Forbidden Love - Chapter 3
Chapter 3.
He stood slowly, his hand still clasping hers so that he gently pulled her up with him. Smiling down at her, he gave her a wink then, led the way out of the house, making sure to lock the door behind him. He didn't carry firearms outside the house, but he always had a knife on him, strapped around his waist under his shirt. His muscles rippled as they walked, already quite developed for a sixteen year old. They would have driven if they had a car, but it had been taken from them after their parents had died, since at the time, Darehl didn't know how. They had left the house without getting Caity any panties, and Dar figured that was as good a way as any to start preparing her for being naked. He had wanted to explain more before they left, but he was convinced that she would at least listen to him when they got home before she made any assumptions about what it meant to be a 'slave'. She was royal blood as well, and while she may not be as physically strong as he, or as dominant... she was very smart in her own right.
Caity felt a little self-conscious leaving the house without her panties on, but she had told her brother that anytime he wanted her, he could have her, but they did have to be careful in public. While they were in New Mascul, the city was located in the Boreal Valley and the furs here did not believe in incest, even for the royal families, so it was something they would have to hide.
Unbeknownst to the pair, someone was watching them as they walked towards their youngest sister's school, someone who was very interested in getting the girl under him. And she wasn't the only one he wanted; the younger sister looked even more inviting due to her young age. After watching them pass him by, he moved from shadow to shadow, following them. He knew they would take the same path back home, and he needed the right place to attack. The brother had to be eliminated so they could have the girls. Two other shadows followed him.
Darehl continued to give her little smiles and looks as they walked, deeply happy that none of his worst fears had come true and she hadn't rejected him. He was happy that Azazel had been right about her, and he was curious to see what else the elder fox would reveal. This path they walked took them only a few blocks from home, their parents had found a home as close as they could when they moved in. It was a fairly safe route as well, most of the time patrolled by the security officers of the town. Still, something flickered in the back of Dar's mind as he walked, but he thought nothing of it, and pushed it completely away as they came to the school and waited by the gates for their little sister to get out.
Soon enough, the five year old vixen came running out of the school. Her fur was the same amber shade of her brother's but her markings were like her sister's... well, the ones that her brother had seen. She didn't have her sister's special marking around her tail-hole. The little girl was dressed in a school uniform issue skirt and shirt. Her golden eyes lit up as she saw her siblings waiting for her, the way they normally did. She adored her older siblings, and she never hid it from them. Slipping out of the gates, she flung herself at her sister first, then her brother, hugging him tightly. "DAR!! CAITY!!"
He laughed as she nearly tackled them both, and he crouched down so that she could hug him better, letting her wrap her arms around his neck. He gave her a tight squeeze and glanced up at Caity with a grin, then stood up and took her small hand in one of his. "And how is our little sister today?" he asked, as he turned from the gates and started walking slowly along the sidewalk. Until he got a chance to talk more with Azazel, and until they were safe at home, he wouldn't say anything to their younger sibling.
Ama giggled as she slipped her little paw into her brother's larger one. "Better now that I'm with my favourite brother and sister again. School was okay, I guess, it was kinda boring learning to add and subtract. I've been doing that stuff for a year now. I want something more challenging."
It was something that was true of all three of the siblings. They had mastered the basic skills early on, and were more advanced than their peers in math and whichever chosen subject they were learning. Caity had always had a feel for magic, so she was studying magic as well as some more esoteric subjects, while Dar had leaned more towards the seemingly hard to get into subjects. One that would be offered to him later would be an AI class, but their lives would change even more before that came to pass.
Caity took Ama's other paw in hers and the three of them turned back towards their house, and started home. "Well, maybe you would like to help me with some of my work, Ama. It should be sufficiently challenging enough for you."
As they left the school grounds, Darehl glanced around, gazing at the city that was stretched out all around them. In the distance behind them the inner city buildings rose to touch the sky, casting shadows on the earth below, but shining white at their tops. Near ground level, all the buildings were built of pure white stone, and the upper levels of white or silver metal, but though that may have sounded dull, it wasn't. The lowest levels were often garishly decorated with bright colours and neon lamps during the night. The lower class levels of the inner city were dark places though, and there were many areas that weren't safe to travel after dark. The upper levels relied on more subtle shades of colour and strategically placed greenery to give life to the cityscape. As you moved away from the inner city, the buildings got shorter and shorter, and the greenery more prevalent, until you reached the outer city. Here most of the buildings were one or two story at the most, aside from the mansions that the Rich kept as summer homes.
Above the quiet sounds of the few people milling on the street and sidewalks, the distant rumble and hiss of the tramways could be heard. Two of these were located in each district of the outer city, and they fed a constant stream of passengers to and from the inner city and the industrial zones at its base. From nearly anywhere, if you looked into the sky, you could see the massive cables that kept the trams aloft. The trams themselves were sleek silver and blue affairs, streamlined and propelled by electric motors and air compression, whispering along their lines. Humming always filled the air near the stations, and the hiss of the air brakes and releases could be heard quite a distance away. Smaller lines ran between towers in the inner city, along with sky-bridges that spanned the buildings. The sky-bridges were usually made of glass, affording an unparalleled view into the depths of the city's centre. Darehl had only seen these things a few times in his life, when his father had taken him on a trip to the inner city, but that had been a few years ago.
Dar chuckled at his sister's comments, and reached over to ruffle her hair slightly, and tickle her ears. He had tried to talk with her teachers and convince them to move her up a year at least, or put her into private tutoring, but without a sure source of income to pay for such studies, and also coming from a sixteen year old, the words didn't matter much. He sighed slightly and smiled down at her, saying. "Yes, why don't you help Caity? Maybe you can teach her a thing or two."
He winked at Caity, then, turned his attention to their path ahead, his mind drifting a bit. He realized he had forgotten to tell Cait about Sha'Tashah, but he hadn't even plugged her in yet himself. It was something he couldn't wait for, mostly because he had been into delicate programming and computer sciences for a long time, as well as science in general, and having an AI around would be an amazing opportunity to learn more about it... as well as just having an ever present aid that was as smart as anyone around.
Caity and Ama grinned at him, following slightly behind him, but not out of his eyesight. Caity was more aware of what the others had tried to do, though at the time, she didn't really know what it was, but she only wanted to feel Dar in her. It had felt right.
While most of the citizens of New Mascul were foxes, it was a fact that they shared the valley with a great number of different species, and not all of them could be trusted. A fair amount of criminals abounded in the shadows, as they do in any large city. Suddenly, three males jumped out of an alleyway, grabbing the two girls and starting to drag them off into the dark depths of their ambush point.
The three large males that bounded out were garbed in dirty street clothes, two appeared to be wolves, and the third some sort of large lizard. The lizard wore only leather pants and a black bandana across his head, his burly chest rippling with tight muscles. It was the wolves, however that had grabbed Caity and Ama. They appeared to be twins, both covered in shaggy grey and black fur from head to tail, and also quite muscular in build.
These realizations and identifications ran through Darehl's mind in the split second between the noise of their arrival and when he turned to see his sister's being dragged into the alleyway he had just passed. He cursed under his breath for not watching them closer, and dashed back toward the alley. The lizard must have realized that he would follow, because he was waiting for him, reaching out to grab the fox and wrench him up against the wall.
Darehl would not be taken so simply though. He let himself fall limp as the lizard grabbed him, but as the beast tried to deliver a crushing blow to his neck, Darehl ducked and came up against his stomach with one shoulder, cracking at least one rib as he propelled him completely across the alley and against the bricks of the far side. He heard something else crunch as they slammed into the wall, and he gripped the reptile's head with one clawed hand, smashing it repeatedly against the stone until his eyes glazed and he went limp.
With a curse, Darehl turned to see the wolves dragging his sister's away from their fallen leader, growling at him. "No you don't!" he spat, charging them at a dead run. The one holding Caity drew a knife, and placed it toward her neck, clearly threatening to slit her throat if Darehl continued to approach, but the fox was faster. He used the wall to propel him off the ground, delivering a rounding kick that sent the wolf's head spinning.
The attack had made the Wolf adjust his knife, but not drop it and he still succeeded in cutting Caity, for Darehl heard her scream and saw a line of blood appear on her arm. His eyes blazed red as he came down from the kick, behind the wolf. He reached up and gripped the canine with strength beyond his years, bending him backwards and making him release the young vixen. The wolf's eyes held a look of terror as Darehl stared into them. "No one fucking touches my sisters!" he yelled, and gave a vicious twist which instantly snapped the neck of the wolf.
Dar took a quick glance at Caity to ensure that she wasn't badly injured, and then approached the last wolf, who, was backed into a corner of the alley, now holding a gun to Ama's head. The little girl was crying hard and staring at Darehl with pleading eyes, making his blood both boil, and tears come to his eyes. The wolf growled. "Come closer and I blow her head away."
Ama screamed as the wolf threatened to kill her. Fear filled her young eyes and she trembled. "Dar!! Help me," she screamed, trying to hold back the tears. Caity stood behind Dar, holding her injured arm, her eyes flashing as she watched her brother-mate dealing with these males.
Darehl spat. "Go ahead, shoot her. But I promise you, before you could get off another shot, I would be on you, and you would die ten times worse than her. Now you let her go," his voice was deathly, his eyes still hardened and red, his entire body tense. He drew his knife from the hidden sheath under his shirt and brandished it, waiting to see what the would-be kidnaper chose.
Evidently, the threat made it through his thick skull, for he slowly released Ama from his iron grip. The sobbing girl ran toward her siblings, and the wolf took off down the alley. He didn't even make it fifteen feet. A flick of Darehl's wrist sent the knife whizzing through the air to embed itself in the back of his skull, dropping him like a sack of potatoes to the dirt of the alley.
Darehl was breathing hard, sweat was pouring off his body. He turned to his sisters as they ran to him. Ama reached her brother first and flung herself at his legs, her arms wrapping around his thighs. Caity wrapped her good arm around both of them, her body trembling as Ama burst into tears.
Caity knelt down to Ama and nuzzled the younger girl, her injured arm still bleeding, the blood matting in her black arm fur. "Dar, why don't you carry Ama home? It might be best if we walk closer together from now on."
Darehl was quite shaken himself, but apart from the trembling of his muscles, managed not to show it. It was the first time anyone had ever come that close to taking them from him, and he felt he had failed them by not paying attention. He knelt on the other side of Ama and pulled her into a gentle hug, whispering, "Shhh... I've got you now, you're going to be alright..."
When she wrapped her arms around his neck he lifted her up and held her with one arm, turning to Caity as well and using his available hand to take her wounded arm and look at it. "I'll take care of that when we get home," he said, then leaned in and gave her a gentle lick on the muzzle.
He could see she was trembling and frightened as well, but doing her best to not show it for Ama's sake. He wrapped his arm around her shoulders gingerly, and led them out of the alley, pausing only to retrieve his knife from the dead wolf before they exited the narrow pass, and turned for home.