The Succubae Seduction Bk. 02: The Twins Ch. 02

"I'd better not regret this," she muttered as she dove for Jessica. She changed shape in midair, and landed with a clang on top of the woman.

Just in time, too. Searing hot fire washed over Shelly as the myrmidon blew its flame at her. Her metal surface heated up, but it wasn't enough to melt her. Only make her uncomfortable.

"What the..." Jessica muttered, likely shocked to find a large metal kite shield over her.

"I hope you have some way of defeating that thing," Shelly told the woman, "because I don't."

"Shelly?" Jessica asked, then shook her head. "Nevermind. If you can keep it off me, I can get rid of it. The thing attacked out of the blue. I didn't have time to defend myself properly."

"Less talking, more fighting," Shelly scolded as the ant monster blew a second gout of flame across her metal surface. The heat was starting to move beyond uncomfortable and into pain territory.

"Right!" Jessica said. "Just protect me, and move when I tell you to." She closed her eyes, and Shelly recognized the chanting sounds of magic being prepared. Normally only humans used magic in this way, but apparently whatever Jessica was, she used it too. Shelly knew the woman wasn't human. No human could move as fast as she could.

"Any time now," Shelly groaned as sweat broke out on her surface. No, that wasn't sweat! She was starting to melt.

"Now," Jessica said. Shelly didn't wait another moment, before shrinking down. Jessica let go of the spell she'd prepared. A column of water sprang from her hands, slamming into the force of fire, and drove it back.

Shelly heard the Myrmidon growl as he tried to push his attack. Jessica grunted as the flame moved closer to her, but she rallied her strength and the water pushed back at the myrmidon.

Unfortunately for the monster, it had to breathe to perform its attack. As soon as it ran out of breath, the water swamped over the monster. Shelly heard it sizzle and scream as it died.

"Thank you," Jessica groaned. Shelly watched her eyes roll up into her head as she passed out. Agony coursed its way across her back, and Shelly soon followed the other woman into oblivion.

* * * *

Something changed in Shelly, bringing her awake. Her back felt numb. There was no pain. There was no sensation at all.

"What...?" she groaned, opening her eyes. She was lying on her stomach and could hear someone singsong chanting over her. Someone was casting a spell on her!

Panic drove her muscles to do what they'd been too weak to do a moment before, as she shoved herself away from... "Jessica?" She was on her knees, hands held out in front of her.

"I'm trying to heal your back," the tanned woman said, her voice weak and strained. "You were badly burned. When I woke up, you were groaning, and your pulse was weak. I—" she paused and tipped forward, catching herself before she hit the ground with one hand.

Shelly remembered the searing pain of the Myrmidon's fire pouring across her metal back. She also remembered melting. Her back was still numb. She reached behind her and felt bare skin. Looking down, she realized she was completely naked.

"Sorry," Jessica murmured. "What's left of your clothes are right there. I needed to know how bad the burns were, and quite frankly, there isn't enough left to be worn anyway."

Shelly looked to the pile of burnt rags, and had to agree with Jessica. If that was the remains of her clothing, how bad had her burns been?

"Why would you heal me?" Shelly asked, still suspicious of the other woman.

Jessica actually laughed. There was no mirth in it, just bitter recrimination.

"You saved my life. I don't care what you think of me, but that means something in my book."

Shelly's cheek burned in shame. She had treated this woman with nothing but scorn and suspicion. When she could have walked away and left her alone, she'd spent her last remaining strength trying to heal her. She'd been wrong about Jessica from the start.

"How's your leg?" Shelly asked, in way of an apology. Words wouldn't make up for how she'd acted, but maybe actions could.

"Hurts like hell when I think about it," Jessica grimaced.

"Why don't you heal it, and I'll get us out of here?" Shelly asked. She could call her roc at any time.

"I can't," Jessica gasped. "I can only heal others with my magic. It works by transferring healing energy from the caster to the wounded, allowing that person to recover. I can't transfer it from myself, to myself."

"Are you telling me that, because you healed me, you'll recover slower?" Shelly demanded. "Why would you do that?"

"You saved my life!" Jessica gasped. "I owed you that, at least.

"Is there no way to heal you then? I'm afraid I don't know how to use that kind of magic," Shelly told her. She was beginning to feel like the worst sort of person. She was going to have to change the way she treated Jessica.

When Jessica didn't answer the question right away, Shelly looked up to meet her eyes. She was trying to decide something, Shelly saw in her gaze.

"No," Jessica said after a few uncomfortable seconds. "There's no way."

Shelly didn't have to read minds to know that was a lie. "You don't want to tell me what it is, do you?" Shelly sucked in a deep breath, and let it out slowly. "I know I've treated you poorly. Okay, less than poorly. I've been a royal bitch. All you've done is try to help, and I suspected you of being a bad person. If there is a way to heal you, please let me know. As long as I don't have to slay a dragon right now, I think I'm willing to try."

Jessica chuckled. This time there was some mirth in it. "You think you're willing to try? You don't know what you're asking."

"Try me," Shelly told her, feeling sure of herself. She had a lot of making up to do for this woman.

Jessica regarded her in silence for a few moments, before shaking her head. "You're not going to like it." Shelly just stared at her, waiting. "Fine," she sighed after a few more seconds ticked by. "Sex. Sex is the only way for me to heal, short of finding another healer. I'm sorry, but we'll just have to go find a healer. I can last that long."

"Are you a succubus?" Shelly asked. She'd meant it as an innocent question, but Jessica glared at her.

"I am not!" she nearly shouted.

"Okay, sorry," Shelly quickly offered. "I didn't mean anything by it. I was just curious. I don't have any problems with them. In fact, I know a few and am good friends with—"

"Well I'm not, okay? Please, just drop it?" Jessica pleaded with her, cutting Shelly off.

Shelly nodded, and then got to her feet. Her back still felt numb and too smooth to be normal skin. She couldn't see her hind side, and was afraid of what she might see if she did.

"Would it finish healing me as well, without taking any more from you?" she asked.

"I can work it that way," Jessica said. "But don't worry about it. Your brother mentioned you had a couple rocs at your disposal. If you'd be willing to take me to a healer, I can be out of your hair."

"I've got another idea," she told Jessica. "If I support you, do you think you could walk?"

"I don't think either of us are in a position to walk," Jessica told her.

"I know this area," Shelly replied. "Just around that hill is a natural spring that fairies like to play in. I'm certain it can help us both. The fairies have made it magical. Well, that, or the spring was magical to begin with, and so the fairies like it."

"Can't you call your roc to get us there?" Jessica asked. She pulled her wounded leg around, and Shelly saw how bad it was. The flame had cauterized it, even as it burned away the flesh and much of the meat around her foot.

"They get pretty upset when I have them take me such short distances," Shelly replied. "Please, let me help you. We'll get to the spring and get you walking on your own in no time.

Jessica tried to protest again, but Shelly refused to hear it. She was weaker than she thought, but she forced it away as she got under Jessica, and they started walking.

"How's Eldon?" Jessica asked.

Shelly didn't know how to answer at first. She didn't want to tell this woman that he'd done nothing but mope about after she'd left, but she didn't want to lie to her again either.

"He misses you," Shelly said.

"Yeah, I'll bet," Jessica said, then grunted when her injured leg bumped against Shelly's naked calf. "He knew me for less than an hour."

"Well, you seem to have made an impression on him," Shelly admitted. She closed her mouth so she wouldn't give anymore away. Eldon would never forgive her if she made him out to seem weak and hopeless over a girl he barely knew. "Here we are."

A large evergreen tree stood proud on the inside curve of a water-filled crescent shaped depression. At their approach, fairies went zinging off in all directions. They really were a nervous group. Areth was the only one Shelly knew of that didn't act that way, but she was a special case. No one could ever steal her maidenhead and make her a prisoner to them.

"This will heal me?" Jessica asked, doubt in her voice.

"It'll help," Shelly told her. "You're going to want to get all the way in, though. We should strip these clothes off you, before we get in."

Jessica still looked skeptical, but she let Shelly remove her clothing. Shelly dove in first, and came up gasping in delight at how the warm water felt on her naked body.

Jessica slipped in more carefully, but dunked her head completely under.

"I should have warned you," Shelly said as Jessica's head cleared the surface. "Don't drink the water."

"What?" Jessica asked, trying to spit out what was already in her mouth. "Why?"

"You know about the Fountain of Youth?" Shelly asked, trying to keep her face straight.

"I thought that was a myth!" Jessica exclaimed.

"As far as I know, it is," Shelly said, and couldn't hold back any longer. She burst out laughing, until Jessica started splashing her.

"I didn't think you knew how to make a joke!" Jessica stated when they tried to catch their breaths.

"I only joke around with those I want to consider as a friend," Shelly said back solemnly. "I'm truly sorry for the way I treated you. Forgive me?"

"You saved my life back there," Jessica said. "Of course I do."

"You've saved mine twice," Shelly replied.

"But the second time wouldn't have happened if you hadn't tried to save mine."

"Look, we can argue about that until we're blue in the face, or we can work on getting you healed," Shelly said.

"I thought this spring was supposed to heal me," Jessica said. "My leg isn't throbbing as much, but I don't think it's healing me."

Shelly swam over to where the roots of the large tree dove down into the water, and retrieved a small bag.

"This should help both of us," Shelly said.

"What is it?" Jessica asked. "Some kind of magical wand of healing, or soothing balm?"

"No," Shelly said with a smile. "It's soap."

"Magical healing soap?" Jessica asked, arching one eyebrow. Shelly had to admit she was an attractive woman.

"Nope. Regular soap." Shelly wrinkled her nose for effect. "And you stink."

Jessica laughed as she bobbed in the water. "That can happen when you fight for your life, then have to hobble around a hill to get to a hidden spring."

"Turn around and I'll wash your back," Shelly told her. Jessica swam to the side and held on as Shelly lathered up her hands. This was a spot Shelly only came to when she wanted to relax. It was peaceful, when the fairies stayed away, and secluded on all sides by hills.

She left the soap in her hands, enjoying its fragrant scent, and gently scrubbed the other woman's back. Jessica had smooth skin, but Shelly could feel firm muscle underneath. She was tempted to ask what the other woman was, but didn't want to be rude.

"That feels good," Jessica said as Shelly worked on a knot in her back.

"Hop up onto this rock, and I'll get your legs," Shelly told her.

"If this is the treatment I get after risking my life, I ought to do it more often," Jessica joked.

"This isn't because of what you did for me," Shelly told her solemnly as she washed one shapely calf. "I'm doing this because I owe you."

"Mmm, I hate to argue while you're doing that, but you owe me nothing," Jessica crooned as Shelly dug her knuckles into her good leg.

"I owe you for the way I treated you," Shelly had to force the words out. She didn't usually apologize; she so rarely had any reason to. "You saved my brother, and I treated you like the enemy. And then the next morning, I treated you even worse."

"I understand. You look after him, don't you? How is your brother?" Jessica asked again as Shelly started massaging her thighs.

Hopefully knocking the bottom out of Gloria, Shelly thought. It wasn't that she didn't want her brother with Jessica, but that he needed to get over his infatuation with a girl he'd just met. "He's doing fine," she lied.

"That's good," Jessica said. For some reason she had on a slight frown. Shelly figured it was because of her damaged left leg, and decided to speed things up. "What are you doing?" Jessica demanded as Shelly placed her hand on the wounded woman's crotch.

"Trying to heal you," Shelly told her. "Now that we're cleaned up, I figured—"

"Figured I'd just lie down with you?" Jessica interrupted. "I accept your apology, but you don't have to do that."

Shelly's gray eyes met Jessica's blue orbs for a moment as she considered. "You're a beautiful woman," she said after a moment. "Both of us could use the healing, though you more than me. I really don't mind."

"You don't mind?" Jessica demanded, anger lacing her voice. "I'm not a piece of meat that fucks anything on two legs, just because I don't mind."

Shelly flinched at the other woman's expletive. Like her father, she didn't find much use in swearing.

"I misspoke," Shelly tried to soothe her. "I didn't mean it like that. I don't spread my legs for just anyone either. This is a special case, though. I didn't want you to think that I would have a problem being with a woman. That's what I meant by, 'I don't mind.' I'm bisexual."

She really is beautiful, Shelly thought. No wonder Sheldon fell for her. Especially if he saw those breasts. He always was a tit man. And look how hard her nipples are. Those breasts actually made Shelly a tad jealous, though she'd never admit it.

"Who said I swing both ways?" Jessica asked, arching one dark eyebrow.

Shelly blinked in confusion. "I didn't even think of that," she mumbled. "I just thought... I mean, the way you talked earlier..." Shelly pulled away from the edge of the pool, but Jessica reached out and grabbed her hand.

"I'm into girls too, but I prefer cock," Jessica told her. She heaved a sigh, doing wonders for that awesome chest of hers, and then grinned ruefully. "Seeing as there's no cock here—unless you can convince one of those male fairies to join us? No?—and you are quite beautiful as well. As long as you don't think this makes us a couple, I would like to get this leg healed up."

"Deal," Shelly told her. "Now scoot over here to the edge. That's good. Just lie back and let me take care of you first."

As Jessica followed Shelly's directions, Lyden's daughter moved between the other's legs, careful of the damaged calf. Jessica's crotch was well trimmed, a small patch of black hair in the shape of a small heart sat a couple inches above the moist cleft.

Shelly knew what she liked to have done to her, and slowly licked her way up one smooth thigh, until she got to the outer labia. She used her teeth, and gently nibbled on the soft flesh. Shelly slipped her tongue out and tasted her for the first time. With the tip of her tongue, she started at the bottom of the slit and teased her way up to the top, stopping short of the sensitive nub. She returned to the bottom and repeated the process, applying a bit more pressure. She still avoided the clit, and did it again. After a couple minutes of slowly applying more pressure, Shelly felt Jessica's fingers dig into her hair, as she forced her mouth against the woman's slit. Shelly knew this was the moment to strike.

She sucked hard on Jessica's clitoris, flicking her tongue across it and was rewarded a moment later as her chin was soaked and Jessica cried out in passion. Sensation returned to the dead nerve endings in Shelly's back. At first she felt pain as everything came alive, but that soon subsided and everything felt normal again.

She backed away from the other woman, a smile on her face. As she moved, she noticed that Jessica's leg was healed as well. Shelly stared at it, uncomprehending. Despite Jessica claiming she wasn't a succubus, she still had some doubts. But in order for a succubus to be healed or to gain energy, they have to get someone else off. It doesn't work if only they reach an orgasm. That was part of the reason she'd wanted to please Jessica first. If she was a succubus, it would have become apparent, but that didn't happen. Now she was even more confused than she had been before.

"How?" Shelly asked, unsure how to phrase the question.

"I told you, I can heal through sex," Jessica told her.

"Yes, but I figured it was like—" she paused for a moment. She didn't want to piss the woman off by calling her a succubus again. "Like how it worked for my dad. He healed others when he got off, but that didn't heal him. He had to get his partner off to heal himself." Talking about her father like that made her uncomfortable, but she didn't know how else to bring it up and not piss off Jessica.

"I'm not sure," Jessica replied. "That's just the way it's always worked for me. If either my partner or I reach orgasm, we both recover. Of course, I don't often get injured, and I'm not a slut, so I don't have a lot of experience with it."

"I'm not going to complain," Shelly said, knowing her next words would sound like she was, "but couldn't you have just masturbated and healed yourself?"

"Ha! I wish!" Jessica laughed. "If that worked, I'd spend all day, every day, locked up in a room and never come out. I can't get myself off. Doesn't matter how hard I try, or how horny I get, I can't do it by myself."

"That has to suck!" Shelly felt for her. Shelly wasn't one to be horny all the time like her brother seemed to be, but there were times when she needed a little satisfaction. She knew she was attractive, but she didn't chase after any boyfriends or girlfriends. Her life was too hectic to put someone else through that.

"I know you probably don't want to hear this, but I haven't had an orgasm for quite some time. I was already getting a bit desperate when I saw your brother fighting those ogres. Then we were interrupted before he could return the favor to me that night." Jessica sighed with a satisfied grin. "You're quite talented, too. I haven't cum that hard in a long time!"

Shelly didn't want to think about what Jessica and her brother had been doing. She still felt good about the compliment. She was also soaking wet between her legs, not counting the water she was in.

"I'm glad I could help," Shelly said. She was beginning to wonder if she was going to have to finish herself off. Jessica seemed perfectly happy to bask in the aftereffects of her own climax.

"Help?" Jessica asked. "Oh, you more than helped! But now I think it's your turn." Jessica slid over on the rocky outcrop she was sitting on, and patted next to her. "I can't wait to get a taste of you and see if I can make you feel half as good as you made me feel."

Shelly couldn't help but blush at all the compliments she was getting. Jessica was a knockout, and had one of the best bodies she'd ever seen, especially with her dark coloring. Shelly knew she was hot, but felt a bit intimidated by Jessica. Except that she kept complimenting Shelly.