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Dylan/Juniper - [iconname]dahwchooa[/iconname]
Alexa - [iconname]Otterplop[/iconname]
Oh my! Seems unbirth is forever top of my priority list because we have another one with a human this time!
In this story, Dylan and Juniper are travelling from Port Sanri to Rhybute Pass in my western setting and get up to some fun shenanigans along the way when they meet up with Alexa the otter and Aelmiret the owl wolf lupogryph. And as it turns out, slimy gryphons can be very possessive of their human companions!
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Crossed Paths and Campfires
\tDylan adjusted his hat which was meant to block out the sun on the wild Itanobelian frontier. He had only recently arrived in Port Sanri to the north and was now looking to make his way to the crux of commerce in the area: Rhybute Pass. A village in a mountain pass that connected the east and west halves of the entire continent.
\tHe had arrived with his gryphon companion, Juniper. They got a lot of strange looks from others and locals because he was human and she was a pony-sized gryphon that was made of slime and thus was in a constant state of subtle shifting. She could actually maintain a solid form at will, and she was only as melty as she wanted to be, but her default state of matter was ever so subtly goopy all over.
\tWhile she got stares for being unique, he got them for being human. There weren't a lot of humans in the region because most humans remained in a few key nations and they weren't known for being all too kind to the other races. Inferiority complex, one might assume, since they were not as physically strong and less adept at magic than most other races in addition to lacking senses or flight or other abilities like underwater breathing. They were excellent with technology, though.
\tFortunately Dylan wasn't like most humans. He loved his furred, feathered, and slimed companions. Honestly, probably more than other humans. Scratch that, definitely more.
\tSo he and Juniper had come to a new land in hopes of starting a new life. A fresh start. But it was not going to be easy since so much of the world was empty and untamed wilds. Upon arriving in Port Sanri, Juniper's mood immediately skyrocketed. Not that she was miserable in the first place, but the moment they set foot on land she said she felt everything improve. Said there was something in the air that was giving her extra energy and positivity.
\tDylan was not one to let that sort of joy go to waste.
\tThat first day they spent most of their time exploring the town, sampling the foods of the local marketplace, and moseying around the outskirts of town to acquaint themselves with some of the ranchers and farmers that had established themselves.
\tThe one that stood out the most was a lovely hippogryph by the name of Ilorek. Tall fellow with rusty red feathers, golden highlights, and black tips. He ran a ranch with his wife a canine bat hybrid that included horses, gryphons, dragons, ulokar, cockatrice, and a few other creatures Dylan didn't recognize. He was a sweetheart and offered to rent out or sell a mount to Dylan, but that wasn't needed.
\tIt was tempting, of course, but Dylan could ride Juniper if he wanted. She didn't always appreciate being mounted (in that way) but it was always an option and he was fit enough that he could keep up with her trot at this size. She wasn't as large as a full grown horse, so it'd feel rude for Dylan to ride her. He was already putting saddlebags on her haunches and letting her carry most of their supplies. Though Dylan wasn't familiar with equine terminology, Ilorek pegged her at 15 hands high.
\tThat was not something that was consistent. Juniper was able to shift her size at will, within reason. This was just the most comfortable for her to maintain for long periods of time. It was big enough that she didn't feel threatened by others, but not so large that it required great amounts of energy to keep moving. If she grew, it tired her out faster and she needed to absorb more. Her being at head height was a perfect balance between strong and efficient.
\tWhile Dylan was talking to Ilorek, Juniper hopped the fence to frolic with the ferals a bit. She was fully sentient, able to talk and everything, but she did like to feign a feral state of mind to get out of talking to people she didn't want to talk to. She was picky with who she conversed with. Ilorek was fine but she saw another gryphon in the field she wanted to greet.
\tIlorek made a comment about how she kept play bowing with another bird, but was always aiming her rump towards them to ensure they got a good look under the tail.
\tNaturally, Dylan blushed bright pink, not entirely comfortable talking about that sort of thing with a stranger. Luckily Ilorek was perceptive and didn't push the issue farther. He just talked with Dylan about what he was doing in Itanobel and what his plans were going forward.
\tIn all truth, Dylan didn't actually know what his plans were. As best he was concerned, he intended to head down to Rhybute Pass and decide from there. He wanted some time alone with Juniper to explore the vast wilderness of Itanobel before settling for any one direction.
\tIlorek liked this response, so he wished Dylan the best before the human and goo gryphon companions departed the city that following morning.
\tThere was one major road that went south from Port Sanri through some fields and farmland, traced the woods along the north eastbound until reaching the foothills of the StoneMetal Mountains, then south along the mountains. They would be taking that path but needed a map to make sure they didn't end up accidentally taking one of the many branching paths that would lead to dead ends in the mountains or forests.
\tBy noon the day of their departure, they had already gotten to the north tree line and were heading east. They kept a vigilant eye for bandits and gunslingers who might try to rob them. They were confident they were safe and their supplies were not in danger of being taken because Juniper had ways to protect them but it still didn't sound like a good time even if they came out unscathed.
\tWhile that remained a thought in the back of their mind, both Dylan and Juniper soon lost themselves to the exceptional beauty around them. The land was untainted, with natural vistas and clean landscapes as far as the eye could see. The forests were a lush mix of temperate and austral, blending seasonal trees with leaves and year-round trees with needles and scales. Beautifil and layered.
\tSo of course, as they made their way along the trail that was raised in the foothills of the StoneMetal Mountains and they could see the forest laid out in front of them as far as the horizon, they found themselves in awe. Distracted.
\tSince Dylan wasn't riding on Juniper, he stepped up next to her and pressed his hand to her shoulder. She was a little slimy but mostly solid. None of her clung to his palm. “You want to go and fly?” He asked, half grinning.
\t“Not if I'm carrying all our luggage.” She chirped back at him. Her voice was sensual and kind but had the subtle hint of a burble coming from the back of her throat. That was the slimy bit of her. “Tell you what, you carry this saddlebag on your back and I'll go fly!”
\t“I can't do that!” He gasped with mock indignation. Neither of them were being serious. “What about when we get to Rhybute Pass and put our stuff aside for the night?”
\tShe trilled. “That sounds lovely but I can't carry you.”
\tHe patted her, the gentle slaps making splashes in her goopy outer layer that got re-absorbed into her flank. “Yes you can, you just don't want to.”
\t“Don't tell me what I can and can't do!” She said in a haughty tone as she pulled away from him and held her head up as high as it would go, feigning nobility. She also lifted her thick tail to curl over her lower back as she trotted away, glancing back to make sure Dylan saw what she was doing.
\tHe gave her flank a smack as she passed by him, the touch making her stop and shudder, her feminine bits twitching subtly. “Come on, we have a long way to go.”
\tShe mostly stayed ahead of Dylan as they continued south along the foothills. In part it was because she walked faster than he did even carrying their luggage, but it was also because she was having a fun time teasing him every step of the way.
\tAs a joke she'd leap forward, pouncing on a rock that had some moss on it, chirping, “Rock moss!” then bat at it with her paw while making sure her tail was high and her loins were exposed. She'd glance back at him and give him a look of mock disgust as if to question him being lewd, but then shake her rump and grin before regaining her pace ahead of him.
\tThen she'd pick up a stick like a dog, snapping it in half with her beak while holding her head up high. She'd suddenly squat down on all fours with a wide stance any time she heard some snapping twigs or a disturbance in the nearby forest. It was probably some arboreal rodent or maybe a deer but she was jokingly treating everything like a threat. To tease Dylan for being a defenceless human.
\tIt was all done in jest, of course. She wasn't resentful and he wasn't upset about any of it. That was just how they were together and being in a new world opened up all sorts of possibilities for casual teasing. Plus, it meant that Dylan got a lot of long, extended looks at that plump spade of hers rolling in slimy pseudo-flesh between her legs.
\tDespite her being a lovely creamy peach colour overall and made of selectively solid goop, her slit remained pink from the inside, leaking a different fluid the entire time.
\tHe could hardly contain himself. Literally and metaphorically. Not only did he have a deep desire to sneak up behind her and bury his face under her tail, he also had a visible tent-shaped bulge in his pants. One that had a dark patch at the very tip. She noticed but chose to not acknowledge it.
\tThis was part of her casual teasing. Pretending it wasn't right there pointing at her.
\tThe main reason he didn't take her aside for some alone time was that they could tell it was getting late and they had no idea how long it would take to get to Rhybute Pass. They'd been told it took about one day's travel time and they left at sunrise, yet they also acknowledged that may have been a gauge of time based on horseback travel, not walking on foot for Dylan. The human biped. There was no way they were going to make it to the pass by sundown, and that worried him so he was doing his best to keep up and push forward with minimal distractions.
\tHe even went so far as to urgently push her forward when she tried teasing him, once he came to realize there was no way they'd make it in time. They were going to be stranded in the middle of the fores at night in a wild, unfamiliar land. That made him worried, even if he knew she'd protect him.
\tDylan had purchased a pair of revolvers with ademane bullets, but he was not the type to use them. He'd purchased them in Port Sanri as pretty much everyone on the ship told him they were needed for protection. He was no fool, and though he felt awkward with the pair of them hanging off his hips in holsters, he did feel somewhat more confident with them there. He knew deep down inside he'd hate to shoot them and hated the idea of hurting anyone but he'd protect her as much as she was going to protect him if it came to that.
\tThey continued down the winding path south between the mountain and forest until evening came and the sun threatened to disappear beyond the horizon. “Okay, we haven't even made it to the outpost, and they said that was the half way point. There's no way we'll make it to Rhybute Pass before sundown.” Dylan said with a sigh of exasperation. “Should we set up camp now?”
\tShe shook her head, bits of goop threatening to splash away only to stay connected and re-merge with her flank. “No, we keep walking. If we stop now it's more we have to do tomorrow.”
\t“No quips or teases?” He asked, not sure if he wanted an answer.
\t“I can tell you're being serious. I only harass you when I can get away with it.” She turned and pressed her forehead to his, then brushed past his cheek to nuzzle his neck and shoulder. “But we keep walking for now.”
\tJuniper didn't wait for him to respond. She gave a peck of a kiss and turned to walk away with tail and head held high. When Dylan playfully slapped her rump, she stopped and looked back, unabashedly hiking her vulva like she was in heat.
\t“Okay, I thought you said no teasing.” Dylan protested, his gaze flitting back and forth between her spade and her gaze. When he saw her expression soften and her ears lower, he understood. “Oh, this isn't a tease, then?”
\tShe just purred at him, a warbling coming from the back of her throat as she waggled her eyebrows at him ears up and flicking with anticipation.
\tHe glanced around, looking for somewhere to disappear for some personal relief. Up the hill to the east was what looked like a cozy little copse of trees between two cliffs. Dense and hard to see through, which meant they'd have some private time. He gently tapped her rump again and motioned with his head to the bush in the gorge.
\tShe raised her ears again and swiped her tail at him as she chirped and twittered. She leapt off the trail and made her way up the rocky, mossy steps towards the gorge. “Careful, there's some loose pebbles here and the moss is slippy.” She had excellent grip, her slime nearly adhesive if she chose it.
\tDylan was cautious as he followed her into the tangle of dense underbrush and tree trunks. By the time he found her again she'd already stripped out of her saddlebags and was standing tall in a majestic pose, looking down at him with a regal gaze. The rays of sunlight that made it through the canopy illuminated her form, reflecting off her fluid surface.
\t“What took you so long?” She teased, then leaned down to slink towards him, pressing her beak to his chest and nibbling his shirt.
\tThe impact gently displaced his spectacles so he had to adjust them on his face before leaning back into her, caressing her thick and powerful neck. Her ears fell back to her skull and he gave each one a gentle rub, his fingers submerging into the thin layer of good that had grown soft as she cuddled.
\tShe loved his touch, which was why she flanked him and turned so that her rump end bumped into him, nearly knocking him on his own butt as her hind legs shifted and she squatted gently with tail up and stance wide.
\tDylan was attuned enough to her mood to know this was not the time for foreplay. He leaned into her and cradled her hips with both hands, patting her and wrapping an arm under her tail to hoist it up onto his shoulder. With a free hand, he untied the lace of his trousers and stepped out of them, leaving him nude from the waist down aside from his footwear.
\tJuniper trilled at him while pushing back, enough to apply pressure and force her hips against his chest, but not enough to knock him over.
\tWhen he leaned into her to aim himself into her entrance, he found she was still a little too high even with her squat. “Hey, I'm not a stallion, you know.” He joked while trying to push her hind end down. “You might have to-”
\tShe shifted in place and swayed her hips to the side, the tail on his shoulder pressing into the side of his head and nearly knocking him over when he tripped over a rather large log that was covered in moss. “Ah, right.” He said, understanding her message. He kept a hand on her haunch for balance as he gingerly stepped up on the log, careful to not slip off on either side.
\tThe extra elevation was just right. He leaned into her with her tail pressed to his chest and draped over his shoulder, his hips pressed to hers as his member probed between rump cheek and vulva. He had to use his hand to guide himself but it didn't take much to find her entrance once she tensed her loins to hike her lips up towards the base of her tail.
\tDespite her being gooey, she remained mostly firm under the outer later and her slimy exterior actually clung to him, ensuring he didn't go too far or slip and fall away. And the moment he felt her oozing flesh part to swallow his member, he couldn't help but lean into her and slap his hips to hers.
\tShe widened her stance and arched her back to better help him get the right angle, chirping and warbling every time his form impacted hers. She swished her tail over his shoulder and clawed at the ground a bit, each twitch of her muscles beneath the slime layer clenching and teasing his length. She even went so far as to lower her head in a show of performative submission, despite being the larger and stronger of the two. She knew he loved that dynamic, even if he hated to act dominant.
\tDylan's loins tingled and throbbed, his member firm as the wood he stood on while he slapped hips to hers. He tried to grip her rump but the subtly shifting mass of goop meant he wasn't able to grab even if she was able to adhere to him to compensate.
\tWhen he leaned back to get a good look at her spade, he noticed that it seemed to have swelled up, like she had willed a heat into herself. The lips were plumper than before – which was already nice and soft looking – and the pink blush from her insides extended farther up the vulva. With his cock inside her, he reached down with his free hand and pried at her lips, exposing the brighter pink inside that snugly held his member in place. The flesh of her pink on the peach of his length was a gorgeous view, which was made better every time her pelvic region twitched and angled to stroke him.
\tAgain, he leaned into her while pumping in and out, gyrating his hips in shallow but complete motions. Inside, her flesh was firm and slick, like more traditional vaginal walls, not shifting and fluid like on her flank and rump. That meant he got the friction he needed with every thrust.
\tBut the more he bucked into her, slapping against her goopy haunches, the harder a time he was having keeping inside her. She seemed to be rising. He thought at first maybe the log was shifting or that her arousal was straightening her legs to make her more erect, but nope. She was expanding in size, the rolls of slime bubbling up from deep within her to seemingly create more mass.
\tThe distraction softened him a bit but he was not the type who was going to let that, or her encroaching inaccessibility defeat him.
\tDylan pulled out with the sound of a wet plap, leaving her lips to seal shut in his absence. She glanced back to see if something was wrong, eyes wide with concern. She relaxed when he brought his hand up to stroke her lips from clit to tail base. Again, she trilled and lowered her head, rump up high and chest to the ground, tail still hiked up over his shoulder even if her lengthening legs meant that it was draping over him more than anything else.
\tHe used his fingers to tease her flesh and part her lips, slipping a few into her to revel in the slick sounds and velvety flesh that clenched around him. He curled his digits while leaning into her, the rest of his hand pressed against the pillows of her vulva, kneading while he explored her opening. He tickled her walls, pressed down in every direction, and did his best to find what spots elicited the best response, which he gauged by her subtle twitches and shudders.
\tJuniper was loving the attention, which was why she pushed back into him, nearly knocking him back on the log. Once she realized what she was doing thanks to a bit of excess zeal, she halted and once again squatted down so that her loins were lowered as close to his as possible. Unfortunately, she had grown enough that even squatting with her hind legs bent, her spade was too high for him, with the puffy pillows of flesh forming a heart on his chest.
\tShe actually lifted one of her hind feet up onto the log next to him, which helped her widen her stance a bit more, loosening her loins for him if he was gonna use his hands.
\tDylan smiled with delight as he felt her insides shift, which seemed to relax her flesh so when he pushed into her again he felt his entire hand disappear between her folds with ease. It also helped that her triangular vulva was as big as both of his hands side to side, thanks to her growth. When she was still her basic size it was cute and petite, like his palm. Now it was broad and swollen and plump, like both of his fists wrist to wrist.
\tSo her flesh swallowed him with ease, her depths tensing and releasing quickly the moment she felt his limb slide through her opening. She clenched and relaxed in waves, massaging his forearm and fist from one end to the other, practically sucking him in like she wanted his seed. She did want his seed, even if his arm was only a surrogate for now.
\tHe was not shy once he felt her flesh pass his elbow. The angle was right, and now her lips were almost at face height so he leaned into her with all his weight, pushing against the log for extra leverage while also bracing himself with a second hand, his thumb pressed in between bicep and her folds. He pried her flesh wide and even went so far as to press his face where the inner pink of her passage met his arm, but her body was nowhere near big enough to facilitate more than an arm. Yet.
\tThe pair of them paused for a moment with out either of them moving externally. She was glancing back over her shoulder at him while he smiled down at her around her flank, not appearing to move at all. Yet inside her, she was clenching and pushing and sucking on his arm while his forearm flexed and his fingers danced up and down her passage, tickling every fold and wrinkle of her depths.
\tDylan grew increasingly aggressive with it, too, curling his wrist and balling a fist up to grind his knuckles to the floor of her pussy, dragging digits and palming her flesh while her walls constricted around him in waves like it was actively trying to swallow. If he pulled out as she was sucking on him, then plunged back in as she pushed out, it amplified the sensation for both of them.
\tHe kept at it, careful to direct his motions to best to capitalize on her reactions. He twisted his arm, flexed his muscles, and splayed out his fingers to tickle her depths with expert precision.
\tShe threw her head back to warble and chirp at the sky as her walls contracted and twitched with so much vigour it nearly forced his entire limb out of her.
\tAnd if Dylan hadn't resisted her to put more pressure against her climaxing depths, he'd have been ejected out of her with enough force to knock him off the log! In he went as deep as he could go, all the way to the shoulder, to bend his elbow and rotate his arm to match her every moment. The constriction around his bicep in particular was exquisite, but it also was so strong it nearly cut off circulation. Nothing a few good flexes couldn't counter.
\tBut then as he was doing his best to keep pressure applied to her walls, she fell forward and away from him, her spade peeling off his arm with a gooey squelch followed by the spatter of fluids escaping her closing walls. The shift in balance made him fall forward, literally landing face first in the exact center of her pillowy vulva.
\tHe seemed shocked at falling at first, but immediately calmed down and smiled as he nuzzled into her, the lips so big they nearly wrapped around his entire face, so he kneaded either side of her pussy to part those lips and expose more of her pink depths to his tongue.
\tShe shuddered and trilled at him, lowering her tail to pin his face to her slit, smooshing him between gooey limb and slick inner flesh.
\tRather than fight or resist or pull out, he relaxed and enjoyed the sensation of being smothered on both sides, tongue probing her plump folds while he stroked his member in delight.
\t“That won't do.” Juniper chirped at him when she saw him pleasuring himself. She let go of his head from under her tail, then leaned back and hoisted her front end up to literally sit on him, pinning him to the ground underneath her gooey haunches, her lips aimed directly at his crotch.
\tHe seemed shocked, but his firm member found her entrance with ease, as her plump lips guided him directly. The moment he felt his cock lurch into her, she started clenching, pushing, and gently gyrating her hips to ensure her flesh caressed him in spite of relatively little motion.
\tShe kept at him, aggressively clenching her opening before pushing down so her passage stroked him up and down his length, teasing tip and forcing out her arousal onto his loins.
\tIt didn't take her long at all to put him in a state of bliss. The moment she sat down on him, he felt like he was on the cusp of climax, and then she started internally stroking him with her flesh. He grunted and clenched up every muscle in his body almost instantly, shooting his seed deep into her depths one spurt at a time. He twitched with each new eruption, each one getting slightly weaker until he was spent, flopped on the ground under her and breathing heavily.
\tJuniper felt this and slowly stood up off him, the absence of his member making an audible plap the moment he exited her. She clenched her loons to hike up her vulva one more time to swallow his offering, then she shook herself off and adjusted her body until she was regal and dignified again, standing over him with the sun reflecting off her gooey flanks. “We're running out of time.” She teased.
\tHe groaned, then rolled over in the leaf litter. “Okay, fine.” He wanted to relax and bask in his bliss a moment longer, but she was right. They needed to find something that would help them out.
\tThey both collected their stuff, Juniper equipped her saddlebags again, and they both returned to the path like they were trying to hide their tryst.
\tContinuing south, they picked up their pace as the sun slowly disappeared over the horizon, dusk having finally arrived with no chance of finding their way to Rhybute Pass in time.
\tThough they hadn't come close to reaching their goal on time, they managed to catch sight of an outpost at a major intersection right as the last orange in the sky was melting to dark blue and stars.
\t“Halfway Huts.” Dylan said to Juniper, reading the sign. There were only about a dozen buildings in total nestled in a valley between the mountains and woods. They were heading south on the major route that cut through the outpost, with another one coming in from the west to form a T-intersection.
\tOn that western branch of the road, Juniper and Dylan saw another couple comprised of a brown furred otter about the same height as Dylan and a quadruped owl-wolf lupogryph about the same size as Juniperwith mostly gray and brown feathers and fur. Both quadrupeds were as big as large horses, and neither of their companions were riding their mounts. Strange, considering how much people needed horses to carry them around.
\t“Oh hey! A human!” The otter said, her ears up. She had a broad smile, to show she didn't have malice towards him. “Not often you see those around here!”
\t“Pleasure to meet you!” Dylan said while approaching her. “I'm Dylan. Not a lot of people out this time of day, eh?” He looked around to see that, while most of the buildings were lit by lantern and had activity inside, there were no other travellers on the roads.
\tThe otter took his hand and shook it once. “I'm Alexa! Good to meet you but I might have some bad news for you, though.”
\tDylan's shoulders drooped.
\t“Oh, not like that. I just mean you're right, it's very late and we're a long way from any major towns. If you were lookin' to get a place to sleep tonight, you might be out of luck. Looks like each of the options here is occupied.”
\tHe gulped. “Oh, yeah that might be a problem but maybe not all bad. We were expecting to have to set up camp tonight anyway.”
\t“Well, it's a small benefit but there are some places near here that make for an excellent camp site for wary travellers. Not a lot of people stay outside so we won't be harassed, but it's a nice alternative for people who didn't find lodgings at the outpost first.” Alexa explained. “Aelmiret and I were actually headed to Rhybute pass but I can tell by the way he's lookin' at you that we're gonna spend the night here.”
\tJuniper's eyes narrowed and she lowered her stance.
\tAlexa laughed. “It's fine, girl, he's not gonna steal your man.” She winked.
\t“He couldn't if he tried.” Juniper said, voice deep and possessive but compassionate.
\t“Oh, yours talks? Mine can but not when he's like this.” She patted the lupogryph on his shoulder and scritched under his flank. “The Ademane Ijimulius will do that to him.”
\tDylan had not heard the term. “What's that?”
\tShe pointed behind him, towards the summit of the StoneMetal Mountains to the east.
\tWhen he turned he was awestruck by the image of a rainbow of glowing ribbons of magic in the sky, each one emanating from or wrapping around one of the peaks of the mountains while weaving and braiding between each other.
\t“Never heard of it? Well, come sit down, we'll set up camp and I'll tell ya all all about it. You got any food in those bags of yours?” She started walking and Aelmiret the lupogryph followed.
\t“We do.” Dylan said. “Mostly jerky and fruit.”
\t“I got more, I'll share.” She patted him on the shoulder and guided him south on the path while Juniper glared at him.
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\tNot far from the intersection, Alexa helped ignite a bonfire in an existing stone pit with a metal grate on top while helping Dylan and Juniper to find comfortable seating within the campsite. They were off the beaten path but not by far. It was important to not go too deep into the forest or face the wrath of the local fauna, but also important to not stay too close to the roads because then you'd be more exposed to potential outlaws.
\t“This is a lovely place to set up camp at the half way mark.” Alexa said while she leaned on her knee, sitting on a log near the fire. She'd put up a grill high over the crackling flames with a couple big slabs of meat with herbs on top of them, each lightly seasoned with salt and pepper and some herbs.
\tDylan leaned into Juniper's flank, which was mostly solid for him. “Half way mark? I thought you were coming from somewhere else.”
\t“Oh, this outpost is pretty much perfectly at the half way mark between my ranch and both Port Sanri and Rhybute Pass. I stop here often since I am usually am travelling with a saurian-drawn carriage and they don't exactly move fast. They have these cute, short, stubby little legs.” She walked a couple fingers in the air, but bent them so they were walking on knuckles.
\t“Saurians?” Dylan asked. “There are saurians here? I thought those were lost on the million isles of the Ijimuluan.” He nuzzled deeper into Juniper, who curled her tail and neck around him.
\tAlexa stoked the flame a bit as Aelmiret the quadruped lupogryph raised his head from next to her, a keen eye on Juniper. “Mostly, yeah. I brought them over so they're my responsibility.” She was deliberately avoiding eye contact. There was more to that story but she moved in. “But yeah, you were asking about the Ademane Ijimulious?”
\tHe huffed a laugh as a gentle breeze waved some of the scent of the cooking meat his way. “I wasn't, but now that you bring it up I am curious. I've never seen that before!” He looked up through the canopy of the trees around them to see the multicoloured wisps of ribbon-like clouds above the mountains. “It's so pretty.”
\t“Yeah, it's not exclusive to 'round here but you mostly only see it around tall mountains. Probably has something to do with that Hardstone Mining Company that are diggin' for ademane crystal in the StoneMetal Mountains. That's why they call it that. Lotsa crystallized Ademane.” She smiled up at the dancing colours then glanced over at Aelmiret. “This guy here? Yeah he gets a bit crazy when the aurora comes out.”
\t“Oh?” Dylan didn't know how to respond to that. “What kind of crazy?”
\tAlexa got up to flip the four pieces of meat with her bare hands. She was clearly hardened by life in Itanobel. When she say back down she leaned into his belly the same way Dylan was curled up into Juniper. “Well, he's not usually four-legged like this.”
\tDylan paused, and Juniper cocked her head to the side.
\t“Yeah, he's usually two legged, but when the aurora comes out, it makes him shift like this. Luckily this one's pretty easy on him, he's not all feral. If the aurora's stronger or closer to the ground, he can get wild. Right now he's just quad and cute.” She nuzzled into his thick owl-like neck feathers. “When he gets more wild, he needs me to keep him in check.”
\t“How do you do that?” Dylan asked, idly reaching out to stroke Juniper's neck. In the back of his mind he was wondering if that meant the lupogryph was potentially still dangerous.
\tShe sniffed the air. “Oh, same way you tame yours.”
\tJuniper snapped her beak at Alexa. “I am not tame and while I am his I'm not owned by him!”
\t“Calm down, calm down, I meant it playfully.” Alexa motioned, amused. “I just mean, that as long as I give him something to focus on, he doesn't wander or anything. Just like you had some fun earlier. I assume?” She sniffed the air. “I do smell that on you, right?”
\tBoth of them paused to glance at each other. Dylan was flushed, but Juniper was more defensive. Her form gently swelled against Dylan as she grew.
\t“Ah, right. I apologize. I Often forget avians and humans don't have the best sense of smell.” Alexa explained. “But yeah, I can smell arousal on both of you, and the sweet scent of sex. I assume you had some fun before you arrived? And she seems to still be needing more.” She pointed to Juniper.
\tFor a flash of a second, Juniper looked grumpy, but then she looked down at Dylan with raised eyebrows to confirm it. He just blushed and avoided Alexa's gaze.
\tThe otter continued. “So when he goes more feral, I just, uh, take care of him that way. Right now he's just a big silly doggowl.” She leaned over and rubbbed his belly, nuzzling under his leg to make him lift it and expose a rather large sheathe with a moist tip. He wasn't exposed, but there was a visible bulge nearest his rump end.
\tDylan blushed again. He didn't want to look aroused but the image of Aelmiret's exposed bulge made him firm once more. Luckily it was easy to hide by lifting a leg and angling his thigh. Juniper's focus seemed to fixate on Aelmiret. She wasn't being aggressive but it was clear she was feeling threatened or defensive somehow once she saw Dylan was getting aroused again and it wasn't for her.
\tAlexa continued rubbing her lupogryph companion's belly, teasing either side of the sheath but not peeling it back to expose him. “He's a big softie. He probably wanted to stop here with you two just so he could watch over you tonight. I would have just kept going to Rhybute Pass overnight.”
\t“Protect us? From what? Are we in danger and didn't know it?” Dylan gulped.
\tJuniper assured him, “We were fine.”
\tAlexa shook her head. “Not directly in danger but potentially. Anyone walking these roads at night is at at least some risk, whether it be by folks with revolvers and rifles, or a ulokar or wolf pack. It's not safe to be out at night wandering unless you're familiar with the area. I am. He is.” She thumbed to Aelmiret, jabbing his short owl beak playfully. He snapped at her finger then warbled at her.
\tThe sound made Juniper's head hike up, ears erect. Her tail pressed Dylan to her flank.
\t“Cute!” Dylan said, then slid out from under Juniper's protective tail. “Can I pet him?”
\t“Hah, that's up to him!” Alexa chuckled, then looked over to Juniper who was staring at his smug face. “But I'd consult with her first.”
\tDylan turned to Juniper, slightly ashamed. “Oh, right. Yeah I hadn't thought of that. Uh, you don't mind, do you?” He had to think about what he was asking, it didn't seem like a big deal to him. She could be a little possessive with him but it was never an issue, it just mean she got more of him later. At least that's how it usually worked.
\t“We don't know them.” She said, tone neither angry nor encouraging.
\t“Yeah, but they seem nice.” Dylan countered.
\tAelmiret stared directly at Juniper while lifting his leg and subtly shifting his hips so that the tiniest red tip emerged from his sheath. Then he grinned at Dylan while warbling some more.
\t“I think he wants you to rub his belly.” Alexa joked. When Juniper huffed, she added, “Rub at your own risk, I suppose.”
\tThe scent of the lupogryph's musk wafted out around the bonfire to wash over Dylan. It was strong enough on its own but then Aelmiret used the edge of his wing to actively wave it over.
\t“You're just being cruel now.” Alexa joked, leaning into his neck plumage.
\tDylan gulped. “Is he comfortable with, uh-” He blushed and avoided eye contact with Aelmiret's piercing orange eyes. “Nevermind.”
\tAelmiret hooted and extended his neck in invitation, then rolled over onto his back, front talons folded up on his chest while he stared, upside down, at Juniper and Dylan expectantly.
\t“I think he's inviting you both over, if you feel so inclined.” Alexa explained.
\tJuniper huffed and chattered her beak. “I'm fine where I am.” When Dylan looked at her with sad, needy eyes, she rolled hers. “Fine, go ahead.”
\tHe balled up fists and did some mini hops. “Eee! Okay!” He stepped up next to Aelmiret and knelt down next to him, almost immediately losing all of his gusto. “So do I, uh-”
\t“It's fine. He's sentient right now, you know. He just can't speak with his feral form. If he didn't want you giving him a bit of a belly rub he wouldn't be exposing himself.”
\tWhen Dylan hesitated and glanced back over to Juniper for assurance, Aelmiret rolled over and grabbed the human with both front talons, pulling him into a massive feral hug. This coaxed a full-bodied shift out of Juniper, who seemed prepared to pounce.
\tLost in the lupogryph's plumage and fluffy front legs, he squirmed and nuzzled his head into the surprisingly soft creature's belly and chest. In the commotion, he ended up slipping out and landing with his head right in front of his sheath, the cock tip and opening filling almost the entirety of his vision. This made him freeze in place, his expression growing dull as the juicy, meaty flesh loomed over him. He could practically taste it. Everything seemed so vivid to him, from the subtle texture details in the red tip to the way the fur nearest the opening was all moist and clumped together.
\tHe didn't even glance back at Juniper before leaning forward and nuzzling into Aelmiret's sheath. His focus wasn't the cock, but the soft and tender flesh of the sheath that held it. He pressed his face right between shaft and holster, hand sliding down the beast's length to explore his depths. There, he found the swelling bulge of the unformed knot, so he gave it a rub while smearing the juices all over his face. He did this all while the slick sounds of slime and air plapped out from his depths.
\tDylan was lost almost instantly to the feral frenzy of such powerful scents and feelings.
\tBut he was yanked out of it a moment later when Juniper snatched him out from Aelmiret's embrace, hoisting him up and cradling him in one arm to take him back to their side of the campfire as he reached out longingly for lupogryph sheath.
\t“H-Hey! Juniper!” He whined, then smeared the juices that were on his face all down his neck and chest so that the vapor evaporated and the scent wrapped around him. It even got all over his spectacles so that he couldn't see anymore.
\tShe put him down and then gently plucked his spectacles from his face while sitting on her haunches. She folded up the arms and then motioned for him to take his shirt off all while not prying her gaze away from Aelmiret.
\tThe lupogryph just chuckled and hooted an amused laugh.
\tDylan did as commanded, peeling his shirt off and folding it neatly. Juniper took it, helped him remove the belt and holsters, then aggressively yanked his pants down leaving him wearing only his footwear. As soon as that was all that was left, Dylan reached out to try to return to Aelmiret and that musky sheath!
\t“Uh, Dylan, good sir, I think your girl needs you more than he does.” Alexa joked, motioning towards Juniper. Then she noticed that Aelmiret was gazing longingly at her. She sniffed the air and grinned a broad otter grin. “Yeah, she's filling the space with her estrus scent. Okay, I can't say no to that face.” She leaned in to nuzzle him with a hug around the neck while using her other hand to shimmy out of her jeans. Once she was able to step out of her pants, she crawled up onto the Lupogryph and nuzzled into his chest while easing back onto his belly, prepared for his knot.
\tWith both Alexa and Aelmiret busy, Juniper was able to get Dylan's attention, spinning him to look at her. She glared at him, the silky mass of slime on her body all flowing readily, volatile. “You're mine.” She said in a hushed yet commanding tone.
\t“Yeah, but you can share.” He crossed his arms, fully nude and erect.
\t“I can share but I don't want to.” She explained, then leaned into him, stepping up to him in what would be an intimidating motion if he didn't know she'd never hurt him.
\tHe feigned resistance and pushed back at her chest. “But they seemed so nice, and now look, he's all busy with her!” He motioned over to Aelmiret and Alexa, noting that Aelmiret was gripping her by the hips and pushing up into her, desperate for that knot to pop in. “You could have had that.”
\t“I don't want that, I want you.” She cooed at him, voice softening as she pushed into him. She now stood tall over him, shoulder taller even than the top of his head. She had been growing ever since Aelmiret exposed his sheath, perhaps a playful bit of dominance. She kept pushing him away from the fire until his back was pinned against a tree. She pressed her beak to his chest and applied pressure while taking in a deep inhalation, clearly affected by the lupogryph musk all over Dylan's body.
\tHe huffed. “Hey, not so hard.” He wasn't actually complaining, but there was a lot of pressure.
\tShe pulled back a bit. “Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to hurt you.” She stood tall and smiled down at him. “Stay there.” She kept her gaze on him while turning around and lifting her thick, powerful tail, exposing her cookie which was even more plump than before, so big it had to be the size of his chest!
\tDylan gulped and grinned, reaching out to embrace her as she backed into him, pussy lips pressing to his face and wrapping around his head while pinning him to the tree. He muffled excitement and and rubbed her vulva from the outside, cradling her clit under his chin, plucking her gooey flesh while shaking his head from side to side to grind his face into her walls.
\tHer tail wrapped around the tree to anchor herself there while she started gyrating her hips, grinding her slit up and down his face while occasionally giving him a second to breathe then smothering him again.
\tUp and down she went while he leaned into her, sharing vertical and horizontal motions all the while. Her pussy made every wet and slick sound, all accented by plaps and sucks as she smothered his face and leaned away. Up and down she went, smearing her own juices into his chest to mix in with the sweet musk left there by Aelmiret, like she was marking him and taking him back from the lupogryph.
\tHe moaned directly into her depths, licking and nuzzling back even though she was pinning him to the tree. When he reached up to wrap his arms around her hips, he noticed that her body was more fluid than normal, actually flowing around his wrists before returning to the rest of her mass.
\tWhen she pulled away, some of those slime tendrils that had pinned his arms to her side hoisted him away from the tree, leaving him prone and trapped in place under her tail. She arched her back, and then stepped up on the log for leverage, hovering pussy right over his head while her slime let him go.
\tHe landed on his feet looking up directly into her peach and pink folds, arms outstretched, eager for her to claim him once more.
\tJuniper bent her knees and descended upon him, her sex smothering him face first before her lips distended around his head and swallowed him right to the neck, vulva resting on his shoulders. She kept her back arched and twisted, grinding gently on him before gently bouncing up on down him, using his head like a plug.
\tHe was lost in the flesh that enveloped him, hard as can be on the outside but soaked on the inside. There was no room between his flesh and her walls, just the faintest film of lubrication that seeped out around his neck and down his chest. Part of him felt like falling to his knees, since staying in a standing position was so difficult with her mass pressing down on him, but he also knew if he did that he wouldn't be as high as he needed to be for her to bounce on him and use him for her pleasure.
\tSo he remained standing, arms to his chest and smearing her fluids and Aelmirer's musk all over himself, occasionally reaching up to knead and caress her vulva when she was at the bottom of her bounce. He even went so far as to use the lubricant to nuzzle his fingertips up between his neck and her lips only to have her aggressive bouncing push them away.
\tEventually, she pulled off him and hovered her pussy just above his face, giving him a moment to breathe. He actually didn't need air, as the fluids her body produced protected him, but it was nice to get that last chilly lung full of night air before she slammed down on him again.
\tHis shoulders were making it difficult. Her vulva was somewhat triangular in nature so it didn't have the strict slit shape that would facilitate something wider than it was long going into her.
\tSo Dylan waited until she rose off him, his head making a plopping sound as it burst from her depths, and raised both hands above his head with palms together in a dive. This created a taper from his wrists to his shoulders so when she came down on him again her lips dilated and spread to take in his entire form with relative ease!
\tThe flesh of her walls slid down over his face like a mask until it once again stopped just above his shoulders, her clit tickling his neck and chin. She hadn't quite descended enough to have her lips wrap around his upper chest, so he tried his best to wiggle and push up into her but he was already standing as tall as he could go, his attempt to raise up on his toes just made him lose his balance.
\tJuniper warbled again and waggled her hips, slowly applying more and more pressure on him, clearly tying to have her lips swallow him past his shoulders. He'd offered her a taper but that was still quite a stretch for her. The solution was simple! She concentrated and her mass expanded a bit more while she bent her legs and put increasing weight upon him.
\tHis knees buckled and he fell to a sitting position before she'd grown enough to breach his shoulders, and since she was putting weight on him she actually fell on him as he landed on the ground, hands still up and sitting on his ankles.
\tThe sudden jolt, the excess of her weight, and his arms up in that tapered diving position as he gazed into her fleshy abyss had her entire passage slam all the way down to his waist, plunging everything from his hips up into her in one lurching motion!
\tShe howled and clenched around him, walls massaging his torso and churning her fluids around his face and upper body where her canal couldn't squeeze tight enough to force it out.
\tInside, he was writhing and squirming in delight even if the diving pose was slightly uncomfortable. It wasn't the pose itself that concerned him, but the fact that her clenching, orgasmic walls were not letting him move and were instead squeezing so tight around his torso he felt like he was about to be shot out of her if he wasn't pressed down onto the ground.
\tThe very instant he felt her walls relax, he brought his arms down to cross over his chest, elbows out to grind into her passage and bulge out inside her like a knot while her depths kept sliding over his face and the rest of his body. Though he was not focused on it, his cock remained rigid as steel as she gyrated on his torso, massaging his entire body.
\tAround him, he could feel her passage loosen ever so slightly as she expanded her mass a bit more. He used this freedom to twist and rotate inside, grinding elbows out and massaging her depths with all the mobility and dexterity he could muster.
\tShe seemed to be enjoying it because she stopped moving, halting in place with her lips wrapped around his waist. She didn't bob, she didn't twist, she just periodically clenched her walls around him to hug and constrict him.
\tHe actually did notice that right where his elbows were crossed over his chest, her passage seemed to be a bit roomier. That must have been where a knot was supposed to be. He was emulating a knot for her, and she was twitching with delight around him, grinding walls against his ears and flesh.
\tDylan could actually hear the gentle thrums of the beating of her heart through her fleshy walls doused by the churn of her fluids around him.
\tThen all at once she slammed herself down and started bouncing on him, riding him like he was her own personal pleasure device. Half dildo, half plug with his arms out to emulate a knot. He was trying his best to widen his arm stance so that when she lifted up and clenched, she'd hoist him up with her. But when she did that, she just got onto all four with chest to the ground and rump up, leaving his legs flailing in the air, his torso gripped inside her.
\tJuniper flopped over onto her side, then onto her back, both hind legs in the air and one of her front talons over her belly to grab both of his legs. She wasted no time thrusting him into her, legs for grip. This slammed his entire body through her passage and got him deep enough that his cock passed through her lips and got to grind against her walls. Her sleek, rippled inner walls just beyond her triangular slit.
\tIn truth, Dylan was having a hard time keeping up. Once his head disappeared beyond her opening, he was struggling to understand all of what was going on, what direction he was facing, or what she was doing. As best he could tell, she was on her back, using him as a personal toy until she pushed him in deep and let go, leaving only his knees down still sticking out of her folds.
\tShe gently placed two fingers on the underside of his feet, applying pressure to slowly make him completely disappear into her with a symphony of wet squelches.
\tHe cycled his feet and legs, not to resist, but because inside he was trying to crawl through her and make it to her deepest depths. Every motion made her flesh distend, pressing in against him while he splayed out, the walls now tender and soft like velvet sheets soaked in lubrication.
\tThe fact that the walls were loose and relaxed mixed with the added volume of fluid that buoyed him inside her silken folds told him she'd come to climax while thrusting him into her, or when she was grinding on him in his attempted knot shape. Either way, he was confident that he'd done his job, played his part in making her happy while letting her reclaim him.
\tDylan swam inside her, brushing his fingers and toes against her walls to go deeper until he found a looser chamber filled with fluid as deep as he could go. Once he was there, he curled up into a ball while being swaddled by her womb flesh, resting on a pillow of it while drifting off into sleep.
\tThe last thing he heard was the faint vibrations coursing through Juniper as she spoke with Alexa and Aelmiret before sleeping for the night, joining Dylan in slumber.
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\tThat was one of the most relaxing sleeps Dylan had enjoyed for ages. Not only did he feel rested when waking inside her, but he had the most pleasant dreams of floating in a sea of womb flesh!
\tUnfortunately, his waking was a bit more volatile than he'd hoped. Her walls began shaking and quivering around him, her entire body rolling with him floating inside. A moment later, a rush of fluids escaping her chamber left him in her womb without all the extra juice that kept him in contact with all the walls simultaneously. This left him feeling not cold but like he was in a void, only lightly touched by flesh that cradled him.
\tThe flow of fluids urged him to follow, so he crawled along the floor of the now empty womb, elbowing his way through the birth canal while sure to grind and massage with his elbows. He even periodically leaned down to give pecks and tongue kisses to the wrinkles of her passage before his head emerged from her vulva to the cool morning air.
\tHe barely pushed his arms out of her meaty lips when she reached down with one talon to rub his face clean and slip is spectacles back onto him while warbling and chirping playfully at him. He couldn't help but smile back at her, noticing that Aelmiret was still laying on the other side of the camp site, sleeping with Alexa's head poking out from under his wing.
\tShe was awake but he was sleep. “Well good morning to you!” She said with a smile, not moving out from under the warmth of his wing.
\tDylan waved, then lost his balance and slipped out of Juniper with a messy lurch, landing in a pile on the ground between her tail and hind leg. He noticed all around her that her outer layer was especially viscous this morning. Bits of her were melting into puddles and getting sucked back up! Not only that, but as long as he made contact with her, she seemed to be absorbing the slimy mess that coated him, drying him off quickly.
\tShe offered him some of his clothes once he'd completely dried off, which he happily put on. He was glad to have spent the night in Juniper but he was mildly shy still around the people he didn't know. Even though he'd just been swallowed by his gryphon partner's pussy the night before right in front of them. Now that he was back to normal, he was more modest with his nudity. Slightly.
\t“Aelmiret here insisted we stay overnight to watch over you.” Alexa said from under his wing. “I was considering leaving you be once the sun rose but he wasn't letting me go until you were awake.”
\tDylan gulped. “That's so kind of him.”
\tJuniper trilled and sat proud, laying on her flank. She didn't seem nearly as possessive of Dylan now that she'd reclaimed him; she was no longer hostile to Aelmiret. “We appreciate it.” She seemed to have grown a bit from when he was pushed into her, with her now being far larger than her base size.
\tAlexa noticed that Dylan was curious, so she pushed Aelmiret's wing off her like it was a blanket, showing that he was fully knotted to her, the bulge of him making her lower belly look gravid or pregnant. Once she showed enough of that, she grabbed his wing and laid it over herself again.
\t“I see. So you couldn't go anywhere even if you wanted.” He joked. “Not that you'd want to.”
\tShe laughed and nodded. “If you want to stick around until he's done with me, once his knot recedes he'll go back to bein' his normal two-legged self and you can meet him properly. Talk to him and everything.”
\tDylan glanced over to Juniper. “They did watch over us all night. It would be rude to abandon them.” He proposed.
\tBefore Juniper could answer, Alexa interjected. “It's fine, really, we're fine.”
\tJuniper warbled a chuckle and Aelmiret matched her tone, the two clearly having made up while Dylan was in her womb. “I'd love that.” She said while letting her tail gently side-swipe Dylan's cheek. “We could probably use the company and maybe a guide to the region?”
\tIt was a suggestion that everyone seemed to agree with, so the two pairs of travelling companions chose to stay at Halfway Huts until Aelmiret returned to normal and they could depart together.