Of Love and Duty
-by: the Yarnspinner-
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A Sekkushiaru Roman
featuring characters from the anime "Sailor Moon"> Chapter 9 - Thunder's Crash <
Makoto and Shinozaki emerged from the dining room, where they had enjoyed a late lunch. Serenity was standing outside.
"Good afternoon, Makoto. Lord Shinozaki," Serenity said, smiling. "I trust you've had a pleasant morning."
"Very pleasant," Makoto said with a nod.
"Yes, indeed," Shinozaki agreed. "Thank you, your highness, for asking me to come here."
"You're quite welcome. I thought Makoto would be happy to see you," Serenity said. "And please, there's no need for the title here."
Shinozaki nodded, while Makoto stepped closer to Serenity.
"So now you're playing matchmaker?" Makoto asked in a whisper.
"Me?" Serenity asked, feigning ignorance. "I'm just concerned for the well-being of the members of my court."
Just then, a loud thunderclap burst overhead, being clearly heard and even felt through the thick walls of the palace. Serenity flinched involuntarily, her smile fading for an instant. Makoto grinned.
"I think that's a sign," Makoto said. "We'll see you later, Serenity." She and Shinozaki headed toward the stairs.
"Have fun, you two," Serenity said.
"Oh, I'm sure we will," Shinozaki said with a grin.
"And I'm sure you and Endymion are having fun, too," Makoto said pointedly.
Serenity smiled. "But of course," she said.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Back in Makoto's chambers, he took her in his arms and kissed her deeply, even as another burst of thunder clapped loudly outside and rain beat heavily against the window.
"Somebody's in a good mood," she said, when their lips separated.
"A certain beautiful young woman seems to have that effect on me," he said softly, while leaning close and kissing the side of her neck.
His lips pressed into her earlobe, making a soft sucking sound. She sighed with passion as a gentle tremor ran through her, and a warm wetness swelled within her. His hands unfastened the clasps on the back of her dress and began sliding it down. She helped him work it down and off, then kicked off her shoes.
"You're having quite an effect on me too," she said.
She started pulling up on his shirt, freeing it from his pants, then unfastened his pants and slid them down. As he crouched down to slip off his shoes, she grabbed his shirt and pulled it off.
"A bit impatient, aren't we?" he quipped.
"Umm-Hmmm. I know what I'm getting... and I like it," she said.
With his shoes off, he pulled off his pants. She immediately grasped his underpants, sliding them down. His aroused manhood bulged in front of her. She leaned forward, taking it in her hands, and kissed his tip. He groaned with passion.
His swollen member quivered in her hands and against her tongue. She licked him repeatedly, feeling passion rising within herself. Opening her mouth, she rubbed her lips over his tip, feeling him tremble in response, and hearing him groan. With one hand, she stroked his length, while continuing to press her lips around his tip, and gently sucking at him.
"Oh, gods!" he gasped.
He felt his entire body on fire as she licked and sucked him so intensely, driving him absolutely crazy. The tremors sweeping his body grew ever more intense, finally culminating in a sharp spasm.
She pulled back just as he peaked, her fingers feeling the climactic surge of his member.
"Makoto," he groaned, his legs now feeling decidedly rubbery.
"Shinozaki," she sighed, standing up and embracing him.
Together, they slipped off her undergarments, leaving them both completely naked. She then moved him to her bed. She lay down and he moved in above her, kissing her deeply.
He kissed her once more, then moved down and took her swollen nipple in his mouth, suckling it passionately.
"Oh, yes," she moaned.
He moved over to kiss her other breast, rasping his tongue over her nipple. Feeling her respond beneath him, and her hands sweep over his back, he opened his mouth wide and pressed his lips hungrily to the flesh of her breast, sucking it fiercely. She gasped softly. His hand slid down over her pubic mound, his fingers caressing her opening before sliding into her.
"Oh, yes," she groaned.
She could feel his fingers thrusting deep into her, stroking over her inner ring of muscles, even as his continued suckling of her breast flooded her with intense pleasure. His fingertip brushed over her jewel, sending an sharp burst of ecstasy tearing through her.
He grinned as he took a breath, thrusting his fingers deep into her opening once more and feeling her body shake in response. Her soft cries spoke of her pleasure. He swept his tongue over her nipple repeatedly, before once more mashing his lips around the aroused bud and sucking it intensely.
"Oh, gods!" she gasped, her entire body on fire.
His fingers were now focusing solely on her jewel, sweeping her ever higher, even as waves of pleasure came from her breasts. He moved back to the first breast, suckling it just as hungrily. She gasped in ecstasy as her whole body shook uncontrollably.
"Oh, gods!... Oh, yes!... Oh, yes!... Oh!... Oh!... So good!... OOOHHHH, YYYEEESSS!!" she cried, as she soared to orgasm.
He sat up, the happiness and pleasure she was experiencing filling him with a tremendous warmth. His hand withdrew from between her legs and slid up over the flesh of her abdomen, leaving a faint trace of her fluid as it went. Even as he bent down once more to kiss her, he could feel his manhood swelling to full erection again.
"I love you," he whispered.
"I can't believe I didn't see it sooner," she replied breathlessly. "But I love you more than anything."
He took her mouth with his own, their tongues dancing together passionately and hungrily. With a gasp for breath, he looked down into her eyes, the love and passion he saw there taking his breath away. As his own longing overwhelmed him, he moved between her spread legs.
She tightened her embrace as his body pressed over hers. The tip of his beautifully engorged member brushed against her nether lips, swollen and sensitive with her own arousal. She moaned softly as his tip spread her lips open and began to slide inside. For a moment, he held himself there, rocking himself slowly back and forth as the sensations were driving her crazy. As her arms pulled on him and she cried softly with desperate need, he suddenly plunged himself forward, his warm, bulging mass spreading her channel wide as he buried himself to the hilt within her.
"Ooohhh, yes," she gasped in delight, even as the sensation left her breathless.
He kissed her lips before rocking back to thrust into her again. Their bodies quickly fell into unison, with a slow, steady pace, driving his member in and out, in and out.
She held him tightly in her embrace, both within and without, warmed with an overwhelming joy to be made one with her soul mate. As his shaft thrust deep within her once more, she gasped softly with delight.
"Oh, my love," she whispered. "It's so nice."
He just nodded, continuing to push himself forward, then pulling back to push forward yet again. Each time, as his member slid past her tightly embracing inner muscles, powerful sensations of pleasure swept through him. He kissed her once more, the physical pleasure of joining himself to her exceeded only by the strength of his love for this woman.
A thunderclap rattled the palace, and Makoto could feel her natural element adding its own power to her. Energy seemed to swell within her even as his throbbing shaft plunged in and out, in and out. Their lips came together briefly. She gasped for breath as she soared ever higher into realms of exquisite pleasure.
Her hands swept across his back. He shifted position slightly with his next thrust, plunging deep into her.
"Oh, yes!" she cried, flooded with still more intense waves of ecstasy. "Oh, gods!... Oh, yes!... So good... Oh!... Oh!... Yes!... Oh!"
He groaned with delight as he drove himself into her once more, feeling her entire body spasm sharply.
"OOOHHH, YES!!" she cried, being swept into orgasm.
"Oh, Makoto," he sighed, holding himself in place as her body clamped down on him.
They kissed softly, their tongues brushing together, when she lifted her hips beneath him. He promptly thrust forward, once again burying his full length inside her.
"Oh, nice," she groaned.
Her inner muscles continued to tightly grasp him as he slid back down. Immediately, his shaft pushed into her once more, flooding her with ecstasy. His throbbing mass, moving deep inside her, brought her quickly back to full boil as the fires of passion blazed ever brighter. Outside, another thunderclap boomed, its energy seeming to add to her own, carrying her still higher.
He could feel the energy swelling within her, even as his own passion increasingly swept him away. Groaning and gasping for breath, he pushed himself harder and faster, their conjoined bodies maintaining perfect unison.
"Oh, gods," he groaned.
"Oh, yes!... So good!" she gasped.
He smiled down at her, his heart warmed by the knowledge of the pleasure he was sharing with her. With each motion, he clung to her, striving to hold himself deep within her warm, loving embrace.
She smiled back at him, feeling the love in her heart overwhelming even the passion that was consuming the rest of her body. Her own grasp of him tightened still more as she reveled in being conjoined with him. Their thrusts plunged his member deep into her womanhood, sending intense waves of pleasure tearing through her.
"Oh, yes!... Oh, yes!... Oh, gods!... Oh!... Oh!" she cried, as their spasms grew still stronger.
"Makoto!" he gasped, his body thrusting deep into her in the throes of climactic spasm, then quivering.
She cried out wordlessly in orgasm, only vaguely aware of him pouring himself into her, while her body locked up in a powerful spasm, flooding her with raw ecstasy.
They clung to each other as their spasms faded, before finally going limp, laying together and catching their breath.
"That was wonderful," she sighed.
"I quite agree," he said softly.
After several minutes, he carefully slipped himself out of her, and they snuggled together, quietly dozing off.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Nearly an hour later, she slipped out of bed and walked to the window.
"Still storming?" he asked, able to hear the sound of the rain.
"Yes," she answered, staring out absently.
He stood up, pulling on a robe, then moved up behind her and slipped her robe over her shoulders. A bright flash of lightning lit up the sky. She flinched.
"Is something wrong?" he asked.
She continued to stare out the window. "I'm not sure," she finally said. "But something about this storm doesn't feel right."
"In what way?"
"I don't know yet," she answered. "But the energy out there just feels... wrong somehow."
"Well, you're our expert on lightning. Is this something you should take a closer look at?" he asked.
She nodded. "I think so."
She stepped away from him, and energy swirled around her body, melting away her robe and clothing her in the uniform of Sailor Jupiter. He quickly began pulling on his own clothes.
"Where do you think you're going?" she asked.
"You don't think I'm letting you go out there alone, do you?" he countered.
"This storm is far more dangerous to you than it is to me," she reminded him.
"I'll be careful," he said. "But I'm not going to just sit by while the woman I love goes walking out into something potentially dangerous."
"You're sweet," she said with a grin. "But I think you're making a bad decision."- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Makoto and Shinozaki hurried down the stairs and headed for the command room. The guards stopped them, but Kunzite and Nephrite promptly emerged.
"Good afternoon, your highness. Lord Shinozaki," Kunzite greeted them with a slight bow.
"Lord Kunzite, I've sensed something... strange about this storm," Makoto said. "I was planning to go out to investigate further, but I first wanted to inquire if your people have also found anything."
Nephrite glanced at Kunzite. "I believe I can answer that, your highness," he said. "We've detected a strange magic that has been growing in the storm. It is definitely not a natural occurrence. We believe that is why it has lasted this long."
"In fact, Nephrite was about to begin an investigation of his own," Kunzite added.
Nephrite nodded. "I would, of course, welcome your assistance."
"My pleasure, Lord Nephrite," she replied. "And I would feel better to have some assistance as well."
Nephrite again nodded his head in understanding.
"Excellent," said Kunzite. "I will leave you to get started." He bowed again, then returned to the command room.
"I want to draw in one of those lightning bolts to determine what sort of energy is in it," she said to Nephrite.
"I was thinking much the same," Nephrite said. "But I recommend moving up the mountain to do it. Bringing a lightning bolt down in the vicinity of the palace would not be safe."
"I agree," she said.
"Then let us be on our way," Nephrite suggested, motioning toward the side hallway.
The hall brought them to a side door of the palace. They each donned rain gear and headed outside. The winded whipped at them fiercely.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
As the glow of the teleportation field faded, they found themselves standing on a plateau, partway up the mountain. Below, they could see the lights of palace complex. Another burst of lightning flashed overhead, followed almost immediately by a deafening crash of thunder.
"The storm seems to be growing stronger," Nephrite said, nearly shouting to be heard over the noise of the wind and rain. "We'd better hurry this along, before someone gets hurt."
Makoto nodded, already opening her senses to the energy at work in the storm.
Meanwhile, Nephrite was unpacking his equipment.
"How can I help?" Shinozaki asked.
Nephrite handed him two long shafts of white crystal, each with a metal tip. "Place these over there by the edge, at least twenty yards apart," he said. "And be quick about it! These things are designed to attract lightning bolts."
Shinozaki nodded, understanding fully Nephrite's warning. A lighting burst flashed perhaps a mile away. As it faded, he jumped to his feet and sprinted for the edge of the plateau. Slowing down as he approached the edge, he jammed the first shaft into the ground, pausing to make certain it would remain upright. He then raced along the edge. Looking back to recheck the distance from the first, he planted the second shaft, then hurried toward the cover of the trees.
Nephrite had already set up two more shafts, and was just placing a third. He joined Shinozaki in the trees, and pulled out a flat piece of crystal that glowed faintly with energy readings.
"There's definitely magic being added to this storm," Nephrite said, examining the readings.
Makoto raised her hands over her head and her body glowed. The air around them crackled.
"Get down!" Shinozaki yelled at Nephrite, as he dove behind a rock.
Immediately, a massive bolt of lightning struck Makoto, accompanied by a blast of thunder that seemed to be a physical force. Her body tingled with energy, and she could clearly sense the presence of a dark magic. As more energy gathered overhead, she had an idea. Her body glowed still more intensely, and she felt an arc beginning to form. As soon as it did, her own energy streamed back up the arc, drawing with it some of the Earth's own natural energy. A blinding flash of light filled the sky, with a deafening explosion that seemed to shake the entire mountain. She could not see, but could still sense, innumerable smaller lightning bolts radiating out across the storm system and beginning to break up the magic at work in the storm.
Nephrite raised his head, finding his ears ringing loudly and struggling to focus his eyes after the intense flash. His equipment now gave no readings. Sitting up, he could make out one of his sensor shafts now thrown over on its side, and he could only assume the others were in the same condition.
"Are you alright?" Shinozaki asked him in a loud yell.
Nephrite pointed to his ears. "My ears are ringing like crazy," he yelled back.
Shinozaki nodded his understanding, then turned and looked toward Makoto, who was still standing out in the clearing, her body aglow with energy. As the glow finally faded away, she turned and walked toward them.
"How are you?" Shinozaki asked.
She nodded her head. "I'm doing fine. And I think we broke up most of the magic that was in the storm."
"That is good news," he said.
Nephrite joined them. "I think we should get back. We've done everything we can do here."
"I agree," she said. "Now you'll just have to see if you can figure out where the magic came from."
"We already have people working on that," he said.
They gathered together and were quickly enveloped in the teleportation field.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Serenity and Endymion met Makoto and Shinozaki after they had been checked over by one of the healers.
"That was good work," Endymion said. "I'm told this storm could have caused extensive damage if it had continued to develop and strengthen like that."
Serenity nodded. "It was a good job by both of you."
"Makoto deserves most of the credit," Shinozaki said. "I just helped Nephrite set up his equipment."
"Well, I'm just glad I could help," Makoto said softly. "But right now, I think I could do with some rest."
"I understand," Serenity said. "Both of you go get some rest. We can talk more about this later."
Makoto simply nodded her head in thanks, while she and Shinozaki walked toward the stairs.
Back in Makoto's chambers, energy washed over her, causing her uniform to fade away and restoring the robe she had been wearing. She quickly dropped the robe to the floor, and climbed into bed.
"I just feel exhausted," she sighed.
He peeled off his own clothes, which were soaked through despite the rain gear. After retrieving a towel from the bathroom and drying himself off, he climbed into bed beside her.
"I love you so much," he said softly.
"I love you," she whispered, snuggling next him.
His arm settled protectively across her as she drifted off to sleep. Holding her there, he felt a happy warmth spreading through him. He brushed a finger softly through her hair, then let his own eyes drift closed. His best friend was now his lover and soul mate. Truly, this had been simply a perfect day.< To be continued >
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