'm always wary about sequels and follow-ups because generally not as many people read them, you're stuck within an existing world/environment, and you're really kinda pressed with where you can take things. Apparently that adage doesn't apply to The Infection, which obviously is now a trilogy (and my first one at that). The original chapter just kind of simmered and has one of those "underground" readerbases but the second installment loudly showed up (on SoFurry) and so did this one. I can't say I'm not feeling the pressure of trilogy-writing here, what with having to be restricted to C-Snakes and a certain world I've painted in my stories thus far.

t is at this point where I decided to deviate and build off of the original C-Snakes archetype as a means to come up with something interesting (and kinky, I guess). The result is something that takes the female characters and rather than making them hermaphroditic the symbiote instead arms them with an ovipositor, which is introduced in this chapter.

he Infection III became featured content on SoFurry.com in March 2010.

racokon awoke to the feeling of water being splashed onto his face. Snapping his eyelids open he lifted his head up and glanced around but saw no one, not even Nahara whom he had snuggled up next to. He awoke in her bed certainly remembering the events that transpired the night before, giggling to himself gleefully as he squirmed around a bit on Nahara's bedding to rouse himself from his sleep. He was splashed again and this time heard a faint giggle. He stood up and walked over to the edge of Nahara's little "island bed" and looked into the crystal clear cave water. Completely submerged and looking back up at Dracokon was Nahara.

he came to the surface with a smile on her face to bid her new mate a good morning. "I was just taking a swim," she said, "to get all of that sticky slime reside off of me. I'm sorry if the splash bothered you; I just couldn't wait any longer for you to wake up, you lazy dragon!" Nahara leaned in and gave Dracokon a playful lick on his gullet.

racokon chuckled. "What's the excitement for?" He asked.

" have something for you, Kon. Something I want to show you," she said with a grin.

racokon skeptically raised an eyebrow. "Now where have I heard THAT before?"

"ee, I don't know," Nahara replied with a wink as she climbed out of the water and onto her bedding. She straightened out her neck and craned her head upwards to let the water on her body run down toward her hands and feet, letting gravity do its job to help dry her off. She spread her wings out with a resounding whoosh to shake free the moisture on her wing membrane and joints. Finally the dragoness swayed her tail side to side, shaking off what little water remained on her body; she was almost completely dry all with about thirty seconds worth of work.

"s that what you wanted to show me?" Dracokon asked.

"o...?" Nahara said with a puzzled look on her face.

"h," Dracokon laughed, "well that was certainly impressive then!"

"hat I want to show you, I think you'll like," the dragoness said in a coy voice with another wink. "A lot," she added. "I've been awake for a while; I don't think I was asleep for very long after our encounter. Either that or you just sleep for painfully long periods of time. The first thing I realized was that I was still covered in a sticky slimy mess and wanted to clean myself up a bit, so I took a swim to rinse it all off of me. As I wiped it off of me I started to remember all of what happened last night, and the more I scrubbed at the slime to wipe it off the more I began to..., er... be aroused by the feeling of it on me."

racokon gave a pleasant smile as he saw the silvery scales of Nahara's face blush a bit. "Go on," he urged. "You don't have to be embarrassed about it around me, that's why I liked the stuff so much in the first place!"

ahara giggled. "Well, as I was cleaning it off of me I eventually made it down to my vent... and I couldn't help but enjoy a little bit of play. Something seemed a little bit strange with me, though, like I had a new kind of 'thing' I could receive pleasure with, kind of like how my tentacles are very sensitive to touch. I played with those too, but that's not really what I'm getting at. I eventually found out what the difference was down there, though."

"'m confused," Dracokon said.

t was Nahara's time to flash a toothy grin. "Like I said I think it's better if I just show you." She laid down on her side and motioned for Dracokon to come closer and have a little fun. "I'm sure you remember the intricacies of my body, after all you explored them pretty deeply. See if you can figure it out."

racokon stepped closer to Nahara and laid on his belly near the base of Nahara's tail so he could examine her vent as she requested. Using one of his fingers Dracokon gently played with her vent, running his finger along her scales, feeling them but feeling nothing different. He then placed each of his thumbs on either side of her opening and gently spread her open, taking a look inside of her and seeing her wonderfully slick, pink, and fleshy canal but again nothing strange save for a slight tint of purple, but that was now nothing out of the ordinary for either dragon.

"'ll give you a hint," Nahara said. "You're getting closer by trying to look inside of it."

racokon glanced up at her. "You're not going to shoot acid at me or something are you?" He asked in a half serious half lighthearted manner. Nahara just laughed.

racokon slowly pressed his index finger into her vent, feeling around inside of her. Dracokon couldn't help himself, he was certainly becoming aroused by this curious kind of play; just for fun he used his finger to tickle Nahara's hemiclitoris, feeling her muscles twitch as he did so.

"ouuu fooound iiit," the water dragon said in a lingering tone.

" see nothing different," Dracokon said confused once more.

ith his finger still on her hemiclitoris Dracokon felt it move slightly, like it was protruding outward. His finger was actually pushed out of Nahara's vent as her expanding hemiclitoris emerged outward, growing thicker the further it came out before bulging with a subtle knot and then returning to a slightly thinner thickness at Nahara's vent. The whole process only took a few seconds and this strangely modified body part of Nahara's had a very familiar look.

racokon's eyes widened. "Did you... you uh... wow... you changed gender?!" He asked as he eyed what appeared to be a nicely sized member coming from his lover's vent.

" don't think so," Nahara said. I still have my inner canal and likely the rest of my dragoness parts. This isn't any different; my hemiclitoris just turned into... this. I quite like it, though. It's very sensitive, especially the tip which still remains exposed when it's retracted. I'm pretty sure I can still have 'regular' intercourse; well, as regular as it'll be considering we have tentacles now."

racokon let out an introspective "hmmm" as he gently took Nahara's "member" into his hand and looked at it. It was certainly a fine replica of what Dracokon naturally had as well as the others he'd seen in his life but it was less defined than a real dragonhood; it had what appeared to be a head with a slit followed by a shaft that ended with a slight bulge, a knot. Nahara's dragonhood was obviously a modified manifestation of one of the tentacles; the skin of it had the same smooth look and feel as the tentacles Dracokon had. Dracokon teasingly gave it a lick starting from Nahara's knot up to the tip of her member evoking a light shudder from the dragoness.

"ave you... you know, used it yet?" Dracokon asked with a grin.

ahara shook her head. "Nope," she started. "I was waiting for you to wake up so we could try it out for the first time together. It was pretty difficult to resist pleasuring myself because I was so intrigued by it but I figured you'd really be excited to see it."

"mm hmm..." Dracokon cooed. "What did you have in mind?"

" don't know," Nahara replied as she rolled onto her back. "Surprise me."

racokon let out a devious murr as he repositioned himself with his snout over Nahara's dragonhood, flicking his tongue out and teasing the tip of the fleshy pink member with it. She let out a low murr as Dracokon opened his mouth and gently took her member into it, wrapping his slender tongue around her shaft and applying even more slime to the already slick organ while he stroked the rest of it with his hand. Nahara moaned audibly as the head of her member rubbed against the slick ridges in the roof of Dracokon's mouth, curling her toes back as these foreign but powerfully pleasurable sensations rippled through her.

olding her knot with one of his hands Dracokon gave it a gentle squeeze and slowly massaged the base of her member. He took Nahara's member out of his mouth and once again gave her a generous lick along the underside of it, giggling as he heard Nahara give a pleasant murr.

"raco..." she moaned out. "I think I'm about to cum..."

ith a toothy smile he repositioned his slightly ajar maw just above her dragonhood and continued to stroke the length of it while teasing its head with his tongue. Nahara's breathing quickened and through his fingers Dracokon could feel her new member give more and more involuntary throbs until with a final moan Nahara arched her back and thrusted at the air as she climaxed, releasing a jet of slime into Dracokon's mouth with each throb of her tentacley dragonhood. As her orgasm subsided she brought her head up and looked at Dracokon who smiled at Nahara, snout and face covered in her slime. She blushed as she looked at the mess she made on her mate's face, but it didn't bother Dracokon at all; he was intrigued and thrilled by Nahara's new appendage and leaned back in to lick her clean.

ahara shifted her rump on the ground a bit as she felt Dracokon continue to pleasure her. "Oooh, Dracokon, hold on."

racokon let go of Nahara's member and looked back up at her. "Is there something wrong?" He asked.

" don't know," Nahara said as she sat up. "I feel kinda funny though, like there's something inside of me where the 'real' base of this thing is."

he inspected her own member a bit, eyeing it over with the help of Dracokon whose face was still rather close to it. Nahara let out a soft groan as she tried to shift herself around to relieve the pressure inside of her, instead she moaned softly as she felt the pressure quickly slide forward and the base of her member swell noticeably. Dracokon curiously felt the lump, giving it a very gentle squeeze and seeing it move further up her shaft, expanding her fleshy knot and letting the shaft behind it return to normal size.

"hat is that?" Dracokon asked, still eyeing the suspicious bulge.

ahara moaned as it inched forward towards the head of her dragonhood. "I don't know, but it feels so good when it moves. I think I've found the right muscles inside of me though, let me try and push it out."

he bulge made its way along Nahara's shaft eventually reaching the head and continuing forward, widening the opening of it and letting Dracokon see what it was. With one final flex of her internal muscles Nahara gave a quick orgasmic spasm as the object emerged out of her and landed on the soft bedding the two dragons were sitting on. Dracokon picked up the object and looked at it.

"hat is it?" Nahara asked.

racokon turned it around in his hand and looked it over; it was a very light purple, mostly spherical, about the size of the palm of his hand, and slimy of course. "I think it's an egg."

"n egg?" Nahara asked. "What's inside of it?"

e examined the egg; its shell was tough and rubbery, firm but able to give a little. He shook it gently and could feel the contents of it slosh around inside. "I think I might have an idea," he said as he held it up to the sunlight coming into the cave. The egg was slightly opaque and inside of it Dracokon could see a miniature Snake curled up inside of it. "This must be how you spread your tentacles, seeing as how you're female," Dracokon said. "Panzer and I just have tentacles, some of which are seeds that we can release from our bodies."

racokon looked at Nahara's back for her tentacle ducts because she said she had some; he counted six. He doesn't remember how many were on Panzer's back, he just remembered Panzer having quite a few of them while he was playing with them; more than six for sure. The extras were likely the ducts reserved for the seed tentacles. He gave another thoughtful "hmm" and focused back on the interesting fleshy sac he was holding onto.

"... lay eggs inside of other dragons?" Nahara asked with a puzzled look.

"eah, your dragonhood isn't actually a dragonhood at all," Dracokon remarked. "It's an ovipositor!"

ahara blushed. "I'm sorry if I grossed you out Draco... I didn't know what it was..."

racokon's brow perked up. "Grossed me out?" He asked. "If anything I'm pretty jealous of your method."

"ealous...? I didn't know you were interested in this kinda stuff."

"eah," he replied. "I'm kind of strange like that."

ahara squinted her eyes a bit and gave Dracokon a funny look. "Me too."

racokon flashed another toothy grin at Nahara. "We shouldn't let that egg go to waste, then," he said handing the egg to Nahara as he stood up and repositioned himself with his rump facing her, his tailhole and vent now in plain sight.

ahara gently pressed the slightly oblong end of the egg against Dracokon's tailhole. Dracokon relaxed his sphincter letting the egg slowly begin to sink inside of him and moaned a bit as the girth of the egg stretched his tailhole while Nahara pushed it further in. Finally as the egg made its way into him it reached its widest point and was almost sucked in as Dracokon's tailhole tightened up around the egg and pulled it inside of him. Dracokon murred as he felt the egg quickly travel into his cavity and rest somewhere in his belly.

" don't think anything'll happen if it hatches inside of me," Dracokon said, "but I'd love for you to seed me anyways one day."

ahara gave a knowing nod as she nuzzled Dracokon. "We're learning a lot about ourselves thanks to these strange creatures aren't we? I guess I have them to thank for bringing us closer together, how'd you find them anyways? I presume Panzer has them as well?"

racokon nodded his head in return. "Yeah, Panzer has them as well," he said. "He was the first, he spread them to me. That earthquake we had recently, it ripped open a crevice in the ground that I noticed when Panzer and I were taking a walk to our favorite lake. I was pretty eager to hop inside and we discovered an underground tomb-looking catacomb full of ancient hieroglyphs and artifacts. I'm not exactly sure where in the crypt they came from, but they hopped into Panzer while we were down there. He wasn't as nice about spreading them, though. He spit slime in my face to subdue me whereas I kissed you," Dracokon chuckled as he finished his sentence.

"ctually," he continued, "Panzer mentioned something about a friend of ours, Taaro, who knows quite a bit on archaeology; it's all the guy does. He and I were going to go pay him a visit today and see if he knows anything about the creatures."

ahara gave Dracokon a skeptical look. "You're going to spread them again, aren't you?"

racokon didn't say anything, he just grinned and Nahara chuckled and shook her head in response.

"ou can come if you like," Dracokon said. "Although with just me and Panzer it's already going to be a tentacle-fest down there."

"'ll pass," Nahara replied, "it looks like you two have it under control." Normally the symbiote inside of the dragons would force them to spread, such as what happened to both Panzer and Dracokon, however since one of their kind had already "staked" a claim on someone they saw no need to flood their resources on just one victim especially since two infected dragons were already planning on going after just one dragon; divide and conquer, in other words, as the saying goes.

racokon bid Nahara farewell with a nuzzle and a seductive wink as he stepped out of her lair and took off into the sky. He plotted his mental course for Panzer's lair, a chilly cave toward the top of a nearby mountain. Being an ice dragon Panzer felt right at home but for everyone else sometimes the cooler temperatures were a little too cold for comfort, but if Panzer was willing to visit in a patch of land that's likely blistering hot for him then Dracokon could at least return the favor.

e approached Panzer's lair and saw his friend sitting outside on a rock overlooking the land. "Hey!" Dracokon shouted as he came in for his landing.

anzer turned around to greet his friend. "Hey Kon, how did last night go?" He asked with a devious smile.

"etter than I thought," Dracokon said. "You won't believe what Nahara gets to use for spreading the symbiote... an ovipositor."

anzer sighed. "Luckyyyyy..."

" know, right? It makes us seem so... boring... now. Did you still want to talk to Taaro though? I'm eager to pay him a visit."

"f course," Panzer replied. "I'm itching to spread again."

racokon nodded and pushed himself off of the ground, using his wings to gently hover and coast in the air as he waited for Panzer to join him in flight. Panzer lived up in the mountains, Dracokon in a forest, Nahara in a kind of wetlands cave, and then there was Taaro. He was another neighboring friend of the dragons' who lived further out toward the end of the forest where the rockier desert and plans began. Taaro was a smart guy, smart when it came to his hobby of archaeology at least, he was kind of a recluse; he was faintly shy and aloof and they were fairly certain Taaro never had a mate before either.

hey knew they had arrived at Taaro's lair because he had a flat piece of sandstone leaning up against the entrance of his cave that had his name engraved on it. Panzer always told Taaro that he thought the plaque looked tacky; Dracokon flashed Panzer a glance as they landed, a nonverbal sign to not say anything about it this time. Taaro had a little metal bell hanging from the entrance of his cave, so rather than standing outside shouting his name Dracokon reached forward and gave the bell a slight flick causing it to make a resounding ring.

aaro showed up rather quickly to see who his guests were. "Draco! Panzer! Nice to see you, what brings you two here today?" He said with a welcoming smile.