Trials of Love, the Frostclaw Chronicles 4: The Leap of Faith
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"No worry, Peridot. I am sure your wife will enjoy the chance. After all, nothing beats a good injection of adrenaline into your body after a tough day and really run free across a wide and open cityscape." the shark girl was saying with a smirk on her face to Peridot who was walking next to her, "I mean, sure. She can use her wings to just fly away from danger, but you must consider the risk that someone might target her wings. Then a good second navigation around the field can be a good..." Peridot grabbed the maw on the shark girl to silence her in the middle of the sentence, "Please, Lyra, just keep quiet for a moment and let my head rest a bit. You have been going on with this ever since we returned home from Ikariuz."
Lyra was blushing a bit and nodded slowly to her before Peridot let go of her maw, "Additionally, using Morgova as a training ground is risky. There are many long distances between every building. We could easily get past a distance like that, but Ten-Ten might have some trouble without proper training." Lyra understood Peridot's concern about it, but her innocent demeanor soon shined through again, "We could always just show her how it is done first as an example." Peridot facepalmed at this. That was Lyra to most, a good songstress on stage, a carefree and rather innocent girl off-stage, "Lyra... lets just go before you give any further ideas..." But the warning came too late as Lyra already spoke out, "Maybe we can teach your daughters too." Peridot was ready to pin Lyra to a wall for that idea, but she merely tossed the thought aside and kept on walking with Lyra following her.
Tenchi had just arranged the paperwork for the report against the police officers that had not only done an illegal arrest on Ricovan soil, but had also abducted the ambassador onto their soil which legally gave her diplomatic immunity. The case for the report however was that she did not plan to press any charges against them, but she wished for them to be given a warning in the spirit of diplomacy. Sealing the big envelope containing all papers, she heard the knocking on the door and replied to it, "Come on in, the door is unlocked." Tenchi watched the door as Lyra and Peridot walked in, Lyra quickly speaking before Peridot could even open her maw, "Hi there, your majesty. Me and Peridot thought that we would teach you parkour so in case your wings give in, you will still be agile to kick some serious behind out there. What you say?" Tenchi looked at Lyra and lowered her head, "I don't know. I am already able to handle ground combat well enough. I do not think parkour will even be useful for me." Lyra giggled softly, "Awww, come on. At least you can watch me and Peridot do some parkour artistry and have a thinker about it."
A few minutes later, Tenchi, Lyra and Peridot stood on top of the castle walls, both the shark and dragoness being ready to show off as Tenchi soon took to the air, "Go!" Lyra and Peridot jumped down the castle walls and began to jump onto benches and street lights before coming to the first building, Peridot almost missing the edge of the first building before her chain whip extended from her arm and wrapped around the chimney, pulling her onto the roof as Lyra whistled, "Not bad." Peridot smirked before both of them took a long jump to another building, Lyra rushing over to two buildings that stood close enough to each other, quickly jumping onto one of the walls and then proceeded with going higher by wall jumping, Peridot following her closely with the chain whip allowing her to combine wall running and swinging together, making Tenchi applaud from how she was impressed by their agility.
Peridot saw Lyra attempting a longer jump and the shark decided to style it up by doing a backflip before landing perfectly on the other side as Peridot herself scanned the surrounding buildings and made the jump, halfway through noticing she lacked the speed to do it, but a quick flick with the wrist made her chain whip wrap around another chimney near Lyra, who gave a light smile, "I must say, we are different, but we are much alike. We both love the challenges." Peridot took this as a sign to step up her game, noticing a long gap that seemed ideal for her whip to be used for, making use of the distance to the jump, she soon took air and the whip hooked onto a flagpole hanging from the side of the nearby building, allowing her to swing at such a speed that once she had it let go of the pole, she was doing frontflips before landing on the other side, "Are you coming or not?"
Lyra looked at how Peridot performed the jump and gave her an applaud, "Now that is impressive." Spurred on by the girl's challenge, Lyra was running to her full speed and pushed her feet away from the rooftop, grabbing the flagpole to spin around it a few times, only to let go and fly towards the rooftop where Peridot was standing, landing on the very edge with a warm smile, until she felt her feet slipping and how she fell down the rooftop with a light scream of fear until the sound of a crash was heard, followed by the scream of pain, "Shit! My back! I think I just broke my spine!" A cold shiver went down Peridot's spine, as well as Tenchi's as they moved in closer to Lyra laying across a rod of rebar surrounded by trash, tears coming out of her eyes from the amount of pain she was currently in. Peridot was quickly trying to heal her up, but the shock of Lyra being injured was not allowing her to focus clearly, "I cannot do it. We got to get her help, Ten-Ten." Tenchi nodded before picking up Lyra as gently as she could, both of them heading back to the castle.
"Let me get this straight, you both decided to show Tenchi how parkour is done and Lyra took a bad jump and fell down, injuring her back." Sasha asked as Peridot nodded, "Yes, can you help her, mom? I cannot do it, even when I blame myself for this and want to help." Sasha simply turned away, "No, I cannot do it. With myself being pregnant, my powers are not possible to use without any risks." Peridot was sighing before Sasha gave her an idea, "Why not ask your uncle? He can surely help her." Peridot had forgotten about him and before she could ask, Sasha smiled to her, "He is down in the dojo."
Giving her mother a kiss on the cheek, Peridot and Tenchi headed down to the dojo where Yang sat outside with Alex and drank some green tea, both noticing Peridot and Tenchi walking closer, until their eyes fell onto Lyra. Alex was quickly standing up, "What happened to her?" Filling him in on the information, Alex was sighing before pointing at a massage table, "Place her there and let me do my thing." Tenchi and Peridot nodded and did what was asked of them, noticing Yang lighting some incenses before they left with her as Alex moved over to Lyra and began to remove her clothes, "I am sorry, Lyra, but I need to remove these to make it easier for me to help you."
Lyra did not object as she did actually want this for a while, soon feeling her shirt and pants coming off before the two soft hands were placed on her back, the heat building up around them were making her sigh gently as her body slowly sank down into the table, leaving her completely at the mercy of Alex. Alex himself was enjoying this, but keeping to the main rule of this treatment, he was forcing himself to remain in focus as his chakra was penetrating through Lyra's skin, warming it up and relaxing tense muscles. Truth was, Lyra had not broken anything, but had suffered a blow to the muscles that made it feel like her back was broken. Looking over her while healing her, Alex was admiring the way she was looking, and while watching, he wasn't noticing the hands going down her body slowly until Lyra was giving a soft whimper to alert him that his hands were touching her tail, making him quickly move them back up her spine, "Sorry."
Lyra was softly sighing, "Mmm, you got a wondrous voice and such a good way to help someone. No wonder the ladies like you." Alex was blushing gently, "Well, only one lady means a lot to me." Alex was silencing himself with a blush, getting a curious look from Lyra, "Oh? How are they?" Alex was blushing, but swallowing to keep his composure, "She is slim, has the most beautiful voice to hear, the best attitude and the most warm kindness ever." Lyra was smiling, "If she means that much to you, then you should not let her go easily. Tell her how you really feel." Alex was hearing this and soon placed the hands down on her back, making her get ready to ask what he was up to until she felt him sit down on top of her, his hands working down into the tissue now to make her squeal happily, even if some of it came out as a whimper, "Do not let her go easily? Got you."
Lyra was smiling as he was soon pressing his elbow against her back, making her shiver in pain from the pressure he was applying until he returned the question, "What of you? Anyone you found interesting?" Lyra was blushing a little before nodding, "Yes. He is talented, caring and even with the voice that could make females moan in pleasure, he still upholds his image of not abusing it. A true gentleman." Alex was smiling to her before leaning down to whisper in her ear, "If you really like him that much, then show him it and if he cannot understand your emotions, then he is not worth your... HMM?" Alex felt Lyra grabbing his head before kissing him deeply, Alex's eyes widening in shock before the kiss was broken and Lyra warmly looked at him, "Silly, it is you." Alex was confused before admitting it to her with a soft smile after calming down, "And for me, it was you." Lyra was feeling him getting off before she was lifted over to his bed, the soft satin rubbing against her before Alex got into the bed and up close to her, keeping the bigger girl close to him before they both hugged each other and shared a kiss, not hearing the sliding door close behind them as Sasha, Tenchi, Peridot and Yang looked at each other with a warm smile, before Yang spoke out, maybe a little too loud, "Does this mean that Lyra is my mother now?"

The End.