I ran down the halls, heading to Minty's home. Today was a very
special day, we were celebrating our 438th birthday. While we were 438 in
truth, we were only 14 physically.
: :Minty, are you awake?: :
: :Uh-huh. Where are you.: :
: :Almost to your front door, come on out, I got us a few hours away from school because its our birthday, and I have surprise for you.: :
: :'Kay. Be right out.: :
I reached her door and was about to knock, when she opened the door, "Mornin' sunshine," she said pinching me on the cheek, she knew I hated that.
"G'mornin' t'you too, fuzz-ball," I replied, pinching her cheek in revenge.
"Oh, shut up, now whatja get fer me? Huh? Huh? Huh?"
I teleported us to the docked space-pods, "Follow me."
We walked into an open one, I shape shifted to a human form and buckled up. Minty, following my lead, did the same, but it was harder for her to shape shift.
When we were tightly buckled, I hit the ignition button, "Houston, we have lift off."
"Shut up ya geek, hey, where are we goin?"
"We're goin ta th'star Dubhe, in the Big Dipper constellation."
"Why?"
"We'll be there in a few minutes, ya just gotta wait."
True to my word, we were there in just minutes, thanks to dad's new warp-drive.
We were about 2500 km from Dubhe, when we arrived.
"'Kay, so what's my present?"
"This star, Dubhe, I got dad to rename it. It is now called MLT-538, Minerva Liberty Taylor-538."
Minty gasped, "How didja get 'im t'do that?"
"It took twenty years of bargaining, but I had to conquer 75 planets in one week for him."
"You did that for me?"
"Yeah, that's where I went a few weeks ago, I had completely worn m'self out, every single planet that he assigned to me was hostile, and I had to fight hundreds of mages and armies. I nearly killed myself, with the exertion and all."
Minty hugged me, "Wow, thanks," but her demeanor turned sad, "This pales my gift in comparison."
"Why, whatja get fer me?"
"I spent most of my hard earned savings to buy you a little magic thing."
"Really? What is it?"
"I bought you a Key of Dimensions."
"KEWL! I can't b'lieve thatcha actually got me one. I've been looking for ages, I haven't even seen one."
"But, all your effort for my gift makes mine look like nothing."
"No it doesn't. You managed to BUY something that I couldn't even get a hint of."
She gave me a light smile and another hug, which I really liked.
We headed back and she gave me my gift. A key of dimensions was a powerful key that could open any door that it touched. There were only five in existence.
"Heh heh heh, we can have a lotta fun with this. I think that this makes mah present look bad."
Our mind-link told me that she felt good for the compliment, but still felt that mine to her was better and she felt bad.
We had to head straight for class when we got back, so we raced. I won, she hated it when I let her win and she could tell when I did.
We arrived in class and everyone looked at us and the teacher, who was currently my dad (he was a sub-teacher today), spoke, "Welcome back 689, Minerva, have a seat. We are on page 56 of your green workbooks."
My dad put Minty and myself in a class with the kitsune and gish, mostly because that they lived to be centuries old, and we were put in with our age group. My father was a half-demon, and he had inherited their millennia long life span, but Minty's parents, though quite long lived, had died about 130 years ago.
Today, my mind wasn't in class, it was on Minty. Lately, I've caught myself looking at her . . . 'more prominent features' (if ya catch my drift . . . ). She didn't notice me watching, no one did in fact. Then I noticed something, something really embarrassing. Due to my staring, something happened, something that can only happen to a guy. What was worse, was that my dad had noticed.
"689, go out in the hall, now."
I did, but was worried, what if someone came by?
I waited, but not for long. My dad came out, took me into his office, and locked the door.
"I knew this day would come around, eventually," he said, "But YOU have a bigger problem. I have seen you shape shift to female form before, if you do that now, because of the way I made you, you will have a reaction called heat. You know what that is, do you not?" at my nod, he continued, "You will have to find a way to solve your problem by yourself. The most that I will do is to give you a private room."
At that, he opened a door behind him, said, "You can use this one, that is what I built it for. I wasted nothing when I created you and your brother. Return to class when you are done," then left.
I felt profoundly embarrassed, my DAD had caught me with an erection. But, I knew that he was right. He knew that this day would come, but I had no idea that it would be so soon.
Thirty minutes later, I returned to class, and mind-spoke to Minty, : :Minty, when we get to the demi-plane after class, I have something I need to tell you.: :
: :Alright, but where d'ja go?: :
: :I'll tell you in the demi-plane.: :
After class, we proceeded to a private room and entered our demi- plane. By now we had figured out how to create stuff and had severaly nicely furnished rooms.
I sat down on a large pad in our living-room, being in a 'taur form I couldn't sit on a chair.
"Minty," I began, really embarrassed.
She could tell from my mind that I was having a hard time speaking my mind, "Its okay, I'm not gonna judge you, you know that."
"Yeah, but this is pretty embarrassing, today . . . I had my first . . . . . . my first hard-on." I said, blushing furiously.
Minty was taken aback, whatever she was expecting, that wasn't it, but she quickly regained her composure. She rarely lost her composure, this was one of the, maybe eight times in the 438 years that I had known her.
She gave me a reassuring hug, "Its okay. You are still my best friend."
"There's more. You were the reason for it."
Once again she was taken aback, wow twice in one day, a new record, "Me? You were looking at me?"
I looked down at the floor, even more embarrassed, "Yeah."
"I guess that I should be flattered, but I don't know what ta think."
"Worse, there is even MORE. If I shape shift to a female or herm form, I will be in heat."
For a third time, Minty lost her composure, "More good news, huh? Is there anything else?"
"Yeah, I, by myself, satisfied my, umm . . . urges."
"Hmm, I don't know what to say."
"I-I feel very confused. I have to endure both sides of the gender track. I don't know what I'm gonna do when heat hits."
Minty looked a bit worried, "I am your best friend, I will do what I can to help you through this. I have already been through my first heat, I know what its like."
I looked up at her, feeling much better, "Thanks . . ."
We spent a few hours talking about how we were gonna help our problem and she told me how she 'fixed' her heat problem, she used an odd herbal blend, a really complicated, but effective, one.
We generated the ingredients and made the elixir. I was amazed that so many ingredients produced such a small amount.
We both drank deeply. The elixir worked quickly, I felt the urges slipping away.
We went back to our classes and the day went by fairly quickly.
Minty and I proceeded to my home, she ahead of me. I was walking slowly, deep in thought. Minty must've sensed my inner conflict, "Wass wrong?"
But I didn't get to reply because my dad suddenly walked up to me, "689, come, I need you on the front-lines."
I looked sadly at Minty, but left.
My father brought me into one of his star-cruisers and warped us to the planet that he trying to conquer: Terra-Prime.
We docked at the greater docking-bay, and he sent me into battle straight away.
I first raised a shield, then I focused a huge amount of energy. I aimed this at the nearest enemy unit and a bolt of blood-red lightning erupted from my finger. When it hit him he screamed in pain as he was fried, and the bolt split and hit two more, who also screamed in pain before singeing. The bolt split 8 times, killing 511 soldiers.
This stopped the advancement dead in its tracks, they hadn't expected magic to be used against them, at least not yet.
I continued to send out the lightning, that is, until the commander sent out the mages.
About 15 of the 20 made the same mistake, they laughed at the idea of fighting someone so young, but the others recognized me. They had heard stories of entire armies being decimated by a child.
I focused more energy to cast a spell that Minty and I called 'Scatter blast'. I lifted into the air, faced both of my palms at them, then released the spell. The result was a flurry of high energy blasts.
A few of the mages didn't react fast enough were obliterated, but about 15 of them brought up shields. When I dismissed the spell, the mages were astounded. I had decimated the landscape, five of their number, as well as hundreds of soldiers that were still fighting.
They all touched palms, formed a half-circle, and began a chant in one of the few languages that I didn't know, "Ex kami mortus, ex kami mortus, ex kami mortus . . ."
The result was similar to my scatter blast. I had a tough time dodging them. But, eventually I wasn't fast enough a got hit by one. Well, since that one slowed me down, I was hit by several more, then hundreds more.
When the smoke from the explosions finally subsided, they saw my body lying on the ground. Then two things surprised them: one, my body was still intact, and two, I started to get up.
I could practically smell the fear as I felt them, individually, focus energy.
As I stood, I saw 15 green rays zooming at me, it was all I could do, I held out my hands, palms facing out wards, and tried to block them.
I knew that that was not a brilliant idea, but I had no time to do anything else. The beams all hit my right hand and exploded in a flash of bright green light.
After the flash, the mages cheered in light triumph, my entire arm up to halfway between my elbow and shoulder had been disintegrated.
It had been seared, so there was no bleeding, but the pain was almost unbearable.
I retaliated, barely, with my most dangerous spell: Minty named it the Overdrive Wave.
If I wasn't very careful, I would feel some back-lash, which would be dangerous with the amount of power I was putting in it.
I released the spell, and energy erupted from my body. Everything in a 500-foot sphere was gone, including the mages.
I lowered and rested at the bottom of the huge crater, literally dripping with sweat from using so much power so quickly. I had used a significant portin of my power, far more than I was used to.
After nearly an hour of resting, I heard Minty calling me through our mind-link, "Wow, that was so kewl. That was, by far, the most graphic battle you've had s'far," she said in mock awe.
I laughed, which was good, if I could laugh I'd be a'ight, "Oh shut up. That was hard and you know it, I know you can feel it from there."
Just then, my dad's drop-ship came hovering over me. He beamed me up.
"Excellent, you made short work of them," he said, completely oblivious to the fact that I was in critical condition. "I think you will do another toda-"
"WHAT 'BOUT THIS?" I demanded, pointing to my arm.
"I've seen you heal worse," he said, ignoring my damages.
At that, more angry than I'd ever been, I teleported back to the station, which did more harm than good, because with my damages, while I was already regenerating, combined with the energy that I'd spent, I lost consciousness once again . . .
: :Minty, are you awake?: :
: :Uh-huh. Where are you.: :
: :Almost to your front door, come on out, I got us a few hours away from school because its our birthday, and I have surprise for you.: :
: :'Kay. Be right out.: :
I reached her door and was about to knock, when she opened the door, "Mornin' sunshine," she said pinching me on the cheek, she knew I hated that.
"G'mornin' t'you too, fuzz-ball," I replied, pinching her cheek in revenge.
"Oh, shut up, now whatja get fer me? Huh? Huh? Huh?"
I teleported us to the docked space-pods, "Follow me."
We walked into an open one, I shape shifted to a human form and buckled up. Minty, following my lead, did the same, but it was harder for her to shape shift.
When we were tightly buckled, I hit the ignition button, "Houston, we have lift off."
"Shut up ya geek, hey, where are we goin?"
"We're goin ta th'star Dubhe, in the Big Dipper constellation."
"Why?"
"We'll be there in a few minutes, ya just gotta wait."
True to my word, we were there in just minutes, thanks to dad's new warp-drive.
We were about 2500 km from Dubhe, when we arrived.
"'Kay, so what's my present?"
"This star, Dubhe, I got dad to rename it. It is now called MLT-538, Minerva Liberty Taylor-538."
Minty gasped, "How didja get 'im t'do that?"
"It took twenty years of bargaining, but I had to conquer 75 planets in one week for him."
"You did that for me?"
"Yeah, that's where I went a few weeks ago, I had completely worn m'self out, every single planet that he assigned to me was hostile, and I had to fight hundreds of mages and armies. I nearly killed myself, with the exertion and all."
Minty hugged me, "Wow, thanks," but her demeanor turned sad, "This pales my gift in comparison."
"Why, whatja get fer me?"
"I spent most of my hard earned savings to buy you a little magic thing."
"Really? What is it?"
"I bought you a Key of Dimensions."
"KEWL! I can't b'lieve thatcha actually got me one. I've been looking for ages, I haven't even seen one."
"But, all your effort for my gift makes mine look like nothing."
"No it doesn't. You managed to BUY something that I couldn't even get a hint of."
She gave me a light smile and another hug, which I really liked.
We headed back and she gave me my gift. A key of dimensions was a powerful key that could open any door that it touched. There were only five in existence.
"Heh heh heh, we can have a lotta fun with this. I think that this makes mah present look bad."
Our mind-link told me that she felt good for the compliment, but still felt that mine to her was better and she felt bad.
We had to head straight for class when we got back, so we raced. I won, she hated it when I let her win and she could tell when I did.
We arrived in class and everyone looked at us and the teacher, who was currently my dad (he was a sub-teacher today), spoke, "Welcome back 689, Minerva, have a seat. We are on page 56 of your green workbooks."
My dad put Minty and myself in a class with the kitsune and gish, mostly because that they lived to be centuries old, and we were put in with our age group. My father was a half-demon, and he had inherited their millennia long life span, but Minty's parents, though quite long lived, had died about 130 years ago.
Today, my mind wasn't in class, it was on Minty. Lately, I've caught myself looking at her . . . 'more prominent features' (if ya catch my drift . . . ). She didn't notice me watching, no one did in fact. Then I noticed something, something really embarrassing. Due to my staring, something happened, something that can only happen to a guy. What was worse, was that my dad had noticed.
"689, go out in the hall, now."
I did, but was worried, what if someone came by?
I waited, but not for long. My dad came out, took me into his office, and locked the door.
"I knew this day would come around, eventually," he said, "But YOU have a bigger problem. I have seen you shape shift to female form before, if you do that now, because of the way I made you, you will have a reaction called heat. You know what that is, do you not?" at my nod, he continued, "You will have to find a way to solve your problem by yourself. The most that I will do is to give you a private room."
At that, he opened a door behind him, said, "You can use this one, that is what I built it for. I wasted nothing when I created you and your brother. Return to class when you are done," then left.
I felt profoundly embarrassed, my DAD had caught me with an erection. But, I knew that he was right. He knew that this day would come, but I had no idea that it would be so soon.
Thirty minutes later, I returned to class, and mind-spoke to Minty, : :Minty, when we get to the demi-plane after class, I have something I need to tell you.: :
: :Alright, but where d'ja go?: :
: :I'll tell you in the demi-plane.: :
After class, we proceeded to a private room and entered our demi- plane. By now we had figured out how to create stuff and had severaly nicely furnished rooms.
I sat down on a large pad in our living-room, being in a 'taur form I couldn't sit on a chair.
"Minty," I began, really embarrassed.
She could tell from my mind that I was having a hard time speaking my mind, "Its okay, I'm not gonna judge you, you know that."
"Yeah, but this is pretty embarrassing, today . . . I had my first . . . . . . my first hard-on." I said, blushing furiously.
Minty was taken aback, whatever she was expecting, that wasn't it, but she quickly regained her composure. She rarely lost her composure, this was one of the, maybe eight times in the 438 years that I had known her.
She gave me a reassuring hug, "Its okay. You are still my best friend."
"There's more. You were the reason for it."
Once again she was taken aback, wow twice in one day, a new record, "Me? You were looking at me?"
I looked down at the floor, even more embarrassed, "Yeah."
"I guess that I should be flattered, but I don't know what ta think."
"Worse, there is even MORE. If I shape shift to a female or herm form, I will be in heat."
For a third time, Minty lost her composure, "More good news, huh? Is there anything else?"
"Yeah, I, by myself, satisfied my, umm . . . urges."
"Hmm, I don't know what to say."
"I-I feel very confused. I have to endure both sides of the gender track. I don't know what I'm gonna do when heat hits."
Minty looked a bit worried, "I am your best friend, I will do what I can to help you through this. I have already been through my first heat, I know what its like."
I looked up at her, feeling much better, "Thanks . . ."
We spent a few hours talking about how we were gonna help our problem and she told me how she 'fixed' her heat problem, she used an odd herbal blend, a really complicated, but effective, one.
We generated the ingredients and made the elixir. I was amazed that so many ingredients produced such a small amount.
We both drank deeply. The elixir worked quickly, I felt the urges slipping away.
We went back to our classes and the day went by fairly quickly.
Minty and I proceeded to my home, she ahead of me. I was walking slowly, deep in thought. Minty must've sensed my inner conflict, "Wass wrong?"
But I didn't get to reply because my dad suddenly walked up to me, "689, come, I need you on the front-lines."
I looked sadly at Minty, but left.
My father brought me into one of his star-cruisers and warped us to the planet that he trying to conquer: Terra-Prime.
We docked at the greater docking-bay, and he sent me into battle straight away.
I first raised a shield, then I focused a huge amount of energy. I aimed this at the nearest enemy unit and a bolt of blood-red lightning erupted from my finger. When it hit him he screamed in pain as he was fried, and the bolt split and hit two more, who also screamed in pain before singeing. The bolt split 8 times, killing 511 soldiers.
This stopped the advancement dead in its tracks, they hadn't expected magic to be used against them, at least not yet.
I continued to send out the lightning, that is, until the commander sent out the mages.
About 15 of the 20 made the same mistake, they laughed at the idea of fighting someone so young, but the others recognized me. They had heard stories of entire armies being decimated by a child.
I focused more energy to cast a spell that Minty and I called 'Scatter blast'. I lifted into the air, faced both of my palms at them, then released the spell. The result was a flurry of high energy blasts.
A few of the mages didn't react fast enough were obliterated, but about 15 of them brought up shields. When I dismissed the spell, the mages were astounded. I had decimated the landscape, five of their number, as well as hundreds of soldiers that were still fighting.
They all touched palms, formed a half-circle, and began a chant in one of the few languages that I didn't know, "Ex kami mortus, ex kami mortus, ex kami mortus . . ."
The result was similar to my scatter blast. I had a tough time dodging them. But, eventually I wasn't fast enough a got hit by one. Well, since that one slowed me down, I was hit by several more, then hundreds more.
When the smoke from the explosions finally subsided, they saw my body lying on the ground. Then two things surprised them: one, my body was still intact, and two, I started to get up.
I could practically smell the fear as I felt them, individually, focus energy.
As I stood, I saw 15 green rays zooming at me, it was all I could do, I held out my hands, palms facing out wards, and tried to block them.
I knew that that was not a brilliant idea, but I had no time to do anything else. The beams all hit my right hand and exploded in a flash of bright green light.
After the flash, the mages cheered in light triumph, my entire arm up to halfway between my elbow and shoulder had been disintegrated.
It had been seared, so there was no bleeding, but the pain was almost unbearable.
I retaliated, barely, with my most dangerous spell: Minty named it the Overdrive Wave.
If I wasn't very careful, I would feel some back-lash, which would be dangerous with the amount of power I was putting in it.
I released the spell, and energy erupted from my body. Everything in a 500-foot sphere was gone, including the mages.
I lowered and rested at the bottom of the huge crater, literally dripping with sweat from using so much power so quickly. I had used a significant portin of my power, far more than I was used to.
After nearly an hour of resting, I heard Minty calling me through our mind-link, "Wow, that was so kewl. That was, by far, the most graphic battle you've had s'far," she said in mock awe.
I laughed, which was good, if I could laugh I'd be a'ight, "Oh shut up. That was hard and you know it, I know you can feel it from there."
Just then, my dad's drop-ship came hovering over me. He beamed me up.
"Excellent, you made short work of them," he said, completely oblivious to the fact that I was in critical condition. "I think you will do another toda-"
"WHAT 'BOUT THIS?" I demanded, pointing to my arm.
"I've seen you heal worse," he said, ignoring my damages.
At that, more angry than I'd ever been, I teleported back to the station, which did more harm than good, because with my damages, while I was already regenerating, combined with the energy that I'd spent, I lost consciousness once again . . .