The Hawthorne Accord - Chapter 10
Neville had slept the night in the ogre chieftain's pavilion
snuggled up against his two new massive friends while laid out on a
pile of soft pillows. It was the best night's sleep he'd had in a long
time and he had wakened feeling fresh and ready to face another day.They
had all risen before dawn and began their last march at first light.
The mood had been somber among the soldiers as they marched on,
knowing that the next morning would decide the fate of all the races
once and for all.Neville,
Lyboxus, Chaum, Braxas, Tybac and
even Norn had all walked together talking and joking as they went early
on but they became quieter as the day wore on and they came closer
to the final showdown between the races.As the sun set and night
fell they
approached the point where the army would stop and rest up before the
attack at dawn.Neville once again spent the night in Chaum's
pavilion but this time the ogre chieftain had also invited the three
kobolds to join them and Neville slept as part of the warm, furry,
wonderful dog pile they created.They
rose once again well before
dawn and the army began to organize itself for the attack. At the
front were two long lines of ogres carrying amazingly large and thick
tower shields that stretched from above their heads to the ground with
a small slot for them to see through. They would walk in a line
forming a sort of movable keep wall that would be unbreakable without siege engines. Their primary role was to squeeze the
human forces back into the pass to be chewed to ribbons by the kobold
and orc forces moving in from the other side. Any who managed to
make it through the wall would be crushed into a fine paste by the
ogres in the back wielding their war hammers.Just before dawn the army began to
march forward in formation to cover the last of the ground before they
would come upon the human army.As the day lightened and the sun
prepared to rise they came up over a low hill and there before them in
the distance was the entirety of the human army standing fast and ready
to take on the ogres. The mass of human soldiers stretched all
the way back, funneling along the mountains on both sides and stretched
across the mountain pass where the ruins of Neville's village still
smoked. Neville could see that the bulk of soldiers at the back
were holding shields and pikes making a deadly wall of their own and were facing back
into the pass preparing for the coming of the combined orc and kobold
forces.Neville and the two leaders of the races and some others
stood off to the side of the ogre army on a high point of ground to observe. Lyboxus's mates
stood ready to race wherever needed to relay commands if it became
necessary.Neville
was awed by the number of human soldiers he
saw spread out before them. As Lyboxus and Zebok had hoped, it
looked like the absolute entirety of the human armies had gathered
together here and now found themselves caught between the ogre army on
this side, and the combined orc and kobold forces on the other side of
the pass. At the front of the human forces,
facing the ogres, he saw a long line of what appeared to be some sort
of
siege machines that were low to the ground. They looked like
massive crossbows with a sloped shield in front and each with three men
manning them and a large pile of some sort of iron rods behind each
machine.Something tweaked in Neville's memory about the
machines and he thought hard. It came to him and he spoke
urgently to Chaum."I know what those machines are! Jake
Smith described them to me once when he was drilling me in fighting and
defense. He said he'd been asked to come out and repair one
once when the army was testing them out in the field near our village.
He said they were a new design of siege machines meant to take down
ogres. He called them 'scorpions'. The piles of ammunition
behind the machines are sharp iron bolts designed to easily pierce the
thickest shields and at close range would still have the energy to pass
through multiple ogres behind. Jake told me after he'd repaired
the machine he watched them shoot bolts at an oak tree that went
completely through the trunk from almost a hundred paces away!" Neville
said.The big ogre chieftain groaned, "These human military
engineers are too damn clever and are always a step ahead of us!
I have never seen these machines before but it looks like they
could certainly do the kind of damage you describe.""It should
be of no consequence if the others are in position and ready, Chaum, my
sweet friend. Do not despair, my dear," said Lyboxus
encouragingly, "Trust me and give the order to advance as planned."They
all waited quietly for some timing signal that Neville was not aware
of. Then the sun suddenly peeked up over the horizon behind them
to partially blind the human forces who were facing east and Chaum
immediately roared the order to advance.The solid wall of ogres began a fast and steady march forward with the rest of the army behind them.Neville
felt a knot forming in his stomach as he watched the army moving toward
the line of war machines. Suddenly the machines all shuddered and
long bolts flew at tremendous speed across the field. There was
still enough distance between the two armies that most of the bolts
fell
just short but a couple of them actually made contact with ogre shields
with enough force to make the ogre stagger backwards as the bolt
bounced off.The ogres were not deterred and they continued to
advance. They approached onward and then another volley was shot
from the scorpions and this time more made contact with the ogres'
shields and to Neville's horror, one or two actually pierced the thick
shield
and came within inches of striking the ogre behind it. The next
volley might go right through if they kept closing the gap!At that moment Neville saw movement in the sky and looked up and saw giant
boulders begin to rain down. It was the catapults in the
mountains that Braddock had talked about!Almost all of the first boulders hit the ground between
the two armies but one actually came close to hitting the human war
machines. There was a pause in the rain of rocks and Neville knew
they must be adjusting the ranging of the catapults and the next round
would likely fall right on target. He was terrified for the ogre
forces. They would be decimated by the combination of human war
machines. He looked on in distress as he saw the scorpion
operators loading for another volley while the ogres continued to advance.Just as the scorpions
prepared to shoot again, Neville saw the next volley of boulders coming
down and he knew it was likely over for the ogres at this point. The
first boulder hit much closer to the scorpions this time and the next
actually struck one of the machines and as it exploded into pieces the
shrapnel from it struck human soldiers around it and took them out.
To Neville's shock he saw more boulders hitting machines and some
falling further behind their front line and sending large groups of men
flying through the air. Many were being crushed to a pulp in the
craters left by the rain of boulders. One large boulder landed
directly onto a pile of the iron bolts and the ammunition flew out in every direction and
tore up several humans around the pile.There
was a brief pause for ranging once more,
and then a steady stream of boulders began to fall all hitting targets
within the human forces. Neville realized at once that the ogre
and orc forces must have been moving up the mountains on either side of
the pass to take control of the human catapults! They would be
fed nonstop from the ready supply of boulders up in the mountains by the massive ogres, and
aimed and shot by orcs. Neville was amazed at the tactical
maneuver as he watched more than half of the human army being decimated
by a steady rain of large rocks coming down from atop the low
mountains. He now saw rocks falling just ahead of the back line of
humans and in and among them breaking up their wall of shields and
pikes and forcing them back into the mass of human soldiers.In
a short time none of the scorpions remained and the ogre army continued
to march forward steadily and were already almost upon the wreckage of
the human war machines. The humans realized there was nothing
they could do and they began to retreat into the pass but the catapults
had
already shortened their range to continue to decimate the humans,
who began to break and run faster into the pass. They quickly realized
there were rocks coming from both sides squeezing them together. They
would be annihilated if they stayed together so the human soldiers
began to break any sort of formation and scattered in every direction.The
ogre wall broke
into a charge and they all roared as one as the rain of boulders ceased
completely to allow them to come upon the human army and force them all
back together and into the narrowest part of the pass. They were
going to roll over them and there would not be a single human standing
to tell of it.At the same time from behind the humans a massive
force of angry kobolds poured in from the other side of the pass and
began tearing into the human army's rear followed up by a steady stream of armed orcs with their deadly scimitars.The
humans were
already down to less than a quarter of their forces and Neville saw
several of them begin to throw down their weapons and shields and tear
off their mail shirts and fall to their knees with their hands over
their heads. Any who did so were being spared so more and more
joined. Before long Neville began to see white flags appear all
across the lines of the remaining human forces as they realized
there was truly no hope for them against the vastly superior combined forces of the other races.It was a complete
and utter rout! There had been almost no losses whatsoever among the
kobolds and not one ogre had fallen.The ogres, orcs
and kobolds stopped their advance and a deafening roar of victory swept
through their armies and Neville's heart soared at the awesome sight of it.Several
large groups of healers emerged from the back of the ogre army and
began to move about performing triage first among the few kobolds who
had been wounded and then they began to give aid to the fallen humans.The war was over and all of the races Neville belonged to could
finally begin to work towards living in harmony as they should have
done all along. There was no doubt that the other races would be
able to dictate whatever terms they wished to the humans.The leaders of the kobold and ogre races waited
with Neville for the leader of the human army to be brought to them.
Neville was anxious to see the look of defeat on Braddock's face.He watched with anticipation as he saw two orcs with a man held
between them and several kobolds and some ogres following behind begin
to make their way toward the leaders. He was happy to see the orcs were Zebok
and Tenimo and he grinned and waved at them as they came towards him.
Their faces split into wide smiles as they saw him and they waved
back.Neville saw as they approached that it was not Braddock they held but Thurlowe."That is the man who spied on us near the falls. That is not the leader of their army is it, Neville?" asked Lyboxus."No, it is not Braddock but his right hand, Thurlowe," said Neville, "Perhaps Braddock did not survive the attack."They waited as the man was brought before them and forced to his knees."Where is the man Braddock that is leading your forces?" demanded Lyboxus."The
coward ran when I gave him the news of the advancing ogre army and that they would not be harmed by the disease, and the
true size of your combined forces. He left me in charge. I
believe he was going to the castle to meet with the king, perhaps to
kill him, I don't know and frankly I don't care. I will kill the
cowardly deserter the next time I see him if I get the chance," said Thurlowe in anger."You
may get your chance I suppose, but only if we decide to let you live.
You are the leader of the human army now and you will answer for
its crimes as will your monarch. You will be taken with us as
we travel to your castle with haste to resolve this conflict once and
for all in the presence of your king," said Lyboxus coldly.Thurlowe
was dragged away and Lyboxus turned to the rest of them and said,
"Come, we shall head to the human seat of rule immediately. If we push hard we
should arrive by early evening. I would see this resolved once and for all tonight."Half
of the combined armies
were left to deal with the corpses of the human forces and to care for
the wounded and the
remaining soldiers who were all taken prisoner for the time being.
The other half of the army made of equal numbers of ogres,
kobolds and orcs marched on with the leaders of all three races and
Neville at the front.They reached their destination an hour or
so before sunset and the army spread out facing the castle with the
wall of ogres at the front.In moments after they'd settled in, a
contingent came forth from the castle with a white flag and asked that
representatives from the races accompany them into the castle to parlay
with the king.The three leaders of the races, their mates, and
Neville all followed the contingent into the castle with Thurlowe being
dragged behind by two ogres.They were all led into the large throne
room where the king sat upon his throne with some of his
representatives around him. Right at his side stood Lord Braddock
with a cold and dead look in his eyes. Braddock scanned the party
as they came in and when his eyes came upon Neville he whispered
something into the king's ear and the king's eyes narrowed and his face
grew dark as he looked at Neville.The party came to a stop and
the king rose from his seat and pointed at Neville and shouted,
"Whatever happens here today we demand that the traitor to the human
race, Neville Hawthorne, be handed over to us to pay for his crimes
against his people!"Chaum,
Lyboxus, Braxas and Tybac all roared long and loudly enough to shake
the walls and the king blanched and went silent as he saw the intense
and deadly hatred in all of their eyes and he realized that he and all of his
attendants would be dead before they could blink again if the others so
wished.Zebok
came forward to represent the races and spoke, "You will contain your
emotions and learn your place in these talks quickly or it will not end
well for you. Know this, we see you as murderers of the entire
race of
elves and attempted murderers of the ogres. We are prepared to
eliminate the entire human race down to every last man, woman and child
if needs be but we sincerely hope it will not come to that. This
is less a
parlay and more our informing you of the way things will be from this
day forward. You are in
no position to make any demands whatsoever. The first thing you
should understand is that if anything is said or done that we do not
feel meets with our approval, we will raze this castle to the ground
and kill every single member of your court and your armed forces
and occupy your realm ourselves and educate your people in the correct
way of living. For now, you will sit quietly and you will speak
only when you are spoken to. Chaum will gladly use his hammer to
remind you of your place if it is so required. Am I completely
understood?"As soon as Zebok finished speaking, Chaum pulled his massive two handed war hammer and stood beside him.The king sank back down into his throne and gave a short and stiff nod without saying any more."Very
well," continued Zebok, "we had planned on dismantling your rule and
occupying your realm regardless, but I
have given it some thought and I believe we may be able to change our
approach and allow you to stay a completely self governed race, provided
several conditions are met. I might point out
as well that it is only because of the love we all feel towards Neville
Hawthorne that I have decided your people may be left under your own
rule. He has shown us what your race is capable of becoming and we are most impressed with him. Neville
Hawthorne is the greatest of your people and you yourself are well
below him in our estimation and always will be. His word carries a great deal of weight
with us, while yours carries nearly none and most certainly never will. Am I clear?"The king's eyes went wide as he looked again at
Neville. He must have realized that his rule of the humans was hanging
by a thread and that Neville Hawthorne was that very tenuous link.
With a word Neville himself could decide the fate of the king and
his court and the entire human race."There
are some
requirements we must put forth before we discuss our other terms of
peace. These requirements will all be met without negotiation or
resistance. First and foremost, we
demand that all of the human alchemists and their apprentices and any
scribes who may have ever recorded any of their work be handed
over to us for summary execution for their crimes. Their souls
are corrupted and twisted and beyond any hope of redemption.
Their dark science is a cancer upon the world that the Great
Mother herself would see purged from existence for all time. As
such, all of their
recorded knowledge, whether intended for good use or ill, will be
brought to us for
destruction. All of their workshops, tools, ingredients and
experiments will be completely destroyed. The human race has
twice shown it has no qualms regarding the elimination of entire races
using their vile concoctions and we have no doubt that, given the
opportunity, you will happily do so again. We have no intention
of ever allowing those atrocities to be repeated and you will be
watched with the utmost scrutiny from this day forward. This is
our most
important set of requirements and should any one of them not be met to
our complete satisfaction, or
should we
find that even a scrap of paper were withheld or the practice of their
evil
arts continued we will, much to our regret, be forced to kill every
single human man, woman and child and wipe every trace of your race
from the land in order to protect our own. Is the first set of
requirements
completely understood?"The king was extremely pale now but he
could hear the resolute determination in Zebok's voice and he did not
hesitate to nod and agree to the terms.Zebok
continued, "Secondly, all human military forces will be disbanded and
all weapons of war destroyed. You will never again be allowed to
stand an army up and any attempt to do so will require us to destroy the armies and their soldiers and remove
your government and occupy your realm ourselves. Is the second
requirement completely understood?""How can we possibly defend
ourselves against possible future threats if you do not allow us to
build an army!?" demanded the king.Anger flashed across Zebok's face and his voice rose in volume as he said, "Our races will defend our
friends and allies with our own lives. That is how we live. Should we
come to find that you are indeed one of us and our allies than we
shall defend you to the fullest if ever there is a threat. Should you not come to be our friends, then you shall
most certainly be on your own, without an army, and we will not care what becomes of you! Again I ask, is the second
requirement completely understood!?"Once again the king nodded in defeat."Finally,
we will require that you allow us to educate your people in the correct
way to live and love your neighbors and stay in balance with the world.
We will need to be forceful in the early days and we will adopt
certain disincentives in an effort to correct the current imbalance.
We will be taxing your people increasingly based on the number of
children they have. Those who find love and form permanent bonds
with individuals from other races or from the same sex within your race
will not be taxed. We may also need to dissolve
any form of organized religion you follow, though we will be flexible
on that term should your religions prove to be malleable and willing to
change some of their doctrines to allow more freedom to your people.
We require you to accept our free and open sexuality across
gender and racial boundaries. We require you to allow your own
people the same freedoms without judgment. Should we discover
you are in any way persecuting those who express freedoms that we feel
they are entitled to, we will dissolve your rule of law and
remove your religious leaders and destroy your religious writings and
educate your people in the correct way to live. These last
requirements we are willing to negotiate on somewhat and they can form
the agreement between us that will bind the future of our races
together in whatever way your people formally make such pledges," Zebok
explained."Our peoples' way is
to compose a binding document which will be signed by the leaders of
all races and define the conditions of peace that we all agree to live
by. We call it an accord. Once signed we are bound by law
to follow its principles completely as laid out," said the king.Zebok
thought for a moment, then looked briefly at Neville before he smiled
and said, "Very well, we are amenable to this approach. Our
races will agree to sign this document and live by its principles on
one
condition: you will allow us to select someone who will act as our main
representative to vet and sponsor the document. We will choose
someone who has the wisdom to ensure that all four races are
represented equally in the document and that the most important rights
and freedoms of everyone are expressed within it. If he fully
approves of its contents and it carries his name, we will
all happily agree to sign it and to live by its rules.""Agreed, name your representative," said the king."If the other leaders with me here are in agreement, I would name Neville Hawthorne," said Zebok.Lyboxus
and Chaum both smiled and nodded their emphatic agreement with Zebok's
decision. They grinned at Neville and he flushed with pride at
the unexpected honor and their trust and confidence that he would see
that all the races were treated fairly. The significance of this
responsibility was daunting but he would do everything in his power to
do it right. It occurred to him that he was suddenly in a
position to shape the world that everyone would live in from this day
forward. The prospect was both frightening and exciting. He
supposed in the end that the task would not truly be a difficult one.
The other races had already shown him how life should be lived.
He would simply ensure that the document reflected that model
perfectly and that the rights of the humans to enjoy the same type of
life that the other races had been leading for thousands of years would
finally be realized.The
king's face reddened and he became angry at the idea of having to sign
and agree to the principles of a document bearing the name of the
traitor Neville Hawthorne. He realized once again
though that he was not in a position to make any demands or refuse the
other races anything. He slumped his shoulders and nodded once
again and said, "Very well, our scholars will begin work
on the document immediately with any of your advisors that you wish to
involve including Neville Hawthorne. In one week's time the
Hawthorne Accord will be ready to sign and we shall have a ceremony to
honor the event. I will require my most trusted advisor to be
part of the negotiations as well and have equal say to protect the
interests of the humans.""You seem to forget that Neville Hawthorne is
human, and I suspect better equipped to understand the interests of
your people better than anyone you could come up with," Zebok said."Nevertheless, you have named him as your representative and I would name my own advisor to be his equal.""Name your advisor then," said Zebok impatiently."I name Holden Braddock," said the king.There
was an immediate uproar among the leaders of the races and Neville
became angry and shouted, "What does he know of the interests of the
people!? He knows only of his own! He is an evil man!
He orchestrated an
attempt to wipe the ogres from the face of the land with a vile
disease! He raped and tortured me and who knows how many others
before me! He destroyed my village and others before it! He
started the war by secretly attacking the kobolds and luring them out
to make it appear that they had attacked unprovoked! He intended
to be the champion of the people and usurp you as king! What sort
of blind fool are you to listen to his black lies!?"The king
flushed and shouted at Neville, "You forget your place boy!
Braddock has informed me that kobolds destroyed your village and
murdered all who lived there! They started this war! I
will not listen to your false accusations! What proof have you
that any of this is true?""Silence!" roared Lyboxus as he took several steps toward the dais and bared his teeth at the king, "It is
you who forget your place! Neville is the only person in this
room at the moment who can ultimately decide the fate of your entire
race! Should he decide he does not like the direction of these
talks and simply flicks his hand in dismissal towards you I shall personally
come forward and tear your fucking skins from your bodies, rip
out your organs and eat them, and then piss in the cavity left behind!"The king blanched and went quiet again.Zebok
spoke again, "I am happy that you reminded me of that Braddock name
once again. We will require that the ex-leader of your armed
forces be imprisoned for the remainder of his years. While he is
held in your prison he will have a vocation. It will be his job to
pleasure any of the other prisoners in whatever ways they require of
him and as often as required for the rest of his days. Failure to
comply with this requirement will result in our dissolution of your
rule and the occupation of your realm by our people. Am I
understood?"The king became angry again and said, "Until I see proof otherwise he remains a hero
to our people. I feel it may be in your best interests to not
treat him too harshly or you may cause unhappiness and unrest in the
human population.""Bah! He is no hero! He is a deserter and a coward!" a voice shouted from the back."Who speaks? Come forward!" said the king.Thurlowe moved from the back to the front of the contingent followed by his ogre captors."I spoke. I am Braddock's first officer and I am fully aware of
everything the man has done and admit my own complicity in some of it
in the hopes that you will grant me some clemency. It was
Braddock who ordered the village burned. All of its people had
fled into the night but he ordered some of his soldiers to go out and
hunt them down and kill them and make it look like kobolds had done it.
The soldiers had not yet returned so they may have succeeded or
they may still be out hunting the people as we speak.
All that the boy said is completely true I assure you and I can
give you the names of others who can verify the truth of it. The
man is vile and despicable and he did indeed have every intention of
replacing you as king," said Thurlowe.Braddock began to turn
purple with rage but before he could say anything the king shouted,
"Guards! Seize Braddock and hold him! I will be questioning
others and if any of this information is verified I will certainly have
no problem complying with that particular requirement."Just
then the doors at the side of the room burst open and five kobolds
entered. One of them was white with brown patches and a large
patch over his left eye."Jex!" Lyboxus and Neville shouted simultaneously.The
kobolds all looked over and grinned at their leader and then at Neville
as they realized who he must be. They moved aside and to
Neville's delight behind them filed in his mother and father and
several people from his village. More and more continued to come
into the room filling one side of it until Neville was able to account
for every single one of the people he'd known his whole life, and
bringing up the rear was Jake Smith.Neville's
heart nearly
leaped from his chest as he cried out and ran towards the smith. Jake
saw him and ran towards Neville with tears in his eyes and a
very wide grin on his face.The two met at the center and Jake
swept Neville into his arms and spun him around. Then he
simply held him tightly in a hug as the two wept tear of joy in each
other's arms.The whole assembly looked on as the two simply
stood and hugged and said nothing while they held each other tightly as if
they were afraid should they let go they might lose each other again.Several minutes went by and finally the king grew impatient and cleared his throat.Chaum raised his hammer and began to walk threateningly toward the king who immediately paled and went quiet again.They
all waited quietly to allow the two to enjoy their reunion in peace and
finally Neville said, "I love you more than my life. I've missed
you so! I've been thinking of you and wishing you were with me
ever since you were taken from me. I want to be with you forever.
I love you, Jake!""I love you too, Neville, more than you
will ever know. I was so afraid when I was taken and we
discovered you'd given up and turned back to the village. I did
not know what had happened to you and I feared the worst until we
finally received word that you'd been rescued by the orc leader and
taken safely to their army. I love you so much I will never leave
your side again!" said Jake.The
two hugged a bit longer and then finally walked hand in hand back to
join with the leaders of the races, who were all smiling at Jake and
nodding their approval of him.Finally the king was allowed to
speak again and he looked at Jake and asked, "Who are you and what is
your attachment to this boy?""I
am Jakobson Smith and I am Neville's future mate. We will be tied
together in wedlock and go to live among the kobolds as soon as we are
able. I am also witness to
the destruction of our village at the hands of the madman Braddock and
all of these people are witnesses as well. It was the five
kobolds you see here who tracked down every single person from our
village and brought them to safety to protect them from Braddock's
soldiers, who I might add were also tracked down and dealt with
summarily by a contingent of orcs and ogres who had come to our aid as
well. Neville's father is
also witness to the rape and torture that Braddock himself committed
against the boy as well as his command to have Neville murdered in
order to protect his vile secrets. Personally, were I Neville, if
you chose to
continue to allow Braddock his freedom I would order the deaths of both
of you," Jake said coldly.Neville smiled coldly at the king and nodded his agreement.The king did not need any further convincing, "Very well, Braddock will be
imprisoned as required and will be the chattel of all of the other
prisoners to do with as they please."It was Braddock's turn to blanche now, but he knew his fate was sealed so he remained silent.The king turned his attention back to Zebok to continue their negotiations
and he said, "You have agreed to follow our tradition and sign an
accord for peace, we will agree to follow whatever tradition you
require as well, name it.""We have a tradition that is based on
the sharing of our seed. The tradition has already been followed
in one direction and Neville has been made a member of all of our races
by planting his seed in us while the sacred words were spoken. Our
tradition for friendship between entire races is similar but requires that our leaders plant their seed in the leader of
your race while sacred words are spoken in order to make your entire
race joined to us and seal the pact in both directions," explained
Zebok.The king blushed as he looked over the leaders of
the races, pausing briefly at the massive kobold alpha, and his eyes finally stopped on the huge bulge between the ogre
chieftain's legs."You cannot possibly mean to have me allow you to bugger me! I will not do it!" shouted the king."You
will do it or the entire agreement is void and we will proceed to
dismantle your rule and do all the other things necessary to correct the ways of
your people," said Zebok coldly.Lyboxus leaned in and whispered some things into Zebok's ear. The orc smiled and nodded and then spoke again."Lyboxus,
as always, has shown his brilliance as a tactician and has just given me
a most excellent suggestion. You see, in our tradition when we allowed
Neville to dominate us while he planted his seed he briefly became the
leader of the race of the person he was dominating. We will allow
our rules to be bent and allow you to briefly name someone else as the
supreme leader of your people only for the moment that we plant
our seed within him. This would allow you to name anyone you wish
to take your position as king of your people. As such we will be
planting our seed in the leader of your race in front of witnesses and
our tradition will be fulfilled. Lyboxus has suggested someone to act as your proxy who
would fit the bill quite nicely," said Zebok.The king looked
startled and said, "You don't mean to have me order the boy Neville to
be used by that massive ogre! He would be torn asunder! I am not so cruel!"Zebok shook his head and flicked his eyes to the side.The king looked puzzled and looked in the direction the orc had indicated.
Suddenly a great smile spread across his face as he realized what
he was being told."Agreed! I will hand over my power
during the ceremony and decree that it return to me the moment the
leader of the ogre race gives his seed to my replacement," said the king.He then turned toward Braddock and said, "You will see
your wish come true. You will replace me as king of the human
realm, though only for about twenty minutes or so I'm afraid.
Should you even attempt to make any proclamations or decrees
while you briefly hold the power you would be breaking the agreement
with the other races and one of their soldiers would be happy to remove
your head I should think."Braddock blanched even more to the point of looking as though every last drop of his blood had drained away."Very
well, I believe we have covered all that is required. Let us
break up and reconvene in one week's time for the two ceremonies," said
Zebok.The entire assembly broke up and Jake and Neville
went with the three leaders of the races back to join with their army
outside the castle.There was a great deal of celebration that
evening and Jake and Neville held tightly to each other the entire
time. All others left the two alone knowing they would want to
catch up with each other and there would be plenty of time through the
week for them all to get to know each other better. They were all
anxious to meet Jake but they felt they would do better to wait until
the next day.Jake
quickly told Neville everything that had
happened to him after his capture by the kobolds leading up to the orcs
and ogres hunting down all of Braddock's soldiers they could find in
the woods while kobolds tracked down all of the people of the village
and brought them to safety. Then it was Neville's turn to speak
and for the rest of the evening Jake listened in amazement and rapt
attention as the boy described in great detail his entire adventure
from the moment he'd heard Jake get hit over the head by Jex.Late at night Chaum finally
approached the two and told them that he'd had a separate pavilion
set up for them to share and led them to it.He said his goodnights and left the two lovers to enjoy each other alone.Neville
stripped and
ran to the middle of the tent and dived onto the pillows and rolled
onto his back. Jake stripped and chased him in and lay down
over top of
Neville. He took the boy's hands in his own and pushed them up
over Neville's head and held them there as he placed his mouth on
Neville's and began to kiss
him with all of the passion for the boy he'd been keeping bottle up for so long.
Jake and Neville both moaned in ecstasy as they writhed against
each other and sucked at each other's tongues and explored every corner
of each other's mouths. Their tongues darted back and forth as
one pulled his tongue into his own mouth and the other's tongue chased
it in and then back the other way. They wrestled and clung to
each other and necked in passion for a long while. Neville could
already feel Jake's thick cock pressing hard against his thigh and
Neville's cock was as hard as it could possibly get as the soft hair of
Jake's belly rubbed against it.Finally after what seemed to
Neville like minutes but was probably closer to an hour the two broke
apart breathlessly and Jake whispered urgently to Neville, "I am sorry,
my love. I wanted to do this right and make it a slow and
wonderful experience but I simply cannot. I must fuck you now!
Please?"Neville grinned a wide grin and tears formed at
the edge of his eyes as he looked up into the face of his one true love
and he said, "I think that would suit me just fine. How about you
do that to me, then I fuck you hard, then you can fuck me quick and
hard, then I'll do it back to you. Some time in a few weeks of
fucking when we've got it mostly out of our systems we can then try to
take it nice and slow. For now, to quote a dear friend of mine, let's fuck like fiends! I've been
dreaming of this for so long. Please fuck me with all the love
you feel for me and know that I feel it all for you."Jake
smiled and leaned in and kissed Neville once more and then moved back
between the boy's legs and took his ankles and lifted them up onto his
shoulders as he worked his knees forward and took a position to enter
him. He carefully positioned his thick cock head that was leaking
precum constantly now against Neville's anus and then he pushed hard
and forced his cock in and Neville groaned loudly at the pleasure of
being taken by his man. Jake moaned loudly too as he continued to
push forward to thrust the entire length of his long thick manhood into
the boy's rectum until his large hairy balls bumped up against
Neville's ass.He
then pushed his body forward more and lifted Neville's
ass higher as he moved in to insert his tongue back in Neville's mouth.
Neville was bent in half and he did not care one bit. He
couldn't think of any position he'd rather be in right now. He
chased Jake's tongue out of his mouth and then thrust his tongue into
Jake's. While sucking on Neville's tongue Jake then began to pull
his ass up and thrust back down hard into Neville and he moaned each
time. Neville grunted at the sensation of his anus being
worked by the long thick shaft as it pushed in and his prostate being
repeatedly hammered by Jake's large cock head. Jake reveled in
the snug warm fit of his lover's hole and he knew he would never get
tired of this particular activity and they would be doing it a lot from
now on. He began to thrust harder and faster as he started to
feel his loins boil up.He pulled back away from Neville's face
so he could look down at the boy he was fucking and he grabbed
Neville's ankles and held them up as he began to grunt and thrust into
him with all his might. The sensation of his cock thrusting along
the tightly flexed anus into the snug warm tunnel and the feeling of
his balls banging hard against the boy's ass combined to send him
spinning out of control as his orgasm rolled over him like a crashing
ocean wave. A surge of electricity bloomed outward from his loins
as his big balls tightened up and he felt the massive load of cum he'd
built rush up the length of his cock. His cock head expanded as
he grunted and a massive volley of his semen was shot deep into
Neville's bowels. He grunted and thrust hard again as he felt his
cock head expand once more and he shot another long spurt of his
hot seed into the boy. His body was wracked with spasms as he
came again and again. It was the most intense experience of his
life and he prayed it would never end. He felt as though he'd
shot a gallon of cum into the boy and finally the pulsing of his pelvic
muscle began to ease off and his thrusting slowed. He pushed one
last time hard and deep into the boy and held the position and waited
while the last of his seed leaked out into Neville.He finally regained control and looked down at Neville and saw the love of his life staring dreamily back at him."Thank you so much, Jake! I've never felt so wanted in my whole life. I love you so much!" Neville exclaimed.Jake pulled his softening cock out of the boy and moved to lie beside him and then pulled him over onto him for a hug."I
think I will need to fuck you quite often, my love. I didn't quite
get that just right and I will have to practice a great deal to be sure
I can meet your needs," Jake said, softly joking."You
meet all of my
needs and more. I am happier than I'd ever imagined I could be
right now. I've had some amazing experiences in the last few days
yet none of them made me feel as good as this. I think as long as I am
in your arms there's simply nothing else I need in the world.
I was so wrapped up in the
other side of the war and after Zebok and Lyboxus and Chaum all said
the wonderful words to me while I gave them my seed I started to almost
feel like
I was every race except human anymore," Neville said."Yes, you told me those words. They were quite beautiful. I would
love for you to give me your seed right now my love, for the first of a
great many times," said Jake, "Will you show me how you took Lyboxus?
I should like to practice being mounted in that way as I
would very much like you and I to play with our new kobold friends very
soon."Neville giggled and pushed Jake off of him and got up and ordered him to his hands and knees."I am your alpha," said Neville, "You will take your position before me and submit to me and you will not try to escape."Jake obediently got on his hands and knees and looked back at his alpha male and lustfully smiled at him.Neville
immediately mounted his property. He forced his cock hard into
Jake's tight anus and grunted as he ran the full length in. He
leaned in and put his arms
around Jake's waist and began to buck hard and fast like a dog.
He drove his feet back as he pushed hard forward and fucked with
abandon to stab his cock as deep as it could possibly go into Jake.
Jake clenched his anus hard to give the boy the best
possible sensation and Neville immediately began to moan.Jake
tried his best to remember the exact words but added his own twist as
he began to intone, "I receive your gift from
the Mother with love, honor and trust. As you plant your seed in
me
know
that it will grow into the deepest and most permanent bond between you
and me. You will be a part of me and be my only love from
this
day forward and I will afford you every status that entails. I
submit
to your domination over me. I place in you the complete trust of
a lovesick smith. Let all who witness spread the word. You
are now my human and I am yours."Neville's
heart swelled with love for Jake as he began to feel his balls tighten
up and he shot his young load into his life's love for the first of
many times. He allowed the wonderful sensation of his orgasm to
carry him away as he continued to hump with abandon at his lover and
shot all of the seed his body could produce.He finally began to
come down and then pulled out and rolled Jake back over and crawled up
onto him to rest in his beautiful smith's arms and gather his energy for the
next round. He couldn't believe how happy he felt and he knew it
would only get better.He felt human once more and he was with his mate and he couldn't be happier....One
week later the day of the ceremony arrived and the representatives of
all of the races and additional witnesses gathered in a great hall in
the castle for the signing of the accord.The leaders all
approached and one by one put their marks on the official document
starting with the human king and then the orc, kobold and ogre leaders.The king then declared the Hawthorne Accord to be a binding agreement for
a lasting peace between the races and a rousing cheer went up around
the hall.The time came for the second part of the ceremony and
a large bench was carried into the room by two ogres. Bound face
down onto the bench was Braddock, completely naked. It looked as
though his posterior had been well greased in preparation.
Several around the room chuckled at the sight and Braddock
reddened.The bench was placed in the center of the room and everyone
gathered around it. The king stepped up and gave the decree that
would hand over his power to Braddock and make him ruler of the entire
human race until such time as the ogre leader gives him his seed.
A kobold stepped up to stand at Braddock's head with a large axe
in case the man decided to try to abuse his power, but Braddock was far
too much the coward to give up his life so he waited for what would
come next and had resolved to simply get through it.Zebok stepped up first. He went behind Braddock
and stripped down. His awesome cock unfortunately refused to rise
to the occasion."I am sorry but I find this man somewhat
disgusting. I am not sure if I will be able to proceed without
some help," he said.He
looked around the room and spotted
Neville and smiled at him. Neville smiled back and came forward.
He kissed Zebok and then he took the orc's cock in his hand.
The
affect was immediately apparent to all as the cock began to harden and
grow in the boy's hand. Neville began to stroke it as Zebok
closed his eyes and smiled and the tip of the cock made its way to
Braddock's
anus and immediately thrust into it. Zebok stood still and while
Neville whispered things into his ear and continued to stroke his cock
a large ball formed at the base and made its way along the wonderful
tool until it finally bumped up against Braddock's anus. Braddock
shouted out in pain as the ball forced its way in and stretched his
anus as it made its way toward the end of Zebok's cock. Neville
suddenly remembered how Braddock had made his father milk the
commander's cock to send the last of his cum into Neville and he
wondered at the incredible irony of being able to do the same himself.Zebok
then said, "I give my gift of
the Mother to you and your people with honor and trust. As I
plant my seed in you know
that it will grow into the deepest and most permanent bond between my
people and yours. Our people will become one and the same and we
shall afford each other every status that entails. As you submit
to my domination know that I replace you as their leader for the moment
that we are coupled. You are placing in me the trust of an entire
race and I will honor my commitment to treat you all as equals.
Let all who witness spread the word. Our races are now as
one."Zebok
looked into Neville's eyes and smiled and groaned as Neville worked his
cock faster and the ball of cum exploded into Braddock's bowels.
Zebok then quickly pulled out and had an attendant wash his cock
thoroughly and he stepped back to make room for the next.Lyboxus
stepped up and mounted Braddock and plunged forward and stabbed his
cock into Braddock's anus. Braddock shouted out again and the
kobold ignored it as he began to hammer his hips hard at the man trying
to make his cock go as deep as it would. He began to slow down
and it looked like things were not going to work out once again.
He looked over at Neville who smiled and went up to him and whispered in his ear and
stroked his back and then moved behind him. Neville lifted the
kobold's tail and moved his face in and began to tongue Lyboxus's anus to
heighten the sensation for him and Lyboxus closed his eyes and moaned
and began to thrust harder again. Neville couldn't help but
remember what had happened in the inn the night of his rape when
Braddock had forced Neville's father to do this very thing to help him
get off. Neville began to work the kobold's asshole with more
zeal as he thought of the fact that he was helping the big kobold to
shoot his cum into Braddock against the man's will.Suddenly
Lyboxus began to speak and
recited the traditional words to seal the pact. Then he moaned
loudly and pushed hard against Braddock and began to pump his seed into
the man while Neville continued to work his sweet pucker with his
tongue. When Neville detected that the kobold's anus had stopped
pulsing and he'd expended all of his seed the boy stood and smiled and
waited for the kobold to untie. There was no wait as it appeared
Lyboxus's knot began to go down the instant he'd released his seed and
he simply had to pull very hard to forcefully remove his already
shrinking knot from Braddock's anus, causing the man to cry out in pain.
Braddock's anus was likely quite damaged as it stayed gaped wide
open but at least now he might be better prepared for what would come
next.
Lyboxus did not want to lick himself so
he had attendants clean his cock carefully for him after he stepped out
of the
way.The last to come up was Chaum. He was naked, but his
massive cock hung limply between his legs. Neville knew what to
do immediately though. This time he stripped out of his own
clothes to let Chaum see him naked. He went to the ogre and began
to kiss and lick and caress the wonderful ogre's massive organ
and Chaum's cock immediately began to rise to attention to the gasps of
all of those gathered who had never seen an erect ogre penis before.
Once again Neville was struck by the irony as he remembered how
Braddock had forced his father to work the commander's cock in order to
prepare it for his rape of Neville.
Once Neville had the ogre nearly fully aroused he went over to
stand in front of Braddock's head so that Chaum could gaze at him and
pretend it was Neville he was fucking instead of the vile man.
The ogre smiled and began to take his position.As Neville
smiled back at the ogre in encouragement he realized that this was the
final moment. Once the ogre spilled his seed into the temporary
leader of the human race and spoke the words, the leadership would
return to the king and the entire land and all four races would be at
peace forever. The world he'd dreamed of living in where he and
Jake could live as a married couple and Neville would be in his bed to
be fucked by him every night and rise every morning to suck his cock
had actually come into being. To top it all off Neville himself
had played a major role in making it happen.He remembered a time
before all of this had begun when he'd wondered what a thirteen year
old boy could possibly accomplish in this conflict and now he knew.
He could save an entire race from annihilation and become one of
the architects of peace for the entire world. He could help to
teach the entire human race the correct way to live in balance and
harmony with the land and all of the other races. He could make the world
exactly the way he had always wished it would be and even a great deal
better than he'd ever imagined.He beamed up at Chaum and winked
as he took his own cock in hand and began to stroke it to give the ogre
more to work with. The response was immediate and Chaum's massive
cock sprang up the rest of the way as big and hard as it could get.Braddock
looked back at the massive log that was about to be forced into his
rectum and could not believe what he was seeing. There was no way
his ass could possibly take something that big without being torn apart.He turned back to Neville and asked, "What exactly does he mean to do with that thing?"Neville
looked at Braddock and then he smiled and said coldly, "He
means to fuck you with it of course, quite roughly I might add, and
when he's done you will definitely know you've been fucked."The End