Dire Wolf

Chapter 10

"Now, tell me everything that you are hiding, Keenan!" Surt demanded the moment he locked the cabin door behind him after we ate our dinner with the crew and captain of the ship we are riding, "What secrets you are still hiding from me inside that pretty little head of yours."

I angrily took off my shirt and threw it at his face with all my might, "You want to know what secrets I still hide? Well, here they are. I am rich beyond your wildest imagination. Rich enough to buy your province many times over. I am also technically a rank higher than the current Imperial Crown Princess. What else, oh, I owned a large manor at Morvia so big, the villa of your uncle looks like just the kitchen wing in size."

"What else, tell me more, my Keenan," he demanded as he stripped down to his boxer shorts and throw them in my direction in return, "Tell me everything!"

"But I just told you everything!"

He looked at me straight into the eyes, and I know what that means. His anger and passion are getting mixed up. He can't think any more clearly.

I know what I have to do when he gets like this.

As much as possible, I want to avoid him when he gets like this. It is hard to shake him off when it's not just his problematic behavior but the thing in his boxer and pointing in my direction.

This is bad. We are on a ship.

Nowhere will I be able to run without raising suspicions and ruckus.

Usually, when he gets like this, he can be pretty overbearing, demanding, and lecherous.

"You owe me big for making me look like a big idiot in front of the queen of all people!"

His scowl was replaced by a hair-raising smile of pure lust, "Now is the time I get my anniversary gift, Keenan."

I quickly shook my head and take a step back as he strolled in my direction, touching the bulge in his shorts expectantly.

"I told you I don't want to do it until we are of legal age and married. You said you will respect my decision, Surt!"

But he shooked his head as his eyes turned into canine-like slits again, "But I want to do it."

He leaves me with no choice.

I can't give myself up to him just yet, but we can definitely meet halfway and sleep early tonight.

To his surprise, I stripped my remaining clothes and stand naked in front of him with my own rod as hard as his and free.

"Take your underwear off, Surt. I'll give you a hand," I said cryptically as he quietly followed my instructions and took off his boxer shorts as fast as he can only for him to show me just how big he really is compared to me in terms of length and thickness, "Damn, that's huge. I wish I haven't seen it. Now I will always feel second fiddle when it comes to size."

He just gasped when I suddenly grabbed it and began stroking it up and down as if it is my own.

"Keenan, it feels so good..."

"Damn heck, I hope it will. This is the first and last time I will ever do this, so better enjoy it while it lasts," I warned him as I felt his rod getting harder and thicker on my hand as the large veins began popping out from my intense fondling that made him growl with pleasure, "Do you like my hand, Surt? This is what you want, right?"

My boyfriend nodded as he closed his eyes in pleasure and suddenly grabbed my d**k as well, "Yeah, that's what I want. Don't worry. I always fantasize about what it looks like and what it feels like. Darn it, it's way better than my imagination."

"Curse you, Surt. Don't stroke so fast and so hard, I'm going to..."

And after a few seconds, we both reached our limits and finally released what we have been holding for so a long time.

Lust, passion, teenage angst, anger, hate, and love.

We catch our breaths at the same time as we leaned on each other weakly while we clean ourselves with the clothes we

"I hope this will make us even, Surt," I whispered to his ear as he gave me a kiss on the cheek, "No more secrets, you saw everything now. You learned everything. I have nothing to hide anymore from you."

He chuckled as he pulled me towards the single bed originally for his uncle but was reserved for our stay here, "And my anniversary gift as well. You really like to cash in when the tough gets going, Keenan."

"That's just how I roll my loaded dice, Surt."

He hugged me closer to him, and as we are naked, I can still feel his rod rubbing on my back, "That's what I like about you, my love. I just can't win against you."

"This will be the last time you act like this, Surt. If you need offloading, do it yourself. I will not help you, nor will I need your help," he groaned and hugged me even tighter in his strong arms, but I kept my cool, "We have to be serious with our immersion. This is the first time I will ever see with my own eyes the truth about everything we have studied for a whole year, and I need every help you can give, okay?"

But I didn't hear any reply from my boyfriend.

He is already snoring cutely behind me.

I just chuckled and sighed before closing my eyes and force myself to sleep as well.

We have to wake up early because early morning is the estimated time of arrival is before daybreak.

I just hope everything will be fine, but with my luck, even if I am powerless as I am compared to Surt, I have to prepare for the worse.

"Get back... He's mine... Keenan's mine... back off..."

I smiled despite myself and pulled his warm hand to my face and feel it really good against my skin.

Well, at least there's one thing I can be sure of, I am yours.

-0-

"Damage report!"

"Highlands and Plateau severely damaged! Spur, Valley, and Ridge taking in water and heavily listing!"

The young captain of the Akka Class Rocket Destroyer of the Ogawa Dynasty slammed the control panel of his ship after his second in command reported the severe damages the royal flotilla has incurred in mere minutes.

"Status of the Arete and Massif?!"

"Still intact but is now experiencing a wave of attacks one after another!" the executive officer shouted as he looked at me and Surt, who hurriedly got dressed as fast as we can when we heard the call for the battle station by the captain a good thirty minutes before sunrise, "May I suggest that we evacuate them now, captain?"

Kurogane Tamaki, a purebred twenty-five year-old Ogawaran, looked in our direction pensively, "I can't possibly lose our heir to the Ogawa Dynasty here, a precious demigod of our province nor I will keep my life and dignity if Her Royal Majesty's nephew bites the dust on my watch. Very well, prepare escape pods."

"Wait! No! I can fight!" Surt protested as he began stripping down to his underwear, much to the surprise of the bridge officers, "Keep Keenan safe, and I will act as a mobile close-in weapon system for this ship!"

Before any of us can react, he already bolted out of a door, and with a loud howl, we knew he transformed already in a gigantic dire wolf as we heard several loud thuds and surprised reactions of sailors below deck.

"Well, that's it for your evacuation plan, Hiryu," Captain Kurogane said with a wry smile that made his second in command groan in disappointment, "We stand and our grounds! All hands prepare to go offensive! Tell our flotilla to put their pride and dignity as well as their lives on the line for our sworn duty! To protect the precious heir to the Ogawa Dynasty or die trying! Perform emergency repairs, all weapons-free, target all incoming monsters with everything that we have, and open us a path to the island!"

Executive Officer Hiryu saluted snappily before relaying his captain's orders to the entire crew and flotilla under him.

"Lord Kynan, catch!"

I almost didn't catch the silver coin the captain tossed in my direction, and I gasped when I saw it closely.

"This is..."

"The Rosenbaum Commemorative Casino Coin with the face of the then scion to the house's top position on the heads and the wheel of fortune on the tails. A limited edition of coins minted to celebrate the eighth birthday of the tsarevich's only child and was given to the orphans and scholars under the care of the House Rosenbaum Foundation as a lucky charm and reminder to us all on who to thank for the goodwill of the previous tsarevich."

I tried to hold back the tears from falling from my eyes as I bit my lip and try to smile a little, "It's my father who you should be thankful, not me."

"Well, he said to me once that if that coin is our lucky charm, he and his entire house have you as their own lucky amulet."

We heard another explosion nearby as Surt began howling as hard as he can and shooting air streams at the skies above where several winged creatures are attacking us right now with seemingly metal feathers.

"Not lucky enough for them to survive, Captain Kurogane."

He grinned at me as he looked at his panicking executive officer, "Tell you what, Tsarevitch Kynan. Let's make a bet on that coin. If it's tails, we will sink. If it is heads, we will swim. What do you say?"

"Ok, I'll bet heads, captain," I said quietly before tossing the coin back at him, which he caught deftly and pound at the back of his hand.

After a few seconds, he revealed it, and it's my young face that was shown as he laughs out loud with his bridge crew joining him.

"All ships at flank speed! Head straight for the island dead ahead! Luck is on our side! Push through!" he roared loudly that made not just everyone on the bridge, but the sailors throughout the ship shouted in agreement while Surt let out a massive burst of air blast that blew away a swarm of monsters from the skies into the oceans in defiance.

"Olympus Island, here we come, eh, Tsarevich Kynan?"

I raised my head and nodded in agreement, "Here we come, captain. Here we come indeed."

-0-

"If you keep on transforming like that, we will run out of underwear soon enough, Surt."

He just grinned at me before putting on the clothes I gave him after he transformed back to his human form behind me and hurriedly get dressed as fast as he can with me covering up for him.

"Well, you know I can always go commando whenever it's just the two of us," he said playfully that made me raise my fist but decided not to make it fly to his face when I saw several flying monsters circling above us that made Surt looked solemn suddenly, "We best not tarry here, Keenan. They are lured in by the scent of demigods. If we stay here any longer, they might swarm again, and gods know you already know the damage they can do to military ships alone."

I nodded quickly, and we began walking briskly towards the off-the-beaten-path, where we surprisingly saw several teenagers around our age making their way north the same as us.

"Psst! Who's the hot boy, Surt?"

We look to our right and saw a beautiful girl with a lush and bushy cereal pastel hair carrying a rather humungous camping backpack so big, it is easily double the size of her own slender body, giving us a curious look.

"Oh, he is Keenan, my boyfriend," Surt answered quickly that made her scream out loud, and to my surprise, a vast patch of golden barley appeared around us straight from the soil itself.

"No way! I mean, you can't even have a friend outside the island, and you are telling me you have a boyfriend now. You brought him here for our immersion?!" she asked loudly that made several teenagers look in our direction curiously while whispering among themselves, "We all know for a fact here that you are technically the heir to the Ogawa Dynasty, but heck, not even the grand ducal crown count can bring his friend here just because he wanted to!"

Surt sighed and glanced in my direction proudly, "I didn't bring him here. He earned his way here by getting high grades from Ms. Peregrine's History Major. By the way, this loud girl is Sita Phoros from the Tsardom of Holst. She is a demigod like me. I guess everyone you will see here around our age is demigods."

"Move aside, you furry brute!" she elbowed my boyfriend on the ribs that made him yelp in pain before grabbing my right hand and shaking it enthusiastically, "Oh my! It is a pleasure to meet you! I am Sita Phoros, daughter of Demeter!"

I blinked and look at her beautiful grass-colored eyes that glitter with power, "Wow, nice to meet you. I am Keenan Loussier from Nordia, but I am now living in the Ogawara Province to further my studies."

"Now I know why you are too pale to be a Kalalitan. You are a Scanian like me, yay!" she said excitedly before looking at me from head to toe, "So, who is your divine parent?"

My boyfriend came to my rescue as he put an arm on my shoulders and squeeze me a bit, "He is a mortal, Sita. An enlightened one at that."

"Can he do invocations at least?"

I shook my head sadly, "I tried, but I can't. No elements respond to my invocations. Just a plain old mortal."

"Well, you did move that pebble once last year, Keenan," Surt said matter-of-factly, which made me blush profusely when several people heard what he just mentioned and laughed when they heard it.

"Not helping, Surt..."

But Sita didn't seem to mind at all and looked at me appreciatively, "If you are sent here by Ms. Peregrine herself despite your lack of divine pedigree or elemental skills, you must be one heck of a history student."

"Well, she is satisfied with my knowledge of the past at the very least. Satisfied enough to allow me to have an immersion here, Sita."

She nodded and sighed, "Finally, a history scholar who is not old and impatient. Most of the knowledgeable people here who know more stuff than we do are grumpy scientists who just want to be left alone. Maybe we can ask you instead if we don't know about something while we are here."

"We?"

To answer my question, she pointed someone behind me, and when I look back, I saw Surt chatting happily with six other teenagers.