by David Burke
The raw need that he felt through the fusion was all that he needed to know exactly who this was. Jay was used to feeling desired by the women that he was fused or bonded with. It was only natural and he knew that they felt his own desire for them back. This was different though. More primal, more simple and yet bottomless. It was the kind of need that spoke of a long-denied desire.
Trina’s voice spoke into his ear, “We’ve got a few minutes before it’s time to leave. I was hoping to catch you here alone. Marry me and I’m yours.”
Jay groaned. He still hadn’t opened his eyes. It was easier this way. If he opened up to the world around him then he would have to deal with responsibilities and obligations. Now, with his eyes closed he could allow three things to blend into one reason to just let this happen. He had wanted Trina so badly back on Earth and that merged with the desire that he felt from her now.
Both those feelings though were merging into his overwhelming need. It wasn’t the fantasy of a boy barely become a man, not a desire from far away. This was the desire of a man becoming accustomed to getting everything he wanted from the women around him. The passion of a man who knew the splendors of a woman but equally knew that he could give as good as he got.
This was a desire to possess her, body and soul. To make her not just a girlfriend but to make her truly his. It was run through and overwritten by the simple biological imperative that consumed more of his attention than he wanted to admit.
Plain and simple he wanted to fill her. To plant himself into her and make her body submit to him. That imperative, her desire, and his earlier infatuation all combined to make this into something so intense. He found his hands fumbling with her body armor. It was perfectly formed against her oh so delightful form. This didn’t make for an easy time removing it but he was a man on a mission.
Soon he had the top pulled down. She must have gone naked underneath the armor just as he did because his mouth was now tasting her bared breasts. Jay’s desire was becoming a raging beast.
Just as he was about to lift them both up to better undress her, he heard another voice. “What the fuck, Jay. Get off him, you tramp, we told you, you still have to get our agreement.”
Jay couldn’t help but open his eyes now, even though it was the last thing that he wanted to do. Amelia was standing there, hands on her hips yelling at them. Well, actually more at Trina. He was a bit confused by that, as he assumed that she would feel betrayed that he had let himself be seduced so easily.
The fusion didn’t lie though. He even pressed into it more deeply and read more of her thoughts to make sure he wasn’t mistaken. No, there was no doubt about it. She wasn’t happy with him, but honestly felt sorry for him. The thought, ‘only a guy’ and ‘can’t help himself’ kept going through her head in the background.
Front and center in her thoughts was the idea that Trina was trying to steal him away. Fear and rage were blended and for a moment as Jay watched not only the two of them yelling at one another, but also heard Amelia’s thoughts; he was afraid they were going to come to blows.
He tried not to let his eyes wander over to Trina. Her topless body was everything he had imagined it would be. Her breasts were maybe the only pair that were better than Amelia’s and somehow her caramel skin made everything sexier. Both girls had slender waists and yet were well endowed. Not like Daphne but somehow even hotter because of the breast to waist ratio.
Oh and their hips. They were perfect childbearing hips, just wide enough for him to grab onto during sex, and to make for a good birthing while still keeping the shape of their bodies in perfect alignment and promising the heaven that lay between those hips. He could only shake his head that he was even thinking of a woman like that.
Jay had to force himself to focus on their shouting match rather than their bodies or he was really gonna get himself in trouble as images of Amelia’s creamy white skin next to Trina’s was exciting him to a whole new level.
“Why couldn’t you just wait?” Amelia demanded for what felt like the tenth time.
“I have been waiting. I’ve waited for months. You try that. I can feel what you are thinking. You are remembering that he hasn’t been inside of you for almost three days now and you can’t stand it. You know that it isn’t safe now. You know that the birth control isn’t effective any longer.
“But I can tell what you are thinking. You want nothing more than for him to throw you down and take you. You don’t care if he knocks you up again, you just want him. Well try feeling like that for months,” Trina blasted back.
“I get it, which is the only reason that I didn’t open up with a shadow bolt instead of yelling at you. But we told you barely more than an hour ago that we would work this out. We'll help you, but you have been a bitch to all of us. You have to make that right first. Team Jay is a team and as much as Jay is the center of it, he is still only a part of it.
“Now you are also part of a very select core. We are all bound together forever. Just like you can feel me, I can feel you too. Hell, sometimes I forget what I’m feeling because I get so lost in what the others are feeling. It is almost like we are one large organism in separate parts.
“So if you want this to ever be right, you need to stop spiting the other parts of your expanded self just because you are overcome with desire and regret. And yes, I feel the regret that you have. You realize that you were a fool not to have claimed Jay back on Earth. Well, that ship has sailed. He is mine now, but he is also Huong’s, Meikiyo’s, Jessie’s, Mia’s and Ava’s.
“I joke that I call dibs, and I wish it could be so, but he loves us all. If you ever want something more from him than just desire, cause we both can feel what he’d like to be doing to you, to us, now; then you need to do this the right way,” Amelia spoke passionately and for the first time they had stopped trying to speak over the other.
Trina paused as she pulled her top back up. Jay couldn’t help but be sad about that, but then he heard her say, “I will try, but I can’t really control myself anymore. I had the desires locked down but this fusion has broken all my walls down.”
“I get it. I really do. You just have to remember that you threatened Jay. You offended almost all of us, well except for Ava. She is pretty hard to offend. Each of us needs to feel right with you and then this will be better than you could imagine,” Amelia said somewhat softer this time.
By this time the other girls from the party came walking down. Jay started to apologize to Amelia but she telepathically said, “No, not now. Madison isn’t part of our core, at least not yet. But don’t think you won’t have to make this up later. Although I’m sure you will have fun with that too.”
Jay wisely decided not to say anything more. He could sense the wives and Trina talking again with both he and Madison left out. He realized he could have pressed himself into the conversation but instead just started making small talk with Madison.
Even after all this time, Jay hated that he was weak. He knew that there was this biological imperative running rampant in his system. It was strange that for the first time in the experiment, he seemed to be the one having the most trouble with the feelings.
Previously his level had protected him. There was also the fact that he had wanted to do things properly. His sense of right and wrong had been turned upside down. The kinds of decisions that he was being asked to make should have been way above his pay grade and yet that was where he found himself.
Now, he had accepted the need to pro-create, even the need to just have fun with the girls. He accepted that the attraction was mutual and that he wasn’t just that geeky boy who was horny for anything in a skirt. If anything the girls in general were even crazier for him than he was for them.
At least that had been how it was. Now through a combination of their crossed thresholds and the refinements he had made to their bodies, these women were all but irresistible. Those feminine forms practically screamed for his touch and he was surrounded by it 24/7.
More than
that, their bodies cried out like ripe fruit that had to be eaten before it went bad. They were all fertile, all the time, and he knew it. His instinct, this new drive that threatened to consume him all but demanded he implant his seed in every waiting womb. The urge was overwhelming.
Trina had taken advantage of that. Yet, he couldn’t be mad at her. She felt the same urges that the others felt. She was the only one to have gone the entire time since the experiment began without relief.
Well that wasn’t entirely true. She had gotten relief through his Sensual Projection many times. But just like Suzie Palmer and her five friends were a poor substitute for the real thing, so he knew that Trina had to feel that her fingers were inadequate for the task of true satisfaction, even when she could feel the overwhelming pleasure he was feeling. Perhaps more so because of that.
Truth be told he respected Trina for it. She was the one with the true iron will. She wasn’t willing to settle for a half measure. She wanted to give herself to him. She wanted to take him for herself. But she wanted the entire package. She wasn’t demanding monogamy or any such thing. That would have been tantamount to genocide now, by killing off the human race.
No, she wanted a real relationship. She wanted to be a wife. She wanted to carve out her own corner of his heart for herself. What was it that comedian used to say, oh yeah. She didn’t want to give away the milk unless he bought the cow. But even her legendary control was cracking as evidenced by how she threw herself at him.
For a long time he hadn’t seen a path forward for the two of them. She had spurned him on Earth and that had been a bigger obstacle than Jay had originally thought. Then she pulled her entire threaten to imprison him to keep him safe thing.
Trust had been built back slowly between them over the past few months. He respected her. From almost the beginning he had seen that she was a leader who had the respect, admiration and even love of those that followed her. She had definitely grown since Earth. Then again he had grown so why couldn’t she. But respect was not the same as trust.
Their relative positions required them to work together for the maintenance of the cluster. Additionally, her power was the only one that he had encountered so far that truly could damage his constructs. It wasn’t that other types of attacks didn’t drain his shields. They did, just never at a rate that provided any true threat to him.
Trina’s entropy attack seemed to unravel even the raw PSI constructs that he created. This meant that she was an optimal training partner for him. She pushed him in many ways that none of the others could during battle training. Trina also demonstrated herself to be a skilled fighter, quick on her feet with an even quicker mind.
He began to think that there might be a place for her with him. After the rough start, Trina was proving to be rabidly loyal to Jay. In more than one advisors’ meeting she spoke about him as the future. She even called him a veritable messiah once, an expression that made Jay distinctly uncomfortable to the point that she had never repeated it.
She still wasn’t what you would call a kind person. She didn’t play well with others, not at least those who weren’t on her team. Her personality was that of a natural born leader and she expected people to follow her. She also crushed any resistance to Jay’s leadership or any ideas that she felt were dangerous to him. Her protection extended to Miguel in the sense that he was Jay’s friend, but she clearly was placing all her bets on Jay.
Now when she came after him, begging him to love her; it was more than he could handle. He hated unfaithfulness. That might be a funny thing to say about a guy who was sleeping with nearly sixty women but that was all above board. It has all been approved by his wives, and it all served a necessary purpose.
Despite that deeply ingrained feeling, he had almost taken her moments ago. It wouldn’t have been wrong. Trina was strong. Her children would be strong and binding her more closely to himself could only make him and the cluster stronger. Yet that was all rationalization for nearly having lost control. It still would have been a betrayal of the trust his wives had in him. Perhaps worse it would have been a betrayal of the man that he wanted to be.
Fortunately, Amelia had arrived when she did. She had intervened. Oh holy night had she intervened. The intensity that she had as she yelled at Trina was something to behold. He hadn’t even heard all of their conversation as his first reaction has been to beat himself up, just like he was doing again now. He realized this issue had come to a head like others because he didn’t want to hurt anyone. Now a decision had to be made.
As they were walking into the dungeon, Jay pulled Amelia aside for a second. She frowned at him and he felt the sky crack around him. He could feel a jumble of emotion coming through their fusion. Finally he couldn’t take it any longer. “Please don’t be mad at me. I don’t think I could bear your disdain on top of my own.”
“Why would I be mad at you? I love you, husband. You know that. Just like you also know that I don’t really care for Trina. She and I have never gotten along and likely never will. No, that can’t be true. We are all part of each other now. We just need to work out how we all fit together. So far your wives are split evenly on how to handle her. Three of us want you to take her now and keep taking her till you make the fusion complete. The other three think she has some penance to do first. I don’t know if you knew that. But you can’t look to us to make that decision for you. You are going to have to do it yourself.
“Just in case you were wondering, I almost stood back and just let nature take its course. It might have made things simpler. Then again, who knows? Now, though seeing that and talking to her, has me all revved up so I might change my vote,” Amelia answered and ended with a laugh.
Jay stared at her before saying, “I’ve never settled with you even once. In any other setting you would be a prize above all others. If I had met you on Earth, I would have fallen madly in love with you and never looked at another woman, but as we say this isn’t Earth.”
“No but someday we are going to beat the Forlorn, beat the A’snkarnt and then I look forward to finding out what a lasting relationship with you is gonna look like. Even though I know it won’t be like it would have been on Earth.”
Chapter 15- If Only This Were A Game
There was a certain tension between the women when they walked into the dungeon. The wall of heat hit them, but the B.O.B. armor, or in Madison’s case a mech, prevented most of the heat. Jay was actually hoping for some quick fights to get everyone’s mind off the issues that still needed to be discussed, or the tension of having Trina in their little network.
He was forced to focus a fair amount of energy into blocking out their thoughts. Whispers would slip through and yet they were disjointed and he really wasn’t able to decipher too much about feelings from them. That was fine though because they were streaking across the ground at an intense speed.
Up above them the fiery form of Meikiyo flashed through the sky. On the ground, Jay was running while dragging along the mech with Madison in it. The sight was likely comical to anyone on the outside to see the ten-foot-high mecha being dragged along like a helium balloon behind him thanks to her powers.
Clinging around his neck was a transformed Jessie. As her power had continued to increase she had been able to make more dramatic changes in her shape. Now she was only a little larger than a small monkey and possessed of a similar form. Still his speed was limited by that of Huong, the slowest of their number. Still they were traveling well over eight hundred miles per hour like it was a nice brisk jog.
Even with a convoluted path to evade the lava pits, they still reached the entrance to the tunnel which led into the volcano. Meikiyo landed next to them and dropped her full flame form. It was a stark difference now with the B.O.B. suits because she was able to channel her power through the armor and not end up being naked when she changed back.
Jay couldn’t help but be slightly sad that he didn’t get to see her beautiful form. Ultimately it was a silly thought, but that didn
’t mean it didn’t cross his mind. Of course he was smart enough by now to avoid letting his thoughts show on his face but even still he was pretty sure that Meikiyo blushed slightly.
Those who had not seen the sleepers before wanted to take a few minutes to examine them. Jay figured it didn’t hurt and set to focusing his scans deeper into the volcano. From what he could tell there was a series of tunnels which led to the caldera. The volcano was not actively erupting but he could sense the magma down near the base.
There it was. It was faint from here as though it were asleep but he could definitely detect a life sign in the caldera. That must be the guardian. His scans didn’t reveal much more about it other than that it was very large.
Once their curiosity about the sleepers was satisfied the party began their trek inside. Jay took the lead with Trina and Meikiyo on his flanks. Jessie took up the rear guard while Amelia, Huong, and Madison were in the middle.