Make Love Not War: Dragon Fire

The next day was Saturday and the students didn’t have lessons so Mark, Kristina and James packed some supplies and their panels into their rucksacks and decided to go exploring the rest of the campus. The first place they went to was the school library which was located on the third floor of the main building. The library was huge and took up the whole of the 3rd floor with bookshelves as far as the eye could see. Inside they met Mrs Tibbs the school librarian who offered to put a map onto their panels for them so that they knew where they were. The map also allowed them to add their friend’s panel location onto it as well. The three friends decided to test this facility by playing hide and seek in the library, with Kristina and James hiding somewhere in the vast jungle of bookshelves and Mark tracking them using the Map application. They played this game for an hour, occasionally being told to shush by Mrs Tibbs. When they were hungry they left the library and went down to the dining room where lunch was being served.
After lunch they decided to explore outside. Looking on their new maps they noticed that on the East and West sides of the campus’ hill was the terminal for a system of Air Taxis that ran through cylindrical tracks through the city. The friends decided to go and have a look and ride one if they could. The information on the map stated that the terminals were normally unmanned and free to use however today they were being guarded by two blue uniformed Ceylons who wouldn’t let the students pass. The students didn’t like this however their complaints were short lived as a short time later Kristina discovered an underground tunnel near the East Station. They decided to explore it and found that it led down into the heart of the hill. It wasn’t long before they lost daylight and couldn’t see anything in front of them and decided to turn back.
“We’ll have to come back and bring a torch or something” said Mark disappointed that they couldn’t continue.
“Yeah, I wonder where it leads” Kristina said.
Once back at the surface they decided to mark the place on the maps on their panels. They sat down on a bench near a purple flowerbed and took out their panels. Once he had his panel out and switched on Mark noticed that the Student Lounge application was flashing yellow. He pressed it and it revealed a sub menu of options which were “Student News Letter, Student Forum”, and “Student Association”. The option marked “Student Newsletter” was flashing. Mark pressed it and a notice appeared.
“Each month during the school term, a newsletter is produced by the students and will appear on your panel at the beginning of each month. Any students wishing to get involved in the newsletter please see Victoria Clark of Brunel House.”
Mark pressed the message and it disappeared and was replaced by the front page of a newspaper with the headline “Corporation Summit Approaches”. Mark was intrigued so read on.
“Corporation bosses from towns across Gaea are to meet in Corporation headquarters in Assam City at the end of the month. Due to this security around the city is due to be increased with Assam University students of all years now banned from the city until after the summit.”
Mark showed Kristina and James before marking the tunnel on his map and then packing his panel back into his bag. The rest of the day was spent exploring the rest of the grounds, but one thing stayed in the three friends minds. Where did that tunnel lead?
The last place that they visited was at the south end of the hill where there was a lake and waterfall marked on their maps. They thought it was beautiful seeing the low afternoon sun bouncing off the water and could have stayed there for hours but by now it had started to get dark the friends were all hungry again and decided to visit the dining room for some food. Mark told his friends to wait for him though whilst he went back to the Phoenix House and got changed.
Kristina and James waited for what seemed like hours but Mark did not return so Kristina decided to go and look for him. She entered the tunnel to the Phoenix House and swiped her I.D. card, entering the common room, which at this time was full of students of all years. Mark wasn’t among them however so she decided to go up in the lift and see if he was up in the Freshman Dorm Room. When the lift doors opened Kristina saw Selphie, Hannah, Kayleigh and Paul talking, she was about to ask if they had seen Mark when Selphie and Kayleigh started to kiss whilst Paul pulled off Hannah’s top and began to suck and bite her nipples before she dropped to her knees and released his cock from its denim prison. Selphie and Kayleigh also began to undress each other and soon all four of them were naked. Paul picked up Kayleigh and lay her down on his bed and moved between her legs. Kristina watched eyes wide as saucers as Hannah and Selphie began to suck on Kayleigh’s nipples as Paul positioned his cock between her legs and then penetrated her moving in and out of her pussy. Kayleigh moaned loudly and then pulled Hannah towards her and kissed her passionately. Kristina’s hand had wantonly moved between her legs and she noticed she was rubbing herself through her pants. Looking over to the bathroom she noticed she was not the only one watching. Mark was stood at the door eyes fixed on the foursome and Kristina could see a distinctive bulge in his pants. She smiled to herself and focused her attention back on the foursome. Hannah had replaced Paul between Kayleigh’s legs and Kristina could hear her sucking Kayleigh’s clit whilst Selphie was now sitting astride Paul lowering herself down on his thick member.
Suddenly she heard a noise from the bathroom, and the foursome did too. They stopped what they were doing and Paul went to see if anyone was there. Kristina decided she couldn’t let Mark be caught so she coughed and revealed herself.
“Erm, sorry about that, god you guys looked so sexy” she giggled nervously as the other girls covered themselves up.
“We thought everyone had gone out for the day” Hannah said.
“Oh yeah, i just came back to clean up before dinner, Mind if I use the bathroom” she smiled.
“Sure” Paul said, turning his back to her and showing his wings and shapely buttocks to her. Kristina bit her lip playing with her hair, her mouth-watering at the sight of them before she forced herself to drag herself away and into the bathroom where she was greeted by a red faced Mark who hugged her tightly.
“Is that a gun in your pocket or are you pleased to see me” she giggled.
They looked out of the door until they saw that the group outside weren’t watching and then Mark ran for the lift. He wasn’t seen and Kristina followed him quickly.
“I’m done, you guys have fun” she shouted to group as she entered the lift with the hiding Mark and then took him down to dinner.
The following weekend Mark, Kristina and James decided they would go back to the tunnel they had found. Kristina had remembered that she had in her belongings some glow sticks that Ifinglanders used when they were mining, or just lost in one of the Ifing City caverns. So she packed the glow sticks and hoped that they would give enough light for them to see where they were going down in the tunnel. They remembered exactly where the tunnel was and waited until no-one was around before venturing in to the dark tunnel, once it was too dark to see they each cracked a glow stick and used them to light their path. The path seemed to go forever, deeper and deeper into the hillside and the friends were just about to give up when suddenly Kristina spotted a light coming from the end of the passage way. They hurried towards the light and found themselves on a ledge in the side of a giant cavern that was lit by candle light. On one side of the cavern a lavishly decorated door with dragon symbols on it. Suddenly they heard voices and turned to see three people dressed in purple robes approaching the door.
“Come on let’s do this quickly, we don’t want the dragon slayer’s granddaughter finding us.” A female voice said.
“Yes, Mistress, I have the incantations here” A male replied.
“Then let us begin” her voice echoing around the cavern.
What followed was in no language that Mark, Kristina or James could understand and went on for ten, maybe fifteen minutes they couldn’t be sure. Suddenly the robed figures stopped and the room began to shake. A red piercing light filled the room forcing Kristina, Mark and James to close their eyes and when they opened them again, the robed figures were gone but the cavern was still shaking so the friends decided they had better get back to the surface.
As they approached the surface, suddenly they were confronted by Professor Oolong who was coming down the path.
“What are you children doing here” she barked angrily.
“We were just exploring and we found this cave” said Kristina.
“This cave is out of bounds to students” the Professor continued. “Go back to your house. IMMEDIATELY and it will be fifty credits away from all of you” she shouted making the cave around them shake.
Mark, Kristina and James ran quickly past her and returned to Phoenix house. When they returned the next day, a locked door had been built into the entrance.

As the end of the month approached and the Corporation Summit neared, security at the school became even tighter. Ceylons could be seen at every doorway and even in lessons whilst out of lessons the students were confined to their houses. This gave the friends a lot of time to talk and think about what they had seen down in the cave and Kristina was determined to get to the bottom of it. At their next History lesson they asked Professor Rooibos if they were allowed to visit the library after lessons and he gave them a permission slip but when they tried to enter the library they were still denied access. They considered going to Professor Oolong about it but they had avoided her as much as they possibly could since she had discovered them in the tunnel and didn’t think it was wise to try and ask her for a favour.
By the time the last day of September came around the students were all getting bored of staying in the Phoenix House all day. The freshmen had made use of the opportunity to get to know their older housemates though and James had even beaten one of them at Kamui. One of the older students had even offered to take the freshman out to the lower city and even though it wasn’t allowed by the school rules they all said yes.
The day of the summit was cold and the leaves were starting to fall from the trees. The students were woken at eight in the morning and escorted to their lessons as normal. They had Professor Oolong first who talked about what was happening at the summit.
“Each year, the managers of Corporation divisions throughout Midgard gather in Assam with the corporation President for a meeting.” She said. “This is where they decide things like their budget and what new endeavours they are to undertake”. She continued till well after the bell sounded for the end of class and most of the students were close to falling asleep, but Alan came in and told Professor Oolong he just had to take the students to Professor Rooibos.
Professor Rooibos was about to begin his lesson when suddenly a loud bang interrupted him and he ran to the window of his classroom. Mark watched the colour drain from his face. Professor Rooibos swallowed and took a deep breath before telling the students that class was dismissed and they were to return to their houses immediately.
None of the students knew what was going on, but as Alan was taking them back to their house Mark noticed that even the Ceylons were running around looking agitated. Then as they entered the house common room, Mark and Kristina noticed that everyone was gathered at the small corner window looking out. Instead of push in as most of the class were doing they took the lift up to the freshman room and ran to the window. Outside they could see smoke pouring from one of the four towers that they had seen on their way into Assam and its crystal was gone.
*****
“Do you have to go so soon” the Caucasian girl with long black hair with white tips wearing a sheer black basque with blue trim and matching suspender belt said to him as he got dressed.
“Yes, I’m sorry my darling I have an important meeting to go to today.” The man said as he clipped his blue and white tie to his collar.
“Come back before you leave, won’t you” the girl replied as she got out of bed and picked up her small dental floss thin thong which matched her basque and suspender belt perfectly.
“I will if I have time my dear. Your company has been most stimulating” he said “Do I pay downstairs?”
“Lady Persephone deals with the money” the girl gathered up her stockings and opened the door, walking out and down the stairs. He followed her turning one hundred and eighty degrees at the bottom of the stairs and into a room where several girls were dancing on a stage watched by several Ceylons, an elderly man and two women, one a small tanned woman with brown hair who couldn’t have been more than twenty years of age and the other a middle aged woman with dirty blonde hair wearing a gown that befitted someone of a much higher standing than the owner of a whore house.
“Lady Persephone I presume” the man said approaching the older of the two women.
“Good Morning sir I trust that Venus was to your liking” the woman said.
“Yes, she was very stimulating company” he said smiling. “I’m to understand that you are who I speak to regarding payment”
“Yes sir, Will you be taking advantage of our discount for Corporation officials?” Lady Persephone asked and the younger of the two ladies looked at him her eyes narrowing.
“How did you know?” the man replied. “Yes I suppose under the circumstances I had better make use of your offer”
“Very good sir that will be three hundred republic credits please” and he presented her with his I.D. card which she took in her hand and walked to the opposite of the room behind a bar and swiped it before returning it along with a receipt.
“If that will be all sir I will bid you a good day, please consider us again for your stimulation needs” Lady Persephone handed him back his card and receipt before turning back to the younger of the two ladies. He wasted no time in leaving back through the door he had entered through and past the stairs and through the front door into the street. He looked around and spotted a Ceylon standing nearby and walked up to him showing him his identity card.
“Please can you take me to the Upper City?” the man asked the Ceylon.
“Yes sir. Follow me” the Ceylon said and began to walk forwards with the man in tow.
Jeremy Kahn was the manager of the Galbadia division of the Corporation and had taken the early morning train from Galbadia to Assam City for the annual Corporation Summit and thanks to the efficiency of the Cross Country Underground Train’s he had arrived early. His predecessor in the role and mentor, Mr Joe Stamren, had informed him before he had taken over that should he ever have some spare time in Assam he should check out Lady Persephone’s house of ill repute, so he had taken the opportunity and spent a wonderful morning with a prostitute called Venus. He had been trying to keep a low profile not wanting the Corporations name to be dragged into such an affair, but the proprietor of the establishment had known who he was and it seemed from what she had said as though she was used to having Corporation personnel as her customers.
The Ceylon brought him to the Business District gate and he walked quickly to the Air Taxi, swiping his Identity card and selecting ‘Corporation Headquarters’ from the menu that was presented. The Air Taxi rose up and shot off across the air towards the tall tower with the white crystal. When it landed he stepped outside and towards the door next to which was a key card reader through which he swiped his identity card. The doors swung open and he entered and walked to the Reception desk.
“Hello, I’m here for the Corporation Summit meeting” he said offering his identity card.
“Welcome Mister Stamren, please take the elevator up to the twenty fifth floor. The meeting will be taking place in the executive boardroom.” The receptionist smiled at him and pointed behind her to the elevators in the rear of the reception area.
Jeremy walked around the front desk and swiped his identity card on the key card reader to the side of the elevator. The doors opened and he entered.
“Welcome to Corporation Headquarters Mister Stamren” the elevators on-board computer said. “You will be taken to the twenty fifth floor” and the elevator began to move upwards, slowly at first before gathering speed and within a minute the doors opened out onto the twenty fifth floor.
Jeremy walked out of the elevator into a short corridor which he followed to the open double doors of the executive boardroom. Inside most of the other managers from Corporation divisions around Gaea were already seated ready to begin and Jeremy took a seat next to the extremely attractive redhead Scarlett Ross, of the Corporation’s Eccle Stone division. It wasn’t long before they were joined by the Corporation’s President Daman Chandler.
“Shall we begin” the President said smiling.
“The first thing on everyone’s agenda, The Shiva project, is going ahead as planned. Professor Cid says the subject is progressing well.”
“Secondly, due to the continued unrest amongst the lower city population we have had to take action and have a recruitment drive for new Ceylon’s. To pay for this the Mayor has agreed to increase Upper City tax rates by two percent”
“Ha, I can’t believe you call him mayor, as though he actually has some say in what goes on in this city.” Scarlett laughed.
“Whilst that may be true Scarlett, his signature does have to be on everything. Just in case anyone might want to check up on us.” The president replied smiling. “I expect you all to engineer similar tax increases in your districts.” Jeremy didn’t like the sound of that and was about to raise his hand when there was a knock at the door and a tall thin middle aged woman with dark greying hair entered the room.
“Aah Formosa” the President smiled. “Delighted that you could join us”
“Thank you mister president” the woman said. “I trust everything is going smoothly?”
“Quite well, we’re making excellent time” the President replied.
“I’m here to tell you about my own little pet project down at the Science Division. I’m sure you all know of what I speak.” There were nods from around the room except for the newest of their members Jeremy who was starting to feel like there was something his predecessor should have told him. “We are making excellent progress, however we do require more funding if we are to continue. There have been a few setbacks, notably the memory issue is still uncertain. But we are agreed that this must go forwards.” The room was filled with nods and quiet agreement again and Formosa smiled pushing her tiny glasses back up her long nose. “Good, well since that is settled I shall bid you all goodbye, I have a class” She said before making her way back out of the room.
“Right then so it is settled. An extra billion credits in the budget for the Science Division. That will mean raising the taxes up another percent. I shall have to consult with the mayor again” the President confirmed. Scarlett sniggered.
“Now, is there any other business?” the President asked, and Jeremy’s hand was raised immediately to startled looks from his colleagues.
“Yes Mister Stamren” the President said.
“Sir, I have an idea about raising extra capital for some humanitarian work in Galbadia, I was wondering if I could make a short presentation to you” Jeremy asked shakily
“I’m sorry I don’t have time for that” the president said.
Jeremy decided that Daman would see his presentation whether he had time or not. He waited until the end of the meeting, whilst everyone was congratulating the President on another year of brilliant corruption he made his way to the lift, using his identity card to get in.
“Top Floor please” he asked the computer before it had welcomed him. The doors closed and the lift started to ascend right to the top of the building. He stepped off the elevator and looked for the sign saying where the President’s office was. He found it and ran down the corridor to find it, slowing down to a walk just as the Presidents secretary came into view.
“Hi, I’m here to set up a presentation for the President”
“Do you have an appointment?” the secretary asked.
“No, we were just talking downstairs; I’m Jeremy Stamren from the Galbadia division.”
“Oh okay go ahead then” the secretary said.
The president’s office was very large and richly decorated as one would expect of a president’s office but it was also very unusual. As it was in the centre of the building in the centre of the room there was a column of light, behind a translucent cylindrical wall. This was because it was directly beneath the large white crystal which sat on the roof. The light from the sun was shining down on the crystal which absorbed the light and it was reflected and refracted and channelled into the column. Jeremy was used to this as he had been in Corporation buildings throughout his whole career though never one as tall which such a large crystal on top of it. He walked past the column and sat at the President’s golden trimmed oak desk and turned on the President’s computer, which projected a holographic screen just above the desk. He opened the presentation software and began to prepare his presentation for President. He had decided that he would leave it running when he was done so that the President would see it when he came back into the room.
Jeremy was half way through his presentation when suddenly he heard a strange humming noise coming from across the room. He looked up and noticed that the light in the centre of the room had started to pulse getting brighter and brighter. The humming was getting louder too and he didn’t like the sound of that. He thought that maybe it was some sort of security system that hadn’t reached Galbadia yet and he imagined having to explain his presence in the President’s office to the squadron of Ceylons that would undoubtedly invade the room at any moment. He was going to try and finish his presentation quickly before they got there but the humming kept getting louder and louder and the pulsing in the centre column was getting faster and faster and he decided that he couldn’t take the risk and quickly ran for the door but he was too late. He never made it. The column in the centre of the room glowed white hot and exploded into a million pieces sending deadly spikes of white hot translucent material across the room impaling Jeremy through the neck and melting into him.