Message-ID: <57625asstr$1210853401@assm.asstr-mirror.org> X-Original-To: ckought69@hotmail.com Delivered-To: ckought69@hotmail.com From: Crimson Dragon <dcrimsonp@nym.borked.net> Reply-To: dcrimson@yahoo.com X-Original-Message-ID: <20080514210013.7FE8BE760E@pseudo.borked.net> X-ASSTR-Original-Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 15:00:13 -0600 (MDT) Subject: {ASSM} New: Freefall (MF, cons) {Crimson Dragon} Lines: 708 Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 08:10:01 -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/Year2008/57625> X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation <story-ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Story-Submission: <ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Moderator-ID: newsman, RuiJorge Freefall Synopsis: Kyria tumbles through a damp and dreary night until she meets a Dragon who gives her understanding of the chaos. As usual, the following story may contain scenes of sexuality, nudity, and adult situations. Viewer discretion is advised. Big thanks to Denny, who puts up with my silliness, and proofs the stories so wonderfully, making them the best they can be. And also, of course, thanks to Munk, who reads the stories and supports me, even when she doesn't fully understand my musings. More importantly she puts up with *all* my silliness and has done so forever. Feedback welcome at dcrimson@yahoo.com - Crimson (dcrimson@yahoo.com) http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Crimson_Dragon/www http://members.tripod.com/files/Authors/Dr/wwwagon_Of_Crimson ======================================================================== Freefall ======================================================================== (c) Copyright - April 2008 Crimson Dragon All rights reserved ======================================================================== They had been friends since junior kindergarten, a simple result of parents who had all chosen the same quiet street in a moderately affluent subdivision. Proximity had melted them into one inseparable clique, like three sparrows who believed themselves a flock. Kyria, Heather and Rachel: brunette, blonde and redhead. The three sisters; the three musketeers. "All for one and one for all." And the flock, the sisters, the musketeers would have remained tightly together forever but for two girls and one man. "... and all for two," simply didn't have the same cohesiveness. <---===***===---> Kyria stood trembling, hand raised, blue eyes flashing anger and betrayal in the dim light of the basement. Outside, dirty clouds churned through the sky, a dark cotton ceiling. An apposite heaviness settled over the atmosphere, promising sheets of cold rain. To the west, dry lightning flickered through the overcast, too distant for thunder to reach their ears. Rachel stood beside the dingy old couch where they'd all laughed and played as friends since time began. Her head bowed, her crimson hair shielding her face in shadow, she stood quietly, hands limp beside her. "I'm so sorry, Kyria," Rachel whispered to the floor. Kyria stayed her raised right hand, her entire body shaking, though she didn't know if the trembles were due to adrenaline, anger or the sudden chill that had permeated the cellar where they stood. Heather stood under the closest window, staring at Rachel and Kyria as if in shock, unable to believe that the close-knit friends, the three musketeers, the flock of sparrows might be exploding apart like shards of glass shattered by a hurricane. Muted sunlight shimmered across her blonde tresses, her hands wringing uselessly in front of her. "Kyria ..." Heather said quietly, somewhat surprised at the stability of her voice. "Keep out of this," Kyria said quietly without looking at her. To the best of Heather's knowledge, Kyria had never spoken to any of them with so much of a hint of danger in her voice. With a tiny cry, Heather turned and fled the scene, her feet light on the stairs. After a moment, Kyria heard the front door close quietly and then there were only two of them. Through the entire exchange, Rachel had not raised her face. "I asked you to be my maid of honour," Kyria whispered. Rachel didn't answer verbally, only a slight bob of her downcast head acknowledging Kyria's words. "You said 'yes'," Kyria said. Rachel slowly raised her face, her dark eyes, beneath pools of moisture, fixed on Kyria's face. Tears trickled unchecked down her cheeks. The tears reminded Kyria of times past. Better times. Grade 4. They'd been nine years old, before boyfriends and fiances. The largest betrayal imaginable had been speaking to Alicia, whom everyone but Heather had instinctively hated. Rachel had fallen from the monkey bars, and despite the soft sand cushioning her tumble, she had broken her left wrist. Rachel had cried then as Kyria helped her to the principal's office. Tears like rivers had flowed down a nine year-old freckled face. Tears of pain. Tears like those before her now. It was surprisingly difficult to say the words. Not only because of the profanity, of which Kyria normally avoided, but because of the mentally superimposed image of a friend with a broken wrist, needing support and help. She wondered if Rachel remembered the monkey bars. But she had to say it, profane or not, welcome or not. "You said 'yes', and then you fucked him ..." Kyria's voice broke and she couldn't continue. Her entire body trembled again. Rachel closed her eyes, more tears leaking from beneath her eyelids. "I'm sorry, Ky. So sorry." Then Rachel paused, eyes closed, bracing. "You can hit me if you like," she murmured. Kyria rocked back and forth, wanting nothing more than to swing the stinging slap at Rachel's wet cheek, to make her feel the same pain that she felt, to make her hurt like she hurt. Something. Anything. Slowly, her open hand dropped to her side. Rachel opened her eyes, the dimness in the basement cloying and close. "You didn't hit me ..." "It wouldn't have changed anything," Kyria whispered. Without another word, she turned and approached the stairs, rising through the gloom and walking to the front door. Behind her, she could hear Rachel softly weeping. When Rachel had broken her wrist, Kyria could feel the pain almost as if she'd fallen from the top rungs with the red-haired girl, her bones snapping with the ease of a pencil gripped with too much force. Oddly, Rachel's weeping below made her feel empty. <---===***===---> It was more of a mist than rain; the airborne moisture coated everything it touched. Kyria's blouse, jeans, and runners absorbed the dampness as she turned up a familiar driveway. Without hesitation, she knocked lightly at the bright yellow-painted door. It opened nearly instantaneously, as if Heather had been waiting for her. Kyria stepped inside, out of the drizzle. "Is everything all right?" Heather asked tentatively. Actually, everything was not all right. Her world was curiously empty. She should have been angry. She should have been a screaming mess. She should have slapped Rachel. Instead, she'd come here. "Sorry for being sharp with you earlier," Kyria offered with a thin smile. "Don't worry about it," Heather said. "I understand. Do you want to come in?" Kyria shook her head. Droplets of water fell from her hair. "You still work part time at the pool, right?" Kyria asked softly. "It's closed. Anwar closed up at six." Kyria had no idea what time it was now, but judging by the failing sunlight somewhere above the clouds, it was probably close to eight. "You have a key?" Heather nodded gravely. "Can I borrow it?" Heather cocked her head to the side and cast Kyria an appraising look. "I'll come to the pool with you." Heather began to open the closet to hunt for her coat. Kyria shook her head firmly. "I need to be alone, babe." "What are you going to do?" "Swim. It's a pool." "Kyria ..." Kyria nodded carefully, expecting the answer. Betrayal came in many forms. "I understand," she whispered. Turning, she opened the door and prepared to step out into the rain. A soft hand on her shoulder held her back. "I could lose my job," Heather said softly. "And it's not safe to swim alone. At least let me come along. Make sure you're okay." It was the lifeguard in her. Kyrie understood and didn't really blame Heather. "I need to be alone. Thanks, anyway," Kyria whispered. Immediately upon crossing outside, the moisture coated her face like the tears she had been unable to shed. The air smelled of wet grass. She stepped down the steps slowly. "Ky, wait!" Kyria turned, her face uptilted, the mist billowing. Heather stood in a pale blue wind breaker, shivering. "Heather ..." "I know. I know. You want to be alone." Heather held out her hand and stepped forward. Kyria outstretched her own hand to touch Heather's. With a sigh, Heather dropped a large square key into Kyria's damp palm. An awkward silence stretched. "I didn't know," Heather whispered. But somewhere deep below Heather's eyes was a truth that was not conveyed by her words. Kyria bit gently at her lower lip and said nothing. The silence stretched, again. "Please don't drown," Heather whispered. Silently, Kyria turned away, then began to walk through the rain, the key clutched tightly in her hand. Had their positions been reversed, Kyria wasn't sure that she would have shared the key with Heather. She didn't know how, but she knew with the certainty that the sun would rise tomorrow. As soon as Kyria walked around the bend in the road, Heather would return to Rachel's house. There wasn't much Heather could do, not alone, but it was what they'd always done. There was no sense of betrayal in the knowledge, but rather an odd comfort. Kyria looked back. Heather watched her from the porch with sad eyes, as if aware that the friendship that was, had been inexorably altered by Rachel's admission. Heather waved once and Kyria raised her hand. Then she walked around the bend. The mist closed and the house with the yellow door retreated behind her. <---===***===---> The pool looked different in nighttime. No garish fluorescents, no screaming kids, no exercisers resolutely swimming laps. The cavernous room echoed with the soft squeaking of her rubber soled shoes. The surface of the pool glimmered like a sheet of glass, soft mist rising from its heated surface. To her left, a large plate glass window rose from tiled floor to vaulted ceiling, normally admitting welcome sunlight to the recreational facility. Now, streetlights filtered through the soft mist, glints of light reflecting from the empty lifeguard chairs scattered about the pool. She'd carefully locked the door behind her as she'd entered, ensuring privacy and time to contemplate. With a sigh that echoed through the room, Kyria walked toward the viewing bleachers that were normally used to observe swim competitions, settled onto the lowest bench, and leaned back on her hands. She closed her eyes, her thoughts racing. <---===***===---> She sat there for perhaps an hour, until her buttocks were numb and her wrists ached. Slowly, she stood, stretching. She hadn't thought to bring a swimsuit, hadn't really planned on being here tonight. A movie night with Heather and Rachel was more on the agenda -- at least until Rachel dropped a nuclear bomb on the proceedings. And so she was here. Without a swimsuit, but needing to swim. Without thought or hesitation, Kyria slipped off her blouse, pushed down her jeans and toed off her runners. Panties whispered over her hips, kicked aside; her bra shaken loose carelessly. Her clothing lay about her bare feet in heaps, foothills upon the ceramic plains of the pool deck. There were no lifeguards to chastise her, but she didn't run. She walked carefully through the darkened room to the office where she found a switch above a half cup of stale coffee. Flipping the switch with her finger, she watched as the underwater lights dazzled through the layers of fluid, casting ripples of shadow upon the ceiling high above. She watched the lights for a long time, then stepped back out of the office and completely naked walked carefully to the highest diving board and began to climb. <---===***===---> Kyria stood at the edge of the diving board balanced on her toes, facing the ladder. Twenty meters below her heels, the surface of the water glistened like the surface of a moonlit lake at midnight. Outside, the wind gusted and far away lightning flickered through the clouds. It wasn't quite raining, still a grey twilight mist hanging in the air as if the clouds had descended to kiss the earth foretelling of ill winds. Slowly, Kyria stretched her arms outward, a swan readying for flight. Rachel. She wished for the ease of monkey bars and slides. She wished for the carefree days before boyfriends and fiances and high school. She simply wanted to go back to the way it was. Three sisters. Three musketeers. An inseparable flock of sparrows. Briefly, anger rose in her cheeks. Rachel had slept with him. It filled her with weariness and sadness. It didn't even seem strange to Kyria that she wasn't upset with him. It was over, irretrievably over, and that she could deal with on its own, but her safety net, her world, wasn't there to catch her. Idly, Kyria hoped that the water wasn't as rigid as she feared. Below, the surface glimmered, though Kyria refused to look down. Taking one deep breath, her breasts rising as she lifted her arms, Kyria leapt. <---===***===---> She was not a professional diver, though her body was well shaped for the plunge, lithe and muscular. She tumbled through the air, her ears ringing, her hair free. As if an external force guided her, she tucked, somersaulting and twisting for an invisible audience, until with unerring instinct, she straightened, fingers and toes pointed. Kyria gasped as she transitioned from cool frictionless air to the close embrace of water. An Olympic judge, had one been present, would have judged her favourably. There was no splash as Kyria entered the water. Only a ripple marked her passing. <---===***===---> The underwater world was silent and close. She opened her eyes and blobs of indistinct light floated in the darkness. With powerful strokes she moved under the water, revelling in the silence, the freedom, the hot ache in her chest, deprived of air. Spinning underwater, she felt every molecule of her bare skin kissed by fluid. Weightless, she tumbled like an astronaut in freefall. A smile broke across her face. She never wanted to stroke upwards, to find the air, to find the real world. But to stay meant finding another place, one that she wondered if she wanted. "Please don't drown," Heather had whispered. Kyria hung suspended in the water, only her fingertips flittering. Wisps of her chestnut hair swirled in unseen currents about her shoulders. Her chest felt like it was going to explode, but the pain reminded her that she was alive. It was sensation in a sea of emptiness. Edges of darkness began to intrude upon her vision. The water called to her. Kyria closed her eyes for one last moment, then tilted her face upwards where gravity told her the surface lay. With a strong stroke of her arms and a quick snap of her legs, she propelled herself upwards to the sweet air and salvation. <---===***===---> Kyria transitioned into a rapid front crawl, arms and legs whispering through the water. While it felt distinctly odd to be swimming in the huge pool alone and naked, it also felt natural and soothing. The cadence and effort of the motion forced her mind from Rachel. After six quick laps, she slowed the punishing pace and slid to a stop in the shallow end of the pool. Her breath came in ragged gasps and a cramp gripped her left side under the ribs. Collapsing at the edge of the pool, Kyria lay her head gently upon her crossed arms and hung in the warm water catching her breath. Perhaps it was a tiny sound, perhaps it was a sense of no longer being alone. Kyria slowly raised her face and turned towards the bleachers where a shadow sat crosswise near her scattered clothing. She opened her mouth, expecting Heather to have come to check on her. Except Heather's key was safely in her jeans which lay on the deck out of reach. "You shouldn't be swimming alone," a deep, resonant male voice said. Kyria slipped further under the water until her shoulders were immersed. The man beast? there, seemed non-threatening, but she was alone and naked in the presence of a stranger. "Who are you?" she asked quietly, her voice easily carrying across the empty building. The man beast? rose from the seats and walked into the muted light. Outside a rumble of thunder reached through the glass. He shimmered, perhaps a trick of the underwater lights. He was dressed in a modest bathing suit, the shorts extending almost to his knees. For some reason, Kyria would have been more disturbed if the man had been wearing a Speedo. Physically, he wasn't particularly imposing, tall and dark but with a strange feminine grace. As he moved, his skin shimmered again, coppery like scales, then back to pale Caucasian skin tones. "Who are you?" she repeated again. Slowly, she moved away from the edge of the pool. She wasn't nervous or concerned about this man's presence, other than she was without clothing and a little self-conscious. He didn't seem threatening or have any interest in ogling her. Nevertheless, prudence didn't seem out of line. "Does it matter who I am?" he said. As Kyria moved deeper into the pool until she could stand without directly revealing her bare chest, he moved forward to sit where she had recently rested her head. Her heart banged in her chest. "Did Heather send you? I told her I wanted to be alone ..." The man smiled gently and shook his head. "I am here because you need me, I suppose." "Need you?" The man sighed and, when he did so, his skin shimmered again. For a moment, Kyria was sure she'd seen a dragon where the man sat, legs immersed in the pool. Then the vision faded. "I am known by various names," the creature said quietly. "Most common is 'Dragon' or 'Ancient One', but I'll answer to nearly anything." He paused, staring up at the ceiling. "Perhaps, Ladon." Kyria carefully stepped away from the shallow end, lightly treading water. Curiously, it was not to increase the physical distance between them, but because she wanted to feel the water again slipping past her bare skin as her limbs moved. After he'd watched her tread water for a minute, he stroked his face with one long fingered hand. "If you'd prefer to be alone, I can go," he whispered. Mist rose steadily from the surface of the pool as ripples radiated from her small movements. She believed him. If she asked him to go, he would. Perhaps he'd walk away, or perhaps he would enter a portal to another world and stride through. Either way, he'd leave her alone if she asked. Her left hand broke through the surface of the water. She bent her index finger and beckoned Ladon. <---===***===---> When he touched her hand, a tingle ran down Kyria's arm and across her chest. Visions of fortresses and muskets and knights flitted across her vision. Images of Rachel, fucking him, in his bed that Kyria had shared. A still portrait of a nine-year-old Kyria supporting Rachel as they climbed the small hill on their way to the principal's office, Heather trailing worried behind them. The man treading water easily in front of her shimmered again, suddenly copper beast, then a pale woman, voluptuous, nude and virginal. Then Ladon again, masculine and close. Kyria, unafraid, wasn't certain which form was the true form of the creature, but it somehow didn't seem important. Together, they swam casting shimmering shadows above them. Outside, the skies opened and rain slashed across the earth. <---===***===---> His lips first met hers underwater. A protest died on her lips as she comprehended that she was no longer engaged. Rachel had fucked him and there was no denying that. She said it was only once. Only once. But it didn't matter. Ladon seemed to be able to hold his breath forever. Her lungs wanted to explode, but still she kissed him, arms encircling the dragon fiercely. Her bare breasts pressed nearly painfully against his solid chest. And then her lungs screamed. She released him and rose. <---===***===---> The swimming trunks were probably at the bottom of the pool. Kyria recalled pushing at the waistband of the trunks, and suddenly they were no longer there. Beneath the trunks, he was not massively endowed as one might expect from an ancient one. Instead, he was perhaps slightly larger than average, slightly larger than the organ with which Rachel and Kyria had been intimately familiar. Kyria's fingers wandered over her partner, and for a moment, even while her eyes were closed, her fingers seemed to part labia, stroking a girl's body instead of the stiff shaft she was expecting. As she opened her eyes in confusion, the creature smiled and her fingers again wandered the length of a satisfyingly aroused very human penis. Languidly, she guided them to the shallows, where she could more easily adjust her position. With ease, she slipped over him, the water acting as an unnecessary lubricant. As they rocked together, the fluid provided a curious, but not unpleasant sensation, a warm waterfall between her thighs. Ladon was slow, never allowing her to hurry, and Kyria relished every touch of his fingers, his body. His fingertips entwined into her wet hair, pulling at the edge of pain against her scalp. Outside, the storm intensified as the moment of their climax approached until with a final flash of light and simultaneous thunder, they both found satisfaction, Kyria with a muted echoing scream. <---===***===---> The cold tile pressed into her shoulder blades and hips. The underwater lights danced across the ceiling like aurora borealis. Beside her, Ladon stirred, his hand entwined in hers. As the water evaporated from her skin, she shivered slightly, nearly wishing for her clothing, mere steps from where she lay. The second time was perhaps better than the first. At least her climax had been stronger; she'd bit her own arm to stifle the cries, her own teeth marks embedded in her bicep. Her knees carried the ridges of the deck tiles. She didn't care. The emptiness was fading. As she stared at the lights above her, wetness, neither from her hair nor the pool, trickled unchecked down her cheeks. Though she wept silently, the dragon gathered her into his arms and held her. <---===***===---> Gradually, the shaking subsided and Kyria sat up. His arms released her. "Did Heather send you?" He shook his head and again she believed him. This entire night had been strange, but in some sort of prescience, Kyria knew that in a strange way, it was Rachel who had sent this enigmatic saviour. Not consciously, but as part of the events that had led to this moment where she sat sated, naked and unabashed in front of this stranger on a stormy night in a closed pool where mothers and daughters normally held swim classes and olympians trained. "Why are you here, then?" The creature cleared his throat, and the sound was deep and somehow feminine. "You can do better than him." Kyria nodded. She no longer had a fiance. Probably hadn't for a while. It was strange that she felt little for that. "She is genuinely sorry," he whispered. Kyria shook her head, anger welling up in her. The creature reached forward to stroke her cheek and the anger subsided a little. "We all make mistakes." "That's quite a fucking mistake," Kyria said. It didn't occur to her to wonder how this creature knew about Rachel and what she'd done. "She didn't intend to hurt you," the dragon continued quietly. "You know that." "She did. Hurt me. How couldn't she?" The man sighed, his fingers wandering unopposed across Kyria's still damp breasts. Kyria shivered. "Maybe you should have slapped her." Kyria snapped her head up, trying to ignore the fingertip brushing at her nipple. "Think about why you didn't," he continued. After a moment, he continued, his voice barely above a whisper. "She gave you something tonight, beyond the pain, if only you can see it." With that, he pushed himself to his feet. "Will I ever see you again?" Kyria asked. The creature shrugged as if to say that the fate of the universe remains undecided. As the man walked towards the bleachers, he shimmered, passing through the scales of a scarlet dragon finally settling upon a naked nymph, her hair flaming to rival Rachel's, walking barefoot upon the tile. Kyria's desire was not lessened by the shifts, her eyes tracking the entity. "And that dive," the girl said with a quick smile, "that dive was worth a slate of tens ..." Kyria blinked and when her eyes reopened, the girl was gone, disappeared into the air like a ghost. Outside the wind began to decrease, the slashing rain returning to soft mist. Kyria sat cross-legged on the tiles watching ripples fade until the surface of the pool settled again into a sheet of glass. <---===***===---> She dressed slowly, her clothing still damp from the earlier mist clinging wetly to her skin. Not bothering with her bra or panties, she slipped her feet into her runners. Squeaking across the deck, she entered the office and snapped the underwater lights off. Hanging on the doorknob of the exterior door, a pair of swimming trunks hung dripping. Smiling, Kyria picked them up and slipped out into the darkness, carefully locking the door. <---===***===---> The heavy mist clung to her clothing and her hair, but it was warm and comforting. Crickets chirped as she walked through the night. The sweet smell of rain carried across the silent streets. If she ignored the streetlights, it would be easy to imagine that she was the last girl walking on the earth. She was not wearing a watch tonight, but she imagined it must be three or four in the morning. High above, the clouds broke apart, stars and the moon briefly visible. She glanced up as a crimson winged shape shimmered across the lunar disc. She blinked and it was gone, perhaps a trick of the light. The emptiness had fled and the pain flooded in. Tears stung at her eyes, but did not fall. As she walked alone, she nearly wished for the emptiness. Thinking back to what the dragon had said, be it a dream or otherwise, she continued to walk. She knew what she had to do and her feet carried her towards her destination. <---===***===---> She stood at the door and stared at it, conflicted and unsure. Then she raised her hand and knocked. Inside the house, she heard cautious footsteps. The doorway creaked open and a sleepy, tear-streaked face appeared framed in familiar red hair. Rachel's eyes widened slightly. In the background, Kyria could see Heather groggy, leaning against the doorway. Her face didn't seem immune to the tracks of tears. "Kyria, I'm so sorry," Rachel whispered. "I know, Rachel, I know." The sparrows, the sisters, the three musketeers would probably never be quite the same again, but Kyria closed her eyes and stepped into Rachel's house and out of the mist. ======================================================================== This is an original work of fiction copyrighted by the author, Crimson Dragon. 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