Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:23:49 +0000
From: john aldridge <pegasusunicorn52@msn.com>
Subject: The Wolf 16

This story contains sexual scenes between males of different species.
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Copyright © 2010 EJA

THE WOLF

By

EJA

From Chapter Fifteen:

	`Not to change the subject but what were you saying to Marrok and
Davy?' the Great Dane asked.
	`I was telling them that I had become fed up with the petty
squabbling in the village and had decided to join them here,' Carl told
him. `I've developed a gel that my arrows can be dipped in and it'll put
the receiver of such an arrow to sleep for a number of hours,' the man
explained. `I think the villagers will attack, they don't like unnatural
things, as Elder Alan put it, and Davy's conversion to wolf will definitely
be termed unnatural. I've come to defend him.'
	`We've come to defend him,' Reyes amended. `Let's face it, we're
both black and able to remain hidden if they attack—especially if we're
in amongst the trees.'
	`You mean I should go out there naked?' Carl asked, the prospect
sending a tingle of excitement to his loins.
	Reyes nodded and chuckled. `Unless you've got some dark clothes you
prefer to wear?'
	Carl chuckled too. `No such luck, I'm afraid. Still, I'll be happy
to be naked, as long as you're at my side.'
	`If you're naked I'll most likely be on top,' was the dog's
response.
	The pair were still laying side by side on the moss covered floor
of what was now their cave. Reyes moved and took Carl in his
arms/forelegs. The pair kissed, an action that made their organs stout
again.

Chapter Sixteen


Because Reyes and Carl were so enamoured of each other, Davy and his
friends left them to their own devices. They reasoned that time would be
needed for the pair to become so used to each other that they'd be able to
concentrate on other things. Their little community could do without
them...for a while.
	Meanwhile there were other plans in the offing, primary of which
was the defence of their tree and its surrounding environs.
	Davy was of a mind that the villagers would head straight for them
through the forest but, mindful that there were some amongst them who may
devise a different approach, set Xxik as their early warning
system. Because Kupala had blessed him with invisibility and near-silent
flight the youth divined that he would be invaluable in that respect.
	Then there was the problem of how to defend the normal approach to
the plateau without tipping their hand to the preparations that needed to
be done. It was fortunate that there were a number of bushes dotted along
the edge of the plateau that the defenders could hide behind. If Carl, Davy
reasoned, was as expert with his bow and arrows, he could easily train them
in their use, adapting each one's talents to fit the situation.
	But, in the cave they shared, Davy admitted to Marrok that he was
placing much of his faith in their dragon friend. `We could do with more
like him,' he concluded.
	`What about trying to recruit his brothers?' the wolf asked,
stroking his mate's hair; he was worried at seeing Davy so anxious. `Surely
there must be some love between them, don't you think?'
	Davy shrugged. `You'd have to ask Xxik about that,' he
replied. `But if I remember correctly, the brothers were as bad toward him
as my father was toward me after my mother died.' He gave a heartfelt sigh.
	`When I was on my own, long before I met you,' Marrok said, `I went
hunting for food. This food was alive and I found myself having to remain
invisible until the right moment to strike. Maybe I could train our group
to emulate me.'
	Davy's eyes had become wide as Marrok's suggestion hit
home. `That's it, my love!' he said, sitting up and kissing his mate. `Come
on,' he enthused, `let's get the others together and outline the plan.'
	Knowing that nothing would stop Davy once he got an idea in his
head, Marrok rose to his feet and they left the cave, taking the pups with
them.
	Without speaking, the wolf sent out a call for the others to meet
them outside the tree, then he and Davy left and waited for their
companions to arrive. They set the pups down and watched them gambolling in
much the way wolf pups would do. It seemed to their "mother" that they were
growing faster than normal wolf cubs. He said as much to Marrok.
	`Perhaps it's because of the mixed blood,' the wolf ventured after
considering the question. `There's no telling what will develop from our
relationship,' he added. `It might be an idea to get in touch with the
goddess and ask her.'
	`We'll worry about that after this problem with the villagers is
finally settled,' Davy told him. `Here come the others.' The former young
human stepped forward, leaving Marrok to look after their pups.
	`Marrok has given me an idea I think we can use,' he began when
they were assembled. `It's to do with the art of being invisible without
being invisible, if that makes any sense.' Quickly he outlined the idea for
defending their tree and the plateau.

Elder Alan looked at the men he had gathered. `So, are we all agreed?' he
asked. `I'd like a show of hands if you approve my plan.'
	Without exception, all hands were raised.
	Just after the vote a side door opened and a slender woman stepped
into the hall. `So you're going to do it,' she said, her hands on her
almost non-existent hips. `I should have guessed as much with you as their
leader.' She was looking at Alan as she said it. `Well I want to go on the
record of this meeting as saying I think you're making a big
mistake. Perhaps if some of you survive, you'll come back and tell me if I
was right or wrong.' And with that final statement she left the same way
she had come.
	Elder Alan cleared his throat. `My wife was ever an emotional
woman,' he said, apologising for her. `She'll see that I'm right when we
get back with the bodies of the boy and his...um...paramour.' He cleared
his throat. `Okay men, we meet at the well at first light in three days
time.'
	`Why three days?' one of the men asked.
	`Because we'll need that time to gather every piece of equipment
that'll be of use to us. This venture isn't going to be a picnic, I can
assure you, and we'll need a number of weapons. Swords, bows and
arrows—or a crossbow and bolts—knives as well as mace and
scourge. And any other type of weapon you've got. We'll put them all on a
wagon—I'll supply that—and make them sorry they ever decided to go
against the norm. Now, get busy and find what's available. I'll see you in
three days time. Get going.'
	The villagers filed out and left Elder Alan to lock up.
	Xxik had settled on the roof of the meeting hall at a point that
was close to an open window before the meeting started. It was no effort
for him to remain invisible and he heard every word discussed—including
those of Elder Alan's wife. He wondered if there could be some way to bring
her in on their side.
	With that thought in mind the huge flying lizard soared aloft and
made it back to the caves below the tree in a matter of minutes. Quickly
the dragon told of the meeting and its outcome.
	`So we've three days, have we?' Davy mused.
	`Actually that's closer to four,' Marrok amended. `It'll take them
the better part of a day to get here—particularly if they're on
foot. Remember how long it took us when I first brought you here?'
	Davy nodded. `You're right, of course,' he said. `Okay, that gives
us some breathing space and time to look to our defences.' He thought for a
couple of minutes. `How would you feel about trying to recruit your
brothers to our defences?' He held up his hand-paw to stop the dragon's
expected protest. `Under normal circumstances I wouldn't ask this but, you
see, we're seriously outmanned here—if all the males in the village
attack us, that is—and this might tip the scales in our favour. What do
you think?'
	Xxik nodded sagely. `You could be right,' he admitted. `Now,
although it took me the better part of a week to bring you home the Goddess
gave me another talent. She blessed me with super-speed. Utilising it, I
should be able to make it there and back within a day. Will you be okay
while I'm gone?'
	`If you can make it there and back within a day, we should be all
right,' Davy told him. `Try not to take too long, though. Marrok will be
training us for a couple of days. By then you should be back, shouldn't
you?'
	`I'll leave now,' Xxik told him. He rose with a slight beat of his
wings. `I'll see you as soon as I can. Tell the others where I've gone.'
Then, with another beat of his wings he soared aloft and vanished as he
invoked his power of invisibility.
	Davy turned and saw the others had come out of their tree. As they
approached him he said, `I've sent Xxik to get more help.'
	It was Marrok who asked the question. `Who?'
	The look in his eyes told Davy that his partner already knew the
answer. `He's gone to see if he can recruit his brothers.'
	`I don't think that's very wise,' Reyes told them. `What if they
turn on us? They might consider us as meat.'
	`We'll have to find the brothers someone they can mate with,' Davy
told them. `I've heard that dragons can be very romantic—with the right
partner. Perhaps we can persuade a couple of the villagers to remain after
the fight is over. What do you think?'
	`I favour keeping Elder Alan alive so he can be a mate to the
bigger dragon,' Marrok suggested.
	They all laughed; the thought of the leading citizen of the village
becoming a love toy for a dragon appealed to them.

Xxik flew straight as an arrow toward the mountain that housed his former
domicile. To say that he was apprehensive would be an understatement.
	Finally the old familiar peak came into view. While invisible Xxik
circled the snow-laden mountain, observing his former home before settling
on the ledge. Still invisible he moved inside.
	Both of his brothers were there and there was the carcass of a
large four-legged animal between them, some flesh remaining on the bones
for the ravening creatures.
	Xxik decided to stay invisible until he saw how his brothers
reacted. `Greetings brother Xxak,' he said to his oldest sibling; his
brothers were each named similarly.
	Xxak came to his feet with a roar and a belch of sooty
flame. `Xxik?' he bellowed. `How DARE you come back!' He vented another
flame, lighting up the dull cave. `Where are you?' he roared.
	Fortunately Xxik had found a rock to shelter behind. He wasn't
afraid of being seen, but he could inadvertently be scorched by flame from
his eldest brother's maw. `Wouldn't you like to know?' he responded to the
angry dragon's question.
	It was second eldest of the trio who asked the next question. `Why
have you come back, brother?' Xxuk looked meaningfully at his older
sibling.
	`I find that I'm in need your help,' he said. `I've come to entreat
you to aid me and my new friends in a struggle that could have
repercussions to such as ourselves.' He felt that the best way to enlist
their aid would be to stretch the truth slightly.
	`How so?' Xxuk asked.
	Swiftly Xxik explained what had happened since they had last seen
him. The only thing he concealed was the location of their tree. Then he
stretched the truth somewhat. `These people have an abhorrence of anything
they deem "unnatural" and feel the need to eradicate it. I wouldn't be
surprised that, if they succeed in winning this battle, they'll be so
emboldened by their success, they'll try to erase every living "monster,"
as they call us, between their village and here.
	`That's the main reason I came,' he told them, lying through his
pointed teeth, `They could arrive within a year—unless they're defeated
here and now. Will you help me and my new friends, brothers?' he asked,
allowing a note of desperation to creep into his voice.
	Xxuk looked at his older brother. `What do you think?' he asked
him.
	Xxak shook his head. `We're dragons,' he asserted. `We can defeat
these puny humans should they decide to come here.'
	`That may well be so,' the middle brother replied, `but they could
also eradicate our food source in the process. THAT would kill us as surely
as anything they could do.'
	Xxak shook his head again. `I think that's highly unlikely,' he
said, `and, with luck, the various animals might be able to erase these
puny humans before they even reach us.'
	`But what if they don't?' Xxuk shook his head. `I'd far rather head
off that problem before it even becomes one.'
	`Well if you decide to go, I'll not try to stop you. However, you
will go with my utter contempt,' the oldest sibling told his younger
brother. `Both of you.' And he turned his back on the pair, heading into
his own chamber.
	As the now-visible Xxik and his older sibling walked out of the
cave Xxuk asked him how he had managed to stay invisible. So Xxik explained
about his encounter with Marrok and Davy and what transpired in the cave
that housed the Pool of Life.
	`Do you think the Goddess Kupala will grant me the same powers as
yourself?' Xxuk asked his brother.
	`There's only one way to find out, isn't there?' Xxik soared aloft
and the pair headed for the Pool of Life cave.

The next morning the still-angry dragon told himself he was glad that his
brothers were gone; no longer would he have to share food.
	It was just a whisper in his ear **Xxak.**
	He knew who it was. **What do you want Kupala?** He had long ago
calling the Goddess by her title.
	**Come to me. I must have words with you.**
	**We're having words now. Say what you've got to say then leave me
alone.** He wasn't going to give in easily.
	**Art thou such a coward as to be unable to face me?** There was
humour in the Goddess' voice.
	**I'm NOT a coward!** Xxak refuted.
	**Then come and face me.**
	**All right,** Xxak capitulated. **I'm coming, dammit.** And he
left his cavern, his taloned feet clicking on the stone beneath.

`This is awesome!' Xxuk crowed, doing cartwheels in the air—as only a
dragon can. `I feel as if I could do this forever!'
	Xxik was amused by his brother's exuberance. He had felt the same
way when he had first been given his various powers, but, for the sake of
his passengers, he had curbed his enthusiasm.
	Now the brothers flew toward the great tree that was home to their
endangered clan. As they flew Xxik detailed the members of said clan.
	`First off there's Davy. He was human until he bathed in the Pool
of Life but, since then, has acquired wolfish traits as well as fur. He
also managed to give birth to two of the most adorable wolf pups you're
likely to set your eyes upon.
	`His partner—and the one who started this clan, really—is a
true wolf named Marrok. He has admitted that he fell for Davy virtually
from the moment they met. I know he'll do anything to defend his mate.
	`Then there is Sabin, a white tiger and his lover, who goes by the
name of Axel. I'm not sure where Axel actually comes from; maybe we'll find
out in the fullness of time. Sabin and Axel encouraged me to mate with them
and, I have to admit, it was a most interesting experience.
	`Lastly there is Reyes and Carl. Carl was the only black man in the
village and, while Reyes belonged to the village elder, he admitted he was
secretly enamoured of Carl. Hence, when Carl left the village to come to
us, Reyes followed. They are now devoted to each other.
	`That's the community you're coming to help protect. Does defending
such a diverse group offend you in any way brother?' he asked, as the
mountains hiding the tree hove into view.
	`Not at all, brother,' Xxuk denied. `Who knows? This might be a
whole new beginning for me. I'm looking forward to meeting Davy and
Marrok—as well as the pups,' he added.
	`Not much longer before that'll happen,' Xxik said, pointing with a
long talon. `The tree is just over this range of mountains.'
	The pair flew between the high peaks, finishing Xxik's journey in
considerably less than the allotted two days. `We'll be cutting it close,'
the younger dragon warned as he descended toward the familiar
plateau. `We've only a couple of days left before the villagers plan to
attack. I'm guessing I'll be sent to keep an eye on them—just in case
they try something underhanded.'
	`Maybe it'd be better if I were to go with you,' Xxuk suggested.
	`Let's hear what Davy has to say first,' his brother replied. `He's
the one—along with Marrok—who started our little community, so he
should have a say in how it should be run.' He indicated with his right
front talon. `There's the tree. We'd best be invisible until we get inside
the cave.'
	`Can we fit through that gash you told me about?'
	Xxik shook his head. `No. We'll go in another way. Just follow me.'
He swerved away and headed for his more familiar entrance.
	Xxik had sent a message to Davy and the changed boy, with his
lupine lover, was waiting in the main part of the cavern. If their leader
was disappointed at seeing only one other dragon, he kept it to himself.
	`Welcome back Xxik,' Davy said to their reptilian friend. `We've
missed you.'
	`Axel and I have, too,' Sabin said, approaching.
	`It's good to be back,' the dragon replied. `This is my brother,
Xxuk. I'm sorry I was unable to persuade my eldest brother. He can be very
stubborn, as I think I've mentioned on occasion.'
	`Where are Reyes and Carl?' Xxik asked, looking around. `Don't tell
me they're still getting to know each other?'
	Davy shook his head. `In your absence I sent them back to watch the
village. They're well suited to keep an eye on things—at least until you
returned.'
	`Maybe I'd best go and relieve them,' Xxik suggested, glancing at
his brother.
	`I'll come with you,' Xxuk said, speaking for the first time. `I
can bring them back here. It'll give me a chance to familiarise myself with
the terrain between the village and here.'
	`Thank you,' Davy said, stepping in front of the golden scaled
dragon. `I'll see to it personally that you don't regret coming here to our
part of the world.'
	Xxuk studied the diminutive figure for a moment then nodded. `Let's
go brother.'
	With a quick flap of their wings the pair flew back out the way
they had arrived.
	At that moment Sabin's lover Axel arrived—from the tree. `I
think you should come and look at this,' he said, touching Davy's shoulder.
	`What is it?' This from Sabin.
	`We have another visitor.'

##To be continued##

[A note on the pronunciation of the dragon's names: As you're already
aware, Xxik is pronounced "Kezik" so, similarly Xxak is "Kezak" and the
middle brother, Xxuk, is "Kezuk".]

I must apologise to my readers for the long wait for a chapter that has no
sex in it. The reason for the six week gap was simple; I moved house and
everything else had to take a back seat.
	So, as long as everything is settled after the move, I should be
able to finish this story in a matter of a couple of weeks.
	Does anyone want to hazard a guess as to their visitor? I know but
I'm not going to reveal it here. That's for the next chapter, which should,
I think be the penultimate one—at least for this story.

Thank you for your patience. Chapter seventeen should follow in a few days.

My e-mail address is, as usual: pegasusunicorn52@msn.com