by Dante Steel
But his love, his harem, he could definitely see Loki trying to ruin it.
They talked and joked as if they weren't about to fight a battle that would be their toughest challenge yet. The team armed themselves and prepared to leave.
“Loki’s eastward,” Yuna said. “Flying will be our best bet. Olivia, you fly Nicoletta. I’ll fly Elena and Gary.”
“Why me?” Nicoletta asked.
“Aw, I’m feeling the love,” Olivia said. “Don’t you want another kiss?”
Elena’s eyes widened, but she didn’t say anything. Out of the corner of his eyes, Gary saw the metal superhero lick her lips. While he hoped this meant she was willing to broaden her horizons, he wasn’t about to be carted around as if he was an invalid.
“Yuna, I don’t need you to fly me,” Gary protested.
“You need to conserve your strength,” the Japanese woman said firmly.
“I’m fine.”
“You are our strongest asset. You can heal us. You must be able to do so.”
Gary gritted his teeth, but he nodded. She had a point. He wasn’t going to pretend that healing wasn’t an amazing new skill.
“What else can people with telekinesis do?” Gary asked.
“Can we talk as we fly?” Olivia asked. She was bouncing on her toes.
“You’re that eager to kill Loki?” Nicoletta asked.
“It won’t be easy. Is he as hot in the game as is he in the movies?”
Yuna shook her head. “We have to kill him.”
“Yes, yes,” Olivia said with a sigh.
They left and took to the skies. Gary didn’t even bother to glance around to see what time period the town had been from. Yuna was able to make Gary and Elena fly without touching them. He knew Olivia could do the same, but she always held onto the persons she flew with. An extra reason to touch us. He didn’t blame her at all.
Just thinking about Olivia and her touching Nicoletta had Gary hard. So inappropriate. Not the right time at all. It had been too long since he last made love to one of them.
To distract himself, he asked Yuna again, “What else can people with telekinesis do?”
“Come on, now, Gary,” Elena said. “You should be able to think of one other thing at least.”
He frowned and considered what telekinesis was. Moving objects with his mind, so flying, the forcefields…
“Bending spoons!” Elena laughed.
He sighed and groaned. “You didn’t give me a chance to think long enough!”
“Are you trying to claim you would’ve thought of that?”
“The world will never know.”
Yuna glanced from Gary to Elena. “You two are adorable.”
Elena blushed. “Thank you.”
“Nothing about me is adorable,” Gary grumbled.
Yuna giggled. “I did not mean to offend you.”
“Oh, I’m not offended. I’m just correcting you, that’s all.”
“You can’t correct an opinion,” Elena teased.
“Will you ever stop ganging up on me?” Gary asked, shaking his head. One would think shaking his head would make him dizzy while flying, but it didn’t. The flight was so smooth that if he just focused on the women, he wouldn’t even realize he was flying.
“Um… not likely.” Elena shrugged.
“As for other skills—” Yuna started.
The rest of her words were drowned out by the rumble of thunder. There were no clouds, and the lightning that streaked in the sky started at the ground and headed upward.
Toward Olivia and Nicoletta.
Gary glanced below. It took him a moment to spot the fucker.
“Smaug,” he said.
He destroyed the link between himself and Yuna so he could zoom forward toward the other two. Reaching out telekinetically, Gary didn’t put a forcefield around them. Instead, he encased Smaug, hoping that would be strong enough to contain any more lightning strikes.
He laid a hand on Olivia’s and Nicoletta’s shoulders. “We should fly away. We don’t want to face him. Not now, not yet.”
They nodded and headed back toward the others when Gary smelled smoke. He glanced over to see Nicoletta throwing a massive fireball straight for Smaug. It was the largest blast she had ever produced. Swiftly, Gary tried to shift the forcefield so it would allow the fire to obliterate Smaug.
Even more incredible than its sheer size was the explosion the moment the fireball collided with Smaug. Smoke billowed toward them.
“Wicked!” Olivia shouted.
They continued to fly away from the smoke, the blast, and Smaug, when suddenly, Nicoletta shrieked. A rod pierced her side, and she slumped down, flying yet because of Olivia, but unconscious or perhaps dead.
Shocked, Gary could only nod when Olivia shoved Nicoletta into his arms. The others surrounded him, and he barely noticed Olivia swooping downward. Gary was too preoccupied with reaching inside of Nicoletta with his power. He wasn’t sure if he could remove the rod without causing more damage, but he tried to make things right inside her body. It was guesswork, of course. He wasn’t a doctor and had no medical training. But up close like this, nearly subatomic, he could piece things back together as if the muscles and bones were puzzle pieces to sort. The blood was trickier, but he did his best, working from the left side of her body toward her right, shoving out the rod as he went.
The others were talking, screaming, crying. Gary ignored them all, listening only to Nicoletta’s heart. It beat slower and slower, and he tried to speed up the process, to help her, heal her, save her.
“No! You’ll die like Nicoletta!” Yuna shouted.
“But Olivia!” Elena yelled back. “He’s killing her a gazillion times over!”
Gary eased out the rod.
Nicoletta’s eyes fluttered, and she gasped, looking around wildly. “Wh-What happened?”
He forced her to look at him. “Are you all right?”
“I-I’m fine. I don’t understand. I thought I was dead.”
“You’re okay?”
She nodded.
Gary handed her off to Yuna and then dove down. The smoke lingered yet, making visibility difficult, but he spied Olivia and then Smaug. The supervillain stood over the flier, pummeling her with lightning from his fingertips. He looked like a dark overlord.
Fists held out, Gary flew as forcefully as he could and plowed straight into Smaug’s back, knocking him to the side. Gary allowed one more hook and then an uppercut for good measure. A bolt of lightning seared through Gary as he tore back toward Olivia. He ignored the pain, the shock, cradled her body, and zoomed away as quickly as he could, bypassing the others.
Once a-fucking-gain, they had to flee.
Chapter Twenty-Four
Gary didn't stop flying for what felt like hours. Olivia wasn't unconscious, and she never left the game. The flier just clung to Gary as if she was terrified she would fall.
“I got you,” he kept repeating. “Don’t worry. You’re safe now. I got you.”
“Nicoletta,” Olivia whispered through tears. “Is she…”
“She’s fine. Are you?”
Olivia clung to him even tighter and closed her eyes.
Yuna eventually bypassed him and led the way. They reached an island of ice, and Yuna brought them to the town. Once they were settled in a room in the inn, Gary tried to release Olivia, but she wouldn’t let him.
“I can’t,” she murmured, trembling.
“Can’t what?” he asked, rubbing her back.
She shook her head and buried her face into his chest.
“Olivia,” Nicoletta said, sounding strong and compassionate.
Olivia stilled, slowly released Gary, and turned. “I’m so sorry. He nearly killed you and—”
“And you didn’t hesitate to go and fight for me, to distract him so that Gary could heal me.” Nicoletta held out her arms, and the two embraced. Nicoletta brushed back Olivia’s hair and kissed her full on the lips.
Gary almos
t felt as if he was intruding on a private moment, and he glanced away.
“You rescued me as much as Gary did,” Nicoletta whispered. “I can’t thank you enough. I don’t know how to repay you.”
"You don't need to unless you want to…" Olivia wiggled her hips.
Nicoletta laughed. “Why am I not surprised?”
The Hispanic’s smile faded, and she whirled around to face Yuna.
“You. Olivia was killed so many times. What level are you now?” Nicoletta demanded.
“That doesn’t matter,” Olivia protested.
"Yes, it does." Nicoletta turned back to Yuna. "What level are you?"
“Two hundred and two.”
Holy crap. Already? She was one hell of a gamer. Her powers were no joke.
“Olivia, please don’t make me ask you again.”
“Less than that,” Olivia admitted in a whisper. “But that doesn’t matter!”
“Of course it matters!” Nicoletta exploded. “Can you fly?”
“I’m sure I can. I could do that since the start of the game.”
“Can you make me fly?” Nicoletta asked.
“I… I don’t want to try.”
“Then fly with Elena,” Nicoletta pleaded. When Olivia shook her head, Nicoletta tried again, “Or Gary.”
“She won’t stop,” Gary said. He held out his hand.
Olivia reluctantly accepted his hand. She rose into the air a few inches, but Gary didn’t.
“Your powers are so reduced that you can’t fly anyone else.” Nicoletta glanced around and found a cup. “Try to lift this.”
“Nicoletta, please,” Olivia begged.
“Just try.”
Olivia tried. The cup never lifted from Nicoletta’s hand. Olivia’s control to make objects outside of herself fly was gone.
“This is all my fault,” Nicoletta said.
“How?” Gary demanded. “You were impaled!”
“I should’ve been flying faster—” Olivia started.
“You were flying as fast as you could. It was not your fault.” Nicoletta shook her head several times. “I’m furious with myself, and with you, Olivia. You never should’ve gone after him like that!”
“It had to be me,” Olivia said darkly. “He doesn’t scare me, and I’m the only one who can die and not actually die. I’m an avatar.”
“You aren’t just an avatar. This isn’t just a game, and it hasn’t been for a long time.” Nicoletta whirled on Yuna. “You. How could you have not gotten rid of Smaug? How did he get through again? Why isn’t he dead? You have so many powers yourself. You should be able to kill him without the rest of us as backup!”
Yuna hung her head and stared at the ground. “I am so very sorry that you lost so many levels, Olivia. Nicoletta, I’m so sorry you were—”
“Nearly killed? Yeah, I survived, but not thanks to you. What exactly have you done since you’ve come here?” Nicoletta demanded.
Elena stepped forward. “I think we need to get some food and ale. A lot of ale. Anything you want.”
“Not with her,” Nicoletta said, lifting her nose into the air.
Arm in arm in arm, Elena, Nicoletta, and Olivia departed the room.
Yuna did not lift her head. “Do you hate me, too?”
“No,” Gary said honestly. “I… I think I’m in shock. I don’t see how that could happen. How did he know where we would be?”
"We weren't far from Loki. He must have either looked into how to become a superhero or else he is tracking us."
“He’s not Smaug. He’s Gamer Hunter,” Gary muttered.
“I mean it. I am so sorry for all that has happened. If Nicoletta had died—”
“She didn’t. Not this time.”
Yuna nodded miserably. “Go to them.”
Since he had nothing else to say to her, Gary left and headed next door to the tavern.
The girls were tucked in a corner, talking, laughing, and eating. Gary joined them, and they spent a few hours flirting. Eventually, Nicoletta began to nod off, and Elena picked her up.
“I’ll take her to bed.”
Olivia smirked. “Do you realize how that sounds?”
Elena blushed and walked away, nodding for Gary to stay with Olivia.
He turned to Olivia. She eyed him and seductively licked her finger.
Gary chuckled. “We should talk.”
“Is that how you want to term it?” Olivia ran her foot up his leg and placed it against his cock. She had taken off her thigh-high boots.
“I don’t have a foot fetish. Sorry.”
“Ah, don’t be like that. If anything rubs hard enough, long enough, you’ll get off.”
“Nope.” He lifted her leg onto the top of his thigh and began to massage her foot.
“Ah.” She squirmed, smiling. “That feels good.”
“Just imagine my hands elsewhere.”
Olivia laughed. “Right now?”
“Please.”
“No.”
He groaned. “You’re a damn tease.”
“You blew your load when I touched you last time!”
“Because you’re such a damn tease!”
“Just imagine how good it’s gonna be when we actually do.”
“It better be soon,” he murmured. “I don’t think my balls can last much longer.”
“You sure you don’t want my foot somewhere else?” she teased.
“I’m sure.” He grinned but then grew serious. “I think you need to train. Hard. You need to be strong. Stronger.”
She sighed and sat up, dropping her foot from on his leg. “Honestly, I think it would be best for me to lay low and not play for a while.”
“I fucking hate that idea,” he blurted.
Olivia drew a circle on the table. “I know. I don’t want to.”
He reached over and claimed her hand. “I hate it, but I completely understand.”
She bit her lower lip, clearly considering something, and she stood, tugging him along and bringing him to a different room at the inn. Without a word, she stripped him down. His cock sprung out the moment she lowered his clothes, nearly hitting her.
To his disappointment, when she stepped back, she didn’t take off her clothes. All she did was give him a slow once-over before smiling and nodding.
Olivia dropped to her knees in front of him, opened her mouth, and swirled her tongue around his tip.
“Fuck,” he groaned.
She laughed throatily. “Already? You are easy.”
Olivia slowly took him into her mouth, sucking hard, licking him. Her mouth felt so damn good around his cock, and it took everything in him to not grab the back of her head and fuck her mouth. No, she was offering this. She would be the one to gauge how fast or slow, how much to take.
More and more, she took him into her mouth, and Gary had to touch her. He laid his hands on her head but did not push.
Her hand reached between his legs and cupped his balls. Gary grunted. Fuck, did she know what she was doing. He nearly came right then and there.
Already, she had taken more of him into her mouth than most of the other girls he had been with ever had, but was Olivia done? No. She gripped his ass and took in all of him.
Olivia was a deep throater.
Her mouth massaged him, and he tried to do his best not to come, not yet, soon. This felt so fucking amazing, and he didn’t want it to end.
But when Olivia pulled back all the way and then proceeded to take all of him in her mouth again, Gary knew he was seconds away from coming.
Without warning, she just stopped. Right before he orgasmed, Olivia pulled back and smiled coyly as she stood.
Gary was too far along. His balls couldn’t hold back, and he ejaculated, his cum flying out farther than ever before.
He just stared at her, dazed.
She grabbed a towel and cleaned up. “The least I can do since I caused the mess.” Olivia winked and tossed the soiled towel in a corner.
“Thank
you,” he said.
Olivia burst out laughing. “I’ve never been thanked before.”
“Not for that.” He could feel himself blush with embarrassment. “For being you. For loving me. For letting me love you and the others.”
“Oh. That.”
“Yeah, that.”
“You’re welcome.” She tossed him his superhero attire and then rubbed the back of her neck. “I promise it won’t be for long, and I want to thank you too, for accepting me. I know I’m not… conventional.”
He laughed. “You aren’t, but that only adds to your charm.”
She winked. “I don’t want to drag this out as a long, sad goodbye.”
“You better tell the girls,” he warned.
“Don’t worry. I will. I mean, seriously, did you really think I wouldn’t?”
Gary dressed quickly and then pulled her close for a tight embrace. “I love you, Olivia.”
“I love you too, Gary. I guess this is goodbye.”
He clenched his teeth and shook his head.
Olivia pulled back slightly to look up at him. “Gary?”
“I can’t say it.” He wouldn’t say that word.
She pursed her lips. “Fine. Have it your way.” Olivia beamed. “See you soon.”
Much better. As much as he knew they couldn’t risk Olivia fighting Smaug while powerless and such a low level, he also didn’t want to think of her leaving forever. For a short period of time? That was much easier to accept.
“See you soon, Olivia.”
Chapter Twenty-Five
Gary stayed in bed late the next morning. He wasn’t looking forward to today or tomorrow or any day when Olivia wasn’t here. He felt as if he was missing his left nut. The dreams he’d had last night had been tortuous. Although he was rock hard, he ignored his erection and just laid in bed.
How had everything come down to this? How was this his life? Nicoletta had almost died, and it was all because of him.
That thought forced him out of bed, and he slipped into Nicoletta’s room. Her back was to the door as she stood at the window.
“Hi, Gary,” she said quietly without turning around.
