This story is a bit of a departure from what I usually write and I hope it is going to be a long one. I have the first 2 chapters planned out and each chapter should be 3 parts long. Reader feedback will determine if I go beyond that. This story is based very loosely on the idea created by the Dragon Ball Z universe, a lot of the fighting and attack sequences relate to chi power moves and combat. 

As with all of my stories, when I write a sex scene or the like, it is graphic and very detailed. This story should have a little bit of everything except for femdom or bondage (sorry, I just don’t like that stuff), but anything else goes. 

Questions about how her powers work will be explained eventually, but for now just think of her as a chi fighter like Goku and Vegita. Any and all comments on this story will be considered and taken to heart. If a part is just too confusing or messed up let me know I will edit it and make it better. 

Contact me at ertle2@msn.com
 
Power Play 1a  
Usable Commodity
By C. Rose(c)2000
(FF)

	Amy Lee paced across the small room. She wore a simple brown dress, her fire red hair spread out from under a wide brimmed cap. Looking down at the girl in the bed reminded her that she hadn’t had a case like this in years, and that had been on another colony world. She’d thought the accursed trait finally bred out of the majority of the human race, but the poor girl stretched out before her was a testament to a how false that way of thinking was.  Amy cursed silently, she’d been pretending to be a healer for several years now, gaining a good reputation and a decent following of patients. She could cure any kind of cold or sicknesses, set any bone, even the plague wasn’t a major stretch for her. In rare cases she had been forced to use her powers of magic to save a persons life, but that was rare. She had been around for a long time now and she knew what she was doing without having to resort to magic to heal everything she ever came across. She had been living in this particular village for several years now, gaining trust and making friends when she could. 
	Amy had been able to see as soon as she came in the door that the poor girl hadn’t eaten in several days, she cursed silently to herself. She actually didn't like this village very much, if it hadn't been for a rare few people she’d met here she would have left during the first month. To make matters worse, this town treated its women like furniture, to be used and discarded like their lives meant nothing. The men wouldn’t lift a finger to help one of thier women unless they profited from doing so, like selling one of the girls to a local slave trader. Amy tossed her jacket over a nearby chair, a primitive wool shift that she had been told was all the local fashion, it itched like crazy. 
	The injured girl’s name was Utai, a nice young thing that Amy had been trying to get to know a little better lately. She had been good looking and had a pretty good body that captured everyone's attention, men and women, but now she looked like she was dead. As Amy pulled the covers back, she found the girl was in even worse shape thatn she thought, she was covered in scars, whip like boils and large round bruises were everywhere on her body. Her once beautiful face was now swollen up and horrid, her lips cracked open, she couldn't see out of either eye and her hair was matted with blood. That little aspect pissed Amy off to know end, her parents hadn't even tried to clean her up before they called her in. She reached out and pried open one of Utai's eyes, they were an emerald green, and they had always fascinated Amy. Now they revealed that the poor girl was beyond the primitive help of this world, Utai was locked into a coma. Amy was sure that if she were to use her magic on the girl, they would reveal that her brain was swelling up and pressing against the crushed portion of her fractured skull.
	Amy had looked at this one several times over the last year or so, once every few months if she recalled correctly. Every time she had come to Amy for healing of something, always before she had come to her. Not this time, the girls mother had called for her today, someone had used the poor girl as a punching bag. Amy noticed that some of the wounds looked like some kind of blunt object had caused most of the damage to her battered body. With that thought, Amy went from a suppressed state of anger to a full killing intensity burn in under a half second, she had to use every trick she knew to physically calm herself as a powerful urge to vaporize the monster that had done this! The poor girl on the bed still had the bruises and open sores one received at the hands of a monster. 
	They reminded her of the problems she had found when she tried to move into a house at the edge of town. These wounds and scars were the same kind she had encountered several years ago when she first arrived in this pathetic town and let the locals know that she was willing to help them if they need anything, but It seemed the local ruler, a Duke or something, had rules that said a woman couldn’t own land or be on her own. So within a few days of her setting up shop he had sent out 12 men to throw her out of her newly acquired home, by any means necessary. They had come in the middle of the night expecting to find her asleep in her bed like some week willed woman who couldn't protect herself. The sound of their horses and thier loud voices had alerted her to their presence, form there it had been only a matter of waiting for them.
	The first thing they had done was kick in her front door and rush in like complete morons. Amy had certain skills beyond her healing abilities that she used much more easily, like some kind of ghost she struck without warning, 4 broken arms and 2 legs later, Amy had stood unharmed as the whole pack of cowards fled from her screaming in terror and leaving behind 3 of thier comrades. They left their weapons, horses and pride behind. She had set her attackers broken bones, drugged them with a sleeping potion, and tied them onto the backs of the forgotten horses. From there she had carted the back to the Duke and tossed them bodily on his doorstep, stripped naked and left to the whims of a local brothel. After several such occurrences, with more broken bones and loss of dignity, Amy sent every group home, alive and naked. Within a few months she found that her life had quieted down a little and she started to offer her healing abilities to any woman who desired her help. She just couldn't let the deplorable state of this poor village hurt her fellow sisters, even if some of them deserved what was happening to them. 
	The girl’s mother, Clara, stood nearby “Mistress Amy…” she shivered visibly. A fat woman, very homely, her plump body wobbled like ancient Jell-O, Amy shuddered quietly. Over the last several years this town had made her very cynical and a little mean. She couldn't stand the sight of certain individuals any more, and Clara was one of them. “What ails my poor daughter?”
	Amy sighed, and thought about the weather, the very seasons as they shifted from hot to cold. For some reason, as was basic human nature, everyone in the village tended to more and more angry as it rolled into winter. It got worse as the food dwindled to scraps that even dogs wouldn’t touch unless they hadn't had anything in weeks. Soon the beatings began, to vent anger. Husband hitting wife, mother hitting child, the violence passed on to each successive generation like some kind of grotesque skill. Amy glanced down at the Clara’s hands as she held them against her over sized breasts, narrowing her eyes as they blazed in suppressed fury. Her voice was as cold as glacier ice as she spoke to the fat woman. 
	“Mother Clara, your daughter will most likely die soon…” she started, not feeling at all in the mood to be tactful.
	An inhuman screech issued from Clara as she fell to the floor, a pile of rolling blubber, “Noo…!”
	Those hands revealed why this poor girl, barely 14, lay there in a coma, her face vacant, drool flowing down her cheek to mix with the blood seeping out of her head wound. “Mother Clara, I can do nothing, there is too much damage to her brain now..” Amy sighed; Clara’s knuckles were covered in bloody knarls and scabs. Her body was even more bent and stooped from the hard life the pile of blubber had experienced. Amy didn't care about the woman anymore, poor Utai had not even experienced anything yet and now she was going to die because of this bitch. Amy was just as mad at herself, she kept her powers a secret for safeties sake, if she could use them openly she could have probably helped the girl, but she had to keep a low profile at this time.
	“This girl is nearly dead because some fool used her for a punching bag, Mother Clara, there is only so much I can do for her. The best thing at this time would be to ease her out of this life and let her move on, it would be a mercy to her. Some bastard has beaten your daughter so badly that she will suffer from severe retardation for the rest of her natural life of she lives, which I dought. Careless anger and thoughtless actions of those she trusted brought this on her, I can do nothing to help her at this point. It's in your hands now.” Standing, Amy leaves the room and barely manages to keep from killing the girl’s mother by mere inches. 
	Clara’s low intelligence finally registered Amy’s words. The shrieks of denial soon filled the air behind Amy, she slams the door shut and walks out of the house pulling on her wool jacket. Amy ignored it all, she just couldn’t save everyone and Utai had been beyond all but her most powerful magic. The girl would soon be beyond Clara’s reach at least. Beyond everyone’s reach.
Amy went down the block, the sound of Clara's screams of agony filling the area still, and went to see the carpenter’s wife, a woman named Alia. She and Amy were friends, not close by any measure, but friends non-the less. As a healer or doctor, Amy had become the areas wet nurse for children's births and the like, Amy had helped save Alia's life when she had a difficult delivery a couple of years ago. She had been near death when some one had finally called her. When she had finally arrived she’d found that she needed use her powers to save girl‘s life. She'd been forced to gently shift the baby around inside her womb and let nature take its course. A breech birth in this primitive setting was a very bad idea, there would have been no way to save either of  their lives if that had been necessary. 
Like most of the buildings in the village, including hers, Alia’s house was only 3 rooms and a single level. It had primitive glass windows and a thatched roof that had to be replaced every few months due to the heavy rains in the area. Alia was sitting on an old chair in the fenced off yard as Amy approached, she was slowly sanding down some rough-cut wood to be seasoned over some weeks in her husbands wood shed. “Alia?”
	As Alia turned and grimpsed as she slowly stood up and waved her inside, Amy stopped and stared, she cursed under her breath as she noticed that the idiot woman was pregnant again!? “Alia, what’s this? You nearly died having the last one, I barely managed to save you that time."
	“I know, but this one came on me without notice.”
	“You should have called me, I could have made it easier on you. I did deliver the last one after all.”
	Alia smiled, “It’s all right, I’m much stronger now, and I’ve been exercising. Jerrol is in back if you need wood?” 
	“I thought I’d stop and tell you that Clara’s daughter will soon die. A coffin will likely be needed.”
	“How sad, I’ll send Jerrol over to take matters in hand.”
	Amy nodded, “Send for me if you have complications. And you know I’m a grouch, not a monster. You don’t have to avoid me.”
	Alia laughed, “I’m sorry Amy, you’ve been so moody lately. I didn’t want to impose on you.” She pats her swelled stomach.
	“For what, it’s my calling, I do nothing else.” 
	“Amy, are you still interested in that girl over on the side of the village?”
	"Viki? Sure, I guess, I haven't heard anything about her lately though. I had assumed that she left or was fostered off on someone. Why?"
	"Well, her parents sent her to a friend’s house on the other side of the forest for the summer. She returned a few days ago and they have been having problems with her ever since, she is a completely different girl now. She is more willful and head strong, she is going to get into trouble if she isn't careful and I was thinking that it was time that you took on an apprentice."
	"I suppose, but I won't be much longer than a few more years. My time is running out, I can feel it. But what you are suggesting is intriguing, I'll look into it."
	"I thought you might feel that way, you have been restless lately and I know the signs. I talked to the girl’s parents a couple of days ago and suggested that they send her to you, they were hesitant, but saw the wisdom in what I was suggesting. They want you to make the first move though, if you want to head over there they should all be at home right now."
	"Okay, I‘ll do that, see ya Alia." 
	Viki was a girl she had been watching for a couple of years now, she was 16 and a little terror to her parents. Amy and her had talked a few times and the more they were around each other, the more they liked each other. Amy had certain inclinations that didn't quite fit in with people and this was one of the reasons she kept to herself, she was a total lesbian. She hadn't always been like this, at one time she had chased men with equal skill and achievement. Then her life had been changed completely, she shuddered and had to stop as tears welled up in her eyes at the horrid thought. Even to this day that event had profound effects on her decisions and lifestyle. She wiped the tears out of her eyes and thought about Viki to take away the pain, or at least dull it.
	She was a woman at the very beginning of her life and had responded to Amy's veiled hints at relationship. They had talked a few times, confided in each other, and did all the usual bonding things that could lead to a night of sex. So far Amy had only been able to get a kiss out of the girl, it had been great too, but she had wanted more. Then Viki had disappeared and Amy had missed her, after a while she had given up and figured that she had found a boyfriend or that her parents had done something with her. Her bit of investigating hadn't given her anything though and she had decided to wait it out and see what would happen. 
	On the far side of town Amy took a well walked path that led into the forest, as she did so she seemed to change. Her walk became more confident, a longer stride, she lifted her head height and straightened her shoulders. Out here she could be herself without having to worry about making mistakes and giving herself away. She concentrated and sent her senses out in front of her, as her awareness spread she could 'see' what was happening all around her. The rabbits, the insects and everything else as it happened, she could see the life auras of the plants, the animals, and even the land itself all working in harmony to survive. Her eyes seemed to glint for a second as she passed through the shadows created by dusk, as they did her minds eye spread out over the forest searching for Viki. 
	She found her brothers first, two older men in there late twenties, they were chopping at a downed tree to make firewood. Their cart was just beside them and they had it about half full of wood and kindling, a tired horse was tied to it and waiting for the command to go. The beast was a defeated animal and Amy always had this nagging feeling that she should put it out of it's misery. She moved on after noting their location, after a couple of more minutes she found the girl's parents out in the wheat field behind the house carrying in the last of the days haul. 
	Amy was about to give up when she recalled that Viki had once mentioned that she liked to hang out at the area's waterfall when she was in a bad mood. Usually after a fight with her parents or a hard day, the roar of the falls calmed her down and helped her to relax. It was a good place to swim and the falls were a great place to take a shower as well, Amy had taken a few of her female friends there over the years. Focusing her mind, Amy located the waterfall and found Viki sunbathing in the nude on a rock by the pool. 
	Looking around the area, with her powers and her eyes, Amy broke to the left and accelerated into a run. Within seconds she was a blur moving in and out of the trees like a wraith or a shadow. She could move at speeds that the people on this planet couldn't even comprehend and within about a minute Amy came up on the falls and stopped in mid step. The wind that she had been pulling along behind her caught up and whooshed in from behind, Amy walked into the clearing and spotted Viki.
	"Viki!" 
	She sat up in alarm and looked around, scrambling for her clothing, but she stopped as she spotted Amy waving at her. She squealed and jumped off the rock and ran, naked, at Amy. She threw herself into Amy's arms and gave her a delightful hug. Viki was about 5'5, with long black hair, small breasts, and deep brown eyes that took in everything. Amy was always reminded about her tall frame when ever she was around Viki, she was 6' tall and had a muscular body that she hid with her dresses and robes because the men of the village would have blown a breaker to know that she was better built than some of them. 
	"Amy! I missed you so much this summer..."
	"How are today?"
	"My stupid parents sent me off to this school to try and break my spirit by having me learn about religion and history, but the only thing I could think of was you and your incredible lips. That reminds me..." Viki said, and locked her lips with Amy's surprised lips. It didn't take long before she was kissing back and taking control of the situation. Amy's hands wandered down to grab Viki's ass and lifter her up a little. Viki gave a surprised moan and pressed herself closer, flattening her small breasts against Amy. Amy broke the kiss and licked Viki's lips.
	"Hi Viki, I missed you too." Amy said huskily.
	"I've been dreaming about you all summer and you were so far away." 
	"From that kiss I would say that you have been practicing a little." 
	A blush quickly rose up on Viki and filled her cheeks and she got really meek. Amy noticed and laughed at her reaction, all thoughts of Utai left her and she focused on Viki instead. She kissed Viki again and took her time as they French kissed each other, sucking on each other’s tongues and pawing at each other.
	"How did you know that I had been with others Amy?"
	"The passion, I never had chanced to teach you how to do that. That means that someone else did the deed, I'm just a little sad that it wasn't me. Yet, I'm glad too, now I can teach you a whole bunch of tricks that I know and you can compare them with what you already know." 
	"Oooh! That sounds like fun and it has been a long time since we last saw each other." Viki said quietly, pulling Amy to the ground with her. The soft grasses of the small glen were a perfect place to make out because they were so tall that one couldn't see anybody in side them unless it was from above. Amy shrugged out of her jacket and tossed it to the side as Viki lay back and beckoned her closer. Her dress, a gray woolen contraption came off like a t-shirt to reveal Amy's athletic body, she was left wearing her boots and a pair of silver armbands on her forearms that glittered in the low light of dusk. Viki had seen them before and noticed that there was a large jewel on each bracer, blue on the left one and green on the right. 
	She snaked forward and ran her hands over Viki's thighs and stomach as she looked her over with a more appetitive eye. The girl’s body was very slim and soft, she had wider than normal hips and bouncy breasts with large nipples, there was a small birthmark on the underside of her left breast in the shape of a large tear running down her skin. Lower down was the junction between her legs, it was covered with a fine black pubic hair that drew her eye like a magnet. 
	"Your beautiful Viki..." Amy murmured as she leaned forward and kissed her.
	"So are you Amy, such a perfect body." Viki whispered back and ran her hands down Amy's back to grasp her tight ass, Amy moaned quietly. 
	It had been a long time since Amy had taken a lover as beautiful as this one and she wanted to make it last. She had plans for this day that she quickly sent into motion a she lightly kissed her way down Viki's neck and shoulders until she reached the curve of her breasts. Amy swept them up and together so that she could take both nipples into her mouth at once, they hardened quickly and she soon had Viki squirming. A moan of pleasure came from somewhere deep in Viki as Amy sucked. First one nipple, then the other one with a little more pressure and a scraping of her teeth to pull on them. Back and forth she went, until Viki was moaning constantly and writhing in her hands. Amy sucked on a nipple and tried to take in as much of it into her mouth as she could and gave a mighty suck. 
	It was just enough, Viki cried out and came with a whine of ecstasy. Her hands were interlaced into Amy's fire red hair as they held her in place above her breasts and trembling body. She gasped a few times and fell back to the soft grass and looked at Amy in awe, she had never cum from having her nipples sucked on before. "Amy that was incredible, how did you learn how to do that?"
	"I had it done to me a number of times in the past, pretty good huh?" Amy laughed.
	"Gods, don't stop now that you've got me going."
	Licking her way down Viki's breasts, Amy probed her belly button with her tongue and moved down further. Viki gasped and arched her back off the ground and fell back with a little squirm. She ran her fingers through Viki's pubic hair and wondered if the girl would allow her to shave it off, Amy thought the shaved look was better all around. For now she ignored it used her fingers to find the girls pussy buried in all the hair, it wasn't hard to find as it was super enflamed and ready for whatever Amy had in mind.  
	"Are you ready, my lovely?"
	"Yes!"
	Her goal was sticking out of Viki's folds like little penis and Akiko cooed at the sight of her over sized clitoris as she took it between her lips and caressed it. Viki gasped and arched again, her clit was supersensitive and had been the source of all of her pleasure for a long time now. She had never met another girl with one like it, but knew that she like sex far more than any of her friends ever had. Amy bobbed her head slightly and ran her finer down the creased folds of Viki's pussy at the same time. She tasted her and found her to be a rare treat of pure sugar, the thick syrup was slowly pooling up inside her and waiting to be released. 
	Amy backed off and grinned as Viki's waist crashed back down and she whimpered at the loss and gasped for air. Licking the large outer folds of Viki's pussy, Amy got a better taste and nearly swooned in delight. She lapped her up like a cat would milk, drawing it up one little steamer at a time and moaning her appretiation to Viki who was now oblivious to everything but what Amy was doing to her. Suddenly she writhed back and tensed up, then she cried out and came again, this time more powerful than the last. It consumed her mind and she screamed in ecstasy as it flared in every vein in her body. 
	Opening her mouth wide, Amy latched it around the entire length of Viki's pussy and was rewarded with an outpouring of her girl cum that filled her mouth. Even with her arms wrapped around her waist, Amy had a hard time holding one as Viki writhed and convulsed through two powerful orgasms that left her panting for air. Amy continued to lap away as Viki came down a little, a silly grin covered her face as she gazed at Amy. Then Amy did something with her tongue, she had no idea what it was, but Viki went from afterglow and peace right into the most intense orgasm she had ever had in her life. It ripped her soul out of her and had her flapping in the breeze like a limp rag. She screamed she was suddenly over whelmed so completely that she collapsed into a dead faint. 
	Slurping up even more of her juices, Amy giggled and let Viki’s clitoris loose from her teeth and kissed it lovingly. She had been with more girls than she could even remember over the years and had actually lost count of the number, but in all her time she had never once failed to make a girl faint from a powerful orgasm if she wanted them to. Amy sat up and licked her fingers clean, she liked to give pleasure a lot more than to receive it, so she didn't expect anything in return. Still, she liked it too, and she was in the mood to receive a little loving herself. She leaned for ward and kissed Viki's face in several locations to wake her up, this continued for a couple of minutes as her eyes fluttered open.
	"I love you." Viki whispered.
	"Pretty good, huh?" Amy smiled back.
	"I'm serious Amy, I love you. That was indescribable and it made me love you more than I ever thought possible..."
	Kissing her nose, Amy leaned back and caressed her stomach and looked her in the eyes again. "You wouldn't happen to want to return the favor would you Viki?"
	"Of course I would Amy, I love you more than anything." Viki said dreamily. She sat up and pushed Amy onto her back and leaned down to kiss her. From there Viki took charge and lifted one of Amy's small breasts in her hands, the nipples were rock hard and stood straight out at Viki. She took it in her mouth sucked softly, but intently enough for Amy to really enjoy it. She licked her fingers and started to run the wet fingers in small circles around Amy's nipples. After a couple minutes of this Amy was panting and moaning to herself. She had really sensitive nipples and liked to brush them against her lover’s skin as they make love to one another. Viki licked her fingers again and kissed her way down Amy's body, as she neared her pussy she stopped to marvel at what Amy looked like. She had no pubic hair what so ever, Viki had just assumed that it was a light blonde that was hard to see in the low light. Now she found that she was wrong and she loved to sight of a bald pussy, she kissed the skin just above Amy's pussy and makes her gasp and moan. Her pussy lips were swollen and ready, drops of girl cum covered her thighs where they had rolled out of her. Viki licked and kissed Amy's inner thighs for several minutes, getting every thing she could. 
	Over her vacation she had met a girl who was on the school custodial staff that maintained the manor house that the school used, she had been an open bisexual who would do it with whoever she found attractive, they had gotten to know each other intimately over their 2 month affair. She had never make her feel like she did now, licking up her love's own juices and marveling at the exquisite taste and texture. The taste was like a fine wine that went down her throat smoothly and the texture was like fine satin oil that was as fun to touch as taste. Her head buzzed as if she was drunk and Viki moaned and dove in, unable to hold back anymore.
	Her hips undulated as Viki licked her crease and Amy gasped and moaned, the girl had learned her lessons well hadn't she? Amy thought to herself. She felt it as she moved in, Viki's hair caressing her thighs where her tongue had been driving her nuts just minutes before. Then she cried out as a tongue pierced her pussy and spread her enflamed pussy like a flower and sent a shudder through her quacking. Amy thrust her hips forward and heard Viki's giggle as her face was pressed into her pussy. Amy backed off and gasped for air, but Viki didn't let up as she found and kissed her clitoris. 
	To Amy it was heaven, she loved to play with her girls like this. The ones that knew what to do and how to make her cum like there wasn't going to be a tomorrow. She could feel her orgasm building within her, but Amy knew that Viki was planning something devious. She was showing a skill that one as young as her shouldn't possess, and yet she knew just when to touch and caress every inch of her pussy. Amy moaned and writhed as her body was brought to the edge and left there as Viki suddenly moved away from her with a gasp of fear.
	"Amy! My stupid family is coming this way, I can hear them calling my name. Get up and get dressed, we have to move out now!" Viki said, she scrambled to her feet and ran for the rock where she had left her clothing. She tossed on a simple dress and her boots as Amy moaned in frustration and rolled to her feet like a cat. She got dressed quickly and was just pulling on her jacket as the two older brothers came into the clearing leading that old horse. She wanted to punch both of them for interrupting her and Viki, she wanted to cum so badly that it hurt her to stand up straight. It had been so close, just a little more and she would have been in seventh heaven right now. A stupid little grin on her face to match the one on Viki's face, it had been so damn close she could taste it. 
	The larger of the two brothers came forward and glared at Viki, who glared right back and didn't back down. This was one the reasons Amy liked this girl so much, she had more back bone than most of the girls in the village. She wasn't afraid of a challenge and would fight back if it were necessary, a quality that Amy admired. Amy recognized Viki's brother as Vlick, and he was a brut of a man. He had muscles as big around as some trees and just as much intelligence. When angered he had been known to do a lot of damage to whatever was in his way, he had once ripped the legs off a dog that had attacked him and tossed the still living carcass in a nearby fire with out an ounce of compassion. 
	"Viki, we have been looking all over for you, it is time to head back in and have supper. Pa won't let us start without all of us there, you know that so come on before I hit you."
	"Fuck off you shit head, I was having a little fun swimming and relaxing when you came stomping in here. Now you have ruined my whole day by threatening me, go home and tell Pa that I will be a few minutes behind you." 
	"You will come with me right now, I'm hungry and I will not let some useless girl tell me otherwise, you hear me." Vlick said.
	"No, I will..." Viki began.
	It happened so fast that Amy didn't have time to respond, Vlick backhanded her and sent his sister flying back. Amy's enhanced senses saw the multiple drops of blood spray out even as Viki hit the ground. A white wall of anger came over her, with everything she had seen today this was the final straw. She is moving before she even think about it, covering the 20 yards between them in less than 2 seconds. Planting her foot, Amy launches into the air and does a flying kick right into Vlick's jugular. Amy is a fighter of amazing ability, because of this Vlick is hit with more force than a normal girl could usually deliver. Vlick is crumpling even as his brother starts to run forward to warn him of Amy's attack. 
	The sound of 300 pounds of limp muscle collapsing fills the silence, Amy lands on her back and easily rolls to her feet. A blade of red energy spins to life in her hands and goes into combat crouch. The blade is 3 foot long and is glowing as bright as any fire, it is humming as energy courses through it. Vlick gurgles and grabs his throat, trying to gasp for air, Amy can see that she has crushed his adams apple and it is restricting the flow of air. Viki’s brother, Vanion gasps in shock as Amy circles to the side, her blade buzzing softly. 
	"No bitch can do that to a man like Vlick, you’re a witch and I will kill you for hurting him."
	"Just can't seen to grasp that he hurt your sister can you bastard, I will give you one chance to back off and go away. After that all bets are off, do you understand me?" Amy said, barely managing to control her rising anger. She needed to check on Viki and this pathetic scum was in her way, he would pay dearly for delaying her.
	Reaching across his shoulder, Vanion pulls free this giant axe that she had missed in her rage. Amy recognizes it as the one she had seen him using earlier when she saw him cutting up that dead tree for wood. Her enhanced senses also let her see the blood stains on it from some recent battle, the entire blade was streaked with blood and half-dried gore. Vanion roared and brought the axe up to attack her, it flared green in the moonlight. 
	Gasping in shock, Amy dove to the left and watched as the axe blade slammed down into the ground. There is a spark and the earth erupts outward in a small explosion, Amy rolls to her feet and takes a closer look at the axe. As far as she could recall, high tech gadgets were not allowed on this planet, there were forbidden in fact. Magic was another matter, but how could a peon like this get his hands on a Magic axe? Vanion spun on the heel of his foot and tried to cut her again, the blade buzzed to life again as it descended toward her. 
	She didn't want to kill either one of these bastards, but if this moron kept this up she was going to have to. Eyes squinting, red energy flares out of them for a second, then Amy brings her blade up and blocks the axe. An explosion of energy and fire engulfs both of them even as Amy steps forward and attacks. A dust cloud blocks the next few seconds, but it is broken by Vanion screaming in agony and staggering out of the cloud. He makes it a few feet before he drops the axe and falls to his knees, out cold beside his brother. Amy walks out, looking as normal as usual, she runs over to Viki and examines her quickly. It is only a broken nose, she quickly resets it and holds up her left hand. 
	Blue energy pulses to life around her fingertips, after a few seconds she touches Viki's nose and the energy flares out around her body. Viki convulses and gasps as Amy watches the broken nose heal completely, the blood flow stops. Using her jacket as a pillow, Amy rips a chunk off and runs over to the pool to wet it down. She returns and cleans up the blood off Viki's face with a compassion that would have surprised the murderous Vanion and Vlick if they had been awake. The cold water brings Viki awake and she opens her eyes to see Amy, she smiles.
	"What happened?"
	"Your brother hit you." Amy said flatly, her anger flashing in her eyes. She motions with her head and Viki looks over at her two brothers and gasps in shock.
	"Did you do that?"
	"He hit you, then the other one attacked me, I fought back."
	"No one had ever knocked my brothers out, they are too big and stupid to lose."
	"It wasn't that hard, though Vanion had a magical axe, I was wondering where it came from?"
	"It's a family heirloom I think, a long time ago we were a family to be reckoned with, at least according to our Pa. Now we are nothing but peasants and beggars and bullies stuck in this hellhole. How did you beat Vlick, he once killed a horse by punching it between the eyes, killed the rider too."
	"A long time ago I was a warrior, in a lot of ways I still am. I don't mind the fighting so much, but I got tired of all the grudge matches and infighting within the unit I worked for. So I retired, sort of anyway. How are you feeling?"
	"Incredible actually, for having been hit by Vlick, he usually breaks bones and takes out teeth. I don't even feel any pain or bruising anywhere, that's strange..."
	"Maybe he didn't hit you as hard as you thought?"
	Looking over at her brothers, Viki frowns and turns back, "I don't think so, I'm not dumb, you wouldn't have did that if they hadn't deserved it. They are still out cold and it has to have been at lest 5 minutes since I woke up, feeling as healthy as could be. Like I had just woken up from a nap...What did you do to me."
	"And to think I figured you wouldn't notice, I'm actually a little embarrassed for doing what I did. You mean a lot to me and couldn't let you suffer in pain, so I healed you with...Magic."
	"Magic? But Magic doesn't work like that, sure for violence, but healing and stuff like that? I've never heard of anything like that."
	"I can't explain any better than that without breaking certain promises, I'm sorry." Amy said sadly.
	"This healing, was it just to fix what Vlick did? Or did it include anything that might have been wrong?” 
	"Anything really, why?"
	"For the last few weeks I have had this pain in my chest and stomach, nothing major, but had been getting steadily worse as the days went by. Do have any way of know what it could have been?"
	Standing up, Amy pulled up the sleeve on her left arm to reveal her bracer again. Viki noticed that there was large blue jewel near Amy's elbow, it was glowing slightly. Amy came over and held her left hand over Viki's heart and told her to hold still. The jewel flared for a second and a blue aura surrounded both of them for a few seconds, Viki could feel the energy caressing her skin lovingly. Amy stood back and the aura vanished, she frowned and shrugged.
	"I just did a scan of your body and processed the information through mine. You had a couple of cracked ribs poking into your lungs at a dangerous angle, my healing Magic reset them and closed the holes. There is something else too and I can't fix this, um...did you have sex with a man anytime in the last month?"
	"A man? Once, just before I came home, I was curious to find out if a man was better than a woman was. He wasn't very good and left me wanting, Why?"
	"You’re pregnant Viki..."
	The voice faded out as Viki fainted completely, crumpling at Amy's feet. Amy shook her head and bent down to shack Viki awake, it took a little doing, but after a couple of minutes she came around. 
	"Are you sure?"
	"Yes, you’re about 2 weeks along."
	"I'm to young for a child Amy! This is horrible, what am I going to do?"
	"I have no idea Viki, you went to bed with a man and this is the expected out come of that act, isn't it?"
	"I never even thought about it..."
	"Well you have a little time to make a decision then, there are way to stop the pregnancy if you want to. Especially if we manage to catch it within the first month.”
	"I can't be pregnant right now, I just can't..."
	"Then we'll make up a drink for you that will flush the baby out of you, come to me tomorrow and we'll take care of it."
	Viki started to cry and Amy held her in her arms until she cried herself out. She watched out of the corner of her eye as the two brothers started to come around finally. One had probably lost the use of his voice permanently and the other should be all right, she had shocked him into unconsciousness by altering her energy blade into a type of taser. The moron hadn't even known what hit him and had screamed in terror even as he was falling. Amy helped Viki to her feet and led out of the area, if those two bruisers got up and wanted to fight again Amy wanted to have a little distance between them so that she could take more drastic measures if necessary.
	The walk back to Viki's house took about 30 minutes and they spotted her parents out on the porch as they approached. The waited for them to get within the yard before moving off and heading for them. Viki's father had been known as Pa for so long that no one could even remember his original name. Pa came up to them and took his daughter in his arms, Amy stood back and watched passively. She didn't trust this family one bit, she had been in this area for to long. 
	"What happened?" Asked Pa.
	"Her brothers tried to use her as a punching bag."
	"She looks fine to me, healer."
	"I stopped them from harming her, they are laid out in the clearing near the waterfall. Your horse and cart are there so when they wake up they should be home, they didn't take well to me beating them or protecting your daughter."
	"My boys would never do that and I don't believe you, you're a girl and wouldn't be able to hurt my boys."
	Amy shrugged, "Believe what you will, they did hurt Viki and I need a little time to mix her up healing drink, she needs to be at my place tomorrow or there will be serous repercussions in the future. Viki, I will see you tomorrow, now be careful and stay away from your brothers until then. They may decide to take their anger out on you."
	"Healer, I will send her to you in the morning, will you be teaching her how to be a healer like you as well?"
	"If she passes my tests and makes the right decisions, yes, I will teacher her." Amy said and walked off into the darkness, as she entered the trees she heard the angry mutters of the brothers as they rode the cart back to the house. She was in mid step when she blurred out of sight and vanished into thin air.


To Be Continued...
