Chapter 295 – Re: Unite

Day 36

"So this is where you two were hiding!" A voice said, stirring John from his slumber. He blinked his eyes a couple of times, trying to focus on the figure of Riana standing above him.

Above them. Aqua was nestled tightly into his right side, his hand holding her ass, the soft skin feeling amazing under his-

"My arm?!?" He said, realizing it had grown back. He lifted it as best he could in this position and examined it. The skin was pale, like it had never seen the sun before, but otherwise it looked like his left. He rubbed his head and found his right ear had returned as well. He was whole again.

"I see that. What happened?" She asked, sitting down on the vines beside him and started to examine the new limb.

"I'm... not sure. We were dancing... and singing a song... but my memories are fuzzy. No, not fuzzy. Full... like I remembered my whole life at once, and other lives, and the images are... confusing. A mass jumble of memories all at once." He said, trying to explain how he felt. He wasn't doing a good job of it, but he couldn't describe how he felt. It was like everything hit him at once, and not just his memories.

He had seen Jean standing watch around a fire, Ruby smiling happily in the stables, an elven woman seated in a carriage, a massive elk moving through the mountains, a king yelling orders to save his daughter, a bug being eaten by a frog, a princess being kidnapped, a temple being built, a log thrown on a pyre.

Everything.

Is this what being Omnipresent is?

{Omniscient actually, though you only had a flash of that power from one of the gods of that realm. Fun, isn't it?}

Not in the slightest. How do you deal with all of that?

{We're literally built different, but that is also why we shut it off to enjoy our shows here at DEN. Now, I think you have a dryad to feed. Are you going to make love to her with Aqua beside you, or will you chicken out and just give her your Ki the other way? Enquiring minds want to know.}

My body was just repaired, and I had one of the most... incredible, overwhelming experiences ever, and you want to know if I'm going to have sex with Riana? What are you, a fourteen-year-old that just discovered his dad's old porno collection for the first time?"

Alec didn't reply, so he turned his attention back to Riana, who was just finishing up her examination of the limb. She then leaned over and stuck a couple of his fingers into her mouth and sucked on them for a moment before letting them go. "It seems fine, though it has a significant amount of residue from divine energy in it."

"You needed to suck on my fingers to know that?"

"No, but I was curious how it tasted." She said, sticking her tongue out at him again, then cuddled into his other side.

Aqua still hadn't stirred despite their conversation, so he just wrapped his arms around both of them and enjoyed the close contact. He slid a finger between her butt cheeks and fed her his ki that way, just to annoy Alec a bit while giving her what she needed.

They talked quietly about how her trip was going, and he couldn't help but realize that Aqua had been bang on with her assessment. Riana had never been anywhere before and excitedly told him about different plants and animals she was encountering, and how one glen looked like compared to another. She wanted to continue exploring, to see more of the world and all of the amazing things in it. 

"I'm glad you're enjoying yourself. I take it everyone is okay so far?"

"Yup! You don't need to worry about them; they are perfectly safe. I have a pet watching over their camp right now." She replied, idly tracing her fingers along his chest tattoos. "I'm so glad that you chose to lie down next to my tree that night. I don't think I would have ever experienced these things if I remained in my old grove. I was happy, but very lonely."

A pet? I'm not sure I want to know.

"Glad to be of service, darlin'. I'm happy to have met you too."

She started to lick his nipple while grasping a hold of his member, sending waves of pleasure through his body. After a few moments, she looked up at him with that playful smile he was coming to love. "It's nearly dawn, and I need to go soon, but let me quickly take care of this for you. Tonight, I want to see what you can do now that you have both arms. You know... I think I'd really like to be carried."

"Always the nymphomaniac."

"It's what I am, and don't pretend you don't like it. In this, I think we are much the same, despite how much you have been trying to fight it. Now, fill me up. Be my Sun once again." She said, then slowly kissed her way down his body until Little John was deep in her throat. 

He just leaned back against the vines and enjoyed the moment, falling asleep a short time later as Riana left the mana pool. His dreams were happy dreams this time, of working the farm and growing his family, one distended belly at a time.

"That was a blessing from another of the Greater Gods?" John asked, tracing his finger along Aqua's body. They had awoken a few minutes ago and were still lying beside the mana pool, talking about what happened last night.

"Yes. The Great God of Space-Time and Star Sea. He noticed our mana well, and gave me his blessing last night while I was bathing in the mana pool. It reawakened some of my old divinity for a short time, letting me restore your body while we danced."

"Thank you. It means a lot to me to be whole again." He replied, cupping her chin and brushing her cheek with his thumb. 

"It wasn't just your body, but your mind. I fixed everything. It was like I was a full-on goddess of healing again, with all my old powers restored."

"Seriously? I don't... I don't need to worry about losing my mind anymore?"

"No more than anyone else does. You're free of that burden now."

"Come here." He said, wrapping both of his arms around her and crushing him into his chest, a tear running down his cheek. "I don't know how to thank you for this."

"To start, you could congratulate me on evolving as well."

"You evolved?" He said, releasing her from the hug and really taking in her looks. She was a little bit taller, but not much, and she had regained all of the curves she had when they first met. It was a change, but it was so subtle that he hadn't noticed that she was that much different from when she was a hobgoblin.

I mean, we are lying down in a dimly lit room. It's hard to notice that kind of change.

"Yeah. See." She said, moving some of her hair aside, exposing two little horns on top of her head. "I'm a Half-Saint Lord now. It seems to be a type of demon that specializes in healing. This... didn't exist in my world." She said sadly. "I feel... unclean."

"We are both types of demons then, but it doesn't mean we need to be evil. I don't think this world is anywhere near as black-and-white as yours was. Heck, I have polar opposite blessings from two of these great gods."

"I know... it... it is just weird." She replied, snuggling back into his chest. "I also relived a bunch of my old memories. From when I was a young goddess."

"Were they good memories?"

"I like to think so. It was a lot of swimming and singing through a vast ocean, meeting my mother once in a while. She was a goddess of the sea, of crossing over, and of death. I don't have many memories of her, and they are already fading from my mind, but the ones I do have are full of love and caring. Then after ten thousand years or so, I was ascended to another pavilion by Fate, and that was the last time I saw her. We cried, and she wished me well on my journey before returning to hers."

"Tell me about her, so I can remind you of her whenever you want." 

"She was beautiful, with long, dark brown hair, soft brown eyes, and sun-kissed skin. She was very dutiful with her job, but taught me how to sing." She sniffled into his chest, and he could feel tears leaking from her eyes. "She would sometimes take me up to this rock, and we would act like we were sirens and sing to passing sailors. We stopped that when we caused a couple ships to run aground, but otherwise it was funny, and we would laugh together when half the crew would ogle us as they sailed past."

He didn't interrupt her as she continued to tell him stories of her past, taking down as much of the information as he could so he could repeat it to her if... when she forgot again. When she finally finished, she looked up at him with a hopeful expression. "Do you think I will ever get to see her again?"

"I'm sure you will. We are part of DEN now, so nothing is impossible anymore. Do you remember her name?"

"Magwayen, though her friends would always just call her Mags."

Something tickled the back of his mind about that name, but he couldn't recall why. He would ask Alec or Xiaolin the next time he was in DEN, provided they would be willing to share that information with him. They did have all these weird rules they seemed to follow about not telling him too much about these worlds he travelled to.

They chatted for a few more minutes before getting up for the day, wading out of the mana pool hand in hand. They had training to do and people to lead. Anything else could wait until after the sun had gone down. Such as the life they were building in this village in the back end of nowhere, and he wouldn't have it any other way.

"These are nice-looking clothes. Thank you." John said, appraising the long jacket and pants that the Outfitter had made for him out of the hide of the red bear. The brown jacket could almost be called a cloak, open in the middle and reaching down to his calves, while the pants were a darker shade of brown, held up with a thick black belt bearing a mithril buckle with a silver cross in the centre, like the crosses on his armour.

"You're welcome, Milord. We tried to have it ready sooner, but everyone else's gear took priority." She replied, standing a few paces back and appraising how it fit his body.

"That's fine. It's more than I was expecting." He was quite happy with it, as walking around half naked all day was starting to feel a little weird, but he didn't want to walk around the place in a red velvet bathrobe either. 

She stepped up to him and adjusted how it was sitting on his shoulders, before looking up into his eyes, her pouty lips looking like she was expecting something more. He misread her intention when he leaned over to give her a kiss, causing him to catch air as she moved away from him. 

"Sorry, milord. I am very appreciative of everything you've done, but I'm not ready to show you that much appreciation. Unless you insist anyway." She said, placing a hand on his chest. 

"No. The fault is mine. With how everyone else was acting, I made an assumption. I'm sorry, milady." He replied, now feeling extremely awkward. 

"Hah, I'm no lady, just a simple leather worker. Still, in time I may want the same thing as they did, but I'm quite content to let my body recover from that... that... string of forced pregnancies first. Ask me again during the cool winter months, and I might be persuaded to enjoy some time with you, milord." She said, laughing a bit at the end and smiling up at him. "I do like my men taller and thick with muscle, so you would be perfect in that regard."

"I'll be sure to remember that. Now, before I put my foot in my mouth again, I'll get out of your hair. Thank you again for the clothing."

"Come back anytime, Milord. I could use a hand or two to help with the next round of tanning." 

"I'll see if I can make some time for you then." 

He said his goodbyes and left her workshop. He raised his hand and looked up at the sky. It was mid-afternoon, and he still hadn't been able to get down into the mines to check on Sei's progress yet. She thought she was close to a breakthrough, and he wanted to be there to explore the place with her and Sato, but he kept on being interrupted by everyone wanting to see their lord's new arm.

Mi was especially happy for him, and hopeful that her arm could be restored as well, so Aqua had taken her into the pool to attempt the magic again, but had warned her not to get her hopes up yet. The power to heal him had come from her flash of divinity, not from the mana pool itself, and she wasn't sure if it was ready to take on such a task. Though she had some hopes with her expanded healing spell list that she could manage it as soon as the concentration of mana in the pool increased. 

"Here, have nut. Good for deep think and repel crazy cat ladies." A familiar voice said beside him.

"Sure, I'd love some nuts- YOU! What are you doing here!?!"