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  Futanari Demigoddess 6

  The Demigoddess, the Witch, and the Cheerleader (and the Angel and the Demigoddess)

  Hayden Archer

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  Futanari Demigoddess 6: The Demigoddess, the Witch, and the Cheerleader (and the Angel and the Demigoddess) Copyright 2014 Hayden Archer

  First digital edition electronically published by Hayden Archer, September 2014

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  “You’ve been very busy,” my mother said.

  “And you’ve been very absent,” I said.

  The smile slipped from her face and she at least had the good grace to wince.

  “Okay,” she said. “I guess I probably deserved that.”

  I shrugged. “Don’t get too choked up over it. I got over not having a mom around a long time ago.”

  She moved forward and sat at the foot of the bed. “I did have good reasons to stay away you know. Reasons that I should hope are becoming obvious now that you’re having this little difficulty with that medallion.”

  She lifted a hand and crooked a finger. As she did so the medallion flew up from under the sheets, briefly exposing my tits before I had a chance to pull the sheet back up over me. The medallion floated in the air in front of me, giving off of that faint blue glow again.

  “How are you doing that?” I asked.

  “I’m a goddess, remember?”

  “Oh. Right.”

  I was going to open my mouth to continue our conversation, but I was distracted by a whimpering noise coming from the side of the bed. I scooted over to the side, careful to keep the sheets around my naked body, and peered over the edge.

  Alexis was still huddled there, down on her hands and knees with her face buried against the floor. I winced. I didn’t remember that floor being particularly clean back when I was staying in the real version of this hotel room. I hoped it was a little cleaner in this mental reproduction I’d created.

  “Alexis,” my mom, Venus, said. “You don’t have to stay for this. But wait outside. I’ll call for you.”

  Alexis scrambled to her feet and made a quick move for the exit. Only the exit wasn’t exactly where I thought it would be. She walked to the middle of the room and a bright light appeared in front of her. Although I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised that the exit was there and not the door to the room. That door was part of the simulation, after all. When I reached out with my powers I could feel something different where Alexis stepped into that bright light.

  She stepped into the white and was gone. The light disappeared behind her.

  “That’s a neat trick,” I said.

  “Wait until you really get a handle on all of your powers,” Venus said.

  I kept calling her Venus in my head. I was having a hard time thinking of this strange woman standing before me as my mother. It’s not like I could go my entire life without knowing her, and then magically we were going to be all happy mother and daughter because she showed up for a few minutes.

  “My powers? What are you talking about? I thought the only thing I could do was the whole lovey-dovey thing.”

  Venus smiled, a thin smile that almost didn’t reach her eyes. Almost. She shook her head.

  “And you’ve been making quite a mess of things with just that power alone,” she said. “Only things have changed a little with you Valerie.”

  I looked down to the medallion that was still floating in the air. “Because of this thing?”

  “It was never meant for a demigod or a demigoddess,” Venus said. “In fact, when it was discovered that the medallion was in play we thought for sure that some unfortunate lower god or goddess who didn’t know about it had stumbled across the thing. Everyone up here thought it was impossible for that thing to work on a demigoddess. Until you picked it up and became a victim of the practical joke.”

  “Practical joke?”

  “That medallion is a relic of an older time when your… Condition… Would be the cause of a little more trouble than the response you’re getting today.”

  Again with that thin a smile. She shook her head again as well. “Fortunately in this century it seems that people are a little more open-minded than they were back when the medallion was first created.”

  I reached out and touched the medallion. It felt warm where I touched it. “So who created this thing? Who do I get to blame for this problem between my legs?”

  “That’s the thing,” Venus said. “Nobody knows who created it. I was the first one to fall victim to the joke, that’s why it’s called the Venus medallion, but even thousands of years later no one has fessed up to making it.”

  “So is this thing going to give me superpowers or something?”

  “Well you already had superpowers to begin with,” Venus said. “You are a demigoddess, after all. But this is new territory. No one is quite sure what’s going to happen now. It appears at the very least that the medallion is amplifying your natural abilities, making you far more powerful than any demigoddess should be. More powerful than any demigoddess who is my child ever has been, at least.”

  “Like how powerful?”

  “Like powerful enough that what you’ve been able to accomplish so far with very little training stumbling around in the dark is comparable to what a lower goddess would be able to do in her own right. And I don’t know how much farther it will go as you get used to these new powers.”

  “Damn,” I said.

  “You could say that again,” Venus said.

  “So why do I suddenly have all these people crawling out of the woodwork trying to catch me? That succubus. Everything with Professor Jones.”

  Venus shook her head and shrugged. “I’m afraid that’s part of the problem, and it’s not going to stop anytime soon.”

  “That doesn’t sound very reassuring,” I said.

  “It isn’t meant to sound reassuring,” Venus said. “To say you’re in danger would be an understatement. You’re probably in more danger than any demigod or demigoddess has been since, well, back in the days when monsters were openly roaming the world looking to pick a fight with your kind.”

  I rolled my eyes. “Great.”

  “Even worse,” Venus continued. “Now that it’s been discovered that the medallion amplifies the power of lesser deities, you’re going to have other demigods and demigoddesses angling for you. You’re going to have every monster and mythological creature that wants to increase their standing in the pantheon coming after you trying to get some of that power for themselves.

  “If they want the side effects then they can have it,” I said.

  “That’s part of the problem,” she said. “For that kind of power, they would gladly take whatever side effect there is.”

  “Okay? I still don’t see the problem. Let them have it. Let it be their problem,” I said.

  Venus shook her head and a sad look crossed her face. It looked stunning even so. I wondered if this was what guys saw when they looked at me. After all, she did look a little like me. Well, an older me. Of course she probably hadn’t aged in thousands of years. Millions of years? I had no way of knowing, and I didn’t think she would be forthcoming with answers even if I asked.

  “And that’s the problem my daughter,” Venus said. “Anyone willing to take that medallion from you is also
the sort of person who would likely kill you whether or not you still had it. They wouldn’t want to risk somebody out there wanting to take it back.”

  I sighed and flopped back on the bed, not even caring if the sheet came down exposing my tits. She was the goddess of love, after all, and I figured it she’d probably seen a pair of tits now and again in the thousands of years she’d been in the love business.

  “Great!” I said. “So what are you going to do to get me out of this fix you put me in?”

  I looked up and expected to see her getting angry. At least surprised. Instead she was smiling and shaking her head. It was a fond smile.

  “That’s just the sort of thing I’d expect from you, Valerie. You always were headstrong,” she said.

  I raised an eyebrow. “How would you know?”

  “Because, my dear daughter,” she said. “Just because I wasn’t able to be there for you directly when you were growing up doesn’t mean that I didn’t take an interest in you at all. That I didn’t keep an eye on you. That I didn’t help you out when and where I could, in what ways were allowed to me.”

  She smiled and shook her head again. “And maybe sometimes I broke the rules a little bit to give you a bit of a leg up, but that’s just between mom and daughter.”

  “Okay, but I still say this is your fault,” I said. “The least I could have gotten was a little warning.”

  This time Venus rolled her eyes in a way that was very similar to the expression I was so fond of using. “I did! You were just too pigheaded and headstrong to listen. I mean honestly, how many people keep reaching out and touching something after it gives them a nasty shock? I figured you would have learned your lesson after those coins, but no, you have to go grabbing at all of the artifacts in the exhibit. Including the one in that caused you to grow a giant dick in between your legs.”

  “That wasn’t just a security system?” I asked.

  Another eye roll. That was kind of annoying. I wondered if this was how my friends felt when I did that to them. “Are you kidding? The cost in electricity for electrifying all of those metal artifacts would be more than the things are worth!”

  I fell back against the pillow and let out a groan. I was tempted to grab another one of the pillows, hold it over my head, and press down until I lost consciousness. The only problem there was the instant I lost consciousness I’d stop pressing the pillow down and start reflexively breathing. The only thing I’d get for my trouble was a massive headache.

  I squeezed my eyes shut, took a deep breath to calm myself, and then the propped myself up on one elbow and fixed Venus, my mother, with my best glare.

  “Okay, so that puts me in a little bit of a bind,” I said. “Because the instant you transport me out of here I’m assuming I go back to wherever I was before you worked your little magic to bring me here?”

  “It’s not an exact science, but that’s pretty much what will happen,” Venus said. “At least I managed to get you out of there in the middle of that chase. I figured you could use a breather.”

  I rolled my eyes and she frowned slightly. Yeah, it wasn’t so much fun when you were on the receiving end, was it?

  “So whatever,” I said. “The point is you’re going to send me back and then I’m going to be up to my ass in weird zombie things chasing after me trying to capture me so this Professor Jones chick can presumably kill me and get the medallion.”

  “That sounds about right.”

  “Very reassuring,” I said.

  “Hey, I figured you’d appreciate honesty,” she said.

  “So what am I supposed to do to get out of it? It’s not like I was having much luck running away from them,” I said.

  Venus thought for a moment, moving a hand up and tapping a finger against her lips.

  “You realize I can’t help you,” she said. “At least not openly.”

  I rolled my eyes again. “Great.”

  Venus shrugged. “Sorry, but it’s against the rules to meddle in mortal affairs. At least it’s against the rules unless I can prove there’s another god behind these attacks, but right now the temptation of getting that medallion is enough to cause every minor deity and demigoddess within a thousand mile radius to descend on you without someone higher up the chain of command giving any orders.”

  “Very comforting,” I said.

  “But it seems to me that someone clever like you, someone who’s managed to get her way out of every other scrape you’ve been in over the past week, would be able to figure something out,” she said.

  I opened my mouth to respond, but she continued talking over me. “In fact, it seems that a girl who was just told that she basically has the same level of power as a goddess would be able to figure out a way to use that power to maybe fight off somebody who’s only using some half-baked sorcery two thousand year old sorcery that she doesn’t quite understand.”

  “Yeah but…”

  Then what she said hit home. She wasn’t supposed to intervene directly. At least not until she figured out whether or not there was another god behind this whole thing. Was it possible there was another god out there gunning for me?

  And it seemed like a she’d given me one hell of a hand. I wondered if I was even supposed to know just how powerful the medallion was, although I was starting to have my suspicions about it even without that massive hint thanks to my performance with Alexis and how incredulous she’d been about what I was able to do. So far I’d only used the power of love, but I was starting to wonder if there were other things I could do. I thought back to the way I’d casually flicked those weird little monster things away when I was being attacked by the succubus.

  Things were definitely starting to get interesting. Very interesting.

  I didn’t even realize I was tapping my own finger against my lips until I saw Venus smiling. I blushed. Apparently that was an action that ran in the family.

  “The power of a goddess… Very interesting,” I said.

  “The trick is figuring out how to use it,” Venus said. “I’m afraid I can’t help you there, although you’ve been doing well enough on your own so far.”

  I sighed. “Well then, I suppose that there’s nothing for it but to get thrown to the wolves.”

  Venus shook her head and smiled again. “Not quite. I was thinking of sending some help.”

  I raised an eyebrow. “But what about all that stuff about helping directly being forbidden?”

  A large grin split her face. A grin that looked quite stunning on her, though again this had to be the first time in days that I’d seen a beautiful woman smiling at me and hadn’t felt the urge to get with her. That was a refreshing feeling.

  “Who said anything about helping you directly?” she asked.

  She turned and looked over her shoulder. “Alexis!”

  This time I reached out with my powers, and I could feel the split in the room where the door started to open. On a hunch I reached out with my power and pressed against the spot where I felt reality… It was hard for me to come up with a word for it… seemed to be, folding? I suppose that was a word I could use, although it didn’t really describe what was happening. It’s not exactly the kind of thing I could put into human words. You’ll just have to take my word on this, demigoddess to mortal.

  Anyways, I reached out with my power and pressed on the spot where I felt reality twisting, folding, whatever you want to call it. And as I pressed against it I could feel the door stopping. I pressed harder and it started to close, although a bit of my power moving through that door hit someone on the other side, and I thought I could feel a small sliver of irritation. As though it was distant, as though it was an echo, as though I wasn’t getting the full force of whatever the person on the other side of the door was feeling.

  Then Venus waved her hand and the door popped open. I felt my power recoil back against me as something powerful slammed against me and pushed me back. It wasn’t exactly unpleasant, but it was a surprise. I blinked as I was pushed back an
d fell against the pillows. Amazing. That little wave of her hands was so powerful that it was enough to knock me back physically.

  Could I do that with my power? I didn’t know. That certainly proved that if anything I still had a lot of learning to do.

  “It’s not nice to use your powers to taunt the lesser deities,” Venus said.

  I hung my head. For some reason I was ashamed at the way she was looking at me with disappointment.

  “Sorry,” I mumbled.

  “No need to be sorry,” Venus said as the light flashed and Alexis stepped into the room. “It’s just important to remember that it’s your responsibility to use your power responsibly.”

  Alexis’s eyes were darting around the like a hunted animal as though she expected to be in some sort of trouble. Of course given what we’d been up to just a few minutes ago and considering what she’d told me about some of the rules they had up here about demigoddess and minor deity relations, I suppose it was safe to say that she was in at least some danger of getting in trouble.

  Not that I thought there was much danger, but still. I was new up here, and I might not have a good read on the situation.

  “I need you to help me Alexis,” Venus said.

  Alexis was back in her toga, robe, whatever it was she was wearing. Either way, she looked absolutely stunning. She sketched a quick curtsy.

  “Whatever you desire goddess,” she said.

  “What I desire,” Venus drew out “desire” and Alexis took a deep swallow. She started looking around again with that hunted look, and I wondered if she was really that worried about punishment. I felt bad that I was the cause of that worry.

  “What I desire is for a certain minor deity in the room to take some time to reflect on why we have the rules that we have about carrying on relations with demigods and demigoddesses.”

  “I understand goddess,” Alexis said. “What is my punishment to be?”

  “Not a punishment,” Venus said. “Merely a reassignment.”

  Alexis looked up and there was shock plainly written on her face. “A reassignment? What are you talking about?”