Black Knight

by Svetlana Ivanova

  Then her eyes moved down. I took it as a cue to look under the cover and had to gasp. She was hard already!

  "You're insatiable!" I cried and was about to get out of bed when she grabbed my waist from behind and pulled me back to her again. Her arms locked me securely in a firm embrace.

  "Yep, take note, Nina, especially in the morning," Allecra chuckled mischievously.

  "But we're having sex almost every day!" I groaned.

  "And you loved it every time, didn't you?" she mocked. "And it's your fault. No one should look so pretty waking up in the morning."

  I opened my mouth to protest but found myself unable to deny it. It was true. Allecra was born fully equipped. She knew exactly what being a girl feels like and cleverly used it to her advantage. In fact, ever since we left the island in Greece, sex with Allecra was like a domino effect which you can't stop once it starts. My face was blushing so hot. I felt her rigidness brushing up against my backside, and a hot wave of need rode over my tingling body once again. I turned my head around to look at her. She looked back at me.

  She leaned to kiss my cheek then moved down to wrap her mouth around my nipple. I moaned in my throat as she sucked it hard.

  "Gosh, how do I deal with an alien who wants sex all the times?" I murmured.

  Allecra pulled away with a smacking sound and frowned at me.

  "I don't want sex all the times," she protested, "I just want sex with you all the times. And you deal with me by being a good girl."

  It sent electric sparks down to the region of my longing. Then she moved down and buried her face into my stomach then my private. One of her hands sensually roamed over the valley of my breasts while the other parted my thighs. Her first lap made my hip jerk with bliss.

  "Allecra, at least let me take the pill first," I said breathlessly.

  "You've been taking it for weeks now. You can do it later," she said, "it's still fine, trust me."

  Her lips and long slick tongue kept harassing my swelling femininity, tracing over the opening of my desire and making it difficult for me to speak.

  "We can never be too careful," I replied with heavy breaths.

  But Allecra delved her strong ravaging tongue deeper, causing my thoughts to shatter like glass.

  "Allecra, please, just wait a minute," I said apologetically. And with great effort, I managed to untangle myself from her arms and got out of bed. She rolled onto her back. I thought I heard Allecra sighed to herself. I went to the nightstand and popped the pill with a glass of water. When I returned to bed, Allecra was lying on her back with her secret stood gloriously. My heart fluttered at the sight.

  "Can you have a little decency to cover yourself? You're being narcissistic," I said.

  "What? Don't you like what you see?"

  "I'm gay, and that still looks like a banana to me."

  "Ouch!" Allecra said. "You need to come here right now to be punished."

  I laughed and went over to her. She took me into her arms, and we kissed each other desperately. Allecra lay back down and left me straddling on her stomach. I pinned her hands above her head. Those dazzling eyes stared up at me with glowing heat.

  "I want you to take me, Nina," she whispered, slowly moving my body up a little and adjusting herself beneath me. "Take me all you want."

  The slick pink head was already coated in slipperiness, which seemed to come from both of us.

  I took a deep breath, biting my lip and quietly sheathing myself onto her. Her body tensed up from under me once I took her all the way. Allecra made a seething sound through her teeth. Her blonde brows furrowed at the sweet feeling of our unison. My hands rested on her ample breasts, rolling those firm and perfect mounds in my palms. Allecra closed her eyes and tilted her head with a deep sigh to savor us.

  Every inch of her felt beautiful.

  And then we started making sweet love together.

  When we climaxed, Allecra unleashed herself with such a force and velocity that I could feel it flicking wildly against my walls. My core burned hot as it twitched around Allecra. Then I couldn’t hold it anymore. I let out a sharp gasp and reached my own climax. Some of her thick potent seeds dripped out of me, making quite a mess between my thighs, but neither of us stopped. We couldn’t stop ourselves until we were completely melted like a candle from the inside out. I was still amazed at how it could feel this wonderful every time.

  ~*~

  Aside from all the traveling and slipping between the sheets whenever we could, I also insisted we took sometimes off to study. That way I wouldn't feel like a complete liar to my aunt.

  Allecra wasn't so thrilled with this nerdy idea, but it was clearly my need of education. Besides she had to be my private tutor, or else, I had threatened her; there would be no sex. It might sound unscrupulous of me to use this card against Allecra, but I thought we shouldn't be all play and no work. We would stay in our hotel suite or go to a public library, or a small pleasant cafe in the city we happened to be in, and then we would study.

  With great patience and sharp clarity, she could explain anything I wanted to know. She seemed to have no trouble going over the answers. It still took me by surprise how intelligent and wise she could be, but what bugged me a little was her being frivolous most of the times. Yet it sometimes made me wonder if she ever had a kid, would her son or daughter be smart and lovely and mischievous just like her? I bet they would.

  But then I was gripped by a sordid feeling that Allecra might never continue her legacy because of me. I still couldn't find the courage to fulfill her dream. It made me feel like a horrible person to her. I could only do what I always did best— by trying not to ruminate too much about this shady thought

  It was raining one evening. We were huddled up together at a quiet corner of a restaurant in Prague. Allecra and I had just spent a two-day tour in Istanbul before we decided to come here. It was strangely beautiful outside, seeing the city through droplets of rains on the glass window.

  "I wonder what ants do on rainy days," I said out of the blue. "How do they keep their nest dry?"

  "Well, they're hard-workers," Allecra said. "They probably spend the day cleaning their houses and putting buckets under the leaks."

  It made me laugh.

  "Probably so," I agreed.

  "All joke aside, you know that when the queen of the ant colony dies, the colony can only survive for a few months," Allecra said. "Queens are rarely replaced and the workers are not able to reproduce. So their perfect civilization will collapse, too."

  "Oh, that's so sad that they can't do anything about it, isn't it?" I said.

  "Similar to the Arzurian civilization," she said. Perhaps it was the calming effect of the rain that made us feel like talking about it again. "You know a similar fate might have happened to the Martians on their planet."

  “Oh really? Isn't it what scientists today still debating about?" I asked, "Once there was life on Mars and now it's all gone?"

  "That's right," she said. "Before we came to earth, we had also studied possible earth-like planets in your solar system. The Arzurian Elders used to have some hopes that Mars was the answer since all evidence suggested a sign of life there. There were river deltas, flood plains, and oceans. Mars was a wet fertile place, but it was later discovered that the planet was all bone dry now. The red planet, that's what they call it today. Something bad must have happened on Mars."

  "You mentioned the Arzurian Elders, who are they to you?" I asked the same question I had asked Triton.

  Allecra looked at my face like she just realized what she'd just said. Her eyes locked with mine steadily.

  "Well they are the highly respected scientists who gave birth to me," she said. "They're like my parents in a way."

  "They're still alive?" I asked curiously.

  "Yes, you can say that for now." She shrugged.

  I realized that the Elders she spoke of were probably the important figures that Triton and Xenon took the order from and came to earth with Allecra. T
he last time her siblings came to see her, it was something about the Elders. Triton told me they were waiting. I felt a chill rushing through my bones. I was too stupid not to realize this soon enough. Now I might have known what they were waiting for.

  "Nina?" Allecra called me. "You're okay? You look kind of sad."

  "I'm alright," I said and tried to change the subject. "Do you really think there used to be a Martian civilization before earth in the past?"

  "Not just on Mars, but on Venus too. Those two worlds are the example of a planet gone bad," Allecra answered. "Your civilization is probably the youngest among them in the solar system. But by the time we discovered Mars, the Martians had already vanished for billions of years. Good thing, the Arzurians found earth afterward."

  "Really?" I was only half-listening.

  "Yeah, you only knew about the ancient civilizations on earth that used to exist but not anymore," she said. "Like Mars, Arzuria is also coming to the final doom. The Arzurians will meet no different fate from the Martians."

  Allecra sighed softly at that. It was the first time she showed her true sadness.

  "Unless you succeed in reproducing the next generation and continue their bloodline."

  "Right," she said with a weak shrug. Now I felt like I was the reminder of her failure, and that saddened me even more.

  I decided to steer the conversation away from the subject again. I was good at dodging it.

  "I wonder why people on Mars didn't try to save their race like the Arzurians."

  "Maybe back then when Mars was alive, the earth was still an infant planet, merely a lump of rock and hot lava. They couldn't find a new host planet in time," Allecra said. "But there's a theory that asteroids that hit Mars had cast rocks into space and sent them all the way to earth. So if Mars had life billions of years before this planet, it could be possible that the bacteria that clung to the rocks were the beginning of life transferred to the virgin earth to start anew. And if that is the case, then you're considered as the descendant of the Martians."

  "You're not kidding!" I cried with a surprised face.

  "It's a plausible idea, Nina," she said with a laugh. "This hypothesis is called 'Panspermia', much like bees pollinating the flowers, except with asteroids, comets, meteoroids and even spacecraft."

  "Spacecraft!" I breathed in realization. "That is how your own civilization is now trying to pollinate life to another planet. They did it through you!"

  "I thought we already went through it before," Allecra said. "That's why I'm here."

  "No, it just hit me harder this time," I said, suddenly feeling bad. "So you don't procreate, your people...what are they going to do?"

  Allecra didn't speak for a long moment. I felt the familiar sharp pang of pity pierced through me as I looked at her. I reached my hand out to card her soft blonde hair.

  "I guess now you know why my siblings are always pressuring me," she said with a low sigh. "You can think of us as the society of ants."

  "If the queen dies, so does the colony," I said grimly.

  "Yes," she sighed. "The same with my people if I'm gone."

  Allecra was the Endling, I shouldn't have forgotten that.

  The sorrow spread through my heart like poison. I couldn't fathom the hidden grief Allecra must have harbored all these times. Seeing the loss of brilliancy and mirth in her eyes now caused tears to well up in my own. I went to embrace her, and she held me back.

  I was at a loss to know how I could ease her pain. Now I had tasted the terrible bitterness of her hidden responsibility.

  "I'm so sorry," I whispered. My hand clutched the front of her shirt. "If only I were stronger and braver...If only..."

  I shut my eyes tightly in frustration and helplessness, silently cursing my cowardice that held me back. Allecra kissed the top of head to soothe me.

  "Shh...it's alright, sweetheart," she said. "You don't own us anything. It should be me to say sorry. It should be me."

  We sat like that for a while. I didn't notice her words at first, but then they seemed to resonate some subtle hint in my ears. I looked up to meet her eyes again.

  "Why did you say that?"

  Allecra kept staring back at me in silence

  "Nina," she began slowly.

  I thought I saw a flash of unsettling emotion stirring in those turquoise pools, but something else seemed to dim it back as soon as it started.

  "Well, you must be tired now. It's been a long day," she said, breaking from my gaze, "Let's go back to the hotel."

  The look on her face was hard to read, and her tone of voice gave its finality that I had to nod, forcing a passive smile in response. It was the first time I was certain that Allecra was clearly hiding something from me.

  ~*~

  Soon cities slowly bored us. Allecra took me to a more natural and grandeur place for a change of view. After the talk that day, I could feel something was coming loose slowly. I was waiting for it to crumble down on top of me. But I tried to forget about this ominous feeling and just enjoy the time I spent with Allecra.

  She took me to see the Niagara Fall, which just took the breath out of my lungs, and so did the White Cliffs of Normandy where we stood in each other's arms and looked down at the sea below us.

  But the most memorable trip was when I got to hear my voice echoed off the curvy walls of the Grand Canyon.

  "It feels like we're walking on Mars!" I said excitedly.

  We were deep in the slot canyon. The power of water and time over the years had created deep, gorgeous passageways that we could walk through. Allecra was smiling at me as we sauntered around the labyrinthine place.

  "Well looks like you have found your nostalgic spot, little Martian," she teased.

  "Allecra, you can't prove we're really originated from the bacteria on Mars, okay?" I said. "Stop teasing me about it."

  She raised her hands up in surrender. "Alright, little Earthling."

  I couldn't decide whether I should hurt her or kiss her, so I turned to walk again. We kept moving farther.

  "It is so quiet down here," I said. "I could even hear the earth breathing!"

  "Nina, it's just the wind," Allecra said. My eyes turned into slits back at her.

  "You literalist alien are a pain in the neck, you should know that," I said. It made her chuckle.

  "If you think I'm making the place boring, let's play hide and seek here," Allecra suggested.

  "Wait, what? No!" I said.

  "Are you still a scaredy cat?"

  "I'm not a..."

  "Good," Allecra said. "Then find me."

  She started walking backward with a mischievous grin. Then she turned to run.

  "Allecra, I'm not in a mood!"

  "Come and get me, kitten!" she called back.

  I followed after her, but I couldn't keep up on the small path. The next moment, Allecra was out of my sight.

  "Allecra, stop doing this! We don't know the place," I said, scanning around the cave-like passages for her.

  "Meow!"

  Her voice drifted from a narrowed space somewhere. I tried to follow it, but everywhere down here looked the same and different all at once.

  "If you don't come out, I will not talk to you anymore!" I cried.

  There was a silence. I waited, but nothing. I sighed in irritation and decided to stay where I was until she returned. After a long moment passed, I felt a pair of hands grabbed me from behind.

  "Boo!" Allecra said behind my ear, but I didn't stir. "Why didn't you scream?"

  "I already knew it was you."

  "Oh, are you really mad at me now?" she said and then kissed my cheek over and over. "I like it when you scream, though."

  "You're so sadistic and mean," I muttered, tilting my head away while trying to shrug her hands off.

  "Aw, I thought I was fun."

  "Stop it!" I said. She turned me around and planted a kiss on my forehead and another one on my pouted lips.

  "Forgive me, kotik," she said. "I just wanted
to train you not to be scared when being left alone."

  "Do you also push people into the water to teach them how to swim?"

  "If it works, why not?" she said.

  I pinched her arm.

  "Bad Allecra!"

  She giggled and pulled me into a hug.

  "I want to show you something, come with me," she said and just took my hand.

  We walked to another passage through the reddish walls some ten feet away and turned the corner. At the end of the path, we saw a spot where golden sunlight beamed down through the canyon.

  "Oh my god, it looks like the light shining from a descending angel!"

  "Do you always have to describe things in a funny way all the time?" she said with a soft snort.

  "Excuse you, I'm a writer," I said. "You can't expect me to see the world as plain as you do."

  Allecra burst out laughing.

  "You think I'm boring?"

  "No, just too blunt to my liking," I said, but suddenly an idea came to my mind. "Hey, can we go to stand under the sun ray for a moment?"

  "Why?"

  "I just want to!" I insisted.

  She rolled her eyes, but we went over to the sunlit spot and stepped into it together. The light enveloped us with its brilliance.

  "Oh my goodness, look at you, all golden!" I gasped, staring at the radiant girl in front of me. The beam drenched over her seamless features like ethereal glow. I reached out to brush my fingers on her dazzling face. Her blonde hair turned completely golden, too.

  "You could be a real angel coming to earth, Allecra," I told her.

  "If I were an angel coming down to earth, you must be the one who keeps my wings."

  I laughed.

  "Don't you want to go back?" I said.

  She frowned.

  "To where?"

  "I don't know, some other worlds, Olympus, or Meru, or Asgard, or Arzuria?"

  "Arzuria?"

  "To me, it sounds like one of those mythical realms." I shrugged.

  "I belong to Earth now. Here is better than any other worlds in any universe," she said in a soft voice. "Here I’m with you."

  I smiled. My eyes entwined with hers. We both leaned forward until our lips mashed together in tenderness and endless love.