Chapter 3: A Dragon’s Rider

Fain whimpered softly as the girl bopped him on his nose hard again. She was clearly irritated by the situation, a point she kept repeating in between bonking him.

“You fuck me, fly me off to god knows where and expect me to just ‘be your mate’?” She said with a slanted tone in her voice that Fain wasn’t fully familiar with. Mostly he was confused. He had explained the situation and his intentions fairly clearly, he thought, and yet this girl kept repeating the situation to him.

At least her frenetic bonking made her breasts bounce with each vigorous motion of her arms so he had something pleasant to look at while enduring the blows. She wasn’t really hurting him anyway and it would be hard for her to do with no weapons, or for that matter clothes.

Was that why she was annoyed? He had flown off with her right after knotting her. Anything that she had had with her was left on the river bank back where they had met. Still it wasn’t a big deal; afterall her thick fur coat would keep her warm form the cold, the clothes were unnecessary, especially around her new mate.

Eventually the annoyed blue girl tired herself out and took to pacing around his new cave, flickering lights of the small fire he had made dancing over her body in a rather eye catching way. After a few minutes without any resumption of bonking he decided to speak, “So… uh... can we talk now? Uh... babe?”

The girl blinked, “Babe?”

“it’s a term of endearment for…”

“I know what it means” She snapped at him then took a deep breath to calm herself, “What is confusing me is WHY?”

“Why’d I use a term of endearment?”

“No. WHY are you even interested in me? In case you haven’t noticed, I’m NOT a dragon!”

Fain looked down a little and bit his lip, trying to figure out what to say, “No. you aren’t and… well I just…”

“Just what, exactly?”

“I think you’re the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.”

The girl scoffed and looked away, but for a second fain thought he say a slight flush of red in her cheeks, but didn’t reply.

Fain continued, “I was told I should find a mate and a rider… I was… I was looking for one or the other, I didn’t find any dragoness…” Fain started pacing around the cave to calm his stammering voice. His four large clawed feet scraping the ground as he went, “When I saw a biped like you, I thought I should come in and check if they might be a good rider… but when I saw you. You were just so pretty that… well.”

“You decided to make me your mate. My opinion not withstanding?” the girl glared at him again then seemed to pause and think about something for a long moment, “Wait, did you say you were looking for a rider?”

Fain nodded, glad to see his female was showing an emotion other than anger, “Yes. And I know a rider is supposed to be of one of the biped races, like you, so I was looking, and…. Well, I found you.”

The girl cocked her head, “Was I the first one you found?”

Fain nodded which seemed to cause the girl some confusion as she rubbed her temples.

The girl looked at him a more sympathetic expression on her face and a softer tone in her voice “Do you even KNOW what being a dragon’s rider means?”

“Well, the… the sisters told me it’s like a bond with magic and stuff.”

“That … is a basic overview” The girl said, trailing off and pondering something to herself, “Ok… so what if…. I was… willing to be a dragon’s rider?”

“That would be GREAT!” Fain said half jumping into the air. He wasn’t sure why the girl was so much more amenable to the rider idea than she evidently was to the mate idea, and at the moment he barely cared, “If you were my rider and my mate, that would solve both my goals at once!”
“So that’s your price huh? Be your mate and you’ll make me your rider too?”

“Price? I mean its just easier that way, right?” Fain did a head tilt. He had a feeling he was missing something, but wasn’t sure what it was. The girl though seemed to get it, which was good, he hoped, “Oh right. My name is Fain. I didn’t tell you that before.”

“I’m Kate” The girl said, “So. Do you know how binding a rider works?”

“Uh. It’s like my soul touching yours… I think... it supposed to come naturally, but no… not really.”

Kate walked over to him, “Well I read some old legends about it, so let’s see. I’m supposed to put my hand on your chest” She placed her hand on him, “And you are supposed to reach out with your mind to me.”

Fain concentrated. Trying to do what the girl was saying. It didn’t seem to be working for a long moment, until eventually he started to see something. Well maybe feel was a better word for it. He could feel energy inside Kate’s body, and similar though larger energy inside his own. This must have been the ‘soul’ that the sisters had mentioned to him. He pushed his outward towards hers, until they started to touch. Something about it felt right, this was how one got a rider, he just knew it.

Suddenly the two glowing lights connected and merged into one larger one. Fain felt himself lurch inside a the sudden shift. The strange energy no longer had a border between him and her. Each of their ‘souls’ had merged into one larger light. He hoped he did it right. The girl had a wide toothy, though slightly tilted, grin on her face so evidently, he had.

“I’m a dragon rider” Kate muttered to herself, her grin widening and the look in her eyes intensifying as she spoke, “like the knights of yore… like the great wizards, and like the imperial guard… I…. I…”

“You’re my mate too, right?” Fain chirped happily.

Kate seemed startled by that and came back to reality, “Uh… right… yes… I suppose I am that as well, Fain.”

Fain barked happily and pushed against his new mate. Easing her onto her back. She squirmed a bit in surprise at first, but didn’t complain nearly as loudly as before. He got on top of her like at the river.

“Already?” Kate asked him from below. Then she let out a long sigh, “I suppose I did agree.”

Fain felt her legs on his side and she spread herself for him. With all too much happiness he lined himself up again and began to couple with his mate. If anything, it was even more amazing than last time. Kate not quite small enough to fully be concealed by his draconic form. Her upper body and head were still revealed so he could see the wide mouth expression of pleasure on his face as they began to mate. Instead of grunts of complaint she moaned and rocked her hips against him. Matching his thrusts with her own as her body took his size, but just barely. The tightness was driving him just as nuts as last time and it took only a few minutes before the pair were rocking faster and faster towards their mutual climax.

His mate clamped down on him crying out, and he roared in response, hilting fully and feeling extra thickness as his knot once again stretched inside her, holding her against his belly. He couldn’t imagine ever being happier.