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It reminded her of herself... and her brother. It was times like this that she felt tempted to keep the butterfly captive, but she wouldn't know how... and she knew how angry she'd feel if someone held her captive against her will. It was only a game. With a sigh, the Vulpix let it go, watching the butterfly pump its wings to put some distance between her and itself, before warily resuming its previous aerial dance.\n\nButterfly catching just wasn't as much fun as it used to be, since she was alone doing it.\n\nAnother, more drawn-out sigh escaped her lungs as Vena headed back towards the trees. Where was her brother?\n\nIt was a question more prevalent than not, nowadays. Wistfully she could remember when he was inseparable from her.\n\nHis name was Pathos - although she liked to call him Pathy for short, as he had grudgingly learned to accept it - and he had been a Growlithe. The two were playmates in every sense of the word and more. They played games together, hunted for berries and meat together, slept near each other, and rarely strayed more than beyond eyesight from each other. Their bond was one of kinship and friendship, which grew over several years as they similarly grew up in age, with no parents to look after them. Pathos never explained to Vena what happened to them - she couldn't remember anyone other than her brother, and if he knew otherwise, he refused to speak of it. The matter didn't mean much to her anyway - she had her brother. What more could she ask for?\n\nThen he evolved.\n\nThe change was completely unexpected, and almost terrifying for her. She'd woken up one morning to discover he'd disappeared - which only unsettled her, since he'd done it on a few occasions to go hunting or something when she was asleep. But back came this huge canine, this fiery dog three times larger than her brother. Three times larger than herself. And just before she ran away in fear, she heard his voice. \n\n\"It's okay. It's me, Pathos.\"\n\nThat day was still confusing to Vena in memory. She had no idea what had caused the change. Her brother had indeed taught her what evolving was, and that she could evolve too - but he again wouldn't tell her what had caused him to do so. She wasn't clueless - Vena knew that both her species of Vulpix and his species of Growlithe could only evolve from contact with a Fire Stone. But if he'd found one or been subjected to one, he wouldn't explain why. With repeated frustrated attempts by her to get an answer, he'd finally said \"When you're older,\" and stormed off in such an angry fashion that she'd been afraid he wouldn't return. \n\nVena hadn't dared ask him since.\n\nIn her heart, she knew he was the same person, the same Pathy she always knew. But he didn't act like it anymore. The large canine was more serious nowadays. Often his time was spent gathering or hunting, or just sitting on one spot while watching the landscape. He never played games with her, rarely even so much as touched her except for when he'd groom her fur with his large tongue or cuddle her to his chest at night as they slept. That was the one thing about his newest form that she loved - when she was pressed up against his chest, large fores wrapped around her body, with his scent nestled in her nostrils, she felt completely safe. It was a feeling she'd never grown up with before then, and it had made her wonder - was that what it felt like to grow up with a father? She was too timid to ask.\n\nYet this was how her life was, now. With Pathos being a large Arcanine with much more strength, he could forage and hunt with relative ease - often bringing back more than they'd been able to get together when he was a Growlithe. As a result, he refused to let her tag along on such ventures, saying she should focus on exploring and playing. She remembered his words clearly - spoken with a gruff tone and a small frown on his canine muzzle. \"I'm too old for games now; you're not. Just play and enjoy yourself, Vena. I'll keep us fed and healthy.\"\n\nIt was an arrangement that, in all fairness, worked perfectly. She never had to worry about food or shelter, and he kept them both in good health. It was a nice life that not all were fortunate to have.\n\nAnd she hated it.\n\nWith a final sigh of discontent, the Vulpix plodded away into the trees, heading back to the large cave they called home, an unfamiliar emotion eating away at the bottom of her heart with the vigor of a desperate and starving parasite. \n\nShe didn't know it at the time, but the name of that emotion was simple: Loneliness.\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------\n\nPathos wasn't there. He rarely was; often he stayed out until darkness fell, bringing back some sort of food or resource before lounging in the corner of the cave to rest. He'd still welcome her with a smile every time, but there was little of the bubbly, playful nature he had about it - the smile showed how pleased he was to see her again in good health, and nothing more. It was something - but compared to her bygone canine companion of energy and rambunctiousness, it left her wanting so much more.\n\nVena briefly considered the idea of finding new friends out in the forest. Again, the vein of thought didn't last long, the Vulpix collapsing near the back of the cave with a sigh. She loved her brother's company too much; the few times she'd tried to interact with others were lackluster. Either they were boring, or too focused on fighting and violence - or on something else entirely, something she didn't really understand. She remembered the first and only time a male hopped behind her for some purpose, right before Pathos flew onto him in a rage that was completely unlike him, whipping the other male in a brief struggle that sent him running with tail between his legs. She'd tried to ask him what had happened, later, but Pathos merely said he was protecting her from what he called an 'assailant'. Vena suspected something more, but again, he wouldn't change his story no matter how many times she brought it up.\n\nNot to mention after that, half the pokemon she tried talking with looked afraid, as if wondering whether a misspoken word would bring down an angry Growlithe on their heads. And now it was nearly impossible - most of them knew of Pathos's evolution, tripling his unseen threat.\n\nHer depressed musings were interrupted by a quiet step, a drop of some heavy bundle on the cave floor. Looking up, she saw her brother entering the cave, slowly padding his way to her, the darkened night sky providing a backdrop for the fire type's entrance. For any other pokemon seeing a thrice-larger canine headed their way, fear would be their reaction; to her, it was relief. Relief that she was no longer alone.\n\n\"Good evening, Vena,\" the large fire-type murmured with a gentle nosing to her cheek. \"Did you play much today?\"\n\n\"Eh... a little,\" she admitted, staring past him with a forlorn expression. \"Catching butterflies isn't so much fun by myself.\"\n\nThe Arcanine grunted in response. \"I'd just end up smashing the things at this size.\"\n\nShe hated that excuse. Plenty of times she'd invited him to various games, especially ones where his size wouldn't be a factor. It never worked - he'd always come up with something else, some other reason to avoid it. \n\nWhen Vena didn't say anything more, Pathos quietly padded over to the leafy bundle he'd brought in, rolling a few berries over to her with his nose. She smiled to him in thanks, although it didn't reflect how she felt on the inside, silent as she consumed them. If the mood bothered Pathos, he didn't show it; instead he ate a few for himself before stretching, laying himself back against the cave wall. Vena wasted little time padding her way over to him, about to snuggle into his front when he held up a paw. \n\n\"I'm a bit... dirty, sis. Just sleep next to my head,\" Pathos murmured. \n\nVena blinked once, confused and not understanding. Their method of sleeping together was practically a tradition at this point. \"What...?\" \n\nWith a sigh, the Arcanine pulled her over to his head with a large paw and settled down. \"Sleep.\"\n\nIt took all of her willpower to stop herself from complaining. She knew how it would end - he'd only insist until she gave in. And knowing this made the feeling of despair inside her double in size, although she did her best not to show it.\n\nTogether they slept, although Vena couldn't help noticing she still felt alone.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------\n\nThings didn't improve over the next week. Each night Pathos made the same excuse for why she couldn't sleep up close to him. One of those nights Vena had tried to push her way into his middle anyway, and he simply shoved her away with his paw. The Arcanine was too strong for her now, which made it all the more infuriating. Yet she didn't lash out even vocally; already Vena felt like she'd lost her brother, and she was scared of making that worse.\n\nBut going to an empty field to play every day was miserable work. And nobody around provided any sort of companionship that comforted her; just the same boring ones, or violent ones, or those afraid to get too close to her in case her brother was around. \n\nFinally Vena could take no more of it. Yet she knew that confronting Pathos would be worthless; instead, she waited one morning for him to leave before tailing him.\n\nShe'd actually tried it once before, shortly after he'd evolved and started making these solo runs. Even though he had an excellent sense of scent and sound, her small size and careful demeanor had been enough to mask her presence. Yet it had been incredibly boring. All Pathos had done was walk around and gather berries. The few moments he stopped to briefly converse with some other pokemon, it was idle chatter before he went on his way. None of them paid any attention to Vena if they'd noticed her presence; why should they? She was just a small Vulpix. The bigger pokemon had better things to do.\n\nThis time was appearing to be of no exception for the better part of the day; just walking, gathering, and occasionally talking. Vena was considering breaking away and heading back home when it happened.\n\nAs Pathos finished his bundle of goods, the Arcanine looked around himself briefly before stowing the bundle into a nearby bush, marking its location and heading away. Wondering what he was up to, the Vulpix followed, feeling strangely apprehensive. What was he doing?\n\nPathos went a short way until he'd found a clearing, stepping into it with a look around. The place was unremarkable, but also deserted apart from him - at first. Shortly after he'd arrived, a Rapidash strolled out of the foliage on the other side. Vena could see how the other fire type immediately headed to Pathos; it was plain that the meeting was not one of chance. \n\nIt was also apparent to her that the Rapidash was female. The way she moved and even nuzzled her brother's cheek made it obvious. But it didn't stop at a simple nuzzle, with both the fire types talking and nuzzling each other with more friendliness as time weVena found herself feeling another unfamiliar emotion - Envy. Why? She did things like that with her brother all the time when he was a Growlithe. \n\nIt didn't take her long to realize it, though - she felt so distant from him, and yet he seemed perfectly comfy and at ease with the Rapidash in front of her, some female she didn't know at all.\n\nHer urge to storm out and confront them, or run, or do -something- was halted as they suddenly changed. \n\nWith wide and rapt eyes she watched as her brother wandered around to the Rapidash's back end, sniffing up under her blazing tail. It was similar to what that one male did to her, right before the leap and then her brother's defensive strike. Was that what he was doing here? The female didn't seem to mind what he was doing - on the contrary, her tail was raising up, giving him better access!\n\nNow the only irritation that Vena felt was the desire to learn what they were doing, and why, with nobody around to ask.\n\nHer curiosity spiked as Pathos suddenly leapt forward - a flash of something pink visible between his legs - before grinding his body against the Rapidash's own in the same position as that male had tried to do to Vena awhile ago. It was - it WAS the same! Now she was confused, watching the two with bated breath. Her brother had indeed lied - it wasn't an attack, it was something... else.\n\nUndeveloped instinct was tugging at the back of her mind. Something told the Vulpix that she ought to know what this was, what they were doing - but it was all drawing a blank. No recognition or understanding at all. Whatever it was, her brother must have been keeping her in the dark about it, on purpose. \n\nHer curiosity and fascination overlapped her anger from the same realization.\n\nNow the pair were really getting into the act. The strange gyrating motion her brother was making at the female was speeding up dramatically, with wet sounds barely managing to reach Vena's ears. Their smiles and amicable natures were no longer evident - the Rapidash was snorting and dragging a hoof along the ground, and Pathos was growling in what sounded like an aggressive manner. \n\nMaddeningly, she couldn't exactly see what they were doing. Only that her brother was slamming that area of his against that area of hers...\n\nSuddenly Vena realized that watching the two was having a strange effect on her. A burning sensation between her own legs... altering her position, she lowered her paw and brushed it against that burning spot in confusion.\n\nIt came away wet. Alarmed, not knowing what fluid this was, the Vulpix gently scented her paw, nose wrinkling. It was... strong. And not all that pleasant to her. But what WAS it? She knew it was connected to what the two were doing, somehow...\n\nThe pieces weren't coming together, but they were mashing up and trying to form a coherent shape in her brain. That process was halted as she glanced back up in time to see the two reach some sort of peak. Rapidash was moaning, hooves stamping at the ground as her brother drove forward with a mighty heave. His growls were louder, more prominent; his claws nearly looked as if they'd sunken into her back. \n\nThey held the position for a long moment, utterly still, before slowly collapsing onto the ground, Pathos on top of the Rapidash.\n\nVena waited a bit longer, but plainly whatever they'd shared together was concluded - apart from a few licks from Pathos to the female's head, they were motionless. And Vena had seen enough. 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That \"attack\" from awhile ago was not an attack, but a male trying to do... whatever that was, to her. And Pathos  had not allowed it being done to her earlier. Yet he freely took it from that Rapidash... was it something only adults did?\n\nFor another, she knew that it had something to do with the differences between males and females. She barely knew about her own body, much less a male's; all she knew was that she had some sort of hole between her legs. Vena knew it was just a part of her anatomy like any other and that it shouldn't worry her, but the implication that she had a body part that she didn't know what to do with was rather intriguing.\n\nAnd the last thing she knew... was that her brother was not going to explain if she asked. The Arcanine was too stubborn, too self-assured that he knew better than she did. And he'd get angry at the fact of her shadowing him. \n\nNo, she'd have to figure things out for herself.\n\nHer idea was already laid out in her head when Pathos returned, carrying the bundle from before. Their greeting to each other was the same as usual - warm, but brief. Vena ate the berries he'd brought to her with a grateful nod and went to sleep near his head without complaint.\n\nWell, she pretended to sleep, at any rate. It was maddening, keeping her breath slow and her body still until she was absolutely sure that Pathos had himself began slumbering. Even then she held herself in place for another ten minutes, her fear of being discovered keeping her in place. \n\nLike a thief ready to pounce, Vena rose to her paws, slowly padding over to her brother Pathos.\n\nThe Arcanine was slumbering deeply, and to her eyes, he appeared rather... cute. It was hard to see him as a fearsome and large canine when he was partly curled up and asleep in a position not that different from when he was a Growlithe. It brought a smile to her face, and filled her with an urge to just burrow into his bellyfur and sleep her troubles into oblivion. \n\nBut that wouldn't solve anything, and he'd probably be annoyed all the same. Might as well earn it if anything, she figured; she needed knowledge, even if it came with a price. \n\nSlowly, carefully, and with a nervous shake of her body, the Vulpix nosed her way past his forelegs and further down. She didn't really want to touch him, for fear of awakening Pathos, but there was no way she'd get answers just by looking at him. And as she rubbed her cheek against his chest and upper belly, the Vulpix was struck by a sudden scent. It was utterly alien to her, and Vena immediately took her time to study it with gentle sniffs of her nose. \n\nThe impact it left on her was unexpected. The scent was strong, but not in an unpleasant way, and undoubtedly... masculine. Why did she know this? It could only be instinct... and was instinct making her tremble, red flush to her cheeks, and a burning feeling by her tail? It both scared and excited her at the same time, this mystery. Wanting to know more, she pressed on, using her fores to gently pry his hind legs apart.\n\nAnd there it was.\n\nVena's eyes met with Pathos's swollen sheath, obviously the source of the male's musk that she had just encountered. Two plump, twin orbs hung beside it, and a prick of pink flesh idled at the opening of the furred pouch. Vena had absolutely no idea what she was looking at, never having realized what the difference between a male and female was. And no sight of that pink thing she glimpsed earlier... or was it that tip? Was it... inside? Mind burning with questions and flushing a deeper shade of crimson, the Vulpix began to inwardly throw caution to the wind, reaching out with a paw to brush it along his sheath, experimentally.\n\nShe nearly jumped out of her skin when a faint rumble echoed from her brother's chest, right next to her. Fearfully her head turned his way, but he was still fast asleep - the touch had clearly caused some sort of reaction in his mind, though. She needed to be more careful.\n\nBiting her lip, Vena returned her gaze to the pouch, startled to see a change - now instead of a bare pink tip, nearly an entire inch of the flesh was exposed. With that being strong evidence of her theory being right, the Vulpix began gently stroking her paw along the sheath, wanting to see more, but keeping her ears perked. \n\nThe effect was not that immediate, but it was apparent. No further growls left Pathos, but that pink object continued to extend... more... and more... until it finally stopped. What lay before her was a length of impressive size - one fairly endowed for an Arcanine, not that she'd know such a thing. It hung loosely, a drop of some unknown fluid at its tip, giving subtle but noticeable throbs to her sight.\n\nVena just knew this... thing... had something to do with what Pathos had done with the Rapidash, although there simply weren't enough pieces for her to complete the puzzle in her head. Yet curiosity and desire to learn more - at least, she thought it was for knowledge - burned as an inner fire that would not be quenched. She couldn't turn away now - the questions would consume her mind. It was now or potentially never.\n\nNervous, the Vulpix leaned down and pressed her lips to the very tip of the thing, curious about the fluid. To her surprise, it tasted like nothing she'd ever had before - a strong and salty taste, again laden with some sort of masculinity that she could just FEEL - and quite hot in temperature, even though this fact didn't bother her, being a fire type herself. \n\nThen her heart flew to her mouth as a heavy paw rested on her head.\n\nFrozen, unable to pull away from the meat, the Vulpix flattened her ears and mentally prepared for his surprise and wrath. But it didn't come... in fact, she could still hear him breathing lightly. \n\nPathos was still asleep...\n\nBut now she couldn't withdraw.\n\nWell, there was nothing for it. She could try to shake his paw off, of course, but that could potentially wake him - and this wasn't preventing her from continuing.\n\nRight as she made that conclusion, she heard another faint growl, and the paw on her head pressed down - so that another inch of flesh sunk into her muzzle, then another... then it stopped, the rumbling ceased, the Vulpix holding several inches of her brother's malehood in her muzzle. The rod was thick, and it was uncomfortable how much she had to stretch her muzzle to take it all, but it wasn't painful - thankfully she'd had the mind to pull her teeth away before they scraped across the flesh. Something told her that scraping this part would wake him faster than a Thunderbolt to the face.\n\nAnd there she was - Sitting next to her sleeping, thrice-bigger brother with several inches of his meat in her mouth. \n\nHow long this lasted, she could not recall. Vena was practically in a confused yet excited trance at this point, doing something with her brother that she'd never before thought of. Afraid to take more, lest she feel its tip making her gag at the back of her throat, the Vulpix simply... suckled. What else was there? And it worked, as she could feel a steady stream of that unique and oddly tasty fluid leaking onto her tongue, making her want more. And yet all she could think of, while absentmindedly lifting her tail, was this: \"Why hadn't he told me about this before?\"\n\nThen something lapped underneath her tail.\n\nVena probably wouldn't have been able to hold back a shout at that - thankfully her muzzle was rather occupied, which turned the potential loud sound into a mere grunt. She'd raised her tail out of instinct, and her brother had noticed the female's excited scent in the back of his mind - purely instinctual. Now the Arcanine was rubbing his muzzle underneath her tail, lapping at her opening. Vena had no clue what this was about, other than that it felt AMAZING - there were no words to describe it. Except maybe pure, liquid pleasure pouring through her veins and drowning her mind in bliss. Was THIS what she was missing out on?!\n\nThe licks stopped, and with a whine the Vulpix pressed her rump backward, seeking more. Yet all they met was air. She'd just pressed further back in another attempt, when - \n\n\"... V-Vena...?\"\n\nHer heart stopped. At least, it felt like it - body frozen, her liquid pleasure now frozen icicles of dread. Slowly, ever so slowly, her head pulled back until the saliva-soaked tip of her brother's length slid free from her lips, and the Vulpix turned to face Pathos.\n\nHe was staring at her with an expression of pure shock, as if she'd slapped him. No movement, no anything - just that stare of disbelief. Vena felt the moment stretching into eternity, her heart laden with fear. Was he going to say anything...?\n\nThen he exploded.\n\n\"What the FUCK?\" The paw atop of her head swung, pushed - it didn't hurt, but sent Vena skidding a few feet across the cave floor. Pathos was on his paws now, back legs pinched together in attempt to hide what was between them. \"What are... what... you...\"\n\nSomehow Vena had known this was coming, the Vulpix shakily rising to her paws as well, looking quite like a rabbit ready to flee from its predator. \"P-P-Pathy...\" \n\n\"DON'T call me that!\" There was no misinterpreting the anger in his expression, the bitterness in his voice. \"How could you... do something like this? Why?\" His gaze burned into hers like hot coals, demanding and white-hot.\n\nVena didn't know what to say. How could she explain what he'd been doing to her this time...? Wouldn't he just stubbornly brush her away - \n\n\"ANSWER ME!\"\n\nThat command, barked so roughly at her, made Vena jump backward with a whimper of fear... yet it also unlocked her tongue. \"I... wanted answers, Pathy - er, Pathos...\"\n\n\"...answers?\" Stunned, her brother stepped closer, his head tilted. There was an air of his own curiosity present now, but it didn't disguise the fury still before her. \"There's NOTHING you need to know about that stuff. NOTHING.\"\n\n\"You never told me anything!\" Vena blurted, her expression beginning to form its own anger. \"Ever since that one guy jumped on me - and you jumping on that Rapidash - \" \n\nOops.\n\nPathos stepped back, dumbstruck. \"Y-You saw that?\" For a long moment, the Arcanine turned his gaze from her and stood still, body shaking. \"V-Vena... that doesn't concern you. You're just a kit.\"\n\n... just a kit.\n\nThe words, spoken so simply, struck her heart like an icy dagger, penetrating her confusion with a ray of clarity that chilled her to the core.\n\nThat was it. \n\nThat was IT.\n\nThat was why he'd changed, why he'd been treating her like this, shunning her companionship and spending his time with others instead. \n\nHe'd \"grown up\". He was his evolution now, this strong canine form that made him more than what he was, but she was still little Vulpix Vena. \n\nIt startled her to realize he was staring at her again, still angry, but clearly having noticed what his words had done to her. \"... what is it, Vena?\"\n\nIt took a moment for her to crack her voice open again, as if she'd forgotten how to speak. \"I'm.... n-not... a kit.\"\n\nConfusion flitted across his expression. \"...yes, you are.\"\n\nNow her own voice flushed with anger, her gaze narrowing on his. \"Then so are you!\"\n\n\"... I grew up, silly.\" Shockingly, his expression was now amused, with an unfriendly sneer. \"Look at you, and look at me. Who's the kit?\"\n\nIt was too much.\n\nThis understanding, this conclusion by Pathos was the final nail in the coffin for Vena. Her anger flared white-hot, her gaze staring into his with no less an intensity than he'd had before. \"Using a fucking stone doesn't make you grow up, Pathos!\"\n\n\"... you don't know that.\" His sneer was gone, replaced by a frown. \"You don't know anything, Vena.\"\n\n\"How... I.... nnh....\" Mind reeling, Vena stared down at the cave floor, her emotions boiling and spilling all over her consciousness, too much to hold, too much to take in. Her whole world had been flipped upside-down.\n\nSeeming to detect a problem, Pathos stepped forward. \"Vena.\"\n\nInstantly her head snapped up, expression livid, narrowing her voice into an iron lance of raw pain.\n\n\"I know a lot more than you think. I know how much you've changed. I know you've forgotten about me, tossed me aside for your own fancy, grown up things, like playing with that Rapidash... I know how much you look down on me, what you REALLY think of me. And know this, 'Pathy'...\" Her paw rose, pointing at him as if the wrath of God could fly from it and strike him down. \"... I love you. You're my brother... but you can't keep treating me like this. Or I'll... I'll...\" The iron lance wavered.\n\nPathos was staring at her, his expression bearing.... amusement. \"You'll what? Nibble on my ears?\" No, it wasn't amusement - it was scorn. \"You don't know how it is, Vena. You have no idea. No fucking idea how terrible this world is.\" His voice dropped, suddenly cold and frozen, a look of pain crossing his face. \"Stay in your cocoon of warmth and happiness. Don't come out of it.\"\n\nA moment of silence passed between them, their eyes staring into each other as if they'd only just met for the first time. Maybe they had.\n\n\"I'm already out of my cocoon, brother. You ripped me out of it yourself.\" \n\nBlinking in surprise, Pathos tried to speak, but Vena cut him off, turning her head away. \n\n\"So you just stay here. Stay in this cave of... whatever you have that's so much better than me. And don't come out of it.\"\n\nAnd with that, she was gone - sprinting out of the cave at startling speed, melting into the darkness.\n\nBehind her, as she ran, the only thing she could hear was her brother's voice. \"Vena, no! Come back! VENA!... Vena!....\"\n\nThen there was nothing. Nothing at all.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nVena had only left for a single day. Yet that single day had stretched out into a lifetime of misery. \n\nShe had no clue where she was, exactly; the Vulpix had ran into the darkness, zooming by trees she could barely see, stumbling into bushes she couldn't spot before bashing through them. It couldn't last forever, and eventually she met a tree dead in her path. Slamming hard into it, she fell to the ground with a whimper, curled up, and laid still.\n\nVena felt more alone than ever before. Tears flowed from her eyes, but there was nobody around to see them fall. Nobody to softly lick them from her eyes and whisper that everything would be okay. No reassuring warmth, no brotherly hug, no nothing. Just an empty black hole that consumed every good thing she ever had in this world.\n\nIt was here first severe depression - that specially painful kind that turned every positive thought into scornful reflection, that eradicated every happy thought in her mind before it could even be conceived. \n\nTime seemed to have frozen for her, the day stretching on and on into eternity. If Vena had any concept of hell, she would have preferred to go there instead of this. At least in hell you'd feel pain and suffering and fire consuming all. For her, there was no pain - not even the pain of slamming into the tree that had felled her. Just a dull ache that reminded her how empty she was.\n\nYet time marched on, never stopping, not even for the Vulpix's misery. Day came, the sun rose, and after a time, it set. Her depressed trance could only hold out for so long, and eventually what shattered the bubble of misery was her growling belly. No matter how damned she might be, she needed food.\n\nShe couldn't hunt, and didn't know where the best berry bushes were - and didn't feel like searching for them either, lest she run into any other pokemon and let them see what she'd turned into. No, as much as it hurt to admit, there was really nobody else she could turn to. Nobody else but him.\n\nPathos...\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nStepping into the cave, Vena expected to find it empty, with every trace of Pathos gone. Half her mind had been convinced he'd never existed at all, and that she'd really been alone all her life.\n\nBut there he was - back to her, facing the rear of the cave with a leaf-rigged satchel of berries next to him. Ears perking, the Arcanine turned his head, staring uncomprehendingly at her smaller form.\n\nSilence. Their eyes melded together, each trying to read what the other's said, what they felt. \n\nIt was too much for her. She needed him, needed a rock to lean on in the storm that had assaulted her mind for what felt like ages. Letting out only a faint whimper, Vena dashed to him. \n\nWould he shove her away, strike her down...?\n\nAnd suddenly she was there, his paws wrapping around her tight, hugging the Vulpix to his chest with a mighty grip. His muzzle dipped between her ears, murmuring into them, warming them with his breath. \"I'm sorry, Vena... I... I was wrong.\"\n\nShe said nothing for a long while, just sinking into his protection with tears pouring down her face. Except these were tears of relief.\n\nHe was still here. She still had Pathos. Her dark and depressed thoughts began melting away like ice next to a bonfire.\n\nHe did not press Vena, did not demand any answers - the Arcanine merely held her, motionless, silent. Neither of them did the slightest thing more than hold to each other and breathe. And yet it felt more close and intimate than she'd ever felt she'd been with him ever since he evolved.\n\nFinally, her head drew back, nerves protesting the loss of heat from that action as she gazed up into his eyes. \"... I'm sorry too.\"\n\n\"You have nothing to be sorry for,\" Pathos murmured, but he was smiling regardless, his fores brushing up and down her back.\n\n\"I said mean words - \"\n\n\"That I deserved. Vena, I've been thinking a lot since you ran off.\" Pathos closed his eyes, expression somber for a moment. \"I wanted so desperately to run after you... but... I felt you wanted to be alone. Wanted me to think. I knew you'd come back.\"\n\nVena had earlier been inwardly cursing her brother for not showing up and whisking her back to the cave, but that thought had already been eradicated by his warm welcome, and she understood what he meant. Not sure what to say, the Vulpix only nodded.\n\nPathos was silent too, seeming to collect his thoughts. \"I... I tried raising you as best I could, you know,\" he murmured with a small smile. \"It's... hard to be both a brother and a parent. Still... I made mistakes. Like keeping things from you. I wanted to protect you, after all.\"\n\nVena glanced down at the floor for a moment, eyes idly staring at one of his hindpaws as thoughts swirled through her head. \"I do understand that... but we're not very far apart in age, brother. You've learned all these things about the world and I still feel like I'm in the dark, a blindfold around my eyes - \"\n\n\"Vena.\" A paw raised her head up, and before she could say anything, Pathos's lips were pressed to hers.\n\nIt was completely unexpected, and extremely awkward. His muzzle was three times bigger and practically engulfed the tip of hers with his lips. But Vena felt a faint, burning ember appear where the black hole had been, feeling its warmth licking at her heart, and pressed into the kiss with a wag of her tails. Awkward or not, she felt only gratefulness. Perhaps even need.\n\nIt was over before it even began, his head leaning back and smiling down at her, seeming to look past her dumbstruck expression. \"Consider the blindfold off, Vena. Maybe parents have a right to keep their kits in the dark when it's right...\" His head glanced off to the side again, letting out a sigh. \"But... I'm not your parent, I'm your brother. And we can only get through this life together, for better or for worse.\"\n\n\"That's what I've been trying to tell you,\" Vena whimpered, leaning on his front. \"Bigger or not, we're still brother and sister. I don't want to be left behind anymore.\"\n\nLarge Arcanine paws pulled her up and against his front, again enveloped in a warm hug. \"You won't be,\" his voice murmured into her ears. \"I promise.\"\n\nAnother quiet moment passed, the two of them pressed close and melded into one.\n\nFinally, she worked up the courage to speak. \"... what happened to Mom and Dad?\"\n\nInstantly his hold stiffened around her, his breath catching. Vena had seen this reaction before, and was afraid of it; yet she waited to see what he'd say.\n\n\"... sis. Please.\" Pathos lowered her to the ground with a sad look on his face. \"I know you want that information, and I do want to give it to you. But...\"\n\nHer head tilted to the side, knowing he was denying her again, but beginning to understand the reason from his look. \"Are you afraid it will hurt me?\" She murmured.\n\n\"No.\" Again his head faced her, expression laced with pain. \"I'm afraid it'll hurt me. I don't want to recount it yet, I don't want to relive it...\" Eyes squinted shut, a single tear flowing from one. \"It's... why I renamed myself Pathos, really... kinda stupid, but it did help some.\"\n\nVena hadn't known that, the Vulpix trying to comfort him by nuzzling against his front. \"Nnh... what does it mean?\"\n\n\"I'm not entirely sure,\" the Arcanine admitted. \"I learned the word from a Riolu I used to talk with occasionally, when I was really young. He had been in human care before, and liked to learn their language and words. But he did mention it once, and I think it means...\" His gaze dipped away from her. \"... well, sadness.\"\n\n\"... okay.\" Vena poked his chest several times, waiting for him to glance her way before smiling. \"I won't bother you about it... although I hope you can tell me eventually. I'd like to know about them.\"\n\n\"I will tell you eventually,\" he responded, a faint smile of his own growing. \"I promise.\"\n\nA quaint little purr escaped her muzzle, before the Vulpix tilted her head. \"Now... tell me about the other stuff.\" \n\nPathos blinked in confusion, patting her side with one large paw. \"Other stuff?\"\n\n\"Yeah. Like... how you evolved?\"\n\n\"Oh, that.\" The fire canine laughed once, although it sounded mirthless. \"It was an accident. This Ivysaur I was exploring with for berries - you were sleeping in, and I figured it was best I let you sleep further - well, he found this stone. A fire stone, I'm sure you've figured out by now.\" Vena nodded once in acknowledgement. \"Well, he'd been carrying it for some time, thinking it was rare but not knowing what it was. Stupidly, I didn't recognize it either, and when he passed it to me so I could look at it... well, there you go.\"\n\nVena thought about that for a moment. \"So you didn't want to evolve.\"\n\n\"That's right,\" Pathos affirmed. \"But as far as I know, it's irreversible... and comes with benefits. I felt my mind growing along with my body, and I realized I could use this new form to be more capable in taking care of you and myself. I never realized... just how painful it would be to leave you behind in that regard.\"\n\nSomber, she glanced away with a faint nod. Part of her wanted to claim it hadn't been a complete misunderstanding, that he'd purposefully alienated her, but she couldn't say that. It was mean, and maybe not even true. \"I hope I get to evolve soon...\"\n\nPathos seemed to not have a reply to that, setting his paw on her back and stroking gently. A few minutes passed in this vein, various thoughts swimming in her head, including the events of the previous night, and her own curiosity. Eventually it brought her gaze back to his own. \"... can you tell me about what you were doing with that Rapidash?\"\n\nHis posture stiffened again, although not as badly as the parent question had. \"I'm not sure I should talk about that - \"\n\n\"Pathy...\" Immediately she'd turned to face him, pressing hard against his front. That scent from before was there, spurring her on, holding tightly as she spoke. \"I'm not a little girl anymore. You're only a bit older than me, really; being three times bigger doesn't change that. If you can do that stuff, so can I.\"\n\nA long, awkward moment passed as she clung to him, waiting for a response, not even daring to look up at his face. She was too afraid of what she might see in it, especially that stern look she'd associated with stubborn denial.\n\n\"... fine.\" \n\nGasping in surprise, Vena leaned back to stare up at him with a grin. \"Really?!\"\n\nPathos was gazing down at her with a frown. \"On one condition.\"\n\nOh. Vena's excited expression deflated somewhat. \"Mmh...?\"\n\nHis paw settled on her head. \"Don't try doing it with anyone right now. There's quite a few pokemon who would take advantage of your interest to see how many times they could use your body. And if you get kits from it somehow, they wouldn't help you raise them.\"\n\nThat last bit was new to her. \"This act... makes kits?... You were making kits with her?\" Now she was really confused. \n\nPathos sighed, although with a small, amused smile. \"No. She was already bearing kits - er, young ones, so there was no risk.\"\n\nVena thought about that for a moment. \"If I can't do it with others... can I do it with you?\"\n\nThat made him shiver in surprise. \"Me?\"\n\n\"Yeah!\" Her grin was palpable, innocent. \"I love you, Pathy. As a brother. If I wanted to do it with someone, I'd want to do it with you.\"\n\nHis expression was concerned, the Arcanine seeming to be thinking hard. \"I... don't think you're supposed to do it with family.\"\n\nHer reply was to be expected, the Vulpix looking confused. She'd never heard of that concept before. \"Why?\"\n\nOpening and closing his muzzle several times, Pathos glanced down at the ground. \"I don't really know. It's just not something people do.\"\n\nVena stamped her paw on the ground, showing her opinion of that statement. \"Being raised by one brother and no parents isn't something people do either, I bet.\"\n\nHis expression raised, incredulous. \"That's not the same thing. We're family, not two lovers, we shouldn't - \"\n\n\"I don't care,\" she cut in, pawing at his front. \"I want to learn it, and I want to get it from you. It looks fun, and I think you shouldn't be hiding things from me anymore! Unless you have a good reason,\" she added with a challenging look in her eye.\n\nHis gaze was iron-like into her own, clearly trying to think of a reason indeed. A long minute passed, the Arcanine thinking, and Vena waiting patiently, knowing her own stubborn will could win out if she tried. Maybe it wouldn't have before, but things were changing.\n\nIn the Arcanine's mind, he was at a crossroads. He had learned what mating was, why it was done - and who it was done with. And while it wasn't unheard of for kin to mate with each other, it wasn't exactly considered \"normal\", even by ferals. The pair already had a slightly distant relationship from everyone else, feeling more like friendly outsiders than actual residents of the forest, as they'd only ever gone out to play or gather resources, rarely to socialize with other beings. If something like this got around, that would only duplicate and extend the effect.\n\nThen again, did she even care? Probably not; the Vulpix girl only had eyes for him. And admittedly, he liked that. Pathos never could identify with any talk he'd heard about pokemon being tired of their siblings or wishing they'd been an only kit; he couldn't imagine life without his sister. This odd step she wanted to take.... well... he couldn't really ignore his own appeal to it. Having a loving sister who truly cared for him.... even in -that- way?... It was what had gotten him with that Rapidash to begin with, this newly realized sexual urge, and not even the fact of her being his sister could drown it out.\n\nFinally, Pathos let out a sigh. \"Only one worry, really... that you might become pregnant. That means having kits,\" the Arcanine added as he noted her confused look. \"I don't care what you say, you are too young to have your own children.\" Now it was his turn to stare in challenge at her, daring her to disagree.\n\nVena couldn't fight that particular point, letting out a heavy sigh. Raising her own young didn't quite sound enjoyable right now, anyway. \"Can't we avoid it somehow? Have fun and make sure I can't get pregnant?\"\n\nIt took him a few seconds to answer, his voice hesitant. \"...probably.\" Then his paw descended on her head, patting it gently. \"Are you really sure you want to learn about this? And from your brother?...\"\n\nThere was no hesitation on her end. \"Yes, yes, yes,\" she muttered with resolve, nuzzling into his paw. \"Please...\" Maybe it was her youthful desire taking effect, but she really couldn't ask for anything else, wanted nothing else but his acceptance.\n\nPathos let out a faint sigh, silent and moody for a solid minute before nodding his head. \"Then I'll teach you...\"\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------\n\nIt was about an hour after he'd reluctantly agreed to her request, listening to her happy cry before excusing himself, saying he just wanted time to think. It had scared her, but Pathos had gathered her up in his paws and gently kissed her lips, murmuring into her ear - saying he just wanted to mull things over, and that he would be back soon - \"I promise. Trust me, just like I'm trusting you, okay?\"\n\nShe'd watched him go with a frown, but knowing she could not expect him to give and give without her doing the same back. He was changing, for her - letting more information come to her, accepting her own growth, even willing to teach her about mating, the act finally having a name that he'd taught her just before heading out. So she was willing to let him leave and think, even if she didn't like it. The time did give her some opportunity to fill her belly with berries that he'd apparently gathered earlier, helping ease her mind.\n\nShe needn't have worried. Not even an hour later he was back, padding into the cave with a small smile. The thinking alone had certainly helped to ease his mind and help bring it to a conclusion - that he loved his sister, and would happily love her in a sexual way if that's what she wanted. Even if kits were to come of it, they'd raise them together. Not like they'd had to raise each other alone. He would never force any of his children to suffer that heartache, not if he had to burn the whole damn forest down in order to ensure it. \n\nVena perked up upon seeing him, dashing over to cling to his front. \"Are you okay, Pathy?\"\n\nThe name didn't seem to bother him anymore, the Arcanine only smiling in response. \"I'm okay. And ready too, if you are.\"\n\n\"Oh yes! I've been ready,\" she eagerly answered with a wag of her tails. Truly there was no disguising her excitement - he'd learned the sway of those six tails and the expressions she wore, knowing it was true and genuine desire. Of course, seeing them in relation to what he was about to teach her gave it an entirely new sense.\n\n\"Okay... come back here. I'll teach you what I can,\" he murmured, padding over to the back of the cave. She was right behind him, step bouncing, even trying to get another look between his legs as if trying to start the lesson early. \n\nSitting on his haunches, the large canine turned towards her and nodded. \"So... do you know anything about mating at all?\"\n\nVena sat in a similar fashion with a frown on her face. \"Only what you already said, Pathy... that it makes kits if you're not careful, and that it's fun and feels great.\" Well, he hadn't really said that last bit, but she'd gathered that much from watching him and the Rapidash. \"... and that it's not attacking,\" she added with a mock angry look.\n\nPathos had to chuckle at that. \"Forgive me, sister. I didn't want every male taking advantage of your body... trust me, he'd have happily put his kits in your belly if you'd let him.\"\n\n\"Belly?\" Vena glanced down at herself in confusion. \"Do kits come from there?\"\n\n\"Hehe, let's not get ahead of ourselves.\" His forepaw patted against her front, regaining her attentive gaze. \"Mating is a pleasurable act done primarily to create and birth kits, but also done because it just... well, feels good.\" Already his cheeks were starting to redden. \"Probably because making it feel good ensures we all do it, and keep ourselves growing instead of dying out.\"\n\n\"Oh... that makes sense.\" It certainly seemed simple enough to her, drawing out only a few thoughtful blinks. \"Okay, so... how do we do it?\"\n\nA tiny grin appeared on Pathos's face. \"Well, you need to know the parts first... so, uh, turn around.\" His voice became fairly awkward at that request, his eyes shifting a bit.\n\nVena didn't seem to mind or notice, instantly turning around and lifting her tails - she knew that much already. \"I can't see back there very well, brother...\"\n\n\"It's okay. I'll carefully use a claw. Just don't move, okay?\" Slowly his head and paw rose, as he gazed at... his sister's flower. Her barely visible, pristine, virgin flower.... shaking his head to clear it, the Arcanine tried to keep his blushing cheeks low as a single claw poked just between her folds. \"Males and females have different parts for mating... for females, they have this. It's called a vagina, although most use shorter, simpler names for it like slit or folds....\" Or cunt, pussy, cunny... he held those words back though, as they had a vulgar connotation to them, despite how aroused they made him feel. \"It's basically a hole in your body that holds kits when they're made until they're ready to be born.\"\n\nShe was listening intently, but also with a faint look of confusion on her face. \"It... doesn't feel like a hole though, brother.\"\n\nChuckling, Pathos began to press inward. \"Brace yourself...\" Further and further he pushed that digit in, only able to go so far - but enough to feel her hymen, the symbol of her virginity, making his mind quake a bit at the thought. \n\nIt was then that Vena truly understood what she had. Fear slammed into her mind for a brief second, as it felt like he was stabbing her and piercing her skin... but no, it wasn't like that. She already had that hole, like her mouth, an opening that he was only pushing into! Then... she also realized what that stick of his was for, blushing just a bit at the thought of it. But she wasn't going to admit it - she still wanted the full lesson. \"O-oh... I think I get it...\"\n\n\"... good.\" Part of him wanted to just keep his digit in her slit, wiggle it around, make her moan.... chastising himself inwardly, the Arcanine pulled it out and wiped the fluid off on his side. \"Females also have teats around their belly area for feeding kits milk when they're born and young, but that's not really important right now... Anyway, that's what the female has.\"\n\nVena was quick about turning around to face him, her gaze only on his face for a brief moment before lowering it to... there. \"And a male?\"\n\nStill looking nervous, Pathos nodded his head - remembering what it felt like to wake up, his sister's lips wrapped around his cock, tongue pushed into her moist cunt.... Realizing that she was looking at him again, expectantly, the Arcanine merely kept his seated position while spreading his hind legs apart. \"... we have these.\"\n\nOnce again Vena was gazing down at Pathos's crotch - the parts familiar from the other night, but still unnamed. Curiously she padded closer, leaning down to sniff - that strong scent still present and making her blush. \"Tell me about them.\"\n\nSeeing his sister walk forward and get a whiff of him made Pathos inwardly flinch, but in a good way, somehow. It felt wrong, but so right, too... he really needed to learn how to concentrate. \"Uh, well, there's this thing, it's called a sheath.\" Paw descending, the same digit as before now acted as a pointer. \"It holds my penis... the male's main bit, as it were. Again there are simpler names for it, like member and shaft...\" Or cock, dick, rod... there he went again. \"It stays in the sheath until the male is ready to mate, then it comes out. And below the sheath are my... testicles. Or balls, orbs, whatever you prefer... they hold the liquid that mixes in the female to make kits.\" Or so he'd been told, the Arcanine only knowing the basic idea of how mating worked.\n\nVena hadn't even known a liquid was involved. \"How does that work?\" She murmured, remembering how she'd made her brother \"ready to mate\" the other night and rubbing her paw along his sheath. \n\nPathos wanted to tell her to stop, but... it was a mating lesson. So what if she wanted to look at his penis? That was his reasoning, anyway, even though it didn't stop him from shivering from the touch, the first inch of it poking out. \"The, uh, member goes inside the female. There's this little barrier in there, called the cervix - it won't let the member go any farther than that. Because right after the cervix is the womb. That's where the eggs grow, and that's where the sperm - that's the liquid I mentioned - from the male goes to make the eggs to begin with...\"\n\nShe had him fully erect now, brushing her paw up and down the rod and not really realizing how difficult it was for her brother to speak now. \"So... you put the penis in a female and squirt in semen, and that makes kits?\" Her eyes focused up on him, taking in that knowledge and looking quite fascinated from it, seemingly unaffected by how 'intimate' it all was.\n\n\"... b-basically.\" Pathos really had to focus on his syllables now, with pauses here and there to make sure he didn't just give into the teases and pounce her. \"It's not immediate, though. The... male has to push it... in and out a lot to... make it happen.\" Ah, those strokes... those delicate paws caressing his rod... \n\n\"I think I understand...\" At least, now it formed a coherent picture in the Vulpix's mind. Seeing the Arcanine leap onto the Rapidash... now filling in the terms in her head, she recounted watching him push his penis into her vagina, back and forth, in and out until... he'd squirted, surely? Vena was willing to bet that the accumulation of their excitement that led to their collapsing in tiredness had indeed been the moment where he'd spread the liquid. And according to him, you couldn't get pregnant again from it if you were -already- pregnant, which was why he'd been doing it with the Rapidash... \"So can we do it now?\" She asked innocently, glancing up to him with a smile. \"I want to know how it feels.\"\n\nHesitating, Pathos immediately discounted the excuse of a possible pregnancy - he'd already admitted there were ways to avoid it, and she wouldn't accept that excuse. The Arcanine knew he had the strength to pull away before the final moment - maybe not with any other female, but with Vena.... he cared too much for her to let that happen. Almost too much to even partake in something like this regardless, but her earnest desire along with his own libido overcame that one easily. Besides, he didn't want Vena turning to another random male for the answers instead...\n\n\"There's, uh, one other thing that might be a problem,\" Pathos said with a cautious look.\n\nVena narrowed her eyes in annoyance. \"Mmh, -another- thing?\"\n\n\"Well, just look at us.\" The Arcanine gestured at himself - his large, canine self - then to her. \n\nIt took a moment for her to catch on, in which her eyes widened. \"Oh... aww.\" Glancing down at herself, the Vulpix let out a wistful sigh. \"You're saying... it won't fit?\"\n\nPathos had considered it already, out on his walk. He was three times larger than her, and that was a pretty sizeable difference. Twice would likely be manageable, but thrice... would be a bit of a grey area. \"I can probably fit in some of it,\" Pathos murmured, glancing down at his erection, her paw still absentmindedly rubbing along its length. \"Not all of it, but some. And it would stretch you more than you should be stretched, so it might hurt at the start. Along with... your virginity,\" he added, wincing. Had he forgotten to tell her about that?\n\nTo his surprise, Vena merely nodded her head with a small smile. \"I know, Pathy... and I want you to have it - want you to be the one to take it.\"\n\nPathos was dumbfounded. \"Wait... if you didn't know what mating was, how do you know what virginity is?\"\n\nThe Vulpix turned her head to the side with a nervous giggle. \"That one guy said something about it - right before he got on top of me. And then got pounced by you,\" she added, starting to remember that event with humor now, instead. \"He said I must have never done 'it' before and that he enjoyed a virgin. I didn't really know what it meant until your explanation so far...\"\n\nThe Arcanine gazed silently at her for a long moment, before deciding to just shrug it off. The event was in the past. \"I see... but, you know it's a physical thing too, right?\"\n\nThat seemed to confuse Vena, her head tilting to the side. \"What do you mean?\"\n\n\"Your virginity is symbolized by a thin barrier inside of you,\" the Arcanine murmured, brow furrowed in thought. \"The first time you mate, the male's penis breaks through it, and the barrier is gone forever... thus, losing your virginity. And, well, it hurts for a bit.\"\n\n\"... oh.\" Her gaze dropped between her legs, not liking the sound of that. Why did this mating thing have to be so complicated?...\n\nHer thoughts were interrupted by a large paw, Pathos's - lifting her head to smile down at her. \"It's okay. If you don't want to do it now, we don't have to - \"\n\n\"No, I still want to!\" She realized how angry and stubborn she sounded, falling silent as she took control of her voice with a gulp. \"Mmh, I do want to, Pathy...\"\n\n\"Okay.\" His paw was gentle, rubbing along her chin and up to her left cheek in a fond caress. \"It'll hurt... probably a lot... but it'll fade before too long. Then you'll feel nothing but pleasure from it. If you're really the big and growing girl you say you are, you'll be just fine.\"\n\nHer brother's words were reassuring, at least to a degree, the Vulpix nodding her head with a smile. Her eagerness to try it out filled in the rest. \"Can we try it now?...\"\n\nPathos was silent for a moment, the bridge finally reached - he'd just have to either cross it or set it aflame. And at first it looked as if he wasn't sure which to do. Then - \n\n\"... mm, turn around, Vena...\"\n\nRealizing his acceptance in the statement, she immediately complied with a blush on her cheeks, tails lifted high and slightly off to the side, her partially moist slit visible and expectant.\n\nThere was no need for foreplay. In a way, they had already done a fair bit of it - both from her venture while he was asleep, and their idle touches and pawings while he'd explained things to her. Even still, Pathos didn't go for a swift entry.  Padding over until he partly stood above her, he was well enough in height that she could pass underneath his body and between his legs without touching him if she tried. So the positioning was a bit awkward, the Arcanine having to crouch down some in order to line things up properly. \"I hope you enjoy this as much as you think you will,\" he murmured with a chuckle, sliding his member forward and between her hind legs to rub against the fur of her belly in a teasing gesture. \n\nAs for Vena, she didn't know what to think, other than being glad he was finally taking the next step. Her happy feelings of managing to win her brother over and try something exciting were in combat with her fear of the oncoming pain and a slight dread of the unknown. This activity was one big unknown to her, not in knowledge, but in action - she'd never done it before and wasn't sure she'd like it. Her body, however, was impartial to that; reacting automatically to his teasing, her slit was already leaking a bit of feminine honey, her body rubbing itself back and forth enticingly along the Arcanine's member.\n\nPathos had made up his mind. He would go slow and careful, let her adjust to the pain and drive it away. There was no backing out. Disguising his hesitation as teasing didn't keep him away for too long, as it just felt like he was inappropriately dragging the inevitable out, like a pause before the yanking of a thorn from one's paw. The anticipation - or rather, dread - could do just as much harm as the actual act. And, of course, his sexual urges were growing by the second.\n\nAs he lined himself up more properly, pressing the pointed canine tip across her slick opening, Pathos leaned his head down and murmured into Vena's ear. \"Are you ready?\"\n\nShe wasn't. She really wasn't sure she was prepared for this. And yet she nodded anyway.\n\nAlmost immediately she regretted it, squinting her eyes shut and waiting for the pain. It wasn't long in coming - his rod slowly began to push into her, spreading her slit apart to its expected width, then further... to the point that it elicited a whine of pain from her, eyelids scrunching up even more. Noticing this, Pathos held his progress forward - with difficulty, as his burning desire wanted him to plow forward until he'd hit the limit. To his surprise, he could already just barely feel her hymen touching against his tip - his initial push in had almost breached it, as he hadn't quite realized how small she was. \"Just let me know when to go further,\" the fire canine murmured, leaning down to lick behind her ears.\n\nVena wasn't sure, finding his assurance from earlier to be doubtful. All she could feel was pain, not intense, but palpable indeed as it coursed through her veins. \"Mmh...\" A minute passed by, then another, Pathos waiting patiently and feeling her sex trembling around the tip and initial inch or so of his member. Her pain was fading, but slowly, and she knew it would be better to eliminate it as soon as possible rather than letting it ferment. \"G-Go o-on...\"\n\nPathos nearly asked her to be sure, but she seemed determined, her fangs showing as she steeled herself. With a faint murmur, the Arcanine shoved inward. \n\nIt wasn't a mighty thrust or a powerful forward drive, but it was enough to break through her barrier and stop pressed against the second one - her cervix. Vena's small size and virgin tightness were not enough to hold him out, his throbbing shaft mercilessly spreading her to what felt to be past her limit, the jolt of pain from both the over-stretching and the taking of her virginity making Vena cry out in distress. Instantly Pathos was trying to comfort her, lapping between her ears and humming into them, whispering little assurances into them. \"Hang on, sis, there's a good girl... it'll go away, don't worry, hang on... you're doing so well...\"\n\nEven more time passed in this instance, which seemed to stretch on for ages in both cases - Vena battling her wounds, Pathos battling his urges. Looking down at himself, he realized he had only put in roughly a tad less than half of his cock into her; but she was stretched out around it so prominently that it worried him. Yet he said nothing else, waiting, knowing she'd ask him to pull out if that's what she wanted. He was no horny, lusty Arcanine - ... okay, maybe he was, but damn it, Vena was his sister and he'd obey her appeal if it came.\n\n\"G-go... g-go on...\"\n\nPathos was flabbergasted. It hadn't been but a few minutes more than last; had she gotten over the pain already? \"Sis, you've not adjusted...\"\n\n\"Please...\"\n\nBlinking in puzzlement, the Arcanine decided not to argue, sliding his back end away until only the tip of his rod remained in her. He could see her inner fluids smeared onto his shaft where it had been covered, along with - shuddering a bit when he saw it - her blood. Not much of it, but enough to be noticeable, the fluid and her honey both giving him lubrication. \"Hang on tight,\" he murmured, pushing back in - slower than before, but immediately repeating the thrust, establishing a snail's gentle rhythm. \n\nVena's mind still thudded back and forth in the throes of pain - it felt much like her brother was stabbing her repeatedly in the same open wound - but a spark of some unfamiliar warmth revealed itself behind the wall of hurt. Like a drowning castaway, she focused all of her attention on it, her salvation. And the spark grew... slowly, ever so slowly. But with each step it took in size, from spark to ember to flame, it eradicated the pain around it, consuming until they faded into a dull, blunt ache. \n\nHer excitement grew, voice still heavy-laden but for a different reason entirely. \"I-I... I can feel it, Pathy...\"\n\nHis pace slowed just a tad, his own breath labored. Thankfully his body was realizing just how small and inappropriately-sized her own body was to accommodate his size, and his urge to piledrive her into the ground with his thrusts had more or less dissipated. The libido was not reined in fully, though, and wanted him to continue and seek out as much pleasure as he could; a want that he firmly denied within his mind, knowing it would be devastating to her. \"W-what is it, sis?\"\n\n\"The good feeling... I c-c-can feel i-it!\" Clearly excited and struggling to show it, Vena dug her claws against the firm, rocky surface of the cave floor. \"Oh gods, don't stop, Pathy... I-I... I don't want it to g-go away!\"\n\nGrunting once, the Arcanine leaned his head down to kiss between her ears. \"Just hang on and tell me if you change your mind,\" he murmured, pausing as he spoke, only to resume his powered penetrations immediately afterward - twice as fast.\n\nTwice as fast as the sluggish pace from before was hardly much of an increase to him, only slightly raising his own pleasure. But to Vena, it was another crack in the window holding back the torrent of ecstasy her mind held at bay. Stretched further than nature intended her to be to hold in barely half of his shaft, that half slick with her juices and rubbing mercilessly against her inner walls, ravaging her delicate flower with its size and strength - even the slightest increase in speed was a spike to her emotional tumult. Letting out further moans and whimpers, mostly compromised with a mix of desire and a pinch of that remaining pain... Vena was utterly helpless to move, contribute, or do anything apart from soak in the emotions she felt while her brother mated her for the first time.\n\nMeanwhile, Pathos was... adapting. At first he wasn't sure whether or not he liked this. She was nowhere near big enough to fully treat his malehood, and it was a constant frustration that he couldn't stuff it all in and scratch the itch residing on the back half of his cock, dry and untouched. But it was more than made up for when he kept his gaze down on her.... seeing her smaller form gently swaying front and back in time with his thrusts, his thick length pushing in and out of her body, her expression tightened and in flux with an array of new emotions, yet plainly entrusting her safety and security to him... these all raised his own feeling of masculine power more than any romp with the Rapidash ever did. With the Rapidash, he'd asserted his male dominance with power - thrusting into her with every ounce of strength he had and filling her with every inch of his heated rod, swelling his knot within and claiming her body as his own.\n\nWith Vena... he wasn't the dom because he could outmatch her strength. He was the dom because she gave him control... trusted him... left her pleasure and enjoyment in his care.\n\nAnd he would not let her down.\n\nIn terms of physical, sexual gratification, Vena was somewhat disappointing. There was little for him to gain from pushing in and out of her small body, not compared to that Rapidash, who was easily able to house him entirely in warm, wet bliss. But the satisfaction of bringing this first time to his younger sister, watching her face slowly morph from pain to pleasure, being there for her - made it all worth it.\n\nAs for Vena herself, she was in heaven. A slightly painful heaven, because that ache had reached a minimal point that it would not pass, but it was easy to ignore. He was just so... so... -big-. Filling her completely, like a long-lost puzzle piece that completed her body and mind, scratching an internal itch that made her want to moan and even scream... was her pleasure enhanced from how big he was? Or did a proper-sized member bring out more pleasure without the pain? Questions were popping into her head every second, and she mentally ignored them all, wanting to focus purely on emotion rather than thought. \"Nnh...\"\n\nOn and on the mating went, the pace slowly increasing as time went by. Her inner walls continued to coat his length with her fluids, slickening the male flesh and making every forward thrust carry a wet, loud squelching sound. Each entry only put half of his shaft into her, the tip pressing up tight to her cervical barrier every time without fail. Precum dribbled from the tip, adding to the lubrication, some even dripping and rolling into her womb; the sensation made her shiver and squeak, a paw stroking futilely at the ground below. \n\nVena had lost track of time quite quickly. Letting her mind saturate itself with the feelings and emotions of bliss being brought about by her first time with a male, every other sense - time, space, speech - were severely hindered, if not disabled. Only deeply-ingrained instincts like breathing were intact, going on even when she put no thought into them at all. No, her thoughts were completely narrowed on the feel of his throbbing length sliding in and out, in and out, in and out... \n\n\"Doing alright, Vena...?\" Pathos's voice slipped into her ears, smoothly as silk, a perfect match to his gentle lovemaking.\n\n\"I.... I.... mm.... yes...\" Speech was difficult to the extreme, but she managed, afraid that silence would provoke him to stop.\n\nThe Arcanine continued with a small nod and a lick to her head. His opinion was rapidly beginning to change - the more he got used to it, the easier it became to focus on the pleasure he was receiving rather than what he wasn't in comparison to his last mating. She was small, yes, but also incredibly tight and heated on the inside, slickening his rod and pulling to keep it inside, sending little jolts of pleasure through his body.\n\n\"Mmh... nnh...\" Without warning, the Vulpix felt her ecstasy beginning to mount itself quicker and quicker, building up to - what? \"Nnh!... Pathy... I, I, what's...\"\n\nRecognizing what was going on, the Arcanine murmured into her ear with a slight boost of speed in his thrusts. \"Get ready for your first climax, sis... enjoy it...\"\n\nHe'd barely gotten the words out when she felt it culminate and explode, letting out a cry of confused pleasure. As the cry echoed in the cave, her tightened flower gripped even harder, bringing the Arcanine's thrusts to a slowdown, a torrent of her warm and sticky fluid washing down his member, spilling out to the cave floor. The fact that any had made it past his pervasive cock had him shocked, and his own senses started to rise...\n\nVena didn't quite know what had happened to her, her mind swimming in pleasure and what she'd later learn was an \"afterglow\". All she knew at the time was that it had been the best feeling of happiness she'd felt in a long, long time... and that she wanted to feel it again. Already she'd made up her mind. This would not be the last time she and Pathos mated, if she could help it.\n\nThat's when Pathos pulled out of her, reaching down to flip her over onto her back. Surprised and bleary, the Vulpix blinked up at him with confused eyes. \"Pathy...?\"\n\nHe looked reluctant, as if he'd wanted to keep thrusting into her, but at the same time grinning. \"Watch this, Vena... this is what happens when a male cums.\" And with a bark of laughter, his large paw rapidly stroked himself, pointing it at her body, sending himself over the edge he'd been precariously perched on for a solid minute.\n\nVena could only watch, letting out a faint moan of surprise, as thick ropes of canine sperm flew from the throbbing member in front of her, landing haphazardly onto her front. It seemed to go on forever, more and more of the scented fluid landing in a gooey mess in her fur, sticking fast, a few even landing near her cheeks and mouth even with him aiming it down at her body. \"Oh...!\"\n\nAnd in a moment, it was over. Pathos watched her with a grin of amusement and pleasure, sinking into his afterglow with another faint bark of laughter. \"God. I didn't think that would be so satisfying.\"\n\n\"I... take it that's not how it's normally done,\" she murmured, glancing down at her body, riddled with canine semen throughout her fur. \n\n\"Not at all,\" Pathos responded with a chuckle, leaning down to lick her chin. \"But it sure was fun.\"\n\nThe two lapsed into silence for a long moment, both coming down from their afterglows with smiles on their faces. Despite being siblings, despite their incompatibility with size, they'd still both enjoyed it. Vena couldn't even feel the pain anymore, only the lasting remnants of pleasure from the climax her brother's thick rod had created within her.\n\nFinally she managed to speak. \"I hope we do this again, Pathy... I really liked it.\"\n\nNodding his head, the Arcanine leaned down again, this time to apply a little wet lick to her lips. \"Anytime you want to... I liked it too. And now  I don't have to go anywhere to enjoy myself, hehe.\" He winked once, to show his jovial attitude about the gibe.\n\nVena took it seriously, smiling up at him. \"Anything that keeps you close to me again...\"\n\nBlinking, his expression became serious, as he slowly laid himself down next to her. \"Vena, I won't be hanging around with you from now on just for the mating. I want to be with you more because I neglected you. I want to make things right.\"\n\nShrugging, the Vulpix clung tightly to him - the first time in over a week that she'd been able to do so. \"I'd say you already did, brother...\" Yawning with a wide smile, her eyes closed and her body became still.\n\nSurprised, the Arcanine started to speak, but instead fell silent as he watched her drift off into a slumber borne of exhaustion. He could feel his own cum sticking to his fur, perhaps even slightly gluing them together; they'd no doubt have to get a serious bath in the morning.\n\nWith a smile of amusement, the Arcanine simply laid still until he too drifted off to sleep.\n\nAt least that bath would be with her. As would foraging, playing, and perhaps many more sessions of fierce mating to come.\n\nHe wouldn't leave Vena alone again. Pathos loved her - as a sister, as a good friend, and as the only kindred soul he could truly call his own in this world. And now he was determined to remember it - even if the wakeup-call letting him know of his screw-up had been the strangest one he'd ever experienced. Not many got to realize their mistakes from waking to their sister sucking them off.\n\nGrinning, the Arcanine slid Vena's body down some until her head rested up against his sheath and sac, unaware of what he was doing in his sleep... but if he'd been awake to see it, he would have seen Vena cuddling up to them with an enjoyable smile, nuzzling against the furred sheath and bathing in its scent. Still asleep...\n\nAs far as wake-up calls went, his could have been worse.",
  "writing_bbcode_parsed": "<span style='word-wrap: break-word;'>Butterflies danced in an intricate pattern of aerial loops across the flower-flooded field, their movements complemented by the sway of foliage and nudged by the gentle breeze. Some would look at this place and call it paradise; others, a playground.<br /><br />Vena was one of the latter. With each bunch of floating butterflies she spotted, the Vulpix would run and leap at them, trying to trap one between her paws with a grin. Most of the time she missed - the bugs were well versed in her games at this point and were quite skilled at evading the swift fire type. But she succeeded enough times to keep her wanting to try again; and every victory concluded with the Vulpix letting the butterfly go after studying her prize with a sway of her tails.<br /><br />&quot;... gotcha... yes!&quot; Triumphant, Vena sat back on her haunches, grinning at the butterfly struggling between her fores. It was beautiful, with splashes of orange and yellow, accented with a trace of fiery red. It reminded her of herself... and her brother. It was times like this that she felt tempted to keep the butterfly captive, but she wouldn&#039;t know how... and she knew how angry she&#039;d feel if someone held her captive against her will. It was only a game. With a sigh, the Vulpix let it go, watching the butterfly pump its wings to put some distance between her and itself, before warily resuming its previous aerial dance.<br /><br />Butterfly catching just wasn&#039;t as much fun as it used to be, since she was alone doing it.<br /><br />Another, more drawn-out sigh escaped her lungs as Vena headed back towards the trees. Where was her brother?<br /><br />It was a question more prevalent than not, nowadays. Wistfully she could remember when he was inseparable from her.<br /><br />His name was Pathos - although she liked to call him Pathy for short, as he had grudgingly learned to accept it - and he had been a Growlithe. The two were playmates in every sense of the word and more. They played games together, hunted for berries and meat together, slept near each other, and rarely strayed more than beyond eyesight from each other. Their bond was one of kinship and friendship, which grew over several years as they similarly grew up in age, with no parents to look after them. Pathos never explained to Vena what happened to them - she couldn&#039;t remember anyone other than her brother, and if he knew otherwise, he refused to speak of it. The matter didn&#039;t mean much to her anyway - she had her brother. What more could she ask for?<br /><br />Then he evolved.<br /><br />The change was completely unexpected, and almost terrifying for her. She&#039;d woken up one morning to discover he&#039;d disappeared - which only unsettled her, since he&#039;d done it on a few occasions to go hunting or something when she was asleep. But back came this huge canine, this fiery dog three times larger than her brother. Three times larger than herself. And just before she ran away in fear, she heard his voice. <br /><br />&quot;It&#039;s okay. It&#039;s me, Pathos.&quot;<br /><br />That day was still confusing to Vena in memory. She had no idea what had caused the change. Her brother had indeed taught her what evolving was, and that she could evolve too - but he again wouldn&#039;t tell her what had caused him to do so. She wasn&#039;t clueless - Vena knew that both her species of Vulpix and his species of Growlithe could only evolve from contact with a Fire Stone. But if he&#039;d found one or been subjected to one, he wouldn&#039;t explain why. With repeated frustrated attempts by her to get an answer, he&#039;d finally said &quot;When you&#039;re older,&quot; and stormed off in such an angry fashion that she&#039;d been afraid he wouldn&#039;t return. <br /><br />Vena hadn&#039;t dared ask him since.<br /><br />In her heart, she knew he was the same person, the same Pathy she always knew. But he didn&#039;t act like it anymore. The large canine was more serious nowadays. Often his time was spent gathering or hunting, or just sitting on one spot while watching the landscape. He never played games with her, rarely even so much as touched her except for when he&#039;d groom her fur with his large tongue or cuddle her to his chest at night as they slept. That was the one thing about his newest form that she loved - when she was pressed up against his chest, large fores wrapped around her body, with his scent nestled in her nostrils, she felt completely safe. It was a feeling she&#039;d never grown up with before then, and it had made her wonder - was that what it felt like to grow up with a father? She was too timid to ask.<br /><br />Yet this was how her life was, now. With Pathos being a large Arcanine with much more strength, he could forage and hunt with relative ease - often bringing back more than they&#039;d been able to get together when he was a Growlithe. As a result, he refused to let her tag along on such ventures, saying she should focus on exploring and playing. She remembered his words clearly - spoken with a gruff tone and a small frown on his canine muzzle. &quot;I&#039;m too old for games now; you&#039;re not. Just play and enjoy yourself, Vena. I&#039;ll keep us fed and healthy.&quot;<br /><br />It was an arrangement that, in all fairness, worked perfectly. She never had to worry about food or shelter, and he kept them both in good health. It was a nice life that not all were fortunate to have.<br /><br />And she hated it.<br /><br />With a final sigh of discontent, the Vulpix plodded away into the trees, heading back to the large cave they called home, an unfamiliar emotion eating away at the bottom of her heart with the vigor of a desperate and starving parasite. <br /><br />She didn&#039;t know it at the time, but the name of that emotion was simple: Loneliness.<br /><br />-------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Pathos wasn&#039;t there. He rarely was; often he stayed out until darkness fell, bringing back some sort of food or resource before lounging in the corner of the cave to rest. He&#039;d still welcome her with a smile every time, but there was little of the bubbly, playful nature he had about it - the smile showed how pleased he was to see her again in good health, and nothing more. It was something - but compared to her bygone canine companion of energy and rambunctiousness, it left her wanting so much more.<br /><br />Vena briefly considered the idea of finding new friends out in the forest. Again, the vein of thought didn&#039;t last long, the Vulpix collapsing near the back of the cave with a sigh. She loved her brother&#039;s company too much; the few times she&#039;d tried to interact with others were lackluster. Either they were boring, or too focused on fighting and violence - or on something else entirely, something she didn&#039;t really understand. She remembered the first and only time a male hopped behind her for some purpose, right before Pathos flew onto him in a rage that was completely unlike him, whipping the other male in a brief struggle that sent him running with tail between his legs. She&#039;d tried to ask him what had happened, later, but Pathos merely said he was protecting her from what he called an &#039;assailant&#039;. Vena suspected something more, but again, he wouldn&#039;t change his story no matter how many times she brought it up.<br /><br />Not to mention after that, half the pokemon she tried talking with looked afraid, as if wondering whether a misspoken word would bring down an angry Growlithe on their heads. And now it was nearly impossible - most of them knew of Pathos&#039;s evolution, tripling his unseen threat.<br /><br />Her depressed musings were interrupted by a quiet step, a drop of some heavy bundle on the cave floor. Looking up, she saw her brother entering the cave, slowly padding his way to her, the darkened night sky providing a backdrop for the fire type&#039;s entrance. For any other pokemon seeing a thrice-larger canine headed their way, fear would be their reaction; to her, it was relief. Relief that she was no longer alone.<br /><br />&quot;Good evening, Vena,&quot; the large fire-type murmured with a gentle nosing to her cheek. &quot;Did you play much today?&quot;<br /><br />&quot;Eh... a little,&quot; she admitted, staring past him with a forlorn expression. &quot;Catching butterflies isn&#039;t so much fun by myself.&quot;<br /><br />The Arcanine grunted in response. &quot;I&#039;d just end up smashing the things at this size.&quot;<br /><br />She hated that excuse. Plenty of times she&#039;d invited him to various games, especially ones where his size wouldn&#039;t be a factor. It never worked - he&#039;d always come up with something else, some other reason to avoid it. <br /><br />When Vena didn&#039;t say anything more, Pathos quietly padded over to the leafy bundle he&#039;d brought in, rolling a few berries over to her with his nose. She smiled to him in thanks, although it didn&#039;t reflect how she felt on the inside, silent as she consumed them. If the mood bothered Pathos, he didn&#039;t show it; instead he ate a few for himself before stretching, laying himself back against the cave wall. Vena wasted little time padding her way over to him, about to snuggle into his front when he held up a paw. <br /><br />&quot;I&#039;m a bit... dirty, sis. Just sleep next to my head,&quot; Pathos murmured. <br /><br />Vena blinked once, confused and not understanding. Their method of sleeping together was practically a tradition at this point. &quot;What...?&quot; <br /><br />With a sigh, the Arcanine pulled her over to his head with a large paw and settled down. &quot;Sleep.&quot;<br /><br />It took all of her willpower to stop herself from complaining. She knew how it would end - he&#039;d only insist until she gave in. And knowing this made the feeling of despair inside her double in size, although she did her best not to show it.<br /><br />Together they slept, although Vena couldn&#039;t help noticing she still felt alone.<br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Things didn&#039;t improve over the next week. Each night Pathos made the same excuse for why she couldn&#039;t sleep up close to him. One of those nights Vena had tried to push her way into his middle anyway, and he simply shoved her away with his paw. The Arcanine was too strong for her now, which made it all the more infuriating. Yet she didn&#039;t lash out even vocally; already Vena felt like she&#039;d lost her brother, and she was scared of making that worse.<br /><br />But going to an empty field to play every day was miserable work. And nobody around provided any sort of companionship that comforted her; just the same boring ones, or violent ones, or those afraid to get too close to her in case her brother was around. <br /><br />Finally Vena could take no more of it. Yet she knew that confronting Pathos would be worthless; instead, she waited one morning for him to leave before tailing him.<br /><br />She&#039;d actually tried it once before, shortly after he&#039;d evolved and started making these solo runs. Even though he had an excellent sense of scent and sound, her small size and careful demeanor had been enough to mask her presence. Yet it had been incredibly boring. All Pathos had done was walk around and gather berries. The few moments he stopped to briefly converse with some other pokemon, it was idle chatter before he went on his way. None of them paid any attention to Vena if they&#039;d noticed her presence; why should they? She was just a small Vulpix. The bigger pokemon had better things to do.<br /><br />This time was appearing to be of no exception for the better part of the day; just walking, gathering, and occasionally talking. Vena was considering breaking away and heading back home when it happened.<br /><br />As Pathos finished his bundle of goods, the Arcanine looked around himself briefly before stowing the bundle into a nearby bush, marking its location and heading away. Wondering what he was up to, the Vulpix followed, feeling strangely apprehensive. What was he doing?<br /><br />Pathos went a short way until he&#039;d found a clearing, stepping into it with a look around. The place was unremarkable, but also deserted apart from him - at first. Shortly after he&#039;d arrived, a Rapidash strolled out of the foliage on the other side. Vena could see how the other fire type immediately headed to Pathos; it was plain that the meeting was not one of chance. <br /><br />It was also apparent to her that the Rapidash was female. The way she moved and even nuzzled her brother&#039;s cheek made it obvious. But it didn&#039;t stop at a simple nuzzle, with both the fire types talking and nuzzling each other with more friendliness as time weVena found herself feeling another unfamiliar emotion - Envy. Why? She did things like that with her brother all the time when he was a Growlithe. <br /><br />It didn&#039;t take her long to realize it, though - she felt so distant from him, and yet he seemed perfectly comfy and at ease with the Rapidash in front of her, some female she didn&#039;t know at all.<br /><br />Her urge to storm out and confront them, or run, or do -something- was halted as they suddenly changed. <br /><br />With wide and rapt eyes she watched as her brother wandered around to the Rapidash&#039;s back end, sniffing up under her blazing tail. It was similar to what that one male did to her, right before the leap and then her brother&#039;s defensive strike. Was that what he was doing here? The female didn&#039;t seem to mind what he was doing - on the contrary, her tail was raising up, giving him better access!<br /><br />Now the only irritation that Vena felt was the desire to learn what they were doing, and why, with nobody around to ask.<br /><br />Her curiosity spiked as Pathos suddenly leapt forward - a flash of something pink visible between his legs - before grinding his body against the Rapidash&#039;s own in the same position as that male had tried to do to Vena awhile ago. It was - it WAS the same! Now she was confused, watching the two with bated breath. Her brother had indeed lied - it wasn&#039;t an attack, it was something... else.<br /><br />Undeveloped instinct was tugging at the back of her mind. Something told the Vulpix that she ought to know what this was, what they were doing - but it was all drawing a blank. No recognition or understanding at all. Whatever it was, her brother must have been keeping her in the dark about it, on purpose. <br /><br />Her curiosity and fascination overlapped her anger from the same realization.<br /><br />Now the pair were really getting into the act. The strange gyrating motion her brother was making at the female was speeding up dramatically, with wet sounds barely managing to reach Vena&#039;s ears. Their smiles and amicable natures were no longer evident - the Rapidash was snorting and dragging a hoof along the ground, and Pathos was growling in what sounded like an aggressive manner. <br /><br />Maddeningly, she couldn&#039;t exactly see what they were doing. Only that her brother was slamming that area of his against that area of hers...<br /><br />Suddenly Vena realized that watching the two was having a strange effect on her. A burning sensation between her own legs... altering her position, she lowered her paw and brushed it against that burning spot in confusion.<br /><br />It came away wet. Alarmed, not knowing what fluid this was, the Vulpix gently scented her paw, nose wrinkling. It was... strong. And not all that pleasant to her. But what WAS it? She knew it was connected to what the two were doing, somehow...<br /><br />The pieces weren&#039;t coming together, but they were mashing up and trying to form a coherent shape in her brain. That process was halted as she glanced back up in time to see the two reach some sort of peak. Rapidash was moaning, hooves stamping at the ground as her brother drove forward with a mighty heave. His growls were louder, more prominent; his claws nearly looked as if they&#039;d sunken into her back. <br /><br />They held the position for a long moment, utterly still, before slowly collapsing onto the ground, Pathos on top of the Rapidash.<br /><br />Vena waited a bit longer, but plainly whatever they&#039;d shared together was concluded - apart from a few licks from Pathos to the female&#039;s head, they were motionless. And Vena had seen enough. Like a ghost, the fire type faded into the forest, heading back to the cave, thoughts bouncing around in her head.<br /><br />------------------------------------<br /><br />Getting back home was harder than she&#039;d thought. For some reason, the amount of pokemon Vena saw on the way was higher than usual... and most of them were watching her warily. It scared her, and she didn&#039;t have the courage to stop and ask one of them what the big deal was. A few had this hungry look about them, as if on the verge of pouncing her but too afraid to do so.<br /><br />It was a relief to reach the cave, even if it meant being all alone again. It did leave Vena with little to do, though - apart from sorting her jumbled thoughts. Without even thinking about it, her paw was idly brushing between her legs as she did so, a pleasurable feeling akin to grooming herself, and it strangely kept her mind focused.<br /><br />There were a few things that she knew for sure, at the least. For one, her brother had lied. That &quot;attack&quot; from awhile ago was not an attack, but a male trying to do... whatever that was, to her. And Pathos&nbsp;&nbsp;had not allowed it being done to her earlier. Yet he freely took it from that Rapidash... was it something only adults did?<br /><br />For another, she knew that it had something to do with the differences between males and females. She barely knew about her own body, much less a male&#039;s; all she knew was that she had some sort of hole between her legs. Vena knew it was just a part of her anatomy like any other and that it shouldn&#039;t worry her, but the implication that she had a body part that she didn&#039;t know what to do with was rather intriguing.<br /><br />And the last thing she knew... was that her brother was not going to explain if she asked. The Arcanine was too stubborn, too self-assured that he knew better than she did. And he&#039;d get angry at the fact of her shadowing him. <br /><br />No, she&#039;d have to figure things out for herself.<br /><br />Her idea was already laid out in her head when Pathos returned, carrying the bundle from before. Their greeting to each other was the same as usual - warm, but brief. Vena ate the berries he&#039;d brought to her with a grateful nod and went to sleep near his head without complaint.<br /><br />Well, she pretended to sleep, at any rate. It was maddening, keeping her breath slow and her body still until she was absolutely sure that Pathos had himself began slumbering. Even then she held herself in place for another ten minutes, her fear of being discovered keeping her in place. <br /><br />Like a thief ready to pounce, Vena rose to her paws, slowly padding over to her brother Pathos.<br /><br />The Arcanine was slumbering deeply, and to her eyes, he appeared rather... cute. It was hard to see him as a fearsome and large canine when he was partly curled up and asleep in a position not that different from when he was a Growlithe. It brought a smile to her face, and filled her with an urge to just burrow into his bellyfur and sleep her troubles into oblivion. <br /><br />But that wouldn&#039;t solve anything, and he&#039;d probably be annoyed all the same. Might as well earn it if anything, she figured; she needed knowledge, even if it came with a price. <br /><br />Slowly, carefully, and with a nervous shake of her body, the Vulpix nosed her way past his forelegs and further down. She didn&#039;t really want to touch him, for fear of awakening Pathos, but there was no way she&#039;d get answers just by looking at him. And as she rubbed her cheek against his chest and upper belly, the Vulpix was struck by a sudden scent. It was utterly alien to her, and Vena immediately took her time to study it with gentle sniffs of her nose. <br /><br />The impact it left on her was unexpected. The scent was strong, but not in an unpleasant way, and undoubtedly... masculine. Why did she know this? It could only be instinct... and was instinct making her tremble, red flush to her cheeks, and a burning feeling by her tail? It both scared and excited her at the same time, this mystery. Wanting to know more, she pressed on, using her fores to gently pry his hind legs apart.<br /><br />And there it was.<br /><br />Vena&#039;s eyes met with Pathos&#039;s swollen sheath, obviously the source of the male&#039;s musk that she had just encountered. Two plump, twin orbs hung beside it, and a prick of pink flesh idled at the opening of the furred pouch. Vena had absolutely no idea what she was looking at, never having realized what the difference between a male and female was. And no sight of that pink thing she glimpsed earlier... or was it that tip? Was it... inside? Mind burning with questions and flushing a deeper shade of crimson, the Vulpix began to inwardly throw caution to the wind, reaching out with a paw to brush it along his sheath, experimentally.<br /><br />She nearly jumped out of her skin when a faint rumble echoed from her brother&#039;s chest, right next to her. Fearfully her head turned his way, but he was still fast asleep - the touch had clearly caused some sort of reaction in his mind, though. She needed to be more careful.<br /><br />Biting her lip, Vena returned her gaze to the pouch, startled to see a change - now instead of a bare pink tip, nearly an entire inch of the flesh was exposed. With that being strong evidence of her theory being right, the Vulpix began gently stroking her paw along the sheath, wanting to see more, but keeping her ears perked. <br /><br />The effect was not that immediate, but it was apparent. No further growls left Pathos, but that pink object continued to extend... more... and more... until it finally stopped. What lay before her was a length of impressive size - one fairly endowed for an Arcanine, not that she&#039;d know such a thing. It hung loosely, a drop of some unknown fluid at its tip, giving subtle but noticeable throbs to her sight.<br /><br />Vena just knew this... thing... had something to do with what Pathos had done with the Rapidash, although there simply weren&#039;t enough pieces for her to complete the puzzle in her head. Yet curiosity and desire to learn more - at least, she thought it was for knowledge - burned as an inner fire that would not be quenched. She couldn&#039;t turn away now - the questions would consume her mind. It was now or potentially never.<br /><br />Nervous, the Vulpix leaned down and pressed her lips to the very tip of the thing, curious about the fluid. To her surprise, it tasted like nothing she&#039;d ever had before - a strong and salty taste, again laden with some sort of masculinity that she could just FEEL - and quite hot in temperature, even though this fact didn&#039;t bother her, being a fire type herself. <br /><br />Then her heart flew to her mouth as a heavy paw rested on her head.<br /><br />Frozen, unable to pull away from the meat, the Vulpix flattened her ears and mentally prepared for his surprise and wrath. But it didn&#039;t come... in fact, she could still hear him breathing lightly. <br /><br />Pathos was still asleep...<br /><br />But now she couldn&#039;t withdraw.<br /><br />Well, there was nothing for it. She could try to shake his paw off, of course, but that could potentially wake him - and this wasn&#039;t preventing her from continuing.<br /><br />Right as she made that conclusion, she heard another faint growl, and the paw on her head pressed down - so that another inch of flesh sunk into her muzzle, then another... then it stopped, the rumbling ceased, the Vulpix holding several inches of her brother&#039;s malehood in her muzzle. The rod was thick, and it was uncomfortable how much she had to stretch her muzzle to take it all, but it wasn&#039;t painful - thankfully she&#039;d had the mind to pull her teeth away before they scraped across the flesh. Something told her that scraping this part would wake him faster than a Thunderbolt to the face.<br /><br />And there she was - Sitting next to her sleeping, thrice-bigger brother with several inches of his meat in her mouth. <br /><br />How long this lasted, she could not recall. Vena was practically in a confused yet excited trance at this point, doing something with her brother that she&#039;d never before thought of. Afraid to take more, lest she feel its tip making her gag at the back of her throat, the Vulpix simply... suckled. What else was there? And it worked, as she could feel a steady stream of that unique and oddly tasty fluid leaking onto her tongue, making her want more. And yet all she could think of, while absentmindedly lifting her tail, was this: &quot;Why hadn&#039;t he told me about this before?&quot;<br /><br />Then something lapped underneath her tail.<br /><br />Vena probably wouldn&#039;t have been able to hold back a shout at that - thankfully her muzzle was rather occupied, which turned the potential loud sound into a mere grunt. She&#039;d raised her tail out of instinct, and her brother had noticed the female&#039;s excited scent in the back of his mind - purely instinctual. Now the Arcanine was rubbing his muzzle underneath her tail, lapping at her opening. Vena had no clue what this was about, other than that it felt AMAZING - there were no words to describe it. Except maybe pure, liquid pleasure pouring through her veins and drowning her mind in bliss. Was THIS what she was missing out on?!<br /><br />The licks stopped, and with a whine the Vulpix pressed her rump backward, seeking more. Yet all they met was air. She&#039;d just pressed further back in another attempt, when - <br /><br />&quot;... V-Vena...?&quot;<br /><br />Her heart stopped. At least, it felt like it - body frozen, her liquid pleasure now frozen icicles of dread. Slowly, ever so slowly, her head pulled back until the saliva-soaked tip of her brother&#039;s length slid free from her lips, and the Vulpix turned to face Pathos.<br /><br />He was staring at her with an expression of pure shock, as if she&#039;d slapped him. No movement, no anything - just that stare of disbelief. Vena felt the moment stretching into eternity, her heart laden with fear. Was he going to say anything...?<br /><br />Then he exploded.<br /><br />&quot;What the FUCK?&quot; The paw atop of her head swung, pushed - it didn&#039;t hurt, but sent Vena skidding a few feet across the cave floor. Pathos was on his paws now, back legs pinched together in attempt to hide what was between them. &quot;What are... what... you...&quot;<br /><br />Somehow Vena had known this was coming, the Vulpix shakily rising to her paws as well, looking quite like a rabbit ready to flee from its predator. &quot;P-P-Pathy...&quot; <br /><br />&quot;DON&#039;T call me that!&quot; There was no misinterpreting the anger in his expression, the bitterness in his voice. &quot;How could you... do something like this? Why?&quot; His gaze burned into hers like hot coals, demanding and white-hot.<br /><br />Vena didn&#039;t know what to say. How could she explain what he&#039;d been doing to her this time...? Wouldn&#039;t he just stubbornly brush her away - <br /><br />&quot;ANSWER ME!&quot;<br /><br />That command, barked so roughly at her, made Vena jump backward with a whimper of fear... yet it also unlocked her tongue. &quot;I... wanted answers, Pathy - er, Pathos...&quot;<br /><br />&quot;...answers?&quot; Stunned, her brother stepped closer, his head tilted. There was an air of his own curiosity present now, but it didn&#039;t disguise the fury still before her. &quot;There&#039;s NOTHING you need to know about that stuff. NOTHING.&quot;<br /><br />&quot;You never told me anything!&quot; Vena blurted, her expression beginning to form its own anger. &quot;Ever since that one guy jumped on me - and you jumping on that Rapidash - &quot; <br /><br />Oops.<br /><br />Pathos stepped back, dumbstruck. &quot;Y-You saw that?&quot; For a long moment, the Arcanine turned his gaze from her and stood still, body shaking. &quot;V-Vena... that doesn&#039;t concern you. You&#039;re just a kit.&quot;<br /><br />... just a kit.<br /><br />The words, spoken so simply, struck her heart like an icy dagger, penetrating her confusion with a ray of clarity that chilled her to the core.<br /><br />That was it. <br /><br />That was IT.<br /><br />That was why he&#039;d changed, why he&#039;d been treating her like this, shunning her companionship and spending his time with others instead. <br /><br />He&#039;d &quot;grown up&quot;. He was his evolution now, this strong canine form that made him more than what he was, but she was still little Vulpix Vena. <br /><br />It startled her to realize he was staring at her again, still angry, but clearly having noticed what his words had done to her. &quot;... what is it, Vena?&quot;<br /><br />It took a moment for her to crack her voice open again, as if she&#039;d forgotten how to speak. &quot;I&#039;m.... n-not... a kit.&quot;<br /><br />Confusion flitted across his expression. &quot;...yes, you are.&quot;<br /><br />Now her own voice flushed with anger, her gaze narrowing on his. &quot;Then so are you!&quot;<br /><br />&quot;... I grew up, silly.&quot; Shockingly, his expression was now amused, with an unfriendly sneer. &quot;Look at you, and look at me. Who&#039;s the kit?&quot;<br /><br />It was too much.<br /><br />This understanding, this conclusion by Pathos was the final nail in the coffin for Vena. Her anger flared white-hot, her gaze staring into his with no less an intensity than he&#039;d had before. &quot;Using a fucking stone doesn&#039;t make you grow up, Pathos!&quot;<br /><br />&quot;... you don&#039;t know that.&quot; His sneer was gone, replaced by a frown. &quot;You don&#039;t know anything, Vena.&quot;<br /><br />&quot;How... I.... nnh....&quot; Mind reeling, Vena stared down at the cave floor, her emotions boiling and spilling all over her consciousness, too much to hold, too much to take in. Her whole world had been flipped upside-down.<br /><br />Seeming to detect a problem, Pathos stepped forward. &quot;Vena.&quot;<br /><br />Instantly her head snapped up, expression livid, narrowing her voice into an iron lance of raw pain.<br /><br />&quot;I know a lot more than you think. I know how much you&#039;ve changed. I know you&#039;ve forgotten about me, tossed me aside for your own fancy, grown up things, like playing with that Rapidash... I know how much you look down on me, what you REALLY think of me. And know this, &#039;Pathy&#039;...&quot; Her paw rose, pointing at him as if the wrath of God could fly from it and strike him down. &quot;... I love you. You&#039;re my brother... but you can&#039;t keep treating me like this. Or I&#039;ll... I&#039;ll...&quot; The iron lance wavered.<br /><br />Pathos was staring at her, his expression bearing.... amusement. &quot;You&#039;ll what? Nibble on my ears?&quot; No, it wasn&#039;t amusement - it was scorn. &quot;You don&#039;t know how it is, Vena. You have no idea. No fucking idea how terrible this world is.&quot; His voice dropped, suddenly cold and frozen, a look of pain crossing his face. &quot;Stay in your cocoon of warmth and happiness. Don&#039;t come out of it.&quot;<br /><br />A moment of silence passed between them, their eyes staring into each other as if they&#039;d only just met for the first time. Maybe they had.<br /><br />&quot;I&#039;m already out of my cocoon, brother. You ripped me out of it yourself.&quot; <br /><br />Blinking in surprise, Pathos tried to speak, but Vena cut him off, turning her head away. <br /><br />&quot;So you just stay here. Stay in this cave of... whatever you have that&#039;s so much better than me. And don&#039;t come out of it.&quot;<br /><br />And with that, she was gone - sprinting out of the cave at startling speed, melting into the darkness.<br /><br />Behind her, as she ran, the only thing she could hear was her brother&#039;s voice. &quot;Vena, no! Come back! VENA!... Vena!....&quot;<br /><br />Then there was nothing. Nothing at all.<br /><br />---------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Vena had only left for a single day. Yet that single day had stretched out into a lifetime of misery. <br /><br />She had no clue where she was, exactly; the Vulpix had ran into the darkness, zooming by trees she could barely see, stumbling into bushes she couldn&#039;t spot before bashing through them. It couldn&#039;t last forever, and eventually she met a tree dead in her path. Slamming hard into it, she fell to the ground with a whimper, curled up, and laid still.<br /><br />Vena felt more alone than ever before. Tears flowed from her eyes, but there was nobody around to see them fall. Nobody to softly lick them from her eyes and whisper that everything would be okay. No reassuring warmth, no brotherly hug, no nothing. Just an empty black hole that consumed every good thing she ever had in this world.<br /><br />It was here first severe depression - that specially painful kind that turned every positive thought into scornful reflection, that eradicated every happy thought in her mind before it could even be conceived. <br /><br />Time seemed to have frozen for her, the day stretching on and on into eternity. If Vena had any concept of hell, she would have preferred to go there instead of this. At least in hell you&#039;d feel pain and suffering and fire consuming all. For her, there was no pain - not even the pain of slamming into the tree that had felled her. Just a dull ache that reminded her how empty she was.<br /><br />Yet time marched on, never stopping, not even for the Vulpix&#039;s misery. Day came, the sun rose, and after a time, it set. Her depressed trance could only hold out for so long, and eventually what shattered the bubble of misery was her growling belly. No matter how damned she might be, she needed food.<br /><br />She couldn&#039;t hunt, and didn&#039;t know where the best berry bushes were - and didn&#039;t feel like searching for them either, lest she run into any other pokemon and let them see what she&#039;d turned into. No, as much as it hurt to admit, there was really nobody else she could turn to. Nobody else but him.<br /><br />Pathos...<br /><br />----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Stepping into the cave, Vena expected to find it empty, with every trace of Pathos gone. Half her mind had been convinced he&#039;d never existed at all, and that she&#039;d really been alone all her life.<br /><br />But there he was - back to her, facing the rear of the cave with a leaf-rigged satchel of berries next to him. Ears perking, the Arcanine turned his head, staring uncomprehendingly at her smaller form.<br /><br />Silence. Their eyes melded together, each trying to read what the other&#039;s said, what they felt. <br /><br />It was too much for her. She needed him, needed a rock to lean on in the storm that had assaulted her mind for what felt like ages. Letting out only a faint whimper, Vena dashed to him. <br /><br />Would he shove her away, strike her down...?<br /><br />And suddenly she was there, his paws wrapping around her tight, hugging the Vulpix to his chest with a mighty grip. His muzzle dipped between her ears, murmuring into them, warming them with his breath. &quot;I&#039;m sorry, Vena... I... I was wrong.&quot;<br /><br />She said nothing for a long while, just sinking into his protection with tears pouring down her face. Except these were tears of relief.<br /><br />He was still here. She still had Pathos. Her dark and depressed thoughts began melting away like ice next to a bonfire.<br /><br />He did not press Vena, did not demand any answers - the Arcanine merely held her, motionless, silent. Neither of them did the slightest thing more than hold to each other and breathe. And yet it felt more close and intimate than she&#039;d ever felt she&#039;d been with him ever since he evolved.<br /><br />Finally, her head drew back, nerves protesting the loss of heat from that action as she gazed up into his eyes. &quot;... I&#039;m sorry too.&quot;<br /><br />&quot;You have nothing to be sorry for,&quot; Pathos murmured, but he was smiling regardless, his fores brushing up and down her back.<br /><br />&quot;I said mean words - &quot;<br /><br />&quot;That I deserved. Vena, I&#039;ve been thinking a lot since you ran off.&quot; Pathos closed his eyes, expression somber for a moment. &quot;I wanted so desperately to run after you... but... I felt you wanted to be alone. Wanted me to think. I knew you&#039;d come back.&quot;<br /><br />Vena had earlier been inwardly cursing her brother for not showing up and whisking her back to the cave, but that thought had already been eradicated by his warm welcome, and she understood what he meant. Not sure what to say, the Vulpix only nodded.<br /><br />Pathos was silent too, seeming to collect his thoughts. &quot;I... I tried raising you as best I could, you know,&quot; he murmured with a small smile. &quot;It&#039;s... hard to be both a brother and a parent. Still... I made mistakes. Like keeping things from you. I wanted to protect you, after all.&quot;<br /><br />Vena glanced down at the floor for a moment, eyes idly staring at one of his hindpaws as thoughts swirled through her head. &quot;I do understand that... but we&#039;re not very far apart in age, brother. You&#039;ve learned all these things about the world and I still feel like I&#039;m in the dark, a blindfold around my eyes - &quot;<br /><br />&quot;Vena.&quot; A paw raised her head up, and before she could say anything, Pathos&#039;s lips were pressed to hers.<br /><br />It was completely unexpected, and extremely awkward. His muzzle was three times bigger and practically engulfed the tip of hers with his lips. But Vena felt a faint, burning ember appear where the black hole had been, feeling its warmth licking at her heart, and pressed into the kiss with a wag of her tails. Awkward or not, she felt only gratefulness. Perhaps even need.<br /><br />It was over before it even began, his head leaning back and smiling down at her, seeming to look past her dumbstruck expression. &quot;Consider the blindfold off, Vena. Maybe parents have a right to keep their kits in the dark when it&#039;s right...&quot; His head glanced off to the side again, letting out a sigh. &quot;But... I&#039;m not your parent, I&#039;m your brother. And we can only get through this life together, for better or for worse.&quot;<br /><br />&quot;That&#039;s what I&#039;ve been trying to tell you,&quot; Vena whimpered, leaning on his front. &quot;Bigger or not, we&#039;re still brother and sister. I don&#039;t want to be left behind anymore.&quot;<br /><br />Large Arcanine paws pulled her up and against his front, again enveloped in a warm hug. &quot;You won&#039;t be,&quot; his voice murmured into her ears. &quot;I promise.&quot;<br /><br />Another quiet moment passed, the two of them pressed close and melded into one.<br /><br />Finally, she worked up the courage to speak. &quot;... what happened to Mom and Dad?&quot;<br /><br />Instantly his hold stiffened around her, his breath catching. Vena had seen this reaction before, and was afraid of it; yet she waited to see what he&#039;d say.<br /><br />&quot;... sis. Please.&quot; Pathos lowered her to the ground with a sad look on his face. &quot;I know you want that information, and I do want to give it to you. But...&quot;<br /><br />Her head tilted to the side, knowing he was denying her again, but beginning to understand the reason from his look. &quot;Are you afraid it will hurt me?&quot; She murmured.<br /><br />&quot;No.&quot; Again his head faced her, expression laced with pain. &quot;I&#039;m afraid it&#039;ll hurt me. I don&#039;t want to recount it yet, I don&#039;t want to relive it...&quot; Eyes squinted shut, a single tear flowing from one. &quot;It&#039;s... why I renamed myself Pathos, really... kinda stupid, but it did help some.&quot;<br /><br />Vena hadn&#039;t known that, the Vulpix trying to comfort him by nuzzling against his front. &quot;Nnh... what does it mean?&quot;<br /><br />&quot;I&#039;m not entirely sure,&quot; the Arcanine admitted. &quot;I learned the word from a Riolu I used to talk with occasionally, when I was really young. He had been in human care before, and liked to learn their language and words. But he did mention it once, and I think it means...&quot; His gaze dipped away from her. &quot;... well, sadness.&quot;<br /><br />&quot;... okay.&quot; Vena poked his chest several times, waiting for him to glance her way before smiling. &quot;I won&#039;t bother you about it... although I hope you can tell me eventually. I&#039;d like to know about them.&quot;<br /><br />&quot;I will tell you eventually,&quot; he responded, a faint smile of his own growing. &quot;I promise.&quot;<br /><br />A quaint little purr escaped her muzzle, before the Vulpix tilted her head. &quot;Now... tell me about the other stuff.&quot; <br /><br />Pathos blinked in confusion, patting her side with one large paw. &quot;Other stuff?&quot;<br /><br />&quot;Yeah. Like... how you evolved?&quot;<br /><br />&quot;Oh, that.&quot; The fire canine laughed once, although it sounded mirthless. &quot;It was an accident. This Ivysaur I was exploring with for berries - you were sleeping in, and I figured it was best I let you sleep further - well, he found this stone. A fire stone, I&#039;m sure you&#039;ve figured out by now.&quot; Vena nodded once in acknowledgement. &quot;Well, he&#039;d been carrying it for some time, thinking it was rare but not knowing what it was. Stupidly, I didn&#039;t recognize it either, and when he passed it to me so I could look at it... well, there you go.&quot;<br /><br />Vena thought about that for a moment. &quot;So you didn&#039;t want to evolve.&quot;<br /><br />&quot;That&#039;s right,&quot; Pathos affirmed. &quot;But as far as I know, it&#039;s irreversible... and comes with benefits. I felt my mind growing along with my body, and I realized I could use this new form to be more capable in taking care of you and myself. I never realized... just how painful it would be to leave you behind in that regard.&quot;<br /><br />Somber, she glanced away with a faint nod. Part of her wanted to claim it hadn&#039;t been a complete misunderstanding, that he&#039;d purposefully alienated her, but she couldn&#039;t say that. It was mean, and maybe not even true. &quot;I hope I get to evolve soon...&quot;<br /><br />Pathos seemed to not have a reply to that, setting his paw on her back and stroking gently. A few minutes passed in this vein, various thoughts swimming in her head, including the events of the previous night, and her own curiosity. Eventually it brought her gaze back to his own. &quot;... can you tell me about what you were doing with that Rapidash?&quot;<br /><br />His posture stiffened again, although not as badly as the parent question had. &quot;I&#039;m not sure I should talk about that - &quot;<br /><br />&quot;Pathy...&quot; Immediately she&#039;d turned to face him, pressing hard against his front. That scent from before was there, spurring her on, holding tightly as she spoke. &quot;I&#039;m not a little girl anymore. You&#039;re only a bit older than me, really; being three times bigger doesn&#039;t change that. If you can do that stuff, so can I.&quot;<br /><br />A long, awkward moment passed as she clung to him, waiting for a response, not even daring to look up at his face. She was too afraid of what she might see in it, especially that stern look she&#039;d associated with stubborn denial.<br /><br />&quot;... fine.&quot; <br /><br />Gasping in surprise, Vena leaned back to stare up at him with a grin. &quot;Really?!&quot;<br /><br />Pathos was gazing down at her with a frown. &quot;On one condition.&quot;<br /><br />Oh. Vena&#039;s excited expression deflated somewhat. &quot;Mmh...?&quot;<br /><br />His paw settled on her head. &quot;Don&#039;t try doing it with anyone right now. There&#039;s quite a few pokemon who would take advantage of your interest to see how many times they could use your body. And if you get kits from it somehow, they wouldn&#039;t help you raise them.&quot;<br /><br />That last bit was new to her. &quot;This act... makes kits?... You were making kits with her?&quot; Now she was really confused. <br /><br />Pathos sighed, although with a small, amused smile. &quot;No. She was already bearing kits - er, young ones, so there was no risk.&quot;<br /><br />Vena thought about that for a moment. &quot;If I can&#039;t do it with others... can I do it with you?&quot;<br /><br />That made him shiver in surprise. &quot;Me?&quot;<br /><br />&quot;Yeah!&quot; Her grin was palpable, innocent. &quot;I love you, Pathy. As a brother. If I wanted to do it with someone, I&#039;d want to do it with you.&quot;<br /><br />His expression was concerned, the Arcanine seeming to be thinking hard. &quot;I... don&#039;t think you&#039;re supposed to do it with family.&quot;<br /><br />Her reply was to be expected, the Vulpix looking confused. She&#039;d never heard of that concept before. &quot;Why?&quot;<br /><br />Opening and closing his muzzle several times, Pathos glanced down at the ground. &quot;I don&#039;t really know. It&#039;s just not something people do.&quot;<br /><br />Vena stamped her paw on the ground, showing her opinion of that statement. &quot;Being raised by one brother and no parents isn&#039;t something people do either, I bet.&quot;<br /><br />His expression raised, incredulous. &quot;That&#039;s not the same thing. We&#039;re family, not two lovers, we shouldn&#039;t - &quot;<br /><br />&quot;I don&#039;t care,&quot; she cut in, pawing at his front. &quot;I want to learn it, and I want to get it from you. It looks fun, and I think you shouldn&#039;t be hiding things from me anymore! Unless you have a good reason,&quot; she added with a challenging look in her eye.<br /><br />His gaze was iron-like into her own, clearly trying to think of a reason indeed. A long minute passed, the Arcanine thinking, and Vena waiting patiently, knowing her own stubborn will could win out if she tried. Maybe it wouldn&#039;t have before, but things were changing.<br /><br />In the Arcanine&#039;s mind, he was at a crossroads. He had learned what mating was, why it was done - and who it was done with. And while it wasn&#039;t unheard of for kin to mate with each other, it wasn&#039;t exactly considered &quot;normal&quot;, even by ferals. The pair already had a slightly distant relationship from everyone else, feeling more like friendly outsiders than actual residents of the forest, as they&#039;d only ever gone out to play or gather resources, rarely to socialize with other beings. If something like this got around, that would only duplicate and extend the effect.<br /><br />Then again, did she even care? Probably not; the Vulpix girl only had eyes for him. And admittedly, he liked that. Pathos never could identify with any talk he&#039;d heard about pokemon being tired of their siblings or wishing they&#039;d been an only kit; he couldn&#039;t imagine life without his sister. This odd step she wanted to take.... well... he couldn&#039;t really ignore his own appeal to it. Having a loving sister who truly cared for him.... even in -that- way?... It was what had gotten him with that Rapidash to begin with, this newly realized sexual urge, and not even the fact of her being his sister could drown it out.<br /><br />Finally, Pathos let out a sigh. &quot;Only one worry, really... that you might become pregnant. That means having kits,&quot; the Arcanine added as he noted her confused look. &quot;I don&#039;t care what you say, you are too young to have your own children.&quot; Now it was his turn to stare in challenge at her, daring her to disagree.<br /><br />Vena couldn&#039;t fight that particular point, letting out a heavy sigh. Raising her own young didn&#039;t quite sound enjoyable right now, anyway. &quot;Can&#039;t we avoid it somehow? Have fun and make sure I can&#039;t get pregnant?&quot;<br /><br />It took him a few seconds to answer, his voice hesitant. &quot;...probably.&quot; Then his paw descended on her head, patting it gently. &quot;Are you really sure you want to learn about this? And from your brother?...&quot;<br /><br />There was no hesitation on her end. &quot;Yes, yes, yes,&quot; she muttered with resolve, nuzzling into his paw. &quot;Please...&quot; Maybe it was her youthful desire taking effect, but she really couldn&#039;t ask for anything else, wanted nothing else but his acceptance.<br /><br />Pathos let out a faint sigh, silent and moody for a solid minute before nodding his head. &quot;Then I&#039;ll teach you...&quot;<br /><br />---------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />It was about an hour after he&#039;d reluctantly agreed to her request, listening to her happy cry before excusing himself, saying he just wanted time to think. It had scared her, but Pathos had gathered her up in his paws and gently kissed her lips, murmuring into her ear - saying he just wanted to mull things over, and that he would be back soon - &quot;I promise. Trust me, just like I&#039;m trusting you, okay?&quot;<br /><br />She&#039;d watched him go with a frown, but knowing she could not expect him to give and give without her doing the same back. He was changing, for her - letting more information come to her, accepting her own growth, even willing to teach her about mating, the act finally having a name that he&#039;d taught her just before heading out. So she was willing to let him leave and think, even if she didn&#039;t like it. The time did give her some opportunity to fill her belly with berries that he&#039;d apparently gathered earlier, helping ease her mind.<br /><br />She needn&#039;t have worried. Not even an hour later he was back, padding into the cave with a small smile. The thinking alone had certainly helped to ease his mind and help bring it to a conclusion - that he loved his sister, and would happily love her in a sexual way if that&#039;s what she wanted. Even if kits were to come of it, they&#039;d raise them together. Not like they&#039;d had to raise each other alone. He would never force any of his children to suffer that heartache, not if he had to burn the whole damn forest down in order to ensure it. <br /><br />Vena perked up upon seeing him, dashing over to cling to his front. &quot;Are you okay, Pathy?&quot;<br /><br />The name didn&#039;t seem to bother him anymore, the Arcanine only smiling in response. &quot;I&#039;m okay. And ready too, if you are.&quot;<br /><br />&quot;Oh yes! I&#039;ve been ready,&quot; she eagerly answered with a wag of her tails. Truly there was no disguising her excitement - he&#039;d learned the sway of those six tails and the expressions she wore, knowing it was true and genuine desire. Of course, seeing them in relation to what he was about to teach her gave it an entirely new sense.<br /><br />&quot;Okay... come back here. I&#039;ll teach you what I can,&quot; he murmured, padding over to the back of the cave. She was right behind him, step bouncing, even trying to get another look between his legs as if trying to start the lesson early. <br /><br />Sitting on his haunches, the large canine turned towards her and nodded. &quot;So... do you know anything about mating at all?&quot;<br /><br />Vena sat in a similar fashion with a frown on her face. &quot;Only what you already said, Pathy... that it makes kits if you&#039;re not careful, and that it&#039;s fun and feels great.&quot; Well, he hadn&#039;t really said that last bit, but she&#039;d gathered that much from watching him and the Rapidash. &quot;... and that it&#039;s not attacking,&quot; she added with a mock angry look.<br /><br />Pathos had to chuckle at that. &quot;Forgive me, sister. I didn&#039;t want every male taking advantage of your body... trust me, he&#039;d have happily put his kits in your belly if you&#039;d let him.&quot;<br /><br />&quot;Belly?&quot; Vena glanced down at herself in confusion. &quot;Do kits come from there?&quot;<br /><br />&quot;Hehe, let&#039;s not get ahead of ourselves.&quot; His forepaw patted against her front, regaining her attentive gaze. &quot;Mating is a pleasurable act done primarily to create and birth kits, but also done because it just... well, feels good.&quot; Already his cheeks were starting to redden. &quot;Probably because making it feel good ensures we all do it, and keep ourselves growing instead of dying out.&quot;<br /><br />&quot;Oh... that makes sense.&quot; It certainly seemed simple enough to her, drawing out only a few thoughtful blinks. &quot;Okay, so... how do we do it?&quot;<br /><br />A tiny grin appeared on Pathos&#039;s face. &quot;Well, you need to know the parts first... so, uh, turn around.&quot; His voice became fairly awkward at that request, his eyes shifting a bit.<br /><br />Vena didn&#039;t seem to mind or notice, instantly turning around and lifting her tails - she knew that much already. &quot;I can&#039;t see back there very well, brother...&quot;<br /><br />&quot;It&#039;s okay. I&#039;ll carefully use a claw. Just don&#039;t move, okay?&quot; Slowly his head and paw rose, as he gazed at... his sister&#039;s flower. Her barely visible, pristine, virgin flower.... shaking his head to clear it, the Arcanine tried to keep his blushing cheeks low as a single claw poked just between her folds. &quot;Males and females have different parts for mating... for females, they have this. It&#039;s called a vagina, although most use shorter, simpler names for it like slit or folds....&quot; Or cunt, pussy, cunny... he held those words back though, as they had a vulgar connotation to them, despite how aroused they made him feel. &quot;It&#039;s basically a hole in your body that holds kits when they&#039;re made until they&#039;re ready to be born.&quot;<br /><br />She was listening intently, but also with a faint look of confusion on her face. &quot;It... doesn&#039;t feel like a hole though, brother.&quot;<br /><br />Chuckling, Pathos began to press inward. &quot;Brace yourself...&quot; Further and further he pushed that digit in, only able to go so far - but enough to feel her hymen, the symbol of her virginity, making his mind quake a bit at the thought. <br /><br />It was then that Vena truly understood what she had. Fear slammed into her mind for a brief second, as it felt like he was stabbing her and piercing her skin... but no, it wasn&#039;t like that. She already had that hole, like her mouth, an opening that he was only pushing into! Then... she also realized what that stick of his was for, blushing just a bit at the thought of it. But she wasn&#039;t going to admit it - she still wanted the full lesson. &quot;O-oh... I think I get it...&quot;<br /><br />&quot;... good.&quot; Part of him wanted to just keep his digit in her slit, wiggle it around, make her moan.... chastising himself inwardly, the Arcanine pulled it out and wiped the fluid off on his side. &quot;Females also have teats around their belly area for feeding kits milk when they&#039;re born and young, but that&#039;s not really important right now... Anyway, that&#039;s what the female has.&quot;<br /><br />Vena was quick about turning around to face him, her gaze only on his face for a brief moment before lowering it to... there. &quot;And a male?&quot;<br /><br />Still looking nervous, Pathos nodded his head - remembering what it felt like to wake up, his sister&#039;s lips wrapped around his cock, tongue pushed into her moist cunt.... Realizing that she was looking at him again, expectantly, the Arcanine merely kept his seated position while spreading his hind legs apart. &quot;... we have these.&quot;<br /><br />Once again Vena was gazing down at Pathos&#039;s crotch - the parts familiar from the other night, but still unnamed. Curiously she padded closer, leaning down to sniff - that strong scent still present and making her blush. &quot;Tell me about them.&quot;<br /><br />Seeing his sister walk forward and get a whiff of him made Pathos inwardly flinch, but in a good way, somehow. It felt wrong, but so right, too... he really needed to learn how to concentrate. &quot;Uh, well, there&#039;s this thing, it&#039;s called a sheath.&quot; Paw descending, the same digit as before now acted as a pointer. &quot;It holds my penis... the male&#039;s main bit, as it were. Again there are simpler names for it, like member and shaft...&quot; Or cock, dick, rod... there he went again. &quot;It stays in the sheath until the male is ready to mate, then it comes out. And below the sheath are my... testicles. Or balls, orbs, whatever you prefer... they hold the liquid that mixes in the female to make kits.&quot; Or so he&#039;d been told, the Arcanine only knowing the basic idea of how mating worked.<br /><br />Vena hadn&#039;t even known a liquid was involved. &quot;How does that work?&quot; She murmured, remembering how she&#039;d made her brother &quot;ready to mate&quot; the other night and rubbing her paw along his sheath. <br /><br />Pathos wanted to tell her to stop, but... it was a mating lesson. So what if she wanted to look at his penis? That was his reasoning, anyway, even though it didn&#039;t stop him from shivering from the touch, the first inch of it poking out. &quot;The, uh, member goes inside the female. There&#039;s this little barrier in there, called the cervix - it won&#039;t let the member go any farther than that. Because right after the cervix is the womb. That&#039;s where the eggs grow, and that&#039;s where the sperm - that&#039;s the liquid I mentioned - from the male goes to make the eggs to begin with...&quot;<br /><br />She had him fully erect now, brushing her paw up and down the rod and not really realizing how difficult it was for her brother to speak now. &quot;So... you put the penis in a female and squirt in semen, and that makes kits?&quot; Her eyes focused up on him, taking in that knowledge and looking quite fascinated from it, seemingly unaffected by how &#039;intimate&#039; it all was.<br /><br />&quot;... b-basically.&quot; Pathos really had to focus on his syllables now, with pauses here and there to make sure he didn&#039;t just give into the teases and pounce her. &quot;It&#039;s not immediate, though. The... male has to push it... in and out a lot to... make it happen.&quot; Ah, those strokes... those delicate paws caressing his rod... <br /><br />&quot;I think I understand...&quot; At least, now it formed a coherent picture in the Vulpix&#039;s mind. Seeing the Arcanine leap onto the Rapidash... now filling in the terms in her head, she recounted watching him push his penis into her vagina, back and forth, in and out until... he&#039;d squirted, surely? Vena was willing to bet that the accumulation of their excitement that led to their collapsing in tiredness had indeed been the moment where he&#039;d spread the liquid. And according to him, you couldn&#039;t get pregnant again from it if you were -already- pregnant, which was why he&#039;d been doing it with the Rapidash... &quot;So can we do it now?&quot; She asked innocently, glancing up to him with a smile. &quot;I want to know how it feels.&quot;<br /><br />Hesitating, Pathos immediately discounted the excuse of a possible pregnancy - he&#039;d already admitted there were ways to avoid it, and she wouldn&#039;t accept that excuse. The Arcanine knew he had the strength to pull away before the final moment - maybe not with any other female, but with Vena.... he cared too much for her to let that happen. Almost too much to even partake in something like this regardless, but her earnest desire along with his own libido overcame that one easily. Besides, he didn&#039;t want Vena turning to another random male for the answers instead...<br /><br />&quot;There&#039;s, uh, one other thing that might be a problem,&quot; Pathos said with a cautious look.<br /><br />Vena narrowed her eyes in annoyance. &quot;Mmh, -another- thing?&quot;<br /><br />&quot;Well, just look at us.&quot; The Arcanine gestured at himself - his large, canine self - then to her. <br /><br />It took a moment for her to catch on, in which her eyes widened. &quot;Oh... aww.&quot; Glancing down at herself, the Vulpix let out a wistful sigh. &quot;You&#039;re saying... it won&#039;t fit?&quot;<br /><br />Pathos had considered it already, out on his walk. He was three times larger than her, and that was a pretty sizeable difference. Twice would likely be manageable, but thrice... would be a bit of a grey area. &quot;I can probably fit in some of it,&quot; Pathos murmured, glancing down at his erection, her paw still absentmindedly rubbing along its length. &quot;Not all of it, but some. And it would stretch you more than you should be stretched, so it might hurt at the start. Along with... your virginity,&quot; he added, wincing. Had he forgotten to tell her about that?<br /><br />To his surprise, Vena merely nodded her head with a small smile. &quot;I know, Pathy... and I want you to have it - want you to be the one to take it.&quot;<br /><br />Pathos was dumbfounded. &quot;Wait... if you didn&#039;t know what mating was, how do you know what virginity is?&quot;<br /><br />The Vulpix turned her head to the side with a nervous giggle. &quot;That one guy said something about it - right before he got on top of me. And then got pounced by you,&quot; she added, starting to remember that event with humor now, instead. &quot;He said I must have never done &#039;it&#039; before and that he enjoyed a virgin. I didn&#039;t really know what it meant until your explanation so far...&quot;<br /><br />The Arcanine gazed silently at her for a long moment, before deciding to just shrug it off. The event was in the past. &quot;I see... but, you know it&#039;s a physical thing too, right?&quot;<br /><br />That seemed to confuse Vena, her head tilting to the side. &quot;What do you mean?&quot;<br /><br />&quot;Your virginity is symbolized by a thin barrier inside of you,&quot; the Arcanine murmured, brow furrowed in thought. &quot;The first time you mate, the male&#039;s penis breaks through it, and the barrier is gone forever... thus, losing your virginity. And, well, it hurts for a bit.&quot;<br /><br />&quot;... oh.&quot; Her gaze dropped between her legs, not liking the sound of that. Why did this mating thing have to be so complicated?...<br /><br />Her thoughts were interrupted by a large paw, Pathos&#039;s - lifting her head to smile down at her. &quot;It&#039;s okay. If you don&#039;t want to do it now, we don&#039;t have to - &quot;<br /><br />&quot;No, I still want to!&quot; She realized how angry and stubborn she sounded, falling silent as she took control of her voice with a gulp. &quot;Mmh, I do want to, Pathy...&quot;<br /><br />&quot;Okay.&quot; His paw was gentle, rubbing along her chin and up to her left cheek in a fond caress. &quot;It&#039;ll hurt... probably a lot... but it&#039;ll fade before too long. Then you&#039;ll feel nothing but pleasure from it. If you&#039;re really the big and growing girl you say you are, you&#039;ll be just fine.&quot;<br /><br />Her brother&#039;s words were reassuring, at least to a degree, the Vulpix nodding her head with a smile. Her eagerness to try it out filled in the rest. &quot;Can we try it now?...&quot;<br /><br />Pathos was silent for a moment, the bridge finally reached - he&#039;d just have to either cross it or set it aflame. And at first it looked as if he wasn&#039;t sure which to do. Then - <br /><br />&quot;... mm, turn around, Vena...&quot;<br /><br />Realizing his acceptance in the statement, she immediately complied with a blush on her cheeks, tails lifted high and slightly off to the side, her partially moist slit visible and expectant.<br /><br />There was no need for foreplay. In a way, they had already done a fair bit of it - both from her venture while he was asleep, and their idle touches and pawings while he&#039;d explained things to her. Even still, Pathos didn&#039;t go for a swift entry.&nbsp;&nbsp;Padding over until he partly stood above her, he was well enough in height that she could pass underneath his body and between his legs without touching him if she tried. So the positioning was a bit awkward, the Arcanine having to crouch down some in order to line things up properly. &quot;I hope you enjoy this as much as you think you will,&quot; he murmured with a chuckle, sliding his member forward and between her hind legs to rub against the fur of her belly in a teasing gesture. <br /><br />As for Vena, she didn&#039;t know what to think, other than being glad he was finally taking the next step. Her happy feelings of managing to win her brother over and try something exciting were in combat with her fear of the oncoming pain and a slight dread of the unknown. This activity was one big unknown to her, not in knowledge, but in action - she&#039;d never done it before and wasn&#039;t sure she&#039;d like it. Her body, however, was impartial to that; reacting automatically to his teasing, her slit was already leaking a bit of feminine honey, her body rubbing itself back and forth enticingly along the Arcanine&#039;s member.<br /><br />Pathos had made up his mind. He would go slow and careful, let her adjust to the pain and drive it away. There was no backing out. Disguising his hesitation as teasing didn&#039;t keep him away for too long, as it just felt like he was inappropriately dragging the inevitable out, like a pause before the yanking of a thorn from one&#039;s paw. The anticipation - or rather, dread - could do just as much harm as the actual act. And, of course, his sexual urges were growing by the second.<br /><br />As he lined himself up more properly, pressing the pointed canine tip across her slick opening, Pathos leaned his head down and murmured into Vena&#039;s ear. &quot;Are you ready?&quot;<br /><br />She wasn&#039;t. She really wasn&#039;t sure she was prepared for this. And yet she nodded anyway.<br /><br />Almost immediately she regretted it, squinting her eyes shut and waiting for the pain. It wasn&#039;t long in coming - his rod slowly began to push into her, spreading her slit apart to its expected width, then further... to the point that it elicited a whine of pain from her, eyelids scrunching up even more. Noticing this, Pathos held his progress forward - with difficulty, as his burning desire wanted him to plow forward until he&#039;d hit the limit. To his surprise, he could already just barely feel her hymen touching against his tip - his initial push in had almost breached it, as he hadn&#039;t quite realized how small she was. &quot;Just let me know when to go further,&quot; the fire canine murmured, leaning down to lick behind her ears.<br /><br />Vena wasn&#039;t sure, finding his assurance from earlier to be doubtful. All she could feel was pain, not intense, but palpable indeed as it coursed through her veins. &quot;Mmh...&quot; A minute passed by, then another, Pathos waiting patiently and feeling her sex trembling around the tip and initial inch or so of his member. Her pain was fading, but slowly, and she knew it would be better to eliminate it as soon as possible rather than letting it ferment. &quot;G-Go o-on...&quot;<br /><br />Pathos nearly asked her to be sure, but she seemed determined, her fangs showing as she steeled herself. With a faint murmur, the Arcanine shoved inward. <br /><br />It wasn&#039;t a mighty thrust or a powerful forward drive, but it was enough to break through her barrier and stop pressed against the second one - her cervix. Vena&#039;s small size and virgin tightness were not enough to hold him out, his throbbing shaft mercilessly spreading her to what felt to be past her limit, the jolt of pain from both the over-stretching and the taking of her virginity making Vena cry out in distress. Instantly Pathos was trying to comfort her, lapping between her ears and humming into them, whispering little assurances into them. &quot;Hang on, sis, there&#039;s a good girl... it&#039;ll go away, don&#039;t worry, hang on... you&#039;re doing so well...&quot;<br /><br />Even more time passed in this instance, which seemed to stretch on for ages in both cases - Vena battling her wounds, Pathos battling his urges. Looking down at himself, he realized he had only put in roughly a tad less than half of his cock into her; but she was stretched out around it so prominently that it worried him. Yet he said nothing else, waiting, knowing she&#039;d ask him to pull out if that&#039;s what she wanted. He was no horny, lusty Arcanine - ... okay, maybe he was, but damn it, Vena was his sister and he&#039;d obey her appeal if it came.<br /><br />&quot;G-go... g-go on...&quot;<br /><br />Pathos was flabbergasted. It hadn&#039;t been but a few minutes more than last; had she gotten over the pain already? &quot;Sis, you&#039;ve not adjusted...&quot;<br /><br />&quot;Please...&quot;<br /><br />Blinking in puzzlement, the Arcanine decided not to argue, sliding his back end away until only the tip of his rod remained in her. He could see her inner fluids smeared onto his shaft where it had been covered, along with - shuddering a bit when he saw it - her blood. Not much of it, but enough to be noticeable, the fluid and her honey both giving him lubrication. &quot;Hang on tight,&quot; he murmured, pushing back in - slower than before, but immediately repeating the thrust, establishing a snail&#039;s gentle rhythm. <br /><br />Vena&#039;s mind still thudded back and forth in the throes of pain - it felt much like her brother was stabbing her repeatedly in the same open wound - but a spark of some unfamiliar warmth revealed itself behind the wall of hurt. Like a drowning castaway, she focused all of her attention on it, her salvation. And the spark grew... slowly, ever so slowly. But with each step it took in size, from spark to ember to flame, it eradicated the pain around it, consuming until they faded into a dull, blunt ache. <br /><br />Her excitement grew, voice still heavy-laden but for a different reason entirely. &quot;I-I... I can feel it, Pathy...&quot;<br /><br />His pace slowed just a tad, his own breath labored. Thankfully his body was realizing just how small and inappropriately-sized her own body was to accommodate his size, and his urge to piledrive her into the ground with his thrusts had more or less dissipated. The libido was not reined in fully, though, and wanted him to continue and seek out as much pleasure as he could; a want that he firmly denied within his mind, knowing it would be devastating to her. &quot;W-what is it, sis?&quot;<br /><br />&quot;The good feeling... I c-c-can feel i-it!&quot; Clearly excited and struggling to show it, Vena dug her claws against the firm, rocky surface of the cave floor. &quot;Oh gods, don&#039;t stop, Pathy... I-I... I don&#039;t want it to g-go away!&quot;<br /><br />Grunting once, the Arcanine leaned his head down to kiss between her ears. &quot;Just hang on and tell me if you change your mind,&quot; he murmured, pausing as he spoke, only to resume his powered penetrations immediately afterward - twice as fast.<br /><br />Twice as fast as the sluggish pace from before was hardly much of an increase to him, only slightly raising his own pleasure. But to Vena, it was another crack in the window holding back the torrent of ecstasy her mind held at bay. Stretched further than nature intended her to be to hold in barely half of his shaft, that half slick with her juices and rubbing mercilessly against her inner walls, ravaging her delicate flower with its size and strength - even the slightest increase in speed was a spike to her emotional tumult. Letting out further moans and whimpers, mostly compromised with a mix of desire and a pinch of that remaining pain... Vena was utterly helpless to move, contribute, or do anything apart from soak in the emotions she felt while her brother mated her for the first time.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Pathos was... adapting. At first he wasn&#039;t sure whether or not he liked this. She was nowhere near big enough to fully treat his malehood, and it was a constant frustration that he couldn&#039;t stuff it all in and scratch the itch residing on the back half of his cock, dry and untouched. But it was more than made up for when he kept his gaze down on her.... seeing her smaller form gently swaying front and back in time with his thrusts, his thick length pushing in and out of her body, her expression tightened and in flux with an array of new emotions, yet plainly entrusting her safety and security to him... these all raised his own feeling of masculine power more than any romp with the Rapidash ever did. With the Rapidash, he&#039;d asserted his male dominance with power - thrusting into her with every ounce of strength he had and filling her with every inch of his heated rod, swelling his knot within and claiming her body as his own.<br /><br />With Vena... he wasn&#039;t the dom because he could outmatch her strength. He was the dom because she gave him control... trusted him... left her pleasure and enjoyment in his care.<br /><br />And he would not let her down.<br /><br />In terms of physical, sexual gratification, Vena was somewhat disappointing. There was little for him to gain from pushing in and out of her small body, not compared to that Rapidash, who was easily able to house him entirely in warm, wet bliss. But the satisfaction of bringing this first time to his younger sister, watching her face slowly morph from pain to pleasure, being there for her - made it all worth it.<br /><br />As for Vena herself, she was in heaven. A slightly painful heaven, because that ache had reached a minimal point that it would not pass, but it was easy to ignore. He was just so... so... -big-. Filling her completely, like a long-lost puzzle piece that completed her body and mind, scratching an internal itch that made her want to moan and even scream... was her pleasure enhanced from how big he was? Or did a proper-sized member bring out more pleasure without the pain? Questions were popping into her head every second, and she mentally ignored them all, wanting to focus purely on emotion rather than thought. &quot;Nnh...&quot;<br /><br />On and on the mating went, the pace slowly increasing as time went by. Her inner walls continued to coat his length with her fluids, slickening the male flesh and making every forward thrust carry a wet, loud squelching sound. Each entry only put half of his shaft into her, the tip pressing up tight to her cervical barrier every time without fail. Precum dribbled from the tip, adding to the lubrication, some even dripping and rolling into her womb; the sensation made her shiver and squeak, a paw stroking futilely at the ground below. <br /><br />Vena had lost track of time quite quickly. Letting her mind saturate itself with the feelings and emotions of bliss being brought about by her first time with a male, every other sense - time, space, speech - were severely hindered, if not disabled. Only deeply-ingrained instincts like breathing were intact, going on even when she put no thought into them at all. No, her thoughts were completely narrowed on the feel of his throbbing length sliding in and out, in and out, in and out... <br /><br />&quot;Doing alright, Vena...?&quot; Pathos&#039;s voice slipped into her ears, smoothly as silk, a perfect match to his gentle lovemaking.<br /><br />&quot;I.... I.... mm.... yes...&quot; Speech was difficult to the extreme, but she managed, afraid that silence would provoke him to stop.<br /><br />The Arcanine continued with a small nod and a lick to her head. His opinion was rapidly beginning to change - the more he got used to it, the easier it became to focus on the pleasure he was receiving rather than what he wasn&#039;t in comparison to his last mating. She was small, yes, but also incredibly tight and heated on the inside, slickening his rod and pulling to keep it inside, sending little jolts of pleasure through his body.<br /><br />&quot;Mmh... nnh...&quot; Without warning, the Vulpix felt her ecstasy beginning to mount itself quicker and quicker, building up to - what? &quot;Nnh!... Pathy... I, I, what&#039;s...&quot;<br /><br />Recognizing what was going on, the Arcanine murmured into her ear with a slight boost of speed in his thrusts. &quot;Get ready for your first climax, sis... enjoy it...&quot;<br /><br />He&#039;d barely gotten the words out when she felt it culminate and explode, letting out a cry of confused pleasure. As the cry echoed in the cave, her tightened flower gripped even harder, bringing the Arcanine&#039;s thrusts to a slowdown, a torrent of her warm and sticky fluid washing down his member, spilling out to the cave floor. The fact that any had made it past his pervasive cock had him shocked, and his own senses started to rise...<br /><br />Vena didn&#039;t quite know what had happened to her, her mind swimming in pleasure and what she&#039;d later learn was an &quot;afterglow&quot;. All she knew at the time was that it had been the best feeling of happiness she&#039;d felt in a long, long time... and that she wanted to feel it again. Already she&#039;d made up her mind. This would not be the last time she and Pathos mated, if she could help it.<br /><br />That&#039;s when Pathos pulled out of her, reaching down to flip her over onto her back. Surprised and bleary, the Vulpix blinked up at him with confused eyes. &quot;Pathy...?&quot;<br /><br />He looked reluctant, as if he&#039;d wanted to keep thrusting into her, but at the same time grinning. &quot;Watch this, Vena... this is what happens when a male cums.&quot; And with a bark of laughter, his large paw rapidly stroked himself, pointing it at her body, sending himself over the edge he&#039;d been precariously perched on for a solid minute.<br /><br />Vena could only watch, letting out a faint moan of surprise, as thick ropes of canine sperm flew from the throbbing member in front of her, landing haphazardly onto her front. It seemed to go on forever, more and more of the scented fluid landing in a gooey mess in her fur, sticking fast, a few even landing near her cheeks and mouth even with him aiming it down at her body. &quot;Oh...!&quot;<br /><br />And in a moment, it was over. Pathos watched her with a grin of amusement and pleasure, sinking into his afterglow with another faint bark of laughter. &quot;God. I didn&#039;t think that would be so satisfying.&quot;<br /><br />&quot;I... take it that&#039;s not how it&#039;s normally done,&quot; she murmured, glancing down at her body, riddled with canine semen throughout her fur. <br /><br />&quot;Not at all,&quot; Pathos responded with a chuckle, leaning down to lick her chin. &quot;But it sure was fun.&quot;<br /><br />The two lapsed into silence for a long moment, both coming down from their afterglows with smiles on their faces. Despite being siblings, despite their incompatibility with size, they&#039;d still both enjoyed it. Vena couldn&#039;t even feel the pain anymore, only the lasting remnants of pleasure from the climax her brother&#039;s thick rod had created within her.<br /><br />Finally she managed to speak. &quot;I hope we do this again, Pathy... I really liked it.&quot;<br /><br />Nodding his head, the Arcanine leaned down again, this time to apply a little wet lick to her lips. &quot;Anytime you want to... I liked it too. And now&nbsp;&nbsp;I don&#039;t have to go anywhere to enjoy myself, hehe.&quot; He winked once, to show his jovial attitude about the gibe.<br /><br />Vena took it seriously, smiling up at him. &quot;Anything that keeps you close to me again...&quot;<br /><br />Blinking, his expression became serious, as he slowly laid himself down next to her. &quot;Vena, I won&#039;t be hanging around with you from now on just for the mating. I want to be with you more because I neglected you. I want to make things right.&quot;<br /><br />Shrugging, the Vulpix clung tightly to him - the first time in over a week that she&#039;d been able to do so. &quot;I&#039;d say you already did, brother...&quot; Yawning with a wide smile, her eyes closed and her body became still.<br /><br />Surprised, the Arcanine started to speak, but instead fell silent as he watched her drift off into a slumber borne of exhaustion. He could feel his own cum sticking to his fur, perhaps even slightly gluing them together; they&#039;d no doubt have to get a serious bath in the morning.<br /><br />With a smile of amusement, the Arcanine simply laid still until he too drifted off to sleep.<br /><br />At least that bath would be with her. As would foraging, playing, and perhaps many more sessions of fierce mating to come.<br /><br />He wouldn&#039;t leave Vena alone again. Pathos loved her - as a sister, as a good friend, and as the only kindred soul he could truly call his own in this world. And now he was determined to remember it - even if the wakeup-call letting him know of his screw-up had been the strangest one he&#039;d ever experienced. Not many got to realize their mistakes from waking to their sister sucking them off.<br /><br />Grinning, the Arcanine slid Vena&#039;s body down some until her head rested up against his sheath and sac, unaware of what he was doing in his sleep... but if he&#039;d been awake to see it, he would have seen Vena cuddling up to them with an enjoyable smile, nuzzling against the furred sheath and bathing in its scent. Still asleep...<br /><br />As far as wake-up calls went, his could have been worse.</span>",
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