The Blue Dragon: Chapter 6

-- CHAPTER 6: Jade --

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“它好大！它好大！”

She told us to call her “Jade”, which neither Rae nor I believed for a second was her real name - not that we were about to pressure her about it. I’d met lots of girls over the years who would give me one name when we first met and then only tell me their real name the next morning, if ever. It made logical sense - a girl could never be too careful - and I didn’t judge.

“它是那么好！你太棒了！”

Jade had walked with a dancer’s grace as she accepted my invitation to come join us, that long jet-black bubble braid swaying side to side as she moved. I realized she was taller than I’d expected, perhaps matching my height with her heels on. She had a fashion model’s build: lithe and linear save for the proportionally oversized breasts Rae and I had both noticed beneath her tight-fitting high-collar dress. Her face was unquestionably beautiful and also unquestionably Asian, with narrow eyes slanted upwards at sharp angles, a non-existent brow ridge, and well-defined cheekbones.

“我太爱了！继续前进！”

Taking a seat next to me at the bar, she’d spoken thickly accented English with an unexpectedly smoky voice. Her demeanor was cool, measured. She moved purposefully but sedately, never in a hurry. She didn’t speak very much, happy to defer and listen for the most part. And whenever she DID speak, it was clear that she chose her words very carefully.

“太多了！我受不了了！”

Well, in conversation she had chosen her words carefully. Now that I’d gotten her up into the Presidential Suite and I was banging her into the backrest of the sofa, she babbled and moaned just like any other girl on the edge of having an incredible orgasm, albeit in Chinese that was incomprehensible to me.

“一些难以理解的东西！ 一些难以理解的东西！ Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! AAAHHH!!!”

Whatever she was saying, it was music to my ears.

“AH! AH! AH! AAAAAHHHHH!!!”

Jade gasped as she arched her back, thrusting her big bare breasts up against my chest and clamping her legs even tighter around my lower back. I could feel her inner muscles clenching and convulsing around my cock, the force of her orgasmic spasms milking me for all my creamy cum.

But I didn’t want to blow just yet. It wasn’t that I feared being unable to get it back up again - my track record of multiple orgasms was inhumanly outstanding - but rather that I didn’t want to come off as a two-minute man. So I stopped thrusting and waited out the storm, riding Jade’s undulating waves until her pleasure peak passed and she settled back down.

“Nngh! Nngh! NNGH!” Rae grunted through gritted teeth from right behind me, the sounds almost familiar as if I’d heard them before. Come to think of it, I probably HAD heard them before. Rae told me she could make herself invisible, but she hadn’t said anything about making herself inaudible. So it was quite possible that I had heard her masturbatory moans sometime over the past week when she’d been an unseen voyeur in my room.

Tonight, Rae was a seen voyeur, but still just a voyeur. Although Jade had obviously known I was dining with a companion, she’d made clear from the beginning that she didn’t swing both ways. My Ax Effect could boost her raw, carnal attraction to me, but it couldn’t turn a straight girl gay. And the blue-haired beauty ended up as something of an unnecessary third wheel, standing off to the side on her own while Jade and I started up a wicked-hot first makeout session in the elevator heading up to the 10th floor.

No matter, Rae seemed perfectly happy to observe, and Jade didn’t seem to mind having an audience so long as she got what she wanted from me. In fact, I thought I sensed a bit of smug superiority in Jade’s haughty expression after we entered to the Presidential Suite and the significantly taller, significantly bustier babe started showing off her considerable assets to both me and my petite companion.

For example, Jade had made a point of arching her back and thrusting her gorgeous pair of marvelous melons in Rae’s direction as soon as I had unzipped her dress from behind her neck and then pushed the skintight fabric down to her navel. She pulled her lips off mine, turned her back to me so that she could face Rae, and then pulled my hands off her hips so she could clamp my meaty paws onto her big bosoms, helping me heft them as if to silently say, I’m showing him what a real pair of tits feels like.

If only Jade knew that she was merely letting Rae live vicariously through me.

In any case, I was more than happy to receive the results of Jade’s apparent need to show off. She squatted in place, yanked my pants down, and cooed in deep contentment at the monster she’d revealed. She held my shaft at the base, using three fingers to make my meat slap her in the face a few times, and turned to stare at the blue-haired girl seated on one of the living room armchairs while taking her first licks along my rod.

Jade’s mouth was proportionally wide, all the better to fit my big dick inside when she’d first wrapped her lips around it. That initial blowjob turned out to be quite the amazing experience. She wore green-tinted contacts that highlighted her chosen name, and rather than continue to stare down the perceived competition, she kept her gaze fixed on my face with an expression that silently articulated how much she absolutely LOVED having my dick in her mouth.

And the powerful suction she generated had been absolutely insane.

In fact, even her pussy was able to generate incredible suction. After I’d made quick work of the rest of her dress and then likewise stripped myself bare, from the moment I’d first notched my bulbous purple head at her entrance, it was as if her labia were able to open up of their own accord and drag me inside. The force of my forward thrust helped, of course - I was just as eager to skewer myself inside of her as she was to get skewered - but even after our bodies were fully enjoined, it almost felt like her pussy didn’t want to let me go.

Jade had taken my thick girth with a grunt, her shoulders pressed against the sofa’s backrest and her body curled up beneath mine with her ankles crossed behind my ass. I noticed when she snuck a quick peek off to the side, no doubt to smirk victoriously at Rae. And I couldn’t help but glance back over my shoulder to peek at Rae as well.

Like I said: Rae seemed perfectly happy to observe. The blue-haired pixie had curled up in the armchair, still fully dressed but with her knees turned to the side and hand out of view beneath her hem and between her thighs. Her dark eyes seemed to sizzle with electricity, her mouth gaped open in a soft pant, and she was quite obviously enjoying the show.

So we gave her a show.

Jade’s first orgasm curled up against the sofa’s backrest was only the beginning. After I waited out the storm, riding Jade’s undulating waves until her pleasure peak passed and she settled back down, I unhooked my newest lover’s ankles from behind my back, pulled out, and then seized her hips to reposition us.

She was quick to catch on and rolled over onto her knees, bending forward at the waist to brace her forearms atop the backrest and thrust her shapely butt back at me. Rather than re-enter her immediately though, I laid my long, banana-bent prick into the valley of her butt-cleavage, mashing her jiggly globes around my meat and hot-dogging her buns for a bit.

After a minute though, I retracted my throbbing tool just far enough for my prickhead to momentarily probe against her starfish anus. I wasn’t trying to fuck her ass right now - not yet - but I was definitely testing the waters so to speak. I was no stranger to anal sex, but girls willing and able to accept my humungous honker up their Hershey highways were few and far-between. And while my Ax Effect had always been good for getting a girl into an amorous mood, when it came to convincing a girl to let me shove my baseball bat up her butt, let’s just say I had exactly the same success rate as turning a girl gay.

Promisingly enough, when she felt the momentary pressure, Jade merely turned to look back at me over her shoulder with an inquisitive expression. She didn’t shy away from the probe, but nor did she push back to try to impale her ass on me. And when I decided to accept that reaction as a positive sign but still move down to start pushing my prick into her pussy from behind, she was more than happy to let her labia open up and drag me right back inside.

“Ohhh, Akserrr…” Jade groaned as she felt my thickness stretching her out once more. Like most native Chinese-speakers, she had difficulty differentiating her enunciation of ‘r’ and ‘l’, so she pronounced my name with a bit of a rolled purr that was intoxicating to hear. “Akserrr… Akserrr… Akserrr…”

“Jade… Jade… Jade…” I groaned in kind, at first staring down at her naked body bent over before me with my big dick bisecting her buttcheeks. But then I closed my eyes while leaning forward to reach around and palm her swaying breasts, hugging my chest against her back and using my abs to crunch my body and drill my pelvis against her derrière with short, staccato thrusts.

“Nngh… nngh… nngh…” Rae moaned, not exactly trying to keep quiet but perhaps simply accustomed to keeping her vocal sounds restrained.

I took a moment to stare over at my quirky companion, appreciating the beauty of her pleasure-stricken face. Even though we had been partners in this unexpected mythological quest and I was starting to get used to her constant presence in my life, I still barely knew her. Perhaps she’d been watching me for over a week now, but it had been little more than forty-eight hours for me. She’d volunteered very little of her personal life - save for the fact that her father was six feet tall - and I’d be hard-pressed to say I considered her a friend.

The rational part of me still wanted to distrust her. Yes, she’d saved my life, but we both understood that I was her only means to an end, and therefore she had no choice but to keep me around. And I still couldn’t be sure she wouldn’t dump me over the side of the road as soon as she accomplished her goals.

But my gut instinct told me she was one of the good guys, and not just because she’d claimed to be so while telling me that the Cao Wei were the bad guys. She was determined, yes, and fierce. If push came to shove, I believed she really might sacrifice me for the greater good. But I also believe she’d be quite conflicted about it and would do everything in her power to save me before it came to that.

There was something about the expression on Rae’s face at a time like this. She looked so unguarded, so lost in the moment of voyeuristically watching me fucking the hell out of a bent-over babe. Rae certainly wasn’t thinking about the greater good at a time like this; she was merely enjoying the precious moment as if it might be the last time in her entire life she’d have the opportunity to experience this special kind of joy.

It made me wish my Ax Effect really could turn a straight girl gay, if for no other reason than to allow Jade to give Rae the kind of direct stimulation she clearly didn’t want from me.

Come to think of it, I didn’t feel any inclination at all to give Rae that kind of direct stimulation myself. I thought she was beautiful, to be certain, and even sexy, especially the way she was biting her lip and moaning beneath her breath. But I didn’t feel any sexual attraction to her, which was… well… kinda weird.

I couldn’t think of the last time I’d seen a pretty girl and NOT felt attracted to her. And yet there was no mistaking the fact that even as I watched Rae’s hand disappear between her thighs, I felt no desire to send my fingers or tongue or even my dick questing to find out how her personal portal to heaven might feel.

Like I said: weird.

Not that I had to worry much about my desire or lack thereof for Rae. I had an incredible pussy wrapped around my rod right at that very moment, after all.

Allow me to wax poetic for a moment about what may have been the most perfect pussy I’d ever felt in my entire life, and that wasn’t an exaggeration, especially considering how many different pussies I’d experienced ever since Cindy Lou let me into her hoo-ha back in high school.

If I had to pick a word from the dictionary to best describe what it felt like to be inside Jade’s pussy, I’d have to pick “glossy”. It was indescribably smooth and supple, moist without being viscous, and almost perfectly warm, like slipping into a hot tub after a long day hitting the ski slopes. Even though there was obviously no light inside of her, it still felt like every surface of Jade’s vagina gleamed with lustrously luxurious texture and plush comfort, like high-end leather car seats or something.

I know I’m not making any sense, but to be honest, most of my blood flow had been redirected away from my brain. Instead of blood, euphoric sensations of delirium were being pumped into my mind with every pump of my prick. And I started to feel rather dizzy.

Jade’s perfect pussy had been sending lightning bolts of pleasure throughout my entire body, stem to stern, and only my prideful desire to not come off as a two-minute man kept me from losing my load when she’d gone into convulsions with her first orgasm. But while I’d managed to regain some semblance of my sanity while waiting out the storm, as we started back up again, those euphoric sensations started pumping back into my brain.

“Ohhh hhoollyy sshhiitt…” I groaned as I stood up straight and let my head loll back, arching my spine to keep thrusting my big dick into her from behind in rhythm with the pace of my meaty paws pulling back on her shapely hips to meet me. A moment later, I grabbed onto Jade’s long bubble braid of jet-black hair, using her lengthy locks like reins.

“Yesss… Yesss… Yesss…” Jade hissed hypnotically, bracing only her right forearm against the backrest and twisting her torso to look back at me.

She was exceptionally flexible and managed to reach back with her left arm and hook it beneath my right armpit, thus adding her own strength to increase the force of our athletic coupling. And thus we lustily pounded away at each other, harder and harder and HARDER.

Jade’s eyelids fluttered rapidly, so fast that her exceptionally long eyelashes could have blown away a floating dandelion as she cooed and hummed her happiness the harder we fucked. I grunted from the exertion but didn’t abate at all on the pace. And she went back to moaning unintelligible Chinese phrases once more.

“难以理解的中文短语！ 难以理解的中文短语！难以理解的中文短语！”

And then Rae joined in, calling, “继续前进！继续前进！”

“我们正在继续！我们正在继续！” Jade called back, her green eyes flashing as she stared back at Rae.

I had no idea what they were saying of course, but the sound of Rae’s voice joining the party only added stimulation to my senses. I glanced back at Rae with a brief grin, happy to see her smiling. And when she started laughing, her enthusiasm was infectious, and I couldn’t help but start laughing too.

Jade must have been a contortionist or something because without dislodging my drilling dick, she managed to raise her left leg up and over my left shoulder while simultaneously sliding her right knee off the sofa cushion and plant her right foot on the floor. She’d never taken off her strappy high heels, leaving them on as the only articles of clothing she wore. Our heights were similar enough that I didn’t even have to squat to keep ramming my rod right up into her tremendously tight twat. And as she flexed her leg to hook her heel around the back of my neck, pulling me forward just a bit, I let go of her braid and instead wrapped both arms around her midsection so I could really lay down the lumber.

“UNGH! UNGH! UNGH!” I grunted, plowing my prick into Jade’s perfect pussy with powerful plunges.

“AHH! AHH! AHH!” she gasped, using both her left arm and her left leg to clutch my body while held up in her gymnastic single-leg stance.

“YES! YES! YES!” Rae enthused, audibly excited by the wild-and-crazy sex act right before her eyes.

And I could feel myself about to lose my load.

“UUUNNNGGGHHH… UUUNNNGGGHHH… UUUNNNGGGHHH…”

“AAAHHH… AAAHHH… AAAHHH…”

“YESSS… YESSS… YESSS…”

The longer we kept fucking, the more those lightning bolts of pleasure shot throughout my entire body, the more those euphoric sensations flooded my brain. I started feeling extremely light-headed, dizzy even, to the point where I was losing all conscious thought and instead almost mindlessly fucking the exquisite sex doll still in my arms.

Still, the pleasure built.

“UUUNNNGGGHHH… UUUNNNGGGHHH… UUUNNNGGGHHH…”

The tall, willowy young beauty bent into an awkward pretzel shape stared straight back at me, reading the tension in my eyes the closer and closer I got to cumming. The green color of her contacts seemed to glow with their own inner fire as she grinned hungrily at me, smiling bigger than ever before. And then she started… chuckling.

As in… “chuckling”.

It was an unexpected sound. Not necessarily unpleasant, but unexpected. With a hint of…

… malevolence.

Still, the pleasure built.

“UUUNNNGGGHHH… UUUNNNGGGHHH… UUUNNNGGGHHH…”

I was getting super-dizzy, to the point where I started to lose my balance. My grip around Jade’s midsection started to slacken, but she held fast to me with both her left arm and her left leg. My hip-thrusting started to get erratic, but she took over the action by pumping herself back at me with metronomic precision.

Still, the pleasure built.

“Wait… Aksel? Are you alright?” Rae questioned out of the blue. Her laughing had stopped. “You look a little… Hey, hey, wait!”

“UNGH! UNGH! UNGH!”

Jade hissed, and I mean she hissed. Her eyes were fixed on mine, and I found I couldn’t look away from them even if I’d wanted to. Her green irises seemed like they were swirling, drawing my gaze to them as if they were magnetic. I thought I noticed that her canine teeth were growing longer and longer, but I couldn’t pull my focus away from her irises.

And then she bit me.

No seriously: Jade twisted back and buried her fangs into my shoulder.

The pleasure peaked.

And I came.

“UUUUNNNNGGGGHHHH!!!” I grunted as the floodgates opened. “UUUUNNNNGGGGHHHH!!! UUUUNNNNGGGGHHHH!!! UUUUNNNNGGGGHHHH!!!”

Over and over again, I blasted wave after wave of scalding-hot sperm straight into the back of the viper’s womb. And that’s what she was: a viper.

Jade’s irises stopped swirling, her pupils instead snapping down into tight vertical diamonds. Her bubble braid had disappeared, melting into vibrant green snakeskin with alternating ragged light and dark stripes, a pattern identical to the Mangshan pit viper that had bitten me in Santa Monica. She didn’t transform completely into a snake, but rather a strangely still-sexy hybrid of snake and naked girl with a long snakeskin hood instead of hair. Her face remained human, as did most of her hourglass torso with prominent naked breasts and both arms. But both of her legs had vanished into a single sturdy snake tail. And as soon as I stopped cumming, she pulled her pussy free of my prick, yanked her fangs out of my shoulder, and dove out of the way right before a glowing… something… exploded against the sofa right where her face had previously been.

“离他远点！” Rae exclaimed from a standing position right in front of the armchair. Her right hand was still extended, apparently after throwing something. As I continued to watch, her left hand cocked and ready behind her left ear started glowing with golden energy, until she likewise threw the hand forward and a sizzling ball of electricity surged forth, barely missing the half-snake Jade that had jumped over the back of the sofa and slithered towards the front door.

I tried to turn to watch Jade’s escape attempt.

I tried and failed.

My massive ejaculation had filled my delirious mind with unimaginable levels of agony and ecstasy. But the ecstasy was now gone while the agony merely spread throughout my entire body. A wave of vertigo washed over me when I tried to turn, and I lost my balance, falling to the floor. I caught a glimpse of Rae leaping over my body to give chase, but nothing more. I hit the cold marble with a meaty thud and remained there, feeling nothing but pain.

Intense, piercing pain.

Pain.

Pain.

PAIN.

So much pain.

Both girls had started shouting in Chinese, exclaiming insults that intermingled with the sounds of electric bursts and physical impacts. I knew that they were fighting, but I couldn’t see any of it. My arms and legs weren’t reacting to my mental instructions to get up. And an icy coolness started slowly radiating inward from my fingertips and toes as my central nervous system lost contact with my extremities.

I didn’t know what was worse: the overwhelming pain or the frozen cold of insensitivity that made me fear I’d be paralyzed for the rest of my life. Then again, at this rate, the rest of my life might possibly be measured in mere minutes. On the bright side, I would be dying after one of the greatest orgasms of my entire life.

Then again, I’d still end up dead.

Although my arms and legs were no longer working, my vision and hearing were still functional, and I could still move my head. I managed to look down at my shoulder with the two puncture wounds, and I groaned at the familiar sight of sickly green and purple colors spreading out like spiderwebs from the wounds.

So much pain.

I was gonna die.

But hey, at least I didn’t feel all gassy. The only thing that would make this situation worse would be if I shit my pants right before expiring, and whoever showed up to collect my body would have to deal with my shit-desecrated corpse.

Oh, fuck. I spoke too soon.

My stomach heaved, and the gas started to build up inside me.

And all I could think of was, Please die faster. Please die faster. Please die faster.

But of course, Rae wasn’t about to let me die.

Again.

Not that I’d be dying again. More that Rae was saving my life again. I had no idea where she’d stashed the syringe, given her lack of luggage. Did her shapeshifting abilities allow her to create a pocket dimension of hammerspace where necessary objects could be retrieved at will? More likely, she’d simply been able to fit the syringe into her purse, even if she didn’t lug around a suitcase. Or even more likely, she’d simply bought the antivenom in Seattle’s Chinatown during one of her errands while I’d been in my room, surfing the web on my now-destroyed laptop.

Well, wherever she got it from, Rae had been prepared for the Mangshan pit viper to come after me again. It made sense, given that it wasn’t a mere snake but some kind of demon. What was it that Rae had called her? A ‘yogurt’? Nah, couldn’t be right.

Bottom line: a very large syringe was sticking out of my chest, right over my heart, and cooling ice was already spreading outward from my chest, quenching the needle-like anguish even as fresh needle pinpricks of sensation started to tingle in my extremities as my central nervous system started reestablishing contact.

“You okay?” Rae asked with genuine concern on her face, kneeling to my left with the longer tips of her blue-dyed bangs hanging down over my face.

I managed a wheeze and a nod.

And then Jade tackled Rae off of me.

The Four Seasons Presidential Suite wasn’t designed to accommodate an epic showdown between two supernatural beings of Chinese mythology. The coffee table’s glass top shattered when Rae lifted Jade over her head as if the other girl weighed next to nothing and then powerbombed her right on top of it, and I suddenly understood how Rae had been able to bang down my apartment door in Santa Monica. The pendulum floor lamp had been knocked over long ago, the lampshade torn and the bulb within shattered. And the big-screen TV screen had a spiderweb-shaped series of cracks from some extremely hard impact.

I rather hoped both girls stayed away from the floor-to-ceiling windows. It was a loooong way down should one of those break.

At least I didn’t have to worry about getting shot. Neither girl used anything so crude as a gun. Instead, Rae fought close-combat with her feet and her fists, moving in a blur of what looked like Kung Fu moves to my untrained eye. At range, Rae somehow generated small balls of electric energy with her hands, throwing them like fastballs that exploded on impact and yet neither burned nor otherwise damaged any of the furniture. But whenever they hit Jade, the hissing snake-girl certainly hissed louder and reacted as if in pain.

Jade likewise fought with her hands - hands with very sharp-clawed fingers - but not her feet. She didn’t have any feet at the moment, instead slithering around the floor, coiling her tail, and then leaping up with heart-stopping speed and power. And whenever she used that tail to slap Rae, it always had enough power to send the petite blue-haired girl flying across the room.

Jade also fought with her teeth, ever questing to bury her fangs into her opponent’s flesh. But Rae’s fox-spirit reflexes were perpetually too quick, and she could never quite land a bite.

For the moment, I was completely ignored. Perhaps with the anti-venom still running through my veins, it would be fruitless for Jade to try biting me again. I did actually try to restrain her once when she got within reach, grabbing her midsection from behind and holding her in place long enough for Rae to punch her in the face. But then Jade elbowed me in the face, causing me to lose my grip, and she promptly slithered away.

It occurred to me that Jade could have escaped anytime she wanted. Rae wasn’t trying to block her from the front door at all. Instead, it took me a moment to realize that Jade was actually hunting Rae, although for what reason I wasn’t entirely sure. More often it was the blue-haired girl wheeling and retreating, and once I recalled that she’d shown me the ability to produce a magic sword from her hand, I wondered why she wasn’t doing so right now to defend herself. But the more Rae ducked and dodged and darted into the bedroom, out of the bedroom, and even off the walls and into the air like some kind of video game ninja (or Super Mario), the more I realized Rae was trying to protect something.

Something in her left hand.

And then I noticed the blue glow leaking out from between her fingers.

Rae was holding the blue crystal key.

I’d never been entirely certain where Rae kept that thing, or where she kept the bamboo scroll map, for that matter. The hammerspace theory was starting to gain traction in my mind, but for the moment it didn’t really matter. I knew with absolute certainty that both the blue crystal key and the bamboo scroll map were incredibly important relics that needed to be protected at all costs, or our quest for the Faguang Long would all be for nought. And with that in mind, I knew I couldn’t remain on the sidelines anymore.

I’d stood aside for the past couple of minutes since Jade had elbowed me in the face. Thus designated as a noncombatant and no danger to her, Jade completely ignored me to the point that she turned her back to me from only a few feet away while she and Rae squared off, both of Rae’s hands glowing and ready to throw fresh electric balls while Jade hissed some kind of insult in Chinese.

So I grabbed Jade again from behind. Totally by accident, I swear, this time I ended up grabbing both of her breasts.

And she promptly changed back into a human form.

A naked human form, which worked out great because I was still completely naked too, and I started getting stiff again feeling my naked prick rubbing against the soft skin of Jade’s shapely butt.

But then Jade gasped and elbowed me in the face again, after which I lost my grip and she promptly transformed back into a half-snake hybrid, coiling her tail and leaping away.

Scratch that: leaping forward, hand extended in some kind of karate chop. This time, Jade made contact with her intended target: Rae’s left wrist.

Rae’s fingers flung open.

The blue crystal key fell out of her hand, tumbling across the marble floor and into the foyer.

Jade’s momentum carried her straight into Rae’s body, fangs extended, but Rae instinctively chopped up with her right forearm beneath Jade’s jaw, snapping the demon-girl’s mouth shut with an audible click. They both fell over, all tangled together, but I didn’t stick around to watch them continue to fight. Instead I dove across the floor, sliding face-first towards the blue crystal key.

Big mistake.

I was still naked, remember?

I do not recommend sliding face-first and belly-down across a marble floor with your junk hanging out. No need to try it at home. Just take my word for it.

Regardless, I actually made it to the key. Snatching it up in my fingers, I felt the cool glassy surface and sharp edges against my skin. And once I knew I had it secured, I immediately twisted around, prepared to defend myself since I was absolutely sure that Jade would now be coming for me next.

But then suddenly that cool glassy surface and sharp edges were gone. My heart leaped into my throat and panic seized me as suddenly as when Merethe would open my bedroom door while I was masturbating to internet porn. Worse even, if you can believe it.

Because the blue crystal key was gone. I’d lost it.

Or had I?

I turned to look while opening my empty hand, furrowing my brow in confusion at the sight of a strange blue mist emanating from where the crystal used to be. The blue mist formed a small cloud a few inches above my palm for a moment, and the room suddenly fell silent.

Jade and Rae had been tussling only seconds before, screaming and punching and throwing things. But they completely stopped, and when I looked over at them, both girls stood just two feet away from each other, their conflict completely ignored while they both stared slack-jawed at me.

Then the cloud of blue mist zoomed away from my palm, and I belatedly tried to reach out and grab it, to no avail. The blue mist swirled around the room at hyperspeed, causing all three of us to jerk our heads around trying to keep up with it, and Jade even tried to snatch it out of the air as well, without success.

Finally, the cloud came to a halt just above my right shoulder, both arriving and then stopping so suddenly that I flinched in surprise. And then the cloud evaporated into nothingness, leaving behind something I never would have expected.

“Two thousand years will give you such a crick in the neck!” a small voice exclaimed.

A small voice belonging to a tiny blue gecko.

A tiny, talking blue gecko, standing upright on my shoulder and smiling as if it were the GEICO gecko.

Only… blue.

“Wassup, homeboy,” it greeted me, holding up a fist. “How’s it hangin’?”

Jade promptly fainted.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prologue & Chapter 1: The Ax Effect: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102225387

Chapter 2: Santa Monica: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102437478

Chapter 3: The Zellij Fountain: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102691018

Chapter 4: Euhemerism: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102919819

Chapter 5: The Fremont Troll: https://www.patreon.com/posts/103191700