A Warm Welcome.
“ What the heck. “ Anthony groaned, he felt that nasty headache again the moment he tried opening his eyes. It forced him to pinch them shut again as it felt like he was looking into a glaring light there for a moment. It drove him to reach up against his temple, firmly to massage against it with the flat of his hand. And there was still that blur of pink in his mind.
The heck was he dreaming there ? Something, half beast, half woman, and he was having quite the wild tumble in bed with her. Heck, he did not think he could be longing to have the company of a woman like that, considering how aggressive he was in his dream. Still, fur ? Tails even, and not just one ? Was that really something he could be into like that ?
Admittedly, the fact alone that he handled her like that, use her the way he did, that sure scratched a man’s ego, considering how she was moaning and squirming for him. It caused him to in and exhale deeply, not to fall for the allure to reconsider the dream, because at the moment, he felt like he would probably feel a touch to excited for it to become real, and somehow, that felt a little to desperate on his part.
“ Maggie, give me a status report. “ He finally managed to call out, waiting for the AI to respond, but nothing happened, and when the failure to respond extended, he tried to open his eyes again, but the glaring was still painfully present, forcing him to close his eyes again.
He could notice the shift of a weight on his chest though, and correctly guessed that it was Ina who had jumped onto him, as the sensation was quickly followed by the usual nibble to his hand that insisted for him to pay attention to her. Which promptly he did, raising his hand over the position he felt her movement to slowly stroke through her fur, and it seemed to satisfy the vixen enough to lay onto his chest and enjoy the attention.
But then, he suddenly heard a noise, like a grunt or something like that. And while initially considering that he must have imagined things, as he was alone with Ina on the ship, something begun to nag in the back of his mind that something wasn’t quite the way he tried to perceive it to be.
So he would remove his hand from Ina, and reach to his left to try and prob himself into a sitting position, but before his hand could reach where the ground should have been, he felt something, soft.
Now he was really confused, causing him to dart up into a sitting position while his eyes slammed open. And only then did he realize, he wasn’t on the bridge, he was in the medical bay, and that glaring Light ? It was a light, just that the Medical bay actually had enough power to run the lights at full capacity right now.
The noise he heard before, it came from a woman, dressed in a uniform that used a color mix of white and green, holding onto her mouth as she was struggling hard to restrain her laughter. But now, that he was looking at her, she fell into loud laughter, unable to hold back how amused she was while watching him, even though he failed to understand the context just yet.
Besides, who was that woman ? She was human, that much he could tell, but that uniform, it wasn’t anything issued on the Hope, was he perhaps, still dreaming ?
The face he was making clearly seemed to entertain the blond though as she bend forward, as it was growing harder to restrain laughter with his dumbfounded look entertaining her to no end.
And then there was that finger that suddenly touched below his chin, gently pushing it up to close the mouth he kept open with the inability to express the confusion over his current situation, this was just so baffling to him that his mind could not yet comprehend it.
But, the sensation of this finger, it finally drew his mind to notice the presence of someone besides him, the position his hand was at was a feminine curve covered by a blanket that he shared with her, holding onto her hip for this entire time without even realizing it. And when his gaze turned up to face it’s owner, he begun to question the validity of what he perceived there.
A furred face, with a short muzzle, white, pink and hints of lilac, with light blue eyes that carefully watched him with a degree of calm curiosity, and with his gaze, tracing as low as her body was exposed, he could recall that, so-called dream he had. That wasn’t a dream, not at all, as the subject of that unbridled lust was laying there, right besides him.
“ I, what ? I, “ Anthony muttered out, only for this, beast woman, to place a finger across his lips, before leaning up to plant a playful nibble to his left earlobe. Only to then lean out of this bed they where on, to make her way out of the medical bay bare as she was, with a bush of tails covering her rear that somehow resembled how those old medieval dresses must have looked like.
The Blond woman nearby would fall into more boisterous laughter at that point, as Anthony was left with only more questions now, sitting there like frozen as his mind struggled to make sense of all of this.
“ Fuck, this is to great. This, is too fucking, great. “ The blond spoke nearby, holding onto her belly as she was laughing so hard, it started to hurt, and she had to gasp for air now, leaning back against the wall as she tried so hard to recover from her laughing fit.
“ You should see your face right now. “ She suggested, and reach up to wipe a tear from her cheek.
“ Aah, I haven't laughed like that in a while. “ She claimed, and finally look at him with more of a calm posture, though, still struggling to hold back her amusement.
“ What the hell happened ? Where, am I ? “ Anthony managed to ask, having a hard time to even speak his mind in his blatant confusion.
“ Your on your ship, the INC Hope I think you call it, right ? “ The other offered.
“ Then, who are you people ? Your, not part of the crew, are you ? “ Anthony asked, wondering for a moment which part of his experience so far had been a possible hallucination. Had he perhaps just imagined his struggle on the Hope ? And his mind was just under for so long that he did not recognize what should have been, normal ?
Or, did he find other humans after all, perhaps even his former crew, and they have developed some new, fetishes ? The heck was that about a hybrid creature like the woman, if you could call her that, having slept with him ? No, dammit, the way he was all over her, what was going on here ?
“ Sorry, but this was just to funny. I am Kira, part of the Eden defense Navy, your ship had some emergency and managed to barely make a stop in this system, Cradle. Your AI managed to set of an emergency call and asked us to help you so, here we are. “ Kira explained, giving him the most essential explanation without going into further detail, she was planning to leave that for later, once he had the chance to collect himself a little.
“ And. “ Anthony started, but then simply pointed into the direction where that beast woman disappeared.
“ Ah, that’s Tilly, you two been at it for a while, “ She explained, a smirk on her face as she finished speaking, and the look on his face must have been worth her brief wait as she started to laugh again.
“ Yeah, sorry Aria, it was just too hilarious. “ She then spoke to someone that Anthony could not identify, but he caught on quickly that she must be using some form of communicator right now, likely something like an earplug as he could not hear the other side.
“ Here. “ She spoke then, coming over to place down a bowl with green leaves that he was unfamiliar with.
“ Chew those, slowly, and one at a time. They are going to help you with your headache. Try and relax a bit, someone is going to come for you in an hour, and then you can ask your questions, and judging by the look on your face, you have plenty. “ Kira suggested, and then turned to leave as well.
Anthony had indeed questions, and he was about to open his mouth to start asking whatever came first to mind, but then he stopped himself, in part thanks to Ina making it known that she was not happy about how he, suddenly sitting up, had thrown her off her cozy position on his chest.
And looking at her, sitting in his lap, looking at him so expectantly with those eyes, he simply closed his eyes briefly and exhale deeply before he just started to stroke her, giving into the unspoken suggestion that perhaps it be a good idea to try and sort his thoughts for now.
“ The hell did we get into, huh ? “ He spoke towards Ina, and then lean to lay back down and close his eyes again, trying to, somehow, make sense of this all.
“ When in doubt, start from the beginning. “ He mused to himself, turning his gaze to the left where the bowl with those leaf's waited for him. And feeling the headache still pulsing, he would briefly pause his tending to Ina and reach over to fetch one of those leaf’s and hold it above his head, trying to figure out if he ever seen one of them before.
Nothing came to mind though, nothing he was familiar with, it was just another green leaf, just like any other he may have come across previously, even if this one seemed to emit a soft glow somehow, yet, that may just be his imagination.
After another moment, he’d just shake his head and put the leaf into his mouth to start chewing on it, something he regretted a moment after as it was quite bitter. But, under the promise that it would take care of his headache, he forced himself to keep chewing on it, while thinking back to the last thing he remembered before he woke up here. Well, before he had that, interesting moment with the beast woman.
He was playing chess, and Maggie threw out some warning, though he wasn’t sure what it was anymore. Apparently it was an emergency stop of sorts, maybe an evasive maneuver ?
No, there was no point in this, the bigger question was, this System, Cradle as Kira called it, by the last navigation data he recalled, there should not have been any star close enough for them to enter at that moment, not for another few years.
The target system where the beacon was detected was still years out of reach, and there where no other solar systems close enough to, simply drop into, and he could not have been passed out for too long, right ?
“ Yeah, not helping. “ He muttered, leaning back up, and then pick up Ina to lift her up before himself, looking at those lovely eyes of hers. It would give him a smile when she reacted by simply canting her head while returning his gaze with such intensity.
“ Guess we’ll have to wait for our saviors to show up again, hm ? “ He remarked towards the vixen, and then pulled her close to gently roam his fingers through the fur atop her head, something the Vixen seemed to enjoy quite a bit.