Joan Carter of Mars - Chapter 2

Chapter Two

Shodu spun the white wheel a few degrees then bounded to the deck and unfurled the mainsail. The ship began to move.

The valley fell below the ship. The blue line at its mouth stretched out from horizon to horizon. I realized it was an enormously long canal. Shodu cranked the white wheel again and stopped, looking off to the horizon. He gestured to me.

I climbed up the steep stairs and stood next to him. He pointed. Some miles away a city seemed to grow from the grassy plain. Its towers and spires seemed to swirl up towards the sky, pastel colors of red, blue, and ivory. Several of the towers had spreading flat tops. I could just make out the shapes of several ships parked on those platforms. I gasped.

"Turuda!" Shodu said, holding his hand open towards the sight.

"Is that your city?" I asked. "Turuda?"

"Itsa! Turuda."

A short time later the airship floated over one of the colossal platforms. As soon as the ship touched down, Tona came above deck again. Shodu moved immediately to her side. I stood by the control wheels, eyes not quite meeting hers.

In one corner of the roof, the building extended up into a little cube with a door in it. From that door walked a man. He was bearded and wore a long white robe. Shodu helped Tona off the airship as he approached. The bearded man touched a hand to his mouth in a ritual gesture and bowed towards the woman. She replied curtly.

Then bearded man looked at me and spoke again. Tona said something sharp and pulled Shodu towards the door. Shodu spoke to the other man as he was hauled away. The bearded man sounded pleasurably surprised and walked over to the airship. He held out a hand. I took it and stepped off the ship, brushing against his robe. Suddenly, I blushed, aware that I was naked, even of body hair.

"Bonjour, madame! Comment allez vous?"

I started. "Your speak French! Je... ah... parlez une peu."

A smile split his neat beard and mustache. "A little, yes. I, too, speak English."

"Where am I? I woke up in a field and Shodu found me. But he doesn't speak any language I've ever heard!"

He patted my hand. "It is much to learn. Come, inside. I will explain." He paused and kissed my hand. "I am called Zhok here. I was called Jacques on Earth."

"On Earth? This is some wild dream isn't it?"

"Non." He hooked my hand in his elbow and led me towards the door.

"Come. You will learn."

"This is all real?" I asked.

"Oui," Jacques said. He flung up an open hand. "But it would make quite a fantasy would it not?"

I giggled. "I can't believe this place. People go around naked all the time."

Jacques smiled "It was one of the more delightful aspects of the place when I arrived."

He pronounced aspects, ass-pects. I wasn't sure if he was playing on words or just speaking in normal accent.

"Yes," he said. "I had quite zee shock when I first arrived. I was convinced I was dreaming -- some sort of Follies Bergere I imagined. Both zee advocates of free love and nudism would be quite at home here. I venture to say, they might well turn pink in zee cheeks."

I suddenly had a horrible thought. "Oh! Oh dear."

"What is it, my dear?"

"Well, ah -- I thought this was all a dream -- I ah..." My cheeks had started to burn. "I didn't think I could get pregnant!"

"Oh?" Jacques stopped and looked at me. "Indeed? That is unusual."

"What do you mean. It happens after -- after --"

"I am surprised," said Jacques. "In the distant past, the Forerunners changed the races of Mars. The humans they gave long life and stronger ability to resist disease, elimination of most diseases. To women in particular, they gave the ability to control pregnancy with a thought. Your body should have these abilities."

We arrived at the base of the staircase and entered a dank stone-walled chamber. A strange chair stood in the shadows beside a huge box with a bank of blinking lights. It was strange, but something else was on my mind. "So, how do I control pregnancy?" I asked. "I'm a long way from home, I don't want to take care of a baby."

Jacques went to the control bank and clicked some levers. "You have nothing to worry about. You can't become pregnant unless you want to. Women have a sphincter between the uterus and vagina. You have to consciously open the sphincter to transport semen into your womb. I'm told it's rather like swallowing."

"Hunh?" I pressed my hands against my belly and looked down at my naked mons. I worked the muscles in my nether regions experimentally, and discovered a new one. I laughed, embarrassed for some reason. "It does feel like swallowing," I said. I began to wonder about other possibilities -- was it just my uterus that opened or did the muscles work my whole vagina?

At that moment, a deep hum grew from the machine. Jacques stepped away from the controls, flipped open metal clasps on the chair arms, and positioned a cap above the chair. Now that I looked more carefully, I didn't like the look of the thing.

"That looks like an electric chair!" I said. "You don't want me to sit in that?"

Jacques did a double take at the machine. "I do recall something called an electric chair, before I left zee Earth. I never saw one. It was an execution device, non?"

I nodded, backing away a step.

Jacques came after me. "My dear, you have nothing to fear. I give you my word of honor. This is merely a Teaching machine -- left to us by the Forerunners. It will only implant the language of Mars in your mind."

"That's all? Just teach me to talk?"

"Madame, you already talk most wonderfully." Jacques smiled and ushered me into the chair.

"Well, okay, I guess."

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[Author Note - Write More Here] Joan is so delighted when she learns the language, she looks for Shodu, only to stumble on him and Tona. [End Author Note]

That evening I crept out of my chamber and found Shodu's room. I slipped into the room, but found it empty. Perhaps Tona had lured him to her apartment -- in which case I was out of luck. I began to sit on the bed mat, when I heard a female giggle in the hall. Shodu's voice replied. He had brought her here!

I looked for a hiding spot. The only place was a big square basket like a clothes hamper. I jumped in. The top dropped as Tona led Shodu into the room. The weave of the basket left large gaps at even intervals, so it was easy to see out.

Shodu remained at the door, while Tona walked toward the bed mat. She let her cloak slide from her tanned shoulders. The red sash rested on her hips just below the narrowing of her waist. She sauntered across the floor, her round buttocks rocking, the red sash swaying between her legs.

Beside the bed mat she turned, head down, looking through lowered lashes. Her lips stretched into a wide smile. "So, my prince, we begin official courting tonight." She slid her palms over the curve of her full hips.

Shodu turned his head away for a second. "Yes, that is what we have agreed."

Tona reached between her legs from behind, caught the tail of her sash, and pulled it back. The red material bunched up and spread the flesh of her mons, tight black pubic curls poking out around the cloth. "Come to me!" she whispered.

As Shodu approached, Tona leaned back against the broad window sill, arms braced behind her. His hand clutched her thigh and his mouth covered her open, upturned lips. After a moment they parted. Shodu's hand slid over her thigh, under the red sash and stroked between her legs.

"Mmmm..." Tona said. She hoisted herself onto the window sill and leaned back into the alcove. Shodu's hand stroked over her black pubic hair as he kissed her throat, then the hollow below her collar- bone, the valley between her breasts, the gentle trough of her upper stomach, the soft oval of her navel, the crease where inner thigh meets pubis. Tona's eyelids drooped. She spread her knees, thrusting her crotch at Shodu.

He flipped the red sash back over her leg and slipped his fingers down the triangle of black hair to where it thinned to bare, fleshy lips. As Shodu kissed her clitoris, Tona grabbed either side of his head and squirmed. "Ahhh!"

For several minutes, she held him tight against her cunt. She writhed against his tongue, her buttocks first sidling side-to-side, then up and down, occasionally slapping against the warm sandstone of the sill. Occasional high-pitched gasps escaped her lips.

Suddenly, she pushed him away and slipped off the sill, turning around at the same time. She bent forward at the waist, resting her elbows on the sill. stroked one of her smooth buttocks in a cupped hand. He pushed his half-erect penis against her thigh. She whispered something, shifted her feet farther apart, and cocked her ass upwards.

Shodu ran his fingers down the inside of her thigh. His fingers slipped between pink folds. She rotated her behind against his hand and sighed deep in her throat.

"Fuck me!" she said. She twisted her shoulders around and reached out for him. Her nails scraped over his chest. Shodu smiled. With one hand he stroked the tight globe of her ass, and with the other, his penis. She turned her shoulders back to the window as his cock slipped over her anus and disappeared between her round buttocks.

"Ahhh," she gasped, voice catching in her throat, as Shodu sank his shaft into her. The prince clutched handfuls of Tona's flesh as he crushed her ample ass against his hips. He withdrew part way, his penis glistening wet and thrust again, beginning a steady series of long strokes, each ending with his body pressed against hers, swelling her flesh up, then down. She reached back to claw his chest again.

He leaned over her, still working his hips forward and back, the silky slide of skin against skin, the gently pop of wet flesh against wet flesh. He kissed the side of her neck, his hand seeking the bronze cup which held one breast. The cup fell to the floor with a gentle 'tink.' His hand cupped her swaying breast. Tona groaned and rocked her ass from side to side.

Several quiet minutes passed, the undertone of sliding flesh punctuated by small, delighted moans. Shodu began to vary the rhythm of his thrusts, three fast and short then two long and slow. At each fast series Tona would emit an "Oh!" or "Ah!" and push her ass back in response, the red sash swinging between both their legs. As he pulled out of her once again, she raised her left knee up onto the sill, crouching the other slightly. Shodu's penis slipped out of her, bobbing purple and slick.

Tona spoke in a breathy whisper: "Put it in again!" She pressed the tips of three long fingers against her clitoris, grinding the flesh in a circle so the pink labia swelled, then tightened, then swelled again. Shodu pushed his cock between her buttocks. "Uh-huhn!" she gasped.

Now Shodu stroked fast and hard, the lips of Tona's stretched labia clung to his shaft with each withdrawal. She continued to massage her clit, her fingers moving in circles, some fast, some slow. She moaned rhythmically.

"Oh! Oh!" The gentle slap of flesh. "Yes!" She bit her lip and ground her fingers into her plump labia. "Uh! Oh!" She jerked her hips up and down. "Mm!" Her flanks quivered, the tendons in her thighs corded. "Oh!" A louder cry: "Oh!" Her fingers clawed in her thigh. "Mm!" "Ah!" She gasped a long shuddering syllable: "Oh-hhh-hhh-ah!" Her shoulders shuddered.

Shodu continued his rapid thrusts, his face tight as he controlled his breath. He leaned back from the waist, rolled his eyes upward and groaned. A few fast strokes, then he cried out and crushed Tona's ass against his hips. He closed his eyes, moaning, pressed tight against Tona's body.

I don't know when I started, but I had my hand between my thighs, frantically sliding my fingers from slick hole to hard clit. A naked pussy is amazingly slippery when it's wet. As Shodu filled Tona with his cum, a hot wave of ecstasy washed over me. I bit my lip and held back a moan, but a whimper escaped my lips.

Tona looked back over the curve of her raised buttocks and Shodu's hip, her black hair framing puzzled, heavy-lidded eyes. "I heard someone," she said. She pulled away from Shodu's glistening, half erection and rolled to her feet. She thrust our her chest, brown nipples bouncing on ample breasts, as she pointed imperiously at my basket. "Someone's hiding in there!" she declared.

Continued in Chapter 3

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