Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 02:22:57 -0500
From: arson42@hotmail.com
Subject: The Orb (m/m)

The Orb
by Telaran

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	This story contains male-to-male sex and descriptions of the male
body, so if you are offended by that, go elsewhere.  However, if you're not
offended by that, and you like that sort of thing, then read away :)

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Finding

	 The night was soft and quiet, a pale sliver of light glowing in
the sky, shining down over the vast desert wasteland.  The light flew
slowly over the dunes and grew brighter as it fell.  Smaller streaks of
light flew from it as parts of the body broke off and burned away into the
atmosphere.  It fell further and more of it burned away as it skimmed the
top of one dune and came to rest on the sand below.  The cyan glow that had
surrounded the object as it fell faded quickly, and when it was gone, a
tiny transparent orb, no bigger than a grown man's fist lay nestled in the
sand, sparkling in the moonlight.

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	Joshua Dashik stirred in his sleep and then bolted awake, cold
sweat running from his forehead into his eyes.  He blinked twice and wiped
his face with the back of his hand, then turned to look out the window into
the night sky.  The stars twinkled at him and a crescent moon hung low in
the sky, barely illuminating his window sill.

	Pulling the covers from himself and hanging his legs over the side
of his bed, Josh wiped his face again and took a deep breath.  This was the
second time tonight he had awakened, first from a dream, which ended in his
death, and this time from a dream that ended in a bright blue flash.  Both
of them felt more real than he ever had thought possible.

	'What's wrong with me,' he thought, 'this was supposed to be a
relaxing trip.'  Josh sighed.

	Josh reached over and grabbed his shirt and shorts, and slipped
them both on, and then stepped into a pair of sandals.  He walked over to
his night-stand and turned on his reading lamp, just enough to light up his
tiny room.  He stood by the stand for a moment, then turned to go into the
kitchen to get some water, when he saw a faint light outside his window.
Looking out, about a 50 yards from the house, he saw a small cyan colored
light that was growing dimmer as he watched.

	'What the hell is that,' Josh thought, as the light faded to
nothingness.  Shivering, he looked away from the window and grabbed his
flashlight.  He flicked it on and turned it's beam out the window toward
where he'd seen the light.  He strained his eyes looking for something, but
all he saw was light being reflected off the sand.  Josh looked down at his
light and though for a second, and decided to go outside to see if he could
find out what had made that light.

	Still holding the flashlight, Josh walked out of his room, through
the small living room, and out the front door.  He walked out around to the
side of his house, and walked to his bedroom window, staring out into the
dunes for any sign of the object he'd seen before.  In the direction he'd
been looking from his room, he caught sight of his light being reflected
from a small object.  Running forward, he could see a small glass orb
sitting in sand, in a very small crater, which it had apparently made as it
landed.

	Josh looked down at the little orb and frowned.  What is this, he
thought.  Squatting down to take a closer look at it, he saw that it was
perfectly round, and looked just like a crystal ball. 'God, I feel stupid,'
he thought, and shivered.  Josh laughed at himself, and then looked back
down at the little orb.  'I wonder who left it here?'  He bent down a
little further and grabbed the orb, and then slipped it into his pocket.

	After looking out over the empty dunes, Josh walked back into his
house and into is room.  He pulled the orb out of his pocket and set it on
the table.  He turned to close the bedroom door, but the little sphere
started to roll off the table.  He set it back into the middle of the table
and placed a book next to it, and turned to close the door again, but it
started to roll off in the other direction.

	Laughing out loud, Josh picked the orb up and set it on a candle
holder.  He moved his hand away, waiting to see if it would roll.  After
watching it for a few seconds, he walked over and closed the door, then
came back and sat at the table, looking at it, and thinking about what had
happened so far tonight.

	The nightmares that had normally plagued him were still doing so,
and he was growing a little irritated with them.  His doctor had told him
that he needed to get out of the city, to someplace where he wouldn't be
disturbed for a long time.  Dr. Rasmusen had thought that would help his
nightmares go away, and give him a chance to get away from the overwhelming
stress of work and life in general.  Fortunately for Josh, his parents had
lived in the Arizona desert for a while, and had a house out in the middle
of nowhere.  They'd moved from the house about one year before he had moved
in for his two month vacation, and it was still in very good condition.
The air conditioning still worked incredibly well, and all the water was
filtered from an underground well.  Electricity was supplied by underground
wires that ran in from Chester, a small town about 20 miles away, that
supplied electricity for all the little houses and small villages that were
this far out in the desert.

	Being alone certainly did help the nightmares, and they'd been
going away steadily over the past month.  With one month to go out in the
desert, Josh was fairly certain that they'd be gone before he went back to
work in Minneapolis, and hoped most of his stress would go with them.
Tonight, however, hadn't been a very good night, and he'd had a headache
before he'd gone to bed ,and that generally meant poor sleep.  He felt
better, how that'd gone outside and picked up the orb, but he always did
after taking a walk in the cool night air.

	Josh reached up and rubbed his hand over the little transparent
ball, feeling the smooth, flawless texture.  'Whoever left this thing
sitting out here must miss it.  It sure is pretty.'  The light from his
reading lap made the center of the orb appear light, and reflected light
into the room, making little rainbow patterns on the ceilings and walls.
Looking a little closer into the orb, he could that the interior of the orb
had angled portions that acted as prisms on the light.

	'A pretty toy, found in the middle of nowhere.  I suppose tonight
wasn't as bad as it could have been.' Josh looked a the orb for a little
longer, and then walked over to his light, and turned it off, got
undressed, and slipped into his bed.  Looking back over at the orb, he
smiled, and fell asleep.


Changes

	Morning came a little to quickly for Josh's taste.  He'd had no
dreams, and the undisturbed sleep had felt really good.  Looking over at
his clock and then over at the window, he decided it was just a little too
late to be in bed.  He sat up, stretched and rubbed his stomach, looking
over at his night-stand, where the little orb sat, and he smiled.  'Well,
at least that wasn't a dream,' he thought.  Walking over to the stand and
yawning, he looked down at the orb and put is hand on it, feeling the
smoothness of it, and tapped it once before looking back out the window and
seeing the cloudless day outside.

	'This is going to be a good day,' he thought, as he walked out of
his room and into the bathroom.  He looked into the mirror at himself and
rubbed his eyes.  Yawning, he grabbed a washcloth and washed his face, and
set the cloth back on the rack.  He looked at himself in the mirror again
and sighed unhappily at what he saw.

	"Josh, you need to exercise a little more," he told himself,
looking at his slightly bulging stomach and thin arms.  He looked at
himself and sighed again.  Thanks to the stresses of work and his life thus
far, he looked 6 years older than he was.  Only 24, and already looking
like he was 30.  'Well,' he thought, 'that's what this vacation was for.'

	With his bathroom duties taken care of, Josh walked back into his
room, and quickly took a step back.  The orb was glowing a cyan color, and
hovering a little ways off the table.  Josh stared at the floating orb, not
knowing what to do.  As he watched, the orb started to shrink, and little
pieces on the side started to elongate into what looked like a small chain.
Josh watched in amazement as the orb continued to shrink, and the chain met
behind it.  When the chain touched in back, the orb flashed a bright blue
and then sped through the air toward him.

	Josh's eyes widened, and he started to step out of the room, but
the sphere moved too quickly.  Josh felt it hit his back, an could feel the
chain flowing around his neck.  He looked down, and could see the tiny orb
moving along the chain, right to the center of his chest, still glowing
cyan colored, and feeling very warm.

	Panicking, Josh grabbed at the orb and tried to pull it up over his
head, but he couldn't.  When he pulled upward, the chain shrank so he
couldn't get it over his chin.  When he tried to pull the thin chain apart,
it grew a little bit thicker, just enough so that he couldn't break it.
The more he struggled with it, the heavier the orb got, and it started to
pull his neck downward.  Head sinking to the floor, Josh stopped pulling on
the orb, and put his hands on the ground, trying to brace himself up.  Once
he removed his hands from the orb, it stopped getting heavier, and started
to lighten back up, until there was no apparent weight around his neck.

	Josh sighed, and sat on his bed, looking down at the round object
sitting on his chest.  'What the hell is going on?!  Of all the people in
the world, I have to find this crazy little THING, and it just HAS to do
this.'  Josh stared at the little orb, and rubbed his thumb across it.  As
he rubbed it, the cyan light the orb had previously emitted came back, and
appeared to absorb into his hand.  Josh pulled his hand away and looked
back down at the orb, which returned to it's transparent, light-less state.

	'This is creepy,' thought Josh, cupping his hands around the orb.
'If you're going to sit around my neck, though, I'm going to see what you
do.'  The orb started to emit the light again, as his hands cupped around
it, the cyan luminescence moving into his hands, and up his arms.  The
light felt warm, but dissipated as it got to his shoulders, seeming to do
nothing.

	Josh looked down at the ball again, and could see an image inside,
of himself, holding the orb and watching the light move up his arm.  As he
watched, he noticed that his arms, in the orb's image, started to become
transparent, and to change a little bit, and then came back to normal.

	As he watched, the light from the orb started to move up his arms
again, and this time, Josh started to think of what he had seen in the
orb's imagine.  As the light moved up his arms, he noticed that they
started to fade out, exactly as they had in the image, and then come back.
Josh moved his left hand over to his right arm, and touched it, noting that
it felt no different, but looked transparent.

	After feeling his arm, just let go of the orb, and let it fall down
against his chest.  Once he let go, he felt tired, as if he had been
drained of energy, and laid back on his bed.  'This is some freaky stuff!
Cool, though,' Josh thought to himself.

	As he started to fall asleep on his bed, he began to wonder why he
wasn't afraid of the orb, and why he was so tired...

---

	After what seemed like an eternity of good dreams, Josh woke up.
Looking outside, he realized that it was early in the morning, earlier than
it had been when he woke up last time.  'I must have slept through the
whole night,' thought Josh, 'but that's okay, I suppose.  I am on vacation,
and I DID have a lot of good dreams.'  Josh thought about his dreams.  All
the dreams he'd had had been sexual, in one way or another.  In the first,
he'd been watching two men, in a pool, swimming with each other, and
playing in the water.  Neither of the men had been able to see him, but he
could almost feel the fun they were having, and wanted to join them, but
couldn't, fearing that he wouldn't fit in with their sport.  In the next
dream, he'd seen a man, alone in a large gymnasium, standing in the middle
of a wrestling mat, wearing a singlet, and practicing moves.  Josh watched
again, from afar, as the man practiced, and could feel the tension he had,
as he assaulted an invisible opponent.  Josh wanted to join him, too, but
he didn't feel he could, and would be embarrassed to try.  In his last
dream, he saw a young man, about 18, with blond hair and blue eyes,
standing out in the middle of a field, looking at some tall snowcapped
mountains, far in the distance.  The boy was naked, with a slender build,
but defined muscles.  His hair was cropped short, and his face had an
innocent, but handsome quality to it.  Josh watched the boy, and wanted to
stand out there with him, just as naked, and just as peacefully, but didn't
feel that he could, because he would be embarrassed to stand naked with
anyone, much less a man such as that boy.  As he looked on, the boy turned
around, and saw him standing there.  Josh was startled as the boy walked
toward him, smiling and waving him over.  Josh looked down at himself,
fully clothed, and looked back up at the boy, taking a step backward, and
turning away.  As he turned, the boy tenderly touched his shoulder, and
turned him back around.

'Do not be afraid,' said the boy, in a deep, kind voice.  'It is what you
have always wanted.'

	Josh again looked down at himself, and started to back away, but
the boy would not let him.  He looked up into the boy's blue eyes, and with
his own, pleaded to let him just watch, and remain alone.  The boy would
not, however.  Golden skin shone in the sunlight as the boy reached to
Josh's shirt, and undid his buttons, leaving him standing, with untoned
chest exposed, and his pale stomach looking all the worse.  The blond boy
pulled the shirt from Josh, and started to unbutton his pants, and Josh
shivered.  He was afraid to be naked, afraid to be seen as himself, as he
hadn't been since he was sixteen.  The boy would not stop though, as he
pulled the pants and underwear from Josh's thin legs.  And Josh was naked.
Looking into Josh's eyes, the boy again started to speak.

	'Do not be afraid, Joshua.  You have lived in fear of yourself for
too long.  Be free.  Let your mind explore what it is like to be happy, and
let your body explore what it is like to be unencumbered by it's cloth
trappings.'

	A warm energy started to fill Josh, as if the sun's light had
finally touched his skin, and he began to feel lighter.  His body started
to feel alive with energy, and he could see his surroundings brighten.  As
this energy moved around in him, the boy began to rub his hands across over
Josh's chest, caressing the hair there, and lightly brushing his nipples.
Josh's hands seemed to move on their own, reaching up to feel the boys
cheek, and pull his head closer.  Their lips touched, and energy flooded
from the boy into Josh, and from Josh to the boy.  They stood there, locked
into a passionate kiss, for what seemed to Josh as an eternity.  Lips
flexed and curved together, pressing each other with a ripe energy.  Their
tongues met and explored each other, feeling the texture that both offered.

	As they kissed, the boy's hands slid from Josh's chest around to
his back, and down, while Josh's did likewise.  Their bodies pressed
together, their warmth invigorating and exciting.  They touched chest to
chest, arm to arm, leg to leg, erection to erection.  Josh's body trembled
with excitement, and the boy reacted in kind, pulling Josh to the soft,
grassy ground.  The boy lay out, his sculpted chest heaving as his
breathing intensified.  Josh lay atop the boy, feeling the pressure of
their bodies once more as they came against each other.

	The boy looked again to Josh's eyes, and smiled, as he turned to
sit with Josh upon him. Josh felt the boy move beneath him and he prepared
himself for what he knew was to come.  The boy slid beneath him, and found
what he desired, gently pressing Josh's hole, and Josh let it expand.  He
pushed harder, feeling the slickness of his precum making entry easier, and
he succeeded.  Josh gasped in pain, but at the same time, in pleasure, as
the boy penetrated him, as he felt the warmth of the boy's rigid member
enter his body.

	Josh could not contain his lust.  He reached down and rubbed the
boys nipples chest, feeling the stiff rod inside him, against his prostate,
making his erection hard and red.  The boy pumped more quickly with each
passing second, and Josh could feel the boy's body growing tenser, and he
could feel the energy in his body start to center, and get stronger near
his groin.  Josh started to moan, as he felt the boy's pumping become ever
quicker.  He felt, within himself, a pressure building, and his awareness
began to close in on that point.  His vision began to fade, and the sounds
of the outside began to dim, as he felt the pressure build.  As the boy
continued to pump, he could feel only the member sliding within his body,
and his own cock between his legs, and the pressure building within him.

	And it released.

	His body bucked, and he felt the body beneath him buckle as well.
Josh could feel the release of his seed as he had no other time before.
The pleasure that coursed through is body was beyond measure, and he could
feel the pleasure of the boy as well.  As they came again and again, the
pleasure began to wash of each other bodies, and become as one.  Josh felt
himself become being filled, and could feel himself emptying, in a harmony
never felt by him before.

	As their orgasm finished, both young men lay in the field of green,
snowcapped mountains in the distance, light breeze flowing over their
bodies, they sighed with pleasure. Josh laid there, against the warmth of
the boy, and began to fall asleep.

	"It is what you always wanted," said the boy.

---

	Josh stared out his window, remembering what had happened in his
dream, and he sighed.  That had been the best dream he'd ever had, and he'd
loved it.  The dream had felt more real than life.  Josh lay his head
against the pillow, and closed his eyes, remembering what the boy in his
dream had looked like, seeing him in every detail, and he sighed, glad to
have such an experience.

	He lay on his bed, think of the dream, and wishing for it again,
but he could not fall asleep.  He sighed again, and started to get out of
bed, when he noticed that something wasn't quite right.  He looked down at
his covers, and he could see that the outline of his body was different.
Josh moved the covers aside and looked down at his body, and nearly
screamed.

	His body was a of a golden hue, looking tanned and sharp. His legs
had lengthened, and the muscles of his thighs and calves had become larger
and more defined.  The chest that graced his body was now developed and
larger than it had been, which tiny pink nipples erect in the center of his
new pecs.  His stomach was shaped amazingly, his abs not only visible, but
defined and tight.  And he looked down at his member, how thicker, and
longer, even soft, at six inches.  The hair around it was blond and thick,
but stopped right by his thigh, and did not extend to his stomach.

	Josh got out of bed and ran into the bathroom, looking into the
mirror.  His face was handsome, blue eyes gleaming under his eyebrows.  His
nose was shaped perfectly, and his lips were full.  His jaw line was more
prominent, and his chin was covered in the slightest of a goatee.

	The face he saw in the mirror was not his own, he realized, but the
face of the boy he had seen in his dream.


	---To Be Continued---

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