The Tiger Lady
by Leslie Josette Gill
and Edited by Sapphire

Chapter 4

The Gathering

"We need everyone to assemble in the staff room." Bill was looking for Joe, but found that I was still the Tiger lady.

"Joe?"

"Yes Bill? "

"This is going to take some getting used to still. What is going on?"

"Read my mind."

"WoW. Are you sure we can do this?"

"We have to. It's our survival."

"This is like some kind of cheep science fiction novel."

"You ready? Let's go in and explain this to everyone."

We all assembled into the room. I walked up to the front of the staff room and then the Kat appeared. He just sat there in the front beside me.

"Hi all, I figured we needed to be formally introduced. You all know Joe, but you don't know this form. I am still Joe, but in this form, I am the Tiger lady. This is Kat. Just Kat. With a K. He will be very friendly. He is after all, me. Just in another incarnation. Does anyone here want to ask anything?"

"Why did the two staff people get killed?"

"Unfortunately, I didn't have control of the beast here or myself. There was a threat and Kat here just reacted. We didn't have time to tell who was who."

"How can we be sure it won't happen again?"

"Good question. I don't know. I have a lot of work to do to learn how to control everything. But some of you think this is pre mature. It isn't. We are under threat of attack. It seems that there are people out there who want to get us and our abilities. We would become slaves. We all have to band together. "

"This is what I propose. I am asking all of you to practice banding your abilities together and form a unit. We would use those abilities to fight the attack coming and then, maybe start doing things for the government. Nothing really dangerous at first. No military stuff unless we have to. We would accept what missions we wanted to accept. And they couldn't tell us lies. We would know immediately. So, this is the chance we all were looking for."

I transformed back into my Male self. The tiger stayed. It was the first time the tiger stayed with Joe.

There was shock. Then suprise. Then joy.

The doctors and staff in the room sensed what was going on. No more boredom. We had a purpose.

We all have to practice working together.

Chapter 5

Nothing is as easy as it seems..........

We started working. I was not used to the female body and really preferred to not switch unless She wanted to. I discovered that The Amazon did have a personality too. But it was showing itself in small little ways.

  • I didn't like Chocolate Ice cream. She did.
  • I didn't like to exercise. She ran all the time and did stuff.
  • She wanted to watch television. I wanted to play with the computer.
  • I didn't like the clothing. She wanted to wear leather and heels all the time.
  • I was not into the hair thing and she somehow got the idea to shave. So even as Joe, I had shaved armpits and legs. She was looking at the other women. She wanted to keep the long hair. And I admit that when I looked through her eyes, I liked it too.

    There were times that I would just fade into the background. She wanted to express individuality. I was always there, but at a subconscious level. She had control. Her personality was much stronger than mine. But, If something was really distasteful to me, she didn't do it. So, there was more of me there than she wanted to admit.

    We were becoming a team. She had learned everything from me she could and was asking questions. She would ask the nurses about embarrassing things. I have to admit that they were willing to answer the most trivial or embarrassing questions she could ask. In these cases, I didn't know the answer and was along for the ride.

    She wanted to know what the limits of dress were and what the different meanings of how a person dressed affected others. She had the mindset of an Amazon. Someone who dressed by function. Not by what others would think. If it was hot, she didn't wear much clothing. If it was cold, she wore warm things. She asked about shoes and why the heels and why I (Joe) liked them so much. I answered that one myself before the nurse could answer. (I like high heels.) Then Amazon realized how she was created and then understood. She was my sex fantasy. My perfect mate. She was really part of me. I sensed confusion, then, understanding.

    Then we had a private conversation, just me and the lady. It went something like this.

    "In your mind, I am the image of the mate you wish to have?"
    "Yes".
    "You are me and I am you. So how can that be?"
    "I have to admit that I didn't chose your creation. But I am very happy you are here. It seems that this alien force decided to help me and created you."
    "I am happy to exist. So what do you want to do? Live your fantasies through me?"
    "Gee, I have no Idea what I want. But do you know what you want?"
    "I wish to be...... I wish to exist. I wish to learn this world and what my role is, in it. I wish to help those who need help. Most of all, I am here to help you. "
    "I am not an evil person. I am not a sex fiend. I am a normal male who happens to turn into the most beautiful being I have ever seen. My male self is very turned on sexually when I look at you. But You are me and I am you. I can't have sex with you. And I am not too happy about having sex with someone else. I seem to turn off most of the women I have been around."
    "So You want me to be your sex fantasy without performing sex?"
    "Just looking at you is enough. I might get you to wear some things just for my gratification. But I would never ask you to do anything that I would not do myself. I wish to honor you as a friend and as myself."
    "I will help you when time comes. It will be a learning experience. I know what you want. And I understand what your limits are. But we need to talk about this work. I know what spies do. What do we do when I have to touch another man?"
    "If I have to, I will sleep. I will let you drive completely. After all, I trust you. You are me......."
    "We will need to talk again. But for now, We understand each other. I will wear nice things for you and maybe for the others. But I am most comfortable in the leather. It feels right. "
    "And you look devastating too......."

    And with that, the understanding was reached. I let her become more active and let her be out more and more. I would make an appearance to check my email and look at my computer. But, the rest of the time, I gave her the body.

    The doctors were most happy with our progress. They wanted to know about our private conversations. Mary was the most inquisitive. We weren't going to tell the doctors everything. And told them so.

    The nurses decided to help the lady with make-up and the frilly things. She was every males fantasy. I mostly resided in the background and watched. But occasionally I would drive the female body. After all, we both were there and needed to know what the other was doing.

    She was learning how to control my gifts. I was learning to control hers. She could move things now and read people's minds. I could control the Kat. The Kat turned out to be one more outshoot of my physic self. Because I had control of 100% of my mind, Doors were open to me that never were before.

    You would think that there would be instant communications between me and the Lady. But that was not the case. While we could communicate more rapidly, there was definitely two separate personalities. The melding of both of us would take more time.

    It was time to get the group working together. The first few experiments were learning each other and learning trust. That was the key to the success of this undertaking. We would be instantly sharing all of our thoughts. If one of the group's mind went to wandering, we could sense what the thoughts were if they were in the link. No secrets. This would have to be understood foremost.

    Bill was the most helpful of the group. He was the leader before I came around. He was the most trusted. I was the most feared. But as the most powerful, I would lead. Bill's role was never diminished as I encouraged him to be the group spokesman in all maters. He also knew the group and their abilities.

    The tests were wildly successful. We were able to pass information back and forth to each other very quickly and they could see my thoughts and I could even send pictures of what I saw back to the group. While we could not make copies of our thoughts, we did find an artist in the group who could do sketches of what I saw. We were working together. We were becoming a team. We were learning to protect each other. We were soon to learn what we could do.

    Our time had run out. The attack that we feared was gathering. The only intelligence that had been gathered was a video camera which was being monitored. I caught a thought about the group from a guard who was looking at a monitor in the parking area. Unfortunately, He didn't remain around long enough to see everything.

    I put the warning out. All the military folks got their guns and took positions. Suddenly, the place, which was a thriving little city, was unusually quiet. I did not like that. The enemy would know we knew they were here. No suprises.

    I prepared. The Tiger lady and Kat walked up the only entrance and just waited. Kat, I knew, was unstoppable. I had to be protected, as I was the Kat. So, I couldn't take a bullet. But somehow, I was not worried about getting hurt. The thought didn't even come to me. I was just calm and ready.

    The first of the opposing force just walked in. I let them. You could see the puzzlement of the soldiers coming through the door. Just this tall female in leather, just standing there. One of them walked up to me casually and grabbed me. Then, fear. He didn't have a hand anymore. Then he didn't have an arm. Then, no head. This happened in a split second. Then the death that followed counted as a complete massacre.

    The group was trying to communicate with me. There was something wrong. This force was too small. There was something else afoot. A missile strike. This attack was to distract us and then we would be hit from above without warning. The last of my victims didn't know anything except that he was a mercenary. A soldier for hire. They all were except for their leader. He was still alive too, but barley. He had been disemboweled. I read his mind. Through the pain, I finally sensed most of the truth. A test of our capabilities from "the enemy". NATO? I couldn't believe what I was getting. The group was tapped in and asked his mind questions. They were a suicide squad. During the slaughter, one of them sent a code.

    The missiles were on their way. My mind found the missiles. I could not stop them. But I found the mind that was controlling them and where. A US SUBMARINE!....... I made the Captain who was in command issue the abort command and distruct command. I then made him go crazy and kill everyone around him. Weither accidentally or by design, the Sub self distructed. We were safe for the moment. Or so I thought.

    The Staff of the village had begun to turn on us. They were killing the other residents. I sent Kat. I soon discovered that the staff were all protected by hypnotic suggestion. Their minds were released when the attack came. Our own government was the enemy. Kat had killed most of the staff except for our favorite gatherer, Mary, and George, the village boss. When I finally came down and talked to him, his fear was obvious to even the most common person.

    We were too powerful. We could not be controlled. We were a treat to all. So we had to die. What about Mary? We found out that she was not a total innocent. While she was hurt, she was OK. I put the thought out not to hurt her. That was difficult as several of the group had blood in their eyes. But I won. She would be held, but unhurt.

    I told her the whole story about what we now knew. She didn't know anything about this attack. Just that her superiors eagerly requested her reports. She was CIA.

    The repercussions were immense. Our own government was trying to get rid of us. The government was massing around the entrance to the Village. We had to get up there and block the attack. They had brought nerve agents and other things that would lead to all our deaths. Strange when Kat appeared to them, they backed off. I walked out to the entrance of the complex and asked to see the commander. But before he came out, I had killed the 2 snipers who had targeted me. He seemed really anxious to talk all of a sudden.

    "WHY? "

    "I just follow orders."

    "You can tell your superiors that any further attempts to attack us will lead to more destruction."

    He had not been briefed about me and didn't know I could read his mind. He wanted to fulfill his mission. His orders were to kill us all. He was unable to figure out how we were able to stop the attack. When he issued the order to kill me, he died just like the first of the attackers. He was torn limb from limb. The other soldiers just stopped in shock and backed away from me. Another sniper took aim. He died too.

    Then some official ordered a stop to all aggression. I didn't know anything except the code name. Mount Auburn. I was going to find him. But they knew enough about us to know not to connect directly.

    We had won the first round. But I had lost my trust of the government I grew up with. They knew who I was. I could not hide. Or could I? What about everyone down below? I couldn't just leave them. They were a target too.

    I had an idea.

    "Get every one together. We are leaving. Take only what absolutely has to be brought. Get the computer records. Strip the machines. Take all the pictures. We don't want to make it easy for them. "

    Everyone agreed. We would leave this place. We could survive. But how could we hide in the real world? I had 25 souls to move and hide. I needed more time to think. It was the Amazon that had an idea.

    TigerLady Continues with the Next Chapter!