Journeys of Time 25: Blindsided Prank
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The week following the wedding of Avril and Talia had been the most taxing on the ones living in the castle of the death realm, mostly due to the fact that Talia wasn't exactly quiet when Avril was performing her new duty as a wife by mercilessly attempting to make Talia pregnant, if it had not been due to the foresight of Talia reminding her to use a condom and Julie Ruby had been forced on a short notice to make a little red riding hood outfit for Talia to wear when the married couple were doing their roleplaying sessions.
For Julie Ruby, it wasn't that much of a problem, since she was getting paid for it and also gave her a reason to pin her poor husband down every night to get her frustration out, which ended up one particular morning for her to give the announcement to the family, "Everyone! I got great news for you." Everyone had put down their forks and knives to give Julie Ruby and Akari their fullest attention when they noticed Akari was carefully rubbing JR's belly and listened to his wife telling it, "To my siblings, you will become once more aunts and uncle to another addition to the family. To my mother, you will become a grandmother. And to the kids of my siblings, your auntie is gonna give you a cousin."
The cheers filled the dining hall and Sas'Ha stood before walking over to JR and Akari, giving them both a close hug, "Now those are some good news. And you are not alone. I was waiting for this day too." Before their very eyes, the shroud that the massive mother had cast over herself suddenly fell and revealed her at the height of her pregnancy, the size suggesting she had not only one in there, but perhaps even two or more.
While the announcements had been met by joy and congratulations, there was one at the table that was seeming less happy when everyone resumed their dining experience, someone who had been having a chance to get herself a special one, but then had them run off before they could seal the deal. The very embodiment of a diva and a beauty queen with a heart of gold and a personally to make every Miss World contestant shy away in envy. That name was Juna Angeria.
Juna didn't want to waste much time by the dining table and finished up what remained of her less-than-normal proportion of breakfast, at least when compared to the others in the family, where others tore the meat from a massive wing probably half their height, Juna made do with a plate of pasta with some pesto sauce.
Having finished her breakfast, Juna bowed deeply to her mother, "Grazie for the breakfast, mom. It is as delicious as always. Now if you excuse me, I got some modeling work to do." The words spoken made Juna leave the dining hall and for Sas'Ha to look after her before speaking softly to herself so no one else could hear her, "That girl ain't right."
The maternal instinct followed Sas'Ha through the day and whenever she had a chance to spend a moment for herself, she went to check on Juna. First time she had found her hanging at The Ocelot Lounge, talking with May and Lanta. Second time she had been found sitting at a local ice cream parlor, having herself a milkshake. Third time she was spotted sitting at The Blood Court's tower with Ocarina, admiring the beautiful attires that she had delivered for them.
The last time she had found her, Juna was laying on her front inside of the dojo with Yang very gently walking over her back while they spoke. Sas'Ha could hear them clearly, but knowing how Juna was sensitive to being spied on by others, she had quickly shrouded herself to be able to listen without being spotted. Juna's voice seemed to be less of its normal spunkiness and more like she was actually crying, which ached the mother's heart as she listened in.
"I don't know what to do, cousin. It is seeming like no one genuinely care about me outside the family, most are just interested in leaving a deposit up my backstage pass. I will never truly know what it means to be loved." Juna's eyes teared up as she spoke, giving off a light murr as her spine popped a bit as Yang skillfully used the soles of her feet to really work the tense muscles while speaking, "Father once said that life is like a lit path through a forest. There will be side roads that are unlit and even some flowers in the forest that will tempt you to leave the lit path, but if you follow the lit path the whole time, you miss out on experience and won't enjoy the things that happen forward. You are simply not on the path right now, but you have gotten experience of what it means to truly live and with that you can find ways to share it with whoever that you end up together with in the future."
Juna always disliked the cryptic and wiseman attitude of her uncle, but having to listen to her cousin repeating it was a real annoyance, even if she had to admit that it was true, but she was quickly questioning it, "So you mean that once I find the right one, I will know the best way to use my ass to satisfy them?"
Yang realized that Juna had truly put her in her place with that question, not daring to even answer it and instead placed a foot on the back of Juna's neck and with a light push got to hear a loud pop that made Juna murr out happily, "Ohhhh yes!"
Yang heard the sound of someone approaching before one of the doors to the dojo was opened slightly and in the shadow of the light from the castle outside, she noticed the figure looking at something and nodding before it opened the door completely and Alexander stepped inside, "I see that I am disturbing you two in a dire moment of spinal adjustment."
Juna and Yang heard the door sliding shut before Alexander sat down as Yang turned around to press her feet along Juna's back, rewarding her with more popping and loud murrs from Juna before the sound of a bottle opening could be heard when the father had a swig of his evening sake before asking, "So what troubles my niece then?"
Juna kept quiet, but Yang spilled the beans, "She is a bit down because she has no one that loves her outside of the family." Juna sighed and nodded before the bottle rested on the table as the father spoke up, "I guess you already used the lit path proverb. Well, it is really true, but this puppy ain't having the survival instinct yet."
Juna grunted and turned her head to face her uncle, "You mean I am not able to survive if I am left alone in the wild?" The question was answered by the smaller dragon getting up and walking over before sitting down in front of her, "Tell me, can you trust in yourself without using those eyes of yours?"
Juna looked at him and realized what he had meant. Like her siblings, Juna was gifted with an attribute or skill from her mother, which in her case was a sex appeal that made her able to control others by her own will, by merely looking at them, "No, I don't."
Yang looked at them before she noticed with a rapid movement of his hand, Alexander struck a point on the back of Juna's head before waiting until the sound of Juna whimpering and the feeling of her shaking made her question what her father had done, but Juna was quick to answer her, "My eyes! I cannot see a thing! It is so dark!" Alexander nodded, "I struck Yamen-O. I have forced the signals giving you capability to see to be cut off momentarily. I did it very gently as too much pressure could render you completely blind permanently."
Juna felt her eyesight coming back just in time to witness Yang slapping her own father, "That wasn't necessary, dad!" Juna could have sworn she saw a bit of shock on her uncle's face, but he was quickly hiding it before nodding, "I did it to show her that she needs to avoid using her gift to see the real world for what it is. A blind person knows the world more than we can see."
The last few words had Juna thinking for herself and after bidding her uncle and her cousin farewell for the night, she had returned to her room to think for herself, but laying in her bed, Juna had abandoned her thoughts to rest up for the coming day. Her mind was instead filled with images of her laying on her back during a fashion show, her legs spread widely as one of the other models were eating her out, her big breasts bouncing along with her breathing, the intoxication feeling filling her body with need, but then suddenly it stopped and instead she saw herself in front of a big house, looking very unfamiliar to her until she remembered it was the main building of the castle courtyard in Ri'Co'Va. She could see how she was being held by someone and how soft whispers filled her ears. She was feeling happy and warm, but something was missing for her. If she could only...
"Juna, it is time for breakfast!" Sas'Ha's voice called out as Juna growled and slowly opened her eyes, sitting up without even caring about covering herself before she heard a second voice, "I know you like sleeping in the nude, sister, but please cover yourself up." The voice made Juna open her eyes quickly to see both her mother and next to her stood Peridot, Juna's half-sister.
Quickly covering herself up, she looked at them both, "What is the meaning of this?" Peridot threw Juna a set of clothes which Juna recognized quickly as a set of royal attire for the Ricovan queendom, "W-What is this?" Peridot smiled at Juna's confusion before their mother spoke up, "I told Peridot about everything and she came with the idea of playing a prank on Tenchi. You will impersonate Peridot under the guise of her trying out how it is to be you."
Juna quickly raised an objection, "But how I will be able to speak like her? We got different dialects and all." Being the resourceful individual she was, Sas'Ha patted the royal attire, "I have infused these clothes with a spell to make you able to replicate Peridot's voice completely. Just not her vocabulary." Juna looked at the clothes a final time before shrugging and putting them on, rubbing along the fabric with a soft murr before she spoke and like Sas'Ha had said, her voice was just like Peridot's, "This is feeling great. But what will Peridot do while I am impersonating her?"
Peridot looked at her sister, "I will be doing some training with uncle Alex and my sister-in-law. I need to make sure she is safe around him." Juna smiled before asking, "That's good. How is Kin doing? Has her training paid off?" Peridot nodded, "Oh, she is becoming quite good at helping in the garden and also to help the decaying demons to recover their past looks." Juna gave Peridot a nod before standing before Peridot walked right in front of her, "Okay, do your best impression of me."
Peridot knew very well that the request she made could mean that Juna could make fun of her, but with the deepest respect for her sister, Juna decided to be civilized and put the hands on the sides of her waist before speaking in an annoyed tone, "Hikarinoai Arizonia-Novastar, you better have a good reason for hiding all of Ten-Ten's favorite snacks." Peridot fell over laughing at how not only had Juna done a pretty accurate job on it, but she had dared to use Peridot's nickname for Tenchi too before she got up from the floor and nodded to Juna, "That will do, sister, that will do. I have told Senshi to follow your orders too. He is a good boy."
Juna quickly took off the attire before they went to have breakfast before returning to her room to put it back on before meeting Peridot in the courtyard to give her a quick lesson in riding (non-sexual one, you perverts) and not before long, Juna had taken to the air on Senshi's back, feeling a bit unsure about her capabilities to remember all of Peridot's instructions. Senshi did notice it as he took it slow for her to get used to it before slowly accelerating back home.
After just a half hour of flying, they arrived at the wyvern grounds of Ri'Co'Va and all of the Frostclaws that were present seemed to not be questioning that it was Juna, but still played along with it as Peridot had already informed them without Tenchi knowing about the whole ordeal. Tenchi was however questioning it quickly, "Juna, what are you doing here? And why are you riding on Senshi like that?"
Juna prepared herself before speaking, "Relax, Ten-Ten. It is me, Peridot. I am just trying out how it is to be Juna. I heard that she was feeling down over having no special one, so I asked mom if she could turn me into Juna for half a day so I could understand how life is through her eyes and body." Tenchi looked suspiciously at Juna before asking her, "Then wouldn't it be better to have her voice too?" Juna quickly replied like it had already become a second nature to her, "It would, but then you wouldn't believe me if I came back like this. You would think it was actually Juna. And we both know that Hilde cannot get off to Juna's voice either way, right Ten-Ten?"
Tenchi giggled before nodding, "Oh yes, she loves nothing more than hearing you tease her with how much of a wild wyvern she is in the bedroom. And especially when you use your chains as a metal leash on her collar when rutting her." Juna giggled with a blush, "Ohhh yes, she cannot stop growling loudly when I do. It is like I am banging an actual wyvern when she starts." Deep inside Juna's mind, she was shocked, "Merda! They got a relazione viziosa!"
Tenchi nodded before grabbing the buckets of food for the wyverns, "Okay, Peri. Head inside and help Kari out. She has some issues with her bow." Juna nodded before feeling how Tenchi gave her a kiss and murred softly before Tenchi smiled, "I gonna have some problems with understanding you are Juna for today, you even smell like her strong perfumes. You must really take to heart to understand how she feels." Juna nodded and giggles, "I just wanna help her to find the love of her life like I did when I found you, Ten-Ten."
Tenchi shook her head before waving when she headed to feed some of the wyverns and Juna headed towards what she thought was Hikarinoai's bedroom, with some help of the other Frostclaws before opening up the door to see Kari standing there with the bow not yet packed down.
Juna walked over to her before taking the sheath for the bow and held it open for Kari to lay her bow right into place before she looked up at Juna, "Thanks aunt... I mean, mother." She winked at Juna before hugging her, feeling Juna's warm body closely before moving back a bit, "So how does it feel so far?"
Juna decided to not lie and spoke openly, even in Peridot's voice, "It is actually interesting. Also, your mother is a really good kisser." Kari gave off a soft giggle, "You better prepare yourself. Both of them are kissing at least 25 times a day. So this is just one of the many you will get." Juna began to blush a bit before Kari spoke up, "So have you had any news from Phoebe?" Juna nodded, "Yes, she is wishing for you to come to Morgova at your earliest convenience. She had something to tell you about your bow."
Kari looked confused at her, "Couldn't she have just told you what it is?" Juna shook her head, "No, because she felt it was more personal, given she is your teacher." Kari couldn't deny the logic of that, but before she could ask more, the door opened up to Kari's room and Janch stepped into the room, noticing Juna there, "Oh look, it is the Frostclaw initiate. Guess you wanted to know how it is to be one of us, huh?"
Juna nodded as she lowered her head a bit, "Yes, I am just wanting to know what true love feels like." Janch walked over to sit down next to Juna, "True love is when you see someone, but you do not wanna murder them and you feel they mean the world to you, even outside of the moments you are making love like two beasts in heat." Juna felt her face going red at Janch's description of true love, but with her history, it wasn't completely far-fetched that she would describe it as such. Janch placed a hand on Juna's shoulder, "All you gonna do is just be yourself and let them come to you."
Janch's advice seemed to really make Juna think and when Janch was suddenly pulled out the nearby window by her husband, Juna didn't feel sad for lacking a loved one, but more happy to see how different love could look and still fit within the parameter of true love as she saw Janch lick Gane on the nose.
Just then, the door almost flew off the hinges as Tenchi came running in with a shocked expression, "Peri! Senshi is gone!" Juna felt her heart sink into her chest as she quickly got up from the bed, "What do you mean, Ten-Ten? It is not like him to disappear like this." Tenchi tried her best to calm down as she spoke, "I have sent every wyvern of mine after them. Arashi is outside waiting. Lets go!" Juna didn't have much of a choice as she quickly ran out of the building, complaining a bit as she tried to sound like how Peridot would, "How can she move with a body like this?" Tenchi understood what she meant, since Juna had no body for running.
Arashi was looking at Juna before growling softly as she didn't seem to accept her, but Tenchi was quickly looking at her, "Bad girl. It is just Peri trying out how it is to be her sister, girl. Now let her on." Juna quickly did what Peridot had taught her and Arashi answered and offered her throat, which Juna quickly lowered and then climbed behind Tenchi before they took to the sky.
Flying high above the ground, Juna watched as Arashi was doing maneuvers that she had not been prepared for, making her hold onto Tenchi harder, her claws digging into Tenchi's shoulders a bit before Juna noticed how she turned to look at her, "Are you okay, Peri? Your claws are really digging deep. Are you actually scared?" Juna looked up at Tenchi before nodding, "Yes, Ten-Ten. I am used to having my normal slender body that can handle what she is doing, but Juna's body is a lot thicker, so I am feeling like I gonna fall off."
Tenchi nodded before they noticed down below how Senshi was curled up near a tiny wyvern that looked like its wing was broken, making Tenchi steer Arashi down to the ground before Juna stepped off from the wyvern and walked over to Senshi and the other, "What you have there, Senshi?" The wyvern growled to Juna in a soft way and Juna began to understand what he meant, "A young girl who left her nest too early and broke one of her wings?"
Senshi was healing the young wyvern while Juna looked over the remaining body of it, nodding after a moment, "Nothing else is broken. She had the unfortunate luck of breaking only a wing." Senshi growled to Juna, who nodded before looking at Tenchi, "Ten-Ten, could you help her onto Arashi's back? Juna's body is not allowing me to bring forth my chains."
Tenchi nodded and with a combined effort, the young wyvern was laying across the back of Arashi's body with the help of some nearby tree fibers before they took to the sky again, Juna riding on Senshi's back again and this time she seemed more open to trying new things and Juna felt that she was truly living as they slowly came back to the wyvern grounds and with the help of Hildegaard and Janch, they brought the wyvern into the nearby house to be treated as Juna cleared her throat a bit, "Ten-Ten, I need to change clothes and rest up a little."
Tenchi didn't decline her and Juna headed straight for the bedroom and with her phone out, she texted to Peridot, who soon arrived back with Kin by her side to the room and just in perfect timing when Tenchi opened the door to the bedroom, "Peri, where did put the banda..." Tenchi stood with her mouth open when she saw Juna, Peridot and Kin standing in the bedroom and the first question that came out of her mouth was, "Wait, so I actually kissed Juna?!" All three of them laughed except for Tenchi, who felt completely fooled by all of it.
Once the laughter died down, Tenchi growled out, "So why all of this?!" Juna took off the attire and got a set of her old clothes to put on before she replied with her normal voice, "I am sorry for the deception, but I just wanted to learn how it is to truly love. And even if I didn't learn what it truly means, I learned what it means to truly be yourself." Tenchi nodded and still seemed a little pissed at how she had been tricked, "But why me?" Juna giggled, "It was actually Peridot's idea to have me try it out. And I admit, you are a good kisser." Peridot looked at Juna and winked, "Do not get comfortable with it. I won't let you have a second one."
Juna laughed before she heard how a portal formed behind her. She gave both Tenchi, Peridot and Kin a hug each before smiling to them, "Thanks for allowing me this chance. I will value it a lot." Peridot and Tenchi looked at each other and Tenchi did soften up a bit, before both of them began to blush when Juna walked through the portal and called out to them, "Also, make sure to tame Hildegaard well in the bedroom, Peridot!" Kin began to giggle loudly before the portal closed behind Juna and deep inside, Kin was feeling warm, "You may not have learned it, but I think I have."

The End.