Fountain of Beauty

by Meraki P. Lyhne

  “It’s all very new.”

  “Yes. But I fear you’ll be baptized by fire.”

  That certainly took the fun out of getting to know the Lady because Caledon was pretty sure she was right. “Do you have experience with this situation?”

  “Oh, sure, plenty.”

  Caledon gaped because he hadn’t heard anything about a Kingdom being at odds with a shared nation. Then again, he was merely a House Lord. “Plenty?”

  “In the last seventy or so years alone, there have been about eight attempts by human governments to suppress our sovereign nations on their lands.”

  Apparently, Caledon’s face displayed the myriad of questions that bubbled up in him because Laudin smiled and leaned over the table, looking ready to give a lecture on recent Cubi world events.

  “The House of Nol-Elakdon alone has been under attack three times, two of which were from his Russian shared nations. They’re not that fond of us disregarding their gender ideas. The third was in conjunction with an uproar in the Catholic parts of Eastern Europe.”

  “What happened?”

  “The King mobilized his infantry to covertly secure our interests, and when the human governments saw the sway the Cubi Minglers could cause among the general human population, they backed down. The major rise in tolerance toward the LGBT community is partly Nol-Elakdon’s defensive strategies at work. It’s highest where he takes up residence, so in Scandinavia, but having the people open to our ways helps subdue the human governments in democracies.”

  Caledon felt awed at the covert strategy, and he once again remembered Daniel’s plan at making Minglers powerful public figures. He didn’t have the experience, yet he showed an insight that Caledon didn’t have. Was it only because Caledon had lived secluded from the human world and followed only on TV and on the internet? He certainly remembered the shock it had been when the Great House got internet, and he finally really saw the general population of humans and how they lived. Or were the Royal minds wired differently? With how fast Daniel was stepping up, Caledon was inclined to think the latter.

  “What’s your social structure like?” Caledon asked.

  “That depends on the nation we share with. In some countries, we have to work hard at staying hidden while in other parts we don’t fear being exposed as much. We have Houses closed off and isolated as much as your Great House is. In other parts, we’re spread out a bit more under Region Lords and Ladies.”

  “Daniel has an idea like that,” Caledon said, nodding to himself while imagining how it could work. It also fit the story he was writing to use as a tool to test ideas, problems, boundaries, and so on. That he, with the Council’s permission, published them, too, was a different matter, and he’d gathered a small group of fans in the genre.

  “We have familiars, too,” Laudin said, breaking Caledon’s creative spell.

  “As in humans who know about you?”

  “Yes. They come to feed us and work for us. Some help our Minglers get jobs to hide behind.”

  “We have very few as far as I’ve heard, but I hope you’ll share a bit more with Daniel as he grows into his responsibilities. He needs new ideas.” Caledon chuckled humorlessly when he realized that every Cubus in the West Kingdom did because Daniel was in essence right when he claimed that they’d grown stagnant in their ways after having been hidden away in the Great House for so long.

  “The Royal Empowerment will help,” Laudin said. “Daniel will evolve quickly after that because the Royal dosing is…something like the exchange of genetic memory.”

  “Genetic memory exchange?” Caledon asked in almost a whisper. He could almost hear Daniel’s voice, commenting on how Caledon was totally geeking out at the news.

  “He’s stepped up quickly, hasn’t he?”

  “Holy wow.” Caledon slumped back in his seat and stared straight ahead. His gaze landed on the two Royals on the bed at the end of the bus. Daniel was lying on his stomach, smiling and kicking his legs, while Elakdon sat against a pillow and showed Daniel photos.

  “My King will gain insight from the young Prince, too,” Laudin said, leaning closer so she could look at the two Royals, too. “I think they will grow a strong alliance. I can tell My King is very fond of the Prince.”

  Caledon nodded, happy to have met Laudin. Their cooperation and alliance did indeed seem promising.

  Three days left of their six-day trip in an RV with stops to feed and sleep. Caledon hoped to learn a lot from her before they reached whatever destination Seldon had arranged with the Royal Guard.

  Chapter Fifteen

  D aniel wondered whether his dose glands were getting bigger from trying to keep up with releasing so many doses because he could almost release four oral now without getting a cramp under his tongue.

  He’d filled the last vial that morning before they left the motel, and Marcadon had looked absolutely toasted. Soon, Elakdon would Empower Daniel, and he suspected he’d look about as spent as Marcadon after forty-eight hours of constant fucking and dosing. Daniel even suspected he’d find out firsthand how Marcadon felt.

  Daniel actually felt nervous about it. Not afraid or anything, just nervous because he knew it was going to be intense. He had about an hour before he needed to get ready, and he needed to talk to someone. Both Seldon and Caledon sat with him and read over files or on tablets.

  “Seldon, you once aired something about what happens when the young Cubi are empowered. But what is it like, exactly? It’s not like when I Royally Empower the Cubi people, right?”

  “No, it’s very different.”

  “And it was very different from how it’s done today,” Caledon added. “Thanks to Dahlidin.”

  “You were classified a pleaser, weren’t you?” Seldon asked Caledon, who nodded somberly. Daniel wondered what could be the reason until he remembered that sex was feeding and life, and thus much like the reason he sought out the skyscrapers instead of going to school. He wasn’t interested in going to business school and taking over Bill’s store, but that was making a living, which in Cubi terms was the classification for feeding. Didn’t always mesh with one’s personal preferences, and Caledon much preferred to be in charge when not in love.

  “Was it bad?” Daniel asked.

  Caledon smiled and shrugged. “Being empowered wasn’t fun. Six higher leveled Cubi dosing me out of my mind for…I don’t even know how long.”

  “I don’t remember how many were dosing me,” Seldon said. “Or for how long.”

  Daniel widened his eyes. “Damn, I had it easy.”

  “Had we known you weren’t just a Changeling, things would have been a lot different, boy.” Seldon reached to take his hand. “Why do you think you were cut off from anyone but me and higher levels? We needed you strong. And then you turned out to be our Prince.”

  “Am I weaker?” Daniel asked, wondering about the sense of inadequacy he sometimes felt.

  “Absolutely not. Well, for a Royal, I don’t know.” Caledon pursed his lips. Then he left the table.

  “You’re pretty strong by now,” Seldon said, grinning.

  Caledon returned with Elakdon who scooted in across from Daniel, while Caledon took a seat next to Daniel.

  “Whether you’re weaker? You mean the power of your doses?” Elakdon asked.

  Daniel nodded and glanced at Caledon, happy the Lord would find the answers to his questions so fast and without Daniel having to ask.

  “No,” Elakdon stated. “For an unempowered Royal, you’re pretty strong, but you’ll be fully empowered in a few days.”

  In a few days. Daniel couldn’t help but smile at that. It would take a few days, so he guessed that was the King’s way of telling him to go get ready. Daniel got up and squeezed Caledon’s hand as he passed him. “I’ll go get ready then.”

  Elakdon looked happy about that. “Are you two all set?”

  “We are,” Seldon confirmed.

  Daniel shut the door to the tiny bathroom on the bus and finished his busine
ss. Once done, Elakdon looked like he’d gotten ready, too, and when Daniel joined them at the table, he had removed his shirt.

  “You ready?” Elakdon asked.

  Daniel drew a deep breath for courage. “Yes.”

  His lovers were smiling at him, and Seldon winked when their eyes met. Elakdon rose, took Daniel’s hand, and led him to the big bed in the back of the bus—the one Daniel, Seldon, and Caledon usually shared. It was bigger than the one he’d had in his room, and the three of them could sleep more comfortably than they had while living at his mom’s house.

  Elakdon turned Daniel by the shoulders to face him. “I’m honored that you, the Prince of my sister’s House, let me do the Royal Empowerment.”

  “I’m honored that you will,” Daniel said, thinking the King looked both formal, relieved, and touched at the same time.

  Elakdon smiled, and the good-natured side of the ancient Incubus took over. “Shall we?” Elakdon pulled Daniel’s shirt off before undoing his belt and pants. Daniel did the same with Elakdon’s. When the King moved in for a kiss, Daniel already expected the dose.

  Then the mind-numbing lust and need for release took over.

  Daniel grabbed Elakdon and stepped backward, falling onto the bed with the King on top of him.

  “Tell me what you’d like to start out with,” Elakdon said breathlessly and kissed his way down Daniel’s body.

  “Ride me.”

  Elakdon popped up, grinning. “I like that idea.” He scrambled up to straddle Daniel and reached behind himself to position Daniel’s dick.

  “You’re not open.”

  “Yes, I am. I didn’t waste the time you spent getting ready.” Elakdon lowered himself, and Daniel gasped as his cock slipped into the King, and he sank into heat and soft pressure. Elakdon leaned his head back and moaned softly, rising up and sinking back down a few times.

  Daniel looked between them and saw himself disappear as Elakdon lowered himself again. Damn, if that wasn’t an erotic sight.

  “Dose me, too,” Elakdon whispered.

  Daniel focused on doing that, but the dose in his system, and the erotic sight and lovely feel of the tight ass around his dick removed the hold on self-control enough for him to not be able to control which glands released. So two did—from his dick and mouth.

  “Yeah,” Elakdon groaned and dove in for a kiss, sucking at Daniel’s mouth as if trying to swallow that dose, too. Daniel tried to cooperate and give it to him. He thought he managed. Remembering through the haze that his doses weren’t that strong, and the old King was very old and strong, Daniel fired off another dose, but he managed to keep it where it was supposed to go.

  A shudder raced through Elakdon, and his ass clamped down on Daniel’s dick. The King moaned loudly and shoved himself down onto Daniel harder.

  Elakdon then locked gazes with Daniel and caressed his cheek, slowing his pace again. “You’re a beautiful Prince, your name suits you so well,” the King whispered. “The way I hear you woo breeders, that it’s a gift given to your people. It’s also a Royal trait.”

  Daniel’s heart skipped a beat in excitement about being let in on more about himself and what being a Royal meant. “Yeah?”

  “Yeah. Have you made someone dose uncontrollably while empowering them?”

  Daniel grinned, thinking of Marcadon, Paledon, Heimli, Chas, and even Rosa. “Yes. All of them.”

  Elakdon put his hand on Daniel’s chest and rubbed circles. “We can do that by will. By force. By our power, alone.”

  A shiver tore through Daniel, and his body tingled. Elakdon continued to ride Daniel slowly, but everything intensified. It was like the sensation of his cock being enveloped in tight heat spread. The tingles of pleasure spread. Lust spread, but differently from a dose. Then came the ripples of early orgasm, but they spread farther than in his loins. Daniel’s throat tightened, and he looked up at Elakdon’s glowing eyes. Beauty, power, pleasure, and lust mingled with feelings of being desired, safe, beautiful, wanted, and the very center of the King’s world.

  Every one of Daniel’s three glands felt warm. Then a powerful orgasm hit and shook his body and mind to a point where he was left quaking and gasping while dose seeped from his mouth and ass. The one his cock spit out affected Elakdon who rode Daniel harder, his dick leaking pre-cum by the bucket.

  “Yes. Yes!”

  Daniel grabbed Elakdon’s hips, his body not yet down from the intense high, and his mind was reeling from a level of ecstasy he couldn’t comprehend. Elakdon tightened his legs against Daniel’s sides and stopped. Then he convulsed, grabbing Daniel’s wrists and moaning loudly. Jets of semen shot from him, and Daniel lifted his head and opened his mouth to catch it.

  “This is how we demonstrate our power. This is how we prove ourselves as Royal. We can do this by focusing on a single individual, or we can guide a whole room to collective orgasm.”

  “Seductor,” Daniel whispered breathlessly, remembering how he’d made Caledon lose himself in feeding in the smut aisle in the library, and made Seldon lose an oral dose and an orgasm in his pants in Daniel’s mother’s kitchen.

  “Yes,” Elakdon whispered and lifted himself off from Daniel’s still hard cock. “That’s what I was called, too. Before my eyes changed. Before we knew all Royals are diverse feeders.” Elakdon slipped off Daniel, flipped him onto his stomach, and buried his face in Daniel’s ass, rimming him. “I love the taste of your dose. A Royal dose is sweeter they say. I can’t taste my own, but yours is sweet. Lovely.” Elakdon groaned as he moved in, and Daniel matched it when he felt the King’s tongue breach his muscle and pleasure spread where the walls inside him were massaged by the elongated Cubi tongue.

  Then warmth spread and more lust clouded Daniel’s mind before he could give the Royal ability of wooing any more thought.

  Round two of the Royal Empowerment.

  * * * *

  Caledon and Seldon stayed at the table while Daniel and Nol-Elakdon went to the other end of the bus to Empower. He didn’t know if people were usually allowed to be present during an Empowerment like that, but on a bus, they didn’t really have much of a choice. One thing he was absolutely sure of, the sight and scent of Royal doses was driving his hunger up. It made focusing on reading files on all they, as the right and left hand to a Royal, had to know a bit difficult, and they had barely scratched the surface. So it felt, anyway.

  But it seemed Caledon wasn’t the only one who had trouble concentrating with the scent of doses in the air. Seldon looked like he had trouble, too. Still reading, his one hand slipped under the table, and his arm moved rhythmically. Not like he was jacking off, exactly, but he was stimulating himself as if trying to keep the itch at bay for a while longer. Watching that ate away at Caledon’s resolve to finish the file he was reading, because re-reading every line or paragraph again and again was not productive.

  Finally, Caledon gave up and admired the beautiful Incubus still focusing on his task. From that angle, he could also see the end of the bus where Nol-Elakdon was riding Daniel.

  “We fed like three hours ago, right?” Caledon asked. Seldon looked up and nodded. “I’m hungry again.”

  A smile spread on Seldon’s face. “Me, too. Very hungry, in fact.” Seldon turned his head and looked to the occupied bed. “I can smell their doses. I remember being younger and smelling high dose levels, and it always made me hungry.”

  “Yeah, but this much?”

  Seldon shrugged. “Royal doses in buckets? There’s no escaping that, I’m sure.”

  “All I know is that I want to ride you like Nol-Elakdon is riding Daniel.”

  That idea sparked something in Seldon’s eyes. They darkened noticeably. “Well, get to it then.” Seldon pulled his shirt off.

  Caledon hurried out of his clothes, his ass tingling from the anticipated feeling of being filled by Seldon. His heart raced, and his skin felt flushed and itchy.

  Seldon finally stood to step out of his pants, and he grabbed Caledon to pull him in
for a hungry kiss that set Caledon on fire. He preferred being the one in charge, but with the growing bond between the three of them, he’d come to relish in relinquishing some control to his lovers. He’d found that out the day Seldon had come up with the ludicrous idea of blindfolding him when Daniel had a naughty office hours fantasy. And oh God, that had been spectacular.

  Seldon turned Caledon in his arms, pressing his entire front and thick cock against Caledon’s back and ass. He then scooted back into the booth and pushed Caledon to lie on his stomach on top of the cold table, files, and tablets. Caledon tried to get some of them out of the way, but a skilled tongue finding its way to his hole made him stop and relish in the sensation and enthusiastic attention.

  His heart squeezed at knowing nothing stood in their way anymore. He didn’t have to dose all the Sires running parts of his House to be with Seldon anymore.

  A finger pushed in and wiggled against his most sensitive spot, making him shiver and moan. Seldon growled against Caledon’s ass and pushed his tongue inside, too. By the feel of it, Seldon was eager to penetrate, and Caledon soon wiggled out from under the deliciousness to straddle Seldon’s lap. With his feet planted on either side on the bench seat and his back against the table, Caledon lowered himself and let Seldon steer his cock to enter.

  Caledon stared at Seldon’s face as he sank onto his cock, and a moan tore from Caledon’s throat when Seldon’s eyes rolled back in his head. Once bottomed out, Caledon stayed down and did nothing, wanting to see if Seldon would take the control away from him. Other than gyrate his hips and breathe heavily, Seldon waited. A smug smile finally found its way onto his beautiful face before he opened his eyes to look at Caledon.

  “Not much riding being done.”

  Caledon grinned and ground his ass in Seldon’s lap. Seldon growled deeply and appreciatively, his gaze traveling down Caledon’s body along with his hands. Then Seldon leaned in and locked his lips around a nipple, making Caledon jerk and gasp. That was one of his favorite spots, but not one most took the time with during a quick feeding. It was pure heaven and a luxury to Caledon, and he relished in the attention and that Seldon didn’t focus on anything else but being buried in Caledon and nip, lick, and suck on one nipple, while he gently flicked the other one with his fingers.