by Logan Jacobs
“This is troubling, to say the least.” Ahwara frowned. “We’ve gone many, many season cycles without any intruders on our island, and now there are two different groups in a single moon cycle? It doesn’t make any sense.”
“It doesn’t make a ton of sense to us, either,” I admitted. “If the orcs were here, we should have seen some signs of them by now. They aren’t exactly a subtle race.”
“Yeah,” Nadir agreed, “the orcs’ entire style is much like the Coonags’... They attack hard, loud, and swift.”
“And they travel in large numbers,” Sela noted. “Had they taken your beach by force, they would have set up a camp, and their ships would be anchored out on the sea nearby.”
“Maybe it was a stray orc?” Mira suggested. “We’ve sunken several orc ships in this area, which comes out to a lot of lifeboats. If one of them sailed off in the wrong direction or got lost at sea, they could have stumbled across this island by mistake.”
“That’s not a bad theory,” I mused, “but how could a handful of orcs, weakened from their time adrift at sea, pose a threat to a young, healthy group of Morphos?”
“Unless it wasn’t a straightforward battle,” Jonas pondered aloud. “Perhaps the invading force tricked the Morpho men and then stabbed them in the backs?”
“That would take cunning,” I chuckled, “the orcs definitely don’t have that.”
“But we’ve met one orc who does,” Lezan gasped. “One who could still be out there, alive and well…”
“No way.” I shook my head, even though I was starting to think she was right. “You don’t really think Carnog and those two orcs on the rowboat did this, do you?”
“It’s one of the few things that makes sense,” Lezan repeated with a sigh.
Fucking hell. Orcs were bad enough, but Captain Carnog? If he’d somehow managed to not only stay alive, but also take out an entire race of people? We were in for some shit.
Still, I was skeptical.
“This is why we need to get to the queen,” Ahwara stated as she lifted her small chin. “Dalwen would know what to do. She always does.”
“And we’ll ask her very soon.” I nodded to reassure the butterfly woman, and she flashed me a grateful smile.
We continued to eat the food from the Morphos’ pantry, which seemed to be made up of nothing but nuts, leafy greens, and the occasional grub or two. It wasn’t exactly five-star restaurant quality food, but it more than got the job done. Soon, our bellies were full, and the rain was still coming down hard.
“I think it’s time we talked about sleeping arrangements,” Jemma said and cleared her throat. “Tirian and I will take the dwelling all the way on the far edge of the clearing.”
“Will both of you fit in there?” Jonas gasped. “The dragon is becoming a bit hefty in his adolescence.”
“I don’t think he would appreciate you calling him fat, Jonas.” Jemma winked. “We’ll both fit, it’ll just be kinda tight.”
“I’ll bunk with Lezan,” Nadir grumbled. “I’m pretty sure I’m the only one here who can handle her for a full night.”
“Love you, too,” Lezan hissed at her leader sarcastically.
“I’ll stay with Sela,” Mira offered, and my jaw practically slammed into the table.
Just a few days ago, Sela and Mira could barely stand being in the same room with each other, but now, since they’d shared their bed in a single night of passion, they wanted to be as close as friends at a summer camp.
Score one for Ben Whitfield.
“Fine with me.” Sela shrugged as she flipped her blue-gray colored hair to the side.
“Holara and Zerandrie will stay with me,” Ahwara offered.
“I wanna hang out with the soothsayer!” Candara interjected.
“What?” Jonas asked as he glanced at the golden-haired woman nervously. “Why would you--”
“I’m super interested in all the stuff that goes along with what you do,” the green-winged Morpho cut him off, and her red eyes shone intensely. “The visions and the potions and the future sight and all that…. We’re gonna stay awake until the wee hours of the morning talking about everything.”
“Are you sure that’s the best--”
“Everything,” Candara giggled, and Jonas just hung his head and sighed.
“I’ll stay with Arrick, obviously,” I explained. “Then that just leaves Elzara with her own place.”
“Uh, Dad?” Arrick spoke up like a child who was afraid they were about to get scolded. “C-Can I have my own dwelling? I’m almost a year old now, you know. I think I’m starting to get a little too old to share a room with my parents.”
“Well, when you put it that way,” I chuckled and shook my head.
“I’ll share with Ben!” Elzara blurted out, and the whole table went silent.
They all looked over at the blue-haired Morpho woman, who was now staring at the table sheepishly and trying not to blush. Then she looked up at me with her beautiful brown eyes, and her adorable face made my heart skip a beat.
“Okay.” Arrick shuddered. “Now, I definitely want my own place!”
“Fine with me,” I said as I nodded to the violet-winged beauty.
We’d only been with one another for a day, but Elzara wanted to shack up with me? Maybe I was being too hasty about her motivations, but the blue-haired woman had seemed to be enthralled with me for the last several hours, especially after she’d watched me kill the hopper. Was she just offering so my son would have his own place to stay, or was there something more she was thinking about?
I’d find out soon enough.
We all finished our dinners, and the storm continued to rage outside. Finally, yawns began to pop up all around the table, so we decided it was time to head off to bed.
Everybody went their separate ways, and I watched with amusement as they flitted in and out between the dwellings to avoid the downpour. Finally, it was just Elzara and I, alone.
“We should get going…” Elzara said with a smile. “We don’t want to waste any precious time standing around.”
The blue-haired butterfly woman walked past me and then out into the rain. I watched her thin hips sashay back and forth as she made her way through the torrential downpour, and I couldn’t help but wonder what laid ahead.
Whatever it was, I had a feeling it was going to be fucking amazing.
So, I took a deep breath and then followed Elzara out into the rain.
Chapter Eleven
I followed the blue-haired Morpho woman through the rain, all the way back to the dwelling on the other side of the clearing. Her purple wings fluttered with excitement as she ran through the downpour, and the thin sheet of a tunic she wore clung to her body like a second skin as it got wetter and wetter. Finally, we made it to the dwelling we were going to inhabit for the night, and I immediately tried to get Elzara to spill the beans.
“Okay, so I gotta ask…” I began as I wiped the moisture out from my hair. “Why did you offer to bunk up with me? You were gonna have your own place.”
“Your son wanted independence.” She shrugged. “Maybe I just sympathized with him.”
“Oh?” I raised an eyebrow at the obviously bullshit answer. “You want independence from something, too? Your tribe, maybe?”
The Morpho’s taut face shifted to a frown, even though her eyes continued to glow.
“No,” she protested. “I mean, yes. Kinda.”
“What could you possibly want to be independent of?” I questioned. “Your people seem great, and Ahwara is everything you could want in a leader.”
“Ahwara isn’t our leader, though,” Elzara sighed. “Dalwen is. And, as much as I love her dearly… She’s way too old-fashioned for my tastes. The queen is the reason I’ve never left the island once, even though I’ve been more than capable of protecting myself for several season cycles now.”
Oh, I definitely saw what was going on here. Even though I hadn’t met Queen Dalwen yet, I could tell from what Elza
ra was saying that they had a “mother-daughter relationship.” The queen must have been very protective of the youngest Morpho, and it was now coming to a head.
“You know she’s just protecting you,” I reassured the blue-haired beauty. “Take it from me, it’s really dangerous outside of this island. You’d be surprised at how cruel the world can be, and all the fucked-up shit that’s out there. Honestly, Arrick’s mother and I did the same thing with him.”
“Really?” Elzara asked as her brown eyes widened.
“We did.” I nodded. “This journey right now? This is the first time we ever let Arrick leave our home. We were both afraid of what would happen if he ran into danger out here at sea.”
“And?” the blue-winged Morpho prompted.
“And what?” I questioned.
“And… was that the right decision?” she continued with a furrowed brow.
“I-I don’t know, honestly.” I admitted to her. “He’s been fine so far, but this mission? It’s been way more intense and dangerous than I ever would have guessed. Every single moment I’m just wondering if he’s okay or if this is too much for his growing mind to handle. I mean, hell… he’s seen some pretty messed up shit so far.”
“So, you don’t regret keeping him on the island for so long?” Elzara frowned, and I instantly shook my head.
“It’s apples and oranges,” I sighed. “Arrick’s only a year old. He just looks a lot older because of how rapidly dragonkin age out of their adolescence. You, on the other hand? You’re what, in your sixties? You’ve been kept on this island for waaaay longer.”
Elzara crossed her hands across her chest and scoffed. “Tell me about it. Honestly, I’m starting to wonder if we even should let Dalwen out of her cocoon.”
I placed my hand on the small butterfly-woman’s shoulder, which elicited a slight gasp from her.
“Don’t think like that,” I muttered. “She’s just doing what she thinks is best for you, like any good parent would do.”
“But she’s not my parent…” Elzara protested. “My parents would at least let me hang out with the Morpho men and want offspring. Dalwen wanted to keep me away during the time of great fertility because she didn’t want me ‘fraternizing with those guys.’”
No wonder Elzara was pining over me like a lost puppy. She was a sixty-year-old virgin, and I was the first real man she’d been allowed to interact with at length.
“That was probably for the better, too,” I admitted to the blue-haired woman. “Those guys didn’t really seem like father of the year material, after all.”
“Still,” Elzara pouted. “It wasn’t fair the rest of the women got to have their independence, but I didn’t. Ahwara should be our leader. She never would have done that to me… You saw how she reacted when I told her I wanted to sleep with you, right?”
My heart fluttered in my chest as I gulped.
“You--You said you wanted to sleep with me?” I smiled devilishly.
The Morpho woman instantly realized her mistake, and her cheeks turned a deep red.
“I meant sleep in here,” she mumbled, “in the same room.”
“Oh,” I chuckled, “right.”
“Ahwara was fine with my decision, but there’d be no way Dalwen would have allowed it,” Elzara grumbled. “Ahwara should honestly be our leader.”
“I admit,” I said as I walked over to the small wooden table, which was now broken from the fall, “I’ve been impressed by what I’ve seen from her so far.”
“See?” The blue-haired woman grinned, and then she ran over and took my hands in hers. “You know what you’re talking about. You’re a man of great judgement, and a man who knows what he wants.”
“I know what I want, do I?” I whispered to the Morpho woman as I looked her body up and down subtly.
Elzara’s taut face twisted into a sly smile. Then she leaned in close to my ear.
“I know what you want,” she purred, and my cock instantly shot to attention. “I want it, too.”
“Then why don’t you take what you want?” I flirted back with the blue-haired woman.
However, my words didn’t seem to have the intended effect I wanted them to, because Elzara pulled away from me before she looked down at her feet nervously. Then she twiddled her thumbs as she stared at the ground and tried to find the right words to respond.
“I-I’m not sure I would even know how,” the blue-winged beauty confessed. “I’ve never done anything like that before.”
I took a step closer to the woman, placed my hand against her delicate cheek, and then pulled her soft brown eyes up to meet my own.
“Then let me show you,” I whispered. “You won’t even have to do any of the work. I’ll do everything to you, including filling up your womb with sperm. You’d like that, wouldn’t you?”
“Y-y-yesss,” Elzara whispered as her wings began to beat rapidly, and she bit her lip as her eyes smiled up at me. Then she wrapped her arms around my neck and went in for the kill.
Her luscious lips touched mine and instantly filled my body with the sweet sensation of her kiss. Seconds later, I let my tongue slide into Elzara’s mouth, and she responded with a slight gasp. However, that gasp quickly turned into a moan as we continued to make out, and I started to run my hands all along her thin body.
My fingers traced the erect nipples underneath her tunic and then wandered down her side until they reached her tight ass. I gripped it tightly as I pulled her closer into my body, and the blue-haired woman let out a small growl of satisfaction.
I wanted to keep it slow, so Elzara wouldn’t get too intimidated, but then my fingers grazed against the wet slit between her legs, and I couldn’t resist any longer.
I wanted this woman, and I wanted her right now.
So, I wrapped both my hands underneath Elzara’s thighs, lifted her up into the air, and headed over to the bed. Then I laid her down gently before I got down onto my knees and pushed apart her thin legs.
“W-What are you doing?” she gasped as I began to kiss her inner thighs softly.
“Just trust me,” I promised the woman. “I’ve yet to find a single woman this doesn’t drive wild.”
Elzara still seemed a bit unsure, but she nodded with approval.
So, I reached up to the bottom of her tunic, rolled it up so it was at her tummy, and came face to face with her sweet pussy. It was already dribbling its wetness as it anticipated my tongue, and I licked my lips as I studied Elzara’s womanhood. The lips of her labia were swollen with arousal, and the pubic hair above her clit was wet.
I couldn’t tell if it was the rain, or if she was just that excited to see me, but I wanted to believe it was the latter.
My lips traveled up and down Elzara’s inner thighs as I teased her, but I stopped every now and again at her pussy, gave it a soft lick, and then continued to tease. Every time I did so, the blue-haired woman arched her back and let out a soft gasp, but by the sixth or seventh time, she was getting impatient.
“W-What are you doing?” Elzara questioned as her body writhed under mine. “My whole body is tensing up!”
“This is just the warm up,” I promised the virgin.
“The warm up?” the blue-haired beauty gasped. “You mean there’s more?”
“Oh, we haven’t even gotten started yet…” I looked up into her brown eyes and winked. “I’m about to use my tongue.”
“Y-Your tongue?” Elzara blinked rapidly and was clearly dumbfounded by the idea. “Aren’t you already using your tongue?”
I decided to stop talking and just show her what I meant.
So, I gripped the blue-winged beauty’s ass, pulled her in close, and pressed my face into her pussy. My tongue flicked back and forth across her clitoris in a circular motion, and it drove her fucking wild. I felt her hands grasp my hair as I pleasured her tender button, and her legs quivered around me. Every now and again, I would pull away to tease her some more, and each time she let out a huff of frustration.
L
ittle did she know, this was all part of the plan.
When I finally shoved my face back against her, Elzara went wild.
“Ohhhhh, Bennnnnn!” she keened, and she clutched my head against her mound.
“You taste so fucking good,” I groaned as I started to run a hand up her stomach, and it was the truth. Her pussy juices tasted like sweet cherries and the perfect amount of tart lemon mixed with honey.
I gripped her right breast as I ate Elzara out, and she responded with a full-body tremble when I squeezed her erect nipple.
“Oh, Cacoo…” she gasped. “I’ve never felt anything like this in my life.”
That was probably the best fucking compliment I could have gotten, and it only made me want to go harder.
I started to make my tongue’s motions more sporadic as I whipped it across her clit gently in random motions. Finally, I found one that drove Elzara wild, and her whole body went rigid.
“You like that, don’t you?” I winked up at the woman from between her legs.
“Y-Yes,” she moaned as she looked down at me with her innocent eyes.
“I’m going to make you cum.” I smiled up at Elzara.
“What does that mean?” the blue-haired Morpho panted.
Holy shit… Did the Morpho women not know what an orgasm was? At least, it didn’t seem like Elzara did.
Either way, I was about to teach her.
“I’ll show you,” I teased from between her legs. “Hold on for a wild ride.”
I pressed my face into the Morpho woman’s sweetness once more and repeated the motions with my tongue. This time, though, I made sure to do them more forcefully and at a more rapid pace.
Elzara’s whole body tensed up as she arched her back and let out a few gasps of ecstasy. She gripped my hair so tightly I feared she was going to pull it out, and a few soft moans escaped her mouth, though they soon became silent. Then her hands pushed me into her womanhood about as tightly as I could go.
“Oh, Ben!” Elzara moaned, and her whole body trembled as she orgasmed against my tongue. “Oh, my… Ohhhhhhhh!”
“You taste wonderful.” I lapped up her sweet juices before she could make a mess, and that only made me ten times hornier. Finally, when she stopped convulsing, the blue-haired woman looked down at me with hunger in her brown eyes.
