Wanderers of the Wasteland

by Dr Sharaz Jek

Rating: mature
Tags: Trixie, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Adventure, Sex, Dragons, Profanity, Death, Alternate Universe, Original Character, Porn
Length: 26166

Travelers displaced from their worlds discover adventure and romance in their quest to solve the mysteries of a world in ruins.

A dragon hybrid, displaced from his world, is dispatched by a the head of a soul reaper order to solve the mystery behind a world in ruination. Soon, he'll cross wandering witches, demons, a succubus, and other obstacles in the trip of a lifetime that leads him to romance, action, and adventure in his quest to survive.

Note: All characters are 18 or older. A collaboration with ShadowsInTheDark. Asphyxious belongs to ShadowsInTheDark. All other OCs are from yours truly.

Published 2024-06-18 23:30:02 UTC
Last updated 2024-11-29 15:27:30 UTC

Chapter 1

Curved horns jutted from the head of a man that stepped through a shimmering crimson portal, where his one eye surveyed the barren landscape. A hunk of solid iron covered his missing left eye, his tall, lean body similarly swathed in patches of metal made from black scales with azure highlights molded into his skin. Gray and white, two-toned hair flowed down his back. His clothes rustled when he squatted, scooped up a bit of dirt, and sniffed it. Then, with a shake of his head, he rubbed his claws clean on his attire. Recalling what he'd heard, he yelled, “I know you're behind this! This better not be another world you've ruined, you damned Lust Goddess!” With a snort at the expected lack of an answer, he stomped off to explore more.

Wherever he turned, the dry earth was cracked. Likewise, a bleak sky framed him, his ears met by the low howl of winds that stank of stale musk. The sun appeared to be half-burnt to a crisp, the surveyor bounced around the emptiness whenever he attempted another random teleportation to escape.

Sweaty attire that smelt of burned leather stuck to his well-built frame. His throat was dry, his worn limbs heavy. Occassionally, a crack of thunder interrupted the gloom, a reminder parts of this planet yet stirred with dimmed life.

He'd been tasked to find whoever foolishly attempted to summon a 'God of Death'...and from what he surmised, the sorry state of this world was the botched result. Dirt and dust covered patches of his clothes, which consisted of a vest, shirt, pants, and boots made for the long haul. With a few other items he may need, tucked into his belt and pouches, he'd prepared himself well.

A disembodied voice called from the distance, “Still lost, are we? Tsk, tsk.” Mirth colored a voice that partially echoed in his head, cast by telepathy which reverberated inside his skull.

The one-eyed man's boots crunched to a stop. “Grayscale Carnifex, wasn't it? Show yourself, Apparition of Death!”

With a hearth chuckle, the human-dragon-hybrid manifested several paces away from him, with small horns of his own atop his bald head, clad in a gray shroud of robes, complete with a hood. “Indeed, my hapless friend. How does your current form suit you, Asphy? Compared to-”

“Definitely a change, glad you're sticking to our agreement about my name,” admitted Asphy, who felt his benefactor's magical power envelope him...and in a flash, transformed back into his natural state, a partially skeletal dragon with obsidian scales, melded with smoldered iron. “Were you responsible for this? Turned me into this drake/lich hybrid? I'm not impressed.”

Another chuckle met him. “Well, you'll need that prowess to survive the challenges ahead! What else can you expect from the leader of the Order of Reapers? And...I'm sure you'll appreciate the 'extra' addition that resulted...” He waved absently at the drake's sheathe, where a third penis rested, beneath his soft underbelly.

Asphyxious scowled and crossed his arms. “Hmph. No thank you, I have enough gifts from my friend, who's a fertility Goddess. Anymore and I'll start growing tentacles,” he surmised dryly.

“It sure will be when you cross this 'Goddess of Lust', as you dubbed her. She's another traveler, like you.” The heavy sleeve of Canifex's robe rustled when, in a hand gesture, he opened up a window to another portion of the planet. From there, the likeness of the woman Asphy tracked swam into view.

With a platinum mane that faded into violet at the tips, her eyes and skin a similar shade of purple, she stood tall and proud in her thong-leotard; matched by gloves and heeled boots that came to her upper arms and thighs respectively, her head topped by a witch's hat and a starry cape that trailed behind her. A unicorn's horn sat on the woman's temple, her full lips drawn in a wry smile, a hand upon a bare hip.

“Beatrix Belladonna,” noted the reaper in bemusement. “A wild card in the multiverse. Her Prima Materia,” he explained with a pause and waved to the eye-shaped bauble that clasped the front of the witch's cloak at her neck. “Can reshape reality itself wherever she travels by her subconscious whims!”

“So she really is responsible for this,” mused Asphy while they observed her.

“That's for you to discover! I'm limited by how much I can interfere. By my very nature, I'm half divine, and my mere presence also alters the fabric of reality. Not quite the 'God of Death' some believe me to be, but close! Thus, you'll have to act as my 'hand' to deal with mortal matters.” His smile broadened. “Of course, I'm prepared to offer you a boon in return. And I'm sure you'll relish this more than you think...”

While Asphy continued to watch his prey from the window, Beatrix stopped in the middle of the wilderness she'd found herself in, and after a quick look around to ascertain she was alone, with a hand wave the witch's entire costume shimmered and dematerialized, banished to a pocket dimension inside her Prima Materia until she needed them. Heavy breasts bounced free and settled, topped by wide, soft-colored nipples that stiffened into the breeze that caressed them, her womanly hips and buttocks similarly wide and sculpted to perfection, matched by a taut slit that adorned her womanhood.

“Beautiful,” confessed Asphy, awe-struck by the unicorn-turned-woman by the dimensional rules of the world they found themselves in. He watched her climb into a bank to bathe, enveloped just past the knees by the pristine waters. “Hard to believe she's responsible for this disaster!”

“Not personally. But mayhaps a key component,” observed Carnifex with a twinkle in his eyes, his hands hidden by the sleeves of his robes clasped close.

“Enough riddles, reaper. Tell me where she is, or better yet, why not simply send me to her? Would save us all some time and effort! Oh, but I can't, right? That first time we met, didn't you warn me about the use of portals? That were Beatrix and I to carelessly open a rift in this reality at the same time-”

“-the equivalent of a Klein Bottle could form. You could tear a hole in the universe that could cause it to unravel and eventually collapse! Thus, such powers should be used sparingly!” A smile further spread across Carnifex's face, his bulk muscular beneath his faded robes. “Best not to take chances!”

“I'm sure you have some other reasons, but whatever. Guess I have no choice.” The dragon-hybrid eyes continued to drink in Bea's form while she bathed, her voluptuous curves glistening from the pristine waters she repeatedly splashed her supple flesh in, kissed by the dimmed sun's tender rays.

Stray beads of water ran down her soft, supple slopes and hit the river with a tinkle, her eyes closed, her head cast back, and her tossed mane drenched, lost in a carefree moment of vulnerability. Physically, Beatrix was the twin of her mother, Trixie Lulamoon, with a similar boisterous posture.

He did a double-take when the woman in question, the self-proclaimed Great and Powerful Trixie, stepped into view near the riverbank. She dressed in a similar fashion to her daughter, and with her own smirk and hand wave, she freed herself of her own costume, where her own tits toppled into view with a smack of her bountiful bouncy breasts that finally settled into place.

With a sly smirk she cried, “BOO!”

“Gah!” Bea leapt up with a splash, her unicorn horn momentarily lit up by her aura which made it hum and shimmer in self-defense. Then she powered her aura down and relaxed her tensed muscles, her bosom heaving once she frowned darkly. “Mother?! Don't scare me like that! I-I nearly peed myself!”

“Some boys would pay a ton of money to see that,” teased Trixie, who sidled into the cool waters with a swish.

“Not funny! More importantly, why are you here? How are you here? Are you realy-” She felt Trixie's warm caress trace her curves to tenderly scrub them clean. “So, not an illusion, but you could still be some sort of imposter, like a clone, shapeshifter, or...oh~-!”

“No one knows how to touch you like I do,” reminded Trixie with a wink as she'd slipped behind Bea and started to run slow, sensuous circles with her heavy breasts, which caused her nipples to further stiffen and poke into her palms. “Mmm~. So soft and squishy! Just like your dear mother!”

They'd never intended to have a sexual relationship, but odd events from the wars that ravaged their homeworld had pushed them into it. They were practically twins, after all! It had all started with the Necronomicon, that damned occult book of the dark arts bound in stitched up and dried flesh.

They'd faced cultists, all manner of beasts, eldritch tentacles...many of which once had their way with the twosome, who'd submitted to the monsters and made love to survive. And once they'd crossed that taboo line, neither had been able to turn back when they needed to sate their lust.

Molded to her hands, Trixie molested her moist titties, rolled and bounced them with wet slaps on her palms, playfully pinched, pulled, and twisted her nipples. She peppered her neck in kisses, slid one hand lower, down her belly, until she reached her hairless pussy and traced her closed cleft. Gradually, as Bea moaned, her heart-shaped clit swelled when it was teased out from its slick, pink crevice.

Then, she teased Bea's love button, rubbed and tweaked it, which made her quiver and cry out. She melted, molded like putty in her mother's arms, slackened into a submissive posture.

Frozen and unable to ear his eye away, Asphyx felt his three cocks slide from his sheathe, his trident-like members thick, azure, and naturally lubricated. Each of his meaty tools were covered in thick veins when the trio of spear-like heads throbbed and spat precum that ran down shafts lined in fleshy ridges used to stimulate females, and open their cervix wide to better receive dollops of sperm into their wombs.

He tried to maintain his control over his consciousness, lest he be lost to breeding frenzy instincts that could overtake a drake once a fertile female was before his eyes, let-alone two!

“Beatrix and Trixie shouldn't prove difficult to seduce,” mused Carnifex. “Should you choose that route!”

Every instinct screamed at the dragon hybrid to take the women. To conquer and claim them! Yet he pulled to resist that siren's call, and in a flash, transmuted himself back into his human shape to maintain his control. “I'm not some beast,” he told his benefactor and himself. “But yeah, I'll make this Beatrix Belladonna and her mom see reason!”

“Go then! I'll await the news.” With a muted snicker, Grayscale vanished into the howling winds. However, he was so kind as to leave the voyeuristic window open, in case Asphy wanted some...private time to relieve his lusts.

The dragon-hybrid took another moment to admire the two women, still lost in their steamy tryst which threatened to escalate. “I don't know why I'm here anymore than you, my little hellspawn,” confessed Trixie, who'd bent Bea over the riverbank while she continued to molest her. “Just roll with it, like we always do! We can find all kinds of ways to pass the time!”

“Y-yeah,” murmured Bea between pursed lips and moans, when she felt fingers slip into her snatch and trace her slick, sensitive walls, her folds traced when her cunt clenched down on the invasion. Then, with a splash Trixie went to her knees, spread Bea's plush asscheeks, and dived in. “M-mom~!”

Trixie's tongue traced tangy twat and taint, tasted and thumbed them. She probed her in slow, lazy circles as she licked her cavern clean. Bea's digits dug into the riverbank's soil, thighs left to tremble when Trix explored her interior, until with a yelp a deluge of her love nectar splashed Trix's face. Her mother drank down and swallowed what she could, more left to splash down her titties and run down her tummy when Bea rode out an explosive climax that made her knees quake.

Squirt-after-squirt erupted, slimy and runny cunny honey that layered her mother. Their faces were scorched a hot reddish-pink from blushes, minds melted from verbalized pleasure. By the time Trixie withdrew her lips, they were still tethered to Bea's pussylips by threads of saliva mixed with love nectar that stained her chin, Bea's hot pink cunt still spread so wide open her slimy cervix was visible whenever it dilated.

Her shiny walls continued to contract, spider-webbed by more thick wads of feminine lust. Her puckered pink asshole similarly contracted with small ripples of lustful aftermath, hopeful they'd be filled and stretched to the limit the moment someone claimed her.

Trixie smacked her lips, absolutely drenched in her daughter's dam burst, which soaked her titittes and even beaded one of her nipples, her pale mane similarly soaked by her lewd desires. “Good little hellspawn~,” teased Trixie, who splanted a couple of playful pats on Bea's bottom. Flesh rippled before her eyes, the rump she'd inherited also heart-shaped and made to be bred into submission by a stud.

Still leaned forward, which left Bea's wet breasts suspended as they shook and swayed with each strained breath, her pussy wetly winked in a similar manner to how it would in her unicorn shape. When her breath returned, her violet eyes still hazy, Bea asked, “Mommy? Should I return the favor?”

“Nah. We can take care of that later, my little hellspawn! It's time we hit the road!” After a moment to clean themselves up, and after another spell cast to dry themselves, they waved back on their clothes, ready to step into the wilderness surrounded by a bleak wasteland that stretched for miles.

“So,” said Bea. “Let's find out whoever, or whatever's behind all this nonsense!”

Asphy, too, prepared to resume his own trip into the hellscape, the sun partially blotted out. Thankfully, he'd restrained himself and his members had softened beneath his traveling clothes, yet a bit of irritation and dissatisfaction remained, despite the ‘gift’ in the form of a weapon left on a rock for him.

Beatrix was like him. Displaced. A lone wanderer. Yet the difference is, she had some choice in where she traveled, whereas he'd been tossed about by the whims of fate. This time, as an unwilling pawn of this self-proclaimed head of the Order of Reapers, Grayscale Carnifex.

He felt it was more like being given community service. After all, his own followers did go on a bit of a rampage and destroyed a world. That got attention, which he didn't want in the first place, and now he'd make amends.

By this point, his human form had further stabilized, the black scales adorned by blue highlights wherever they were etched into his flesh, a spaded tail to match his horns draped from his lower back past his muscled buttocks. He stroked his metal patch over his lost left eye, his flesh a malleable wreck after he'd been tossed around and abused by the cosmic whims of fate. He reached for the stone, where the instrument of death awaited.

He'd finally acquired his own weapon for the journey, which now adorned his back, a sheathe that housed a broadside so thick and heavy, he kept it wrapped in layers of bandages. Blessed by Carnifex, the cursed black blade was said by his benefactor to once be wielded by the reaper...when he'd been an executioner. Hundreds of heads had once been lopped off by the blade and tossed aside, wicked spilled blood soaked into the metal. It's also when the ancient reaper supposedly acquired the title of 'Carnifex', where he'd learned the sacred secrets of life and death.

Asphy didn't care. He'd only agreed to work with him so he could be left alone. It would be some time before he could balance the scales, before he could at last be free of Carnifex's sly schemes.

Whirls of dust brushed past his boots when he set off into the desert. His eye scanned the horizon, past a whirling sandstorm, while he walked in silence. Then, his lone eye narrowed moments minutes later, when blotches of silhouettes were spotted in the sandy winds. His hand went to the hilt of his blade, tensed up for whatever awaited.

The beasts howled when they leapt out amidst bursts of sand, two-headed mutts with rust-colored fur that adorned their muscles. Hellhounds, he realized, minor but powerful demons. Jaws leaked red hot drool and spit out thick wads of spittle whenever they barked.

The pack rushed at him amidst howls. Dozens of them, their eyes yellow, teeth bared, who padded at their lone prey.

He stood his ground. Unsheathed his obsidian sword with a metallic hiss. Took a combative stance, ready to meet them head on, determined to keep his ability to shift into his dragon form until he absolutely needed it, since it would burn away his reserve energy and eventually render him all but powerless.

The first monstrosity met him. Went for his throat. His broadsword swept in an arc to intercept him. One of the hound's heads rolled from his body with a whimper, before he melted into a black ooze. Yet he lacked time to ponder this curious result, as another demonic mutt opened his maw wide to spit a fireball.

Air whirled under heat waves when Asphy ducked the fiery explosion that impacted a dune behind him. More limbs were severed, chopped off pieces and corpses also dissolved into slimy dark slime that sizzled and settled into the desert. He winced when claws raked his back and teeth sunk into his arm, before he snapped the bones of his assailant with a huff and tossed the carcass aside before it too melted. “So many...they're endless! Should I…?”

He pondered whether to use his most potent magic, yet the problem was his contract limited what he could use. At first the challenge proved fun, now it threatened to endlessly annoy him!

A sea of hellhounds started to pour in from the distance. Much as he hated to play his trump card so soon, he saw little choice but to transform, aware he'd never escape the horde on foot in time.

He'd slain a dozen more before his mind was made up, now swathed in criss-crossed cuts and bites, his weather-worn clothes dirtied and torn. He focused inward, his one eye closed in preparation to unleash the beast...before whimpers met his ears.

Blasts of magic rained down on the battlefield, like a mystical Apocalypse, each burst akin to a prismatic mushroom cloud that swallowed up the packs. He peeked back at the shrouded horizon to find the source. “Carnifex...?” No, he doubted his benefactor would interfere over such a trivial matter so soon. Poke fun yes, help no. Who…?

Then, he spotted Beatrix and Trixie swoop down, hand-in-hand, the violet witch able to fly due to a black mass that surrounded her and now formed her costume. The wispy black swirls trailed behind her while she helped carry her mother in the air with the aid of her aura. She called, “Geronimo~!”

He took out the strays, their tails tucked down when he felled them. More were nuked to oblivion by the witches. Within minutes, it was over, dark scorch marks and scattered dunes blown into packets of sand scattered around the victors.

The twins landed and approached with a stride that made their wide, bare hips sway and added a subtle jiggle of their bared cleavage. “Heels probably weren't the best idea to explore a desert,” observed Bea, who chose to float inches above the scorched dunes.

“No shit,” answered Trixie with bemusement. “Ooh, but we certainly showed those monsters what's-what! On that note, I suppose we owe our new friend here some sort of explanation! I'm the Great and Powerful Trixie, this is Beatrix, and you're-?”

“Call me Asphy.” He lowered his blade, his face neutral. “I know who you are.”

“Well there we are,” said Trixie. “That should save us all some time!”

“Those were constructs,” explained Bea, whose platinum hair swirled about her like it was alive. “That's why they melted once neutralized! Dark magic was woven by someone who's tried to make another copy of the Necronomicon, I think. That's my best theory anyhow, based on limited info.”

“On that note,” said Trixie. “Maybe you should conserve your power?”

“Yeah, I suppose so.” She waved at the black miasma around her. “That's my arcane power, called Erebus. Um, to spare you the longer exposition, it's formed from an eldritch entity called the Demiurge that lives inside me. Or does that confuse you more? Anyhow, like she said, it burns up lots of energy, so excuse me while I flash you to banish it! Hope you don't mind!” With a cheeky smirk, she banished the entity called the Demiurge, which melted away and left her fully naked, her voluptuous body on display. Clicking her fingers, she then summoned back her usual costume, which appeared over her and conformed onto her soft, supple curves.

He reflexively whistled in appreciation. “Not bad. Not bad at all.” He mentally scowled at himself for that, and reminded himself why he'd come here.

“Slow down there stud,” replied Trixie with a leer of her own. “Time for that later! Here. You lost this.” She intentionally turned around, her cape brushed aside when she bent over to reclaim one of his metal plates chipped away in the midst of battle, her heart-shaped, barely-clad blue ass pointed near his face. The leotard rode into the crack of her posterior, asscheeks from her posture stretched so the sides of her puckered pink asshole peeked out. She took her time and swayed her hips and buns with a hum, slowly and deliberately picked the fabric out that crawled up her butt to fully flash her tasty anus and pussy, before she finally turned. “Here! Ta-da!”

“Thanks.” He accepted the hunk of metal mixed with his own dark scale. Asphyxious studied it, turning it over, before crushing it in his hand. It crumbled away to leave a black crystal. Interesting. He would need to look into it later, and instead pocketed it for now.

Beatrix said, The odds aren't in our favor. Why don't we team up?” With a nail she playfully traced the lines of his pectorals. He didn't plan to seduce them, unless it was necessary, but they'd already all but turned the tables on him. He failed to hide a small swallow, eye drawn to the scanty duo.

“...sure. I don't see why not. Huh, but aren't those capes kind of hot?”

The mother-and-daughter duo exchanged a look and a grin. “You have a point~,” said the twosome in unison, and with a wave banished their capes, before they turned and started to stroll ahead, with an exaggerated swagger of their wide hips and buttocks, barely contained by thong-leotards. Unable to rip his eye away, he sheathed his sword and trailed after them, into the sunset.

He watched their asscheeks roll with each graceful movement, their leotards so high-cut their asses were pretty much on full display for his enjoyment, aside from the cheeky butt floss that further emphasized their pert rumps.

Whoever Beatrix was, something told him she wasn't wicked at heart, whatever her flaws. And he couldn't deny his heart raced at a potential chance to bed the two of them. Preferably at the same time. Already he felt his trident of cocks stir and strain in his pants, but shook aside his baser lusts to focus on their shared mission.

Explore. Deal with threats. Find the source of this madness. End this insanity. Then he could return home.

From a charred mountain, Grayscale Carnifex observed the threesome of wanderers with a smile filled with mirth.

Chapter 2

In their seemingly directionless travels, the trio eventually came upon a building half-buried in the dirt. It appeared to be a once solidly built structure, until a storm tore it apart and tossed aside pieces. Beatrix and Trixie instantly skipped forward to explore, and with a grunt Asphy treaded behind them. “Hey, don't be careless! We don't know if that'll collapse at any moment!”

Trixie smirked over her shoulder. “Where's your sense of adventure?”

“What my mom said,” added Beatrix with a wink, before the pair of them squatted down then went to all fours in an attempt to squeeze into a hole, their thong-clad, heart-shaped asses once more raised in his direction. Side-by-side, so close their butts touched, they wiggled their butts and wedged their way inside inch-by-inch. “Ouch! Careful, mom, or we could end up stuck in here!”

“Teehee! Maybe we need a little push,” mused Trixie. “Do the honors, Asphy!”

The one-eyed man stalked forward. “What exactly do you want me to...whoa!” Their combined auras enveloped him, drew him forward so he was forced to bend over, and guided his palms onto a buttock of each with, where his fingers sank into their impossibly soft, pliable assflesh. Their skin radiated warmth when he started to push, and forced them into the tunnel a bit at a time.

With a pop, they were shoved in. A second later, he slipped in after them.

His eye adjusted quickly to the dark. Once they'd emerged from the tunnel it was surprisingly roomy inside. The floorboards were tilted, and creaked under their steps, the whistle of the winds carried through the holes. He didn't expect to find much here, and after a few clumsy steps, Trix and Bea lit their unicorn horns in unison to illuminate the spacious, dusty corridors.

A door hung off its hinges. Other doors were torn off completely. They crossed a room entirely buried under sand, and one with chunks of furniture tossed about and overturned. “Not exactly sure what you two expect to find here. Just looks like a bunch of debris to me.”

Could this place be a barriered town? It wouldn't shock him at this point anymore. Asphy thought it over, as he saw how both Trixie and Bea were bending over to look at things, their heart-shaped asses on all but full display, each soft cheek malleable.
“You never know what one will find on their travels,” replied Trixie. “Why, I had to scour all kinds of trash to keep my caravan stocked! I've restored all kinds of props to keep my shows lively!”

Bea waved her aside. “Let's not bore him with details.”

“Aww, but I love the sound of my own voice! Boohoo.” She hip-checked her daughter aside, and the trio resumed their exploration. However, none of them turned up much of any interest.

“What a waste of time,” muttered Asphy to himself. Trying his best to not stare at the two beautiful women, he couldn't help but think they were flirting with him. He wished to add them to his hoard, however now wasn't the best time. And he wanted to ask them when he was at his best, not restrained like he was now.

“Maybe not,” replied Bea with a frown. “We sensed there was some sort of magic here. I thought it could lead us to this mysterious tome, or whoever wrote it, so perhaps it's really well hidden...?”

Trixie perked up. “Could be there's a secret passage here! Why don't you try feeling up the walls?” She pressed herself closer to Asphy with half-lidded eyes. “Or you could feel us up, mmm~?” True to their intuition, Bea eventually uncovered a thin space between a wall and waved them over. Asphy was glad for that, because he almost took Trixie up on her offer.

“Aha! I knew it! But we'll have to squeeze in one at a time,” she said, and slipped in first. It wasn't a bad view, with the way Bea heart-shaped ass wiggled into the opening with exaggerated jiggling. Before she was inside, he just hoped they didn't run into trouble.

“Hope you're not claustrophobic,” added Trixie, who started to follow.

Asphy held her back. “No, you last. You can keep the path behind us lit up.” She scrunched her face at him a little, but nodded and allowed him in first before she also squeezed in.

Gradually, they made their way in, inch-by-inch, while Bea and Trix worried aloud they could end up trapped here and suffocate, while he reassured him he could transform and bring the entire house down, were it necessary. Which he hoped wouldn't be, in case he needed such power later.

He found himself sandwiched between them when Bea announced, “I'm stuck! Can't press a step further!” She waved a hand into the empty space ahead. “Huh, but I can feel a breeze ahead! I'll need a push, Asphy! Think you can handle that?” She pressed her pert backside into him.

With a roll of his eyes, Asphy placed his hands on her the best he was able in the small space, and a soft moan escaped Bea's lips when one palm cupped one of her breasts, and the other, more metallic one a buttock, as his fingers sank into her soft, warm flesh. He tried to focus on the task at hand, but wedged between the nearly-naked bodies of the mother-and-daughter team, Trix's tits and twat shoved close to his other side, he felt his trident of three cocks start to swell in response.

His members practically burst from his attire into the open air, where one caught on the thong leotard of Bea's costume, pushed the butt floss aside, and his ridged and naturally lubricated middle shaft found itself lodged in her thong, where it brushed and rubbed on Bea's now bare pussy and asshole. Immediately he felt her wetness soak him. “Ooh~,” she moaned and grinded back onto him with titter. “L-like that...”

“Hey! Don't leave me out!” Trix shoved herself closer, and the three of them would have tumbled over were there more space available, but instead he found his right cock shoved forward to also brush across Bea's slick pussylips, which winked wetly on him; like she was still an anthropomorphic unicorn and not the human woman with a horn she'd become, while his left dick also shoved aside Trix's lower half of her leotard and teased across her warm, moist snatch which also winked madly.

The pair of women squirmed and rubbed on him, while Asphy clenched his teeth to stifle a sharp moan of his own. The slick friction made his trident cocks throb. He hissed, “Stop...struggling!” Yet both of his new partners shamelessly moaned and grinded themselves on him in an attempt to be free of the tunnel, Bea unintentionally in contrast to Trix, while he continually pushed harder on Bea.

“So...close...~,” whined Trixie.

“V-very close,” admitted Beatrix, her cheeks even pinker than her mother's. He growled deeply, as he thought fuck it and gave one thrust into both of them. For now, giving up on freeing Beatrix from where she was completely stuck.

Finally, with a wet pop, two of his cocks found their way home into Beatrix's lower holes. She yelped when he accidentally spread her pussy and asshole wide open, buried balls deep by Trix's shoves in the wet witch, and with a muted howl Bea closed her eyes and came on the spot. He felt her drench his crotch, milked his shafts with each needy wink, as she continued to ride out a climax.

Not to be left out, Trixie dropped any subtlety whatsoever, seized his last member with a mystic, colorful aura cast by her unicorn horn, and telekinetically shoved his last erect cock into her cunt. He easily slid into her pink tunnel, teased her folds and mashed on the spot that undid her, too. The dragon hybrid started to thrust slowly into both of them, picking up speed over time.

With a clumsy hand wave, Bea dematerialized the rest of their leotards, their naked, mildly sweaty bodies pressed into Asphy's own. Too late to turn back now, he rolled with it, kneaded Bea's tit and asscheek in his palms, rolled his hips the best he was able to in the cramped space to hump them. He drove small, multiple climaxes from the duo, who continued to absolutely soak him.

But despite himself, he couldn't last anymore, either. “Gah...! I'm...I'm about to-!”

“W-we have potions for that,” cried Beatrix between heated moans. “In-inside~!” Indeed, the drake-hybrid knotted the pair, felt his shafts flare and throb, then started to unload into them. Blast-after-blast of heated cum impacted their slippery wombs, which soon swelled to overflow like their now rounded bellies, which made the pair of them look like they were heavily knocked up. If it wasn't for the contract, they surely would have been.

Another wet pop sounded from Bea's soaked orifices when she fell free of him, tumbled forward and tripped on her heels, with a disembodied cry when she suddenly tumbled into an unseen abyss of darkness ahead. “Beatrix!” Trixie reluctantly yanked his cock free, consumed by concern.

“I'll save her,” he promised, and without further concern wither he'd tear the entire foundation down, strained his muscles to the fullest when his arms shoved into the walls. They creaked and cracked, dust tumbled on the pair of them, and with a snap the wood splintered and caved away.

A thud sounded. The dust settled. Trix's horn lit the hole ahead. Without another word, Asphyx scooped her up bridal-style, where the still nude, belly-swollen, and cum-filled woman clung to him when he dived down into the darkness, hopeful that Beatrix was still alive. He paid little attention to how his own members were still on display, and slowly descended into the pit. All thanks to his wings. Won't be able to use that trick for another few hours, he silently complained to himself.

Time seemed to slow. Minutes passed in their descent, silent expect for Trix's sharp intakes of breath. Finally, the pair touched down. Gently, he set her down and looked around.

It was spacious. And pleasantly warm. Not at all what he'd expected. Yet he smelt something, Asphy felt like he should somehow know this smell. Still, it was lost on him what it was…?

His lone eye focused on the dimness. Spotted a number of eyes that weren't quite human in the pitch, inky dark.

Then, the familiar shape of Beatrix's well-sculpted, heart-shaped bare ass swam into view. Hypnotized by the view, the witch's back remained turned to him while she also focused on whatever mysteries awaited ahead.

His metal-plated muscles tensed once more for combat when Bea desperately called out, “Wait! B-Bellatrix...? Bellatrix Primadonna, it's me!”

Gradually, a throne carved of bones and covered in skulls came into focus, and upon it sat a crimson-skinned succubus, complete with horns, wings, and fingernails akin to claws. Golden eyes studied the new arrivals, and when she rose and stood, tall and statuesque, her silken black locks trailed down her back. Her shapely curves were well-toned, hidden under a black leather bondage-style bikini. Her pursed lips carried a deeper, husky, yet feminine voice. “And who are you?”

“Beatrix Belladonna! Your sister! Well, not by blood, but-” She continued to ramble on.

Bellatrix raised a hand to silence her. “And your friends?”

“The Great and Powerful Trixie~!” She announced it with all the dignity she could muster in her naked, cum-bloated state. “Ahem. Trixie Lulamoon, traveler and unmatched maestro of mysticism! And my handsome yet taciturn friend and sometimes lover over here likes to call himself-”

“The Dragonfather. Or Asphy for short,” finished the drake-hybrid. “What type of demon are you?”

“A succubus,” explained the she-devil flatly. “As are my sisters here.” With arms folded under her heavy breasts, she nodded at the other succubi that collected around the bone throne, all of them also impossibly beautiful and in various states of undress. “I'm afraid, 'Beatrx Belladonna', that I don't recall who you are. Here, I rule as the uncontested Queen of Hell. What I wish is to put the barrens here to heel, to provide a measure of stability to this lawless, chaotic wasteland.”

Beatrix's breasts heaved when she exhaled. “Th-then we're on the same side...?”

“Hmph...we'll see,” answered Bella, whose eyes drifted over Bea's nude flesh, then Trix's, and finally settled on Asphy now limp trident of cocks, still beaded in cum and slick with feminine nectar. “Mmm, but perhaps we can trade. Much as I loathe to admit it, succubi need...male sustenance to survive, and other than horrific monsters that prowl the wastelands, we're in short supply.”

Trixie snickered. “You want us to pimp out Asphy here?” Please let that be a joke. Asphy thought to himself carefully looking for an exit, only to see more eyes. Didn't look like there was one, oh well, he's been in worse spots before.

“Crudely put,” replied Bella. “But yes. He isn't exactly my type, but we can't exactly afford to be picky here, and I'd prefer not to be bred by any hellhounds, or worse. We're starved. Help us take care of our needs, and you're free to stay. I'm certain you'll appreciate this more than we do.”

Asphy snarled a little. “Don't I have a say in this?” Nonetheless, he relented, unable to deny he'd appreciated that accidental tryst with Beatrix and Trixie, who no doubt would want to be properly laid later, now that they weren't trapped in a cramped space. He settled into the apparent void, which was soon lit with torches to aid them, like the succubi Asphy able to see clearly in the dark. It was also an excuse for Trixie and Beatrix to hold onto his arms.

However, Beatrix and Trixie were thankful for the torches that lit the gloom, their torchlight now casting shadows across the lit up curvature of the mother-and-daughter's denuded forms. Already, he could see the bands of thirsty succubi drink him in, like a piece of meat they wanted to drain dry. By contrast, the self-proclaimed 'Queen of Hell', Bellatrix Primadonna, kept her composure. He just hoped mother didn't find out, she wouldn't have let him live this down.

The women he'd traveled with didn't bother to redress when they sat in a circle with Bellatrix and explained their situation. “...so you see, we think someone's tried to make a copy of the Necronomicon, botched it, and released this hell dimension we've found ourselves in!”

“That sounds oddly plausible,” replied Bella to Bea. “So, about that tale you told me? About how I was but little more than a mindless animal in the many labyrinthine dimensions that made up the Necronomicon's interior, until Sombra freed me, and brainwashed me to love him and become his minion? Then, you rescued me from this life of servitude, and took me in like your own sister...?”

Bea answered, “That about sums it up, yeah. I know it's hard to believe-”

Bellatrix shook her head. “After the madness and horror I've seen? I could believe almost anything. Somehow, I believe every word of what you've said. I'm not sure whether my memories have been lost, altered....or if I'm even the same Bellatrix you knew. After all, you travel between dimensions.”

“Yes,” admitted Bea. “But you were plucked out at random from possibly millions of succubi in the Necronomicon! The odds that another version of you would achieve self-awareness is almost impossible! No, someway, somehow, you have to be the same Bellatrix Primadonna I know! Hell, Sombra named you that to mock me, but you chose to keep that name after we became sisters!”

“I can confirm most of that,” said Trixie. “Albeit, I didn't witness most of it first hand!”

Asphy listened in to the conversation, which allowed him to learn a little more about the past of the three women, while a number of succubi continued to eye him up. They came in a number of different types, some closer to human women, with others more demonic in nature, yet they were all uniquely beautiful, and posed themselves in provocative manners to tempt him.

He felt his members stir a little once more, half-erect with the knowledge he could pick and choose between these lovely ladies...or perhaps lay claim to several of them at once. His curiosity settled most on the 'Queen of Hell' herself, who he knew would be much harder to win over, despite her similar needs to the the rest of her succubi sisters. Gruffly, he sat down and tried to relax.

The moment he closed his eyes, he felt the first pair of full, wet lips close around one of his trident cocks. Then another pair. Then another. Yet it wasn't Beatrix, Trixie, or Bellatrix, but a number of the succubi that had stripped themselves down and helped themselves to a potential meal. They kissed and suckled on his shafts, determined to milk them dry and fill their bellies with his seed. He let out a soft growl as he rubbed the ear of one succubi, making them moan in the middle of trying to take one of his members completely into her mouth.

“Don't drain him dry too fast,” chided Bellatrix from the distance. “Remember, you can take sustenance from the seed you drink or smear on your skin, even more so when released into your bowels, but your womb is the most potent chamber of all! Let him cum inside you to feel sated!”

“Me first,” called one of the succubi, whose lips wetly popped off his middle cock, her mouth still tethered to his dick by thick strands of saliva mixed with precum. She had cat-like eyes, her hair pulled into a pair of spiky pigtails, her body slender and perky down to her nipples. Greedily, she mounted him and sunk his cocks into her, two of which reshaped her cunt and one in her ass.

“Hey,” cried another succubus that she'd yanked his dicks away from. “No fair!”

The succubus that mounted him moaned, “Oooh~! So full~!” Her thin belly distended from the pair of cocks that impaled her pussy, his last shaft barely separated by a thin layer of flesh as she also speared her ass on him and started to take him for the ride of his life as she raked his chest she bared. Grunts rose from him, his nostrils flared, as her small but shapely buttocks clapped on his lap.

“Fuck me,” she demanded. “Fuck your seed into me!” He clasped her pert buttcheeks, squeezed and spread them, as her tiny bat-like wings fluttered and her spaded devil tail swayed. She skewered her lower holes to the hilt on his lap, drenched it in her love nectar, crushed her needy lips to his own. For the first time he showed off his own fang-like teeth, thrusting back into the succubus to meet her wild humps.

Her breasts were small but very pointed, and he tenderly took one in his maw, suckled on it while she whimpered and whined, then did the same with the other tit, traced her nipples with his tongue and felt her spread, warm, and wet orifices squeeze around him each time she speared herself deep.

He didn't even know her name, or whether most succubi even bothered with names, but he lost himself in the moment, since he knew he'd have to keep them all pleased and well-fed. He'd fuck every last succubus here into a coma, were it necessary, in order to find this damned book and escape! However, while he continued to fondle and screw her, his eye fixated on a familiar face.

Always one to spoil the moment, Grayscale Carnifex manifested by them once more with a smirk on his face. “Don't worry,” said the reaper. “No one else here can perceive me...unless I want them to! No, I came to see first hand how your adventure's preceded! My, and what a day it's been!”

“Go...away...,” muttered Asphy under his breath, while he continued to stroke his lusty rider. Growling again, lucky for him the others didn't seem to notice this, as he felt the succubi bouncing faster now like a horny, feral animal.

“Now, now, don't be like that! You've taken another vital step on your journey to find the answers and freedom you seek! These lustful creatures will no doubt make suitable allies,” reassured the bald, robed man, his muscular bulk bundled up. “Bellatrix could be the key. She came from the Necronomicon...” Aware his intent had been passed on, the reaper decided to disappear.

By that time, the succubus atop Asphy had climaxed a number of times and absolutely drenched him, until he, too, tensed up and started to fire off into her. He painted her insides white, filled her to the brim like Trix and Bea, made her look like she was heavy with his children after he finished with her.

She slumped over him, nude and perspiration-soaked. No doubt a normal man would be exhausted, but his hybrid form made him more than a match for the typical succubi. Yet he doubted the 'Queen of Hell' would prove so easy, were she convinced to receive his seed.

The demon whimpered and collapsed across his chest, slumped over and half-asleep. One of his cocks popped out of her gapes ass, running free with his seed. Already, the other succubi that had helped sucked him off pushed and crowded him for their own turns, but pouted and snarled when he shooed them away. “You'll have to wait a little while,” he said. Giving them a look that made them stop, just for a moment. Yet they seemed to settle back into trying to pleasure his lower half. But this time it was much calmer and less of a frenzy.

Instead, his attention wandered once more to Bella, Bea, and Trix, who continued to discuss the Necronomicon, a cursed tome said to cross dimensions and seek new hosts. Filled with the most potent black arts, which Sombra once coveted. A copy with even a fraction of its power could potentially prove a weapon of mass destruction. Especially were its contents to contain its own plethora of twisted demons!

“...what I don't understand is the architecture here,” huffed Trixie. “It makes no sense!”

“I've noticed the same,” confessed Bellatrix with a hushed exhale. “I'm uncertain whether its due to a dimensional collapse, or its simply the supernatural properties of this realm. We uncovered a hole in reality, explored it for a time, then after we determined it safe claimed it for our own. Not a sole demon has otherwise found its way here so far in the weeks we've been here. Unfortunately, we needed to surface and hunt to survive. Until the three of you stumbled on our home.”

“Y-yeah,” muttered the half-conscious succubus about Asphy. “Yeah, we need semen to survive, but I'd rather not let any demon have their way with me, especially those mutts topside!”

“Uh-huh,” said one of the succubi near her. “The last pack ran a train on this bitch and humped the hell out of her!” The third succubus giggled, while the first which he'd fucked senseless shot them the finger, content to cuddle atop him with one of his softened cocks still nestled deep within her.

“You'll all have your turn,” assured Bella. “For now, let them settle in and make themselves at home. This solitary void isn't the Hell I wished to rule over, but more of our succubi sisters must be out there, and should our new allies be up to it, I'd like to request their aid to help rescue them.”

“I'll always have your back,” noted Bea. “Just like you've had mine!”

“And I'm with my little hellspawn,” assured Trix, who embraced her with a sly smile.

Asphy sat up, the sleepy succubus cradled in one arm, silent for a moment. “...tch. Fine. I prefer to work alone, but this way we can cover more ground faster. Wouldn't exactly be a cinch to explore miles upon miles of wasteland by my lonesome, anyway. But I need to eat, too.”

“I'm sure we can find you suitable sustenance,” said Bella. “Meat, I assume?”

“Yeah, mostly. But thanks to this hybrid form, I'm an omnivore. Need lots of water, too. Especially after I've been drained several times today. Need to keep my equipment in tip-top shape, too.” His blade appeared clean, even after the half-assed way he'd wiped it, no doubt because it was arcane. The executioner's broadsword had already proven its worth, when it cleaved hellhounds in two. Yet he really wished to use his cutlass, lost on his trip here.

After a short discussion ended, he closed his eyes and settled in to sleep. His dreams wandered to whatever awaited ahead. Of the devils and sorcerers that would without doubt try to deter them. However he did open one eye as a number of succubi cuddled up to him, and rolled his eye before going back to sleep. He'll deal with that later.

Chapter 3

The moment Asphyxious awakened, rather than lay into the rest of the succubi like many of them no doubt hoped, he instead scrounged out what pack of tools he had on him. “Bah. Not much to work with,” he muttered, most of his supplies lost when he'd been ripped away from his realm and tossed into this one. He emptied his pockets, but couldn't find much more of use despite his hopes. He had managed to uncover a few useful raw materials from the local area, at least.

A shadow fell over him, cast by the aura from a unicorn horn, and when his head turned aside his eye was met with a pair of heavy, suspended, and still bare breasts topped by wide, erect nipples in the draft. The buxom witch in question named Trixie asked, “What are you up to?”

“Alchemy. I have my tool kit but not much in the way of tools,” he replied. Taking out a cylinder, he started to fill it with a mixture of dust and powders.

“Ooh, alchemy? I can help with that!” His head turned in the direction of the second, more chipper voice, met by a twin pair of bared and voluptuous breasts that swayed like pendulums when the second witch, Beatrix, tittered with an audible, “Teehee! I do have some skill in that...”

“Show me,” he practically commanded, only for Bea to turn and bend over, her shapely bare ass practically pushed into his face. No doubt to tempt and tease him as she slowly waved her bodacious buns, which quivered. He really didn't think it was necessary, but maybe she was a little mad, like himself. Then, she shot up and displayed her own tool kit. “Here we are!”

“Where did you...nevermind.” He'd already seen them summon and banish their costumes, so surmised it must be a similar trick. “Yeah, that'll do.” He reached for the kit and she pulled it back.

“Not so fast! I want in!” Beatrix and trixie sat around him.

“....bah. Fine, whatever. Just hand it over.” After a moment, Bea nodded, and handed a portion of her supplies over, which included a number of mixtures in vials. He busied himself with what looked like a casual viewer to colorful stones. Over the next hour, the three of them worked in tandem, and when he fashioned his first crude creation the smell that hit his nostrils earlier sparked his memories. “Gunpowder. That's what it was. Or at least one component to it.” He focused on the finished weapon. Grenades.

The last ingredient for them was the black crystal that was in his scale. He carefully rendered it down into dust and used a small amount for each one. What would happen once these things went off? Hopefully a flash bomb, or at worst, a chaotic fire bomb.
“Not really a fan of weapons,” confessed Bea. “I often use my alchemy for, well, fun stuff!”

“Usually sexy stuff,” teased Trix with a smirk. “That reminds me, my little hellspawn...semen is also a useful component for certain potions.” She batted her eyelashes at the drake-hybrid.

He turned aside and considered it. “...maybe after I've taken care of all the succubi.” The one he'd practically fucked into a coma slept with a blissful expression on her face, and no doubt many of her 'sisters' would be next. Bellatrix watched him cautiously, as if to feel out whether to trust him.

Instead, he felt warmth settle into his lap when Trixie sat down to face him. “How about now?” Her horn's aura directed his palms, which settled onto her well-shaped bare buttocks and sank in. Despite how sore and tired he still was, his members stirred back to life in his pants. She reminded him of his queen, oh how he missed her. Well, until he found out she was turned into a Lich Lord. He still loved her.

Her lips met his own. He deepened the kiss, rolled her asscheeks in his palms, squeezed, kneaded, and spanked them while her aura impatiently fumbled with his zipper and fished out his cocks, his lap already stained by her warm, wet cunt settled atop it, which oozed out its lube with each wink.

Bea planted hands on her hips with a frown, left out. Until Asphy lifted Trix up by the hips, spun her around, and placed her on all fours, then seized Bea and stacked her atop her mother so that their sweet fuckholes faced him. Without ceremony he all but ripped off his pants, reared up, and mounted them, two of his cocks pushed into Trix's hot twat and ass, the last in Bea's pussy.

A pleasant yelp escaped the mother-and-daughter when he started to ride them, their asses left to ripple and clap each time he drove his firm hips into them and skewered them balls deep. “Rougher...harder...,” cried Trix, as he landed a harsh spank on her buttcheek that left his hand print behind and simultaneously pulled on her hair, which made them clenched harder around him. He let out a deep, throaty growl.

Gathered succubi watched and waited for their turns. Some of them openly masturbated.

“Finally,” muttered Bea. “We'll be...huff...properly fucked!” She yelped anew when his free hand slammed onto her ass, squeezed it firmly, and sank his thumb into her puckered asshole.

“Don't waste cum,” whined one of the succubi. “I'm starved!”

Bellatrix Primadonna, too, rose from her throne, arms still crossed beneath her bust when she strolled over with a sway of her hips, her lips pursed, and her eyes narrowed. She took the three of them in while Asphy mated the witches, who squirted messes behind and all over him. When this is all over, maybe he should find some way to modify them to feed off of emotions, like the changelings?

“I take it you two do this often,” said Bella drly.

“Y-yeah,” panted Bea between moans. “I-I have this...huff...condition...makes me super horny...”

Trixie continued for her. “Because my little hellspawn was...fuck...supposed to be this 'Dark Messiah' that would...shit...huff...master the Necronomicon and raise hell! Oh, yes~!”

Grunts rose from Asphy when he answered, “All the more reason to find that copy then!” He kneaded harder, planted more firm spanks on the submissive sluts wrapped around his cocks. And burn the damned thing, he thought to himself while he fucked.

With each thrust, their titties swung and swayed, bounced and jiggled, their vocalizations a cacophony of moans. Sweat rolled down all their bodies when he railed them fast and hard like Trixie demanded, despite the ache in his muscles, and he felt his members swell and spread them further. All the while, the folds of their moist pink pussies and their assholes milked him.

Inevitably, he burst. Buried the knots at the base of his shafts in them, then let loose spray-after-spray of cum that made them swell up like before, their interiors impacted with such force they squirted all over him anew. “Fuck,” he cried back. “Take it...take my virile seed!”

He filled them to the brim. Listened to the sweet music of their continuous moans. And, once he finished, with a fresh slap on their asses at the same time with both palms, withdrew. Gaped holes popped and oozed his cum. Instantly, succubi pushed him back and beset their cum-soaked orifices, audily slurped his semen free from their cunts and assholes, Bea's also hit by a stray shot of cum when he'd withdrawn, where it settled into her puckered pink rectum that clenched and unclenched. Another succubus dived to suck up what cum she could from his three dicks.

He seized this one's curled horns. Drove her head down and humped into her face to help her clean him off. Greedily, the she-devils licked and lapped up even the stray drops of cum he'd cast. As much as he disliked this shell, at least he didn't run the risk of going into a rut. Or he would
be stuck here for weeks, a slave to his draconic instincts.

Bella shook her head. “You know how I value your freedom, sisters. But nor should we carry ourselves like wild animals. I trust he'll have far more to offer us...once he's ready.”

His eye met hers. “And what about you? I'd think the queen would want first-dibs.”

“I take care of my sisters first. Especially since more of them have only been recently awakened from their wilder states and thus made aware. Besides,” added Bella with further narrowed eyes. “I'm not like other succubi.” She hunched down to meet his face. “I only top and submit to no man.”

He chuckled and continued to use the she-demon's horns like handlebars while she sucked him off. “Be that as it may. Doesn't matter to me. But you'll need to partake eventually to survive. As much as we both want to try something else.”

“Yes...on my own terms.” Bella slowly turned with a swish of her wide hips, her leather-clad, bikini-bottom in his face, and flicked her spaded tail close to his eye when she walked away.

His attention spun back to the succubi that looked at his tool kit. “Careful with that,” he warned. “Those are explosives. You could blow your hands off! Or worse...” With a few thrusts into the she-demon's mouth and throat, he fired off a few weak cumshots into her belly, all but drained.

Thankfully, when Bellatrix returned his nostrils picked up the aroma of cooked meat. She delivered his meal on a tray carved of bone, and likewise delivered cups of water to Bea and Trix. “Don't ask where the meat came from,” she warned him for his sake. Asphy had eaten worse. “But it should be safe for you. Unfortunately, I don't think we can properly feed the rest of our new allies, not in this land.”

Beatrix, now cleaned by a female demon who'd sucked every last bit of cum from her womb, clumsily rolled over, and with a hand wave, summoned a supply of rations. “D-don't worry about us,” she huffed with heaves of her breasts. “Not the tastiest, but we came prepared!”

“Mmm,” noted Trixie, who also rolled over. “Dried fruits, and ooh, peanut butter crackers!”

“I know it's your favorite~,” said Bea with a wink and smile. She also procured her portable tea set, steamed the provided water, and sat across from her mother when they ate.

Asphyxious ate in silence, as the flavor of cooked and salted meat settled on his tongue. He wiped the juices off his chin with the back of his hand and grunted. “Not bad. But how did you cook this? Magic?” The queen nodded, made a balled up fist, and lit it with hellfire that crackled, the super-heated flames partly torched black. “Huh. With the right spells you could probably form a mini nuke with those hands.”

“That I likely could,” admitted Bella. “But I wouldn't want to risk harm to my sisters.” She snuffed out the blaze. “Each one still needs to discover who they really are. Emotionally, they're immature, and demons are amoral by nature. Most live by the unspoken code, survival of the fittest.”

He asked, “Do they have names?”

She nodded. “Each one picks her own. The first one you slept with calls herself Kismet.” The lithe, spiky-haired she-demon was still half-asleep. “The horned one whose throat you made use of is Xanadu.” The more shapely devil in question was still dizzy after he'd face-fucked her senseless.

“I'll remember it,” he said between bites, meat pulled and shredded by his teeth before he swallowed the pulverized chunks down. His belly full, he took a swig of water to wash it down. Much as he hated to admit it, Beatrix was a far more skilled alchemist, no doubt since she'd been at it since she was a child. Yet she also struggled to craft tools of death, unlike him. Soon, he helped finish over a couple dozen explosives. Gunpowder filled his nostrils once more to overpower the reek of sex.

A few hours passed while he rested in a seated position. Thankfully, Bellatrix kept her horny band of followers at bay until he was ready, much to their audible and visible disappointment.

By the time his sole eye opened, he stretched and yawned wide. Bella informed him the succubi needed to hunt, and he'd have to help replenish their reserves. Thus, he turned his attention to another pair of succubi that had helped sucked him off and cleaned him earlier.

He turned between the two. “And your names?”

“Nymphette,” said a short-haired one, also on the thin side but shapeful in the right places. Giggling, she pressed her naked body close to him and ran a nail down his chest with a smile. “Bellatrix thinks she's lived over a thousand years in the Necronomicon, but the rest of us? Could be centuries. No one knows for sure. But that doesn't really matter, does it? Do what comes natural!”

“Sanguine,” practically hissed the second demon, more physically built in contrast to her more petite partner, with a more brutish, savage countenance, but nonetheless attractive in her own wild way. “I'm a natural born warrior, unlike most soft tempresses here! Think you can handle me?”

“One way to find out,” he answered, drew Sanguine in closer too with a claw around her waist, and drove his cocks into the pair, who moaned at the penetration, one in Nymphette's pussy and two into Sanguine's cunt and asshole, determined to make the wilder demon fold. Immediately, he set to fuck them into submission, their plush, fertile bodies rocked each time he pounded them.

They writhed on him. Twisted with pleasure and screamed it without shame with each piston into their slick, moist depths. Their breasts bounced, Nymphette's small and perky ones, Sanguine's much heavier pair, but each carried an ample ass that clapped under his fierce, staccato thrusts.

Their backs arced, and they pleaded aloud to receive his seed. He was thankful they hadn't simply tried to chain him up and milk his balls for what they were worth. Sure, he could probably take most of them in dragon form, but they could overwhelm him with sheer numbers, and the self-proclaimed 'Queen of Hell' in particular could have been a problem. Even he likely couldn't tank too many direct hits from hellfire, nor was he sure what else she could prove capable of!

He rode them until they threatened to buckle. Plundered their fuckholes for all they were worth. Ran his hands across their supple, sweaty flesh, amazed by the various shades of exotic colors each succubi came in, the better to draw the eye and attract a potential male to feed upon.

They howled. Drenched him. He knotted them. Groaned and pumped their wombs full.

The pair of them went limp, dropped onto the dark floor of the void, left to ooze his cum. And like before, whatever their interiors didn't absorb into was slurped and sucked out by other succubi that rushed to feast on their well-used fuckholes. More started to suck him off and clean him.

Most men would have stayed here forever to satisfy their baser nature. But he still had a mission. Also, a debt to pay, and thankfully his followers kept the lost souls from that world. Sadly, that only paid off half of it. It was ridiculous to him.

“That should do it for now,” announced Bellatrix. “Everyone that's capable, prepare for the hunt!”

He cocked an eyebrow. “...and what about you?”

“I've kept most of my power in reserve until it's needed,” explained Bella. “...but much as I'm loath to admit it, I may eventually require a pick me up on the battlefield. Until then, you'll have to content yourself with fantasies about me. Beatrix, Trixie, are you two able to help?”

“One-hundred and ten percent,” assured Trixie, who took a cocky stance with a hand on one hip.

“Ditto,” nodded Beatrix, who copied her mother's movements, the pair still naked while they posed. Then, with waves of their hands, the duo materialized their complete costumes back over them. He wondered if they could fix his pants? He really should have thought about that more before tearing them off. Thankfully, he'd later learn the witches could summon him more.

It was decided the hunting party would consist of the four succubi he'd mated, the witches, the Queen of Hell, himself, and a sizable score of other she-demons, while the rest would remain behind to protect their lair in case any other surprises stumbled upon it. Even most of the warriors dressed in more fetish-attire than proper armor, and armed themselves for the bloodshed ahead.

By the time they flew up from the pitch blackness, Asphy thankful he'd rested enough to use that trick again, they made their way from another portion of the partially demolished house and out into the open. The scorched, barren wasteland stretched before the eyes of the hunters.

The blotted sun nonetheless baked down on them. Bellatrix directed them to quickly move into action, since she didn't want any wanderers to track their chosen lair. Within moments, they put some distance between the domicile and themselves, before they tried to choose a direction.

Trixie asked, “Which way? One direction could be the same as the next!”

“Not necessarily,” answered Bella, who nonetheless was at a loss. “Usually, we rely on instinct...” Asphy turned to Bella, maybe they could become future followers? If they can curb that insatiable lust, he thought to himself.

Beatrix heaved her shoulders. “Flip a coin?” She tittered nervously.

Asphyxious turned about. And from the corner of his eye spotted Grayscale, adorned by a smile while a robed hand pointed in one direction. “...tch. This way. Follow the cracks.” His boot kicked at the torn up earth and cast a cloud of dust. As much as he hated this, the faster they got this done, the better. After a moment, Bella nodded and they followed.

Somehow, while they traversed the dry, endless miles, he'd expected more resistance. He kept his hand positioned by his broadsword, swept his eye about for possible ambushes, certain they were watched. Bella obviously felt it too, fully aware and on alert from her tensed posture.

Aside from the occasional stones, bones, boulders, or pits, the surface proved empty.

Finally, they came upon fractured and overturned columns. Buildings carved of marble had fallen into ruin, half-buried under dust and sand. Whatever civilization had once been here, perhaps ancient, lost to the decay of time and weather. From what he'd heard, like him the succubi were effectively immortal...so was Beatrix, frozen to forever remain in her early-to-mid twenties. Being immortal was overrated, at least he can still die. Just meant sleeping for a few hundred years until nature took its course.

Trixie was the sole exception here, forced to down brewed potions to slow the onset of entropy. A painful reminder to Beatrix that, every time she hopped dimensions then returned home, her mother would slide closer to death. Yet Trixie didn't want to hold her back, either!

“This must be the place,” said Asphy, who couldn't see Grayscale anymore. So this was as far as the so-called reapers could go, he thinks, snorting smoke from his flared nostrils.

Bellatrix nodded. “Indeed. It's like we were led here for a reason. I can feel it. Girls, fan out in teams and look around, but don't stray far. There's always a chance more threats lurk here...”

Cracks spider-webbed the abandoned, sunken structures. They encountered an occasional statue of men and women, some clothed or in armor, others partially or completely denuded, also chipped, fractured, or dismembered from impact once they'd fallen and the chaotic weather. Jars were shattered, whatever water they harbored dissolved, much like the empty pool at the center.

“Wait,” called Asphy. “The cracks in this pool are pretty wide. Bet someone could easily slip into them.” He knelt to peer into them, and saw that indeed, a stairway awaited below. What truly worried him was the smell of this place, it reeked of copper. Yet there wasn't a single piece of the metal anywhere.

“Just like last time,” said Trixie with a shake of her head. “It doesn't make any sense!”

Beatrix nodded. “It's like parts of this world have been slapped together haphazardly! Like...like...” She clutched her skull, which throbbed the harder she concentrated to remember. Some other planet which was made up of chunks from other worlds, friends and foes she'd met...

Bellatrix had been there...and Trixie...and...and.... But she couldn't recall, no matter how hard she tried! So instead, frustrated, she and Trixie volunteered themselves to search the cracked pool!

Once more, they banished their capes and pointy hats which were only in the way, and the two witches attempted to squeeze into a hole at the same time. Both ended up face down, ass up, their heart-shaped derrieres pointed in his face when they waved back-and-forth as they squirmed.

Butt-floss left most of their lower holes exposed when the fabric stretched, unable to contain their ample assets, which threatened to fully burst from their confines. “Give us a push,” came an echoed, muted cry from the dark, and with an eye roll he planted his palms back on their butts. If they just wanted him to breed them raw, they could have just asked, he thought while lazily shaking his head.

His touch sank back into their supple flesh, cradled a buttock of each witch and shoved them forward. Yet no matter how much he pushed, they hardly moved. “You've really done it this time,” he mumbled, in equal parts irritation and amusement while he was free to fondle their asses.

“Ooh~!” Trixie moaned. “Don't let up~!”

“Uh-huh,” added Beatrix, as he kneaded and ran circles around their pliable buttcheeks.

Their costumes dematerialized into the ether, the drake-hybrid found himself held within their combined auras, and his pants simultaneously unzipped when they pulled him closer. This time, two of his cocks sank into Bea's holes, the last in Trix's twat, which enveloped him in warmth and wetness. “Rail us,” they called in unison. “Put your hips into it and don't hold back! Fast and hard!”

He did as commanded, skewered them relentlessly and without mercy. At the same time he brutally slapped their asses, left furious red hand prints on cheeks that rippled and quivered with each audible clap. Their sweet moans and cries met his ears, spatters of their honey lust on his lap.

He fucked into their holes. Pierced past the cervix and claimed their wombs, his cockheads battered into their slippery walls. It should have been painful, but maybe they'd taken those 'stretchy potions' he'd overheard them discuss, and he certainly received no complaints from his technique.

Violent humps met the submissive sluts. To breed them. Dominate them. Make them squeal.

“Close...so close...!” He could hear Trix's whines reverberate.

“Just...a little...more...!” Bea, too, added to the erotic chorus as they winked, squeezed, and milked him, and all the while he continually pounded the pair into submission to free them.

By the time he knotted them, and released a fresh explosive blast of cum into their fissures, the impact popped them off him and caused them to tumble into another pit. Trixie cried, “Oof!” More of his shots rained below, and she yelped, the witches slathered in more of his thick loads.

Bea called back, “You okay mom? Ouch! Think we landed on our fannies!”

“I'll kiss it and make it better,” teased Trix, which made him roll his eye some more, at least reassured they were fine since they could kid around. “Damn, all this cum is so sticky and runny! We're practically covered head-to-toe in spunk! And when do these stairs end, anyway?”

“One way to find out,” said Bea, who smacked her lips as she sampled his cum. “Huh, not bad!”

Junk tucked back into his pants, like before he strained his muscles to widen the crack. Stone crumbled and caved, until he, too, was able to see the steps that wound deeper into darkness. “Don't move too far,” he yelled from cupped hands. “I'll fetch Bellatrix and the other succubi!”

Fortunately, he didn't need to travel far to locate one of them. Soon, the word was passed around, many of the succubi able to fly and report, until Bellatrix made sure every last one was accounted for. “Leave it to Beatrix to simply stumble on the solution,” said Bella. “It does feel familiar.”

“She did say she's meant to be some 'Dark Messiah',” he recounted skeptically. "If I'm being honest, I think someone's trying to turn your sister into a goddess of lust. Not sure how I should feel about that."

Bellatrix stroked her chin. “Indeed. Maybe she truly does find herself drawn to the darkness, like she claims. That would help explain why she came upon me, in this life and the supposed last. But that could also mean what we seek is truly below. Come. The witches need us.” She flew in first, followed by her fellow she-devils, some which carried others that weren't blessed with such talents.

Once, when first awakened, many of the female demons had been at each other's throats. Jealousy, paranoia, confusion, blind fury...it had taken much effort for Bellatrix to break them of such habits. “Each of you are sisters,” she told them. “And if you choose to remain, you must behave.”

While she believed in individual freedom, Bellatrix also needed to maintain a level of order for everyone to survive. And to save more like them, scattered in the wastelands, each potential prey for the bands of abominations that roamed them and could hunt them to extinction.

They descended towards the bottom. All sense of time was lost. The scent of copper was getting stronger down here, it made Asphy reach for the hilt of the sword a number of times. They haven't seen it, yet he was sure something was lurking down here.

And once they reached the end, a shrine which hadn't been demolished loomed ahead. Gasps rose and were swallowed down by Beatrix, who'd taken the lead. “It...it's impossible...!”

Trixie furrowed her brow. “Another familiar face, my little hellspawn?”

“A few of them,” replied Bea in a hushed whisper. More concealed memories threatened to come back, aroused by familiar faces, a number of allies rooted ahead in the shrine. No, more like an altar, she realized, one made for sacrifices, her eyes cast to a raised curved knife cast in the dark...

The arm that held the blade started to fall. Someone shrilly screamed.

Chapter 4

The knife arced down. A woman draped naked across the slab below screamed, her hot pink eyes wide with terror, her loose mane a similar shade. Beatrix and Trixie immediately seized the blade with their combined auras, its wielder's arm shaken. “Cerise Silhouette,” called Bea to an old friend she'd seen blossom from a baby to an adult over her travels, the dancer's bare breasts of a medium size that complimented a body blessed to be slim, toned, and shapely all-at-once.

Cerise's breasts heaved, pinned to the rock by an unseen force. “Wh-who are-?”

“No time,” shouted Asphy, his executioner's broadsword already drawn when he rushed in. Only now did he understand what that smell was, it was iron, not copper, it was blood! Years of its stink, soaking the ground.

“Agreed,” said Bellatrix, who kicked off her clawed feet and took to the air. “Sisters, back them up!” Xanadu, Nymphette, Sanguine, Kismet, and a number of succubi that she hadn't shared the name of moved into action behind her, into the shrine, where the altar awaited at the stair top.

Bea's eyes met the cultists at the top, saw the stones were decorated in complicated arcane symbols drawn in the same black ooze she'd seen the hellhounds reduced to after defeat. A man and a woman, the latter with the restrained knife in hand. “Shadow Scythe,” she whispered with ambivalence, a once bitter foe turned ally. “And...Mortis Saltaire? No, it's Danse Macabre?”

The male reaper, dressed in black, harbored a certain dorky demeanor, but otherwise appeared plain and nondescript. Not particularly handsome nor offensive to the eye, his hair short and dark. He balked at the pandemonium that erupted, his medium build visibly shaken as he paled further.

Of more interest to her was the self-proclaimed 'Shadow Scythe', once traitor to the reaper order, killer, talented sorceress, stealer of souls to empower herself. Beautiful in an icy cold manner, she carried herself with stiff detachment and cool passion, her lips drawn in a sneer, her eyes a hollow azure shade and her dense mane white, which fell like a waterfall down her thin, tall frame. She clad herself in white, each member of the order a representation of a different form of death.

“Don't just stand there,” commanded Shadow Scythe with a low hiss. “Use the book!”

“Uh...y-yeah,” replied Danse, who drew a tome hidden in the folds of his robes. A copy of the Necronomicon, its cover composed of numerous faces frozen in screams, the flesh dried, stretched, and stitched. Hastily he opened the cover and started to murmur alien words.

Bella fists hurled a chunk of brimstone, wrapped in hellfire. Danse ducked on reaction, barely summoned a creature in time, the animated skeleton reduced to blackened bones that scattered and rained around the cultits. Glowing runes on the tattered pages continued to activate, and more skeletons hurled themselves from the interior, expanded to meet a rush of wild succubi.

Shadow Scythe cursed under her breath. “Must I do everything myself?” The weapon of her namesake materialized in her thin arms, and she floated to meet her foes in a flutter of her white mane and robes. She met Bella head on in mid-air as their minions clashed around them.

Bea's concern was more with Cerise, whose side she rushed to. “Watch my back,” she told her mom, who nodded. Then, the witch asked the dancer. “Are you okay? Can you walk?”

“Y-yeah. Shadow Scythe and Danse Macabre can't hold me down anymore, now that they're distracted.” Shakily, Cerise Silhouette padded to her feet, her skin darker to match her namesake. “Thank you! They wanted to sacrifice me to further empower that weird tome!”

“Mmhmm. We'll talk about it later,” reassured Bea, who took her hand to lead her away.

“Not so fast,” warned Danse, who stepped in their path to block them, as more creatures continued to pour from his book, which Trixie was forced to deal with in a slew of her own spells that lit the air with prismatic beams. “I-I don't want to hurt you! Just surrender, and-”

“What? You sacrifice her?” Bea planted hands on her wide hips.

“She's supposed to die! Reapers have ways to discern that! It's the natural balance,” he pleaded.

“Like this? I don't buy it! Shadow Scythe probably wants to steal Cerise's power,” she snapped.

He furrowed his brow, barely able to hold the tome as its pages, his dark hair, and his black robes fluttered in the wind each time it flashed and more skeletons hopped out in miniature form before they swelled to full size behind him. “Power? What power? Isn't she simply a dancer-?”

Cerise pursed her face in a pout. “I don't know what...ah-!” The witch's words had somehow awakened something within her, like a distant memory, her palms raised on instinct when she summoned chunks of crystalline that blossomed around Danse's feet to restrain him.

“Huh-?” He almost toppled over, his book dropped and left to roll down the altar stairs.

“How did I-?” But she barely had time to question it, as skeletons threatened to overwhelm Trixie and advanced on Beatrix and Cerise, whose pink eyes widened more as she summoned a spear made of crystal into her hands. “W-wow!” The dancer couldn't remember a time when she'd thrown down in her life, but somehow her wiry muscles moved naturally when she rushed into action.

The summon of crystals came naturally to her, yet she found while she could hurl them or summon them from surfaces, she couldn't simply bind anyone in mid-air, much as she tried to mentally pin Shadow Scythe, whose scythe continued to clash with Bellatrix's hellfire-bound chains and the crimson knife she wielded to counter blow-after-blow each time they connected.

The succubi helped Asphy deal with the rest of the fodder, the shrine littered in bones. “Bah,” spat Asphy. As he crushed the head of one with his metal hand, the rest of its bones fell to the ground. “Small fry. A waste of my talents. Anyone can animate the bones of the dead.” Despite his complaints, his muscles trained with each swipe of his broadsword, severed and smashed bones to dust under his furious blows.

He'd been tempted to finally pull out his dragon form and let loose, but these animated, almost mindless skeletons weren't worth the effort, especially since he wouldn't be able to call on his trump card for a while after he used it. Danse Macabre didn't look like too much of a serious threat, but this Shadow Scythe, on the other hand? Yes, she could be a worthy opponent!

Yet she and Bella appeared pretty evenly matched, neither able to definitively win their clash. It was best to wait for now and see how things played out.

“Sex demons,” spat Shadow Scythe. “Probably summoned from the Necronomicon itself!”

“Does it matter where they came from? They're my sisters, they deserve a chance at freedom and happiness! Give me the book,” she demanded, her crimson knife inches from her throat.

“Got it,” said Nymphette with a mischievous snicker, the tome in her small hands. “Hey!” She planted her spaded tail on the floor to dance away from a skeleton that reached for her.

“Leave the bastards to me,” bellowed Sanguine, whose muscled arms caved in the creature's skulls. She wiped away the dust with a boastful smirk. “Who's next? Come on, you sorry bastards!” Greedy eyes searched for the best skulls to adorned her scanty armor, trophies for her win!

“Thank you! But I had a handle on the situation!” Nymphette scurried away to safety.

“Sure you did,” answered the more tall, well-built succubus warrior. She padded into battle on all fours like a feral animal, pounced on another skeleton and ripped its skull clean off.

Xanadu's curled horns shone in the dark when she licked one of her nails, her eyes half-closed. “Mmm...too bad they don't have a shred of flesh on them. That's no fun~.” Nonetheless, she channeled the black arts, her hands erupted into purple-black flames she'd learned from Bella.

The blasts rocketed into the waves. Reduced them to dust. She raised a hand to her mouth and yawned, a wide hip thrust out, borely zapping the summoned undead that proved no match.

“How dull,” she lamented. “These are the villains behind this disaster?”

“Yeah,” said Kismet, who hummed and skipped into the war zone. “I expected lots more~!” Despite her playful demeanor, when her booted heel kicked out and the struck skeleton caved in.

“Don't you dare underestimate me!” Shadow Scythe, despite her announcement, was pushed back by Bella's barrage, the Queen of Hell's combination of strength, speed, stamina, and various skills able to close the gap between the reaper's slightly superior speed and far more potent magic. By the second, she found herself pushed back, driven into a corner by Bella's relentless assault.

“You're finished,” hissed Bella, knife ready to be driven into the reaper's heart.

“Wait,” cried Beatrix. “Don't kill her!”

“Why not?” Nevertheless, while Bella kept her pinned, a knife to her throat, she stayed her hand.

“We...we may need her to find out what happened here! And to learn about that weird book!” Beatrix raced to find excuses, aware the Shadow Scythe she'd known had become a heroine...but that was only after she'd been 'brainwashed' to feel empathy. Could she be redeemed here...?”

“I say kill her,” replied Sanguine, more undead smashed in her muscled arms. “We'll find the truth on our own! Besides, she looks pretty tasty, despite how scrawny she is!” She smacked her lips.

“Save a bite for me~,” said Kismet with a whistle.

By now, they were able to easily round up and pulverize the last of the undead summons after Nymphette snapped the book closed. Trixie kept watch over Danse Macabre and cast him the stink eye, the nerdy reaper still bound by crystals at his ankles, and he dared not cast a retaliatory spell.

“Now for some answers,” demanded Bella.

“About time,” said Asphy, who lowered his sword but kept it at the ready. "This was one of the most abysmal summoning of the dead I have ever seen. Did you even bother to perform the rites before imbuing them with magic?"

Shadow Scythe's empty eyes betrayed no fear, even pinned with a crimson knife at her throat by the succubus, but nonetheless she spat, “None of you understand anything. This world's on the verge of collapse, and we're the only ones that can save it. Danse Macabre and I are the stewards of death.”

Danse Macabre nodded. “I don't want to sacrifice anyone, but reapers can see who's doomed to die, and Cerise is one fated to be lost. Not only that, she harbors a dark power in her! It will be released once she's breathed her last, and will buy us time until we can escape this doomed planet!”

Cerise whispered, “C-can my death really help save people...?” She called upon her crystals, tried to form a costume that fit her form...simply for most of the second, shimmery skin to crumble into shiny dust, aside from a patch over her vulva, and another over her nipples. She blushed hotly, summoned a new outfit, only for it to crumble like before with a bounce of her breasts and buttocks each time she repeated the attempt several times. “What the hell? Why am I stuck in this perverted outfit?” She stomped a foot in frustration, tried-and-tried, with the same bouncy results.

“It appears everyone here is bound by certain unspoken rules,” observed Shadow Scythe coolly. “And yes, your demise would help maintain the natural order, which has been broken down.”

Beatrix cut in, “Why not sacrifice some of the monsters out there?”

Danse shook his head. “We've already tried that. Constructs are almost worthless to our ritual.”

"It's true, any magical construct is still made by magic. Without a soul it would be like trying to keep a fire going with matchsticks." Asphy explained getting looks from a few of them. "What? I know my magic, I'm not a complete meathead here."
“We'd need to cull thousands of them,” further explained Shadow. “And that would take too much time. I can see it in your eyes, Cerise. You've considered it. And if you're ready to lay down your life...” She winced when Bella's blade drew a sliver of blood, but maintained her stare on Cerise.

Beatrix marched protectively in front of the dancer. “No! We'll find some other way!”

Cerise rubbed her shoulders and stared at her feet. “...I...I'll do it, if we can't find another way. Just, make it quick and painless as you can, please.” Tears lit the corners of her pink eyes.

Bellatrix said, “I can't expect us all to trust each other so quickly, but we'll take any help you offer. All I want is to save my succubi sisters.” She rose from the reaper and withdrew her knife.

“We should accept their offer,” called Danse.

“Quiet,” snapped back Shadow Scythe. “But yes...I accept the terms of this alliance.”

Asphy took a step toward her. “Wait a minute. Didn't you two fools make a copy of the Necronomicon? Wouldn't that mean you're at least partly responsible for this whole mess?”

“Another last resort,” explained Danse. “A crude imitation to try and restore order. This place was a wasteland already when we arrived. I assume everyone here has been pulled from other places?”

“So it seems,” noted Bellatrix. “Albeit, some of us have few memories of our past lives.”

“Probably a side-effect of the transference,” surmised Shadow Scythe, her mind already searching for more answers at a mile a minute with each new revelation. She went to recover the snapped shut tome, while Cerise released her partner in crime. “Danse and I have calculated this world's stability, and we may have weeks left, at best. Cerise could've been traded for another month.”

Beatrix shot back, “Well, you'd better drop that idea!”

“Noted,” replied Shadow dismissively, and didn't bother to look in her direction while her icy blue eyes studied the tome. Then, she reopened the book, and started to silently read it, the contents compiled by a combination of knowledge she and Danse shared. “Based on what we've learned, I have a theory. I'll need more evidence, but...all of us could be roles in a story.”

"Oh bloody 'ell not this again. It's a dark magician all over again. I'll leave you to your crazy talk, I'll be over here," said Asphy as he started to walk away.
“That's a scary idea,” mumbled Danse with a shudder.

“But plausible,” admitted Bellatrix. “It would make sense of the nonsensical. My sisters and I were born of the Necronomicon. Rumor has it some monsters are absorbed into the cursed book, but others were written into it, and I shudder to think that...may also apply to us.”

“We don't know for sure. Like I said, speculation.” Shadow Scythe slammed the cover shut.

The party fanned out across the ruins for a well-deserved rest, a few of the succubi, who hadn't had as much battle experience, exhausted and ready to drain Asphy. The swordsman in question sat on the cracked stairs and leaned on his broadsword, his thoughts dark. Ain't no way I'm someone else's dream, came the refrain in his head, as he held onto memories of his homeworld.

He shooed away the she-demons that came too close, who pouted, whined, and hissed. Instead, some of the shameless succubi started to make love out in the open, scant clothes removed and the sounds of moans and flesh echoed in the air. He rolled his eye, his mouth drawn in a line. As his thoughts moved to the best way to destroy the book, saving this world was not part of the plan. Still, if they couldn't he was sure mother would restore this world to what it once was.

Shadow Scythe scoffed, while Danse Macabre, flustered, looked away from the horny she-devils.

Cerise leaned on a column and looked down at the crystal 'costume' that barely hid her areola and vulva, the rest of her, bare ass included, exposed. She murmured to herself, “So, that's all I am? A damsel-in-distress turned sacrifice? No!” She clenched the crystalline spear, her eyes snapped wide open and her mouth twisted in a snarl. “I'm a princess! And someday, I'll become a queen!”

“You will be,” promised Beatrix, who clenched her shoulder. “Look at Bellatrix Primadonna! She used to be no different from other succubi, but she's become a self-proclaimed Queen of Hell!”

“It's like my little hellspawn says,” added Trixie, a hand perched on her bare hip.

Shadow Scythe appeared to float past them in a flutter of white robes. “Nevermind that. More importantly, that sword. You see it too, don't you, Danse? It's an executioner's blade.”

Danse nodded. “It's ancient! And it radiates with the same power as a reaper!”

“Tch. That's because it is,” answered Asphy. “Gifted from the man that sent me on this mission. Some bald and muscular reaper. Gray-robed and mirthful. Called himself Grayscale Carnifex. Also, he's a complete ass.”

Shadow's and Danse's eyes shot open and momentarily met. Rumors about the founder of the reaper order were often passed around their sanctum, but none of the current members had met him. Shadow Scythe had certainly tried, but realized it was doubtful he was in her dimension.

But now she had an opportunity to finally encounter him, face-to-face.

Shadow curled her lip. “He's probably behind all this! Some sort of test, maybe?”

“Paranoid speculation won't-” Danse's hand was brushed off by Shadow, who fumed, overwhelmed by frustration. He stood there awkwardly, let the silence linger between them all. Instead, he turned his attention back to the Necronomicon copy, which continued to radiate with the dark arts.

Meanwhile, Bellatrix Primadonna sat on the sacrificial altar which she used like a makeshift throne, to overlook the shrine and observe her companions, her succubi sisters included. Each one she discovered quickly proved her worth, despite how untested they were. Nymphette and Kismet, like a pair of childish, mischievous sisters, playful and equally cruel. Sanguine, a warrior who once gorged herself on fellow demons, even her own kin, before she awakened to awareness and Bella broke her of that nasty habit. Xanadu, equal parts haughty and seductive, a skilled sorceress. A small number of the army the Queen of Hell built with her own hands to rule a world on the brink.

The clash with Shadow Scythe had taken more out of her then she wanted to admit. A worthy foe.

She didn't have many options to fill her reserves. To recover, she'd need a man's seed, soon. They'd tried a variety of methods before, potions to create a synthetic semen, shapeshifted temporary penises to cum inside them, but its effect had proved minimal and not worth the effort.

So, it had to be Asphy or Danse Macabre. And while the latter didn't appear to be in a physical relationship with Shadow Scythe, she jealousy seemed to covet his attention, so Belkla decided it best not to step between them. “The one-eyed warrior it is,” she decided with a heavy exhale.

He'd turned away the attentions of the other succubi, but surely he wouldn't do the same for the Queen of Hell? Her toned crimson ass slid from the slab, and she approached in a sway of hips.

The buckles that kept her black leather bikini in place were released with a clink of metal. Her top was the first to fall, her heavy breasts intentionally allowed to flop out and swing in a series of bounces, topped by wide, erect nipples that drew his eye when she strolled towards him.

She kept her movements slow, carefully controlled, and drew out his anticipation. Golden eyes pinned his own one-eyed stare, as she also unlocked the buckles to her bottom half, allowed the last of her bikini to slip away, her bare snatch and round, pert ass bared to the air in a shimmy of hips.

“I like a little monster in my man,” she confessed, and settled her weight onto his lap, his hands on already teased at her slits which rubbed into her hellishly hot lower holes. “And surely you won't turn down the chance to fuck the Queen of Hell?” She brushed a nail under his chin. Asphy growled softly at her, but did not push her away like he did with the others.

A rattle sounded when the executioner's sword fell from his hand. The cold pieces of metal contrasted her heated skin, which made her pleasantly shudder at their touch, her spaded tail already at work to help remove his clothes as she momentarily lifted her hips to help slide them off.

“Give me your cum,” she demanded fiercely, a hand wrapped around one of his slick cocks. She hissed, “Two buried in my cunt, one in my ass. That should maximize efficiency!”

She directed his hard dicks to her entrances. Two of them driven into her pussy at the same time, the third into her asshole, and as she dropped her ass back into his lap with a snarl his tips punctured past her cervix and invaded her slippery womb directly, ready to directly deposit his payload.

“Go on! Fuck me back!” She raked her claws across his bare chest, traced the metallic plates. He moved his hips to meet her when she rode him, in a clap of moist, supple flesh. She pressed her lips to his, bit then and dominated his mouth when her tongue invaded it and claimed his own. He squeezed and kneaded one of her pert, toned asscheeks, fondled a heavy, bouncy red titty.

He struggled to keep pace with her, brought to the limits of this form. Of course, he could easily turn this around...but was he ready to finally play that card? “Fuck it,” he muttered into her mouth, and unleashed his own power in a brilliant flash that illuminated the entire, shadowy temple.

Bella's eyes turned to saucers when his cocks swelled further inside her, certain that were the shapeshifter not so pliable and used to such sizable insertions, he could've split her in half! Yet the Queen of Hell felt absolute confidence in her prowess, sturdy and brave by nature!

The dragon-hybrid towered over her, easily able to take control when he rose and wrapped his claws around her hips, whereupon he mercilessly railed her with a thunderous roar. Her ass slapped with each brutal impact, her tits bounced each time she was speared, doused by his steamy drool. One of his eyes was closed, still lost in this form, while the other went white, lost to an instinct to breed.

She'd seen the same many times, in the Necronomicon, when demons once had their way with her. Yet this was more raw, more primal. This moment he was a dragon claiming his mate!

Bella shrieked her bliss when she clenched around his cocks, squirted across the darke's soft underbelly, his muscled form clad in armor-like scales. His maw snapped around a titty, harshly suckled and pulled on it, nibbled with care not to break the she-demon's scarlet skin.

“Curses! That should be me,” whined Xanadu with a pout, her fists balled up.

“That's why she's the queen,” reminded Kismet, who hummed while she played with a small scorpion she'd found after the skirmish, and started to pull the creature apart, piece-by-piece. Then, she dropped the dismembered bits into her mouth, chewed, and swallowed them.

“Glad we're immune to most venom,” noted Nymphette. “At least in smaller doses! I wonder how else we'll continue to evolve? Hmm, think I can become the Queen of Hell someday?”

“Better not get too big for your britches,” reminded Sanguine, who'd collected what skulls were left behind by the skeletons and made a pile from them. “Might alone can only take you so far! Look at this wasteland! You've seen the results! Most demons are mindless monsters that only fuck and kill in a survival of the fittest cycle! The Queen of Hell earned her title, raised us up from the muck!”

“That's true,” confessed Xanadu in her sultry voice. “I, too, believe she deserves our loyalty!”

Nymphette snickered. “Look at 'em now!” She nodded back at the couple, Bellatrix now pinned on all fours by the drake-hybrid while he mounted and fucked her into the marble altar.

Each trust shook Bella and made her tits sway each time Asphy reared up and clapped her cheeks. She drenched his crotch a number of times, milked out multiple climaxes from her, while he roared with a final push, his cocks pulsed, and momentarily bunched up before he started to unload. Violent blasts of cum impacted her insides. Drove another messy release from her, as her womb swelled to fullness within moments, so overfilled her belly slapped onto the cool floor.

Gushes of excess cum erupted around her ruined holes, around his buried dicks. Gripped by her black locks and spaded tail, his claws pulled them while he continually roared and came. Finally, the force of his cumshots made him wetly pop from her wrecked fuckholes, and started to rain all over Bella's body, which shook with bliss as she panted, instantly soaked head-to-toe in virile spunk.

“Don't waste it!” Nymphette rushed in and tore off her clothes, while her fellow succubi did the same, the foursome also marked by his seed, soaked in its power when it painted the skin and nourished them. Felt its stickiness run down their supple, or in Nymph's and Kismet's cases nubile curves. They opened their mouths wide to catch it, slurped it up with lewd, sensual moans.

Kismet tittered and splashed in the thick puddles of cum, tossed some on herself and her sisters. “Ooh, delicious!” Her lips smacked, tongue connected to the roof of her mouth by strings of slimy cum, which she swished and chewed on, savored the hot treat like the most scrumptious meal.

“Sh-share,” muttered Bellatrix, simultaneously worn out and revitalized while the semen settled into her system. Like she expected, the hybrid's virility was beyond anyone else she'd ever mated with, especially after he'd taken this form! Thus, she overlooked that he'd taken control of their tryst. She risen to a seated position, scooped up spunk with both hands she rubbed into her tits.

Xanadu stretched like a cat in the spunky puddle, rolled and lavished herself in a shameless display while she doused herself with seed. “Mmmm~....are you sure you don't have another round in you?” She smiled at the hybrid, and the horn, shapely demon rubbed her own puffy vulva.

“Gotta rest and reload,” mused Sanguine with a harsh chuckle. “Isn't that right, bad boy? I'm sure you'll pound us all like silly once you're up for it?” She thumped his muscled chest.

Clarity started to return for Asphy, as his momentarily spent cocks hadn't retreated into his sheathe just yet. As if debating if he should breed them all right here and now. It was a risky maneuver to expose his soft underbelly, which is why a dragon would usually mate somewhere private, but he'd made a promise to the Queen of Hell and now fulfilled it. Already, he could see her radiate with renewed power, as Bellatrix rose, refreshed, with a wry smile. His meat retracted back into his body, protected by scale armor.

Despite her shapeliness still soaked in spunk, she carried herself with royal pride, a hand on one hip. “Sisters! Drink deep, bathe, and revitalize yourselves! We move out within the hour!”

All the while, the Necronomicon copy stirred and radiated power, as blackish-purple wisps rose from its cover in Danse Macabre's hands. He almost dropped it, suddenly cold to the touch.

He yelped when the tome flew from his hands, levitated in mid-air, and its cover hurled open. Pages fluttered in a wind that howled across the shrine. The black-robed reaper tried to snatch it, but the book zipped away from him. Then, he seized it with his aura, but found it was even beyond his fairly considerable arcane prowess, as the manuscript also tore away from his telekinetic hold.

Shadow Scythe yelled, “What did you do? You've activated it, you buffoon!”

“All I did was touch it,” he defended. “It's drawn power from elsewhere! Maybe the succubi?”

“Don't you dare blame this on us,” warned Bellatrix coldly, but chose to overlook the meek reaper's insult when he appeared suitably chastised. “It is possible,” she admitted. “We are creatures of the dark.” Unconcerned with the cum on her, she flew to help intercept the cursed manuscript.

“Let's surround it my little hellspawn,” yelled Trixie, her horn lit.

“Gotcha mom,” answered Beatrix, who also moved into action, her horn also ablaze.

Still spent, Asphy also soared into action, and decided to keep this form until he reverted, in case it was needed. It would be spent for a time after he transformed back, anyhow, so why waste it? Their shadows were cast around the altar, as Cerise summoned a pillar of crystalline that momentarily immobilized the tome...only to fracture and explode into diamond dust.

The book quivered with power. Glowed and rose skyward.

From its interior tumbled a black mass. Like the skeletons that rose from its insides before, the slime quickly expanded, a clay-like substance that hardened and started to take on physical form. A reptilian creature, with armored scales of its own and multiple heads, took shape.

The beasts roared when it landed on the altar, smashed the sacrificial slab into debris. Dust billowed around the beast, and its multitude of heads zoned in immediately on Shadow Scythe.

“The-the Jabberwocky!” The white-robed reaper brandished the weapon of her namesake. “I killed you once before, so-called mystical beast, and I'll send you back to hell however many times it takes Danse macabre, support me!” He nodded, hands afire, while she raced into action.

“Another creature of fiction,” noted Bella, who also went on the attack.

“Aren't we all?” Uncomfortable snickers escaped Bea's lips at the implications.

“That theory hasn't been proven yet,” reminded Trixie, who readied to blast the Jabberwocky...only to have Asphy intercept the fairy tale creature, and smashed it aside with his scaly, hybrid form. The pair of them struggled in a series of snaps, howls, roars, and fearsome bites.

The pair of them tumbled down the stairs, smashed them to rubble while they wrestled, and the cum-drenched succubi barely hopped out of the way in time before they too were crushed, as the creatures that wrestled collided at the base of the altar and left a crater in their wake.

The entire shrine rocked and threatened to collapse from the pandemonium. Columns fractured, and Cerise quickly summoned her crystals to mend the cracked pillars before they could tumble.

The dancer proudly announced, “I'm not so useless after all!”

“Indeed,” said Bellatrix with a small smile.

“Hymph,” mumbled Shadow, who nonetheless noted she'd taken to her abilities fast. “The last time I killed this bastard, I used the Vorpal Sword! Maybe we can cut off all its heads and drive torches into them before they revitalize! My father once read a similar myth to me!”

“That's fiction,” reminded Danse. “But then, maybe all this nonsense is...? It's worth a try!”

“Surround the Jabberwocky,” ordered Bellatrix to her sisters. “But keep your distance! Jaws like those could snap you in half within a second!” She and her minions pelted it with spells, which included chunks of brimstone that blazed with hellfire and reeked of sulfur.

The true Necronomicon had thousands of demon entries written into it, many of a lesser variety, but this beast was a level beyond those, albeit not a Greater Devil, let-alone a Demon Lord. While they battled to put the Jabberwocky to heel, Asphy saw Grayscale Carnifex from the corner of his eye. His robed benefactor stood at the broken altar, arms in his robes while he chuckled...

Asphy roared as he let out a jet of flame from his maw. The dragon wanted blood. He at last had a real challenge, something to test his own power! The battle will not end until one of them, be it the jabberwocky, or Asphy, died.

Chapter 5

Asphyxious and the Jabberwocky rolled across the ancient shrine in a snap of claws, teeth, and the lash of their tails while they tumbled and cracked marble and stone which exploded into clouds of dust around them. The mythic monster's multiple maws drooled and bit at the transformed dragon's natural scaled armor. Around them, Asphy's allies were forced to divide or else be crushed under their massive, muscled bulk. More columns were crashed into, and toppled with heavy thuds.

Danse Macabre cried over the noise, “Can it be destroyed? We may have to seal it!”

“Easier said than done,” admitted Shadow Scythe between clenched teeth. “The Necronomicon's out of control!” The hellbound book continued to rattle its tattered pages while it glowed and the stitched-together, twisted and mummified faces on its cover moaned and writhed in agony. It worked to summon more reinforcements, as it whisked around the shrine out of their reach.
Asphy started to internally count down the seconds he could maintain this form.

“Thirty...twenty-nine...twenty-eight...” Not much time. Savagely, his maw closed around one of the Jabberwocky's heads, even when its claws tore into his breast, and ripped the head clean off, letting out jets of flame to melt it skin! Black ooze gushed from the wound as it howled. Bellatrix's hellfire blazed to seal the open wound, which hissed and steamed when she sealed it. Around her, the succubi, reapers, and witches poured on mystic attacks of their own, which battered at the Jabberwocky's scaled defenses, stripped piece-by-piece. Asphy used the opportunity to strain his claws and wrench another head clean off.

“Three...two...one...” In a blink, the drake's transmutation reverted in a blaze of blue flames. The Jabberwocky's claws sank into his gut. Not that there was any time to tend to him, as the Jabberwocky continued to lash out wildly as more mystic flames sealed the neck of another lost head. The gutted swordsman fell.

“Damn,” hissed Bella. “Man down! Sisters, protect him!” Sanguine, Xanadu, Nymphette, and Kismet rushed to flock around the wounded swordsman, and peppered the Jabberwocky with more magic, some which sizzled uselessly off his scales, while others managed to strip off more shiny scales.

“Let me help,” called Cerise, who raised another crystalline pillar around the ankles of the Jabberwocky, and momentarily pinned it in place while it thrashed even harder and roared.

Trixie bent over to look at their fallen ally. “Is he dead...?”

A smirk crossed Asphy's face when he opened his eyes, his executioner's sword now in hand. He suddenly remembered something old, almost forgotten with time, for he'd not needed to use it. After all, this wasn't his sword, yet it held a few tricks. Back on his feet, he voiced the words that came to mind. “Biting fang and rendering claw, fear of death are at the door. Face the beast that hunts for thee, for tonight all things feast, tonight we feast of blood and rotten meat. First blood of a mortal man, last blood of a monster's hand. Your soul is forfeit and so are your lands. Off with its head.... Snicker snack...” The executioner's sword reacted to his will, with the help of his benefactor, like a makeshift Vorpal Sword when he struck home.

All its remaining heads were cleaved off at once and rolled at his boots. With an opportunity at hand, every caster present poured on more flames while Cerise strained to keep the beast pinned.

“Got...cha...” Asphy crumpled into a pool of his own hot blood while his sword clanked by him. “My bastard...boss...” Somewhere, he figured Grayscale Carnifex laughed at his fate. Asphy really hated him.

"Grab that book,” shouted Shadow Scythe, as the tome darted away from her grasp.

“I...I'm trying! Telekinesis can't hold it!” Danse tried like her to seize it in his aura, but even combined they were no match for the Necronomicon's power while it attempted to summon more monstrosities. With the time it took to work its spell, they feared it would unleash a creature far worse than even the mythic Jabberwocky. In desperation, Beatrix tried to blast it out of the air.

The beams she and Trixie struck it with bounced off harmlessly. “No use,” lamented Bea.

Bellatrix flew up and intercepted the tome, which she crushed to her breast despite the dangers. She growled and strained to try and close the cover while the grimoire radiated darkness around it. What she realized, to her horror, was the it hoped to corrupt and control her with its darkness.

The Necronomicon sensed she would be a worthy host. Powerful, intelligent, capable of above-average dark magic, plus demons would flock to the succubus mistress and serve her cause!

“Bellatrix,” yelled Shadow Scythe. “Break away!”

“I...I can't...!” The necronomicon compelled her, pitted its considerable will against her own, and attempted to invade and possess her. “You already made me a prisoner once! No more!”

With a painful hiss, she hurled the accursed book from her. Shadow Scythe rushed to meet it with Danse Macabre, and their scythes connected with the book, able to strip away its own magical barrier with their enchanted weapons. The aura around it dulled, and its cover slammed shut.

"It's done,” announced Shadow Scythe. She admitted, “You did well, Danse.”

“Thank you.” He smiled shyly, unused to praise from her. “What about Asphyxious? Is he-?”

“Dead? Not yet unfortunately. I could use a powerful zombie minion,” mused Shadow.

“No zombies,” snapped Beatrix. “He helped save our cute butts!”

Cerise looked mournfully at the bloodied swordsman. “Can he be saved?” She tried to remember the medical skill's her country's handmaiden and priestess used to tend to her wounds when she knelt beside him. “Oh, it's no use! I wish I'd paid more attention and practiced harder!”

“Allow me,” offered Shadow. “No undead, I promise.”

She and Danse Macabre applied what they knew from extensive study in the Order of Reapers. A sense of quiet and solitude once more settled over the shrine. They cleaned and stiched Asphy's wounds, the reapers able to naturally regenerate after they were awakened, and the pair of them had extensive knowledge of anatomy. Beatrix, Trixie, and Cerise fetched what supplies were on hand.

“He's stable,” noted Shadow. “Give him a few hours to rest.”

"Maybe some more sex would help,” offered Kismet, who sipped her way over. Asphy only growled, not fully away but he must be aware enough to hear them.

“I don't think that's wise in his state,” said Danse with a small blush.

“Oh, poo.” Kismet thrust her hands on her hips. “What are we supposed to do now?”

Nymphette added hopefully, “Break more shit?” She kicked the Jabberwocky's corpse.

“Careful,” warned Xanuda, her arms crossed under her breasts. “Don't want to reawaken it.”

“Don't be so superstitious,” said Sanguine, who licked her chops at the dragon-like beast. “Wonder what it tastes like? I don't know about the rest of you bitches, but I'm completely starved!”

Bellatrix landed near them and declared, “I doubt it's safe to eat. Better not to chance it. You do raise a point, however. What are we meant to do now? Explore aimlessly to save this planet?”

“Our only guide's out of it,” noted Beatrix. “And we don't have many leads."

“Allow me to shed some light on the situation,” came the booming voice of another reaper clad in hooded gray robes to house his muscular, scaled bulk. Weapons were drawn at Grayscale Carnifex, who curled his snout in a smile. “Now, now, no need for that! Allow me to introduce myself!”
He told them his name, his role as the founder of the Order of Reapers, and how he'd drawn in Asphyxious here and become his benefactor.

Asphy weakly twitched an ear while he listened to his exposition. “...I've done my best to preserve the memories of everyone here. For once you're forgotten, it would be almost impossible to rebuild you. The vast multiverse collapses. Chaos and evil reigns. I attempt to keep the balance, but since my very presence can alter reality, I use agents like Asphyxious here to do my 'dirty work'. Beatrix has been used for a similar purpose!”

“Gee..thanks,” muttered Bea, a hand on a thrust out hip.

“Cut to the chase,” demanded Shadow Scythe. “How do we save ourselves?”

“I must second that notion,” said Bellatrix with a dark nod and swish of her spaded tail. “My patience is at its limit, too. None of us here wish to serve as your pawns.”

“Understandable. Yet I had little alternative in order to preserve you,” said Carnifex. “In truth, this adventure is more of a 'fetch quest' to preserve everyone here, as I needed you all to better remember who you are and help will yourselves and each other back into existence! Most of the multiverse out there is a void now. You must survive until it settles! Also...”

Bella demanded, “Also what?”

“I wanted to seek possible candidates to replenish the Order of Reapers,” he explained with a nod at Asphyxious. “He seems a promising candidate, although a tad denser than my usual picks. But I can't be too choosy in such a dire situation! High intelligence, temperament, the ability to detach when needed...you were an ideal reaper, Shadow Scythe, were it not for your villainous turn!”

"Fuck... You..." Asphyxious growled out breathlessly. Seemly only half-awake now, however slowly recovering.

“I...can't recall that well,” confessed Shadow Scythe, but sensed his words were true, and her heart ached. “I had a lover-”

“Safely in another sector of the multiverse for now,” premused Carnifex. “Like a number of Beatrix's old allies!” He plucked up the 'Necronomicon', really more a phantom memory of the destroyed tome. “Unfortunately, this planet still is doomed, whatever we do to try and preserve it!”

Beatrix asked, “Can you whisk us away?”

“Of course! Unfortunately, since your continued existence once we leave this world will depend on one's will, unless you maintain a strong sense of who you are, you'll fade into oblivion the moment we leave. The succubi in particular haven't had much room to establish themselves...”

“Quite a dilemma,” noted Bellatrix with a melancholy look at her sisters.

Cerise asked, “We have how much time left? A couple weeks?”

“More or less if we're lucky,” said Carnifex. “Even I don't know for certain! The wastelands out there will continue to shrink inward, until the planet's core collapses completely, all at once!”

Trixie strolled forward and demanded, “Can't you help us out more, Carny?”

“It's...more than I admitted,” he confessed. “I received a terrible wound which never healed. Each movement I made causes me to bleed out a little more. I can literally feel the years drain away! Granted, a dragon can live for thousands upon thousands of years, but I'm already ancient! So, to preserve the multiverse and mortals like you that inhabit it, I endeavor to preserve myself!”

“So we leave Asphy here or stay until he wakes up,” mused Trixie.

“The succubus inspired an idea,” noted Carnifex. “Xanadu, you can drain the life force of others to heal yourself, not unlike a power Bellatrix used to have in her seraphic form? And like Bella's power, it can be reversed! So, maybe if you take dear Asphy here for a ride to perk him back up...”

“I'd be happy to try,” said Xanadu, who allowed what scant clothes she wore to pool at her feet. Mindful of his wounds, she unceremoniously mounted Asphy, all but tore his pants open, and started to rub her wet cunt on his three cocks, which slowly started to rise in response. “The flesh is certainly willing.” She clasped his hands, and raised them to her ample titties which he squeezed.

“So hot~,” said Kismet, who started to openly rub her own wet snatch.

“It's always sex with you fools,” noted Shadow Scythe with a roll of her eyes, yet she couldn't deny she missed her own seraphic lover, and struggled to picture him in her mind. Meanwhile, the horned succubus started to take Asphy for a ride, until Xanadu bounced with a slap of her pale flesh.

Over-and-over, his cocks drove up into her, two buried in her pussy, the last one in her asshole. She jiggled all over with each bounce atop him, cast back her horned head and arched her breast with a moan, while a stream of her energies funneled from her holes into his flesh. His hands moved on instinct with a low snarl, while he rolled her tits in circles and teased her wide, erect nipples.

Finally, with a growl he came inside her. She gushed over him, felt his warmth fill her, while she sapped her own strength to help heal the wounded swordsman. Finally, she slumped over him, spent. He rose and murmured, “Thanks.” Gently, he passed her half-conscious body to Bella. Then, he petted Xanadu on the head.

Kismet asked, “Is she okay...? She's not dead, is she...?”

Xanadua offered a limp wave. “Just...a little under the weather. I'll recover.”

Shadow Scythe demanded, “Does this mean we can move out soon? There's little more to see here. I've thoroughly searched the ruins with Danse, but we haven't discovered much of note.”

Asphyxious stumbled to his feet and zipped up his pants. “Yeah. I'm ready.” He flexed his arms to see they still worked okay, and noted his wounds had mostly healed, albeit he was still weak. Plus he couldn't pull his transformation stunt anytime soon. He spat, “Where to next, Gray? And next time I demand the use of my cutlass.” The half dragon growled.

“Hmm...seems you've found most of Beatrix's closest allies that aren't currently in different sections of the multiverse. Still, there's one last place you should check, to be sure. A shame Xanadu can't heal wounds this deep, or I'd come too. Finish this and I'll consider you a worthy candidate to become one of my reapers,” mused the founder himself with a deep chuckle.

With a solitary nod, Asphyxious received directions across the wastelands, to a place nestled somewhere at the very heart of the vast emptiness which made up a planet which continued to shrink and crumble by the day. Grayscale Carnifex waved a scaly, clawed hand to open a window into the far distance, where a haunted manor started to manifest on the misty moors.

Beatrix, Bellatrix, Shadow Scythe, and Cerise widened their eyes, as a shared memory unlocked between them. The mansion was alive, an eldritch entity which had taken a physical shape to lure its prey in. Shadow Scythe had warred with them there...until, upon Shadow's defeat, Bellatrix made a deal with the entity, and in return for nourishment formed a symbiotic bond with the beast.

"Cool haunted house, let's collect some lost souls." Asphy said more to himself. This got a few looks from the others, wondering what he was talking about.

Thus, it had become Beatrix's home, for a time. Before irritation at Bellatrix, who exploited it to help Beatrix and her friends to win a desperate war and left the eldritch beast wounded, caused the creature to betray and abandon them. Even from this vision, it clearly brimmed with life.

Cerise balked and shivered. “We have to step back into the monster's maw...?” She remembered Shadow's scythe at her throat, ready to behead the innocent damsel-in-distress.

“You beat it once,” reminded Shadow Scythe with ambivalence. “It can be done again!” She'd made her own deal with the manor, to increase her power, reminded of the villain she'd once been.

“Maybe I can convince it to make a deal,” offered Bellatrix dubiously. “Like last time.” She'd tried to befriend the ravenous beast, to teach it morality, despite her own amoral nature.

Beatrix took her mother's hand, suddenly fearful that she'd lose Trixie forever, and asked, “Why are we headed there anyway? Do we have to preserve that monster mansion, too?”

“Exactly,” said Carnifex. “Although it may not go quietly? Save the eldritch entity, if you can. It could be your only escape route, should I fall.” He rubbed the armored scale he used as a patch over his muscled bulk to staunch the constant bleeding from when he'd been struck by a dimensional knife, which assured the years would constantly drain from the ancient drake until he expired. "And Asphyxious, I'll let you know if you can use…. That weapon. You'll know when you can."

He was doomed to perish. Each movement he made drained more of his limited lifespan. Asphy only growled and rolled his eyes.

“I'll knock some sense into it,” spat Asphyxious, who rolled his muscled arm with a pop. Surely it couldn't be much worse than the Jabberwocky and the Necronomicon. And if it was, he'd be up for the challenge! Sword in hand dragging it behind him, the moment they were ready he set off in a march, surrounded by his fellow adventurers that also risked their lives for the sake of their continued survival.

Asphyxious had only one thought. They were screwed.

Chapter 6

After everyone readied themselves for the trip ahead, they marched out, Asphyxious in the lead. His muscles were sore from his battle with the Jabberwocky, even after Xanadu helped heal him at the cost of her life force. The horned, elegant demoness stumbled on occasion amidst her own stride, propped up by Bellatrix while the other succubi sisters helped her cover the desert wastelands.

Yet he had other thoughts, since if he knew Grayscale was wounded, he would have pushed to have less restrictions. However, this may be a good thing for the dragon hybrid. If Gray was in fact weakening that meant Asphyxious could slip, find loopholes or break their contact. For now he would play along, until they could all leave this place.

Once more, they were framed by hellish skies. Asphy's tattered map, marked by Grayscale Carnifex, indicated that this mysterious mansion they headed to sat mere miles from them. “How fortunate,” he muttered, a hand resting near the executioner's sword on his back while the thin strips of scarlet illumination shone across the numerous metal plates fused to his well-toned physique.

He walked side-by-side with Beatrix and Trixie. Gruffly he cleared his throat and asked, “How about it? Dragon's are known for their treasure troves. And their herds. Why don't you come home with me?” With his free hand, he firmly took a squeeze from each of their plush bottoms with a smirk.

“A tempting offer,” admitted Trixie as he squeezed. “But I don't think my daughter will ever be ready to settle down and let her adventures come to an end! Isn't that so, my little hellspawn?”

“Afraid so,” said Beatrix. “I can't. Not with what's at stake! Besides...” She looked to Shadow Scythe, Cerise, and Bellatrix. “Like my friends, I...I think I have a lover somewhere out there, too!”

“We can always have more fun until this is over,” said Trixie with half-lidded eyes.

Eventually, they would have to part ways. Asphyxious, too, sensed he had a different destiny from them. This wasn't supposed to be his war. He'd merely been pulled into it by Carnifex's machinations. He seethed while one hand continued to sink and play with their supple flesh, felt their buttocks and tits he traced roll in his palms and the stiffness of nipples press into his own skin, while his other hand itched to draw his blade and take out his ire on Carnifex somehow.

Fortunately, his dark prayers were soon answered. More hellhounds bounded their way.

“Good, I needed something to work out my anger,” he growled, blade drawn in an arc when he cleaved the first attacker in two, which popped into an explosion of inky darkness that splattered across the rocky terrain.

His allies, too, moved to intercept with their armaments and spells. He'd hoped to take the souls of each slain beast, to empower himself and win his chance to be a reaper like Grayscale teased him with, but each time his stabs and slashes dispatched a hound, he wondered if they even had souls.

“More dream creations,” he spat. “Unworthy! Just like the Jabberwocky!”

Yet his boasts were met with a flood of more monstrosities, reminders of numerous abominations he and his allies had faced in their own adventures. Monsters from the abyss itself, who swarmed and attempted to overrun them. Trixie had seen a similar scenario, when the Necronomicon opened up and vomited a series of eldritch creatures which fused into a twisted mountain.

“Get behind me,” called Cerise, a palm upraised. Geomancy formed crystalline walls around them which monsters thudded impotently into. She sweated, and tried to harness all her hidden powers.

In the air, Bellatrix, Nymphette, and Kismet assailed the skyborne enemies. Grounded below were the weakened Xanadu, who could barely mount an offense, watched over by the beastly warrior she-devil Sanguine, whose claws and tusks ripped apart any creature that dared near them. “I'll handle 'em,” the warrior demon said. “Just rest up, and let your sisters do the hard work!”

“You have my thanks,” murmured Xanadu with shallow breaths.

Shadow Scythe and Danse Macabre also lifted skyward to offer support. They scythed into bat-like monsters, and beams from their horns lanced out like the spells Beatrix and Trixie wove. Unfortunately, it became clearer by the second how outnumbered they truly were.

“There must be thousands,” seethed Shadow between clenched teeth when she stared ahead.

“Even we can't handle all of this,” complained Danse. “Where's Carnifex when we need him...?”

“We can't rely on him,” reminded Bella. “Every movement he makes drains him more, and he helps maintain this planet's stability! Sisters, now is the chance to prove yourselves worthy!”

“Yes mistress!” Nymphette and Kismet snapped to attention.

Cerise concentrated, despite the sweat that left a sheen her charcoal skin and fur. The crystal wall spread further, far more than she'd ever been able to manifest before. It swept across the dusty desert, swallowed up and froze all the monsters it touched, and dozens fell by the second beneath the shimmery wave. The thousands which tried to beset them broke and ran in a desperate bid to escape. Her allies watched, wide-eyed, as Cerise's powers claimed the lives of hundreds at once.

“You did it,” called Beatrix, as they continued to blast at the runners. Asphyxious raised an eyebrow, but simply thanked them.

Cerise smiled and a solitary tear dripped from one of her eyes...a crystal teardrop which marked her cheek, the eye it came from turned to quartz. “I...did...” She tried to lean on her spear and swooned. Beatrix rushed to catch the mare, whose clothes partially ripped as the crystallization spread.

“Oh no,” whispered Bea. “The crystal...it's mixed with the dark arts her father Sombra imbued in her...it's spread like an infection!” She stripped Cerise's tattered, useless clothes away to see that portions of her flesh on one half were now embedded with crystalline chunks that mixed with her supple contours. She would've found it beautiful, were she not terrified for what she saw as a niece.

Swallow breaths caused Cerise's medium-sized breasts to steadily rise-and-fall, one of them swollen to a cup more size from the quart which tainted it. She weakly fluttered her eyes open, one blinded.

Gently Bea shook her. “Cerise! Answer me, please! Are you okay...?”

“D-don't touch me...don't want to infect you...” The dancer passed out in Bea's arms. Usually, the crystals Cerise formed would crumble to diamond dust, yet somehow they remained all over the desert. Glass-like dunes painted the landscape, and Bea shuddered, like it was a vision of the future.

Bella touched down and held her sister. “She'll live,” she reassured you. “She's stronger than she looks, as we've seen clear evidence of today. Unfortunately, it means we're down one more.”

“It's my fault,” lamented Bea, whose hot tears fell on Cerise's face. “I should've protected her-”

“No. She saved us, this time. Just as we've saved her many times before,” said Bella, who strained to recall distant memories of another lifetime. “Either way, we must march onward.”

Shadow Scythe and Danse Macabre landed to take a look at Cerise. “I don't think it's infectious. At least not by touch,” said Shadow. “But were a vampire to try and drain her, they'd be in for a nasty surprise! No, all she can do is rest for now, and hope that she doesn't fully crystallize!”

“Not much further,” said Asphyxious. “Someone'll have to carry her. If I had my books I could find a way to slow it down, at worst.”

Beatrix nodded, and with her aura lifted Cerise into her arms and cradled her when she wrapped her in a cape. On the upside, the scattered and terrified monstrosities didn't dare pursue them anymore, which left them a lonely trek to the mansion, which loomed ever closer with each footstep.

Boots and feet crunched on the sand. A half-hour later, the haunted manor, actually an eldritch beast underneath its shell, loomed over the horizon. Gothic architecture made up its old-fashioned appearance, voluminous and built to last. Those who'd walked its halls before knew they couldn't simply assail it successfully from outside, but they'd have to brave the maw of the beast itself.

Gates creaked open in their presence. Jaws of the famished abomination.

Bellatrix started to approach first. “I made a deal with it once-”

“We both did,” reminded Shadow Scythe, who faintly recalled her villainous turn.

Bella caressed one of itrs outside walls. “I think it's asleep. There won't be a better time to slip in.” She dared it first, with Shadow close behind, while everyone else shuffled to follow them. Off to the side Asphy was carving something into the side of a dead tree before joining them.

When they crossed inside, torches placed on sconces lit one-by-one. A chill draft swept upon them when they walked an embroidered carpet. Gloom broke under thin illumination, as shadows danced and the shine of flames moved across their bodies. Groans echoed from deeper within with each subdued tremor, which made the walls breathe whenever the eldritch beast snored.

“Home sweet home,” said Bella when they stood in the foyer.

"Nice, I could get used to this." Said Asphyxious looking at a painting on the wall, of what looked like the royal sisters.

Trixie asked, “So what now? Do we descend below? Isn't that where its heart's at, Bea?”

“Cerise and Xanadu needed rest,” reminded Bea. “Let's use one of the rooms! But don't split up!”

“Yeah,” cut in Kismet. “I'd rather not be picked off one-by-one like in a horror show!”

“That won't happen,” assured Nymphette with an eye roll. “Just stick close to me, baby sis. And hope the walls don't close in and eat us the moment we try to relax our cute, tired butts!”

“Eep!” Kismet pressed closer to her sister and her eyes darted about superstitiously. With reason, all of them knew, since the entire place was alive, and they walked its famished innards.

Another strange phenomenon hit the party inside the manor's insides, reality itself altered for many of the inhabitants, in a way none of them noticed due to supernatural influence…as other than the succubi, they took on their anthropomorphic forms in most versions of Equestria, transformed into mares, or in the case of Asphyxious, a drake-like anthro.

Beatrix placed Cerise in a bed in the most spacious room she could find nearby, and Xanadu also draped herself in another. The witch faintly recalled their adventure here. Before they'd known the truth of the manor, someone had approached them...a familiar pair of twins that served as hostesses, put under the eldritch's spell so they could compulsively hunt food for it...

Bellatrix and Shadow Scythe shared a look with her, too, with a nod. With Cerise and other companions they couldn't recall, they battled in these corridors, until Beatrix and Shadow Scythe faced off with the aid of Bea's companions. Then, Bellatrix cut a deal with the wounded beast after its defeat.

“The twins...they must be here somewhere...,” whispered Bea, who stroked Cerise's cheek.

“I remember,” said Shadow, who clutched at her scythe's handle. “I took their heads, once.”

“That won't happen this time,” said Bella. “We're all on the same side now.” Golden eyes studied Danse Macabre curiously. They'd known him by another name, when they last met. And another appearance. An enemy too, she realized, somehow left to flounder with the rest of them.

Another low rattled resounded in the manor. Asphyxious rose and started for the door.

Bea yelled, “What did I say? We'd better not split it! That could be suicide!”

“I can handle it,” he dismissed with a nod at his executioner's sword. “This can cut right through these walls in an instant! But anyone's free to tag-along, so long as you don't slow me down. Besides, I know ghosts, I can deal with anything they throw at me.” He smirked back at Trixie when she rose to follow him, but Bella held back her succubi sisters.

“Aw~! No fun,” pouted Kismet, who plopped down with her arms folded.

“We can't wait forever until those two recover,” reminded Nymphette.

“Just...need an hour or two,” murmured Xanadu sleepily with shallow breaths.

Asphy and Trixie were already on their way. Their boots creaked on the floorboards when they wandered the torch-lit halls. They didn't need to travel far, when they heard a muted splash from what appeared to be a bathroom. He slid the door open and entered first, hand ready at his hilt.

In a spacious tub filled with pristine water, a pair of pastel coral pink mares bathed, earth pony twins with their hairs done up in bob cuts, in a deeper shade of pink like their eyes. They turned to the new arrivals with shared smiles, both well-sculpted, one with a hint more expanse to her bust, the other matched by wider hips and bottom. As one they said, “Welcome home, master~!”

Asphy relaxed his hand but didn't lower it. “Master? Of the house? Me?” His eye travelled to drink them in, the swell of their full breasts which swayed when they moved, supple and wet, their peach-soft bottoms and mounds, topped by delicious slits. Each of them radiated a sensual warmth.

“Careful,” warned Trixie. “They're not what they seem! I think they're succubi, too!”

The twin sisters pouted. “Only half~,” they replied in one voice, and a solitary wing and horn appeared on both of them, the sharper incisors within their teeth now visible when they smiled seductively. They waved their backsides back-and-forth behind them with spaded tails.

“My name is Foal-Bearer,” said the 'elder' twin, with the shapelier hips and ass.

“And I'm Wet Nurse!” The bustier once proudly shifted with a splash so her heavier bust bounced.

Behind Asphy and Trixie, Shadow Scythe pushed her way inside with Danse Macabre close by. “After Bellatrix made her deal with the manor, they became its caretakers under her. Unable to leave after what I'd...done to them...they 'haunted' the place, until Bellatrix found a loophole. She shared some of her power and the manor's own with them to turn them into half-succubi.”

“There's only one problem,' said Foal-Bearer, whose breasts swayed and ran with water and soap suds when she rose and stepped from the tub. “As half-succubi, we have constant, intense needs...”

"One's a proper stud can satisfy~,” said Wet Nurse, who also swished her titties when she stood and strode closer, their moist hips shifted from side-to-side when they neared him.

“Be careful,” repeated Trixie with a snicker. “They could drain more than your balls!”

“That's a chance I'll take, besides it's better than having them possess you or Beatrix. Unless you're into that?” Said Asphy, as the twins coiled their plush nakedness around him, and his hands sank happily into exposed and presented breasts and buttocks. When their lips met his own in a three-way kiss, he could feel their breaths steal a hint of his life force away to sate them. Yet he trembled and found himself entranced by them, these two somehow different from the other succubi. Since they'd been trained in their past life by Bellatrix, they'd become more amorous.

Shadow Scythe scoffed at the lewd display. “You'd be dead in a horror story.”

“I don't think they mean any harm,” noted Danse, who couldn't look away and swallowed dryly.

“I could use a bath myself,” said Trixie, and with a wave she banished her clothes and her breasts and buttocks bounced free with a snicker. “Save some for me!” She pushed her way into the huddle.

With a splash, the four lovers found themselves in the tub, and Asphy impatiently stripped his wet clothes away. With another eye roll, Shadow Scythe floated out towards the library, and Danse took a solitary, curious last look back at the foursome before he followed his old research partner.

Now unclad aside from the metal plates, Asphy continued to fondle the feast of feminine flesh before him. His mouth wrapped around a presented titty from Wet Nurse, who he suckled from, certain from her name she'd fed a number of lucky ponies. Foal-Bearer moaned, and the cutie marks of the twins shined and resonated, a pair of intertwined female symbols which denoted their special ability, the power to share their sensations, be it pain or more importantly, pleasure.

“We need you inside us~,” moaned Foal-Bearer huskily, and impaled her cunt on one of his three cocks. While it was difficult to shift into position even with the spacy tub, he moved so that Wet Nurse and Trixie could mount him too, albeit the three mares atop him now crushed breast-to-breast. His hands wandered all over their moist bodies, as they now met in four-way, passionate kisses. Their hips shifted, not able to bounce much as his thrusts rose to meet their subdued humps.

A wet pop sounded when the twins withdrew from his lips, tethered by saliva strands. “Join us~.”

He rocked to meet them. Played with and sucked on their titties, while he also spread and spanked their bouncy buns. The fleshy spines on the drake's three dicks tickled and pulled at their wet, hot, pink folds, each of them taken to the hilt each time they slammed down his vein-lined shafts.

His maw swallowed and pulled on each presented tit, distended them and nibbled on the nipples he licked before he released the spit-covered titflesh free with a loud, lewd pop, rewarded with the moans he worked from them, the pleasures of the twins doubled by his attentions. Asphy was tracing over the twins backs, with each hand unnoticed by both.

Lost in lustful bliss, Trixie's half-lidded, hazy eyes barely saw Bea enter. “Join us, my little hellspawn?” She reached back and patted her moist ass a couple times, which rippled.

“It's this place,” said Beatrix shakily, with wobbly knees. “It's...we're under...spell...” Yet an amorous compulsion started to overtake her too, as her erect stiffened painfully into her leotard's fabric, much like her swollen pussylips which drenched the crotch area, her cameltoe prominent.

All she could think about clearly at the moment was how much she wanted to be fucked! She winked messily, almost painfully when her swollen clitoris mashed into the wet spot, and her thirsty cunt pulled the fabrics deep into her snatch, embedded between a slit which drooled its lust.

Similarly, the fabric wedged into her buttcrack, swallowed between her wide buns where it rubbed and tickled at her puckered asshole. She mewled and tore her top down, breasts freed from their prison with a hefty bounce as they swayed and knocked to a stop with more small ripples, and she started to run circles around her tits with her palms, and traced her areola with her thumbs.

The entire house started to come alive, when it fed off the emotions of its inhabitants.

Walls took on fleshy textures in sections. Tentacles whipped out and snapped up whoever they could find, Bellatrix and her succubi unable to hold back the slimy coils which wrapped around them and the unconscious Cerise, as they were lifted up, any scant clothes torn away.

Immediately, the slick coils probed at any fuckable orifices they discovered. All at once, the captives were triple-penetrated with a wet, messy squish and squelches when they started to pump them.

Beatrix befell a similar fate, hefted up, leotard ripped away, and skewered from all directions.

In the library, Shadow Scythe and Danse Macabre tried to concentrate on the books they'd chosen. A thirst for knowledge drew them here, yet they discovered neither were immune to the manor's amorous influence. “It's...hot...,” complained Shadow, who cast off her sweaty white robes, to reveal form-fitted bandages that served like underwear beneath a thin, lean frame. These strips, she started to loosen too, unwound like a thread one-by-one, as she absently put on a strip-tease.

Danse swallowed hard, unable to turn away. The unicorn stallion twitched in his black robes, which also blazed uncomfortably hot all of the sudden. His nostrils inhaled the sweet scent of estrus from her inflamed, moist pussy, much like how she breathed in his own subdued, yet potent male musk.

He'd never been with a mare before. Not even a real date, even when Shadow's mother attempted to hook the pair up. He'd never tried to pursue her, knew she was out of his league and he had no real chance with the icy maiden, yet the lonely stallion had started to develop a small crush on her.

“W-we shouldn't...” Yet he'd started to remove his robes, too.

Estrus dulled Shadow Scythe's usually sharp mind. The mansion's influence did its best to blot out all memories of the lover she'd lost, at least until she woke back up from this blissful trance. Leaned but perky breasts were exposed with a cast aside strip, then her small but well-shaped hips and pert bottom, her mound tapped by a taut slit. She thirstily devoured the stallion before her.

He wasn't especially handsome, somewhat plain, yet suddenly he seemed so cute and delicious, after she'd been so starved of contact. Impatiently, she helped tear his under robes away.

“Your size appears decent,” she murmured when she took his shaft into her palm, feeling the flaccid flesh start to harden and heat up more when the flared head spat precum across her skin.

“I've never.... I mean, I've read books about it and seen pictures, but-”

“Shut up and let me make love to you,” she hissed and mounted him when she pushed him to the floor, the stallion straddled when she pressed her flower which parted to accept his respectable horsecock. Groans escaped both when his length spread and brushed her inner folds, which dripped down his shaft and over his balls while her pussy winked like mad. Slowly, she moved atop him.

Inch-by-inch, she worked him over with hip movements, allowed his clumsy palms to cup her pointy tits and small, cute buttocks, able to make certain he hit the best spots with her controlled humps. Her mane drooped and waved around her when she snarled and started to pick up speed.

“More! I...I want to feel...” Once more, the face of her lost lover threatened to manifest.

Danse, too, despite the unbelievable pleasures afforded inside his crush, felt his own dim memories try to resurface. A confrontation with Shadow Scythe. The reaper order's weapon, which each of its members carried, which she'd turned on him! The dark day when she betrayed and killed them all...

“B-Betrayer...!” The words escaped his lips between their shared moans of pleasure.

“Traitor? I...” His words almost stopped her dead, yet their bodies felt compelled to move on their own, to draw out the moment of satisfaction. Nonetheless, distant memories started to physically manifest for a stallion who'd already died, and reincarnated simply as hollow memories.

Skin partially melted and slid away from Danse Macabre, until he appeared partially skeletal, and they both remembered the name the undead lich took after his dark rebirth...Mortis Saltaire, would-be avenger of the Order of Reapers that had cruelly fallen at Shadow's scythe.

Pleasant lovemaking turned to brutal hatefucking when cold, callmy, bony hands tightened around her throat, and he flipped and pinned her beneath him, even while he continued to pound into her depths with ravenous force. “Must...kill...” She tried to claw and pull at his cold hands, tried to lit her unicorn horn which fizzled out beneath a loss of concentration and the throes of estrus, as she clenched harder around what she feared was a rotted horsecock which plumbed into her womb.

Love and hate warred in him, as confused, ambivalent tears dripped down his cheeks and tinkled over the bounce of her small, perky breasts, even while her buttocks smacked under his fierce hips each time he slammed balls deep to claim her. Danse admired her. Mortis detested her. His soul was split in two, the shy and quiet, lonely stallion, the embittered wraith with a malicious vendetta.

His heart won out. He eased his choke hold. She clenched and came with him with a low howl.

Similar scenarios played out across the mansion. The tentacles pumped and emptied themselves into the vessels they subdued, whose bellies swelled up from the excessive loads of spunk. Asphyxious emptied his own balls into the twins and Trixie, oblivious to what occurred. Leaving behind rune markings on both twins, marking their souls.

Beatrix choked up cum when she was dropped onto the floor, drenched in a puddle of more spunk which had hosed her down all over. She swallowed a salty mouthful and asked, “Is it over yet...?”

Cerise choked on her own load when she tumbled back into bed, also painted all over in seed which swathed her half-crystallized curves. “Wh-where am I...” She realized where they were as her one uninfected eye took it all in as it widened. “Bellatrix! Are you and everybody else okay...”

“Just...fine,” lamented Bella, who picked her cum-stained frame off the floor.

Nymphette licked her lips and said, “That was intense! I didn't know it was dinner time!”

“I'm sore all over,” complained Xanuda, who rubbed her bare buttocks with both hands.

Kismet slurped up her own salty treat and asked, “What in the heck happened?”

“I think this monster was hungry,” said Sanguine, who stared at the fleshy walls which breathed and pulsed with an erratic heartbeat. “At least it didn't gobble us up! Try that, and I'll tear hunks of meat away to have a feast of my own!” She bared her tusks, claws, and club-like tail at the wall.

“Settle down,' demanded Bellatrix with arms crossed under her breasts while she tried to make sense of it all. Did the eldritch beast currently have a master, or did it simply act on its own? Cautiously, she touched a palm to a flesh wall now that it had awakened, and attempted to communicate.

Her spoken words reached its nervous system. More truths started to dawn on her.

“It’s lost and afraid. It didn't intend to hurt us. With help from the twins, who are trapped here, it's learned to feast on love and lust instead of flesh and blood, like before. But such scant meals have left it weakened. This whole 'planet'...it's the same asteroid Beatrix once banished Shadow Scythe to, where she kept her imprisoned and they stumbled upon this eldritch creature the first time.”

Cerise nodded slowly when she took this in, like the succubi. “No wonder this world's so small!”

“Indeed,” said Bella wryly. “The eldritch beast may appear to be a cancerous tumor on this asteroid, but in truth it's helped keep it stable. The moment it dies, this world will collapse. Grayscale must have sent us here not to dispatch the mansion, but to save it. Remember, it's capable of interdimensional travel. Unfortunately, where else can it take us? Should the multiverse really be a void...”

“S-so...” Cerise mulled it over. “Someone has to form a symbiotic bond to keep it alive, yes? Didn't it have to be someone with special powers before? M-maybe...in my crystallized state...”

“It may work. But Beatrix wouldn't want you to take that chance. Me either,” admitted Bella, who softened. “Once, I believed you little more than a silly wench, but you're precious to me.”

“...thank you,” whispered Cerise with a sniffle, her one eye moist.

“Everyone else here, too. And the ones we've lost, who are hopefully still scattered across what's left after the multiverse crumbled, or so Grayscale claims. Survive this, and maybe we can find them. I've never met this 'Asphyxious' before, but he's proven a capable ally so far,” she surmised.

With the spell broken, everyone started to awkwardly redress. “Danse...wait...” Shadow Scythe called to him, but he'd run away shame-faced, unable to look at her after he recalled what he'd done. What he'd become. What happened to the Order of Reapers, by her once villainous hands.

She floated across the corridors when she tried to chase him, only to run into Beatrix. Gathered up quickly with Asphyxious, Trixie, and the twins, they returned to the bedroom where Bellatrix shared what she'd learned on contact with the beast. Someone would have to bond with it.

“It could be permanent this time,” warned Shadow Scythe bleakly.

Bella nodded her own awareness. “It's so diminished, the host could be absorbed into it entirely. The more powerful the candidate, the less likely they'll be swallowed up whole. I'll do it.”

“I've handled it once before,” reminded Shadow, as an alternative.

“A temporary measure. Your ability to regenerate your flesh, high intelligence, strong will, and mastery of magic, the dark arts included, aided your chances,” explained Bella. “But my demonic body is still more naturally powerful than your frame. I have a far better chance.”

Shadow nodded her deference, aware the succubus was also wise and willful.

"What happened to the other ghosts? Surely more died in this place before all this." Asphyxious asked, adding another small caving into the bottom of the wall.

He got a surprise as both twins wrapped their arms around him and pushed their boobs into his back. "We're unsure." Said one. "We think they're still here but sleeping, it's good they're not awake," replied the other.

Beatrix cut in, “I've hosted an eldritch being of my own! The Demiurge! Huh, but I can't feel its presence ever since we've arrived here. I'm not sure whether I have it anymore, but it feels like I can work most of my old spells...hmmm...” She considered it, while the final choices were made.

Another rumble sounded. More like an earthquake, which almost bowled them over.

Bellatrix touched the wall and cried, “Oh no! We're too late. Someone's already seized control!”

Asphyxious seized his sword and drew it. “Who? I'll lop their head off before-”

Realization dawned in Shadow Scythe's icy blue eyes. "Danse Macabre. No, Mortis Saltaire. He'd already halfway reverted before I could catch him.” Her small fists balled up. How many times would she have to kill him? Whatever happened, she bore him no ire now, but he must be stopped!

Tremors rose around the interior, when Mortis Saltaire, now almost fully back in his lich form, found his way into the basement and forcibly fused with the manor to seize control over the eldritch abomination, to carry on unfinished business. He knew it could travel the stars. Intestine-like coils wrapped around his skeletal form, his face skull-like, his black hair in tatters.

“I too am a reaper,” came his hollow, disembodied voice. “Like the betrayer, I mastered the dark arts. What then should be my purpose, now that she and her companions have doomed the multiverse to this hellish fate? Does the Order of Reapers matter amidst an empty void?”

The eldritch beast tried to forcibly reject him. Mortis pitted his own will against it, pure in his focus, the weakness of Danse Macabre bled away when he christened himself into the black reaper. His black robes turned to tatters, like they too were decayed, his hood included as a bony horn jutted from his forehead. Eyes burned in hollow sockets, like the sparks of ignus fatuus.

His scythe transformed to resemble a rust-colored guillotine at the blade. “I am reborn. What Beatrix and her friends once called home, I now turn on them. Feast. Grow. Spare no one.”

All at once, the interiors assailed the companions, as the beast's innards manifested around them.