Chapter XVI: The Scars of His Transgressions

Story by Simplified on SoFurry

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#16 of Love for the Birds

It's gonna get violent now!

Nestor faces the punishment he deserves for all of his lies, while Javin makes ready to take his place as chief. But, there is one unhappy hawk who seems to believe the title should have been his.

What will Sky do and will our heroes be able to stop him before he can achieve his goal?


The Scars of his Transgressions

The meeting had gone through better than anyone had expected.

Nestor was going to face the consequences of his actions, Justin would finally be able to rest at home with his family and Javin would be crowned the chief of Volaria.

The only one not happy was Sky. The hawk tried to hide his disappointment as drinks were passed around the table in celebration. He was supposed to be named the new chief, that's what he'd wanted, that was why he wanted to help Justin, then have his mentor rule by his side. Then all of this frivolous gold would be done with, they would be a proud warrior tribe once again and they wouldn't have to share their village with those smelly serpents.

Like Nestor had once held a prejudice over the mammals, Sky held one for the reptiles. He felt them to be lower beings, they should not be equals, they were laborers for the birds. His father died a proud warrior fighting alongside Justin, and now Justin would dishonor him by allowing this travesty to continue.

Nestor meanwhile had joyously gathered both Justin and Orion and laid big wet kisses on both warriors' beaks.

Both Kali and Caryn both giggled when their husbands were simultaneously denuded of their loincloths then shamelessly groped by Nestor.

The elders watched the display with amusement.

One said, "Should we stop them? I mean, this is a public building."

Another said, "Heh, would you like to be the one to get between that?"

The falcon said, "We are old, gentlemen. Who are we to deny our younger generations their levity and enjoyment? I particularly remember you being quite the queer feather in our youth, Cecil." He wagged pointedly to the old pigeon.

The old bird in question gulped, "Sure... Though I had married and born two beautiful children with my darling, departed Talia, I have always had a guilty pleasure now and then with the handsome younger fellows of our village."

The falcon laughed, "Every now and then? Was it not just last week I've found you raising your tailfeathers for that quail fellow who's friends with your son?"

Cecil quipped, "That was then."

Alice giggled, "So... Are we to just have ourselves a little group orgy here now?"

Nestor shook his head, "Of course not, this council hall is still a place of business. But, I'll have one more day as chief, I would be happy to spend that final day with you lovely lot in my cottage."

Sky respectfully declined, "As good as that sounds, I must see to my men. They are holed up in Justin's home watching all your children."

Nestor stopped him, "Then would you kindly take my son too? I want to enjoy my last day as chief."

Sky cringed then put on a fake smile for Nestor, "Sure... Whatever you wish for, Chief."

...

Sky returned home to his extravagantly decorated house which had been laid out more like a public lounge than someone's home. He held young Feroz and a bag containing things for Nestor's son. The hawk cursed his being disrespected and relegated to a babysitter. He was ever more insulted when before leaving he heard Justin whisper to Nestor, "We'd better keep an eye on that Sky. He reminds me of a younger version of you, Nestor."

The eagle had looked at the hawk and seemed to agree, "I'll keep that in mind, Justin."

Sky hated being compared to a pompous, selfish brat like Nestor. Sky wasn't a coward he would murder his own father, who would let his wife leave him and lover commit suicide, Sky was a real warrior who took what he deserved. He growled lowly as he entered his home to find his men sitting around with the other kids, Iomer, Justin and Ruby.

Lee was there too.

Sky left Feroz in the arms of one of his soldiers before addressing the rattlesnake who didn't seem to do much of anything around here. "You there!"

The rattlesnake heard him, "I have a name... Lee."

Sky simmered, "Lee... Your friend, that Javin... I'm not supposed to say yet, but I'm sure you'll be proud to hear, Javin is to be crowned the new chief of the village."

Lee sat up after hearing his best friend's name, "Javin? Chief?" The rattlesnake smiled for the first time since he'd gotten here, "Wow... I'd never imagined he would be a... Where is Javin?"

Sky hid his hate for the snake and his friend, "He is celebrating right now with Nestor and everyone in the chief's cottage. You should go if you wish to congratulate your friend, Lee."

The rattlesnake did. He threw on his loincloth to cover himself then ran out, briefly thanking Sky for delivering the news.

Sky waited until he was gone then he dropped the bag containing Feroz's things. "Yeah... Celebrate... While our brother Sunil lies in the shaman's hut having died for nothing!" He punched a beam in anger and made himself bleed.

One of his subordinates spoke up, "Sky... Sunil should have surrendered with the rest of us, it was his own foolishness that killed him."

The hawk glared at the one who spoke, "No! Coram murdered our Sunil for fighting Nestor's oppression. Then Justin, my own teacher betrays his beliefs and his village by aligning himself with Nestor! They are going to give the crown to a fucking snake! They are going to let all these beasts stay in our houses and loaf around when they should be out there tending to the crops! This... This is not what my father died for, this is not what I was hatched for! We are warriors, we fight and take what we need then we eliminate our enemies!"

His friends all listened to him while also caring for the children.

One asked, "Then, what are you going to do, Sky?"

Sky thought of something, "Does anyone remember what Nestor did the first night we accepted those reptiles into our community?"

A jackdaw in the group seemed uncertain, "You're going to drug them?"

Sky exhaled, "I'm going to do what I have to so we can take back our village, Jack."

The jackdaw nodded then shook his head, "This isn't gonna turn out well."

...

In Nestor's cottage, Justin grunted as he was thrown onto a bed then pounced by his lovely wife.

Kali crawled on top of her husband and she licked his beak while she ground her pussy against his slit.

Justin groaned delightfully as he felt himself become erect under her insistent grinding. The male bird suddenly gripped his hen, then toppled her over so she laid flat beneath him.

Kali chirped in surprise, then in erotic glee when she felt her husband sink inside her to the root.

Justin preened his mate, "I can smell from here... I can't believe I never smelt it before."

Kali knew what he was referring to.

Justin sniffed her, "You're about to be with egg again... You're ready to give us another chick aren't you, Kali?"

Kali nodded as blush filled her face.

Justin kissed her, "My Kali... I didn't get to hold my son when he was born; I will hold him and this one for everyday that I can."

While the blue jays made love, Javin and Nestor played beside them on the same bed.

The big muscular cobra was matched, pound for pound by the proud eagle as the pair frotted earnestly with one another.

The snake's dual cocks held Nestor's one in between them as the cobra thrust slowly against the lusty bird of prey. The barbs on Javin's cocks dug into the flesh of Nestor's cock, not harshly, but tickling his cock while the two of them swapped kisses.

Irving, Alice and Maureen were together in a little weaselly threesome.

Alice let Maureen eat out her pussy while she licked at the union between her stoat mate and the pine marten.

Irving purred from feeling the combination of Maureen's walls clinching every time he pulled out of her to his mate's tongue bathing his cock as he'd guide himself back into the marten pussy.

The only ones not here were Orion and Caryn. They had decided it would be better just to go pick up Ruby then hurry home so they could care for their unhatched egg.

Lee was let into the cottage and was understandably dumbfounded when he came upon the orgy going on inside. The rattle on his tail shook as the snake became aroused.

Javin heard his friend's rattling and called out, "Lee! Old friend! Come on, there's plenty of naughty eagle for us to share."

The rattlesnake tried to deny, "Javin... I-I told you... I'm not interested in males like you."

Javin exposed his rear to the rattler, "A future chief needs his trusted advisor, Lee."

Nestor chuckled, "That is true!"

Lee tried to find another way to refuse before the heat-sensing organs on his snout sniffed Irving as the stoat erupted again inside Maureen.

The pine marten screamed in her orgasm as that roguish young stoat seeded her with his royal oats.

Lee watched Alice pull Irving out then suck on the stoat's cock as he kept shooting off his legacy. The stoat was then put on toe his back as the otteress impaled herself on his still erect cock.

Maureen saw Lee then. She sat there then playfully winked at the snake, "If you want... I could just take care of you... I don't think we had a good first impression last time." She had clearly forgiven him for what had happened.

Lee couldn't help himself.

Maureen kissed his crotch as she helped his dual cocks slide out into the open.

The rattlesnake's rattle tail rattled even louder as the pine marten pleasured him.

...

As this happened, the young shaman was in his shop sorting his herbal spices and remedies when he heard someone come in. His father, the old sparrow of the council was asleep in his rocking chair so the shaman went to greet whoever had come in.

"Yes sir, how may I help you?"

The person took off his hood, it was Sky. The hawk spoke softly to the shaman, "I understand that you are one who can help a fellow who's having trouble... Wielding his weapon properly, Shaman."

The sparrow shook his head, "Nestor came to me with the same shlock, Sky. Then our whole tribe was drugged into having an orgy. I will not let myself be so fooled again. Now unless you want something for real, I would kindly ask you to not waste my valuable time."

The sparrow turned to leave and suddenly felt something hard hit the back of his head.

When the shaman had fallen, Sky tied and gagged the medicine bird then he dragged the bird into the back while two of Sky's fellows stood watch.

The old sparrow had started to wake but he was struck by Sky as well then tied with his son.

With both gagged and tied out of sight, Sky searched the shaman's shelves for what he hoped would be the aphrodisiac. He wanted to repeat that night, he wanted the people to see those scalies for the beasts they were.

His friends all watched nervously as the untrained hawk mixed a drug.

Sky felt he had what he needed, "Let's go!"

...

That night, a great congregation had formed outside. There were many different people, more than ever.

The 16 reptiles who had stayed had attracted others to come join the community. The reptile population had grown, there were now families in their own homes, living next door to birds. The two gecko brothers had been allowed to marry their grackle lovers. So there were now even mixed reptile and avian families living together.

The townspeople all gathered as their great Chief Nestor stood before them by that handsome leader of the reptiles, Javin.

The king cobra had been stripped of his clothing leaving him in only his loincloth. The cobra couldn't blush, but his hood did extend as he became increasingly more bashful before the masses.

Nestor put his arm around Javin, "Relax, friend. The people will soon so far more of you than they had ever seen before."

Justin joined them onstage and when the crowd started to call him names Nestor stopped them, "You will all quit assaulting my dear friend, Justin!"

The crowd was in even more of an uproar.

"But he is a traitor!" "He brought a wolf to kill you, Nestor!"

Nestor shouted over all of them, "Enough! The only traitor standing here before you all is the one you all call Chief..." He looked out as the crowd grew still. "It was I who murdered a wolf prince then damaged my own right eye to send my father away to a battle and have him killed. It was I who provoked Justin's wolf into biting me. Now... I can no longer accept wearing this," he took off his headdress, "because I have been no leader that you people have deserved."

The elders stepped forward as one took the feathered crown from their dishonored chief.

The falcon spoke, "What Nestor has confessed is true. While you all have been led to believe evil things of our Justin, Nestor has been the one hurting all of us with his deceit and lies. He gave us all this beautiful town, but at the cost of honesty and innocent lives."

The people all grew into another uproar, some hurled hatred at the eagle as he sobbed on the stage. Others refused to believe and called the elders liars. The guards couldn't even decide whether to defend the stage or let the people charge. They decided it better to defend the stage.

The falcon called for silent, "Now... Nestor will be punished. He will not be put to death, he will walk with the scars of his transgressions."

As he spoke, the owl, Noctis Coram stepped up onto the stage. The captain of the guard held a weighted whip in one hand, "I never thought I'd see the day where I would have to whip a chief."

With that, Nestor was stripped bare not even leaving him a loincloth so he may have some dignity. The eagle was made to kneel while his wrists were tied and he was placed against a wooden pillar. The village may have evolved, but they still kept their old ways of punishing bad eggs.

The owl stared at the naked backside of his chief, big, perfectly brown with those dark feathers. Coram pulled his arm back making sure the whole whip wrapped itself. After a nod from the falcon, the owl swung out swift and sure.

THWACK!

Nestor held his beak shut as the whip hit him, slicing open his skin, exposing his flesh and making him bleed out over those beautiful brown feathers of his.

THWACK!

Another lashing opened a second cut on the eagle's back.

THWACK!

The third broke his resolve and the once proud chief screamed in pain.

Justin, Kali, Alice, Irving, everyone present couldn't bare to look as the eagle writhed in agony as his punishment was carried out.

Javin watched his predecessor crying tears as cuts split over others already opened. The cobra hated pain, hated violence of any kind and it brought the serpent himself to tears to see the eagle suffer.

At the end, 20 lashings had been administered and Nestor was untied from the post. His back was littered with fresh cuts as the eagle cried tears he hadn't shed since his father used to discipline him for wandering from the village. The eagle was also embarrassed. The pain made his bladder release and the great raptor had pissed himself.

Coram sniffed the offending urine as he personally preened his hurting chief as a sort of apology for having to hurt him so. It broke the owl's heart to hurt the eagle he'd seen grow from a hatchling to a great and powerful chief. A stretcher was brought out and the eagle was placed upon it to be taken to the infirmary.

The owl and falcon both stood before the crowd, "Nestor is now punished, his crimes are forgiven, but not forgotten. His back will forever carry the reminder of what he had done to us all. I pray for his recovery so he can enjoy life with the rest of us and we will not tolerate any sort of insults or attacks against him. He will be just like all of us and you will all be punished the same as if you were to attack your own neighbor." The falcon finished his speech and the owl punctuated it by lashing that whip once more so the eagle's blood splashed over those standing at the front of the crowd.

Coram offered a chaste kiss to his elder's cheek before stepping down.

The falcon nodded, "Now... With our chief removed and his only heir still a mere hatchling, the family line must now break. We have deliberated and voted amongst ourselves. The final vote was three against and nine for." He turned to the cobra who stood beside him, "Javin, please kneel."

The cobra kneeled before the elder and the falcon placed the headdress upon the serpent's head. Javin then stayed still as birds came up and they began painting the symbols of his new role as chief. The sun was painted on his right pectoral. The snake had to suppress his snickers when gentle avian fingers rubbed over his groin painting the symbol of his virility directly above his genital slit.

When all was done, Javin stood over the people as most seemed to fully accept having a serpent for their new chief. Javin was very popular among the people because of all the great things he had brought them.

The falcon bowed before his new chief, "Hens and birds alike, please welcome your new chief!"

The people cheered as Sky came onto the stage.

Now the falcon was surprised, "You? Where is our shaman?"

The hawk explained, "His father has taken ill, so at the last moment he could not attend this occasion, so he asked that I administer our great chief his final blessing of the tribe."

The falcon found that suspicious. The shaman's father was the eldest, the falcon was his second, he should have heard from the shaman himself before hand. He looked to Justin and Orion who stood at with their wives and chicks.

That pair slipped away discreetly while the falcon turned to Sky. "Then, you may arouse your new chief, generous warrior."

Javin then watched as Sky got to his knees before him. The cobra then shuddered as his loincloth fell from his waist and his groin was massaged gently by the hawk so he would become erect.

The falcon spoke, "Our traditions say that you must lay with a chosen female to show that you are indeed a powerful and virile leader. You are a snake, and you could not make an egg with one of our females, so we will allow you instead to pick either one of ours or one from the reptiles, any you choose will be your bed warmer."

Javin looked about the people as his dual cocks were exposed before them all, "Does my bedwarmer need to be a female?"

The falcon, who was an open homosexual himself, grinned, "If our chief chooses to lay with his fellow man, I believe that would be an even greater show of your power."

Then Javin tickled the chin of the falcon, "Then, I choose you, though I still have yet to know your name."

The falcon was pleasantly surprised, though he had guessed the cobra would pick a male bedwarmer, he did not expect to be chosen. "I am honored. I would suspect you to lay with someone younger."

Javin openly kissed the old falcon, "Why pick an inexperienced youth when I can have an old queer feather who knows what the hell he's doing?" He helped the falcon out of his clothes right on stage. The naked serpent kissed the naked falcon as he lifted the small predatory bird into his arms. He then descended the stage with the falcon.

Sky stood, rubbing the snake's pre off on his pants. He slipped away quickly so he could lace Javin's food before it would be served at the coming feast.

...

Meanwhile,Justin and Orion entered the shaman's hut.

"Medicine bird! Tilo!" Orion cried out using the sparrow's name.

The blue jay and cardinal both heard the distressed bird's muffled cries.

Justin went around the counter and into the back of the small shop where he found the two sparrows tied.

Orion removed the shaman's gag, "You have to hurry! That hawk is going to poison Javin!"

Justin cursed, "Sky!" He ran out quickly to find the hawk.

Orion stayed behind to help untie the elder sparrow.

Tilo became distressed when his father did not respond, "No..."

Orion checked the sparrow to see if he was breathing. He wasn't, "I'm sorry... He must have suffocated."

The shaman wept for his father, "That bastard murdered my father! He'd never hurt anyone!" Tilo put his arms around Orion, "Help me up! I need to see what that hawk took!"

Orion escorted the young sparrow while he searched through the mess left in his shop.

Tilo's pupils shrunk when he saw one vial that should not have been taken down, "No..."

...

Sky had been able to get some small amount of his drug into the food. Javin's meal was a large deer buck that had been killed earlier in the day. It's organs were stuffed then boiled, it's extremities roasted over a fire and everything else had been put into a sausage to be cooked and eaten later. With that was a trove of the delicious corn, potatoes, tomatoes, and other protein rich vegetables that had been grown in their new gardens.

The rest of the village would get those sausages, their share of those roasting vegetables, everyone will eat and enjoy themselves.

Javin sat with the old falcon, whom he learned was named Keel.

The falcon, a village elder for years, was now enjoying being regarded as his new chief's lover and would look forward to consummating that relationship later tonight. The falcon had never been penetrated by a male with two penises before. Still not too late for an old bird to learn a new trick, he thought as he preened his big scaly chief.

Both looked up as food was placed before them.

The falcon smelled everything, it smelled good, but then his adept nostrils picked up something he knew didn't come from the deer, not from the vegetables, nor the spices that village used in cooking.

Javin saw his friend, "You suspect poison, Keel?"

Keel whispered, "That hawk should not have been the one to tend to you. It always the shaman who tastes the chief's cock first before you lay with your bedwarmer."

Javin looked around not wanting to alarm people especially when this food had been toiled over for hours. "Only mine, or do you suspect everyone else's?"

Meanwhile some people who had sampled the food before the chief could declare the feast started, had begun to feel delirious.

Javin was worried, his first moment as a new leader would be tainted by a rash individual who did not agree with him becoming chief.

Sky sat with his comrades waiting for the snake to eat his meal, not realizing some of that same meat had also been passed out to some of the villagers.

The rattlesnake, Lee, saw his friend's worry. He remembered what had happened the last time someone had poisoned their meal. He spoke up, "If you are worried, Javin, I will taste."

The cobra was about to refuse for his friend's sake but Lee had already taken some of the tainted meat and he ate it. It was good, very good. Then, he tasted something wrong, something very wrong.

Sky drank the berry beer while he waited.

Suddenly, Justin, Orion and several of the guards, including old Coram himself had surrounded Sky and his group.

Coram personally yanked Sky to his feet, "You would attempt to assassinate your own chief, Soldier?"

Sky knew he'd been caught but he spat in the owl's face, "I will never accept a lower animal as my chief! I should have been chosen! I'm what is right for our village!"

And Coram strongly backhanded the contemptuous hawk and sent him flying, disturbing the whole crowd.

Tilo stepped out from the throng of warrior birds and he addressed the crowd, "Citizens, please! This fool bird here sought my aphrodisiacs, instead he has put nightshade in all of your meats. He has poisoned all your food!"

And almost as soon as his warning had been given, those who had eaten just small bits of the food started to already show the side effects, holding their guts as they became ill.

Lee, who had eaten a full mouthful of the nightshade, took the worst of it as he began vomiting on the table, clawing desperately at his chest as his heartbeats accelerated at a dangerous speed.

Sky despaired as he saw fellow birds suffering as well.

Tilo rushed all the guards, "We must get these people quickly! I have antidotes in my cottage. We can't take long!"

Those who were sick were taken.

Lee collapsed in Javin's arms as the cobra could only look in despair as his lifelong friend convulsed.

Coram violently shook Sky, "You! You traitorous bastard, you will face the highest punishments for this!"

Sky sobbed, "I did not mean for them to die... They were supposed to wait!"

"And then eat after Javin had started, you fucking idiot!" Coram shouted in his face.

Justin shook his head at the hawk, "Sky... I was wrong... Nestor never tried to poison so many just to make a point... You're worse than him."

Sky flew into a furious rage, "And you are the coward who laid yourself down for the eagle then chose to stand with him when he had done so much to you. You were there in his house and you didn't strike!"

Justin spoke sternly to him, "That is not what being a defender of your tribe is about, Sky. It is about finding ways, nonviolent ways to solve a solution so not every problem is solved with killing, because it never is!"

Sky sobbed, "How dare you say that? You dishonor my father, you dishonor your brothers who died with you!"

Coram shouted, "Enough! Take this fool away!"

Sky grew silent then as guards took him away.

Javin sobbed with Lee dead in his arms.

The falcon, Keel, did not know how to what to say.

The cobra saw that hawk being led away then couldn't bare to look at the young fool.

Sky didn't take that well. He headbutted the guard on his right, withdrew his hunting knife and slashed the neck of the one on his left.

Javin stood up then when the hawk charged toward him.

Coram grunted, "They never learn..." He nodded to a guard holding a spear.

That guard was killed by one of Sky's friends before he could act.

Coram turned fast and executed the attacking jackdaw with a swing of his sword.

That quelled the rebellion of the last remaining four.

Justin ran after Sky.

Sky made it to Javin but the cobra was able to disarm the hawk then toss him to the ground.

The hawk was hurt. He hadn't expected the snake to defend himself like that. He didn't have long to think on it before Justin was on him.

The villagers who were still present saw as the blue jay and hawk fiercely wrestled one another in the village square.

Coram approached the pair, a spear raised, but he didn't want to hit the wrong one.

Sky got an arm free and was able to slug Justin hard, making the blue jay bleed through a cut on his left brow.

Justin took that blow then was thrown off of Sky.

The hawk got up, ready to finish off Justin.

Coram threw his spear.

But Sky was quick, he rolled to put Justin in the path of the spear.

PIERCE!