The naked blonde came forward and pulled on Stephen and Henry’s arms to urge them forward. The man did the same to Courtney and Carly who flinched at his approach. Reading their apprehension, he smiled and waved for them to follow. With nothing else jumping out to threaten us, we followed the pair down the long dark hallway, passing several rooms with open doors that revealed more naked bodies within, all engaged in various carnal acts.
Keeg’s dark skin darkened further as he peered into the rooms we passed and I wondered for the first-time what strictures the man’s religion demanded of him. Honestly, the only one’s not particularly phased by the blatant sexuality the place oozed was myself and Henry. His comment about Vietnamese whore houses revealed much about his past and my respect for the man increased significantly. I casually enjoyed the shapely ass of the short woman in front of us while being led deeper into the former Walmart.
“So, how long have you been here?” I asked the woman; I might as well attempt to ‘pump’ her for information before we meet the one in charge.
She smiled with a distant look in her eyes, “About three weeks I think.”
I looked at Henry and Keeg for confirmation, Keeg provided, “That is about the time the undead arrived.”
“Yes, we were making a stand from within when the Lady appeared and drove them back”, the man with her added for context.
“This, uh..., Lady? She hasn’t harmed anyone?” Henry asked the next obvious question.
The pair looked at each other knowingly and I could tell they were deciding amongst themselves just how to answer that question. “Well, only if that’s what they’re into.”
“Huh?” Carly muttered from the back of the group where she had been carefully schooling her expression as we continued passing through what had clearly become a den of debauchery. She was the youngest and least... personally experienced in such activities. Despite her frosty complexion her cheeks had certainly maintained an increasingly rosy sheen as she peered into the rooms we passed on our way to meet The Lady.
I quickly interjected as the naked man in front of us began to turn to give his full attention to Carly, “Seems like there are a lot of people here. Before we meet the Lady I’d like a little background on how you all came to be here, and then of course how the Lady came to be in charge?”
He smiled recognizing my ploy and responded as we navigated the maze of halls that were definitely not part of the original store layout. “Of course, as I stated before, we were part of a group that had holed up in the Walmart when the undead came. There was still power then and we had been using the freezers to store food. We had barricaded ourselves inside and were constantly fighting the undead, then one morning they were gone. We thought someone had beat them back, and to an extent that was true. Unfortunately, that someone was Furcas, the Knight of Hell. Him and his Princes arrived and took over the Lowe’s and Home Depot.”
“We just defeated Ashoka in the Lowe’s, he was a mean bastard.” Keeg commented as the man recounted their tale.
The man looked between us with a glint of hope in his eyes then continued, “That’s... Thank you, now if you can remove the other two, we might be able to get out of here.”
I was about to urge him to continue his story when we reached a grand double door flanked with bronze braziers that gave off a heady scent. I wrinkled my nose attempting to place the scent but the naked woman that had been leading us hurried forward to get the door, “Any further questions about our situation, you should direct to the Lady.”
The naked man stepped up to the door, before opening it he added, “Please remember, she hasn’t harmed us, we wouldn’t be alive now without her assistance.”
Before we could protest, the pair opened the doors wide causing our brains to skip a beat. Looking into the large room it was hard to tell where one writhing naked body ended, and the next one started. It was like a scene from the wet dream of your typical college jock. There must have been a hundred people, human and dark elf, all engaged in a never-ending chain of sexual pleasure. Occasionally a couple, trio, or whatever would stand and move to a series of baths that lined the far walls to clean off, spouts mounted high in the wall showered the participants in clean water. The smell of sex was obviously overwhelming, being mixed with the liberally burning incense placed on bronze braziers similar to the ones outside.
A path straight to the back of the room was left open at all times by the press of bodies and following it to the end presented us with The Lady. The woman that sat at the end of the room was absolutely stunning. She also had a ten-point rack of antlers rising from just above and behind her pointy ears. Dark silky hair flowed down to her mid back, and framed a round face set with shimmering hazel eyes and full dark lips currently quirked up in a slight smile.
She casually rose from a throne of roots and leaves, exposing a pair of perfectly round, full, perky breasts capped with puffy brown nipples and wide areolas. A slim waist, wrapped in smooth caramel skin extended to the slightly hairy cleft between her legs. Only a sheer robe, left open to expose her delights to all who cared to look, covered her.
The pair that led us through the building moved to join the pile of writhing bodies on either side of the path. I took that as indication we were now on our own and I led my party to stand before the supernaturally beautiful woman.
She smiled as she moved to greet us and I felt an unnatural pressure exert itself on my mind. [Unwilling Monarch’s Foresight] and [Reaper’s Wrath] flared to life and the first battle of wills I had endured in weeks raged between the Lady and myself. I heard Keeg and Henry groan behind me, but my focus was for the mysterious woman in front of me who apparently decided it was in her best interest to attempt to dominate our minds rather than greet us on equal footing.
As my aura expanded the woman’s smile faltered and she stumbled backwards. As soon as the crack in her mental assault revealed itself, I reached out and grabbed her antlers with one hand and shoved my Canik beneath her jaw. At some point during the action, we had tumbled to the ground with me on top of her, my arm pressing the pistol under her chin lying comfortably, for me, across her ample soft breasts.
I leaned into her face and stared straight into her now panicked eyes and growled, “Get out of our heads.”
We stared into each other's eyes for several long tense seconds, finally I felt the pressure begin to recede and the woman cautiously placed a hand gently on my shoulder, “I- I’m sorry, I, uh, it’s done.”
I heard Carly and Courtney yelp behind me and Stephen began to chuckle sheepishly. I spared a glance over my shoulder and saw all three of our youngest members in various stages of undress. I carefully rose to my feet while keeping my pistol trained on the Lady’s face.
“We were advised you weren’t a threat. That seemed like a threat.” I deadpanned at her prone form.
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She shifted slightly to her elbows and stared up at me in fear, “You’re a Reaper!? I-I'm sorry, it’s in my nature to be sexually dominant, I wasn’t going to hurt you.”
“Come again?” Henry stepped over to stand above the woman, he and Keeg apparently fared well against her mental assault in their own way as they hadn’t tried to undress themselves.
“I’m a sub-species of Succubus. I feed on sexual energy. But I don’t kill. I promise this is the truth.”
“Why did you just try to get into my head?”, I glared down at the naked woman that just tried to invade my mind.
She looked up fearfully as Keeg, Henry, and myself glowered over her menacingly, “I-It’s reflex. If I had known what you were I would have restrained my impulses. It’s not harmful.”
Keeg looked around at the hundered or so beings currently engaged in a varying degree of sexual activity, “What exactly were you trying to do? How does it affect these people?”
She scooted up to her elbows hesitantly, “If you would permit me to stand, I would be more than happy to explain... my talents.”
I looked around for a second, holstered my pistol and extend a hand to the strange, yet mesmerizing Deer Lady. She happily took my hand with a sultry smile and stood barely inches from me. “Thank you, good Reaper. Again, please accept my apologies for the intrusion, if you’ll follow me, I have a place more suitable to conversation.” She motioned towards the faint outline of a door set in the back of the room.
I took in a deep breath instantly reeling against the combined smell of sweat, sex, and ass. I released the sexually infused air in a heavy sigh and nodded for the woman to proceed. After we took a few steps forward I noticed the distinct absence of our three youngest members. Looking back, I saw them clutching at their clothes and staring intently at the shameless display of sexual energy all around us.
With a smirk I turned to the young trio, “So, uh, you guys coming? Or would you like to stick around longer?”
Carly’s intent focus on a woman getting spit roasted was instantly broken, her head snapped my direction and she stalked forward muttering, “Holy fuck! You might be worse than my dad.”
Stephen and Courtney looked at each other, giggled, shrugged, looked around again then moved to join us. Heh, adventurous? I smiled at the lecherous thought as we followed the amused Deer Lady through the door at the back of the room to find ourselves in a large banquet room.
On one side of said room, several more attractive men and women were busy setting long tables for the next meal. The smell of meat and vegetables wafted out from another room as a man pushed a large platter of food to be placed on one of the tables. She’s definitely caring for the people here, or at least keeping them well fed and sheltered, I thought quietly to myself.
At the end of the room was a section that was clearly reserved for the VIP’s, sitting just a few steps above the rest of the room. The Lady moved to take a seat at the center of a long table that sat perpendicular to the rest of the room. The placement allowed her strange beauty to always radiate out into the room below as people ate. As soon as she sat, she motioned for me to join her.
“Okay, with the distractions now gone, continue to explain yourself.” She winced at my harsh tone and I was beginning to believe she truly regretted the attempted mental ambush. She was apparently not a front-line fighter and had no wish to attempt a stand-up battle with us. “Start with what you are and just what you were trying to do back there.”
“Ah, yes. Okay. I am what some of your cultures refer to as a Deer Woman or Deer Lady. And as for what I did, I released a pulse of sexual energy meant to... ease your inhibitions. The positive side effect would be to disarm any hostility you had towards me, which has backfired spectacularly. It also makes you more inclined to engage in sexual activities, even activities you may not have known you were interested in, there is a subconscious element to the pulse.”
“You tried to roofie us!?” Henry blurted out before I could respond, “You know, that’s not particularly necessary. Other than that rack, the one on your head, you’re an extremely attractive woman. I wouldn’t have said no if you had asked nicely.”
A round of chuckles and smirks caused the Deer Lady to slightly blush and smile at the same time. Although, her next statement silenced the room, “Unfortunately, dear Hunter, I am cursed to never lay with a mortal being lest I absorb all of their life energy in the process. I am only capable of spurring others to satisfy their own urges.”
I considered her explanation and moved on to my next line of questioning, “So, these people, you feed them, and put a roof over their heads, why?”
“And how did you gather so many of my people, as well?” Keeg asked as he watched a naked male of his race head into the room that smelled of a kitchen.
“It might be easier to explain from the beginning, yes?” Keeg looked back at her and nodded his assent to her question, as did I.
She crossed her legs, allowing her gown to shift and fully expose her left nipple, then began her story. “When I was summoned to this plane, I found myself in the stone lot of this building. The other two Demon Princes similarly appeared and were already engaged in a great battle that threatened to sunder the earth. I intervened, I offered myself to the vile creatures in bargain that we each divide up the territory. They of course, accepted. Once I satisfied their vile needs, I began transforming the area I had claimed to suit my needs.”
Stephen interrupted her story, “I’m sorry, I thought you said you couldn’t have sex? You know, without killing your partner.”
She smiled at him and he almost drooled just from the look she gave him, Courtney pulled him out of his sudden infatuation with a pinch to his ribs. He blushed furiously, having been caught, though I can’t blame him. The woman was on another level. “The demons are effectively immortal, they have infinite life force, so I cannot drain them. Unfortunately.”
With that little curiosity answered, I urged her to continue, “Once I had transformed the stone lot to something a bit more, natural, I entered the building to find several hundred beings had sought shelter within. As you can see, even when I’m not pulsing my aura I have a certain effect on most men, and many women.” She flashed a knowing smile at Carly who blushed and avoided eye contact.
“I pulsed, and only a couple men and women were capable of resisting, those ones I spoke to and informed them of my nature, as I am doing with you now, and also let them know the other demons would not be coming here. They quickly accepted the terms of my protection, considering the alternative was to fight through the demons territories and then face hordes of undead, the pact may have favored me more.”
“And just what does this pact entail?” Keeg asked, a critical eye on the woman.
She shifted uncomfortably and continued to answer the dark elf’s question, “It’s... a pact of servitude.”
Keeg hissed, clearly agitated at what she said. The Lady flinched as his hand went to his weapon. She only relaxed when I placed my hand over his and stared him down. Finally he backed down and looked away, but stayed seated and continued to listen.
“The details, if you will?” I asked.
“I can eat regular food and survive, but I only thrive if I can absorb the sexual energy of others. With that being the case, my terms were simple, they could stay only if they were willing to spend a single day a week under my influence in the activity rooms, a single day a week engaged in labor, such as the men and women currently preparing food for the rest of the people here, and the rest of the time they would spend improving themselves.”
Keeg looked at her and blinked. Everyone looked at her, dumbfounded. Even I did. That’s actually really generous. She considered that a lopsided pact?
“How many are here?”
“Just short of six hundred, the ratio is roughly two thirds human.”
“And if they don’t wish to continue the arrangement?” Keeg asked, hope in his eyes.
“They are free to go, though, they are on their own with the demons and undead.” She said coldly. “They are the ones that restore my energy, this situation greatly favors me and I would prefer the situation remained as it is.”
I pursed my lips and stared at the empty table then fixed my attention on her lovely pouting face, “Would you allow me some time to discuss the situation with my party.”
She looked at me with almost pleading eyes, then smiled seductively and stood in front of me, allowing me a healthy view of her bare figure. “Of course, Reaper. I will be back in the activity room when you are ready for me, just flag one of the attendants to retrieve me.” With that she adjusted the sheer robe and sashayed off through the door we had previously entered.