Cresting Tide (6 page)

"Come and get your meal, lover!" Cuke called to his human as he stood in the chest high surf. "You will need your strength this day!"

Peter listened to the longest series of clicks and whistles he'd yet to hear from the elf and the sounds made his heart leap.

"For me?" Peter asked even though he already knew the answer as he continued to smile and looked from the sea elf to the struggling fish and back again.

"You like?" Cuke nodded to the red fish before slipping his clawed finger under the gill plate to remove the fish from his trident.

Peter accepted his breakfast from the sea elf and watched as the elf spun his trident around before piercing the seabed firmly with the weapon.

"Thank you," Peter could not stop smiling at the elf.

"Eat," Cuke encouraged his human with his hands.

Peter looked from the elf to the fish in his hand and back again. He could not, would not, eat the fish raw but he feared insulting his new lover. He knew that some people enjoyed uncooked fish; however, the thought of eating the fish raw made him mentally shudder.

"Wait here?" Peter asked and made hand gestures to indicate his desire for the elf not to leave.

Cuke tilted his head as he watched his human return to the shore with the fish. He continued to watch his human make the light brighter by where he slept, and then pierce the fish on a long rod before placing it into the light. Cuke observed his human's behavior with interest as the sun rose higher into the sky. Eventually, his human lifted the rod from the light and returned to stand before him in the sea. The fish smelled strange to Cuke and he watched as his human took pieces of white meat between his fingers and ate them. When his man held a piece of the white meat to Cuke's lips, he hesitatingly opened his mouth. The meat was warm and felt more solid on his tongue but the flavor was muted, blander, than he was used to. However, the fish was still recognizable to his pallet. Cuke took several more bits of the fish as his lover offered them but he made sure his human ate the majority of the meal.

Once the fish was down to nothing more than ragged skin and bone, Peter spoke again. "Wait here," he said and made the same gesture as earlier before turning back toward the beach with the fish carcass in hand.

Cuke once more watched his man return to the light and throw the remains of the fish within before picking up something from the land and returning to him in the sea.

Peter held out one of the two star fruits he brought with him and was rewarded with the elf's smile. The smile that was filled with razor sharp teeth that should have caused fear only caused joy in Peter when his elf accepted the fruit.

They stood less than an arm's length apart as they ate their fruit and once finished, Peter closed the distance between them. Cuke ran his clawed hand over his man's smooth skin and marveled at the contrast between them. The color and texture were different from his. When his man stepped closer and leaned in to taste his neck, all Cuke could do was tilt his head to the side and try not to dig his claws into the flesh beneath them.

"You were in my dreams," Peter whispered as he licked and sucked along the silky scales. The tang of sea salt combined with the taste of the elf only heightened his desire. He trailed his hands along the dorsal ridge and was rewarded by his elf pressing his arousal more firmly against his own. Peter wanted to be inside his elf, wanted to sink into the depths and let the pleasure he knew he would find drown him.

Cuke moaned under his human's touch and pressed himself against the smooth hard body before him, resisting the urge to sink his claws into the soft flesh. One hand crept up to grasp the sandy blond locks that fell from the head now buried into his neck while his other hand pulled their hips even closer. As their hardness ground against each other, Cuke tightened his grip on his man.

Peter's head shot away from the elf's neck and a gasp escaped his lips when his elf pushed off the seabed and wrapped his legs around his waist. The elf was weightless as he floated gently on the tide.

Cuke had no thought but to feel his human inside of him. His hand brushed against his own hardness as he gripped his lover and he froze in his movement as both of their cocks rubbed together.

"Please," Cuke begged his man and felt his human slide his hands down to his ass.

Peter hissed when he felt the sea elf grasp him but it did not still his hands. He stroked up both sides of the dorsal ridge under his fingers before running his hands over the firm muscles of the elf's ass. His fingers trailed down the crease until they met at the tight ring of muscle and he began to trace circles around the entrance he so desperately wanted to feel around himself.

Cuke pushed back into the fingers that were exploring him at the same time that he stroked upward on his human's shaft. His head fell forward to rest on his man's neck and a sound escaped his lips when he felt himself breeched. The sensation sent tremors of pleasure through him and all he could do was push back further into the hands that held him.

Peter was not sure how long he would last if the sea elf kept stroking him and thrusting upon the fingers he had steadily worked inside the creature. As good as the elf felt around his fingers, he knew it would only feel better wrapped around his throbbing cock. Peter slid one hand between them and placed it over the elf's causing him to still.

"I need to be in you," Peter practically begged when he drew back to look into the golden flecked eyes of his elf.

It was almost as if the sea elf understood his words when he used his legs to lift himself higher in the water while at the same time moving Peter into position. Another moan escaped Peter's lips as he felt the head of his cock brush against the fingers he still had buried within the elf. Peter removed his fingers and let the elf line him up with the heat he almost could not wait any longer to feel around him.

Without warning, the sea elf thrust himself down onto Peter so hard that he almost lost his balance in the rocking waves of the surf. Peter desperately grasped the elf's hips as he felt the elf's legs tighten around his waist and they both froze once more as the sensations overwhelmed them.

Cuke panted as his body trembled, adjusting to the fullness of his human inside him. The human's arms held tightly to his hips but loosened as he leaned back into the incoming tide.

"Gods, you are so tight," Peter whispered and felt his cock gripped when the elf leaned away from him.

Peter slid his hands over the elf's chest and when he felt the elf gyrate against him, he began to move. Gentle, slow thrusts he gave his lover from the sea but before long, his pace quickened. Peter caught himself before he lost total control and looked down at his lover who sat astride him with his eyes closed and lips parted.

Cuke opened his eyes when his human slowed but did not urge him on with his clawed hands that rested upon the man's arms. Instead he allowed his body to float upon the current as his legs loosely gripped his human's hips. His eyes followed his man's hands as they trailed along his hips and stroked where they were joined before running up along his inter thighs.

Peter caressed the elf as he tried to regain control over his building release. He distracted himself from the tightness that encased him by running his hands along the shimmering scales that covered his lover's skin. He memorized every inch of his elf as he lay back upon the waves. He ran his hands back up and across the elf's nipple less chest before continuing down to the hairless groin where his lover's own hardness was standing erect and wanting. Peter wrapped his hand around the elf as his other found the opening beneath. Deft fingers entered his lover as he began to stroke the firmness in his palm. Peter groaned as he felt his own fingers against his hardness within the elf, separated only by thin skin. The sensation of feeling himself through the elf's body as he watched his lover's gill plates expand and contract faster was almost more than he could handle.

Cuke tried to remain still and quiet as his human lover explored his body but when those long clawless fingers entered him, he could only cry out in pleasure and tighten his thighs around his human. When his man began to move… hand stroking, finger's plunging, and cock filling him deeply, Cuke thought his being would explode from pleasure and all he could do was hold onto the man as the tidal wave threatened to consume them both.

Peter's movements had become frantic and when he pulled back too far, only to slip out and than back into the elf next to his fingers, his lust filled mind barely registered the change.

Cuke felt the shift in penetration and the extra stimulation between his legs was more than he could take. His orgasm was so hard that his body curled up out of the water to grasp his human lover's head. No thought was given to the life giving sea that he needed to breathe as the ecstasy he was feeling overtook him.

Peter barely had time to adjust his hold as he felt the elf clench around his hard cock while shooting his release over his palm. The sight and the high pitched noise that came from deep within the elf, as his body jetted out of the water to wrap around Peter's head, was more than he could take. One moment Peter was on the edge of the cliff and the next he was soaring over it out to sea. His orgasm rocked his body and his weak knees gave out causing him to crash backwards into the surf, clutching the elf tightly to him. Peter's last thought before his mind succumbed to ecstasy was that he could easily drown in the sea from the pleasure of the elf. 

Cuke could not breathe but his pleasure addled mind did not care as he felt his human fill him with his seed. All he could do was hold on and ride wave after wave that broke over and through his body. He felt his human fall back into the sea and still Cuke clung to the man beneath him. He took his first breath in what seemed like a long time and realized that they were both under the waves. His human lover was limp beneath his clasped thighs and he did not see any bubbles coming from his lover's face as he had become accustomed to seeing while they were beneath the surface. Panic flooded through Cuke and he quickly grasped his human and thrust him above the waves.

Peter gasped in a deep draught of air before a violent fit of coughing overtook him. Through eyes that were watering from trying to inhale much needed air, he saw the sea elf looking at him. There was no doubt about the concern he saw in the large round gaze of his lover. Without thought, he reached out and pulled the elf close again.

Cuke relaxed the moment his human began to make the loud noises and limply fell into the offered embrace. His heart raced and he could feel the same strong beat of his lover's as he pressed his body close.

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Chapter Seven

"Of all the seas!"

Peter heard the sharp chirp and his head whipped up at the same time his elfin lover spun from his embrace. Another sea elf was before them and Peter tried to keep the shock off his face. Somewhere in his mind, he knew that his elf was not the only one of his kind but seeing another of his lover's race still stunned him. The elf before him seemed older somehow but Peter was not sure what made him think so. As Peter stared, he noticed slight differences between this elf and his lover. The new elf's scales were a darker shade of green and the eyes were a different color… an almost violet blue. His body looked like it carried more bulk as well if the creature's shoulders were anything to go by.

"Likal!" Cuke exclaimed as he turned in his human's arms to put himself between his lover and his sibling. "Why are you here? What do you want?"

"I am here for you. You have been gone for some time and the parents are worried. I have come to retrieve you," Likal informed Cuke sternly before continuing. "Your fascination with the land walkers has gone too far; this is an abomination!" Likal pointed his trident at his human to make his point.

"I do not wish to be retrieved," Cuke replied firmly and summoned his own trident to hand. "And don't call him that," he added quietly.

"Collecting their sea claimed items as a hobby was forgivable, but this," Likal gestured again at the couple, "this is not!"

"I don't need your forgiveness, Likal." Cuke raised his head in defiance. "I think I know what I need and it is not anything from you."

"You think not at all! You are but a child of barely one hundred years and think not of the consequences of what you do," Likal yelled at his younger sibling.

Peter stood stock still behind his sea elf, resting his hands on the elf's hips to keep him close, as he listened to the clicks, clacks, and whistles that sounded angry even to his uncomprehending ear. Again, Peter noted the size difference between the elves and could not but wonder at what relationship, if any, they had. Was this a parent, sibling, or lover that appeared angrily in their little piece of paradise? Whoever it was, Peter knew he was not happy with what he had found when seeking his elf. Since he could not understand the exchange, all Peter could do to reassure his elf lover was continue to hold his hips.

Cuke stared at his older sibling and had no idea what he was talking about. He knew he was not supposed to let the humans see him but he could not understand the level of anger he was having directed toward him from Likal, even if they had never been close. The normally pale scar on his sibling's cheek had turned a deep scarlet with his anger. Only once had Cuke seen the scar that color… it was when Likal fought for mating rights. His sibling was mated now so Cuke knew that was not the reason for his aggression but the reason for it still eluded him.

"Do you not realize what you have done?" Likal asked as he waved his trident about and took a step closer.

"I have done nothing that I did not wish to do!" Cuke replied defiantly.

"You have exposed us all!" Likal bellowed. "We can not be put at risk like this!" Likal lunged forward with his trident without warning.

Cuke pushed his human backwards with his hips and lurched toward his attacking sibling, raising his own trident to block the blow.