Sell you a Bridge chapter 148

December 31st 2010 New Genesis 11:00 AM EDT

The  major issue I ran into the next morning with researching my power  was...how to do it. It wasn't like I hadn't been curious before. But  there were no clues or leads to follow. Our best bet would be to follow  the only trail we had at the moment, the new power that had popped up  without me paying for it. Unfortunately that power originated in Gotham  from what Artemis said, a place we were completely cut off from at the  moment.

Which left me back at square one. Which was a  shame because I'd been pretty excited to find out more, but luckily I  had other things to worry about. First off I wanted to plan some kind of  romantic evening with Zee tonight as per our plans from before we got  to Supertown, except better because there would be bathing. Not during  the evening itself, though admittedly the idea of showering with my  busty sex elf beloved was hardly something to complain about.

Before  any of that though I decided to act on the plan I'd made before I went  to bed, I fished out my phone and ordered myself three divine fruits.  Three was the number included in the email (for ten thousand points mind  you) but the girls only needed two and I was hesitant to ingest  anything with the word divine in it given my devilish nature, so I would  probably be passing it to Wally.

With midnight's points  boost I was still sitting at a comfy thirty five hundred points after  the big purchase, so I wasn't too worried though I resolved to look into  local dark magic scams to see if I could find something compatible. The  closest thing I'd seen was some stupidly expensive scam offering me the  secrets of the "anti-life equation" whatever the fuck that was. Still  it was like billions of points so I didn't even bother looking into it.  I'd never been a fan of window shopping.

The fruits showed  up within a minute or two, as per usual there was a knock at the door.  Zee was still sleeping. We'd been too exhausted last night for sex, the  mental toll of all the revelations and emotions combined with having  finally been able to relax after so long in the wilderness leaving us  drained, but it had been indescribably nice to wake up in bed with her,  cuddled together and with a face full of lavender and chamomile scented  hair she HAD to have used magic on to get that scent on an alien planet.

Luckily  my girl could sleep like the dead so she just groaned and rolled over,  covering her head with a pillow. I opened the door and picked up the  box, carrying it in and shutting the door behind me. The box was about  two feet by a half foot and made of dark wood with intricate carvings  all over it. I could tell just from holding it that whatever was inside  was powerful, important, and unfortunately fucking useless to me. Since I  hadn't gotten them for me though that worked out fine.

I  unhooked the latch and levered the box open, having to tug a bit because  the wood had expanded from moisture and the top was stuck. There were  little flakes of dirt there too, and I remembered the email mentioning  that this was a lost treasure of the scammers family that had been dug  up recently. The email had also required the New Genesis equivalent of  banking information and social security, but since I didn't exist in any  of their systems I handed that over with no issues. Even if the scammer  actually got it it wouldn't do shit for them here anyway.

Once  I got the box open I was stunned by the fruits. They were gold, which  considering the legends about divine fruit wasn't a shock, but more  importantly they were...powerful. The gold color was glowing, pulsing  with an unearthly light in a steady and soothing rhythm that was eerily  similar to a heart beat. The smell that wafted up from them was enough  to make my knees weak, and even from across the room I saw Zee start to  stir at the scent from under her pillow.

She sat up  sleepily, eyes still closed and breasts bouncing very pleasantly in the  sunlight of the shuttered window and sniffed a few times. I picked up a  fruit, noting with interest how warm it felt in my hand, and walked over  to sit down by her side on the bed.She opened one eye slowly, looking  at me. "Wuzzat?" I snorted. Zee was usually pretty alert in the morning,  but that was only when waking up on her own. When she was roused she  was as groggy and pissed of as a drunk wolverine.

I held  the fruit up under her adorable button nose, which wrinkled as she  scented the divine food and she sniffed a few more times. "it's a divine  fruit. We talked about it last night, it'll make your bloodline more  po-" She didn't bother to wait for me to finish, she just chomped down  on the thing. The juice dripping down her lips and onto her topless form  was incredibly enticing, but I forced myself to stat focused. "That  works. Eat up."

She moaned in enjoyment taking another  bite, and before long she was holding my wrist, eating the thing out of  my hand until there wasn't even a core and then sucking the juice off my  fingers with increasing levels of ecstasy. I admit I may have had some  impure thoughts during the process. By the time she finished she was  wide awake, and her eyes were glowing with power. The usually crystal  blue orbs were flickering with a deep violet glimmer like I was looking  at a pair of tesla coils. Her breathing was coming fast and hard as the  glow got brighter and brighter, her eyes unblinking.

I  was having some trouble focusing, I'm not going to lie. But the sparks  of purple lightning that started licking up from her skin fixed that  problem pretty much right away. Her eyes were fixed on me, but barely  focused. "Morgan? I feel...nice." Her pupils were blown wide within the  shifting aurora of purple lightning that was her iris, and she looked  like she was swaying slightly.

I  silently cursed whoever had originally come up with the legends  surrounding these fruits, because why in the fuck would a super powerful  magic level up fruit make get you high? That said I took my now waster  girlfriend who was currently undergoing minor apotheosis by the elbows  and sat her down on the bed. The electricity started to build and her  eyes got brighter and I admit I started to panic a bit, until I had a  thought.

Dumping  five hundred points into my shadow skill and bloodline I shifted into  my void form and then reshaped myself into a layer of armor around her.  She giggled at the feeling but didn't resist or fight back at all and  when I was done my body was isolating her from the world around her. I  was glad I'd done it too, because I could literally feel the pulses of  points flowing in as the sparks jumped, and the energy coming off her  was fucking DENSE.

It  was also building, the sparks increasing in bursts and her body started  letting off true lightning strikes, not small ones like she normally  used in battle either, like the kind that came from the sky in the  middle of a hurricane. The strikes got stronger and closer together  until finally the building energy climaxed in an explosion of power that  made even my head spin with a rush of adrenaline.

Once  I was sure she was ok I resumed my human form and picked her up,  setting her on the bed. I closed my eyes and whistled at the twenty two  thousand points I was now packing. Damn, I'd have to wait to see exactly  what that had done but the side effects were impressive. I'd have to  tell Wally and Artemis to be careful when they did theirs. Maybe go down  to the surface or something. I wasn't sure what the fruit would even do  to Wally, but that was what experiments were for, and besides no one  said he HAD to take it.

Zee  stirred a bit on the bed, waking up again after having passed out from  her upgrade. Amusingly this time she seemed to wake up like she'd slept  the full night and roused on her own, all drowsy smiles. I couldn't  resist leaning down to kiss her awake and she giggled at the attention.  She looked...amazing. I mean she had always looked amazing. She was a  solid ten as a normal person, than a solid ten thousand as a sex elf,  but this was...she was beauty personified, gorgeous and clearly more  than she had been before.

I  grinned at her. "So...how's it feel to be...what? A goddess? Demi  goddess? You would know better than I would." I was annoyed that I  didn't have that damn character sheet with me. I'd stopped carrying the  thing around after we all hit max level and it was sitting in my end  table at home on the island. Still, there had been some big change  because her aura was massively different.

She  chuckled at that. "Demi goddess. For now. It's hard to explain. I could  feel the bloodline before, but it was always separate, something i  could stimulate and access but that was separate from who I was. Now  it's a part of me. Not all of me, my blood is still pretty thin, but I'm  not a heavenly punishment elf anymore. I'm about ninety percent  heavenly punishment elf and ten percent heavenly punishment goddess. It  feels weird, but not bad. Plus I can control my lightning so much better  now."

Her  voice was smooth and languid and VERY inviting. It was hard to point out  exactly what about her was different. Her hair was the same, her eyes  were purple and crackling still granted, but everything else was  theoretically the same as before, but she just looked so much  more...real. Like the old Zee had been a knock off of this Zee and  someone had switched the forgery for the real thing, and the reality of  her was beautiful. I could feel it through our bond too, that tantric  connection having changed when she did.

It  felt stronger and more alive. I imagined being part sex goddess had  enhanced that particular magic, and the feeling of us resonating the way  we were was intoxicating. She could see it too, I saw her bite her  perfect lower lip as she stared at me hungrily, and I leaned forward to  kiss her again. This time there was nothing soft or casual about it, her  lips pressed to mine with crushing force as she pulled me down onto the  bed with her.

I  grinned up at her as she rolled me over, straddling me. "So, I take it  our new years celebration is started early? I wanted to give the other  fruits to Wally and Artemis, but I suppose I could wait until we stop  for a break. I have to admit I'm curious of this new upgrade ramps up  our tantric ritual at all." The power would be nice, but honestly I was  more excited to see how much her new nature would improve the sex.

She  leaned down to kiss me again hungrily, seemed to suck the air from my  lungs as I felt her press against me, and out of the corner of my eye I  saw the runes from the tantric ritual we used start to glow that same  purple that her eyes were still flickering. As I slid my hands up her  back to sink them into her pillowy ass and yank her against me I lost  track of the details though. The time for thinking was over. Time to  start doing.