Pepperoni was a happy kitty. She could go out and hunt prey as much as she wants. She was an avid businesswoman that was running her own dungeon. She had a loving family, and who knew how many kids running around.

Yup, Pepperoni had the life. She currently was getting a message from one of her adopted children. She was pregnant (Again) and content with life. She met this wild Bobcat absolute [Monster] and had an incredible all nighter. But she was content with life, as all cats should be.

“Marten Anderson, have you done your chores yet?” Said the Alpha. She respected the head female. Though Micky was off adventuring with that it, she respected her new younger sibling too. Pepperoni was well aware that females ruled the Pilaluto, or Luto for short.

Her scratcher was absconded by the Alpha and forced to stop scratching her tum-tum. Oh well, Pepperoni didn’t understand why humans had stomachs, tum-tums were so much better. She never got fat unless she was pregnant, and she never got stomach aches… though she did get hairballs, and occasionally puke on people’s important things ‘accidentally’.

Pepperoni knew she should get up and stretch, then go kill something… but the sun felt so good… until it didn’t.

“All right lazy bones, up! It’s time for a walk to the dungeon.” Said the beta, the Alpha’s pet male. She didn’t really mind. They took her on trips to the dungeon regularly, even though she would often go at night as well. That’s why they gave her this scarf around her neck that said Perpperoni, and had a tamers symbols on it.

As they walked through the town it was starting to get sparse. The former human dwellings were left abandoned. Her pet Micky was just the first, there were many more after that wave. But Pepperoni did not mind, in fact she loved having more freedom to run around. After she become a [Monster] she had a lot less freedom.

But now that so many have moved out she could roam a bit around the house and the neighbors wouldn’t mind… as long as they didn’t see. Susan also liked to take Pepperoni out for walks around town. She seemed to like the way Pepperoni intimidated the lesser species to keep them away from her.

But now was not the time to think of that, now was the time to take care of the dungeon. A low level team has already come a few times to sweep the dungeon, and while not a popular dungeon it did not have much in the line of competition, so it was on a list for nobles and other teams that could take the time to visit. They would come in and spend some money around the village, compete with whatever team was there on how much money they could spend, and then leave either for the dungeon or to real civilization.

But none of them could compete with Pepperoni in her own dungeon. The beta let her loose on the dungeon and she went in roaring. She ran up ahead and the poop minion yelled and attempted, and failed, to catch up. The dungeon had gone through a change recently. With both Silver and Pepperoni running the dungeon both wolves and felines had started to appear. It seemed that the dungeon still considered Pepperoni and also Silver as bosses. Of course they were the two highest level, most powerful monsters it had seen.

There were of course more powerful monsters in the forest, but not by much. They were the [Boss]es of the forest, Pepperoni and Silver were the [Boss]es of here. And Pepperoni loved to be the boss. She thought all this as she ripped through a ROUS. The dungeon had changed a bit since the last time. Pepperoni now had to fend off a snake as well. Not venomous of course, a little green thing she used to hunt as a cat, now super sized by [Monsterfication].

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She ripped it to pieces just the same. For she was one of The Fifty, the fifty most influential monsters in the area including the forest and the dungeon. Silver was 4th, and while Pepperoni left a respectable distance from him, she did not think she deserved the 11th place. Most humans couldn’t even count to her position!

So she would rip through the monsters in the dungeon. To gather mana and mutagenic [XP]. She came across a turtle that spat twin jets of water and two horned rabbits next. She went for the turtle first, they were hairy to deal with if she had to deal with them sniping while dealing with the rabbits. She snapped off its head. Then she ripped into the rabbits as they dodged around. But they could never evade her claws while trying to stab her with their horns, it was one or the other.

Now that she was done, the head poop minion finally caught up trying to catch his breath. But why would she let him? Now it was off to the next group, avoiding the felines of course, who avoided her in return. She was a diligent boss lady, she wouldn’t beat down her minions unless she needed to keep order. They also often partied with the wolves, a unique combo she was led to believe. However it was devastating.

She fought a cow and a sheep next. The cattle was one of the hardest to fight in the dungeon. She just needed to run straight and she took up most of the narrow tunnels, but she couldn’t turn around. The sheep however, would cover her behind. But Pepperoni had a unique way of dealing with them, she just leapt over them. She was then free to attack while she was on the cattles back. Goats where actually the most trouble for Pepperoni, but there weren’t any so far.

She beat down the monkey with a club easy enough. Then she moved on to the tasty tasty pig and her piglets. These where tricky because she had to get close enough to take them down by the neck. It had taken her a while to figure out the trick to them, not that she didn’t know the trick. No, she just didn’t realize it was the only way. This was because it would just take too long, and they would regenerate to fast for her to fight them any other way. She she would grasp them by the throat and let them choke to death. It was quick and clean, the way she liked… unless she felt like playing with them to [Dead].

The Beta was chasing her and yelling, and wheezing, but she was already on to the next. It was the [Boss] of this area! There was no way she could let that stand. So she chased down the slime boss, the same type that she had fought with Micky. He was also one of the 50, when it regenerated, 46th place to be exact.

She let the Beta catch up a little in case she needed help, but only just a little. Then she leapt around the Boss like a whirling storm of Claws and teeth. The Boss might be fast, but she was much faster after all the mana she had gathered. And because the [Tamer’s Token] made sure it didn’t leak, even if it did suck some up, she could level up immensely while still living outside the dungeon.

Now the boss didn’t stand a chance, it tried to run, but it was failing. It tried to bash her off as it ran away, but she was already on the other side by the time it finished. She had finally ripped out a large enough piece that she could directly stick her claw in and swat out the core. The rest of the body started to dissolve into mana but Pepperoni ate the core before the poop minion could take it away.

Alright, that was a good speed run, Pepperoni guessed it was time to start heading back now, she was a little tired. *Wheeze* and she might feel bad for the poop minion.

So she turned around and ran past him, of course taking care of all the packs on the way out as well.

“Honey, next time you walk Pepperoni!” The silly beta said as he wheezed from the chair in the dinning room.

“Oh but look at how much Pepperoni loves it when you walk her! You just have to do it!” Said the sly alpha. Pepperoni and the alpha shared a look, yes us women need to stick together. Well she should still reward the beta. So Pepperoni walked over and laid next to the chair the beta was in. He reached down and scratched her head. “Trouble.” He mumbled. Oh he had no idea… yet!