3 Red Twilight Demon of the Flowers chapter 3

Chapter 3 Marooned part 2

Day turns to night, then night into day. The storm clouds slowly roll out. Thunder fades. The sounds of bugs buzz, the music of birds awakening echoes across the forest. The birds chirp calling to their mates seeing who survived the night.

Ashley had fallen asleep in the nude, Tatsu at some point before sunrise pulled the fox coat across her chest then snuck out. When Ashley awakens herself, she finds a dead turkey prone on the ground before her, a stack of broken branches near that, Tatsu is running his fangs down a branch stripping the leaves from it.

Ashley looks around mostly in a daze. She fully expected to look around and realize that yesterday was a fevered dream brought on by the stinging cold and ministration. She smiles once she is convinced that everything she thought she had done yesterday she indeed had.

"Good morning Tatsu!" Ashley calls out in excitement "Been busy?" she looks at the cave, the wood, and the dead bird.

Tatsu nods "I am hungry. Thought you might be too." He piles up the wood he had gathered in the pit of stones he had forged yesterday. Tatsu stares at the wood, his eyes flare a dark yellow, the wood smokes, a red light starts to burn beneath it, warmth begins to rise from the stones. Suddenly Tatsu looks away. The wood goes cold.

"I can't do it" Tatsu complains "I'm too tired." The wolf turns his gaze to Ashley "can you build a fire?"

Ashley nods, she puts on a pair of jeans and a flannel overshirt, "yeah, I know how to do that." Ashley fluffs up the leaves, the looks around the cave for a rock she can use as a flint. Next, she picks up her big hunting knife.

Tatsu sits down watching Ashley captivated as she works. Ashley finds some dead grass and twists it about to form a wic. She grinds smooth back side of her knife on the stone, the grass and leaves catch creating a small clump of ember. Ashley gets down on all fours sticking her tail up as she leans in close to the ember. Softly she blows on the grass, feeding the embers until at last the grass grows hot enough to burn bark, then wood.

Tatsu watches in amazement. "it has been lifetimes since I saw a campfire started without the need of Arcana. How strange the things we grow accustom to are."

Ashley smiles looking over "do you know how to clean and gut a bird?"

Tatsu looks embarrassed "most of the time I eat my birds still alive and kicking."

Ashley is horrified "do you ever get sick like that?" the wolf shrugs. Ashley holds her knife to the fire to clean the blade for a moment as the flames grow slowly larger. "let me show you." She starts to skin the bird. "do you eat inureds?"

Tatsu nods "stomach and liver? You bet I do!" As Ashley skins the bird, Tatsu looks to her "you have an amazing skill. People that can do what you are doing is a treasure" Ashley builds a spit. Tatsu watches her mesmerized by her craft.

Ashley sets the bird over the flames. Tatsu questions her as she cooks. "Ashley, tell me about your home."

Ashley nods as she starts to spin the spit " the town I come from is a pretty small town... An ex-fishing village, most of the houses are old and close to the sea. Despite it being a nice spot, close to the woods, I'd much rather live out here..."

"so would I." Tatsu shutters momentarily tasting Ashley's pheromone in the air "I spent most of my youth in a large city. Had no sense for what I really am until the first time I went for a run across the ice-ocean."

"Ice-ocean?" Ashley question

Tatsu starts to weave a tale "Dis, my home country, like many others I am sure, is broken into provinces." He finds a spot to stretch out on the floor to watch Ashley work "my countryman are from the province of Canaan, a blight, or dessert. Most of the land is water, a hundred miles in any direction before you reach real earth. Unfortunately, I didn't get to see my homeland till well into my adult years. My mother had traded me away to a noblewoman from the southland of Phage named Andaria. I lived in the city; I was a scholar and a cage fighter... until Andaria got board of my company."

Ashley is interested "tell me more."

The light of the fire flickers off Tatsu's fur "When you are in the service of nobles there are luxuries abound. Good teachers, cheap wine, and even cheaper pleasure. I was given a pet, a sister of mine named Pine. She was charged with meeting my needs let's say. But the wine and pleasure only last as long as your provider finds you amusing. Once my owner grew bored of me I found I was the pet and my sister owned me. It wasn't long after that I started planning my escape."

Captivated Ashely leans in; she falls into a daydream imagining what Tatsu is describing. What sort of world must Tatsu's be from?

"I found my way home, for days I ran across the ice. I found a cave not so dislike this one; it had a volcanic spring running through it. I slept there, for the first time in the land of my birth. I had a dream. One of running across a field of flowers. It was the best dream I had ever had. I slept too long, my sister found me."

Ashley asks for clarification "Your sister… what did she do? Did she take you back?"

"She sent me to the court of Phage. I was given the opportunity to fight for my freedom. Win a fight agent five of my brothers and they would allow me 1 day to run as far and as fast as I can run. Then they would fallow. I spent a night with my sister, killed my brothers. Then I ran. That is the world I came from. A world of sex, backstabbing and murder. I encountered a fellow traveler as I ran. He was an emissary from a group called 'The Steel Rose. I followed him home. Just in time to watch the cycle of death continue."

Ashley thinks, 'Tatsu is a warrior, he has had to fight so much to get here.' "then what happened?"

"Seeker was the name of the betrayer, she was a mind thief. She took the mind of our captain. Burned the ship to the ground. Now she hunts the other Worldwalker like me. She is who I was running from before I arrived here…" Tatsu's gaze turns to a thousand-yard stare, he is struggling against his nightmares. 'Is that what I was doing.' He whispers to himself 'no, that was a past life. In this life I haven't meet up with the Worldwalkers yet, maybe Seeker hasn't betrayed us in this timeline'

Ashley can see the pain welling in Tatsu's face, she walks over to the white wolf and wraps her arms around him. Ashley squeezes the wolf holding him, trying to protect him from his own fear. "Well I'm very glad you did make it here"

Tatsu place a paw on Ashley's back. "I have had enough of fighting and killing. I just don't think I'm that guy anymore." He brings up a second paw and rolls one down her back gripping her by the tail offering a powerful embrace.

As the two hold each other emotion start to run high, Ashley whispers to her love "I-I feel you'll be safe here... I've never even heard rumors of anyone like you here." Such warmth, such passion, Tatsu shuts his eyes leaning forward offering to lay Ashley on her back and lick her nose.

Ashley only allows this to go on for a moment, she brings up on hand and pushes a finger to the wolf's nose "not now," she point's "food is cooking."

Tatsu nods with a grin; he pulls away letting Ashley get back to work on the food. His eyes turn upwards, he thinks about what Ashley was talking about earlier "A fishing town, hmmm… But you used it in past tense. Did the fish dry up?"

Ashley sits back up in front of the spit she is spinning "You could say that the fish dried up... The fish population got low enough that a few years before I was born, it got shut down... you were not even allowed to go out to catch some kinds of fish to feed yourself for years after."

Tatsu nods with a vocalized pause. "conservation most be on everyone's mind then." He thinks "so then your town is a ghost town, A 49ers, gold rush type of thing." He walks in a circle looking for a soft piece of earth to rest atop "then you and yours are some of the last holdouts after things went south? It would explain why people are 'aggressive' as it were." He looks over "you used the term 'fuckboy' to describe the other family's around you. What does that mean?"

Ashley turns her eyes to the floor thinking about her childhood. "well, despite the main source of income suddenly being cut out quite suddenly, the current population in town is a shocking 500, but this is about 23 years after there was a stop to the fishery... I used the term fuckboy, basically describing those guys who don't care about your needs, just their own and they would NOT make a good dad" there is a darkness in Ashley's past that she tries to sidestep.

The wolf sees what Ashley is trying to do; he doesn't push any harder Tatsu nods. "I get it. But with all the work gone, why hasn't everyone uprooted to look for work elsewhere?" he rolls his eyes up considering "you are an outdoorsman, a survivalist you could live just fine out here on your own. What about the others?"

"well, there were enough stores and still a good deal of logging for people to stay" she pauses for a moment to look the bird over to see how it is doing. "Well... Let's put it like this... Most of my skills are self-taught... As the age of technology encroached, people lost many of these skills... You think a lot of these people would die if they didn't have their phone or computer to help with their day-to-day life."

Tatsu softly growls to himself, his eye shut as he gets lost in thought. "Forgive me if this too forward but... what if we stayed here? You, me, our puppies. We can set up a homestead here in the woods..."

Ashley's eyes go blank for a moment as she locks eyes with the wolf "Tatsu... You must be able to read minds too."

"The Mentalist art I was trained with did not include telepathic art." He seems to miss the joke. His ears wiggle And tail twitches "what part did I read your mind on?" he tries to understand what Ashley is saying

Shy and soft Ashley lowers her eyes and ears, her voice drops to an airy whisper "I'd love to live out here with you and our pups!" In sudden childish glee, Tatsu jumps to a standing position. He runs over placing his front paws on Ashley's chest, his lips curl into a smirk, and his tongue falls out of his mouth, he seems to have no idea how to deal with his sudden excitement. Happy with Tatsu's ecstatic reply Ashly starts to pat and hug the wolf. His tail wags harshly, the idea that his past life could be behind him lifting his spirits. His head moves alongside Ashley's as he takes her neck in his muzzle offering a love bite.

Guided by instinct a rear paw lifts pawing at Ashley's pants as his rolls slightly and he offers to take her muzzle in his mouth. Ashley struggles somewhat speaking to her partner "careful there Tatsu; you're pretty heavy" Tatsu nods placing his restless paw back on the ground.

After a few moments of kissing and petting Ashley points at the bird on the fire "there you go sweetheart, that's better... You ready to eat?"

Tatsu backs away ears flatten, eyes squint, muzzle rolls up into a toothy grin. Tatsu nods as he gets down on all fours. He lets Ashley pick her portion first. The fox picks a lag of the bird she then pushes the rest over to the wolf allowing him to choose a peace.

When eating Tatsu turns as unsophisticated as he has ever been, he places a paw on the bird and sinks into it almost eating the turkey bones and all. As he reaches the end he wipes his face off on one paw then takes a bow. "Thank you so much, my lady."

Ashley gets in only a hand full of bite before looking up at Tatsu surprised by his monstrous hunger hardly even gotten a few bites down in the time it took for you to eat the majority of the bird."d-do you think that's enough to keep your... Uh... Mana?... for the day?"

"About 6lbs of meat... That just about meets my requirement to replenish my mana. Yea." He looks down at what is left of the corpse "And so long as I don't cast any spells anything else I eat is just to keep me full."

Ashley after finishing her part she looks to the mouth of the cave "I want to take a look outside, get a feeling for what happened last night."

The two of them walk outside. The landscape has become almost unearthly Ashley waves a hand before her as if to try to brush the fog away. The ground is swollen with water; trees are toppled, the field is gray. With the sky gray but bright to match a tall bluff can be seen in the distances. A city is built on the rocks and the ocean just past that. Even with the forest devastated the city suffers no visible scars. The horror of the ruins is terrible and beautiful.

Ashley looks down to Tatsu "My dad and I had a strongbox buried out in the woods, it is only a few miles that way." She points "my father was a doomsday prepper. He thought that our island was going to sink and he was going to have to live out here alone for the rest of his life. We have food and tools hidden out there. Just about everything, we would need to rebuild after the end of the world."

"your father thought he was going to survive the end of the world?" Tatsu jumps up on some rocks and looks about; he sniffs the air then points "there is a river that way, it looks like there is a settlement on both banks. Did you live up on the cliff?"

Ashley nods then points and waves "fallow me Tatsu."

Tatsu walks alongside Ashley "a man once told me 'if you are walking through a forest and find yourself staring at the mossy side of a tree you are facing the sunrise.' I think that works. I tend to trust my nose more them my eyes."

"I've heard that too... it is a good observation, but I know the way." The two of them start to jog through the woods in jubilation.

Tatsu looks about as they walk. "how far is it to town? It looks like it could be day's away."

Ashley giggles "the ocean cast an illusion half the island is bellow sea level, if we were standing on the bluff, you would get a better look."

The par follows the river downstream, before long the two of them come to a stack of stones hiding an orange moving crate. As it comes into view Ashley starts to sprint, Tatsu watches her for a moment with his tail twitching, he then barks and lays chase.

When they reach the rock formation, Ashley places her hands on her knees leaning forth to catch her breath. Tatsu walks alongside her, he takes a deep breath tasting the sweet air. Mouth open tongue out, this is the type of place he has always dreamed of, and the kind of person he wanted to be with. "you are pregnant by the way." He points out as they stand along the river "but I only hit half your eggs."

Ashley's eyes go wide, and one hand reaches up from her knee to her underbelly needing at her womb through her skin having seemingly forgotten for a moment why she was in the woods, to begin with. She smiles and turns to face Tatsu "Really Tatsu?... That's fantastic!" she drops to her knees and grabs Tatsu around the shoulders forcing a hug. The wolf places a paw on Ashley's back holding her. He digs his nose into her neck sniffing at her as they embrace. After a few moments, Tastu opens his mouth offering a love bite. Ashley giggles, providing a bite back.

Tatsu slides a paw under Ashley's tail; he grips her by the rump. There muzzles wrap around each other's Ashley whispering between breaths "I love you Hetatsubachi." A joyful roar rumbles in the wolf's chest as he runs his paws down Ashley's back; he strokes her, pets her, tickles at her back. The feeling of Ashley's weight on his underside induces a whimper.

Ashley slides her head under Tatsu's chin, she pretends to be savage, her mouth opens, and her fangs brush his neck. Loving lust draws the two to squeeze at each other, Tatsu gripping Ashley by the tail. Ashley setting her hands on the wolfs tuff furred chest clenching his course hair in her fingertips. Ashley blushes. Never has she felt this strange warmth with another fox, this wolf he has inspired feelings she dreamed of so often as a child, but never would she have thought it would come from this. A day in the woods with a man that would no doubt be considered a monster by her pears.

The wolf can sense Ashley's sudden shift from lust to longing; he pulls his paws into his chest lick a puppy, his head comes up slightly, his nose runs up Ashley's shirt searching for her breast. Ashley widens her eyes as she watches Tatsu. After a moment Ashley gets the joke, she pulls off her coat then up her flannel shirt showing off her chest. "Are you a hungry puppy?" she giggles.

Tatsu nods his head, Ashley lowers her body slipping her breast into Tatsu's mouth. One paw finds Ashley's opposing breast pawing at it as he sucks on one. Ashley starts to moan and yelp as her breast are compressed and needed at, she grips Tatsu by the back of the head encouraging him to keep playing with her breast. After a long few moments, Ashley takes a deep breath trying to calm herself "such a sweet wolf… but how will we get any work done if we keep this up?"

Tatsu stops for a moment; He looks up "Do you want me to stop?"

Ashley smiles "In a minute... You know what they say about all work and no play" Tatsu beings his head down. He opens his mouth wide offering to take a breast in his mouth. He starts a to unsheathe, Slow and soft he nibbled hoping to invigorate the fox as he licks and slurps, nibble and thrust, smoothly milking the fox. Ashley starts to bark from excitement "I might have to learn to keep the moans down when it comes time to feed the pups" she starts scratching Tatsu behind the ears.

Tatsu wags his tail harshly enough to start wiggling his hips. His partly hard unit starts sweeping Ashley though her jeans. Ashley looks down noticing the hard unit brushing her crouch. Tatsu after some time pulls his head off one of Ashley's breast and offer the other a lick. He smiles "at what stage of pregnancy will you start giving milk?" He looks interested.

Ashley had never learned about sex in school; her community had a taboo against such things being talked about in public. "I'm not entirely sure, but I think it's pretty late into the pregnancy before I start making milk... Why?... You wanna try it?" she asks teasingly.

Tatsu chuckles as he brings his head up to Ashley's neck and offers a soft pinch. His unit is twitching from her weight sat atop him and the warmth produced by their bodies touching. Ashley starts to grind her hips rubbing the wolf through her pants. The pressure is forcing both to pant.

Tatsu leans back grunting lightly with the rocking of Ashley's body. "What are you expecting to have for pups? Historical genetics favor girls over boys in a 60-40 split. Some family's having fifteen kids with only 6 boys..." He rattles off into nothing.

Ashley shakes her head "I don't worry about their genders, just as long as they are healthy and happy" Tatsu nods closing his eyes allowing himself to be controlled for the moment.

Ashley is new to sex, for the most part, the brushing against her lips cases her to pull open, and she drips her creamy oil quickly enough that her juice soaks through her pants "mind if I take off my pants so we can have some more fun?"

Tatsu growls with a nod "please do." Ashley stands up; she is shaking from warmth, she can barely focus her grip hard enough to unbuckle her belt, she doesn't even bother trying to unbutton her jeans instead forcing them down. As Tatsu watches his ears lower and eyes widen his expiration filled with want, he stays on his back offering to let Ashley control him this time.

Ashley stands over Tatsu her feet straddling his hips. He rolls one paw down the stripe of her stomach, then the slit of her lips. Ashley uses two fingers to part her lips; she licks her nose as her heat infects her mind again "do you want it, puppy?" Ashley asks Tatsu nods. Ashley sits atop Tatsu slowly crawling down to line the wolf up with her vulva. She forces Tatsu to kiss her.

As the two kiss both wiggle their hips, Tatsu hasn't pushed into Ashley's, but he is acting like he had thanks to the new and unusual feeling of resting on his back. Tatsu is not only hard and ready to go but twitching and ready to spray his puppy juice onto Ashley's tail. Ashley uses one hand to grip Tatsu; she slides the tip of his head quickly up and down her inner lips. Tatsu can't stop himself; he releases a hard shot onto Ashley's ass and tail.

Ashley feels the spray onto her butt. She looks back at herself then down to Tatsu. "do you want to see a trick?" Ashley sits on one knee; the other lags stretches out lifting over her head like a cat stretch. She lowers her head tucking her head between her thighs. Her tongue rolls out of her mouth and down her butt licking up the cum on her underside.

Ashley holds the oil in her mouth as she brings her head up to kiss Tatsu again. She shares the mixture of oil. As they kiss Ashley thrust her hips down forcing Tatsu into her wet hole. Tatsu grips her by the hips then starts pushing, Ashley grinding. Shortly after that Ashley forces her hips down, she wants his bulb in her body, she wants him to tie up in her again.

Tatsu shutters, he is struggling to resist Ashley, he wants to hold back and enjoy the moment, Ashley is not interested in holding back, she wants Tatsu's cum, and she wants it now. Tatsu tries to slow down, pushing softly around in Ashley's depths "the only disappointing thing is, after I spray again you are going to come down from your heat... unless you have another egg coming tomorrow." He has a devise grin.

Ashley shut her eyes, she moans "well, even if I don't have another egg in me, and I come out of heat, I'd still gladly do it with you..." she offers a lick on Tatsu's nose. "besides... There's always next time I go into heat."

After a few pushes, Tatsu moves his paws to Ashley's stomach. He shakes his head and hisses "Slow down" he requests. Tatsu uses his front paws to guide Ashley, trying to find a speed where they can have fun without Tatsu cumming too quickly.

Ashley is disappointed but tries to comply in spite of her heat "just tell me when we are going a good speed for you" He nods, with Ashley on top it seems Tatsu can go as fast as Ashley want for about 30 seconds then he needs her to hold still for 10-15 before getting started again. As they are experimenting Tatsu has an abnormally hard twitch. Ashley giggles holding still not letting Tatsu spray yet. Tatsu pushes up wanting to put his oil into Ashley's body, but he is forced to sit still. He wines and whimpers as he is forced to hold back. He shutters as he calms slightly, she manages to stave off his dripping.

Ashly toy's with Tatsu, she gives him a few fast thrusts building him up then slows down holding Tatsu back. Tatsu closes his eyes tightly as he is struggling against his desires. He whispers as he offers one harder twitch "I need to squirt..."

Ashley nods "perfect." She holds the rhythm; she has had enough fun, she is ready to finish herself. Tatsu holds still for a moment; he can't stop himself, he has two heavy sprays into Ashley's waiting body.

Tatsu pants a few times "I sorry, I didn't mean to do that." Ashley smiles, she is sweating, her eyes are full of desire. Tatsu can see she doesn't mind how fast he is going. Tatsu smiles, he has a little growl. Tatsu grips Ashley by the sides and takes one shoulder of hers in his mouth, he rolls off to one side to flip Ashley over. He wants power.

Tatsu moves his hand onto Ashley's butt. He is eager. Ashley's warmth having driven him wild. The wolf pushes up trying to slide his knot into Ashley's hole. Tatsu wiggles trying to slip his knot into her body and tickle around Ashley's womb. Tatsu gives one more push holding still his knot starts to reform, he wiggles side to side waiting for himself to become tied in Ashley. Ashley relaxes laying on her back happily. She whimpers letting Tatsu control her.

Tatsu's thrust becoming deep and firm. He moves his muzzle up to take Ashley's mouth in his; he growls lustfully as he starts making love to Ashley at this point. Tatsu can't wait. He has one hard spray, a second passes then he has two more sprays just like last time. He lays forward resting on Ashely waiting to untie cuddling with his lover.

Once Tatsu is untied and relaxed he looks up remembering the locker. "what is that?" he points with his nose.

"just about everything we need to start building our new home."