Saying Goodbye
Story by xansteel on SoFurry
Iris, Julyna, and Rubicant as well as many friends, say farewell to Mortora, as she departs the ship to head off on her new life. A life that she doesn't want to take, but because of her previous act, has no choice but to follow.
Major Edit
Saying Goodbye
Finding One’s True Self: Part 35
By Xan Steel
Six months had passed since Mortora had impregnated herself with Rubicant's sperm. All the while she kept a close eye on the development of the egg. Things seemed to be progressing normally which was a good thing, as she didn’t need to be worrying about other complications. Today, however, was different, as Julyna, her Captain aboard the ship she was stationed, had told her that they would be arriving at a nearby Starbase to pick up her replacement. A Vulpanari Doctor by the name of Samantha Pagri, and while Mortora knew she was an excellent Doctor, she felt her bedside manner could definitely use some improvements.
Mortora had been in contact with the Outcast colony for the last several days, this way they could pick her up once she got there, and head off on her new life, as it were. Kimen was their leader and the head doctor there on Fracorza III in the Gortarion Arm, and he was honestly looked forward to meeting a fellow doctor.
Over the course of the week it took for the ship to reach the Starbase, Mortora had all of her belongings stored in a micro-transport container, this container would convert everything to an energy pattern and store it so that she could carry it with her, something akin to a suitcase only smaller. Once she was finished packing her things, the computer announced the arrival of the ship at Starbase Zeta-Omega twelve. She left her room and began to head towards the docking port near the aft of the ship. This was a bitter-sweet moment for her, as she had been on this ship for nearly fifteen cycles now, and she got to discover a new species, Rubicant. She had so many emotions running through her as she continued to walk. While she understood what she did was wrong on a number levels, this ship had become her home, and leaving it like this, hurt more than she would care to admit. In some ways, she wished she never met Rubicant, never had the talks they did, never impregnated herself. She realized just how stupid she was, especially now that her youngling would never have a pawpaw to look up too.
She was still deep in thought when she turned the last corner to the docking port and saw everyone she called a friend there waiting for her. It brought her to tears, as they, in turn, hugged her and bid her farewell, with many saying they would keep in contact with her. When she got to the end, both Julyna and Iris were there, but what surprised her was Rubicant wasn't. They both hugged her and said they were sad to see her go, but Julyna stated that she could reapply in a few cycles, as Altair had managed to persuade the Subordination Committee to change her dishonorable discharge to a general discharge. She thanked Julyna and Iris both, as she turned and headed for the docking port, and exited the ship.
Julyna and Iris knew that she was about to get the surprise of her life, as they both persuaded Rubicant to give her a very personal send off. He was nervous and made absolutely sure that it wouldn't affect their relationship. Julyna told him that because of the unusual circumstance it was permissible being that she was carrying his youngling.
She rushed to get to her room quickly as she could no longer hold her emotions back, and once inside she put her belongings down on the floor and sat in a chair and wept. She always showed how strong she was to everyone else so that she could comfort them, but this time when she really needed someone, there was no one there for her. 'I'm here for you now.' Rubicant's voice said in her head.
She shook her head thinking it was a passing thought. 'It's a shame that you are not really here. It's a shame you're already mated. I hate this feeling I have for you, but I can't stop it.' She thought to herself still thinking she was alone.
'Then don't stop it.'
She sniffled loudly as more tears came. 'Why did it have to be you. Huh? Why did you have to be so smart, intelligent, handsome, and caring!' She broke down in her clawed hands, "I'm so stupid for arguing with myself." It was at this point she felt a pair of arms come around her causing her to jump a bit, and the scent told her who it was. "You, you're really here!" She said in a surprised meek tone. She turned to look at him as his grasp loosened for her.
She saw him standing there looking at her with a smile. "I couldn't let you leave without saying goodbye." He said to her, as she stood up and wiped her face and muzzle dry. He came over and pulled her into a tight hug.
"I wish we had met first." She blurted out openly.
"I know, I've been sensing it for a while." He said calmly.
"I wish you could be there to help me raise our youngling, but I know that would upset the GrandMaster and whatever plan he has for you." He leaned back and gently put his hand on her belly. She watched him gently rub her belly as she continued to watch his face. She spoke softly, “I'm scared you know.” He looked up at her and was about to say something in response when she leaned in and licked him on the cheek. He paused for a minute in thought. He wasn't sure how to proceed with her, and while Julyna and Iris both gave him permission to be intimate with her, he still didn't know if he should.
She turned from him, "I'm sorry I shouldn't have done that."
He stood there for a second before he gently placed his hand on her shoulder and turned her around. "Don't be."
Was all he said before he nuzzled up against her left cheek and then moved to her neck and shoulder as he licked and gently bit her. She gasped loudly as he paid attention to her sensitive spots, and it wasn't too long after that they had their arms around each other in passion. He could feel her mind relaxing with him and feel her emotional desire for him. He made a choice and gently guided her towards the bed, all the while removing her clothes. When they got to the bed, they both were naked before each other. This was the first time she got to really look at him outside of an examination room. He had small patches of body hair in various spots that she thought was cute. He let her look him over for the first time, and it was curious to watch and feel her thoughts. She softly ran her clawed hands over his body and felt the smoothness of his skin for the first time, and noticed it was slightly moist. Her hands moved down his body as she saw his erection, and carefully touched it, which caused him to gasp loudly.
He in turn gently guided his hands over her body and noticed that her scaly greenish blue skin was quite soft to the touch, it felt almost like a soft, flexible rubber or leather. He then gently ran his hand across her soft twitching spines along the ridges of her head and down her neck, as she gasped loudly as her body softly trembled. He then leaned in and licked her neck as his hands ran down her back until he reached her tail. She moaned as she felt him fondle her pert hindquarters, and what surprised her was how much she was enjoying his touch.
He continued to fondle and rub her body in various places, and it wasn't until he came around to her cloaca that they both noticed her wetness. He continued fondling her making her messy from her own wetness.
"Rubi that’s” Her breathing was rapid and heavy, “That’s so naughty!”
Her mind was telling him how much she was enjoying it and to not stop. He brought her wetness to her tongue and let her taste herself as she slowly ran her long snake-like tongue over his fingers. After a quiet moment, he moved her onto the bed, and had her lay on her back, as he spread her strong legs apart, and laid in-between them on top of her. He nuzzled her chest mounds while kissing and licking them every so often. She passionately moaned out loud and wrapped her arms and legs around his body and gently fondled his backside while rubbing his back. "Ooooh Rubi, Mmmm."
She could feel him move down her body slowly while softly moaning to let her hear his enjoyment with being with her. She suddenly cried out as she felt his hot wet tongue run up her cloaca. Never in her life had she been touched in such a way. She moaned loudly again as her back involuntary arched up as she felt him continue to lick her cloaca. She then felt him gently open her cloaca and stuff his tongue into her vaginal opening. "Aaaaaah!!!" She suddenly jerked and spazzed as he continued to thrust his tongue in and out of her until she squirted into his open mouth. She could feel him swallow down her juices and began to lick her clean. He did this a few more times to her, and every time it caused her to orgasm. This was the first time it felt like her body was burning up.
He kissed his way back up her body as he let his throbbing penis slide into her cloaca but not penetrate her, as he gently began to grind on her. She looked back at him and began to feverishly lick him over his face and neck. He stopped for a moment, realizing that she could never give him a regular kiss as her lips could never fully purse. So instead he had her put her tongue out a bit as he leaned in and began to suckle on it. It was sort of an odd and unique way to french kiss a Sylurian female for sure, but that only made the experience that much better. It was at this point she felt him slide into her vaginal opening, "No not there please!" She suddenly exclaimed as her body tensed up.
He stopped and pulled out as he looked at her with worry. "I'm sorry I thought."
She cut him off with a clawed finger to his lips, "Shhh it's not what you think Rubi." She gently fondled his penis. "You have quite a long mating-rod, and you might inadvertently crack the egg in me." A look of horror came over him with that realization. "So I have a better idea." She said as she had him lean back enough and rolled over on all fours while raising her tail and exposing her anus to him. "Use my backside instead."
He didn't need to be told twice as he leaned in and began to rim her anus with his tongue. He felt her scaly skin stopped about an inch from her anus along the crevasse of her hindquarters, and noticed it was smooth like his skin. She moaned out loud in pleasure as she felt his hot tongue against her backside. It was such an odd, yet wonderful feeling, she had a hard time describing the sensation to herself. Even more so when she felt his tongue push inside her, that she involuntarily clenched her anus, but that didn't stop him. He took his hands and began to massage her hindquarters and spread them a bit more, which allowed him to go deeper inside her. With every thrust of his tongue, she could feel herself getting wetter from his tongue to the point that she felt it start to run down her crevasse. It made her feel dirty, but she loved every bit of it.
She felt him pull away and gently lean into her once he felt she was wet enough for him. She moaned softly as she felt the tip of his mating-rod at her entrance. "Remember to stay relaxed, okay." He told her softly as he massaged her tail and back. She nodded to him as she felt him press harder against her. In one split second, she felt him pop inside her, as she involuntary clenched. "Aaaah!" He stopped after getting his tip inside her.
"Shhh, relax sweetie, I'm not going to rush you ok." She lowered her head to the pillow in front of her, as he watched her nod. After a few moments, he felt her relax again as she turned back to him. "I think, I'm ready," she said.
"All right, slow and easy ok?" She nodded as he gently pushed again and started to slide inside her. She moaned with every inch of him sliding into her and began to feel him throb inside. Her first time actually mating with someone and not with a toy of some kind, was an entirely different experience, like the feeling of his body heat on her body, the internal throbbing, which showed her how much he was enjoying this act with her, feeling his hands on her body and hindquarters.
She felt him come to a complete stop as his smooth orbs dangled between her legs. She could hear him panting and moaning softly in pleasure, as he then began to shift his body around until he was squatting behind her. Then she felt his arms wrap around her chest and belly, while she felt the weight of his body on top of her. His hands ran over her body and touch her sensitive places, causing her to moan. She could feel him gently nibble and lick the back and sides of her neck, as he then started pulling out of her. She had never felt so empty inside as she did at this moment. He stopped once his tip was the only part still in her, before sliding back inside her. She cried out in pleasure as he eventually got a good gentle rhythm going. She felt him slide his hand inside her cloaca and begin to fondle both of her clitorides, as she moaned out to him not to stop. After a few moments, he slid his other hand down to join his first, as he started to slide it in and out of her vagina. With that second hand inside her and the first one teasing her, she squeaked loudly as her body tensed up with a sudden and powerful orgasm.
Her body felt like it was on fire as he continued to thrust in and out of her, as his hands only stopped briefly to feel her orgasm. Once she finished and had a small breather, he began anew. Only this time he really started to get into his thrusting, as he was now mating her in what felt like wild passion, while his hands went back to work.
Over the next several minutes, he made her orgasm four more times. She squeaked each time loudly, and on her fourth one, he thrust as deep as he could, as she began to feel a burning heat filling her insides. Anything warm felt amazing to her, only because her species was cold-blooded. He twitched and spasmed on her as she continued to feel his orgasm inside her. 'So much is coming from him' she thought to herself while listening to him pant and wheeze from his own exertion while he gently laid on top of her.
Mortora felt his mating-rod slide out of her as it became limp after it had finished. Some of his seed ran down her crevasse after having been filled in such a way causing her body to tremble under him. After a minute he rolled to the side and onto the bed, as she laid next to him and cuddled up to his warmth. He then wrapped himself around her body and buried her in warmth. Her mind was racing with thoughts and desires for him, and she wanted to tell him, but she didn't know how he and his mates would react.
Rubicant laid there cuddling Mortora afterward and gently reached out to Iris. 'Sweetheart are you there?'
'I never left hun. It's been a delightful experience for Julyna and I.' Iris replied, as she felt him mentally blush. 'Though I am curious as to why you never blended minds with her.' she stated.
'I wasn't sure if that was okay to do so.' He replied.
'Rubi, my dear sweet Rubi, she's carrying your youngling as well, so it's perfectly okay, besides there are some things she is too scared to openly tell you, that the three of us are okay with.' He sent her a questioning thought, to which she replied with a gentle reassurance, 'You'll just have to blend minds with her to find out.'
After a few minutes, he rolled Mortora under him and looked into her eyes. She looked back into his in a loving manner, and gently nuzzled under him in submission as she spoke. "Rubi there are some things I want to tell you, but I'm scared of how you'll answer." She looked back into his eyes again to see if she saw any sign. He gently turned her head down a bit, and then touch her forehead to his. In that single moment, their minds were one and they knew everything about each other.
It amazed them both to see how they lives were almost a mirror of each other regarding their youth only her family abuse came from her skin and eye colors. She saw how upset the GrandMasters decision made him, with her being sent away to raise a youngling alone, and wanted her to stay. He felt her love for him and how badly she wanted to become his third, but because of her punishment from the GrandMaster, it would be a long time before that would happen. She felt his love for her increase once he found out about hers, and that he would accept her as a third when the time came.
They laid there as she felt him become erect again. She spread her legs for him, and let him enter her backside a second time. She wrapped her arms and legs around his body as he mated with her a second time with renewed passion, only this time she had two others join their minds, Julyna and Iris. Upon him finishing she received an announcement that her transport would be arriving within the hour.
They got cleaned up and just before he left he turned to her. "Keep in contact with me. I want to be able to see our youngling grow up."
She smiled as she walked up to him, and laughed lightly, "I'm likely to call you every night."
He hugged her, "Then I'll wait patiently by the communication terminal for your call. No matter what time it is." She broke down and held him tightly not wanting to let go.
As the next announcement came, he walked her to the docking port where her transport was waiting and was greeted by Iris and Julyna again. Kimen came through the docking port and greeted them all warmly. Iris then turned over the other five embryos that were still in stasis to him for safe transport. After which, they all wished her a safe journey to her new home, as the docking port door closed.
Over the next two weeks, she would call and talk with the three of them over a communications call. She talked about her day, the colony, showed off her little home, and the egg laying room. Her and Iris seemed to be having belly wars on whose was bigger. At the end of the second week, she made another call and told them that it was time for her to lay the egg. Rubicant told her to make sure someone was with her, and she said there would be two birth maids and a doctor on hand to make sure things went smoothly. Sadly that would be the last communication they would ever get from her.
The night of the egg laying her birth maids prepared the nest in the egg laying room. The doctor had injected her with Dilecophosapian, this would help her uterus and vagina canal dilate enough to allow the egg to pass smoothly. Once she was in position, one birth Maid held her head and shoulders from behind for comfort, and the other massaged her cloaca to help keep her relaxed. They had her continue with her breathing exercises just as she announced it was time.
They coached her as she began to gently push on the egg, as she felt it start to leave her uterus. Suddenly they watched her vaginal canal squeeze shut, and everyone heard a resounding crack, while at the same time Mortora let loose with a blood-curdling scream.
The doctor rushed over and pushed the birth Maid out of the way and told her to call for emergency services as he began to insert a device with long rods and began to ratchet her vagina canal open by force. The other birth maid was holding onto Mortora as she thrashed violently while screaming in pain. The doctor continued to open her vagina canal which allowed the pain lessened, but blood was pouring out of her, followed by small bits of the eggs shell. Mortora had stopped thrashing about and quieted down when the pain had lessened. The birth maid looked at her and saw her tears flowing freely as she rubbed her head. "Stay with me hun, help is coming." She tried to encourage Mortora, but she said only one thing before she died. 'Ru...bi...'
The doctor had managed to pull a portion of the egg, that remained unbroken out of her and noticed it was empty. No signs that there had ever been a fetus inside it. He concluded that she had a miscarriage and that the egg inside was starting to dissolve, but that didn't explain why her vaginal canal collapsed like that.
Over the next few days Rubicant, Iris, and Julyna were becoming increasingly worried, with not having received any calls from Mortora. After six days of no word, they received a call from Kimen that evening. "Forgive me if I'm disturbing you at a late hour," he said.
"Not at all doctor, we’ve just been waiting to hear how things went with Mortora’s egg laying," Rubicant said.
"That's the reason I'm calling." The three of them listened intently. “I’m sorry to report, but Dr. Mortora has died from egg laying complications." Rubicant just stared at the screen with Kimen’s image on it. Iris sensed his pain and took him to the bedroom. Julyna continued to talk with him even though he could see Mortora's death hit her hard and Rubicant even harder.
"What happened?" she asked.
He explained that through an autopsy they had discovered she had a very rare virus that reacted negatively with the medication they use to help with the dilation process for those who were laying their first egg, this was something they didn't even think to look for since the colony never had an incident like this before. He explained that while the egg was partially in her vaginal canal, instead of it dilating, it collapsed and crushed half the egg. It was excruciating for her, as it caused her to bleed to death before emergency services could reach them in time.
Julyna then asked if the youngling inside the egg had been saved, to which Kimen replied that there was no embryo inside the egg. “She miscarried as well?!?" Julyna asked in a shocked tone.
"Yes, I'm afraid so," he replied. With listening to everything, it became harder for her to hold back her own emotions. Kimen then asked what to do with the other embryos they had, which is when Rubicant spoke sternly to Julyna mentally 'Destroy them!'
She looked back at Kimen as she jumped a bit, "Destroy them please, Rubicant doesn't want this to happen to another female."
"But the likely hood of that is nil." his tone stated his surprise.
"You're not one hundred percent sure where this virus came from right?" she questioned back.
He looked at Julyna for a minute, "I understand where you're coming from,” while nodding in response.
As it turned out, the virus didn’t come from Rubicant. Kimen decided to break protocol and contacted the home-world about this. What surprised him more so, was finding out that this virus was actually spreading throughout their species as a whole. Apparently, they had never received word that the Outcast Law had been rescinded, as two-thirds of all Sylurian females on the home-world had died from this virus in the same way. They needed all non-infected females and males to return home to save the species as a whole. A new emergency law had been put in place, it stated that females would have to take on multiple male mates, and lay eggs for the next twenty cycles, to help repopulate. Only males over a certain age would not be allowed to mate, but would instead become teachers, to teach with the influx of new younglings.
Kimen announced what had been going on for the rest of the colonists and let them make the decision themselves if they wanted to go back. As it turned out, none of the nearly three hundred residents wanted to go back, most of which were female, for fear of getting infected themselves. He couldn’t blame them, and in all honesty, with Mortora having been the only victim of this virus, he could continue to work on it alone to see if he could cure it himself.
Over the course of three weeks, he had managed to isolate the virus itself and begin studying it in a greater capacity. During this time he had managed to contact the head of S.H.O or Sylurian Health Organization on the Homeworld for copies of all their work on the virus. Once he had received the information and samples, he began work on his end. While he read over their work, he noticed that they appeared to be dealing with several strains of the virus itself. He went and checked the virus he had from Mortora, and noticed it was also a different strain.
Over the next few days of studying, he came across something fantastic. Mortora just didn’t have a different strain of the virus, but rather its original strain. She was by definition, Patient Zero. Armed with this fact, he began a different approach to finding a cure. He ran over a hundred different tests over the course of another three weeks, with each one getting closer to finding the cure, but in the end failing because each one seemed to be missing something.
One day he came in and noticed that he had forgotten to destroy the other five embryos that he still had in stasis, and he was about to do just that when something odd came to mind. If Mortora were going to have a miscarry, she wouldn’t have been laying an egg. Her body would have rejected it very early on so this wouldn’t have happened, but somehow she still carried the egg inside her.
He began to examine the embryos themselves, and three days later he made another startling discovery. The protein on the DNA chain in the embryo allowed the egg to form, but it wasn’t entirely developed yet. It still had another four months to complete in growing. Even more shocking, the scanners he used on the egg showed this protein in greater numbers, but it also found a now dead hybrid embryo, that was still in the extremely early stages of development. The computer completed its scan, and the calculations it gave back were astonishing. This egg, if it had not been crushed would have taken three cycles to complete, and a hybrid Sylurian would have hatched.
He sat back shaking his head over the information, but the computer wasn’t done. Since he was still processing the information on the virus, the computer added in the DNA chain’s information and began working with it. Combined with the original strained from Mortora, and the DNA from this mysterious male she had mated with, it completed and found a cure.
He sat up and began looking over the information carefully. He couldn’t believe it and kept retesting the information over and over, but it was accurate. He made a sample of the medication, and tested it on a sample of the virus and watched it work. It took only a few minutes, but it eradicated the virus in the test sample. He then made enough samples to test on all the strains that had been sent to him and watched this cure completely eradicate each sample, even though some samples took longer to complete, it did cure each strained. He then took Mortora’s body out of cold storage while leaving her in stasis, and applied it directly to her, and watched it cure her in a few hours. He stood back and looked at her face, and gently placed a clawed hand on her cheek. “If only we had known sooner Shikra Mortora, we could’ve saved you.” After a quiet moment, he put her back in storage and went to contact both Julyna and the Homeworld.
On the Kestrel, Zalina received a heavily encrypted incoming communication marked urgent for Julyna. Julyna was in her office looking over regional information for this sector of space. Zalina’s voice is heard over the comm system, “Captain, you have an incoming urgent message from a Kimen.”
“Patch him through to my office please.”
“Yes Ma’am.”
She watched as an encrypted screen came on, and stared at it for a moment until it hit her. It was Mortora’s old encryption sequence. She typed in the corresponding code and watched as Kimen appeared on the screen. They stared at each other for a second before Kimen spoke, “Sorry to bother you, Captain,” he began.
“It’s quite all right Doctor, but I’m guessing this isn’t a social call?” he nodded, and she could see his nervousness start to show.
“Are you alone, and is this channel secured from tampering?” he asked.
“Yes.”
She watched him sigh in relief a bit and became direct with her. “You have the progenitor of your species onboard, don’t you?”
She stared at him for a moment before answering him, “I’m afraid I don't have that information, and even if I did it would be deemed, classified Doctor.” she answered.
“It’s all I needed to know. I called to tell you that I found a cure for Mortora and my species as a whole.” He went on to explain to her that because she had mated with this mysterious male of unknown origins, and that she carried the original strain of the virus, and with this males DNA he was able to find a cure.
This cure, not only destroyed the virus in Mortora’s body but every strained he had been sent. She sat there listening to him as he continued, but what worried her was this information getting into the hands of the Alliance. She was afraid it would get back to her, and they would come and try to take Rubicant away, but she really couldn’t tell him not to use this cure for his species. She sighed openly.
“Is something wrong Captain?” he asked.
There was a pause between them, “Yes and no.” she answered.
“You don’t want me to use this cure, do you?” He said in a slightly raised tone of surprise.
“I can’t tell you how badly I don’t want this cure to even surface, but I can’t stop you from saving your species,” Julyna explained.
“Is this person worth the risk of an entire species?” He asked while he watched her stare at him with her look changing.
She spoke softly, “Yes, but only because both the Alliance and the GrandMaster want this male, and while the reason was the same, the method was very different.”
Kimen's voice while quiet, was filled with excitement, “Then he IS your progenitor!”
She replied without hesitation. “By your words only.”
She was deliberately vague, but for some reason, he understood why. He sighed deeply, “So to save your species, mine has to die so that you can keep your secret?” he calmly said.
“I don’t want that Doctor, I don’t want anyone to die, but this is a very complicated situation! Not just for me, but for many others that are tasked with protecting this mysterious male, until we can get him to Dr. Graphra!” She finished in earnest.
He could tell she was sincere, as he sighed again. “You know the medical community doesn’t like dealing with secrets,” He paused for a second in thought, “But, I think I have an idea that might work. I’m going to make a bogus claim that it can’t be kept in stasis for travel, and turn this colony into the only treatment center. It’ll be a long and arduous task, but it’s all I can do to protect this information, and still be able to cure my people.”
Julyna smiled hearing this as he watched her. “That is a very agreeable arrangement Doctor, and I hope it works for all our sakes.”
“So do I, so do I.” He bid her farewell, and closed out the communication, and set to work on this plan of his.
To his surprise, it worked better than he expected. S.H.O came to the planet and set up a large treatment facility, that would run around the clock. He made sure no one but him knew the details behind the cure itself and trained everyone that would be administrating it.
It took four cycles to give the treatment to every female left in the species, but it was finally done, and the Sylurian species would survive all thanks to the Mortorashikra cure. This act alone ensured that Mortora’s death was not in vain. Everyone everywhere knew who she was, and that through her their species was saved. They honored her on all worlds, in their halls of honored dead with a giant statue of her still carrying her egg with the inscription, “Shikra Mortora. The one who died to save us all.”
In the end, Julyna requested to have Mortora’s body cremated and sent to them for safe keeping because to them she was apart of their family. When they received her Urn, Rubicant placed the Urn on the micro transport pad and used the storage crystal to have her ashes join Maria, Sandra, and Mathew.