“Time for another bath, boy,” Tanica said. I nodded and was more prepared this time for when she lifted me up and carried me to the springs. Despite not seeing Izabella again that night, I worried for her in the back of my mind and hoped she was not facing a greater punishment in her absence.
While the forest and night sky were pitch black, the spring’s water glowed a turquoise blue, as if a blue sun were buried in it. The water was already full, and naked Amazons floated along its edges.
“Is Queen Andeese near?” I asked as I was lowered into the water.
“She is not,” Tanica said.
“I would like to speak to her before we, uh, begin.”
“She cannot be here tonight or tomorrow during our sessions,” Tanica said, allowing me to float in the water. “This is the payment for her daughter’s transgressions against the tribe.”
This is the punishment for Izabella touching me. The mother and daughter had to leave while the rest of the tribe got their turn. I looked around at the many faces surrounding me and did not see Haughty either. The three must face similar fates.
“Now, boy,” Tanica said, rubbing her hands down my chest and to my cock, “Relax…”
I nodded and complied. I will do whatever I can to see that Izabella does not receiving any punishment.
Tanica took her time this time around. Her hands, gentle and soothing, stroked my cock in the warm waters. Every time I thought I was close to cumming, Tanica slowed her stroke and edged me to oblivion. Meanwhile, the women sharing the springs slowly inched closer. Their moans filled the room as they fingered, suckled, and ate each other.
When I finally did orgasm, it was with my ear in between Tanica’s lips and my neck nestled between her breasts.
“That’s it, baby. Let it out. Release your seed…” Tanica purred into my ear.
“Release your seed for us,” several women surrounding us hummed.
I came hard and felt it through my entire body. Like the first ‘bath’ experience I had, the rest of the women, including Tanica cried out in pleasure as they came at the same time.
“Mmmm… very good,” Tanica panted, “very good…”
My body relaxed as I readied to leave the pool of water, but to my surprise, I was met by two naked women I had not seen before. It took a moment for me to realize the pair were twins.
“Open,” the first girl said.
“Your mouth,” the second prompted. I looked between the blue-eyed girls for a moment before I did what they said. The twin on the left extended a cup and poured a fruity liquid into my mouth.
“Come here, boy,” Tanica said. Her hands closed around my chest and pulled me back to the center of the springs.
Whatever the liquid was that I swallowed began to have an effect on me right away. My cheeks warmed, my heart raced, and within seconds my cock was growing hard again. The amazons in the pool began to moan immediately.
This night was far from over.
When the sun finally rose hours later, I was still in the hot springs. I had lost count of the number of times I had come and swallowed more of that fruity liquid. The orgy of women continued, and I was passed around like a pet. The last orgasm I had was with a marvelous redhead and raven-haired woman kissing on both sides of my shaft.
It was a relief when Tanica returned to carry me out of the springs. My body was exhausted from the use, but instead of returning to my keep to rest, I was brought to a great tree at the center of the village. A line was formed, and the women had turned my cock into their personal sex toy. Their lips, breasts, pussy, and more were used on my body, and sex acts that would have been a fantasy when I was younger became mundane. Each new woman who stepped to me began by pouring a shot of liquid in my mouth before having her way with me.
Morning came and went. The afternoon came and went. And it was nighttime again.
“Ahhhhh ughhh!” the woman moaned as she rode me through the orgasm. My consciousness was a blur going in and out. It wasn’t until the woman stepped off of me that I realized a silence had fallen over the crowd.
Tanica stepped to the center of the center and guided Izabella ahead of her.
“It is so,” Tanica announced, and the celebrating women stopped, “she is with child.”
A somber mood settled over the once rambunctious crowd. Slowly, the sadness gave way to anger as all eyes turned to Izabella, who only stared at her feet. Despite my surreal circumstances, there was a brief time when I felt the reality of what was just uttered. I’m going to be a father. I’ve she’s pregnant with my child…
After an appropriate moment had passed, Queen Andeese stepped forward.
“The night has passed. Everyone should return to their steads for rest,” Andeese commanded. Slowly, the dozens of women parted and went their separate ways, leaving me sat on the ground, battered and exhausted.
“Does this mean…” I glanced from Izabella to Andeese, “Do I get to leave now?”
The queen looked down on me and back up to Tanica, “Take him to his keep to rest. Stay the night as guard.”
“Yes, my queen,” Tanica said.
Tanica carried me naked back to the original home they had me in. Inside, there was a small fire beneath the chimney, a pile of clothes to wear, blankets to keep warm, a tray of food, and three buckets of water.
“You have all you need, young man. Should you need anything else, call for me,” Tanica said. she gave a small smile and went to leave.
“Tanica,” I whispered, and she paused, “Will your tribe let me go tomorrow?”
The woman hesitated. Though she looked as young as the other women, she appeared to be one of the elders of the tribe. I could tell by the way Haughty and other women looked at her that she was respected and feared. The hesitation I saw in her face now meant not that she didn’t know the answer, but she knew I would not like the answer.
“Rest now. We will talk more tomorrow,” Tanica said and left the home.
I woke hours later to the familiar sight of Izabella treating my wounds. There was a repetitive cycle that was beginning to play out to this place. It felt as though my life was on a loop.
How much longer can this go on?
“Why…” I groaned; my muscles were sore from use. “Why did you sleep with me if you knew this would happen?”
“I’m sorry,” Izabella whispered, and her eyes met mine. They were tender and earnest. “I will apologize to the end of days if it would make it up to you, but I was only doing what I thought was best.”
“Best for me? Or best for you?” I asked, looking at her.
Izabella slumped and nodded. “It is true, I used you for personal gain, but as bad as you think you have it now. I believe I have spared you the worst fate.”
I sat up some, “What do you mean?”
Izabella chewed on her lip and glanced back at the entryway. The two guards had stepped away from the entrance, giving them privacy.
“Our last man to visit the forest died four years ago. We’ve patrolled, hoped, and prayed for another man to enter the forest for years before you came. A man’s arrival in the forest is not a trivial thing, and it only grows rarer as time passes. Thus, my Amazonian sisters have become more obsessive over the years.”
I furrowed my brow and let the silence carry for a beat, “What do you mean?”
Izabella sighed, and a guilty expression grew on her face. “Our last man may have died four years ago, but he first arrived in the forest thirty-two years prior.”
“What?” I gasped, my mind struggling to comprehend the time frame.
Izabella took my hand between hers. “Damion was his name. He was held captive and immobile for decades. He bred us Amazons for years using the sacred hot springs.” She sniffled and blinked several teardrops down her cheek.
Silence hung between the two of us for some time. Finally, she stood and started to leave, having thought I had fallen asleep.
“Izabella,” I called, stopping her at the entrance. “You carry my child?”
Instinctively, her hand went to her belly as she turned to face me. Her face was vulnerable for the first time. “I do,” she whispered.
I nodded, unsure of what to say. The only thing I could think of was to do what my father did not, “I will… if I can… I will be there for the child. I will do all I can to provide for the both of you.”
Izabella gasped and took a step forward but stopped herself. My face turned to puzzlement before the young woman turned and left the keep.
Chapter Two
I awoke in a groggy state. My injuries might have been on the mend, but my muscles ached from the hours of sex throughout the day and night. Someone was at my door. I heard the muted conversation between Tanica and this person. By the time I had sat up and gathered my bearings, Izabella stepped inside.
“Izabella,” I said.
“Quiet,” she whispered. “We don’t have much time.”
“What do you mean? Time for what?”
She set her satchel down beside the fire, which was close to just embers at this point. Using the little light it gave, she unraveled a sleeve of pre-mixed tonics and balms.
She paused, wide-eyed, “You must focus now.”
“On what? What’s happening?” I asked. Izabella took two of the tonics and emptied them into my mouth. By the time I swallowed them, she was already undoing my pants. “No, Izabella, I—”
“For your rash,” she said as she lather her hands in the familiar milk ointment. I stopped fighting her and allowed her to rub the cream over my shaft and balls, waking them up from their slumber. Izabella seemed to have to focus and breathe carefully as my cock hardened and pointed toward her. However, my sudden grunts of pain put a stop to any incidental arousal I may be having.
“Ahhmmmm!” I groan, but Izabella quickly covers my mouth to keep me quiet. The pain in my ankle, foot, and leg were excruciating for a second, but quickly went away. When her hand went away, I ask, “what was that?”
“You leg. It’s better now, yes?” she asks, leaning back.
I furrow my brow. Of course not, it’s broken. It takes longer to heal…
The thought trails away as I rub my ankle and move my foot around in circles.
“How?” I ask.
“The tonic. Here, drink this. It will make you feel strong,” she said, dumping another vial down my throat. “Come on. Get up.”
I coughed as I choked down the last tonic. Surprisingly, it was quite sweet compared to the others. “No, I don’t think I can stand…”
To my surprise, not only could I stand—I could jump. I felt amazing. A moment ago, my muscles ached, my skin was covered in bruises and rashes, and my leg was broken. Now, I felt better than new.
“What? How is this possible? Could you have fixed me the entire time?”
Without another word, Izabella yanked me out of the keep by my arm. I constantly found myself forgetting how superhuman and strong she was until I felt her power. Part of me wondered if there was a point in me protesting at all. The amazons could force me to do anything they wanted even if I didn’t want to.
Tanica turned as we exited. She didn’t look surprised.
“Izabella, this is no good. There is nowhere for you to go,” Tanica warned.
“But there is a place for him,” Izabella replied.
Tanica sighed, shaking her head, “This will end badly for you. There will be pain.”
A half smile formed on Izabella’s lips, “Someone once taught me pain was but a lesson life was trying to teach.”
Tanica smiled sadly and looked like she might cry. She cupped Izabella’s cheek tenderly, and Izabella kissed the woman’s palm.
“I’m sorry,” Izabella whispered.
“Don’t be,” Tanica replied.
Without warning or hesitation, Izabella spun in a circle and smashed the bottom of her fist into Tanica’s cheek. The woman flew away several feet and crumbled to the ground, motionless.
“Izabella, what are you doing?” I yelled in a whisper.
Izabella ran to Tanica’s side to check on her, and then, once satisfied, she returned to me and grabbed my arm.
“Come now,” she commanded.
I was pulled through the shadows of camp to a stable at the back of the village. Within minutes, I was saddled onto a horse behind Izabella, and we were galloping out of the village and into the dark woods. It was several hours before the horse came to a trot and finally stopped. The woods had gotten thicker and the trail smaller. Of the sky that I could see through the brush overhead, I could see the sun beginning to rise as dark turned to light.
“We must go by foot from here,” Izabella said, her voice still slight. She put her forehead to her horse’s cheek and whispered something to him before he trotted off the way they came from.
“Izabella, wait,” I said, and I appreciated her stopping to listen rather than just pull me along. “Thank you for healing me and getting me out of there, but what is happening? Why did you strike your friend?”
“I had to. Had I not knocked Tanica unconscious, she would have shared in the blame for what I’ve done.”
“What did you do? What is happening?” I asked again.
“My mother was not going to let you go—none of them were,” Izabella said. She looked downward and ashamed as she spoke.
“But why? She said once the first Amazon became pregnant with my seed, I would become infertile.”
“Yes, this is true.”
“Then why not allow me to leave?”
“We don’t have time for all these questions. Come now,” Izabella started off in a march through a thick patch of brush.
“Izabella…” I said.
She paused and sighed, “They will keep you as a toy. They will use you. They will use your body for entertainment. They will keep you prisoner for many years until your body breaks beyond repair.”
My thoughts circle the wide array of possibilities that were put before me. In a way, it is a man’s fantasy to live a life surrounded by beautiful women and unlimited sex. However, I have had a rather short experience of what that can be like, and after only a few days, my body was beginning to wither. My face must have betrayed my thoughts because Izabella shook her head with a shallow smirk.
“You men are all the same. You all love the prospect at first. You treat it more like a holiday than a kidnapping. But when days turn to weeks and weeks to months, the holiday ends.”
I nod, “Thank you for what you have done for me, but what will happen to you? If I escape, you can’t leave until a male child is born, right? Will they hurt you?”
Izabella smiled at my concern, but before she could speak, a noise only she could hear caught her attention. Panic flooded her face as she grabbed my hand. “Come quickly now!”
A thumping sound reverberated through the air before I could react. Izabella yanked my arm, and a long arrow snapped by my face and stabbed into the tree in front of me.
I ran like I had never run before, and still, I could barely keep up with Izabella. Leaves and vines whipped at our faces, and the brush thickened as I tried to escape the forest. There was movement to the left and right in the greenery. More arrows came, but they came for Izabella, not me. Izabella released my hand to dodge left and right, then summersault between two trees as arrows darted into the ground beside her and into the trees behind her.
When Izabella returned to me, we had reached the edge of the forest. The last line of trees gave way to the bright blue sky and open green fields.
“Here, you must go now!” Izabella panted.
I stopped short just before the fields and looked back to see a blur of motion fast approaching.
“What about you? I can’t leave you,” I said.
“Izabella!” an angry voice yelled, filling the forest with her rage.
Izabella looked back and returned her worried eyes to me, “Save yourself. Let me do this one good deed.”
“Don’t let him leave! Wound him!” Queen Andeese shouted as she approached. There was a familiar thumpf sound, and I watched the arrow arc down toward my leg. At the last moment, Izabella dove, taking the arrow to her belly.
“No!” I shouted and grabbed for Izabella. She looked at me with weak eyes.
“Run,” she grunted.
My eyes bounced between her eyes, and the arrow protruded from her gut.
“Not without you,” I gasped as I grabbed Izabella’s arms and began to pull. Reaching the green field, I grunted as I pulled Izabella to me. A green fog shimmied and buzzed. The transparent cloud reached for the sky and revealed a dome that covered the forest. “Not. Without… you…” I grunted as I pulled and pulled.
The green fog vibrated and raged until finally, it happened, and I fell backward with Izabella lying in the open field beside me.
“What? How did you…” Izabella muttered, “We’re free…”
I smiled, “We’re free.”
Thunk! Thunk-Thunk-Thunk!
The arrows rained against the green fog and exploded upon contacts, dissolving into slivers of wood.
“Come on, we have to go,” I said, but Izabella could barely rise to her knees. It was my turn to carry her. To my surprise, the skinny girl weighed the same as I expected for any skinny girl. The magic in her veins was impressive.
With Izabella hoisted on my shoulder, I ran into the field.
“Izabella, bring him back!” Queen Andeese yelled. “Izabella!”
I stole a final glance over my shoulder and saw Queen Andeese and several other Amazons stopped at the edge of the forest.
Free. Isabella and I are finally free!
