"My life kinda sucks…" I hum while sitting on my back deck, a light dusting of snow gently falling from the sky as I slowly smoke my phat blunt, looking up at the bright full moon and stars in a nearly cloudless night sky.
A shooting star with a strange blueish-purple corona trailing behind it, starts to track across the sky where I can see it.
"Would it be weird to wish on a shooting star…at twenty-nine?" I can't help but ask myself out loud.
'Nah, it's perfectly normal Mason!' I tell/reassure myself through my thoughts using my middle name.
"I wish that I could travel to other worlds, like from TV shows, movies, books, cartoons…and that I can bring stuff back with me and everything will work the way it's supposed to where it comes from…" I trail off as the shooting star makes a sharp right curve as if it has honed in on my voice and set it's course for a collision.
"What the fuck...did that prick sell me some laced shit?! I knew I should have just grown my own or gone to the dispensary!" I exhale out with a cloud of smoke, the shooting star is now three or four meters from me, so I kick out my feet, tipping the outside chair that I'm sitting on over backwards. My head hits the wooden deck hard…harder than I meant it to.
A feeling of dizziness hits me. I can see flashes of light while there is also a slight feeling of numbness/cold at the back of my head.
I see an object that has a purpleish-blue halo around it fall from the sky and clamps down around my right arm just above my wrist like a vice and fuses to my arm, then it melts into my skin, vanishing as if it never existed in the first place.
The darkness that has been encroaching on me from the corners of my vision, fills my sight and I become unconscious.
A groan slips out of me as I slowly open my eyes, to my dogs Harley and Diesel whimpering and pressing their cold noses to my face while laying on top of me.
'At least I'm warm…' I can't help but appreciate having two loyal and loving pups who stuck with me…especially with the coyotes and bears around my property.
Reaching up I begin to pet my two boys, one is a white German Shepherd named Diesel, the other a black Labrador retriever named Harley.
As I'm petting Diesel I notice both that my head isn't hurting like it should be…and that I can wiggle my toes…but there is also a strange looking mark on my arm that is a blueish-purple in color that goes from my wrist to my elbow on my right arm.
'I don't think any of my friends that are tattoo artists… of which there is one would come here tattoo my arm and leave me out here to freeze to death and or catch hypothermia and loose body parts…' As I continue to stare at the tattoo, this weird overlay, like AR Glasses Heads Up Display, in a weird purplish tint.
[System Activated, Awaiting Input).
'Hmm…a system…I wonder what it means by input? Most of those stories with gamer system mc's need to think or say {system} to use it.'
At my thought of {System} new windows appear in my vision they are.
[Charge Percentage: 100%]
[Mode: Standbye]
[Subspace Storage]
[Travel Lock: Disengaged, No Destination Locked]
[User Manual]
[Current World: Earth-0]
'Okay…not a typical system, there aren't any stats…at least as far as I can see…better pull a boss move and actually read the manual.' With that thought I concentrate my attention on the User Manual and it opens the tab.
Reading over the user manual, while pushing my boys away when getting my feet underneath me, then heading into the house, filling up their bowls with dry food.
Both giving me looks like come on bro, we spent all night on the cold hard deck keeping you warm, feed us something good! I can't help but let out a sigh, as I cave to their puppy dog looks.
"Fine, fine you two win, I'll cook you both something nice." I roll my eyes as Harley and Diesel both begin acting like energetic puppies.
'You're such a Sucker.'
Grabbing out a couple of boneless skinless chicken breasts I throw them in a frying pan, wash my hands, then lightly season the chicken, before turning the pilot light into an actual cooking flame the chicken almost immediately starts to sizzle and pop in the frying pan.
'This seems a lot like the power that the main character from "I have a Mansion in the Post-apocalyptic World" had but this one includes a system like interface.
As I continue reading I learn that Traveling can be done at a minimum of 10% power but not anything below ten percent, and the cost to travel depends on the distance between worlds/universes, the example used in the User Manual is the Star Wars Movie-Universe pre-clones wars, which would cost sixty-five percent of a full charge per, one way trip. Then there is an additional half an hour cooldown period per multiverse jump, the cooldown is a built in safety feature so I don't over-tax my body and drop dead, I can remove this limit but doing so is very dangerous and that, one of the listed dangers is that I could end up spreading my atoms across the multiverse if I attempt too many sequential jumps. As for Recharging it takes seventy-two hours to go from zero percent to one-hundred percent.
'So, basically I recharge at a little over, one-percent per hour if you go off of the scale of zero to a one-hundred percent, in seventy-two hours, so one trip to a Star Wars Universe would knock me down to thirty-five percent, so I'd have to stay there for thirty and one-half hours before I could return home directly…that's kinda scary.'
Reading further I notice that unless I engage the travel or target lock before jumping the world and time frame I will be traveling to will get chosen at random.
Seeing the Travel Lock/Target Lock, I immediately focus on the Travel Lock, and for the life of me I'm not sure why but Buffy The Vampire Slayer, is the first thing that comes to mind and I watch in rapt attention as the little tab changes.
[Travel Lock: Engaged, Destination: Buffy The Vampire Slayer (TV-verse), at the Beginning of Cannon in Sunnydale, Locked in place for travel; Charge Required: 15%]
'Well, at least I won't travel to some zombie infested universe…or something worse like Marvel…DC…or Dragon Ball, I guess a demon infested world is just as bad if not worse than a zombie apocalypse one-.' My thoughts run rampant and the chicken starts to get a little darker on the bottom than it usually does when I cook it for the boys, pulling open the silverware drawer I reach in and grab out a fork and use it I flip over the chicken breasts.
Continuing to read I find out that the Subspace storage space is one-thousand meters long, by one-thousand meters long and one-thousand meters tall, to store and remove things I simply need to have the intention of taking something out or putting it in but it must be within three meters of me, I can automatically summon clothes, weapons, accessories and the like directly on my body as well but I need to be completely still or else I could end up with a shirt mostly on my body but with a stretch of fabric appearing in my body.
'Yikes…that's scary, I think I'd prefer to have something appear in my hand or to reach into the subspace and pull something out then run the risk of moving slightly and end up with something partially appearing inside of my body…I'm also somewhat relieved that living things can go into the subspace, and that inside of it things even living breathing things are put into a timeless stasis, basically meaning, hot meal goes in hot meal comes out.' Shrugging off my thoughts as I grab out a knife to cut into a check the chicken, seeing that the meat is juicy and white in color, I take the chicken out of the pan and begin slicing it on the cutting board set into the counter, then leave it to cool for a few minutes before feeding it to my boys so that they don't burn their mouths in the hot chicken.
Picking my phone up off of the kitchen table, unlocking it and going into Play Books, I click on the preview I have for "The Fruit of Evolution"
'I definitely feel for Hiiragi Seiichi, the whole being fat, ugly and struggling with body odor…the bullying…the recent loss of his parents.' Shaking my head I stand up from the chair and check the chicken, 'Should be cool enough.' I shrug and taste test a piece of chicken, finding it tastes good to me, before cupping it up in my hands and taking it out to the boys' food dishes, sprinkling the meat on top of the dry food.
Heading back into the kitchen, I wash my hands and then reprogram the destination for me to travel to The Fruit of Evolution world (Dubbed edition) before the class transmigrates to the other world.
I follow the directions the User Manual showed while reading it, forming a circle with my hand in front of my sternum, until blueish-purple sparks arc between my hands and a small vortex begins to form in the center of my hands slowly pulling my hands apart makes the vortex grow, throwing my hands forward, the portal increases in size and I step into it.
I come out into a grayed out Japanese classroom right beside Hiiragi Seiichi, who is still laying on the floor, the portal behind me remaining open for a handful of moments before closing in on itself, the world returns to life.
All the teens except Hiiragi Seiichi are sitting at their desks, ""What the heck?" I hear Hiiragi Seiichi mutter.
"I can't move!" His muttering turning into a whine
"Hey…you, What's happening?!"
"Shush, Hiiragi Seiichi…we're being transmigrated." I say to him calmly, while looking down at him to give him a friendly grin.
"Huuuh? But nobody can move a muscle, why are we all paralyzed?" Hiiragi Seiichi expresses as the whole classroom begins to devolve into panic, and the intercom comes on.
"Hello there, kids. Let me introduce myself. In this world, I'm who you might call 'God." The voice has a strangely androgynous quality to it, making it impossible to tell if the speaker was young or old, man or woman.
"It looks like you're all rather confused, but that's hardly surprising…hmm speaking of the unknown and incomprehensible it seems you have a Traveler in your midst how interesting…anyways as I was about to say the unknown and incomprehensible have always bred chaos in the hearts of men…Honestly, you're such comical little creatures."
"Explaining things to you humans in detail always exhausts me," the voice continues in a jovial tone, "So I'll keep this simple. I'll be transferring each and every one of you to another world…yes even you Traveler…but I know that was your intent in the first place."
The room suddenly goes dead silent, I see some kid opening their mouth to say something, their mouth moves, but no words come out of their mouth.
"Now, since I'd rather not deal with you all squabbling over each other, I've taken away your voices temporarily."
'Damn…this voice might really belong to God…or at least something or someone close to God with a big Gee capital Ohh, capital Dee's power.
"Anywho, I've decided that Earth has far too many people on it, and, as such, I need to move you somewhere new. You humans have had your way with this planet a little too much, you know. I can't allow your population to continue increasing as it is. Can't you hear the screams of Mother Earth beneath your feet? That's why we gods are shipping you off to other, less populated worlds. In short, we're saving the world from you lot." I can picture this "God's" all too pleased with himself's expression, which only makes me roll my eyes.
"You should all be grateful, by the way. The original plan was to quietly erase you lot from existence, but thanks to the Traveler popping up I have gone out of my way to grant you the right to live. I believe you all owe me and him a thank you!"
'Wow, this guy is kinda a prick…'
"Your new home, by the way, is a nice little fantasy world. I think you'll find it rather similar to the RPGs you play here. Now, this means that you'll have to cope with a healthy dose of monsters, but you'll have magic as well. There isn't any 'science' there, however, so I imagine you 'hip kids,' as it were, will find it plenty inconvenient…to say the least."
'As long as I can hop home and take a dump on the toilet…and wipe with toilet paper…'
"Since your new world is so dangerous, there's no need to worry about you humans getting too full of yourselves, and none of the gods will lay a finger on your new home. That means no godly pranks but no miracles either. Instead, you'll have the full kit and caboodle of levels, Skills, and Stats to play with, so I encourage you to enjoy it. Since this world is a higher tier-ed than the one I'll be sending you to, your stats will be significantly higher than the natives. Oh, and just so your friends and families won't worry about you, I'll be erasing you from all their memories, so you can enjoy your new lives without reservation…well except you Traveler…I can't touch you and yours other than to grant you what I'm granting this lot."
'That's kinda fucked dude…but I'm glad he can't reach my family and their memories.'
"I have a few parting gifts for all of you, you as well Traveler. You'll all have menus from which you can see your Stats, Skills, and even your Titles as well as an Item Box that you can store things in by concentrating. I'll also throw in a language-decoding ability and an Analysis Skill. Oh, and remember, anyone in your new world can check their own stats. "Now, remember to be as positive as you can. It's nothing but dumb luck that you're even getting such an opportunity after all. I should also mention that I'll be sending you all in groups, and I do mean all of you…hmm strange, sorry Traveler it seems that I can't grant you anything but the language ability…but you'll still grow in stronger like everyone else in this new world you just won't gain levels or stats in a numerical value but…I believe that your ability to travel will gain an upgrade or a few as you grow in strength since right now you can only use about one-percent of it's full potential due to the general weaknesses of your species in your origin world."
'I'm relieved I don't have to worry about leveling up and all that gamer junk the language-decoding ability, though that will probably turn out to be a priceless advantage in future travels.'
"Alright then, that's enough from me. I'm awfully busy, after all. It'll be a few moments before I can move all of you so please remain seated."
Of course the kids don't stay seated and just as I help Hiiragi Seiichi to his feet a trio of boys come over to bully him.
They start reading off his and my stats, and shockingly our status are almost mirrors of each other's.
Name: Hiiragi Seiichi
Race: Technically Human
Sex: Creepy Male
Job: Filth of Society (Unemployed)
Age: 17
Level: 1
Mana: 17
Attack: 1
Defense: 1
Agility: 1
Magic Attack: 1
Magic Defense: 1
Luck: 0
Charisma: Immeasurable (Too Low) Equipment: Dirty Uniform Shirt Dirty Uniform Pants Dirty Undershirt Dirty Underwear
Skills: Analysis
'Wait, what the fuck? Why are our two status information readouts almost identical and what does it mean, by technically human?! Am I not considered completely human anymore?! And what's up with the creepy bearded male, part?! And those stats…just how is everything so low?!'
Name: Traveler
Race: Technically Human
Sex: Creepy Bearded Male
Job: Filth of Society, self employed farmer & fanfic author
Age: 29
Level: Not Available
Mana: 1
Attack: 1
Defense: 1
Agility: 1
Magic Attack: 1
Magic Defense: 1
Luck: 0
Charisma: Immeasurable (Too Low) Equipment: Dirty black T-shirt, Dirty Pajama Pants, Dirty Underwear, Worn Ratty Work Boots
Skills: Not Available
Abilities: World Walker, Language-Decoder
I reach over and pat Hiiragi Seiichi on his shoulder, "Don't worry Bro, I'll be on your team…we'll kick these fuckers in their teeth." Hiiragi Seiichi looks at me with watery eyes as he begins nodding his head up and down rapidly.
"Thank you, Traveler-san!"
"You're welcome, kid." I nod back to him while a half grin twitches onto my lips, as I speak a translucent card appears in the air in front of him.
"Oh, is this the group-making function? It looks like all we need is our group members' names." Hiiragi Seiichi says and I reach out to tap the card and my name appears on it underneath Hiiragi Seiichi's name.
Within moments of Hiiragi Seiichi becoming a team or group, the intercom turns on again.
'It seems our time is up…evolution fruit here I come!' I can't help but cheer in my head, completely ignoring the "god" giving everyone the 411.
I come out of my thoughts just as all of Hiiragi Seiichi's classmates faded away into glittering motes of light. A few of them shot him and dirty sneers as they faded away.
'That was awfully mature of them.' I can't help but think snidely as I find myself alone in the room, with just Hiiragi Seiichi, a long moment of silence passes.
"Wait, what about us we're supposed to be going somewhere, right?!" Hiiragi Seiichi asks in almost a panic.
"Ahaha, relax," came the voice over the intercom. "I'll send you guys on your way in a moment. I'm afraid I don't know where you'll be headed though. I set the magic to, random destination."
"What?!" Both Hiiragi Seiichi and I express.
"If you're lucky, you'll get sent to a nice town or something. If you're not … well, enough said."
'Seriously?!' I think but Hiiragi Seiichi says it out loud.
"Seriously?!"
The prick wasn't finished talking of course he seems like the type that loves to hear himself talk.
"I'll admit, I'm almost impressed that you two were left out of that mass summoning. Even the teachers are heading off to be heroes. I'm gonna give Hiiragi Seiichi a couple of skills that you can both benefit from to make up for it then?"
"That sounds good to me." I nod and can see that Hiiragi Seiichi is of the same mind.
"Hmm, let's see what I've got. Oh, these make a nice pair…I think so anyways…I'm giving you Perfect Loot and Mind Teacher...this should allow you to teach the Traveler whatever skills you pick up."
"Perfect Loot…Mind Teacher?"
"Basically, whenever you slay a monster, you'll be able to take everything it possesses. Just like Analysis, it's perfectly risk-free. Oh, and like other Skills, it doesn't consume Mana, either. As for Mind Teacher anything you learn you can teach to the Traveler by pressing your foreheads together, you'll basically entering a training area made by together by your minds, while there you can teach the Traveler anything, with a one-hundred percent increase to his comprehension rate…it also works on others even non-humans and things below human intelligence. Feel free to try it out when you arrive in your new home world…while for one of you it's your new home world the other it's a vacation world I guess."
"Okay…" both Hiiragi Seiichi and I mumble, while looking at each other with awkward expressions on our faces.
"Whoops, and there goes the ritual! Looks like your time has come." I look down to see that my body is covered in glittering motes of light.
"Good luck in your new world, both of you!"
After the whole transportation thing, I find myself smack dab in the middle of a forest, with Hiiragi Seiichi.
'I hope there is a village nearby…I really should have finished the light novel or the anime before coming here…just cause I wanted the evolution fruits to make myself better…I really didn't think this through!'
"Dammit, I don't have anything except my uniform and my classroom slippers!" Hiiragi Seiichi starts to panic.
"Calm down Seiichi." I say to him gently and rest my left hand on his shoulder and give it a light squeeze.
"I can't calm down, Mr Traveler-san!" Hiiragi Seiichi shouts and tries to shrug my hand off of his shoulder but he's too weak to do so, so I loosen my grip and pat his shoulder a couple of times before expressing my feelings.
"Look, man I know you're scared…I'm scared too I'm just better at not showing it, I'm a grade A fat loser who suddenly developed the ability to travel to other worlds…and my first thought was to travel to your world and help out a kid that reminds me of myself…in case you aren't catching on that kid is you Seiichi…once I recharge enough I'll pop back over to my world and grab us some camping gear."
"R-You really came here just to help me?!" Seiichi blubbers tears beginning to run down his chubby cheeks.
"Yeah, man…I did…come on let's start walking who knows we might stumble upon some mystical item that will turn us into gods or some other super ohh-pee bullshit." I offer with a smile which makes Seiichi wipe away his tears with the sleeves of his uniform, before he smiles at me.
"Thank you for coming and being my friend Traveler-san." Seiichi murmurs as his face flushes.
'Gotta admit a guy blushing while talking to me and looking at me with sparkling eyes makes me super uncomfortable…'
"Seiichi, you can call me Mason, and…just a heads up I'm straight…meaning I only like girls in that way so…yeah." I say to Seiichi who suddenly slumps over, gains a dark expression while dark squiggly lines float above his head.
'Right anime world…'
"I'm not gay either, Mason-san." Seiichi mumbles and looks at the ground.
"Good, good…let's start walking then no point in standing around here!" I express with fake cheer in my voice while looking at the cool down timer, which informs me I have nineteen minutes left before I can jump back home while my current charge is hovering at seventy-four percent.
Seiichi and I wander aimlessly through the forest with him in the lead for about an hour, and let me tell you something, he moves slowly like goddamn tree sap flows faster than he walks.
"I'm so hungry…Mason-san!"
"Hmm, I'll return home and grab us some food once we find a decent spot to make camp…"
"Okay…" Seiichi whines and I hear a rustling in the nearby bushes, which makes my eyes widen.
'Shit, shit shit! I really hope we aren't being stalked by a predator right now…I mean I can get out of here…I could probably take Seiichi with me as well but…I don't really want to from what I've seen of him so far…he's actually a whiner…and not all that much like me after all.'
We walk a little further and we come to a slight opening that has three large trees down, making a sort of defensible parameter.
"This looks like a good place to make a camp Seiichi." I stop the teen from continuing walking which makes him turn to look at me and nod a relief filled sigh explodes out of him.
"Alright let's clear these downed branches and get down to the dirt, we can use my boot laces to make you a lean-to shelter, and we'll look around for some rocks for a fire pit.
A few more hours later Seiichi and I have the center of the ring made by the downed trees cleaned up and stripped down to the dirt, with a pile of decent rocks and the best branches of a lean-to cleaned of sprouting branches.
A couple more hours later, we have the lean-to and fire pit built, a small fire roaring in said fire pit as it's starting to get cold here, luckily I had my lighter in my pocket so it was easy to get the fire going, and my Paracord boot strings came in clutch when building the lean-to, nodding to myself at a job well done while Seiichi is nearly ready to pass out leaning against the massive trunk of the one trees that make millions of years old red wood trees look small.
I check my charge percentage, and I see that my charge percentage is just under ninety percent.
"Alright Seiichi, I'll be back in an hour or so…stay here." I say to the teen who tiredly waves his hand at me, and I click the return home option.
Appearing back in my kitchen I let out a breath I didn't even realize I was holding. I see my boys are still housing down their freshly pan fired chicken.
Smiling at the two I head into the hall and open the door to the garage, I start touching my camping gear, sending it into my subspace storage, camping stove, negative zero sleeping bag, two person tent, water filtering canteen, MRE's teapot for boiling water, camp fire grate/tripod thingy that's made out of metal that you setup in the fire and it allows you to rest your food or teapot on a metal grate for heating. Looking around I grab a couple of solar rechargeable flashlights as well, then head back into the kitchen to make myself something to eat…and decide as I'm pulling out ingredients that I'll bring some fresh cooked food back for Seiichi as well.
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Hiiragi Seiichi
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"Oof." My stomach lets out another wailing growl. Five days have passed since Mason-san left.
I managed to get some decent sleep at night in the shelter he made for me and the fire keeps away the wolves but I haven't eaten or drunk anything the whole time…I'd take any food I could get right about now.
"I'm gonna die here, aren't I?" I pride myself on being positive, and now I'm positive I'm dead. Not eating for five whole days was tough on a fat guy like me. If I have to, I'm gonna start stuffing leaves and grass in my mouth…even dirt is starting to look pretty good.
"Nope not gonna do that, haa…I'm gonna die here…" My legs give out beneath me, and I faceplant into the ground. My face hurts like hell, but I don't care anymore. "I need something to eat, anything…" I try to take a bite of the ground. Damn, the ground's hard. No way I can take a chunk outta that. "I guess this is it," I muttered to myself. Just as I start to close my eyes for what I think will be the last time, I hear something…something that is getting closer to me by the second.
"Ook, ook, eek!"
"Eeek, eek!"
"Grrrrarr!" I look up to watch a couple of things that look like monkeys desperately trying to escape a giant wolf.
"Eeek, eeek, eek!"
"Oooh oooh, aaah aaah aaah!" "Graaaarrrrrr!" The monkeys flee from the wolf right over my head without so much as glancing at me, and I hear something fall a short ways in front of me.
The wolf doesn't even glance at me either. "What was that about?" I wonder but don't have the strength left to think too much about it. "Maybe getting eaten alive would be better than this," I found myself mumbling. Nobody is left to hear me and Mason-san isn't coming back.
"Hahaha." I begin to laugh even as tears start to pour down my face, while I begin thinking back on my life and honestly it has really sucked.
I've been bullied ever since I was in preschool. Some people hit me; some hid my stuff or doodled on it, or soaked it and I didn't even know who did it. I bet I was only able to hold on this long because there were a few good people out there who treated me okay.
They would talk to me normally, play with me normally, treat me normally. I guess my friends were the only things I ever really cared about.
Heck, I'd even count Hino from the class next door as a friend. Oh, and there was Shouta, and Kenji. There were even Kannazuki-senpai and Miu in other years. There were a few other people in my grade too. None of them were anything like me…maybe they were just trying to make themselves feel better about themselves though.
'I hate my life…I really wish Mason-san had been honest about being my friend and wanting to help me…I think it would have been nice to have him as a friend…'
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Hiiragi Seiichi end back to MC
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"Okay…maybe I cooked too much food, but MRE's suck ass…and I can keep food pretty well preserved in my subspace…twenty gallons of water in four five gallon jugs should last Seiichi awhile in case I can't come back for a bit…" I hum and make sure everything is nice and secure in my inventory.
'Yikes, after my nap it's been about twelve hours since I left…I hope the kid is still alive…' I think as I open the portal to my last travel point which is saved in the target lock as Seiichi's camp fantasy world.
The portal opens much faster than before and I step through it, I see Seiichi holding an evolution fruit…and he looks a lot more scuffed up and dirty than the last time I saw him.
The world returns to life around me, "Hey Seiichi sorry it took so long it took me a while longer than I thought it would to get back here, though only twelve hours should have passed."
"M-Mason-san?" Seiichi questions in a soft disbelieving voice as if he believes I'm a hallucination.
"Yup, it's me…what do you have there? some kind of fruit? I brought you a home cooked meal, and hand me that weird looking fruit, and come sit down at the table." I say to him and start pulling everything out of my inventory starting with a folding table and chairs. The dinner for tonight is chicken gravy over rice.
Seiichi gives me a fierce hug then sits down at the table and begins scooping the hot chicken gravy and rice into his mouth with his hands while leaving the fruit on the table in front of me.
"So…I take it I've been gone longer than what I think I have?" Seiichi nods his head to my question seeing the way he is eating, I set out a plastic cup and fill it full using one of the large jugs of water I brought with me.
Seiichi starts to choke on his meal, but reaches out and grabs the glass then proceeds to drain it dry in a few moments clearing the blockage, shrugging I fill the glass that he slams back down on the table as he experiences a slight coughing fit.
"F-five days Mason-san, I'm so hungry and scared I didn't think you were coming back…and the name of that American football/almond looking thing is an evolution fruit, I just saw a grayed out screen with three question marks when I used analyze on it." Seiichi says to me and I nod knowing this from the first episode of the anime that I watched, using some of the water I rinse the Evolution fruit off, cloudy water pools underneath the fruit before flowing off of the table, setting the jug down I pick up the almond shaped fruit and use my shirt to wipe it off.
Giving the fruit a soft squeeze, I feel the flesh of the fruit flex a bit like a ripe mango, "I'm gonna try it…if it's good we should collect some…since when I return to my world there's quite a big time gap and though I grabbed you a couple of cases of MRE's I don't want you to run out of food before I get back." Seiichi reluctantly nods and I sit down in the folding chair across from him and bite into the fruit, the texture of the skin of the fruit combined with the bitter taste is almost enough for me to spit it out but once the very, very strong flavor of the meat of the fruit hits my tongue it's even worse and I start to gag, but I power through it and eat the entire fruit knowing that it is a path to power.
I start to notice things my body feels lighter, the pain in my knees and back are no longer there, the dull ache from the cracks in the skin of my hands completely goes away.
"That tasted nasty but it'll keep you full…and truth be told I think it might be better than some of the MRE's that I brought for you."
[Fruit of Evolution will now take effect.] A feminine mechanical voice says and it sounds like it is coming from all around us.
"Wait, effect? What effect?!" Seiichi asks a bit too loudly for my comfort.
"Well, the football sized almond thing's name is Evolution Fruit…so maybe I'll evolve somehow…" I offer with a grin.
"Alright, so what next?" I ask Seiichi once he finishes his meal.
"Wandering around aimlessly would only tire me out again…maybe we should head in the direction of those monkeys that dropped the evolution fruit?" Seiichi asks me/brainstorms, 'I wish I brought baby wipes. I did not expect the kid to eat with his hands and make such a mess.'
"Sure…they could probably lead up to more of those fruits…but they might be in the direction that they came from, not in the one that the monkeys went." I offer my agreement and opinion, which Seiichi nods in agreement with after a moment of thought.
"Let's find the monkeys first, if they don't have more of the fruits we can backtrack the way they came into camp and hopefully find the source!" Seiichi says passionately and I can't help but chuckle softly.
'The kid is really coming into his own…once he has a person around who isn't bullying the shit out of him…'
After what felt like days but was only hours of tracking the monkeys through the thick forest we come to an opening in the tree that looks like a dried out river bed.
"There they are!" Both Seiichi and I whisper in excitement.
"Eek!"
"Ook, eek!"
"Ook, ook, ook!"
The monkeys are clustered around a few fruits just like the one I ate a little while ago that had made me feel at least ten years younger and seemingly cured my asthma. The Monkeys…seem to be celebrating.
"Hey, Seiichi…now would be a good time to use Analysis!" I speak very softly to him and he nods his head in understanding.
"They're called Clever Monkeys, and all of them are at least Level 120." Seiichi's voice trembles as he gives me the down low on the Monkeys.
"We don't necessarily need to be afraid of them due to their higher levels, for all we know a level one-twenty is only as strong as a level one human…we don't know enough…about this world or how levels work." I try to calm Seiichi who looks at me strangely before seemingly agreeing with me.
One of the Clever Monkeys seems to be mashing up some weird-looking grass and water with a crude mortar and pestle. 'Right the full or total recovery potions or something like that…' I can't help but think as memories of the one episode I watched start to bubble to the surface. Once the ingredients are smashed into a thick green fluid, it is poured into one of maybe two dozen decorative glass bottles.
Suddenly all the monkeys in the clearing perk up and start dancing around each other.
"Ook!"
"Ook, eek!"
"Eek eek eek!"
They all ran off into the woods together.
"Whoa, wonder what's got them all excited?" Seiichi murmurs and I resist the urge to chuckle.
"I'd say it's most likely that there is a female or females nearby that are entering heat…" I offer Seiichi a most likely explanation for their attitude which makes the teen blush bright red and steam starts radiating from the top of his head.
"Since they left the Fruits of Evolution and the potion bottle looking thingys behind, we'd probably ought to Nick them and be long gone before they get back." I continue and Seiichi nods his head in agreement.
"Yeah we better go and take whatever we can from their little camp now." Seiichi agrees with me but we both wait until we can no longer hear the monkeys traveling through the foliage.
"Alright Seiichi, I'll grab the fruit you grab the glass." I say as we both exit out hiding spot I make a bee-line right for the Fruits of Evolution and stuff them all into my Subspace storage.
'In the show there were only nine of them altogether…this time though eighteen would have been twenty, if I hadn't eaten that one fruit earlier and if they hadn't turned one into a potion.'
"Mason-san all of these bottles are full…and analysis says that they are called ultimate healing potions!" Seiichi whispers loudly, making me turn to look at him.
"Grab them all, Seiichi!" I whisper back just as loudly with a feral grin taking shape on my face which makes Seiichi flinch but he quickly does as I tell him to.
"Take all the herbs and tools too Seiichi!" I whisper-holler to him but see that he's already doing so.
Seiichi joins me and I nod to him he nods back, "Mission accomplished, time to get the fuck outta here, and back to camp!" I exclaim and Seiichi bobs his head up and down rapidly in agreement, "Aye, Mason-san!"
On our way back to camp Seiichi starts harvesting grass and plants like a madman, and I start to grow concerned.
"Hey Mason-san, this grass is called special paralysis grass: analysis says that the grass can instantly paralyze one's body when consumed. Even the strongest of monsters will be affected."
"Hmm, once we get back to camp, we should both eat one of the fruits and then eat some of the grass…I think something good will happen…like we'll probably get a resistance to be paralyzed…that's how it usually works in these things."
"O-okay, Mason-san…I trust you."
…
Once Seiichi and I return to camp we eat both eat a fruit and then eat the grass, and damn if the shit ain't nasty as all fuck…then the effect of not being able to move my body for nearly an hour on top of the lingering taste of grass in my mouth…is an experience I never want to repeat again.
"Mason-san, you were right I have a skill now that says I am immune to the paralyzed status effect!" Seiichi cheers proudly and I can't help but smile at the kid's enthusiasm so I take out a couple of cans of root beer from my subspace and toss him one.
"Thank you Mason-san!"
"You're welcome kid."
…
I spend the next couple days…almost an entire week with Seiichi, only popping home to use the toilet and take a shower, time in my world seemingly frozen while I'm away and hours to days passing in Seiichi's world but still I've been seemingly gaining the same immunities as him, which are the following, Sleep Immunity, Confusion Immunity, Charm Immunity, Petrification Immunity Bind Immunity, on top of Paralysis Immunity.
Mostly from eating shrums…yes it's hippie time here for him and I that we've been mixing in with the home cooked meals I packed into my subspace.
The Danger Shroom is basically just super natural LSD…I did not enjoy it one bit but I've been harvesting the shit out of them to sell back home…the erotic mushroom is one hell of a potent aphrodisiac…and better than Molly…which I also have harvested a lot of…for science of course.
Sadly there are only three evolution fruits left and I'm getting pretty low on home cooked meals so subsisting off of mushrooms is necessary and I also know that combined with the effects of the evolution fruits, they offer powerups.
Seiichi comes back into the camp, carrying a couple of mushrooms that look super iffy, the stem is a vibrant purple color, covered with red, blue, and yellow flecks, the cap is a pure white color.
"Seiichi…out of all the mushrooms you've found these ones look the most deadly…if we're gonna try these we better eat our fruits first." I say to the kid who nods his head rapidly, I pull out two from my subspace and toss him one while he hands me one of the mushrooms.
Both Seiichi and I eat our fruits first and then we dig into the obviously deadly mushrooms. I finish my mushroom and suddenly cough a spray or blood riddles spittle comes out of my mouth and blood runs from my nose.
I lose all strength in my limbs, if I wasn't sitting in my chair I would be collapsing to the ground just like Seiichi is. 'Shit this is bad, I can't even breathe properly!' summoning all my remaining strength I remove the last evolution fruit from my inventory and struggle to eat it.
My strength returns and I feel good again once I get around to half way through eating the evolution fruit.
Standing up from my chair I grab Seiichi, and God does the he reek, bad enough that I want to throw up being this close to him, but I feed the rest of my evolution fruit to him and he starts to get better.
"Thank you Mason-san, I got poison immunity now no poisons can affect me…I bet you have the same immunity too, even though your skills still only read as not available!" Seiichi says to me and I nod while helping him to his feet.
"That's good." I offer him a tired smile, and pat his back before returning to my chair.
"Huh, Mason-san…both of our statuses have something new it says, [State:] then [Evolved 0/10 (MAX), Fatigued] what do you think it means?!"
"I think that when we…well you level up and I grow stronger we'll evolve into stronger, better versions of ourselves and we keep evolving until…we stand at the apex of evolved us…"
'So the splitting of that one fruit between us must have counted as ten to his system…'
"You really think so?" Seiichi asks me his voice is filled with awe, which makes me smile and roll my eyes at him.
"Well, that's how these things usually go for main characters like us." I joke and ruffle his hair and instantly regret it because his hair is just a down right nasty greasy mess.
"Huh, it also says that we are the epitomes of human possibility…" Seiichi murmurs and scratches his head idly and also makes a rather disgusted frown and proceeds to try and wipe his hands off on his seen better days school uniform.
"Well, in a lot of stories humans can rise to the levels of God's in strength…so maybe we've unlocked our max potential by eating those fruits…and now the pathway to potential strength that can rival gods is on our reach now." I offer an explanation that is just me completely bullshitting as I have no idea what his system means nor why we were both only considering technically humans previously.
"Ook, eek!" I hear from above us both Seiichi and I, release a surprised huh, and look up to see a lone Clever Monkey staring right at us from a nearby treetop.
"Ahh fuck!" I curse softly, as the monkey jumps from the tree and lands in front of us in a superhero pose, Seiichi prostrates himself in front of the monkey muttering apologies for stealing from the camp, but the monkey only looks down at him with a vicious glint in its eyes.
"Seiichi, get off of the fucking ground!" I whisper scream at him as the Monkey looks like he's winding up for a vicious attack.
"Wha-but Mason-san-" Seiichi says as he gets onto his knees and starts standing up, as the monkey completes its vicious attack, sending a razor-thin blade of energy flying towards both Seiichi and I. "Oh crap!" I shout and try to dodge the attack by jumping to my right while a loud shlicking sound of energy cutting through the air rings in my ears and my side, just below my ribs starts to burn, and sting like I've been cut, my hand goes to my side I feel my own warm blood, angling my head I get a good look at a deep slash in my left side, that goes from just past my belly button to just underneath my ribs, looking to Seiichi I notice he has a similar wound on his right side.
"OWWW-OWWW-OWWW-IEEE!!!" Seiichi screams while rolling around on the ground in agony.
"Seiichi stop!" I shout at him as he's gonna make his injury worse, but then I feel my skin…repairing itself underneath my hand, "I'm bleeding, Mason-san! Shit! Shit! I'M BLEEEEEEDING!!"
"Eekeekeekeek!" The monkey cheers and dances around in place and claps its hands in glee at Seiichi's suffering.
Grabbing my solid tang Karambit knife from my boot, while pushing myself to my feet I lunge at the monkey knife aimed at its back, the knife sinks into its furry flesh a few inches distracting it from Seiichi who pulls out an Ultimate Healing Potion from his Item Box, and he drinks it healing his side, that didn't heal like my own injury.
The monkey lets out a shriek of pain, whips around, punches me in my face, my face explodes with pain and I see stars as I'm sent flying into one of the massive downed logs that make the perimeter of our camp.
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Hiiragi Seiichi
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'No Mason-san!' I shout in my thoughts seeing Mason-san flying through the air with a spray of blood flying from his mouth and an indent of the Monkey's fist in his face, a strange looking rainbow colored knife in the Monkey's back, that it tries to pull out but can't quite reach it.
"Hey, assface! How dare you hurt my best friend?! You better get ready, 'cause I'm gonna—"
"Ook!" Before I could finish what I was saying, the monkey suddenly appeared right in front of me and slugged me in the chest, hard.
The sound of all the air in my lungs explodes out of me and I hear something like an unhealthy number of bones cracking, along with a really wet smushing sound. The sheer force of the blow sends me flying back, crashing straight through one tree and slamming into the trunk of the one behind it.
I crumple awkwardly to the forest floor, it feels like I've broken every bone in my body, and my internal organs are probably soup now…I've never been in so much pain before.
"Oh, crap…" I manage to groan out.
"Eekeekeekeekeek!" The Monkey says while pointing and laughing at me. 'How'd it even move that fast?!' And that punch…sure, I was pretty much a human punching bag back on Earth, but even the strongest guy who used to bully me and was literally a member of the boxing club, punches felt like kisses from a kitten in comparison to that Monkey's single punch. My body suddenly spasms, and I start coughing and I hack up a reddish black lump of something that looks like it is probably pretty important, which makes my dirty shirt even filthier if that's even possible.
"Come on then you filthy ape, you already killed the only person to care about me since my parents died!" I shout but the Monkey continues to dance around pointing and laughing at me.
'Bastard!' I curse in my head With trembling hands, I managed to pull another Ultimate Healing Potion out of my Item Box. Just as I am about to gulp it down.
"Ook!" The Clever Monkey shouts and appears in front of me, and with its incredible strength, it grabs me by the head and hoists me one-handedly into the air.
"Ow!" I gasp out as I hear my skull creaking under the grip strength of the monkey.
"Ook, eek!" The monkey intones and then proceeds to swing me downwards, smashing my head into the ground once before hoisting me back up. I let out a heavy grunt. My head, my face, everything is in agony.
'Honestly, I'm surprised it didn't split my skull wide open. That sure felt like a head-bursts-like-an-overripe-tomato moment…and thanks, neck, for not breaking.' I am soaked from head to toe in my own blood…and somehow I am still conscious, the Monkey pauses in beating me to death to study me for a moment.
"Ook." It nods to itself before it opens its mouth wide.
"Ookookeek!"
'Wait, is it seriously gonna eat me?!' I try to break free but the monkey still has a vice-like grip on my head, and I'm not exactly in the best of shape. I start to squeal as it leans in towards my shoulder, its mouth wide open like it's about to start eating me.
But it suddenly freezes, wrinkles its nose and pulls its head back away from me.
"Ook." It grunts while swirls start to form in yrs eyes.
"C'mon, cut me some slack! I can't smell that bad, can I?!" I ask it in stunned shock and the monkey licks its lips, looks me over, one more time, and finally seems to decide on staring at my gut.
Its head slowly grows closer to me. I can feel its hot breath through my shirt and then…Mason-san appears behind it, his face and angry snarl as he grabs hold of his knife and rips it out of the Monkey's back and then runs it across its throat.
"O-Ook … urp…" the monkey makes a gurgling sound and it suddenly lets me go, and I hit the ground in a heap.
The monkey soon follows me falling to the ground, "Sorry it took so long Seiichi, that thing shattered my jaw when it punched, and caved in my cheek bone, not to mention all the bones that broke when I collided with that tree trunk." Mason-san apologizes to me with an awkward expression on his face and then he notices the Ultimate Healing Potion on the ground, grabs it, rips the cap off of it and brings it to my lips.
"Drink kid, I don't want you to die…" Mason-san says to me and I feel warm inside as I drink the potion slowly.
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Hiiragi Seiichi end back to MC
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I watch in awe for a moment at how fast-acting the potion is, all of Seiichi's injuries are gone in seconds.
Looking at the downed clever monkey, it's eyes having little spirals spinning in it's eyes like a downed pokemon, blood gurgling from the slit I put in its throat looking at my knife that is still in my hand I see that the blade has been dulled to uselessness and the blade is covered in knicks.
'Well shit for a five dollar knife it came in handy.' I think and toss it away, and notice Seiichi crawling over to the monkey and rubbing his armpit in its face, "You like that huh?, yeah I bet you do!" He shouts as the monkey who wasn't dead even after all of the damage it's taken spasms and dies.
"Congrats on your first kill, Seiichi…it sucks that my knife didn't actually do it in, but whatever." I congratulate Seiichi who looks up at me, an expression on his face like he's about to burst into tears, then he pokes the dead monkey and it bursts into motes of golden light.
Both of us shout holy shit, at the suddenness of it all some of the notes of light fly into me and I feel a rush of strength and energy flood my body while the majority of the golden notes of light flow into, Seiichi.
Where the Monkery's corpse was there is now an assortment of loot, the loot consists of a three foot long bone with leather wrapped ends, a brownish monkey pelt, a thick wide slab of fresh healthy looking meat, a couple of card looking things, I think in the anime they are called skill cards.
"Mason-san, these skills are some cool. There's one named Cutter that allows you to send a blade of cutting energy at an opponent either using your hand in a chopping motion or through a kick…it only has a maximum range of about thirty-three feet.
There's another named Instant Movement: that allows you to teleport instantly in any direction up to fifty feet, it says you can only activate it once at a time but it can also be used in rapid succession.
Then there's this Ultra Compounding, one, and it compounds your yields to gain maximized additional effects…so like maximum experience points and the maximum quality of a skill!
"Ohh-oh, I also got!"
"Calm down Seiichi, let's try out that Mind Teacher skill, and see if it works, I'd like some method of defending myself and you if we get attacked again." I gently say to Seiichi who practically glows at the opportunity to try and teach me his new skills he stands up and I have to hunch over for him to press his forehead against mine and we appear in an all white version of the forest we are in, I can see veins of energy flowing through Seiichi and when I look down at myself I see the same thing happening to me.
"Okay, I'm gonna try the skills Mason-san watch closely!" Seiichi says to me and he performs the energy blade attack and I watch how the energy flowing through his body moves, and flows through him, and watch as the nearly invisible blade flies from his hand and cuts a tree in half, splitting it right down the middle.
I try to copy his attack, and it's going good at first but I mess up moving the energy from my wrist into my hand and a wave of blood explodes out of my right hand while I fall to my knees clutching my right hand to my chest and bite down on the urge to scream.
Seiichi screams and runs over to me, potion in his hand, I pull my hand from my chest and find that it's perfectly fine, "I-I'm okay…it seems like any damage we do to ourselves here isn't permanent, but just hurts like a son of a bitch." I offer as I push Seiichi's hand and the potion away from me, and get back to my feet and try again, and fail again in the exact same way.
I try again and again over and over getting a little bit closer to managing to reproduce the attack that Seiichi was able to perform flawlessly on his first try.
"Umm, Mason-san…maybe we should take a break…" Seiichi says to me, his voice filled with concern, and it makes me feel a flash of rage, which turns out to be exactly what I needed as I send a blade flying forwards from my chop, slicing through a tree trunk diagonally making the top section of the tree I cut to fall to the ground, with a massive this that vibrates the ground.
"I did it, whoo–hoo!" I cheer in a moment of personal victory.
"That's awesome, Mason-san…and you don't even have a skill for it, do you still want to learn to use Instant movement?"
"Definitely…" I say with a bloodthirsty smile stretching across my face, which makes Seiichi shudder, and then her performs the Instant Movement skill, it was impossible to see anything the first time he performed the ability, I tell his as much and he uses the ability again, and again.
He keeps going until I finally start getting an idea of what he's doing with him giving me a description of how it feels, my first try I launch myself a couple feet into the air and come back down.
'Well, I figured out how to make a super jump.' I joke fondly in my head while continuing to try and perform what basically boils down to a short range teleportation, eventually I manage to perform the skill, and wind up face first into a tree and break my nose in the process.
"Well, I've gotten down how to use the skills…without them actually being skills, the only thing I need now is practice." I say to Seiichi and we return to the spot where the monkey drop loot is, and I realize that I had missed some drop items, there are little golden orbs, a chest and a book.
"These orbs contain the Monkey's stats…or power…" Seiichi says and hands me one, and it melts into my hand and I feel a rush of energy and strength filling…transfusing my body with an intensity that makes what happened when the Monkey actually died feel miniscule in comparison.
'Fuck, I feel so powerful!' I can't help but express in my head the heady feeling that slowly levels out and becomes my new norm.
Suddenly there's a mechanical female voice that says, [Your Stats have increased to the maximum of your race. A vast number of experience points confirmed. Now proceeding to Evolution]
"Huh, Evolve?" Both Seiichi and I express stunned exclamations.
We didn't have to wonder long, however, as my body is assailed by a horrible splitting pain that only continues to grow, I flop down on the ground and curl into a ball, the sounds of my bones splintering and breaking assault my ears before I lose consciousness.
I wake back up and I'm still in pain, my bones are still breaking and my body is making weird squelching sounds, then it stops and I pass out again, ten times the process continues. By the time it is completely over I'm just ready to die.
[Evolution complete. All Stats have increased by ten thousand!] The mechanical female voice says and if the strength I felt from the monkey orb made me feel powerful, now I feel like a god.
Walking over to a tree I press my index finger against the bark and my finger sinks into the tree like it's made of playdough, once my knuckles touch it the tree starts groaning then it pops as part of the trunk cracks, breaks and falls to the ground.
"Heh, alright Seeichi I'm heading home, I'll be back as soon as I can." I say to the teen who is also experimenting with his new found strength with a joyous expression on his face…while looking at him I realize he's gotten like five inches taller and he's a lean machine.
"Woah, Mason-san…you got bigger." Seiichi gasps and I look down at myself and see a nearly flat stomach there's still a little bit of padding but not much, while my shirt barely brushes below my belt, when before it reached my knees, the groin area of my jeans feels incredibly constricting, looking down at my feet I see the sides, fronts and backs of my boots have exploded outwards, it looks like my feet have grown from ten and a half to thirteens or fourteens.
'Did I evolve or become the Hulk?' I joke to myself but shrug off my question and empty my subspace of everything except for the eleven Ultimate Healing Potions, opening my portal is even easier and faster than any of the other times, stepping through the portal I return home, the world resuming around me as the portal/vortex seals shut, my boys run to me from the living room, both jump up and rest their front paws against my abdomen, and starts snuffing me and licking where my blood has dried against my shirt.
"I'm alright you two, come on let's go outside I'm sure you two have to pee, or take a dump by now." I chuckle as I fondly scratch behind their ears and ruffle their tufts of fur that's around their necks.
The two hop off of me, and run to the hallway, and the back door that leads out to the back deck, letting out a soft laugh. I activate my dimensional traveling interface, and remove Seiichi's world from the Travel/Target Lock as I have no intention of returning there again.
[Charge Percentage: 99%]
[Mode: Recharge/Standbye]
[Subspace Storage]
[Travel Lock: Disengaged, No Destination Locked]
[User Manual]
[Current World: Earth-0]
'Woah, before it took around 26% to travel to or from Seiichi's world, now it only takes 1%... that's wicked!'
Following the boys through the kitchen then hallway that connects the house to the garage, home bar, and freezer area I reach the back door, open it for my boys and head outside with them.
I can't help but smile as the two start playing like they're puppies, fighting each other, nipping one another then bolting around the backyard, tackling whoever is running away, before they both stop, look at me standing on the back deck, wagging their tails and letting out little barks.
"Alright, we'll go for a quick run!" I holler and the two start jumping around and play wrestling again, and just as I'm about to head inside to grab one of the four-wheeler keys as the snow on my little race track/dog exercise field is thin enough to ride a wheeler on, I stop and smirk.
Then I use instant movement to appear just past the massive old oak tree that marks the path to the field, both Harley and Diesel turn to look at me and I bolt down the path, and God I must be running at speeds approaching forty miles an hour before I even reach the end of the path of the feeling of the wind resistance is anything to go by.
Looking over my shoulder I see that the boys are trying to catch up to me but the distance between us continues to grow so I slow from a light run to a slow jog a peel of laughter bubbling out of me as my two pups catch up to me and bark at me before trying to nip my ankles, then running past me.
I easily keep pace with my four legged babies, and after around ten minutes they both start showing all of their thirteen years of life so I reach down, grab a hold of the scruff at the backs of their necks and slow us down to a slow trot.
Both Harley and Diesel are panting up a storm, tongues hanging out of their mouths, "Come on you two, let's head back to the house." I say gently and they both give me their mastered puppy dog looks while wagging their tails, which makes me let out a soft chuckle and release their scruffs.
Both walk alongside of me before splitting off into the tall dead grass to take care of their business, and then returning to me once they're done, we head back to the house, and I put out some fresh water for them and some fresh food, which they devour within minutes.
"Alright you two, who wants to watch a Christmas movie?!" I ask my boys and they both start acting excited, barely finishing their food before bolting for the living room, leaving me to roll my eyes at them, before following after them, getting to the living room my two boys are sprawled out on the couch together like kings.
Rolling my eyes I sit in the massive reclining chair and before I can even lean back I'm being puppy piled by the two of them who begin sniffing me all over liking my arms and face before Harley moves onto checking my hair for flees and ticks.
"Oh come on ya big horse, sit down so I can put on the movie!" I playfully try to push Harley off of me which only draws his amusement, while Diesel finally has enough and barks at Harley then gives him a little nip which makes Harley flop down onto us both allowing me a view of the tv.
"Alright now all I need is the remote." I joke and though he's done it for years I still can't help but laugh as Harley grabs the tv remote from the neat little remote pocket stitched into the recliner's side and drops it into my open palm.
"Who's a good boy?" I ask and get a little huff from Harley and Diesel which only makes me chuckle harder and give them both some scratches before turning on the TV and putting the movie Die Hard on, which they absolutely love.
"Yeah, I know both of my boys are the best." I reassure the two my voice light as set the TV remote off the side and pet my boys who watch the movie with rapt attention, softly growling at the black guy driving the limo.
"Harley, stop, that's one of your brotha's." I tease which makes Harley nip my hand and Diesel to growl softly.
"Jeez no wonder so many people think I'm racist, god forbid they don't believe me when I say you both had a couple of bad experiences around a few black people when you were puppies, that made you hate an entire branch of skin color." I groan softly while rolling my eyes, I caught a lot of flak over a census agent coming to the house and getting bitten even though she ignored the signs that warned [If you are a stranger, who has not been here before or is an unknown and unassociated quantity to myself, the owner of this property, then please remain in your vehicle and park in the top driveway, I have territorial and protective dogs, honk your horn three times and if I'm home I will come greet you, do not understand any circumstance exit your vehicle and walk down the center driveway, there is an invisible fence, though if my dogs perceive you as a threat they will attack, I hold no responsibilities if you violate these terms, meaning you waive your rights to any form legal recourse, if you do not follow my outlined procedures to the letter and open yourselves to a lawsuit if you attempt to circumvent these listed procedures, have a nice day.]
'How can I be racist? I have a black baby and a white baby! God Shane Mason, you are a horrible person!' I talk to myself and my eyes start to grow heavy, I try to blink myself into staying awake but puppy piles like this almost always put me to sleep, it's just so warm and cozy especially with Diesel's soft fur, and Harley seemingly transforming into a furnace, while laying with his head on my shoulder like he's a person.
I wake up to a soft whimpering my hand that is splayed out into Diesel's for feels strangely cooler than it should be, I hear Harley whimper again and feel him poking my arm with his cold nose, cracking open my eyes as I begin to pet Diesel, a sinking feeling in my gut, bottom lip beginning to tremble as my eyes water, I gently lay Diesel down on the living room floor he's not noticeably breathing, I press my ear over his ribcage, I can't hear a heartbeat Harley is whimpering and nosing both Diesel and I.
I fall back onto my ass, leaning my back against the front of the recliner, I pull Harley to me, hugging his neck and pressing my face against his shoulder as I begin to cry, "He's gone Harley, our Diesel is gone." I barely manage to get out, as a powerful sob runs through me. Harley lets out a deep whine, and begins nuzzling his face against the back of my head.
After a few minutes, I gently push Harley away, push myself to my feet, head into my bedroom, go to the closet, and grab out one of Diesel doggy blankets, he loves the thing it's god bones and paw prints on it, when he was a puppy he'd sniff the prints and try to track down who was on his bed, oh it was adorable, he loved this blanket. My mind supplies unhelpfully and I almost break down again, but I shove down the feelings of heartache and loss, I've got my other baby to take care of and Diesel needs to be properly taken care of so he can move on to the afterlife.
An hour later I find myself in my car driving to the vet's office. Harley is in the backseat and not in the passenger seat like he usually is. He's laying down next to the blanket that I wrapped diesel up in, softly whining hoping his little brother will wake back up again.
Getting to the vet's office I carry Diesel inside the vet whose been helping me take care of them since I got Diesel who was too young to actually leave his mother, while she starts to cry and leads me to where they keep the cremation kiln, Harley lays down at the door and lets out a pitiful whine, while I lay Diesel down on the steel table and head to where Harley is and sit down on the floor with him Harley moves just enough to rest his head on my lap, he looks up at me his big brown eyes, starting to develop visual cataracts, since Diesel passed away, he looks so old and beaten down now his grayed nuzzle that was hardly noticeable now stands out more to me than it ever has.
And I realize I'm left with a painful decision, "Do you want to join Diesel, Harley?" I ask him my voice almost sounding like a whine matching his, as I stare into Harley's eyes I have my answer.
Sarah rests her hand against my shoulder. I look at Harley and she nods her head to me in understanding when I look up to her, there's a sad look in her eyes, as she does so.
Standing up, with Harley in my arms he gives my hair a tired once over while a tired of it all sigh escapes him, I sniffle as I carry him into a private room, I lay him down on the padded table, and Sarah begins hooking him up to the I.V. and I know this is the right decision when he doesn't even try to playfully nip at her when putting the I.V. in he just lets out a tired sad sounding huff.
Resting my ear against Harley's chest while petting along his flank, "You and Diesel are going to meet again in heaven Harley, you'll have all the roasted chicken, grilled salmon, and pan seared steak you can eat while being able to play with Diesel like you're both puppies again." I murmur softly while Sarah makes a choked sound no tears come from my eyes anymore, Harley's heartbeat slows to a stop and he's gone too, I feel a sudden deep feeling of aloneness, I know I should call my little brother or someone but, I just can't…gently removing the I.V. from Harley once Sarah gives me the nod I carry what remains of my big miniature pony sized lab, into the cremation room, and stay till the process is down, Sarah personally cleans up their ashes and puts them both in nice wooden boxes that look like expensive caskets, cradling both to my chest I leave the vet's office and return home.
Putting both caskets in my bedroom, I lay down in bed and curl into a ball, and lay awake until I finally fall asleep.
…
Waking up at around three'o'clock in the afternoon, the house is empty and cold…not cold like freeze to death or need a blanket cold but on an emotional level, rolling out of bed, absentmindedly heading to the bathroom, taking care of the morning essentials feels like a massive chore that saps what little energy I have out of me, making me sit down on the seats that are a part of the shower, pressed against the walls.
I don't cry, I just don't have the energy to, as I lean against the cool tiles of the wall that are quickly warming from my body heat.
Letting out a heavy sigh, I finally force myself to get to my feet and out of the shower, toweling off I head into my bedroom and grab out a pair of underwear/socks and put them on along with a pair of black sweatpants, I don't bother with a shirt, before heading into the kitchen, stopping to look at the stove.
'I know I should make something to eat…but I don't feel like cooking or eating…' Another big sigh explodes out of me, I look back towards the hallway that would either take me to the living room or to the hallway that leads to the bathroom and the three bedrooms.
'I wish I could see my boys…' The thought comes to mind and I look down at the tattoo-like markings on my arm, the system interface activates and I mentally type out doggie heaven, for Earth-0.
The system displays [Calculating distance…]
[Not Enough Power: Power required to make the jump to the targeted location, exceeds the current operational parameters, increase energy density, or find an alternative source of energy to be able to make the jump.]
'So…it is possible to see my boys again!' I blink away tears and take a deep breath, hands clenching into fists as I make a vow to myself to grow strong enough to go visit my pups in Doggie heaven.
Letting out another sigh I turn and bang my forehead against the doorframe that connects the kitchen to the living room and a joining hallway, "I need to get out there and live my life…I can't keep letting myself get this depressed every time I lose someone or life really shits on me…I can't just lounge around here feeling sorry for myself along with being all depressed and shit, even if it's really hard…to not to feel down right now." I tell myself as I bang my head against the doorframe lightly, but it's enough to make the thin wooden molding crack, "Oops." I sigh somewhat annoyed at the accidental damage I just caused to my home.
"If I'm going to be traveling to worlds with higher beings, like Buffy or similar I should…get those tattoos in enochian that Lindsey had in Angel, pretty sure Taby stenciled them." I hum pickup my phone from the table and shoot my tattoo artist friend to see if she still has them and would want to ink me.
Less than three seconds later Taby texts back, and I can tell that she's super excited for the chance to give me tatts, as she's been bugging me for years to let her give me some ink.
Texting her back to see when would be good for her, my eyes widen when my phone almost instantly dings as the message is sent, come to my parlor now! Is her response.
Letting out a soft chuckle, I grab my keys off of the table and head outside, the cold doesn't faze me, but my socks become wet as I walk to the car. 'Gotta get some new shoes or boots.' An hour later I am pulling into Taby's driveway, and Taby is already running out of her parlor/house in nothing but a Nirvana T-shirt and crocks.
'Damn, she still looks just as gorgeous as she did ten-eleven years ago when we first met in college.' I admire the short stack girl of mixed descent, her large tits bouncing as she runs to my car, getting out just in time to catch her as she jumps towards me, accidentally my hands go to her firm peach shaped ass.
"Oh my God, it's soo good to see you! You just dropped off the map after all that shit with Amanda!" Taby squeals in my ear and the reminder of Amanda and all that, that hurricane brought into my life.
"Yeah, sorry I didn't come to the opening…when I found out she was going to be here…I just knew drama would ensue…and I didn't want to take away from you and your event." I apologize earnestly while Taby leans back to stare into my eyes.
"I would have kicked that skank out, hey what's wrong? It looks like you've been crying." Taby starts to glare at me, completely uncaring that I'm supporting her weight with my hands on her ass, as I carry her back inside.
"Diesel…passed away yesterday, and I put Harley down…he just seemed broken without his little buddy."
"Noo." Taby gasps softly and tightly encircles my neck with her short tiny arms, "I'm so sorry!" Taby begins running her fingers through the hair in the back of my head, once inside the Parlor, I use my feet to help remove my sodden socks, while I begin to knead Taby's firm ass cheeks drawing a very heated breath from her.
"W-wait! You're hurting right now, we shouldn't do anything we can't take back." Taby shouts softly as she wiggles against me and I can feel the crotch of her panties becoming damp.
I know she's right so, while I keep supporting her with one hand I use the other to remove her legs that are wrapped around me and lower her to the floor, a look of hurt flashes in her eyes, "You're right, we decided years ago to just be friends…" I trail off the moisture growing at the corners of her eyes though cuts me, pushing away our past agreement, I sink my left hand into Taby's messy hair that could give Raditz's hair a contender for wildest hair do a run for its monkey while leaning down to meet her five foot three stature and capture her lips.
Taby gasps into my mouth, her hands resting on my shoulders, while she presses herself against me, I break the kiss and pull back, "We're not seventeen anymore Taby, and I'm not getting over my issues with addiction or a bitch who…" I slam my mouth shut, "I…you know I've wanted you to kiss me like that for years…I just wish it wasn't while you're spiraling." Taby murmurs with a self-conscious expression on her face.
"So tattoos?" I ask and Taby rolls her pretty gray dominant hazel eyes at me.
"Get in the chair ya big jerk!" Taby says and playfully smacks my ass, though given her short arms I barely register the smack.
Letting out a soft chuckle, I slowly remove my hand from Taby's hair enjoying the way it feels flowing between my fingers and the way Taby shivers.
Sitting down in the cozy chair Taby pulls out her enochian tattoo stencils and uses her iPad to pull up a photo of Lindsey on Google to check their placement, "So…have you been juicing?" Taby makes an off handed question while putting on an air of disinterest.
"Nah, got on some thyroid medicine and been using a GLP-1 for the past few months, plus working out and over doing it with heavy stuff on the farm." I partially lie, and Taby hums. I can tell that she doesn't completely believe me.
"Take your pants off, I gotta put ink on each of your thighs." Taby hums a command which makes me roll my eyes at her as I see her peaking around her stencils, one eye on the stencils and one curious eye on the large bulge in my sweatpants.
"You don't need lame excuses to see me naked, Tabitha." I tease and Taby smacks my abdomen with a little heat in her eyes and a bit of pink in her face.
"Owie." I pretend to be hurt for Taby's benefit, which makes her look away from me with a small smile tugging at the corners of her plump pale lips.
"Oh stop being a baby…you know you deserved it, you know how much I hate it when you use my full name." Taby mutters and continues to look away from me, but her left hand still rests where it landed.
Smirking, I lift my butt up off the chair and push my sweats/boxer briefs off, now being a grower and not a shower, I make a sound in my throat when my dick shoots up to full mast, with my pants down around my knees.
Taby looks down at it and makes a shocked sound in her throat, eyes bulging, "Well…I guess that rules out steroids…and how the hell did it get that big?! We've seen each other… before and though you weren't lacking, you definitely weren't this big!" Taby almost babbles the hand on my abdomen slowly sliding down just as her left hand passes my belly button, I cover it with my left hand which startles Taby.
Taby looks into my eyes and for a fleeting moment I almost see something close to fear in her eyes, "Who…who did the ink on your arm? You promised that when or if you got a tattoo I'd be the only one you went to!" Taby latches onto something and tries to yell at me, while trying to also pull her left hand away from mine.
'What is up with her?' I wonder idly but then remember kissing her, I reach out with and encircle Taby's waist with my right arm and pull her onto the chair with me, making her drop her stencils onto the floor, a scream of surprise on her lips which I kiss while placing my left hand on her hip to steady her.
Taby smacks me a couple more times while biting my bottom lips, but then she relents and starts returning the kiss, 'She's a great kisser…God, I forgot just how hard it was to stay just friends with this girl…especially when she always loved me for me.' An errant thought pops into my head, while I love the feeling of her Double D's pressing against my chest, while her ass barely brushes against my cock.
The kiss slowly comes to an end. Taby has tears running down her face, "Don't, don't do this to me…it was bad enough last time, and then you disappeared from my life for years!" Taby chokes on the words and tries to get off of me but I keep a firm hold on her.
"I'm sorry Taby, I…I wasn't ready to let myself be happy back then, I was confused, and still in that phase of punishing myself for shit I couldn't change…or control." I apologize for things that had happened when Taby and I lived together after her parents disowned her after finding out she was Bi, had a girl in her bedroom and dropped out of becoming a genetics to follow her passion for body artwork…though I know just the words I'm sorry will never be enough for how I treated her especially afterwards.
"You, you have no idea how bad I've wanted this…but you're grieving, and I know how you get when you're grieving…let's pick this up when you're not reeling from the loss of your babies, because that's what they were to you, your babies." Taby murmurs eventually and whips the moisture from her face, then smiles at me.
"I…" I start to say but Taby cuts me off by sliding up my body and covering my face with her big beautiful tits.
I move my arms up and hug Taby to me while she encircles the back of my head with her arms, to keep my face firmly buried in her cleavage.
'I missed the smell of her perfume.' After a handful of minutes Taby sits back, ass right around my sternum, I barely register her weight…when at this moment I shouldn't be able to breath even if she's only around a hundred and ten pounds of muscles and well endowed endowments.
"As for the tattoo on my right arm…I got some laced weed, passed out at a party and woke up with it on my arm." I offer a partial truth and the look in Taby's eyes just screams she wants to find whoever tattooed me without my permission and rip them to shreds.
"Is this why when I've invited you to come hang out or asked if I could come hang out with you, you've turned me down or made up some kinda excuse not to spend time with me?" Taby asks and puts me in a minefield of bad answers.
"I was working nights for a bit, and before I finished building the cabin for the farm help, I was busy with all that…" Taby starts to glare at me which makes me sigh.
"Okay, I knew you were dating Andrea again…and she's friends with Amanda…" Taby raises her right eyebrow while frowning at me.
"I was a little messed up after finding out about Diesel's heart condition and afraid to leave him alone…" I continue to try and reason my way out of the frying pan.
Turning my head to look away from Taby, "I guess I was kinda afraid to hang out with you, you know we're both going to be thirty this coming year, and I haven't forgotten the promise we made to each other, way back then…and it scared me that well it's looking like we're both going to be alone." Taby suddenly laughs, and it's a real honest to goodness laugh, as she cups the sides of my face and turns my head so that I'm looking up at her again which is a very off feeling given I've always been nearly a foot taller than her.
"Ar-are you-ha-haha, talking about that promise to marry each other-haa if we're both single at thirty so we don't have to be lonely…or die alone?!" Taby continues to laugh at me, and okay I totally deserve it.
"You don't have to be so mean about it." I mutter and start to turn my head to look away from her but Taby leans down and presses her forehead against mine while struggling to contain her giggles.
"You are such a loveable idiot, you know that? Oh god…you know it's kinda a relief to know that you've been avoiding me because you're afraid we'll follow through on a promise we made to each other on my twenty-first birthday, after we finally patched things up."
"But tell me something, were you avoiding me because you want to keep my promise or because you don't?" I can tell Taby already knows the answer to that question from staring into my eyes.
"Because, I didn't want you settling for me when you could find someone to really…" I trail off as Taby rolls her eyes at me, "Still trying to make everyone else happy at the expense of your own happiness, and undervaluing yourself and how much you mean to other people…like I said you're a lovable idiot." Taby eventually sighs and climbs off of me, picks up her stencils and begins readying her tools of her trade.
"Can you use the ink you make yourself, the one that's all natural with no artificial crap in it, please?"
"And also why did you need my pants off something about inking my thighs? I don't remember Lindsay having thigh tattoos."
"Yeah, I'll use my homemade ink…but you'll run a greater risk of allergic reaction, and the ink will fade faster so you'll need touch ups more often…and as for what they showed in Angel…while the comics go into more detail and I'm sure you want comic lore accurate ink…"
"Definitely, and yeah that's fine…it just means I get to get stripped down for your viewing pleasure more often." I acknowledge Taby's greater knowledge when it comes to all things Buffyverse related if you've heard of extremist Potterheads, while Taby is a lot like them but it's all things Buffy/Angel related for her.
Taby smirks at me, "I like the confidence I'm hearing in your voice…both at my greater knowledge of all things Buffy related and that you think I enjoy seeing you naked." I can tell that she's teasing me and the movement of her throat as she gulps at the sight of my cock, and the way her eyes are roaming my body tell me that she very much enjoys looking at me naked.
'I really wish I could get a tan…but I just burn in the sunlight…damn you genetics!'
"Hey, why aren't you wearing shoes?" Taby suddenly asks me and heat rushes to my face, and I look away from Taby's question look.
"You forgot to get dressed, I bet you haven't eaten anything since before…" Taby trails off before letting out a sigh, "After we're done we'll go to Lee Center and hit up the big and tall store there and get you same clothes…I bet you didn't think to bring your wallet either, lucky the tollbooths are gone now and that they do everything by camera." Taby mutters as she begins wiping down my arms, chest, and thighs with alcohol wipes.
Taby sits down on a stool and begins her work. I don't speak anymore and neither does she. I do my best not to fidget and my cock slowly returns to it's normal grower size, and though Taby tries to hide it she does make a soft disappointed sound.
"Trust me, it's not because I've lost interest, it's just that my fear of needles currently outweighs my body's desire to show off for you." I try to reassure and Taby's eyes roll as her hand holding the ink gun stops moving once she's done she starts up again.
As Taby finishes the tattoo on my right arm, the tattoo glows slightly with a soft warm light, which makes Taby gasp, her head whips up to look at my face so fast I cringe for her neck.
"What was that, did you see the glow?!" Taby asks loudly with an impassioned tone.
"I did, but I think you better finish the tattoos before I answer…I have a bad feeling that if you stop now for me to explain something bad will happen." And I'm being completely honest about the bad feeling, like I inadvertently woke something up having Taby give me this ink and if we don't complete all of them soon something very very bad will happen.
Taby nods and shivers, looks around the room then shrugs before beginning to start on my shoulder, while I feel like something very old and very strong is looking at me, with an ever increasing intensity.
…
By the time Taby starts working on my last thigh tattoo I'm nearly ready to crawl out of my skin, I can see my breath with every exhale…Taby can see it too but she seems mostly unaffected except for a shiver every now and then, I can feel her curiosity increasing with every second especially at the sight of each tattoo she completes healing perfectly and glowing softly.
Taby completes the tattoo and whatever has been looking at me turns it's attention away from me, and I almost get a sense of amusement…originating from whatever has been looking at me.
"You have magic…I mean you've always been kinda special like a sixth sense for danger or for knowing how people were feeling or if they needed you…but you are literally magical, how, when?! Tell me everything…please?!"
"First, I have to ask, are you willing to get these tattoos?" my voice trembles slightly whatever that thing was. It wanted me to know it was watching and that it found what I was doing amusing.
"Uhh…yes, but why-"
"Get someone here now who can do that ink perfectly, and I'll tell you what I can."
Taby looks at me for a few seconds, "I want you to do them." Taby murmurs and looks away from me my hands shake as we switch to her laying down in the seat, she lift her shirt up over her head and removes her sports bra, her big beautiful tits free from their cage, makes my mouth salivate.
"Are you sure about this, I can hardly write my own name?" I ask her as I pick up the ink gun.
"I'm sure." Taby mutters and wipes down the area for the tattoos and I grab a gauze pad. I've watched her do this enough to know what to do, my hands tremble slightly before Taby rests her right hand on my left wrist.
"Just breath, ya big lug…I know you can do this…" Taby reassures me gently, and I begin tatting her left arm, putting all my concentration into make them perfect, to keep her safe from any interfering higher powers, I could feel energy flowing out of me and into the gun, the ink and Taby, it feels similar to when using the abilities Seiichi taught me but lacking violence, more controlled and purposeful.
When I start to pat away, run off, and the little bit of blood I notice that the ink itself almost seems to be radiating energy, "Magic is real." Taby expresses her voice filled with complicated emotions, and I want to explain to her, but I push those feelings aside for now, finishing the tattoo on her forearm, I move to her shoulder, while subconsciously reaching into my subspace and pulling out an Ultimate healing potion, at the very edge of my thoughts I realize that potion vial is going to fall to the floor and shatter, yet Taby gasps and fidgets.
"Wha-what is that stuff it made my skin heal over perfectly?"
"Magic potion." I grunt out while trying to keep my focus on my work, "Hold the potion bottle. I'm not sure how I'm keeping it floating in the air, but its contents are irreplaceable, and I have very few of them."
"Right…there's a lot I don't know…isn't there?" Taby readily agrees and takes the potion bottle, and adds on as she looks at it curiously, as I finish her shoulder tat, I grab the bottle and dab some onto the gauze pad, then pat it against the tattoo and watch the skin heal while the tattoo stays in place.
"Why are you using it on me if it's so valuable?"
"Because you're worth it, and I'd really like to share this with you…since I don't have my boys to share it with." I admit honestly and begin the main chest tattoo, having to tattoo her big beautiful breasts is not easy, especially not when she whimpers, and she twitches.
"Sorry."
"It's not your fault I was cursed with big sensitive tits."
"I love you big tits." I joke honestly.
"I know you do." Taby teases right back, the chest tattoo reaches all the way down to Taby's belly button, and spans across both of her tits, using the potion to heal over the skin I begin tatting her ink free shoulder, then her forearm before moving to her thighs, her panties are noticeably damp, and she tries to cover that fact up by placing her hand over her crotch but the truth is already out there staring both of us in our receptive faces.
The fact she didn't ask to put her shirt back on…and that I'm the one, she a tattoo artist…and I do mean, artist wants me, someone with no artistic talent or skill whatsoever to do this also speaks volumes.
Finishing with Taby's enochian rune tattoos and using some more healing potion to make sure the skin heals over correctly, only using three quarters of the precious potion inside, "Drink, what's left of it…what that stuff is made out of did wonders for me." Taby looks at me for a moment and then knocks back what's left inside, "Wow, that tastes pleasant and I feel so warm and fuzzy inside." Taby mumbles as her hand starts rubbing circles over her panties, which makes me swallow thickly, I move on an urge pressing the lever to make the legs of the chair go down, I grabbing/hooking my fingers into the sides of Taby's panties and begin sliding the sodden article of clothing down her thighs she doesn't resist or tell me to stop looking up I see her face is flushed and her chest is rising and falling a bit faster than necessary, before she lifts her hips from the chair allowing me an easier time taking off her panties.
With her panties off I press kisses against her inner thighs, before coming to her slit, I push my longer than average tongue into her tight slit, ask use my right thumb to rub her little cute little clit, while sliding my left hand up her stomach to her left breast and giving it a gentle squeeze.
"Haa-don't stop-hnn-uhh." Taby moans and clenches her thick toned thighs around my head, as she gushes her thighs trembling and shaking.
Gently I reach up and unclamp Taby's trembling thighs from around my head, stand up lean over her moving between her thighs cock rock hard again, as I grab ahold of it.
Pressing the head of my cock against Taby's creamy slit, tight slit…staring down into her half lidded eyes I see a moment of rational thought flash into those beautiful half lidded orbs before slowly pushing into her.
"Fuck, Taby you're so fucking tight and wet!" I grunt out and have to grip the chair above her head as my knees tremble, Taby's mouth just hangs open in a silent expression of surprise, pain, and pleasure.
The metal of the chair creaks and gives way underneath my palms as I do my best to keep my thrusts gentle while making them powerful, absolutely adoring the way Taby's tits bounce wilding with every thrust of my hips and continue to jiggle even during short moments of rest, her moans sound more like gasps and it almost looks like her lower half is bulging with every thrust of my cock but I chalk that up to my imagination.
"Hgnn-haa-ha-harderrr!"
"FFF-fuc-k-mee-like-you-haa-mean-IT!" Taby struggles to get out but nearly shouts at the same time, her vaginal walls flexing around my girth.
…
"I think you should go." Taby's voice is a little hoarse/tender.
"I-hope to see ya, Taby." I offer as I put on my sweatpants, and make sure I have my car keys and phone.
I hear Taby whimper as I reach the door, and make sure the little lock on the front door is locked. I can hear her muttering something but can't make out the exact words.
'I think I broke her…' The sex was great but the explanation part, well that was…well it wasn't good, 'Taking her to a cartoon world to prove I was telling the truth even though she said I didn't need to also didn't help…it's cool that the enochian runes gave her the same boosts they gave to Lindsey, and I got telekinesis from them. I guess I won't be getting an adventure buddy…though that might be for the better.' Shaking away more traitorous thoughts I look back for half a second at Taby, and realize this was probably the last time I'd see or talk to her, and that thought only makes me shrug, giving a lazy wave goodbye that I know she won't see I head to my car get in turn the key, put it in reverse and leave.
Heading to Lee Center Massachusetts like Taby mentioned, an hour later I pulled up in front of the store and headed inside, I get a more than a few looks from men and women all with varying degrees of emotions.
Picking a few things off of a couple of clothing racks, grabbing a package of cushioned white socks, trying out shoes, finding I need a size thirteen now.
Cashing out using my phone to pay for my purchases, and leaving fully dressed and with the cashier's phone number written on my receipt, who was rather pretty.
Getting in my car, heading back home, 'What world should I got to first? Chronicle I could get telekinesis from the crystal thing, Heros, get a dose or two of the genetic modification serum to give myself superpowers…though that's risky given what happened with the evolution fruit. A version of Ben 10, get a version of the Omnitrix, Charms of Bezel. Jackie Chan Adventures and get the Zodiac Talismans and that armor that enhanced the wearer's strength, speed, endurance and stamina. Shit man there are so many places to go! I need help picking one, I mean Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Originals/Legacies maybe save Hayley, Klaus and Elijah and prevent Hope from being more fucked up than she needs to be and put a pin in "Daddy" Alaric neglecting his own daughters and "raising" Hope to be a tragic heroine.'
"I need some help in picking a place to go but…I also don't want to play Mr.Fixit everywhere I go either."
"Hmm, what about Treasure Planet? Space fairing adventure, hot feline chick, hot single mom with a troubled son, treasure hunt, pirates…hmm."
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