Hearing Arila's glee, Shadow smiled happy that the she was pleased with what she found.

The young dragon watched in wonder at how she simply unscrewed the top off the jars to get at the preserved peaches. He hadn't been able to figure how to get the contents with out smashing it on the ground or crushing them with his claws....

At the moment he of course was too tired to go to trouble himself with such a monotonous task of picking the small quashed treats out of broken glass! which was very difficult to do as a Dragon.

"This is good," she said,with a yawn

Shadow curled up in the warm hot springs allowing Arila to take solace next to him. He looked down at her, still a bit baffled at how she had gone through the entire jar without breaking it... though it was something simple for her... it was a complete and total mystery for him, one that he most nearly dismissed as magic.

Steam slowly rolled over them both, once she was finished with the jar Shadow lowered his head and lazily rested his chin in her soft thighs.

Arila laughed as he licked her, playfully pushing at him, only to draw him back with gentle hands, as she nuzzled her cheek against his, and playfully purred, only to straighten up again. Never would she find a better...mate and friend. Something about his behavior said that now he respected and deferred to her more, so she felt confident that they would be able to travel again.

"Aren't you hungry?" he asked nervously

With a jolt she was pulled from her thoughts and smiled at him. Moving almost in slow motion, she went to the crate and started going through it. When she found the peaches she made a sound of joy and sat down, crossing her legs, as she dipped her fingers into the preserves and pulled out the fruit, eating them quickly. She shifted until she could lean back against Shadow, taking solace in his warmth.

"This is good," she said, with a yawn, even though she had only been awake for about an hour. Maybe it was just being so relaxed that had her drowsy.

Shadow thrummed in as she rubbed his noise...

"Does it really bother you that I'm...what was the phrase you used?...top mate?"

To this was did not speak, he not really sure what to say... he didn't like to lose and disliked admitting it even more for he was still proud as ever. He swallowed nervously as he felt her examining the mark she had made on his neck.

Instead of answering Shadow merely gave her a big wet kiss with large blue tongue running all the way up her belly, up her neck and over over her face. He also took pride in having Arila as his keeper. She was kind but also strong and firm, he had no question of her authority.

The young dragon lay still, wondering what she was up to as she examined the mark on his neck. "Aren't you hungry?" he asked nervously not wishing to pull away from her... he had no doubt she could pin him down at any moment if she wished too and didn't partially care to be reminded of it at that moment.

Maybe it was because he had been trying to ignore her that she had spoken out loud, or maybe she just was tired of the silence. Almost sensing his thoughts, she closed her eyes before the flash of light so that she wasn't blinded and then looked at him, her eyes going over his beautiful, sleek body. Her eyes lingered on the silver scales and a pleased smile curved her lips, as it was a sign that she was the one that had won.

Her emerald eyes met his azure eyes and she listened to his words with an expressionless look to them. After a moment, she replied, "I guess you're right. I'll go out, but Shadow? I don't eat meat, so I hope you don't mind me hunting strawberry patches."

Laughter bubbled out of her as her eyes went to the crate, hearing him move it and then she felt him nuzzle against her chest, making her blush again, but she was able to focus and pet him, rubbing his nose and asking, "Does it really bother you that I'm...what was the phrase you used?...top mate?" Something about him keeping his head lower than hers appeased Arila and she rubbed his nose gently as she slide her other hand up to touch the silver scales that stood out so handsomely from the rest.

Shadow groaned again as he lazily leaned against smooth rocks as he enjoyed the warm water over his muscles... he was hungry too, but he was so drained he didn't even feel like even shifting he didn't want to do anything and so pretended he didn't hear her... that was until she spoke again, this time out loud.

"Why are you still a dragon? Also, do you have anything to eat here? I'm starved."

Hoping to appease his mate, there was flash of light and arising from a shroud of black mist lay Shadow's sleek black majestic form sprawled out lazily at the waters edge. But there was something different about him, several of his scales on the side his neck oddly stood out from the rest... though black at the base, they had a silver sheen that could be detected at certain angles of the light... it was permanent and like their bond, her mark would never fade.



His dark blue eyes looked over at her Arila and snorted, pretending to be upset. I said I would feed you when I was top mate... you go hunt... I sleep he replied telepathically... while his dark blue eyes watched her quietly seeing how she would react. All the wile his long tail slipped out of the pool and began dragging a large crate over to the waters edge... he had found it in a ship wreck and it was filled with bottles of preserved food... such as sardines, olives, peaches, pickled beats, pickled eggs, and pickled pickles.

Shadow smiled and leaned his soft scaly head against her breast trying to get her to pet him... He kept his head lower than hers as a sign reverence hoping she wasn't to cross at his joke or mistaken it as an uprising.

Arila's cheeks flamed when his hand went up to the mark she had left on his neck and she bit her low lip. The memories from before washed over her and for a moment they were more appealing than reality, but then she noticed that Shadow was moving and her eyes snapped on to him. His movements still seemed to be less flowing than a normal humans, but she also had to wonder why he hadn't yet returned to his dragon form.

Relaxing, she let her body float on the surface of the water for a bit, sensing the young male so close to her and knowing that he was probably watching her. Opening her mind, she checked to see if he was listening to her, and then tentatively, she touched his mind, for the first time with nothing more than the goal of communicating without disrupting her serenity. Going with feelings instead of words, she tried to express her curiosity at his form and also her hunger, not at the same time of course.

After a moment of trying to portray both, she flipped in the water, so that she was facing him, floating a few feet away, and asked aloud, "Why are you still a dragon? Also, do you have anything to eat here? I'm starved."

"How are you?" she asked

Shadow wasn't exactly sure how he felt... he was so sore and tired and the same time he never felt more at peace. His hand went up to the mark on his neck and his face blushed a little as he smiled shyly, reminiscing the feeling her of moist tongue and warm lips against his skin.... though he still was having a hard time believing she had pinned him and rode him out like she did, to beat him at his own game.

"Want to join me swimming?"

The young male groaned, as he stretched out lazily on top of mountain of netting. But eventually he rose up to at his mate's beckoning, and peered down over the nest. The cave seemed a lot bigger than he remembered it. He slowly l clambered down the nest and let out a sigh as he slipping into the warm waters edge.

Shadow looked over at Arila as he sat the edge of the warm pool so that all but his head was above water. He was not interested in swimming only in being near her.

The heat continued to burn her from the inside and she climaxed many times over, just barely holding onto Shadow, since it was now his tempo and show. Her energy was depleted by the time he managed to come once, launching his seed deep within her. and she collapsed on top of him, feeling his breathing, steady and slow. Soon sleep claimed her as well.

When she awoke, her loins hurt and moving was difficult at first, but she was too energetic to stay still for long. Slipping quietly from the nest of fishnets, she went over to one of the hot springs and slide in, shocked to find that it went over her head. She slipped below the surface with a gasp of surprise, but resurfaced quickly, looking around to see if her idiocy had been spotted, but Shadow slept on, peacefully.

Resting her arms on the side of the hot spring, she lay her head on it and gazed at him, watching him sleep in wonder. Never before had she be so enchanted by any creature, human or otherwise, before. Arila wasn't the type to call it love, but she had to admit, that now, she'd die for him more than willingly. Realizing this was distressing for her and she shook with fright at the idea that something meant more to her than her own life. How had she let that one happen!? Where was the spirit she had had only hours ago? Why was she suddenly so willing to just stay in his cave and be around him.

A frustrated growl escaped her and she pushed off from the edge of the water, going under and washing her self with her hands. Her magic still wasn't back yet, since she hadn't eaten, but her normal, mortal energy was there and that was enough for her to do small spells...if she was stupid enough to risk her life to prove that she could spell cast.

She broke the surface, gasping for air and her lung aching. Her silver hair was plastered to her head and her emerald eyes sparkled with the joy of being in the water and being clean. She had always loved swimming more than walking or breathing. Immediately, she spotted that Shadow was awake and waved at him, smiling.

"How are you?" she asked pleasantly, trying to ignore the way he looked at her. The adoration had been there before, but never as strong, nor had the other emotions and it made her feel like he expected something from her and she didn't know what it was or how to come through and not let him down.

Gracefully, she swam backwards and kicked water in the air, watching it arch in a sky ballet, before splattering back on the rippling surface of the water or against the stone around the spring. Looking at Shadow again, she called, "Want to join me swimming?"


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Shadow's rhythm grew faster and harder to control he thrust himself up inside her with a quenchable heated fire. He went on never stopping never slowing never tiring as his hips collided with hers like a wild stallion racing across endless fields of grass... all she could do was hang on.

Hours went by though they seemed like minutes in their eternal embrace of there harmonious rapture. It was quite clear he was no average human, Shadow was a dragon magic ran in his veins. Often times when a dragons copulated for days and nights on end. Seeing that there was no way to know time in the cavern being that the sky was hidden from view... there was no certain way to know how long they carried on... for he didn't stop at her first climax, or her second or third...

The young male kept going, until his entire body ached with fatigue and their bodies were steaming with perspiration.... when suddenly he let a loud panicked gasp! He didn't understand! this had never happened to him before!

"Arila!" he yelped calling her name in both wonderful terrified confusion and a overwhelming bliss as his back arched lifting her up also in the intensity of the moment! Every muscle in his body tensed uncontrollably as he felt himself at long last explode inside her releasing his essence deep into inner the vessel of her being.

At last, Shadow collapsed panting in utter exhaustion. To tired to even raise his head, it was only a matter of seconds a deep sleep came over him.

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Shadow slept soundly only awaking following night.

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Slowly he lifted his head and glanced around , he was still felt very tired... but oh so wonderfully whole at the same time. Shadow looked over to Arila and swallowed nervously, it was a bit intimidating for him.

It had been his first time... though it had not gone as he had planned... it had been amazing. She seemed different now and he could never look at her the same again.

The simple understanding and the knowing that now she new him every inch of him and she could take him whenever she wished which didn't bother him at all, was a bit unnerving when he had felt that he was biggest thing in the world.... made him feel... well... a bit naked... Which was a both strange and wonderfully exciting new feeling that he never had before.

The young male's eyes wondered briefly looking over the side of the nest and then at the trinkets piled in the cave... it was all rightly hers now, everything to last shiny bobble, to the nest he was resting in, to his body and soul in belonged to her.... it of course didn't bother him in the least. He would gladly give it up to be with her.... no shiny bobble would ever break their bond.


Shadow's dark eyes seemed to shine with a newly awoken inner glow... He smiled at Arila as he lay lazily lay on his back watching her quietly.

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I hate it when that happens, especially after writing a really long post.

Its all good, I've been there before lol

Arila felt herself drawn into the smooth movement as she rode him, set on fire in a new way. The feeling of bliss made it hard for her to remember anything, which may have been why Shadow's arms had slipped free, but as she let her self be lead down, she didn't bother trying to care. He mouth was warm and sent heat through her body as if she was drinking flames, that didn't harm her. Her hands were braced on his chest, and they began tracing patterns over his skin, as she took in the feel off him, totally and completely.

Some part of her realized that Shadow hadn't flipped her, that he wasn't fighting her now and he wondered if he had just given up or if he was only going with it for now. The young dragon and his ways confused her more than she liked to admit, but she wasn't going to blame him for her ignorance. The more she learned about him, the more she knew that she needed to learn.

The tempo of her movements increased until she felt her climax coming on and she bit her lower lip, holding it off until she knew that Shadow had cum, making it a challenge against herself and her body. Her whole body felt burning hot and twitchy and she felt release so near, but kept it away, just for the sake of a challenge. Her hands slid up to his shoulders about the same time that she could no longer hold off her climax and she kissed him deeply so that her shouts would be loss in his mouth.


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Shadow blinked feeling Arila enter into his mind, for few moments he looked about a bit confused for he wasn't really able to contemplate identify with view of things.... it was all backwards to him... but then his body twitched feeling her fingers slide around his shaft. He looked about in a daze, unable focus on anyone one thing as Arila cleverly distracted him.

Sensing that something was happening the young dragon quickly shut her mental screen out of him, just in time to feel her warm moist passage slowly envelope him, drawing him inside her sending a tremor of heat rush through his body, he looked up at Arila as his breathing increased with heightened passion... his eyes where bright with wonder and a little bit of dismay as she descended downward, as he felt her her steamy walls of her temple passage encasing him tightly inside her to officially claim him as her own.

Shadow's felt his body responding as his hips rose up to pressing against hers as their bodies melded into a one movement. Somewhere in the process he managed to get his arms free, but this time he didn't fight her, he moved in perfect rhythm instinctively in tune with her hips and her body, as his left hand run her thigh and his right arm ran firmly along of her torso over her back bringing her to him so that he could in turn beckon her lips a in yet another deep passionate embrace as he adored the curves of her body.

Arila had the bizarre desire to laugh at Shadow, as he was clearly refusing to just give in, but also so clearly enjoying it. The shock on his face also might have been a source of humor for her. Shadow made it so hard for her to be mad at him, without trying even.

Her teeth grazed over the skin on his neck, nibbling, as her tongue followed the same path, leaving a trail on him. Pausing at the junction of his neck and shoulder, she sucked on the skin until she knew that there would be a mark, and a reminder for the young male as to whom was in charge and on top.

Once more she entered his mind, this time to distract him as she shifted, as she filled his mind with the images that had been going through her own. Her lips went to his again, though she think she enjoyed the attention she had been paying his neck as much as he had.

When she was certain that he was wrapped up in the images or at least paying attention to them, she reached down to run her fingers lightly over his erection, to lead the head to the entrance of her core. Moving slowly, she sank down on it, feeling it slide up in her in a way that she had never experienced before.

She had to break the kiss so that she could reach his hilt and her head went back as she moaned from the feeling, as she moved her hands to his shoulders to ensure that he wouldn't try to flip her again. It amazed her that she'd even be part way worried about that when he was inside her.

Keeping still, she looked at him, trying to read his expression, though her insides felt like they were burning with the desire to rise up and move down again, the next time faster. Earlier she had felt anger and fear and she didn't want him to be feeling that now, if she was to continue.