1 comments/ 10425 views/ 2 favorites Nia: There Be a Mage By: emap Sam's squeak of surprise gets me moving to the door of the jet fast gun out. I look out to see Twitch coming with four guys behind her. I recognize one, a somewhat annoying FBI agent assigned to the new branch. The one next to him I don't know but is wearing the same black suit. The other two guys are carrying big cases, I look at Sam she looks back and shrugs. We get out of the doorway when Twitch's daughters come through. Twitch stops at the steps up looking a little unsure the four men come on board and drop their luggage. After a moment of looking at the steps and testing one Twitch comes up and looks around. She pads toward the back then comes back looking around and letting out a breath, her daughters take that as a command and land on her. "Nia I figured you would get on one of those jumbo jets to go home." Twitch says lying down, trying to look calm instead of nervous. Once you get to know her you realize Twitch has very expressive eyes. Anger and fear are easy to pick out, nervous is harder but once you figure it out you can't miss it. "I got a private jet, not really mine but on loan from the FCI branch of the FBI. Constance and Ben are in the bedroom, new coffins with a TV in it, Constance laughed herself to the floor when we looked for them." Twitch laughs and shakes her head. "Twitch once we are airborne you are free to go up to the cockpit and watch us fly. We talked to the crew already, our stewardess is busy getting the food, she left half an hour ago." Twitch looks up surprise in her face and lets out a breath. "That is unexpected, and welcome. I've never flown high enough to see clouds from the top. You two never try, the air gets thinner the closer you get." There are two yes moms from them as I move toward our unexpected passengers. "Falco what the hell are you doing here and who are the rest of these guys?" Field Agent Falco looks up at me and sighs. "We are assigned as your backup the upstart over there is my partner and fresh from training, Field Agent Benjamin Franco. These two back here are the other half of your team minotaurs both, one is called Linus the other is Charlie." I giggle, I can't help it I always loved the Charlie Brown specials. "Well all we need now is Snoopy and Lucy. Falco I think your Snoopy.' He smiles and chuckles. "I always liked Snoopy." I sigh and think of calling him Lucy instead. "I'm not Lucy." Field Agent Franco says holding up his hands. "Nope he's Ben-Ben." Twitch says getting me to laugh. "My husbands name is Benjamin, Ben for short, Twitch's farm owner is named Ben so when we are there we call them both Ben-Ben." I say turning when the stewardess comes back finally pulling up packages from a cart. In all four packages get on the plane, Sam and I trade a look. I walk closer to her as she gets the packages set into the kitchen. "I don't think we are going to eat that much." She looks up and smiles. "Some of these are packages of blood, they are flash frozen all I need to do is toss them in the microwave and any vampires aboard have food. I have an assortment of alcohol and OJ for you. Salads, sandwich materials, and of course steaks and roasts in case anyone decides they want to eat a meal. The food will be fine on the jet for a week, the blood until I thaw it or a year whichever comes first." I smile at her rather impressed. "Well then I guess I want an OJ and when are we taking off?" "Soon as I get this packed away and the door shut. I'll give you your OJ before I shut the door. Oh Twitch if you would please move into the recessed portion of the floor, it is there for when we take off and land to keep you from breaking the jet." Twitch laughs and gets up to move into it. I go and sit across from Sam wishing there were two seats a side. Sam smiles at me then gets up and leans across me to lower the window covers on the ones I can see easily. Before she sits she gives me a kiss getting us some hoots from behind us. I twist to look to see Ben-Ben and the minotaurs smiling at me. Snoopy is looking bored and tired. "Snoopy you're slipping, Sam kissed me and you didn't say a thing." He sighs and looks up. "I got yelled at by the director, called my wife even. Not doing that again she's pissed already we're moving to Phoenix." "Damn and here I was thinking I was rid of you." Sam giggles and I get my OJ. "Now, one chance for a drink before we leave I'll do food in the air." The stewardess says after shutting the door. "Prissy and Dissy would like some water." Twitch says getting a confused look from the stewardess. "I knew there was something we forgot. I'll give you a bowl of water and refill when it's low or spills. Small bowl apologies on that I'll be sure and get a big one in Phoenix." With a bowl of water for Twitch's daughters, they come out smaller than you would expect considering how big Twitch is, the engines roar to life. I squeak as we move to the runway and take off. Twitch is looking over at me giggling then sends her daughters over. Prissy and Dissy buzz me playing games of don't touch Nia, this gets me to calm down I'm not looking out the windows by Sam I'm watching them. When we level out the stewardess comes back leaving the door open for Twitch. Twitch gets up and walks that way the new card stuck in her wing flashing as she goes into the cockpit. Sam gets up and follows her squeezing past the stewardess busily making up a salad and sandwiches. "I never would have believed it if I didn't just watch it, the mighty Nia afraid of flying." I turn around to look at Falco. "I'm not afraid of flying I'm afraid of heights. I gotta have one flaw otherwise I'd be to perfect." "Some think you have two flaws, married to a vampire sits way up there on the hate list of many surprisingly well funded groups." Ben-Ben says getting a sigh out of me and a shaking head from Falco. "Ben-Ben they only have a price on my head for right now, I've called Europe they won't touch it. No one here will touch it I've asked. They will drop it just as soon as I remind them I'm called perfection for a reason. Don't forget your not in class anymore this is the real world where I'm top dog." Ben-Ben opens his mouth to say something until Falco touches his arm and shakes his head. "Don't argue with Nia, the military uses some of her suspected sniping jobs as tests for their snipers. No one can do as well as she did, some of them are called impossible." I squeak when the jet rolls to the right and left, Sam in the cockpit is laughing. Twitch seems to be enjoying herself. I get up and head that way wondering how our stewardess did not even bounce off the other side. I find out when I reach her, she has a strap around her holding her there I call her a cheater and head into the cockpit. "What was that?" Sam looks at me, Twitch is to busy with her front paws on two chairs behind the pilots. "Twitch wanted to see what turning would be like up this high. She's calling the experience incredible." I sigh and shake my head. "Nia this is amazing, I wish the jet moved better this is more like gliding than flying that I remember." Twitch says peering out at the clouds. "I wonder if the military would modify one of their fighter jets to let Twitch ride on it." I say with a sigh, Twitch is lost in her own world of remembered flying and seeing clouds. "They would not, Twitch is to large to fit in any of the current models. Even attaching a clear bubble to the underside would deteriorate the flight capabilities to much. I've heard talk they are working on a prop plane sturdy enough to support a dragon. There was talk of trying to make a plane a dragon could control themselves, that one is on the back burner until cockatrice are approved or not." The pilot says turning to look at us with a smile on his face. "The FDA is saying good things on cockatrice they are looking into all of them to see if there are any medical uses in them. I lost four more the day after I laid the twins, they want to do physical testing, see how well they can see and so forth. They didn't explain it all to me. My sister has a male for us to take along in case there is a large pack of cockatrice. No farms in easy walking distance of there so dragons are unknown to any there." Twitch says finally looking back her eyes excited with an undercurrent of worry. "Great don't worry Twitch I have a semi auto Barrett now, Sam is getting my AK and we got those four back there. Not taking Ben and Constance, the gang was last seen leaving for the area with enough time to be there for an hour before it got dark. Wasn't vampires and we need to be active during the day." Twitch nods and turns back to the clouds. I catch a glimpse of the earth so far down there and sit fast on the floor, Twitch doesn't look the pilot does along with Sam. I get pulled back up looking down getting a giggle out of Sam. Feeling silly for almost yelling about the ground so far below us I head back to my chair. Our stewardess hands me a plate with a sandwich and salad on it. Feeling happy to be not overfed for once I sit and eat watching the light disappear outside. Ben comes up next to me and touches my arm, chuckling when I jump. "Could you go see Constance, she wants to try something with you. I think the fame has gone to her head." I look at Ben and sigh, he just points with a grin. "Is it sexual?" Ben shakes his head so I get up and drag Ben-Ben with me. He's trembling at the door I look him up and down then take his gun away and toss it to Falco. Inside it is dark, barely any light showing, I can make out the two coffins. With him pressing in to my back we move farther in calling to Constance. We both jump when the coffin lid bangs open with Constance coming out hissing and coming toward us. Ben-Ben turns and runs I turn to watch him go, Constance leans against me and laughs. "I guess that answers my question." I turn to look at her, she looks up and giggles. "What was that?" "A small movie company has asked me to help with their script they are going to use real vampires. Rather on the hokey side but that at least works, more impressive with fangs and the eyes going I suppose. They want to make it funny and scary funny they got if a little simple at times. There will be some scary I suppose, were you scared at all?" I shake my head. "I knew you were going to try something, I had no idea what so I was a little startled but I do know you." "Scared him so yeah that works, who was that?" I giggle and point to the faces peering in the doorway. "The runner was Ben-Ben, new agent assigned to us, Falco you luckily don't know. Married so don't try, the other two faces there are Linus and Charlie. I got a squad, two agents and two minotaurs." "I know Linus I helped him hunt down a criminal. So did you pick out a Lucy and Snoopy?" I giggle and nod at Constance. "Falco is Snoopy, we don't have a Lucy." "You should get a Lucy, if nothing else so you can do the football bit." There is a groan from the doorway. Constance shoos them away and shuts the door. She comes back to me smiling and looking unsure. "I really like Consuela, I want to feed on her as well as pleasure her I just don't know." I take Constance to the bed and sit us down. "Consuela wants to be fed on she just wants to wait until you more than like her. Course if she wrecked my car I'll kill her, otherwise once you tell her you love her your sucking blood." Constance sighs and looks down. "That's the problem she's human she will grow old and die just like you will. I don't want that to happen to Consuela, she doesn't want to be a vampire. I don't think I could go through that again." I pull Constance to me and hold her. "Life is a bitch and then you die." Constance giggles then hits me on the leg. "A very smart person once said that life is full of hardships, things keep knocking you down, living means you get right back up and keep going." "That helps a little it's just I have a phobia, your afraid of heights, I'm afraid of death. That's why I didn't stay in the daylight and let it finish me. I'm afraid that my preacher was wrong and there is no heaven just dead and that's it end of movie. I know I died once, I've turned people and you very die. I just don't remember anything you close your eyes and then open them again with fangs." "Everybody is afraid of something your fear is more rational than mine. Ben is afraid of sharing my blood." Constance looks at me and smiles before shaking her head. "Close your eyes." I smile back and do turning my head to the side. Constance giggles and moves me on the bed so I am laying there. I giggle when she pulls my panties off me running her hands up and down my legs. She settles between my legs and licks at me sending shivers down my back. I can't help but moan and move for her, Constance knows what she is doing. Her tongue moves over me with long practice sending an orgasm flying at me. Crashing over with a moan I move against her face trying to get more pleasure. Constance changes whispering to keep my eyes shut as she runs my clit between her fangs. She kisses and pokes at me all the way up my body I'm shivering in delight and fighting the urge to look. Constance is pockmarked with burnt flesh her left hand is still there I can feel it touching at my breasts as she sucks on my nipples. I am so close to an orgasm when she moves up me for my neck, I moan when I'm teased with her fangs just poking at me with kisses. Constance sinks her fangs into me and I have one humdinger of an orgasm. My hips are rising up and down begging for a cock to be inserted. Toes curling, hands clenching in the comforter atop the bed, Constance sucks on me prolonging my orgasm. I think I yelled my pleasure Constance is giggling against my neck sucking on me. I curl up in a ball on my side when she pulls free of me I'm trembling when Constance puts two hands on me. "Are you scared?" The fear in her voice makes me open my eyes and look up at her. "Worn out, you know how I am big orgasm or two and I need a nap." Constance smiles at me and moves me up to a pillow. I wake up to Sam and an alarm I look around to see sunlight streaming in. I groan and roll over to hit Sam a little harder than I meant to. Giggling Sam pulls me up and holds up a short dress for me, I shake my head and head for the dresser. "Sam why is it daytime?" I'm going through my drawers pulling things out and tossing them to the side, Consuela rearranged my drawers in the move. "We had landed and you hadn't woken up yet, it was decided you would stay asleep until it was time to go looking. Twitch took a nice long nap herself, we are having breakfast and going." I sigh as I pull out my leather pants skin tight is not good to wear in Phoenix until after Halloween but screw it. I want to be able to move in case it is cockatrice and the male can't hold them back. Sam doesn't say anything while I pull my pants on, get out a nice armless vest and pull on soft leather boots. She squeaks when I put my harness on, I pull out my mini Uzis and get those attached then put the Colt up on my chest and the downsized Desert Eagle goes to my waist. I set the shotgun and the belt of ammo on the bed then go searching for my Barrett. It takes a little looking Consuela tucked the case for it in the closet. Sam watches wide eyed as I load three clips with the impossibly big bullets. I tuck these into the belt of ammo for the shotgun now strung around my middle and head for the kitchen. Linus and Charlie look up and go back to their breakfast. Falco and Ben-Ben keep staring at me, I can't decide if they are staring at my breasts or the shotgun and Barrett. I sit down at the table until Twitch yells at me to sit with her. I get up and go into the living room just off the kitchen and sit on the sofa where Twitch is watching TV. "Nia I like TV, this is really interesting. Consuela turned it on said it's cartoons for the kids that go to school." I look at what is on, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and laugh as Consuela hands me a plate of food. "School hasn't started yet so they just air whatever they got. Constance had me get cable, every channel so there really should be something good on." I smile at Consuela as she turns and heads back into the kitchen. "Twitch, haven't you ever watched TV before?" Twitch shakes her head. "Ben and Marie do not own a TV they have radio's everywhere and a computer. Well two computers so the kids have something to do besides ride me. Farm is a lot of work, even a chicken farm, when it comes time for planting season I help, I churn the dirt these claws are good at it. Only a personal planting of course I'd hate to do a professional farm, would take three or four dragons and that's only for one acre." "Well I guess we can scratch that one off the list of dragon job possibilities." Twitch laughs, Sam giggles. "Twitch, how far can a dragon move in a day?" Twitch let's out a breath. "Depends on why they are moving, just going for a walk it's about fifteen miles an hour, patrol the outskirts so to speak, I do that on occasion. It's good to clear your head and forget what went wrong or what someone said. A female in heat will get the males to move at close to thirty miles an hour my last mate came from about two hundred miles north I had gone into heat in the morning. Next time I think I'll just get the male in the farm we were near, much closer than any of them." I sigh and look down. "Damn, then it's possible it is a dragon still, there is a farm about ninety miles from where the gang went poof." Twitch let's out her breath and shakes her head. "My sister is there, the male she got to come was her last mate he is just the next farm over. They would know about a dragon that size near to them and my sister lords her longer body over me. There are farms farther north of there." I shake my head. "Those are corn and cotton farms, only personal stocks of chicken except one that is just chicken, no cockatrice. Whatever did this came a long way, perhaps it is not a dragon. Could cockatrice lure people away far enough to not be found by a cursory search?" "No, they are like chickens, very on the stupid side. You can walk within fifty feet of one and not know it unless it notices you. They are very aggressive unless it is even to lower numbers. I can herd them because dragons are their natural predators, our scales are thick enough it takes a while to do anything but hurt. Generally the wild cockatrices move in small numbers, not enough to eat otherwise. We are taking a male just in case they flocked, they are known to do that when threatened." Sam leans forward to look at Twitch. "Threatened by what? We just established dragons don't go there on a regular basis." Twitch lets out a breath. "That's the big question something had to happen to those men. Unless they heard cockatrice fighting or saw one and chased to a flock, they ran into something. I doubt it was dragon or cockatrice, either would leave blood and pieces." Falco comes over taking an interest in the conversation. "Possible they did, there was not much of a search. The police searched about a mile around and flew over with helicopters. The common thinking was they just skinned out to hide somewhere and would come back. Some of the families put up a fuss but didn't try terribly hard." "Are we getting more backup?" Falco looks down and shakes his head. "The local police are more than willing to just drop this in our lap. All we got is a promise to run cooked food up to us in the afternoon." I sigh and get up. "Doesn't help us much, we could just stay up there overnight and let Ben and Constance run food up to us. We won't but it's a better option then the cops are giving us. Well Twitch here's to hoping you can find enough cockatrice for six dragons." Twitch lets out a breath and stands up. Nia: There Be a Mage "Nia, can you stay in the back of the truck with us. I'd feel better if you were there to shoot any assassins, your not the only one getting money on her head." "No problem Twitch, I think we are going in two cars anyway. Consuela if you could have a big dinner ready for us we will pack up and head home at five, so be here about seven." Consuela looks over at me and nods. "I will make a nice pie or two and of course a very big dinner, perhaps run for ice cream I did not buy any yet." I sigh and look down to pick up my Barrett and shotgun. "I would love to have a beer honestly. I'm not big on ice cream, the pie sounds lovely. Make sure you have something for Twitch and the kids, in case hunting is slim." I giggle when I see the truck fitting in back is easy it's a very big truck. I have to pry Prissy and Dissy away from my Barrett and shotgun a few times. Twitch doesn't say anything to me while we are in the city the girls ask a few questions especially on the first street light. With the scant bushes and cacti streaming past Twitch lets out a breath and looks at me. "Nia this might be a strange question, but when you look at me what do you see?" "A happy mother, very good dungeon master, and great friend so what led to this question?" "My sister, she always says I chose to stay in the wrong place, like out here is so much better than New York." I sigh and turn to look at Twitch better. "There are not many differences between here and there, there is more open land here, there is less humidity and it is about forty degrees hotter. To be honest it sounds more like your sister is finding something to lord over you because she isn't happy." Twitch giggles and nods. "Perhaps, I find it is warm here, I would prefer to get under some shade and stay. Home I look for the sun and lie in it during the day as much as possible. Ben teases me about being a house cat." I laugh, that is a very good way to put it. "Which puts your home land somewhere between New York and Arizona in temperatures. That puts you as starting in Italy or Greece I would think." Twitch nods. "We are not sure where we started there are dragons in all ancient writings. I would like to see a Chinese or Japanese dragon, possible they are us, the Japanese ones some look like a lion which we resemble a little." "Closer to a tiger I would think, lions are thick in the chest your more of a sleek killer like the tiger." "We are not striped." I giggle and nod. "No but a tiger is striped because it lives in the jungle. Dragons are not striped because they are through Europe, forests and plains galore there. I say started in Italy or Greece because both are forest or plain. Mountain lions and lions are the same color pattern as you are, forest and plains only in their habitat." "Seems odd we start there, it is said all life began in Middle East." I shake my head. "Civilization started there, scientists now are saying man started in Africa. Would make sense that dragons, goblins, ogres, and trolls start elsewhere different environment different top species. Perhaps not different top species, all besides dragon can mate with human, perhaps subjected to a chemical or radiation of some sort to mutate." "So your saying that maybe most of us started human and little green men came along?" I laugh Twitch does to that was a good joke. "Perhaps, who knows we should set the scientists to looking into that. Still leaves us with dragons and cockatrice, cockatrice there is no explanation, there's not a need for those. Dragons are needed because of cockatrice but there's still no reason." Twitch sighs and nods. "We don't know, dragons have no written language, we don't have a spoken one either. As far as we know we growled and grunted at each other until the trolls came upon us. We were the second species to join with the trolls after the minotaurs. The magic users came a little later, while we were trying to take out the big trolls. It is unknown how much help dragons were, our claws may not have been thick enough to hurt a forest troll. What little remains of the time speak only of minotaurs killing the trolls." "Likely you served the same purpose your doing for us, helped look and warn of danger. Your sense of smell is incredibly good, besides I doubt a forest troll has flesh to thick for your claws." Twitch laughs then lets out a breath as we turn off the road and bounce around. I end up kicking Twitch when we stop. We stop fast making her slide at me I had to put my feet up to stop her. I'm yelling at Falco Twitch giggling as we get out the back of the truck. Falco is apologizing to Twitch, the two other dragons watching us come laughing. I look back to see Twitch limping, Sam looks and starts to giggle. "Twitch stop limping or you can stay at the trucks." Twitch lets out a breath and stops limping, I take this opportunity to look at our other backup. A very big golden dragon is on the right side, not only longer but taller than Twitch. Her scales are a shiny golden color, glinting in the sunlight a very dazzling look. The dragon next to her is smaller than Twitch he is a tan color looking more like a walking pile of dirt than a dragon. Twitch moves up next to me giggling. "I can't believe my sister mated with him." I giggle myself. "When you got to have sex you can't be choosy." Twitch laughs her sister lets out a breath and walks toward us. "He's young I admit it, darn it all sis you should know how hard it is to say no, would you like me to share who your first mate was?" Twitch stops moving, her kids buzz me making me stop moving. "That was a low blow Goldy. I admit I'm not one to talk, my next heat I'm letting the nearest male mate with me, he's pink." Goldy laughs, I'm surprised I hadn't known dragons came in pink. The tan dragon walks over followed by a farmer. The farmer is tall with blonde hair he seems to be covered in dirt. I move that way and meet the farmer letting the dragons have their little bit of talking to each other. "Thank you for bringing those two over here. I'm Nia, I promise to return all three of your passengers in one piece." I hold out my hand, he looks down then takes it firmly. "No problem at all, I'm happy to do it I get a break from my wife, she's been a little cranky of late." He has a nice voice, not deep, not high just right in the middle. "Well then I'm happy to get you away from your wife." He chuckles and smiles at me. "So what are we doing?" Twitch asks as she comes over with her sister and the other dragon trailing. "I'm thinking we go up over there and take a look around. Get an idea on good places to explore." I say pointing to a small hill, there isn't anything taller for quite a ways. I get startled looks when I load a clip into the Barrett and put a bullet in the chamber. It's loud to do that the bullets are so big it has to have a lot of friction just to keep the gun from flying apart with one or two shots. We head up the little hill the dragons going first. At the top we look around to see the area littered with outcroppings of rocks. "It's going to take us a month to go through this." Falco says with a sigh. "No, we split up into three groups. Dragon and a couple of us, I'll go with Sam and Twitch. I suppose you guys should split up for agent and minotaur with a dragon. Twitch you three figure out where you go we will follow you." Twitch nods, the dragons get in a little huddle talking low. After a second or two they split up, the tan dragon heads to the left, Twitch goes up the middle and Goldy goes to the right. Finding this a strange arrangement I follow after Twitch, Sam falling in to step beside me. The minotaurs take longer they drop their cases and produce really big double sided axes. Falco and Ben-Ben curse when they change to their real look. "Twitch I gotta ask, why are we in the middle?" Twitch giggles and keeps looking side to side. "Because your gun will kill anything in a wide area, you can support either side. Goldy is on the right because the farms are that way, cockatrice wander large area in Arizona for food." "Nia this rifle won't just be full auto will it?" Sam asks looking a little nervous. "No it's set for three round burst it will kick a little up but not much, just aim at what you want to shoot." It is slow going the rock outcroppings are not always stable. I have to twice save Sam from a fall, I almost fall once. Prissy and Dissy start yammering excitedly while we are paused for a drink. Twitch picks up their excitement and yells for everyone. Not understanding why we move to a dirt pile, Twitch starts digging at it and we all gasp. Under the dirt is a trapdoor, carefully we clean it off to find the outer end of a rope to pull it closed. "Vampires?" Ben-Ben asks looking a little frightened. "No, vampires would not have come out during the day. Unless the gang got lost and came to the spot we parked after dark we are not looking at vampires, likely worse necromancer." "Necromancer is not worse, just tougher to reach. We will go first, zombies stop working chopped up." Charlie says he and Linus start playing rock, paper and scissor. "Unless the tunnel is too small, then I'll go first." They stop to look at me, their huge nostrils flaring then nod. While they are playing rock, paper, and scissor we work on getting the trap door open. Ben-Ben seems to be rather scared that its vampires still, Sam and I trade a glance then start giggling. With the door open we peer in, there is a ladder going down, a metal one. The tunnel itself looks to be wide and tall the ladder is at least seven feet. "Nia we can't go in there, dragons and ladders don't mix." Twitch says after looking down. "Likely the point, stay here or look for other entrances, this probably is the only one." Twitch nods to me then moves off with the other two dragons. Charlie heads down apparently he won their game and gets to go first. Linus follows him down then I get to climb down. Charlie goes first followed by me on the other side of the tunnel with Linus breathing down my back. The tunnel keeps going, twists and turns here and there in a downward direction. Sounds of pleasure get us to stop and look at each other before continuing on to a large chamber. The chamber is not so much tall as wide with rugs littered on the floor. There is a bench along one wall with holes in the top. In the far corner is a crowd of maybe forty men and one woman, she is being fucked and many of the men are fucking other men. We move closer to see better these must be the missing gang members, she looks like a regular woman. I get a little moist watching her being fucked, the man on top of her is really moving with passion. Her hips are moving with him, I can see his butt rising and falling. The other men are getting sex, mostly with a man under another. They are both moving with passion some moaning as if they are really enjoying the gay sex. While we are watching the man on top of her finishes, when he pulls away I get a brief glimpse of her pussy leaking a lot of white fluids. Another man gets on her, not before she notices us she screams to kill the intruders and the men save the one on her stand up. I raise the Barrett aiming at where I think she is behind all those men and fire. Bodies explode in the line of the bullet dust settling down over us at the deafening boom. I fire again having a clearer view on the bed and the woman. She is sitting up staring at me wide eyed mouthing something when I fire. The bullet hits her a little below her breasts right in the middle. There is only a hole in the front, the splatter of blood and other things on the wall of dirt behind her saying the exit is worse. She falls back hidden in a cloud of dust as I drop the Barrett the dust coming down now worse than it was for the first shot. I pull up my shotgun and fire on the man closest to me. His chest explodes sending him backwards a few feet trailing blood. I shoot another in the face, his head poofs into a cloud of dust parts of his head hitting me. Charlie goes past me standing almost fully up the chamber is not quite tall enough for eight feet plus horns. His huge axe swinging, cleaving two to three men in half with each swing. I back away with my Barrett in hand to watch as Linus and Charlie wade through the small number of men remaining. It does not take them long to finish these men off. There are parts of men everywhere, the rugs covered in blood as I walk to the bed. The woman is still alive barely she is mouthing something at me as I get closer. I lean in to hear her to find she is trying to cast a spell. I pull out the Colt and shoot her between the eyes. Sam's shriek has me running that way to find her staring at a big grill with human bones behind it. Looking at the skulls combined with the number of men there were with her I realize she was feeding them and her with them. "I don't think we should tell anyone about this." Falco says looking haunted. "I think that would be best, the casters are all registering and giving addresses anyway. Something like this would get them killed, what was she?" I say looking at Charlie. "That was a magic user I've never seen one go cannibal. They can pull food from elsewhere and have it appear with them if they really need." "Wait if they can summon items to them then they must be able to teleport themselves. Shit that might have been some ones wife and she only fed them with them." We all trade a glance and curse, the farmer said his wife was cranky lately. We run for the ladder I go up first hoping that the dragons are still here. Two of them are, the tan dragon is somewhere else, Goldy and Twitch are still here talking they turn to look at me as I come out. "Goldy we just killed a magic user she turned the missing gangbangers into love slaves and fed them to each other. Please tell me your ride is not married to a mage." Goldy and Twitch let out long breaths, staring at me eyes wide in shock. "Chris is married to a vampire. There was a crazy lady wandering around, she disappeared just a little before the gang did. Possible the crazy lady is your mage." Goldy says standing up Twitch joins her as the last of us exit the tunnel. "Why is his wife cranky of late?" I ask as we set out on our way back. "She wants to be pregnant like you are." I look over at Goldy and sigh. "Tests were run Constance and a few of the female vampires in New York, all tested as barren no life to come from them. Artificial might work I suppose, tell Chris to call up a clinic and see if they would. Have to be an egg donor but if she can work as a host it's as close as she can get." Goldy let's out a breath, Sam comes close and takes my arm. "Perhaps fertility drugs men die and return working there shouldn't be a reason the women can't." "Sam, remember the men come back barely working, I got lucky with Ben knocking me up as soon as he did. Besides there is a difference between working sperm and working ovarian tubes, I'm not sure you can create life in a dead woman." "A chance of it is better than no hope. I'll be sure and tell Chris." Goldy says with a little bounce to her step. "If they can't afford treatment and the clinic doesn't just call around and ask for help have them call FCI headquarters. We are not just a police force we are here to help get everyone working together in as much harmony as we can." Falco says as we crest the hill to see a cop car parked next to our trucks. The cop appears when we come down the hill, he's talking to Chris. They look like they know each other and gives us a wave as we reach the bottom of the hill. "I've been told to ask if you found them." The cop says as we get close enough o talk, his voice is nice and strong. Sam leans in to me with a soft moan, I agree his six foot something frame is very well taken care of. His arms are not body builder formed and toned but thick from honest work. His big hands carelessly resting on his belt, his feet looking big sticking out of his pants. He's not police a sheriff's deputy instead, almost the same thing in Maricopa County. "Ignore the woman we aren't good enough eye candy for them. We found them and they are all dead, they found a tunnel that collapsed after them. We should have a forensics and recovery team on the way." Falco says as Ben-Ben heads for our truck. "A shame that, for their families of course. I don't mind being ogled it's nice to be looked at appreciably." The deputy says with a smile looking at us. "Nia would it be all right if I go home with my sister? Me having twins has gotten her to forget that she's bigger and I want to just talk to her, been so long." Twitch says nudging her head in to me as Chris yelps and cheers over by the trucks. "No problem Twitch, I haven't even seen the house yet and I'm sure Ben has things in mind for me. I think we are supposed to have food waiting for us." Twitch looks at the deputy he looks at us and smiles. "Of course I do, whole bunch of the buck doubles from Burger King and three good sized roasts. I wasn't sure if you would be happy with just burgers for the dragons." Twitch lets out a breath and looks up at me. "I like him, feast of kings and I can have my girls eat bread. Can we keep him Nia?" I laugh as we move toward his patrol car. The deputy brings out the roasts one at a time, each wrapped in butcher paper. The three adult dragons take their roast and move away from us and each other to eat. I set two of the burgers on the car and unwrap them for the kids while the rest of us take the bags and go sit in the dirt around them. There isn't much talking as we eat the first burger, Chris and Linus are on their third burger before we relax enough for conversation. "How long have you been a deputy?" Falco asks looking interested. "Working on my sixth year, the report I got to read never said dragons eat apart like that." I look over at the dragons and giggle. "I suppose you have never had more than one dog or cat, predatory animals prefer to eat alone. Cuts down on competition for food that they catch. Kids are an exemption though in this case the burgers are enough probably take those two burgers with them. Makes me wonder why the trolls think dragons used to be a mated pair." "On ranches we can have a second dragon with us. Usually a male and a female that mate when she goes in to heat." Twitch yells at us, I sigh and shake my head. "Thank you Twitch, your hearing is to good sometimes." All three dragons laugh, Sam leans in to me. "What's your name?" I look at Sam surprised, the deputy just chuckles. "Sam Barnes pleased to meet you ladies." He gets up to bow as he says it. "Are you a centaur?" It's a valid question I've never seen anyone else bow when introducing themselves he looks at me a little shocked. "Well no, I'm a weretiger actually. I'd appreciate it if you didn't go around saying it, the sheriff is on the racist side of things and he can fire me without cause." We all laugh as Twitch yells Sam-Sam Ben-Ben looks around then opens his mouth. "How does one become a wereleopard?" I reach over and swat him on the back of the head. "There are two ways, being attacked and living through it nobody does that anymore, and having a parent that is. That way can alter in the transfer, my dad is a wolf." Sam sighs against me her hand wrapped around my arm. "Can vampires feed on weres?" We all look at her she looks around then up at me. "What he's a hunk and Constance could use a boyfriend, you remember the story on the Great Depression she loved a wereleopard. Tiger is close enough perhaps, and he's a hunk." I sigh and tap Sam on the head. "I think the first question should be if he's single, not if he can feed a vampire. Second question would be if he wants to then you ask if he can, Sam sometimes you think with your pussy to much." Sam giggles and looks at the deputy. Nia: There Be a Mage "I feel like I'm in the conference room." He looks about nervously turning a little red. "I'm single, much to my mom's disappointment. I suppose I could try at a later time and I have no idea, maybe should ask Constance." "Nia come on let's keep him, Twitch likes him." I sigh and look at my burger. "Men are supposed to listen to their stomach and their dick. Sam you are giving us gals a bad name doing the same thing. I guess we can give him our address and he can stop by when he's off duty and see what Constance says. Sam remember you promised to let Ben knock you up with me." Sam turns pink and nods. "I think right this second the best question is what your full name is calling you Sam-Sam gets confusing." Falco says with a sigh then looks up a thought coming to him. "Course if you would like I am able to add to our group, working on six years as a deputy puts you in good enough standing to simply hire you and field train." "My name is Samuel. You get so used to being called Sam by your parents you go with it elsewhere." I giggle imagining his mom using Samuel as a you're in trouble call. We all look when his radio squawks Samuel sighs and goes for it. While he's talking on it Twitch and Goldy growl, Chris gets up and heads for his truck. Samuel comes back looking worried especially after looking at Chris and the three dragons getting into his truck. "Seems there is a group that has cornered a dragon about forty miles from here. Dragon is doing well enough there are two deputies there they want more to keep the crowd alive, dragon is getting on the mad side." I sigh and get up, Sam going with me. "We should stay here to keep the area secure for our team they will be here in half an hour." Falco says with a sigh. "Samuel means Sam and I are riding in your car." Samuel looks at me the Barrett in hand and shakes his head. "Not with the cannon, shotgun is fine that thing would kill half of them in one shot." I sigh and nod. Barrett in Falco's lap we pile into the front seat and take off after our dragon friends. At my urging we scoot around the truck and pass them. Sam spends the drive staring at Samuel I just watch the emptiness of Arizona pass us by. When we finally reach the trapped dragon there are about forty people shouting holding up signs with several cars and trucks parked just off the road. We get out of the car and move to get past the crowd of shouters. They seem to think nothing of blocking our way until I shoot the ground with my Colt. They move to the side then and we continue on to where there are two deputies and a younger dragon a gorgeous fuchsia color. I go over to the dragon resisting the urge to drop lower. "Are you Ok?" The dragon looks up at me and lets out a breath. "I'm fine and come down here your tall." I giggle I've not been called tall before and drop low. "Now what happened?" "I was walking along to see my mom she's another eighty miles before the turn for her farm when these people pulled up and got out of cars and trucks yelling and holding up signs. I stopped to look at them and they surrounded me yelling and a few poked at me with the signs. All this just to see her tag, I'm not old enough for one yet, another two years for me." I sigh and motion for Samuel to come here. "What's the verdict?" Sam has followed Samuel and is looking at me with him. "I'm not sure, there isn't really any laws covering assault with signs for the FCI, that's a local thing." Samuel sighs and looks around, Sam gets a grin. "I can't make an arrest unless there is a witness of the assault with the signs besides the victim. I don't think these guys are going to squeal." Sam smiles bigger and makes a noise. "FCI has final say in anything concerning fantasy creatures, Nia you are allowed to destroy private property in ensuring the safety of everyone. Why not disable their cars and make them walk." Samuel chuckles and nods, I smile bigger I look at our victim. "Well what do you think, making them walk a fitting punishment?" The dragon laughs and nods. "Alright, Twitch and Goldy should be here soon, you might be able to get a lift to your mom. If you don't want to wait take off when I start shooting cars." I head for the cars pulling out my shotgun one of the deputies following me. "Wait don't you want to know why they were yelling at the dragon?" I stop and look at the deputy. "I don't really care they stopped an innocent dragon not even old enough to get a tag and yelled at him or her. I never can tell and didn't think to ask." "My name is Fuchsia and I'm female." Fuchsia yells at me, I giggle and wave. "There is a movement of chicken farmers to ban cockatrice sales." I look at the deputy shocked and laugh then start shooting tires. Sam and the three deputies keep the protesters from charging me, mostly with Sam shooting a burst into the dirt. All of the cars and trucks with two tires shot out I turn to them and walk closer. "Now, this is called an abject lesson, as in don't fuck with dragons. Look over there those three dragons are pissed at you yahoos for doing what you did. Cockatrice might kill chicken sales your right, dragons have no say in if they are for sale or not. The FDA has not decided yet, it might take a while to get a slaughterhouse open that can handle cockatrice and unless the dragons pair up to herd really big groups, chicken sales are in no danger." Twitch and Goldy move closer with the tan dragon close behind, the group is getting a little twitchy. "I suggest you walk now before the dragons decide eating people isn't a bad idea." There is a roar and off they go jogging away from us. "Nia that was great, thank you." Twitch says nudging in to me. "No problem Twitch, they aren't even mad at dragons just an easy mark. Fuchsia get away OK?" Twitch nods and lets out a breath. "We feel terrible for missing her calls. We were only forty miles and didn't hear her." I scratch Twitch on the head. "Don't worry she's thirteen, maybe she can't get that loud yet." Goldy and Twitch shakes their heads. "Well alright so maybe she panicked and couldn't manage a loud yell. Think about it, at thirteen would you have been flustered with forty people yelling and poking at you?" Twitch lets out a breath. "If they did it now I probably would tell them leave or die then started killing. Your way is better all around I think." "Nia the crew is with Snoopy and Ben-Ben. They want to get going and wondered if Samuel can drive us home. Goldy's farm is past the walking people." Sam says looking at me with hopeful eyes. "Samuel can we impose on you to drive us home, Twitch is staying the night with her sister." Samuel nods and looks like he wants to know why Snoopy and Ben-Ben, I turn to Twitch. "Twitch you already spoke to Snoopy and got arrangements for a lift in the truck back to Constance's tomorrow right?" "Yes, he's coming in the afternoon. Sam, tell Snoopy to bring Linus minotaurs deter protesters better than shot tires I think." Sam nods and goes back to her phone as Twitch motions me down. "Watch Sam, she wants him and she's ready in a week or so." I sigh and nod. "I understand the appeal, her parents never said Ben has to knock her up, they just want her that way. I'm not going to forbid her a shot at a single man, so long as he's not a vampire." I whisper back, Twitch looks at me and let's out a breath. "Why have you been saying that she promised she would be knocked up by Ben?" "She promised her parents she would try. Pregnant with me is the better of the options Ben took six months of trying to get me. That's not what one would call pregnant with me. Besides, Ben is my husband Sam is our girlfriend, she deserves to know the joy of being married to a wonderful man, and I'll be envious she can fall asleep with her husband and wake up in the morning or midday and not worry about being dead." Twitch lets out a breath again. "Ah I see that is why you two share a bed, so you can have someone in bed with you. I understand the appeal, I miss having Andy curling up with me during the day. Don't offer it has to be a small child to not risk a clawing." I sigh then giggle with an idea. "We will buy you a big stuffed animal to curl up with, it's just as good." Twitch giggles and bobs her head. "Nia come on we should go it's getting toward five and Samuel wants to stop at his place to change clothes." Sam says taking my arm and pulling me up. With waves we split up, the dragons going one way us the other way. Sam leans in to me staring at Samuel the whole time. I poke her shoulder getting her to turn and look at me Samuel has been glancing our way for the last twenty miles at least. I motion to Sam that she should talk to him, Sam shakes her head making me sigh and do it for her. "Samuel since Sam is too scared to ask, would you be averse to letting Constance feed on you and dating Sam? Assuming Constance can feed on you, she has a girlfriend madly in love with her and I don't think either would take to you being a boyfriend for Constance." Samuel sighs as we take a turn to head for Phoenix. "Are you sure on dating Sam? Every one knows that the incredibly well televised married vampire and perfection are sharing Sam. I must admit the footage of you being carried to the car last night was strange." I sigh and put my face in my hand. "Damn I thought I had said no more reporters." Sam giggles until I poke her. "Yes I'm sure Ben is my husband not Sam's, I don't think I could stand losing Sam in my bed but I'm willing to risk it for her happiness." "You don't sleep with Ben?" Samuel asks looking over at us a half second longer than I like. "I can't, if there is light in the room he wakes up and is only hungry for a lot of blood. They won't say how much exactly but I'm thinking leaving you dead or almost lot of blood. If I get up before dark with no light, he apparently would wake up to the same effect. I can't just go around at night and don't sleep that long anyway, so I have a separate bedroom with Sam." "I did not know that, I admit I skimmed the report I knew a lot of it already. Vampires have always been tight lipped and I didn't expect to be meeting any. Deputy out in the boondocks is boring and not many vampires for me to meet." Sam giggles and nudges me. "Try being Nia, she's so far had to tell the world who she is, been married on world wide TV. There was the death threat that was dropped and put back up. Not to mention what we found..." I slap my hand over Sam's mouth. "We're not discussing that one it stays where we found it." Sam nods into my palm, Samuel looks over at us and sighs. "I didn't think they got trapped in a cave, I'm not asking either. How does feeding work?" I sigh and pull my mouth from Sam. "Generally with sex, Constance makes you shut your eyes but it's just as good. She got me to orgasm so hard I had to take a nap, apparently an all night nap. Sam did Falco stick me with a needle or did they use an oral?" "Stewardess did it, she's a registered nurse. Measured out the dose for how long we wanted you asleep. Might be able to use the drug to put you in an all day sleep but not very long before you build a resistance." I sigh and shake my head. "Ben asked didn't he?" "Yep, he wants to sleep with you not just fuck you. I really think he and Constance are sharing their bed like we do and he wants you like that." "I do to I wish he could nap during the night, even just an hour or two." Sam and I look around as we pull into a planned community, I didn't see which one. Looking around I groan, this is depressing just about every house is the same color with the same yard and bushes. "Fairly strict home owners association in here the houses are good sized and good price at least." Samuel says as we pull into a house. "I should take a picture of these houses, can't think of a better way of showing that owning your own apartment complex is a better idea." I say as I get out of the car Sam following me, Samuel stares at me as he heads for the front door. "Nia most people have no way of affording to buy an apartment complex. There is a movement to do something about the every house the same I think its alternating colors right now." Sam and I gasp at the interior, it's big. The living room is expansive with a nice sofa and love seat. We sink into the carpet as we move into the living room to look about, he has little knick knacks everywhere, some pictures, and a bookcase packed full of books. "Deputy pays better than I thought." I mutter plopping into the sofa and sinking a good ways. "Not really, my parents were looking at losing their house, retirement wasn't paying that well. I was looking into buying a house and the house they had was too small for us to share. This is a three bedroom the bedrooms are big we turned the third bedroom into a home office. They are on a cruise won the tickets at the casino, I'll be right back and we can go to your house." Sam watches Samuel go with a slight drool. "Sam sit and stop drooling, I swear you're like a thirteen year old watching the hunky life guard take his shirt off." Sam looks at me and giggles then plops down into the sofa and rolls into me. "God Nia I want to take his clothes off and do all the naughty things I know and come up with more." "I think everyone knows that Sam, you haven't stopped staring at him since we ate the burgers. Just remember your helping me feed Constance and Ben." Sam nods then looks up at me. "Will my parents accept a were grandkid?" "They did want you to try and get pregnant from Ben. Now remember you want to build a lasting relationship jumping under him isn't conducive to that." Sam sighs and nods. "It's all I want to do right now, your right maybe on the third date. I hope we get Friday nights with nothing to do for a while. I'm starting school next Monday." "If you only date once a week third date your in the middle of your period unless Ben works first try. If that happens I'm going to have to hit you both." Sam giggles then sits up when Samuel comes back. "We will have to stay in the deputy car I have a two seater, my parents took their four door." I stand up then help Sam get out of the sofa. "No problem, gives Sam the opportunity to stare and think of other naughty things to do with you." Sam looks at me eyes wide then turns bright pink and groans. On the drive to our house we find that Samuel likes Italian food. His favorite color is dark blue and he is an avid football fan. I asked the questions Sam hasn't gotten past the stare and make noises yet. I'm thinking maybe Sam should just spread her legs so she can talk to him when we reach our house and I forget about it. My car is parked on the street. Granted the driveway is full of Sam's car and Ben's, but my car is on the street. Sam and Samuel follow me over the grass to the front door. The door is unlocked, nice for right this second but oh I'm going to yell. Consuela is setting food on the table for us when I come in and go right up to her and start yelling. Sam puts her hand over my mouth and drags me to the bedroom. "Shit Nia I know you love your car but you're packing more firepower than four thugs doing a hit." I sigh and start getting everything off me. "This has not been a good day, parts were good but overall, I want to forget about it. God I hope Ben is horny for me I need something nice." I go through my drawers pulling out a lovely little black teddy. Consuela and Samuel are staring at me eyes wide when we return to the kitchen. I give Consuela a hug then sit down at the table she joins us a moment later. Dinner is heavenly making Consuela turn pink with all of the complements. While Consuela is getting pie cut for us Sam goes to the bathroom. When Sam returns with excited eyes she has me go look for the remote somewhere on the sofa. I go wondering why she sent me, and why she's urging me to check in the back of the cushions when hands fall on my hips. Ben whispers in my ear to just stay like this making me sigh with excitement. I moan when he enters me, his hard cock being all I wanted. Ben moves his hands up to my breasts caressing them, pinching my nipples. I move with him loving the feel of him moving in me. I moan when he moves a hand down to rub at my clit, his cock moving in me just how I like it. I'm moved on to the sofa and moan again, it feels better like this, more intimate. I moan when Ben moves up behind me all of us touching his chin tucked into the crook of my neck and shoulder. I moan my orgasm out, being like this is too nice, hoping perhaps he will take a little of me. Ben sighs as my insides clench on him trying to coax his warmth into me. We keep moving, not caring that we are in view of the table with my slice of pie. He feels so nice in me, so needed, so right to be taken like this bent over our sofa. Turning my head to the side I offer myself to him. I offer what Constance had yesterday, Ben sighs looking at me. I move a little harder with him I think begging him to. I'm nearing another orgasm when Ben finally finishes taking me. With his fangs sinking into my flesh the pain of it ebbing away he sucks pulling bits of me into him. I scream my orgasm as his cock pistons in me, my blood goes into him. This is a big one my insides gripping on Ben making him slow down. My whole body is trembling and jerking a little with the power of my orgasm. Still sucking on me Ben groans out his orgasm, his warmth filling me up as he takes my warmth from me. Just for the little bit we are like this him feeding on me, me accepting his warmth and feeling so incredibly good. I sigh when Ben pulls his fangs free of me. Leaking what he put into me we collapse onto the sofa Ben pulling me tight to him. Constance comes over looking a little worried feeling my neck I just close my eyes and feel loved, and tired. "Ben, take me to bed and sleep with me." I'm not sure he heard me I couldn't have said it above a whisper. I squeak when I'm picked up then carried into a different bedroom. I look around tired but not asleep yet. This must be the master bedroom with the windows hidden away by wall covering drapes. The bed is large and very nice covered in a blood red silk comforter. I giggle noticing a coffin against the wall like a chest, it is golden and ornate and incredibly lovely. I snuggle into Ben on the bed, almost lying atop him being held close by his arm and rest my head on his chest. Feeling safe and loved and not wanting anything more from this day I close my eyes listening to his faint heartbeat.