Lake
#4 of The Sphinx
They stop for a bath, things go to hell.
"That's the thing on the snake's neck?" Alice asked, pointing at the silvery collar that Richard had recovered.
"A name. I can't..." The man wiped blood away. "Yeah. Samael and some string of numbers. You figure it's someone's experiment?"
"Could be," Alice turned to look over the river where James and William bathed. "Ubisphere is not the only company working on the gryphon's problem."
"Do you remember those Chinese guys up North?" Richard asked.
"Yeah. Oh, sure. They had done some really groundbreaking work on chimeras on their own. You saw that Kirin of them? It was really striking."
"It was a nightmare!" Richard felt the old glow of scarlet anger begin to blaze. Something that he'd learned, painfully, to control over the years. His fingers clenched around the grip of his rifle. In some ways it was a pleasant, reassuring feeling that swamped everything else. To slap Alice across her petulant, pretty little face and knock her on her ass in the trampled dirt would be a good thing. "Good thing," Richard muttered.
"No," the Sphinx growled, jumping from the stone she had been perched on and taking a step that put herself between Richard and Alice.
"Abomination..." Richard began, gritting his teeth so hard that it made his jaw ache.
"Are you feeling well?" Alice asked, taking a step back. She hated to admit but the Sphinx messed with her in a primal way, there was something about her body that claimed to her in an animalistic way that surprised Alice, she had never thought of herself as a lesbian, but there was no denying the way the Sphinx affected her.
The Sphinx ignored Richard, smiling with sharp teeth at Alice. "Could you help me bath?"
Alice swallowed dry and nodded timidly.
"You'd have been dead if I hadn't jumped in when he did," the Sphinx said to Richard as she walked towards the river.
"Drop it," Alice ordered. "Richard is overprotective, but he means well. He could do with a rest. We all could."
The Sphinx nodded, she was following Alice, but her eyes were on the stars high above.
"They are so pretty," Alice commented. "Living on the Compound we don't see them most of the time."
The Sphinx could only nod, her life of confinement hadn't prepared her to the dark heavens with its glimmering stars. Alice in turn couldn't take her eyes out of the chimera.
Alice studied her features curiously. This was the closest she'd gotten to the creature since they had left the compound. The Sphinx was magnificent, wild and primal. Pale fur covered her strong muscles. Her full lips looked a little pouty, sexy. The shape of her nose was strange but alluring. Her cat-like ears were inviting, tempting her to touch them. Their gaze met for a moment, those inhuman and golden eyes that seemed to pierce Alice's soul, to invite her to take part in something immoral.
The Sphinx jumped on the cold water without a moment of hesitation, Alice came timidly behind, shivering a bit when she walked in the river.
Warmth and confort suddenly enveloped Alice as the Sphinx pulled her into a tight hug, looking majestic under the moonlight. Alice couldn't deny she looked almost divine, with her wings spread open and those striking golden eyes, luscious lips that just begged to be kissed...
Alice's heart skipped a beat, they were so close now. She couldn't remember exactly when she stopped thinking of the chimera as a thing and begun seeing her as a woman, as something she could desire to kiss. She had to force herself to remember she wasn't a lesbian, she even had had a boyfriend not so long ago, she tried to focus on that, on the life she could have had if he was still alive. She took a long breath, trying to remember his eyes, but she could only picture those perfect golden eyes.
Alice was starting to feel warm in a way she had almost forgotten just from looking up at this beauty that was setting her on fire.
The Sphinx purred, "you seemed cold."
Alice nodded and immediately regretted as the Sphinx pulled her deeper into the embrace, her strong paws resting one over her belly and the other above her breasts. Alice was feeling lightheaded, her breath was becoming laborious, heated. She bit her lips to try and keep her reason.
Not good. Not good. The mantra ran through Alice's head as she tried to find forces to tear herself apart from the Sphinx.
"Why are you here?" Alice was jerked out of her thoughts by the chimera's question, startled as the Sphinx's paws touched her shoulders.
She let the strong paws slide over her shoulders and arms, making her shiver in a warmth that defied reason.
"I was assigned this mission," she finally breathed out. She felt the hot breath of the chimera on the back of her neck. It made her want things, things she didn't understand.
"Aren't you afraid of the Gryphons stealing you?" The Sphinx asked, her warm breath caressing the side of Alice's neck. "You could be safe inside the Compound. The others don't have this chance."
Alice stiffened in sudden self-consciousness. "I don't have this option..." She moved to turn, so she could look into the Sphinx's eyes. "I made a really bad mistake some time ago, so now those above me want to make me disappear."
"And yet, you always come back," the Sphinx purred.
Alice took one of the Sphinx's paws into her hands, noticing how much larger they were.
Curiosity overtook her. Curiosity and the electric slide of arousal that seemed to build inside her until she couldn't think straight.
"I don't know how."
A finger pressed against Alice's lips. "You are a warrior," the Sphinx purred softly.
Alice licked her lips nervously and lifted her head. Her attention was caught and held by the Sphinx's lips. She looked so godamn sexy.
"So... What do you find of the outside world?" Alice asked abruptly, trying to divert her mind from the strange thoughts that haunted her.
I'm straight, she repeated to herself.
I like men, she said without much enthusiasm.
The Sphinx shrugged. "It's amazing, but I had hoped there would be more people or things around to see."
"We have been avoiding the more travelled paths, most people that lives out here would shoot you on side," Alice explained. "But now, Richard will probably want to track that Diamondback back to wherever it has come from, so we will probably end up meeting a few more people."
The Sphinx nodded and pressed her nose against Alice's neck, making the human shiver.
"You could use some new clothes!" Alice almost screamed. "If we are going to take you near people, we will need to disguise you!"
"Clothes?" The Sphinx said with a mix of curiosity and surprise. Part of her hated the very concept of clothes, on the laboratory it had been something to differentiate the chimeras from the humans, the humans were always walking around in their white coats and stiff clothes while the chimeras were kept naked at all times, but still there was something tempting in the idea.
"Who knows, maybe we could find you something very sharp..." Alice trailed off, her mind conjuring alluring images of the sphinx dressed in a suit, her hair done, and just a hint of her wild side in the glint of her eyes, a creature civilized, but not tamed, still strong enough to take whatever she desired...
Alice opened her eyes to find herself gazing into the golden eyes of the Sphinx, their faces resting ever so close to each other. Alice shivered, her breath labored.
Her eyes darted to the scars on her shoulders, where the snake had bit her during their wild runt. Even with the Sphinx's healing abilities the wound was still evident, maybe it would even leave behind a scar.
"Does... Does it hurt?" Alice struggled to say.
The sphinx shrugged. "I felt worse in the past. It gets hard to keep track after a while, I just try to ignore and focus on the purpose of the pain."
"Purpose..." Alice begun, but she quickly realized. How long had the Sphinx survived on the underground laboratories, the snake's poison couldn't have been worse than some of the tests she had endure. The bio-tracker that coursed in her veins had been designed for use in humans, it couldn't have survived the poison...
The chimera smiled as the realization dawned on Alice. That was all the confirmation the human needed.
Alice opened her mouth to scream, when the Sphinx's lips covered hers. There was a second of stunned surprise, that quickly disappeared because the feel of her lips on hers was paradise.
This was the answer to every aching, hungry cell in her body. Alice's arms crossed over the Sphinx's large shoulders, her fingers digging into the smooth fur as she slipped her tongue over the Sphinx's, their lips closing against together, the chimera suckling her tongue, drawing the sweet essence of arousal from the human's mouth. Alice moaned, the sound trapped by the chimera's mouth, lips and tongues meshed, pressing together as the carnality of the act became overwhelming. Alice could feel her pussy weeping, making her move against the hard thigh that had slipped between hers, pressing against her cunt and setting it on fire.
"Are you going to tell?" The Sphinx growled as she tore her lips from Alice's, her paws moving to the human's hips, holding her tightly.
"What if I am?" Alice could only whisper.
"Then I would need to start running now."
"And if I don't?"
The chimera purred, one paw gripping Alice's hip as she pulled her closer, forcing Alice to rise to her tiptoes, pulling her into a deep kiss even as her other paw touched the entrance to Alice's vagina.
Feverish, intense, the sexuality spiraling between them was a powerful firestorm.
Alice stared up at the Sphinx, her cheeks flushed, her eyes glittering now with excitement as the chimera towered over her, gazing at her naked body with wicked hunger. The Sphinx ran the backs of the fingers of one paw over the curve of Alice's breast, her nipples hardened further.
"You're so beautiful," Alice whispered as the Sphinx lowered her head, smoothing her cheek over the curve of Alice's breast, the chimera's lips raked the sensitive nipple.
"You'll betray humanity," the Sphinx's breathing rough and deep.
"Yes," Alice whispered as the chimera's lips licked over her breast.
The chimera's soft laughter was more a gasp as her tongue licked over Alice's nipple. Her paw touched Alice's inner thigh, coming close to the mound between her thighs.
"I want to taste every inch of you," the chimera's lips kissed over her breast, up her collarbone.
Moans and hot little cries escaped Alice's throats as the Sphinx moved Alice to the margin of the lake, lying the human to her back, coming over her. Alice's hands roved over the Sphinx's shoulders, her nails biting into her fur as she moaned at the pleasure. Alice was wet and hot for that creature, the sensitive folds of flesh parting easily as the creature's fingers slid between them. Alice's hips rose, pressing her swollen clit into the chimera's fingers. Alice's hands gripped the chimera's shoulders, her neck arched, perspiration dewing her body as the Sphinx breasts stroke against hers, the large paws teasing her wet pussy.
The Sphinx spread Alice's thighs slowly, her fingers slid over the thick layer of juices that gathered there. Like warm syrup, it clung to his fingers and sensitized the tips.
The Sphinx lowered her head. Alice jerked, a whimper escaping her lips as the Sphinx's tongue swiped through her swollen cunt.
The Sphinx licked and lapped, circled her little clit and sucked at it strongly as Alice's cries began to rise in volume. Alice's hips twisted, writhed beneath the pleasure, biting her lips to keep herself quiet so she wouldn't attract attention from the others.
The chimera's tongue plunged into the velvet recess of Alice's vagina as the human bit into her own hand to contain the moans, her hips undulating, pressing her pussy against the sphinx's devouring mouth.
Alice fought the raging tempest growing inside her. Her entire body was sensitized, demanding the creature's touch, feeling the thick tongue delving deep inside of her.
Hard, driving strokes of the chimera's tongue had Alice's eyes widening as pleasure tore through her in ways it never had before. She was fighting to breathe, her nails clawed at the Sphinx's back, her teeth bit deep into the scars on the Sphinx's shoulder, biting hard enough to draw a small portion of the creature's blood and lapping it excitedly.
Alice was shaking, her legs trembling, her muscles tightening as the Sphinx's pace increased further. A low cry built in her throat, then grew in volume as the conflagration of pleasure suddenly exploded from her womb and rushed through her body in a quivering orgasm.
"What is this?!" Roberto demanded furiously as he came running, attracted by Alice's screams. His rifle raised and covering the two females. "Step away from the beast!"
"Fuck," Alice whispered.
Then the world exploded in light around them.