Chapter 20: The Caspian Sea

Feliks slept comfortably as his head slumped over on Xuanwu’s arm. He began to stir as he could see the light started to fill his eyes. The morning light began to flood his eyes. Going west while the Earth still spun, the light never grew, nor did it die down. By the time they arrived at their destination a few hours later, the dawn of light had begun to finally break free from the darkness.

The carpet hovered still a thousand feet in the air as Feliks could see some of the low-level clouds around him. He could see out of his vision of the land in the distance. It was completely different from what he knew. He could see water, endless water before him.

“We are here, love,” Xuanwu said. “I wanted to take us here. Consider it a place to rest for a little while before I take you North to Moscow. I want you to enjoy your time with me as much as you can.”

“Where are we?” he asked.

She lifted her hand and lowered it as the carpet began to descend at a slow rate. “We are at the Caspian Sea. It is the largest body of water held inland by land. More specifically, we are above an island that is uninhabited by human life. I believe they call it the Tyuleny Island after all the seals that live and breed here.

“I have never seen so much water before ... it is so beautiful,” he said.

“There are so many beautiful things that you were never able to see that I want you to at least see once. I choose this area because it is a place of solitude that I sometimes go to. While I have gone to Europe a couple of times, places like this can never escape my travels. I always go to this place to stop and even meditate whenever I am called to go west. I was even thinking of...”

She lowered her grip as the carpet descended lower and lower. She never finished her sentence as Feliks looked up at her. “What? What were you thinking of?”

She looked at him, but she did not answer the question. “Ask me another time, and I will answer it. I am too afraid to ask you that question for now. For now, you will get a chance to enjoy and relax in the nice sun.”

The carpet was nearing the ground now. Feliks could now see the island around him. They were landing on a beach far from a massive cluster of seals. There were also numerous birds that he could see that flew around the large beach. He could see nothing but sand, rocks, and grass. Part of the island also had marshlands, but they were landing far from those areas.

Eventually, they finally reached the ground as she stood up and picked up Feliks by the waist. She plopped him on the soft sands below him as she got up and stepped off the carpet. As quickly as they got off, the cloud carpet slowly began to dissipate into nothing. They both looked around at their surroundings as the morning light flooded the island. The sounds of splashing sea water waves hit the beach as the sounds of distant sea lions barking filled the area. It produced a very calming effect as they were not far from the beach bank that lifted upward to the mainland of the growing grasses and occasional tree.

“Yeah, this is the perfect place to consummate our marriage Feliks. What do you think?”

His heart began to race at what she said. Dawn broke as the sun started to shine brightly on the beach. The morning sunlight bled on the island. He looked at the beach and then her again as he began to really look at her body. She did the same as they both began to smile at each other.

“I ... don’t know where to begin,” he told her. “This is all new to me. These feelings that I have.”

“Me too. This is all new to me. Remember that I am a virgin too.”

He approached her as he looked up at her. “I have only heard of how sex works ... never really known how the process really works.”

She looked at the sun. “Hmmm ... let’s see if we can make the mood better first. I know first-time lovemaking is all about the right environment, or at least from what I have heard, which we have, but the sun will hurt your delicate skin more than mine.”

She turned around as Feliks watched her massive shell from behind as her tail dragged through the soft beach sand. She walked up to the bank of the beach where a hillside of dirt was at. She looked at the wall, and she clapped her hands.

“Yes, this is it,” Xuanwu said excitedly. “I can lay down on this wall and lean back on it. It’s like a reclined chair for me. I need something to help shield you from the sun, though...”

She turned around to look at him as she waved her hand in the air. The massive club that she used to smash the house formed in her hands in a swirl of smoke. She shook her head. “No ... this is not what I am looking for, but you can use it as a chair, though,” as she placed it down by the sand by the bank.

Xuanwu then waved her hand again as another wave of smoke formed in her hand. A small wooden umbrella formed in her hand that looked like it belonged to a child appeared in her hand. She shook her head. “This umbrella is too small ... wait, this is Vamana’s umbrella! I told him that I was going to borrow it for some reason. I am sure he is waiting for me to return it to him. Duly noted...” as she tossed the umbrella in the air, and it dissipated into smoke.

“Come on...” she waved her hand again, a large wooden umbrella formed in the pile of smoke. “There we go!” She opened up the large umbrella as it displayed a vibrant array of red and blue colors as she drove it into the sand next to her. The umbrella was the size of a tree when placed up, and its radius for blocking out the sun was perfect depending on what angle one could place it at.

“One more thing that we need...” As she waved her hand again. A cloud of smoke formed, and a large bundle of silk formed in her hand. “Here it is, silk woven by a Goddess of Weaving and personal friend of mine. I never had to worry about this blanket going bad.” She unwrapped the blanket with one firm swing of her hand. The cloth displayed solid blue with green colors. It was thrown by the hillside by the open umbrella.

Xuanwu sighed. “That about does it. A perfect place for us. It’s a romantic place to enjoy our time together. Don’t worry about food too. I got that covered. Just let me know when you get hungry.”

“This is amazing what you had set up here,” Feliks commented.

She looked around her and then sat down on the silk blanket as she lay back on the dirt wall. Like an incline, it positioned her body at a forty-five-degree angle like a chair. She then used her finger and claw to give a beckon symbol to him.

“I don’t know about you,” she said. “But, I have only heard about sex and never explored what it truly is. I want to make love here and now and consummate what we are together. There is no male of my ... race. In the end, I have been waiting for the right human or deity to come to me. Finally ... finally, after all these years, I have finally found someone that accepts me for whom I am. If I had it my way, we would live on this beach for the rest of your life. Just us ... I don’t want to be a virgin anymore, Feliks, and I know you don’t want to be either. Let our bodies be joined together.”

Feliks was nervous as he began to undo his shirt. He pulled it over his head as he tossed it to the side, exposing his bare chest to her. His heart raced as he did not know what to do. He still wore his pants and shoes as that would be next to come off.

“Such a handsome man you have become, Feliks,” she said. “Who knew that a simple few years and the little teen became an adult? You have done as much as you could to make yourself more and more daring to me. At the same time, you have the personality to make any deity happy. Come here.”

There was a lustful desire that grew in her face. He accepted her demands as he came closer and closer to her. She flipped to her side to meet him face to face. She almost appeared as a fat woman that demanded sex, but that was primarily because of the shell and muscles. She was indeed a warrior of great strength. He approached her side as she extended her arm to him. He opened his arms towards her to be pulled closer to him. She then lifted him to her head as he kissed her beak and mouth. He wrapped his arms around her head as they kissed for what seemed like minutes.

Like instinct, Feliks’s desires went to her body. His left arm began to probe her body. His hand feeling her skin as it went down to her chest.

“They always say that human men go to the breasts,” Xuanwu told him. “My body is yours, my little Bambuk.”

His hand began to play with the top part of her breasts. He could feel the soft fatty tissue as his hand began to go lower. It began to reach her shell as the skin went underneath it. He stopped, but she grabbed his hand with her massive hand.

“Don’t worry,” she said. “You can’t hurt me. There is more underneath that shell.”

She pulled his hand underneath the shell breastplate as his hand went dug into the hard shell. She let go of his hand to give him the freedom he chooses to do. Like nature dictated, his hand explored the massive tissue underneath. He could feel a stirring in his loins as his erection began to show in his pants. She saw it and smiled in response.

He breathed hard as his other hand went to her other breast and began to explore underneath the breastplate. His heart pounded hard as he was feeling her breasts and all its glory of a woman of her stature. They felt like massive pillows as his hands tried to manipulate and play with him. Like pleasure nerves that were being ignited, she cooed in a whispering manner. “I didn’t know that would feel good,” she commented. “Keep going.”

His hand went as deep as possible underneath the breastplate as her skin welcomed his small arms. One of his hands eventually found its way to an areola that was buried deep within her shell. His fingers began to automatically play and manipulate the nipple. It felt like it was the size of small bowls.

She moaned in a faint voice. “If you were a male tortoise-like me, your hand would not be able to penetrate like that ... It is good you are small.”

He withdrew his hands from her breasts as he looked at her.

“What do I do next?” he asked her.

“I feel wet down there,” she replied. “I think you humans put your mouths to your crouches and try to pleasure each other. You use your tongues if the stories I heard were right.”

He smiled. “I heard my father tell me that once when I meet a woman I really like.” He turned his head as he stepped around her side and legs. She flipped on her back as she spread her legs open. Feliks stepped over her tail as her massive feet dug into the sand.

He approached her underside, which was in plain view to him. Her underside shell covered her chest and stomach. He could see the tan colorization and ridges of the shell as it rode down to her lower waist. However, the hard surface tapered off once it reached her crouch and tail. He could clearly see her vaginal opening next to her anus as it connected to her long tail. Her vagina was like that of a human woman but slightly bigger to accommodate a male of her species. She had no hair down there but just a slight bulge of where the mound was at. Her gray and greenish skin formed a soft area for Feliks to rest his head and mouth at. He could see her precum leaking from her entrance as it traveled down to her anus and to her tail.

He put his mouth to her entrance as he could smell the faint smell of human skin combined with her fluids. She started to breathe in and out more and more as she felt the desire for him to pleasure her. He breathed on her sex as she felt the warm breath upon her. Her nerves sent shockwaves as he placed his lips to her vaginal lips.

Her hands and claws grabbed the silk blanket and sand as she looked straight up at the sky. He opened up his mouth as he breathed in her scent. He stuck his tongue out and immediately began to lick the entrance of her long slit. It felt like he was sticking his tongue into another mouth. His tongue was overwhelmed by her taste.

“Ahhh...” she moaned. She was overwhelmed by the pleasure of his tongue.

Feliks quickly withdrew his mouth from her entrance as he looked at her in fear. “Are you alright? I didn’t mean to...”

She interrupted him as she resituated her legs. “No, no, I am fine. Keep going love. I just never felt this pleasure before.”

He quickly refocused his attention on her sex as he put his mouth back to her entrance again. He began to lap the long ropes of precum that were leaking from her opening. The taste reminded him of currants that he once had when he was a little kid. His heart began to beat at a faster and faster rate as he was drawn to her scent.

“I don’t think...” she said as he pleasured her. “That a male member of my race could ever be able to pleasure me like the way you do. I think I choose well taking you as my mate.”

His tongue licked all of her precum as it began to drive deep inside her vaginal slit. His saliva began to coat the outside of her slit as his tongue penetrated into her hole. The long slit grabbed onto it like a vice as it began to feel the slippery muscle probe its depths.

“Ahhh ... don’t stop what you are doing,” she pleaded to him.

He moved his head up and down as he licked her walls. His tongue found its way to her clit. It alone was the size of his thumb as it rested at the top portion of her slit. He began to lick it and began to even suck on it as it went to her mouth.

“Just like that!” she almost squealed. “Whatever you are doing, keep doing it.”

He continued his relentless assault on her clit, using his tongue to bat the slippery bud around as her pleasure nerves lit like wildfire. Her feet clawed at the dirt as she felt the waves of pleasure drive through her nervous system. She was moaning regularly now as her hands began to claw on her shell and dirt. She closed her eyes as he continued.

“Put your hands on me, Feliks ... I want to feel everything from you as you caress me. Pleasure me.”

He had his hands to the dirt as his mouth continued to service her, but the moment he heard her say it, he repositioned his hands to feel her lower body. He could feel the softness of her skin not held under the portions of her hard shell. He used both of his to caress her body as he then switched down to her opening away from her clit. Her juices covered his face as their fluids mixed together.

Xuanwu began to buck her hips lightly to his mouth as by instinct. Her body beckoned for more pleasure as he began to rock his head at her entrance. His tongue was relentless as it tried to lick everything available. Their combined juices began to leak down to her anus and tail as it dripped to the beach sand below.

As she continued to moan, Feliks’s mind put two and two together as he took his hand and brought it to her entrance. There was plenty of room for his tongue licking deeper into her depths as his fingers found their way to her clit. His thumb and pointer finger began to massage her bud as her eyes opened up. She bent her waist a little bit as she looked at him. She was panting as she felt the additional pleasure pile onto her.

“Harder...” she begged him. He increased the rhythm of his oral pleasure to her as he applied more pressure of his mouth to her entrance lapping up her juices to the best of his abilities. It was challenging to keep up his assault on her as her body kept rocking about, throwing his head about.

He quickly switched his head to take on her clit again as he moved his fingers to her deep entrance. She watched him as he promptly sucked her clit and began to lick it around. He took his fingers and drove it into her opening. With her entrance being much bigger than a human female one, his fingers not only went into her but his fist as well.

Her hands banged the dirt. “In and out, Feliks,” she told him.

He followed her command. He pumped his fingers and fist in and out of her as he licked her bud. He started off slowly at first but began to increase speed rapidly.

The pleasure was too much for her. “Too good ... too good...” she panted heavily as suddenly she lifted her waist lightly with his fist inside her. Her vaginal slit was driven hard into Feliks’s mouth, and jaw as her orgasm rode her. She squealed as her vaginal muscles began to milk his hand. Her muscles also clamped down on his tongue as he held it in her as long as he could. Her cum began to pump out of her entrance and onto his hand and sand below.

He quickly withdrew his hand as he drove his mouth at her entrance. Her juices flowed out of her and into his mouth as he drank from her orgasmic throws. Slowly the pulsating action died down as her body slowed down.

Feliks could feel his erection driving him as he felt the need to put something else inside her. With him being a virgin, though, he was not sure what to do.

He pulled his mouth out of her as her cum and saliva dripped from his mouth. “I feel the need ... to ... I don’t know what to...”

He stood up as his emotions were driving him wild.

She looked at his erection as she knew what to do next. “Your bamboo rod between your legs. Put it inside me. Drive your hips into me.”

He did not need a second reminder. He was already at a perfect angle. He did not even have to grab his shaft as he grabbed the side of her hips and drove his hips into her. His raging member went into her naturally as he gasped in pleasure. She recoiled in delight as they both moaned. Feliks felt like he was surrounded by warmth as he drove his member to the hilt inside her. The perfect incline of the hill made it ideal for their coupling as they held their lock into one another.

“We are one, my love,” he told her as he leaned forward.

“We are one, love,” she replied back as she put her arm on his hip and back. He could feel her massive hand and the dull claws on each of her fingers as they caressed him. They looked at each other’s eyes in love and bliss before the storm of pleasure.

“I never thought the day would arrive, my dear Feliks,” she told him. “The day you found me underneath the house to now, I would have never thought it was possible. It was destiny and fate we found each other. I want to enjoy our time together as much as possible to the end of your natural life span.”

“I promise,” he replied as he grabbed her hand. She held it as he kissed her hand.

He leaned forward, laying his chest on her soft underbelly shell. She put her hands on his back and neck as he began to thrust into her. He started slowly at first. The saliva and orgasm she had inside her formed the natural lubricant as his shaft met little resistance.

“I think I might be a little small for you,” he commented to her.

She chuckled a little bit. “Trust me, I feel you inside me, and I can promise you that there is nothing else to compare you to. It feels wonderful.”

They both felt the pleasure together. He drove into her, still keeping a slow rhythm of bucking his hips in and out of her. His member rode her walls and deep into her opening. His scrotum would bump onto her anus.

Her tail came to life as she manipulated it and began to coil around his stomach. She was not hindering his movement but used it to caress and hold onto him. The tip of her tail was a mouth-like hand as she grasped his hips. If he wanted to escape from her, then there was no way that it was going to happen.

“More...” She demanded from him. “Harder...”

He complied as he began to buck harder into her. He would drive his cock deep within her, withdrawing almost entirely out of her to push it back again all the way to the hilt. His abdomen pressed against her clit.

“Use those magic hands of yours,” she told him. “Rub my clit as you fuck me.”

Deep within her, he looked down as he reached his hand down to her vaginal slit. His fingers probed until he found her clit with his two fingers. With a simple stroking motion, he began to rub her clit with his thumb. The pleasure of the combination of him being inside her made her shudder in bliss.

“Perfect...” she said. “Just like that. Don’t stop...”

He bucked his hips in a continuous steady rhythm as he rubbed her clit. He watched as his cock would enter and exit from her vagina. She watched him as he looked down at the action going on below his hips.

“Feels incredible,” he said. Seconds of their coupling became minutes as they enjoyed their lovemaking.

Feliks increased his rhythm as he began to pound harder into her. Her walls began to flex and adjust to his cock as if she was trying to milk him for all is worth. His cock got harder and harder as he fucked her.

“Xuanwu ... I feel something going on ... like a desire to ... I don’t know what it is.”

She smiled. “Remember, you can’t hurt me. Let your instincts guide you on this.”

“It feels like the urge to ... release,” he said with concern.

“Then release,” she said with a smile.

He nodded as he began to thrust hard as he could. The sound of skin, muscle, and fat hitting skin, muscle, and fat sounded through the area. His cock got harder and harder as he was nearing his climax.

She panted and moaned loud as she had a small orgasm ride her. Her vaginal walls pulsated as they milked his cock. The pulsating was too much for him to handle.

He grunted and moaned as he thrust one last time into her with all his might as his cock exploded into her. Rope and rope of his emissions erupted and filled her deep entrance. His first orgasm was one of his biggest. Sweat covered his body from the workout as he collapsed onto her shell. Her tail still holding him as his member continued to pour more and more of his seed deep into her womb. With the last of their love thralls, he stayed inside her for as long as he could. Some of his sperm and cum began to slowly leak down and out of her entrance.

“That was amazing,” he practically whispered to her.

She smiled. “I wouldn’t have it any other way, love.”

They panted as they tried to catch their breath. Feliks, exhausted and worn out, collapsed and fell asleep on her shell. She lowered her grip on him as she leaned back and closed her eyes.

It was a couple of hours when they stood at the edge of the sea water as it splashed to the beach.

“We can just stay here ... you know?” Xuanwu said, standing by her mate and lover. “We can live on this island alone and together for the rest of our lives. No human will bother us. It will be our own paradise together.”

She wrapped her arm around his shoulder, holding him close to him. He stood naked beside her as the sea breeze blew into him. The smell of sea water and salt perforated the air.

“It could be, but not today. I must complete my goal in life and join the Czar’s army.”

The giant tortoise sighed. “There is no real point to it. Yes, I know you made a promise to your father but ... I just...”

She did not finish her sentence. She could not look at him as she looked down at the moving waves of water.

“What?” he asked. “You might be a goddess, but I need to do this. You have strength and invincibility; everyone will remember you for who you are. What will people remember me as? The man that lived isolated with his lover on an island for the rest of his life. No one will even know that I am here. I have nothing but you now. Everything else ... my past, my home, my parents, they are all gone now. My neighbor’s when they come and check the home and find it was destroyed. Taya will receive the livestock, and that is it. Once I die, then my family history will end.”

She thought about his words. “I was going to hold back on that question, but we do need to discuss this, Feliks. The fact is that we never really did. I know that a year ago, you once talked about the idea of having a child once you got married. Have you truly thought about the idea of having children?”

He sighed. “Yes ... I want to have a child to keep my family legacy going, to ensure that the Bambuks don’t become a forgotten page in someone’s books. I just ... it isn’t going to happen now that we are together.”

She turned her head at him and looked down at Feliks. “Why do you say that?”

“Well ... I mean, I am human, and you are a giant walking tortoise. It’s not possible to have kids.”

She gave him a stern look. “Really? Didn’t I tell you that wasn’t true that ... wait, I didn’t tell you.”

“What?”

“Feliks, it’s true that you and I could not have children together, however, not without divine help. You do remember that I am part of a family of deity’s right?”

“So?...” he shrugged.

She chuckled. “You and I are not the only ones that are restricted in being able to have offspring together. Deities often find humans for mates, and it’s obvious that our bodies don’t always allow that process in having a child together. But there is a way.”

“Really?”

“Yeah ... I mean, I have seen some interesting couples out there, and I have seen couples like the huli jing and humans able to have a child together. I have even seen a harpy and a human able to have a child together. Some vampires and humans are capable of having a child together with enough perseverance and patience. It really depends if the body itself will allow it. We do have one thing that we do have that can make a difference with that very issue.”

“What is it?” he asked.

“I myself have limited magical abilities, but some of us deities have certain magical abilities that we can use. A Goddess of Fertility, for example, is capable of using magic that can manipulate pregnancy and childbirth. We happen to have a few Fertility deities amongst my group.”

His eyebrow rose as he looked at her. “Would those deities ... allow you to ... become pregnant?”

“I don’t know. It might be possible that with one of their help, we could have a baby together.”

He was a little bit excited to hear the news. “Then there is hope for us ... if it is possible, how would you be able to give birth? What would the child be? There are so many questions that I have to ask.”

“If it was possible to conceive, would you be interested in raising a child together?”

Without hesitation, he nodded. “I admit that I would have never thought of having a child with one of the divine and a deep personal friend, but yes, I would. It would ensure my family’s bloodline was never lost. That is my main reason to do it.”

“It would be my reasons too, love. I want to preserve your linage. I also want to ensure that well ... you humans only live for so long. I want to have a baby so that when you pass on that, your child will live on. I won’t be lonely after that. I should have talked more about this when I was stuck underneath your house, but ... it needs to be brought up for us.”

He nodded. “You have my blessing if that is what you are looking for. The question is, how this works precisely?”

“You and me both.”

“The children born from harpies and humans, for example, do you know what the children look like if you have seen them?”

She shook her head. “I have only seen so many children and what they look like from their parents. Some children born from human-like gods tend to look like humans but carry the possibility of carrying on powers of their own as long as the bloodline does not keep staying with humans. The children and children after that tend to lose those magical abilities as each generation is born. Other non-human-like gods that produce offspring with humans tend to look and carry the physical traits of the non-human parent. At least, that is what I have seen so far. I guess to try to answer your question is if we did have a child, then it would look like me but again, this is still new to me.”

He sighed. “The question then comes in of when you want to have a baby then?”

Her head cocked as she looked away from him. Her head turned to look at the beach, and she nodded as she made a personal decision then and there. “That was what I was going to discuss with you. Tortoises lay eggs when they reproduce. I was thinking of using this island to lay my eggs or egg or ... well, you know what I mean. I want to birth my children on this island. It is away from people. It is a place of solitude to raise a child. The sooner, the better. As long as you are in danger of being killed, you would be in threat to not provide a child for me.”

He stepped away from her. “I want to join the army, though. I am at the perfect age to join the military. Raising a child will consume the time in my life when it would be lost in staying here raising a baby.”

Xuanwu put her hand to her chin as she thought about what he said. “Maybe something can be done about it right now, and we can come back to it later. Tortoises lay eggs. I can lay my eggs or egg here, and it might take a long time for it to hatch. It might take months, or it could take a century for the eggs to hatch. Either way, it would give you some time to be able to do the things you want to do before you would be a father.”

“Hmmm,” he thought about it for a little while as he looked at the sea. “Alright then, we become parents here and now. I guess I am lucky that I am with a divine being such as yourself that has such incredible abilities as the power to choose when she can have a child. If I was with a human woman right now I...”