nice to meet you personally. I'm flattered, that you found me worthy to help you in your 'quests'," she grinned. "But what such a mighty vampiress as you, may need from a humble orcess like me?"

"As I heard, Wolffang, you are an infamous burglar." Dame Athanasia smirked, showing a pair of needle-like fangs. "I need someone with the talents of a burglar. And as I heard, you need some money. I suppose, we may help each other. What do you think?"

Wolffang nervously looked at Dame Athanasia's companions - two fancy girls. A witch and a werewolf. She trembled a bit, but just made a big gulp and nodded. She really needed money. Terrible needed. And she really felt fluttered, when nobody else, but Dame Athanasia herself suggest her a deal. "I'm at your service, milady!".

Livonna, the werewolf, and Kajira, the witch, looked at each other, and she-werewolf chuckled. She didn't like, how easily Wolffang agreed to join their team and was even less happy about how flattering her mistress, Dame Athanasia, was, convincing the orcess to cooperate.

"Let's drink for the success!" said Kajira, raising her mug. Wolffang quickly clinked her mug to witch's. Livonna joined them, still unsure if she is happy or not, that their team got a newbie.

"So, what exactly do you need me for?" asked Wolffang.

"I need to get a map from the dwarves," Dame Athanasia replied. "As I know, it is keeping at their outpost near this town by the dwarven chieftain named Krang. So, I need you to picklock his parlor and get it for me. And then, if you would do this job right, maybe I will even hire you on an ongoing basis." she winked.

Wolffang smiled widely, "Oh, you can rely on me, milady!"

Soon all four young women went out from the tavern. Dame Athanasia stood in front of her carriage and turned to her companions.

"So, we need to get to the outpost before midnight. Turn into the wolf! Quickly!"

Livonna growled. She hated, when Dame Athanasia forced her to turn into her whole wolf-form just to use her as a sled dog or a riding horse. That was just humiliating! And, of course, she had now wish to be that humiliated in front of their new burglar.

"Do you want me to whip all this stupid pride out of you here and now?" asked the vampiress in intimidating voice, "Just turn into the wolf, and lets go! Or I'll make you an example of what happens to those, who dare to talking back to me!"

Livonna growled louder, but resignedly stood on all fours and howled out loud, when her body started completing the change. Few seconds later she turned into a large grey wolf. Vampiress smiled contentedly and harnessed her in the carriage. "Take your sits, ladies!" she commanded to the witch and the orcess, "Here we go! Wolffang, you'll be the coachwoman!"

"With a great pleasure, milady!" Wolffang answered, taking the whip. She really wanted to show her new employer, how loyal and painstaking she could be. And for Livonna it became a literal pain and mostly in her ass right from the start. The orcess was whipping the poor she-werewolf mercilessly all the way to outpost, being sure, that that would make her run as fast, as she could, and in the same time show Dame Athanasia all her diligence.

"Maybe we should ask her to be more gentle to Livonna?" Kajira whispered to Dame Athanasia, "Don't get me wrong, but all this howl can reveal us!"

"There are enough wolves in these woods. What is so strange if one of them would howl a bit more than usual?" vampiress shrugged. "And Livonna is used to this anyway!"

Finally the carriage stopped not so far from the outpost. Dame Athanasia ordered Wolffang to unharness Livonna and turned to Kajira.

"Now hide my carriage with your magic. It better to be here, when we will return with the map," she smiled, "I don't like... Oh, Darkness, what's going on?!"

The witch and the vampiress looked at each other, hearing a loud swearing. "Greenskin bitch! That whip was just to show your status, nothing more!", "Oh, really? The only bitch here is you! You're a mongrel after all! And as a coachwoman I had the right to whip you, to make you move that fat furry ass of yours faster! And now shut up, or I'll give you some more lashing!" "Bitch! I'm gonna cut your heart out with a spoon!" The witch and the vampiress turned around and saw, how the orcess and she-werewolf, who returned to her usual half-human half-beast form and now rubbed the whiplash welts on her plump bottom, angrily stared at each other, almost ready to start a fight. "Shut up you two! What the Darkness is going on here?!" Dame Athanasia shouted. The girls turned to her, still angrily gazing at each other. "This thieving bitch whooped me so bad! There was no reason to strike me so much and so hard! Now I am tired and all in pain!" Livonna complained, pointing at Wolffang. "She was running so slow, that I had no other choice, but give her few strokes with the whip just to encourage!" Wolffang replied. Dame Athanasia shook her head. "Bend over this roadside fence, now!" she shouted. Scared girls mumbled and bent over.

Few seconds later a loud swishing of a riding crop and a girlish screaming could be heard far away around. "You two better to keep in mind, that I will not tolerate any misbehaviour, when it comes to my plans! Your stupid rivalry can wait, until we will get the map! Am I making myself clear?" Dame Athanasia spoken in stern voice giving her companions's upturned bottoms a stinging stroke of the crop at each word. She didn't stopped, until they both started weeping bitterly, apologising, begging for mercy and promising, that they won't start any arguing again. Satisfied, the vampiress threw the crop into the carriage and turned to the witch, who was still gazing at their now very sore and sorry companions. She-werewolf and orcess rubbed their now very sore bottoms, angrily looking at each other, but too scared of another punishment to continue their quarrel. It was quite obvious, that each of them is pretty sure, that it is her opponent's fault, that they got this whipping.

In the dark of the night four girls sneaked up to the dwarven outpost and stood under the high wall. Dame Athanasia turned to her companions. "Now let's split. Kajira, you would climb on the wall with me. We will watch, if someone would patrolling the courtyard. And you two," she nodded to Livonna and Wolffang, "You will get into the parlor and get the map! Hurry!"

All the girls took each other by the hand and Kajira whispered a spell. Suddenly they just got off the ground and levitated at the top of the wall. Livonna and Wolffang nimbly got down onto the courtyard, while Kajira and Athansia stayed.

Livonna and Wolffang looked at each other angrily. "Don't even dare to think, that you can just overstep me!" she-werewolf growled, "One wrong move, and I'll familiarize you with my claws and teeth much closely, than you would ever wish!". Orcess nodded. She really wanted to impress her new employer, so she wasn't happy about her wolfish partner at all. Especially after the spanking she received because of her. And now this hairy beast could ruin all her performance! She couldn't let it happen. And while Livonna was sniffing the air and looking around for guards and shadows, Wolffang was looking for any trap she could kick her partner in crime into. And finally she noticed one. So she pushed the button and quickly stepped into shadows, while unsuspecting Livonna was crawling near the wall to the nearest door.

Suddenly the loud tocsin thundered over the outpost, and right from the ground a tall metal figure appeared. The automaton - tireless and relentless dwarven guardian. An enchanted mechanism. It detect the she-werewolf quickly and figured out a solution even quicker. Wolffang hurried to climb back over the wall, watching, how the metal guardian caught Livonna by her bushy tail and raised her rear end high in the air, while raising a whip by it's other hand. The she-werewolf howled in fear and struggled, but all was useless. Powerful machine easily kept her in position. The first crack of the whip blowed over the outpost, and the wolfish howl became much more moanful.

The dwarves quickly appeared from the casern and stood up, looking, how their mechanical guard was dealing with the intruder. Livonna was squirming and howling, wagging her plump buttocks, which were turning more and more red and sore under the strokes of the whip. She could not escape, she was trapped. Dame Athanasia, Kajira and Wolffang hided in shadows over the wall, watching their companion's terrible fate. And the dwarves were just enjoying the unexpected show, not noticing the girls on the wall.

"Very impressive!" said a mighty dwarf in armour with a chieftain regalia, "These automatons really are just perfect guardians! I suppose we don't need to interrupt this!" he laughed and then turned to his adjutant, "Well, since we got an intruder here, I suppose I'd better to bring the map to the more safer place. To the city, I think. Get my carriage ready in the morning! We're leaving at the dawn!". "Should I command our Best soldiers to prepare to marsh?" the adjutant asked. "No way! The guarded carriage would look much more suspicious. It would be just like we're saying 'Dear bandits, here is something valuable! Would you like to come and check it?'. No. Just me and you, my boy."

He had no idea, that three pair of a very sharp ears were catching every his word. Dame Athanasia smirked. "Well, this will be even better! We will just rob this priggish dwarf right in his travel! Alright, girls, let's get out of here!". "And what about Livonna?" Kajira asked carefully. "We can't help without being noticed anyway," the vampiress shrugged, "Let's hope, she'll get away and join us later." "Yes! After all, this is her own fault, that she got in such a position!" Wolffang nodded. Kajira gave her a look full of suspicion, but said nothing. The girls were preparing to levitate down, when the skirt of the witch's mantle suddenly stuck between the bricks. "Oh, Darkness! Not now!" the witch cursed, trying to free her clothes. Probably she said that a bit too loud, or stand out from the shadows for a second, but the automaton surely noticed the intruders over the wall. It couldn't do anything to catch them or warn the dwarves about them without scaring them away, so it choose the simplest decision. And automaton just spun poor howling Livonna like a throwing hammer and threw her right into her partners in crime, striking them all from the wall.

Screaming, the girls fell right into the river, and before they could come to their senses, the rough river carried them away.

Far away from the outpost, where the river slowly became wider and gentler, the girls, all soaking wet and deadly exhausted, finally could get to the shoal.

"Ugh! My beautiful dress!" Wolffang lamented, "And all because of this clumsy stupid mutt!" she looked at Dame Athanasia, being almost sure, that the vampiress will allow her to punish her rival. "Because of me?!" Livonna wept, "It was you, wasn't it? You activated that damned machine!" she growled. Dame Athanasia, who was even more angry, but too tired to punish anyone, just shouted: "Shut up you two! You both screwed up and now we are in the middle of nowhere, wet, hungry and with empty pockets! If you will continue this stupid arguing, Kajira would sent your stupid asses on fire literally! Kajira, dear, would you?" the vampiress looked at the witch. Kajira, who lost her mantle, but somehow kept her hat just nodded. She also was too exhausted to use any powerful magic, but she was pretty sure, that her partners in crime couldn't knew that. And Livonna and Wolffang gasped in fear, shutting their mouths.

It were still few hours before the dawn, so the girls just set up a camp right at the river side. They build a fire and hung their clother over a tree branch to dry them out. Livonna just lied down on the grass, sobbing and weeping. Her bottom was dark red and badly welted after the whopping she got from the automaton. Her partners in crime sat near her. Dame Athanasia looked at her companions.

"Well, I didn't got the map, but all is not lost yet!" she said, "As we know, the dwarven chieftain would make a travel to a dwarven city nearby. Without any guards. A perfect victim! I'm recognizing this part of the river, so I know, where we are!" she gave weeping Livonna an annoyed gaze, "Stop sobbing! How dare you to interrapt me! Kajira, please, do something to make this she-wolf shut up!" Kajira nodded and took a bowl of a river water. She whispered a spell and pour it out over Livonna's terrible sore buttocks. "I was never good in healing magic, and now I'm surely not in my best shape, but this should help even a little bit," she whispered to she-werewolf.

And while the witch was trying to relieve the she-werewolf's suffering, the vampiress continued the explanation of her new plan. "There is an inn not so far away. The most important thing is that it is the only inn for a miles around. Krang would have no choice, but stop there to have a rest! And there we will get him and the map! Damned! Livonna, if you won't stop these annoying moanings, I surely will give you a good switching!"

The Incident in the Capital City

Silence reigned in the royal library. No one was disturbing the peace of it's corridors and countless bookcases. Suddenly a bright sparkle splitted the air in one of the sections, and two fancy girls appeared almost like from nowhere. One of them - a slim brunette with a pale skin, wearing a black silk suit with a puffy sleeves, looked around and licked her lips, showing a pair of needle-alike fangs

"Yes! The scroll apparited us right into the right place!" she smiled.

"It's so silent here! I can smell only papers and dust..." the other one whispered. She looked much weirder, being fully naked, but almost fully covered with gray fur and having a bushy wolf tail "Are you sure, that we're in the right library, milady?"

"Of course, stupid mutt!" vampiress shook her head "Or are you expecting that the royal library will be as noisily and full of people, as in some parish school's library?" she took a piece of parchment from her pocket and brought it up to her companion's nose "Now find me a book, which smells just like this! Quickly!"

Werewolfess took a smell and nodded. She walked around the bookcases, smelling about. Finally she stopped in front of one of them and waved to her companion.

"It is somewhere here milady!" she shouted "Come here!"

"Hush, you fool!" vampiress shouted back and came near "Where is it?"

"There!" werewolfess pointed at the top shelf. Vampiress quickly jumped on a ladder and took five books from the shelf.

"Which one?!" she made her companion stand on all fours to smell all the books. She-werewolf growled but quickly checked the folios. Finally she nodded and reached vampiress the book they were looking for.

“Perfect!” vampiress patted she-werewolf’s head “Now we have all we need!”

“Glad to hear it, milady! But maybe we’d better get out of here?” werewolfess sneezed “It's so dusty here! I barely can smell anything!”

“Have patience! I need to check one more thing!” vampiress opened the book and quickly looked through it “Yes! Yes! This is just what I needed!”

“Hurry, milady! I hear some voices and smell some parfum!” werewolfess whispered.

“Just one second!” vampiress laughed “Let me get a scroll and… Oh, in the name of Isaiah! Where the Darkness is it?!” she looked around in panic “Why didn’t you remind me to check if I didn’t forget anything?!” she shouted.

“But you never heard me, milady?” werewolfess answered carefully.

Before the vampiress said anything, the door opened and two tall beautiful elven girls appeared at the doorstep.

“Whoops!” vampiress gulped “Princess Maera?!”

“Yes!” the princess responded in stern voice “I am princess Maera! And who the Darkness are you two?!” she pointed with a golden rod at the intruders “Guardians! Guardians! Go here immediately!”

Before the vampiress and werewolfess could even blink, two elven knights appeared right behind the princess and her tirewoman.

“Oh, dark! Run!” the werewolfess screamed.

All the guards were alerted, so the vampiress and her she-werewolf companion were in very big trouble. They escaped from the library only by a miracle just to get chased right on the streets. The day was sunny, so they even couldn’t just run whenever they wanted, but were doomed to choose only the most shady bystreets. And the elven knights were just in the wake of them.

Finally both girls broke away from the chase. They ran into a tunnel that led over the wall. But when they made even a few steps forward a tall man in a blue mantle stepped in their way.

“You shall not pass!” he said, raising a wand.

“Whoops!” both girls yelped in unison. Suddenly elven knights appeared from behind. Vampiress dropped the book.

“What do we have here?” the wizard asked “Two creatures of the night are walking around in broad daylight in Rûannedh! And if this is not enough, they also just robbed the royal library!” he shook his head “What a tohubohu!” he looked closely at the vampiress “Wait a minute! Athanasia Elisabeth Morrisville, more known as Dame Athanasia! It's a perfect scandal! A noble woman caught as a knight of the road!” he smacked his lips and turned to the she-werewolf “And what is this? An animal, who’s arrogant enough to think it can be called a sentient being? Or a woman, who’s wild enough to become an unreasonable animal? Do you have a name, beast?”

“It’s Livonna Grau…” she-werewolf replied, but when she opened her mouth again, the wizard interrupted her before she could say anything more and nodded to the knights.

“Enough! Bring these two bandits to her royal highness! She’ll pass judgment!”

Princess Maera was laconic and merciless. Her sentence was short - public whipping and pillory. Dame Athanasia, since even being a criminal she still was a nobility, was put into a less humiliating position, while her she-werewolf companion's right to save any dignity was denied and the poor wolfgirl was put in the most humiliating and uncomfortable position under a thick awning, which should protect the vampiress from the deadly sunlights.

The whole city gathered to see the punishment of the two gentlewomen of fortune, who were brave, bold and crazy enough to break into the royal library. Two torturers took whips to show the crowd their mastery to bring any criminal to penitence. Athanasia’s loud screams and Livonna’s desperate howling were heard far away around the central square.

When the whipping was finally over, Athanasia’s back and buttocks and Livonna’s buttocks and thighs became all dark red and swollen. Both girls already were able only to sniff and weep bitterly. But their punishment was still far from over. They were left in pillory to the end of the day and everyone in the city could come to the square to see the supernatural partners in crime in this very unenviable position.

For poor Athanasia and Livonna this day was the most terrible in their lives. But even it finally ended. The guards released both girls from the pillory and threw them away from the city walls.

It took some time before the vampiress and she-werewolf could even normally feel their numbed limbs.

“Stupid beast! All because of you!” vampiress moaned.

“Me?!” she-werewolf howled “But I had done nothing wrong!”

“If you were more brave to attack those elves! If you did remind me to check the scrolls! Stupid animal! Ugh!” Dame Athanasia hardly sat down, but screamed in pain and fell on the side.

“If I were brave enough to fight them, we both would be decapitated, milady! Or worse!” Livonna responded, hardly standing on all fours “You didn’t fight back very bravely!”

“Oh, shut your mouth!” milady Morrisville finally stood up and, moaning and sniffing, put on her clothes, while her companion was still warming up her much worse numbed limbs.

“What do we do now?” werewolfgirl asked, finally standing up.

“First I’ll take care of your uselessness!” vampiress respond, picking up a flexible fresh switch. Werewolfess just had time to say “Whoops…” before her companion made her to not just stand on all fours again, but also lower her chest to touch the earth, while her very sore bottom stuck out up into the air. Vampiress took she-werewolf by her tail and pulled it, making her raise her sore butt even higher. “Oh, I’ll teach you talking back to me!” she raised the switch and landed it over Livonna’s swollen buttock really hard “I’ll teach you how to choose the worst way to escape! I’ll teach you how to blame me for your mistakes!” every word was accompanied with a stingy soundly stroke of the switch, which was making poor she-werewolf howling and wagging her bottom desperately. She tried to break out, but her companion’s foot on her back and her hand on her tail made that impossible. So all she could was howling and begging for mercy.

Finally the vampiress stopped and released the she-werewolf. Poor wolfgirl jumped up and started the brat war dance, while her still angry companion wearily looked around.

“We must hurry!” she said “The night is young, but we have a long way to go! Turn into a complete animal, stupid beast! I need a mount!”

“But I am a she-wolf! Not a horse!” Livonna protested, still rubbing her sore behind. But when Athanasia just raised the switch, she resignedly stood on all fours and howled out loud, when her body started completing the change. Few seconds later she turned into a large gray wolf. Vampiress smiled contentedly and got onto her. Before she-wolf made even a step the switch landed on her sore backside hard, making her howl.

“Now now rush like the wind! And don’t stop, before we reach our lair!” vampiress said, putting spurs to her.

They rode the whole night, and every time the vampiress thought that she-werewolf was running too slow, she struck her with a switch mercilessly.

Finally they reached their lair. Vampiress put her dress off and lay over the floor, while she-werewolf turned back into a wolfgirl form. She sniffed and rubbed her now even more sore bottom very carefully.

“Boohoo!!! My poor bottom! Bess, that switch was too much!” she complained.

“Shut your mouth, if you don’t want to get more!” vampiress shouted “Now bring here my healing lotion! And quickly!”

“Argh!” she-werewolf growled, but resignedly brought a big bowl of the lotion and started carefully putting it over her companion’s sore parts.

“Well, at least this time I didn't fail it all over!” vampiress said “Too bad, we didn’t keep the damned book!”

“What is so important with that book?” she-werewolf asked.

“Well, do you remember our raid on the dragon’s lair?” vampiress turned her head, looking at she-werewolf over her shoulder.

“Yes…” werewolfess trembled, remembering the terrible pain she felt that time.

“In the book, I found and lost again there I found a mention of the Paddle of Destiny!” vampiress said “And today I found it again. In the book you found me. Now I guess I know where I should continue my quest!”

“A Paddle of Doom?” she-werewolf asked again.

“The Paddle of Destiny!” vampiress shouted “But wait! That’s a brilliant idea! We need to return first to the dragon's lair and then to the library! I’m sure, somewhere there should be the information, how to make that Paddle more friendly to a bad girls like me!” she laughed.

“And then we’ll get all what we need?” she-werewolf asked, but the gaze of her companion made her gulp “I mean, you’ll get all, what you need!” she closed her mouth, continuing covering Dame Athanasia’s sore buttocks with the healing lotion.

The whole story based at Kalidwen's game "Elven Kingdom"!