We finish collaborating with Baron Lanareth after a few days, and he tells us that we are always welcome in his fief. We gather some last-minute supplies, and we head out. Once we are a good way out of town, I mount Kenji and we start going full speed. After two days of traveling, we stopped traveling at the end of the day and started to make camp for the evening. As we are making camp, we hear a twig snap. Kenji starts growling, and then we hear whimpering and a gray wolf with a pack on his back stumbles to us and collapses. I got a glimpse of the eyes, and I think it is Leo. I take off my jacket and put it on him, and I heal him since it looks like he has a fever.
I immediately get a fire going since I am now freezing, getting it set up with a ramp so it can stay lit automatically, so we don't get buried in snow later. I am violently shaking in the cold as I get this set up. After the fire gets lit and fully set up, I get a warm blanket out to wrap myself in and sit by the fire, warming up, and moaning in pleasure at the warm heat hitting my skin. Leo wakes up after about an hour. The movement catches Kenji's attention as he looks at Leo and folds his ears to the side briefly, which then catches my attention. Sky says, "Leo here can't talk in this form like he can with his other form. He says if he transforms back to his bipedal form now that he will be completely naked. He says if you cover him with a blanket, he can reach into the pack that is strapped on his back and get his change of clothes in there. I reach into my bag and pull out a separate blanket and drape it over Leo. He transforms and changes under the blanket.
He emerges and says, "Thanks, Miss Ari." I sit down and ask him in a stern voice, "Now, why in the goddess's name have you risked your life to follow us? If we didn't get to you when we did, you would have died, Leo." His ears droop at my scolding, "I am sorry, Miss Ari. It is just that you saved one of my older sisters as well, and I felt like I owed you even more. I still have more siblings, and my father is out there suffering, and I want to go find them as soon as I can. If I wait to grow up, then those are a few years they will be tortured like my sister." He starts crying and his tail droops, "She is not the same. She hasn't said a word since being rescued, and she wakes up constantly throughout the night, screaming with nightmares. Seeing her like that, I made my decision to follow you no matter what. I left a note to my mother saying I left after you and to not worry."
I sigh, running my fingers through my hair, "Well, it is too late for me to send you home now. If you are going to be with us on our journey, I would like you to become my familiar so I can keep tabs on your location and you have tabs on my location at all times in case we get separated." Leo nods with his ears still drooping from being in trouble, "I understand, Miss Ari. What do I need to do?" I say, "Nothing. Just give me a minute. Don't be alarmed, I will be placing my forehead on yours." I approach him and I focus my mana to my forehead and place my forehead on his forehead.
After a few moments, I feel the magic spell complete, and he asks, "Did that work?" I responded, "It probably did. We can test it in your wolf form. If I can understand you in that form, then the magic was a success. He covers himself in the blanket and removes his clothes and transforms, and then says, "Can you hear me, Miss Ari?" I replied, "I can hear you, Leo." He giggles, "That is cool." He transforms back and puts his clothes back on, and emerges from the blanket. I tell him, "Leo, you should probably go to bed now. Go ahead and go in the tent and make yourself at home." He says with a slight droop, "Thanks for not sending me home and giving me a chance. Good night, Miss Ari." He says as he goes into the tent.
I go in my bag and get some paper and my enchanted quill and write a letter to Naki letting her know everything that transpired and also the measures I have taken and will take to help safeguard her son on this journey and let her know I will do my best to watch him now that he is here. I call Sky and I ask him, "Are you able to forage for food this time of year in nature? Or do you steal from humans this time of year for food? This is the first time I think I have ever needed to ask that through all the years I have known you." Sky replies, "This time of year, there are a lot of wild berries that grow in the snow, and they are delicious. You won't have to worry about me on the trip." I sigh a breath of relief while I strap the message on his leg and tell him, "Then we will see you in the next town, Sky. I will miss you tons. Please be safe." I say as I kiss him on the head. "You got it, Ari. You can count on me." He says with an adorable military-like impersonation as he flies off.
We get to the next town the next day and before we do our usual routine, Lysara and I take Leo to get some cold-weather gear like we have and also some other helpful gear for other seasons and also defensive wear which I promised his mother I would put him in. He pouts, "I don't need defense. I want power." I sternly say, "Now, unless you want to go back to your mother right now, you will take this gear. I sent her a letter promising I would do my best to take care of you, and I don't want to be made a liar."
His ears droop, "Fine." I continue saying, trying to make him feel a little better, "Defense isn't all that bad. Just think the higher one's defense the easier it is to combat multiple enemies. I wear almost strictly defensive gear because Lysara here makes me, and I jump in head first in every combat we enter. I know that isn't what she bought it for me for, but it is a huge perk. This is also NOT what we are buying this for you for. So I do not want you to do anything reckless wearing this. These clothes will not make you invincible. I just wanted to show you a different perspective." We continued looking about the store and I picked up some gear made for quadrupedal beastkin. We also have to get him gear for his wolf form, too. Both cold-weather gear and defensive gear. I also get defensive earrings for him as well. They are small hoops. I want to make extra sure he always has a defensive boost of some sort, even without clothes, just to be extra safe.
I would feel devastated if anything happened to Leo. I would not know what to say to Naki. Lysara and I are having fun treating him like a doll and he is acting grumpy because we are treating him like a child. Lysara then asks, "Leo, do you want to hear a joke?" He perks up a bit and his tail wags and says in an uninterested tone, "Sure, I guess." Lysara then says, "Why couldn't the lizardman get a girlfriend?" Leo then pauses to think, "I don't know. Why?" Lysara gives the punchline, wearing a cute, goofy smile, "Because he had a reptile dysfunction." Leo laughs and smiles a smile I haven't seen on his face before. I want to get onto Lysara for telling him a dirty joke at his young age, but I also want to protect that smile of his. He is truly adorable. The desire to protect his smile overpowered the desire to scold Lysara, so I let the dirty joke slide.
We spend a pretty copper on all of his gear and we go back to the inn to get our rooms. We got Leo his own separate room one without a private bath to save money where we could and told him if he ever needed a bath he could borrow ours. He is beginning his teenage years around 12 or 13 or so and growing and we want him to have his privacy. We also want privacy ourselves for obvious reasons. We have Leo meet us in our room so he can bathe in our bathroom.
Once he is done, Lysara gets a needle out of her bag and sterilizes it and tells him she is going to pierce his ears on the count of three. She asks first, "Do you want both ears pierced or two in one?" "Two in one." He says while pointing to his left ear. "Ok. No sweat. Ready, One, two,-" She does it early to surprise him so he doesn't clench. He was a little surprised, but he handled it surprisingly well. Lysara puts the earring in, and she sterilizes the needle again. She says on the count of three, "One, -" and stabs his ear a little above his other piercing, so he has two tiny hoops in his ear. Lysara hands him a cleaning kit, "Leo, now this is important. You will have to clean around the piercings until they heal so they don't get infected. Worst case scenario, you lose your ear."
His ears droop in surprise momentarily, and he replies, "I understand... Wait, why can't Miss Ari just heal them for me?" Lysara then says, glancing at me briefly, "Well, from what I understand about how her healing works. If she were to heal your ear, your ear would probably heal around the earrings, causing them to be permanent fixtures on your ear, which I am sure you do not want." Leo replies, "Yeah, I would like to change them in the future. So I will take good care of them." Lysara pats his head, "Now, we love you, but I would very much like to have some time with Ari." Leo responds, nonchalantly like he is used to this, "Oh, you want to mate? My mom goes into heat twice a year, so I know how to make myself scarce." He takes his stuff and goes to his room.
Lysara goes to her bag and pulls out the anti-eavesdropping tool and puts it aside without turning it on yet, while still digging around in her bag. She pulls out a collar, leash, fake puppy ears and a fake dog tail butt plug, lube and a food bowl. She orders me while wearing a sexy, authoritative face, "Strip, like a good girl." I nod and immediately do as I am told, gladly. Once naked, she puts the collar on me, which has fur lining the inside of the collar for comfort, and then attaches the leash. She puts the ears on and lubes up the buttplug tail before slowly and carefully inserting it, "Get on all fours. It is time for a walk. If you are good, you will get a reward."
A reward, she says.
I am so excited. I am burning with anticipation. She walks me around the room and bathroom while I am on all fours. Making sure to wag my tail and whine properly like a puppy. Embracing my role as her dog. Lysara has her naughty grin on, fully embracing her role. We do several laps of her walking me, and I am getting so wet in anticipation. She stops at the food bowl and says, "Now I want to hear you bark for me." She says as she erects the barrier, and once it is up, I bark over and over. She purrs, "Yes, that is such a good gir,l and good girls deserve a reward."
She gets out some of our travel rations and puts them in the food dish and says, "Come eat your dinner." I love this type of play. I lean forward like a dog and eat my food. My butt is in the air and Lysara puts her bare foot between my legs, "You are loving this so much aren't you. You are dripping wet right now." I moan as I continue eating. She continues to touch me with her foot while I eat, and I continue to moan with pleasure as she touches me with her foot. When I am done eating, I sit like a good girl is supposed to. Lysara purrs, "You are such a good girl. Good girls keep getting rewards." She undresses and sits on the edge of the bed with her legs open, "Come get your dessert, my little good girl." I wag my tail swaying my butt like an obedient little puppy and walk on all fours to her and lick her like a good puppy would.
She initiates phantom's kiss a ways into it, making me go crazier with passion with a beastly ferocity as I moan with pleasure from her taste and phantom's kiss. She is making wonderful sounds of pleasure with each lick. When she has her orgasm, she arches her back and her legs convulse with each wave of her orgasm. I keep licking like a good dog. Careful not to touch her with my hands, knowing that breaks the rules of this type of play. Once her climax is over, I do a few more licks to 'clean' Lysara, and then I sit like a good girl awaiting instructions.
She is catching her breath, and she leans forward and pets me on the head while she recovers for a few moments, "Good girl. Bark for me some more." I bark over and over again while Lysara continues to recover. She then says, "Good girl. Let's get you some water." She goes to her bag and pulls out her canteen and pours it into the bowl. I crawl over to it and start licking it up. While I do this, she goes to her bag and pulls out a ball gag and the strap-on. She puts on the strap-on and lubes it up while I lick my water until I am satisfied. I sit down like a good puppy when I am done, and she says as she comes to me with the ball gag, "Puppies are known for loving to play with balls." She purrs as she puts the ball gag in, "Same safe signal. Just shake your head three times if anything gets too much for you." I nod since I can't speak anymore, still sitting patiently like a good dog. She pulls the leash to the bed and pushes my upper back down to the bed lifting my butt into the air.
She inserts the dildo slowly so I can adjust like usual, and once I get adjusted, she starts moving her hips and pumping into me. It feels strange this time since I feel like the dildo is grinding against the butt plug tail. It feels so good. She pulls the leash just enough so I know she controls my breathing. Just knowing that I get more excited. I am moaning in ecstasy, and she starts to initiate her phantom's kiss, making me moan more.
She starts getting rougher and pulls the leash, cutting off my breath. My pleasure immediately exponentially grows just from being cut off from breathing. It is like pleasure is focused on where Lysara is pounding me. She continues pulling a phantom's kiss, though I can't moan since I can't breathe, but if I could, I would. Goddess, this is so great. Not even a full minute into cutting off my air, I violently orgasm over and over again. When I orgasm, she releases the tension off the leash so I can breathe again. The oxygen adds a degree of pleasure I wasn't anticipating. I didn't know just breathing could add pleasure like this. I let out muffled screams of pleasure through the gag while she finished her meal, while she continued to pound me.
Once I was done with my climax, she pulled out, and I stayed in this position like a good girl still, since I still have the tail and ears on while I catch my breath and recover. She takes off the tail and ears carefully. Then she takes off the leash and she looks at me with just the collar on, "I think I like that look on you, but I won't want you to wear this one all day. I think I might get you a custom order. We can even get one with a special enchantment of some sort. You wearing that collar will show everyone that you are mine." I blush and nod, still unable to talk since the ball gag is in. She takes off the ball gag and asks, "What do you think?" I blush, "I want to show everyone I am yours." She tackles me in affection joining me on the bed, "You are so fucking cute, Ari. I love you so much." "I love you, too, Lysara." I say returning her squeeze since she is holding me right now.
The next morning, we do our usual routine with breakfast, and we go to the town square. Leo is going to be our helper from now on, though he isn't as cute and tiny as Thultu. He is cute in his own way, though, with how he tries to conceal his excitement. He is the main one in charge of supplies right now, and he is organizing food by type in the crates as we get people. Today, as we heal, there was a report from the herald of our sting in the last town, and Lysara was being praised in the news for the relief program for the victims, and there was no mention of her derogatory title of 'broken' anywhere in the report. This must be Lanareth's doing since he did a complete 180-degree attitude switch towards Lysara. I can tell he feels like shit for what he said to her and I am glad he is doing what he can to help her image with his little bit of power. He must have sent pigeons to the nearest towns to spread the news immediately. Since word of us has spread, we have been greeted with less animosity from demons wherever we go in town. I can't stop smiling after hearing the herald since I am so happy for Lysara.