Encounter with a Human, pt 5
In part five, we finally get to learn the man's name. Dyson feels that he is falling in love, but he is trying to sort out his feelings. However, every story needs a villain, and we meet our first true Antagonist. But who is the Antagonist? We'll see how you decide.
"How are you doing sleepy head?" asked the man.
Aspis awoke, groaned, and found the heavenly man looking down at him. "What happened?" he asked.
"You fainted out there," the man said. "By the way, my name is Dyson. What is yours?"
"As--Amos," Aspis corrected himself.
"Alright, Amos," said Dyson. "Why are you here looking for me, and why did you faint?"
"I wanted to know something," Amos said. "That only you could answer."
"And what is that?" Dyson asked.
"Why are humans so belligerent to dragons?"
"Well," Dyson started to explain, "It's not that they are so belligerant as they are so demanding. Every year, one of the dragons take one of our most beautiful, most virtuous virgins in this town along with a tribute of gold and treasure. They have done that, oh, for three hundred years. And it's affecting us. You've seen the humans around here, right?"
"Yes," answered Amos.
"Well, every year, we lose one of our beautiful people, and we are losing our beautiful and becoming appearance. Lately, the generations of humans have slowly and steadily become more homely and less comely. Pretty soon, though, you may see an uprising and an army come in and march on the dragons to make them stop."
"Oh," said Amos. Aspis, who was Amos, had to think on this for a while. He was finding himself more and more attractive to this man. This human. He was beautiful, and there was a lot he wanted to do with his man. The more he looked at his angelic, beautiful face, the more he just wanted to, or wanted him to do things to him.
"Anything else?" asked Dyson.
"Could I stay with you? Work for you? Learn from you?" asked Amos.
"Well, if it's okay with Mother Maeg, I could use a stable boy to take care of my horse," said Dyson. "Then I can take you on as an apprentice."
Amos was happy. He was so happy! "Alright, I'm going to ask Mother Maeg right now!" He jumped up from the pallet bed.
Dyson liked his enthusiasm. "Boy, what an eager boy you are!"
"Please, I only want to serve you and learn from you, about this matter and energy," said Amos.
"Oh, we'll see how eager you are," said Dyson. "Do you know how to read? Do you know how to count?"
"Yes, I think so," said Amos. He could only read drago-script. Counting, adding, and subtracting, was also basic dragon skills.
"Then I think I can take you on as an apprentice," said Dyson. Dyson looked at the kid, this was the first time - the first time anyone really asked him if he could learn quantum mechanics from him. He hoped that this wasn't a mistake.
"Oh, is there a uniform that comes with this?" said Amos.
"Well, you can wear anything you want as long as the locals are happy," said Dyson as he left the room. Amos was giddy, he was happy. At last, he was in the home of his quarry, his . . . love? The dream of Dyson being stoned by the people of the village came into his thoughts. He vividly recalled each stone hitting Dyson's beautiful body. Bruising his wonderful skin, cracking every bone, marring his beautiful face until he gave up the ghost under a pile of stones. Dyson was being punished, punished for what? Punished for something Aspis felt guilty for and he knew he was innocent.
Was it love, or was it lust? Is it worth it just to have things done to him, was it worth a beautiful and wonderful life? These were the thoughts that went through his mind as he ran out the door and headed to Mother Maeg's place.
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Shalazar, City of the Wolfen Empire
Prince Curios sat blissfully in his palaquin. The thing was, the palaquin was born upon human slaves, and Prince Curios was more than human. He was wolfen, short for Wolf Men. He had two arms, hands (paws, no hands), and two legs that ended in digitgrade feet. He had a wolf's head on his humanoid body, and was covered in copious amounts of grey fur. His eyes were golden in color, and his irises were a bright yellow orange. His ears were pointed, like those of all wolves.
He was naked from the waist up, and below his waist a tunic of fine cotton. He had two nipples on his breasts that were dark mauve in color, much like a human's but darker. His breasts were finely muscled and around his neck hung a necklace of multicolored beads. The beads alternated in brown, ice blue, light green, green, yellow, orange, and red symbolic of the four seasons. Hanging from the necklace was an emblem in brass -- the emblem of the Wolf.
tied around the bulging left biceps and triceps was a band of brown sporting two feathers from a brilliant red bird -- Cardinal plumage. His tunic was yellow colored, the color of fine gold, but was not spun of fine gold. Around the hem was red, the color of royalty. The tunic hid his loin cloth, which was more like a G-string thong. He was the symbol of Wolfen royalty. He was Prince Curios.
The palaquin stopped and was sat down. "All hail for Prince Curios, son of Maximus the First!"
"HAIL! CURIOS!"
Curios stepped out of his Palaquin, with all the royalty that was in his person. He stood proud as another wolfen, this time of a lighter gray color.
"Welcome, Lord Curios to the Royal Palace," said the wolfen. "I am sure your father will be honored by your presence."
"Yes, well, I didn't need the royal palaquin to be sent for me," said Curios as he walked passed the royal guard. "Destroying a city, a human city, was easy to do but the dragons are still elusive."
"Someday, we will conquer the dragons," said the wolfen following him as Curios stormed into the palace.
"It's not the dragons I'm worried about," said Curios. "It's the humans."
Curios strided into the royal palace interrupting his father. His father was currently occupied. Curios saw two human boys sleeping on pallets, and his father was having sex with a human woman. He had his penis deep into the human slave's pussy with the human sitting and his father, Maximus, sitting behind.
Curios had to look away. "Coming back from another victory?" said his father, Maximus.
"You and your debauchery," said Curios. Maximus' slave had an expression that was mixed with pain and pleasure. For some reason, all of his slaves enjoyed being used.
"Humans are such sexual creatures," said Maximus. "The best replacement until your mother or my concubines are in heat. The only good human is one mounted between your crotch. Did you manage to destroy Abydos?"
"Yes," said Curios. "But the humans are getting bolder, we only took two thousand slaves this time."
"Good," said Maximus. He started to breath hard as the woman moaned. The woman was knotted to him, which means that he was having an orgy with the two boys and this woman for most of the day.
Curios couldn't stand it. Maximus was the symbol of the moral health of the Empire, his father! And the prophets of doom were coming out of the woodwork promising destruction upon the city of Salazar. Really, Curios would welcome destruction of the Imperial City, he could relocate and rebuild the nation to be a virtuous one. As long as it got rid of his father and his equally debauched brothers. All of his brothers and sisters were gay or into incest, which made him think if he was adopted.
After the father finished and the woman screamed in estacy. Afterwards the woman looked throughly defiled. Curios tried to look away, but he was discussing military matters while his father had sex in the royal throne room. Maximus and the woman were tied together, and Maximus had to wait until his cock's bulb had softened before he could remove the woman.
"Well, son, what is left?" said Maximus, speaking every word between breaths. The whole throne room smelled of sex.
"The scouts had found the entrance into Dragon Valley," reported Curios. "But a human village belonging to the Nation of Ephraim is blocking the entrance."
"Hmm, one of the Twelve Nations," said Maximus. "This is not working out as I thought. Here are your orders."
"Yes father."
"After the army is well rested, go into this human village and raze it to the ground. Take as many slaves as you can. After that, lead the army into Dragon Valley and attack the dragons," Maximus commanded.
"I'll need more sorcerer auxillaries for that," said Curios.
"I can spare you two more corps of Sorcerers, nothing more," said Maximus. "You are dismissed, son."
"Sir!" Curios saluted. Curios left the throne room to his father's debauchery. It was then that he began to think of a way to murder his father and his family and take the throne. The immorality of the Empire had gone on long enough, he wanted a return to family values, morality, and faith; but this Dynasty must fall before he could lead the Empire back into a new Golden Age. Till then, he returned to his legion, Lupus Sons. For years, the Dynasty had led a humanistic way of worship -- the old gods were brought down and replaced with Atheism and Agnosticism. New Priests sprang up, teaching that the Wolfen were descended from wolves and that there were no Gods. Curios was a worshipper of the Old Religion of the Wolfen. And he wanted everything back.
NEXT: Encounter with a Human finishes with Part 6; and we lead into a new chapter in Aspis' adventures.