Page 15 of Her Dragons

“Him,” said Alex knowingly.“You were just remembering him when he was like we are now, right?”

Not wanting to meet Alex’s eyes or Jake’s, I nodded my head and answered, “I’m sorry.I didn’t mean to…”

“There’s nothing to be sorry about,” Alex said.“We should have thought.”

“Lily, if you don’t want to do this, we don’t have to,” said Jake.“We can go back in and forget about this.”

Hearing Jake’s willingness to skip the experience made me suddenly screw up my resolve.I had gotten out of Mark’s penthouse to get out of the reach of his claws and tail and take back my life.I could hardly call myself taking back my life if I still lived in fear of the memory of him.I set my jaw and took a sharp breath, and touched Jake on the leathery plates of his pecs.“No,” I said firmly.“We’re doing this.You can take me up.”

Alex let out a roar mixed with a hiss, which I took to be the sound of approval.Jake leaned down his blunt dragon snout and nuzzled my face and gave my cheek a lick with that big, forked reptilian tongue, which was not at all slimy but ticklish.I actually gave a tiny giggle at that.

Then Jake swept me up in his arms and the two of them stepped to the retaining wall of the terrace and up onto the rim of it.My two dragons unfurled their mighty, leathery wings.With swishes of their powerful tails, they leapt from the terrace and into the Pacific air.My stomach felt as if a pit opened up inside it, and I held my breath.There was a sensation of being in free-fall — and then there was a rush of wind and a fantastic, exhilarating feeling, and the sound of those wings beating hard at the air, and with me in Jake’s arms we climbed up over the roof and out over the ocean.

Our climb went on for long, breathtaking moments until Jake leveled off and held me tightly with wings stretched out wide like great leather sails and everything took on an amazing calm.All that I could see were sky and clouds, and far below us, the endless stretch of sparkling ocean.A whooshing sound filled my ears.I looked to my left.In the distance, but not too far, was Alex, his wings unfurled wide the same as Jake’s.We were soaring like gliders, held aloft by their wings, held aloft by the invisible hands of the wind.I smiled and felt giddy.Even though I was soaring under their power and not my own, it was an incredible feeling of freedom.I was experiencing vicariously the way it felt to be a dragon.I wanted to laugh.

Then Jake made powerful beats of his wings again and aimed himself downwards, and we angled and swooped into a dive.The sound of the air was almost like a dragon’s roar.All that I could see was a blur everywhere around me, and my stomach was filled with that rollercoaster free-fall feeling again, which made me want to shut my eyes, but I didn’t want to miss a second of this.Jake leveled off, and as everything turned from blurring to solid and the rollercoaster feeling turned to a slower but still thrilling momentum, I could see that we were over the ocean, but gliding right over the surf.Below us, the crests of the waves rolling to the shoreline rose up and charged, making methink of the backs of watery beasts.We slipped through the air right above them and out farther to where the sea was calmer and the smaller waves rolled by, waiting their turn to surge up into the bigger ones we had just passed.

Jake aimed himself up again and beat his wings harder, moving us higher over the waves, and let out a shrill dragon sound that I couldn’t understand, but not far from us, the dragon voice of Alex returned his cry.Jake swerved widely about in the air and began to fly back to the shore.I could feel the power of his dragon muscles while cradled in his strong, scaly arms; the force of his wing beats and the thrashing of his tail, making us pick up speed.The big, rolling waves rushed beneath us; Jake seemed to be racing them to the shore.

As we approached where the waves crashed onto the beach, Jake beat his wings again and tilted us in the air so that his dragon feet were angled downward, slowing our forward momentum.The waves fell away behind us, and below us now was only the golden sand.I felt the impacts of Jake touching down on the beach and running along, making a transition from air back to land, until we came to a stop.Not far away, Alex was doing the same.Jake stood holding me where we were, flexing his wings, while Alex, his own wings just partly folded, strode over to us, making another of these piercing dragon calls.I had a feeling I could sense what the two of them had in mind.

In a moment, I knew I was right.Alex came to us and held out his muscular, scaly arms.He and Jake exchanged hissing, clattering noises, and Jake held out his own arms with me in them.Jake passed me to his friend.Alex gathered me up against the plates of his chest and nuzzled me with the tip of his blunt, scaly snout, careful not to let the hard spines of his jawline scratch me, and I laughed a little at this moment of my two dragons playing “pass the human.”

Alex took a few steps away from Jake, lifted his mighty, horned head to the sky on his serpentine neck, and began to beat his wings.With a swish of his tail and a prodigious leap, he had us off the ground and climbing into the air once more.From nearby came the strong wing beats of Jake following us back up to the sky.The land fell away and everything turned to a blur once again, until we were high above the ground once more.

I looked down from Alex’s arms now and saw that we were headed out over the city.Gazing down at the rooftops, I thought Haventon looked like a toy city on a child’s tabletop.I could make out little figures of people and the shapes of vehicles moving along.Then, from different directions at once and from off in the distance came a series of noises like the ones that Alex and Jake had made to each other.I looked away from the city and forward, and saw other Drakes, flying singly or in pairs, each claiming their own section of the sky, calling to each other and to Alex and Jake, uttering sounds that only their own kind could understand.My two Drakes called back to them, returning whatever greeting they were making, and I knew that as safe as I was in Alex’s arms, I was truly in their element.Up here, they were the masters.

Once again I looked down, and the rooftops fell away.It became a stretch of green below us now:wide fields of grass with grey trails of walking paths running through them, and the tufts of treetops interspersed among them.We were now over a park, in which I saw more little figures of people on the grass and the stone paths, some of them rolling along on bikes.When our soaring took us over a great, round stone place with what looked like overgrown stair steps on one side of it, surrounded by trees and bushes, I recognized where we were.Alex had now taken us over the park where he and Jake had found me.

Below us was the amphitheater where I’d gone to rest and listen to that free concert after slipping out of Mark’s penthouseand across town.It felt almost like coming full circle.They’d brought me back to where my adventure started, where I had at first run away from the very ones who had brought a happiness into my life that I’d despaired of ever feeling again.And all at once in the sky over Haventon was a new sound:the sound of Lily Turner laughing.

Alex swerved in the air, and I saw from the corner of my eye Jake doing the same.They were turning back the way we came, taking us back to Uncle Robert’s apartment, the place that had so quickly come to feel safe.The place that had grown to feel like home.

With mighty wing beats they descended back on the terrace and Alex set me down.For the first few seconds there, with my feet back on the stone terrace floor, I had a sensation in my stomach and heart as if I were still flying.I could still almost feel the rush of the air against my skin.It was exhilarating.Stepping away from Alex, I laughed again.“Oh, guys, that was so much fun.I had no idea how that felt.Thank you.Thank you so much.”

Their wings and tails retracted and disappeared, their horns shrank, their necks morphed back to the necks of men, and their scales dissolved into human flesh.My dragons were morphing back to their other shapes, and Alex said with his voice now returning to fully human, “Don’t thank us yet.Your flying isn’t over.Right, Jake?”And quickly resuming his human form, he tugged at the thin waistband of his thong and pulled it down, releasing his very human penis.

“No, not yet,” Jake agreed, pulling his own thong down and off, unfurling his own stiffening human cock.

I gulped, my eyes widening, and grinned at their naked man-selves.

Lily, girl, I thought, you are in for it now.

They were on me at once, their arms wrapping around me, their hands sliding up and down my back — and slipping under my T-shirt.Jake’s mouth found my mouth, taking my lips in a kiss and probing with his tongue.Alex quickly pulled my T-shirt up and moved his hand in warm circles over my belly.Jake flicked his tongue over my lips and reached down for the button of my jeans.Alex first kissed me up and down my neck, then leaned back to give himself enough space to pull my T-shirt up and off me, freeing my breasts.As he tossed the t-shirt aside, Jake had my jeans down over my thighs and leaned down to suck my nipple, at the same time slipping his fingers under my panties to feel first my pubes, then the petals of my sex.My heart fluttered as if it had wings like a dragon.

Alex kissed my lips while doing the honors with my panties, getting them down and exposing both the pussy into which his friend was sticking his fingers, and the cheeks of my ass, over which Alex roamed with one hand, then squeezed.

I moaned softly into Alex’s kiss, then a little more loudly when he leaned down to suck my other nipple.He continued to squeeze my buttocks, and I felt hot all over as Jake moved his fingers into my opening and into my passage and out again in a repeating rhythm, a promise of something else he and Alex would both soon be doing to me.

Jake lifted his head from my bosom and said to his buddy, “Get these pants off her.”Alex grunted in agreement.He stooped down and slipped both jeans and panties the rest of the way down my legs at once.As he sent them the way of my T-shirt, I obliged them by kicking off my deck shoes.Now I was as naked as they were.

Instantly, Jake had one arm around my shoulders and the other at the backs of my thighs while Alex had one arm around my back and the other behind my knees, and together they lifted me from the stone floor of the terrace, smiling at me with lustyintent.I made an excited yelp as they carried me a few steps back to one of the plush patio sofas of the terrace and sat me down on it.

Somewhere in the back of my mind I realized they had planned this whole thing out in advance when Jake took me by one hand and Alex by the other, and the next thing I knew I had one long, hard, gorgeous cock in either hand.Each penis exuded its own bead of pre-semen onto my skin.I stroked them and tenderly squeezed them, savoring their stiffness, thrilling at their readiness.

“You know what to do with those,” Jake said.

“Suck ‘em,” said Alex.

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