Message-ID: <53888asstr$1148177403@assm.asstr-mirror.org> X-Original-To: ckought69@hotmail.com Delivered-To: ckought69@hotmail.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=Gv+FpPpn6HDl+bNDsu3csiKPin1dOGIzKIDJzHJ9LbwXmu/l12c1axGTCZhWtlUu/XjP8msQWvTi89N3QikWQ6vZoeyjW+5PwzowLzG0aTzD4yqaGo95iuh2HPUnuQGju/IDATNGs7DjwVkqpQnHzYRJMgHdRW3QQfKwkuN2rWw= X-Original-Message-ID: <7b909bf0605200958p6624e775rf37d3e5539b043bb@mail.gmail.com> From: "Lord God Pantokrator" <lordgodpantokrator@gmail.com> X-ASSTR-Original-Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 12:58:22 -0400 Subject: {ASSM} The Moons of Yothis, Part 1: The Summoning Circle (m/f, m-1st, oral, fantasy) Lines: 503 Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 22:10:03 -0400 Path: assm.asstr-mirror.org!not-for-mail Approved: <assm@asstr-mirror.org> Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d X-Archived-At: <URL:http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2006/53888> X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation <story-ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Story-Submission: <ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Moderator-ID: emigabe, dennyw <1st attachment, "Part 1, The Summoning Circle.txt" begin> The Moons of Yothis, Part 1: The Summoning Circle (m/f, m-1st, oral, fantasy) Aaron Connell was a creature of Order, though he did not know it. Really, Order is as hard to notice on Earth as Color. People notice colors all the time, but how often do they notice Color? Not so often. Orders works the same way: people from Earth never notice it because on Earth it obviously exists. Order does not obviously exist on Yothis. There it is one of many cosmic principles, battling for supremacy. Aaron knew nothing of Yothis, Order, or cosmic principles when he sat down on a Friday evening to watch television, or when he went to bed that night and masturbated to images of Olivia Conrad, the pretty girl whose locker was next to his at school. As he slept he caught a faint glimpse of Order as seen from afar, and an assortment of other principles, but by then it was too late and he lay imprisoned by the thaumaturgist Zamphor. "Awaken!" Zamphor shouted, but Aaron ignored him: it was Saturday and no one was getting him up. But the shouts continued, followed by an agonizing tug that wrenched him into wakefulness. He looked around, then shielded his eyes at the blinding blue-white light that surrounded him. "A sleeper, 'tis a strange catch," a voice mumbled. Aaron let his eyes adjust. He sat half upright on a hard marble floor and looked around. A man stood a few steps from him, though he was hazy, like he stood on the other side of a standing aquarium. He had a sharply pointed beard and wore stiff, angular clothes in a riot of unlikely colors. A gem that reminded Aaron of the Hope Diamond winked from his skullcap. Aaron very suddenly realized he was not dreaming. "What the hell is this?" he said, looking around. Everything looked different, like the opposite of looking through his mother's reading glasses. He held up his hand and turned it over, then returned his attention to the strange man. "Who are you? What's going on?" "I am Zamphor the thaumaturgist, demon," the man said, "By the oaths of Egatei and Thezmor and Krix, by the final testaments of Ning-La-Sebru and her daughters, thou art bound to me." He gestured with his fingers like a gangster throwing signs, though his clothing would get him shot in every ghetto in the country (and certain suburbs). He spoke English with a peculiar monotone, like a chant, and in some old-fashioned style. "I'm not bound to--" "Silence!" Zamphor said, and he spoke with such command that Aaron fell silent, though the boy jumped to his feet. It was then he noticed he was naked: a thick carmine blanket fell away, revealing his pale skin. He quickly yanked up back up around his waist. "What is this bullshit?" Aaron said. He stepped toward the man, but found that a translucent barrier stopped him. At first it seemed like plastic wrap, but when he pushed it reacted more like he was trying to push two north magnet-ends together: there was no discrete barrier, just more and more resistance. "Thou art Aaron Elian Connell," Zamphor said, "of Earth." "Close enough," Aaron said. The words took a second to sink in (the man's English was not very good), then he flinched. Aaron took another step, and Zamphor stepped back despite the circular barrier. Aaron was an intimidating specimen, not large but sleek and lean from constant exercise and sports, with a hard edge to his blue-gray eyes. He was of mixed Irish and Puerto Rican descent, though anyone expecting fiery Latin passion or the Gift of Gab found instead quiet intensity and the sort laconic charisma found in generals and early presidents. The boy stared at Zamphor, tightening his fists (scarred from old fights), and the thaumaturgist instinctively shied away. "Thou shall serve me," Zamphor said, speaking his mangled English into the ground, "in the strife 'gainst the witch Viskel. I have need of Demons of Law to fight her magics. We will speak again ere the week is out." "What are you talking about? What's a Demon of Law?" Aaron shouted, but Zamphor walked away, disappearing from the boy's view. He sat down and looked around. The barrier surrounded him completely, and a granite wall blocked his view in three directions. Across from him stood another...summoning circle? Aaron nodded at the idea, then clutched his head. That was the craziest thing in the world. He had been abducted, obviously. The man was probably a psycho, babbling on in some Renaissance Faire accent. But how many psychos could build magnetic barriers that worked on people, not bits of metal? Aaron touched the barrier again. It shimmered faintly but did not yield. Either he was nuts (everything looked and felt weird, almost cartoonishly clear, but he felt lucid), or he had been abducted by a lunatic mad scientist rapist, or he was... "Hello?" The voice came from nearby; from the booth immediately next to his, Aaron surmised. It was high-pitched and frightened, and it spoke polished American English. "Is anyone there?" Aaron responded. "Where am I?" the voice said. It seemed familiar. Someone, or something, shouted angrily in a language Aaron did not recognize. He imagined it meant, "Shut the hell up, already." "We've been abducted, I think," Aaron shouted. "The man says his name is Zamphor." There was a pause, then, "Aaron?" "Olivia!" Aaron cried. Olivia was a classmate. He immediately felt awkward, even though he could not see her. Olivia had a way of making teenage boys feel like dumb little kids. "Aaron, it is you! What are we doing here? What does he want from us? I'm n..." She fell silent. Aaron smiled. "Yeah," he said. "I'm naked too," he said, almost apologetically. Then the thought of Olivia sitting naked next to him, her strawberry-red hair framing her pale skin, caught up with him, and he felt his dick involuntarily growing. He swatted at it, which did not help. "This is crazy," Olivia said. "We've gotta get out. I've tried to cut through this barrier thing and I can't; it's like Jell-O." Then Olivia screamed once, sharply. "Liv!" Aaron cried. He winced; no one but her best friends called her "Liv." "I'm okay," the girl said after a moment. Then Aaron heard a weird, low chuckle. "What's going on?" Aaron asked. He could hear scraping near Olivia's chamber. "There's a man--," Olivia said, just as a man stepped into view. He was very tall, very thin, and very peevish-looking, with a bored expression and a high, balding head. Aaron quickly hid his erection. "Bonjour. Es-tu Aaron?" he said in ghastly French. "Hi," Aaron said, in English. "Ah, th'other tongue of Earth," the man said, switching over to equally ghastly English. He sounded like a drunk Texan trying to read Shakespeare. "And who are you?" Aaron said, growing tired of all the weirdness. "I am called Bence, Zamphor's seneschal," the man said, as if that should be obvious. "The master has tasked me with thy education." "Thy?" Aaron muttered, then said, "What new role? Where are we? And how do you speak English in...'this world'?" He tried to bang on the barrier, which did nothing: his hand slowed gradually and hung in mid-air. Bence did not flinch. "You are demon servitors of Zamphor," Bence said to both of them, "who will use your powers to better himself." He turned to Aaron. "Thou art in Zamphor's manse, outside the city of Ptella, on the land of Darquist, on the world of Yothis, which is far from Earth. I ken English that I might converse with the demons. Zamphor lacks any love of words, except to constrain." He too spoke the horrible fake-Shakespeare dialect, like a grade-schooler doing Hamlet. "I'm not a demon," Aaron said, just as Olivia, from nearby, said, "Prove it." Bence spared an interested glance at the girl, then said, "'Demon' is the name of any wanderer not of Yothis. I know thou art a human, yet--" "You're a human too," Olivia said. There was a dangerous tone in her voice that would be bitchy if it were not so scared. "Nay," Bence said slowly. "I am a gree, as are most on Yothis. That your race is alike in figure to mine is difficult to ken." It seemed possible: Bence's features were of no type or combination of types recognizable on Earth. With a quick glance he might look Arab or Indian, despite his glittering, oddly-shaped eyes and the intricate folds of his ears, and in truth, he seemed no more different from Aaron than an Inuit might be from a Massai--within a sort of "range of possibility" for humanity, but his ethnicity was at right-angles to anything Aaron understood or recognized, fundamentally alien. "So, let me get this straight," Aaron said. "Your boss, Zamphor, is a wizard, and he summoned us to...serve him? Even though we're practically kids? I mean, if he wanted something from Earth he should have summoned a tiger or a marine." "As some of the things from other words, like humans, come to Yothis, the principles of their world and ours co-mingle, resulting in unusual puissance. Since Ordered worlds are, a priori, vexing to reach, a thaumaturgist cannot pluck until he finds a perfect man. Zamphor will train thee to serve." "And if we don't serve?" Olivia asked. "Asshole?" Bence rolled his eyes. He managed a great deal of flip contempt for a man who barely spoke the language in either century. "At any time Zamphor may return you to Earth with a word of dismissing, and thus, can also return you to a place 'tween Earth and Yothis." The majordomo paused for the ramifications of that to sink in, then said, "Work well and ye shall survive." Over the next couple of days, Bence visited them several times to teach them the native trade language, which he called Low Quist. It was a simple language, and the majordomo even provided the two humans with flash cards and a dictionary until Aaron felt like he was trapped in French class. He learned quickly, especially since certain constructions in Low Quist reminded him of Spanish (which he spoke passably), but even less irregular. Olivia, an upper-class American monolinguist, muddled through her lessons on natural intelligence and Aaron's tutoring, which he happily offered. They learned little else of Zamphor's plans, and rarely saw him. Aaron passed his time chatting with and fantasizing about Olivia, occasionally masturbating, mostly practicing the local language, and missing his family, friends, and numerous sports. He exercised as well as he could, determined to remain in peak condition. Bence, through an intricate system of sliding runes, delivered meals four times a day, which consisted mostly of unfamiliar fruits. Most were sweet, though some were dreadfully sour: they were medicine, Bence explained, to inoculate them against local sicknesses. One day Zamphor summoned a new creature, a horror of mist that congealed sometimes into fangs and claws. Aaron could not see it clearly, but Olivia described it in detail, her voice trembling. A few days later another creature appeared in the cell across from Aaron's. It was an attractive girl, though not a human, with magnificent purple-black skin and silver hair, and eyes that gleamed red in the magic light. Her figure was slim and athletic, and her nakedness kept Aaron in a constant state of excitement, though he could see her only dimly through the barriers. She only remained for a day, then was taken (carefully) from her summoning circle and sent on an errand. The day after that, Zamphor came for Olivia. She screamed and pleaded, but the wizard explained that he had need of her "powers." Aaron caught a glimpse of the girl as she watched away, clad in a white silk gown. She was as beautiful as he remembered, with straight red hair, dark eyes, and milk-pale skin. She cast Aaron a frightened look before Zamphor and a wicker-armored warrior led her away. Aaron's loneliness did not last long. One morning (it was always light, but Bence prided himself on regular meal service for the oddities in his master's employ) Aaron's room shook violently. Aaron looked around blearily, hugging his voluminous blanket to him. A hideous, tentacled thing slid down the hallway, followed by something that resembled a metal cat. One tentacle flickered and a drop of slime landed inside Aaron's cage. Aaron reached his hand out, but the summoning circle remained intact. "Damn it," he muttered, just as the alien girl who had occupied the opposite circle ran into his field of vision. She held a curved sword like a golden machete and with it struck the head from a green, rat-headed humanoid half her size. Its body disappeared in a flash and a sizzle, then her eyes found Aaron. She ran into his cell, gasping for breath. She was naked and a sheen of sweat had formed on her sleek, shapely body. Aaron stared up at her in awe and surprise, his face a few inches from her toned calves. She had tiny horns there, and now that Aaron looked clearly, he could see small, soft horns on her elbows and knees, her back, and the top of her head, lighter in color than the rest of her indigo skin. As an intricately armored figure clattered into view, she dove into Aaron's pile of blankets, burying herself in their folds. This elicited a yelp from the boy, and the armored figure stepped closer. "Please," the girl said in the local tongue, "don't let them find me." A jailbreak, Aaron thought. He remained silent as the armored figure looked at him, his metal plates clicking and moving of their own accord. Behind him, the alien girl gulped air; Aaron could feel her breath on the small of his back. Finally, the armored thing trooped away. "He's gone," Aaron whispered. The girl pulled her head from the blankets. Her silver hair was in disarray, though up close Aaron saw that her dark features were beautiful. Her eyes glowed red. His cock was painfully hard. He scurried to the far barrier, which held the weight of his back like a feather bed, and pulled the blanket with him to hide his erection. "Hide me," the girl said. "Please. They must not find me." She tugged on the blankets. "I...okay," Aaron said in English, then muttered, "This is crazy" in the local language. He had used the phrase a lot since his arrival. "I understand," the girl said. "You want...recompense." She slid underneath the blankets, pulling them down so they exposed the boy from the waist up. "Recompense? I don't--" Then Aaron felt the grip of a small, warm hand around his cock, and his words sputtered into nothingness. "Oh my God," Aaron said in English as the hand moved up and down. Then the hand disappeared, only to be replaced by a hot, insistent sensation that took Aaron's breath away. The alien girl's tongue worked along the base of his cock, then up to the tip, back and forth several times before engulfing him entirely. Only his surprise (and last night's masturbation session, thinking of Olivia) kept him from coming immediately. "Wow," Aaron said. He looked down. He could see nothing of the beautiful girl, only his carmine blanket in a mysterious girl-shaped bulge, covering his crotch and thighs. The blanket hopped up and down over his lap. Aaron's balls buzzed, his cock trembled. He couldn't fight it: he had never felt anything like this, had never imagined it would happen. He reached under the blanket, gripping the demon girl's head. His fingers slid through her hair, which smelled of some magnificent spice like cinnamon, and touched her soft cheeks and the sides of her face. Then suddenly he couldn't hold back: he tensed and came in a sudden gush, gritting his teeth to prevent himself from crying out. Instead he made desperate wheezing noises as the girl sucked him dry, then released his semi-hard cock. Aaron pulled the girl's head to his chest, feeling the echo of his resounding heartbeat, and slowly willed himself to relax. His entire body trembled, from his toes, which would not uncurl, to his hair, which felt like it might be standing on end. He had come before, but never with anyone else, and never like that: something in the girl's movements, her passion, her fear and desperate, had driven Aaron to some incredible new height of passion. He wiped away a tear, hugging the girl, bobbing slightly on the barrier behind him. She was very warm, and she stared at him with gleaming red eyes, her hand resting on his cock. It started to grow hard again. In another second it throbbed in the girl's hand. She regarded Aaron with some surprise. The boy felt elated, merely from that expression: to have surprised a woman with what he could do. Then, suddenly, he knew he had to have her: more than anything, he wanted to sink into that place between a woman's legs he had never even seen before in real life. He wanted to pleasure her, to feel her twitch and spasm underneath him, to explore every inch of her. He reached for the young woman, and she slid toward him. A horn blew, an ugly duck-call sound that nonetheless made the girl flinch and jump halfway up. She squatted over Aaron, and the boy realized that her hot cunt was probably no more than six inches from the tip of his cock. The blanket fell away from her, revealing her completely: her firm breasts, her elegant shoulders, where light gleamed in fascinating ways. Aaron put one hand on either buttock and felt his fingers sink slightly into the flesh of her butt. This was all too much. He was dizzy with lust. "They've found me," the girl said. Her body trembled. With each shiver, Aaron pulled her down closer to his aching cock. "I need to go," she said, frantically. Aaron held her with a strength he did not know he had. Something warm--no, hot--touched the tip of his cock: her pussy lips. "Please," the girl said. "They'll kill me!" Her red eyes were wide with fear. Coming suddenly back to his senses, Aaron let go. The warm spot disappeared from his cock as the alien girl sprang up. "Wait," Aaron said. "Take me with you. Get me out of here!" He stood up, and the blanket hung for a moment on his erect cock, then fell away. "I can't," the girl said. "I'm not from this world." She picked up her golden sword and stepped out of the circle, which she, evidently, could pass, and looked back and forth. "Then at least tell me your name," Aaron said. His cock ached for release. The girl hesitated for a second, then said, "Azha," and disappeared out of Aaron's view. The moment she had left, a menagerie of creatures, some like men, others like dogs, swarmed into the corridor from the other direction. They met another group and a hideous fight began. Aaron watched in morbid fascination as men (or near-enough-to-men) met one-another with spears and axes, denting armor and hacking at exposed limbs, while beasts like war dogs tore at one-another and rolled on the marble floor. They retreated as two more figures appeared. One was Zamphor, the other, an elderly woman Aaron did not recognize. They stared at one-another from behind their armies. "You invite me to parley," the woman said, "and then try to stab me in the back?" Her voice rose to a dangerous shriek. She wore plain black robes and a golden helmet with horns like a ram's, curved back against the sides of her head. "I've told you it was not my work, Viskel," Zamphor said. He looked tired and frightened, though he held a broad-bladed sword and a small mirrored shield. "It was an accident, or perhaps the work of our mutual enemy." "My son no longer concerns himself with us," Viskel said, stepping past her phalanx of armored demons and raising an instrument Aaron did not recognize. Zamphor's demons jumped in front of him, but not fast enough: spokes popped from either side of the instrument and a sharpened tip from the end, and Aaron recognized the thing as a crossbow, covered in intricate filigree work. The bolt fired and Zamphor raised his shield, knocking it aside. The bolt spun end over end, losing momentum in a sort of lazy spin, arcing toward Aaron. The boy easily sidestepped it and it landed without noise on his carmine blanket. All eyes turned to Aaron. He looked back at all eyes, then suddenly realized what had happened, and with a nimble hop, stepped out of the confinement circle. He watched the armored warriors carefully. "Kill it!" Viskel screamed, raising a trembling hand. She recocked her crossbow with a loud thunk and aimed it at Aaron, but by then the boy had darted aside, his heart in his chest, thoughts of Azha gone as he ran away from Viskel's charging minions. Those minions hit Zamphor's with a deafening crash of metal. Aaron winced at the loudness of it all as he sidestepped a spiked flail meant for his head. Its wielder lots his (its?) arm a moment later and fell down with a moan. Aaron ran for a far archway, then skidded to a stop when Zamphor stepped in front of him, clutching a long sword. The thaumaturgist lunged and Aaron sidestepped, almost felt the blade slide across his ribs, then turned and punched Zamphor square in the unarmored face. Aaron was not large, but before he had moved to a quiet suburb he had grown up in one of America's meaner slums. He still remembered how to fight: the punch struck home, flattening the thaumaturgist's nose, and Zamphor fell back like he had been turned to stone. His senseless hand fell across a ward holding a misty, clawed horror that squirmed free and tore the man apart before throwing itself at the other demons. Aaron gasped, looking at the remains of Zamphor. He had seen some mean fights in his time, beatings, stabbings, and a man shot in the stomach, but nothing had held the awesome savagery of the demon's attack. He ran past the gruesome remains, blood pounding in his ears. A crossbow bolt flew past his head, clattered into another cell, and another creature slid free. Aaron did not even look at it: he ran, and kept running when he heard Viskel's bloodcurdling scream. He pushed open an intricate wooden door and nearly ran clear off a third-story balcony, but caught himself in time and sucked in a breath. For the first time he was sure that he was absolutely, positively not on Earth. The wizards, the languages, even the creatures were absurd, but not definitive. But as he looked out on Yothis, he knew Earth was very far away. Parched yellow savanna stretched out to the horizon, where brown mountains rose. A town lay in the shadow of the mountains, a hazing, rippling strip of black, shimmering like a mirage. A broad brown river ran past Zamphor's manse, flanked on either side by bushes and scrub trees. Avians of no type Aaron had ever seen or imagined croaked and screamed near the water, where moving ripples suggested things lurked beneath. Overhead, smaller things took flight, madly flapping lizards that were black against the cloudless blue sky. If Aaron ignored the sky, he could imagine he looked out on Africa or the Outback, in some unstudied part where creatures forgotten by man dwelled. But he could not ignore the sky, which was blue, but no color blue ever seen on Earth, even through all the dawns, dusks, and noons of its long history: a deep, vibrant shade, dignified yet celebratory, touched with cerulean and indigo. Moons hung in the sky, too many to count quickly, most larger than Earth's moon, most white, but some green, some yellow, one vermilion and ice-capped, streaked with black, like Mars' lost brother. Aaron felt as if he could reach out and pluck them from the sky. Another scream disrupted his reverie. He turned to see a warrior in wicker armor marching toward him, an axe raised high. The boy darted past the slow-moving killer, found a central staircase, and jumped down, taking the steps a half-flight at a time until he reached a grand hall lined with statues in many different materials and styles. He scampered past them toward the great double-doors, which hung half-open. He ran outside, down the steps, and stood in the open air for the first time in days. A brilliantly-plumed four-legged bird..."bird"...stood just outside the outer gate. Some peculiar analogy of a bit and bridle hung from its face, but the thing darted away when the boy approached, leaving him on a dusty road just outside the manse. Aaron looked back at it. Zamphor's manse was of baroque and ugly design, like a giant wax candle had been dripped over a cathedral, orange, green, and red. From the balcony where Aaron had stood a figure flew: the wicker-armored figure, whose armor did not save him. The warrior crashed to the ground, a broken spear piercing his chest, and lay still. A silent explosion, like the bursting of the world's biggest bubble, sent scraps of paper hurting from a high window. Aaron did not stay around to watch the carnage. He looked down at his feet, standing on the dirt road, then followed the road up until he saw the dim black outline of a city. High towers reflected the westering sun, which was too white in the middle and too orange around the edges to be Earth's. Naked, alone, with Azha nowhere in sight and Olivia somewhere in the alien world, Aaron walked toward the city on the horizon. *** You can look forward to more exciting adventures on Yothis in "The Moons of Yothis, Part 2: The Hidden Room." 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