How I became the Empress of Hell

4.20: My Adorable Nephilim

I still hadn’t had the time to fully process the implications of everything. I knew everything between Em and I was new and fresh, and then we had the added difficulty when we included Noelle into the mix… so I wasn’t exactly sure how my relationship with Sabrina fit into that. When I had discussed sensing what Areandra was feeling for me with the other girls, they told me they weren’t against me talking to her and seeing where it goes. And the more I thought about it, I feel a spark of a deeper connection with her. After literally just how deeply her love for me went, how could I not feel something for her in return? More than that though, every time I thought about being with her, as Areandra, I felt a strange sense of possessiveness. I immediately thought back to the way I kept referring to her as while we were in that prison realm, and how, even now, thinking of her as mine felt… .“You’re awfully quiet, Allie, everything OK? Other than present circumstances, I mean.”

I nodded and smiled at her. Her lips tugged upwards into a matching grin, but I could tell she was still worried about my potential response.

“I’m not having any second thoughts about you and me. Given what we went through and all the emotions wrapped up in it, and given how I am when it comes to sex with potential love interests, me feeling a spark between us was basically guaranteed since I already knew how you felt about me. But even more than that… While I know I have feelings for you that will most definitely extend to outside the game, I can say without any doubt that Allexus is completely in love with Areandra. Whenever I think about you, I get this sense of overwhelming possessiveness like you to me.”

Areandra’s eyebrow rose as she continued to study my face, but she otherwise remained silent. The slight flush in her cheeks and the way her eyes kept sliding away from looking directly at me told me she wasn’t opposed to what I had said, but I knew she was also considering the implications of everything. After a moment she looked away, and then pointed to a large blue and white structure that was sitting in between two large rocky mountains.

“If I didn’t know any better, I’d say that that is where we need to head. That definitely looks like a barrier of some kind.”

I nodded my head, and put my tactical brain to work.

“What are the defenses like?”

“I count at least 60 angel guards. Roughly 20 archangels periodically patrol closer to the main building, and at least 100 Angelspawn are moving through the area at any given moment. This is definitely a sort of choke point. I can see some kind of shimmering barrier all along the mountain range on both sides, and it looks like that building is the only way through it.”

Areandra briefly turned around and I saw her scanning the area behind us.

“I don’t see angel bitch or her squad. Either we massively outflew them, or they stopped their pursuit.”

“As much as I’d like to hope they gave up, I know that Adelaine wouldn’t stop for anything now that she knows I’m here, so whatever we're gonna do, we gotta do it .”

She nodded again and turned back around.

“I can summon Judgement once more before I hit the 8-hour cooldown. But no World-Tier. Sadly that’s got a 4-hour cooldown. Which I totally would not have used had I known it was like… that. I totally underestimated how powerful it would be. Oh… I also just uh... jumped to the 3rd highest level character in the game... After that last ummm… nuke I guess? I hit 284. Now its only Nialla at 293, and… jeez Allie… I’m guessing you hit 338 after all that? Did you get that just for corrupting me? Weren’t you like 325 before we went into my bedroom? Fuck… the fact that we basically earned that by fucking nonstop for hours is… heh... You’re ability really broken Allie. In a good way, I mean.”

I grinned widely as Areandra rambled on for a moment, and when she saw me staring at her, an intense blush spread across her face, which only made me smile more.

“Why are you staring at me like that, Allie?”

“You, Brina. You’re adorable. I’ve never really seen this side of you. Normally you’re pretty quiet. But… I like seeing you get so excited and gushing about games. It’s really, really cute.”

As her blush only seemed to intensify as she fully processed my words, I couldn’t stop myself from closing the small distance between us and pulling her against me tightly. She let out a yelp as she folded her wings to prevent both of us from becoming a tangle of flying limbs, and after a second she relaxed in my arms. I looked down at her and saw that not only was she blushing all the way to the tips of her ears, but she was also doing her best to hide her face between my boobs. Unfortunately for her, I was in my normal form, so they did little more than act as face cushions. As if reading my thoughts, one of her hands drifted up my body and cupped one of my breasts firmly. Despite the fact there was a thick layer of heavy cloth between us, her fingers touching me felt… really good. I forced aside a moan as I started flying towards the nearby mountain range holding Areandra tightly against my chest in a princess carry.

After spying a shallow outcropping that Areandra had pointed out, I angled my wings and swooped down rapidly. I instinctively pushed energy into my demonic reflexes and strength as my body did its best to absorb the momentum from suddenly stopping. I landed heavily on the rocky terrain, and took a few stumbling steps forward before finding my center of balance. Since I was still carrying Areandra, I felt it would be a tad rude to crash with my new girlfriend in my arms, so I set her down as gently as I could like I hadn’t almost face-planted both of us into the side of a mountain. Areandra watched the area all around us for nearly five full minutes to make sure we hadn’t been followed; but after sitting against a huge rock next to me, she confirmed that we were, for the moment, in the clear. As she slid down and leaned against me, I lifted an arm and let her snuggle up close. Once she was settled and we were both comfortable, I opened my menu and showed her the message from Gehenna. Her eyes scanned it a few times and she pursed her lips and adopted a faint scowl.

“Well at least we were right about the way out. But seriously, Allie… as a main thoroughfare to get to other realms, there’s no telling how many players and NPC’s are inside there. And before you go all murdercrazy, let me remind you that we are still close enough to evil angel bitch to be a problem.”

I closed my menu and sat with head leaning against hers. The strange smoky halo effect that swirled directly over the points of her horns was only a few inches in front of my face, and I fought against every urge to reach out and touch it. Areandra must have sensed my intentions, because she shifted her head so that her halo came into contact with my face. I shivered at the oddly pleasant tingly sensation I got when the magical effect flowed me. After a moment she moved her head back and sought out my lips with hers. I kissed her eagerly, and she let out small happy sigh through her nose as she felt my body settle against hers. We made out for a few moments, but when she started to pull away, I knew that we really needed to get a move on. Instead of moving completely away from her, however, I held her close to me with one arm wrapped around her and my head leaning against hers.

“So… Judgment, huh? That thing is fucking badass!”

“Well, technically its called [Empress’s Judgment]. But since Judgment is the name of the weapon in Bullet Battalion, that’s what my brain automatically defaults to. But I mostly just call it ‘my baby.’ I spent so much damn time getting all the parts for her. Two of which required me take at least 5th place in one of the PvP tournaments. Then there was the one I had to—”

“Did you win?”

“Hmmm? Oh… well… I mean… yeah. I’m uh… I’m actually pretty good. I’ve actually had sponsorship and pro-team offers. That’s actually how I managed to pay for my tuition. The sponsorships, I mean. I don’t think I’d ever want to play BB as a career, though. I really enjoy the challenge of creating the engines and programs that game designers can use as a framework for their games. If one of my creations became an industry standard? Fuck… I would feel like indirectly I had a hand in every game that used my engine.”

I practically beamed at Areandra as she continued to open up to me a million miles a minute. I felt like this was the first time I was really seeing her. The her. She wasn’t just my badass Nephilim who looked absolutely sexy with a ridiculously oversized gun in her hands. She was Sabrina, the passionate and cheerful woman who had fallen completely in love with me and who I was already starting to feel the same way about. When I realized that this line of thinking was definitely going to lead me to kissing her again, I did my best to avoid doing anything to reignite our lust, and I immediately blurted out the first question my brain could come up with.

“So you and Em probably have a lot of classes together?”

Areandra seemed to see my struggle to keep my lips in check, and I watched her own eyes flick down to my lips before looking back up at me shyly. After a moment she seemed to realized I had asked her a question, and she let out a soft laugh.

“Sorry… I just really wanted to kiss you just now. And I feel like I you wanted to kiss me. Oh, Allie… this bond thing with you is… intense. It makes me feel so warm. So… OK… is it weird to say loved? I know you haven’t said it back… and I don’t want to push you into anything you aren’t ready for, and I promise I won’t… be…”

Her voice trailed off as I thought about just how badly I wanted to feel Areandra’s lips against mine. After all the time we’d spent together gaming, and the intense mind-blowing sex we’d had cause of the overwhelming lust we felt for one another, I could tell for certain that I had fallen for the former fallen angel. I continued to kiss this amazing woman for what I hoped was a reasonable amount of time before I gently pulled away and scooted back a little bit so I was sitting directly in front of her, both of her hands clasped tightly in mine. There was a strange tingling sensation in my arm, but I ignored it and focused all my attention on this beautiful women sitting in front of me.

“I love you Brina. Seeing you just now, just… gushing about your gun and… everything. You seem… I don’t know… happier, I guess. And… it looks really good on you.”

“Not telling you was… not gonna like Allie… it sucked. But every time I thought about telling you… I felt like I would somehow being intruding on your relationships. Even when I found out you and Em were poly… I always just felt like I was imposing. Don’t get me wrong… I’m fully polyamorous. Well… I’m open to it, anyways. You’re uh… sorta the only person I’m dating right now, I guess. I do have this occasional thing with this guy in the dorm across from mine, but its just stress relief. He plays BB too, actually. Hmmm… Maybe I can talk him into giving HD a try? He’s a damn good player. Not like… tournament good... but good enough to be an awesome teammate during non-competitive 2v2’s or PvE content. Plus, I mean… even if he simply just copies his real body and makes a character… he’d absolutely be eye-candy for those of us who are into guys. Don’t get me wrong… He’s more than just good looks... He’s good for a nice, hard fuck and amazing as a gamer friend. But he’s far too focused on his degree to be a good boyfriend. He even agreed with me when I said exactly that when I told someone else about our friends-with-benefits thing we have going. And… I am nonstop rambling again… you just bring it out of me, Allie. And… to sort of respond to what you said… I happy. I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop… but I am extremely happy.”

“Other shoe?”

“I’m waiting for you to log out and have a case of mental dissonance when the incepted emotions aren’t there anymore. I completely agree with what you said about Allexus being in love with Areandra… But you need to see how Allie feels about Sabrina. You said you… talked to the others. And they were… OK with it?”

I nodded gently so as not to jostle either of us.

“Mmmhmm. Nialla seems to love sex as much as I do, regardless of who its with. Hana is… very quickly warming up to being with multiple women at the same time. Em is learning as she goes, but definitely way more open and receptive to all of it. And as far as the relationship aspect… Em has openly told me that as long as I fulfill my wifely duties to her, I can have as many partners as I want. Not that I a lot. I mean… I’m not it. But its not like I'm intentionally seeking it out at any rate.”

“Allie… are you getting off on having your own harem of beautiful women at your beck and call?”

And now it was my turn to blush. Even with my demonic body sapping away the evidence of the negative emotion, I still felt the blossom of heat in my cheeks. I looked up at this women that I had so quickly fallen in love with, and just grinned at her endearing, inviting smile.

“As Allie? Meh. I don’t really have any harem fantasies. That’s actually Em’s thing, believe it or not. But Allexus? Heh. Fuck yeah she gets off on the idea of having a huge harem.”

“How does that work, exactly? How are you two different people? Like… how did the thing with Ikelos even happen?”

“Simplified version? The way I was turned into a demon sorta… fucked with my character’s mind. Something about a demon’s innate nature being suppressed while dealing with… all the shit Mellic did to me. Alongside the N-Vision safety protocols put in place to prevent any kind of actual trauma from forming. So I was so used to being Allie that Allexus, and by extension her demonic nature, seemed like a different person to me. She dealt with all the trauma that I didn’t have to. So… she’s one big pile of angry horny sex demon. After she and I… OK, you know what… screw it. Full disclosure, the two of us fucked. Apparently for 12 hours. It seems I have a history of marathon sex sessions with incredibly hot women. But now it just feels… huh. Odd. I can remember what it felt like to get fucked by… myself. And how it felt to… fuck myself, I guess? Knowing exactly what my cock or pussy feels like from both perspectives… is kinda making my brain hurt… Annnnnnyways… now the one rambling. Did uh… did that answer your question? Cause if I’m being honest that unless I break the 4th wall again and check back in the actual story, talking about having sex with myself sorta made me forget what your question was. Oh! Speaking of which…”

I snapped my fingers to unequip my underarmor padding, and held up my bare arm for Areandra to see. She openly gaped and blushed as she saw the nude pin-up style tattoo of her new character form on my inner bicep.

“This does officially make you one of my wives, Areandra.”

She stared at it for a moment and gently ran a single clawed finger up the length of my arm. I shivered from the tickling erotic sensation, and it took everything I had to pull away from her touch only enough to keep from giving into the sexual tension that was ramping up again.

“You know what polysaturation is, yes?”

I nodded my approval and gave her a questioning look.

“I’m only asking because I don’t want that to be you. Five lovers is a lot… and I don’t want to be the one that overtaxes you.”

“I promise, I’m not feeling that way at all. I may joke about it from time to time, but the truth is I couldn’t be happier with how my life is going right now. But, I tell you all if I do start to feel overextended, yeah?”

“Good. And I’ll work with the others to make sure we don’t overwhelm you. That’s the least we can all do to show you how much we love you. Even though they aren’t here, I’m like… 99% sure the others feel the same way I do.”

She looked at me with an expression that spoke of deep love and affection, and I returned the expression and squeezed her hand tightly. After a moment, we pulled away and stood up. A sort of twilight had settled over the mountain range, and everything that wasn’t glowing like a light-show was cast in a sort of gray gloom. Areandra and I, per Gehenna’s suggestion, had been waiting for this moment to put our crazy-as-fuck plan in action. I cast [Blessings of Corruption] on Areandra, who gleefully informed me that her [Corrupted Radiance] skill now provided a +3 bonus instead of the plus +2 like before. Her stats became absolutely insane as the effect of the spell resolved, but I also noticed just how much of a huge increase there was in the MP cost. Casting that spell as a Tier 4 now cost an absurd 1/3 of my total MP. I couldn’t imagine the amount of MP it would take to cast a Tier 8 enchantment, but I knew Hana would be absolutely over the moon about Areandra's skill upgrade.

“And you promise that if Adelaine or one of those Soul Titan things shows up, you won’t stick around and you’ll just run?”

“I promise, Brina. I nearly died to one of those fuckers, and I’m not looking for a repeat performance.”

“And if Adelaine shows up?”

She narrowed her eyes at me as she summoned her monumental arcane sniper rifle into her hand. I held up my hands in a placating gesture and gave her a quick peck on the lips before darting back towards the edge of the outcropping.

“I promise I won’t stick around if that bitch shows up... as much as I want to stomp her face into the dirt. You promise you’ll be safe up here, though? I know you have an insane range with that thing, but still… I… I don’t want you to do anything that draws their attention to you.”

“I’m very good at staying hidden, Allie. That’s like… sniper 101. If I feel like I’m in immediate danger, I’ll send you a signal of sorts and you can use your summon minion thingy to bring me down there. It… does work that far, yeah?”

“I’ve honestly never tested the range of it. I know it worked to bring Em to me during the first clan battles we did. But I don’t really know the extent of the range. Well… no time like the present to figure that shit out. You ready, dear girlfriend of mine?”

Areandra giggled and murmured her agreement as she began to blush again.

So cute!!