Descend- Coming Together

by David Burke

  Now all that she wanted was to offer up her waiting body to him, to her mate. She wanted him in the most basic of ways, with a passion that only a bitch in heat can know. And he accommodated her. His hands slid to her hips as his cock drove into her with force.

  He wasn’t trying to hurt her, but nor was this some feeble attempt to please her. What would please her was his seed poured into her to enable her to bear strong offspring. He thrust with a single-minded purpose. The passion of their joining was intense as she pushed back trying to take more of him and he felt like her pussy had been crafted for the sole purpose of holding his cock.

  Thrust after thrust and her stomach rippled as he shoved himself up into her. She moaned and begged for more. She wanted it harder. She wanted him to take her. Then as the walls of her velvet slit massaged him he lost control and erupted inside of her.

  Still she wouldn’t stop but kept pushing back into him trying to keep him buried deep within her. Her snake-like torso tensed and he felt her clamp down on him even harder. As the fog of passion lifted, he felt a euphoria beyond what came with a powerful ejaculation. This was the pride of the male who has taken his mate.

  The two of them collapsed to the ground with him still buried in her. His arms instinctively wrapped around her protectively and she spooned in against him. When he leaned his head in towards her and began kissing her neck, he could hear her purring softly.

  As he lay buried within her, Jay felt her body transform back to its normal sexy self. The softness returned and the vise-like grip on his cock loosened. She squirmed until she turned to face him and threw her leg over him pulling herself right up against him.

  Her breasts which were good enough to give Amelia a run for her money pressed up against his chest and he could feel the way the nipples still stuck out. It was a pleasant sensation against his body and a reminder that he wasn’t the only one who was still horny.

  Jay felt her shudder and then sigh, “Thank you.”

  He bent his neck to kiss her mouth warmly, with affection more so than passion. “I should be thanking you. That was amazing. I would be afraid to let loose like that with the others for fear of hurting them.”

  She gave him that smile of hers that lit her face up but somehow he knew it was a special smile just for him. “Then it will be our little secret. But, just so you know, I may need you like that again. There are times that the instincts just seem to get out of control within me. Not that you have to wait for me to ask. If you need to fuck me harder, just let me know. I can adapt my body so you don’t have to worry about holding back.”

  “I will be here for you,” Jay said as if that wasn’t the most obvious thing in the world.

  “Okay, I will take you up on that, often. But now I want to make love to you as a woman does with her boyfriend.” She pressed Jay over and slid up on top of him, straddling his member and began to slowly work up and down in a delightful rhythm. Soon Jessie was riding him with a vigor almost as intense as she had in her transformed state.

  He laughed to himself that apparently she could change shapes but there would always be a little bit of the beast in her. Then he stopped worrying about details or dungeon levels or even what the next day would bring. Instead he just lost himself in passionate lovemaking which lasted until two hours before dawn when she finally collapsed asleep in his arms, completely spent and a huge smile on her face.

  Jay didn’t know how it was possible but he had four women in his life and he couldn’t have possibly picked his favorite. They were all precious to him and he didn’t know if there were enough hours in the day to show that to them. The last thought as he drifted off was to wonder how well they would play together if it came to that.

  Chapter 18- Grinding

  The next three weeks settled into a truly joyful time in Jay’s life. Every day he dedicated two hours to running groups through the first floor of the dungeon. Then he would spend time with his main team trying to improve their time on the second floor. He started to figure out patterns to the barbed beetle attacks.

  It wasn’t the most creative name, but it was apt and once he started calling them that it caught on quickly. Both Miguel and Tyler worked together to try to take a team into the second floor but after two of their members died on the first run, they went back to farming the first floor. They learned how to do the gathering quest and started to make a fair amount of credits that way.

  Within Team Jay the joke was that they had the hunter male, while the others were just gatherer males. They kept that to themselves though because tensions were already building for Team Jay to expand again. Others kept bringing up the idea that the team needed alternates and by the three-week mark thanks to a combination of the team and their own efforts everyone in the cluster was at least level 10.

  The girls of Team Jay had all reached level 15 with the awakening that morning and they had a serious debate about whether to try to make the race time or just focus on training for a day to try to cross the second threshold. Jay was pushing for training as the extra stats that they would gain would be tremendously useful in crossing the desert. With practice the girls had learned to do it without him carrying them but none of them could keep up with him except for Jessie.

  Jay himself had made good progress and worked harder than anyone else, usually only getting three or four hours of sleep per night. Part of that was the training and part of it was the fact that he was pulled four directions by four equally gorgeous women who all wanted intimate time with him. Yes, indeed these had been a good three weeks for Jay.

  This morning he had hit level 29, and he was starting to worry about what would happen once he crossed this next threshold. The progression was steady but without a Wiki he didn’t know if there was a max level or anything like that. Besides, the skill increases were more important since he only got one stat increase at each level as compared to crossing a threshold and not only getting ten stat points but also having his body scrambled and put back together all improved.

  The other thing that had taken up a good chunk of his time each day was training with Mia. He always made sure that he trained with two of the girls who wanted spots on the team but somehow, she always ended up being one of them. The other girls all got time but her skills just interested him more.

  Speaking of the others, the cluster had pretty much divided up into three camps but Tyler and Miguel’s camps might as well have been one. Jay was still the de facto leader, and no one had gone against his instructions yet, except maybe Jasmine behind his back, but he couldn’t prove that. The simple truth of it was that as long as she was still trying to be on his good side she kept everyone else in line and that made training simpler. That was all he cared about right now.

  Jay’s camp was composed of thirteen people, the five official members of Team Jay and the eight hopefuls, Jasmine, Mia, Kenzie, Emma, Ava, Charlotte, Samantha, Daphne, and Madison. Tyler’s group was him and four of the girls after the deaths on the second floor, while Miguel’s was him and five of the girls.

  This left a block of ten girls who were for the most part too scared to enter the dungeon. They trained some but only if they were pushed to it and all of them were still level two or three while everyone else in the cluster had passed the first threshold and most were approaching level ten. Some like those on Team Jay and the trainees who took things the most seriously were already past that point.

  Both the other guys thought Jay was crazy for not sleeping with all the girls who wanted him. Whenever he explained that he liked to build a connection with them, Tyler would crack a joke or make a circle with one thumb and index finger while pushing another finger saying that was all the connection he needed. Truthfully though, Jay didn’t really care what they thought. Miguel seemed decent enough when Tyler wasn’t around but the two together were insufferable so Jay focused on the others.

  His team was still the most important part of his day but Jay had actually really come to look forward to the one-on-one training he had wit
h each of the other girls. Well except for Jasmine. He always avoided her. That might not work for much longer though as he could tell even through her calm exterior that she was getting tired of it.

  Today he was gonna train with two of the girls as he wanted to start helping them learn to combine their powers. The way in which Amelia and Jessie had worked together had opened his eyes to a whole new world of possible combos. For that, Madison and Charlotte were an obvious first choice.

  It wasn’t that he liked them better than any of the other girls so much as that their abilities would combine so easily and even work with one of his. It didn’t hurt that they were sort of polar opposites. Madison was super chill and very relaxed about almost everything. She still hit on him, but it was more of a “don’t you want some of this” way rather than an aggressiveness that he got from so many of the others.

  Charlotte made him laugh. When he first met her, he would have taken her for one of the popular girls that every school has. After their first one-on-one training session he had managed to break through her shell. Honestly, he had been able to connect pretty well with each of the girls, which to his mind was saying a lot about how far he had come. Amelia would undoubtedly claim credit for that.

  The thing was with Charlotte that she turned out to have a sense of humor and not like he would have expected at all. She was downright perverse in her jokes, not in a creepy old man sort of way but more in a middle school boy sorta way. She turned everything into an innuendo. Every time she shot one of her arrows it became a joke about penetration or hitting the target. Amidst all the seriousness of their situation it made him laugh. That was worth quite a lot to him.

  Today he found both girls at the agreed training spot on the first floor of the dungeon. It had already been cleared of predators and so was relatively safe. He was able to catch a snippet of their conversation.

  “So how do you think he is gonna take it?” Charlotte asked.

  “Most guys don’t like to be pushed into things but then again most guys would have already been making the rounds. He is an odd one, but I like him. I mean even if we weren’t stuck here, he would be quite a catch,” Madison answered.

  Jay stood very still now, as he wanted to know what they were talking about.

  “Well if anyone can get him to agree to it, Jasmine can,” Charlotte said.

  “Yeah but am I the only one she sorta creeps out. I mean I never know if I agree with her because she makes sense or because she is manipulating me.”

  “That’s true, but it’s also hard to argue with her reasoning on this. It isn’t really fair. Like she said, if he was the only bottle of water, we couldn’t let just four girls have it. They would have to share with everyone.”

  “The real question though is do I just want a ‘drink of water’,” Madison said while making air quotes, “or do I want the whole package. You’ve seen the way he is with his team members. Those four have it bad for him and if they aren’t girls in love, then I’ve never seen love before.”

  “I’m not bashful about what I want from him. I want to have a grin on my face like Amelia does when she thinks nobody is watching her. I mean not only is he hot and I’m sure a great lay, but he is so cute too. You should have seen the look on his face last time we were training. He was helping me retrieve arrows from the trees and one of the times when he went to pull the arrow out, I started to moan. He stopped and stared at me like he thought I was hurt.”

  Madison started laughing before Charlotte had even finished her story. The two of them just giggled at each other. Finally she asked, “Well what did you say to him?”

  Charlotte continued as soon as she got control of her laughing, “I managed to totally keep a straight face but it was harder than it sounds. Then while I was moaning, I said, ‘Oh don’t pull it out. Leave it there, it feels so good.’ He doesn’t think my jokes are juvenile, he ended up laughing right along. Better yet though, I could see that I clearly got a rise out of him and he spent the rest of our training session distracted and staring at my ass.”

  By this point Jay had heard enough so he coughed and walked in. Both girls giggled and then acted as though nothing was going on. Charlotte said, “So what’s this about combo training? If you wanted to have a threesome, you should have just told us.”

  Even knowing that she was trying to mess with him, Jay still felt his face got hot and saw both of them struggle not to laugh again. The situation wasn’t made any easier by the fact that he had no doubt he could have pulled it out right there and been busy with both of them in five seconds flat.

  “No, only a way to improve our powers by working together. You know I’m faithful to the team members.”

  “Yes, we know and it’s part of what makes you so adorable,” Madison said.

  “Okay, well let’s get down to it. Charlotte, you have a number of skills that combine to make you the most amazing archer. Your Zealous Fury can add a significant amount of damage but only if you feel threatened or someone you care about feels threatened. We haven’t been able to repeat that effect in plain training, only when hunting. So we have to find other ways to make your arrows more powerful. How many arrows can you fire per second?”

  She answered, “If I’m going all out I can fire three arrows per second but I also have been practicing since last time. I hit level eight and can put all three of those arrows tip to tip in the target. You might say it’s sort of like triple penetration.”

  Jay did his best to ignore the comment as he turned towards Madison. “So have you had any more luck with your earth form?”

  “A little, but not as much as I want. The skill is only at level four and I can’t seem to maintain it for longer than a minute so far before I'm fully drained. I still feel more comfortable with my ability to increase or decrease mass. I’ve also worked on my Tremor Sense, so I know you were listening to our conversation before you coughed,” Madison said while grinning at Jay.

  “Uh… yeah… sorry about that.”

  “No biggie, but you should know that I have learned another skill called Multiply Object. It duplicates the mass and shape of an object but so far it can’t be very large. If I go all out now, I can make four copies at a time. They only last a few seconds but I think as I practice more I will be able to increase that.”

  “That is even better than what I had in mind. First, though, do you think you could increase the mass of Charlotte’s arrow in flight?”

  “Never tried it with something moving that fast, but I can do it with a rock that I throw, so I guess it should be possible.”

  “Okay, so let’s experiment with how much mass you can add before you throw the arrow off course. Charlotte, we will have to count on your skill to keep adjusting accordingly.”

  Both girls nodded and over the next few minutes they tested it with two dozen arrows. They found that she was able to add more than triple the mass before the arrows deviated too far from their course because Charlotte’s accuracy was so great.

  “Next phase, I am gonna add my power to the arrow too. I want you to keep adding the same mass but I will be making the arrows go faster.”

  The explosion that occurred when the first arrow hit the tree was loud and brought most everyone who was in the dungeon running to see what happened. Now with an audience they started repeating it. The impacts absolutely destroyed the arrow each time and any tree that wasn’t six feet across or more was brought down. More than one time, Jay had to speed over to save someone from being crushed by a falling tree.

  Once they got that down, Jay said, “Okay, I want you to maximize the mass you add, but only after I maximize the speed. So, we will need to back up a bit. You may feel some strain trying to work on the arrow that far away but I think this could be devastating.”

  With that they moved till they were exactly 800 feet from the target tree. It was a good-sized one with a trunk about 12 feet across. They could be precise because Charlotte’s skill allowed them to measure the distance with much more accuracy t
han Jay could eyeball it.

  The first arrow struck the tree before Madison could increase the mass. So Jay told her to start an instant earlier. Even without the extra mass the arrow still sunk into the tree until it couldn’t be seen. This time though with the added mass, the arrow weighed a good twenty-five pounds, and the explosion split the tree right down the middle.

  Everyone cheered and Jay was happy. An attack like that would one shot anything they had faced so far easily. “Okay, one more experiment. This time, Madison, I want you to add mass and then multiply the arrows. Charlotte, you will have to adjust your aim because she will have to add the mass sooner and it may throw your aim off even with the arrow moving thousands of miles per hour.”

  Happy with their previous success, both girls smiled and Madison said, “I’ll do my best.”

  They all focused and Jay could sense the tension from the others. Charlotte stood in the middle with Jay on one side and Madison on the other. The energy gathered around them made the hair on his arms stand up. Most astonishingly, the tip of the arrow that Charlotte had nocked was glowing with the same energy that signified her Zealous Fury.