Fast and Painful (One Month's time)

Venus closed her eyes and thought for a while. She enjoyed her time with the Goblins, or rather her new family the Firebrand Martuk, and would have loved to stay. But on the other hand, she couldn't just forget about her first family, the ones murdered by Lycoan.

She shuddered as she said it, but her eyes were locked with Saraf's.

"I need to leave. I love what I've been doing here and will gladly return once things have settled, but I have my own mission of ****, along with other people that will need my help. I'll take the fast way."

Saraf nodded slowly.

"Taka, we will need two of your strongest. Boma and Dakur if possible."

Taka gave two tongue clicks and went to the door of the hut to give the order for the two selected warriros to be found and brought to him. Venus had learned a little of the Martuk langauge in her time with the tribe and knew that tongue clicks were a sign of happiness. THe more clicks, the happier the speaker was. Grunts were a sign of indifference, and growls a sign of annoyance and anger.

Saraf and Neil stood on either side of her bed with the shaman holding his hands out over her.

"Please lay back. I will begin the process slowly with Neil's help. She will be keeping an eye on you for the rest of your pregnancy. I can only do so much to speed up the process, but Neil knows enough magic to continue without me."

Saraf looked up as the two selected warriors arrived. Both were tall for goblins and very muscular. Venus recognized both of the males from their visits with her. Dakur was always friendly a gentle lover. Boma on the other hand had been rough and often seemed angry. She had at times wondered if he was the only male that had actually been **** to fuck her. He had never actually hurt her, but he had always made sure he got his pleasure and finished quickly.

Saraf instructed Boma to hold her legs and Dakur her arms while Taka would try to keep her thrashing down to a minimum. Venus prayed that the precautions Saraf were taking weren't needed but she was wrong. When the shaman's hands began to glow a bright green over her, the tattoos on her naked body began to react. They began to glow with a dark purple aura and pain began to lance through her body. First it felt like simple pin pricks on every inch of her body, but that was just the beginning. The pin pricks turned to feeling as if a razor was slashed across her skin, and then to a feverish and burning sensation, and finally to waves of pure pain, like her muscles were twisting and warping within her body.

Every day for the next week, the pain grew worse. At night, Neil took over with two fresh warriors holding her. Neil didn't push her as hard as Saraf, but the old female took delight in Venus's pain. Every morning Venus was given a few hours of rest and fed large amounts of food to keep her strength up. After her rest period, Saraf would return with Boma and Dakur to push her harder than the day before. Taka usually came with Saraf, but occasionally was away on clan business.

Venus was only truly concious during her hours of because the pain numbed her to the passing of time and to most everything around her. It was at the end of the second week when she came to notice her stomach was no longer taut and muscular, but rather large. In fact she had seen more than one village girl heavy with pregancy. Her stomach was larger than most she had seen. As her rest period ended she heard Taka's voice asking Saraf.

"How many?"

But she didn't hear the answer. After that, Saraf pushed her harder and even on her breaks she was not certain of herself or her surroundings anymore. It was two weeks later when she finally felt the pain start to subside. The sound of a baby crying awoke the lost part of her brain, and she dimly saw Taka holding a small shape and felt a surge of pride for what she had acomplished before slumber took her.

(Notes for writers)