Cutlass Sharpened (11 page)

“
It is confusing, but
Jessica is aroused for you… like I am when thinking of Renee
looking as you do, but this happens. It did it before when I
remembered Renee cleaning me after we left the planet.” He thought
of Renee naked and the idea of sticking his penis in her made it
engorge.

“
Well damn. I feel bad for
any girl who has to…”

“
What the fuck is going on
out here!” Renee yelled as she stepped out finding Oliver stiff as
a pole in front of Stephanie wearing only a bra. “I’ll not have any
sex in my bay. Take it elsewhere!”

Stephanie wasn’t the least
bit flustered as she began sliding her clothes back on. “I told you
I’d take care of it. I just did the birds and bees talk with visual
aids. Besides he didn’t get stiff for me. He imagined you and
got
that
much of a
reaction.”

“
It’s not helping at all.
You just made things worse. Now he wants to fuck me and you gave
him the tools to think it is alright.”

“
Wrong. He told me he got
hard in the shower remembering you bathing him.”

“
I won’t put this in you,
Renee. I won’t touch without your permission. I remember the last
time.”

She paused and thought hard before choosing
her words carefully. “I guess you did come to understand. What
else?”

“
May I see you naked like
Stephanie? Thinking of you is good to me. Her smell is not as
drawing as yours. I promise not to touch. I want to see of you are
as different in the face and hair as your bodies.”

Her fists in the clothes
grew so tight her knuckles were white. “No. Never ask to see a
woman naked. If you want to see naked women, Stephanie can show you
porn. Never
ever
ask to see a woman naked. It is improper and offending. If a
woman wants to have sex with you, she will get naked without
asking. Now put these on before I kick you in the
balls.”

“
What would that
accomplish?”

“
Care to learn?” Her feral
grin grew malicious.

He nodded.

Before anyone could stop her, Renee’s shin
flew up between his legs with enough force to lift his entire body
in the lower gravity and he hit the ceiling bug-eyed.

Oliver hit the ground just as hard, feeling a
whole new kind of pain that had him curl in a naked ball and crying
without making more than a masculine whimper.

“
What the hell, Renee!”
Jessica shot to her feet and went to him. “He doesn’t understand
the complexities we have. It’s like making a Keptl understand
astronomy equations rather than making you lunch. Oliver, are you
alright?”

“
It hurts. No more kicking
me in the balls. I’ll never ask to see Renee or any woman naked
again. They throb like my heart… the pain is lowering.”

“
He had to learn sometime. I
made my point.” She said feeling much better. “Oliver, get up and
dressed. I don’t want to see
it
anymore.”

A hand collected the clothes and he turned to
Sparky. “Please do not withhold anything more. I do not like to
experience anything like it again.” The Drake dipped his pointed
chin.

“
One more thing you must
remember.” Stephanie stopped him. “A woman’s breasts are as
sensitive as your groin. Be mindful.” And he left to go get
dressed.

Just as soon as he returned
to the bathroom and the door shut Stephanie rounded on Renee and
slapped her without holding anything back. Renee cried out as she
bounce off the floor and crumpled into the wall, staring wide-eyed
at the usually calm beauty now showing a wrathful look. Jessica
grabbed her arm to stop her from thrashing Renee though she was
much weaker. Instead Stephanie basically growled with venom.
“How
dare
you do
that. I don’t give a fuck how angry you are he looks like your ex.
You had no reason to hurt him. He’s done nothing but been loyal to
you, Renee. Jess and I swore to your mother we would always be here
for you and she would spank your ass till it bled for doing what
you did for no reason.” Jessica let go when her wife wouldn’t
attack, but kept scolding her niece. “Oliver is learning at a rate
I’ve never seen, not even by the Creelin. But he’s still mentally
just a toddler. You are lucky he is attached to you. If he wasn’t,
imagine what he’d do?” Renee held her swelling, bright red cheek,
but slowly the words sank in. “Oh, you didn’t think that far ahead
huh? You and I both saw what he did to the Salamander as skin and
bones. He’d deadly.

“
Worse, you’ve gave him
strength that puts even Stone to shame and that is saying
something. He’s a child with a loaded blaster. You never considered
he wouldn’t fly into a tantrum. You saw how he reacts to threats,
hell, you figured it out first. He’s connected to you and I don’t
care how much you deny it, it is a
fact
! Oliver will learn, but what if
he learns the wrong way? Huh? He could have easily have raped me
and I wouldn’t have resisted, but didn’t. He’s massive. I think he
should keep his natural kindness because if we aren’t careful he
could be
more
than
a danger to himself.”

“
She’s right, Sweetheart.
Don’t let your scorned heart ruin an untouched individual with
malice.” Jessica stood next to her wife. “Your temper gets the
better of you, but you can’t influence Oliver wrongly because you
know what my brother will do, without hesitation, to Oliver if he
endangers the crew. Now get up and collect yourself. Oliver isn’t
ready to see our family squabble.”

Barely had she regained her feet did the
bathroom door slide open and Oliver lithely stepped out massaging
his groin and not looking at Renee with the same wonder he had
before. He was afraid of her and the setting of his jaw indicated
he wasn’t going to say anything wrong to upset her and feel her
wrath again.

It cut her more deeply than thinking he was
alone to be avoided when he just wanted innocent closeness. Before
the other three said anything Renee moved in his path. He stopped,
but wouldn’t meet her gaze. She wounded him and needed to make
amends even though her jaw smarted and burned still. “Oliver, would
you understand the meaning is I told you I was sorry.”

“
Yes.” He didn’t look up.
“Sparky said it is a way to reconcile wrong doings you wish to take
back and cannot, but feel a tightness in the chest like I do and
know it means you want it to go away… and the only way is to
apologize and work together to overcome the obstacle that caused
pain. Do you feel weight here too?” He rubbed his chest.

“
Of course I do.” And meant
it. “I truly am sorry for being mad and doing it. Even though I am
regretful, did you learn why?”

“
I need to protect it like I
did for you against the creature that made you scream. Rubbing my
penis felt good going gently. I found when feeling good turns to
pain I do not like. It is why I took longer to get
dressed.”

“
Hold on. You just tested
your pain threshold?” he looked to Sparky for a flicker and nodded
when things cleared up. Taking chance, he met her gaze. “Does it
still hurt?”

“
Not as much as my head
hitting the ceiling.” He turned and showed a red welt on the back
of his skull. “But is not as bad as not urinating was earlier… Why
is half your face red?” looking at his twitching hand she knew he
badly wanted to touch.

“
Don’t mind it. Do you
accept my apology?” he again sought Sparky’s aid in a flash to nod.
“Shake on it.” With a gentleness she didn’t expect, he took hers
and she hid a laugh, knowing Jessica told him how to do
it.

“
Let us change the subject.”
Proposed Jessica as she asked “Oliver, may I add you to my com?” He
nodded. “Oliver Void. Code: Forgotten.” Told hers next.

“
Jessica Merann. Code:
Binary.” Then her wife’s. “Stephanie Merann. Code: Lost
Discovery.”

“
Now that that is over,
perhaps we should take a seat. I’ve got news that will leave you
all speechless.” Stephanie said and Renee dropped down two more
comfortable chairs by her desk that sat square so everyone could be
engaged.

Stephanie’s earlier anger changed into
childlike glee. Always happens when something interesting in
history occurs. Her hand still stung, but she managed to open the
clear case and lift the cutlass. A cutlass being a single edged
curved blade mainly used for one hand. The grip was perfect, having
a non-slick pattern for perfect control. The guard attached to the
base of the widely curved blade and swooped to the rounded hilt,
able to protect the fingers as well as good for blocking and
punching. “We’ll start with this. My tests prove that not only is
this a genuine original, but that it is the eldest Star-saber on
record.”

“
By eldest you mean?...”
Jessica had to ask for she too was kept in the dark.

The blonde beamed as if a
conspiracy was just unearthed. “Currently we believe the oldest is
eighty nine thousand years ago.” She grabbed the handle and held it
up and turned it this way and that. “
This
blade is between thirty nine
million seven hundred to forty million two hundred years old.
That’s
many
millennia older.” Her announcement was indeed struck
speechless. “And that is not all. This Star-saber is made of some
as of yet, undiscovered metal alloy forty million times more dense
than diamond. And is so sharp it is a single molecule thick along
the edge. It is how he could pierce the Beast’s skull so
effortlessly. The atoms are so compacted they
cannot
move, as if they were in an
absolute zero environment.”

“
But how can it be carried?
That density is more compact than a piece of black hole. The weight
should be impossible to lift.” Renee voiced.

“
That’s the thing. It
somehow alters its own gravity so its weight stays the exact same.
I can’t detect how it does it. I think its purpose is to let the
swordsman fight without needing to adjust in different
environments. Only in zero gravity does it cease regulating. And I
tried getting a sample, but the atoms are so packed together it
didn’t make a scratch. I mean that literally. Unlike other
recovered Star-sabers, this one is theoretically indestructible.
Listen to this good. It is
so
dense that not even
neutrinos
can pass through. Some sixty
five billion pass through our bodies every single second of our
lives. This” Stephanie’s fingernail tapped the flat of the blade to
make a tinkling chime. “completely reflects any and all energy
except to one whom it belongs. I had to recalibrate my sensors a
dozen times to get a clear reading. At our current level of
technology we could never reverse engineer a duplicate. Also it
retains temperature at a human thirty seven and I subjected it to
the greatest range I’m capable with my lab equipment and it
retained total integrity.

“
As an added footnote, the
sword is perfectly balanced.

“
This weapon cannot ever
hold a price. We could never possibly get enough. It would bankrupt
Galicom a billion times over. They certainly would kill to get this
artifact and unlock every secret it contains. Now watch this.
Oliver, it is yours after all. Take it.”

She turned it handle first and his fingers
circled around it. As soon as it touched, the blade began to
flicker with what reminded him of starlight in space. And as she
said, it was warm to the touch, a comfortable warmth. “Why does it
do that for me and not you?” He asked, holding it close and
pointing at the starlight. It felt good to hold. Real good.

“
I’ll teach you all about
psionic energy later. I’ll teach like all children must learn.
Since I love history and archeology I’ll be glad to bring you up to
recent years.” She promised. He patiently nodded. To the others her
grin somehow grew more. “One last interesting fact I neglected to
tell everyone.”

“
What? That it’s sentient?”
Renee said with heave sarcasm.

“
In a way.” Stephanie didn’t
hold back. “Even though my readouts showed the edge of the sword to
be a single molecule thick…” She paused for dramatic effect. “I
could
not
make it
cut anything beyond semisolids like a stick of butter. I even tried
cutting my desk in half and all it did was rebound. I tried to even
nick my thumb, but it would not work.”

“
But how is that possible?
Does it make a protective shield?”

“
So far I can’t discover the
how. It didn’t detect any energy output. But my theory is not as
absurd as I originally believed. It’s Oliver’s blade and only in
his hands can it cut. Oliver, please demonstrate if it can cut by
sliding the tip through the ground.”

Seeing they wanted to know, he turned it
point down and slowly the edge sunk below the surface with minimal
effort, but gave enough sensation to know it met resistance. He
then pulled it out with much more care. “This is dangerous.” He
admitted. “It could stop the movement like I did to the
creature.”

Sensing damage to the ship, it began
self-repair and the hole sealed itself as if nothing happened.

“
You mean it could kill us.
And yes, it can. I’m glad you understand the concept of death. And
the creature is called a Beast we refer to as a
Salamander.”