Author's Note: This story came from Golden Wind's Predator fic, Finding the True Gift, which the story link can be viewed on my Bio. There's also an Inspirational/Concept Art drawing of the main character that was drawn by Saera, it too can be viewed on my Bio.
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The hunt . . .
Juti swung at her opponent's upper chest but was blocked and then countered, but the counter was out maneuvered as she preformed a graceful back flip, the talons of her toes catching the bottom chin of her opponent making the person's guard drop momentarily in a painful carrying growl. Juti wasted no time as she landed on her feet then ran and fell to the floor where she skidded to the opponent, kicked her legs out and then around the opponent's legs tripping the person whose back hit the padded floor of the kehrite causing a loud thud to echo throughout the room. Slightly dazed, there was a second delay before the opponent's thoughts could gather. Because of the delay, Juti had a slight advantage now and jumped back to her feet twirling her training staff into another position, but as she was lowering it her opponent swatted at the moving staff causing it to become inbalanced in her hands and kicked up both legs bringing the torso with then spun bringing the right leg high for a hit but Juti was quick and she caught the leg pinning the big calf between her right arm and side. Her opponent though was clever and agile. With the bounce of one muscle toned leg the opponent moved into the air spinning then slammed the free leg onto the side of her face that caused both of them to tumble to the floor and her staff to fly from her grasp. She didn't know he could do that.
A second after hitting the floor, her long time mate, Tahui, jumped back to his feet using the same leg, torso-pulling method and moved for her in a growl. Like Tahui, Juti herself had become dazed from the hit, but this time was a longer amount of time. Her head clouded and pounding as she fought back to her feet and half way up suddenly felt the hard knee of her mate ram into the middle of her diaphragm causing her to gasp and sharp pains to spread through that area and fell onto the knee. Pain laden now, she felt his cupped hands slam onto the middle of her back knocking the wind right out of her and that's when Tahui removed his knee allowing her to fall.
She hit the floor which had actually helped in expanding her locked lungs allowing the air to spill in but had taken in more then her lungs could hold and began coughing of it. The jars from her coughing made the pain around her diaphragm swell and grow that made her breathing all the more complicated.
"Breathe Juti, breathe." Came from the loving voice of her mate. Though his voice, like every other Yautja, was gruff and cracked almost, it was still gentle and calming.
And that's just what she did, or at least tried to. Her cough now a mix of a gasp and wheeze as she tried breathing normally.
"Juit?" Tahui said worriedly before rolling his mate onto her back.
Eyes tightly shut and mandibles open, Juti tried to breathe but all that came from her mouth were wheezes. She inhaled deeply before painfully exhaling and fought to preform the exercise again. The pain not growing nor was it subsiding, it just kept on aching.
"Juti?" he yelled, this time shaking her shoulders, "Come on, Juti!" After receiving no response he sluggishly scooped her into his arms and with a grunt lifted her up. She was small for being female but wasn't exactly light either, their heights matched to the notch and though she was leaner still had a decent amount of weight on her that would cause any regular sized male, like he, strain to pick her up. Then he turned and whisked her away to the medical lab.
Juti had passed out when she arrived at the medical lab, causing her only dreams to become a vast sea of blackness. She had finally woken with a low moan to a warm bed and familiar scents then her mate's voice came to her ears followed by the soft patter of his footsteps. She slowly turned her head to the direction she heard him and seen he had been cleaning armor and readying weapons, preparing for the upcoming hunt on the Ooman planet. And she knew he would have gone without due to her injury.
"Tahui." She said softly as he placed a knee on their soft pelt laden bed and lowered his upper torso over hers.
"How are you feeling?" He asked.
Juti closed her eyes for a moment and breathed out. Since he mentioned it, she was feeling tingles in her diaphragm, and her back felt sore but was feeling better then before. "Better." She said. There was a moment of silence before Juti spoke up at something that was tugging at her mind. "What happened to me?"
Tahui positioned his mandibles into a Yautja version of a smirk. "Apparently, I had struck your diaphragm with so great a force that it had caused your lungs to exhale then lock. The force on your back only added to your troubled breathing."
Juti smiled then pushed herself onto one elbow causing her to wince when her lower chest area and back tightened as she looked to the massive pile of belongings. Her belongings of weapons and armor were amongst his own and she still knew he would have left her, but also knew he would prefer her to accompany him. Though knowing him all to well, she still had to ask because she just liked hearing the concern in his gruff voice when he tried acting like he didn't care. "If I was seriously injured," she said, "would you of left still?"
He chuckled slightly and averted his blazing yellow eyes from hers as she spoke. "Yes." He said, trying to sound as bland and cold as possible.
Juti lifted her mandibles into a smile as she lifted her arm wrapping it around his neck pulling his head to hers and ran the right side of her mandibles across his.
It was instantaneous. Tahui reacted in a deep thrumming purr and shudder of his body then replied the gesture. He pulled at the soft pelts and shifted his weight until the furs were off Juti's already naked body and he was on top her.
Juti's heart raced with anticipation and excitement as she positioned her body where the top middle of her legs would rub against his rapidly growing groin. She smiled inwardly when low gruff like growls emitted from the deepness of his throat indicating it was completely pleasurable to him.
They played with each other's mandibles for a few moments before Tahui ran his mandibles away from hers and slowly down the softness of her slender neck as his right hand fondled a firm breast.
The feeling made Juti giggle at first from the sensitive areas of her neck that was ticklish but soon started moaning pleasurably with closed eyes as her talons brushed up and down her mate's hard and muscular sides.
Tahui quickly removed his chest harness, something all blooded males wore when not in their armor, followed by his loincloth where his now fully hardened maleness fell to the bed then removed his sandals. Once his sandals were off, he positioned himself above Juti and with a little handling slid between her legs.
The two passive warriors growled in pleasure as it had been some time since they mated.
Being a Yautja wasn't exactly the easy life of hunting and fighting, there were laws that had to be abided no matter what, and mating were one of them. Each clan of females assigned one or two females every second planetary passing to bare offspring, and what females disobeyed the law of their Grandmothers were exiled or executed.
The thought brought on a memory Juti tried not to think of, of how seriously the clans abide by their laws for it was her beloved daughter, Raja, who had fallen victim to their law by being executed. She had foolishly fallen in love with a rogue male and would have gone to the ends of the galaxy for him, the extent of his love for her was the same, and because of that love they had created a life outside the assignment. The child still in her womb, she was publicly speared straight through the heart and her lover not being able too bare the burden, killed himself by plunging his own knife deep into his gut.
This was only the first passing, and it was not Juti's turn within her clan to bare any offspring. So now, until it was her time, she and Tahui resorted to mating well past her cycling stage around a time when her ovals were less ripe. A few more days afterwards then for the oval neutralize drugs to take affect. After waiting for so long the two were ready for each other.
Eyes closed, her deceased daughter slipped from her mind as Tahui hugged his muscle packed body to her and nuzzled the side of her face as he slowly began moving back and forth. She wheezed slightly when her pains rose but didn't tell him to stop. Her hands gripping the edge of the bed and pelts, she relaxed her back as the hormone driven feeling of mating overwhelmed her body. Tahui's massiveness and of the fact she hadn't mated recently sent a burning sensation through her private, this would most likely mean to Tahui he was enjoying her most of all because of her tightness now. It would be mere moments before she would forget about her pains, lost in her own pleasures from his continuous movement for a few more minutes before it would end.
Tahui was purring now, his once steady movement had turned into nearly violent shoves that sent Juti howling from the pain and pleasure. His fierce heart beating faster and faster with every move, instincts controlling his desires to move and shove at the precise moment when he would feel the perfect spurt of absolute pleasure.
Raking her talons down his broad back, Juti first began moving against his momentum slightly lifting herself up and around him completely covering his shaft during his thrusting. Later she had begun moving with his fast movement until his shaft pulsed causing him a ruplte growl meaning the passion was about to end. Her mate's movement suddenly changed to full body motion as he moved in and out causing Juti to grasp his body and shudder when she too began pulsing with pleasure.
Tahui growled as he laid his sweaty head onto the arch of Juti's neck and gripped the bed just as his body shuddered then stiffened, then he along with is mate howled as they breached their passionate pleasures.
A final movement as one ended the feeling then Tahui collapsed and they relaxed in each other's arms.
Hours later the ship had broken through the planet's atmosphere and made its way to the northern, colder regions of the planet. Most Yautja usually went for the warmer regions, but all the crewmen believed the coldness presented more of a challenge, hence colder regions were sought out more often. It wasn't like the Oomans fled from the colder regions, it was even recorded by their explorers that the Oomans actually live on the North and South poles of the planet. Not even a Yautja would live in such weather conditions, but the Oomans did.
Juti shifted her weight, anxious to get out and start the hunt. Her mid-back length locks were braided in the usual Yautja tradition accustomed to the males, but she had also pulled and tied it back. She was wearing a heavy assortment of cold weather gear, the armor a light hue of blue covered almost every part of her pale yellow skinned body where on her chest plate, about the size of a male's fist was the insignia of her clan. The markings of the insignia held a straight line, one wavy line above it that was topped with a circle, it meant Rising Sun that stood for the dawn of a new clan era, that every day could be met with success. Her weapons limited to a Combistick, Shuriken, Net Gun, double-length Wrist Blades and a medley of knifes.
Tahui sensed her anxiety and grunted as he moved in behind her rubbing his front to her back and taloned hand ran up her side groping what skin he could grab as he laid the front of his mask against her thin armored neck running the mouth of the mask up and down in hot desire. The sensation was turning her on, but the thought of hunting was greater and was able to keep her hormones at bay. What crew members were at the ramp who wanted the first step onto the alien land turned to them but said nothing of it, it wasn't like they hadn't done the same thing with their female companions.
Silently, their middle-aged commander ordered the ramp down and all within the hallway transcended down the ramp. The area was rocky, wet and cold lush with a vastness of tall pointy trees with thin branches, a single branch could hold only one Yautja, two would cause it to give way and snap. There were three species of four-legged beasts in this area that posed as potential prey. One was a wild dog that was the least dangerous but still had a set of sharp teeth that were intelligent. The second were big cats and though not as intelligent as the dog posed as good prey due to their sharp claws and teeth that were extremely agile. The dangerous of the three animals were giant, fat and fur barring mammals that the Oomans called a Grizzly, though not exactly the smartest creature to Yautja standards still posed as good prey. Their jaws consisted of two rows of big teeth with so great of pressure force per square inch could break a Yautja's arm with a single bite, their strength and pure weight could crush bones and the claws alone could rip open gaping holes. Oomans did not live in the area, but a Yautja could never be too sure.
Juti turned in the direction Tahui and she had picked on the ship's maps that led to hills of rocky terrain and trees with massive waterfalls. They were after the Grizzly's so had decided to track in that direction since the area is most likely where Grizzly's would be found due to that their source of food and shelter would be in that direction. Then the two silently disappeared into the nearby forest.