Merry Christmas to You... part 3
Merry Christmas to You… Part 3 Panthro sighed and looked around guiltily as he keyed in the commands that allowed him access to Az’s computer. It didn’t take long to find the file holding her diary entries. He did have to smirk when he saw how she tried to hide its importance by naming the file “Az’s period schedule.” No man in his right mind would want to read something like that! However, getting into the file proved difficult. Unlike her computer security, she kept this one under an encrypted password and no program he had could break into that one easily. “Looks like this is the end of the road.” He told the girls. But Leanna wasn’t fooled. “No it’s not! All we have to do is to find the right password, something that would make sense only to Az. What about her birthday?” Panthro sighed again and typed in the human woman’s birthday. After several attempts at different ways of doing it, he shrugged. “Her full name.” Nothing “Maiden name? Nickname. Battle name. A combination of any?” But none of those ideas panned out. Tara was running out of ideas when she remembered a conversation she and Az had had a few months ago, before she had become Angel. Tara, Leanna, Az, and Kit had decided to have a picnic while the men trained out in an open field. While the ladies dined on finger sandwiches and lemonade, the men sweated and strained as they wrestled each other, trying to stay strong and agile as Thundercats are supposed to do. Too bad today all they were doing was making the women all hot and bothered. “Damn but my baby looks good in sweat!” Leanna said, licking her lips as she watched her panther throwing a young Thundarian over his shoulder, sweat glistening off his bright blue skin. Tara laughed and pushed her friend slightly. “Girl, you must be in season again the way you and baldy are going at it!” “I am not!” the lioness protested. “I’m just stating the obvious about my man.” “Oh please! Az, tell her that I’m right.” Tara laughed and waited for her back up, but Az was silent. “Az?” Tara asked questioningly. She turned to look at her human friend and saw that Az was paying attention only to the fighting men, her breath just a little bit faster then usual. The hybrid looked in the general direction and saw Tygra and Bengali wrestling shirtless, their muscles straining, sweat dripping down their faces and onto their bodies. “Oh my! That does look yummy, doesn’t it?” Tara asked. Az finally noticed her and looked at her, the human’s face beet red. “Um, yeah, it’s ok.” “Oh come on Az, you can’t tell me that seeing all those manly stripes doesn’t make you want to jump in and ask them to wrestle you?” The protectorate laughed slightly and said, “It’s not always sweaty muscles that get my fancy, Tara. I like other things too.” “What? Pecs, abs, nice round asses that you can bounce a coin off of?” The human shook her head grinning and glanced at the guys again. By this time, Tygra had flipped Bengali over and had him on the ground. Sensing that someone was watching him, the orange tiger looked at Az and smiled in her direction, then his attention was averted towards a new comer. At that moment, Pumyra joined the ladies, sitting down next to Kit and engaging her in conversation, every once in a while giggling at the guys. Az looked in their direction sadly then back at the two tiger Thundarians. Everyone knew that Kit and Bengali was an item so she could only guess that Az was maybe still in love with Bengali but wanted it kept a secret. It was also possible that there might be something between her and Tygra, though that seemed a bit far fetched as there had been no obvious affection between them, though it was almost common knowledge that Tygra and Pumyra had something going on. “Az, you ok?” Tara asked concerned. The human woman nodded. “Yeah, I’m good. Just thinking about a few things.” “Like tigers?” Az glanced at her sharply then away, sighing heavily. “Tara, do you hate keeping secrets?” “Usually, yeah.” “So do I, but for the moment, I have to keep them.” Then Az let out a small, humorless laugh. “Me and my tiger secrets. One day it’s going to get me into trouble.” A few months later it had when Az had become so depressed and wanting of love that she thrown herself into the arms of an evil man and had become evil herself for a while. “Tiger secrets, that’s one thing I am glad I never had to face.” Then it hit her. “Panthro, try tiger secrets!” The big panther looked at her askew then shrugged and typed it in. Instantly the window opened up onto what looked like a log area with 6 entries on it, named Az year 1 all the way to Az year 6. “We’re in!” the panther said excitedly then stopped for a second. He wasn’t supposed to be enjoying this, he was supposed to be opposed to it! Oh well, in for a penny, in for a pound as the ancient humans had once said. With a click of the mouse he opened the file saying ‘Az Year One’ and groaned when he saw how many entries there were. “It’s going to take forever to search all of these and Lion-o and Az will be back in an hour or so. No way we can check all of these before then.” Leanna studied the page for a bit then reached for the mouse herself. She was no computer genius, but she knew that most word processing programs came with a key word search. After clicking a few things, she smiled in triumph when she found the search engine and typed in the word ‘Christmas’. Instantly several entries popped up and Leanna moved Panthro out of the way so she could investigate. December 17, Az year 1 Dear Diary, I can’t believe I’ve been here almost a year now! Bengali is all excited about our mating ceremony coming up, but I really wish he would knock it off about making me stay here all the time. He seems to be more like Lion-o’s yes man then my man! Sheesh!!! Anyways, looks like they don’t celebrate Christmas around here so I guess Santa won’t be paying me any visits, LOL. Ok, time to go and work on some more mating ceremony things. Later!!! December 20, Az year 2 Terrible set back today, again I started my period. No babies in sight and I’m feeling a little depressed about it. Bengali tells me not to worry about it, but what if we can’t have children together? Tygra suggested that we go see a specialist about this and I’m scared to go see one, but then I’m scared about not knowing. Sigh, if ever I needed a cup of Christmas cheer, it would be now. December 25, Az year 3 Does he think I am a fool?! Like I don’t know he’s messing around on me, and with Kit of all people!!! He says it’s all in my head and that I’m just jealous of the time he’s spending with her, but I know better. That girl is 8 years younger then him and he’s married to me! How dare that little bitch mess around with my man! Oh what am I going to do? I don’t feel like I belong here any more, even with the anointment from the Sword of Omens. How can I be a Thundercat when I can’t do any of the things they can do? I can’t jump high or run fast! I’m not very strong or smart. I can’t become invisible or hear better then anyone else. I’m just a human for Pete’s sake! I gotta get out of here, gotta clear my head. Oh by the way, Merry f**kin Christmas!!! March 22, Az year 4. Dear Diary, Looks like I’m going to get my Christmas wish. My divorce papers were signed today and I have to be grateful that at least Bengali didn’t fight me about it or make a scene. I think we both knew that this was a lost cause and are just grateful that it’s over. Onto another note, I’ve made arrangements for travel, but I haven’t told anyone about it. In fact I have been taking extended walks, staying out later and later so that I don’t tip anyone off. When I take off, they will just think that maybe I am staying out later then expected. By the time they discover me missing, I’ll be a long ways away. I just hope the Sword of Omens doesn’t tell them where I am. I don’t know where I am going or what I am searching for, but hopefully I will know what it is when I find it. At least it will give me and Bengali time to heal after our disastrous marriage. Ok, time to head to bed. Got a lot to do before I take off. Night. December 7, Az year 4 Oh my! I think Santa Claus brought one of the Christmas gifts early! Today we met a new guy, a Thundarian cheetah known as Taz and all the ladies (including yours truly) are going gaga over him. Let me tell you about one fine looking man there! Can we say MEOW or what?! Ok, time to hose down the hormones, LOL. Seriously though, even though I do find him attractive, looks like Tara is going to snag him. Taz’s eyes light up when ever she walks into a room. Poor Lion-o, he looks like he got hit by a train and I do feel sorry for him, but at the same time I feel just a bit of glee at his discomfort. All those times he made others stay behind because “It’s too dangerous for you!” now he has no control over the one woman he wanted for himself. Serves him right! Oh well, at least I can still check out that cute cheetah butt for free. MWHAHAHAHA!!! December 25, Az year 4 Oh. My. GOD!!! I can’t believe what happened last night. I mean, I’m still freaking out about it! Last night after everyone had gone to bed, I snuck up to Lion-o’s office and got a drink from his secret stash. I basically just wanted to make a toast in honor of Christmas. I may be able to celebrate it any more but I can at least acknowledge it. Well anyways, I’m halfway through my drink when Tygra opens the door and catches me red handed with Lion-o’s best whiskey in my hand. Ok, so there I am, trying to come up with a good excuse for me being there when he just shrugs and closes the door. Ok, so I’m wondering what’s going to happen next when he pulls these books out of the library behind Lion-o’s desk and pulls another bottle out. “This is the good stuff next time you need a drink” he said then poured some into my glass before filling a cup for himself. For the next hour we just sat there sipping whiskey and talking about this and that when suddenly he reached up and pulled me in for a kiss. Of course I was shocked for a moment, then I relaxed and enjoyed it. I’m not sure what brought it on, but I wasn’t going to complain! Next thing I know, my shirt is off and we are getting busy big time! My first thought was “Oh my God, I’m finally having sex after almost a year!” My next thought was “I wonder if Lion-o has broken in this couch yet? Oh well, too late!!!” Damn but that man knows how to work it! I’m still shivering this morning. LOL, and the funniest song keeps going through my head. “Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, oh what fun it is to ride a Tygra all the way, HEY!” Lol, man am I all goofy this morning! December 18, Az year 5 Ok, you know that Christmas is approaching when you start having weird ass dreams. Last night was a dozy! I dreamt that Tygra was dressed up as Santa Claus and he was sitting on one of those ridiculous golden thrones they have in the malls from way back when. He was looking at me with that sexy ass grin of his, telling me to be a good little girl and come sit on his lap. Oh you know I was there in a heart beat! But then the dream started getting all weird. I hadn’t been sitting on his lap long when Pumyra came up in this skimpy elf costume, wondering loudly when it would be her turn. Grrr, even in my dreams I have to share Tygra with that woman!!! I hope Lynx-o gets here soon. “Ok, I think we’ve read enough!” Taz announced. “I do NOT need to hear more sexual fantasies about Tygra!” Leanna sighed. “I’m sorry Tara, seems we didn’t learn anything about this Christmas.” “Oh yes we did!” said Tara triumphantly. “We learned that Christmas is on December 25th each year and that there is a man named Santa Claus involved. Looks like those are some points of reference for us.” “I don’t see how that’s going to help us.” Panthro said as he made copies of all the files and terminated the hack but Tara was already out of the room bent on doing some research.