10. Bracken

Chapter 10

Bracken

I do not deserve such a treat, I thought, suppressing a growl as Sun set out to ’reward’ Clem. I wouldn’t trade this sight for the Nocturnal Throne.

I didn’t think Sun even realized that the word precious had rolled off his lips just before he easily swallowed Clem’s trembling shaft.

He took him to the hilt easily, a trained movement, dragging his tongue up his shaft as he pulled back, tongue swirling around the tip.

I had never allowed anyone to touch what was mine before in pleasure or pain.

Only one noc had dared to touch Clem before now, to harm him, and that was after I was already dead. Kovit had tortured Sun relentlessly, that ruthless traitor. But again, I was a mere shadow unable to defend him at that time.

Soon, I’d track those bastards down that turned on us and make them pay tenfold.

But I was very much alive, and the marks on my mates couldn’t be avenged since they came from our king.

Everything felt backward and confusing and all I wanted was to make it right again. To feel powerful enough to be a worthy master, one who was able to protect them both.

Maybe I should take them now and run away. Kiar would come. Together, we could keep Clem and Sun safe, even from Hadi.

That thought didn’t seem too absurd. The last time I foolishly flung myself headfirst into a losing battle, I lost my head. Literally. The thought of watching more harm come to Sun or Clem in Yin Valley made me ill.

What would Sun call this feeling welling up inside me?

Fear?

Shame?

Mercy?

Ha! All a load of bullshit. This emotion swirling in my gut was simple—the need to dominate or be dominated.

Vermin often called it fight or flight, their bodies’ natural response to the need to survive. It was that simple.

Either way, seeing Clem being touched in a pleasurable way by Sun was soothing something in me that had been wounded last night when I had allowed him to be hurt.

“I guess I don’t deserve this, but give me some of that nectar too,” I grumbled as I lifted Clem up and squeezed his hips, seating him on my cock all at once, much too roughly for Sun’s tastes, anyway.

He slapped my thigh, but Clem moaned, shaking all over, using two of his hands to gag Sun on his puny cock. How sweet to see two delicate little things such as them pleasuring each other.

Clem lifted his face to meet my gaze as if asking “Can I cum? Can I enjoy it?”

As he should!

Everything, down to the last drop of nectar he released from his trembling body should be controlled by me. It was only natural.

But for once, for some strange reason I couldn’t put into words, I found his submission to me unnerving.

Clem should be focused on his reward instead of pleasing a worthless master like me. I had failed the only promise I’d given him, and by extension, failed Sun too.

I unconsciously squeezed Clem’s stomach, my length snug inside his clenching hole. Clem shuddered, and Sun bobbed his head more fiercely as Clem’s feelers stretched his mouth wide. Sun whined, probably confused, reaching inside of his pants to stroke his cock.

The scene was too erotic, but I didn’t allow myself to be lost in it completely since Hadi was still too close to us, watching, maybe even waiting to strike.

I would always give Hadi credit for triggering this in me. No one and nothing could wage this kind of war within me.

“Ahhh!” Clem moaned, dragging me from my morbid thoughts by kissing my chin tenderly.

I stroked the fuzz on his head with my knuckle, pivoting Clem’s head gently so he could focus on Sun, still feasting on his cock like it was a delicious meal, his nectar pouring out, coating his face, slicking his tongue, and filling Sun’s mouth.

My newest prize was full of surprises, and I relished the sight of them, together, in the throes of passion on top of me.

“Masters!” Clem jerked and came.

Surprised by Clem’s proclamation, I blinked. Why did it make a strange sort of sense that Sun would be my pet yet still be Clem’s master?

Sun pulled away, coughing, his mouth full of our mothian’s sticky seed.

“Come here. Let me have a taste,” I ordered, dragging Sun up the length of my chest, until he stood so that we could kiss.

As I swallowed his moans, and some of Clem’s load, I bent Clem down with the heel of my hand.

“Here. Return the favor,” I ordered, and he got to work without question, taking Sun’s cock into his mouth.

“Clem! Ugh,” Sun whimpered as I licked his lips, parting them again.

Sun clutching my shoulders, bucking forward into Clem’s eager mouth. I squeezed him harder, Clem clenching down on my throbbing cock. It felt amazing but I wanted this moment to last forever.

I wanted Clem to feel like he’d die from the pleasure so he’d feel alive, feel secure, and know we’d never leave him, least of all me, but I knew as Sun pulled away, face flush, my newest pet would never leave him too. I’d make sure of that, because he was ours now and forever.

“Enough,” I said, spreading my wings so that Sun had more room to maneuver.

He held his hard cock in confusion as I dragged mine out of Clem. I kept his cheeks parted, spitting, using his own cum as lubricant before spinning him around.

I avoided looking at the tear in his wings, seating him on my cock again until he whined. But this time, only halfway. He was gaped but not full. I wanted to try something.

Kiar had talked my ear off about how he had taken Sun before in the woods, about his dream of squeezing both of his cocks into him, gloating about how Sun had asked him to use his tail quite wickedly after they fought, when he refused to even let me press the tip of my cock into his anus.

Despite pretending otherwise, I was impressed and jealous, yet I was all for it, seeing as Kiar’s efforts would make room for me eventually.

But now I wanted to know how that would feel, if only once. Two cocks in Clem’s too tight hole sounded like paradise.

“What… are you doing?” Sun asked as I brought him closer, until his cock pressed against Clem’s hole.

“Let’s fuck him at the same time. Slowly. He’ll like it, I promise.”

Four wings, six legs, and eight arms were a mess to bring together, but when we found the right rhythm in our chaotic rutting, Sun and Clem would be over the moon. I just knew it.

Sun frowned but shifted closer.

“He’ll tear…” he said, but panting, he slid his cock against mine and Clem’s fur, eager, even as he admonished me.

“No, he won’t,” I said, even though I had no idea. This was new and exciting for all three of us.

Sun looked unimpressed, so I added, “We won’t know until we try. We’ll stop if he can’t. Right, Clem?!”

Clem hummed, “Please, Sun? It’s my reward. I want you, too.”

My human pet sighed, huffing. But he couldn’t fool me. He was excited. I could taste it in the air.

“Alright… Damn it all, you two are killing me,” he groaned, shoving the tip inside, guiding his shaft in next, the fit impossibly tight as I groaned.

I usually said every time felt like the first time with Clem. But I had lied. This felt like the first time, too tight to be imagined, so wet from his webs of cum and dripping nectar my groin was soaked, and I was dizzy off his pheromones. Sun was the key to reliving the euphoria that had made me addicted to my first pet in the first place.

How wonderful. What a gift!

“More!” I demand, closing my arms to drag him forward as Clem’s scream was muffled by Sun’s chest. “Just like that. Good boy. Fuck him open until he breaks, ” I growled.

It seemed Sun couldn’t take it, a new spurt of wetness coating my length inside my Clem far too quickly, as my sweet Sun whimpered, biting his lip until I was sure it would bleed. But they were still coming even as I shifted, hoping to bring myself to completion soon.

Gripping his chin, I turned Sun’s face toward me. My tongue darted out, forcing his mouth open so he wouldn’t hurt himself. That was reserved for me.

“It’s too much! Oh Gods, Clem, Bracken, I can’t. It feels too good,” he admitted through a veil of tears.

It was too much, so delicious to watch him whimper in lust. I burst as our orgasms wracked our bodies and dosed the air in the sweetest pheromones I’d ever tasted.

Leaves shuddered above and below, harsh scents drifting toward me and assaulting my senses. I bared my teeth, only to laugh as I caught the shimmer of black and white scales.

I let Sun pull out only to the tip, holding him inside Clem for all to see, my sagging length kept rigid by Clem’s exceptionally tight hole.

“You love being a whore in front of Hadi, huh? You just came but you’re hard again. Ugh, fuck!” I grunted, as I exploded inside Clem when Sun glared at me, squeezing them to my chest once more.

“My bad, it was just Kiar,” I lied, for I knew that Hadi still observed us up above.

Good. He could see what he was missing now. Kiar and I were united after all. At least, I hoped.

“What the fuck do you think you’re doing, Bracken?” Kiar growled even as he slithered up to us, his erections leaking. Had he been watching us in the woods?

“I tried to secure the encampment, to resist fucking so we could focus, and come back to this hot mess. You better be lucky I was in a good mood, keeping watch while you played without our mates. I told Sun I wouldn’t leave him but I… Damn you. Damn it all.”

My eyes narrowed, not missing the ’s’ on the end of mates. Clem was my mate… Sun was ours. But I didn’t fight about it. Kiar was in a good mood, smiling, not ready to rip my head off for fucking them without him. I took the win for what it was, a win, and wondered if he could join us.

“Don’t be jealous,” I chuckled. “I’m sure Sun wouldn’t mind a little more attention, isn’t that right Sun? After all, your hole has been neglected without Kiar here. Why don’t you open it up for him… Sun? Sun?”

I peered down at them and huffed, as both of my mates had passed out from our passionate tryst. Kiar tasted the air, sighing, his voice ragged with need as he said, “Release them. Or you’ll fuck them to death and kill us all.”

Sighing, I had to admit that was true, allowing Kiar to lift Sun out of my lap and pull out of Clem. He sat him in a pillow made of his scales, as I lifted Clem from my cock, our co-mingled seed dribbling down his thighs.

We would have to find a source of water sooner, rather than later after all this love making. But for now, I basked in the afterglow, the tingling and buzzing of mana flowing through the tether, and the more carnal pleasure of having my cock drained.

“...What do you make of all this,” I asked Kiar, as Hadi moved from his nest, away from us finally. “Of this arrangement. Of speaking to a Goddess.”

“I don’t know. I don’t know a damn thing anymore,” he said, hair disheveled, visibly aching to sheath his cock inside of Sun again or maybe to fight. Maybe both. I never knew with him.

“Lets us rest. I’m…” Kiar stumbled over his words, a rarity, looking to Clem who slept in my lap, and back to Sun who he held in his arms. “I’m grateful they could have some fun after this dreadful night. But be mindful my patience is thin, and they are hurt.”

I nodded. Kiar was right. Clem thoroughly enjoyed his reward, but it wasn’t wise for me to cave to my baser instincts. Not with Hadi around.

“True. Besides,” I inclined my head to the spot where Hadi had been before he left. “We have company that sources his strength from our mating and hunting, too. Maybe that’s why we don’t feel as refreshed. That’ll put us at a disadvantage if it comes to…” I couldn’t find it in me to voice the inevitable battle ahead of us.

“…Do you know more about this spell than you’re letting on?” Kiar asked pointedly as he slithered beside me with Sun held bridal style in his arms. I lifted my wing, and he curled beside us, Clem and me. And it was very warm.

“No. I never saw much use in reading the vermin’s text. But I know Clem well enough to know he stuck his nose into something he can’t control.” I stroked Clem’s head as I boxed them all in with my wings, cracking them just wide enough to continue chatting with Kiar, and keep watch for Hadi’s return.

“And despite what he may say, Clem doesn’t know a damn thing about this moon magic, beyond not knowing how to break the bond. He can’t begin to understand how he has changed us.”

“…Is it just the spell making us this way?” Kiar asked, “I don’t think I can keep my hands off him for long. Is it just the spell that makes me feel this way?”

I blinked, realizing Kiar meant something much more profound than the urge to mate.

“So, what if it is? Do we need some grand reason to protect what is ours from him? ” I said, not seeing how it mattered now. They were ours, after all. It was natural, our duty, our bonds.

“…Hadi is our ally?” Again, Kiar’s voice lifted in question, and it was so unnerving. Like me, he had always been so self-assured.

However, we found ourselves in uncharted territory, up against the most unexpected enemy. Even more so than the false king, Daaku the traitor, who had wormed his way onto the throne.

“And Sun is our mate,” I responded, whispering despite knowing if he really wanted to hear us, all Hadi had to do was focus. “Clem is… He’s under your care, and my first bond. Hadi sees things differently. If we can reconcile those realities, wonderful. And if not…”

“If not let’s back each other,” Kiar said as I nodded.

An understanding deepened between us, which began earlier in the night under the light of the campfire when we both saw their scars.

Tomorrow, and until we had the stone, we would protect them, together against any foe. Hadi included.

After that?

“Only the Gods know,” I whispered as I allowed my heavy eyelids to shut and my wings to close.

I sheltered all of them under my wings, as I drifted off into short interludes of dreamless sleep.

We woke fitfully all through the night, tense and ready for a fight. But none came, only the heavy feeling of being watched, of being assessed, and yes, I had to admit it, of being rebuked for our weakness.

But if it was weak to love Sun and Clem, to stand by my friend Kiar, so be it. I was proud to be detested by Hadi for those reasons.

I’d already conquered death, escaping my early tomb. I had nothing to fear, least of all a deposed king who would meet his grave again before I allowed him to come in between me and Sun, Kiar and Clem.