(2/7/95)

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==>*Warning!*<==

     This story deals with many adult, emotional, and sexual
situations.  If you are of legal age to be reading this, and
any  of  the aforementioned situations cause extreme  mental
discomfort, do not read any further (and see a shrink!   Sex
isn't  evil.  Bad people make sex seem evil.  Okay,  lecture
mode  off...).  If you are NOT of age and are reading  this,
SHAME  ON YOU!  ^_^   If you continue reading, you do so  at
your own risk.
     Please remember the following:  While the characters in
this  story  engage in unsafe sex, that doesn't give  you  a
license  (or  excuse) to do the same.  Condom axiom:  Always
put one on before putting it in!

Author's notes:
      The  creation of this story started as a remedy for  a
fit  of extreme boredom.  Working second shift, I had a  lot
of  time on my hands, considering the fact that the majority
of  our  customers call during standard business hours.   So
I'm browsing through Zoner's site looking for recent fanfics
to read during my slow time.  Being a ravenous fan of Ranma,
I  try  to  get  whatever new or updated fanfic  that  comes
through  the  pipe.  However, nothing new was found  in  the
Ranma  directory.   So, being the Takaholic  that  I  am,  I
traveled  to  the  Urusei  Yatsura directory,  and  stumbled
across  a  new story titled "Urusei Yatsura: The  Kidnapping
(Lemon)"  by  a  person  aliased  as  Shutaro  Mendou  [from
CompuSwerve (oops, my bias is showing)].
      Anyway,  being the hentai that I am I quickly  glommed
onto  the story.  After a record decode time with GZIP under
Windows NT, I cracked the story open and read heartily.  The
rape  scene  aside,  I  thought it wasn't  a  bad  story  (I
recommend reading it for comparison purposes).  After I  was
through  reading it, I started doing what I  usually  do  to
fanfics  once  I  get them on my machine; I  purge  as  many
grammatical and spelling errors as I can find.
      Well,  my  tinkering went well  beyond  that.   I  had
considered some of the sex scenes to be a little flat, so  I
started  enhancing them.  First I revamped (no pun intended)
the  scene between Mendou and  Shinobu.  After that,  I  was
hooked on re-writing this thing, and went nuts.  See?   This
is  what happens when it's late at night, and it's just  you
and  your machines.  Anyway, you get the point.  This  story
represents  the  end-result of  the  overhaul  that  I  took
Smendou's story through.
      In  all  fairness I should point out  that  while  the
majority of content in this story is my own, the backbone of
the  story  currently remains his/hers.  Depending  on  when
this  gets released, the story may maintain the outline done
by  Smendou,  or  it  may be changed so that  only  a  vague
resemblance  to the original remains.  So this  story  could
either be looked at as an enhancement to Smendou's story, or
a  new  story inspired by his/hers.  I won't know  for  sure
until I shut up and complete this thing.
      One  thing that I can say is that I plan to  plot  the
hell  out  of this story.  Hot and heavy love scenes  (okay,
love  scenes) will still be an integral part of  the  story.
However  I want the sex between the characters to complement
the  story, not drive it.  Hence, there'll be more than  one
paragraph of non-sexual activity between each occurrence  of
`the good stuff.'
      Why am I rambling on like this, you ask?  Well, I feel
that  an  explanation  is  in  order,  so  that  charges  of
plagiarism (such as it is) can be explained.  Also,  I  have
never  written  a  lemon  before.   In  fact,  excluding  my
somewhat   disappointing  contribution  to   the   currently
unreleased  chapter 7 of the fanfic "Robotech: the  Misfold"
<plug,  plug,  plug>, I have never written a fanfic  before,
period.   So the usual "please be gentle/I'm a first  timer"
author disclaimers apply here.
     I hope that you enjoy (or endure with only a minimum of
pain) this little work, which I have re-titled:


"Urusei Yatsura : The Prince and the Lecher"

      A  ship of compact and stealthy design was making it's
way towards the third planet of a yellow sun.  The commander
of  the vessel noted the proximity of his ship to the planet
and ordered that they take up an orbit.  He then typed in  a
key  sequence  on  a nearby console.  A monitor  flashed  to
life,  and  a  voice said, "Make your report..."  in  short,
clipped  tones.   Each person appeared to be humanoid  male,
but  it  was  hard to tell anything beyond that since  their
faces were obscured by long, black veils.
      The  commander stiffened into a position of  obedience
and  addressed  the  screen.  "Yes your  majesty!   We  have
attained orbit around the target planet.  Nothing appears to
be  amiss, and all of our forces stand ready.  We await your
command."
      The  order  wasn't long in coming.  "Very well,  begin
final  preparations for the assault.  Once  the  target  has
been located, be sure that you don't lose sight of it.   And
when you get it, don't damage it.  I need it intact."
      "Yes  SIR!" the commander replied crisply.   "Anything
else, your majesty?"
     "Only that you report to me the moment you've retrieved
the  `package', " the faceless person chuckled  slightly  at
that word.  "Good hunting, commander," he said, severing the
link.
      Quietly, the ship made for a specific location on  the
planet's surface; its mission almost complete.

                             <*>

      The  planet in question rotated lazily on  it's  axis.
When  glanced  at  from a distance it was a rather  tranquil
view, really.  One specific location, a city on an island in
the  northern Pacific, appeared comfortably subdued for  the
moment.  But an approaching ship held promise of an unwanted
increase in activity.
      The  sidewalks of the city were slightly crowded  with
people as the sun began its descent.  As the days progressed
the  wind started to have a chill bite to it.  Soon it would
be  too  cold  to enjoy a walk outside.  Today, gray  clouds
cast  a pall over the late-afternoon sky, further indicating
that  winter  was approaching.  However many people  ignored
the approach of the winter season and walked about the city,
hoping  to  squeeze in a few more hours of enjoyment  before
the weather soured completely.
     A young man was walking aimlessly through the moderate-
sized  crowds  that  day.  A slightly  excited  chortle  was
occasionally emitted from his direction as he continued  his
wandering.  A moment later his posture changed from that  of
an aimless explorer to one of a deadly hunter.  He sprang as
he  sighted his quarry, yelling a battlecry sure  to  strike
fear  into the hearts of many a person ... especially kawaii
girls.
     "SWEETO!" the spry individual yelled as he latched onto
a   mortified   young  lady.   Terror  was   replaced   with
uneasiness,  and  finally disgust as the predator  continued
his  verbal assault.  "You're cute!  How'd you like to  come
home with me and bear my children?"
      Not waiting for an answer, he latched firmly onto  the
woman's  body with a death grip.  She screamed as his  hands
found  her  firm  breasts.  At this point, her  disgust  was
redirected  to her self-defense systems, and she whaled  the
assailant  with  a redoubtable hit that sent  him  sprawling
across 4 lanes of traffic and into the side of a postal box.
"Hentai!" she screamed as she stormed off.
     The valiant hunter lay sprawled on the sidewalk next to
the  mailbox  he had impacted with.  It was now  sporting  a
dent  which  looked  remarkably like  the  person  that  had
impacted  with  it.  Twitching occasionally, he  managed  to
shuffle  himself into a sitting position, wiping blood  from
his  nose  and smirking to himself.  Passers-by barely  paid
attention to the suffering guy as he attempted to get up.
     "I guess that approach needs to be refined a bit.  Heh,
so  many women to choose from.  All I have to do is work  on
my  act.   Then  I  WILL BE A GOD TO WOMEN!"  he  proclaimed
rather  insanely.   He then broke into  a  fit  of  cackling
laughter befitting his instability.
      A shopkeeper in a nearby store was handing change to a
customer.  He shook his head slowly as the laughter erupted.
Understandably, his customer asked what the hell  that  was.
The  reply  was simply "That kid Ataru Moroboshi.   He  does
this  EVERY weekend."  To himself he added, `Geez!  If  that
creep keeps this up, he'll run off all of my customers!'
      They  both watched from the safety of the store window
as  Ataru got back up slowly.  His legs were wobbly, and his
head  was  apparently spinning in dizziness.  He  eventually
proceeded  down the sidewalk, hunting new prey.   He  turned
the  corner  and  moments  later a shriek  could  be  heard,
followed  by  the  sound  of bone impacting  pavement.   The
storekeeper sighed sadly to himself and turned to attend  to
his next customer.

                             <*>

      Inside  a  two-story house in another  part  of  town,
another sigh could be heard.  It was a Saturday and Lum  was
feeling  restless.  `No,' she thought to herself,  `restless
doesn't   adequately  describe  it.'   Well,  whatever   her
emotion, it had to do with Ataru.  He had been a jerk to her
again  today,  and  she was beginning  to  feel  frustrated.
`Yeah,'  she  thought  as  she  heaved  another  long  sigh.
`Frustration's more like it.'
     She just couldn't stand his antics any more.  Normally,
she'd  been  able  to reassure herself by saying  that  even
though Ataru acted like an asshole, he really did love  her.
But  given  the magnitude of this day and what it  meant  to
her,  she just wasn't sure anymore.  Today was important  to
her  because  it was the anniversary of the day  that  Ataru
beat  her in the game of tag which spared the lives  of  all
humans  on the planet.  Also, it was on that same  day  that
Ataru  had `proposed' to her.  Because of this, Lum expected
more from him than the ignorance she'd received.
      Standing in Ataru's room alone, Lum was experiencing a
heartache  she  had  never felt before.   Her  usual  cheery
disposition had been replaced by a dark brooding.   `I  hate
feeling like this.  All my friends have constantly warned me
to  stay  away  from Darling.  I ignored  them  because  I'd
always  believed that I knew a side of him that  they  never
saw.   Maybe  they're right.  Perhaps I've been wrong  about
him  all  this time,' she admitted to herself.  Hell,  Ataru
never even gave it a second thought when she said she wanted
to  do  something  tonight.  He'd brushed  her  off,  merely
replying  "Not  now  Lum!" as he bolted out  of  the  house.
Ataru's parents weren't going to be home for the whole week.
Lum  decided to use that opportunity to make it perfect  for
her  and  Ataru.  Considering all the planning she put  into
effect   for   tonight,  everything  was   indeed   perfect.
Everything  except for the fact that the man she  loved  was
not there to share it with her.
     Sitting down on Ataru's bed, a breeze wafted in through
the  nearby window and caressed her face.  Immersing herself
in  it, she let the breeze tug at her lustrous green hair in
a  slow,  wave-like  motion.  The  buildup  of  emotion  was
becoming  too great for her, and tears began to form  around
her  eyes.   "Darling  no baka," she whispered  to  herself,
letting her tears wash from her blue eyes and down the  soft
cheeks of her heart-shaped face.
      Sniffling  slightly, she turned  to  the  clock  which
showed five o'clock.  Lum had asked Ataru to be there by six
but from his response to her earlier, she feared he wouldn't
be  home  by then.  She had so hoped that they would finally
be  able  to  come to terms with the emotions and situations
that  they  had  been dancing around for so long.   She  was
tired  of  both  of  them avoiding the  truth,  and  Ataru's
insolence wasn't helping matters any.
      `Am  I asking to much from him?' she wondered.   She'd
only wanted tenderness and intimacy from Ataru.  Instead all
she'd  ever  gotten were careless rebuffs to her  overtures.
In  the  past,  she had been content to dream of  sharing  a
closeness with Ataru, but recently she was growing tired  of
constantly being put on hold by him. "I could have  any  man
in  the galaxy Darling," she whispered.  "Many have tried to
win  my heart but I'm only attracted to you.  You're the one
who eludes me Darling.  I sometimes wonder if you're capable
of loving me, but nevertheless I hope that one day I'll hear
the  words 'I love you' come from your mouth."  Lum couldn't
stand the heartache any longer and broke down.  She gave  in
to her pain as she cried in anguish on his pillow.  She went
on for several minutes before her sobs finally abated.
      She  sat up, sniffling, and looked at herself  in  the
mirror.   She noticed the slick trail her tears  had  formed
down  her face.  Regretfully, she wiped them clear,  wishing
he  were  there  comforting her and wiping  away  her  tears
instead.  She constantly despaired over the fact that he was
never there for her.  She was waiting alone, hoping that  he
would  finally show up.  Sighing loudly, she mused over  the
many things they had yet to do, and the many regrets for the
time  lost between herself and Ataru.  `Dammit!' she  though
to herself angrily, `he hasn't even kissed me yet!'
      She  put her fingertips to her lips, trying to imagine
what  kissing Ataru would be like.  She then let her fingers
drop  down  from her face as she grabbed her arms, squeezing
in  a  light  embrace.  She stroked her left  arm  absently,
trying  to  bring some comfort to herself.  "I am yours  for
the  taking, Darling.  Body and soul.  Why do you refuse  my
offerings?" she asked, not caring who heard.  She  continued
her  self  caress,  ignoring the chilling  breeze  from  the
window as she tried to keep her heart from breaking.
      A  familiar tingle started to make itself known at the
juncture  of  her  legs.   With  a  bittersweet  smile,  she
extended  her caress to her whole body.  She warmed  as  her
fingers found her sensitive spots through the fabric of  her
bikini.   Her  depression disappeared, and was  replaced  by
well-known  feelings of longing and sexual attraction.   `At
least  I  can appreciate myself if Darling won't  appreciate
me,' she thought as her fingers moved to her chest and began
to linger over her breasts.
      Two distinct impressions made themselves clear through
the  top  of her bikini as her nipples stiffened in response
to  the  attention they were receiving.  She  imagined  that
Ataru  was  there,  giving her the  attention  that  she  so
desperately wanted.  Her hands became Ataru's hands, as  she
imagined  him  taking her in the ultimate gesture  of  love.
She continued fondling herself through her clothing, wrapped
up  in  her  fantasy,  until a breeze reminded  her  of  the
window.
      She  closed the window and shades and locked the door.
She  then sat down on his bed and returned her attention  to
herself,  rubbing  her straining nipples  through  her  top.
"Darling..." she moaned as she snaked a hand down  from  one
of  her  breasts to her sex.  Soon she couldn't  resist  any
longer  and  stood to take off her bikini.  She slipped  the
skimpy  pieces of clothing off of her young body and dropped
them on the floor at the foot of Ataru's bed.  She gazed  at
her naked self in the mirror as she ran her hands across her
body.   She watched herself as she kneaded the soft skin  of
her  full  breasts in her tiny hands, cooing in pleasure  as
she  found all the right places to touch.  She lay back down
on his bed and continued moving her hands all over her naked
body.   Waves of pleasure began racing through her  body  as
her hands slowly made their way back up to her bare breasts.
With her thumbs and forefingers she began to caress her pink
nipples,  which  were  thrust  outward  providing  a   stark
contrast to the soft skin on the whole of her breasts.   The
waves of pleasure began to intensify as she again worked one
of her hands below her waist to the delta of her femininity.
      Lum maneuvered her hands so she could stroke her inner
thighs  and  the  area  around her  sex  while  deliberately
avoiding  her clit.  She continued her stroking for  a  time
until suddenly, not being able to stand the wait any longer,
her  hands  darted  to the center of her  sex.   Lum  gasped
sharply  as  she hit the swollen button at the apex  of  her
vagina.   "Ohhhhh  yessss..." she  moaned,  tongue  slightly
parting her lips, her eyes tightly shut.  `It's so sensitive
...   oh, Darling!' she thought to herself as she teased her
clit.
      Lum started wriggling her hips as her body reacted  to
her  manipulations.  She bit on her lower lip to  keep  from
moaning aloud.  Nevertheless, small grunts and moans  worked
their  way free as she continued.  Wanting more, she brought
her other hand down from her breast and let her fingers part
the  silky cover of green hair that protected her virgin sex
from  prying eyes.  She traced that hand down her slit while
continually massaging her button with the other.  Unable  to
contain herself, she plunged a finger deep into her vagina.
      Lum hissed through her teeth at that penetration,  her
emotions  claiming  control of her for  the  moment.   Lum's
breathing quickened, as did her hand movements.  She  parted
the  pink  folds  of  her sex as she worked  another  finger
inside  herself.  She moved her hands in and out,  her  hips
bucking  involuntarily.  Finding a rhythm with her hips  and
hands,  she  drove  herself into a  frenzy.   Hungry  for  a
climax, Lum's hands worked faster and faster on her clit and
her vagina.
      Her  hands  became thoroughly drenched,  and  greenish
wisps of pubic hair became matted to her sex as she thrashed
her  body about in the throes of near-delirium.  She  worked
herself until she started feeling spasms hit her hips.   She
then  moved  her other hand from her clit to hold  her  lips
open  as  her right hand probed deeper inside herself.   She
stroked  herself  until finally she gave out  a  shrill  cry
"AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!"  Stroking faster, her body started  to
glow  with suppressed energy as she reached orgasm.  Finally
she came with a scream that nearly shattered all the windows
in  the  neighborhood,  and left a  decidedly  wet  spot  on
Ataru's bed from her copious discharges.
      She  collapsed  on  the bed,  gasping  for  air.   Her
bountiful  chest heaved as she claimed as much  air  as  she
possibly  could with each breath.  She put  a  hand  to  her
flushed  face,  and smelled the fruit of her  labor  on  her
hands.   `Mmmm.  That smells like teen spirit  to  me!'  she
thought  mischievously, a smirk on her face.  She delicately
licked  her  fingers, tasting the tang of her  passion,  and
smiled  to  herself.  She caressed her steaming sex  slowly,
`Darling, this could be yours if you'd give me the  chance.'
Her  hormones were a whirlwind in her body as she  recounted
the orgasm in her mind.
      Lum's body eventually stopped shivering, and her  mind
slowly   cleared   as  she  lay  there  panting.    Whatever
depression she had been feeling was blown away by  the  Oni-
orgasm that she just endured.  Lifting herself up from where
she  was  laying,  Lum looked down at the  evidence  of  her
labor.   She  gave  a slight smirk, and thought  to  herself
`Maybe  I should leave that for Darling  He may finally  get
the  hint.'  She looked at the clock again; it showed  5:35.
`Good,' she thought `I have enough time to take a shower and
get  ready  in  case he shows up.'  She got up from  Ataru's
bed, her thighs and sex glistening with the juices that were
running  from  her  sensitive vagina.   She  rushed  to  the
shower, in anticipation of the night's events to come.

                             <*>

     Running water announced a shower in progress.  Soon the
flow  of  water ended, and a refreshed "Ahh!" made it's  way
from  the  bathroom.  A young man, wrapped only in  a  towel
emerged from the bathroom and made for a nearby mirror.
      "You're going to get a girl tonight, Megane!" he  said
to  his  reflection.  He had worked extra hard  to  get  the
money  needed to attend the party being thrown tonight.   He
wasn't  bringing anyone with him to the social, but  he  was
banking on bagging a wallflower soon after arriving.
      He donned his glasses, and was about to launch himself
into a soliloquy over his `imminent' sexual conquest when  a
cool  breeze  hit  him.  He looked over  and  saw  that  his
bedroom  window was closed, but assumed that the breeze  was
caused by the startup of the heating system.
     He walked over to his closet to retrieve his rented tux
when  a  colder  and stronger breeze hit him  in  the  face.
Puzzled, he opened his closet and, "waaaahhhh!!!!"
      Megane  was  knocked  backwards as  a  white  mountain
tackled him.  He tried to run, but was unable to as  he  was
pinned down by what had hit him.  It was heavy and ... cold?
Freezing,  actually.   Slowly, Megane managed  to  extricate
himself  from the pile of what he identified  as  snow.   He
stood  facing  the  closet  and  the  aberrant  snow  drift,
puzzling  over  it's creation when a dainty voice  issued  a
query.
     "Excuse me, is this the Moroboshi residence?"
      Megane  screamed, in shock over the unknown source  of
the  voice,  and  in  anger over the accursed  name  of  his
nemesis.

                             <*>

      After  getting out of the shower, Lum toweled  herself
off and donned another tiger-striped bikini from her endless
supply.   She  stuffed  a few items  into  her  Cleavage  of
Holding  (TM), and prepared to hunt Ataru down and drag  him
home.
     She hadn't even gotten out of Ataru's bedroom door when
suddenly  the house shook, and all power was lost.   Afraid,
she  shut the door to Ataru's room and locked it.  Scurrying
could  be  heard.   What  bothered her  most  was  that  the
scurrying was everywhere, and she couldn't pinpoint a single
source.   Suddenly,  out  of nowhere,  several  black  forms
descended  from  the  ceiling and  charged  at  her.   Lum's
defense  instinct  kicked in, and without even  looking  she
pointed  and  vaporized  one of  the  dark  figures  with  a
lightning  shot  from  her right hand.   However,  luck  was
against  her  that  day  as  a  multitude  of  gloved  hands
descended on her body before she could loose another salvo.
      She  struggled against all of the hands that  were  on
her.   She  didn't know what to do as the hands  roamed  her
body, roughly and lewdly manipulating parts of her body that
she'd  reserved  for Ataru's touch.  The  unwanted  pleasure
quickly gave way to pain as she felt a sharp jab in her ass.
Her  vision blurred and she knew she was quickly on her  way
to  passing  out.  `Shit!  I've been drugged.  I  can't...,'
she  thought,  trying to maintain consciousness.   Her  body
jolted  as  the unseen individuals bound her arms and  legs.
Unable to fight, she tried to scream.  She opened her  mouth
to  yell only to find a gag quickly inserted.  "Tell  Prince
Graven  that we have the Oni Princess, and are ..." was  the
last thing she heard as the darkness finally claimed her.

                             <*>

      Two  men  were  standing outside the  entrance  to  an
enormous  complex.  Apparently they were  in  some  sort  of
disagreement,  as they were screaming at the  top  of  their
lungs.  The argument was cut short by the taller of the  two
combatants when he said "HELL NO, DUMBASS!  GET A  LIFE  AND
GO HOME!"
      The  man smirked as he walked towards his post at  the
entrance  gate.   "Well THIS sucks!" Ataru screamed  at  the
guard  as he stormed down the sidewalk.  All of his  friends
had left him behind to go to the high school social event of
the  year.  Every year the Tomobiki social was held for  all
students.   This year it was different because the  students
were  shelling out 4500 yen a head to get in the door.   But
there was a provision where each student was allowed a guest
to  accompany them at no additional charge.  Since Ataru was
perpetually broke, he couldn't afford to pay his way in  and
had  been  hoping to coast in somehow with someone.   `Hell,
what chance do I have now?' Ataru thought sourly to himself.
     Most of the students happily ignored the cost, since it
was  THE event to see and be seen at.  That meant that a lot
of  cute  girls wearing complicated clothing would be  there
vying  for anyone's attention.  Ataru wanted to be  at  that
babe-fest so badly he could taste it.
      Now  Ataru  normally would not have  had  any  problem
sneaking  into the social.  Indeed, his skulking  techniques
were  the stuff of study by various military special  forces
groups.  However, this year the social was not being held on
school  grounds.  Unfortunately for Ataru, the  Mendou  clan
had  volunteered their sprawling estate as the site for this
year's  social (hence the expense.  Normally the social  was
only  500 yen a person).  The unfortunate part was that  the
elaborate  security  setup  on-site  easily  foiled  all  of
Ataru's attempts at penetration.
      From  a  distance inside the gate, a white suited  man
watched the exchange.  He chuckled to himself.  Shutaro  was
enjoying Ataru's discomfort far too much to allow him on the
estate.   Also,  the  lack of commotion  caused  by  Ataru's
absence  made  the  social all the more  enjoyable  (not  to
mention  easier  to manage).  He turned his  attention  away
from the weeping Moroboshi, and back to the bevy of gorgeous
women  that  were  jockeying for position in  his  field  of
vision.  He looked around, and noticed that the one he hoped
to see among them was not present.  Troubled, he ignored the
press of women as he searched for the one he could not find.

                             <*>

      A buxom young lady with dark hair and a biker's outfit
stood  outside  the Moroboshi residence.  Having  failed  on
numerous occasions, she had given up on trying to reach  Lum
at  her  spaceship, and figured she'd find her here at  that
loser  Moroboshi's place.  She hoped that  the  lech  wasn't
home, so she could avoid having to soil her outfit with  his
blood.   She  wanted  to see how Lum was doing,  since  they
hadn't spoken in awhile.  Ataru's presence would only  cause
unwanted distraction.
      As  she  approached the front door,  the  whole  house
shuddered  violently.  Not wasting any  time,  she  wrenched
open the front door and threw it inside.  Once in the house,
she  heard an electric discharge and what sounded like a wet
explosion,  then  the  sounds  of  a  struggle.   She  bound
upstairs as fast as her coltish young legs could carry  her,
mindless of whatever danger was up there.  Then at  the  top
of  the  stairs she heard a yelp, followed by  some  muffled
talking originating from Ataru's room.
      She  burst  into the room just in time to see  several
black-clad  figures.  One had Lum draped over his  shoulder.
"What the hell do you bastards think you're doing with Lum?"
she screamed as she charged, her bike chain in hand.
      The  one  with  Lum on his shoulder yelled  "GET  THAT
BITCH!"  as  he headed towards the window.  The  young  girl
fought  them valiantly, but was unable to gain an advantage.
She  was  outgunned  and outmatched,  and  all  too  quickly
several  gloved hands made their way to her.  Once  she  had
been restrained, they tranked her and bound her up tightly.
      "What'll  we  do with her?" one of the  faceless  ones
inquired.
      "I  don't know.  The Prince never said anything  about
what to do with eyewitnesses," replied another.
      "Well, let's take her along and let the Prince  decide
her fate."
      "Good idea.  Heh, two holes are better than one!"  the
second  one  said, fingering the biker girl's crotch  before
picking her limp body from the floor.

                             <*>

      Megane  crawled  over to his bed  in  terror,  seeking
refuge  from  his  possessed closet by  climbing  under  his
blanket.   Shuffling noises could be heard from his  closet,
gaining in volume.  `Whatever it is, it's coming closer!' he
worried to himself.
      A  figure  in  white made an entrance.  An  enchanting
voice spoke from it.  "Pardon me, but where am I?"
     Megane slowly pulled the blanket down to where he could
see, and saw the face of an angel regarding at him.  Gulping
audibly,  it  took  him a minute to find his  voice  "Umm...
you're in ... my closet?"
      The figure shifted slightly, bringing a dainty hand to
her  perfect face.  She appeared to be chuckling behind  her
hand.   She  spoke again, "You appear distressed.   Who  are
you?"
      He  shifted  nervously and said, "My friends  call  me
Megane.   And  I'm  distressed because my closet  has  never
disgorged  snow  before.   Or  beautiful  women,  for   that
matter."   He  blushed furiously, realizing what  he'd  just
said.
      The young woman's perfect face blushed slightly.   "My
name  is  Oyuki.  I am the Snow Princess of Neptune.   I  am
looking for my friend Lum."
      "I remember you now!  Wow...  I don't believe we spoke
too much the last time we met."
      Oyuki  moved  out  of the closet  and  approached  the
opposite  side  of Megane's bed.  She removed her  covering,
revealing  a  much  smaller outfit not  unlike  a  one-piece
bathing suit.  "I apologize for being so informal, but I was
getting  awfully  warm in that heavy  kimono.   It  is  much
warmer here than I am usually accustomed to."
      Drool  started forming at the edges of Megane's mouth.
He struggled to speak.  "I ... eh... I mean ... that's okay.
Please make yourself comfortable."
      "Thank you.  I apologize for appearing in your closet.
I  was  expecting to arrive at the Moroboshi residence,  but
somehow I got misdirected."
      "Ataru  Moroboshi?" he said, slightly sickened.   `Why
does Ataru have this penchant for attracting beautiful women
to himself?' Megane despaired internally.
      "Yes.  I was looking for Lum.  A friend of she  and  I
told me that Lum was feeling down, and was not communicating
off-planet.   I decided to pay her a visit to see  if  there
was anything that I could do to cheer her up."
      Scheming wheels turned in Megane's mind.  `I would  be
the  talk of the town if I walked into the social with  THIS
babe  on  my arms.  Moroboshi, eat your heart out!'   Megane
snickered  evilly  and  rubbed  his  hands  together  as  if
anticipating a major victory.  He chose his words carefully,
"Well,  I know that Shutaro Mendou is having a party at  his
house.   I  would expect to see Lum there.  In  fact,  I  am
heading  there  myself  and would be honored  if  you  would
attend  the  social as my guest."  Megane's  confidence  was
building  exponentially, he concluded with, "You could  meet
Lum there, if you wish."
      "Because of where I live, I do not get to attend  many
celebrations.  Therefore, I gladly accept your invitation to
the party, and your offer to act as my escort in locating my
friend Lum." she replied, bowing gracefully and extending  a
hand towards him.
      `Thank you, God!' he thought, exultant.  With a  smile
on  his face, he rose up to take her hand.  As he stood, the
blanket  fell  away.   Unfortunately for  Megane,  with  the
blanket  went the towel he had been wearing from the shower.
As  Megane  stood completely erect, he noticed  two  things.
One,  he  was now standing thoroughly naked in  front  of  a
beautiful young woman who happened to be not only  a  member
of  royalty,  but Lum's friend as well.  Two, the  Princess'
hand,  which  had  been intended to help  him  up,  was  now
resting  lightly  against his exposed  penis.   He  was  too
mortified to do anything but whimper.
      The  Snow Princess was likewise locked in her  current
pose,  shock  evident on her face.  A moment later  she  was
still  unable to move, but she managed to say in a whispered
voice, "Oh my..."

                             <*>

      Ataru cursed his luck.  His hands would be deprived of
the pleasure of groping/touching the warm skin of all of the
kawaii  women at the social.  However his sexual frustration
was not his only immediate concern, he was also very hungry.
He  could not remedy his hunger because everything  in  town
was  closed.   In fact, nothing was going on  tonight  other
than  the social.  So not only was he unable to buy his  way
into  the social, he was also unable to buy away the  hunger
gnawing  at  his innards.  "Dammit, dammit, dammit,  dammit,
dammit!!  Why me?!" he decried to the night sky.
      Ataru  jumped nine stories when he got a reply to  his
question.
      "Have you looked in the mirror for your answer?" asked
Cherry  as  he popped out of nowhere.  "You should  see  how
unlucky you look this evening."
      He  checked his shorts to see just how soiled they got
when  the  mumbling midget made his appearance.  `Whew!   No
worse  than  usual,'  thought  Ataru  as  he  returned   his
attention  to  the babbling monk.  "How is it that  you  can
appear  at the times when it's most annoying Cherry?"  Ataru
asked in a pained voice.
     "FATE!!"
      "I  should've known..." Ataru said sullenly.  Cherry's
presence  could  only spell doom for him some  time  in  the
immediate  future.   Seeing no easy  avenue  of  escape,  he
accepted his future doom (whatever it was going to  be)  and
walked with the monk.
      "I  may be predictable but I'm usually right."  Cherry
said, ignoring Ataru's mood.
      "Anyway, you know where I can find some free food?" he
said,  his  stomach  completing  a  stanza  from  the  `1812
Overture.'
     "You should be at home.  Isn't Lum throwing you a party
for your anniversary?"
      "I hope not.  Her cooking stinks.  I prefer starvation
over death by food poisoning."
      "That  sort of attitude can get you hurt  Ataru.   You
know that.  You should also know that it's wrong for you  to
be  so hard on Lum.  She loves you, Ataru.  She wouldn't  do
anything  to deliberately hurt you.  Your hormones are  just
making you too blind to see the obvious."
     Ataru was taken aback by the Cherry's candor.  Spoiling
for a fight, he went on the offensive.
      "What  the  hell  do you know about love,  you  eating
machine!  Look at how she treats me!  She hounds me all  the
time, treats me like a lightning rod, makes a complete  mess
of my social life..."
      "You  have  no social life!" Cherry correctly  pointed
out.
      "That's  NOT  the  point!  Well, maybe  it  is.   It's
because  of her interference that no-one wants to  speak  to
me.   All  the  guys  are jealous of  me  because  of  Lum's
infatuation.  All the girls refuse to talk to me, especially
Shinobu.  We were going to get married before Lum showed up,
for crissakes!"
      "Not  true.  Shinobu didn't propose to you  until  the
last day of your infamous tag game with Lum."
      "True, but Shinobu proposed to me BEFORE Lum did!  But
now  I'm  engaged to Lum, and Shinobu hates my guts.   Lum's
got  a  voluptuous body, and Shinobu's got...,  and...and...
arrrgh!!!"   Ataru  yelled,  pulling   out   his   hair   in
frustration.
      "Regardless,  you need to ask yourself the  following.
Who do *you* love?" Cherry asked.  He eyed Ataru and grinned
like a Cheshire cat.
     Ataru blushed wildly and looked up to the sky.  "That's
too  deep for me, Cherry.  I don't even want to THINK  about
that right now.  I'm having enough trouble finding something
to   eat,   much  less  sorting  out  my  so-called  marital
problems."
      "Well, at least go home.  It's a sure bet that  you're
not  getting into the Mendou compound, so home is  the  only
option you have left."
      "You're  a  real font of enthusiasm, you  know  that?"
Ataru  deadpanned.  Then his face took on a  stronger  look.
"What's  Lum got waiting for me, Cherry?" Ataru asked  in  a
guarded voice.
     "I can't tell you; it's a surprise." he said coyly.
      "You've already told me part of it you deranged  monk!
Spill it!"
      "Well  I have, haven't I?  Anyway I'll let you  figure
out the rest of it.  Bye..."
      "Wait!...  damned  monk." he yelled,  but  Cherry  was
nowhere to be seen.  `Hmmm, Lum said something about wanting
me at home by 6:00.'  He looked at his watch .  'Damn!  It's
5:55 right now, I've got to hurry!' he thought in a rush  as
he broke into a run for home.

                             <*>

      Shinobu was lost in the Mendou house.  `1000 years and
they  couldn't  create  a map of the place?   Figures!'  she
thought  to herself.  She was completely lost in fact.   She
had  left more than half an hour ago and still couldn't find
the  bathroom.   `Of  the  several  hundred  bathrooms  that
they're supposed to have in this place why can't I find  one
of them?' she asked as her frantic search for a rest stop in
the Mendou complex continued.
      Several minutes and hallways later, she heard  someone
approach.   "Shinobu, there you are!  I've been looking  all
over for you."  It was Mendou.  "When I couldn't find you, I
feared  you  had lost your way or that something might  have
happened to you."
      "Shutaro?" Shinobu asked with as much patience as  she
could muster.
     "I'm here," he said reassuringly, acting as her rock.
      "Bathroom?"  she  said through grit  teeth,  her  eyes
bugging out.
      "Oh  yes,  I  see!  Well, there isn't a  lavatory  for
another 72 quadrants.  Can you hold it?"
     "NO!"
     "Then we must resort to using one of the private stalls
in one of the bedrooms.  Follow me, Shinobu."
      Shinobu  followed  Mendou into one of  the  Quadrant's
Master  Bedrooms.  As they entered, Mendou directed  her  to
the toilet.  "There you go."
      "Thanks"  she said as she continued to do the  pee-pee
dance.
     "But of course my lady."
      A lightning-quick maneuver by Shinobu brought her into
the bathroom, whereupon she gracelessly slammed the door and
rummaged about to get on the toilet.
      From  outside the bathroom Mendou heard  a  sound  not
unlike a downpour, then a huge sigh of relief.

                             <*>

      Ataru  raced through the streets to get home. Lum  was
waiting  for him, and probably mad as hell.  He had  to  get
there before it was too late.  Ataru glanced at his watch as
he  ran  up the sidewalk to his house.  It was 5:59.   Good,
right on time.  Straightening himself up he walked up to the
door.   He  was  stunned to find that  the  door  was  open.
`Correction'  he  told himself.  `Completely  wrenched  from
it's hinges and lying on the floor inside the house' sounded
better to him.
      Ataru's  expression turned from one  of  surprise,  to
absolute anger as he realized what deep shit he'd be in when
his  parents  returned from their vacation in America.   The
house  was a complete disaster.  `Add housekeeping to  Lum's
list of "Don'ts", ' Ataru thought sourly as he ascended  the
stairs to his room.  "Lum?" he called out as he continued to
his  room.  "Uhh, Lum...?" he tried again, puzzled  when  he
got no response.
      As  he reached the top of the stairs, he noticed  that
the door to his bedroom was in the same shape as the door to
the  front  of the house.  He was walking towards  his  room
when the smell hit.  It smelled like someone tried to dry  a
wet  dog in a microwave.  The stench became stronger  as  he
continued  towards his room.  Ataru gasped when he  saw  the
fried  corpse lying on the floor near his bed.  He  panicked
as  he  saw one of Lum's bikinis lying atop the ruined body.
"Oh  GOD  NO!  LUM!!!!!"  he screamed as he bolted into  his
room  and  approached the charred corpse.  As he knelt  down
before  the body, he quickly realized two things.  One,  the
body  was  definitely not Lum's.  Two, the damn thing  stunk
worse  than anything he could have ever conceived of.  Ataru
rushed  over to the open window and threw up violently  onto
the  lawn  as  he  gagged over the sight and  smell  of  the
corpse.
      It took several minutes for him to recover his senses.
Slowly  he  pushed himself back inside from where he'd  been
hanging  out the window.  Holding his nose, he got the  hell
out  of  his  room.  Not looking where he  was  running,  he
tripped  on  his displaced bedroom door and fell downstairs.
He  really didn't care at the moment, however.  Once he made
it  to  the bottom of the staircase, his head impacted  with
the  downstairs floor.  One fleeting thought rushed  through
his  head before he lost consciousness, "Where the hell  are
you, Lum?"

                             <*>

      Panicked  breathing  issued from  the  still  form  of
Megane.  With one exception, he remained totally motionless.
His hormones announced their presence as his penis responded
to  the  delicate touch of the beautiful Princess' hand  and
began  rising  towards her.  Unsure of  what  was  going  to
happen  next,  he  closed  his  eyes  and  grit  his  teeth,
determined   to  accept  whatever  punishment   she   deemed
necessary for this gross transgression.
     What she did next surprised both of them.  She slid her
hand slowly off of his fully erect member, and knelt down so
that  she  faced  it.  "I haven't seen a naked  man  before.
Wow..."   With  a fascinated look on her face, she  extended
her  hand out again, and touched the head of his penis  with
her fingertips.
     Megane hissed inwardly as she made contact.  It was the
first  time that deliberate contact had been made with  that
organ  by  anything  other than his hand.   And  her  gentle
caress  felt GOOD!  Damn good!  He allowed a grunt  to  work
it's  way  out of his mouth, now that he was sure  that  she
wasn't going to flay him alive for exposing himself in front
of her.
      At  his grunt, she asked "I hope I'm not being unkind.
Does this bother you?"
     That seemed to bring Megane around again.  His mind was
racing,  but  his mouth seemed to be glued  shut.   With  an
effort  he responded in a shuddering breath, "No Oyuki-sama.
A... a... ac... actually it feels very nice."
     They both laughed nervously, unsure of what to do next.
Megane decided to take the initiative and grasped her  hand.
He  led  her over to his side of the bed and lay down.   She
knelt  next to him at the side of the bed, between  Megane's
trembling legs.  She bent forward and got a closer  look  at
his rock-hard penis.  Oyuki was no stranger to the *concept*
of  sex,  but  she had never put that concept  into  action.
However, she couldn't deny that she was getting very aroused
by  the  fact that she held a young man's virile sex in  her
hand.   She  decided  to go further, curiosity  getting  the
better of her.  She reached out again, and grasped the shaft
delicately, and began to slowly stroke it up and down.
     Megane was in bliss.  Here was a woman who far exceeded
any  of  his best dreams rubbing his manhood in his bedroom,
ON  HIS  BED!  He fixated his attention on how delicate  her
touch  was  as she massaged his stiffened rod.   He  thought
that  while  she  may  have  come from  colder  climes,  she
obviously was a very warm-blooded animal.  Her dainty  hands
were  like fire against the sensitive skin of his  rod,  and
the  sensations were such that Megane hissed, "Yesss, that's
goooooddd..." softly as she stroked.
      Oyuki's  gaze was locked onto Megane's  penis  as  she
rubbed  it  with  her  hand.  She continued  to  stroke  it,
feeling  the texture of the skin, the abundance of  heat  it
emitted, and the pulsing of blood as it coursed through it's
veins.   She leaned over so her face was hovering  over  the
head of his throbbing penis.  She stared at it, knowing what
she  wanted to do with it, but unsure of how to go about it.
She  could feel the heat emanating from Megane's rod  as  it
met  with  her cheek.  She hovered there for a bit,  letting
her  warm  breath cascade across the head of his  penis  and
down the length of the shaft.
      Megane almost lost it right there.  Her breath against
his  stiffened rod was like an angel's caress that  sent  an
electric thrill coursing through him, and caused him to  let
a  long sigh escape his mouth in response.  He tried to keep
himself  from  coming on the Snow Princess'  face,  exerting
control over himself that he didn't know he had.
      Oyuki grasped his penis at it's base, and aimed it for
her  mouth.  Slowly she brought her head down until her lips
were grazing the head of his rod.  With deliberate slowness,
she  parted her lips and invited Megane into her mouth.  She
enveloped  the red and swollen head of his member  with  her
warm  lips,  moving  her  head up and  down  slightly.   The
movement caused her lips to rub across the top of his rod in
a  slow  and  even  motion.  The contact was  making  Megane
shiver;  his  mind doing high-level gymnastics flips  as  it
registered the glorious feeling of the head of his rod being
immersed in the loving warmth of Oyuki's mouth.  She  pushed
her tongue forward and tasted Megane's prick.  Not getting a
negative reaction from Megane, she went further, sending her
tongue out and licking greedily across the whole head of his
penis.   Megane's hands balled into fists as  he  fought  to
keep  his  impending orgasm at bay.  Oyuki saw that  he  was
getting  close,  so she opened her mouth  all  the  way  and
slowly brought her head down.
      Megane saw stars.  Well, at least it felt like he  was
in  orbit.  His rod was engulfed in a warm, wet, tantalizing
environment  unlike  anything that he had  ever  experienced
before.  It was fantastic.  He began breathing heavily,  and
brought his hands up and placed them gently on Oyuki's head.
As  she continued to lower her mouth on his tool, he ran his
fingers through her bluish-gray hair.  "Ohh  ...  Oyuki-sama
...," he moaned as the Snow Princess devoured his manhood.
      Oyuki  kept  on  descending until  she  couldn't  take
anymore  in her mouth.  After eventually accepting  most  of
his  member  in  her mouth, she brought her  head  back  up,
running her tongue along the back of his shaft as she  rose.
Then  she  began a rhythmic rise and fall on his penis,  her
cheeks puckering inward on the upstroke as her luscious lips
kept  a good seal on the circumference of his rod.  She kept
up  a steady rhythm on his rod, pausing occasionally at  the
top  to roll her tongue over the whole of the head.  With  a
slurping noise, she pulled him out of her mouth and  started
running  her tongue along the underside of his  shaft.   She
descended,  nipping at the side of his rod  with  her  lips.
When she reached the base of Megane's tool, she nuzzled  his
balls  with  her  nose.  She giggled slightly  as  his  hair
tickled  her face;  the vibrations from the giggling  almost
sending Megane off again.
      Megane thought to complain when she pulled him out  of
her  mouth,  but nixed that idea when she began licking  the
outside  of  his rod.  Sighing contentedly, he continued  to
caress  the fair Princess' head.  Oyuki took Megane's  balls
in  her  hands  and gently fondled them while  rubbing  them
against her face and sucking gently on them with her  mouth.
Then  inspiration struck, and she took one of his balls into
her  mouth, rotating her tongue lazily over it once  it  was
in.  Megane's shuddering breath told her that she was on the
right  path.  She continued rolling one of his balls in  her
mouth  while rubbing the shaft of his penis with her  dainty
hand.
      A  few moments later she hungered for his penis again,
and  rose her head up from his sack.  Licking her lips,  she
hungrily popped his member back in her mouth and resumed her
nursing.  Inflamed with passion now, she pumped her head  up
and  down  his  shaft  rapidly.   Her  thighs  were  getting
slippery, and she realized that her sex was soaking  through
the  fabric of her outfit.  God, she was getting  hot!   Not
able to restrain herself, she snaked a hand down and started
rubbing her crotch through the fabric of her outfit.
      Megane  had come before, but the buildup that  he  was
experiencing now made everything that came (no pun intended)
before pale by comparison.  Oyuki's mouth was nothing  short
of  sentient  pleasure  as  it rose  and  descended  on  his
manhood.   His breathing was getting louder and more  ragged
as  she  continued her heavenly ministrations on his member.
All  of  a sudden his muscles tensed, and he gasped sharply.
Not  meaning to, he brought his hands down on Oyuki's  head,
pushing  her  head  down  further on  his  spurting  member.
Quickly he said, "Oh God...  I'm COMING!"
      On  the downstroke, she'd noticed an unusual taste  in
her  mouth.   That  was  all the warning  Oyuki  got  before
Megane's  hands pushed her against his penis as it  twitched
in her mouth.  As soon as he shouted, her mouth flooded with
a  hot liquid that threatened to completely occupy her mouth
and  throat.  Quickly, she swallowed to avoid choking.   She
noticed  that the taste wasn't what she'd expected, but  she
swallowed  greedily  now that she knew  what  it  was  like.
Meanwhile,  the pressure that Megane's hands  were  exerting
against her head relaxed, and she was able to move her  head
again.   She kept his penis in her mouth as it continued  to
twitch;  bobbing her head up and down slightly while licking
and  sucking it, savoring whatever drops of his essence  she
could get from the exhausted organ.
     Megane was happy.  Speechless, but happy.  He continued
to  lay  on his bed, his hands roaming over Oyuki's head  as
she  sucked on his deflating penis.  Oyuki slowly raised her
head  off  of Megane's flaccid rod to let it fall  from  her
lips and into her awaiting hand.  She gently laid it against
his  abdomen,  and kissed it gently on the head.   Then  she
swallowed  to  clear her throat.  "Megane, I..."  she  said,
trying  to  figure out what to say.  She reached a  hand  up
towards his, unsure of what his reaction would be.
      Megane  saw the hand approach.  He took it  gently  in
his,  and pulled her towards him.  He brought her up so that
they were face to face, her body lying atop his.  He studied
her face for a moment.  No woman had ever been this close to
him before in his life.  She was so BEAUTIFUL!  He reached a
hand  up,  and caressed Oyuki's cheek gently.   He  realized
that he might never get the opportunity again, so he reached
his head forward, and kissed her gingerly on the lips.
      Oyuki  tentatively touched her lips with his as  their
faces  came  together.  As their lips met, she was  consumed
with a desire for more.  Their kiss became more intense, and
Megane  extended  both of his arms in a  passionate  embrace
around the Snow Princess' petite form.  After that, all bets
were  off.  They began kissing in earnest, his mouth parting
to  send  his  tongue  into hers.  She likewise  thrust  her
tongue  outward  to  connect  with  his,  and  they  wrapped
together in a lewd dance of passion in their mouths.
      Megane  could  taste  himself as his  tongue  explored
Oyuki's  mouth, and that drove home the fact  that  she  had
chosen  to do this with HIM.  She was wonderful, a  godsend.
He  could expend reams of paper describing the emotions that
gushed  through him, but the only thing that  he  could  say
that  would matter was that he wanted her.  Badly.   "Oyuki-
sama.  You feel so ...  Can I ..."
      "Yes, Megane-san.  I want to as badly as you do."  She
replied  in a light whisper.  With that, she rose  from  the
bed, running her hand down Megane's chest and stomach as she
got  up.   Once standing, she turned so she faced away  from
Megane  and unzipped her `swimsuit,' letting it fall to  the
floor.  She brought her arms up and stood still.
      Megane sat up on the bed, and reached his hand out  to
touch  her  bare hip.  She slowly rotated at his touch,  and
faced him, her hands and arms covering her private regions.
      "I'm  sorry, I'm a bit nervous.  I've never done  this
before,"  she  said,  timidly.   Oyuki's  angelic  face  was
looking downwards, her gaze on the floor.
      Megane  gave her a caring look and stood to face  her.
He  grasped  her  in  a warming embrace, saying,  "You  have
nothing  to  fear, Oyuki-sama.  You are the  most  beautiful
woman  I  have ever met.  Trust me, please."  He kissed  her
again  on  the lips, and brought his hands down to grab  her
wrists gently.  Pulling slightly, he disengaged her covering
hands from what they were protecting, then sat down, viewing
a piece of living art.
      Her  hands were now at her sides, and she was standing
stock  still like a statue.  He raised his eyes,  and  gazed
over  her.   She was perfection.  Her pearlescent  skin  was
offset  by two beautifully rounded breasts that were  capped
by  small pink nipples and aureole.  Her nipples stood erect
against the silken skin of her breasts, and the whole of her
young  body  was  covered  in  goose  bumps.   She  shivered
slightly under his intense scrutiny.
      His gaze lowered, taking in her ribs and firm abdomen.
He  paused his gaze at the juncture of her legs, the pouting
lips  of  her vagina hidden behind a thin curtain of  wispy,
bluish-gray hair.  The hair glistened slightly, as  if  wet.
In fact, her inner thighs appeared wet too.
      Reaching  out,  he  pulled  her  to  him.   They  both
collapsed  on his bed, her hips in his hands.  He  lay  down
under  her, with her body pressed against his.  He  caressed
her  back and kissed her neck, whispering in her ear telling
her how beautiful she was.  She tightened her embrace at his
words,  glad that he found her so appealing.  Megane rotated
while holding their bodies together; he on his side, and she
on  her  back.  Megane moved his head down a bit, and kissed
her  on  the lips again.  Oyuki closed her eyes and returned
the  kiss.  Megane moved his hands up her body, his  fingers
sliding up her delicate skin.  As his kissing continued, his
hands  stopped  when  they reached  her  shoulders.   Megane
shifted  down  slightly on his bed, breaking  the  kiss  and
bringing his head downward.
       Megane's  head  hovered  over  one  of  her  breasts.
Possessed  of a childlike curiosity, he brought one  of  his
hands up and made first contact with her right breast.
      "ahhh..." Oyuki cooed, surprised with the intensity of
the feeling.  The shock didn't stop her from enjoying it  as
she  gladly gave into it and savored the sensations as  they
coursed  through  her body.  Her breathing  quickened  as  a
result, emphasizing her breasts in a most enjoyable way.
      Megane's hands started stroking across the base of one
of  her breasts.  It was remarkably soft and warm, and  very
pliant.   He  took  it  in his hand and  squeezed  slightly,
eliciting a moan from Oyuki in the process.  He brought  the
stiffened  nipple  between thumb and forefinger,  and  began
rubbing it gently.  "Yesss...  Megane-kun...," was all Oyuki
could say.
     Oyuki's body was ablaze with sexual desire.  Sure she'd
explored  herself  in  the  past,  but  this  was  something
completely  different.  Megane's caring caress  was  sending
her  into  an absolute fit.  Her arousal increased when  she
felt  something warm and wet on her other breast  as  Megane
began  licking  the aureole and the smooth skin  immediately
surrounding it.  Oyuki bit down on her lips and  closed  her
eyes, moaning as his tongue swirled around the soft skin  of
her  young  breast.  Her back arched, thrusting her  breasts
upward into Megane's face.
      A  slight  "mmfff"  could be heard  as  his  face  was
suddenly  pillowed by the breast he was nursing  from.   She
brought  her hands up to Megane's head, holding him  tightly
against  her.  The breast covered his mouth and nose  making
it  hard for him to breathe, but Megane did not seem to mind
the  loving suffocation.  Unhindered, he continued his  oral
exploration  of  the swell of her breast; his  inexperienced
mouth  occasionally  making  loud  slurping  noises  as   he
released  and recaptured parts of her breast.   He  immersed
himself  in his senses as his tongue and lips ran  a  course
across  the expanse of her breast.  The breast was  warm  to
the  touch;   her flawless skin was as smooth  as  a  silken
sheet,  and  she tasted divine.  He hoped that  this  moment
would never end.
      Oyuki's  head thrashed from side to side in  unbridled
ecstacy  as  Megane continued to nurse her  breast.   Megane
captured  the  erect nipple between his  dextrous  lips  and
sucked  it  into his mouth.  Oyuki moaned again, and  rubbed
Megane's head more vigorously.  He took that as a sign to go
further,  so  he moved his head off of the red  and  swollen
nipple  and  placed it between her breasts.  He inhaled  the
intoxicatingly sweet fragrance of her body and  enjoyed  the
feel  of  her  virgin skin against his face.  He  took  both
hands and gently pushed her breasts inward so that they were
cushioning  his face.  He moved his face up and  down  while
rubbing  her  nipples with his thumbs; the friction  of  his
contact being almost more than she could bear.
      Megane  was rock hard by this point, and was eager  to
delve deeper into his Princess' perfect body.  Continuing to
stroke  her tits with his hands, he moved his face downward,
leaving  the loving treasure of her breasts.  He licked  and
kissed  his way down towards her awaiting sex, savoring  the
musky  taste  of the Princess' skin as he descended.   Oyuki
twitched  minutely  every time Megane's mouth  made  contact
with her body.
      He accelerated his descent, raining kisses on her taut
skin.   He  also  brought his hands  down  and  stroked  the
underside  of her breasts, tracing the ridges  of  her  ribs
with  his fingertips.  Oyuki heaved her chest upwards  again
in response to his touch.  Tendrils of pleasure wended their
way  throughout  her  body  as  his  hands  concentrated  on
caressing her breasts and ribs.  His head paused his descent
momentarily   to   trace  an  outline  around   her   navel,
occasionally  dipping his tongue into  it,  eliciting  short
gasps  from  Oyuki.  She closed her eyes, her heart  beating
rapidly  as  her  body responded to all the sensations  that
Megane's manipulations had wrought within her.
      His  head reached the fertile nexus of her femininity.
Hovering  over  her sex, he slowly slid his hands  down  her
body  until they rested on her thighs.  Gently he grabbed  a
thigh  in  each  hand  and guided  her  legs  apart.   Oyuki
willingly  parted  her legs at his prompting;   drawing  her
feet  towards  her, and bringing her legs up and  away  from
each other.
      Megane noticed the thin sheen of Oyuki's honey  as  it
glistened  on the blue-gray hair of her sex, and  along  her
silken  thighs.  He brought his hands up to her  knees,  and
slowly  drew them down her inner thighs in a gentle  caress.
As  his  fingers slid down her inner thighs,  he  moved  his
mouth  to  one  of  her  legs.  He  inhaled  deeply  of  the
intoxicating scent emanating from her fertile  nexus.   That
sexual scent was letting him know that she was enjoying  the
treatment he so willingly gave to her.  His lips met on  her
thigh, and his tongue extended slightly from his open  mouth
to  savor  the bittersweet tang of her honey as  it  coursed
over her slickened thigh.
      Oyuki's cooing rose in volume as Megane tantalized the
areas  immediately surrounding her sex.  Seemingly  bursting
at  the seams with pent-up sexual desire, she brought a hand
up  and caressed her breast vigorously, twisting and pulling
on the nipple.
      Megane  decided to go for the gusto, and  brought  his
face  and hands to her pubic mound.  Gently he fingered  the
hairs of her sex to the side, revealing her erect clit as it
peeked  out  from under the hood that normally obscured  it.
He licked his lips, then took her clit into his mouth.
       "...   aaaaHHAAAaaaah  ..."   Oyuki  shouted  through
clenched  teeth as her eyes snapped wide open  to  occupy  a
large  portion  of her face.  Her hips lurched involuntarily
upwards  at  Megane's initial contact with her love  button,
sending  her  sex  deeper into his churning  mouth.   Megane
fluttered  his tongue vigorously over her clit,  and  hummed
slightly.  The combination of stimuli sent Oyuki's body into
uncontrolled thrashes.  Her breathing became labored and she
squeezed  her eyes shut.  She could feel herself approaching
the  edge,  and wasn't sure how long she could hold  herself
back.
      Megane  brought a hand forward and probed  her  vagina
with his middle finger rimming the outer edge of her opening
as  his  sucking  continued unabated.  The  orbiting  finger
probed  the opening of her sex a few times, then  unable  to
hold  back any further, he pushed the finger inside.  Again,
her  body  lunged forward as it penetrated  her  sex.   Then
Megane's finger met with a barrier just before it would have
buried  itself to the hilt inside her.  Oyuki's  yelped  and
her hips jerked up and backwards instinctively as he hit her
virgin wall.  Megane carefully began stroking his finger  in
and out such that he didn't hit her hymen again.
      Oyuki was at the brink, and wanted him inside her  for
the  finish.   "Meh...  Meh...  Megane-kun.   I  want  it...
nowww..." she said, trying to entice him.
      Entice  him, hell.  He was ready to burst just sitting
there fingering and eating away at her.  Out of control,  he
jumped  up  and grabbed her by the hips, turning  her  over.
Guessing at what he was going to do, she propped herself  up
on  her knees and pushed her ass outwards.  Megane took  his
member  in his hands and approached her from the  rear.   He
pressed  the head of his penis against the drenched, pouting
lips  of  her sex, and groaned as his member made  tentative
contact  with  the  slick  warmth of  her  vaginal  opening.
Aroused  to the point of near insanity, he grabbed her  hips
and pulled himself towards her.
      He moaned louder as the swollen head of his penis slid
into  the opening of her canal.  With a slow push,  his  rod
began  sliding deeper inside her.  `God, she's  tight!   Oh,
sweet  heaven!'  he thought to himself, a look  of  complete
rapture  on  his face.  With small nudges, he  continued  to
push  his invading member deeper into the delicious body  of
Princess  Oyuki.   His knees threatened to buckle  from  the
overwhelming sensation of his rod sliding deeper  into  her.
The  throbbing walls of her moist sex enveloped  his  penis,
massaging  it  tenderly.  The heat of her  body  electrified
every  nerve  along  the  entire  expanse  of  his  member's
sensitive  skin.  He felt like he was entering  a  paradise.
Nothing  else  in his life compared to being inside  Oyuki's
tender self.
      Oyuki moaned into the blanket as she lay against it on
top  of Megane's bed.  She could feel his member penetrating
deeper  into  her, stretching the walls of her vagina.   Her
hands gripped tightly at the blanket, and she grit her teeth
ferociously as she fought to keep herself from going off too
soon.   Sweat  poured  down  her delicate  cheeks,  and  her
nostrils flared from her intense breathing.  She was anxious
for  him to proceed, and began pushing her body back towards
Megane.  She wanted all of him, now!
     Oyuki was definitely a tight fit, but she was so worked
up  that  Megane's  path  inward  was  not  too  restricted.
Megane's  sliding member had penetrated until the head  made
contact with her hymen, causing Oyuki to yelp again.  "Now?"
he  managed to gasp out.  All Oyuki could do was  shake  her
head in the affirmative.
      Megane  placed his hands against her ass and drew  his
penis out slowly, earning an elongated moan from Oyuki.   He
then lay against her back and cupped her dangling breasts in
his  hands.  As he leaned forward he pushed his rod back  in
again,  eliciting  a long moan from himself.   He  was  very
close to coming, but he wanted them to go off together.
       He   began   to  insert  and  withdraw  rhythmically,
penetrating  as  far as her hymen.  He did  so  for  several
strokes  until he figured she was ready.  Then he  drew  his
hips back until his member was almost completely out of  her
clenching  vagina, and then he pushed in hard.  Megane  felt
something resist momentarily, then give way.
      Oyuki screamed.  She hadn't expected the pain to be as
sharp and intense as it had been when Megane's penis ran her
through,  and  she started bucking wildly  trying  to  throw
Megane  off of her.  Megane's mind was too far gone to  stop
when  she  screamed, and his hands were firmly latched  onto
her  breasts, keeping himself firmly linked to the Princess.
She  had  survived the moment, however, and was  still  very
much  aroused.    She began countering his thrust,  bringing
more  of  him  into  her as he continued  to  drive  further
inward.
      Once  her  maidenhead  had been  sundered,  his  penis
suddenly had more space to fill.  Megane continued on inward
until  he  was buried to the hilt inside her,  then  he  sat
motionless for a second, savoring the feeling of his  entire
penis  being  enveloped  by Oyuki's  loving  body.   He  lay
against  her for a moment with his face buried in  her  long
hair.   The sweet scent of her hair turned him on even more.
He  bent  down and kissed her on the back of the  neck,  and
resumed  stroking her breasts.  Then he sat  up  a  bit  and
withdrew  his  rod  until he was almost out  of  her  again.
Keeping his hands on the sensitive swells of her breasts, he
slowly  pushed himself into her cavern again  until  he  was
completely  buried inside her.  Slowly he began  pumping  in
earnest, his rod sliding effortlessly in and out of  Oyuki's
unrestricted  passage.  Close to release,  Megane  increased
the  tempo of his movements and placed his hands on her hips
for deeper penetration.
      Oyuki's pain subsided quickly as Megane's thrusts grew
quicker and deepened.  The pleasure from his stroking member
greatly outweighed the diminishing pain, until it was but  a
memory.  Megane's thrusts grew harder and harder, and  Oyuki
started shaking along with the bed.  Her breasts swayed back
and  forth in a pendulous motion, their nipples grazing  the
soft  fabric  of the bed and sending her out  of  her  mind.
Hungry  for  a conclusion she began humping back in  earnest
and  squeezing the muscles of her vagina to help bring  both
of them over the edge.
      He  pumped  away rhythmically, his penis enjoying  the
extra  space it now had to work with.  He began grunting  in
time with his impacts as he lunged again and again into  her
tight little box.  Oyuki helped him along by moving her hips
in  concert  with  Megane's  lunges;  seemingly  timing  her
movements  to  provide him with maximum  penetration  so  it
wasn't long before his rod was hitting bottom.
      He  continued stroking in and out of her at full tilt,
their  skin  slapping  together  in  a  stacatto  rhythm  as
Megane's hips collided again and again with her shapely ass.
Suddenly  a  low, fractured moan could be heard coming  from
Oyuki.   The  moaning gained in intensity until she  started
shouting through clenched teeth in time to his thrusts, "Ahh
Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahhhh .... AHHHHHHH..."
      As  her  shouting  increased, the  force  of  Megane's
thrusting increased sympathetically.  He could feel  Oyuki's
body  shudder as the beginnings of an orgasm washed  through
her.   Unable  to  contain himself anymore,  Megane  grunted
loudly  and buried his penis in her as far as he  could  go.
His  eyes  rolled up in the back of his head, and his  penis
twitched  endlessly as he shot loads of hot come inside  the
Princess.
      Seemingly endless streams of hot come splashed  inside
her,  and she could swear she felt it as each spurt  landed.
Along  with Megane's river of come, Oyuki's orgasm  hit  her
like  a  tidal wave of concentrated pleasure.  She  screamed
until  she felt she had expelled all the air from her lungs.
Her  legs  clenched together tightly when it hit,  capturing
Megane's spurting member inside her.  He kept shooting until
he  collapsed,  laying on top of her again  with  his  penis
still buried inside her.
      Oyuki's steaming vagina was rimmed with Megane's  come
and  small  rivulets of their come leaked from the  reddened
outer  lips  of her sex and traced a path down  her  thighs.
Her pubic hair was matted against her sex and thighs by both
of their juices.
      Both breathed hard as they came down from their sexual
high.   They  didn't  realize  it,  but  they  were  panting
together  in  synchronicity.  With his manhood still  buried
inside her, she repositioned herself so that she lay flat on
her stomach.  Oyuki felt the wonderful heat spilling off  of
Megane's  sweaty  body as he lay on her back.   She  grabbed
Megane's hand, which was laying at her face, and kissed  it.
She  smiled  to  herself, wishing that this moment  wouldn't
end.   Apparently Megane felt the same, because  he  started
kissing  the nape of her neck and playing with  one  of  her
earlobes with his lips and tongue.
      Megane  felt  his  penis go soft  inside  her,  so  he
disengaged  himself from her sex.  As he  pulled  his  come-
soaked rod out, Oyuki rotated so she was laying on her back.
Megane sat up on his bed for a moment, looking at her.   She
had a dazzled look on her flushed face.  He lay down next to
her,  brought  his  hand up, and gently stroked  her  sweat-
soaked  hair away from her eyes and forehead.  Then bringing
the  hand  back  down,  he  caressed  her  face,  tracing  a
fingertip  across her mouth and down to her  chin.   Smiling
lightly, he wrapped his arms around her, holding her  in  an
embrace which she returned happily.
      After  holding  each other for a few  moments,  Megane
spoke.  "Oyuki-sama, I..."
      "Megane-kun.  We've just shared the most treasured and
private parts of ourselves with each other.  You don't  have
to resort to formalities with me anymore."
      Megane's smile deepened.  "Yes, Oyuki-chan  ...    ...
That  was the most incredible experience of my life.   Th...
Thank you."
      "Thank  *you*, Megane-kun.  This was most  unexpected.
This sort of thing has never happened to me before, but  I'm
very  glad it did.  You were very kind to me, and I  enjoyed
it immensely."
     "And I you, Oyuki-chan." he said.  He couldn't say much
else  since his mind was still reeling from the aftereffects
of  sex.   He regarded her young body again, and thought  to
himself  `You're the most beautiful thing to enter my  life,
Oyuki.'  His thoughts were disrupted as something nagged him
from  the back of his scrambled mind.  "Oh!  I almost forgot
about the social!  You still want to go, don't you?"
      "Absolutely, Megane-kun.  Hopefully we'll be  able  to
spend  a  lot of time together from now on."  Oyuki  brought
her hand up to Megane's face and caressed it.
      Megane's  broad  grin answered that unasked  question.
"Oyuki-chan,  we  need to get showered  if  we're  going  to
attend the social."  He kissed her lightly on the lips.
      "Not  just yet, Megane-kun.  I'm enjoying laying  here
with  you."  Oyuki  said, lying her  head  against  Megane's
shoulder.
      He  regarded his situation.  They were laying on their
sides,  face-to-face.  Their completely  naked  bodies  were
pressed  together with their legs interlinked.   Their  arms
were  wrapped  around  each other, and  he  could  feel  her
breasts  pressing against his chest.  "Yeah, I  can  wait  a
bit..."

                             <*>

      Moments  later, a huge man with horns  approached  the
Moroboshi  residence.  The fellow was dressed  in  a  tiger-
striped  outfit, and had a perpetual snarl on his face.   He
had  come to wish his daughter and future son-in-law a happy
engagement anniversary.  However, things looked amiss as  he
approached  the front of the house.  Noticing the  destroyed
door, he squeezed into the house the best that he could.
      "Lum!   Son-in-law!"  he bellowed as he  took  in  the
damage that was inflicted on the house..
     "What?!" Ataru screamed, coming to.  He put his hand to
the  back  of  his  head and nursed a nasty  bump  that  had
appeared there following his swan dive down the stairs.
     "Son-in-law!" he said as he glided over to him from the
front door.  "Where's Lum?!"
     " I don't know," Ataru said with a terrible look on his
face.  "She's missing."
     "What happened here?" he demanded.  "What have you done
with my daughter?"
      "Your highness, I don't know!  I just got here myself.
Something terrible HAS happened, but I feel that it's better
to  show you than to tell you.  Follow me!" Ataru said as he
rushed  upstairs.   Prepared this time,  he  held  his  nose
against the pungent odor of the decaying body.
      Displaying an uncanny level of dexterity, Lum's father
floated  upstairs  behind Ataru.   As  they  approached  his
bedroom,  Ataru  held out his arm, stopping  the  King  from
advancing any further.
     "Father-in-law," Ataru started, not realizing what he'd
just  said.   "I should warn you that it's pretty  gross  in
there."
     "I've seen your bedroom before, Ataru..."
      "THAT'S  NOT  WHAT I MEANT!  Just hold your  nose  and
follow me carefully."
      They  advanced into his room, where the decaying  body
still  lay.  Ataru was used to the sight now, but  the  King
was  too  overcome to speak.  He just stood there,  shaking.
Moments later Ataru cringed as the King yelled at the top of
his lungs, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
      Slumping  his shoulders, the King bowed his  head  and
mumbled "... they've come.  Those bastards have come and now
they have my daughter..."
      "Uhh,  Father-in-law, do you know  what's  going  on?"
Ataru asked carefully.
      "Let's  get out of here first Ataru.  It stinks,"  the
King replied in a scary monotone.

                             <*>

      After lingering on his bed for a few minutes, the  two
disengaged from their embrace and stood.  Megane noticed the
mess they made on his bed.  He didn't mind however, the mess
was an expected outcome from what they had done `and will do
many  times in the future, I hope.'  Something that  shocked
him,   however,  was  that  all  of  the  snow  had   melted
completely, leaving a puddle on his floor.  `We haven't been
going at it that long, have we?' he thought to himself as he
followed Oyuki's sinuous form into the bathroom.
     They went into the shower together.  Watching her begin
to bathe, Megane managed to restrain himself from having sex
with her again, although he didn't object as she kissed  him
deeply.   `Hell,  this  is so wild!   We've  just  met,'  he
thought as he returned the kiss, bringing his hands down  to
grab  her  behind.  His hands wandered the white  globes  of
Oyuki's rounded ass as they drew closer.
      She broke the kiss with a wink and turned around.  She
drew  her  long hair over one shoulder so he could soap  and
wash her back.  He happily did so, occasionally kissing  her
on  the  nape of her exposed neck while he scrubbed.  Unable
to  resist the temptation, he lathered the soap liberally in
his hands, and reached around to wash her breasts.
      She  held her arms up and around the back of his neck,
pressing  her back against his chest, happily accepting  the
caressing wash.  Megane's hands made contact with her fleshy
mounds,  and  she gasped slightly.  Slowly,  he  glided  his
soapy  fingers across her breasts, rubbing in small  circles
that  orbited her prominent nipples.  Occasionally he  would
close  his  hands  gently on the underside of  her  breasts,
kneading  the  soft  skin with his  fingers.   Oyuki  moaned
lightly  under  all  of this treatment, getting  hot  again.
Eventually, Megane disengaged his hands from her breasts, to
their mutual disappointment.  Oyuki dropped one of her hands
from  his  neck,  and  began stroking her  breasts  herself,
moaning constantly.
      His  penis went erect as he realized what it was  they
were  doing.  He tried to ignore the fact that it was poking
up  into  the  crevice of Oyuki's ass and soaped  his  hands
again  and slid them across her tight stomach.  As his hands
roamed  across her stomach, they occasionally  made  contact
with feather soft hair, and he knew that he had reached  her
sex.   Pushing his soapy hands downward, he started  washing
her  vagina.  His roaming fingers found her clitoris,  which
was erect and throbbing slightly.
      Oyuki shuddered as Megane's hand made contact with her
sensitive clit.  She sagged forward, bracing herself with  a
hand  against  one of the shower walls, while continuing  to
stroke her breast with the other.  She felt Megane bring his
free  hand around her waist, trying to support her  further.
His  fingers  began stroking her clit continuously,  driving
her  batty;   and occasionally Megane's hand  would  descend
from  her  button  down her slit to send  a  finger  probing
slightly  inside  her.   Megane's  bathing  techniques  were
getting  Oyuki  so  aroused  that  she  could  feel  herself
building  up to go off again.  Adding fuel to her  fire  was
Megane's  raging hard-on pressing into her  ass.   She  knew
that  he  was  as turned on as she was, and  that  made  her
hotter.
      Megane's resolve crumbled.  He wanted another piece of
Oyuki, now!  He stopped stroking her sex and rotated her  so
that  they  were  facing each other.  When face-to-face,  he
grabbed  one  of  her legs in his hands, and  moved  himself
between  them.  Oyuki's hands went around the  back  of  his
neck  and linked together, and her lips went to his.   Their
tongues met and their kiss deepened, their hot breath ragged
as each got more and more excited.
      Megane  positioned the head of his rod at the entrance
of  her vagina, and pressed in.  Still slick from their last
go-round, he slid in easily.  Once again, he was inside  the
blessed  warmth of Oyuki's tunnel.  Oyuki moaned  loudly  as
Megane's  member slid into her dark, wet chamber.  She  felt
his  hands grab both of her legs, and suddenly her feet were
off  the  shower floor.  His penis sank all the  way  inside
her, as the hair from their sexes meshed completely.  Megane
growled as the pleasure of their joining washed through him.
Oyuki's legs wrapped around the small of Megane's back,  and
he  took her ass in his hands to support her.  Then he began
moving her back and forth with his hands, humping her in the
confined space of the shower.
      Megane's  erect  pole  continued  appearing  from  and
disappearing back into her clenching vagina.  Screwing  like
a  man possessed, he pumped again and again inside her until
suddenly   Oyuki  moaned  into  their  kiss  and   dug   her
fingernails  into  his  back, drawing  blood.   Spurred  on,
Megane  knew  she  was almost there.  He  went  faster,  the
swollen  head of his rod rubbing back and forth against  the
well lubricated walls of her throbbing sex.
      Unable to keep the kiss, Oyuki moved her head from his
and laid it against his shoulder.  She tightened her wrapped
arms around his shoulders and bit down on one of her fingers
to  keep from screaming as she rode his pole for all it  was
worth.   She  continued bouncing off of Megane, his  greased
member invading her again and again until her vision blurred
and  she shouted.  She came copiously, her honey running out
of her, and down Megane's balls and legs.
     Megane, nearly deafened by Oyuki's cry, intensified his
pumping.   Suddenly he tensed, his balls contracting  as  he
shot inside her.  Their motion stopped as they clung to each
other,  Megane's member twitching continuously, pouring  his
essence  into  her.  Soon the only sound in the  shower  was
that  of  the  warm  water pouring  from  the  shower  head,
splashing against Megane's back and running down the  drain.
Megane  sagged against the wall of the shower, still holding
the  object  of  his dreams in his hands.  As Oyuki  relaxed
against  Megane, drops of his come leaked out  from  between
his  rod and the tight lips of her vagina, commingling  with
her  own  juices, and running down the drain with  the  warm
water.
      Carefully,  Oyuki brought her legs down so  she  could
stand  up.  Megane kept his hands on her ass until her  feet
were on the shower floor.  Slowly he brought his hands away,
and  Oyuki  promptly collapsed with a surprised  yelp.   The
force  of her orgasm had made her very unstable on her feet.
Her legs were wobbly, and she was still too rocky from their
last  sexual  go-'round to be able  to  stand  on  her  own.
Reacting quickly, Megane caught her at the waist, lifted her
up  so they were face to face, and held her to him until she
regained  her  stability.   Without  saying  a  word,  Oyuki
lightly  wrapped  her arms around Megane and  lay  her  head
against his chest, gratified that he was there for her.
      Then, much more sedately this time, he knelt down  and
washed  her vagina.  She put a hand on his shoulder to  keep
herself upright while he tenderly cleaned the fruit of their
combined labor from the rosy petals of her delicate sex.  He
stood  again  and  kissed  Oyuki  on  the  forehead.   Oyuki
reciprocated by lathering her hands and stroking  his  semi-
erect penis, cleansing it of all evidence of their wonderful
activities.   They  rinsed each other off under  the  shower
head, then exited the shower.
      Megane turned to gaze at his lover as she stepped from
the  shower  and walked towards him.  Steam  danced  off  of
Oyuki's  sexy body.  Rivulets of water traced courses  along
her  sensuous  curves.   Water droplets  cascaded  down  her
chest,  over  her  erect  nipples,  and  collected  at   the
underside  of her rounded breasts.  There they  formed  into
droplets that fell to the floor, forming two puddles at  her
feet.   Megane  reached out and stroked the water  from  her
twinned  swells with his hands, the captured drops of  water
running  down his fingers.  Megane moved his hands from  her
breasts and around her back.  He pulled her towards him  and
let his hands roam her wet bare ass, then kissed her deeply.
Remembering  the  social,  they broke  the  kiss.   He  then
grabbed two towels, handed one to Oyuki, and they dried each
other off.
      It  occurred to Megane while he was toweling Oyuki off
that he was fortunate that his parents weren't around.   Had
they  been, he would have had to explain why he was  moaning
like  a  woman in the shower.  They'd never have bought  the
excuse that he had Oyuki with him.

                             <*>

      Looking  very  relieved,  Shinobu  daintily  extracted
herself from the bathroom.
      "Whew!   That was very necessary.  Thank you," Shinobu
said  as  she  extricated herself from  the  bathroom.   She
paused  for  a  second,  her expression  changing  slightly.
Looking  up  to  Mendou,  she spoke again,  "I  am  curious,
however,  as to why you came searching for me in  the  first
place.   Surely  you could have sent one of your  guards  to
look  for me."  Mendou's blank look indicated that he wasn't
comprehending her context.  "I mean, why me?  I'm sure  that
there  were much more attractive girls you could have  spent
your time with."
      Mendou's  face was a study in duality as he fought  to
mask  the shock and embarrassment he felt over the bluntness
of  Shinobu's  question.  He coughed slightly, clearing  his
throat  and  concealing a sudden blush that had worked  it's
way to his face.  "I was worried about you Shinobu.  This is
a  big place, and someone could easily get lost.  I couldn't
stand it if something had happened to you."  `Oh well, might
as well go for broke now...' he thought to himself.  "In all
honesty, the reason I looked for you is that I wanted to  be
with you.  In fact, ever since my first day at Tomobiki I've
wanted to be with you," he completed in a rush.
     Shinobu was taken aback by his honesty.  Her hands flew
to  her  face  in surprise, as her eyes shimmered  with  the
beginnings of tears.  Quicker than she meant to, she blurted
out, "I've wanted you since I first saw you, Shutaro!"
      "REALLY Shinobu?!" he asked in a surprised voice,  his
eyes occupying two-thirds of his face.
      "Yes,  Shutaro-kun!  Ataru will probably hate  me  for
life for saying this, but I don't care.  You're the one I've
wanted  for a long while," she said, her confidence starting
to build.
     "Shinobu, I ..."
      No  longer  able to ignore the burning that  had  been
building since they started talking, Shinobu decided to take
the  initiative.   She  wanted  to  divest  herself  of  her
virginity,  but  only with him.  "I want you Shutaro-kun..."
Shinobu almost begged as she reached to kiss him.
      Mendou was reeling from this unexpected overture  from
Shinobu.  However he quickly recovered and joined eagerly in
the  kiss  as their faces met.  Almost running to  the  bed,
Shinobu resumed kissing Mendou as he reached his arms around
her  and pulled on the zipper to her dress.  The damn  thing
didn't  want  to  budge,  however, and  Mendou  was  quickly
running out of patience.  A mischievous grin formed  on  her
face,  as  she  decided to give Mendou a  little  incentive.
Putting her hand up to his chest, she ran her fingers up and
down  his  shirt, playfully unbuttoning it for him.   Mendou
shuddered  in  expectation as Shinobu's dainty hands  worked
across his chest, making minute contact with him through the
fabric of his shirt.
      Her  incentive apparently worked as he finally managed
to undo her zipper with a mighty yank.  A small growl worked
it's way from his mouth as he tugged on her dress.  He stood
back  from her slightly as she rose up.  Spreading her  arms
slightly from her body, she let the nightgown fall.
      With a whisper of silk on her pure skin, her nightgown
slid  down  her body.  As her dress hit the floor,  she  was
left clad in only a black bra, panties, and pantyhose.  In a
strained  voice, Shinobu asked Shutaro to stand back  for  a
moment.   Then  in a motion borne of habit, Shinobu  quickly
unhooked  her bra, slouched her arms and shoulders  forward,
and  let the straps descend from her shoulders and slip down
her arms.  Sitting back up, she nervously took a deep breath
and let the bra hit the ground at Mendou's feet.
      Her  freed  breasts swayed slightly as she  moved  her
hands  down  her  body to rid herself of  the  rest  of  her
clothes.   Already  at  the bursting point,  Mendou  watched
helplessly as Shinobu continued undressing.  She wiggled her
tender hips seductively, hooked her thumbs between her silky
skin  and the elastic of her pantyhose, and pulled  off  the
remainder of her underwear.
      As her pantyhose descended, Mendou got a good look  at
the  long  expanse of leg that Shinobu was  exhibiting.   He
hungrily  licked  his lips and twitched visibly,  trying  to
restrain himself.  As he allowed his gaze to linger, he  saw
just  how  truly beautiful she was, and was kicking  himself
for not seeing it sooner!  Tossing her pantyhose and panties
out  of the way, she stood erect with her legs parted to let
Mendou explore her young womanhood with his eyes.  "Wow!" he
verbally understated as he took in Shinobu's naked body.
       Her   cute  face,  flushed  with  embarrassment   and
excitement, was enchanting.  His gaze descended to her small
breasts,  the  swells rising and falling  slowly  under  her
labored   breathing.   Their  pert  reddish   nipples   were
surrounded by the flawless skin of youth..  He continued his
gaze  downward,  past her ribs and slim  belly  and  finally
stopping at the delta between her legs.  His eyes penetrated
the  fine black hairs which were only slightly obscuring her
virgin sex.
      Mendou's  attention  did not go unnoticed.   Shinobu's
desire  was rising greatly as he continued to stare  at  her
body.   Unable to help herself any longer, she  reached  her
right  hand  up to her left breast and caressed the  rapidly
stiffening nipple.  Soft moaning issued from Shinobu's mouth
as  she  continued  the exploration of  herself.   Straining
against  himself to pounce on her, Mendou started to visibly
shake.   As if on cue, Shinobu looked at him and,  with  her
lower lip trembling, held her free hand out to him.
      Unable  to control himself any longer, Mendou accepted
the  proffered hand.  Stopping himself short of  lunging  at
her  in  the heat of passion, he tugged on her hand, drawing
her  down  to him whereupon he gently laid her down  on  the
bed.   He  brought his hand up and caressed her  face  while
giving  her a lingering kiss.  Breaking the kiss, he sat  up
and  quickly  stripped  off his clothes,  leaving  only  his
underwear on.  Bending down to her again, he used his  mouth
and  tongue  to explore her.  Working from her neck  to  her
shoulders, he continued downwards, his mouth making love  to
her vibrant body.
      Placing his hands on her sides, he brought his head up
to  her  chest.  Mendou then brought his mouth to her petite
breasts, savoring the taste of Shinobu's young skin  as  his
tongue glided across her upper body.  She could only whimper
slightly and tremble as strange new feelings washed  through
her.
       Encouraged  by  her  moaning,  Mendou  continued  his
exploration.   He slowly encircled the base of her  breasts,
making  sure that no part was left unattended by the feather
touch of his lips and tongue.  Shinobu gasped as Mendou took
her right nipple in his mouth.  He rolled it around with his
tongue,  flicking  and sucking it like a  children's  candy.
She  put  her hands on Mendou's head and stroked  his  hair,
relishing  the  ecstasy that his nursing was providing  her.
Inflamed  with lust, Mendou milked her breasts for all  they
were worth.
      While he suckled, he stroked his hands down her  sides
in  a  gentle caress, moving his hands past her hips and  up
her  stomach.   He regretfully removed his  mouth  from  her
tasty  breasts and grabbed them with his hands.   Slowly  he
stroked  the  base of each breast with broad  strokes  while
occasionally  rubbing their taut nipples between  thumb  and
forefinger.  As his hands worked their magic on her breasts,
his  tongue  traced  a line down her body.   He  nipped  and
kissed  as his head descended from her breasts, roaming  his
way  down her stomach and around her navel until he  finally
got to the delta of her sex.
      Mendou parted the fine black hairs of her sex with his
mouth and tongue, exposing the slit of her vagina.  He  blew
softly  on  her clit and nuzzled it with his nose,  inhaling
the  intoxicating  scent of her sweet  essence.   Using  his
tongue,  he  teased her further by licking the  puffy  outer
lips of her sex and roaming the area of the cleft of her sex
before  he settled on her clit.  Shinobu's breathing  became
shallow, and her shivering increased as he licked and sucked
all across her sex.
      Then  he  moved one of his hands from her breasts  and
parted  the  pink folds of her femininity with two  fingers;
all  the while keeping his mouth locked on her clit.  Slowly
he  sent the two fingers to probe deep inside her, and  felt
the  enchanting  heat and sticky wetness of  her  womanhood.
She  gasped loudly as he inserted the fingers inside her and
began  to slowly twist them so that they rubbed against  the
walls of her virgin sex.
      Her  eyes screwed shut, Shinobu grabbed Mendou's  hair
and  started  pushing  his head into  her,  as  her  passion
claimed  control of her.  She ground her hips up  into  him,
thrusting  her  sex  as  far as she  could  into  his  face.
Needing no further incentive from her, Mendou sent his  face
full  force into her femininity and used his tongue to probe
her  slick tunnel.  He pulled his other hand from her tender
breasts  and  started stroking her belly and  flanks,  never
releasing  the locked grip his mouth had on her.   Shinobu's
grip  relented  a bit, allowing her fingers to  run  through
Mendou's  hair.  But she continued to arch her hips  upwards
in response to his incessant suckling.
      Mendou's  actions drove her to the  edge  of  absolute
ecstasy.   Wild  now,  she threw her  legs  around  him  and
captured his head between her silky thighs, shoving her  sex
as  far  as she could into him and grabbing handfuls of  his
hair  again.  "OOOOHHHHH YESSS!" she screamed as he  brought
her  beyond orgasm, her head thrashing side-to-side.  Taking
deep gulps of air, Shinobu continued to scream with pleasure
as  her head shook.  Her juices were a river rushing out  of
her  body  unabated as Mendou's constant sucking  drove  her
insane.  Mendou drank what he could from her sacred chalice,
his  face  getting  liberally soaked by what  remained.   He
gently  stroked her breasts as he consumed the fruit of  her
sex, losing himself in her release.
      Shinobu calmed down and stroked Mendou's hair with her
fingers.   He brought his face back up to hers and took  her
in  a  passionate  embrace giving her a slow,  loving  kiss.
Shinobu  returned  the  kiss with  interest,  thrusting  her
tongue  forward and exploring Mendou's mouth.  She tasted  a
hint  of  herself  as  her tongue wandered  Mendou's  mouth,
arousing her sexual desire again.  She reached down and felt
the  throbbing  bulge in Mendou's underwear  that  had  been
rubbing  against her thighs.  Making a quick  decision,  she
broke the kiss and descended.
      Mendou  watched with growing anticipation  as  Shinobu
lowered  herself to his manhood and began to rub it  through
his  underwear.  She looked up at him in and winked.  Mendou
arched  his  hips  up and she removed his underwear  with  a
quick  yank.  Snapping free from it's restraint,  his  stiff
rod held itself out from his body.  She gazed spellbound  at
his  member  as it stood in it's full prominence,  then  she
moved  herself closer to it.  Lying down on his back, Mendou
gasped  loudly as she sat between his legs on  the  bed  and
took  his  rod in her hands.  Slowly, she traced her  finger
along  the head of his tool with one hand while cupping  his
balls with the other, nuzzling them with her face.  She then
completely grasped his member in her hands and pumped.
      Mendou's  eyes bugged out and a strangled  cry  issued
from   his   mouth,  "not...  so...  tight...   Shinobu...!"
Realizing that she was squeezing the life out of his  penis,
she  released it.  With an extremely embarrassed look on her
face,  she said, "Oops!  Sorry, Shutaro-kun!  I'll  make  it
better!"   With that, she gingerly took his flaccid  rod  in
her hands and stroked the length of it.  It quickly regained
it's  stiffness  under her kinder and  gentler  touch.   She
kissed  the  head  softly, allowing  her  tongue  to  escape
slightly from her lips.  She began to work her way down  the
length  of his shaft, slightly nipping with her lips as  she
descended.   Shinobu continued her work  on  Mendou's  tool,
learning  how  to make love with her mouth.   Mendou  sighed
(pleasantly  this time) as Shinobu's rising  and  descending
motion worked it's magic on each side of his rod.
      Shinobu  rose  to  the top of his penis,  and  with  a
determined  look,  put  the head of his  rod  to  her  lips.
Letting  it do the work, her mouth was slowly forced  opened
by  the head of Mendou's throbbing rod as she descended down
his  length.  A long moan escaped Mendou's lips as his  tool
entered  the blessedly slick warmth of her mouth.  His  hips
bucked  upwards reflexively as she continued  to  slide  her
mouth  down  his  tool.  Struggling against  his  movements,
Shinobu  started  working  her  head  up  and  down,  tongue
stroking  away as his rod traveled in and out of her  mouth.
After  a  few  minutes of this, Mendou was  in  pure  bliss.
However, he felt himself starting to lose control.   All  of
his muscles were tensing in anticipation of release.
      Shinobu continued her motion, swirling her tongue over
every  bit  of  penis  that it could  touch  in  her  mouth.
Suddenly,  she  tasted a small drop of salty  fluid  on  her
tongue  as  Mendou's whole body went stiff.  Then,  with  an
animal  cry,  Mendou lost his fight to control  himself  and
came  copiously in Shinobu's mouth.  Surprised, she  managed
to  repress her instinct to gag, swallowing his hot come  as
fast as she could.  Amazingly enough, none escaped past  her
lips.
      Mendou's  ragged breathing slowed to normal,  and  his
penis  went soft in her mouth.  Daintily, she extracted  his
member  from her mouth, and pressed it lightly to her  face.
Kissing the head again, she dropped it and scaled her way up
Mendou's  body until her head lay on his chest, her dangling
breasts  caressing his skin as she moved.  They  rotated  on
their  sides,  still facing each other.  She  put  her  arms
around him and released a contented sigh.  She looked up  at
him with a smile on her face.
     Several minutes of peaceable silence ensued as they lay
wrapped  in  each other's arms.  Mendou looked down  at  the
woman  in  his arms, her supple skin warm and comforting  in
his  hands.  As his eyes roamed her forbidden territory, his
hormones  responded  and  his  manhood  rose  again  to  the
occasion.  Shinobu, sensing the sudden pressure against  her
belly, looked up to him.  She took his rod in her hands  and
stroked  it  lightly.  "I want this inside me, Shutaro-kun,"
she whispered, indicating the throbbing organ.
      Mendou positioned himself to where he was lying on his
back.  Shinobu straddled his waist and sat down, rubbing his
chest.   Bending down, she dangled her breasts in his  face.
Mendou  raised  his hands up and placed them  on  her  back.
Bringing  them forward, he traced his hands down her  sides.
As  he  did this, he took her right breast in his mouth  and
playfully  nipped at her rosy nipple.  Shinobu  response  to
this  was  to begin grinding her hips in a downward  motion.
His  hands  continued  their gentle  dance  on  her  flanks,
sliding  down her body and meeting at her ass.  He  squeezed
the  firm little cheeks of her ass, enjoying the feeling  of
her  soft skin as it slid beneath his nimble fingers.   Then
he  grabbed  her hips with his hands and began  sliding  her
body down his to his awaiting rod.
     As she slid down his body, she kissed him; lingering at
his  mouth  as  their  tongues intertwined  in  a  dance  of
passion.   She continued downward, showering his chest  with
kisses,  her soft skin caressing his like an angel's  touch.
Then  with only slight apprehension, she positioned  herself
at  his  stiff manhood.  She slowly guided him into her  and
was  wracked  with pleasure as the head of his  rod  started
inching  his way inside her quivering mound.  Mendou  gasped
loudly as he made contact with her.  The warm wetness of her
vagina  almost made him come on the spot.  His instinct  was
to  push  hard as his tool touched the paradise of Shinobu's
slick  vagina,  but  he  managed to stop  himself  short  of
hurting her.
     Mendou rocked his hips slightly, pushing his rod in her
slowly to allow the walls of her sex to become accustomed to
his  burden.   He continued to thrust in with small  lunges,
enjoying the feeling of his member being clamped tightly  by
Shinobu's throbbing vagina.  He continued his assault  until
his  member  met  with an obstruction.  Having  reached  her
hymen  he stopped for a second, caressed her face and pulled
his  member  out  somewhat.  Shinobu put her  hands  on  his
shoulders,  and arched her back a bit.  Then  with  a  quick
lunge  Mendou  thrust  his member in as  far  as  he  could.
Shinobu  screamed in pain as her virginity was  sundered  by
the unstoppable force of his thrusting penis.
     Mendou stopped for a moment when she screamed.  Panting
loudly,  she had to nod to tell him that she was  okay,  and
willing to continue.  They shared a tender kiss and embrace.
Mendou  then laid Shinobu down on the bed and got on top  of
her.   Slowly, he initiated a regular rhythm.  He started  a
pace which allowed him to claim a little more room with each
thrust.   As  he  occupied more and more space  within  her,
Shinobu's  pain lessened and turned to a deep, awe-inspiring
pleasure.  Mendou continued his lunging, and Shinobu's young
face  screwed  itself into a grimace as wave after  wave  of
sheer pleasure began crashing into her.
      Her  breaths  became shallower as she  approached  her
peak.   Mendou  was in a frenzy as his member  continued  to
burrow deeper and deeper into her sex.  Shinobu maintained a
vice-like  grip  on his rod as he slid in  and  out  of  her
relentlessly.  She began to shiver uncontrollably as a tidal
wave of intense pleasure hit her.  At that, Mendou's thrusts
suddenly became shorter.  He grabbed her hips and pulled her
up so that only her head and shoulders rested on the bed.
      Then  he  started slamming into her sex with  abandon,
gritting  his  teeth and squeezing his  eyes  shut.   Mendou
grunted  loudly  everytime their bodies  impacted.   Shinobu
felt  like she was on fire.  She doubted that she could keep
herself from releasing any longer.  In fact, she couldn't.
      "AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!" she screamed as her  first  sexual
experience concluded with a body shaking orgasm.  Mendou, at
a loss for words (and breath) came right after with a grunt.
Burying himself inside her as far as he could go, he flooded
Shinobu's  sex  with redoubtable dose of come.   After  what
seemed like an eternal orgasm, they collapsed together in  a
heap of exhaustion.
      The  serendipitous lovers lay together  absorbing  the
feelings generated by the fantastic sex they'd just had.  As
he  lay  there, Mendou regarded his partner.  He had  always
considered  Shinobu to be a good and strong  woman,  but  he
REALLY liked this new side of her.  He stroked her hair away
from  her flushed face and kissed her damp forehead.   `God,
that was wonderful!  Lum-sama, I regret to inform you that I
have  found  the one I want to be with,' he thought  as  his
hands wrapped around the exhausted frame of Shinobu, holding
her close.  He was determined to see that this sort of thing
happened again, and often.
      Meanwhile, Shinobu marveled at how wonderful  sex  had
felt.  Looking up at Mendou, she wondered what she ever  saw
in Ataru.  `That baka can have Lum, for all I care.  They'll
never  experience  the  joy  I just  did,'  she  thought  to
herself.  Content for the first time in as long as she could
remember,  she  raised  her hands  up  around  the  back  of
Mendou's neck and said, "Whew!  That was *very* nice."
      "Definitely  my pleasure, Shinobu-chan,"  he  replied,
holding onto her a little longer.  After several minutes  of
silence  and  rest,  he moved to speak.  "You  know  they're
probably missing us out there.  Perhaps we should return  to
the social," he said, kissing her again.
      She  looked  at  him with a mischievous  grin  on  her
flushed  face.   "As  soon as I can walk again,  sure,"  she
replied with a wink.
      They  picked up their clothes and dressed.  Then  they
slowly walked the maze of hallways back to the banquet hall.

                             <*>

      Ataru knew something was up.  It was obvious from  the
expression  on  the  King's  face  that  he  had  recognized
whatever  it was that was lying on his bedroom floor.   Once
they were outside the house, the King spoke.
     "Son-in-law.  If I am right, Lum is in terrible danger.
The thing that's laying dead on your floor is a soldier from
the  forces of a leader named Prince Aylan Graven.   They're
called  `ShadowKnights.'  They all wear black.  And to  help
instill   fear  in  their  enemies,  they  are  deliberately
faceless."
      The  King  looked down for a moment, as if to  collect
himself.   "The presence of a ShadowKnight here  means  that
Graven's  forces are planning a move on the Oni empire.   We
have  to  assume that they've abducted Lum.  Only she  or  a
select  few  from my family could've toasted a  ShadowKnight
the  way  that one was."  `Atta girl!' he thought to himself
with a bit of pride.
      "Who is this `Prince Graven' character, and what's  he
doing  with  my Lum?" Ataru asked, the beginnings  of  anger
forming inside him.
      "Graven was once a commander of an elite group of  our
armed  forces.  His position in our military was quite high.
He  was  a status symbol, a figurehead to look up to by  the
men  of our military.  Well, one day I caught him doing  ...
something he shouldn't have, and had him arrested.   I  made
him  an object of ridicule, and expelled him from my domain.
A  small group of disaffected soldiers accompanied him  when
he  departed.  As he left, he swore revenge against  me  for
the  shame I'd caused him.  Not long after that we  received
word that he'd colonized a world just outside the rim of our
empire,  and  proclaimed himself Prince.  This all  happened
several years ago."
      Ataru  let this sink in, and came up with the  obvious
question "What did Graven do to get himself kicked out?"
      The King blushed in what appeared to be embarrassment,
and shuffled his feet, not answering Ataru's question.
     "Well?" Ataru prodded.
      The  King  released a sigh and looked  at  Ataru.   "I
caught  him  with his hands in the cookie jar."  he  replied
simply.
      "He  was getting it on with your wife?!" Ataru replied
with a hint of jealousy.  "That bastard..."
     "NO!  I mean, his hand was in the cookie jar!  I caught
him  stealing  from  my private batch of  Oni-gooey  oatmeal
cookies!" the King said, his eyes staring into the distance.

      (Hey!   You expecting something else?  This is  Urusei
Yatsura, after all!  ^_^  )

      Ataru's  subsequent facefault remains  in  the  record
books to this day.  "Waitaminute!  You mean to tell me  that
Lum's been kidnapped because of some stolen COOKIES?!"
      "Well,  I  guess  you could look at  it..."  the  King
started meekly.  Then he rose up, his voice thunderous, "But
that  asshole will regret ever laying a hand on my daughter.
We must find out where they are, NOW!!"
      Ataru  considered their options.  He had to  tell  the
guys  what had happened.  He had a feeling that he was going
to  need their help to free Lum from Graven's clutches.  God
only  knew  what  that little shithead  was  doing  to  her.
"Father-in-law!"  he screamed, the answer  suddenly  in  his
head.  "We need to get to Mendou's estate!  We'll find  what
we need there!"
     "Where is Mendou's?!" he snarled.
      "Just look for the largest residence in Tokyo!"  Ataru
said, unruffled.  "You can't miss it!
      A  few  minutes later, while waiting for a shuttle  to
arrive  to take them to the Mendou compound, a message  came
in  on the King's VidPhone.  An Oni soldier appeared on  the
screen.   "We  just  received this message  from  homeworld,
sir,"  he said to the King.  "Benten from the Gods  of  Luck
has been reported as missing.  What could this mean, sir?"
     "I don't know, and at the moment I don't care.  We have
a  priority situation right now.  Benten may be a friend  of
my  daughter's, but she takes a back burner  to  my  missing
daughter."  the King said tersely.  "I'll be planetside  for
awhile with my son-in law."
      "Yes  your majesty," the soldier replied.  They  broke
the  link  and  sped onwards to the Oni shuttle,  which  was
landing in the street in front of Ataru's home.

                             <*>

       Megane  gazed  over  again  to  the  beautiful  woman
accompanying  him  to the social, thanking  whatever  divine
intervention that sent her into his life.  After drying  off
from  the shower, Oyuki put her kimono on (her swimsuit  was
drenched  in her come, and therefore unwearable).  She  then
said  that she had to get some clothes from her place.  With
that,  she disappeared into his closet, promising to  return
as  quickly as possible.  He pulled his blanket off  of  his
bed  and dropped it, clean side up, on the floor.  His sheet
was  apparently  untouched by their messy thrashing,  so  he
decided  to lay his tux out on the bed.  He also managed  to
tidy up the room a bit before Oyuki returned.
      Less  than  half  an  hour later a  cold  breeze  from
Megane's closet announced Oyuki's return.  He looked over to
see  her toting two large suitcases and a hanging bag.   She
looked up to him, an embarrassed look on her face.
      "I couldn't decide on what to wear, so I brought a few
choices."
      "That's  okay, Oyuki-chan.  I'm sure that you'll  look
perfect in whatever you choose."
      Oyuki  blushed  slightly at the open  compliment,  and
mockingly replied, "Thank you, dear."  Megane almost  got  a
nosebleed watching her undress.  He jumped in surprise  when
she  peeled the kimono off because she still had no  clothes
on  under  the  kimono.  This time she had no problems  with
displaying her naked body in front of Megane, and he  stared
openly at her lithe form.
      Her breasts stood out firmly from her body, rising and
falling slowly with every breath.  The small nipples of  her
breasts  stood  out nicely from their pinkish  aureole.   He
thought that the proportion of her breasts set off well  the
shaped  muscles of her stomach.  He traced the lines of  her
muscles  down  to the delta of her sex, which was  dry  this
time.   The ruddy outer lips of her sex were pouting visibly
behind  the wisps of bluish-gray hair.  The hairs seemed  to
part  for  him so that he could easily gaze at her enjoyable
womanhood.   He gazed happily at the source of their  mutual
ecstasy, but stopped before he lost control of himself.   He
allowed  his gaze to continue downward, taking in  the  long
length of her shapely legs.  They moved in a hypnotic way as
she  began walking about the room.  She turned around to set
something on the bed, putting her back to him.  He continued
to stare at her.
      Her  long  bluish hair, which was usually held  up  by
something, cascaded freely from her head down to  the  small
of  her back.  The cheeks of her ass stood out proudly,  and
wiggled seductively as she moved about to place things  here
and  there  on the bed.  She dropped a hanger on the  floor,
and bent to pick it up.  Megane gasped when she bent down at
the  waist,  exposing her ass and the  lips  of  her  vagina
again.
      Unable  to  stop the inevitable nosebleed, he  quickly
cleaned  his  face with his towel while she stood  back  up,
unaware  of the effect her walking about was having on  him.
Oyuki  had finally made a decision on what to wear,  and  it
appeared that she'd chosen well.  She had selected something
from  her  wardrobe  that accentuated  the  outline  of  her
breasts  and  hips,  but  didn't  make  her  appear  tawdry.
Spellbound,  he watched as she somehow managed to  push  her
curvaceous  body into that dress, scooping her breasts  into
the confining top as she pulled it up.
      Megane's  dressing was taking longer  than  it  should
have.  He was having a hard time fitting the trousers of his
tux  over  his  boner.   He  had  trouble  concentrating  on
dressing himself anyway.  He knew that Oyuki wasn't  wearing
anything  whatsoever  under that dress.   In  her  haste  to
return  to Megane, she had forgotten to bring some underwear
with her from Neptune.
      Megane put all of her other clothes in his closet, and
in  the two drawers that he'd cleaned out for her while  she
was  doing  her hair in the bathroom.  With that done,  they
completed  dressing.  Oyuki straightened Megane's  bow  tie,
and brushed his coat smooth with her hands.  Megane smoothed
and  straightened Oyuki's dress.  He ran a finger along  the
inside  of the fabric, accidentally grazing her breasts  and
nipples as he aligned her top.  He saw her nipples go  erect
under  her  dress fabric, so he stopped himself before  they
both wound up yanking their clothes off.
      They  both donned overcoats, looking like a well-to-do
and  happy  couple.  As they prepared to  leave  his  house,
Megane  approached  her from behind  and  wrapped  his  arms
around  her,  linking his hands together at her  stomach  to
form a loose embrace.  He leaned his head towards hers,  and
whispered, "I couldn't thank you enough for being  with  me,
Oyuki-chan."
      Oyuki  froze for a moment, then turned around smiling.
She  took his hand in hers, and brought her lips to his ear,
whispering  "I couldn't imagine being with anyone  else  but
you right now, Megane-kun."
      The  newfound couple kissed at the front door  of  his
home for a long while before they continued on their way  to
the  social.   It  was  a lingering, loving  kiss  conveying
tenderness between the two.
      It  was  only a short distance to Mendou's estate,  so
they decided to walk together in the cool air.
      Along  the way, Megane tried to recall how they  first
met.   It had been a while back, and not too clear.  It  had
something  to  do  with Ataru, but beyond that  he  couldn't
remember.   "Oyuki-chan, do you remember the first  time  we
met?"
     "Vaguely, it was a while ago." she replied.  "I believe
it  was  the time that B-bo got out of control and  attacked
Lum's  fiancee."  She kept the part about Ataru groping  her
to  herself.   No sense getting her new love interest  upset
over something that happened in the past.  Ataru had already
been sufficiently dealt with by B-bo and Lum.
       Something   in  Megane  clicked,  and  he  remembered
suddenly.  "Now I recall.  We didn't talk that much  because
unfortunately you were preoccupied with Lum and Ataru at the
time.   Myself  and  my friends were put on  snow  abatement
detail."  Megane chuckled to himself, remembering the  whole
thing now.
      "Well, I can promise you a MUCH warmer reception  from
now on out, Megane-kun," the Snow Princess said with a smile
on  her  face, mirth evident in her eyes.  She  put  an  arm
around  him  and  hugged him from the side as  they  walked,
while  Megane  tried  to  hide the  substantial  blush  he'd
acquired at hearing her words.
      Soon,  they arrived at Mendou's estate.  At the  gate,
Megane  flashed his admission ticket to the guard,  put  his
arm  around Oyuki's slim waist and proudly proclaimed to the
dumbfounded guard, "Oyuki is accompanying me to the social."
      Once  inside, stunned glances from everyone that  knew
him  fell  in his direction.  Megane strode proudly  towards
the  building housing the banquet hall, his arm around Oyuki
who looked equally proud to be with him.

                             <*>

      Mendou  escorted  Shinobu back to  the  banquet  hall.
Nobody seemed to notice them walk in, which was good because
they  were  both  still a bit flushed.   Composing  himself,
Mendou took Shinobu's hand in his own, kissed her lightly on
the lips, and guided her to the dance floor.
      Shinobu was a picture of grace as she moved fluidly on
the  dance  floor,  following  the  lead  of  her  new  love
interest.  She and Mendou's dancing encouraged the crowd  to
begin dancing in earnest, and so they did for a while.
      During  a  slow  song, Shinobu lay  her  head  against
Mendou's  chest  and  watched  some  of  the  other  dancing
couples.   For  a few moments, she didn't pay  attention  to
what she was seeing until one of the couples caught her eye.
      "Shutaro-kun, look over there.  Doesn't that look like
Megane?" she asked, pointing off to her left.
      Mendou looked over in the direction she indicated  and
got  the  shock of his life.  It WAS Megane.  Mendou  shared
Shinobu's  shocked expression when he saw that a  woman  was
with  him, WILLINGLY?  The woman was absolutely stunning  in
her  curve-hugging dress.  She was almost enough to distract
Mendou  from Shinobu.  However the only question Mendou  had
about  the beautiful woman was how much Megane paid  her  to
accompany  him to the social.  Curiosity getting the  better
of  him, Mendou's dance steps started guiding he and Shinobu
in Megane's direction.
      It wasn't too long before he was close enough for them
to  see  who  Megane was with.  He didn't readily  recognize
her, but Shinobu's startled gasp indicated that she did.
      "Shutaro-kun,  that's  Lum's  friend  Oyuki,"  Shinobu
hissed, in shock.
      "I've heard the name, but I don't recall her clearly,"
Mendou replied sotto voce.
      "She's the Snow Princess of Neptune.  I met her  early
on  in  Ataru's  relationship with Lum.  I don't  understand
what she's doing here, and why she's with Megane.  I thought
he  was insane over Lum.  Something earth shattering must've
happened to him if he was able to choose Oyuki over Lum.   I
wonder  what  happened to him..." Shinobu queried,  honestly
curious.
      Mendou looked in Megane's direction again.  Megane was
oblivious  to  the world around him.  His arms were  wrapped
around  Oyuki's  body  and he was  sporting  a  silly  grin.
Oyuki, on the other hand, had a contented smile on her face,
her  head resting against Megane's chest and her arms around
him.
     Deciding that miracles were still possible, Shinobu and
Mendou  changed  their  course on  the  dance  floor.   They
brought their attention back to themselves, remembering  how
much they enjoyed being with each other.
      Later  on, Mendou noticed that several men were aiming
jealous glares at him as he and Shinobu traipsed across  the
dance floor, obviously in love.  Women were also glaring  in
Shinobu's direction with a venomous look.  Mendou took  that
as a cue to leave the dance floor for a rest.
      "Ah,  Shinobu.  You dance as beautifully as you  look.
Surely  you must be tired after all we've done.   Perhaps  a
moment's  rest?"  he ventured, with her still  in  his  arms
guiding her across the dance floor.
      "Yes,  Shutaro.   I am getting a little  winded,"  she
replied  cheerily as she guided him towards the  refreshment
table.
     The glares disappeared with the couple, and the mood on
the  floor  lightened.   Moments later,  Mendou's  own  mood
darkened slightly as a courier from his staff approached him
at  the  refreshment  table.  Only a stupid  courier  or  an
emergency  would  interrupt him while  he  was  entertaining
guests.   He chose the latter of the two options and  turned
to Shinobu.  Placing an arm around her supple waist, he bent
down  to  her  and  nuzzled her neck.   As  he  did  so,  he
whispered in her ear, "Shinobu, I'll be right back.  I  have
to take care of something."
     "Yes dear, I'll be waiting here for you," she replied.
      As  Mendou  walked away, someone else called  for  her
attention.
     "Shinobu?"
      She  turned to see Megane and Oyuki together,  arm  in
arm.   "Megane!" she said, a warm smile forming on her face.
It  didn't  escape her that they looked to her the  way  she
expected Mendou and herself looked to others.  "Glad to  see
you  could make it to the social."  She turned to Oyuki  and
bowed  slightly, saying, "It's been awhile,  Your  Highness.
Good to see you're enjoying yourself."
      "Thank  you,  Shinobu.   But please,  call  me  Oyuki.
Megane  was kind enough to invite me to this event after  we
ummm...  ... met."  Oyuki blushed slightly as she remembered
the   way   they  `met.'   Megane,  meanwhile  was  blushing
furiously,  and  seemed to have trouble  walking  all  of  a
sudden.
     Shinobu cast a puzzled glance at Megane's behavior, but
decided  not  to  pursue the matter.  "Well,  Oyuki.   How's
everything  going  with Lum?  I haven't heard  from  her  in
awhile."
      Oyuki's  face  took  on a more serious  tone.   "Well,
Shinobu, apparently Lum's been ignoring her family for  some
time  now.  She hasn't been in touch with myself or  any  of
her  other  friends  for  that matter.   Frankly  we're  all
worried.  So I took it upon myself to pay Lum a visit to see
exactly  what  was going on.  I worry about her,  especially
now since she's paired herself with Ataru Moroboshi."
     "Well, knowing Ataru, he's probably chasing other women
and  making Lum's life miserable," Shinobu replied.  With  a
start,  she  realized that she didn't really care  all  that
much that Ataru was chasing other women.  That thought alone
comforted  her.   She knew right then that  she'd  made  the
right choice with Mendou.
      Megane,  who'd  managed to calm  his  raging  hormones
enough  to  stand  erect again, added,  "I  agree.   Ataru's
disrespectful  behavior towards Lum has not waned.   It  has
irked   the   Stormtroopers  greatly  that  he   continually
dishonors her so."  Megane looked over to Oyuki and took her
hand,  "But  I'm  afraid  that my priorities  have  changed,
thanks  to Oyuki-chan.  I'll no longer be holding a constant
vigil  for Lum."  He then reached over and grabbed a cup  of
punch from the table and started sipping.
      Shinobu's  eyes were wide at his declaration.   "Woah!
Oyuki,  you seem to have made quite an impression on  Megane
for him to forsake his desire for Lum like that."
      Oyuki  had  a  sly grin on her face when she  replied.
"Well,  you  could  say that Megane surprised  me  with  his
appearance  when we met.  It wasn't long after that  when  I
applied  my skills in oral argument to convince him that  we
were perfect for each other."
      Megane, who had been blushing deeper and deeper shades
of  red  as she spoke, spewed his mouthful of punch  to  the
floor  at  her mention of `oral.'  He tried to cover  it  by
sneezing.   Oyuki  nudged him with her hip, giggling  behind
her hand.
     Shinobu, who understood the hidden meaning, turned beet
red and started chuckling herself.

                             <*>

      Meanwhile Mendou made it over to the awaiting courier.
"Report," he said simply.
     The courier bowed slightly and responded with "Sir, the
observation deck reports the following: `A strange flash  of
light  and an explosion, followed by irregularities  in  the
gravitational field.'"
      A  concerned Mendou replied, "The same sort  of  thing
happened  one year ago.  You know what happened then,  don't
you?"
      It was a rhetorical question, but the courier answered
anyway.  "That's when the Oni ship arrived!"
      Mendou  and the courier both made for the  exit,  with
Mendou saying, "Better check it out."

                             <*>

      It  was  bedlam inside the command module of  Mendou's
observation   deck.    Personnel  were   scrambling   around
acknowledging  beeps  and  flashing  lights  from  consoles,
retrieving  printouts,  or answering phones  and  monitoring
comm chatter.
     Mendou walked in shouting, "Report!"
      "Yessir.   An object is approaching the compound  from
low altitude at a high speed.  Point of origin appears to be
the Moroboshi residence."
      A  dark skinned young woman in a tech's uniform turned
from her duty station.  "Sir!  Every system in the center is
starting  up.   The  defense system has activated  the  main
missile batteries to fire!"
      Another  female  tech  with long,  sandy  blonde  hair
shouted quickly, "Shut down all defense systems!"
      "We  can't hail them!  What'll we do?" the first  tech
asked frantically.
      "Calm down people!" Mendou commanded.  He gestured  to
one   of  the  techs  and  said,  "You!   Try  scanning  the
frequencies used by Lum's spaceship.  Perhaps that's why  we
haven't heard from them," Mendou said calmly.
      Static  filled the room for a moment until a  familiar
voice  was  heard.   "...s the royal shuttle  "Tiger's  Paw"
hailing  the commander of the Mendou compound.   Stand  down
your  weapons!  Repeat, stand down your weapons!  We request
landing instructions.  Can you hear us?"
      `What the hell is Ataru doing on an Oni-vessel?   He's
probably  trying to use it to crash the social.  But  better
to  be  safe,'  Mendou thought to himself.  Aloud  he  said,
"Stand down the defense batteries.  Transmit coordinates for
the  nearest landing strip, and have an armed force standing
by when it lands!"
      A  chorus of `Yessirs' met him as they bent  to  their
tasks.  Mendou turned to leave the center.

                             <*>

      Mendou  returned to the social long enough to pick  up
Shinobu and fill her in on what had happened.
     "I don't know Shutaro-kun.  Ataru's enough of a baka to
think of crashing a party like this.  But if he's in an  Oni
ship, he'd need Lum's consent, wouldn't he?" she said.
      "Perhaps you are correct.  In any event, we need to be
there  when  the  ship..." Mendou  began.   His  words  were
drowned  out  by  a  mechanical roar that  shook  the  whole
building.   An  instant later, the roof of the banquet  hall
began to creak.  "Evacuate the building!" Mendou shouted  to
one  of his guards.  Instantly the building began disgorging
harried  party-goers.  Satisfied that everyone was going  to
get out safely, Mendou located Shinobu with Oyuki and Megane
in  the  crowd and, hand in hand, each couple made  for  the
nearby landing field.
      Moments  later the four arrived on site to  see  armed
guards holding back some angry party-goers from Ataru and  a
hulking  man in a tiger-striped suit.  Many of those  people
were  hurling  epithets  at  Ataru,  blaming  him  for   the
interruption of their enjoyment.
      "Woah!   I  didn't crash this party without a  reason.
Besides, I'm the life of most parties!  You should  be  glad
I'm here!" he shouted back.
      A  hastily  improvised lynch-mob of angry  guests  and
armed  security  guards approached him menacingly.   Ataru's
hands  went up defensively.  He back-pedaled from the  crowd
until his back was against one of the landing struts of  the
spaceship.  Ataru screamed back. "HEY!!  THIS IS IMPORTANT!"
      "GET TO THE POINT!!!!!!!!!!!" the angry crowd bellowed
in his direction.
     Unable to speak after that last verbal onslaught, Ataru
collapsed  to the ground.  The King, who had been silent  up
to  this point, addressed the crowd.  "I apologize for  this
interruption, and the damage to the building, but I  require
your assistance.  You see, my daughter Lum is missing."

                             <*>

      Minutes later in the observation deck, Mendou  was  on
the  phone talking to one of his remote agents.  A concerned
look made itself plain on his face as his phone conversation
concluded with, "...nothing?  Then keep searching  and  call
back  later  with a progress report."  As  he  hung  up  the
phone,  he  sighed and put his hands on Shinobu's shoulders.
She'd  stayed with him once word of Lum's disappearance  was
known, lending support to the search, and to him personally.
He  bent down and kissed her on the lips.  "You didn't  have
to get involved, Shinobu.  I appreciate your assistance, and
your presence."
      "I  may have had my problems with Ataru and Lum in the
past,  but  I  am capable of shelving my anger in  times  of
crisis, Shutaro-kun." she replied, putting her hands on  his
as  she  turned  back to the unnecessarily large  operations
console of Mendou's command center.
      A  moment  later  an attendant approached  Mendou  and
bowed.
     "Yes, what is it Reeves?" Mendou responded.
     "I have the final damage report for you, sir."
      Shutaro  guessed as much, and rubbing  Shinobu's  arms
delicately, asked Reeves to read it out.
     "Yessir.  The shockwave generated by the landing of the
Oni  shuttlecraft  was the only source  of  damage.   10,000
windows  were shattered.  The roof of the banquet  hall  was
slightly  damaged, but the structure is still  sound  enough
for   occupancy.   Three  guests  were  injured,   but   not
seriously.   We were able to ascertain their identities  for
insurance purposes."
     "Is there anything else?" he managed to say at length.
     "Just that Mr. Moroboshi has regained consciousness."
      "Very  well, Reeves.  Please keep me informed  of  any
further   developments  in  the  compound.   I'll  be   here
continuing the search for Lum.  Also, get a crew in here  to
move ops from here to the banquet hall.  We'll need the room
for Lum's father and his equipment."
     "Yessir," Reeves responded before departing.

                             <*>

      Ataru  had  recovered  from the audio  shockwave  that
rendered  him unconscious, and was now sitting  in  a  chair
feeling  dejected.  The source of his dejection was  all  of
the  unknowns concerning Lum's disappearance.   Her  absence
stabbed at his heart, and THAT was something that he  wasn't
expecting to feel.  Where was she?  Was she okay?   Why  was
he  worried  about her in the first place?  Ataru  had  been
informed  that the King's forces had dispatched  a  ship  to
Graven's homeworld, but they reported back that no-one other
than the civilian populace was there.
      He  shot a despondent glance over to the King, who was
in the process of coordinating Oni intelligence with the far
flung  resources of Mendou's defense force.   Ataru  shifted
his  gaze over to Mendou, and saw him talking on the  phone.
What  happened  next curled his toes and set  his  brain  on
fire.  `THAT BASTARD JUST KISSED SHINOBU!'
      Ataru bolted up from his chair, ready to strangle  the
life out of Mendou when a voice spoke inside his head.  `Who
do  *you*  love,  Ataru?'  Cherry's  question  from  earlier
repeated  itself in his head, cutting through  most  of  his
anger.  He sat back down and sighed to himself, still unable
to  answer that question.  No-one had apparently noticed his
angry response to the kiss shared by Mendou and Shinobu, and
for that he was grateful.
     Ataru continued to brood over the general status of his
life  when he received the next shock of the night.  He  saw
Megane holding hands with and trying to comfort an obviously
worried  girl.   He  recognized her, but  couldn't  remember
where he met her.  Then he realized with a start that Megane
was  with  Lum's  kawaii babe of a friend  from  Uranus,  or
something.   `Woah, if Megane can net a babe like whats-her-
face  there, then I should be able to get any girl  I  want!
Wonder  why  my  life  isn't turning  out  as  logically  as
that...'  he mused to himself.  He was brought  out  of  his
deep concentration when he heard someone call his name.   He
looked  in  the direction of the voice and saw Lum's  father
gesturing  him  over.  Ataru rose and jogged  over  to  him.
"Yes, what is it Father-in-law?" he asked as he arrived next
to the King.
      "It  looks  grim,  son-in-law.  Our forces  have  been
spread thin hunting across all of known Oni-settled space to
no  avail.   We're  also  hunting across  the  rim  of  Oni-
territory,  but  that will take weeks to accomplish.   How's
Mendou doing on his end?"
      Ataru shot a sour look Mendou's way before responding.
"I  guess  that he's got things well in hand.   Although  it
doesn't look like he's come up with any answers either."
      "Tell  Mendou  to employ outside forces if  necessary.
She  may still be on this planet," the King commanded.   But
before Ataru could run off, the King stopped him.  "Hey, son-
in-law, have faith!  We'll find Lum.  I know you miss her as
much as I do."
      Those words tore through Ataru's mind as soon as  they
were spoken, slashing at the fog that had been clouding  his
judgment for so long.  Thoughts in his mind seemed to  clear
a  little bit, as he continued to sort things out.  He  knew
he  had  to  rescue Lum, but his reasons for doing  so  were
still  elusive.   He  shrugged his  shoulders  slightly  and
forced  the argument from his mind as he padded on  over  to
Mendou's location.
      Ataru looked to Mendou and spoke, "Lum's dad thinks we
should call in supplemental forces."
      "Has  he  no  faith in my resources?" Mendou  retorted
hotly.
      Shinobu  responded before Ataru did.  "Shutaro-kun,  I
don't  think  that  his  highness meant  anything  by  those
remarks.  Remember, his daughter is the one that's missing."
      "As  usual, you are right Shinobu-chan," he responded.
He  took  her  hands in his as he turned to  address  Ataru.
Unseen by either, Ataru winced when the handhold took place.
"Ataru,  please  inform Lum's father that I  will  exert  my
forces  to their fullest ability.  We'll find her for  him,"
he said, trying to sound confident.
      Ataru  nodded, saying nothing, and stormed off in  the
King's direction.
     "Geez, he's taking this harder than I thought," Shinobu
said.   Mendou didn't respond immediately, but instead stood
behind  her  and wrapped his arms around her in an  embrace.
At  length, he responded, "Yeah, but what's he finding  hard
to take?  Lum's disappearance, or my love for you Shinobu?"
      "Good  question, Shutaro-kun," she replied,  wondering
which one it was.

                             <*>

      Megane was in a difficult position.  He still felt his
calling  as a Stormtrooper, but he damn well wasn't  walking
away  from Oyuki.  The poor girl was on the verge of  tears,
and  it  was all he could do to keep himself from smothering
her  with his attention.  He was about to go out of his mind
so  he decided to comfort both himself and her by talking to
her.   "Oyuki-chan, I'm sure it's going to be okay.   Mendou
and Lum's father are working on the situation..."
     "I fear that is not so, Megane-kun.  If Lum's father is
asking  for assistance, something could be terribly  wrong."
She  clenched tightly to Megane's arm, drawing comfort  from
his presence.
      Megane kissed Oyuki on the head, and held her  in  his
arms.   She  sobbed  slightly as  she  ran  through  several
possible  outcomes for Lum, none of them  pleasant.   Megane
nodded his head down and grazed her ear with his lips.  In a
low  voice he said, "Maybe we should talk with him.  If  you
pooled resources, you may be able to help him locate her."
      Oyuki  looked up at him.  Her eyes were red and rimmed
with  tears over her concern for Lum's safety.  Megane wiped
a  stray  tear from her cheek, letting his hand hover  under
her  chin.  She smiled, thinking Megane's suggestion a  good
idea.   She  told  him  so,  and suggested  that  they  walk
together  and  speak  with His Majesty.   Megane  stood  and
helped  Oyuki  to her feet.  Once standing, he  put  an  arm
around her protectively, telling her that he'd be there  for
her if she needed anything.
      They  walked  quickly to the King's  location  in  the
ballroom.   Oyuki struck a regal pose, but worry  was  still
evident in her eyes.  She addressed him, "Good evening, Your
Majesty.  How goes the search?"
      "Princess  Oyuki!   What are you  doing  here?   Well,
regardless  of  why, it is comforting to  see  a  friend  of
Lum's!" he said, putting a hand the size of a basting turkey
on  her  delicate shoulder.  "Hey, that guy isn't  bothering
you, is he?" he said, eyeing Megane suspiciously.
     Oyuki was quick to posture herself between the King and
Megane.   "No,  Your Majesty.  Megane-kun is with  me.   You
see,  he's my ...," she said, struggling for the proper  way
to  say it.  " ...my ... my fiancee," she said finally, sure
with herself of what she was saying.
     "Well, remind me to congratulate you properly once this
is all over," the King replied, bending back to his console.
      "What  do  you know so far, sir?" Megane  asked  after
getting over Oyuki's roundabout marriage proposal.
     "I guess no harm will be done if I tell you.  Ataru and
I  believe that she's been abducted by a group of men  known
as  `ShadowKnights.' "  Megane caught the  sharp  gasp  from
Oyuki at the mention of ShadowKnights.
     "What's a ShadowKnight?" Megane asked, wondering why it
evoked such a reaction from Oyuki.
      The King looked stonily at the console, then turned to
face  him.  "It's a very bad thing, Megane.  And it  has  my
daughter."

                             <*>

      "Geez!   `Shutaro-kun!'  `Shinobu-chan!'   Sickening!"
Ataru  said  to himself in mocking tones as he  walked  away
from  Mendou's position.  `I guess the old monk  was  right.
Hard  to  believe  that  some  of  that  imbecile's  chatter
actually  made sense.  I suppose Shinobu never really  loved
me,' he thought as he approached Lum's father.  Sparing only
a  curt  nod  and  hello for Megane and  Oyuki,  he  relayed
Mendou's  words to the King.  Hearing nothing new concerning
Lum's  predicament, he resumed his seat in a neutral  corner
of the ballroom and continued sulking.
       One   part   of  him  was  growing  to   accept   the
responsibility  that he had for Lum's safety and  happiness.
Another part of him raged against that, decrying that he was
still  young and had many a woman to pleasure.  He shouldn't
even consider `settling down' with one woman.  However, that
rage  was  losing its potency as Ataru considered  the  fact
that  he  may  never see Lum again.  Still  dejected,  Ataru
shrugged his shoulders and sank lower in his chair.   Seeing
Ataru's  discomfiture, Mendou came up to him  and  said,  "I
need to speak with you for a moment, Moroboshi."
      Dragging another chair to where it faced Ataru, Mendou
sat down.  Several minutes of uncomfortable silence lingered
between  the  two friends before Mendou took the initiative.
"Ataru, I want you to know that I no longer intend to pursue
Lum."  He paused for a second, trying to decide the best way
to phrase what he had to say next.  In light of Ataru's dark
mood,  he chose bluntness.  "I also want you to know that  I
intend  to  date Shinobu.  I may even ask her to marry  me."
He looked hard at Ataru for a response, and got one.
      Ataru clenched his fists, trying to suppress his rage.
He  looked up at Mendou and said, "I guess this was bound to
happen,  Mendou."  Sighing in resignation, he  released  his
anger  and dropped his hands to his lap.  "You know, I  took
it  for  granted when Shinobu proposed to me that  day.   In
fact,  I always assumed that she'd be waiting for me, loving
me  unconditionally.  I never even considered the fact  that
she'd  tire of me and move on.  Now I've lost my only chance
with her."
     "Ataru, you may have lost your chance with Shinobu, but
you  still  have a chance at a life with Lum.  If  I  didn't
love  Shinobu as much as I do, I'd still be horribly envious
of your position."
      "Mendou,  I  don't know that I'd be all that  envious.
She still has a lot to learn about humans in general, and me
in  particular.  If Lum and I were to actually behave  as  a
couple,  she'd have to actually sit down and LISTEN  to  me,
not dictate and shock and meddle and..."
      Mendou's face turned cold, and a sneer developed  from
his  mouth.  With as much venom as he could muster he  said,
"Will  you  listen  to yourself?  You self-pitying  bastard!
She's  missing,  and all you can do is mope about,  worrying
over things that are easily solved..."
      "EASILY  SOLVED?!" Ataru yelled back.   Several  heads
turned at the outburst, but Ataru didn't give a damn at that
point.
      "Yes,  `easily solved.'  Have you ever  sat  down  and
talked with, not *at*, Lum?  Also, I've seen times where you
patently ignored Lum when she was trying to be kind to  you.
In  fact  I've never seen you two actually discuss something
together.  Do you realize how many times you've made her cry
because of your selfish attitude Ataru?"
      "Cry?  Me make her cry?"  Ataru asked befuddled.  He'd
never considered that.
     "More times than I dare recount, you insensitive dolt!"
Mendou shot back.  His look softened a little.  "Ataru,  I'm
not  going to hold you at swordpoint and force you to  admit
your love for Lum, but I think it high time that you thought
about someone other than yourself."  He stood to leave.
     "Mendou. . . umm. . . thanks."
      "I'll  accept  your thanks on the condition  that  you
really try to talk with her."
     "I will.  Oh, and Mendou?"
     "Yes Ataru?"
      "Please take good care of Shinobu.  I may no longer be
her fiancee', but I still love her."
      Holding his hand up, Mendou solemnly said, "I  promise
to  take  care of her and love her unconditionally; now  and
always."
      Ataru's mouth tugged at what could have been  a  smile
when a shout jerked both men's heads around.
     "Sir!  Sir!" one of Mendou's soldiers bellowed.  "We've
got something unusual coming in!"
      Mendou ran to the console.  Out of breath, he replied,
"What, from one of our discovery outposts?"
       "No-sir,  it's  coming  from  a  standard  television
signal."
      "T.V.?!  Broadcast it on all monitors immediately!" he
yelled  as  he  focused his attention  on  the  fuzzy  image
beginning to build on the big screen.
      All heads turned to any of the available monitors as a
scene slowly developed on the screens.

                             <*>

      An unknown's face and body appeared before them on the
screens.  He was very well built, and spoke with an  ominous
tone.
      "Allow  me  to  introduce myself.  I am  Prince  Aylan
Graven, Supreme Ruler of the planet Casivet!  Many out there
will  not care who I am or where I'm from.  Frankly, I don't
give a damn.  I'm sure, however, that there is at least  one
person  glued  to  his seat right now.   You  are  watching,
aren't  you  `your  highness?'"  He  mocked  as  he  cackled
lightly.
     The camera pulled back to show Graven surrounded by six
ShadowKnights.   He  made a flourish with  his  cape  as  he
advanced  towards  the camera.  As he moved,  the  group  of
ShadowKnights marched behind him in locked step.   He  spoke
again, not missing a beat.
      "Long  ago,  the  Oni King took  it  upon  himself  to
disgrace  me  in front of my men and the nation  I  defended
with  pride.  I have never gotten over the pain of that day.
And as I promised then, I swore I'd have my revenge.  Now  I
get  my  chance to inflict as much, or more,  pain  on  `his
highness' as he did to me all those years ago..."
      Ataru  glanced  over and noticed  that  the  King  was
absolutely  livid  at  this point.  His  massive  arms  were
trembling.  He was barely able to contain the anger that was
coursing through him, as he kept his attention locked on the
smirking  Prince.   Unnerved,  Ataru  quickly  returned  his
attention to the screen.
      "... fully intend to ruin the good nature of these two
girls!  If you doubt our intent, here's a sample," he  said,
pointing the camera to a scene at his left.
     The camera panned over to Lum and the biker girl.  Both
were  shackled to a wall facing each other.  Lum was in  her
bikini  except for the bottom which had been pulled down  to
her  knees.   The biker girl was in the same position,  with
her pants completely removed.
     "Lum!  My daughter!  NOOO!  I'll kill you, you son of a
bitch!"  the King yelled.  He was a whirlwind of  fists  and
arms as he disintegrated the monitor he was facing.
     "NO!" Shinobu and Mendou yelled simultaneously, shocked
at  what  was  on the screen.  As if it were possible,  they
managed to embrace even closer.
     Megane, for once, was at a complete loss for words.  He
just  sat there with a stony expression on his face.  Oyuki,
on  the  other hand, shouted Lum's name.  She began  sobbing
heavily, and clung onto Megane as tightly as possible.   She
buried  her head in his jacket, unable to watch any further.
Megane's  hands flew to her head and shoulders, holding  her
to him.
      "Mother of God!" was all Ataru could respond with,  as
his mouth hung open in obvious worry for Lum.
      The  Prince  reappeared in front of  the  camera.   He
chuckled again as he indicated the two girls.  "I bet you're
upset,  aren't you `your highness?'"  He walked towards  the
girls,  talking all the while.  "I told you that if the  Oni
government didn't apologize to me and make good on requested
reparations,  my revenge would be swift and  complete.   You
chose  to  ignore  me.  Now you'll know the  price  of  your
obstinance.   Within 3 hours of this original  broadcast  my
men  and  I  will have had our way with both of  these  fine
young girls..."
      "I'll  kill  you  myself if you even  TOUCH  Lum,  you
shithead!"  Ataru  yelled at the screen,  completely  beyond
control.
      "...I will to make good on my promise.  In another two
hours, if you have not met my demands they will be killed in
a  most hideous fashion.  Until then, we will make good  use
of  their  bodies.  You do understand me,  I  trust?   You'd
better,  if  you want these girls intact 'your highness.'  "
He  adopted a game-show host pose, and oiled his voice, "And
now on to the show!"
      He  flipped  a coin and caught it in his hand.   After
looking  at  it, he walked over to the biker girl  from  the
kidnapping,  clearly identified now as Benten,  and  laughed
loudly.   He then spoke in a purely evil voice, "Benten  you
lucky girl, you're first!"
      Lum and Benten had very scared looks on their faces as
Graven  came  closer.  Each tried to move  away,  but  their
restraints hindered their movements.  He flexed his fingers,
reached over, and fondled Benten's breasts through her  top.
The girls struggled uselessly at their restraints, trying to
get  away from the caped madman.  Suddenly the camera wasn't
able  to  see  them any longer, as it closed  in  on  Graven
again.
      "Remember!   In less than 5 hours Benten and  the  Oni
Princess  will  die  by  my hands!  You  have  been  sent  a
complete list of our demands, along with instructions on how
to deliver on them.  I STRONGLY suggest that you comply with
my  demands  since you will never get to me  in  time!!"  he
said,  sliding into megalomania with an echoing  laugh.   He
jumped  back  from the camera with a sadistic  grin  on  his
face.   He then got on his knees in front of Benten and  the
camera panned towards the captive Oni-Princess.  Lum, unable
to  watch  what  was going on, shut her eyes  and  screamed,
"DARLING!   SAVE ME PLEASE!!!"  Benten screamed in  apparent
agony,  and  at  that  moment the camera's  signal  abruptly
stopped.

                             <*>

      Utter silence reigned in the building.  What had  only
an  hour  ago  housed a happy group of party-goers  was  now
providing   shelter   to  a  gathering   of   very   stunned
individuals.  The proverbial pin drop would have been  quite
deafening.   Silence  reigned  for  a  few  moments,   until
suddenly a sound toppled it from its throne.
     A feral growl, barely audible at first, grew in volume.
Heads  turned as people tried to identify the source of  the
ominous  growling.  Eyes opened wide in shock  once  it  was
determined  that  Ataru was the cause of the  unholy  noise.
With  an angry look that could've ripped a 15 mile wide hole
through  the planet, he glared at the still image of  Graven
which  was  in  place on all of the monitors.   Suddenly  he
leapt at the nearest monitor, screaming like a wild man.  He
tore the monitor apart, yelling incoherently.  His eyes were
ablaze  with rage.  Some brave souls attempted to  calm  the
enraged  Moroboshi, but were gifted with unconsciousness  as
he  absent-mindedly beat the hell out of whoever came  close
to him.
      "THAT  SON OF A BITCH!  I'LL KICK HIS GODDAMN HEAD  IN
AND  SHOVE HIS BRAINS IN A USED MILK CARTON!  I'LL  RIP  HIS
ARMS  OFF,  SHOVE THEM UP HIS ASS, AND SPACE  HIS  WORTHLESS
FUCKING CARCASS!"  Ataru turned to an intact screen sporting
Graven's  face in freeze frame and addressed it, "YOU  PIECE
OF  SHIT!   YOU PUSHED TOO HARD, COCKSUCKER, AND NOW  YOU'LL
LEARN  JUST HOW WRONG YOUR MAMA WAS TO LET YOU LIVE!"  Ataru
yelled, louder than anyone had ever thought he could.
      The  King, understanding Ataru's rage, but restraining
himself  from joining in, made a move to subdue his  son-in-
law.   "HOW *DARE* YOU THINK THAT YOU'LL GET AWAY WITH DOING
THAT TO MY LUM?  FIVE HOURS MY ASS!  YOU WON'T LIVE TO BE AN
HOUR OLDER!  I..." Ataru stopped as the King grabbed him and
held him fast to his chest.
     "LET ME GO!  HE DESERVES TO DIE!" Ataru yelled, scaring
everyone by bodily moving the King with his thrashing.
     "SON-IN-LAW!  STOP THIS!" the King yelled.  Not wanting
to  do  this, he raised one of his mighty hands and  knocked
Ataru  against  the  head, hard.  Ataru went  down,  but  he
didn't pass out, although he seemed to snap out of his rage.
The  King released him and rubbed his own arms, knowing that
Ataru  put  some  pretty  nasty  bruises  on  him  from  his
struggling.
      "Shit!"  screamed  Ataru as he embedded  his  foot  in
another television.  He then sat down in a nearby chair  and
did something novel.  He cried like a lost soul.

                             <*>

       Oyuki   cried   inconsolably  for  several   minutes,
overwhelmed  by  the  sheer madness  of  the  situation  her
friends faced.  She took comfort in the fact that Megane had
stayed  with  her  throughout all of  this.   Her  mind  was
scrambling to bring some sort of rationality to  this.   She
had to do something to save Lum and Benten.  She thought for
a moment, and then hit on a notion that she felt would help.
"Megane-kun, I may have an idea on how to help Lum,  but  it
will require me to return to Neptune."  She trotted over  to
where the King was, Megane hot on her heels.
      She  stopped  short of approaching the King.   He  was
standing   next   to   Ataru,   trying   to   console   him.
Unfortunately he wasn't doing so well because Ataru's crying
was  getting infectious, and the King was starting  to  join
in.  Oyuki cleared her throat, getting the King's attention.
      "Your  Majesty, I believe I have a plan to help rescue
Lum.  However for it to work will require the cooperation of
everyone in this room."
      The  King  immediately stood straighter and looked  at
Oyuki.   He  walked back over to his console, leaving  Ataru
alone  for the moment, and motioned for Oyuki and Megane  to
follow.  Hope evident in his eyes, the King beckoned her  to
continue.
     "Our planet uses a form of dimensional gating to travel
between  worlds.  In fact that's how I got here  today.   If
you  could  pinpoint  the  location  of  their  hideout,  my
scientists should be able to establish a gate to that world.
We  could pool our forces, and send them through the gateway
to  neutralize  Graven and rescue Lum and Benten."   Oyuki's
confidence  was building as she spoke.  Megane's hands  were
on her shoulders, offering her unspoken support.
      "Yes!   A very good idea..." The King said, but  Oyuki
held a hand up.
      "I  cannot guarantee that it will work.  If the planet
is  far  from Neptune, it could take awhile for the gate  to
form.   If it is too far away, then we would not be able  to
create  a gate at all.  A contingency plan will have  to  be
enacted in case the gate is unusable."
      The  King  thought it over for a bit, and  said,  "Our
personnel here will figure out a contingency plan.   But  in
the  meantime, I have a small force that acts as my personal
guard.   I will instruct them to leave Earth orbit and  head
for  your  palace on Neptune.  Will you be going with  them,
Princess Oyuki?"
      "No,  I  will  return to the palace  via  my  personal
gateway  at Megane's home.  I'll contact you upon my arrival
for a status update.  Chin up, Your Majesty.  We're going to
get   them   back,  safely."   Oyuki's  face  was   one   of
determination.  A workable plan had been set  up,  and  that
was giving her hope.  She had every intention of succeeding.
      The  King bent down to his console, sending orders  to
his  ship.  As he did so, Oyuki and Megane got their  coats,
and  left the compound.  They ran hand-in-hand back  to  his
place,  not saying anything.  Once there, Megane guided  her
into his room.
     "Well, this has been a hectic night, Oyuki-chan."
      "Indeed  it  has.  What's that saying?  `The  best  of
times; the worst of times.' "  She reached a hand up to  his
face, caressing it gently.  Megane captured her hand in both
of his and kissed it.
      "Oyuki-chan, what you said earlier, to the King..." he
shuffled his feet, having a hard time articulating  what  he
wanted to say.  "You know, about... erm... us?"
     "Yes, Megane-kun?"
     "Did you mean it?"
      Oyuki  smiled  broadly, and closed her  captured  hand
around Megane's.  "Yes I did, Megane-kun."
      Megane  smiled  back at her.  `Wow, just  yesterday  I
would  have never even thought I'd see a woman as  beautiful
as  this.  What a difference a day makes.'  His look  became
one  of concern.  "Oyuki-chan, what are you going to do once
you get back to Neptune?"
      "Well, I'm going to try to coordinate Oni forces  with
mine, and help establish the gate.  I'll probably be a  part
of the strike force."
      Some of the color drained from Megane's face.  He  had
just  met her, and now she was going to face danger to  save
her  friends.   He  might  not  ever  see  her  again.   She
disengaged  their  hands  and headed  for  the  closet,  not
bothering to change her clothes.  Megane reached a hand  out
in her direction and shouted, "Oyuki-chan!"  She stopped and
turned  to  face him.  He walked to her, and looked  at  her
face-to-face.   He  swallowed hard, and  said,  "Oyuki-chan,
I... I do."
      Oyuki digested that for a second, missing the context.
"Do what?" she finally said, a curious look on her face.
      "Oyuki-chan, I accept your marriage proposal.  I  want
to be your husband!" Megane fairly shouted.  In spite of the
situation,  Oyuki's face broke into a wide  smile,  and  she
glowed with happiness.  She squealed and leapt into Megane's
arms.  Megane kissed her, wanting to convey as much love and
support  to her as he could.  "But you've got to promise  me
that you'll take care of yourself."
     "I will, Megane-kun.  Royals don't often get the chance
to choose who they are going to be with.  I was lucky enough
to  find you, and I have no intention of losing you either,"
she  said.   She kissed him on the lips one last time,  then
leapt through the portal which closed behind her.  The  cool
breeze ceased, leaving Megane alone in his room.
      Megane sat on his bed for a moment, unsure of what  to
do.   He wanted to participate, if for no other reason  than
to  insure Oyuki's safety.  He finally decided to return  to
Mendou's  and offer his support to whatever the  contingency
plan  was.  He leapt up from his bed, and bolted out of  the
house running for Mendou's compound like a scalded dog.

                             <*>

     Mendou held himself back in the wake of Ataru's mother-
of-all-tantrums.   He  sat still with  Shinobu  for  several
minutes  until  he  felt  he  was  calm  enough  to   speak.
Struggling to prioritize, he licked his lips, and turned  to
an  operator  at  the  main console.  "Poll  all  monitoring
stations, and get me a fix on the source of that signal."
      The slack-jawed attendant snapped out of his shock  at
Mendou's  words  and  bent to his task.   Several  agonizing
minutes  of  silence  passed before he received  an  answer.
"Sir,   all  sites  reporting.   A  station  was   able   to
triangulate    the    signal   from    Earth    coordinates.
Investigation shows that the source was a tower in  Hokkaido
that  was  re-broadcasting a tightbeam signal over  standard
television frequencies.  We can safely say that the original
signal did NOT come from this planet.  We have not been able
to  trace the origin of the tightbeam signal, although it IS
continuing to transmit to the tower."
     "Your highness, can you track it?" Mendou asked.
      "Already on it!  ... GOT IT!  He's on... Mylex  Prime.
Ugh,  why did he have to choose such a scuzzy place to  hide
out?"   He turned back to one of his techs, and asked,  "How
old is that transmission?"
     "Sir, given the distance between Earth and Mylex Prime,
I would have to say ninety-four minutes old."
      "WHAT?   How  long would it take to get a strike  team
there at max. speed?"
     "Launching from the homeworld, Oni special forces would
take approx. three-and-a-half hours to get there, and that's
pushing it."
     "Is there nothing closer to Mylex Prime than the forces
on homeworld?"
     "No sir, homeworld base is the closest."
     "Dammit!  Commit the force, and tell them what's riding
on  this.   We can only hope that they can get there  before
it's  too late!" the King said, resigned to having to  wait.
"Notify me the moment Princess Oyuki contacts us!"
      Ataru stepped up to the King, with a possessed look in
his  eyes.  "Sir, she's my fiancee' and I'd like to  go  get
her."   He  looked  up to his father-in-law  and  continued,
"Please?"
      The  King  looked at his son-in-law with  a  new-found
respect.  Without saying anything to Ataru, he bent down  to
his console and spoke into it.  "Inform the quartermaster to
stand by for orders."  He looked up to Ataru and said, "What
do you need?"
     "I need the fastest ship you have on hand."
      "That  would  be the Black Widow," the  King  replied.
"It's an experimental stealth craft and fast as hell, but it
only  holds 6 people.  You could get to Mylex Prime with  it
well  under  the deadline, but you can't carry a big  enough
crew  in  it  to mount a sufficient offensive  against  what
Graven's capable of throwing at you."
      "Hell,  it'll  carry me and right now that's  all  I'm
looking for!  Get it prepped!" Ataru barked.
      The King decided not to argue.  "The ship will take 15
minutes  to  get  here.  Right now my flagship  is  orbiting
Neptune, and the Widow won't be able to leave the ship until
the launch bays are cleared."
      Ataru felt a hand touch his shoulder.  He turned,  and
saw  Megane and Mendou standing behind him.  Megane advanced
and  spoke,  "We may have our differences over  Lum,  Ataru.
But as an official member of Lum's Stormtroopers I pledge to
support  you in freeing her from that scum."  Mendou  tilted
his head up and said "I would like to accompany you as well,
Moroboshi.   It  would  do me good to  know  that  my  blade
severed the head from that pompous ass' shoulders."
      Ataru  nodded and said "Thanks guys, I appreciate  the
help."
     A tight feminine voice made itself known among the men.
"I'm going too!"
       Simultaneous  "NO!"s  came  from  Ataru  and  Mendou.
Shinobu  looked to both of them and repeated  herself,  "I'm
going, so you two better get used to it.  I can't just  wait
around while God knows what is happening to Lum and Benten!"
      Mendou  walked  away  from Megane  and  Ataru,  taking
Shinobu by the arm.  Once a safe distance away, he lit  into
her.   "Shinobu,  I  cannot  allow  you  to  go!   It's  too
dangerous!"
      Shinobu  stood  her ground and retorted  "I'll  decide
what's  too dangerous for me.  After all we've been  through
as  a  group, I think I'm capable of taking care of  myself.
Remember what happened on Planet Elle?"
      Mendou winced as images of the `Refrigerator of  Love'
whisked through his head.  "Point taken, Shinobu.  But we've
just  found  out how much we love each other.  And  I  don't
want  to  lose you just when I've finally realized what  you
mean to me."  His look softened, and he took her chin in his
hand "I love you, Shinobu."
      "I  love you too, Shutaro-kun.  But I can't stand idly
by  while  Lum and Benten get raped or even killed.   Surely
you  understand?" She said, putting her own hand up  to  his
face.
      Mendou  relented,  and said "You're incorrigible,  you
know that?"
      Shinobu leapt into his arms in a bear hug.  With a sly
voice  she  responded  "You haven't seen  incorrigible  yet,
dear."  A silly grin from Mendou was the only reply she got.
     The couple rejoined Ataru and Megane.  Ataru spoke "Are
we all in agreement?"
      Silent  nods  from the four were all he got.   Moments
later,  the Black Widow touched down on the main  runway  of
the Mendou compound.
      "Ataru!" the King shouted.  "The Widow's already  been
programmed  with  the  proper flight paths  and  destination
coordinates.   Let  IT do the flying.  And  BE  careful.   I
don't  want Lum choking the life out of me because  you  got
hurt on a rescue mission endorsed be me!"  He said, his fist
raised in a show of support.
      "I'll get her back, for both of us!" Ataru yelled back
as he boarded the Widow.
      Everyone turned as they watched the stealth craft take
off  with  a  blistering leap into the air.  Within  seconds
they were beyond Lunar orbit.

                             <*>

      Everyone  entered the Black Widow  and  saw  that  the
quartermaster  had  provided  them  with  every  conceivable
weapon  that they could carry on their person.  They decided
to  suit  up en-route instead of on the runway.  Megane  and
Ataru were in the cockpit, while Shinobu and Mendou were  in
the back.
      Megane and Ataru suited up in silence, but helped each
other with the webgear and ordinance.  In the back, however,
things weren't progressing as quickly.
      Mendou  had  divested himself of  his  suit,  bringing
himself  down  to his underwear.  Shinobu likewise  had  rid
herself of the black party dress and was clad only in  black
panties and bra.  They stopped undressing for a moment,  and
stared  at  each other.  Mendou walked over to Shinobu,  and
caressed her face with his hands.  "Hey, you okay Shinobu?"
      "Yes,  Shutaro-kun.  I'll be able to handle  it.   I'm
just  shocked that this happened is all.  What is  it  about
where we live that we always seem to find trouble?"
     "Actually Shinobu, I believe that trouble keeps finding
us," Mendou said with a slight chuckle.  He wrapped her in a
close  embrace, worried again that she might get hurt during
this  campaign.   They stood holding each other  for  a  few
minutes,  saying  nothing.  His body began  betraying  other
emotions  as he felt himself stirring behind his  underwear.
Apparently Shinobu noticed it too because she brought one of
her  hands down and traced the outline of his penis  through
the fabric of his underwear with her fingers.
     "Shutaro-kun, how long do we have before we get there?"
     "The on-board computer said approx. 3 hours.  Why?"
      "Well, it won't take long to suit up, so why don't  we
..."  she  said,  reaching her hand into his  underwear  and
grabbing his stiffening manhood.
      "Shinobu, I ... ahhh..." he said, trying to muster  an
argument.  He fell silent, however, when Shinobu pushed  him
down  in one of the chairs, knelt down, and wrapped her lips
around  his  hard on and began sucking.  Mendou  placed  his
hands  on Shinobu's slight shoulders, sparks flashing before
his  eyes as her tongue began massaging the shaft of his rod
as  it  went  deeper into her mouth.  Mendou struggled,  but
managed to unhook the clasp holding her bra on.
      Taking  his cue, she moved her hands away and  allowed
the bra to fall to the floor, all the while bobbing her head
up  and  down  on his rod.  Her breasts were free  of  their
restraints,  and  were  now grazing  Mendou's  legs.   Their
pebble-sized  red  nipples  were  standing  out  prominently
against  the skin of the small rounded swells, rubbing  back
and  forth  slightly against Mendou's legs in  time  to  her
bobbing motion.  Her excitement was building quickly, and as
a  result she began soaking her panties through, and decided
to remove them before they were too wet to wear.
      Shinobu stopped to remove her panties.  While she  was
standing   and  stripping,  Mendou  removed  his  underwear,
leaving  them both naked.  Horny as hell, he grabbed Shinobu
by  her  hips, picked her up, and inverted her so  that  her
crotch lay right on his mouth.  The end result was a classic
`69' with him sitting under her in the chair.
      Shinobu  put her arms against Mendou's legs  to  brace
herself.  Then she bent her head down and resumed sucking on
Mendou's rod with gusto, enjoying the taste and the  way  it
affected  him.   She  decided to experiment.   After  a  few
abortive attempts, she was finally able to accept all of his
penis in her mouth in her first deep throat.
     Mendou's eyes bugged out, and he moaned loudly into her
sex  as  his  rod slid through her mouth and down  into  her
throat.   She stopped descending when her lips made  contact
with  the base of his sex, and her nose was buried deep into
his balls.  She didn't move her head, but instead roamed her
tongue  around  whatever part of his  rod  it  could  touch.
Shinobu's  breathing  quickened as he munched  away  at  her
nearly-hairless  sex.  With her nose  still  buried  in  his
balls, her deep breathing was enhancing Mendou's pleasure.
      Mendou was sucking on her clit, and the rosy petals of
her  sex,  driving her crazy.  His tongue was probing  every
available surface of her sex, greedily seeking out any  hint
of  her  sweet-tasting honey.  Shinobu started wiggling  her
hips  in  his face as his tongue darted across her sensitive
genitalia.   Her  excitement level was  increasing  and  her
honey  started  dripping from her blessed orifice  onto  his
awaiting  tongue.   Excitement getting the  better  of  her,
Shinobu  began  moaning.   This was  an  extra  benefit  for
Mendou, as the vibrations cascaded across his rod, which was
still hilt-buried in her hot mouth.
     Shinobu clenched her legs against Mendou's head to keep
from  falling off when he started concentrating on her clit.
She  was  also getting dizzy from being held inverted,  with
her  head  pointed towards the floor, and  that  was  adding
tremendously to her sexual high.  Mendou's hands went to her
tight  little ass, grabbing the cheeks lewdly  in  order  to
stabilize her body.  A fringe benefit was that it also  made
her hotter.
      Shinobu  managed to get a hand over to  her  face  and
began  fondling  Mendou's  balls  as  her  tongue  continued
swirling over his shaft.  She noticed when her fingers  made
contact  with his balls that she was drooling slightly,  her
mouth flooded with saliva.  She swallowed to remove as  much
of  the drool as she could.  That got Mendou's attention  as
her throat exerted pressure against his straining member.
      Mendou felt himself about to let go, and increased his
mouth's  activity against Shinobu's vagina.   His  increased
licking  and sucking caused Shinobu to moan constantly.   In
her sex borne stupor, she blurrily realized that she was  on
the  verge  of  coming and passing out  at  the  same  time.
Focusing  on her objective, she worked her tongue  over  his
rod  until she heard him grunt.  His body stiffened  like  a
board  underneath her.  He clenched the cheeks  of  her  ass
tightly and sucked hard against her sex.  Suddenly she  felt
his   rod  twitch  and  several  hot  streams  of  his  come
splattered  against  the  back of her  throat,  providing  a
soothing warmth as it started collecting in her mouth.   She
swallowed  greedily,  sending  his  hot  come  `up'  to  her
stomach.
      Shinobu brought her hands over and pushed herself  up,
extracting  his still-hard penis from her throat and  mouth.
As  it popped out, she saw a bead of white come ooze out  of
the  head,  staying at the top of his rod.  She dropped  her
head back down and sucked up the come, rolling it around  on
her  tongue to savor his taste.  She had barely time  to  do
that before her body shuddered uncontrollably.
      She  came  with more force than she had  back  at  the
party.   Were  his  rod  not in her mouth,  she  would  have
screamed  loudly.   Mendou, whose lips had already  captured
her  gaping orifice, tightened its seal against her when she
came.   A wave of her honey hit him, forcing him to swallow.
He  loved  how she tasted, and greedily lapped  up  the  hot
lubricant as it spilled from her.
      They  both  sagged,  him against the  chair,  and  she
against  him.  He allowed his breathing to slow  to  normal,
and  occasionally  licked the edge of  her  vagina,  probing
inside her as far as his tongue would go to extract whatever
essence  of  her  that he could.  Shinobu  was  hugging  his
penis, which was still at full attention, rubbing it against
her face and sucking on it whenever a drop of come appeared.
Then  Mendou released his hands from her ass, and  she  slid
slowly, albeit gracefully, to the floor.
      When  he  could  finally speak, he  complimented  her.
"Shinobu, that was the most exhilarating sex we've had  yet.
You  were  fantastic.  I'm impressed that you were  able  to
take me all the way."
      Shinobu sat up and grabbed his erection with one hand.
"I've wanted to do that to you since the party, Shutaro-kun.
I  really  like  it." she said, indicating his  penis.   She
jumped  up,  and  sat on his lap, causing her  to  sink  her
vagina  onto his erection.  She wrapped her arms around  his
neck,  put her lips to his ears, and said "I know  that  you
like this, too."  She clenched the muscles of her vagina  as
she hopped up and down slightly.
      Mendou didn't complain as she sheathed his rod in  her
warm,  silken  channel.  He brought  his  arms  around  her,
encircling her at the small of the back.  Then he moved  his
head  down,  kissing her shoulder and the top of her  chest.
Shinobu  arched  her back as far as she could,  driving  him
deeper inside her, and giving him more headroom at the  same
time.   Mendou  grunted as he felt his rod touch  bottom  in
her.  He moved his head down, and started teasing one of her
nipples with his tongue.  Feeling hungry, he took her entire
breast  in his mouth, sucking deep while washing the  entire
surface with his tongue.
      Shinobu  gasped as Mendou took her petite breast  into
his  mouth.  She hadn't felt anything quite like it  before,
and  the sensations that his tongue was producing inside her
caused  her  to move her pelvis up and down.   The  grinding
motion was causing his penis to slide in and out of her  and
each  time his rod went in he hit bottom, driving him crazy.
Mendou  reached a hand down and cradled her ass.  He  rubbed
his  middle finger around the base of his shaft, getting  it
very  wet.  Then he took it, and pushed it against the tight
opening of her anus.
      She  gasped  again, louder this time,  as  his  finger
started  progressing upward.  She had never even  considered
asking  him to do that, but it felt good, and she  said  so.
Mendou  pulled his face from her soaked breast,  kissed  the
nipple,  and did the same to the other breast.   As  he  did
that, he pushed his index finger deeper inside her ass.  His
finger  could  feel his member sliding in  and  out  of  her
vagina through the membrane separating the two orifices.
      Shinobu  was  so  juiced  she couldn't  see  straight.
Mendou was pushing all the right buttons, and the result was
so  intoxicating she couldn't speak coherently  either.   He
pulled  his head up from her breasts, which had gotten  very
red from his constant sucking, and lifted Shinobu off of his
erection.  He gently lay her down on the floor on her  back.
Before  she  could complain he lay on top of her, supporting
himself on his hands and knees, with the tip of his hard  on
pressed directly against the opening of her vagina.  Then he
slowly  pushed  forward, the lubricants  from  her  wet  box
helping his rod slide in.  Mendou had thought her vagina was
tight  the  way she was sitting before, but this was  beyond
compare.
      Shinobu didn't have much warning before Mendou started
pushing his rock-hard member into her.  She gasped loudly as
he began penetrating her, then moaned as her body was nailed
by  a  wave of pleasure caused by his invasion.  She wrapped
her  legs around him, trying to pull him in harder.   Slowly
he  sank  himself onto her, their noses touching  and  their
eyes maintaining a locked gaze.  She had to bite down on her
lower lip to keep from yelling.  Eventually, Mendou had sunk
all  the  way  down to the hilt, his hips cushioned  by  the
flawless white mounds of her cute ass.  Mendou put his  arms
under  her  to  hold her upper back off of  the  floor,  and
placed his hands on her shoulders.
      Soon  he  began stroking in and out of her, his  penis
grabbed  tightly  by the yielding walls of her  incomparable
sex.   He closed his eyes as he picked up his tempo, feeling
not  only the wondrous squeezing of her vagina on his penis,
but  also  her hardened nipples as they pressed against  his
chest.   They rocked back and forth on the floor, his member
coming out as far as the head, and then plunging all the way
in  until  his hips collided with her ass.  They  kissed  as
they  rode  each  other,  snorting  and  humping  like  wild
animals.
     Shinobu's vision went red, and she dug her fingers into
his  back  as another titanic orgasm washed its way  through
her.   She  moaned into Mendou's mouth when  she  came  this
time.  Mendou's strokes were made easier as Shinobu's orgasm
heavily  lubricated the walls of her sex and  his  rod.   He
felt  himself ready to go over the edge, and pumped  harder.
Shinobu's   orgasm  was  sustained  as   he   assailed   her
relentlessly.   She came so many times that she  lost  count
after  fifteen.  Mendou was still going, however,  seemingly
not ready to come yet.
      But come he did.  He roared loudly as the buildup  hit
the  bursting point inside of him and his penis twitched and
lurched  inside of her wet self.  He maintained his  motion,
his  spurting member pistoning in and out of Shinobu's juicy
sex.   His  orgasm was very intense, and he could  feel  how
full  she was.  He stopped his thrusting motion as his penis
went  soft inside her, content to lay still on top  of  her.
They  kissed deeply for awhile, breathing hard through their
noses and dripping sweat all over each other.
     Mendou was about to get up when the door to the cockpit
opened.   Ataru  stared slack jawed as  he  saw  the  couple
laying  naked on the floor; Mendou's rod sunk  to  the  hilt
inside  Shinobu's  treasure.  Surprised,  Mendou  stood  up,
yanking  his member out of Shinobu in the process.   Shinobu
was still too spaced to move, so she just lay there panting.
     "A.. A.. Ataru!  We, um... We, uh that is...I ... uh...
Excuse  me,  I  need to get cleaned up." and  with  that  an
extremely red-faced and flustered Mendou walked to the  head
and closed the door.  Soon, water could be heard running.
      Shinobu  lifted  her head and regarded  Ataru  with  a
smile.   "Hello, Ataru-kun," she said in an exhausted voice.
"I  guess  you know about Shutaro-kun and myself  now,  eh?"
She  was too tired to make any effort to cover herself.  Her
legs  remained  parted, and she was making  a  mess  on  the
floor.
      Ataru  stared  at  his naked former-fiancee,  drooling
slightly.  He closed the door to the cockpit and knelt  down
to  her, gaping openly.  "Yeah, Mendou told me that he loved
you, and was planning to date you as long as you wanted  to.
I  told him that I respected that."  He kept staring at  her
body.   Sweat  glistened off of her breasts, and  the  small
amount of pubic hair she had was pushed away from her  slit,
giving  him  a  perfect  view of her vagina,  including  her
stiffened clit.
      Unable  to resist, he reached a hand out and said,  "I
may  feel  strongly about Lum, but a part of me still  likes
you Shinobu.  May I touch you, just once?"
     She looked at the closed door of the head and heard the
water  still  running.  She turned back to Ataru  and  said,
"Well,  you  can touch me.  But do it quickly, and  remember
that I'm dedicated to Shutaro-kun!"
      Wasting  no time, he lay his hands down on  her  prone
body.   He traced his fingers across her breasts and  grazed
her red nipples.  Even after all the sex she and Mendou just
had, her small breasts responded quickly to Ataru's touch as
her  nipples stiffened to prominence against her  skin.   He
brought  both of his hands to bear, and rubbed her  breasts,
kneading  them lightly.  She sighed lightly.  Ataru's  touch
was  not as experienced, nor as loving as Mendou's,  but  it
still felt good to her.  The more he moved, the more it felt
like he was experimenting, like he had never touched a woman
before.  "Woah.  Shinobu, you feel great.  Do all women feel
like this?" he said, squeezing her breasts again.
      "I  would  guess so, Ataru.  I'm glad  you  like  it."
Ataru's  roaming hands ceased, and his eyes looked  like  he
was  gazing into the distance.  She caught the look  in  his
eyes,  and  said "Don't worry Ataru.  You and  Lum  will  be
together,  and you'll be able to do with her  what  you  saw
Mendou  and  I  doing.  Sex is the greatest feeling  in  the
world,  Ataru!"   He smiled, then bent down and  kissed  her
full  on  the  lips.  Shinobu was shocked, but returned  the
kiss and embraced Ataru.
      Ataru broke the kiss and reached a hand down, touching
her slit.  Shinobu hissed at the touch, and brought her hand
down,  capturing his.  She took his middle finger and guided
it  inside  her, giving him an education in female  anatomy.
Sliding  it in, out, and around; Ataru noticed how warm  and
slick it was inside her, and guessed that his rod would feel
right  at home in such a place.  He looked down at Shinobu's
body  as  he  stroked his hands in and out of  the  clinging
vagina  and  suddenly saw Lum's face and body laying  before
him,  enjoying his treatment.  He shook his head,  blinking,
and  when he opened his eyes again he saw Shinobu's  flushed
face.  His thumb hit her stiff clit everytime he stroked his
finger in and out of her, bringing a stifled grunt with each
impact..  Shinobu's closed her eyes and bit her lips to keep
silent.    Her  hips  ground  into  his  hands  as   Ataru's
inexperienced touch brought her off twice.  Ataru gazed over
Shinobu's  shaking form.  He withdrew his finger  from  her,
and put his hand on her hip.
      He  bent  down  and popped her nipple  in  his  mouth,
tasting  the  salt from her sweat as his tongue touched  it.
Then  he moved his mouth down her body, licking all the way.
He  made  it to her crotch and sucked her button for  a  few
moments,  savoring the taste of a grown woman in heat.   Not
lingering  long, he sat back up and noticed  Shinobu's  face
was  flushed,  having come yet again.  "Did I  do  something
wrong?"
      Shinobu chuckled softly, and held Ataru's face in  her
hands.   "No, Ataru.  It felt very good.  If you  treat  Lum
like   that,  she'll  stay  with  you  forever."   Her  gaze
descended  to  his pants, which was sporting a rather  large
bulge.   `Might  as  well' she thought  to  herself  as  she
unzipped  his pants.  Ataru didn't budge as she  pulled  his
hard  on out of his pants.  Quickly she brought it into  her
mouth.
      Ataru was speechless.  His ex was giving him a blowjob
while  her boyfriend was in the head, cleaning up.   He  sat
there   on   his  knees,  enjoying  Shinobu's  warm   mouth.
Unfortunately,  he  was so worked up over  touching  Shinobu
that  she  brought  him  off in under  two  minutes.   Ataru
grabbed Shinobu's head as he came, flooding her mouth.
     Shinobu swallowed in loud gulps as Ataru came again and
again  in  her  mouth.   His  pent  up  sexual  frustrations
seemingly  left  him as his come continued  to  flow  across
Shinobu's  tongue.  `He doesn't taste bad, but Shutaro's  is
better,' she thought to herself, rolling her tongue over his
spurting  head.  Shinobu continued to swallow for  nearly  a
minute after Ataru first came.  Then finally Ataru's flowing
ceased,  and  his  penis went soft in  her  mouth.   Shinobu
sucked  on it for a few seconds, cleaning it off.  Then  she
pushed  it back under his underwear and zipped his pants  up
for him.
      "God that was good!" Ataru said with a spaced look  on
his  face.   Silence lingered for a moment between  the  two
before they broke out laughing and embraced warmly, and then
Ataru's  face turned serious.  "Shinobu, the reason  I  came
back  here is that we'll be arriving at Mylex Prime in about
two  hours.  You'll need to get suited up.  If you or Mendou
need  help  with the weapons, let me know."   Ataru's  words
then  became heartfelt.  "Thank you for allowing me  to  ...
you know, and for what you did to me Shinobu.  And thank you
for  supporting me in this rescue attempt.  Mendou's a lucky
man  to  have you."  He kissed her again and re-entered  the
cockpit.

                             <*>

      Meanwhile,  Mendou exited the head looking  refreshed,
and  dressed in the fatigues that the Oni quartermaster  had
provided  for  them.   "How did Ataru take  it?"  he  asked,
seeing Shinobu still naked on the floor.
      Shinobu stood up, and walked over to Mendou.  "He took
it  surprisingly well, Shutaro-kun.  After all, he  did  see
you  inside me."  She blushed at the idea of Ataru  watching
them  have  sex.  She blushed deeper when she realized  that
she  subsequently gave head to Ataru right after having  had
sex with Mendou.
      "He  didn't  yell at you or hurt you, did he?"  Mendou
asked, concerned.
      "Not at all, dear.  He told me that he considered  you
to  be  a lucky man to have me.  His mind is focused on  the
mission.   We  talked  for a bit and he  seems  to  be  very
concerned  about  Lum right now.  During  our  discussion  I
believe that I managed to convince him to be kinder to women
if he wanted to enjoy being with one."
      "Well,  you're both right.  He needs to  know  how  to
behave  with  a woman if he is to ever really  be  in  love.
Although I'm surprised that anything sank into his  head  if
he was looking at your sexy little body the whole time.  And
I  AM  lucky to have you at my side.  You're beautiful,  and
exhausting." he said, laughing all of a sudden.
      Shinobu  went beet-red at his statement, then  doubled
over in laughter.  He hugged her naked form, and kissed  her
cheek.   "I  guess my argument was more persuasive  than  my
body,"  she said, not giving away anything.  Ataru's blowjob
would  remain her secret.  Her face changed, and she  looked
in  his eyes, "Ataru came back here to tell us that we  only
have  a couple of hours before we arrive.  He said he'd help
us if we had problems with the weapons."
      "Well, I'm going to lie down in the bunk and gather my
strength.   The head has a working shower in it, believe  it
or  not.   So  get yourself ready, dear."  He handed  her  a
uniform  and as she turned around he popped her on the  ass.
She  looked  over  her  shoulder and stuck  her  tongue  out
playfully.   She entered the head and soon water was  heard.
Shortly  a  scream  was  heard,  then  Shinobu  yelled  out,
"SHUTARO!!   YOU  FORGOT TO TELL ME  THAT  THIS  DAMN  THING
DIDN'T HAVE HOT WATER!!!!"
      Mendou  chuckled slightly, and lay down on  the  bunk.
Shinobu appeared from the head a few minutes later, damp but
clean.   She  was also wearing fatigues now.  She  took  the
towel  and  cleaned up the mess they'd made  on  the  floor,
tossing the towel in a bag.  Then she lay down with Mendou.
      Mendou put his arm around her, his hands automatically
pulling her towards him.  They both lay on their sides, with
her  laying against him.  One of his hands went  up  to  her
breast, and rested there.  Her nipple stiffened slightly  at
his touch, but they were too tired to pursue the matter.  He
kissed  the back of her neck, and closed his eyes.  She  was
already out, so they slept; together.

                             <*>

      Ataru  and Megane sat in the cockpit of the Widow  for
the  remainder of the trip, as the other two  of  the  group
readied  themselves in the crew compartment.  For almost  an
hour,  Ataru sat in silence thinking about what that bastard
could  be  doing to Lum.  Why was he so concerned  for  her?
And  why  had he kept seeing Lum's face instead of Shinobu's
as he explored her body a few minutes ago?
      He  answered his own question as he thought about  Lum
and the times that they'd had together.  From the first time
they  met, to the time that she'd saved him from humiliation
that one Christmas, she'd always stood by him and never gave
up  on  him.  All she asked of him in return was  his  love.
But  in his own irrational way, he neglected to pay her  the
respect  or  love that she wanted.  And now  that  this  had
happened to her, he may never see her again.
      A notion that had long been suppressed by his hormonal
system made itself known in a flash.  He finally came to the
conclusion  that he really did love her.  He  also  realized
that  he was going to have to get her back from that bastard
if he was ever going to be able to confess to her that which
he had tried to deny for so long.
     "Hang on, Lum.  I'm coming for you!" he said, his words
both a promise to her and vow to himself.
      "What?" Megane said, speaking for the first time since
takeoff.
      Embarrassed, Ataru blushed deep red.  Unable to  cover
it, he said, "I was making a promise."
      "I  heard what you said, I just can't believe you were
the  person saying it.  It sounded like you meant it,  too,"
Megane  said.   He  eyed Ataru critically,  unsure  of  what
MegaHentai's motives were.
      "I  DID  mean it, Megane!" Ataru responded hotly.   "I
have every intention of freeing Lum from that bastard."
      Megane's look lost some of it's hard edge.  He  smiled
somewhat,  then said "Ataru, you look like I feel.   You  DO
love Lum, don't you?"
      Ataru  calmed  down, and looked at  the  deck  of  the
cockpit.   He  kept  silent for a while, the  sound  of  the
engines being the only thing audible to both of them.  Then,
with  an effort he said, "Yes.  Jeez, I finally said it.   I
love Lum!  And now that I realize this, I may never see  her
again..."  It was obvious that he was fighting back tears.
      Megane,  knowing what Ataru was feeling,  grabbed  his
friend by the shoulder.  "Hey!  We're going to get her back,
safe  and  sound.  We both have a big stake in  seeing  this
mission completed successfully."
      "I  know.  This is the first time I've appreciated the
Stormtroopers, Megane."
     "That's not the main reason I'm here."
     "Oh, no?  Why then?"
      "Oyuki's  also got some kind of assault in the  works.
She's even planning on leading it."
     "Who's Oyuki?"
      "Don't  you  remember?  She's the Snow  Princess  from
Neptune.   We  met her the day you were sick.   Shinobu  was
watching over you.  The Stormtroopers came over to see  Lum,
and all of a sudden your closet spewed out a ton of snow..."
      "AHHH!  *NOW* I REMEMBER!  God, she was a beauty!  Her
friend...  ummm...  C-Ko I think, almost killed me  when  he
went  out  of  control.  Anyway, I know she's  a  friend  of
Lum's,  so  I  understand why she's involved.  But  I  don't
understand  why her involvement would send you  out  to  the
battlefield."
      "She was the one with me at the social Ataru.  I  love
her.  In fact, we're going to get married."
      <thunk!>   Ataru's jaw hit the floor with a  gymnast's
grace.   "LOVE  her?  MARRY her?  Good God, man!   How  long
have you known this woman?"
      "About seven hours, I think.  That's not including all
the  times we've met in passing before, though," Megane said
matter-of-factly.
     "SEVEN HOURS?  And you're going to marry her?"  Ataru's
incredulous  look changed to one found on many  professional
condescending  counselors.  He put  his  hands  on  Megane's
shoulder.   "Now,  Megane.   Granted  you've  had   problems
meeting  women.   Also granted, Oyuki is a beautiful  woman.
But  how  can you justify marriage when you only met  a  few
hours ago?"
      Megane got a conspiratorial look on his face and said,
"I don't normally kiss and tell ..."
      "You  were  never in a position to do  so  before,  so
that's no surprise," Ataru deadpanned.
      "Quiet cretin, before I change my mind.  Anyway, after
we first met, well.. we just knew it was the right thing.  A
lot  happened between us in the short time we've  gotten  to
known each other."
     "Like what?" Ataru said, curious.
      "Promise me that what I'm about to tell you will never
go beyond the two of us."
     "Okay," Ataru said too quickly.
      "Ataru,  promise me honestly.  If you don't,  I  won't
tell you," Megane said, a cross look in his eyes.
      "Oh,  all right!"  Ataru held his right hand  up,  and
placed  his left hand on a nearby grenade.  "I swear that  I
won't mention our conversation to anyone.  Satisfied?"
      "For now yes.  But remember this.  When we get Lum and
Benten  back safely, and I find out you blabbed,  I'll  tell
Lum what you just did with Shinobu!"
      The  air pressure in the cockpit dropped substantially
as Ataru gasped.  "How did you??"  Ataru said in a strangled
voice.  He twitched slightly, and his eyes occupied most  of
his face.
     "I have my ways," he said enigmatically.  In all truth,
Megane knew nothing.  But it was too good an opportunity  to
pass  up.   He smiled broadly and said, "So, do we  have  an
agreement?"
      "Yes!   Don't tell her anything!  I promise I'll  keep
silent," Ataru nodded vigorously.
      "Good.   Well I've been wanting to tell someone  about
this  since it happened, anyway."  Ataru facefaulted at that
proclamation.  "It started out early in the evening.  I  was
about  to get dressed to head for the social when all  of  a
sudden  I  get hit with snow.  Then Oyuki steps out  of  the
closet,  although  I had no idea who she was  at  the  time.
After  introductions, we talked for a bit.  Then I  get  the
bright idea to invite her to the social."
     "And she accepted I assume."
      "Right.  Well, and this is a bit embarrassing,  I  did
something  that  `caught her attention' I  guess  you  could
say."
     "What?  What?" Ataru said, hopping in his chair.
      "Well, as I said; I was in the process of dressing for
the social when she arrived.  At the time, I was still in my
towel,  having just gotten out of the shower.  So  I  go  to
stand  up from the bed to take her hand when my towel  falls
off."
     "NO WAY!"
      Megane flushed fiercely as he recalled the incident in
his  mind.  "Yes.  There I was, standing naked in  front  of
one  of  the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen.  She didn't
say  anything  either;  just  stood  there  looking  at  me.
Anyway, one thing led to another, and we eventually wound up
having sex for the next two hours."
      Ataru didn't know whether to believe him or not.   His
incredulous look told Megane that he didn't.
      "It's  true Ataru.  On the floor, in the  bed,  in  my
shower.  Hell of a way to lose your virginity, man!"  Megane
proclaimed proudly.  "She's got the body of a goddess!   And
she  also has indomitable stamina.  I could love her  purely
for  physical reasons, but that's not the case.  She's  very
sweet.  She's brilliant, loyal to her friends, generous, and
she  loves ME!  THAT'S why I want to marry her.  As  I  said
before,  EVERYTHING clicked between the two  of  us.   She's
perfect, and I could easily imagine Oyuki and I married  for
life."
      Ataru  digested all of this, trying not to look bowled
over.  Eventually, he said, "So why come on the mission?"
     "Oyuki's going to risk her life to save Lum.  I'm going
along  to  insure that both you and I get to  live  out  our
dreams,  Ataru!"  Megane said, determinedly.   A  blue  aura
started  building  around  him as  he  clenched  his  fists,
promising himself that they'd win.

                                     <*>

       Meanwhile,  on  the  planet  Mylex  Prime,  different
promises  were being made.  Prince Graven rubbed  his  hands
together and eyed the twin beauties that were bound  to  the
walls  of the room.  His eyes fell down to Benten's  exposed
crotch.  He rubbed his jaw, remembering the swift kick  he'd
gotten  from her back when he was eating away at  her,  just
after they'd stopped transmitting.  Not deterred by her lack
of cooperation, he spoke.
      "Awww,  Benten!   You shouldn't be so  coy!   We  were
getting  along  SO well.  Admit it, you little  bitch!   You
must  have  known I was coming for you.  Why else would  you
have shaved your tasty little cunt for me, eh?" he leered at
her  bald sex, drool starting to form at the corners of  his
mouth.
      "I didn't do it for you, you little piece of shit!   I
always  shave down there!" Benten replied angrily.   Earlier
on, when he buried his face in her crotch, her fear had been
replaced  by a snarling anger.  Had she not kicked him  when
she  did,  he  would  have bitten her  clit  off!   She  now
regretted that she wasn't able to have done more to  him  at
the time.
      "Well,  we're going to see just how saucy that  little
slit of yours really is Benten," he replied with a gleam  in
his  eyes.   He  turned and addressed the green-haired  girl
opposite Benten.  "My little Lum, you get to be my play toy.
You  can't  fly, and you can't fry.  The walls are grounded,
so  there'll be no Oni love taps from you.  Your  neckchains
will  keep  you  from getting too far while we're  in  here.
Fear  not,  your  chains will be removed by remote  once  we
leave  the room," his grin widened as he thought about  what
was to happen.
      He  made a grand gesture with his hands, enjoying  the
girls'  predicament.  With a flourish, he  continued,  "Your
friend  Benten  seems to react violently  to  sex  with  me.
Since I can't get it on with her, YOU WILL!  I expect a good
performance from you two girls, so don't disappoint me.   If
you do disappoint, you only hasten your deaths!"  He pointed
to a far corner.  "That camera has a grenade launcher on it.
At  the  press of a button, it will fire.  Guess where  it's
aimed."  He laughed wickedly, pinching Lum's ass.
      Lum  fell  forward as he pinched her.   Outraged,  she
reached  a hand up and grabbed Prince Graven's arm.  "DIVINE
RETRIBUTION!!!" she screamed as she...  "Nani?"  she  asked,
puzzled.
     "As I said, my horny little green-haired snatch, you're
grounded."   Prince Graven tried not to snicker at  his  bad
jokes.  He grabbed her chin and aimed her head so she  faced
him.   "You  can't shock anyone as long as  you're  in  this
room.  I do appreciate the sweet gesture, however, my little
Lum." he said as he turned to leave.  "Get some babes up  to
my   room.   We've  got  a  show  to  watch!"  he  exclaimed
gleefully.
     His expression quickly turned to one of shock and pain.
"OW  SHIT!" he hissed as Lum buried her fangs in  his  hand.
Shoving  her away, he got a handkerchief out and nursed  his
injured  hand.   "Well, I hope you use that same  spirit  on
your  friend  there, my little Lum." he said  in  way  of  a
warning.   "Tell the guards that I'll be in  my  room  in  5
minutes,  make sure the babes are ready for me.  I  want  my
harem in my room when my little Lum and the biker bitch  get
it on!"
     After he said that, several `yessirs' were mumbled, and
everyone  filed  out of the room.  Soon  it  was  just  Lum,
Benten,  and  the camera as the doors closed with  a  final-
sounding  `CLANG' from the locks.  As soon as the  door  was
secured,  the  chains  on their wrists,  necks,  and  ankles
dropped  to the ground, leaving them standing in the  locked
room facing each other.

                             <*>

      "Sir!   Incoming  transmission from Neptune!"  an  Oni
soldier yelled at the King.
      "About damn time!  Pipe it through to my console!" the
King yelled as he positioned himself in front of it.
      A  static-filled  screen  resolved  into  a  real-time
transmission.   Oyuki's beautiful face  regarded  the  King.
"Greetings,  Your Majesty.  My apologies for the  delay.   I
had  to  contact our scientists and have them  research  the
feasibility of my proposition."
     "What was their conclusion?"
     "They said that a long distance planetary gateway could
be established, but we need to know where to send it."
      "Transmitting coordinates now.  The planet's  name  is
Mylex Prime."
      Oyuki looked to her left, as if reading something  out
of  the King's line of sight.  "Our scientist tells me  that
it  is doable, but the gateways will take less than an  hour
each to fully form."
     "Multiple gateways?"
      "Yes.   We'll  be  able  to storm  the  facility  more
effectively with a multi-pronged attack."
     "I hope you have enough room in your party for one more
person.  I intend on tagging along."
      "The more the merrier, Your Majesty.  We'll leave  the
light  on for you," she said, with a mock salute and a smile
tugging at the corners of her mouth.
      "My  ship  is in orbit around Earth.  I'm  leaving  to
rendezvous with it now, and should be orbiting Neptune in 20
minutes."
      "I'll  be  expecting you, Neptune station  out."   The
picture  winked  out, leaving the King looking  at  his  own
reflection  in the console.  He turned to his aide,  "Muster
all  the ground forces, I want everyone to be on the shuttle
back to the flagship in 6 minutes."
      The  aide  sent the word out to all Oni troops.   They
were  the picture of efficiency, and had all their personnel
ready when the shuttle touched down 5.5 minutes later.

                             <*>

      Lum  rushed  over to Benten and held  her.   She  then
looked  up  with a distraught expression on her  face.   "Oh
Benten,  why the hell are they doing this to us?"   She  lay
her  head on Benten's shoulder, trying to find some  comfort
from their situation.
     Benten placed a hand on Lum's head, running her fingers
through Lum's hair.  "I don't know, Lum.  However we've  got
to get out of here before he blows us to pieces."
      "It  won't get that far," Lum said defiantly.  "I know
that my family and Darling will be coming for us."
      "You  heard  what  that bastard said,  Lum..."  Benten
started to say.
     "I KNOW that Darling will save us!  He has before!" Lum
said, cutting off Benten's remark.
     "What makes you think that `Prince' asshole is going to
keep  his  promise  and leave us alive  long  enough  to  be
rescued?"
      "We  just have to find a way to keep them from killing
us until help arrives.  That's all..."
     "You aren't suggesting...." Benten said, incredulous.
      "Why not?  It's the only thing keeping us alive as  it
is.   You heard what he said, if we don't please him,  he'll
nuke us right here."
      "Oh  Lum!" Benten said, shuddering slightly.  "It's  a
sick  idea, but you're right.  I guess we should do whatever
it takes to stall that creep until help arrives.  Only, I've
never  done  this  before.  How the hell  do  we..."  Benten
hesitated, trying to get a grip on what she was saying.
      "I've  never  made love to a woman either  Benten.   I
guess we'll both be learning the hard way." Lum said,  in  a
semi-resigned voice.
      Lum stood up straight and faced Benten.  "Forgive  me,
Benten ... and Darling."  As a lone tear wound it's way down
her  cheek, she rose her hands up to Benten's face.  Drawing
closer  to her, Lum closed her eyes as their lips met.   `So
this  is  what kissing a woman is like' she thought  as  she
caressed Benten's face.
      Benten  was very apprehensive as Lum advanced  towards
her.   Lum was a good friend and all, but this was something
she hadn't even considered doing with Lum.  As Lum issued  a
whispered  apology, their lips met.  Benten's body shuddered
as the soft, warm lips of their mouths made contact.  Benten
started to shrug off her inhibitions as Lum's hands caressed
her  face  like  an angel's touch.  Taking  the  initiative,
Benten  raised her arms up and encircled Lum in an  embrace.
Her hands fell onto Lum's back, as she pulled her in closer.
      The kiss turned more passionate as Benten drew Lum in.
Parting her lips, Lum's tongue escaped her mouth and  danced
across  the  inside of Benten's lips.  Sensing this,  Benten
opened her mouth and met Lum's tongue with her own.   For  a
long while, the two stood embracing each other, kissing  and
caressing,  grinding their bodies together.   Benten's  body
was  responding to Lum's attention.  Her hips started moving
in  a  small, circular, grinding motion.  Her hands  drifted
from  Lum's back, up her shoulders, to her face.   She  then
broke the kiss and stroked Lum's face.
      Without saying a word, she reached down and undid  the
top  of Lum's bikini.  Releasing the ties, she looked up  to
Lum's  face.  Noticing the deep blush on her face,  she  put
her hands on Lum's shoulders in a comforting gesture.  "Hey,
it's okay Lum.  Remember that we're still good friends,  and
that I will love you no matter what happens."
      Lum  relented a bit after hearing that.  "I  love  you
too, Benten.  Always..." she said.  Smiling slightly at  the
comforting  words, she reached her hands  up  and  encircled
Benten's  neck with her arms.  Doing so freed  the  pressure
that was keeping her bikini top from falling.  As the tiger-
striped  fabric fluttered to the ground, Benten's eyes  took
in  the  rounded  mounds of white flesh that  Lum  had  just
exposed.   Again,  the women kissed passionately.   Benten's
hands  worked their way from Lum's shoulders, down her arms,
and  to her belly.  There, she began the slow ascent towards
Lum's heaving chest.
     Lum's breathing quickened as Benten's hands found their
way  to  her belly and began working their way up her  body.
Again, the kiss was broken by Benten.  Pulling her head away
from   Lum,  she  was  afforded  a  better  view  of   Lum's
attributes.   Her  hands continued their upwards  traversal,
stroking  Lum's ribs as she inched her way to  the  breasts.
Lum  gasped unexpectedly as Benten's fingertips finally made
contact  with  the underside of her twin treasures.   Benten
smiled to herself and continued to caress the silky skin  of
Lum's breasts, enjoying the feeling of Lum's warm skin as it
slid  beneath her fingertips.  She reached her hands up  and
traced  small  circles  around the  edge  of  Lum's  pinkish
aureole.
      Lum  was  severely turned on at this point.   She  had
never been touched by another person like this before in her
life!   `Ohhhh,  yeah'  she thought to herself  as  Benten's
hands  worked  their wonderful magic on  her  breasts.   She
decided  to return the favor, and started roaming her  hands
across Benten's exposed midsection.
     "Me first, Lum..." Benten said playfully as she dropped
them  both to their knees and placed her hands on the  small
of Lum's back.  Her head now at Lum's breast level, she took
a  deep  breath  and blew on Lum's taut  nipples.   She  was
rewarded  with a gasp from Lum's mouth.  Hands  appeared  on
Benten's head as Lum fought to keep herself upright.  Benten
leaned in and nuzzled Lum's left breast with her face  while
bringing  her  left  hand into play  over  the  other.   She
hungrily  popped the stiffened nipple into  her  mouth,  and
fluttered her tongue over it.  Meanwhile her left hand found
it's  way  to  Lum's free nipple, and was soon  rotating  it
between thumb and forefinger.
      Lum's hands caressed Benten's head as she endured  the
fabulous  warmth that was enchanting her breasts.   Benten's
hands  and mouth were absolutely driving her insane.  Unable
to  help herself any longer, she took one of her hands  from
Benten's  head and planted it on her own exposed  sex.   She
grit her teeth and hissed inwardly as her fingers parted her
silky  green  curtain and made contact with her  clit.   Her
legs  began  to  shake  as she manipulated  herself  towards
ecstasy.
      Benten  noticed Lum's legs beginning  to  buckle,  and
disengaged herself from Lum's breasts.  She grabbed  Lum  at
the  shoulders  and  waist and laid her down  on  her  back.
Bending down, she whispered into Lum's ear "Don't go off too
quickly.   We  need to draw this out as much  as  possible."
Lum nodded in reply, and kissed Benten lightly on the lips.
      Returning  Lum's kiss, she roamed her head down  until
she  was again at Lum's heaving chest.  Sticking her  tongue
out,  she  roamed the entire base of Lum's breasts,  sucking
and  nipping  occasionally as her  mouth  charted  a  course
across  her sensitive upper body.  Lum's virgin body  tasted
heavenly,  Benten reflected to herself as her  mouth  glided
effortlessly across Lum's silky skin.  She bet herself  that
she  could  easily  enjoy spend a month  suckling  at  these
precious  breasts of Lum's.  `Hell, if that  fool  Moroboshi
doesn't take her, *I* might!' she thought to herself as  her
tongue   continued  it's  caress  of  Lum's  heaving  chest.
Returning  her  attention to the pinkish  aureole  of  Lum's
tits,  Benten again drew the taut nipple of one breast  into
her  mouth.   Rotating  her tongue  over  and  around  Lum's
nipple,  she let her hands roam over Lum's free  breast  and
fiery pubic mound.
     Lum's eyes were closed, and she was breathing in short,
quick  breaths.  She caressed Benten's head and back as  she
endured  the sheer pleasure that wracked her mind and  body.
"Oh  yess,  Benten-chan!  Ahh..." she whimpered as  Benten's
fingers  found  their way to her sex again.   Lum  reflected
that  she'd  always considered Benten to be attractive,  but
until  now  she'd  never contemplated having  sex  with  her
friend.   `After we get out of here, we're going to have  to
do  this  again.  Sex with another woman is fantastic!'  she
thought as Benten continued her relentless assault.
      Benten's  own body was starting to ache  for  release.
She  took her mouth off of Lum's breast long enough  to  say
"Lum  ...my top..."  Only too willing to do so, Lum  reached
around Benten's back and undid the strapless top, which  now
rendered both women completely nude.  Benten moaned slightly
as  Lum brought her hands down to the newly exposed breasts.
Craning  her neck slightly, she got a look at Benten's  body
for  the first time.  Her hands roamed across Benten's tits,
which  were  slightly larger than her own.  She  teased  the
brownish  aureole  with  her fingertips,  rubbing  in  small
circles.
     Benten was fit to be tied at that moment.  She was also
a  virgin  to sex, and this was unlike anything  she'd  ever
done  to  herself.   She  decided to  get  adventurous,  and
removed  her  mouth from Lum's swollen nipple.   She  slowly
worked  her  way down Lum's body, kissing and licking  every
inch  of skin her mouth came into contact with.  She  paused
at  Lum's  navel, and stuck her tongue in.  That elicited  a
yelp of surprise and a lurch of the hips from Lum.  Smiling,
she continued her descent towards Lum's steaming crotch.
     Lum shuddered with what could've been an orgasm as soon
as  Benten's tongue made contact with her navel.  She jumped
slightly  at  the contact, and kept herself from  screaming.
She  fought  for control over herself as she  recalled  what
awaited  both  of  them  if they  finished  too  soon.   She
returned her attention to Benten's body, forcing herself  to
ignore the sensations assailing her.  Benten's breasts  were
now out of reach, so Lum grabbed Benten's hips.
      Understanding what Lum had in mind, she shuffled  over
and  straddled her face, bringing her bald sex up  to  Lum's
chin.   Doing  so also brought her face to Lum's  sex.   She
paused  for a moment, as the scent of Lum's sex washed  over
her.   Hesitantly,  she moved her head  down  towards  Lum's
slit.
      Meanwhile  Lum was getting her first look  at  another
woman's   vagina.   She  studied  the  clean-shaven  snatch,
wondering  how  her  own  looked to  Benten.   The  pouting,
hairless lips of Benten's sex were glistening with a pungent
glaze that was continually seeping from inside her.  She saw
that  Benten's inner thighs were likewise covered  with  her
honey.   Curiosity and lust finally got the  better  as  she
brought her hands up and placed them onto the firm globes of
Benten's  ass.  Feeling a slight twitch from her  friend  at
her  touch,  she slowly caressed the skin under  her  hands.
Lum  was surprised at how delicate Benten's skin felt.  This
really blew away the biker babe image that she'd always  had
of her friend.  She continued her exploration by working her
hands  down Benten's thighs, and bringing her mouth to  play
over the inside of Benten's legs.
      "Ohhhh,  ssshhitt..." Benten said  with  a  shuddering
breath  as Lum's tongue began it's exploration of her  inner
legs.   She  was  in  ecstasy, as  the  green  haired  nymph
continued  her exploration.  Her pleasure was  increased  as
she  felt  the two lumps of Lum's nipples pressed  into  her
stomach,  telling her that Lum was as turned on as she  was.
Braver  now,  her head completed the journey down  to  Lum's
snatch.   She used her hands to part Lum's curtain of  green
hair  to expose her sex.  Lum's clit was at full prominence,
peeking  out  from  under  the  pinkish  hood  that  usually
sheathed  it.   Benten opened her mouth and enveloped  Lum's
button completely.  She quickly raked her tongue across it.
      Lum  had  absolutely given up on  trying  to  regulate
herself.   Suddenly  her clit was bathed  in  a  soft,  warm
feeling  that sent her into a frenzy.  Her eyes bugged  out,
and  her  hips  involuntarily pushed upwards  into  Benten's
churning mouth.  Ravenous now, Lum grabbed Benten's legs and
shoved her face into the biker girl's crotch.  Benten gasped
openly  as  Lum's tongue made contact with her  shaved  sex.
Lum  thought that Benten tasted delicious.  Hungry, she  ran
her  tongue  inside Benten's orifice, sucking  out  whatever
sexual  essence  she could from her best  friend's  hairless
vagina.
      Benten  saw that Lum was near the point of no  return,
and  decided to press on.  She brought her index  finger  to
the  entrance  of  Lum's hole and slowly pushed  in.   Lum's
vaginal  lips  responded by gripping  her  finger  slightly.
`Damn  she's  tight,'  Benten  thought  to  herself  as  she
continued  to  push  her  finger inside  Lum's  love  canal.
Pushing   in  another  two  inches,  she  came   across   an
obstruction.  Unsure what to do, she started to withdraw her
finger.   Lum  sensed what was going through  Benten's  mind
once she felt pressure on her hymen.  "Take it, Benten!" she
screamed.
     "No, Lum.  What about..."
      "Please Benten!" she cried.  "Darling may be  my  true
love, but I trust you!  TAKE IT NOW!" she said plaintively.
      Benten was taken aback for a moment.  Then she  smiled
and  said,  "I don't know what to say, Lum.  I.. thank you."
A  deep  welling  of  emotion  washed  through  her  as  she
contemplated  what Lum was giving her.  "I love  you,  Lum,"
Benten  said.   She pulled her finger back to where  it  was
almost completely out, then rammed it in as far as it  would
go,  putting  as much force as she could behind the  thrust.
The  thin  tissue surrendered to the impact, giving  way  to
Benten's invading finger.
      Lum  screamed  in agony as her virginity  disappeared.
The  pain  wasn't as bad as she was expecting, but  it  hurt
nonetheless.   She lay back for a second, panting.   As  the
pain  died, she began to move her hands again.  She  absent-
mindedly  began  stroking her hands  around  Benten's  legs,
centering  on her friend's crotch.  She inserted  a  finger,
eliciting  a  hiss from Benten.  She continued inwards,  but
was surprised when she met no resistance.
     "Where is it, Benten-chan?" she asked, puzzled.
      "I  broke it a while back riding my bike.  Don't worry
Lum.   I've  never had sex eitherrrrrr..." she said  as  Lum
started moving her finger in and out of Benten's tight  box,
apparently satisfied with Benten's explanation.  "Don't stop
Lum!   Oohhh!"  she yelled, barely coherent  as  the  green-
haired  sprite  continued to stroke her  hole,  occasionally
teasing  her clit with her mouth.  Before long,  Lum's  face
was covered in Benten's fragrant honey, as she continued  to
finger and suck her best friend.
     Benten forced her mouth back down on Lum's pubic mound.
She  quickly had Lum hot again as her mouth sucked on  Lum's
vaginal  lips  and clit.  She also worked two  fingers  into
Lum's  orifice,  stroking in and out.  Benten's  hands  were
thoroughly soaked with Lum's juices as she responded to  the
sliding  fingers  that ran in and out of  her.   Lum's  hips
bucked,  and  her  inner  walls  squeezed  against  Benten's
thrusting fingers.  The pain that she'd felt when her  hymen
burst  was  slowly giving way to a deeper feeling of  warmth
and  ecstasy.   Benten's mouth and fingers  were  working  a
miracle  over  her  exposed sex, and she  was  fighting  the
buildup  inside  of her.  She continued to  attack  Benten's
crotch,  trying to get her best friend off before  she  lost
her mind.
      However  Lum's  buildup  was  no  longer  containable.
Benten  continued to work her fingers in and  out  of  Lum's
tight slit until suddenly, from somewhere deep inside her, a
moan  began working it's way out of Lum's body.   That  moan
turned  into a quake that shook both women as Lum came  with
the most intense orgasm she'd ever felt in her life.  Benten
locked  her mouth on Lum's button and held onto her hips  as
the  girl bucked and shuddered uncontrollably from the force
of  her  orgasm.   The  pouting lips of  Lum's  sex  started
gushing  honey,  coating  her crotch  and  legs  completely.
Benten moved her head down a little more and started sucking
on Lum's sex, drinking in some of her sweet essence.
      Benten's suckling brought forth another orgasm as  Lum
screamed openly now.  She was exploding inside from  all  of
the  pent up emotion that had concentrated within her.   Her
hips  moved up and locked as she buried her sex in  Benten's
face.   Benten drank mightily from Lum's sacred  chalice  as
more and more honey poured from the green-haired snatch.
     Lum wrapped her arms around Benten's ass tightly as her
orgasm  hit.   She shook for what must've been five  minutes
before she started to calm down.  Shakily, she returned  her
hands  to Benten, determined to get her friend off.  `Benten
deserves  it, after what she just gave me,' Lum  thought  as
she embraced her friend's throbbing clit with her tongue and
lips,  pushing two fingers into Benten.  Benten's hips began
a  rhythmic  dance as she moved in time with  Lum's  probing
tongue    and   sliding   fingers.    Lum   continued    her
ministrations, feeling her dear friend approach  the  brink,
when  she  moved  her other hand up to Benten's  behind  and
slowly inserted a finger into her anus.
     Sparks flew in front of Benten's eyes when Lum's finger
probed her ass.  This time, Benten's resolve crumbled as she
succumbed  to  an orgasm she'd never dreamed possible.   "OH
GOD  LUM!  YESSS!!!!!" she screamed as she came.   Her  legs
tightened around Lum's head, while her hips bucked downward,
driving  her  sex  deeper into Lum's  mouth.   Lum  was  not
objecting  to  the  thrashing,  as  Benten's  honey  started
pouring out.  Lum moved both of her hands onto Benten's ass,
grabbing  the  twin  globes as tightly as  she  could.   She
clamped her mouth over Benten's opening and sucked like  she
was  drinking from a straw, draining every drop of come from
Benten's sex.
      Both  women stopped, trying to regain control of their
breathing.  Lum occasionally licked at the lips of  Benten's
sex, sucking whatever come she could from them.  Benten  was
breathing huskily, her voice an unintelligible rasp.  Unable
to  talk, she just moaned her appreciation into Lum's  tight
little  snatch.  Her continued moaning was setting Lum  into
action again, however.
      Both  women  rolled onto their sides,  Benten's  mouth
still  latched to Lum's sex.  A few more moments of nursing,
and  Lum came again.  She shuddered violently, grabbing onto
Benten's  ass  to  hold herself still.  Benten  ignored  her
beautiful  friend's thrashing, and drank from  the  churning
orifice.    Once   sure  she'd  gotten  everything,   Benten
disengaged herself from Lum's vagina.
      Lum  kissed Benten's sex lightly on the clit  and  was
rewarded  with a shuddering gasp in response.   She  brought
herself to a sitting position, pushing Benten so she lay  on
her  back on the floor.  She sat there for a moment to look.
"Benten, you're beautiful!" Lum said, finally getting a good
look at her friend's nude body.
      Indeed,  Lum was right.  Benten's body was statuesque.
Her  tall  form was well rounded.  Her large breasts  defied
gravity  as  they  proudly jutted  upwards  from  the  young
woman's  chest.   The snowy mounds of her young  flesh  were
capped  with dark-brown aureole, the nipples of  which  were
erect  from Lum's prior activities.  Her flawless  skin  was
drawn  taut against her ribs and the abdominal muscles  were
well defined.  Her hips were smooth and unusually petite  in
comparison to the size of her breasts.  Her vagina was  bare
of  any  covering of hair, it's darker-skinned lips  pouting
outward  and looking VERY inviting.  Her thighs were  smooth
to the touch, and her long legs would make a model jealous.
      Lum's  open appraisal of Benten was making  them  both
hot.  Benten had never allowed a person to stare at her body
so openly before.  The very idea that she was exhibiting her
body made her hot all over again.  Lum scooted down slightly
so  that she was at Benten's feet.  Benten was laying on her
back,  her arms at her sides and her legs together, although
her head was craned so she could see Lum.
     "You really think so, Lum?" She finally asked, blushing
slightly
     "Yes!  Just looking at you is making me hot again," Lum
proclaimed  as  she bent down.  "I didn't get  a  chance  to
explore  you before, so I think I'll do it now."  With  that
she  took Benten's big toe in her mouth and started  sucking
on  it.  Benten's eyes crossed as Lum found one of her  weak
spots.   Lum's  hands started roaming and  caressing  around
Benten's feet, tickling slightly and sending Benten  into  a
fit of giggles.
     Lum moved her head up to Benten's shapely gams, rubbing
her  face against the smooth skin.  She continued her ascent
slowly, with her face rubbing in-between Benten's legs,  and
her  breasts  grazing against her best  friends  long  legs.
Benten got even more turned on as she realized that the  two
points of pressure rubbing against her legs were Lum's erect
nipples.  Lum's nose got a whiff of Benten's steaming sex as
her head passed the knees and hit her thighs.  She increased
her  pace, rubbing Benten's outer thighs with her  hands  as
her face continued to run between her inner thighs.
      Lum's  ascent stopped when her nose went into Benten's
soaked  slit and bumped up against her clit.  Benten  gasped
loudly  and  put  her  hands  on  Lum's  head,  urging   her
desperately to continue.  Wanting to save the best for  last
however,  she lifted her head up and bypassed the glistening
lips  and  slit of Benten's paradisical vagina and continued
upward.
     She extended her tongue, and started licking the creamy
skin above Benten's pubic mound.  Her friend had objected to
the  lack  of attention to her clit, but moaned  happily  as
Lum's  tongue started washing the sensitive skin just  above
her  sex.  Lum's advance continued, her legs were straddling
Benten's, and her own juicy sex was rubbing against  one  of
Benten's legs.
      Lum's  mouth  found  Benten's navel.   Intrigued,  she
dipped  her  tongue  into the tiny orifice.   Benten  hissed
inwardly  as  the soft, warm tongue of her best friend  made
contact  with her sensitive navel.  Noticing this  reaction,
Lum  brought  her lips down to Benten's stomach and  started
tonguing  and licking the navel in earnest.  Benten wriggled
intensely under Lum's rolling tongue, her breathing  reduced
to pants and gasps.
     Lum's eyes locked onto the bountiful globes of Benten's
breasts  as  they heaved under the girl's labored breathing.
She  disengaged herself from her friend's navel and ascended
to  the  awaiting breasts.  As she ascended, she tilted  her
body  slightly so that one of her own breasts  made  contact
with  Benten's  clit, causing each of them to  gasp  as  the
nipple  contacted  the wet heat of her  slit.   Lum  watched
Benten's breasts as they rose and fell, completely enchanted
by  their  size  and rounded shape.  She  lay  herself  down
completely on Benten's body to free her hands, and felt  her
belly get wet as it lay against Benten's bald snatch.
      Lum's  small  hands grasped Benten's  breasts  gently.
Benten's chest heaved upward in response, and her arms  went
around  Lum's petite body in a loving embrace.   "God,  that
feels  so  good Lum!"  Lum `hmmmed' in response, and  kissed
Benten  in  her cleavage while mashing both breasts  against
her face.  She inhaled deeply, smelling Benten's sweet scent
as  her face lay in the grip of Benten's breasts.  Lum moved
her head slightly, her cheeks caressing the soft skin of her
friend's breasts.  She then brought her head up, and brought
her hands to bear.
      She loved the way Benten felt.  The silken skin of her
breasts  was similar to Lum's own, but it was such a turn-on
to  be  touching another woman's breasts.  She took Benten's
dark-brown  nipples in-between her thumb and forefinger  and
pulled  up  slightly.  The breast stretched  a  bit  as  Lum
tugged  at  the  stout nipple, then bounced in  a  wave-like
motion after she released it.
     Lum's hands started caressing both breasts, rubbing the
swollen  skin  slowly.   She  scrutinized  the  texture   of
Benten's skin, careful to ensure that every bit of skin  was
touched by her graceful fingers.  Seeing her friend writhing
beneath  her, she was unable to withhold herself any longer.
Lum  opened  her  mouth and sucked on one of Benten's  large
nipples.
      The  sexual buildup hit a tremendous peak, and  Benten
came  hard after Lum's mouth met her sensitive brown nipple.
With  her legs clenched tightly together, her juices  coated
her  ass  and Lum's stomach.  The slick juices were  causing
Lum's   skin-on-skin  contact  with  Benten  to  lose   some
purchase.   As a result, Lum started sliding back and  forth
across Benten's hips in an attempt to keep herself on top of
her friend.  The unintentional grinding motion was heaven to
Benten  as  Lum's soaked stomach grazed her  sex,  the  soft
ridges  of  Lum's  abdominal musculature massaging  Benten's
clit  effortlessly.   Meanwhile Lum sucked  and  licked  the
thick,  erect  nipple;  etching into  her  memory  just  how
delicious  her  best  friend tasted.  Her  own  sex  started
pushing  itself  into overdrive knowing how  her  treatments
were affecting Benten.
       Getting  hungry  for  Benten's  crotch,  she  stopped
munching  on  her  friend's  breasts  and  started  to  head
downward.  Benten held Lum still, telling her "Turn  around,
Lum."
      Lum  rotated so that her own breasts were dangling  in
front  of Benten's face.  Benten licked her lips and  popped
her  friend's  pink nipple into her mouth.  Lum,  meanwhile,
had  popped  Benten's  other nipple into  her  mouth.   Both
moaned  as their tongues bathed each other.  Lum was getting
real hot, and wanted to taste Benten's clit again.
     Benten, on the other hand, was enjoying Lum's sensitive
tits  too  much  to let them go.  She grabbed  them  in  her
hands, and kneaded the soft tissue between her fingers while
grazing  the nipples with the palm of each hand.  Apparently
she  convinced  Lum to stay there for a moment  because  Lum
arrested  her  movement  and began giving  Benten's  breasts
similar treatment.
      This went on for several minutes until Lum's lust  got
the  better  of  her.   She pulled  herself  free  from  her
friend's  hands  and crawled down to Benten's  snatch.   She
reoriented  herself so that she was facing Benten's  crotch.
Lum pushed Benten's legs apart, and placed the thighs on her
shoulders.  She then used her hands to spread the slick lips
of  Benten's vagina apart, exposing the orifice that many  a
man  would love to love.  She mashed her lips against  those
of the vagina, and inserted her tongue in as far as it would
go.
      Benten's mind reeled as she realized how hot she still
was.   Lum  was really giving Benten's genitals  a  thorough
workout, and she was loving every minute of it.  She gave up
on  trying to talk to Lum, and settled for strictly  moaning
instead.   Moments  later moaning was  hard  to  do  without
effort because Lum's tongue was moving itself in and out  of
her  orifice.  Her warm hands were grasping the pouting lips
of  Benten's vagina, rubbing them lightly between thumb  and
forefinger as Lum's tongue continued to dart in and  out  of
Benten's churning sex.
      Moments  later Benten's sexual rollercoaster ride  hit
another peak, and she screamed Lum's name.  Her legs,  which
were  still  draped over Lum's shoulders, were  now  pushing
into  Lum's  back  and forcing her head down  into  Benten's
hairless  vagina.  She also grabbed the girl by  the  horns,
literally, and rode Lum's mouth like a bucking bronco.
      Lum was getting a very pleasurable facial, courtesy of
Benten's  soaked vagina.  Wanting her prize, Lum placed  her
hands  under the bucking ass of her best friend and squeezed
the  yielding cheeks to try to mute Benten's thrashing,  and
locked  her  lips to those of Benten's vagina.   She  sucked
deeply,  devouring the sweet honey that spilled freely  from
Benten's hole.  Benten had come so many times that  most  of
Lum's  body  was  now  coated from the numerous  discharges.
That thought alone heightened Lum's sexual intensity.
      "Luh..  Luh.. mmm...  Luumm," Benten said, dazed.   "I
want  you, now!"  Not waiting for a response, and dispensing
with  any  further preamble, Benten grabbed Lum's  shoulders
and  hauled  her up so that they were face  to  face.   They
kissed  for  a moment, Benten savoring her own come  as  she
kissed  and  licked  Lum's face.   She  then  grabbed  Lum's
shapely  ass  and pulled her up so that Lum's sex  was  near
Benten's chin.
      Benten's hands rubbed the globes of Lum's ass  warmly.
She'd  been craving Lum's sex again, and wanted to even  the
orgasm  score with her friend.  Lum leaned forward,  placing
one  of her hands on a nearby wall to brace herself.  Benten
wasted  no  time getting to the heart of the matter  as  she
sank  two  fingers  into  Lum's sex, causing  a  spontaneous
orgasm  to  hit.  Lum slumped against her bracing  arm,  her
chest heaving as she fought for breath.
      Benten pulled the wet fingers out of Lum's tunnel  and
sucked  on  them, smiling to herself.  Lum's nectar  was  so
wonderful,  she  could almost live off of  it.   Pushing  on
Lum's  ass  again, Benten lifted up until Lum's forest-green
snatch  was mounted on her awaiting mouth.  Once there,  she
pushed  her  tongue into the silky opening of  Lum's  pussy.
Her  tongue  rolled around, feeling how soft  and  warm  the
walls were.  Her probing also rewarded her with a nice  dose
of Lum's honey from her recent orgasm.
      Meanwhile Lum was heating up again, quickly.  She felt
so  good,  she didn't know what to say.  Instead she  ground
her  hips  in a circular motion, riding Benten's  fluttering
tongue  like she would a man's penis.  Soft slurping  noises
could be heard as Benten greedily licked and sucked the lips
and clit of Lum's young sex.
      Lum  was  getting a little weak, and had to bring  her
other  hand  to  bear against the wall in  order  to  remain
upright.   Benten,  knowing  that  her  friend  was  nearing
another climax, brought her hands up and cupped Lum's bouncy
breasts.    She  started  running  her  hands   across   the
undersides  and  nipples  of Lum's breasts.   Lum's  pinkish
nipples danced as Benten's outstretched fingers struck  them
again  and again, her hands sliding back and forth over  her
friend's   dangling   breasts.   She  also   squeezed,   the
deceptively firm flesh yielding gladly to the young  lover's
touch.   All  of  Benten's manipulations  helped  bring  Lum
closer to the edge.
     Lum `ahh ahh-ed' loudly as her friend sucked her off to
a  final  mind-blowing  orgasm.  Benten's  slurping  quickly
changed  to gulping as a torrent of Lum's lubricating  honey
washed into her mouth.  Benten's swallowing continued for  a
while before she finally had to stop swallowing and let  the
rest  run  over her face and down her neck to  her  breasts.
After  coming that last time, Lum fell to the floor.   "That
was... <swallow>  delicious, Lum."
      "Glad you liked it," she said with an exhausted laugh.
"Remind me to give you the recipe."
      Once Benten was sure that her legs would work, she re-
oriented   herself  and  faced  Lum.   "Truly!    That   was
fantastic, Lum!  If circumstances were different I'd.."  she
began to say.
      "I know Benten.  I loved it too.  I never thought that
sex  with you would be so damn good," she said with a  smile
on her flushed face.
      Benten  rolled over and kissed Lum full on  the  lips.
Both  women  closed  their eyes and lost themselves  in  the
kiss.   They  wrapped their arms around  each  other,  their
breasts  squishing  together.  The  newly-discovered  lovers
basked  in the afterglow of sex, dazed and unaware of  their
surroundings.
      Lum  broke  the  kiss,  and ran  her  fingers  through
Benten's hair and caressing her cheek.  "Benten, was  I  ...
um... okay?"
      Benten chuckled and looked into Lum's beautiful  face.
"Lum,  I couldn't have imagined a better partner to lose  my
virginity to.  You were perfect."
      "Thanks Benten.  You were great too.  If we get out of
here, we must do this again," Lum said.
      Mentioning  their predicament effectively  killed  the
romantic mood the girls were in.  Benten looked over to  her
best friend and new sex partner and asked, "How long were we
at it?"
      "I  don't know, I wasn't paying attention to  anything
but  you," she said with an impish grin, trying to keep from
getting depressed.
      "Well,  we  may  have to go another  round  unless..."
Benten began.  However she was cut off in mid-sentence.  The
lighting in the room had changed from it's previously  white
fluorescent  color  to  an angry  red.   A  moment  later  a
squawkbox blared to life.  "Attention all personnel, a  non-
aligned ship is approaching the base.  IFF has it listed  as
an  Oni-Black Widow.  All hands to battlestations!   Repeat!
All hands to battlestations!"
      Lum looked to Benten and said, "Looks like the cavalry
has arrived."
      A panel on the wall opened revealing a monitor of some
sort.   A  flushed-faced  Graven  appeared  on  the  screen.
"Well,   my   pretties,  you  were  indeed  very...   erm...
stimulating!    You've  warranted  a  stay   of   execution.
However, I can't have you trying to run away so I'll let you
sleep  while I attend to the Widow.  Sweet dreams cupcakes,"
he  said  with  a  chuckle.  His face disappeared  from  the
screen and a hissing noise became evident.
      "SHIT!!!   IT'S  GAS!"  yelled Benten  as  she  clawed
towards  the  doorway.  She kicked it,  and  rammed  herself
against  it to no avail.  She started getting dizzy and  was
coughing roughly as the stinging gas entered her lungs.  Lum
slowly turned and saw Benten's assault on the door.  "Ben...
ten..." she said as she tried to get her friend's attention.
Unable to get the door to budge, Benten slumped down next to
Lum,  who had succumbed to the gas.  "I'll kill you for this
you  bastard..." she said weakly as she gathered Lum's naked
body to hers in a protective and loving embrace.  Unable  to
combat  the  effects of the gas any longer her  vision  went
black, and she lay unmoving while holding Lum's body in  her
arms.

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[to be continued? ...]