Hot Vacations at The Springs

Story by Lucian Hynes on SoFurry

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All characters in here, except the Delcario family are © of Takehiko Ito.

The story contains Aqua M/F Sex action as well as normal M/F sex; don't read if you're below 18, yap, yap, yap...

Please try not to be too picky on the judgment; this is my first attempt on writing a first-person story. Also, it will take a while for you to get what this story is based on, so I'll tell you now. This is based on Episode 23 of the Outlaw Star anime and a little bit on the flash game Aisha's Hot Spring Adventure.

And a small P.S.: The ctarl-ctarl, to those who aren't familiarized with Outlaw Star, are a race of cat-like aliens, therefore, Aisha would be a neko.

Hot Vacations at The Springs by Lucian Canad

Earth.

Third Rock From The Sun, one time to be the only populated planet on the universe and my dear home...

A loud ring broke the silence inside the university-ish building, being followed by the muffled cries of joy of thousands of students who hastily put everything of belong in bags and rushed out of the doors.

"I'll want the reports the instant you lot get back" An excessively old woman, who looked more like a raised zombie bellowed to the crew of students fighting to pass through the narrow door of the classroom. When I saw a breach, I darted across the corridors to the light at the end of the tunnel, free from college for the last time for a good while. I landed from the jump on the sidewalk, breathing the still air and basking on the summer sun. I took my hoverglider from the bag and looked one last time to the building, before laughing out and soaring to the sky, shouting to nothing.

"Shove those reports up your ass, Hazel!"

The hot wind whipped my 18-year old face, making my shoulder-length blond curls blur my vision of the clear blue sky. I maneuvered the glider across the city, directing my way to the countryside further away. Smiling at the feeling of the upcoming vacation, I jumped off my ride, spinning and shouting "Woo Hoo!" through the air a couple hundred feet before the glider picked me up again. With my house, a farm of fair size, on the distance, I began to lower altitude and jumped out, skeeding through the dirt to the back door, my glider stopping right beside me and shutting down.

Picking it up on my arms, I open my house's kitchen door, emerging in a room covered in white tiles, my nostrils picking up the aroma of a fresh lunch. The home of the Delcario family was a large three-story house, inherited from a successful coffee farmer, along with the one hundred square miles terrain of coffee fields and native forest and his fortune. The outdoors composed of a big barn, ten grass fields with half a square mile each, which fed the various breeds of horses and the fertile coffee fields. The house per se was almost a mansion, not that any of us complained, we loved the extra space and the luxury.

"Heloooo. Anybody home?" I shouted, only to be answered by my own voice. "Weird, I thought, they must be upstairs"

Entering the living room, I tossed my bag to one of the sofas before going up the ebony and marble stairs to the second floor. I tried calling out everybody again, but it was no use. I sighed and turned around a nearby corner, passing through a long red painted corridor to emerge in my room. The walls were painted a sky-blue, but some parts were covered by marine-blue posters, blueprints to all sorts of contraptions and my personal king-sized bed was against the opposite wall. Every time I looked at the blueprints I couldn't help but grin; many years ago, doctors officially declared I was gifted, gifted of high intelligence to be precise. I thought over the day I was told it. I soon was to be told the motive, it was because...

Suddenly I was snapped out of my daydream by a voice calling.

"Jase, are you home?" I recognized my sister's voice.

"Yeah, Ari. I'm at my room"

Second passed as Ariane walked in my room. My sister was a sight to gorge in: six-and-a-half feet tall, nice breasts, a muscular body that well reflected her 21 years of life, silvery-white hair inherited from our deceased father covering her angel-like face.

"Where were ya?" I asked.

"At my room. Doing stuff"

"Oh I see" I said. My nose, that was always over-sensitive, detected the musky aroma around her. I immediately recognized the "stuff" she referred to. And only to confirm my suspicions, another person entered the room: a tall black man with the same aroma as my sister. His body was well muscled, his head was bald; he went for the name of William Lucase.

"Yo! Jase, How y'doing?" My sister's boyfriend walked over and gave me a top-5. I liked ol' Will, he was a very nice guy, could make Edgar Allan Poe die on laughter.

"Jase, Mom's already left. She took the first flight to Tenrei on the morning"

"What? What for?" I asked with a surprised look.

"She said she wanted to solve early all of the problems related to the trip"

I groaned.

"Stupid woman. I told her all was under control"

"Yeah we know, but we both know how impulsive she can be"

"Well" I sighed "Guess we'll have to go for ourselves. Are you packed up?"

"Yeah, Will's too"

"Great, I'll pack too, meet you by the Star"

Both left. I took all of my clothes off save my underwear. I approached the life-size mirror and Jason Delcario looked at me from the glass surface. I was a little thin, because I never practiced heavy sports, but my legs and arms are very good, due to my position as Captain of the basketball team, I stood at 6,5 feet like my sister, which was quite high for 18, but perfect for basketball. Feeling too lazy to pack my clothes myself, I pressed a button and a brown leather trunk appeared from my wardrobe. I opened the doors the trunk came from and took a t-shirt and pants from the hangers.

After getting ready, I stepped outside on the backyard of the farm. I let the sun warm me up as my house is kind of cold inside, then heading to the barn. The classical-styled barn was much like the ones you see in cartoons: made of wood, painted in red and white, the inside divided in horse stalls. I walked over to the far end, where a metal platform appeared lightly under the hay. Stepping over it, I reached for my left ear, pressing the lobe to activate the wireless communicator.

"Access code: vi veri universum vini vici"

A robotic voice sounded back.

"Confirmed"

A hissing sound echoed and the platform began to descend. It didn't took much time before the elevator descended into a gigantic hangar, with my favorite project on the center: adamantine hull painted in black with details in metallized silver, six plasma fusion Unsen engines and twin Münchhausen reactors that packed quite a punch. That was the Starfire, a grappler ship, my masterpiece.

When the lift blended with the metal floor, I stepped out and headed for the main console to prepare the ship for the trip ahead. I started to press the buttons, checking fuel, system, hull and all the parts of the ship. I had just finished when a beep sounded on a device nearby, transmitting my sister's voice.

"Jase, let us down"

I pressed a red button to my right.

"Affirmative. Activating lift" I said, flipping a switch.

I got up from my chair and waited a minute or so near the base of the lift before the same metal platform appeared carrying Will and Ari.

"Everybody ready?" I asked in a playful ironic tone.

Will dropped his luggage and Ari's on the loading conveyor belt.

"Let's go, then"

We approached the Starfire, who was straight up, ready to fly. A lift took us to the hatch of the bridge, there everybody took their places. Ariane on the center-back seat, as the navigator, me on the front-left, the pilot and Will on the front-right, fighter and co-pilot.

"Shisu, ready all systems" I ordered. The robotic voice of our computer responded.

"Affirmative, all levels normal, ready to take off"

"Open hangar hatch"

There were a baffled rumble and the steel panels on the ceiling opened, revealing the sky, perfect for flying.

"Turn on engines to full throttle" I commanded.

"Take off in T-minus 10 seconds. 8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...zero!"

The deafening engines roared to life as we started to move forward.

On the outside of the hangar, two panels on the ceiling of the barn slid sideward and the horse stalls were folded back as the launch pad opened to give the Star full passage. The engines propelled the ship upwards till the farm and everything else disappeared from view and the sky slowly turned from blue to black. The ship started to rumble as Earth's atmosphere was left behind and we were greeted by the glittering stars.

Once we were into open space, I asked my sister.

"Ari, all green with the ether drive?"

She shook her head

"Unfortunately no. The radar picks up an enormous dead zone around Earth, we cannot activate the drive"

"That's odd, must be solar waves or something like that. Shisu, establish closest safe location for an ether jump"

"Confirmed...Closest point located at coordinates 10-22-65-909"

"Perfect, set course Ari" I said and she nodded. With the course established, I pumped the engines to full power and it only took minutes before I noticed something was wrong.

"Something's wrong here..." I said contemplating through the cabin the asteroid field the coordinates led into "You sure these coordinates are right, Shisu?"

"Yes" The electronic voice said back, slightly annoyed.

"Well...I'll trust you on this one" A few thousand kilometers after that, he announced we were getting near the coordinates. I kind of expected to see the end of the asteroid field, but as it seemed, we were at its core instead, and I couldn't shake off the feeling we've flied into a trap.

"It's amazing to be right all the time" I thought as the alarm sounded and Shisu alerted missiles locking on us. My reaction was almost immediate.

"Fire missile flares and hang on!" I bellowed as I turned the control of the Star to spin out of range. I heard the explosions of the missiles against the flares as I completed the spin, the Star now facing where the attack came from. Out of the shadows of the giant space rocks, another grappler ship appeared. Its hull was painted in teal and gold and the two arms were hanging below it, ready to take our lives.

"Shit. I can't even take a vacation without someone trying to kill me" I sighed in utter frustration "Activate grappler combat mode"

The headsets on our heads changed to battle mode. A small flashlight-looking device flashed in my right eye, giving me the standard map to a grappler combat. The lights of the bridge went out and everything around us became like the space. Shisu repeated the warning as the mysterious ship fired again. I steered the ship forwards and made it rotate like a drill, so the missiles exploded in one another. Without stopping, I charged the ship while Will liberated the grappler arms, seconds later clashing with the teal ship's own.

"You ambushed the wrong ship, pal!" I said, firing the nose machine guns straight on the nose of the teal ship, the damage knocking it back.

"Will" I called "Did I mention I gave the Star an upgrade?"

"Really?"

"Yep, press the red crossed button to your left"

He did so and a large medieval sword popped out of the right arm.

"Yeee Haaa!" He shouted in delight "Loved it"

"I knew you would" I smiled "However, I shall keep you from inaugurating it today"

"Awww..."

The teal ship was damaged, like a wounded animal about to die. Inside the Star, I changed places with Will, taking the grappler arms.

"What are you planning, Jase?"

"A finishing blow. Jet us forward and, when I let the command, spin us diagonally south-southeast 49°"

"Aye, aye sir"

Will regulated the controls and we started to move. My hands were sweating on the controls, my brain calculating the exact time. When we were meters from the ship I bellowed

"NOW!"

Will swung downwards and to the right, The teal ship tried to counterattack us, but the left arm deflected the other two and the right arm made a descending arc, and the blade of the sword sliced cleanly through the hull.

Time seemed to freeze, seconds that had been hours later, sparks of electricity spurted from the ship and it exploded, slightly knocking my own ship back. I slumped back on the chair.

"Hoo! That was too close!"

We cheered each other for a few minutes and, seats retaken, prepared to finally go to Tenrei.

"Shisu, see the closest REAL route out of this creepy place"

"Affirmative" The robotic voice answered me "Closest edge three thousand kilometers west-northwest"

"Right" I fired the engines and set the course.

"It seems the ship was taking advantage of the dead zone to ambush and destroy other ships" Ari said thoughtfully "Probably scrambling the ether readings and placing a decoy signal that would lure the ship into the ambush"

"Yes, wonder if they were pirates" Her boyfriend replied.

"We can't lose our brains on that" I interjected "We're already on the edge. Prepare ether drive"

Right before us was the edge of the asteroid field, showing the clean space ahead. After checking the stats of the ship to avoid any more possible problems, Ari started the ether drive. At the same time, I pumped the engines to full power, making us jet forward with amazing speed.

"Turning on the Münchhausen Reactors" I lifted the glass case of a red button and pressed it.

Another loud noise joined the one of the engines, and our speed increased to the point of gluing us to our seats. The Star continued to speed up until reality itself seemed to distort, completing the jump to the subspace, at this point I killed the engines. We seemed to be passing through a multicolored tunnel while we traveled thousands of kilometers per second. I was gripping the controls tightly, trying my best to prevent the strong vibration from throwing us off course.

As we rumbled out of the subspace, a planet much like Earth appeared on sight, blue oceans, continents. I started the Unsen engines again and it became bigger and bigger.

"Jase, we have the spaceport on the line" Ariane told me.

"Good" I turned on the communicator in my headset "Hagone Spaceport, this is the Starfire, requesting permission for landing. Over."

"Starfire, this is the control tower, permission granted on landing pad 16. Over"

"Understood. Over and out"

An unpleasant but not unfamiliar rumbling rocked the ship as we entered Tenrei's atmosphere. When the stratus clouds cleared, we were greeted by an amazing view of Tenrei's capital. On the city's edge stood the large grey rectangle of the spaceport, where we were headed. On the back left of the spaceport there was a large circle with 60 feet sticking out with a large number 16 painted. I rotated the star 90 degrees up and pressed the button for the landing gear. The engines reduced the power for the landing until we hit the ground with a loud "thunk".

We freed ourselves from out belts and headed out of the hatch, where two people waited for us.

"Welcome to Tenrei, the hot spring planet" Said a tall man, dressed in a dark blue suit.

"We're the welcoming committee" The woman beside him completed, she was wearing a blood-red suit. They both bowed.

"Thank you. I'm a little cautious about committees right now, back on Earth we had a hell of a goodbye one" Will and Ari laughed. "The ship needs a few repairs, if that can be arranged"

"Surely, sir" The man said "We'll see to that immediately"

After being checked in, getting our luggage and rather ungently changed into bathing clothes(Anyone who watched the episode will know what I mean), we headed for our hotel. We entered the beautiful atrium and directed ourselves to a young-looking silgrian male behind a white marble counter.

"Good afternoon. We have a reservation in the name of Fiona Delcario"

"Good afternoon sir" He adjusted his glasses and looked down on the computer "May I see your IDs please?"

The three of us placed in turn a finger in the biometric reader, he smiled and said

"All green sir. Madam Delcario told me to inform you, once you arrived, that she left for the hot spring spa atop Mt. Hagone" He handed over a yellow card "Insert this on the elevator and you'll be brought to your room"

"Thank you"

"Have a nice vacation"

We followed a corridor behind the receptionist, followed by another young man, this time a ctarl-ctarl, with the standard red uniform for a luggage carrier and pushing a luggage cart with our trunks, and reached a couple of stainless steel double doors. As we drew near, one of them opened, showing an elegant elevator cabin. The four of us entered the somewhat large cabin, the carrier having to squeeze himself in.

"Sir, please insert the card into the matching slot" He spoke to me in a calm voice.

"Right" I took out the card the silgrian gave me, looking for the slot. Aligned on horizontal parallels, there were five slots, each with a color, the yellow was the topmost. I frowned slightly at this, but inserted the card anyway; the screen above the slots beeped and flashed a bit and then showed an arrow pointing upwards. The elevator began moving.

"Wow" I commented after a few minutes on the elevator "On exactly which floor we're staying?"

"This hotel has 63 floors, sir" the alien feline was grinning "And you're not exactly at the bottommost floor"

Just as he said that, the elevator halted abruptly. I, who was expecting the corridor leading to various rooms, almost fell back seeing the luxurious room that met our eyes. The outer rim of the circular room was entirely made of glass, showing a marvelous view of the city, way below. On the center of the room was a depression with sofas and a plasma TV. Slightly higher, connected by a few wooden steps, was a deck with a beautiful kitchen and three doors, presumably leading to the rooms, in the center of the ceiling there was a circular lamp that looked like a chandelier, the floor was entirely red carpet. As I tried to take this all in, the ctarl-ctarl was grinning hugely.

"In the name of..." My mouth was agape "She rented the penthouse!?"

"Your mother has a rich taste" The catboy said amusedly.

"And a rich pocket too..." I said, making him laugh "How much all of this cost?"

"Well..."

"Don't tell me, its better" I waved my hand.

"Very well" He pointed to the three doors "The center door is the master room, for your mother, the left one is the queen room, which is yours and the right one, the king, for your sister and Mr. Lucase"

"I get the queen room? But I'm a guy..." I joked, making him laugh even more.

A few hours later, we had already unpacked and we took the elevator back to the ground floor. Back in the gigantic atrium, I directed myself to the silgrian receptionist, who was reading a magazine.

"Excuse me, but where can I find the train station?"

He looked up and giggled a bit.

"A common question, sir. Here" He handed me a folded paper. I opened it and saw a map of the entire city.

"That sure helps" I said to his amusement "Thanks"

"My pleasure, sir' He bowed his head shortly.

Taking orientation from the map, we arrived the train station half an hour later.

As destiny would take it, the moment we reached the line, a loudspeaker notified a train was arriving in line two. Shortly, a gray train looking much like a subway train came sliding and stopped, opening the doors. The train was slightly crowded, but we managed to get three seats. The train started to move up the mountain, and we saw Mt. Hagone, eagerly awaiting the trip to the spa. Halfway through the ride, the captain announced the train would be flooded, as part of the attraction. I thought it was a joke or something, that until I saw the tidal wave coming towards us.

"Whoa!" I had barely time to yell and cling to the rail before being washed by the flood. When I opened my eyes, The first thing I saw was a pair of gorgeous breasts, inches from my face. My eyes went wide and I could feel my nose starting to bleed. Only when I looked up I saw whose breasts were those. Ariane looked down at me with a vein pulsing on her forehead. I wasn't able open my mouth before I felt her fist against the top of my skull. I fell on the floor, bright white lights popping in front of my eyes, along with images of fairies and elves, sitting on the rainbow colored seats of the train.

"Excuse me, Mr. conductor, when we will get to Rainbow Station?" I asked groggily feeling two hands lifting me from the ground. After regaining my sense of reality, I massaged the lump forming on the crown of my head.

"Damn, Ari, you've been working out" I said to her, feeling a sting of pain.

On the meanwhile of my painful psychedelic trip, the train finished climbing the mountain and the doors opened to the mountaintop station. When I was sure I could walk around on my own, the three of us stepped out of the train. I started to look around, examining the station; it was then that something caught my attention: a person wearing a blue swimming suit and a ridiculous excuse for a Hawaiian shirt. But, what really drew my eye was the man's hair, a dark shade of red.

As comprehension drew across my face, I began to grin. I walked in direction of the man as quietly as I could, drawing my gun as I neared him.

"Sharp as always, Gene" I grinned, feeling the cold metal of the Caster gun against my cheek, my gun barely pointing at his feet.

The man turned around and, in the sight of my face, began to grin too, lowering the gun.

"Jason? What you doing here?" Gene Star wind confusedly smiled at me.

"In vacation" I said, looking over his shoulder to the four people behind him. The shortest of them took a step forward.

"Long time no see, Jason" Jim Hawking looked up at me.

"Indeed Jim" I messed up his hair.

I turned to a girl with short black hair, hugging her affectionately.

"Great to see you again, Melfina"

"Good to see you too, Mr. Delcario"

"Mel, I told ya a million times, call me Jason" I told her falsely annoyed, being answered by Melfina's rock-melting smile.

Now, the two girls behind Melfina I didn't knew, but one of them I recognized immediately. I directed myself to a beautiful woman in a red bikini, my mouth agape.

"You...you're Twilight Suzuka! THE Twilight Suzuka" I gasped for breath "It's an honor, you're my idol!"

"An assassin is your idol?" She smiled warmly "That's new. But is good to hear one has fans"

"Fan? Sheesh, you're insulting me. I just love the way you fulfill your assignments, I can't really describe it, but you catch me"

"Surely" Her smile became even warmer.

When I turned to the last member of the group, I couldn't possibly have imagined what would occur in a few hours time. Staring at me was a chocolate-skinned female ctarl-ctarl with white hair.

"Jason Delcario" I straightened myself from the fan-strike and tried to look as polite and gentlemanly as possible "Miss...?"

"Aisha" She stretched her hand and shook mine "Aisha Clan-Clan"

I kissed the back of her hand, still very politely. "Wow, if aren't you the cutest thing I've ever seen" I thought as she flushed deeply.

We stood there chatting for a few minutes, discussing previous adventures and experiences and laughing our lungs out in the process. That was before Gene remembered something about caster shells and left us. Jim, Melfina, Aisha and Suzuka told they would go to the baths and asked if we would too. I said we were going to explore the spa for a bit before hitting the hot springs. We waved each other goodbye and parted ways. During the rest of the day, Ari, Will and I explored the spa, indulging ourselves in various kinds of relaxation methods, and, more than once, I caught myself thinking about Aisha, wanting to see her again.

On the late afternoon, I left the two at the spa and climbed the mountain, looking for something. Finally after a few minutes I found a pool high up on the mountain, the bubbling water was bright red, almost looking like molten lava. I took off my clothes, slowly lowering myself, feeling the intense heat of the water. After some struggle with my body temperature, I managed to sink till the shoulders on the boiling water. Finally my body got used to the heat of the water, and I relaxed.

"Hey, it's you" A female voice behind me gave me a startle that almost made me dive my head on the water, what would have fried my brain. I turned around and saw no one less than Aisha, wrapped on a towel coming near the red water.

"Miss Aisha? You around here?" I smiled at her.

"Yeah. Those baths down there are too cold, and they dare to call them 'Hot Springs'" Through her white towel I could see the curves of her breasts, which was enough to draw my look.

She reached the edge of the stone pool and asked

"May I?" Pointing to the water. Taken back from the question, I hurriedly nodded.

She gave a catlike smile and stepped in the pool, moaning as he lowered herself on the water.

"This is more like it" She sat on the stone, right beside me "By the way, I never thought a human could withstand this temperature"

"Yeah, it's a little hot for my taste, but this water helps me" She looked at me with the cute curious eyes of a cat.

To explain it, I lifted my left arm and showed my hand to her. On the back of my hand was an ugly-looking partially healed wound.

"This is a poisoned wound some bastard did in me. The water we're bathing on is the only known thing to be able to heal it fully" She nodded, bending over and taking my hand in hers, examining my wound closely. When she did this, my face ended up near her hair, and the sweet scent almost drove me out, my penis starting to harden under the water.

"Interesting..." She let go of my hand and leaned back, but her hand brushed against my erection "Huh!?"

Seeing that I was unmasked, I flushed furiously, tried to hide my erection with my hands (as if it mattered) and started to apologize.

"Sorry about that, I couldn't help it, I..." I spit the words quickly, my embarrassment growing.

"Did you get excited by Aisha's body?" She asked as if we were talking about the weather.

Even redder, I nodded shyly. She smiled, a mischievous smile, as if planning something.

"Well, why don't Aisha give you a full vision?" I froze after hearing this. A bit ahead of her, something white emerged from the water. A towel.

I glared at the towel with a dumbfounded look, that until I hear a splash from my right. My head turned almost mechanically, and my brain decodified one of the most impressive sights of my life.

Aisha had risen from the pool, bare naked, fully for me to see. My eyes were still, unable to blink, my mouth was wide open, my jaw almost popping from the joint. Her smooth curves blended perfectly with the rest of her body, her ass was gorgeously curved, her pink hairless pussy stood out against her dark skin, her breasts weren't neither too big nor too small, just...perfect.

Besides my earlier embarrassment, my dick was rock-hard and throbbing with lust, wanting her, craving for her. She stepped over me, slowly lowering herself on my waist area, her hand reached down and started to stroke my cock. This alone could have made me burst, but the naughty cat wanted more, she continued to lower herself, until she was finally impaled on my eight-inch flesh. Compared to the heat within her vaginal passage, the water around us was polar ice. She threw her head back and moaned as our hips met. My reaction was the same, and instinctively I put my hand on her hip and started to thrust. At first my thrusts were slow and rhytimized, feeling every bump of her love tunnel, hearing the squelching sounds of the water mixed with her juices being squeezed in and out of her opening, then I started to speed up, my maleness filling her entirely, bumping against her cervix, what made the hot feline moan even more. I wasn't going to cum alone, so I hugged her and brought her closer to me, her breasts to my face, I began to suckle on her left nipple, circling it with my tongue.

Her breathing began to speed up, and I could feel she was nearing the edge as well. Was it coincidence or the ultimate feeling of my cock passing her cervix bone and invading her womb that drew me over the edge, I filled her insides with my seed, at the same time biting hard on her nipple, which in turn drove her over the edge. We moaned in unison with the pleasure of our climaxes and started to pant heavily when the afterglow came. I laid back on the stone, feeling feverish and weak but happier than I've been in over two years, my new mate looked at me with lustful, loving eyes, and started to draw her face close to mine. The last thing I remember was our lips touching before falling into the darkness.

My body feels heavy, like if I was tied down, unable to move. With immense strength and effort, I open my eyelids, seeing perfectly through the darkness. I found myself in a room, a very large room with a colonial-styled wardrobe, a writing desk and two doors.

"I've seen this room before..." I rubbed my head, looking around. Only when I looked to the queen size bed I was lying on I remembered this room.

"This is my room" I said, finally remembering when I unpacked my clothes before I left for the spa. I got up from the bed, now noticing that I was only in my underwear. Thoughts of my previous conscience began to rush to my head as I picked a set of clothes in the wardrobe, but something was missing, a large blank between the last time I saw my sister and her boyfriend and waking up here.

I opened the door of the room and the bright light burned my eyes, blurring my vision, but I could still see enough to discern the room, with a lot of people sitting on the couch. Suddenly, my vision blacked out entirely as someone hugged me and started shaking me around.

"Jase, finally you're awake!" I recognized my mother's voice and her grip as well while trying to break free from the suffocating hug.

After a couple minutes struggle, I managed to escape my mother, getting fresh air in lungfuls. After regaining my respiratory rate, I looked up to my mother. Fiona Delcario was a 55-year old fat, gauly, a bit short but incredibly sweet woman, she was wearing a blue nightgown, with her blond hair tied back.

I turned to the couches where Ari, Will, Gene, Jim, Mel and Suzuka were sitting, and joined them.

"What happened to me?" I asked, taking a seat to the left of my sister.

"As it seems you 'overheated' while swimming in that spring" Gene said.

"You scared the hell out of us, Jase" Will added "We saw Aisha running down the mountain holding you in her arms, we thought you could be hurt or worse"

"He he" I smiled guiltily "Good thing I wasn't. Yet I can't remember meeting Aisha in the mountain"

"Apparently the excessive heat caused you to lose some of your memory" Ari explained.

"Anyway, Aisha is in the terrace, why don't you speak to her?" Jim suggested.

"Yes" I nodded "She must know what happened"

I got up from the sofas, turning myself to the terrace doors, indeed seeing Aisha's silhouette outside. I opened the sliding glass doors, feeling the rush of the night wind. As I started to move toward the ctarl-ctarl, I heard the sound of curtains behind me, I turned around and saw that the glass were covered with the curtains, hiding the two of us from the rest of the group.

"Thanks mom" I smiled.

Aisha was feet away from me, leaning on the rail of the terrace, I walked quietly yet audibly and joined her, only speaking after leaning on the rail myself.

"I owe you one" she raised her head at my words.

"It was nothing" Aisha was glaring into the distance, refusing to meet my gaze, like I was a basilisk of some sort.

"Will told me you brought me down the mountain" I tried to start a conversation "Yet I can't remember when I met you there"

Aisha turned her head, finally letting me see her face, she was blushing deeply, like if she had emptied ten bottles of sake.

"Why are you blus..." I was cut off by her sudden move as her lips joined mine. The surprise kept me from responding in any way, but those lips...those warm lips carried a message. My brain kicked into overdrive, building scene after scene in my subconscious with the information her lips somehow gave me. Suddenly it was all back: the hot spring, Aisha, my wound, the feelings. Abruptly I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her into a deep passionate kiss.

When our air supplies ended, we separated, and Aisha looked at me with the most beautiful eyes of the universe, the eyes of immortal love.

"Oh dearest" I hugged her, feeling my eyes flooding with tears "How could I ever have forgotten"

I could feel the sweet cat sobbing in my arms, I could feel what she was feeling: happiness, supreme happiness.

"Know this: from now on, nothing save a lobotomy will make me forget you" I hugged her tighter "I love you"

"I..." She sobbed even harder "I love you too, Jase"

We hugged like that for a good ten minutes, until the chilly air chilled us too, and we went back inside, holding hands. Meeting our friends inside, we sat in opposite ends of the couch because of the lack of room and ignored their insistent questions of "What happened?". Managing to drive the conversation to another way, I discovered that Gene was looking for the Galactic Leyline and that they stopped in Tenrei to relax for a day. That meant they would be leaving tomorrow afternoon, which made me sad for having to say goodbye to my dear Aisha. I hid my feelings, however, and after a few hours of chatting they left.

"So, what's in between you and Aisha, bro?" Ari gave me an inquisitor look.

"Nothing, I told ya already" I avoided the question.

"Oh yeah? Then why you seemed so anxious when Gene said they wouldn't be staying long?"

The comment hit me like a bullet, and I only made out

"I was that obvious?" Being responded by a unisonous "Yes" from my sister and Will.

I sighed, realizing that the secret was told, and described to them the full account of what happened in that mountain. When I finished, they were both awed and silent.

"Well, at least you got someone now too, right?" Said Ari in a brave attempt of a friendly smile.

"Yeah, I guess so..."

We went to sleep shortly after, and my mind was filled with the image of Aisha, on VERY pleasant dreams.

"Oohh, bad kitty" I whispered while, in the realm of dreams, Aisha bobbed her head up and down in my cock, drawing it closer and closer to the bursting point. She was looking at me with her wide eyes, smiling naughtily, while my eight inches repeatedly appeared and disappeared from her lips and her tongue probed my cumslit. One last push that made her gag and my white sperm flowed down her throat. The pleasure of orgasm was so intense and real it even threw me off my dream, I opened my eyes and found myself in my room once again. I moaned in the pleasure of the afterglow and in the disappointment of realizing it was just a dream, that is until I heard the sound of lips being licked. A quick look down revealed to me my softening exposed dick and a palpable Aisha licking her chops, her face covered with strings of fresh seed.

"Aisha? What are you doing here?" She said nothing, just smiled and began to crawl up my bed. When our faces got in the same level, she kissed me, making me taste myself.

"I couldn't possibly go without saying goodbye properly" She smiled exactly like she did in my dream and reached down to stroke my limp penis, hardening it again.

Some hours later, Aisha was lying by my side in the bed. We were both naked, sweaty and panting from the repeated making-outs. As if remembering something, Aisha looked up to me and asked

"By the way, Jase, I am now pretty sure that a human cannot take the temperature of that water like you. I went to the spring again by my own while you were blacked out and, while I was bathing, Gene fell in the pool. He got out looking like a boiled lobster"

I thought for a bit.

"Well, there's no reason to hide it, I guess" I pulled my hair backwards and revealed my ears. They were just like Aisha's, but very shorter and less hairy, yet still very feline. I saw her jaw drop in confusion and surprise as she processed what that meant.

I smiled and turned on my table lamp, getting my wallet and showing her a picture of my father.

"Your father is a ctarl-ctarl?"

"He was. He died in a battle during the war between the Empire and the Terran Federation" I said sadly "Ari and I inherited a few traits from him. She has his white hair, pointed ears like mine and we both have his resistance and intelligence, though it seems they're more pronounced on me"

"Wow" She looked to the opposite wall, immerse in thoughts.

I let her wander around for a few minutes before letting my hand roam down her body and rest on her lower lips. Pressing two fingers inside, I smiled to her, and we dove in a last passionate session before falling asleep.

"Jase?"

I yawned, stretching my numb limbs, hearing my bones snap. My eyes blinked a few times until my vision cleared and I turned to the one calling me.

"What's up Ari?"

"Is up that Gene and the others are leaving. You'd better hurry if you want to say goodbye to them"

"Whoa!" I darted on the bed, scrambling myself to get up. Ari leaned against the wall laughing at my "Alice's rabbit" frenzy while I tried to dress myself, barely caring to the fact of being nude.

Shortly after I managed to put everything on the right place, we took the elevator down and took the car my mom rented to the spaceport. A quick talk with a security guard told us that the Outlaw Star was on pad seven, that was on the other side of the spaceport, hence the motive I didn't see it when we arrived. The Outlaw's crew was outside, waiting for us.

"We almost thought you wouldn't make it" Gene was the first to greet us.

"Yeah, we too"

We said the goodbyes along with wishes of good luck and safe trip, until the only one left for me to talk with was Aisha. While the other were busy talking, I dragged her a little off.

"I don't want you to go" I said, with a sad face.

"I know. But we must find the Leyline"

I hugged her tightly, fighting back a few tears.

"Aisha! Come on, we have to go" Gene shouted

"Be right there" She shouted back and then looked at me.

"This isn't a farewell. I will see you again, I promise" I looked at her

"I have this feeling too" She smiled and kissed me with passion, slipping something in my hand.

I barely noticed it, though, as my thoughts were focused on the feline figure joining her crewmates on the elevator. The three of us waved to them as they entered the Outlaw, while it was taking off, and even after they had already disappeared from view, I kept waving, my mind took its time to realize they were already gone and she couldn't see me. After I was brought back to the physical world, I noticed the gift my Aisha gave me. I opened my hand and stared at the old and worn ring sitting on my palm.

-Two months later-*

With my house, a farm of fair size, on the distance, I began to lower altitude...But you heard that already. I was feeling very blue, school was back, but my grades were starting to go downhill, I couldn't concentrate on the classes, wasn't doing my homework, I was on the brink of fatal depression.

"I'm home" I shouted to the echo, but no one answered "Ari? Mom?"

Silence.

I dropped my backpack on the floor by the door and walked around the first floor. No sign of lunch being made, no sign of television playing, no signs of life, whatsoever.

Feeling too tired and too sad to worry about it, I climbed to the second story, turned to the corridor leading to my room. The curtains were still closed and the room was dark.

"Perfect..." I thought with a sting of relief, and crash-landed on my bed, the door closing behind me.

The feeling of the pillow and the soft mattress were enough to give me the impression of having fallen asleep, since my mind was constantly between dream and reality these days, so I couldn't tell if I was awake or asleep. I felt an arm passing over me, hugging me. That was the proof I was dreaming, the dreams with my beloved Aisha, she never spoke a word, but she hugged me, kissed me and sometimes even made love to me, but then I would wake up and cry bitterly for a couple of hours.

However, this time something different happened.

"I told you I would be back" A female voice broke the stillness of the air within my room. My brain almost froze, that was a voice, her voice, Aisha's voice and it spoke in a tone far too solid to be a dream. I turned around and my cat vision detailed her face, smiling at me.

"Aisha!?"

"One and only"

My heart felt like it was pierced by a spear, a spear made of light. A warmness spread from my heart, everything seemed to recover its colors and, from somewhere in the darkness of the room, someone clapped his hands and the the lamp turned on .

"SURPRISE!" My mom, Ari and Will shouted. They were hiding in a corner and I was too depressed to have taken notice.

Reality started to seep through the cracks of my mind and an emotion beyond controlling exploded when Aisha put her arms around me. I turned to her, leaned my head against her shoulder and let the dam of tears flow. The feeling coursing through me was a hundredfold stronger than the one I felt that day on Tenrei, so much happiness it actually hurt.

The three spectators left the room while I cried my eyes out on Aisha's shoulder. She leaned her head against mine and hugged me tighter, we kept like that for some time. In the end, I cried so much I really fell asleep, on Aisha's lap, on the deepest and most peaceful slumber I had in eight weeks.

After a few hours, I woke up staring at the dark ceiling, and I thought that I had dreamed once more, until I felt a hand sliding through my hair. I turned around and there was Aisha again.

"Thank goodness it wasn't a dream" I whispered to her. She smiled.

I passed my arms around her and dragged our naked bodies together, our lips sealing in a kiss. Suddenly, it was ignited in my heart a desire for her that exceeded reason. I broke the kiss and proceeded to lick her nipples, biting and toying roughly with them. Aisha started to squeal with pleasure, since she was a ctarl-ctarl, her skin was very resistant, so I wasn't anywhere near of hurting her, only enhancing her stimulation.

My index finger slid against her belly, tickling her skin, till it bumped against her engorged clit.

"Someone is liking this" I smirked seductively to her as my index and middle fingers found their way inside that fiery tunnel.

"You bet I am" Aisha said between moans "I missed your fingers so much, Jase"

"Only my fingers? What about the rest of me?" I stopped playing with her entirely, teasing her.

"I meant all of you, the fingers were amongst the parts I missed the most" She hastily explained, in a tone of mock desperation, that almost made me want to screw her right there.

"Oh? And what about this?" I pulled back the covers and revealed my throbbing erection.

"Most certainly" She smiled and, in a lightning move, took my penis in her mouth.

"Oooh...and among the rest of you..." I said, now moaning as well "I surely missed your mouth"

She didn't answer, but started to bob her head and her tongue was unleashed like a rampant monster, stimulating every inch she could reach.

I let her do what she wanted for a few minutes, before I removed her head from my saliva-coated malehood.

"Now let's get on with the main show"

She smiled and turned to all fours. My mouth watered at the sight of her lips, literally dripping of arousal.

"That reminds me, dearie. I never got to taste you"

"Well, care to change that?" Her voice trembled with naughtiness and excitation.

"Hmmm..." That was all I answered before falling mouth-first on the pussy's pussy. The first time I tasted the love juices of the one my heart held dear, it seemed more delicious and intoxicating than the most expensive wines I have tasted in the dinners my mom attended every now and then.

My tongue explored her labia, toying around with them and at the same time teasingly brushing against the clitoris but without focusing on it. After a while, I changed the focus of attention to her clit and my finger started to press inside her tunnel, easy doing with all her lubricant so, soon I added two more fingers to the mix, driving her mad with lust.

Only when I actually started to tonguefuck her, I got to taste her love juices and my tongue almost went numb from the flavor, sweet, bitter and tangy and so much of it. When an extra spurt was added and Aisha let out an extra moan, I believed she had an orgasm, I calculated around three, just with my tongue exploring her insides.

"Please stop teasing me" She was panting as if she was having an asthma attack "Put it inside, I need to feel that hot dick of yours inside me!"

"As you wish" I stopped my frenzy licking, and pointed my dick at her swollen and glistening lips "Or perhaps should I..."

I aimed a little higher.

"My ass?" She was still panting, but I could feel the apprehension in her voice.

"Why not?" I smiled in a mix of naughty and evil "It will still be 'inside' you"

"All right, but no more teasing, I beg you Jase"

"Ok" I started to push against her anal ring, and the little bastard put up quite a struggle. But finally, the tight circle of flesh opened up to accommodate more flesh, and I had to push it in inch by inch hearing Aisha's pained moans. Finally her muscle relaxed, I drew back and started to press inside again. Aisha started moaning again, but this time from pleasure.

It was night when we both collapsed, exhausted.

"Man, are we messy" Aisha stated.

I agreed with her, we were both drenched in sweat and practically swimming in a pool of our mixed love juices.

"We should take a bath"

"Indeed"

So we went for the shower, nothing happened there, besides that the cleaning of one another got us quite aroused, but we controlled our urges.

Our forms emerged from the steamy room, me with a towel around the waist and Aisha with a towel on her hair and another around her body.

"Oh, I almost forgot, sweetie" I smiled to her, after remembering something "I have something for you"

I walked to my dressing table, reached for a hidden button and some numbers made of what seemed to be energy appeared on the mirror. I typed in a combination and the mirror slid sideward; my personal safe was filled with many valuables, but, tonight one was more valuable than all of them. I picked up a small black box and, with the press of a button, the safe closed. I turned back to my Aisha, holding the box in the palm of my hand.

"See if you can recognize"

I opened the box, inside was the same ring she gave me eight weeks ago, but restored, plated in gold and, in place of the faux ruby was a true diamond of 250 carats. Aisha's eyes became as wide as plates when she saw the beautiful wedding ring.

"Do I need to say anything else?"

"No you don't" Her voice was stable, but I could detect the emotions on it "It is me who has to say something"

She made a move and locked her lips with mine.

We separated for a few seconds, just the enough for her to say, smiling

"And of course it's yes"

(*Author's note: this time is imprecise. I never watched the end of the anime so I can't tell how much time is between Tenrei and "Return to Space", think of this as an epilogue of sorts)