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The Twin Princes - Prologue

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I ran through the woods as quickly as I could considering how heavy I was with child. I was due in only a month, but our village had been raided by soldiers. My mate and younger brother were murdered when buying me time to escape and now I was running. I was terrified. I could hear the frightened and saddened cries of the other 'females' as they were rounded up, the 'men' of their families murdered in front of their eyes.

All I could do was run for the caves that my brother and I used to play in when we were little. Tears were streaming down my face at the memory of the kiss Jaliel had given me before forcing me to run. It was only moments after that I had heard his pained scream as he was gutted. My brother had moved to defend him, only to suffer the same fate. My entire family was gone, save the twins that I carried in my womb. The twins that would probably come before the sun rose because of how much energy I was putting out.

I got to the caves, finding them to be clear and went as far back into them as I could before collapsing against the rock wall. All the muscles in my abdomen were spasming as the stress of it all caused me to go into labour early. I stifled as much of the noise as I could as pain coursed through my body and I felt as if my insides were being torn apart. One thought kept coming to mind though. There was no way I could do this alone.

The labour was long and painful since it was my first and I found myself fading in and out of consciousness. I swore at one point I heard footsteps in the cave, but I was too delirious from the pain and fear for the lives of my unborn children to focus on it. When I came around again, there was a fire burning beside me with a pot of water boiling on top of it. I started to panic and scramble away, but another contraction leveled me.

"Relax," a voice said softly, as I felt a hand on my shoulder to push me back down. "Things are going to get rough enough without you trying to crawl away." I cried, leaning my head back against what seemed to be a pillow.

"Please... don't kill me..." I pleaded, tears streaming down my face.

"If I was going to kill you, I'd have done it without bringing you back to my home," the voice said. "Would have been easier than toting a pregnant Laikotian through these caves. Now, you need to focus for me." I looked up at the face of a Paolini male, an older one who seemed to have seen better day. I nodded a little, having no choice but to put my trust in this man.

"Good, now I'm sorry to say that this is going to hurt a lot," he said as he moved so that he was kneeling between my legs. I instinctively brought my knees together as anyone not my mate or a midwife should not be there or seeing me like that. "Again, relax. I'm as close to a midwife as you're going to get." I nodded and forced myself to relax my legs, already noticing that he'd removed my pants. I barely stifled a noise of displeasure as I felt his fingers push into a part of my body that only my mate had ever touched before and he quickly removed them.

"You're ready and so is the baby," he said and pushed my legs as far apart as he could before pushing my knees up towards my shoulders. "Hold your legs behind the knees and the next time you feel your muscles contract, I want you push down as hard as you can. Push that baby out." I did exactly as he told me, but I couldn't contain the scream of pain as I swore my lower body was splitting in half.

It seemed to go on forever, the pressure in my sexual organs excrutiating until suddenly it was gone. The next thing I knew, I could hear the first cries of my newborn child. But it wasn't over yet and it took the Paolini a moment to realize that I was still in labour and quickly wrapped the first infant, setting it aside to help me bring the second into the world. The second came much faster than the first, though it was just as painful.

"Twins... How fortuitous..." he murmured as he swaddled the second infant. I panted for breath, exhausted and drained. "Do you wish to see them?" he asked, holding them in his arms as he moved closer to my upper body. I reached out tiredly for at least one of my newborns and he handed me the first born. I smiled down at the currently male child, the determination of whether he'd be the dominant or subordinate partner for his mate unknown before he met them.

"They look... just like their father..." I murmured, gently kissing my son's forehead. Sleepy silver eyes looked back up at me, cooing a bit happily. "I think you will be named Leyol... and your brother will be Biilyn. My precious little boys..."

"Here... you should hold Biilyn while you can..." he said, handing me my other son as he moved back between my legs. He was cursing softly in his native tongue, something that I only knew from a boy I'd met at the caves so many years before. Biilyn started to cry and I shifted him so that he could feed from my milk swollen chest. I didn't want to think about the phrasing of the Paolini's words and focused on giving my sons their first meal.

"You... are Kyani, aren't you?" he suddenly asked, his voice low and filled with sadness.

"Yes..." I replied, feeling myself growing more and more tired.

"Oh... Kyani..." he murmured. "Did you forget me? It's been so long... you probably did..." I shook my head a little even as my breathing slowed down and the boys stopped their suckling.

"I could never forget the person I gave my virginity too," I whispered as I stared at the water filled seafoam green eyes. I knew those eyes better than my own mate's from all the years I had dreamed of them. He nodded some and moved to take one of the babies from me for a moment as he leaned down to kiss me softly.

"I have missed you..." he murmured, moving his lips up to kiss my eyelids. "And now, I see you again only to have you taken from me forever..." My breath hitched some at his words, tears springing to my eyes.

"B-but... my sons..." I whimpered, afraid to lose the last part of my mate because I wasn't there to care for them.

"I will make sure they survive, something I cannot do for you, my precious Kyani," he whispered and I felt wet drops fall to my face. He was crying for me. The entire reason I had taken a mate in the first place was because I had never believed he loved me and he had been of a different race. My father had arranged my mating without me being willing and I'd never had a chance to verify if Chilox had truly loved me as I had him.

"Chi..." I murmured, reaching up with my free hand to touch the face that had changed so much in five years. "I always loved you..."

"And I you..." he replied, kissing me again. "I will raise them... protect them from the army that is invading your lands... I sadly cannot tell them of their father, but they'll know everything I could ever tell them about you." I nodded a bit and he laid down beside me, using my dwindling body heat and his own to keep the infants warm.

"They'll look like him," I murmured, feeling my energy draining from my body as the bleeding didn't cease. "But... I had always wanted yours... So raise them... as if they were... for me..." I felt him nod some as his arm tightened around me.

"Anything you want, my precious Kyani..." he breathed as I smiled a little as I slipped into the darkness. I knew I would never wake from it, but I was secure in the knowledge that Chilox would raise my sons. They'd live and grow and I knew he'd give his life before he let them be taken like the rest of the people in my village had been. That was all I could have ever asked for.
mmm something that I was reading earlier... thought i'd post it up :)
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I think I've read this before...Is it a repost?