Guardian

by Jack Porter

  My eyebrows shot up. “What kind of reaction? This is the first time I’m hearing of it.”

  “My back is itching like crazy,” Hannah complained. “I noticed it the first few times we had sex, but it seems like this time I can’t stand it. Will you scratch it for me? I can’t quite reach,” she begged, arms twisting around to try and claw at her pale skin.

  “Let me take a look.”

  She spun around and I wondered how I hadn’t noticed the change before now. I swallowed when I saw two silver dollar sized bumps on either side of her spine.

  My frown deepened while I tried to ponder what it meant. Maybe Hannah’s crystal really was defective. But something about this seemed familiar. When I figured out what it was, I couldn’t quite keep the shock out of my voice as I asked, “Hannah, when you were with the goddess, did you notice anything different about her?”

  Hannah’s wild curls bounced as she threw her head back and let out a sharp laugh. “You mean aside from her being a giant?”

  “Yes.”

  My tone must have been serious enough for her to quiet down and really consider. “I did see a couple of anomalies. Her nails were long and sharp, and underneath her were thinner bones scrunched up under her. I just assumed she’d fallen over on some hapless creature. Oh goddess, I’m not going to turn into a deformed hunchback, am I?” she squeaked.

  “No. You aren’t.”

  “How can you possibly know that?” Hannah put her hands on her hips, looking indignant. “Did your crystal give you omniscience, too?”

  I couldn’t keep a smirk from my lips. “As much as I would like that, no. The evidence was right in front of us back at the ruins. On the tapestry, and think back to the statues of the goddesses in the hot springs room. They had obscure features--claws, tails, horns, fur, and wings. I think that is what is happening here, Hannah. I think you’re growing wings.”

  Sixteen

  Throughout the next few weeks, the bumps on Hannah’s back continued to grow until she was no longer able to wear any clothes that had previously fit her. Her bra strap had snapped long ago, so she just paraded around the cave with her breasts bouncing freely. A much-appreciated perk for me and the other girls, who would often fondle them when they were feeling sad or a tad frisky. The girls were becoming more and more comfortable with their own sexuality, and I enjoyed watching them tease each other from time to time.

  Hannah said the itching had stopped soon after our sex sessions ended, and the only complaint she had was mild twinges of pain every now and then. I was worried that the pain was from infection rather than growth as I’d thought. The bumps looked swollen and slightly irritated.

  If the wings didn’t appear on their own, we might need to do something. But I wasn’t sure what. More sex? Would it make Hannah even more uncomfortable than she was?

  But Hannah seemed unconcerned with these problems. All she could think of was the possibility of having wings. The more she listed off the advantages—the prospect of flying being the biggest one—the more Piper, Megan, and Layla grew restless with envy.

  After thoroughly searching the cave’s foothill territory before the mountains shot up from the ground like towering giants, we ventured back, retracing our steps to the ruins and past that to the beach. Not a single hint of another crystal to be found.

  I half-expected to not find the beach again, or to be blocked from it somehow, but we had no trouble getting there, even finding the crash site once more. I climbed inside the nose and halfheartedly tried the radio while we camped out on the beach with the waves lapping at our ankles, but it was stoically silent. What’s more, there was no sign that any rescue party had found the site.

  It wasn’t even a shock to find out that none of us were disappointed in this lack of development.

  A week later, having just returned to the cave, we were all tired, hungry, and running out of options. Living day to day on game and plants we’d gathered was growing old, and we were tired of searching for more crystals without finding any.

  For it being so eager to have us find my crystal and Hannah’s, the island wasn’t giving up any more of its secrets, yet.

  It was frustrating for the girls, I knew. For me as well. I knew more crystals called me, but I could not detect from which direction they were coming. I suspected the island was larger than it had any right to be, and that to find more crystals, we’d have to go over the mountains. However, we wouldn’t know until we climbed them. And that would take us far away from where we’d crash-landed.

  Still, I felt there was only one logical move left. So I sat the girls down for the discussion that had been coming for weeks.

  “By my estimates, we’ve been on this island for a little over two months now. If there were a regular plane route that passes this island, we’d have spotted it by now.”

  Piper’s face fell. “So, what about our families? Our lives?”

  I grimaced, remembering the gold medalist had said there was a twin sister who was supposed to meet her back in the States. “There is always the possibility that our plane will be spotted. But...” I trailed off.

  “But if we go any deeper into the island, we might miss any search party that decides to come looking for us,” Megan finished for me.

  “Exactly.”

  Layla piped up. “That’s alright with me. I like the island. It has spunk, and adventure, even if it is a bit dangerous at times. Besides, I don’t have much of a life to go back to.”

  She’d mentioned once or twice that both of her parents wanted nothing to do with her after the age sixteen when she bravely told them that she swung both ways. They weren’t happy to hear it, and told her if she didn’t take it back, she might as well leave.

  “If I have a choice, I choose to stay.” Layla almost whispered the words.

  “I’m already a freak by any meaning of the word.” Hannah lifted her shoulders in a matter-of-fact way. “I don’t think I could go back to my old life even if a search party did come looking. But I’m with Megan and Layla, regardless. This magic is way too cool to give up.”

  “You’re not a freak, Hannah, you’re a goddess,” I reminded her with a reassuring smile, which she returned with a pleased twinkle in her eye. “A radiant goddess at that. If it happened that a rescue team came knocking on our beach, I would always choose to stay with you. Besides,” I added, “I’ve always dreamed of traveling places unknown, and this is about as unknown as you can get.” I touched my crystal to feel its warmth soak into my body.

  “Thanks, Dex.”

  We all looked at Piper, who remained quiet. She hadn’t decided yet. It was understandable. We didn’t have much of a life to go back to, but she did.

  “Something else I thought of too,” I added to fill the silence, glancing around at the four of them. “It would be dangerous if the secret of the crystals got out. People would go power hungry with the news.”

  “There could be war between countries if this island is smack dab in the middle of shared space,” Piper interjected, her voice overflowing with gratitude for the subject change.

  “Or we’d be imprisoned somewhere and experimented on, all in the name of ‘science,’” Hannah said with a shudder.

  Too bad I had to bring it up again. “Right. It will be safer if we find the crystals first, but I am not about to abandon one of you to fend for yourself. If one of you stays here to wait for possible help, we all stay. Agreed?”

  Not one girl’s voice wavered. “Agreed,” they said in unison.

  “So, Pipes, I don’t want to pressure you, but the next course of action is based on your decision.”

  Her words came out slowly but decisively. “I will miss my sister terribly. I feel guilty that I can’t be there for her like before, or that she’ll never know where I ended up. I was always the one to look after her, being the older by almost a full minute.” She smirked wryly. “But this is a once in a lifetime chance and I know she’d want me to take it. And if I’m a little hesitant,” she trailed
off a moment. “Then it’s only because I feel there’s something off about this island.”

  Hannah and I exchanged glances. We hadn’t yet told the others about the darkness we sometimes felt.

  “We’ve felt it too,” I said, pointing between Hannah and myself. “It’s like a bug crawling across my skin. This island is harboring something menacing. Something that’s feeding on the good and pure—the crystals. I could be wrong, but I think it was no accident that we ended up here. The storm. The ruins. Now toward the mountains. I think this land needs us somehow. To protect it from the darkness approaching. And, if that’s the weirdest thing you’ve heard, at the top of a list of odd things to happen to us here, I don’t know how else to explain myself. Sometimes, I just know things, even if I don’t know how I know them.”

  “So are we all in agreement, then?” Hannah asked, her drawl a little long at the end. “We head toward the mountain in the morning?”

  Megan was the one to answer her. “The non-crystal users should prepare some clothes first. There’s snow on the mountaintop, and these aren’t going to cover us very well.” She plucked at her black thong underwear.

  Piper sucked her teeth. “What do you suggest we use, Megan? Banana leaves?”

  “Actually,” Hannah cut in sweetly, unphased by Piper’s negativity, “I was thinking we use all that lovely deerskin Dexter has been wasting.”

  “You know how to do that?” Layla’s voice rose in pitch, more than a bit impressed.

  “Sure, my father taught me when I was younger. It’s easy. Just clean away anything stuck to the skin, dry the hide as best you can, and smoke it for half a day before you fashion it into clothes. Come on, I’ll teach you.”

  She stood. So did the others, except for Piper. Hannah obliviously continued. “I also saw a few fibrous plants around here too. Cut it into little enough bits and it can be twisted into a string that will hold anything. What do you think, want to start a fashionable new clothing line, ladies? We can call it Girls Gone Wild.”

  Layla and Megan giggled at the joke. Piper didn’t.

  I suspected Piper was still warring with herself about leaving behind any hope of going back to her sister.

  Hannah, all riled up, led the other girls out of the cave for a late-night hunt and to show them what plants she was talking about for making clothes. I walked over and put my arm around Piper’s strong shoulder. “It’s all going to be okay, Pipes. You’ll see.”

  “I know. I’m just a little overwhelmed right now. But,” Piper slid her eyes over to me in a suggestive way. “Maybe you can help with that.” She put her hand on my thigh and moved it up to cup me.

  Having not gotten off in quite some time, I was instantly hard. “Are you sure? I would never want to take advantage of you when you’re vulnerable.”

  But damn me when she started stroking my shaft through my too-tight boxers (they were the only piece of clothing left that would even sort of fit me). It felt amazing.

  Her low, rich laugh came to me in waves. “Oh, I know exactly what I’m doing. I need this. Probably more than you do.”

  “I highly doubt that.” I told her as she pulled down my boxers and exposed me fully to her.

  She got down on her hands and knees and crawled so close I could feel her hot breath on my cock. “Hmm, it’s so big and hard right now. I think you may be right. How long has it been?”

  I almost couldn’t answer as she bent down and licked the tip, then engulfed as much of me as she could. “Ah, fuck. A few weeks at least.”

  She pulled back. “Far too long.”

  I secretly agreed but didn’t want to sound like an ass. It was my own fault that I didn’t wander off into the woods for some self-relief, after all. Instead, I responded with, “Goddess, you feel amazing.”

  She began to work me in earnest, running her hands up and down my abs, scratching me lightly with her nails. The sensation of it while she worked my cock was almost too much. But I held myself back. I wanted to make this last.

  To distract me from my own release, I decided to reach down and play with her. Peeling away her shorts, I rubbed her hot pussy until she was squirming against my fingers, silently begging for me to slide a finger inside her.

  I was more than happy to oblige.

  The distraction didn’t last long. I was ready to explode. “Oh fuck, Piper,” I said, giving her a meaningful look.

  “I know. Give me everything you got. I’ll wait my turn,” she purred.

  It was too much. I gave her everything I had and then some. The hot white liquid covered her from breasts to mons. She slid her hands down over it until it coated her pretty black skin like massage oil. I did give her a little massage then, coating her in my essence until she was hot again, completely soaked, and begging for me.

  Sliding my hands across her stomach one more time, I gave her what she wanted.

  Just as I pushed my finger into her, and she began to fuck herself back and forth on my digit, the other girls came back in the cave.

  I started at being caught in the throes of passion, but Piper hadn’t seen the others yet. I didn’t freeze for long. A catty smile stretched over Megan and Hannah’s lips. They came over as if invited. As if they’d talked it over beforehand.

  Hannah knelt behind Piper and began rubbing her clit as I finger-fucked her. And Megan came to assist Piper in sucking my cock, starting at the base and licking up to the point Piper couldn’t reach. I got instantly hard again.

  “Round two?” Megan asked.

  We’d never discussed all of us being together, but it had always been a secret desire of my mine after having two at once. Now that it was happening, I couldn’t hold back. “Abso-fucking-lutely,” I growled.

  I squeezed Hannah’s large breasts in my free hand and offered Megan my thumb from the same hand I was pounding Piper with, creating a kind of open-handed free for all.

  Layla blushed heavily from the cave's mouth, but she didn’t look away. She didn’t come over to me either, but instead walked calmly over to one of the small smooth boulders we’d been using as chairs and slid her underwear down shapely tan legs.

  Her hickory eyes grew molten and her lips parted as she spread her thighs wide for me and all of the girls to see her glistening pussy, and she began to masturbate to us all pleasuring one another.

  Soon the cave was filled with the sounds of their sweet, high-pitched moanings. To say it wasn’t the most erotic situation I’ve ever been a part of would have been a bold-faced lie.

  I was in heaven and barely containing myself from blowing my load all over the three girls surrounding me. I beckoned Hannah away from licking my cock to sit her down on my face instead. My mouth was full of the heady sweet taste of her.

  I worked her clit with my tongue expertly.

  Piper, having had the most attention, came first. Followed closely by Megan, who had been riding my thumb wildly, insides clenching as she desperately sought her release.

  Hannah flooded into my mouth as she exploded, her hands gripping my hair and grinding herself against my working tongue.

  I was dangerously close at that point, but I was determined to see the girls’ pleasure through first. Megan, Hannah, and Piper joined me as we detangled and moved swiftly over to Layla. Her cheeks were flushed as she watched us stalk over.

  “Why didn’t you join us?” I asked.

  “Not enough room…” she panted. “It’s okay, I enjoyed watching. And I’m close now.”

  “Let us help.” Hannah grinned wide.

  “We can make you feel better than you ever imagined you could,” Piper added, and she bent to tweak Layla’s nipples.

  Layla’s head tilted back in ecstasy as Hannah swarmed her mouth with kisses and Piper nestled herself between Layla’s legs.

  Just watching was pushing me to the edge. I didn’t touch myself but was content to drink in the sight of my three girls working together to get Layla off. My member throbbed painfully, demanding its own release.

  As if
Layla could sense this even though her eyes were closed tight, beautiful brown eyebrows pinched in pleasure, she gently pulled away from Hannah and said, “I want your cock in my mouth, Captain.”

  I smiled at the use of my old name. How many times had I imagined her saying those words to me on the Starflight? About as many as she probably did, I guessed. “Your wish is my command, Number Two.”

  I gave her what she and I both wanted. Working my way around the girls to stand over Layla without impeding their work, I lowered my member slowly down into Layla’s warm, waiting lips. She took me in farther than any of the other girls ever had, past the head of my cock.

  She sucked once, twice, three times, and then clenched up, my dick muffling the sound of her orgasm.

  My own release followed not two seconds after. I pulled back, knowing it would be too much for her. My cum got all over Layla and Hannah’s breasts. It was a very enticing sight. Hannah scooped up a little and put it in her mouth, sucking on it seductively.

  Delicious.

  When we all lay down on the soft dirt of the cave floor, sweating and eyes glazed over with satisfaction, I asked, “What made you girls come back? Surely you didn’t get far enough to find a deer.”

  “We saw you hadn’t followed and were going to ask for help,” murmured Layla.

  “I think it can wait till tomorrow though,” sighed Megan dreamily. “After that, all I want to do is cuddle and sleep.”

  It wasn’t long before a gaping yawn slipped from me. I looked over and found even Hannah, who rarely needed to rest, was exhausted enough from the trip to the beach and back—and our last-minute entertainment–and was fast asleep.

  Now that I was content and warm, sleep rose to finally claim me as its next victim.

  It was a full and complete rest. One that ended with the morning rays bombarding my eyelids—and Hannah screaming in all-encompassing pain next to me.

  Seventeen

  She was hunched in a fetal position, hugging her arms tight to her exposed breasts as she tried to endure the pain with dignity. I immediately got up and walked around to take a look at her back.