Disclaimer : All personnel engaging in various acts of sex and and other related acts are above the age of 20. Moreover in case of a supernatural or fictional character, I have made it evidently clear that they are also above the age of consent and maturity as per their specific species. The purpose of this story is to act as a vent for the reader's tensions, sexual or otherwise. I want to make it perfectly clear that, I DO NOT ADVOCATE FOR ANY SEXUAL ADVANCES TOWARDS ANYONE WITHOUT PRIOR AND CLEAR CONSENT. My goal is to merely entertain and not to promote any agenda. Please enjoy.
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Freezing winds were blowing straight against them as they walked up to the mountain pass. Since it is the heart of winter, these winds would mean that no mortal would dare venture outside their homes. He raised his only hand to the winds and felt it run through his fingers. Kennan wished he was in his native form, these winds would have felt rousing beneath his wings. But his human form should suffice for now.
"The blizzard isn't going to die soon," He said to Menna.
"I knew these lands would be cold, but why is it so blasted dark!?" she grumbled from behind him. True enough the heavy clouds have all but covered the entire sky, barely letting any light fall on this desolate mountain.
She was wearing a heavy black cloak over layers and layers of fur and held onto the cloak like a dog to a bone. Whereas he had only donned leather boots for better purchase over the snowy terrain, a simple bearskin kilt to cover his nudity and a heavy black cloak. His cloak was big enough to fit three full grown men, but on him, it barely fell past his shin and felt tight around the edges.
Menna was almost six feet tall, but still seemed like a little girl when she stood next to Kennan. He towered over her at a monstrous height of eight feet.
She was walking right behind him, using his giant frame as a windbreak. Not that he minded, he had long outgrown winter's bite. Of course it was he who carried the entirety of the supplies on his back. Menna had never borne a single knapsack in her life, at least after they had bonded.
"You might as well enchant the cloak, mistress - if the cold is too t-" he tried to tell her, but she cut me short.
"You have been hunting her for nearly a year now." She snapped back at him. "I will be damned if she gets away again; because she sensed my magic."
"Very well mistress"
The matter was not discussed further. He had been her familiar for a long time now. They have had far too many stories between them to be just Master and Familiar. As such he sometimes addresses her as an equal, as a friend and she doesn't mind: much.
They were hunting the last of the Greater Fire Dragons. Well... last of them excluding Kennan. Chroniclers say that only one beast managed to escape the purge of Ember Fields. Rest of them were either slaughtered or like him, enslaved for experiments. That was a full century ago... Now it was all up to him, the last Sire, to find the last Matron, so that their species may yet live on.
As they approached the mountain pass; the wind had started to howl as it crashed weaved through the rocks. Menna spotted a ward hidden near the entrance of the pass. "That looks like a dilapidated Sentry ward from bygone era." She always had a soft spot for historical relics, no matter how useless they were.
"The bitch has been one step ahead of us for so long. She is smart. Probably hiding amidst the ruins to throw us of her trail." he reassured her.
"She better be-" Menna sounded frustrated. "She made us travel across the sea for this and I am not going back empty handed. I will fuck her myself if I have to."
"We will find her soon, mistress" he tried to placate her, "What can you do about that thing?" He pointed to the barely visible artifact, about 15 feet above us.
"The Fall of Mordeen Empire was 6 centuries ago, my friend." She always likes to show off her vast knowledge in the history of the realm. "What you see is a relic of a civilization, lost to time. There is no way in hellfire that the rusty old construct is even functioning."
Menna just waved her hand and told him to keep walking. Even with his mistress's dismissal he was not one to leave by any potential threats. With a powerful step he leapt on a rock and again using the rock as a vantage point, he leapt towards the ward. He had scaled almost 15 feet with just two steps. With his good hand holding on to a crevice and his feet firmly planted on the sheer cliff face, he had no choice but to use his mouth. He leaned over and bit down on the construct and pulled it out; foundation and all. He bit into it and it shattered into thousand shiny bronze shards only to be picked up again by the wind and flung off into the horizon.
Satisfied with himself, Kennan loosened his grip on his purchase and fell freely down back to the stony ground with a resounding thud.
"Get up! You paranoid old lizard" Menna screamed as she kicked him in the ribs. "We are losing daylight." He barely felt it.
Kennan just got up as if the fall did nothing to him and kept on walking. Menna kept grumbling as she followed.
Another hour was passed in silence as they plodded on through the snow.
It would have been much easier if he had morphed into his true form and flew over the mountain, but that would have been too easy for any dragon to spot. After years of pursuit they had realized that the Matron had to be highly sensitive to any changes in the magic around her. Even at the smallest hint of trouble, she would bolt. They could not afford to let her escape again.
"Wait..." came a meek call from behind, it was unnerving for him to hear her voice without the tone of snide superiority it usually carried. Kennan immediately stopped in his tracks and turned around. Though Menna was a warlock with all the mastery of magic and sorcery, she was still a human. "I can always carry you" I told her, fully knowing that she will take that as an insult.
"Don't you dare" she snarled, her eyes glowing deep green with power as the rest of her body shivered in the cold. Humans are such proud creatures. "Is she able to sense even a small enchantment for warmth from so far away?"
"Matrons are extremely sensitive to changes in magic." He explained. "Especially if she is in heat".