The Runesmith Chronicles Oni and the FarmerChapter 21
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Welcome back everyone to the last chapter of The Runesmith Chronicles: Oni and the Farmer!
I’m still having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that I have written a book ... gotta say, it feels pretty damn good. I should start posting chapters for book two in a few weeks as I’m still working on outlining and planning right now. Just want to say thank you all for coming along on this wild ride with me!
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Edited by: Old Fart
Ikuno, Perra, and a slightly pregnant looking Aradelle all stared off to the west expectantly, each one almost vibrating with excitement. Kal smiled at the women, hardly able to blame them. It had been only a couple of days ago that he had made a mad dash, with Gerda’s help, to the northern side of the mountain range then ran full tilt off to the east, towards Bea’s nest. Arriving a short while later at what looked like a gigantic off-white cocoon laid over on its side and stretched between two large oak trees.
Kal had assumed at first that she had an arachne construct it for her and was surprised to find that the silk the butterfly’s home was built with had come from Bea. While showing him the tiny spot just below her tailbone where her silk was produced, she explained that butterfly girls were backwards from their smaller cousins and were unable to make silk until just before they became an adult. Kal reasoned that giving the ability to an adult butterfly girl, rather than a human-like baby who is unable to take care of itself, must have made more sense to the monster girl’s creator when he was designing them.
Seeing the yellowish-white silk cocoon outside, Kal hadn’t expected the inside to have smooth clay walls and floor. Upon closer inspection Kal noticed that the clay was pressed into the silk of the cocoon, holding it in place along with giving her a means of displaying the variety of trinkets Bea had collected over the years. The clay only went partway up the sides of the cocoon, leaving bare silk for the ceiling. When the sun shone down through the trees and struck the top of her home it made the gossamer material glow on the inside, giving Bea a light source besides that filtering in from the entrance.
Bea’s nest was sparse aside from her knick-knacks in the walls. Since she went out and collected her food daily and didn’t wear clothing, she had no need for storage or a place to prepare meals. This left her only requiring a bed which was placed at the very back of her home. Kal quickly discovered that a bed made entirely of silk was extraordinarily comfortable.
He also learned during one of his visits that there was a magical component to Bea’s dust. After a vigorous bout of lovemaking, they both dozed off only for Kal to be awakened by getting smacked in the face with one of Bea’s wings. Sitting bolt upright, and covered in the dust from her wings, he waited for the telltale erection and swelling in his scrotum. When the expected reaction never came he excitedly collected some of the dust directly from a very satisfied Bea into a vial. He then dipped a finger in and touched it to his tongue, no reaction. Kal then pushed some magic into the dust, much as he would one of Ikuno’s potions, and tested the dust once again. Luckily for him, Bea was more than willing to help him with the discomforts of her natural aphrodisiac for the next half hour.
After the end of his rush to her house a few days ago Kal had found Bea on her knees in front of her egg as it rocked back and forth, held in place by Bea’s silk, as she encouragingly called out to her daughter. Kal was honestly alarmed. He had helped with a couple of deliveries back in Telsin by this point and knew that a newborn should not have the kind of strength needed to rock the egg in such a manner. Once it finally split along one of the eight ridges, Bea pounced on it like a cat on a mouse, frantically stripping away the rest of the shell before gently lifting her daughter to her breast for her first meal. Kal was shocked by the size of his newest little girl. Despite only two months inside Bea and a month in her egg, the young butterfly girl was closer in size to a human eight-month-old.
Now it was time for his newest daughter to meet the rest of the family, except Gerda and Bas. Bas lived too far away to make it in time and Gerda couldn’t be convinced to be away from the safety of solid stone for their little get-together. However, she was as close as she could comfortably get, even if it was nearly a hundred paces straight down.
There was a collective gasp from the girls as Bea came flitting over the treetops holding a small bundle wrapped in a blanket of gold-tinted white silk. She landed in front of Kal and after a quick kiss handed their daughter to him. “She just ate so she might be a little sleepy,” said Bea.
Turning around, he smiled at the women. “I’d like to introduce you to mine and Bea’s daughter, Adalena.”
“Named by her father,” interrupted Bea with a huge grin.
Kal smiled at her before turning back to the others, “Since Aradelle told me that Bea and her smaller cousins are often the first ones she sees after winter I did some studying and came up with Adalena. Ada – first. Lena – butterfly.”
“Good job, Kal,” Perra deadpanned, “now gimmie,” she said holding out her hands and largely ignoring Kal.
Kal shook his head and clicked his tongue at the girl, “Aradelle first, she has something for Bea,” he said nodding at the alarune’s slightly swollen belly.
“Sorry Perra,” said Bea, “butterfly girls don’t leave their eggs once laid. I haven’t eaten for a month except for what Kal has given me.” Kal blushed bright red as he handed the little bundle over to Aradelle. ‘Dell only held her for a few seconds before a couple of her vines came up and made a cradle beneath Adalena then carried her over the side of her bulb so all of the girls could gush over the baby. Kal noted that Ikuno magically dulled her claws before touching the tiny butterfly girl.
True to Bea’s description Adalena looked very much like a human baby that had a slight tint to her skin that made it look like she was constantly in shadow. Two light orange streaks started at the top of her head and ran down her back though at the moment they could just barely be seen through her sparse hair. Bea had also been correct about Adalena being sleepy after having her belly filled, even with all the commotion she didn’t open her eyes until Perra ran her finger across the little girl’s cheek.
Perra gasped, “Kal! She has your eyes!”
Bea had come up beside Kal and was resting her head on his shoulder radiating pride as the girls fawned over her daughter. At Perra’s comment, she lifted her head and smiled. “She won’t get these until she spins her cocoon and comes out as a butterfly,” she said tapping her face beside her eye.
After a couple of minutes, Aradelle passed off Adalena to Perra and beckoned the new mother over.
“Oh, thank goodness,” he heard the butterfly girl whisper as she kissed Kal on the cheek and walked over to the alarune’s side. Kal was well aware of how Bea usually got nectar and was mildly thankful when instead of presenting her sex to the butterfly, Aradelle leaned over and kissed her. Such activities would have seemed hardly appropriate with Perra and Ikuno making a fuss over Adalena right next to them. A few seconds later, as the kiss went on, Kal noticed Bea’s throat moving as though she was drinking. A quick flash of disgust ran through his head as he thought of a baby bird being fed but he quickly pushed it away with the knowledge that the body of ‘Dell’s avatar didn’t work like that. It also helped that he had been the one to ask Aradelle to store up some nectar at Bea’s request. This saved her from visiting other alarunes to replenish herself now that Adalena was born.
Bea’s bodice clicked and moved to the side as her stomach expanded from what Aradelle was feeding her. A few seconds later they broke the kiss and Bea leaned her forehead against ‘Dell’s. “Thank you so much,” she said, then looked down at her body. “Dammit, I just got my boobs small enough to close that last time she ate.”
There was a general chuckle of amusement until a sound like grinding rocks came from behind Kal.
“Can ... I ... hold ... her?” came Gerda’s voice in the halting monotone of the translation spell.
“Gah!” cried out Perra her hand diving for the belt pouch that held her earpiece. Kal’s hand did the same but instead of putting it on he went over to where Bea was cringing from the sound of the golem’s voice.
Once the initial shock of Gerda’s appearance had worn off Perra quickly ran over and wrapped the golem in a hug. “Gerda! I’m so happy you came up!” Kal followed with his own hug and kiss for the golem for which he got a new earpiece in return, she had made a couple of extras for Bea and Aradelle when she decided to show herself.
A moment later Bea walked over and put her arms around the golem, “I’m so happy to finally meet you. Of course, you can hold Adalena. Though you might have to wrestle Ikuno for the privilege.”
“Hey now! I’m not that bad!” said the oni indignantly. “No wrestling while holding the baby but it will cost you a hug,” she said shifting Adalena to one side and holding out the other arm.
Gerda held up a finger asking the Oni to wait while she went over and presented the other earpiece to Aradelle.
The alarune smiled, “Thank you, Gerda, but I don’t need that. I hear through vibrations in my vines and I’m guessing that since some of my vines are underground it’s acting like one of those earpieces.” She glided forward and wrapped her arms around the golem, “Like Bea, I’m very happy to finally meet you and I want you to know that there are few places safer for you on the surface than right here. Feel free to relax a little.”
Gerda took a deep breath, which seemed odd to Kal since she didn’t need to breathe, and nodded in understanding. Smiling, and looking about as relaxed as Kal had ever seen her on the surface, she made her way over to Ikuno, “A hug for a baby? Seems kind of unfair.”
Ikuno raised an eyebrow, “A hug and a kiss?”
“Do I get to choose where you kiss me?” the golem said with a smirk.
Perra gasped at Gerda’s comment while Kal covered his mouth in an attempt to keep from laughing at the look on the oni’s face. This was surely a sign of Bas’s influence on the younger golem.
Unfortunately for Gerda, she was still new at this kind of banter and quickly realized it when Ikuno’s face went from shocked to predatory. “Anywhere you want, and I won’t stop until you tell me to,” said Ikuno, eyeing up the rock girl like a fresh piece of meat. “Hell, if I like it enough I might not stop even if you do.”
Kal figured it was time for a rescue as Gerda blushed furiously and her mouth worked to form a response, but no sound came out. “Let’s stick with a hug and a kiss on the cheek for now,” he said. “You two can figure out any other kissing games when there aren’t any children around.”
Gerda looked over at Kal and blushed again, fully realizing that he was saving her. Nodding at Kal she gave the oni a hug and a chaste kiss on the cheek before Ikuno handed over Adalena with a warning to be careful of her strength, the predatory look from moments ago was nowhere to be seen.
Sadly, Adalena was not a fan of the golem’s voice and immediately began fussing even though Gerda hadn’t said anything since taking her. Bea approached with the intention of rescuing the golem for a second time but Gerda held up a finger, “Wait, Bas showed me something,” she tried to whisper but to no avail, the little butterfly girl just became more agitated.
Gerda closed her eyes for a moment and two rows of extremely thin plates grew out of her back, the largest about the size of Kal’s head and getting smaller as they went along. A strange hum began coming from the thin sheets of rock before some of them died away while others started to vibrate in sequence. The tones quickly found a rhythm and soon a calming melody was coming from the plates.
There was something frustratingly familiar about the tune but Kal wasn’t able to place it, from the look on Perra’s face she was having the same issue.
“It’s a lullaby, you two,” said Ikuno, reading the looks on their faces. “Popular probably a hundred and fift...”
“Shhh...” shushed Aradelle as she laid on one of her petals. “If this is how she sings, it’s beautiful. The history lesson can wait.”
The most important member of Gerda’s audience seemed to approve as she looked up in wonder at the golem. Gradually, Adalena’s eyelids started to droop and drifted closed over the next few minutes.
As the music came to an end and the plates sunk into Gerda’s back, Bea stepped up and took her sleeping daughter from the golem, “Aradelle was right, that was beautiful Gerda. Thank you.”
Gerda just nodded instead of speaking, tears running down her face from the intense happiness she was feeling at that moment.
While things are on a high note,” Ikuno said quietly, snickering at her own pun and giving meaningful looks to Kal and Perra. “There’s another reason we are all here.”
Perra took a couple of deep breaths to steady her nerves before looking at Kal.
“Are you sure you want this?” asked Kal. “It’s your last chance to back out.”
She knew he was trying to be gallant, but he couldn’t have picked a worse thing to say as images of Ikuno nearly in tears on the front steps of the farmhouse flashed through her head. Steadying herself she nodded.
Standing in front of Aradelle, Kal and Perra faced each other and held hands. Gerda and Bea, with Adalena, stood just behind Kal while Ikuno got to her feet and took up a similar position behind Perra. The young woman was trying valiantly to control her breathing, somehow this seemed far scarier than the thought of losing her virginity had been. Then again, she and Kal hadn’t had an audience either.
“Remember what I told you?” Ikuno asked her. Perra nodded, not trusting her voice at that moment.
Perra collected all of her thoughts about Kal, from the annoying yet endearing things he did to all of the ways he seemed to prove over and over that he was just trying to be a good person. On top of all this was her desire to be his, fully understanding that he would likely never be hers alone. Doing as Ikuno had instructed she imagined herself pulling energy out of the small crystal in the pendant and mixing it with those feelings. Her body and mind both seemed to tingle as she truly touched magic for the first time. After wearing the jewel for so long, the sensation felt curiously familiar.
A look of shock appeared on Kal’s face as she pushed her magically infused thoughts and desires into the air between them. Perra smiled and nearly lost her concentration, a part of her was just as surprised. Ikuno had talked her through how this could possibly work, but even the oni was unsure of success since she was using the power of her necklace instead of her own.
Kal looked into her eyes, “I accept.”
Perra wasn’t sure exactly how to explain the difference between now and a few minutes ago aside from their connection felt far deeper than it had with just the pendant. Any doubts about how Kal felt about her vanished as she saw herself for the first time through his eyes. As she adjusted to hearing someone else in her mind, she began to feel the thoughts of the other girls filtering through, something that had never happened before with the necklace alone. Taking a moment to focus on each of the women she was able to see how much Kal cared for them.
“Nosey, aren’t you?” he asked, smiling.
Perra’s head snapped up from where she had been looking at the ground in concentration.
Behind her, Ikuno frowned, “She shouldn’t be able to dig very deep through the bond like that.”
“I don’t think it’s through the bond. I think it’s through this,” said Kal, releasing her hand and running a finger over the pendant. “They feel different, I think the bond is giving her the map and she’s using the moonstone to follow it.”
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean...” Perra stammered.
Kal smiled, “Don’t worry about it. We weren’t expecting this to work the first time, yet here we are. Let’s just be happy about that, shall we?”
Perra finally looked around and saw Gerda and Bea grinning from ear to ear while Aradelle bounced around happily within her flower acting like she was clapping while her hands never actually touched. The alarune’s antics confused her for a moment until she remembered that Adalena was still sleeping.
Large blue arms wrapped around her from behind, “Welcome.”
After some time sitting around and chatting Bea announced that it was about time for Adalena’s next meal and made her way home after dragging a promise of coming to see her soon out of Kal. Perra blushed bright red as she caught an image of Adalena sleeping followed by touching Kal’s tongue with a tiny bit of dust, then Bea looking pregnant, licking her lips, and feeling satisfied. Checking on the other girls she could tell that they were all feeling rather amorous. The young woman wondered for a moment how on earth Kal didn’t walk around hard all the time with the constant thoughts of sex running through the girl’s minds. A very strong thought suddenly came from Ikuno of having her tongue buried firmly in a woman’s orgasming sex then looking up to see Perra’s face in the throes of ecstasy.
The girl quickly pulled her thoughts back.
“You’re going too deep, dear,” Ikuno’s tone wasn’t chastising despite that being exactly what Perra had expected. “Kal can go as deep as you just did, even deeper with Bea and I, to my knowledge he never has, out of respect for our privacy.”
“Sorry, it’s just so easy to get lost in everyone else’s feelings. However, in my defense, Bea was broadcasting pretty strongly.”
“Fair enough. To be honest, I felt that one a little bit too,” said the oni rubbing a hand over her stomach.
Gerda was the next to leave. After taking a moment to find a spot without many of Aradelle’s roots or underground vines she peeled back a bit of the topsoil and stepped into the hole she had made waving goodbye as she slowly sank into the earth. When she had disappeared, two of Aradelle’s vines emerged and put the chunk of soil back, patting it into place before vanishing beneath the ground again.
The day was getting late when Kal and Perra finally left. Ikuno stayed behind saying she wanted to spend some alone time with Aradelle but to leave out her bedroll when they got back to the shack.
Kal called Ria and had her retrieve everyone’s sleeping mats, then promptly got attacked by Perra as soon as they had something besides dirt to put their backs on. The monster girls’ almost constant thoughts of sex had the young human in a state that bordered on desperation.
Since no one had remembered to dismiss her, Ria made her body fade as much as possible and enjoyed the show the young lovers were putting on with a hand buried between her legs.
“You’d better watch yourself Lady Perra, a few more performances like that and Tanner will be calling on you to take Kal’s spot on the council,” said Lady Nina as they left the blacksmith’s shop. Since there was no town hall, each of the council members hosted meetings in their house or had the option of renting a room at the inn, out of their own pocket of course. This time it had been the blacksmith’s turn to host and Perra felt like she was covered in a layer of sweat, soot, and steel. She briefly wondered if Bonn would be up for a ride out to Ikuno’s to use her fancy bathhouse.
“It’s not like I suggested anything amazing. With harvest time on the horizon, it just seemed to make sense to take the crops from a few fields and set them aside, instead of having everyone weigh their crops then take out the King’s portion.”
“You’d be correct, it’s not amazing. In fact, it has been suggested many times before. What’s amazing is that you managed to convince the rest of the council to go along with it. Too many of them still see this town as little more than a trading post. That’s one of the first times I’ve seen them acting in the interests of the town as a whole,” said the older woman.
“I still wish Kal hadn’t run off just before this meeting, this is the second in a row,” grumbled Perra.
“I’ve already apologized for that, Perra. In truth, I can’t thank Kal, Ikuno and Ghoss enough for going with Jurien this time. Until now, he’s had to hire mercenaries to guard him when he goes to that blasted swamp.”
“What exactly are they going for? Kal mentioned that it was some kind of mushroom, but he couldn’t remember what you told him.”
“Queen’s Crown tree fungus and Ghost Fern fiddleheads are the big things Jurien is looking for. The fungus is what makes my salves keep for so long without going bad and boiled Ghost Fern fiddleheads make the base for some of our higher end poultices. However, there’s a mess of potion ingredients to be found out there as well as some spell components, which is why Kal and Ikuno went if I’m not mistaken,” explained Nina as they arrived at her and Jurien’s shop. “Ugh, I hate going to the Smith’s for these meetings, I’m going to start heating up some water for a bath.”
Perra stopped Nina from closing the door to the shop behind her, getting a raised eyebrow from the apothecary’s wife. She then had a quick conversation with Kal and Ikuno, which was difficult with how far away they were. After getting their approval she smiled up at Lady Nina “How would you like to enjoy one of the benefits of having a mage as a friend? I know the perfect place we can go to get cleaned up.”
As Kal and Ikuno were sorting and cataloging their bounty from their trip with Jurien, Ria decided to tell him of a special ink that could tie her to him in a way she could never be lost.
“If you will be traveling to larger cities then there will be pickpockets and cutpurses to think about. If you make this ink then all you need to do is put your mark on me,” the sprite explained. “Once I have your mark the only way I can become someone else’s property is if you were to die. More importantly, if I am stolen or lost I will try to return to you twice a day. However, each attempt takes a lot out of me and though I will be able to return to you, I won’t be able to take out or accept anything for the next few hours.”
Kal nodded in understanding, “What if a second person were to also put their mark on you? If I were to die, would you end up going back to the other person?” he asked.
Ria seemed momentarily confused, “Honestly, Kal, I don’t know the answer to that. Most of my previous masters have been so hung up on protecting their property that I don’t think it occurred to them to designate an heir. All we can do is try once you have made the ink.”
Kal and Ikuno took down her list of ingredients and immediately began planning a trip to get those that could only be found far away.
“I had the strangest meeting with the Master Tanner today,” said Kal as he hung his travel cloak next to the door.
“Hm?” Perra was engrossed in the book she was reading. Kal’s mother had been insistent she learn, and lately the young woman had started to get the feeling that reading well was about to become a very important part of her life. As such, she was trying to brush up on her reading skills from Ikuno’s more mundane selection of books.
“He asked me if I had any trips coming up that I would be out of town. I told him when I planned to go hunting for the ingredients Ria needs for her ink and I’ll be damned if he didn’t schedule the meeting for the day after I was going to leave. You wouldn’t know anything about that. Would you?”
Perra groaned and leaned back in the chair, covering her face with the book. Apparently, Nina had been correct.
Once Ria’s ingredients were gathered and Kal had made the ink, they tested it by putting Kal’s mark, then Perra’s on the sprite’s bag. A tiny speck of light floated back to Kal’s hand and turned into Ria’s leather pouch a few minutes after Ikuno ‘stole’ Ria. They now knew that Perra’s mark had not overridden Kal’s and had to just hope that the second mark worked the way Kal was assuming. Unfortunately, the only way for them to truly test Kal’s idea was for him to die and nobody was willing to go that far.
The summer months passed and dipped into fall. Kal continued to learn spells as quickly as possible. Although most of them weren’t very powerful, many of them were useful in some way. Ikuno recommended things like a spell that opened locks which Kal, at first, dismissed as something only a thief would need until she reminded him that magic users weren’t very popular in some cities where the church held a great deal of sway. The idea of being locked up in manacles convinced him the oni might have a point.
His leather mask received an upgrade in the form of the water breathing rune from the book. This was quickly followed by a darkvision rune when he discovered he could barely see underwater. Unfortunately, darkvision only helped with the light level and not the distortion or the fact that he had to keep his eyes open underwater for long periods of time. This led him to develop a rune that created a clear shield over his eyes that filled with air and allowed him to see fairly well as long as the water wasn’t overly murky.
This small adaptation to his mask led to another revelation about the flight rune. The new addition created similar shield but over his entire face that deflected wind and allowed him to see without squinting against the oncoming air. Ikuno was hardly surprised when Kal insisted upon going to see Felli in order to test it.
With more time available to him, Kal’s combat skills increased right along with the number of broken bones inflicted by Ikuno. The oni was holding back less and less as his skills improved and there was still the occasional mistake that led to him waking up with his head on her lap. Thankfully, he was fairly protected against serious injury by his runes and most of the time got away with mild fractures and bruises.
As the weather turned colder and the leaves began to change it was once again time to say goodbye for the winter, not just for Aradelle this time but for Bea and Adalena as well. Bea explained that she and her daughter would hibernate over winter together in a chrysalis she would construct after sealing her home. Both of them had put on significant weight over the last month since they wouldn’t be eating again until spring. The butterfly girl was decidedly unhappy. Not with how her body looked since it was necessary, but because the extra weight was making it very hard to fly. Adalena had grown significantly in size during the summer months but slowed down as things got cooler, trading growing up for growing out. As they prepared for hibernation the normally happy little girl seemed to be having a hard time staying awake for more than a few minutes.
Kal said goodbye to Aradelle, Perra and Ikuno, then walked back to Bea’s house with her, carrying a sleeping Adalena most of the way. Bea struggled to get up into her house, cursing the necessity for her extra heft. Once there, she and Kal shared a short tearful goodbye before his handing over their daughter and leaving her to begin making their winter cocoon.
Afterward, he returned to the other three women back in the clearing. Aradelle was in her flame-sprite fall colors once again as teary hugs were passed around for the second time that day. A few minutes later the alarune waved goodbye before curling up into a ball and descending into her bulb as she shed her petals and the hard outer leaves folded up for the last time until spring. Kal was more than a little disconcerted by how Aradelle’s mind became completely still over the bond after months of her constant presence. Two days later Bea’s thoughts also went quiet as she completed her chrysalis and went to sleep for the winter.
Kal sat back in his chair and rubbed his eyes, the day was growing late and he still hadn’t come to a decision on which rune should go in the free space next to the shield rune. He looked over at the vambrace laying off to one side of the table in Ikuno’s library. Kal had been so excited to learn and use it for the first time after seeing Sir Balthus save his hot-headed friend. The mage’s brow furrowed as he remembered the intricate tattooed runes that had covered nearly all of the knight’s forearm arm and wondered how he had not noticed that they were really nothing at all like what was on his bracer.
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Challenged, Drained, Hunted As always votes and feedback are greatly appreciated! Enjoy! Blu Edited by: Old Fart “So, how does it feel?” asked Aradelle, lying with her elbows on one of her petals with her chin resting on her hands. A stray breeze shook the white and blue petal but Aradelle never moved, held up by the two thick vines coming from the center of her flower that turned into her legs. Where those legs met an occasional drip of her clear nectar fell to the petal and ran...
Falling with style, Re-union, Status Edited by: Old Fart Kal stepped out of the tunnel from the storeroom to see Felli standing a few paces away. She was gazing out the cave entrance watching a couple of large birds gliding along the stiff mountain breezes. She turned to look at him and blushed furiously as he stepped up next to her. “A little late for that after what you just saw,” he said watching one of the birds tuck its wings and dive out of sight. Felli blushed even...
Eager as Kal had been for some more intimate time with Ikuno, the knight’s talk of food had gotten to him. As they walked back into the main living area of the cavern his stomach growled noisily. He stopped in embarrassment, his hands covering the offending body part. Ikuno kept walking over to a small set of wooden shelves that appeared to be made from lashed together saplings with crude planks fitted in for holding items. She grabbed a cloth wrapped bundle and tossed it to Kal. “Here eat...
Rain pelted Kal and Ikuno as they made their way carefully along the thin mountain trail. They had left Ikuno’s home earlier that morning to return to Aradelle’s forest and crossed over the first mountain without incident. However, as they descended into the valley between that and the second peak, dark clouds had rolled in and a smattering of rain dogged them on the next ascent. As they approached the apex of the trail the weather became even fouler turning into a full-blown downpour with...
Three Knights of the Order of the Lion’s Shield stood in the clearing in front of the cave. It was quiet save for the soft munching from far off to one side next to the wood line as the horses nibbled on the grass nearby. The squires tended to the horses and made sure their leads were secured to nearby trees, though all of them were trained as warhorses to be calm during battles it was better to be safe than spend hours hunting down one that decided to bolt for whatever reason. Near the...
Kal, Ikuno, Bea and one of Aradelle’s vines approached the spectral wolf’s remains in hopes of finding any kind of information. Two long black streaks of decayed plant matter starting just beyond the edge of Aradelle’s clearing led them to where it had met its end. It was easy to see, however, that any hope of evidence pertaining to who sent it and why it was looking for Ikuno had dissolved into a bubbling, smoking pool of sickly yellow blood laced with black streaks. “Any ideas?” asked...
Weeks passed, and the land was blanketed in pristine white snow, travel became more difficult and Kal’s routine now consisted largely of chopping firewood, tending to the animals, chopping firewood checking animal traps, chopping firewood, cleaning and processing furs to sell at market like most farmers in winter, and chopping firewood. Visits to Ikuno’s cave became rarer and Kal had taken to making overnight trips, much to Ikuno’s delight, as the trek seemed to become longer with each new...
Kal cautiously opened his eyes as he returned to the waking world, the heavy furs covering him instead of his normal wool comforter giving him pause. Smiling he remembered he was not at home and turned to the side to see Ikuno peacefully sleeping next to him. Though not as striking as the changes when he first returned to the cave, as he continued to visit her skin color had deepened to a rich cobalt blue and the triangular marks on her cheeks had become almost imperceptible. Her backswept...
Months passed, and winter finally released its grip on the land, patches of snow could still be seen in places where there were significant amounts of shade during the day as well as up on the mountains where the air was colder. Only a handful of conifers were starting to show signs of budding and the forests continued to be bare of leaves except for the occasional evergreen dotted here and there. The winter had come and gone with little fanfare, only one bad snowstorm had made the...
Kal looked down, “Why is it still hard? I haven’t been thinking about anything to keep it that way since Aradelle was about to attack me.” Aradelle shrugged looking embarrassed, Ikuno’s brow furrowed in thought, “perhaps there’s more to ‘Dell’s aphrodisiac then just making men mad with lust. There may be something else in the dust that makes a man hard for a time as well, whether he wants to be or not.” Aradelle looked at Kal, “I don’t know, my dust has always worked, so this has never...
“Umm ... What?” Ikuno smiled but didn’t lift her head off his shoulder, “I’ll explain later, take me to bed.” Kal started walking again, “Sounds like there’s going to be a lot of that later, like how you ended up overloaded with magic.” Kal walked into the mouth of the cave, Ikuno snapped her fingers and a ball of light formed before them, leading the way into the darkness. Ikuno was thoughtful, “I have an idea about that...” “KAL! IKUNO! Are you alright!” came Perra’s voice,...
Moved, Night Out, Sharing, Upward Edited by: Old Fart “Come back safe, Kal,” said Perra as she laid in bed with the covers pulled back so Kal could take in the candlelit view of her naked body. He paused every few minutes in his preparations for his extended trip into the mountains to kiss and run his hands over her skin. She was putting herself on display for him and he wanted there to be no doubt in her mind he appreciated it. He was disappointed that he didn’t have the extra time...
Almost six months had passed since Perra had come to live with Kal and his mother. True to his word, Kal visited Ikuno’s cave as often as possible with Perra tagging along whenever she could get her chores caught up, and true to her word, Ikuno began teaching Kal the basics of magic.Kal could tell that something was bothering Ikuno in the way she acted these last few weeks and more often than not he would end up going home immediately after these practice sessions with Ikuno getting upset for...
Fantasy & Sci-FiWelcome back! A small step away from Kal and Sera in the beginning of this one but it accomplishes something I’ve wanted to do since Book 1 For those of you reading The Runesmith Chronicles for the first time I recommend starting with the first book, Oni and the Farmer. Mostly so you have a better understanding of how things like the magic system works and what’s going on as I often reference earlier chapters/books. If you find my stories entertaining, please take a look at the note...
For those of you reading The Runesmith Chronicles for the first time I recommend starting with the first book, Oni and the Farmer. Mostly so you have a better understanding of how things like the magic system works and what’s going on as I often reference earlier chapters/books. Edited/Proofread by: oldfart and 2muchdiggity “Ready?” Kal asked. The gorgon looked around her home and nodded nervously, “I am.” “Good there’s only a couple more things we need to take care of. The first is...
Welcome back! Some Femdom in this one, not really my thing but it fit the character, so I rolled with it. It’s curious, I saw some vids of FemDom porn a while back (researching art references for Ikuno) and in all of them I would have told these tall, muscular women to go fuck themselves with a sand-coated dildo if they treated me like that. However, when I wrote the part in this chapter I don’t have that same reaction and I don’t understand why. As I said ... curious. For those of you...
Welcome back! For those of you reading The Runesmith Chronicles for the first time I recommend starting with the first book, Oni and the Farmer. Mostly so you have a better understanding of how things like the magic system works and what’s going on as I often reference earlier chapters/books. If you find my stories entertaining and would like to help me produce these stories for you, please consider checking out my Patreon! www.patreon.com/BluDraygn. Every little bit helps :) As always,...
Ikuno panted as Kal’s tongue lapped hungrily at her clit, Kal tried to adjust himself as his erection was rubbing uncomfortably against his trousers.“No touching,” Ikuno reminded him putting a hand on the back of his head and pressing him into her sex.Kal growled in annoyance and sucked her clit into his mouth swirling his tongue around until Ikuno gasped and her legs began to shake as she came.Ikuno stepped away and let the leather flap fall hiding her pussy from him.“Now-now,” she said...
Fantasy & Sci-FiWeeks passed, and the land was blanketed in pristine white snow, travel became more difficult and Kal’s routine now consisted largely of chopping firewood, tending to the animals, chopping firewood checking animal traps, chopping firewood, cleaning and processing furs to sell at market like most farmers in winter, and chopping firewood. Visits to Ikuno’s cave became rarer and Kal had taken to making overnight trips, much to Ikuno’s delight, as the trek seemed to become longer with each new...
Fantasy & Sci-FiKal stepped out of the tunnel from the storeroom to see Felli standing a few paces away. She was gazing out the cave entrance watching a couple of large birds gliding along the stiff mountain breezes. She turned to look at him and blushed furiously as he stepped up next to her.“A little late for that after what you just saw,” he said watching one of the birds tuck its wings and dive out of sight.Felli blushed even harder “The blue lady and I talked some this morning, she was telling me there’s...
Fantasy & Sci-FiKal opened his eyes and sighed, part of him had been hoping he would wake up in his own bed, or better yet Ikuno’s, but all that greeted him was the dim green glow of the cavern he fell asleep in. He wasn’t sure what woke him up whether it was the pangs from his empty belly or the morning wood proudly making a tent in his trousers. Since he could only take care of one of those problems at the moment, he got up and walked over to the crack in the floor that his tiny water source ran to....
Fantasy & Sci-Fi“Umm……………… What?”Ikuno smiled but didn’t lift her head off his shoulder, “I’ll explain later, take me to bed.”Kal started walking again, “Sounds like there’s going to be a lot of that later, like how you ended up overloaded with magic.”Kal walked into the mouth of the cave, Ikuno snapped her fingers and a ball of light formed before them, leading the way into the darkness.Ikuno was thoughtful, “I have an idea about that…”“KAL! IKUNO! Are you alright!” came Perra’s voice, they could tell from...
Fantasy & Sci-FiEdited by: Old Fart------Perra and Kahrin both squealed like little girls and came together in a big hug as soon as they saw each other the next morning. After some quick chatter and complaints from both of them about being sore, making Kal curious as to why Kahrin would be sore, the two women disappeared into the back of the inn. Kal sat down next to Bren who was eyeing him warily.“Did I do something wrong, Bren?” Kal asked.The big man grunted and smiled, “Next time you make a girl into a...
Fantasy & Sci-FiLater that morning Kal found himself in a very unexpected situation: riding piggyback on Ikuno. She was taking advantage of the natural trail that ran along the base of the mountain range. The oni surmised that it had been made over many years by herds of game animals traveling north and being turned aside by the steep mountain faces, eventually creating a decently wide path. Kal had used it a few times to get to Ikuno’s but it wasn’t significantly faster for him to go north to the trail and...
Fantasy & Sci-FiKal was a panicky wreck by the time Gerda brought them back up onto the trail not far from Ikuno’s pool. He had failed to realize that, even though Gerda ‘flew’ through the stone at a good pace, the trip back to Ikuno’s cave would still take nearly a full hour. With no means of communicating with Gerda, he had no choice but to deal with his phobia and wait until they resurfaced.Once he had gotten his wits about him and recovered from the journey, he explained to Ikuno and Gerda what the issue...
Fantasy & Sci-FiKal, Ikuno, and Gerda rose up out of the mountain trail just a handful of paces from the edge of Aradelle’s forest. Kal stepped away and bent over to catch his breath as soon as the rock holding his and Gerda’s hands together receded. He glared over at Ikuno who was smirking at him; she seemed to be having no trouble at all with this new method of getting around. He honestly wasn’t sure if he was ever going to grow accustomed to traveling through solid rock in such a manner.As they stepped off...
Fantasy & Sci-FiThe girls did their best to wear him out last night and Kal planned on sleeping in, but Sera had different ideas. There was a knock on his bedroom door and Kal looked down at the gorgon who was happily suckling his half-hard cock after treating him to a good-morning blowjob. At his questioning look, the gorgon just shrugged and closed her eyes, returning to her task. “Come in!” he called out. Velt peeked her head around the door before walking in followed by Graff. Neither of them paid the...
Ikuno!" Kal yelled above the howling wind, "Do you know of any caves nearby that we can wait this out!" "If there are, they aren't on this trail!" she called back from just ahead of him. "What about if you made us one the way you made your pool!" he yelled. "I can't!" she answered partly turning to look at him, "Using magic during a… Kal!" she shouted as she saw him slip on a particularly smooth rock slickened further by the rain. falling too quickly to catch himself she...
Ikuno and Kal watched as the Knights made their way back towards the village. While Kal wouldn’t exactly call them friends, they didn’t quite fit into the enemy category either. Feeling that his chances of ever seeing any of them again were slim he put it out of his mind. Looking up at Ikuno he saw that she was studying him intently. “Is something wrong?” he asked. Ikuno was thoughtful as she studied him. “No, nothing is wrong. At least not yet.” “Not yet? That sounds ominous.” “Nothing to...
"No touching," she said breathlessly, putting a hand on the back of his head and pressing his face into her. Kal growled in annoyance, the vibration making her body shudder for a moment. He sucked her clit into his mouth, swirling his tongue around the sensitive nub until the oni gasped and her legs began to shake, flooding his mouth with her fluids as she came. The oni stepped away and let the leather flap fall, hiding her pussy from him. "Now-now," she said smiling as her breathing...
Once he had gotten his wits about him and recovered from the journey, he explained to Ikuno and Gerda what the issue was. Ikuno's solution was predictable, stripping him down and pushing him into Gerda's arms for a naked make-out session as they sunk down into the stone below. After some time being distracted from his surroundings by dueling tongues and heavy petting with the golem girl, he reemerged slightly more comfortable with the situation. However, Kal still wasn't sold on the...
Almost six months had passed since Perra had come to live with Kal and his mother. True to his word, Kal visited Ikuno's cave as often as possible with Perra tagging along whenever she could get her chores caught up. Ikuno was also true to her word and began teaching Kal the basics of magic. He could tell that something was bothering Ikuno by the way she had been acting these last few weeks. More often than not, Kal ended up going home immediately after these practice sessions, with Ikuno...
Kal, Ikuno, Bea and one of Aradelle’s vines approached the spectral wolf’s remains in hopes of finding any kind of information. Two long black streaks of decayed plant matter starting just beyond the edge of Aradelle’s clearing led them to where it had met its end. It was easy to see, however, that any hope of evidence pertaining to who sent it and why it was looking for Ikuno had dissolved into a bubbling, smoking pool of sickly yellow blood laced with black streaks.“Any ideas?” asked KalIkuno...
Fantasy & Sci-FiKal cautiously opened his eyes as he returned to the waking world. He paused for a moment at the unfamiliar feeling of heavy furs covering him instead of his normal wool comforter. Smiling, he remembered he was not at home and turned to the side to see Ikuno sleeping peacefully next to him. Though not as striking as the changes when he first returned to the cave, as he continued to visit her skin color had deepened to a rich cobalt blue and the triangular marks on her cheeks had nearly...
Three Knights of the Order of the Lion’s Shield stood in the clearing surrounding the cave. It was quiet save for the soft munching of horses nibbling grass near the wood line far off to one side. The squires tended to the steeds and made sure their leads were secured to nearby trees, it was better to be safe than spend hours chasing one down that decided to bolt for whatever reason, despite being trained as warhorses to be calm even in the heat of battle. Nearby sat a young...
The winter came and went with little fanfare, only one bad snowstorm made the two-hour travel to Ikuno's cave impossible for close to a month. When he finally made the trek, the oni attacked Kal like a feral animal upon arrival, shredding his clothes and throwing him on the bed in her haste to get him inside her. Ikuno felt horrible for her actions afterwards, apologizing over and over for her loss of control until Kal began laughing, telling her that if she hadn't already been naked when he...
CHAPTER 1 The young farmer hesitated as he stepped up to the large hole in the rocky side of the mountain. The last time he was here his experience had been amazing. Now that he was once again standing at the cave’s entrance he was beginning to regret his decision to come back. The boy had come to the delightful conclusion that the cavern’s tenant was likely out and about in the forest. With the cave unoccupied it would be best for him to return home with much haste. Heavy footsteps from...
Chapter 2 Eager as Kal had been for some more intimate time with Ikuno, the knight’s talk of food had gotten to him. As they walked back into the main cavern’s living area his stomach growled noisily. He stopped in embarrassment, his hands covering the offending body part. Ikuno kept walking over to a small set of wooden shelves that appeared to be made from lashed-together saplings with crude planks fitted in for holding items. She grabbed a cloth-wrapped bundle and tossed it to Kal. “Here...
"Umm… What?" Ikuno smiled but didn't lift her head off his shoulder, "I'll explain later, take me to bed." Kal started walking again, "Sounds like there's going to be a lot of that, like how you ended up overloaded with magic." Kal walked into the mouth of the cave, Ikuno snapped her fingers and a ball of light formed before them, leading the way into the darkness. Ikuno was thoughtful, "I have an idea…" "KAL! IKUNO! Are you alright!" came Perra's voice. They could tell from...
Aradelle shrugged, looking embarrassed, while Ikuno’s brow furrowed in thought. “Perhaps there’s more to ‘Dell’s aphrodisiac than just making men mad with lust,” suggested the oni. “There may be something else in the dust that makes a man hard for a time as well, whether he wants to be or not.” Aradelle looked at Kal, “I don’t know, my dust has always worked, so this has never happened before.” Kal wrapped a hand around his prick for a moment before quickly pulling it away, “Damn, that’s...
“I must say, it feels rather homey in here,” said Kal looking around the roc’s cavern.Ikuno stared at him like he had grown a second head, “Have you lost your ever-loving mind? How on earth could this place feel ‘homey’?”Many hours ago, they had gone exploring the roc’s cavern, a task that turned out to be much larger than expected. at the top of the slope was a crossroads that split off in three directions, instead of being a single large cavern. The southern path sloped down before opening up...
Fantasy & Sci-FiThree hours and five failed attempts later he finally had a small oval moonstone that matched his desired dimensions exactly. Kal looked over at Gerda. She had gotten rid of the stool once she was done eating the other crystal and instead made a bed to lay on. He chuckled when he realized that the bed she made was an exact stone replica of Ikuno’s, even down to the headboard.Kal wrapped the completed moonstone in a piece of linen and placed it in his pack then went over to the napping rock...
Fantasy & Sci-FiTwo figures silently made their way up to Carriston’s wall, stopping just outside of the light of the torches placed along the ramparts. They had spent the last few minutes carefully observing the city’s Night Watch and were now just biding their time, waiting for their opportunity to get inside. A couple of guards stopped and talked for a moment directly above the place he and Ria had scouted out earlier. It was in the very center of the fortification between watchtowers and there were no...
After bringing the new linens and taking the old ones behind the inn to be washed, Perra and the new father made a second trip to get bowls of stew for the new parents and the midwife. Perra was a bit scandalized by the mother’s state of undress until she was forcefully reminded by the woman that Kal had just helped deliver her baby and saved both of their lives as well as being there for her daughter’s first meal, there wasn’t much sense in being bashful now.Perra’s mood didn’t improve when...
Fantasy & Sci-FiIt wasn’t long before Kal and Sandy discovered that their activities while traveling were impractical for such a long journey. After a few stops, he pulled his pants up and respectfully declined the golem’s offered rear end, for now. Though disappointed, Sandy accepted the promise of pleasures to come. The golem then secured him in the harness once again before dropping them into the floor of the small cave. After a quick pause to get her bearings, they continued their way north. Later on,...
Strong hands grabbed him and held him up as the snakes of the woman’s hair reached out and sunk their fangs into various body parts. The venom allowed the gorgon to move Kal’s body in the area where he’d been bitten. Getting him standing, she pulled him over and leaned him up against a nearby wall. Terror gripped Kal’s mind. He was still recovering from the shock of believing he was about to die when the searing pain from the snakes’ venom began exploding everywhere they bit him. It faded...
As Kal prepared breakfast he directed the wolf girl towards a small alcove next to the entrance that offered a restroom and shower. She arrived back at the fire pit as he plated their meals, feeling refreshed and relaxed now that she was clean again for the first time in months. Looking her naked body up and down, Kal admitted to selfishly anticipating getting enough food into the girl so her ribs no longer showed. Just getting her hydrated had made most of them fade and done wonders for her...
‘In pain’ wasn’t the most comfortable way to wake up but Kelthor welcomed it this time, it was better than opening his eyes and finding himself in the afterlife. He discovered that attempting to open his eyes was a bad idea, as pain once again lanced through his head from the daylight pouring into the room. On a more pleasant note, it was certainly nice waking up to the feeling of a naked woman pressed against his side. Rose had crawled into bed beside him and rested her head on his...
Rain pelted Kal and Ikuno as they made their way carefully along the thin mountain trail. They had left Ikuno’s home earlier that morning to return to Aradelle’s forest and crossed over the first mountain without incident. However, as they descended into the valley between that and the second peak, dark clouds had rolled in and a smattering of rain dogged them on the next ascent. As they approached the apex of the trail, the weather became even fouler turning into a full-blown downpour with...
Fantasy & Sci-Fi“Fuck you, Kal! I hope your fucking dick falls off! You are never, ever touching me again! Get the fuck away from me!” Perra screamed in the mage’s face. Kal was so shocked by the outburst he stood up from his place next to the large tub and turned towards the door, his expression blank as he automatically followed the laboring woman’s orders. “No, no, no, no,” Elta said, jumping up and gently steering him by the shoulders back to the water-filled basin Perra was sitting in. “Any other time...