Allow me to introduce myself. I don’t like to brag or anything. It’s just a name. But it’s Chakat Redtail, child of Starryeyes and Whitepaws. Why Redtail, you ask? Well, if you look at me, you’ll obviously see my red tail. It’s quite odd, that rusty red tail with the rest of my brown coat. It’s not really brown either, just a dirty golden color. My tail isn’t even a pretty red. It just kind of is there. There was a taur back in school, Hightailer, I think hir name was, who would tease me and ask if I just sat in some paint or something. Yeah, that bad. School was terrible for me. I didn’t have friends. Well, a few here and there. My older brother (he was adopted) Corran wouldn’t bother with me and I was just on my own. I don’t remember if there was another chakat in the classroom. Mostly foxtaurs and anthros. I was called the freak. Well, that’s pretty obvious as to why. The only hermaphrodite until about sixth grade. Then I met Natalanya. Shi wasn’t a chakat, just a Kitaru. Kitarus are odd folk, they’re a new addition to the Federation and they look like canine gorillas of sorts. Well, shi was the first crush that I had that actually gave me the time of day. Shi later married my brother, the bastard. Shi died a few years ago, it was a tragic accident. My brother didn’t speak about hir after the accident until a few weeks before his death about a month or so ago. I guess it hurt too much. I wouldn’t know. Well, until just recently, I think.
I had met through a friend about a year ago a fellow named Chakat Jadeheart.... Shi was a wonderful chakat. Full of imagination and creativity and with the most beautiful blue eyes and red hair. I knew I had had to talk to hir, so I did. We got along quite well and in a quiet moment alone together, I experienced my first kiss with hir. It was a magical moment. I had simply asked if I could kiss hir and before I knew it, we were tenderly in each other arms. I tried to go a bit further, but shi said it was enough for now. They say that a light bulb burns brightest before burning out. Well, that was my brightest moment with Jade. My jealousy of hir with others and hir friends drove us apart. It was a terrible problem that I had trouble facing and it made hir uncomfortable. The friendship itself went down onto the rocks until it just was over. Like that.
At the same time, there was a beautiful chakat who had had hir eye on me for some time and she made hir move on me last summer when Jade and I had gone the wayside. Chakat FireTigress, hir name was... I had the fondness of calling hir Tigress when everyone called hir Fire... It became a personal joke between us. We became close and I had thought that it would be hir, not Jade, that would be my first ever Companion. There was so much promise for many months and I was happy, tired of being the outcast, now being in the spotlight. The spotlight once more shifted again as the relationship went south. It was my fault. I know it was. I don’t really like to talk about it much. It just happened..... I lost hir. I’ll never forgive myself for losing hir. Ever.
Anyway, back to my story. I was downtrodden. FireTigress still wouldn’t really talk to me. Shi insisted that we could remain friends. No more. I had thought that it was all over. Shouldn’t it have been? Things were made worse when my brother Corran disappeared about a month ago. He had been growing more and more alone towards the end. Sera, his beloved lifemate, was discovered dead a few months earlier last fall. His denmate Alvalana had left when she discovered about his chakat upbringing and became fearful. I had heard she remarried and was happier. Proves for what she knows. Corran was a decent guy. He was left at the end with his three children. There was Kiara, his eldest daughter, a tigertauress like him. She’s a smart girl, though too much like her dad. Her mother, Amanda, had been murdered in a tavern while pregnant with Kiara’s twin siblings. None of the three survived. Kiara took to Alvalana as a second mother, but soon she had no one. After Kiara was Gavin. Gavin was an anthrotiger, adopted as a young infant cub. An infancy accident caused him to be deaf. He found a mother in a close friend of Corran named Alexandria. Alex was a kind person, but I never knew her too well. I had heard there was some strife, but I never knew the whole story. It’s in the past now. Then there was Ximra. Little Ximra. She turns 6 in a week. A childhood I wouldn’t wish for even. Seeing her own mother being murdered. She was Corran’s angel, because she was his only child with Sera.
We never found his body. Only his wedding ring. I remember when Natalanya had given it to him on a spring day. I was the bridesmaid. We also found parts of his tail ring that was a gift from a woman named Esha. His mother Curlknot took the children into hir own home. Chakat Whitepaws, our sire, wouldn’t talk about it and still won’t.
I lived in a state of general disarray for a while. Then, to finally get to the story, a few weeks ago, I had made my weekly visit to the Jaded Tavern. Wanted to get a drink, didn’t forget to grab my fake ID, something from my college days. I had popped open a schoolbook and started in. Then shi walked in. About 5’8”, 420 lbs of six-limbed dark haired beauty with beautiful blue eyes and a white diamond on hir throat. It was clear by the way hir belly bulged that shi was pregnant. Noticing the unborn cubs, my eyes quickly darted away. I didn’t want to mess things up anymore than what they were with my life. Shi was obviously taken. I tried to concentrate but then I noticed shi was sitting in a corner table and crying. I found myself wondering why and came forth to ask if shi was all right, but was interrupted by a loud crash outside. A hoverscooter had unceremoniously landed itself in a dumpster with a dark-furred chakat sprawled forward. A few customers helped hir up and shi made hir entrance. What a weirdo, was my first thought. Shi was no quiet flower. Shi was small, but big in a few places. My first thought was if a breast size that large was even healthy. Shi introduced hirself quite loudly as a Chakat Newmoon, but I would have called hir Chakat Screwloose. Shi approached the other chakat and introduced hirself to hir. I returned to my reading and pretended I wasn’t interested and the other chakat could see that I was hurt or something. Shi brushed past Newmoon and walked right over me.
“What you working on?” shi said in a pretty little voice, looking at my data padd. It was a report on adult ADHD that I was preparing. I shrugged slightly and showed it to hir. “Cool,” shi said, without really looking at it. “I’m Diamond, Chakat Diamond. You?”
“R-redtail,” I stammered back. I was nervous as hell and I could feel a hard on growing and that embarrassed me a bit. I had had sex with an anthro once before, so I knew what sex was about, but my female end was still virgin. Shi didn’t seem to notice as shi flashed another pretty smile to me. In my mind, I could see myself riding hir as shi writhed in pleasure, hir lips trying to find mine as my penis thrust in hir and out before ejecting my seed into hir over and again, then switching and letting hir mount hir and claim hir as hirs and......
“Hello? You awake?” interrupted Diamond, waving a truehand. I blinked, then blushed as I realized I was staring. I blushed, then stammered an apology.
“Sorry, I got a bit distracted, I guess..... So, you’re, um, pregnant?” I asked, instantly thinking that that was a rather dumb question to ask. Quite obvious. Shi didn’t let it phase hir, but it was clear that the topic let hir get a bit disturbed. Shi started to say something, but I corrected myself with “You wanna talk about it?”
“Y-yeah....” shi said with a whisper. “He left me.... He was an anthro, he told me he loved me. He went on a trip and I haven’t seen him since. Left me with this.” Shi gestured to hir belly with a bit of a sigh. I could only nod. Would I ever do that? I promised myself I wouldn’t. Ever. Another crash told me that Newmoon was up to no good. I had wondered how many chakats had gone head over heels with testosterone in their male cycle for that one. I wouldn’t. Shi seemed too fake. That was it, this was a dream. Diamond couldn’t have been real, but shi was very real.
Shi bowed a bit, then said shi had to make a trip and so shi walked out of the tavern and for a while, I thought probably out of my life. Well, we’d see about that. I’d meet hir a few weeks later again......
To Be Continued in Red-Tales #2
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