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As the morning light filtered through the window of Jason's apartment, the young man's eyes opened blearily and he sat upright with a large yawn. It took a few moments for the events of the previous night to come flooding back to him, and he quickly looked down to see that the gryphon that had been sleeping over was no longer present.

A little crestfallen, Jason realized that his classmate must have headed off early. Doubts immediately began to enter his thoughts: what if Raal regretted what had happened between them? What if he told his father? What if someone at school found out?" Filled with worry, he tossed the sheets aside and groaned as he smelled the lingering odour that Raal had left all over his room.

As he sat on the edge of his bed and looked down at the pile of school clothes he'd tossed beside the bed, he sighed and glanced over at the small wardrobe where another, fresher uniform lay waiting. He vividly recalled stripping out of it in front of his avian company the night before, and blushed a little at the memory.

Not wanting to sulk about, and keen to both see Raal again and get to his algebra test on time, Jason got up and acquired that clean set of clothing from the wardrobe. One quick shower later and he was slipping into his uniform with the express desire to get himself down to school and find out what was going on.

He grabbed his bag and hurried out the door, locking it behind him before practically racing off down the stairs and back towards Talbach High. As he jogged along the cobblestone street, Jason couldn't help but surrender himself to his own thoughts, thinking about what he'd done with his gryphon classmate.

Raal was the son of Uren Nightwing, one of the most feared gryphons of the 'old guard', and he'd just given him a handjob. If anyone caught on and found out about it, news could get back to Uren himself, and he could find himself getting an unwanted visit in the middle of the night. The very thought of it terrified him; Lord Nightwing was a living horror story discussed in hushed tones by many who had lived in the era when live digestion of humans had been a legal punishment under the law. He very much hoped that he never drew that particular gryphon's ire.

Picking up the pace, he could see the school gates in the distance. Already some gryphons were flying over them and into the school grounds, as well as a number of human students plodding through the gates. Everything looked normal, but to Jason, the day was already anything but. Panting a little from the jog, he clutched the straps of his bag and slowed down a little as he approached the entry gate. He wondered where he might be able to find Raal, but it was such a large campus that he doubted he'd find him until class started.

Entering the main courtyard, he took a glance around to see if he could spot the jet-black avian. Unsuccessful, he looked up at the nearby clocktower and saw that he had just over twenty minutes before his math class began, and his test would commence. Disappointed, he took one last scan of the horizon before turning towards the hallway where his math class was located.

"Hey Jason," callee out the familiar voice of his human classmate Ricky, and he turned to look at him as he strode over. Ricky was grinning as he gestured to Jason's bag.

"All studied up for the test then?" he asked, "shame ya couldn't come for pizza last night. A few of us went to the pub after and kicked on until about midnight." Jason forced a smile, trying not to betray the nervousness he felt in general while the gryphon was absent.

"Sounds like a bad idea before a morning test, don't you think?" Jason retorted with a chuckles, "probably for the best, but I'll come hang with you guys next time, alright?"

"Gonna hold ya to it," Ricky smirked, and clapped him on the shoulder, "if you don't hang out with anyone people are gonna think you're a loner." Jason flushed a little, glad Ricky knew nothing about what he'd done the night before.

"Aight, well, I'll try and catch you after class," Jason replied, "besides, we'd better get over there." Ricky nodded, and together they began to make their way over to Mrs. Silversten's classroom.

The test itself wasn't that hard, but Jason's turbulent mind made it difficult to focus. By the end of the hour session he felt like he had gotten a good result, but as he dropped his paper on the stack before leaving he couldn't help but feel a flicker of doubt. After a quick nod to Mrs. Silversten, he left the classroom while the last few students finished up in the last five minutes of test time. Noting that Ricky was still in his seat, Jason took the chance to slip away and go looking once more. He managed to take all of one step before a voice stopped him in his tracks.

"Jason!"

Spinning rapidly, the man's eyes widened as he saw the jet-black plummage of Raal standing before him, the avian looking even larger than he had the day before. His felt his cheeks flush involuntarily, and that familiar rush of anxiety for the unknown.

"H... hey Raal," he stammered, glancing around to see if anyone was about, before lowering his voice to a near whisper. "Where did you go this morning? I've been worried!'

The gryphon chuckled quietly and lowered his head a little.

" I went to see that cleaner I know," he explained, "to fix your apartment up, remember? I had to do it before school started." His tail flicked from one side to the other. "He'll probably pick your lock, but it'll be spotless when you're home, okay?" Jason paused, realizing that Raal had left early for his sake.

"I... okay," he muttered apologetically, "sorry... I..."

"It's fine, don't worry about it," Raal cut in, "nobody ever has to know." Jason nodded, but looked down at the ground briefly. Was that it then? Looking up, he saw the avian still standing there, looking at him. An awkward silence passed between them, before Raal ruffled his wings and scratched the ground with his claws.

"Can we... talk more, after school?" the hybrid asked quietly. "maybe after gym class again? I..." The gryphon hesitated briefly, looking around as Jason had previously.

"I liked... hanging out together," he continued, tail flicking more anxiously this time, "I'm just... not sure how my friends would take to me inviting a... human, to hang with. Especially not, you know, in District 1." Jason flushed red, with a mixture of embarrassment and irritation.

"You don't want your rich gryphon friends knowing you're friends with a human then?" he snapped back, and Raal immediately looked hurt.

"N... no, I mean... well..." he stammered, and Jason opened his mouth to make things worse but stopped himself. With a sigh, he tried to cool down and think things through. It was unfair to criticize him for that when he knew his friends wouldn't take too kindly to him bringing a gryphon along to their hangouts.

"Please just stay back at the gym after school," Raal huffed, "I want to talk to you more. Please. It's not as simple as just... hanging out together. You know that." Jason frowned, but eventually nodded.

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry," he grumbled, "I'll meet you in the gym after we're done with Mr. Stillwing's class." Satisfied with that, Raal nodded in agreement but quickly turned away from the human and began to walk away. Surprised by the sudden departure, he didn't notice the hand coming to slap him on the shoulder.

"Man, that test was shit," Ricky complained with a chuckle, "think I only got like half of that."

"You shouldn't have partied all night then, should you?" Jason poked back, realizing that Raal must have seen Ricky leaving the classroom and had left quickly to avoid any issues.

"Yeah, well, as long as I pass, right?" Ricky retorted playfully, before looking over at the black-furred gryphon vanishing around the corner. "Was the bird bothering you?"

"I told you not to call them that," Jason groaned, and Ricky sighed.

"When did you get so defensive for them?" he retorted, shaking his head, "you think these rich gryphons give a shit about humans like us? A few decades ago they used to eat us alive, you know that right? My grandfather was eaten by a gryphon, I've got every right to call them whatever I want." Jason fell quiet; stories like Ricky's weren't uncommon in the Kingdom.

"I know, I know," Jason agreed, "just... maybe they're not like that anymore, you know? Anyway, who cares, let's go grab something to eat. I'm starving." Ricky didn't seem to pick up on the deliberate change in subject, and he nodded.

"Yeah man, let's go get some pies."

***

The rest of the school day passed uneventfully, but the end-of-day meeting with Raal was all that Jason could think about. Last period was gym class, and he knew the young gryphon was in his group for that one.

Tossing his books into his bag, Jason glanced at the clocktower on his way by, noting that he needed to be at the gym in the next ten minutes. A nervous tightness formed in his stomach as he approached the large gymnasium, the building so many times larger than a normal human gym thanks to the need to accommodate gryphons. He didn't know what would come of speaking to Raal after school, but he knew he wanted to chat with him again. His thoughts flashed back to his apartment the night before, chatting and laughing with the young gryphon while they studied, the avian confiding in him, lifting up his hind leg...

Jason was red around the ears as he walked into the gym, looking through the mesh of the hallway to where a few of the gryphons were already warming up. They looked somewhat amusing with their feline bodies bounding across the gym floor, but since flight classes were separate, gym classes encouraged the gryphons to practise their ground skills first and foremost.

Raal was among them, the jet-black beast standing nearly an entire foot and a half taller than the next largest in their class. He'd never appreciated his size before, but now that he knew about his lineage, it made a lot of sense. While not commonly spoken of, the average size of young gryphons had decreased since the King made human predation illegal. It was believed that gryphons like the King and Raal's father had grown so incredibly large thanks to a steady diet of human prey. A shiver ran down his spine; surely Raal would never do such a thing?

One of the on-court students growled at him, and he realized he'd been staring a bit much at their workout. Quickly turning away he headed on to the human change rooms to get himself into his sports gear for class. Tossing his bag into a locker and sliding his gym clothes on, Jason heard the voice of Mr. Stillwing carrying down the corridor. Hurrying back out he joined up with the rest of his class, with the humans standing on one side of their teacher and the gryphon students on the other.

He realised Raal was staring at him, but the avian looked away when he returned the gaze. Flustered, Jason almost missed the teachers description of their activity.

"...two groups, one on each side of the court," he caught Mr. Stillwing explaining, "I want gryphons on the left over there and humans on the right over there." He gestured to each end of the gym with an outstretched wing, before placing a large ball down in the center.

"The aim of this game is for each team to try and kick this ball into the other team's goal," he continued, "humans, this is much like the game of football that your kind enjoys. Gryphons, while you may have the size to block well and the strength to kick further, you may find it difficult to match human dexterity with their feet. I want each group to think about how they might overcome those differences and work together to try and score some goals. Understood?" The class managed an uncoordinated noise of agreement, and split up into their respective groups.

The game went for nearly an hour, with each side giving it a lot of effort after the first awkward few minutes. Jason found himself being bumped hard by gryphons as they slammed into him to try and take the ball, but their teacher kept a firm eye on any who got too rough. Despite the size advantage, clumsy feet meant that even when the gryphons got the ball, they weren't able to pass effectively, leading to many easy steals by the human team.

The game ended with a score of seven against four in the humans favor. Grumbling, the gryphons headed off to the showers, unused to being beaten in anything by humans. In contrast, a number of high fives were handed around by the human students, pleased to have shown up their avian counterparts in something physical. Jason felt less stressed after a good workout, but as he headed back to the change rooms he found himself thinking about the meeting to come.

With some time to kill, Jason had a long shower in the change room, taking the time to scrub up and get the sweat off his body. All the while he thought about what he might want to say to Raal, but he had to wait until most of the other students had left before he could risk being seen chatting one on one with a gryphon.

Towelling off, Jason crammed his clothes into his bag and put his school uniform back on, looking around to see that everyone had already left to head home for the day. Stepping outside the change room, he saw that Raal was already waiting for him, standing there in the hallway patiently.

"Hey," he called out to the gryphon, who turned to look at him, "I'm here." Raal nodded and began to walk over. The sound of the gym door opening made the young gryphon look back with concern, and he gestured to the entrance of the gryphon change rooms.

"Let's talk in here, there's nobody left in there," Raal offered and Jason hesitated. He wasn't allowed in the gryphon change rooms, but as he watched Mr. Stillwing walking back into the gym he nodded and together they quickly ducked inside.

It was a different kind of space compared to the human locker rooms. It was a much bigger space, with a number of items around the room that he didn't recognize what they were for. What he did recognize was the shower stalls, each one many times larger than that of a human shower, made to accommodate full sized gryphons. Each one looked the size of a sauna, and he was amazed at just how much more room these feathered beasts took up.

"You could fit, like, ten of our locker rooms in here," he remarked, and the gryphon chuckled before gesturing to one of the stalls.

"How about we hide in there and chat," the gryphon suggested, and Jason nodded. He didn't want anyone walking in on him in the wrong change room, and so he quickly moved into the large shower directly in front of him. As the avian followed him in, he looked back to see stall door closing behind them. He took a step back and felt his back press against the tile wall, realizing how much of the space the young gryphon took up now that he was inside there with him.

Sitting on his haunches, Raal didn't say anything to begin with. Now that he had the human alone, he was at a loss for words. Jason glanced around the gryphon shower awkwardly, acutely aware of how private a setting this was as he looked over the large shower head and the oversized taps meant for grasping by unwieldy gryphon claws. The floor was tiled and sloped towards a small drain in the center of the room, and against the right wall there was what looked like a large bench.

"What's that for?" he asked quietly, and Raal gazed over to where he was looking.

"It's a place to stand your forelegs on," the gryphon explained, "so the water stream can reach your underbelly." Jason nodded, and chuckled slightly at the simple answer. He really didn't know much about day to day gryphon life, he realised. Shuffling around the larger male, he soon a seat on the bench and looked up at Raal from below. As usual, he was still surprised by just how big the gryphon was. Even so, he didn't fear him.

"So..." Jason asked finally, "I'm here, so what did you want to talk about?" It sounded so matter of factly when he put it like that, but he really didn't know what Raal was thinking after the events of the previous night.

"Us," the gryphon huffed, ruffling his wings, "I... things went a lot further last night than I think was... appropriate, for a human and a gryphon." Jason exhaled quietly; he'd expected something like this. He hadn't wanted to ruin their new friendship with how far they'd gone.

"I... I see," the human replied quietly, "I'm sorry if I..."

"No...no, I mean..." Raal quickly cut in, flapping his wings a little in what limited space he could, "I... I really liked it." That got Jason's attention, his gaze snapping to the Raal's face as he pondered whether he'd heard correctly.

"Wait, you..." Jason began to ask and Raal nodded, looking away in embarrassment.

"I couldn't stop thinking about last night," the hybrid huffed, "about hanging out, learning about you, and... and what you did to me with your hands. I haven't felt that before." He slapped the wall of the stall with his tail and clicked his claws over the tiled flaw as he spoke, clearly agitated.

"It just... it just felt great, okay?" he added in a low growl. He fell silent after that, leaving Jason to ponder what he'd said. So he didn't feel regret over what had happened... that made Jason feel measurably better.

"Does this mean... you still want to be friends then?" Jason asked carefully, but it only made the gryphon visibly more anxious.

"Yes!" Raal shot back, perhaps with too much energy for the question at hand, before he looked down at the human with a piercing stare. "I mean, I do, but..." He hesitated, and then lowered his head even more until it was level with Jason's.

"It's complicated, okay?" he said more firmly, and Jason wrinkle his nose as that warm gryphon breath rolled across his face. "I can't just be... hanging out with humans, not with my father... being the way he is. It's not you, it's just... fuck, it's just..." He pulled back, shaking his head and with a heavy bounce of his developing teenage mane. The internal conflict was written evidently on the young gryphon's features, and Jason watched as the larger male settled back down. Another quiet moment passed, and then Raal sighed heavily.

"Why did you... do that last night?"

Jason had to think about that one for a moment. Even he wasn't entirely sure.

"I wanted you to know what it felt like," he said finally, but without much commitment to the answer. Raal shook his head and leaned in closer.

"But why? Why me? We'd only just met! I'm a gryphon, why would you?" Raal's eyes were wide, and Jason leaned back a little in concerned reaction to the agitated beast. He didn't know what to tell him. He didn't know why. He didn't...

"Please Jason," the young gryphon pleaded finally, his beak nearly touching his friend's nose, "I can't stop thinking about it... about you. I..." He huffed in embarrassment and stamped his claw on the tiles. "I think I might have... bonded with you."

Jason's breath caught in his throat, shocked into temporary silence by his classmate's words. He looked into the gryphon's eyes, expecting to see some form of laughter in there, of perhaps a poorly timed joke, but there was nothing but that deep, piercing blue gaze in return.

"D... do you mean..." Jason stammered, and Raal raised his head back up and looked away. Although little was known about how our why, adult gryphons were known to mate for life. Part of this was 'bonding', where through some unknown reason a gryphon would feel a strong, unbreakable attachment to their lover that would last until the day they perished. For some, it was said it occurred through mating. Others claimed it could happen anytime, during a conversation, or perhaps just a fleeting glance. Normally, bonding happened on pairs; both gryphon partners would experience the sensation together, simultaneously. Never, however, had Jason heard of it happening to a teenage gryphon, and most certainly not with a human.

"That's... impossible," he commented finally, and Raal shook his head.

"I know," the gryphon replied with a sigh, "I know. I fucking know. But..." He breathed out loudly and flicked his tail from side to side. "I can't think of anything else that... explains why I can't stop thinking about... you." He was definitely blushing this time, and wouldn't meet Jason's eye. For the human, he could hardly believe what he was hearing, and it raised a thousand questions in his mind. Yet, through all of it, all the turmoil, he could focus on a single, comforting thought. Raal liked him. He had no idea why, but that alone was significantly reassuring in all the confusion.

Looking at the gryphon, it now made sense why he was acting so odd. If Raal was correct, he was likely trying to deal with the effects of bonding, and grapple with what his friends and family would think of him doing so with a human. It was an unprecedented situation and Jason didn't want to make it any harder, even if it raised even more questions in his mind. He didn't know what to do or say that might make things easier, and he had his own thoughts to deal with about what the avian had said.

Was Raal attracted to him? He didn't truly know enough about the bonding process to know exactly what it meant for a gryphon, but at a basic level he knew bonded gryphons ended up as life partners.

"Well I don't know about this... bonding," he said finally, "but... I mean, you're a nice gryphon. I liked hanging out with you last night and studying together. I want to be friends, I'm just... what you're telling me is a bit much to take in." He sat back a little more on the shower bench and tapped on the sides idly with his fingertips.

"So you thought it was a good idea to tell me all this in a gryphon shower stall in the school gym?" Jason said with a forced chuckle, trying to lighten the mood, and finally Raal looked back at him bashfully.

"I mean..." the gryphon began to apologize, "I just..."

"Relax, I'm only messing with you," Jason cut in with a small laugh, and Raal seemed to lighten up a little.

"You're not mad?" the avian asked anxiously, and Jason shook his head.

"No, no, I'm not, I'm just... I mean, you kinda just told me you might have bonded to me for life," Jason explained quickly, "If that's what's happened... that's pretty serious. I don't know what to do in this situation, so why don't we just... I dunno, take it easy and try to figure things out. Together." Raal paused, but nodded slowly in agreement.

"Are you sure it wasn't just a really good hand job?" Jason teased, and Raal flicked his tail against the tiles in indignation before realizing the human was just teasing him to try and brighten him up a bit.

"I didn't know human hands were so... useful," the larger male finally smirked, and he folded his wings in a little tighter, calming himself.

"I'm sorry," Raal added solemnly, "I... should have thought more about what I was saying. I shouldn't have forced all that on you, that was incredibly rude of me to do so." Shaking his large head, the gryphon looked at the human before him with quiet contemplation. A longer silence filled the stall, and Jason briefly listened to see if he could hear anyone around who might overhear such a personal conversation.

Overall, Jason considered himself a wholly unremarkable person. He was eighteen, in his final year of school, had a couple of good friends and just above average marks. With some skills in carpentry and cooking and a decent knowledge of business, he'd figured he wouldn't have much trouble finding work, but all in all he'd never thought he'd end up attending the most prestigious school in the Kingdom. That had mostly been down to luck.

In the span of one day, he'd met a gryphon, jerked him off, and now he was alone in a shower stall with him. It was all happening so fast, and he still didn't know what to do, or what he wanted. Yet, he felt a deep sense of pity for the avian, knowing that he was probably wrestling internally with so many factors that he could hardly begin to imagine.

"Raal," he spoke up finally, "how about you tell me how you're feeling, right now. Just... help me understand exactly what it is you think is going on." The gryphon sighed, but eventually nodded.

"I haven't felt anything like it before," he confessed, "after you... you know, I lay there all night and couldn't sleep. I just... thought about you." He chuckled, and waved a claw dismissively.

"I get that sounds pretty darn odd," he continued to explain, "but it wasn't about your... hands or... what you did to me, but just... you. Smiling. Laughing. Tossing math questions back and forth. You know... just us, doing stuff together." The avian student groaned at how lame what he was saying sounded out in the open.

"It's... it's what we were told bonding was like when we were growing up," Raal chuckled, "it just... happens, and then you can't think of anywhere you'd rather be but with that other gryphon. You think about them happy, spending time together, m... making hatchlings together..." The hybrid turned a visible shade of red under his feathers and definitely averted his eyes this time. Jason felt a little heat rise in his own cheeks as he listened, and took a moment to digest what he'd been told.

"Is that how you feel about me?" Jason inquired gently, "jeez Raal, you've only known me for a single night." The gryphon's tail flopped across the tile as he gazed at the shower taps quietly. Jason thought about his own feelings in the quiet. Dating a gryphon would be practically disastrous for him in his own friend group, not to mention he was a freaking gryphon! What on earth would such a large, handsome teenage gryphon want with a regular human guy like him? Especially one from a poor District...

"I won't tell anyone about what you've told me, I promise," the seated man offered finally, "your father won't find out, and I won't cause any trouble for you. But, I want you to look at me." His words turned into more of a command at the end of his sentence, and the gryphon obeyed, turning his head and looking into his eyes.

"I..." Jason continued, and hesitated under that solemn but intense avian stare. He felt his pulse quickening as he looked at that incredible, predatory beast filling the majority of the shower they shared.

"I... want to give you a chance."

Raal looked up a little, unsure he'd heard the human correctly. A chance?

"I mean, I don't know about... this bonding stuff," Jason quickly added, waving his hands, "but at the very least, I..." He looked down at his hands, clasping them together firmly. "I like you." Raal's tail quivered at those three words, enough to get his claws tapping with excitement on the tile.

"You mean, you'll..."

"I don't know yet," Jason quickly interrupted, "but if you keep it quiet then I'll... I dunno... get to know you better, I suppose. Humans don't just... bond at the drop of a hat, we need time to decide these things. Is that enough for you, Raal?" He couldn't believe what he was doing, but the last day had already been so unusual that it didn't seem so far fetched. Even still, adrenaline was surging through him as Raal gave him a beaky smile. .

"T... thank you," Raal huffed in evident relief, "I didn't know what I would do if you didn't..." His wings fluttered in his happiness, looking at the human with cautious eagerness. "My father would be so angry with me if he saw me acting like this for a human..."

Jason laughed and nodded. "Let's not think about him, or my friends, or anyone else for now," he encouraged, "let's just focus on us. I... I haven't actually been in a relationship before. Especially not with a guy, or a gryphon." Raal nodded in agreement, and let out a small grunt as he adjusted his seating position on the cold tiles.

"We don't have to call it that if you're not comfortable with that," the gryphon reasoned, "I don't understand what I feel myself, and do not expect you to suddenly feel the same just because I told you I feel... bonded." Jason got up from the bench and reached out with his hand, placing it on the side of that curved beak. The young gryphon pulled back a little at first, but then relented to the human's touch.

"No, let's call it that," Jason said firmly, catching Raal off guard, "I can beat around the bush all I like, but ultimately you're attracted to me, aren't you? As in, if I understand gryphon bonding correctly, you're not just... lightly interested in me, but kind of... like, grow old together kind of interested in me, right?" Another brief pause, but Raal nodded with embarrassment. Jason could hardly believe he'd had such a strong impact on the beast after just one night.

"Yeah," Raal conceded, "I know it's odd, I know it's sudden, but... it feels so right. None of my family in District 1 would understand... I'm scared of what they'll think... but I don't think it's actually... illegal or anything." Jason nodded, he hadn't heard anything about it in the law before. Was he really going to go ahead with this? He liked the hybrid as a friend, but as something more?

"Then don't think about them for now," the human reiterated firmly, "right now it's about you and me, and if you want this bonding thing to work for us then you're going to have to be a little patient with me. I'm still not sure I'm ready for... all of this." Raal swallowed anxiously, but nodded in acceptance. He only wanted what was best for his new companion. He gave the gryphon's beak a slow rub, feeling that hard, keratin-like surface sliding under his palm before he pulled his hand back finally and broke eye contact with the larger male.

"So..." Jason muttered awkwardly, "what... uh... happens now?" Neither student had a good answer to that question. Raal shuffled awkwardly in place, and Jason chuckled quietly.

"And here I thought gryphons knew everything," he teased, "well if we're going to have, I dunno, some kind of secret relationship, shouldn't we get to know each other better?" Raal smirked and shook his head.

"We can't exactly go on, what do you humans call it? Dates? If we were seen together outside of school then..." the larger male tapped the tile beneath him firmly with a claw. "Father might find out, or your friends. I'm sure they'd think poorly of me." He sighed, and Jason stepped in closer, placing a hand on the gryphon's mane. Stroking down those plush bundles of fur, he noticed that the avian didn't stop him in any way.

"I don't think it's going to work very well if it's secret forever," Jason remarked, "but yes, for now, until I understand things better, let's just not publicize this in any way." He smiled reassuringly, and paused for a moment as he heard a deep, rumbling sound from what sounded like the hybrid's belly.

"Raal... are you purring?" he inquired, and the nose immediately stopped.

"N... no, of course not," the teenage beast quickly snapped, but he didn't meet the man's eye. Jason grinned; it had sounded nice to his ears.

"Well... how about for now we go back to my place again, yeah? We can't spend all night in the school showers," he pointed in amusement out to his feathered companion. Raal nodded, but thought about it for a moment.

"We probably shouldn't go back to your place," the gryphon remarked, "I... I don't think it's very suitable for someone as messy as me." Jason laughed, but then realized what the gryphon had just implied.

"Jeez Raal, you want me to jerk you off again already?" he teased, and the gryphon stamped his claw in embarrassment.

"Hey, that's not what..." he began to protest, but then saw the smile on the human's face. He looked away; seeing Jason looking like that made him feel happier.

Standing in front of the gryphon nearly three times heavier than himself, Jason didn't feel intimidated anymore. He felt he understood his fellow student better now, that he was just a young teenager like himself trying to figure out the world around him. Despite his initial reservations, he felt a sense of trust in the young gryphon and perhaps, just maybe, something more. Raal was funny, friendly, smart, kind... at least in the brief time he'd known him. He'd never had any interest in any girls or guys in his class before, at any rate. Was trying to get to know a gryphon better really such a bad thing? Society sure would think so...

"Do you trust me, Raal?" he asked quietly, and the gryphon nodded without hesitation. He had bonded, and there was nothing he desired more than to place his trust in this human. To ignore a bond was impossible, and in this situation, shockingly unusual. As Jason had not experienced the very same, he was in a position to decline to participate. For gryphons, the bonding was... absolute. If Jason rejected him now... it was unexplored territory.

"Well we can't go back to my place, and yours is definitely off limits," Jason reasoned, "so why don't I go and grab a towel, come back here, and we can have a hot shower together. Give me some more time to... get to know you better. How about that? No expectations, just... us, and a little less sweat." Raal looked up happily and nodded. He was thrilled Jason was giving him a chance, and his tail slapped the stall wall in his excitement.

"Alright, just a sec then," he added, and listened carefully before shuffling around the larger male and opening the stall door. He was mindful of getting caught as he hurried over to the human locker room, grabbed a fresh towel from his locker, and swiftly returned to see the avian waiting for him eagerly. It was unusual to see such an earnest gaze on a gryphon's features, usually the glances they bothered to throw humans were ones of disdain, especially those from District 1. To have such a big beast, especially the son of the terrifying Uren Nightwing, waiting on him like an overgrown puppy was both endearing and thrilling.

Closing the door once done, Raal reached out and turned on the taps as Jason tossed his towel on a hook. The water was loud as it cascaded over the tile and into the drain, and Jason pointed to the third tap beside the hot and the cold ones in confusion.

"What's that one?" he asked.

"For rotating the shower head," Raal explained, "or you can't get it to reach your underbelly when you're standing on the bench." Once again the human was amused at himself not knowing such a simple concept, but he didn't comment further. Instead, as the left side of Raal's sizeable body began to saturate with water, Jason dropped his own clothing and hung it up out of the way next to the towel.

As he turned back to face his new companion he saw those keen gryphon eyes looking down at his uncut cock for the second time. Blushing, he tried to have a little more confidence in himself and didn't cover it up with his hands.

"Like what you see?" he teased, but turned even redder when the gryphon nodded. He felt inadequately sized compared to the larger male, and it was heartening to have him so readily agree. He really didn't know how sexual the gryphon wanted to get with him, given their significant size difference, but he had already used his hands on the beast.

Everyone had gone home for the day, Mr Stillwing included, and he was confident they were all alone. If he was going to commit to this, he had to commit properly. Raal deserved all of him if he was going to agree to this bond.

Looking behind him, Jason grabbed the towel and placed it on the floor, leaving Raal confused as it began to soak with water.

"Why did you do that?" the gryphon questioned, watching as Jason knelt down on the towel instead of the hard tiles.

"Making it a bit easier on my knees," he explained, "I'm going to be down here a while." It took a moment for the realization to dawn on the teenage gryphon's beak, but as he did his ear tips flushed with red heat.

"A... are you..." the wet-feathered hybrid huffed in quiet, nervous excitement, and Jason nodded, unable to keep the blush out of his own cheeks.

"Yeah," the human confirmed, "can you please... uh, put your front legs up on the bench." The request seemed so simply, and yet Raal found himself weak at the knees. Was he going to feel those incredible hands back between his legs so soon? Slipping slightly on the tile in his own eagerness, Raal managed to step up onto the platform and expose his fluffy underbelly for the man to see once more. The water continued to flow down his hind legs, but his own thick coat provided a dry spot in which Jason could shuffle forward and bring his head down closer to the gryphon's hindquarters.

He'd seen the gryphon's endowments before; the beast had been on his back on his bed the night before. Yet, there was something so impressive about the gryphon while he was standing, the impressive equipment normally hidden from view now exposed to his gaze once again. Raal didn't say anything as the human explored him, the smaller male kneeling on the towel under him as he took it all in.

The water didn't reach underneath Raal's furred body, leaving his scent as strong and unfettered as it filtered down into Jason's lungs. His breath caught at the scene; raw, sweaty teenage gryphon, fresh off the sports field. It was enough to make his head spin, but he managed to steel himself and inhale a deep lungful of it. He couldn't shy away from the avian, even if he could see visible beads of perspiration rolling off the curves of those glossy black balls to drip from the underside onto the wet shower floor.

Raal was a prominent male gryphon, with a fine lineage that he drew much of his impressive size from and every little bit of him reminded the human of that fact. His sheath was as thick as a can of beer, floppy and wrinkled, protecting his young, flaccid avian penis. His scrotum hung low, dragged down nearly-taut by the weight of those two grapefruit-sized testicles that Jason knew from his brief experience were incredibly productive.

There was nothing human about this beast, this sentient animal, and yet somehow all of these differences were only more alluring as he sucked in more of that rich avian odour. His own uncut length was already at full mast just from the scent of his companion, and as he reached underneath that healthy belly with his right hand, he could feel his heart pounding nervously in his chest.

Taking a hold of Raal's sheath he could already feel the organ inside growing. Moments later the reddish tip poked free of its home, and a few gentle squeezes of that damp, furred tube only coaxed more of that slick shaft out into the open. Raal squawked as the human groped his groin once more, closing his eyes happily as the man he'd bonded with showed so much interest in him physically.

As the young bird grew to his full size Jason watched with a blush as the avian's length bent downwards under its own impressive weight. It was all just how he remembered it; those little nubs on the tip, that thick, cum-delivering vein that ran up the entire length, and that plump knot at the base. This time he knew that the large bulge was nowhere it's full size, and would only swell fully when the gryphon was ejaculating.

"It's so big," he muttered, and Raal's feathers ruffled with quiet pride. He let go of the sheath as it rolled back against his groin, pushed back by the knot into a bunch. The exposed shaft gave a flex, and slapped against the underside of the young hybrid's furred belly. A slimy strand of pre stretched between his urethra and belly fur before snapping lewdly. Jason could only stare at it, huffing on the gryphon's stench. With his cock hanging out, the big bird's musky odour only intensified in the shower stall.

Raal's claws scraped across the bench tiles in excitement, pleased to be sharing himself once more with his schoolmate. That deep connection he felt to the man was only growing stronger by the minute, and he had to restrain himself in his happiness. He didn't care how fast things had moved; the purity of his bond to Jason was not something that could be denied.

The towel beneath Jason's knees was soaked through by the shower water as he reached out and cupped one of those two sizeable orbs in his palm. An immediate dampness began to seep through his fingers and he wrinkled his nose as he realised the avian scrotum was practically sopping wet, and definitely not with shower water.

"Jeez Raal," he teased, "do all gryphons sweat like this?" The gryphon huffed, his balls bouncing as he shuffled a little in place.

"There's a lot of fur down there," he retorted playfully, "it gets warm." Clearly the gryphon was less nervous now that Jason was handling his goods again. This time it was less about helping out a friend to feel the pleasure of a climax, no, this time it was about sharing intimacy.

Undeterred, Jason fondled that huge testicle, letting it shift about in the loose sack while his fingertips explored the smoothness within. He could hear Raal almost panting in excitement, coupled with the occasional dull thump of his hard penis against his fluffy gut.

As he played with the virile bird's heavy nuts Jason thought about what he was going to do. He was alone with the avian, in a loud shower where there was very little chance of getting caught by anyone. He was all alone with a big male beast who wanted him more than anything else, and he was already down on his knees. As much as he had denied it, he was exactly where he wanted to be. He was beneath Raal, beneath this friendly, kind, downright sexy beast... his own uncut cock was rock hard just from the sheer smell of the feathered male.

He wanted Raal.

He wanted him badly.

Jason let go of those swaying orbs and looked up to see those piercing eyes gazing down at him intently. With his hand utterly dripping with the gryphon's ball sweat he brought it to his lips and dragged his tongue along his palm, slurping up the salty liquid. The taste was rich and tangy, and he nearly gagged on the unexpectedly harsh flavor, but to see the look on the young gryphon's features was priceless.

Raal's legs trembled as he saw his young companion taste his sweat off his fingers, his erection giving an almighty throb as lust surged through his massive frame. Jason didn't even stop there, slurping up his fingers one by one until he'd cleaned most of that warm, musky scrotum sweat off his hand, never breaking eye contact with the hybrid. Despite the shocking taste, Jason had never been so turned on in his life.

"J... Jason!" the larger male squawked in aroused shock, but he struggled to think of anything to say. Instead, Jason shuffled a little closer and placed his other hand on the gryphon's haunch.

"Please... don't say anything Raal," he requested quietly, giving the gryphon's rump a reassuring squeeze.

"I'm going to try... s... sucking your cock."

No sooner than the words left his mouth, Raal nearly fell off the bench in surprise, and Jason's cheeks burning brightly as he spoke. He'd done it now, he'd committed all the way to taking the next step in being physical with his avian friend. Yet, he didn't feel any reluctance; he wanted Raal's thick, juicy gryphon cock in his mouth. He was going to give in to these urges, and prove without a doubt that he could make the young gryphon squirm in ways no gryphon could.

Before the larger male could recover, Jason reached in and took a hold of his knot. He felt the gryphon tense as he applied a little pressure to that fat bulge of flesh, feeling a hearty throb from the erect organ in response. He wanted to act, before any doubt clouded his mind. His intentions spoken, he now needed to show Raal he would back up his words. He wanted to hear that big bird moan.

Shuffling the towel right under that plump hybrid belly, he ducked his head until he was eye level with that oversized teen gryphon cock. Right down there between those powerful, muscular feline thighs the animalistic smell of rut and musk diffused into his lungs and filled him with lust. Keeping a firm grasp on that heavy length as it threatened to flex right out of his grip, Jason brought his head forward and let the pre-slicked urethra rub against his bottom lip, smearing the gryphon's slick lubricants across it like a lewd lipstick. This was it... he was really going to do this to a feral gryphon...

Above, Raal gazed at the shower stall wall, feeling what was going on below with bated breath. He'd not expected Jason to respond so encouragingly to his needs, and it only filled his heart with greater care for the young man between his legs. He couldn't see what was going on, only feel it as warmth pressed against his glans. He didn't know what to expect, and hadn't managed to tell Jason that gryphons didn't normally put their penises in each other's sharp beaks. Putting complete trust in his bonded human, he could only moan to the heavens as he felt those soft, silky human lips start to envelop his gryphonhood.

Jason felt the hot shower water splashing over his legs as he gently began to slide that slick meat into his mouth. With one hand still keeping the shaft steady, he opened a little wider and took the first three inches of warm teenage gryphon dick between his lips. An audible groan escaped around it as Jason tasted sweaty avian cock for the first time, feeling the bumpy tip grinding against his palate and releasing a thick glob of slimy lubricants across his taste buds. He swallowed it with a nervous gulp, feeling the slick liquid travel down his throat and into his belly. His nose was so much closer to that damp groin fur now, and the smell only intensified up close and personal.

Unable to fit more than another inch in his mouth, the young man instead focused on getting to know the inches he'd already allowed inside. The flavors he was tasting were potent and combined into a thick, lewd mixture of warm cockflesh, fresh sweat and gooey lubricants stewed within that supple sheath, more of which was leaking messily from that large slit at the tip of the young bird's spire. He had to gulp down the translucent goop every few seconds to stop it from pooling in the back of his throat, but he didn't mind.

Jason had never given head before, not even to a human, but it wasn't about to deter him from giving it his all. His hand never left that thick knot, pulling the slimy shaft from his mouth before taking a breath of that rich gryphon scent before sliding it right back between his lips. The young man worked up a slow, steady rhythm as he began to bob his head up and down on that crimson breeding spire, doing his best to apply pressure with his lips and swallowing each time the precum built up too much in his mouth.

I'm really doing it, he thought to himself, I'm really sucking gryphon cock. Lord Nightwing's son himself! I must be mad!

Yet, he did not slow down, leaving Raal to twitch and tremble in pleasure as his inexperienced body was treated to its first oral pleasures. He could hardly believe Jason had just started doing what he was doing, and without so much as a wash under there. Somehow the idea that his bonded partner would do this for him, even when his pits and balls were sopping wet with post-gym sweat, only made Raal's erection stiffer.

"It feels s... so good," the young hybrid huffed in pleasure, "k.. keep going." Jason obliged, using his free hand to fondle the gryphon's healthy balls while the other kneaded and squeezed at that fat knot. Combined with the mouth bobbing on his cockhead, Raal couldn't believe how good it felt to be stimulated in so many different ways at once. Humans have some incredible talents, he chuckled inwardly, shuffling his hind legs a little further apart.

Despite the unorthodox location, there was an intimacy to sharing the shower stall together. The steamy hot water soaking Raal's fur dripped down Jason's back, but never bothered his head beneath that rounded gryphon gut. Warm, steamy humidity filled the enclosed space, amplifying that musky smell between Raal's thighs, but keeping the human warm all the same. He was so focused on sucking and slurping on his new companion's huge, unusual member that he was barely thinking about anything else.

Nearly another five whole minutes passed in intimate silence, with Raal propped up on the bench by his forelegs while Jason sucked him off from below. He loved how he could apply a little extra pressure to that knot to get the young bird to moan, or push against those little nubs coating his glans to coax another gooey spurt from that yawning urethra. His jaw felt a little sore from the effort, and so he pulled back to lick and kiss at the thicker middle of the gryphon's length while massaging that knot, only to slide it right back into his mouth to continue his messy, but eager blowjob.

"I... I think I'm going to cum," Raal finally huffed after nearly twenty straight minutes of dedicated service from his classmate. Jason didn't stop, but he thought about it for a moment. Did he want Raal to finish in his mouth? He thought back to his room the night before, the endless ropes of chunky gryphon semen arching through the air to ruin his carpet and bedding, and he felt hesitant to try and take it himself. Yet... he wanted to. He wanted to give Raal everything he could, to commit to the act and see whether this relationship was going to work out between them.

"I mean it," the adolescent avian groaned, "if... if you don't pull back I'm... I'm going to cum in..." He faltered, flustered at saying it out loud. What he didn't expect was Jason to pull back off his thick cock with a lewd pop and finish the sentence for him.

"I want you to finish in my mouth," he said firmly, conveying more confidence in his voice than he felt in his head. Raal nearly came on the spot, especially when Jason simply continued to suck him off moments later. He could feel those soft lips slide down his tip, partway down his shaft, only to reverse and slide back up as that eager tongue dragged taste buds over his bumpy barbs. The simulation was incredible, and the words the human had said rang clearly in his mind as his four legs shivered in pleasure and his huge balls churned up a hot, fresh load to feed his prospective life-mate.

"J... Jason!" he practically squawked, foreclaws digging violently into the tiles with a loud screech as he threw his beak back and felt his entire body quiver as he was pushed over the edge. Jason felt that bulge under his fingers swell up for the second time, warning him off the eruption to come, giving him all but a few seconds to decide if he was going to take the first shot of Raal's cum right inside his mouth or aim it away from his face.

He didn't pull back, eyes wide as the first incredible pulse of the gryphon's thick ejaculate bulged his cheeks to capacity with just a single spurt. His mouth filled to the brim with Raal's semen, the second spurt was more than he could hold as it splurted out from his lips and cascaded down his bare chest in a messy stream.

Jason's mouth was flooded with hot gryphon semen as the big bird emptied both of his virile balls into the receptive mouth below. With an almighty gulp Jason swallowed his first mouthful of his companion's thick, salty cream, his stomach playing host to another male's cum for the first time in his life. As soon as he cleared his mouth another heavy rope of Raal's seed shot across his tongue, and he slowly and steadily began to gulp down as much as he could, holding that throbbing organ in place with his hand.

Raal was shuddering with pleasure as he came, amplified by the knowledge that his bondmate was swallowing as much of it as he could. Every time his heavy balls tensed up another gooey shot of sperm-rich hatchling batter splurted from his yawning urethra to coat the inside of Jason's willing mouth.

The human hadn't known what to expect from the taste of gryphon cum, and he really couldn't think of anything to compare it to as he chugged the rich batter right from the source. He blushed hotly, thinking about the fact he was just drinking gryphon seed on his knees in a shower stall, but he'd never been harder in his life. He simply rode out the young bird's orgasm, the excess overflowing from his lips until he could feel it slowing down.

Raal grunted lustily as his balls gave up the last of their burden into Jason's belly, panting softly as he let the last few spurts soak into the young man's tongue. He could feel Jason gently rubbing his engorged knot, encouraging those last few messy dribbles out of his tip. The extra effort was greatly appreciated, and he squawked happily as he felt those soft lips slurp off his spent cock.

"Oh Jason," he huffed quietly, "that was... mmf... so good." He felt the human shuffle back and took the opportunity to step back down from the bench, slowly coming down from the high of his second incredible orgasm. He'd never considered a human could bring him this kind of pleasure, and now that he had he only wanted to explore it further. Turning his head, he looked down at Jason with a beaky smile and immediately stopped as he saw his naked classmate.

Jason's chin, chest, belly, groin and thighs were caked in thick globs of his ejaculate, the mess that had spilled from the human's lips as he unloaded himself between them. But it wasn't the sight of the man covered in his load that had the young gryphon's eyes widening and his softening cock tingling once more, but what was in the human's open mouth.

Kneeling with his mouth ajar, Jason showed off a gooey pool of warm sperm to the beast that produced it. He pushed his tongue around inside his mouth, letting the avian see his own rich seed swirl about and cover his teeth.

"Oh my..." the hybrid muttered in arousal as the human openly and eagerly tasted his fresh cum. He used his tongue to smear it over his lips, sloshing the chunky gryphon batter from cheek to cheek. Winking, he then closed his mouth over and made a big show of thoroughly tasting the salty, masculine flavors of feral gryphon jizz as his cheeks bulged and shifted with each motion. He didn't rush the process, letting the hot load seep every flavor into his palate before finally tilting his head back and letting Raal watch his neck bulge as he swallowed it all down to join the rest in his visibly distended gut.

"Delicious," Jason gasped as his mouth cleared, before ducking right back under the gryphon's haunches to slurp and suckle the leftover right from the larger male's softening cock. "Don't want your sheath to get dirty," he added as his head emerged, blushing up at the pleased bird. With a loud groan he got back up off his knees, which were starting to hurt from the extended kneeling session even on the soft, wet towel.

"I..." Raal began, unsure of what he could say that could properly convey how he felt. He'd never expected Jason to take things so far, but was thrilled that he had. He could only watch as the man awkwardly hung the towel back up on the hook, his body utterly slathered in his warm, pungent semen. It was incredibly lewd, and he no longer saw any hesitation in the human's eyes as they gazed at one another. Had he accepted the bond after all?

"That was incredible," the gryphon managed to say, 'I've... I can't believe you did that... it was so good... I..." He stammered, but Jason gently pressed a finger against his beak to silence him.

"I made up my mind," the smaller student told him firmly, "I want to be with you. I don't care what anyone thinks, or that you're a gryphon... I don't know about this bonding stuff either, but... I want to give it a go. Is... is it really for life?" Raal nodded, and Jason chuckled briefly.

"Then I guess I better get to know you better," he continued, reaching out to rub Raal's wet mane. He could see the quiet joy in those bestial eyes, and with a smile he leaned in and placed a small kiss on the upper half of that hard beak.

"What do we do now?" Raal asked, and Jason gestured to the water behind them. "Do you... want to go back to your place?"

"I think I need a shower first," he suggested with a laugh, and the hybrid grinned.

"Can you... shampoo my fur?" Raal asked hopefully, "I... I heard humans do that with their hair..."

"Anything for you, Raal."