Author Note
While I understand what the Aura power from RWBY allows for I don't understand semblance enough to be able to decide what the semblance for each member of the group could be. For the two Slayers, my guess is that would have something do to with fighting monsters or maybe it could have to with channelling the demonic essence within them. I was thinking that their auras could take the form of a large demon creature that was powerful enough to battle big monsters, even dragons, but it doesn't last for long so they can end up running out of power right in the middle of a fight.
I would like some thoughts and suggestions on the matter.
Slayer Gothic - Wishverse 2
Part 3
Hotel. LA.
After spending the weekend at the space station known as Deep Space Nine the group had and I returned to the hotel, and not long after that Fred had locked herself in one of the formerly empty rooms, that I had since discovered she'd turned into a workshop and lab of some kind, or at least she was in the process of setting up a workplace for advanced science stuff.
"I know you want to fill the hotel with lots of girls," said Fred as I walked in "but we have so much space and I need room to study all the technology you're buying".
She had a fair point, and I could always acquire more properties if I needed the room. In fact, if I got enough girls who were good with science as Fred I should consider setting up a proper lab and workshop somewhere like I remembered doing with the CRD building over in Sunnydale, but this was something to think about later, and with the government group that had set up in that town it would be wise to put that sort of thing in someplace that was unlikely to be visited by agents.
Winfred had set up a few computers in here, only one of which was local to this world, and one of them was the Trek verse and looked like some Picard would work at while waiting in his Ready Room for the Enterprise to arrive somewhere. Other than that the room looked much like any of the other apartments here in the hotel, and I decided that this would have to change. Fred was going to need some proper equipment. I wasn't quite sure what such things would be, however, I felt sure that the brilliant woman would be able to supply me with a list.
Over on the table, Fred had a placed a number of items, some of which she'd already taken apart, and while this might seem bad had these bits of tech been important to keep in one place I'd have placed them in the bigger on the inside chest I'd brought for myself that was up in the penthouse suite of this hotel.
"At least you're keeping busy," I said before getting to the reason as to why I'd sought her out "How is work going on the Sliding Devices?".
Once Fred had at least mostly recovered from her time as a runaway slave in a world ruled by Wolfram and Hart, via an evil priesthood, I'd gotten Fred to start working on the Sliding Devices like the ones I'd used in my other life as a male Slayer, or at least a life that I remembered living. I'd been drip-feeding Fred information on the technology for a while now, trying to guide her along the path without giving her all the answers, partly because I didn't have all the information as I was no physicist and I couldn't match Fred's raw intelligence.
"Sorry I've been getting distracted" she apologised.
I wasn't upset because there was no real rush. Thanks to my Old One spells, enchanted items made by the pokegirl Enchantress Lenore which eased the process, we could travel the multiverse, but it would be nice to have the Sliding Tech as then someone than myself could open portals and this would mean less of a strain for me, and I could send people on errands to other dimensions.
Opening portals even with an Old One doing the heavy lifting, as those sort of spells were a prayer of sorts, still took a lot out of me, and if my powers were every stripped from me I'd be stuck in one dimension or another. Well, I did have a certain magic mirror within the hotel that linked to a place called the Crossroads, but most of the mirrors within the Crossroads were either locked, and we had no idea how to open them, or they'd become tainted by whatever force it was that had created the darkspawn.
"I'd be grateful if you could devote some time to it," I said to Fred.
She promised that she would and went back to playing with the technology so I decided to leave her to it as I had some studying of my own.
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Hotel. LA.
As I sat behind the desk of the hotel's office, a space I currently used as a study. I looked up from the owners manual for the Outrider and I spotted Ahsoka Tano as she entered the room. The alien woman moved stealthy, making next to no noise, but with my enhanced senses, it was difficult for anyone to sneak up on me.
"Do you need anything?" I asked.
Ahsoka had for the most part been keeping herself to herself since coming to the hotel. She'd come with me to buy my ship and with the group when we went to visit Deep Space Nine, but mostly because she was the only person I knew who could fly the ship, yet other than that she'd not left her room much. Not that I blamed her for acting the part of a loner, a role I'd once lived, as she had to think about.
"Yes," said the alien babe "I do need your help with something".
After taking a seat the former Jedi Padawan began to explain to me what it was she needed help with.
"It wasn't chance or the will of the Force that lead to us meeting on Dantooine" I was told, "At least not completely".
I did think it odd that Ahsoka had been on the planet. I'd chosen that world to visit because for most of its history it was just a remote planet that no one paid much attention to, and few people of importance ever visited outside of the Old Republic era. As such it had seemed like a good place to go to so that I could acquire stuff from that galaxy without drawing attention to myself and my group.
"The reason I went to Dantooine was to find some lightsaber crystals" Ahsoka let me know "I did plan to ditch my lightsabers at one time, but I changed my mind, I think the Force was guiding me to join you and for that, I will need my weapons. You get into fights with some pretty nasty characters from what I've heard".
While I figured that it was something other than the Force that had drawn the alien babe to me I didn't say on that.
"It's sort of a big deal," Ahsoka said next "I was looking for a special cave because according to what I learned back when I was studying at the temple there's a cave on that planet which contains crystals suitable for lightsabers".
As I'd played the second KOTOR game somewhat recently I knew exactly what she was talking about. What I didn't understand is why she needed crystals as she had two working lightsabers on her person. I could see them hanging from her belt.
"What does have to do with me?" I asked.
Ahsoka shifted in her seat before replying, she looked as if she wasn't totally comfortable with what she was about to say.
"These sabers were provided for me by the Jedi before Order 66" she informed me "They work fine, it's just that they aren't mine, not really. I want to build some new sabers, and most of the parts I need aren't that hard to find, other than the crystals".
She wouldn't be able to go the more traditional sites that Jedi visited to get crystals as the Empire no doubt had those locations under guard. Besides she wasn't a Jedi anymore, and it might seem right to her to go to those places. Sure that cave on Dantooine had once been used by Jedi, however, that had been thousands of years ago and it was a sacred sight to them any more.
"I don't think I'll be able to find the cave alone," Ahsoka said, "So I figured that I'd turn this into a kind of test for you".
Hearing that confused me a little.
"A test?" I asked.
Ahsoka clearly wasn't comfortable requesting help.
"The way I understand things is that this group exists to help each other" the alien babe answered, "You're in charge, but the people here follow you because it's their best own interests, the group you lead helps them and in return, they help you. You share resources and work together to complete goals".
It was a bit more complex than that since we also shared adventures, they all had sex with me, and there was no real overall objective to the group. Sure I wanted to return to the Citadel of Gothics, as having access to that place was important, but it didn't matter as much to me now as I had my own safe haven and access to much in the way of resources.
"Think of this as a way of proving to me that your group is something I want to join," Ashoka said, "I like the idea of exploring and having fun, and if we can help people as well even better".
She wanted to see if I could deliver on my promises before she made any kind of commitment. I thought this to be very sensible.
"So you need lightsaber crystals and some other parts" I summarised.
I planned to take advantage of this situation to show Ahsoka what I had to offer her should she join my harem, and lightsaber crystals were just the start.
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Crystal Cave. Dantooine.
I was mildly surprised about how easy of a time Ashoka Tani and I had found the caves. Of course, it helped to have the Force as well as decent scanning equipment, such as tricorders, devices that took a while to figure out how to use, as well as the Item Finder I'd gotten from the pokegirl world. Since the Item Finder shouldn't know the difference between regular crystals and ones with a connection it was safe to assume that magic helped the Item Finder to work.
Still searching an entire planet for one cave system was something that should have taken longer. Perhaps the cave wanted to be found. If the crystal within were life forms of a sort as Ashoka had mentioned while we'd been looking for the cave and if they had strength in the Force, then they could have called out to us in some way. I didn't understand the Force, so I no idea what it might be able to do.
As it turned out, the Crystal Cave was located on the southeast end of the Khoonda on the world of Dantooine. Khoonda still existed, granted it was a major city in this version of the Star Wars galaxy, but it was still in the same place as in the KOTOR game and it had the same name so that had helped narrow the search quite a bit. But not as much as I would have liked since reality is much bigger in scale than a video game.
According to what I'd been able to find out about this location from a few different sources, the Jedi Order discovered the caves that Ahsoka and I were now visiting back when Jedi Master Vodo-Siosk Baashy established the Jedi Enclave, that you see the KOTOR games, not too far from here. During the Jedi Civil War, The Enclave had been bombed and the Jedi were long gone, however, this world was still strong with the Force, at least according to Ahsoka.
After the Enclave was set up the Jedi Order was given sole access to the world's wealth of precious crystals, which were vital to the construction of the Order's lightsabers, both for training sabres and the more deadly version of the weapon. Among the naturally occurring crystal structures were the rare Adegan crystals, once believed to only grow on Adega, which produced blue, green and yellow variations.
While I knew that both Revan and the Jedi Exile had once been in this very place, when I mentioned this to Ahsoka she told me that she could feel no trace of anyone who had been here before. Not a surprise since they had both been dead for thousands of years.
"These crystals also have value in trade" I the former Jedi Padawan was saying to me "But we can't take too many. If the Jedi Order ever returns they might need these crystals"
This cave offered crystals in many colours and in the past different coloured lightsaber crystals were used to indicate a Jedi's chosen class. Blue indicated a Jedi Guardian, a Jedi who used the Force on a more physical level, a warrior in truth. Green indicated a Jedi Consular, a Jedi who preferred to reflect on the mysteries of the Force and fight the dark side at its heart. Yellow indicated a Jedi Sentinel, a Jedi who honed his or her skills in a balance of combat and scholarly pursuits. However, this was not a rule and there was nothing stopping a Jedi from having a purple bladed lightsaber or any colour other than red, and there were a few places in this galaxy other than here that a Jedi could find the right crystals.
Having a variety of different coloured blades was something that fell out of practice in later years, and the more modern Jedi, those seen in the movies, nearly always used blue or green crystals that came from the Ilum caves. From what Ahsoka had told me purple, yellow, and orange crystals were still used by some Jedi until the fall of the Jedi Order at the time of the prequels, but they were exceedingly rare.
To me, that was a sign of how stagnated and cult-like the Jedi Order had become by the Clone Wars as while each lightsaber was still unique due to the range of different materials used during constructed, in times past a much wider range of crystals from across the galaxy had been used. It was if the Jedi Master were trying to limit variation among the lesser ranking Jedi.
"If none of the crystals here calls to you then there are other places we can try," I told my new friend "Like the Adega system, the Empire might not know about that source of crystals".
That system was located in the Auril sector of the Outer Rim Territories, it was once a major centre for Jedi activities. Again its abandonment was a sign of the Jedi Order's failing in their twilight years. They'd been so focused on maintaining the Republic that they kept nearly all their operations on Courscant, a world that was not strong in the light side of the Force.
"No this place is right," said the alien babe "I just need some time alone".
I took the hint and waited outside, after half an hour, Ahsoka came out with two crystals both almost lacking in colour yet they softly glowed. In her mokeskin pouch, a gift I'd given her, she also had some smaller crystals of different colour that looked like exotic gemstones, no doubt someone would pay well for them.
"These will do," she said to me.
Since there still could be bounty hunters on this planet I decided that it would be good to leave so I opened up a portal to the hotel.
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Hotel. LA.
Arya Stark had always been a rebellious girl, preferring exploring and her water-dancing over embroidery and writing poetry, the crafts which most noble ladies devoted a great amount of time to. She'd tried to become at least decent at such things, but as fate would have it her efforts were meant to be directed elsewhere.
After leaving Winterfell and arriving in King's Landing, Ned Stark, her father, had hired the first sword of Braavos to teach her in the art of water dancing. It wasn't long before Arya became quite proficient at that kind of dancing. Now she was learning more about another kind of dance, one that had little to do with the sparring she was doing with the Vampire Slayer, this dance was more flirting more than anything else.
Since neither of them were currently channelling the power of their souls the sparring session in the new dojo that Damien had set up, was unlikely to damage much of the equipment. Aura, as this power was called, was the manifestation of one's soul something the group had learned to access upon visiting a strange world, and it could be used for a wide range of abilities. The specific abilities and their strengths differ from individual to individual and were dependent on a number of factors, such as experience, training and innate skill.
Skilled users of Aura could create their own barriers or even increase their own abilities in some way. Weapons and armour can also act as a conduit for Aura, allowing for an even wider range of offensive and defensive capabilities. However it would be sometime before anyone in Gothic's harem learned how to do this and the Slayer himself, who also used the name Damien, didn't know how to do such things either.
For Arya, this power increased her already impressive physical abilities to a whole new level, and she had magical items as well to help with that. However, as impressive as all that was the assassin knew that she could get even stronger. She just needed to learn about her semblance.
Semblance is the manifestation of one's innate and personal power as an ability unique to each individual, with the effects varying greatly from user to user. With the sheer number of people unlocking their Semblances, it can lead to unrelated people gaining similar abilities. The nature of one's Semblance is noted as representing an aspect of their character. However, a person's Semblance can be similar to the Semblances of their parents or other family members So far none of the group had figured out what their semblance was, and this wasn't surprising since they had no one to teach them how to use this power, but Ayra felt certain that sooner or later she'd figure it out.
"So do you like the outfit?" Damien asked her once they had stopped sparring.
The Pokegirl Lenore, who was sort of creature that Arya knew looked human but wasn't quite human, not that she minded, spent a lot of time in her workshop that could be found here in the hotel. With access to such a lot of fine crafting materials she'd been able to make a new outfit for Arya, one based on armour worn by a group of assassins called the Dark Brother, they were a nasty lot, but they had good armour and Lenore had done her best to mimic their work.
Her new armour enhanced Arya's natural ability to move with great stealth as well as making her a better fighter. It also hugged her body, showing off her curves. Arya had never developed large breasts, but Gothic was more a bum guy and her backside often drew his attention. Something that secretly pleased the assassin as it helped with the dancing that some called flirting.
Despite her older sisters teasing, back when they'd both been younger and far more innocent than the women that they'd later become, Arya had grown to become quite attractive. The Slayer seemed to like her grey eyes and brown hair that he requested she keep long, and she did, tying it up in a ponytail that kept the hair out of her face. Her body had matured into that of a woman's, even though she retained her petite stature. In many ways, Arya resembled her Aunt Lynna, when she was her age. Skinny but athletic, and her small form helped her move unseen.
She'd never really submitted to Damien, she would never really submit to any man, however, she was fine with him leading the group, and she felt content when he took charge in the bedroom. Arya didn't concern herself much with love and the idea of marriage didn't appeal, but committing to the Slayer as a member of his harem suited Arya as it gave it what she wanted out of life.
Still, she liked to be direct when it came to sex, at least some of the time, and she didn't want Gothic to ever feel that was ungrateful for all he did for her. She stumbled to find the words to express her thanks so she would express it through action.
"Let's take a shower and I'll suck your cock," she said.
The Slayer seemed amused by this bluntness.
"My lady, who am I to refuse such a generous offer?" he replied.
He knew that she didn't like being referred to in that way, but she also understood that he was just indulging a little good-natured teasing and that this part of the flirting. So she began to strip off in the dojo, carefully placing her new armour on a stand, before heading up to the shower in her room in just her bra and panties. The youngest Stark female cared not for modesty and she knew that her lover enjoyed it when she acted like this, and as he followed up to her room, she knew that he would be staring at her arse the entire way.
She stripped once inside her room, knowing the Harriet Potter's house elf would keep everything clean while never letting itself be seen, and Gothic did the same, allowing Arya a chance to admire his body. As soon as the shower started got to her knees, took Damien's cock in hand, and then Arya began to lick up and down the underside of the shaft, her hand gripping the base of the cock as she licked it.
Her other hand went to his balls, very gently caressing and massaging them while her mouth slobbered over the rod. After a moment, she pulled it down and licked along the tip, slurping up the precum and planting a single kiss on the end before she engulfed the entire of his dick into her mouth. Arya had practised this act many times, she enjoyed intercourse, but there was something very erotic about getting on her knees in front of the male Slayer so that she could orally please him. She didn't mind submitting somewhat, or at least acting as if she did.
Her head began to bob back and forth, sliding the cock down her mouth and into her throat, and her lips locked tight around Gothic's manhood. Arya had quickly figured out how to make these blowjobs as pleasurable for her lover as possible.
As she performed this act, the young assassin felt his hands entwine with her hair, running through her brown locks. They weren't rough, he wasn't now pulling her hair or forcing her head forward. He was just holding on as cum began to splash against the back of her throat. Arya had gagged a few times while doing this, and she'd learned to quickly swallow down his cum, she'd never been much of a lady, however, she knew that it was rude to make a mess.
Once she was done the assassin stood up and grabbed a sponge, as she did she felt glad that Buffy, the other Slayer, had taken the time to explain how all the things the bathroom worked. The people of this world had no idea how lucky they were to have hot water on command and nice smelling soaps. No longer she did have to suffer cold streams and she was just girly enough to be grateful for the hair care products.
"Wash me" Arya requested.
As he began to clean her, rubbing his large and rough hands, the hands of a warrior, over her slender body, Arya felt smaller than normal, and even somewhat vulnerable, just in a good way, and she felt no shame at all when she directed his fingers to her cunt that was wet in ways that nothing to do with the shower.
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Sigil. The Outlands.
As far as I knew the Old One spell I used to create strange portals to far off places could reach anywhere that I knew about, so between classes at college I'd begun researching into places my group could visit so as to find useful things. One of these dimensions was called the Outlands. At the very centre of the Outlands, was an infinitely tall Spire that shoots up into the sky, around the top of which could be found the city of Sigil, the place I was walking in right now, along with a few of my girls.
Including Ahsoka who was taking a break from her intense meditations as she built her new lightsabers. Coming here was a chance for her to pick out some exotic materials for her future weapons. This place should have everything she needed, and despite the fact that Jedi, and former Jedi, weren't material people, Ahsoka didn't object to me proving her with expensive materials.
While the centre of this plane of existence was called true neutral, in terms of moral alignment which was a very important thing in this part of the multiverse, it wasn't so towards its edges. At the border between the Outlands and some other planes of existence, gate-towns exist, so named for the portals to the nearby planes they are built around.
These gate-towns took on many of the characteristics and morality of the plane they have a gate to, and when the balance shifts and they become enough like that plane, they slip into it. So if a gate-town near one of the hells became too corrupt it would be dragged into that hell. This made some sense when you understood how important moral alignment was here.
This was why Sigil remained neutral as doing so keeps it stable in a place where the laws that govern other places simply didn't apply, and since I didn't fully understand those rules, I'd decided that our visit to this city would be short. I didn't want to mess with the balance of power here or be noticed by the cities ruler. Our trips to this place would be short and would focus on business rather than exploring.
The sole ruler of Sigil was the mysterious and terrifying, Lady of Pain. She rarely if ever communicated with her citizens and punished any who crossed her path or attempted to worship her by flaying them to death or turning them to stone, making the denizens of her city very wary of drawing her attention. Leaving every day running of the city up to her citizens, the Lady only interfered when the stability of Sigil was in jeopardy. She kept the powers (deities and such) who would take advantage of the city's unique location and its many portals, and endanger its neutrality, out of the city, destroying any who wandered in.
One of the reasons I'd brought us to this place was because while my portals could take us anywhere I wished, and I could control them much better these days, it was still taxing and so I'd begun looking further into ways to travel to other dimensions without my portals. This place was full of portals to many worlds. Unsurprising when you consider that one of its names is the City of Doors.
Sigil had portals to many different locations, including places known as Baator, Carceri, and the Outlands, just to name a few, and I had no idea what realms they even were so there would be plenty to explore as long as we were careful in our travels through this city and didn't draw the wrong kind of attention towards us.
The portals found here could be anywhere: a doorway, the gap between a chair and a wall, a window, in the middle of a street, they were very hard to detect unless you knew what to look for. Also, the portals needed keys to activate and open them, which can be anything from a physical object, which could be a piece of random junk or a priceless treasure, to immaterial things like a hummed tune, a specific thought or just a well-timed gesture.
I'd gotten this information off what passed for the Internet in the Wishverse and one of the things I'd found online was mention of a placed called Fell's Tattoo Parlor, which as the name suggested gave people tattoos, however, these were not normal tattoos, they were magical and based upon the design the tattoos had different effects, such as granting a degree of protection or making a warrior more lethal in battle.
Along the way, we stopped at a few stores, including one that sold cloaks. These were a common attire in some realities so I detoured into the shop and while Lenore offered to make me something more personal if I simply brought her the right materials, they could be purchased in this store, I did buy something for Morrigan and Arya that suited them as well some of the raw materials.
The ones I brought were Piwafwi cloaks. The Dark Elves known as the Drow used these cloaks to stay out of sight in the Underdark. They were fashioned from spider silk and other unknown fibres and it was common for the wearer's house symbol to be included on the cloak, but these ones lacked any symbol. On the way out we were warned not to expose these Piwafwi cloaks to sunlight as the magic on them would fade in daylight.
When we got inside the tattoo parlour, I saw that the circular area near the entrance served as the principal area of business, with numerous tattoo designs adorning its walls. At the back of the parlour was a gallery of human skins stretched on wooden canvases. I really, really didn't want to wonder how Fel had gotten access to so much human skin.
"Maybe we can get the tats somewhere else" Fred suggested.
Given the human skin on display, I could understand her concern, but we didn't have much of a choice as the group needed more protection if we were going to keep travelling the multiverse. Lenore could keep making us more magical items, but they could always be taken from us were as tattoos were harder to remove.
Since the alien creature had a monopoly here he wasn't going to share the knowledge of his craft with me so I would have to make good use of the creature's skills while I was in this part of the multiverse. At least he did explain that a healthy human could handle three of his special tattoos at a time and that some would fade after use, but this didn't concern me much as they accepted gold here and I had more than enough of metal.
"Now we just need to select our tats," I said to Fred, Morrigan, Lenore and Ahsoka.
When I got the chance I'd bring the rest of my harem here so they could get some magical enhancements and protection, but for now, we need to find out what the business had to offer, and then to find a way to test their effectiveness before I gave the owner of this place any more of my business.