Aphrodite's Other Daughter.
How time flies! I wrote this story almost fifteen years ago and have dragged it back out into the light from the dark secret folder I used to store my soppiest and romantic tales. It's different but please enjoy.
She is so strong, I remembered thinking. I was surprised I was able to think of anything. But there it was. Her strength! Her body was built like a gladiator, long muscled legs, arms that bulged only slightly as she carried me. My blond curls were resting against her massive bosom as she hurried along the street of the village searching for an apothecary.
"You there!" her voice boomed over my head and lightly roused me from my almost comatose state. "Where is the medicine man?"
Whomever she yelled at must have pointed in the right direction. I could feel her shift her body as she kept up her hurried pace over the cobbled streets. Her boots thumped as she sped up even more in her haste to find me assistance.
It was my own fault really. How the hell was I ever going to be of use to her if I could not even lift her sword and scabbard, let alone clean it of the blood of her enemies? I had set it up on the bench, struggling with it in my too skinny arms and long flimsy legs to place it in position. I had squatted down to retrieve my cleaning cloth and the big heavy thing had fallen because I had not placed it far enough over on the uneven surface. I did not even feel the blow but I certainly saw all the stars of the heavens as it hit me squarely in the back of the head and flattened me as easily as if she had smacked me with it herself.
Gabrielle had cried out and rushed to my side. She had not even hesitated in picking up my little body and began running down the street. I passed out. Somewhere in my mind I could feel the jostle of movement as she ran. My ear listened at her massive chest and even through the huge mounds of her breasts I could hear her heart. It was thumping hard as if the light pace she moved at was too much for even her big body. I tried to struggle to get down but my body did not obey my mental commands.
"Hold on, Kisha," my mistress cooed into my hair. "Nearly there," she whispered.
I had never heard her talk so softly. Never heard her sound so worried as the shadows, perceived through my closed eye-lids, for I could not open my eyes to look up to her and somehow tell her I was ok, flittered past as she ran past the taller buildings.
Suddenly she stopped and I felt my body lain down on a cold but somehow soft surface. I heard Gabrielle talking urgently to someone then the world went completely cold and dark.
When I awoke I was resting on my straw bed not far from the campfire that Gabrielle lit each night as we travelled. The land around me was unfamiliar and I realised that my mistress must have moved on from the village where we had spent several nights simply relaxing. I had been busy cleaning her uniforms and fighting equipment. She had spent it drinking and talking with the locals and finding out whether any of them had need of her strong arm and deadly sword.
She must be on the trail of some demon or at least some evil. She was squatting at the fire with her back to me and I could hear the sound of her whetstone running the full length of her precious sword.
"Gabrielle," I called softly. My voice was strange and I hardly recognised the sound that came from my throat.
"Who's there!" my mistress jumped to her feet and held her sword ready to attack any that came at her.
"It's just me, Gabrielle. Kisha," I said a little more loudly.
"Kisha is dead, demon!" she snarled and her sword twirled in deadly circles as she peered out into the darkness searching for the demon.
"Oh no!" I cried. "I was so useless that the sword falling upon my head killed me!"
"Do not lie to me, Demon. You know that no sword fell upon her pretty curls. Deadly poison, meant for me, hidden in her washcloths so that when she cleaned my armour and sword I would contact it with my skin. The fumes overcame her but the useless medicine man had no antidote. Now she is dead and her body gone to the flames and her ashes to the wind. Do not torment me with her memory. Come and fight me like a man or begone!" she growled into the darkness.
I remained quiet. I understood now why I had not felt the blow of the sword. Obviously the strength of the poison had hit me so hard that I had passed out as if I had been struck down. I could see the tears streaming down Gabrielle's face as she remembered me. It would do me no good to try and explain to her that my spirit, it seemed, had chosen to follow her.
I watched as Gabrielle stalked off into the darkness that surrounded her camp. She would be gone for some time if my previous experience with her was any guess. She would do several long circuits to ensure that no evil, demon or otherwise spied upon us.
I sat up in my straw bed and wondered why it had been made at all. Obviously I had not been long gone from my mistress in that she automatically gathered soft dry grass and boughs to make a second bed for her travelling companion. It would not take much. I was barely a third of her stature and my slight body did not need much to keep it comfortable from the hard ground. Despite my long legs and slender form I did not come up much further than her magnificent breasts. I sighed as I waited for her as I did when I was alive, I would not feel those wonderful globes against my face when she happened to hug me tight when she had tasted victory in one of her battles and held me in her arms in joyful celebration.
A woman appeared from the opposite side of the camp from where Gabrielle had disappeared. She was of a wondrous beauty and I could barely stand to gaze upon her very feminine form. Her large breasts, almost bare in the silky flowing gown she wore. Its transparency obvious when she came to the other side of the fire and I could see the neatly trimmed bush covering of her sex between her long legs. Her beauty and sexiness had my own cunny moistening and in shame I turned from her to look out into the darkness where my mistress had gone.
"Kisha," the woman said in the sweetest, most musical voice I had ever heard. "Kisha do not look away from me for I have something very important to tell you about my child."
I found myself compelled to turn back to the vision and was pleased that she now sat on a small mat and that her milky white teats were covered in some sort of pale blue wrap that covered her shoulders and most of her head and face. Pale blue eyes stared out at me from her hastily placed hood.
"I did not realise, child that my body would affect your sex as if you were a man. I am sorry," she said softly as I firstly looked at her eyes and then down to the ground so she could not see the lust that still burned in my body.
"I have no right to feel the burn in my cunny or the fierce hardness of my nipples in your presence, Aphrodite. It is I that must apologise," I spoke to the ground but I knew she could hear me.
"It is why you follow my daughter, Kisha. You have a deep fire inside you that she would have quenched if she had been more aware of your loving looks and attempts to provide for her every need. Listen well, my child, for if you heed my words, your dreams, and hers," she nodded to the darkness where I could hear Gabrielle trampling through the forest, "you will be granted a love everlasting and be her companion until the weaver cuts the threads that bind you here. For now, Kisha, your thread is thin and the weaver has not decided whether to cut it completely or not. You will have two nights to convince her to confess her love for you. If you cannot make her understand that her heart does have room for love then both of you shall perish on the third night."