**************************************** * The Betrothen * * * * An Original Story Written By: * * Ashura * * © 2001 * **************************************** The late-day sun shown hazily threw the treetops as Cedris, a member of the centaur clan who had only today reached the age where he was recognized as an adult, slowly trotted through the brush, a bow in one hand, strung, a full quiver around his waist. To celebrate his ascendance into adulthood, he had set out to catch his first kill for the clan. Inwardly he hoped to find something large, something he could be fully proud to bring home. Maybe then his friends wouldn't be so quick to make fun of his more slender build. To be honest with himself, however, Cedris would be happy with something smaller. At least then he wouldn't have to come back to the village to ask for help hauling it in. Sure, he was one of the fastest gallopers in the clan, he thought, but his upper body strength did pale in comparison to some of his friends. His train of thought halted, however, as a rustling sound came from behind him. He wheeled around as fast as his hooves could handle to see where the noise had come from. Nothing. "Funny," he mumbled, "could've sworn I--OOF!!!" The centaur felt at that moment an ambush from behind, sending him crashing to his knees. Fearful that he may have been attacked by one of the local creatures, he turned his head to get a look at his assailant. "What the...Lucindra!?" Cedris' face became flushed with disgust as he laid eyes upon his childhood friend, hardly a month his senior. Her figure was truly a spectacle to behold within the dark-colored clan they both hailed from. Her blonde hair flowed down her back and along her shoulders, matched perfectly by the strands of her tail flowing from the tan-colored equestrian half of her form, leaving little room to wonder about the clan's nickname of "Sunchild" for her. The cloth she wore cross-ways across her chest could do little to accentuate her generous bosom, leaving modesty to be its only reason. The only thing Cedris couldn't help but notice at the moment, however, was her always-spriteful laugh, which she was doing an exceptional job of demonstrating for..or rather, at..him. "Why you sneaky little.." His temper couldn't last long against her; it never had. Mere moments passed before he found himself laughing. "Happy birthday, Cedris!" Lucindra's voice was as pristine as any song known to all, save for the ones she herself loved to sing from time to time, and for the younger centaur, always pleasing to hear. "So, you're finally one of the adults now too, huh?" Cedris' face went red, partially with embarassment, partially with a flared temper. "Cut it out!" She giggled as she saw her teasing him of his younger age get to him. "Aww, don't get so mad, you know how happy I am for you." Cedris just sighed, chuckling as the flushness ran out of his face again. "Yeah.. I'm sorry. Just a little sore after all the jokes the other guys were cracking at me today, I guess." He mumbled something under his breath about them. Lucindra just giggled. "Don't let 'em get to ya, they're just messing with ya." About then, Cedris realized what it was that was nagging at him about this whole incident. "Umm..was there something you wanted to talk to me about, Lucindra? Or did you just come all the way out here to get the jump on me like always?" "Oh yes," she started, "well, I...umm..." She turned away from him for a moment to hide the fact that she was blushing. She couldn't think of a way to phrase what it was she had come out for. "I, umm, decided to get a present for you." Cedris' curiousity lit up. "Really? Thanks. Ummm..what--" Before he could finish, however, she had turned back to him, wrapping her arms around him and pressing her lips to his. His eyes opened wide in surprise for a moment. He couldn't believe it..he'd felt this way for her for a few years now, but had never found the courage to ask her out or anything, and now here she was delivering the first kiss either of them had ever recieved. As the reality of the moment settled into him, his eyes closed shut, his arms returning the embrace. Her kiss felt better than he had ever imagined, not to mention a bit more active, he thought as he felt her tongue sliding up against his, massaging itself against the inner reaches of his mouth. Without a thought he returned the favor for a few moments, before she broke away from him. "Lucindra," he started, "what are--" She smiled as her finger came up against his lips, silencing him. "I just wanted to show you how I've felt for you the past few years. Besides, I'm not sure if your father told you yet," she continued, "but our parents have agreed to have us wed at the next harvest." Cedris' heart almost skipped a beat. The 'next' harvest was going on at this very moment! "What!? How come nobody ever told me about it?" Lucindra giggled in her sweet fashion again. "Well, to be honest...it was actually my idea. I wanted it to be a surprise for you, and our fathers agreed. So they sent me out here to get you back to the village." Her face grew even more flushed about then. "Still," she said softly as her hands slid down her shoulders, grasping the lone light blue cloth that kept her clothed, "there was one thing I wanted to do before then.." A lump caught in Cedris' throat as he watched the fabric fall away, leaving her voluptuos chest exposed to him. "Lu--Lucindra..what are you--" Gently, she took hold of one of his hands, placing it against one of her already taught nipples. "I knew that we would be doing this tonight, but I simply couldn't wait any longer...I want you so badly, Cedris.." He couldn't believe it at all. The woman he'd loved for much of his life, yet had never had the courage to confess it to, was giving herself to him entirely! Not wanting to disappoint her, he tenderly cupped her bosoms in his hands, caressing them, getting a feel for them. Lucindra's breathing came slightly harder now, exiting in short gasps here and there, as she let her lover examine her. Deciding to test his luck, Cedris dropped down to his front knees and took one of her breasts to his mouth, softly closing his lips around the flushed nipple. Her head flew back from the exhiliration, a soft moan escaping her throat. "Yes," she cooed, "that feels good.." Cedris, not to be unfair, then turned his attention to the other, giving it the same attention and caress as he had the first. Just then, he felt a part of himself brush against the grass. It was then that he realized what was happening to him: he was starting to grow rather hard down there. Wasn't the first time, he had to admit to himself...he'd had that kind of reaction once or twice before when he thought of the Sunchild before him. Even so... Apparently Lucindra had noticed as well, as she pushed him away. He watched, perplexed, as she knelt down onto all fours and, rather strangely, rolled onto her back. Her outstretched finger beckoned him to her. As he stood over her, she simply told him one thing. "Turn around." Seemed strange to him, but he did so, moving his newly-formed erection hanging above her face. Good gods, she thought as she stared at his rather long member, but he was a stallion! She licked her lips as her hands wrapped around it and brought it downard. Before Cedris could realize what was going on she had the tip well within her mouth, savoring the taste of his precome. The sheer surprise brought him to his knees, forcing his hands against the ground just to hold his human half up. Struggling to open his eyes against the enthralling sensations she was dealing to him, that he found himself staring right between her legs, getting a full glance of her womanhood. He also noticed a small pool that had collected down there, looking..and smelling.. rather inviting to him. Wondering if it was like what he was going through, he brought himself down to it and, trying not to cry out from the excitement going on in his loins, began to lick the soft flesh between her labes. The scent and the taste, he thought, were absolutely perfect. Lucindra's body bucked from excitement as Cedris' caress continued. She had never felt this..this..she couldn't find the word to describe the sensations that were going through her. No joy she had ever felt in her life had ever even come close to these mixed feelings he was giving her. And yet in the back of her mind, she knew that wasn't the best the night had to offer, and as such, she pulled his organ out of her mouth, licking the last drop of fluid off the tip. "Stop, Cedris," she begged to him, "...please, stop..." He did, reluctantly, as he was asked and moved away from her, allowing her to roll back onto her knees. Her tail swung aside from the area he had just been getting a taste of, and the expression of pure desire on her face told him exactly what she wanted, and he realized it was exactly what he had been hoping for the past few years, an explanation to all the odd feelings he'd had for her. As his cock continued to pulse beneath him from his still-rapid heartbeat, he positioned himself over her, placing himself at her entrance. He felt a bit worried for a moment as he remembered how small it had seemed..was he going to be able to fit? His worries subsided, however, as he slid it with no difficulty at all, her juices lubricating each inch of his shaft as he slowly pushed in deeper... deeper...until finally, after what felt like an eternity of pure pleasure, he was in all the way. By the gods but she was tight around him...not unpleasantly so, he thought. Quite the opposite, in fact. The feel of the moist heat surrounding his lance was beyond description Gently, Lucindra guided them both to their feet, their union not broken by the slightest margin. About half-way up Cedris realized that his front feet weren't going to be anywhere NEAR the ground for this. His lover seemed undisturbed by the extra burden of weight, though. As slowly as he had pushed himself in, Cedris began to pull himself back out, almost completely exiting her, then, without a concious thought, started back in again, penetrating as far as he could. Her moans grew louder as he continued, her words beckoning him on. Slowly he increased the speed of his thrusts, still pushing in and pulling out as far as he had been. As unconciously as her lover, Lucindra wrapped her arms back around him for support as she began to rock herself back against him, increasing the strength of his penetrations even further, bringing them both to new heights of ecstasy with each push. The Sunchild's moans of pleasure gave way to cries of total exhiliration as they pounded against each other. Between gasps she whispered his name, begging for him to continue on...harder...faster...deeper... Lucindra's front legs began to tire from the constant rocking, and she realized she wasn't going to be able to stand up much longer. Quickly she dropped to her front knees, her back legs still working her body back and forth against Cedris' as he continued to slam into her, coming down to the ground with her, not missing a single beat. His hands, no longer under his control, came up around her, massaging her fully flushed breasts, her waistline, and everywhere else on the human half of her body, sending even more sensations through her body. The feeling was almost too much for her to handle as she let go of her lover, bracing herself against the trunk of a tree just to hold herself up. Part of her worried, as her cries for her lover became louder yet, that the others in the clan would hear them. If they did, though, she didn't know if she would care or not..all that she could see, could hear, could sense in life right now was the vigorous young centaur giving her every ounce of pleasure she wanted, and more. He continued to thrust into her, his cock gliding along the walls of her vulva while at the same time being clamped onto tightly by it, as Cedris noticed a new sensation growing down there...like something was building up, wanting to explode in side of him. Lucindra, meanwhile, had had more pleasure than she thought than she could have ever hoped to handle as she herself felt a pressure building up within her. Her mouth opened as if to speak, but before the words could form, the pressure she felt burst, sending an explosion of sensations throughout her entire body. It was too much for her, and, losing any sense of control of herself, she got up on all fours again, her entirety bucking violently beneath her lover as she succumbed to wave after wave of an indescribably powerful, and equally spellbinding orgasm. Cedris was simply amazed by what was happening as she bucked beneath him as violently as a wild bronco, the insides of her womanhood manipulating his shaft more powerfully than ever. He could not hold back from that final assault, and, grasping his hands around her waist, he slammed into her one last time as he poured his seed deep into her, coming for an immeasurable length of time. Even then she was still quaking beneath him, totally lost in a sea of ecstasy, and he no less lost. Finally, after what Cedris thought must have been at least an hour, their spasms ceased, and, exhausted, they collapsed to the ground, Cedris still atop her, still within her, although not nearly as much as he found himself finally going soft again. The sweat dripped off his brow, his chest, and everywhere else he could imagine, Lucindra being equally drenched in her own perspiration, probably moreso. As her gasps for breath finally died down, she turned her head around, bringing her lips to his once more. "Happy birthday, my love," she whispered to him. That evening, beneath the full harvest moon, and in the company of the entire clan, the two lovers were wed in a splendid and enthralling ceremony, topped off by Lucindra's recanting of one of her favorite old ballads: a song of a man and a woman, and the eternal love for each other they shared. After the party had died down, the newlyweds returned to Cedris' newly-fashioned hut, a gift from his and Lucindra's fathers. No words passed between them, nor did any need to. Gently, the Sunchild brushed her hair back, embracing her lover once more, knowing full well what the rest of the night held for them..and, like her lover, she expected to make full use of it.