12: Ravenous
The trip through gated way stones was tiring. They spent the day trekking through jungle and marsh, combating every monster in their path, some of them simply to survive... some of them to carry on as food. Their end goal was meeting Cephus at the most recent way stone, found in the lands of the now fallen King of Dragons. A place where Lightning had almost lost Fang... to bodily damage, and the mind of the Destroyer that still haunted her.
She was quiet as they walked, conserving energy between battles, keeping senses alert for the next bout of fighting. Every now and again her wife would look across at her and flash a smile, something that Lightning found she was unable to resist even though Gadot and Snow were with them to make comments about their rather strong eye contact that occurred often. The look on the soldiers face turning to something that dared either to speak their thoughts, as if this were a democracy rather than an autocracy in her plan to open the next C'ieth way stone.
Snow either through age acquired wisdom or the powerful need to return to his wife; remained silent. It was Gadot who tested the waters with the soldier, only to find her attacks as his replies. It was only when she got a good right hook on him with the brass knuckles stitched into her gloves cutting the skin on his face and dropping him like a rock did he give it a rest. Finding the physical reminder of her ire enough... for now to just let it go.
It was coming on late afternoon when they finally reached the camp near the C'ieth way stone where Cephus waited. He had done exactly as Lightning had left instructions to do. Her temper something of legend not only in the Guardians but also something growing on Pulse. A series of smoking pits had been built around their central camp, they now waited with fires burning down into glowing embers for the meat the traveling party had brought with them. The meat would be given to his people as a gift so the fair haired soldier said, while enough was given to the Way Stone party to help them on their way.
The late afternoon was spent with Gadot using his refined skinning skills to debone the meat and Snow to set up drying racks down into the pits. Which Cephus covered as per Lightnings instructions.
Fang however had other ideas about what to do with her time. Letting all know she would be back later the huntress left camp on her own. Her fair haired wife had a good idea where it was she was going, and while she didn't understand the need to revisit the battle ground where she was almost killed and taken over, she didn't stop her. Instead giving the her other half time to work through the feelings that were driving her.
The remainder of the Yun warriors stayed for a time at camp. Working to gather firewood, check the neatly dug pits, and clean a space on the ground large enough near the center fire pit to roll out their ground blanket. When she was done with these self imposed chores Lightning stood gazing off the direction her mate had disappeared to. Contemplating if enough time had elapsed for her to follow after Fang with out imposing upon this solitary need. A hand caressed the collapsed form of Blazefire, a palm rubbing over well oiled gears and carbon composites as she made her decision.
"I'm heading out for a bit." She told them getting three sets of eyes following her as she left camp in a mirror path that Fang had taken earlier. Her pace was leisurely feeling unhurried as that bond that was between them felt relaxed rather than strained, and the sounds of peaceful nature calmed the pink haired soldier.
Along the way Lightning wondered about what it was that had drawn her dark huntress back to this place, what was it she needed? Or sought? Surly it wasn't redemption for the killing blow to the King of Dragons, the time for vengeance was long past... and solace did not seem something an old battle ground could give even the weary soul. Lips pursed then tightened as she tried to understand what it was that had driven her beloved to revisit what was essentially the grave sight of the fallen King of Dragons.
Slowly the jungle gave way to craggy stone, walking became a bit more calculated as loose rocks threatened sure foot falls promising injured ankles if less than strict attention were given... still Lightning trekked on. At an upper landing on the mountain Lightning caught a glimpse of her wife sitting in quiet contemplation... or perhaps meditation. She stopped then still not sure if Fang found what she had been seeking. Quietly so as not to further disturbe, Lightning took a seat on a rock to wait for Fang to come to her.
It didn't matter how long she had to wait, all that she needed was sitting up above her, and with out announcing herself, the soldier was sure her huntress knew she was there.
Unbeknowest to Lightning, Fang needed this, to revisit this battle ground to simply let it go... all of it. The past six months of healing and rehabilitation. The internal battles with her personal demons... the constant revisits of that dark slithering voice who promised that nothing was sacred... even a certain pink haired abomination... all met destruction in due time... When that was placed as if in a neat pile at the center of what had once been a ringed fire pit of death... Fang was able to find her feet... and she felt lighter.
The presence of her wife was something joyous, and she sauntered forward to the growing smile of her sometimes aloof soldier. It was a quiet delight to take that smaller pale hand in her own. The liberated huntress brought that pale hand to her lips placing a kiss against the back. In Lights presence she always felt better, but after leaving the last bit of emotional baggage from that tough battle behind she felt free, and was eager to steal deep kisses from her partner on their trek back down the mountain and through the darkening forest.
Fang ever the sensual creature loved to evoke surprised sounds from her pink haired companion, getting a gasp or groan when their tongues caressed, and she flicked suggestivly into her lovers mouth. Drawing a physical response by pinning Lightning to a tree. The soldier grasping her sari tightly and their mouths bruising one another. Life was good....
She was grinning like a fiend when they stepped into the fires glow from the jungle. Both their cheeks flushed, Lights eyes glittered and she got smoldering glances as the boys talked about the Purge.
Never a favorite subject of the darker Yun warrior. She felt righteously indignant as she listened to them, and lost some of that fire she had been sharing with her wife.
The men around the fire looked up as she gave a disgruntled growl swiping up her canteen as she approached the fire, absolutely disgusted by talk of the purge. Rich and powerful men and creatures dictating to the lesser well trained public that the purge was something that had to be done.
"Pah!" She scoffed. Gadot looked up from his place where he was waiting for the stew that Cephus had been cooking to finish.
"Whats the matter Fang?"
She growled and snapped.
"You know damn well whats the matta!" The three men shared a look with Lightning at Fangs sudden outburst, as if she had somehow caused it... or provoked it. They tried to read her face to see if they had been fighting... what they found no answers in the mask that was their leaders face.
Honestly Lightning too felt a bit poleaxed at Fangs sudden shift in emotion and thinking, as once again the Purge made her positively hostile. Fang paced behind the three men fuming, wondering where it was best to start on what she thought of the Sanctum and their Fal'Cie, possibly creating another War of Transgression as they mucked about with peoples lives like Gods...
Lightning reached out to her pacing soldier drawing her still with arms as she made something perfectly clear.
"With out the Purge we would never have been..." She pulled some on Fangs strong arms, rocking her on sandaled feet.
Fang stilled further some of her fire leaving.
"I know that, love." Dark brows drew together then hardened.
"It's just thinking about them really pisses me off!" Small hands tightenend on strong arms. She understood as well, and while they did create mistrust, devide the masses, and devalue human life... she still had Fang... and Gran Pulse... the first real home since her family had been destroyed.
"Well, now... on to better thought." Cephus said and picked up a ladel to begin dising out bowls of stew.
"A hard days work, boys. Time to eat up." He said giving a hearty smile as he handed Snow the first bowl.
"Now this here is my mothers recipe of..."
While the men were distracted with the onset of dinner. Lightning took the opportunity and semi privacy to draw her lover in for a kiss. Something that was bordering the game they had begun in the jungle on the way home, and the deep love she felt for this passionate, honorable huntress who had won her heart. Small hands pulled Fang against her body, leaving no space for air as their fronts came full face.
It was not hard to find Fangs passion hostile or not... their tongues fought as heat rose between them. But the time was too short, their mouths tearing free as Gadot got his bowl of food.
"Here you are Fang." Cephus said holding the bowl up as the women once again were doing that hot long stare into one another eyes. He cleared his throat and tried to hide a smile as Fang stepped forward to take the bowl.
Lightning was left for a moment alone near snow, as Fang accepted her food with both hands, thanking Cephus as she stepped aside to allow Lightning the opportunity to grab her bowl.
"I saw that." Snow said in a whisper, flashing a grin. Blue eyes still burning flicked over to him and contemplated what dark things she might do to him if he so much as stepped over the line one more time. She hoped Sarah could forgive her for bringing him back near death...
"It's best you forget it." She warned him some of that cold soldier returning.
"Here you are." Cephus said. Snow flashed a smile and held up both hands in surrender. He didn't want to fight, just play, and some day he hoped that Lightning would allow him to do that with out great bodily harm... but today did not seem to be that day.
"Thank you." Lightning said taking the bowl and moving to the space she had laid out their blanket on the far side of the fire back a little ways from the flames. Taking up a place on the shared bed roll near Fang.
"So what do you think you will find with this next Way Stone?" Cephus asked looking across the fire at Fang and Lightning. His answer came as a noncommittal shrug from the soldier.
Fang smirked at Lights silent answer, truth was they didn't know, two Way Stones had been opened, and two times they had not know what was going to happen until they touched it.
"That's not how it wehks."(works) Fang said setting her half eaten bowl of stew aside and resting back on her elbows, stretching long legs out before her.
This action drew blue eyes and her conversation with Cephus was lost on her affected lover. A hunger that had been stoked earlier that evening which had nothing to do with food; made its self known to the quiet soldier. Slowly from the sandals on Fangs feet, up shapely crossed calves, to the perfect shape of powerful thighs, Lightning drank her in. It wasn't a involuntary action any more than the beating of her heart. She swallowed licking dry lips as she progressed over fangs loins, taking note how a negligent blue sari was tucked neatly between strong thighs, a brief wrap around shapely hips, buckled by belt before more skin was offered up to hungry eyes.
Across the fire Cephus noticed the long stare from the overly quiet soldier and caught a glimpse of carnal hunger, something he had never dreamed the private reserved woman would ever display in public. Blue eyes flicked up looking for a target coming to settle on the other two males at the fire side who were chatting and laughing. The thought not for the first time on how best to dispose of them crossed the hungry soldiers thoughts. Not permanently mind you... she could knock them out for the evening with out so much as a hint of remorse...but Cephus...
A prickle at the back of Snow Villers neck alerted to him that danger was near, it never dawned on him it would come from his Sister-in-law... but he was convinced by the look in darkened blue eyes was contemplating his swift demise... He swallowed and looked across at Gadot, who seemed oblivious that his life as he knew it was about to end.
Light met Snow's eyes intensifying the sens of danger as she asses him... he swallowed hard worried that at any moment, the devious plan forming in that mind was going to be put into action
Fang looked to the suddenly amused Cephus who was now trying not to make eye contact. She followed his brief shifting look back to her wound up Soldier. The smoldering look in passion darkened blue eyes shot heat through the huntress, and while her Soldier had issues about public displays of affection, this was not so with the older of the two Yun Warriors. Quivering lips were covered with Fangs own, a hand at her wife's neck guided her down into the kiss, drawing her self conscious lover in against her body as an agile tongue delved into Lightnings eager mouth. Their kiss was hot, it drew forth those carnal hungers, their tongues danced as the world outside of them faded to the astonished onlooking of the three men.
Lightning knew what flame felt like, she had felt it during numerous battles from beasts both wild and genetically grown. At the moment her dark haired wife's tongue entered her mouth even that felt like a pale imitation the heat that their kiss drew between them. She moaned into Fangs demanding mouth forgetting the small but interested audience they had watching them with mouths hinged open.
Fang bit trembling lips and chuckled at how she could get her pink haired soldier so worked up.
"Shall ah find us a privaht spot?" She murmured against Lightnings quivering lips. The down side of traveling in larger groups than two was that there was no privacy when one wanted it most, and she would have rather have it then and there, as her hotly blushing Soldier no doubt contemplated all of their demise.
This thought drew a larger smile onto Fangs lips, her hand coming to rub over Lightnings back as her wife gave took a moment longer to think about this offer. A soft whimper only for Fangs ears slipped out, then a brief but firm shake no.
"Ah." Fang said kissing her softly when her embarrassed soldier tried to hide a furiously blushing face.
"Ahm sorry tah get you all wehked (worked) up like that." She murmured privately and stole a look across at the three men at the fire side across from them. Cephuse having only respect for both women only smiled. His thoughts making him braver than the other two who wisely found something else to look at.
Fang spent the evening trying to sooth that burning in her wife, bestowing kisses to her cheek and forehead as they lay together, the conversation something distant... little did she know her Soldier was not planing their demise... but hers. Allowing the gentle touches to give the premise that she had been calmed, but underneath she still ached for something more physical...
It was hours before patient waiting could be rewarded. Light cat napped biding her time until the hours before the dawn, where sleep was deepest. Excitement fueled her actions, wary eyes gazing across the smoldering fire gazing at the men as she freed herself from Fangs arms to better hear the rhythmic breathing of Snow, the soft snores of Gadot, and the heavy wheeze of Cephus.
Sure the coarse was as clear as it was going to get, lightning set her plan in motion. A hand slowly drawing back Fangs Sari, from stomach and hip, better revealing the black under shorts... Her hand came to rest over her lovers abdomen, fingers turned downward as she chanced a glance to her slumbering huntress before sliding beneath the dark dark waste band with nefarious ideas mapped out on her agenda...
Fang awoke in great pleasure, something sticky and sweet to the senses, her breathing came quick as Lightning schooled her on the dangers of working her up and leaving her needing...
What the soldier had planed was a flexable two part plan, the first part being implemented at that very moment, the second part was soon to be put into motion...
"Goddess Etro..." Fang groaned when the second part was revealed. This new side of her usually reserved soldier was tantalizing and made every forbidden action that more meaningful as any moment any one of three others could have woke and found them in the middle of lovemaking.
Not once, nor even twice was Fang shocked by her conservative soldier but three times, and the morning dawned something bright and delicious for the two satiated women.
(My Gosh FINALLy DONE! Thanks to my writing buddy who I could not have done this with out, i know it will be very familiar XD)
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