Ethriel, p.8
Ethriel, page 8
part #4 of Kanosian Warriors Series
"You think they're suffering? You think that they're doing much worse than we are?" he asked.
"I do...God what if they were already rescued and everyone forgot to send them a message about us? What then?"
"I suppose we stay here then. A man and his mate." he muttered and I kept silent although I wanted to announce that I agreed with the idea.
Up until now our relationship has been friendly but never explicitly intimate. I never thought that it would ever get to this point with him but he was quite convincing and I had fallen for him in a drastic manner. Perhaps it was being stranded with him and perhaps it was something else, I don't know, but I wanted to be with him, to lay against his body and to watch the stars was one of the most comfortable activities that I could have been doing.
"Look at it. We would see the sky light up if they were rescued already. Besides a lot of them already know that escape pods were headed here anyways so they'll search for us. But they need our help, to the other way around. We need to get off of this planet as soon as we can." he reaffirmed.
"Strange that a livable planet doesn't have any colonists yet but…I suppose that it's our little secret. A planet that is so rugged and full of monsters that no one could ever settle here but a planet that could be comfortable for two people." I remarked.
"We could have a house on the river...some children..." he trailed off and I blushed at the thought.
"What?" I asked him but he was already fast asleep. I giggled as I watched his eyes shut and his mouth open slightly, he looked so goofy, even more silly than when he was awake.
Yeah. Maybe we could have that.
I feel his arms unconsciously tightened around me as he pulled me in. his hands subconsciously find their way to my breasts and I wondered if I should tell him off or not. I wanted to feel him like this, I wanted this and yet some part of me felt a bit ashamed. I knew that my dad had history with the Kanosians but I left all that behind. What was he to say if I brought a Kanosian man home and said that I was going to marry him? What happened to that whole thing about avoiding everyone since Michael? Was I really beginning to risk it all now?
No, no. When I was younger I could have fallen for someone like Michael. A deceitful man that was handsome but little else. I Was vain and desperate for attention, it was a love and affection borne from some sense of loneliness. This is bred from a need, I was chosen to do this, not forced into it by my own insecurities. Ethriel was brave, he was a bit brutish, arrogant, and goofy but he was mine. I knew that he was a good man in my heart, I could sense it deep inside of my bones that he wanted my happiness above all.
Perhaps there was little harm in indulging him.
I leaned into his body and pressed the back of my head against his chest while he shivered and sighed. He smelled of oranges but that was most likely due to the leaves that were around our bodies at the time. I sighed as I relaxed and felt my hands tense around his, my head rested against his chest and I finally willed myself to sleep as well.
#
Ethriel
Several days after we finally found it. A sign that we weren't just foolishly wandering.
We were walking along the riverbank when I spotted something in the distance. It was a hunk of metal. Probably a piece of some ship. There was also an assortment of electronics that were drifting in the water and I quickly hopped in to dig them out. She calls out to me to chide me for my recklessness but that all stops when I showed her what I have found.
"Look." I said and lifted the large metal plate to show her. My armor was still dripping water and the plate that I collected was sort of rusted but it was clearly part of a ship of some kind. At least now we knew that there were electronics.
"It came from upstream." I remarked as she studied it.
"Interesting. This model number it's ...human. Come on, we should hurry and find the rest of it ...It's somewhere on this planet, isn't it? Probably why the river is flowing like this. With any luck whatever it's hidden in the snow and is probably still intact." she rambled with a rather cute expression on her face while we continued along the river. The mountain was getting closer now and with any luck, we would find the ship.
Some part of me felt a bit sad that our little escapades have ended but I have what I have wanted since I met her. I have her attention and presumably her affection. From the way she gazes at me now I know that I have her and I was satisfied.
Now it was only a matter of time before I would make my move or she would make her move.
We trek a bit father for a few more days and each day we go to sleep in that same position. One night I was tempted to just have my way with her and get it out of the way but I knew that I had to wait for her if I wanted to do anything. She rests those soft locks against my chin as I took in her scent. She smelled of blossoms and river water, the perfect combination in my eyes or rather, my nose. She had insisted that I got to sleep that way since she didn't want me being tired for our inevitable trek up the mountain and she was right.
Because when we arrived it was a whole lot colder and steeper than I would have liked.
"Oh my god it's so massive!" she declared while standing at the base. Her eyes surveyed the cliff face as I grimaced and stepped forwards. My hands stretched out and latched onto the rocks as I began to crawl upwards. She looks at me and tries to follow with my axe in her hand but she can't seem to get her footing so I decided that I would have to take her. It was early in the day and there was no excuse not to start the ascent now, but it was clear that she wouldn't be able to do it. My claws and talons enabled me to latch onto the mountain quite easily but I couldn't help her in any way except for carrying her. Our packs got in the way of that so there was no way I could do that either.
"What are we going to do?" she asked from the base of the mountain and I contemplate what I could do with the rope in my hand among other things. I glanced at my pack and set it down on a flat section of the cliff and took out some rope that had been included along with the survival kit back on the pod. I would need my axe from her, however.
I crawled back down the tiny sections that I had climbed and request the axe from her. She looks at me for a moment with confusion in her eyes before she realizes what I was going to do and quickly helped me tie the rope. She keeps her scanner out and she finally gets a signal back. She sent out the pulse and in return, a single beep sounded. She had told me that once she sends out a pulse then a beep should sound to indicate the presence of something. The more beeps that were called out then the closer something was.
"It's probably somewhere up there." She said.
I gazed at the river as it ran through the slopes of rock and patches of snow. There were still trees but it was getting frigid and would likely be getting even more frigid the more that we went up. I take the axe and begin to climb upwards before snugly slamming the pointed back of the axe back into the rocks and holding the rope so that she could ascend. She follows me upwards and we continue the process for as long as we can until night falls. By the end, she was worn and tired, as was I.
And just when I thought that it couldn't get any worse, it does.
CHAPTER NINE
Ethriel
"You hear that?" she asked as she raised her head after our short little break. We could probably get a little farther up but for now, we were sitting on the rocks, under a small tree that has grown out of the side of the mountain. I looked to her and nodded as the mist rolled over my armor, my axe was lifted and I glanced around to look for signs of what was approaching.
"Yeah." I remarked and looked around, the sounds were getting louder so I beckoned for her to climb the small tree, luckily she didn't need help to summit this one, likely due to the fact that she knew that there was no time.
I lift the axe as I watched the first of the five creatures approach. They had large talons on their four feet and sharp fangs. Their ears were short and pointed, almost like the horns on a Kanosian. They were absolutely covered in scales as well as feathers and were snarling at me. They looked to be the same color as the rock, a dull shade of grey that barely glowed when a light was shone on them.
The first lunges at me and I lift my arm in surprise as its speed catches me off guard. It latches onto my arm and I fling it away as I watched another one charge me. I managed to strike that one down with a well-placed shot to the head with an axe before another one of the creatures crawls towards me. This time I grabbed his throat and slammed it into the ground while piercing it with my claws but then I heard her screaming.
"Oh god! Shit, it's climbing!" she cried out as she reached into her pocket for the knife that was attached to her suit. She jabs it at the creature but doesn't seem to deter it as I roared and shook the creatures that were on me, off. I rushed towards her and grabbed the offending creature with my hand, crushing its throat with one hand. I let it fall to the side as I tend to the other creatures of which only two remained. The other two were already bleeding out or weakened to the point of being benign. I grab one of the beasts and smacked the other away before stomping on the beast that I was holding and thus killing them all. I snarled and heaved as I gradually calmed down from the exertion. I think that Miranda was even a little afraid to approach me at the moment as a result of my anger.
"Are you alright?" she asks me and I nodded as I turned back to her. She was shivering, shaking with fear still as I approached her and captured her in my arms. She takes a look at my gauntlet and frowned.
"Take it off. Let me treat your wounds." she said as I gripped my glove and began to remove it. The bite wounds were quite deep and I was bleeding so she immediately took out the medical kit and began to treat me.
I flinched and murmured while she applied the cleaning spray onto me. I let my wound fizzle before she took out the med gel and began to apply it to my wound. After finishing with the medication she tenderly wrapped a bandage around my arm and allowed me to relax for a bit. I was still quaking with worry.
"We're fine. We'll be fine. You should rest that arm for a day and wait until it heals." she says and I shake my head, the wound wasn't even that deep.
"We go now. We don't' want to be on this planet any longer. The longer that we are here the more there is a chance of you getting hurt and I can't accept that." I said and she nodded before getting her things and following me. I would have thought that she was going to protest.
"You're right. The sooner we got out of there the better, More importantly, however, is finding a place to camp out. That tree wasn't useful so I have another suggestion. A cave. That way we can light a fire near the entrance to deter any visitors and be sheltered from the wind up here." She suggested and I grunted in approval. She must have spotted the jagged rock formations ahead and the idea probably came to her.
We continue to trade words for a little while until finding a small cave that the two of us could comfortably fit into. I set up the tarp and she lights the fire and soon enough we found ourselves warm and dry deep inside of the cave. I was busy warming up the meat that I had gathered from a couple of days back when I finally spring it on her.
"When this is all over...I want to go with you. Wherever that is." I declared with my back turned to her as I poked and prodded the flame. She looked at me with a curious glint in her eyes as she sauntered over to the flame and sat beside me.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"I mean that when this is over with I want to go where you go. I'll get a job as a guard, anything...I just want to be with you."
"Ethriel."
"The time spent with you here has informed me of one thing. I want you more than anything else than I have ever wanted. To be able to claim you as my mate would be the greatest honor that I could have and I propose the question to you now after our time together. I know that getting out of here is not a foregone conclusion but to me it is. I will not spend a day with you being unhappy and will do everything in my power to protect you. So I will ask the question one more time." I said as I took the skewers of meat off of the flame and handed it to her. She takes it and stares at me as I continued.
"You will be my mate. Dare to prove me otherwise?" I asked and she shivered as she set the meat down near the coals and looked at me. She shakes her head and immediately leans in to kiss me. I moaned into her lips as I felt her hands clenching mine.
"I love you." she said.
"So do I." I growled as I leaned in and pressed her back against the rocks.
I get on top and hold her arms to her side as I watched her quiver underneath me. That survival suit of her's was already stripped off since it was warm enough inside of here. I could see her shivering under my grasp, those soft eyes of her's meld with mine as I watched her raven hair dash over her cheeks. I leaned in and kissed her several more times while her hands quiver undermine.
"Take me, take me. I am your mate and yours only. I don't care about anything else in these stars other than you." she moaned.
"That's what I wanted to hear. Now surrender to me." I snarled as I began to kiss her.
My sentiments were kicking in and as much as I wanted to crack a joke to make her laugh my body wouldn't let me. This was the time, this was the time to call her and I would not relent. I run my tongue against hers as we held our lips together. Her ample breasts shook underneath me as I leaned in and pushed her body against mine. I can feel her teeth gently grazing my lips before I kissed a path down her chin to her chest that was bouncing and swelling. Her flesh was so curvaceous, so ample, I had to claim her for myself.
"Please. I need you. I want you so badly my Kanosian warrior." she moaned as I wrapped my mouth around her mounds and began to suckle.
My teeth and my tongue toy with her nipples and her mounds while she moaned for me. Her body quakes as her mounds bounced in my mouth, my tongue continuously rubbed every last bit of flesh on her. The rough texture of my tongue afforded her the greatest pleasure that could be endured, the greatest pleasure that I could offer. She didn't stop shaking as I kissed her belly and made my way further downwards to her soaking womanhood.
"Please, oh take me now. Claim me" she moaned with the fire of love in her eyes as I finally tasted her.
I spread her folds with my fingers as I sink my tongue inside of her while keeping a finger on a swollen piece of flesh on her folds that seemed to bring her immense pleasure every time I so much as breathed on it. I would later learn that this part of a human woman was a "clit". My finger toys with her clit and rubbed it while she continued to moan and squirt her juices onto my fingers.
Her eyes rolled back as she gasped and let out a series of soft moans. These quickly increased in intensity as I pushed her most sensitive nerve bundles with the tip of my tongue over and over again. The texture of a Kanosian tongue was much more rugged than anything a human possessed, she would later tell me.
The tongue continued to squirm inside of her and the intensity was only increasing. I could feel her thighs pressing into my cheeks as the tongue ventured further and further, she was crying, thrashing under me while I held her down and feasted on her sweet juices. She bites and gasps before the folds begin to clench my tongue and I hear her moaning in reaction. My tongue continued to lash at her before I finally felt her quiver to the point where the end was near.
Thus, I removed myself from her proximity and spread her legs as I did so. She looked at me questioningly while I use my strength to hold her in place. I could tell that she wanted nothing more than for me to tend to her with my tongue but I had other plans in mind.
I take my member and position it near her entrance while she laid there for me, her folds spread as I whipped my tip across her folds and her clit. I could see the shadow of a climax dash across her face before I finally moved into her. I growled and snarled while on top of her, my red eyes surveyed every inch of her body while I feel her curves shaking underneath my body of rock hard muscle. I keep her hands pinned so that she can't feel me, so that she will have to work for the honor of feeling my abdomen, my chest.
"Please master. Please." she groaned .
"Earn it." I ordered.
She nodded as I began to thrust in and out of her. Her mouth was agape and she was yelping for me as my tip traveled further and further. My member had more texture, it was larger, all of that equated to a much more pleasurable experience for her than if she merely had a human man in bed with her.
She quaked as her walls clenched me and I felt her breasts shake in my grasp. I pinched her nipples and allowed her to stroke my powerful arms and my rock-solid torso while she squealed underneath me. I occasionally put a finger down next to her clit to rub it and heard her moaning for me as I did so. She was drawing closer and closer to the end and I would invite her, I would take her there soon.
Her mouth is agape and she moans breathlessly as I give her a couple of kisses to calm her down. My pace does not slow as I continued to appraise every inch of her with my eyes. Her curves were so lovely, I don't care what any other fool had to say about them. She was the most wondrous woman that I have ever seen and I would have her for eternity.
For she was my mate, and she was mine to claim.
"Yes, yes, oh god!" she cried out as her climax finally arrived. I only growled and roared without any coherent message as I felt her walls clench me before my member throbbed and the heat began to drift onto her.
