Enthralled: Book 2: Picking Up the Pieces

by Prax Venter

  He spread his legs out a little for her, and she draped the back of her knees of over his right leg while her back arched over his left, pushing her soft tits outward. She splayed over him limply and totally exposed to his magic hands.

  He kept his super slow heal going and grazed his fingers over her front side. He started with her collarbone and her thighs and worked his fingers slowly and deliberately over her whole body, concentrating on every caress.

  Eventually, he used both hands to lightly trace a path up to her nipples, and he poured a slightly stronger heal into each one as he grazed her red, stiff nubs.

  Her breath caught, and she started writhing on him. He could feel her perpetual state of bliss wash over him. He ran his fingers over her slender stomach and long legs and back again until her desire for him to touch her vagina pulled on his mind.

  He slowly slid one hand down her inner thighs to the wet folds of her pussy, and she let out a low moan when he made contact. Mark caressed her soft vagina at a leisurely pace, and Roo was adrift in a deep, warm ocean of ecstasy.

  Mark slid one of his fingers into the wet slit between her legs, but only just the tip. He let it rest there for a moment while he concentrated. He needed to practice getting better with his purify ability, and he was attempting to try something new.

  He imagined splitting the ability into two targets and tried to hold both of her stiff, red nipples in his mind. He squinted slightly, forcing the magic to obey his will and two, light blue balls of pure erotic bliss sputtered into being, centered on both of Roo's nipples.

  The air she was slowly breathing got sucked into her lungs with a sharp inhale, and there it stayed as her velvet body tensed on him. He could feel her ass cheeks clench over the length of his cock.

  With the two balls of light locked onto her nipples, he slowly began to work two fingers into her sopping wet pussy. Roo just let out a long, tight groan as he pleasured her. For several minutes he worked her body before he started to slowly enhance her clitoris.

  The purple nub of fabric was already swollen from her current hyper-aroused state, and when it began to faintly glow from Mark's ability, she instantly started to clench her pussy, forced into a hard orgasm.

  Both the purify and the enhancement were applied slowly, and he fingered her hot, wet velvet hole for a long time while she had countless orgasms.

  The abilities ran out of power and faded away, and Mark gave her gushing pussy one more thrust of his fingers before he pulled them out into the cool air, and brought them to her lips.

  She slowly and groggily licked his two fingers clean. When she had sucked most of her pussy juice off, he put his other hand under her head and lifted her puffy lips up to his mouth for a long kiss.

  She had her pussy juice all over her lips, and he lovingly helped clean her off. As she recovered more control over her body, she got up and turned to face him, sitting her soaking, hot pussy down on his stiff cock.

  She wrapped her legs around his back and wildly pressed her lips against his. She was crazed with passion, holding onto his face while she massaged his dick with her amazing, silky, fabric pussy.

  As she pumped her hips down on him, Mark started to slide down the headboard, eventually ending up on his back, and she pulled her legs up, so she was squatting over his crotch. The velvet-girl put her forehead on his, locked her mesmerizing black eyes on his and fucked him hard.

  She dug her soft feet into the bed as she rose up and slammed her perfect ass down on to his balls, her slippery pussy squeezing his dick with everything she had. The velvet-girl pounded him hard like this for a while, as if she was a machine, and the tingling friction drove his cock wild.

  His dick started spasming, and he gripped her soft back tightly as he was pushed over the edge. She didn't stop the stimulation as he shot his sperm and an immense load of essence deep into her vagina. Roo grunted and bit her lip as she came again, with him, forced into another hard orgasm.

  The velvet girl just slumped onto his chest, his cock still wedged into her pussy, and they laid there until their breathing normalized. Mark held her for a while longer, caressing her back again, and he could feel that she was the happiest she had ever been.

  After he snuggled the content velvet-girl for a good long while, they got up and got dressed.

  She smiled when he slipped her iron heart back into his pocket.

  They found Ahnix sitting on Vale's face with the giant naga's long tongue up her ass. It was suggested that Mark stay dressed while he took Vale's spot and give his new 'no breathing' outfit a trial run. He spent the rest of the day with his face buried in pussy and ass, getting his dick sucked and fucked, late into the evening. The gear worked, even with his pants pulled down a bit. It was a good day.

  - 12 -

  Mark stepped out of Roo's doorway just south of Mother's forest. He took a few steps forward out into flat, grassy plains and held out his Crystal Heart compass. A fully armored Vale joined him in the morning sunlight while Ahnix and Roo stayed just inside the doorway. This was just a test to see which way they needed to head for the next piece, and the red, faintly glowing compass needle pointed straight south.

  Mark raised his head and saw a dark mountain range far in the distance.

  He turned around. “Okay, let's pop south, to the base of those mountains over there. Get a new reading.”

  Vale nodded, and they both moved back through the doorway. Mark went with Roo into the map room and pointed south of the mountain range that split the content. Roo locked her eyes onto the spot for a moment before spinning and lifting her hand to raise another door.

  When Mark pulled it open, he felt a hot wind blow in to greet him. He walked outside and stood on black, rocky ground, facing a ring of corruption encircling a towering mountain. An angry cloud of soot glowed red and hung above its jagged peak. The air smelled roasted, and it dried out his nose as he breathed. There was no doubt; this was an active volcano. He looked down at the compass. It pointed straight north, but he knew it would. The massive ring of swirling, white noise around the base of the of the dark, rocky mountain was all he needed to see.

  Vale slid up next to him, and they both looked up to the volcano's broken top just a splash of flaming, orange magma fling over the edge like spittle flying from an enraged dog's barking maw. Roo and Ahnix walked out of the doorway to join them, and they all stood before the challenge they need to face for the next Crystal Heart fragment.

  “Of course it's in there,” Roo said, sighing.

  Mark looked over at the deflated velvet-girl and smirked. “Let's go check it out. Who knows? Maybe it'll be lying just inside the tear.”

  Roo squinted her eyes- she did not believe it would be.

  They all moved forward across the rocky terrain towards the immense ring of corruption. It was only a few hundred yards away, but the temperature increased dramatically as they got closer to the volcano, and Mark began to sweat.

  The group stepped up to the tear, and they all knew what came next. Mark could feel the fear radiating out of the fabric skinned Roo. She was not a fan of fire.

  He pulled out her iron heart and held it out to her.

  “Take my hand.” He said.

  She smiled and wrapped her soft velvet fingers over the object and squeezed. Ahnix laced her furry fingers through his other hand, and Vale took Roo's free hand.

  They all looked to Mark who closed his eyes and focused on their bond. One down and one to go, he thought. In his mind's eye, he went back to that moment after he touched the first Crystal Heart piece and they all touched arms, lining up the small, heart tattoo. His connection to his Enthralled had never been stronger, and he focused on the closeness of his girls, exposing his pool of energy to their ever-present bond.

  All four of them became surrounded by an ethereal white flame, and as one, they stepped into the tear.

  Like before, as soon as they crossed the barrier, a blinding flash ate up the ring, traveling away from them in both directions. The cir
cle of corruption dissipated, and the towering, black volcano filled their vision.

  “Let's look for a way in,” Mark said, scanning the boulders and rough, black stone all around them.

  They carefully made their way closer to the base of the volcano, and the heat was almost unbearable for Mark. He looked at his girls to see how they were faring. Vale and Ahnix seemed to be just fine with higher temperatures, but Roo looked miserable. She didn't sweat, but he could feel her trepidation as they moved forward.

  After about an hour of climbing over charred rock, Ahnix finally spotted a cave on the side of the towering mass of black stone. The jagged terrain was rough, but it was less of a problem for both the cat-girl's nimble feet and the giant naga's long tail, so they were the first to make it up the slight incline and enter the cave.

  Mark heard Ahnix hiss, and his head snapped up just in time to see a blur of black flesh and claws fly through the air where she had been. The cat-girl activated her teleport to dodge the attack, appearing next to Mark.

  The odd creature landed out in the open, and Mark tried to get a good look at it. The growling animal looked like a hairless bear, shrunken down to about half the normal size. Emerging from its back were two, fleshy, curved appendages attached just behind its shoulders. At the tips were glowing, yellow bulbs, like firefly's abdomen. Its black, leathery lips were pulled back in a hateful snarl.

  “Thermal bear!” Vale yelled, like that meant something to him.

  The creature still had its pure-white eyes on Ahnix and charged forward. It didn't get very far before a long, polished needle struck the wrinkly creature in it its chest. The impact stopped the animal's forward motion and actually sent it tumbling backward along the rocks a few feet. The glowing nubs on the ends of its strange, shoulder appendages dimmed, and the thermal bear let out its last, ragged breath.

  “That was a juvenile,” Vale said, looking around. “There are bound to be more.”

  “What's a thermal bear? I mean, I know that one is,” Mark said, pointing. “What do you know about them?”

  Ahnix checked the cave while Mark and Roo climbed up the small incline to join them.

  “They eat heat. The more fire, the bigger they get and the more eggs they lay. The ember bulbs sticking out of their backs will sear your flesh if they touch you.” Vale offered her hand to Roo, helping her up then continued her lesson. “The glowing bulbs act like mouths. But they have normal, tooth-filled mouths too, for defense.”

  “We have a problem,” Ahnix said, returning from the cave.

  Mark furrowed his brow. “What is it?”

  “You'd better come see.”

  They all followed Ahnix into the cave. The walls were smooth, black stone with soot covering the floor. Mark could hear a constant, deep rumbling all around him, and a hot, dry wind blew past, headed for the opening behind him. After a few steps and turning a bend, he saw the issue.

  Jets of flame spewed out of holes along the subterranean hollow, seemingly at random. There was no way they were going to get through this. Roo was already backing up and heading to the mouth of the cave. Mark, Vale, and Ahnix exchanged looks and then followed the fabric-girl outside again.

  She was just standing there, looking down at the dead thermal bear as it bled out.

  “I guess we look for another way in,” Vale said.

  Ahnix led the search as they circled the massive base of the black, volcanic mountain, keeping it to their right.

  Eventually, they were forced to pass near a bubbling river of glowing lava on their left, pushing them closer to the tower of rock looming above them. He felt Roo practically quivering in terror from the heat baking them from every side. He was looking at her when Ahnix put her fist up for them to be quiet and stop moving.

  He saw her too late and skidded his boots in the rocks, trying to not run into the back of the suddenly stationary cat-girl.

  Movement ahead caught Mark's attention as a massive, hulking thermal bear pulled its glowing nubs out of the lava, droplets of molten rock plopping back into the searing river.

  The thick, black, wrinkled skin of the creature caused it to blend in perfectly with the soot-covered volcanic rock surrounding them. The beast was as big as a bus and turned its pure-white eyes right at Mark.

  With the lava to one side and the vertical rock of the volcano to the other, there was not a lot of room to maneuver. The snarling monster lowered its head and then charged straight at Mark, its sharp, black claws tearing up the rock as it lumbered forward.

  Vale pulled her shield from her back and moved left to intercept as Roo passed behind her to the right and launched a three-foot needle once the naga was clear. The speeding projectile only made a glancing wound as the creature ducked and leaped sideways to avoid the attack.

  It continued its lateral movement, splashing its thick, leathery paws in the river of lava as the hairless bear tried to circle around Vale, intent on destroying Mark. Unsurprisingly the thermal bear's body seemed to be immune to fire, and Roo screamed as droplets of flaming liquid rock splashed outward as a result of its reckless charge.

  Vale began chanting her Hateful Sting ability, knowing she would need to take the hits while they whittled this thing down. The monster was halfway around her when she finished, and a red glow surrounded its black skin. It slid to a stop, turned to face Vale and quickly closed the short distance between them. Not taking any chances, Mark put a bubble up around the giant naga just as the massive creature flung its paws outward and brought its lava imbued claws down. Mark saw a glob of lava head his way and sidestepped it to avoid getting horribly burned.

  The bubble held as the massive thermal bear tried to chew on the impenetrable wall of magic. Mark saw Ahnix teleport to the creature's side and initiate an Assault Rush, her claws leaving lingering blue trails he had never seen before as she opened a hole in the beast. After her attack was over, she used Retract to pop back to where she started.

  The cat-girl had done considerable damage, and blood leaked from long gashes in its hide, but the hulking pile of wrinkled skin wasn't down yet. Mark's magic shield ran out of juice, and Vale was left to take the hits once more. Her shield deftly blocked its swipes while she searched for an opening. When it happened, her metal slab became a blur as she hit the thermal bear's ugly face with Shield Bash.

  Vale risked a look over her shoulder, and Mark was hit by a wave of frustration emanating from the giant naga. He followed her gaze and saw Roo cowering in a ball by the mountainside.

  The velvet-girl shook off her fear, and he felt something snap- her resolve hardening. Roo held up her hand, taking careful aim. The creature came out of its stupor and reared up on its hind legs, preparing to put all of its weight behind a desperate attack. Before it could do anything, a three-foot needle lodged itself deep into its brain through its milky, white eye. The creature fell backward, splashing into the river of lava.

  Mark felt a rush of essence, and the battle was over.

  Vale put her shield back over her shoulder, hooking it in place and wove her body up to Roo. Before the giant naga could speak, Roo held up her soft, velvet hand.

  “Vale, I apologize. This will never happen again.” Tears began to well up from her pure black eyes as she looked up at Vale. Mark and Ahnix came up to join them, and he could sense a change in her.

  “You are a role model to me. You always do and say the right thing. You're so courageous, fearless, and always standing for what's right... and I keep letting you down.” The tears were pouring over her mask in runnels now.

  “I want to tell you- never again.”

  Vale nodded and moved in to embrace her, and Mark felt the bond between the two of them grow even stronger.

  Vale pulled back, wiping her own eyes. “No one has ever called me a role model before. Believe me, I don't always do the right thing, but I'm honored you think so. Together, we will work to not let each other down.”

  Roo held up her wrist, displaying the heart tattoo. “Together”
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br />   Vale deactivated her armor with a tap to the gem on her forehead and echoed the gesture.

  “Together.”

  After the moment was over, Vale reactivated her Star Scale Mail, and they continued to look for a way into the mountain.

  They spent most of the day circling the volcano and came across a handful of thermal bears of various sizes. They also found a few more entrances carved into the black rock but, as before, jets of flame made it impossible to move deeper.

  Mark checked the compass regularly, and the needle always rotated with them, indicating that the piece was definitely in the center of the volcano.

  Vale turned to face the group after being forced to leave another cave that blocked their path with a lake of lava.

  “I might have a solution,” she said. “My people are fighting to recapture an ancient temple from the Magi Clan. The legends say that there is a powerful relic inside that could help protect us from the fire.”

  Mark sighed and wiped the sweat from his brow. “I'm all for powerful relics. We sure aren't getting anywhere here.”

  Vale turned to Roo. “Let's go home and open a door to the front on Eastern Veld.”

  The velvet-girl didn't hesitate, not wanting to spend another moment near this torturous oven. After the door was opened, they all moved into the relatively cool air of their home.

  Roo and Vale went off to pinpoint the exact location of her army while Ahnix and Mark waited in the main chamber. He walked into the pantry and used a cup to get a drink from one of their water barrels. He felt Ahnix come in behind him and he handed it to her after he took a sip. She closed her dark eyes and tilted her head back as she gulped down the cool water, her black tail lazily waving back and forth.

  “I noticed your claws seem to have a new trippy effect when you attack. That or the heat was making me delirious.”

  She lowered her chin, pulled the cup away from her small mouth, and locked her eyes on his.

  “I dumped all that essence into strengthening my attacks.”