“I don’t get it,” Blitz confessed. “What does the Oceanfront Galleria have to do with our plot to raid the Bureau?”
“Easy,” I answered as I stepped out of the SUV, leaving a cozy-looking Io typing away on her tablet in the backseat. “If we’re going to invade HQ we’re going to need a pretty big distraction. Inside that mall waits the first half of our plan.”
“Alan?” Tabby tested.
“Duke Alan,” I confirmed.
“Ah,” she said, being struck by the full weight of my plan at once as our thoughts converged over our psychic link. “I see. That’s very clever, Ryan.”
Who could resist feeling a boost in confidence after being praised by a pretty girl?
Sure as shit wasn’t me.
With a simple wrist rotation and a pinch of effort, I transformed my left hand into the manticore-claw and cut through the last annoying tag in the hem of my new shirt. Damn thing kept poking me during the last leg of our drive. While we were en route, Tabitha made us stop at a superstore and steal some clothes. We almost got caught by one of the Bureau's patrols, but we managed to sneak away. A close call that was not great for my heart, but ultimately amounted to nothing aside from a wardrobe change.
Together, decked out in some actual clothes rather than our underwear, Tabby and I started walking toward the mall’s front doors.
“Hold the fuck up. We’re going to seek aid from a duke? This all got a little high fantasy for me, dude, this ain’t what I signed on for. Why aren’t we taking out those Signal emitters?” Blitz interrupted.
“We will take out those emitters. I…promised Euna. But first, why waste time plucking scales off the snake when you can just go for the head?” I countered. “If the Bureau is behind this, then dealing with them puts an end to all of it. The longer we waste tracking down those emitters and destroying them one at a time, the more time the Bureau has to prepare to deal with us. What was it you said on the drive over here? ‘The vibe in HQ was just off,’ I believe?”
Blitz nodded, still looking hesitant.
“Right. About this ‘plan’ you two keep talking about. I know you’ve got some weird psychic thing going on but would you mind filling me in on some of the blanks? You have verbalized very little of it to me and Io.”
Tabitha and I shrugged, in unison.
Ever since our escape from the hotel…we’ve just been in sync. Like two legs attached to the same body, we were now extensions of the same consciousness. I already noticed my mannerisms changing, and I wasn’t sure where this was headed, but I knew that we had already made our peace with it. Tabitha was mine and I was hers in a way that defied simple labels. We were a bonded pair who shared every instinct and desire. I’m not going to lie for one second and say that it wasn’t the coolest feeling I’ve ever experienced (and I recently got blown by two hot chicks at the same time so, context matters).
“That information’s need-to-know, Blitz. And you’re still on thin ice after trying to kill us. Twice. So for now, fall in step with us and do as we say. If we make it out of all this in one piece? Who knows. Maybe we’ll let you stay on our team.”
Blitz nodded. “Cool. Just keep me out of your weird sex circle thing.”
“Who said you were invited?” Tabitha asked, and as one she and I both headed inside the mall to meet with Alan.
“So let me get this straight,” Duke Alan–the sun-lion–began in his booming voice, “you are offering to let me roam the empty halls of your lightless city and bathe its inhabitants in my grand radiance, and you are saying that you consider this a favor?”
“That is correct, your brilliance.” I came up with it on the spot. “You would be assisting us in a matter most crucial to the stability of our world. And this task would not be without considerable danger. More of those dreadful vampires we hunted last time prowl these bewitched streets every night, searching for prey of their own. Should they find your majesty they may attempt to seek retaliation for our prior-”
“Silence, dear shadow!” Alan roared, shaking the glass overhead as he did so. “I shall suffer no more of this farce! You offer me the ability to roam freely across this darkened land, hunting fiends that prowl its unlit canyons, and dare to call it a favor to you? My dear Lord Ryan! This is a gift without equal! I shall happily engage in this hunt at once!”
“Yo, why does this Shakespearean lion keep calling Ryan ‘lord’ like, what? That shit is wild,” Blitz whined under his breath.
“Shut up and go with it,” Tabitha replied in a hushed tone.
Keeping my features composed, I took a deep breath and folded my arms, massaging my chin as if I was carefully considering the lion’s words. “Very well, your majesty. If it pleases you all that I ask is that you wait one night before you begin your hunt. We shall see to it that your prey finds its way to the surface in droves.”
“Excellent!” Alan purred, rumbling the mall’s entire infrastructure.
With that settled, we only had a few more things to set in motion before our plan could unfold. Which meant it was Blitz’s turn to play a role.
Outside the mall, Blitz stared at me with a blank expression.
“You want me to do what?”
Tabitha took over. “You and I are going to raid the Bureau armory on 53rd street. Go down into the sewers. Place UV mines at every entrance to the vampiric warrens, and set the timers to all go off at exactly midnight tomorrow.”
“But, that’ll take all night!” he protested.
“Yes. Which is why you and I are going. You because you’re not coming with us, and I because I don’t require as much sleep as Io or Ryan. Got it?”
“No. Why can’t I be a part of the main assault? I’m a Keeper, same as you!”
Tabitha sighed and looked over at me to see me stifling a yawn. It had been a long day of fighting and avoiding Bureau patrols as we navigated our way to the Galleria. Io’s drones had come in clutch, but since I was the one driving I was running low on steam.
“Go on, Ryan. I’ll handle this, you go catch some rest with Io, okay?” Tabitha suggested.
I nodded, trusting her to handle herself more than adequately. “Be safe,” I instructed. Even without turning back I could feel her reaction brewing in her chest. Indignation at the notion that she needed to be reminded to be safe, tempered by an overwhelming burst of safety at the subtle reminder that I cared enough about her to want her to be safe.
I left her to handle Blitz and get their mission underway while I walked over to the SUV.
Before I could grab the driver’s door handle, the back door swung open seemingly of its own accord. Revealed inside was Io, minus her usual blouse and skirt combo which was undeniably adorable.
She was utterly naked, reclining across the back of the SUV with all the seats flipped down and showing off her incredible rack, a belly button piercing, and a cute little pussy. I at last had my answer regarding how we might actually fuck, it was quite simple really, the point where her snake half met her human half had something of a divot where the skin softened to her natural dark human skintone and left room for access from both the front and the back.
The sight of her delicious body on display for me like this elicited a slight growl from the part of me that had once most definitely belonged to Tabitha but was now entirely shared between us.
“So,” Io started up with that sultry voice of hers, “I’ve been thinking. Your primal blood faltered earlier today, breaking that Fractal early, and you reverted to your human form. Based on all the research I’ve been doing I think I know what’s going on. When you absorb a monster’s DNA during combat, it only lasts for a short while, like your body is fighting off an infection and the symptoms that manifest wind up perfectly mimicking the creature’s traits and abilities. Hence why your powers have only been manifesting primarily on your left half and not your whole body. But, when you slept with Tabitha, your connection to her lycanthropy was much, much deeper. You inherited a stronger connection to her abilities and even forged a powerful psychic bond with her. My theory is, sleeping with a monster is going to make you way more powerful than just getting scratched, stung, or bitten by one. And I think you’re losing the dino-arm pretty quick. On the eve of our most dangerous mission, when we might die horribly, I think it would raise the odds of our survival tenfold if you went into tomorrow with as big of an advantage as possible.”
I sort of tuned out after the words ‘I’ve been thinking’ and just watched the way her breasts swayed as she spoke and her throat formed around each word. It was an exquisitely sensual experience just watching her lay there and try to seduce me. “So in other words, you want me to have sex with you so we have better odds at saving the world?”
My lamia girl nodded, very seriously, and made her boobs jiggle up and down in the process. Which felt a bit like a tactical stunt, but I didn’t mind.
“Well, that,” she agreed, “but also… anything could happen tomorrow, Ryan. It might very well be our last day amongst the living. You wouldn’t want me to go to my grave, a virgin, would you?”
Oh wow, we’re playing the ‘last night alive’ card, huh? Alright.
I glanced over at Tabitha and she, sensing through our bond what I was feeling and seeing, motioned with her chin for me to get in the damn car already.
My old hesitations were gone, and I no longer needed to be told twice.
I climbed into the backseat with Io and closed the door behind us.
With a handful of her curly purple hair in one hand—pulling her down towards the makeshift bed we were lying on—and one of her perfect breasts cradled in the other, I leaned down to whisper in her ear, biting her lobe softly between my teeth as I did so.
She melted before I ever spoke a word.
“Reach down and grab my cock,” I breathed against the side of her neck.
Io trembled and reached down with both hands, her breaths faltering slightly as she felt what awaited her. Her purple eyes flashed dangerously. “Big,” she whimpered. In her hot-secretary voice, the word sounded like a confession.
“Do you want it inside you?” I asked her softly, kissing my way down to her throat.
“Uh-huh.”
“Then press it up against your lips, girl. I want to feel how wet you got undressing in this van and waiting for me to come back here and slide it in.” She blushed at the accuracy of my words, and I continued. “Just tease yourself, now. Let it slide from your entrance to your clit, okay? You don’t put it in until I tell you,” I commanded.
Using one hand to stroke me and the other hand to press my head between her lips, Io let out a soft little gasp and gripped me a bit harder. She was so fucking soaked.
“Attagirl. Does that feel good?”
Her eyes rolled back a little, her body shivered and felt my hand in her hair pinning her in place, which only made her react harder. “Fuck yes. Please stick it in, Ryan. Please?”
I hesitated for only a second, meeting her purple eyes with mine and holding her gaze just long enough to make her eyebrows twitch in concern that I had changed my mind about this. Then I grinned and moved my hips down closer to hers. With her hands in place to guide me in, I was pushing past the tight walls of her entrance in no time.
Her whole face flushed a light shade of purple as I slid it inside her.
Her mouth had felt amazing and watching her deepthroat every inch of my dick while Tabitha guided her head had been the hottest thing I’d ever seen. But there was something about the way she just instantly came the second my head was inside her. The moan that started in her chest and worked its way up her throat and past her lips as I worked myself deeper and deeper inside her vice-like grip. Or the way she kept one hand around my base, pulling me closer to her whilst the other hand shot to my forearm to stabilize herself. Easily a close second.
“Oh fuck,” I grunted. The view of her massive tits bouncing and the look of pure ecstasy on her face were a little too hot. Her fresh, untouched pussy was actually too tight, almost to the point where it was hurting me when she started cumming. I started to pull back.
“No!” Io protested, pulling me closer. “Don’t stop.”
Tabitha whispered to me in the back of my mind, urging me to let go of any inhibitions and just fuck the shit out of the gorgeous lamia already.
A distinctly werewolf-esque growl escaped me. “Fuck it.”
Her tail curled around one of my legs and she held on for dear life as I just went for it.
Technically Lamia don’t have ass cheeks to the same extent as more humanoid asses do, as their muscles tend to run a little longer as they bleed into the snake-trunk part of their anatomy, so I can’t quite say I was clapping her cheeks. But the SUV we were inside of was rocking like it was going over some particularly rough terrain, and the windows were completely fogged up as we worked up a sweat.
I came shortly after I finally let loose, but neither of us were done. So I kept right on going. Her lamia talons left claw marks down my arms and back that healed in seconds thanks to Tabby’s healing factor. The more she came the more grabby she got with her hands, always feeling up my arms or stroking the base of my shaft which I couldn’t fit inside of her—yet.
As the night wore on, Io revealed herself to be a passionate kisser whenever she got close to cumming. Her huge tits were endlessly entertaining when I found a nice rhythm to fuck her at. More than once I made her go cross-eyed with pleasure, and she eagerly sucked me off when her pussy had taken too much and needed a break.
All in all…I was pretty glad the girls talked me into this. I knew from our bond that somewhere out there that evening, Tabitha was even happier than I was.
When she was too exhausted to continue, Io snuggled up to the crook of my arm and passed out. I stayed awake and stared up at the stars through the car windows, thinking. Not only about how amazing she felt but also how much I hated the Bureau.
This demon had it out for monsters for reasons I didn’t even know yet.
Whatever their problem was, it was about to get a lot worse.