This is a short work of erotic fiction containing furry, or anthropomorphic, characters, which are animals that either demonstrate human intelligence or walk on two legs, for the purposes of these tales. It is a thriving and growing fandom in which creators are prevalent in art and writing especially.
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Milking the Tiger
The blue-striped tiger walked around the haunted house with his paws shoved into his pockets, an unhappy frown pulling the corners of his lips down. It was most likely the cheesiest one he'd ever had the pleasure (or not so much anymore) to walk around, cobwebs and skeletons dangling as if the organiser had had a budget to use up, going overboard in the name of fake spiders and dripping piles of blood and gore. The lighting was good, however, to give them credit, flickering and dropping at the worst possible moments as Takoda blinked and strained to see just what was before his paws. He wouldn't have put it past whoever was in charge to put something nasty just where he was stepping either and picked up his paws a little too high in an effort to, at least, avoid that unpleasant experience.
"Okay, guys, come on," he grumbled, although his tone was too soft to be taken as genuine. "This really isn't funny... Can you all just come out already?"
Of course, it was a classic - to be ditched in a haunted house, that was. He could only imagine just which of his friends were waiting behind the pillars and draping cobwebs to scare the living daylights out of him. He wasn't so much of a scaredy-cat, per se, as he was liable to startle, of course, but that didn't mean they wouldn't get a jump out of his blue fur, the prickling tingles coursing down his neck and spine eerily close to the edge of adrenaline.
A noise... Stiffening, he turned his head slowly, legs locked in place. Just what was that? A strange sort of groan? Rolling his eyes, he tried to tell himself that it was just a recording - of course, it was just a recording - but he couldn't stop himself from following the weathered lines of an old, wooden staircase rising in the corner of the room. A pumpkin was poised on the one unbroken banister at the bottom, jauntily tilted as if it was laughing at him, making a mockery of a moment of true, blood-curdling terror.
Again, the sound rose, although it seemed to hold a feminine lilt to it - that was, if his mind wasn't simply playing tricks on him. If someone was in trouble, really now, he should go and see if they were okay...shouldn't he? That was the right thing to do...
Takoda's frown deepened, tail lashing unhappily. The skeleton's grin mocked him from the wall, dangling with arms raised as if in celebration. Damn his good nature!
But he had to see and had to try... The tiger swallowed hard, eyes watering with the sheer strain of holding himself back when the larger part of him yearned to help, despite natural caution. He was a reclusive sort by nature and, well, he didn't usually run into strange situations head first but...
The thought trailed off, seeming to push from his mind with the sweep of a much larger paw than his own, quelled from running on indefinitely. No! He had to do what he could even if it was not very much at all! And now there was a light too at the top of the stairs, wavering from pink to purple and back again as if someone was holding up a novelty lantern, trying to see where they were going.
Was that a whimper?