A Goddess Gift to Leinyere Amazons.
Each Queen's woman wage war against Orcs, impregnated by few men.
#### Disclaimer. This is completely imaginary fiction. The word "war", with spells and spears, has nothing to do with the Readers' real life but is set in a Fantasy land populated by dragons and orcs. The word "AMAZONS" is only used to convey a concept familiar to readers of the site, by analogy. But it has nothing to do with the Amazons of classical Greek mythology, such as Queen Hippolyta and her legendary Belt (which was a strap-on, perhaps). Women warriors can be found in all the oldest chronicles and mythologies, including Athena, Hippolyta, Camilla, Mulan, Bradamante, the Viking shieldmaidens, the Dahomey Fusiliers, the Air Witches, and many others.
A contribution to Tales of Leinyere Story & Art Event 2023.
All the characters are over 18 years old. English is not my mother tongue, forgive the mistakes. ####
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0. A True Introduction.
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'Fuck me, husband! Get me pregnant! Again, again! Wake up, I know we've already done it twice, but I want you to fuck me again, I can't go into the trenches one more time!"
The husband woke up, yawning. It was the middle of the night, and they had already done it twice before falling asleep. "But darling, I'm tired, my back is sore, and I have a headache..."
"Enough of the usual excuses that you fool husbands use! Fuck me and don't waste time, get me pregnant!"
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Chapter 1. The Goddess' Great Gift to the Whole Nation
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Once upon a time, long ago, in the land of Leinyere, there was a border between two very hostile peoples. A duchy of humans, and a horde of orcs, in the land of Podl'adom.
Two dynasties of rulers ordered their subjects to fight strenuously.
The orcs only obtained the help of many peoples as allies on a single occasion: afterward, irreconcilable quarrels over prestige and misunderstandings arose, and that alliance was never possible again. But that year, the orcs and their numerous allies killed almost all the Men of that People, as soldiers in the trenches, with very rare exceptions of convalescing wounded, the elderly, and some children too young to walk.
The women-scribes who wrote the chronicles of that huge war called it 'The Extermination of the Males', even though it was 'almost' an extermination, with a handful of survivors.
Almost all members of the Human dynasty died in battle.
Remaining on the throne was the king's daughter, who, despite being only 25 years old, had all her hair white, suddenly shriveled with grief. They called her Zakilah, which means The Young Canute Queen.
In the Great Temple in the center of the Capital City, Queen Zakilah gathered the wisest priestesses and handmaids, a total of 43 women. Standing before the altar, the queen addressed a prayer to the Cat Goddess, Abasis.
"Oh, almighty Goddess of Birth and Death, give my people what they need to survive this hateful war!"
Probably the candid queen meant to ask for more sons, who could fight in the trenches against the orcs.
But the Goddess was wise, much wiser than humans.
The statue was covered in a violet glow and this inscription appeared on the temple wall: "This is the gift of the Cat Goddess. For every male child, ten female daughters will be born to you. In this way, your people will be saved from extinction, and each of you will bless me forever."
The bright glow disappeared. All the women, including the queen and the priestesses, realized they were pregnant: perhaps it was part of the goddess's magic, but they all knew immediately and without a shadow of a doubt the sex of the child that would be born nine months later.
Only four handmaids said they were pregnant with a son. Four boys and 40 girls.
One priestess was horrified. "A girl child! Who will not be able to fight against the Orcs! What a disgrace!"
But the queen stopped her. "Do not dare take a future female warrior from your Queen. You have not understood the value of the Goddess' gift. But I have understood. Obey me!"
The priestess immediately knelt down.
The queen stepped out onto the balcony and addressed the people gathered in the square.
"You have heard the voice of the Goddess. From today on, all women will serve as fighters in the trenches, in the war against the orcs. By contrast, all the very few males will serve as stallions, and will remain here, protected within the walls of the castle in the center of the capital city."
Immediately, the queen convened a war council, with her own court of female generals and female admirals. Sitting limply inside a whirlpool (fed by waterfall mills), naked or nearly naked in the absence of males, the women debated whether to enter into an eternal peace or to wage war to the bitter end.
All, without exception, decided to carry on the war until the complete extermination of the enemy army. The queen nodded.
The generalesses decided to conscript all women over the age of eighteen and send them all to the front. Only the women who were wounded or convalescing would remain in the capital city.
"Aren't you afraid that the ogres will abuse our female soldiers?"
The queen silenced the objections. "Speak no-nonsense, dear lady Changeling, are you under the illusion that when the orcs captured a male warrior, they respected the integrity of his genital apparatus?"
All the women kept silent. Perhaps they had underestimated the suffering of the men captured by the orcs.
The queen pointed her finger at the magic map her father had obtained from the Guild of Magic Mapmakers.
"Look! This map is magic. The letter of request was written using the vaginal humours of my mother, the late queen. The cartographer who made the sketch must have been particularly enthusiastic about cumming, because the details are so precise.
Now all the liquids have turned into inks of different colours, but before it was orgasmic liquids and drops of royal blood. Do you see? If I point my finger at the parchment, it enlarges and shows more detail. If I move my hand away, the map shrinks.
Look closely at the map. The only fortified and safe place is the Royal Palace, with its gardens and farms within the Great Walls. The orcs make their raids on the plains, but they have never reached here.
I propose that from this day forward the Palace be dedicated to the repose of the few remaining males of our People. In safety. From the front, the girls in their most fertile period will be sent to the Palace on Leave. Each will be assigned a "husband" for four days, so that as many as possible may be pregnant.
Our People need sons and many daughters. This is the Gift of the Cat Goddess, and we shall take advantage of the gift. Whatever trade or task is done by males, ten females will also have to do it: carrying marble, slaughtering cattle, grinding grain, and even fighting orcs. I want female farmers, female hunters, female fishermen, and female merchants. But above all, I want women warriors."
As the young queen spoke, she moved her hand left and right. All the women present saw the opportunities for work: the beehives for bee honey, the vineyards for wine grapes, the beaches with fish to catch, the swamp with prey to hunt.
"Perhaps we are not fit to face the orcs with swords and spears. We will use bows. Ten women with ten arrows can stop a charging orc. Also, a girl who can use a bow can be useful as a hunter in the woods. I propose compulsory military service of twenty years. Maybe twenty-five... no, here: twenty-seven. Every woman will donate her years between eighteen and forty-five to the People."
"But your majesty! In this way, our People will have no more children!"
The Queen's eyes twinkled. "Don't talk bullshit!" (all the women recoiled in fright). "I WANT my female soldiers to get pregnant. The prize, for each pregnancy, will be nine months Leave at the palace, plus three years of looking after the babies; and if a young mother gets pregnant again, she can go on for life bearing new children!"
A woman wearing a general's hat (perhaps she was the wife, or the daughter of a commander killed in battle) asked, amidst large drops of tears: "I too am pregnant by the will of the Cat Goddess, but my daughter will only be able to fight in fifteen or twenty years. How will we endure all that time?"
The Queen smiled to reassure her. "The elves owe many favours to my father. He was too proud to ask for their help, but I am not him. I will ask the elves to keep the orcs busy for ten years, maybe twenty. We will give birth and educate our daughters to fight, for themselves and their daughters."
"And how will we convince the Elves?"
"My father had a collection of valuable magical maps, which he and my grandfather had acquired from the Magical Mapmakers. Some ancient, some new. All are very valuable. He also owned some funny globes: I don't know what to make them for, since the earth is flat. But still, they are collectibles. I know that the king of the elves likes these trinkets, gizmos, and thingamabobs. We will send an embassy with a proposed alliance, with some maps, atlases, and globes as gifts. As bait. If he accepts, he will have the whole collection little by little, month by month, year by year. We don't need them, and he, like all male rulers, craves this kind of nonsense."
The king of the elves rejoiced like a child: to secure the complete collection, he committed his subjects to a war of twenty years' duration. And this allowed people on the brink of extinction to reproduce and start anew.
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Chapter 2. Lucky Girls.