“Is this something that happened because of me?” he asked.
“No.”
He rested his hand at the small of her back and that forced a groan from her. She could feel her tail swishing as she sashayed her hips in the same motion that the cat would. The warmth of his palm burned through her skin and lit up all the pleasure points on her body. He moved his hand around the curve of her lower back and over her ass. She glanced up at him between pants and saw a light in his eyes. Either he was enjoying this too much or he was also turned on.
“What is it then?” he whispered, but she heard the need in his voice.
“I think you know what it is.”
“It can
’
t be. Your arousal is due to my healing interacting with body chemistry.”
She scratched her claws through the dirt and bowed down, stretching out her limbs and sticking her hips higher into the air. His other hand touched her side, trailing along her stomach. He stopped himself before he caressed her breast.
“You don
’
t believe that do you? You
’
re just giving yourself excuses.” The cat monitored their conversation.
“Do you want me?” she asked.
Herman
’
s hand dipped between her
ass
until he found her already wet mound. A small whimper escaped her lips. This is what she longed for. All he needed was to mount her so she could feel his firm cock buried inside of her.
“Yes. But it would be wrong. You are hurt
and
—
”
“Don
’
t get all gooey on me now. Take me. Fuck me. Do it,” she demanded.
“I could hurt you and shift.”
“So could I. Please. I
’
m yours. Do it.”
He did not wait another moment because he moved from her side and stood behind her. Herman ran his palm down the curve of her spine. She buried her face in the furs she had thrown on the ground and groaned. With his free hand, he cupped her breast and squeezed it until the pain was so sweet she nearly had an orgasm from it. When he twisted her nipple, she held on by the grace of the goddess. Herman said something that turned into a growl or it was lost in translation. He clutched her ass with both hands and ran his thumbs along the crevice between her ass cheeks before forcing her legs further apart. She grunted from the force, and wiggled her hips to urge him to keep going. To stop now would be sacrilegious.
Elarna
kept her eyes shut and focused on her breathing. The cat lingered right below the surface ready to arise. She licked her lips and felt the sharpness of her teeth as they had lengthened. She took deep, even breaths which
didn
’
t help because his scent permeated the furs.
He leaned over her back and the smoothness of skin had been replaced with fur that made her itch and shiver with anticipation. His claws dug into her hips as he gripped and pulled her closer to him. The hot throbbing length of his prick poked her ass. His tongue trailed over her shoulder and a blast of hot breath went by her ear. He grunted something. Her mounted her and pushed himself inside of her pussy.
“Oh yes,” she cried out.
Having him within her satisfied some of the urge inside of her, but she
wasn
’
t going to be able to hold onto her shape. Already she could feel her body growing longer as he pounded into her. She backed her hips into him and flexed her claws deeper into the earth. His enormous length didn’t bother her. She just focused on her anatomy and made sure they were compatible. Her bones popped and cracked as the feline emerged. Each time she groaned, it became more animal until she was hissing. Her tail swished in time with the urgency that he thrust into her. His claws raked down her sides. He grunted into her ear, but he
didn
’
t stop. Her change
didn
’
t appear to bother him. Instead, he seemed more excited. The cat in her needed to be satisfied. She gritted her teeth as everything in her tingled. Herman jabbed his claws into her flanks and roared. He stretched the length of her body, covering her from behind. Her nerves were on fire. As the pressure built, his teeth pierced her shoulder. Her pussy wrapped around his thick cock and held him while he released into her.
Elarna
yowled and felt the world fall away as an orgasm nearly blinded her. It racked her body until she thought she would pass out and left her breathless. It took a few minutes for her to recover as she swished her tail and regained her composure. Herman unlocked his jaw from her shoulder and flicked his tongue over the wound to clean it.
Elarna
relaxed and she took female form once more. As that happened, Herman backed away from her. She felt better than she had in months. All the kinks had worked out of her body. She took a deep breath and turned around to see Herman looking at her with a satisfied expression on his face and a substantial cock still pointing at her, slick with their shared fluids.
She bent her finger and motioned him toward her. He did not move so she walked over to him and ran her fingers through his thick pelt, realizing it was finer than it looked. Underneath all the hair her fingers grazed over the indentions of all those muscles. The idea of being with him again inflamed her yearning.
“Thank you,” she said to him. “I hope you
didn
’
t mind that I shifted.”
He grunted, but she took that to mean no because he
hadn
’
t stopped fucking her.
“Good, because this time I want to be sure that you see my face.” She trailed her hand down to his twelve inch shaft and wrapped her fingers around it. It would be a feat to take him into her if she couldn’t shift. She was up for the challenge, especially when she could barely grip his girth in one hand. It was just a matter of shifting a certain part of her anatomy. She
’
d had bigger before. He
wasn
’
t as daunting as she’d thought he would be.
Elarna
planted her hand in the middle of his chest and pushed him down onto the furs. She was a little surprised that he relented. Herman grinned, showing all of his pointed teeth. She smiled back, took his claws and placed them on her breasts. He licked his lips. She straddled him and concentrated on her lower half and knew she had to alter it slightly. This time it was easier to access that part of her cat and her abdomen shifted until she could accommodate him.
Elarna
slipped him inside of her and closed her eyes as his wide girth stretched her. It was pain and
pleasure
all wrapped into one, more than she had ever experienced before. He clutched her breast and pinched her nipples before twisting them. She rode him slowly, trying to draw him out. She had to swirl her hips so that he reached all of those buried pleasure points inside of her. Herman trailed his claws down her stomach gently, but they left a burn where they had marked her flesh. They settled on her hips so they could begin a rhythm. She twined her fingers through his long hair and took a hold of it, enjoying the pelt as she arched her back. He thrust into her and made her shiver.
Elarna
rode him, increasing the tempo between them. She threw her head back, letting the ecstasy of the moment wash over her. She dug her claws into his chest and realized they had grown without her feeling it. Each time he drove into her, she took all of his length. Each movement satisfied the animal instinct within her.
“Oh goddess.
Yes.” She roared and rode him until there was nothing more than them and the bliss of their union. He grunted. Herman plunged into her, and each time he lifted her up several inches.
Elarna
took a deep breath and opened her eyes. She was completely fulfilled and something between them had been cemented. She pushed her claws into his flesh and saw the desire in his eyes, the lust that burned them. He trailed his fingers over his stomach, sending tingles of rapture through her. He flicked his thumbs over her nipples and tweaked them. She cried out, and the orgasm sliced through her. A screamed ripped from her throat, and she came for the final time.
Elarna
collapsed on top of him contented, weaving her fingers through his thick pelt.
He laced his fingers through her locks.
“Was that good?” She looked into his eyes.
He nodded, and she saw that he was satisfied just as she was. And no matter what he might say, there was something between them. It wasn’t something caused by him healing her.
Chapter Four
Herman watched her lavender breasts
rise
and fall. It relaxed him to hear the little snort that came out when she exhaled. After their lovemaking, she had fallen asleep. He half expected her to fade back into a dream. And yet
Elarna
had remained. At first he was sure that she would balk at his length, but she had only wanted more of him in both forms. He never thought he would have a mate. If he had been normal, he would have had four or five mates to wait on him or to even cohabitate with another male and female. It happened at times that bonds were formed with other family units. It
didn
’
t matter to him if he had a male or female sexually. He was attracted to both sexes of his kind. Nevertheless, he was denied a family because of his abnormality. None wanted it passed down to their children, even though it was a genetic mutation and they needed a healer. It didn’t seem to matter. This violet fleshed alien had crash landed into his life and now everything was turned upside down.
He thought back to their lovemaking and how it had felt to be inside of her. It was rather a strange thing because she had transitioned her shape to accommodate him. Her features had taken on a more animal appearance. He hadn’t expected it would arouse him, but it did. At first, he thought her attraction to him was because of the healing he had performed. He became emotionally connected, and it heightened the patient
’
s arousal until it wore off. But it
hadn
’
t worn off with
Elarna
. She was a beautiful specimen, and he wanted to see her complete animal form as well. It didn’t appear she had shifted entirely when they had mated. His desire stirred once more, thinking about the firmness of her body. He ran his finger over the smooth flesh, and warmth settled over his heart once more. Her injuries were not completely mended. Her anatomy was taking longer to heal than he was used to.
He was rather reluctant to want to finish because once she was well again,
Elarna
would wish to go off with her hairy companion and search for the other woman that had been in their ship. Herman assumed the royal guard had found this other woman and brought her back to the city. Phillip was worried for their friend. He shook his head and thought about what the guard would be doing to her. They would take the alien and use it for medical experiments, interrogate it, and then torture it until it had no more use.
If the other alien wasn’t already dead from the crash.
If
Elarna
was found, the same would happen to her. Phillip, he might be able to pass off as a distant cousin, because there were some similarities between them. If a
Yetan
needed healing, they would discover
Elarna
. He
couldn
’
t hide her forever. He growled and slammed his fist into the ground. He had to keep her out of harm’s way.
Someone coughed, and when he looked over, Phillip stood in the doorway. He made a gesture for Herman to follow him. Reluctantly, he got up from
Elarna
’
s side, but not before pressing his muzzle to her forehead and kissing her quickly. She stirred in her sleep but did not open her eyes. That was good because she needed rest more than anything right now. His healing could wait. He walked into his living quarters and put another long leg bone on the fire. Against the cave wall, a pile of
luma
stones glowed faintly blue in the light as they absorbed the heat. Phillip stood by the stack, picked one up, and inspected it before putting it down a few moments later. The other male may not have been as tall or as muscular as Herman, but there was something about him. A strong energy surrounded Phillip, a connection to the world around him. If they got through this all alive, then he would inquire with the male.
Phillip clenched his fists, but he reverted to his skinless shape. Herman did the same so they could communicate.
“What is it you wanted?”
“I
didn
’
t mean to interrupt, but you seemed finished.”
Herman chuckled. This male knew enough not to disturb him when he had been mating with his woman. “She
didn
’
t invite you to join in so I went along with her cues.”
“I understand. I had the same thing happen with
Alika
. Although, I never figured how it would go. My wife…” he stopped in the middle of his sentence. A flash of pain crossed his features as his eyes crinkled before he looked down.
“
Wwifff
.”
Herman tried to mimic the sounds Phillip had said, but it was nearly impossible for his throat to make the word. What came out was a breathy whistle.
“Sorry.
Mate.”
Herman understood that and gestured for the other male to continue.
“On my planet, on Earth, we
marry,
take a mate for life, but my original mate died. I was left alone for a long time until I met
Alika
.
Elarna
’
s friend, the one who has gone missing.
She and I are mates so you can understand why I want her back. I can
’
t let anything happen to her.”
His eyes widened. This confirmed the other in the ship was a female. He hadn’t been sure. He certainly did understand why Phillip would want to save her. The pain was even greater in his eyes, more recent. It mixed with the rage as he grimaced and bared his teeth. “
Elarna
is not my mate, but through my healing, feelings have been shared. I don
’
t desire anything to happen to her either. I can
’
t put
Elarna
in danger. You must understand that.”
“I do. So what do we do?”
He paced around the fire, thinking. His eyes trailed over to a small alcove carved out in the cavern he tried to forget was there. Maybe it was time for him to pull it out again. He had sworn when he left the city he would never return. His mother had begged him not to leave, but it was best for all of them. She had cried; the look on her face and the pain of her heart breaking was something he lived with for a long time. It was the right thing to do. He had brothers and sisters enough to take up his duties. Herman walked to the niche and removed the
luma
stones from the top of the hide that hid the chest. A few crystals rolled along the floor and hit the fire pit rocks. It had a musical sound to it, but he ignored it because it brought back too many memories of his youth.
As a boy he had been proficient in the
Crancok
horn. His father had killed one on a hunt in the southern regions where it was slightly warmer with more vegetation. The creature stood on eight legs and weighed more than three tons. Its bottom teeth protruded over its jaws. It had leathery skin and a long tail with a barb on the end of it. The horn grew out of the back of its skull and curled around its head like a loose fitting collar. The more coils in the horn, the older the beast. The one his father had killed had spun around the beast
’
s neck five times, making it nearly five centuries old. The horn and the hide were taken as a trophy for his father. The
Crancok
was stuffed and set for all in the castle to see. A three foot section of horn was sawed off and holes drilled into it where he could place his fingers. When he opened the trunk the
Crancok
horn was the first thing he saw. He trailed his fingers over the holes. It had taken years to master because it was one of the hardest to play. He set it aside and looked under the cloth that hid the other contents of the trunk. Under the array of clothing his mother had made for him when he was in his hairless form was the sash that identified him among the other
Yetans
. It
wasn
’
t practical for him to wear clothes in his normal form so they draped sashes across their bodies to ascertain position and rank.
Elarna
would need to wear clothing. He moved the clothing aside and pulled out the band.
“What
’
s that?” Phillip asked.
“It
’
s the way of getting into the city and past the guards without them suspecting anything. You’ll have to come with me in your other form. We can say that you’ve come from the southern lands. Their pelts are darker than ours, almost your natural color. There are some other differences too.”
“
I don’
t look like you in your natural form. They’d guess that we are different species.”
What Phillip said was true, but he rifled through the clothing and found a cloak. “I have another idea, but you
’
re going to have to keep your human form. Can you do that?”
The other man sighed and eyed him. He sensed Phillip
’
s distrust, and he
didn
’
t blame him. He detected something else about him too, but it frustrated him because he couldn’t pinpoint it. He would rather be in
Elarna
’
s arms, but there was nothing he could do about that. He didn’t know how to process that he was already falling in love with the lavender female in his bed.
“It’ll be difficult. If the sun is up, then it won
’
t be a problem. But once it sets, I will be turning back into the Bigfoot. Since this is a different world with three
suns
, I
’
m not sure my curse knows how to work here.
Alika
was teaching me how to control my animal side. I don
’
t know if I can hold the human side for a long period of time.”
“It is a matter of being calm with the animal inside,” Herman said
.“
I might be able to help you with that when there is more time.” A shock went through him when he touched Phillip’s arm. The alien male stared at him. He locked his gaze with the naked man and even with his pale pinkish skin, he was still attractive. Herman caught Phillip looking at him and for a moment he was sure he felt the same magnetism. He had helped to heal him even if it was a minor injury
“What are they for?” Phillip gestured toward the garments.
“I can bring you in to the palace as my apprentice. In a healer’s garb, I can go anywhere. Even in your beast form, if you stay covered, which this cloak should accommodate both forms, you can come with me. It does for me when I wear it. To get there, we have to travel underground. It is not the most direct route, but it will keep us concealed from the guard who fly overhead and take us to a back entrance that isn’t patrolled often.”
“Sounds like you
’
ve
done this before.”
“Not exactly.
Become your Big Feet, and we will go.”
Phillip nodded and Herman wandered back into the other room.
Elarna
was sound asleep and purring. Her face had flattened some, and a slight golden sheen had appeared on her face mixed with her lavender flesh. He ran his finger along her cheek and it felt like smooth feathers. How could he have been blessed to find someone so beautiful that wanted him and it
didn
’
t bother her that he had two forms? She had even been able to take all of his size and it
didn
’
t hurt her. It seemed they could enjoy one another in either form they were in. He wondered if…
Herman shook his head and pushed the different ways of making love to her from his thoughts. Instead, he squeezed her shoulder and shook her gently. She opened her eyes and flashed him a sleepy smile. With his hands on her, he could feel the slight injuries that she had left, but it was something he could avoid. The urge to heal her did not overwhelm him.
“Hey.”
Elarna
sat up.
“Hi,” he pushed a strand of hair from her eye. “I need you to do something for me.”
“Sure.”
“I
’
m going to take Phillip to rescue your friend.”
Her
expression
darkened
.
“I
’
m coming with you. If
Alika
’
s hurt, you
’
re going to need some
help.
I…”
“
No. You can
’
t. Listen. The guards will be flying overhead looking for other wreckage or survivors. You have to stay here. I don
’
t think they
’
ll
come into the cave because the guard knows who I am. If they do, go into the main room and to the left of the fire pit is a tunnel. You probably won
’
t even know it
’
s there. It looks like a wall. Go there all the way down. You
’
ll
come to some old stone steps. They lead to the ruins of an ancient temple. There are many places to hide there; no one will find you. Take one of the
luma
stones.” He gestured toward a mass of crystals in the corner. “Blow on it and it will light up.”
“
You can
’
t go by yourself.”
He brushed her lips with a quick kiss. “I’m going with Phillip. I’ll bring your friend back here no matter what.”
If she’s alive or dead.
He couldn’t bring himself to say the last part.
“Thank you. Once you bring her back, maybe then we can figure out how to get off this ball of ice.”