by Eric Vall
“How do you mean?” the princess clicked, but after a second, realization dawned on her face. “Oh, I see.”
“Akela.” I turned to the silver-haired woman next. “Any way you can aerosolize that toxin?”
“I can aerosolize anything,” the mechanic replied with a grin.
“What toxin will you give them?” the king asked, and his brows pulled together with concern.
“I am able to produce a sleeping toxin,” Sef’sla informed the king.
“A sleeping toxin?” he repeated. “I have plants that help with sleep as well, but we do not call them toxins.”
“I make this within my body,” the princess laughed.
I watched Shaso’s face as he heard this news. I knew he still not only despised us, but he also feared us, and Sef’sla’s confession made that fear spread right across his face.
It was pretty satisfying to watch.
“What will you do with the group once they’re caught?” Neka asked.
“We might be able to convince them of the truth,” I said. “We can show them all the technology we have.”
“I don’t think that will be enough,” Shaso remarked. “If they are anything like me, then they will not turn away from their values easily.”
“And yet you still came around.” I smirked. “These citizens might just need to see what’s going on. Regardless, I think they need to stand trial for the deaths they caused, but we may be able to change their minds about everything else.”
Suddenly, a knock sounded on the door, and my hand instinctively twitched to the plasma gun on my hip.
“Come in,” the king called, and one of his guardsmen entered.
“Your Majesty,” he said with a bow, “one of the guards who stayed at the courtyard has returned. He says the group there will hold a ritual at dawn to appease the gods.”
“Thank you,” King Grenn sighed, and he sent the guard on his way.
“If you can’t go against them, then why are the guards helping you?” Neka questioned, and her orange cat ears tilted toward the king curiously.
“They are loyal to me.” The old male smiled softly. “They are my most trusted guards, and they understand what is happening here. Aside from that, three of the men who died today were guards. My protectors do not take kindly to someone killing one of their own.”
“If they’re planning on having the ritual tomorrow, then we don’t have much time to get this going,” I muttered as my mind began to spin.
It would take some time to get enough of Sef’sla’s sleep toxin to knock out an entire group of men, and besides that, Akela had to figure out a way to aerosolize it so we could take the assholes down quietly. Plus, there was the question of how to get the group alone. We couldn’t take them out in front of witnesses, so the cover of night was probably our best bet, but so close to the ritual meant we had no room for error.
“You’re right,” the king agreed. “We must send out this drone of yours as soon as possible.”
“I think it’s best if we wait until night time,” I explained. “We need the group to be alone since we can’t take them out in front of witnesses.”
“Plus, we need to make the sleep toxin,” Neka added.
“Yes,” I agreed, “and that will take a couple of hours at least.”
“Once we have them in our custody, they must be killed,” Shaso declared out of the blue.
“What?” I asked, and my mouth hung agape. “I just said earlier we might be able to convince them of the truth. We have to at least give that a chance.”
“What about a trial?” Akela suggested. “That could show the citizens their crimes, and allow them to help figure out how to punish these traitors.”
“These are not bad ideas,” King Grenn said, but he wrung his hands again. “Still, I’m afraid I must agree with Shaso.”
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I knew the king to be a just and fair person, one of the most honorable I’d ever known. I watched him as he continued to wring his hands, and I knew there had to be a reason. Whatever it was, I still didn’t think I could support this, but I at least had to let him speak.
“Your Majesty,” I said in a calm, low voice. “Do you really mean this?”
“I do not wish to hurt anyone,” the older Gelm replied in a strained tone, “but we cannot have these people filling the citizens’ heads with lies and pitting them against us. Otherwise, there will not be a city left at all.”
“There has got to be another way to deal with this,” I reasoned. As much as I felt these men deserved to suffer for the deaths they had caused, I also knew Shaso’s brainwashing was the true culprit behind this.
Grenn and Shaso looked at me, and I was surprised to see both of them wore looks of sadness. I expected this from the king, but not Shaso. The Elphad knew this was his doing, and now he was arguing that this group needed to die … was it possible he actually felt bad about it?
“There is no other way,” the Elphad leader murmured. “Our people rely on the gods, and if this group convinces them the king and I are corrupt, then we will be overthrown, and you will be cast out from our city.”
“And why would you care about that?” Akela scoffed. “You’ve been trying to get rid of us since we got here.”
“I realize that.” Shaso bowed his head. “I know I have not been kind to you, and I still do not like you very much, but you cured the Gelm people, and you have proven yourself trustworthy.”
I took a long minute to look over the Elphad leader. He appeared to be sincere, and I actually believed him. In my experience, people didn’t lie about not liking you still, but none of that solved the issue at hand.
I didn’t want there to be any more deaths.
“I am sorry, CT,” King Grenn sighed, “but we must go through with the plan. This group is dangerous, they have already killed several guards, and they plan to kill a child tomorrow morning.”
“I think he’s right,” Akela said, and she looked at me with pursed lips.
“They did kill five people today,” Neka mewed pitifully, “and they burnt down the temple.”
“Shaso’s an asshole, but at least he didn’t do that,” Akela added.
I looked to Sef’sla, but the princess was cool and collected as she stared out the window. I knew the Almort valued all life as sacred, and she’d been quiet for a while now.
“Sef’sla, how do you feel about this?” I asked.
“I feel you are honorable for defending these men’s lives,” the princess hissed with a small smile, “especially after the tragedy they have caused. But my support is with the king and his decisions.”
“But your people value all life as sacred,” I argued, and I was surprised she’d agreed to go along with this madness.
“We do,” Sef’sla clicked softly, “but these are not my people. This is not my planet, nor is it yours. It is a planet we have grown to love, filled with people who love and wish to help, but we are not here to govern, we are here to allow the Gelm to govern themselves, even from those who would wish to take that right away from them.”
I blinked hard at Sef’sla’s words.
The princess was absolutely correct, we weren’t here to argue how they should run their civilization, especially when it came to the punishments of zealots who committed murders just hours before. As much as I didn’t want to see anyone else harmed, it was not my place, nor anyone from my crew’s place, to tell these people how to run their homeland. We came here to make sure nobody did that.
“You’re right,” I said to the Almort woman. She was a true dignitary if I ever knew one. Always calm, respectable, and level headed. At that moment, I appreciated her far more than she could ever know.
Sef’sla gave me a small smile, and I saw the king look at her with eyes filled with love and affection. The old man didn’t want to kill anybody either, but he was doing what he felt was best for his people, and I had to respect his decision. I think that was one of the reasons Sef’sla supported him. She real
ized what a difficult choice this was for a leader, and she respected him for making one, even if it wasn’t the one she would personally make.
“Your Majesty,” I said, “how can we help?”
We all quickly came up with a plan that would allow the king and Shaso to take control back from the zealots, while also punishing them for their crimes. It was a messy plan, and I still wasn’t completely for it, but I needed to show my support for the king.
We would send drones into the wannabe Elphads’ homes and poison their dinner without them noticing. The poison would activate right before dawn, so these traitors would fall over dead right before they were able to kill whatever child was to be sacrificed. This would allow the king and Shaso to step up and claim it was the work of the gods.
After the plan was made, Akela went to get the drones ready, while Sef’sla was called to look at some of the guards who had been injured earlier today. None of them were severely injured, but the princess wanted to check on them nonetheless, and Akela would be in the ship for at least a couple hours while she got the cloaking devices ready on the drones.
That meant it was just my cat-girl and me, so we retreated back to the room we’d been staying in in the castle, and I plopped down in the large chair by the fire.
“Are you alright, CT?” the cat-girl asked as she came to stand by me.
“I’m fine,” I told her with a soft smile, then I pulled her down to sit on my lap.
She giggled and nuzzled against me as I rubbed the top of her head.
“I’m sorry you were upset by the king’s decision,” she whispered into my neck.
“Sef’sla was right.” I shrugged. “This is their planet, and their government. We aren’t here to tell them how to run it.”
“No,” she sighed, “but I think it’s noble of you to want them to stand trial.”
“Thank you,” I chuckled, and I kissed her forehead.
Her body was warm against me as she snuggled into me more, and I felt her ass press against my thigh. Her hair smelled like flowers and sunshine, and as I breathed her in, I felt my pants grow tighter.
Neka had been with me for so long, and for most of that time, I’d tried to ignore my feelings for her. I never wanted her to feel the way she had on her home planet, with those men who created her only to be used. I always wanted to protect her, and it had only been recently that we’d entered into a relationship. It still felt strange sometimes, stranger than with Sef’sla and Akela, only because I’d been with Neka for years, and I’d always been her protector.
With Sef’sla and Akela, I wanted to act on my impulses and pull them into me and kiss them, but with Neka, I always wanted to go slow. I never wanted to upset her or make her feel like she was being used. I wanted her to know how loved and cherished she was.
I smiled at my cat-girl as I looked into her bright, yellow eyes, and pushed a strand of orange hair over her shoulder. Her ear twitched when I touched her neck, and I felt my breath grow heavy.
“CT,” she whispered.
“What is it, beautiful?” I asked, and she blushed at my words.
“I just love you,” she said as she looked up at me through her long lashes.
“I love you, too,” I told her, and my voice was husky from desire.
Then I leaned down slowly and let my lips touch hers. Her mouth was pillow soft underneath mine, and I licked her lips so she parted them for me as I slipped my tongue inside.
She moaned at the sensation, and her tail wrapped around my wrist as I cupped her cheek.
Her cat tongue was always a bit of a shock, but I loved it, and after a while, it had started to grow on me. I looked forward to the rough sweetness of her as my tongue played with hers.
I continued to kiss her deeply as I slowly ran my hands down her body. My assistant was curvy in all the right places, with a full chest, small waist, and wide hips that formed the perfect hourglass figure. She drove me crazy as I felt her body tense up under my touch, and I wanted nothing more than to peel her clothes off right now and be inside of her.
“Neka,” I groaned as I pulled away to kiss down her neck.
“CT,” she purred. “I want you.”
My pants grew even tighter at her admission, and I picked her up and carried her over to the bed. I laid her down gently and climbed on top of her as I let my mouth work its way down her body. I nibbled on her collarbone first, then I made my way to the zipper of her flight suit.
The cat-girl wriggled underneath me, her breath sharp with each touch, and she gasped and arched her back as I slowly unzipped her suit.
I kissed down the center where her skin was exposed, then I pulled the suit off to reveal her totally naked body. She had full, perky breasts, with light brown nipples that almost had an orange tint to them against her pale skin.
I hovered above her as I slowly slid my hand up her stomach to her breast.
“Oh, CT,” she gasped at my caress.
“You are so gorgeous,” I told her as I ran my fingers all over her chest.
Finally, when I couldn’t take it any longer, I bent down to pull one of her nipples into my mouth and sucked on it.
“Oh, yes,” she mewled as she arched up to push herself further against me.
I reached over to toy with her other nipple as I continued to suckle on the one in my mouth. Neka wriggled beneath me, and her legs found their way on either side of my thigh so I could feel the heat that came off her.
“Fuck,” I moaned when I realized how wet she was. I could feel the slickness against my flight suit, and the sensation drove me wild with desire.
I kissed down her stomach until I reached her pussy, and I held myself there for a moment as my hot breath teased her while I held her legs in place.
“Please, CT,” the cat girl begged. “I want you so bad.”
I slowly licked her pink slit. She tasted of salt and desire, and I shoved my tongue inside of her to get a better taste as her tail wrapped hard around my forearm.
Neka cried out and arched her back as she grabbed my hair to hold me in place against her.
I licked and sucked on her until her thighs tightened around my shoulders, and I knew she was ready to come.
As pleasure rocketed through her, Neka arched up and threw her head back against the pillows while I lapped up every bit of her juices that I could.
Once she finished, I stood up and pulled my flight suit down, but before I could climb back on top of her, Neka spun around and was now facing my cock.
I stared down at the cat-girl through heavy lids, and her tail swished back and forth playfully as she stared at my member and bit her bottom lip.
“Neka,” I groaned. “I need y--”
Before I could finish my sentence, she took the whole of me into her mouth in one swift movement that left me utterly breathless. Her cat tongue pressed against the bottom of my shaft, and I gripped onto her bright, orange hair to steady myself.
“Fuck,” I breathed as I tried not to come right then and there.
The cat-girl began to bob her head back and forth as she took me in and out of her mouth, and with each inward thrust, I felt my cock push down the back of her throat just a bit farther. The sensation had me on edge, and I gritted my teeth to keep from losing myself.
Neka looked up at me as she slowly took the whole of my cock once more, and my mouth parted with pleasure as I threw my head back.
“I can’t take it anymore,” I grunted. Then I grabbed her by the shoulders and pushed her back, and a string of spit connected us as her mouth left me.
Neka giggled and looked up at me playfully. She sat on her knees on the bed, her legs spread wide, and I could see how her pussy still glistened for me. Her hands were on the top of her knees, and her arms pushed her breasts together as she stared up at me and bit her lip once more.
I growled, grabbed her by the hips, and turned her around so her ass faced me. My fingers overlapped on her waist, and her tail wrapped around my forearm once more as I slowly
slid myself all the way inside of her.
“Oh, CT!” she yowled as she arched her ass back against me. “You feel so good.”
Neka leaned back and hooked her arms around my neck so her chest was completely exposed in front of her, and I reached around to pinch her nipples as I began to slide in and out of her sopping wet tunnel.
The sensation was enough to put me on edge already, but then Neka started to slam her ass back against me, and each time I could feel how wet she was and how deep she took me in.
“Harder,” the cat-girl commanded, so I let go of her nipples, grabbed her hips, and began to thrust into her as hard as I could.
Neither of us lasted long after that, and Neka came so hard on my cock, I could feel her pussy spasm and twitch while her tail grabbed my arm in a death grip.
Once I felt her pleasure, my own came swiftly, and I filled her womb with my seed as I held her hips against mine.
We both were motionless for a moment as we caught our breaths, and I could still feel the aftershocks roll through her as she clenched around me.
I groaned as I slowly slid myself out of her, and then I let out another moan of satisfaction as I watched my seed drip out from her swollen pussy.
“Mmm,” Neka purred as she rolled over on the bed, wiped some of my seed from her vagina with her finger, and then licked it. “You always taste so good.”
“Mmm, indeed,” I chuckled and laid down next to her.
“That was nice,” the cat-girl sighed as she snuggled against me and began to purr a slow, deep sound that soothed me halfway to sleep.
“I’m glad you think so,” I said, and I allowed my eyes to close and my fingers to tickle her back.
“Ahem!” I heard from behind the door, and my eyes shot open.
“Is that Akela?” Neka asked, and her cheeks burned a bright red.
“It sounded like it,” I snickered.
“Are you two done in there?” the mechanic laughed. “Sef’sla and I would like to come to bed, too.”
Neka and I looked at each other for a second before we both burst out laughing. There was no telling how long the mechanic and princess had been out there, or how much they’d heard. Not that it mattered too much, this wasn’t the first time I’d been caught red handed with one of my girls by the other two.