Greed God chapter 239

April 16th 2016 New Jersey, Rosewood, 12:00 AM EDT

The  cocky smirk on Hobbes face lasted for about fifteen seconds into the  fight. Fifteen seconds until the point where a massive spire of Amethyst  shot out of the ground in three parts, wrapping around his hands and  neck to create a crystalline stockade. As that happened, Barbie flicked  out a hand and a barrage of starlight flash bombed the area. By the time  our vision cleared my sister had vanished from next to Hobbes and  appeared on the far side of the clearing behind Barbie.

Trust  my redheaded heroine to prioritize the hostage, I didn't mind. With  that done I was free to let loose. I opened my jaws and spewed forth a  fucking torrent of shimmering white light so blinding it hurt to look  at, and I wasn't the only one acting. A pair of green flame bursts  arched forth from two other points, heading for the still restrained  Hobbes.

Sadly,  he wasn't going to be stupid enough to tank the blasts head one. The  bastard howled with rage, tearing forth from the confinement my wife had  trapped him in and leaping straight up over the flames. Floating in the  air above us his eyes whipped to Amy. "Amethyst WHORE!" He bellowed.  His voice was still high pitched, but it was wavering in a strange  echoing buzz that hadn't been there before. I winced and used my  appraisal on him.

[Appraisal  function activated. Treasure detected. Hobbes- B rank possessed human.  The current vessel of Kaala, the entity also known as Eclipso, Hobbes is  currently temporarily out of control of his body. Due to the presence  of Amethyst blood, Kaala has forcibly assumed control. Due to the  necessity of fighting his host and revealing his intentions too early,  Kaala is greatly weakened, barely reaching B rank strength.]

Damn,  that was actually really lucky. My earlier appraisal when we arrived  had been much totally different. Knowing he was nerfed for a bit was a  good thing. Sadly, knowing he wanted to face murder my wifey was a hard  no for me, which meant while he was technically less dangerous as a  whole, his priorities made him much more of a threat to my interests.

Fortunately  for me, that asshole was in the air now, and clear of my sister, so I  was free to cut loose. I hurled myself up at him, shifting to my full  dragon form midair and letting loose my strongest breath of Primordial  Spark. A massive wave of blinding white light barreled toward him, and  he snarled, gesturing with his hands as a purple-black shell the shape  of the Heart of Darkness condensed around him like a shield.

A  shield that started to crack as my breath made contact. Dark magic,  weak against pure light energy. The dumb asshole. With a roar he  teleported, abandoning the shield as it dissolved into motes of purple  light. I had already locked on again, and rushed him a second time,  coating my entire body in Primordial Spark like a cloak, channeling it  through the designs on my scales, which apparently were made for that.

There  was a boom, and a torrent of dark energy condensed around him, making a  massive pale white figure with razor sharp teeth that looked like some  kind of horrible clown. It was about my size, and when I breathed at it,  this time it managed to tank the blast and catch my claws as I tried to  tear it apart.

My  cloak of light seemed to burn the bastard to the touch, or else I'd  have died for sure, because that fucked started to overpower me fast.  Fucking Gemworlders and their stupid all rounder magic. As a dragon I  was pretty much the physical peak of C rank, but apparently that was far  enough from early B to make this fight an uneven one.

The  giant bastard shook with a roar as a spear of Amethyst erupted from his  gut, and I turned to see my formerly terrified wife snarling in  incandescent rage at the monster. My hearing was good enough to pick it  up as she screamed. "Get your filthy hands off my husband you fucking  abomination!"

I  was...stunned. Amy didn't get mad. Not like THAT. She looked almost  unhinged, and I felt warm inside as I watched her concern. Not like I  had with Jade, but genuine fondness and care for this slightly crazy,  naive, sexy, adorable, ridiculous girl who cared enough about me to face  something that terrified her to keep me safe.

Kaala  turned, baring his teeth at her, but before he could move, a pair of  emerald ropes of flames lashed out to wrap around his wrists, forming  into a colossal pair of shackles, pinning him in place on his impaling  spire of purple crystal.

Taking  advantage of the moment I reared back and erupted with another breath  attack, the most powerful I could manage, right in his weird little  face. The avatar screamed as the white light ate into it's face, searing  away the flesh and melting the bones, burning off his jaw and half of  his head, an eye included.

With  the distress, he had enough strength to tear free of the restraints,  and as he fell back the avatar dissolved, the body of Hobbes falling  back through the air to slam into the ground. He rolled in the dark  grass, screaming, and when he came up I could see the melted ruin I'd  made of half his face.

I  shifted to hybrid, knowing engaging someone with power that strong with  a huge size difference was just asking to get a massive hole punched in  me. I wasn't as fast a dodger as a dragon, due to all the mass, and I'd  need to be light on my feet for this. My scaled hybrid form had more  mobility and all the natural defenses.

When  I appeared in front of him, Hobbes was still screaming, or rather Kaala  was, but it wasn't in pain. "Mongrels!" He howled. "Fodder and trash!  How dare you! How dare you bring one of those simpering purple whores  into my presence, how dare you attack me to my face with your disgusting  filthy light magic!" I was shocked the bastard could even speak with  all the damage, but somehow his voice was completely unimpeded.

He  was so focused on me missed the massive flaming green fist that slammed  him across the clearing. I turned to see Jenny glaring at him. "You  know. I really don't like that word. Her sex life is none of your  business, and using words like that is extremely reductive. This isn't  whatever backwater time period you came out of shitstain, keep your  misogynist name calling to yourself."

I  blinked at her, but I had trouble holding back a laugh. I wasn't a fan  of him calling my wife a whore either, but mostly because she  was...well, my wife. Hearing her berating him for his language made me  laugh. No wonder her tits were so big, she a giant heart in those big  bouncy jugs. It was almost adorable.

It  was enough to make me decide not to bring Jenny in on any of my actual  business once I got her. I'd leave her to her heroics, let her feel like  she was making a difference. With my magic cum supercharging her I bet  she'd be a pistol in combat, and I could make sure she never ran afoul  of my bigger plans. It might be useful to have an actual active  superheroine under my thumb, since I'd kind of retired and semi retired  the two I had respectively.

Blinking,  I shook off that tangent, using my exercises to clear away all that  excess affection. Ugh. Feedback loop with her weird power synergy  effect. Too much positivity, I needed to counterbalance that. I strode  forward, hooking a claw into the empty socket of Kaala's eye and jerked  him forward into a brutal headbutt, rejoicing in the crack of bone and  the spew of weirdly purple blood.

That  was better. Jenny's weird emotion resonance bullshit was fucking with  me worse than it should be. Goddamn fresh emotions. I had the tolerance  of a fucking toddler, and being all sweet on Amy for a minute left me  wide open to get sucked in. I'd had far too much emotional growth here  tonight.

Slamming  my horns into the demonic butlers face again I jerked him forward  again, smashing his face into my knee, then leapt back to avoid a  torrent of black flame spewing out my breath to intercept it before it  spread. The half melted demonic clown imagery was super fucking weird to  watch, and as he spun to attack someone else, I cut my breath, leaping  onto his back and suplexing the fucker into the dirt.

I  shouted over to Scott. "How do we get out of this maze?" I didn't want  to kill the bastard and get stuck here. But if I could off him without  consequence I would.

"You  should end him." Came the quiet, tired voice of the old man across the  clearing. He was standing still, watching us sadly, but his eyes were  hard and determined.

"Daddy!"  Shrieked Jenny. "What are you talking about? We don't kill people.  Ever. That's not what heroes do. You taught me that!"

Scott  shook his head sadly. "Eclipso overpowered the owner of that body.  Manifesting like that means all the damage done to him so far is  permanent. Eclipso can survive without three quarters of his face, but  that butler can't. Once Eclipso is forced out the butler will die  anyway. But because of the forceful possession he's stuck in that body.  We can fully destroy him like this. For good."

He  sounded sad, but detached. Like he wasn't even the one talking, just a  depressed man operating his mouth via remote control. His eyes landed on  me. "I wouldn't ask this of anyone else. But I do know you. Or  something about you. I know you're more like Max than you let on. This  won't bother you. Won't hurt you like it would my daughter, or even your  own wife. It's not right for me to ask this of another person. Not even  a person like you. But I am asking. Please end this. Remove the stain  that has been plaguing this and other worlds for centuries."

I  sneered at him. This was fucking annoying. Of course I didn't give a  shit about murdering Hobbes. I was planning on it. But I'd been planning  to either do it later or pretend to do it in the heat of battle. Maybe  get some sympathy from Jenny to counter the whole murder thing. Doing it  like this though...he was trying to fucking sabotage my chances with  his daughter. Clever old bastard.

Not  that clever though, if he thought I couldn't work around a little  necessary evil he was massively underestimating me. I inhaled, still  holding the evil entity by the eye socket, and vomited out a breath  attack again, into the other side of his face. He screamed again, but I  didn't stop. I let go, letting him fall to the ground, and kept up the  attack, burning away the rest of his body under the scorching light of  the Primordial Spark.

Once  I was done, I turned away, as if in pain, setting up my possible 'can't  live with myself for what I did' defense for the bootylicious green  girl. I'd let this cool down for a bit before I tried to hook up with  her. I had a new sister to break in anyway. I'd still fuck her though,  and better yet, I was going to knock the heroine up, just to fuck with  her old man. Even if I'd wait until my other kids were born for that  probably.

Walking  over to my sister, I let my scales melt away and looked at her, shocked  and disturbed and a little afraid in her fetish maid outfit. I opened  my arms and she poured herself into them and I held her, back to the  rest of the people in the clearing, as she cried herself hoarse on my  shoulder. Damn, someone got all the sensitive in the family. I was so  stunned by how trusting she was being I even decided to wait on grabbing  a handfull of her marshmellow ass. I could always grope her later. That  was what you did for family...I was getting so good at this.