The Shadows Book Two: The Legacy of Man and Machine.

Chapter Three - Backwards Soul.

Liki Wolfspirit.

Liki opened his eyes back open and instantly fell backwards as a wave of exhaustion hit him hard like a boulder to the chest. He panted heavily, surprised at how he felt. The room was dark, empty except for him and the slowly breathing Foxen opposite him. The day had apparently past by while he had been inside One-Eye's head.

He hoped it was truely possible for Wolff and Folvar to find a balance in their personalties soon, he didn't want to have a half insane fox tagging along.

It wouldn't be like PyreFox that's for sure...

The wolf sat in silence for a long while until he heard a noise outside the window and a figure jumped onto the sill, crouching and peering in at him. A long, smooth tail twitched in the air as a pair of red feline eyes looked at him and the Beast whispered, "You think it safe to keep him here? He's obviously insane."

Liki's Shadow senses instantly let him know who this was, it was the Feline girl from before, the one the bounty hunter had been attacking and who One-Eye had been attempting to rape. He huffed and turned his body around on the bed to face her.

"Is it safe for you to be near him? He did try to rape you afterall."

"I heard what you had been saying before you ended up sitting there silent for seven hours straight." She said back, in typical teenager attitude while Liki's stomach growled angerly at him upon hearing how long he had been sitting still, "That wasn't like him you said."

"It wasn't, and I know why know, hopefully I can control him easier now."

"Been with him long?"

"Well...not really, just today actually," the Fangren started weakly, "Still, it wasn't who he was before."

"How can you know what's wrong now then? You don't know him at all if that's the case." Liki could see her grin in the darkness. He wasn't very comfortable considering her black fur made it so he couldn't see her, but her blue armor gave away her form while her red eyes just seemed to float there. Was this what it was like to see a Shadow in Shadow Form in a dark place? He would have to get Blackpaw to transform in the dark sometime to see.

Liki shook his head, "Hey, first of all, I have my ways, magic. Secondly, who are you to worry about it?"

The girl jumped into the room, making a soft 'thump' as she did, and said, "First, you're a rogue, rogues don't use magic," She said that matter of factly, and Liki had to grin at her assumption, "Secondly, he tried to rape me."

"I'll give you that second one, but you're wrong on the first." Liki stood up and walked over to a nearby fireplace, pointing his palm at the logs he shot a small bit of purple fire at them and lit up the room in a purple glow. The fire was a mix of Shadows and Pyre magic, given to him by the Flame Ritual that PyreFox had led him through way back in EarthEnd. The Flame Mark on his hand rarely burned him these days, everything he did seemed to work toward his goal to get a family he could be happy with.

The Feline, now staring at the purple fire with wide eyes, only barely managed to ask, "How did you...?"

Liki moved back to the bed and sat down as the purple color of the fire changed out into a bright warm orange as the fire itself took hold.

"I'm a Shadow. I'm a rogue yes, but I use a special type of magic that only rogues can learn how to use."

The cat stared at the fire a bit longer, her fire shining in the light, until she looked over to him, "Can you teach me that?"

Liki leaned back on the bed, "That depends." He grinned.

The cat girl looked at him angerly for some reason, looking doing to his crotch while hissing, "What you want me to let you fuck me as a price?"

"Huh?" Liki blinked in surprise, then realized how his leaning back could have been misleading like that, "Oh! No!" He sat back up quickly, "I'm not into inter-breeding. Besides that, I have a mate."

"You do? I haven't seen her." The rogue crossed her arms.

"Well...it's not a girl." Liki shrugged, "My mate is Kaz, the druid who is with me."

"You mean you're gay?" She asked like it was regular conversation. Liki blinked in surprise again, it had imagined that upon telling someone he was mated to another male would be like telling them Gaia had been murderred, and they'd lash at him like he was a Necromancer trying to trick them into believeing to so they'd all become undead, except in this case he'd be turning them into gays.

"Bi actually, but yes, mated to a gay partner."

The Feline suddenly seemed to relax a great deal, "Well, I don't have to worry about you trying to lust on me do I?"

Liki grinned and shook his head, "No, but you might need to watch out for Blackpaw, I don't know his preferences toward species but he's quite horny being a teen as well."

"Noted...so about your magic?"

"I can teach you I suppose. If you're willing to take the time to learn. It isn't something I can teach in the matter of a day or week or month, it takes many years. Blackpaw has been learning for eight years now. The question there isn't if you're willing to give the time, but if you're willing to travel with us."

"How does this Shadow stuff work then?"

"Shadows are an element of magic not like the others. They have a mind of their own and won't let a Beast use them with evil intent."

The girl crossed her arms, "Well that takes me off the list I guess..." She whispered sadly.

Liki stared at her, "That depends...tell me your story. Who are you?"

"My name..." The cat began and sat down on the bed across him just beyond One-Eye's feet, "My name is Reyals Luos. I am the daughter of the richest family in Heartwood, richer than even the Royal Family."

"The family with the dying girl..." Liki nodded. He knew of the family, and then he realized why the bounty hunter was after Reyals earlier. They were trying to get Reyals back home, but her bounty was for alive or dead. Why would they want her back even if she was dead?

"My older sister is that dying girl...but she is not just my sister, she is my 'twin'."

"Your twin?" Liki repeated.

Reyals nodded, "My sister, Frost, has a rare condition in which her body degenerates at a constant rate. She needs blood transfusions monthly and every two years her liver and kidneys replaced sergically...my parents used magical means with which to create a twin, me, that could provide Frost with those organs."

Liki blinked, "But...every two years?"

"Magical means meaning that I can regenerate my body...even missing organs..."

"That's horrible."

"Growing up I remember my sister was always full of energy and played with me all the time, and my parent's treated us both so well...until Frost's illness caught up to her finally and she needed her first replacement liver in her life...I gave mine willingly then, not knowing that I would grow a new one just to be the organ farm for my parents to keep my sister barely alive...but two years later when she needed a second one and I was told that this was what I had been brought into this world to do. I tried to run away."

Reyals fists clentched, "I was caught and drugged, and my second liver, along with both my kidneys were transfered to Frost to keep her alive again. I grew mine back in about two days, but Frost just kept getting worse, she needed yet more new organs in a year...this all started when I was six, and I was locked up in the house and forced to donate my organs every year or two to my sister."

"How did your sister feel about this...?"

"She hated herself..." Reyals whispered, her fist unclentching as she started to cry, "She didn't want to stay alive, she was always in pain and almost always bedridden...she hated how my parents used me to keep her, their oldest daughter, alive...on the day after I was made to give her her seventh liver so far, she secretly cut me loose from my restraints and told me to run away while they were gone. I did..."

"I ran into and traveled with a group of people who gave me my name of Reyals Luos, learning how to fight as a rogue up till the point that a bounty hunter attacked trying to get me and they cast me away out of fear for their own safety. That was about five months ago."

"So your sister?"

"Still alive?" Reyals nodded, "My parent's wouldn't have put such a large price on my head if she wasn't...She probably has about two months to live now...my parents will no doubt use everything they can to keep her alive as long as possible, in pain or not..."

Liki whimpered. This girl probably felt horrible, her parents were giving a clear signal that they didn't think of Reyals as a daughter at all, and that she was just a farm with which they could keep the olderst alive. Yet on the side, Frost felt horrible for putting her little sister into this trouble, she knew Reyals deserved better, desevered her own life.

"So you're on the run?" He asked.

"Yeah, tried to stay hidden in the city, but apparently being surrounded by civilians doesn't help."

"Not with bounty hunters in the emply of the kingdoms, who have permission to pretty much do whatever the hell they want when hunting a target."

"Really? Didn't know that..."

A long moment of silence followed until Liki coughed, "You can stay with us, if you like, we can keep you safe from bounty hunters, and if we get in any trouble for upstaging bounty hunters, I have friends in high places that will see your side of the story." He was partially lying about the friends in high places, but Liki did have a reputation already. He often wondered, when someone would recognize him in his outfit, why the Grey Circle wasn't trying to hunt him down yet.

Reyals blinked at him, her eyes sparking in a ray of happiness, "Really? You mean that?"

"Sure, as long as you don't mind some of our quirks." He stuck out his tongue a moment in an attempt to remain cute and funny. He suddenly began to think about Kaz and he longed to go and cuddle up to his big Feral mate.

The feline tilted her head at him, "Being?"

"You'll find out I'm sure," Liki chuckled a moment, "In fact, I'm feeling an urge to do something you might need to get used to right now." He winked, and Reyals instantly realized what he was saying and gagged a moment.

The cat regained her composure and stood, "I'll just stay in here then with this fox here, as long as he stays asleep at least. I'll try to ignore any noises." She groaned after she said the last part.

"You'll have an easier time at it than Blackpaw, since he has to share the same room." Liki giggled softly and stood up, walking across the room. He opened the door and turned his head back to Reyals with a grin, "If you need something let me know, don't worry about anything for costs. I'm rich myself, maybe richer than your folks." he said folks becuase he felt that her parents were not deserving of the title of "parent"

"Thanks..." Reyals whispered softly, staring at the fire, but her voice was calm and her mind at ease now. She said nothing else as Liki continued to stand a moment.

The Fangren left and closed the door behind him, and Reyals sighed lightly and looked across at the Foxen in the other bed.

"I've probably gotten myself into something even worse off than I was, but I believe him when he says he can protect me. After he said that, if he really had wanted sex as a payment, I might have given it, he seems gentle."

One-Eye mumbled in his sleep then, his words too soft to hear, and Reyals knelt down and grinned, "What was that?" She meowed jokingly.

One-Eye whispered louder this time, "I'm sorry..."

This made Reyals blink in surprise, "Sorry...?"

"For...trying to rape you..."

"Ah so you do remember."

"I do now...I didn't mean to..." The Fox's eye was closed tightly, his eyelid fluttering. He was dreaming deeply.

"I know..." Reyals smiled softly, "Just don't let it happen again." She stood up sharply and laid on the bed opposite.

"I won't." One-Eye mumbled in return, falling into a silent sleep again.

Liki snuck into the other room that Kaz and Blackpaw were both in, both of the other Fangrens were already fast asleep, and Liki whimpered softly.

Well, so much for the urge. He thought and tip-toed over to the bed Kaz was sprawled over, completly nude and with the covers only barely covering the bottom half of his body while his arms were above his head and his tongue was lolling out of his maw lazingly, a small dark spot around his tongue from the drool.

Liki smiled and giggled softly at Kaz's form. The wolf was a horrible bed person when he was alone, his body was so large that he had to sleep at an angle or with his legs bent to fit, and he had a habit of sprawling his limps in every direction possible when Liki wasn't there for him to hug and cuddle up to.

He hated to do so, but he wasn't going to get into the bed without waking the druid so might as well do it now, so that he could instead snuggle up to him and sleep more organized. He placed a paw on Kaz's chest and shook him lightly.

"Kaz? Wake up."

Kaz snorted once before his eyes snapped open before closing again and yawning, "Liki. Hmmm...coming to bed finally?"

"Yeah, just let me get out of my armor real fast." Liki whispered and started fussing with his tight leather outfit.

Kaz moved in the bed to lay on his side faceing him, legs bending so he could fit on the mattress, "How's One-Eye?"

"I discovered the problem, I should be able to control his actions now." Liki said as he finally manged to lift his leather chestquard up over his head and began working the much easier to remove pants, he tossed them aside with the chest piece and crawled onto the bed beside Kaz, wrapping his arms around the big half-Feral and pressing their bodies together warmly.

Kaz pulled up the covers over both of them, their heads touching softly. "What's his problem?"

"He's being controlled by a pair of children living inside his brain." Liki answered, waiting for his mates responce the riduculous answer.

The black wolf only blinked for a moment before nodding, "I guess we've been in wierder things before."

"We have?"

"That Necromancer back in Anglorum wasn't any fun." Kaz grumbled.

Liki giggled, licking the druid's nose with his tongue. He remembered that, it had been shortly after EarthEnd, about a year after in fact, they spent about five months trying to hunt down a dangerous Necromancer across the country, fighting thousands of undead through the Camelot Tombs, through the ancient Monestary, and fighting a Lich before they finally caught up to him.

They had actually nearly died, but when Liki's flame mark kicked in once the situation became dire, he used the extra power to tap into the undead minds of the Necromancer's minions and give them all the illusion that Gaia had been reborn and was still alive. He proved the theory that undead could be brought back to 'life', as they regained control and turned on their master, saving them in the process as well.

The once undead regained their compsure, their emotions, and returned to their families in Camelot. Liki, Kaz, and Blackpaw pocketed a huge reward, given to them by the King himself, and many other ones from the grateful familes who the restored Beasts returned to.

Along with that adventure, they had three other marvoulous ones, among those fighting a dragon in New Bedari that was threatening the city of Bremen and recieving another large reward from the Queen there, discovering a vampire infested ruin in the hills of Midlands and killing the head vampire before he could set off his "Infect the world" bomb, and Liki's personal favorite, having a nice little offset with a branch of the Grey Circle that failed to recognize him, sabotauging their mission and crippling their resorces.

In this case, this was a rather mild problem compared to those.

"I still think that stabbing a giant Anubian in the balls was the best." He stuck out his tongue cutely.

Kaz giggled in return, his strong arms tightening around Liki's smaller frame, "Some of the best days those were."

"They're getting better!" Liki retorted, pawing at Kaz's muzzle playfully.

Blackpaw groaned across from them in his bed, "Will you both just suck eachother off and go to sleep already?" He growled tiredly.

Both the Fangren's blushed, pushing their heads together while smiling slyly to each other. Kaz winked, and his head slipped down under the covers.

Liki closed his eyes as he felt his mate's tongue matting down his fur, murring quietly to not annoy Blackpaw anymore than they already had, but as the lump that was Kaz shifted down low and his tongue found Liki's sheath, the rogue could not stifle the loud moan he gave off as his reddish pink tip poked out against Kaz's nose.

"Gah." Liki heard Blackpaw groan and shuffle up in his bed, and Liki's ears twitched as he felt the teen working his way onto the bed in front of him, over Kaz's figure in the bed. He opened his eyes to find Blackpaw's swollen sheath right in front of his nose, the hint of musk coming from it making him grin as his student's paws rubbed the back of his head softly.

"What's wrong Blackpaw?" Liki grunted, pushing his hips foward as Kaz suckled on his emerging shaft, buring into his maw with all six inches of his length, his knot emerging to add another inch to that for a full seven, his adult size.

"Can't stand all the hormones?" Liki continued to tease as he saw the tip of Blackpaw's cock poke out slightly, and the teen gripped his head with his paws in responce, whining softly in need.

The master chuckled and leaned his head foward, closing his lips over the adolescent's swelling sheath, murring as the flesh inside continued to slide out, already dripping a few drops of pre. Liki licked at the sweet tasting liquid, rembering the first time Blackpaw has first climaxed when they had first became Master and Student.

He dwelled on the memory until Blackpaw began thursting softly at his face, pulling back and humping him with soft grunts of pleasure, paws holding his head firmly. Blackpaw had grown alot since then, ejuclating for his first time when he was eleven and his member going from the small four inches with his knot, to a nice five and half inch long shaft and his knot now adding an inch rather than just a half.

Liki focused on peircing his lips tightly, his tongue curling up to create a tunnel for Blackpaw's smooth, throbbing cock, as Kaz finally caught his attention as he started to suck him under the sheets. Liki moaned in his throat, pleasure shooting through him as he immersed himself in the experiance with the two Beasts he loved most in this world. His hips started rocking softly, bucking into Kaz's muzzle with his own member.

He could feel Kaz's huge half-Feral cock poking at the bottom of his footpaws. Despite being lowered with his head at his crotch, the druid's cock still could reach up that far becuase of his linage. Liki streatched his leg out, rubbing his foot down his mate's long, ten inch length. Gaia did Liki love Kaz, for his passion, his emotion, his body and his caring, gentle touch. It was like the giant wolf was afriad he could snap Liki's neck on accident when he hugged him, but Liki didn't mind, he loved Kaz to death. He knew Kaz wouldn't hurt him on purpose, he would do anything for him. His giant cock was a good bonus.

Both of Liki's feet rubbed at the long stick, as Blackpaw's knot twitched in pleasure and swelled a bit, his pace and thursting become quicker and harder, as Kaz moaned in the blankets and increased his own pace, sucking Liki with a twirling tongue, his paw finding and rubbing at his balls at the same time.

Liki whimpered, his knot swelled up a bit and he jammed it into Kaz's muzzle hotly for a moment before pulling off and letting his mate continue, holding his head still as Blackpaw continued to hump him, beginning to lean over his head while panting as if the teen was trying to doggy-style his face. He streatched his legs more, passing his feet over Kaz's own bulbous knot and messaging it by wiggling his toes. Kaz paused in his sucking, as he thrust against Liki's feet for awhile before managing to multitask his sucking and thrusting.

Ohhhhhh Gaia.... Liki thought, panting through his nose against Blackpaw's crotch fur. This was probably the most erotic thing the three of them had ever done together so far. He didn't know how much longer he could last, but he was getting so much pleasure from so many different areas of his body he knew it wouldn't be long at all. Already he could no longer feel his balls as Kaz continued to message them, having become numb to sensations as his body was tensing up and he could feel the feeling of climax building in his throbbing cock in the warm space of Kaz's maw, drippling pre constantly while the druid's smooth tongue ran along it and collected it greedily.

"Ahhhhhhhhh...fuck...feels so good..." Blackpaw moaned softly, his thrusting changing into short, sharp japs as he tried to simulate a tie by pushing his knot into his Master's muzzle. Liki tried to clamp his lips over the buldge each time, but Blackpaw would pull back hard and pop it back out, yipping in pleasure as it hit back against his sheath and then thrusting it back in, clearly enjoying his build up to climax.

Kaz knew how to work Liki though, and while his tongue curled around his shaft in his muzzle, his paw came up and wrapped around his twitching knot, sqeezing it as his other paw sqeezed lightly on his balls.

Liki bucked once, and came hard, his seed gushing down Kaz's throat. Liki let out a long moan, rocking his hips back and forth as Kaz held his head still, murring as Liki continued to shot more and more of his cum down his mouth. As Liki finished and his climax was reduced to dripples, Blackpaw leaned over again, panting crazily and pushing Liki's head at his crotch, buring his nose in his crotch fur again.

"Gahhhh...Al-Almost...Almost...Ah fuck!" He yowled, and finally came, his young teenager cum spilling onto the back of his throat, splashing down to Liki's stomach quickly and humping at his face still, riding the climax as much as he could. Liki murred, grinning as he could with a cock in his mouth, enjoying the feeling of his student's warm seed inside him, barely aware that Kaz was still thrusting at his feet, the bigger wolf's cock throbbing in need.

It took awhile for Kaz to reach a climax, but when he finally did, he made it obvious to Liki as his cock sprayed the area just under his tail, where the long member had managed to reach under him, and making a mess of the bed sheets.

The three wolves stayed still, the sound of Blackpaw's heavy, exhausted panting the most dominent as Liki and Kaz breathed through their noses. Liki was the first to find the strength to move, pulling away from Kaz's muzzle and removing his feet from his long, now half-erect member. Kaz wiggled up from the blankets, his head poking out as Blackpaw managed to pull off from his Master's head, his spent shaft sliding out and hanging lazingly, knot throbbing and drippling small amounts of cum still.

Blackpaw sat on his feet as Kaz and Liki nuzzled, murring happily, and the older rogue murmmered. "Love you Kaz," He looked up to Blackpaw, "You too Blackpaw. I love you both so much." He smiled happily.

"I love you too Liki, and Blackpaw of course." Kaz giggled.

"I love you both too, even though you drive me crazy." The teenager chuckled, panting with a smile, "You mind if I sleep with you both tonight?"

Kaz wiggled, opening a space between himself and Liki as an answer, and Blackpaw quickly slid in under the covers between the two of them, hugging Liki as both his Master and Kaz wrapped their arms around eachother, sharing their warmth. Liki shuffled his feet a bit, to avoid the puddle of cum Kaz had made on the bed, and murred and settled in to sleep.

It wasn't long before they were all deep in sleep, cuddling up to each other with grins on their muzzles.