It was the third day after her fight with Viper and as she suspected, it had not been over. However, they hadn't fought again. No, instead Kenzie had found herself sleeping alone for the past two nights. She didn't like it. She had become so use to sleeping next to him, that she would wake up and reach for him several times throughout the night. Only to become increasingly more disappointed when he wasn't there.
He avoided her throughout the day. Locking himself away in the weapons room. If she happened to catch him outside of it, he would simply bypass her without a word. It hurt, but Kenzie could not say she blamed him. She had all but questioned his ability to keep her safe. She had questioned the way he felt about her.
She had spoken to C'bra and he explained to her that a male yautja prided themselves on being able to take care of and defend their mates. The fact that she thought he wouldn't defend her had she been seriously in trouble had hurt him. Kenzie felt like crap after hearing that.
Though the blame was not only hers to hold. She hadn't been in their society long. She was still learning their customs. She and Viper were teaching each other, but she suspected that she should have known what C'bra had explained to her. So, for that, she had no excuse.
Kenzie threw a right at Ma'iss as she came out of her thoughts. He sidestepped her sending her past him, but she had expected as much. She whipped her left leg around the kick him in the side, and he barely caught it, holding it in his hand and Xile called for him to wait.
She had decided to continue her training with Ma'iss and the day after he'd given her a beaten she was glad to know that Xile would be working with them as well. Especially, since Viper hadn't shown up. He walked up behind her and placed his hands on her hips and twisted them.
"You need to rotate your hips more for power. You are small, but if you do this correctly, against a yautja you could crack ribs. Against and ooman you could incapacitate." He told her before releasing her quickly and stepping out of the way.
Ma'iss released her leg and Kenzie immediately went in for the attack. She faked a left hook before sending her right foot into his shin. It brought him down to one knee and she took advantage. She used his body to assist her as he stepped on his leg, before bringing her left knee up and hitting him in face. This pulled a growl from him as his head snapped back. She then kicked him in the chest. Sending him onto his back on the mat.
She had gotten better of the past couple of days. Not that she had been bad before. He had caught her off guard then. They had practice eight hours the day following her fight with Viper, and ten hours the day before. Because their days were longer it wasn't strange for them to train so much. However they had to take breaks in between for her sake. Yet, she was determined. If her mate wanted her to be better, then that's exactly what she was going to be.
He was too big for her to put him in any type of submission hold, instead she placed the heel of her combat boot against his throat. She realized too late that she hadn't incapacitated his arms and he swept one behind her legs, sending her to her back on the mat. Ma'iss moved quickly and hovered over her his hand going to her throat.
Using a maneuver she learned in basic training, she brought her feet up and drove the heels of both of her boots into his sides repeatedly, until he release her. She gasped for air as she brought her right elbow up and hit him in the face with all her strength, hearing the cracking of his mandible as he let out a hiss and reared back away from her.
Kenzie used her feet to kick him in the stomach as he was on his knees before rolling away from him and getting to her feet. He was on his immediately as well. He threw a right at her, but Kenzie used both of her hands to block him. Pushing his fist down and to the side, causing him to lean over a bit. She brought her left knee up, driving it into his side.
She didn't think it hurt him too bad and was proven right as he grabbed her up by the front of her shirt with his left hand. Kenzie was not in the mood to be thrown again. Bringing her legs up, she locked them around his arm and shoulder before locking her arms around his arm as well.
He shook his arm trying to get her off and she could hear a rumbling coming from Xile. When he brought his other hand up to assist in getting her off, she took the foot that was up by his shoulder and kicked him in the neck. It caused him to release the hold on her shirt and Kenzie immediately released her legs dropping to the floor.
Her stomach growled and it was then that she remembered how long they had been training. They had gotten started a little after breakfast and had been training for the most part since then, with only short water breaks for her in between.
"We will resume shortly after lunch." Xile spoke and Kenzie nodded.
Making her way out of the kehrite she walked into the kitchen to find Rou'e cutting up some fruit and placing it on a plate. She walked over to him and took a piece before nibbling on it.
"Hello, Kecil." He greeted before finishing cutting up the last of the fruit and then placing it on the plate which he then slid to her.
Kenzie smiled at him gratefully and took the plate to the table. She sat down and he joined her a minute later with two cups and a plate of meat. She took her cup from her and took a drink just as C'bra walked into the kitchen. As he passed by her to the other side of the table, he stole a piece of her fruit.
"That was mine." She told him. He simply shrugged popping it into his mouth before sitting across from her.
Kenzie was the oldest in her family, so she never knew what it was like to be a younger sibling. That was, until she had met C'bra, Ca'tor and Rou'e. She would definitely have to say they were all like big brothers and it wasn't due to the fact that they were Viper's actual and clan brothers, or the fact that they were older than her. Though the latter was a bit of the reason, but they simply treated her like a little sister.
She had learned that if a male gave you something, or did something for you, then he was attempting to mate with you. So, she had been a bit skeptical the first time Ca'tor had made her a plate in the dining hall a couple of weeks back. However, C'bra had assured her that he didn't mean anything by it and they each saw her as a warrior. As part of their clan of brothers, just as a sister. She had no reason not to believe him and they hadn't tried anything with her.
"How has the training been going, Kecil?" Rou'e questioned pulling her attention.
"Pretty good. I get to beat on Ma'iss, so that's always fun." She responded, causing the two males to laugh.
"You've been putting in many hours." C'bra stated. "Don't push yourself to hard. We will be landing at our destination in about a cycle. You should try to actually sleep longer tonight as well." He told her giving her a knowing look.
"I would. If my mate wasn't giving me the cold shoulder and actually cared that I couldn't sleep without him." She stated sadly.
C'bra reached out and stole another piece of fruit from her plate. "His pride is hurt, but it does not mean he doesn't care."
Kenzie sat and ate the rest of her fruit while Rou'e and C'bra kept her company. With the latter stealing food from her plate every now and then. She had finished eating when Ca'tor came in and informed her that she had a transmission call from her brother. She thanked him before heading towards the control room to speak to him.
Viper sat in the weapons room re-cleaning his weapons and armor. Though he knew they couldn't be any more spotless. He had been ignoring his little mate for the last several cycles. It was becoming increasingly harder, but it was proving effective. She had been training longer, harder and she was improving. Xile and Ma'iss both were impressed by how much she had learned in such a sort time and kept him updated.
Though he knew it was taking a toll on both of them he was staying away because she had hurt his pride. She had insulted the very thing that he would hold above anything else and that was his ability to protect and keep her safe.
He truly had known that she was in no real harm when fighting Ma'iss. There was no way his clan brother would have seriously hurt her. However, he neglected the fact that his mate was ooman and that her emotions drove a lot, if not all, of her decisions and reactions.
Then to make matters worse, she thought he simply had not cared. He could admit that his tone may have sounded indifferent, but that was far from the case. He had been trying to remain calm in the hopes that it would have helped Kenzie remain calm and not get hysterical. It had done the exact opposite and she had lashed out at him, struck him.
Viper had been momentarily angry with her, because she had not been able to hit him when he tried to train her, but her anger seemed to give her a sense of fuel. He had grabbed her by the shirt and thrown on her on the bed. Though it hadn't hurt her, he did feel bad about treating her that way. He knew that a female of his species would have beaten him for trying something like that. He was lucky she was not one.
Her assumptions had led him to a revelation. She did not know the extent in which he cared for her. He thought he had been showing her, making it very clear. However, if she doubted him and actually felt as if he would have let her be seriously, irreparably injured then she truly did not know the depth that his feelings ran. That he indeed did cherish her.
Sighing, Viper placed down the armor that he was polishing. He hadn't realized that he shifted from polishing his own armor to polishing his mates. It was a simple chest and back plate. It would protect her easily, but not restrict her movements in any way. She was against the piece saying it would weigh her down, but he'd had it made for her and so she agreed to at least bring it along, even if she didn't wear it.
Placing her armor down, he hissed at himself in frustration. They would be landing within a day or so and he didn't want the distance between he and his mate to be a burden to either of them when they arrived and hinder them in anyway. So, he rose from where he sat leaving the weapons room in search of her.
He tracked her to their sleeping quarters, but as he entered he didn't see her. He listened for a moment and he could hear the shower running in the lavatory. Taking a seat on the bed, Viper waited for her to finish up and come out.
When she did and she saw him, she stopped straight in her tracks. She had a cloth wrapped around her body and he couldn't stop himself from appraising her. His sex organ twitched and his first instinct was to remove the offensive cloth from covering her, but he held himself back as hard as it may have been.
"What are you doing in here?" She questioned.
"Last time I checked it was our sleeping quarters. Until you banished me, that is." Viper watched as she bit her lower lip before he continued. "I do not wish to continue this fight. I do not like being away from you."
He watched as his little mate glared at him before gutting her chin out defiantly and he knew, somewhere in what he said, it had been the wrong thing.
"You're the one that has been avoiding me, Viper. Not the other way around."
"Did you not order me away from you?" He questioned,
"Wasn't it you who said I couldn't banish you from our quarters and yet you left."
"Because it is what you wanted."
"For the night, Viper! Not the last three days."
This was not going at all the way he wanted it to. He took a deep breath and let it out in a huff before reaching out for her. Slowly, his little mate walked over to him and he placed his hands on her waist.
"We are both still learning each others' customs. I am no master of ooman interaction as you are not of yautja ones. In my culture if a female sends your from her room you do not return until she summons you. You must be more specific in telling me what you want of me McKenzie and I will work harder on conveying my emotions."
Viper didn't miss the widening of her eyes as he said her name. It was the first time he had ever called her that. It was usually mate, little mate, or Kenzie. However, he wanted her to know the seriousness and truthfulness behind what he had claimed.
He watched as she slowly nodded at him before leaning in and kissing his top right mandible. Then all three of the others. Viper picked her up to straddle his lap before he locked his mandibles to her cheeks like usual. This time, however, when he stuck his tongue out to trace her lips, it came in contact with hers.
H'bu was walking down the corridor back to his living quarters when he saw something small move out of the corner of his eye. He stopped in his tracks, not believing it was what he thought it to be. Taking a small knife from his hip he let it fly in the direction of the creature. Hitting it straight on.
Walking over, the elder pick the knife up and looked at the insect before turning in the opposite direction to where he had been going. Coming to the door he was looking for, it opened for him and he saw S'vyn pacing the room.
"Tell me you did not let the Kr'toh loose." He clicked in irritation.
His entrance had startled the younger male and he could see the fear in his eyes as the elder's irises bore into him.
"No." S'vyn stated. "I did not." He paused for a moment and tacked on quietly. "But the older ooman male did."
H'bu stared at him for a long moment. His first instinct was the surge across the room and wring the younger male's neck, however, he wasn't directly at fault. Though the elder still felt he should have kept a better eye on his lab partner. No, this was C'bra's fault as well as his own. His pup had come to him asking that he give the man permission to work with the S'vyn. He had been against it at first, but figured it would help all of his research go along faster after hearing the penchant the ooman male had for the sciences.
Now, the Kr'toh was loose and it had multiplied. The one he had killed was far too small to be the one he remembered seeing S'vyn with. He wasn't sure how long it had been missing and he was afraid to ask. For all he knew the ships walls could be crawling with them.
They multiplied easily. All it took was them getting water into their systems and each one would split in two. They could infest the whole ship. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that when they grew to maturity, which could take up to seven cycles, they ate any and everything.
Shaking his head, H'bu brought up his wrist computer to order in extermination gas and for a message to be broadcast throughout the ship to put on hazard masks when he heard a scream from down the hall. He knew that voice, had gotten used to if over the past five years and headed down to C'bra's residence at break neck speed.
There was his daughter-in-law, as she told him several years ago, Sonja, standing in the hallway with a cloth wrapped around her body. H'bu growled at the few young males that began to purr at her and they quickly averted their gazes as he walked to her open door. What he saw almost made him want to curse Paya. Kr'toh were crawling all over her living quarters.
H'bu heard a few more screams and as he looked down the hall he saw his granddaughter sprinting towards him. She flung herself at him and he wrapped an arm around her. He glanced down at her and noticed her shirt was tattered before looking in the direction she had come from.
Kr'toh were scuttling down the hall like a wave of red and yellow. Pauk. H'bu cursed to himself as he quickly sent out the alert for everyone to don hazard masks within the next five minutes and ordered the extermination gas be released in the next ten.
Picking up his granddaughter, who seemed shaken, and from the looks of her shirt he would say the insects had tried to nibble on her; he then placed his hand on Sonja's shoulder before leading them quickly to his quarters to don masks.
Viper scraped his mandibles lightly against the inside of Kenzie's thigh. She released little mewls and that only caused him to repeat the action. He scraped closer to her sex as one of his hands snaked up to caress one of her mammary glands. His little mate moaned a the contact.
Moving directly to her center, he splayed his mandibles wide, allowing his tongue to slither out and run along her clitoris. Her body arched and Viper brought his free hand up to her stomach. Pushing her back down.
At a steady pace, he tongued her clitoris while his hands kneaded her mammary glands. His thumbs running over her nipples. Her soft moans were satisfying, but Viper knew she was holding back. He was sure it was because they were not the only ones on the ship and she didn't want his clan brother's to know what they were doing.
His little mate was feeling and he could tell by the rise in her body temperature, that she was close to her release. She began to rock against his tongue and without him holding her down, she bucked up to far and one of his teeth scraped her clitoris.
Viper stopped what he was doing and tried to pull away to examine her. Sure that she was hurt. However, he laced her fingers in his locks, trying to hold him in place.
"Please don't stop." She begged breathlessly and he could have sworn it was the most arousing thing he'd ever heard.
Going back to his previous actions, he continued to pleasure his mate as she lightly traced his tresses with her fingertips. Between that and her moans, his sex organ was straining against his loincloth between the bed and his body.
She began to move against his tongue again and Viper listened as her heart rate accelerated. As she reached her finish, she gripped his dreads lightly and closed her legs slightly around his head.
He felt the exact moment his mandibles sank into the flesh of her thigh. She let out a sharp breath that was quickly overshadowed by her blissful moan.
Gently, he spread her thighs again as she removed her fingers from his tresses. He looked at the four punctures he'd caused. He felt bad. He hadn't meant to hurt her. Remembering to keep her restrained the next time. He licked the wounds slowly before rising from the bed and heading for the door.
"Where are you going?" His little mate questioned him.
"To get some salve for your wounds."
"I'm fine. They don't hurt. Please come back to me."
Viper was torn between going and getting what he needed to heal the punctures or burying his sex organ deep inside of her. However, his mate made the decision for him as he watched her turn over onto her stomach before getting on all fours. She looked at him over her shoulder before speaking.
"Please fuck me."
Viper let out a low growl as he ripped his loincloth from his body. He stalked over to the bed, placing his hands on her shoulder when he made it to her. His first thought was to slam his organ and far as he could get it inside of her. Yet, he knew it would cause her pain.
Instead, he leaned over her and scrapped his mandibles against her shoulder. Purring deep within his throat as he rubbed the tip of his organ along her slit. Her essence was warm and moist. Viper wanted to make sure that she stayed that way.
As he slowly pushed into her, he began to rub her clitoris. She gasped as he pushed into her. He was trying his best to go slow. Knowing that the first and only time they had come together she had been in control of their pace. Now, he was and he didn't want to hurt her, but Paya she was tight around him.
He heard her release what sounded like a small grunt and licked her shoulder softly before bringing his lips to her ear.
"I am almost seated."
Viper pushed the last few inches into her and froze. He breathed heavily as he tried to calm himself down. He had always had great self control, but that did not exist when it came to the intimacy he shared with his mate. He was close to simply pounding into her.
She began to wiggle her hips and he gripped them tightly to stop her. She was not helping. He knew that his size was already a bit much for her to take. He was sure she would not be able to take his brute like pauking.
Even as he held her still she continued to try to wiggle. She was even able to move off of his organ slightly before pushing back onto it.
With forced control, Viper slid out of her before slowly pushing back in. She released a long moan and he withdrew again. He waited a few seconds before pushing back in. This went on for several minutes and he was proud of himself for his restraint. A restraint that drifted off into space when she looked at him over her shoulder.
"Faster." She demanded.
Viper shook his head. "I am trying not to hurt you." He stated as he pulled out of her, only to have Kenzie slam back into him. She moaned loudly as he hissed in pleasure.
"I'll tell you if your hurting me. Just fuck me."
That was all it took for Viper. His little mate wanted him to pauk her and he was going to give her what she wanted.
Placing both of his hands on her shoulders. Viper began to move in and out of her a little more forcefully. Pulling her back each time to meet his forward thrust. Her moans were loud, filling the room and he knew that she had thrown her inhibitions about being heard out or she was simply caught up in the pleasure.
He reached around and grabbed her mammary glands, caressing them as he continued his pace. He could feel her sex squeeze around him, making his already tight fit, impossibly tighter. Her body temperature rose and knew she was close.
"I'm coming." His mate announced a moment later on a moan and he felt her essence release all over his organ.
He slowed his pace, but continued to slide in and out of her through it. When is subsided, he removed himself from her, lying down on the bed. Pulling, her over to straddle his erect organ, he aimed it right at her opening as she descended.
Viper began to purr as he allowed her to sit there for a moment before he began to demand that she ride him by taking her hips and moving her up and down. It wasn't long before Kenzie had her hands on his stomach and was bouncing herself at a continuous pace.
He enjoyed the way her head fell back in pleasure and her mammary glands bounced as she did. It was another thing she had over yautja females. While their glands were perky like his little mates, they were hard, only softening when they were with child and while they produced milk for the child to suckle.
Reaching up, he took them into his hands and began to caress her nipples. He pinched them softly and Kenzie let out a deep moan.
Again she began to squeeze him and her temperature rose. Viper knew she was close to her release. It was only a moment later when she was sounding off.
"Viper!" She exclaimed as she released, slamming down on his member and rocking back and forth against him. He knew from that alone she would be sore tomorrow had he not had intentions of healing her.
Flipping them over, he began to slide into her with more force. Much like their first time, he watched as all his little mate could do was gasp and moan as he pleasured her. Her body was small against his, but she wasn't complaining as she took what he gave her.
It was several minutes later when Viper felt his testicles begin to tighten and his organ begin to twitch inside of her. Kenzie shot her hand up and griped his tresses. If that wasn't enough to have him releasing, the words that followed her actions were.
"Give me your seed."
Viper roared his release as his fist banged against the wall, causing a surprised squeak to come from is mate. He hadn't done that the first time, but her words sent his body into something almost violent as he again banged his fist against the wall.
His release was monumental and as he slowly removed himself from her some of it spilled from between her legs. He had never released so much before and he was sure his mate would be the only one to ever make him do it.
He looked down at her as her chest rose and fell. Though he had released he was still very much erect. He grabbed her ankle, pulling her to the end of the bed. He then reached down and picked her up. Using one hand the hold her up, he used the other to guide his organ back into her sex. She gasped and Viper could fill her blunt nails digging into his shoulder.
Walking into the lavatory he got in, still planted firmly inside of her and sat. Leaning in, he licked her lips before placing his forehead to hers.
"We will do it the ooman way this time." He informed her as he slowly, gently began to bounce her.