Amazon Prince, Part 3
Title: Amazon Prince (3)
Characters: Fei, Mikhail, Yanzhui
Mentions: Liu Sr.
Disclaimer: Characters above are not mine.
AMAZON PRINCE- Part 3
Fey absentmindedly was working the drying mud out of the obsidian sheet he called his hair as he walked towards the river. The smell of dew grew stronger the closer he got to the river and a few small animals crossed his path. Perhaps he could hunt a little later for a snack?
Just as Fey reached the riverbank and was about to pull back the foliage of the tree to allow him access, a large splash made him freeze and jump. Who besides him was up and so far away from the village this early? It was probably just an animal but he had to make sure. He cautiously ducked down low and gently pulled back some branches and what he saw made him freeze, choke, and swell in joy all at once as heat poured into his body.
The person on the other side of the river was cleaning the side of a glistening leg from a wound, very muscular legs spread apart. Her hair was in slight blonde waves and shaped around her head and her eyes were downcast and utterly concentrated on her work, droplets of water clinging to the skin and sparkling as they caught the light of the morning sun.
But that was not caused his reaction. It was the fact that this stranger was like him. Her chest was flat and broad much like his only larger, the nipples the same red as a ripe cherry and perked from the cool water droplets. Between the muscled thighs lay a replica of the strange organ which lay between Fei’s, only it was thicker (his hand could probably not circle the entire length at once) and rising from a curtain of golden curls not black. Unfamiliar heat began to stir in his own long organ the longer he stared.
Another person like him...
Were they unique or were there others?
He had to find out. Throwing caution to the wind, he determinedly pushed back the foliage separating the path from the river. Just as he was about to shout out a greeting, a terrible pain erupted in his shoulder and he fell to his knees with a grunt and a wide eyed stare, his hands flying towards the damaged area, startled to encounter a thin stick. His gaze locked with the stranger before he looked down.
A stick… he pulled his hands away and looked at the blood staining his hands. His blood.
He’d been shot with an arrow above his heart.
He knew he would probably die…
He turned back to the person he had been observing earlier. It was unfair… to have found someone just like him and to be killed once he tried to approach.
He probably wouldn’t be missed anyway.
With that thought, his world went black.
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Mikhail was startled when suddenly tree branches were pulled back across from him, but what emerged took him completely by surprise. A beauty like he had never seen before… in Amazon clothes and smiling sweetly… or at least he was certain she had been smiling at him before an arrow whizzed past him and into her chest.
Suddenly he knew what the legendary hero Achilles felt when he faced the Amazon Queen at the battle of Troy. An incredible sense of loss washed over him as their gazes locked before she fell to the ground.
He seized his sword from among his clothes, the gleaming metal catching the light as he prepared to fight and shouted, “Show yourself!”
There was a slight rustling of leaves and twigs before a grunt soldier wearing the colors of Liu emerged, his ambiguous face shining in fear as he clutched simple his wooden bow to him as Mikhail had seen children clutch a favored toy. “I am sorry General Mikhail, but I was commanded by my General to follow you… I assume for your safety… so I shot the Amazon approaching you… sir.” The soldier was trembling.
Mikhail’s lips curled with distaste. Yanzhui had sent such an amateur that he didn’t even realize he was a spy? ‘How pathetic,’ he mused as he put his sword back on the ground with his clothes before striding across the river to gaze at the fallen Amazon, taking absolutely no heed to the fact that he was naked. She was dressed in a simple brown tunic and pants that seemed baggy even for an Amazon. He studied the beautiful face turned up towards him. Her coloring and slanted eyes were very much those of the Liu territory. The Amazons often took men from battle for breeding purposes, perhaps her father was a soldier who had been under Liu the Wise? The eyebrows were delicately arched and the lashes were long and elegantly curled, but there was something powerful about the face that made it slightly odd… wait was it his imagination or were her breasts slightly lopsided?
“General, wha… what are you doing?” the dimwitted soldier asked loudly from behind him. Mikhail hadn’t noticed him stepping into the river to follow him.
Ignoring him, Mikhail pushed the tunic shirt up to the wound, revealing the reason for the clothes being so baggy. The chest was broader than an average woman and a strange device over where a normal woman’s breasts would be was stuffed with cloth and when he stuck a hand underneath, he found the chest was undeniably flat, although it contained muscle.
To further confirm his suspicions, he snaked a hand down the front of the Amazon’s pants and found the tell-tale organ and velvety balls with soft curls strapped down with cloth instead of a soft mound.
A man? A beautiful man in the guise of a woman… it was unheard of where Mikhail was from. Such men were greatly sought after as first wives; his own ‘stepmother’ who had raised him had been and was still a great beauty.
Then he realized she… HE... was still breathing.
“Soldier, go get the physician. Tell him it’s urgent.” Mikhail suddenly commanded, surprising even himself.
“But… it’s an enemy…”
“Are you questioning my orders?” Mikhail asked, fixing the trembling soldier with an icy stare.
“N…no. I’ll go get the physician.” The soldier stuttered as he ran to go comply before the Mikhail could fulfill the dark promise that was in that icy stare, kicking up water as he tried to get across the stream as quick as possible.
Mikhail then turned back to captive and placed pressure on the wound to stop the flow of blood before too much was lost. A man posing as a woman? Could all the Amazons be actually men AND women? No… He’d been in many battles with different tribes of them and all the dead bodies after battle had been women and some had even gone into battle completely nude to face the enemy. But he had no idea what Amazonian society was like. Perhaps their men dressed like females there?
The captive in his arms had a story to tell and he was very anxious to learn it… that is if he survived. Perhaps he would even take him as his first wife.
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Meanwhile…
Yanzhui twitched in anger as he threw the order from his father that he had just received from a messenger to the ground. Liu the Wise was calling the attack off for now and ordering his troops to return home. Oh… how he hated his weak father! The old man could barely stand and here he was giving orders to Yan’s troops?
Yan was drawn out of his angered thoughts when he heard a loud call of, “Physician! I need a physician quick!”
Yan peeked outside of his tent to see his foolish spy running around the camp. A physician? Perhaps Mikhail was injured? He could barely contain his joy. If Mikhail was killed, then perhaps he could turn his sights on the Arbatov province?
TBC…
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A/N: If anyone was confused, Fei refers to Mikhail as ‘her’ or ‘she’ in the beginning because he doesn’t know the difference between male and female, having been told that men were animals and beasts when he was little he imagines them as animal creatures. He also still believes himself to be female, as does Mikhail at a certain point. I, as the writer, refer to Fei as ‘he’ because it would feel awkward to write about our beautiful dragon as “she” until he realizes his true sex. Also, ‘stepmother’ is the child’s reference to the ‘first wife,’ whose function was explained in the last chapter.