Star Fox Chronicles: Chapter 21: Interlude
#23 of Star Fox Chronicles
I awoke slowly and painfully. I didn't know what happened back there to cause all that, but I did instantly recognize where I had ended up. I was in the sick bay on the Wolfen. I forced myself to sit up and look around the place, only to have a gentle hand push me back down just a second later. I looked up to see that it was Zio.
"You need your rest Ryan," he said firmly, "you were lucky back there."
"What do you mean?" I asked him.
"You suffered some magic recoil," he explained, "when you start running out of energy in your body to use magic your body starts acting out of your control. It usually starts in you getting really sick, before you completely degrade. We were glad it stopped when it did, you were out of it for several hours."
"Several hours?" I asked. "Never mind. Why are we on the Wolfen?"
"Wolf's team volunteered to take you in for emergency medical care. It was a split second decision so we didn't argue. Why he was so quick to volunteer I don't know. It's so rare for him it means he's got to have a deeper reason behind this. Regardless, others decided to come with me as well. They are at the resting quarters waiting for you."
"So can't we go there then?" I asked. I wanted to see everyone again. At least it would help me get a lot more rest at least. Zio took some time to think for a bit before he approached me and offered a hand.
"Alright," I smiled and took his hand. With both of all our strengths I managed to get out of the bed, but it was a lot harder than I thought. I stumbled to my feet and after a few minutes of struggling he got me full body support. We got out the door and down the hallway as we got talking again.
"We're on our way back to Corneria right now," he said again, "we should be there before too long."
"Who all is on the ship with you?" I asked.
"I believe it's Red, Ray, Noah, Kazuma, and Wolfie Steel," he replied.
"I see..." It took us a few more minutes to get to the resting quarters. Sure enough, the mentioned people were all standing around waiting for us. Kazuma was the first to spot us and shouted.
"Ryan's awake," Everyone perked up immediately and approached. We stopped and I looked up at them as they asked many different questions at once.
"One question at a time," Wolfie finally said, "give the man some room to breathe." I thanked him and decided to give some time to explain the current situation to the rest of them. After I was finished Noah spoke.
"Looks like we got a lot ahead of us. You had best get some rest." I couldn't help but agree with him. Zio and Red escorted me into a nearby empty room where I hit an empty bed. As soon as I was alone and comfortable I quickly got to sleep.
The halls were always too quiet, even for all those who walked it. For the four of those who would never walk those halls again it made it even quieter. Cougar looked on at his other members as he began his meeting.
"Four dead," Cougar stated plainly, "good job number 24." The hooded member in question just nodded and remained silent.
"But they were our fellow members," Arxgon began, "what has our organization come to? Striking down our own members. It's absurd."
"It's cutting down the fat," Roxanne said as she entered the room, "It gets rid of the weaklings in the group."
"There's more to it than that," Cougar continued, "their powers have been added to Ryan's just as we've predicted. And in turn it has affected 24 and myself as well..."
"What do you mean by that?" Roxanne asked.
"You might as well show her 24," Draxor said. The one in question only nodded and removed his hood, only to put it back on one second later. Roxanne nodded convinced a second later.
"I see," Roxanne said.
"Now on to bigger business," Cougar said, "concerning the next Claxan member to be eliminated." Everyone started to laugh after that statement.
"Ah..." Draxor finally spoke, "you mean the traitor."
"Direct orders from the superior," Cougar stated, "number 23 is to be eliminated, and he predicts Ryan to be the one."
"The superior?" Arxgon asked confused, "what's he planning?"
"His orders are absolute," Cougar said, "or did you forget that?"
"Poor Arxgon doesn't know his place," Roxanne teased.
"You should just learn to shut up," number 24 said bluntly. Everyone turned to face him. It was rare to see him talking like that unless he was annoyed or something.
Cougar just smiled.
"Right," he said, "case adjourned."
I awoke within several hours to find myself nicely and quickly rejuvenated. I got out of bed and did a few stretches to make sure that I was all nice and ready. Sure enough, everything was working to the best of my abilities. Shortly after I finished I heard the door open up and Red walked in on me. He quickly shut the door behind him. I was pretty sure I heard a locking sound as well, he faced me and he smiled.
"Ryan," he started, "how are you faring this morning?"
"I'm doing better," I said wondering what he wanted.
"That's good," he said and took a step forward, "I had just come to check up on you." I wasn't too sure but it seemed a little too convenient for him to come checking up on me at this time in the morning. Especially when the only thing he was wearing was a pair of red shorts. Oh wait I just barely noticed that, but he certainly does look good in those. It didn't take him long to notice me staring at his chiseled body. He looked me in the eyes and smiled.
"Don't worry Ryan," he said, "I like what I see to." I couldn't help but blush a little. It had been a while since I had last had it off with someone, and it helped when he made the first move. Red came up to me up close and started groping me, rubbing over my back and hair with both of his hands. He was pretty good with this I guessed. I held his hips with my hands as he grinded his with mine, rubbing his bulging shorts to my pants. Shortly after we started to kiss, in which he quickly pushed his tongue past my mouth toward mine to explore. I could easily tell he was eager, and I wasn't in any mood to argue about it with him. I couldn't help but moan slightly into the kiss as he started to strip off my tattered uniform piece by piece. Once I was only in my pants and underwear he broke the kiss and pushed me backward onto the bed, where I landed only half gracefully. There he jumped on top of me and forcefully tugged off my socks before moving on to unbuttoning my pants and slipping them off. The bulge on my underwear was standing tall and proud now and Red looked on at it with a lustful look as he tugged at his own shorts. Pulling them off and freeing his own large 9 in. member from confinement. It was already leaking pre from the tip.
"Now let's move on to business," he said and tugged my underwear off with one fell swoop freeing my erection, and before I could say anything he began licking around my shaft and balls. He shifted speeds every now and then to tease. I had an evil thought and decided to return the favor by flipping around and beginning a 69. I started things differently, although he like some people likes to tease, I like to strike people by just plain pleasuring them. Because of this I just plain deepthroated him, playing with his large sac as I bobbed my head back and forth along the shaft. We both moaned onto each other's cocks as he started sucking on my cock with greater effort now. At the speed we were going it didn't take long to get closer to climax. By the time his cock started to twitch he pulled me off. I could tell what it was he wanted next and I looked at him.
"Go ahead," I said and we switched positions. I got onto lying on my side while Red got behind me, grabbing my right leg and lifting it up high as he poked his cock at my entrance. With a small push he hilted himself inside of me. After a few seconds he quickly started a quick thrusting rate. I didn't mind because I liked taking it rough, it was just a matter of getting used to it again. I was shortly getting on my way to climax again as Red started jacking me off in rhythm to his thrusting. I had to bury my face into the sheets to stifle the noise of my moaning of the pleasure because I have forgotten exactly how pleasurable it was. After a few more minutes of this I let go my load shooting nine times over the sheets, and after clenching my ass muscles Red let go his load into my ass. After a few minutes of settling down from our climaxes he pulled out and we cleaned up quickly before we got back into our clothes quickly. When we finished Red spoke.
"The main reason I came in here was that Wolf wanted to speak with you about something. Although he wouldn't say what. This was just a bonus for me, thanks for showing me a good time, we should do this again." He gave me a wink and walked out the door.
I wondered what Wolf wanted to speak to me about so I grabbed my boots on as well as my weaponry as I headed to the bridge. Sure enough, Wolf along with Panther and Leon were there waiting for me when I got there.
"Took you long enough," Panther said.
"Let's get down to business," Leon said.
"What's up?" I asked. I got a little suspicious on this question, I kept thinking on the purpose on what they wanted to talk to me about. This was getting a little strange. After a minute of silence Wolf finally came out with it.
"I want you to join the Star Wolf team." That question er... Statement had completely caught me off guard. Why would he want me to join Star Wolf after he knew I was a member of Star Fox? This was beginning to get complicated. I didn't know what to say so I didn't even say anything at all for a while.
"I guess he's a little shocked by the offer," Panther said.
"I'll give you some time to think," Wolf said, "but please consider the offer if ever the time comes you doubt Star Fox."
"That's rare to get an offer from Wolf like that Ryan," Leon said, "consider yourself lucky." This earned Leon a 'hmph' from Wolf. After that we quickly returned to casual discussion as we finally returned to Corneria. It felt so good to be back in these blue skies, and all of my friends that stayed behind were in the welcoming party, along with those in the Great Fox. I got off the Wolfen to reunite with the rest of my team, avoiding the press along the way. Quite a few people had to help fend off the press from smothering me with questions about the Claxan members I killed and everything that happened, and I wasn't in the mood to go and explain everything to them at that moment. We quickly walked off with General Pepper and Fara, who were escorting the president with Nordic.
"Ryan Lewis," The President addressed me and I looked at him surprised.
"Yes sir?" I asked him.
"You have come quite a long way for such a young man of your caliber," he began, "I can't even begin to say how impressed I am. All I can say is I hope you can keep up the good work, and we are in your debt." With those words he gave a bow and stepped in his limousine and took off. I just stood there dumbfounded. Did the president really just congratulate me on a job well done? I walked back to the Star Fox house with a seraphic smile on my face on the thought of that. ROB64 had an announcement for me when I got home.
"Messages for Ryan Lewis." I thanked him and looked them over. Two of them were from DJ and Trevor, each asking for a chance to hang out sometime. I decided to take a quick second to call each of them up. I started with DJ who answered quickly.
"Hey Ryan!" DJ said excited, "how was the trip?"
"Exciting," I replied, "you still busy or you up for some hanging out?"
"Hanging out sounds fun," he said, "see you soon."
"Okay then." I hung up and was about to call Trevor when the holographic phone rang again, and to my surprise to find it was Trevor himself. I picked it up and gave a smile.
"Hey Trev," I said to him.
"Oh hi Ryan," he said surprised, "how are you doing?"
"I'm alright," I said, "I was just about to call you, what's up?"
"nothing much," he said, "hey uh... you... want to come over to my house some time?"
"Sure," I said, "sounds like fun. See you then." He nodded and I hung up the phone as Krystal came walking in, she approached me with a piece of parchment that she handed to me.
"Important news concerning your magic," she said, "You're going to get trained in the arts of the arcanum. The president and others have assigned you four special instructors to teach you. Fox, Lucian Blaze, Jovey, and the President have all made references to these teachers for you."
"Really?" I asked. I was glad to know that I was going to get improved in the art of magic as well as training in my physical abilities as well, I was roaring to get started right away. "Who are the teachers?" She just giggled and wagged her finger back and forth.
"You'll know tomorrow," she said, "we'll head to the gym first thing in the morning."
The next morning came faster than I thought, for I was at the gym faster than I can say holy crap. The rest of the Star Fox team was there along with General Pepper, Fara, the President, Jovey, Lucian Blaze, and Nordic. But there were two others there that I didn't recognize as well. The first one was a tall snow leopard that looked tough and mean wearing a tight skin white shirt and black combat pants. The other was a white horse wearing a uniform similar to Wolf's usual wear. The horse seamed more gentle to the look and had a smile on. General Pepper introduced my teachers.
"Fox McCloud referred Krystal," he began as the vixen stepped forward. Of course, no surprise she was one of them.
"Mr. President referred Nordic Icewolf," The wolf stepped forward and I was glad to be under his tulage. Just another reason to love the big wolf.
"Lucian Blaze refers his brother Lucian Snowclaw," the leopard stood forward. Wait, Blaze never told me he had a brother... never mind.
"Finally, Jovey Jadestar refers Angulo Louis," the horse stepped forward and gave a low bow. He was definitely polite. I could tell this was going to be a mixed experience.
"Now we're going to have a meeting in the other room right now," Fox said, "Mr. Snowclaw we'll let you take the first lesson." Snow took another step forward as everyone else started leaving.
"Please," he said, "call me Snow." He looked at me as everyone else finished leaving. Once they left I decided to speak to him.
"Um-"
"Rule one," he said, "no talking. Rule two, no slouching. Rule Three, no speaking unless spoken to. Rule four, always follow my orders no matter how ridiculous. Do I make myself clear?"
"Sir yes sir," I shouted straightening up. This all of a sudden turned into Marine boot camp.
"Good," he said, "now drop down and give me 20."
It didn't take long for General Pepper and the President to reach a nearby office. They were up on the second floor, with a window looking just over where Snow was running Ryan through the ground with tough exercises. The president took a seat at the desk with Nordic standing at his side while General Pepper took off his hat standing at salute.
"At ease good friend," The President said, "we just need to have a quick discussion about Ryan and the Claxan."
"I'm listening sir," Pepper stated. The President nodded and continued.
"Ryan has effectively eliminated four of the Claxans members. Regardless of how things truly turned out, the Claxan will be coming after him harder then ever, and I have a feeling Ryan may be our key to survival. I'm sure you understand this along with many others like my friend Nordic here. This is why I have a secret personal order I would like to execute effective immediately..."
"And what might that be sir?" Pepper asked concerned.
"I want Ryan's teachers to be his body guards, and it would be to our benefits if no one knew about it, especially Ryan. Is that understandable Nordic?"
"Yes," Nordic said, "I shall arrange that secretly with the other teachers tonight."