Battlemage Book 6 Scarlet Rage UnleashedChapter 11
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As Nathan and Ariel dressed they both were lost in their own thoughts.
It was now growing dark and they needed to head to the house they were staying in for awhile. The owner had died and they paid some money to the surviving family to use the empty house for a few months while they visited.
They had fallen back on doing a little bounty work, both people and things, and even lately a creature or too, and they used those funds to pay their way with. They were trying to not use any of the vast money they brought with them unless they had too.
Gold was gold, but they didn't want to advertise that they had different currency unless they really had to, and if they needed to exchange it they would need to do it in a port town where no one would question why they had so much of it.
But as they walked hand in hand back towards the temporary house they were using Nathan put his arm around his wife and looked at her as she laid her head on his shoulder.
They would probably need to leave soon as to not stay in one spot to long on their travels, but for now they were just enjoying the visit to the new city.
They for now were in the city of Nachand on the coast.
But as they walked Ariel was in the middle of remembering early three months ago when they first landed in the seaport city once they reached the new continent.
"Bri ... Ariel we need to disembark," said Nathan as he quickly corrected himself.
After their ship pulled into the dock Nathan went to their stateroom to get Ariel so they could leave the ship. They had already packed everything they had the night before.
"Almost slipped up did you," said Ariel quietly as she smiled and kissed his mouth. "Just do what I did. I just spend time thinking of you as my husband Nathan and after while it becomes second nature."
"I won't do it again. I can't look out for you if I'm being stupid. This is too important," said Nathan with a grim look.
"Honey you've protected me more than one woman should ever expect in one lifetime. And even then you went beyond that. So I can't help but believe in you now. Please stop beating yourself up before we even get started," said Ariel with a disarming smile.
Her smile was infectious because Nathan found himself smiling down at her as well. During the smile he swept her up into his arms and kissed her hard.
"Down boy or we'll never leave the ship. I don't know why, but I keep finding you harder and harder to resist each day for some reason," smiled Ariel as she gave Nathan another deep kiss.
"Lets head out and see what's new around us," said Nathan now smiling also.
"First thing we need to do is get me some different clothes. Most of what I owned was designed and cut to be worn by the Sisters as a noticeable uniform and we shouldn't take the chance that someone might recognize you and my former clothing and put two and two together," smiled Ariel.
She wrapped her cloak around her to hide her light brown leather vest and leather pants. The cloak was long enough to almost cover down to her legs, but it hid her clothing from view.
As they left the ship via the dock they walked the streets looking for a nice Inn. After a bit they found one that didn't look to be too expensive or run down. Nathan and Ariel went inside to see if they had any rooms.
As they stood waiting, Nathan noticed that the young man behind the counter who was helping another patron by serving them drinks kept looking up at them quite a bit.
As Nathan moved off a bit to look out a window he slowly looked back at the counter and noticed that it was his wife that the man was watching as she looked around the room at the various fixtures.
"I can't forget that she once again is as stunning as she ever was when I first met her. So other men are going to be attracted to her. And now that she's quit threatening their lives with every other breath they are going to notice her once again in force, " thought Nathan with a smile.
As he slowly looked around the room he saw other patrons watching her now as well.
When it was finally their turn Nathan approached and asked about any available rooms. The young man, who couldn't have been older than 20-25 seasons at best, started stammering as he only stared at Ariel while trying to talk.
Ariel smile at him warmly and said "Don't worry about us and take your time. But may I also ask if there are there shops around that someone can purchase a good change of clothes?"
The young man flushed hard and stammered out they had a room in the back upstairs that was available and that Dottie's trading and provisions store would be the best place to shop. It was good and inexpensive and a lot of the ladies in town liked her wares.
Even though Nathan was happy they had space and took the offered room, he couldn't help but notice the almost intense attraction to his wife the man had.
As they were leaving to visit Dottie's, Nathan slyly looked over his shoulder and saw the young man was still staring hard at Ariel as they were leaving, even though there was another patron at the counter trying to get his attention.
He was basically ignoring them as he leaned to the side to look past the patron as he stared with longing at her.
"I see you're still turning heads wherever you go. You know there was a time you would have pulled him across the counter and threatened to slap him for being so blatant," said Nathan quietly as he turned and smiled at Ariel.
"I guess as I got older I realized that a little praise doesn't always hurt. I've already proven to myself everything that I've always wanted to do. And I have already found the love of my life and I had his children.
"So I guess in the end I found that I don't care anymore about making others accept me for who I am. You do and that's all that truly matters to me. Besides it's only you who will get all my love and affection from now on," smiled Ariel as she stopped and pulled Nathan into a kiss right before they went out the door.
Nathan couldn't help but take a quick glance back over his shoulder again as they went out the door and he thought the young man looked a little crestfallen to him.
Well she was his wife and he did book a single room for two. What did the young man think? That she was going to suddenly leave Nathan for him after only seeing him once?
As they went to Dottie's store, they found that Dottie carried everything from regular dresses and outfits to clothing for warriors and weapon masters. In a port town she was pretty prepared for almost any customer.
And as they shopped Ariel said that she would like to go to a weapons shop later to purchase a matching pair of twin swords to use, and that Nathan might want to purchase a Bastard sword for himself as well.
On the ship coming here they often debated about trying to use different weapons, but they figured that they would rather live a new life with familiar weapons at first, than take a chance on getting killed in a pinch with a new one.
But Ariel honestly made the suggestion of weapons choice really for Nathan's benefit more than herself.
While she was proficient with anything she could touch, she worried that since most of Nathan's practice was with that type of sword that he might accidentally fall back and use magic in a pinch if hard pressed, and she wanted to avoid that at all cost if she could.
At least until she had time to work on a new weapon skill with him for a while.
While at Dottie's Nathan picked out a few short sleeve cloth shirts of different colors and several pairs of loose leather pants.
But while Dottie couldn't convince Ariel to purchase any dresses or skirts, she did manage to talk her into quite a few different types of stylish thin loose leather and cloth sleeveless pullover vests with a deep V's cut in them, a few light colored short sleeve one piece blouses styled as T-shirts to go under them, and various colors of leather and cloth pants.
The blouses were pretty snug and showed off Ariel's well rounded breasts to their fullest, but under the vests no one would notice how tight they really were. But all the pants seemed almost as if they were cut to snuggly follow her figure.
They were smaller at the top than in the hip area, so even though they weren't tight they gave the appearance they were because of how small her waist was and how they flowed and followed her hips.
Nathan wasn't sure if Ariel would be comfortable wearing them in public, but was totally shocked when she smiled wide and said she would take them. She immediately put on one set of black leather vest and pants with a light blue blouse underneath, and had the others wrapped to take with them
As they were leaving with their purchases out the door Nathan quietly asked "Not that I mind, but why did you buy those outfits? I thought you hated it when men gawked at you? Aren't they a little more snug than you used to like to wear?"
"Honey if you don't like them I'll take them back. I just want you to be proud of me. I only thought since I had my figure back that I shouldn't try to hide it as much as I used to. But if that makes you uncomfortable I'll return them," said Ariel with a shocked look.
She didn't know that what she had picked would make Nathan feel uncomfortable to be seen with her.
"No, I personally love how you look in them. And I for one don't mind if other men just look at you. I only asked because I wanted to make sure you were doing it for you, because of how the clothes made you feel, and not because you thought I expected anything from you," said Nathan with a smile.
Ariel smiled up and him and pulled him into a deep kiss right on the sidewalk out in front of the store.
It lasted long enough that a man behind them on the street cleared his throat and said "Hey you two go get a..." but he trailed off as Ariel quickly turned and flashed a wicked smile at him.
His mouth dropped open and he stared hard at her.
"We already have one, but thanks for the suggestion," said Ariel with a wide grin, as she then pulled Nathan's hand headed back towards their room.
Nathan just turned and smiled big at the stupefied man as Ariel pulled him after her.
That was the first night that Nathan found out he could make Ariel orgasm without entering her. During that time with her he found he could now sometimes make her orgasm just by touching her breasts and nipples just right.
That night was also the first time ever she passed out from a hard orgasm.
And Nathan was shocked. She had never done anything like that the entire time they had ever had sex over their many seasons together. He thought something might be wrong with her.
But when she came to she was babbling about how incredible that feeling was and that she had never felt anything like that before and how they had to do it again. Now!
Nathan had already noticed that her orgasms seemed to keep getting stronger and stronger on their four week trip here, but he wasn't prepared for her to suddenly pass out.
But he had to admit she was getting more and more creative in what she was willing to try with him. And that thought also always made him smile.
And then he found that he could make her sweat and squirm more just by not touching her where she wanted him to now it seemed.
That never used to happen between them before.
In all it was new experiences for them both the whole first night in the new city.
On the second day they traveled to various weapons shops.
After waking Nathan up early just before dawn she tried to wear him out for several hours before they left the Inn. She was humming a happy tune as they dressed to leave.
The first few shops they went too were obviously ones setup to sell weapons to unsuspecting tourist or people who didn't know what to look for.
They found flawed weapons, badly repaired weapons, or ones with imperfections very obviously floating in the metal. Some were gaudy and clearly for decorations.
All those vendors they visited acted like the couple had no idea of what they were talking about as they refused to purchase their weapons. They often tried the "berate the customer routine" to pressure them into purchasing their wares.
Nathan was still trying to find the door to the room and it was starting to frustrate him. If he was using magic he would already have been out of here. He knew he would have been able to find it. The mage who cast the spell wasn't near as powerful as he is. But if he uses magic now he'll blow his and Ariel's cover and he doesn't know who will find out or who they might tell. Right now no one knows who they are, but if he uses magic then they will. But it's pissing him off that he...
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"Ariel, I still don't see why you were so dead set against my having brought my Bastard sword with me as a backup incase of trouble. I mean you have your swords with you. I just feel safer with mine as well," said Nathan grumbling as he walked along. While he wasn't really irritated at Ariel, he was irritated at the situation. "For the very reason you just stated. You should be comfortable with every weapon you know how to use well. But that won't happen if you only carry that one...
4001 seasons previously before current times The last five seasons the land of Pastial had been peaceful and the people and land prospered. Wolfgang managed to setup various changes in the land. He managed to introduce a few of his inventions further into the populace, like the wheeled plow, piped irrigation for the farm land, water filtration, and he was currently working on various steam powered inventions. Because of all of those changes the people kept trying to make him the new King...
The next morning Dusty got up very early, before the sun was even close to coming up, and started packing his pack for the next mission. As he pulled out clothing to take with him he noticed the suede leather jacket and jeans that he was wearing when he arrived here hanging in the wardrobe in the corner of his room. Seeing them once again took him back to when he first appeared in this world just under over a year ago. A lot of things had changed. First of all he now believed in magic. It...
"So all the tests prove that Beth is now resistant to all forms of poison?" asked Anne-Marie as she put down one of the various reports that she had been looking over in front of her and leaned back in her chair. She now had the six of them in her office once again and she was looking them over. Once they returned to the guild, the first thing Ayden and a few of the mature Sisters did was to check out Beth. He was the best able to tell them what he did and the few White mage they had...
Dusty started to run into the room, but he stopped and took a good long look around first looking for traps. As he stepped into the room he saw Galvin as he basically finished hanging his wife next to Daniel and Rachel from a hook by a chain around both of her wrists. When Galvin stepped back he could see that her shirt was ripped badly in the front and one of her breasts was in danger of spilling out of her already heavily overworked bra. He watched Galvin seem to take a good long look at...
Two men stood looking at the prone form of their leader. They just received the report that the man wanting to join them, a Christopher Jones, was just killed by someone a very powerful. It didn't look like magic that killed him, but they also had no idea at this point how he died. The men weren't too broken up about it because they felt the fool was wrong to be experimenting on children and they wouldn't miss him. He contacted them before with a deep desire to join their ranks and said...
"Mmmmmmm ... do you really need to get up and go work out so soon? The sun isn't even up yet. You really should come back to bed. I need you. I mean I really need you. You could just as easily work out with me instead you know," said Suzan softly but in her deep raspy voice. Even with just barely opening her eyes, she knew that she had her husband's complete attention. They had gone to bed the previous night in the buff and she could see his response to her request instantly. He was...
During the first week that Dusty and the others had left Marie and Seth had met with the King and Marie trained in the yard to keep up her skills, tone her body, and generally keep busy. The King gave her one of the outer rooms that faced the parade yards so that she was well away from the other nobles but close enough that she could work out in the yard and visit with Seth. King William gave her a knowing smile as his secretary briefed her where she would be staying. Marie smiled back at...
Once out of the chamber Dusty smiled and raced down the hall to grab Suzan's hand as she was still storming down the hallway, and pulled her trembling frame into an embrace. As he did he noticed that her face was unreadable, but he could see as he did this that she was still very much pissed off. While pulling her close he buried his face in her hair. "I'm sorry honey, but should have told you that you broke nothing. If I hadn't been so caught up in self pity I would have spoken up...
"Well my dear it has been almost two weeks, I don't believe they are coming back before the time limit," said Queen Morigan as she looked over at Rachel while she stood apart from the other women. Rachel was sitting and trying to look at ease, but it was an effort with all the various other Lady's and ladies in waiting around. All the various forms of nobility were hanging around the audience chamber making light conversation about nothing and gossiping. As Rachel tried to look like she...
Once breakfast was finished Ariel wandered the guild grounds once again. She was trying to learn where everything was, and she passed various areas once again including the blacksmith shop where Nathan worked as a blacksmith's assistant. When they first arrived they found that the guild already had a blacksmith, but like the other members he went on missions because he could make more money doing that than he could having the members pay him to fix their weapons. So there was a need for...
The meeting with Rayne's parents, Aric and Brianna, went really well Matt thought. Matt met her father Aric, and if he thought the boys were larger than life, he was shocked at the father. His presence seemed huge to him. But strangely, other than a silver forelock, Aric didn't look like he could possibly be a day over thirty at best to Matt. To Matt Aric seemed far too quiet, friendly, and gentle to be the famous Battlemage he had heard of. Didn't they only love death and destruction...
Aric worked hard while he was at the academy. And while it was grueling work, it was getting him where he needed to be. He wanted to finish fast to be back in Andrea's arms. He was ready to be married and with all that it entailed. The professors couldn't believe how fast he learned, and he seemed to be ready for any class he could take. The only exception was the class for Applied Black Magery, that class he refused to take. He didn't like the necromancy involved and flat out refused to...