Voyages of the Solar Wind 1: A Fire in Heaven (4 page)

"Yes she is, and I sure hope so. I'm the best damn pilot the Confederate Navy ever had, and a halfway decent Gunner. I'm also damn good at electronics." I nodded and smiled back at her. She was gorgeous. Her long emerald green hair flowed down her back, and her lips looked luscious and red. I wouldn't mind... or maybe I would mind. Amazons are as strong as ten normal human men. I'm pretty powerfully built, but not enough to handle her.

"We could use your help with the air scrubbers and the water recyclers. The panels got fried during the battle. We'll head for New Haven, since I don't have any warrants there." She said and turned to her Shivos pilot. He nodded, and slithered back to the cockpit to plot a course and enter the slipstream.

"No problem. Is Solar Wind secured?" I asked.

"Yes. Our boarding arm is on it, so it's locked in place until we exit the slipstream." She smiled at me again, and I was starting to really like Harrana Bloodskull.

I went with her up to the cockpit and we checked the air scrubber and water recycler systems.

"Yeah, your panels are fried, here. I recommend getting full repairs at New Haven or Port Royal." I gave her my diagnosis. "Best I can do is set up a juryrigged panel for you until then. It won't be pretty, but it'll work."

"Captain, you have no idea how much your help means to me. We'll head for Port Royal as soon as the engines are fixed.” Harrana said it with relief in her voice.

"Hey, Dex. I got the Aquataine reactor leak sealed for the moment. Port Royal should have all the facilities to fix it up good as new, but New Haven won't." She was shaking her head, and shrugged at Harrana apologetically.

"Harrana, meet Rilar. She's been my best buddy for eight years now, and is the best damn gunner in the galaxy. She's the one that slagged those thirty-seven fighters outside. Rilar, this is Captain Harrana Bloodskull." I introduced my First Officer to the Pirate Queen.

"Thank you, hon." Harrana smiled at Rilar, and hugged her.

"Anytime, Harrana. Good to meet you." Ri was smiling at our new friend.

"SEKHMET! Drop out of the slipstream and set course for Port Royal!" She yelled to her pilot.

"Yesssshhh, Caaappptaaaiinnn!" He replied in his lisping reptilian voice.

We dropped and recorrected for Port Royal, then we entered the slipstream again.

"Sweety, what did you use to fix the reactor?" I asked.

"Duct tape, MegaBubble Gum, and some old zipcuffs." Ri said. "It should hold until we reach Port Royal... I think."

"Can you go monitor it, Rilar? I would appreciate it." Harrana asked her.

"Sure, Captain. Just yell if you need me. If anything comes up back there, I'll handle it or call you if I can't." She smiled and ran back to the engine room.

"Do you want a beer, Dex?" Harrana asked me.

I looked up at her and grinned. "I love you, Harrana. I could definitely go for a beer right now!"

"My quarters are this way. Don't worry about the corpses around here. I'll have my surviving crew pick them up and incinerate them." She took my hand and led me to her quarters.

I have pretty big hands, and mine were actually slightly larger than hers. She wasn't the first Amazon I had encountered, but she was definitely the sexiest. Her long emerald green tresses gave her a wild look, and her eyes were just different enough to be intoxicating when I looked into them. We sat at the small table in her room and drank a six-pack of some dark beer from her home planet of Amazona.

"This is some great stuff!" I told her after my second bottle. I was feeling the effects already.

"You're more resilient than most Humans, Dex." She laughed heartily but with a very sexy undertone to her laugh.

"How so?" I asked with one strategically raised eyebrow.

"Most Humans fall over and pass out after one bottle." She gave me a very seductive look, and I found myself gazing into her eyes.

"You have beautiful eyes, Harrana." I complimented her, and she blushed slightly.

"Thank you, Dex. Your eyes are very striking. I don't believe I've seen eyes like yours before." She said, and I nodded in appreciation of her compliment.

"Thank you, Harrana. You're not what I imagined a pirate to be like." I smiled at her.

"Oh? What did you imagine, Dex Relway?" The way she asked her question and bent forward to show me her very generous cleavage had me harder than granite.

"Nothing as beautiful as you, Harrana Bloodskull." I replied as smoothly as I could being as drunk as I was.

"Dex, I want you. I want to feel your body on mine and your hard cock in me." She was very direct, I'll give her that! I realized then how much I wanted to feel her body and feel her pussy wrapped around my cock.

"You know what, Harrana? I would love to feel your body on mine and your pussy wrapped around my hard throbbing fuckin' cock, too." I was beyond caring if she was planning to kill me afterward.

She stood up and pulled my drunk ass to my feet, and kissed me like I'd never been kissed before. I regained a bit of sobriety from my heartbeat increasing and the adrenaline pumping through me. I returned her kiss just as ardently, and she picked me up and threw me on her bunk. She damn near ripped my armor off of me and had a look in her eyes that said she was going to use me, abuse me, and make me like it!

Right then, I was way beyond giving two shits whether I survived or not, since all the blood that was usually in my brain was now in my smaller head. She stripped herself bare, and I noted her muscular yet feminine body. Her breasts were large, and her nipples stood up firm and proud. She crawled onto the bed like a great beast and I pulled her to me, kissing her passionately. She pressed her warm body to mine and I slipped my hand down to squeeze her big gorgeous ass. She moaned into my mouth while we kissed and explored each other.

"I want you, Dex," she said as she broke the kiss for a moment, then straddled my hips.

"You want me inside you, Harrana? You want me to fuck you, baby?" I was baiting her. Daring her to take me. She reached down and grabbed my hard cock and sat down on it hard. Her pussy was so wet and hot and tight that I felt like I was fucking a miniature soft walled sauna. She moaned loudly as I penetrated her, and it gave me no small amount of satisfaction that she found me acceptable. I grabbed her breasts and pulled them down to my mouth to suck on as I thrust up into her harder and harder. She fucked me back, slamming her pussy down on me over and over.

"Fuck yes, Dex! Fuck me while I fuck you! Give it to me, Dexypoo! Give me your hot fucking cock! Fuck yes, you feel so fucking good in me!" She was moving harder and faster as she rode me like a cowgirl on a bucking bronco. I gave her the ride of her life, bucking up into her and fucking her harder than I imagined she'd ever been fucked before.

"You fucking like that, sweetycakes? You want my hard fucking cock up in your pussy? You like that, Harrana? Take this!" I slammed up into her hard, bucking her nearly off of me. She screamed and came, and I could feel her gushing over my cock and balls when she climaxed. Her cunt tightened up around me, and I felt my own cum getting ready to launch.

"I'm gonna come, Harrana!" I yelled, and she rolled us over so I was between her thighs from above. She wrapped her legs around me and locked her ankles behind my back.

"Give me your cum, Dexypoo! Give Harrana your hot fucking cum!" She screamed as I did, and my cum shot into her as I came. As her climax reached its crescendo, I felt the first snap....

Fuck me sideways... Holy shit, I thought I was gonna die. I woke up with regen bandages around my midsection, pretty much naked except for some trousers Harrana had thrown on me. I was in Blood Oath's MedBay, and I could barely breathe. I looked up at the smirking face of Rilar, and behind her, the concerned face of Harrana.

"Well, look who's awake. Dex, you should have told me you were planning to give Harrana a good time. I would have warned you about the perils of mating with an Amazon!" Ri slapped me in the ribs, which hurt like fuck, even though the regen bandages were knitting my ribs.

"Ouch! Yeah, no kidding." I managed through a grimace.

"Dexypoo, I'm so sorry! I didn't realize I would hurt you so bad." Harrana called me Dexypoo again. Oh boy.

"It's ok, sweetycakes. I'm glad you had a good time, at least." I smirked up at her and she leaned down and kissed me. She is definitely not a bad kisser. In fact, I'd put her in my top five.

She broke the kiss and pulled back. "I'm sorry, Dex. It won't work out between us."

"Sorta figured that, Harrana. I'm not sure if I could survive another night with you. But if I ever wanna commit suicide, there would be worse ways to go." I smiled for her, and she laughed along with Rilar.

"You're ok, Dex Relway! Most men, if they survived, would have run away already." Harrana chuckled.

"If my ribs were better, I would have run away already!" I chuckled and grimaced at the shooting pain in my sides.

"Easy, Dex," said Rilar. "You have six cracked ribs from Harrana's... excitement."

"Dex, it's a rare man who can make me come that hard. If you ever feel the need to end your own life, call me and I'll gladly fuck you to death." That's my buddy the Pirate Queen. No filter between thoughts and mouth.

"I'll do that, Harrana." I promised her with a thumbs up.

"Until then, you and your ship, as well as Rilar, are now officially under my protection. Solar Wind, along with her Captain and First Officer, are officially Off Limits for pirates. If anyone attacks you, I will end their lives myself. You have the Blood Oath of Harrana Bloodskull on that." She surprised me. The Blood Oath was the most sacred vow an Amazon could make.

"Thank you, Harrana." I smiled at her.

"It is I who should be thanking you, Dex. You and Rilar saved my ship, my crew, and my life. And you gave me the best damn orgasm I've ever had." She winked and leaned down to kiss me with surprising tenderness. "Until we meet again, Dexypoo. I enjoy the Jolly Roger Pub on Port Royal whenever I'm docked there."

"Looking forward to it, sweetycakes." I agreed breathlessly after she broke the kiss.

"Ok, boss. I already got your clothes aboard Solar Wind and we need to be aboard and dropping off the side of this ship when we exit the slipstream. Yeah, we're going to Port Royal for further repairs." Rilar helped me to my feet.

"Thanks, Ri. You are awesome, you know that, right?" I said with a smile for my First Officer.

"I know I am, Dex. So are you. You just don't know it yet." She grinned at me and helped me through the Blood Oath and into the airlock back to Solar Wind.

Chapter 1: Hell Hath No Fury...

Two years later...

The SS Solar Wind is a Sparrow class light freighter. Lightly armed and armored, but highly maneuverable and extremely fast. At Flank Speed, it can outrun a system patrol cutter. It's the fastest ship in the galaxy, thanks to cutting edge and quite possibly illegal technology.

But then, I refuse to clarify on whether the tech in my ship is legal or not. I have a rep to consider, ya know.

My name is Dex Relway. Or Captain. Whichever. I'm a freighter captain, and the Solar Wind is my baby. Highly modified to be run by two people. About me: I'm 6'1" with slightly longish dark brown hair that comes to my shoulders when I'm not wearing it back in a tail. I weigh about 210 in 1G Earth Normal. I'm still relatively fit at 33, even though I have a little beer gut. I have stubble on my cheeks and a vandyke goatee, so I look a bit like a pirate. Rilar is helping me with my beer gut, spotting me one hundred reps of sit ups a day. It's working. My former pony keg is nearly back to a six pack.

Rilar is my best friend. She was my gunner aboard the CSS Lu Bu during the war, and I love her. We've known each other for ten years now, and when we got out, stuck together. She's 5'9", weighs probably 125 in 1G. She's mostly shaved bald up top, but with a long ponytail topknot of wavy white hair. She's a Gurinkan. A pseudo catlike species of humanoids with mostly human features, elf-like pointed ears, and lavender-purple skin. Her eyes are light blue and slitted like a cat's, and she also has catlike claws and fangs. Her body is mostly hairless with a stripe of very soft white hair down her spine, but she covers it up in a flightsuit most of the time.

Up until recently, we'd never even considered a romantic relationship, and to be honest, I'm not sure why. She's gorgeous, and the fact she isn't human doesn't bother me. I'd just never thought about her that way, except briefly when we'd first met.

Our relationship started with getting boarded by the CSS Grant...

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"SS Solar Wind, this is the CSS Ulysses S. Grant. You are ordered to heave to and prepare to be boarded." I vaguely heard the voice over the com as I struggled to wake up.

"Rilar! Can you get that, sweety?" I half slurred, half shouted. Yeah, I really hate hangovers.

"Sure, Dex. Gimme a moment." She unmolded herself from my back where she'd been spoon cuddling me and leaped over me to the deck. She pulled on her flight suit over her naked form and ran to the cockpit.

"Thanks, Ri. You're the best, babe."

I smiled. I think one reason our friendship works so well is that she loves to cuddle and snuggle, and I don't mind one bit. She's never put the moves on me, and I've never put the moves on her. It was just something we'd done together since the first time we slept on the Lu Bu, back in the day. During the war, we were assigned to long range patrols where we were gone for weeks at a time. All we had was solid and liquid rations, air scrubbers, showers, and each other.

Our first night out, we'd stopped in deep space for some shuteye, and she'd crawled out of her bunk and into mine. She'd snuggled up to my chest, we'd put our arms around each other, and went to sleep. No words were said. We just did it.

We'd woke up the next day with no remorse. No awkwardness. It was cool. We've been best buddies ever since. She watches my back, and I have the pleasure of watching hers. She has a VERY nice back, breasts, butt, you name it. She's like no-pressure eye candy. At least to me.

"Dex! Come on, Dex! I need you up here!" Rilar shouted from the cockpit. I groaned and crawled out of bed.