Winds Of Change Chapter 25 part 1
Title: Winds of Change (25/?)
Chapter 25
Pairing: Jane/Maura
Rating: M
Disclaimer: I don’t own Jane or Maura or their counterparts from the TV show or books…I only wish. I am going to be adding a few of my own characters however.
Summary: It is the second day of the tournament at Elfwood. How will Jane do and will Maura get a chance to use her healing gifts more? Again italics denotes mind speaking in body of story.
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Previously… While security was paying attention to the father, the son leaped onto the platform to charge the King while she held her Queen, but the Royal bodyguards instantly closed ranks. Furthermore the young warrior was taken down by four bright purple birds. One charged his face, one his chest while the other two hit him in the back of his knee bends. The young jackal was toppled from the platform in a roar of laughter to land beside his shamed father. Both warriors now suspended from the tournament.
Jane kissed her lovely wife once more. “Are you ready to take me home now? I have lots of placed for you to kiss and make better.” She forgot about the fact the crowd could hear her while still on the platform and wild cheers, whistled, and many ribald comments flew around the field. The King was too tired to blush and only smiled and shrugged her shoulders in apology to her wife.
“Let’s get you home and I will take VERY good care of you!” Maura smiled as the stands and the field erupted even more. It was a highly charged night and Jane took in that energy and jumped off the battle platform with her wife still in her arms. The crowd parted like the Red Sea as the victorious King carried her Queen away.
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CHAPTER 25
King Raven carried her wife all the way back to their room. They were both happy to see food had already been delivered and sat on the table in covered dishes.
“Let’s eat first and then I want you to soak in a tub for a while.” Maura said as Jane sat her down on the bathroom rug.
“Sounds wonderful to me. I’m starved. However, I need to clean up a bit.”
The smaller woman took a moment to look over her warrior from head to toe. Jane looked sexy as hell. Her skin was slightly glistening from sweat, she was smudged with dirt, blood, and bruises, and a few strands of hair had escaped her loosening braid. Her muscles stood out from her day of exertion. Added together she made a very hot picture of a conquering hero.
Jane’s mouth kicked up into a smirk as she saw the lust filled gaze of her wife. “I will gladly take you up on that look after we eat. I need to build up some energy to love you properly.” She pulled her wife to her taking her soft mouth in an unyielding kiss. She never hid anything from Maura in a kiss, always putting all she was feeling into it and the mental bond they shared.
After pulling apart the two quickly washed-up and dug into the large meat that had been delivered. Jane almost felt ravenous after her long day. A Lycan body needed more fuel than a humans, especially a highly powerful one who had expended great amounts of energy for many hours.
Maura watched amazed as her wife put away nine tenths of the large meal that had been prepared. The smaller woman wondered if she herself would eat that way when she expended a lot of energy. “Remember don’t overstuff yourself.”
Jane smiled as she used the last piece of some kind of dark grained bread to clean up the last of the sauces on her plate. “I will stop now the foods gone, but I feel like I could eat more. However, I will let my stomach settle first before I decide if I need to call down to the kitchens for more. I don’t think I have ever eaten so much in one sitting in my life.”
“I don’t think I have ever seen anyone not in an eating contest eat so much at once either. I think letting your food settle is a good idea. I am going to get a hot bath running and help you out of your warrior gear then I want you to take a quick shower to scrub off before you soak in the tub.”
“Are you going to soak with me?”
“Maybe.” Maura quickly kissed her wife before heading to the bathing chamber. “Set all of those empty dishes back on the trays and put them in the hall please.” She tossed over her shoulder as she walked away.
Grinning the dark haired woman did as she was told. I am so whipped she thought to herself once again, but was too happy to really care. She also knew when they stepped out the door of their private lives Maura took a step back and deferred to Jane in most things when it came to their roles in Undrehiel Society. They balanced each other well.
Opening the doors to put the trays in the hall she found Ethan and Jeremy standing there along with two of the Royal bodyguards, Evie and Alexi.
“We will take those trays Laird Raven.” Jeremy stepped forward to take the first one. Jane stepped back into her room for the second one handing it to Ethan. “We will return for your weapons and fighting gear and have it ready for you in your tent in the morning. Mistress Evie already has your sword for you. Ethan helped me clean and polish it up real good for you.” The boy was taking his role as Page to his friend and King very seriously and Jane was proud of him.
“Thank you Jeremy. You did a good job today. I am proud to have such a fine Page. Maura will bring you my things shortly to take back to camp to take care for me. However, I don’t want you staying up too late and you better find yourself a good meal soon too. Now get that to the kitchens and when you see your sister tell her that I am proud of her as well. She did well taking care of my wife today and I thank her for it.”
The boy grinned hugely before nodding and heading off with Ethan to the kitchens. The three women chuckled as the boy proudly walked off with the food tray.
Jane nodded to her friends and bodyguards. “Goodnight, ladies.” She said as she took her sword from Evie.
“Goodnight Laird.” The women spoke in unison.
Making her way into the bathroom she sat on a stool by the vanity and began working on her boots. “Honey, do we have a basket or sack I can put my gear in to make it easier for Jeremy to carry out to our tent?”
Drying her hands. Maura thought. “I believe I saw a laundry sack in the towel cupboard.” She moved to it to look inside. “Yes, here it is.” She pulled out a tan drawstring cloth sack about the size of a king size pillow case.
“That will work.” As Jane finished removing one boot her wife moved to help her with her other one. They worked together removing all of her gear.
Maura paused to examine the marks on her warrior’s wrist gauntlets.
“Don’t worry sweetheart, they did their job. I will get better the more I train and I won’t receive quit so many bruises and scrapes.”
“Some of these injuries were more than scrapes.” The doctor ran her finger along a faint red line of a partially healed blade cut.
“Yes, but they were all shallow and none were of a serious nature. I will always do my best to come back to you safe and sound.” She kissed her lovely and caring wife. “Now I will scrub up real quick and we can soak together. You can join me in the shower too. I’ll scrub your back if you will scrub mine.” Jane wiggled her eyebrows suggestively at her wife.
Maura slapped her flirting mate on the ass. “Get in there and clean up while I give Jeremy this sack and your double sword rig.”
Laughing Jane hopped in the shower and was soon followed by her wife who did help her scrub her back.
Maura made sure she climbed into the tub first. Jane settled back against her with a sigh. They simply sat in comfortable silence for a while, the spell on the tub keeping the water from cooling. Maura began by kissing Jane’s neck then her marked shoulder while her hands began caressing her heavenly body settling on firm yet soft breasts. She smiled when her love groaned and pressed closer enjoying the way the soak was now going.
When Jane had shifted just right for Maura to reach her warrior’s center she delved in causing her wife to raise her hips into the contact. “Lay still Jane or I will stop. Keep your arms and hands on the sides of the tub. There will be no more exertion from you until you face opponents again tomorrow.” Maura’s voice was husky and firm and sent extra wetness into the hand between Jane’s legs. The smaller woman grinned at how her strong wife responded when she got forceful with her.
Maura kept one hand fondling erect nipples and swollen breasts while the other stroked her wife’s full core. The fight to stay still only heightened Jane’s arousal. The smaller woman felt the body against her tensing in impending climax.
Jane gave her body to her wife to pleasure, relaxing as much as she could into the delightful sensations coursing through her and soon found herself washed with pleasure as she cried her wife’s name to the heavens. Maura slowly continued caressing Jane until she fell limply against her wonderful mate. “I love you so much Maura. You may be the Queen of Lycans, but you are the Queen of my heart for all time.”
Wrapping her arms around her soulmate Maura smiled. “I love you too sweetheart for all eternity.”
They sat this way for long moments before Jane moved and used her strength and long arms to lift her small wife over her and sat her angel straddling her middle feeling Maura’s wet sex hot against her stomach. She brought their mouths together in a passionate kiss before moving down to devour full plump breasts. Maura was clutching her strong shoulders and the back of her head as Jane devoured the delicious mounds.
“Oh God you feel good, but you’re not supposed to overdo.” Maura panted.
“I’m not.” Jane leaned away as she felt Maura beginning to rub her fiery core against her tight stomach. The dark warrior slid one hand to her lover’s hip and the other between her wife’s juicy folds to slide two long fingers deep into scorching heat. Maura groaned, her hips bucking. “Look at me Maura.” The warrior commanded. Her mate complied, her eyes full of pleasure. “Keep looking at me. I want your hands to pleasure those lovely breasts of yours while you ride my fingers. I won’t overdo. I’m going to relax and watch you ride to the peak in my hand.” She smiled bigger as her fingers and hand were coated even more. “Don’t worry about falling, I’ve got you. I want you to simply enjoy and let go for me.”
The fair haired woman was not shy with her mate and began riding long strong fingers and pleasuring her breasts all the while watching the lust and pleasure in her wife’s eyes grow. That look only turned Maura on more. She wished Jane would bring her thumb up to her aching clit.
As if reading her mind Jane reached up taking Maura’s right hand guiding it down to that aching button. “I want to hear you come for me.”
Maura moaned louder as her fingers circled her throbbing clit and Jane slid another finger inside Maura as she lifted and lowered herself her thrusts growing more forceful as she neared completion.
Jane thought Maura was the hottest thing she had ever seen and had an idea about how to get rid of the last of the energy ball that was stored within. She knew she had to let it go before she could rest. The Laird felt how close Maura was as the thrusts became more erratic as she neared the peak. When Maura cried her name in completion Jane released that energy down through her hand as she sat up clutching her love close to her. Her thumb coming up to make contact with a very sensitive clit as the energy escaped her hand in wonderful pulsing waves that threw Maura into a spasm of repeating orgasms until she fell completely limp against her King. She actually passed out from the pleasure of what Jane had done to her.
The dark haired beauty simply caressed her wife for long moments before rinsing them both off and climbing out of the tub with her spent wife. Her own energy flagging greatly after that. She dried them both off and let the water out of the tub before releasing Maura’s hair from its bindings. Jane through back the covers laying Maura down first before following close behind. She would forgo the massage for tonight. A quick shift to wolf and back in the morning would take care of any lingering effects.
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Jane did not see Maura that night before she joined Lord Fenrir and other heavenly fighters in the arena. They didn’t work with her on her strength of will. That was something they all knew she would have no problem with the following day. They did work a little with her on the physical strength part and how to use her force of will to increase that as well. It was similar to creating an energy ball inside herself, she would use her force of will to reinforce her muscles and bones and increase her physical strength. Jane wished she had known how to do it when she had taken on that ogre when they first arrived in Undrehiel. After that they dropped her into an obstacle course type scenario where she had to work her way through. They also worked with her in fighting against many opponents. Apparently she would be facing that a little during the obstacle course. Lord Fenrir privately worked with Jane on how to shift without having to get totally naked. If she was wearing all natural fibers and no additional metal besides her wedding ring and royal band she could use her magic while she shifted to hold her clothing in flux while she was in animal form. He also gave her a crash course on how to fight as a wolf and how to fight in her wolfwoman form. She could fight hand to hand with her claws and teeth in this form as well as with weapons.
“I didn’t think there was any shifting in this competition because there were no events strictly for Lycans.”
“There’s not, but I feel that you may need these skills soon and you could use at least a little training before you went into a fight in those forms. Mostly go with your instinct and work with your wolf and you will be alright.”
“Now since you have shifted her so much you will not have to worry about shifting when you wake to take care of any remaining injuries or soreness. You will appear at the competition field as fresh as you did the previous morning. Again I congratulate you on doing so well on your first tests as a warrior and I wish you luck on you next ones. I know you will do well. You are waking up now so I will say my goodbyes. We will all be watching, so do us proud.”
“I’ll do my best.” Jane came back to her body and smiled down at the smaller woman who was wrapped around her like a boa constrictor. She was going to have to start calling her wife ginger since the hair on her head was starting to match the ginger patch that grew in her mate’s most intimate area.
It took some doing, but she managed to slip out of bed without waking her wife. Jane freshened up in the bathroom before putting on a pair of shorts and a compression top and do her morning warm-up routine like she did the day before.
Maura’s eyes peaked over her wife’s pillow she was now hugging instead of her sexy wife. She lay still and simply watched the beauty that was her wife in graceful motion. Jane slid through her routine like water flowing over rocks, it was a nimble, powerful, and elegant dance of skill and concentration. She could watch her love move like that all day and never get tired of it.
Maura had not seen her wife since passing out in the tub the night before. She had went directly to the library when she was drawn to the heavenly realm to train. She learned even more of the healing arts and had asked Lady Vivienne what exactly it was that Jane had done to her the night before to send her spiraling into orgasmic oblivion. The Goddess had explained and even taught her how she too could hold energy within like Jane did, though maybe not as much. The Goddess told her it would be a useful skill to have when she had a lot of healing to do and that she should practice it just as Jane did. Maura couldn’t wait for paybacks. It felt wonderful and very intense, but she was looking forward to rubbing her wife down all over her hot body the night before. She would get to have her fun soon she promised herself.
Coming to a close of her routine Jane sighed out a long breath and smiled as she noticed her four little purple bodyguards had returned and were sitting on the windowsill once more. She opened the window and put down a handful of seeds and berries that she had arranged to always be available in their room since the little birds had come into her life. The four little defenders bowed to her before eating. She stroked the largest birds back. He had little black patches just behind his eyes. “I think I will call you Phantom. You come out of nowhere to defend those under your protection. I will think on it and I am sure I will come up with appropriate names for you other three as well.” She gave them each a stroke along their backs before heading to the shower for a nice refreshing rinse.
Maura smiled at her soft hearted warrior. She crawled out of bed giving the birds a stroke as well before following her love into the bathroom to freshen up and begin their day.
After some gentle shower loving that really started the couple’s morning off right they got dressed. Maura was at the vanity adding the finishing touches to the royal blue dress she was wearing that day when a knock sounded at the door.
Jane was already dressed in jeans, shirt, and sneakers with her sword at her side when she answered the door to let Mistress Pineheart and her helper in once again. It did not take them long to set out the hearty breakfast and the pair left with a “Good luck, Laird.”
The ladies quickly ate and left for their tent for Jane to change. Soon they were once again walking down the main fairway toward the tournament field. Where the day before people were more cautious and reserved around the couple, now they were receiving many good mornings from those around them and Jane received many well wishes for her day ahead. A few more pictures were taken with the magic imagers.
“I don’t believe it will be long before everyone in Hecation Province knows who we are, especially you Jane.” Maura smiled, waved, and greeted people as they passed.
Jane was doing the same. “Oh I agree, except I think you will be just as popular as me. Images of Angel Snow will be quite popular, I’m sure.”
“You really get off on that nickname the warriors were calling me, don’t you?” The Angel smirked.
“I do, especially because that heavenly Angel they all adore is all mine.” The warrior sent a mental kiss to her wife as they finally made it to the field and a path was made for them as Jane escorted her wife to the box she sat in the day before. The bodyguards stayed the same.
King Raven kissed her wife. “I wish we could spend more time together today, but they need to see you here watching the obstacle course later after we finish the will and physical strength challenges. The warriors yet to compete in the obstacle course can’t watch. The rules state that a warrior must enter the course unfamiliar with what is ahead of them. I will mingle with the people of the fair a while and rest. I will also leave more guards with you as our warriors complete the course. I love you.”
“I will miss you as well, but I am glad you will have the extra time to rest between the strength events and your turn in the course. I may be needed to assist the healers. I heard that the obstacle course produces more injuries than any other event. I would like to help if I can.”
“That sounds like a good idea.” They kissed once more.
“I love you too, my warrior. Now go kick some ass.”
The warrior left laughing. It was always so cute when Maura would cuss and depending on the venue, sexy as hell. Jane didn’t let her mind wander down that path, it wasn’t the time. She needed to focus on the day ahead. The King raised her hand in greeting as the crowd cheered her on as she joined her warriors on the field.
For Jane the test of wills was a cake walk and she felt sort of bad for everyone she faced. It was not really a fair completion at all, but she had to prove herself to the crowd and the other warriors. Lines were drawn twelve feet apart and each warrior stood before the line and the one to force their opponent to step backwards over the line behind them was declared the winner. Jane easily swept through all comers and was once again declared the overall winner of the event.
The strength completion was interesting. All the warriors were lined up around the field and each had an odd stone laid across their shoulders with hand holds built into it. It was designed to test the strength of their whole body at once as well as their endurance. This was a last warrior standing sort of event. The stone would magically get heavier and heavier until a warrior dropped to their knees and the stone would instantly become light again.
The stone only weighed about fifty pounds which was nothing for the warriors. It wasn’t until the stone reached five hundred pounds that some of the youngest and oldest of the competition started to get shaky. At six hundred pounds the first of the warriors began to drop.
Jane closed off the announcer who was calling out each increase. She didn’t want to syke herself out by the large numbers. A Lycan wasn’t a human and was much stronger, but she sometimes still thought as if she was still only human. The dark haired warrior closed her eyes and focused on holding the ever increasing weight on her shoulders and on building her will within to strengthen her muscles if needed.
It came down to Jane and a Fae who looked like he had a bit of ogre in him. The crowd watched in awe as the weight increased and the Fae warrior began to shake and grunt. However, the King stayed calm and steady. It was obvious her body was taxed, her muscles were flexed and prominent, but the female warrior had not wavered once. The King stood steady and strong, the epitome of a pillar of strength. Finally with a mighty roar the Fae warrior fell over as his body gave out.
Jane focused back in on the announcer when she felt the stone on her shoulders begin to gradually become lighter. A smile split across her face when she heard she had won. The crowd was cheering wildly for the Laird.
“You were great sweetheart. I am so impressed. It was like it weighed nothing at all to you even when the stone grew to such astounding weights. No wonder you can carry and toss me around so easily. I find your strength seriously hot by the way.”
Jane chuckled. “I am glad you like it so much, because I really like being able to carry you.” The warrior once again waved to the crowd as they cheered for her.
The warriors began leaving the field so it could be prepared for the final competition of the tournament, which would begin at noon. The Royal couple left the field as they went to enjoy a little over an hour together before Maura had to go back to watch the competition and assist the healers when needed. The couple visited a few different vendors trying the different foods the fair offered and interacting with the citizens a little more.
**Chapter 25 Part 2…CLICK HERE**