Slayer Gothic - Wishverse 2
Part 4
Persephone. Firefly Verse.
While it might seem odd for a man who had a growing harem of babes, a harem full of talented woman, some of whom had superpowers, to go off on his own, but all guys need a little time away from the women in their lives, and this could make a man more grateful for the women in his life. After all, absence makes the heart grow fonder. So I'd decided to do a little exploring on my own.
This place had something a little odd about it I noticed right away. Around me, there was a strange mix of advanced tech mixed with more rustic living. This was reflected in the local fashions, which made me feel out of place since I was wearing 21st Century clothes. Thankfully no one was freaked about my appearance, most likely due to me simply becoming lost in the crowd and it wasn't as my outfit was eye-catching in any way. As I headed for the docks I soon found myself not looking a bunch of sailing vessels, but at space ships.
Even with this place seeming odd to me I had no intention of leaving as I'd come here on purpose to trade for some tech. Not any tech that I really needed, I just wanted to have more stuff for Fred for play with and I was mostly here because I wanted to be here. This was the verse of the show Firefly, as a big fan of that sadly aborted work, I hadn't been able to resist coming here for a visit.
"Eavesdown Docks" I read off a nearby sign.
If I was correct this was not only the right planet, but the right part of that planet, and perhaps even the right moment in time. Magic intended to work more on intent, as such I'd focused very hard on both when and where I wanted to arrive, and so far it looked as if my control over the portals I could create had become very good, but I didn't know yet if this was the right moment in time.
Using my Omni-tool, I'd made a very quick trip to the Mass Effect universe to pick one up, I scanned around in order to gather information on the ships around me, as well as the world I was now on. My scans told me that the local gravity was 1.0300G, which was slightly higher than Earth on this scale as that world was exactly 1G, but the difference was minor.
I then went on to view what the people of this planet had for the internet. Despite the wild west like saloons around here, they had a version of the Internet freely available to all. I found out the name of this planet which was Persephone, and this was where I'd meant to come. In Greek myth, the goddess of that name was married to Hades, the god-king of the underworld. The myth stated that Persephone spent part of the year in the underworld and part in the heavens, which was why there were seasons. Winter happened because she went down into the Underworld and when she left Spring would arrive.
This planet was part of the Union of Allied Planets, more casually known as the Alliance, which was the central government and law-enforcement organization in known space. This civilization came about after the Central planets fought the Unification War against the Independent Planets that wanted to break away from Alliance jurisdiction. The war raged for nearly six years. However, by the year 2511, the Alliance had prevailed, and an armistice was signed.
The history documents I downloaded matched up to what my earlier information gathering had discovered, and I decided to gather some additional information by looking around some more. I checked out the ships, and soon found one that seemed more than a little familiar. I'd watched a lot of sci-fi during my life, and I had way too much stuff about fictional settings crammed into my head, as such I recognised the space vessel on sight.
"You're gonna come with us," a voice said.
I turned to see that a young woman was addressing me.
"Excuse me?" I asked.
The lady had a nice smile, and eyes that told me she smart. Her outfit suggested that she worked with machines and didn't mind getting messy. I could smell something that reminded me of engine oil, but the scent was a bit different. It had been a good long while since I'd seen the Firefly show, but I figure that this must that ship's engineer. Kaylee should be her name.
"You don't seem to be looking at the destinations. What you care about is the ships, and mine's the nicest" she said next, "You've been staring at it".
She was correct, I did care about the ship. The technology behind them was human-made and not that more advanced than what we had my native time period, at least judging by terms of appearance. I figured that if I acquired some of it I might be able to trade it with someone or some group in the future. Besides I had plenty of storage room at the hotel and more gold than most Earth-based nations.
"So, uh, how come you don't care where you're going?" the woman wondered.
I wondered how she knew I didn't care where I was going. Clearly this human female was insightful about people as well as good with machines. As for why I didn't care, it didn't matter to me because I could portal home whenever I wanted.
"Because I'm a traveller, not a tourist" I replied.
"What the difference?" I was asked.
That was a good question.
"The difference is a tourist doesn't know where they have been, were as a traveller doesn't know where they are going" I answered, before introducing myself "I'm Damien Mason, the guy that doesn't know where he is going but does know where he has been".
It was a good thing she didn't enquire about where I'd been in the past because that would have taken a long time to explain.
"Well, I'm Kaylee, and this ship here, is Serenity, and she's the smoothest ride from here to Boros for anyone who can pay" I was informed, "Can you pay?".
Money was no trouble for me, it was just a matter of finding someone who would exchange what I'd picked up during my travels for some local currency. I had a few kilo bars of gold on me, and I knew from experience that you could buy a small yet decent light freighter for a few bars of gold.
"Is there is a pawn shop or a gold exchange near here?" I asked Kaylee "I don't have any currency, but I do have some valuables".
The mechanic and I discussed the price of transport for a few moments. She was empowered on her captain's behalf to exchange passage for trade good as well as money. Thankfully I had gold, and people always seemed to like that.
"Where're you headed?" I then asked.
It didn't really matter where they were going as long as they left soon, as I did have a time limit as I had classes at college and girls who needed attention.
"Boros" she answered.
I no idea what that world was like, but I didn't much care, flying around on this space ship interested me far more than where it was going.
"Boros sounds good," I said, "I'm ready to come on board".
The young woman seemed confused.
"Where's all your luggage?" she asked.
Thanks to the bag of holding and my magically expanded pockets in my coat I was able to carry everything I needed on my person.
"I travel light" I explained as we headed up the ramp to wait in the cargo hold.
It wasn't long before more people joined us.
"Welcome aboard, Mr Mason," the Captain asked.
I smiled and shook the man's hand. Certainly the right guy, but I did wonder if Nathan Phillips was as tall as this person.
"Thank you, Captain" I replied.
There were more people here.
"Mal, this is Simon. Simon, this is our captain," Kaylee introduced the two men
The two seemed to size each other up, and I knew right away that these two would simply never get on, and from what little I remembered of the show they didn't.
"Captain Reynolds," Simon greeted.
"Welcome aboard," the captain replied.
He then started greeted the other passengers, which were a preacher and a guy who I got a strange vibe off, but he looked normal enough. Still, I'd keep an eye on him.
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Serenity. Firefly Universe.
I stood with the other passengers in the galley as the captain got on with explaining the rules.
"Meals are taken up here in the dining area" the man was saying "the kitchen is pretty much self-explanatory, you're welcome to eat what there is any time, what there is, is pretty standard fare, I guess, protein in all the colours of the rainbow. We do have sit-down meals, the next one being at about 1800".
The guy was clearly not comfortable speaking to us. Which made sense, this ship was a cargo vessel, not a pleasure liner.
"I think Shepherd Book has offered to help me prepare something" Kaylee informed.
The captain seemed annoyed.
"You're a Shepherd?" he asked.
"Thought the outfit gave it away. Is it a problem?" the preacher enquired.
I tended to avoid Church types because of the whole: Suffer Not The Witch To Live, issue. I had magical powers and the essence of a demon in me. Either of those alone could lead to certain types of people trying to burn me at the stake.
"Of course not!" Kaylee denied as she looked at her captain "It's no problem, 'cause it's not".
"No" he agreed.
Then the tension seemed to die down, at least somewhat.
"As I said, you're welcome to visit the dining area any time" the captain informed "Apart from that, I have to ask you to stay in the passenger dorm while we're in the air. The bridge, the engine room, cargo bay, they're all off-limits without an escort".
Well staying in my room would be dull, but I had my Omni-tool to mess with, a few books in my pouch, and I could do with some sleep.
"Some of my personal effects are in the cargo bay," Simon reminded the commander of this vessel.
The Captained nodded.
"I figure you all got luggage you're gonna need to get into. Soon as we're done here we'll be happy to fetch 'em with you" he replied "Now I have to tell you all one other thing and I apologize in advance for the inconvenience. Unfortunately, we've been ordered by the Alliance to drop some medical supplies off on Whitefall. It's the fourth moon on Athens, a little out of our way, but we should have you on Boros no more than a day off schedule".
At this point
"What medical supplies?" wondered the iffy looking man I'd noticed earlier.
The captain didn't betray anything in his expression but since I'd seen the show I figured they were smuggling something.
"I honestly didn't ask" the captain answered.
"Probably plasma, insulin, whatever they ain't got enough of on the border moons" one of the crew added.
The captain turned to the crew members who'd just spoken.
"Zoe, you wanna take 'em to the cargo bay?" he requested rather than ordered.
I didn't need anything from there but I went with the group anyway. I had a feeling that I was meant to be here for some reason. That some higher power had nudged me in a certain direction, and if I took the chance I got end up benefiting from this situation.
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Serenity. Firefly Universe.
It was late, or at least it was according to the way they recorded the passage of time on this ship. This meant that the corridors where quiet and empty as most of the crew and the passengers were sleeping in their own bunks. This was true for all except for the ship's mechanic and one of the guests. Kaylee and passenger called Damien Mason were both in a guest bunk, totally naked, their clothes were all discarded in a total mess.
While Kaylee had spent a few moments while working in the engine room thinking about the young man she'd met back at the dock, she'd not been intending to go to bed with him, she'd only imagined it about half a dozen times, and when he asked to speak to her on the matter of the technology than ran this ship she'd not meant to start kissing the guy. Later she might blame the bottle of booze that had appeared from somewhere, but the truth was that she felt lonely and horny.
Damien moved his lips towards Kaylee's and passionately kissed her before slowly moving his mouth away from hers and down her body. The bunk didn't allow for a lot of movement but the passenger did his best to arouse the engineer. Not that she needed much help.
"What ya waitin' for, a goram invitation," she said.
Kissing was nice, she just wanted more and very soon she got it. While he kept a hand on her left breast, he began messaging it while he kissed and licked the other nipple. This act made Kaylee groaned in pleasure as her nipples very much liked the attention that they were currently getting. By now they felt so pointed that they could take someone's eye out.
Damien moved lower and looked at the wet pussy in front of his face and smiled before sticking out his tongue. In order to orally please the human woman he'd had to get off the bunk and kneel down, a submissive position he wouldn't normally take, but he got the feeling that this would pay off later.
Kaylee certainly didn't mind, in fact, she felt only gratitude towards the man she knew so little about as no one had made her feel like this in a good long while. She became very happy as she got licked and her hands massaged her own breasts. They already seemed to be missing the skilled tongue and rough hands that had been playing with them a short time ago.
Damien stopped pleasing her for a few second and then he thrusted his tongue inside her as far as she could and wiggled his tongue inside her body. She screamed in pleasure as he began to rapidly move his tongue in and out of her pussy. Kaylee couldn't remember any man making her feel like this.
When he moved his head away from her pussy she almost begged for more, but the words never escaped her mouth as Damien began to use a couple of fingers from his right hand to pleasure Kaylee in a new way. She having her clit played with.
Before long she started to squirm as she began to reach climax, and while she struggled to find the words she did her best to urge Damien to go faster and faster. Which he did and she and then she screamed out in pleasure as she came. It took a while for her to recover from that, and she found that she wanted more, and more was exactly what she got.
She was soo wet and relaxed that he was able to enter her pussy with one quick thrust. As he began to slowly fuck her. She closed her eyes and simply savoured the moment. She could feel Damien's cock begin to move out of her and then thrust in again, she groaned once more and wrapped her arms around the powerfully built man.
This was a fantasy come to life as far as she was considered. Here was a man, who was clearly wealthy, he'd paid for the trip in gold, he wasn't so bad to look at, he had muscles, and he wanted to screw her. Of course, she wasn't naive enough to think this would last. Damien wouldn't be the first man in her life to act in one way before fucking her, and then treat her badly afterwards, but she'd reserve judgment until later.
Not that she could have focused enough to make a judgment about anything right now as Damien had picked up the pace. He knew how to make a woman very verbal in bed. She kept screaming in pleasure so loud she knew the rest of the ship could here, but she did not care right now. Embarrassment would wait for tomorrow.
"Ahh! Fuck me! Harder!" she yelled.
She continued to urge him to continue, or at least she tried to, she wasn't sure she was even making sense as she spoke as Damien was now thrusting in and out of her as fast as he could manage given the limits of the space they were in.
"I'm cumming," he said.
"Cum in me!" she shouted.
Few men could resist filling a woman's cunt with his baby batter if offered.
"We need to do that again," Kaylee said in between deep breaths.
Hopefully, they'd find the time.
(Line Break)
Serenity. Firefly Universe.
Time passed and I assumed myself by reading a few of the books I carried as the trip was dull and Kaylee had work to do. When I heard some sort of fuss going on in the cargo bay I headed in that direction and saw that other people had been drawn to the noise.
"You're a lunatic!" Simon was yelling.
"And you're a gorram fed" the Captain replied.
This scene seemed familiar and I decided to watch it play put.
"Hate to say it, Captain, but you've got the wrong man," one of the crew said.
Dobson, I'd gotten his name during dinner last night, stood on the stairs, and he was pointing a gun at the two arguing men.
"Son of a bitch" the captain swore
"Drop that firearm, Captain Reynolds" he ordered.
Reynolds hesitated and then obeyed.
"This is not my best day ever" he commented.
Dobson moved the gun so as to point it at Simon.
"Simon Tam, you are bound by law to stand down," he said.
This changed this atmosphere in the cargo bay
"Oh, you want him. Is there a reward?" the Captain wondered.
Dobson ignored that, he had all his focus on Simon who I knew to be on run from the government as he'd rescued his unstable sister from what had to be an illegal government lab of some kind.
"Lawman, you are making a mistake" Simon tried to explain.
This must be the scene when River gets discovered. She was in some form of stasis if I recalled correctly.
"I think everybody could stand to calm down a bit" the priest urged "The boy's not going anywhere, lawman. It's pretty cold outside and I doubt he can hold his breath that long".
The Captain moved casually for his gun.
"Not to worry. We can put Lord Fauntleroy here in a passenger cell" he assured the Fed "He won't make a peep 'til you hand him over to..."
Dobson pointed the gun at Reynolds again.
"Get the hell away from that weapon! You think I'm a complete backbirth?" the lawman yelled "You're carrying a fugitive across interplanetary borders, and you think I actually believe you're bringing medical supplies to Whitefall? As far as I care, everyone on this ship is culpable".
I could have just opened up a portal and gotten away, but I decided to let things play out as there was a chance for me to profit here I could sense it. I'd been the Slayer long enough to know that few things ever just happen, they might not all be planned out, free will was a thing, but events were guided by unseen forces, and sometimes the by the Force if Ahsoka was correct.
"Please, we're very close to true stupidity here!" Shepard Book called out.
The Lawman was looking a might unstable.
"I got a cruiser en route for an intercept, so talk all you want. You've got about twenty minutes" the guy with the gun said.
This was soon confirmed.
"Captain, we've been hailed by a Cruiser. They've ordered us to stay on course and dock for prisoner transfer" someone called over the comm.
This was when I took my chance, disarming the lawman, knowing that my kinetic barriers, something else that I'd picked up on my travels very recently, would protect me from a single shot. I easily disabled the lawman and took his gun.
"He was going to shoot someone," I said to the group "I could tell, he felt as if he was losing control of the situation".
That wasn't really the problem. It would have been clear to anyone watching that I had superhuman abilities. This was going to take some explaining.
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Serenity. Firefly Universe.
Kaylee Fyre hadn't been able to understand what it was about this man that made had her so eager to get him inside her. Now she understood, he was some sort of superhuman, as well as rich, intelligent, and reasonably good looking. It had to be the superpowers that made him so hard to resist, and that was the mechanic used as justification for why she'd returned to the guest quarters for more sex. The others might be freaked out by what Damien had done, even if they were somewhat grateful, but Kaylee was simply fascinated.
Not that she was thinking much about that as the two of them stood in the guest quarters with Damien's hands exploring her slender body. His explorations were eager and his hand were rather rough, but he seemed to know what he was doing and he didn't just go right for the tits and cunt like so many men would. Besides Kaylee didn't mind if he wasn't gentle with her.
The passenger seemed to really enjoy her round little ass, and when she was about to subtly direct this attention to her breasts as she like his hands on them, he found the clasp of her bra which he quickly unhooked. This left her wearing her panties, and she hoped that he would soon remove them too.
This only encouraged Kaylee to do some clothes removing of her own. She moved her hands to his trousers and began to unbutton them. She had to get down on her knees to take them off, and his underwear soon followed. He already removed his shirt so she could see his chest and arms. The engineer had to wonder what sort of exercise a guy had to do to get muscles like this. The answer involved fighting monsters while using superpowers she would one day soon be informed.
Once he was naked they resumed kissing again with newfound ferocity, before Damien once again began planting kisses her over her body. It was as if he was trying to claim every centimetre of her body, and right now it pretty much was his to do with as he pleased.
After a while spent kissing everything that could be kissed, something Damien had quickly figured out that the ship's engineer greatly enjoyed. Kaylee stopped and began to remove her panties throwing them to the floor when she was finished. At this point, she was more than ready to give herself to him and slid her hand down, gently taking his cock into her hand. She felt bolder than normal, and something in her made her want to please this man.
However, knowing that she soon had to get back to work, there was no time life for anything other than frantic fucking. This time Kaylee went on top and did her best to get them both as quickly as she could. She would have liked for Damien to fuck her as he had before, it felt right for him to take her, but she was going to be late as it was so she focused on getting them both off before the captain started yelling at her to get back to work.
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Serenity. Firefly Universe.
"You're different," someone said.
River, the insane teenager with mad fighting skills, had woken me up while I was sleeping, and now she was staring at me as if she was a child and I was some sort of interesting bug she'd found. It was both adorable and creepy since she was leaning over me.
"Why do you say that?" I wondered.
If I recalled correctly River Tam, who'd recently been freed from stasis, was a psychic of some sort, but this didn't worry me and she wouldn't understand anything she saw in my mind, or be able to relate it to others, even if she had been able to get past the magical enchantment I used to shield my thoughts.
"So quiet, everyone else is noisy and I can't shut it out!" she shouted.
If my enhanced hearing was anything to go by Simon was currently discussing things with the Captain of this ship, who after finding out I was a superhuman, had, even more, to deal with. I felt unsure how Reynolds and his crew would process the existence of superpowered humans from other dimensions staying on the ship, but that wasn't really my problem, as soon as this ship landed somewhere I would be gone. Right now I had something else to worry about.
"Shh, it's alright, just focus on me" I urged the girl.
Thanks to my pouches of hold, and bigger on the inside pockets, I could carry a lot of stuff with me. Including potions that healed both the mind and body, I made her drink all of the potions that had to do with the mind, and they seemed to have some effect on her. If nothing else she calmed down.
"Are you like me?" River wondered.
No, I wasn't.
"I'm something else," I told her "How do you feel?".
She looked around, seemingly confused.
"I need to find Simon" she then said, before suddenly leaving.
Nice girl, a bit on the dotty side, but nice. Alas, she was too young for me, and that was a shame given what Earth actress she reassembled, but maybe I could convince Kaylee to come with me. Was worth a shot.
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Whitefall. Firefly Universe.
While the passage of time between dimensions wasn't always easy to predict I didn't much care as if I had been gone longer than a few days I'd just have Harriet do a little memory spell on my professors at college. No sense having a wand-waving witch in your harem if she didn't cast a few spells for you.
Finally, we'd arrived on the fourth moon of Athens of the Georgia system, a moon called Whitefall, a large percentage of which was owned by a woman named Patience whose name didn't suit her personality from what I'd overheard. The captain of the ship was off dealing with something I didn't care about so I'd decided to get off the ship and open a portal somewhere out of sight.
As for River, she seemed to be recovering. I figured that one or more of the potions had undone at least some of the physical damage done to her, it was the emotional trauma she would have to heal by herself.
"Aren't you going to Boras?" someone asked me.
While I was halfway done the ramp I stopped, smiled and turned around. I figured that I'd get my chance, and now I had it.
"I don't really need a space ship to get home," I told the mechanic.
She looked up at the sky.
"Are you going to fly there?" she asked, "Like someone out of those old comic books?".
Hearing that made me smile.
"Nah I'm going to open a portal," I told her "Do you want to come with me?".
For a short time, she just stood there and didn't speak. I knew that she would need a few moments to begin to process what I had just offered.
"Where are you going?" she finally asked.
"Earth" I answered.
Hearing that made her frown, she was confused and this made sense as in this universe no one lived on Earth. Earth-That-Was, as the locals called it, was the original home of all humans. A series of events led to the mass exodus of Earth's population. The fleet left Earth founding a new civilization in a new star system, a rather large binary system with a lot of planets. Many of the facts about "Earth-That-Was" had been lost to the pages of history.
"No one lives on Earth" Kaylee protested.
I had to smile.
"Not in this time or in this universe," I told her "but I'm not from this time or universe. If you come with me you'll know what I mean".
Kaylee looked back into the ship that she called home, and I wondered how attached she actually was to it. I figured that I would soon find out.
"I can't leave the Captain without an engineer" she pointed out.
After reaching into my pocket I produce a few small gold bars.
"He can hire a new engineer," I told the mechanic "I'll pay for the inconvenience, and if you want to come back later you can. And if you come with me, you can see whole new worlds, meet new races and I'll show you tech that you can barely imagine. Alien worlds. Old Earth, how can you resist?".
She spent a few moments looking down at me, and then back into the ship. Clearly struggling with a choice.
"You can bring me back, right?" she asked.
I nodded.
"To this world sure or Persephone" I explained, "You can call the captain if you do return and I'll give you more gold so you don't have to worry about missing on pay".
I didn't think that she cared about the money, but she took anyway, perhaps to leave in the captain's bunk with a note. With that amount of gold I'd given the guy running the ship could easily afford to pay a proper engineer.
"Don't go anywhere!" she yelled.
While she couldn't have been gone for long, it always seems like a long time when a man has to wait for a woman to get her stuff, and when she came running down the ramp I opened up a portal right away and while she was clearly scared of entering it all I had to do was hold onto her arm as we returned to the dimension I called home.