Chapter 12: Love's Power.

As Tik eleth slowly woke up she felt the delightful feeling of Ack's warm breath on her neck, slowly opening her eyes she looked at the sleeping face of the ooman she loved, he was laid fully on top of her naked body and she ran her fingers over the firm muscles of his back, she realized she adored the feeling of his skin against hers, the smoothness of him delighted her continually as she traced her fingers all over his back and shoulders, she also realized that despite their obvious size difference she loved the feeling of his weight baring down on her like this, it made her feel wonderfully feminine, not a feeling she was used to at all, but one she was rapidly growing to adore.

Slowly she ran her fingers over the soft warm skin of his jaw, she could feel rough short hair all over his face, this intrigued her as she was sure it wasn't there the day before, maybe it had something to do with that knife she saw him running over his face the other morning, she had been meaning to ask him about that, oomans sure were a strange race with even stranger customs but a delightful one. She still couldn't believe that she'd fallen in love with one rather than one of her own kind, but as she looked at the sleeping face of her beautiful male her heart swelled, there wasn't a thing she wouldn't do for him, she lowered her head and pressed her face to the side of his and just watched him sleep.

Jack woke with a bit of a start as in his dreams he was back in the cave fighting the bugs again only this time it wasn't going so well for him or for Tik, in a blind panic he looked around himself and the first thing her became aware of was bright purple eyes very close to his own and as he focused he saw Tik looking right into his eyes, he also realized that he was laid completely on top of the beautiful naked huntress, he felt her gently squeeze his torso in a hug and he returned it relishing the feel of her wonderful warm rough skin against his own.

"Ack looks troubled" Tik said softly in his ear with obvious concern in her voice,

he smiled at her softly as his whole body relaxed and looked into her hypnotizing purple eyes as the fear of the dream instantly faded away,

"Just a bad dream my love" he said gently stroking the side of her face,

she leaned into his touch closing her eyes as she did, a small purr escaped her as she enjoyed the feel of his touch, "What dream makes my male fearful?" she asked softly,

"One where I lost you" he replied his voice almost in a whisper, as she half opened her eyes she looked at him, "You will never lose me" she said, then she opened her mandibles wide exposing her inner mouth for him in the hope that he would kiss her, he instantly leaned into her and pressed his lips to her inner mouth and felt her close her mandibles a bit so that they held his face in place and she put a hand on the back of his head to pull him deeper into the kiss.

She was really beginning to crave the intimacy of the wonderful act that oomans called kissing, not to mention the amazing feeling of being allowed to explore his mouth with her tongue as well as the feel of his in hers, she had never had such freedom in her life and she relished every second of him, then there was the sublime taste of him, all of this swirled together to form the supremely wonderful act oomans called kissing and to think that if she hadn't fallen in love with him she'd have never experienced this pure joy, not to mention what he'd done for her last night, because even if it was physically possible, there was no way in a million cycles that a male Yaujta would have ever done anything like that for a female, they'd have seen it as demeaning to their masculinity whereas Ack simply seemed to relish the fact that he'd made the female he loved experience a form of mind melting pleasure that she'd never even be able to put into words.

Even the slightest thought of the feelings lit a fire in Tik eleth's loins, but this time it got her mind thinking, she actually wondered if there would be a way for her to give Ack the same type of pleasure that he had given her? And at the same time to gain a taste of Ack's masculinity in the same way that he had gained a taste of her femininity, the simplest thought of this added a fuel to that burning fire and she found herself wishing that he would hurry up and heal up so that she could find out.

Eventually they broke the kiss in order to breathe, as Tik closed her mandibles Jack smiled at her, "Well good morning to you too, that's got to be one of the best ways to start the day" he said, she smiled back at him and clicked her mandibles happily,

"Ooman kissing is very pleasurable" she said in a matter of fact voice that made Jack laugh,

she looked at him curiously with her brow raised,

"Did I say something humorous Ack?" She asked almost sounding offended,

he smiled at her but at the same time his mind was racing, he really didn't want to piss off the woman he loved especially as that woman could easily tear him limb from limb, not that she would or at least he really hoped not, though he got the feeling courting a Yaujta huntress was going to be arduous at times, he really wasn't looking forwards to their first couple's argument as he was probably going to need some pretty big guns to deal with that, or possibly a nuke.

"Sorry I'm not laughing at you, I've just never thought of it as ooman kissing before and I'm just so happy that you enjoy it, as when I first decided that I wanted to try it with you I was just so nervous that you were going to react negatively or be totally revolted by it, it just makes me so happy that you actively seek to do it with me" he said smiling at her,

this instantly calmed Tik down and she returned to smiling,

"It is a very beautiful act, I wish to kiss with Ack as much as I can" she said again in her matter of fact voice, he stroked the side of her face

"Well then my love you may kiss me as much as you like as I will never say no to the woman I love" he said gently his voice full of his intense love for her, Tik purred softly at his words as they simply served to confirm and reinforce what she already knew about this wonderful ooman,

"As I would never say no to you my love" she said, rather than say anything Jack leaned in towards her face and she opened her mandibles and instantly melted into his kiss.

After they grudgingly tore themselves away from each other and got up, as Tik eleth got herself dressed her finely tuned hunter's senses alerted her and she could actually feel Ack's eyes roaming over her naked body, it was a sensation that she found herself enjoying as he was the one and only male that she would ever allow to see her like this, she picked her clothes up and turned to face him with a sly smile on her mandibles,

"Do you like what you see Ack?" She asked in a seductive purring voice,

"No" he replied in a matter of fact voice which caused her heart to freeze in her chest and a look of total shock to appear on her face, he walked right up to her and looked her right in the eyes,

"I love who I see" he said slipping his arms around her waist enjoying the sensation of her rough skin, her heart instantly did a backflip in her chest and she hugged him tightly against her naked body as a feeling of sheer relief washed over her, for the briefest of moments his words had actually scared her, she leaned down and pressed her forehead crest to his forehead

"As I love you Ack" she said.

Before they were fully roused Tik eleth decided to make a few entries in her journal, she pulled it out from its hiding place, much to her surprise as she began to write she looked up to find that Ack was pottering around with her cooking equipment, she watched him with a look of confusion, surely she couldn't have stumbled across that most rare thing in the universe, a male who could actually cook.

Much to her utter surprise that's exactly what he did, while she watched in stunned silence Ack prepared the last of their meat and got the fire going, before spicing the meat and filling her pot, then as if he was aware of her watching he turned and looked over his shoulder at her, she could actually see his smile in his eyes as they actually seemed to sparkle, it appeared she really did have much to learn about oomans but she got the feeling she was going to enjoy this hunt for knowledge.

The meal was more than just good, it was amazing even better than Tik eleth herself could have done and she'd been cooking since she was a pup, "Enjoying it?" Ack suddenly asked, all she could do was nod in a stunned silence, he retracted his fleshy lips and smiled his warrior's teeth at her and she felt her heart do a back flip in her chest, "Been cocking since I was about eight, always had to do it for my brothers and sisters" he said,

"Ack has siblings?" she asked, he nodded,

"Yeah two brothers and three sisters and I'm the eldest" he said,

"What about your patriarch and matriarch?" she asked, suddenly his face fell into a darkness and she suddenly found herself worried she'd angered him, then his eyes looked up and she saw a flood of pain in them, "Dead, killed by terrorists who wanted to prove a point and spread fear" he said, she was confused by this word,

"Terrorist?" she asked pausing her fork before her mandibles, he nodded,

"Scum, the bad bloods of Earth, they kill for no reason, or at least no reason that makes any sense, they target the innocent and non-combatants" he said, the words suddenly flared Tik eleth's anger, "They have no honour!" she spat, he nodded,

"They wouldn't know honour if it bit them in the arse, hence why I did what I did before being brought here, but after it happened I was all my family had and since they left us a sizable estate in trust to me, I raised my brothers and sisters myself with a little help from a drunk good for nothing uncle who despite the fact he was worthless was useful for keeping the authorities off us in exchange for booze money every now and then" he said, Tik eleth was extremely impressed by this revelation of her mate's skills with pups despite having only been one himself but also with his devotion to family, it just deepened his honour in her eyes, he had become his clan's patriarch at a very young age but he had still managed to not only keep them in line but to raise them by his self without a matriarch to aid him.

After their meal Ack cleared up despite her protests and she quickly grabbed her diary and made three entries in relation to her beloved mate, she realised that if any other Yaujta saw this book she'd be disgraced but she didn't care, in fact she kinda hoped that someday maybe other Yaujta would read her words and know the love she has for this ooman, maybe it would liberate some other females to do as she did and to realise that they didn't have to just settle for a male just because he'd chosen her and just because they were the same species, maybe it would push others to look outside of their own and see that there is such beauty in the most unexpected places.

After Tik was dressed in both her clothes and her armour Jack went to retrieve his armour from the stand, "So what's the plan for today?" He asked, Tik had just placed her hunting mask on and she whirled towards him so fast her dreadlocks actually whipped around, she placed a large hand on his shoulder stopping him in place,

"Plan is I hunt, Ack rest" she said in a firm voice,

"But I can..." Jack started but Tik silenced him with an angry clicking of her mandibles,

"Ack rest I hunt, Ack must heal and regain strength, I want my male strong again" she said in a very firm voice, somehow Jack got the feeling that trying to argue with the huntress would be rather unwise, also something told him that he may very well need his strength later on,

"Very well I rest you hunt" he said, she nodded standing proudly, happy that she had won the point, but she sensed that he really didn't want to leave her side, she stepped forward and stroked the side of his face tenderly,

"Worry not my Ack I will return to you unharmed" she said softly,

"Make sure you do or I'm going to have to kill everything on this planet to make sure I find the thing stupid enough to dare harm my female" he said with enough passion in his voice that it made Tik growl softly under mask, his words echoed exactly how she felt for him, this ooman truly understood the Yaujta heart and that fire was lit again, quickly she turned and headed for the cave exit before she tore her clothes back off and pounced on him.

As he watched her leave Jack wished he was going with her, it wasn't that he was worried about her in fact he was more worried about the thing stupid enough to fuck with her, he just didn't want to be separated from her and he really didn't like feeling useless, but at the same time he knew that she was right he needed to rest and heal up and besides he was on a promise to that beautiful huntress and it was one he intended to keep.

For the rest of the day Jack found ways to keep himself busy as he was not very good at sitting around doing nothing, so he stripped his weapons and cleaned them, slowly, then he took another ammo count, slowly, then he checked his armour for damage and pouches and did an inventory, slowly and he still ended up sitting on the bed twiddling his thumbs and thinking of Tik, he couldn't help but wonder how she was doing.

Right at the same time Tik eleth was sat in a tree watching a whole group of shimmer lizards cautiously drinking from a watering hole, as she watched she found her thoughts wandering to her male back at the cave, she found herself missing his company rather badly, this was the first time since they'd met that they'd been apart and suddenly she felt like a piece of herself was missing, she found herself wondering if this what it was to be in love with someone, that when you were separated from them it felt like there was a void within yourself that only they could fill, or perhaps this is what they meant when they talked about them being half of your heart, because right now she felt like half of her heart was indeed missing, so quick as she could she finished off a few of the shimmer lizards with her wrist blades making the kills clean as to not to spoil the meat, also she took the opportunity to fill up the water canteens she had brought with her then she turned and hurried back through the jungle to be reunited with her mate, but as she was closing on her, no their cave she heard something that made her heart sink, a loud very familiar screech echoed through the trees.

Tik eleth stopped moving and switched her visors imaging system, it appeared that she and Ack had not got all of them back in their cave, rapidly she looked around herself as she kept hearing rustling in the trees, suddenly an itch on the back of her neck caused her to spin around swinging her wrist blades as she went, her instincts proved bang on as it was just in time to catch one of them off guard as it leapt at her, the swipe cut both of the creature's outstretched arms off at the elbows and rapidly before the metal began to dissolve she plunged the blades straight into the stricken creatures stomach and tore upwards disembowelling it.

Instantly Tik eleth had to release the rapidly dissolving blades from her arm before the acid ate into her vambrace, then hearing a second screech above her she dove into a roll just as it dropped from the tree above her, it whipped its razor sharp tail at her but the tip glanced off her armour making a rather nasty gouge, it hissed at her and screeched then just as it tensed to leap at her its entire head exploded into a green cloud of mist.

Over 400 meters away through the scope of the AS50 Jack watched as the bug's head exploded, "You fuck with my woman you fuck with me cunt!" He said with venom,

the second he'd heard the screech in the distance he'd grabbed the big sniper rifle and had run out of the cave, he somehow knew that if those bugs were about he knew his Tik would not be far away and lo and behold there she was, she turned to look in the direction of the cave as she heard the massive report of the rifle, then she turned to look at the last of the bugs, it was trying to retreat into the trees to escape the wrath of the now rather pissed off huntress below it, "No you don't fucker" Jack said squeezing the trigger of the massive rifle,

the branch it just leapt to exploded and collapsed under it sending it screeching to the ground, the second it hit the ground Tik was on it with those daggers of hers, it never stood a chance and he grinned as with a huge roar of victory Tik held its head aloft with one hand and beat her chest plate with the other, he stood up and gave a roar of his own as he lifted his rifle aloft with both hands in celebration.

Tik eleth climbed hurriedly back to the cave, the short battle had got her blood really pumping and she was craving the touch of her male, as she entered the cave he was stood there with the big projectile weapon up on his shoulder with barrel aimed upwards, he was showing her his warriors teeth, she instantly turned and closed the cave up before turning and almost tearing off her mask, she threw it and her lizards to one side before she flew across the cave snatching Ack up into her arms opening her mandibles as she did and pulled him into the most passionate of kisses, their tongues wrestled and danced first in her mouth then in his, then she began pushing Ack backwards towards the bed, she knew that he still wasn't healed enough to risk mating with him but her hunger for him was raging like an inferno and if she didn't satisfy it then she didn't know what she would do, but at the same time this seemed to be a good time to try out that idea she'd had earlier.

Before he could say a word Jack found himself on his back on the bed with Tik bearing down on him, Tik almost tore her armour and clothes off throwing them to one side, his eyes drank in the beautiful body of the huntress he loved before him, his body instantly reacted to her exquisite naked feminine curves and she instantly reacted to that reaction, as she spied the growing bulge in his trousers she pretty much yanked him off the bed in her efforts to remove them and his underwear, but like she would in all things the huntress succeeded in reaching her prize, as Jack's manhood sprang free, he wasn't much more than average by human standards at only seven inches, but Tik's eyes instantly locked onto her prize and she gently took it in her hand being careful not to hurt her male,

"Tik..." he began to say as the delicious feeling of her rough hand pulsed through him as she gently played with his manhood as she marvelled at it, her hand stroked up and down the throbbing shaft and she pulled at the skin she realized it retracted and she pulled it back to reveal the pulsing bright purple head, then she looked him right in the eyes,

"Shhhh my love, I need to taste of you and please you the same way you've tasted and pleased me" she said in a highly seductive tone and before he could even respond Tik opened her mandibles and her long tongue slid out of her mouth and coiled around the head of his manhood tasting all over it, he hissed in pleasure as his mind flooded with the incredible sensations of feeling her long tongue coiling over and tasting his burning flesh, all potential arguments went out of the window, then just before he collapsed completely flat on his back he just had time to see Tik take the entire thing into her inner mouth engulfing him in warm wet heaven.

As soon as she'd removed his lower coverings and she'd got her first look and touch of his maleness and she knew that she had to taste him, he was bigger than she'd ever dared to hope, easily being on par with a Yaujta male, but he was a very different shape. The second the delightful musk of his arousal had hit her nostrils it had taken all her strength not to plunge it into her inner mouth right then but now as her tongue coiled around and tasted it from base to the wonderful tip her mind was clouded with lust, the wonderful salty musky taste filled her senses she began to use her throat and tongue to milk it pumping it up and down in her inner mouth trying also to make sure she didn't drag her sharp teeth over his sensitive male flesh, the first time she heard him moan in pleasure it drove her crazy and spurred her on, now that she knew that her actions were bringing the male she loved pleasure she would not stop until she had claimed her prize and had tasted his male essence as he had tasted hers.

Jack was in heaven, he could feel every ridge and every bump in both her mouth and her throat, he had experienced oral before but nothing even remotely close to this, as her throat squeezed the super sensitive tip he felt her tongue coiling over and sliding up and down his shaft working it as its grip was surprisingly tight, he felt Tik purr as he let out a moan of pleasure which caused her throat to vibrate along the tip and some of the shaft, this drive him crazy and he knew that if she kept this up there was no way he'd last long at all she was just too good.

Jack's prediction came very true as after only a few minutes of Tik's intense sucking he could feel his balls tightening,

"Ohhhhhh Tik I'm going to..." he started to day to try and warn the huntress but it only made her suck even harder, what felt like an explosion went off in Jack's body sending him into convulsions and he felt his seed pumping straight into her mouth and throat.

Ack's essence shot into Tik eleth's mouth, coating her tongue and hitting her in the back of her throat, she instantly swallowed it hungrily loving the raw taste of her male's seed on her tongue, she never tasted or felt anything like it and it awoke something primal in her as she made sure she got every drop of it, after she was done she let his malehood slide from her mouth and she closed her mandibles, she looked up at Ack with a smile happy that she had given him pleasure like he had given her, she expected him to be laid there in a stupor like she had, but it seemed her beloved male had other ideas.

Jack pounced on Tik and with surprise on his side flipped her onto her back on the bed, he pressed his face to hers signalling for her to open her mandibles for him to kiss her, she did so happily and he plunged his tongue into her mouth wrestling with hers, he could taste himself in her mouth but he didn't care, his passion made her purr happily and when he withdrew from the kiss he looked right into her shining purples eyes,

"You're not the only one who needs a taste my love" he said in a soft almost growl like voice, Tik purred intensely at this knowing exactly what he meant even before his hands began to caress her skin or before his kisses were being planted all over her body.

Jack kissed all the way down her body being driven crazy by the spicy smell of her divine arousal, it wasn't long before he reached his prize and lifting Tik's long legs over his shoulders, he parted those gorgeous puffy swollen outer lips of hers and dove his tongue into her desperate to once again taste her sweet spicy nectar, Tik roared and growled in ecstasy as she felt his tongue intruding in her body, granted he wasn't able to get it very far into her but her didn't need to, as the length that managed to gain entry was just enough to reach all the right spots, she thrashed and bucked as his tongue tasted every ridge and fold of her inner most walls, again his nose ground against her clit and this time it was Tik's turn to not be able to hold on very long, as after only a few minutes after his intense tongue kiss of her womanhood began the same bomb that she detonated in him he now detonated in her and with a huge passion filled roar she clamped down on his tongue and his mouth flooded with her sweet spicy nectar.

Crawling back up his now sated lover Jack was instantly pulled into a tight bear hug onto of her again, their naked flesh pressed tightly together as they clung to one another,

"You are incredible my love" he murmured in her ear lovingly,

"As are you my mate" she replied sounding breathless, he gently nuzzled the side of her head and she turned to face him and nuzzled him back, "Did I make you happy?" She asked,

he smiled broadly at her,

"Tik simply being with or near you makes me happiest ooman alive, everything else you do is just one big wonderful bonus" he said gently stroking the side of her face with her hand, she leant into his touch with a purr,

"As you make me the happiest huntress to live Ack, my kind could do with learning a lot about love from yours" she said softly and with a hint of sadness in her voice,

he nuzzled her again,

"I'm only too happy to teach, but only to you" he said softly as he laid down on her big shoulder, she pressed her forehead to his happily and with that a blissful sleep stepped claimed them both for a while.