Draconia Chronicles: The Black Fox

Story by tamati the nine tailed fox on SoFurry

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new story may make it into a series if i i get some good comments


FOREWORD In a forested area we see a dark figure running through, ducking behind some rocks as he stops to catch his breath, on a inspection we see that it is a black furred fox with grayish-silver hair, and one very big tail, wearing what could be put best as a travelers get up including a shirt, pants, boots, and a long jacket, around his arm was a rather heavy looking satchel, secured by a strap over his left shoulder. The fox relaxed a bit, before rubbing his right shoulder, wincing as he did so, why, because there was a large gash across it. He looked at the wound, knowing what had caused it, just then a monstrous roar came from the forest. "You've got to be kidding me!?" He said to himself as he quickly scrambled to gather his things, and started running again, though he didn't get more that about maybe a quarter of a mile before the trees threw an root up out of the ground, to which he tripped over, and to add insult to injury, it was at the top of a hill, to which he started rolling. Kess and her group were nearby the hill, in a clearing near a river, stocking up on water and other supplies, Shie and Riah were out hunting for food. They were just about to leave again when they heard the monstrous roar. "What in Leossa...was THAT!?" Kess asked to herself. "That didn't sound like a dragon..." Naisha pointed out. "Didn' sound like any animal I've evar heard either..." Kenzi added, just in time to see the black fox roll out of the woods about a good ten yards from them, the fox stumbling to his feet, the girls could see it was wounded by how much blood was dripping onto the ground. "Hey, are you okay?" Shie asked. The fox looked at them, his vision was going blurry as he saw four orange-like blobs, at least that's what they looked like, he reached out for them. "H...h-h-h-he...hel..." It started to say before falling to the ground, succumbing to his wounds. "Oh shit, hurry girls, she looks like she needs help..." Kess said, the girls nodding as they helped the fox, having to reset camp up again. The fox was in a world of darkness, he didn't know where he was, if this was hell, he didn't want anything to do with it, within the darkness he could hear murmurs, but as his hearing got better, he could tell it was voices, female voices by the sound of it. "Damn, best we can do for now...all we can do is bandage her up and hope she pulls through..." Said one voice. "What could've done that too her, last I checked, I've never seen a dragon do that to someone..." said another. "Or any animal I've evar seen..." So he was alive, wait...she? Are they telling him that they think he's a woman, well okay his hair is a little long, but beyond that he is a guy. "Wait, I think she's coming through..." One of the voices said, the fox opened his eyes to see several sets of eyes looking back down at him, he then noticed that he was surrounded by a group of female tigers, that got his attention right away as he bolted up, but as he sat up he felt his shoulder hurt again. "For Leossa's sake, don't move so much...that was a really nasty wound you had..." Shie told him, the fox swatted her hand away and crawled back a bit. "Don't hurt me!" He said. "What the fuck, she's a he?!" Shie said in shock, "HA, see, told you all...no woman could be that flat-chested and muscular." Rula said, cheering for herself. "Yeah, well there are other ways to tell miss..." he started to say. "Kind of rude of you, not introducing yourself first..." Kess told him, he let out a sigh. "Right, Tamati...though you can call me Tam for short if you wish." Kess nodded, "I'm Kess, and these are my friends, the one with the afro is Naisha, the one to her left is Rula, the blond one is Kenzi, the bigger blond one is Shie, the one with the Auburn hair is Enneki, and the one with the eye-patch is Riah." "Ahem...Well I thank you for rescuing me, sadly I have nothing to offer as payment..." Tamati told them, "Yer not plannin' on leaving us, are you Mr. Tamati?" Kenzi asked. "Kenzi's right, you were in pretty rough shape when our paths crossed." Riah told him. "Yeah, and you had a fever...you were lucky to stumble upon us when you did." Rula added. Tamati looked to be thinking it over, "I guess you place a valid point, and if I was in as rough a shape as you said...guess it would be a good idea to keep an eye on me to make sure I've fully recovered." "Also gives us a chance to have some fun..." Rula whispered to Naisha. "If you girls don't mind me asking, how long was I out?" Tamati asked, rubbing his head. "You were out for a week." Naisha told him, that made the foxes jaw drop. "Naisha, don't tease him..." Kess said, giving her a slap to the back of the head. "You've only been out a couple of days, had to treat your wound, as well as treat you for poison." "Poision!?" Tamati said, though he didn't exactly sound surprised, more like he was trying to act it, but doing a somewhat good job of it. "Remember, you had a fever, we found out that was from poisoning." Kess told him. Tamati ran his left hand through his hair, before feeling how dusty and dirty it felt, "Actually, I could use a good wash before we go, you don't mind, do you?" Kess seemed rather ticked by the idea of delaying their travel even further, but she did partially weigh the fact that he did look a bit on the dirty side, she didn't know much about foxes or canines, but she guessed they needed some level of grooming. "Oh alright, but try to be quick about it...don't want to be spotted by any dragons." Tamati nodded, he knew full well of the Tiger/Dragon war, and could understand that a place like this was viewable from the sky. As Kess was keeping the fire going, Shie sat down next to her, "Kess...you got a moment to talk?" "What is it Shie?" Kess asked. "Hey, don't take that tone with me, anyway, I wanted to talk to you about Tamati...did you notice...he didn't seem that surprised when we mentioned he was poisoned?" To which Kess nodded a bit, "I think he knows what attacked him..." "You think he's hiding something?" Riah asked, "Female intuition says he is...I think there's more to that fox than meets the eyes." Shie told them both. "What-ever did that to him...it could still be out there, looking for him." "Speak of which..." Kess said, looking around... "Where are Naisha, Rula, and Kenzi?" To which Enneki answered, "I think they said they were going to get more supplies..." "But we already have enou..." Kess started to say when the thought came to her, giving herself a slap to the face. "Those three..." Tamati took off his clothes, looking at the river, "Thought I was finished there for a second...all this just because I didn't get away fast enough..." He thought to himself, slowly removing his pants. "But it isn't too bad, I ran into some tigers, and they seem rather nice, though something tells me the one with the bandana has a bit of a stick up her back-side..." "It won't be long until they start asking questions though...hmmm, the way I see it, the less they know, the safer they'll be...that thing was after me, not them, it wants what I have in my travel bag." He said, letting out a sigh as his big tail started doing something strange, unfurling into nine, that's right, nine tails. "Ah, that feels much better, hate having to disguise my tail like that, but if anyone saw, they'd probably think I was a daemon or something..." Just then Tamati heard a muffled yelp and a splash, looking at the opposite side of the river, he could see a tiger tail waving about the water's surface, it was at that moment he knew he wasn't alone. "Geez, good goin' Rula..." Kenzi said, head poking out of the water. "I was trying to keep you from screaming!" Rula said, to which Niasha looked to Kenzi before just having a blank stare. "Come on Naisha, help defend me here?!" "Aren't we forgetting something?" Asked a voice behind her, Kenzi looked back to see Tamati standing over her, looking down at her. "Uhhhhh....hiya?" "What in the name of the Goddess Vulpa do you think you three are doing?!" Tamati asked, looking at the three of them. "We...just wanted to make sure you were safe, I mean you did get poisoned..." Kenzi told him, Tamati just looked at her and smirked, "Uh-huh...and seeing me naked had nothing to do with it?" "Whoa, Rula, Kenzi...he's got nine tails, are those real?" Naisha asked before giving the center one a tug. "Ow, hey..." Tamati yelped, before Kenzi tugged the one of the far left, "Ouch, okay, that's..." He said before seeing Rula reach for another, he quickly caught her arm. "They're real, all nine of them are real, okay, no need to pull them to find out!" He growled at her. "More importantly, what are you three doing here?" "Well...we were just thinkin', wonderin' in fact...if you could use some company?" Kenzi asked. Didn't take Tamati long to figure what they wanted, the thought had crossed his mind, but it was just a thought, a rather tempting one mind you, but a thought... "Look, I'm not saying you're not all attractive, but I'm not really in the mood for..." He tried to tell them, before Kenzi made her move. "Then what do you call this right here?" She asked with a wink, her paw having a hold of his erection. That got Tamati's attention right away...he looked down, feeling the blonde tigress stroking his pride, making him blush with a moan. "I think foxy likes it..." Naisha said, rubbing her hands onto him chest, her fingers tracing along his stomach. "g-g-g-Girls...I...s-s-se-seriously, I like you, b-b-but..." He tried to get out, but soon saw Rula and Naisha start to take off their clothing. "What, you don't expect us to wear wet clothes do you?" Rula asked, before giving the black fox a lick on the neck. Tamati was taken off-guard by these sudden advances, he was trying to think of some way he could get out of this situation, but with Kenzi stroking and now licking his cock, and Naisha and Rula cuddling and rubbing up against him, most of his willpower was being diverted to just keep standing. Finally Tamati did manage to push the girls away a bit, taking a few steps back so he could sit down on the river bank, but he didn't have to wait long before finding himself getting frenched by Kenzi, while Naisha and Rula took turns licking and suckling his cock. Tamati did manage to glance down as he saw both Naisha and Rula licking his pole, before seeing the two of them press their boobs together before sandwiching his dick between them, Tamati let out a low howl as he felt both girls breasts rubbing against his cock, making him moan into Kenzi's mouth as she started kissing him again. "You girls are...something..." The black nine-tails told them, that made all three of them grin, That's when Kenzi went down to join the other two girls, soon all three of them are tasting and teasing the fox pole, Tamati doing everything he could to keep from cumming too soon. "Wow, never seen a male last this one against three girls..." Rula remarked, to which Naisha added, "Yeah, usually Kenzi's tongue would be enough to get most guys or girls hitting their peak by now." "Trust me girls...I'm trying with...all my might...to last..." Tamati said before letting out a howl, the girls had little warning before they got faces full of his liquid white, Tamati panting as he looked at all three of them. "Damn...that was a blast..." "I'll say, no male tiger I've ever met came that much...he's a keeper..." Rula told them, to which they all nodded, but then saw Niasha stand up and start straddling Tamati, but that didn't last long as Kenzi was quick to yank her off, "Wha' the heck do you think yer doing Naisha?!" "What's it look like, I'm going to let him fuck me!" Naisha responded, Rula shook her head, "Not a chance this was my idea to do this, I get first go!" To which Kenzi responded, "The HELL you do!" Tamati just watched as the girls fought over him, yanking each other away from him and pulling hair, he didn't know whether to be turned on or scared. "Girls...uhhh...girls..." Tamati tried to speak up, but the girls kept arguing, finally Tamati let out a loud howl, but there was something disturbing about it, it sounded darker, more primal, almost demonic, the girls swore as they looked at him his eyes seemed to glow red for a moment before he blinked. "There, now that I have your attention...though I'm sure any male tiger would love watching you three claw and bloody the water and each other, I have a simpler way of settling this..." The girls calmed down, "We're listening..." Tamati took a deep breath, calming his own nerves, "I'm thinking of a number between one and ten, closest to the answer gets the pleasure of me banging their cunt...but I promise, the other two won't be left out of the fun either..." The black fox said with a wink. The girls wondered what he meant by that, but in truth, what he was offering was kind of an easier way. "Okay...I choose four..." Rula told him, "Six" Kenzi said, "Seven" Naisha finished. Tamati smiled, "Naisha got it, I was thinking of 7, so come here babe..." Tam said, the tigeress getting into his lap, before the girls heard her moan, the black fox holding onto her hips. "He feels even bigger on the inside!" Tamati looked at the other two, before giving a smile, as Naisha rode him, his tails snaked over to Kenzi and Rula, Rula was probably the first to feel something tickling at her sex before looking down as seeing one of the foxes nine tails rubbing her down there. "Oh I see, while Naisha gets you, you'll tease us with your tails, clever little foxy aren't you?" The fox grinned, "Think that's clever, you've only seen the tip of the iceberg..." Just then Tamati closed his eyes, giving out a low groan as a faint red glow could be barely seen through his eye lids, Kenzi then felt something harder brush against her sex, looking down her eyes went wide as it appeared there was another canine cock poking out from out of his tail. "What in the goddess?!" Kenzi asked in shock, though the next thing to come out of her mouth was a moan as the dick rammed itself into her sex. He didn't stop there though as he was quick to put another into her rear as well, Kenzi giving a loud moan as she was double stuffed. "Oh GODDESS YES!" She cried out, "Whoa...you're a vocal one, better do something about that before the others realize what's going...on..." Tamati said as he started feeling Naisha speeding up, bouncing faster on his cock, a big grin on her face. And he did just that by taking a third tail-cock and stuffing it into Kenzi's mouth, making her suckle and lick it as she was fucked three times over. Rula watched as her two friends got screwed by Tamati, rubbing herself to the show, she then saw the fox looking at her, she knew he hadn't forgotten about her, Rula finding herself on her back as she saw another tail cock work into her sex, the raven haired tigress letting out a gasp and moan, fondling her own breasts as she felt the cock start to pump in and out of her. Tamati groaned, holding Naisha by her hips as he pumped her good and hard, and big smile on each of the tigeresses faces, well Kenzi was a little busy suckling tail-cock, but she too was smiling a bit. "Goddess, what is this guy!?" Rula asked, letting out a loud moan. "He's some sort of sex machine, or god!" That made Tamati grin, feeling a swell of pride as he pumped all three of the girls harder, his body now glistening with sweat as he pounded all three harder, hearing them moan and gasp in joy. Kenzi being the first to lose it, cumming hard as she suckled harder, making the black fox groan as his tail cocks returned the favor, cumming in her mouth, sex and ass before pulling out, making her gasp and moan as they continued cumming, giving her a frosting to go with her filling. Naisha was next, clutching onto Tamati tightly as she started bouncing up and down on his lap rapidly, the fox getting out a slight yelp as he felt her claws dig in slightly to his bad shoulder, though he did well to mask his pain, feeling the tiger soak his cock in her juices, just provided him more lubrication for a faster fucking as he took hold of her rear and started squeezing it as he hammered her sex harder, working her for another orgasm, of course his peak wasn't far. Hearing the afro tiger let out a roar of pleasure as she held onto him, her claws digging into him, he let out a slight moan of pain, before feeling himself hit the point of no return, with a howl, he held onto Naisha, unloading his cream of life into the tigress. And last but not least, Rula, who seemed to have the better endurance of all three of them, at least from Tamati's stand-point as he was pumping her harder and faster, yet she hadn't seemed to reach her orgasm yet. The black fox pumping his tail cocks in and out of Rula with all his might, before hearing her let out the same orgasmic roar, this time he kept them in as he filled Rula's pussy and ass with cum. "Wow, that was..." Kenzi started to say, "Something else?" Rula finished, all three nodding in agreement, looking at Tamati who seemed to be relaxing as the afterglow started to take hold of him, but his coming rest was soon to be disrupted when he heard a familiar loud roar, his eyes shooting open. "Hey, isn't that the...roar we heard earlier?" Rula asked. "Yeh, but it sounds closer...than it did before..." Kenzi added. "We have to go...like now..." Tamati told them, before they heard what sounded like Enneki screaming. "ENNEKI!?" Naisha yelled as the tigers quickly got dressed, not caring who's clothes belonged to who as they made their way back to camp, Tamati was a bit slower at getting dressed, but didn't bother to throw his shirt or jacket on as he followed the girls. The girls made it back to the camp to see Kess hurtling through the air, landing at their feet. "KESS!" All three shouted as they helped her up. "What happened?" Kenzi asked, Kess looked at them before pointing as they saw a large shadow lumbering their way, it had the head and body of a boar, but it had large feathered wings, and a scorpions tail. "WHAT...THE FUCK...IS THAT!?!" "Don't know...but it's strong, it wounded Riah and knocked Enneki out...in fact Riah's wound was similar too..." Kess said before realizing something...looking back, seeing Tamati walk towards them, looking at Kess. "That thing...is after you...isn't it?" Tamati did say a thing, he just walked forward, the others just watched. 'Finally found you again, what, not going to run away this time?' "Why bother, doesn't matter where I go, you'll just keep hunting me..." Tamati replied, just then a red cloaked figure came out of the tree-tops. "Very accurate, now...are you going to return what you stole from us?" Kess and the others looked at Tamati, he looked back, "My, you mean to tell me he didn't tell you?" The cloaked figure asked. Tamati looked back, stern-eyed, "This doesn't involve them...leave them out of this!" "Oh I'm afraid it's a little late for that, they got mixed up with you when your path crossed theirs." The figure said, taking a minute to put a brass-plated gauntlet on her right hand. Tamati could tell this wasn't going to end well, he looked to the girls, seeing Shie bringing a unconscious Enneki, and a wounded Riah to the other tigers, "Girls...can I entrust you to handle that over-sized pork-chop?" He asked, the tigers looked at him, a bit surprised. "Anything, we should know about it?" Rula asked. "It's strong, it's fast...and if any of you know any magick, don't bother, it won't work...trust me, I've tried." Tamati told them, as he took a sword shaped charm off his neck, eyes glowing red as there was a flash of light in his hands, then the girls saw him holding a real life-sized sword. He then rushed at the red-cloaked figure, who disappeared in a plume of smoke, followed by a teasing laugh that seemed to echo from everywhere. "Cute...you didn't think I'd make killing me that easy did you...silly foxy..." followed by a blast of white energy coming at him, he deflected it with his sword then ran off in the direction it came from. Tamati ran through the woods, until he came to a small clearing, he could feel the red-cloaked figure was here, but where? "I have to admit, you did very well circumventing our security systems last night...not many thieves or burglars get in and out of a conclave tower in one piece..." the cloaked figure told him. "Fortune and stubbornness go hand and hand sometimes, makes for one heck of an anesthetic." Tamati told her, before taking another swing at her with his sword, the figure jumping back from Tamati's strike range. Tamati growled as he looked at the fem, "This is fun and all, but I have places to go and items to recover...so please..." She said, holding her arm out as she created another sphere of light. "die quickly." She said before launching it at Tamati, the fox once again deflecting it with his sword before his paw came alight with flame, he threw a fire-ball of black flame at the figure, but she just smiled as she held up her gauntleted hand, the gem on the gauntlet glowing a pale red light, the fire ball getting just a meter from her before...stopping and then roping out as it went into the gem. "What the, wait...last night...all my magic, that was you!?" Tamati asked, the cloaked fem nodded, "Yep, this gauntlet is rather unique...has the ability to absorb magick, all sorts of magick...so no matter how much fire, or lightning you throw at me like you did last night...it'll all be absorbed by this here gauntlet..." Tamati now understood what had happened last night when he took on that monster the girls are now fighting, all his magic attacks had actually been absorbed by her instead of being neutralized by the monster. "That Chimera...it's not immune to magick, is it?" to that the fem shook her head, "It is magick resistant...a little, but enough magick thrown at it could ultimately kill it." "I see...well at least I know how to take something like it out..." Tamati said as he threw a blast of black lightning at the fem, she just smirked and put the gauntlet up again, letting the gem absorb it, just then she saw a shadow come up behind the absorbed attack and a flash of light, watching as her forearm was cut off, Tamati had used the lightning as a distraction and get an attack in, he was quick though as he made a vertical slice, splitting the cloaked figure in half along the stomach. "And that's all she wrote..." Tamati said to himself, before seeing the fem disappear in a poof of white smoke, "What!?" he said, eyes going wide before feeling something kick him hard in the back of the head. The black fox skidding across the ground, before doing a somersault to regain his balance, it was the red cloaked figure, she pulled her cloak hood back to reveal a raccoon fem with burgundy hair, with a streak of silver running through it. "A copy?" Tamati asked, the fem nodded, "A magick-made clone...you honestly didn't think I wouldn't see that coming, did you?" She asked, appearing behind him and delivering a light sphere point-blank this time, Tamati went flying forward, the raccoon fem smiling as she watched a tree trunk stop his flight. "Hmmm...an attack like that would've stopped any normal person cold." She said, seeing Tamati getting back up. Tamati looked at the ring-tail fem, in the distance he heard one of the tigresses scream, she looked with him and grinned, "Sounds like they're having a tough time...wonder which one that was that just died?" "Don't count them out yet bandit lady, Tigers are a lot tougher and resourceful than you take them for." Tamati told her. "The savage that discovers fire is still a savage..." She told him, "So then you're on the side of the dragons?" Tamati asked. "Are you kidding me, if any of those scale butts were here I'd have my pet rip them apart too." "So you're not with the Tigers...that's for sure, and you're not on the side of the Dragons...then whose side are you on?" Tamati asked. To which she smiled, "I am on the side of the true stewards of this world...the ones that will take control away from the Tigers and Dragons..." "Sounds to me like you're preaching to the choir..." Tamati told her, "You really think it'll be that easy to kill off both sides?" He asked. "You say that, yet you know not the tools we have...and before I forget to tell you thief...we took care of your buyer...so the items in your satchel are now worthless to you, might as well give them back." She told him. "Everything has it's price...and I'm sure I could find a different buyer for each of the items I took from that tower." Tamati answered. "But what are they to you, if you're so keen on keeping them from other people?" "They are relics of a past that had best be forgotten...and it has..." She told him, "And who are you to justify such a thing?" He asked, to which she answered, "Nikita...but you won't live long enough to remember that...I assure you." She said, throwing a barrage of magic attacks at Tamati. The black fox did his best to dodge the attacks, a few shots just barely grazing him, missing by just mere inches. The fox getting close enough to take a wide swing, but missed as he watched his target disappear with the shade of a tree, hearing Nikita laugh as he looked around, before feeling a sharp pain in his leg, looking down to see a throwing knife imbedded into it, pulling it out. "You're not very good at this, are you?" Nikita asked, Tamati shook his head, "Never had an opponent my magic wouldn't work on...but I do have to thank you..." "Thank me, for what?" Nikita asked, that's when Tamati vanished, Nikita looked dumbfounded as she jumped from her hiding place. "You're not the only one who can make a copy of themselves here..." Said Tamati, behind her, Nikita looked back, letting out a bright flash of light as she jumped away, clutching her shoulder, blood dripping from it. "Damn, that was too close..." "Excellent reflexes, another second and your arm would've been a bloody stump." Tamati said, smirking at the fact he'd gotten that close. Nikita looked at him, "How many can you make?" She asked, "Two..." Tamati answered before asking, "Why?" Just then two copies of Nikita appeared behind Tamati from the shadows, both trying to attack him. He dodged the first ones attack, but got winged by the second one, "Because I can make up to three copies of myself..." Nikita told him. Tamati got up to one knee, his shirt and bandages beginning to tatter away from his body. For the next part of the fight it was almost a stalemate, Tamati and Nikita attacking each other back and forth, and just when either one thought they had the other, poof...just a copy. Nikita and Tamati both jumped away from each other, both panting and sweating heavily. All the while they can hear the roars and the screams of the tigers, Tamati growing more concerned by the second. "This is getting me nowhere fast..." The fox thought to himself, looking over his shoulder, "We're able to make clones as fast as the other can dispatch of them...and my magic has no affect because that gauntlet of hers will just absorbs it and can throw it back as her own...there has to be...wait..." He thought to himself before reaching into his satchel, remembering now one of the two items he had taken...pulling it out it looked like a pistol, but it had a large red crystal attached to the back of it. He turned pointing it at Nikita. "Bringing a gun to a magic fight...not very smart..." Nikita said, smirking, Tamati smirked back pulling the trigger, firing off a flaming shot at Nikita, Nikita held her arm out, shaking her head, "As I told you...magic is..." She started to say, but then had to dodge as the fiery shot nearly hit her, causing her cloak to catch on fire, Nikita's eyes going wide on that. "What the Hel!?" Tamati smiled as he took the red crystal off, before reaching into the satchel and pulling out another one, a long yellow crystal, putting it in he quickly fired off another shot, this time a long bolt of lightning came from the gun, the loud crack of it echoed through the forest and was near deafening to both Tamati and Nikita. "Why in the name of the Seeress are you not absorbing his attacks!?" Nikita yelled at the gauntlet, but she had to dodge again as she say something coming behind her, leaping out of the way as Enneki tried to take a swipe at her, "You, but how...!?" Rula was the next to show up, Tamati smiled as he saw them show up, "You honestly didn't think we'd let that freak pet of yours do us in?" Rula told him, Shie showed up next, throwing a severed giant scorpion tail at Nikita, which she side-stepped though just barely. "One day I'll die, but not by that creature..." Shie told Nikita. "It appears you were right, I did underestimate the tigers a bit..." Nikita said a bit flatly, dusting herself off a bit. "Does that mean you surrender?" Tamati asked, Nikita smirked, "It'll take much more than a few tigers and a demon fox to make me admit defeat...but I'm realizing the odds are not in my favor...until next time...she said before throwing a smoke bomb, the tigers and Tamati coughing as when the smoke cleared Nikita was gone. "Glad to see you're all alright...hearing all that screaming and roars, had me worried for a second..." Tamati said with a slight smile. "Don't be celebrating just yet, Kess was wounded, and Riah got poisoned by that things stinger." Shie told him, that's when they hurried back, Tamati looking over Riah, the wound she suffered was the same he'd suffered that night at the claws of that creature, he could have them go get more medicinal herbs, but that would take time, and if he remembered how quickly the venom took over him, Riah didn't have that kind of time. That's when a thought came to him, it was a gamble, but he was willing to risk it, he took the gun out and loaded a dark blue crystal into it. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, what in the name of the Goddess do you think you're doing!?" Kess asked, seeing the weapon. "Healing your friend, what does it look like?" "I won't let you shoot her!" Kess said, claws at the ready. Tamati looked at her and shook his head, "Shoot her? Don't be ridiculous, I'll shoot it into the air, the dispersion of ether particles should be absorbed by you and Riah, healing you somewhat and curing Riah of any poison...at least that's the theory..." Tamati told her. "Theory? I'm wounded, Riah's poisoned, possibly dying, and you think you're going to save us just on some half-assed theory!?" Kess yelled, gripping her side. "You got an alternative, a better idea, I'd love to hear you give it, you're friends could go get healing and anti-poison herbs to help you, but that'd take time, time that Riah doesn't have by my stand-point...I'm offering you a chance to circumvent that, I don't know if Tigers can absorb healing magicks or ether, but at this point I'm willing to try anything to save your lives." Kess looked at Tamati for a moment, for an instant she could almost see a ghost of her sister kneeling beside him as he looked down at her, the friendly fox they had met seemed to have vanished from her view replaced by this stubborn and concerned asshole. "Do it...but if Riah dies...I'll kill you..." "Okay then..." Tamati said, aiming the gun into the air and firing off a shot, watching the blue orb explode and it's sparkling blue energy come raining back down on Riah and Kess, Kess noticed a blue aurora surrounding her and Riah, before hearing Riah gasp and start coughing, Kess too, when the light subsided, Kess looked, her wounds were still there, but slightly smaller, more manageable now. "Guess it worked, Riah's fever is breaking, that's a good sign...she'll just need to be bandaged and to get some rest..." Tamati said, putting his hand on her forehead. Kess was giving him a bit of a death glare, "Just my luck..." she whispered to herself. "Come again?" Tamati asked, ears perking up. "Just my luck...this is just my GODDESS DAMNED LUCK!" She looked at Tamati when she said it, "First Kilani, now YOU!" Is all she said before storming off. Tamati looked at the others, a bit confused by the reaction he'd gotten. "What was that about?" he asked, looking at the others. Shie told Tamati about Kilani and what had happened before he ran into them. Tamati in return told them about his past, that he was a burglar for hire, that he stole things for people, and that he'd been requested to steal two items for a buyer, but unfortunately this last job went wrong. "And you know the rest..." Tamati told them. "So what were the things they your employer asked you to get?" Rula asked, "One was this gun you saw me use...the other was a tome, a book..." Tamati told them. "So what are we going to do about Kess?" Enneki asked, "Let me handle that...though I will ask that all of you either be asleep or away...I don't expect this to go so well..." Tamati told them. *** That night Kess sat at the fire, everyone else asleep, Tamati then sat at the other side, "Hmph...who thought that chimera would've given such a feast...even if the meet had a slight gamey taste to it?" Tamati asked, Kess didn't answer, she just looked at him. "Silent treatment...that's fine..." "Why are you still here?" Kess growled. "I'm still hurt, and that fight with Nikita didn't make things easier..." Tamati answered. "You still put us in danger, any moment she could come back and finish us all off..." Tamati shook his head, "Okay, now you're talking to me...to answer you, I don't think so, I think when I used this weapon here I spooked her, she'll probably think twice before coming after me again...as for putting you and your friends in danger, it was never my intent...I felt the less you knew about me, the safer you would be...my mistake...I should've known the people I stole these from would not take any chances." "Come tomorrow I want you out of here, as far from us as possible..." Kess told him. "Same as Kilani?" Tamati asked, Kess looked at him, her eyes narrowing when she heard that. "Yeah, Shie and the others told me about your sister...what she did, and how you took the whole ordeal..." "Don't you start with me fox boy..." Kess said, looking angry at him. "What, you think I'm going to scold you and chastise you for what you did? Well in a way yes, and in a way no...while I do understand there's a war going on with both the Dragons and you Tigers...I can't approve that you'd want to kill a child just for the sake of this war." "It was a dragon...on top of that the princess of her people..." Kess told him, she then shared the same speech she had given Enneki1, "And you think that automatically makes her a traitor? Raising a child that isn't hers?" Tamati asked. "IT WAS A DRAGON!" Kess roared at him, "why am I trying to explain this to you, you wouldn't understand..." "I understand more than you think..." He said before taking out a locket, showing the picture of a vixen and a lock of red hair inside it. "I have family too...a sister...you and I are more alike than you think..." Kess did look at the locket, giving it back to Tamati, "Does she...?" She started to ask, Tamati shook his head, "As I said...the less people know, the safer I think they'll be...she thinks I'm a merchant, which isn't far from the truth...I acquire things of value...and get paid for them..." "Aren't you going to try it?" Kess asked, Tamati looked at her, "Come again?" He asked in response. "Aren't you going to try to get me into your sleeping bag tonight?" Tamati just shook his head, "I couldn't do that to you...unlike your traveling partners, you're different from them...they were just looking for a quick fuck...you though...I feel you're looking for something more permanent...something I can't provide to you." "You can tell that just by looking at me?" Kess asked, Tamati nodded before giving Kess a kiss on the cheek, the tigers' face going a deep red, "Wha...I thought you said I was different!" Tamati just snickered, "Yes...doesn't mean I don't like a challenge though..." Tamati said with a smile, just then Kess let out a roar before lunging at Tamati, knocking him over. Tamati was quick to react though, the nine-tailed fox using his weight to roll Kess and himself over so she was on her back. "I'd heard tigers were great warriors...but you...this almost seems half-hearted." Kess snarled at that, breaking her right arm free of Tamati's grip to take a swipe at him, Tamati bent backwards though, so the only thing Kess got a swing at, was a clawfull of his shirt. "You tigers are so quick to anger...no wonder you make such easy targets for dragons." "BASTARD!" Kess yelled out, flipping over so she was back on top of Tamati, the black fox smiling as he dodged Kess' strikes at him, before wiggling away from Kess, looking at her. "Not bad...seen better though..." This conflict continued for an hour, Kess was able to pin Tamati most of the time, but he always managed to dodge the final blow, soon the two were looking at each other, Kess panting heavily, same as Tamati, with his shirt in tatters all over the area. "You, are a slippery bastard...you know that?!" Kess asked. "Feeling better?" Tamati asked, Kess looked at him oddly, "Don't look at me like that, I could tell by your voice you were holding back a lot of your anger...probably towards your sister...figured this was all I could do to help..." Kess' jaw dropped like it had a ten-pound weight attached, Tamati had riled her up, made her attack him, and claw the shit out of his shirt, just to help her get the anger out of her system. She then tackled him to the ground, "You...are one weird fox..." She said, looking him in the eye, Tamati reached up, hugging her and giving her a kiss. Kess gripped at Tamati a bit, but found her rubbing his shoulders instead, apparentally all that fighting had done more than get her anger issues out, it had also opened her emotions up, this was more or less confirmed when Tamati managed to take Kess' top off, with no real protest from the tigress. The two helped each other shed clothing and before long the two of them were in the nude, Kess could feel the vulpine erection rubbing and poking against her slit, trying to get inside. Kess looked at Tamati, smiling a bit as she took the bandana off of her head, sitting on Tamati's lap before making the downward plung, moaning as she felt her sex get filled with fox cock. "Mmmmm...I can see while the girls liked you so much..." Kess said, wiggling her hips a bit in Tamati's lap. "What can I say, I aim to please..." Tamati answered with a grin. Kess started moving her hips bouncing up and down, giving a moan as she felt Tamati filling her deeply, the fox grinning as his hands held onto her hips, helping her bounce. Kess let out another moan, grinding her hips into Tamati's, loving the feeling, "Aren't...you going...to use...your...your tails?" Kess asked, to which Tamati shook his head, "Not for you...as I said, you're different..." Kess felt a mix of feeling insulted by that comment, but also a bit honored, knowing he wasn't going to use any of his tricks on her, soon the two started upping the pace, Kess bouncing quicker on Tamati, feeling his cock work itself deep into her. Whipping her head back Kess gave a loud moan as she bounced quicker, speeding up as Tamati helped move her hips as well, adding more power to her bounces as the two continued. Soon though Kess hit her limit, gripping the black fox tightly as she hit her limit, cumming as she felt Tamati take control, rolling her onto her back as he pumped his hips hard, panting and growling as he fucked Kess good, the knot at the base of his dick beginning to swell as he hammered on, before finally Kess heard a pop, followed by Tamati letting out a long blissful howl, wailing along with him as the two enjoyed the bliss that is orgasm. After a few minutes to two looked at each other, "Something just crossed my mind...what's in that book you were supposed to get?" Kess asked, Tamati shrugged, but got it out and opened it, muttering a few things to himself before his eyes went wide. "By the Gods and Goddesses!" "What, what is it?" Kess asked, looking at it too, it was a book that had etchings of various tools and devices, it was at a closer glance that Kess noticed some of the notations there were two sets, one she recognized as the written language of her people, the other, not so much. "Leossa...this is a book of magic weapons?!" "Yeah, would seem to be, the notations tell of the materials used, the design, it's functions...but it's notations that make me realize why Nikita was so eager to get this back..." Kess looked at them, "One I recognize as my people's language, but the other part, is completely alien to me." Tamati shook his head with a slight smirk, "Doesn't surprise me...you've probably heard it spoken, but never seen it's written counter-part." "What do you mean?" Kess asked, "It's the language of your enemy, the Dragons...but it's an older dialect, a lot of Thou, Thy, and Hither..." Kess looked stunned, looking at the book, then at Tamati, then back at the book, then back at Tamati, "Dragon!? How do you?" Tamati looked at her, sighing, he'd come this far, best put all his cards on the table now and see what happens, " Kess." That made the tiger fem look at the fox in shock, he had just said something in Dragon, Tamati looked at her, "I know what you're thinking, but you have to understand...I'm third party here...I'm as willing to work with Dragons as I am with your people, but I'm not willing to become part of your war machine or theirs." Kess looked at Tamati, part of her wanted to kill the black ninetailed fox right then and there, but part of her also felt that he was entitled to his own opinion and that he did have a slight point from where she was sitting. "What...does it say?" Tamati blinked a bit, surprised Kess was taking this revelation so well, it took him to notice Kess pointing to the book, "Oh, well it says pretty much what your language says, just a repeat mostly." "But how is that possible, how can a book contain both Dragon and Tiger languages?" Kess asked, "I have a couple of theories on that, but neither you're going to like...nor want to believe." "Try me..." Kess told him as she was finally able to get off his lap, Tamati looked at the book, flipping through the pages. "Scenario one, either side capture a dragon or tiger and after a length of time, were able to understand and write the others language." Kess had to laugh at that, "You honestly think that to be true?" Tamati just shrugged, "It's better than scenario two...look how old this book is, the binding alone must be over 300-400 years old...and it has both Dragon and Tiger languages written in it." "Wait...are you saying...that..." Kess started to ask, "Maybe at one point, Dragons and Tigers did live together...I've heard it from both sides, neither knows how or when the war truly started...but this may be a piece of history, a window to the past." "But that's crazy...you hear me, C-R-A-Z-Y!" Kess roared at him. "As I said, it was just a scenario." He said, getting up and stretching, "Well good night." "Hey, I'm not talking to you here!" Kess told him, Tamati looked back, "Some food for thought...do you think your goal is the best idea, to kill as many dragons as you can? Just because they killed your parents? Many other races would say that's fool-hardy, or even suicidal, would say that by doing that, you're throwing away the life they gave to you." "Here we go, I was WAITING for you to start this shit!" Kess said, "Look, the only life I can see myself living is one where the Dragons don't exist." Tamati shook his head, "Do you think Kilani feels the same way, in truth you're the only family she has left...the only thing keeping her anchored." He said before yawning, "Good Night." *** Morning came with Tamati waking up, his back feeling a bit sore, but that was expected, after the round of screwings he'd given the tiger fems yesterday, he got himself out of his sleeping back to the smell of breakfast, he got out of his tent to see the girls eating, he got some jerky out of his satchel. "So...I guess after this, it's good-bye for now..." "Kess told us, about you speaking dragon..." Shie told him, he looked at them all, sighing, "Well yes...I can, and I know more about dragons than I think most people do..." "Are thar any male dragons?" Kenzi asked, to that Tamati nodded, "As there are male tigers, there are male dragons, though they are bigger than a male tiger by far." "But we've never seen'em...where are they?" Kenzi asked next, "They're in large vaults under the castle...and if you start asking me about breeding, I'll just say this, compared to Tigers, it's very, very regulated, they've got a whole system set up for it." "They're under the castle, but something that big..." Rula started to say, Tamati shook his head, "You've only seen parts of it, the dungeon mostly I'll guess, their castle is a lot like an iceberg, what you see on the surface is just the top portion...there is a whole maze underneath." "And how do you know this?" Kess asked, "One of my employers, wanted...to make an omelet, with a dragon's egg..." All of them looked at him wide eyed, Tamati looked at them all, "Of course I had to make a choice, try and snatch an egg, or escape with my life, to this day I still think I made the better choice." "You mentioned last night that you had a sister Tam...does she have a job?" Kess asked to which Tamati nodded, "Her name is Babsy...she's a florist in the town she and I came from." Over the course of the day the tigers asked Tamati many questions as he packed up and got ready to go, when he was all packed up he looked at all of them, "Well, I guess this is good-bye for now..." "It was nice meeting you Mr. Tamati..." said Ennek. "Yeah, hope we meet again some day!" Kenzi said, giving him a hug. "You take care of yourself." Shie added. As he left he saw Riah, looking her over, "You feeling okay?" to which she nods, "That trick you did with water magic really helped." Riah told him, that made Tamati smile a bit. As Tamati left the camp, he saw Kess waiting for him, leaning against a tree, "Well, I'm on my way out...I think both of us would say it was nice knowing the other, but after yesterday..." "Last night...what you said about my sister...did you mean that?" Kess asked, Tamati put his hand on her shoulder, "You are a tiger, but you are a sister as well...and sometimes there's a fine line separating the two." He then took a few steps away, letting go of her shoulder, "There is going to come a day, when the goddesses will test you on which one you are...and when that day comes, I hope you'll make the right decision, whatever the consequence of it may be." "What does that mean!?" Kess asked, a bit ticked-off by Tamati's answer, but Tamati just walked off saying, "If you have to ask, you're not ready to know yet...but remember, family is the hardest bond to break, no matter what you tell yourself..." Kess could only watch as Tamati disappeared into the forrest. *** "And that is what happened..." Nikita said to a large figure in a white and black cloak. "I see, well...I guess I did under-estimate the tigers a bit, but this does give the conclave new data on them." The figure said, sitting down at a throne over-looking a large chemistry set. "But Zanza, what do we tell the High Seeress...we lost both the prototype DragonStomper, and the Tome of Alanis...not to mention that Chimera you gave me was useless against the tigers!" Nikita argued. Zanza over-looked his notes, not even bothering to look at Nikita, "Tell her the truth, it does not matter to me...my mission is to make an army for the Conclave to use against both the Tigers and the Dragons, a couple of stolen baubles is hardly worth my concern." "But the Drago..." Nikita started to say, "Was a prototype I made, if you had looked at the book, the gun in it was much more ornate than the one Tamati used on you...I think of this as more of a field test...now that I know what it can do...I can improve upon it." "You mean you saw all that?" Nikita asked sternly, to which Zanza nodded, as a bug flew off from underneath Nikita cloak, landing on the chemistry table, "In a sense, this bug is one of my creations, it measures magickal output, particle type, shot density...all of this data will help me improve upon the next version of the DragonStomper." "Wait, so all of this, the fact I almost died...that was all just some experiment to you!?" Nikita asked, angry that Zanza had used her as a ginea-pig. "Your death would have been a minor variable in the experiment, as for the death of the Chimera I loaned you...it's death also gave me new data on the tigers, all of this will go to help the Conclave and help me improve the sealing gauntlet and future Chimeras." "YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!" Nikita said, storming off saying, "THE HIGH SEERESS WILL HEAR OF THIS!" "Hmph...what a whiny little girl..." Zanza said to himself, "The Seeress likely already knows, but she knows what I do is far more important for the Conclave." He said as he looked over his notes, just then a bell went off, he then looked at a giant crystal, in it he could see Kighan and one of the Earth Dragons. "There we are, that's a good little sleeper agent, bring the Earth Dragon to me." Tamati is © tamatitheninetailedfox Kess, Kenzi, Rula, Naisha, Riah, Enneki, and Shie are © razorfox Nikita and Zanza and written by © devian_666