War of the Races Ch. 26

"Those are sources of power within your body," Gaia answered, "If you were among your own people, you would be trained as a Priestess of Gaia. You would be considered one who listens to the whispers of the elements. One who listens to my whispers. As a daughter of the Earth Mother, an earth daughter, as my Oracle you will be more than just "one who listens", you will be my voice. You will be my right hand. My body. You will be my living image. Your strength and command of the elements will be many times stronger, and when you need me I will be your boon and balm."

"Fine!" Hlina answered, bringing her hands up to bring a halt to Gaia's sales pitch. Looking Gaia directly in her eyes, she new hers must be glinting as she continued in a determined voice. Nothing else mattered more, "I will do anything. I will be anything... you need me to be so long as you reunite me with Daniel, and I am able to stay with him for the rest of our lives!"

"Yes," Gaia said simply, "Of course. That was my intention from the beginning. However, you must also consider this; you are his mother only in spirit now. You are no longer his mother literally. If you wish to stay with him forever, well, you might have to marry him."

"Marry him!" Hlina gasped in shocked outrage, "But he is my son!"

"He was your son," Gaia replied, "Now you are a young dokkalfar woman who is the Oracle of Gaia. Only your spirit remembers that you are his mother. Besides, this world's outlook on such things is quite different from the world you came from."

Hlina nodded grudgingly, but her mouth was still twisted into a grimace as she stepped down off of the boulder and took Gaia's hand. Her feet alighted on the cavern floor and the swirling earth and rock parted around her feet as she stood directly in front of Gaia. Both appeared to be near mirror images of each other, minus Gaia's pregnant state and Hlina's long pointed ears that drooped over her shoulders and quivered with anxiety.

Hlina didn't know what to do when Gaia caressed her cheek, but her hand was warm and she felt a sensation of affection flow into her. Unconscious of her actions, she leaned into Gaia's caress. She closed her eyes, but they popped open again when Gaia placed her free hand on Hlina's lower belly. It slid down to her crotch and two fingers slipped between the folds of her sex. It took only a moment, Hlina's mouth opened in shock, and before she could pull away Gaia's fingers slipped inside her!

Hlina froze! Her mouth opened to object but all that came out was the sound of a lusty inhale as euphoria suddenly bloomed inside her womb and spread out like a warm wave of summer heat caressing her body. Her skin prickled as the next wave was as cold as the winter wind. She sighed and the next wave of power penetrating her body was as refreshing as spring rain showers, and her body hummed. She felt like deep fertile earth soaking up the seasons. Absorbing nutrients. Expanding. Growing. Full of life. Teaming with it!

——(!)——

As Gaia worked within the world of Hlina's soul, Chenoa walked into the bathing cave to find eight of the tribal foremothers standing in a semicircle watching... something. Curious she moved up and around until she had a better view, and as soon as she did her mouth fell open.

Hlina hovered within a bowl shaped hollow in the cave floor. Hot water she had been bathing in hung suspended in the air all around her. Flames from the fire pit, heating the cave and boiler, suddenly jumped out arcing over towards Hlina. The water moved aside so that the flames were not extinguished, and they began to dance. Splitting apart into two spheres of red flame that spun about Hlina's head so fast in two separate orbits that cast the illusion of the sign of eternity. The flames moved so fast that they became two red halos. The bath water hovering suspended all around Hlina started to coalesce into seven blue spinning rings around Hlina's body. The closest and smallest ring only inches from touching the red halos and Hlina's toes. From the most inner ring there were only inches separating the next six rings. Each one started spinning. Each on a different axis, and so fast that nothing and no one could come closer than those rings to Hlina. A vibration rumbled through the cave and loose dirt and rock began to move and swirl along the floor from the entrance to the very back of the cave. The earth seemed to give a great harrumph and everyone stumbled. Trying to keep their footing, everyone looked on in wonder as every piece of loose earth and rock jumped into the air and hung suspended. The rings of water began to spin faster and faster, and as they did the earth and rock suspended in the air started gathering and swirling around the bowl of Hlina's bath.

Chenoa climbed to her feet as did the foremothers, but none of them dared take their eyes from the scene in front of them as the earth and rock, swirling around the rings of water began to climb upward, coalescing and created a dome of solid rock above Hlina and the rings of water and fire. Crouching down to sit on their heels, they continued watching between the bowl of the bath and the dome of solid earth and rock. Hlina's mouth opened wide and her back arched. It didn't seem to be in pain. I was more like how Hlina appeared when in the throes of her orgasm.

The two halos of red flame changed. Each halo broke apart and transformed into snakes of red and gold flames. Slithering through the air toward Hlina's mouth they quickly slithering inside. Hlina's eyes opened wide in a look of ecstasy as they beamed fiery red light. Sweat suddenly burned off her skin and turned into a cloud of steam that hovered above her body but trapped inside the rings of water.

The steam gathered. Coalescing. And the rotating rings of water absorbed it all. The water grew and the rings spinning sped up until they appeared to be a solid sphere of water. With shocking abruptness the rings of water stopped. Every ring was in a different place on a different axis when they shrunk, binding Hlina arms, legs and hair to her body. Hlina's eyes seemed to bulge, her mouth was spread far open in a soundless howl of delight that her jaw looked like it may break!

Then the seven rings of water changed. Breaking apart just as the fire had and transformed into seven huge serpents. The basin Hlina had bathed in could hold ten people easily, Chenoa thought. There must have been nearly seven-hundred gallons of water encapsulating Hlina, that was now gargantuan snakes. If they went the way of the fire serpents Hlina's body would burst. Sure enough the snakes moved toward Hlina's mouth, but not just there, they also slithered down between her thighs. Hlina's body swelled and she started to convulse as the largest serpent slithered between her thighs and pushed its way into her bum.

Chenoa unconsciously grabbed her own buttocks as she gasped and heard eight others do so as well.

Seven water serpents disappeared as they penetrated Hlina's body. Through mouth, nose, vagina, bladder, and anus. As they disappeared Hlina's belly and breasts grew, and then the dome of earth crumbled and fell down to encapsulate Hlina from head to her toes. The earth and rock moved about Hlina's skin but it never took on any shape. It just moved to follow the water serpents to mouth, nose, sex, and buttocks. Rock and soil penetrated and invaded Hlina's body.

It seemed like Hlina would soon split apart from the sheer volume of more than a thousand gallons of water and earth that filled her up. As Chenoa watched Hlina's belly and breasts grew supernaturally large. Her gravid pregnancy grossly overshadowed her body like she had a small earth inside her womb. It hung suspended over Hlina like a globe. Her breasts were fat missiles as long and thick as Hlina herself and yet they stood up above her body defying gravity. Chenoa started feeling ill and thought she might heave up. However, as soon as the last tendrils of earth disappeared inside Hlina's mouth and between her thighs, her belly and breasts, so overly large that they nearly touched the ceiling of the cave, began to shrink. They shrank too quickly, and within seconds Hlina was her own original size and self again. Chenoa and all eight foremothers dashed forward as Hlina floated down to lay in the bottom of the hollow bowl used as a bathing pool once more.

——(!)——

Hlina screamed as power, euphoria, and pain filled her up like a cup that was overflowing. She didn't know how long she screamed. It felt like eternity. It could have only been seconds. She watched as fire blasted from her mouth in a massive gout of flame. It gathered itself at Gaia's direction, and then with a gesture flew toward the red sun-like ball of energy near the domed ceiling, and added its power to it. As they combined the red orb of power swelled larger and larger until it was nearly three times the size it had been originally.

Next water and earth burst from her mouth, from her bladder, vagina, and rectum. It didn't explode from her in some dirty way. Rather, the mud seemed to grow and gather on her skin like liquid armor, and then the water started separating from earth leaving a crusty shell. There were hundreds of gallons of earth and water. Hlina was aghast that it all seemed to come from her body. There was no way that her small form had held so much!

As the water and earth separated, The water separated into seven rings that surrounded her and Gaia. The earthen armor fell away from her skin and coalesced into a dome that hovered above them. As soon as the earth and water quit evacuating from Hlina and were completely formed rings and dome, Gaia gave two quick hand signals. The dome of earth flew towards the yellow-orange orb of power. It flipped over in mid-flight so that it was a bowl and came up beneath the earthen orb energy. The bowl closed over the earthen energy sphere shutting its light away. There was a massive shudder and the earth shielding Hlina's energy cracked and expanded outward until it was roughly ten times larger than the sphere of energy within. The shards of ill-fitting earth surrounding the inner sphere then moved out to join the outer sphere of earth rock and the yellow-orange energy within grew stronger.

Last were the seven blue rings of water. They flew toward the last ball of blue energy. Each one was spinning on their individual axis, but as they approached the blue sphere they all stopped their rotations. They stopped so that each ring was synchronized and parallel to the others, and then they moved up so that the ball of blue energy was in the center of the rings. As soon as all was in place the rings started spinning again, each on a different axis, each at a different speed.

As each of Hlina's sources of power grew they lowered from the ceiling until they were halfway between the top of the boulder in the center of the cavern and the domed ceiling. Then above the three spheres of power appeared a much larger replica of what Hlina immediately recognized as planet earth.

"Earth!" She gasped as another wave of euphoria expanded throughout body leaving her panting breathlessly as beams of light connected the replica earth above to her sources of power.

Her consciousness became aware of billions of peoples spread out across six different realms of Gaia's being. She was only faintly aware of Gaia's arms, and the feeling of the other woman's lips pressing against her mouth in a kiss that was not a kiss. Gaia breathed power into her, supporting her through the experience. But when she was done she was still left breathing heavily as her consciousness slowly shrank until it was only herself, and Gaia holding her. Supporting her. Caressing her.

Gaia's hands were soft against her naked skin. Tender fingers gliding up and down her back, following her muscles and tracing the edges of bones. From shoulders to shoulder blades dancing fingertips followed her spine all the way to her tailbone before small hands grabbed heavy handfuls of cheeky buttocks.

Before Hlina really knew what was happening Gaia was laying her down on the edge of the warm boulder in the center of the cavern that was the inner world of her soul. Gaia followed her down, half of her own accord and half because Hlina was pulling her down on top of her. Gaia's pregnant belly pushing against her own flat abdominals. Huge swollen breasts hung down not unattractively begging to be squeezed, to be kneaded, to be suckled, to be nibbled. Hlina found herself grabbing two greedy handfuls of soft dark brown flesh and squeezing, and kneading, and pinching, and twisting thick erect nipples!

Simultaneously, Gaia leaned in for more kisses as she supported herself on one elbow and ran her free hand down to Hlina's smooth pubic mound. She curling her fingertips into Hlina's soft flesh, and Hlina's spongy folds of her sex parted to reveal pink flesh, velvety soft, and moist with arousal.

Gaia was not ignorant of how to please a woman's body, she had please her own for millennia, and so, Hlina found herself sighing luxuriously as Gaia's two middle fingers deftly rubbed from her clitoris down her vulva all the way to her vagina. Gaia's thumb remained poised at the top of the slit of her sex, resting on her pubic bone just above her clitoris. The rest of Gaia's hand caressed her crotch, gently cupping her as pointer and pinky fingers walked down the short distance, nails digging into the soft, puffy, brown flesh of her labia in just enough titillating pain to heighten the pleasure of her middle fingers gliding down her vulva. When Gaia's walking fingers reached the inner, bottom curves of her buttocks, sharp nails dug into her cheeks as the two middle fingers delved deep inside Hlina's vagina!

Hlina sighed in pleasure. She vibrated.

Gaia knew the perfect amount of pain to give. Withdrawing her fingers up Hlina's vulva Gaia pinched her clitoris between fingers and thumb, and then back down they went delving deeper inside her again. The pain! The pleasure! Always increasing. Expanding her euphoria until some unknown time later, it could have been minutes, it felt like hours, her consciousness exploded in orgasm!

The guttural moans escaping her lips were gentle things, but as Gaia ministered to her body her moans climbed to mewlings, breathy exhalations, gasping inhalations, and as exultations climbed higher and higher in octave she breathed more deeply until her throat was raw from her mouth was wide open in full bodied screams of ecstasy. Her eyes crossed, rolled up, and then closed. Her back arched. Her thighs shook. Gaia was finally finished, every muscle in her thighs, sex, and belly twitched weakly.

"Remember daughter, I am always near," Gaia whispered, "I will always hear you when you call out to me. You have but to ask and my power will be yours to use..."

It took a long time before Hlina realized that Gaia was gone and she was alone. Breathing hard, her heart beating even harder, she gazed up at the three orbs of power above her. Gaia had said they were sources of power in her body, but what were they exactly?

——(!)——

Upon awakening she found herself laying in the dry bowl of the rock basin she had been bathing in previous to her dozing and meeting Gaia. Her eyes fluttered open and there was an audience of she-wolf foremothers surrounding her, and Chenoa. Chenoa, at least, looked at her in complete astonishment. Her jaw slack, her mouth agape. The foremothers on the other hand looked at her too sharply.

She was beginning to feel nervous, like she had done something wrong, when the oldest of the she-wolf foremothers and the leader among them, Tenaya leaned over Hlina and offered a hand to help her out of the empty bowl as she said, "You have been chosen by one of the goddesses I take it?"

Hlina looked up in astonishment and nodded.

She had found out two years ago, after joining the Howling Forde Lupus pack, that almost all Animal names meant something. It made her think back to her previous life and the Native American tribes she had grown up with and around in Seattle and surrounding areas.

Tenaya meant, 'A great leader has been born from my womb'. Apparently Tenaya's mother had great aspirations for her daughter upon her birth. Of course, she was a great leader. The chief of this tribe was always the alpha, and that didn't mean that the alpha was strictly male. Tenaya had been the alpha for many years until she grew old and was challenged by Wanageeska. Still, even though no longer the chieftain she held much respect and sat at the head of the council of she-wolf foremothers. Looking up into the woman's bright golden eyes, Hlina suddenly swallowed at the fierceness of Tenaya's gaze.

After Tenaya was Sokanon. She was the shortest of the she-wolves with a silver coat of fur. She was also the plumpest, with broad hips and a bosom that dwarfed Chenoa's breasts, which were as large as a man's head. Her name meant 'She who is like the rain' or possibly 'She who is as refreshing as a summer rain'.

Meanings could be very general, or very specific at the same time, but only the name giver usually knew the full meaning of a name.

Pala, a strong, regal she-wolf stood straight-backed, but was aged enough that the blue fur about her face had turned completely white. Her name meant 'A guardian standing in a meadow near water'. Then there was; Sassaba, whose name means 'With the moon goddesses help I bore a she-wolf'. Nayeli's name meant 'She is an expression of my love'. Catori, 'She is spirited'. Tayen, 'She who was born on the night of the new moon'. And lastly, Lequoia who was tall and built thick and wide. Her fur was a deep russet color which Hlina thought lent to her name meaning 'She who resembles a sequoia tree', or 'She who was made in the likeness of a sequoia'.

"Yes, Gaia," Hlina answered breathlessly as she nodded and took Tenaya's hand.

Tenaya only nodded before pulling Hlina up to stand beside her before saying, "Most Animal tribes do not have priests or priestesses. That is a practice of the Primes. We have shamans. Tayen and Catori are our shamans. They listen to the light of the moon, and to our goddess Seline. You see, we follow and worship the same gods and goddesses as you Primes."

"The people you come from must be worshipers of Gaia, else she would not have communed with you," Sokanon said as she took Hlina other arm.

"Is there a difference between the shamans of Gaia and Seline?" She asked, curiosity tinging her voice.

"There is," Catori answered instead of Tenaya, "Shaman of Seline can hear her voice on the beams of moonlight, and she sings to us on the full moon when we are at our strongest. We can also draw power from the moonlight and Seline, to an extent, enhancing the power we already possess."

Sassaba nodded as she interjected what she saw as important, "Shamans of Lauma listen to the trees and forests. They can hear her whispers from a single tree, but the deeper they are within the forests the louder her voice becomes until she is loud to their ears as I am here speaking to you now. On the other hand, Shamans of Ahti listen to the crashing waves of the ocean, it is said, and they hear her song in the giant ocean storms."

"But you are not a shaman of Seline, Lauma, Ahti," Pala interrupted with a chastising smirk for her companions, "You are a divinely chosen representative of Gaia herself. So what you should know is that shamans of Gaia listen to the elements. Earth mostly and the most strongly, but also fire, wind, and water."

"Yes," Tenaya said, interrupting as soon as Pala took a breath, "And there are Animal tribes that worship Gaia as well. The bear tribe to the south of us, and the bee queen to the east of the bear den, and I hear there is a mixed village further south. The point is, almost every Animal that makes it home, burrow, or den inside the earth is strongly connected to and worships Gaia."