Music is the key to the soul

Story by TheNovelist on SoFurry

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#146 of Exploration


A week after my fourth Central New Year, I was informed that we were scheduled to go to a new planet. This one was again uncharted, and while I was hoping it was advanced so I could drive the Hulme around on it, I packed for any occasion. Eryx with twelve rounds, solinium nuclear warhead, the good old .303,ammo for said rifle, food, water, melodica (music certainly impressed the Hobytla, so I kept it in my bag), and my C.E.O blaster. I had a book for recreation, and a tennis ball.

So, come the morning, we assembled in the Great Hall. Ryan Lewis was replacing Salbar, who was going with another team, and he stood by me as Silverine went through the detail with the ever efficient Kodey by his side. I stepped forwards to do the traditional ping. Everyone gave me a wide berth as I loaded my rifle, out of habit, and teleported.

It did seem a bit longer than some journeys. I counted to about fifty five, maybe fifty six before I landed heavily on the ground.

And found myself standing in a huge cave. Well, cave is actually a misnomer, to be honest. I was standing in a cove, not far from the water, but on all three sides it was practically sheer cliffs of rock, tall inspiring pinnacles impossible to climb. On the fourth side, however, was something of stunning proportions.

It was a great arch. The water had worn a huge arch through the rock, it was like a blowhole with a huge arch on one side. At any rate, it looked staggering, and that's not even mentioning the waterfalls.

On the opposite side to the arch, the side I was on, there was several streams that had been under the ground of the cliff, but here were a good five, ten, even fifteen metres above the rock formations of the beach. They spiralled out from the small caves, splashing down into small pools that then ran across the rock in small rivulets into the sea.The rocks around the base of the cliff were odd formations, anywhere between normal ground level and pinnacles of two metres high.

As I turned around in a circle, taking all this detail in, I heard the most unexpected thing. Music. Not the gurgling bubbling of the streams or the roar of the sea, although that was music to my ears, but the sound of playing a string instrument. It sounded like, for all the world, a harp. Who the devil would be able to live here? A hermitage, or something that could fly, that's the only way in.

I got down behind a cluster of tall rocks, standing next to a stream and getting wet from the spray from the waterfall.

"Do you think I should see who it is?" I spoke into my communicator.

Draco's voice was pretty sure when he spoke."It's being played very well, I would like to see who's responsible."

I put down my RPG, my rifle and my bag in a small crevice that was dry, and cautiously crawled and climb along the rocks, keeping high and covered from the direction of the sound. I lay prostrate over a collection of one and a half metre boulders, and looked for the source.

It was fairly easy to spot. This area was sandy, and there was a narrow strip of it between the sea and a small shack like building against the wall of the cliff. This area was free of jutting rocks, and one on the opposite side of the sandy patch to where I was was flat and straight enough for a long seat. It was on this seat where the creature who was playing the music was. She was indeed playing a small strung harp, about a ruler length high, it was not very big, but it had many varying length strings.

But now I paid full attention to the creature itself, and my initial guesses were completely wrong, or rather themselves, for there was more than one. They were absolutely astonishing, and very beautiful creatures.

They were very elvish in facial features, sharp and yet loving. And they also had the top half of a humanoid, with developed breasts. But from there on the resemblance to elves faded. After the lower chest, the body tapered into a long coil of a tail, much like a mermaid, except the end of the tail was a line of green and blue feathers. The scales looked more snake than fish as well.

To further confuse my identification, they had wings. Easily five metre wingspan when fully outstretched, the colours of the wings were multi coloured, green, blue and even the darker shades of purple and violet. The colour of their skin was the most tanned flesh tone, a healthy bronzed body. Their hair was more long feathers, of the same colours as the eagle wings. Some of the feathers were a metre long. The mer-tail was at least six feet in length, meaning if one lay down in a straight line, it was easily going on ten feet in length.

And as to how many there were, make it, eleven. Ten of them were lying in positions of immense comfort while listening to the eleventh, who was sitting on the rock, playing the enchanting melody on the harp. It was carved from some kind of intricate metal, and strung well. Someone here had the ability to work with metal. The creatures wore nothing, and I quickly and quietly took my shirt off, rolled it up and lobbed it back towards my kit. I had a scanner in my pocket, but wouldn't place it yet. So the others sat down on a nearby bench back on Central, while I lay comfortably on my flat rock overlooking the scene.

The player would really be the only one who could see me, but she was too entranced in her own playing, her eyes were closed as she strummed the strings with infinite confidence. The others were looking at her or lying down in a curve, eyes closed as if in sleep. An errant tail twitched here, a roll of the head there, they were all awake, just listening. One by the water gently brought her tail back and forth through the water, stirring it up. One or two were gently swaying to the tune.

After another three or four minutes, the harpist plucked a final arpeggio and finished, setting the instrument on her lap gently, breathing slowly and gently. The others gently began to applaud, and I followed suit, it was worth an ovation. The player looked up, opening her eyes, and she looked up at me. Her look was one of surprise, but also of gratitude, glad to have pleased me. She gave a little nod at me, and then at the other eleven. None actually saw the gesture to me. and they spoke to her. Their voice was soft and lilting, beautiful like they were.

"Well done, Iaeliana, it sounds beautiful." one said.

"You have composed a truly breath taking work, Iae." another replied, stroking the player's tail feathers in appreciation.

Iaeliana smiled and looked down, her wings flexing."Even one of the mer-men has been listening, I must have been playing too loudly." I failed to get the implication of what she had called me.

"Not at all, Iaeliana."I replied, as everyone turned and looked at me," I was near the waterfall, it was like spring after winter."

"You are too kind. What is your name?"

"I am Alduin, mistress."

"So how did you get up there?" Iaeliana asked, smiling," I must be pretty good for you to make the effort to get up there."

"I didn't wish to interrupt the song, here seemed like a decent vantage point."

"Are you coming down, now I have finished?"

I nodded to the invitation,and brought my legs around, sliding down the boulder and landing next to one of the creatures. There was silence as I stood straight, and I realised something.

She had called me a mer-man. She had assumed that I had a tail, hence the reference to effort getting up there. She never had guessed I was not one of their relations, and all of them looked somewhat scared at me and my two legs. The four nearest the water dived in with splashes, and rippled away at great speed. The six on the ground backed away hurriedly, coiling, and Iaeliana just looked stunned.

I looked briefly confused, and then clicked."Oh." I said intelligently, and then raised both hands." No, you mistake me, I mean no harm to anyone." I added.

One of the near ones, against the wall, looked exceptionally doubtful. I turned and opened both palms to her. I took a single step, and things happened rather fast.

Her tail struck out, coiling around my leg with viper like speed. I barely had time to react before I was flung onto my back. I landed hard on the sand, and another of them hit me hard, trying to pin me on the ground.

I closed my eyes, and concentrated hard, my hands gripping her shoulders. With huge effort, these creatures weigh about as much as Silverine at least, I pushed both arms straight, levering her off me.

"Enough!" Iaeliana shouted. The one fighting me stopped, and as she lay on top of my legs and chest with one hand on the ground, I let go and placed both hands on the sand, showing my submission.

"He may not be one of us, or the mer-men, but he appreciates our music, he is not barbaric." that's all she knew.

I could feel the tail on the one on me coiling around my legs, keeping them pinned in a vice grip.

"What are they that he has, that we don't?" the one that had knocked me down asked timidly.

"The name for them is legs, they allow me to stand up and walk around." I said, aware that both of them were being slowly crushed.

"And he seems to have clothes made to suit." Iaeliana noted."Very few mer-men wear clothes at all. Who are you, and why are you here?"

"My name is Alduin, my purpose here is one of exploration. I herald from a planet in the sky, millions of years away. I was sent here to record knowledge of the species that roam this planet, and whether they would be friendly to our races." I said, feeling the one of top me uncoil briefly but still holding me tight.

"Kyianri, let him up." one of them said, and I felt the tail uncoil, and the weight disappear from my chest, although not off my legs. They still looked a little scared of me.

"Alduin, you have proof of this claim?" Iaeliana asked. I nodded.

"If everyone would like to form a circle, I will summon those I journey with. I was sent down here to find a clear place for everyone else."

"How many are there of you?" I noticed those who had dived in the water were now by the water edge, their arms on the rock, looking at me.

"There are four others. The reason I was chosen is that I am one of the least intimidating, but I promise you we mean to cause you no harm."I switched to Centralite," Get rid of your obvious weapons, and be ready to teleport. I don't think they want to hurt us, just they were surprised." I heard vague shufflings in the background of my headset. Iaeliana thought on this.

"Very well, Alduin. Show us."

I grabbed my scanner from my pocket, and drove it spike down into the sandy ground. Kyianri looked doubtfully at it, her weight still on top of my legs. They were elegant in everything they did, and I noticed her tail flickered back and forth, leaving small arcs in the sand. I heard a bang in my headset, and I began counting down out loud from fifty five.

I felt Kyianri tense as I got to five, and a second after I got to zero, my colleagues arrived around the scanner. Kyianri grabbed me tightly, looking scared at them in fear, even to the point she'd take hold of me.

I was thus unable to see anything because her head was against mine, and all I could see was Ryan's and Draco's legs.

"Look, I can understand they don't look like you, but my legs are losing circulation. Could you get off?"I suggested, wincing, and Kyianri rolled off me, scooting back to Iaeliana. I got up unsteadily, helped by Simba, and nodded at the dumbstruck creatures.

"Right, we're all here, Iaeliana."

"I can see that." she managed.

I nodded and turned, speaking in Centralite."We're going to have to split up here. Simba, Draco, you have your aerial abilities, could you go and do some searches of the surrounding area?"

Both of them nodded. Javid added he would go with them, and he climbed on the back of the dragon. Draco took off with the wolf, flying vertically and then going over the lip of the cliff and out of sight.

Simba found a clear spot, changed into his Apache form, and flew out through the arch, scanning the water for anymore of these creatures.

"There is an entire city under the water, Alduin." he reported, and then the transformed lion flew away.

I turned to Iaeliana."So what do you call your race?"

"Our name is Lillieth. We live here in the cove, as it's sheltered from the elements."

"Yes, I noticed the city under the water. How many are you?"

"About a thousand."

Ryan spoke to me."I went back to my room to get some swimming equipment, I'll go down and survey the city while you keep these ones talking."

"O.K., Ryan."I nodded,"Go down to my kit, teleport my weapons back to Central, and get changed. Could you bring my bag when you get back?"

"I will do, Alduin." Ryan skirted around the rocks heading back the way I had come.

"So you want to know about us?" Kyianri asked.

"Not just about you personally, just your race in general, how you live and your technology. My friend you just saw walk off, his name is Ryan, he wishes to visit your city, and see it first hand."

"Are your race water breathers?"

"No, our race cannot breathe underwater, but we have devices that compensate for that." Ryan had doubtless brought a water converter, Silverine had tested them on Cetacean's planet. Speaking of which, why didn't we get the dolphin to do some aqua exploration. Silverine cut in, the Lupogriff must have been reading my mind.

"Abby's just gone to get Cetacean, Alduin."

Ryan arrived back, in flippers and black wet suit. He had a mouth organ sized device in his mouth, and when he spoke, his voice sounded mechanical, but his lips stayed in place.

"I am ready." he said, his voice sounded like a Dalek from Doctor Who. He handed me my bag, and the four in the water separated down the middle as Ryan stood by the water's edge. Iaeliana spoke.

"Show Ryan what he wishes to find out about. I hope he will be satisfied."

"I always am." Ryan replied, through the converter, and as I ruffled through my bag for my melodica, my fellow human flung himself forwards into a dive. It looked very cinematic, and he went into the water smoothly with hardly a splash. Two of those in the water exchanged glances of appreciation, and followed him.

Cetacean arrived at this point, and dived into the water, flying quickly away through the water. Only I noticed him, because the four in the water were engrossed with Lewis,and I had shuffled away from the water and so the other seven were looking at me.

I drew out my melodica, and tentatively asked to sit down next to Iaeliana. The Lillieth smiled, and nodded, and I gently sat next to her, feeling her wings brush my back.

"So what do you want here?"

"I am always interested in music, and have wondered, where do you keep these instruments from getting wet?"

"The little house you see there." she pointed at the shack."We keep all of these in there."

"Do you have any other musical instruments?" I asked.

"Only variety in size." Kyianri replied, now getting enthusiastic in the questions. They were warming to me, I was on a topic they enjoyed,"Do you mean there are others?"

I gently put the melodica to my lips, and began to play Greensleeves. All of them got in close, to look at this peculiar instrument. They did not know of blowing instruments, and they watched enraptured as I blew. I finished the song, and Iaeliana requested holding the melodica. I was all too happy to, and handed her the instrument. Under my instructions, she put her lips to it, and putting down her finger on the middle note, C, blew. It emitted a clear but kind of loud note.

"You don't need to blow hard, but just enough to get a firm note." I suggested, and Iaeliana tried again, and this time it was perfect. She blew a different note, and then started blowing each note individually. Kyianri looked at her fellow Lillieth, and asked if she could have a go.

"By all means, pass it round." I smiled,"Could I ask one question though?"

"What?" the Lillieth replied.

"I can't help noticing you are all female, are your male counterparts in the city?"

Kyianri blushed heavily, as did a couple of the others. Iaeliana giggled.

"No,"she said with the universal chuckle of embarrassment," Lillieth are actually part of the mermish group, but Lillieth can only be female, or at least we've never come across a male. Once every couple of months, a couple of lucky mer-men come from their tribe over a couple of headlands. The other thing, only Lillieth can give birth to Lillieth, although they may also give birth to a mermaid."

"So you need them to reproduce?" I asked, and Iaeliana nodded, blushing.

"Just out of interest, you have every right to do nothing, but how?"

They were blushing now, properly. Kyianri lay back, and I noticed a slight flaw in the lines of snake scales. I nodded.

"Our race is much like that too." I took off my trousers, and sat back, the six around me and Iaeliana looking at my nakedness. Iaeliana was still playing around with my melodica, she was experimenting with pressing more than one note.

"I imagine that it's rare that you get your sexual enjoyment, if they only come around occasionally."

Xanithes, the one who had knocked me down, giggled and looked up. I smiled.

"I'll take that as a no, then?"I noticed several were trying not to look at me.

Kyianri smiled." We have our own ways of enjoying one another. Devices, you might call them."

Xanithes was heading towards the shack, unnoticed. I guided the subject away from sex.

As Iaeliana gave the melodica to Kyianri, Xanithes came back, holding something behind her back. The others noticed her look, and Iaeliana spoke.

"I suppose he did ask. Show him."

It was much like a feel doe. It was V-shaped, and on one end was a bulbous part that was meant to be inserted in the one doing the work. It was made of a special type of rock, and I looked astonished.

"You use rock?"

"We are great crafters of rock. We have steam channels around the corner of the cove, underground heated strips that allow us to bubble off what we don't need."

I repeated this in Centralite to Ryan Lewis, and he bubbled back a response saying he had heard. I held the device critically. It was thick, about the width of my own cock when in bionic form, and while the bulbous part was slightly wider and about seven centimetres long, the shaft was a good eleven centimetres. I felt a wicked thought coming to my mind at this point, they were trying to be helpful, after all, why not a bit of a demonstration?

"So can I see how this is done?"I asked, completely innocently. Xanithes flushed deeply. Iaeliana blew a discord in surprise, and Kyianri looked at the floor.

"Well..." Xanithes began.

"If you feel a bit shy, I could always make it fair, by giving one of you some enjoyment." I suggested.

Iaeliana looked upwards, Xanithes still looked a tad red, and Kyianri looked directly at me.

"That sounds fair enough." the Lillieth looked shy of me, but her tone sounded firm.

Everyone looked at their fellow in some surprise. I smiled at her frankness.

"Of course you are allowed to fuck me in return once I've finished, so you get to show me how it feels."

Kyianri went slightly red, but she nodded. This was enough for Xanithes and Iaeliana, who paired up. They could only fuck one way, facing one another, like several aquatic races, and Xanithes inserted the bulbous end of the feeldoe into herself. She gave a sigh of pleasure. I noticed the remaining four were pairing up for some sex also, one had a feeldoe, the other was doing things like a old school lesbian, and licking the other Lillieth's vagina with her tongue.

Kyianri lay on her back, her wings outspread and her tail pointed out like an arrow. I got down from the seat, lying on top of her. Her wings closed around my back, as she wrapped both arms around me. I couldn't do that, because of her wings, so I took her by the back of her head, and began to gently make out with her.

Her response was firm and immediate, pulling me deeply into a kiss. One hand was pressed firmly against the back of my head, forcing me to kiss her, which was no bad thing.

Her tail wrapped around my leg, developing all the symptons of lock-tail, and I gently rubbed against her vagina with my cock. God, she was after this, she used her free hand to try and push me into her.I broke off the kiss firmly.

"I take it you haven't done this in a while." she shook her head vigorously, and pulled me back down.

Well, if she was that in need, I had better get into character. I brought out a pair of handcuffs from my bag and wordlessly cuffed Lillieth's right arm. She struggled in surprise, but as she wasn't expecting I grabbed her other arm and managed to cuff that behind her back.

"Alduin, what....why?"

"You want me to fuck you until you beg for me to stop?"

The Lillieth nodded, desiring that exactly. I smiled.

"Those cuffs are used for restraining people, and I'm using them to stop you interfering."

I thrust my cock deep into her vagina, and the Lillieth moan, lying back. It was uncomfortable for her, she said so, but she wordlessly submitted to my suddenly dominant manner, letting me fuck her. I lay down on top of the half elf and began thrusting fiercely. Aqua creatures tended to have to work harder, and the Lillieth was no different.

Kyian'ri realised it quickly, and began to look a bit red. I stopped and realised myself, and thought on this, before getting off and teasing her vagina with my hand. They were quite flexible, and I felt her pussy open very obligingly as I wormed deeper. The ease with which I got my fingers in made me think of fisting the mermaidic creature, and I slipped my thumb underneath my fingers, pushing very firmly.

Kyianri wriggled in protest at this large size trying to penetrate her, but I could feel her canal opening with slow but steady movements. Kyianri's tail flopped a bit, and then with a suddenness that took me by surprise, my arm slid in up to the elbow as I punched a wall inside her. Kyianri moaned and gasped.

"You, you got your arm in my womb." she managed. I began to slowly thrust back and forth with my arm, and instantly this was more effective then my human cock.

I sat on top of her tail, because after the first few strokes her tail swung into my leg as she writhed. Thus completely pinned, the Lillieth jerked and moaned. Iaeliana came over.

"How did you do that?"

"Are you telling me you've never experimented with your hands?" I asked, still gently punching Kyianri's womb with every in stroke.

"Not like that, no."

"Xanithes, could you lie down?" the Lillieth obediently lay down next to Kyianri, clearly interested in feeling this sensation I was giving her fellow Lillieth. Under my instructions, Iaeliana began to worm her hand into Xanithes' vagina, and, possibly because she was bigger and stronger than me, she soon jerked as her hand got past the obstructions, and then began to gently fist fuck Xanithes.

Soon the howls began to come as I began to thrust harder, and Kyianri gave a huge screech as she orgasmed, her load flowing all over my arm and lubricating it thoroughly with her juice. This only spurred me to thrust back and forth harder, and Kyianri began to moan and howl at a regular rate as the lubrication allowed me to pummel her harder. Xanithes orgasmed, and as she did, I removed my hand from Kyianri, and instructed Iaeliana to do the same.

I placed my hands palm to palm, and then closed my fingers, interlocking them, and beginning to push this combined fist into the mermaidic creature. She gasped.

"I can't....possibly...unh!" she finished on a moan as her already stretched vagina went a little wider, and after some not so gentle persuasion, I got both hands into the Lillieth's womb. Iaeliana did the same to Xanithes, and the pair of us began to thoroughly abuse the two on the ground.

Kyianri orgasmed eight times before she begged me to stop, and my hands were absolutely covered in her juices. Xanithes only lasted six, but she had a larger creature doing it to her. I pulled out and began to gently push at Kyianri's vagina, trying to gentle coax it back to it's original size. I began to clean my hands, and I uncuffed Kyianri as Iaeliana removed her hands from Xanithes.

Then all three of them pounced me, and Iaeliana sat with me on her lap. I paused.

"Now what's this game, girls?"

Iaeliana smiled and licked my cheek." You taught us a new way of pleasuring ourselves, you deserve to get off too, and we know how to do that to a male." Kyianri and Xanithes bent down and began to lick my cock, Kyianri taking the top of my shaft in her mouth and Xanithes taking one side.

Being licked by two at once was an entirely new experience, and it had the same effect as using both fists on Kyianri, my orgasm came faster than I was used to, and much stronger. I rested back against the rock and my hands, moaning in pleasure as the two Lillieth played, and before long they got me to howl as I ejaculated my load into Kyianri's mouth.

Draco arrived back as I finished, and he smirked at the scene.

"Enjoying yourself, Alduin?"

"I am indeed. I imagine one of these Lillieth would desire your company however, what with your bigger cock and faster thrust." and before long Draco was fucking Iaeliana, and Cetacean appeared at the water's edge.

"Alduin?" he asked. I scooted over, as Kyianri noticed the dolphin.

"Yes, Cetacean?" I replied.

"I've had a look around the majority of the headland, and also surveyed the mermish area. Ryan is currently unavailable, I think you know why..."

"I can already guess."

Kyianri made it over to us, and she looked at Cetacean.

"This is not a creature I have seen before."

"Indeed not, this is one of our few aqua scouts. He is called Cetacean, and he is a dolphin. Cetacean, this is Kyianri."

The dolphin greeted the Lillieth, and they went swimming off towards the city. I opened my link.

"So Ryan, how bad is it?"

"Ever had 500 horny women after you?" he replied, mechanically in tone.

"Cetacean is providing back up..."

"Oh joy, what am I supposed to do with two hundred and fifty Lillieth?"

"Where are you?"

"I'm in one of their little caves, with about five of them. They're taking it in turns to fuck themselves on me, it's like being caught in a milking machine."

"Silverine," I changed channels," Can the tentacle monster work underwater?"

"It can, why do you want to know?"

"Ryan's got....an unusual problem, and he requires assistance."

"Silverine, it's really bad!" Ryan interjected. I tried not to laugh at my boyfriend's plight,I had been in that position before.

Fortunately for my boyfriend, Silverine did send a tentacle monster down there, seeing as we had more than one, or more than a half dozen if we have to be accurate, and Ryan broke the surface not long after, getting out of the water.

"Alduin, as much fun as that was, can we go home?"

"Feeling a little exhausted, are we?"

"No kidding."

"Sure, go ahead." the human teleported on the spot, and as he did, a couple more Lillieth came from behind me.

"Alduin, can we play with you?"

Half an hour later, I practically collapsed on my bed next to Ryan, who hadn't even bothered to get up the ladder.

"Enthusiastic lot, I thought." I commented.

"Yes, very. What did you get from them?"

I pulled out a hair feather from my bag, and showed it to Ryan. He smiled and sat up, observing it.

"You know the worst bit about it, Ryan?"

"What's that, dear?"

"They've left Draco an invitation saying anyone from Central who so desires to can go there and fuck themselves silly."

"I reckon we won't be seeing that tentacle monster for a while." Ryan chuckled.

"All in all, one hundred percent successful trip."

"But we lost a tentacle monster, and fucked until we could cum no more..."

"All in all, one hundred percent successful trip." I repeated, and Ryan laughed at me.