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Title: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: Masorin on May 22, 2018, 09:21:58 PM
Starfleet Academy 2377,
[08:00 hours tac-con briefing room aboard USS, Independant]

The Instructor was prepping a class of 60, two years mixed together. Nathan was part of the senior class, sitting in the midst of the briefing room, happy to be beyond the teachers gaze. His Call sign Maverick was displayed on his desk. He would be acting as a pilot for what was coming, a week of hell.  After this briefing they would be launching down to the planet below them a class L planet in a sector Nathan didn't care about with a name that Nathan couldn't remember.

"When the excersize starts, You will each go to your designated co-ordinates, at which point your ship will shut down it's main Impulse engine, trapped in the planets atmosphere you will begin a free fall, and are expected to execute a controlled crash landing. Your ship has been given enough supplies for a weeks long trip. As well as orienteering equipment a flare gun, and one academy issued tag phaser. You will all be given a set of coordinates that will be your extraction point. You will make your way there on foot. There will be another team practicing search and destroy, you are their targets, if you get tagged you fail, and will fall into additional classes. Rio's listen to your pilots, Pilots take care of your Rio's The flare gun in your equipment bag is for emergencies if you activate it you and you partner will be transported back to the Independent with a big F on your report card."

"Your ships launch in an hour. Find your partners, and grab your pack bag. Dismissed."

Nathan got up and stretched from his seat, it was a long winded explanation but he had already done this the year prior as a Rio. The most nerve wracking part was the drop. They had done emergency landings in simulations, but this was one of the few live ones that they got to perform one in. Class L's were swampy, lots of vegetation, and a few fauna species, but lack the necessary complexity to develop full born civilizations.

They would be alone once they hit the surface. He scanned the area for his Rio, "Neko over here!"
Title: Re: A midsummer nights heat
Post by: SummerDawn on May 23, 2018, 04:54:17 AM
Neko had been following the briefing, wondering a lot about this particular exercise. She understood it's reasons, born from losses in the Dominion war, but the idea of crashing a plane just to simulate one of these missions seemed wasteful. Of course, doing this on a holodeck also didn't really simulate the whole thing properly. So it was lost in thought, wondering what she would expect when she heard her fellow pilot call her over. He was one of the senior students, he'd been through this before as a RIO, her seat on this mission.

She saw Nathaniel over near of the of the exits of the room, sauntering over she smiled nervously. "Hey Maverrick. Guess we should pack and get rready?" She followed him out into the squad bay, going to her locker. She'd been packed since the night before, everything she thought she might need was in her flight bag. She slung it over her shoulder, her helmet under her other, going over to where Maverick was getting his bag. "So what's the mission like? I mean like actually. We'rre going to crrash a perrfectly good fighterr and trry to stay hidden forr a week?"
Title: Re: A midsummer nights heat
Post by: Masorin on May 23, 2018, 07:24:31 AM
Nathan chuckled at Neko's question about crashing a perfectly good plane, he started to walk alongside her as she asked questions  and he did his best to try and answer them. Though he had to admit he found a great source in amusement in the fact that Neko was literally a cat, a very cute one at that.

"They aren't exactly front line planes. The things we will be flying have been special made. Extra inertial dampening mechanisms, thicker hulls, they are heavier but they are designed for crashing. However due to that they are slow, clunky, and all their weapons are stripped away, we call them cages." He jestured to the planes they passed, sure enough these valkyries had been refit, they looked like fat birds by comparason to the sleeker things that had been used in the past, plus they  all showed burns and dents from previous uses, these things were designed for this exercize.

He started to undress from the tac-con white, to the flight suit, stripping down at his locker and looking to K'Ren. "It's a lot less hiding, and more running, you ever play cat and mouse." He looked at her with a blank stair for a moment. "It's a bit like that, the guns we will be using tag you with a signal to beam you out. if you get beamed out you fail, last year i made it to day 4, this time we are gonna make it all the way to the end."
Title: Re: A midsummer nights heat
Post by: SummerDawn on May 23, 2018, 02:35:10 PM
"You mean like stalk and pounce? And we'rre the prrey this time?" She asked. It made sense that they could find themselves hunted by enemy forces, crashed on a planet and hiding until friendly forces could rescue them. Of course, neither of them had any real way of knowing what the future had in store for them, that K'Ren would find herself the prey in a game of galactic cat & mouse. For now it was just this mission.

She'd already dressed in her flight suit before she'd arrived for the briefing, having just come from some combat flight sims on one of the training holodecks. Young as she was, and still learning the ropes, she'd had her craft shot out under her several times, the last time she'd pancaked her craft and according to the instructor's debrief, she'd killed herself three times over in the ensuing fireball. Now the stakes were real and she wasn't sure if she wanted to crash one for real. Her tail twitched nervously in the special pouch of her suit.

She purred a little as he stripped, Cait's found pleasure in many things, the beauty of symmetry, the elegantly ordered chaos of the natural world, and the lines and curves of the humanoid form. The squad bay's were gender mixed so everyone dressed together, male, female, and other genders, everyone was a fighter pilot and as long as the undergarments remained on, nobody cared. It was perhaps a bit different in the showers, though even then most folks didn't care. For species with differing ideas of modesty a separate shower was provided but K'Ren like most furred species, never worried about being undressed around others, she had a natural covering of fur that obscured her private bits, and preferred a sonic shower head that didn't leave her soaking wet, the Cait equivalent of the wet t shirt contest.

"Well, we do have my sight and hearring Maverrick." She said, grinning though the expression sometimes felt awkward, fangs were never to be shown as it was a sign of aggression. "And my species arre naturral hunterrs so it's not harrd to get into a prrey's mind. Now that we're prrey, I can get into a hunterr's mind."

Once he was in his suit, she looked up at him, "We'll make the week Maverrick. I have no intention of failing this, not when my species are borrn forr the hunt."
Title: Re: A midsummer nights heat
Post by: Masorin on May 25, 2018, 11:52:00 PM
Nathan blinked for a moment when Neko said stalk and pounce. He looked at her ears, and tail, tracing eyes over her furry face, and then nodded softly. He sighed of course her people would have a weird name for it. When she purred at him stripping she would actually get a chuckle out of him. "See something you enjoy." He said turning to her in his boxers for a moment, before shrugging off the responce and starting to dress in his flight suit.

The armor was something they drilled into you, get dressed in under 2 minutes to be ready to launch in a moments notice, Nathan had never been particularly good at that, but still he was able to clip on his suit in the required time if a little slower.  He set their com frequency and headed towards their fighter.

True to his words the modified things they were flying two manned fighters, designed to be heavy, and crash proof. "The guy last year told me that it was fine, that these things plus the suit make it so that you pretty much won't feel a thing as you go into the controlled crash. He said that it was a bit like gliding towards the ground."

"He was a fucking liar, and my advice to you is keep your stomach down till you hit the ground, and then get your helmet off, the last thing you want to do is puke with it still on... trust me." With that his job was pretty much to keep them from crashing too hard. Just because they would survive in this thing didn't mean that he couldn't really fuck up and leave them hurt.  Locking them in, and launching the ship Nathan started a countdown timer in his heads up display.

For the most part sailing towards the planet was smooth, Maverick and Neko would have a clear view of the other fighters as they started to head out after clearance. Nathan's hands were firmly on his controls, and then as they approached their assigned area, there was a warning, and then a preprogrammed malfunction that took their main engines offline, it started slowly at first, with their ship still in drift towards the planet picking up pace as they entered the gravitational pull of the outeratmosphere. Then the inward dampeners down, and the inertia of free fall took over.

Once they were past the stage of reentry the ship was essentially gliding towards a swampland marsh. Nathan struggled with the controls, trying to pull them into a more controlled glide, trying to steer towards the marker that his map was showing, struggling and focusing on the task at hand let him actually keep his mind from focusing on how all of this felt as gravity swayed and the ship now in an oxygen ritch amosphere was working overtime.

Small cusses escaped maverick's lips over and over again, as the rough winds and turbulence continued to knock them around, and then finally he corrected their course enough, and they were far enough into the planet that they could bale safely. Hitting the switch to eject the cockpit the two pilots were bolted away from the plummeting craft after that they would feel things slow significantly till they hit 'ground'.

And then they started to sink, because Nathan had missed their marker, and they had landed in a lake rather than on it's shore.
Title: Re: A midsummer nights heat
Post by: SummerDawn on May 26, 2018, 05:53:05 AM
"I'd rratherr be the hunterr then the hunted, but the goddess doesn't always give us what we wish," K'Ren remarked plainly. To her it was a simple matter of balance, at times the predator became the prey and knowledge of the prey helped when one became one.

The purr itself was semi-autonomic, she could control it to an extent but it usually had a mind of it's own. She wasn't embarrassed that she was purring as he copilot dressed for flight ops and she could see his partly undressed body, It just was and she smiled at him a little. "The humanoid forrm is a wonderrful thing, a balanced forrm, similarr and diverrse. An exprression of the balance in life."

Walking out to the craft she could begin to appreciate just how tough these birds were, how much of a beating they took for just this course. She nodded as he explained what to expect, strapping into her seat in the back as they prepped for launch. It wasn't long before they were on their way and she could watch the systems display's as the engine's cut out and they began the descent into the planet's atmosphere.

It wasn't long, all she had to see were the systems readouts, before she felt the familiar punch of the capsule as it separated from the stricken fighter. She had expected the landing to be harder but as the capsule began to sink into the lake, the water coming up over the transparent aluminum bubble she knew it was time to go. From under the water the only way out was via the manual override as she smacked her, causing a rush of water into the cockpit. The helmet thankfully was designed to offer breathable air in various environments even underwater to a limited extent and K'Ren followed her training, letting the inrush stop before she unstrapped herself and pushed herself free of the sunken craft.

She was grateful for the water tightness of the suit and the fact they'd at least settled in shallow water. She wasn't a good swimmer but the depth of water and the firm bottom she could at least walk to shore in a fashion. She didn't immediately crack her helmet as she broke the surface, the air was unknown and only once her onboard survival computer had kicked in and confirmed the air was safe, did she crack the seals and take in her first breaths of air.

She saw Maverick a few tens of feet from her and she went over, her eyes and ears adjusting to the world, alert for any sort of predator that might be lurking. Though on an alien world, her hearing wasn't as attuned yet to the normal noise this planet made and she felt a bit on edge, knowing there were predators of a fashion out there. Tail twitching she slipped off her helmet. "Quite the starrt to the mission. I assume the waterr landing wasn't planned?"
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: Masorin on August 19, 2018, 07:52:17 PM
"No it wasn't." Nathan said  cracking his own helmet the suit was fine, and thankfully the air was breathable and his suit hadn't been waterlogged, but the water wasn't exactly fresh, and everything they were supposed to have in their supply bag was water logged. Nathan cracked the bag and started to inspect it.

The food was sealed water tight as was the actual drinkable water that they were going to have to rashion out. The only real damage was a cracked screen on the pad with a map, and their weapon's focusing lense was bent slightly causing the aim to shift. Everything else was pretty well salvageable.

He looked around for a moment. Trying to assess where they landed, and why they had been knocked off course. He supposed it could have been an accident. "On the good side of things, being knocked off course means that they will start hunting us in the wrong area, the bad news is that we are gonna have a lot harder time following our map."

The map showed a few lakes,, in the area where they should have crashed. So they just needed to find out which of the four that were sitting on. "The water also means our ship won't be visible, so we can easily cover our tracks. Not the worst thing that could have happened to us in all honesty."

"Once we figure out where we are, we can start to make our way to the objective, but it may be easier to figure out if we wait till night, the sky is clear so we will be able to see the stars, and get our baring from that."
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: SummerDawn on September 02, 2018, 03:16:49 PM
"Perrhaps it best we deparrt the arrea rregardless, give us some distance, make it harrderr forr the enemy to hunt us." Neko suggested. Even as a training exercise she was sure the ground forces hunting them would've seen the fighter off course and be moving into the area. Glancing into the sky she could see the planet was entering it's evening phase, regardless of the ship's time they were going to be dark within a few hours.

She looked around, trying to get her own bearings, taking in the scents and sounds of the alien world. The first rule of being prey was knowing your surroundings, knowing what was normal and what wasn't. It would take some time to adapt, these first 24hrs were crucial for them to get into the rhythm of the mission, but if they survived that, and didn't grow complacent as they made their way to the evac point, they had a chance of getting out of this alive, well, not captured. The planet had been chosen for it's lack of large animal life, mostly plant life though a few small virtually harmless creatures had evolved, perfect for a training ground.

"We need to blend in. The suits may mask ourr heat signaturre but we don't look anything like the naturral envirronment." Neko noted. Rules of the game called for improvisation and the mud around the lakes edge could help with blending in. It wasn't natural for Caits to want to get dirty, their fur was kept pristine but this wasn't her furr, and pristine could get her captured. Scooping up some of the mud, she wiped it all over her suit, making her look dirty but also she hoped, dulling the suit down to something less visible. And it might mask their scent as well, a reason prey rolled in things in the wild, smelling like the environment was a good way to remain unnoticed.
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: Masorin on September 28, 2018, 03:57:38 AM
"Agreed we should stick to areas where the vegetation is more dense and see what we can work with when it comes to camoflauge." Of course the mud helped to paint the white surface of the suit, and would help keep the metal cool in the more humid enviroment but none of this was comfortable. He nodded at the idea that they should keep some distance between the ship and where they were when the hunters were released they would spend the first few hours searching near each of the crash sites.

He started to move picking the direction as they went. For now it was more important that they keep moving and not go in circles rather than just make a B-line for the evac room. The most direct route would do them no favors right now. Starting a course as soon as they were ready he kept what they could. "I remember last year the weather of this planet can shift like a dime, it's humid, so we should find some shelter for tonight."

"It's bound to rain." Nathan said with a soft sigh, and by rain he meant monsoon He pointed towards a cliff off to the distance. "If we can make for that cliff face for the night we should be able to find a cave or some other form of shelter for the night."
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: SummerDawn on October 27, 2018, 05:41:11 AM
K'Ren nodded, her ears still swiveling a little, alert for any unusual sounds, especially artificial sounds a natural environment like this jungle wouldn't make. "Prrogress will be slower, but harrder to trrack." she agreed. Following him as they made their way into the undergrowth along the lake, K'Ren could already feel the humidity seeping into her suit and the fur beneath. She didn't like the humidity, she preferred the drier climates, and sometimes she wondered if her ancestral lands were dry, or if it was just her preference due to growing up on an arid world. Not that it mattered at this moment, she would have to make due but she was looking forward to a proper sonic shower and a stop in a sauna when she made it back to camp.

"I suppose done carrefully we might be able to starrt a small firre to rremain drry, something in the back of the cave if it is deep enough." K'Ren remarked, hoping that would be the case. "I would like to remain drry if possible."
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: Auctor Lucan on November 07, 2021, 12:18:37 PM
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With his exosuit properly covered by the soil of the planet, Nathaniel Isley led the way towards the cliff face in the distance. He could understand the sentiment about wanting to be dry given the heavy humidity, especially if covered with fur like the other Cadet was.

"If we find someplace where the light of the fire can't be seen far and wide, I'd like to set one up too. After that climb ahead of us, no matter the fancy systems it has, the insides of this suit be just as wet at the outside," he said with a chuckle, and adjusted the weight of their supplies and the helmet that hung from it - setting off up the undergrowth of the foothills. "Keep your eyes and ears on the surroundings, while I focus on the path up there."



It had taken hours, without sighting any scouting parties searching for them, so Isley was fairly sure that they would be able to hide for the night in the deep, angled crevice that he'd found. It was fairly level too, making for a natural plateau between the cliff faces, and the angle would keep the firelight from standing out against the low mountainside. The worst bit had been the way the humidity made the rock slippery, and while the sound may have carried farther than they liked, using the thrusters of the exosuits had helped them reach the where they otherwise mightn't have been able to climb. Better yet, by only taking twenty steps out towards the vista of the planet, they would be able to spot any approach towards their hide-away (lest some crazy Cadets actually climbed down the mountainside in order to reach them, which seemed like suicide when looking at the formations above them).

"There will be plenty of smoke at first, given the state of these logs, yet luckily enough we have phasers," he commented when he put the supplies by the wall and unslung the firewood from his shoulder. He'd collected four longer ones which he wedged into a crack in the floor, shaping a rough V-shape, and then stacked the severed logs along the slopes. The fire would be consuming the lowest logs first, and then the rest throughout the night, as long as he got the angles right. Once he finished, he calibrated the setting of his phaser, and lit the fire for them.

"There, that should do it," he said, and began to pick at the seals of his mud-covered exosuit. He couldn't wait to get out of it. "How are you faring, Neko?"
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: SummerDawn on November 07, 2021, 03:54:43 PM
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K'Ren followed Nathaniel as they made their way towards the cliff face, hoping to find some measure of shelter both from prying eyes but also the weather. The planet was humid, the air seemed to hang around in the jungle like a warm damp rag trying to smother them both, making this walk harder then it needed to be. But she also realized that part of what made the exercise so real was exactly this, surviving on an unknown planet, not knowing where you make land fall with your fighter. It could as easily have been ice covered mountains in the polar regions of this world. At least this was closer to her species' planet so while she suspected Nathaniel was sweating it out inside his suit, K'Ren was only panting a little, her species didn't sweat so her suit wasn't getting nearly as damp inside.

When they finally reached the cleft in the rock, she wasn't about to call it a cave, but it was deep enough they could hide out in, she watched as he got to work making a fire. Even as he'd started to pick at his suit, K'Ren was already half out of her suit, and glad to be free of it. In the fighter it wasn't bulky or obtrusive but wandering around it got heavy real quick. She'd gotten the upper torso loose and was working on the legs when he asked her how she was faring. She softly purred. "Well, I'm exhausted afterr that trrek, but glad we have shelterr forr the night." She grinned, "These suits werre not made forr hiking in, I'd leave mine behind if I could. Stick to just my furr, what the goddess gave Caits when she made us." The fire was starting to burn bright as she sat there, the fire dancing across her eyes, making them twinkle a little.
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: Auctor Lucan on November 08, 2021, 01:09:59 PM
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Noticing how his impromptu Caitian RIO was getting completely undressed, and just said she'd prefer it that way instead of the suit, Isley found himself clearing his throat with a smile. "Well, there certainly wouldn't be any complaints from me... but I bet the second you slip and fall, the suit would suddenly become pretty handy, right? Not just out of the sense that you could hurt yourself without it, but all the stuff in the jungle that we just walked through would stick to you as well, wouldn't it?"

Having released the clasps and seals of his suit, Isley was so damp with perspiration inside it that he struggled a bit to get out of it. He managed, though, with a couple of grunts through the process, listening to K'Ren, until he could finally put it aside. He laid down on the stone floor of the crevice, propped up on his elbows, and basked in the warmth of the fire for a moment - eyes closed. His Starfleet issue boxer briefs were sodden through, and he debated rinsing himself with a small portion of their water supply, but for the time being, feeling the fireplace dry out the beads of sweat covering his skin was heavenly. His whole frame was sore from the hike, his calves and thighs aching, and his shoulders hurt from carrying the supplies up the cliff face. The augmented muscle servos had helped, of course, but it was a damn awkward angle to carry things over the shoulder, so his arms were sore from that alone - the blood having yet to settle in his veins.

"Are you hungry by the way?" he asked, opening his eyes to look at her, and while he had little experience with Caitians before that day, he sure enough appreciated their idea of undergarments - letting his eyes feast even though he felt famished otherwise.
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: SummerDawn on November 08, 2021, 03:02:08 PM
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As Nathaniel mentioned that the suit did have certain benefits in the wild, K'Ren was finishing pulling her legs out of the suit, followed by her tail. She stretched a bit, comfortable in the cave, comfortable in her own skin, and glad to be out of that suit, even if just for a few hours. She purred a little in pleasure, watching Nathaniel undress though unlike her, he had regulation undergarments on. K'Ren rarely wore them, her fur ensured little chafing of sensitive places, even the sometimes irritation of fur being rubbed the wrong way wasn't enough to want her to wear anything. Had she known she might be here like this, she might have worn something for modesty, but she hadn't and give a choice between the suit and her comfort (despite the nakedness), she chose the comfort.

"Therre is that Nathaniel, but in the safety of this cave, I prreferr to be without." She'd noticed his gaze, how his eyes lingered on her body. Men's eyes did that even with a uniform on, and while she appreciated the attention, most men averted their gaze the second the uniform came off, but his hadn't, a change she enjoyed. She wondered just how far that gaze might go, if the man wanted more, desired more. K'Ren was not about to turn down a handsome male like Nathaniel if he tried to seduce her, she wasn't exactly one to turn down a little fun if it came her way, she'd been known to persue a lover or two.

She smiled back at Nathaniel, "I am not hungrry, at least not forr what's in those rration packs." It was forward, perhaps a bit too forward, but K'Ren was in the mood, had been the last few days. She'd hoped this training exercise might work off some of the energy, but in this cave, resting, she was wrong. She also knew that if Nathaniel wasn't willing to reciprocate, she would just have to deal with it in other ways.
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: Auctor Lucan on November 08, 2021, 04:46:37 PM
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Having reached for the water, Isley was glad he'd yet to take a sip because her reply might have made him choke on it.

Does s-she mean what I think she meant? No, better to play it safe since he couldn't quite tell for sure, and he wasn't about to assume too much when it came to such matters. The rest of the training excursion would become rather awkward then.

"Well, I mean, I would offer to go out and hunt some wildlife for you. I have a knife so I could prepare it and cook it over the fire too," he said with a chuckle and remained where he laid next to the fire, propped up on his elbows. "Unfortunately, the mission brief said there was no game-worthy fauna on this planet, so all I could phaser for you would be insects, if that..."

The warmth of the fire, and the heat of her gaze upon him, it definitely kept him from freezing even when out of the suit. In fact, with the atmosphere of the fire-lit cave getting warmer by the moment, and like the shadows along the walls of stone surrounding them, Nathan's thoughts began to dance along the lines of what two poor Cadets might do to kill some time before going to sleep. The notion intrigued him, and he hoped he may have read the situation - and her intents - correctly when he belatedly added.

"So if there is something else you want... there's just us here," he said, smiling back at her.
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: SummerDawn on November 09, 2021, 03:43:56 AM
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K'Ren chuckled a little, purring as Nathaniel said he would go hunt small animals with his hands and a knife if she wished something aside from rations. "While the offerr is touching Nathaniel, therre arre few animals to hunt as you noted," she flexed a paw extending and retracting her claws, "and I am equipped to hunt prrey. Few Caet do hunt though, even myself," she noted. She scooted a little closer to Nathaniel, grateful for the company, even if what she desired was a bit more intimate.

The warmth in the cave was nice, an improvement from the suit even if that did offer climate control, this natural feeling of dry heat mixing with the moist air of the jungle was comfortable, comfortable enough she could easily nod off and nap if she wished. She didn't want to, not yet, not until she knew if Nathaniel was interested or not. She'd not expected them to be hiding in a cave, perfect conditions to let her desires run wild. She looked at him, purring, "I know it is just us, two healthy young cadets stuck on a planet hiding and awaiting rescue." She paused, leaning over and placing a paw on his hand. "What do you think it is I want?" She wanted to hear him say it before she tried anything, understanding how awkward it would be if she  offered him intimacy and he said no.
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: Auctor Lucan on November 09, 2021, 02:50:28 PM
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Feeling her fingers on top of his hand, and hearing her query, Isley was fairly sure of his answer. Her proximity and the heat of her gaze was already making him quicken, but he made no bodily movement otherwise - though the corners of his eyes creased further with his smile.

"Why I think you may be suggesting... 'extra-curricular activities', not entirely within the bounds of advanced flight training," he said with a chuckle, and tilted his head a bit. "I suppose it might be justified, right? We need to keep warm through the night, and what better way than share some body heat? That's at least how I remember survival training."

Slowly, he reached across his chest and ran his fingers over the nape of her neck, feeling the soft hairs while looking into her slitted eyes. Gently, he pulled her in, to slant his lips across hers, and to taste her. Eventually, his hand would stray from her neck, down her chest and her side, enjoying the sensation of her light fur underneath his calloused hand.
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: SummerDawn on November 12, 2021, 04:06:12 AM
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K'Ren purred as Nathaniel responded by suggesting she was thinking of extra-curricular activities, human slang for getting intimate. His tilt of his head only emboldened her, and she scooted the rest of the way, sitting beside him, their bodies almost touching. "Keeping warrm is a good way to pass the night Nathaniel," she cocked her head a little, leaning in to Nathaniel as he ran his fingers over her neck, the soft touch of her fellow cadet welcome in that moment. The touch became a kiss, pulling them closer, their lips touching as firelight danced over their faces.

His hand straying down her side was arousing, her own free hand went to his chest, feeling this young man, the strength in his body, the firmness of a fit male. Her hand drifted lower, fingers tracing his abs as they kept kissing. She wanted him, in this moment she wanted him, wanted nothing else but him, to explore his body, feel him explore her, engaged in a carnal dance driven by nervous energy. Moving her paw to his hand, she guided it back up to one of her fur covered breasts, "Explorre. I enjoy the touch of a strrong man on my body." She purred and hopped onto his lap, straddling him as he sat there. Resting her arms on his neck she purred, kissing him. "We need to get verry close to stay warm, verry close."
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: Auctor Lucan on November 18, 2021, 04:21:13 PM
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Whatever chill may have remained from the humidity and the wind was long gone at that moment, as the heat of their mutual wishes brought them together by the fire.

When K'Ren straddled Isley, he sat up a bit more so that she wouldn't have to lean down so far when returning his kiss. That, however, caused her diminutive weight to press firmly down unto his hardened state, which elicited a sound from deep down in his throat. He obliged her wish in full, nonetheless, as his hands slowly roamed over her bared body. With her in his lap, he could reach behind her as well, and as the wish to taste the hybrid Caitian's neck overcame him, he leaned down to do so, while his hands travelled down to the base of her tail. He cupped her derriere with his fingers, while he stroked the area just above the tail with his thumb. Isley was a hybrid too, and he felt the passions he'd been taught to control rise, and unlike the Vulcan teachings had made him do, he didn't fight the urge to be with this fellow Cadet, whom obviously wanted him in kind.

His mouth ventured from her neck to the top of her chest, and in due time, when leaning her back over his arms, he took a nipple into his warm mouth - teasing it while he savoured the taste of her. Given that she was so keen that he'd explore her body, he got the idea to oblige her further, curious as he was whether or not she was enjoying herself as much as she seemed to. He did so by - while one thumb remained above her tail, reaching further down with his other hand - fingertips traversing the liquid heat that he expected to find betwixt her spread legs.
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: SummerDawn on November 19, 2021, 02:47:30 PM
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K'Ren could feel, as her weight settled in his lap, that his body was responding like any other healthy warm blooded male would, a certain desirable part was swollen, rigid and ready for her. His groan as she settled down on it, nestled between her thighs told her enough that she'd made the right choice to seduce him. The cloth that separated them held it captive, leaving her glad as in her current state, she'd have hopped on, but this forced her to go slower, enjoy other aspects of being intimate, his touch, his lips, all the other delectable parts of a man that she enjoyed.

She matched his throaty rumble with her own as his hands settled on her hips, his one digit going to the base of her tail, rubbing it, making her whine just a little through the purr. Deities, how did he know that spot felt so good? Asking was out of the question, there would be time enough for that, for now she planted her lips on his, briefly, tasting the man she making love to, before breaking the kiss to let him roam her body freely. Her paws roamed his body, touching and caressing his chest, his abs, his flanks, anywhere her paws could find as his lips  wandered along her neck, her chest, settling on her breasts.

Her purr only deepened as he took one pert nipple in his mouth, her hips starting to slowly rock, riding the length of his cloth covered erection. She wanted him, she needed him to take that last cloth barrier off, free himself from the confines of his boxers, trade the boxers for her moist wet warmth, bury himself where he belonged. She gasped a little when instead his fingers found her moist and needy, her body ready for him. Fingers would only tease, but it built up the tension, the passion, and she moaned, leaning into his neck she moaned as his fingers danced in that gap between her thighs. There was only so much a women could take, especially a young Caet going through a season. "Nathan," she purred softly between moans, "Loverrr. Don't tease me, take me, ravish me."
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: Auctor Lucan on November 19, 2021, 04:16:25 PM
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The Caitian Cadet was responding to him, teasing her as he might but she'd asked, so he was merely doing her bidding. He was quite enjoying himself too, for she knew exactly what she was doing to him - grinding herself against him as she were.

"Patience," he managed to say in response, a mischievous smile playing on his lips as he gently laid her down on the warm stone flooring of the cave. Doing so took the pressure off his hardness, and his fingers vacated her as well. He wasn't about to just enjoy the view of her in the firelight - even it gave him pause - for he settled down between her spread legs and sated his curiosity of what she tasted like. He laid his mouth against her nether lips, and delved her depths with his tongue. He already knew, from a previous tryst in the first year of the Academy, that she'd differed from most humanoids in that her passage was covered in small fleshy nubs along its walls, and he felt them immediately.

Meanwhile, his hands caressed her warm, writhing body - as far as he might reach. He knew he was teasing her still, but rather than letting this opportunity pass too quickly, he was going to take his time and savour it. Perhaps he might even drive her to a first climax with his ministrations, and in the interest of doing so, he soon let two fingers join his curious tongue - delving inside her warmth where his tongue hadn't been able to reach. Instead, he licked the dewy nub he'd found at the top of her lips, teasing it directly in anticipation of how she'd react.
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Post by: SummerDawn on November 19, 2021, 11:43:39 PM
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Her purring didn't stop as Nathan told her to be patient, a smile on his face that gave away his plans to make her wait, to toy with her. As much as she wanted him, needed him to fill her, his fingers pulling back, leaving her achingly empty, she let him roll her onto her back, tail twitching, looking up at her lover. She expected him to mount her, remove his boxers and take her here on the warm floor of the cave, but when he paused, she looked up at him, fire dancing in her eyes even as her own lust smoldered.

Moans escaped her lips as he dove between her thighs, his face burying itself down there, the feeling of his tongue toying with her pleasure center, flicking her nub sending shivers up her spine, her body moving beneath his ministrations. She couldn't help it, he was hitting all her spots at once it seemed, and she mewled as his tongue, and now two fingers dove into her canal, teasing her, making her writhe in pleasure. "Nathan," she moaned out, calling his name, almost begging, almost pleading in her voice. Begging for what? Release? To stop? To take her? Even she wasn't sure as she lay there, her pussy (an ironic term given her species) being eaten out by her fellow cadet and lover.
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: Auctor Lucan on November 23, 2021, 03:39:46 PM
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Bathed in firelight, K'Ren was responding fully to what he was doing to her, and Isley enjoyed hearing the sounds she made, and the manner in which she would writhe in answer to his touch.

The way her sounds echoed against the high walls of the cave was enticing him as well, and the same manner in which he'd urged the Caitan Cadet to exercise patience was something he now told himself, since he wanted her too, but still didn't feel any need to force the event and let it be over too soon. So, Isley took his time, to see if he could make her come by his touch and tongue alone.

Eventually, when he felt the moment had come, he'd withdrew from her - sitting back on the cave floor. He reckoned she wanted him quite dearly, but as eager as she was, he wondered if he might tease her still, and make her return the favour. "Is this what you want?" he asked her playfully and stood up in the firelight - towering over her. "Well, come and get it then..."

He smirked, knowing how he was teasing her, and was curious as to how much more she was willing to play before he gave her what they both wanted.
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: SummerDawn on November 29, 2021, 02:46:15 PM
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K'Ren's almost begging didn't stop the man, if anything it provoked him to continue this oral pleasure, driving her mad. She wanted him above, between her, pressed deep inside her. Such was the heat that she needed Nathan to take her, mate with her, sate the urges, if only for a day or so to permit them to make progress. If they lasted a week this was going to be the first of several times they danced like this, though part of her doubted so comfortably in a warm cave like this.

She mewled as Nathan withdrew his ministrations, teasing her with his words, asking her if that was what she wanted. Of course it was, and when he told her she had to come and get it, K'Ren rolled over, a half-curled half-kneeling position. She growled at him, lust completely consuming her, claws on her hind toes coming out. "Yesss," she hissed as she launched herself at the cadet, hind legs launching her forward. She crashed into the naked cadet, sending him rolling across the hard floor along with her. There'd be some bruises in the morning but she didn't care, she wanted Nathan and if this was how he wanted to play, she'd play the game.

When they finally came to rest, K'Ren lay on top, grinning at Nathan. "Don't everr toy with a female in heat loverr, you want to mate, mate with herr. Don't pussyfoot and play arround with me, come take me." She remarked, taking his cock in one hand, stroking it. She held it close to her body, pointed at her slit as she began to lower it down, pausing just as the glans rubbed against her furr around her, and with two fingers she spread her folds, enveloping the tip. She hoped he got the hint, wrested control from her, made her his lover, made her submit to him and take what he gave her.
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: Auctor Lucan on November 29, 2021, 05:04:37 PM
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Oh, her point had been made clear enough - bruised and discombobulated as Isley had become.

But more so, it was plain by her touch, and her stroking motions, that she was keen to mate rather than play around. Was she in heat? She probably was, but as a Starfleet officer in training, he was taking the inhibitors that would keep him from siring a child with her, so there were no longer ramifications to fear from obliging her dire wishes. Her forceful insistence was rather enticing as well, beyond the obvious development of her touching him, and guiding him to where she wanted him. So as he found his wits after the brief commotion, he returned her grin with one of his own.

"Very well then," he murmured, and forcefully seized her hips "No more foreplay."

And as he said it, he clenched his jaw and pushed her down unto himself - traversing her depths as far as he might in one stroke. As wet as she was, she could almost take the whole of him immediately. He lifted her up by the hips soon enough, grunting, and then drove her down all the way. Only then did he slowly begin to build up a slow rhythm, using his hands and his hips to begin the dance.
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: SummerDawn on December 02, 2021, 02:54:30 PM
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She purred, looking down at him, paused in this awkward place of just the tip, his glans burrowed between her nether lips, but not in yet, not all the way. She was in heat and while there were suppressants she could take, had taken, there were limits to what they could do. Even with suppressants finding a male to be close to during the week of the season was best, helped alleviate the feelings the suppressant couldn't. Here and now that was Nathaniel, who was grinning up at her also.

His words of no more foreplay were enough for her, hands on her hips pulling down, wrapping around his shaft as she sunk onto Nathaniel. He pulled her down with some need and she purred, mewling a little as he filled her depths. She leaned forward, supporting her weight on her elbows, looking into the eyes of the man who was to be her lover for the week. She kissed him, fingers running along his jaw line, purring as their hips moved together, content in this moment.

"I am in heat Nathaniel," K'Ren admitted, "But even with suppressants, the need to be intimate is strong, and if we don't mate like this, I'll go almost feral by the end of the week." She kissed him, "Trrust me, being arround a ferral Caet in heat is not something to enjoy." Her body was setting a nice comfortable, slow rhythm with him, and she was enjoying this closeness, the urgent need calming as they made love. She wanted him to be comfortable with this, as 'in heat' implied to most humanoids a period of fertility almost always resulting in the female being pregnant. "Therre arre no expectations of this week, when it is overr, we can parrt ways, no attachments, no demands, just memorries of a pleasurrable week spent togetherr." She paused, "No cubs will come of this, and even if one did, my kind do not expect the sirre to take rresponsibility forr the cub."
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: Auctor Lucan on December 09, 2021, 03:31:23 PM
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As distracting as the sensations of what they were doing were, Isley heard her speak to him - her breathy words wafting against his face. The sounds of their lovemaking, mixed with the crackling of the fireplace and the minute howl of the wind through the crevice, it served as an equally surreal and enticing backdrop to her words.

Caught up in the moment, Isley almost forgot to answer... if any answer was even needed at that point. It would seem clear he was committed already, rocking as he did upon the stone floor of their hideaway - meeting every motion she made in concert with their mutual desires. His fingers spanned her derriere, the feeling of her undulating hips enhanced by the manner in which her body moved under his touch. He felt the peaks of her breasts, hardened in answer to him, brush against his chest like every other strand of hair upon her lithe body. He recalled how she enjoyed his teasing touch, and made sure to run the fingers of one hand over the area at the base of her tail. Throughout the development, interlaced with with words and the shallow breaths that sprung from his throat, he enjoyed the taste of her lips.

"Not that it matters anyway, but my kind do," he said, unsure if he bespoke his Human or Vulcan heritage - both? - unaware as of yet that he wasn't the latter. It wouldn't be until a couple of years later, after K'Ren would be lost on the Resovle, that Nathaniel Isley would learn the truth about his mother T'Mei, and the fact that he had two half brothers that had already served or left Starfleet. In fact, his half brother would show up at Starbase 84, the very day when Isley and K'Ren's paths would cross again. As it were, he grinned against her lips. "I think I will enjoy this kind of exercise... even if it had little to do with the training itself."

That was when he rolled them over, so that she ended up on her back, and he began to move against her like the waves would hit the shore.

Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: SummerDawn on December 21, 2021, 03:57:18 PM
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"I know, but Caet do not, and it's only fairr you know." She grinned, kissing him, rocking her hips, driving him into her core, riding this man, this hybrid like her, this child of two worlds. She ran a nail along his cheek, purring as she looked into his eyes, "I think by the time this week is overr, we'll have both enjoyed it immensly. Perrhaps not what the exerrcise had in mind when they pairred us up, but everry exerrcise is differrent, no?"

She didn't expect him to roll them over, but as she came to rest on her back, she looked up at Nathaniel. Pulling him down to her as they moved togother in rythm, she whispered in his ear before kissing him, "Now use that vulcan strrength and human passion to show me just how good you arre. I want to yowl by the time you finish with me loverr." She wrapped her leg's around his thighs as the words came out of her lips and she kissed him. In this moment she wanted Nathaniel to show her why he was a good choice, why she'd chosen him to mate with. Granted there'd not been any real choice, but outside of this mission, she'd have approached him, so to her mind she'd chosen him regardless.
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: Auctor Lucan on December 29, 2021, 04:33:37 PM
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There was hardly any need to ask twice, for Nathaniel was of the same mind as her.

Wrapping one arm behind her shoulders to keep her from being pushed across the stone she lay upon, he applied himself fully once she had her legs wrapped around his waist. Of course he wouldn't hurt her, but he didn't treat her as if she was made of glass either. Despite how single-minded they were becoming when it came to this blood-raging struggle to sate their passions.

His hair hung around their faces - concealing the light from the fire. His free hand raked back her hair from her fiery eyes, and he took the moment to meet her gaze fully - seeing every nuance of her reaction. Where he might reach, he caressed her, yet by then his will was dominated by by the feeling of her around him. His composure was reeling by the way she moved and how she responded. The grind of her hips against his own. Her aqueous clutch around him.

Eventually, Nathaniel sat back between her spread legs, still staring down into her eyes where she lay beneath him. He watched the flutter of her breath on her chest, and her flushed complexion in the firelight with a smile. His hands had run down to her hips, and with his grip and the leverage of his upright position, he applied himself to a pace he couldn't muster before, meaning to bring them both across the threshold. One of many in the week to come.
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Post by: SummerDawn on December 31, 2021, 03:02:22 PM
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K'Ren knew Romulans were stronger then humans by a good margin, and Caet females wouldn't win any strength contests against either. That Nathaniel did not treat her like some delicate object, easily broken, but used his strength in appropriate measure only made the sex that much better. She felt she could let herself go, knowing he'd meet her passion but never overpower her, he'd leave her sated but unhurt. She looked up at his as he brushed her mane from her eyes, the passion and the hunger dancing in her eyes lit by the firelight in the cave. She saw equal measures in his own, a depth of passion only a Romulan could muster, a depth the Vulcan's hid for fear of losing control, while Romulan's channeled the passion.

The shift in position, his sitting up as he remained deep in her core, changed how he felt how he pleasured her with each thrust. The pace he set, grabbing her hips to pull her closer to him, her hips rocking to meet his thrusts, she began to mewl a little, the pleasure building intensly, her passion nearing it's peak. "Nathaniel. Loverr. I am," shew mewled followed by a soft moan, "I am close. Brreed me, finish this. Fill me." Her paws were at his hips, claws slightly extended as they dug a little into his hips, holding him close, unwilling to release him until she felt his release inside her.

She knew she wasn't thinking fully, speaking with her heart and passion, but for a Caet female in heat, even protected, the biological need was to reproduce and for a male of her kind, it would stimulate certain urges inside him as well. For a non-Caet it might just seem like dirty talk or even an obsessive focus on reproduction, but for her in that moment, she was yielding to her body's needs, the inflamed passions only a man could quench roiling inside her body, his release would bring temporary peace to her body as he filled her.
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: Auctor Lucan on January 07, 2022, 01:12:52 PM
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At that point, hearing her and feeling the needy prick of her claws, Nathaniel wasn't holding back. He didn't have any kind of intention to conserve himself for her sake, so he railed her as hard as he could without hurting her - meaning to drive both himself and her over the precipice.

So when the moment came, he almost cried out, but at the back of his head, he had the situational awareness of the fact that the crevice in which they hid would amplify the noise for miles through the quiet nightscape of the planet. So he bit down on his euphoria, grunting hard as he spent himself inside the other Cadet, giving her what she wanted even though there would be no hybrid kittens born from their extracurricular games.

In the aftermath, as his blood cooled, so did the beads of sweat formed on his skin - chilled by the nocturnal air. Lethargic motions were a part of the cool-down as well, continued thrusts made to savour the finale, until he finally vacated K'Ren and let go of her hips. He lay down on his back next to her, the fireplace substituting any need for a blanket, and ran a hand through his hair and across the light beard on his skin. "I think I will be enjoying this week, as long as we can keep from getting caught..."


OOC: Feel free to change the time and scenery in your next one! I figured you wanted to make another reply to this one? :)
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: SummerDawn on January 09, 2022, 03:48:28 PM
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K'Ren was on the precipice of her release, her body yielding to the pleasure built up inside, the unyielding movement of Nathaniel inside her belly. She felt the edge, felt his final hard thrust as he drove deep, emptying himself into her and K'Ren mewled, the pleasure, her release, his release, all she wanted in that moment, mated to a man who was sating her heat.

She looked at him, a pleased smile, a soft grin as he rolled off her, looking at each other as they shared a moment together. "It is always a pleasurrable week Nathaniel, though farr less intense then without the drrugs I took beforrehand." She purred, "Without the drrugs, a Caet couple would hide away forr a week, only coming out when the female's season was satisfied. Family would brring food forr the couple, but only females would cross overr to deliver food. Males know that to crross overr was seen as a challenge, and unless the male wanted to challenge, it was best he rremained outside."

She kissed him, curling up with him as the two fell asleep in the warmth of the cave. K'Ren purred as she fell to sleep, curling up against her lover, wanting the closeness of the male she was with.


--- Four Days Later ---

The next few days, travelling towards the designated pickup spot, they encountered a few patrols they were able to avoid thanks to Nathaniel's experience and K'Ren's senses. Day's were filled with travelling, nights with passion by the small fires they were forced to light to remain dry(ish). A few times the passion took the better of them and they paused mid-trek to release her tension.

It was on the fourth night however their luck ran out. They'd gotten complacent with the fires, and that evening while they lay together, Nathaniel spilling his seed into K'Ren, four masked figures stepped out of the bushes, phasers raised, and fired on the two cadets.

K'Ren woke up in sickbay an hour later, a bit confused where she was. She soon realized she was aboard a starship, the training vessel, why a nurse ran some decon gear over her body. "Welcome back cadet." the nurse said, "You'll be debriefed in an hour, I'm just ensuring you're healthy and fit for duty."

K'Ren nodded, "Nathaniel?" The nurse nodded, "Discharged ten minutes ago, we wanted to keep you a bit longer, you had a few more parasites in you and your season didn't help matters."
Title: Re: Starfleet Academy: A Midsummer Night's Heat
Post by: Auctor Lucan on January 28, 2022, 03:39:22 PM
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Leaving sickbay behind after he was discharged, walking the corridor with a duffel bag over his shoulder and wearing a newly replicated uniform, Nathaniel regretted how he hadn't been able to stay with K'Ren for when she'd woken up.

Perhaps it was for the better, since he was in a sour mood after the defeat. They had failed, caught unawares and stunned, and the training had come to an end on their part. It wouldn't look good on their service record, he reckoned, but he hoped the full report would mention how many days they had successfully avoided the patrols.

He suspected, also, that they might have been more successful if they hadn't been so entirely distracted by each other. Even though he didn't harbour any romantic attachment to the other Cadet, she had been fun company. He suspected that since she'd been in season, he hadn't really got to know her on a personal level either. He'd just happened to be a convenient scratching pole, the timing of her crazy spell happening to coincide with the training week, so he doubted K'Ren held any kind of attachment towards him either.

Perhaps I'll see her at the debriefing, but after that? We'll be serving on two different ships entirely. One day, perhaps, we'll meet again.

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