Chapter 4

As they ran down the different hallways explosions, and blue bolts flew past them. Ian having trouble catching his breath, Umbra pulling him by his arm. "We need to get out of here!" Ian gasped, but it didn't seem to connect with Umbra, as she just kept running. His chest was on fire, and he felt like he was going to throw up. Until Umbra yelled "trust me!" before he knew what happened he was once again in a free fall, he yelled and flung his arms about. Before he knew it he was sinking in water, then within seconds Umbra splashed in next to him, grabbing his foot dragging him down deeper into the clear blue water.

He looked down to her, she was looking up at him then looked to the right behind her and pointed to a cave. This chick is fucking nuts! Ian thought then began swimming towards the cave, his breath was getting on its last bit. He couldn't handle it much longer, Umbra sensing his urgency to get air she pulled him quickly through the cave entrance, and to the surface. He broke through the water gasping "hurry get to ledge" she pointed to the right. He listened, because he too saw that one of them followed them to the water. Her back hugged the wall arms and legs sprawled out supporting her, Ian laid down eyes glued on the shimmering surface.

Ian could barely see Umbra, she blended very well against the cave wall and moss. As he went to look back through his scope, he could see bubbles coming up from the water. Soon there was the top of its head, Ian looked down his sights as soon as he did it was looking straight at him. As soon as he squeezed the trigger its heat turned into green mist, the bottom half of the helmet smashed into the wall behind him. As quickly as it came past the surface his corpse was sinking to the floor. After a few more minutes of waiting Umbra finally moved down from the wall, and looked over at Ian "Can't have you kill more than me" she chuckled clicking her mandibles behind her mask. "That's not fair" Ian said slumping his shoulders as he stood up.

Once he was up she was back into the water "hey, what the hell!" he groaned as he watched her sink. In a few seconds she was back up with their hunters' body. "And what do you plan on doing with this?" he watched her as she went through his pack. "Supplies" was all she said. She then took his pack, his spear, a sword, and his caster from his shoulder. "You take dagger" she ordered handing it to him, "dagger? This thing is a sword" Ian took the blade, it had insignias burnt into the blade itself the metal was almost black, and at the hilt it had everything from cross guard, to pommel. It was accented with a dark gold, the blade by itself seemed to weigh surprisingly light. All in all it was around four feet long, if she says this is a dagger I'd hate to see the sword, he thought while looking at it.

Ian placed the blade on his left shoulder, and Umbra tided up what she needed to. Kicking the body back into the water Umbra huffed, and motioned to Ian to follow. As they walked down the cave Ian noticed Umbra walking faster, so naturally he started too. It finally got to a point where the little river came to a rocky shore, Umbra quickly ran over to him and took him in her arms, squeezing him rather tightly "… thank you?" Ian weezed, her breast plate was ice cold against his face. He could tell she was getting a little cold. "I take it you know a way out of here?" he asked as she released him from his grip. She only responded "they never interrupt us again." She spoke softly placing her hand against his head. "Uhm right, so.. You do know away to leave right?" Ian said trying to change the subject.

She moved her hand from his face and took his, taking the lead. They walked for a few minutes until they came to an area where light was finally showing an opening. Umbra froze causing Ian to bump into her softly "what the hell Umb.." she didn't let him finish placing her hand against his mouth. She removed her hand. To the right of the cave was the exit had to be at least 2 to three hundred meters based on how the light was stretched or it was becoming night. Off to the left was pitch black to Ian, but to Umbra she could see clear as day. It was a nest, a nest of the very creatures' skull he saw in her trophy room. Umbra turned to Ian quietly taking his hands, then moved one hand to the side of his head, and she placed the cool wet surface of her helmet against his forehead. What the hell does she see? Ian thought, then a sound came from the pitch dark side of the cave. It sent a shiver down his spine, his hair stood on end, and it felt like he was having a heart attack. Umbra spun around to her she could easily see five serpents headed their way. Screeching as they like to do before they kill, she had no choice but to try and run for it.

Umbra grabbed the back of Ian's vest picked him up, and booked it towards the light. "What the fuck!" Ian yelled as he was violently picked up and placed on her shoulder. They came around the corner "what.. do… you.. see!" Ian yelled as he was bumped around, the screeching continued and got louder, and louder. Ian looked up and saw what looked like bugs or snakes or a mix of both, not ever being in this situation ever, Ian screamed loud and very feminine. The scream kept going for about five seconds Umbra had let out a roar which might have meant to shut the hell up. He did, but as soon as he did he hit the floor of the cave, and Umbra was lying face down just two feet from him.

Ian scrambled quickly to her grabbing her arm when he saw that she was stabbed in the thigh, she rose quickly letting out a whine "run Ian" he looked to her, "no!" he shouted removing his rifle, and spraying bullets down the cave, Umbra had only one thought. Fear, Oomans aren't like us their skin isn't resistant to the blood, she turned around charged her caster, and released bolts into the fray. Screaming and screeching the creatures dropped, and within a few seconds of changing clips and moving to the side to avoid the blood, it grew quite. She scanned the cave no serpents were moving, she winced when she tried to move closer to Ian, who was shaking furiously. "Killed kainde amedha, you are life mate" she said through her heavy breathing.

She looked at him and clicked her mandibles softly, then there was a screech as soon as she looked to the right its tail lunged out from the darkness, it missed Umbra but got Ian taking out his left eye, and cutting into his brow and cheek. He yelled and dropped to his knees grabbing his face. Umbra furious that her mate was hurt roared as the tail was slipping back into the dark, she reached out at grabbed it. Cutting it with her gauntlet, the serpent screeched and pulled its tail back quickly. It was injured and wasn't happy about it. As it tried to gain momentum running towards Umbra and Ian, Umbra quickly gathered up Ian and made it outside. As they breached the fading light Umbra set Ian to the side, and stepped out, once she did she saw the serpent coming from the cave.

This wasn't just any serpent it was a freshly anointed queen, her size wasn't that much taller than Umbra, but her head crest was begging to flair out, as was her body. She came out on all fours and looked over to Umbra, letting out a furious screech, telling Umbra she was going to die at any second. Umbra, not one to back down let out her own roar, her gauntlet drop its blades. Umbra standing there both arms out ready to catch the young queen once she pounced, and eyes full of rage. The young queen flicking her tail at Umbra reading herself for the pounce her only goal is to kill the one that harmed her. The queen leaned back, Umbra readied herself.

Before the queen or Umbra even knew what happened, the queen screeched, moved her hands slightly, then the front half of her head slid down and slammed into the floor her body following suit, Umbra roared and opened her arms only to be met with nothing but air. She looked around, and saw Ian stabbing the body, kicking the parts that weren't covered in blood. "aghhh fuck you!" Ian yelled as he sunk the blade into the back, he then spat on the body. His left hand covering his eye. Umbra in shock didn't know what to think or say, just stared at Ian. If her mask was off her mouth would be dropped and mandibles limp. "mmph bitch!" Ian said one last time as he kicked it, "that fucking hurt!" he took his hand away from his face to look down, but what he saw caused him to gag so he promptly put his hand back. Umbra still in shock walked slowly up to Ian as he sat down making sounds that let her know he was in quite a bit of pain. He looked up at her, hand covering the eye and grinned big "can't let you kill more than me" repeating what she had told him not more than thirty minutes ago. "That sword is really sharp you know that?" he looked over at her, and then to the blade that was sticking out of the young, but very dead queen. She looked over at the blade and let out a huff.

When she looked over to Ian she hand a panic attack seeing that his head was slumped, and blood was steadily dripping from his face making a pool on his stomach, and pants. "Ian … Ian!" she franticly spoke, her voice filled with fear. She changed her visor to read for any heart beats, she sighed in relief to see he still had a beat. Very low, and fading but she didn't have to worry much, she reached behind her grabbing a pack. Opening it she found what she needed, giving him an injection she saw that his heart beat rose slowly. She then grabbed a tattered piece of cloth and wrapped it around his head.

After a few hours she was able to find a cavern, and made it their new home for now. Two days had past thankfully not a sound or being was seen near the camp. Finally feeling safe she decided that it was time to clean herself up, there was a small lake not too far from the camp they were at. She gathered her things went over to Ian, and checked his wound. It was healing nicely, she huffed a happy sound and left to clean herself. After a few minutes of washing herself she came back to the cavern, when she came back Ian was still asleep. She knelt next to the bed and placed her hand on his slowly moving chest.

Still after a few days she couldn't believe that this Ooman killed a queen, she was defiantly a young one. Letting her rage get ahold of her and kept her from seeing anything else other that her enemy. Umbra silenced her mind, and looked back towards this man. Ian let out a groan moving his body to his side, she sat there until he awoke. No matter how long it could take, she would wait for him to get up. Luckily to her it only took a few more hours till he slowly lifted himself up, Umbra's eyes lit up as she saw him awaken.

"Good, you are awake." She said placing her hand on his stomach. "Yeah, my head hurts." He groaned then gripped his face, feeling a piece of cloth landing on his chest he remembered he lost an eye. He groaned loudly and threw his head back. "Eye is gone yes, but you still live. Now you have very noticeable scar, wear with pride Ian" she spoke standing up. Ian smiled watching her move around the cavern, "how long has it been?" he asked slowly moving to the edge of the bed. She looked over to him "two sun cycles" Ian frowned "two days?" she grunted letting him know it's true.

He tried standing, and quickly found out that was a bad idea as he fell back onto the bed. Umbra rushed to his side "losing eye takes time to get balance back" I know it does he thought. "At least I have a battle scar" he said sarcastically, Umbra didn't know of sarcasm, and agreed with him. As he slowly tried moving back to the edge of the bed he began to feel a little better, and braver. He came up behind Umbra placing his hands on her shoulders as she sat there applying oils to her blades. Even when she was sitting down her head came up to the middle of his stomach. As he came up behind her he placed his hands on her shoulders. They were rough to the touch, but still oddly soft, they were firm and felt like they were riddled with knots.

Ian gripped the top of her shoulders lightly, and began squeezing. Pushing his thumbs into her shoulder blades, and moving them around from the side of her neck down her back, and back up to her shoulders. She let out purrs a drooped her head forward, as he ran his hands along her back. He could feel every tense spot she held, and concentrated on those areas for a few seconds. He was not masseuse, but he knew what he was doing. As did she while his hands were moving down her back she placed her blades off to the side, and reached up to her leather top undoing the straps across her breasts, then pulled it off. She could feel his hands grip her waist, his fingers moving in circles as his hands came up to her ribs she sighed, and her heart was pounding in her chest as could feel a warm sensation fill her body.

Ian noticed she had removed her top so he took his chance at this opening, his fingertips glided across her skin over her ribs. Feeling the detail she had, they soon met with the side of her breasts. He slid his hands around the side of them, and softly gripped both in his hands giving them a gentle squeeze, and pull. Umbra arched her back and let out a squeal as his warm hands met her breasts, he continued to massage them her nipples between his middle and ring fingers. Giving each the attention they were needing. The more and more he continued she could feel his breath on the side of her mandibles, knowing his head was close to hers she leaned her head over and pressed it against his letting out purrs of pleasure.

Ian rubbed the side of his cheek against her, then squeezed her breasts harder. She let out a gasp then purred taking his hands in hers, just like a human he thought to himself letting a grin come to his face. Feeling like he should try and move down to other things, he ran his left hand down the middle of her breasts, down her abdomen, over her stomach and just above her loin cloth. The center skin she held between rougher outer skin was like silk very smooth and warm, he could tell that it was thick, but it felt like nothing he had felt on a woman before. Taking in as much of her skin as he could he wrapped his arm around her, his right hand still massaging her breast.

He released his hold on her waistline, got down to his knees pressing his chest against her back. Moving his left hand slowly back down her stomach, lower and lower till it met the leather of her loin cloth. She moved her arm to his gripping his forearm lightly, her other arm reached back and lightly gripped the back of his head. She clicked her mandibles, and let out a soft purr, when doing so she slowly guided his arm down, his fingertips pushing against her so they could get under the cloth and to her lower intimate parts. Ian could feel his heart thud against her back as she gave him the permission to continue, the palm of her hands were hot against him much like the rest of her body, and she was only getting hotter the lower his hand went.

As his hand got closer to her prize, the skin was hot, and even softer than the skin only inches away from her cloth. He pressed his head against her back, he could hear just how fast her heart was racing. Placing soft kisses against her skin, he felt her wet hot woman hood. Sliding his fingers down between her a sweet scent came from her, he moved his middle finger up and down his thumb pushed up against the top of her moving in circles. Her body pulled away from him her grip on his forearm tightened as well as on the back of his head. "Easy … Easy." He chuckled, as she squeezed him. She's really not much different than a human woman, he thought to himself. She let out a soft sounding groan, took his hands away from her and faced him.

"You are life mate. Only you shall have me, only we shall mate" she spoke lustfully taking his hands leading him to the bed. She turned around back facing the makeshift bed, she released his hands and placed her thumbs inside the straps holding her loin cloth in place. Wiggling her hips and pushing down on the cloth, it hit the ground at her feet. She sat on the edge of the bed, and began to remove Ian's pants. After a few seconds of fiddling with the buckle and button she got them loose, and gently pulled them down with his boxers.

She looked at him now completely naked, her hands grabbed his hips, moving up his body feeling every muscle. Ian getting a little cocky flexed, and her hand twitched when she noticed something change under his skin. She let out a purr, and continued feeling him. Touching his manhood, giving both areas a squeeze Ian slightly pulled back "ooh careful there, those guys can be hurt easily" he laughed. She took this in and softly ran her hands against him one on his manhood the other on his thigh. Felling it throb in her hand she could tell that he was ready to mate. She released him and leaned back on her elbows placing her hands on her sides. She looked to him, and opened her legs.

Ian's eyes were instantly glued to her glistening swollen prize, this pussy he was looking at looked exactly like a human one, only difference was the color of her lips, and inside. Around her lips and hole the skin was a dark green color almost the same as her nipples, but much lighter once you saw closer to her entrance. She was dripping juices down her cheeks and over her anus. Umbra began to get nervous, all he would do was look at he. She knew he was ready to mate, she wanted it badly, so much so that she submitted to him. She huffed and moved her bottom to the edge of the bed while running her claws softly against her skin, Ian looked at her "I was just admiring the view" he said taking himself in his left hand. She clicked her mandibles and purred as she watched him.

As he stepped closer to her he pressed the head against her warm lips, moving his member up and down. In doing so Umbra's head fell back letting out a purr, he placed his right hand on her stomach aimed himself, and slowly entered her. She was hot, and very smooth. For her size compared to him she was rather hard to fully enter in one push. Keeping his eye on her as her hands clenched into fists, he pulled back and re-entered her, and she let out a howl as his hips met with her inner thighs. Her walls felt like they were sucking on him pulling him into her.

Ian groaned as he slid in and out of her watching her head come up to look at him, just to fall back again. He kept this motion going, moving one hand up to her breast squeezing and rolling her nipple between his fingers. His other hand rubbing the top of her pussy, she looked up at him as she felt this new sensation, her insides felt like they were going to burst with more heat. She dropped flat on her back and moved her hands to his letting out soft howls as he moved against her. Ian took this chance and grabbed her legs gently tapping on the sides of her knees "lift your legs" he said, in a trance and utterly submitted to him she did so, he guided her legs up to each side of his chest.

Gripping her shins, he kissed the side of her calves softly, and began to move his hips faster. His hips now slamming against the back of her thighs, slapping sounds began to fill the cavern as he pushed against her. Ian could feel that he was getting close to releasing his seed, Umbra shaking her head and gripping each breast tightly was quivering against him. It only took a few more seconds of this thrusting, Umbra let out a loud howl, the insides of her thighs quivering, hands gripped hard against her breasts and feet clenched. Her back arched up, and her body began to shake as she felt this new sensation flood her mind making her lose track of everything that's happening.

Ian could feel her walls tighten hard against him as he moved his hips, he knew he gave her what she wanted first, the feeling welled up in him as he gave one final push deep into her. He throbbed and felt his seed exit him, Umbra felt this warm fluid pump into her and caused her to convulse her mind going blank. Ian grunted hugging her legs tightly against him, he breathed heavily as he pulled out of her, their juices falling to the ground as he exited. He was going to speak, but once he released her legs he noticed she passed out. Looking at her face, her mandibles were loose, mouth was open, eyes closed. Oh my, he thought with pride. "This was defiantly your first time" he grinned, he soon picked up her legs and tried to place them on the bed. This proved to be very difficult as she was very, very heavy. After a few minutes he finally got her rested completely on the bed. After a few more minutes he cleaned up the mess, and laid down next to her. Oddly though he couldn't sleep, he just laid there thinking on what just happened, what happened days ago. The more he thought the more he couldn't help but think about his sister, nephew, and the fact that he will never see them again. He then felt Umbra move on her side placing her hand on his chest and leg crossed over his. He smiled as she breathed softly over his head, having her warmth against him made him comfortable. He ran his hand over her arm "now what am I going to do" he whispered.