All of the Thundercats with the exception of Snarfer, who had returned to the Tower, sat down and tried to eat without being overtly curious about Cheetara and Tygra's condition.
      Cheetara sat next to Pumyra and found herself looking at her in a way that she felt she shouldn't. Cheetara felt very embarrassed, she hadn't done so before, but by the same token, she couldn't help it, she smelled good.  She felt a stirring between her legs, and put her napkin in it, and tried to act normal.
        Tygra found himself in the same predicament surrounded by the males at the table, he gathered that it was the hormones in Cheetara's blood compounded by her end of season that was making him feel the way he was.
      Cheetara reached across the table to get a piece of bread fruit out of a basket in the middle of the table, her arm was large and clumsy, and as a result knocked her water glass off the table and onto Pumyra's and her's laps. Cheetara was going to take a napkin and wipe Pumyra's skirt with it, but for felt repelled by the urge, got up, and sprinted out of the dining room, Tygra followed, with the other Thundercats looking after.
      Cheetara ran into the woods surrounding Cat's Lair, she didn't know what to do, think, or feel, she had never had feelings like these before.
      Tygra ran outside, and skidded then lost his footing, fell, and tumbled a few feet on the ground. Tygra had been running extremely fast, and couldn't handle the sudden stop, or his inertia like Cheetara could.  Tygra got up and checked himself, relieved that his ill conceived running hadn't broken any bones.  Tygra decided that he wouldn't try the super speed again.  Tygra looked around. "CHEETARA! WHERE ARE YOU?"
     Panthro and the others looked at one another. Pumyra finally spoke up. "Shouldn't we go looking for them? No." Said Lion-O " They're grown ups, they can look after themselves. Besides, I think that they need to be left alone now, they've been through a lot.  You guys know they must be embarrassed." The others agreed, Snarf took Tygra and Cheetara's plates, and put them in the oven.
      Tygra jogged through the woods and ran past Cheetara, she was sitting against a tree with her hands in her face weeping.
      "Cheetara?" Tygra had never seen Cheetara in such a state in his life.  Cheetara continued to weep quietly. "Oh, Tygra, I don't want to be a man! I feel so, so, I don't know. I have these feelings like I want to , you know, with a,a..." Tygra put his arm around Cheetara and tried to comfort her. "Tygra do you think I could be. No." Tygra tried not to laugh. "Cheetara, you're just in a body full of testosterone, and it's reacting on it's own to stimuli, you can't control it.  It's not your fault, you wouldn't understand about male urges unless you experienced them before, just as I had no idea how female, physiology is unless I experienced it first hand." Cheetara felt better after a few moments.  Tygra brushed her tears away from her eyes.  Tygra kissed Cheetara on the cheek, something they did as children when one was upset. Cheetara again inhaled the scent her body gave off.  Cheetara kissed Tygra, and he returned.
      Cheetara looked at Tygra. "Why didn't you sleep with me that time? I wanted you to." Tygra looked away. "I.. I didn't want you to think I was taking advantage of you. It would have been shameful for me to have taken you un married, especially as good as your parents had been to me, something like that would have betrayed them, besides it just would have been wrong." Tygra looked down. "You could have done better than me."  Cheetara took Tygra by the shoulders. "I decide who is good enough for me, Tygra. No one else."
       Cheetara smiled sideways at Tygra. "You remember how mother and father would relentlessly try to get us together?" Cheetara was panting, Tygra could hear her heart pounding.  "I don't think that this was their intention, 'Tara." Cheetara looked at Tygra. "What happened to the scientist? I thought you would relish the opportunity to learn just what the differences are between the boys and girls."  Tygra sat and thought a moment, then Cheetara sick of his indecision, pulled Tygra to her and forcefully kissed him.  She had been denied once, it wouldn't happen again.
      Bathed by moonlight, Cheetara stroked all the spots that men rarely bothered to. Tygra reciprocated shyly at first, but then passionately as they stripped each other's clothing from their bodies.
      For what seemed to be an eternity, Cheetara and Tygra experimented, touched and pleased each other, from respective points of view. Soon both experienced the effects of their arousal.
      It was awkward for both at first, but soon the two allowed instinct to take control, and with gentle guidance from each other,  they became one.
      Cheetara, as she melded with Tygra, understood why males felt the way they did, and the intense sensations that made it difficult to complete the entire act.  She felt the need to mark her mate, dominate him, and make him her's alone.  Soon Cheetara had begun biting Tygra, and restraining him, as his hips rocked.
      Tygra felt the waves of pleasure move over his body, he understood why the female writhed and cried out during the act, as if the male were killing her, but it wasn't because of pain, it was pleasure. He clawed Cheetara's back which spurred her on more, he knew it hurt, but it made her force more of herself into him, giving him even more pleasure.
      Cheetara bit Tygra's neck, it restrained him, and made it so he couldn't claw her, or get away .
      Tygra leaned back, the bite made his hips rise, readying his body to receive her fluid.
      Cheetara bit harder into Tygra's neck growling, his body went limp. Cheetara could no longer contain herself, she finally allowed herself release with a roar.
      Tygra felt the pressure of sharp teeth pinch down a nerve in his neck, and could not move, he felt the warmth spread through his hips.   Moans, turned into yelps and finally a scream, as Cheetara's fluid burned inside of his body, all the while enjoying the spasmodic movements he involuntarily made.
       Cheetara withdrew slowly, gently, and licked his neck purring, making the pain go away.
      Tygra rolled and stretched for a few moments as he had seen females do before, it was instinctual. It felt wonderful, delicious.
      Cheetara was sleepy, and she wanted something to eat, she kissed Tygra and she cradled his head in her arm, and drifted off to sleep, she understood why men weren't in the mood for conversation after sex.
      Tygra felt the strongest bond to Cheetara, he snuggled closer to her as she snored and was almost asleep, when he heard a stirring in the undergrowth.  Tygra rose, rousing Cheetara.
      "Nyahahahaha! They'll never see this coming will they, eh,
S-S-Slithe?" Slithe grabbed the Jackalian and hoisted him up off of the ground by his bandolier. "S-S-shut up you jackass-s-s, the Thundercats-s-s-s have listening equipment all over these woods-s-s! Caww!" Added Vultureman, "We'll switch them all and while they're confused...." Vultureman held up a gun. The Mutants all quietly chuckled and past the couple, who were silently dressing in the bushes. Tygra grabbed Cheetara and kissed her the snapped his whip and turned invisible.
      Cheetara grabbed her staff and with a hand movement made it grow to it's full length, with the promise if Tygra got hurt they would get it.
      Cheetara bent down and vaulted herself up onto a tree branch, she missed her super speed, but she liked the power of her body. Monkian saw a dark movement, and a rustle of tree branches. "Hoo, hoo, Jackalman, what was that?  Nyaa, nothing you worry too much." Tygra crept behind Vultureman.  "Caww, you feel like you're being watch huurkk!"  As Vultureman fell to the ground, the shifter rolled on the ground as well.   In the struggle Vultureman hit Tygra hard knocking him to the ground.
      "GRROWWWRRRLLL!" All of the Mutants looked up in fear to see a gigantic tiger standing above them holding a staff, the beast jumped down and  began indiscriminately beating Mutants right and left. Cheetara ran off Monkian and S-S-Sltihe, but Vultureman and Jackalman were still there, cowering. Cheetara picked both of the Mutants up and growled.  "GRRRRRRRRR! I should tear the two of you apart!"  Tygra stood holding the shifter. "Cheetara! NO!" Cheetara looked at the two as if she could rip them to shreds and devour them, Vultureman and Jackalman thought that was exactly what she was going to do.  Cheetara instead hurled the two through the air and let them run when they landed.  Cheetara panted, as did Tygra.
      Cheetara looked at Tygra wide eyed and panting. "Testosterone is a powerful little chemical isn't it?" Tygra nodded in agreement.
      Cheetara looked away from Tygra. "I'm sorry if I hurt you, I.." Tygra shook his head. "you didn't, but now you know what it's like." Cheetara nodded. "You know too."  Tygra gathered himself and looked at the shifter. "Let's hurry back to the Lair, and get back into our old selves." Cheetara looked at Tygra. "Don't be offended, Tygra, but I like being female better." Tygra smiled slyly. "You seemed to like being  one of the boys for awhile." Cheetara grinned. "I think despite some of the problems you have encountered, you enjoyed being one of the girls, too."  Tygra looked around. "We'd better go before the Mutants regroup." With that the two old friends held hands and walked to the Lair.

       Lion-O sheathed the Sword of Omens. "Well you two, thanks for taking care of the problem before we had to. How did you know they were near the Lair?  Our sensors didn't even pick them up." Cheetara and Tygra back in their old forms looked at one another. Tygra looked at Lion-O and said, "Well, we were in the area they were in, and it was pure luck that we were able to fight them and get the shifter." Lion-O felt there was a little more to the story, but felt he shouldn't push it.  Panthro stood in behind the pair, they said they had been torn up by the fight with the Mutants, but he knew better.

      Later, very early in the morning, Tygra felt a presence in his room, then weight on his bed.  In the moonlight, Tygra could see a slender figure with glowing eyes stalking towards him, moving closer.
      She stripped the sheets away from her lover, and they shared once again.
                              The End