by Zara Novak
He picked his speed up, working from the slow and sensual rhythm that he had started with, gaining a little more momentum with every thrust, pulling back further, hammering in deeper, sliding in quicker. Within a minute, they had worked up to a hard and fast speed, and he was practically slamming his cock in and out of her tight cunt, much to Emma’s approval.
“Yes, yes, yes!”
Her moans filled the room. She pulled her legs back and spread them wide as far as she could, giving Vax more purchase to fuck her like a wild animal. Vax steeled his hands either side of her on the bed, clutching the fabric of the quilt in his palms. With each thrust of his powerful hips, a small trickle of pleasured groans escaped from Emma’s lips, pushing his own arousal with every beat.
Her eyes bulged once more, and this time she looked at him, her whole body shaking, “I think I’m, I think I’m-”
Sweat dripped down his brow.
“I’m coming!”
She let out a long and ardent cry, that could be heard all the way down in the forest. Her cries crested Vax’s arousal, pushing him over the edge. He could hold no longer, and he burst inside of Emma as she writhed underneath him.
Her cries staggered as she felt his cum explode inside of her. Vax pulled himself inside as far as he could while he burst, firing rope after rope of his molten seed into her pussy.
Emma’s words of agreement had turned to primal grunts of pleasure, which stretched across long and staggered breaths, until they both just lay there still, listening to the other breathing.
“Yes…” She whispered as the last of her pleasure crested over her. “Yes, yes, yes.”
Vax opened his eyes and smiled at his lover, kissing his lips against her forehead. He lay there as she twitched in pleasure, not wanting to disturb her ecstasy. It was only when he was sure she was finally done, that he rolled from off her body, lying down beside her.
He pulled the covers over her silently, and they sank into a deep sleep together, each enamored with the other.
Chapter 4
Emma woke early that morning, surprised to see that Vax was still in a deep sleep. She lay there for a while, simply staring at the sleeping giant in adoration, listening to the deep rumbling in his chest as it sank up and down with great lungfuls of air.
He snored slightly with each breath, which amused her greatly. Deep thundering snores that almost sounded like a caged animal snarling. She couldn’t get her mind around how great last night had been. All her life she had lived in fear of sexual intimacy, and she had every reason to do so. After spending a life in the Skrax breedings pits, she had seen plenty of women die after being mangled by the thorn covered alien captors.
Vax was nothing like them however. His skin was warm, smooth and heavenly to touch. She lay on her side for a while simply staring at the red ember of his skin. Mesmerized by the crimson smoke that seemed to swirl just under the surface.
She was smitten, very smitten. She had been so unfair to Vax the whole time she had been here, and it had all stemmed from her own internal fears. She may have had just reason to be apprehensive, but Vax had been nothing short of perfect. He’d rescued her from the forest after the slaver’s had deserted her, he’d washed her body and massaged her aching muscles. He’d kept her warm, he’d kissed her down …there, for an extremely generous amount of time.
And then there was the sex. Good lord. The sex. It was unlike anything else she had ever known. The whole time in her mind she had been contemplating ways of getting off this dead planet and escaping to a life of freedom, but now - she wasn’t so sure. It might be worth giving this Vax a chance after all. There were something different inside her this morning when she looked at him. She felt swirling in chest with each glance.
She rose from the bed quietly, and decided she would repay Vax for all his kindness. She would make him breakfast in bed. She didn’t know if that was a thing amongst his people, but she hoped that he would recognize the gesture as a nice one all the same.
Emma rolled out of bed silently, dressed herself and tip toed out the room, looking back at Vax with a smile as she did so.
“Sleep well my giant.”
She pulled the door to, and turned to the hall. Now. It was just a matter of navigating the labyrinth that was Vax’s beautiful home. She was sure that she would come to know her way in time. As she walked through the hallways trying to find her way, she reflected on how Vax said he had built this place himself. If anything it was just another testament to Emma how talented and dedicated Vax was. It made her glow with pride to think her guy was so amazing.
Wait. Her guy?
Emma shook her head, laughing quietly to herself. One good fuck and you’re wrapped around his not-so-little fingers.
For once, Emma ignored her mind and followed the thing that mattered the most. Her heart. She felt as if she could trust Vax now, and she didn’t want to question it any longer. Even if she did feel that something was missing about his background.
Following her heart might have been a noble endeavor, but her sense of direction otherwise was poor. And Emma found herself completely lost on the second floor. She walked through one door, thinking that it led to the stairs and was bemused to find herself standing in some rustic looking office. She was about to turn from the office when a glowing tablet caught her eye on the desk in front of her.
Emma walked to the desk without thinking and picked the glowing tablet up. As she read it, her whole world crumbled around her.
Galactic Prison Council
Case No. 209298383
Inmate: Vax Enzala
Crime:
Mass slaughter of own people. Inmate found guilty of murdering entire village of women, elders and young. Defendant started crime at… [Expand for more]
Verdict:
Guilty.
Sentence:
Death penalty. Inmate sentenced to spend rest of their life on inhabitable Zangia. Not expected to survive any longer than… [Expand for more]
Emma dropped the tablet and it half-landed on the desk with a sickening thud, bouncing onto the floor. Everything that had been built up in the last few hours, all the fears she had cast aside. She turned from the office and without thinking she started running. Somehow, blind fear and panic led her the right way this time, and she stumbled upon the stairs that led down to the main floor almost immediately.
He’d lied to her about everything. He wasn’t some conservation hero. He was a prisoner, and not just a prisoner, he was an extremely dangerous murderer. Emma looked around the floor, her breath shaking. Her eyes fell on the the thick winter coats she had seen earlier. She grabbed one and threw it on, knowing that she wouldn’t survive long with out it.
A second later she was outside on the balcony in the morning cold, running down steps in the side of the hill that led down to the forest. She had to get out of here and she had to get out fast. Whatever creatures were down here in the forest, it was certainly a damn sight safer than being shacked up with some homicidal maniac. Young. He’d killed the young for heaven’s sakes. And she’d slept with him.
As she ran through the undisturbed blanket of the pristine snow forest, she almost felt as if she wanted to throw up. She couldn’t believe that she had given her body to a monster like that. Now that she realized the truth of who Vax Enzala was, the idea of being back in the Skrax breeding pits, having her body shredded and mangled by maniacal thorny warriors, didn’t seem so bad after all.
She could never go back, and she never would. She’d run, she’d survive, and she’d find a way off this planet. And if she couldn’t get off, she’d spend the rest of her life hiding from him. If Vax had survived here then surely she could too. What made him so special?
The tall snowcapped Zanga oaks swayed high above Emma silently. When she got back to the edge of the forest where the slavers had originally dropped her off, she stopped running, her chest burning from having run for so long. In front of her there was nothing but tundra, bare and expansive, spreading
as for as her eye could see in every direction. On the horizon there was a small line of mountains. She would have to head for them, once she got over the mountains there would be plenty of distance between her and Vax. For now anyway.
That was when she heard the fractured and rasping roar of an Ice Xanther, waking from deep hibernation. Emma froze, rooted to the spot in fear. She turned from the tundra, back to the forest, back in the direction of the shrill roar. That was when she saw it. Padding quietly out of the tree line on legs that were broad as the frozen oaks themselves.
It’s lips were pulled back, it’s sword sized fangs curling down in the air toward her. It matched Vax’s description perfectly. A mountain lion, the size of an elephant. There was only one thing he’d missed, just how pissed off they look.
Hot clouds of her panicked breath puffed from her mouth quickly.
“No. No…” She whispered to herself while backing away from the animal slowly. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
She turned on her heels and started running into the tundra as fast as she could. She heard the Xanther let out another cry as it started to give chase, the large pads of it’s broad feet crunching into the snow. Emma ran without looking back, lungs burning. It would be on her in a second. She knew that this was it, she knew that her life was over, but she had to try, she had to try and survive.
*
Vax woke late. Much later than he usually did. Upon waking he realized that Emma wasn’t beside him. The giant jumped up in bed, firming his palms on the mattress. He couldn’t explain how, but he could sense immediately that something was dreadfully wrong.
He hoped that it was just paranoia. It was perfectly natural for him to be so overprotective of her, now that he realized just how important she actually was. Vax jumped up from the bed immediately, dressing as he called for Emma.
“Emma? Emma where are you? Would you like morning nourishment?”
Vax giggled to himself upon realizing that his question could be interpreted in a sexual manner. He’d actually meant a meal that would break their night fast, but if Emma wanted to go again, he was more than up for it. He walked into the bathing room that adjourned his master bedroom. He knew from his notes that humans like to partake in bathing before starting their day. His face grimaced with disappointment upon realizing she was not in there. He walked from his bedroom, walking down the halls, shouting her name.
“Emma? Emma?!” Vax knew that the girl was probably just down stairs, reading by the fire perhaps or stirring up a morning portion of food. She had quite liked the heart fruit, it was entirely possible she had gone to look for more of them.
That was when Vax passed his study. He stopped immediately, noticing that the door was open. Strange, he never left the door open.
He pushed the door open and saw his holo-tablet laying on the carpeted floor of his study.
“No…” Vax whispered upon seeing the disturbed instrument.
Fear flooded his chest and immediately he could sense what may have happened. He stalked across the room, picked the tablet up off the floor and saw the last thing he had read. Sure enough, it was the copy of his pardon papers. The official copies had come through just a week before. It was official. The government had not only found him innocent of his purported crimes, they had officially pardoned him and granted him to leave Zangia should he wish.
From Emma’s perspective however, he could understand exactly what had happened. The first page of the message didn’t contain the updated status of his case. To Emma, it would have just seemed like a document portraying him to be a cold blooded murderer.
He dropped the holo-tablet to his desk, running from from the room, down stairs and onto the great veranda that overlooked the snowcapped forest. She was down there somewhere. He knew it. Running for her life, running in the fear that she had been bought by some ice cold killer.
“I have to save you.” Vax said, pouncing off the veranda, wrapping his hands around the closest oak as he fell, and launching himself into the forest.
As he leapt through the canopy in search of his mate, dread filled his mind. There was no way of knowing just how long Emma had been gone. She wouldn’t survive out here very long though. It took a special breed of creature to last on Zangia. Emma was tough, but she didn’t have the biological advantage that Vax did.
In the distance he heard the shrill and fractured roar of a disturbed Ice Xanther. It had woken again. Vax recognized it’s crowing, it was the shrill cry that beat from it’s throat upon seeing prey. The thing must have spotted her.
He was almost at the edge of the forest now, having leapt across the expanse of trees in record time. He had to hurry, before it was too late.
Breaking free of the tree line, he soared into the air with one last gigantic leap. As he coursed through the air, he saw the looming figure of the Xanther just below, giving chase to a smaller figure - Emma. There was but a hundred yards between the monster and it’s prey, and the distance was closing every seconds. Emma wouldn’t have stood a chance, but it didn’t matter now, because her savior was coursing down through the air toward her.
Vax crashed into the cold hard ground of the tundra, kicking up a cloud of ice and snow. Emma skidded to a stop as he landed in front of her, her eyes blown in fear.
“Y-you!?” She stammered in surprise upon seeing Vax. Vax had no time to contend with her. Behind her he saw the maniacal eyes of the Xanther. It was too late to run. He would have to fight. He would have to show Emma his other side.
“Get back!” Vax grabbed Emma by the arm, throwing her behind him onto the ice, placing himself between her and the rabid elephant sized snow lion.
Heat beat across his body in a rapid pulse as the shift began.
He steadied his feet on the ice as he felt the vibrations surging through him from head to toe. He could contain it no longer, his Dragon was spitting fire through every fiber of his body, demanding to be released.
Vax plummeted to his knees as his arms threw back, his body quadrupling in size, the thousand glass like scales pushing through his skin. The transformation lasted all of five seconds and when it was over, he stood before the Xanther, not as a man, but as a dragon, a dragon that rivaled the Xanther’s colossal size.
Vax let forth a roar from his throat, that nearly shook the snow from the caps of the mountains. He stretched his body, launching at the Xanther which now had fear in it’s eyes. He didn’t want to kill the animal, they were nearly extinct as it was. He would intimidate it though, and teach it to never bother Emma again.
He spit fire, casting a football field sized spout of flame, across the ice, smothering the giant predator.
The Xanther shrieked in pain, turning on it’s giant paws immediately, skidding into the ice as it tried to run from Vax.
Vax quelled the flame from his throat. He didn’t want to roast the creature alive, he just wanted to scare it. It had worked, and the Xanther sprinted back across the ice, fur smoking, into the safety of the forest. Vax stretched himself, pushing smoke from his nostrils. A second later he pulled back, shrinking back to his human form.
Back in his body, he found himself kneeling on the ice, palm steeled against the cold floor. He was completely naked now, his clothes having been torn during his shift. He stood up and turned to face Emma, who was staring at him in absolute bewilderment.
“Come.” He growled, throwing her over his shoulder. “I’m taking you home.”
*
Emma stood shaking. But it wasn’t for cold this time. It was for the fear, pure shock and adrenaline, that were all coursing through her veins this time.
Vax had snatched her from the jaws of certain doom for a second time, but things were so much more different now. As he closed the patio door shut behind him, he placed her down on the floor and she stood, opening and closing her mouth over and over again in bewilderment.
“You, I, what, the, you-”
She couldn’t put more than two words together. Vax stepped back from her,
his head lowered in shame. She took a deep breath, stepping away from him all the while. When the words finally came, she was almost shrieking.
“What the fuck was that?! You turned into a dragon?!”
She saw the muscles in his jaw clenching. His eyes looked tired, still the eyes of the creature he had become. Fierce red disks with a pin prick of curved yellow fire running down the middle. Emma knew that alien men where different, but she’d never anticipated anything like this.
“What are you? What are you?!”
Her eyes bulged as she relived the memory of his shifting in front of her. His large alien mass thudding to the floor on all fours as his body morphed and twisted into that of a huge serpentine dragon. Raw power had coursed forward through the air from the scaled wonder, and that arc of fire… It was breath taking, it was mesmerizing, it was…
“It was beautiful.” She found the words that she had finally been trying to say. Vax’s head lifted immediately, and his eyes met hers, confusion flaring in them.
“What?”
“That…creature you became. The dragon. I’ve never seen anything like it before. It was breath taking.”
For the first time, Emma saw Vax’s cheeks flushing with red. He was humbled by her words.
She couldn’t forget the truth though, the reason she had ran in the first place. The man was a killer, and seeing him in his dragon form explained it all. Vax had probably lost control, the dragon within him torching everything in sight.
He looked at her, and she sensed that he could read what she was thinking exactly.
“That wasn’t what happened.” He shook his head. “I know why you ran. I know what it looks like. But you have to believe me, I can explain everything.”
Emma’s breath rasped from her lips. She wanted to believe him, but the tablet had told her everything she needed to know.
“Just wait here.” Vax said, holding his palm out to her. “Just give me one minute. I can explain all of this, I swear. Please don’t run.”
