The Shadows Book One: The War for EarthEnd.

Chapter Eleven - Son of a Killer.

Liki Wolfspirit.

Blackpaw stood, processing those five words slowly. His eyes widened with each one he sent through the works.

My...

Father...

Killed...

Liki's...

Parents...

His muzzle mouthed the words as he thought them over and over again. The Shadow Creature was talking, but Blackpaw heard nothing. He could only hear those five words running around his mind as he tried to stop them from becoming a sentence.

He failed. In the end it took root and was the only thing he could keep thinking.

My father killed Liki's parents...

My father killed Liki's parents...

His breathing became labored. His legs shook uncontrollably while he tried to think against the thought. The Shadow Creature asked something, looking worried, but Blackpaw was busy having a mental fight with himself.

No! My father was on the run from the Gray Circle! He was a friend of a Shadow! Why would he kill Liki's parents!?

But Blackpaw didn't know that for sure. There was four years seperating his age and Liki's, anything could have happened during then, including his father killing Liki's parents. As far as he knew now, everything his father had told him had been a lie...everything had been a lie...

Blackpaw choked on his breath, falling to his knees on the ground. He was hyperventilating. He gripped his throat tightly, trying to breath. The Shadow Creature was right beside him, shouting something the Fangren still could not hear. His vision began to blur as he stared at the ground with his muzzle open and trying to take in air, but his throat refused to open up.

He felt himself slipping away from his mind as he still heard his thoughts screaming at him.

My father killed Liki's parents!!

Everything...everything I knew was a lie!

I'm...the son...of a killer...

He hit the ground with a final, sorrowful thought, I don't...deserve...Liki...

He blacked out.

"Where is that damn thing?" Liki growled, walking along the bottom of the hill shifting through brush and bushes for the lost kunai.

"I can't find it. Damn I need all of them. I only have fourteen others."

_"LIKI!!!" _

The Fangren spun toward the voice, his own again, to see Blackpaw hit the ground at the top the hill.

"Blackpaw!" Liki sprinted up the hill and hit the ground beside his student. He thought at first that he had fallen in exhaustion, but as he propped his student up and the white wolf didn't respond, he knew it was much worse.

"Wake up Blackpaw!" Liki shook him, his hands started glowing green. He knew only little healing druidic magic, something to recover scrapes and brushes, but he doubted it would fix this. Blackpaw was not breathing, though his muzzle hung open and his tongue lavished in some kind of wierd dance at the back of his mouth.

He placed his muzzle on Blackpaw's and breathed into it, but the breath did not go no farther then his student's mouth.

The frantic wolf cursed, "His throats tightened, he can't breath!"

"Move aside." A sudden voice told him sternly. Liki spun to see a Fangren about his age. His fur was pure black and his eyes were red, but he wore nothing but vines of leaves and and a lioncloth. Liki thought the Fangren might be a Feral at first. The way he looked at Blackpaw was calm and cool.

"He's hyperventilating." The Fangren pushed Liki away from Blackpaw and took charge. He propped Blackpaw into a sitting position.

"Hold him." He stated calmly.

Liki moved quickly to obey, holding Blackpaw in that sitting position. The young boy's muzzle still hung open and he seemed to be shocked. His eyes moved rapidly underneath his eyelids. Liki whimpered as the stranger aside him clapped his hands once and they started glowing an incrediably bright green, much brighter then Liki's own.

He's a Druid. Liki realized.

The Fangren placed one hand on Blackpaw's chest, then his other on the boy's back and closed his eyes. Liki waited for Blackpaw to wake up, but so many moments passed and it seemed like Blackpaw's eyes were moving slower and slower. The druid's magic wasn't doing anything at all.

"Do something!" Liki shouted.

The black Fangren growled lowly, "Almost..." His hands left Blackpaw's body a bit.

...

"Now!"

The druid's hands struck Blackpaw's chest and back hard at the same time. Blackpaw's eyes snapped open and he gasped loudly, followed by coughing violently as he clutched his chest where he had been hit.

"When you can't get air to go in, you force the air already in to go out..." The black Fangren whispered and rose while Liki hugged Blackpaw tightly.

"Thank you." Liki whispered. He opened his eyes after Blackpaw finally returned the hug. The black Fangren was gone.

"Didn't even get his name." Liki mumbled.

"Liki..." Blackpaw whimpered, and the older wolf noticed that his student was crying.

"You're okay Blackpaw, just relax. You're okay now." Liki told him and rubbed his hands along Blackpaw's back.

"I'm sorry..."

"There's nothing to be sorry about Blackpaw. You didn't do anything wrong. You're fine."

"No...Liki..." Blackpaw shuddered and broke into a crying sob, unable to say any other words.

Liki picked up Blackpaw in his arms, the wolf burried his face into Liki's chest and dampened the leather as his Master carried him away from the hill and back into town.

Blackpaw cried to himself in Liki's arms. The one Beast who was the most victim was the one giving him comfort. It hurt to think that if Liki knew...

I don't deserve him...I don't deserve for him to care about me like this...

My father killed his family...destroyed it, then tried to make up for it by giving him me...

Why dad? Why did you do it? Why did you kill them? Why did you keep me like this then thrust me away so readily at Liki?

Just what had happened that caused this?

Blackpaw took a shuddering breath and he heard the sounds of Hillside around him, but he kept his muzzle buried in Liki's armor. He hated this...hated how it seemed everything was happening and he had no ability to change it or give his opinion...he hated his father...

What would Liki think if I told him...would he hate me? I'm the son of the Beast that killed his parents...

The tears multiplied, Of course he'll hate me...Liki wouldn't want to associate with anything related to the destroyer of his life...

"Destroyer?" His father's voice rumbled through his head. Though he knew it was the Shadow Creature talking to him, walking beside Liki who could not see or hear him, he growled lowly at his father's voice.

Go away...you've only made things worse...

"Blackpaw, you were an accident..."

What?

"You were an accident, your parents never meant to bring you into the world with this stuff happening around you...before Steve met Liki's Master Uriay, your life was set to live in a life of luxery in Camelot, all provided by the Grey Circle for Steve killing Uriay and Liki and ending the last of the Shadows. But...you were an accident, your parents did not mean to have you. You had just been born about a week before Steve confronted Uriay. It was your future your father was considering when he changed what he was doing. Would you have wanted a future given at the cost of others like that? Steve didn't think so...and your mother agreed, she had been feeling the same way..."

Blackpaw's sobbing weakened a bit, just as Liki opened the door to their home. He thought of what the Shadow Creature said, while Liki took him to the couch of the living room and laid him down on the soft cushions.

"Wait here Blackpaw, I'll make us something to eat...you just relax..."

Blackpaw nodded slowly, sniffling still. Liki left the room and entered the kitchen beside it, leaving the boy and the Shadow Creature in the room alone.

So...my dad really did fell sorry?

"He realized that his family's pleasure was being derived from the suffering of others...In a way he felt sorry yes, but mostly he felt quilty. Uriay helped to show him just how much he was hurting others without meaning it. He showed him Liki..."

Blackpaw remained silent, thinking hard. The Shadow Creature continued, "When Steve killed Liki's parents, he was not at all aware that Liki was there, he had not seen his mother holding him to her when he killed her with a poison dart. He felt horrible when Uriay told him...he took responsibility for Liki becuase he knew he caused what Liki was now, realizing he had killed innocent Beasts who were parents just like him...who knows how many others he might have unintentionally harmed? Thinking that Liki could have been you even...He hated himself Blackpaw...He challenged the Grey Circle later on openly and was cast out and targeted, and since then your family was on the run...It's why he gave Liki you, it's why he kept you rather then giving you to an orphanage. He had believed one day he could teach you to live well...unfortunatly the life you knew was already horrible, you didn't want to learn to live well, you wanted to live for others. He tossed you at Liki to force you to learn to live for yourself..."

"Why didn't he tell me?" Blackpaw whispered, his voice shaking a bit still but the worst of his sadness was leaving him as he was getting his explanation.

"Would you have understood it? You hardly understand it now."

Blackpaw recalled his father's saying, "Don't ask things...you don't need to know to live..."

"Exactly. You didn't need to know then..."

"Why do I need to know now?" Blackpaw cried again, "I hate it..."

"On the inside...your parent's leaving you was eating you inside out...you couldn't let go of them even when you said you had and felt you had...and if you don't tell Liki this, it'll start eating you too..."

"He'll hate me..."

"Do you really think that?" The Shadow Creature asked. Blackpaw was finding comfort in his father's voice now, it felt like he was having this conversation with his real father, making amends, trying to understand him.

"Liki has felt pain...he's felt enough of it that he tries to replace what hurts him with something that helps him and gives him love. If you tell him this...what do you think he's going to do?"

Blackpaw thought, but he could think of nothing but Liki hating him...

"He'll love you."

The wolf blinked, but the Shadow Creature continued, "Liki needs something to love...to protect...he's lost so many chances at having that something before, he's not going to let you get away like that becuase of something that happened he had no control over...what your father did was not your fault...you are a victim just as much as him, you two should be able to support each other..."

Blackpaw began to cry again, the words penetrating his emotions becuase he wanted it so much to be true. The Shadow Creature rose and phased through the wall of the room just as Liki came in carrying a bowl of steaming stew. He sat on the couch beside his student's smaller frame and slowly handed him a bowl, "Here Blackpaw, try this."

The white Fangren cried still but he took the bowl, staring at it's contents and seeing his reflection while his tears dropped into the yellow colored soup. He could only see himself as the son of a killer, someone who should be shunned and exiled. He didn't deserve Liki. Even if the Fangren did forgive him...

A few moments of silence followed that Blackpaw just stared at the soup and Liki ate, until the older Fangren sat his bowl down on the table in front of them and whispered, "Blackpaw...are you okay? I don't think this is exhaustion anymore..."

"Liki..." Blackpaw whimpered, "My father...he..." he couldn't bring out the rest of the words he wanted to say.

He shuddered when Liki hugged him tightly, "Blackpaw..."

The young wolf shook as he gasped for air again, "He..."

"Calm down..." Liki told him, "You're going to go into shock again."

Blackpaw cried for along time, eventually trying the stew as he tried to control his breathing as Liki hugged him tightly beside him by drinking from the bowl. It tasted good, a mix of vegetables and bits of meat, the water tasted of the vegetables but was not overpowering. He smiled a moment.

"It's my Master's recipe..." his teacher told him when he noticed the small smile, "A blend of tomato juice and lettuce oil and water with bits of meat and corn..."

"It's really good..." Blackpaw sniffled through his breathes.

Liki rubbed his hands down his student's arms once, "Feel better?"

Blackpaw nodded, "A bit..."

"Now...what is it you're trying to tell me?"

The white wolf shivered again, his voice cracking, "Liki...my father...he...he..."

"Just say it Blackpaw..." Liki whispered.

The younger wolf whimpered. His master and only friend was telling him to say something that would possibly ruin that relationship. He took a deep breathe then just forced it out.

"He killed your parents!" Blackpaw hiccuped after he said it and looked away from Liki's eyes, closing his own and dropping the bowl of stew to the ground whiling curling into a ball. He expected to hear it hit the ground, but it never came. He opened his right eye a bit to see the bowl just below the spot he had been holding it, except now Liki was the one holding it. With one hand. Liki had leaned over the couch to catch the bowl, but he eyes never left Blackpaw's face. Blackpaw's blue eyes met his Master's glowing ones and he couldn't look away.

Liki sat back up with the bowl, and pulled Blackpaw out of his hiding ball back to a sitting position. He put the bowl gently back into the white wolf's paws and said calmly, "Who told you that?"

Blackpaw blinked, surprised and stunned. "You're...you're not upset?"

"Well, sure I'm upset," Liki told him calmly still, "but...I can't take it out on you. That happened nine years ago, I hardly remember much about it myself and there's nothing I can do to fix it...It's not your fault...but who told you that?"

"The voice...the voice did..."

"Ah..." Liki sighed and took Blackpaw's bowl away and sat it next to his own. He pulled Blackpaw toward him and laid down. Blackpaw found himself laying against Liki's chest, hearing his Master's heart beat in his ear, "Tell me everything it told you."

For the next thirty minutes, Blackpaw spent switching from crying and talking about what the Shadow Ceature had told him. His eyes became red and sore from how much he had rubbed them while he cried, but he murred at how Liki's hands continued to pet his back throughout his explinations. Liki listened quietly, giving his companion time to ease out the feelings and what he knew.

Once Blackpaw believed he could say no more he whimpered, "That's all I can say..."

Liki grunted and sat up, still holding Blackpaw to him. Blackpaw suddenly felt his Master's hands on his cheeks and his muzzle being invaded by Liki's long tongue soon after in a kiss. He melted and moaned, feeling his small penis flooding with blood and straining his silver shorts quickly. Liki broke the kiss shortly after and he whimpered, but Liki's smile made his heart flutter.

"I don't hate you Blackpaw...was that what you were worried about?"

He nodded, "Yeah..."

"I don't hate your dad either..." Liki whispered.

That comment surprised the young wolf all the more, "How can't you?"

"One cannot judge someone on past actions..." Liki told him, "it is not the actions one takes, but the goal they desire at the end. Steve's goal changed greatly when he was so close to achieving his first one...and he worked to make it happen...let me ask you something Blackpaw."

"Okay..."

"Would you have rather found out about this after growing up in a life of luxery at the cost of my life...?"

A life of luxery? Not worrying about being hunted down...everything I could ever want...maybe I would have been really happy...but at the cost of others?

"Never." Blackpaw responded, "If that happened...I think I would've been even more upset..."

"Do you think your father made the right choice to stop what he was doing before he got worse?" Liki continued.

He was doing it so his loved ones could life peacefully...but realizing it was at the cost of others made him feel quilty, so he stopped...his goal was to keep me happy, for that he left me in Liki's care...if he had killed Liki and his Master, along with all the others he's killed above that, I would've hated it once I had known...I wouldn't have been happy then, he dad knew that.

"Yeah..." Blackpaw nodded, "He stopped what he was doing...he realized it was a horrible thing to be doing, killing others for happiness..."

Liki nodded as well, and they drew closer together in a hug.

Blackpaw smiled, tears of happiness replacing ones of sadness as he sniffled, "Liki, thank you..."

"You're welcome...little brother..." Liki whispered and nuzzled the smaller wolf.

Blackpaw felt his heart explode, and he broke down into heavy tears again. To hear Liki call him that was just too much for Blackpaw. He couldn't believe Liki was doing this...

"Are you happy here Blackpaw?" His Master whispered again, "Happy here with me and as my student?"

"I'm the happiest I've ever been!" Blackpaw cried through his sniffling, "I can't tell you how much I love you right now...I mean, Liki..."

"I know Blackpaw. I know." Liki stood up and pulled Blackpaw up with him, "What say we go to bed hmm? You must be tired after all this, emotionally and physically."

He nodded stiffly, letting Liki guide him up the stairs and into Liki's room. His Master forgave him...wasn't even angry at him or his father. A lot of things had happened the last few days, each of them feeling like a heavy weight slammed down on his shoulders and threatening to destroy his life. Yet, here he had someone who was helping him carry that, he had someone he was related to by circumstance, someone who was trying to pull him back together for the better. It wasn't blood but...it was better in its own way.

He looked at the ground in Liki's room a moment as his friend moved away to remove his leather armor. He gazed back up to stare as his Master removed the armor until he was naked and moved toward the bed and jumped onto it.

Blackpaw stood for a long moment until Liki noticed he was still in his silver clothing, "Something still eating you Blackpaw?" He asked.

"A few..." Blackpaw murmurred and took a breath, "Liki...are you happy with...with yourself?"

Liki rose and sat up on the bed, facing his student, "Blackpaw, I know no other life other than this one...I'm upset that Steve did what he did but...I understand why he was doing it at first. He was driven by the desire to make those he cared about happy...I don't know why he attacked my parents and it seems the voice didn't tell you anything to explain why he did either...but I do know that upon seeing how he hurt me, an innocent child, by killing them, he hated himself..."

The gray Fangren looked around the room, "This house Blackpaw...this house was probably bought off of the money the Grey Circle gave Steve for killing Shadows..."

Blackpaw shivered, suddenly feeling very uncomfortable in the house he had for so long seen as sanctuary.

However, Liki smiled, "That thought gives me comfort."

"What?" Blackpaw gaped.

"Blackpaw...no one is never alone..." one of Liki's hands held his chest as he closed his eyes, "My parents are dead yes...but they are also here with me...I may be the last Shadow alive, as your Shadow Creature has said, but the Shadows that died are with me too...thinking they are watching me, that their death could even help me in anyway, that is a very comforting thought."

He reopened his glowing blue eyes and smiled to Blackpaw, "If your father had never killed my parents...we would not be here right now...who knows what else might have been different. I wouldn't be a Shadow...I wouldn't have met you in the city...you would still be clinging onto your own parents for your life...maybe my life could have been 'normal' and maybe yours could have been 'normal'. Perhaps we would've met each other at school and became friends anyway. I don't know."

Liki got down on his knees on the floor so he was the same hieght as Blackpaw, and he gripped his shoulders tightly, "What I do know Blackpaw," he whispered, "Is what is right in front of me...and what is in front of me is a hard future of trying to restore The Shadows...what do you see in front of you?"

Blackpaw whimpered, his lips quivering, "I want to go with you, I want to help you."

"Is that becuase of your bond that you don't want to let go of? Are you trying to live for me?" Liki asked.

"No." He shook his head.

"Is it becuase you think you are expected to becuase of how your father hurt me?"

Blackpaw shook his head again, "No."

"What is your reason then?"

The white wolf looked at the ground and felt fresh tears in his eyes once more, "Because I'm the son of a killer..."

Silence followed a moment until Liki said, "You think you don't deserve it..."

Blackpaw nodded, wipping away the tears with his arm before Liki hugged him tightly and he buried his face into his Master's shoulder and wetting the fur there with his tears.

"I want to go with you becuase it's what I want to do, becuase I'm happy when I'm with you...I can't think of anything else left for me when I feel like I'm..."

"Someone that doesn't deserve to be happy at all?" Liki whispered, finishing the sentence for him.

Blackpaw nodded again slowly, "I can't believe," he sniffled and took a breath, "That you don't hate me...I don't understand why you're being so nice..."

Liki chuckled, "I can't see myself being anything but nice. I can't see myself being angry at all, I can't remember ever being angry at anything."

Blackpaw giggled through his crying a bit, "I'm jealous."

"Jealous? Of what?"

"Of your step-brother...I wish you had been my big brother..."

Another silence followed, through which Blackpaw felt Liki begin to shake uncontrollably.

"Liki?" He whimpered and drew back a bit to see his Master's face, which was covered with tears of his own. The older Fangren could only smile as he blinked more tears down his fur while looking at Blackpaw. The child whimpered again and returned to hugging and cuddling up to his teacher, crying as well.

Words were failing Liki. He couldn't think of anything to say anymore. Back downstairs, when Blackpaw revealed what had been hurting him so badly, it hurt to believe it was true. The Shadow Creature Blackpaw told him about had to be real, it explained the voice he heard, it explained a lot about the Shadows as a living thing rather than just an element of magic. There was no way what Blackpaw told him was not the truth.

It hurt him more though to hear Blackpaw say he thought he didn't deserve any chance to be happy. That had nearly brought on tears, but when his student said he was jealous of Shadey for having had Liki as a big brother, that broke him.

Rarely did Liki cry. This would be the forth time in his life he believed. The first was, as his Master had told him, when he was alone with his parent's dead bodies. The second had been when his secret love had been killed in the Dark Forest. The third had been when Uriay died. And now the forth was here, realizing he was as he was because of circumstances beyond his control. He hated it, he really did. His calmness toward Blackpaw was a mask he had been using to maintian the situation, but his resolve was broken now.

His smile was true though, Blackpaw's words filled him with happiness despite how hard this revalation tried to bury him in sorrow. He believed he could pull through with this child beside him.

"Blackpaw?" He whispered.

"Yeah Liki?" His student whispered back shakily.

Liki squeezed him tightly and closed his eyes, "Together...we can help each other out...Honestly...I hate this, I hate knowing I'm what I am becuase of things I couldn't control now...thinking I had no choice...but you're a victim too...you probably wish it had never happened, that we both weren't here right now...but...it's true and we're here, we have to try and make the best of it."

"Could it be that this was meant to happen?" Blackpaw looked at him.

He thought about that before he sighed, "Maybe...we can't be sure, we can only take it and make the best of it as we can." He squeezed his student again, "I want you to stay with me Blackpaw...as my student, as my friend...as my little brother...Can you help me bring back The Shadows? You can help me bring it back right?"

Blackpaw smiled greatly, pressing his face back into Liki's fur, "I will!"

Liki grinned and sighed, rubbing Blackpaw's backside slowly, "Thank you...Blackpaw..."

"Big brother..." Blackpaw whimpered, and Liki closed his eyes tightly as those words hit his heart hard. He felt his groin stir with emotion as Blackpaw nuzzled his chest lightly, light tears still wetting parts of his fur. There was a long, hard future ahead of him and Blackpaw, but if each day could end like this, holding each other closely and lovingly, he would do everything he needed to keep it that way.

Steve... He thought wearily, Did you mean for it to end like this? Did you know this would happen?

Liki shivered and rested his head on his student's shoulder, holding him for warmth as he felt an odd chill from all the drama.

Becuase...I...I kinda want to thank you. You did something really bad and hurt me...but you've given me something back to try to fix it the only way you really could...being Blackpaw's family...

He blinked and felt tears flow down his muzzle once more, but his smile broadened.

"I have a family now..." He whispered aloud.

Blackpaw giggled lightly and licked Liki's chest fur tenderly, "Just us?" The boy wondered.

"For now." Liki sighed and broke their hug to stand up. He kept hold of Blackpaw's hand though and led him over to the bed. He started removing Blackpaw's shirt while he sat down on the bed, tossing the article across the room toward the dresser as Blackpaw followed up by removing his shorts and throwing them aside as well. Once more they were naked together, and it thrilled them both to think it was going to be more meaningful now somehow.

Liki laid down on the bed and Blackpaw crawled over him to lay with his head next to his Master's, while keeping one half of himself on him and smiling devilishly.

The gray Fangren grinned, knowing what Blackpaw was thinking becuase he could see that the boy's cock was halfway out its sheath and growing.

Blackpaw leaned in closer, and Liki finished what he was saying as he moved so that their muzzles were inches away from each other, "You and I are a family."

He kissed Blackpaw a moment, drawing back to pull Blackpaw onto his body fully. He could feel his half-erect penis against Blackpaw's legs, while the white Fangren's was pressed against Liki's stomach becuase of his shorter hieght. He reinitaited the kiss with Blackpaw laying on him, keeping their muzzles together this time.

This kissing was not as easy as it had been in the tub earlier that day, it was full of emotion and passion. It was a bit frantic and quick paced, but Liki liked it.

Suddenly the Fangren felt very uncomfortable around his cock and testicles. He yearned for release. He wanted to feel that climax with ejuculation again. He broke the kiss and sat up with Blackpaw against him still. Blackpaw's legs wrapped around him tightly as he whimpered, his small four inch member throbbing in it's own desire, laying against Liki's tight abs.

The gray Fangren stared at his student's penis a moment before he grinned and bent over to lick it with his tongue. Blackpaw moaned lustfully, panting heavily already as his hands took Liki's head from behind and guided his Master by pushing lightly as Liki continued to lick him. Liki licked a few more times before he desired more of the taste of Blackpaw's flesh, and he used his arms to support Blackpaw and pulled his waist up higher to his chest. There was something he wanted to do, he had wanted to try it ever since Uriay told him it was how two males could love each other...but he never asked Uriay to let him becuase of the extreame difference in age. He wanted to try it now...

Blackpaw leaned back a bit now, feeling his legs straddle Liki's chest so that his childish member was in front of Liki's face. His tongue lolled out of his muzzle while his mind raced with lust that was still quite foriegn to him.

He felt Liki's tongue cross along the length of his cock a few more times, a few more moans escaping him as he panted heavily with his eyes closed, his tail swishing below him just above the tip of Liki's own penis, occasionally brushing it and making his Master moan between his licks.

He loved that sound. He enjoyed making Liki feel good like this, and he knew Liki liked showing his emotions and love like this. More over, Blackpaw loved that feeling of climax and the emotion of the activity.

The white furred wolf whimpered when he felt his small member jerk and his knot twitch in esctasy.

"Liki...I..." His heart wanted to say something.

Liki stopped his licking to ask, his hot breath rolling over the younger wolf's member, "Yes Blackpaw?"

Blackpaw panted a moment before he shivered and said, "I love you..."

He heard his Master chuckle, "I love you too little brother...that's why I want to try something..."

Blackpaw felt dissapointed when he felt Liki's hot breath leaving his cock, but he asked, "What's that?"

"I want to make love to you..." Liki whimpered, "The only way a male can to another male..."

The boy forced himself to straigten up in Liki's arms. He saw his big brother's face looking at him with pure emotion and desire. Liki had explained how a male and a female could make love, but he had never mentioned two males could do the same thing.

"How?" He whispered.

"You'll see," Liki whispered back, "I'm going to try it now, but if you don't like what I'm doing, tell me to stop. Or if you'd rather, you can do it to me? Would you rather do that instead?"

Liki's willing to let me be in control like that? Blackpaw thought, stunned. That stunning feeling was replaced quickly by love for his Master though.

He doesn't want to hurt me...

"It's okay Liki, I trust you." Blackpaw answered, "You can try it, I'll let you know if I want you to stop."

Liki nodded, and Blackpaw felt the arms holding him begin to lower him slowly downward. He felt Liki's adolescent cock rub underneath his legs until it found the base of his tail, then move lower to rub the space between his buttcheeks and find his virgin hole.

He shivered at the feeling of that sticky; and as he remembered sweet and salty substance on his asshole. Getting a feeling of what Liki was planning to do, he whimpered once, but he was yet to feel any adversion to it.

"Blackpaw?" Liki whispered, checking one last time with the cool, slick tip of his penis against Blackpaw's tailhole before he went any farther.

Blackpaw nodded right away. For some reason he knew he would like this, he didn't want Liki to stop at all.

"Go..." He said in a voice close to begging.

Liki's cock began to press against his ass, and Blackpaw clenched his teeth as his body reacted to the intrusion naturally by clenching it closed. He whimpered again as Liki still tried to press himself in.

"Relax Blackpaw..." Liki whispered to him.

"I'm trying...but it's wierd to me..." Blackpaw moaned. He wanted to feel Liki's cock inside him, but the prospect of something going in that way was unknown to him, and his body was refusing to relax.

"Do you really want it?" Liki asked him.

Blackpaw nodded, "Yeah...It's just...wierd right now. I can't relax."

"Hang on." His Master said and those firm hands began to stroke Blackpaw's arms and back and stomach at different times. The feeling of Liki's hands running across his body, flowing across his fur and feeling his small muscles, eased him quickly. His butt was the last to relax, and as soon as it did Liki trust himself in with a grunt.

Blackpaw gasped loudly, feeling the top half of Liki's pulsing rod inside him and pain shooting through him as his hole was streatched. He fell foward on Liki, who supported him as he was stuck on his cock.

"Easy there...do you want me to pull out?" Liki continued to pet his student as Blackpaw whimpered loudly in pain.

Those hands were quickly easing the pain though and as he relaxed again and submitted to the intrusion of Liki's penis, the pain was replaced by an odd pleasure at knowing it was Liki inside him.

"No..." He murred eventually and picked himself back up on Liki's penis, "It hurt but it's going away now...keep going...please."

Liki gave a small grin, and he let gravity slowly slide his cock deeper into Blackpaw's ass, keeping a hold on the underside of his student.

Blackpaw tilted his head at the ceiling and moaned lowly, his tongue hanging out his muzzle and breathing fast and heavy. He moaned louder the farther his Master's rod pushed into him, feeling that warm and throbbing penis pressing against his insides was really erotic to him. He started to stroke his four inch member slowly with his paw, whimpering and groaning in lust and desire to climax and to feel his teacher bury himself as deep he could. He could feel his knot starting to swell in his hand slightly already just as he felt Liki's own knot hit his hole and Liki held fast so the larger part of his cock wouldn't slip in and hurt his student.

He whimpered sadly and stopped stroking himself when he felt Liki pull his body up off that warm member inside him, but moaned at the feeling of how it was sliding around inside him like that. Blackpaw's tail shined in the blue light of the room as it wagged lightly when Liki began sliding back in slowly, but faster then before and with a low moan of his own. Blackpaw restarted pawing himself, panting and whimpering again. His knot had grown since he had last touched it, swelling as Liki rubbed along something inside Blackpaw that sent electric pleasure surging through him. He let go and took a hold of Liki's shoulders, beginning to help his Master in the effort of pulling in and out of him. The young wolf didn't want to climax just yet, but with each time Liki rubbed along that special spot in him, he could feel his knot swell up bigger and harder with the pleasure it gave. That sensation was building up that he knew now as an approaching climax, and he whimpered as he tried to keep it from building so soon.

"Liki..." He moaned, "Gaia please..."

Liki only growled lustfully, his pace increased to a high speed. He was lost to pleasure, his only focus now was to fill his student with his semen using his newfound ability to cum. Blackpaw began feeling Liki's knot swelling bigger and bigger each time it his ass, each thrust his Master made making him moan in need and his cock to jump. Viens began to show along the pink flesh as blood filled it to the brim. His climax was still approaching fast, and try as he might to hold it off, it was coming.

Blackpaw gripped Liki's shoulders and gritted his teeth. He felt his knot ache before the sensation inside it exploded and his cock began to jump violently in a huge climax, trying to shoot out semen like it had its first time but failing again. He reared his head and howled loudly, riding his orgasm and the ecstasy as Liki still thrust into him. His Master gave a another lustfull growl and hilted Blackpaw, thrusting madly and quickly with short japs as his knot swelled still to it's final size before climax.

"Blackpaw..." He managed to growl through his panting, "Do you...think you can...take the knot?" He whimpered as he held back his own climax but kept up his speed, waiting for Blackpaw to answer.

Blackpaw could only whimper in desire for a moment. He wanted to feel all of his Master inside him, he wouldn't be satisfied knowing he hadn't. He didn't think about any pain he might feel or what might happen after that huge bit of flesh was inside him, but he didn't care at the moment.

"Yes!" He whined and begged, still feeling his climax crashing through him "Please big brother!"

That was all Liki needed to hear. With a howl, Liki shoved Blackpaw down on him with his hands and thrust his hips up until there was a loud 'pop' as the large knot entered Blackpaw.

The white Fangren howled in both pain and pleasure as Liki whimpered and gave a few last thrusts with his knot inside Blackpaw before his climax exploded and he ejucalated for the second time in his life into his student.

More pain shot through Blackpaw as Liki's knot swelled once more to yet another size, but it was subsided by Liki's continueing thrusts as he shot his load and the feel of the warm liquid of his Master's semen inside him. He howled as he had a surprise second climax, his member jumping wildly and his body shaking.

Liki's thrusts went from frantic to slow and lazy with each shot of his sperm he gave Blackpaw, until he stopped entirely and panted heavily while holding Blackpaw's body up.

Blackpaw was basking in afterglow. While his ass stung and burned with the feel of his teacher's knot buried inside him, his mind and heart was swollen much bigger. Slowly, and carefully becuase he found that moving hurt now with Liki inside him, he rested his body against the older boy's chest, buring his muzzle under his neck and panting heavily.

He could hear Liki's heart beating a little fast as his Master panted with him, wrapping his arms around him and holding him close to his body. The heat between them was comforting, and Blackpaw could still feel his big brother's pulsing member throb lightly inside him. It would be awhile before it would shrink and Liki could pull out he realized, but he shivered at the thought of Liki pulling out. He liked having him inside him, it felt like a part of him was filled. Filled with the extention of Liki's body that was his penis...

He murred and closed his muzzle, beginning to breathe slower as exhaustion covered him just like the blanket Liki waved over thier bodies at the moment. He heard Liki's heart beat slowing and the pulsing of the flesh inside him easing, but the knot was still swollen and he wished it would stay that way forever. He nuzzled his Master's neck affectionately.

"I love you Liki...Thank you..." He murmurred tiredly.

Blackpaw felt Liki move his muzzle so he could lick the top of his student's head. "I love you too Blackpaw..." He whispered and kept licking afterwards.

Blackpaw smiled, and quickly fell asleep to the lickings of his new family member's gentle tongue.

Liki smiled when he finally knew that his little brother was fast asleep. He stayed awake for another twenty minutes until his knot deflated fully and he pulled out of Blackpaw with a wet, sloppy noise. His student whimpered in his sleep and Liki rubbed him back to a comforting snooze.

Now exhaustion hit Liki as well, and he moved a bit to get more comfortable and kept Blackpaw close to him.

He stared at the cieling, his eyelids closing slowly as the thoughts of the day replayed through his mind.

Liki couldn't say he was dissapointed with where he was.

No...he was happy here...he was happy with Blackpaw...and dare he think it...happy Steve had killed his parent's.

You knows where else I might have ended up? He thought to himself, I could have been dead by some accident with my parents if Steve hadn't left me for Uriay to find like that...I'm proud to be a Shadow and to have lived with Uriay...

He paushed, tilting his head to the side as his eyes closed.

I wish I had known my parents more...that I could have grown up with them still...but...I can't dwell too much on what 'could' have been.

His fingers ran through Blackpaw's fur, and the boy murred in his sleep again and cuddled up to him so his muzzle was under Liki's jaw.

I...I'm happy here...I've found a family I can call my own...It's not blood related but...I don't care about that...

Liki smiled again and started to drift off to sleep.

I wouldn't have it any other way.