Aleksei and the Dragon
A story about a young man exploring a dragon's cave in search of its treasure...and finding more than he bargained for.
A story I wrote to practice describing tactile sensations, so it focuses on things as touch and heat.
Aleksei plunged into the water.
He had come to the Monster's Lake in search of fabulous treasure, a miller's apprentice drawn by the stories the old man had told him about its hidden wealth and fierce guardian. He had stood by the stream that powered their waterwheel as days went by, thinking about its source and what waited for him there, strange yearning welling up in his heart until he felt it was about to burst. In the end he did not choose to make the trek up the brook, for it was not going that had become impossible for him.
His slender but muscular frame parted the waves effortlessly, the cool water caressing his naked body and his thicket of blonde pubic hair, and he surfaced with a splash and spray of droplets. He shook water from his short hair and looked around himself. The lake was located a good way into the wilderness, untouched by the outside world, its waters deep and dark like a black mirror surrounded by rustling willows and birches. Besides the sound of wind shaking the yellowing leaves of early autumn the forest was absolutely silent, as if the place itself was holding its breath in wait of...something. Aleksei shivered and started swimming towards a lone mound of earth rising from the lake's center.
The mound was just a small pile of earth big enough for two scraggly trees, but what the young man was after would be found at its roots. He took a deep breath and dived. The bottom was covered in dark mulch, giving the lake its distinctive color, yet the water itself was crystal clear. No vegetation marred the cold, dead tranquility of this alien world under the waves. Aleksei felt like an intruder there, his brash pink warmness an affront to the spirit of the place, and he hastened his strokes following ever deeper the mound's sloping side.
His ears were already ringing from the pressure when he spotted the cave entrance. A pitch black hole surrounded by gnarled roots led into the mound, a ragged maw frozen in mid-scream. Aleksei hesitated. There was little air left in his lungs, and if the tunnel was long he would not rise again to the surface. In the end he could not tell even himself why he chose to risk his life--curiosity, thrill, something else he could not name...
Aleksei emerged coughing and sputtering into darkness, and grasped blindly at something to pull himself up from the water. The air was damp and chilly, and he could feel a tangle of knotty roots and squelching mud under his palms. He was in an underwater cave inside the hollow mound. A smell of rich, dark loam clung to the air mingling with another scent he could not identify--something sharp, almost feral, and all predatory. Aleksei gulped and sat completely still in the black cave trying to listen for any signs of danger, but the only thing he heard was the hammering of his heart in his chest. The waters lapped gently at his ankles while he waited for something to pounce on him, but the attack never came.
Emboldened he crawled slowly on his hands and knees on the uneven surface, taking great care so he wouldn't slip and sprain anything. The ground sloped gently upwards and soon he could feel that he was entering into a larger part of the cavern from a slight breeze on the hairs on his back. He shivered, his wet naked body leached of warmth by the cave's chilly embrace, and cursed himself for his lack of preparation. Without a light source it would take weeks to comb through the place and he still might not find anything for his effort. He would need to figure out a way to bring a lamp dry here, and tools, and-
His train of thought was abruptly stopped by the sound of something heavy moving and springing into action in the darkness, the slithering of scales and scraping of claws unmistakable and coming closer. Aleksei froze, fear clenching the pit of his stomach with its icy fist. He was trapped in the blackness with a predator and he couldn't see where to run! There was a pause, then movement again, the bursts of sinewy activity from the unseen beast accentuated by the terrible silence in between. The young man held his breath like a cowering prey animal, praying wordlessly that the creature wouldn't notice him in the complete blackness of its lair, but he could not stop his chattering teeth from betraying his location...
Something big leaned in close to his ear and whispered 'boo'. Aleksei yelped and bolted, fleeing in mindless terror but was stopped short when he slammed into the creature's bulk blocking his path. He flew backwards and landed on his butt, but before he could even draw breath a heavy paw stepped on his chest, its fierce claws prickling his skin.
"Well well well, what do we have in here...?", a deep, snarling voice rumbled from above.
The paw on Aleksei was larger than his head, the pressure slowly increasing as its owner leaned in closer, the sheer weight of the massive creature palpable and very real…
"A-ah, you're hurting me!" The man's voice sounded feeble in the darkness.
"Yes, that's the general idea. Why have you come?" The voice sounded amused yet the grip did not relent. "Fame? Fortune?", it carried on, "Stupidity?" The pressure increased.
Aleksei had instinctively grasped the thick, scaly digits on his chest but trying to lift them off was as futile as trying to bend steel bars. "Nothing like that!" he said in a desperate plea, pinned and helpless under the beast's harsh touch.
"I see, not just a thief but a liar too", the dragon taunted him.
"No!, I just, I just had to...see."
"Look but don't touch? I find that hard to believe." The dragon wriggled his fingers.
Aleksei flinched and let go of the paw, laying his arms to his sides and waited. "Please..."
The beast shifted and drew close. His breath on the young man's face felt as hot as air from an oven, slipping in between Aleksei's parted lips and drying his mouth. He tasted desert sand, dust and sun-baked clay. The complete darkness had suddenly departed and become dimly lit by a source right in front of his eyes. Aleksei realized that was staring directly into the dragon's nostrils, the beast's inner fire giving them a dull glow of molten iron, and in that faint light he could make out shape of the dragon's snout, sharp and predatory, his head crested with impressive horns, and the heavy ridge of his brows under which a pair of yellow, slitted eyes stared at him, curious and unflinching.
The dragon spoke again without moving his hard, reptilian lips. Instead his voice rose deep from his broad chest, where his lower vocal cords produced a snarling imitation of human speech.
"I should gobble you up and be done with it, little thief", he rumbled and moved his muzzle along the man's supine body, sniffing him.
It brushed against Aleksei's bare skin feeling like smooth sun-baked stone, hard and warm, its light touch tickling him. The dragon stopped to hover over Aleksei's crotch, far too close for comfort, making him gasp and cover his sex with his hands.
"...But frankly I'm bored so maybe I'll let you live. For now." The dragon lifted his paw letting Aleksei draw breath again.
"Don't thank me yet, little thief." He settled down and steepled his forepaws to rest his chin on them. "Amuse me, before I change my mind." The dragon's grin was less reassuring than a shark's.
The man rose cautiously to his knees. "I don't know what to say..."
"Think fast, then." The dragon snorted and narrowed his eyes.
The man started to speak, but faltered. His body trembled from fear and excitement, his heart thundering and adrenaline coursing through his veins, and slowly words started to well up in his chest. He spoke hurriedly, blurting out his emotions in desperate need to placate the stern beast.
"I...want to be special. I don't want to live out my boring life day by day knowing how there's something....extraordinary waiting for me just beyond my reach and not do anything about it. I needed to experience it, feel and see and touch something that no-one else dared!"
"Not a thief but a fool, then." The dragon chuckled and cocked his head. "Do tell, did you find your extraordinary experience here? Good enough to satisfy your expectations?"
"...Yes", Aleksei said and averted his eyes, blushing without knowing why. There was now a different tone to the dragon's voice, one that unsettled the man in an entirely new way.
The dragon stood up and circled around the man, his considerable bulk passing by Aleksei's eyes like the side of a horse carriage. Between his impressive musculature and majestic crown of horns there was little doubt that the beast was indeed male as the man had assumed, primal and untamed example of masculinity, resplendent in his coat of dark red scales scintillating even in the faint light. The dragon settled down again, his body forming a loose coil around his captive, and licked Aleksei between his bare shoulder blades. The dragon's saliva felt as hot as candle wax and Aleksei could not help but yelp and flinch from the sudden intrusion. Feeling increasingly nervous from the liberties the dragon was taking with his body he tried to distract him.
"Ah, I'm just a simple country boy you know, I'm afraid I won't be much for a conversation-"
"I don't expect you to use your mouth for talking", the beast interrupted him and continued to nuzzle his neck, then moved towards his lower back.
Aleksei shivered but he had to admit that the dragon's attentions didn't exactly feel unwelcome either. The strangeness of the situation excited him, as if he had been caught by some overgrown housecat showering him with affection. Now confident that the dragon had been merely taunting him earlier he started to relax.
"...I have never seen such a majestic creature as you before", he said in a breathless voice and meant it.
"True, I'm pretty great", he replied and rolled on his back spreading his legs, "especially down there." He motioned towards his crotch with his snout.
It took Aleksei a moment to process the beast's obvious intentions.
"B-but we're both male!", he protested, wide-eyed.
"So what, I'm not even a human either. That should worry you even more."
"But it's-"
"It's what you want." The dragon's voice had a tone of finality to it.
"I don't know..." The young man wrung his hands and avoided the beast's gaze.
"Go on, no one will ever need to know."
"No, you don't understand! I have never, you know, with a guy or otherwise..."
"Don't worry, I might be gentle." The dragon prodded Aleksei until he stumbled towards his crotch. "Only one way to find out, right?" He chuckled to himself.
Aleksei eyed the dragon's hindquarters unsure what to do. He felt being pressured, true, but at the same time he wanted to touch that luxurious skin, to feel the taut flesh underneath. The dragon's scales made a smooth surface and glimmered like red obsidian in the dim light. Right between his legs they made a shallow groove about the length of Aleksei's hand, and at its bottom he could make out a tight-lipped slit. As if in a dream he reached out with a trembling hand and brushed it with his fingertips. The dragon exhaled and let out a low, lingering 'yesss'. He felt as hot as a kiln and as smooth as glass, the human's touch gliding effortlessly across his reptilian skin like on polished mirror. Aleksei's hands had grown numb from the cold and pressing them against the dragon returned sensation to them in a wonderful current of pinpricks. He rubbed between the dragon's legs and around the slit, working the heat into his arms and becoming ever more conscious about the burning feel on his cheeks. He felt embarrassed from his actions and desires, the arousal he felt from serving so close to the large beast's sex both shameful and undeniable by now. He was interrupted by the dragon's impatient voice.
"Oh come on, get to the good part already! I've been waiting for so long..."
Aleksei paused and gulped, then pushed his fingertips inside the beast. Even that light touch was enough to cause the slit to open partly and let a new light source slide out. The dragon's member peeked out, a short, conical nub that glowed with internal light like molten lava and throbbed along his heartbeat. Aleksei felt oddly disappointed, seeing how the small thing would fit the palm of his hand, but then the beast grunted and let the rest of his dragonhood out making a wet, slick sound as it emerged. The thick member was easily the size of the man's forearm, ridged along its length and bulging at its base, the entire shaft radiating heat and dim glow as his blood coursed through it. Strong scent of musk and unwashed cock wafted from it making both Aleksei's nose wrinkle and his heart beat faster.
Moving as if in a dream Aleksei descended upon the dragon. He gasped when the burning hot member touched the bare skin of his chest and belly, eased on it and let his body drink in the blissful heat. Without thinking about it his hips started to make a bucking motion, grinding his own, pitiful erection against the dragon's and the hard knot at its base. The beast responded favorably by craning back his head and letting out a deep, masculine rumble. His rear legs relaxed and he spread them wide apart, inviting the man to partake freely in what he was offering him. Aleksei frotted the dragon with his entire body, shivering from warmth and lust as he made slow, deliberate motions over the beast. The dragon's hard, throbbing cock was trapped between the man's soft skin and the smooth scales of his own belly, its entire length being grinded with almost agonizing tenderness. Time stopped having a meaning in that cavern, its absence filled with the moans and sighs of that mismatched couple, the slithering noise of skin on scales and heavy breathing of males in arousal.
Droplets of steaming precum squirted from the dragon's tip, some of it hitting Aleksei's body and startling the young man. He pulled back, holding his chest where the scalding fluid had left a mark and seemed to suddenly realize the precariousness of his situation. The dragon lifted his head, looking annoyed and needy at the same time, and spoke between his clenched teeth.
"Ah, watch for it… you better use your hands to finish me off, you wouldn't survive my cumshot..."
His speech turned into a hiss when Aleksei touched his member again, but this time the man moved with more caution, even trepidation, when he stroked that great beast. The dragon buckled and made humping motions as Aleksei wrangled his cock, his turgid loins aching for that sweet release.
He climaxed with a mighty roar, the voice reverberating in the cavern like peals of thunderstrike. He shot his sizzling load over his belly, his cock discharging jet after jet of thick, white goo that steamed and smouldered in that chill air. Aleksei could barely jump aside as the dragon spasmed, lost in the mindless throes of his long-waited orgasm. Eventually the eruption subsided and his sputtering dick started to slowly withdraw back into its slit. The dragon flopped on his side and laid on the ground panting, eyes hazed in the afterthroes of his bliss. Aleksei scampered quietly on his feet, feeling an urgent need to make himself scarce. Having served his purpose he had little use for the dragon now, and he had no intention of finding out how much gratitude his captor really had for him. However, his sneaking was stopped by the dragon's languid voice. The beast eyed him lazily and motioned towards the ground.
Aleksei could see that the dragon's cum spatters had hardened into glassy, pearl-colored droplets in the cave's chilly air.
"Go on, take your reward", the dragon spoke and smirked, "make up a story for your grandchildren how you won some Dragon Tears. Can't have you braving my cave and returning without treasure, can we now?" The beast laughed and rolled around, turning his back to the man.
"You're free to go", he said in a dismissive tone.
Aleksei hesitated, then stooped to pick a handful of those weird gemstones. They felt still warm and vaguely greasy, and made tiny clicking noises like marbles as he clutched them in his fingers.
"W-will I see you again...?"
"You wouldn't like that." The dragon looked over his shoulder and grinned. "I get hungry after sex."
Aleksei blanched, turned on his heels, and ran. The dragon's laughter echoed after hims as he sped towards the cave entrance, then plunged into the water and dived deeply. When he broke the surface he was greeted by the perfect normalcy of the outside world, with no hint of pursuit nor evidence of his strange adventure in sight. All he had to show for it was his memories--and the dragon's treasure in his grip. Aleksei shook his head and laughed, rolling the glistening gems in his hand.