Asher's Futa Chronicles

Chapter 13

ASHER

"You ever miss not being rock hard?"

"Is that a trick question?" I asked Remmi with a chuckle.

"You know what I mean," Remmi said, flinging water at me.

It was late. Remmi demanded a shower before we went to sleep, and I joined her. Angela, the poor thing, was snoring loudly in the middle of our bed and refused to wake up.

"Where's this coming from?" I asked, letting my eyes roam over my girlfriend's body.

Remmi'd always been tight. Being a competition gymnast back home pretty much demanded it. But now, parts of her looked like they were carved from marble. I'm not talking about a crazy, scary weight-lifter body, though. She still had her curves, and there weren't any veins bulging anywhere. I had zero complaints.

"I mean, I know all this training is a necessity for our job," Remmi continued. "I understand that. Our lives depend on our bodies being in top form. But still, I was never into hard bodies, and now I am one."

"Well, you are a shapeshifter, you can always soften yourself up if you want to," I offered.

"Yeah, but that takes conscious effort to maintain," Remmi said. "I automatically revert to this unconsciously."

"Wait," I started. "You have elf ears now, and you weren't born with those."

"Well," Remmi started, glancing at me over her shoulder. "I have a serious reason for wanting those."

"Serious?" I asked.

"Yeah," Remmi said, nodding as her hands slid along her long elf ears somehow seductively. "You need those handlebars for safety, don't you?" She grinned lewdly at me.

I wiped water from my eyes and hugged her from behind.

"I love you regardless, you know that, right?" I said and kissed her shoulder.

"Yeah," Remmi said with a sigh. "I love you too."

"Try not to sound so enthusiastic about it," I chuckled at her melancholy tone. "As long as you don't start talking like Arnold, I don't care how hard you get," I teased.

Remmi slapped my thigh playfully.

"Besides, if you want something soft, I'm sure I can find you something you'd like," I said, grinning lewdly.

"Yeah," Remmi scoffed. "It's passed out in our bed!"

I was about to offer more lewd suggestions when I heard a knock at the door.

"I'll get it," I said. "I'm done anyway."

"Why do I doubt that?" Remmi said.

I playfully gave her the finger as I stepped out of the shower and wrapped up in a towel.

"Kinda the point!" Remmi's voice floated to me from the shower as I made my way to the door.

"Oh my!" Sinjin said when he saw my towel-clad body.

I hadn't really been going for any sort of look. But when I glanced down, my boobs were showing off just about everything they were legally allowed to.

I looked back at Sinjin and struck a pose. My hand still held the door as I cocked my hip and flashed my eyelashes at him.

"I have something you want," I said with as much sex kitten in my voice as I could get. Normally, that sort of seduction attempt from me would turn a normal person into a puddle of drool. But Sinjin was anything but normal.

He had the same sex kitten treatment I had. We hadn't taken the time to test out how our seduction powers worked on one another. Or if they worked at all.

But I was standing in the doorway, dripping, wearing nothing but a towel. So, I had that going for me.

"Oh really?" Sinjin asked, the look on his face told me I'd more than piqued his interest. As did the growing tent in his trousers.

I held the door open further, exposing Angela's passed-out form on the bed.

Sinjin's face, when he saw his wife, was adorable. It was the same sort of face you made while you were watching kittens being cute on the Internet.

I dropped the sex kitten act and nodded my head for him to come in.

Sinjin chuckled to himself as he came in, his eyes not leaving his wife.

I closed the door behind him.

"Oh, I wish I had a camera," Sinjin whispered.

"She's out, you don't have to whisper," I said in a normal voice. I'd learned from experience that when Angela got this wiped out, she was dead to the world. It didn't matter if it was a rough day at work or a rough night in the sheets. Nothing short of a bomb going off would wake her.

"Do they have cameras here?" I asked. I hadn't seen a picture or any other evidence to suggest they did.

"Huh?" Sinjin said, tearing his eyes from his snoring wife and noticing me for the first time, all over again. "Oh, yeah. They're in the world...er Bio Hab. I haven't seen one yet, but they do exist. They're supposed to be crazy expensive."

"Huh," I said, biting my lip as I "accidentally-on-purpose" dropped my towel. "Is there anything else you might want to snap a picture of...you know, besides your wife?"

If you've been with me since the beginning of this journey of mine, you know how much of a slut I can be. I've done Internet porn, public sex, you name it. When I get into one of my moods, I tend to get carried away. You could blame it on my futa treatment, but I know better. I'm just horny...like, all the time!

"How about I get that welcome back kiss instead?" Sinjin grinned down at me, and I eagerly closed the distance between us.

I missed being in the big man's arms. He reminded me of how much he cared for me as he wrapped me up in them. His arms had always been strong. But with his body augment when coming to this Bio Hab, his arms had become powerful!

I lost myself in kissing him. He held me so tightly to him that I could barely breathe. With what little breath I could get, I could smell his scent beneath the overlapping smells of the kitchen he'd been in all night.

Even with as strong as I'd become, my tongue always lost to his when we kissed. I wasn't sure if it was a power thing or if I just liked him dominating me. Regardless, I went on kissing him until there was a loud cough from behind me.

"Why are you always cock-blocking me, Remmi?" I growled, not looking behind me.

Sinjin chuckled and patted my behind lightly.

"There's always time for more of that," Sinjin said and kissed my forehead tenderly before releasing me.

I hadn't realized how warm his arms were until they weren't around me anymore. Now the cooler night air rushed in, bringing goose flesh to my still-wet skin.

I turned and glared at Remmi just as she embraced Sinjin and ignored me.

I scooped up my towel and wrapped it around myself for warmth.

The two spoke softly to one another, low enough that I couldn't make out what they were saying. A moment later, they broke apart and turned to face me.

Eventually, I was going to have to ask them what they were always whispering about. I saw them doing it all the time. But then again, not knowing can be fun too. Knowing them, it was something mundane and boring. Meanwhile, my imagination went all over the place on what they were cooking up together.

Remmi was dry and already wearing her night clothes. Either she'd gotten out of the shower right after me, or Sinjin and I'd been kissing a lot longer than I thought.

"Why don't you throw some clothes on, and we can talk," Sinjin said with a grin.

I looked at him suspiciously.

"What's happened?" I asked as I dried myself off and pulled on my evening wear. "The Sinjin we left wouldn't be asking me to put on clothes."

"I'm going to be a dad," Sinjin said in a rush and sighed heavily.

"That's great!" Remmi said and hugged him again.

"What?" I said, freezing with one leg stuck in my underwear. I teetered, threatening to fall.

"I'm going to be a father, Asher," Sinjin repeated once he let go of Remmi.

"Who?" Remmi asked.

"How?" I asked at the same time and managed to untangle myself awkwardly.

Sinjin frowned at me and looked at Remmi.

"Angela, of course," Sinjin said as he glanced at the passed-out woman.

I turned and looked at the woman who continued to snore like a buzzsaw in my bed.

"And Patty," Sinjin finished.

"WHAT?!?" Remmi and I said in unison. The sheer power of which the two of us said the word not only caused Sinjin to take a defensive step back, but also caused Angela to roll over.

Sinjin held up his hands.

"It just happened," he said.

"That sort of thing doesn't 'just happen' for people like you and me, Sin!" I snapped, genuine anger lacing my voice.

"Why are you mad?" Sinjin asked.

"Yeah?" Remmi asked, a look of concern on her face.

"Because if it can 'just happen' to him, it can 'just happen' to me!" I snapped, a sudden overwhelming fear crawling up my throat and into my brain. The room suddenly started to spin.

"Whoa, easy," Sinjin said as he put a hand on my shoulder.

I took a deep breath, and the room settled down.

"Angela and I tried to have a child for a long time before we stopped trying," Sinjin said. "It was tough for us back then." Sinjin moved past me and sat down on the bed beside his wife. He touched her face gently before turning back to us.

"But how?" I growled. "We can't have kids unless we want to."

"We stopped trying, Ash," Sinjin said softly. "We didn't stop wanting kids."

Remmi's hands on my shoulders defused whatever animosity had built up inside me. I still didn't understand where it had come from.

"So, you both decided to have a child?" I asked, my voice returning to its usual tone.

"We weren't actively trying. We just decided that if it happened, it happened," Sinjin said.

"Again, not how it works with us," I said. "They specifically told me, unless I wanted to be or get someone pregnant, it wouldn't happen."

"Well," Sinjin said with a bit of heat. "Then I guess I wanted it to happen. Is that what you need to hear?" Sinjin stood up to loom over me.

"Actually, yes! As a matter of fact, it is!" I shouted.

"Easy there, guys," Remmi started. "Sun's getting real low..."

Sinjin and I both turned to look at Remmi before starting to chuckle.

"How did Angela take it?" Remmi asked once she saw we were calming down.

"Like a champ, of course!" Sinjin grinned lewdly.

"I meant the news, you dork!" Remmi said.

"She's over the moon, we both are," Sinjin said.

"What about Patty?" I asked.

"Patty was a bit more of a surprise," Sinjin said with a heavy sigh.

"Is she OK with it?" I asked.

"Patty? Sure," Sinjin said. "She's OK, she's had a kid before. However, we're not sure what's going to happen. Neither of us thought I could get her pregnant."

"Uh, life found a way," Remmi said in a bad Goldblum impression.

I rolled my eyes at her.

"So...what...how...with Patty, I mean?" I asked poorly.

"We've no idea," Sinjin replied. "Her race is a rarity. It's not like there's a dragon hospital we can go to and ask questions, you know?"

I put my hand on his shoulder.

"I can see where that can be scary," I said quietly, trying my best to be comforting.

"You have no idea," Sinjin said, shaking his head.

"Wait," Remmi started. "When I chose this race of mine, I was taught everything about it."

"Everything?" I asked.

"Well, everything I can remember," Remmi said. "Didn't they do the same for Patty?"

"At the time, she didn't really think about that," Sinjin said.

"What about Angela?" I asked, shifting gears.

"You mean how they're taking the news about each other? Good, as far as I can tell," Sinjin shrugged. "I mean, they've said they're both happy about it, and they've been palling around more than usual. I think it's OK. I mean, we've always been a close trio."

"Yeah, so much that y'all thought Terri might be your daughter. Talk about awkward!" Remmi said, singing the last word.

"Not funny, Remmi," I said.

"It was a little funny," Sinjin relented. "But Remmi is in no way, shape, form, or fashion my daughter," Sinjin said with finality.

"Got it chief!" Remmi said, throwing Sinjin a salute that made both of us look at her. "What? This is awkward. Humor's how I deal with it."

"Obviously not good humor," I muttered and received a swat from Remmi for it.

"How do they know they're preggo?" Remmi asked.

"Preggo?" I asked, looking at her.

"Shuddup," Remmi muttered, turning to glare at me.

"They say they just know," Sinjin shrugged.

Remmi and I shared a glance.

"OoooKkkk," I said slowly. "So, you've got two buns in the oven--" I paused, "It is just two, right?"

"Unless Patty lays eggs, just the two," Sinjin confirmed.

"I think she meant--"

"I know what she meant, Remmi," Sinjin said testily.

We both knew Sinjin, and Angela, for that matter. They hadn't restricted their bedroom play to just our original group. Hell, the more I thought about it, none of us had.

"Wait! Can Patty do that? The egg thing, I mean," Remmi gasped.

"We don't know!" Sinjin sighed.

"TWO," I began again, only sternly this time. "Buns in the oven. That doesn't explain why you won't kiss me in public. Frankly, you're acting like a prude in private, too."

"Are you using your safe word?" Remmi asked.

"Did you hear me say Poughkeepsie?" Sinjin asked.

"CAN you say Poughkeepsie?" Remmi asked.

"Guys," I said, stopping the comedy act before it got to first base. "I can respect you not wanting PDA I can even understand wanting to put the brakes on happy bed fun times. But you gotta give me some sort of explanation," I said and pointed at Angela. "I mean, she's not exactly hopping on the wagon." I quickly pointed at Remmi, "And you, hush!"

Remmi frowned at me and shook her head. Then she saw Sinjin turning bright red.

"Are you blushing?" Remmi asked.

"It just...I was surprised, and you caught me off guard, and--" Sinjin started before I placed my hand over his mouth.

"You know what?" I asked. "You don't have to say anything. You not being comfortable is enough for me." I nodded at him, trying to shift gears. "Sorry about earlier," I said with a gentle smile.

"I'm not uncomfortable," Sinjin said and kissed my hand before I could remove it from his mouth.

"Now you're giving me mixed signals here, dude!" I sighed in exhaustion. It had been a really long day.

"Sorry," Sinjin said. "Everything's new and still a jumble."

"I'll bet. Does Terri know?" Remmi asked.

"We found out right after they left," Sinjin said.

"That's gonna be a fun homecoming," I said.

"Tell me about it," Sinjin said.

"OK," I said, rubbing my hands together. "So, no banging the big guy here till he's ready."

"What about blowjobs?" Remmi asked, her eyes flaring. "He's blushing again!"

"What the hell Sinjin?" I asked. "You were never one for getting embarrassed like this, especially in private."

Sinjin shook his head.

"What can I say? It's the pregnancy hormones," Sinjin said.

***Ω***

ASHER

After Sinjin carried his pregnant...one of his pregnant--

"Hey," I started as something derailed my train of thought. Glancing at Remmi, she was already half asleep now that everyone was out of our room.

"What?" Remmi grumbled.

"You think Sinjin's gonna marry Patty?" I asked.

"He doesn't have to," Remmi said, rolling to face away from me.

"What? Are they already hitched or something?" I asked.

"No," Remmi mumbled. "Marriage is something royalty does here. Common folk like us just publicly declare they're bound together."

"Is multiple partners a thing?" I asked, never having thought to look into this. Thinking back, I guess I really should have, all things considered. I mean, aside from that little tattoo conversation with Tara, I hadn't given the idea much thought. Remmi had been plenty interested, though.

"Yeah," Remmi said with a yawn. "A lot of rural communities need as much help as they can get to keep farms and such running. It's a common thing and not always permanent."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"I mean, folks are bound together for as long as they want to be," Remmi said. "Forever is never implied."

I turned to stare at the back of her head.

"Huh," I started. "Did you do a lot of research on this before we came here or something?" I asked.

They digitally implanted a lot of knowledge about our new Bio Hab before we came here. They said it was to help us fit in better. However, unless you specifically requested something extra, you only received the basic knowledge package. As far as I knew, no DLCs were coming.

Remmi slowly rolled over and eyed me.

"What do you think?" Remmi asked before rolling back over. "Now go to sleep before I bond your mouth shut."

I couldn't help the grin that spread across my face.

"Did you want to do bondage in public together?" I asked playfully.

"Seriously?" Remmi snapped, her voice suddenly wide awake and serious. "You want to do this now?!?" She rolled over in one smooth motion to face me. Her face was on fire with a blush.

"Uh..." was all I managed to say.

"Yeah, that's what I thought. Go to sleep Asher!" And with that, Remmi rolled back over.

I stared at the back of her head for a long time.

"Remmi..." I started softly.

"I mean it, Ash. Sleep, now," Remmi said with finality.

I wanted to say more, apologize or something, but I wasn't sure what I'd done. Instead, I rolled away from her and stared at the wall, trying to figure it out. Sleep didn't come for a long, long time.

When morning came, I was exhausted. I was sore from all the previous night's activities, and my head hurt. But all I wanted to do was apologize to Remmi and try to figure out where I'd gone wrong last night. Unfortunately, she didn't give me the chance.

Remmi bounced out of bed and started throwing on her gear. She paused long enough to kick me.

"Practice time," Remmi said cheerfully. "Get your gear on!"

I just stared at her in shock. She showed no sign of being angry, like she'd been last night. Instead of poking the bear and risking her wrath, I rolled over with a groan and started pulling on my gear.

The place was deserted when we went downstairs. I didn't realize why until Remmi opened the back door. The sun was barely up. I hadn't realized how early it was and wondered just how few hours I'd slept last night.

The area we'd been using for training before we went to the temple was now occupied. Multiple vendor stalls occupied the space we once used to spar.

When Remmi asked a guard about it, the guard simply replied, "Why don't you use the guild's training room?"

I would have asked more questions, but Remmi simply nodded and walked away. She was smarter than I was. We were supposed to be these big, bad Guardians. We had to at least look like we knew what we were doing.

I followed her as she went back into the inn. She veered off to the left from the main room. This side room was where the guild said they'd be moving into before we took our temple trip.

The room had changed drastically in our absence. One entire wall was occupied by the guild offices. Another held a menagerie of papers I couldn't read from here. The rest of the room was full of long tables that reminded me of those big tables in the school lunchroom. They weren't built for comfort; they were built for capacity.

"Good morning, Guardians," the clerk at the main guild window said as we approached. "How may I be of assistance?"

Several things came to mind about how she could assist us as I gave her the once-over.

She was about my height, with short, mousy brown hair. She couldn't have been more than a few years older than me. Her skin was darker, as if she had spent a lot of time in the sun. She had large brown eyes sparkling behind a pair of hexagonal glasses that just added to her cuteness factor. Her figure was hidden by the simple guild uniform she wore, but there was no hiding that bust!

I found my mouth inadvertently watering as I stared, and received a sharp elbow from Remmi for my lack of tact.

"Yes," Remmi started formally. "I'm Remmi, this is Asher. I was told you might be able to provide us with a tour of your facility now that we've returned from the temple."

The girl's eyes widened at the mention of the temple, but she calmed herself down quickly before she replied. She had good control.