I throw away those thoughts - not even bothering to make note of something to research later - and kiss Rhea. I’ve kissed quite a few people before, but nothing like this ever happened. My lips sort of explode with Rhea. I kiss her some more and I feel that the same is happening to her. I grin a bit at the state of total overload I am sensing from the woman while fighting to control my own senses.
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That HUUMAAAAAN!
First, he sends all kinds of lewd thoughts, showing Re-Haan certain things in excruciating detail. Then he asks that question and kisses her! And worst of all, he dares to smirk at the state the kiss left her in. Infuriating! Re-Haan busily kisses him back, trying to merge their heads. His tongue invades her mouth and she tastes even more of him. This is insane.
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Insanely awesome, admit it! I suddenly stop kissing her and move to her ears. I feel some confusion from the dragoness, but then I drag my tongue across the soft cartilage. She shudders while I nibble a bit. My hands are now roaming her waist, gliding over the firmly muscled skin.
She takes some initiative back by dragging her nail across my back in return. I start kissing her again and brush across a nipple. I feel her gasp while sealing her mouth with my own. I feel the urge to pause for breath, but this place does not require us to breathe, so I keep going.
I feel her building up, and start roving my hands all over her body. I touch everywhere except for the three most important places, one pair and one singular. I start biting her neck and feel something rising within her. Finally, I glide my hand downwards, placing thumb and forefinger on both sides of her outer lips. Then I squeeze.
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HHNNNNNNNGG oh my by all the heLLSSSSNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGG
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I wait until her spasming stops. Then I start rolling the hard nub between my fingers.
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What was that, by the draGOOOOH GOD HNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGG
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I kiss her until she is lucid again. Her moist eyes had only been angry and slightly afraid until now. I grin at her face. “Quickshot.” I accuse her.
She frowns and I repeat the word, this time I include a clear explanation of the joke.
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What in the blazing pits of all the combi-
“Quickshot.”
He repeats the word, this time it comes with diagrams. Re-Haan just had such a life-altering experience, and he explains a stupid joke WITH DIAGRAMS JUST AFTER. That’s it. Re-Haan decides to take control.
She throws him down on the ground. Hmm, where they not just floating? The heat rising from her core wipes those thoughts away as she pounces after him. Knees on both sides of his chest, she forces him down. She bends down and kisses him, if only to wipe away that stupid grin.
Then Re-Haan does something she has done very few times. She asks a question she truly wants to know the answer to. “Hmmmhmmh?”
His return comes in a softly sung tune. Re-Haan forces herself to concentrate on the thoughts he sends, to understand them. He nearly manages to break her concentration as he pushes a finger inside of her, but Re-Haan keeps her eyes closed.
She sits upright the moment he is done, and she has understood it all.
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I picture the last image of the Kamasutra while sending it over with the last tones of ‘me and Mrs Jones’. Then she gets a gleam in her eyes as I start stroking upwards. She bucks a bit at the feeling, but largely ignores my ministrations as my finger gets drenched. Instead, she is looking at my own crotch, with a hungry gleam in her eyes. She licks her lips. That was not a conscious action, damn. That is incredibly sexy.
She visibly swallows and moves her head closer. Her mouth opens and she hesitantly takes me into her mouth.
“Hmmno teeth, please”
She throws me an annoyed glare and starts moving way too quickly and it is over in a few seconds. My entire being narrows down to a point and I explode. The first thing I hear the moment I return to reality is: “Quickshot.”
I snap my eyes upwards, and watch a smug dragoness licking her fingers while swallowing. I jump her and drag my tongue across her body. I suck on a firm nipple and cup her breasts. My breast judgement process™ did not do her justice. I massage the soft mounds of flesh while kissing my way to her crotch. My firm, lazy licks across her bring forth moans filled with just pleasure.
This is actually really cool. I directly feel from her what works and what doesn’t. No need for lengthy sex discussion if the effects can be felt directly by the other party. I modify my routine until the maximum results are achieved, holding on tight to her hips as she rides out another climax. I focus my entire attention on pleasing the woman writhing in front of me, barely managing not going off myself.
I plunge into her the moment she calms down again. Her eyes fly open wide at the intrusion. We just stare into each other’s eyes for a bit. Then I start moving slowly and she collapses backwards in a gasping and moaning heap as I pick up the pace.
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Two forms lie crumpled on each other in the light of a golden tree. Although it seems like they have randomly fallen on top of each other, both hug each other as they twitch in their sleep.
This would be a nice albeit slightly perverse scene where it not for the massive storm of qi around both. The absolute silence in the air stands in stark contrast to the wild thunderous booms of energy crashing from the duo, a glowing tree silently standing watch near them.
Chapter fourteen
Verve
A small white bunny screeches through the air. The fur covering her figure is blown backwards, showing pink skin where the fine hairs are spread apart. A kick from the small hind legs causes part of a wave to explode into a fine mist. The next kick lands on a small boat. The robe-clad person riding it careens into the distance from the force, broken limbs and blood flying everywhere.
Now, let’s say that the small twitching bundle of instincts could actually think. The bunny’s thoughts would probably go something like this: ‘Mommy said to keep safe. Flashing tree is not safe. Bye tree!’
Another kick makes more fine spray, and a bigger boat gets blown in half. The white streak causing the mayhem is barely visible, mana cannons are swivelled around wildly as the small critter evades their shots with ease.
‘More flashing trees. Smaller mommies need safe. Bye bigger tree!’
The armada of various mage-powered vessels retreats once again, the small ships speeding away swiftly while the bigger boats make ponderous turns. They don’t even slow down to haul their still-living magically attuned colleagues from the water. The mages on the ships only slow down now and then to throw a rope to swimming mages in similarly coloured robes, like some robe-based racists.
“LOLAAAAA, YOU CAN COOME BAAAAACK”
‘Blue small mommy voice! Want to get scratches! Not as good as big mommy, but still good.’
Lola hurries back to the boat, landing in Selis’ outstretched arms with a precision jump. Both females narrow their eyes in pleasure as Selis starts scratching the fluffy being’s belly.
“Who’s a good girl? Yes, you aareeeee.”
A dry cough clears the pink atmosphere at once.
“Are you sure this is fine?” Tess asks with a slightly bored and worried tone. “We are sailing straight into mage territory without Teach present. If nothing else, I think he would want to see this.” She waves a hand at the splintered wrecks and dissipating trails of colourful mana as various water threading figures bob up and down in the waves.
Ket grins in response. “He said to ‘do whatever we want.’ Feel free to do so too. My power gain has slowed down a lot, we all need more energy.”
While the six disciples and single rabbit casually chat or get petted, a single girl is looking around with anxious eyes. “Are you sure this is fine though? This wonderful shield has held up so far, but we will keep meeting more mage boats. We will cross close to Strata and Disintegration like this.” The redhead peers down at a large leathe
r map, splayed out on a small table next to the ship’s wheel.
“We are sailing west right now. We can slip away if we turn on the stealth field when we are out of sight of the ships and head north.”
Angeta stares at Ket with a deadpan expression. “Your grin starts to look like Teach’s. I would be worried about that development if I were you. I am not though, so I don’t care.”
Ket’s smile falters for a bit, but a single frown later his mouth is grinning wider.
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“The smoke plume we have been seeing all day is Disintegration Island, home of the fire faction. And you can just see Strata’s Eternal Tower over the horizon there.”
A redheaded girl is waving her hands around as she lectures for a bit. “Massive arrays attract fire or earth mana to these islands. Never fight a faction on their own turf, they have access to at least twice as much mana and regeneration as outside of their islands. Wave Island is far to the east, on the opposite side of the Elemental Ring. Light mages are only hired to do healing for the rich. Or they get assigned to a journey mage patrol squad as support.”
Her words falter a bit as she thinks of what happened in the last two days. She was another unwilling, unmotivated mage in training. She only kept her cheer because her unpopular master told her to also focus on the positive side of mana. Most mages don’t think it is worth the trouble, anything done with dim mana is at least ten times as hard when performed with bright mana.
Then, a sudden emergency dispatch to scout a magical phenomenon later she is reunited with her brother, who she thought died years ago. Also, she is now sailing around in an invisible ship while clashing with her previous colleagues.
“What makes the black clouds?”
Ares looks at the single fat person in the odd group. “Uhm, it’s Disintegration island, so… fire?”
Ket looks up from the map he is studying. “He wanted a volcano, right? A mountain with fire inside? Actually, that would be molten rock. Does that come from the earth? Deep down there must be more, so…”
Bord nods as the rest of the group ignore Ket’s rambling as he starts developing theories.
“We should tell him later, he needed one of those, right?” More nods follow Selis’ question. Ares is bewildered again; this talk about that mysterious ‘him’.
Selis waves her hand, causing a stream of water to drench Ket. His head starts steaming as his mouth starts moving faster.
“Who is this ‘him?’” Conspiratorially huddling up next to Tess and Selis, the light mage pries for answers.
“Don’t ask.”
“He’s great!”
Ares looks at Tess and Selis one by one. “Is it ‘don’t ask’ or ‘great?’”
Both girls nod their confirmation. Ares throws her hands up into the air and walks back to Vox. “Can you please tell me, brother?”
Vox just smiles and shakes his head. “Nope, I really don’t want to risk making him angry by talking too freely. He likes his privacy and anonymity, for some reason.”
“HAYEEEEEEEEEK!”
Tess is about to open her mouth as a piercing scream comes from belowdecks. They all jump and look around. All but Ket run over to the nearest hatch and fight each other to be the first through the opening. Ares follows behind, fussing with her white robe.
The sudden disappearance of the water stream cooling his overworked brain shakes Ket from his calculations. He starts talking to himself again as he turns the steering wheel a bit. “The entire planet must be a thin shell over a molten core of rock and metal. That is so fucking cool. I need to weigh some rocks and set up some experiments to get the proper numbers.”
His head starts steaming again by the time the group reaches the source of the scream. Selis calls out to the shaky figure in the far doorway. “Angy, why did you scream?”
The furry woman is looking into the doorway at the front of the ship’s floor with bulging eyes. “What did Tea…” She falters as she spots a white-clad figure hurry down the steps. “…did he do here? There are a bunch of mana mutants here! We have enough of those when autumn comes, why is he making more?”
All the students and the single mage crowd into the room where they see rows of deep bowls placed on small tables. Inside the bowls are fish, or at least things that look like fish.
“Yeah, they look like mana monsters that come with the beast hordes.” Tess peers into one of the bowls. She shivers as she spots a tooth covered monstrosity flopping around in the water. Another fish has bones sticking out of its scales while another is on fire. It’s on fire under water. She blinks her eyes a bit, but the flames are still gently licking around the smouldering fish when she looks again.
“There are lines on the outside!” The group discusses Selis’ discovery for a bit but can’t come to a conclusion.
“MORE MAGES!” Everyone speeds back up to the deck again. “From starboard, four vessels.”
Six people keep staring at Ket. “To the right, that way?” Ket just sighs.
They look and see the tops of masts coming over the horizon. “Why are you sailing towards them?” Vox asks.
“Something is coming from that direction; I think it’s the metal triangle Te… he had been working on. I picked it up on my long-range scans. There isn’t a lot of flying metal in the sky, you know.” Ket points a bit to the left, in the direction the group of ships is going towards. “Also, Sel, can you erase the ship’s wake? I want to speed up a bit. The mana dungeon is still pretty far away.”
Selis rises her blue eyebrows while looking around. “Yeah, that’s actually a really good idea. Not for very long though, recharging our q… I mean power with mana is slow.”
The disciples throw quick glances at Ares. Ket coughs and speaks. “Yeah… Let’s not talk about that. I’m going to speed up now.”
Selis’ face flushes as she avoids Ket’s and Ares’ eye contact. “S-Sure, I’ll go sit on the back railing.”
“Aft railing.”
“Whatever.”
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“You think Teach is going to be pissed?” Tess softly converses with Ket as they stand behind the steering wheel. Stars and a moon illuminate the two figures as the girl operates the wheel while the boy navigates.
“Why?”
“He looked like he was about to make love to the thing when we were building this ship. Ah, it has a name, right? The Ascent.” Tess bites her lip nervously while turning the wheel a bit. She stamps the deck to illustrate her point.
“A bit more to starboard. And shit, he might be pissed.” Ket starts biting his nails as he looks over the deck. A jagged mass of splinters now occupies the place where a proud mast stood half a day earlier. Charred patches of wood make a stark contrast to the long splinters torn from the deck. Sunken footprints are visible here and there, big cracks circling them.
“If only Selis had told me she was out of qi earlier. Those mages would have never seen us if our wake didn’t suddenly become visible again.”
“If only you didn’t steer us right in front of those big mage boats.” Tess calms herself down as she continues whispering in a low volume. “And whose idea was it to turn on the stealth thing? The force field would have kept the ship safe.” She continues in her fake, mocking tone. “And whose idea was it to go towards the mana crystal dungeon in the first place?”
Now sporting a grin as Ket is at a loss of what to reply, she delivers the finishing blow. “I am going to tell Teach. He won’t give you food for a year.”
Panic flits across his face. “I got his flying metal triangle thing in my ring, that’ll compensate, right? Also, I got a lot of money. I will bribe you. What do you want? Please don’t tell Teach.”
“And who did you scam for that? I got a lot of gold from when we raided that first ship, no need.”
“Why can’t Angeta fix the ship?” Depression once again is visible in the boy’s dark eyes. He is now standing slumped while rubbing his forehead. “And why didn’t Lola wake up earlier?”
Tess punches him in the shoulder. “Hehe, what kind of man are you, hiding behind a rabbit?”
A spark of life returns to his eyes as he hopefully asks, “How about I make you a weapon?”
“Ppfffhahaha.”
“Shush, you’ll wake Ares and the rest.”
“Hehe, okay, okay… I don’t want a weapon, though. I make my own.” Tess smiles with an evil grin as she spins a suddenly formed dagger through her fingers, the other hand casually patting a small rabbit sitting on the map table. She makes the knife disappear in a puff of black smoke and grabs the wheel again. “Tell you what, I think I can take someone with me in the shadows. I tried with Lola and she was fine after.
“We could check out the dungeon before storming the entrance like idiots. You come with me and scan with qi or something. I get headaches from sensing lots of stuff at once.”
“What is the chance of something going wrong with taking another human along? Jumping through shadows without a shadow affinity sounds dangerous.” Ket splits his time between staring at Tess and the horizon.
“Who knows. Or I might just tell Teach whose idea got his ship ruined. We are lucky his experiments…” Tess shudders a bit as she continues talking. “…those fish mana freaks, didn’t get hit by one of those big mana cannons on the big mage boats.”
Ket obviously deflates as he capitulates. “Alright, we’ll be there by next nightfall. Please don’t accidentally kill me or leave me stuck in between shadows.” A pleading expression is visible on Ket’s face. Tess pushes his face away while trying to keep her laughter in check.
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