Make Love Not War: Dragon Fire

The shuttle continued on its course towards the city passing over the slums below. Mark and Kristina watched in horror as the ship appeared to be on a collision course with the city walls only for a shuttle sized circle in the wall to open and let the ship through into a small dock like structure where ships were parked alongside platforms.
“Why couldn’t the ship have just gone over the wall?” Mark asked.
“It can’t move over the wall because there is an anti-magic shield over the city to prevent attacks. The shield would destroy the ship if it tried to pass through” James explained confidently, as the ship continued and passed through the other side of the wall and out into the air above the city which gave the students their first real look at the magnificent metropolis that was Assam City.
The entire student body had joined Mark, Kristina and James at the window by the time the shuttle entered Assam and the shuttle ducked and dived around the tall buildings giving the students a thrilling tour of the city before climbing to give them a view of the whole city.
“You see those four towers” James explained. “They mark the border between the Upper City and Lower City. As first year students we are only allowed into the Upper City”.
Mark looked out of the window the city had four tall towers arranged at the corners of a square each with a different coloured crystal at the top. James continued to explain that the tower with the royal blue crystal on top was the Corporation Security Division headquarters where the Ceylons were based. The red crystal was atop the Corporation Science Division headquarters. The green crystal signified the Corporation Medical Division headquarters and the tower with the white crystal, which was the largest of the four towers, represented the Corporation Headquarters and Mayors Office’s. In the centre of the four towers was Assam University atop a huge green hill, the only visible part of vegetation in the city and had a large building on top of it.
The shuttle had now passed the first of the large towers and the students could now see the big difference between the upper and lower cities. The Upper City had large and tall buildings all nicely spaced out with plenty of space around them. By contrast the Lower City was almost built like slums, with as many houses and buildings as possible crammed into the available space. Furthermore the roads were simply mud tracks in between the rows of houses.
As the ship got nearer they were able to make out the University in more detail. The main building was a magnificent piece of architecture both stylish and modern and was surrounded by four towers. Just like in the city the four towers each made up the corner of a square with each tower baring a small crystal. They almost seemed to be built into the hill and marked a square perimeter around the main university building.
“Each tower represents one of the four houses” said James “The Black crystal is Oolong, Red is Phoenix, Purple is Da Vinci and Blue is Brunel” he continued “Each house has 6 floors, the first is a common room for everyone and then there is a floor for each year. The top floor for fifth years and the second floor for us freshmen.”
The students look at the school was halted however as the shuttle now dived and banked and turned so that it was now facing the hill upon which Assam University stood. And just as had happened with the city walls, a hidden door opened in the side of the hill to let the ship through. The shuttle moved slowly inwards and the students looked in awe at the docking bay to which they were entering which was filled with small one man ships. The shuttle moved along slowly giving the students a good look at everything inside, before it docked against a wall of solid rock.
“Will all students please report to the shuttle airlock” Professor Oolong’s voice appeared over the intercom. “Please remember to bring any and all belongings that you have with you including your new briefcases, panels and I.D. cards”. The Phoenix students went back to their room and fetched their belongings before making their way to the airlock and were directed by two Ceylons out of the ship and up some dark stone steps. When they reached the top they were greeted by Professor Oolong in front of two large silver doors.
“Now students you are about to meet your house leaders. Although for those of you in Oolong, I am your house leader. Now the rest of you walk through these doors and find your house’s crest.” As she finished the two doors behind her swung open into a massive hall with four groups of students standing in circles with large holographic crests which were floating above them rotating slowly. Mark immediately recognised the fiery winged crest of Phoenix House and instructed Kristina, James and the rest of the Phoenix students to follow him. As they got closer he noticed that standing next to the students was the unmistakable figure of Professor Rooibos who he had read about on his panel. His bright red bushy beard and curly receding hair made him stand out against everyone else in the room.
“Students, New Students welcome” he said excitedly with a high voice. “I’m Professor Rooibos; I’m your house leader. I also teach history, there’s no time like the past that’s what I always say. If you ever need anything during your time here please come to me or your head prefect Alan, where are you Alan” As he said this, a taller older version of James walked through the crowd towards the students.
“Hi, I’m Alan, you may have met James, he’s my brother.” He said with a smile “I am your student prefect for this year, you can come to me with any problems with anything about the school or each other, and I will try and sort them out for you.” He announced proudly. “Also for the first couple of weeks I will be making sure that you settle in okay and don’t get lost or anything whilst you’re here.”
“Now that’s enough talking” Professor Rooibos interrupted. “Let us go on to the welcome feast” he smiled and led the students through another set of silver doors opposite the ones through which they had entered.
The feast took place in a magnificent hall that was more like a modern art exhibition than a dining hall. Projected images of students work moved across the walls and whilst holographic portraits of decorated former students were proudly displayed on each wall. The students were led to tables which each had the same holographic house crests above them lighting the tables, with each house’s table occupying one side of the five sided room. The remaining side was not unoccupied however; it contained a table full of teachers. Mark recognised the school principal Stephen Davies sitting in the centre of the table from his photo in the yearbook, and noticed that the principal seemed to smile at him reassuringly and when all the students were seated he stood up to give a speech.
“Good Evening Ladies and Gentleman and welcome to the first day of term. And for our new students welcome to Assam University. I hope all of you here are ready for a hard years learning and that you all find it equally filled with fun and enjoyment.” He spoke with an authority that commanded the room and yet with a friendly soft gentle tone that endeared him to the students. “Now without further ado, I declare the start of term feast has begun” and the students cheered as waiters appeared from every door carrying plates of hot food. With plates full of sausages, burgers, pizza with curly fries and jacket wedges. The waiters were followed by a woman dressed in all white whom Mark recognised immediately as top chef Charli Podlet from his mother’s collection of cookbooks. Why exactly she had so many cookbooks was quite a mystery to Mark as everything his mother produced seemed to have been materialised.
“I’d like to say a few words before you tuck into this magnificent feast that I and my chefs have cooked for you tonight. I realise that in this day and age you may never have tasted food that hasn’t been materialised from random atoms and electrons in your kitchens. But I would like to assure you and promise you all personally that whilst you are at Assam University you will never have to eat materialised food. Yes you all have materializers in your houses if you wish but all food served in this dining room will be real and cooked either by me or my chefs in a real oven and I guarantee that you will be able to taste the difference. Now let the feast begin”. The entire room cheered the chef as she walked back to the kitchen and Mark took his fork and stuck it into a sausage on the plate in front of him. As he bit into the sausage he realised what she was talking it tasted so good, so succulent, so juicy he thought he would never be able to taste materialised food the same ever again.
That night the students were taken to the universities Hilltop Gardens and treated to a huge firework display which lit up the night sky above Assam in intricate patterns of all colours and arrangements and illuminated the trees and flowers that inhabited the gardens. Afterwards they were then taken to their house towers through underground passages that required their I.D. card to enter and according to James would only accept an I.D. card from the correct house.
The Phoenix passage was covered with pictures of fiery birds whilst the wallpaper behind depicted a fire burning brightly and seemed to heat the room snugly. They were shown around the common room, which lay mostly underground with just one corner of the room having a window which let in the bright moonlight from the night sky above. The room was full of comfortable chairs, a materialiser, a Kamui table, and desks for people to work at and a Videocaster which would allow any of the students to call home. Alan then led the group to an elevator on the opposite side of the room to the window and asked one of the students to swipe their I.D., Kristina did so and the doors shut and the elevator moved upwards before stopping.
The doors opened into the dark room.
“Lights” said Alan loudly and the room’s lights came on revealing a large room with eight large double beds arranged against three of the walls and with a large window, table and chairs on the unoccupied side opposite the lift.
“This is your dormitory; you will find your bags have already been placed under your beds. This is where you will sleep. There is a bathroom through there” he said pointing to a door on the far wall. “This and the common room are they only floors that you freshmen are allowed to enter. Does anyone have any questions?” Nobody did. “Then I will leave you all here to get some sleep, your first proper day tomorrow so I will meet you here tomorrow morning at nine o clock sharp”.
When Alan was gone the group busied themselves finding their beds. They were arranged girl boy girl boy around the edge of the room with Mark nearest the lift, then Kristina, then Paul, then Selphie, James, Hannah, Tom and finally Kayleigh who wasted no time in stripping out of her school uniform and into her baby blue vest top and shorts pyjamas with the boys eyes out on storks watching. Hannah and Selphie then did the same whilst Kristina was slightly more modest getting changed under the covers of her bed, The boys meanwhile simply stripped down to their boxer shorts with Paul giving the girls another look at the tattoo on his back which was having the same effect as the girls breasts and buttocks had had on the boys when they had gotten changed. And after a communal goodnight Kristina shouted for the lights to be switched off and they all spent their first night in Assam.
Mark woke up at eight in the morning and at first he didn’t know where he was. He had never woken up in a room that wasn’t his own before let alone one with other people in it. Looking to his right he saw Kristina still asleep snuggled up in her blankets. Being quiet so as not to wake her he slid out of bed and made his way to the bathroom, used the toilet and then stripped off his boxers and stepped into the shower. As he was cleaning himself he heard another person come into the room. It was Kayleigh; she poked her head around the shower curtain and smiled at the soapy naked man that was standing there looking back at her.
"Sorry" she giggled. "Mind if I join you?" she asked not waiting for an answer and stepping inside still wearing her blue pyjamas which immediately became soaking wet, clinging to her skin accenting her sizeable curves. Mark tried to ignore her but he was finding it extremely difficult, especially when she peeled off her soaking wet top revealing her magnificent pert breasts with their large brown nipples which were becoming erect and pointing straight at him. She then began to drizzle Corporation Liquid Soap over them, the thick white liquid hanging off of her nipples and she proceeded to massage it into her breasts with her hands. It wasn’t long before he felt a stirring in his groin and he felt himself becoming hard and he turned around to avoid her seeing, but he was too late and she approached him from behind.
“Getting excited are we” she whispered behind him sliding her soapy hands down his chest towards his hardening member.
Suddenly voices could be heard outside and James and Tom entered together and began brushing their teeth. Mark sensing an opportunity grabbed his towel and dashed out of the shower and into the bedroom, into his bed and under the covers where he hid, until Kristina informed him that it was nearly nine and that Alan would be there soon to take them to class.
Alan arrived at nine on the dot and was greeted by eight eager students in fresh school uniforms. He led them back down through the common room and through the underground corridor into the Hilltop Gardens where they had watched the fireworks display the night before. The gardens looked even more beautiful in daylight as they walked one of the many paths through the trees, bushes, the lush green fields and the immensely colourful flowerbeds in blues, reds, yellows, oranges and purples. They reached the main building and Alan showed them into the dining room where they had eaten their feast last night. Nobody had really thought about food with the excitement of classes starting today, but once Alan mentioned that they would be having breakfast suddenly their stomachs started to growl impatiently waiting to be filled. The waiters from last night brought out steaming plates of sausage and bacon sandwiches with freshly cooked bacon and freshly cooked sausages on freshly baked white and brown bread along with homemade tomato and brown sauce. These mouth-watering delights were followed by cups of hot cocoa, coffee and tea.
When everyone’s stomachs were full Alan led them out of the dining room and up the stairs in the main entrance hall. Once at the top Alan stopped and gained everyone’s attention.
“Most of your classes will take place here on the second floor of the main building. Occasionally your classes will take you out of the main Assam grounds but we’ll get to that when we come to it. To the left is the Past, to the right is Advancement and straight ahead is Current Studies. Your first lesson is in the Past with Professor Rooibos. Follow me.” He said and immediately started left and into the Professors teaching room in which there were sixteen desks with two chairs at each pointing forwards towards an old fashioned backboard next to a battered old cupboard and the teacher’s desk, sitting at which was a scruffy greying black cat which was looking at each of the students in turn as they came into the room.
“Well I will leave you with Darjeeling” Alan smiled. “I will be back at the end of the lesson to take you to Corporation Studies with Professor Oolong”
Mark sat down, aware that he was being watched by the cats yellow eyes in front of him.
“I think the cat likes you” giggled Kristina sitting next to him.
As they were the first house to arrive the Phoenix students had all sat at the front of the class. Soon they were joined by Oolong and Brunel whilst Da Vinci took a little longer. Once all the students had arrived they were ready for learning, however whilst they were ready, the only other intelligent creature in the room was Darjeeling. Professor Rooibos had not appeared.
“Are we going to be taught by this cat” Humphrey an upper class sounding Oolong student commented.
“My Dad says Professor Rooibos is always late” said Itali another of the upper class Oolong students. “My Dad says if it was up to him and the rest of the school board they would fire him, but Principal Davies has a soft spot for him and keeps him on.”
Professor Rooibos did finally arrive 10 minutes late. He apologised and then mumbled something about traffic from the lower city being terrible at the moment before standing at the front of the class his glasses askew and proclaiming:
“New Students!!!” in the same excited high pitched voice that had greeted his new Phoenix students the day before.
“Now then students” he began, getting calmer. “This is The Past. In this class in your first year you will be learning about the “Magic War” the most recent conflict between the Aborigines today called ‘ The Magics’ and the Technologists. But today, as it is your first day we are going to do something different. Today you are going to learn about Assam University.”
“Assam University was founded seventy five years ago by General Horatio Oolong. It was built on the site of the great battle of Bahamut, where five thousand Technologist soldiers defeated the Magic’s most prized summoned beast and took control the Aborigines last remaining outpost winning the war. This University and City is built on the site of that outpost. Why was the university built? I hear you ask. Well Horatio Oolong said it best:
“I built this university, so that those who chose magic that I defeated, May learn to choose a different path.”” Professor Rooibos said in a much deeper voice.
“The city came later. The city walls were built by The Corporation to keep the dissenting Aboriginal population away from Assam, to keep the students safe. Over time the Corporation moved its whole base of operations here and created the four great towers of Assam.” Professor Rooibos went on to explain all that James had already explained the previous day on the shuttle and before long the bell had rung it was the end of the class and Alan arrived to take the students to Corporation Studies with Professor Oolong which as the Professor said was focused on making “Good Corporation workers out of you children”. Her class was very strict; she made all the students sit to a seating plan with an uncomfortable Mark sitting next to a very pleased Kayleigh. Professor Oolong began her lesson by going through some of the basics of Corporation Technology.
“The first thing you should be aware of” she said her voice high and full of pride. “Is that whilst Corporation Technology has become so advanced, that it might seem to the untrained eye, to be magic, it is not to be confused with that vile phenomenon. Any who does in this class will earn themselves detention. Now can anyone tell me something that all Corporation technology has in common?” James put his hand up immediately. “Yes Mister Warren”
“All Corporation technology is crystal powered” James said confidently.
“Very good, Mister Warren. Can anyone tell me why we use crystal power?” Professor Oolong asked. James’ hand shot up again, but Humphrey’s did also. “Yes, Humphrey?”
“Because Crystal power is extremely easy to harness and is reusable.” Humphrey answered.
“Very good” She said, almost smiling. “Now these crystals are mined in the Crystal Fields of Glæsisvellir. It is not a pleasant place, the temperature there rarely approaches freezing and it is a very remote place. As such no Technologist would ever be sent to mine it. Instead we send our Aboriginal prisoners accompanied by a squadron of brave Ceylons to mine it for us. Now if you were paying attention yesterday when you arrived in Assam, you will have noticed that there are four towers arranged in a square in the centre of Assam City, each with a crystal on top of them. These crystals are some of the largest that have ever been brought back from the Crystal Fields and they are responsible for the majority of the cities power requirements. Smaller power stations around the city walls use small crystals to make up the slack when power usage exceeds the levels that the larger crystals can provide.”
“Now at this point you probably want to know how the power of these crystals is harnessed. Well there are two ways. The larger crystals on top of the four Corporation towers absorb sunlight during the day, this power is magnified by the crystals and is channelled down through the towers and out into the city under the ground.”
“The second way of harnessing the energy is where the power stations come in. The smaller crystals cannot absorb as much energy from sunlight so they must be subjected to a focused beam of heat or energy, which multiplies as it passes through the crystals.”
After Professor Oolongs lesson it was lunchtime and Mark and the rest of the Phoenix class feasted on Burgers and Hot Dogs until they were full to bursting point. In the afternoon was Discoveries class with Professor Michelangelo who challenged each of his students to make a discovery over the course of the year. Their final lesson was with Professor Shakespeare who merely read from one of the many books he had written and sent the students all to sleep.
That night after their evening meal of Roast Chicken and Roast Potatoes, Kayleigh suggested that the Phoenix students play truth or dare in the freshman dorm room as a way of getting to know each other better. They all sat in a circle and moved around clockwise taking it in turns to be asked “Truth or dare?” by the rest of the group. At first the questions were fairly tame. Kristina revealed that she was wearing pink underwear, whilst both James and Tom admitted they had a crush on Itali from Oolong. It seemed that nobody wanted to be the first to do a dare. But then David, a third year, came in and brought them some Vodka Elixir that he had bought in the lower city and Paul suggested that whenever someone chose truth they would also have to drink a shot of the elixir. The elixir was quite strong especially for the students that had never consumed alcohol before and it wasn’t long before the students were starting to choose “dare”.
The first to choose dare was Selphie. The buxom brunette was ordered to “Get them out” by Tom whose speech was already starting to slur. Selphie obliged giving a couple of the boys their first look at real natural breasts and Mark in particular could not seem to take his eyes off of her small pink nipples that were becoming erect in the cool night air and began to compare them to Kayleigh’s brown nipples that he had seen the previous morning. He must have been starting to stare because Kristina gave him an elbow to the ribs to get him to stop. This however set the tone and even the truths started to get sexual.
Tom was next and he stuck with truth.
“Have you or would you ever kissed a boy?” Kristina giggled as Tom took a shot of the elixir.
“No I haven’t” Tom replied. “But yes I would.” Tom added clearly a bit embarrassed but Kristina liked that answer and you could her planning to dare another boy to kiss Tom whenever it next came around to it. But however her question backfired. Hannah had been next.
“Dare please” she shouted louder than was necessary. Tom wasted no time in getting his revenge on Kristina.
“Kiss Kristina for five seconds, with tongue” he said, and everyone looked at Kristina who had suddenly turned slightly purple. Hannah by this point was quite drunk and waste no time in approaching Kristina and there was a sharp intake of breath from all the male housemates as the two blondes locked lips. Kristina didn’t seem comfortable at first but then the vodka started to take over and she opened her mouth slightly allowing Hannah’s tongue inside. The two continued long past their five second remit but the boys would have gladly left them too it however Kayleigh stepped in to stop them telling them.
“Give someone else a turn” she said smiling before asking Mark “Truth or Dare?”
Mark had only done truths so far and no-one had asked anything too embarrassing but Kayleigh had a glint in her eye so his vodka fuelled brain opted for “dare” instead.
“Take off your bottoms for the rest of the game” she said licking her lips suggestively. Everyone immediately turned to face Mark who had gone bright red. He wanted to say no, but he knew he would have to do a forfeit which might be much worse. So he stood up and dropped his pants letting everyone see his flaccid member. The other boys with the exception of Tom looked away in disgust. The girls however just kept staring at his manhood and Mark could feel it and his cock was responding to it, starting to grow longer and get harder with every passing second.
“Mmmmm” Kayleigh murmured obviously pleased at the results of her dare.
“Right, whose next” said Kristina eager to spoil Kayleigh’s fun as the other blonde had done to hers. Mark sat down trying to cover himself up as best he could whilst staying reasonably comfortable. Hannah was sat next to him and raised her hand to say:
“My turn next” whilst all the time staring at Mark.
“Truth or Dare” Paul asked her grinning.
Hannah thought for a moment then replied “Dare” hoping for another kiss from Kristina.
“Take off your shirt for the rest of the game” said Paul excited.
Hannah groaned disappointed before lifting off her shirt, her perfectly pert breasts dropping from her shirt briefly before bouncing into place. The boy’s heads mirrored the movement of the breasts whilst Kayleigh was more interested in watching Mark’s cock twitch at the sight.
James was next but he opted for truth.
“How many girls have you had sex with?” Kristina asked smiling.
“Erm… None” James replied sheepishly.
Kayleigh was next and proudly chose dare.
“Since you’ve been so awfully mean to Mark I think you should give him some pleasure” Paul grinned and winked at Mark who was starting to turn red again. Kayleigh however was smiling as though this had been her plan all along and she crawled across the floor letting her cleavage show its full intensity to Mark who she pushed down on his back with his cock standing proudly skyward. And then without warning she placed her mouth over the tip of his penis and then sucked it inside causing Mark to moan loudly which produced a few giggles from Hannah, Selphie and Kristina whilst the boys shifted uncomfortably in their seats as their cocks responded to the sight of Kayleigh’s mouth now moving up and down Marks shaft.
“How long do we leave them” said Hannah as Kayleigh’s metronomic mouth moved up and down Marks steadfast shaft.
“Don’t worry” Kristina giggled. “He won’t last long now”. And sure enough within seconds Mark moaned loudly and came into Kayleigh’s willing mouth.
“You can put your pants back on now” she said as she swallowed his seed.
“How did you know?” Hannah asked Kristina knowingly.
“Oh its nothing like that, I just saw the way he reacted to me when I was getting changed at Security Outpost Alpha and figured he’d probably never seen a girl naked before” she explained.
The game which had been almost forgotten, continued but it wasn’t long before Mark bade everyone goodnight and went to bed. Kristina followed soon after and whispered to him that he shouldn’t worry about the events of the evening. The next morning whilst Kristina, Mark and James woke up in their own beds Hannah and Selphie woke up naked together with no idea how they got there whilst Tom, Paul and Kayleigh ended up sleeping on the floor entangled in a small sheet from Selphie’s bed and all very much naked. Even Mark and Kristina would have to admit, the night had been a success and they had definitely all gotten to know each other a lot better, maybe even a little too much.