That wasn’t all my Tua had in store for the giant. As it went for a second swing she opened her mouth and clamped down on the arm. The sounds of stone grinding against stone meshed with the creaking of leather. Then the arm snapped off and she dropped it to the ground.
Losing its arm caused the giant to go into berserker mode. It spun wildly throwing out its arm and stump. The moves were fast and unpredictable. Izzy dropped as her limbs and head were sucked into the shell.
“Izzy!” I sent to my turtle.
“I’m fine, just staying clear while that thing blows off steam. Don’t worry, I’ll have it beat before the timer is done.”
“OK, we’re counting on you.”
While the giant continued to rage the mercs ran up to me. Their eyes went wide and they slowed before reaching me. I felt a stab of fear from each of them.
“Are you back to being you?” Poshia asked.
“I think I am. Why are you looking at me like that?” I asked.
“You haven’t changed back, not all the way,” Chloe said. “It looks badass.”
“What are you talking ab…” I stopped talking when I looked at my hand. It was the right size, but still covered in scales. Short talons tipped my fingers. The scales came to an end below my elbow. Looking over my shoulder I saw a wing. Willing them to spread I got a good look at them both. They were smaller than they were when I activated Dragonshift, but I thought they might due for flight.
“Your face,” Porshia said. “It’s got scales going up your cheeks like our fur does after we shift now. And you feet look like your hands. What does it mean?”
“I don’t know, Porshia. It’s not supposed to last this long and it usually looks different. I’m kinda freaked out right now.”
“Can you shift back?” Reina asked.
Shifting back and forth wasn’t something I was used to so I hadn’t thought of it. Like everything else, I figured it was just a force of will thing. So I concentrated on become regular old Terry. Nothing happened.
“I don’t think I can,” I said.
“Maybe we can help?”Lauren asked. We do have experience with this. Well, not this situation exactly, but shifting back and forth at will.”
The ground shook as a loud boom and shock wave hit us. We all looked back to the fight in time to see the giant rain down another devastating blow on Izzy’s shell. She was still inside.
“Izzy?” I sent.
“Still good. No worries.”
Her head launched out of the chell and clamped down on one of the giant’s legs. Her arms and legs came out next. She dug her nails in the floor gaining purchase and pulled back. The giant was pulled off balance and pinwheeled its arms to try and stay upright. It didn't work and it fell onto its back. Izzy reversed course climbing up the long giants body. It beat against her shell with its good arm to no effect. The stump shot up and was shortened by the edge of her shell.
When my turtle reached the head she bit down. The one arm continued to pound as she tore the head off. The pile of rubble that was its dome fell to the floor, but it kept hitting her. Izzy shifted her body down and took off a chunk of the torso with her powerful jaws. Still it fought. Three bites later she tore into the center of the giant’s torso and a green light flashed. The arm fell to the floor and the entire thing came apart. Whatever magic was animating it died with the light.
Izzy stood and walked toward us. As she came, the white, blue, and green light began leaving her. As it did she shrunk back down. The long alligator snout melted back into her face. The shell shrunk until it was normal Tua size. Her skin softened to her normal shifted turtle skin. When she next stood before us she was back to normal.
“You OK, Terry?” she asked with concern on her features. She had to be worried about the transformation. “You going to shift back?” She asked.
“I don’t know. I tried, but nothing I do works. I think I’m stuck like this. You think it might be from having forced the ability to activate when it was still in cooldown?” I asked.
“That seems as likely as any answer I could come up with. None of you have an answer I take it?” She looked from one merc to the next.
“No,” Poshia said. She looked back at me. “You have to stop thinking of us as mercs. We no longer work for Antoinette. We are your soldiers now.”
“That’s true. Should I call you a troop or something?” I asked unsure about all of the military lingo and what would be appropriate.
“No, just call us your Spec Ops team.”
“Spec Ops?” i asked.
“Special Operations,” Chloe said. “Like Navy Seals or Marine Raiders. Only, were much better cause none of them can kick as much ass as we can.”
“Assuming that ass isn't fifty feet off the ground,” Reina said.
“Are we going to go to the next room?” Izzy asked.
“Yeah,” I said. “I think we should take a break and get a little rest first.”
Izzy looked at my Spec Ops team. “Would you mind giving us a few minutes?”
“Anything for our sister-Tua,” Chloe said.
Izzy waited until the Spec Ops girls were far away before sitting down next to me. We watched in silence as the team of four approached the remains of the giant and began looking around.
“I realized something when I was fighting,” Izzy said. “Or, to be more specific, when you were fighting and you lost control.”
“What’s that?” I asked.
“I was really scared, Terry. I thought I was going to lose you, and that it was my fault.”
I didn’t know how to respond. I didn’t blame her for anything. None of us knew how this all worked and I couldn’t blame them if something didn’t go as planned due to our ignorance. I also realized that I might have to let Izzy go her own way if she couldn’t be in a relationship with me that satisfied this damned Tuatha magic crap.
“Pinche, Gringo,” Izzy mumbled. “I’m not going anywhere. Get that thought out of your head. I love you, Terry. I want to be a part of your weird and crazy life.” She looked down at the floor between her feet. “If you’ll have me. I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t want me. I screwed up and it almost cost you your sanity. Because of my you are stuck as a dragon thing. I won’t blame you, Terry.”
“You must have selective… um… thought hearing? Whatever. If you paid more attention to what I felt you would know that I would never push you away. I love you too, Izzy. All I ever wanted was for you to be happy and be in my life. I don’t care if we have sex. I just want to be around you, to spend time with you. Is that alright?”
Izzy shifted back to human. After having become the Grand Alligator Turtle her clothes were long gone. I swallowed a lump in my throat at the sight of her. She was a beautiful and sexy woman. I felt like the luckiest guy alive just to be able to see her without her clothes on.
My Izzy looked at me and smiled. “Can I kiss you?”
I leaned over and our lips met. It was tentative at first as we sought to get comfortable with each other. After a few second Izzy pushed her tongue into my mouth. Then she pushed me down and rolled on top of me.
My hands ran down her back to her firm round ass. Instead of a rebuff she moaned. The sound of her pleasure and the fel of her soft skin made my cock swell.
Izzy felt it and she reached between us. Her hands slid down what was left of my pants and found my dick. It was my turn to moan at her touch. Our kisses became frantic and hungry. Izzy unfastened my pants and slid them down as we continued to kiss.
I grabbed her shoulders and lifter her up enough to break the kiss. As I held her she slide her hands up and down the length of my cock. It was almost enough to make me lose my nerve and just go with it, but I couldn’t. :We don’t have to do this, Izzy. i will understand.”
“I want you, Terry. Not like last time. I thought I had to then. Now I want it. I want it as bad as you do.” She sat up giving me an interesting view of her perky breasts. “Is that alright with you?” She asked.
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nbsp; “You know I want you,” I said.
She smiled. Raising up off of me she gripped my cock then lowed back down. Her hand guided my cock to her wet slit. She moved it back and forth along her pussy getting the tip slick, then she slid down. Slowly she lowered herself until I was all the way in. Then she rocked her hips back and forth, slow at first.
We stayed that way for a long while. Not only did i enjoy the sensation of her pussy around my cock, but the joy I felt from her as well. My Izzy was enjoying this as much as I was, and that made me truly happy.
Chapter 36
My turtle and I laid on the hard floor in each others arms. We didn’t get up until the Spec Ops team came back.
“You two going to stay like that forever?” Porsha asked.
“We should get moving,” I said.
“We could,” Chloe said. “Or, you could let us have our turn.”
I looked up to see the Spec Ops team had shifted back to human. They were all naked with belts on containing the pouches with ammunition and who knew what else. The only other thing they wore were rifles slung across their bodies with the slings bisecting their breasts.
“I don’t know if that’s a good idea,” I said thinking of how Izzy might take it.
“It’s fine,” Izzy said. “I’m in whole heartedly. I know what this is and that I have to share you. The only thing I ask is that you don’t try to get me to share you with someone else at the same time. When we do it, it’s just the two of us. Cool?”
“Yes, that’s perfect,” i said. Even though she agreed to it I still felt like a bit of a letch for having sex with the Spec Ops girls right after Izzy and I did.
“Don’t sweat it,” Izzy said with her face an inch from mine. Her breath was sweet and warm against my face. “This will keep you from going ape shit again. They need this and so do you. I love you.” She gave me a tender kiss on the lips.
“I love you too, Izzy.”
My turtle left going to where Scarlett and Morgana sat on the far side of the room. I rose to my elbows to watch her walk.
“Don’t bother getting up,” Lauren said.
I looked up at the Spec Ops girls to see all of them unsling their weapons and taking off their equipment belts.Porsha straddled my hips and wasted no time sliding me into her warm channel. She went to work fucking me hard.
Chloe stood over my head facing Porsha and looked down at me. “Do you mind?” she asked.
I assumed she wanted to sit on my face which made me so excited that mu dick throbbed and Porshia squeaked.
“Please do,” I said.
I was right, thankfully. Chole lowered her glistening pussy to my mouth and I greedily lapped at it. While I worked her soft lips and clit Reina knelt next to Chloe and Fondled her breasts. Or so I thought. It was hard to see with Chloe’s ass in my face, not that I was complaining.
Soon, Porshia’s hard fucking increased in termpo and she was cumming. The sensation of her tight warmth locking down on my dick was too much. I squirted my hot seed into her tight pussy.
“My turn,” Lauren said while Porshia lifted off of me. I was about to protest when I realized that I was still hard.
As Lauren slid me inside her pussy Chloe ground her sex against my face faster and faster until she came. Chloe was replaced by Reina who’s pussy had a slight watermelon taste. We continued to lick and fuck until I came another two times and all of the Spec Ops girls had an orgasm.
“I didn’t think you had it in you,” Porshia said as she buckled her belt back on.
“I didn’t think fucking a dragon boy would be so much fun,” Chloe said.
“I second that,” Reina added.
“Hell,” i chuckled, “I didn’t think I could go that much either. Being a Tuatha fucking rocks!”
“So we get to be rocked again soon?” Lauren asked.
“I would like that very much.”
“You won’t mind doing all four of us again, right?” Porshia asked. “We a team. We live, die, and fuck as a team.”
“I think I can work with that.”
“I bet you can,” Porshia said. “We leaving?”
“I think so,” I replied.
My spec Ops team shifted, covering their nudity with fur and feathers. In less then a second I missed the look of then without clothes or natural coverings. My dick stirred when the image of the four of them standing over me naked flashed in my head.
I stood and pulled on the tattered remains of my pants. By the time I arrived at the door everyone was there. Izzy smiled at me, while my Spec Ops team took their positions in front of the door. Morgana looked me up and down like i was a prime rib on a butchers block. Her tongue running over her lip made my dick stiffen. Scarlett looked away when I looked at her with her cheeks turning a deep shade of red. I wondered what that meant.
“Everyone ready?” Porshia asked with her hand resting on the door handle.
We all gave our affirmatives and she opened the door. My Spec ops team rushed in and I ran in after them.The room was an office bigger than the apartment I lived in before finding out I was Tuahta. In the center of the room was a large wooden desk with the thin frail looking mage sitting behind it.
“I’m impressed. No one, and I mean no one, has gotten past the golem before. It’s about time someone did.”
“Excuse me?” I asked.
A gun went off and a green forcefield flared to life for a second around the desk. Every one looked over to see Izzy holding the still smoking gun. “Can’t blame me for trying.” She shrugged.
“I guess not,” The mage said. Smart move trying to get me while I was talking to your little man friend there. Kudos.”
“Why are you talking and not trying to kill us?” I asked.
“Like i said, no one has gotten this far. It gets lonely up here. Why not chat before you all die?”
“You saying you would answer a few questions?” I asked.
“Why not? Shoot.”
“Why did you have my base attacked and make it look like someone else did?” I asked.
“Ah, that whole business with Lassiter Security. Wasn’t me.” He shook his head. “In fact, it was someone you have met on this little journey of yours.”
“Why should I believe a word you say?” I asked while crossing my arms.
“You can believe whatever you wish. I would like to ask you a question, if I may?”
“Why not?” I shrugged.
“We should kill him now,” Morgana sent me through our mental link
“We will get there,” I replied.
“Keep him talking,” Izzy sent. “We can kill him after we get as much info from as he will give up then verify its authenticity after.”
“How did you get like this?” He asked.
“Before I answer, what is your name?” I asked.
“Ah yes, how rude of me. Please call me Anders.”
“Alright, Anders, this is the result of a skill and a lack of understanding of what I am.”
“Interesting, but please elaborate,” Anders said.
“Fine. First, there is an ability I have that allows me a partial transformation for a short period of time. I had some trouble building a proper bond with one of my Tua. The magic that bonds us didn’t like it and had some negative effects on my emotions. While I was thinking straight, I forced the transformation and now I’m stuck.”
“I see. That is fascinating. I am going to study Mage Hunters once this mess is over. I suppose it’s your turn to ask,” Anders said.
“Where are all of your people?”
Anders mouth spread into a lascivious grin. “I have discovered a form of magic that requires sacrifice. My people, or what's left of them, are in the basement where they are more useful than they have ever been.”
“Useful how?” Morgana asked as she stepped forward.
“Hello, Morgana. Good to see you again.”
“Get bent.”
Anders sighed. “They are a part of a ritual that fuels my magic. Wh
en you killed the golem and statue several of my people died. I have enough left to deal with you, but I will have to find more mages. Regular people provide a boost, but not like the power granted from a mage.”
Rage radiated off Morgana. I still needed answers so I cut in before she could attack. “Who ordered the attack?” I asked in a rush. “Porsha, see if you and the team can leave and find that basement. Cut off his power.”
“On it.”
“Very well. One of the abilities granted by my mage batteries is a temporary expansion of my territory. This allows me to see and hear everything in my sphere of influence.”
“How is this relevant?” I asked even though I had an idea that he might be watching everyone.
“As you might imagine,” Anders said while I heard the soft click of the door closing behind me. “I can also extend tendrils out that allow me to watch a small area indefinitely. As a Mage Hunter, I keep a close eye on your father, and his retinue. It seems the real power of that household is the lady Antoinette. She conspired with Lassiter to attack and make it seem like it was your father.”
“Why would she do that?” I asked.
“She said something about wanting you to come to her. Apparently, she has designs on you, Terry.”
That statement stunned me. Could that really be the case? Did the woman who connected me with my Spec Ops team and set me on the path that lead me here be behind all of it?
“Why?” I asked.
“I don’t know. She hadn’t shared that with anyone that I am aware of. I might ask when I lure her here and take her down. I can’t have a manipulated Mage Hunter this close to me. Not while I don’t understand the motivations of the manipulator.”
“I think the questions are done,” Anders said. “I have some entertainment for you though.” He pointed up to a large flat screen television mounted on the wall behind him. It snapped onto a blue screen for a moment, then a view of a hallway.
Porsha walked into the hallway with her rifle up to her shoulder. She was followed by Chloe, Lauren, and Reina.
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