Times Arrow: The Rescue
#1 of Times Arrow
The Rescue.
John was in his usual recon spot, overseeing the town square. The crowds were forming as they always did on an execution day. In the middle of the square stood a wooden stand topped by a block where the victim would be positioned before being beheaded. The selected executioner was already there. A large bear in typical executioner uniform, hiding his identity from the crowds or victims family. Times were hard back in this stage of history, the bear had been picked out by the mayor for this duty and had little choice in the matter. Although some had made it their living, glorying in the death and power they felt from it. From his vantage point he could not tell whether this bear had been drafted or was simply another sanctioned killer.
John brought online an optical amplifier which increased his normal vision and allowed him to zoom in on the stand. The executioner seemed to be moving through some exercises, loosening shoulders and readying himself, before hefting the large axe by his side. This was all the proof John needed. This was either a professional or a logger, but the town had no logging group and this seemed unlikely. Then the mayor and sheriff made their way through the crowd and mounted the steps up onto the stand. An integrated audio mic came online and focussed in on the pair, ready to hear who would befall the axe this time.
The mayor, an overly obese fox started to speak.
"Behold all those of my town. Today I have something special for you. She was found guilty of consorting with demons! She would hath brought God's wrath upon us. But we will put her to death and show our love for our Lord".
John felt a tight feeling form in his gut. Could it be? They had been so careful. His job as a Temporal Enforcement Officer meant he had to be discreet. Must keep away from others and limit his encounters so as to maintain the record of history as recorded when Temporal Jumping had been discovered. As he watched the sheriff beckoned to guards behind the crowd. They dragged someone away from the stockade towards the stand. The victim was covered in a large shroud. John increased the mic level and focussed in hard. He could make out a female sobbing and whimpering that sounded familiar. Traces of blood smeared the ground behind, signs that her captivity had not been peaceful. Although not unexpected from these God fearing people. He looked closer, hoping for some tell tale sign of who was being dragged. Very briefly the hood moved and he caught a brief glimpse of Siamese features. His heart sank. It was his Hitomi.
John was now in a tight situation. His lover was being dragged to her death as he watched from above. His hands tied by the law he swore to uphold. Heart raging with mind. Could he really sit by as she was locked to the block, as that axe rose and would inevitably fall, ending her life. He kicked out, splintering brickwork. Wailing in his mind. Something snapped, a cold anger filled him. He began taking in the square again. Guards were posted at every outlook they could use. They wouldn't post anyone in the church. That was how John came to use its bell tower. Where they would not trespass. The guards were a mixture of canines in leather armour. Each carrying a crossbow and searching the crowd and surrounds for trouble. They could be a headache to him when he acted. The stand itself was also surrounded by a ring of more guards, town militia. They were a mix of species in light leather armour carrying axes or swords. John tagged them all with target markers before drawing a particle rifle.
He still had time. The crowd were getting belligerent and refusing to part for hitomi's guards. They wanted to lash out at her, for the evil they thought she involved herself with. The rifle integrated its system with John's neural lace. His body and the weapon becoming one. He lined up the least obvious sniper and fired. Its head vanishing in a cloud of blood. He rapidly removed the others. Then as Hitomi was finally being dragged up the steps he sent a mental command to his lace. A small black package between his shoulders activated. Tendrils flowed from it to cover his body. Interlacing and forming his adaptive armour. The leopard was now covered in black, looking more like a puma. Plates forming over him, to these past people it was no wonder he appeared like a demon on the few instances he had been seen operating. It took mere moments for the armour to deploy and he stood at the top of the bell tower opening. Some gasps from below showed he had been spotted. Guards tried to move to block the stage. John leapt.
The crowd fled before him, he crashed into the ground, shattering the stone slabs beneath his feet. John charged forward and jumped clear of the guards, drawing a Katana from its sheath he sent the blade through the executioners belly, spilling his intestines to the wood. Hitomi screamed as she saw the demonic form kill her would be killer, she passed out. The sheriff pulled a sword and lunged for John, he met the Wolf's blow with a block and parried around his guard, slitting his arm. The wolf snarled and leapt back as the militia mounted the stand and encircled John.
"Come on then, come to your deaths!" John shouted and dived for the nearest, who died soundlessly, the Katana cleaving him in two. An axe blade slammed into his back. The shock sent nausea through John but the armour held. The militia moved in, too close. John smiled and spun. His blade slicing through leather with ease. Six fell and the others fell back. Approaching more cautiously. His armour covered in their blood John stalked towards them. A bellow from his side announced the approach of a tiger, John swung and his sword shattered the handle of the Tigers axe and then cut through his neck, separating body and head. Only three militia remained and they were now scared. The fear was obvious. But fear of their master and sheriff was stronger still. They charged. The first fell with his body cut open, gore spilling across the wood. The next took a savage back hand and fell. The sheriff moved past the last. His arm bandaged. He caught and waved the last guard back.
"I'll stop this foul demon, go son!" The sheriff approached John carefully. John measured his opponent. His footing was good, balance near perfect. The sheriff rolled his wrist and spoke again.
"I am the law of this town and sworn to protect the good and holy people of this place. I have God on my side and I will slay you!"
"You are nothing but a bigot and a Neanderthal idiot" John replied. Moving into a defensive stance. This wolf could not hurt him, but if he could stop John long enough or get past him to kill Hitomi... He could not let that happen. The wolf lunged, John parried and returned the blow only to be blocked. This wolf was good! John lunged and feinted, as the wolf moved to black John drew back and aimed a two handed overhead cut. The wolf saw his error and desperately blocked the cut. Sparks flew and the wolfs sword flexed and bent. But he tried to retaliate, John blocking smoothly and finally finding an opening. His Katana slipped through the wolf's guard and sank into his groin, severing the artery. The wolf howled as John withdrew and arterial spray covered the boards. John spun and his katana severed the wolf's head. John was panting hard he hadn't had this much exercise in ages. He approached Hitomi, lifting her tenderly in his arms, medication flooded his system from the armour. His strength and energy returning he ran from the town. Carrying himself and his love away from where they had spent many years.
He found a secluded cave many miles from the town with a good stream nearby. Settling Hitomi he went for wood and water. His armour sank back and he settled into the stream to wash himself. He knew he had gone native when he took to enjoying these older ways of doing things. Although he had soaps to clean, the stream felt good washing over his sweat slicked fur. He returned to the cave to find Hitomi awake and looking around in shock. John approached her slowly and openly, she relaxed as she saw him. He lit a lantern and suspended it from the cave roof. Now able to see Hitomi properly he saw she had been beaten badly but it seemed more like surface damage, she would recover without his help. But he brought out his medical kit. She looked scared at the sight of more unusual things from her lover. John had been careful to not tell her everything about him. She knew some details, its hard to hide things like armour packs and other implants when your making love.
"Its ok love, this is like the apothecary. It will help you feel better and heal what they did to you".
"You told me you're a special lawman from far away, why did they brand me a demon lover?" She begged.
"And what was that in the square? I thought it was the devil itself"
"That was no devil or demon, I'm so sorry sweet. That was me, I told you I have special armour. But not quite how special. But now I have broken my own law, and I will tell you all. It won't be easy for you to take in. But I know you are intelligent enough to take this".
Hitomi shrank away from him, clearly alarmed and starting to think maybe the towns folk had been right all along. But as she looked John over she could see no evil in him, only the caring, loving man she had fallen in love with.
John extracted a general purpose skin cream and sprayed some on his hand, holding it to her.
"Smell this, it will seem strange but will soothe and help those cuts of yours"
Hitomi crouched forward, wincing as a bruised rib complained. She sniffed his hand, it was strange but she offered her arm to him.
John slowly spread the cream over her arm, rubbing it through her fur. A cool, soothing feeling washing through where previously had been pain. He held the cream spray and offered to treat the rest of her.
An hour later it was done and John prepared a fire, they both huddled around it. Hitomi had recovered a lot since his ministrations. John prepared a small meal and they ate together.
"Now love I should tell you about myself. All I have told you is true. However there is more to it."
"I am a law man, but not of normal law. I am... well... I am from your future."
Hitomi looked blank at this, unable to understand.
"Time is complicated, you see it flowing from one day to the next. A steady pattern of sunrise, midday and sunset. This pattern never changing. In the future we find this is different. Or rather that we can go against the stream if you like. Like the salmon swimming up a river."
"But there is a problem. If we go back like I have here, we can change things. Possibly for the better or for much worse. My job, my law is to make sure no-one changes what we know as the past. There is always greed and people will seek to change things."
"But you changed things by talking to me, by our romance surely?" Hitomi asked.
"I have a special kind of book, it tells me all about this time, who is and isn't important to the flow of time."
"In its context you are quite quiet, and made no major impact before. You had a quiet but happy life and now I have changed that." John looked crestfallen as he told her how she made no change to history.
"But I wasn't discreet enough, they must've made note of how often you vanished to meet me. Away from anyone else, and then I must've been seen on the few times I had to perform an operation. That is how they linked you to me, and seeing something dark running around must've lead to the claims of a demon near the town. I'm so so sorry love. This should not have happened."
"So you were here to stop people changing things from how you know them? But what if they became better after?"
"No one can know what their changes will do for certain. That's why the people in charge in my time set up people like me to stop any changes."
"Now I've gone and made things even worse by my actions to save you. The town will call on others to come after us. And people from my own time may well get involved to limit what I have brought upon us."
Hitomi leaned up and brushed a paw across his cheek.
"Thank you darling, I know you are hurting now from this but I am very touched by your love and how far you went to save me."
She licked his chin tenderly, John leaned down and they kissed softly.
Hitomi lay back, drawing him down to her.
"Are you sure about this? I would hate to hurt you, the cream eases pain but hasn't healed you yet." John asked with loving concern.
"Then you will be all the more gentle with me baby."
Their kisses deepened and John moved down her neck. Kissing and licking her fur down to her shoulder. She let out a moan as his tongue continued lower, down to her bust, running around her breasts and teasing through her fur. Her nipples swelling as he licked around them. Hitomis hand slid over his sheath, feeling his arousal swell and drew him out. They both purred as his mouth covered her bust, suckling as she stroked his length.
John moved on top of her and ever so gently moved to enter, as Hitmoi guided him into her slit. A murr escaping her lips as his tip penetrated and her entrance swelled around him. Her paws stroking his forearms as he slipped in deeper. As he moved faster she whimpered, a sore area complaining, John noticed and shifted so he wasn't hurting her. They coupled slowly, enjoying the intimacy that had built up between them. His thrusts meeting her g spot so her pleasure built steadily. Becoming more insistent with the increasing passion. She lightly clawed his arms until her body clenches, growling as her climax erupts and she held him tight inside. Her muscles spasming and milking his length until with a growl his seed filled her. Jet after jet of cream filling her slit and running out, slicking her fur. They kissed tenderly as they panted and purred together. Bodies close in the confines of their cave.
After a while they recovered some strength and rolled into a close cuddle.
"I love you Hitomi and I hope we can find a way out of this."
"I love you too and I'm sure we will."
"Mmmm I know something I have been curious about but never been with anyone I trust to try. But your so tender to me John."
"What is it sweet?"
"Have you done anything to a womans tail hole before?"
"Not yet no, but I have always wanted to."
"So I see." Hitomi gently stroked the rapidly swelling Leopards sheath. Enjoying the sight of his arousal at her words.
"Do you think it would hurt me darling?"
"Not if we go slowly and gently it shouldn't. I have something in my pack that might help as well."
Hitomi rolled onto all fours and raised her tail. Offering herself to her lover.
"Please take me, I want to give you everything of me."
John slipped out some medical jelly intended to lubricate and sterilise instruments. Squirting some into his paw and covering his member he slowly mounted her. Rubbing his tip against her tail hole. Both murring at the coming experience. Hitomi looked over her shoulder, beckoning him to take her tail hole cherry.
John pushed forward slowly, feeling her ring stretch for him. Then he was in as she let out a whimper of discomfort.
"Do you want me to stop baby?" John asked.
"N n no don't stop. Just let me get used to it."
John holds her hips, resting, then ever so slowly pushed deeper into her. She continued to whimper but her hole relaxed as she adjusted to his girth inside.
"Oh baby I can't tell you how good your tail hole feels"
"I'm so glad I asked you to do this. Now take me darling, I'm all yours."
John hilted as he pushed in. Feeling his heavy balls rub her rump.
"How does that feel now?" John asked.
"Good baby. That's so good. Take me!"
John couldn't resist and started to thrust nice and slow. Feeling her squeeze and milk him as their bodies moved. Their purring and the sounds of their mating filled the air.
"Oh god I cant hold back, I'm going to cum in your hot passage."
"Oh yeah baby. Give it to me. I want your seed in my tail."
"Oh yeah, when you talk like that I cant resist you."
John took her fiercely, feeling his animal passion rising. She growled back at him. Pumping back onto his shaft. Then with a growl John started to cum. Even harder then before. He felt himself become light headed as his seed filled his lover.
As the hot cream erupted Hitomi found herself tightening up and a raw climax ripped through her. It was so different to the normal kind John gave her. She growled loudly and gripped him tightly inside. Refusing to release his member from her rear. They writhed and growled out their mutual releases until they collapsed atop one another.
They fell asleep together and awoke to a warm dawn. After a light breakfast they set out. They had a new start together. But who could tell what lay ahead. This wasn't in his database. They were on their own. But together.
The end.