The Azra-El Series Ch. 17

Unbeknownst to him, Claudis overheard his words from inside the stable, and it brought immense warmth to her heart. She was sure his current apology was different than the one he gave her the first time. He was beginning to see the Pegasus as a friend and not just another dumb animal.

***

Later that evening, after Blaze finished chatting with his classmates and distributing the five dozen mamgi he had brought from Puhar, he took Siofra upstairs to his room.

"So, what is it that you want to show me?" she asked as she flopped her butt down on his bed while he took to his desk chair.

"Indeed," he said in a droning high-pitched voice. "I have a very special ware for display, my friend," he spoke mysteriously, brushing his chin with his fingers. "Yeah, no," he said after a moment. "Why would I have anything to show you?"

"You said so at the stables..."

"Oh! That was about a new fighting move. I will show it to you when we spar. I brought you here to ask about something else," he told her, though he was still a little unsure. However, he gave himself a sigh and asked, "What do you think of the Kindred?"

It was one topic he had not been able to raise with Elyssa, even though he had tried. Every time he had found the opportunity to raise it during his VP conversations with her, the words refused to flow.

Siofra raised an orange brow at him. "I know Elyssa's parents are Kindred, but I think of it just as a word that differentiates people who can hatch a dual parent child," she shrugged her shoulders. "Why should their emotions be any stronger than the rest of us?"

"Oh? Au- er, my mother thinks differently..."

Siofra raised her other brow to go along with her first. The bushy strokes of orange were ever prominent against the porcelain white of her face. "Are you a Kindred child?" she asked.

"Uh? No. I don't think so, at least."

"Well, then maybe Aunty Jie Er is just a sucker for such things. Why the sudden interest in the Kindred?"

Blaze took in a deep breath and told her about Lynn.

Siofra contemplated over it for a little while before she spoke. "What about you and Elyssa?"

"What about us?" he asked with narrowed eyes.

"You know, you two are like that at times."

"Like what?"

"You know, you get lost in each other's little worlds, forgetting there are other people beside you. You only have eyes for each other. It makes me feel left out at times," she told him in half-complaint.

"Er... No, we don't. Even if we do, it's probably because we are having a really interesting conversation or something."

"Is that not what being a Kindred pair is about?"

"I think this thing with Lynn is a little different, Siof," he shook his head.

"If you say so," she rolled her eyes.

"What's wrong, Siof? You jealous? Wanna be my Kindred?" he teased her, wiggling his fingers towards her.

"Eww no! Get away from me, you ugly angel!" she cried, leaning away.

"You racist!" Blaze laughed, falling back against his chair.

"No, you are just not pretty enough. You do not have the ears for it, either," she told him frankly. "If it was the pixie princess on the other hand, I wouldn't mind it," she said, as a dreamy glaze overtook her eyes.

"Er... Aleaya Glitterdust? Isn't she like two or three hundred years older than you?"

"252. Age is no barrier!"

"Siof," he said, getting up and sitting beside her. He placed an arm over her shoulder, and she narrowed her eyes at him. She knew that some stupid comment was on its way. "You should find yourself a nice and handsome young angel or a pixie. I won't judge, either way. Someone good-looking and talented," he said, exaggeratedly patting her shoulder. "Not someone who'll croak in less than a couple of hundred years. Trust me, Big Bros always know what's best for their little sisters. And, oh, she should have a lot of money and your mere presence should be able to swoon her off her feet. That is important. Very important."

"You're the little sister!" she said, pushing his away. "Trust your Big Sis and just get together with Ely. She is pretty, rich, and does anything you want. You two are a perfect match. Do not get involved in my affair with Princess Glitterdust. It is too complex for your undeveloped brain."

"What affair? Let me guess. She smiled at you in passing and you swooned off your pretty little wings?"

"Maybe I did, maybe I didn't. At least I am not all bedazzled by simply looking into some random stranger's eyes."

Blaze snorted at her, but before he could give her his rebuttal, they heard a knock on the door. "Come in," he shouted, and Elyssa stepped in, wearing a yellow dress and a radiant smile.

"Ely!" he cried, hopping off his chair and rushing to her to give her a mighty hug.

"Oi, where was my hug? You jump into her arms as soon as you see her," Siofra wanted to know.

"I thought you didn't like them..."

"Only if you try to get all smoochy afterwards."

***

The next morning, Class 1A received their papers and the results of their first quarter exams.

Name Class Rank Year Rank Score

Aahna Maitreya 1 2 905/900

Blaze Er Lokra 2 3 899/900

Bi Tru'ung 3 5 898/900

...

Rachel Arianrhod 29 146 786/900

"How the Hela did you 'my sister turned 5 on LE 572' get rank 29?" Blaze asked a jubilant Rachel, standing beside him and punching the air. Blaze wasn't too surprised with his own ranking. Aahna had prepared for two weeks, while he had barely touched his books.

"Hey! I am not dumb," Rachel protested. "But look, Min Seshat gave me a point on the extra question. It is for my humor, she says!" she squealed in delight. That one point was the difference between Rachel being in the top half and the lower half of the class.

Bi, who was standing close by, seemed a little annoyed. She had left the question blank and received no points for it. One more point was the difference between second and third.

That afternoon, Elyssa and Siofra came over to the Year 1 cafeteria to have lunch with Blaze.

"So, this decides it. Elyssa is the Big Sis. I am Big Bro and you are the Little Bro," Siofra quipped when they compared their rankings. Elyssa placed first in her year while Siofra was second in her year.

"How many times do I have to tell you Siof?" he told her in pretend exasperation. "You cannot be a Bro! You are not equipped for it. Besides, it does not work if you base it on how you do in school. It is based on height, you see. You will always be the shortest, so you gotta be the lil' sister," he tried to enlighten her.

"I am a pixie. In pixie height, I may be taller than even you."

"The way I see it, you will always be the little brat in our group," Elyssa quickly told Blaze, fearing that the two would somehow manage to turn her into the little sister, based on relative heights.

"Ely! You are supposed to take my side. What sort of a best friend are you?"

"Not against Siofra," she shook her head.

"Traitor!" he told her before turning to the pixie. "Let's have a deal, Siof. Whoever is leading in our duels will be the Big Bro."

"Fine."

***

After their combat training that evening, Blaze and Siofra waited for the rest of the students to leave before approaching Yulia.

"Min Yulia, can you take a look at my new move and give me your opinion?" he asked his combat teacher.

He walked up to the rack and picked up a heavy metallic aspis and handed it to Siofra. "This is not a duel," he told her, picking up two sabers for himself. He had found out that the sabers were one of the most aerodynamic weapons for his all new Blazing Pirouette. "Defend yourself and keep an eye on my movements. Think of ways to counter the move in battle."

Blaze led them up to a couple of thousand feet before turning to face her. Siofra, tugging along a massive shield with her diminutive little body, seemed like she had stepped out of an earthly fairy tail.

"Okay, Siof. This is just a demonstration and I am still working on other variants," he reminded her. "When I say go, I need you to start flying left. Don't do anything clever besides defending yourself. For both our sakes," he said.

Siofra gave him an impish grin. She would've probably done something clever.

Blaze shot up three hundred feet before turning to her. He lowered his sabers to his sides and held them close. "GO!" he cried, before spreading his wings wide and diving towards her.

Siofra zipped towards her right. Blaze stopped.

"Oi! Not my left, you idiot! Your left!" he screamed at her.

"You didn't specify that, dumbass!" she shouted back, before seemingly realizing that Yulia was watching. Yulia looked as if she didn't care either way, but that didn't stop Siofra from giving the teacher a naïve, innocent gaze.

Blaze shook his head as he took position. "Fly to your left. Go!" he shouted, once again diving towards her with hardened wings.

The pixie took off to her left and Blaze rolled towards her. His unmoving, hardened wings were like the metallic wings of an airplane, catching the wind as he used it to roll around.

Aiming for the place where Siofra was going to be, he dematerialized his wings. His body began spinning at a rate much higher than with his wings open. Siofra saw him come at her like a spinning bullet and stopped to raise the shield towards him. Blaze opened his arms.

Clang! His left saber struck against her shield like thunder. Despite trying her best to hold herself steady, Siofra fell fifty feet before the second strike hit her. Blaze used the pushback from the first hit to twist his body and hit Siofra's shield with much greater force, as gravity naturally brought him towards her.

CLANG!

Siofra went shooting towards the ground. She let go of the shield and rapidly beat her wings, blurring them into an orange hue. She managed to come to a hover a couple of hundred feet from the ground.

"That hurt!" she shouted at him, flailing her hands to stave off the stinging in her knuckles.

"Sorry!" he shouted back as flew towards her with Yulia. You should try taking a blow from Aunty Jie Er.

"You're digging that out," Siofra pointed out at the aspis lodged into the ground.

"What do you think, Min Yulia?" Blaze asked his teacher.

"It is powerful, but will always be a double-edged sword," Yulia mused. "Especially in the tournament, where you will not be allowed to fly higher than a thousand feet."

"Yeah. It is easy to counter if I know it is coming," Siofra agreed. "You may not be able to use it more than once in the tournament... Why did I have to fly left?"

"Because I have yet to perfect the movements in other directions. It isn't as simple as randomly spinning in the air. I have to anticipate where you will be and need to get every movement right for it to be effective and worthwhile," he explained.

"It is definitely a winning move, Ms. Blaze. However, I hope you're not planning to rely only on this."

"Of course not."

"Good. Keep practicing and master it. I will provide you with whatever help I can."

Yulia discussed the move a little more before she took her leave.

"Well, you showed me yours, so I have to show you mine," Siofra said cheerily, as Blaze began to dig the dirt around the aspis.

"No, Siof! You're too young and too flat."

"You are flatter and younger."

"I prefer it that way."

"So do I."

"Well then, I guess you have nothing to be worried about. I just think that Princess Glitterdust will be a little disappointed if you don't grow out anymore," he said, getting up and patting her shoulder with his muddy hand.

"Do you want to see my latest move or not?" she said testily.

"Of course I do. What are Big Bros for?"

Siofra's new move was a well-known pixie technique called Flutter. Normally, it was possible for a keen observer to make out the subtle changes in wing movements and anticipate the direction in which an angel was going to fly. Detecting such movements was more difficult with Pixie wings, but a master of the Flutter could make it almost impossible. Siofra was no master but she was getting there.

***

The next evening, Blaze and Siofra dueled. He didn't go easy on her, for that would have been hypocritical and sanctimonious on his part. Siofra used her Flutter to maximum efficiency, yet the fight was over within five minutes. All it took was one blow on her shield from his viridian bat to send her tumbling through the air.

Blaze was relentless as he chased after her, deflecting her hastily swung rapier, and catching her in a shoulder lock around her neck. His decisive and almost aggressive finish took everyone by surprise. Usually, he mulled about and was a lot more playful when he fought her.

Siofra tapped out and he brought her to the ground.

"Very good, Ms. Blaze," Yulia clapped and approached them. "The headmistress will be pleased to know that your training at home may have gone better than if you had trained with us. That was calculated, unemotional, and risk free."

Yulia gave them more of her thoughts over the fight before letting them return to their other exercises.

"How did you improve so fast?" Siofra finally asked him as they held on to their first energy weapon materialization of the day. Siofra manifested her usual rapier, while Blaze manifested a radish.

When she glanced at what was in his hand, the solid energy rapier in her hand faltered. "Why the Hela would you manifest that?"

"I am hungry..." he whined.

"That makes sense, but a radish?" she nodded in understanding.

"It goes well with snek stew."

"You like snakes?" Siofra raised a brow at him.

"No, I hate them. But they taste good -- at least when Jie Er makes them."

"Oh? I'd like to try it sometime. So, how did you improve so fast?" she asked, as their manifestations slowly disappeared during the conversation. Currently, it took a little over a minute for either of them to materialize anything substantial, and a lot of concentration to maintain its form.

"Training, I guess," he shrugged his shoulders.

"Min Jie Er must be a very good trainer. Maybe I should join you over the next break," Siofra wondered.

"Oh, will you? Please do!" he said, perking up in excitement and taking her hands into his.

"Uh? Sure..." she said, suddenly unsure about the look in his eyes. However, she did want to get better for the tournament. Pixies were usually brushed off in the tournaments, but the USMAT was the ideal time for her to prove herself. Pixies had a natural advantage over angels when younger.

"Perfect! I will ask Jie Er. And if we train at Mt. Raivataka again, I will introduce you to Jeffery," he said, giving himself an evil laugh in his head. Misery loves company!

oOo

Blaze's second quarter at Tir proved to be uneventful when compared to his first. He attended classes, practiced his combat techniques, and spent time with Sky and Badava.

The two animals had become quite good friends and Badava finally stopped being wary around him. Blaze, however, did not make an immediate attempt to ride her. He wanted her to come to him.

At combat training, he primarily focused his efforts on materialized weapons. He had the bright idea of materializing a random garden tool during the tournament and surprising everyone. Potentially a hose -- he could think a lot of ways it could be useful even if wasn't directly related to the fight.

The first time Blaze returned home that quarter, he found himself alone at the town center. No one had come to pick him up, but it was his doing. He had told them that he was old enough to fly back by himself.

"Oi, Fury! Look at this," he heard a young angel scream at him from the other side of the market. She was a little older than him and was sporting a Blazing Fury tee and a pair of loose boyshorts.

"What do you think," the angel asked, pointing at her tee and the logo on her chest.

Blaze was surprised. He hadn't realized that the clothes were already available. "I think you look perfect, Ms. Fury," he nodded sagely, looking her up and down. "Welcome to the Blazing Furies. Tell your friends to join up as well," he said before jumping up to the sky.

"If you win the tournament, you must bring Sky to Varan!" the girl screamed after him.

***

As Blaze landed in their garden, he was met with a sight that made him speechless.

A large tub of white enamel filled with frothy hot water lay a few feet away from the pool, and his two aunts were lying on top of each other and bathing inside it.

Rebecca lay against the sloping head of the tub and Jie Er was arched over her as her lips moved across Rebecca's neck in fleeting kisses.

Jie Er's butt peeked over the surface of the water and a dribble of bubbles slid down her puckered hole and onto her lower lips.

Rebecca looked over Jie Er's shoulder and watched as her back contorted even more in arousal. She slowly sneaked a hand underneath Jie Er's crotch and began to gently caress her lips, spreading them apart and dancing her fingers over her nub as she whispered and breathed into her ear.

Jie Er paused her kissing and looked back over shoulder at Blaze, giving him a coy grin. Jie Er's platinum blonde and Rebecca's crimson red hair were completely wet, which made their colors sharper and posed a perfect contrast with each other as they floated over their bodies and through the water like silken blankets.

Blaze stood captivated for a few moments, before wordlessly beginning to discard his clothes.

"Wash yourself before you enter, youngster!" Rebecca told him, as Jie Er turned her attention back to her neck. Rebecca had been on top of her at the start of recreating her little fantasy, but Jie Er had flipped her around a few minutes ago.

Blaze filled up a bucket with the pool water and washed himself as he watched Rebecca's fingers over Jie Er's cunt. Her index and ring fingers rubbed over her lips while her middle ran along her slit, parting her, before suddenly pushing into her tiny hungry hole.

"Ugh," Jie Er cried as her head arched up and her tongue ran across the length of Rebecca's sharp and smooth chin. She kissed the tip of her chin before taking her lips, while Rebecca's finger slowly moved in and out of her.

The older angels kissed while throwing furtive glances at Blaze as their breasts brushed and rubbed against each other. Rebecca held Jie Er by the neck and her fingers flitted over her lower lips, making her arch over her in pleasure. The curve of Jie Er's spine and her butt were simply a delight to watch.

Blaze quickly dumped the rest of the bucket over his head and rushed into the tub, jumping behind them. Rebecca splashed a little water at him and Jie Er scrunched her back more, pushing her body against Rebecca's and moving her butt towards Blaze's raging cock.

"Aunty..." Blaze exhaled deeply, as he spread his hands over her lathered butt and felt his fingers slide over her smooth skin.

Rebecca's fingers left Jie Er's lips and reached for the cock behind them. She tapped his tip with her finger, before wrapping her long slender fingers around to pull him closer. Her other hand, which had been holding Jie Er's nape, slowly yet steadily traveled down her spine and reached her puckered hole. She circled it a few times before pushing her finger in, while simultaneously brushing the head of Blaze's cock against Jie Er's slit.

Rebecca had become a master of her art, making Blaze wonder just how many angels she had done in her battalion. Did she have a higher count than him?

Jie Er held Rebecca's face between her hands and suddenly intensified her kiss, their lips and tongues seeking each other out as if they were dying of thirst and hunger.