Knuckles had a routine to his life. He woke up with the sun, did some exercise to warm up, bathed and then finally performed a ritual before the Master Emerald. Today as he finished the chant he was overwhelmed by melancholy. “If only a few more echidnas were around…” Knuckles lamented to the open air only for the Master Emerald to shine brightly before two badly injured lady echidnas to drop into his arms. Now the guardian of the master emerald was on occasion unaware of what others considered obvious. However he instantly figured out what had happened and what he needed to do next. The master emerald had granted his wish bringing two echidna to him from somewhere and or somewhen and that right now he needed to get them medical attention immediately. 


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Knuckles shook his head. “No I don’t know either of them… though the one with the lighter fur does look very familiar”


“Mmm noted.” the black furred bat said as he marked something on the chart. “Well despite the extensive bruising and numerous cuts they were mostly unharmed. They had lost a lot of blood which might have been a problem if we hadn’t just gotten some units from Knothole today.” the doctor explained while he popped open a fridge and examined a packet of blood. “The two of them share a blood type on the rarer side.” the Doctor said before biting the tab off the pack and gulping down its contents like tomato juice.  Knuckles narrowed his eyes at the scene but elected to not say anything. “Here’s the thing I need you to keep an eye on them.”

“Me? Why not here?” Knuckles asked so shocked he actually fell over.

“Because about an hour after you got in I got word there was an accident near the Lava Reef. A bomb or something went off and we have an unknown amount of injured coming in. Those two are going to be fine and we need the beds.”

Knuckles frowned at the grim situation but nodded. “Alright Doctor, I’ll watch over them.”


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Knuckles looked at his mud and reed hut and felt a spike of shame as the trio of hospital workers transferred the other echidnas inside to the bedding he had prepared shortly. It was only when he got around other people that he recalled he lived a very rough lifestyle. The guardian was not sure how to improve it without leaving the Master Emerald unguarded.  Knuckles thanked the group for their work and made his way inside. He had originally positioned the house so it looked right out at the Master Emeralds shrine and so thanks to the two other echidnas flanking the door he could sit at the back of his home and watch all three.


The thing about watching people sleep though is that it often directly leads to you sleeping. So it was that Knuckles woke up to two echidna ladies squaring up at the crack of dawn. The familiar pale orange one had her fist drawn back in a way that suggested she was about to hammer punch the other lady. The redder lady had a purple energy blade in hand and was plainly looking for a death blow opening.


“SIT DOWN!” Knuckles yelled with enough force that the pair actually fell on their bottoms. “I don’t know what you’re fighting about, but it would be a waste of the doctors' fine efforts to preserve you to kill each other now.” 


“You and I are of the same clan…” The orange one said, staring at him as if just seeing him.”


“I don’t take orders from Pachamac’s tribe.” The redder echidna replied, rising to her feet once more blade ignited.

Knuckles crossed the room in the blink of an eye grasping the red one's arm and lifting her toward the ceiling (not very hard it was a very small hut) Knuckles glared into her violet eyes. “That wasn’t a request.” Knuckles said, relaxing his grip as he caught the flash of pain on her features. Shoving her back to the floor Knuckles stood in the doorway. “If you two are from Pachmac’s time… your fight is over. Perfect Chaos ended the Echidna Civil War four thousand years ago and the three of us are the only echidnas left alive.” Knuckles grimly absorbed the look of shock from both parties. “The Master Emeralds power brought you here from when and wherever, i think that means you get a second chance.”


Knuckles declared before turning to go about his daily ritual. Knuckles was just coming up from the water before he saw both the echidna ladies bare naked in the water with him. Many (most really) would call Knuckles dense but there were some things a man can’t ignore.


“My name is Shade.” the redder lady said  as she cleaned herself, wincing as her fingers found every bruise and cut she had. “I was a warrior for the Nocturnus Clan.”

“I am Tikal. My father was Pachamac, chief of our tribe.” the orange lady revealed and Knuckles gaped. “You seem shocked to hear this.”

“Tikal… but I…” Knuckles was fully distracted that there were two beautiful women naked before him as much by the quandary of the ghost in the flesh before him. “But you died… I have talked to your spirit in the Master Emerald.”


Tikal smiled at Knuckles. “You really used its power to summon us from across the millennia to this day and think it is beyond it to speak with someone who is not yet departed?” Knuckles put his hand to his chin and realized that made sense for a stone that manipulated space and time.


“So not only did I get ripped from the middle of battle, I am now in the hands of the village idiot.” Shade said probably louder than intended though it was hard to say.


“There is no village… it’s just me.” Knuckles icily directed at her as he got out of the water and walked over to the Master Emeralds shrine.


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For the next couple days nothing much changed for Knuckles. He followed his routine which now involved Shade and Tikal bathing with him. It was about the fourth day that the two echidna women seemed to have fully recovered.


Tikal was the first to insist that the housing situation was terrible and said she would fix it. Several felled trees later and Knuckles hut was replaced fully with a cozy five room log cabin. Shade had even added a functioning bathroom to the house with the excuse that she was tired of the cold bath. Knuckles found it odd that the pair still insisted on bathing with him but he was not stupid enough to turn down the chance to share a space with beautiful naked women. When he finally did ask he got two very different answers. Shade insisted that her clan used mixed gender communal showers so she felt awkward and vulnerable trying to bathe alone. Tikal said that members of the tribe of all ages and families bathed together for safety. Both of which sounded perfectly reasonable to the echidna, and even if it hadn’t he still would have allowed it.


Knuckles found himself enjoying the pair's company more and more, Tikal helped him gather food and Shade would go out hunting with him.  Tikal enjoyed cooking and Shade built things for the house giving it a fairly modern feel and between the two the food kept for longer. Knuckles scarcely noticed as his home became their home. Shade and Tikal very carefully buried the home leaving only a tunnel to the surface and a smoke stack from under the mound as clues it was there. His home now kept a nice pleasant temperature all on its own.  The inside of his house was decorated in painted murals and trinkets made of shining stones and colorful feathers. Tikal would sit with him on the shrine in peaceful silence. Shade walked with him on his patrols saying nothing.


Knuckles was more than a little surprised to walk into his bedroom and find both women laying in his bed naked with their lips locked together. His first instinct was to back out of the room and let them enjoy themselves and then it occurred to him they both had their own rooms. 


“Knuckles, we've been having a very important discussion.” Tikal said, having opened her eyes and broken off the kiss. “We’ve decided that you can be our mate.”

Once more I say Knuckles is often dense  but he is not stupid. The guardian looked at both women who had now splayed their legs open giving him a clear view of their sex’s glistening with their excitement and knew exactly what to do. Knuckles bolted  to the bed and stopped looking between the girls. 


“I lost the bet so Shade goes first.” Tikal directed upon seeing Knuckle's hesitation. 


“Oh! Okay.” Knuckles said climbing over Shade. His heart beat so fast it felt like it was going to pound out of his chest. His cock hovered over Shade’s sex twitching and bobbing with his heartbeat. “I - don’t know how this works…” he confessed, utterly shame-faced. Instinct told him he wanted to be with the women but it didn’t tell him how.

“I hope our children get my brains…” Shade said as she took hold of Knuckles cock and guided it into the warm embrace of her pussy. “Mmm you can figure it out from here I trust?” Shade asked and quickly learned the answer was yes he could. Knuckle's instincts guided him once more telling him to push the full length of his member inside, an act that took a few tries as Shade’s pussy was just a little too tight to handle him. The guardian figured out what to do fairly quickly shifting his hips back and forth getting deeper in with each push. Holding Shades' hips with one hand he sucked on her nipples delighting in the way she moaned and called his name. It seemed that both Shade and Knuckles were virgins and quickly discovering the joys of sex. Shade bucked her hips as she did her best to take more of Knuckle's cock into her, biting her  lower lip as she writhed in pleasure beneath him. The Guardian was at his limits far quicker than he would have liked. Knuckles grunted and hissed as he came pinning Shade’s hips to the bed as he filled her to overflowing. Knuckles pulled away and his thick seed tried to ooze from Shade’s sex so she reached down and covered her pussy tilting her hips up slightly. “That was better than I could have hoped for.

“I told you he’d be fine at it.” Tikal said as wrapped her arms about Knuckle’s neck and pulled him into a deep kiss. “Now be a dear and lay down for me. I'll be on top since I know what I'm doing.” Tikal said, guiding Knuckles to lay on the bed alongside Shade. Knuckles obliged her with a smile and watched with glee as she hovered her hips above his for only a second before sinking his cock into her sex in one fluid motion. Knuckle was shocked by the differences of being inside Tikal versus Shade. He had no time to dwell on it before Tikal began to move her hips hoping in his lap his cock sliding in and out of her silken embrace. Knuckles gripped Tikals shoulders but quickly had his hands shifted onto her breasts instead. Knuckles groaned once more, feeling the ecstasy of cumming into one of his housemates.


“Now I'm pretty sure this isn’t normal but just to double check.” Shade said distracting the other Echidna’s she gestured to her hips where she was now sporting a cock that didn’t just rival Knuckles it surpassed him. That wasn’t her only change before the other echidna’s eyes; her breasts were swelling fuller by the second. Likewise the round swell of her bottom was pushing her up off the bed slightly. 


Knuckles lifted Tikal off his hips and was preparing to go find a doctor when his own chest began to expand. The Guardian gripped his newly emerging breasts and nearly fell over at how good it felt to squeeze them. He was distracted from playing with them quickly when he nearly fell over backwards courtesy of the widening of his hips and round slappable bottom. Knuckles didn’t really see his eye;ashes getting longer or the way his lips filled out but Tikal and Shade both did. Knuckles did notice his cock swelling larger and his balls growing to match. He might have missed the formation of his new pussy had he not reached down to fondle his testicles 


Tikal hummed thoughtfully and both Shade and Knuckles watched as her body changed just as they had. Knuckles found himself licking his lips as Tikal’s formed hard and throbbing big enough to match himself and Shade. Shade was outright stroking her cock as Tikals Breast swelled up bigger and bigger. The two echidna’s did not see Tikals bottom grow bigger as they were busy having a silent conversation of eyebrow wiggles and glances. 

“So I think there’s a very good question to ask ourselves now.” Tikal said gently stroking her own cock.

“Uh what’s that?” Shade said, her eye’s hungrily following Tikal’s languid stroking.

“Which one of you wants to take my cock first?” Tikal said smugly Knuckles grinned back at her and Shade gave the other echidna a roll of the eyes. 

“Well to be fully fair Knuckles and I exchanged our virginity so i think Knuckles can have you first.


Knuckles sat on the edge of the bed showing off his new pussy to Tikal. “Come on, I'm eager to see how it feels.” Knuckles said, beckoning Tikal forward. In this perfect moment, with Shade holding him from the back lovingly stroking his newly formed breasts, Knuckles couldn’t imagine ever being lonely again.