"Koda.... stop.... please stop." 446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLASwkIFTNj
It hadn't taken long for the spell to break.
He kept his eyes shut tight and focused on the movement of his body against hers. Happy thoughts, he told himself over and over again, trying to drown her out.
Happy thoughts.
"Why..." Taiga mumbled through tears, using up her remaining strength in continuous attempts to rip her arms free from his grasp. "Why.. WHY." She choked and then stopped struggling, completely consumed by her tears. "Why are you doing this. You... you were.... my best friend."
Koda stopped, opening his eyes to stare down at her destraught face. She was so ugly when she cried. His eyes betrayed his stone cold face, two orbs consumed in regret and despair, but he knew she wouldn't understand even if he explained to her right then why it had to be so. His reasoning encompassed way more than just the two of them. He had imagined for years what the first time would be like. His soft skin against hers, her smile, her pleasure, the way their bodies moved together as if... as if they were always meant to be that way. But now that was ruined forever. All of his dreams, his love for her, was being shattered into a million pieces right before his eyes, and spilling out on to the ground through her tears. He had betrayed her. Happy thoughts.
He slammed his eyes shut again. Happy thoughts. He had to force himself to finish.... somehow.
"Taiga...." He whispered, his voice almost cracking as he felt control slipping away. "Please trust me." She was silent. Her tears had given away to hatred now but she had stopped fighting. That in itself was a blessing for him.
He began to thrust again, his movements a forced fluidity. Koda relaxed, focusing on all of his happy memories of her and sped up. Taiga was shaking under him. He ignored it, assuming that the tears were flowing again. If he had been watching her he would've seen the hatred give way to pleasure. She may not have wanted it, but it had come anyway, for the body reacts separately from the heart and mind in times of complete and total despair. The reaction of her body around him gave him the ability to forget, just long enough, that he was ruining everything he loved. His mind gave way to his dreams and after what had been an eternity of ripping his soul apart, ejaculated into her body.
When the pleasure had passed he removed himself from her quickly and slipped on his pants, his eyes surveying the positioning of the sun. It had taken him longer than he had planned, and time had slipped away from them. Soon she would know the truth about everything, about him, about the war, about why he did what he did. This was not the way he wanted her to find out.
Taiga was sitting up now, watching him in silence. She was covered in blood and there were dark bruises on her arms where he had held her, but she didn't feel any pain, just a lingering pleasure and a numbness that was sweeping through her body. Then a tingling. It started at her groin and consumed her body inch by inch. When the tingling reached her head her ability to think became fuzzy again. She tried to move, to stand, to go to him, but she couldn't move her body. How heavy she was.... so heavy...
Koda turned around in time to see Taiga's eyes roll back into her head and her body droop down to the dirt.
"Shit," He muttered under his breath. He moved towards her and picked up her limp body, cradling her as close to his chest as he could.
"I'm so.... so... cold," she grumbled under her breath, her eyes glazed over.
"It's the transformation. You'll be fine." He sat with his back against the tree and held her close, his arms wrapped around her body. They must look like a mess, he thought to himself, covered in blood and dirt and bruises. His face hardened again and he brushed matted curls from her face.
"I'm not going anywhere."
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When his eyes opened again it took him a minute to realize where he was. There was a pounding in his head, a throbbing pain that increased in severity when he tried to look around. The trees were dancing in the wind. So he was still in the forest, that was a good sign. How long had he been asleep? Then his eyes grew wide in panic and he tried to remove himself from the tree only to find he was tied down to it with vines. Taiga! Where was she? Was she alright?
"Finally awake?" Her familiar voice floating down to him put him at ease and he relaxed his throbbing head against the bark, his eyes catching a glimpse of her body in the tree branches.
She jumped, more agile and carefree than she had ever remembered being, and landed with a soft thud in front of him. Her eyes were a mixture of so many emotions that he almost looked away, guilt stabbing at his heart.
"Taiga, did you hit me in the head?" His voice was raspy, but a smile played on his lips. This was rather amusing to him. Her recovery was astounding.
A mischievous smile, and then a soft laugh. Her eyes had nothing but hatred now, and he was forced to look away.
"Did you really think that you would be able to get away with the bonding and not have some sort of repercussion?" She reached out and touched his chin, forcing him to look her in the eye. She was so strong now. Her strength had more than tripled. "Koda..... I need an answer." Her voice was serious now. She sounded so much older than she was. "Why did you do that? Why didn't you just ask me? I would've said yes."
His jaw dropped. What? He could've just.... asked her? No. No way.
"And how did you spell me?" She let go of his chin and stepped back, her dirt ridden body covered once again with a grey wolf pelt. "No human can do magick, Koda. No human."
Fuck. Last thing he wanted was to be tied to a tree at a time like this.
"Taiga. My name isn't Koda."
"Not Koda? You look like Koda to me." Her anger was growing substantially. "Stop joking around with me or I'll chop off your man hood." He groaned at the thought, subconsciously crossing his legs.
"I'm being serious. Koda died twelve years ago in an accident in the western plains. I'm not Koda. My name is Aroko. And you are right, I'm not human." Koda closed his eyes and started to.... pray? Was it praying if he didn't believe in a higher being? He was going to die by the hands of a monster he created. What an ironic ending to his pitiful meaningless life.
Taiga watched him closely. He was shaking. His eyes were closed, his lips mouthing soundless words.
"Aroko." Her voice had become harder, like a stone fist against his face. "If that is your name." Sarcasm. Perfect. "What are you if you are not human?"
And then the truth became apparent to her, he didn't need to say a thing. Their was only one creature able to take the shape of a human. They could choose their own appearance, and then change that appearance at will, making them the masters of deception. Taiga closed her eyes and choked back tears, fear spreading like a virus. She stepped back, and continued to retreat from him. No. No it couldn't be. A shade. He was a shade.
She recalled all the stories that had been shared with her as a young girl. Shades, the dark minions of the devil, had been granted the face of a human by day, but as the sun retreated from the Earth would shed the false appearance and become the monstrous beings they actually were. No one looked upon a Shade's true face and lived to tell about it.
She slumped down to the Earth, her eyes wide, her heart broken.
"Taiga. Taiga please." He had to hurry. Their time was running out. "I may not be Koda. You may think the last ten years we spent together were a lie. But please. You never knew the real Koda. You knew me. You've always known me. I'm still your best friend.... I'm still that same guy..."
"No. NO! SHUT UP!"
"Taiga... PLEASE." He was becoming hysterical now. So much he had to tell her. So much she needed to understand. Their wasn't enough time.
"STOP IT." She screamed, rising back to her feet, her arms wrapped around her torso protectively.
"Your tribe is in danger. They are coming.... they are coming, Taiga. I knew i couldnt stop them on my own.They were going to kill you. I did this to PROTECT you."
"Protect? You wanted to protect me?" She pealed her arms from her body, shaking, and stared wide eyed at her own hands. "What am I? What am I now that I've been bound to a shade?" She was suddenly running. Her hands gripped his shoulders and shook him violently, pounding him repeatedly into the tree. "What have you DONE to me?" Her arms dropped and she began to cry uncontrollably. "Am I evil? Am I a shade now too?"
"No...." He whispered softly. "You..."
Before he could finish his answer the sound of drums echoed loud across the forest. The sound of war. The sound of eminent danger.
"NO!" She screamed. And then she was gone, running through the forest back the way they had come.
His eyes looked up towards the sky, surveying the position of the sun. It was twilight. Their time was up. He had failed miserably...
"Shit."
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