The Return

by Campbell, Sean M.

  Taina stuck her head out of the tent and looked at Laina, “You have first watch. Come get me in a couple of hours,” then pulled her head back into the tent.

  I bent down and crawled into the tent, as I thought to myself that I needed a tent which did not require me to crawl.

  Once in the tent, I had four hands on me, removing my armor and weapons. The ladies took their time, paying close attention to my skin as they revealed it. Their kisses landed like the touch of feathers. After I was naked we started removing Taina’s weapons and armor. Likka and I both kissed and caressed her as we removed each piece. Then we turned our attention to Likka’s dress. The soft cloth was like water as it pooled around her.

  As I leaned in to kiss Likka, she put her arms around me and accepted my tongue into her mouth. We kissed passionately for several minutes, and then I turned to Taina. As our lips met, I leaned in and started guiding her back onto the blankets. I kept her locked to my lips as I felt her begin to quiver and writhe underneath me. A few seconds later, she moaned and tensed in my arms, and then she screamed into my mouth. I let her go and she looked into my eyes; “How did you make me orgasm, when all you did was kiss me?”

  “He’s talented. He has been able to do that for as long as I have known him.” Likka said as she giggled.

  As Taina recovered, I began to kiss down her throat and chest until I could get to her lovely breasts. I began to suckle at those breasts as she moaned in pleasure. Her flavor was as sweet as honey and as tart as lemons. I found myself searching for every drop of her nectar. As I felt her begin to quiver, I slid a finger into her dewy flower and messaged her button. She began to shake and moan louder.

  When she was completely ready, I nipped one of her nipples and squeezed her clit at the same time. She immediately arched her back and screamed into her second orgasm. While she was still writhing in ecstasy, I slipped down and pushed my tongue into her sweet womanhood. She screamed again as she tried to roll over and away. As soon as she was on her side, I pushed my tongue into her rosebud. She let out a loud wail, and collapsed onto the blankets, exhausted.

  A few moments later, her eyes fluttered and she rolled back onto her back. “Oh gods, why did I wait so long?”, she asked of no one in particular.

  I looked down into her eyes and asked, “Do you need time to recover, or are you ready to dance?”

  “Dance with me, Rhys. Dance with me until I can’t dance any more.”

  I pushed into her and she let out a low moan. “It’s so big! I feel so full.” I began a slow long set of thrusts; in, then almost all the way out. As she was moaning, she reached over and pulled Likka to her. She brought Likka over her, until she was straddling her face. She then lifted her head and pushed her tongue into Likka's tight flower. Likka moaned and lowered herself fully onto Taina’s face. Within minutes both women were moaning and quivering. I reached down and began to message Taina’s love pearl, and heard her scream into Likka’s orchid. Over the next fifteen minutes, she screamed into Likka six times. The seventh time, I pushed into her womb and began to spurt my release into her.

  As I pulled out of Taina’s tight womanhood, Likka slid down along her body and impaled herself on my still stiff rod. I immediately began to thrust into her, and she howled out her pleasure. I reached around her and began to caress and tweak her nipples. Within seconds she was quivering and vibrating beneath me. “Rrrrrrhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyssssssss!” She screamed out as her orgasm hit her. As she collapsed onto Taina’s chest, they looked into each other’s eyes, and then joined in a kiss.

  I continued to thrust into Likka, as I wet my finger in my mouth then began to push it into Likka’s tight rosebud. As soon as my finger made full penetration, Likka began to shudder into another orgasm. Within seconds, she howled into Taina’s mouth, and a few moments later she howled again, and then again. I felt the heat in my balls as I began to boil over, and with her next howl I thrust even deeper and began to spurt my seed into her.

  I rolled Likka off of the top of Taina and onto her back. Likka smiled at me and clutched her legs to her chest, as I aimed my slimy manhood at her back entrance. She grunted as I pushed to full depth into her in one thrust; and began the age old rhythm of thrusting. Within moments she was crying out and quivering underneath me. Taina sat up and moved over Likka’s face to get a better look.

  As soon as she was above Likka’s head Likka buried her tongue into Taina’s tight tunnel. Taina began to quiver almost immediately, and within moments both girls howled out their orgasms. I continued to pound Likka’s rear entrance until she cried out several more times, and then I emptied myself into her again.

  When Taina rolled away from Likka, Likka was laying there with her eyes closed and breathing deeply and slowly. As Taina went to stretch out on the blankets, she was on her hands and knees and I moved behind her. She felt my hard staff brush against her and said, “Don’t you ever go down?” Then as she realized where my rod was pressing, “Rhys I have never...”

  “Do you want me to stop?”

  “No, but please be gentle.”

  I slowly began to push against her rosebud. My staff bent, and then suddenly straightened out as the head popped past her entrance. Taina let out squeal of pleasure and pain together as I stopped to let her adjust. As I felt the muscle of her insides relax, I pushed in a little further and stopped as she tensed. Slowly but surely I worked my way in until my groin pressed up against her hot rear end. Then a slow withdrawal and a thrust back in.

  Soon she was panting as I picked up speed and power to my thrusts. In a few minutes she was crying out and thrust back against me, then it hit her -- her first anal orgasm, as she howled out in pleasure. Five times she howled out and nearly collapsed. Then as she felt my hot seed spurt into her she howled out the loudest scream she had made so far, and collapsed unconscious on the mat.

  I slowly withdrew from her and let her relax, as I covered both of the girls with my blankets and let them sleep.

  I sat there for a few moments trying to sort out my feelings. I knew that I loved Likka. I could feel this every time our minds touched. She knew and accepted this love -- even returned it. I could feel from her that Morgana knew how deep our love was as well. Taina was a bit of a mystery to me. I knew her love for me was deep, and went back a long way. Could I possibly be falling in love with her? I had only known her a short time, or had I?

  As I crawled out of the tent, Laina was staring at me. “Get some sleep, Laina. I will take watch.”

  “What did you do to them?”

  Beth said from behind her, “I would say he made love to them till they passed out from the pleasure. I wish a man would do that to me, just once in my life.”

  I looked at Beth. “When you wish it, I am at your service, if I am up to your standards. But right now you both need to get some sleep, as we have to ride out in the morning.”

  They both crawled into tents, as I sat down at the edge of the camp with my cloak wrapped around me.

  Chapter Three

  Likka was the first to wake up. She crawled out of the tent about an hour before sun up. , she asked me in my mind.

 

 

 

 

 

  Likka left me alone about it, after that point. A short time later, the others started rising to face the day. Taina came over and kissed me passionately. “Thank you, Rhys. I needed last night.”

  “You do not need to thank me. I fully enjoyed last night as well, and that is thanks enough.”

  As we were breaking camp, I saw one of the pindragons sitting
on a branch at the edge of camp. Something nagged at the edge of my mind, and I almost seemed to remember something. I walked over and got a piece of leftover meat from my packs and walked over to Beth with the meat cupped in my hand. “Beth, go over to that pindragon slowly, make little cooing noises, and offer it this.”

  Beth took the meat from my hand and started cooing and clucking to the pindragon. The pindragon was suspicious at first, and danced away from her on the branch. But soon the smell of the cooked meat was driving it crazy. It slowly and cautiously moved toward her. When it was about two feet from her hand, it looked up into her eyes. Then it pounced from the branch and into her hand to start gobbling the meat down.

  “Look in its eyes and coo to it. Make it feel as if you like it.”

  Beth looked into its eyes and continued to coo. She suddenly acted like she was mesmerized by the swirling sapphire eyes of the pindragon on her hand. Then Beth looked at us. “Her name is Beeko.”

  “Welcome to my world”, I said, as I mounted Reaper.

  As Beth turned to walk towards her horse, Beeko flew around her head twice, and then settled on her shoulder. Her tail wrapped up over her ear. Then she snuggled down against her neck and started cooing contentedly.

  We rode for several more days, each night stopping to camp. Some nights Likka would join me in my tent, other nights Taina would join me. They told me I got too worked up when they both joined me, and they wanted to survive the nights! Laina and Beth both giggled when they said that to me.

  Two nights before we were to arrive at Feck, Laina came to me as we made camp. “Can you be gentle with someone who is inexperienced?”

  “Laina, I can be as gentle as a lamb, but you will still feel pain. The pain will be temporary, though, and soon will be replaced by pleasure.”

  “How much pain would I feel?”

  “It is different for every woman. Some feel a lot of pain, some very little. What you offer is also a precious gift you can only give once. I would be honored for you to give me this gift. I do want you to be sure I am the one you want to give it to, though.”

  “I don’t know what to do!”

  “Do what is right for you, and no one else. Do what your heart tells you to do.”

  She wandered away from me, and went to talk to her mother quietly for a bit. I gathered my bow and went to hunt for some dinner. An hour later, I returned with a one hundred pound haunch from a large lizard like cow, which Likka called a drog. She told me they are quite tasty and the meat brings a high price in the inner kingdoms.

  I came into the camp to see all of the tents set up and the fire already going. I set about filleting the haunch out into thin slices of meat, and placing it on spits over the fire. Taina had dug up some tubers and gathered some fruit and berries from the surrounding area. We made a meal that was the best we had had in days.

  “Rhys?”

  “Yes, Taina?”

  “She wants to come to you tonight, but she is afraid. She has become convinced that our screams in the night are from pain as well as from pleasure. I don’t know what to tell her to convince her otherwise.”

  “How do you feel about this?”

  “Rhys, you are the greatest man I have ever met. I know your power and I know your strength. But I also know your love and passion. I know you will be gentle with her, and a mother could not want more than that for her daughter’s first time. I am not scared for her, but I want her to be sure she is ready.”

  “Ask her to come to me to talk for a bit.”

  Taina walked away to find her daughter. As I waited, Beth came to me. “Would you really take that little girl to your bed?”

  “That is an interesting question. If she were back where you come from, she would be a little girl barely of age. Here, however, she is a woman five years past her marrying age. In this place, she would normally have three or four children of her own by now.”

  “But she is so young.”

  “Yes, she is by your standards. Here, though, people seldom live to see fifty summers. Most never see forty. These people live shorter lives, and have to grow up quickly. She is a woman, and has more than proven herself as such to me on this trip. If she chooses me, how could I dishonor her by refusing?”

  “How do you do that?”

  “Do what?”

  “Make it seem so natural that a little girl might want you to have sex with her, and you make it into a loving expression?”

  “I don’t know -- maybe it is because I care, sometimes too much.”

  It was the flash of anger from Likka that had me moving. My swords were in hand before I even knew I had reacted. When I reached the north side of the camp I saw four men in red leather armor astride four roan horses. Two of the men had bows drawn and pointed at Likka.

  “Likka, get back!”, I shouted, as I came to a stop in front of the men. As Likka stepped back, the two men lowered their bows.

  The leader of the group looked down towards me with obvious disdain in his eyes. “Are you the man from the west who is calling himself Rhys?”

  “I am Rhys.”

  “For crimes against the empire, you are hereby sentenced to death.” Both bowmen raised their bows towards me as I tossed my swords high into the air. As they drew their arrows back, my arms flicked downward, and two flechettes dropped into each hand. As they released the arrows, my hands flicked forward launching the flechettes. As the weapons crossed paths in the air, I sidestepped the paths of the two arrows. My hands grasped both arrows as they passed, and two men screamed as they were blinded by the sharp barbs in their eyes.

  The lead man, and the second, began to draw their swords as I spun and launched myself into the air. As the lead man’s sword cleared his scabbard, I landed feet first into his chest, knocking him off of his horse. As I rode his falling body to the ground, I ducked under the swinging sword of the other man. Rising up, I slammed the arrows upward, through his breastplate, and into his heart. I leaped into a twisting flip and landed over the lead man. As he tried to bring his sword up, mine fell back into my hands from being tossed. I instantly crossed them both across his throat, all in the time it took for our hearts to beat for the second time since it started.

  I heard the ring of steel as Taina and Laina brought down the two blind men, and a gasp from behind me from Beth. “Take this back to your masters, you imperial dog. Rhys is back, and I am coming for them. This time there will be no war. I will hunt them down like the cowardly rats they are. Let them all know I am sending them a death notice. The challenge is on the table to face me, if they dare.”

  , Likka screamed in my head.

  “I hid my face in shame for six thousand years, Likka. I am not hiding anymore. Let them come, if they dare. I will tear their world apart, and bury them in the rubble.”

 

  “Wrong! That is how I am going to face them. This time, there will be no hostages they can use to force my hand. I will wash this world clean of their stink as I strip the flesh from their very bones. For six thousand years, they have been killing children, just because their parents gave them the same name as me. This stops now.”

  I turned to the terrified imperial guardsman lying below my swords. “Know this, dog. If one more child dies for bearing my name, I will hunt you, and every man that has ever worn that armor, and I will flay them alive.” As I spit these words in his face, I could see my reflection in his helmet. My eyes were burning with fire, as smoke curled up along my forehead. Cold fog was rolling down from them as well.

  With a snap of my mind's eye, his armor and weapons crumbled to dust beneath me. I stood over him and pulled my swords away. “Get on your mount and ride. Ride like the wind, before I change my mind and deliver the message myself.”

  The man moved as if he had seen Hell’s host coming to claim him. Before the space of an eye blink, he was on his feet, and leaping for his horse.

  “Likka, take care of the girls. I
will go on alone from here.”

  Taina slapped me across the face. “You will not! I waited six thousand years, hiding like a mouse in the shadows, to get my revenge! Damn you, Rhys! You are not going to take that away from me.”

  I stood up ready to fly into a rage at her words, until I saw here face. She had tears in her eyes, and was ready to face me with steel in her spine. I lowered my head, and turned to walk to my horse.

  I reached up to my horse and pulled my backpack down. Again that nagging sensation had come to me. , Likka said in my mind. I looked at my reflection in the buckle on my pack, and tried to calm myself. As calm returned to me, the fires died, and the cold fog dissipated. I turned my pack upside down, and poured the contents out.

  On the top of the stack fell a simple, leather bound jewelry case. I opened it to find the copper pendant, still on its gold chain from so many years ago. I pulled the chain out, and put it around my neck. Just as soon as the pendant touched my skin, it all flooded back. Every one of my memories were mine once again. My eyes rolled back in my head as I fell, face first, into the dirt.

  I awoke in the dark. I was in my tent, and there was a warm body curled against me. I did not think before I turned in my half doze, and pulled her up against me to begin kissing her neck, as she was spooned into me.

  “Rhys?”, Laina said as I kissed her neck.

  “Yes.”

  “You scared me last night, more than once.”

  “You should never need to fear me.”

  “I know that now. Mom spoke to Beth and I about what had happened to you. She said you had gone into what you call Mage Rage. It is when your magic boils to the surface, demanding release. But it was when my mother slapped you that scared me the most. I thought for sure you would rip her apart, but you just stood, and accepted her actions and words. When you fainted, I thought you were dead, and all of us were lost. I cried like a child, until mom told me you were alive and breathing. Likka told us you were asleep, that you had fainted from something that happened when you put that necklace on. She didn’t know what happened.”