"Everyone, this is a shadow fighting room. You will have to use unorthodox methods to beat them!" I yelled out to the girls as I felt my skin burn.
The claw was awake, and it was not happy. I could feel the waves of outrage coming from the beast inside of me. It wasn't just in my arm, it was like a feeling of being in the shadow of something far larger than myself, on a scale that I couldn't measure.
'Kill the mockery.' -Deep, and old voice.
The voice was deep and old, vibrating me to my core. Pain heated up in my arm, but there was also an intense rush of power making my synapse crackle to life, burning all pain away. The copy was already lashing out with his fake Dragon Claw, the grey head of a dragon coming directly at me.
I lifted my arm to meet the attack head-on, and a massive metallic red dragon grew and ate most of the stone. Then, as my arm shifted back, I dash forward, without giving the imposter a chance to react. I grabbed its neck with the dragon claw and crushed it, causing the manikin to explode into black particles.
The claw drank in the particles and the pain made me start to sweat and breathe heavily, but soon I was over. I looked up and I was surprised to see that each of the girls had defeated their clones. Their weapons had all changed some more, but before I could examine them, a brain-rattling roar came from the last golem.
I turned to find that the last stone doll had got a lot bigger, grown more arm, eight in total, and turned gold. Yes, the boss…
'Why is it still here? Destroy that abomination!' -Deep, and old voice.
'Oye! What's your name?'
'What? Name? The Destroyer of Men!' -The Destroyer of Men.
'Eww, people might get the wrong idea in this age, if you know what I mean? I'll just call you TDM.'
'What? No! I am your master and you will call me by my full name!' -TDM.
'Sure, Great Destroyer of Weiner, let's go.'
'I will make your life living hell puny mortal!' -TDM.
'Don't start giving me lip, or I jerk off with you!'
'I will rip that tiny appendage off your body if you try!' -TDM.
"Dave!" Latisha yelled to try and warn me, but I was too distracted.
*Wack!*
*Thud!*
"OwO, That hurt," I groaned after sliding down the wall.
The Boss had backhanded me while I was having a pissing match with the monster inside me.
'You need me! Bow down to my greatness!' -TDM.
'You need me or you know what happens, right? If I die, I start another game, but what happens to you?'
My hand snapped up of its own accord and bit the golden Jet-Ax and arm swinging it at my head. The boss tried to pull away, but my arm grew larger and started to eat its way up. The golden monster tried to flair with its other arms, but the girls were on it.
Chains wrapped around some, two fell off to sword strokes, but Carly was the winner this round. She ran up and when she was right below the Golden boss, she pulled the trigger of the real Jet-Ax, which was smaller than ever, looking like an oversized hammer. Carly rocketed up and smashed through the head of the boss in a shower of particles.
Chapter 227: The Other Way
'No! That is my essence, you infernal woman!' -TDM.
'Calm down, I will find you something else to kill, there are other people here too!'
The Jet-Ax Carly held, drank in the particles, and started to shrink down into a normal-sized hammer, but more like an ice pick. Intricate lines grew up around the handle and metal, but the trigger and jet were gone. It was hard to believe that the hammer had stood two meters tall when Tilly and I first found it.
A blue circle was forming on the ground, but I looked to Latisha and started to look around, asking the other two to help us. At first, the room was normal, but then we noticed there were symbols around the edge of the room. Different combinations of circles, squares, and triangles went all the way around the large room, but they were about twenty-five centimeters wide.
"Do any of you notice anything weird about the symbols?" I asked the girls while studying them.
I couldn't really see anything other than what they were, a bunch of shapes, but Sandra was walking around, looking at each stone. Suddenly she stopped and squatted down, putting a hand down on a symbol I couldn't see from my side of the room. The symbol lit up and stayed that way, then she turned to face the rest of us.
"Look for sets of three that are the same and then press the middle ones!"
We all started to run around and found them within no time, and when I pressed the last one, things began to move. The center of the room dropped down and then it started to spin and then drop out like a spiral, creating a spiral staircase that led down. We all met at the top of the stairs and I gave Sandra a big hug and a deep kiss that promised more later.
"What do you think is going to be done here this time? I really hope it's not another puzzle!" Carly complained as we walked down.
"You think that was hard? You should have seen the puzzle Dave and I did!" Latisha retorted.
"I know, I was there remember? I will help you guys, with all the copies of myself!"
"Oh! That's right! Hmm? Still, I really hope it's something that we can get over and done with fast since now we need to go and find our food!" Latisha complained to no one imparticular, but I knew where it was directed.
"Yeah, Yeah, get moving down those stairs faster, and then we can get out of here faster ladies! This should be the last room and then we can get Delilah or whoever is still left! Let's get a move on!"
We all jogged down the staircase for what seemed like forever, and right as I was about to start sprinting, we were at the bottom. This game seems to like to put a player to its limits and then give in. I wasn't sure how I felt about that, constantly being led on, but there wasn't a lot I could do but beat the game fast so I could get to the next world. The thing was that every world had something and not a lot of them had real perks unless I created them.
Carly and I let out whoops of joy as we saw the massive pile of giant back and blue pythons in a pit below us. There was a pillar in the center of the room with a switch on top of it, but it was about fifteen meters away, so Carly and I jumped into the pit. The other to yell at us, say that we were supposed to fall into the snake pit, but there were always two ways of doing things, the thinking way, or the other way.
Both Carly and I were fans of the other way, which basically meant, whatever way worked. Today that meant eliminating the threat and hitting at the base of the problem. We were the simplest, plus there was a certain art to not thinking about what you're doing.
Massive red metallic wings burst from my hand and slowed me as I watched Carly slam down and strike at the first twenty-meter python that tried to attack her. The effect was spectacular to see from here, a black crack like a lightning bolt tore through the snake and instantly turned it into black particles. Sensing this, TDM changed from wings and into a long dragon neck and head, filling me with pain as I started to drop father's again.
TDM snapped its head and neck forward and we shot at a snake, tearing into it like paper. Then, right before I hit the ground, my arm punched down with an intense force, making me push up as I connected with the ground. I let the momentum make me do a front flip, but as the momentum carried me forward, TDM whipped forward and speared through three snakes, killing them instantly, latching onto the forth.
I rocketed as TDM ripped me towards the snake I was still latched onto, and I could see Carly cutting through gigantic snakes with massive strikes of black lightning. Moments before I reached the last snake, TDM let go and I spun into the snake that was trying to grab me, now that I had let go, but I met it with a left-handed dragon giant head hook. The snake was blowing into black flecks and I prepared myself for the waves of pain.
But it didn't come, or not like I had assumed it would. There was still a dull ache, but after TDM finished, that too went away as well. My body was becoming more and more compatible with this thing inside of me, and
I probably would feel no pain from it all soon.
I walked over to the pillar and flexed my scaled fist, pulling my arm back.
"The other way!"
Chapter 228: Bloodthirsty
After knocking the pillar over, the pit we were in filled with water, and Carly and I floated to the top. Sandra and Latisha were shaking their heads at me, but I just smiled. I only had this Dragon Claw now, so I had to use it to the best of its potential, but TDM wasn't that thrilled about being used as a battering ram.
He would get over it, we were now stuck together and there wasn't anything that either of us could do to change it. I didn't think that would stop someone like The Destroyer of Men from trying to resist more thought. Who made a weapon with a monster inside of it, I mean in principle the idea sounded pretty cool, but when you were the damn thing, it was a whole different story.
After floating to the other side, we all got out and started to walk to the exit, which should have been our ticket out of here, but it was to another big cave like the one with the statues. The only difference was the dragons littering the place.
They were not big, but there were at least twenty of them, making it I've to one odds in the dragon's favor, but that's when TDM started to growl. I started to feel the creeping pain of the scales appearing started, but stopped when I felt the surge of power. It was stronger than before, more outrage poured from TDM.
'Kill these wretched beasts so I may feed on their essence! None can remain, I am the only one!' -TDM.
'Yes, old man. That was my plan, to begin with, no point in rubbing it in my face.'
The dragons rushed us but were torn down by a hail of bullets before I even got a chant to kill one.
'HWHAT! What is the meaning of this!' -TDM.
I turned and looked back at the girls, who all had their weapons out, absorbing the essence. They all looked happy, so I was happy, TDM was still pissed, but we were done. The monster could rage inside of me all it wanted, this was another tiring day.
It was almost over, and now we just had to get through the door up ahead and find whoever was waiting. I let the girls check the door, but there weren't any traps and it wasn't locked, but no freezing time happened. That feature must have only been part of the first half.
"I really hope this is the last room, I am ready for another bath and some other stuff!"
The girls all rolled their eyes at me, but that made me smile even harder. Then I opened the door and everything went to hell. My arm grew a pair of legs, with a dragon's head attached to them.
"Dave!" The girls all cried together as I was pulled into the room alone, with the door closing behind me.
I tried to dig my heels in but faltered when I saw what was inside the room with me and nearly tripped and fell. There was a giant fucking dragon in the room and we were running straight at it. Both of us were bathed in fire, but TDM shields me from the flames, while he took no damage. I almost thought we were going to be okay, but then we were full-body bitch slapped into the far wall.
TDM took most of the damage, but that didn't mean that I didn't get hurt. The dragon was turning on me and about to blast me with fire again, but I was already being dragged along and towards the dragon. I stopped charging up its fire to make a swing at use, but I used my strength that was charged to just barely clear the arm.
That was when TDM made my arm turn into a huge dragon's head, and bit the arms as we flew over. The clamp stopped my motion and I swung in a pendulum into the ground, but TDM let go in time for me to right myself. The massive green dragon with a golden mane screamed out in defiance, but somehow, TDM returned the called even louder.
The whole exchange was giving me a headache, but I didn't have time to complain as I was ripped forward again. I was going to have a serious talk with this idiot after we were done here. The dragon tried the same move again, but with its other arms, and TDM caught it in his mouth, biting the handoff.
Nothing but a rough bloodless stump was leftover and the dragon was trying to pull back, but this only made TDM more bloodthirsty. We dashed, well I dragged towards the retreating dragon that was trying to make a last breath attack, but it was too late. We dash up and the two-legged dragon head launches up to tear into the dragon's neck, with my dragging behind, flailing in the wind.
The massive and impressive dragon exploded into a shower of dark particles. TDM changed to wings and we floated down. The black spots started to spin into a cyclone that sucked into my hand, the pain was bearable this time.
Suddenly, I could feel pain sprout from my right arm, and another Identical gauntlet appeared.
'NO! I have now been working with you! You should not get control like this! Look what I did for us!' -TDM.
It was true, I couldn't feel him like I could before, it was more like he was a part of me now, rather than a larger shadow covering me. Well, looks like I won't be needing that talk after all. Serves him right, I bet the girls were worried sick about me!
I turned back to see the girls casually walking into the room, and none of them looked concerned.
"You guys weren't worried about me?"
"No, not with that psycho strapped to your wrist, hehe," Carly laughed, coming over and giving me a kiss, but then looking down at my other new gauntlet. "What do you do now? Are they both going to sprout legs and run in opposite directions now?"
"Don't give him any ideas!"
Chapter 229: A Promise Made
"I don't even want to ask the question, but do you think that was it?" Sandra asked, coming over with Latisha.
"Haha, I know what you mean, but I think that this is it, the game would just be being cruel now if it kept this up. No, I think our next member is waiting on the other side of this final door."
"Okay, we will see you two back at the hotel. Get yourselves food as well, we will be going out to get our own. Down bring home a hungry woman!" Latisha informed before locking arms with Carly and heading back out the door they had just come through.
"Huh? I guess plans have been made without me."
I turned to find a shy-looking Sandra, but as cute as the look was, I wasn't going to let the girls make this awkward for us! I really wondered who was going to be on the other side of the room. Most likely Dehilah, but there were two unknowns, but I had a guess who one of them was. A certain promise was made in the last game, and it would be about time that I made her an official member!
"Come on!"
I grabbed Sandra's hand and pulled her into a quick kiss, then we both ran to the door and pushed it open. I was knocked back like I had been hit by a bus, losing my grip on Sandra's hand. For a moment I really thought there might have been a monster on the other side of that door, that was until Trinity screamed my name and she began to strangle me from over the top of me where she was sitting.
"DAAAAVVE!" Trinity squealed directly into my ear, making my head ache.
Her hug was trying to squeeze the life out of me, but I was so happy to see her that I hugged her back, while still fighting for air. She finally let off after Sandra came and helped loosen the deathlock around my neck allowing me to gasp for air. Then I was showered with kisses from my wife, I could call her that because she was the first woman I had ever married.
That was during the second game I had ever played, The Mortal Planes. A game world where you fought other players to win in the tier of the respective system types. We had married halfway through the game and then I had only found Serina near the end of the game. I had also thought that Trinity was a computer program, but the truth was that she was no different than any other girl, and I had been taking her for granted.
"Trinity! I'm so happy to see you! I had a feeling it was going to be you behind the door, but then I thought the game was being cruel to send another monster to mess with us!"
I was able to get up and I introduced the girls, but then Trinity looked around, and then back at me.
"Where are the rest of the girls? Am I the second one?!" Trinity asked
excitedly.
"Sorry babe, your number seven, but we still have lots of time together, and the three of us have the rest of the day off! So, I was thinking we could go get a bite to...no your right I am not really hungry at all."
Both girls had taken their clothes off and let them fall to the ground, yeah no need for food. My appetite had been curved to the shape of these perfect bodies. They both grabbed me by a hand and then led me into the next room. Inside was my bedroom! Man, this place got around! I wonder if the game changed the bedsheets?
I let go of the girl's hands and stripped out of my clothes and moved onto the bed where the girls were already waiting. I stood before the bed surveying the landscape before me, majestic! A pair of beautiful blondes with hourglass figures crawled on hands and knees toward my erect member.
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