A Life Transformed
#4 of Winter
Everything was blurry, half formed shapes swimming around in an unseen sea of nothingness. Jason was waking up, his eyes half open, then his new senses slammed into him. He could smell Sara lying wrapped around him, he could smell himself on her, he could feel his horns on her pillow and where they touched her horns, and he could feel the claws on his fingers.
"Gah!" he exclaimed, screwing his eyes shut as he tried to process all this new sensory data, only to feel something stroking his right horn.
He opened his eyes to see Sara's face, her arm was moving slightly, her hand stroking along his horn,
She smiled at him, "Good morning Jace, welcome to your new life." she kissed him on the lips, then became aware of movement near her legs,
"Feeling feisty this morning?" she asked, rubbing his emerging shaft with her furry leg, gaining a moan from Jason as reply.
With a smile Sara slipped beneath the covers, sliding her body down her lover, her hair brushing over his runic scars as she licked his chest, trailing her tongue down his body, over his navel and up his stub covered member, increasing it's length as more of it began to protrude from its sheath. Sara took his length in her mouth and sucked gently, running her tongue around his penis, licking the stubs and sending jolts of pleasure down his quivering shaft, causing Jason to groan in pleasure, his hand snaking down to stroke her horns, then lift her head off of his member, gesturing for her to return to his head,
"What?" she asked, confused as to why he had stopped her when he was obviously enjoying the treatment,
"Turn around" Jason said, throwing off the cover, baring his demonhood to the room.
Sara turned around, returning to her work between Jason's legs as his fingers began to stroke her soft nether-lips, sending shivers along her body, down her tongue and into Jason's own flesh. Suppressing his moan Jason spread Sara's lips and snaked his tongue inside her, causing her to gasp, as best she could with a mouth full of his shaft, and began to move his long tongue around, tasting his way deep inside his love a she licked along his length, her tongue twisting a path through the range of subs lining his penis, stimulating as many as possible.
With a twist of his tongue Jason started her writhing in pleasure before letting out a cry as her sweet nectar flooded out of her and into Jason's waiting mouth. She closed her mouth around his demonhood and drew her tongue slowly across it's head, causing Jason to thrust slightly into her mouth and release his load with a small growl.
She drank it down and turned around, feeling Jason's tongue slide from her vagina,
"Mmmm, good morning Jace," She said, kissing him lightly on the lips,
"A good morning to you too my love" replied Jason, before kissing her back.
"Hi Daddy,"
They had returned to Ishma's house to find him eating breakfast in his small dining room, reading a newssheet, which he held up,
"I expect you two will be in here tomorrow" he said, "Good morning to you both,"
Jason bowed, "Hello Ish...Father,"
Ishma frowned, "You don't need to bow to me no more son, we're family now," He said, "and relax a little, I'm not going snap your head off"
Jason smiled a little,
"Oh daddy," Sara said, hugging her father, "We do still need your blessing for this,"
Ishma nodded, "Yes I know, and you do have my blessing, you two shall be Mates," he hugged his daughter back,
"However," he continued, "There is one small problem."
Jason looked puzzled, "What's that father?" he asked, feeling a little more comfortable in saying it, but not by much,
"Mateship has to be approved by both parental groups, and you no longer have parents" Ishma explained
Sara's face fell, "You mean I can't? We can't?"
"No," He said, before coming back with, "but, as creator of Jason's current form, either me or Zahn could approve as Jason's surrogate parent. As I have to approve for you, Zahn must approve for Jason."
The lovers breathed a sigh of relief, and, after Ishma cleared away his breakfast things, they set out to Zahn's house to receive his blessing.
When Zahn opened the door he no longer had his razor-plumed wing, he had another metal arm instead. Jason was about to inquire about the change when Ishma began to talk,
"Zahn, we need to come in, we need to discuss our children's Mateship"
Zahn stood there, puzzled, "Our children? Ishma, you're the only one with the kid, and that's Sara, Jason here...oh, wait, no I understand, we created Jason as he is...you have Sara, I need to..." He was rambling again, so Ishma cut him off,
"Inside Zahn, perhaps over Chia?" Ishma motioned towards the inside of the Reptilin Demon's home,
"Oh, yes, of course, of course, come in, I'll put some water on to boil" He said, turning away, grabbing things with his main two arms, his third arm beckoning them inside,
"That, is creepy" decided Jason, walking inside, holding Sara's hand in his own.
"Shhh," Said Sara, suppressing a giggle, "Don't talk like that about your Dad"
That brought a smile to Jason's face, and elicited a chuckle from Ishma as they made their way over to an area formed by three sofa-like furnishings ranged around a table. Zahn reappeared with a tray that held four cups some pots and a jug. He passed the three of them cups and placed one on the table for himself before he returned to his kitchen to fetch what looked like a large white teapot with red runic script written on it.
"Got a runic sentence in there that keep the Chia hot," boasted Zahn a he set it down, "Just have to remember to place a metal disc in the hollow below to fuel the thing. I forgot to do that once on one of my prototypes and it started to convert the pot itself for fuel, now that was funny, or would have been if it wasn't going to release hot Chia everywhere."
Finished, Zahn poured everyone a cup of Chia, the blood red liquid filling their cups to a line marked on the inside of each one in gold.
"Paler?" Zahn asked Jason, holding up the jug in one hand, "Sweetening?" he held up a pot in another hand, still pouring the Chia with a third hand, the big grin on his face clearly telling Jason that he loved having three arms.
Jason decided that this was the demon equivalent of tea and had it the same way, milk and two sugars. After stirring it in he took a sip, and instantly waved goodbye to tea, this stuff tasted a little like tea, but with added cherries and raspberries along with a hint of a taste Jason had never encountered before.
When everyone had their drinks Zahn placed the Chiapot on top of what looked like a metal coaster and settled himself onto one of the sofas, Ishma sat in another and Sara and Jason shared the third.
"Now, as the closest thing Jason has to a parent here, I have to give my blessing for him to become the lovely Sara's mate" began Zahn, "well, I'm going to have to say...Yes, of course you have my blessing," he sniffed a little and what looked like a tear rolled down his face, "My baby's all grown up, he's getting Mated and everything, I never thought I'd see this day, if only your mother could be here...give me a hug son."
Zahn spread his arms wide, then burst out laughing, along with Ishma, which set off Sara and Jason, who had been looking at Zahn like he had gone insane,
"Ah ha, ah, ah, hoo. Sorry about that, I just never expected to be giving away my kid, figuratively speaking, and, I always wanted to be the overdramatic one, I just thought it would be so much fun." Zahn wiped the tears from his eyes, "also, I made you both presents,"
He pulled something wrapped in a red cloth out of one of his pockets and placed it on the table, unwrapping it to reveal two large, matching, silver rings with runic inscriptions encircling their center,
"I made you your Mate rings," he said, "These are about...no, they are the 20th pair of Mate ring's I've been commissioned to make over the years, although, I suppose that, if I made them as my gift, they weren't really commissioned, but never mind, I'm sure it counts."
Sara picked them up, turning the silver bands over in her hands, one was marked with her name, the other read 'Jason' and she imagined that they were a perfect fit,
"How did you get our measurements?" she asked,
Zahn smiled, "I've had your hornsize around for a while my dear, I did make you some jewelry, remember? And I had Jason's hornsize because I, well Ishma really, made his horns."
The lovers nodded and Ishma took the rings, folding them back up in their cloth.
"We must go now, got to go sort things out with the priest," Ishma said, draining his cup and standing, "I'll tell you the time of the ceremony and I'll see you there," this was directed at Zahn, who nodded as the other two stood and followed Ishma out, Sara hugging Zahn and Jason bowing before being caught in a three armed hug from his 'father'.
Jason was being taught to write his name in runic, apparently it was needed for the ceremony they were going to be taking part in later on that day. He was drawing the four runes in sand with his index claw, noticing that there didn't seem to be a runic equivalent to 'O' only a mark on the next rune that signified that an 'o' sound had preceded it, hence his name was only four runes long.
"It's gonna take me a long while to get used to Runic" he said to Sara, tilting his head to see her face, since her head was alongside his own, her arms around his chest and her bust pressing against his back.
"Good thing you have expert tutors then" she told him with a little smile, answering Jason's unspoken question with, "I work in the local library, and I know some pretty complex Runic dialects, also, daddy and Zahn are skilled Litromancers and know loads in those fields."
Jason made an 'ah' sound and wrote his name out again in the sand.
They stood in-front of a three story building near the center of the town, the library. Sara had decided to take him to see her best, and only true friend, and to invite her to the Mating ceremony, or she'd never hear the end of it.
The two of them walked between two huge bookshelves stuffed with thick tomes bound in covers of many materials and colours; Red, green, black, leather, something that looked uncomfortably like flesh and even a metal clad book that was as thick as Jason's hand was wide.
"Sara!" came a shout from above,
And a figure slid down a ladder that led to the higher reaches of the bookshelves. The figure turned out to be a red furred Vulpis demon dressed in a dark purple skirt with a red vest top covered in purple runic designs. The Vulpis' wide, twisting horns curved back over her vulpine head then curved back on themselves slightly near the tips and were bedecked with rings and sashes but sported horntip jewelry similar to Sara's.
"Caala!" Sara ran over to the other demon, dragging Jason with her and hugging her friend as they met,
Caala held her friend out a arm's length, "Where have you been? I haven't seen you for days, and you didn't even tell me you were going anywhere," She chastised the Fawn Demon, a hurt look in her eyes,
"I...I'm sorry Caala, it's just that, well something," Sara grinned a little, "or rather someone, came up, and I've been so busy you wouldn't believe it."
"Someone eh? Would it happen to be the delightful male standing behind you?" Caala peered around Sara to see Jason,
Jason bowed to her, "Hi, I'm Jason" he said, causing a look of confusion to spread over the Vulpis' face,
"Sara, is this...that Jason?" she asked, gaining a nod in reply, "But wasn't he human?"
Sara nodded again, "Yes, he was human, we changed him," she stated simply, as if it were no odd occurrence,
Caala's eyes widened immensely, surprise stamped on her features, Jason assumed his transformation was not a thing that happened regularly around here.
"w...who's 'we'?" she asked,
"Me, kind of, Daddy and Zahn" Sara told her, frowning at the dreamy eyed look that appeared in her friend's eyes,
"Zahn...mmmm" Caala said softly,
"Caala, are you attracted to none of your own species? Every man you've ever fancied has been a Fawn or a Reptilin" Said Sara, in mock severe tones, Jason assumed this was a long running source of amusement between the two of them.
Caala shrugged, "What can I say, I like to taste the exotic,"
"Zahn is hardly exotic" retorted Sara with a tilted smile,
"He has three arms...sometimes at least, that's exotic"
Sara shook her head at her friend's tastes,
"Your friend is a rather quiet one" stated, Caala, reaching out a paw to stroke Jason's arm, "I like quiet men,"
"No Caala, he's off limits," Sara started, before Jason caught her friend's paw,
"I tend not to speak when I have nothing to add to a conversation," he told her, "and, as Sara says, I'm already claimed"
He snaked an arm around Sara's shoulders and saw a short flash of disappointment in Caala's eyes, but then it was gone,
"Ah well, there are more around, I know Zahn is free." then she remembered something, "oh, yeah, did you want anything, or did you just pop in to say hello?"
"Caala," Sara began, "I'm hurt, you think I wouldn't find you just to talk? In any case, I am here for something, I want to invite you to our mating ceremony tonight,"
Caala let out a shriek of excitement and grabbed Sara in a tight hug, one step away from jumping up and down,
"Oh, Sara, I always knew you'd get Mated before me, oh, oh, what do I need to wear? Where is it? When?"
"Of course I was going to get Mated before you, even you know what you're like, and seeing as its the temple of Vaas, blacks and blues or purples would be fitting. Be there for sundown" Sara told her,
"Vaas?" Caala looked at her a little strangely, before Sara explained,
"Daddy,"
Caala nodded and let Sara go, bounding away gibbering something about finding clothes before her tail whipped round the corner, and she was gone.
"She was...lively," decided Jason, gaining a giggle from Sara,
"We've been friends since we were small, she also knows all about you my handsome mate-to-be," Sara told him, leading him out of the library.
Standing in a small side room, Jason looked himself over in the mirror, studying the fine clothes he now wore.
He had on a pair of black silken trousers that fell to his 'second knees', the point where his demon legs bent again below his knee, these were edged around the cuffs with blue, as was the belt keeping them up, it's silver clasp hidden below the blue trimmed black silk shirt he was wearing, over which he had a black leather vest, tied at the front with blue silk ties. Blue spidery runes decorated the shoulders of the vest and the cuffs of the shirt.
He was feeling kind of nervous, seeing as he didn't really know what a Mating ceremony entailed. He would have to be stupid to not see that it was the demon equivalent of marriage, but, besides certain things like what to say when, he hadn't been briefed much on what was going to happen.
"Ah well, at least it's happening" he mumbled to himself, "Just go along with it"
"Good attitude to have Jason," came Zahn's voice, causing Jason to jump, he hadn't heard the Reptilin Demon enter, "things are ready, the sun has set, lets get going."
Zahn was wearing just blue trimmed black trousers and a matching, three armed, shirt, his messy spines decorated with black rings, as were his fingers, on all three hands. His tail didn't sport its usual grasper, only a metal facsimile of a tailtip.
Zahn opened the door to the room and led Jason down the corridor into the main chapel of the temple, standing aside and motioning for him to continue up to the altar. Jason studied the altar a little, it was covered in a back cloth, trimmed with blue and in the center was a symbol formed by a triangle of blue with two purple lines passing through it, there was also a decoration made from the skull of something attached to a curving bone that protruded from a silver base, the triangle symbol was etched onto the skull, surrounded by a circle of runic script.
He had been told that Vaas was the bone god, protector of the dead and dying, and prayed to by warriors on the eve of battle for a merciful passing, 'A bit morbid' thought Jason, it had been Ishma's choice to hold the Mating ceremony here, for, as well as a god of the dead, Vaas was also the god of rebirth, transforming the energy of a soul and lighting the sparks of life in a new body with it, and this aspect, rebirth, was what made Vaas a usual deity for Matings to be dedicated to.
Caala waved slightly at Zahn, who twitched his third hand slightly in response, before the curtain at the other side of the room was swept aside, and Ishma walked out, followed by Sara.
Jason thought he would have to scoop his jaw up off of the floor, she looked gorgeous, she was wearing a purple trimmed long black skirt that fell to the floor with a leather bodice over a black silk shirt with long, wide sleeves, a spiraling purple runic pattern snaking its way from the cuff upwards. Sara had no horn jewelry on, apart from a purple ribbon tied around her left horn, which fell alongside her face and down her body to the bottom of the bodice.
When she reached the altar, looking at Jason with a loving smile, it took all of his self control not to grab her and kiss her.
The priest of Vaas took his place behind the altar, placing a purple cloth on the altar, on it were the two rings made by Zahn.
"Those of us gathered here are to witness the joining of these two souls, a binding of two peoples and bloodlines," began the priest, looking at the three people in attendance, nothing unusually small, Matings were usually small, private affairs. "Jason, will you take Sara, daughter of Ishma Graz-Uthar, to be your bonded Mate? To care for and love, to provide for and to defend when she cannot?"
"I will, to love, to care, to provide and to defend" said, Jason, saying his appointed lines and holding out is hand to Sara,
"And you Sara?" continued the priest,
"I will, to care, to love, to provide, to defend" Sara took Jason's offered hand, picking up one of the rings, the one made for Jason's horn, as Jason picked up her ring,
"Place the ring on your mate's horn" instructed the priest, both Sara and Jason bowing their heads and placing the ring in their hand on their mate's right horn, the cold metal sending shivers down their spines.
The priest placed two clay blocks on the altar, "Please sign your names,"
The two of them wrote their names in runic with their index claw, the clay hardening as they finished. The priest then motioned to a door behind and to the right of the altar,
"I appoint you both, bonded Mates, Your room now awaits,"
Sara led Jason to the door and, with one look back at the people in the chapel, went inside.
Zahn lent over to Caala, "To use a human name for this ceremony in a crude joke, they're off to 'tie the knot'" he whispered, causing the Vulpis demon to giggle before the three of them left the chapel, led by the priest carrying the two blocks of hardened clay and a scroll.
Sara led Jason to a plush bed in the room and sat down on the edge,
"Come here Jace, make me scream," she said, undoing the ties of the bodice and shedding both it and her shirt, bearing her pale breasts and pink nipples to Jason, who also discarded his garments on his way to her.
He knelt on the floor, taking her breasts in his hands, massaging them slightly, rubbing his thumbs around her nipples gently, his clawtip just touching her hardening pink nubs, gaining an 'oooh' from Sara. Jason lowered his head and licked Sara's nipples, bringing his mouth to her breast and biting gently on the nipple of first one breast, then moving across to the other, Sara's hands were on his head, stroking his hair and horns, causing his demonhood to slide from it's furred sheath.
Jason stood up and kissed his love, one hand on her back, leaning her down onto the bed before breaking the kiss and moving his head down her body, trailing his tongue along her, over each breast, across her stomach, over her navel, until he reached her skirt, the belt of which he undid, then he slid the silken clothing down her legs, letting it go to pool on the floor around Sara's feet.
He licked along her slit with his long tongue, slowly dragging it over her winking clit as her folds moistened, then he spread her lips with his fingers and drove his tongue deep into his mate, causing her to gasp as his tongue made its undulating way inside her wet tunnel.
Sara started moaning as Jason twisted his tongue around, stimulating her insides along the length of it, her gasps coming quicker and shorter until he felt her walls clamp down, trying to grasp his tongue as she came with a cry, Jason drinking her sweet juices.
"Jace, I want, I need you in me, now, please" Said Sara, panting slightly from her orgasm,
"Happy to oblige, my love" replied Jason as he stood up and positioned his stub covered demonhood at her slick entrance, bending over her and kissing her gently on the lips,
"I love you Sara" and with that he thrust into her, his stubs rubbing against her walls as his member drove deep inside her, coming to a stop when his knot touched her vagina,
Jason pulled out, almost all the way, until just the tip of his penis remained inside his lover, then he thrust forwards, impaling her once again upon his shaft, the feeling of his stubs rubbing against her walls causing both of them to cry out in pleasure, Sara raising her legs and locking them behind Jason, just above his ass, to encourage him to dive deeper into her. He kissed her deeply as he continued to thrust into her, his tongue entwining with hers as they thrust at each other with increasing vigour until his knot passes into her with a 'pop', adding to the stimulation they were both receiving, pushing Jason's member deep into Sara, the head resting at the entrance to her womb.
The two lovers locked horns, rubbing them against each other, sending waves of pleasure cascading through the both of them, and it was only a matter of time before one of them gave in. Sara screamed and came the hardest she had ever cum, her orgasm shaking her body as she clamped down hard on Jason's demonhood resting within her, causing him to thrust into her one last time, hilting his entire shaft before letting go with a loud growl, shooting round after round of hot cum into Sara's womb, the feeling of being filled giving Sara another mini-orgasm as she lay there, spent, Jason resting on top of her, panting heavily.
In the temple hall the two clay blocks began to glow and the priest filled the indentations with ink, pressing the blank area of the scroll to the two ink filled names, the glowing blocks imprinting the runes to the paper.
"It is done" said the priest as the blocks stopped glowing,
He rolled up the scroll and bound the two clay blocks together, presenting them to Ishma and Zahn, "Family of the female keeps the scroll, family of the male keeps the blocks" he explained before walking away and going through a side door to a small study, leaving the three demons in the hall.
"Well, lets go, I'm sure we'll see them in the morning" said Zahn, shaking Ishma's hand, "we're kinda related now old friend, congratulations, I think, anyway, see you tomorrow."
Zahn began to leave when Caala grabbed his hand, it was his metal third hand, "Zahn, can I come back to yours?" she asked him, tilting her head to one side,
Zahn thought for a moment, "I suppose you could, but its a bit dark to see anything, you'd probably be better off coming round tomorrow, yes actually, come over tomorrow, I'm sure Jason and Sara will be there as well so we can all chat" he said before walking out the door, leaving a disbelieving look stamped across Caala's features,
Ishma roared with laughter, "Nice try gel, but you're going to have to chase that one hard and for a while before he realizes what you're doing," Ishma then placed a hand on her shoulder, "Come on then Caala, I'll walk you home"
They left the temple as well, leaving behind Sara and Jason in the room.
The pair of them had crawled into the middle of the bed and had thrown the cover over themselves. Now they lay there, arms around each other, horns touching, drifting off to sleep.
Jason stroked Sara's arm and mumbled sleepily, "I love you Sara, my Mate, now and forever, forever and always."