This is a short work of erotic fiction containing furry, or anthropomorphic, characters, which are animals that either demonstrate human intelligence or walk on two legs, for the purposes of these tales. It is a thriving and growing fandom in which creators are prevalent in art and writing especially.
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Raptor RisquΓ©
"What is he doing here?"
Vellura frowned -- well, as well as a phoenix could frown with a beak. Flitting in and out of the clouds, the blue goddess of the sky wavered in the perfect expanse of blue, winter tingling on the edge of the land, curling its way into the territory of one of the most legendary dragons in the land. Of course, the dragon whose territory she was in at that time would have said that he was the most legendary above all else but, well, it wasn't always up to him. And that was just one of the ways in which they interacted, the thought of the silver-black drake that cared for her and allowed her to live sweetly and serenely in his territory warming her from the inside out, the vent of her sex heating up.
It could not be denied just how she wanted for him but there was something about seeing others about who were, sometimes, cockier and brasher than Xigfeldo himself that set her beak on edge, ruffling her feathers up the wrong way. And the raptor was just one of those that liked to do that to her as she dipped in and out of the clouds, letting the blue of her feathers mesh and meld with the great blue beyond, the tickle of colour infatuating the sky with a mating so softly sweet that it was a wonder that the world could not always be such, letting her appear and vanish as she willed.
Keither, however, seemed set to disrupt the little dip in the lake that she'd planned for herself that day, one of the last ones that she would be able to take, even with Xigfeldo's magic to help warm her. The drake's body, of course, ran cold and warming herself on his scales had long ago been deemed to be a lost cause, though one could not fault a phoenix from trying. Huffing, Vellura clicked her beak and shook her head disapprovingly down at the raptor floating in the lake, paddling and swimming, although he didn't seem to be making much headway. He had his blue wings outstretched, so like hers in colour though surely not as sweetly rich in the shade, sculling him along the surface, his head tilted back as if... Well... That much, she couldn't say... What was he doing?
It wasn't like her to be so short-tempered, although even that display of it was unusual for her, but there was something about him... The raptor made her hot under her feathers, body wiggling in flight, the tingling heat creeping through her, although it was far from stealthy. With a pair of big, azure wings half folded against his back, he drifted in the lake as his feathers fluttered lightly in the undercurrent of the water, though one may have expected his elbows to boast feathers too where they, in fact, displayed spikes that could be useful if he ever had cause to defend himself. A bright crest of like-coloured blue feathers framed his head, though his skin was purple and maybe it was that violet, shimmering through different shades, depending on the time of day and how the light hit him, that made her stir up with jealousy so for him, wanting something even if she didn't quite understand it.
Sculling beneath her, the raptor swam and dived, paddling curiously deeper, head completely under the water even though it was well-known that he was not the best of swimmers. If he wanted someone in the territory to teach him how to swim well, he'd have to speak to Xigfeldo about that. The dragon frequently went down to the ocean (a secret that he had promised to, eventually, let Vellura in on) and there was no doubt that he was plunging into the ocean like an oceanic dragon, twisting into his water affinity with open relish. After all, not even he could deny just how his scales returned tainted with salt water, a lick and a taste that a creature did not forget in a while.
Vellura chirped and clicked her beak again, though there was a little more curiosity in it as she flew lower, her gaze fixed on the raptor as if she was a raptor preparing to plunge from the sky itself. But she was no predator, eating a strictly vegetarian diet, and her desire came from another place entirely, even if she was yet to learn of that. Since she'd fallen pregnant, stripping her own virginity away by (happily) screwing the dragon while he'd been conked out asleep in the midst of a storm, tucked away in his cave, she had become rather a different phoenix in herself. It was not entirely that she had been quiet or demure at all before but perhaps less experienced in herself and the ways of the world, all that the world could do for her.
And, now... Now, she could learn just who Vellura truly was.
Dipping, she floated down like an angel from the heavens above, late autumn sunshine shimmering over her beautiful wings, the glittering blue catching the eye of all that she allowed to behold her. Xigfeldo's personality may well have rubbed off on her but that was no matter as she puffed up her chest, eyeing the raptor with more than mere interest but something more too, her tail fanning out as his floated, sodden, atop the water.
Only when she grew close did Keither look up, the purple raptor grinning with a baring of his teeth, gleaming in the sunshine, water streaming from his jaws.
"Hello there," he murmured pleasantly, kicking his way to shallower water where the shore was rocky with smooth pebbles, worn that way by the weather. "Fancy seeing you out here. Aren't you usually hidden away somewhere?"
His tone was lighter and more teasing than she would have liked and Vellura could not help her breath rushing out in a sigh that was rather a side more exasperated than it had any right to be.
"Surely!" She snapped. "But why are you here? I was going to have a bath today!"
"Just today?" Scooting out of reach, his feet scraped pebbles, scrabbling for purchase where they were slippery with algae in the shallower water, which at least allowed him to stand rather than scull in place. "I thought birds like you enjoyed being clean, or is that only the ones that are let out of their cages?"
He teased but he didn't know Vellura well enough to tease and darted back with a squawk and an unduly large mouthful of water that did nothing to help him breathe, coughing and spluttering, eyes wide. The phoenix clicked her beak and fluttered, beating her wings hard to stay aloft, which was a difficult feat when she was trying her very best to hover just above the water, stirring up the surface into a myriad of clashing ripples and ridges. The tiny waves met a swift fate, disappearing into the body of the lake, and Keither shook his head, feathers slicked down with water, though his eyes gleamed. Maybe the phoenix was more interesting, after all, than the docile, boring bird he'd before taken her to be, at least from a distance...
"You're a sharp one," he said, warier now that the phoenix had shown that she was quick, though she trembled so much above him that that little lunge didn't seem to be rooted all that much in reality or sensibility. "What's got you in a fuss today then, little bird? Did our dragon not take care of your needs well enough? I would have thought that he was looking after you well enough from the amounts of treasures displaced from the hoard that he's been hunting through to present you with trinkets."
Vellura shivered. Those had been nice... Jewels and gold and curiosities that tickled her fancy, that made her feathers stick up in funny ways, the heat in her feminine vent rising out in a heady pulse of blood. But it was not so, not in the way that Keither meant, breath catching in her throat as the curve of her breast bone trembled faintly.
What did it all mean?
"No..."
And, just like that, the fight went out of her, her wings heavier than ever, drooping, eyelids soft and closing, half-lidded over eyes weary of the mere act of seeing itself. Her tail drooped first, trailing in the water, and he rushed to her at the moment that her strength left her, so smoothly that it was as if she was but a stone plunging into the depths of the lake. He skimmed stones, sometimes, using a sharp and smart snap of his head and neck to cast it out over the water when it was perfectly smooth with nary a ripple but the raptor had no intention of seeing her sink like one. His arms were not the longest in the world but they were strong enough to catch her, feather soaked, her head dipping briefly below the surface before he managed to yank her up, struggling and gasping, tail beating.
It was not the intended use for a tail in the water, indeed, but Keither managed to point it down, forcing them up to the surface, Vellura in his arms as she barely struggled, the phoenix blinking blearily. In the moment, not even she knew where she was, although the coolly unpleasant sensation of lake water thoroughly dousing her was not the bath that she had intended to take, feeling cloying and heavy rather than fresh and light and clean.