Note: This story was dynamically reformatted for online reading convenience. Crystal - by Mack the Knife Sixteen - And the Children Shall Lead the Way Marcus awakened me by rapping on the door. "Up man, time to get moving." He said through the door. "Okay." I replied. Rolling over, and dislodging Crystal from my shoulder. She sat up groggily. "We need to get it together and get moving." I told her. She shook her head. "Oooh." She was rubbing her head. "Headache." I grinned at her. "That's a hangover." I said. "Drank a lot last night?" She turned her eyes to mine, and leered. "Boy, did I." She said, and gave me a feral smile. I chuckled and threw her tee-shirt at her. "I meant alcohol, you insatiable beast." I said. She fielded the throw and started putting it on. "Yeah, that, too." She said, agreeably. "And I can so be sated. And the first time I am, I'll let you know." It felt good to finally get her needs to the level of banter, where we could just talk about them freely when it came up. It beat the hell out of skirting the issue, or just not talking about it. We managed to get dressed without going at one another, which was definitely on my mind. Crystal got all the clothes together and back into their suitcases, and we were lugging them out the door. We got everyone loaded into the Cherokee, except Marcus and Sarah, who were waiting patiently beside the pickup. One may wonder how we managed to get Sarah into the room with Marcus. Well, we said she was the other daughter of Lance's, and Marcus got the adjoining room to theirs. Simple. I offered to buy everyone sodas at the convenience store next to the motel. They all called out their various requests, and off I went. The clerk was a kid, about eighteen. As I entered he was speaking. "...should have been at the dance, man." He said into the phone. He was silent a second, followed by "Because there were these three hot young chicks there, from out of town." Silence. "They partied with us for a while, then they, like, started giving guys blowjobs behind the building." Pause. "No. Every dude that wanted one. It was wild." Long Pause. "They didn't give out no numbers, dummy. They said it was a one-time deal, that they were from Atlanta, and doing it on a dare for their private school." I grabbed the sodas and came up to the counter. "I dunno," he said. "Maybe ten or fifteen guys each." Pause as rang me up. "Hell yeah, I had all three do it to me." He bagged my sodas up and picked the phone back up. "Have a nice day." He said to me. "You too." I said. Grinning widely. Those three had just created a local legend in these parts. This would be talked about for years to come. "I tell ya, they weren't from..." The door cut him off. I walked back to the group. Handing out sodas. I announced that the girls had made quite an impression on the locals last night. They all giggled and Marcie blushed. The two men looked confused for a second, then went blank for another second, before nervously joining the laughter. We all piled into the vehicles, and headed for Atlanta. As we pulled onto the beltway, Marcie used a new cell phone to make a couple of calls. Soon, she was giving me directions to leave the freeway and guided me down some side streets. We pulled into the driveway of a modest brick home. Not unlike my own. The doors thumped as we all got out. An elderly woman of about sixty answered the door. She was elegant, tall, slim, and very pleased to see the girls. She hugged each in turn, then turned to us men. "So, you are the men who are causing such a fuss?" She asked us, her voice was heavily German accented. "Please, come in." She focused on each of us in turn. When she brought those eyes to bear on me, I gasped. They were the most beautiful shade of green, they were my daughter's eyes, and my wife's eyes, but full of wisdom and gentleness. This woman had known the predator, and she had lived long enough to beat it. She guided us down a short hall into a beautifully furnished living room. "Take a seat, gentlemen." She requested. Her gestures were fluid and graceful. I was looking at one of the first Chimeras. After we sat down, she brought us each coffee and small cakes. "It is time for mid-afternoon tea, gentlemen." She sat properly on a small, ornate chair. "We can speak over tea." She said. Her heavy German accent gave her even more an air of elegance. She looked at the girls, all sitting together on the couch. Immediately, they all knelt before her, and almost in unison, they said "I thank you for your time, Great Mother." She waved them up and said, "You honor me, Granddaughters," and smiled. "every day you grow so much. Soon you will be mothers, too, and we will be stronger for it." The girls rose, grinning and took their places on the couch. As if to say `that is a formality we are done with,' she turned to us three men, all sitting in armchairs. "It is good to finally meet you, Nathaniel." She said. My eyes betrayed me to her. "Yes, I know you, my boy." She laughed, a soft and musical sound. "You were the chosen mate of my granddaughter. And that is no small thing." She said. I knelt on the floor before her, and took her hand, gently, it was warm, and soft. I kissed it. "I thank you for your time, Mother." I said reverently. "GREAT Mother." Crystal said in a stage whisper. I shook my head. "No, she is my mother, or very nearly so." I looked at the luminous eyes Crystal was looking at me with, then at the woman before me. "She is Andrea, my father's first love." Andrea's eyes sparkled as I said that. She nodded slowly. "Yes, I see your father in your face, now." She laughed again, and the sound was glorious. "Of course, I was much younger, then, but so was he, I am sure. Is he well?" "He is well, Mother." I said. She finally realized I was still on my knee and she gestured me to retake my seat. "You honor me, Son." she said with a formal voice. And I sat back down. She nodded to Crystal, "You've trained him well, Granddaughter." She said approvingly. Crystal giggled. "Mother housebroke him, Great Mother." The other girls giggled at that. Andrea smiled. "Yes, she probably did at that. They're much better to get already knowing their place, no?" This sent the girls into a fit of laughter, and the Great Mother smiled to hear the sound. After a moment, she leaned toward me. "I so seldom get to hear the laughter of my Daughters, these days." Her face grew serious and she looked at me hard. Andrea had beaten the predator, but the predator was now hers to control as she wished. "I must ask you, Nathaniel, why do you come here?" She said. I searched a moment, then finally decided to just out with it. I reached into my coat and pulled out one of the glass bottles. "This brings me to you." I said. Placing the bottle in her hand, and curling her long, slender fingers over it. "Freedom for your Daughters." For the first time, I saw something other than the staid control that this woman exuded. Genuine excitement and the impact of memory. "I have not seen a bottle such as this in...almost fifty years." She said, her breath short. She held it up and looked at the label. "By the hand of god." She said, her eyes miles away. "Your grandfather left this?" I smiled broadly. "It can free your Daughters from the bad men the mob has forced upon them." She nodded slowly. "Ja." She said. "But we must eliminate the soldiers that the leaders have guarding our men." She looked at me. "We cannot loose them, they are as much a part of us as any other, as you know." Her face took on an aspect of concern. "Without them, we die out." I had an idea. And I put it forth. "We can take care of them, or rather, the girls can." I said. "There is one thing that the Mafia seemed to forget, and we have to our advantage." "And that is?" She asked me. "You are all warriors." I pointed out. "Every one of you. I imagine even you can outshoot most men, and probably outfight them, too." My expression grew earnest. "I know you don't like to think of the differences between Chimeras and humans, but they are real, and they are your strength." She shook her head. "No. The girls are not warriors." She said flatly. "They are girls, not soldiers." Her voice was emphatic. "Crystal, show her." I said. Crystal stood up and fast-drew both pistols, aiming them at a point on the wall. The blurs that were her arms ended in twin blued-metal handguns. Just as quickly, the weapons disappeared. I looked at Andrea. "And she almost never misses what she shoots at." "Skill is not the question." The woman said, still shaking her head. "They are not suited for the fighting. They cannot stand the stresses." "If you don't mind my saying so, that sounds like Kurz talking." I said coldly. She gave me a harsh glare. "And in that thing, if no other, he was correct." "In that way, he was a blind fool, for all his genius." I countered, my voice harsher than I liked. "He declared the greatest genetic success in human history a failure simply because it didn't result in an army of burly men." I scoffed, rising from my chair and pacing to the far wall. "Don't you see? He did create the perfect warrior." I pointed to the three girls on the couch. "In the fight, they are without fear, and outside the fight, they are kind an gentle, and most of all loving." I held out my hand to Crystal. She stood and came to me. I put my arm around her, and she hugged close to me. It was not a show, Crystal was that affectionate and I loved her for every part of her now. "They are EXACTLY what Kurz wanted, he was just blind by prejudice." I paused and did my damndest to drill into her skull with my stare, a trick I picked up from Crystal. "And so are you." I said quietly. The girls were shocked, and somewhat dismayed at my display. Crystal wouldn't go against me, but Sarah and Marcie might if Andrea ordered it. I hoped that she wouldn't. "Perhaps you are correct, Son." She said. "We have for too long hidden from ourselves as well as humans." Andrea stood up tall and proud. "But, mark my words, if you get any of these girls killed, you will answer to me, human. Son or no." She pointed to the three young wonders we were charged with. "They may be warriors, yes, but they are not men, they are my Daughters." She gave me a rather cold look herself. "Men are expendable." I nodded, and understood. "They will not be hurt." I promised. She said. "You will find the Mafia watching over the men in a warehouse in the Northpark Industrial Complex." She pulled out a pre-marked road map. "I am told that there are no fewer than twenty Mafia soldiers watching over them." She looked at me a last time, and I could see a trace of fear in her eyes. "The men must live, Nathaniel, they must." I nodded to her. "They will." I said, and wished I could assure myself as well. Well, you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs. This day would see the Chimera free or headed toward extinction. It all lay in the hands of three normal men, and three exceptional girls. Andrea hugged the girls again, kissing each on the forehead and telling them to come back safe. Us men she thanked for risking our lives for the Chimera, and kissed our foreheads as well. "You are Chimera as much as we." She told us. We all took it as a high complement. The six of us knelt and bowed to her. She bowed her head, and told us to go now. We headed out to the cars and talked on the vox's as to our plans. We first had to get a truck, it was decided. Luckily, I knew how to drive a delivery truck from a stint I did with a moving company in college. We prowled around until we came across one left idling as the driver went into a store. We changed vehicles quickly, leaving ours parked in an adjacent parking lot. I'm sure the driver was quite stunned when he came out and his vehicle was gone. But I assured myself that it was for everyone's good. Since Marcus was the least recognizable of the three men, he was to be our `face' man for our little ploy. We located the warehouse. There were no guards outside, they would be too conspicuous in the concrete and glass desolation of the park. We trundled into the parking lot, everyone in the cargo box, but me in the driver's seat. I backed the ten-wheeler to one of the cargo doors. It was a nice warehouse, and the loading doors had big rubber gaskets around them that sealed the truck to the wall, making an almost air-tight seal. As we stopped bumping the dock the receiving door flew open and two men came out, not obviously armed, but just as obviously able to hide a weapon in their oversized jackets. Marcus jumped out of the driver's seat and held up a clipboard. "Is this 2250 Drake Ridge Road?" He asked. In the box, we rolled up the truck's loading door, and looked at the metal rolling door before us. Crystal and Marcie grabbed the edges of the truck's box and climbed up to the top of the warehouse's door. In each corner they stuck a block of plastique, about four ounces. Marcus declared that he had the wrong warehouse and turned back for the truck and opened the door. The two goons turned as well, walking back for the receiving door. Marcus took his pistol from the floor under the driver's seat and shot them in the back. Detonators were already imbedded in the clay-like material. As the dropped from the top of the door, they pulled the trucks door downward. Sarah pushed the remote control and there was a small pop from the doors and the truck heaved, then settled back into place. Lance and I heaved the truck's door upward, it tried to stick, having been warped by the twin blasts so close to it, but it gave under our direct effort. It rolled upward and the girls all vaulted over the remains of the building's rollaway door and landing in crouches inside the warehouse. Lance picked up his pistol and I lifted the hunting rifle. Halfway across the warehouse there were a dozen men sitting around a makeshift conference area. They were still turning to see what the hell was going on when the girls started firing. Three men dropped right away, heads and chests spewing blood. The other men began to react as street hardened Mafia soldiers might well react. They started drawing weapons. Before they could get their guns clear, six more died in a shower of bullets from the girls and one from my own rifle shot. The other men kept their wits about them, and tossed the tables onto their sides, and crouched behind them. From our right Marcus fired his pistol at the knot, winging one in the arm. However, a man entering from a door to his right fired a uzi at him and forced him back out the receiving door. Almost negligently, Sarah aimed one pistol at him and put a bullet through the newcomer's forehead. He fell back through the doorway, and I could see more shapes moving behind the wedged open door. The men behind the tables began to fire back. This was the girls' first time under actual fire. Like a blur, they were in motion, jinking around and assuming low-profile positions. Marcie dove for cover behind a trash can made of a steel barrel, skidding on the floor and losing several layers of skin on her arms and knees. Two more men fell from the girls constant barrage of bullets. And one was shot through a table by the high-powered rounds that the rifle I was using fired. A bullet zinged off the metal frame of the truck beside my head. I felt small splinters of metal hit my face, but just took aim with the gun for another shot. The men in the room to the far right began coming out in force. There were five more there. They came at the girls at a full run, not having seen what was happening to their buddies already in the room. "You little bitc..." The lead mobster said before his head dissolved into pulp from multiple bullets striking him almost simultaneously. It did not behoove one to actually piss chimeras off while they were in combat mode. Crystal turned and faced the new crowd, dropping the magazine from one pistol, while still firing the other. She dropped the sight-line of her handgun only for a second to slap in a new clip of ammunition to the first, and bring it back up, meanwhile ejecting the magazine of the second now. Five bodies now littered the doorway, and all the men around the conference area were down, some still twitching. One lifted his head only to have it nearly severed as Marcie put a bullet through his neck. There was a low thudding noise, coming from the back of the warehouse, beyond its far side loading doors. There seemed to be no more men in here, chimera or otherwise. Crystal's face grew alarmed and she ran for the truck we arrived in. The other two girls ran for the far loading doors, sprinting. I went with them, along with Marcus. Lance stayed in the truck, at my hastily issued request. We managed to get to the far door just in time to see a helicopter whirling up its rotors on the parking lot behind the warehouse. There were three mafia types standing near it, and a small knot of them moving from offices in the back of the warehouse toward the chopper. They had the massive shapes of the male chimera before them, at gunpoint. There was a loud `whoosh' from behind me, and a rocket passed between me and the door frame of the warehouse. It darted toward the helicopter, now almost spinning its rotors at a takeoff speed. The pilot had time just to widen his eyes as the rocket hit the engine. The vehicle blew itself apart, fuel exploding and pieces of spinning rotor flying in all directions. The three men standing near it died in an inferno of flame and flying debris. The male chimera reacted instantly to the massive distraction the exploding helicopter created. The six men escorting the five chimera did not last long. They found themselves being clubbed by their own weapons, and their necks twisted nearly off their shoulders as men easily three times their strength ripped into them. One of the males, Theodore, as a matter of fact caught a bullet in the shoulder, and one of the others took several to one leg, though he seemed to not notice until the mafia goons were all down. There were sirens blaring in the distance. Police no doubt summoned by the neighboring businesses at the sounds of gunfire, and the two bodies lying on the concrete of the front lot. Two Lincoln Navigators were parked by the back doors of the office, and everyone started piling into them. As the eleven of us counted heads and decided we were all accounted for while Marcus and one of the male chimeras hotwired the trucks. The warble was growing near when we finally pulled out of the parking lot and cruised onto a side road out of the park. As soon as we were out of sight of the industrial park and a few miles down the way, we all bailed out and went into four different restaurants and called cabs. Three hours later, we were all reunited at Andrea's home. There were over a dozen other chimeras there then, some of them heavily armed, and two of them carrying doctor's black bags. The males were treated for their injuries, and Sarah, as well, who had taken a bullet to her right forearm. Crystal, herself, sported three nicks, one to the head, and two to her body. The news channels were all alight with the story of the raid on the warehouse. Suspected mafia internal struggle was mentioned, terrorists were also brought up. The police spokesman said "Given the quality of the attacking team, and their lack of casualties, or professionalism in recovering all casualties, we must conclude that it was a paramilitary group of highly trained professionals." The girls all got a big chuckle from that. Resources were pooled between the chimera and ourselves, and we managed to find a discreet location to go for the evening. It was an old apartment building, closed for renovation, but still fully furnished and had power and water. Each couple got a whole apartment, though, and that made all of us happy after the close confines of the `bunker' and then motel rooms. One of the helpful chimeras brought us groceries about an hour after we got to the apartment, interrupting what was starting to promise to be a very fun evening. She grinned as I answered the door with nothing but a towel around me. As she unloaded the groceries, Crystal walked into the kitchen, nude, and hugged the woman. The woman returned the hug, and petted the younger girl's hair. "You're so pretty Crystal." She said. "And we really wish we could thank your dad enough for putting an end to all that mess." The woman, whose name was Sierra, smiled at me. Crystal made an odd face, then whispered to Sierra. The older chimera looked at her a moment, then whispered something back. They both looked at me for a long moment, then Crystal started to dress. I followed her into the living room. "What was that about, angel?" I asked her as Sierra hung back, finishing the unpacking of groceries. Crystal smiled at me. "Dad, I have to feed." She said. "That fight drained me, almost totally." She did look tired, and had black around her emerald eyes. "I'll be more than happy to..." I started. She interrupted me. "One isn't going to cut it." She shook her head. "Please." She said, her eyes had grown imploring. I nodded slowly, and sat on the couch. She smiled and kissed me hard, feeding her tongue into my mouth and then pulling my towel off of me. As she broke the contact of the kiss she said. "Keep Sierra company." He eyes glittered with mischievousness. Crystal then slipped out the back door of the apartment, onto the external fire escape. I heard her clanging all the way down to the street then it was silent in the apartment. I peered over the back of the couch into the kitchen. "Crystal seems to think that you wish to keep me company while she's out." I said. Sierra walked into the living room and looked at me. "I don't mind." She said. She seemed to be in her late twenties, still very petite, as all chimera seemed to be, though. She definitely had more curviness to her than Crystal, and much larger breasts, though still not `big' by any stretch. She had a winning smile, as well, and long blonde hair. Her eyes were not like the young girls. There was little sign of the predator in them, only a shimmering warmth that showed the potential lusts lurking in their minds. As she caught me staring at her rather curvy figure, the predator seemed to awaken in her, though, and she smiled even more broadly. She was wearing a sun dress, which was bright yellow. It offset her lightly tanned skin gorgeously. At least up until she slipped its shoulder straps off her shoulders and it fell to the floor, revealing her tight, well-toned body. She stepped forward out of the little pile of cloth, and walked up to the back of the couch. She leaned over it and kissed me deeply, sliding her tongue into my mouth and feeling around. Her slim hands slid over my chest and crept down my belly, finally one came to rest upon my swelling dick. She was still wearing tiny panties, but I soon located those and slid them over the swell of her hips and let them fall to the floor from her knees. She grinned broadly as I pulled her over the back of the couch by grabbing her waist and simply lifting her trim form over and sat her on my lap. She really was not much heavier than Crystal, all in all. She nuzzled my neck and kissed me. "An interesting side effect of the treatment." She said looking up into my eyes and fondling my stiff cock with both hands. I looked at her. "What's that?" I asked. She looked toward where Crystal had left. "It seems to dampen the jealousy response of mated girls." She said. "Crystal offered you to me tonight, and I've never heard of breeding age girls doing that with their mates, so I figure it's the serum." I chuckled. "She offered me to you?" I asked. "Seemed she offered you to me, to me." I said. She giggled and turned to straddle me, rising from my lap onto her knees. She aimed my cock at her entrance and sat upon it. She impaled herself on my swollen prick, taking it deep into her in one fast stroke. "God damn, that's nice." She said. Sierra just sat there a long moment, her hot body around my throbbing dick. "I received the treatment, too." She said. "Though I'm not of breeding age, I was still totally loyal to a pretty bad man." She smiled as she started to ride my cock back and forth, grinding her hips. "You're the first partner I wanted to fuck in a very, very long time." She said, her face blushing a little. Having said that, she picked up speed, and started to moan with each forward thrust of her hips, as my dick buried itself into her squeezing slit. Soon she was groaning, then she let out a small yell, clutching herself to me and kissing me as she came. Finally, she slowed to a crawl, and just kept rolling her hips and kissing my face and neck. She felt me pushing back slightly and picked up her pace again. I felt my own orgasm approaching, and grunted out. "I'm about to come." It was a habit now. Sierra pulled off my engorged pole and dropped to her knees at the foot of the couch, engulfing my dick with her soft, warm lips. I started to come, and she gulped greedily, with an obvious look of pleasure on her long, slim face. I felt her lips warm as I came into her, and she seemed to grow younger as she drank my semen down. As she pulled her lips from my cock, and licked her juices from me, with reverential care, she lapped at my balls and cleaned her fluids from the shaft. She crawled back into my lap and curled up there. Sighing in contentment as she leaned her head on my shoulder. "I thank you for the gift, Nathaniel." She whispered into my ear. I kissed her soft hair and burrowed to her neck, kissing it, too, then said. "I gift to you freely, beautiful Sierra." I said into her mane of lovely blonde hair. She seemed to fall asleep like that, and I could hear her breathing become even and quiet. Most of these `freed' chimera had been through hell the past years, and I decided to let her lie, if she sought contentment in my arms, I would grant it, if I could. Crystal slipped in a little while later, grinning broadly. "Wow, dad." She whispered. "You wore her out." She looked at me and kissed my neck, then lips. "Bring her to bed with you." She said, already stripping off her revealing little dress and headed toward the bedroom. I picked up Sierra, causing her to blink her eyes open a brief moment, and wrap her arms around my neck. As I laid her down on the bed, she looked around, and saw Crystal, sitting naked on the other side of the bed. "I should go now." Said Sierra, looking worried. "I don't want to come between you two." Crystal touched the woman's thigh. "You aren't." She said, then giggled. "You're going to come before us." She smiled broadly and touched her small hand to the back of my head. She pulled me gently to her crotch and watched as I started to lick her nearly hairless pussy. "Watch, this Sierra." She said, as my cock started to swell from the pheromone overdose I was receiving. She shifted until I was on my back with Crystal straddling my head, and gently grinding her cunt over my mouth and nose. She held my cock in one hand, pointing it straight upwards. "All yours, Sierra." She said, inviting the woman to mount me like a pony ride. The older chimera straddled my middle and lifted up. Crystal aimed me into her and held me until the woman's labia were lying against her small hand, then she pulled her hand free. Sierra groaned as she finally rested on my pelvis and began to rock back and forth gently, as Crystal rubbed her pelvis on my face. Sierra looked at Crystal. "I can't believe you're sharing him with me." She said, her face rather concerned, but still quite pleased-looking. Crystal shrugged. "For some reason, I don't feel jealous." She said, then shuddered as I drove my tongue between her labia and into her canal beyond them. Soon, Sierra was moaning her way through a smaller, but longer-lasting orgasm, leaning back and gasping for air as my cock slid into her and then back out. I looked down, lifting Crystal's lovely ass from before my eyes, and saw that Crystal was rubbing Sierra's clitoris with one hand as the woman took me into her. The woman's orgasm subsided and she slipped off of my still-hard cock. "Your turn, young one." She said to Crystal, who lifted off my face and moved around to straddle me. Her own face was marked by impending orgasm, as she frustratingly mounted me and took me into her very tight little slit. She leaned forward and laid upon me and started to gently move her hips. I suddenly felt a tongue sliding over my balls and then it was gone, and Crystal gasped, then it returned to my shaft as it slipped in and out of my beautiful daughter. Sierra was licking on both of us as I went into Crystal and back out. The feeling was sensational of Crystal's incredibly muscular cunt clamping down on me, and Sierra's soft, hot tongue slipping over my exposed parts as they revealed themselves to her. I heard my daughter cry out as she came and Sierra seemed to forget me for a moment, lapping at Crystal with a fury. Finally she quivered into subsidence and then slowed. My own orgasm held steady at very nearly there. Sierra's tongue returned to my shaft and testicles, and then Crystal started grinding again, pushing up and down. I could not hold back any longer, and my come spurted into my daughter's tight hole. It felt like a gallon to me, as it kept firing long strand after long strand. Finally my organ stopped feeding Crystal's cunt come and started to become limp. Sierra sat up and watched as Crystal lifted herself off my swollen rod and turned over, sitting on my belly and spreading her long, slim legs. Then I watched in fascination as the older chimera dove between her lovely thighs and clamped her generous mouth over Crystal's exposed cunt. My daughter's entire body stiffened as she clenched every muscle in her lower abdomen and I saw Sierra's mouth sucking gently. Then she stopped, pulling her mouth from my little girl's now well-used slit. She closed her mouth as she pulled free, but a long strand of semen extended from her soft lips to Crystal's labia. She scooped this stray strand up and lifted it to her mouth with two fingers. She had just sucked the semen from Crystal's cunt, I finally realized, and Crystal's clenching body had been to force it out of herself to help that process. Crystal sat up and the two kissed, mouths both wide open. Then, after a long moment, they pulled apart, and I could see come on each girl's lips. They swallowed together and then kissed some more. They finally stopped kissing, then turned to me. "We thank you for the gift, Nathaniel." They said, almost in unison. I laid there watching the two beautiful girls kneeling on the bed. "I gift myself freely, ladies." I responded. The two then laid on either side of me and curled up onto my shoulders.