Po, the Love Master

Part 12: The Black Marketeer

by Neoraichu

Po X Various. The story takes place towards the end of "Po, the Harem Master". Just after Po's wedding to Tigress, Viper, Fenghuang and Scorpion, to be exact.

WARNING: This is a strange tale, so READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Po the King Cobra was really feeling awkward as he followed the others back to the home of the black marketeer King Cobra. Although he was finally getting proficient at slithering, it was more the fact he knew some parts were missing that bothered him, replaced with parts that he wasn't entirely used to. That and the words of the huge spectacled cobra: 'So you took a shape-shifting potion. You're a morphling, which makes you more interesting because nothing would come of us having a little fling.' He was proposing mating with him as if it were a handshake.

"Say," said Tigress, the armor tailed scorpion skittering along next to Po, to the black marketeer King Cobra, "You never told us your name."

"Say," agreed Viper, "You really haven't."

"It's no big deal," she replied, "It's Hēishì."

"That's... a nice name..."

"I don't know," replied Hēishì, "Master Viper is pretty straight forward and beautiful. I'd like to have some really cool name like 'Master King Cobra'."

"Well, you just need to spend your life learning Kung Fu."

"I wish I had the time," she replied, "but until I take my new 'nest egg' and retire, I've got a lot of ground to make up and not a whole lot of time to do it. There just won't be a sufficient period for me to learn Kung Fu."

"I'm sure I could teach you to be good at it."

"Aw, you really think so?"

"You already have the natural grace and fluid movements. All you really need to learn is the needed taolu, and you've got it made."

Hēishì paused by a hole, and said for the benefit of Po, Tigress and Fenghuang, "Ah, here we are. Be it ever so humble, there's no place like a hole." Everyone crawled down the short tunnel entrance down into her home.

Po glanced around as they entered the main chamber, and of course noted the absence of most of what he would have called modern furnishings. But then serpents really wouldn't have need for things like chairs, tables and couches. They were just fine with cushions and rugs to keep their bodies off of the bare dirt floor. He slithered over by Viper and said quietly into her earhole, "Viper. Could we have a word... in private... a moment?"

She nodded as the two of the crawled off to the spare room which seemed to be used as a storage space at the moment, but was promised to Scorpion as a space for her Herbalism research. He slithered up to her as they looked into each others eyes.

"I have no right to beg you for forgiveness," Po said, "and less right to ask you to continue loving me, but I was... so wrong... to treat you the way I did. I kinda... forgot... that you love Tigress as much as I do. Of all the people in the world... I should know better than to think... you'd ever hurt her..."

"Po..." she replied, "I thought you hated me... You sounded so angry... I never heard you speak to anyone like that before... It scared me so badly."

"I never wanted to hurt you," replied Po, "and if you wanted to divorce me for being such a jerk and loser,.. I'd totally understand. But before you leave me, I just... wanted to let you know... that I love you forever... and I'd want you to forgive me... Even if we never show our love again,.. I just want to be friends..."

"Oh Po, I just wanted to hear... that you still love me..." sighed Viper as she slithered closer, "I... I... FORGIVE YOU!" She lunged ahead to give Po a solid kiss on the lips. The two rose up as they coiled about each other, purring their pleasure into each others' mouths. They even exchanged their forked tongues to play in their partner's mouth. Their bodies massaged each other as their muscles rippled and twisted. They both blushed as their kiss grew hotter as their passion grew.

The two coiled tighter as they fell to the carpet below. Their kiss grew yet deeper. They almost purred into each others mouths.

"You should really try to make him apologize more sincerely," whispered a voice nearby. The two stiffened a second before they realized that Hēishì had crawled into the room with them, and they had never even noticed until she had spoken to them.

The two broke off their kiss as Po sad, "I don't know what to do to be more sincere..."

"I believe my husband," said Viper in Po's defense.

"I do," hissed the black marketeer as she dropped a vial in front of Po, "You can start by drinking this for us."

"What's this?" asked Po back.

"This elixir will make the shifting potion last a full week," she replied, "If you really are sorry, then you should be willing to spend a week as a serpent to prove that you can understand what Viper is feeling right now."

"You don't have to..." began Viper, but Po had already drank it down for them. "But you're female, Po... are you sure?.."

Po coughed a bit because the potion was a bit on the bitter side. "It doesn't matter what I am," replied Po, "I LOVE YOU for who YOU are, and I'll adapt to whatever form it takes to prove that I love you and want to spend the rest of my life with you."

Hēishì smiled. "This is a good start," she said, "but you still have a week to prove to ME that you really mean it. Viper is... too kindhearted for her own good..." She glanced towards Viper as she added, "Nothing personal, my dear... I've been around a lot more than you... and I've had my share of pain and heartbreak."

Viper nodded as she replied, "I know that you care about me more than I deserve..."

"Stop that!" snapped Hēishì with conviction, "Don't even go there! I never want to hear you say that YOU don't deserve anything but the BEST the world has to offer!"

She could only blink as she looked at Hēishì and considered the sincerity of her words. "Well if you really mean that... then there is something I deserve..."

"What's that?"

"YOU!" she said as she dragged Hēishì into their little love coils. Soon the three of them were coiled tightly about each other as Viper and Hēishì were sharing a kiss of their own. And yet Viper managed to use the tip of her tail to stroke the feminine slit of Po as well.

"Mmmppphhh!" moaned Hēishì into the kiss, "Mmm... mmmmmm..."

Po was also panting, experiencing a feeling that he had never expected to feel in his life.

Scorpion glanced into the hole, and muttered quietly, "I guess setting up my equipment... can wait a while longer..." Then she scuttled away apparently unnoticed by the three of them.

Hēishì managed to gather enough wit to use her own tail to tease Viper's slit while they shared their hot and passionate kiss.

...

Tigress looked up as Scorpion returned to the main room.

"What?" she asked as she looked back.

"So..." asked Tigress awkwardly, "What is Po up to?"

"She... *cough* I mean he is making out with... *cough* making up with Viper... and apparently Hēishì has joined in the orgy... *cough* Po's touching little apology..."

"Did you watch them long?" asked Fenghuang.

"No," replied Scorpion with a huff, "of course not. It's just that the black marketeer promised me that spare room for my herbalism and poison research,.. but that's going to have to wait a little while."

"So what do you feel about Po?"

"Me?"

"Yes, you."

"I'll decide that when he apologizes to me."

"Well, I think he's already sorry about what he said to you..."

"I suppose. But I still want to hear it from him."

"That's reasonable, I suppose. I might demand the same if I was in your place."

Scorpion rushed over to Fenghuang and hugged her as she cried, "He was supposed to never judge me by my appearances or reputation! Even Grand Master Oogway said as much! And yet he did so when the first chance came up! He tore out my heart and slapped it on the ground! I've never been so hurt in my life! Even being banished from the Valley of Peace didn't hurt that much!"

Tigress looked aside as the Golden Earth Tiger spider hugged the reddish scorpion back. She wasn't sure if she had ever seen Scorpion break down and cry like that before. It almost seemed like she was somehow immune to feelings, suffering and pain. But Tigress quickly realized that she was not.

"There there," said Fenghuang as she patted Scorpion's back, "I understand your pain. Po can be quite the jerk and totally clueless... he can be selfish, inconsiderate, short sighted, cocky, arrogant, unsafe, unsound, overconfident, reckless... Wait, where was I going with this? Oh,.. he loves all of his wives with all of his heart. That's what I was trying to say."

"I know he loves me deep down," sniffed Scorpion, "but he can be so... irritating... at times. I don't feel like he loves me the same as he loves Tigress and you... or even Viper. When she coiled on his stomach and felt safe enough to sleep, it just didn't feel the same as when he let me sleep on his head."

"I have to admit I didn't know what he saw in me first. It was just how he gushed over me the first time we met. How he claimed he would want to be reborn as an owl like me. I thought he was just pulling my talon. He just had to be... playing me for a fool. But I discovered in time that he had meant every word he said."

"He never said he wanted to be a scorpion."

"Did you ask him?"

"Well... no."

"Ask him and I'm sure you'll be surprised by his answer."

Quiong Qi shrugged after backing away from the spider.

"Knowing him, he'd probably be happy to be reborn as almost anything. I'm sure he'd find something... awesome about being a scorpion. We just happened to take the potions randomly, so he became the snake by chance. I suppose it was also chance that we all happened to wind up with shifting potions that either kept us or made us female. They should really label those vials better..."

"You really want Po to yourself, don't you?"

"At one time, I would have agreed without a seconds hesitation... but because of Po, I'm not as selfish as that anymore. I might never love my co-wives as much as I love Po, but... I'll always be there for the rest of you. After all, it seems like it's going to take ALL of us to keep darling out of trouble. He has a penchant for either finding it or making it himself."

"He sure does," giggled Scorpion.

"Speaking of trouble," mused Tigress, "I suppose I should go check on them." She got up and scuttled on her eight legs towards the spare room opening. Scrabbling into the room, she came upon a rather tangled pile of snakes. They were all panting, wet near their tails, and most likely had already cum at least once. Some of them still had their mouths near one of the tails of another.

"Hey Viper," panted Po, "I know how you must feel during sex now. It feels incredible. I just want you to know... I'm sorry if I ever made you feel unwelcome... or unwanted... I love you as much as I love any of my other wives. I swear. One of these days... I promise I'll find a way to please you... as a male snake..."

"Oh Po," panted Viper, "I love you so much. As much as I love Tigress and as much as I loved Grand Master Oogway. But I thought you hated me... and that made my heart ache so badly."

"I swear it will never happen again."

"When you took that potion to make you stay a cobra for a week, that's when I was sure that I forgive you and want to stay with you forever."

"Say what?!" asked Tigress. The three serpents suddenly looked to the opening to notice that the Golden Earth Tiger spider that was now Tigress was staring at them with her eight eyes wide.

"I gave Po a potion extender," said Hēishì, "As a test of his commitment to Viper. It will last a week or so now. He's one step closer to convincing me that he deserves Viper's love and loyalty."

"So he's going to be a female cobra for at least a week?!"

"If that's what it takes to prove I love Viper to Hēishì, then that's exactly what I'm what I did, and what I'm going to keep doing!"

"Well, I think we aren't going to be safe until that blasted shape-shifter is taken care of. I just wish I knew what they hoped to gain by playing us like this."

"Well, one of the reasons I brought you back here," said Hēishì, "is the fact I have a thing or two that can deal with shape-shifters."

"Oh really?"

"I do. It's not all that hard to prove either."

"I see."

"Oh, you will see... very soon. I just wanted to look after my sweet little Viper first."

"Why should you care so much about my happiness?" asked Viper.

"I... I... think I'm in love with you... That's the only reason I can think of... I want you to be as happy as you can possibly be."

"Then I guess we have something in common now," hissed Po.

"I guess so."

"And just how much will this cost us?" asked Tigress.

"Oh, I'm sure I can work out some sort of payment schedule that you can afford."

Viper looked at Tigress and giggled, "Hey, a lady needs to make a living too."