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Farlen
I am so tired, but every time I close my eyes I see HIM there. I don’t want to be alone tonight, so I asked Rhi if he would come hold me like he said he would. I lay down on my bed, afraid to close my eyes, so I just look at the door, waiting for Rhi. I hear him talking to the other guys, but I am too tired to focus on what they are saying. A bit later Rhi comes in and shuts the door behind him. He looks around and shuts off the light. I don’t know if he knows I can still see him, but he takes off his shirt and pants and is just in his underwear. He climbs into the bed and wraps me up in his arms.
“Go to sleep gorgeous. I’ve got you.” He is so warm, and this feels so nice. I breathe in his scent and let my eyes close. As soon as they do, I see HIS face, and one knife he liked to use. I quickly open my eyes.
“I can’t sleep yet. Can you tell me about something?”
“What do you want to know?”
“I don’t know. I just want to hear you talk.”
He is quiet for a few minutes, then softly he begins to talk.
“Long ago, our world used to be part of a different world. A war broke out between the humans and the supernaturals. Some humans didn’t like that we had magic and differed from them. Some humans fought with us. This war went on for a long time. The supernaturals didn’t want to hurt the humans they were fighting against, but the humans were getting more and more destructive in their attacks against us. A group of Gods that was living among us banded together, and they created this world. It is a copy of the world that we all used to live in, but it is different in ways that I’m not sure I can explain. Our world is a world of magic, created by magic for those with magic and those who could live peacefully with those with magic. The world before wasn’t like that. All the supernaturals and humans that fought side by side were brought over here. A lot of supernatural races were wiped out of existence before everyone came here. Once here, some races decided to separate from everyone else and pooled their powers to create their own smaller realms to live in. Some races haven’t been seen in a long time. Even as rare as some races are, there are the hybrids. Hybrids are so rare that one hasn’t been born in almost four hundred years. Children are born with the race of only one of their parents. A normal child's magic, though, is all depending on what the Gods bestow upon them. Hybrids are a combination of the parents’ race. Their power seems to be tied to the old magic.”
He keeps talking but my eyes close and I don’t see HIM anymore. I dream about all the guys and Kramylor is there now too. Everyone is jumping into some water and splashing each other. Someone picks me up, but I can’t see anything about them other than their eyes. It is the one with the all black eyes. He runs towards the water and jumps in it with me in his arms. Everyone laughs, and Connor takes me from his arms. He presses his lips to mine and squeezes my butt. Soon, Xander takes me from Connor. He kisses me too, but nibbles on my lips and starts to kiss down my neck. Vashu comes up behind me and kisses my neck and starts to rub the back of my legs with his hands, while Xander softly squeezes my boobs. Rhi comes over and takes me from both of them. He takes me out of the water and lays me down on the soft grass under a gigantic tree. His hands move into my panties and starts to do something to me. It feels so amazing. I can’t stop my body as it moves with his hand. Everything seems to fade away as I can feel something building with in me. It keeps building and building until it detonates and it feels so good. He stops what he is doing with his hand and kisses me. “Good girl.” I hear knocking somewhere. I look around in my dream but don’t see any doors. There’s more knocking from somewhere, and my dream starts to fade away.
I still hear the knocking, and can’t get back to my dream. It’s so warm and nice. I wiggle around to try to get closer to Rhi’s warm body. My panties feel really wet. Oh no. I try to sit up, but Rhi’s arms wrap tighter around me.
“Someone else will get the door gorgeous. Now why don’t you tell me what you were dreaming about? It sounded like you were enjoying yourself.” My face feels like it’s on fire.
“Hmm, I’m just going to use my imagination on what you were dreaming about.” The knocking is getting louder and louder. He groans.
“Alright then, why don’t you go get cleaned up and I’ll go get the door?” I stand up and it’s cold. I look back to where Rhi is lying in bed. It’s so much warmer in his arms. I think about what he did to me in my dreams and look at his hands.
“Mmmm, I’m getting more and more ideas about what you were dreaming about, gorgeous. If you don’t go to the bathroom to get cleaned up soon, I am going to clean you up with my tongue.”
I hurry to the bathroom and all I can think about is his tongue where his fingers were in my dream. Would it feel just as good? I take my bath and go get dressed. When I walk back out to the room with the chairs, there are a lot of boxes there. Rhi is standing there with his hand on his face. More males walk in and are putting boxes down. I walk up behind Rhi and hide behind him. He doesn’t have his shirt on and I put my face against his back and give him a hug. The muscles in his stomach are hard, but the skin is so soft. I rub my fingers against it. Rhi breathes funny and turns around fast in my arms.
“Why don’t we go get you something to eat? I am not sure what all these boxes are, but hopefully they stop coming in soon.” Rhi walks into the kitchen. The door still won’t close. I see him open the fridge and look around at some things. He starts grabbing things from doors high up. I watch him as he gets a lot of different things out from around the kitchen .
“Sleep good snowflake?”
Oh! When did Xander get here? Why didn’t I hear him? I look around to see if anyone else is here. All the males that were bringing in the boxes are gone, and there are so many boxes in the chair room. Xander bends down and kisses my cheek. His lips feel nice. As he goes to pull away from me, my body does the thing where I can’t control it, and I grab his neck and pull him down to my lips. He groans and kisses me. I gasp and his tongue slides into my mouth. Oh man, now I want to know what his tongue would feel like down there. He starts to make rumbly noises in his throat and pulls away from me.
“Mmm, I love how you smell, but you turned on snowflake? I’d bottle that up and smell it every day if I could.” Rhi calls Xanders name and he kisses me really fast on my lips and goes into the kitchen with Rhi. Another door opens and I look around. Vashu just came out of his room and is looking around the chair room. His shoulders lift up and he walks to where I am sitting. Vashu looks into the kitchen and sees Rhi and Xander in there. He takes a deep breath in through his nose and raises his eyebrow at me. He sits down in a chair near me and stretches. I still don’t have any control over my body. And it walks over to Vashu as he is stretching and I crawl into his lap. He stops mid stretch and looks down at me. I grab his face and kiss him, too. His hands grab my hips as he kisses me back. He pulls away from me and something is poking me where I am sitting. He is looking back and forth between my eyes.
“Show me the eyebrow thing, dragon. We don’t like not knowing.” Hey! That voice sounds like my beast.
“Well, good morning to you too, little one and little beast. I am guessing you slept good? If I get greeted like that every morning by you, I’m going to move Rhi into your room to sleep next to you every night.”
“We are not little! When we are finally free, you will see! Now show me the eyebrow thing!” I say as my lips are pulled back from my teeth. He just smiles at me, and I don’t know how to describe the sound that comes from my mouth, but my beast doesn’t feel happy at all. Connor comes into the big table room and looks over at us. My body, still not under my control, walks over to Connor and jumps on him. He grabs me and holds me by my butt. I kiss him too. He spins us around and pushes me against the wall, his hands grabbing my butt tighter. When he pulls away, my beast makes the noise again.
“Do not attempt to get in our head right now. Show us the eyebrow thing!” He laughs. He tries to explain it to me, but it’s like what I tried before.
“Just practice doing it. When you push your eyebrow up with your fingers, pay attention to the muscles that move it, and then focus on the way they move. Then just practice, you’ll get it.” My beast makes rumbly noises and then I am in control of my body again as the warmth from it goes back to the spot it usually is.
Connor looks into the kitchen and I look to see what he is looking at. Rhi puts his hand down from his head. Connor starts to breathe fast, and I feel something start to poke me. It moves! His heart is beating fast! I reach out and touch it, and I can feel it bump against my hand from his chest. He still has me against the wall and his hands grab my butt again. Slowly, he lowers me to the ground and my brain does the fuzzy thing again. Connor turns away from me and does something with his hands.
“Shit, she said a package, not packages! What the hell did she send?”
I don’t know who he is talking about or what a package is. Rhi walks out with square things that have square holes in them. I go sit down at the table. Xander walks out with bacon and my coffee. I get one of the square things because they are big and some bacon. Rhi puts down a lot of the stuff that we had for pancakes. I look around at the guys.
“They are like pancakes, but better! They have little pockets to hold in all the yummy toppings you put on them!” Xander says. He is bouncing around on his feet. I try a bite of it. It does taste like the pancakes, but it is a little crunchier on the outside but the inside is so soft. I put some of the sticky stuff on it and everyone sits down and starts to eat as well. Everyone’s phone starts to make a rumbly noise. I don’t know where my phone goes when I sleep, so I look around for it. All the guys are looking at their phones and looking back and forth between each other.
“What the fuck does this mean for us?” Vashu asks.
“The fuck she is doing this,” Xander says.
“That’s what all the packages are for. Thanks Mom. I don’t think we can not go. If she’s seen us there and hasn’t seen a way for us not to go, then we better figure out whose stuff is where.” Connor says.
Rhi hasn’t said anything yet, but he is looking at his phone with an angry face.
“What’s going on?”
Everyone looks over at me.
“Uhh, looks like the school has decided to start a ‘new tradition’, as the damn message says. This Sunday they are going to hold a ball, and all the females in the school are going to go before everyone, and wait to see if any new matches show themselves. We aren’t fucking allowed to walk with you, though. We need to stay back in case someone is nervous, its easier to approach a single female that isn’t surrounded by a bunch of guys.” Connor says.
Rhi is still glaring at his phone.
“How does everyone hold the same ball? How big can the ball be if everyone has to hold it?” I can’t even imagine how big it has to be. There were so many people in that big room on the first day.
“Not that kind of ball. It’s a dance but way fancier. There will be music and fancy food and shit there.” Xander says.
“Music!? Okay!”
Rhi looks up to me finally. He doesn’t look like he likes the phone right now. But everyone groans and then starts eating their food again. I ate almost two of the squares on my plate, but I can’t eat the rest of it. I push my plate away from me and sit there watching the guys. They all eat so much food. I thought Connor ate a lot, but watching Xander and Vashu eat, I don’t think that anymore. I don’t know how they fit so much food into their bodies. Connor ate three of the big squares. Xander is eating his sixth one, but looks like he is slowing down. Vashu is on his thirteenth one. He keeps looking around the table, but there are no more big squares.
Connor stands up and grabs my plate and the empty plates on the table and takes them to the kitchen. I see him slide my squares into something and then put the plates into the sink. He grabs the things around the kitchen that Rhi used to make breakfast and puts them in the sink, too.
“What’s Connor doing?”
Vashu reaches over and puts his hand on my leg. And gives it a little squeeze.
“He’s doing the dishes, little one. He woke up last, so he has to clean them.”
“I don’t understand what that means.”
Vashu looks around and Xander smiles at me.
“It’s like he’s giving the dishes a bath to get them clean so we can use them again for dinner.”
“Oh! I can do it! I like taking baths. Do the dishes like baths too?”
Vashus’ hand on my leg gets tighter.
“Nope, you’re not doing it, and the dishes don’t feel anything but we like it when they are clean.” When everyone is done eating, they take their plates to Connor, and he cleans them, too. He comes out when he is done.
“Well, everyone might as well go figure out what the hell my mom sent. I have a feeling it has to do with this damn ball.”
Everyone walks into the chair room and begins looking at boxes.
“This one has your name on it, Connor,” Xander says and points at a box. He walks over to it and everyone starts moving the boxes around and turning them. They hand boxes to each other. There is one box left that no one has said anything about.
“Little one, this one’s for you.”
I walk over and grab the box. It’s big, but not as big as their boxes. Everyone starts to walk to their rooms with their boxes. So I take mine to my room too. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do with it though, so I just set it down on my bed. I hear a phone make rumbly noises and look around. On one of the small tables next to my bed, there is my phone. I grab it and there is a new message from Sharron.
“Open it up and hang it up in your closet with the rest of your clothes, but don’t let any of the boys see it until you wear it to the ball. You are so strong, Farlen. When you’re at the ball, remember who they are to you, how they make you feel, and how safe you feel with them. Open your heart up to their love, don’t turn towards the darkness, stay in the light with them.”
I don’t know what it means, but it makes me shiver. I open the box and pull out the clothes. It’s like one of my sleep clothes, but it’s different. Starting at the top of it, it’s all white and reminds me of feathers. The feathers continue down to the bottom, but the white turns into gray, and then the gray gets darker until it turns into black at the bottom. It is very pretty. I turn it around and there’s a big part of it missing in the back. I look in the box and some shoes look like my normal shoes but nicer. Some shoes have spikes on them. I put it in my closet. While I am in there, I hear the door to my room open.
I come out of my closet, and Connor is standing there. He smiles at me and puts his hand out to me. I walk over and put my hand in his. He smiles at me again.
“Alright sweet girl, time for combat class. Everyone else left after they put up their clothes before they were late for their own classes.”
We walk hand in hand to the training field again. I don’t want to be back in the darkness. I like being in the light with all of them. I will remember what Sharron told me. I just don’t know how to open my heart to their love like she said.
When we get to the training field, Connor walks me over to the door to get changed. He squeezes my hand and then lets it go. When I go in, girls are talking in here. I go to my metal door and get my clothes out. All the talking has stopped. I look around and the pretty girl from my class with Rhi is there. She has her arms on her hips like Faith did. Her foot is tapping on the ground.
“What are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be in a different class? You’re not going to protect yourself from a fly? I mean, look at you. Maybe you’re here so they can show you how to protect you from yourself?” She flips her hair over her shoulder.
“Well, what are you waiting for? Get dressed! Come on, we don’t have all day. Let’s see what you are hiding under your clothes that have all those guys glued to your side all the damn time.” I look around for the showers. More girls surround me and block my view from the shower. Connor told me not to change clothes out here. So I just stand there and hold my clothes. One girl behind me pushes me and I fall forward. It hurts when I land on my knees. I haven’t felt pain in a long time, why does it hurt now? Is it because I can feel the guys? One girl laughs at me. I feel hands on me. They don’t feel like any of the guys and my shirt is taken off me. I try to hide my body, but another person starts pulling off my pants. I go to my happy place, and I can find it fast today. No one can hurt me here. I try to keep my ears open to hear what is going on around me, but I don’t want to feel anything they are doing to me.
“Pfft, just like I thought, nothing special about her. Yeah, she’s got big boobs but come on, mine are just as big as hers. Guess they just like freaks or sad excuses for women. Come on, girls, let’s get out there so we can stare at all the yummy muscles that are going to be on display today.”
I hear all the footsteps leave through the door. I listen for a little while more, but don’t hear anyone in the room with me. Upon coming out of my happy spot, and look around. My clothes are all over the floor. I still have my bra and panties on, though. I gather up my clothes and put them in my metal door, then go into the shower to change, like Connor said. These short pants fit me better and I don’t have to hold them up to keep them on. The shirt is still hard to breathe in, and it takes me a minute to get my boobs to stay in it. I try to make the loops in my shoe strings like Connor did, but I can’t figure it out. There’s a knock on the door. I hear Connors’ voice from the door and a knock again. I hear the door open and footsteps getting closer to me. Connor comes in and looks at me. He stares at my knees and he is breathing hard from his nose.
“I can’t do the loops in my shoes. Can you show me?”
His eyes lock onto mine, and he nods his head. Connor comes over and sits down in front of me and grabs one of my feet gently. He shows me how to do the loop with the one shoe, and when he’s done with it, he kisses my knee softly. He repeats the process with the other one.
“What happened to your knees, Farlen? Did you fall?”
“A girl pushed me down. They started taking off my clothes and I went to my happy place, so I didn’t have to feel what they were going to do to me. I kept my ears out of it, though, so I could hear when they left. Once they were gone, I went into the shower to put on the clothes like you said to do.”
He reaches out to grab me but stops and turns around and swears. He takes a lot of deep breaths and turns back to me.
“Alright, we’ll get to this class earlier so you can get dressed without being harassed. Come on, sweet girl.” He grabs my hand and pulls me from the room. He walks me over to where everyone is standing, kisses my head, and lets go of my hand. I wait for him to walk back to where the people who watch stand, but he walks over to Instructor Payne.
Instructor Payne nods at him and looks around at everyone standing here.
“Alright, for this first class, you are all going to start with the basics. I don’t care if you know them. I’ve seen people who swear they’ve had training not even know the proper fucking footwork, so shut your damn mouths. Connor, show them how they are supposed to stand.” Connor stands a little funny, and Instructor Payne smiles at him and nods his head. “For those of you who don’t have me for any of your other classes, I am Instructor Payne, and yes, you will end up feeling a lot of pain in my classes, the Gods had a sick laugh when they gave me my powers. This is Assistant Connor. As this is my largest class, he is here to help. You will show him the same respect you would show any instructor at this school, and if he tells you to do something, YOU FUCKING DO IT. Questions? Good, now all of you get into your fighting positions. If you don’t know what that is, just do what Connor is doing. I will come around and make corrections. Don’t fucking move until I tell you to.”
I try to stand like Connor is, but it doesn’t feel right. Instructor Payne walks down to the end of the line and starts talking to someone. Some girls near the middle of the line start to talk. Connors' eyes do something strange as he is looking at me. The green parts of his eyes go up in his head and I see the white parts of his eyes. He looks towards the sound of girls talking. “TALKING IS MOVING YOUR MOUTH, SHUT YOUR MOUTH OR YOU’LL BE DOING PUSHUPS UNTIL INSTRUCTOR PAYNE GETS TO YOU.”
I have never heard Connor yell like that before. It wasn’t like an angry yell, but like he wanted to be heard. His voice is usually very soft and nice, that was nice too, and it made my stomach down low, clench again. It takes a while for Instructor Payne to get to me. When he does, he nods at me. He tries to get me to move my feet in different ways, but it feels strange to do it, and one of my feet doesn’t want to move how he is saying to do it.
He walks back up to the middle of the field. “Alright, now I want everyone to watch what Connor does. He will do it slow two times and then he will do it faster after that. I want all of you to try to copy what he is doing. I am not going to walk down the line this time, but I am watching all of you. Remember your footing, and when you are done with the punch, come back into your fighting position.”
Connor reaches out and punches the air. He does it with his other hand and then stands like he was. He does it again and I try to do it. Everyone else is trying to do it as well. Connor does it again, and it reminds me of what he does down in the gym with the bag that is hanging in the air. He does it again four more times, faster and faster each time, and it is what he does to the hanging bag! Instructor Payne walks towards the other end of the line again. Connor smiles at me, and I try to do what he did again. My foot that didn’t want to turn moves funny when I punch forward and I start to fall. I hear Connor shout and see him start to move towards me, but I hit the ground before he can get there.
I feel a sharp pain through my arm. It reminds me of what HE used to do to me with knives before I stopped feeling the pain. Why is the pain back now? Connor gets over to me and I try to hide my arm.
“Let me see it, sweet girl.” I show him my arm and he yells for Instructor Payne. Some girls in the line are laughing. When he gets to us, he looks at my arm and starts feeling around in the grass. “Take her to Daniel. I’ll finish up the rest of the class. I can’t find what cut her up.”
Connor picks me up and starts to run. I can’t stop my tears, it hurts so much.
“Why does it hurt now? Before I couldn’t feel any pain, or you guys, but now I can feel all of you and things hurt now.”
“I don’t know, sweet girl, we can ask Healer Daniel when we get there. Be strong. It won’t be long until we are there.”
He starts running faster. He is breathing hard. When we get to the small hospital Healer Daniel is standing outside holding the door open. Connor slows down and walks us through the door. There is another healer holding the door open to the rooms with the beds. We walk through that one, and Connor nods at that healer. He sits me down on the bed and grabs his phone.
“I need to let the others know what happened.” He starts sending messages on his phone.
“I hear you fell in combat class and cut up your arm. Can I see it Farlen? How much pain are you in?”
I show him my arm. “It hurts a lot and I don’t understand. I haven’t felt pain in a long time and now things hurt again.”
Healer Daniel makes a sad face. And just keeps looking at my arm. “Gods have mercy.” He hisses. I look up at him.
“What is it?” Connor asks.
Healer Daniel runs his hand across his face like Rhi does. He looks around the room and nods to another healer who comes over to us.
“I am Healer Jonathan.” He says to Connor and I. “I am going to help lessen your pain, while Healer Daniel heals your arm.” His hands start to glow and he touches my head. It starts to feel much better. He backs up and walks out of the room.
“Connor, I know you’re telling the rest of them what is going on, but right now, I am going to need you to stop. I don’t need all the rest of you running in here and causing havoc.” He grabs my arm and is looking at the cut area. “I thought the bones just healed improperly, but now that I can actually see her bones, there are things carved into them. Neither my scans nor the ones from the hospital showed this. If what I thought were improper brakes on her arm is this, it makes me wonder if the rest of her bones are carved like this. I am going to see if I can heal it, and the cut.” His hands start to glow and he holds his hand over my cut. I feel the spot where my beast is, get hot again. Healer Daniel smiles down at me. His hands stop glowing and he lets go of my arm.
The first chain is broken. Soon the rest will be, and we will be free. I hear my beast say in my head.
“Is there anything else you need me for today? I think you guys still have time to make it back to combat class.”
“Uh, actually, there is something we wanted to talk to you about.” Connor rubs the back of his neck. “Farlen was telling us about some of her torture, and she said something about knives being used on her down in her lady region. Zachariah wanted you to check on her down there. He is worried we have all overlooked something. He was going to ask about a female healer, but the only one he knows of is a student, so we all agreed you’d be best.” Healer Daniel nods.
“Okay, Farlen, we are going to step out of the room for a few minutes. Why don’t you take off your shorts and underwear and lay back on the bed?” I don’t understand why now I can be naked, but I do it and lay back. A few minutes after I lay back, Connor looks in and nods behind him. He and Healer Daniel come back in and Connor grabs my hand .
“Okay Farlen, I am going to spread your legs and make sure everything is okay down here.” His hands are icy now, but I feel them move my legs. Healer Daniel closes my legs and leaves the room. I hear something crash from another room. I look up at Connor and try to do the eyebrow thing to him. I can’t feel the muscles move like I want them to.
“I don’t know what that is about. Why don’t you put your clothes back on now, sweet girl?” I stand up and put them back on. As I am pulling up my shorts, Healer Daniel walks in. “I have enough magic to heal her. Please Farlen, lay back down. I am going to have to touch your pubic region. You having your clothes on is fine, and I am sure it will make Connor feel less like killing me.” Connor helps me lie down and holds my hand tight. I see him watching Healer Daniel and he makes a strange noise, then nods his head. I can feel when Healer Daniel starts to heal me. It takes a while and then the warmth of his hands stops and he moves back.
“She may be a little sensitive for a while. Uh. Farlen, why don’t you just stay right there for a few minutes and I will talk to Connor?” I nod because I am so sleepy now. Every time we come to see Healer Daniel, I feel so tired after. I hear more loud crashing noises and open my eyes. I look around and don’t see anyone, but I don’t want to close my eyes again if someone is angry. Connor walks back into the room and just stares at me. Healer Daniel puts his hands on Connor's shoulder and is whispering to him. Connor nods at him and walks over to me. He picks me up, and it feels like he is trying to smash me into a little ball.
“Let’s head back to the training yard so you can get dressed in your normal clothes. I am so fucking sorry you went through everything, Farlen. Gods, if I could, I would go back and find you before he could hurt you.” Connor walks us back to the training field and the entire way there, it feels like something is tingling down low. Connor walks me into the changing room and gets my clothes from my locker. He walks into the shower and sets me down. He lowers me down his body and it feels so different now. My brain gets fuzzy and down there starts to tingle. Connor swallows something and then steps back.
“Get dressed, sweet girl, and we will go back to the house. You’re done for the day. When you get home, why don’t you take a nice hot bath? Have you used the jets yet?” He closes the curtain and is standing on the other side of it. I can hear him breathing and he sounds like he is taking deep breaths.
“No, I haven’t, but I will try them today,” I say as I get changed. Once I am in my clothes, I open the curtain. Connor looks at me up and down and then smiles at me. He turns around and crouches down. I remember him doing something like this when we went shopping. I walk over to him and put my arms around his throat and he grabs my legs and we walk back to the house that way. Every time he moves, it makes me think of the dream I had this morning. It’s close to what it felt like when Rhi was touching me. Connor starts to run, and I bounce against his back faster, and it starts to feel even better. It feels like something is building inside me again. Connor runs past our door and keeps going down the path. The building gets stronger and stronger. I throw my head back as it finally stops building and releases me. Connor swears and starts walking back to the house. He walks through the door and crouches down in front of my room. I slide off his back, and my panties feel wet again. Connor grabs me and kisses me. He pushes his tongue into my mouth like Rhi and Xander have done. He steps back and just looks down at me. I don’t know how to describe what his face looks like, but it makes my heart feel like it’s flying again.
“Go take your bath, sweet girl. I am going to take a shower.” He kisses me again and goes into his room. I head into my room to take my bath. I decide not to use the jets yet.