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VIP: The Blue Dragon: Chapter 25

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-- CHAPTER 25: Theory --

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“Wow… I think I saw this place at the end of Casino Royale,” Hannah breathed as she stared out the passenger window of our recently purchased bright-red Ferrari Purosangue as Rae drove us up to the front gate of the picturesque lakeside estate.

“That was the Villa del Balbianello in Lake Como, about six hundred kilometers north of here, or perhaps the Villa la Gaeta depending on which scene you are thinking of,” Angelika corrected.

The ageless fox spirit was once again in her Canadian internet model guise, all the better to sweet-talk the Ferrari dealership salesman into giving her a great deal. The Shu Han may have been worth billions of dollars, but every Chinese woman must have been born knowing how to get a bargain. I’d wondered at the wisdom of purchasing such a flashy vehicle in the first place when perhaps it would be less conspicuous to simply rent a plain sedan, but the pretty platinum-blonde babe had scoffed at the idea of deigning to be transported in such a blasé vehicle. And from the looks of it, her taste for luxury likewise extended to vacation rentals.

I found that I wasn’t sure which scene Hannah was thinking of. The only location I could vividly recall was the lair where Bond gets his balls crushed - that one visits me in my nightmares - but I could definitely imagine the lakeside structure before us being utilized for a Hollywood movie. The expansive estate had been built along the shore of the Lago di Bracciano, a short drive away from downtown Rome. Nestled amongst lush, green fields, the stone architecture with elaborate rooftops stood out and yet did not overwhelm nature’s beauty. There were multiple buildings within the walled villa, including a main house and a separate bungalow spread out for privacy and comfort, along with a swimming pool, a garden, and an ornate white-marble gazebo.

Not your typical Airbnb, unless you were a rich-and-famous celebrity or a Premier League football star.

In any case, Rae keyed a code into the gate and then skillfully navigated the Ferrari into the compound. We parked in the garage and then got out to explore our new digs for… well…

“How long will we be staying here?” I asked Rae. Angelika had already gone inside the main house, and Hannah had drifted off towards the garden and gone to explore the picturesque grounds.

“Hopefully just the one night,” Rae told me. “We only came this far out from Rome for security reasons. The lack of any people around means that we’ll be able to detect Carabinieri or any other assailants from miles away instead of getting ambushed in the city.”

“I sincerely hope so,” I said, swallowing thickly. “Because I was honestly wondering if this was going to be merely the latest in a long line of pretty places I thought I’d be safe in, only to find myself in the middle of a pitched battle. I can already imagine swarms of Italian SWAT team soldiers leaping over those walls or rappelling down from helicopters.”

“Relax. It’s fine to plan for the worst, but you can’t expect to be ambushed everywhere you go.”

“Wanna bet? And weren’t you the paranoid one before, always scolding me for not taking the danger we were in seriously enough?”

“Maybe you’re rubbing off on me.”

Dong popped up on my shoulder. “We’d be happy for you to rub off on-- EEP!” The little blue gecko abruptly jumped off my shoulder like a cliff diver to avoid the small electric fireball zooming through the air that would’ve hit him square in the face.

Rae smirked. “Well I can’t promise we won’t get ambushed here, but I sincerely hope not. The idea is to have time and safety to plan Ziyi’s rescue, and also let other agents do some reconnaissance on the location where she’s being held.”

“So you DO know where Ziyi’s being held,” I stated, raising an index finger.

Rae nodded. “Tianshi recognized it from your thoughts and memories. It’s a Templar stronghold in the city, nigh impregnable. But we have to get her back.”

I gave her a puzzled look. “Why is that, by the way? Why Tianshi’s sudden change of heart? Just because I had a vision of Ziyi?”

“Not just because you had a vision of Ziyi. Tianshi had already recognized that she was perhaps more valuable than she’d thought, for her knowledge of the remaining relics if nothing else. It was just that Tianshi’s priority was on retrieving the feather - especially since she knew exactly where the box had been hidden in the Rome mini-mart storeroom - and the urgency of getting to it before our enemies could stop us. But I believe she always intended for us to get Ziyi back eventually.”

I waggled my head. “I’m not so sure. If my vision had shown me some other destination, Tianshi would probably be planning to go there instead of rescuing Ziyi.”

“Probably,” Rae conceded. “She told me that the relic of Zhuque does not show visions at random. Each one is important and will help guide your way. Had your vision told us to go straight to Japan and retrieve the relic of Baihu, we’d probably be on an airplane right now. But your vision showed Ziyi, so I have to think she must have some greater purpose in the quest still to come.”

“Which is really the only reason why Tianshi is rescuing her: for Ziyi’s greater purpose in the quest. Not because she’s important to me.”

Rae shrugged. “Maybe her importance to you is her greater purpose. Maybe it’s something else grander than that. Whatever the reason, we’re going to rescue her. And as long as your goals and Tianshi’s goals are aligned, does it really matter why?”

“I suppose not.”

Rae reached up and squeezed my shoulder, giving me an encouraging look. “Hey… I know Ziyi and I didn’t get along at first. Well… we tried to kill each other at first, and like I said: the tiny mammal spirit inside me will always fear a reptile. But since then she’s been nothing but loyal to you and to the mission, and I know just how much she means to you. We’ll get her back, Aksel. I promise.”

I raised both eyebrows. “You promise?”

She favored me with a lopsided grin, put her knuckles to my shoulder, and then pushed me away with her fist. “I’m not normally an optimist, but you’re the Chosen One, Aksel. Everything’s going to work out. It’s your destiny.”

****

I followed Rae across the driveway into the compound. The main house was straight ahead, but Rae pointed me off to the side, saying, “We gave you and Hannah the bungalow for extra privacy.”

“Oh, sweet. Thanks.” I gave Rae a nod and then split off from the main walkway to head over to the bungalow. I opened the door and found that there was a charming little living room decorated with rich colors and a stone fireplace in the corner, along with a small kitchenette.

“Oh, Aksellll…” Hannah’s melodious voice invited musically from the open bedroom door at the far end of the living room. Her tone then turned into a plaintive pout. “I’m feeling a little… empty. It’s been so long since you last… filled me.”

I chuckled and quickly crossed the living room but then quickly came to a dead stop in the doorway. The sight that greeted me was simply incredible, and I had to pause and enjoy the moment, wishing I could take a picture and remember this view for the rest of my life.

The bungalow bedroom featured a king-size bed in the middle of the room with the headboard to my left. There was another stone fireplace in the far corner, already lit so that a blazing fire snapped and crackled soothingly. But my attention was entirely on the luscious figure atop a plush, faux-fur blanket on the bed.

Hannah was topless, wearing nothing but red bikini-cut panties with white polka dots. She relaxed on her belly but propped upright with both elbows, her left arm obscuring my view of her side-boob. Her silky, dirty-blonde locks cascaded down her naked back and framed her surpassingly beautiful face as she turned to look at me with her left thumb and forefinger gently touching her chin. Her lips were slightly parted in a way that showed her pearly white teeth in a sort of chipmunk-cute smile. And her eyes were mesmerizing in their intensity, expressing deep attraction, carnal lust, and passionate desire for me all at the same time.

But as much as her gorgeous face mesmerized me, I couldn’t help but notice the pronounced curve of her incredible ass, with the peachy globes neatly bisected by the polka-dot panties. All I could think of was ducking my head down to go nom-nom-nom on her delectable booty, rip those panties down her legs, and then mount her magnificent body over and over and over again.

So that’s exactly what I did.

Leaving the suitcases where they were in the doorway, I strode into the room, stripping off my clothes as I went. I only got as far as discarding my shirts by the time I got to the bed, leaving my torso topless. I bent over enough to meet her kiss when she leaned up and puckered. And when she pulled her mouth away from mine, Hannah immediately started fiddling with my pants to extract the massive column of meat already tenting my boxers.

I let her busy herself with my pants and bent over where I was, bracing my hands on the bed so I could go nom-nom-nom on her delectable booty. I felt like I could gnaw on her assflesh for hours, but as soon as Hannah got my dick into the open air, she immediately gaped her mouth open and impaled her face onto my prominent prick.

“Oh, shit,” I grunted at the immediate sensations of exquisite pleasure her talented mouth was able to give me. My knees wobbled just a bit at the rush flooding my brain, but I managed to keep my hips parked right in front of her. I couldn’t remain bent over at the waist though, so I stood up straight, stared down at the blonde beauty bobbing her head back and forth along the length of my shaft. And I settled for holding her head with both hands and gently guiding her pumping motions.

We remained like that for a couple of minutes, me standing next to the bed at her relaxing on her belly, making sweet oral love to my long dick. I’d lost count of how many times Hannah had given me a blowjob over the years, but she seemed to be savoring this time as if it were her very first. And when I looked down to find her gazing up at me with her bright-green eyes, I favored her with a look of love and gratitude for all she was choosing to do for me.

Of course, luxurious oral lovemaking slowly ramped up in pace and power as she started probing the back of her throat with my prickhead. Pulling off my dick, she slid herself off the bed and pushed me back just a bit so she could have room to squat on the floor with her back braced against the mattress. This put her face at the perfect height for me to once again shove my schlong between her lips, but this time when I held her head, I was able to also tug it towards me to meet my forward thrusts.

Hannah made a brief choking noise the first time I pushed a couple of inches of prick into her throat, but she grabbed my ass and held it steady when I instinctively started to withdraw, keeping me still and steady while she got herself adjusted to the intrusion, only backing her head off several seconds later so she could gasp for air.

And then she swallowed my dick again.

And again.

Hannah made little [glug-glug] sounds as she started to face-fuck herself on my meat. After a minute, she folded both arms behind her back, inviting me to take over as she stared up at me with glimmering green eyes still moist from her brief choking session.

So take over, I did.

Seizing Hannah’s head with both hands, I started to rhythmically pump my pelvis forward, slowly at first to make sure she could handle the repeated deep-throats, but gradually picking up the pace as I went. She took to the skull-fucking with aplomb, her eyes sparkling with delight as I used her face for a masturbatory tool. And when I pulled all the way out to let her catch her breath, she immediately grabbed my shaft in hand and rapidly stroked the shaft while gasping and grinning like an idiot.

“More, Aksel… More…”

I seized her head and started skull-fucking her gain, even faster this time.

“Nngh, nngh, nngh, nngh, nngh.”

[Glug, glug, glug, glug, glug]

“Nngh-nngh-nngh-nngh-nngh.”

[glug-glug-glug-glug-glug]

“NNGH-NNGH-NNGH-NNGH-NNGH!”

[GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG!]

I was surprised at how well Hannah was able to accommodate my massive prick. She’d always been built narrowly all around. Working myself into her pussy had always taken time, and those rare anal occasions had been even more difficult. She’d managed to deep-throat my dick on occasion, but it had never been a regular thing. And she’d certainly never displayed this sort of skull-fucking endurance before.

“NNGH-NNGH-NNGH-NNGH-NNGH!”

[GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG!]

Perhaps there was a similar effect to my impromptu anal lube, allowing her to handle my thickness. Hannah’s eyes weren’t merely watering; she had running tear tracks streaking down her cheeks. But she held on gamely, continuing to stare up at me and urge me with her irises to keep going. I still pulled out to let her breathe, letting her gasp a few times for air. But then I slammed my sausage straight back between her lips, fully intent on keeping up the skull-fucking for as long as she could keep it up on her end.

“NNGH-NNGH-NNGH-NNGH-NNGH!”

[GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG!]

“NNGH-NNGH-NNGH-NNGH-NNGH!”

[GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG!] She pulled up to breathe, gasping, “Aaah… aaah… aaah… aa-GGGHHH!” [GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG!]

“NNGH-NNGH-NNGH-NNGH-NNGH!”

[GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG!]

“That’s it, baby… take it… take my dick… So good, baby… So fucking good.”

[GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG!]

“NNGH-NNGH-NNGH-NNGH-NNGH!”

[GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG!]

“Fuck yeah! So good! So good! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!”

“MMPH! MMPH! MMPH!” she cheered with me, sensing my impending eruption.

“GAAAAHHHH! GAAAAHHHH! GAAAAHHHH!” I gasped as I pinned her head to my crotch with both hands and unleashed hell straight down her gullet. I clenched my abs, squeezed my glutes, and felt like I was expelling my brains out through my big dick thrust all the way down Hannah’s throat.

She retched slightly but held on for dear life, gripping my ass with her fingernails digging into my skin, gamely trying to swallow every last drop.

“FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!” I howled, making three last short, stabbing thrusts in sync with the way I hammered Hannah’s head against my crotch. But after the last one, I abruptly backed all the way out in order to give her a chance to breathe.

Hannah’s eyes were wet and wild and super wide-open as she gaped her mouth open, her body screaming for oxygen. My pulsing dick still had a few final shots to fire, and I coated her face with two more ribbons of creamy jism before I was done. I staggered back a few steps, feeling deliriously dizzy from the force of my ejaculation. And it was all I could do not to fall.

My vision swam out of focus for a moment and everything got blurry. I could sort of see Hannah wiping her face with both hands to clean up my cum, but my vertigo wouldn’t let my eyeballs align. Rushing blood roared in my ears, but through it I could hear her musical laughter. And when she started to get up, I reassured myself that she hadn’t unduly suffered despite me treating her rather more… aggressively… than normal.

I managed to catch my breath and refocus my vision in time to see Hannah pivot around to present me with her shapely ass while oh-so-slowly dragging those polka-dot panties down to her ankles. She stepped out of the garment before bending herself over the side of the bed, waggling her cute tushie in welcome invitation.

I’d never gone soft, as usual, and at that moment could think of nothing I wanted more than to bury my big dick as deep inside her as humanly possible. So I quickly stepped up into place, notched myself into position, and rammed my rod forward with enough force to knock her flat across the mattress.

But she was stronger than she looked, her body rocking forward from the impact but still maintaining her position without her arms or legs buckling. She tossed her head back, arched her spine, and moaned in erotic ecstasy at feeling so filled up. And then she turned to look back at me over her shoulder, giving me a coy smile…

… and I nearly shat myself.

Angelika’s face was only inches away from mine, grinning with obvious delight and pleasure.

Well, it was Angelika’s version of that Canadian internet model’s face grinning at me, and for as many time as I’d fantasized about being in this very position with my big dick buried as deep inside the platinum blonde’s pussy as humanly possible, I certainly wasn’t expecting to experience it right now.

“Holy shit!” I exclaimed, instinctively backing up.

But Angelika had reached behind me and grabbed my ass with both hands, briefly arresting my exit. And she clucked her tongue before slipping out the slithery appendage to swipe across her smiling upper lip as she asked plaintively, “Does this pussy not feel as amazing as you’ve always imagined?”

“Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!” I exclaimed, now physically shoving my hands against her back in an effort to free myself. Angelika obliged my efforts by letting go of me, allowing me to pull out of her and take several steps in retreat.

The huli jing shapeshifter stood up and turned around, remaining completely naked and showing off the incredible figure that drove so much traffic to the internet model’s OnlyFans page, except that this naked figure was live and in the flesh before me. The moist pussy I’d just been inside of was pink and glistening with splayed-open labia, calling for me to re-enter. And Angelika even adopted one of the model’s most familiar poses with one arm over her head and the other arm across her midsection to hoist and squish her big breasts together.

“What the hell?!?” I exclaimed. “Where’s Hannah?”

“‘Where’s Hannah?’ Is that really all you can say to me after I let you skull-fuck me so roughly? A polite ‘thank you’ would be in order at the minimum.”

My temper flared as I raised my fist to summon an ice blade with which to stab the deceptive fox spirit in the fucking face, and a glowing two-foot Indian katar suddenly materialized within my grasp, its blue-white ice blade humming with energy like a lightsaber.

Angelika’s face went white in the light of the glowing weapon, and she immediately dropped all pretense of her haughty attitude. In the span of seconds, she transformed into her “Tianshi” true form - the one with the diamond-white irises, porcelain skin, and ornate dress - and dropped to her knees in open supplication.

“Forgive me for deceiving you, 青龙之选. But I had to know,” she stated seriously with her head bowed close to the ground and her hands raised in surrender. Her Chinese words sounded familiar, and after a moment, I realized she had called me ‘Qīnglóng zhī xuǎn’ or ‘Chosen One of the Azure Dragon’. It was something Ziyi had called me several times before.

“Had to know what?” I growled, still threatening her with the ice katar. “What my dick felt like in your throat?”

Tianshi’s eyes glinted as she raised her head to look at me. “To know if my theory was correct.”

“What theory?”

“That your powers are dependent upon you drawing sexual energy from supernatural beings, not mere humans.”

I blinked twice, furrowed my eyebrows, and only now realized that I was holding a glowing ice blade in my right hand. In my rage I’d momentarily forgotten that I hadn’t been able to call upon such ice powers ever since returning to the present day. And as if on cue, the moment I started to doubt its existence, it started flickering and then faded into nothingness, evaporating with a small hint of steam.

“Wait, what are you saying?”

Still on her knees, Tianshi sat back on her heels and set her hands on her upper thighs, looking calm, serene, and no longer particularly apologetic. I had a feeling that as far as she was concerned, the ends justified the means, and she was feeling quite satisfied with the outcome.

With a cool smile and smart-ass tone that told me she already knew the answer to her own question, Tianshi asked, “When were you first able to create a water shield to ward off the shui gui? The water ghosts?”

“Right after I released Dong from the blue crystal,” I stated confidently. “Right after the avatar of Qinglong joined me.”

She tilted her head ever so slightly to the side and pursed her lips with a disappointed look on her face, correcting bluntly, “Right after you first had sexual relations with the hui serpent.”

I blinked and thought about that for a second.

“While you were in Imperial China, when did your powers truly expand? When were you able to exhibit fine control over your abilities, to the point where you were able to challenge an extremely powerful earth elemental shu yaoguai who had conquered vast areas of the known world?”

I frowned. “You’re gonna say it’s because I was sleeping with Ziyi for the better part of a month. But I’d been able to make ice shields and daggers even before Ziyi and I slept together.”

“Ice shields, yes. You also made an ice shield the night of the ambush in Rome. But you were unable to fight back against Magdalena, weren’t you? Unless I am misinformed, that night you copulated orally with Madeleine Cressy and had sexual intercourse with Hannah, two mere humans, but did NOT copulate with the hui. And from that night up until a few minutes ago, you’ve continued to have sexual relations with only Hannah.”

“Well, Hannah and Camila the train attendant, but…" I knitted my eyebrows and shook my head. “You’re saying that’s why I haven’t been able to summon my water elemental powers? Because Hannah and Camila are both… only human? But if I have sex with a supernatural, I’ll be able to do all of the same abilities I was able to do in Imperial China?”

“There’s one way to find out.” She smiled invitingly, and in the span of seconds, she’d transformed herself back into the Canadian internet model.

The completely naked Canadian internet model.

Well, naked save for strappy high heels beneath her lush buttocks, bound with ropes that trapped her arms behind her back and around her midsection beneath her buoyant breasts, wearing a black blindfold, and with her mouth forced open by a leather ring-gag with enough room for me to thrust my thick dick through.

Dayyyum!!! Dong crowed immediately inside my head.

‘Shut up, you.’

“Not interested,” I stated flatly, folding my arms across my chest.

The blindfold disappeared, as did the ring-gag. Angelika eyed my still-hard shaft that was presently bobbing in the air and smirked, drawling alluringly, “Somebody seems quite interested.”

Me! Me! Me!

‘Dude, shut it.’

“Hard pass,” I growled.

“Perhaps a different flavor?” she offered musically while shapeshifting into the flint-grey-eyed leggy brunette she’d been yesterday in Venice. Her bondage ropes disappeared, but she kept both arms folded behind her lower back and remained in the submissive kneeling position, practically begging with her eyes for me to come ravage her.

“No.”

She became a freckled redhead.

“No.”

A curvaceous coed with caramel-colored skin.

“No.”

She grinned a sly grin before shapeshifting into Ziyi.

“Oh, fuck no.” I shook my head, turned around, and started walking out of the room.

“C’mon, Aksel. Have a sense of humor,” Rae chastised from behind me.

I spun around in surprise to find Rae kneeling in Tianshi’s place, still completely naked and still kneeling in submission. But that strange disinterest in ever fucking Rae washed over me, dumping cold water on the flames of my arousal, and my dick actually started to soften.

‘Rae’ immediately shapeshifted back into Tianshi, the clothed version with the elaborate hanfu dress. The ageless woman frowned as she stood up, looking quite puzzled. And I felt the tell-tale tingle in my brain of the mind-reading fox spirit… well… reading my mind.

“Interesting…” she mused, narrowing her eyes and raising three fingers of her right hand to grasp her chin.

// Baby Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo / Baby Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo / Baby Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo / Baby Shark

Tianshi flinched and jerked her head back, grimacing as if a sudden migraine had come on.

// Mommy Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo / Mommy Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo / Mommy Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo / Mommy Shark

“Stop it!” the woman scolded.

“What? I’m not doing anything,” I told her honestly.

// Daddy Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo / Daddy Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo / Daddy Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo /Daddy Shark

“You know very well what you’re doing!” she seethed, clenching her eyes shut and holding a hand palm-out.

Dong suddenly materialized on my shoulder. “Oh? Is that bothering you, lady?” he asked with syrupy sweetness. “I just love singing as often as I can. Grandma Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo / Grandma Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo--”

“ENOUGH!” Tianshi roared, raising both hands and jerking them sideways as if she wanted to throw open a set of double-doors. I almost expected some magical gale-force wind to rush over me, but nothing happened.

Dong stopped singing. But he didn’t remain silent, folding his arms across his chest and stating flatly, “Look, lady. You had my support as long as you were willing to get my homeboy here laid. I knew who you were the whole time, but I was enjoying that skull-fuck too much to interfere. Once you started fucking around by transforming yourself into Ziyi and Rae though, you lost me. Those two are off-limits, understand?”

“And Hannah too,” I added seriously. “Speaking of, where is Hannah right now?”

“Hannah is fine,” Tianshi stated flatly. “I told Rae to keep her preoccupied elsewhere for the time being.”

I raised my index finger, gesturing with it quite forcefully. “Don’t. Ever. Shapeshift. Into. Any. Of my. Friends. I don’t like you as it is. I don’t TRUST you as it is. You clearly have your own agenda that may or may not align with what’s best for me or the people I care about. You withhold information that I NEED to know. You’ve tried to manipulate me ever since we met. You had every intention of abandoning Ziyi until you found out she was useful. Hannah is my friend. SHE’S put her life on the line for ME. Not to save the world and certainly to join a centuries-long feud between ancient organizations she knows nothing about. For ME. And you’re at the top of the list of dangers I need to protect her from. And don’t think for a single second that I’ve forgotten that you told me to my face that I was a tiny pawn whose throat you wouldn’t hesitate to slit if I didn’t meekly follow your lead. The Chosen One of Qinglong be damned, I do NOT have faith that you won’t follow-up on that threat someday. As far as I’m concerned, your hubris is the weak link in this party and the likeliest reason why we might fail. I’d toss you aside right here and now, except you’ve obviously been keeping Rae so far in the dark that she doesn’t know much more of any use than I do at this point. And did it even OCCUR to you to ask me to willingly participate in this fucked-up experiment to test your theory?”

Tianshi rolled her eyes. “Are you trying to claim you would’ve said ‘yes’ had I asked?”

“You fucking RAPED me.”

“Says the man who was hammering my head against his crotch while cramming his dick as far down my throat as he possibly could.”

“I didn’t know it was YOU.”

She crossed her arms over her chest and leveled her gaze. “Are you trying to claim you didn’t enjoy yourself at the time?”

I manifested another, smaller, blade and held it against her throat. “Do I look like I’m in the mood for your fucked up rationalizations?”

Tianshi stared coldly back at me breathing shallowly to safeguard her neck. And then she pulled back and affected her most trustworthy smile. “Fine. I can see you’re angry. Take your revenge on my poor, defenseless body.”

She then turned around and bent over the side of the bed, letting her clothes melt away so that she was completely naked and removing her more alien-esque features. She didn’t shapeshift into anyone else, though, remaining a six-foot-tall Chinese babe of about twenty years old with impossibly perfect breasts, shapely hips, and a drumtight ass that revealed a puckered pink sphincter and a sopping wet pussy when she reached back with both hands to spread herself.

“Punish me, Daddy. For I’ve been a very naughty girl,” she mewled in a high-pitched voice.

I jerked my head back in surprise to find that a riding crop had somehow materialized in my hand. And the impulse to use it to redden the bent-over babe’s behind was quite tempting indeed.

But not tempting enough.

“You still just want to test your theory,” I muttered, casting the riding crop aside. It started dematerializing the moment it left my hands, evaporating into nothingness before it hit the floor. “To see if by having sex with you I can unlock more of my water elemental powers.”

“Yes, I do,” she admitted plainly, waggling her undeniably incredible tushie and giving me a sly smirk over her shoulder. “Don’t you want to see if you can unlock more of your water elemental powers?”

“Of course I do,” I conceded with a sigh. “But not with you. Not with you.”

“You have no idea what you’re missing. Your reptilian 娼妇 could never compare.”

“Lady, you’re more snake than she’ll ever be.”

I grabbed my clothes and walked out the door.

****

“Dude, you fucking KNEW it was her the whole time!?!” I exclaimed, throwing my hands out across the clear-blue waters of the Lago di Bracciano.

For once, Dong wasn’t perched on my right shoulder. Instead he stood on a tree branch next to my head - or at least he appeared to be standing on a tree branch next to my head. The little blue gecko was intangible and not really part of this world, but if I stopped to think about that too hard, my head would start hurting even more than it already did.

The lake water really was quite clear. Rae told me it was a drinking water reservoir for nearby Rome and was therefore under strict control to avoid pollution. Motorized boats were forbidden and the surrounding towns all had centralized sewer systems, making the lake one of the cleanest in all of Italy. Sailing, canoeing, and swimming were all quite popular recreational activities, and doing all three sounded quite appealing.

But not right now. Right now I was MAD.

I was mad at DONG.

“The whole time!? The whole fucking time!? You KNEW it was Tianshi and not Hannah and yet you LET me fucking fuck her anyways!?!”

“She was hot! That whole skull-fucking scene was effing HOT! Of COURSE I let you fuck her, and what in the entire sum total of our history together would lead you to believe I wouldn’t let you fuck her?!” he shot back.

“Because you told me you’d have my back!”

“I DO have your back! I help you get laid!”

“I got laid just fine on my own well before YOU ever showed up. Only AFTER you showed up have I ever had to worry about shapeshifters tricking me into--”

“--into letting you hold their heads and make them choke on your big dick until you empty your balls straight down their throats? I’m failing to see the problem here.”

“You don’t understand.”

“You’re right. I don’t.” Dong looked at me as if I’d suddenly turned into a giant blue gecko or something. “You’re trying to argue modern-day western morality with an ancient Chinese spirit that doesn’t actually exist on your same plane of reality. At this point you’re just wasting your breath.”

“Oh. My. Fucking. GOD!” I screamed, perhaps a little too loudly, although there didn’t seem to be any people nearby. Our cozy little villa had been built in an isolated area several miles from the closest town. There weren’t any convenient beaches or boat docks nearby - meaning that we’d need to go visit one of those towns to do either sailing or canoeing, and the shoreline was dotted with volcanic rocks that discouraged swimming in this particular area as well. But the area was certainly private, and I’d gone for a walk far enough away from the villa to feel like nobody was eavesdropping.

“Nobody’s eavesdropping. I promise,” Dong stated helpfully.

“You sure? With a couple of huli jing fox spirits back there, one can never be too certain.”

“I’m sure. I can always tell when there’s a supernatural nearby, shapeshifted or not.”

“You mean the way you were able to tell Magdalena was about to bust in through the wall while I was holding Ziyi in my arms?”

“Magdalena didn’t bust through the wall; the Carabinieri did.”

“The Carabinieri busted through the wall FIRST. Then Magdalena shot out her glowing electric lasso and snatched Ziyi away from me LATER. Did your supernatural radar fail you THEN? A little warning would’ve been nice!”

“Yeahhh… Umm… My bad,” Dong muttered.

“‘My bad’? ‘MY BAD???’ Okay seriously, what exactly is your purpose here? Because apart from intimidating Angelika on the train with your whole voice-from-the-heavens bit (which was admittedly awesome), you have been singularly useless to me for this entire quest.”

“Hey, I’m trying here!”

“Trying to what? Get me laid as often as possible?”

“You say that like it’s a BAD thing.”

“It’s a bad thing when I don’t even know who the fuck I’m really fucking!”

“Are we back to THAT again?”

I thrust both hands towards Dong, wanting really, really badly to wring his little neck and snap off his head, not that it would do me any good. And in the end I simply flung my hands apart and paced away.

“Are you, or are you not, supposed to help me find Faguang Long?” I seethed.

“I am, and you will. It’s your destiny.”

“You say that like it’s a foregone conclusion that I’ll succeed, but at the same time you tell me this is the present, no longer the past.” I shook my head and folded my arms across my chest. “The present hasn’t already been written, and even you don’t know what the future holds.”

Dong shrugged. “I don’t know every step of the journey, but I do know the end destination: Faguang Long. You will find it. That part I know.”

“Did you know that I apparently need to fuck supernatural chicks in order to gain full access to my powers?”

“Well, no. Honestly, I thought Hannah was on the right track with her ‘I do believe in Aksel’ thing. But in hindsight, it makes a lot of sense. You’ve always gained physical strength and energy from having sex with human girls, but in order to gain supernatural strength and energy…”

“I’ll supposedly need to have sex with supernatural girls,” I finished for him before abruptly standing up straight. “But wait a minute. That doesn’t add up. The first time I made the floating ice platforms, the first time I made the spinning water ball, those were the night of the escape from the Imperial Palace. Ziyi and I hadn’t started having sex yet. I only had sex with Princess Puning and Juhua, both ‘normies’.”

“Not both normies.”

I blinked. “What?”

“Puning was an wood elemental.”

“She was a what?”

“Very raw and untrained. She kept her powers under wraps for the most part. Simple things like drawing chi from the many flowers in the gardens in order to enhance her own beauty. Vanity stuff like that. I told you I can tell whenever there’s a supernatural nearby.”

“Why didn’t you tell me?”

“For what reason? It didn’t seem relevant at the time that her hotness was flower-powered.”

“Well it’s pretty fucking relevant now!” I shook my head and stared out across the lake. “Wait, if Puning was a supernatural, does that mean that she wasn’t under the influence of my Ax Effect?”

“Nope. Just a super-effing horny teenage girl who was about to start some sexy time with her maid before dinner when the two of you knock on the door and give her the old taco blocko. And then she sees you at her dinner table lookin’ all roguish and handsome underneath that lanshan you were wearing and, ooh, it was enough to make her completely forget about the clitorference and think, ‘Opportunity! It’s time to find out what all the fuss is about.’”

“Holy shit.” I shook my head again, feeling a bit flabbergasted. “Okay in the future, give me a heads up if I’m about to stick my dick into supernatural. Like… if she’s secretly a viper in disguise who might try to kill me with her snake venom? Or… or… a fox spirit shapeshifter secretly pretending to my human girlfriend, huh?”

“Sure, bro. I got your back.”

I rolled my eyes and started rubbing my forehead. The magnitude of it all was starting to sink in, and I muttered somewhat glumly, “So Tianshi’s theory is correct? I won’t be able to unlock the full extent of my abilities by having sex with Hannah?”

“Unfortunately not. Don’t get me wrong: I really, really like Hannah. But it would appear that civilian pussy alone isn’t gonna do the trick.”

Turning to look back towards the villa, I sighed. “So I’ll need to have sex with supernaturals like… Uhhh…”

“Like Rae?” Dong offered with a bit of a smart-ass grin. “I mean, we’re trying to save the world here. Surely she could take one for the team.”

“Don’t even go there.”

“Then by process of elimination given the only three people nearby, we’re left with only one solution.”

“Tianshi,” I growled, feeling a bit of bile rise up my throat.

“C’mon bro. The fate of the world requires that you repeatedly pork an insanely gorgeous woman with the ability to shapeshift herself into the most perfect specimens of femininity you could possibly imagine.” Dong appeared on my shoulder once more and gave me a light fist bump against my cheek. “Could be worse.”

****

In the privacy of our separate bungalow, Hannah hugged her knees to her chest and leaned back into the corner of the sofa.

“But that’s… I mean…” she began with a deep-set frown on her face, digesting everything I had just told her. “That’s completely without your consent! She basically raped you!”

“Right?! Thank you! Finally, someone gets it!” I exclaimed, thrusting my hands forward.

“And you had NO idea it was her.”

“I didn’t,” I insisted.

“You thought it was me.”

“I did.”

The beautiful blonde gave me a sideways smirk and said, “And now I’m picturing you holding my head and fucking my face super-fast and super-hard.”

“Well… uhhh… That wasn’t my intent but I… uhhh…”

“And now you’re thinking of holding my head and fucking my face super-fast and super-hard.”

“Well obviously. But right now, I just want to make sure you’re not mad at me.”

“No, of course not,” Hannah assured me with obvious concern as she reached out to rub my leg. “Not mad at all. What could I possibly be mad about? It’s not like I’m expecting monogamy from you. Sex is literally your superpower, and from the moment I woke up on the train from Rome and realized we’d joined up with a wicked hot woman who looked like Angelika, I knew you’d be fucking her eventually.”

“I know, but still. I just… I dunno. The idea of thinking I was fucking you only to NOT be fucking you. It feels… Like…” I fumbled, searching for the right words. “It feels like the plotline for a porno. Like I’m your husband and you caught me fucking your twin sister or something.”

She mused on that and a mischievous grin spread across her face. “Well now I’m picturing me pushing my face into my twin sister’s pussy and… well…” Hannah’s voice trailed off as she bit her lower lip and squirmed in obvious arousal.

The Ax Effect was going to work again, amplifying Hannah’s carnal attraction to me. Despite everything else going on, I could see the hunger in her eyes, a hunger that wouldn’t be quenched until she got my fat dick stuffed into one of her available orifices. And when she started whimpering and panting softly like a bitch in heat, I took a deep breath and then unbuttoned my pants.

Squealing with delight, the dirty-blonde babe quickly took over by unzipping the zipper and then reaching in to extract my erection. As soon as my prominent prick popped up, she dropped her mouth over it and then moaned with relief like a baby finally getting her binkie. And I soothingly stroked her hair while she bobbed her head up and down my big dick.

“But that’s not all,” I told her gently, trying to organize the rest of my thoughts. I’d told Hannah everything about Tianshi tricking me into having sex with her, but I hadn’t explained the ‘why’ just yet. “There’s more you need to know.”

“Grab my head,” Hannah mumbled around a mouthful of meat.

“What?”

“Grab my head and yank it up and down,” she muttered before sealing her lips around my shaft and pushing herself down so that my prickhead briefly penetrated her throat. But she choked just a bit before popping off completely, sitting up a bit and grinning at me like an idiot. And after she gasped for air, she smiled and said, “I wanna know what it feels like for you to skull-fuck me the way you skull-fucked her.”

“Hannah, I’m trying to say--”

“Just a bit. Pleeeease?” she whined. And then without waiting for my response, she ducked her head back down and tried to deep-throat me again.

I sighed and slid the fingers of both hands through her hair. When she started pushing the first couple of inches into her throat but got hung up a bit, I went ahead and pushed her head down, forcing a few more inches in. She gagged again, so I relaxed and pulled her head up. But she only took a moment to catch her breath before slamming her face straight back down and trying once more.

“Nnnggghhh…” I grunted, feeling exquisite pleasure from the pressure around my shaft despite my concerns for her well-being.

Hannah retched just a bit but kept her head down, coughing around my cock but not removing her face from my dick. Her eyes started watering and she finally had to pull her head up a few seconds later. But she merely grinned at me while jerking my shaft in her hands before ducking back down and impaling herself again.

And again.

I realized Hannah wasn’t going to give up on her quest to get the skull-fucking Tianshi had already received. The idea was stuck in her head now and wouldn’t go away until she’d satisfied her curiosity. So with that in mind, I resolved to get it over with as soon as possible. And to that end I went ahead and bunched up Hannah’s hair in my hands, gripping her noggin tightly to guide her up and down motions at a rapid pace.

[Glug, glug, glug, glug, glug]

“Nngh-nngh-nngh-nngh-nngh.”

[Glug, glug, glug, glug, glug]

“Nngh-nngh-nngh-nngh-nngh.”

It didn’t take long. I did nothing to hold my orgasm at bay, letting the pleasure shoot straight up into my brain so as to cum as quickly as possible without making Hannah endure any more than she had to. I had no doubt that she was enjoying herself - my pleasure-inducing prick making sure of that - but I couldn’t shake the knowledge that Hannah was… well… only human. And there was no way her narrow throat wouldn’t be damaged after being so roughly ravaged by my ridiculously thick prick.

[Glug, glug, glug, glug, glug]

“Nngh-nngh-nngh-nngh-nngh!”

[Glug, glug, glug, glug, glug]

“Nngh-nngh-nngh-nngh-nngh!”

Feeling a strange sense of déjà vu, I hammered Hannah’s head up and down my dick at a rapid pace, really skull-fucking her hard and skull-fucking her fast. She moaned and groaned while I used her face for a masturbatory tool. And I could tell she also had one hand in her own crotch, rubbing herself furiously at the same time.

[GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG!]

“NNGH-NNGH-NNGH-NNGH-NNGH!”

[GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG!]

“FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!” I grunted, rapidly reaching my limit.

[GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG-GLUG!]

She retched slightly but held on for dear life, gripping my ass with her fingernails digging into my skin, gamely trying to swallow every last drop.

“FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!” I howled, making three last short, stabbing thrusts in sync with the way I hammered Hannah’s head against my crotch. And then I held myself all the way in at full depth, feeling simultaneously elated at the euphoric ecstasy of ejaculation and extremely bad for how much I must be hurting her.

Relax, bro. Your sperm has healing properties, remember? Give her five minutes and she’ll be ready to belt out “The Star-Spangled Banner” on opening day at Wrigley Field.

‘Oh! Okay… That actually makes me feel better.’

It did make me feel better, and I relaxed while letting the rest of my healing liquid flow into Hannah…

… while I felt a rush of sex-energy flow into me.

It’s funny the way one notices things when they know to pay attention to them and yet doesn’t notice those same things when not specifically focused on them. Take breathing, for example. Who pays attention to their breathing throughout the day while going about their daily lives? But if one stops to think about their breathing, they can feel every inhalation, feel the flow of oxygen into their lungs, and then feel every exhalation leaving their body.

I had no idea I could feel Tianshi ruffling through my mind until I knew she was a mind-reader and consciously paid attention to the sensations of her doing so.

For years, I had no idea I could feel sex-energy flowing into me while getting jiggy with a hot babe until I realized I could and consciously paid attention to the sensations.

And now that I thought about it, I realized that the flow of sex-energy while cumming down Hannah’s throat felt… well… a little different from the flow of sex-energy I’d gotten while cumming down Tianshi’s throat.

And I couldn’t shake a single thought: It was better when I was with Tianshi.

As a kid, I’d loved eating McDonald’s Big Macs. They used to have regular promotions, selling two Big Macs for five bucks, and I’d happily scarf down two of them. Big Macs were the greatest thing ever back then, and even now, I still enjoyed the occasional Big Mac or two for the nostalgic pleasure they gave me.

But that didn’t mean I’d ever confuse a Big Mac for a three-hundred-dollar Wagyu steak. It didn’t mean I’d even confuse a Big Mac with a hundred-dollar Wagyu burger. They just weren’t even close to the same.

Having swallowed every last drop, Hannah finally sat up and then reclined against the sofa’s backrest, looking very much satisfied with herself. She looked none the worse for wear despite my rough treatment of her, testament to the healing properties of my sperm. And she grinned quite merrily, asking, “Did you enjoy that?”

“Loved it,” I told her with a warm smile, reaching up to caress her cheek. “You were incredible. I’ve never seen you be able to handle my entire dick like that.”

“You inspire me,” she replied with excitement, eagerness, and… well…

… love.

She looked at me with love.

And yet I couldn’t help but wonder to myself: How much of that was The Ax Effect? And how much of that was genuinely her?

With Ziyi I had never needed to worry about that question. She was a supernatural and therefore immune to my effect. Maybe that was one reason why I loved her back: because I knew for sure that she loved me for me.

Was I not meant to be with a human? Was I not meant to be with a… a ‘normy’? If my water elemental powers could only be truly realized with the sex-energy of supernaturals, was I meant to be with one of them?

Or could Hannah’s love for me be enough?

I raised my right fist into the air, focusing on the act of summoning an ice blade. I stared at Hannah smiling right in front of me, pure love on her face. I thought about her little mantra on the boat in Venice, chanting, ‘I do believe in Aksel. I do. I do.’

And I felt an ice blade starting to shimmer above my knuckles.

Faintly.

Dimly.

With great difficulty.

Nothing like when I’d instantly summoned an ice blade katar earlier.

And I still couldn’t shake that single thought:

It was better when I was with Tianshi.

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Chapter 26 will post on June 28. For anyone who can't wait, Beta Tier will be maintaining a 7-chapter lead from that date on until the story is complete.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Prologue & Chapter 1: The Ax Effect: https://www.patreon.com/posts/99894240

Chapter 2: Santa Monica: https://www.patreon.com/posts/100614606

Chapter 3: The Zellij Fountain: https://www.patreon.com/posts/100887440

Chapter 4: Euhemerism: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101140816

Chapter 5: The Fremont Troll: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101373122

Chapter 6: Jade: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101713211

Chapter 7: The Blue Gecko: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101962728

Chapter 8: Yaoguai: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102225122

Chapter 9: Rome: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102437581

Chapter 10: Seeing Sights: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102690886

Chapter 11: Liu Kang: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102919633