Rule of seven

these are 'themed' harems


The necropolis

A bizarre boy in an odder place walked among the dead. He walked down a narrow street cobbled with smooth black rocks and bordered by huge gothic structures. The sweet stench of rot permeated everything.

Zombies of all flavors shambled along emotionlessly, and ghouls stalked around the corners, hoping to buy just the right gimmick to land a prospective meal ticket. The reason they left the boy alone was the equally short as he lich next to him, Rowan staff in hand, which glowed with a pulsing green energy.

"Huhuh?" The leathery-brown skinned human sounded almost zombie-like as he expressed his concern through an overripe banana.

"My master, it seems the seventh code has been activated. I'm not sure how, but I've got the location. Shall we seek out their power?"

The ragged young man stared dully for a full half minute, and finally responded in a harsh voice that also sounded like the undead."No."

The lich blinked. "Wha..?"

" We won't get involved. Not yet." He turned his suddenly electric silver eyes at the necromantress." We'll tell that council when we meet there. Once we acquire the necessary key, we can then worry about the other vessels. Until that, or we encounter this unknown, I'll stay out of danger."

The lich considered, then flashed a sultry smile before giving the gaunt young man a deep, soaking kiss before slowly extricating."As you wish, my sweet Anpu."


a deep place

"Will that be all, my dears?"

The speaker was a man with short, greenish golden hair. His eyes were a calm blue, and his voice a lesson in polite, measured serenity. He was quite tall, and wore a black vest, white dress-shirt, and white silk pants. He was ramrod straight, impeccably clean, and calmly attentive.

His dears were another matter.

The first was an unmistakably aroused arachne. She was positioned on her back, facing her lover with a mix of lust and drowsiness. The other was a queen hornet, a normally armored insectoid with flaxen yellow hair, and lips as red and smooth as blood.

she was currently prostrate, and reluctantly turned over in all her toned glory at the human." No, that will be all." She thought she could go another round, but believed it would be unwise to test the bounds of her mate's vitality too much. Besides, prostrate was no position for a queen.

Nodding, he walked to a corner of the hexagonal chamber the queen used for meetings and gathered her discarded armor. As the queen regained her breastplate, two frantic warriors burst in through the trapdoor.

" Mistress Kaiser Constanze!"

They bowed on one knee, the other equal height to their heads.

"Rise, my servants."

They rose." Lescatie has been taken by siege from the lilim Derualla!"

Constanze considered her choices while glancing at the man called Zwei. Lescatie was close in the northeast. The only reason her ally would act so rashly against that place would be...

" Send out 2 troops to Lescatie, and contact Derualla for me, and find out why she struck. Then send several tracker units to intercept any stragglers from the city."

"Yes, our liege!" So saying, they flew straight down, and out of the bedchamber.

"You think it's another code, Constanze?" The arachne was now kneeling, eyeing Zwei's crotch.

"I know it is... and it will be mine!"


Zipangu

SHEEEESH-KUNK!

An electric blue harpie just barely dodged a crushing lance blow." Jeez, Tsubasa-san, you almost decapitated me."

So said Tsubasa was a tall, muscular individual holding a 7 foot lance with one hand. He also wore a green hakama and yellow haori That bore the crest of the amanomiya family. He had the facial structure of predatory cat, eyes like a raptor, and a black hair in a single thigh length braid.

He smirked at the harpie's whiny tone." You say I almost kill you every day, but I'm panting at the end, while you don't have a scratch on you. Ever."

" He's right, Madoka." A crow tengu admonished from a pillar of bamboo stalks," He's still not at your level of instinct; he's a creature of analytical destruction. He can't beat you like this, and it's no fun to tease him."

The electrical harpie conceded." Hai, kageru-sama."

Tsubasa considered the tengu. " I take it you've located koyoi?"

Kageru nodded." She seems to be on the outskirts of Lescatie. Should we go?"

Tsubasa knew the answer Kageru sought: the wise one." Not yet. We must first get intel from Anum Anpu-san, and Coyote Diego-san. Until then," He leveled the naginata at the thunderbird," let's go for round two!"


Mundo de Dìa

"Let's go for round two!"

a mountain of a man was currently slumped next to a river on the mountain, need as the day he was born. His two associates, a jinko and minotaurus, were in similar states of undress. All were slick with sweat, and reeked of musk and sex. The one who made the last comment was the blushing minotaurus, even them bucking her thighs into the air, offering herself to the one called Diego Coyote.

" No, something's wrong." Like the beast type monmusu he chose to spend his time with, he could sense danger. More so, as sex made him more lucid than his normal state of mind.

The jinko was also aware, though still hazy from their previous actions." What is it, my love?"

He shot up, and glanced all around himself before cracking a demonic grin." Nosotros son suertè! The scent is unmistakable! There's another one awake!" So saying, he started jabbing at the air, as if at an invisible foe.

The minotaurus's lust was exchanged for bloodlust. She stroked a tattoo of the number 4 on Coyote's back." So, the last number...?"

", Isabelle. It's time to hunt,"

- he drew his fist back, and took aim at a tall tree-

" The most dangerous prey!"

-THWACK-and released the punch with enough force to break two more.


Wisel city

"Hmmm?"

A pale man with bluish silver hair, rising from a swivel chairglanced at a glass cylinder, about 4 feet high. Suspended within the vessel was a viscous purple matter with what looked like a rubber bull about halfway toward the bottom.

The man straightened his lab coat, inscribed with the name 'Quincy' in black stitches. He was all sharp angles and long limbs, possibly anorexic. He looked through hexagonal lenses at the quivering orb, and let out a soft sigh.

" Looks like a Derualla is active already. I should probably send in a few seekers to ensure Constanze stays calm. It's never smart to poke close to a hornet's nest.


A demon realm

A heavily muscled bruiser sat on a throne of golden rods, worked into the form of human extremities. He also happened to be using-and being used as- several succubi of varying lesser ranks as thrones. Even then, in contemplation, he was being happily mounted by a dark priestess.

As you can imagine, he wasn't getting much thinking done. But he was thinking, mostly smug thoughts.

He was thinking that he was right to skip out on Derualla's trip. He was thinking, as the dark priestesses on his manhood confirmed a while ago, that there was no other numeral in that lousy place. He was thinking that, since Derualla was occupado, he got this city all to himself.

He thought, as the succubus on his lap screamed his name as it climaxed over his rod once more, it was a good day to be Augustus.

All but the latter thought, was very wrong.


Tobi's POV

Tobi didn't know, couldn't have known, and wouldn't really have cared at that moment in his life anyhow that so many people were thinking of him. He was currently running for his life from a conflagration of his own creation.

See, this was Tobi's first use of these particular explosives. They were made with primarily stolen resources for his experimental mix, and became more volatile with age. They were set up when he was thirteen, and had already become extremely volatile. Because of that, and an errant spark, he was running through the tunnels of Lescatie like a were rabbit in heat.

...

a wererabbit any time of its life, actually.

The taller angel fared a little better. She didn't like closed spaces, so was fueled by a different kind of fear. Besides, monmusu were all natural athletes.

They raced up a side tunnel into the woods to escape the inferno, and sat back to watch. Tobi was in awe. He always knew he was great at random acts of destruction, but never saw it could be this big.

The being called Alice, also called Aellize, was slack jawed in horror. The loss of life in that one spark... And she almost got immolated!

She started when she saw the naked glee in Tobi's face, she resolved to watch him, for the sake of all things flammable. For now, she'd have to simply accept the inevitable situation she found herself in. She couldn't help, as she saw the city be encompassed by unsurmountable, genocidal fire, but see her past in that hazy barrier between the madness of out here, and there.

It was like her...


Good Hallow( 7 years ago)

Was this the ultimate path?

Upon the doorstep of the mayor of Good Hallow, Aellize had to consider her life.

For 85 years, her existence had been that of an angel; a divine being who served the Chief god. They guarded the portals to the heavens from those who would enter uninvited. They delivered aid and knowledge to kings and heroes in times of need. They healed those who lost hope, and even interfered in the actions of rogue divinities who would inflict horrors on humans.

Horrors like this one.

Good Hallow was on the edge of a main demon realm, but powerful in its own right. It was caused so several months prior by a bicorn that infiltrated the local church, and seduced the clergy. She was sent by the Chief god to purge the church itself, and end the suffering of those inside... By slaughtering them like diseased livestock.

She watched as the Lescatian military squad turned the church into a base of operation. At this point, the townspeople were already detained either within their homes, or on the street. The monsters themselves were mostly dead. She cried at the smell of blood, the sight of eyes who bore no life, and the sound of others in more pain than she really understood, and that she was the cause.

What offended her the most was not that the soldiers used the hallowed ground of the church as execution grounds. Or that they were steadily executing even the traitorous husbands' human progeny, and the spouses that couldn't control their husbands lust. Not even her own hand in the slaughter, as an angel of the sacred, was the greatest cause of woe and remorse. It was that this act, once called a monstrosity by the holy, had now become 'holy'.

A feather fell, and became fallen...


Lescatie

"Oh my, children! To me!"

Sasha Folmoon was scared of many, minor things. Most were just minor fears, so didnt amount to huge obstacles. A few were more personal, but rarely bothered her in day to day life. And almost all of them came second to getting laid, now that she acquired the mindset of a fallen priestess.

Regardless, she would not, could not, risk the welfare of children, and especially the ones under her care.

" There there,Dot, Mindy, just walk away. I'll protect with the will of the fallen god..." Soon enough, once they put a solid block between themselves and the wall of flame, the demon girls curled up to rest their new bodies. Their minds were still growing at an accelerated rate, their old minds unable to deal with their newly acquired existence.

Once she was sure her charges were unconscious, she realized a bone-chilling fact: not even a lilim could corrupt the entire city. Not before at least a few soldiers reached the safety of their homes. And their blades.

She tore away her demonized habit from the hem to her upper calf for mobility, and then to halfway up her thighs for good measure. Her tail swung, chain and all, like a spade tipped wrecking ball. She would need as much speed as she could muster to limit fatalities, and sped into the night with new resolve.

It, that she was in hyper-aware battle mode, was the only reason the black missile didn't tear straight through her spine; it only winged her.


Abandoned lookout post

Tobi dropped Cassandra into his mystic chest, profoundly disturbed by his observation. Sasha getting clipped by something was impossible, given Sasha was bruiser of a nun before getting monster strength.

So what the heck could wing her at fast enough to-

WHAM! Even knowing it was coming, Tobi couldn't stop the blur from knocking him to the ground as it rocketed through a wall of fire. The answer to what hit him, he could gleam from the bow on it's back, and the fact it was trying to awkwardly hump his legs.

"Alleyne?" He sort of expected the tracker elf with now super intense olfactory nerves to find him first, but not this soon!

" Tobi! Can you believe it! Can you see what I've become?" Bright side, she had to stop assaulting him to give him happy puppy eyes. It was enough time to stick his right hand into her nether regions with his glove, now a cherry-red glove.

Of course, nigh-invulnerability means normally excruciatingly hot magic only counts as 'lukewarm'. In effect, all he had served to do was grope the horny hound! On the other(same) hand, she couldn't very well hump him with a hand stuck up her chute.

He was surprised no one ever realized how well this mode of attack could work before.

"lumin gate!" A rain of football sized magical chunks rained on the lycan like hail- minus the being hard, being water based, being cold, or really being anything like hail except falling from the sky. And not the sky, but from directly behind the being either called Alice or Aellize.

"Whoo-oof!" Alleyne's self indulgent barking was halted as she was belted by a holy force as strong as a cloud of flying tanks. If tanks flew. And were luminous, holy, football sized, gold, fast, and basically not a tank.

Tobi grabbed a long black rod from his bag(box) of holding with spidery silver script. It was less than a foot long, and looked... Very forgettable. It was an applied phlebotinum called amnesia button, with the particular power to KO whoever was stupid enough to let it meet their head, and then make them forget a period of time convenient to the holder.

Alleyne fainted left before coming on Tobi's right, barely missing a swipe from amnesia button. Before she could get a back shot with her claws, Aellize pinned her down with a body shot from Tobi's enchanted bow. Before the halfling could recover, she was struck in the temple with amnesia button.

The pair panted for a bit, then ran full tilt into the forest, beyond those howls of ecstasy and bliss, and beyond those cries of pain and madness.


They recovered a bit later on, resolving to head SouthWest, around Lescatie, to Wisel city. Well, Tobi resolved to.

"Why Wisel? If you're trying to flee monsters..."

Tobi snorted. "Alice, what do you think I am? I'm not afraid of monsters, or humans. I knew I'd have to leave Lescatie soon enough to utilize my magic." His tone became progressively wearier as he spoke." All my life, I've had a sword at my neck. And what the Weiss blanket showed me, I need to discover why Derualla came for me. Why this stuff is happening."

" Ohhhhhh," Aellize nodded her head as she grasped the plan. "If were to survive, you need to understand your abilities, and if the lilim will continue pursuit! If you understood that, you could avoid her. And if you understood how monsters and humans got along in Wisel city, we could find a way to spread it."

Tobi nodded his head, " We may also have to cure Sasha, Francisca, Alleyne, and my brother." Couldn't care less about the others, but no need to give the angel a chance to argue against it.

" I never heard of a safe way to reverse monsterization, even with the Chief god's power, but if you could, The Lescatians would be grateful enough to follow you!" She didn't hear Tobi curse softly at that unontentional rebuke to his original intentions," And maybe, there could even be a way to create a balance that even the Chief god wouldn't interfere with. And no one would be forced to fight anymore..."

Tobi could never truly understand Alice's optimism, that even a being that thought itself an absolute divinity would set down it's pride. As Tobi, a human, could never resist smiling at that absolute beautiful view of reality. Maybe if he revealed Kira...

He'd bother with it later. For now, they simply lay down under a tree, and drifted off to a place beyond sleep.


When he woke up, the sun was shining beautifully. A bird whistled in the distance, and a stunning girl with silver rings woke up...

...and saw someone aiming a lance at Tobi's face.