Crisis of Power, Chapter 4

Story by FrostDragon on SoFurry

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#4 of Crisis of Power


not much to say...if you're under 18, leave.

CHAPTER 4

The news went over fairly well...well as in Mom freaking out and putting bandages and duct tape on my wingskin to keep the skin together, and then insisting that Amber stay with me while I soaked in a hot bath. I had never seen her so protective of me before and it was really weird...but as I sat there in the steaming water, letting it lap at my scales (I was in dragon form still after having my wings "tended"), Amber kept giving me weird glances.

"What's with the look?" I thought, and she started a bit.

"You didn't tell me you fused their bodies into the ground, Tony...not only is that high-level magic control for you, but it's highly dangerous."

"How is it dangerous?"

"Fusing our mess into the cave floor is one thing, but eight entire organisms being forced into the ground's structure in a matter of seconds? Tony, that's gambling with particle physics on an unknown scale. You're damn lucky you didn't kill yourself with the strain or cause some weird physics glitch with not only the enormous power, but your inexperience."

"Is that why you were in physics?" I thought, raising my eyebrow at her, and she nodded.

"Confusing as hell but it helps with what I've found out courtesy of Dragonsearch so freely giving dragon information to its members."

I simmered in the water for a bit (it would've probably scalded my human skin) and then raised my thoughts again. "Kinda odd that our parents don't really care about us being so...open."

"Huh?"

"You're in the nude, hello."

She laughed. "My parents knew about it with me...hell, most nights you weren't around I was stripped bare with them around, fox or dragon. And they explained it to your parents before we told them about...your discovery night...and besides, your parents are breeders and artists, I think they've seen enough sexual stuff to not really care."

I laughed in return. "Never thought of it that way." I slumped a little further into the water, my hair almost touching the water, and Amber came over from her seat on the sink counter and sat on the bathtub edge. She didn't have her wings again.

"I think they're pretty proud of us...y'know, the whole mateship thing..."

"And are you happy with it?" I asked teasingly.

"With you...I feel complete...you have no idea how happy I am being around you." I held her hand and she smiled. I remembered last night...and lightning suddenly hit my brain.

"Amber..."

She read my thoughts before I spoke them and giggled. "No, dummy. First of all, as a fox I'm not in heat...hell, I have a while to go before that. As a dragon, I'm in full control of my body, I can choose when I'm ready. And actually, I think you can choose if you're fertile or not."

"Dammit, you always hafta be so straightforward about sex stuff don't you?"

"What's wrong with that?"

"It's embarrassing..." What would've been more embarrassing was someone outside hearing us if we were verbally talking. She laughed again...I loved her laughter but it was annoying right now that she found my discomfort funny.

"Sorry Tony, it's the way I am. I'll try to tone it down but don't expect a guarantee."

I felt the duct tape pull off my wing and picked it off. "She expects this stuff to stick in this humid bathroom?" I crumpled it up and went to toss-stick it on the mirror, but intentionally released it too soon and it flew from my hand and hit Amber. She gasped and I laughed...bad choice. Duct tape does not taste good, and she laughed as I gagged a bit and spat the thing out of my mouth. She shrieked when I tugged her into the tub on top of me and burst out laughing as I tickled her.

"To-Tony! STOP!!! ACK!!!" She tried to pull away from me but I tugged her back down, flipping her with a bit of power so she landed softly on my chest. She panted, calming down from the tickling, and gradually smiled at me with lidded eyes as I caressed her cheek. She wrapped her tail around mine and murred as I kissed her, wrapping her arms around me under the water. Five minutes later a knock on the door startled us out of a deep, blissful smooch.

"Everything okay in there?"

"Y-yeah Dad," I panted. "Almost done."

"You'd better be, the mop's waiting out here."

Our eyes went wide and we cautiously looked over the edge of the tub. "Shit..." There was water all over the floor from our tickling game. Deciding to try something I held my hand over the floor, and Amber watched as all the water, even the stuff seeping into the floor, flew up to my hand. I tossed it all down the sink. Amber reluctantly crawled off me and I released the drain of the tub, and we dried off and went into my room, which was actually our room now after she'd given up her room for our cat and her new litter of kittens. Amber glanced over my wings after peeling the humidity-soaked bandages off.

"Well, seems you're healing faster than normal...Tony, you're just one mystery after another." The cuts on my wingskin were almost fully healed; the tears were joined and just needed to thicken. Seeing this I shifted to my human form, and Amber smiled and turned into that beautiful red vixen I loved so much. She sidled up to me, her arms going around my neck. "Now...where were we interrupted?"

"I remember so very well..." Luckily for us my shades were down and the curtains were closed...I wouldn't have had the presence of mind to close them in the middle of our passionate kiss. It was so peaceful...I could feel her happiness and love just pouring from her as we caressed each other.

"I love you, Tony...please don't ever leave me," she whispered against my mouth.

"How can I leave you? I'd be leaving myself as well...as of last night we're one and the same."

Eventually we stopped that little intimate moment and got dressed. I kept my shirt off; I was headed outside to do some woodcutting. Amber headed downstairs to help our moms get dinner started and I went outside to help Mr. Nacyl.

As we lay there on the bed together, just staring into each others' eyes after our chores, Amber absently tracing little patterns on my chest, I saw a look of desire pass over her face and she pressed her nose against mine with a smile. "I need some attention..."

"Well, I'm here for ya..." Her bushy tail rubbed against my leg and she murred as I snaked my hands up along her furry back, reaching under her shirt. I unclipped her bra and she sat up on me, pulling it off herself as she moved and my hands remained motionless. I let it fall and she let me fondle her breasts as she looked down and fumbled with my belt buckle. An idea flashed across my mind and I pulled on her shirt, focusing power into it, and she gasped in surprise when she saw her shirt pull through her and then fly up onto the bedpost. She pwned me when all of a sudden, without moving her arms, my pants were tossed to the side, my belt was threaded through the blinds of the window, and my underwear appeared around my head. She burst out laughing as I flung it to the side with my power and she murred as she felt me reach into her underwear. She pushed herself up with her knees and let me slide her panties down her legs, and I repeated my trick and pulled her pinks right off her legs and threw them aside. She kept herself up on her knees, straddling my hips and smiling down at me...I swear, I had a goddess for a girlfriend, she was so eye-pleasingly beautiful...her tail brushed over my legs playfully, wagging with anticipation and excitement, and I petted her thighs, elicting another murr. She reached down, took my rock-hard erection and held it up, and we both grinned lustfully at each other as she let herself down onto it. It was so arousing, watching her clit spread around my girth...She moaned, her head flopping back in pleasure as she slowly inched herself along my length. I was trying to be nonchalant but I was failing horribly...she felt so wonderful...her fingers spread over her netherlips around my cock, her other hand pushing her hair back, and I surprised her when I grabbed her hipbones and eased her down onto myself.

"Oh yes..." We stayed still, panting with excitement as she adjusted, and she lay down on me. "After my parents died I never thought this kind of happiness was possible..."

"Love makes anything possible..."

"And we've got more than enough to spare..." She pressed her lips against mine and my tongue pushed into her mouth, sampling her sweet taste as her tongue wrapped around mine. I pushed her tongue back with mine and broke off briefly.

"You know...we haven't had sex in our normal forms..."

"You think I don't know that? We've only done it once." With that she sat up and pulled her hips up, pausing a bit as she smiled at me lustfully, and then pushed back onto me. A loud moan escaped my mouth as she rode me, and she went from bouncing on her knees to planting her hands on my chest and using me as leverage to impale herself on my cock, her hair hanging over her face as she panted and whimpered in bliss. I reached up and brushed my hands on her sides, and she tightened around me and squealed as I found a sensitive spot on the inside of her thighs. I looked down and felt myself grow even harder as I saw my penis continuously disappear into her. Her limbs beginning to hurt, she fell onto me and I planted a kiss on her lips, murring to her. She kept thrusting her hips, but didn't have enough leverage now, and I held onto her and started thrusting off the bed into her. She whined loudly, begging for more and reciprocating my pleasured moaning. All I was aware of was the sheer pleasure, her soft warmth both on me and around me, and the speed at which my hips were thrusting madly against her. Wanting to save my energy and make this more enjoyable for both of us I slowed down, gently humping her and giving us both a chance to recover. Amber sat up to ride me again but as she did so, I slipped out of her, and she twisted around on me, straddling my chest and lifting her tail to reveal her swollen, dripping sex. She looked over her shoulder at me with a needy grin, her tongue hanging out a bit as she shook her hips in my face. "C'mon, you know you want it..."

"No argument here..." I pulled her hips down and stuck my tongue into her... She was the single best thing I had ever tasted: a tad salty, but so sweet and delicious I craved more and buried my tongue in her. She squealed and ran her tongue along my twitching member, and she clenched around my tongue as I moaned into her when she took my cock into her mouth. All too soon I started shooting pre-cum into her eager maw as she caressed my penis with her tongue, and her juices began flowing a bit more freely with her arousal. I wanted to finish what we'd started, and Amber gasped in surprise as I picked her up off myself and turned her around with my power, lying her on the bed next to me, and I crawled over her, my cock twitching just above her vagina. She shot me a highly aroused look and pulled me into a powerful kiss, and I got her whimpering with anticipation as I rubbed her back.

"C'mon, get going already," she whined, pressing herself against me, and I pushed into her. We fell to the side and just went wild, sucking desperately on each others' mouths as we thrust against each other. Amber shivered and moaned loudly as she finally orgasmed, and the heavenly rush of her fluids around my member and the waves of contractions demanding my release finally sent me over the edge. We just lay there, panting as my balls were unloaded into her, weakly rubbing each other's backs and breathing through our noses with our lips tightly bonded together.

There was a knock on the door and Mom's voice came through. "Tony?"

Oh come on... "Yeah Mom?"

"Is it safe to come in?"

"Little dragon-trust going on," Amber said a bit wearily and I pulled the blanket over us.

"It's kind of urgent..."

"Okay...we're halfway decent," I replied, not turning away from Amber, not only because I couldn't get enough of her but I was still buried inside her pleasantly warm depths. The door opened and Mom came in quietly on those padded feet of hers. She saw us and our strewn clothes, and laughed.

"'Halfway decent' sums it up pretty well."

"Sorry," Amber said.

"No, it's fine, Tony's dad and I have taken far too many figure-drawing courses to care." Amber giggled as I blushed slightly. "I'm so happy for you two...but fun time's over, someone's coming to inspect the house in five minutes. Last-minute notice."

"Probably a government sweep," I said, and Amber nodded and sat up, casting a glance at Mom.

"You sure you don't mind us being nude in your house?"

"It's fine, but I wouldn't condone it with the neighborhood under surveillance." She saw my red face and laughed. "I take it my son's embarrassed about being caught in bed by his mother?"

"To put it bluntly," I said, and Amber and Mom both laughed. I brought my shorts to myself and pulled out of Amber, and she murred disappointedly as she felt empty without me inside her. Mom left us and closed the door, and Amber's hand went over her pussy as she started dripping. Giggling a bit at each other we cleaned off using the box of tissues near my bed, and headed into the bathroom together and finished cleaning each other...though in a slightly naughty way, Amber on top of me licking my cock clean and me cleaning my own seed out of her with my tongue. This sounds gay but it tasted pretty darn good...though her juices were by far superior. She murred and looked at me with lidded eyes as I ran my hands in circles around her perfect ass, pressing my fingers against her skin and massaging her muscles.

"Oh Tony...mmm, harder..."

I gave her a soft slap on the thigh and motioned to get up. "Sorry pretty, but we gotta get dressed before--" The doorbell rang. "Damn it, that's ironic." I materialized our clothes on ourselves, and Amber growled and I laughed as she pulled her arms into her shirt and turned it around---I'd accidentally put it on backwards.

"You're scaring me, Tony...you're not even practicing your power and you're able to do that with a mere thought." She got off me and I wrapped my arm around her shoulders as we headed for the stairs, and she leaned against me as we went down together. We caught sight of our guests, and something in Amber went tense. There were three men, and the one speaking with our parents caught sight of her and smirked, his wolfish human features contorting not so nicely with his expression.

"I was wondering where you were...long time no see, Jenna."

"Hello jerkface," she growled. I wanted to ask about the "Jenna" thing but her mind flashed at me and I knew it would be explained later. "Come to kick us out or something?"

"Jenna, Jenna...why would I do something like that to such a beautiful girl like yourself?" he laughed. He seemed good-natured, but I knew something was not right with him, and the feeling coming from Amber was not reassuring.

"What are you doing here?"

"We've been assigned to inspect this house with the recent episode with your previous dwelling. We won't be here long, sadly...haven't seen such beauty in a while."

"Well you can forget it, I've already got someone." She hugged me tight and looked away from him. His eyes fell on me and there was a malicious gleam behind his smile, and I tightened my grip around her shoulders.

"I don't know who you are," I said, "but the fact you're upsetting my girlfriend does not bode in your favor with me."

"Such a shame," he replied, and turned to my parents. "I apologize if we're putting you at any inconvenience with this. This isn't the only house we need to inspect, but we thought we'd get this out of the way first with the above-average occupancy."

"Go ahead but make it quick," Dad said. He didn't seem thrilled with these men at all. They nodded and split up, taking out small handheld meters. When they were out of earshot, Amber motioned us together and lowered her voice.

"My sign-up name with them was Jenna Nacyl. These are government spies and that bastard has had his eyes on me for five years now. Whatever you do, don't bring up dragon subjects, or try to be ignorant."

"What are those meters?" Mom asked.

"Draconic-field meters," I said, and Amber nodded. "They claim to sense the 'magical' field of a dragon, but the fact they weren't going off with us in the room shows their ineffectiveness."

We sat down in the living room, and Amber sat on my left leg and I hugged her tight, rocking her gently as she lay her head on my shoulder with a happy smile. Our parents looked on with pride, but presently the men came back. Amber mentally told me to stay sitting with her as an in-your-face to the leader of the group while our parents conferred with them. "Your house is satisfactory, though as usual in old houses like this there are symptoms of black mold in your bathrooms. I'd suggest an aerial fungicide and a dehumidifier to dry the air and kill as much of it as possible if you don't want to shell out money for professional treatment."

"Anything else?"

"Nothing yet, though we'll need to keep an eye on the foundation." I felt Amber think Yeah, right...load of bullshit... and she giggled as I mentally laughed in reply. I glanced up at the leader and saw him eyeing me jealously.

"What?"

"Nothing...you just remind me of someone...wait, you're...you're Tony Ralos aren't you? The 45-point sweep across the gym a few years ago?"

"That's me."

"Nice to see Jenna found someone with talent. Well, we'd better be leaving now...more houses to inspect..." Dad saw them out and Amber snorted.

"Bastard..."

"He seemed kinda nice," Mrs. Nacyl said, but Amber shook her head.

"He's a player; he loves mindgames. He's had fifteen affairs and all those poor girls are now broken because he manipulated them. All he looks at me for is sex...and now that I have Tony he's not gonna be happy." She cuddled against me with a sigh. "I've never been so happy in my life as I am now...but now we gotta watch out for him as well as Dragonsearch."

"He won't get you," I growled. "No one will."

Two days later found us in the mountains to the north. Mr Nacyl was a wonder...he had connections everywhere, and now here we were, in the most dangerous area of the range, seeking a place for our operations. It was hard work, but we were in dragon form, carrying our clothes and some stuff in small backpacks. Amber knew a technique for turning invisible, but we didn't have to use it much; according to her knowledge of the Dragonsearch sectors, this entire section of the range was free from their watch. I found that odd, but we didn't question it. By nightfall we'd found something promising, but Amber was admant that we find a cavern large enough to house many dragons at once. Not only that, but we needed an area to train, and one to transform in once one or both of us found out how to access our true forms. Midnight passed and left us, dawn came, and midday of the next day found us cuddled together under a shady pine, hidden from view as we camped out by its trunk under the tent of its branches. I think it was a blue spruce...whatever it was, it gave us more than enough shelter from unfriendly eyes after we fused the needles together into a flat mat. Amber insisted on acting as my pillow for a change, and she tenderly rubbed my scaly front as I lay on her.

"You can sit up a bit higher, Tony," she whispered, tugging on my head hintingly, and I smirked and rested my head between her breasts.

"How's that?"

She giggled and ran her hand through my hair. "Much better." We lay there for a few quiet minutes, listening to the twittering of the birds and the wind blowing through the trees, and Amber sighed and crossed her arms over me. "What's your favorite song, Tony?"

"Why?"

"I dunno, I feel like singing."

I thought for a bit. "Well...how about church Latin? Mom used to be in a choir and she'd sing that often."

I felt her mind quickly sort, and she started humming and singing Panis Angelicus. She rested her chin on my head as she softly sang, and before I knew it I was out like a light. It felt like barely a minute, but when I woke up again I was lying on top of Amber as she slept, and the sun was setting again, shining on us to reveal that we had turned to our normal forms. She had a smile on her lips, and her arms were still around me. I pulled myself up and kissed her softly, and she murred sleepily and opened her eyes a crack. "Time to go?"

"I'd say no and let you get your beauty sleep, but you're more beautiful than any amount of sleep can provide."

She giggled and hugged me tight. "Mmm...can't we just stay here?"

"Well, we have been searching for two days...and there is something unfinished still..." She raised her eyebrow at me with a wondering grin, and I got up and gently rolled her over.

"What're you up to?" she asked me mentally.

"Something you wanted more of but I had to stop..." With that I grabbed her shoulders firmly and started rubbing her pelt in circles, and she murred and rested her head on her arms. I worked my way down her furry back, enjoying her soft fur between my fingers as I worked her skin. She moaned and stretched, her whole body vibrating as her muscles contracted and she stretched underneath me and relaxed. She murred in pleasure as I worked my way down to her perfectly-shaped buttocks.

"I think I remember this now," she whispered, and I just grinned and kneaded her backside. She murred loudly and her legs stretched in relaxation. "Oh yeah...little harder...mmmm...that feels nice..." She fell quiet and just enjoyed my care as I very slowly worked my way to her thighs and then down her legs as she spread them for me. I finished with her tail, just gently running my hand along its fluffy length, and she grinned as I lay down on top of her. "What're you up to now?"

"Oh...nothing much...just that your legs are spread..."

She laughed and spread them a bit more. "Well, don't keep me waiting." That was more than enough for me, and she moaned softly as I pushed my erection into her waiting clit and started lightly thrusting. I didn't want to go hard; we were here to relax before going out again, and she didn't mind me not going overboard. She laughed and rubbed my leg as I reached under her and wrapped my hands around her breasts, and I buried my nose against her hair and fur and just took in her wonderful scent as I gently did her. Amber shivered under me with a happy moan and I came inside her as she and I both experienced a small but satisfying orgasm. She moved to get up and I pulled out of her, still cumming, and she turned around and caressed my throbbing penis...the feeling of her fur just sent me overboard and she murred as I moaned and ejaculated again, slicking her thighs as she lovingly jacked me off. Even after I was done she kept pumping my erection with those soft hands of hers until I went too soft for her to continue. She sat there in front of me on her shins, her legs slightly spread, and she started licking my cum off her arms and hands. She gasped and looked down with lidded eyes as I slid two fingers into her exposed pussy, and she spread her legs a bit wider as she leaned back, her hands on her ankles.

"Here, allow me," I said as her hand wandered up her front, and she let her head fall back with a pleasured moan as I squeezed her breast and continued wriggling my fingers inside her. Not too long afterwards she gave a small yelp and a small puddle formed under her all over my hand as she came again. I focused a bit of power and cleaned us both off and she sighed and hugged me, nestling her head against my neck as my hands ran through her fur.

"Guess we should keep searching..."

"But I can't see at night."

Her eyes met mine with a bit of laughter. "Dragons have different kinds of vision." She shifted into a dragon and I followed suit, and we both crawled out from under the spruce tree. I undid the fusion of the needles to leave minimal trace of our presence, and followed Amber after we slung our packs on and started down the trail again. "Okay, look straight ahead and try to...for lack of better words, try to bring what you see closer."

I stared up ahead along the trail at a branch of a tree, and to my surprise my vision zoomed in on the branch. "Whoa!"

"Comes in handy."

I sideglanced at her. "Is that why the optometrist said your vision was above average? You cheated on that letter test?"

"No! I don't use my dragon powers unless I need to...or if I'm with you."

"Fair enough...what other vision types are there?"

"I only know of thermal and electromagnetic, but I assume there are others including one that allows you to see the field of energy flowing through the planet and everything the energy affects...like seeing the planet's blood vessels."

"Hmmm..." I tried to access my thermal vision as I followed Amber, but after a good ten minutes all I had was hurting eyes. Amber's wings twitched nervously and we both stopped. "Something wrong?" I thought.

"Dragonsearch radio frequency..." She turned around quickly, her eyes glowing. "Oh wait...I'm spooking myself. Every five nights they send a nationwide radio signal to their cohorts." Her eyes dimmed and she shook her head. "Dammit, I'm jumpy..."

"Why were your eyes glowing?"

"Huh?"

"Just now...your eyes were glowing."

"They were? I was using electromagnetic vision to trace the frequency...I didn't know my eyes glowed when I did that though."

An hour later Amber slumped against a tree and took a swig of water from the half-filled SpringFresh bottle in her backpack. I was feeling a bit restless and lunged into the tree over her, landing cat-like on the branch over her and crouching on all fours, looking for the next sturdy branch.

"Kinda nice, being able to scale a tree with a single jump..."

She pulled on my tail, almost throwing me off balance. "Okay catman, see anything from up there?"

"I think 'Calico'..." I trailed off as I looked back, along the face of the mountain side right behind me. "Hey, Amber, is that what I think it is?"

"Huh?" She flipped up to the branch and balanced on two feet as she followed my line of sight. "Looks like a cave all right..." I grew my wings out in case we needed them, and she and I scaled the rock wall with our claws. Indeed, it was a cave...conveniently shadowed from sight of the trail and from above. We didn't need to worry about sealing the place we found; a simple physical illusion was easy to create. And this cave seemed very promising. The range here was too dangerous for anyone to safely map except with airborne technology, which of course wouldn't give a reading of this cavern entrance through the trees growing out of the slope around it. The cave itself didn't seem like much at first, just a long tunnel, and I had to strain my tired eyes until I focused power into them and found my nightvision skill. We soon came into a HUGE cavern, and with our nightvision it was spectacular yet eerie at the same time. Rock teeth of every size jutted from the ceiling and from the floor amid large ponds of mineral-rich water, and to the far side we saw openings to other caverns. Both above and in the floor there were holes leading to other pockets. We'd found a good place to start, but that was half the work...the other half was securing it. Securing as in finding weak spots in the floor, finding potential trouble-spots in the walls...it was gonna be quite a chore. But for now, Amber and I looked around the main cavern and found a hole, 20 feet off the floor, that led into a small pocket, maybe 30 feet wide and 15 high. It was the perfect room. Cold and moist, but for a dragon, anywhere (other than lava or -40 F temperatures or under water) is a bed. Having taken geology and gone on a spelunking trip, I knew what to expect, and had gotten us waterproof backpacks, so I had no problem tossing mine on the floor. Except that I'd forgotten to zip it up. Amber laughed and I scowled as I focused energy into the clothes and extracted the moisture. She sidled up to me as I yawned and stretched, and we sat down against the smooth wall and she leaned across my front into my waiting arms.

"Well...welcome home I guess."

"You guess? C'mon, Tony, be more happy about it!"

"I am...but I'm worried. Without us around, what'll our parents do? And if we're here, won't the government find out we're not in the workforce?"

"Dad got us 'hired' and got some friends to punch in times and activities for us. He's got connections, Tony, he's practically 'the Godfather'."

I laughed and hugged her tight, getting a happy murr. "Good thing he adopted you huh?"

"Actually, my real parents were his childhood friends, and he's...well, guess my joke really does work. He's my godfather, but he couldn't adopt me officially until I was six because of some stupid snafu with the documents 'cuz some asshead in the legal department screwed up a paper when filing it digitally."

I chuckled and we fell silent, just enjoying being with each other. After a while Amber stretched and yawned, and I lay down on my side behind her. She stretched her legs quickly and then lay down in front of me, her back to my chest as her wings shrank into her back, and I rested my arm over her and she grinned and intertwined her fingers with mine. I knew we had found the right place...something about this cave just felt right. As Amber nodded off with a content smile on her face, I wrapped my tail around hers and rested my head on my arm, staring into her hair for what seemed like hours as my mind wandered. We were now officially on our own...

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