Kazuya Aoi found himself floating in midair, his nude body lazing about in a vacuum as he drifted.
The confused Limiter could barely muster the strength to move when he heard a familiar feminine voice begin speaking to him.
"Kazuya," the voice said. "We are reunited at last."
From seemingly nowhere, he suddenly felt two long, delicate arms wrap around his chest and an exceptional bust placed behind his head. He looked up and saw that it was, in fact, the bare body of his aunt and surrogate mother Cassandra holding him tightly.
Her naked body made his heart beat quickly and he had the urge to move away, but his body struggled to obey his mind.
Kazuya tried to move him arms so he could shake Cassandra off of him but he found his efforts to be futile.
He looked to his right and saw that his arm was being held tightly by his other aunt, Teslad, who shot him her usual blank expression as she pinned him between her muscular arms and her impressive bosom.
Realizing yet another path of escape was cut off to him, he pulled to his left only to find that his other arm was being held down by Windy May, who flashed her usual happy expression and gripped his arm tightly too.
As he was now sufficiently trapped, Kazuya faced forward only to see Lucy appear before him.
"Do you see now, Kazuya?" she said. "You are right where you belong, with your family, ensuring the perpetuation of our sacred genes and evolution of the human race."
Kazuya was dumbfounded.
"Wha-what the hell are you talking about?" he begged.
Lucy huffed and faded from his sight.
"You will learn what you are and what your responsibilities are: to your family, to the human race and even to your own fate - one way or another."
As she disappeared into the ether, her visage was replaced with that of his half-sister Arcadia, who floated towards him - nude like his aunts - and began crawling across his body.
"Kazuya..." she whispered as her beautiful and delicate body slid across his own, her shapely features grazing his most sensitive parts as she came face to face with her brother.
"It is time," Arcadia said as she brought her soft lips close to his mouth. Kazuya felt a powerful heat coming from his equator as his sister's body grazed his flesh.
Realizing what was happening, Kazuya struggled in vain to free himself from his aunts' grasp but the three beautiful Pandora only nuzzled him harder.
Arcadia grabbed his cheeks and pressed her lips to his, delivering a warm, passionate kiss the likes of which he had never felt before. As she moved her tongue around his mouth, seemingly searching for something, Kazuya felt his member harden and make contact with his sister.
Kazuya pulled himself out of Arcadia's mouth and tried to catch his breath. He looked into his tan sister's disappointed eyes.
"No!" he pleaded. "We can't do this! It's wrong! It's monstrous!"
But as though she could not hear him, she kissed him yet again.
She kissed him more passionately and began to shift her body once more.
The young Limiter's body could no longer withstand the intense heat building up within him and ripped himself away from Arcadia's embrace one last time before yelling, "Stop!"
And with that, all of the weight upon him faded to nothingness and he returned to the black space.
Kazuya awoke with a fright, his head in pain from the confusion. He examined himself quickly and was doubly relieved to find that he was wearing all of his clothes and felt no signs that he had been subject to a wet dream.
What bothered him, however, was the sight of a human-shaped lump underneath the covers next to him and the sensation of an arm resting on his abdomen.
Scared of who - or what - might be under the covers, he lifted them up and found, to his intense discomfort, that Arcadia was sleeping soundly with her head resting against the side of his body with her arm wrapped around him. Her snoring gave him a sense of relief that he wouldn't have to discuss the dream with her.
Though not fully nude or displaying a visage of lust and joy, her only semi-clothed body still exposed far more skin than should be permitted.
Kazuya found her tan, curvaceous body very erotic and could not help but admire the stunning similarities between Arcadia, his surrogate mother Cassandra, and his beloved sister Kazuha.
From their flowing hair to their remarkable busts to the incredible warmth their very touch gave off, the similarities were incredible.
And yet, he knew he had to resist giving into temptation or risk becoming something horrible and perhaps inhuman.
How Arcadia had managed to sneak into his room and climb into bed beside him he may never figure out, but at the moment he was determined to leave the room before anything else happened that he might regret.
Kazuya carefully grabbed the soft arm of his half-sister and was almost immediately relieved to find he could slide it off with ease. He slipped out of the bed just in time as Arcadia rolled over onto the spot he had been laying just a moment ago.
Arcadia's continued snores were reassuring, but he was alarmed to feel a soft hand grab his wrist as he tried to make for the door.
Realizing that Arcadia must have been awake he turned around only to realize that Arcadia was still snoring soundly even as her grip tightened.
"Kazuya..." she muttered. "Where... are you?"
Perplexed by Arcadia's choice of words and moreso by her bizarre strength and instincts that seemed to function even as she slept, Kazuya brought his close to her head and began stroking her hair.
Unsure of what to say, he replied, "I have to leave for a little bit. I'm sorry."
Her arm trembled and her grip weakened as Kazuya continued to stroke her hair.
"Don't... want to... lose you... again," she said as she lay face down on the bed.
"Must always... be together."
The unconscious Pandora's words startled him as he slipped his hand from her grip and left through the door.
He walked aimlessly through the building, thinking only of how to put as much distance between him and his half-sister as possible.
The strange dream and the stranger sensations the dream made him experience still made his body tremble, as did the disgust he felt in himself for contemplating such actions with his own flesh and blood.
Upon exiting the building, Kazuya was alarmed and yet not entirely surprised to see his mysterious aunt Lucy standing outside, as if waiting patiently for his arrival.
Kazuya began walking towards her with the intention of walking past without incident. With her usual blank expression seemingly looking directly into his soul, Lucy stood there with her arms to her side.
"I see you and Arcadia are getting closer," she said as Kazuya stepped past. Her words made him pause and turn around.
"How did you-?" he started, dumbfounded with how the strange Pandora could know what had happened.
"What the hell was that just now?"
Lucy remained expressionless. He felt as though he had a hundred questions but could barely string the words together.
"Are you and the others in my head? And why on earth would she want to something so disgusting with me?"
Lucy responded, "Though I was aware of what you were feeling just now, neither my sisters nor myself had anything to do with what you experienced.
"I am certain that whatever it is you felt was a result of your Stigmata body reaching out to your subconscious in yearning for Arcadia."
Her words were like a punch in the gut. The statement seemed ludicrous and completely farfetched.
"What are you talking about?! I'm not attracted to Arcadia and more importantly she's my sister, my own flesh and blood! I would never do anything so horrible!" Kazuya replied angrily.
Lucy was unfazed.
"You do not seem to understand so I will explain. The Stigmata in your body has developed an attraction to Arcadia and is working tirelessly against your own mind to ensure that attraction becomes physical.
"Ultimately, you will succumb to your body's wishes. It is your fate."
Kazuya's jaw dropped at the final statement.
"Never!" he said. "I won't ever do something so monstrous! No matter what my 'destiny' or 'genes' say I'm supposed to!"
"Yes you will," Lucy replied. "Fate does not care about personal thoughts or feelings, it merely exists as what will happen and is ensured regardless of the actions you may take to change it."
Kazuya clenched his fists in anger.
"I am human," he said. "I don't care about fate or genes or any of that crap! I will never become a monster like that."
"Your father and my brother were of the same opinion," she replied, "He tried to fight against his fate by insisting he was human and all it brought him was pain and ultimately death-"
Kazuya tried to punch her with all of his might but he hit nothing but air as Lucy disappeared from sight, reappearing next to him immediately and grabbing his outstretched arm.
"-And in the end, his destiny was still fulfilled anyway - and Arcadia was born," she finished.
She released Kazuya's arm and he sank to the ground his frustration and sorrow.
"Unlike your mind, your body is aware of its responsibilities and knows that it is not human - and now that Arcadia has awakened, your body will no longer try to pretend to escape its fate."
Kazuya said nothing as he fell to his hands and knees, crying.
"The longer you pretend to be human, and the longer you try to avoid your destiny, the more pain you will bring to those you claim to love-," she continued as Kazuya started sobbing.
"-Just like your human mother too," she finished.
Kazuya slammed his fists on the ground in frustration. He had no arguments for what she was saying as he had seen all of the events she had described in terrifying detail.
He looked up to confront Lucy one more time but she had already vanished.
Left alone with only his thoughts and the words that Lucy had spoken to him, Kazuya sighed and continued walking aimlessly.
Almost instinctively, he arrived at the second-year Pandora dormitory.
The lights were off as it was well past curfew yet there were apparently no guards around to enforce the rules. Kazuya had either arrived during the brief gap when the security changes shifts or the guards had been re-assigned to protect more critical areas of the school after the most recent attack.
"Satellizer..." he muttered to himself as he went through the doors and navigated himself to her room.
He had grown extremely tired from both the hour of the day and the mental exhaustion of his dream. As if all of his strength had left him, rather than knock on the door, Kazuya simply slid to the ground and fell asleep outside of his beloved Pandora's room.
He fell asleep with his Pandora blissfully unaware that he had made his way to her room.
Author's Note: I hope you are enjoying the story so far. If you have any thoughts, ideas, criticisms or compliments you'd like to share, please do so. I am very open to critique in all appropriate forms.