Shattered Glass Chapter 3: Stranger In Two Ways
Stranger
Before I knew it I was being pulled along sort of against my will by Alki. I didn't mind following him, the big kitty was sexy and looking at his backside almost made me want to murr. The only thing I did mind though was the fact that he was straight, and that I didn't know him.
We ventured further into the woods then I would've liked to go, some 1 or 2 miles deeper, and I was getting tired. Sure I could walk 10 or so miles straight, but jogging was a different story. If it wasn't for Alki I would have stopped 9560 feet ago. My legs felt like they were on fire, and my foot pads felt like someone had been running sandpaper across them. However I knew I would not be able to stop the tank if I wanted to. I guessed that If I would've he'd just pick me up and throw me on his shoulders. Damn jocks and their strong bodies...
We finally stopped and a clearing that opened up to a cliff that faced the town from what I could guess some 400 feet down. I knew the cliff and you could see it from just about anywhere in town, just I never had the interest to be up here. Being here though I realized how beautiful our town was, and not only that, the sky and horizon seemed vaster then anyone could imagine.
As I looked around the sky, I saw the usual things such as cloud, a flock of birds, and I saw something unusual. It wasn't very often that spaceships came or left our planet's atmosphere. It was to say the least a tedious task since gravity made their immense mass turn into actual weight. Meaning if something had the mass 15,000 tones in space, that's how much force it took from the engines to maneuver it efficiently. Now on a planet with gravity, not only did it have its mass to move, but also the effective weight to keep up as well.
The ship I saw I could guess was a cruiser. I could roughly guess it was about 400 to 500 meters long and that fit the ship class. Cruisers weren't big considering we had ships that were literally kilometers long, but those were built in space and stayed in space.
The ship was entering the atmosphere in our direction, heading toward a small spaceport some 200 or 300 miles behind us. As it lowered itself in one could see its shields flicker as it fought off the heat as if it were no more than a mosquito.
As the ship started to pass us overhead the sudden gain of air-pressure and the feeling of the anti-gravity system made me a little uneasy. It was like gaining weight while breathing helium. Then when the ship was right above us, it dispersed a massive blue ball of pure energy around itself.
"What the hell was that!?" I couldn't help but ask out loud
"That was an energy dissipation from the shield array. It can't enter low orbit without draining the shield capacitors. Else when it came to close to something it would electrocute the shit out of it. Thought you would like this." Alki finished with a grin on his muzzle.
"How did you know I liked... loved spaceships!?" I said confused
"I didn't, just thought you might from the way you were suddenly awake in history with all that mumbo-jumbo and something about some rail system." Alki confessed
I could have hugged the kitty. In fact I almost did but then my "restriction systems" held me down and placed me back into my morning depression, having to remember that I was of course alone. I watched the ship disappear in the other end of the sky until it was too low to be seen over the treetops. Just before it was out of view, I did manage to get a glimpse of its main engines power down. It was probably the most serene but lively sound I had ever heard in my life.
"Hmm now I'm hot" Alki announced and I immediately looked in his direction. He sighed and added "From being in direct sunlight and not moving. You have no idea what it is like to have black fur. It's like a convection oven when I am not moving. Plus I'm bigger than the average panther haven't you noticed? What do you say we go back to that wonderful spring back there and go for a swim?"
As I was about to protest he grabbed my arm again and started leading me on. I hated being leaded or following and I'd be damned if I was going to let him pull me along again. That jock needed to find some other toy to play with. I stopped those thoughts for a second to allow reason to fall into its cracks. He did find me alone, made my day more eventful, and did manage to time, perfectly to say the least, the event of a space ship entering our planet. Hell ships like that only entered orbit if there was something important going on, and they would usually be in a large fleet. Landing was a different story, I've never seen a ship land before.
After letting reason take over I allowed him to keep pulling me along, thankful this time we weren't running like jail-breakers to get to where we were going. During our 30 minute walk I took in some scenery I really never bothered to before and realized how amazing the small things were. Of course I sort of did this because I was "nervous" so to speak even though I didn't show it on the outside. I was told during the early years of my life that I fucked up so much and that I was worthless that I didn't really get nervous nowadays; I just tried to find something to distract me.
When we reached the resort Alki let go of me and walked straight to the spring and knelt down. Before I could register what he was possibly going to do he had his head in the water moving it around to get the water to seep through his fur. A few seconds later he brought his head up and looked me dead in the eyes.
"You've ever been swimming in here? It's fantastic for a spring since it isn't that cold." He said with a grin on his face. Honestly I never went swimming in it, though I did a few times stand in the shallows or wade up to my waist.
Alki started taking off his shirt and at first I thought it was no big deal, that is until he had it off. I knew he was "big" but he actually had tone and not just pure muscle mass. All his muscles were nicely formed, a pure 6 pack with the Diaphragm muscle showing above, noticeable Deltoids on his shoulder of which each strand of muscle was clearly seen as they moved around, and overall very tone arms. Hell he was hot, and I enjoyed looking at him.
He turned around to face his backpack and I noted his backside, including his Lats and shoulders which were very nice just like the front side of him. He rummaged through his stuff for a minute and then got up suddenly and looked back at the spring
"Well, this isn't going to stop me." he said as he started undoing his pants. "I may not have any shorts on me but going naked is just as good."
At that I turned away to find something to distract. Last thing I wanted to see was a straight panther swimming in a spring. Actually that last thing I wanted was to be forced to join said panther in the swim, naked, not knowing I'm gay and freak him out. Then I would truly be the "Gay Ass Fag" of the school. God that would be terrible, well worse since it's already terrible.
A paw grabbed me on the shoulder and pulled me out of my nervous fit back to reality. I ducked quickly and quick stepped a few yards not looking back. However it was futile as the panther stepped in front of me and blocked my path. I knew he was naked and I didn't dare look down. I looked straight at his face and quickly made up an excuse not to join him.
"I didn't bring any shorts either and I don't like swimming in the nude" I quickly said as he was about to put both paws on my shoulders to push me back to the water
"Oh darn. What never been naked with another guy? Don't tell me your scared Husky. Big Ol' Kitty like me ain't scared, and I have plenty reason to be" He said pointing an extended claw further down his body then I wished to look
"I'll just sit over here and let you have fun man. I uh... just don't feel like swimming is all I guess" I lied obviously. I would have loved swimming with the Panther, but if it's one thing I know, it's that you should not allow yourself to be teased by a straight guy. Always end in pain and depression.