Her sudden leap towards him caused him to backed up a few paces and used a bit of power to force one of her feet to stay on the ground in a bid to trip her and end her initial rush.
His surprise was fleeting as he used one of his circling spikes to divert the path of her sword towards his chest to the side as she expertly turned her trip into a roll and almost ran him through with her first attack.
Her extra momentum did provide him a clean shot at her jaw that he took as "equal fights equal rights" flowed through his mind.
As she tumbled to the ground after the solid hit he stepped back and gave her an even look, Eve had caught him too many times during their bouts with his pants down playing possum after he knocked her down.
Several moments passed before the woman rose shakily and stared at him with unfocused eyes before a wide smile grew on her face.
"I think you will do just fine."
Giving her strange comment and wide smile a small part of his attention he held back from simply putting the woman down, at Nat's request, and resumed his stance and waited for her next move.
His wait was short as she threw herself at him in a rush that looked amateurish but was clearly polished as he fought to keep his feet under him as he used the spikes under his control to divert her strikes.
As they fell into a deadly dance of clashing metal and sweaty bodies he began to enjoy himself.
As he blocked an overhead strike from the woman's sword with a pair of crossed bars he had changed two of his spikes into, he looked into her black eyes and saw the same enjoyment written on her face that he assumed was on his.
"You fight well godling if you best me I have some information that pertains to the safety of your family. Now give me your best, your family's lives depend on it."
Her words made it past his focused state and changed their fight from a friendly match to one he believed he couldn't afford to lose.
Forcing his way into her personal space he followed her retreating form raining blows on her sword as the enjoyment on her face turned to concentration as she tried to find her balance amidst his flurry of blows.
His frustration began to increase the strength of his swings as the demon woman's frantic defense held him back as she parried his swings and expertly ducked and dodged away from his flying spikes.
Wanting her sword out of the fight he lept back and tried to grasp it with his power.
His immediate success was marred by a shadowy tendril that wrapped around the weapon and severed his control over the long blade.
The second of surprise as the woman used some unknown power to prevent him from casting her sword aside was just enough time for her to reengage and turn the fight in her favor.
Again using his spikes and batons to defend himself he threw defense out of the window and hoped his enhanced body could handle the next few moments as he implemented a crazy plan.
Taking shallow cuts from her sword that should have lopped off limbs he worked himself through her defenses and grabbed the hand holding her sword in a crushing grip.
Her blows with her free hand against his head and body stung fiercely as he rotated his arm outward pulling the struggling woman off-balance with brute force.
Taking his opening, he rained blows against her face as she tried to defend herself with one hand free.
Keeping up his punches to her face and ribs she gasped as one of them cracked after a particularly strong blow, staggering her and accomplishing his goal as he felt the hand in his grip go slack.
Crumpling the sword into a sharp knot of metal he tossed it towards the entrance to the fighting pit.
As she opened her mouth to say something he chin checked her, unconcerned for anything she had to say before she yielded and explained her cryptic statement.
Releasing her hand in order to stay on his feet as his months of getting his ass kicked into shape signaled the woman wasn't as disoriented as she had seemed after the blow to her chin, his caution was rewarded as she rolled away from him to land on her feet before rushing him once more.
Again trading blows with the athletic woman he thanked his foresight in reinforcing his skeleton as her blows to his head and body rattled his mithril-covered bones.
Catching her again off guard he kicked her in her impressive chest, actually knocking her off her booted feet to the ground, and mounted her quickly in a bid to keep her on the ground.
Using fists and elbows he made it his mission to see the woman yield or knocked out as he held her frantic face in his mind.
Bringing an elbow down towards her face he was blasted off her chest by a wave of the same shadowy power that had severed his connection with her sword.
Turning his tumble into a roll he recovered and went to again knock the woman on her ass before he pulled up short after two steps toward her.
Giving the changed woman a glare he took in the alterations to her impressive physic.
Large batlike wings armored with black scales on their leading-edge had sprouted from her back and she had gained at least fifty pounds of mass.
As he took in her face he noticed the same shadowy power seeping from her eyes and mouth.
"My expectations were high for you Cade Willmartin, but it seems you have surpassed them. Your training has formed you into a formidable foe, but I would like to see your progress towards godhood. Now give me your best effort and I will tell you all."
Finishing her challenge she rushed him again, but this time he couldn't keep up with her movements.
Receiving blow after blow he lost track of his mithril spikes as they fell to the ground in his panic to keep the woman from bowing him over.
He had just enough focus to spare to feel a small bit of relief that he had destroyed her sword before she sped up even more and all his concentration was diverted to keeping the woman from completely overwhelming him.
Letting a blow past his defenses that he hoped would allow him space and focus to bring his godly powers to bear and bring the fight back into his favor he grunted in preparation as he tensed his muscles a split second before her fist connected with his ribs forcing a rasp of pain past his clenched teeth as he tumbled away from his opponent.
Getting to his feet with a hiss of pain as his ribs returned to their proper place he pulled on his power as he glared at the impossibly quick woman.
As his eyes glowed and the world slowed down around him he was glad for his continued training on maintaining this form for as long as possible.
While powerful he found he couldn't train with his wives while in this form, the simplicity of dodging their blows and disarming them like children had negated any benefit he might have gained from their time in the dojo.
He had instead used what time he could to sharpen his fighting skills with his wives and when he wasn't slaking his lust and theirs he had trained by himself while in his empowered state.
As he closed with the surprised red woman he used every bit of the lessons learned from his wives painful teaching methods and put the panicked woman in her place.
Slamming a fist into her leather-covered middle she doubled over with an explosion of air from her lungs.
A swat from one of her strong wings was diverted by a recovered spike as he caught his swift opponent by her muscled neck and slammed her to the ground, cracking the packed dirt with her body.
Following her down he caught her wings in his power and held them there with a tenuous grip as shadows flowed over them destroying his grip on them as fast as he could form it.
Keeping that battle in the back of his mind he again rained blows onto her face, riding out the waves of shadowy power she tried to use to unseat him.
Feeling his skin split and heal over hundreds of times he zoned out as he made her face his whole focus as he blackened the red skin of her face with his fists, only to repeat the process as she healed the damage.
Her almost silent gurgling plea of "I yield" cut through his primal focus as his fist descend toward her bleeding face.
Pulling back on the blow caused him to fall forward and come face to face with her for the first time without the need for complete focus hampering his ability to converse with the red woman.
As his heart rate slowed he saw a miniaturized version of his glowing eyes in her pitch-black ones before her bloody smile brought him back to reality.
"You have done well Cade, I haven't had such a thorough beating in a millennium. I yield to your might, now can you get off my chest? You are very heavy."
Snorting at the pained look on the face of the woman who had sent his big ass tumbling not once but twice he rose from her chest and offered her a hand up.
Releasing his power after hers dissipated, he wasn't an idiot, he took her red hand in his and pulled her to her feet.
As she fell into his arms she whispered: "you have a big dick" into his ear excitedly as she stepped back with a boisterous laugh at his confusion.
Tapping the space between the large breasts hidden in her leather armor he gave a laugh of his own, he certainly did but the demon woman didn't need to point it out.
As the adrenaline drained from his system he realized he had enjoyed their fight more than he had imagined as a smile grew on his face to match hers.
The loud cheer from the crowd interrupted their little tet a tet as they remembered their fight had spectators.
Turning to their forgotten audience Cade gave his ecstatic wives a loving smile before the concern on Promena's face drew his attention back to the demon woman at his back.
Gathering his power again in response to his goddesses cautious glare at the woman, most of the cheers from their fight ceased as the world froze and a brilliant white light behind him signaled his goddess assuming her true form.
As his wive's cheers turned from confusion at the sudden silence to startled shouts as they were momentarily blinded by Promena's transformation the similarly startled Miranda was slammed to her back on the dirt floor of the pit as his goddess secured the unknown invader from Farth's planet.
His eyes glowed golden as he backed away from the struggling demon woman, her grunts of effort to break Promena's hold on her proving to him he still had a long way to go to achieve her level of proficiency with his power.
Putting himself between the woman and his wives and unborn children he smiled at his Promena as she landed lightly next to him.
"Is there a reason you let me fight someone who warranted all of this, my love?"
Sweeping his spread arms around the frozen spectators he gave her a questioning look.
"You needed this experience my Cade, though I had hoped to have you further along in your task before we took this next step."
As his goddess brought the now still woman over to hover in front of them Cade had her captive thrust into his grip in a move that caused him to stare in wonder at the short woman standing next to him.
"What, it's your task and if she doesn't make you kill her she is going to be our problem. Cambions take a firm hand to keep under control, even more so now that she wants you. We had better let her know who's in charge sooner than later."
Giving the smiling red woman a cursory glance he hoped she didn't make him kill her, the curves hidden under her armor could use some exploring.
Securing his grip on the floating cambion he turned to his wives as Promena brought them down from their seats to stand in front of them.
"Change of plans ladies, our red friend over there has brought up a few issues we need to discuss. Let's head home and figure out why she is here and what we can do to prepare for the trouble she is going to have following her."
Pride swelled in his chest as his wives shifted from fangirling to ready warriors in moments as his goddess explained the next steps in their plan to address the red woman's sudden appearance.
As Poppy popped into existence behind his captive his wives filed by him with speculative looks at him that told him they had enjoyed his fight a little more than he had expected.
Nat even went so far as to give his groin a hungry squeeze as she passed him with anticipation written on her frecked green face.
"Plan now play later my love."
Hugging his goddess after seeing the concern on her face he kissed her soft lips before giving her a questioning look.
"Your true self here must mean the rules have changed. After our talk with the red lady, what's our next step?"
His smile as her concerned expression disappeared after the kiss returned as a mischievous smile grew on her gorgeous face.
"After we find out why she is here then you get to take on the biggest challenge you will ever face, meeting daddy."
Contracts and negotiations
Cade was at his wit's end with the newest prospective addition to his family.
After their departure from the pit, Miranda had been a font of knowledge and thinly veiled innuendo when she wasn't just blatantly begging him for blood or seed.
Denying the eager woman had been a given, her whining tone that caused cracks to form in his willpower as he imagined how her voice would sound as she screamed in ecstasy not causing him to budge on the issue.
Granting her a separate room after she had snuck into theirs while his wives had shown their appreciation for the show that he had given them had pushed him to the breaking point of that day and he had sealed her into her room for the night.
His goddess had smiled at his frustration and as she bounced her plump ass on his length he used every trick he knew to wipe that smile off of her face.
Pleasuring his Beth after she had joined him and Sabine for their morning feedings he pulled her hips to his as they laid on their sides in their bed as her tight rippling channel milked out the last of his seed.
As he palmed a large soft breast and enjoyed the afterglow of their lovemaking he placed a breathless kiss into her sweaty firey red hair as her own breathing settled down.
"How is our little one, my love?"
He felt her smile as she joined his hand on her rounded belly and heard her soft chuckle as his length inside of her swelled once more.
"She is fine my giant as you can see for yourself. Our Esmerelda is growing at a good pace and except for her hatred of some of the foods I give her, she hasn't given me anything to worry about. Now that you have asked the question you know the answer to, tell me what is on your mind. A pushy red demon comes to mind."
Giving him a smirk over her shoulder, her mouth gaped for several moments as he gave his little redheaded smart ass of a wife a little punishment by slowly forcing his length deeper into her and holding himself there until she learned her lesson.
Her gasping breaths and the low moan of pleasure she let out were followed by her small hand gripping his arm as a small orgasm overtook her and he lessened the pressure on her tight depths.
"I like her, she seems to have our best interests at heart, so far. Her explanation of her presence here does concern me, well all of us. If the caliber of assassins Farth might send at us are anywhere near her's or your..."
Pulling his now awake Sabine down for a long kiss after her food and sex coma he released her sweet lips and gave her his attention as he languished in his dwarven wife's soaked canal.
"Hmm... yeah... Uhhh... level? Yes, level we might have to implement our plan to improve our defenses, my love."
Beth's hand tapping his arm for her to be released from his clutches caused him to pout playfully as he lost the tight wet warmth of her depths.
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