The results: the last ones

“We are back from our last break of the night!” Chrissi announced. “And with a last second twist no less!” a bunch of ‘ooohh’s and ‘aaahh’s sounded from phantom speakers. As well as from Susie. Chrissi put up a pouty face. “We have someone voting on the very last few seconds of the pool. But this person broke a rule, that’s a big no no. It was clearly stated that you shouldn’t give two different girls the same rank, and yet our mysterious last second voter did. I was considering ruling out these kinds of votes before, seeing as they actually didn’t influence the result at all, but again, our mysterious last second voter changed the numbers and managed to tie up a couple girls… hum, what to do?” She tapped a finger on her chin as she paced around the stage. The girls nervously awaited the result. “Should I transform them as they are reading this? Perhaps they would like a lovely new bimbo wardrobe, like Bianca? Maybe they are in public, it would be wild to see the reactions to it all…” She took a couple more steps, then came to a conclusion.

“Never let there be said I wasn’t a generous host. Future attempts at unbalancing the votes will be disregarded and properly punished, but I will let it go this one time. Instead of having ranks one through six, there were a couple ties today. Susie, show us the results!” Chrissi pointed upwards once again as the final results were shown on the big screen.

Voting Placements:

1st Sunny: 4.5 avg.

2nd Harley and Bianca: 4.0 avg.

3rd Hyppolita and Valleyr: 3.6 avg.

4th Ariadne: 3.3 avg.

Points:

1st Sunny: 15VP 30BP

2nd Harley and Bianca: 10VP 25BP

3rd Hyppolita and Valleyr: 5VP 20BP

4th Ariadne: 3VP 15BP

All the harem members shared a universal sigh of relief. None of them were in the red, none of them were in the bottom position, they weren’t even on the lower part of the rankings. For this first moment of the game, they were all starting it on the right foot.

Ariadne stood with her arms crossed. Even though she shared the others’ smiles and relief, she was still dead last and with a pitiful amount of points. She knew very well this could have been much, much worse, and it probably would have been, were it not for this mysterious last voter. Whoever they were, they saved her from a much worse fate and she was very thankful for that. She was also keenly aware the rest of the audience wasn’t such a fan of hers. She supposed it may have something to do with her outburst when she arrived, but still, she wanted to see them act calm and rational when they were told their only family in the world was going to die and your only hope was to win a fucking harem competition! Still, she knew she had a long way to go to appease them and, gods forbid, appease the master. She had a lot of planning to do.

Harley had a big dumb grin on her face. Coming into this thing, she didn’t know anything about it, didn’t know what her chances were, but second place already? And her only competition was the sexy copper and that dorky nerd with a coat over her head? This thing was in the bag, she just had to play her cards right. And she knew a thing or two about playing cards…

Lin didn’t really know how to react, but he knew he was relieved, same as the girls. Knowing how these votes can go from the other seasons, he was genuinely surprised that almost all the girls had landed on the top 3, and that there were no negative points on the first round at all. Usually the hosts didn’t give points below zero in the first round, or ignored them altogether, but this time it simply didn’t happen and he was truly happy for these girls!

Bianca, Hyppolita and Valleyr were all relieved and happy to see the scores. Bianca herself had assumed the audience liked her, giving the transformation she’d received, but the last two had feared the worst at times. Both having been stuck inside a bubble for most of their time here, and both having created chaos as they arrived, similar to Ariadne, they hadn’t known what to think and were glad to see they were in the top three, even if their point total wasn’t great. But it could be improved, and they had the good will of the audience.

Sunny chanced a glance from behind everyone and from under her coat. “I… I’m in first place? I won? I won?!” She jumped in place with her arms raised up in the air, letting her coat fall to the ground, previous shame completely forgotten. She moved to the girls and hugged the one closest to her, Ariadne, who begrudgingly let a genuine grin fall upon her lips.

“It’s just the first round dear, there’s plenty of competition ahead.” Chrissi said, but couldn’t help but smile, getting caught up in the girl’s contagious joy as well.

“Oh, right. Sorry.” Sunny said sheepishly.

“There’s nothing to apologize for.” The host responded. “Though, before we proceed, I must say that Harley and Bianca were very close to catching up. Harley, by the way, there were a couple people showing their desire to see Poison Ivy join you in the show.”

“Oh, Red?” The clown answered, ecstatic. “Let her in! We’re gonna absolutely win this thing. We just hav’ta keep fucking each other ‘til we win, who hard can that be?”

“That’s not how the game works, dearie.” Chrissi continued. “You two would count as the same contestant, so any sexual acts you could do to each other wouldn’t qualify for points. And you unfortunately haven’t won the, hum…_ ‘right’ _to get a companion in the game yet.”

“Ah, bummer. Still, even then she would’ve cleaned house. I mean, a room full of lesbians and bi’s? Please, she could get these women to fuck her faster than you could say ‘is that even allowed?’ Not to mention lil’ master Lin over there. She’d eat him alive.” She gave Lin a predatory smile and a wink. He tried to look any other way.

“Well, moving on,” The host tried to steer this ship back on course. “Let’s leave the best for last and move onto our dear little cupcake: Ariadne’s transformation!”

_Oh shit, I totally forgot about that! _With the result of the pool, her placement on it and her plotting her next move, Ariadne had completely forgotten about what fate already had stored for her. All she could do was steel herself and try not to lower her standing with the audience even more.

“Hit me, what do you got?”

“Well, it appears our little viewers are trying to have their cake and eat it too. And, in this particular situation, it seems they will get to!” Chrissi winked at her and gestured to the big screen as a collection of graphs appeared, showing the results for Ariadne’s vote. “The results for your transformation were all over the place, both in terms of who you’d be taking it from and which transformation it would be. But, as luck would have it, you will be taking a transformation our voters were denied on the first go, you will be getting a vetoed transformation.”

If it were possible to steel herself even more, the rogue would have. Her muscles were tight as steel cables.

“The transformation you will be getting is… From Valleyr to Gilear!” The host announced, then snapped her fingers.

_Fuck! _The young woman closed her eyes and waited for the transformation to take place, though nothing seemed to happen.

“Tell me, Ariadne, are you a betting woman?” Chrissi asked her.

“Sometimes.”

“Well, then let me make you a deal: if you can take this key from me in the next 30 seconds,” She extended her hand and indeed she was holding a small golden key there. “I will let you get home at the end of this show to save your brother, no matter what happens.”

“And if I lose?”

“I get a kiss on the cheek.”

It seemed too good to be true, and it very likely was, but she couldn’t throw away a chance at saving her brother without even trying. With every instinct telling her she was going straight into a trap, Ariadne charged at that key.

Barely had she started running, the rogue stepped on a puddle of chocolate ice cream from earlier and went skidding over way past Chrissi, hitting an unsuspecting Susie, and accidently dragging her all the way across the room. When the two finally stopped, Susie was sitting down and Ariadne was laying on the floor, face firmly deep into the redhead’s skirt.

Without turning around, the host asked, “How does it smell like in there?”

“… strawberries.” Ariadne reluctantly responded with a sigh of defeat.

“You still got about ten seconds on the clock, cupcake.” The bimbo reminded her.

Without missing a beat, Ariadne_ gently _pushed the small girl off herself and sprinted again. This time she slipped on the well polished floor. Trying to learn from her mistakes, the rogue attempted to bend her knees and lower her center of gravity to get some control on her trajectory, but she overcompensated and ended up on her knees, skiing out of control again. Dragging her hands and feet on the ground, she managed to stop right as her face made contact with Chrissi’s amazing buttocks.

“Time’s up cupcake. You can choose which cheek to kiss.” The host gloated as she contracted each of her ‘cheeks’ on Ariadne’s face. The rogue sheepishly kissed the left one and shamefully went back to her fellow contestants. Some of them tried to offer their sympathies, but she didn’t listen. She was hopeless and humiliated right now.

“And with that humiliating display out of the way, let’s get to the very last event of the night: the very first spin on The Wheel of Fate!” Chrissi announced. “With our favorite nerdy girl winning the hearts and votes of the audience, she will also get the first try on The Wheel.”

“Y-You know what? Nevermind that, I…” Sunny tried desperately to think of something to say.

“No backsies now. If you don’t want to do it, Susie can do it for you. Susie, hit it!”

The redhead assistant, who’d gotten back in position, spun the wheel with full ****. For many moments, all anyone could do was stare at it spin. In her terrified mind, running a mile a minute, Sunny managed to notice the options on the black and white wheel were actually neatly separated: boons in white and curses in black. After she noticed, she got apprehensive as the wheel began slowing down and the white options fluttered by the needle. In the end though, even Chrissi was surprised by the result.

“Wow… who would’ve thought. On the first spin, no less.”

Everyone stared at the wheel and at her, waiting breathlessly to know what the words “Major boon” would truly hold for the brunette woman. Chrissi gestured like she was peeling something off of thin air, and the background of that spot on the wheel fell away, revealing a mirrored background with the words “Mirror Master”.

“Mirror Master? What does that mean?” Sunny asked in a quiet voice.

“That’s a boon from Harley’s section of transformations.” The host answered, surprise still hanging on her voice.

Oh, so you can take transformations from other people’s sections, Harley thought, interesting.

“Well, no need to keep the mystery now, show it on the screen.” The bimbo snapped and pointed up.

Mirror Master (Boon) - For a short period of time after someone activates one or more of this contestant’s transformations, the contestant can use the same effects on the instigator.

After a couple seconds, the host put her megawatt smile on again and addressed the camera, “Well, that is it for tonight folks, I hope you all liked everything I had to offer.” She squeezed her breasts between her elbows, with a cute and timid expression on her face. “Tune in tomorrow at the same time for our regularly scheduled debauchery, and thank you for watching Harem Hotel: Fiction Edition!” The camera backed away from her until it showed everyone else in the room, the cast framed by the glowing sun on the other side of the gigantic window. Then the screen was filled with the Harem Hotel logo and the credits began to roll.

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Author's Note: for anyone wondering, the result of the Wheel of Fate is truly random, not even I know what will come out. I have a prepared list of possible effects and then I run a random number generator to see what will be chosen (and by random number generator I mean my D&D dice).