Chapter 12

How am I supposed to fuck with these people around?!? I might be nekkid behind a chosen female and look over to see Mr. Caveman picking his nose. Sure, I fucked in front of Pek during his visit, but Priest Dumbass needed things spelled out, so the girls doing the sex-holler served a purpose. Clearly, the present situation was not the same. It didn't fucking help that Bor (Broken-Face) was actually picking his nose!

"Does he have to do that?" I sighed. Nothing against nose picking, but Bor risked brain-damage if he dug any deeper.

"Maybe he is trying to make his face not broken from the inside." Els giggled at her own joke. I used the Broken Face nickname in front of the three Anue girls. They found the name hilarious, shared it with the rest of our visitors, and even used it to Bor's face.

Yet another unlikeable male? What a shock!

"You look... , Achilles." Els turned and put her hand on my thigh. My dick crept towards her. I figured the missing word to be somewhere between horny and pissed.

"How am I supposed fuck with these people here?" I asked. "Are you sure we can't make them sleep outside?"

"No," Naris replied, sitting down next to me.

"I don't trust Bor or Pek," I said, almost hopefully.

"Broken Face is not a problem yet." Naris shook her head after studying Bor. "If he must think, he will not do."

No walking and chewing gum at the same time for Bor, got it!

"Why would you not take Leader's right or Achilles's right?" Els asked. Either the word 'fuck' didn't translate well, or the girls liked calling it my rights.

"Because they could see it," I replied.

They stared at me blankly.

"They could see us fucking." Maybe using the word would get through to them. They turned towards each other and frowned. "You don't care that... of course, you don't care! You're cave-people. What the fuck was I thinking?"

I turned to watch Pek. He had been sitting quietly by the cave entrance doing some thinking. He got up, walked to Bor, and sat down. The way Pek was whispering to Broken Face reminded me of the father/son conversation before Nek ran into my lance.

"Pek will not be Anue." Naris stroked my thigh while speaking. "He is Shaman so he will find a place with another tribe."

"I don't like the idea of leaving him here with you while I find out what happened to Dru's son," I said thoughtfully.

"We will take care of it," Els said. "We've already taken care of others things for the Anue."

Caryn had handled one of those 'things', sleeping arrangements, earlier in the day. Our visitors (I kept using the word even if Naris's plan to adopt them was obvious) followed Caryn around while she set them in their proper place. They kept a distance respectful to her status as Anue Priestess; Snow playing the part of familiar to a T might have had something to do with it too.

Rank within the tribe obviously played a part in someone's sleeping location, though Caryn seemed to be creating a new ranking system for the Anue. She stood at the cave entrance for a very long time, looking at the people behind her and around the cave.

Pek, being a dumbass, got impatient with the process. He walked by Caryn and picked a spot in the middle of the cave. If I allowed the Anue women the central fire they wanted, Pek would have been next to it. Priest Buttmunch got furious when Caryn told him he would be sleeping by the cave entrance instead. Something about a woman challenging his status made Pek forget the most important thing in his life--I didn't like the assfuck. The wolves saved his sorry ass when Pek stood up and opened his mouth to protest. Growling, Snow got between Caryn and Pek.

The white wolf reacted to Caryn's approval of our visitors by accepting them. The male wolves took their cues from me, so they had been waiting to express their opinion about the situation. Max and Dax went low on Pek while Beo took the high road.

The Anue women sure took their sweet time getting the wolves off Pek. The puppies managed to get away a couple of times and continue persuading Pek that pack rank should be respected. The problem idiot being put in his place left no one else willing to protest Caryn's placements.

Reia got moved behind my sleeping platform. My first clue Caryn's pause at the entrance to the cave had been for show came when she placed Dru with Reia. I might have let it go as putting the unmated women in a convenient spot to exercise my Leader's rights, except for the looks passing between Naris, Els, and Reia.

Naris and Els's interpreted Dru's vow as making her my slave. Caryn's take made Dru the High Priestess of Me. Either way, Dru was special. By placing her with Reia, the Anue women applied the same tag to Caryn's mommy. I would bet the cave that if we acquired an unmated female, she wouldn't be sleeping with Reia and Dru.

Caryn settled Airy, teenage female, behind Reia and Dru's area. I'd already figured out from my own experience with Caryn that virginity was the difference between unmated females and... whatever they called virgins. Unmated females could mate, but as to sex, there was Leader's rights and the expectation they would accommodate the men of the tribe. Virgins didn't/couldn't give it up except after a visit to the altar.

Gamen and Winik, the odd cavemen, were next. Something was definitely up with those two! Broken Face and Pek were overly generous with the looks of contempt towards the two men. The women avoided Broken Face and Pek, showed respect to the mated male, but treated the two odd ones like equals.

Caryn placed the odd pair by the entrance to the freezer cave. From the pissed look on Bor's broken face, it must have been a prime location. I would later learn the spot gave Gamen and Winik the responsibility of guarding access to the freezer cave, a high honor considering the importance of that particular asset.

I guessed where the mated couple would go, across from my sleeping platform. The entire setup had elements of the girls' thinking: the Anue Priestess, Leader, unmated females, and virgins on one side of the cave; the mated couples on the other. The freezer cave entrance was on the centerline of the cave, as would be the central fire the girls wanted, so they probably planned to put the non-special unmated females in the middle.

Bor ended up a few feet from Pek, which I almost regretted. Broken Face was listening to Pek.

"The next excuse he gives me, I'm killing Priest Dumbass," I thought out loud.

"Dumbass?" Els and Naris asked. If I explained the word and they used it to Pek's face would dumbass give me the excuse I needed to kill him.

I sighed and shook my head, "What are those two doing?"

Caryn held court with Gamen, Winik, and Airy. Reia was visiting Parak and Wena, the mated male and female.

"They are curious about you, Leader," Naris replied. "Caryn and Reia are answering questions."

"Fantastic!" I said. "You know, ladies, I don't mind people thinking the Gods created me directly; it's useful. But do we really need to give Caryn a congregation!"

The identical shrugs almost got them spanked. Unlucky for them, Dru chose the moment to get things off her chest. It was a magnificent chest which demanded attention. The rest of her was equally impressive. The muscle lines, which came around her hips and down towards heaven, made my dick harder. I planned to go with whichever definition, slave or High Priestess, allowed me to do every depraved and perverted thing to Dru that I could imagine.

"Why can't we go now?" Dru asked. The emotion in her voice bounced off the walls. The cave occupants held their breath as I stared at her.

"Dru!" Naris said standing up.

"I am the Leader's... , Naris!"

'I am' and not 'I will be'. Interesting! So was Dru's tone and Naris sitting down.

"You are?" I asked Dru.

She nodded.

"Take it off," I said.

Blond hair. Blue eyes. A fuck-dead gorgeous body if one liked girls on the buffy side. Dru turned around and stood with her feet shoulder width apart to give me a look at the backside. She faced me. The females in my fantasy had no modesty about nudity, but this was a whole new level. I didn't have to pick a definition--Dru would do anything I asked without a thought beyond making sure she understood the instruction correctly. I shuddered to think what it would be like if I managed to save her son.

"Kneel," Els said.

Dru waited for my nod.

"Whatever you've vowed, Dru, your son will either be dead or alive when I catch up to the Redbeards." I stared into her eyes. "I've learned not to have pointless discussions. You need to rest if you're going to keep up with me."

Dru's hands fisted on her thighs as tears formed in her eyes.

"Do you need anything?" Dru's face made it an offer, not a question. An offer she wanted me to accept from the way her chin came up and nipples hardened.

"Go to sleep, Dru," Naris told her. Again, Dru waited for my nod. She left her furs where she dropped them.

Silent, female-only communication flew between Naris and Els. There's a point where the horse says 'Fuck heading them off at the pass! Let's go back to the saloon.' I ignored the girls, knowing whatever they were planning would either benefit me or I'd get to spank and fuck them senseless. Maybe I'd make Dru spank them! Els on her knees sucking my dick, while Dru had Naris over her lap. She'd get done with the spanking and have to massage the ache out of Naris's ass. Of course, a little pussy play helps the whole 'ache out' thing. If Dru didn't know that, I would suggest it. Fuck it! After the spanking, Naris would get on her hands and knees with Dru behind, eating out the brunette.

If the girls didn't mind, why the fuck did I care?

I untied the loincloth and tossed it behind me. I grabbed hair on either side and brought the girls' mouths to my cock. Leaning back, I realized I had to do something permanent about Bor and Pek. I fucking resented having to keep a part of my awareness on them while the girls did their thing to my thing.

The girls screamed loud enough to keep modern people awake. The cave people were curious, but only at the girls' reactions and not that we were fucking. Sex and pleasure did not go hand in hand among cave folk so a woman in the throes of multiple orgasms was something new.

"We will stay and protect the cave." Priest Dumbass didn't have the balls to say it himself, but Bor was too stupid not to be Pek's bitch-boy.

Needing to keep an eye open because of Bor and Pek sleeping in the same cave, I had woken up when Dru did. I skipped my morning workout but thought bath time would make a good pre-deployment ritual so I took Caryn, Naris, and Els down to the stream. Everyone was standing in front of the cave when we got back.

Bor's statement brought to the forefront the problem I had been trying to solve. Leaving Bor, Pek, Parak, Gamen, and Winik with my women was not sitting well. Whatever the women might think, the men considered them unmated. Parak, having the benefit of a female mate (Wena) to advise him, probably understood where I would fall on the issue if someone touched the three girls or Reia. I got the impression Gamen and Winik had enough sense not to test the waters until they knew how I would react. Bor and Pek though...

I considered making the men come with me, but leaving the women alone with human-like predators about did not make me happy-happy either.

"We're all going," Naris announced. "The... will protect the cave."

Everyone looked at the bear and saber tooth skeletons. I needed to pay more attention to these people's religious beliefs. Granted, if I came up on a cave and saw a museum display of deadly animals, I'd think a hundred times before going in.

Bor and Naris got into it over her announcement. I had to admit it was elegant solution. They would slow me down, but I didn't really expect to find more survivors so no harm, no foul. I could use the trip to decide whether I wanted to cull anyone else from Naris's Anue expansion plan.

I studied the faces around me. Caryn, Els, and Reia watched the argument with double-dutch mannerisms, just waiting to jump in. Winik, Gamen, and Airy were frightened, but halfway to thinking of themselves as Anue so they'd follow Naris's lead (no point in saying my lead on this one!). Parak and Wena looked scared too, for each other; nothing in their faces said they would protest the new plan though. Pek was pissing his furs. If Bor hadn't been too busy yelling at Naris, he would have been pissing himself too.

"Achilles needs to get to the Tribe cave quickly," Pek said, recovering enough to engage his cunning. "If he wants to rescue Lan, he must hurry!"

"Lan is alive," Caryn said. Dru's head rotated slowly towards Shortie.

"Moon came to me." Caryn took Dru's hand and spoke with the absolute conviction of the clinically in-fuckin-sane. "Your son is alive, Dru. Moon and Fire are pleased you are Achilles's... ; you will be rewarded. Lan is alive, I promise you, and Achilles will give him to you as if he had been the one to give him to you."

What the fuck?!? I stared at Caryn. Shortie's words didn't even make sense! Give him to you as if he had given him to you! What the fucking hell are you talking about, maniac!

"Lan will be brother to the children Achilles gives us," Els said, putting a hand on Dru's shoulder.

I'm in hell, surrounded by crazy females! Come to think of it, I never did check the women for horns!

Dru stared at Caryn, Els, and finally Naris. She found something which made her nod, "Lan is alive. Moon and Fire will protect him until Achilles gives him back to me. Naris is right--we should all go."

I already tried to slap myself awake when I arrived in the Land of Are You People Fucking Insane, so no point in going that route again. I couldn't be in heaven; 'cause heaven with crazy people is like heaven with herpes. Hell was on the table again. If the kid was alive, I would have to go with hallucination though. It would bring forth questions about my ego, because if I did get the boy back, a whole lot more people would start thinking I was a God. By definition the creator of a hallucination is God which would support their hypothesis.

Bor was emboldened by his terror and my silence. The guy wanted nothing to do with the Redbeards. Pek noticed nobody else was seeing reason, so he joined Bor in facing off against Naris.

The double-dutch trio backed off. Naris had brains but was still a social creation of the Tribe. She could throw down with one man; taking on two, especially with a lifetime of respecting the Shaman's authority, was something else. The other cave people stepped back too. Except for Gamen and Winik, their eyes were glued to me, waiting. I had to get to the bottom of those two. Nothing wrong with being different, if it wasn't going to bite me in the ass. Reia would know so I could promise her a spanking and get the lowdown on Gamen and Winik.

Bor's hand went up.

My shin destroyed Stupid Fuck's left knee, almost passing completely through. He hadn't opened his mouth to scream before I shifted to the other side and blew out his right knee with another kick. Broken Knees managed a shriek. He reached out to me with his left hand, not to fight but for something to hold on to as he collapsed.

"Thank you." I said politely. I grabbed the hand in both of mine, stepped back, and made a half-circle to snap the wrist. Another scream! Straightening his arm and turning it over, I brought my elbow down on his. I grabbed Broken Elbow's arm below the triceps and bicep. Driving my knee into his armpit, I popped the shoulder out of the socket.

Bor was screaming his Broken Face off. I spun him around hard. Catching the right arm, I broke wrist, elbow, and separated the shoulder in three quick moves. I pushed him onto his back and stomped on his left ankle. Right ankle!

Fuck this shit! Fuck them! Fuck the Redbeards! And fuck mother-fucking-asshole-bitches stupid enough to try to hit my woman in front of me.

Caryn, Els, Naris, and Dru were the only ones standing on my side of the body. Reia's face was white. My fight with Nek had been quick, clean, could almost be chalked up to luck or the favor of the Gods. Sorry, lady! You take the good with the bad or you walk the fuck away.

I waited until everyone around me, even Pek, met my eyes before drawing a sword and slicing Bor's gut open. Ripping a piece of fur off him, I stuffed it into Bor's mouth to lower the volume.

"Let me make this perfectly clear, people," I said. "I don't give a fuck what you're used to. I don't give a fuck that I look like a kid. I just don't give a fuck, period! I say it, you do it!"

"Get over here!"

"Sit down!"

"You're going to stay here. You're going to watch Stupid Fuck die. You're going to listen to Stupid Fuck die. For you gentlemen, a special assignment, memorize this experience because if you fucking raise a hand to a woman, I swear on everything fucking holy, you will be living it."

I looked up at the sky, "Naris wants you to become Anue. At my feet is what it means, so take the time to think about whether another tribe isn't a better choice for you."

I recognized the owners of the hands as they touched my back. Caryn's on the left, below my ribcage. Her hand rested on me, enough for her to be touching a God. Els, at the small of my back. Her touch felt like a rope pulling me back from the abyss. Naris, almost at my neck. No way to describe the touch except as Naris.

Closing my eyes and turning, I touched the face of each girl. Hell, heaven, hallucination, or some fucked reality, those three...

"Caryn, Els, and Naris accepted me as their Leader. They made us a tribe. They named us. You are here because they want you here. Even you Reia, Caryn wanted her mother with us, so she got it." Nobody dared look at me. "They ARE the Anue!"