Slave's Heart

by: Isinia Mosienko

            Chapter 1


    On the very stroke of first light the next day, Kieva opens his eyes and immediately shutting them due to the blindness of the light. It will only be a matter of time before the light reached his Mistress so he begins to rise from the floor, getting on all of his four paws on the floor, yawns and stretches at the same time like a normal four-legged would. He immediately gets up and heads downstairs to make breakfast for his Mistress but this time with full concentration on his mind, not like yesterday being careless. Though he could still not shake off what happened last night. He knew that his mistake should have been a grave one and earned him a severe punishment and to be placed outside. Instead he was only delt with minimal punishment and to sleep at the end of the bed on the floor. He just couldn't understand it and sighed the thought off as he began to prepare his Mistress breakfast.

    After breakfast the Mistress gets up and looks down at her slave, who is still eating on the floor with  a plate on his left hand.  He already knows the feeling of being stared at all to well but knows better than to look up.  "Slave, when you are done eating I want you to clean the house entirely and it better be clean by the time I return," she says in a low tone as she gets her money and leaves out the door. He tries to finish his breakfast as fast as he could and quickly gets up, picks up the dishes, and washes them in the sink. After he finishes in putting up the dishes he immediately grabs the broom and starts to sweep the floor but making sure he does not leave any dust behind.

    Hours pass by and he finally finishes cleaning the house and the Mistress has not returned. He figures he might as well go to the back of the house and do some gardening. He does not to be seen not working be thought upon as being lazy. He goes into the forest and comes back with a few wild flowers and starts to plant them near a tree that was the closest to the house. His mind wanders a little just enough to not notice that his Mistress has arrived

    A few minutes go buy and the Mistress arrives from the big city grumbling something about the Casino being nothing but a ripoff. Then she notices that the house is clean but her slave is nowhere to be seen. She immediately starts to wonder wether her slave has left the house into the woods, but after going upstairs she looks out the window to see he is outback doing something. She disrobes from her clothes except for her bottom underwear and puts on an oriental style robe. She heads downstairs and  goes to the back of the house but the moment she steps out the door she seems him planting some flowers near a tree. 

    She quietly walks up behind him and places a paw on his shoulder but not knowing that this would frighten him. The moment he felt a paw on him he immediately gasps and goes against a tree and turns around to see his Mistress standing there with a puzzled look on her face. He could only just stay there against the tree, wide eyed, scared as he drops to the ground still being against the tree, breathing heavily, loudly and somewhat looks to her chest which has been exposed a little but revealing enough of her left side of the chest but looks up again. 

    The Mistress was very much puzzled as to why he would be so frightened, looks down to see what he was looking at for a moment, and looks to him and says, "Whats the matter slave? Haven't you ever seen a nude female before?" His cheeks immediately turn red as he shakes his head slowly as he continues to breath heavily. The moment she sees him turn red she lets out a small giggle and says, "Well slave, since it makes you uncomfortable I will cover it but don't expect me to remember it." With that she adjusts her robe so as to it won't be slipping off her and walks back into the house.

    Kieva finally calms himself down as he sees her walking away and tries to shake off his fear. He slowly gets up and tries to brush off whatever dirt he might have on himself. As he walks back inside he hears the footsteps upstairs and heads upstairs to go see if she needs anything else. As he finally reaches upstairs he sees her practicing some sort of martial arts. As she turns during on of her movements she spots Kieva just standing about but with redness still burned onto his face. She thinks probably after what happened a few minutes ago and says, "Slave. I need a partner to spar with. Have you been taught in martial arts?" 

    He steps forward and nervously nods his head but slowly, "Yes Mistress.. I.. I was taught in some of them. I.. I..," but before he was able to finish his last words she immediately says, "Good then! Come over here and do show me what you can do!" The slave hesitates because he doesn't want hurt his own Mistress and tries to talk her out of it, "But... Mistress... I.." She immediately shouts out at him just about loosing her patience, "Now slave!!" 

    He quickly steps up in front of her and stands waiting for any of her attacks. "You better defend yourself Slave. Otherwise you will get hurt," she warns with a smile on her face. For some years he had hoped he would never have to use martial arts ever since he was taught. She leaps forward with an attack and he immediately jumps to the side avoiding her attack but she immediately bounces from off the wall towards him. Again he immediately dodges her attack and she lands right on the bed, turning around to look at him. "You're very good Slave. Now to see if you are very good," she says with an evil grin on her face. 

    She immediately throws a dagger towards him and he catches it by the handle but doesn't know that she has already lept from the bed right at him. Already armed with another dagger, she makes a small cut on his left arm but not severely. He whinces a little in pain and turns towards her only to see her leaping towards him again. She makes a loud roar, "Fight me you worthless animal!!!" He immediately leaps forward and with his eyes closed. All of a sudden a loud clank and ripping sound is heard and both land on their feet. 

    Kieva, full of nervousness and sweat around his forehead, opens his eyes hoping that he didn't kill his own Mistress. Instead he only sees a huge part of the cloth that she was wearing on his left hand and dares not to turn his head not really wanting to know what he has done and drops the dagger on the floor. The Mistress is pretty much unharmed but standing nude with her back towards him. She starts to speak in a low tone yet calm voice, "Slave... You have done well in defending yourself, but you will not speak of this to anyone or anytime ever again. Go and bandage yourself, then prepare dinner. I will be down there shortly."

    He immediately runs downstairs not really wanting to see what he has done and places a bandage on his arm to cover the small cut that was bleeding a little. He begins to prepare one of her favorite foods as his mind once again wanders a little wondering what he might have done to her that didn't infuriate her. He can only just guess at what he has done but only a guess. Maybe he did hurt her and didn't know it? Maybe he missed her? He would never know but obeyed her command to not say anything about it to anyone.

    Meanwhile upstairs, as Zekora hears Kieva run off downstairs, she immediately drops the dagger on the floor and somewhat covers herself feeling embarrassment herself with her face flushed. She also felt a little turned on by it but not really realizing it. She never expected the slave to do such a thing or have such moves. Of course she is surprised by all this but doesn't really know that he hadn't seen her body. She kept thinking to herself why would she feel embarrassed if she is the Mistress. It dawned on her now that he was trained to be not only a slave but as a guard as well to keep home safe. That would mean that she was greatly outmatched by him.

    She regains her full composure, fighting off the embarrassment she feels but cannot help but to at least cover her top. She turns to look at the floor and sees the robe, ripped completely in two with one huge part of it missing. She looks further ahead a little and sees the dagger that her slave dropped. She walks over to it and sees the missing cloth which belonged to the top part of her robe. She picks up the mess and throws it all in the trunk not wanting to remember this ever. She grabs another robe and makes sure to cover herself completely still fighting off the embarrassment but is now full of curiosity as to why he did such a thing and wants to know why.

    Kieva hears the footsteps coming down the stairs as he finishes fixing dinner for her. Zekora walks over to the table and sits down ready for her last meal of the day. He brings a big plate of fried fish with a little salad on the side. She immediately sniffs the delicious air which makes her mouth water and sees what he is bringing over to her. He sets it down for her and goes to get his own plate and sits on the floor as he is supposed to and both begin to eat.

    On her first bite of her fish though she is amazed at the cooking skill he has and turns to look down at him, with a tilt on her head. "Slave, your reward tonight for such splendid cooking will be for you to place your plate at the end of the table, sit, and eat." With that he looks up to see his Mistress face and nods and does what he is told to do. Somewhere in the middle of eating she abruptly stops eating not being able to shake off the curiosity shes had for a while now and turns to her slave.

    She asks, "Slave, what move was it that you counter-attacked me with?" Kieva immediately stops eating and swallowed whatever he had in his mouth and looks up to her, somewhat surprised at her question. Tries to answer but nothing would come out of his mouth, only studdering. "Slave.. its okay. I am not mad, just simply curious at your martial arts skill. So tell me, what was that move you pulled off," she asks again very much the same way as before, still looking at her slave in the eyes. He finally gains enough courage to tell her what he did. It turns out that he was trained to first remove whatever kind of armor an enemy might have and then land a hit. 

    She nods lightly and continues to eat fully realising that should could've been hurt or worse, killed. For the rest of the dinner everything was quiet. Zekora finishes her meal and wipes her muzzle with the napkin. As she stands, she once again looks at her slave and says, "Slave, I realize I am out of your league and I need you to train me. We will start at the end of this week." With that she leaves and heads upstairs to take a shower. He is left to ponder at the thought of what she said and now realizes what must be done. 

    Once he finishes eating he picks up the dishes and places them in the sink to wash them. As he washes the last dish he heads upstairs and sees that his Mistress is taking a shower. Not wanting to disturb her, or see anything, he walks outside onto the balcony looking outward towards the sea. His mind wandering with many thoughts as he sniffs the sea air, detecting many scents. He looks toward his bandage in thought about what happened earlier and sighs.

    After a little while, on the corner of his eye, he sees that the lights have been turned off and figures that his Mistress must be asleep by now. He quietly steps in and goes around the corner. He gets down on all fours paws and lays down on the rug, which provided him little comfort at least. His eyes close and he drifts to sleep as his mind wanders free once again with his last thought on his beautiful Mistress.