Dragon Rider: The Hunt
#4 of Dragon Rider
Well this is the fourth installment in my Dragon Rider series. As I have no idea how many of these I will make, I'll treat each forthcoming one as a possible final for the series as I have many more story ideas on my mind.
Now enough of this mindless vocal babbling, I shall tell the tale...
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The strong winds buffeted Eraj, throwing him off balance and resulting in a short dive each time. Although his powerful wings were massive in terms of span which gave him good range, but a negative was that the large surface area tended to catch the gusts of wind and required constant adjusting on his part to remain aloft.
Eraj quickly scanned the horizon with a flick of his gaze but saw nothing.
Two full days and nights had passed and yet Eriylia still didn't return.
He was worried for her. After all, they now consider each other ‘mates'.
Spiraling on a thermal to gain some free height, he continued his ascent towards the vast expanse of clouds above. The height he gained he put to work on scanning the terrain below for any sign of Eriylia, or even drake serpents. He may no longer be human but he was still a dragon rider so he believed he should still hunt for them.
Far below to the South-East, Eraj could just make out the hazy outline of Tri-Vraer.
Just the mere sight of the old city brought forth mixed emotions, for there he had met, and lost, the first love of his life but gained a second more welcoming partner.
The sun began to disappear below the horizon and Eraj realized with despair that he would be spending yet another cold night alone without Eriylias' presence to comfort him.
Spilling the air from his wings, he dropped to the ground. Only when he was a few dragon lengths above the ground did he re-extend his wings a touch to slow down and make his landing less heavy. Still however he had to perform a short dash and a hop before being able to stop.
After folding his wings, he curled up beside a bundle of semi-damp logs and set them ablaze with a small jet of flame. The flames provided little light or warmth, a poor substitute but it was all he had.
Dropping his head and neck to the ground, Eraj wrapped his tail-tip around his left ankle joint before closing his eyes and drifting off into a disrupted slumber.
* * *
Eraj was awoken by a raucous of bird calls. Unleashing a low snarl, he slowly got to his feet, almost losing his balance, let loose a mighty bellow which silenced the birds and sent then wheeling. Satisfied Eraj out-stretched his wings and gave them a shake to loosen the sticking membrane. He gazed in amazement at his out-stretched wing, staring at the partially translucent skin. They were his. They belonged to him. This was no dream, he was still a dragon.
Folding his wings carefully, Eraj gazed over the ledge of the cliff and out across the semi-hilly landscape before him; the mountains obscured by haze and the suns rays passing through the scattered clouds. It was a chilly but beautiful morning...but not quite. Without Eriylia to share this spectacle, it seemed like a waste.
He had no idea why he had all of a sudden become so reliant upon her but her absence was showing him the true side of things. Eraj let his mind wander; focusing on each tantalizing moment he had spent with her. He realized that it was her presence, her conversations and her personality that drew him towards her.
None of the rest really mattered; the matings were simply adding onto what he already knew. She was most definitely the one he was destined for, no-one else.
Eraj felt water come to his eyes so he closed his inner eye-lids and viewed the world and his place in it with new understanding. He had to find her, no matter what. He was nothing without her anymore. Eraj was willing to bring himself to death to see Eriylia that final time.
Inhaling sharply, mind set, Eraj closed his eyes completely to focus, and then, he jumped.
Eraj let himself fall, laughing in giddy pleasure. Distantly in his mind, he hoped that his hunch was right or this would really hurt. The wind rushed past his head fast and he had no intention of opening his wings to slow down, just watching the ground race towards him.
He estimated he had a few seconds until hitting the ground when he felt a barking roar and felt claws dig in on either side of his spine. Eraj sighed in relief, his hunch had been correct.
His savior tried to pull the two of them out of the dive but their combined weight was too much for the spread of wing available. They hit the ground with a thud, the landing softened slightly.
Eraj landed on his left side and thought he heard something creak within his body. The other dragon had landed on Erajs' right side; its surprisingly light build didn't hurt much though.
Eraj lay there gasping for a few minutes before craning his neck to look at who was lying on top of him. She, for he noticed straight away by the shape of her neck and hips that she was a dragoness, greenish-brown in colour and arching her neck to look down at him.
"What were you thinking Eraj? You could've killed yourself with that stunt" She was clearly not impressed.
"How do you know who I am?" he asked shocked.
"I am a friend of Eriylia" Eraj noted the slight tone in which she said ‘friend' but had no idea what it could mean.
"And for your information, I was looking for you" the unknown dragoness was no longer scolding him. In fact, she seemed to be looking over him with awe and seemed to be paying particularly good attention to his lower body.
Eraj tried to get up but she kept him pinned to the ground ingeniously using her claws as stakes so that she was sprawled across his side.
"Who are you?" Eraj rather bluntly questioned.
The dragoness chuckled and grinned, an expression Eraj found he rather liked, before replying;
"I'm Drasas, Dras for short"
"Dras huh? How come I never heard of you until now?"
"Eriylia has a lot on her mind; she wouldn't have seen the need to tell you about me"
Drasas lifted one of her paws and began to massage Erajs' lower neck softly, kneading the scales and knotted muscle underneath. Eraj looked at her with a semi-confused expression. She flashed him another alluring grin and resumed her massage, this time also throwing a few licks in as well. She moved her paw in concentric circles and would move her tongue from that position up to the base of his skull where she would stop only to go back down and continue again.
All together, Eraj was finding it a very sensual experience and for the moment forgot his worries.
Drasas was purring as she pleasured the male and found herself starting to get excited. She decided that she should stop before getting too carried away and reluctantly pulled away.
Eraj flicked his gaze to her eyes when she stopped and saw the restraint behind her eyes. Something was clearly going on here. Drasas let him get up and watched him flex his body, rather liking what she saw.
When he was done, he turned back to face Drasas.
"So...where is she?" Eraj asked his tone soft.
Drasas laughed softly and then replied;
"Come with me and you'll see" She flashed another of her smiles and then took off. Eraj watched her graceful form circle above him. There was something unusual about her he knew that, but what it was he knew not.
* * *
Drasas led Eraj over the plains and into the craggy mountain range. The winds here proved challenging and un-predictable so it was a fight to maintain course and heading.
Eraj relished the challenge however.
He found he could move his neck at slightly more extreme angles than before. It must have had something to do with Drasas' massage earlier.
An hour passed and then another. Eraj felt his wing muscles begin to burn and he had to slow his flight, something Drasas didn't seem happy about.
"Males... All brawn when it comes to fighting yet when it comes to long distance flying you're useless".
Finally after another half hour of flying, Drasas began to descend. Eraj noted that they were in a valley he hadn't even known had existed until then. There was some snow around and the air was quite frigid. They ended up landing within a large cave which was divided down the middle by a row of collapsed pillars. There were many scents in the cave but Eraj was surprised that the strongest smells were of blood and sex.
"What's been going on in here? Why does it smell so bad?"
Drasas doubled back on herself so that her muzzle has almost perfectly beside Erajs'.
"Oh that...it's nothing, trust me"
"But how can I trust you? You've barely told me a thing"
Eraj was waiting for a snappy reply so he was surprised when instead Drasas curved her neck slightly and gave Eraj a kiss, something he hadn't been expecting. She took advantage of this and had some fun, running her tongue along the groove between his lips and a few of his scales before pulling away, leaving Eraj flabbergasted.
"Everything will be explained, trust me" Drasas winked then turned to resume their penetration deeper into the caves depths.
After a few minutes of silent walking, they finally reached the rear of the cave. There was a shaft in the ceiling which must have lead to the world above for light was streaming through it, bathing the chamber in a warm glow. A trickle of water ran down the far edge of the chamber and pulled beside a pile of dead deer.
Erajs' attention however was not on the chamber but on Eriylia, who lay in the center of the chamber un-moving. Eraj felt his heart sink. Her eyes had sunken down into their sockets and her scales had gone from a healthy blue to a sickly grey. He could only just hear the faint sound of her slow heart-beat and sliver of breath rushing through her teeth.
She bore no physical injuries that Eraj could see but it was distinctly clear that she was dying.
"What did you do to her?" Eraj snarled angrily at Dras who took a step back from him.
"I did nothing. You must listen to me! She needs you or she'll die" Drasas spoke with a slightly terrified tone.
"What's wrong with her?" Eraj continued to snarl, scales on end.
"When she turned you, she lost a little bit of herself. That something that she lost is destroying her from the inside out. If we don't find her a cure within the next few days, she will pass on from this world"
Eraj was confused.
"What do you mean she lost a bit of herself? What do we need to save her?" he was crying in desperation to get to the bottom of this problem fast.
"To turn another being into your species, you must sacrifice either a part of your soul or your mind. In your case, something has gone wrong and Eriylia seems to have lost a little of both. Symptoms include pain attacks, confusion, bouts of aggression and sexual anxiety".
Startled, Eraj recalled the moments he had spent with Eriylia since his turning. She had been rather reclusive around him and had almost attacked him on two occasions. He also remembered her pain attacks where she became un-responsive and her increased desire to mate with him. It all seemed so obvious now.
"You and I must find a particular plant Dafoe and get her to swallow its leaves to restore her imbalance if we are not too late already".
Eraj glanced at Eriylias' immobile form one final time before returning his attention to Drasas.
"Well we'd better do something then" Eraj exclaimed.
"Indeed, let's go" Drasas agreed and led him out of the cave and into the forest.
* * *
"Alright we're looking for a shrub-like plant with leaf fronds similar in appearance to ferns. They like direct sunlight so we should try the clearings" Drasas had said as soon as they had left the cave. That had been a couple hours ago and still they had found nothing.
The light was beginning to dim and Eraj estimated they had about an hours worth of daylight left. Drasas was wearing around her neck a linen pouch that she had found during her travels in which she intended to carry the plant if they could find it.
Eraj was trying his last stretch of clearing and at first saw nothing. He was about to leave when a brown coloured plant partially concealed beneath a fern caught his attention. Eraj brushed the fern aside and sighed in relief, there it was a Dafoe plant. Sighing in relief, Eraj used a talon to sever a branch from the shrub and began to carry it back.
He re-united with Drasas on the way back and she promptly tucked the branch into her pouch. A few spores shook loose and Eraj noted that they were inhaled by Drasas. He himself got a small dose but it was more than enough.
All of a sudden he felt this strong urge to take the female right beside him, to make her his. Eraj fought the urge but it over-powered him. Next thing he knew he had pushed Drasas onto her side and had a throbbing erection, his member poking her in the belly.
Drasas gazed up at him, a sparkle in her eye as she used a paw to slip off the pouch and threw it to the side. Eraj smelt her sex began to seep and stood there taking in the scent.
He jumped when he felt something brush against his phallus again and again.
He looked down to see that Drasas had one of her graceful paws wrapped around as much of his shaft as she could and was stroking it up and down. It was too thick for her to reach around completely so she instead raised her mouth and began to flick her tongue repeatedly across his glands.
Eraj could only sit on his haunches and moan as Drasas worked him up and down. She seemed to know something he didn't as she'd draw him right to the brink then let it subside before bringing him back up again and repeating the process.
He was just beginning to settle when Drasas stopped her stroking and instead used her paws to pull Eraj so that he was astride her, albeit a bit high. She then used a paw to slowly massage his shaft, using his pre to rub the tiny scales between her right wing arm and her side.
Before he knew it, Drasas had quickly angled his pulsating member so that it lay between her wing arm and her side, right where she had done her lubrication work. She pressed down on him with her wing arm, enjoying the burning hot flesh that now sat there.
Instinctively, Eraj began to slowly sway his hips forwards and back. Drasas giggled and Eraj moaned as his penis slid back and forth between the two. This, Eraj thought, was so much better than the massaging she had been doing just minutes before.
Eraj felt Drasas begin to press her wing arm more tightly against his member so he increased in velocity. Her small scales were so fine that they felt like normal bare flesh as he thrust.
Eventually, he could hold out no more and with a bellow loosed his load.
The hot white semen shot from the end of his penis and across Drasas' back. Some of it splashed across her neck and she found great pleasure in the feeling of the hot liquid running down her sensitive scales.
He thought that nothing more was to come but he was wrong. Drasas used her tail to pull him lower down her body until the tip of his shaft was pressing against the swollen lips of her slick pussy.
Without waiting, Drasas pushed her hips back and felt herself speared by Erajs' cock. Eraj felt her tight canal stretch around his width and her muscles began to knead him. Eraj lowered his head and Drasas locked muzzles with him. They exchanged a violent but passionate kiss as Eraj began to work his magic.
He was far stronger than she and before long her whole body began to move in time with each of his thrusts. Drasas was laughing in pleasure and pushed every time he shoved, determined to milk him for all his worth.
Using her skillful paws, Drasas began to play with Erajs' chest as he thrust himself into her, hilting into her completely. Withdrawing from their kiss, Eraj found great amusement in watching Drasas' belly swell and shrink as his too large member made its way deep into her womb.
Using one of his fingers, Eraj began to rub her exposed clit, earning him a loud moaning.
With all this going on, it wasn't surprising that Eraj felt himself approaching climax five minutes later. Noticing that she was as well, he began to thrust with increased vigor, his hips a blur.
Drasas screamed as she went over the edge and spilt her juices across his shaft and lower body. She went un-coconscious and fell limp, allowing Eraj even greater access into her overworked love canal.
With two final thrusts, Eraj hilted himself completely within her and loosed his second load straight into her un-fertilized womb. It was far too much for her to contain so when he pulled himself out, most of it came pouring back out.
With his shaft limp and dripping, Eraj gazed in horror at the scene. The effects of the plant had worn off.
"Oh my god what have I done!"