Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 19:42:55 +0100 From: Amy Redek Subject: Once a Knight. Part Four Part Four The next morning was a bright and sunny day and after breakfast, I went and wandered along to where the erected stand opposite the list was now beginning to fill up with people who had come to watch the fights and jousting. I hadn't really taken much notice of these people before and was surprised at the number of women that were taking their seats, all eager to see men fighting each other. Quite a lot of them were very pretty and felt that stirring again that I might be having one of them that very night if William was able to pull one for us to have. I went back to our tent and helped get William dressed in his armour and with him ready, he gave me a wink. `Let's go and see what's on offer,' he said as he picked up his helmet and we went and walked along the front of the stand. I then saw why he carried his helmet with its red crest on. It was to let the women know who it would be when he was wearing it and we got many a waved kerchief in our direction from the many women sat there for William did really look so young and handsome. `Which one takes your fancy?' he asked me as we looked up at the smiling faces. `I'll let you do the choosing,' I said as we strolled back towards our tent to get ready for his first joust of this tournament. He mounted up early and then took up his lance and ambled the horse back along the stand and I watched the fluttering of many a kerchief as they now knew who was under that red crested helmet. He finally stopped the horse and lowered his lance and pointed it towards one fairly buxom woman who blushed and draped her kerchief over the end and gave out a squeal as he lifted the lance for it to slide down for him to take and raise it up to his helmet as though in a kiss before stuffing it into his gauntlet. He rode back to where Maurice and I were standing, Frank already being up by the stand to announce William. `I hope I haven't made a fool of myself,' he said, and I could hear the laughter in his voice. `I've now got to make sure I win this one.' I silently agreed to this as he snapped down the visor and moved off as Frank announced his name. I watched not him, but the other knight to see how he acted in the list and when the flag went down, followed the movement of the opposing rider. I saw that both lances struck home and splintered but both men remained in the saddle as the opponent came down to our end to collect another lance for the return run. I took off at a run to get to William before they clashed again. `William,' I gasped as I reached him and held onto his girth. `He jinks to the right just before you meet. You only caught his left side of the breastplate. Aim further to your left and slightly higher.' `Thanks Martin,' his muffled voice replied as he lifted up his lance to signal he was ready and with the other lance being raised, the white flag went down and they were off again. I watched the other knight and saw him do the same jink to the right and William had his lance ready for it and caught the man square under the helmet and took him clean out of the saddle, breaking his lance at the same time. There was wild cheering at this unseating and I noted that the woman whose kerchief he was carrying was on her feet and screaming wildly at her knight winning his joust. While the fallen knight was being seen to by his squire, I ran down to our end and helped William dismount. `That was great!' he cried as he took off his helmet and waved to the crowd, his face red and sweaty. `You were right as always,' he said as he clapped me on the back as we went into our tent to take of his armour. As usual after a victory, he had a massive hard on underneath his tunic which I saw to by going down onto my knees and taking him into my mouth to suck and relieve him of the pressure. As I washed him down afterwards, we talked of the joust and decided to adopt a similar feint in our riding habit, though it took a few tournaments to get the horses to follow this slight change of direction while at full gallop. Needless to say that William won his next joust and after it went and spoke briefly to the woman who he'd picked and came back with a smile on his face. `I'm meeting her after the last joust and she's coming back to the tent for supper. Maurice! Get us a few flagons of ale and some strong wine for we are doing some entertaining tonight.' While he went off for this, we set up a makeshift table in the tent and used some of our boxes for seats before stripping off and washing each other before putting on clean clothes. We didn't play with each others' dicks then for we wanted to save ourselves for the coming evening, which wasn't far off. We always bought food from the villages we passed through and so had enough for a good meal which Frank had already started cooking. William prepared me by saying what he was planning with the woman and I was to follow his lead when the time came. I had a flutter in my stomach at this and stayed behind to supervise the cooking and tasted the ale that Maurice had brought back whilst William went off after the last joust to meet the woman. I was getting a little apprehensive at him being away so long for it was nearly an hour since he'd left, but he finally arrived with her holding onto his arm and I could see that they had stopped off somewhere for a drink for her face was slightly flushed but that might just have been at the meeting of the other three of us. William made the introductions and she gave us a little curtsey as we were told her name, it being Gwyneth though she preferred to be called Gwyn. `She doesn't speak French,' William said in an aside to me in that language which I was now fluent as well as having a good deal of Latin. We sat down outside as Frank gave us all a tankard of ale while Maurice saw to the fire and the bubbling pot of food. It was small talk as we drank our ale before William saw to it that she was then given the strong wine while we stayed on the ale. She was flattered to have finally caught the attention and be invited to the tent of a knight and had the habit of giggling after nearly every sentence she uttered. Finally Maurice said that supper was ready and so Gwyn was helped up by William and just the three of us went into our tent and had Maurice serve us our meal along with bread and more wine and ale. I think she enjoyed Maurice's stew for she had a second helping along with more wine and her face got more flushed as the evening wore on. We'd even gone as far as to have some candles set up to give us more light in the tent and so didn't really notice when it got dark outside. I judged that she was about twenty four or five years of age and was quite big up top as her low cut peasant dress showed which must have been her best one that she had worn to come to the tournament. At a signal from William, I cleared away the plates and took them outside and when I re-entered the tent, went and sat down on our bed. `Come Gwyn,' he said, standing up and taking her hand, `let's sit on something that's not as hard as these boxes.' She gave out a giggle and guessed that she was thinking of sitting on something that would be hard enough. She complied though and he sat her down next to me and he sat on the other side. `A rose between two thorns,' he said as he brushed the hair from her neck and kissed her just below the right ear. `A rose that is worthy of plucking.' She gave out another giggle at this and the flush on her cheeks got brighter. `And what do we have here?' he asked as his hand covered the breast on his side outside of her dress. `A dumpling that we could have had with our stew?' She gave out another little laugh but didn't push his hand away nor did she resist when he slipped his hand inside the top and pulled out her breast for us to see. `A dumpling with a cherry on the top,' he exclaimed. `These usually come in pairs don't they? Is there one that side Martin?' he asked giving me my cue. I had in the past seen the odd breast or two but now would be my first time of actually touching one and so with a tentative hand, I put it down the front of her dress and felt the soft rounded globe and lifted it out to nestle against the other one. My heart was pounding at doing this and now had a steaming hard on underneath my tunic. `Yes,' William breathed out as he was gently massaging one breast, `one of a lovely pair, don't you think so Martin?' I nodded unable to speak as I copied him and began to massage that soft flesh and felt the nipple in the palm of my hand begin to harden up like a small nut. He took his hand off her tit and turned her face towards his and kissed her, bearing her back down onto the bed. I followed suit but kept my hand on the tit I was massaging. `You're lovely Gwyn,' he said breaking off the kiss. `So soft and lovely,' he continued as he hand went back to massaging her breast. `Give Martin a kiss now.' Her head turned towards me, her eyes closed and I kissed the soft lips, another first for me to actually kiss a woman as I kept on rubbing her breast. I felt the bed move as William got up and her dress begin to slide down her body as he pulled it off. I held onto her tit and kept up the kiss and moved with her body as he then lifted her legs so that she was now lying full length on the bed. It was only when I felt him get back on the bed did I release her lips feeling that my own face was red from having that kiss. He took over kissing her and it gave me a chance to sit up and look down at my first sight of a naked female body and was surprised at seeing only hair down there between her thighs and not my usual sight of an erect penis. William broke off his kissing of Gwyn to get off the bed and pull off his tunic and indicated that I do the same. This I did and we both stood naked by the side as she opened her eyes and smiled at us. `Oooh. Two knights for one night,' she giggled and opened her legs and I saw what a woman really looked like down there. `Swords up and ready to stab me with. Whose coming first?' she asked which set her off again into a fit of giggles which made her tits wobble. `Watch,' William said to me out of the corner of his mouth and got onto the bed and I saw him lean forward and his cock disappear into her as he went and stretched himself over her. My own cock was really throbbing now as I saw the backside I was used to seeing when I fucked him now bobbing up and down on the female beneath him. Her legs had risen up to his sides as he fucked her and I couldn't wait now to fuck her myself. It only took a minute or two before he began to really thrust himself forward into her and give out a grunting sound as his body stiffened as he came inside her. He then flopped down onto her and lay there for a moment or two panting before he pulled out, his red throbbing cock head glistening with her juices. `Get in there while it's still hot,' he panted to me as he got off the bed and I took his place and saw that wide open hole that looked far too wide for me to fill properly. `I thought day followed night,' she giggled giving out a hiccup at the same time as she beckoned me forward with her open arms. I took one more look at the sex of the first woman I was going to have and moved over her as I lowered my body and felt my prick slide up with ease into that hot wet cavern. She was as wet and as slack as William said it would be but I could feel her inner muscles squeeze me as I began to move and fuck her. Her arms came to my shoulders to hold me as she bucked beneath me and I heard her give out a gurgle at having another man inside, fucking her. I wanted to make it last but I couldn't. The excitement she had caused me by being my first made me come far too soon and was quickly pounding my groin against hers as I came. I was sweating though not from exertion but from the experience I was having by being up inside a woman instead of William's backside. As he had done before me, I flopped down onto her breasts feeling them spread and soften as they took my weight which wasn't an unpleasant sensation that sent more tremors throughout my body. I gave my cock a few twitches and was thrilled that she felt them for I felt her muscles respond but again as William said, they were not as strong as the sphincter one of a person's backside. I pulled out and rolled over onto my back as William then straddled her and leaned over her face so that the head of his still erect cock touched her lips which opened to take him into her mouth to suck on. This was a fascinating sight to see somebody else do what I liked doing to his throbbing organ and he only let her suck on him for a minute or two before he pulled out and beckoned me to do the same. I covered her face with my body and had a different mouth than usual suck and tongue me though it was an awkward position to be in and so didn't stay like for long before pulling myself out of that grasping mouth. I lay on the opposite side of her to William who was now up on his elbow looking at me. `Well? What do you think of your first woman?' he asked with a chuckle. `Well out of the two of you, I'd rather fuck you,' I said. `I thought you'd say that,' he said as he lay across her body to give me a kiss. `Let's have another drink.' He got up off the bed and so did I and we sat down on the chests that served as our supper seats and poured out some ale leaving her naked on the bed. `She's not the best but then I've only had two so it's not much to go by,' he laughed as he drank some of his ale. `So you prefer me to her then?' `Most definitely. You're tighter and I get more feeling. She was as you said, loose with not much grip. No, I'd rather have you.' We both smiled at each other. `And I'd rather have you.' So we drank some more while she stayed on the bed, falling asleep and began to snore. As we drank I looked at William's limp member and wondered if he liked fucking me as much as I liked fucking him or would he rather fuck a woman and only wanted me because I was more available. Thinking of his cock reaming me began to give me another erection and soon it was up hard once more. `Fancy her again?' he asked seeing my rampant cock. `Not really. I was thinking of you and at how tighter you are compared to her,' I replied. `Why don't we try her backside then to see if it's much different?' This was a new one on me and I think the drink was getting to me as well for I agreed and so we finished our ale and he too now had a steaming hard on as we went back to the bed and rolled Gwyn over onto her front, making her grunt as she came groggily awake. `What's up,' she slurred as William heaved her up onto her knees. `We are, and ready to go again,' he said as he indicated for me to get behind her. This I did and though I could see her wet sex there, it was the other hole I was going to delve into now. Though I did push myself first into her sex to lubricate my cock before pushing myself up into her backside. She gave out a squeal as she wasn't prepared to be used this way but William was holding her firm and when I was fully inside the tightness of her arse did he let go of her body which I was now holding up with my hands. I saw him lift her head up and shove his prick into her mouth as I began to fuck her in the way I now liked. This was much better. A tighter fit and more to my liking and so I really reamed her, my body movements making her tits swing about and at the same time, work her head backwards and forwards on William's piece. He pulled himself clear as my passion started to climb and soon I was gripping her tight as I smashed my thighs up against her soft bum as I began to shoot out my load into her. She had got into the swing of it by thrusting backwards to my forward thrusts and gave out a gurgle as I stiffened and came inside her. She gave a whimper when I pulled out and left the bed to go and wash myself. She had fallen forward onto her front while I was off the bed and so had to help William pull her back up onto her knees for him to get behind her. I held her up as he then stuck his cock up into her and began to fuck her. She was now able to support herself on her outstretched arms and it was fascinating to watch her tits swing back and forth with the body movements of the pair of them as he fucked her. We both agreed when he was washing himself that she was a better fuck from the rear than from the front though it was nice to handle a pair of tits for a change. With his cleaning up done, we got back onto the bed and had her sleep to one side as we kissed and cuddled until we fell asleep. She was left to see to her own ablutions in the morning after we'd gotten up and dressed and were having breakfast when she came out of the tent. She gave us both a kiss and asked if she could visit us again that night and I looked at William who said yes and she went off quite happy after a good nights fucking from the pair of us. We had her in the tent again that night after the second day's successful jousting and she was in tears when we left the following morning. * For nearly two years we toured and fought, moving on to bigger and more profitable ones, but at the same time, coming up against stronger opposition. The name of Sir William de Fontaine was fast becoming well known and the ones who were drawn against us begun to tremble at having to face our lance and sword. It was also now known that the squire, me, was an able tactician in advising Sir William and so somebody had decided to take arms against us. * It was a black day for us at this tournament. I had this premonition when Frank told us that Sir Henry de Cambray was down to joust and fight. Now I had seen this knight several times at our castle and knew him to be a crony of Sir Gregory and so I told the others to be on their guard at all times whilst at this venue. William had also recognised the name but was not as alarmed as I was. He was to be the squire this day and I was wearing his helmet as I entered the lists. I won this first joust and it was during the next one that the fight took place behind the tents. Four of de Cambray's men had caught William on his own and began to fight him with swords. Maurice tried to intervene but was wounded as were two of de Cambray's men by William, but he himself suffered a mortal wound. I had just won my second joust when Frank came running up to me with the news of the attack on William. I virtually fell off my horse and stumbled after him to see some of the other squire's carrying William into our tent. I hastily got out of my armour with the help of Frank and helped the other's settle him down on our bed and told them all to get out. Well I think I actually screamed at them to leave as I knelt down to see to my William. He didn't last long, only just giving me enough time to kiss him through my tears as he died in my arms. But my tears were not just of sorrow but also rage at de Cambray's men doing this to my love William and having done so at the most probable orders of de Cambray himself. So, furious and in a murderous rage, ran from the tent wiping the tears from my eyes, went and mounted my horse. I rode to the end of the lists and took hold of one of the lances held there in their rack. With this in my hand, I rode along to the tent where de Cambray's shield hung and did the most inconceivable thing at a jousting tournament by instead of just tapping the shield, I knocked it off its pole. This act was a declaration of the wish for a fight to the death. The crowd went silent for a moment and then began the whispering as the word went round that Sir William's squire had been killed and they then understood my reason. The senior personage at this tournament was no less than the Duke of Cumberland and his herald came hurrying over to tell me that my presence was demanded by the Duke himself to explain my action. The herald then hurried over to de Cambray's tent and had words with the man himself. I worked my horse across the turf slowly so as to give Cambray time to mount his and also appear before the Duke to the summons. `What is the meaning of this action?' the Duke demanded of me as de Cambray reined in next to me. `His men,' I said indicating de Cambray next to me, `killed one of mine. I have the right to challenge him to this duel in the honour of not only of myself but of my squire who was attacked by his men and therefore he is liable to answer for their actions.' `Nothing would give me more pleasure than to accept this challenge,' he sneered, as he kept trying to keep his horse from moving about. The Duke of Cumberland then stood up. `As this is a duel of honour between two knights, I will allow the contest. You Sir Henry are the one challenged and therefore have the right to choose the weapon.' de Cambray looked at me and saw that he was a least four inches taller than me and probably two to three inches longer in the arm which would give him a slight advantage. `As this is a fight to the death, I choose the sword,' he said. `So be it,' the Duke declared, `Go and prepare yourselves.' We both wheeled our horses round to ride off to our respective tents. `What's happening?' Maurice asked in a worried voice, not having seen me strike de Cambray's shield. Both he and Frank had white faces, Maurice from his wound which didn't look serious, Frank because he knew what I had done. `It's a fight to the death,' Frank said as he helped me off my horse. `Now help me get him dressed in his armour.' `How's the arm?' I asked of Maurice as we entered my tent. `It's nothing compared to what Sir William suffered,' he said. `Shush,' hissed Frank, though he'd been taken aback by my declaration, he knew it was the only thing I could have done for they couldn't declare that it had indeed been William that had been murdered. That would then expose me for posing as a knight that would have been death for all of us by hanging. They couldn't give me any advice and so it was in silence that they helped me into my heaviest armour and buckled the sword to my hip. With William's crested helmet carried in the crook of my arm, I left the tent and walked across the greensward to where the Duke sat with his entourage in the set up pavilion and meet the man who had ordered the killing of William. By now my temper had cooled and I knew I must be calm and thoughtful and try not to fight in anger for that would be a mistake. We stood once more before the Duke, though this time we were on foot and in full armour. `Sir William. You can still withdraw the challenge if you so wish,' he said. `That I cannot sire. For the honour of my name and that of those that serve me. I must fight to avenge the insult to me and mine own.' `So be it. May God preserve the victor,' the Duke said as he sat down. At this, de Cambray and myself put our helmets on and were moved away from each other by heralds until we were ready and they then moved away. We faced each warily as we drew our swords and the crowd went silent and there wasn't a sound until our swords came together in a ringing clash that echoed round the field as we began this fight to the death. There's no finesse to a fight like this. It's just a swinging of the sword as we tried to hack at each other to first cripple before using the point of the sword to stab. Both of us smashed our blades against each other's armour in several blows but a fight like this never did last long. We were soon panting heavily and I could feel the sweat running down inside my light tunic beneath the armour. I was waiting for a good clash to my right arm which eventually came and I staggered back and clutched at my arm as though injured and dragged my sword as I avoided his next slash as if I couldn't raise that arm to defend myself. I switched the sword to my left hand and the crowd gave out a collective gasp as this seemed a futile attempt to ward off the inevitable. Cambray came at me fast and I parried his savage swipes at me like an amateur and I heard him give out a gleeful shout as he tried to press me further onto my back foot. I waited for his heavy swing and parried it high up to his left, knowing that he would then bring it down in a fast swing that with the weight of the sword would then take it up high to his right. This came and I parried again forcing his right arm up high to give me the opening under his arm and I almost ran that one step closer to drive the point of my sword up into his body which followed through his neck and into his head. Such was the force of my thrust, that we found out later that the point had actually come to rest on the top inside part of his helmet. He stood there transfixed, his arm still held upright as he swayed backwards and tore the sword from my hand as he crashed to the ground. There was a stunned silence for a moment before the crowd began to cheer knowing that right had been done in my avenging the killing of my squire. When I took my helmet off and stood before the Duke, he declared it had been a fair fight and I therefore now had the right to the arms and chattels of the late Sir Henry de Cambray. I thanked the Duke but refused to take the servants who had done the actual murder and left it to him to decide their fate as I'd had my revenge already. The upshot of that was that the Duke ordered the four men to be hanged before sunset as he didn't want anything more to do with them either. The name of Sir William de Fontaine was one to be feared now after defeating one of the best fighting knights of the Kingdom. But this also caused the problem of my identity of which both Frank and Maurice knew and now that I had fought and killed a knight of the realm, I would be a hunted man if the truth ever came out. Could we carry on this charade up to the castle Fontaine and get away with it? `Why not?' came the echoing reply from both Frank and Maurice. `We've been away for nearly two years and as we grow, we change somewhat in our build and features,' Frank said. `Besides, you both looked the same that you could almost have been taken for being brothers.' Which led me to believe that we might just be able to get away with it. William had only been three months away from his twenty first birthday and we were on the homeward bent as it were. There were another four tournaments that we had intended to compete in before returning to the castle to claim his birthright. So it was decided that we would carry on as though I was Sir William and pretend that it was Martin that had been killed. I couldn't help but sit down and cry as I watched Frank and Maurice dig the hole behind our tent and sob even more when William was laid to rest in his grave. I apologised that we couldn't put his name above his last resting place but I'm sure he would forgive me for this as I vowed to see that his heritage wasn't stolen from him as it seemed that that was the intent of his uncle Sir Gregory. Such was the camaraderie between us that they took pity on me and offered themselves each night to share my bed and give me condolence for the loss of William. I wanted to refuse because they obviously enjoyed each other, but their argument was that we'd been together now for so long that they couldn't bear to see me spend every night alone without some form of solace. They wanted me to carry on as Sir William to vindicate his name and get what was rightfully his. So I got to fuck one of them each night and was thankful for the release which enabled me to sleep without my dreaming of William lying there all alone under the sod. With the name preceding me for the last four tournaments that we were going to compete in, became somewhat of a farce for I only had to fight half of those that we entered. The other half when they found out who they'd been drawn against, forfeited the fights. It was lucrative but disappointing to win in this way and that I won the other fights goes without saying. This brought the tally up to all of my fights being won with William only having the one loss which meant we had quite a heavy bag of silver hidden away in the cart, a quarter of which I promised to give to Frank and Maurice to share out at our journey's end. It was at this last event that we dourly celebrated what would have been William's twenty first birthday, and now we were ready to return home. *