Gabatrix: The Violet Wave

She continued to say nothing as she put her feet into the pool. Slowly she stepped into it as she began to relax. For one moment, she lowered herself and used her tail to propel her to one side of the pool and back. She was graceful as her hair got soaked. Her fins made her perfect in swimming all the way. It was mesmerizing for Javier as he watched it. She had almost perfect grace as her tail went back and forth, pushing her entire body. Her shark-like nature made her a natural at the water that Javier had indeed witnessed for the first time.

She pushed herself up as she stood in the pool. Water ran down her long soft grayscale frame. She momentarily opened her jaws as she put her one hand to her right eye. Her hair covered her eye patch entirely, but he could tell that she was wincing in pain as she quietly bared it in front of him.

"Hey....are you alright?" Javier asked.

She almost seemed to ignore him as the pain seemed to go away. "Yes.....," she finally said something to him. "I needed that....."

"Pain?"

"No. The water gets into my right eye socket. The eye patch can't block the water, and it causes severe pain as a result."

"Why would you hurt yourself like that?"

"I will answer your question with another question. Why do you drink water?" Shira asked.

Javier nodded to her.

She seemed to give a slight sigh to him. "I don't know what will happen to me if I am going to be executed for my actions or be held in prison. Some things you can plan for far in advance, but....."

"You want to be in the water one last time just in case. You want to feel like you are in the place you are most comfortable."

"Yes."

"You swim......beautifully."

She almost sat relaxed as she paused. It made her smile briefly. "That is a powerful complement to a Shal'rein."

"I can imagine that. Being aquatic lovers that you are."

"If you like seeing me swim, then you should see the Shal'rein Gl'yns. They are synchronized swimming in the water. Sometimes it can consist of twenty to even hundreds of individuals. There are even religious groups that do it all completely naked. The water is your clothing. You celebrate nature itself and the ocean that you are a part of."

"Are you a part of that religious group?" Javier asked.

"No, but my mother's mother was. She was an excellent swimmer."

Javier watched as she went to her metal box and pulled out a cigarette. She then took her laser lighter and brought it near her mouth. She pressed the button, but nothing happened. She then took her hand and smacked the lighter.

"Damn lighter," she calmly remarked.

She tried again as it finally worked. The end of the cigarette began to heat up as she put the lighter away. She then sat comfortably with her back to the pool. She closed her eye as she enjoyed the cigarette.

"Care to join me?" she asked him as she held her hand near him.

"Ummm....sure, why not?" he hesitated a little bit.

Javier went and began to take his uniform off. He took his boots off as he paused.

"Ummm.....do we have to worry about others getting in here?" he asked.

"I locked the door. Of course, if you don't feel comfortable on that, I can unlock...."

"N....no, it is alright," Javier interjected. He felt his other boot slip off as he began to take off the topper of his uniform. He carefully placed it by the chair as he took off his shirt next.

He turned to look at Shira that was propped up to the pool's wall. Her arms were stretched out as she seemed to enjoy her smoking.

He stood shirtless as he began to take his pants off. A part of himself questioned why he was doing it, but nothing had been normal recently. He quickly shook it off as he pulled down his pants.

He was about to think about getting into the pool as he stood in his underwear. It had dried, but he was thinking of entering the pool with it again.

"Ugh.....I don't want to get my underwear wet," he remarked.

"Be naked or not. The choice is yours," she replied.

"I guess I am trying to make sense when you are naked. Fine.....," he replied as he took his underwear off.

The underwear slipped off to reveal his manhood. Javier was not the most endowed of individuals. He was not big or small. A small amount of dark pubic hair lined his crouch. He placed the underwear near his uniform as he walked to the pool's edge. He climbed in feeling the warmth of the water once again. He sat in the same spot as he did in the past, but this time he felt like he wanted to be there. He pressed his back to the wall of the pool as he almost closed his eyes. He could see that Shira hadn't moved.

"How long before the marines arrive?" Javier asked.

"About thirty minutes," Shira replied. "The ones that are still loyal to the Shal'rein clan will be ferried off first."

"I see."

"You know. I wanted to ask you something. Since we are now at Mars, and I plan on turning myself in, I wanted to give you an opportunity."

"What is that?"

"Girsha'lar, is one of those that are loyal to the Shal'rein clan. She surrendered the moment the rifles were aimed at her. I wanted to present an offer. I can have her executed if you wish."

Javier gave a rough look at her. Her one eye had opened as she put the cigarette to her mouth and took a big whiff of it.

"I.....don't know," Javier replied.

"The choice is entirely up to you. She attacked you and hurt you. She remains loyal to the Shal'rein clan. As the last act, I can even give you a weapon, and you may execute her yourself. Perhaps you would give her an honorable death or a death of vengeance. It doesn't matter to me. It is up to you."

Javier sighed as he looked at the water. "No.....I don't want that. She should be imprisoned like the others."

"I am curious as to why you feel that way?"

"I can easily say that....maybe I can forgive."

She turned her body as she tapped her cigarette ashes into her ashtray before turning back. "You had hinted to me before that you don't want to forgive me. Why the change?"

"I.....So much has happened. Good people died at Aphadus. They believed in fighting for the UHN. I felt ready to die with them. I fired at Girsha'lar because I knew that I was going to die. It.....didn't happen obviously. I was angry at everything. I held anger at you and even my own chain of command for the decisions they made. I don't......I think I will be fine. I will make sure to write the history of this battle well. I am a historian, after all."

"You had experienced the event first hand. It should be an easy report to make. There are other reasons why you don't want Girsha'lar dead. Do you know, or do you want me to tell you?"

"What do you think?"

Her eye opened up as she answered the question. "A warrior cannot learn from their mistakes if they are dead. By killing the soldier, they won't gain knowledge. Perhaps your decision was an act of wisdom rather than emotion. It is that in itself that I respect. In times of battle, it is important that you separate emotion from logic and wisdom."

"But we are not in a battle....."

"We are always in a struggle, Javier. It is something that isn't easily mastered, including myself. It is the struggle in itself that is the goal. We are at war with ourselves, the environment, and others around us. We are weaker than the scenarios we face. It is up to us to make it a better place. Maybe in the process, it will help others in turn. This was not an easy decision on my part. It was the logical and smart decision, but was it the right one? In the end, I am a traitor to my own clan. I am like my mother now."

"I don't know. Maybe you will have a good life."

"Let me tell you something about my past. My family ensures that they continue having generations to pass our knowledge and experiences from child to child. I was.....ready to eventually have a family of my own. I wanted to find the perfect mate that had my abilities and similar knowledge. It was a difficult process. Finding this perfect mate had been a true failure on my part. My duties took over my own thinking, and eventually, I pushed any hope of finding a mate."

"You wanted to be a mother?"

"Yes. My desires changed once Zilik's disease struck. All the males were dead, and I wasn't exactly ready to become an ivon or mate with an ivon. I instead let duty rein my judgment. I was expecting to die without an heir to pass the family history and experiences. I waited for the inevitable."

"But it all changed, didn't it?"

She gave a couple of quick nods as she took a big whiff of her cigarette. "A part of me feels like Folar'sha and the other warriors. On the one hand, they regret saying goodbye to their former homes and family, but the moment they knew that we were going to turn, I could see a new sense of hope. Some want to go to Itrea. Some want to go and settle down with a human being and become mothers. Some want to do both. I desire a mate. Going to the humans is the only choice I have. Finding the perfect mate is pointless if the entire male population of my species is gone. In the end, I must take what I can get. It is in my best decision to look at you and ask you to become my mate."

Javier felt his heartbeat a little bit faster. "Umm....."

She kept her one eye directed at him. "I would, of course, understand if you did not wish to do such a thing. I was your enemy, and perhaps you may think that I still am. I can promise you this. My goal is be here. I know what is out there, and I know more than most women of my former clan."

"You....want to.....marry me?" Javier asked her.

"Hmmm......the term is an odd one. I remember how it works. We don't have marriages, we just announce our mateship, and it is done. We never leave each other unless there is some severe reason to do so."

"Why would you want me, though? I know you were talking about originally finding a perfect mate. What would make me a suitable mate for you?"

Her cigarette had burned out as she turned around and put it in the ashtray. She didn't bother to pull out another cigarette. "You have impressed me greatly in how you perform and act. Not just in combat, but in how you think. You are a person of history, and so am I. It is true that I have not seen an actual male in almost ten years, but I know you well enough."

Javier began to search for his own feelings. A part of him felt at comfort. "I admit that you are very pretty. I thought that other human women were the only thing that I preferred. There is a level where when I talk to you; I have someone that shares the same interests as I. There is some mystery to you that seems to grab me when I look at you."

Shira seemed to smile a little bit before it faded away.

Javier scratched the back of his head. He looked at her naked body even through the water, and it was grabbing his focus more and more. He could feel a stir in his loins as he seemed to be rooted in thought. Her eye looked below the waterline as she appeared to look at him in turn.

"Your hink is showing....," she commented.

"What?" He looked at his body, and he could tell where her eye was at. He had a growing erection. "Oh."

Javier scratched the back of his head as Shira went and spread her legs open. She looked forward as she seemed to give the most silent of sighs. "The choice is yours," she said. "We still have some time left before I may be separated from you by human authorities."

He could feel a growing desire in himself. He could tell that, deep down, she was attracted to him. She wasn't the type to go and throw out her feelings to him. She was quiet and preferred to give hints about it. He thought about his past and what his friends would have considered. He knew that if he turned her down now, he might never get that chance again. He had to go with his gut instincts, and they all said yes.

"You win," he said as he stood up from the pool.

She simply smiled for a brief time again as she kept her hands and arms lying down on the pool's edge. She took a deep breath as Javier walked in the pool approaching her. He could feel his erection get stiff as he began to really eye her frame. Even though he had seen her topless many times, seeing her naked seemed even more exciting. He indeed eyed and noted every portion of her body. He could see the muscle tone of her arms, the long stretching violet hair that covered her right eye, the fins that protruded from all portions of her body. He looked at her long fin-like tail, her four-digit feet, her pointed snout, her belly button, and her bountiful breasts.

Her shark-like eye peered into his soul as she seemed contempt and relaxed. Javier began to reach his hand to her face. It felt weird at first, but she simply let him touch her. He could feel the smoothness of her skin. The grayscales were very smooth to the touch. It was very similar to the body of a shark in truth. Any water simply made the hand glide more natural on the tissue itself. Her fin-like ears almost seemed to remind him of the novels he read that involved the fairy folk, but he knew that Shira was no fairy. She was a towering anthro aquatic shark. She was the apex evolution of the sharks of former Earth. Long since evolved, the Shal'rein were in all aspects similar to the humans. If anything, she was simply just a bigger human woman in all. Her personality only added to what he was looking for.

He got closer to her as he took her hands and stopped him. Her mighty strength and the water was more than enough to cause Javier to be held in place. She was gentle as her single eye gazed into his.

"We must do what all Itreans do before this...." She almost whispered to him.

"What?"

"I am in need of a mate. Do you need a mate?" she asked him.

He thought about it. "What?"

"I am in need of a mate. Do you need a mate?"

"Yes."

She shook her head. "No.....now you need to say the same thing."

Javier nodded. "Yes. I am in need of a mate. Do you need a mate?"

"Yes. Javier, I promise to be your mate. I will be your soulmate, your guardian to the beaches and the oceans.......now you need to say the same thing in return."

Javier understood. "Shira, I promise to be your mate. I will do what I can to protect you. I will be your guardian to the beaches and the ocean."

"Javier, we are mates till the end of our lives......now it's your turn."

"Shira, we are mates till the end of our lives."

Javier could feel his heart beat faster. He felt the desire grow more and more. It felt like a wedding vow. It must have been how the Itreans proclaimed their willingness to be with one another. It felt like it happened so quickly that he didn't know how to make of it. He simply let his emotions guide him.

She slowly pulled him to her as he reached his arms to touch her sides. One of his hands went to her breasts as another one went to her shoulder. He could feel the soft, malleable tissue as his palm quickly groped her gray nipple. His other arm felt the top portion of her shoulder blade. Her towering size made the muscle mass more prominent than the typical human woman. Shira was not exactly a strong looking Shal'rein, but she still looked powerful.

Javier couldn't hold back anymore. He reached forward as he brought his mouth to hers. She reflexively pulled back as she gave him a little bit of a rough look.

Javier stopped a little bit. "What?"

"Humans.....you bring your mouths together. It is an odd way of displaying passion."

"How do you do it? Kissing?"

"Shal'rein we.....hmmm....don't move," she tried to answer his question by taking her snout and mouth and putting it to his neck. She very slowly opened up her mouth and jaw and positioned her row of serrated teeth to his skin. He didn't move as he could feel huge amounts of sharp teeth touch him. If he moved, the teeth would cut into his skin. She was very gentle in how she did, ensuring that she didn't injure him. She held her jaw to there for a short moment before pulling back out and looking at him. "Does that answer your question?"

He briefly looked at his skin. There were tiny indented marks that were going away rather quickly. He looked back at her. "You bite each other in the neck?"

"Yes, but there is usually rough sex going on at the same time, and it is in the water or beaches too. In your situation, I would risk severely injuring you if I did so."

He peaked at his neck as he could see tiny spots where her teeth touched. "I guess you guys regenerate from the damage you do to each other."

"Shal'rein are also very passionate lovers, though. Do not mistake rough sex for violent intercourse. To us, the water is an extension of us. To be in this now.....I."

Javier went and reached his head to her neck. He went and opened his mouth and bit into her. He knew that human teeth wouldn't have the same effect as Shal'rein teeth. This proved to be of some benefit. He lacked the strength to cause any permanent harm to her.

Shira stopped talking as she used her arms to wrap around him. She closed her eye as she began to pant at the feeling she was receiving. Javier closed his eyes as he kept biting into her as hard as he could. He knew he was having an effect on her. She said nothing as she began to breathe harder. He could feel the intensity of her heartbeat grow faster.

She took one hand and wrapped it around his head. There was a slight gasp from her voice, but no words. She simply let the scene run out as her mouth opened up. She was panting as Javier could taste her skin.

Finally, he pulled away and began to kiss her neck and work his way down. He was reaching below the waterline as he tried to go after the area he wanted to be at. Shira opened up her eye as he used both of his hands to grab one of her breasts. He opened his mouth wide as he put the whole nipple into his mouth. The nipple alone was obviously bigger than a human nipple due to her more prominent size, but it was still enough for a human to take in their mouths. He could feel the duct as it entered his mouth. He began to suck her breast as hard as he could. He began to knead the breast as best he could.

She used one of her large hands to brace him. Javier felt a growing desire. The more he did it, the more he couldn't resist. It was evident that Shira was the quiet type during sex, but there were clear hints that she was enjoying it.

Her breathing was hard. He kept sucking her breast, but his erection was demanding something to be done immediately. His instincts demanded action immediately, and he knew that time was running down. The longer he took, the less time he would have before being able to have sex with her.

His emotions and the time left caused him to go into a bit of a flurry with her. To him, he knew that he could be aggressive towards her. She was a Shal'rein after all. She could take way more of a beating than any human woman ever could. If he wanted to be violent, he could. She could easily take it and seemingly enjoy it in turn.

Javier and his past experiences recently, in combination with the desire to have her, let himself go. He used his power and strength to grab her by the neck and pull her head to his lips. He kissed her as hard as she could on the mouth while she quietly endured it. Her hands caressed his sides as if nothing happened. He knew with her, it was just a speck of muscle and power.

He pulled his head back as he could hear deep panting come from Shira. He felt the same raw emotion and desire to have sex with her. She opened her legs wide underwater and moved her butt towards the far edge. Javier tried to lower his body to meet within the same range as her crouch, but it put his head below the waterline.

Shira could immediately see the issue, but being in the water also had its advantages. She stood up as she stretched her legs wide, lowering herself down to him. With the water, it made it perfectly natural to stand up and have sex. It wouldn't even strain the legs holding that position either. She used her tail to help keep her upright as she waited for Javier to enter her.