The Azra-El Series Ch. 06

Blaze narrowed his eyes at Rebecca, while she pretended to be not paying any attention.

"Just don't venture out too far and avoid the forest" Jie Er added a little more seriously.

So, Blaze frolicked about in the grasslands for the rest of the day. He practiced his flying and the swift wing style. The martial technique used wings as a weapon, and one move where an angel stiffened her wings and used them to slice at her opponents seemed to go particularly well with his dive gliding. However, Blaze had no idea how feathers could hurt anyone. He could only assume that there was more to the move and that Jie Er would teach him when the time was right.

Blaze also ran into the carnike, later in the afternoon. It was prowling about its usual spot. Ever since the time he had punted it into the forest, their roles seemed to have reversed. It took off as soon as it spotted him, and Blaze chased it around the river with his Virdian bat. He wasn't actually trying to hurt it, but it proved to be good practice for his swings.

He even gave the carnike a name. He called it Momo. Its flappy ears reminded of a cartoon character he used to watch as a kid.

Momo kept trying to escape into the forest, but Blaze positioned himself in such a way that it could only run away in the opposite direction. Finally, it collapsed to the ground in exhaustion. It flopped its ears in submission and looked at Blaze with doey eyes.

Feeling a little sorry for the creature, Blaze landed near it and approached it slowly.

"Meewww" it whined sadly, without lifting its head. Blaze gently reached a hand to pet its head.

Suddenly, the carnike opened its mouth wide and snapped at his hand. Blaze yelped and jumped back with his heart in his mouth. The devious carnike instantly took to its feet and scampered off into the forest.

"Are you harassing the poor carnike again?" he heard a voice from behind, as he tried to steady his heart. Rebecca had spotted him while she was returning home.

"It deserves it. I tried to pet it and it almost bit my hand off!" Blaze replied glancing at the sun. It beginning to dip below the horizon. He hadn't realized how late it was.

"Of course, it did. It's not a rabbit. It's a wild carnivore" Rebecca answered.

"It's a stupid looking carnivore" Blaze cursed.

"Let's go home. Have you been out all day? Jie Er must be worried" Rebecca said, coming up to him to pick him up.

***

"I was just about to go out looking for you" Jie Er exclaimed as Rebecca and Blaze entered the house.

"Sorry aunty, I lost track of time chasing Momo" Blaze apologized.

"Momo?"

"She's trying to become friends with a carnike" Rebecca chimed in.

"Blaze!?"

"Don't worry. I am sure she has learned her lesson after it tried to take a bite out of her hand"

"Maybe I should be more worried about letting you out by yourself" Jie Er replied.

"It's fine Jie Er. She's strong enough to handle anything in the surrounding forest. She just needs to use her head a little more"

"You're the one to talk" Blaze said giving her a rap on the butt.

"Oww. What do you guys think of a long bath before dinner? Blaze definitely needs one and I feel a little grimy as well" Rebecca asked, suddenly changing the topic.

"Sure" came two replies, but Blaze suddenly realized what that meant. However, he couldn't really take back his words. He moodily followed the other two to the pool.

He quickly ditched his clothes and jumped into the pool, wading to the far side.

Rebecca grinned at him and started removing her clothes in a sensuous manner. She had been with him long enough to know what tickled his senses. She slowly pared the corset of her nipples, making her heavy breasts bounce as the clothing came off.

She dropped the corset and slowly turned around. She leaned down low, jutting her pear-shaped butt towards him as she peeled her thong off her slit in an excruciatingly slow manner. Her tiny puckered hole and her thin pink slit, completely visible.

This little biddy... Blaze cursed at her, while Jie Er quickly got into the pool without much elaboration.

Rebecca painstakingly put on a show as she removed each bit of clothing and swirled around in a flourish to display her assets.

Finally, she walked into the pool and sat down beside Jie Er, placing an arm around her. She settled down in the warm water and soaked for a while making Blaze hope that she was done messing around.

However, she suddenly wrapped a hand around Jie Er's nape and pulled her into a kiss. Jie Er's eyes widened in surprise but she reciprocated as she felt Rebecca's soft lips. She had missed the touch of another angel.

The two of them started out slowly with gentle pecks and fleeting licks, but Rebecca wouldn't have it for too long. As soon as Jie Er gave the tiniest indication of wanting more, Rebecca grabbed her lower lip between hers and started sucking on it.

Jie Er felt a familiar heat resurge in the pit of her stomach. Soon the two of them were voraciously devouring each other's lips as their tongues interlocked and intertwined. Jie Er reached up a hand to cup Rebecca's cheek, but she brushed her hand aside and moved it to her breast. She wanted Blaze to have an unhindered view.

Fuck me.

There was something insanely sensuous about two women kissing. Blaze had never cared about watching a man and a woman kiss nor had he ever been into lesbian sex, but he could never get tired of watching a kiss between two women. Maybe it had to do with the beauty of their lips or with their innate tenderness, but Blaze couldn't take his eyes of them.

Wait! Were Jie Er and Rebecca bisexual? Blaze suddenly had a thought. The kiss was too sensual and the two of them had always been too comfortable with pleasuring each other.

Was he so lucky that he just happened to be in the company of two bisexuals? Maybe it didn't matter since there was only one gender on Azra-El. Or maybe sexuality was fluid and it was only inhibited by social stigma.

"Mmmmphh" a muffled moan from Jie Er brought Blaze back from his musings.

Rebecca's hand was under water and Blaze didn't have to imagine what it was doing. Jie Er was reciprocating by gently massaging her breast. Blaze's member stood tall in the water.

Finally, the two of them broke their kiss apart to catch some breath. Rebecca looked at Blaze, who seemed to be having trouble breathing. Jie Er gave him a fleeting glance before she looked away.

Rebecca suddenly gave him a devious grin.

Shit.

She grabbed Jie Er by the thighs and placed her on the bank. Jie Er blushed and looked at her coyly as Rebecca forced her knees apart and dived in between her thighs.

Knowing what worked on her own body, Rebecca played Jie Er with dexterity. She kissed her lower lips, titillated her clitoris and licked the length of her perfect slit. She gently spread her lips apart with her tongue and slowly penetrated her, lapping up her wetness.

Blaze sucked in a deep as Jie Er let out an ecstatic moan.

Rebecca arched her back and her butt cheeks floated above the water. The tiny waves created by her gentle movements splashed against her puckered hole, helping in her arousal. But she wasn't the only one being aroused by it.

"Are you just going to watch?" Rebecca suddenly asked him without looking back.

Blaze sighed. It wasn't that he did not know what Rebecca was trying to do, but he couldn't really resist by that point. If he had any vice, it was his weakness towards lust.

He got up and waded towards Rebecca. He positioned himself behind her, placed a hand on her butt and brushed his member against her groin. She was slimy and quite ready.

He grabbed her hips and moved his tip to her hole as Rebecca paused her sucking in anticipation. He thrust his hips and penetrated her in one fluid motion. Rebecca's body arched in a wave and the wave transferred to Jie Er through the tongue over her pussy. Jie Er's head fell back as she let out a loud moan. She had watched Blaze enter Rebecca.

Blaze focused his eyes on Rebecca's back and narrow waist as he started slowly moving through her. He grasped her tight butt cheeks and squeezed them firmly, making Rebecca moan into Jie Er's groin.

Feeling the spikes of pleasure coursing through the pit of her stomach, Rebecca surrendered her lower body to Blaze as she focused on pleasuring Jie Er. Jie Er titillated her own nipples as she held Rebecca's head and coursed her fingers through her voluptuous wet hair.

The warm waters sloshed noisily around their thighs as Blaze slowly increased the speed of his thrusts. Rebecca started squealing into Jie Er as her legs pressed tightly against her cheeks.

Suddenly, Blaze fell on top of Rebecca, grasped her breasts and started pumping into her. Jie Er chose the same moment to wrap her legs around her head and over her back.

The pressure of two bodies against her own made Rebecca feel ecstasy.

Suddenly, Jie Er screamed and shivered as her vagina flooded with her fluids. The taste of Jie Er's essence, in turn, brought Rebecca over the edge. Blaze felt the two angels release themselves and the thought alone made him cum.

The three of them went limp as they spasmed and released themselves onto one another. Rebecca felt the most, as hot fluids flowed into both of her mouths. The fullness made her cum even more vigorously than usual.

As Blaze shot his last stream into Rebecca, a thought crossed his mind. He had just witnessed three people cum at the same time and he was one of them.

***

Over the next few days, the status quo between Blaze and Jie Er slowly went back to what it had been before Cali. Although Blaze refused to initiate anything sexual with Jie Er, he did not reject anything which was initiated by her or Rebecca.

Blaze continued his daily outings and the harassment of the poor carnike, but he always made sure he had a steady supply of books to read. He mainly focused on the sciences and martial techniques. Jie Er checked his wing length every morning but didn't do much more.

Finally, on the morning of the next Loredas, Blaze's wing length surpassed five feet.

Jie Er decided that it was time to teach him the true swift wing style.

Inheritance techniques were usually personal, but Jie Er felt close enough to Rebecca to let her watch as she taught Blaze.

The whole idea of the swift wing style was based on turning wings into weapons. The edges of feathers were usually very thin and thus quite sharp. However, their softness was an issue and Jie Er's technique focused on overcoming it.

The technique allowed for concentrating energies on wing tips to make them harder. And as Blaze soon found out, the technique was much more complex than it sounded. The hardening made his wings heavy and took a lot of energy to make them useable. They also put his wings off balance. This was one the main reasons, Jie Er did not want him to learn any other movement technique.

The hardened wings needed a specialized movement technique.

So over the next couple of weeks, Blaze tried to make his feathers sharper and stronger, while simultaneously trying to fly with heavier and off-balance wings. The progress was slow, and it dispirited him, despite Jie Er's constant reminder that he was learning quicker than anyone else she had ever met.

***

One Tirdas morning, a couple of weeks into his training, Blaze was practicing his swift wing style along the edge of the forest. He had finally managed to make his wing tips sharp enough to make piercing cuts on the thick barks of the forest trees.

So, he swooped along the outer wall of trees, etching lines along their trunks.

"Eeeeeeeee" Blaze suddenly heard a scream from within the forest. He instantly recognized it. He had heard Momo wail at him for his incessant chasing. But, it had been always been a scream of frustration rather than fear. This scream was one of anguish and terror.

Blaze landed and considered it for a moment. He was reckless, but he was not stupid. The only thing that could cause Momo to scream like that was a much larger and more dangerous animal.

However, he didn't take too long to reach a decision. He had promised Jie Er not to enter the forest, but he couldn't leave Momo to fend for herself. If she let him hold her, he could easily sail over the canopy and escape from whatever had cornered her. Not only had his wings grown longer, his speed had also increased considerably.

So, he steeled his heart and dashed into the forest on his feet. The tree cover was too narrow to allow speedy unhindered flight.

A few hundred yards into the forest, he spotted the cute cotton tail of the carnike. She was standing on her hind legs and snarling at something hidden behind the cover of the dense foliage. Her white fur was marred in red and her left ear was torn and dangling to her side.

"Momo!" Blaze cried, unfurling his wings. Why wasn't she running? Her legs seem to be fine.

Without hesitating, Blaze dashed towards the carnike and grabbed her by the waist. He flapped his wings heavily and flew up to a high branch of one the nearby trees.

Momo struggled in his arms to get free. Blaze suddenly realized that she wasn't trying to get free from him but was trying to get to the creature staring at them.

Fucking Hela!

In front of them was one of the largest tigers Blaze had ever seen. It was a Xenodon and to call it a massive tiger was doing it injustice.

At a shoulder height of seven feet, it seemed like it would weigh at least a ton. It had two razor sharp saber teeth hanging from its upper jaw and its claws seemed to be at least six inches each. Its light green fur was matted with purplish black spots.

Blaze spotted a few lightly bleeding scratches on its legs and rump. It seemed that despite the size difference Momo had managed to land a few nips on the creature.

The Xenodon gave them a glance and turned its attention to the right. Blaze followed its gaze to a now exposed burrow made at the surface roots of an enormous redwood tree. It was nested with leaves, flowers and quite a few fish bones.

Blaze expected to see a baby carnike, but he was surprised again. A large ugly hatchling that seemed to be slightly bigger than Momo, was scurrying against the trunk in fear. It had a peachy parrot like beak, beady black eyes and not a single feather on its body. Blaze had read about the Xenodon before, but he had no idea what the bird was.

Suddenly, Momo slammed her hind legs against his chest and escaped his grasp, almost knocking him of the branch. Blaze flapped his wings wildly to steady himself.

"That's not your baby, you stupid bunny!" he screamed after the carnike as she raced fearlessly towards the Xenodon.

The Xeno growled and swiped its claws at her. Momo jumped back, narrowly avoiding being split open at her stomach.

"Eeeeeep" she hissed at the Xeno to take its attention away from the hatchling.

Blaze wracked his brain to figure out his options. There was no way for him to safely carry both the carnike and the bird. Blaze looked around and found the surroundings to be stained with splotches of blood. It seemed like the carnike had been fighting tooth and paw to saw the bird.

The Xeno stepped towards her and Momo stumbled. She had been continuously losing blood and Blaze knew she couldn't keep up the fight much longer.

Blaze decided that he needed save Momo. He felt sorry for the hatchling, but he had grown attached to the carnike, and he could save only one of them.

Blaze got ready to dive off the branch, when Momo turned to him and wailed. He could see the pleading in her eyes. Baze grit his teeth and dived towards the hatchling.

Noticing Blaze's trajectory, the Xenodon charged towards him. Blaze got ready to swerve away, when Momo leapt at the cat's rump and sunk its teeth.

The Xeno let out an ear-splitting roar and tried to buck the carnike off its rear. Blaze glided to the baby bird and grabbed it by an arm before he floated to a nearby branch. He used the branch as a step to leap over the canopy and flapped his wings hard to stay afloat.

The terrified hatchling sunk its tough beak into Blaze's arm, drawing blood. Wincing in pain, Blaze turned around to see what was happening. Maybe she could still run away.

The ginormous cat sprang backwards and slammed the brave carnike into a tree. No amount of willpower could've allowed the carnike to hold on. With her ribcage caved in, Momo slumped to the ground. The Xeno quickly turned around and slammed its paw on momo's body. Momo let out a final whimper before the Xenodon sunk its teeth into her head.

Blaze couldn't watch anymore. He turned around and dived to get away from the place as fast as he could. His eyes clouded. Whether it was from the pain in his arm or because of Momo's sacrifice, he couldn't tell.

With the carnike dead, the Xeno raised its head and looked towards Blaze's retreating form before glancing back into the forest.

The hatchling calmed down as Blaze flew back home. Maybe his blood had sated its hunger.

***

When Jie Er came home that evening, she immediately noticed the traces of blood leading into the house. Alarmed, she rushed into the house to find her kitchen floor blotted in red and a wounded Blaze tending to his arm.

Blaze had tried to apply some medicine and gauze to his arm, but he couldn't do much with one hand. Despite the flowing blood, the deep gouge in his arm did not hurt as much as he expected. The wound was too deep, and his pain receptors had been damaged.

Blaze tried to give Jie Er a reassuring smile, but he found her staring at the hatchling covering at the right corner of the kitchen.

"Quetzal!" Jie Er breathed in sharply, immediately bringing out a sword. It was long and narrow, and it glimmered like a sapphire under the kitchen light.

"Aunty! Stop! It's just a baby. Momo died trying to save it. It was just scared" Blaze said hastily, afraid that Jie Er was going to hurt the bird.

"Is the mother around?" Jie Er said sharply.

"I don't think there is one. Momo seemed to have been taking care of it"

Jie Er slowly calmed down, realizing that the hatchling posed them no immediate threat.

"What happened?" she asked him seriously, as she sat down beside him and started unwrapping his hard work.

Blaze sadly recanted the whole episode, as Jie Er cleaned his wound and bandaged him in fresh gauze.

"Sigh. I guess telling you that you were too reckless is pointless?" Jie Er asked him after he was done.

"I had to, aunty. Momo gave her life for it. What's a Quetzal? Why do you seem so afraid?" Blaze asked testing his wounded arm. There was only a numbing pain, but he knew it would get worse.

"They are angel killers" she replied sharply. "At least that's what the ones trained by the demons are called. They are a force to be reckoned with. The Quetzal corps have won several major battles for the demons" Jie Er replied.

"Why don't we have them?"

"They are not native around here. They mostly roost on the outskirts of the Infernal Desert. That's why I don't understand what a hatchling is doing around here. There must be a mother somewhere" Jie Er said thoughtfully.

"I saw no signs of one. Why don't the angels capture some Quetzals and tame their children?" Blaze asked again. He had already decided to keep the bird, no matter how ugly it looked. Besides, he was sure it would look either pretty or fearsome once it grew its feathers. He was fine with either.

"Don't you think we've tried? The demons have a secret way of taming them. They are usually violent creatures and even as hatchlings they don't let anyone get close. Are you sure there was no mother around? We should notify the mayor before someone gets hurt"