Chapter 129: Seismic Levels Of Satisfaction
Nearly an hour had passed.
Outside the sealed chamber, the team lay sprawled across the rubble-strewn floor, waiting, very, impatiently.
Lula and Penelo can’t sit still at all.
They pace about in opposite directions, sharing increasingly unhinged theories about what exactly Pip might be doing in the Earth mother’s chambers.
"What if she’s got, like, six sets of... you know." Penelo whispers, pointing warily at her crotch.
"What if she doesn’t even have one. What if she’s just... sand done there, and he’s just..."
"Please don’t finish that sentence." Veena groans,
"What if he’s stuck?" Penelo’s eyes go wide with genuine horror. "What if she just... absorbed him? What if he’s a grain now?"
"He is not a grain, Penelo." Lula scoffs. "He’d be like... little metal pellets."
"You don’t know that! Did you see her thighs?! They’ve probably crushed him to powder!"
"Please!" Veena begs them. "My sanity!"
"I’m just saying, we should have a contingency plan." Penelo finishes with a shrug.
Nearby, Raikya lies sprawled across Frostlick, folded halfway into the hound’s fur, still deep in the soft, giggly afterglow of her first time with Pip.
"She looks comfortable." Veena smirks, watching Raikya lick her paws and giggle at nothing in particular.
"Standard first-timer symptoms," Sera says. "You’d know, if you ever actually gave Pip a try."
Veena’s cheeks flush pink and her horns faintly glow. "I’m waiting for the right time, ok."
"Take all the time you need, sweetheart" Sera grins. "More Pip for me."
Veena opens her mouth, closes it again, and decides to change the subject instead.
"Blackthorn’s handling this as dignified as always."
"Smooth."
Meanwhile, Vuvi has cornered the Desert Spirit and is giving her both pieces of her mind, arms crossed, pink lips pouting, a perfect display of ’unimpressed’.
"We power you up. Give that alter the best performance it’s seen in a thousand years. REVIVED your mother. And what do we get in return for all our trouble?! Spun into tornadoes!" Vuvi stomps a foot firmly in anger.
Sand tumbles out her hair and down over her face in response as she snarls, biting down a scream.
"...and now she’s got him locked behind a door for an hour? AN HOUR!? This is not how you treat business partners, sprite. We had a deal."
"I’m sooooo sorry," the Desert Spirit pleads, wringing her hands. "He’ll be fine, I promise. She just needs time to figure out what he actually is."
"An hour..." Vuvi says flatly. "It’s been an hour already. How long does ’figuring out’ take?"
"She’s very thorough."
"So am I, and it’s never taken me an hour to figure out anything about anyone."
"With respect," the Desert Spirit says, "you handed a business card to a demi-goddess, and got turned into a tornado for it. I’m not sure you’re the authority on deligent decision-making right now."
Vuvi sneers as her, face burning with a scowl before she turns on her heel, stomping back to Veena leaving a shimmering trail of sand falling behind her.
CRASH!!
The team jerk back as the sound of a hill tearing apart erupts from beyond the door.
Then a defeaning crack.
Then something that sounds distressingly like an underground explosion.
Everyone scrambles up and rushes the doors, pounding and shoving uselessly against solid stone, yelling out to Pip with little success.
"ZORA!" Vuvi shouts, whipping around, and suddenly realizing, with growing suspicion, that the team lich hasn’t been seen since the Earth Mother first showed up. "Where the... did that bag of bones run away?"
A violet portal blinks open at head height, and Zora’s skull pokes through it, perfectly serene. "I’m quite fine, thank you. I thought it prudent to observe from a pocket dimension. That stone woman was terrifying."
"You’re a lich!" Vuvi says. "You guarded a cursed mountain for two hundred years. You can some armies of undead. You are objectively one of the least killable people I know of."
"And yeeeet, none of that felt relevant when a literal demi-goddess was standing three feet from me looking personally offended by my very existence."
"That’s a fair point, actually," Sera admits.
"Thank you. I felt it was a very reasonable reaction on my part... OH!"
Vuvi yanks him out of the portal by the collar. "Pip is in danger, you coward!"
Zora arches a bony brow, drifts over to the great doors, and calmly pushes his entire skull straight through solid rock like it’s made of water.
"Bleach my bones!" He yelps as he pulls his head back out and chuckles nervously.
"What!?" Vuvi demands. "What’s happening in there?"
"Fear not, our Prince," Zora says, "is doing his job. Rather vigorously."
Inside, the fully re-powered Earth Mother rides Pip like he’s a metal stallion she’s personally breaking in with all her might. Sand and stone twisting into fantastic new shapes around them with every pump of Pip’s pelvis. Pillars, arches, entire structures crashing together in their wake as she throws her head back and howls with pure, unfiltered ecstasy.
"FASTER. HARDER. DEEPER, construct!" she screams as she leans back, driving Pip down into the bed, deeper and deeper, unleashing a physical force that sounds like rock being hit by lighting,
The bed cracks, the solid rock splintering beneath them explosively as the entire structure shatters.
Pip’s hits solid rock, his chassis straining under the seismic pressure of her hips, while warnings scroll across Pip’s vision in a frantic red cascade.
[STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY: 61%... 54%... 48%]
She pounds and pummels him straight through rock and stone, cratering the ground beneath them.
"You’d better keep up!" she pants, glaring down at him. "I am unimpressed so far. I have had entire mountain ranges try harder than this."
Pip’s eyes flash pink, then red then a brillant gold.
Their gazes lock, and he grabs her hips with both hands, gears locking into place, gripping her hips determinedly.
She grins. "And what exactly do you think you’re doooooingggg..."
A torrent of wind rises beneath them both, lifting them clean off the crater floor. She glances around, thoroughly overjoyed, then back down at him. "Oh. That’s more like it! Show me what you can do!"
He flips her mid-air in one smooth rotation, and before she can even gasp, they both dive straight down like, glowing like a comet of copulation. Twin jets of water blast from Pips palms into the crater ahead of them, cushioning the impact in a violent burst of spray as they slam into the ground together, and he slams fully into her.
She screams something vaguely comprehensible that sends fractures through the ground around them, the shimmering spray falling like mid-summer rain over her moaning, chanting, and whispering something that sounded suspiciously like a prayer.
[ACTIVATING POWER THRUST LV. 3]
Pip overrides every safety limiter in his pleasuring protocols at once and drives into her with everything he has, each thrust punching the crater wider, deeper, the whole chamber shuddering with the impact of his pelvis agaisnt hers.
[STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY: 32%... 28%... 22%]
Outside, an earth-shattering shriek sudden rips through the stone doors.
Veena instinctively throws up a violet dome-shield around her and Vuvi. The rest of team barely has time to dive to safety before the great doors detonate outward in a rolling wall of dust and debris.
They cough, choking on grit.
"ZORA, DO SOMETHING," Sera bellows, hidden in the cloud of dust.
Zora, floating above them, mutters a quick incantation, and a shimmering bubble of compressed gravity blooms overhead, sucking every last grain of dust and sand inward before vanishing with a soft, satisfying pop, leaving the air around them completely clear.
The team picks themselves up and stares into chamber.
Beyond, it no longer resembled a temple. It resembled a demolished quarry. Massive chunks of rock strewn everywhere, entire columns snapped clean in half. And in the very center of it all, a watery crater, deep enough to swallow a townhouse.
They rush the edge and look down in stunned silence.
Pip kneels at the bottom, staring into the middle-distance as he goes over his status screens.
[Pleasure Objectives Completed!]
[Average Pleasure Performance Rating: SS+]
[Pleasure Points Earned: 3265]
[Pleasure Power has leveled up! Current Pleasure Power Lv: 069]
[Spiritual Achievement Unlocked: Redeemer of Rock]
[Additional Pleasure Points Earned: 6000]
[Pleasure Power has leveled up! Current Pleasure Power Lv: 072]
[Skill Upgraded: Divine Touch Lv. 2 -> Divine Touch Lv. 3]
[Skill Upgraded: Power Thrust Lv. 3 -> Power Thrust Lv. 4]
[Skill Upgraded: Moisture Manipulation Lv. 3 -> Moisture Manipulation Lv. 4]
[Skill Upgraded: Aero Manipulation Lv. 1 -> Aero Manipulation Lv. 2]
Below him, the Earth Mother lays sprawled flat on her back in the center of her own crater, in tiny puddle, eyes rolled fully back, thin curls of steam rising off her thighs, an expression of absolute, brain-melted bliss frozen on her face.
Nobody says anything for a long moment.
"So," Penelo finally offers, "he’s fine, then. I knew he would be fine!"
"Structurally?" Vuvi squints down at him, taking in the cratered floor, the shattered doors, the collapsed bed frame somewhere off to the left. "Debatable. But emotionally, I think he’s never been better."
Down in the crater, Pip finally gets a reaction out of the Earth Mother, a faint, blissful murmur and one weakly raised hand, a proud and perfectly pleasured thumb poking into the air, before flopping back down onto her chest.
"She’s fine too, apparently," Lula says, peering over the edge. "A little more than fine, probably."
"I want that recorded," Vuvi says to no one. "For the scientific record. This is exactly how this family get’s business done."
Zora, still hovering by the shattered doorway, scribbles one final line in his notebook and closes it with quiet satisfaction. "Another perfect performance from the Prince," he announces.
"Our boy’s pretty much a goddess-slayer now." Sera chuckles proudly. "That’s two for two, on demi-goddess satisfaction."
"I’ve had quite enough of dealing with demi-goddesses" Vuvi sneers, already clambering down the crater towards Pip. "I’m soooo done with temples!"