Transport Ship Arrowhead Ch. 06

Vas's skin lightened to lavender, and her body began to tremble. Waves of bliss washed through her, and she reveled in it. Nothing existed except her clit and her mate's mouth.

Barret kept up the suction and pressure, trying to keep Vas's orgasm going for as long as he could. He wondered if she would finish her climax before his mouth got tired.

He outlasted her. Vas let out a long sigh as her skin went back to normal, and the last surge of orgasm shot through her. Barret looked up at his mate and saw a languid grin cross her lips.

"As good as the first time," she said in a dreamy voice. "Why don't you come up here so I can return the favor?"

Barret climbed on top of her, the head of his cock resting at the opening of her willing sex. "As much as I love your blowjobs," he said, "I need to be inside you right now."

Vas nodded her consent. Barret gently pushed his hips forward, his cock slowly and smoothly sheathing itself in Vas's hot tunnel. She mewled as she was penetrated, and she wrapped her arms and legs around her mate. "Fuck me good," she said.

Barret started slowly, and built up a rhythm. Vas matched it, bucking her hips up on her mate's downward stroke. He captured her mouth with his own, snaking his tongue into her mouth. Her loud moans were muffled by his kiss.

Finally, Barret broke the kiss, extended his arms for better leverage, and started slamming into Vas, giving her the hard pounding she craved. She nearly screamed when he thrust hard into her, their flesh clapping together.

"That's what I want!" she cried out. "What I need!" At Jackie's house on Earth, Vas had to keep quiet during their more vigorous lovemaking sessions, but here, she could be as loud as she wanted. To quote the tagline from an old Earth movie, "In space, no one can hear you scream." Right now, she was screaming.

Barret's face was a mask of determination. He already felt that familiar tingling sensation at the base of his cock. He was going to cum, but he wanted to hold back until Vas got there.

He tried to slow down, to stave off his orgasm, but Vas grabbed his ass and practically pushed him deeper into her.

"I know you're close," she panted. "So am I. Don't hold back. Let's cum together."

Barret said nothing. Instead, he picked up his pace, fucking her harder and more intensely. That was all it took. Vas's skin again changed color, and she wailed as her orgasm tore through her. She shook violently, the pleasure almost too much for her to handle.

Barret only lasted a few more strokes until he erupted. Hot jets of cum shot from his cock into Vas's waiting womb.

Feeling Barret's cock swell as it exploded made Vas cum harder. She wrapped herself completely around her mate, holding on for dear life as the euphoria coursed through her.

The last of Barret's orgasm had issued, but Vas wasn't done. Barret kept pumping into her, hoping he would stay hard long enough for her to finish.

Gradually, Vas's body calmed, her skin took on its normal purple hue, and she relaxed, releasing her mate, who nearly collapsed on her. He eased his softening member from her well used pussy.

Vas held him, their sweaty bodies molded together. "Goddesses, you haven't fucked me like that since before the old ship was destroyed."

"We haven't been able to fuck like that since before the old ship was destroyed," he panted. "We had to worry about making too much noise." Barret rolled off her, and pulled her against him, wrapping his arms around her and holding her close. "I love you," he said again.

Vas smiled. "I love you. So, so much."

She reluctantly extracted herself from her mate's embrace and sat up. "I need to go get cleaned up. I think you left at least a liter of cum in me this time."

----

Vas lay on her side with Barret spooning her from behind, his hand resting on her belly. Vas let out a contented sigh. She was thinking about that first night she and Barret had spent together, nearly one year ago.

"I never told you this," she said, "but that first night, I wasn't expecting to sleep next to you."

"Why not?" Barret asked.

"I didn't know you, or know anything about your species, despite the fact that our governments had been allies for three hundred years." Vas rolled over to face her mate. "Honestly? I was expecting to get laid, clean up wherever you decided to cum on me, and go back to the guest quarters. You turning the lights down and pulling the covers over us was a pleasant surprise."

"I wasn't going to have sex with you and kick you out. That's kind of mean."

Vas smiled and caressed her mate's cheek. "And you are definitely not mean. No, you were kind to me. And you opened up to me when you really didn't have to. I think I started to fall in love with you that very night because of those qualities." She gave Barret a gentle kiss. "And I've never regretted it."

----

Every star system had different gravitational boundaries, depending on how many bodies are in that system. The Sol system had eight major planets, dozens of moons, and countless comets and asteroids, in addition to Sol itself. As such, the boundary was right outside the outer edge of the Oort Cloud. The Arrowhead made it to the boundary right on schedule.

The System Patrol vessel Libra, which had carried the Arrowhead's predecessor on its final journey, was waiting for Barret. There were no messages sent by either ship; the Libra was only there as a precaution, in case the Verokk decided to try something. Fortunately, there were no surprises.

As soon as they were clear, Barret triggered the faster than light drive. Four thin beams of blue light shot out from the ship and opened the FTL corridor, which the Arrowhead entered smoothly. They were on their way.

----

The Covilax monastery's communications hub doubled as flight control. Despite pulling double duty, the control center was normally pretty quiet, and only had one person on duty.

Thoramm Korizz sat at the comm board with a steaming mug of a drink called tulinga, the Muldaxian equivalent of black tea. Unlike tea, which was brewed from leaves, tulinga was brewed from a root. Korizz's long black hair was pulled into a braid snaking down her back.

She lifted her mug to her lips, and was about to take a sip, when an alarm tone sounded. Korizz's gold eyes went wide, and she set her mug down. Korizz ran her fingers over her control panel, and the holographic image of the planet Covilax that was projected in the middle of the small room blinked out.

In its place was a scaled down hologram of the system Covilax was in. Millit A was a red dwarf star, that was a binary pair with a red giant called Millit B. Covilax was one of two rocky planets, and three gas giants, that orbited the red dwarf. Korizz had no idea how many planets orbited the giant.

A small blip appeared at the edge of the system. She zoomed in to see the outline of a ship, as well as transponder data. Then, her comm board sounded.

"Covilax control, this is Endira Vas of the transport ship Arrowhead. Are you receiving? I'm looking for Sister Endira Tanlin."

----

It was a long twelve hours for the Endira sisters. Had it not been for Barret and Korizz coordinating approach and docking procedures, Vas and Tanlin would have spent the entire time on the comm. Those channels had to be kept open so the ship could land.

Covilax was tidally locked with its parent star, meaning one side of the planet always faced its sun, and the other knew only night. There was a twilight band that existed between the two zones, where the monastery was located.

The monastery was partially built into a mountainside, while the docking area was inside a retractable dome, protecting the inhabitants from the poisonous atmosphere. This dome was the Arrowhead's destination.

Barret was homing in on the monastery's beacon. Covilax was getting larger in the forward viewport with each passing second. And Vas fidgeted more and more in her seat with each passing second.

"Vas, please calm down. You're making me nervous."

Vas tried to relax. "Sorry. It's just, I haven't seen her in so long."

Barret grinned at her. "I get it. I need you to keep your head in the game and work the nav console." Truth be told, he could land the ship himself, but he wanted to keep Vas occupied so she didn't drive herself crazy.

"I can do this," she said, more to herself than to her mate. She leaned over her control panel. "I can do this."

The comm panel pinged. "Arrowhead, this is Thoramm Korriz at Covilax control, we have you on our screens."

"Acknowledged, control," Barret said. "We're on course. We'll be entering the atmosphere in ten minutes."

Those ten minutes went by quickly for Vas, due in no small part to the fact that she was occupied. She fed Barret course headings and corrections, and he implemented them.

Barret turned on the re-entry shields, which protected the ship from the friction caused by entering the planet's thick and noxious atmosphere at high speeds. When the turbulence had abated, the flight stabilizers were deployed and the engines were cut.

Barret brought the Arrowhead in unpowered, like the old space shuttles. And when the landing pad was in sight, he kicked in the AGT and brought the Arrowhead in as light as a feather. They almost didn't feel the ship touch down.

The pad retracted into the dome, which closed around it. Landing clamps gently took hold of the ship, an umbilical connected to provide power, and the airlock extended to, and connected with, the starboard egress. Barret shut down the ship's artificial gravity, letting the monastery's gravity field do the work.

"And that, as they say, is that," Barret said. "The first leg of the trip has been completed successfully, and all systems are performing as expected."

Vas nodded. "Yeah. That's good." She smiled and quickly unhooked her safety harness. "And my little sister is here!"

"Let's get to the airlock, then," Barret said. "I'll leave you there so you can visit."

Vas gave him a confused look for a moment, then remembered. To the priestesses and priests, Barret was a nonbeliever. He wouldn't be welcome in their holy place. "I'll make sure she comes aboard to meet you. I'm sure you'll get along great."

When the airlock opened, Vas practically sprinted out. She ran to a tall woman with lighter hair than her own, and who was more slender. She wore a black cloak over a red suit. Endira Tanlin embraced Vas tightly. The Endira sisters were finally reunited.

They pulled away from each other and dried their tears. Vas grabbed Tanlin's arm and dragged her towards the open airlock. "Come meet my mate!"

"Wait, what?" Tanlin couldn't believe her ears. "Since when do you have a mate?"

"Since eleven months ago."

Tanlin's eyes, which were a darker shade of silver than Vas's own, went wide when she saw a human male.

"Tanlin, this is my bond mate James."

Barret held his arms open, his hands palm out, and he bowed his head; the traditional greeting gesture.

"Mom's going to throw a conniption fit," was all Tanlin said.

----

Tanlin's apartment was fairly small. There was a bedroom, a bathroom, and a small front room with a chair, a small sofa, and a meditation mat. There was no kitchen since everyone ate their meals in the monastery's dining hall.

Vas and Tanlin sat together on the sofa. Tanlin had gone from excited to see her sister, to concerned about their mother's reaction to Vas's choice of mates. Vas was, understandably, defensive.

"Look, Vas," Tanlin began, "you have to understand that Mom became more... stubborn after you left for Dorrin."

"I'm aware of that," Vas responded curtly. "I had a quantum entanglement communicator back then. I got weekly messages from Mom and Dad in real-time, along with the communiqués from headquarters. And Mom was more irritable than normal as time went on."

"She was upset that you were so far away," Tanlin said. "So she started harping on Rayeg and me more than she usually did." Rayeg was their younger brother. "Dad did his best to keep the peace, but you know how Mom is when she decides she's right."

Dr. Endira Muath was one of Muldax Prime's foremost historians, and was seen as an authority on the early civilizations of the continent's equatorial region, where Vas's family hailed from. She was also from a long line of academics. The fact that her daughters didn't follow in her footsteps was a blow to her ego.

Her bond mate, Golt Thaz, was also an academic; a mathematician and professor of applied mathematics at Central University. While not one of the larger schools, it was still prestigious.

Still, to Muath, having one daughter be an ambassador and the other a priestess was an insult.

"She rode Rayeg and me hard," Tanlin said. "She was so pissed that you had sullied yourself professionally."

"And you think I've sullied myself personally by bonding with a human?" Vas demanded.

"I don't, but she will." Tanlin took her sister's hands. "Rayeg and I both left. I decided to join the sisterhood, and Rayeg moved in with his boyfriend."

Vas's eyes lit up. "He finally came out to Mom and Dad?"

"Dad already knew," Tanlin said with a chuckle. "Just like he and I both knew you weren't straight." Tanlin saw the surprised look on her sister's face. "Come on, Vas! You checked the girls out more than the boys we knew did. It was obvious to us that you were bi."

"I only came out to myself recently," Vas told her. "I have two regular sex partners who are women. A Birran and a human."

"Keep that bit from our mother," Tanlin warned. "She didn't take our brother coming out as gay very well. Especially after Rayeg and Gonal, that was his boyfriend, decided to bond."

Vas was starting to understand. "I can see where she'd think I did this to spite her." Vas let out a sigh. "She was always stubborn, but never this bad before."

"I don't know what happened, Vas," Tanlin said. "Even Dad didn't know."

Vas smiled and shook her head. "Of course he knew where you are." Golt Thaz was always a perceptive man. He was also very close to his children. At one point in time, both he and Muath were, but as the kids got older, their mother became more distant.

"He knew where I was before I was assigned to Covilax. We're so far out that it was really tough to get messages back and forth. And a monastery isn't quite as important as the embassy for a new ally, Madame Ambassador. We don't have those fancy quantum comms."

The next twenty minutes were spent catching up and talking about happier things; old friends and pleasant memories.

----

Two hours later, Vas had returned to the Arrowhead, leaving Tanlin with her thoughts. She was unsure about Vas bonding with someone so soon after meeting him, but as Vas pointed out, their parents had only known each other for a day when they bonded.

No, Tanlin couldn't get her head around the fact that James Barret was human. She had been curious about bedding a member of an alien species, but to actually bond with one was something she had never considered. What was bothering her was the fact that she wasn't sure if her issues with this were her own, or her mother's.

A knock at the door shook her from her musings. When she opened the door, there was Noll.

"Taun, come in." She moved aside, letting Noll enter her apartment.

Noll was of average height, with golden eyes and dark hair that had a few strands of silver at the temples. "Where's your sister? I was hoping to meet her."

"She went back to her ship," Tanlin told him. "Back to her... mate. She bonded with a human, Taun."

Noll gave her a confused look. "So? She's not the first to bond outside of our species. My sister is bonded to a Birran man."

"I know, Taun, it's just..."

"Your mother wouldn't approve." He was sure that's why Tanlin turned him down when he'd asked for a relationship. Not to bond, but to, as the humans would say, date.

"We're good friends, and we're good in bed," Tanlin had said. "Let's leave it at that." And he had. Noll knew how to take no for an answer.

"She wouldn't approve," Tanlin agreed. "I don't either, and I'm not sure if that's me talking, or my mom." She flopped down in her chair. "I may be turning into my mother. I always swore I'd never do that."

Noll laughed. "We all become our parents. Maybe you should meet this mate of hers before you decide you hate him."

"I'm going to tomorrow. I was hoping you'd give Vas a tour."

"Sure. It'll give me a chance to get some embarrassing stories about you when you were a kid."

----

The Arrowhead's rec room was one of the largest rooms in the crew compartment. Four people could all fit comfortably, with room for more.

There was a long couch along the wall, a table with two chairs for games, and a holo-projector in the center of the room for watching movies, or other entertainment programs. There was even a small coffee table by the couch.

Barret had prepared for his guest. He had a carafe of cold water, as well as a pot of fresh tulinga.

Barret had met Tanlin at the airlock, and gave her a tour of the non-critical areas of the ship. They saw the mess hall, crew quarters, and medical area, but not the drive room or cockpit. She was fine with that. The rec room was their final destination.

Tanlin took a seat on the couch, and Barret glanced over at the coffee table.

"Would you like some tulinga, or would you prefer water?" he asked in almost perfect Muldaxian. The fact that this human was fluent in her language had been a pleasant surprise.

"Tulinga, please."

Barret poured two cups, and offered one to his guest. She sipped, and her eyes went wide.

"This is the real thing! Not replicated."

Barret smiled and sipped his own drink. "There's a city close to where my sister lives called Burlingame. There's a Little Muldaxia district. That's where I got the tulinga root from."

"Where did you learn to brew it?"

"Muldax Prime, when I was stationed there," Barret said. "My host was Nasin Alu. She taught me everything she could about your world."

"Even the language," Tanlin pointed out. She set her cup back on the table. "I have to admit, Captain, you're surprising me."

"You can call me James, Sister Tanlin."

Tanlin didn't reply. She just looked at him. She'd seen humans before, and he seemed pretty common for a Caucasian. She wondered what it was about him that made Vas risk their mother's wrath.

"You know about us, Captain," Tanlin said. "About our parents, and our brother. You have me at a disadvantage."

"That's fair," Barret said. "My full name is James Daniel Barret the third. I was named after my father, who was named after his father.

"My mother's name was Gabrielle, and I have a sister named Jackie. We're twins, so we're the same age. Our parents were killed in a fire when Jackie and I were three. Our grandparents raised us. My grandfather died when we were sixteen, and our grandmother died right after I finished basic training."

"What's your sister think of you being with an alien woman?" Tanlin asked.

"Considering she's with an alien woman, too, she's fine with it. She's also close to Vas, so it hasn't been an issue."

Tanlin sat in silence for a few moments, trying to figure this man out. At the same time, she didn't want to get to know him too well, lest she start to like him.

"Look, Sister Tanlin, you don't have to like me. As long as we're civil for Vas's sake, that should be enough."

Tanlin wasn't convinced. "You'd be fine with me not liking you? You don't want to be able to brag that you nailed both of the Endira sisters?"