Amity 5 CataclysmChapter 27 Prophecy
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-- Earth time: 1100--
The man hurriedly got to his feet and caught up with me.
I noticed he was a good 10cm shorter than I was. “Are all your people short?” I asked.
He gave me a glance and said, “By your standards, I guess so. I’m one of the tallest people in the city. My mother said that I have some Grandteli blood in my genes.”
“Grandteli?” I asked to see what he would volunteer.
“Many of the people with magical abilities trace their ancestry to the Keltrian races that came here tens of thousands of years ago to settle this planet. Those of us here with the strongest abilities, trace our history to the people who came here on that ship out there.”
“They were mostly shape shifters and had not been on the ship long when it broke apart. It is said that they had planned to move to a planet that they could settle as they wished to be left alone in peace. The Pix who ran the ship agreed to help them.”
I looked at him in surprise and asked, “So are you a shape shifter?”
He grinned at me and replied, “Yes but I prefer the male form. I seem to recharge quicker if you know what I mean, in this form.”
I had a feeling I knew what he meant from what I had read, but I don’t remember having experienced the phenomenon. I also felt it would be better if he had a mages box. There were about twenty of them in the pigeon holes in the room where my box was located.
I took him to the room and asked him if any of the boxes glowed for him. When he picked the box that I had envisioned, I was pleased that I had this ability to pick who my people would be. Veldor had mentioned this in his diary, and my confidence in my new abilities increased.
I knew I really needed to have the other wizard’s box fixed, but I didn’t have the knowledge to do this, yet. I was also not in a hurry to have a life partner. The pain of losing Michael was still raw, even if I didn’t wish to acknowledge the dull ache I felt in my heart.
However, a willing slave to satisfy my magical lust was a different matter. I looked at the man and decided he would do to start with. I introduced myself to my first mage and consort, “By the way, my name is Crystal. What do I call you?”
“Collin is my given name,” he replied. He was distracted by the bling in the box.
It was a box designed for a high order mage. It had four gems and the crystal and was an Earth Mages box. I knew this bling corresponded to the type of magic my partner should have. So I hoped this solution would do for now.
I could see that Collin was pleased. Obviously obtaining this box meant a lot to him. I fleeting got the thoughts from him that it would give him the power to rule, as he believed, was his right.
Something about his sister, and her thinking that she held the power. He felt that with this box and he being the consort of the wizard that now controlled this area, he would take his rightful place. I wasn’t so sure if he could do it, but I’d reserve judgement.
Unbeknown to me at the time was the fact that the radiation from the ship had affected all of the magical items in the city. Much later I was to learn that the Keltrian people had suppressed their base desires like greed, hate and envy, over hundreds of thousands of years.
The entities that still resided in the magical items had lost the ability to detect and fully suppress these desires in the people that they agreed to serve. While the Keltrian races still held these desires, they had been greatly muted, and they had rarely acted upon them.
The desires to live in harmony and to help their fellows were the dominant desires in their psyche. The War and the return to a darker age that was survival orientated had dominated their existence in the last couple of thousand years. These factors had reawakened some of the base desires.
For most of the people, it wasn’t a real problem as the stronger desires and their entrenched societal beliefs kept them in check. They believed that by helping others, you bettered yourself. For some, like for humans, they could see a use for fulfilling the other desires that they now experienced more strongly. Collin, I was to learn, was such a person.
With my genetic and social makeup being different, I had no problem with looking out for myself and using whatever means was at my disposal to do so. My Veldor had picked up on my strong sense of self-preservation.
However, the effects of the radiation, his own grief, the desire for company and to protect the child I carried, he had overlooked my other faults and accepted me.
The mage’s box had picked up on Collin’s strong desire to rule, but it had also detected his belief that it was for the betterment of his people. So it had accepted him not realising the first desire had the potential to be stronger than the second did.
I helped Collin put on his bling and kissed him in congratulations. Collin wrapped his arms around me, and the kiss soon turned heated. We both had a serious itch to scratch.
He had slid his hand under my dress to find my bare flesh in his hand. He kneaded my arse as my hand sought out his cock. I pulled on the tie that held up his pants and soon had him in my hand. He moaned in delight as I gripped his cock and slid my hand up and down him.
My cunnie was burning with a need that he had inflamed, and I couldn’t think of anything else other than to put out the fire. To you, it may seem it had only been three weeks since I was raped by Brian. To me, the rape had happened so many times in my past, I had long since relegated the memory to the ‘I hate Brian room’ in my head and shut the door.
At that moment, I was more than happy with what I had found in Collin’s pants. He wasn’t huge, but he would be a nice fit. When he turned me and flipped the dress over my bare arse, I let him. He had his cock inside me only moments later. I was wet and ready, and he slipped in easily.
The relief of having him in me was profound. I bent so he could thrust deeper into me and scratch that damn itch I’d had for days. It was a fast and furious coupling as we let our desires for sexual relief consume us.
I held onto the shelf as he pumped into me. Collin had hold of my hips, and I could tell he was delighted to have his cock inside of me. I had little trouble taking his length and thickness. It felt so good, and he pumped hard into me on each stroke. My cunnie muscles rippled around his cock, and I could feel his desire to come intensify.
I moaned for him as my desire reached saturation and I spasmed on his cock. He had to come with me. I linked into his mind and claimed his body and soul. He was powerless to stop me.
He didn’t want to stop me either. He believed that I would help him fulfil his dreams and that by being my consort was a price he was more than happy to pay. He didn’t realise the true cost until much later.
The explosion of ecstasy in his brain surpassed any orgasm he had ever had, and he knew he would want me again and again. I was the drug and he the willing addict. We both felt the power of the magic fill us, and I knew that he craved it as much as he craved me.
He finally came down enough from his high to pull out of me. He stepped back from me and when I turned, I could see that he knew what I had done to him. I hugged him to me and said, “Thank you, Collin. I think we will do well together, yes?”
He could only nod into my breasts that pillowed his head as his ragged breaths were gotten under control as he hugged me back.
He would always be mine.
We spent most of the rest of the day in bed.
Hunger finally drove us to the kitchen. Collin soon learned that I couldn’t cook. He at least had rudimentary skills from hunting trips. I got a lesson on which animals some of the meat came from. Collin also pointed out which vegetables were often best served together.
Collin also knew how to make a type of damper similar to one I remembered eating from a holiday at a Cattle Station in the Northern Territory. I hadn’t appreciated how much I had missed bread until he placed the still steaming loaf on the table for us and smell assailed my nose.
We consumed a huge amount of food that evening. I couldn’t believe how hungry I was and the baby growing in me seemed to be content that it too was being fed. I’d not been eating a balanced diet, and the refuel did both of us a lot of good. I felt more balanced after the food and sex.
Collin mentioned that we needed a better cook than him. He had someone in mind if I’d like to meet her. I agreed and asked about the woman. Collin explained that she was a shifter like him but was often in female form.
She wasn’t half bad in bed either, and she liked fucking both sexes as a he, as he did. In male form, she was of similar build, but a little shorter. Her hair was a darker blue than his was and she wasn’t bad looking in either form. When as a he, she was also hung like a lanky, like him.
I had to chuckle at the last comment. Collin chuckled as well, and I picked up the thought that considering my appetite that it might not hurt if he got a little assistance. I mentally agreed with him.
Poor Collin had learnt that he wasn’t the only one with a strong sexual appetite. We had also realised that with me being a wizard and him just a mage, he may not always be able to satisfy me if I used a lot of magic. He was going to need help.
He knew that Alyn had strong magical abilities. She, however, didn’t have an ambitious bone in her body. Collin had detected her potential several weeks before. She hadn’t been in his mother’s kitchen for long and if he claimed her now before his mother realised what a prize she was, all the better.
The fact his sister had taken a bit of a fancy to Alyn was also a good reason to claim her for us. He felt that if I claimed Alyn as I had him, then all the better for both of us.
I smiled to myself. This newfound ability to read people’s surface thoughts was awesome. I agreed to go with him to town in the morning. It would now be safe for me to do so since I would have Collin with me.
I mentioned that I really needed some cleaning staff as well. Collin agreed with me on this score. He mentioned that I also needed to get the gardens sorted out and a new herd of animals for the Citadel to feed the staff I needed.
I asked Collin about the local monetary system and wondered if I had anything here that I could use to pay for what we needed. I got a feeling of happiness that Veldor projected when he could answer ‘yes’ to my thoughts.
We had worked out a simple system in the first week so I could communicate with him better. Sad meant ‘no’ and ‘confusion’ if he didn’t know. I knew Veldor was content with me having Collin.
Veldor had really enjoyed Collin’s and my lovemaking even if I didn’t feel love for Collin at this point. Veldor seemed a little less sad and more in tune with me. I could only consider this a good thing, and I was content.
I certainly did not intend to kick Collin out of my bed in any hurry. He had been able to satisfy me for the most part. I was interested in meeting the shifter that Collin had hinted would be an asset in the bed and my household.
I’d never done multi-partner sex before, but Collin indicated that with his kind it was common. If it helped me get my magical fix, I had a feeling I wasn’t going to object. I had worn poor Collin out.
We got up early the next morning and headed into town. Collin had helped me to dress to look the part, and we had been more than happy to raid the wardrobes full of clothes we’d found, to find better clothes for us.
Collin took great delight in introducing me to his mother, his sister and the council. He also made sure they damn well knew that I had accepted him and rewarded him. I got the impression from him that the look on his mothers and sisters faces was worth every drop of sweat that he had expended in satisfying me.
I picked up on his glee and the family’s horror. I was now glad that I had bonded him to me. I felt that I would need to keep an eye on my boy and not let him get too big for his britches. In time, he would become a powerful mage and a little tempering might not hurt him in the long run.
I learnt that he was at least five years older than I was and that he wouldn’t live as long as I could. While mages like him could live about a thousand years, apparently, I could live five times that. When Collin had dropped that little bomb on me, I had been in shock and was glad that I had been lying down at the time.
If anything, it had hardened my heart to him. I didn’t wish to contemplate losing another loved one and suffering as Veldor had. I would use Collin as long as it was in my interest to do so. I’d had a lot of practice in the past in how to use people and I felt I could keep him under my thumb.
I also realised that my pregnancy gave me time to assess him. He couldn’t impregnate me for some time. Winifred had written in her diaries that it could possibly take me three to five years after the birth of this child before I came into season again, as she called it. She had also mentioned that she could suppress the need to ovulate for longer if she felt that she needed to.
I took an instant liking to Alyn when Collin had introduced her to me. I asked Alyn if I could touch her and instantly knew that I had a box for her too. It was similar to Collin’s. I also detected that she was more level-headed than Collin was and would help me keep him check. I kissed Collin on the cheek and thanked him for his gift to me.
For Alyn’s part, I knew that she was more than happy to become our cook and bed partner. She had fallen in love with me on sight. She’d also known when I had touched her that I was pregnant and that it wasn’t Collin’s child.
The speculative look she sent Collin indicated that she had a feeling that Collin wasn’t going to like that. I picked from her thoughts that she might have to make sure that when Collin came into season that she did the deed.
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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...
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...
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...
Daniel grinned and savoured the bar he had. He found his thoughts drifting to wonder if Pip was as feisty in bed. He was surprised to find he was getting a massive hard-on thinking about her. He had to take a few deep breaths to try to control his reaction. He glanced at Pip and caught her looking away. He was darn sure that he knew where her eyes had been. To his consternation that only made him harder. She was having a decidedly unusual effect on him. He normally had pretty good control...