by D. R. Rosier
She giggled, “What does that last part have to do with being wise?”
He shrugged, “Nothing, I just thought I should tell you.”
She smirked, and the twinkle of joy, lust, and sweet desire in her eyes and on her stunningly sweet and beautiful face drew him in like a fly to amber. Her lips conformed to his eagerly and breathlessly, and she let out a needy little sigh into his mouth as her sexy body ground along his.
She really was just that hot. A wise and powerful lady out of the bedroom or not, she was a hot and wild fuck behind closed doors, and passionate beyond belief for him. She was an incredibly giving and generous lover. Not to mention talented. She took his breath away.
The time for talking was done, she could learn more about him later, maybe after dinner and later that night when they were back in bed. For the moment, he was going to pleasure her until she screamed his name, then pleasure her some more, until it was time get dinner.
It was a good plan, and he followed it.
The new enchantment he created was similar to the last one, but he’d redone it using Katie’s over-powered enchantment as an example. Instead of a medicine sized ball, it would start out about six feet in diameter. It would also split up into sixteen balls instead of four, in a four by four grid that would make up for the shorter strike range and more than double the kill zone. It could now take down up to four hundred enemies with one spell, which was completely overkill.
He was pretty sure Katie was in the library. He felt her magic in that direction anyway. They’d split up about a half hour before dinner, after a quick shower and a change of clothes. He paused at the entrance to the kitchen, dinner was about ten minutes from then, it’d taken him twenty to recreate the stronger enchantment. Regardless, he studied Sadie for a long moment, with Katie’s comments on his mind.
Sadie really was lovely, and graceful as she worked on slicing up a salad, and the steaks and baked potatoes cooked in the oven. She had on a pair of black yoga pants that clung to her body like a second skin, showing off both her long and toned femininely sculpted dancer’s legs, and her tight little heart-shaped ass. Her waist was deliciously thin in a red clingy t-shirt, and her lovely and voluminous red curls were up in a messy ponytail that just made her beauty more alluring. The fair skin of her long graceful neck looked inviting to his lips.
She really was gorgeous, and he knew if she turned around that he’d see her mischievous freckles, piercing green eyes, and sexy full lips.
Yet… she was Sadie. His Sadie all his life, a constant and reassuring presence. A permanency in his life that he’d come to count on and that had never failed him. The last thing he’d want to do is take her for granted, and it was so hard to believe she’d fallen for him. Fallen in love with him, not just the deep and abiding familial love they’d always shared throughout his life.
Sure, she wasn’t his mother, or one of his siblings, even if as a guardian babysitter and then a best friend, she’d taken on the roles of both during his lifetime. It was just weird to consider her romantically, despite how much he loved her.
The incredible buzz and potently distractingly loving and admiring emotions he held for Katie didn’t make it easy to pick out others either.
Sadie was his guardian, his best friend, his confidant, and although he never treated her that way, his servant. She was bound to him, her life was inextricably linked to his own in a way that could never be severed.
Point being, she was incredibly important to him, and he’d sooner kill a child than to be the one to cause her pain or discomfort, which was to say never, since he’d never harm a child. He couldn’t be cavalier with her heart, or take her to bed for a test run, or something equally as crass in case it didn’t work out. He’d have to consider the idea, how he felt, and her, carefully first. He had to see if he could look past their history, and fall for the amazingly beautiful, loyal, and patiently kind woman she was.
Once he figured out where he really stood, he’d talk to her first, but not until then. She was far too important and precious to him to do any less.
He’d also been paying more attention than usual all that day, and the sexual tension with Katie hadn’t been the only thing going on. He had noticed a few wistful looks, when she thought he wasn’t paying attention. Especially when they’d gotten back, and he’d dragged Katie to the bedroom.
So, despite his heart having trouble believing it. He was seeing the signs of it now. In his head at least, but there was a major cutoff between those intellectual thoughts, and in feeling it in his gut and in his heart.
Sadie said, “How long are you going to stand there, Ryan.”
He smirked, “Dinner smells great. I was just… lost in my head I suppose.”
Sadie turned, and he saw nothing but happiness for him in her eyes, and on her smile, as she said, “I’m happy for you, Ryan. You two look great together. I’ve never seen you so joyous, or her for that matter.”
He let that assumption go uncorrected. Sadie’s belief that it had been Katie on his mind and not her, and asked, “Need any help?”
Sadie smirked at him over her shoulder, “Nope, I have to eat this too, you know.”
He laughed, “I meant with setting the table, or with drinks, wise ass.”
She wiggled said ass at him as she diced up a tomato in seconds, and then slid it into the salad. Her speed as a created creature wasn’t just on the battlefield.
“Plates and silverware, if you really want to,” she said shyly. She was always tentative about giving him directions of any kind, unless it directly related to his safety. In matters of safety she could be downright stubborn and immovable.
He nodded, and then got on that.
“So how do you feel about the idea of spending a lot of time here. We’ll still go out to villages, but probably via teleport and for no more than a day. No more days in the saddle. I can find new dead small animals as permanent watchers, and just use the birds to get us from village to village for the first time. So if one’s raided, we can respond quickly. They usually have their own guard of course, but I’m sure they’d welcome the help and me the life force.”
She turned and bit her lip, “You’re, asking me?”
“Is that weird? I asked you about our trip out of dad’s territory too.”
She smirked, “I go where you go. I like it here just fine, because that’s where you are. If it matters, I do like Katie and Bria, and of course this place is great. Always a perfect temperature, and plenty of food to make, including exotic stuff from around the world. It’s also a good plan, riding between towns is boring anyway.”
He laughed, “Good.”
She chewed her bottom lip for a moment, then turned back to the oven and grabbed the oven mitt to pull the steaks and potatoes out.
He asked, “Something?”
Hmm, she really did have a nice ass. It was difficult not to notice with her bent over and reaching in the oven, especially in those skintight yoga pants. He shrugged, it was still weird, no matter how objectively hot she was, subjectively he had a hard time seeing her that way. He needed time to think and process it.
She shook her head, “It’s fine.”
He faux groaned in horror, “There’s that word again.”
Sadie giggled, “Still not ready to talk about it, but thanks for asking, Ryan. Sit, dinner’s ready.”
He took a seat, and it was only a minute or two later when the other’s showed up.
Chapter Ten
The second morning he woke up in Katie’s bed went much like the first. Katie’s sweet and hot mouth brought him back to wakefulness, then she rode him hard and put him away wet as the saying goes. His lover was definitely a morning sex person, and she’d been waking up horny as hell.
He wasn’t about to complain about that even a little bit.
It was a side of her he’d never imagined. Her passion and wildly giving nature in the bedroom was a wonderful thing, and it drove him to greater efforts. They were both sated and r
eady for the coming day around the breakfast table, and she was more physically demonstrative on that third morning as well. She often touched his leg, or arm, and she had a stubborn smile on her face that wouldn’t quit.
Of course, when they were out of the sanctuary that outward and obvious affection would take a backseat to the more serious and wiser demeanor she expressed in public. Though, there was still a twinkle in her eyes as they exchanged looks at times. It was a completely new experience for him, and he was enjoying himself. Given the last two mornings, crazy or not, he had no intentions of not sleeping in her bed again that night, three nights in a row.
Granted, they were running on hope, affection, and a whole lot of lust and natural chemistry, it was all new and exciting. He already loved her though, and he was pretty sure she’d follow before the shiny wore off. His parents were good examples for that he thought. He knew it wouldn’t always be so easy, but with a solid base they’d have a better chance at sticking it out when the bumps came along.
He spent a little time briefing the others over the last thirteen groups of aliens. Only two more were still on the move at the moment, still looking for better shelter and weapons, while the rest seemed to have settled in for the moment.
Katie said, “Let’s get those last two moving groups first. It’s easier that way when they’re already outside and basically in one large group. If we wait those two might hunker down as well.”
He nodded, “The first group has five scouts out about a quarter mile, the rest are in a tight formation with ten males out front, five in the back, and ten on either side of their females. The second group has the same basic core with ten in front and back, five on the sides, and ten scouting almost half a mile ahead.”
Katie replied, “Put us in on their flank, behind their scouts. We’ll ambush the main group and then take out the scouts when they lose it and come for us. I’ll take the first, you take the second with your new enchantment.”
Simple, and quite likely to work. He took a moment to study the wilderness, and then picked a small gully with a lot of brush around it. He waited a few seconds after the scouts had gone by it, then started to cast the modified teleport spell that used his zombie bird’s eyes for the destination. The four of them appeared in the gully and ducked down.
The aliens were moving at a good clip, about twenty miles an hour, so it wasn’t all that long before they’d traversed just a quarter mile. They didn’t even have to stick their heads up, they just stayed in the depression until the last second, since his magic and Katie’s could track them by feel.
Katie lifted her rod and pointed it at a tree, and she shot out her sunburst spell. The tree didn’t take any damage, she was just using it to set her enchanted spell’s range. The large sun split into six, then six again as it spread out, then one last time so there was over two hundred. The aliens immediately evaded, but it was far too late for them as the miniature handball suns took their lives with unerring accuracy.
As they’d learned in the past, killing the females drove the males insane with anger and aggression, and the five scouts immediately raced back. Bria took those out with her control over the fire element, setting them ablaze and killing them as quickly as possible. She dampened the fire afterwards, so it didn’t start a forest fire.
These two groups really would be the easiest. The danger in the aliens were in letting them settle. It’d only been three days since they landed, and a non-technological learning curve was just too steep for them to be a true danger yet, if they didn’t do anything stupid.
Katie said, “Next group.”
The second group went about the same. He teleported them behind a large thicket of bushes, very close to where they’d pass, and he used Katie’s ranging trick and hit a tree as the main group passed around it. The rod when activated sucked in a much larger amount of magic, and it fired the large ball lightning which split into a grid of sixteen ball lightnings above the alien formation, and immediately started to electrocute brains. The balls were all situated fifty feet apart, so it covered a pretty wide area. Sixteen died at a time, about two bolts per second, so it took about six seconds to finish it.
Bria said, “Nice, but Katie still has more balls. Killed them all at once.”
He laughed, “Maybe, but my spell lingers.”
Bria turned where he was pointing, and she snorted as the fifteen scouts raced back and into the spell’s range. They all fell with a lightning strike to the head, which cooked their brains. No need for Bria to use magic on cleanup.
Sadie said slyly, “His balls are more potent and lasting,” then she blushed furiously and covered her mouth.
Bria and Katie giggled, and then Bria asked teasingly, “Sounded better in your head, didn’t it?”
Sadie just nodded, red-faced.
“What’s the plan?”
Katie shook her head, “None of them are near a community right? I’m not sure it overly matters. Maybe I’m still fighting the last battle, but are any of them near chemical labs, or something like that? Or are any of them making progress on weapons?”
He looked through his bird’s memories at the last eleven squatting groups. Nine of them were in residential neighborhoods in a large mansion or two houses like some of the ones they’d gotten yesterday. One was in an abandoned town center, and the last one was in an industrial park.
“There is one in an industrial park, the rest are in houses, and one other are laying low in a strip mall. Almost all of them are working on weapons. Most are either crude like bows or slings, or steel pipes or something similar for melee.”
She said, “Let’s get the one in the industrial park then. That seems to have the most possibilities of creating a seriously deadly weapon, even if they probably don’t know where to deliver it to do the most damage yet. Then the town center and the rest.”
He nodded, “They’re in a medical storage facility and a machine shop. The buildings are about a quarter mile apart.”
Katie said, “Put us on a nearby building so we can check it out.”
He picked one that was taller than the rest, looked like a warehouse maybe, and that had line of sight on both buildings. He cast the teleport spell again, and they appeared on the roof.
Katie had no problem picking out the two buildings, since they could feel the aliens inside. Or more accurately, felt the strange magical void of them. They had five outside guards posted on each building, and just under a hundred of them in each.
Katie sighed, “We can’t drive them out with fire, they’re both brick buildings. Umm, what the hell are they holding?”
He said, “Primitive crossbow, it… shoots large surgical pins. I imagine they got the steel pipes from the machine shop. Most of the equipment is worthless without power, but I’m sure there’s some metal hack saws in there.”
Bria said, “I can take out all ten quietly. The idea of breaching a building with a hundred angry aliens and all sorts of sharp metal lying around sounds like a bad idea though.”
Katie snickered, “The buildings are pretty far apart. They might not notice us breaching one from the other, not if you can take out the guards without those inside feeling it.”
“Which one first?”
Katie asked, “How long will your spell last?”
He frowned, “Maybe an hour?”
Katie smiled, “Good, here’s the plan. Bria takes out the guards, and then you set your spell over the medical building which is much smaller. Then we breach the machine shop. We won’t have to worry about those in the medical center running for it, or attacking us from behind and surrounding us, because if they leave their building then they’re dead.”
He nodded, “Sounds like a solid plan.”
Katie said, “Bria and Sadie will lead us, we’ll take out the smaller office space with spells or them with weapons if the aliens manage to close with them. Then I’ll pump my fire spell into the large machine shop floor to finish it. Then we’ll take care of the medical supply building. Bria?
”
Bria held up her hand and her eyes narrowed, nothing seemed to happen for a moment, then the aliens’ hands scrabbled at their throats, and a moment later their heads fell off and blood sprayed. She repeated the trick on the other five.
“Air?”
Bria nodded, “Fire would’ve been cheaper in magic, but air is a lot more versatile. I cut off their ability to breathe, and more importantly to scream or make a sound. Then I used air pressure to pop their necks.”
He shot his spell at the medical building, and the place was surrounded by the large grid of ball lightnings.
Katie said, “Let’s move,” then muttered, “Levitation,” and waved at them all as she hopped off the large warehouse roof.
He and the rest followed, and they floated to the ground sedately. It was a lot cheaper magic wise than blowing another teleport spell just to get down off the high roof. They moved quickly across the street and toward the machine shop. Although they weren’t that worried about it, they were on a time limit of sorts. The good thing about industrial parks were the buildings really didn’t have a lot of windows. With the guards taken out quietly, there was little chance they’d be seen coming.
Bria and Sadie pulled their swords and took the lead. The smoked glass front door was completely smashed, and there was no one at all in the tiny reception room. Bria and Sadie rounded the desk and went into the office space.
Two aliens screamed and charged, already swinging three-foot poles of stainless steel with what looked like electrical tape on one end for better gripping. There were ten more aliens in other offices, and the rest of them were on the machine shop floor, those ten started to move as well.
Katie said, “Sunburst,” and the smaller fireball spell flew from her hand.
Bria blocked the pipe with the edge of her blade, sheering right through it, and half the weapon fell to the ground as she kicked him in the chest. Her foot seemed to explode in fire adding both physical and magical damage to the kick. The alien went flying back as fire burned into its chest.