It was the ungodly hour of noon when Brie's sleep blurred eyes opened, she stretched her body trying to get the circulation back, rolling over she grabbed Xe's pillow and buried her face in it breathing deeply of her lovers scent. An evil grin came across her face as she switched the pillows. "Lets see how long it takes her to notice." Getting up she pulled Xe's shift over her head, for some reason the chest felt tighter on her this morning. Pulling the neck of it up to her nose, she breathed in. "Yep it's hers!" That's when she noticed that her fingers were swollen. Striding over to her desk, she pulled out her calendar and counted the days. "Shit, it's almost that time again!" Dreading the monthly curse time when part of the Nation wanted to maim the other part while the others would be having hours of ... "OH YES!" She punched the air. "HOT PASSIONATE, BODY SCORCHING, SLIPPERY SEX!"
Her smile disappeared, dropping down in to her chair she groaned. "Seven days of no sex, no cuddling, no nothin, I'll be here and Xe will be hiding out in the forest somewhere!"

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Xe and Poni were out at the practice field, their chobo's in the dust beside them. Xe was stretched out on her back with her arms behind her head; she looked over at her friend lying beside her. "Poni how many more days?"

She counted on her fingers. "Seven more till Hades moon!"

"Shit, then its seven more days of us hiding," She grins. "Unless, you want to join me and try one of my herbal experiments on Eph?"

Poni rose up on one elbow, her camel colored eyes narrowed.

"What's it do, knock her ass out for a week?"

"Nope," Xe grinned. "Gets rid of the bitchiness and makes her hornier than hell!"

A huge toothy smile covered Poni's face. "Mean I'll get some?"

"Still trying for that red feather huh?"

"Yep you got one?"

Xe cocked her eyebrow at her friend.

"Do you see a red feather braided in my hair? The closet I got to one was when Brie tried to shove her scroll and quill up my ass, remember?"

"Oh yeah, I gottcha!" She shook her head and felt the shivers go across her skin.

The red feather of ancient times is not like the red badge of courage or red wings of our times, back then it showed that an Amazon was able to survive making love to her partner during the curse.

Unknown to Xe, Brie had talked to Eph about the herbs, as of that afternoon they had already consumed enough tea to fill a rain barrel.

Xe came out of the healers hut and handed Poni a leather bag with the herbs in it, Xe hid hers down her bodice. "Remember not to use it until next week when they get the curse." They shared a high five and went to their huts.

Later that night all hell broke loose in the two huts that sat side by side. The screams and war cries had the perimeter guards falling out of their trees not to mention scaring the hell out of all the creepy crawlies in the area. Some of the notes that Brie hit with her screams had every bat within miles bouncing off trees and the dolphins beaching themselves!

When Brie woke up to a still sleeping Warrior Princess, she smiled at the memories from the night before. "Wore ya out didn't I?" She thought to herself.

Her stomach rumbling she headed for the food hut where she found her Regent at their table.

"Hey Eph, got ya some last night didn't ya?" She grinned and started in on her breakfast.

"It was incredible, I couldn't get enough I was having multiples!" Eph whispered and looked around them at the other Amazons who didn't look like they had any sleep in the last week.

"So was I, the last one I had I passed out! And I think Xe maybe in a coma!"

"Poni to, I don't know but I feel great that tea really works," She held out her hands and wiggled her fingers. "All the swelling has gone away and I don't feel so...bloated."

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Xe met Poni at the practice field; they looked at each other's sad appearances and grinned.

"Boy was my world rocked last night!" Xe chuckled. "I think we lost some of the thatching off the roof last night!"

"Yeah well I think we lost some of the padding out of our mattress, Eph rode the Poni all night!"

This went on every afternoon and night for days.

Xe had collapsed early from exhaustion, her hands were cramped, jaws ached and she was down right beat in to the dirt.

Xena crawled out of their hut on her hands and knees trying not to wake up Brie. She snuck into Poni and Eph's hut then to Poni's side of the bed.

"Poni wake up!" She whispered as she shook her by the shoulder. "Come on Pon we need to talk!" One blurry eye opened to see the bloodshot blue eyes of her friend.
"Xe!" Poni rolled over on her side wrapping one arm around Xe's neck she buried her face in the crook of her neck. "I hurt everywhere!" Poni's back was killing her she had whip marks on her ass and bruises on her hips from Eph slamming in to her. Xe held her and tried to comfort her exhausted friend.

"XEEEEENNNAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Brie yelled in a singsong voice. "Where are you?" Xe's eyes grew wide. "Oooohhh no not again, Poni hide me pleeeease, I can't take any more!" Both women rolled under the bed, holding their hands over their mouths to keep quiet.

"I know you're here somewhere and I WILL find you!"

Brie entered the hut and lay down; propped up on one elbow next to Eph she ran her finger down her friend's nose, soon hazel eyes opened to see the twinkling green eyes of her Queen.

"Hey Brie," She looked around the hut. "Where's Poni?"

Brie rolled over on her back and stretched out her naked body. "Oh I think her and Xe are hiding somewhere." She turned her head to Eph and pointed down at the bed. "And I really need some and since you're my Regent..." Eph had her hand over her mouth to keep from laughing.

"Ohhhh!" Clearing her throat. "Anything for my Queen, just move on over here and let me taste you!"

The bed started squeaking and dropping down over the top of the two Warriors.

"Oooohhh yes Eph deeper, right there, yes yessss!"


"Gods Brie your taste so sweet and your soooo wet!"

"Ooohhh Gods Eph I'm so close!"

Poni and Xe couldn't take anymore, their centers pounding between their legs they crawled out from under the bed on either side on their bellies.

"I'm coming Eph, Ooohhh yes!"

"How's this Brie?"

"My Gods I'm coming again!"

Blue and camel colored eyes looked up over the edge of the bed right into the eyes of their lovers who were sitting there watching for them. In unison, Xe and Poni groaned.

"Fuck me!"

They were answered by bodies pouncing on them. Both couples were in the clutches of a breath-stealing kiss. Legs wrapped around each other's hips grinding against each other, juices ran together joining them as one slippery element. Moans and heavy breathing came from each side of the bed.

"GABRIEEEELLLLLEEE!"

"EEEEPPPPHHHIIEEEE!"

Then two screams joined in rattling the rafters hard enough to cause dust to float down on them. Two thunks were heard then giggling, the Queen and her Regent shared a high five at the door on their way to get something to eat.

"Think their in coma's?"

"I hope not, cuz I've got some ideas which include jelly."

Brie's eyebrows shot up at her Regents imagination. "Really, I was thinking somewhere in the lines of kitchen utensils myself!"

Xe looked under the bed at Poni. "I haven't used any tea yet have you?"

Poni shook her head no. Xe slapped her forehead and cussed.

"Sonofabreastsuckingbitch, I left my scroll lying on Brie's desk! We gotta get outta here Pon before they kill us!

The two Warriors scrambled up off the floor grabbing whatever cloths lying around, they took off out the door and in to the forest. Laughing and hoots came from the guards. Poni headed to the far side of the village with Xe on her heels towards a small cave. "We can hide here until after the curse, I stored some food for us last week so we'll be good until then." Xe dropped on to the ground and looked at the shift she had in her hand, it was two sizes to small. Poni held hers up to her nose.

"Swap ya Xe; this one's a little bigger!"

Xe gave her the eyebrow. "That's because it's yours, you and Brie I just don't know about you to?"

"At least I don't sleep with my horse's blanket!"

"Ok truce, I'm hungry you cooking?"

"We're fucked Xe, neither one of us can cook worth a dam!"

"Oh well we'll survive, so what if it's a little burnt!"

Hours later after they had filled the cave with smoke they fell into exhausted sleep. Brie and Eph sat around the Queens hut chewing on their fingernails.

"I'm gonna die here Brie, I can't believe they ran away!"

"Just wait until I catch Xe, I'm gonna...shit I don't know? Reaching for her staff, she got up. "Come on Eph lets go find them!"

Xe and Poni woke up hours later and cuddled into the warmth that was wrapped around their bodies, their eyes popped open to see their lovers and in unison, they cried out for Artemis.

The end
Larisa.
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