"Eve?" I call. "EVE?"
We scan around the room, but she is not here. Looking outside, however, her ship hasn't disappeared. It's even fainter than it was before, but it's still there.
"So… tired…" her voice barely reaches my ears. "Need… energy…"
And then we were back in the material world, the haulers and ships left behind as we oriented ourselves. We were back in our little piece of home, carved out of the unfeeling world, our minds a flurry of thoughts and worries.
"Nothing is ever easy, is it?" Vespera asked, laughing but only because otherwise, she feared she might cry.
"It's not," Calla said slowly. "But I can still feel her. Can you?"
I felt around the bond. "I think so."
She was there, but so faint as to almost be a whisper in our minds. We weren't getting much from her, save for the fact that she was there and…
"We can send her energy through the bond," I said as a sudden realization struck.
We pushed everything we had. In moments, we had shunted the entire shared mana pool into her, following that faint signal leading back to her ship. In my mind's eye, it was as if her ship had become just a tiny bit more solid, and the sensations from that side of the bond just a tiny bit more real and tangible.
"I think she's recovering," Zery said, her features softening into a protective smile. "I think I can hear her little snores. I'm not crazy, am I?"
I wanted to say yes, that she was crazy as bricks, if not for the fact that I was hearing them too. So did the others.
"Do you think the actual System is bricked while she's asleep?" Vespera asked.
I inhaled. "Only one way to find out. Status?"
Status: Sol Nightguard
Human (Great Race)
Bonded to:
Vespera Nightguard (Demon - Great Race)
Elyra Nightguard (Angel - Great Race)
Zery Nightguard (Abyssal Dragon - Great Race)
Calla Nightguard (Anchor Dryad - Great Race)
Eve Nightguard (B2TTn#-7 Sector System)
Slaves:
B2TTn#-7 (Treemind)
Guild Rank: E
[Bound to the Fallen - Upgraded]
Bond Level 5
+150 to all stats
Status is always concealed from prying eyes.
Skills:
Matter Transmutation X
Power of Love 3
"Thank the hells!" Elyra sighed dramatically. "And hey! She is here! In the bond! Officially!"
"Right," Vespera muttered. "So the System is recursively recognizing that itself, in the form of not the System but Eve, is part of a bond which is part of the System but also much more, trying to quantify it into a status that's not representative of—ow!"
I pinched her nose. "Enough bullshit. Eve needs rest and energy, right? We can't help with one, but we can certainly help with the other."
"Good," Zery said. "I was aching for some exercise."
I was too. We had leveled up, gained a hundred, I repeat a hundred stat points, unlocked a bunch of incredible tools by leveling up [Power of Love] to three, and never actually tested our new capabilities!
"How about we go hunt as a team, for once?" I proposed.
"More Skitterpedes?" Vespera asked, making a face. "Bleh."
"I too grow tired of them," the dragon said.
"We can go to the city and grab a quest?" I said.
"Pweh, city."
I looked at the demon. "You're being troublesome, little lady."
She pouted. "Maybe I want some attention," she said. "Maybe the city can wait?"
Elyra came to her aid. "I suppose the troublemaking demon has a point. With all the happenings of the day, it has gotten quite late. How about we travel to the city tomorrow morning?"
Catching on, Zery looked at the others with a glint in her eyes. "I mean," she said, pretending to be bored. "We did clean this place up, but it's so empty. It does not fit someone of my station. Calla, you said that your tree can grow furniture, is that correct?" At her nod, she smiled. "Good. Elyra, I will require your help as well. Your shields can be moved, right?" Another nod. "Then you shall help us carry the stuff here to make this into a cozy, yet regal place. Sol," she said sharply. "You and Vespera would be too troublesome to have around. Go inside the tree and sleep for the night. Two people resting out of four—"
"Five," I said.
"Right. Two out of five is better than none."
Before the dragon had even finished, Vespera grabbed my arm and literally pulled me away. She was skipping, whistling a happy tune, reaching the end of the tunnel leading into the roots chamber, and pressing on. The place was already full to the brim with furniture, I noticed, but the demon girl didn't even slow down, thinking "not my problem tonight," and "you are mine to play with."
Obviously, she had no intention of sleeping.
When we finally got upstairs, she stripped me naked and pushed me onto the bed, with my back against the wall. Then, she surprised me by sitting on top of me, her back against mine. Her little wings were fluttering like crazy, moving the air around my face as she wiggled her butt on my stomach.
"Mmh," she said as she grabbed my hands and put them around her. "Hug me tight, Sol?"
I did just that. My cock was standing at full mast, eager to get some action, but for now I just held her close to me.
"You are scalding," she said. "Like a furnace."
"And you are flustered, for a demon," I shot back.
My fingers crawled up from where they were holding her soft belly, cupping her breasts from below.
She squirmed a little. "I feel the changes, Sol mine."
She didn't call me spacer boy, I noticed.
"Traces of the others in me," she continued. "They affect me and I affect them. It's been going on for a while."
"I know," I told her. "I am not that dense."
She chuckled. "You're plenty dense, sci-fi man. But yea. Did you notice that the changes are getting bigger and quicker now? Our latest hurdle—" she said, referring to conquering our fear of change, I suppose—"or two, actually. Eve is in the bond now, and she is a herald of change, for all that the System is supposed to maintain the status quo. Well, these things have pushed our connection to all new levels."
"Are you scared, Vespera?" I asked. Squeezing her tight, I realized that she was shaking a little.
Her body was soft and, despite what she said, also very hot. There was a thin sheen of perspiration on her skin, sweat where our bodies met and became too hot to bear, and I could smell her. She was clean, but her scent was one I would be able to recognize from kilometers away, because I loved her that much.
"Silly," she said, her voice cracking. "You're so sweet, in your thoughts. Why don't you also voice these things?"
"Male brain," I said and she laughed.
"Lucky thing we have the bond, eh?" she offered. Her tail was swishing, hitting me in the face, already dripping with lubrication.
I wondered what that lubrication was for and she chuckled. "Maybe one day you'll get to try it firsthand," she said.
I moved one hand away from her chest and she pouted, before I caught her tail mid-swing and began to massage its tip. Moaning and arching her back, the demon began to grind her ass on me, with my erect penis in front of her, right outside her entrance.
She rubbed its length against her but did not put it in, instead electing to stroke me in slow, sensual motions, using her secretions as lubricant.
"You know," she said as she began to stroke faster. "I really don't understand why you aren't knocking us all up, Sol. With your vitality and Zery's fluids…"
She bent back to lick me and I kissed her. Breathless, we broke apart and she pushed her tail into my mouth to silence me.
"Shh, I don't wanna hear it. Mmhhyes ishgood. Suck on it harder?"
I felt my mind grow cloudy, as if her tail's secretions were an aphrodisiac. They might very well be, and as I suckled on her rubbery yet very nimble appendage, which moved around like a tongue giving me the sloppiest of French kisses, I gulped down her savory liquids.
She kept stroking me, bathing my tip in her juices and then moving it away.
"You wanna put it in, eh?" she giggled. "Nnnope. What?" she pouted. "You're thinking about getting me pregnant with your child, Sol mine? Spacer boy, that's so fucking HOT!"
She came. Convulsing on top of me, grinding her huge ass on me, stroking me hard and rough as her grip became like iron. My cum shot out in great spurts, landing all over her stomach and tits, a pool of dripping white semen that slowly flowed down towards her cunt in thick globs of milky white.
"Mm, look at all this delicious cum," the demon said seductively.
Scooping it up, I thought she was going to bring it to her mouth but I was wrong. She gathered some on her fingers and then plunged them inside her pussy, stuffing it full. She repeated the motion again and again, the other hand reaching for my still-hard cock as her tail sloshed inside my mouth.
"Imagine you get me pregnant now, of all times," she said. "Without even entering me. Just a handjob," she moaned as she stuffed her pussy full. "I'm putting all your cum inside of me, my love, and you didn't even get to cum inside me! Oh my!"
She rubbed herself, my cock forgotten. One hand flicked her clit while the other finger-fucked her like crazy.
"Nnngh!" she screamed. "Guess who found a way to bypass the little draconic curse? Your cum all over my pussy counts as you giving me pleasure!"
She proceeded to masturbate like crazy using my cum, pushing it inside and scooping more and more from her stomach. She pushed her second orgasm into the bond with violence, at once bringing me over the edge and painting her stomach with semen once again.
Licking her lips, she gathered it all and put it inside.
"It's safe in here," she said. "I'll keep it inside for as long as I can."
Collapsing on me, putting her full weight on me, sticky with sweat and cum, she sighed contently.
"Don't worry. We'll keep trying and trying, star of our lives. I don't give a fuck if it's mathematically impossible. We'll just keep doing it over and over. One of these days, my love," she said. "I'm going to get pregnant with your baby. We'll all know when it happens. You'll have five gorgeous girls all pregnant with your children, spacer boy. There's nothing you can do about it."
She smiled. A snap of her fingers, and the bottom part of her armor appeared, keeping all the stuff inside her pussy.
"Even if you are fucking sterile, Sol," she said. Desperate. Needy. So, so horny and hot. "I don't give a shit. We'll make you fill us up so much we'll get knocked up by sheer stubbornness. You hear? It's my promise to you, Sol. Better watch out."
I relaxed, feeling her reassuring presence. Her tail slowly slid out of my mouth, and I grabbed her face to kiss her.
"You know, I should argue with y'all about this. I should be worried it's too early. That our lives are too hectic and fucked up to start a family. I should try to stop you. But in truth? I would love nothing more, Vespera mine." I told her. And it was true.