Chapter 31: Baptism

"Deal," I committed, "how do I-"

A whip snapped around my phone hand at the wrist and another around my card hand. As they pulled my arms to each one of my sides the ground beneath me started to liquify. My shoes disappeared into the puddle of ejaculate forming beneath me, then my legs, until eventually my hands dropped into the warm, sticky substance and I had sunken into it waist deep. My descent wasn't slowing, though.

Despite losing sight of the lower half of my body, I took comfort in recognizing that I could still wiggle and feel my toes and feet. As the sex fluids engulfed my arms, up my shoulders, and around my neck I found myself starting to panic.

'It can only be Kabo. It can only be Kabo,' I attempted to calm myself as the fluids reached my chin.

I took a deep breath and became entirely submerged in a void of viscous liquid ranging from transparent to milky white. Half a minute passed, then a minute. After the seventy-five second mark I stopped counting and began to panic. My legs kicked and my eyes opened as I attempted to swim upward without the use of my arms. I was continuing to sink. Trying to free my arms pulled me downward even faster and my breath was beginning to give out.

My body forced a breath against my judgement, filling my mouth and lungs with what could only be described as heavy water. I regurgitated and expelled it immediately, which only prompted a fresh batch drawn back in. I was drowning... in pussy and semen.

Who could've believed this?

My chest burned and my eyes began to water, adding to the slough of slipperiness surrounding me. A cold sensation spread from my toes and up my legs as I choked and gagged for air. As it climbed my body, like wet skin being exposed to the arctic air, I started to despair.

'How could I be so stupid? At least Levi would still have Jesse.'

The stillness and frost reached my neck, crawled up each side onto my cheeks, and I closed my eyes. As the sensation reached my lips, my body expunged a heaping globule of fluid from out my chest in a last-ditch effort for life. Where I had expected death, came oxygen, and with it one of the most dangerous weapons imaginable... hope.

The cold continued to rise until it completely cleared the top of my head and I fell to solid ground on all fours.

"Hello, dear," Kabo's voice rung out.

I couldn't respond. My body heaved, expelling foreign matter from it, fighting for its right to survive.

"Sorry about the trip," it continued while slowly moving around me, "it's why we try and settle on us coming to you all rather than the other way around."

I was still on death's door and coughing was the only response I could muster.

"How delighted I was to hear from you. I do so love a struggle, " they continued their monologue, "but I need you healthy for our proposition so... try this."

Soft lips covered mine with a blur of Kabo's form attached to them. Fluid was being sucked out of my lungs and throat while this face used kissing to unnaturally suck the liquid from me. My body recovered quickly enough to break away and I shoved the subject in front of me back while propelling me on my hind quarters. My hands, clammy and soaked, pulled at my eyes and eyelids in an attempt to clear out my vision.

There, across from me, in their overly eccentric pink suit knelt Kabo.

"Isn't that better, love?" they said, standing up.

My head was reeling, but I had shoved him away.

'My wrists! My hands were free!'

I stood and oriented myself to the environment, my legs supporting my body shakily. They wobbled under the weight, not because they were unfamiliar with it, but because they were still weak from my convulsing. Laughter broke out behind me as my head turned and I assessed Rosalique, Alice, Trinity, and many other succubi behind me. Tens of hundreds of them lining the surrounding darkness where I'd expect a wall to be but couldn't actually see past or through.

"It's ok now," Kabo said, extending their hand out to me just as I'd done for both Levi and Jesse, "come."

Weary and wary, I put one foot in front of the other and took steps just like that of a newborn foal toward Kabo. Once I'd made it to them, I took their hand and pulled myself onto their shoulder to help support myself. At the very same time, Kabo spun the opposite direction and used their other arm to scoop the back of my knees and lift me completely off my feet. They walked slowly, with me in hand, toward one of the walls of dark. On our approach, though, we never made contact with the dark and the hemisphere of light seemed to be following them. As we travelled, the layout of this domain seemed to reveal itself to us. The succubi never entered the light, but also never disappeared into the dark. They just travelled alongside with us, remaining carefully on the outskirt of the illuminated globe.

I didn't know where we were going and after having been through everything I'd just gone through, I didn't rightfully care to ask. There was a strange feeling of peace and security in Kabo's arms that I'd not known outside of Levi's embrace. Magical or not, this was much better than drowning or being left lost and alone in the darkness with a whole cast of fiends I didn't know.