Three Square Meals Ch. 023

"Yeah!!!" Calara whooped with elation.

Before the Drakkar could react, Calara cycled to the Invictus' beams, unloading all six into the yawning crater in the massive cruiser's armour. The coruscating energy beams lanced into the enemy ship, devastating the internals of the vessel, before punching out the left side of the hull.

She finally cycled to the laser cannons and began to pour laser blasts into the gaping weak spot in the Drakkar's heavily armoured hull, debris fragments exploding outwards from the cascade of laser fire. The Drakkar attempted to react to the lethal ambush that had assaulted them from behind, turning their ship to try and protect the crippled rear of the vessel.

The Latina ceased fire when she no longer had a clear shot at the enemy's rear and she rolled the assault cruiser awkwardly and pulled away, trying to escape the terrible vengeance of the enraged Drakkar. A barrage of purple beams lashed out at the Invictus, scything over the shields with powerful blasts of focused energy and causing the shield status hologram to go from a healthy bright green to a sickly dark red in a matter of seconds.

Calara glanced at the shield strength in fear, seeing that they only had 12% shields left and the Drakkar was pursuing her and still in range for another barrage. Bracing herself for the coup de grace, she squeezed her eyes shut, cursing herself for not being able to save the ship or her crewmates. When the killing blow never landed, she cautiously opened her eyes again to see what had happened.

Both she and the Drakkar had forgotten the Ashanath, they had been so intent on fighting one another. As the Drakkar cruiser moved to pursue the fleeing Invictus, the Grey's had suddenly been presented with the perfect target and the two remaining Ashanath ships poured an unceasing salvo of bright red beams into the exposed inner hull of the enemy ship. Explosions rocked the enormous cruiser as the beams cut through the internals of the ship and with a stroke of luck, one of the beams speared the power core.

Calara watched in awe as the huge enemy vessel listed on its side, then detonated in a tremendous explosion. The ruptured fusion core consumed the Drakkar with its violent death throes, sending a tremendous blast wave out from the devastated ship. The Invictus trembled as it rode out the blast wave, the severely weakened shields just barely strong enough to protect them.

She breathed out a huge sigh of relief and slumped in her chair, never imagining she would be so relieved a fight was over. A light flashed on her console indicating an incoming hail and she pressed the corresponding button that would answer the call.

The image of a grey skinned humanoid filled the vid-feed, its huge unblinking black eyes focusing on Calara.

"This is Leader Linnaeus. Where is JohnBlake?" the Grey commander asked in its whispery voice.

"John was fighting off a Drakkar boarding action. It's just me on the bridge at the moment." Calara said, unsure of the protocol in this situation.

"We wish to apologise for the attack on your vessel within Ashanath territory." Leader Linnaeus murmured in his quiet eerie voice.

He didn't sound very sorry, but the Grey's hadn't shown any emotion yet, so Calara assumed that's just the way they were.

"Apology accepted Leader Linnaeus." Calara said graciously. "But we were crippled when the Drakkar attacked and our FTL drive has been destroyed. Would you be able to tow us to a safe port please?" she asked politely.

Linnaeus nodded his agreement and ended the call abruptly.

"Thanks!" Calara said to herself with a wry smile, rolling her eyes at the odd way the Grey's seemed to ignore normal human dialogue pleasantries. She turned the Invictus around, heading back to the survivors of the Ashanath patrol and brought her ship to a halt near the friendly vessels.

She watched the lead Grey vessel move in closer to a towing position, securing the connection to the Invictus with a powerful tractor beam. Calara stood up wearily as she saw the second Grey ship move to the rear of the Invictus and they secured their own connection in the same way. A few moments later, the Ashanath jumped into hyper warp, carrying the wounded assault cruiser with them and the fatigued brunette could see that they were continuing on the same course towards Ashana. The helpful digital readout to the side of their course on the sector map, showed that it would take 12 hours to complete the route.

Calara walked back to the elevator, the elation of the victory against the Drakkar short lived, as she began to worry about her shipmates. She stepped inside and pressed the button that would take her down to deck 7, where she had left Jade quite literally nursing her wounded friends.

The lift arrived at her destination and she walked briskly down the corridor, stepping carefully over the remains of the Drakkar raiders outside the door to the gym. She glanced at the button by the side of the door into the gym and saw that it was currently backlit in red, indicating that the door was locked. Praying that there were no more angry Drakkar in there waiting to bust through the door, Calara darted down the last few metres of corridor and stepped into the engineering bay.

Her heart lifted immediately when she saw that Alyssa and Dana were now both conscious and were lying back comfortably, resting their heads in Jade's lap. The two teenagers turned to watch the Latina enter the room and smiled weakly at the happy brunette.

"Oh thank goodness you're ok!" Calara said as she rushed over to their side. "How are you both feeling?" she asked, her face showing her concern.

"I've got a splitting headache." Dana grumbled, already showing more colour than when Calara had left her.

"But considering the circumstances, I can't really complain." Dana said with a wry smile.

"I thought I'd lost you for a moment there." Calara said to the redhead with a shuddering sigh, recalling just how close it had been.

She looked up at the contented face of the green skinned Nymph. "You were wonderful Jade, thank you!"

"It was my pleasure to assist Calara." Jade said, smiling at her warmly.

"How about you Alyssa?" Calara asked, looking at her blonde friend with concern.

"Let's put it this way, I don't want to ever get shot by a heavy weapon again!" Alyssa said, wincing with discomfort at the still tender wound on her back.

Jade was watching her fondly and brushed her green hand through Alyssa's blonde hair comfortingly.

"This one will feed you again later Alyssa, once your body has had a chance to absorb the last meal." Jade said soothingly.

Alyssa blushed shyly and looked up at Jade with curious eyes. "How did you even know how to do that?" she asked in amazement.

"Master was not able to help you both at the time, so it was the only thing I could think of to do." Jade said guardedly.

"Where is John?" Calara wondered, having not seen him since he went down to fight the Drakkar from the first dropship.

"Master is resting at the moment." Jade said hesitatingly, glancing at Alyssa who had also witnessed John's startling behaviour.

"Ok I'll help you move to our quarters and then I'll go and get John." Calara volunteered.

"What happened with the Drakkar vessel?" Jade asked the brunette.

"The Ashanath patrol turned up and I helped them take it out." Calara said proudly. "The Grey's are towing us to Ashana right now."

The brunette suddenly remembered she was still wearing the Phalanx armour, so she walked over to pick up the helmet where the Drakkar raider had yanked it off her head. She then went over to the armour containers and unlocked the suit, the metal hooks rippling with soft clicks, allowing her to carefully remove the body armour and leave it in a neat pile.

She walked back to the podium and offered a hand to Alyssa and Dana, who both sat upright with pained groans. From this angle, Calara could see the big red burn mark on Alyssa's back where she had been hit by the heavy laser. Jade saw her looking at the angry wound on the blonde girl's tender flesh.

"She has healed very quickly." Jade said approvingly. "That would have been a fatal wound if left untended."

Calara helped them all to stand and Alyssa turned to Jade and pulled her into a hug. "Thank you for saving my life." she said gratefully.

"You saved me first, so it seemed only fair." Jade smiled back at the beautiful blonde girl graciously.

"You saved me too." Calara said joining them in their hug.

"This one is too fond of you to see you get eaten." Jade said with a gentle smile.

"And I owe you too." Dana said, hugging the Nymph affectionately and resting her head on her dark green shoulder.

Jade leaned her head to the side to nuzzle against the redhead gently.

"Come sisters, let us get you to bed. I'm eager to feed you again." Jade said with a twinkle in her emerald eyes.

The girls pulled apart from their hug and Calara eyed the Nymphs greatly inflated breasts appreciatively.

"I almost wish I'd been injured too." she said with a smile.

The girls laughed as they slowly stepped down the illuminated steps of the podium, Calara supporting Alyssa and Jade helping Dana. They walked down the corridor towards the elevator, with Alyssa and Dana looking at the shredded corpses of the Drakkar raiders with wide eyes, as they passed the scene of the massacre. Calara glanced at the gym door with a worried look.

"Are the others going to be able to break through that?" She said with concern.

"Not unless they've turned into fish!" Dana laughed, before wincing at the sharp pain in her head.

"Fish?" Calara asked with confusion.

"I'll explain later." Dana said cryptically.

They took the elevator up to deck 2 and the wounded girls stumbled haltingly into the Commander's quarters and were helped on to the bed by Jade and Calara.

"Ok I'll go and get John!" Calara said happily, looking forward to seeing him again.

"Calara!" Jade called out to her, as the brunette bounded out of the room. The Latina poked her head back through the doorway a moment later.

"What's up?" she asked curiously.

"There's quite a mess down there." Jade said cautiously. "Brace yourself..."

"After what I saw you do to the Drakkar, I think I'll be ok." Calara grinned. "Bye for now kitty kat!" she said with an impish wave.

Jade's tinkling laughter echoed down the corridor, as Calara walked back to the elevator again with a bounce in her step. She went inside and pressed the button for deck 9, the doors swishing closed quietly. The brunette was still worried about the way things had been left with John after their chat this morning, but she was confident they would be able to sort out the unpleasantness from earlier.

Her buoyant mood abruptly dissolved when the elevator door opened to the charnel house outside the airlock. She stepped into the corridor, her eyes wide, as she saw the mangled dismembered corpses of the Drakkar boarding party. The corridor had been bathed in dark blue blood and it dripped in congealed rivulets down the walls. Stepping carefully over the severed limbs that were scattered down the hall, she looked up in wonder at the long sword blade driven straight through the reinforced steel wall about 10 feet above the ground. She poked her head around the open door into the hangar bay and was shocked to see a Drakkar impaled on the wall, the hilt of the blade sticking out of its chest.

Getting increasingly worried for John's safety, Calara's eyes darted around the room, searching for him. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her man slumped against some stacked containers, fast asleep, but otherwise seemingly unharmed. She jogged over to him, cautiously avoiding going anywhere near the corpse of a hulking Drakkar that had been hacked apart in the middle of the hangar bay.

"Hey John, are you ok?" she asked him, gently touching his shoulder with her hand.

John groaned as she touched his previously dislocated shoulder and his eyes flickered open to see Calara looking intently at his face.

"Hey Calara." he said drowsily with a faint smile.

"Come on." The brunette said in a reassuring tone of voice. "Let's get you up to bed and you can get some proper rest."

"Ok honey..." he said tiredly, nodding his agreement.

Calara helped him stand and the two of them slowly made their way to the elevator and then back up to the second deck to join the girls in his quarters. Jade rose to help, leaving Alyssa to rest and the two young women led him into the bathroom and into the shower to wash off the thick blue blood that was smeared over his face.

After he was clean, they led him back into the bedroom and then carefully plopped him on to the bed, before tucking him under the covers. Dana was already sound asleep, her tummy slightly rounded where she had eagerly swallowed down another helping of cum. They positioned John behind the redhead, so that he could wrap her in his arms and soon he was snoozing blissfully as well.

Calara stripped off her clothes and joined Jade and Alyssa in bed.

"Are you ready for some more cum?" Jade said to Alyssa with a warm smile.

The blonde nodded eagerly and then settled into Jade's arms to greedily suck out the last of John's seed from the Nymph's swollen breasts. As she suckled strongly from Jade's erect nipple, the nymph stroked Alyssa tummy, feeling it curve out slightly as the teenager filled her stomach with a heavy load of protein.

Calara watched the strangely maternal scene, finding it very arousing. Jade's sparkling emerald eyes were staring at Alyssa's face lovingly, watching for her pretty cerulean eyes to get drowsy. When the blonde finally fell asleep, her belly full, the Nymph guided the teen into place on the bed curled up behind John.

Calara lay back on the bed and opened her arms for the green skinned alien girl. Jade smiled at her happily and then moved into the welcoming warmth, resting her head against Calara's big firm breasts.

"You're going to be an amazing mother." The Latina said to the Nymph softly. "You were so gentle and caring with them." she said lovingly.

Jade looked up at her with big round eyes, touched by Calara's kind words.

"Now let me take care of you." the brunette said, stroking Jade's dark green hair soothingly.

Heaving a big sigh of contentment, Jade relaxed into Calara's loving arms and drifted off to sleep, finally succumbing to her own exhaustion after such a stressful and strenuous day.

Calara sighed happily herself and soon the entire crew of the Invictus were slumbering soundly.

***

The unending blackness of John's sleep gently receded, as the luminous figure that had previously appeared in his dreams wrapped her arms around him. A warm and pleasant glow spread out from the figure, swathing him in light and filling his body with a pleasant tingling sensation that seemed to banish his aches and pains and leave him relaxed and contented. He soaked in the rejuvenating light, feeling at peace with the world.

***

Several hours later, John awoke to find himself sandwiched between two beautiful teenagers. He was holding Dana in his arms, her back towards him and he had Alyssa cuddled up behind, her athletic figure draped over him possessively. He rolled gently on to his back and the girls moved with him in their sleep, pressing their breasts against his sides and leaning their heads against his chest. He felt like a new man, fully refreshed and ready to go after his short nap.

He looked down at the two girls wrapped around him and then to his left, where he saw Jade and Calara cuddled up together as well. He sighed happily, overjoyed to be surrounded by the women he loved so much, but then he began to remember everything that had happened earlier that morning. The latest revelations that Dana had discovered about the strange transformative powers of his cum, were truly unsettling. He looked about him guiltily feeling remorseful at the changes wrought on these wonderful girls.

As his eyes darted over towards Jade and Calara, he saw a pair of glinting emerald eyes staring back at him. The nymph eased her way out of Calara's arms and then held out her hand to him, indicating her desire for John to follow. He carefully extracted himself from between the beautiful young women and then the three of them curled up together, sleeping angelically.

"Come with me please master." Jade whispered to him softly and led him from his quarters by the hand and into her own room, closing the door behind her.

She peeled back the covers of the bed, before slipping between the sheets and then beckoned for John to join her.

"I wish to speak to you master. Please join me and keep warm." she said invitingly.

Unable to refuse such a welcoming invitation, John climbed into bed beside her and Jade cuddled up against him and leaned up on one elbow, so that she could stare down at him.

"This one can see that you are unsettled master." Jade said calmly. "Unfortunately I can't read your thoughts like Alyssa can," she said wistfully. "So you will have to tell me what is wrong."

John stared at the green skinned alien girl for a long moment and then let out a big sigh.

"I feel so guilty Jade." he began.

"I love all of you girls so much and I can't help but feel I've violated you and taken away your free will. It feels like these changes have forced you all to be with me." he said feeling ashamed.

Jade smiled at him fondly, stroking the side of his face lovingly.

"You know my nature master." Jade said. "You knew what I was within moments of us meeting on board the pirate ship."

John nodded, recalling when he and Alyssa had rescued the Nymph from captivity at the hands of the pirate lord, on board his flagship the Stalingrad.

"Have I behaved differently from all the tales you've heard of my species?" she asked inquisitively.

"No." John smiled. "As soon as Alyssa told you I was your new master, you were very enthusiastic to be with me." he said, as he remembered being propositioned within seconds of meeting the girl.

"Master is wonderfully handsome." Jade sighed happily, nodding her agreement.

"But since we met, have I behaved differently?" she asked, leading him with her question.

"Well yes, you've been able to shapeshift into that aquatic form and then you grew those long claws to protect the girls on Gravitus." he supplied helpfully.

"Do you believe that I have been violated by being given that new ability?" Jade asked pointedly.

John paused for a moment. "Well no, I guess not." he acknowledged.

"I also now have three girls I consider to be sisters." the Nymph followed up relentlessly. "Do you believe that me being part of a loving family is a violation?"

"No! I think it's wonderful how much you and the girls love each other," John said. "but..." he tried to continue, but Jade cut him off.

"You have also given me hope of being able to have a baby at some point in the future." Jade said, her emerald eyes looking down at him adoringly. "Do you consider that a violation?"

"No of course not! But..." John stammered.

"I have been a slave for over three centuries and for the first time in my life, I can honestly say I am truly happy. Do you consider that my happiness is a violation?" she asked him curiously.

"Ok, Ok!" John laughed. "You should have been a lawyer, you're arguments are irrefutable." he grinned.

"Good." Jade said with a satisfied grin. "I love you John and it pains me to see you upset like this."

John looked at her with shock.

"You just called me by my name instead of calling me master!" he exclaimed in shock. "I didn't think Nymphs were ever able to do that!"