A Monster Life Ch. 25-27

* Ulric and Valdys narrowly escaped the fight against the necromancer and it left her in a dangerously weakened state, there's just one thing he can do to save her.

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25 - Healing

Valdys gripped her cloak in frustration but her grip was weak and it added only to how much she hated that she wasn't stronger. She had to watch powerlessly how Demetrus chased her and used his powers to abuse everyone and everything around him in his lust for power. Family, friends, town folk, the towns themselves and every living being, she witnessed the decay and destruction for countless years because she was kept alive. Even her spirit friends weren't safe from the recurring attacks by the undead servants of Demetrus in an attempt to take her to their master.

Ulric noticed the pained expression on her face as he sat with her in his embrace in a small arched cellar. 'Are you hurt?' he asked.

Valdys looked up at him. The worried look in his eyes and lowered ears brought her some comfort and she put her hand on his chest. She understood what he meant and gave a slight nod. The soft and warm sensation of his fur soothed her a little more but also made her regret to have let him and his girls help her and get caught in their current predicament. She sighed at all the knowledge she had but never having the power to use it, and made a feeble fist and put it to her chest. 'I wish for the strength to protect.' she said softly.

Ulric nodded as he understood. 'She's having a hard time feeling weak.' he said over the familiar link. 'Isn't there some sort of training to increase magic power?'

'I only know of some mages who were able to gain a little on specific magic through endurance training.' said Elzbieta. 'She won't be able to do that in her current state.'

Iphigenia chuckled and looked up. 'Wolfie, did you forget? You have the ability to boost her power.'

Ulric raised an ear. 'I do?' he asked, then realised it and blushed. 'Oh!'

'Yes.' said Iphigenia while Elzbieta and Kaui glanced at each other and blushed. 'There's really no other choice right now.'

Ulric looked at Valdys and cleared his throat. 'Yeah, true.' he muttered. 'I would've preferred circumstances to be better though. I don't want a repeat of the first time with Elz and make her feel bad because she was forced to do it with me.'

Elzbieta plucked at her gloves. 'It wasn't really bad.' she muttered.

Ulric smiled a little. 'Thank you, but don't make it seem better than it was for my sake.'

'I wasn't!' said Elzbieta and pouted. 'It did actually feel good when we did it.'

Iphigenia chuckled. 'Give her the choice. You won't have to feel bad if she's willing and you do your usual magic.'

Ulric sighed. 'All right then, I'll try to explain it to her.' he said and took a deep breath.

Through embarrassing gestures and drawings in the sand on the floor, he explained his essence of health ability and the way it worked, and the effects on the girls, but also that he couldn't guarantee it would work on her. Valdys imagined her face being bright red if she had blood to colour her cheeks, and glanced from the remarkable bloodwolf sitting in front of her with his head bowed and his ears drooped in guilt while plucking on the end of his bushy tail to the intimate pose drawing on the floor. On the one hand was what she heard was too strange to be true, while on the other hand she'd read about uncommon abilities people had possessed, although not as outrageous as his. Restoring health and even raising tallies through the carnal act with him was the only hope she had though. "The only other choice is trying to escape but most likely getting caught or killed before that." she thought and glanced once more at Ulric. The image of him embracing her filled her mind and her chest twisted in the urge of a heart pounding hard. "Would I regret it if it didn't work?" She sighed. It would be the end of her sooner or later, thus sharing a moment of awkward pleasure of the flesh was not a bad way to spend her remaining time. She smiled a little and giggled inside. "Besides, he's rather cute, all timid like that." She stared with wide eyes at the floor when she realised it was the first in a long time that she felt giddy. She held out her hand to him, confident the almost forgotten emotion was a good sign.

Ulric took her hand, nervous about living up to expectations, and moved up close in front of her. She smiled gently at him and pulled at the string of her cloak at her chest but her fingers lacked the strength to untie the tight knot. She glanced up at him and he carefully untied it, and pulled the string through the loopholes of the cloak going down to her lap. The front of her cloak spread and the sight of her bare pale flesh between them was a stark contrast with the black cloth, as well as a titillating sight.

Valdys was sure she'd feel her blood pump through her body if she was still human. The first time she bared her body for a man, who wasn't actually a man either. She hadn't expected to ever experience it since she was cursed but after all that time it had finally come. Whatever the outcome, she decided she wouldn't hold back and slipped the cloak from her shoulders. With some hesitation she glanced up at Ulric's reaction, afraid the sight of her dead body would turn him off in the end. His warm smile and gaze bathed her in relief.

'I take it she's pretty.' said Iphigenia after sensing Ulric's reaction.

He chuckled and admired Valdys's firm breasts with grey nipples that matched well with her eyes. 'Yes, she is. Her white flesh is quite a sight to behold.'

Iphigenia sighed. 'I'll bet it's every man's fantasy.'

'Oh, I'm sure every man has at least once imagined it.' Ulric said and smiled. 'Honestly, I find it very attractive as well. But that doesn't mean I find either of you girls any less attractive.'

Elzbieta huffed. 'Cheap words.'

He grinned. 'Oh, I'll show you how cheap those words are as soon as we're somewhere safe and very private.'

She blushed and Iphigenia licked her lips. 'That's another promise.'

'And glad to keep it.' Ulric said and laughed.

Iphigenia sensed her body heating up. 'Go make us all feel good, Wolfie, especially her now.'

He leaned forward and Valdys touched her forehead with his while speaking the incantation. 'Can you hear me?' she asked.

Ulric took her hands in his paws. 'I can.'

She smiled a little. 'I hope it'll work, but also that you won't be disappointed.'

He raised an eyebrow. 'Why would I be disappointed?'

She looked down. 'Because I'm an undead and cold.'

He chuckled and blushed. 'If I wasn't holding back down there, I'd be sitting here as embarrassed as I could be.'

She glanced up. 'Really?'

'Yeah.' he said and looked away. 'I don't really feel that way towards the others any longer, but when it's with a woman for the first time it still is.'

She giggled and nervousness faded slowly. 'This is not how I imagined it, but I think I'm glad to do it with you for the first time.'

He smiled softly and kissed her hands. 'I'll do my best to make it worthwhile.' he said and let go of her hands to remove her cloak, and laid her down on her back on top of it. 'I'm sorry there's no soft bed.'

She stroked his cheek. 'It's all right, I don't feel the cold and hardly feel the hardness of stone.'

He stroked her breast gently and touched her nipple with his fingertip.

'Mmm!' hummed Valdys.

He looked up at her. 'Something wrong?'

She looked at him with large eyes. 'I felt it! I haven't been sensitive there before.'

He rounded her nipple with his finger again and it hardened under his touch while she hummed in light pleasure. 'It might be the link that made you more sensitive.' he said and licked her other nipple with the tip of his tongue.'

The new tingling sensation spread through her skin and sank deep into her chest. 'Mmm, this feels so weird but good.' she said and Ulric licked around her breast while massaging the other. 'Your tongue and your paw are really soft.'

He smiled and licked her other breast and nipple. 'Your nipples feel good on my tongue.'

'Even if they're cold?' she whispered.

'I doubt it would make a difference whether your body was warm or not.' he said and bit lightly into her darkening bud.

A spark of fire shot through her chest and she gasped. 'This is a miracle.' she whispered and stroked his cheek. 'I want to know if I'm sensitive everywhere now.'

He stroked her side gently and she hummed and smiled. 'It'll be my pleasure to help you find out.' he said and traced her belly with his tongue as he moved further down.

His touch around her Venus hill and slow brush across her soft and silver grey pubic hair sent a spasm through her abdomen, and an itch awoke deep inside her. She hummed harder while his paws slid down along her thighs and his muzzle stroked just inside them. Gently he spread them and an unexpected chill touched her mound before his warm breath brushed her cold flesh. 'I sense it.' she whispered. 'I can feel your breath on me.' He smiled and brushed her mound with the tip of his muzzle. She twitched at the touch and the prickles of electricity rushing through her. 'More, please.' she breathed. 'Touch me more.'

The tip of his tongue caressing her flesh sent more prickles through her and she moaned softly while he caressed her thighs. 'Brace yourself.' he said. 'Your hard little nub looks delicious.'

She gasped at his firm kiss on her dark grey clit and bit her equally dark lips while heat spread from them through her hips. Every lick with his long tongue pushed a wave of unexpected warmth through her and she moaned deeper. 'I feel so hot now. It's impossible.'

'Believe it.' breathed Iphigenia while rubbing her thighs. 'This is just how good it feels with Wolfie.'

'You feel the same!?'

'Oh, yeah.' Iphigenia said and chuckled. 'We all share in the fun with Wolfie through the link.'

'Oh wow.' breathed Valdys. 'So when he does any of you I'll feel it as well?'

'There's no hiding from it for any of us.' breathed Iphigenia and grinned at Elzbieta and Kaui pressing their thighs together and moaning softly.

Valdys imagined the other three girls receiving the same pleasure at the touch of Ulric and her arousal heightened. 'This is really kinky.' she breathed, and moaned and shivvered at the licks along her plump mound.

Ulric's tongue explored her lips and she spread her legs further while he growled softly against her flesh. 'I have no idea how it is for undead, but you get wet just like the other girls and taste just as good.'

'I do?' she moaned while her hips twitched and her abdomen filled with more warmth. 'I never even broke a sweat before!' A shudder went through her when his tongue slipped deeper inside her. 'I feel you inside!' she moaned. 'Your tongue is so hot!'

Ulric massaged her inside with his long and agile tongue while she squirmed at the flashes of heat rushing through her body. 'So good..' she moaned. 'I feel so alive..' The warmth inside her reached her mind and chased out the cold grip of her cursed life with waves of hot desire. The disorientation it caused was nothing to her in her urge to be taken away on the pleasure rushing over her. 'More,. Please give me more..'

Ulric growled harder as he pressed his muzzle harder against her and his tongue rubbed along and in between her lips and her rock hard clit. Her hips rocked and her abdomen twitched while her senses were drowned in heat, and she moaned loud and long when her body exploded into a cloud of sparks.

After her mind drifted slowly back, she gave the bloodwolf sitting on his knees between her legs a satisfied smile. 'I never felt so alive, even before the curse.' she whispered. She sensed the satisfaction from the thee others. 'It goes even this far?'

'Oh yes.' breathed Iphigenia. 'I'm now sure the link echoes the sensations even more with each new member of Wolfie's pack. If one of us comes at his touch, we all do.

Valdys smiled at Ulric. 'Even if I don't become stronger, I won't regret this for the rest of my life.'

He smiled. 'I'm glad you feel that way.'

She noticed the gleaming red flesh poking from his lap and her body twitched in sudden hunger. She was sure blood rushed to her face while he helped her sit up. 'If you sit on my lap you can take your time.' he said.

She nodded without taking her eyes off of the flesh that would touch her depths very soon. '..yeah..' she whispered.

She pressed her behind into his strong paws as she straddled him and wrapped her arms around his neck. 'The only thing of value I have is now yours.' she whispered.

He kissed her softly in her neck. 'You have way more value than that.' he whispered. 'You proved that when you saved me despite your condition.'

She gazed deep into his eyes while the pounding of her heart resonated through her chest, and she kissed him. Their tongues curled around each other's and she moaned softly into his mouth along with his gentle growling while her hips pressed down and the sensation of scorching but painless heat filled her. She ground her mound hard against his hilt each time she slid up and back down and pressed her front against his. 'I want to feel your fur all over me.' she moaned and Ulric slid his paws firmly along her thighs, her behind, back, into her neck, and down again.

Iphigenia, Elzbieta, and Kaui moaned at the shared sensation and Valdys could no longer tell her mind apart from the other three as it sank deeper into the overwhelming desire flooding her. Her body didn't feel like a separate entity as it had always done, her entire being was made whole again in this merger with the fantastic bloodwolf.

She sensed Ulric tensing inside and the rush of heat flooding her depths as he growled deep into her mouth, and her body receiving his gift with intense satisfaction before her mind faded into a field of bright flowers blooming.

***

When Valdys woke up she feared the dream she had was just that. She still lived in the cold and dreary dead forest along with her only friends, the skeletal creatures and the spirits. The warmth and softness embracing her needed to be present for a while before she thought the incredible experience had been real. She opened her eyes to a cellar full of creature skeletons and spirits waiting silently around her.

26 - The Enchantress Strikes Back

'What happened?' asked Valdys, noting creatures and spirits filled the passage to the cellar as far as she could see.

'They were drawn here by your power.' said Ulric.

She looked up at him and realised she sat on his lap and lay against his chest while he leaned back against a slab resting against the wall. He shifted his legs and she blushed as she also realised it was his fur she felt around her naked body under her cloak. He had used it to cover her while she slept in his embrace. 'My power?' she asked while suppressing a giddy giggle and fluttering filled her stomach.

'Have a look at your tallies.' said Iphigenia over the familiar link.

Valdys concentrated on her status and her eyes went wide at numbers she could only hope to gain at the end of a normal life as a very talented mage. 'How?' she whispered.

'Wolfie power!' chuckled Iphigenia. 'If you had any doubt on whether what he said was true, there's your proof. There's a good chance they turn out even higher when we all have access to Wolfie next time.'

Valdys threw her arms around Ulric's neck and buried her face in it. 'Thank you.' she whispered and rubbed her cheeks against his fur. 'Thank you so much.'

He caressed her back. 'No, I want to thank you for the intimate pleasure.'

She giggled, pulled back, and kissed him. 'If it wasn't for all these guys here, I'd give you all you want right now.'

He chuckled. 'I'm tempted to ask them to leave and come back a day later.'

Her heart pounded at the thought of doing it with him for an entire day, then gasped. She put her hands to her chest. 'I feel my heart beating!' She slipped the cloak from her shoulders and looked down on her body. She felt her chest, her arms, her abdomen, and her thighs. 'I have a heartbeat but I'm still pale and cold!' She looked up at Ulric. 'No undead has a beating heart!'

'I don't know anything about undead, but perhaps your power gave you back some life?'

'More likely it's your power.' said Elzbieta. 'Remember that you restored my lost limbs.' She focused on Valdys. 'Darling said your lips and, ehm, other parts gained a darker colour as well.'

Ulric nodded. 'Yeah, but actual life is something else.'

Valdys noticed her dark grey nipples and shook her head. 'I've never heard of any dead returning to life or even partially.' she said and stroked his head. 'It must be your doing that gave me a sense of being alive because I do feel that way now. I don't think I could really come back alive completely but I'm fine with this. I can feel your warmth, feel your softness, and smell the arousing scent of your fur so my senses are back as well.'

Ulric smelled himself. 'Is it that bad?'

She giggled and pressed herself against him. 'Not nearly bad enough.'

He blushed and Elzbieta cleared her throat. 'I don't want to disrupt you two but we need to discuss our next move and the presence of our new undead friends here.'

Valdys stared into Ulric's eyes. 'You have spirits and creatures there as well?'

Elzbieta looked down a long hallway full of them. 'A few.'

***

A pair of floating armours moved through a wide passage when they detected the intruder standing with their back towards them. They sped up as they lifted their heavy swords for the attack and showed no sign of stopping when the intruder turned around. At just a few paces distance the intruder lifted their arms and the armours froze in mid-air, trembled violently, then crumpled like a ball of paper and fell to the floor.

'That's one way to crush beer cans.' said Ulric as he appeared from a side passage, followed by spirits and creatures.

Valdys pulled back her hood. 'Beer cans?'

He waved it off. 'Not important.' he said and kicked one of the malformed armours. 'A nice display of power.'

She grinned. 'I feel like I can take on any spirit based army.'

He chuckled. 'I'm glad you're on our side.'

She wrapped her arms around his waist and blushed. 'I'm glad you were inside me.'

He blushed and cleared his throat. 'Don't distract me when we have a fight ahead of us.' he said and pat her behind.

She giggled. 'I'm still floating on euphoria.'

He chuckled. 'Save it up for after. Then we can enjoy it without worries.'

'Of course.' she said and kissed him. 'I'm looking forward to it after Iphigenia told me a little more about your talent.'

'Wait, what did she tell you?'

She stuck out her tongue playfully and followed the passage. Iphigenia giggled. 'We just had some girl talk.'

Ulric shook his head and followed Valdys. 'I think I'm getting nervous about you two meeting.'

***

Ulric shattered the last knight statue's legs with a captured stone sword while Valdys forced two others to destroy each other. He smashed the torso in two along with the sword and looked around at the rubble spread around the hall. 'How much more will we have to fight?'

Valdys closed her eyes and focused on the presence of magic. 'We're at the border of Demetrus's influence.' she said. 'From here on out he will sense us and direct his forces towards us.'

Ulric nodded. 'Time for the big fight then. How are you girls doing?'

'We're ready to go.' said Iphigenia after a nod from Elzbieta and Kaui. The spirits and creatures gathered behind them stood ready. 'We have loaded up on grenades thanks to the supplies our little friends brought and Kaui's work.'

Ulric smiled. 'Good work, and thanks, Kaui.'

She smiled. 'Just doing what I can because this is now Iphi and Elz's fight.'