by Eric Vall
“No problem,” I chuckled and waved off her thanks. “I wanted you and our egg here as soon as possible. I didn’t like the distance between us.”
“I do have to admit,” Valerra fell back among the pillows with a sigh, and her red hair pooled around her, “humans do understand comfort better than most creatures.”
She closed her eyes, and as I let my eyes rake over her naked body, I could feel my blood begin to rush to my cock. So, I rolled my body over to trap Valerra under me.
Her eyes snapped open into a glare.
“What do you think you’re doing?” she snarled, and I grabbed her thin wrists and trapped them above her head with one of my hands.
“Don’t act like you don’t want this,” I growled into her ear, and she shivered at my tone. “You know you love it when I dominate you.”
She looked away, and her eyes still burned in annoyance, but I could feel her body relax under me. I kissed along the curves of her neck and chin before I finally reached her lips, and she moaned. Then my hand trailed down her hips in between her legs. She gasped as my fingers toyed along her pussy lips, and she hissed when the pad of my thumb brushed across her clit.
“Evan,” she bit out, and her voice was laced with lust, “just get to it. I’m not a plaything.”
“Yes,” I growled. “You are my plaything.”
She opened her mouth to reply, but I silenced her with a deep kiss as my fingers slipped inside her. Her body tensed in pleasure, and she let out a moan as she tightened around me. Then I pumped my fingers in and out of her body slowly, and her hips bucked as she tried to take control of the speed.
“Don’t move,” I warned as my free hand flew to her hip and pressed her down. “I’m in charge here. I set the pace, and you just take it like I know you want to.”
Valerra’s eyes widened with lust, and she slowly nodded as her body turned into putty underneath me.
I grinned wickedly. Valerra loved this, she talked a snarky game, but she wanted to be dominated by me.
My fingers continued to slip in and out of her wet tunnel, and as the speed slowly picked up, Valerra gasped as I inserted another finger. She pushed down against my fingers as her walls began to tighten, and I took pity on her. I pumped my digits harder and faster before her hands wound around my head, and I could feel the fluids of her orgasm as she screamed my name.
“Evan! Oh gods, yes!” Her thighs trembled below me, and I continued to move my fingers inside her as she orgasmed.
She panted loudly now, and her face relaxed into a state of bliss. Then I pushed my body off her and grabbed her arm to make her sit up.
“Get on your knees and turn around,” I ordered.
A shiver ran through her body as she quickly obeyed, and I quickly tore off my own clothes and freed my hard cock. Valerra’s pussy was still wet with the juices of her own release as I grabbed her hips with my hands and slowly lined my cock with her wet entrance. Then, in one swift movement, I thrust inside her.
“Oh, gods!” she screamed in pleasure, and she threw her head back in delight.
“You love this, don’t you?” I asked her as I fucked into her from behind. “You love it when I fuck you like this, take control of you and fuck you hard.”
Valerra was too stubborn to reply, and her lips formed a straight line as I pulled out and pushed back into her quickly.
“Tell me,” I snarled. “Tell me how much you love this.”
Valerra’s body trembled at my words, but she stayed silent.
“I’ll stop,” I warned her. “I’ll pull out of you right now and leave you like this: wound up and desperate.”
I pulled out of her to make a point, and she immediately pushed back against me.
“I love this!” she finally admitted with a deep and husky growl. “I want to be full of your member and have you fuck me senseless. Don’t stop now. Please put it back in.”
I grinned and bit down on her shoulder as I pushed inside her once more.
A noise that sounded a bit like a broken sob came from Valerra, and her fingers tightened in her sheets until her knuckles were a pale white.
“Evan,” she moaned, and I knew she was close to a second orgasm.
I fucked her faster, and my hips snapped up toward her body with enough force that I had to hold on to her hips tightly to prevent her from being shoved onto the mattress.
“Fuck,” I hissed under my breath.
“Yes, oh gods. Evan!” she gasped, and I could feel more of Valerra’s juices flood around my cock.
“Ohh, you feel so gooood,” I growled as she tightened around me.
“Fill me,” she demanded. “Please. I need your seed.”
“Yesss…” A few more thrusts from my hips, and I poured my seed deep inside her trembling walls. We stayed connected for a few seconds before I pulled out, and my cum spilled out of her pussy and dripped down her thighs. Then I smirked as Valerra rolled over and collapsed onto the bed.
“Will there be another egg in our future?” I asked her with a laugh. “I wouldn’t be surprised since you love being filled with my dragon seed.”
Valerra tossed a pillow at my head and crossed her arms over her chest in defiance. “Shut up, you little pest.”
“Oh, hey,” I suddenly remembered. “I found some things out about dragon eggs.”
Valerra’s arms dropped, and she looked at me in surprise. “Really? What did you find?”
“It wasn’t a lot, so don’t get too excited,” I replied as I lounged back on the bed, “but I think the reason your sister has stayed inside her egg for so long is because of your family. There was a book that talked about an egg that lived with its mother, but the mother dragon was cruel and vicious. Her egg didn’t hatch for over five thousand years, but after the mother died, the egg hatched within a year. They said the baby dragon knew it didn’t want to hatch around its mother, so it simply waited until it was free of her. I think your sister’s egg is afraid to hatch because she doesn’t realize it’s safe here. She is worried she’ll die once she hatches.”
Valerra looked over to her sister’s egg with a frown. “I suppose that would make sense. Though that worries me. What if she doesn’t want to hatch for me?”
“I’m sure that’s not it,” I reassured her. “You’ve taken care of her for three thousand years. Maybe the egg just knows she has to wait until you’re ready to be a mother to her as well. Now that we have our own egg, it might help her realize it’s okay for her to enter the world now.”
“Did you learn anything else from your human books?” Valerra questioned.
I shook my head. “Not much else. There was one book that mentioned something about the first dragon egg. It’s said to have hatched after three months under the fire of the sun.”
“What does that even mean?” Valerra huffed and scowled. “I can’t exactly fly our egg to the sun to make it hatch.”
I shrugged. “Alyona seems to believe it’s a riddle or some kind. I’m not too sure. I think it’s just a story. I doubt it actually means anything.
“I agree with you.” Valerra nodded. “Myths of dragons have existed for as long as we have. Some of them do ring with truth, but others are nothing more than tales passed down from paranoid humans. My personal favorite is that dragons were sent by the Sun God to lord over the lands of Inati, which is why humans began to hunt us down. We have to be careful of which stories we trust and the ones we allow to remain just that, stories.”
“I know that,” I argued, “but I don’t think we should ignore all the texts we find either. We need answers, and I don’t want to wait a millennium to meet my kid.”
“I suppose I understand,” Valerra muttered as she looked at our egg. “If our child chooses to wait for thousands of years, most of the people you know and love now will be long gone, and I would assume you want them to meet.”
“Exactly,” I said. “Obviously, I want everyone here to meet my future kid, but my parents deserve to be grandparents. I don’t want
them to miss out on my first dragon kid because we failed to figure out how to hatch an egg.”
“We will find a way,” Valerra murmured, and her voice was unusually soft. “I don’t want our child to be inside an egg for a majority of its life. I want it to experience true freedom. Not to mention, if we have a few baby dragons around, your enemies might be a bit more hesitant to attack Hatra. Everyone knows to not anger mother dragons.”
I chuckled and let out a breath. “I learned that lesson the hard way. You were ready to cut my head off when I came to you cave, and that was just over the egg. I can’t imagine how you’ll be once we actually have a baby to care for.”
Valerra rolled her eyes but looked down at the two eggs fondly.
“I wonder if they will hatch together,” she whispered. “Could you imagine two baby dragons in Hatra? Your city would be destroyed in days.”
I laughed at the image.
“They are both related to you,” I reminded her, “so I could easily see the two of them causing mayhem throughout a human city. They would make you proud.”
“Yes, well, Hatra would probably not deserve to be completely destroyed by them,” she slowly stated.
“Oh, really?” I raised my brow.
“As far as human cities go, Hatra isn’t the worst I’ve ever seen,” Valerra huffed and averted her gaze. “I dare say I’ve grown used to the people here.”
“Did you just offer my people a compliment?” I gasped and put a hand over my heart. “I never thought I’d live to see the day.”
Valerra rolled her eyes. “Yes, well, I suppose I shouldn’t completely hate it. My mate did build it after all. I can admit its dragon quality, and it is nice to have a place where the eggs can grow up, safe from the dangers of the outside world.”
“Wow,” I stared back at Valerra, “motherhood has really changed your outlook on people, huh?”
“I haven’t changed my mind of humans, I still think they are all worthless creatures,” she snarled. “I’m simply saying I’m glad my sister’s child and our child will have somewhere to grow up where I am not the only one who will protect them. Even if it is humans, I will put aside my own judgements to protect these children.”
“You like Hatra, just admit it,” I laughed as she tossed another pillow at me, but there was no real heat in the action.
“Get out of here,” she demanded. “Go bother someone else.”
“Oh, I get it,” I laughed. “I pumped all my seed into you, so now you have no more use for me.”
“No,” she groaned. “You aren’t just your seed to me.”
“So now you admit that I’m more than just your boy toy?” I laughed. “Admit it, you love me.”
“You are so frustrating,” she growled as she rolled her eyes at me. “Yes, I love you. But you also annoy me.”
“Probably because you hate admitting you are in love,” I snickered.
“I’m… are you going to leave?” She scrunched her pretty nose at me, and for a second, it seemed like she actually might laugh.
“I do have to go,” I sighed. “I need to go and tell the others about the attack. I’ll come check in on you later, okay?”
“Fine.”
I stood from her bed and dressed quickly. Then I opened the door to her room and paused.
“Oh,” I called back to her, “I forgot to mention, we need to use the canyons for the campaign. That’s not going to be a problem, is it?”
Then I quickly stepped out the door and shut it before she could respond.
A muffled “Evan!” came from the room, and I laughed as I walked down the hall.
Chapter 8
After I left Valerra’s quarters, I quickly sent a messenger dragon to my parents, Nike, and the women who would be accompanying me on my campaign. I told them to meet me in the library as soon as they could, and then I strolled out of the palace and through the city to my destination.
Fifteen minutes later, we all sat around a table in the underground library, but Laika and Alyona had apparently been here all day, if the piles of books surrounding them were anything to go by. Nike, my parents, and Ravi, on the other hand, all trickled in at different times, and Ravi was covered in a faint sheen of sweat like she’d been training.
“Thank you all for arriving so quickly,” I addressed the group. “I know we’ve been having a lot of these roundtable discussions, but we have a lot of things to square away before we leave for the campaign.”
“Of course, brother,” Nike replied with a nod. “You are the Lord of Hatra, and we are at your disposal for whatever you desire.”
“Yes, yes, we’ll get to the campaign,” Ruslan waved his hand dismissively before he leaned forward with a sharp smile, “but first, your message said you spoke to Valerra, yes?”
“Yes,” I confirmed, “and that’s one of the things--”
“How is the egg?” Julia cut me off, and my usually composed mother looked more like her mischievous husband as she leaned forward as well and stared attentively into my eyes.
“Um,” I blinked in surprise, “it’s fine. Actually--”
“What does it look like?” Ruslan interrupted. “Is it red like Valerra’s sister’s egg?”
“Or black like your scales?” Julia followed up as she fanned herself rapidly.
“How big is it?” Ruslan held his hands nearly three feet apart. “Like that?”
“Of course it’s not that big,” Julia rolled her eyes, “that’s twice the size of the other egg.”
“But this is Evan’s egg!” Ruslan argued as he turned to his wife with a frown. “He’s incredibly powerful, as is Valerra, so it stands to reason their offspring would be more spectacular.”
“Yes, but our grandchild--” Julia tried.
“Or is it grandegg?” Ruslan mused with a frown.
“Alright!” I laughed as I raised my voice and held up my hands. “I understand that you’re excited, but can I get a word in here?”
“Sorry, son.” Ruslan grinned sheepishly, and his ears flopped flat against his head. “We just … never expected this. Well, actually, we never even expected a son, so grandchildren seemed like an impossibility.”
“I know,” I chuckled, “but we’ll all have a long time to come to grips with this new reality. It might be awhile before the egg hatches, but Alyona and I will continue to do more research in the meantime, so we’ll be prepared whenever the baby dragon finally arrives.”
“Of course,” Julia nodded, and she finally seemed to compose herself, “and we’ll obviously help in any manner you deem fit. In the meantime, however, you were saying you had something to discuss?”
“Yes,” I confirmed and then looked around the table, “I actually just left Valerra in the palace. I helped her move her hoard and the eggs this morning, so she’s now officially settled in her room.”
“That is great news.” Alyona smiled. “How is she faring so far?”
“You know Valerra,” I rolled my eyes, “always looking for something to gripe or complain about. I think motherhood has softened her somewhat, though. She only mildly insulted humans and Hatra when I spoke to her, and she was reluctant to admit it, but she’s grateful to have a safe place to guard the eggs while I’m away.”
“Good,” Ruslan replied, “the mother of our first grandchild should be comfortable and well looked after. Is there anything we can do for her?”
“For now, I would just give her some space,” I cautioned. “Mother dragons are apparently very territorial and protective, so I don’t want you to find yourself on the wrong end of her claws. If you would like to meet or speak with her, send her a messenger fox first, just to be on the safe side.”
“Send message first,” Ruslan muttered to himself with a nod. “Got it.”
“Speaking of dangerous things,” I went on with a frown, “Valerra and I did encounter a leviathan in her canyons earlier this morning.”
“A leviathan?” Julia gasped, and her blue eyes went wide.
“A
re you okay?” Laika asked, and her face creased with a worried frown as her wolf ears twitched atop her head.
“Is Valerra okay?” Alyona questioned.
“Is our grandegg okay?” Ruslan demanded with a harried look. At this point, grandparent-hood was going to turn his crimson fur gray if he wasn’t careful. And the egg hadn’t even hatched yet.
“We’re all fine,” I assured the table. “We defeated the leviathan easily, but its presence is what concerns me.”
“Do you think there are more in the canyons?” Nike asked as he crossed his arms over his chest and leaned back in his chair.
“I don’t think so.” I frowned. “Well, at least we didn’t see any more when we flew back to Valerra’s cave and then to Hatra. But the canyons are huge, so there’s no telling what’s out there. In the last few weeks alone, we’ve encountered driders, and now this leviathan demon. Hatra just seems to attract predators, and I’m worried what this will mean when I’m gone, especially now that I have my egg to think about.”
“The city won’t be defenseless, though, my love,” Alyona said as she reached out and placed her hand on my arm. “We have the walls and the barriers that I’ll double and triple check before we leave.”
I didn’t realize my scales had crawled across my skin until the princess touched them, so I took a deep breath and let it out slowly to calm down.
“And even if I am accompanying you and Milady,” Laika added, “the rest of the guild will remain here. That’s hundreds of warriors and mages who will fight to the death to protect Hatra.”
“Your mother and I aren’t exactly useless, either.” Ruslan smirked, and a flame flickered to life in his palm. “We ruled over this city for centuries before you arrived, and while we weren’t able to bring it back to life as you have done, I think we can manage to keep it from falling back into ruin for a few months.”
“And you’re forgetting one other thing,” Ravi piped up from across the table. The phoenix had been silently observing the discussion this whole time, but now she leaned forward with a mischievous smile.
“What’s that?” I asked as I cocked my head to the side.
