Title:
Blessings of the Sky Spirits
Author:
Whoa Nellie ([email protected])
Series:
Voyager
Rating:
NC-17
Codes:
Chakotay / f
Synopsis: Chakotay experiences the most unique vision
quest of his life. Originally posted to ASC January, 12, 2001.
Authors'
note: Knowing next to nothing about
Native-American traditions, we did hours of research. Then we promptly made the stuff up. Please keep in mind that we usually write TNG stories and that
this is our maiden Voyager story.
As
always: Paramount owns all the marbles.
We just have a lot more fun playing with them.
Feedback
is always appreciated.
Whoa
Nellie's Romance Star Trek Fan Fiction Stories
http://whoanellie.fortunecity.com
BLESSING
OF THE SKY SPIRITS
"Akoochimoyah, I am far from the
sacred bones of my ancestors,"
Commander Chakotay began the familiar chant, seeking guidance from his
animal spirit to understand the strange restlessness he had been feeling as of
late. As he continued the chant,
holding the akoonah, the room began to swirl and he started the familiar
descent into the trance that transported him to the spirit world.
Chakotay looked around the forest setting,
he didn’t see his animal spirit immediately.
This wasn’t a big surprise, since his animal spirit was a part of him,
it could be as contrary as he was prone to be about things. He noticed that he was in more traditional
garb than he usually wore in his vision quests. He was shirtless, wearing only trousers and old-style
moccasins. He began to walk, seeking
solace in the forest. He was following
a faint path through the undergrowth when the trail suddenly ended and he found
himself at a village. He had seen this
place before, on a deserted planet in
the Delta Quadrant, far from the lands of his ancestors. It was the village of the Sky Spirits. He entered the village, welcomed by those
dwelling there with a simple smile and a nod of greeting. In the center of the village, sitting
cross-legged with several others, Chakotay was startled to see Kolopek, his
father.
"Ah, Chakotay, we have been waiting
for you." Kolopek rose to greet
his son.
"Father, " Chakotay began. "You honor me with your presence, but .
. ."
"But you do not
understand." Kolopek smiled and
patted his son's shoulder. "I
know, and I will explain. Please,
sit."
Chakotay joined the circle of men sitting
around a small fire. He had so many
things he wanted to say to his father, so many questions to ask. He didn't know where to begin. He hoped that there would be no red alerts
tonight. It was so good to see his
father again that he wanted this vision quest to last as long as possible.
"Ah, my son," Kolopek began,
smiling broadly. "It has been a
long time, no?"
"A lifetime," Chakotay sighed.
"You have always been a contrary one,
my son. Even in the moment you were
entering the world, you were determined to make your own way. I have heard your thoughts and prayers. You have done something which I was
convinced was not possible. I told you
once that if you turned your back on our people, our ways; that you would be a
part of two worlds but belong to neither.
Yet you, my contrary son, you have proven me to be wrong," Kolopek
paused to chuckle at his thoughts.
"No, Father, you were right. If I had not turned my back on my heritage,
things would have been so different."
Chakotay had long been tortured by guilt at not being with his parents,
his people, at Treban when they were massacred.
"Your death would not have changed
what happened to us. Your life has
carried on our heritage. We live
through you, Chakotay."
Chakotay was stunned. After years of remorse, his father cut to
the heart of the matter with one sentence.
He had never felt that he would be able to atone for the attitudes and
decisions of his youth. Yet, here was
his father not the least bit angry for what Chakotay had always felt was his
biggest betrayal.
"But that is not the purpose of this
day, my son," Kolopek continued.
"This day is to commemorate you, your journey. " At Chakotay's confused expression he rested
a hand on his son's shoulder. "You
have come full circle in your journey.
In your youth you rejected our ways, your heritage. You embraced a different life. On your path has been many trials, many
obstacles both physical and spiritual.
You have met them all and grown stronger from it. You began to explore and embrace your
heritage, our ways, in your own time.
You have found a way to embrace your past, live in the present and look
to the future without giving up any of yourself. I had not thought it was possible to live in both worlds, but
you, my son, you have managed it. You
embody everything good about our people, our way of life, and yet you live in
the modern world among other peoples and cultures. You keep one foot in each world without falling," Kolopek
paused and turned his gaze to meet Chakotay's.
"I am very proud of you."
Chakotay felt a great weight lift from
him. He had longed to hear those words
from his father for so long, he couldn't imagine any gift more precious. He couldn't speak for the emotion, but he
conveyed his gratitude just the same.
He shared a long look with his father that spoke volumes and resolved
every problem that had ever been between them.
"Now, my son," Kolopek reached out and traced Chakotay's
tattoo before turning back to his story.
"The reason I am here now is that it is time your solo journey
ended. In the darkness, before there
was anything, life was just an essence.
The Great Spirit, in infinite wisdom, split the essence of life into two
pieces. Our journey in life must begin
with a discovery of the part of life's essence that we are; but it must end
with finding and joining our other half.
We cannot be complete alone. You
have been alone too long, my son. Your
journey has been hard, but you now utterly and completely understand your
spirit."
Here he paused and took a drink from a cup
in front of him. "If it were in my
power to send you home so that you could seek and find your true soulmate, I
would. Since I cannot, I have asked
for, and the Sky Spirits have granted, a blessing to you. They will bring the other half of your soul
to you. In fact, she is already here. The ceremony will begin shortly." He gestured and food and drink were brought
over for the men.
As they were eating, Chakotay looked
around. Perhaps this vision quest was
exactly what he had needed to quell the restlessness that had consumed him
lately. There certainly seemed to be a
sense of completion filling him. He was
curious about the woman that his father had mentioned. His track record with women had not been
that good as of late: first Seska, that
was abysmal and difficult to even think about;
there had been something with Kathryn, but their situations created
barriers and it had never really seemed 'right' somehow; then Kellin, although
all he had of her was some notes written on a piece of paper -- not even a
memory, and then the female 8472 that
he had met on their Starfleet simulation.
He closed his eyes briefly and placed his trust in the wisdom of the Sky
Spirits, they certainly couldn't do worse than he already had. Hopefully this ceremony would give him a
wholeness of spirit that he could carry with him out of the vision.
A short time later, the men rose and
Kolopek directed Chakotay to follow with them.
They walked in silence to the shaman's tent a short distance away. He was standing in full ceremonial dress uttering
ritual prayers. It was then Chakotay
saw her. She was in front of the
shaman, just to his right. She was
wearing a dress of pure white with
matching moccasins. Idly, Chakotay
studied the dress, trying to determine what animal the skin had been taken
from. His eyes moved up her slender
figure, across the feminine curve of
her hips. Her waist indented slightly
and the dress accented it with a belt cinched with an exquisite buckle of what
appeared to be turquoise. Further up,
her breasts swelled beneath the modest neckline of the dress. Suddenly, all other thoughts fled. He looked into the most beautiful brown eyes
he had ever beheld. The universe seemed
to be reflected in those eyes. They
shone with the wisdom of the ages yet sparkled with the innocence of
youth. They held understanding of all
that was dark in the universe yet expressed all that was good. For an eternal moment, Chakotay was lost in
those eyes.
The words of the shaman shook him out of
his reverie. "In the beginning,
all the universe was divided; masculine and feminine, good and evil, darkness
and light. In this way, all of the
universe must co-exist. It cannot exist
without balance. As it is with all
life, we begin our journey alone. Each
of us has a path to walk that no other may walk, each path is separate. Yet we cannot always walk our path
alone. In order to be complete, we need
to find our other half. Today, two
halves will become a whole. You have
both walked your paths alone. Do you
wish to join those paths now, do you wish to continue your journeys as
one?"
The young maiden demurely gazed up at
Chakotay, gracing him with a gentle smile.
Her long, black, silky hair cascaded past her shoulders to frame her
lush lips and the flutter of her dark lashes.
Her delicate features were highlighted by the warm, tawny color of her
satiny skin. She turned back to the
shaman and nodded her head once, yes.
The shaman turned to Chakotay who also
nodded yes.
Satisfied, the shaman continued. He held in each of his hands, a small
ring. " A perfect circle, no
beginning, no middle, no end. In this
is the journey that we each must make.
The path we walk has no beginning, it was there before we existed. The path we walk has no middle, it is ever changing,
ever growing. The path we walk has no
end, our existence may cease, but the path remains and the changes we make to
our path along the way remains behind to mark our time upon it. I give each of you a symbol of your
paths."
When the shaman stepped forward, the
maiden held out her left hand, palm up to accept the ring that he placed
there. Chakotay followed her example,
holding his left hand out, palm up to receive his ring.
The shaman stepped back and continued the
ceremony. "To decide to share
one's life does not mean that you share the same path. There must be spaces in your togetherness
that you remain the sum of all that you have experienced before. You each hold your path in your hand. To become one life out of two halves is to
intertwine, to interconnect your paths with another. If that is your desire today,
do so now."
The beauty stepped closer to Chakotay and
held her left hand up carefully to keep the ring in its place on her palm. She met his eyes and again he was rocked by
the intensity that he saw there. He
moved closer to her and brought his left hand up. They joined their hands, rings clinking together. The shaman bound their hands together with a
leather strap. Suddenly, the intensity
that Chakotay had sensed flared into a conflagration. The sensation engulfed him searing him with passion, desire and a
connectedness that was more powerful than anything he had ever
experienced. His left palm tingled
where their rings were connected.
Dimly, he heard the shaman concluding the
ceremony. "Your hearts, your minds
and your spirits are now as tightly bound as your hands. What has been joined today cannot be undone. For the rest of your journeys, you are now
as one. Go now and enter into your
togetherness."
Somehow they must have walked to a tent,
but Chakotay couldn't remember. He also
couldn't remember removing the strap that had bound their hands in the
ceremony. As he felt her small hands
resting on his bare chest, all he knew was that he was alone with her. He had never felt passion so strong. He moved to encircle her with his arms, the
muscles straining in his desire to hold her.
He looked down at her as she tilted her face up to his, wordlessly
seeking his mouth. He obliged, her lips
were soft, pliant and they opened softly as she moaned her own desires into his
mouth. His hands cupped her hips,
pulling her closer against him. His
need was almost painful in its strength.
He deepened the kiss, devouring her mouth with his lips and tongue in an
effort to know her as deeply as possible.
Pulling back, Chakotay looked down at
her. Removing her belt, he tossed it to
the floor. Impatiently, he pulled the
dress from her body. His eyes hungrily
raked over her, his gaze feasting on every inch of her, the heavy, silken hair,
her dark eyes, the graceful arch of her neck, the lush roundness of her
breasts, her slim waist, the feminine curve of her hips, and her long, slender
legs. Never taking his eyes from her,
he pulled her back into his embrace. He
moaned aloud at the sensation of her full breasts crushed against his
chest. Her hardened nipples grazed
across his skin through the sparse, curly hair. She felt so good, her curves fit into his body so perfectly.
Her hands were caressing the corded
muscles of his back, kneading them and pulling him closer. His breath caught in his throat as her
hands moved to the waistband of his trousers, unfastening them and shoving them
down. Grasping the hard length, her
hand stroked him as she fell to her knees.
He could feel his muscles quivering as he struggled to remain
still. Moving back slightly, she held
him steady and, with her tongue, traced very softly around the tip of his
hardness. Slowly, little by little she
eased him into the warm cavern of her mouth.
Overwhelmed by the sensations, he entangled his hands into her silken
hair and closed his eyes. Tickling him
with her tongue, she began moving him in and out of her mouth. Knowing he would soon be reaching the limits
of his control, he gently pulled away from her. As she stood, her eyes locked with his and he could see his own
need and desire reflected there. She
reached up to trace his tattoo, her touch searing his hot, already
oversensitized skin. Her hand wound
through his thick, dark hair and drew his face down to hers. Her lips met his in a passionate kiss,
wordlessly expressing what she wanted so badly.
Chakotay swept her up in his arms and fell
to his knees, laying her down on a pile of furs on the floor of the tent. As he covered her body with his own, the
luxuriant softness of the furs heightened his senses, inflaming him to even
higher heights of desire. He lowered
his head to place an open-mouth kiss on the hollow of her throat, flicking his
tongue against her pulse point. He
heard her gasp softly as her head rolled back, baring her throat to his
passionate onslaught. His mouth made
its way down to the full curves of her breasts. A heated surge of arousal shot through him at the sight of the
beautiful bronze skin tipped with deep sienna crests. His lips imprisoned the taut nipple of one of her breasts. With a moan, she held his head with both
hands, pulling him even closer.
Savoring her impassioned reactions, he nipped at the sensitive peak
slightly before suckling strongly.
Ravenously, he tormented first one breast and then the other. His mouth left her breasts to slowly journey
down the smooth skin of her flat stomach with a trail of hot, moist
kisses. Her body trembled in his hands
as his lips finally moved on to their final destination. She whimpered with need as he licked and
kissed the very center of her desire.
His tongue probed and caressed her, her essence intoxicating him. His mouth was relentless, taking her to the
peak of ecstasy. He felt her body
shudder around him.
Chakotay's burning need for her was now
almost overpowering. With his arms
braced on either side of her shoulders, he placed himself between her supple
thighs. He entered her with one deep
thrust, his body completely filling hers.
The feeling of her body seizing his was almost overwhelming. Her small hands gripped his shoulders and
the supple curves of her body instinctively molded to his. All of his control was lost and he set a
rhythm of furious intensity. Like a mirror
image of his own need, she matched him motion for motion. His mouth claimed her lips in a searing kiss
just as ferocious as the way his body was possessing hers. He slammed himself forcefully into her,
driving himself even deeper within her.
Her hips arched to accept every powerful thrust, meeting his passion
with her own fervent desires.
Fiercely, he drove deep into her over and over. He abandoned himself to the burning pleasure
he felt as her body moved in perfect synchronization with his own. Her entire body quaked repeatedly with
pleasure, sending him over the edge.
With one last forceful thrust, he held himself deep inside her as his
own powerful release ripped through him.
The tent began to swirl as Chakotay left
his trance. When he looked around, he
was once again sitting in his quarters aboard Voyager. He closed his eyes briefly, savoring the
lingering sensations from one of the most incredible vision quests he had ever
undertaken. Hearing something, he
opened his eyes and looked around. His
breath caught as he saw the source of the noise.
"Who are you?" he demanded,
springing to his feet.
His intruder smiled and stepped toward
him, holding her left palm out to him.
Chakotay glanced down at his own left
hand, astonished to see a marking of intertwined circles on his palm. He touched the marking, it was a tattoo,
dark brown in color. Then he heard her
speak.
"I am your wife, Chakotay."
**FINIS**