Amity 5 CataclysmChapter 27 Prophecy
- 4 years ago
- 28
- 0
The magicians spent a week trying to sort out the Palatines at Spur.
As Markus had predicted, it was a mess. Some wanted to stay, some want to go. This included both slaves and invaders. Some of the women wanted to keep their man others emphatically didn’t. Then there were the kids.
The magicians had arrived en masse and Storm had them do a blanket spell to remove the bad spells that were on the people in the valley. They had agreed to put a temporary spell on them so that they couldn’t hurt each other while things were being sorted out.
They called a town meeting to tell the people of the change of ownership. The Palatines that were still here were not happy to find that they were now the invaded. Many bitched about the loss of their slaves.
Ulu told them they had three options; they could swap places with them, leave or make the best of the new rules and learn to live together as a new people. The Palatines didn’t wish to swap with their slaves, giving them two options. Several decided they didn’t wish to live with Ulu’s people as equals, which left them only one option.
Ulu telling them that they would no longer be paying taxes to Palatine swayed quite a few to his option of staying and making a go of the new situation.
The fact that the slaves that had been abused were to assist with determining the punishment of the abusers wasn’t well received either. Ulu told them they had one week to decide before the punishments were to be carried out.
He suggested the two peoples get together and discuss what was to happen. If they made a decision sooner, then they could register their decision with the wizards. Any slave, who didn’t wish to stay with the Palatines they were with at present, while they sorted out an amicable solution, could temporarily move to the farms or houses of the men who had died.
Quite a few Palatines didn’t find it a pleasant week. Their people on the ship had a bit longer to think about what they wanted. But even so, they had their wins and losses, once they confronted the people they had enslaved.
Storm had dropped in at his home to check on his staff. He was pleased that Iron Hills was a happy place these days. He dropped in to visit Hugo and Will the two Master Mages in Trenton. They too indicated that things were settling down and they had had another eight medallions and a dozen rings return to the vault.
They found that one of the medallions and three of the rings had come from slavers that had been on their way back into Trenton. As soon as the harbour was ice free, they would take the people who had been captured, back home to their villages in the north. Storm fixed the items, and they went back on the shelves for new owners.
He then received a mental call for assistance. When he got back to Spur, he told the others that the people here were their problem to sort out as he had another mission he had to go on.
Loko wished to stay with Robert, and as soon as those who wanted to go home were ready, they would drop them off on the way back to Brina. Storm said to Lindell and Kim that they had to go visiting. He said he would explain when they got there.
When they popped into the courtroom at the Bagada Palace, they caused a storm in a teacup. The five Clerics were furious when about two seconds after Storm identified them, they found themselves immobilised.
Storm even spelled one to shut him up. He, Kim and Lindell then bowed at Regent Papak IV. “Greeting your lordship, sorry about dropping in unannounced, but I received a call for help.”
The goggled eyed Regent stammered out, “A call for help?”
Storm grinned at him, “Yes, I understand that you have some friends of mine being held against their will.”
“You are a witch, too?” he asked.
“No, I’m a Lord Wizard,” Storm said and turned his bling on. The court all gasped as one. Many dropped to their knees. They held up their Yani to ward him off and started praying. Storm wasn’t impressed.
“Sorry, I understand that works for devil wizards, not Lord Wizards,” he told them.
The Regent yelled out, “Guards, arrest these people, arrest them.”
The guards didn’t move, nor did more enter the courtroom. Storm waited a bit, so the Regent and the rest understood this wasn’t going to happen. Some also found that they were a captive audience as the doors were locked.
Storm borrowed three chairs and placed then in front but to one side of the Regent, and they sat down. He then had the five clerics shuffle over on their knees and sit in the spot he had left them.
“Now I understand that some friends of mine had the misfortune of trusting you people. They came here offering friendship, and you locked them up and tortured and abused them,” he said conversationally.
“They are witches, the Clerics proved they were,” the Regent stammered out. A young man pushed through the people and stood between the wizards and the Clerics.
“If they are witches, then so am I, father. I promised them they would be safe here. I gave my word, is the word of your son, worth so little?” he said furiously.
Papak had been at his wit’s end. He had come back from the ship and found his friends had been carted off to the cells. He had hurried back and told Doc Avon to get his people back onto the ship. He had some influence, he would do his best to get Kale, and the Captain released.
The crew on the ship were not happy at this turn of events, but they did as he asked. Papak told them to keep the ship near the northern entrance. If a ship came in from the southern entrance or out from the river and headed towards them, then they were to flee as fast as they could north.
He recommended that they hide in a tiny bay that they could find if they looked carefully. It was up the coast about 5km. If he couldn’t free their people in three days, then consider them dead and flee home.
He had tried everything he could think of but to no avail. When he tried to speak to his father, his face would go blank, and he would say, “What visitors?” He felt a deep wrongness in his father.
It worried him, as much as Kale’s pain. He could feel some of what they were doing to him, and he was greatly distressed. He called to the Gods to help him. What the Clerics were doing was wrong. He knew in his soul that it was.
These men were supposed to be God’s representatives. But they were the ones who felt bad to him. Even being near them, made him feel sick. He had to be careful as they started looking for him. Thankfully, Roshanak helped him stay away from them.
Roshanak learnt that the witches were to be burned the next day in a public execution. The Clerics were then to perform a cleansing spell on the city. Everyone had been told that they had to attend.
Roshanak told him that many of the worshippers of Keltria had fled the city for the hills when the Clerics ship first turned up. They didn’t wish to be cleansed. Many of the Lords had also slipped out of town and headed home as fast as their carriages and lankys could take them.
The Clerics had told the guards to shut the city up to stop people leaving when they realised people were fleeing. Roshanak said they were dumb fucks, it had taken them two days to work out people were even gone.
No matter how hard Papak tried, he couldn’t get near the cells. Only the Clerics were allowed to even enter the dungeon. He thought of dressing as a Cleric to get in, but Roshanak said they had told the guards that if the person didn’t have a ring or medallion, then they were to be arrested.
When Storm had appeared in Roshanak’s room where Papak was hidden, he had damn near had a heart attack. Storm had drawled, “You called?”
Papak had stupidly asked, “You are a God?”
Storm had grinned at him, “Sorry son, a God I am not. I’m Lord Wizard Storm. In your distress, you screamed into the magical ether, and I got your message. I also then felt the distress of two other magicians near you, so I had to come.”
Papak quickly told him about Kale and the Captain. Storm’s face looked like a storm as far as Papak was concerned. Storm told him to stay in the room until he got back. Storm was even less happy when he appeared in Captain Strong’s cell.
The man’s arms were chained across the middle of the room. He was on his knees, and irons locked his ankles in place. He slumped into the chains. Blood ran down his legs, back and chest from his abuse.
Oddly, they hadn’t touched his face. The parts of his body that could be covered by clothing were a different story. He had burns and shallow cuts on many parts of his body including his scrotum.
They had even cut off his nipples. His pointer finger on his right hand had been cut off to remove the ring he had worn. This upset Storm as he could grow back flesh and knit bones, but he couldn’t grow new bone.
He placed his hands on Rick’s cheeks, “You are as strong as your name implies, you poor bastard. They will pay for this.”
Rick croaked out, “Kale, they spent longer with Kale.” Storm had to admire that he was more worried about his friend than himself. “I’ll do him next, let’s get your body at least repaired, I’m afraid I can only mute the mental effect.”
Rick nodded his head and moaned as the healing spells engulfed his body. He tingled and itched all over at once. Then the feelings subsided, and he found himself being hugged gently by the big man. Storm picked him up, and when Rick blinked, he found he was being lowered onto a soft bed.
Papak dropped to his knees beside him, “I’m so sorry Captain. I didn’t know they would do this to you.” Papak could see the pink splotches over the Captain’s body where he was still healing. He could only imagine what Storm had seen.
“He needs food and water. Only little bits of each at first,” Storm told him. Papak nodded and hurried to comply. He carefully pulled the blanket up over the Captain and then went for the food.
Storm blinked to Kale’s cell. If he thought Rick had it bad, the sight of Kale made him gag. He didn’t know what they did to get past the medallions shields, but he would find out.
Kale was on his back. They had his arms tied out to the sides and his feet up and out to the sides in what he assumed were birthing stirrups. His arse was on the edge of the table so they could fuck him better. He must have just missed who had last used him, as he had cum and blood still dribbling out of his arse.
Going by the mess on the floor, he had been fucked a lot more often than the Captain had. Kale giggled, “Hey jump right in. I’m still nice and wet, you fucking twisted bastard.”
The boy had a blood soaked cloth on his chest. When Storm lifted it, he found that a square patch of skin was missing from his breastbone where the medallion must have been sitting.
They had burnt the edges of the skin in an attempt to stop the bleeding, and the blood had pooled over the bone and solidified. Storm could smell the corruption of the skin.
Kales body was also covered in the small burns and cuts. He had a lot more cuts than Rick did. One nipple had been cut off and the other burned off. His testicles were swollen, and Storm guessed it was due to them being squeezed hard.
Kale was covered in bruises that looked like someone had pinched and twisted his skin cruelly. Someone else liked to bite, and he had bloody gouges in his skin on every part of his body from sharp teeth.
He didn’t know exactly what they did to his cock. It looked like someone had been chewing on it. Storm surmised that they had tried to circumcise him but weren’t very good at it. He bet that pissed off the guy that liked to ride.
He had thick dried cum at the base of his cock, so he was sure that the boy had often been ridden until whoever had played doctor on his cock. “Come on,” Kale said. “I haven’t come for a while, are you guys getting tired or something?”
Storm walked up to his head and looked down on his face. The boy stared sightlessly at him. One of them had slid a hot thin rod into his eyeballs and burnt them. He had gack glueing them up. But he couldn’t blink because the eyelids had been sewn open.
“Fuck me, when I find out who did this, I’m going to castrate the bastard, rip his eyes out and make him eat them and then shove his balls in after them,” Storm growled. He was furious.
Kale cackled, “Man, I’d love to see that, that skinny little prick wouldn’t choke on his tiny balls, though. Who are you? You’re not one of them. You feel ... you feel lovely.”
“By the Gods, how have you kept your sanity man?” Storm asked him.
“Tell me who you are, and I might just tell you,” Kale replied.
“I’m Lord Wizard Storm. Your friend Papak was very upset, and he called for help,” Storm told him as he laid his hands on him and started healing him. He did his chest first as that was the most critical. He then did his rectum and genitals.
“Oh fuck, I’m gunna come if you keep doing that,” Kale groaned. Storm looked at his cock. It was rigid, and as the head healed, he saw it pulse. He didn’t bother replacing the foreskin. He didn’t miss his and didn’t know what the boys had looked like before.
Kale groaned in delight and then grunted and blew. Storm chuckled, as the boy certainly knew how to blow. Kale sighed and said, “Thanks, that’s the best come I’ve had since the Doc last sucked me off. Those guys were the worst lovers I’ve ever had. They fucked like those rats we dosed up with the juice.”
“Juice?” Storm questioned, as he placed his hands over Kale’s eyes.
“Yeah, we found these little berries, and when we fed it to the rats, they fucked furiously and often. If they got too much, they got really aggressive,” Kale answered.
Storm removed his hands, and Kale blinked several times and looked up into his face. “Wow, you’re a real spunk aren’t yah.”
Storm grinned at him, he was a nice looking boy, and he could guess why other men found him desirable. He reminded him of Kim. He had a similar sex appeal that oozed out of him. His cute curly dark blonde hair and the sexy grin would drag them in. Women, too he would bet.
“I’ve got to heal the rest of you now,” Storm said.
“Can you let me up first,” Kale asked.
“Sorry, yes, I’ve done the internals. I just need to pretty you back up a bit more for the girls,” Storm said and waved a hand at the straps releasing Kale.
Kale pulled his legs off the stirrups and swung around to sit on the edge of the table. “Thanks, the medallion was beginning to dig.”
Storm looked at him, and Kale swung the medallion around from his back and placed it back over the new skin on his breastbone.
Storm raised his eyebrows to the grinning Kale. “When they were tossing me on the table, I had told it to go down my back. Then I created a glamour. I had fun making it look like the blood they dripped on it, was running off of it.”
“When they cut the skin off around it and lifted it, the medallion disappeared. They were very careful not to touch it, so it worked. It really pissed then off, and they asked me where it had gone.”
“I told them Lord Hugo had said that if it couldn’t feel my heart beat, it would return to the vaults in Galina. I told then all the Galina medallions and rings returned if they thought the wearer was dead or they were stolen. It was to keep them safe from arseholes like them.”
“That really pissed them off. The one they called Jerome, he was wearing the most bling, he asked me about Lord Gazan. I told them that he was dead. It was weird, I felt him die that day you freed the medallions. Then when we got to Botham, they told us it was true.”
“Jerome did the blood magic thingy, but he wasn’t the worst of them. I think he and the other old guy preferred the Captain. The Younger bloke kept apologising while he rode me and he got pretty pissed when the Biter chewed on my cock.”
“You seem very level headed about the whole torture thing?” Storm said amazed.
Kale shrugged, “I’ve been raped before, and since I had the medallion, it helped numb the pain. I told it to let me feel just enough, so I reacted as they expected me too. It didn’t want to, but I convinced it that it had to if I was to survive.”
He picked it up and kissed it, “Thank you, my friend, you did a brilliant job.”
Storm had to smile, as he heard the medallion sing back. It must have been very hard on the medallion to let Kale suffer. He touched it gently, “Yes you are a very brave medallion and served your master well. Will you be too upset if he upgrades?”
They both felt the medallions sadness. Storm had an idea, “Actually how about I just add the rest? I will need you to be into the box for the final spells, but you will go back to Kale.”
They both laughed at the medallions happiness. Storm blinked them upstairs, and since Kale had mentioned it, he left glamour’s, so they appeared to still be in their cells.
He then went and got Kim and Lindell.
Storm looked idly at the Clerics kneeling on the floor.
He identified the man Kale had said wore the most bling as he had both a medallion and a ring similar to the one that Otho had. He assumed they were set out to enforce the churches wishes. He got up, and walked over to them and sniffed them.
Kale had told him the juice smelt like off meat. When he got to the top cleric, he smelt it. “Hum, not happy to just use compulsion spells,” he said.
He waved his hand over the man so he could speak. “You don’t frighten me devil spawn, the Prime Bishop will take care of you,” he said with confidence.
“Oh, and what as he got that I don’t?” Storm asked seating himself again.
“He is the chosen, he is the most powerful representative God can send to us, he is the storm that will come and will bring the people together under one God,” the man said with conviction.
“Is he a Lord Wizard?” Storm asked with interest.
The men all looked at each other. The first answered, “There is no Lord Wizard, his items of magic were destroyed in the war, it is written.”
Storm turned his bling on, “So does his diadem have all six jewels?”
They gasped, as they knew their history and only one wizard, had all six gems. Two of the four men laid their heads on the floor. “Divine Being, we are your servants,” they chanted.
This surprised Storm and his family. Kim looked at him and grinned, “Yes, he is divine.” The all heard a soft chuckle behind them where Rick and Kale were standing cloaked.
Lindell chuckled, “I have to agree, my husband.”
The four men looked up at Lindell. “She must carry the prophesied child,” the second Cleric said in awe when he lifted his head.
Papak thought about what they were saying, “Oh by all that’s holy! You’re the Storm of the prophecy. Do you know who the Starman is?” he asked, that line had always intrigued him.
“What has a man from the stars have to do with the prophecy and what is the prophecy?” Storm asked.
The middle Cleric recited:
“To make the five lands one,
So the people can again be one,
Five feats must be done,
The devil wizards must be defeated for one.
The dark man must not turn and run,
The Starman must defeat the cursed one,
The healer must cleanse the children of the sun,
The man of light must declare his love of one.
When the storm is done,
The people will again be one,
Their King to come,
Gods will, will be done.”
An older well-dressed woman stepped forward. Angrily she said, “No, no. That is not the prophecy.”
The Cleric sneered at her, “It is so.”
“No like your Book of Truth, it has been altered. The last two lines are, ‘Their Queen will come’, and the last line is, ‘The Gods will, will be done’. The Keltrians have always been matriarchal and have always had six Gods.”
“Your Prime Bishop knows this. Why do you think gifted men must become Clerics and under his control and gifted women are always hung as witches?”
“You blaspheme, witch,” the cleric screamed at her.
She sneered at him, “I do not, since my own mother was the oracle who told the old King the prophecy. Did your Prime Bishop tell you how he lost his wizard’s box?”
“He didn’t lose it, he wears his God blessed items,” the oldest cleric stated.
“Tells me how much you know, and you one of his faithful advisors Cleric Jerome. He may have his diadem and the medallion, but the ring and wand are false. He only managed to keep the first two items by shoving my mother’s head into the box to stop it from closing when he was trying to rape her.”
“She said that when he realised they were deserting him, he smashed her in the face and shoved her head in, so she bled into the box. He then used her blood to bind the medallion and diadem to him.”
“This is the most hideous practice imaginable, to a wizard’s box. It shut once he had released her, but he didn’t get the ring or wand back. He also couldn’t touch her again. The box had somehow put a protection on her. This is why he hates gifted females.”
“Ask him,” She said as she pointed to Storm. “To show you how the gem in his ring swirls and get him to demonstrate how his wand works. Lord Storm, show the man how they are supposed to work.”
Storm was wondering how this interrogation had gone off track. He heard Kale snigger beside him, and then the boy patted his shoulder and pushed it slightly forward indicating he want to see too.
So Storm stood. He flipped the wand from his side and rolled it between his fingers slowly, as it moved it started extending until on the third rotation, it was at its full length, and the gem mounted in the end glowed brightly.
He then whirled it around between his hands crossing it over his body and back several times and altering its length as it moves. He rolled it over his shoulder at full length and then reduced the length as it came back underarm until it was presented in his hand at its normal length.
“Charlatans trick,” the youngest cleric said with a derived laugh.
“So is this one,” Storm said. He moved forward and half extended the wand. He touched it to the man’s ring and then on top of his head. “May you find peace,” he said. He held out his other hand, and the Cleric’s ring appeared in it.
The other Clerics all gasped, as did the people close enough to see his actions. The young man whimpered, shivered and clutched his now unadorned finger. “Only a blessed Cleric can remove the ring from another,” he stammered, as he shook.
“No, only a wizard who knows the person had been doing the wrong thing, can remove a magical item,” Storm said.
Kale appeared beside Storm and then placed his hand on the kneeling man’s head. He ignored the many gasps around him. “I forgive you for your sins, Raymond. You have been taught to find love by force. You have been used as badly as I have. May you find peace in your soul and learn what it is, to be truly loved,” he said to the young man.
The stunned man felt very strange, as his body tingled all over after Kale had placed his hand on his head. He felt a calmness and clarity that had been lost to him for a long time. He looked at Kale and realised he had removed the spells holding his mind in a cage.
Kale had gone one further and uncaged his soul. He had also felt a wellness of his body and his bruises didn’t hurt, his arse didn’t hurt either. The constant ache in his spine, his kidneys and his balls from the thrashings, had also disappeared.
“What have you people done to me?” he said in awe.
“They have played with your wits, boy. Don’t believe anything they tell you, you are a sworn Cleric of Laos,” Cleric Jerome growled at him. He could see the glow on the boy had brightened as if some hidden part of him had come to life. Going by the wonderment of the boy’s expression, he guessed that it had.
Jerome scowled and knew he had just lost a promising disciple and bed partner. He was also powerless to stop the proceedings, as he couldn’t break the immobilisation spell. Nothing he tried worked.
He watched as Kim had Lindell got up from their seats and started wandering around the crowd and touching people. This didn’t bode well for them taking control of this region either. His boss wasn’t going to be happy. He was distracted by Storm.
Storm waved his wand over the ring, and it sparkled brightly. He then held it out to the boy. “Please touch it for me,” he asked softly.
Raymond gently touched the ring he had been so proud to own. He had loved how it sang to him before the initiation ceremony. It had never sounded quite the same after and he now knew why.
He stroked it gently, “I’m sorry my friend, I believe we were both deceived. I hope you can forgive me for not protecting you.” The ring seemed to sigh and sang softly to him.
“If I give it back, it will not behave quite the same as it did in the past. If you do attempt to do something it disapproves off, it will burn you. If you carry out the actions knowing they are wrong, it will desert you and not come back next time, do you understand?”
Raymond nodded his head. “Yes, I understand. Must I leave the church?” he asked.
“No, your faith is your own prerogative, but I think you need to stay away from Justini until we sort out the problems there,” Storm suggested.
The old woman came close and looked deep into the boy’s eyes. She then looked at Storm and Kale and nodded in approval. “He isn’t a bad boy. I don’t even think he knew he was doing bad things. I felt some very tight binding spells on him, but they are gone, and his head is clear. You boys did good,” she said as she patted Storm’s arm.
She turned back to the boy, “How would you like to read the original book of Truth? We’s got a little place you can have in our village. There are some still faithful to the old teachings of Laos who would be happy to have a true clergyman.”
“You’d let me come even though it’s not your faith?” he asked in surprise, as she helped to his feet and tucked her arm in his to lead him away. She had got what she had come for. She waved at the wizards and answered Raymond, as they walked away.
“Son, that’s half the fun of faith. It would be boring if we all believed the same thing. Who knows if you’re right or I’m right? The hardest thing to learn is that we have to be tolerant of others beliefs. As long as those beliefs aren’t directed at bringing harm to others, then people are entitled to them.”
Storm smiled at Kale, and he said, “I like that woman whoever she was. I think Raymond is in safe hands.”
Kale grinned back at him, “I think she is an Oracle and she came here expressly to collect Raymond.”
Storm nodded in agreement. He had felt her strength when she touched him, and she had mentally thanked him for the protection spell and the healing spell he dropped on her. He turned to the next young man and tightened his brow.
He said to him, as he touched the ring and then his head with the wand, “You sir are not going to be so lucky. The first spell will deaden the separation anxiety but the second is a hex.”
The man shivered and then scowled at Storm as the ring flew from his hand. Storm winced as his hand closed over the ring. “Damn, you’re a real prick. You’re certainly not going to like my hex. If you physically or mentally bring harm to another, the pain will be reflected tenfold on yourself.”
Kale didn’t touch him, “Sorry, I can’t heal what is wrong with you. I hope you enjoy what it feels like to be bitten.”
The next Cleric received the same fate and Storm had to drop a sleep spell on him to give the first spell a chance to take. Neither of them had released these men from the immobilisation spell. Storm would remove them to one of the Cleric’s ship later.
This left the two with medallions. Storm asked Rick to appear as their punishment also concerned him. They both gasped when he did. Storm looked at the oldest of the men. He was worn down. There was a defeated air as if he had got to point where he went through the motions of livings but didn’t really live.
“You have fought so hard for so long, it is time for your reward,” Storm told him gently. When he retrieved the medallion, the man didn’t scream. He sighed as if a great weight had been taken from him and then burst into tears.
“Thank you, my Lord. For some reasons the binding spells didn’t work the same when used on me, and I have tried to be true. But it has been very hard. I’d have taken my own life, but the binding spell stopped me,” he said through his tears.
He then looked at Rick and Kale, “I’m so sorry I couldn’t control myself near you both, it was if my mind got locked up while my body used you. I tried to force my body to be as gentle as I could. I think that’s why I kept fainting.”
Kale looked at Jerome then back at Cleric Bono, “I know. My medallion could feel your conflict with your medallion. The reason you had to screw us was the drug that Jerome gave you. I think he knew you fought the bindings and gave you the drugs to bind you to him, even if you didn’t wish it. It’s an insidious drug; you should see what it does to rats.”
Rick and Storm smiled at Kale, they knew about the rats. Kale then placed his hands on Bono’s head, and Bono shivered under them and smiled a beautiful smile. Kale stepped forward and gently kissed him, “Feel better?” he asked.
Summer was nearly at an end for us in Federation. We were worried about the two missing boxes, but considering the size of Amity and past experiences, I knew they could be hard to find. In my case, I had no link to the boxes. They were not my type of magical boxes. Raina and her mob had linked together, but they couldn’t feel the boxes either. We decided that it would take a Queen Wizard to find them and we didn’t have one on this planet. We could only hope that they weren’t claimed or that...
We spent three full days packing, two days shopping in Brisbane, one in Sydney, two in New York and three in Paris. We also visited about thirty other places in the two weeks as we did a worldwide tour of Earth. The longer stay in Paris was just because Crystal and Pearl wanted to go there at least once and they wanted to hit the fashion shops. Us blokes were outvoted. Apparently, Crystal and Pearl had three votes each to our one. I have a feeling they were trying to hoodwink us, but Mike...
I decided it was safe to blink to the beach. I contacted Mia and told her to head there. I also contacted the Hoppers and asked them to coordinate with Mia and follow her. I felt a sudden urgency but didn’t know the reason. So I blinked to the beach. I arrived with little fanfare. Blaine believed they had collected the magical items that the people on the ship had worn. I closed my eyes and sent out my senses to locate the items. I got a ping, turned, and headed in the direction. Once in...
Storm, had his head buried between two very long lovely legs. While he was happily supping on the meal on offer, a very active tongue and a wicked set of lips were doing divine things to his family jewels. He had slept in her room and had woken to her cunnie in his face and her mouth on junior. He pulled her hips down to his wet face again and sucked hard as his hips flexed up. She shuddered and he blew, and she sucked him harder. He grunted into her twitching cunnie and then sucked her...
-- Earth time: 2078-- “Oh, fuck! Oh, fuck!” I cussed. As soon as I felt that weird feeling, I knew the damn book had sent me home. Daniel looked at me in surprise. He frowned at me. I sighed and sat up. I then picked him up, and balanced my son on my hip I walked over the Lectern. “Send me back immediately,” I demanded. “I’m sorry, but I can’t do that. I’ve lost contact with the portal you originated from. You look familiar. Let me see. Oh! This is very strange. According to my records,...
-- Crystal -- I awoke depressed. Another day to get through. I rolled out of Kegan’s arms and moved over so I could flop back onto my back. I thought about Vaughn and Harmony. It has been nearly three months since my portal book said he had connected to a portal on another planet. He has tried to send me there, but for some reason, the portal on the other side refuses to let him send me. ‘I didn’t meet protocols’, were the replies that Vaughn got. He even connected to the portal on...
I was speechless when Crystal walked in to say that Raina and the babies were fine. She was the woman in the crystal ball. I guess Zara had known that she was to be my paramour. But I think something did change. I don’t believe Zara saw me as an Empress in the other version of our future. I drank in Crystal’s beauty and felt myself harden at the sight of her. I knew she was still to be mine in this version of reality. I had no problem with that at all. I glanced at Storm’s other three...
I looked at the camera. Seven months old, Devin stood on my right thigh, and his brother Quin stood on my left with my arms supporting them. Sky sat cross-legged across on my lap and leant against me. Kim was at my right shoulder with his right arm around Sarah. Beside him was Lindell her arm around him and Bonny. Raina fussed and finally said she had a lovely picture. Sky scrambled down to run to her big sister and see the results. Sarah bent and kissed me and claimed Devin while Bonny...
I’ve decided the last few chapters of this book should be Mikal’s summary. Of all of us, he has probably had the most interesting year. While a lot has happened to me too, I think the others have summed up my major achievements in their way. I know that I’m a very content man. Being surrounded by the huge loving family that I have managed to gather just makes me an even happier one. I find plenty to keep me occupied and having my kids has also been a major distraction, towards which I’ve...
Ulu was feeling miserable. It had turned colder the further north they had travelled, and they had found the thin blankets offered little protection. Ulu hated the cold and was feeling very disgruntled at his confinement. In the last hour or so, the ship had been rocking and rolling more than normal. Several of the girls had been sick in the privy and were a bit green about the gills. It had gotten dark earlier. Ulu heard the sailors shout to get the sails down as they were being chased by...
-- Sable -- I looked at the beauty in my bed. She looked young and defenceless. I checked her aura and could see improvements in her personal aura, but the items were very spotted, she still wasn’t well, as the items sickness seemed to keep bleeding into her aura. Her entity was what worried me. I’d even checked my spare mage boxes, but none of them indicated they could help her while she was still linked to the other box. I’d asked her if she wanted to remove the items and claim a lower...
“Fuck!” I said aloud. “Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!” I was still standing in a Ring. However, it wasn’t the same ring that I had been standing inside of, only moments before. I was in another cavern. This cavern also had a disused look similar to the one I had been in, but it was cleaner and better sealed. I looked up and noticed the crystals were a lot dimmer and there was not as many, as in the other cavern. I had a feeling if I wanted to go home, they would need to be a lot brighter and recharged....
David was checking out the information Carline had given him. With JJ’s help and the new satellites, they had built a comprehensive map of Federation. From what he could determine, the people had spread out around the coasts, radiating out from where the sections of the original starship had landed. Federation was the largest content on the planet. It linked into the Southern pole and then stretched up to the equator. It crossed it in a large, wide chunk of land. Several short, broader...
A runner turned at the homestead. My spouses were coming home. I immediately started tossing out orders, to get the carts on the road and get the herders assembled. I was running around like a clucker with its head cut off. Greta and Edith calmly took over and told me to go. I was on Opal so fast it wasn’t funny. I was pacing the wharf waiting for Captain Hail to tie up his ship so he could drop the planks and I could board. I raced up the plank and stopped dead at the sight of Bea and...
Tom was correct, and we did arrive in Weston just after lunch. He followed Reilly’s directions and ended up pulled up on a nice wide dock over to the southern side of the long bay. It was a little removed from the other docks, but as he explained, they were considered a higher end market area these days. The area had once been a big meat works, which was why they had the separate dock and sale pens for livestock. With the changes in population, the meatworks moved further north as it seemed...
After the fun of entering the Palace compound, we arrived at a courtyard and dismounted. We were then shown through umpteen dozen hallways and rooms, each gaudier than the last, to get to a waiting room. As we walked, I wondered if the King was related to Higgins. He had the same horrible taste in decorations. John and Tony left us in a little alcove to wait. We settled in, as I didn’t expect to be received in any hurry. I was glad we’d had something to eat before we were interrupted. I did...
-- Earth time: 2095-- Where was I? Yes, my first trip to my Island. If I wasn’t nuts before I got here, I was by the time I left. My arrival... -- Earth time: 1100-- I coughed and then vomited again. I dry retched several times and finally sat up as the dizzy sensation abated. I looked around me and found that I was sitting inside a Ring. I knew that it wasn’t the same Ring as the room was also different. This room had curved walls and had a high domed ceiling that was covered in...
-- Storm - Earth time 2102-- Kim and Lindell had decided to come on the trip with Sarah and me. Sarah dropped her shuttle down onto an open paddock near the section of Torus in the old crater. As we disembarked, a man dressed in what I’d call cut down buckskins approached. He was taller than the average here, lean and fit with sable hair tied back off his face. He looked at most as if he was twenty years old. With him was a very shapely woman. She had paler, more honey coloured hair but...
-- Daniel -- I’m surprised by how well Pip and I have learnt to work together. It’s not been an easy task, and we both realise that we still have a lot of work to do and a lot to learn about running a city and a community. The people we rescued have been settling into the city and taking over a lot of the work of rebuilding their lives and new homes. I think the fact that they could spread out a bit sorted out a lot of the animosity between the different factions. Captain Dale has been of...
-- Storm - Amity - Earth time: 2102 -- We were in a right pickle. Daniel and Pip stayed a couple of extra days to help with the clean-up and burying of the dead. Even my other wizards turned up in Nickel City and then teleported to us to help. Ulu even brought Carline and Sharon with him. Carline was Leslie’s only living daughter, and Sharon was Anne’s daughter to a different shifter, called Trip. They were both pretty upset about their mothers dying like they had, as one would expect....
I woke early and crawled out of the bodies piled onto my bed. I still liked about four hours sleep, and I think I had slept so solidly due to utter exhaustion. It had been a very fulfilling night, and my loved ones had worked hard to please me. I showered and dressed and then popped down to the café and grabbed some food and a large pot of tea to get me going. I asked JJ where the ships were, near Saran and Green Island. She pointed out that the ships near Saran were just off the coast. I...
We were sad to leave Bron and his people. Sable was delighted that his dad had become a Lord Wizard. We had a good laugh about the fact that he truly was Lord Bull Bron Horn now. Silver and Rose thought it very fitting, as far as they were concerned he had always acted like a Lord Wizard anyway. I suspected that little would change on Green Island following the upgrades as, the Bulls were an exceptional group of people and led their people by example as it was. Bron said he had no plans to...
?Well, it's been a month already. Of course I'm going to be impatient.? ?Yeah, and what exactly have you done besides let him know you're accessible?? Tanya made a valid point. Alan sat back on his computer chair and frowned. He'd pulled out all the stops to get his roommate Tom in his clutches; a slutty maid outfit, a makeup artist, and a bet gone awry had done wonders. A sore ass and exhaustion had kept them from round two, and after that... Tom had been avoiding him as much as...
I went for a hike. I’d not been out to the Isa for ages, and you still didn’t have to go far out of town to be in the bush. Most of the area was cattle stations and mine sites. I bummed a lift to the airport with a bloke heading that way from my hotel and then hiked out to the man-made dam they called Lake Moondarra. It was about 14km in, and I had packed my small backpack for the day. Making sure, I had plenty of water in my two belt canteens and steriliser tablets. I had a box of my...
‘Ho-ho, ho-ho, a bussing we will go.’ Actually, I hate buses as much as I hate planes. But they are a necessary evil when you travel. I’d had to bus to a hotel in town for the night. I then bussed to a different airport. I then jumped on my next flight to get to Kuching and then another one to get to the Mulu airport. A friend had organised for me to stay in Mulu Village with a family that he had stayed with previously. From here, I could pretty much do as I wished. I’d organised a couple...
I got up and found the loo. Upon inspection, I decided that it needed to go. I headed downstairs to the better bathroom and used it instead. I even took a quick bath. I put on my clean set of clothes and spruced them up a little, now I knew how. I tightened the waist on the pants and lengthened them a little with the excess material. Then I trimmed some of the excesses out of the shirt by tightening the weave and trimming the material. It looked a higher quality of material now and a better...
The rest of that week was busy. I collected a heap of new crystals and Wally, Walter, and I went around the house embedding them in the walls. We then went room to room, and we decided on a colour scheme for each. Once we were all happy, we liked it, I transported the furniture I’d picked for the room, and we arranged it accordingly. Pammy suggested we move some to different rooms, so they didn’t look cluttered, so the boys moved it. I then inspected the alteration and approved the moves...
I helped myself to the port and sat across from Kim. I asked why he was down here alone and he pouted at me and told me it was my fault. When I gave him an inquiring look, he grinned and said I shouldn’t have winked at him. I laughed. “Sorry, I’ve never actually been with a bloke, but for some reason, I thought if I did, you wouldn’t be a bad place to start.” He must have liked this answer because he said, “Damn straight! You’d break my heart if you did it with anyone else before...
I got up early. I wanted to get the building I owned fixed before it fell down. I also needed to do a bit of Lord Wizard’s stuff. I tried not to disturb Kim when I got up, and I headed to the cavern workshop and double checked what was required to build the boxes for Kim and Mathew. I was finding I only slept for about four hours and I was awake and ready to go. Most of the rest I was learning slept about seven hours. I found all I needed in the cavern, except the copper. I still had...
We went with the others to Mathew’s place. We sat and talked for a bit and then the couples wandered off to find a room. I wasn’t surprised that the new couples had been invited, nor that they disappeared early. I was left with Lindell. She giggled and said, “Damned if you do and damned if you don’t.” The others wouldn’t know if we sat here for the night or not. I finished my drink and said, “My place.” I got up, and I made her stand and then blinked her to my room. She was surprised to...
I woke to a cock between my arse cheeks. Kim was rocking his hard cock between my arse cheeks. He had already managed to penetrate me and was happily working in deeper, and my arse didn’t seem to mind at all. I found my cock was rocking in between Lindell’s cheeks. I could feel Junior was already between her cunnie lips and she wasn’t helping by encouraging him to bury in further. I groaned as Kim pushed in harder and Lindell pushed back onto me. I think they both realised they were...
We found the formal dining room set up for us. I think I had to accept that I couldn’t eat with the staff now the house was getting a mistress. Kim whispered something to Lindell. She looked at me and then headed for the kitchen. I took my seat and then looked up to see my staff heading into the dining room, their plates in one hand and a dish of food in the other. They all picked a seat and made themselves comfortable as Kim and Lindell sat either side of me. I beamed at them, and they all...
Our staff were happy to see us home. We had to attend meetings with the Magistrates and learned that Veldor had flipped out on them. The man had not liked admitting a few home truths as to how he obtained his wealth or his wife. They ended up sending him to a special place where they put people, who had difficulties relating to the world and that had been convicted of serious crimes. All of his wealth was confiscated. They determined that he has used Raelene’s wealth and title to accrue...
I don’t sleep as long as my loves. I got up and decided to consult the crystal ball on the location of the broken medallions. I was surprised they weren’t in the wing I couldn’t approach but in a different house. I blinked over but stayed invisible. The house had a couple of ‘protection’ spells, but they couldn’t detect me while I was inside the invisibility shield. I entered the establishment and found what I was looking for. They were stuffed in a box in the man’s study. They looked like...
It didn’t surprise me to find a mouth on my cock when I woke. Kim was happily licking me and sliding his mouth down my cock. My groan and tightening hips made him aware I was awake. He sucked me harder making my hips flex in time with him. Once he was happy that I was suitably prepared, he popped off my cock. “Fuck Lindell, so I can fuck you,” he asked. My wife removed her tit from my mouth where it had found itself and grinned at me. She moved on to all fours and wiggled her arse at me. I...
In the morning, we had a staff meeting. I explained that we had to go home for a few days and then we had to take the Sarans home. I appointed Oslo as my manager and told him to contact James in Iron Hills for his supplies. If he needed more staff, he was welcome to hire them. He could also have the flat above, once we left. He liked this idea very much. He and Wayne asked if their girls could stay. They wanted to marry them. I don’t think this surprised any of the staff. I said I’d ask the...
David James cussed when he banged his busted knee on the old trunk. He rubbed it and noticed the knee was swelling up again. He was supposed to stay off it for at least another week, but that wasn’t happening. While in the hospital, he had been contacted by a lawyer about his Father’s estate. He owned an apartment building containing sixteen units in the city of Cairns, Queensland, on the northern end of the Esplanade. The lawyer had a buyer. UNSEC (The United Nations Security...
The spaceship got under way, and they headed off to Mars. This Explorer ship was one of their newest at about 120m long and 60m at its widest. It looked like a flattened oblong. It had two liveable decks that were about 3m high with a meter crawl space between. Helm, food-prep, a sickbay, a rec-room and labs were on this deck. Six bunkrooms were on the second deck, with perishable storage and a communal bathroom. The third deck was the biggest and housed the transporter that seated four of...
David woke slowly. He reached out to find the other side of the bed empty. He frowned. Carol rarely got up before him, as the lady liked her sleep. A tear rolled down his cheek, as he remembered that Carol would be sleeping forever. They had grown close over the weeks they had been together, and while he didn’t love her, he had enjoyed her company, both in and out of bed. The silly bugger hadn’t put the safety harness on the chair on properly. When they had left in a hurry, he had grabbed...
Doc Allan Avon and Kale were working in his lab with the berries. Allan was an avid scientist and loved learning about why different components in plants affected people. He had distilled quite a few poisons and toxins in his time. He had even found plants that helped with pain and stopped wounds from getting infected. He loved plants. They had found a small epiphyte plant growing the berries on one of the trees near the farm. Kale had helped him carefully remove it, and they put it in a...
David was sitting at the helm. He was watching the pictures of the planet below scroll across his screens. He knew why it was called Hades. It was a weird planet. It had an axial tilt of about fifteen degrees. The equator was boiling hot, but Sarah said it was actually cooling. It also had huge ice caps that she told him were, in fact, melting and making the sea less saline. It had active volcanoes caused by something hitting the planet hard and what life was on the planet was basic at...
They decided it was time to get some rooms sorted out. The ladies took them upstairs to show them the rooms that they had picked out. They, in turn, selected rooms nearby, so they stayed together. Everyone agreed to meet up for lunch in an hour or so, once they were settled in. David and his girls collected their basics from the ship and made themselves at home. David and Kelli both had to laugh at the starry-eyed look on Sarah’s face. She didn’t seem the least perturbed that Storm already...
For Raina, it had been a bitter-sweet eighteen months. She loved being at college, and she learned a lot more about how her crafts were made and programmed. She had found her input from what she had flown was making its way to the designers. She loved her daughter whom she had called Dana and suffered through the death of her mother who had a run-in with a kangaroo one night coming back down the range from the Atherton Tablelands to Cairns in her old van. She had only been fifty, and it...
Ben and the boys were picking their rooms. They had discovered upon the first inspection that Zarka was very well equipped for a crew of eight. She had four large bedrooms with huge beds in them, and each had an ensuite. One was either side of the lift exit and the other two towards the back of the ship separated by their ensuites. DT and KJ decided on the two by the lifts. They dropped their packs on the beds and checked out the amenities. The showers looked strange, but they decided...
They finally joined the other three in the kitchen. DT had been cooking and teaching Zarka, with a very attentive KJ helping. Raina wondered which boy was going to get lucky because she had a feeling one of, if not both were also going. She had been as surprised as Ben when Zarka made herself known to them. She had also realised Zarka didn’t really need her to fly the ship. She was obviously capable of doing it herself, since she was apparently, also the ship. That was an explanation,...
Raina found Zarka and DT in the dining area an hour or so later. “Where is KJ?” she asked as she helped herself to coffee. The other two grinned at her like Cheshire cats. “What did you do to him?” she asked. Zarka said while shaking her head slowly, “DT was very naughty.” DT blushed at Raina’s enquiring look. “Oh?” she said. Zarka nodded, “Yes, very, very naughty. I thought them Russians could be naughty, but DT is a bad boy. Poor KJ couldn’t decide if he was coming or going.” DT...
They were preparing to leave when a young man appeared with a backpack. “Hi Daniel, I didn’t know that you were coming to visit,” Trixy said. “Not quite Trixy. I’m going with them,” he announced. Raina frowned at him and walked up to him. She gently touched his cheek and looked into his eyes. He gave her a cheeky grin and wiggled his eyebrows at her, and she had to smile back. Ben felt a prickle of unease at their interaction. He was a nice looking young man about 178cm tall, with his...
His Eminence, Prime Bishop Richard the First, sat on his throne and strummed his first two fingers of his left hand. His birth name was Dick Baker, but there were few people alive, who knew this. Only a select few called him Richard. Most people called him Your Eminence or Prime Bishop. He was a short, rotund man with thinning grey hair and a bald patch on the back of his head. His complexion was mottled, and his skin looked patchy with small areas of scabby rashes all over his body. His...
Penny, Alexus, Kale and Selwyn blinked to Tinble City. They were sad to find that the shield had failed. The devastation suggested that it had failed many years before. When they entered the Citadel, they found it dark and quiet. They activated their wands, so they provided light and using the stairs they headed to the room that the SAI should be located in. They found that she had died. The dried out mess in the tank suggested that she had been dead for a year or possibly two. Kale...
Princess Olivia stood at 158cm tall in her soft diamond studded slippers. Her short mop of tight white, curls surrounded her face like a fluffy cloud. Her large light purple eyes could pin you against the wall when you upset her. Her skin had a light, peachy hue, and her mother said she blushed prettily. She had also somehow ended up with pointy tips on her ears. Her nose was a little unfortunate. Olivia had busted it when she was six, and it now tipped down at the end. It flattened out her...
Olivia jumped down off the waggon and pulled off her hat, to wipe her brow. She dusted it off against the thin linen of her wide flowing pants and looked around. If you looked at where she stood from the air, the mountain range formed a large ‘Y’. It was called the Yani Mountain Range. In the fork of the ‘Y’ was an area that was known as the Forbidden Valley. It was believed that all who approached the valley were turned away. Silver Kingdom sat on the south side of the longest leg of the...
Olivia and Markus both woke refreshed. They headed down to the café and ordered breakfast. Patina happily reported, “Lord Paul and his people had a dreadful night. Six of his men had deserted in the night, and he only has sixteen now. Lord Paul had a particularly bad night. He is a grumpy boy this morning.” Olivia and Markus had to snigger at his misfortune. “Your people are also fine,” Patina told them. Olivia asked, “So how do we convince the rest of the intruders to bugger off?” “Well,...
Storm and Sarah had been on their way to Silver City when Alexus had called them. They then stayed with them for a few days to them to help out, before heading to Silver City. Now that Alexus’s had his apprentice’s box working, he and Penny believed they could get things, up and running during the winter season ahead. Kale and Selwyn planned to help the couple for a few more days before joining David and Kelli in what was to be their new home in Nickle City. Kale and Selwyn were having a...
To say the wizards stole the show would be putting it politely. While they had arrived in the more acceptable manner by coming to the front door and waiting to be announced, that was about all they did that was mundane. Olivia, Warren and Lillian were amused as they watched them enter the ballroom. To start with, they were the tallest people there. Sarah, Zarka and Payton were breathtaking. There was more than one man in the room who wanted to bury his head in their tits. The fact that that...
The sextet was complete. David had become the unofficial leader of the sextet even though they were theoretically equal. He brought his fellow team members up to speed with what Master Bart had told him regarding the political situation in Federation. Keven recommended that they go to see her grandmother, Domo Leslie and that they should get her side of the story. Keven’s sisters, Levi and Selwyn, also agreed this was a good place to start. The rest agreed, and they all blinked to the...
The sextet had a busy time ahead. They spent most of the first week just sorting out who was to do what to get the girls set up. Aaden was a huge help as he outlined what was required and how Lord Storm ran his presses and printing shops. One of the first things they decided to do was fix the road between the two cities, as it needed some serious work. Keven’s City, Rockville, was also on the coastline. The road from Greco her city was severely rutted and had to cross several low-lying...
David and Kelli went to check out the mines and logging operations with Levi and Chris. Chris was delighted to show them around. He hoped Levi found that he had looked after her Duchy as if it was his own. He hadn’t done a lot with the mansion other than to keep it maintained. He told Levi that now that it was her home she could do what she liked with the place. She might have to watch their spending for a while if they were going to need the money for expansion. He had the staff assemble...
Keven wasn’t impressed. When Leslie had said that her Duchy hadn’t been doing well of late, she was wrong; it was a disaster. Keven, Aaden, Kale and Selwyn spent some time, just jumping around and looking at the state of her province and the businesses in and around her town. They found three deserted villages along the coast, one on the east side and two on the west. They found one farmer who had stayed on his land near the furthermost village. “Hi,” Keven said as they approached him, “can...