Voyages of the Solar Wind 1: A Fire in Heaven (21 page)

"Yes!" Rilar shouted. "Please, Jeka!"

"Of course, Ri! Hell, I might as well, but I am NOT drinking Dex's blood." We all laughed at that with the strange Selarian wedding traditions involving the wedding party all drinking each other's blood. It was a bit... unsettling to me. Oh fuck it. Who am I kidding? It scared the living bejeebus out of me!

"Umm, yeah, Jeka. No. None of that. You've been to enough Confederate weddings to know better!" I told her, just so we were clear.

"Good. Ok, we're on our way now. Jeka and Rick, out." She cut the comm.

"Come on, kids." General Keldor said as we went outside and got into the hovercar that the General drove.

Once we were at the courthouse, we went inside and found Jeka and Rick standing there looking completely squared away. Mom showed up a minute later as we were all talking and waiting to be called in by the Pax Justicar. She greeted Keldor and Bidar, then Jeka and Rick, all with handshakes. She greeted us with hugs and a proud Mom smile.

"You look radiant, Rilar!" Mom exclaimed, complimenting my blushing bride.

"I agree with mom on that, Ri." I added with a grin. Rilar always looked good in Dress Whites. She's the kind of girl that everything... and nothing looks good on, if you know what I mean.

"You better, Dex!" Rilar winked at me and gave me a sexy smile.

"I have no choice, Ri. I love you." I said with a smile of my own.

"Awww, isn't that sweet." Jeka said with her fangy smirk. "Now, let's go get you two lovebirds hitched."

"Sounds good to me." Rick said. "And while we're here..." He trailed off as he looked into his girlfriend's blood red eyes.

"You know what, a Selarian ceremony just isn't that important all of a sudden. I think I could go for that, baby." She kissed Rick. "Howsabout we get married here, then we can go to the beach so I can work on my tan?" She winked. "I packed my bikini, you know."

"I didn't realize you were taking vacation time for this, Jeka!" Rilar said with a gasp.

"We both did, Ri." Rick said with a smile. "We haven't had a vacation in a while now."

"Sounds good to me." I said with a shrug. "You guys have been together for what? A couple years now?"

"Umm..." Rick said and rubbed the back of his neck as he looked down.

"What?" I asked.

"We've been together for quite a bit longer than that, off and on." Jeka volunteered, also now kinda sorta blushing as much as a Selarian can.

"Ok, you two. Spill. How long?" Rilar asked. I looked back to see the amused expressions on my in-laws' faces.

"Since flight training." Rick muttered.

"Captain Dex Relway and Rilar." The bailiff announced us, and I gave Rick a 'saved by the bailiff' look that told him this wasn't over.

Rick just grinned and walked into the courtroom by our sides. He was next to me when the metal detector went off, and he sighed as the bailiff stopped him. He knocked on his leg with a metallic clank. "Cyberlegs, buddy." He said and smiled.

"He lost them in an act of piracy if that means anything to ya." Rilar grinned, enjoying Rick's discomfort. While he wasn't officially Wanted, it was fun to watch him squirm. Even mom was enjoying it, and he knew that she had been a half-step away from hunting him down once. I'd talked her down, but it was still funny.

"Ha ha. I've been cleared of all charges due to lack of evidence." Rick nodded sagely.

We all laughed, and even the bailiff chuckled. He let Rick in and we proceeded forward to see the Pax Justicar.

Pax Justicar Chrys Ryvars was the epitome of Judge Magister. He was a big man going bald up top, and had a prodigious beer gut. I handed him the credit chit with the fee on it, and he stamped our Confederate Marriage Certificate before starting the ceremony.

Once we were all in position, he began. "Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today in the name of Love and the Lords of Haven to join Dex Relway of Helliot II and Rilar of Gurhin in the bonds of Holy Wedlock. If anyone here can show just cause as to why these two should not be joined and sealed in Union, let them speak now or forever hold their peace."

"I would speak!" The now familiar voice of Praelor le dipmerde came from the back of the courtroom along with the klaxon of the metal detector going off. The bailiff turned and raised his hands, knowing he was already outmatched. We all turned to look, and sure enough he was holding a Viper 5mm from NanoMark. He now had the weapon trained on me, and I raised my hands.

"Dammit, Praelor! What is it going to take for you to GET OVER ME! I do NOT love you, nor will I EVER love you!" Rilar shouted at him as her claws snapped out of her fingertips and her eyes dilated with her fangs bared. General Keldor and even Ambasssador Bidar did the same, and he turned his weapon in their direction.

Rick, being Rick, just sighed, flexed his forearm, and shot the holdout PuNCH pistol from the hip, melting the barrel on the Viper with one shot. The Pax Justicar had already hit the panic button with the silent alarm, and a squad of bailiffs converged on the offending dickwipe known as Praelor. Rick had already retracted his arm holder with the holdout in it, and was standing there looking as innocent as new-fallen snow.

Praelor just stood there looking at the melted barrel dumbly, then at the face of Rick, who was smiling angelically. Jeka was snickering none too subtly, and was giving Rick the 'fuck me eyes' as she saw her lover and former gunner make a nearly impossible shot.

Rick West is NEVER unarmed. He just doesn't use the weapon unless absolutely necessary. In this case, it had been absolutely necessary, since Praelor hadn't been in neck-breaking range.

Once the bailiffs had led Praelor away in cuffs, we turned back to the Pax Justicar. "Please continue, sir." I said.

The Justicar, Lords bless him, took it all in stride but gave Rick a meaningful look that promised hell later, then got back to the ceremony.

"Well, if there are no further delays, and no more objections, then do you, Rilar, take Dex to be your wedded husband under Confederate Law? To have and to hold? To Love, Honor, and Cherish? In sickness and in health? In good times and bad? Forsaking all others? For as long as you both shall live?"

"I do with all that I am, Your Honor." Rilar bowed.

Justicar Ryvars nodded once and smiled, then turned to me. "Dex Relway, do you take Rilar to be your wedded wife under Confederate Law? To have and to hold? To LOve, Honor, and Cherish? In sickness and in health? In good times and bad? Forsaking all others? For as long as you both shall live?"

"I do with all that I am, Your Honor." I bowed in response and because I really wanted to spend the rest of my life with Rilar.

"Dex, place the ring upon her finger." He instructed, and I retrieved the ring from my pocket and placed it on her left ring finger. Rilar was smiling broadly with pure love in her eyes for me.

"Rilar, place the ring upon his finger." The Justicar instructed. She retrieved her ring for me and placed it on my left ring finger. My expression mirrored hers as I realized that my life would never be complete without her in it.

"Then by the power vested in me by the United Star Confederacy, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss your bride, Captain Relway." Justicar Ryvars was smiling and I thought I saw a tear form in his eye.

I turned to Rilar, who looked beautiful as always, and even more beautiful at that moment. Her now short hair was styled in a way that showed off her sexy sleek long neck. Her eyes had light makeup over them, which brought out the blue of her now thin irises around her dilated pupils. I could smell her cherry scent of arousal as I stepped towards her and placed the ring on her finger. She placed the ring on mine as well, and we kissed each other as if for the first time.

It was tentative at first, just our lips, but soon our tongues found each other and caressed each and entwined together. My arms wrapped around her waist as hers went around my neck, and we lost ourselves for a moment in each other's touch. Finally breaking the kiss, we turned back to the Justicar.

He smiled widely. "Now, go have a honeymoon already!"

With that, we walked out of the courtroom, and were congratulated all around. A bailiff came up to Rick and led him back into the courtroom, where once again the metal detector klaxon went off, and the bailiff removed his arm spring holder and holdout weapon. We went back in with him.

Justicar Ryvars sighed as he looked at all of us. Mom and Ri's family were here to see what would happen. Ri, Jeka, and me were here to defend our buddy if he needed it.

"Before you say anything, Your Honor, I would like to make a statement." Rick said.

Justicar Ryvars sighed. "Very well. Go ahead."

"Your Honor, I am indeed a former pirate, and I have reformed. Before that though, I was a gunner aboard the CSS Zhao Yun during the war. I have had a holdout PuNCH pistol in a spring loaded arm holster ever since the war, and I honestly forgot I had it on. I wish to apologize to the Court, and to you personally, and ask for leniency." Rick was laying it on thick. He didn't forget he had it on, but none of us were going to tell the Justicar that!

The Justicar considered what he said for a moment. "Mr. West, you possibly saved a lot of lives here today, and for that reason alone I am going to have your weapon returned and ask that the next time you enter my Court, if there is a next time, that you leave ALL weapons outside."

"Yes, Your Honor. I will do so if I have to come back.... but before that happens, I would also like to have a ceremony with my fiancee Jeka here." Rick grinned. "I have the fee already just in case you could work us in."

The Justicar laughed. "Mr. West, you have some nerve, but it's not every day that I get to perform two weddings. Hand me your chit, and I'll perform it at once."

And so it went with Rick and Jeka tying the knot. It was a nice ceremony, with me and Ri standing in as Best Man and Maid of Honor for them in a reversal from the previous wedding.

Rick and Jeka rented a bungalow down the beach from my in-laws and spent their Honeymoon there. Rilar and I went back to Solar Wind for our wedding night, and I carried her up the ramp into the ship and down to our quarters.

"Dex, that was the most wonderful thing you've ever done for me." Rilar said as I set her down by the bunk.

"You deserve it and more, sweetheart." I said and kissed her lovingly. She kissed me back with equal tenderness as we slowly divested each other of our dress uniforms. As many times as we had made love and fucked over the past two weeks, this was like our first time together, and in a way it was. Our first time as legally married husband and wife.

Once naked, we fell into bed together and I kissed her passionately as I reached down and fingered her soaking pussy. The scent of cherries was heavier than normal, and Rilar moaned and purred loudly as I sucked her perfect B-cups and rubbed her clit while fingering her.

"Gods Dex!" She shouted as her body tensed up and she shuddered as a powerful orgasm ripped through her.

"That's it, kitten. Come for me, baby." I said softly, loving how she looked in the throes of her climax. As she came down, I slipped further down her body, licking and kissing down to her beautiful lavender colored pussy and the darker purple of her inner lips. I slipped my tongue deep into her as she purred even louder, her fingers twining themselves in my hair as she undid my hair tie. She gripped my hair tightly as my tongue delved into her, twisting and twirling inside her sweet sweet cherry flavored honeypot.

"Oooooooohhhhhh Godddddsssssss!" She exclaimed as she came again. I locked my whole mouth around her pussy and swallowed all of her sweet nectar, my tongue sweeping up and down her slit as she came hard again. Her fingers in my hair pulled me into her as her climax rendered her down to primal screams of lust and release.

As she convulsed and her orgasm died down to aftershocks, she pushed me away and pulled me up to lay beside her. "Now it's my turn, baby." Rilar grinned ferally as she kissed my lips, neck, chest, sucking on my nipples before heading south down to where my cock was pointing straight up. Her hand curled around it and started stroking it as she looked up at me with fully dilated eyes. Her tongue licked a drop of precum from my cockhead and then licked up and down like a lollypop. I moaned as she sucked me deep into her throat, her purring bringing me damn close to coming already.

"Oh Lords, baby!" I shouted as I felt my balls tightening and getting ready to blow.

She pulled off momentarily. "That's it, Dex. Come for me, baby. Give your kitten your cream!" She cried out as she deepthroated me again, and I couldn't stop it from happening any longer. I blasted off into her mouth, salvo after salvo of cum shooting from my cock into her throat. I shouted wordlessly as I unloaded into her talented mouth and throat.

She kept stroking me as she moved up and kissed me, and we shared each other's flavor in a deep sensual kiss. My cock never got less than three quarters by the time it started hardening back up again. She rolled onto her back, pulling me with her. "Make love to me as if for the first time, sek'natha." She whispered to me.

"Always, kitten." I replied as I entered her slowly, her pussy engulfing me in no time. I held myself inside her and kissed her tenderly, then started to move slowly in and out as I rotated my hips in slow circles.

"Ohhh Gods Dex.." She moaned and her purrs got louder as I penetrated her deeply, filling her over and over as she rocked her hips up in tempo with my thrusts. Rilar's eyes were closed as she focused on the sensations I was giving her. My lips lowered to her breasts, sucking first one, then the other nipple into my mouth. I lavished her pert breasts with licks and kisses as I thrust deep into her with each stroke, and her strong legs wrapped around me.

"You are so beautiful, Ri." I said in a whisper as we made love long and slow. "My kitten. My sek'natha. My love." I whispered to her as her purrs reached a fever pitch and she suddenly came, her pussy clamping down on me like a hot wet vice.

"OOOOOHHHHHH RRRAAAAAOOOOOOOWWWWWW!" Rilar screamed as she came hard around me, her feral roar coming from deep in her throat as I felt my balls tightening again. I held off as long as possible, thrusting deep and rotating my hips to give her as much pleasure as possible. Her eyes shot open, and the look of pure love she gave me sent me over the edge.