Academy's Finest

Gainan rushed the course. The girl gave off an intense, competitive vibe as she was training. Fai Do jogged a bit behind her, choosing to remain at pace. The course in question was the Academy’s bread and butter. It featured a 300yrd dash into a mud crawl under barbed wire with bullets firing overhead and then finally, the crescendo was a wall that was designed to trap K9’s that didn’t have their wits about them head first inside with their legs dangling down. There were already a few girls stuck mid climb with their asses poking out and their tails wagging.

The Kennel Master gritted his teeth. “I keep telling them we need to give less incentive for them to get trapped in the wall…” He looked down, overseeing Garland’s punishment for spouting ‘lies about being a fox, not a dog. He was **** to do 50 pushups before he could even start the course. The Kennel Master spotted one fake pushup mixed in and immediately stepped on Garland’s back, forcing them back down.

“It’s quicker if you do it right the first time.” He advised harshly.

“Gaaaaah! What the f-fuck! Fourty! Where’s the nice guy that I ate with at the mess hall!?” Garland screamed, trying to finish the reps.

“You know the answer to that question, K9. This is for your own good.” Garland blushed deeply, feeling a bit aroused, but also depleted.

“This is b-bullshit! It’s gonna affect my t-time.”

“Yeah. Your time rolling, K9.” He informed.

“What!? Shit shit shit…” Garland finished the last reps and jumped up, sprinting down the track at mach speed. There were a variety of factors in play. For all of Lajoi’s faults, Garland’s body was top of the line in terms of enhancements. It was top of the line in terms of odd, lewd adjustments… but she didn’t half-ass anything. If that was it, Garland could’ve done pretty well, but he came with a background in track, field and even gymnastics. The last one he quit early, despite getting several awards. He overheard someone calling it ‘gay’ and quit.

As Garland gained on Fai Do, and As Gainan was slowing down at the crawl, Garland blazed passed Fai Do, who was still jogging to just meet pace. He cupped his hands around his mouth and said.

“Wow! Much speed, very fast!”

The Kennel Master watched with interest, arms crossed over his broad chest. He never rooted for someone to fail. The doberman-like K9 that brought Garland in initially was holding a timer and a digital record keeper. She smiled.

“He’s on track to meet pace, even after being made to do pushups beforehand. Typically the punishment is to humble the cocky recruits who know they’ll do well in the agility course. The lesson of course-”

“Reality isn’t fair. You don’t always get to start when the whistle goes off.” The Kennel Master finished that thought with a curt nod. Garland was just about to hit the crawl.

“It’s unfortunate, but he needs to learn that. The crawl levels out everyone’s res-” He stopped, his mouth falling open.

“That idiot!” He strode forward hold your-”

“Kennel Master wait. He has to learn.” The K9 advised.

He gritted his teeth. “But-” The argument didn’t have time to continue. Garland had decided to jump from thin, weak strut to strut. They were the little, flimsy poles that held up the barbes wire. Running on top of them not only meant Garland would fall into the razor sharp wire, but that he was exposed to fire from semi-lethal rounds. But, against their expectations Garland nimbly darted from strut to strut, turning and twisting his body to dodge rounds. They weren’t actually aiming for him, so he just needed to move around their firing pattern, so they were simply an obstacle and not a danger. Garland made it to the other side just as Gainan was crawling out covered in mud. The girl cursed.

“H-hey! That's against the rules!” She complained.

The doberman-like K9 beside the Kennel Master gritted her teeth and seemed about to call it herself.

“Dammit, that’s not allowed, for sure!”

The man grinned and stopped the girls handling the whistles and the overseeing of the course. The K9’s weren’t going to move against a Kennel Master. They bowed their heads as he said to the woman.

“Reality isn’t always fair. Some are just built a bit different.” He nodded.

“We want those that are to be K9’s.” The girl huffed, but stepped back and kept the time, as was her duty. The man asked with restrained excitement. His neutral expression had adopted a faint glimmer in his eye.

“How’s the time looking?”

“Sir… It’s starting to close in on the record that ‘she’ set.”

“Heh. Took a fox to make that unbelievable time, I guess takes one to break it.”

“I thought the line was that he was a Dog?”

“Still is… But we’re off the record, since you mentioned ‘that’ person.” he stared at the woman sharply. She lowered her head and blushed.

“Yes sir.” She looked up.

“But he still has the wall to get over. That thing’s challenge isn’t agility, it’s mentality and fortitude. He can’t get over it, he’ll get stuck.”

“Let’s see.”

Garland had an easy lead, but Gainan pushed herself to catch up, getting in shoulder-to-shoulder with him. He could tell why Gainan was so determined. She had a competitive mindset, like him. Though Garland had almost left that behind, he was slowly starting to regain it as they hit the wall. Garland stared up at the sheer face of it. There were many points where K9 trainees were stuck twitching inside with just their asses facing out. He was looking around for a handhold, but was surprised when Gainan just grabbed the ankle of a trapped girl and started using her stuck form to climb. The dog took the ankle, then grabbed at the girl’s belt as she twitched and finally stood on her butt to look for the next line. Garland, not to be outdone, jumped up and grabbed at an ankle that was already a ways up, then easily pulled right up to the trapped K9’s shuddering rear by pulling up dynamically to just swing and grab her tail. She seemed to come from that as Garland moved to stand on her butt. Gainan saw that Garland had gotten a bit ahead and jumped for a natural handhold to try to regain her lead, but she was met with an unnatural hole opening up in the wall in front of her like a mouth. It yawned at her and seemed to be trying to suck her in. She balanced herself and was able to stop from being sucked.

As Gainan pulled herself up with just her arms, Garland very suddenly jumped up and used her belt as a handhold. She yelped with shock as she was literally climbed over. As Garland kicked off to reach the very top in one smooth leap, Gainan was sucked into the yawning mouth to become another twitching ass on the wall which Fai Do eventually used to easily make it to the top just in time. But first, Garland had the glory of completing the course. He jumped up and down excitedly, cheering at the top.

“Correcting for the time spent doing push-ups, how long was it, actually?” The Kennel Master inquired. The K9 looked at the timer and sighed.

“I would say that it is just below the record.” The man nodded to himself. The K9 commented.

“That was dirty, though. It lacked teamwork.”

“The whole point of the wall is that it gets easier as more people fail.”

“Hmm.”

They met after the course. Garland was still top of the world with his performance. He met the Kennel Master, strutting up to him and expecting some sort or praise. Instead, the man walked past, smacking Garland’s ass hard. He yelped and turned around, clenching his delicate fists. The slap got his tail wagging, but outwardly it was a bit of an insult, considering.

“Hey!” He complained.

“Good work, Fai Do. Good time. Slow and steady.” He complimented, patting Fai Do on the head as the K9 happily wagged his tail.

“Thanks!”

“Good try, Gainan.” He added, looking to the dog that was a bit slimy after being pulled from the enigmatic wall.

“Thank you, sir. I lost my cool. It won't happen again.”

“You know what you need to fix. That’s perfect.” He scratched her ears affectionately. She leaned into it happily.

“What about me? I came before both of them.” Garland pointed out.

“If we only wanted the most physically capable, we could’ve had the very best department of complete, bratty misfits on our hands. How would that be? We sacrifice capability for loyalty, devotion and attitude. Those who came before you have honed minds. They’re trained to know where they’re wrong and correct it, or they know they’re limits and work within them.” He explained, nodding to both Gainan and Fai Do.

“In terms of success… Your time is not measured in spite of your punishment, your time is terrible, considering your attitude led you to halve your results. This is analogous to out there. You need to be operating at one-hundred percent.” Garland was staring at the Kennel Master in disbelief. It felt unfair.

“Do you hear me, K9!?”

“Yes sir…” Garland saluted.

“Not like it matters.”

“What?”

He huffed. “I thought about it… You must hate me.”

“Explain.” The Kennel Master stared at Garland seriously.

“I got excited, but let's be real. You and I both know that my mom rigged this for me.” He shook his head.

“So obvious… I think you were probably trying to counterbalance it, but the influence is too strong. My parents bribed whoever’s in charge of this test. Fai Do just happened to go slow… Gainan got stuck and all those other girls that got stuck? Sheesh… Make it less obvious.”

“That isn’t true. It’s-” The Kennel Master was trying to point out that the opposite was true, however Garland already tuned out.

“Anything else, sir?” He asked.

It rubbed the man the wrong way, but he shook his head. “No. We’ll continue to the team exercises.” He announced. You three, fall in. The Kennel master was gruff, because the accusation rubbed him the wrong way. The only problem was, it was not something he could easily disprove, and Garland’s attitude was not a problem that was easily solved. Not all K9’s were fit. Some simply didn’t make it despite their skill in certain areas. Those that didn’t… Well, he knew what happened to them and though he didn’t feel anything in particular from it, it always hurt him when it was someone from his own trainees.

Garland saw his usually dower tone shift to become even more gruff and also took it the wrong way. He assumed that the Kennel Master was very annoyed at having Garland perform the course with an unfair advantage from his parents, and like him getting a good time was the icing on the shit cake.

They fell in line and the three of them were taken through the usual conditioning exercises. The Kennel Master bid them to squat in front. Each of them did so, lifting their hands in front of them.

“Hold.” He ordered unenthusiastically.

“Yes, Master!” They all called out. Garland could not help but continue noticing his head was somewhere else. It was odd and uncharacteristic.

“Alright. Attuning. You know what to do.” They tilted their heads. He placed a small, flat device on each of their noses. The attuning device was used often in this type of training. Garland had of course had it used on him many times. As it was rested on his nose and he was bidden to hold perfectly still, his eyes rested on the flat little coin-like thing as it radiated signals into their brains. The combination of holding a submissive pose while taking the mental bombardment trained them into a very particular neutral state that was eventually meant to persist and become natural. Tails wagging, smiling, salivating at simply being commanded. It was such a casual and non-chalant form of insidious mind control that not a single one of the K9 trainees thought anything about what it was doing to them, how it was shaping their response to authority.

After a very fast ten minutes the Kennel Master placed a treat on their tongues to signify the release of the device. The treat was savoury, filling and even Garland with his diet was able to eat it for some strange reason. The chemical reaction it produced was one that pumped a cocktail of chemicals that released sweet pleasure directly into their brains just as they were at the height of the conditioning radiating into their brain. As he switched it off, they had fallen just a little more under complete control, all of them. There was no problem whatsoever. It was normal, even to the Kennel Master that cared so much for his Trainees.

“At ease.” He told them.

“You’re all in free time.”

Garland stood up and stared at him as he left. The way he carried his shoulders was slightly different. He looked over to check out and confirm that Gainan and Fai Do were leaving together to hit the mess. He was the only one that would probably have the sense to check on the Kennel Master.

“Hey!“ He called out, waving. The man stopped and stared intensely over his shoulder.

“I- I don’t even have a choice. I don’t want my parents to do that but-”

“They didn’t.” He stated.

“Huh?”

“I promise.”

“They probably made you say that.”

“Have I lied so far.”

Garland furrowed his brow. “Well, no…”

“Exactly.” He turned again to leave, but Garland got in front of him.

“Then why are you upset?” The Kennel Master stared down curiously at that question.

“Because you’re at risk of failing.”

Garland exhaled sharply through his nose and said flippantly. “What do you care? I’m just another-”

“I care.” He offered sternly. Garland’s mouth fell open.

“Do-” Garland blushed and looked off bashfully.

“Do you maybe want a hug?” He stared at Garland blankly.

“Uhm, I promise I’ll correct my behavior. I’ll be good.” Garland looked up for approval eagerly, tail wagging. The Kennel Master looked him in his golden eyes appraisingly as Garland added with similar desperation.

“I don’t mean to be bad. I just… don’t know better, but you’re making me better gradually and… I do really wanna try and make it.” The man softened subtly, staring down at Garland, giving him a strange look.

“Sir?” He stared down at her intensely, stepping right up to him. Garland was about to apologise even more profusely, since the Kennel Master’s intense stare made him feel a bit guilty, but before the fox could speak he wrapped Garland in his arms tightly and warmly.

“I know you’re trying and I know you want to.” He responded. It sounded like the same neutral tone the man always had, but it was tinged with something else. Arousal. Garland was perplexed, because the man had shown ‘arousal’ before, but Garland had never perceived it in his emotions.

“I know because your devotion’s triggering my instincts.”

“What’s that?”

“My people, at some point, had formed a unified trait that is specific to male and female, with those in between outside those confines exempt.Females are locked to one male, and males are noticeably less restricted, but will show a reaction to devotion that’s like a bond.Not binding, but… we feel connected to them and familiar.”

Garland cocked his head to one side. “Uh… that’s just love?”

The Kennel Master’s brows lifted, then he let out a sharp exhale and relaxed. “I see. Are you willing to take responsibility?” The man asked.The fox blushed.

“I’m not female, though, so-” He remembered the interaction with Fai Do, and did not want to run into the same thing.

“What?”

“I’m not.”

“You like cock?”

“Yes.”

“You look like a woman and enjoy it?”

“Yes…”

“You act like a woman and enjoy it?”

“I- well- Yes, I guess so.”

“Being treated like one makes you happy?” He went through it like he was going off a checklist in his mind.

“That is true, yes.” Garland relented.

“So you’re saying that I am?”

He shook his head. “No. I have to respect how you identify yourself. You say you are male, despite all that. It means my understanding needs to be expanded so that I can eventually understand why that is.” That could’ve been sarcasm, but Garland did not think the man knew what sarcasm was or how to use it unless he was yelling. Also, he seemed serious.

Garland inhaled slowly, then hugged the man more assuredly. “No… I don’t think it does need expanding. I can only think of one thing that needs expanding right now…”

“Hmm?”

“My cu-”

“No, I mean, why doesn’t it need expanding?”

Garland smiled. “Because saying ‘I’m Garland and I’m a Female K9’ doesn’t make me feel bad at all.” She licked her lips sensually.

“In fact… it makes me feel goood. Really good. You make me feel g-” She was surprised as he grabbed her wrist tightly and took her away to somewhere that was out of sight. Below the stands. He pressed her against one of the pillars and kissed her neck.

“W-what? Is it because I told you I’m a girl?”

“No… persistence in arousing me finally put me over the edge.” He leaned back and stared at Garland seriously.

“If you don’t stop me or says something, K9 Garland, I’m going to fuck you. It won't be as you kennel Master. This is highly inappropriate, as it’s outside of what is allowable. This is so you can have a chance to-” Garland interrupted his speech by closing the distance he leaned back to kiss him on the lips. The two of them entwined, arms around the other. His tongue pushed into her mouth and hers pressed his, but it was simply too strong inside her mouth and rolled around dominantly. As they broke the kiss she gasped and stared up lewdly.

“Come on, I don’t need a warn-” Her eyes widened as he picked her up off her feet and slammed her onto the ground as if they were wrestling. She inhaled breath excitedly as he curled a finger under her panties and easily tore them, having no care for her attire.

“Oh-oh shit, we’re doing this? What’s this mean?” She asked, barely able to get the last word in before his tremendous cock entered her. His muscular body, sweat glistening on his dark skin, curled over her affectionately. As he thrust, he continued to kiss around her chest, up her neck. He exhaled hot breath onto her neck and chest as he answered.

“It means… I’m also going to need to take responsibility.”

“H-huh?” She moaned, shutting her eyes. It was one of the first cocks she’s had with a cunt, and the feeling of being split open by his dark member was sublime. She managed to stop shuddering enough to unlid her eyes and stare up at him.

“For you…” He added, placing his hands at her waist so that he could start pushing into her more crudely and quickly without her moving back. Her voice began to escape in little pants and gasps. The man clarified by adding between laboured grunts.

“I won't be able to let you leave my side, and I won't be able to tolerate any insubordination or attitude from you as easily as I did before.”

“I don’t get it…” She admitted, reaching up to fold her fingers behind his neck.

“I’m saying that with this, it’s going to become more than a job for me.”

Garland blushed deeply. “You mean that we are-”

“I’m a bit flat, emotionally, but I’m not stupid, K9. I don’t believe I mistook the signs of you liking me.”

“Hah. But, you like me?”

“I respect you. You’re skilled and you learn well.”

She laughed. The fucking slowed momentarily. “I’m a brat, and I’m not nearly as disciplined as Gainan, or even Faido.”

He smirked. “There is a saying that the curse makes true love difficult. It’s the ability to stop loving, and to stop being devoted that allows it to happen. There is a question if ‘love’ even exists between my people. For other things it’s also the same. You can’t be disciplined unless you can challenge authority. You are one of the most challenging K9’s I’ve trained, and you are constantly improving. So, you are in a sense, on your way to becoming the best.”

“Do you want to go all the way with me?” Her heart fluttered. The man thought for a moment, then nodded.

“I never had any plans of stopping. I would’ve told you.”

“Pfft, hahaha!” Garland hugged the man close as the two locked together. He fucked her intensely for the next minute, rutting and ramming relentlessly. If they wanted privacy, it was unfortunate because the sounds of Garland’s lifted voice, her moans and the slapping and grunting sounds carried into the training grounds far enough to make the doberman-like K9 blush and scratch her cheek as she calculated times and penalties.