Malcolm Tent

Stronger Together chapter 218

The next morning was pretty nice in all honesty. We'd had this sort  of general tension since we got here, and while I won't say we had  fucked all that tension away, we definitely both felt much more at ease.  This was going to be nuts sure, but we were strong as fuck and we just  need to watch out for each other. Worst case I would just smash through  the walls until we got out of the city once we got there. Which should  be soon hopefully, we were flying on a ...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 84

Tower of Fate August 19th 2010 6:30 PM EDT

Nobody  moved. Literally we all just froze. People talk about fights and  encounters between capes all the time, but they never mention how  absurdly awkward things can get, and running into a random team here was  definitely awkward. Speaking of teams, I couldn't believe the boy wonder and my best friend's guy were in a super powered teen social club.  Which was way different than our team. For some re...

Stronger Together chapter 217

Finally the last night before we left arrived. We'd spent the last  three weeks working on magic, and it had paid off. My earth magic had  improved immensely and I was so close to forming a new aspect I could  taste it, and Yang had taken to lightning like a duck to water once I  explained it to her properly. She had been working on weaving it  together with her fire magic. Something about the elements seemed to  speak to hear as part of a whole, and interesting ...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 83

Salem August 19th 2010 6:00 PM EDT

The  next week or so had been busy as hell. We spent six days constantly  running the dungeon, stopping home for family time and going to school  before hand but still spending hours every night down there. My new  power finally merged together all my disparate abilities and gave me a  solid base for combat, and despite having burned more than my fair share  of points in battle I was sitting pretty at thre...

Stronger Together chapter 216

The next few weeks flew by, constant training and unrelenting  beatings for everyone. Well, everyone in my team, so just Yang and I.  But still it was a rough few weeks. The stupid training room updated as  we fought our copies forcing us to find new and creative ways to exploit  our weaknesses. Which I knew was the point but it didn't make  discovering a hole in my opponents guard and then exploiting it only to  have it vanish next time less annoying. Granted it...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 82

The Cathedral August 13th 2010 11:00 PM EDT

We  left Reggie and Kit behind on this trip, but since there was no real  boss on the fourth floor just the three of us were more than enough. We  took the portal down and as we walked I had to marvel at how my body  felt. Every muscle was humming with energy after a healing potion to  patch up the soreness from my transformation and I felt more flexible  and explosive than ever thanks to my dexte...

Stronger Together chapter 215

I imagine many people would refer to fighting yourself as  masturbatory. That would be inaccurate for two reasons. Firstly there  are genuine gains to be gotten from finding holes in your combat style  and leaning the weak spots your enemies can probe. Already i was finding  gaps between the klurkor forms I had never noticed, for while the forms  flowed perfectly from beginning to end, they were arranged in the  optimum order, and steps had to be taken to patch t...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 81

The Clock Tower August 13th 2010 8:00 PM

I  closed my eyes, focusing on the blazing numerals behind my lids. Three hundred and fifteen points. That was enough for me to finally get my next power. My epiphany in the battle with Leoric made choosing them  properly even more important, synergy was key, the more my powers meshed  and compliment each other the more they would bleed together in combat  and the more strength I could bring out in battle. Thi...

Stronger Together chapter 214

The training room inn the high class in near the castle was impressive  as hell. The walls were that same white marble with gold and blood  crystal veins, and the floor was a woven straw mat, though one thin  enough that hitting it would still hurt like a bitch. Yang and I made  our way down to work on training after we got some sleep and ordered a  giant breakfast. The food they brought was some kind of meat on top of  some kind of porridge. Weird but actually r...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 80

The Cathedral August 10th 2010 8:00 PM EDT

Tonight  was the big night. We were about to kill the skeleton king. I stared at  the entrance to his crypt along with the others. Reggie raised a hand  questioningly. "Umm, anyone else getting a bad feeling from this weird  vaulted archway? Because seriously, that might as well be screaming  trap." He turned to me worriedly." You sure we can't like, lure him out  here or something? I might be able...

Stronger Together chapter 213

Now from an outside perspective sending us to fight in a planar death  tournament seems like a random and stupid decision, but looking at it  logically I saw where he was going with this. We were expendable assets  who had proven we were strong enough to put up a fight. It made a ton of  sense to throw us at his enemies because us dying made no difference to  him. As for why he thought we would actually do it, based on what I'd  heard around here this was the kin...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 79

O'Malley penthouse August 9th 6:00 PM EDT

So  here we were, at dinner at our penthouse. It was Paula, Artemis, me, my  mother, Zee, Wally, my moms new boyfriend Satoru, and a partridge in a  fucking pear tree. Mom had wanted to invite Reggie's family too, as she  and Claire had really bonded on the cruise, but knowing how important  this night was to Zee I didn't want to pull focus more than we already  had. That said, I was in fact not foc...

Stronger Together chapter 212

The castle of the Lord of Dis was imposing as hell, no pun intended.  The massive dark stone building  with it's pulsing runes didn't just  loom, with the constant appearance of shifting and heaving it seemed  like the thing was hunched over me panting to get a taste. Walking  across the draw bridge made it obvious that these walls were sturdy as  hell, because even with my extreme weight the thing didn't so much as  groan. I was pretty sure I could break th...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 78

Gotham Docks August 9th 2010 11:30 AM EDT

Today  was the day. My mom, Paula, Callie, and Claire were all coming back.  Their cruise got in at noon and I had begged off school to meet them,  with Reggie, Artemis, and surprisingly Zatanna joining me. I'd told Zee  she didn't have to come since we were planning dinner tonight anyway,  but she refused to be left out. She'd actually snuck out of her house to  come down here, and her dad was und...

Stronger Together chapter 211

We woke up the next day feeling...well not better but less bad. The  bed here was more comfortable than expected. I hadn't noticed that  before, though it made sense since I guess sin was their whole schtick  and sloth was one of the biggies. Comfortable beds to pass out in after  you torture some people. Regardless waking up was interesting with Yang  next to me. You would expect with her being so hot it would be sexy or  intimate, but mostly I just woke up sput...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 77

Mirror House August 7th 2010 8:45 PM EDT

Turns  out vampires are real. Which shouldn't be a huge shock with all the  other shit I've seen but...vampires? They were pretty stereotypical  vampires too. Pale skin, dark hair and frilly gothic clothes. It should  have looked silly, they all seemed pretty young it should have been like  watching some goth social club from a local high school, or a bunch of  drama kids letting their inner Poe out....

Stronger Together chapter 210

The city of Dis was, pardon the pun, disturbing. Not because of all  the crazy demons or heinous monsters, though there were plenty of them,  but because of what they were doing. The ugly bastards were just living  their lives, shopping and lunching and traveling and just  generally...being people. Not human people sure, but who was anymore,  certainly not me. The few abnormalities on the other hand, definitely  stood out more in comparison. Like the meat vendor ...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 76

Mirror House August 7th 2010 8:30 PM EDT

Despite The Dealer having literally no distinguishing features from  the rest of the people in here, somehow after a while it became easy to  tell him apart from the others. He just had this kind of...presence  about him. A weight of confidence or certainty the others lacked. Which  considering the people under those masks was pretty impressive. I leaned  over to whisper to Jim. "So who is this guy again?...

Stronger Together chapter 209

The rest of the journey to the city was more of the same. Get  attacked, kill attacked, occasionally eat the less gross ones. We  managed to get water by boiling the blood of the various hell beasts we  killed and collecting the vapor. Took a bit of trial and error to get  right because I couldn't remember the details of how it was done. We  most likely would have died drinking it if not for the purification  power of soulfire. That said we didn't have that much ...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 75

Mirror House August 7th 2010 8:00 PM EDT

Arriving  at the auction was somewhat underwhelming. The Silver Ghost pulled up  outside an abandoned building and we all got out, already wearing gas  masks. We mostly had our costumes on under them, except Zee because no  one with a working brain could miss those legs when she's in costume.  The girl can rock a pair of fishnets. So we were all ready for the big  auction, and when we climbed out of ...

Stronger Together chapter 208

The meat from the lizard bird creature tasted like ass. This was not  unexpected because it's blood was toxic sludge green and it's flesh was  grey which just did not look appetizing to begin with. Not to mention  having to basically charcoal brick it with soulfire to be as safe as  possible when consuming the stuff didn't do it any favors. Despite that  however Yang and I both noticed something incredibly strange about the  flesh. We were full in only a few bite...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 74

The Clock Tower August 6th 2010 8:00 PM EDT

The  next day was another dungeon free day, but not because of Zee. In fact,  my girlfriend was here now. She came through the town portal so she  didn't know where we were, but Jim admitted that she would be useful to  have for item identification, seeing as only she was able to cast the  damn spell. So we had her here sifting through mounds of stuff we'd  brought back over the course of many, ma...

Stronger Together chapter 207

I woke up in pain. Not like the pain I used to wake up in when I was  normal where my back hurt from sleeping wrong or I tweaked my neck.  More like bruises all over my body and small jagged rocks stabbing into me pain. It was also hot. Like weirdly unnaturally hot, like standing in  a volcano hot, and the air smelled disgusting...like rotten eggs.  Sulfur. Well, fuck. I pried my eyes open with some serious effort and  pain and glanced around me trying to figure out w...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 73

The Clock Tower August 5th 2010 8:00 PM EDT

We  were exhausted. All of us just collectively beat. Zee was home tonight,  her dad had taken time off to spend time with her because the Labyrinth  didn't appear to be going anywhere. Despite my intention to avoid the  dungeon we had gone back in the last two days, but without Zee we were  benched now. I was sulking because I missed my girlfriend and Reggie was  texting Bette while Artemis talke...

Stronger Together chapter 206

Raven pretty much passed out after we were done and I picked her up  and carried her down the hall to where Cinder and Barb were sleeping.  The bed was pretty soaked and I didn't feel like changing the damn  sheets so we just dropped into bed with our girlfriends and curled up  together. After a nice restful sleep I woke up earlier than any of the  others and climbed out of bed, kissing them each on the forehead and  leaving a note that I was going out to explore...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 72

Shadowcrest August 3rd 2010 9:00 PM EDT

It  wasn't hard to use my phone to buy a skill book for cooking. The book  only cost twenty points as I had figured, and insisted it could make  someone and iron chef quality cook. It didn't promise a time frame, and  was probably cheaper than the DVD or private lesson emails because it  was much less comprehensive, more of an all round primer than elite  level chef abilities. There were lots of peopl...

Stronger Together chapter 205

No matter how many times I saw her naked, I could not get over  Raven's body. My other girlfriends were gorgeous, don't get me wrong.  Barb was athletic and sexy and toned, and Cinder was a pillowy sexpot,  but Raven. If sex was food Raven was a fucking cheesecake. Thick and  sweet and delicious. Her breasts looked like fucking watermelons tipped  with candy and her pussy was tight and inviting as she exposed it to me.

I  smiled at her hungry expression. "I...

Stronger Together chapter 204

Our introduction to Samuel and Bernard was much less dramatic than  expected. Samuel was a short, slim Turkish man with long hair drawn into  a ponytail and a close trimmed beard. He had a friendly smile on pretty  much all the time and sort of reminded me of Dalton. Mina and he were  apparently close friends, as close as blood siblings actually, which  somewhat explained her fascination with my smuggler. As opposed to  bowing or scraping Samuel just stuck out a ...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 71

The Cathedral August 3rd 2010 8:00 PM EDT

I  expected to be able to crush the third floor with our new ringers, but  unfortunately I had momentarily ignored something fairly important. Fucking  skeletons had a magic immunity. As did zombies. I briefly checked my  points, I was at a hundred and twenty after some minimal use over the  last week or so, leaving me another hundred and eighty left to my next  power. Even with level ups in between...

Stronger Together chapter 203

Castle Drakul was surprisingly normal looking. I say that with the  context that no castle is really normal to someone from the US but it  was just a big stone building. I was expecting darkness and flashing  lightning and eerie howls but it was just a nice large stone structure  in the middle of a sunny day. There were even fields of wildflowers  around the perimeter give an idyllic look and the place had been kept up  pretty well. Very nicely maintained, with t...