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The subdued lighting of the private dining hall was a misty reddish-amber glow, thrown by several thin glowing tubes spaced along the curves of the bulkheads and floor, cunningly concealed within the flowing curves of the architecture. The glow was offset by a trio of small, palm-sized orbs that sat on finely wrought metal tripods, cradling them as they gave off a flickering, almost candle-like light casting shivering shadows that danced across the thick, glossy table-top of smoked glass. The round table was held up by a matte silver armature, flanked by a pair of matching, low-backed metal chairs cushioned with thick faux leather padding over the seat. The café-table was laid for a pair, with two sets of plates, bowls, flat-ware and delicate, wide bowled glasses, half filled with a smoke colored, gently bubbling liquid. The half finished dinner lying on the plates was a mix of meat and vegetables, prepared for the diner's personal tastes in cuisine as they playfully fed one another from their dual pronged forks, picking and choosing tid-bits from one another's plates at their leisure.

The ruddy amber glow shone through the seated feline male's brilliant, milky white fur, making it seem to radiate from within into a soft, strawberry blonde, shimmering off his back-length alabaster hair, turning it almost pink. The feline was neither short, nor tall, not terribly stocky, but not painfully slender, with a lean, sleek, graceful form. He was masculinely built, with tantalizingly feminine curves of his waist, chest and rump, sporting no hard, dense bundles of muscle, but with lithe, flat expanses of taut hardness through his legs, belly, chest and back. He stood just a few scant inches under two meters, with broad shoulders, a flared chest, narrow waist, nicely curved hips and long, limber legs and arms. A long, sleek tail of matching snowy white sat weaving where it draped to the floor, tipped in a long, leonine tuft of fur. Only an airy, thin wrap of soft cotton linen clothed him, wrapped about his hips, patterned with soft whorls of light blues and greens.

Tannis Krayd smiled playfully at his dinner companion, teasingly fending off the human male's fork as his lover and mate leaned in to pick a piece of roasted meat from the plate in front of him. His normally bright violet eyes shone several shades darker in the flickering golden glow, seeming almost purple-black as he tipped his head toward his human husband, winking softly. His broad, high-cheeked, bluntly muzzled face was good humored, with his dusty pink nose and soft, full lips that tweaked gently. The feline's long, lithe fingered paw gripped his fork, laying it gently against his plate as he plucked up the morsel of food and offered it to his lover's lips, making him smirk.

Shinai Tsukisyo gently took the strip of pinkish-white meat from his lover's fingertips, sucking them gently as he lifted his own almost olive-tan hand to Tannis' forearm and stroked through the thick, short, soft fur there slowly, "This was a good idea baby."

The human male was handsome, with striking, smooth features, high cheekbones like his mate, with almond shaped eyes of an almost eerie pale silvery blue. He had a taller, more heavily muscled body than his feline lover, his smooth, deeply tanned skin shifting over his beautifully defined muscles. Shinai's deeply tanned skin and expressive almond shaped eyes along with the wonderfully thick and smooth head of jet black hair that hung to his shoulders belied his Asian heritage. His soft hair was streaked with purple and pink, the lighter highlights catching the flickering light of the glow orbs, making them shine. The human male was clothed in a soft, loose vest of black cotton, showing his broad, densely muscled pectoral muscles and hard ridged belly down to the waist where his hips were tucked into a pair of loose, almost balloon legged pants, leaving his feet bare, shifting through the thick mocha carpeting.

Shinai stroked Tannis' smooth pelt slowly, running his blunt, flat-nailed fingers up and down over the feline's arm, gripping his lithe paw softly as Tannis giggled, "Well, now that those damn Denabi delegates are off the ship, both our schedules are clear, we have a week-long flight to the next major stop on our route and nothing else to do. I thought we could both use a little diversion. We haven't gotten much time alone together lately."

The snowy haired feline male played his fingers over his human mate's strong, blunt-fingered grasp, feeling his smooth, just barely haired skin. Compared to his own thick, alabaster pelt, the odd, sparse soft hairs on his lover's bronze skinned body intrigued him. Most humans had only a rudimentary covering of hair on their bodies, some thicker than others. Shinai had that soft, fine black hair over his arms and legs, with a small patch of thicker, more bristly hair on the lower reaches of his stomach, but was completely smooth over his face, back, chest and belly. Tannis often noted the thick, bristly growth of blue-black stubble over his human mate's face that tickled his nose and lips ruthlessly in the mornings, but Shinai removed that manually with a compact grooming tool. The slim feline had once, in a pique of curiosity run the small silver and black device across his own snowy furred arm, resulting in a cascade of his soft fur to the floor and an hour in the ship's medical bay having the resultant naked pink bald-spot re-grown to gales of giggles from their chief medical officer who had admitted in confidence to making the same mistake with his own human lover's razor in a much more tender spot.

As Tannis leaned in to kiss his human lover's lips softly they both startled gently as the softly glowing comm panel next to the door chimed. His muzzle wrinkled cutely as he shook his head, listening to the clear, ringing chime, "Ignore it."

Their lips met tenderly, pressing together, the feline's breath mingling with his human mate's as they gently lapped and nibbled at one another's lips. The comm panel pinged once more, loudly, beeping peevishly at their stolidly dismissive postures. As Tannis' tongue deftly slid into Shinai's mouth, the glowing panel chimed a third time, this time in tandem with the pair of compact personal communication devices sitting at the far edge of the table. The oblong, curve-faced matte silver comm units bleeped, alternating their rhythm and setting the albino furred feline's teeth on edge as he thrust his tongue deeper into Shinai's mouth with a subdued rumble, rubbing their lips together harder as if in defiance of the annoyance attempting to intrude.

Tannis relaxed a bit as the comm units ceased pinging stridently, scooting his chair closer to his human mate's and proceeding to rub along Shinai's ridged belly in long, slow strokes as they kissed deeper and harder, their food forgotten for the moment. As the sleek feline reached for the knot at the waist of Shinai's pants both comm units chirped once more, shivering against the glass table-top as they vibrated, escalating the level of annoyance they were giving off. Tannis flicked out his paw with almost negligent ease, sweeping both thumb-sized units to the floor to vibrate impotently into the thick carpeting. He resumed his task of busily untying the knot of linen holding the human's loose pants closed around his waist as he grinned, satisfied that the interruption would pass.

The grinning feline felt his human mate's hands start groping over his own softly furred body as he nipped Shinai's lip, tugging it gently, yelping loudly as a sudden buzzing vibration erupted in his ear. Tannis stiffened in his seat, shaking his head wildly as the tiny sub dermal implant in his jaw pulsed with vibration. The tiny micro-implant functioned on the exact same principle as the larger communication device, simply funneling sound along the feline's jaw-bone into his ear-canal and projecting it onto his ear-drum where only he could hear it. A matching device set lower on his throat functioned as a sonic receiver, allowing him to both hear and speak if his independent comm unit were disabled. The alabaster feline growled and swatted in agitation at the side of his throat, "What?!"

The tiny implant ceased its vibration as the snow furred feline heard the slightly growling tenor rumble of his Security Chief sound through his skull, "I'm sorry to interrupt you Sir, but-..."

"I thought I left explicit instructions not to interrupt my time tonight Vili, this is why we left Lorensi in charge in the meanwhile."

Tannis sighed as his sec chief sounded extremely displeased at having interrupted his captain and executive officer but carried on in his warm rumble, "Yes' sir, I realize that Sir, I apologize, but there's been a small security matter that-..."

"You are Security Chief aren't you Vili? Security matters would fall under your purview."

The chastised officer cleared his throat as delicately as he could, "Yes' sir. But Doctor Larani-..."

"If it involves a medical matter then Larani should be more than qualified to handle it Vili."

"Yes' sir, but-..."

Tannis pinched the bridge of his muzzle as Shinai stroked his nape and back in tight, gentle circles, "Yes what Vili?"

The feline security officer's voice was strained as he tried to formulate the proper response for interrupting his captain in mid-foreplay, "I apologize sir, but Doctor Larani specifically requested that you-..."

"Doctor Larani is going to need a medic himself if this isn't extremely important."

"Yes' sir..." Vili rumbled miserably as he paused for a brief moment before continuing hesitantly, "It seems sir that Doctor Larani specifically requested you to be informed of a pressing medical matter involving-..."

Tannis sat upright in his chair as he sighed, "If it's a medical matter then why exactly security is involved Vili?"

The rumbling feline male paused once more before his answer came in a rush, as if to finish before being cut through once again, "There's been a security situation involving Riva sir, he's currently in the medical bay and Doctor Larani thought it might be best if you attended the situation directly."

"Well, why didn't you say so to begin with? I'll be right there, I suppose."

Tannis heaved a long suffering sigh before he slapped the side of his throat, cutting off the channel before his security officer had a chance to respond. He gently turned his head, hearing his neck pop as knots of tension eased up into his shoulders and back, giving Shinai a deeply wounded expression as the human sat back with a smirk, adjusting the front of his loose cotton pants, "I take it, that our alone time is being impinged upon my love?"

"Yes. I'm afraid so. And if Larani doesn't have a damn good reason for dragging me away from my sex, I'm going to kink his tail!"

Shinai sighed gently, laying his wineglass back down as he watched his feline mate lever himself to his delicate feet, letting his silvery-blue eyes wander over Tannis' lean, curved body. The human frowned a bit as his furred lover pulled on an airy, short-sleeved robe, belting it at his waist, hiding his snowy fur. He leaned back in his chair, rubbing his own chest idly, feeling more than slightly annoyed with the spotted feline doctor himself as he watched Tannis' heart-shaped rump shift back and forth beneath the cloth of his draping clothes, kissing his violet-eyed mate softly, "Well, hurry back love. We'll vaporize our comm units when you get back."

"Promises promises."

Tannis grunted gently as he palmed the locking mechanism of the dining room door, allowing the smooth doors to slide apart before him and striding into the brightly lit corridor of the space-ship humming around him. The Silver City was the feline captain's own ship, a sleek vessel of several hundred meters long, with nearly 200 crew members of a wide variety of species, including several dozen humans from Terra including his own finely muscled mate. The rounded, wedge-shaped ship was luxurious from the standpoint of most private star-ship captains, having been built by the space-fleet governing over the safety and commerce of many dozens of star-systems scattered through the denser area of the spiral-shaped Milky Way galaxy toward the core systems, nearly 1000 light-years from Shinai's home planet. The tear-drop shaped ship's blunt prow was streaking through space at many times the speed of light, her gigantic hyperspace manifold engines warping the space-time continuum around her, letting her slip across the unimaginable distances between the stars that made up her territory as her feline captain stalked through the smooth, rounded corridors that ran maze-like through her heart.

Tannis passed many crew members, exchanging smiles, greetings, even kisses and warm caresses from many of the varied individuals that made up the body of his crew. He exchanged a rather lecherous grope with Kanti, his own feline astrogation officer and pilot who was coming off a short shift, the manically grinning, bright eyed Vakari male winking one of his brilliant green eyes at Tannis as he continued off down the corridor. The snowy furred male smirked after him, "Say hello to Lune for me Kanti."

The amber and black spotted male waved back easily, sticking out his tongue as he nodded, "I will. Get back to Shin as soon as you can, he's probably pent up as all hell."

Tannis uttered a soft sigh as he nodded and continued on his way down to the moderately sized medical bay, passing the tall, frosted glass doors, emblazoned with their bright cherry-pink mark, fixing a disgruntled expression on his muzzle as he plowed his way through a gaggle of harassed looking nurses seeking his Chief of Medicine. The rows of soft beds lining the bulkheads, surrounded by winking banks of monitors and lights, sensor platforms and equipment cabinets and trays were all a soft, light blue without any sharp angles or corners, padded and matching the darker blue carpeting below and white bulkheads around and above them. As he didn't spy his CMO within the main med-bay itself the white furred feline stalked hunter-like through to Larani's cramped office, finding the object of his pursuit perched behind his oblong, smooth topped desk, consulting a monitor and data pad at the same time.

The Chief Medical Officer of the Silver City was a J'ralan male, tall, willowy and very slender, with curvy hips and lean legs concealed in his bright, cornflower colored uniform, draped with a light coat studded with pockets that held various items of medical miscellanea. The slender feline had a coat of deep amber yellow, looking remarkably like a Vakari, save for the fact that his stature was much slimmer, lacking the deep barrel chest of their cousin species and the fact that the J'rali male's black spots were mottled rosettes as opposed to solid black ones on his thick cream and white highlighted coat. Larani's long hair was loose around his shoulders, halfway between auburn and blonde, matching his bright cobalt blue eyes that slid up to the scowl on Tannis' muzzle and immediately widened. Seeing the murderous expression on his captain's face the J'ralan doctor stood with a tiny squeak, slapping the data pad down onto his desk and clearing his throat, "Ah, Tannis..."

The snow headed feline waited for the office doors to slip closed behind him before he inhaled and stalked to the nearer side of Larani's desk, hissing like a demented kettle, "If this is not important Larani I will wait till the next time I know you and Roan are fucking, melt my way through your sleeping chamber bulkhead and proceed to yank him off of you!"

Larani had the good natured sense to flush to the tips of his ears as he bit his lip, his wide blue eyes expressing extreme discomfort, "I'm so sorry Tannis! If this could have waited, I would have allowed you and Shinai to spend at least part of the night alone, but..."

The spotted male's eyes slid to the doors behind Tannis who grunted in irritation, "Vili mentioned Riva. What's Riva done to warrant a security alert and end up here in the medical bay then?"

"Riva's Korovan."

"I know that Lara. I also know I'd much rather be on the floor of my dining hall with Shinai balls deep inside me than standing here discussing something I already know!"

"Well, funny you should mention sex..."

Larani tittered nervously, ducking his shoulders in a shrug softly as he pointed to his desk-top monitor, "Riva's been onboard ship for a little over half a year now. He's really gotten on well with everyone on board in that entire time. He's never been down here in the medical bay with the exception for that one time he accidentally burned all the fur off his ear and for his monthly physicals."

"I'm aware."

Tannis gritted his teeth softly, sighing as he tugged on his robe, smoothing his long, snowy locks back as he threw himself into one of the pair of soft chairs sitting on the front side of Larani's small desk, glaring stridently at the spotted doctor.

"His last check-up was fine less than 3 weeks ago. But starting about a week and a half ago he started showing unusually aggressive behavior according to the rest of the galley staff and his friends."

"So? Perhaps he just needs a week off. Everyone has a bad week now and then. I've been having one myself."

Larani tapped a series of controls on his monitor, bringing up a page of statistics and graph lines that made absolutely no sense to Tannis as he glanced at it, his mind still elsewhere, "Well, when he was brought in here this evening his body chemistry showed a marked change between now and 3 weeks ago. His blood sugar is very low, his endorphin levels are imbalanced, his neuro-transmitter levels are severely imbalanced and his hormone levels are off the chart!"

"And?"

The spotted doctor pointed to a sharply spiked graph as he spoke, "I spoke to Grio down in the galleys and he's said Riva's appetite has been extremely imbalanced, some days he's eating nearly nothing, some days he's been eating five times his normal intake. His behavior's been extremely erratic, seemingly in tandem with his energy levels and food intake; they say he's been withdrawn and moody more in the past week. Riva's normally quite shy and very nervous around situations and people with whom he's unfamiliar, but in the past week he's been markedly aggressive toward people he's unfamiliar with in the crew and more gregarious with his personal friends."

Tannis scrubbed his muzzle, waving his paw in a loose circle, "And?"

"Well, in the past week security's been called to the galley at least half a dozen times before tonight. There have been several thrown items, broken equipment and a few minor scuffles."

"And?"

Larani perked his ears, "Riva's been inciting these fights with other crew members Tannis, does that sound like Riva to you?"

"No... No not really."

The alabaster furred male sighed as he perked his own ears, leaning forward, "So what's this have to do with me being here?"

"Riva picked another fight tonight with Tari from the hydroponics bay, as I understand it because Tari had been talking to Lorensi."

"And? Is that why security was called?"

"Well, Tari was brought in with a dislocated shoulder, wrist and tail, a minor concussion, two cracked ribs, some deep bruising and contusions all over his back, I'm amazed he doesn't have any spinal trauma, and severe abdominal bruising. He's lucky nothing was burst, but I had to fix bruising on his spleen and liver."

Tannis sat up immediately, his bright violet eyes widening as he felt his muzzle drop open, "Riva, the same nervous, neurotic Korovan I brought onboard as a steward beat someone to a pulp in the galley because they were talking to Lorensi?"

Larani coughed delicately, "Actually... Riva kicked him through a bulkhead."

Tannis' robe rustled as he stood up ramrod straight, "What?!"

The spotted doctor led his gape-muzzled captain out into the medical bay where two beds were occupied side-by-side. A wan looking canine male cracked open his eyes as Tannis and Larani approached, grunting softly as the white furred feline rested a paw gently on his shoulder, "Are you alright Tari?"

"I feel like I got rammed by a mining trawler..."

A black eye was still blooming on one side of the canid male's face, his skull bandaged with a dimly blinking little silver device attached to his forehead. The lean canine's arm was padded by a splint and cradled in a sling, another regeneration unit strapped to both his shoulder and forearm. Tari's bare, silvery gray torso was bare, showing deep, purple-black bruises beneath his lighter fur, making him groan as he shifted. Larani slotted a vial into the palm-sized dermal injector sitting on the equipment tray next to the canine's bed, pressing into his thigh and triggering a soft hiss, injecting the younger male with more painkillers. Tannis wrinkled his muzzle gently, "And Riva did this to you?"

Tari coughed gently, wincing as he nodded, "Y-yes'sir... I-I was speaking to Officer Lorensi when the next thing I know Riva's got a grip on my arm, yanked me across the counter-top and proceeded to bounce up and kick me w-with both feet... I-I don't remember much after that."

Larani leaned into Tannis' ear, speaking in an undertone, "Riva kicked him into the galley bulkhead... Went right through and landed in the mess hall. Quite a shock for everyone having dinner."

"How in the hell did Riva kick him through a bulkhead?"

Larani giggled in a slightly frantic tone, pulling Tannis to the next bed where a lump of mocha and cream colored fur lay deeply asleep, "Tannis, have you actually looked at Riva?"

The compact Korovan male looked like a bizarre hybrid of a rabbit, a fox and a cat, with a lean, rangy build, not quite tall, shorter than either Tannis or Larani by several inches. He had a broad torso, his flat belly showing thick, hard ridged and dense abdominal muscles and a narrow waist, but with very wide, very densely muscled hips and extremely thick, cabled thighs and calves of thickly defined muscle and fur, with long, broad feet. The Korovan male's fur was a sandy yellowish brown, with highlights of cream and off-white on his thighs, belly, chest and throat. The Korovan male's sandy fur had brighter, almost reddish orange highlights over his paws, forearms, calves and feet as well as on his face and ears. He had black slashes running from the corners of his eyes, on the tips of his long, somewhat floppy ears and a band of black around the tip of his short, fluffy barely foot length bobbed tail. The slumbering male's pelt was short, but extremely thick and soft, silky to the touch with its dense layer of natural oil that held it fluffy, a layer of natural insulation as the lean male was from a species born on a desert world, most of his people never encountering a drop of moisture directly in their lives.

A quirk of Korovan biology and climate made it so that their consumption of liquid water was almost exclusively through their skin and their solid food. As his species lived underground in burrows and tunneled villages naturally, never venturing to the scorching hot surface of their desert world by day if they could avoid it. The hot weather adapted race was almost neurotic in their phobia of running liquid water, as their fur naturally repelled it, almost their entire water intake was absorbed through their food and short bursts of torrential rain on their world could trigger devastating flash-floods that could fill and drown a burrow-village in a heart-beat. They tended to avoid water and synthetically produced beverages and such leisure activities as bathing, swimming and showering without a long, somewhat mentally and emotionally taxing adjustment process. Riva himself had slowly been losing his hard-wired anxiety about water and liquid beverages through exposure and with help from his co-workers, friends and sessions with the Silver __City's onboard psychiatrist.

Shortly after meeting Riva Tannis and Shinai had helped the Korovan male scrape up enough courage to try several halting sips of fruit juice that the mocha furred male had managed to keep down for almost a quarter of an hour before vomiting from anxiety. He had graduated to being able to almost cheerfully, if anxiously, consuming small quantities of almost any beverage, but they were still working on extremely low proof alcohol when it came to recreation. Bathing fully immersed in water was a proposition that still caused the Korovan to hyperventilate uncontrollably but he could take short, extremely hot showers with arduously long grooming sessions afterward to get his thick fur back to its normal naturally oily sheen.

The spotted doctor smirked gently as he pulled the thin blanket covering Riva upward from his ankles, exposing his amazingly thick, heavily muscled thighs, "These aren't just for looking at Tannis. On their own world Korovans can run faster than a fully mature Vakari and leap nearly 18 meters in a straight bound. They can jump nearly 4 times their own height straight up. Riva's people are natural jumpers and runners, the muscle density in their legs is almost three times what it is in their upper bodies and the bones in their pelvis, legs and feet are almost as dense as tri-polymer fiber. He can kick like an impact sledge."

Larani gazed at Tari with a look of sympathy, "I did a little digging on Korovan physiology and behavior and discovered that only the males of his species have legs this powerful. In mating season they use them against rivals, and see the muscle density here along his abdomen, sides and up along his back? See how thick his belly muscles are? I think if Tari hadn't had a nice... oh, what did Lorensi call it... 6-pack of his own he might have been worse off."

Tannis blinked as the other shoe dropped, "They kick one another in mating season? So..."

Larani nodded, giggling softly, "Yes. Mating season on Riva's home world started a week ago, by local time standards."

Tannis shook his head in exasperation, "But we're not on Riva's home world Lara."

"Tell that to his biological clock Tannis... I checked his records; Riva's only been off his own world for less than 3 years now. His biology still thinks it's mating season."

"So his hormone levels are off the chart... And with no females of his own species anywhere within 300 light-years of here..."

Tannis groaned as Larani nodded grimly, "And don't forget, he's been getting more comfortable in getting openly cozy with other males for recreational purposes since coming onboard too. Males mate with other males on his world too, but not openly past their juvenile years, but here he can mate with anyone he chooses, anytime he likes."

"So that means that anyone on board is a potential mate for him..."

Larani glanced toward Tari as the canine's bruised eyes had closed once more, allowing him to nap while his battered body regenerated itself under the healing field of the medical units strapped to him, "And any other male can be considered a rival if they talk to or interact with someone he's... well, got his eye on at that particular moment."

Tannis blanched even paler than his normal snowy white as he rubbed his muzzle, looking down at the Korovan male who was faintly frowning in his sleep. Larani sighed softly, pulling the blanket back down over the younger male's strong legs, "Security had to stun him to get him off of Tari, which is why it triggered a general security alert, I sedated him once he was brought in, just to make sure he didn't get too agitated once he woke up."

"Oh Good Gods. And how long does this mating season of theirs last?"

"Ahem... 6 to 8 weeks."

Larani rumbled grimly as he consulted the data pad lying on the tray next to Riva, making Tannis grip his muzzle in amazed consternation, "Six to eight Weeks?!

The spotted feline erupted into giggles at the look of pure horror that spread across Tannis' face, making the pale furred male bristle, "Lara! This isn't funny, what in the Seven Hells are we going to do with a hormone crazed, jealous, and strong male with only one thing on his mind for the next month and a half?!"

"Well, what do we do with a lust fueled male with only one thing on their mind usually Kry? We let them fuck."

"But who??"

Tannis felt a headache building behind his brilliant violet eyes as he glared at the giggling J'ralan doctor who shrugged helplessly, "I don't know Krayd... Riva doesn't have a mate, he doesn't have a regular lover, he's not even seeing someone right now more than the occasional grope and tug session with a few of his closer friends. He's normally so shy and nervous and you know Korovans are horrible with oral sex."

Tannis muttered something in a low, growling voice, sighing as he rubbed his forehead furiously, gazing down at the normally painfully shy and cheerful male, "What can we do?"

"I can't keep him sedated through the process, that's much too dangerous. We can't keep him forcibly confined either; he'd probably stress himself sick or react very aggressively in response. Stasis-lock wouldn't help, being he'd pop out with his hormone levels right where they are now. I don't know anywhere near enough to fool about with his male hormone levels, Korovans are too exotic, Riva's the first one of his kind that I've actually treated on a regular basis. We have to let him rut Kry, or else his hormone levels will get steadily more pronounced and erratic till he's likely to go into shock or really, really hurt someone to find a mate, or end up engaging someone in non- consensual coitus."

The willowy feline doctor sighed as he smoothed Riva's long sandy blonde hair, rubbing the Korovan's wide, blush colored nose softly, making it twitch in his sleep, "I don't see what choice we have Krayd. We have to let him work itself out of his system as naturally as possible."

"So what?" Tannis paced slowly back and forth in front of the Korovan's bed, tugging his chin as he frowned, "We just find him someone or someones to take as a mate, put them both on medical leave of absence and lock them in a cabin for almost two months?"

"Well..." Larani played with Riva's ears slowly as he spoke, "On his world if a male successfully procures a mate, they leave their family group, head into the outskirts of the village's tunnel system, dig themselves a burrow well away form any other couples or rivals and stay there till either the female is pregnant or the rutting cycle ends. Same applies to male couples who don't find a female mate, they just go through the same motions, only stay put till they've worked it out of their systems and then go back to their families and don't speak of it till they try again next year."

He shrugged, "Being Korova is such an odd world, its females have an obligate biology, they only go into heat with enough available food sources provided by the male and they only go into true estrus in the presence of a male to couple with, and then they only ovulate after they've engaged in copulation more than twice whilst they're in season. They don't normally engage in monogamous coupling either, their partners can change from year to year."

"Sounds confusing."

"From an emotional standpoint it's confusing; from a genetic standpoint it's the best possible solution to a mostly barren world with few resources and a naturally low population. When you have a limited gene-pool, you make as many ripples as you can."

"So, should we just lock Dex in Riva's cabin and don't let them come out for a month and a half?"

The feline captain's wry smirk made the spotted doctor burst into giggles once again at the mention of their stoic and extremely private computer specialist, "Laslurian's are almost terminally neurotic about their own mating practices as it is. And I don't think Jak would appreciate getting kicked in the stomach fighting for his boyfriend."

"I doubt it. And faced with Riva's natural equipment Dex would probably find some way to gnaw his way loose through the bulkheads anyway. But I suddenly realize how many human and feline pairings we have on this ship. At least half a dozen now, including Shinai and myself, you and Roan and Jak and Dex."

Tannis hoisted himself up onto the empty bed next to Riva's, rubbing his chin softly, "Jak and Dex are much too privately involved with one another. I doubt Roan would think much upon lending you out. You and he are pretty much mutually exclusive. Ever since Kanti started seeing Lune he and Lorensi have been seeing one another less... Vili's more of a giver than a taker, and probably none too happy with Riva currently, hormones or not. I somehow doubt Cyvan would survive the experience, Lugosans are sturdy little lovers, but they have their limits."

Larani nodded softly, "Well, what about you and Shinai? If Lorensi isn't available?"

The violet eyed feline glanced at his medical officer with a critical eye, "I know we higher ranking officers really aren't necessary in the average day-to-day operations around here other than approving duty rosters and schedule changes, but don't you think both Shin and I being missing for almost 2 months would be noticed? Besides, with his current state Gods only know if Riva would even be open to sharing equitably more than one way. Not that I'm not open to the idea."

The spotted feline waved his paws gently, his tail tapping his legs idly, "Riva is really closest to you and Shinai Kry. You two met him first. He seems to like you two more than anyone else, at least in the capacity for friendship."

"Well, do you think Riva can be woken up enough to discuss things rationally?"

Larani perked his ears softly, smirking at the feline captain, "Krayd, Riva is thinking with one organ currently, I could wake him up and he can talk, but I doubt rationality would linger long in the face of libido."

"Point taken. Can you at least keep him sedated enough he's not likely to go berserk and hurt someone again?"

"Oh... Probably. A little creative administration of opiates and a mild sedative would most likely keep him woozy enough to be rational without completely disrupting his natural libido."

The spotted doctor rummaged through a nearby storage locker, fitting a series of ampoules into the slots on a mixing machine and keying in a series of dosages. The vials bubbled as the liquid levels in them went down by varying degrees and the lower slot of the dispenser slid up, ejecting a fresh vial into Larani's waiting paw. He picked up a fresh trans-dermal injector and slotted the medicine into it, pressing the device into Riva's throat and triggering it. The J'rali reached behind the Korovan male's ear and gingerly peeled the thumb-sized, blinking black device from where it was nestled into Riva's hair, switching the somnal generator off, "There, he should perk up in a few moments without the sleep generator on."

Larani stepped back and shifted to Tari's bed, stepping on a raised trigger on the floor, hearing it click sedately as privacy screens raised up around the canine's medical bed, hiding it from casual view. As the semi-opaque screens slotted into place Riva shifted, uttering a series of muttering chirrups as one of his large, liquid brown eyes inched open, rolling a bit. Riva gave off a confused warble, whistling lightly as he groaned, making the covers slump away as he raised an arm and scrubbed at his muzzle and face, "Ohh, Riva does not feel well..."

The Korovan male's long ears shifted as he struggled to sit upright, flexing his long, broad feet and legs, gazing groggily at Tannis and Larani chirping in his chest as he tipped his sandy blonde head, "Sirs? Why is Riva in the medical rooms?"

The stocky male gripped the covers with his paws, looking at them as he focused on Tannis, "I is sleeping in the medical rooms? Riva last remembers being in the galley workings and..."

Riva's broad nose wrinkled, creasing his muzzle as he narrowed his eyes, trying valiantly to recall the events that were oddly unfocused in his mind. Larani whispered to Tannis in his own native J'ralan tongue, "Retro-grade amnesia from the stunning, I think. They had to use a force three setting; his fur is a really good insulator. Force one and two were just pissing him off."

"Probably the adrenaline too."

Tannis scooted to the edge of the bed under his rump, leaning toward Riva with a soothing smile on his muzzle, glancing at Larani for an instant, "So how doped up is he?"

"As much as I could safely give him without making him nod off."

Tannis flicked his tufted tail by way of acknowledgement as he looked to Riva, "Are you feeling better Riva?"

"Better Sir? Was Riva ill?"

"You don't remember what happened down in the mess hall Riva? With Lorensi and Tari?"

The groggy Korovan ground his wide molar teeth together for a moment as he was lost in deep, albeit clouded thought, his bright golden brown eyes widening to the size of portholes as he looked at Tannis, "Oh no... Did Riva do something b-bad again Sirs?"

"You kicked someone Riva..."

The groggy Korovan staggered to his feet as he squeaked loudly, "Oh no... Riva didn't mean it to do Sirs! I is not knowing how that was happening Sirs! Riva has not lost his head like that in..."

"About a year?"

Larani perked a black tipped ear, watching the Korovan male's thickly muscled legs twitch as Riva fought for his balance, gripping the edge of the bed on which Tannis sat. Riva chirruped, looking chagrinned as he winced, nodding meekly, "I is thinking so Doctor Larani..."

Tannis shifted his hips, adjusting his robe, making Riva's head shift toward the muted sound, his long ears lifting almost fully before they dropped back down to their neutral position. The snow furred feline watched the other male's large eyes follow his body, sighing inwardly, "It's mating season for your people now, isn't it Riva?"

The stocky male winced freshly as he licked his lips gently, chewing on his own teeth once more, "Y-yes, this is so, I is thinking Sir..."

Tannis chuckled softly; he had never quite gotten Riva out of the habit of calling everyone Sir as he had been taught on his first job tending to the needs of those staying in a luxurious hotel. He watched the Korovan consideringly, the stocky male's eyes never leaving his own form as he gently gripped Larani's arm and steered the spotted doctor between himself and Riva before the J'ralan could object. Tannis winced as despite the drugs circulating in his system the sandy furred Korovan male uttered a scandalized rumble and jerked Larani back away from himself with a straight-armed shove. Larani's screech of surprise was muffled as he ended up bent over the nearby equipment tray, sputtering indignantly as Riva looked horrified at the instinctive movement of his own body, "OH! No, no... Riva is being so sorry Doctor Sir; he does not know why he keeps doing these bad things like this..."

As Riva grimaced, helping Larani back to his feet, the spotted doctor hissed at Tannis in an undertone in J'ralan once more, "You did that on purpose!"

The snowy furred captain's smirk did nothing to ease the willowy feline's glare, "You interrupted a night of sex."

"Well, obviously you're not the only one who's horny..."

Larani tugged at his uniform, attempting to stop Riva from brushing dust that wasn't there from his uniform, uttering a gasping squeak and jumping as the Korovan's strong paw abruptly squeezed his ass, "OH! Riva!"

The horrified Korovan jerked his paws back as if he'd been scalded, uttering a stuttering chirrup, "Oh no..."

Tannis chuckled despite himself, shrugging at Larani as the spotted doctor glared daggers at him. He shook his head as he watched Riva shift from broad foot to broad foot, wringing his paws together as he twitched on the spot, "Riva?"

The Korovan's golden brown eyes shifted to him as Tannis shifted and opened his robe to the waist, exposing his lithe, nicely sculpted, alabaster furred torso and belly right down to the curve of his waist. Larani stumbled as Riva nearly bowled him off his feet, the stocky Korovan bounding the gap between where he had been standing and the bed on which Tannis sat quicker than he could blink, almost on top of the snowy furred feline as Tannis snorted in surprise. Tannis grunted as Riva's surprisingly heavy frame met his own, the stockier male's arms gripping him tightly as Riva's muzzle buried itself into the fur of his throat, biting him hard enough to pinch, "OW!"

Larani uttered a tiny noise, stepping forward a half-step till Tannis barked at him, "Don't!"

Riva's fur had bristled a bit, his almost comically short bobbed tail puffing out as his brown eyes slid to the spotted doctor, a huffing rumble vibrating Tannis' shoulder, "Don't come closer... Unless you feel like getting kicked, at the moment..."

The thickly cabled muscled on the Korovan's thighs were jumping, twitching as his broad, long feet flexed on reflex. Tannis gripped Riva's shoulders lightly but firmly, keeping him focused, he doubted if Larani's tall, slender build would benefit him any if he were punted half the length of the med-bay. Tannis' eyes shifted to the small knot of nurses watching the scene at length, gazing at one of the vulpine crew-members halfway to the comm panel on the bulkhead, catching her eye and shaking his head pointedly. He flexed against Riva's grip experimentally, "Everyone keep back for a moment. That's an order."

Larani stepped back pointedly, massaging his hip where he'd crashed into the equipment cart, eyeing Riva and Tannis with his bright blue gaze. The spotted doctor waved a paw at the clot of nurses, waving them off as he sighed. Tannis gingerly stroked the Korovan male's broad back, feeling the twitching tension that had built within him easing slowly, "Riva. You can't keep kicking people."

The rumbling male's back hunched a bit as his teeth loosened against Tannis' fur, uttering a hiccupping chirp, "Riva... Riva is knowing that Sir, b-but he does not knowing how to stop them now."

Tannis shifted, gently prying at the younger male's arms, making Riva tense once more and bare his teeth, which almost made him chuckle as Korovans lacked the rather pronounced fangs most predatory species had, having short rounded eye-teeth more similarly to a human along with his slightly buck front teeth, "Riva, calm down please."

The sandy furred male issued a sickly hiccup as he whimpered softly, "I is trying to Sir..."

"If you can't stop kicking and biting security might have to shoot you again, then the doctor would have to sedate you, make you sleep again. And if you keep assaulting people I'd have to punish you, I'm afraid."

Tannis sighed, feeling Riva twitch against him, the pathetic expression on the Korovan's face at odds with his body's tense posture, "I don't want to do that Riva. I'd rather help you than punish you."

"H-h-help, Sir?"

"You need a mate, to help you stop kicking people."

The incredible red glow that flashed through the stocky males larger than normal ears was spectacular as he chirruped softly, his shy side overriding his libido for a moment as the long-eared male nodded, "Y-yes'sir..."

"Did you ever consider just asking?"

"A-a-ah, Riva has very little experience f-finding a mate S-sir... He has only been matured suchly for a few of the years needed to lie with a female Sir, only a few of the years before he leaves his home world."

"What did you do last year during mating season?"

"Ah, Riva had been sick Sir, during his time in the last year Sir. Riva had a bad cold for most of his time then Sir, it did not come on him as it is used to doing."

Tannis tried once more to prize the Korovan's strong paws from his sides, gently attempting to wriggle himself loose from Riva till the long-eared male uttered a strained squeak in his ear, "P-please to not be doing that S-sir!"

As Tannis ceased moving he felt his ears pink slightly, realizing his movement had caused a rather large complication to arise, feeling Riva's crotch now painfully distended digging against him. The Korovan uttered his tiny whimpering hiccup again as his body made its needs painfully obvious, his length trapped between them. The Korovan genital anatomy was jokingly referred to as to the reason they disdained pants or form-fitting clothes of any kind around their lower bodies instead of their slightly digitigrade anatomy. The mammoth scale of the long-eared species' genitals in respect to their general body size was a well known, quite popular feature amongst other races, added to the fact that they seldom wore anything form fitting from the belt down to allow free range of movement to their thick-thighed, short calved and long footed anatomy.

Riva shivered softly as he was torn between embarrassment and the baser instincts clawing at his senses, hiccupping softly as his species did when they were stressed or nervous. Tannis patted the stocky male between the ears softly, "Riva, you have to let go of me."

"B-b-but Sir..."

"I know. Your fighting your natural instincts, but you have to loosen your grip on me please."

The hiccupping male nodded miserably, unlocking his fingers as his paws creaked with tension, gingerly releasing the snow furred feline with difficulty as his body throbbed. Tannis sighed, "Yes, this is the difficulty of being a Captain as well as a friend. I have to give people orders even if I don't feel particularly inclined to do so."

The shivering Korovan twitched gently as Larani took a hesitant step forward, wincing as Tannis tapped his muzzle gently, "No kicking anymore Riva, I mean it."

"I-I is knowing Sir!"

"We're going to find you a mate for your season Riva, so you don't need to kick anyone anymore, alright?"

"Y-yes..."

Tannis stroked the Korovan male's long ears, watching them pink as Riva uttered a strangled sort of hiccup, his entire sandy-furred body trembling. The raging heat in the stocky male's body made him woozy as he tried not to march from foot to foot against Tannis. Tannis sighed softly, "I'm afraid you're going to have to take a leave of absence till all this is sorted out."

"No working, then?"

"No working. I'm sorry Riva, but you can't really be trusted around groups of people till your mating season has passed. You're getting too possessive."

The snowy furred feline shifted in the Korovan's looser grip, attempting to delicately shift his hips away from the stockier male's crotch, "What do you want Riva?"

The long eared male hiccupped again, his teeth grinding together as he felt his body shiver, the scent of the snowy furred male's body and hair next to him making him want to bury his nose into Tannis' pelt, "What does I want, Sir? Riva does not understand what you are meaning, he thinks..."

"What do you want in a lover?"

"I-I-I... I am not being sure, Sir... Riva does not know what..."

A tiny hissing noise punctuated the Korovan's words before he trailed off, his large brown eyes rolling up and drifting closed before he slumped forward against Tannis, going limp. Larani straightened back up with a surprisingly no-nonsense expression on his slender muzzle, rubbing the curve of the sandy-furred male's backside where it was still damp from the dermal injector. Tannis grunted as he gingerly heaved Riva onto the medical bed next to himself, the heavily unconscious Korovan uttering a buzzing snore, "Now why did you go and do that when we were making progress?"

The spotted feline smoothed his hair back as he twitched his nose in consternation, "We weren't really making progress Kry. It's obvious Riva has no idea what he wants in a mate currently. He's not looking for Mister Right; he's looking for Mr. Right-Now."

Tannis' ears perked, "What's that mean?"

"I'm not completely sure, but Roan taught it to me in situations where sex is involved... I think it's appropriate..."

The spotted feline shrugged as he helped Tannis haul the limp Korovan back into his bed, grunting as they heaved him back onto the soft pad, "Ooof, he's heavier than he looks."

"So what're you proposing Lara?"

"Well, that we need to find him a mate before he goes berserk for one."

"You think he'd just accept someone we picked for him without question?"

"I think under normal circumstances Riva's cheerful enough he'd bounce to the nearest airlock and stick his head out of it if someone asked him nicely enough. But yes Kry, I think this would happily accept anything or anyone we laid under his nose."

Larani gripped the distended lump making a tent of the bedclothes at Riva's crotch and waggled it gently at Tannis, making the snowy furred feline choke on a giggle, "Oh put that down Lara, Roan would get jealous."

"Yet Shinai would happily give you a hand. Aren't humans funny sometimes?"

Tannis shrugged, flicking his long, flowing alabaster hair over his shoulder, adjusting his robes, "I think he spent too much time around Vakari, they do like their beds full and their balls empty."

He gazed at the tall, slender J'rali, "Isn't Roan from somewhere called Irishland? Perhaps they're just more selective of their mates there."

"I'm not sure, but it seems like most of his people have red hair like he does, and they curse a lot."

"Huh..."

Tannis scrubbed at his chin, twitching his nose, "I guess humans are more complicated on their own world than we give them credit for, but that doesn't settle the matter of who do we willingly offer up to Riva for a month of mindless sex?"

"You say it like it's a bad thing. Most people would kill for a month's leave with guaranteed sex every night."

Larani huffed gently as he sank into his chair, bringing up a standard list of the entire crew within the medical database, scanning through the profile listings with gentle flicks of his cobalt eyes. Tannis perched himself on the desktop next to the monitor, rubbing at his throat where Riva had pinched him absently, glancing through the transparent office door, watching the nursing staff go back about their business. Larani flicked his long, sinuous tail in irritation as he leaned back, "This is no good, we need some way of checking who's available on-board against their current whereabouts and mate-ship without it taking a week."

"Mmm, well, then I suppose we have no choice."

Tannis stood with a gentle flex of his thighs, hauling Larani up with a squeak, the spotted doctor perking his ears, "We go see someone who can cross-index all the information we need a lot faster than we can, eh?"

"Yes."

Tannis strode to the comm panel standing next to the spotted doctor's office doorway, prodding it with a tiny sigh as he spoke, "Computer, current location Crewmember Dexian."

The response was almost instantaneous, said in a cool, neutrally intoned, barely inflected voice, "Current location Crewmember Dexian; Arboretum."

As the panel pinged Larani sighed gently, "You realize that just by asking the main computer that question he'll be alerted to the fact we're coming, right?"

"Oh, knowing Dex, he's been waiting for us."

The ship's arboretum was a large enclosure spanning almost 3 decks in height and half a dozen total sections within the heart of the sleek vessel itself. The artificial patch of park-land was cunningly disguised, using the plant-life, vegetation and a mixture of energy fields and holo-projectors to mimic an out-of-doors environment as realistically as possible. The turf underfoot was springy and thick, owing to the nearly meter thick layer of actual soil beneath it, vividly alive and fragrant from the frequent "rainfall" from the hidden series of sprinklers overhead, concealed behind the projected hologram of a sky and actual clouds that were generated and maintained by the air-circulation system and a semi-permeable one-way layer of energy shielding. Trees, shrubs and a staggering variety of flowering plants, herbs, and various other exotic plant-life were mixed delicately with one another, carefully planned, spaced and tended, but giving the aire of being naturally grown. The mixes of greens, browns, bursts of vivid color and the blue of the occasional pool, stream and water-fixture scattered through the artificial garden was pleasant, calming and soothing despite the sometimes glaring reminders that this small forest was hidden within the heart of an interstellar vessel.

The steady, low, almost subsonic throb of the ship around the arboretum was ever-present, even with the sound baffling in place, and if one neared the boundaries of the arboretum itself they could touch the holo-projections giving the illusion of distance and depth to the confining bulkheads, making them ripple disconcertingly. As it was the night-cycle of the ship, the artificial forest was cloaked in a dusky twilight, lit by glow-lights lining the pathways and sitting areas scattered throughout the open space. The Silver __City's chief computer specialist was seated, cross-legged on a patch of sweetly scented turf beneath a gnarled, silver skinned tree, his vivid artificial golden yellow eyes closed in relaxation. The spotted feline male was shorter and more slender than most of his fellow officers, excluding Cyvan, the tiny Lugosan male, with brilliant silvery white fur, mottled with large black rosette spots that stretched down his back, arms, legs and his extremely long, extremely fluffy, almost tuft-tipped tail.

Dex's hair was silvery white, tied back in a short, bobbed tail at his nape his blush colored nose twitching as his enhanced hearing picked up the sound of a doorway opening on the other side of the garden. The slender Laslurian male was a cyborg, his entire body riddled and studded with technological enhancements, increasing his reflexes, strength, endurance, hearing, and sight and giving him the ability to heal himself of a wide variety of wounds without medical assistance. The slender teenaged feline's arm was artificial from the elbow down from where it had been shorn off in a badly calibrated matter-transference jump shortly after he had met his human First Officer for the first time. The most conspicuous enhancement to the young feline wasn't even visible without a medical scanner, as most of his brain had been re-wired and implanted with technological gadgetry, allowing his organic brain and mind to interface with the artificial intelligence of the sleek ship around him, controlling and guiding it.

With a brain the size of a large mainframe, a high IQ, the ability to digitally recall, store, enhance and analyze any bit of information that passed in front of his eyes and then some, the teenaged feline was essentially a living computer, albeit with a personality that his fellow crewmembers and officers had worked hard to help him foster in the past. The Laslurian male smirked as he heard as well as felt footsteps nearing his position immobile beneath the tree, with his artfully crafted and fully fur covered artificial hand pressed against the ground and his enhanced hearing taking in the ambient sounds all around him. Tannis' robe ruffled as he looked at the seated feline, "What's that smirk about then?"

"You're late. I had expected you hours ago."

Tannis rolled his violet eyes and huffed at Larani, "Told you so."

Dex finally flicked his lemon colored eyes open, gazing at his feline captain and medical officer, "I was aware of the full security alert and gossip spreads fast. I had wondered when you'd come see me about information pertaining to Riva's little problem."

Tannis settled himself onto the soft grass beside Dex, smirking back at him, "Then I take it you've had time to consider the problem and offer a solution?"

"Took about 15 minutes, total, and I have several possibilities for you."

Dex raised his artificial paw, splaying his fingers as the tiny silicon polymer discs implanted beneath the synthetic skin and cloned fur glowed softly and an information window popped up in mid-air before him. Tannis perked his ears, "When did you get that installed?"

"About a month ago. Got a nice upgrade package."

The slender Laslurian smiled at Tannis as he pulled up several personnel files, letting their contents scroll down the window glowing before him, "I've narrowed the list down to about half a dozen candidates, taking into account general physiology, medical records, psychiatric records, species, gender, current mate-ship status and familiarity with Korovan mating habits, courtship and biology."

Six names popped up from the display, outlined in blue, splitting into two columns of three names each as Dex tipped his head, "Of course taking into account that both you and First Officer Tsukisyo are on the short list of applicable candidates Captain, Korovan biological imperatives might not allow for a double pairing situation and both of you can't be absent for an extended period of time..."

As Tannis watched both his and Shinai's names lit up pink and shifted off to one side. Dex focused on another name, "Shinai would be familiar with another of his former crewmembers, Haran Leigh. Terran human, compatible height, compatible weight, no biological or medical difficulties, a taste for xeno-biological species and currently single, but unfortunately he is currently on leave, not scheduled back for 4 more days."

The human's name faded to pink as well, making Dex tip his muzzle, "Executive Officer Lorensi. Currently single and familiar with Riva."

He pondered the Vakari male's profile before shifting to the second to last name on the list, "However, I believe this might be the best possible candidate, given the circumstances."

The slender feline's eyes shifted into the open air before him as his pupils dilated and glowed a subdued silvery-blue, making Larani jump as a 3-dimensional hologram shivered to life in the air in front of them, "Got your eyes done too Dex?"

A tiny grin flashed across the Laslurian's muzzle as he shrugged, the hologram stuttering briefly as he blinked, "I said it was a nice upgrade package."

"Did they lengthen your cock literally too or just metaphorically?"

Tannis flicked the J'ralan male as Dex blushed and pulled up the information pertaining to the specimen displayed in 3 dimensions, about a foot and a half high before them, "Sha'di Rel, aged 28 standard cycles. Works in galley maintenance. Knows Riva, but isn't considered a close personal friend, he's a hybrid. His grandfather was a T'kantis, his father is a Kiian male, and his mother is a Saelican, empath only."

Tannis focused on the male displayed before him, "How tall is he?"

"1.82 meters."

"About half a head taller than Shin or Lore."

"About the same as Vili, he's built like Vili too."

The hybrid lupine, canine and vulpine male displayed was a lean looking specimen, tall but without the bulk that normally came with the gigantic lupine species and their offspring. He had a coat of thick, gingery reddish orange fur, with white highlights across his torso and belly, his vulpine and lupine heritage warring as his feet and paws were gloved in black but his slightly bottle-brush tail was solid red. He had a thick mane of bright red hair, dropping to down past his shoulders and a pair of bright, piercing green eyes. The tall hybrid male had broad, thick shoulders and arms, with a wide chest, ridged belly and wide hips where his broad, lean legs met his pelvis. Larani gazed at the hybrid male's crotch, noting the thick, ginger furred equipment, "Well, he's certainly handsome, but don't you think he's a bit too big for Riva to, eh, handle in his current state?"

Dex grinned softly, shrugging, "He's not an alpha male, if that's what you mean Larani."

"Ohhh, I see."

Tannis rubbed his nose idly, considering the flame furred male, "Really? That big and not a dominant partner? Probably likes it both ways then, I'd wager."

Larani wrinkled his muzzle softly, "Mmm, I don't know what I'd do if Roan wanted me to be on top like that, it's never really occurred to me."

Dex shifted on his backside as he perked his thickly furred ears, "I've never with Jak... Either..."

As if on cue both spotted male's eyes shifted to Tannis who was almost blinded by Dex's shimmering pupils, his brilliant white fur glowing with the projected light, "Ow! Dex turn those off!"

"Oop, sorry Tannis."

The holoprojectors flicked off as both felines continued to stare at Tannis till Larani blurted, "Have you ever...? With Shinai?"

"Yess."

Tannis shook his head, still blinking irritably as his eyes danced with flashes of light. He grumbled, rubbing his face, "I've been dominant with Shinai before. He likes it sometimes."

The snowy male grimaced inwardly as he watched the Laslurian and J'ralan exchange looks, assuming Jak and Roan would be getting to try some new positions with their feline lovers whether they wanted to or not. For being subdued and somewhat submissive lovers with their mates both spotted felines were known for getting what they wanted from their partners, one way or another. Tannis chuckled, feeling a momentary flash of guilt for planting the rogue thought into his friends' heads to begin with, but he knew both human males were good sports so he figured they wouldn't suffer unduly.

"Well, next question. Will Sha'di mind being cooped up with a sex craved Korovan for a couple of weeks?"

"One way to find out."

Dex tilted his head as his comm unit pinged sending him the information desired automatically, "Sha'di is currently in corridor 223, deck 8, section 42, sub-section C."

He twitched his massively long, fluffy tail across the soft grass, "Sending him an audio message now."

The bemused expression on the lean hybrid wolf's muzzle was somewhat disbelieving as the three felines sat around him in a loose semi-circle in the small lounge where they had asked the young half-breed to meet them, "You want me to do what?"

The ginger furred male leaned back, scratching the thick ruffle of flame-tipped fur against his breast-bone, looking to the triple pair of feline eyes watching him appraisingly. He couldn't help but feeling slightly unnerved as he gazed at his own lithe feline captain dressed in only a loose robe and waistcloth. Tannis smiled disarmingly, offering the hybrid male a drink as he flipped his tail languidly, "Well. You know Riva, don't you Sha'di?"

"Mmm, cute, long ears, long legs, big brown eyes? Yea, I know him. Nice male, always cheerful, kinda speaks in circles, but he's been acting a bit weird lately, yea?"

Sha'di massaged his chest idly as he sipped his drink, nodding in tandem with Tannis' nod, the snowy furred feline smiling more broadly, "Yes, actually, that's why we wanted to speak to you."

Tannis adjusted his robe as he considered his words carefully, "You see Sha'di, Riva's been acting um, weird lately because he's in need of some attention."

"Attention?"

The lean hybrid narrowed his eyes as he chuckled, "I think he got plenty of attention earlier when he punted Tari through the bulkhead and onto Wharl's dinner."

He smirked softly, "I know Hedan isn't much of a cook sometimes, but brute force isn't needed to get people into the mess-hall like that, yea."

Larani snorted gently as he shifted, smoothing his hair back between his ears, "No, no Sha'di. Riva is so aggressive lately because he's looking for a mate. He's a bit taken with Lorensi and thought Tari was trying to um, make a move on him."

"Remind me not to talk to Lorensi then yea?. If I'm gonna get kicked in the gut for my trouble."

The hybrid male chuckled, shaking his head, "So Riva's looking for a mate?"

Tannis nodded, "Well, nothing long term, mind you. You see, it's mating season on his world."

"Yea? Mating season? I didn't think males usually went into heat, yea?"

"They're a slightly odd breed, Korovans. The males go into season when it's time to rut."

"So, he's looking for..."

"Someone to fuck, yes."

They all turned to look at Dex as the slender feline stated the obvious in his normal blunt nosed fashion, making the ruddy furred hybrid cough on his drink and nod, snickering, "I see, so where do I come into all this, yea?"

"Well..."

Tannis shifted in his seat tugging his ear as he looked at the lean hybrid. He was interrupted by Dex as the Laslurian opened his slender muzzle again, "They want you to agree to spend a month on leave fucking Riva so he won't be terrorizing the rest of the ship looking for a mate for his rutting season."

The look of surprise on the hybrid male's face didn't slow the slender feline down one bit as he rubbed his own nose, "Seeing as Riva's choice selections of mating partners include our three highest ranking officers and they can't take a month to month and a half's vacation and we can't have Riva roaming the corridors rabidly challenging people for dominance with a given partner even if they're not his and given that Korovans choose a single mate and seclude themselves in a cool, dry, dark place till one of them is pregnant or both of them are rutted out whoever goes with Riva will get a month or so worth of leave, free constant sex and the benefit of no interruptions, we were hoping for a volunteer before Tannis has to order someone to do it."

Sha'di rubbed the tip of his sleek muzzle consideringly. He gazed at the slender Laslurian with his bright green eyes, "So, you want me to volunteer to be Riva's boyfriend till he's snapped out of it, then, yea?"

"Yes."

The ruddy hybrid clicked his teeth together lightly, finishing his drink before he scrubbed his chest again, "Yea, so, a month or so of being off-duty and well tended in exchange for letting Riva bed me, yea?"

"Yea."

Dex smirked as the hybrid male rumbled a bit, Sha'di's ears suddenly matched his fur, blushing as he lowered his slightly rumbling voice, "Yea, er, well, is Riva's cock really as big as they say it is?"

Tannis nodded, "Yes, yes it is."

Larani bobbed his head as well, his blue eyes twinkling merrily as he grinned, "Yes, it's big. Speaking as Riva's personal physician."

Dex shrugged, "I've never seen it personally. But according to Lorensi, Shinai and Tannis here, it's fairly impressive, I gather."

Sha'di sucked a fang as he nodded, "So, yea, he likes me?"

Tannis watched the flame furred hybrid's posture change, from slightly distant interest to intent intrigue, knowing that they had the lean male's full attention now, "Well, I won't lie to you, at the moment Riva probably likes anyone willing to touch his cock, but yes, he's always spoken of you in a friendly manner, he's just slightly intimidated by you."

"Why would he be intimidated by me, yea?"

Sha'di tipped his handsome head, his ears swiveling as Tannis shrugged, "You're larger than he is. You're from a predatory species."

Larani nodded helpfully, "Korovans are largely omnivores, but they're not known for their outright predatory habits, on the whole they're rather sedate."

"That doesn't bother me, yea... Mmm, so guess he's just always been too nervous to come and ask me directly for a lay yea?"

"Yes, I think so."

"So, he knows I'm not..." The ruddy furred hybrid paused awkwardly, blushing again as he lowered his voice another octave, "Ah, a more dominant male, yea?"

"Yes."

Tannis lied smoothly, smiling at the blushing hybrid as Sha'di shifted his hips in his seat, plucking restlessly at the seam of the loose pair of pants around his lower half. Sha'di chewed his lip softly, considering things as he shifted his hips again, glancing at Tannis, "Well, yea, then I suppose it doesn't sound too bad? If he's, well, interested in me? I think we could, mebbe have some fun, yea?"

Tannis sighed in relief, leaning back in his seat, nodding and grinning at the hybrid male, "Good, we'll have all the arrangements finished by morning then, if that's alright by you. I'd prefer to not have Riva sedated in the med-bay for too long than absolutely necessary. We'll arrange a double cabin for you both, make sure the food synthesizer is fully operational and you're stocked with everything you might need, anything else can be delivered by someone Riva trusts."

"Yea, alright, sounds good to me then, er, Captain."

The leanly muscled hybrid grinned sheepishly as he ruffled his fur, standing and biting his lip, "Thanks then, Captain, Doctor, Dex... Yea?"

"We'll call you on the comm when everything's ready."

Tannis sighed and sagged back into the chair as Sha'di padded from the lounge, uttering a rumbling sound, "Well, that's a relief."

"Riva should be pleased!"

Larani giggled as he stretched in his seat, looking with a grin at Tannis and Dex who shrugged, "Sha'di's handsome but seems dumb as a crate of impact mallets."

"Dex!"

Tannis scandalized huff only made the Laslurian shrug, "I like males with a little intelligence Tannis. Call it a personal preference."

"You're so picky Dexie."

Larani giggled softly once more as he ruffled the Laslurian's silvery white hair, making him flick his rounded ears back and huff. Tannis knew that Laslurians picayune nature concerning lovers was well known and well documented. They mated with only those they knew well and implicitly trusted, and casual mating was almost unknown when it came to the shy, slender, large-tailed felines. Dex had chosen to be intimate with only a sparse handful of his fellow officers, including Tannis and Shinai after a particularly memorable incident of drunken carousing, before settling into a long-term situation with his human lover.

The spotted doctor found no end of enjoyment in gently teasing the shy teenaged feline, despite the fact that the two of them had never shared any particularly memorable intimate moments, his own relationship with his fiery spirited Irish mate being as exclusive as Dex and Jak's was. Despite their being married Tannis and Shinai had enjoyed a somewhat open relationship when it regarded intimacy, occasionally involving a close friend or fellow officer when it suited them as particularly intriguing. The feline's Japanese mate was definitely the more dominant of their partnership, but they shared their roles mostly equally. Shinai had only allowed Tannis and Lorensi to be a dominant partner with him in his time on The Silver City, but this suited Tannis perfectly well, as he only felt like being the dominant sexual partner in some few and far between instances.

Tannis sighed and heaved himself to his feet, feeling his robe slip as Dex stayed seated, flicking his paws at Larani as the spotted doctor played with the Laslurian's silvery white hair, "I should go see about arranging a double suite for Sha'di and Riva. Keep him sedated a little while longer please Larani, I'll come and get him when things are ready."

"Another hour and you should be able to go back to Shinai. He should be pleased."

Dex batted at Larani as the spotted feline giggled, making the younger feline heave a sigh, "Being locked up alone with someone for a month doesn't sound so bad at the moment."

"Not too late to volunteer Dex."

Tannis perched himself on the edge of a smooth table-top, watching a male from the maintenance department on-board run an oblong, arm-length device across the deep carpeting and upholstery of the chairs, multi-lounge and the short, thickly padded, wide round bed. As the blue-white beam played across the specially designed fabrics the color of the upholstery shifted to a chocolate brown with lighter coffee colored highlights. Tannis had selected the bed specifically, as it was round and slightly concave, a shallow bowl-shape like a nest, now draped with soft coverings of a deep, rich earthy brown. Tannis idly fingered the environmental controls, shifting the bulkheads around and above them to a subdued mocha brown, and shifted the lighting to a gentle golden glow, not unlike filtered sunlight. He tapped the controls, adjusting the air-circulation for the cabin to be slightly cooler than ship-wide standard norm, lowering the humidity till it was what one would normally find on an arid world. As the selected cabin had no portholes or viewing windows, the illusion of being an underground burrow would be almost complete.

Tannis hoped the subdued coloring and temperature and lighting adjustments would suit the Korovan male as he watched the slim feline male switch off the oblong device he carried, "Thank-you Vora, that should do it. Better get going before Riva arrives."

The smirking feline nodded, giving the snowy furred male a soft pat on the shoulder, "Yes, don't want him getting attached. Good luck Sir."

Tannis nodded, prodding the comm panel with a sigh, "Larani? It's ready. You can bring him down."

"Will do."

Tannis bundled his robe around his chest as he adjusted the inter-ship communication system, sending off a message to Sha'di, letting the rangy hybrid know where to come in a quarter hour's time. He depressed the touch-panel again, "Shinai?"

His human mate's voice came through the comm panel, "How's it going baby?"

"Almost done. How're you holding up?"

Shinai's voice was amused as he answered, "Oh, I'm holding it up decently well for the moment."

Tannis flicked his ears as he smirked into the comm, "Couldn't wait for me to get back before playing with yourself?"

"Well, you should be back here doing it for me then."

"Oh, as soon as I can love. Once Riva's settled with Sha'di, this mess can be over and done with for the time being."

"Oh, Sha'di volunteered for the ah, position, did he?"

The human's voice pitched consideringly, "He's not bad. Nice fur, kind of looks like an overgrown fox."

"Thinking with your cock again. You wouldn't think you were married."

"Oh Kry. You know I can't resist a nice ass when it's wandering through my line of sight, but I sleep with your ass every night, don't I?

"Well, sometimes we have a bit of company about it. But I don't think I can complain."

The door-chime went off, making Tannis jump, "Whoops! Ah damn, need to go love. See you in a while."

The comm blipped off as Tannis slid to his feet, palming the door panel and letting the doors slip open, stepping back as Larani lurched through the open portal, Riva hanging heavily across his slim shoulders. The spotted feline grunted as Tannis took some of Riva's weight, gasping breathlessly, "T-thanks!"

"Mmm, bed, bed, over there."

The snow furred feline led Larani and the groggily chirruping Riva to the bed, helping the J'ralan dump the Korovan male delicately to the soft bedclothes. Larani grunted, rubbing at his back and neck as he straightened up once more, "Gods he's heavy. Well, this place certainly looks nice."

The spotted doctor pulled a tiny pocket-scanner from his uniform, letting it cycle through a few times before he consulted the read-out, nodding, "Yes, 20.5 degrees Celsius, about what you'd expect underground. Good lighting. Relative humidity between 32 and 35%. Sea level atmospheric pressure. Yes, this is almost perfect. Now..."

The slender feline padded to the large synthesizer unit against the wall, touching the controls and pressing the small scanning device against the input, "Just programming the synthesis unit to meet Riva's nutritional needs with the increased physical activity and hormone levels."

"Don't lock the alcohol menu. I have a feeling Sha'di will need it."

"Speak of the devil."

The door-chime rang out again as Tannis looked toward the door, "Come in!"

Riva uttered a snore as the doors slid open, revealing the ginger furred hybrid male. The rangy male's intense green eyes slid around the room as he stepped in slowly, inhaling the slight cool, dry air with a tiny sneeze, "Nice digs, yea?"

"Well, they're yours till further notice."

Tannis grinned softly as the flame furred hybrid nodded, blushing through to the tips of his ears. He pointed to the bed, "Your prince charming awaits."

Sha'di took a step toward the bed before he stopped with a surprised sounding grunt, his bottle-brush tail bristling as he looked at Riva's snoring form, "Shaka'querei!"

The hybrid's rumbling curse of shock made Larani giggle as the rangy hybrid stopped dead, looking at Riva's nearly naked form with an open muzzle. The waistcloth that Larani had hastily affixed to the Korovans hips had come half undone, exposing his crotch and the almost frightening erection the sandy furred male sported, even in his light slumber. Larani doubled over in a fit of giggles as the stunned looking hybrid unlocked his jaw and swallowed thickly. Tannis perked an ear, "Second thoughts?"

"Ah, yea, no... I think I'm falling in love, yea?"

Tannis snorted softly, rubbing his chin as the ginger furred male slowly unbuckled the loose trousers around his waist, loosening his belt and letting his breeches slump down to the floor, stepping free of them, scratching through his ruddy fur slowly. Once Larani had straightened up once more, Tannis gestured to him, pointing gently to the slumbering Korovan, "Wake him up please Lara. I feel horrible about having to keep him sedated like this when he can't help himself."

The spotted feline nodded, fishing in another of his capacious pockets, pulling out a thumb-sized, disposable dermal injector and triggering it into Riva's thick thigh, stepping back smartly out of range of the Korovan's strong legs. Sha'di snorted a chuckle as he watched the hastily retreating doctor, "Nice legs, but wicked strong, yea?"

"Yes..." Larani massaged the still vaguely sore spot on his hip, kissing Tannis on the muzzle less than demurely, "I'm going, to go now."

He giggled and patted the rumbling hybrid male on the hip as he swept past him, making Sha'di grin, "Good luck Sha'di. If you need anything, just call down to the med-bay."

As the doors swished closed once more Tannis smiled at Sha'di, watching Riva stir restlessly on the gigantic, bowl-shaped bed. The stock male's large golden brown eyes flicked open slowly as he chirruped, easing himself into a sitting position on the wide, low bed. The Korovan cast a groggy look toward Tannis and then the tall, lean hybrid male uttering a squeak of surprise at seeing the handsome, completely naked male. Riva's long, pink-lined ears flushed darker as they perked almost completely upright, making Tannis giggle at the comical sight. Riva looked toward the feline captain, "Captain Sir?"

"Call me Tannis or Krayd Riva. I hope you're feeling better now?"

The Korovan male nodded, chirping sedately, his molars grinding a bit, "Y-yes Krayd Sir, I is not so sleepy now. The Larani doctor must have made Riva sleepy so he would not be of troubles again, I am thinking?"

"Yes."

Tannis chuckled as he looked to the two males, one seated, one standing as they eyed one another with slight trepidation across the lounge. He sighed softly and strode to Sha'di, seizing the hybrid male's wrist without preamble and tugged him across the thick carpeting to the bed, "Riva. This is Sha'di. You know him, don't you?"

"Y-yes Krayd Sir, I is knowing him Sir. We has met in the kitchens and galley Sir."

Riva smiled softly, blushing as he looked up at the standing hybrid male. Tannis grinned a bit, giving Sha'di another push toward the bed, "Well, Sha'di has offered to spend time with you, during your season, as he's not seeing anyone, and he knows you. Would you like that, Riva?"

The long-eared male chirruped softly, looking up at the ginger-furred hybrid with a bright smile on his muzzle, "Spend time, with Riva Sir? To be, mating with Riva, then, Krayd Sir?"

Tannis nodded, smoothing his long robe as he grinned at the green-eyed hybrid, "Yes Riva. Sha'di will mate with you, so you don't have to stress yourself."

Sha'di grunted softly, chuckling as he looked down at the stocky Korovan, "Yea, should be fun, yea?"

Tannis nodded, "Yes. This cabin should be nice then? For you two to be in?"

Riva gazed around the cabin, twitching his nose and ears sedately as he took in the earthy colored walls and furniture, inhaling and exhaling with a tiny nod, "Yes' sir Krayd Sir, this is like home, in the tunnels, it feels and smells like it, cool and not much too light, but on the Silver ship. I is liking this place, it is good."

"Good. Then you're both satisfied with this cabin for the moment?"

"Yea, it's nice. Plush. A little bit dry, but a few drinks should fix it yea?"

Tannis patted the hybrid male on the shoulder, nodding, "Just remember, Korovans don't drink much, and Riva only takes showers. If you need anything, just contact the medical bay, maintenance or the bridge."

The snow furred feline jumped as Riva shifted and wrapped his strong arms around his hips, hugging him rather awkwardly, "Yes Krayd Sir. We is doing this, if we needs something, Riva thinks. Thank-you Sir, Riva never had so good friends as on the Silver ship, you is taking much too good care of Riva, he is only sorry he has been making troubles."

Tannis stroked between the stocky male's long ears, making him rumble good naturedly, "It's alright Riva, you can't help it right now. I'll leave you two alone for-Eep!"

Tannis jumped as he felt the Korovan's muzzle shift and poke directly between his thighs, goosing him as the stockier male inhaled deeply, "Riva!"

He giggled softly, gently pulling away from the Korovan male who looked torn between seeming abashed by what he'd done and aroused by the feline's scent paired with the view of the naked hybrid male standing next to them. Tannis steered Sha'di closer, pushing him till his shin's bumped into the lip of the bed, "Here, that's what Sha'di's here for now."

Riva nodded, chirruping as he obligingly nodded and gripped the ruddy furred male around the hips, burying his muzzle between the hybrid male's naked thighs making Sha'di stiffen in surprise, going to the toes of his broad feet. Tannis chuckled, slowly withdrawing as he watched the pair, shaking his head softly, "Have fun you two. Don't hurt each other. We'll check in."

As the doors hissed closed once more, clicking as they locked Sha'di uttered a strangled giggle, shifting his hips as Riva's broad, blunt muzzle pulled back, brushing over his crotch slowly and pressing up into his flat white coated belly, "Never knew you liked me that much Riva, yea?"

"Yes. Riva is liking you Sh-sha'di."

The twitching Korovan looked up with his bright golden brown eyes, smiling nervously up into the hybrid male's face. He nuzzled into Sha'di's ridged belly, nipping at it with his blunt teeth, raising his broad paws and gripping the standing male's hips, rubbing them. Sha'di bit his lip, feeling Riva's blunt muzzle biting him softly, his own body reacting accordingly. His hips shivered as his own thick sheath grew warmer and hotter in turns, the tip of his length poking free swiftly as he swelled with arousal. The lean hybrid's cock stiffened, springing to impressive hardness as Riva's questing muzzle nipped higher, seeking out his pale nipples and his strong paws slid around and settled, squeezing his strong, smoothly curved rump.

The hybrid male's cock was impressive in its own right, spanning almost 2 inches thick at the base and stretching out just over 8 inches in length, with a tapering tip. Riva could smell the hybrid lupine's arousal as Sha'di's cock brushed his soft, thick fur, almost brushing his chin as he flicked his long, broad tongue over the hybrid's nipples, sucking them softly, his paws squeezing Sha'di's ass till his fingertips with their blunt claws indented his ruddy furred flesh. The tip of Sha'di's cock was drooling copiously, sending warm, slick, clear drips of his pre-seed slithering down his shaft. The hybrid groaned as Riva nibbled one of his pale nipples, "Ohhh, it's a pity your people don't like oral sex, yea?"

"R-Riva is learning how to do this thing."

The Korovan male dropped his muzzle back down, rubbing his nose gently against the hybrid's thick length, avoiding the dribbling stream of pre-cum as he flicked his tongue out and licked Sha'di's cock, tasting him. The thick, earthy musk of the taller male's arousal made the Korovan's own body jump, twitching gently in his aroused tension, his belly twisting slowly. Sha'di gingerly pulled free from Riva's paws, grinning gently, "Come on, yea? Let's have a look at you."

The hybrid male gripped Riva's paws, lowering himself to the bed on his knees then flopping over onto his side against the Korovan male as he prodded him flat onto his back gently. He inhaled, the sight of the sandy furred male's body in a full state of arousal making his breath catch in his throat, "Good Gods, that's gorgeous."

Sha'di licked his lips, gazing intently at the stockier male's mammoth erection with his full attention now that they were completely alone. Riva's size had been the subject of many hushed, covetous whispers on the days the brown-eyed male had worn his skimpiest loin-cloths, leaving most of his smooth, tight rump exposed and giving glances at his naturally large, heavy equipment as the Korovan knelt or bent over or when his waist-cloths slipped or bunched, showing off a tantalizing amount of flesh. Sha'di could see now who's estimate at the Korovan's erect length had been closest as he gazed in lust at the almost foot long length of hard, thick, pink flushed flesh. Riva's massive cock and large, thickly velvet furred testicles that hung low below it were gorgeous, the thick-based maleness, with its blunted tip almost the width of three fingers at its widest point halfway down his shaft.

Sha'di grinned, feeling like he'd won the lottery on accepting the feline captain's request; his belly churning with heat as he slowly slipped his paw down and circled it around the base of Riva's mammoth erection. Riva's shrill keen of satisfaction sounded like a whistle, making all the fur on Sha'di's back and nape stand on end as he gripped the Korovan's cock tightly, making it throb and flush darker, rubbing it up and down idly. The stocky male shivered, chirping shrilly as he squirmed, his achingly taut cock feeling like it was a size too big for its skin, making Sha'di coo soothingly, "Poor thing. No one's paid any attention to this gorgeous cock in a while, have they, yea?"

"Nnnnn...!" Riva's snarling muzzle seemed incapable of forming cogent words, merely bestial sounds as the lanky, well-built hybrid male giggled throatily, leaning in and kissing over Riva's contorted face and muzzle. Sha'di yelped as Riva seized his lower lip in his teeth and tugged with a growl of lust the hybrid male would never have guessed the normally cheerfully laid-back Korovan capable of uttering. He groaned, giggling harder in giddy excitement as the mammoth cocked Korovan bit and nipped heatedly over his lips, muzzle and throat, pinching hard enough to leave pink marks beneath his already ruddy fur, "Oh yea... You're really in need, aren't you?"

Sha'di tossed his flaming red hair over his shoulder as he shifted, sliding down and stuffing the blunt tip of Riva's cock into his muzzle without preamble, palming the sandy furred male's large, tightening balls in his paw and giving them a squeeze. The Korovan male surprised him as Riva's whole body gave a spasming twitch and Riva himself groaned so loudly his ears rang. Sha'di's brilliant emerald eyes went wide as the shuddering twitch increased in intensity and Riva's paw slammed down on the back of his head almost hard enough to make him see stars, gripping his hair. He sucked hard on reflex as his muzzle was instantly flooded with streams of thick pre-cum, Riva's cock giving a hard twitch, his hips grinding desperately.

Sha'di grunted in surprise as the massive cock in his muzzle gave a stuttering pulse of thickening pre-cum and then his muzzle and throat was abruptly filled with an explosive series of thick, hot, salty bolts of fluid. He struggled to swallow around Riva's blunt cock-tip, hardly believing that the sandy furred male had orgasmed so explosively after only a few moments of stimulation. The lean bodied hybrid panted through his nose as he struggled to keep up with the pumping flow of semen, some of it dribbling less than demurely down his chin and from the corners of his mouth. Riva's climax seemed to be endless as his body throbbed and twitched, till the Korovan finally relaxed slightly and uttered a strangled moan, the pulsing flow of his seed ending almost as abruptly as it had started, tapering to a trickle of his silky white cum mixed unbelievably with fresh pre-cum.

Sha'di panted loudly, fighting the grip of Riva's paw tangled in his long strawberry red hair briefly before he managed to pry the tip of the Korovan's cock from his muzzle, drooling over his chin as the massive length continued to dribble mixed semen and pre-seed, "Good gods you were bound up, that was fantastic... Fuck me yea..."

Sha'di uttered a startled yelp as the stocky Korovan seemed to interpret his words literally with his arousal fogged brain, his strong paws gripping him around the middle as Riva's thick legs bunched and he was thrown over onto his back, the lustily growling younger male landing atop him with a muffled thud of densely muscled flesh on flesh. He grunted as Riva's surprisingly strong paws gripped his hips and yanked them toward his own, parting his own strong thighs with a shove and before the hybrid male could utter more than a surprised yipe Riva's thick, blunt, slick cock-tip was being thrust into his body. Sha'di groaned loudly, gripping Riva's sides tightly as he arched his back into the soft bed hard, the flare of pain that wrenched up his spine making him gasp. The Korovan wasted no time in fighting the resistance of the hybrid's body, simply shoving his hips forward and entering Sha'di with a pop as the taller male gave out a strangled howl, his body immediately clenching down on reflex, fighting the invading length that was pushing almost roughly into him. Riva's huffing pants were hot on Sha'di's face as the hybrid male bit his own lip hard enough to draw a bead of blood.

The brief dazzling flare of discomfort was slowly fading as Sha'di shivered, feeling Riva's mammoth cock slide into him all the way to the hilt, its width spreading his body open and filling him with a warm, nagging feeling of fullness, that diamond hard, slick length buried in him to the root. He gasped, panting as Riva paused long enough to allow his fluttering, squeezing muscles a moment to adjust before he bent to his task, bucking his strong hips. Sha'di's emerald eyes rolled up for a moment as that thick cock was dragged from his still slightly stinging rump and shoved back into him, deeper than before. He groaned loudly as he gripped Riva, his fingers digging into the Korovan's thick, soft fur, shivering as the younger, stockier male jolted and slammed against him, their movements making the bed beneath them shift.

The squeak and creak of the bed beneath them added to the guttural sounds of their rutting, Sha'di's grunting gasps and Riva's hissing pants as he worked his hips furiously, his pent-up arousal flaring into tingles and bursts of electric heat up and down his spine and legs, the pleasure of his blunt cock plowing into the ruddy furred, warm and extremely tight body beneath him. All of Riva's frustrations and blazing need was focused into Sha'di, the leanly muscled hybrid male enjoying every breath-taking moment as his entire body tingled with pleasure. Sha'di's own impressive length was leaving a series of wet, deep furrows in Riva's belly fur where it was skating over the hard, deep ridges of muscle on his abdomen. The swollen bulb of flesh indicative of the hybrid's mixed lupine, canine and vulpine heritage was swiftly growing at the base of his cock. Sha'di's knot was almost painfully swollen, his diamond hard length giving out tiny squirts of his crystal pre-cum. The hybrid male uttered a loud moan as a particularly savage thrust of Riva's hips made the Korovan's cock ram into him deeply, grazing off the internal pleasure trigger of the ruddy-furred male's body, his length stiffening and jetting a sudden splash of pre-cum so hard it hit Riva in the face.

The Korovan male uttered a rumbling squeak and licked his lips despite himself, feeling the lupine hybrid's slightly sweet, slightly salty musk flood across his tongue. The burst of fluid didn't seem to slow the stocky male down, his lust overriding his anxiety about liquids as he just continued to hump wildly against Sha'di, the gripping tightness of the hybrid's body as it clenched down almost painfully tight bringing his own length to the brink once more. Sha'di could feel the fluttering twitch of the Korovan's muscles, the heat of his ragged panting on his face and chest and the wild, frantic pounding of Riva's hips against his ass letting him know the younger male's climax was again near. Sha'di bit the side of Riva's pre-cum dappled throat, tugging heatedly, making Riva rumble almost cutely, pushing down against him as the ragged humping of the Korovan's hips turned desperate for an instant before he arched hard, slamming his length all the way into his body to the hilt. The breath-taking explosion of hot, wet essence into his body made the hybrid male shudder, feeling Riva's cock twitching uncontrollably, clenching down to milk that massive length buried inside of him.

Riva's milky seed bursting inside him, flooding the core of his body made the hybrid male tingle all over, his hips bucking slowly to tug the mammoth cock wedged inside him, teasingly squeezing it to make Riva shiver hard and chirrup breathlessly. As the Korovan's orgasm slowed Sha'di was preparing to relax himself into the younger male's afterglow, but he uttered a tiny yelp as instead Riva's thick, heavily muscled thighs and hips simply sped up once more. The ruddy furred hybrid male gripped the sandy-furred male around the hips with his legs, just simply holding on as the idly chirping and rumbling Korovan kept fucking him, that thick blunt-tipped cock kept invading his body, now slippery and warm with the seed that had been pumped into him.

"Ohhh Gods!" Sha'di squirmed against the bucking, thrusting, pounding form against him, his body clenching around Riva as the Korovan pressed down against him with more weight, pushing them father into the soft bed. The younger male's cock slipped deeper into his body, Riva's heavy balls slapping against his ass, rubbing furiously into the base of his tail, making his spine tingle. The muffled thump and clash of furred body on body was counter pointed by their heaving pants and groans, the hiss of the air-circulation system overlaying all of it as Riva's hips continued to jerk and pump. Sha'di gingerly pried his paw from the Korovan's back, gripping Riva's forearm from where his paw was tangled in the soft bedclothes and guided it down between their bodies. Their ridged bellies were wet and sticky, matted with the mingled wetness of their pre-cum and Riva's spent seed where it had dripped from Sha'di's muzzle. Thankfully this wetness didn't seem to dissuade the Korovan as he caught on quickly, gripping the hybrid male's cock tightly at first, making him yipe softly, then relaxing his paw into a softer, but still firm grip.

Sha'di panted into Riva's throat as the Korovan stroked him in hard pumps, the lust fogged younger male's brain still alert enough to curiously fiddle with the swollen bulb of flesh swollen at the base of Sha'di's length. Having never experienced any lupine anatomy in his limited experience with mating with males of other exotic species Riva's clumsy exploring of the hybrid male's cock was over-eager, but getting more refined as he worked, busily stroking and tugging, squeezing Sha'di's knot. With each gentle squeeze to the achingly swollen knot of the hybrid male's sex his leanly muscled body clenched down tightly, slowly peaking to the inevitable conclusion.

Riva shrilled in surprise as the shivering male beneath him moaned loudly almost into one of his long, drooping ears and arched up into him like a bow. The hybrid's cock and knot gave a throbbing twitch and exploded, showering both of them with his hot, slippery seed. Sha'di groaned, his hips bucking wildly against Riva's invading thrusts as he climaxed, his cock spurting between them, coating both their bellies and chests in his sticky semen. Riva squeaked as he was sprayed, but his hips never deviated from their smooth, deep, jerking thrusts, his paw giving a reflexive squeeze around the hybrid's knot, making him wriggle harder, panting loudly, "Eee-Easy Riva, please! Not so hard..."

The hybrid's pleading tone was enough to make the thrusting Korovan slow down, his ministrations becoming gentler, just idly stroking the hybrid's cock as he continued to thrust his hips. The Korovan's stamina was amazing, making the flame-haired hybrid feel the ache settling into his arms, legs and hips where he was gripping the stocky, sandy-furred male above him. The hybrid's trembling limbs and ragged panting sank into the Korovan's mind, making him slow his movements and settle down against Sha'di's broad, lean body, humping into him slower, but still deeply as the sandy-furred male kept plowing toward his next climax. Sha'di coo-ed into Riva's long ear, licking it as the flopped down on either side of his head, making the Korovan shiver and rumble pleasantly, "Yea, easy Riva sweetness, you can keep fucking, but for the love of the Gods go easy..."

"Yesss..."

Riva nodded, panting heatedly into the hybrid's throat, shivering along his spine to his cute, fore-shortened tail as Sha'di licked and nibbled his ears and down along the side of his broad muzzle, licking his lips. The rangy hybrid's romantic overtones made the stocky male shiver and his belly twist in pleasant, somewhat confusing sensations of warmth, attraction and caring overlaid by his hot, throbbing lust. Being Korovan males didn't pursue one another for romance and he'd never laid with a female of his own species the young Korovan found romantic urges confusing at best and frightening at worst. Sha'di grinned in giddy afterglow as he felt the Korovan shudder once more and that hard, pulsing heat explode into his lower half a second time.

Despite himself the tingling hybrid sighed with relief as he felt Riva's hips slow to a gradual stop, disguising it as a stifled moan as the Korovan slipped down to rest directly on top of him, grunting as that stocky, heavily muscled form settled onto him and trapped his still rigid cock between them. He ran his paws over the thick, silky, slightly slippery sandy brown coat across Riva's back and nape, rumbling sedately as he licked his lips, "Mmm, yea baby... That was fantastic. Poor thing, you were so bound up, yea?"

As his third orgasm ebbed into afterglow the stocky male seemed to regain some of his senses, at least the ability to form cognitive thoughts once more as he uttered a tiny chirrup and nodded, sighing softly in bliss, "Yes Sir.. Riva was muchly."

Sha'di's middle twitched, making Riva bounce a bit as the hybrid chuckled in amusement, "We just fucked twice Riva, yea, don't call me Sir, please. We're a bit closer than Sir, now, yea?"

Riva's long ears blushed as flamingly red as Sha'di's fur as he nodded shyly, burying his nose into the larger, leanly muscled male's throat, inhaling and exhaling in pleasure as he sampled and savored the hybrid's scent and the scent of both their musk. Sha'di mmm-ed gently and caressed the Korovan's back down to his hips, teasingly gripping the stocky male's heart-shaped, densely muscled rump and squeezing it, "You have a fantastic ass, yea? And just call me Sha'di, or Di, if you need to."

Riva squeaked, nodding once more as he felt the ruddy hybrid's paws squeezing his ass, "S-Sha'di. Yes."

Sha'di smiled, feeling the Korovan's mammoth erection still wedged inside him, licking Riva's lips, feeling him lick back tentatively, their lips rubbing against one another slowly. The ruddy furred hybrid flicked is tongue against Riva's lips as the Korovan's golden-brown eyes gazed into his own emerald ones with a curious intensity. Sha'di prodded the stocky male's hip, whispering in his long ear softly, "Open... Your muzzle a bit, yea?"

The Korovan tipped his head lightly, parting his teeth gently and chirruping in surprise as the hybrid's long, broad tongue invaded his muzzle, his hot breath and the taste of his own seed and musk flooding his mouth. He felt the hybrid's tongue squirm against his own, lapping heatedly and flicking across his teeth and the roof of his mouth. The shock passed quickly as the Korovan's liquid brown eyes slid closed and he rumbled cutely, tentatively flicking his own tongue over Sha'di's, letting them rub together slowly. The stocky Korovan's shy tendencies were swiftly melting into the hybrid's romantic overtures. Slowly flicking his own tongue back and forth he slowly pushed his warm, wet appendage into the flame-haired male's muzzle, squeaking gently as Sha'di sucked on it happily.

Sha'di gently withdrew his questing tongue, smiling as the Korovan uttered a series of chirps and whistles, his nose twitching furiously, "Never been kissed before? Gods, no one's ever shown you much romance have they, yea?"

Riva blushed softly, tipping his head with a tiny twitch, "Mmm, the Captains have been very nicely with Riva... A-and Lorensi."

"Mmm, yea, but a quick one isn't much romance, is it? I think we're going to have a good time while we're here together, aren't we, yea?"

"R-Riva would likes that. Sha'di is being very kind to Riva. I is liking this very much."

Sha'di giggled softly as he felt the Korovan's member within him stirring again with his gentle touches up and down Riva's smoothly muscled body, "Mmm, yea, well, I can feel that. I think I'm going to like this too."

The ruddy furred hybrid glanced around the plushly appointed suite, grinning as he felt Riva's hips starting to rock gently of their own accord once more, "Just lemme eat and bathe once in a while, won't you Riva, yea?"

He grunted as the Korovan nibbled his chin, those wide hips moving slowly, "Mebbe you'll try having a bath with me, yea?"

The look of subdued alarm on the Korovan's face made the hybrid male burst into giggles once more as he stroked the stocky body on top of his own, rubbing Riva's ears, "Well, small steps, yea? We'll work you up to drinking and having a bath in no time."

"I-I-if you says so Sha'di... I is trusting you, yes."

"Good. Now, let's go again, shall we?"

Sha'di grinned as he gave the Korovan a playful open-palmed spank on his heart-shaped ass, making him squeak, then titter nodding shyly, the Korovan's maleness springing back up to it's full hardness as Sha'di squeezed down, "Yes. Riva is be liking that muchly."

"Fantastic, yea..."

Tannis uttered a long, drawn out sigh, collapsing against Shinai with a blissful grunt. The lithe, snow-furred feline grinned as he played with his human lover's hair, now damp and clinging to Shinai's face as he shifted his muzzle to rub into the human's chin. Tannis shifted his hips, feeling his lover's freshly spent length wedged inside him as he eased his legs on either side of his human mate's hips, relaxing down into him and smiling, "Mmm, it's been a few hours now. Wonder how they're getting on."

Shinai opened one his silvery-blue eyes, gazing into his feline mate's face as a slow, easy grin spread across his face, "Mmm, Riva and Sha'di?"

Tannis nodded, kissing Shinai softly on the lips as he felt his lover's leanly muscled form, sheened with sweat beneath his paws, rubbing the human's deeply bronzed skin with his living leather paw-pads, "Yes. I hope they're doing ok. Sha'di seems like he was eager enough for the job and Riva's been so well-behaved and friendly since he came on-board, I hope they have a good time."

Shinai chuckled, rubbing his feline mate's slightly damp, snowy pelt gently, "I'm sure they're fine love. Sha'di's a nice guy, if a bit dense, I'm sure he's probably thrilled to get a vacation from galley maintenance and well, all the sex he can safely handle without getting all the fur rubbed off his ass. Riva's cute as hell and good-natured enough, but currently I think if you drilled a hole in a bulkhead and pointed his dick at it he'd fuck it. But I think they'll get on. We can check in on them tomorrow, make sure Sha'di's not massively dehydrated and filled full to bursting with Korovan cum."

Tannis snuggled down further into his human lover, nodding as he grinned sleepily, "Yea, you're right. We'll check up on them tomorrow. Till then, we'll let them have fun."

Fin