Disclaimer: See Chapter One.
Rating: NC-17 for language, violence and full-on smut(finally!)
Author's Note: Okay, so i am completely sorry this took so love to post. Its been done, but unbeta'd since the end of September. My beta, damnednforsaken, had some unavoidable RL issues that kept it from being posted for a while. We finally had to decide to have someone else beta the last chapter, seeing as see's bogged down with finals. So now, with the very timely phoenixfeather as beta, i present the last chapter of Animalis. Read, then review and make an author happy!
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A half hour after the group had given a quick funeral for Shazza and Suleiman, Harry could hear everyone arguing loudly as he walked over to check on Zeke. Fear was coming off of everyone in waves and it had him slightly on edge. Paris was on the verge of a full blown panic attack as he sat down on the ground, staring at the dirt in front of him. Harry could hear the man's heart beating a mile a minute and his breath coming out in shallow pants. He didn't look too good.
Jack, Ali and Hassan sat huddled together nearby looking at the arguing adults, all of them hoping for a solution; waiting for someone, anyone, to come up with a brilliant plan to save them all.
The biggest problem wasn't powering the skiff — they could get to and from the crashed ship within a few hours, if not a few minutes if Harry or his godfathers apparated — no, the biggest problem was how the tiny, little, old skiff would fit them all in it for a possible long journey. They had found a couple of crates of meal packets, so food wasn't a problem, neither was water as Harry and his godfathers would use their wands for that.
Reaching Zeke, Harry found only silence where shallow breaths and a faint heartbeat should have been.
'Well, one less person to try and fit in the skiff' Harry thought sadly as he covered Zeke's body with a tarp from nearby. Standing up, Harry walked back to the group, their heated exchange only adding to his stress.
"Zeke's dead." Harry stated quietly, his voice barely making it over the rest, but they all stopped talking and looked at him. "His heart stopped beating; he lost too much blood when he got hurt."
"Sorry, pup." Sirius said as he wrapped an arm around his godson. "Well, like Remus and I were saying, we can use a couple of spells to enlarge the inside of the skiff. We can even create a few rooms to give a little privacy when someone needs it, though it wouldn't be spacious by any means. We've got food and water taken care of; it's just the air that's the problem…"
Fry shook her head. "Even if we could make it bigger, there is still the problem on how much weight it can hold. If there is too much, we either won't get off the ground or will crash into it once we get a little airborne."
"We can do some featherweight charms to reduce the weight of everyone but you while we are in the atmosphere and once we are in space, we can end the charms." Remus stated.
Fry looked shocked and then smiled. "Well, then the only other issue is air in the skiff. It has an air recycler with CO2 scrubbers and with the added space inside the skiff; we'll be able to have a larger amount of air in it to start. So the air quality won't be great, but it will work in a pinch." Fry said with a nod of her head. "So it's just the power cells to give the skiff juice. There's an old sandcat by the coring room, we might be able to get it working to haul the cells. They are really heavy, so we're going to need it." Fry said as she looked at the sandcat. "Probably take a little while, but-"
"Actually, I was thinking I could apparate to the ship and get the cells. I could shrink them so the weight isn't an issue. The only problem is, I don't know where they are or what they look like." Remus interrupted her.
"What does 'apparate' mean?" Imam asked with a confused look on his face.
"It's where a wizard or witch can pop from one place to another in the blink of an eye. It's a sort of teleportation." Remus explained.
Imam nodded, his smile lighting his eyes as hope shined through. "Yes I have heard of that, but not by that name. It is a good plan."
"I'll go with Remus. I know where the cells are." Riddick put in. He wasn't going to let his mate's godfather go out there alone when the eclipse was coming soon.
"You are not going anywhere without me, Riddick. Might do something to them just to spite us all." Johns said with a sneer on his face.
"Wouldn't endanger my mate and his family just to fuck with you, Johns." Riddick growled as he took a step towards the merc. Harry stopped him with a hand on his arm and a shake of his head.
"Riddick, just ignore him." Harry said quietly as he smiled up at his mate. "I know you wouldn't do that."
Riddick nodded his head and stepped back.
"Okay, so the three of us will go and get the cells. It shouldn't take more than ten or twenty minutes." Remus stated as he walked to Sirius and pulled him aside, seeing the angry look on his mate's face. "I know you don't like it, but it's the best option. I'll go. You stay with Harry and make sure the group stays safe. The eclipse could start at any time now…"
As if the planets had heard him and decided to prove him right, a large ringed planet crested over the horizon in the south, quickly moving into alignment. The shadow on the planet spread over the horizon quickly, the area to the south where the ship was had already begun to darken with shadows.
Sirius sighed and gave a reluctant nod as he pulled Remus down for a quick, soul searching kiss.
At the appearance of the other planet, the others gasped in dismay at the coming darkness. Harry turned to his mate. "You be careful and you come back to me."
Riddick gave him a nod and leaned down to nuzzle his face into Harry's neck as he wrapped his arms around him, taking a large breath and inhaling his mate's scent. "You too."
Harry pulled back and kissed Riddick quickly.
"Have you got a weapon or do you need me to transfigure something?" Harry asked as he pulled back.
"Found a pair of shivs in one of the buildings while you were with Imam and the kids. I'm good." Riddick answered with a smirk. "Feels good to have them in my hands again."
Remus walked up to them. "You help Sirius make sure everyone stays with the skiff until we get back. Be safe, cub."
Harry nodded as he wrapped his arms around his godfather for a quick hug then stepped back as Johns and Riddick took their places on either side of Remus. The werewolf placed a hand on each of their forearms and then they were gone with a loud crack.
"Okay, Harry, Fry, Imam go find some things to help light up the area around the skiff. They may not get back before the light goes out. Any kind of flammable liquids or flammable materials will do and some durable items to put them in on the ground. I'll do the spells to enlarge the inside of the skiff. Don't take more than about ten or fifteen minutes, the sunset is coming fast and I don't want anyone caught in the dark." Sirius said as he turned to everyone else. "Stay close to the skiff, it will only take a minute or two to do the spells. We can transfigure cots and things like that after we get off the planet."
The children and Paris all began making their way to the skiff, finding places close by to wait. Sirius looked back towards the horizon and prayed to any higher power listening that the light would stay for just a little while longer.
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The three men arrived at the crash site with a loud crack and began running to the ship when they realized it was already partially in the shadows. Not much sunlight was left and it would take them at least a few minutes to get the cells.
Working quickly, the first two cells came out easily and were quickly shrunk. The third and fourth were in an area that was covered in debris, making it harder to get to them. It took them over twenty minutes just to dig them out and shrink them. Just as they did so, the light finally went out and they were surrounded by darkness. Remus quickly lit his wand, but one of the creatures had found its way into the ship and dove for him, slicing a fairly deep cut into his shoulder and sending him flying towards the hull of the ship, knocking his head hard against it. Remus crumpled to the floor, unconscious, as Johns shot at the creature, sending it crawling back towards the hole it crawled in through. Riddick and Johns quickly tried to find lights, grabbing some of the fluorescent tubing throughout the ship.
Johns turned on the light on his gun and turned to Riddick. "You stay here; I'll go see if I can find anymore lights."
Riddick began wrapping Remus' bleeding shoulder with the some material ripped from their clothes. The cut wasn't too bad. It didn't look like the claw had sliced through any arteries and Remus' heart was beating strongly; he was just unconscious.
"Found a welding torch and a few flash lights, not much worth keeping." Johns said as he came back inside the room. "They won't last very long."
"Harry or Sirius will apparate here if we don't come back — only needs to last for a while." Riddick said quietly as he finished wrapping the wound.
"They better come soon…" Johns growled. They could hear clicking and shrieking from outside as sounds of metal buckling from other compartments filled the air.
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"It's taking them too long, pup. Something's happened." Sirius said. Harry could hear the tremor in his godfather's voice. It had been over an hour already and they hadn't seen any sign of the three men yet.
Harry was scared, wondering if they were alright... if they were dead.
Turning to his godfather, Harry told him "I'll go and see if I can find them… you stay here." They both knew one of them needed to stay with the skiff incase something happened, so Harry apparated away before Sirius could.
"Pup… I'm going to kill you when you get back." Sirius growled worriedly into the night.
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Harry arrived at the ship with his wand lit at full brightness. "Point me, Riddick." Harry breathed as his wand circled around the palm of his hand for a few seconds and then stopped, pointing to his left. Harry took off running towards one of the back compartments his wand had pointed to calling out "Riddick! Remus!"
A door to the compartment opened and Riddick stuck his head out. "Kitten, get in here; Remus was attacked by one of those fuckers."
Harry ran inside and fell to his knees beside Remus' still form and seeing the cut, quickly whispered "Episkey."
The cut began to stitch its self together, the jagged ends of the wound binding together and stopping the bleeding. Harry breathed a quiet sigh of relief as he did a quick spell to suction off the drying blood, taking away at least one reason the creatures around them were shrieking and clawing at the walls, trying to get to the delicious feast just waiting on the other side.
"Hit his head too." Riddick said from behind Harry, startling him. Harry turned his head and gave his mate a quick smile before he did a health check spell to see how bad the injury was. There wasn't any swelling or internal bleeding, but Harry wasn't a healer or a nurse, so he could only hope Remus woke up soon.
Standing up, Harry cast a featherweight charm on his godfather and then picked him up. "Johns, I'll take Riddick and Remus back first and then I'll come back for you. I can't take more than two people at once."
"The hell you will, you can't just leave me here!" Johns yelled as he took a step forward.
Riddick growled at the merc and stepped in front of Harry to protect him. "Back the fuck off Johns. Now!"
Johns took a few steps back and leaned against a large crate towards the back of the room, a loud huff of anger escaping his lips. He didn't like it, but the stupid cat-boy was his only way to the skiff and off the fucking planet. He'd play nice at the moment, but as soon as they got back to civilization all bets were off. Riddick was going to be his biggest payday yet and he wasn't willing to let some freak steal it from under his nose.
Riddick eyed the merc with undisguised disgust and turned to his mate. The merc, though for his own selfish reasons, had proved a point to Riddick. There was no way in hell he was letting his mate come back alone to get the merc. He didn't trust Johns. At least with Harry taking the merc first, Sirius would be there to make sure he didn't do anything before Riddick came back with Harry. Johns was probably already making plans to use Harry against Riddick anyways. "Take him and Remus first and then come back for me."
Harry opened his mouth to flat out refuse his dominant, but before even a single word could be spoken, a choked cry echoed through the narrow room. Riddick and Harry both snapped their heads towards the noise just in time to see Johns being pulled up, kicking and screaming, over the crate's top by a large creature that had its big sharp toothed mouth open in an almost grin. A wide river of blood cascaded over the edge of the crate and splattered to the floor below as Johns' cries became a low gurgle and then stopped altogether.
"Guess that solves the problem." Riddick turned to his mate and held out his hand to him. Harry frowned at the splatter of the merc's blood and then turned back towards his mate to walk the last few steps to him and finally leave this place. As he turned, he felt a sharp pain in his right shoulder. Looking down he saw a sharp claw piercing through his flesh. Dropping Remus, he fell to his knees.
Riddick roared in fury, smelling his mate's blood before he even saw the claw stab him. Running the few feet to Harry and the creature, he pulled Harry out of the grasp of the creature just as it started to pull him back into the darkness. Pushing Harry behind him, trying not to think about the thump of Harry falling to the ground and the absence of movement afterward, he pulled out his shivs and began cutting and slicing the creature who hurt his mate. He ducked and dodged its sharp claws and teeth, rolling to the left as its tail flung out at him. He barely felt the cuts that the creature got lucky with. His only thought was for the safety of his mate.
With a vicious war cry, he brought his shivs down and across to meet in the center of the creature's neck, slicing the thick skin and bone. He sneered in disgust as the creature's head slid with a wet plop from its body. "Did not know who you were fuckin' with!"
Turning, he ran to Harry and saw him with a dazed expression on his face. "Harry… You alright, Kitten?"
Harry took a deep breath and then nodded. "Yeah, I don't think it's that bad. I'll have Sirius look at it when we get back. Grab Remus and let's go."
Riddick picked up the older werewolf and watched his mate stand slowly. Holding the older man with one arm, he held the other out to his mate. Harry placed his smaller hand into Riddick's larger callus-roughened one and they disappeared with a loud crack.
Appearing just feet away from the skiff, Harry saw Sirius looking pale, with a terrified look on his face at the sight of an unconscious and bloody Remus. "It's alright, Siri, he just got cut a little and knocked himself out. I think he'll be alright. I already healed him."
"What about you? Is that a cut on your shoulder, pup?" Sirius asked, but was already pointing his wand at the wound and healing it.
Once done, they all walked up the ramp into a much larger skiff than before. Quickly settling, Fry then powered up the skiff and closed the hatch; everyone giving a sigh of relief as it closed. She turned on the outside lights and shrieks of pain echoed around the ship as some creatures were caught in the sudden light. Soon they were rising up into the night sky, off that horrible planet that had taken so many lives and away from the creatures that would have liked nothing more than to revel in ripping the flesh from their bones.
As the view out of the skiff's windshield turned from clouded night into the quiet of the black of space, they all breathed just a little easier. They were finally safe.
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It took ten days for them to cross the path of another ship in the expanse of space and another week to make it to Helion Prime, the Hunter-Grazner's original destination. The group of ten people made the trek without much trouble. Space in the skiff had been increased to the point that they had been able to create three small rooms in the skiff, including the cockpit. Still not a lot of privacy for ten people on a nearly two week journey, but they had survived.
During the journey, Harry had talked to his godfathers about what would happen when they got in touch with civilization again. He had worried about what would happen when other people learned that Riddick had survived and wanted to put Riddick in custody again or take him to prison. He hoped that they would find a way to get the four of them to Earth, but that would take time, if they ever found a way at all. Sirius had quickly come up with an idea. After years of being wrongly imprisoned in Azkaban, the older wizard felt a sort of kinship with the Furyan and a tentative bond had formed between them.
They had debated the particulars of the plan, but in the end decided it was better to use the plan in its entirety. Sirius, before being sent to Azkaban, had spent years working as an Auror for the Ministry and was very familiar with memory charms. After using a glamour charm on Riddick to mask his features, Sirius had quickly and methodically altered the other survivors' memories to think that Riddick had died in the crash and a different man had survived in his place. It had worked perfectly, although Jack had been sad that her hero hadn't survived. Harry hadn't liked hurting Jack, even a little bit, by letting her think Riddick was dead, but he hadn't wanted to take the risk that one of them would say something and Riddick would be taken away from him.
When their rescue ship had touched down in the city of New Mecca on Helion Prime everyone had been very thankful to see a planet with an abundance of sunlight and no creatures in sight. Harry had been happy to see that Imam had decided to adopt Jack after she had formed a friendship with his children — Ali especially. Imam was a kind and gentle person and would give the girl a home that Harry suspected she hadn't had for a long time.
Soon they had all bid their goodbyes to everyone else and drifted away. Harry and Riddick, Remus and Sirius had found their way to a smaller suburb of the large city and had found a place to stay, at least for a while. Remus had, during the journey, found out from Imam that there were a few witches and wizards living on Helion Prime, though the holy man had never met them, giving Remus hope of finding a spell or potion to take the four of them home.
One day after they landed on Helion Prime, Harry felt himself go into the first stage of mating heat. It was basically a warning system; telling him that within a few hours he and Riddick would be consumed in the drive to mate and nothing else. All three men near him had noticed the change in his smell. Remus and Sirius had, with a pleading look from their godson, quickly decided to give the newly mated couple some privacy and had gone on a short trip to a nearby city for a few days to try and find a wizard who might be able to help them.
Harry had been so grateful that they had taken the hint. Spending close to two weeks in the skiff with nine other people hadn't given them the privacy or the time to go any further than a few hasty hand jobs or frottage up against a wall. The time on their rescue ship hadn't offered any more privacy either. So Harry had been practically vibrating with need since they had landed in New Mecca and hadn't been surprised when his body went into heat. When he had finally felt safe and secure enough in his surroundings, his Nekomata biology had taken over and put the focus completely on the drive to mate and conceive.
Five minutes after they were gone, Riddick had Harry naked and on his back in their bed trying to get his breath back after having Riddick kiss him like it was their last kiss. Pulling back, Riddick felt his nostrils flare wide as he took in Harry's scent and that his body was ready to mate. Riddick practically drooled as the sweet smell of his mate's fertility overtook him. It was something he had never smelt before. It brought the Furyan in him to life, taking over and leaving him with the need to do nothing but thrust himself into his mate's willing body over and over again.
"I thought they'd never leave…" Harry moaned as Riddick nestled his way into the space between Harry's thighs and laid down over him, the much larger man's weight pressing him into the mattress below.
"Want you, Kitten," Riddick said as he rocked his body slowly against his mate's, the growl of his voice vibrating out of his chest. "You're gonna look so pretty wrapped around my cock."
Harry's breath hitched at the words and he keened in pleasure as Riddick leaned down and sucked the claiming bite that had slowly begun to heal on his neck. Riddick's teeth slid down the slightly raised flesh, causing Harry to squirm and buck up against his mate, but Riddick used the extra sixty plus pounds of pure muscle that he had on Harry and pushed him back down into the mattress with a leering grin. Harry's eyes darkened with arousal at being held down by his mate, his breathy pants increasing as excitement stole over him.
"Like that, don't you Kitten." Riddick practically purred as he stared down into Harry's emerald eyes.
Harry nodded. "I like that you're so big; so much stronger and taller than me. I guess it's the submissive side of my Nekomata, but when you use your strength against me, when you lift me up in your arms and hold me… I just… I get so turned on and flushed. I feel safe, protected, and I want to do is get down on my knees and take you into my mouth, want you to flip me onto my hands and knees and take me… Merlin, I want it so much I can't even think straight."
Looking down at his kitten, Riddick felt his chest constrict and puff out at the same time. He felt this overwhelming desire to give Harry everything he ever wanted; something that, until recently, he never believed he would feel for another person. The Furyan wanted to roar with triumph, wanted to shout that the gorgeous kitten in his arms, the little Nekomata that was a far better man than he could ever be, was his and nobody else's. He felt proud that Harry had accepted him as his mate, proud that fate or destiny had chosen him to be Harry's dominant… and that terrified him. The Riddick. The escaped convict and murderer that people both feared and despised. "Big Evil" Johns had called him… he was terrified of a small wizard cat-boy who barely came up the middle of his chest. Terrified of being connected to another person and of not being enough to protect his mate and the life they would create.
He had prided himself on the rough and tough exterior he had created over the years. The impenetrable layer he had placed over his emotions long ago. In the entire twenty-six years of his life he had nobody but himself to depend on, nobody but himself to protect. Now, here he was looking down at his mate; getting ready to slip into his mate's body for the first time and, if what Harry and Remus had been saying about Harry's high fertility rate was true, soon he was going to have a second being that needed his strength and protection as well.
Riddick hadn't given a second thought to kids before Harry. He didn't hate them; he'd thought a few were even cute, in a fleeting thought kind of way, but that was it. The life he led… the person he was… having a kid seemed like something he'd never have. It was for the normals; the people who had nine-to-five jobs and a house with a picket fence and a dog… not for the universe's most feared murderer. The Company had made sure to spread the details of his supposed "vicious and sociopathic killings" far and wide, making sure he never had the chance to find a safe harbor in any corner of the universe. Riddick had figured if they were gonna make him out to be evil incarnate, he'd play it up and use it to his advantage. It had worked in making people quake in their boots in fear at just the mention of him and had kept everyone but the fearless or stupid off his tail.
Now here he was looking down at his mate —at perfection personified — about to make a baby with him. Riddick laughed at the how much his luck had changed in just a few weeks time — at how equally horny and terrified he was. Riddick gave a low chuckle and leaned down to kiss Harry's wet and kiss swollen lips.
"What are you laughing at, hmmm?" Harry asked and then gasped as Riddick sat back on his heels and pulled Harry into his lap to straddle his strong, muscled thighs. Their cocks rubbed together slickly, pre-come allowing the hard lengths to slide back and forth as Harry thrust down against his mate.
"Just thinkin' 'bout how lucky I am" Riddick groaned as he slid his hands down from around Harry's waist to palm his pert ass with his large hands, squeezing the fleshy cheeks and growling. "Never thought I'd find a mate, let alone one like you… one that's way too good for me."
Harry lifted his head from where it was nestled into Riddick's shoulder and looked up into the glowing silver eyes of his mate and shook his head vehemently. "Riddick, don't say that. You're a good man. You saw people being taken advantage of, being used and abused, and you tried to stop it. That's more than a lot of 'good' people would have done. I know what this universe thinks of you and it's not true, you're not a soulless killer, evil or anything like that. You're not that man, no matter what anyone says."
"I ain't a good man, Kitten. I've killed more people than I can remember. I was a soldier for years, did the dirty work for The Company and killed all those mercs who came after me-" Riddick tried to argued, but was interrupted by his mate.
"That doesn't make you a bad man. Look at me, do you think I am evil or bad; a killer?"
"Course not, Kitten. You take care of people and have a good heart… like I said, too good for me."
Harry nibbled on his lip and turned away for a moment while taking a few deep breaths, readying himself for the conversation that he hadn't had with Riddick yet. In the three weeks that they were in space he and his mate had learned a lot about each other since being mates didn't automatically mean you knew the person you were fated to be with. Harry had already talked about his parents and his childhood with the Dursleys, about going to Hogwarts and the friends and family he had found along the way. But he had shied away from anything more than a passing description of the war. There were few people Harry talked to about that time in his life, choosing rather to leave it in the past where it belonged. But Riddick needed to know about it; about how it had changed him and how they were more alike than Riddick thought.
Turning back to Riddick, Harry spoke. "Do you know, after the war a lot of our community said I was a killer, murderer, unstable… the next dark lord. They spent years either saying I was an attention seeker and unstable or a layabout who was taking his time doing his duty to the wizarding world. When I finally did my duty and ended the war, they said I was dangerous and a vicious killer and should be locked away to protect the rest of the people."
Cupping his hands against Riddick's face, Harry gave a sad smile. "I've taken thirty-two lives since I was fifteen years old, not including the people I failed to save over the years. My first was a Deatheater by the name of Bellatrix Lestrange… we were in the middle of a battle and she had been dueling with Sirius and got a lucky shot, sending him through a doorway called the Veil. I thought she had killed him as nobody had ever come back from the other side. I spent what felt like hours dueling with her, but it had to have only been a few minutes. I sent off killing curse after killing curse, but she deflected them, all the while taunting me about Sirius' death and my parents deaths. Then my rage got so overwhelming that I put all my magical strength into one last spell and it hit. She dropped dead instantly when the killing curse hit her. I felt both happy that Sirius' killer was dead and horrified that I had taken a life. I know she deserved to die; she had taken countless lives and would have happily taken mine and a lot more, but until that moment, I hadn't ever really thought about seriously taking another life. I was fighting a war, but I was still naïve enough to think that I could do it without killing a single soul."
Riddick looked into the haunted eyes of his mate and felt helpless for the first time in a very long time. Tears fell from Harry's emerald eyes as a far away look took over his face. Riddick had known, by the little that his mate had said about the war, that it hadn't been a happy time during his life. He'd figured that he had had to do some things that most people wouldn't understand and he had known that Harry had trouble dealing with it. He hated not being able to take that pain away; hated feeling helpless to ease his mate.
"By the end of the war, when I had severed every tie that Voldemort had to the world, I battled him for several hours. The damage the battle wrought on Hogwarts was severe and the castle was nearly crumbling around us. Finally, Voldemort stumbled over the body of a student that had been killed during the battle, her throat ripped out by one of the werewolves on his side and I was able to catch him with a killing curse. He was the twenty-eighth kill I made. After the war, a few stragglers of his flock were still around. They tried to kill me and avenge his death, but I killed them as well. When the public got wind of how many people I killed during the war, they got scared. They had spent years telling me to do my duty and had cried out for the Ministry to train me to do it, but when it was over, they were afraid of the killer they had created." Harry gave a hollow laugh and wiped away the tears on his cheeks, humming softly as Riddick pulled him into his mate's warm chest, tucking Harry's head under his chin. "They wanted to have me locked up in Azkaban, the notorious wizarding prison, but Dumbledore wouldn't let them. He and my closest friends and family stood up with me saying that if I was to be arrested for what I had done they should be too. They had been right beside me all through the war and had killed as well. So I was left alone. Some people still think I am nothing more than a killer and others think I am a savior. To my friends and family, I'm just Harry… so if you call yourself a killer and a bad man, you have to paint me with the same brush because I've killed just as much as you have."
Harry pulled back a bit from Riddick's embrace and crossed his arms, daring his mate to tell him he was wrong.
Riddick gave a soft laugh at the stubborn look on his mate's face, his lips jutted out in a pout. The Furyan couldn't find fault with his mate's reasoning. "'kay."
"Great… now let's get back to the shagging!" Harry beamed up at him.
"Wait… how did Sirius get out of the Veil thingy?"
"Oh, it was Remus who found a way. He wouldn't accept that Sirius was gone, so he spent months with Hermione researching a way to bring him back. Those two are the smartest people I know, so it was a given that if there was a way, they would find it." Harry had a bright happy look on his face as he spoke. "It took a long time, but they found a spell that, when used, could bring a person or group back to one specific place and time no matter where they were. So Remus got everything he needed and then went into the Veil after Sirius. It scared me, thinking that maybe both of them would be gone, but I saw how Remus was slowly dying the longer Sirius was in the Veil. We knew that, because of their mate bond, Sirius wasn't dead as Remus would have died with him, but there was no guarantee how long he would survive where he was. So we all hoped that Remus would find him and be able to bring him back. Remus was in the Veil for eight days before he used the spell and reappeared in the Hogwarts Infirmary with Sirius. It took a while for both of them to recover, but they did."
Riddick quirked an eyebrow at Harry; his mate lived the weirdest life.
"Okay, now can be get back to the shagging?" Harry pouted as he wiggled his bottom against Riddick's cock, the appendage had gone soft very quickly while Harry was talking about the war, but now, with a strategic wiggle, it was quickly back at full mast.
Riddick growled playfully and threw Harry onto his back on the bed and covered Harry's small body with his larger one, inciting a round of giggles under him from Harry. Leaning down into his mate's body, Riddick began a slow exploration of Harry's body. Running his tongue, lips and teeth across every inch of the smooth pale skin of his submissive, Riddick growled in pride at each moan, gasp and mewl from below him.
He followed the lines of Harry's lithe chest to the dip of his belly button, swirling his tongue and pushing it in and out of the shallow hole as if in promise of what was soon to come. Nipping at the jutting curves of his mate's hip, he laved the slightly reddened skin and admired yet another of his marks on Harry's body. He was amazed by the beauty of every dip and curve, every inch of skin he found, and with each passing second, he was convinced that no one in the universe was as beautiful as his mate.
Harry's breath caught as Riddick's warm breath ghosted over his cock. He could feel the heat of the wet mouth and whined pitifully as Riddick passed it by with an evil chuckle. The warm breath continued on down one leg and back up the other, giving playful nips and licks along the way. Riddick paid special attention to Harry's split tail, petting the soft downy fur and rubbing the base of the tail, chuckling when it caused a deep vibrating purr to start in Harry's chest. Then Harry gripped the sheets below him tightly and keened when Riddick spread Harry's legs wider and dipped his head down below his cock to sniff and nuzzle his balls.
"Smell good, Kitten. So good," Riddick groaned as he closed his eyes and breathed in the heady scent of his mate. He felt the beast inside him purr at the scent of his mate and the knowledge that Harry was ready to have their child.
At the whimper from Harry, Riddick finally gave his full attention to Harry's cock. It was a gorgeous cock. Long and thin, with a circumcised head that was red and flushed, a pearl of pre-come at its tip. Riddick leaned down and licked the drop from the head and grinned as Harry whined. Harry put his hands around the top of Riddick's head, caressing and cupping the smooth shaved skin. Licking the head of Harry's cock, Riddick gave soft teasing licks to the length, going from tip to base and back up again. Then he wrapped his lips around the head and slowly allowed the length to breach his mouth, using his tongue to swirl and caress as he went down.
"Oh, Merlin!" Harry cried as he gave a shallow thrust up into the heaven that surrounded his cock. He had never felt anything like it before. The wet warmth enveloped him and caused pleasure to course through his body, making him keen in bliss. "Please… please."
Riddick hummed in pleasure at the pleading voice of his mate, the vibrations only increasing the sensory overload in Harry's body. Finally, he took the entire length of Harry's cock in his mouth, hollowing out his cheeks and sucking for all he was worth. Soon he was bobbing his head up and down, deep throating the cock as he brought a hand up to Harry's balls. He squeezed and massaged the sacks as he used one finger to glide slowly up and down the sensitive skin of Harry's perineum. Feeling Harry's balls pull up tight to his body, he pulled back from the cock, leaving only the head in his mouth and increased his suction.
"Ughhh… RIDDICK!" Harry yelled as his orgasm overtook him.
At the rush of cum, Riddick swallowed, enjoying the first taste of his mate's seed. Copious amounts of cum flooded his mouth and was swallowed down his throat, as Riddick growled in triumph while his little mate convulsed in pleasure. As Harry's cock began to soften, Riddick laved the length, licking up every last drop of cum, humming as he worked.
Pulling back, he sat on his heels and looked at the debauched image in front of him. Harry's eyes were closed as he enjoyed the after glow. Finally, Harry opened his eyes and gave Riddick a large blissed-out grin.
"Wow."
Riddick laughed as he crawled up Harry's body and laid down on top of him. "So fuckin' beautiful."
Harry blushed and nuzzled Riddick's cheek. Harry pushed Riddick onto his back and straddled his lap, his arse pressed against the long, hard length of Riddick's cock. "My turn."
Grinning up at his mate, Riddick crossed his arms behind his head and rested it on them, giving Harry free rein.
Harry purred in appreciation of the sheer gorgeousness of the large body beneath him. It seemed like every inch of it was covered in corded muscle, from the broad shoulders down to the powerful legs. Harry let his hands glide lovingly over it all, mapping each inch and committing it to memory. Riddick said Harry was beautiful, but Riddick was even more so. The cock in front of him was nothing short of massive, at least compared to his and the few of his dorm mates' that he'd seen. It was about eight inches long with a wide fat head and above average width. Harry was a little hesitant about how it would fit inside him, but was more than willing to try.
Riddick's caramel skin glistened with sweat in the low light and Harry couldn't fight the irresistible urge to lean down and lick the sweet, salty flesh of his lower abdomen while meeting his mate's gaze from beneath his lashes with a coy smile.
Riddick groaned as Harry licked his skin, giving him an innocent look from beneath his eyelashes. The little kitten gave a soft laugh at Riddick's groan and Riddick wanted to flip him back over and show him who was top dog, but he didn't. Riddick allowed Harry to look his fill, knowing that Harry had let him do the same.
Soon Riddick was trembling in need, wanting to finally sink into Harry's welcoming body. Riddick gave a powerful thrust up again and growled. Harry smiled and then leaned over and grabbed his wand off the night stand. Pointing his wand at his fingers, Harry murmured "Lubricus" and his fingers were covered in lube. Laying the wand nearby, Harry caught Riddick's gaze as he leaned forward and brought his hand behind himself to the entrance of his body and groaned as he pushed one finger inside. He slid it in and out, slowly stretching the tight ring of muscle. Riddick gripped Harry's thighs as Harry bit his lower lip and whimpered, pushing another finger inside, preparing himself for Riddick.
When Riddick couldn't take it anymore, he sat up and pushed in a finger alongside Harry's, groaning at the slick heat of the hole around his finger. Soon he pushed another one in and their four fingers slid against each other, opening the hole and getting it ready for Riddick's cock.
Pulling out his fingers, Harry grabbed his wand again and pointed it at Riddick's cock. "Lubricus." Bringing his hand to it, he spread the lube all over the length and smiled when Riddick thrust up into the tight grip of his hand.
"Ready?" Riddick asked softly as he gripped Harry's hips.
Harry nodded and started to roll over onto his back beside Riddick, but was stopped.
"We'll do it with you riding me first; it's better for your first time. You control how much and how soon…" At Harry's Cheshire grin, Riddick added "but don't get to thinking you'll always get that. Gonna take control soon, Kitten."
Maneuvering around, Harry sat over Riddick's middle and brought the head of the cock to his entrance and slowly slid down on it. Grimacing slightly at the size of it as it breached the outer ring, Harry bit his bottom lip and waited a few seconds to adjust to it. Riddick lightly gripped one side of Harry's hips and brought his other hand to the small of Harry's back, rubbing the skin there and murmuring about how tight he was and how Riddick had wanted to be inside of him since he first smelt him.
Soon, Harry pushed down again, taking more and more of the length inside of himself, until he bottomed out. He waited another few seconds to get used to the size of Riddick's cock and then grinned down at his mate as he gave a hesitant wiggle. Pulling up slightly, he allowed the length to nearly leave him altogether and then pushed back down onto it again.
Riddick hissed up at Harry as a wave of pleasure spiked inside of his body, gripping his mate's hips and using every ounce of control not to thrust up into Harry's waiting body. Looking up at his mate, Riddick's breath halted at the vision of his small mate moving up and down on his cock, his eyes closed as he enjoyed the feel of the one and only cock he would ever have inside of him. He was like some fallen angel. Small and lithe, his pale skin glistening in the light, his dark, messy black hair in disarray, as he fucked himself on Riddick's cock. Harry was everything Riddick could ever want; everything he never thought he would be able to have.
Opening his eyes, Harry leaned down and splayed his hands on Riddick's chest to ground himself. He caught Riddick's eyes, staring into the silver orbs as he worked, levering up and down and keening in pleasure as Riddick's cock brushed up against his prostate, sending a zing of pleasure straight to his cock.
"Kitten, you look so beautiful. Perfect," Riddick growled as his tightened his hold on Harry's hips and began thrusting up into his mate's body.
"Riddick…" Harry whined as he slammed back down onto Riddick's cock and used his inner muscles to clamp down onto him. "Yesss…"
"That's it baby, slam down on my cock. I want you to cum on it; get all slick for me and then, when you're done, I'm gonna flip you over and fuck you so hard. Pound you into the mattress… leave a piece of me in there forever."
Harry keened in pleasure slamming downward as Riddick gripped Harry's cock, sliding his tight fist up and down it, bringing Harry closer and closer to heaven. Harry felt his balls draw up tight for the second orgasm of the night and then he felt his body explode in pleasure. Every inch of his skin was on fire and tingling as he came, spilling up and over Riddick's hand and onto his chest.
Riddick felt Harry's hole clench unbelievably tight around his cock as he came. The pleasure was overwhelming, but he held back, wanting to follow through with his promise. As Harry gave a few more thrusts down onto his cock, Riddick flipped Harry over onto his back and waited for Harry to open his eyes. When he saw those stunning emerald cat eyes, he pulled nearly all the way out and then slammed back in, growling when Harry gave a soft whimper at the extra stimulation.
"Knew you would look like a fallen angel when you came around my cock. So pretty. Gonna have to fuck you several times a day just to see that look on your face." Riddick nuzzled Harry's neck as he licked Harry's claiming bite, smelling the scent of his saliva that was permanently mixed into the mark. It was a show of possession, making sure that anyone who saw the bite and smelt Riddick's scent knew who Harry belonged to.
Pounding into Harry's body, Riddick threaded his fingers with Harry's as he laid them up above his mate's head on the pillow, gripping and flexing them every time he thrust back into his mate's body. He felt Harry's cock perking up again, the constant bombardment of Riddick's cock on his prostate making sure that when Riddick finally came, Harry would as well.
"Riddick…" Harry mewled as he gripped Riddick's hands, kissing and biting the lobe of Riddick's ear, his body already on another climb into orgasm.
"Kitten… love how your body fits perfect with mine… made for only me." Riddick breathed into Harry's neck.
"Yours."
"Mine!" Riddick growled as he bit into Harry's neck, reopening the claiming bite once again.
Harry's body bucked up in orgasm at the combination of pain and pleasure as Riddick bit him, his body taking him over the edge once again. He heard Riddick roar as his insides were flooded with Riddick's cum, coating the walls and warming him like nothing ever had. He felt whole, as if he'd been waiting an entire lifetime for this… and really he had. Though he'd only been dreaming about Riddick for a year and a half, he had been waiting since the moment of his birth to mate with this man. To be two separate sides of one complete soul, neither of them complete without the other. It was cheesy and poetic, but a simple truth for both of them.
"Love you, Riddick." Harry whispered as he nuzzled his mate's cheek.
"Love you too, Kitten." Riddick breathed as he licked the reopened bite, infusing more of his scent into the mark, making sure that nobody ever doubted that Harry belonged to Riddick and Riddick belonged to Harry.
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From a darkened corner of the bedroom, as the newly mated couple slept, a wispy figure of a woman appeared, as if she were formed by the very air around her. Her long, flowing white hair carried in the non-existent breeze, drifting behind her as she cautiously moved a little closer to observe the odd pairing of a Furyan and a Nekomata. The oddity wasn't in the difference in species really — they were similar, if separated by a few millennia of evolution — it was the fact that roughly seven hundred years had separated them until very recently. It wasn't very often that her people encountered an event that they hadn't predicted, but the mating of the two before her had been one of a handful of events over the course of untold millennia.
Her species, long ago, had slowly drifted away from the less predictable aspects of life such as mating. Iinstead, they had taken refuge in the explainable and the calculable, choosing to observe rather than participate. It was only fortunate that her people lived such long lives. She herself had witnessed the birth and death of untold civilizations over several millennia and would continue to do so for many more.
However, in all those years, she had never been so fortunate as to bear witness when such an unpredictable life form came into being. It was often the smallest event or person that had the power to shift the outcome of life on an immeasurable scale and such was the case with the tiny life just beginning to form within the young Nekomata's womb.
At the news of the unpredictable pairing, those in the highest positions in the Elemental society had begun to recalculate the outcome of the past, present and future. The pairing would affect all three to varying degrees, but the future held the most sway because, depending on the outcome, the future might take many turns that had, until now, never been a possibility. The calculations had been done many times over, checked and rechecked and every time the results were the same. She had been sent by her people to verify the outcome and tally the final calculations and now, as she stood over the newly mated pair, she knew that her people had been correct.
The curious meeting of the Nekomata and the Furyan could affect the future in various ways, but the spark of life just beginning to form within the Nekomata was the deciding factor. That life, which until recently Fate had never given a future, had started a chain of events that would only end with a death. The identity of the person whose death was to take place was undecided — oh the calculations gave a probable outcome, but Fate was a fickle thing.
The woman backed away quietly from the bed with a sad expression on her aged face. The calculations now complete, laid a path for the mated pair to follow. Some time would need to pass before she would be needed to play her part in the events to come. With a final look, she disappeared into the wind, a trail of swirling air behind her.
One death held the promise of long life and prosperity for the universe's population, the other would lead to the eventual end of all human life even unto the farthest reaches of the universe… which death would Fate choose?… Only Fate herself knew.
The End.
Author's Note: Okay boys and girls, that brings us to the end of the story, but not the end of the series. I am in the middle of writing the sequel, Fade Into Darkness, and hope to begin posting sometime after the new year. I currently have about four and a half chapters written, but want to get at least five fully written and edited chapters before i start posting. So look for the first chapter to be posted sometime in the beginning of 2011. I want to thank damnednforsaken and phoenixfeather for their wondeful beta skills and i want to thank you all for reading this and for the lovely comments. I hope you all have a great holidays and a happy new year!