Amity 5 CataclysmChapter 27 Prophecy
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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 claimed Quin. She and Lindell also dropped kisses on my cheek before wandering off with Sarah.
Kim replaced my kids and cuddled into my lap. I rubbed his large tummy, and he groaned and snuggled into me. “Even ten weeks is too long,” he said.
“Well at least you’re only having one,” I told him.
“Did you have to knock us all up at the same time?” he groused.
I chuckled, “Don’t you like me having the only cock in the bedroom?” I asked.
He chuckled, “Damn, Bull. I bet Bron is still laughing.”
“That he is, that he is,” I replied and hugged Kim closer.
I looked out over the people assembled at our party. It was a bit daunting when you realised they were all magical people. We were having a Wizards day in Platinum City. Mikal and I, with a lot of other people’s input, had spent the time rebuilding the city as the Wizards Retreat and School.
It functioned as a small city, but the expanded citadel was set up a lot like Bron’s Retreat. We just had a lot more room to play with and a lot more wizards and magical people to accommodate. Amusingly enough it was used by all of the Queens, and the wizards and even Mikal had his own suit of rooms.
Here, we weren’t rulers, we were just people, we all insisted on it. The town’s people came to accept this was our principle holiday home as well as its other functions. We were all to be treated like any other customer in a store. We didn’t dress up fancy for day-to-day activities.
I looked over the throng and thought about my last entries into my diary. I got everyone to give me an account of the last seven months and just added them, as their summaries. You might like to read some of them, so I’ve included them here to finish this tale for now.
Who knows what the next year will bring.
AntStorm wanted me to summarise my time here so far.
Where do I start? I guess meeting my dad might be a good place. Seeing him as a woman certainly took me a few moments to get over, I can assure you. I must admit he gave Zena Warrior Princess a run for her money. He is a total babe, and I had a hard time reconciling that he was my dad.
Then there are Raina and Crystal my half-sisters. Seriously, my dad had created some smashing looking girls. Being told Crystal was 62 was a bit of hard swallow but then Davin had been over a thousand, so I just told her she looked pretty good for age.
Mikal was another. While I had got to know him on the wheelship, I was hard pressed to think he was fifty-seven when he looked younger than I did. He certainly didn’t act his age all of the time. But you did do as he asked. He had that ‘dad’s voice’ that you just had to obey.
As for Sage, Teal and Bonica, he sure gave them a workout. He was just as likely to screw all of them three times a day. From what they said, it was probably more often than even I managed with Celadon. The more magic he played with, the more often they got screwed. They didn’t seem to mind, as apparently, he made sure they enjoyed their time with him.
Then there is my Celadon. While I knew that Zara had made her for me, she still blows my mind. She has all of this knowledge, and yet, it is the oddest things that she doesn’t know. She is a constant wonder to me. Her devotion to me and her love for me are astounding. It didn’t take me too long to return them.
With Celadon, I feel complete. I’ve never had a lover like her. She can turn me on with a look and then she takes a lot of delight getting me turned back off again. When Mikal joined us on Zara and told Phil and I that we could shape change since we had shifters for lovers you could have knocked me over with a feather.
The first time I tried changing gender, I stood naked in front of a mirror and tried to think of what I’d look like as a girl. After my body blurred and the strange tingling stopped in my body, I couldn’t take my eyes off myself.
Then Celadon came in behind me. She changed, and her hands found my tits. But they didn’t feel like a woman’s hands. When her cock pressed into my arse, I was bit disconcerted, but then the sight and feel of my cunnie getting wet sent odd sensations through me.
After she turned me and kissed me, and then rubbed against me, I kinda forgot I was still mostly a bloke in my head and submitted to her attentions. When her fingers slid inside my cunnie, the new sensations were very intense. I don’t think I’ll ever forget her taking me to heaven as a woman that first time.
I now know why the shifters here tend to use spouse rather than husband and wife. When you can be either gender the same as your partner, there is no distinction. You are just two people who love each other. I love making love to Celadon in both our genders as we both to enjoy the different sensations created.
I still have moments when I miss things from my old life, but here I have a life that is so different there is no comparison. For one thing, I have learnt that I love sailing as much as I loved flying through space. For a second, being a wizard is seriously awesome.
When I touched that Captain dude and his bling deserted him, I was astounded. Mikal had told me that if bling finds a better candidate, it could desert its current owner. I had to put a spell on the poor bastard to render him unconscious. He was screaming as if someone was thrusting a hundred knives into him.
All those hours with Mikal and the others teaching Phil and I magic had been well worthwhile. Mikal was a very patient teacher, and we all learnt a lot more from him than I think I even realised. Even Davin for his age and experience was delighted to have Mikal as our teacher.
Anyway, after we had sorted out the ship and I went to pick up the wizard’s box to take to dad, the bloody box opened and my bling disappeared. So I became a wizard. Celadon made sure she touched the Captain that had my apprentice’s box and had no compunction claiming it as hers.
Kerri and Angel were the funny ones. They took turns touching the other apprentice wizard and Angel was delighted when his box chose her. She sure didn’t waste any time in claiming poor Luke either. The bloke is totally besotted by her.
Nile, Mikal’s son who is still on Zara, had told me the twins were enough to wear even a wizard out. Luke still walks around dazed after Angel has been with him. If Storm wanted Luke kept on the straight and narrow, he couldn’t have picked better than Angel to keep tabs on him.
Asking Luke to do anything that Angel wouldn’t approval was like asking the moon to land on Amity. I wouldn’t call him pussy-whipped, but he does take dad’s faith in him very seriously too. We were all delighted when we felt the change in Queens.
I like my nephew well enough, but it just felt right to have my Dad as the Regent of our decad. I know Luke had already pledged his loyalty to my dad. Dad had believed there was enough good in Luke to trust him and Luke plans never to break that trust. I’m sure he had a crush on Dad.
I still have to laugh about my dad sitting beside Luke on the ship he had just wrecked and sharing a reefer with him. I know it’s one of Luke’s fondest memories. I have got to give it to dad; he sure knows how to get into the psyche of a person. He won Luke over there and then and he knew it.
Caledon and I spent three months with Luke and Angel, and then we moved to Tree Isle. Phil laughed so hard he cried when I told him where I was moving too. He thought it was poetic that a Nature Wizard lived on an island called Tree Isle.
He jokingly said we should name it Ant Island and now everyone calls it that, so I guess it has stuck. Andy, the bloke, who rules Weston, said the island’s name has even changed on their map. King Andy, by the way, is now part of Kim’s decad, and we get on great with him. Queen Mary who rules Lime Island also joined Kim’s decade as did Olivia, who rules the continent, Orient.
Matte has settled in the Nut Islands with Kerri, and the other newest members to our decad are a Captain Robert Keel, and his friend Captain Rick Strong, who is his apprentice. Robert married Kale’s sister, Sarina and Rick married Lord Hugo’s niece, Jane, so it seems somehow some way, we are all interrelated. They have settled on Boot Island.
They were perfectly happy to change operations to become part of the Navy like the rest of our decad. We wizards spend more time looking after the logistics, but we like to get out and do a bit of patrolling now and again.
We don’t have the level of pirates or slavers that we once had, but we still catch the odd one. We spend as much time helping ships, which have run into storms or some other grief as much as anything else we do these days. At least it keeps us busy.
To be honest, I love my life here. I have an entire island to explore and find new plants and animals on; it’s a long-term project for me. Celadon has given me a little girl and told me I get to have the next one. I have a sneaky feeling she isn’t joking either.
It’s a bit of a wild concept to get into my head but then seeing my dad pregnant was a bit of reality check for me. I have thought of going back to Earth, but it holds nothing for me anymore. I know I have kids there, but they have long since grown up, and I was never really part of their lives.
Ask me in a year or so, and I might change my mind, but for right now, this is my home.
PhilDad asked me to write about my time here so far.
I’m not really sure what to say. My life has changed so much in the last year. One of the saddest things is that my Anne is gone. Lee called me up about six months ago and told me.
Apparently, after Ant and I disappeared she quit and stayed home to have my daughter. Mary-J is now forty-one and is soon to become a grandmother herself. She and her family were on one of the first migration ships to the new planet Terra.
Anne had died ten years before from cancer in her bones. She apparently went back to flying and even lived on the Moon for a time. She did marry again but had no more children. Like Ant, I didn’t have anything to do with my other kids, and I agree that we would be a disruption in their lives at this point.
The men who had fathered them weren’t the same men anymore. Since we are now shifters and magicians, I doubt that we could fit back in on Earth. While they know about people like us, I’m not sure I would be comfortable there.
Cyan would also be a problem. She doesn’t look like a regular earth woman. Personally, I find her fascinating. Every morning that I wake and find her beside me is a blessing as far as I’m concerned. She isn’t Anne, but that too is a good thing.
Cyan doesn’t pretend to be anyone but herself. Each day she digs further and further into my heart. It may read a little heartless but the day Lee told me about Anne, I cried and cried. I then tucked her in a special place and finally allowed Cyan have the rest of my heart.
Lee has allowed me to get past my guilt of leaving Anne and finding another to love. I suspect Zara knew that Anne would not be alive when she brought Ant and me to this time. I believe she also didn’t tell me, as she knew that I did need to hold onto a little hope.
Cyan and I are now very happy, and when she presented me with my twin daughters two months ago, I knew I had room in my heart for a few more people to love. I had to chuckle when Dad turned up with two of the biggest, brightest blue Koala’s I have ever seen. Cyan though they were wonderful.
I told her that one day I’d take her to Earth so she could see them for herself. Dad chuckled and told me to just go visit Ant, as he got the real ones. This cracked me up, and I had to call Ant. He was over the moon because Storm had given him eight of them. His island had eucalyptus trees, and he planned to section off a piece of land for them.
I asked dad who got the kangaroos, and he said, Daniel. He’d monitor them and make sure they didn’t become a pest. He had given him reds, greys and rock wallabies.
“What about the platypuses?” I asked wondering what dad would come up with.
“Crystal wanted them. Apparently, she has always had a fascination with them and so has Mikal. They even said they had some perfect homes for them,” Dad told me with glee.
I could see he was delighted with his odd gifts. Just to stir, I said, “So where are my echidnae?”
“Damn, I knew I forgot something,” he said. He blinked and then blinked back moments later. He handed me a crate. Inside were eight balls of spines. I looked at him flabbergasted.
“I’m sure you’ll find somewhere for them to live. Oh, you may wish to get these established. Just be aware that they will spread.” He then handed me six containers with small ant colonies in them. “I have it on good authority that this variety is the least invasive. They do have a problem here with vegetation break down being slow, so they shouldn’t cause any real difficulty.”
“These little guys once you let them loose will keep the ants in check. In the meantime, just feed them ground up camla or longhorn meat, and they should like yoghurt made from camla milk. Mix in a few ants when you can and give it a year or so, and you can let these little fellows loose,” he told me.
“So what did you pick?” I had to ask.
“Oh I went for something easier to look after, I picked Kookaburras. I love the sound they make, and there is more than enough local wildlife that they can eat so they can feed themselves,” he told me.
I had to laugh, Dad was so practical, it astounded me. The fact that Cyan and I were busy setting up Amber City also wasn’t lost on me. The chunk of land it was located on would mean it would take the ants a long time to spread over the rest of Federation.
I might have a problem with catalo’s trying to eat the echidnae, but they were good at protecting themselves and not fast breeders. Like the others, who had received dad’s gifts, I’d just have to monitor them once they were set loose.
Ben, Raina, Kelli, Bonica and David all decided to stay native since they were already raising wyverns. Crystal had to tell her wyverns to leave her platypuses alone. Wyverns will eat just about anything that moves, and they were excellent at fishing.
I was amused the day Crystal turned up with a girl in her arms, and handed her to Kale and said Gia was his problem and disappeared again. Raina chuckled and reminded him of dumping Pip on dad’s doorstep. The poor thing was very confused when she woke up.
Crystal had said she had lost part of her memory and that she was Luke’s niece and a Paragon. She became Kale’s shadow. When he started teaching her to heal, she took to it like a duck to water. She also did her best to seduce him, and she worked on Selene too.
It took her a month, but she did end up breaking him down, and we all knew when she became their consort. It didn’t take a rocket scientist like me to work out that she was madly in love with Kale. I think the fact that Kale made her work for his love, did her more good than harm.
He didn’t let her change him in that Kale had made a place for her in their lives, and she had to stay within the boundaries he had set. I observed that Kale didn’t bend to her will too often and that was a good thing too. He and Selene gave her the love that she required, and she thrived once she knew that they did love her.
When Raina asked if Cyan and I wanted to go check out Amber City and see what was required to make it habitable, I loved the idea. Kale and Selene also decided to join us. Kale taught me how to activate a controller, and we soon had the shield up and running again.
I was amused when Gia took an interest in the shuttles I found. I was working at getting one going, and she wanted to know everything. I took her on a flight once we had it fixed and found myself teaching her how to fly it. She was a natural.
We had all worked out that she had an insatiable need for information so we all had to spend time with her to teach her whatever she wanted to know. Even a small amount of praise went a long way to keep her happy. Her confidence in herself grew by leaps and bounds, and she became very handy to have around.
In the six months we have been in Amber City, it has grown substantially. The fact it provided a Deepwater Port at the opening of the Slit was also an advantage. A lot of large cargo vessels berthed with us and smaller ones then ferried their goods down the Slit to various smaller ports.
We also had agents set up here, so the smaller vessels brought goods to us, which were then sold on to the companies who owned the big ships. Amusingly, Gia took over the running of the port. She said she could smell a pirate from fifty metres. She just seemed to know what was needed where and how to make the Port run efficiently.
We four wizards decided to monitor, but otherwise, we let her loose. When I look at Gia today, I find I’m as proud of her as Kale and Selene are. She has matured a lot and come into her own. The one thing that hasn’t changed is that she is still very much in love with Kale. I know she loves Selene too, but not with the same intensity.
I know it’s a possibility that Cyan and I could end up with others in our relationship, but so far we are happy with things the way they are.
DanielConner City was a delight.
Not only did it have working androids but it also had a controller. Inka said that she was very young when the Wizards’ War happened. She was lucky and hadn’t been hit by any of the meteors. She had also been under construction.
The Gold Wizard had been having her constructed for one of his sons. She only had a small human workforce here when the war started getting serious. When they heard about the fighting in Golden City, they went home as they had family and friends there.
Some of them were planning on getting their families and coming back but none actually did, so she and her androids just kept working and waiting. Sometimes shipwrecked sailorshad lived with her for a while, but they had either later left or died.
Some magical people had tried to enter her harbour from time to time but the mages who were buildering the city were fearful of corrupted people coming here, so they had put extra protections on her shields.
She told me there were several small villages down the coast, but she doubted that they even knew she was here as her shield hid her from non-magical people. She wasn’t a large city as far as the buildings went, as they had planned it out for about ten thousand inhabitants. I suspected she would have been expanded as time went on and her population grew.
Conner City was located beside a lovely deep harbour and a short peninsular on the south side had a beautiful beach for swimming. The Citadel was actually cut into the end of a low mountain range that ran back to the south-west. On the other side of the wide harbour was a range that ran all the way across and split Aurum from Saran.
The city had been constructed in the valley around the wide river that ran from the south of west, and there were kilometres of land suitable for farming. Inka’s shields covered a 30km area, and she operated both copper and silver mines.
Her androids found enough small iron deposits and other base minerals that the recyclers were able to reclaim sufficient to keep the place in good repair. She was short of alumina if I wished to acquire her some. The androids had also found quite a few precious gems, but they hadn’t mined many of them, mostly only the quartz when she needed it and any others if a specific mineral was required.
They had maintained the gardens and farms, which were considered to be the minimum required for the expected population. When we observed her stockpiles, Pip, Sage and I were surprised by what we had to play with. Even the citadel was ready to move into, as were most of the other buildings.
For us the weather was the decider; it was glorious. Sage and I both had to chuckle when Pip also pointed out the mountain would be perfect for providing good thermals so we could go flying. Pip had shown Sage her scary side before I got her pregnant. Sage said she was the most beautiful dragon she had ever seen.
Personally, I think they were both beautiful in their dragon forms. I wonder if getting Pip pregnant while we in that form would make a difference to our kids. I might have to ask Lee to ask Drako for me when I next talked to her.
I chuckled and replied, “Hey Pip, do you think Sable, Teal and Laci would like to come flying with us after you lot all have your babies?”
Pip said, “After some of the stories he and Bron told us, I would say that is a definite yes. Sable might even be able to teach us how to do it better.”
“Hey, I was taught by a real dragon,” I retorted.
“Then maybe you need to get the dragon to come and teach us,” she said smugly.
I looked around and knew that the dragons would love it here. They could handle a little bit of cool weather. JJ had said that no one lived to the west of us and there was an abundance of animals to feed a small clan. It was something to think about.
One other great find was the six shuttles. Sage was able to fly one, so I had her follow us home when we left. We told Inka that we would be back. I made sure she could communicate with JJ and Ardra, Titan City’s controller. We then headed home.
I took great delight in promoting Dale to be my Lord Wizard and telling him what I had planned. Since it was spring, I wanted him to organise a meeting of the Doyens from Jindal, the other large towns on the west coast and the Nomad Clans. They were also to bring anyone whom they believed had magical abilities to a meeting here, in four weeks’ time.
Sage agreed to be the pilot and she would take Dale and Carlos with her. She was to teach Carlos to fly. I’d try and find a few people to teach how to fly in the meantime. When I whispered to her that she was free to follow her heart while she was away and to give Dale a chance to get to know her, she gave me an odd look.
Pip also looked at me oddly after they left, “What was that about?” she had to ask me.
“Dale needs an apprentice,” I said.
Her eyes went wide, and she scolded me. “Seriously? Daniel, I’m surprised at you leading poor Sage on like that.”
“No, I didn’t. If you remember, I told her if you were happy for her to join us in mutual satisfaction then I was happy too. I didn’t promise anything Pip. Have you once heard me tell her that I love her or have I once initiated contact other than holding her hand when she was with us?”
Pip frowned at me as she though. “No, you haven’t. But I thought you wanted her to join us? That’s why I agreed.”
“Pip, you know I have no issues with multiple partners. To be honest with you, I’m not sure we are ready for a permanent third person. If anything, I thought that since you liked Sage you might be ready for some experimentation that was all.”
“My Love, I won’t push you into any situation that you are uncomfortable with. In case you didn’t notice, I’ve let you or her lead, and I simply did whatever you two wish me to,” I told her.
Pip gave me an odd look then shook her head. “Wow, you are really devious. You did that just so I didn’t feel guilty about finding out what you find appealing about multiple partners?”
I grinned at her and pulled her into my arms. “So did you discover what I found appealing about multiple partners?”
“Hum, I think I did. We did have fun, didn’t we? Sage was a good lover, but I don’t love her like I love you,” she told me.
“I didn’t expect you too. But she was an excellent teacher for you. Your dad and Zara had taught her well,” I said.
“Yeah, I think that might have been part of the problem, knowing she had been dad’s lover first. I know she made out with Teal and Bonica too, but still,” she said.
I chuckled and then kissed her. I had guessed what her problem was. Once we became involved with each other, Pip had let her inhabitations slide in her desire to learn but I knew that although we’d had a lot of fun, Sage wasn’t meant for us.
I was sure Sage had also started to work it out too. She had just been surprised that I was pointing to Dale. It would be interesting to see what transpired. I hope that she does give him a chance, as I felt she would be really good for him.
He had certainly found her appealing and had no argument about going off with her. I grinned. “What has that devious mind come up with now? Pip said.
“Carlos, he would make a great Shield Mage,” I said.
Pip just shook her head and blinked me to our room. I had no problems with meeting with her requests and it was all the sweeter for it just being us. Pip made love to me as if I was the only person in the world that she cared about.
As I hugged her to me afterwards, I knew that we would find others, but just not yet. We’d had fun with Sage and we had both learned what we needed to learn from the experience. I think the fact that I had found someone who loved me, for being just me, was still too new to me.
I wasn’t any more ready to share Pip on a permeant basis than she was ready to share me. Plus I had finally gotten her pregnant, and we had our first, oh dear, Pip is going to kill me when she finds out. “Honey, how many kids do want?” I asked her tentatively.
Pip started giggling, and then it turned into a full belly laugh and tears were rolling down her cheeks. She finally settled into little hic-giggles and got out, “So you finally decided to check?”
“Sweetie, triplets are like, Wow! The only person I’ve known to have triplets was a Faerie Queen, and she needed the dragons to help her.”
“True, but Lee said Sparky’s problem was heavy gravity. My dad is from a heavy gravity world, and Amity has a lighter gravity like Harmony, so she thinks I’ll just eat everything in sight for the next eight weeks. She also said that if they fussed about who was going first, you could encourage them to behave nicely,” Pip said.
“When did you talk to Lee?” I asked.
“When you were off battling pirates. Greta told me I was having triplets. She knows these things. She said they weren’t identical either. She said you must have really got my hormones in a tizzy for me to release so many eggs.”
“Dragons commonly release three eggs,” I said without really thinking. That cracked Pip up and me too, as we remembered what we did that night. I realised I no longer needed to ask Drako what the side effects were of impregnating a dragon lady when she was in season.
“Wow, talk about instant family, my mum is going to be chuffed,” I told Pip.
“Well she has her own on the way, so a family party is going to be interesting in the future,” she replied.
I chuckled and reminded her just how big our family was when you added in the aunts, uncles, cousins and in-laws. Pip’s eyes went wide and glistened with tears, “We are so lucky aren’t we?”
“Yes, my love, neither of us is alone anymore,” I told her.
“I’ll never be alone as long as I have you, my love,” Pip told me.
That kinda choked me up, and I found I had to express my love for her again.
The next four weeks were busy. We told the locals that we were moving down the coast and they would have Dale as their Lord wizard. I explained about my idea of trying to find wizards for the main factions and that I was investigating developing low flying vehicles so they could trade better across the nation.
I told them about the new Queens, that Pip’s dad was our new Emperor, and how the changes would affect things. For the locals, Mikal probably didn’t mean much but the fact that I was now their Regent and they had their own Lord Wizard was more important.
I asked people to tell me if they wished to move, and mentioned a few of the jobs that I needed filling. Pip set up interviews for finding some people to look after our new citadel and people wanting to learn to fly.
Some of this was made easier by the fact we got a sudden influx of people who wished to move to the city. Mikal had contacted me and told me what he and Crystal had done to Dolton. He mentioned that as they were leaving, he found out about a camp that Dolton had set up and the people he had been collecting to form an army.
Pip and I flew out to the camp and found a sorry collection of people. It took us three days to just get the drugs out of their systems and remove the residual effects of spells, which Dolton had on them and any magical items they wore.
We did have to cuff a few bad apples, but for the most part, half of them didn’t even know what they were doing, they were so drugged up. The five blokes Mikal had put in charge of berry disposal soon found themselves with a lot of volunteers. Ricardo, the new Temporary Mayor, actually proved to be a godsend.
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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’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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
She followed him outside, still thinking. She had always felt that she wasn’t like ordinary people. That something in her made her different to them. She wondered if that was why her people had rejected her and sent her to the Mothers Cave. She looked at Daniel in surprise. She told him, “That’s what it was about the cave and the idols. When they wished to send someone back to the Mother Goddess, they would put an idol in the cave to collect their soul and then push them down that...