Gaia's Champion Ch. 01

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Eyes opening slowly, he heard what he thought was weeping as he woke up. Focusing his sight, he saw that someone was crying. Phalmina was sobbing over him and choking on the sobs as her beautiful face was contorted in grief. Breathing deeply, Jason sat up, wincing as he did so. Phalmina shot upwards in shock, not expecting this at all.

"Jason?? You're... you're..."

"Alive? Yeah, though just barely, considering that fight I had to go through," he ground out hoarsely. His throat felt parched, as did his lungs, and he didn't know how long he had been out for. Minutes, hours, days, he couldn't tell. He was about to ask Phalmina for some water when he was suddenly tackled and enveloped in a crushing hug.

"I thought I'd lost you!" she cried into him. She wept again, but in happiness rather than sadness. "I was so afraid that you would not make it! I'd almost given up on staying awake until you came along the path. I almost fell apart when you fell down, looking like you were dead. I tried to reach your mind but found that something blocked me!"

"Mina.... water..." he croaked. The fairy yelped as she heard him and let him go. Bolting to her feet, she then helped Jason up and brought him over to the pool near the center of the glade. It was still clear and fresh as it was when he entered. Maybe even more so now, but he hardly cared at the moment. Dunking his head into the pool, Jason drank deeply, the cool and crisp water doing much to slake his thirst.

Pulling his head out of the pool after thirty seconds, he breathed deeply. Air flowed into his lungs much easier now that he'd had a drink. Phalmina sat there by his side as he rested, snuggling into him, still a little meepy at him 'dying'. Looking down at his fairy lover, he kissed her soundly and gently, letting her feel him. After the kiss ended, they both just sat there, holding each other for a time. Phalmina finally broke the silence then.

"You were in a fight? How is that possible? The Druids of old never had to go through battle when opening their blocks. Some even opted for the sex ritual and never had to battle in their own minds. What happened in there?"

Jason took his time and described everything. His clones, the cavern, their intent to kill him, and the being of light. How it had vanquished every vestige of the evil clones that lived in his mind. Phalmina was shaken at what she was hearing, her eyes nearly falling out of their sockets and wings tittering slightly. She was glad that the runed dagger hadn't cut or wounded Jason and was glad that the glowing being in his mind was strong enough to destroy it.

"This rune on the dagger? Could you show me what exactly it looks like?" she queried. Nodding sagely, Jason picked up a small stick lying nearby and sketched what he could remember of the rune into the soft dirt by the pool's edge. Once completed, the rune appeared to be out of place in the glade, like it was a perversion of all that was natural.

"Whatever this is, it was created for one purpose alone. To kill something dead in such a way that it could never grow back. Thankfully, there is no power here to give this rune life, but still...." she then kicked at the dirt, destroying the rune's shape and form. With the rune scrubbed away, Phalmina turned back to Jason seriously.

"That rune had to have come from someone you knew in your lifetime. Somehow, they must have known you had the spark and tried to prevent you from awakening it."

"Who would want to do that? Why? How would they do it?" he asked, shaken at this recent revelation.

"I honestly don't know. I have seen little of the world beyond the glade in well over a century, and even then, my knowledge of what exists in the world is.... dated," she said worriedly.

Contemplating this, Jason thought over the implications of this, and it worried him. That someone knew enough about Druidism to block potential Druids? He didn't like the train of thought it led to, but there it was. Shaking his head, he focused back on Phalmina and wrapped her in a comforting hug, stroking her hair.

"Let's not worry about that just yet. What matters is that I could overcome it and that now my block is gone."

Sighing happily, Phalmina agreed with him. "Yes, it is. Just look around at what's happened."

Jason looked around, and he saw that the glade had changed. Gone were most of the browns and dying vegetation that had dotted the glade. In its place were plants and flowers in full bloom. Everything that was dying was now alive again, green and growing. So much of the area looked like new life had been breathed into it once more.

"I did this?"

"Once you woke up from whatever dreamscape your mind had been transported to, yes. You now have powers you can draw directly from nature. And...." she broke away from him and looked at him oddly for a moment, before breaking into a grin. "It seems like you've.... put on some muscle!"

Looking down, Jason saw she was right. Where he had once been scrawny and had some slight muscle mass from his gym routines was now a proper set of pecs and abs of near washboard quality. His arms were now laden with thick ropes of muscle as well! Jaw dropping at the sudden change, he touched his new muscles to be sure he wasn't imagining things. After feeling his hands and fingers on his skin, he knew this was no illusion and smiled wondrously.

He looked up to see Phalmina chewing on her forefinger, her eyes smoldering. Jason smiled at her gaze, knowing some racy and likely raunchy thoughts were tumbling through that head of hers. He pulled her into him and kissed her again, but left it at that.

"So I have powers now, do I? How do I use them?" he wondered.

"It's simple, really. You just need to think of what exactly you want to do, and your power will make it a reality. It is limited to that which exists in nature itself though, just so you are aware," she said to him.

"Ok then. I have an idea." With that, he went to his rucksack and dug around in it for a moment. Finding what he was looking for, he pulled out an orange and held it in his hand. He walked over to a clear part of the glade where there was little in the way of plants. He placed his hand on the ground in front of him and closed his eyes, focusing. Imagining that a hole would form out of the ground, moving the dirt aside.

He concentrated and poured his belief into what he wanted to happen. For a moment, nothing happened, until he felt a slight spark travel from his heart and down along his arm. The moment the feeling reached his hand, he felt a slight shifting in the ground and opened his eyes to look. The earth was moving aside the way he had wanted to. Sluggishly from what he could tell, but it was moving!

Focusing more on it, he willed it to grow wider and deeper until it was large enough to fit the orange inside it. Once he moved his hand, the hole stopped moving, and he placed the orange within it. Using his hands this time, he covered the hole over with the freshly shifted dirt and patted it down gently.

Placing both hands upon the small mound, he then envisioned the orange seeds within the fruit he had buried to germinate and sprout. Willing the seeds to use the orange as sustenance, he felt the same tingle from before travelling up his arms and into his hands. He kept concentrating, pouring his will into growing the tree. He felt the start of a seedling brush past his fingers as it grew.

Seconds later, he felt his power peter out, and he dropped his arms, tired as though he'd just run five kilometers at a dead run. Looking down, he saw that a smallish tree had grown from the orange he had planted, but it was barely a foot tall. He looked to Phalmina, who was standing there shaking her head, giggling.

"Silly human. Only a fully trained and empowered Druid can grow trees to full growth. That was a wonderful effort, though. Most newly awakened Druids can't even shift earth like that right away, much less start the growth of a new tree! Your power will only continue to grow the more that you use it," she told him. Though her eyes travelled to the orange sapling and were still impressed. She knew Jason, once he practised enough, would be a powerful Druid once he had come into his full strength.

"So it's like a muscle? The more I work it, the stronger it will get?"

"Basically, yeah. Anyway, Jason, now that you're back, I insist that we have more fun, like we had before your awakening," she looked at him, licking her lips. It was clear that she liked his new look, especially his new muscles.

"This little romp won't send me back to that place, will it?" he asked leeringly.

"I doubt it, and even if it did, the way to your power is clear, so you won't encounter anything there that could harm you."

"Well, that's good to know," he stated as he scooped her up in his arms. She squeaked in surprise but was delighted at his initiative. Jason looked down quizzically at himself. A woman of Phalmina's height would have weighed one hundred and seventy, maybe one hundred and eighty pounds. And he had just hoisted her up like she weighed nothing. He also noticed that his cock was at full mast and aching for some attention.

Wasting no time, he lowered Phalmina down onto his waiting dick and speared her waiting cunt with it. She wrapped her legs around Jason's torso, locking her perch into place. Using her arms to steady herself, her wings beat once more to allow for full stability without worrying about falling off Jason at all. She needn't have worried, as Jason found hefting her body easier than it had been.

Jason then gripped Phalmina's solid ass like he had before and rammed his dick into her hard and primal like. There was no preamble and no loving gestures or words of affection. They needed none of that, as the both of them felt what they both wanted and needed. Phalmina moved her ass in tandem with Jason's hands, pumping up and down his shaft, desperate to cum and feel like she had before.

Jason was also feeling the same as he wanted to feel her writhe in his arms from pleasure. As charged as they were with passion at the moment, it didn't take long for Phalmina to tremble in the throes of another orgasm, her fourth one that day. With her pussy walls clamping down on his dick, Jason wasn't far behind her. His cock expanded and unloaded his balls' contents into her waiting womb.

The wave of ecstatic pleasure washed through the both of them, and Jason sat down slowly. Once seated, he leaned back as Phalmina disentangled herself from him, then rested on his now impressive chest. They sat there for a little while, enjoying the afterglow of sex, smiling like idiots.

"So, I noticed that I am stronger now than I used to be. I could lift you like you weighed nothing at all, and I've also felt that my stamina is much better. Is that part of me becoming a Druid as well, or was that something different entirely?" Jason asked out loud.

"Becoming a Druid is a sacred duty. Gaia wants to ensure that you will be physically strong enough to carry out whatever duties or missions that need to be done. If you are lacking somewhere physically, she empowers you in such a way so that any weakness you may have becomes a strength. She also takes your abilities and grants you a level of strength, endurance, stamina and such that makes you better than most humans."

"So Gaia made me super human?" he asked.

"If this 'super human' means you can do what almost every other human cannot, then yes. That is what you have become," Phalmina finished explaining as she kissed his chest.

"Awesome!" he exulted. Phalmina smiled at him affectionately. She was afraid that this man would have a hard time accepting that which was thrust upon him, but she needn't have worried. Unlike others who had stumbled upon the path over the years, he had not run or was easily frightened off by things he didn't understand. He took it all in stride and rolled along with it.

"Oh, shit!!!" Jason exclaimed as he sat up and jumped to his feet. Mina sat up with him and was almost toppled over as he stood, earning him a sharp look. He smiled sheepishly and went back to where his clothes were and put them back on. She huffed in agitation at him, getting dressed as she was enjoying herself too much to want him to get up.

"Where are you going? Aren't you going to stay?" she asked in a slightly hurt tone.

"If it was just me coming along up here, then I would stay up here all weekend Phalmina, but I came up here to do some camping with several friends of mine. They're expecting me to meet them at the campsite where we will stay at for the next few days," Jason explained.

Crestfallen, Phalmina figured that this was the case with all Druids. They had lives of their own outside the glades and often went out into the world to live them. She waved her hand and the leaves that made up her dress floated back to where they had stood on their body. Despite his leaving, Phalmina had enjoyed his company immensely and wouldn't forget this day for a very long time. Jason stopped for when he saw her face and strode over to her, half dressed.

"Hey, it's not like I'm not coming back here. I didn't expect to have the duties of a Druid thrust upon me when I came up this pathway. But I will do everything possible to come back as often as I can. I will stop by in a few days when I'm on my way back down the mountain to go home," he told her, and she brightened considerably.

"And if you like sex as much as I think you do, there will be some seriously hot and kinky sex for you on the day I come back. Prepare yourself for what's coming, Mina. You will be one sore fairy by the time I'm done with you," he implied as he lifted her chin to look her in the eye.

"I'll hold you to that, mister," she said breathily before she kissed him hard and passionately.

"I only hope they didn't get there before I did," Jason stated worriedly.

"I doubt that. Time flows more slowly here than it does in the outside world. What would have been hours in here would likely only be minutes outside," Phalmina reassured him.

Taken aback at what she told him, Jason kissed Phalmina again before telling her, "I'll leave a little early on the day I have to go back. So I can spend more time here with you."

Purring in response, Phalmina hugged him before letting him go. Though sad to see him leave, he had promised to return and Druids kept their promises, always.

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Hoisting his rucksack, Jason walked out of the tunnel and back into the circular chamber where the glade guardians waited. They turned to look at him as he walked past, and Jason got the distinct impression they were smiling at him. Almost like they knew what had transpired within the glade and were giving him a mental thumbs up.

Grinning like a cheshire cat, Jason stepped lively and walked through the illusory wall and back into the crevasse. Eyes heading skyward, he saw that Phalmina was right. He felt like he'd been in the glade for an entire day, but it had maybe been one hour since he'd initially stepped through the wall. Taking a deep breath, he moved along up the pathway and found his way back to the trail. It was almost as though the forest itself was parting the way for him so he could pass unhindered.

It may have seemed trivial, but Jason still thought it was cool. As he walked down the path, it was like he was looking at the forest with new eyes, seeing it through a different filter altogether. He could sense the insects buzzing around near him, bees hovering from flower to flower, seeking sweet nectar to make their honey. Larger animals, like rabbits, staying in cover to stay safe from predators, while foraging for whatever food they could find.

He also noticed that his pack wasn't as heavy as it had been when he'd picked it up off of the bus. Then he remembered what Phalmina had told him about his abilities and attributes as a human had been enhanced. So he could do what he needed to do without too much strain. Jason tested it and started at a fast walk, dashing through the brush.

That had almost no effect on him, so he broke into a jog to see if that would affect him at all. Feeling the barest of an increase in his heart rate, Jason broke out into a full on run, striding hard along the forest floor. His heart and lungs kept pace with him as he ran, and it amazed him at what he was doing! Not just at the fact that he was running full on with his rucksack encumbering him, but at the pace at which he sped along the trail!

His legs ate up the ground in front of him, covering the distance he need to traverse in almost no time at all! If he thought he was in good shape, leg and lung wise before, he was feeling positively super human now! He felt like the Flash, racing through the forest faster than any human could! It wasn't long before the woods became familiar once again as he smelled the scent of fresh lake water nearby.

He crested the rise in front of himself to find Teardrop Lake in ahead of him, just barely visible through the trees. Jason checked his watch and saw he was still hours ahead of where his friends were! Chuckling to himself, he slowed down to a simple trot and moved along one of the various pathways towards the open-spaced campground.

Jason arrived and saw that anyone who had been there previously had at least had the courtesy of keeping the space clean and green. He had doffed his pack and unloaded it, setting up his tent, sleeping bag and sorting his food. After packing everything up in his tent, Jason then pulled out his portable hammock he always took with him when he went camping. Finding a good spot to set it up just by his tent, but out of the way of where everyone else would set up theirs, he tied it securely to the trees and knotted it tight.

Once done, Jason then got started on collecting firewood from deadfall and dead branches that lay about the campground. Once had collected enough small twigs and mid-sized branches, he went looking for larger logs. They would use them as a slow burning source of heat to keep the camp warm and the fire stoked through the night. He made a note of a few dead trees nearby and resolved to tell Jack about them, as he was the one who had brought the axe.

After setting up the fire pit with basic tinder and fluff, Jason then got into his hammock and laid back to rest. He couldn't believe the morning he had! Finding out that fairies and all other sorts of fantastical creatures were real? That there was an earth goddess called Gaia, and that she was real? Learning he could channel her power as a Druid and become one of her sacred protectors? It was a lot to take in for sure, but it was also exciting.

For so long, he wished that super heroes existed to right the wrongs that had been wracking the world as he saw it. Few people, if any these days, were interested in helping their fellow man because it was the right thing to do. Now, he had finally gotten his wish, only not quite how he had imagined.

His mind continued to churn with all the various possibilities in which he could help humankind as he drifted off to sleep. The birds, insects and the myriad of the other creatures of the forest tweeted, squeaked and buzzed with excitement around him. They knew that hope for Gaia had returned and was among them right now.

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Phalmina flitted back and forth around the glade, tending the various flowers and greenery that had sprouted in the wake of Jason's power. Her pussy throbbed in remembrance of how the young Druid had felt within her as they coupled. She was sore and stiff from their romp, but in a good way. He had brought her to orgasm four times! Back when Druids were still commonplace in the world, she was lucky if she ever got one when deciding to couple with a Druid.

It was not ideal, but it was either the Druids or fairy girl pussy when it came to matters of sex. It had been that way since the great war that had wiped out all the fairy men when they had fought against the pixies. Had it not been for Gaia, they too would have been killed in the war. Since her intervention, it was forbidden for pixies to even harm a fairy, much less kill one. If they valued their own lives and the lives of their kin, they would obey the law Gaia had set forth.