19 Red Twilight Demon of the Flowers chapter 19

Chapter 19 Biting Wind part 3

Niya walks deep into the valley, her mouth drapes open salivating as she finds her prey, a small, sick looking horse. The beast limps along. Why is it limping? How did it get so far from the herd? These things don't matter. This colt will make an excellent meal for her and Cordell with more than enough left over for the birds to pick at. The only problem is how far she is from her cradle. She will have to eat her fill now then chew through the bone and carry what she can home for later.

Niya lower her body to the ground, her tail lifts, her nose twitches. But there is a smell that catches her nose, one ear wiggles; something is nearby watching her. Niya will have to put it out of her mind for now. She has waisted to much of her strength already; she needs this kill. Niya's claws fig into the ground, and she throws herself at the horse.

The tiny horse never sees her, Niya strikes it from the side, fangs around it shoulders one around its chest and the other under its head. Niya's speed and weight push the horse to the ground. It struggles for a moment to try to pull away, but once Niya starts pulling the meat away from its front quarters the horse submits.

For a short time, she gourds herself eating deeply of her feast. Again, the strange smell passes her. Vigor restored by the meat she turns about seeking out the peculiar smell, the scent of exotic flowers. She comes nose to nose with the white wolf Hetatsubatchi. The two stare at each other for a moment before Tatsu speaks "Lots of food there. How are you going to get it back to your cradle?"

Niya looks at her hunt. "I was going to rip of a lag, bring that home for Cordell."

Tatsu looks over Niya's head at the pile of food "and the rest?"

"that is for the birds," Niya explains.

"Maybe I can help you carry it." Tatsu looks to Niya. Wolves are strong, but not stronger then cats, if the wolf thinks he can drag a dead horse halfway across the savannah, he is welcome to try.

Niya nudges her head upwards "If you can lift it you can have it."

This was meant as a sly insult; the wolf doesn't notice. Instead, Tatsu nods his head. The wolf's eyes burn, a dozen wholes open in the sky, and a web of hooks and chains descend onto the horse spearing it then drag it into the air. Tatsu points "your home is that way, isn't it? I don't know the area yet." Niya's eyes widen as she sees the horse held in the air by seemingly nothing.

After a considerably long pause, Niya nods and starts to walk. Niya looks to her alien friend as they walk "there are still things I don't understand."

Tatsu nods with a grunt "speak."

"is the shapeshifter your sister? You said she 'betrayed your mother' or something like that."

Tatsu smiles as he thinks "now that touches on the hart of our mythology. We are not siblings in the way that you would think about it. I am not a metal monster; I am all organic just like you. What we do share is that we were both baptized by the cosmic serpent Solis-Chaos. We call her Chaos."

Niya has no knowledge of the spirit world and no concept of gods or baptisms, in her world there are no so things as good or evil, there is only survival. Niya has no need for forgiveness or sin, no understanding of purity or pain. These philosophical ideas simply never came into being. Here nature is the one thing everyone understands. Niya somes up these ideas in a single phrase "I don't understand."

Tatsu squints thinking "I must truly be far from home at this point." He whispers to himself "blood is power" he begins "ever since the first fruit fell from the Tree of Beginnings and Yggdrasil birthed the Gardiners of Edan, blood has always been the life the universe. Chaos appeared before each of the Worldwalkers and dripped her blood onto our tongues, that is what binds us. With her blood guilt, we have been blessed. Perhaps you have noticed I can speak your tongue?"

Niya tries to simplify "so a snake bleed into your mouth and now you have abilities?"

"does sound silly doesn't it?"

In short order, the two are back at Niya's cradle. All three of them fill themselves on the meat of the hunt. Niya's sleep is uneasy, she feels warm, she can't hold still, she rolls about, stretches and meows, she thrashes and kicks fighting with her dreams. At first, her mind is filled with haunting images but as the hours roll on the nature of her dreams change. Feral desire replaces survival reflex. It is not anger or fear that snaps her from her slumber but hungry lust. She needs physical gratification.

Shacking off sleep paralysis Niya gasp, she is sweating and short of breath, it takes several moments before she is fully alert. Her body feels heavy still from her meal, and she is almost shacking from exhilaration. Tatsu sits atop the fallen tree that marks Niya's lair, Cardell is asleep on his side one foot kicking in the air as he is running in his sleep.

Niya's mouth drapes open; she licks her nose as she stares at her sleeping kitten. She fantasies about how he had jumped on her earlier nearly kicking herself for having not taken advantage of him then. If she had, she might still be sleeping soundly.

Tatsu calls over softly as he is watching the night sky. "I would be careful if I were you. He isn't strong enough to take care of you after this course of action reaches its inevitable end."

Niya is almost drooling as she is daydreaming, she can feel her lips winking, her cloudy cat juice is no doubt coating her legs already. "who do you know what I am thinking?" she shouts in a whisper.

"I can smell it." Tatsu explains "you released about an hour ago. You have four eggs if that is something you care to know." He turns and jumps down to her level.

Niya is intrigued. "you know how many kittens I will have if I breed today?" Her tail wags trying to cool her body "another part of your blood magic?"

Tatsu walks over, he slides around the cat sneakily sniffing at her and trying to get a peek under her tail "Nope, had that ability before I was baptized. I can smell blood from over a mile away. As a tradeoff I don't have a: yellow, blue or red vision cone in my eye. So… can't see all that well."

Niya knows she is being looked at and she like the attention, she holds her tail slightly off to one side letting the wolf glace at her peach slit, twitching and drooling tasty vaginal oil. Tatsu can taste her hormone in the air, his heart rate jumps, Tatsu licks his lips. Niya is courses "you are a wolf, I am a cat. I have never known a cat to sleep with a wolf. Could you give me kittens?" she lowers her torso holding her back end up, tail wrapped around one leg.

Tatsu can't hide his lust, the curve cat showing off her womanhood inspires him to lower his head and slide his nose up her underbelly and across her lips getting a taste for the cheetah. He exhales a cold breath onto Niya's salty skin. Niya meows digging her claws into the soft earth at her feet. Tatsu replies to the cat's inquiry "I have knocked up one or two aliens in my travels. I may get lucky."

Niya's meow awoke Cordell, he has sat up and is starching to get the sleep from his bones. The panther kitten opens and shuts his eyes a few times to clear his vision. He looks at Niya; he watches her as she is presenting herself. Tatsu offers her a soft lick up the backside then pulls his head away.

All eyes are on Niya both boys wait to see what Niya does next. Both men seem like a fair choice. But whichever one mounts her first will most likely get to clam her eggs. Niya lowers her ears and closes her eyes seductively as she considers her next move…