Once again I wake up in peace and happiness. My angel splayed out next to me, embracing my body wholly. I can only lay there staring at her perfect face. What would have become of me without her? Hoping for the rest of my life I get to wake up next to her, never being apart for more than a few days... We really need to look at getting a new place together... maybe in one of the central cities? Either the Australian central in Sydney or Melbourne, I did prefer the colder climate of Melbourne, I mean... we still have to actually afford it, dreams will only stay dreams.
Checking my bank account I see...a lot fucking more than I was expecting?! WTF?! There are multiple payments from AssassinKeeks pty ltd. Wait wait, why is she sending me money?! I check their origin and they seem to be due to payment splits from the streaming and video platform she uses... is this royalties?! I mean... fuck! No wonder she lives in an American Central region!
I consider for a second, I could send it back... No no, I don't feel like she’d want to owe me... I jump on the streaming platform and see that she easily hit thousands of views on the stream, donations and whatnot were abundant... 20 MILLION FUCKING VIEWS ON AXI-VIEW?! uuhhhhhhhh... My brain short circuits and I have to settle back down... gotta not wake the princess... Goddamnit though, how?! I mean it was a fucked battle and like lots of weird shit but like... that’s a bit much, surely there were equally bad things found by other people... Maybe we got lucky?... hah no...
I put down my data pad and sigh... I mean... Now we have enough money to move... and we could keep collaborating with Keeks. People seem to like me, for some reason... and it looks like she hasn't uploaded anything with the spiders. I could send her my recording data and she could pair them together, she was asleep most of the time, I bet people will love my flesh mech!... but maybe I'll come up with another name.
Why are you so beautiful... and why the fuck did we make such a mess last night! Reluctant to get up, I procrastinate, but I feel it's time to stop being such a bad moo. Carefully I lean over and kiss Zelia on the forehead, she smiles and tries to burrow deeper into me, nononon damn.. maybe another minute...
"Hey love... I need to clean up from last night... I'll be back in a minute, yeah?..." She doesn't open her eyes, making a pouting face and whines a little bit, instead, flipping over and burrowing her head into the pillow. She reaches over and massages her poor butt muscles, yeah that's gonna be sore, good thing she won’t feel it in Iselgurd heh.
I carefully get up and place a gentle kiss on her ass cheek to a happy conflicted whine. My next 20 minutes dealing with putting everything into the wash and making sure to spray any spills. A job well done! Fia lets me know that I’d received a group message from Keeks about 6 hours after we departed and Zelia and I were happily curled up together. Maybe it’s to let us know when she will be on tomorrow.
Oh... oh damn... Zelia is going to die from jealousy. Not that I'm not feeling it, tempting me to go again with Zel, if I meant for her to not be able to walk. A top down view of what looks like some kind of blue sea serpent woman, and a bronze lizard woman. From what I can tell they are both dragon type humanoids, but the important thing was below a 'spoiler tag.’ Only the top half of the image was visible until I clicked on it revealing the rest, she was completely full of them, their dicks making imprints on the internals of her body, her stomach inflated with both of them knotted inside her. That happy fucking gnoll girl, goddamn!
I walk back into the room and see Zelia in bed looking at her data pad, a deep red flush across her face and a growing erection showing exactly what she's looking at, well... How can I resist?
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I cradle the poor helpless puppy in my arms as she mmnnnsss and recovers. Slowly I play with her head as she breathes deep into my chest, small kisses on her head as her fingers twirl around my stomach. "You know how tomorrow is a public holiday?..." She mnns back in happiness, "We could... ask Keeks if she wanted to meet up irl?..." She pauses and looks up with a little smile on her face. "I know you like Keeks and that like... how we feel about each other and that we want other people, not that I know that it's not that I'm not enough for you. I know you’re not just fully monogamous and all that stuff... that you were waiting for me... but I can see you like Keeks like that... and she seems to like us both as well?... ugh you know I'm bad at this shit!..." She smiles deeper and leans up, kissing me on the nose.
"I would love to take Keeks out on a date, or a date for us with her by our side?... You know, Keeks isn’t into dating or being in a relationship. She just wants to be with friends, fuck, and be wanted, which I know you want her and want to be her friend as well... You are mine and I'm yours, It's been that way for a long time even if we didn't know it. At the very least I want to be a true friend with her... and see where it goes from there?..." I kiss her back deeply, always the one to know my mind better than me, my girlf… oh… right...
"S-speaking of... you're my like... girlfriend now right?..." She looks at me stunned and starts laughing, I can't help but pout at her reaction.
"S-sorry sorry I just didn’t realise, fuck, I just saw it just as it was haha... Yes... Yes I’m your girlfriend, my beautiful Lilia and someday more." I nod and kiss her, glad that that’s in the open, and I just needed to know that the word applied. I think of it as being a useless lesbian but in my heart it was important.
I hug her close and when I let her go she is grinning, like she’s waiting fo-fuck! "and I’m yours and more Zelia" She boops me on my nose with her own and snuggles back into my chest. All parts of the agenda for the morning seem to be accounted for. Good job brain we did iiittt!
The light falls on her face and I can’t help but feel even more in love, what do I do with these fucking feeellinnnggssss. Play a game, play a goddamn game, that's what! I can't wait to have our capsules together, how romantic. ‘They had connected capsules!’ The gayest of realities.
We languished together and after many more kisses and moans, eventually leading to multiple messages from Fia telling us we had ‘plans today and a small moo girl to take care of, we didn't want to be late, right?.... Right?!... Please that poor Cali’!
"Okay sorry Fia, yes we are getting up now... How did we play a video game and get responsibilities?!" Zelia kisses me one last time, giggling as she rolls off the side of the bed, rolling up in the blankets and pillows like a burrito.
"Hehe that just means it's just that damn good! It's like when you have raid times in games, you don't want to let people down!" I sigh... fuck I never really got that far in those games... had bad times with people before I could even hit that point. Hah fuck people... Was I so unlikable?
The giggles of my newly formed burrito girlfriend kick me in the best parts of my brain and I go to get my snack. She barely weighs a thing and I pull her under my shoulder, her giggles only grow. "I didn't think I ordered a burrito with extra giggles! I think I'm going to have to return this one!" A nuuuuuu comes from the blankets, my love's voice muffled by the sheets.
I take her to the living room and plop her on the couch. I think she's dying from happiness, I think she should have chosen burrito as her race instead of lupine. She would make the happiest snack in the game. Her feet are sticking out and I slide my hand up them, "Mnn this burrito’s got all the best meat!"
"Hehehe, unhand me vixen! You shan’t take me meaty substance heh" We will see about that! I grab the ends of the blanket and unwrap her. At the end of the blanket is a red faced messed up cutie. She's happily at the end of her giggle spree and ready to be set free of her torment. I pull her up into my arms and kiss her deep, wrapping my arms all the way around her, making sure to caress her whole body, so that I can remember it later, every curve and dimple.
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"Sooo... same time tomorrow?" I wink at her, she smiles friskily.
"Hmmm I'll have to check my calendar, I'm such a busy wolf you know!” She kisses me on the cheek and quickly throws some clothes on, "We can't keep the guild and little Cali waiting." This woman could kill me with a look if she wanted, but I feel I could also do the same.
She waves on the way out, now clothed and... mostly presentable to the world, our dirty smells mixed together thoroughly. I fall back into the couch, all energy leaving me. My angel, not in my presence anymore, craving her to be here. At least I'll see her again tonight, in game, the moon overhead, with our cute little gnoll to accompany us, at least for the hopeful feast that is street food.
"Alright I'll take a shower so I'll be straight in game afterwards!" By the time I'm out and ready, the cushions are ready to take me back into the void.
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"Hey newbies, where's your pet?" Mershi wanders over from the stairs, this time coming from a higher floor.
"She had a loong night with two dragons, so it’s hard to say when she will actually show up heh." She ponders for a second before coming up with an idea.
"Oh fucking shit! The courtesans?! Damn she is going to be full as a temple on ascension day hah! Anyway, yall gotta get your asses to the guild master, we gotta talk. So it’s a shame little thing isn’t here, yall will have to give her her deserved rewards from the pile then, at the same time we can talk about Cali. Little thing has been exploring the guild all day, cute as all fuck she is!"
Mershi keeps talking without letting us get a word in. Her commanding authority makes us follow her up the stairs, past the dormitories and to the top floor where finally she finishes her conversation with us and knocks on the door. Knock knockknock knock knock.
"Come innn" The door opens with the spookiest door noise I've ever heard, did we suddenly find ourselves in a haunted mansion?! Hand Holding will be required. Noone is behind the door, it leads into a large room with a rather tall, plump, beautiful woman. She sits gracefully and upright in her seat, giving off a sort of regality. We get inside the room and all approach the ornate leather couch in the middle of the room. "Pleassse sit!" BANG! FUCK! I look back and the door’s closed, oh... oh fuck Keeks is going to be angy she missed this.
Holding the handle of the door is the end of an emerald tail, slender and moving with the beauty of a killer. I follow it along and it gets thicker, plumper and darker, spots looking like eyes grow larger and larger as I follow it the whole way around the room all the way to her lovely body. A fucking lamia, she is going to cry and make any excuse she can to meet this woman.
We sit down, all just barely fitting on the couch, pressed thigh to thigh. Zel leans into me as Mershi leans away. "This is Miss LilMoo and Miss Zelawoo, their friend is currently... indisposed." Mershi is being extra polite, she must really respect her. “Newbies, this is Mistress Listara, Guild Master of Silver City.” She looks at us one at a time, tongue flicking out at each glance, tasting the air.
"Nonetheless, the most important person is here." She glances briefly at Zel again before looking away. "First order of business! You have passed your trial, defeating a True Arachne is quite a feat for a newcomer, even if it was only a child..." Zel and I look at each other...
"A fucking child?! What the fuck does an adult one look like then moo?!" Mistress Listara Stares at me... I feel it deep in my soul, words halting in my mouth, my tongue becoming like stone... Oh fuck no.
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"Mannersss child before I make it permanent!" I nod hurriedly feeling my skin returning back to normal. Fucking hell, I look at Mershi and realise, It wasn’t respect, it was fucking fear! Yup I got it! Good girl mode activated "But... to answer your rudely stated question, as big as a mountain... although that was recorded before the splitting of the continent a few hundred years ago." She presses a button on her desk top and the door hurriedly opens, a young mouse-girl with soft white fur rushes in and deposits a cup on the desk before bowing and quickly leaving. The fear effect has everyone on their toes I bet.
"Now... As I was saying, before I was rudely interrupted, You have all been assigned rank E Adventurer’s licenses. Normally you would start at F and work your way up, but due to your contributions and information it would be prudent of me to reward you properly. I will let Mershi give you said information in regards to your rank and rewards that are given from said rank." We all sit in rapt attention, she pushes up her glasses and sips her drink before clearing her throat.
"Onto the matter with said Arachne... This is the first sighting of an Arachne in many years, the last vanished over 40 years ago. Quite an intelligent woman, she was once a person of note in the academic community. Her library was one day found abandoned, many tomes missing or burnt, what was left was donated to the royal academy, such a shame too... I visited it in my youth, she was a wonderful conversationalist… apologies, I've gotten off track!" We all nod and don't say a word, yes yes you're amazing please don't kill us, lovely.
"The fact that we have discovered... Is that the first of the Arachne, the mother divine herself, has been changed... Which means all her lineage has adopted her insanity. They have forever been lost to the mist. I wish this was the worst of the news." She takes a sip... clears her throat and looks directly at Zel, who grabs my hand and flinches heavily against me.
"The being you found, you still have the crystal, yes?... Bring it to me child, Just to look, it is yours, not just in ownership." Zel stands up and looks at me, there's nothing we can do and all she can really do is... whine, it's pretty cute. She takes out the crystal and approaches the desk, its white light glowing over the room, radiating outwards. The Guild Master leans over the desk and touches it... or attempts to at least. zzts A spark of white forces her hand away from it.
"See my child! It is yours in every way conceivable... you have been blessed by the Celestial Moths. Once every hundred years the Celestials will come down from the True Moon and bestow the land its blessing... but its death means the opposite. There is nothing remaining to give, that Iselgurd is done.” She stares at us all in sorrow, Zel looks down at her crystal, having sat back down, at what the thing in her hands means.
Zel reluctantly raises her hand to ask a question, The Guild Master Nods, “What… does that mean for us?...” The guild Master Sighs.
“For now… it means nothing, just a possibility of what is to come… Thankfully we have such fine new immortals as yourselves to help with many things. So many adventurers have died lately all over Iselgurd that I had feared we were close to the end already. For what it will mean, grow stronger, help those that need it and you will be duly rewarded. Please keep to yourselves what you have heard here, not including your group partner of course, those that are blessed by the celestials are highly ‘wanted’ by certain parties. Until we meet again.” She rises up until we can see the bottom of her torso, the green outlines and paler gentle hue of her scales. Putting out her hand she bids us farewell.
Mershi rushes to get up, pulling me with her and subsequently Zelia. We hear the door creak open with her tail and are pulled out of the room. In the corridor the tiny mouse girl bows to us hurriedly multiple times and enters the room after us.
Mershi starts swearing in a guttural tongue that reminds me of some kind of voodoo magic, “Well that was fucking fucked! I was only supposed to be here for a year at first and it turned into 5. I don't think I'll ever be able to leave this place! Everytime she looks at me with those eyes I can’t say no to staying! Like a goddamn predator, If I didn't know any better I’d say she was close to the First of her race!” Zel looks puzzled and asks what exactly that means for them.
“It means that they are practically immortal, there's a lot of races that were ‘born’ because of curses and the likes from the gods, so the Firsts are practically immortals or demi-gods themselves and parts of that immortality gets passed down. The closer to the Firsts you are the more like them you are, does mean that things that happen to the Firsts get passed down, which is why the Arachne are now going to be ordered as ‘kill on sight’, poor things… They were always regarded as such fine beings… now they are just going to be classified as monsters like so many others…” I can see tears in her eyes, maybe some of those first beings were once loved by her and her people?… I don't know enough about the lore but I’m sure Zel could come up with some ideas of what those were. The Gods really fucked around in mythology, could be thousands for all I know.
Maybe that's the whole reason we are ‘here’, to keep it from happening to more of these Firsts? Whatever that really means. I hope we can help. I like this place, even if it is a game.
Finishing our conversation I can tell that Zel is buzzing to go for a walk to the library, find out everything she can on what she heard, lots of it went over my head but mostly I can't wait to hear her hypothesis on the lore.
“Anyway moo girl… I’m sure little Cali wants to see you again, let's find out where in the guild she is?” She motions downstairs and I feel Zel pull at my sleeve.
“Sure, It will just be me, Zel has some things to do today, but we will all be around tonight at the moonlight festival moo!” Mershi nods and seems to remember something, bringing out 3 bags and hands 1 to me and 2 to Zel.
“These are your rewards and your new badges, they are restricted to each of you so if you can't get it to her just tell her to pick it up from the guild! Catcha wolf girl!”
“Thank you for mentoring us on this trip Mershi wan!” Zel bows, gets on her tippy toes to give me a kiss and then dashes off, she's got that knowledge thirst in her eyes.