December 31st 2010 New Genesis 9:00 PM EDT

Artemis went first, because of course she did. My best friend was the least patient person I knew. "Well I ate the fruit, which was fucking delicious by the way, and then got an upgrade. My bloodline integrated with me in some weird way, and now I'm pretty sure I'm actively part god. In any case it really cranked my lightning up a notch so I'm all for it." She nodded to Wally. "The bigger surprise was what happened to him."

The redhead picked up his part of the story seamlessly. "When I ate mine I got this weird feeling and then my body started to kind of eat the electricity I had been generating. I freaked out but Arty was there with me so she started doing that supercharge thing she did before, pumping lightning into me to juice me up. It just kept getting swallowed though. We sat there like that for like an hour, just pumping electricity into me until it suddenly pulsed and I just kind of...came online?"

Artemis nodded. "It was weird. Like the worlds longest jump start. There was this big surge of power and he got way faster but then he went into this kind of trance. His eyes were flickering with lightning kind of like Zee's are doing, but it was red and gold and not purple." She looked at her boyfriend in concern. "The next part I wasn't there for actually, not exactly. Wally saw a vision or something. He told me about it after though."

He took her hand with a smile. "I'm fine babe. I told you it wasn't a bad thing." He turned back to look at us. "I was in a vortex of lightning, like some swirling tunnel of electricity and power. There was a person there...someone I knew, but not. Like another version of them. They told me some things I didn't know. Weird things." He hesitated for a second, and his aura showed uncertainty, but in the end he seemed to come to a decision. "They said it was called the Speed Force."

That sounded...dramatic. Wally smiled at my expression. "Yeah it's a bit over the top sounding, but apparently that's because it's a huge deal. The Speed Force is one of the seven forces that make up the entire multiverse. Don't ask me to explain what that means or what the other six are because I have no clue. Suffice to say the Speed Force chooses people to be it's champions, speedsters. In most universes that's The Flash and people he works with. I guess our universe was somehow cut off from it though, and we ended up with crippled versions of the power."

There was a flash of lightning and he zipped over to my side of the table, took a roll from my plate and flashed back, sitting down to butter it. I rolled my eyes at his antics but still, that was some crazy speed. Even with my dexterity and reaction time I'd barely registered him moving. I blinked. "Wow. You have gotten faster. I would have been able to stop the old you with how fast I've gotten recently, but I barely saw that." I nodded to the roll. "I'm guessing you've gotten hungrier too?"

He grinned, popping it in his mouth. "Only been a few hours but it kind of seems like it. Given how much faster I've been moving increased caloric intake makes sense." He grabbed another roll and started to butter it. "Aside from being hungrier though I just feel amazing. I've never been this fast sure, but I can also feel the energy blazing through me all the time now. I get the feeling my connection is stronger here than it would be back home." He scarfed down the second roll and gave a satisfied burp, only to have his head smacked by his glaring girlfriend.

I snickered at the byplay, which earned me my own head smack. I glared back at my girlfriend, getting a sweet smile in return and rolled my eyes, facing Artemis and Wally. "Well, sounds like you two have been having a crazy time, but that does sort of lead us into my next point. What we should actually be doing while we wait for the Forever People." I laid out my idea for the blacksmithing. "It would be even more efficient now that we have Wally for super speed manual labor."

He glared at me but Artemis cut in excitedly. "I could totally smith some great stuff. My understanding of my power has increased and I feel stronger and faster now for sure. Plus Wally would love to help me create some gear, wouldn't you babe." Wally sighed and nodded in resignation, a fact that Artemis either didn't notice or didn't care about at all as she started bouncing in her seat in excitement. "Oh man I really missed smithing, I bet the New Gods have some awesome forges too! This is going to be so much fun!"

I grinned at her. "That's the spirit! The main issue now though is getting a building. I can probably help with seed money, but we actually have to find the right place." I looked at the girls. "So you have any requirements or anything? Do you need to find some mystical convergence or a place that was built by blind monks during the new moon or something?" I'd already checked my emails and while there was some real estate scams they were either WAY too big or meant for living in, which I had to assume made them a poor choice for smithing.

Zee shook her head with a chuckle. "Not even a little. This entire planet is a magical nuclear reactor. Any given gas station bathroom is more magically significant than the most magic dense places on earth." She paused. "Assuming they have gas stations here. I don't think they use gas, maybe some kind of equivalent?" She shook her head cutely, as if to shake the idea out. "Regardless, no we don't have any special requirements for the location. Well, I don't anyway, how about you Arty?"

My best friend chuckled. "I mean, if we could get a place on top of a volcano it might be helpful, but in the city not really. As long as I have enough ambient magic to work with and can get some good materials I'm good." On that note I was really missing the island. The base had been a great place to buy stable resources. It was much more annoying to count on a random and unreliable resource like spam emails than to just buy things from a shop with points.

Still, I did have a few options in terms of mats. There were a few emails from back home that advertised buying materials in bulk for bargain basement prices. I wrote out a list and passed it to Artemis. "Pick out some supplies, I'll see about setting up a shipment. I know it's all mundane stuff but I'm hoping to find a supply of something nicer here in Supertown that you can use for an alloy." There was no way I wasn't going to be able to find some super metal scam in a place like this.

I wanted to check right now but we still weren't telling Wally about my actual powers. When I had that thought however, I paused. Why weren't we telling Wally? He'd told me about his powers, and it wasn't like my phone was necessary or anything, I just needed email access. He couldn't take my source of power or anything, and even if he wanted to deprive me of access to my ability in the short term he would be shooting himself in the foot because we needed every advantage. Honestly at this point I was more than strong enough for it not to matter anyway.

I exhaled slowly. Then I took out my phone and started scrolling through emails. Artemis and Zee's eyes widened and Wally just looked confused. I smiled at the three of them faintly. Then I addressed the redhead. "You showed me yours so I'll show you mine. Mostly because it's not like you can do anything with the information anyway but still, one good turn deserves another. My ability allows me to manifest spam emails into reality with some limitations. That's why the crow thing freaked us all out so much, I never bought that power."

I didn't go into too much detail, just like I was pretty sure he hadn't told me every little thing about his trip into the Speed Force. Still, I gave him a basic overview. I wasn't expecting his eyes to light up at the explanation, or what he said next, which fundamentally knocked me on my ass. "Oh, well that makes sense. Spam emails and rumors are kind of similar right? Like your power is related to lying or telling stories." I blinked. I...hadn't noticed that. At all. The girls looked just as baffled.

The more I thought about it though the more I thought it was the right train of thought but on the wrong track. It felt...close. But not quite right. It was a frustrating thing to have in your head. Like I had the answer on the tip of my tongue but I couldn't quite get it. I huffed and shook the feeling off. "Thanks man, that's a good lead to chase I think, even if it's not exactly right. It's a new avenue to explore at least. Anyway, so yeah I'll look around for some building scams to try to get somewhere pretty nice and for some materials for Artemis to use. Probably take a few days."

Wally nodded genially. "Oh sure, I'm pretty positive my lovely girlfriend is going to make me lug all the stuff around like a super speed pack mule anyway so take your time with the supplies. The longer you wait the less work I have to do anytime soon." Artemis elbowed him lightly in the ribs and he gave an exaggerated yelp, holding his side and pouting at his girlfriend. She just rolled her eyes with a smile and cuddled up close to him.

We finished out the rest of the evening just talking. We got enough of a second wind to order dessert, there was a really delicious berry cobbler available and we all dug into it with gusto. Amusingly enough I was pretty sure it was made with the same berries we'd been picking on our trip through the wilderness, the ones I'd won off the girls for my victory in our little prank battle. In any case with the revelation of our powers we seemed to get closer as a group. I could really feel Wally letting his guard down and genuinely trusting us, and his aura showed I was dead on.

Being forced to accept Artemis or lose her had made him question some things that I didn't think he'd been comfortable questioning before. I wondered how much of this would stick around when we got back, and how the other heroes would treat him if it did. I knew there were cross sides friendships back home, especially on the magic side of things, so I held out hope for Wally and Artemis. I was less sanguine about my chances of not having to fight Zatara once we got back.

Zee had been worrying about her dad non stop since we showed up here, even if she tried not to bring it up. They'd been in a bad place when we vanished, partly because of me, and I knew she was afraid of what he might do trying to get her back. For her sake I hoped he didn't take it too far. If nothing else there would be clues on the island we were alive, the two character sheets being chief among them, and Jim knew enough to track them down. Until then I guessed I'd just enjoy the time with my friends.

January 5th 2011 New Genesis 5:00 PM EDT

It took several days and every point I had at my disposal to manage, but I'd finally gotten the new smithy up and running. With Wally doing setup and my power taking care of the heavy lifting as far as real estate went, we'd managed to get something put together pretty quickly, and with enough rationing and a bit of tantric reinforcement I even got Zee her library to play with for the enchanting.

I'd been reading through it myself for days now, and I had to admit it was an impressive collection. With my speed reading and perfect recall I was basically downloading the information right off the tablet at this point, though I had to pretty much wrestle it away from my research obsessed girlfriend. She hadn't been willing to give up her time with it, so we'd come up with a system where I would fuck her into a drooling mess and then use the thing while her brain was rebooting. I had to admit it was the best checkout policy I'd ever come across, and my girl was a hell of a librarian.

Still I'd been learning a ton even with infrequent access to the tablet, and I was pretty excited to try some of it out. Artemis had tried teaching me a bit of Diablo style smithing, but without access to the anvil it was weird and hard to get a handle on. I was sure I could do it if I spent enough time, my points could be anything, but it was similar to trying to clench a muscle you've spent your whole life ignoring. I knew what I wanted to do, but the actual act of trying to do it just wouldn't...click.

The actual smithing portion was easy enough though, so I learned to make weapons, even if I couldn't give them the same kind of stats Artemis could at the moment. I could see why she enjoyed the action, it was calming and repetitive while also being energetic and forceful. Luckily we had all the time in the world to work on it, and all the materials we needed. I'd been able to get a huge shipment of high carbon steel from one of my Gotham emails, and we'd been mixing it with small amounts of a metal native to New Genesis called Elysium.

The fantastic metal was apparently insanely rare even here and I'd only been able to get an ingot or two, but even a bit of powder mixed into normal steel created an amazing alloy that could hold absurd amounts of mystical energy and strengthened the hell out of the metal. Artemis was having a field day with the new metal, trying every new enchantment she could think of. Spears, swords, armor, bows, she was just going nuts with production. She'd started stocking up the walls with examples of her work to entice potential customers and I had to admit the place looked damn good.

The building I'd gotten was a small single story with good lighting and lots of windows out front. The back was more closed off, but Zee was able to set up some cooling and air filtration spells for Artemis's forge to keep it from getting too smoky or hot back there. Artemis still had her ring for that but the rest of us were in and out of the place and honestly it was uncomfortable walking around in sweltering heat all the time. Now though, we were all crowded into the back of the shop working on our new project before we officially opened.

Wally was looking down at the sword skeptically. "I still think this is overkill. You guys are all crazy powerful magic users. Plus Artemis has her weird smithing ability, not to mention the magic metal you're using. This seems like overkill. Do you really need all three of you to work on every single item for the display case?" We had begun work on a new sword to show off our best work, but we were determined to go all out, and the redhead was convinced it was a huge waste of time to put in all this effort.

I shook my head. "No. Our basic enchanted stuff is fine for the low level minor gods who might stumble in, but any real money will be made from the really powerful New Gods. They're literal deities man. We need to bring our A game if we want to compete with the stuff other shops in the city will be selling. Granted they seem a bit tech focused rather than magically inclined which is going to be a big bump to our sales but still. We need to put stuff out that's on a higher level." I gestured to the currently glowing blade Artemis was still working on.

Zee nodded, grinning in excitement. "We do. Luckily I've come up with some very unique methods to enchant this next sword, and hopefully this will work well and we can standardize it." She gestured to the still rough looking sword. "So while Artemis is working on the physical aspect of the enchantment by creating the magical weapon as the base Morgan will use his devil magic to pour in a corresponding enchantment for the spiritual aspect of the blade, and I'll layer on an external enchantment as the final touch for the mental component."

I raised an eyebrow at her. "My demonic power is insanely expensive. I can try it to see how it works but I only have six hundred points from my most recent top up, I spent everything else." She just waved me off, clearly uninterested in details, and I had to smile at her enthusiasm. Refocusing on the project though I had to admit it was a solid plan. "I like the structure of the collaboration though. That sounds like it's going to come out really well. It should be pretty simple to do for me at least too because demonic power is so flexible, even if its going to cost an arm and a leg."

Artemis cleared her throat. "Well if you're going to do it you're going to want to get ready, I'm about to cast the sword, and once I've set the enchantment you'll want to add any extras pretty quickly before it cools and solidifies. I almost have it fixed so I can leave them to be enchanted later but I'm not quite there." Her voice was focused as she brought her hammer down on the metal in precise, measured strokes. An amateur might have sped up, trying to finish faster, but Artemis had trained under Teague, and the big man knew his shit. As she struck the metal her electricity started to crackle, causing the blade to take on a purple tinge, altering the cherry red heat glow into something much more exotic.

Artemis had found, over the last few days of testing while we got set up, that her bloodline's affinity with war could be expressed through weapon creation. Blacksmithing was making tools of war, and so her power could be used to affect them in an even more direct way than before, giving her a brand new level of control. Much like Zee's new trick with her own lightning, integrating the bloodline into herself properly and becoming part god had given Artemis a new and more unique aspect to her powers, the first steps to becoming her own goddess instead of a knock off of her ancestor.

I felt the shift in the metal with my senses even as I saw it with aura sight, and knew that it was officially my turn. I poured points into my demonic power, funneling the magic I was creating into the burning purple metal as I directed the flow of the spell. Artemis had added a spark there, and between that, my power, and Zee's enchantments we'd decided to try to upgrade to a higher level of gear in the same vein. Instead of freehanding the whole process, we were going to jump to more powerful objects using the same system. Specifically, we were making weapons from Diablo 2.

With Zee's map of how to go about it and my understanding of what we were actually doing it was easy to shape the power of the demonic spell to something that would work well with Artemis's power. Granted her creation ability wasn't limited to just lightning based gear, but for our first attempt we decided to focus on that, so the Stormspike seemed like a good choice for our first Unique item from the second version of the game. I shifted my demonic power into the form of the charged bolt spell needed and added the trigger conditions, watching with satisfaction as the glow of the metal changed.

Then I stepped back and let Zee take over, her muttering having already begun as she readied her spells, setting up the final structure of the dagger and solidifying it's nature with her spells, essentially putting the finishing touches on weapon with her magic as she Artemis released another burst of power to finish the cast and set the magic completely. The light went out, completely vanishing, and I reached out to pick up the dagger.

Because of my aura sight I was the natural choice for the appraiser of our group, and as I looked over out handwork I let out a long, low whistle. This thing was a menace. Aside from a chance to trigger the charged bolt spell it also layered on lightning resistance based on the power of the wielder and caused lightning damage on contact. Aside from that it cut deeper than a normal blade and enhanced attack speed by a hundred fifty percent, a frightening number for even a normal person, much less a god.

Honestly I kind of wanted to keep it, it would work wonders with my enhanced reaction speed and high dexterity, but if I kept every useful weapon we made we would end up very poor, albeit incredibly well armed. I passed the dagger to Zee with a flourish, and she used a homebrew identify spell to get the details, shooting me a wide grin. "Oh this is nice. No way we have trouble selling gear this quality. Plus now that we know it works we have other options too." She was almost vibrating with glee at the victory.

I grinned and pulled her in for a quick kiss. "Yeah, item sets are going to be a big thing here. The whole concept really fits the New God aesthetic, and it lets us create much more powerful gear. This place is going to explode with new buyers when we open." I grinned at Artemis, who looked tired but satisfied, and Wally who seemed impressed. I was about to suggest we get some food when a loud ring from the front caught my attention. We had customers. I hadn't expected anyone to notice us yet but I wouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.

We headed out to greet the newcomers and I was pleasantly surprised to see a pretty dark haired girl in pink browsing our wares. I stepped up with a smile, holding out my hand to shake. "Well hello there, and welcome. I'm Random, one of the proprietors of the shop. Do you see anything you might be interested in?" I had to admit I did, as much as I would never admit it out loud the new girl was gorgeous. Olive skin, purple lips and eyes and absolutely humongous tits that filled out her low cut pink costume exquisitely.

I was a taken man though, so I kept my eyes on hers, which from her aura was a feat not many men managed when confronted with what I was pretty sure were H cup breasts. She gave me a dazzling smile. "I know, I came here looking for you. Well, for you and a friend of a friend. My companions are out and about but I returned to town early so I thought I would come and greet you." She held out a hand. "My name is Dreamer. I heard you were looking for me. What can I do for you?"

January 5th 2011 New Genesis 6:00 PM EDT

So, Dreamer had shown up. Wally hadn't been kidding about how hot she was, though he neglected to mention she had a rack like an Italian suit warehouse. Luckily I have rock solid mental control, so I was able to avoid looking anywhere but her very pretty purple eyes. I winced as I realized I was staring turning to look at Zee worriedly...only to find her staring too. She had a faint blush on her cheeks as she looked at the goddess, and I raised an eyebrow, sending her a message via sending stone. "You ok baby? You're kind of drooling."

Her eyes snapped over to me and the blush darkened. "Sorry, she's just really pretty. I like really busty girls." I raised an eyebrow but couldn't really complain about it. She rolled her eyes. "Yes I think girls are pretty too. What, you're the only one allowed to stare? You have your weird ass fetish and I like pretty submissive girls with tig ol' biddies. Gods look at those soft lips." She bit her own, before glaring at me. "You and Artemis are a bad influence on me. I never used to vocalize things like this."

I smirked at her, returning the sending. "Or maybe becoming part sex goddess has cranked up your sex drive a bit. Still, I can't say I disapprove. I'm down for an early lunch if you want a Dreamer sandwich." I had to break off my VERY interesting conversation with my girlfriend however, because I was still shaking Dreamers very soft hand. Luckily the sending stones worked at the speed of thought so very little actual time had passed. She didn't seem bothered by it.

I cleared my throat. "Please, come in". She smiled and walked ahead of me inside. I had to choke down my disappointment. She had a nice little booty but she didn't fill out those pink leather pants as well as she did that top. I supposed it wasn't really fair to expect every pretty girl I met to have big clappable cheeks like my girlfriend. I shot my big booty beloved a wink as I had that thought, and she gave me a tender smile, not knowing what I was thinking about but always having a smile for me when I needed it.

Zee stepped forward to put a hand on Dreamer's shoulder, escorting the goddess inside. I noted with amusement that based on her aura even the pretty New God was flustered by the level of sexy my girl was. Zee, having obviously noticed this, looked incredibly smug. "It's so nice to meet you. Kid Flash has told us so much about you and your friends. Though if anything he undersold how breathtaking you are." Dreamer flushed as Zee worked her absurdly high charisma stat for all it was worth.

She swallowed hard as we all followed her inside, with Artemis looking amused at her sisters obvious leering and Wally looking like his brain might short circuit until his girlfriend kicked him in the shin. He winced, before realizing that he was drooling over watching my girlfriend and Zee's blood sister flirting with a girl Artemis had already gotten pissed at him for showing too much appreciation for and averted his eyes quickly, doing an amusingly bad job of trying to look busy doing inventory on the wall weapons.

Dreamer spotted Wally after a moment and smiled brightly. "I...recognize you. Not well, you were friends with Superboy. How is he? Bear often speaks of wishing to challenge him to a sparring match. I hope the New Genesphere is well?" She seemed excited to see a familiar face, and Wally, though careful to keep his eyes on her pretty face, didn't seem to mind answering her questions. Luckily friendly chatting didn't seem to bother Artemis, as long as he wasn't actively leering at the goddess.

The redhead chuckled. "I remember Bear, big guy, shaggy hair. Yeah Sphere has been doing well, Conner and Wolf are pretty much always hanging out with it. I'm surprised to see you around without your friends you guys seemed close. Are they still off traveling? We actually wanted to ask you about that." All the subtlety of a brick through a window, that was Wally. Still he did know her and we didn't, so he would have a better idea of what approach to use.

Zee for her part was being as friendly as she could be without jamming her tongue down the girls throat. She was running her hands over her arms and making eye contact and just generally being unusually intimate. I looked at her aura in puzzlement and saw that the frisson of divinity spiking through her nature seemed to be reacting to Dreamer in an unusual way. Some part of her new sex goddess divinity thought Dreamer was a fucking snack. Which to be fair she totally was, but if Zee had been interested in girls before she'd been subtle about it.

That said she had mentioned having preferences in the past so maybe she just kept it on the DL. I could totally see daddy Zatara being the kind of bible thumper to shame his baby girl for liking women. Was my girlfriend subconsciously repressed by her homophobic dad when she was younger? Shit, I kind of hated Zatara even more now. Regardless I trusted Zee to make her own decisions, though I would at least talk to her about all this before I let her drag the pretty goddess off to our room for a three way.

Stepping up to put my hands on her shoulders I steered Zee away from Dreamer. I sent her a mental message. "Baby, maybe take a minute to cool down a bit. I mean if you're into her I'm definitely down to work something out, but this is a pretty big shift. Just try to sort out where it's coming from. How much of it is your new divinity pushing you and how much is you." I tried to send my concern over the bond as I said that and I saw her aura flutter a bit. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, nodding, trying to center herself like I suggested.

While she did that I turned back to Dreamer. "So we were hoping you might have some idea how to get to the Magiclands? If you know what those are? We heard from a friend you might have been there, but I'm not too clear on the whole thing so forgive me if I misremembered the name." She was still staring at Zee a bit, which was fair because my girl looked damn good, but she shook it off and turned to me with a friendly smile. She really was stunning. Not Zee levels of sexy but she had that girl next door pretty turned up to eleven.

She seemed excited to talk about her adventures though, as my mention of the Magiclands caused her pretty face to light up. "Of course! I've been to several of the Magiclands. Not all of them of course, some are inhospitable to outsiders, the Funlands don't allow anyone over majority for instance, and the Darklands are where the souls of the dead roam freely, not to mention the Monsterlands being closed off for obvious reasons. But I've been to the Gamelands, the Wildlands, and the Wozenderlands. They're magical places. Which one were you hoping to visit?"

That was...awesome. It sounded like we had some great options for where to go. We were all under majority so the Funlands would work for us as well as the ones she had listed, we had a full four potential routes home. "Well why don't you tell us a bit about your travels there." I shot Zee a look, deciding to throw her a bone here in case she was set on this whole goddess booty quest. "In fact, why don't you join us for dinner. Spending the evening with a beautiful woman regaling us with tales of her adventures sounds absolutely wonderful."

Zee opened her eyes to give me a shy smile and I winked at her, making sure to do so out of sight of the fetchingly blushing Dreamer. The little goddess smiled shyly. "I would love to join you for a meal." Zee, who had obviously decided her little crush was at least partially her own motivation, came over to take Dreamers arm. I smirked internally. Some guys might be bothered by this, but honestly I wasn't one of them. My tantric connection with Zee let her know how I was feeling especially in sexual matters, and she knew that I loved the idea of her having a good time with the pretty New God.

On the same token I knew that she found the idea of sharing Dreamer with me insanely erotic. Zee had always been pretty submissive in bed, but apparently awakening her inner goddess had stirred a bit of her dominant side and Dreamer was hitting every possible button. I suppose it made sense given how combative her bloodline was that she would have some instinct for conquest in the bedroom. In any case we needed Dreamer, so we would have to go slow. Once we knew how to get to the Magiclands we could see if I could help Zee get her wish.

We headed back to Stanga's after locking up the shop and putting the Stormspike in the case, getting a table to share as we all settled in to listen to Dreamer's stories. The goddess was...not what I expected. Her aura was calm and steady, clearly confident in herself and her abilities, but I got the feeling she wasn't used to being the center of attention. She was beautiful obviously, but from what I'd seen New Gods were mostly pretty sexy, and she tended to travel as a package deal with her friends, so being alone and under all this scrutiny was making her nervous.

My girlfriend's obviously predatory gaze raking over her wasn't helping her stay on balance, though it was equally obvious she was enticed rather than bothered. Still, once we got seated and she had a chance to take a breath she seemed to shift into a more confident mental space. She smiled at all of us as Stanga set down her food, giving her a smile much more polite than he had any of us. It took me a second to remember that the Forever People were folk heroes in Supertown. They traveled the universe having adventures and brought back news of their exploration to the sedentary City Gods.

Not to mention I suspected the mixed with upper echelons of New Genesis society more than most, and acted as a sort of bridge between the powerful ruling gods and the normal every day citizens here. Dreamer sat up straight as she focused on us clearly preparing to tell a story. "Now as I'm sure you know the Sphere of the Gods encompasses many worlds. Entire planes rest within its boundaries, planes of pantheons long forgotten and lost to time, as well as flourishing civilizations of gods that are worshipped to this day."

Her voice was soft and spellbinding, and she flicked a finger, conjuring an illusion on the table of beautiful worlds and rushing space filled with countless stars. She was a talented illusionist, and combined with her beauty and compelling voice she made an excellent storyteller. "I have seen many worlds, walked many planes, but in my travels, the Magiclands are by far the strangest places I have ever been. To describe one will give you not concept of the others, so I must explain them each in turn. I think perhaps the place to begin is with the first and most obvious fact. The Earthlands, from whence you came, are in fact part of the Magiclands themselves. It is the first of the seven, and I suppose as good a place as any to begin."

January 5th 2011 New Genesis 7:00 PM EDT

Dreamer had settled in with her illusions, clearly trying to get into story telling mode. She seemed to really enjoy regaling people with her adventures. From her aura she was usually pushed to the back by her more outgoing teammates for things like this, and Dreamer really loved telling stories. "The first thing to understand is that the Magiclands aren't really 'lands' technically speaking. They're more 'A land" just in seven parts. That's important because it means that the dimension the occupy is partially in and partially out of the Sphere of the Gods, which explains some of the unusual things that happen there."

That tracked with what Del told us I was pretty sure. I knew the Magiclands were all connected and that there was some sort of hub that allowed travel between them. It sounded like there might even be direct portals between one land and the next, which could be useful since we had no idea where the hub accesses were. We'd probably need to work with the Forever People to find out about any odd places they might have seen that would qualify. I didn't fancy the idea of spending years in a random world trying to find a secret escape tunnel.

Dreamer shifted her hands, the illusion changing from space to wild forests. "The closest to the Earthlands in terms of functionality is probably the Wildlands. Granted, the whole place is run by humanoid beasts, but the way the laws of reality function are the most stable there. I personally suspect the Wildlands are partially outside the Sphere. They most likely represent the portion of the dimension situated right on the edge at the very least." The image showed hordes of animals walking around dressed as people. It was kind of weird to see.

Dreamers soft smile fell. "The Wildlands is beautiful, and can be visited with a bit of subterfuge, but an illusionary veil is necessary to traverse it safely. The beasts who rule the Wildlands have eliminated all the humans there, and they consider any new humans who show up to be a danger. When we visited I cloaked us in animal skin with my abilities. As long as you look as a beast would they are a welcoming and pleasant people." The smile came back a bit as the illusion flashed across a great distance, showing off hills and valleys and forests galore.

She shifted her hands again and the scene changed, green, lush landscape replaced with dark foreboding wilderness. The trees were mostly dead and the ground was pitted and cracked. "The Darklands are connected to the Earthlands in the exact opposite fashion. Where the Wildlands are physically similar, the Darklands are where the spirits of dead reside. All who die in the Earthlands make the journey, but the Darklands are inhospitable to the living. There are tales that the spirits of the dead can trade places with living visitors, returning to life at the expense of the trapped mortal they leave behind. Among the Magiclands it is the second most dangerous."

The image changed again. This new world was equally dark and foreboding but much less bleak. Rather than dead trees and cracked rocks, there were twisted trunks and sharp brutal looking grass. It kind of looked like someone used the Darigan paintbrush from the old neopets games on a normal forest, making it way edgier and more evil looking. Dreamer's face was serious. "If that Darklands are the second most dangerous of the magiclands, this would be the first on the list."

The image zoomed across the land like it had with the Wildlands. "The Monsterlands are a prison for the worst of the worst. We've never actually been inside, but we were able to observe through the veil of one of the nearby worlds, and I admit to being a bit curious. In terms of pure danger, the Monsterlands approach even our sister planet of Apokalips and I advise you to leave them far behind if you plan to attempt a journey. I doubt the exit you seek is through there, given the nature of the entities contained within. If there were a way out they would have long since fled."

I could see her point. Honestly this was a lot to process, but the information would be invaluable for us. If we could pick which of these places to travel through it would save us a ton of time and danger. So far none of them sounded like a party to me, but I was pretty sure she was warning us of the worst of them first. She had mentioned that there were a few that it was a bad idea to enter, so I was hopeful for the others to be a little more pleasant. If not we would have to decide which kind of unpleasant would the most bearable, but we would cross that bridge when we came to it.

The next image was...weird. Sort of pixelated and strange. Dreamer smiled. "These are the Gamelands. The Gamelands are unique in that the laws there are based on competitions. From what we saw on Earth they seem to resemble your video games, and you gain prestige and power there by accruing points. Once you gain enough points you can leave the Gamelands through the CPU as they call it. In all honestly I suspect that to be your best chance to reach this hub you seek. The Gamelands are the only one of Magiclands with a built in method to leave."

That sounded useful. I was pretty good at games, plus my power was basically pure cheat, so I could get better if needed. I put a mental pin in that as Dreamer crafted a new illusion. "The Funlands are a bit of mystery to us, we only saw a small portion of them through the veil. Those over the age of majority can't enter the Funlands on pain of death. King Kid is a jealous ruler who despises adults. Any who reach eighteen years in the Funlands are remanded to the slave mines. It is a harsh place for some, and a place of joy for others."

I found it kind of dissonant that the place with fun in the name was a dystopian slave state where members of the population over a certain age were sentenced to forced labor, but then we were all a few years off from eighteen so in the worst case where we had to head through there we would be fine as long as we left the Forever People behind. I raised an eyebrow at Dreamer. "That's six so far. So there's one more right. You called it the Wonderlands?" I'd been a bit distracted during her initial speech by the idea of my girlfriend making her squeal, though I was polite enough not to say it.

She shook her head, her soft smile returning as the image shifted to bright green fields and lush forests. Through the entire thing ran a road made of golden cobblestones, or rather, as I realized upon seeing the towering city of green stone, yellow bricks. I was looking at fucking Oz. Her voice was happy as she stared down at the place. "The Wozenderlands. A wonderful place full of amazing creatures and fantastic lands. The Cheshire Cat, The White Rabbit, The Tin Man, so many friends there I have not seen in such a long time. It is by far my favorite of all the Magiclands."

Her eyes were bright and cheerful as she filled us in on the last of the Magiclands. "The Land of Oz and The Wonderland were originally two separate planes, but they were brought together by their rules, Dorothy and Alice, to resist an invasion from the Monsterlands. The Wozenderlands are at the border of the Monsterlands and they act as their guardian. It's why I assume there is no other way out. If the Monsterlands had an escape to a different place they would have never waged war on the Wozenderlands and been beaten back."

Ok, well that gave us another potential entry point then at least. The question here was how that worked. "Can we enter any of the Magiclands at will? You make it sound like they connect in specific ways. Which one did you enter from last time, and can you get us back there?" They seemed to have been to or seen most of them but the connections wouldn't matter if we could just jump in anywhere.

She shook her head. "There are multiple entrances, but they're spread out enough to make using more than one in quick succession unfeasible. My suggestion would undoubtedly be to enter through the Wozenderlands. They do border the Monsterlands, but apart from the Monsterlands that are the deepest into the Sphere of the Gods the other planes naturally have two borders. The Wozenderlands connect to the Gamelands, which from what I can tell is where you wish to go."

That sounded like a decent route to take. Honestly the idea of getting to see Oz and Wonderland was kind of cool. I'd always liked Alice in Wonderland as a kid, and the Cheshire Cat was fucking awesome. As for Oz it would be cool to see the Emerald City and maybe some flying monkeys. As long as we avoided the Green Meanie we should be fine, and even if she did come across us (assuming she was even still around) I was pretty sure I could kick her ass anyway, especially with my team to back me up.

That only left one major question. "So...where is the entrance? Can you take us there?" I honestly wanted to set off as quick as possible, I had a feeling the trip through the different planes would not be fast so I wanted to get our journey started. It was a shame to waste the time setting up the shop but hanging around here to play convenience store when we could be leaving just seemed like a stupid waste of time. The others mostly seemed to agree, though Artemis looked really bummed to have to bail on her new forge.

Unfortunately Dreamer shook her head. "I don't know. It requires the Mother Box to reach, and she usually stays with Vykin. My companions are still on their most recent exploration. I returned early because of some family issues I had to work out. My sister Playful Dancer was recently injured, though she has since recovered. Dancer and I were close as children so I returned to see if I could help." She shrugged apologetically. "I am sorry but travel will have to wait until the others return." She looked sad about that, and I got the feeling she liked being out and about.

Knowing we were stuck same as before I decided to help my girlfriend out with her potential seduction. I smiled at Dreamer. "Well fair enough. But just because you can't help us get where we're headed doesn't mean we should be strangers. You're a wonderful storyteller Dreamer. Maybe you could tell us a few more about yourself." I smiled at Zee. "I know I for one would love to learn more about you, and I don't think I'm alone in that." The pretty goddess flushed, glancing sideways at Zatanna.

She bit her lip. "Well Dancer has been doing much better, and I suppose I do not have much to do until the others get back." She gave a warm smile. "I would love to get to know you all better. You seem like fascinating people. Superboy spoke highly of his companions back on Earth, and any who travel with them must be mighty warriors." Zee reached over and laid her hand on Dreamers and the goddess blushed a bit harder. "So, what do you wish to know about me? I'm happy to share any information about myself. I am as you Earthlings say, an open book." I grinned internally, I was pretty sure my girlfriend would be doing lots of reading in the near future.

January 6th 2011 New Genesis 8:00 PM EDT

Dreamer was a genuinely fascinating person. Zee had excellent taste, the goddess was sweet, funny, and an excellent storyteller. She was also, as it happened, an absolutely brilliant illusionist. Zee had actually started taking lessons with the pretty New God to work on her own illusion magic, and the results were...interesting. She was doing her best to work more false images into her combat style, and it was actually a perfect compliment to her long range style. That said, she was definitely having some fun with the types of illusions she was trying.

Which was really driving Dreamer crazy based on what I could see. The great thing about illusions is they don't have to look the same for everyone, and watching the cute little goddess try not to react to illusions of my naked girlfriend or the occasional hardcore fuckfest that only she can see is kind of adorable. It takes everything I have not to smirk as her aura pulses with arousal even as she does her best to pretend she's not staring at an ethereal copy of my pounding Zee's big sexy ass.

Unfortunately she wasn't the only one Zee was using her illusions on. My sex elf sweetie had been horny pretty much non stop since her upgrade, and had taken to using lewd imagery of the things she wanted to do to me or have me do to her to tease me consistently. Given the blushing and staring Dreamer was doing I was guessing I played a starring role in the naughty productions she was putting on for the goddess too.

For her part Dreamer was being surprisingly strong willed about all of this. She was obviously very interested in us both but she just focused on training Zee and did her best not to give any sign of her rising horniness. She was marginally successful, though I sometimes found her staring at my lap or Zee's ass when she thought no one was looking. When she looked at me she would blush beet red, implying that my girlfriend had included my unreasonably large cock in the illusion. I was guessing even the other New Gods weren't packing heat like I was.

Artemis and Wally for their part, were completely unaware of all of this interplay, though to be fair, I think Artemis might have noticed something if she wasn't so caught up with making weapons. We'd managed to get the process of making legendaries down to basically a science, so we didn't have to be on hand to make them, she could make blanks and we could add the power to them later. Still, she was a smithing machine, and the quality seemed to get better and better with every piece of gear. I was damn lucky my daily points had upgraded so much because I was certainly burning them fast.

Of course the constant sex with Zee was keeping me topped up too, she basically took every possible opportunity to fuck. If she wasn't trying to seduce dreamer, training, crafting, or spending time with our friends, she was bare ass naked and ready for me. I couldn't say that I didn't enjoy that part. She'd also made it a point to try to fuck me in semi public places where she knew Dreamer might wander by, and I had to admit that Dreamer's aura hadn't exactly been uninterested when she caught Zee with me balls deep in her throat. Admittedly seeing my tiny four foot eleven sex elf swallow more than a foot of cock looked like a magic trick in and of itself so I could understand the staring, but she seemed pretty into it.

But my biggest surprise was when she caught me training and offered to spar. I'd been defending from attacks from my clones with the blade, and she'd spotted me. After watching a while she cut in with a soft throat clearing noise. I'd dismissed the clones, mostly because they were horribly inefficient for training anyway and only managed a slash or two before they vanished from energy use, plus they couldn't take hits at all. Still I was flattered she was so interested. "That's a very unique style. I know something of the blade myself, would you be open to sparring?"

I was, of course. Though when she took off that cute pink mantle it was hard not to stare at her frankly enormous tits even when she had a live steel blade out. I forced my gaze to her face, and when I noticed her noticing me I flushed a bit. "Sorry. Didn't mean to stare. You're very beautiful." She giggled at that, but took up a combat stance and nodded for me to do the same. She clearly wasn't planning on holding back.

Still she was smiling. "I thank you for the compliment. As for the stares think nothing of it. Though, I suggest you keep your focus fixed on my blade, as wonderful as you may find my breasts I doubt you want them to be your last sight in this life." With that, she attacked. Her blade licked out at my throat, genuinely going for blood. I admit, despite the warning I stopped to watch the titties bounce. Thankfully my reflexes saved me, combining with my absurd flexibility and my speed to allow me to react at the last second.

I was pretty sure she would have stopped before she actually slit my throat, but still she was going hard and I could respect that. With my Vitality I wasn't in any real danger from sparring, but she was strong and fast and I realized this would be an actual challenge. I attacked back. Nothing crazy, just a quick lick of my blade to test her reaction times and get a good idea of her style. Her defense was damn good, clearly she was experienced as hell. Every casual flick of my blade was neatly parried or deflected.

Dreamers style of sword mastery was odd. Lots of feints and subterfuge, as you would expect of an illusionist, but she had this weird discordant way of shifting her body so her stance implied she would be attacking one way when she was actually attacking another. It was used interspersed with normal attacks and it made her unpredictable and difficult to deal with. Plus she was genuinely stronger than I was. My strength was a hundred, I'd put Dreamers at about one fifty, and her dexterity at probably one eighty, significantly higher than mine.

The only reason I could keep up was my reaction speed, which, being triple that of a normal person allowed me to somewhat offset the advantage she naturally had in speed. Other than that Myrina's combat style let me fully utilize my own speed at top form. All in all we were shockingly well matched, and when I started abusing my flexibility and ghostly body shifting she adapted by starting to mix illusions into her already deceptive and confusing fighting style, which was an actual fucking nightmare to fight against.

I got stabbed about thirty times during that sparring match, and it fucking sucked, though I admit that her glistening bouncing sweater puppies were definitely a contributor. About halfway through she stripped off her shirt, leaving her in only a very low cut sports bra type thing I hadn't even been able to tell she was wearing, and I was distracted all over again by her toned stomach. I adapted again though, like I had the first time, and after maybe an hour of combat I was starting to get the hang of fighting her.

Dreamer for her part was glowing. Not literally, at least not in the normal spectrum, but her aura was blazing with joy and exhilaration. I got the impression she wasn't able to fight on the front lines without backup too often. I expected her to start getting tired, but as we went she seemed to be more energized and excited. I'd used my sending stone to let Zatanna know about the match, mostly because I knew she wouldn't want to miss seeing what Dreamer could do, plus bouncing around with her shirt off, and she came by to watch the second half of the battle.

She didn't bother to be subtle about it either, leaning against the wall and watching us spar hungrily. I was almost positive that she was going to actively proposition the New God after this was over, and honestly after getting so worked up I wasn't against the idea. I was pretty sure Dreamer wanted to be the meat in a Zee and Morgan sandwich as bad as we wanted her. New Genesis seemed pretty open about relationships, both casual and serious, and it was obvious she found us attractive, plus she seemed to be unattached.

It became even more obvious to me when she noticed Zee was there and started showing off a bit. Putting some extra bounce in her combat style, a bit of extra flourishes when she struck. Nothing huge or obvious but she was clearly strutting her stuff for us and I had to say she was doing an excellent job. She kept it fairly subtle to start with, at least until one of my slashes got in close and she purposefully let it graze her back, splitting her bra and letting her massive jiggling tits bounce free.

I admit. I got stabbed then. Just a bit, and I recovered quick, but bare bouncing goddess titties were distracting as all hell and Dreamers were fucking grade A perfect. Gorgeous almost weightless olive breasts with gorgeous dark pink nipples around the size of a soda can. I backed up, completely unable to focus and not wanting to get stabbed again. Dreamer smirked a bit as I stared. She raised an eyebrow. "You've been so focused on them I thought maybe the two of you would like to get a better look."

She turned to wink at Zee, who licked her lips hungrily. My girlfriend swallowed. "Come here." Dreamer looked a bit surprised, and a tad shy all of the sudden, but she obeyed. The demure goddess walked over to Zatanna, standing in front of the shorter girl nervously. I expected Zee to grope her or something, but she didn't. She grinned up at the other woman. "What were you expecting to happen when you showed us those." Her tone was demanding, making it clear that she expected her answer immediately. It was unbelievably hot.

Dreamer flushed. "I...I was hoping we could enjoy each others bodies. The two of you have made your interest clear, and you're both very attractive. You are a beautiful woman, and if your illusions are anything to go by your lover is an impressive man in many regards. I...I haven't taken a lover in quite a while. My friends and I are close, but sex complicates matters so I try to look for men or women outside the team. I find your desire for me flattering and arousing. Do you not...wish to bed me?"

Zee giggled. "Honey, I haven't wished for much else since I first saw you. I've been milking poor Morgan dry trying to deal with my frustrations." That was an exaggeration, but she'd definitely been in a mood. I thought it was her new divinity but apparently she just really wanted to fuck Dreamer. Which was fair. Zee finally reached up to grab a handful of gorgeous breast, causing Dreamer to moan. "The question is, how do you want us to fuck you? Because I have my own ideas of how I'd love this to go, but we want you to enjoy your time with us. So how should we treat you during sex?"

Dreamer gave a shuddering breath as Zee groped her, playing with the taller woman's nipple as she waited for her answer. She swallowed hard, and when she spoke her voice came out in a raspy moan. "Yours." Zee groped her harder, making an inquisitive sound so as to make it clear she wanted the girl to repeat herself. Dreamer moaned louder. "Yours! Treat me like I'm yours...mistress." I grinned even as Zee did. Damn did my girl call it. Pretty little Dreamer was subby as fuck. Zee's smile was predatory as she forced Dreamer to her knees. This was going to be so much fun.

So Dreamer is going to be joining their relationship as a third (no he won't have a harem, she was always in the running as part of a throuple with them). Hope you guys enjoy the new dynamic. pat-reon has the advance chapters at that site /malcolmtent