Ding!

A feral snarl was heard through the forest, chasing after a fleeing badger. The black and white creature tried to run as fast as it could as a rain of icicles managed to just fly over its head. An angry mew sounded as a strong, feline creature chased after it.

The badger turned and swiped its front paw at the creature chasing it, but the leopard jumped right over its head, giving it a good swipe with his aft paws, creating long bloody gashes across its shoulders. The badger made an angry snorting sound, then resumed its flight through the forest. The leopard waved his tail at it when it stepped onto a patch of vines. The vines promptly disappeared to reveal an earth spike filled hole. Seconds later, the badger was dead, a spike pierced its head when its massive body fell down.

Wiping his brow and seeing the flash of his level up, John jumped down from the branch he was resting on. They had been hunting for the better part of the day now and he was getting tired. Through a lot of trying and some pointers from Arnold, he had managed to find a few ways to incorporate both Jack and Toph into an effective hunting style.

Toph dug her way out of the ground next to him, and to John’s delight, he saw her body start to glow, growing to a larger, more robust pangolin; she was still not as big as Jack, but her claws looked like she would be able to at least hold her ground in a melee fight for a bit, not to mention her scales that looked to have increased in hardness after her level up.

“So, that means all three of us are now level ten. Good. Good,” John mumbled as he lifted Toph up for a hug, the pangolin peeping happily as she licked his face.

Toph has reached level 10, maturing from her cute and cuddly pebble pangolin stage to a boulder pangolin. Her earthen abilities have been improved.

Achievement unlocked: Noob no longer
Reach level 10
Reward: powerset rework, already distributed before.

John sighed with a smile. Three levels in one day, grinding really paid off. As he touched the snout of the dead badger and collected a piece of badger meat and a trophy, he let out a yawn.

Arnold appeared with Cynthia in tow, the older man patting John’s shoulder. “Just as I was thinking, John, I think it’s time for us to call it a day. You improved well today, you are starting to think, to adapt. I am proud of you.”

Cynthia added, “Yeah! You managed to kill some stuff on your own, that learning ability of yours is so ridiculous! Wait, is Toph big now too? Awesome!” Cynthia’s attention was quickly removed from praising John to feeding Toph a part of her rations. Jack smelling the food quickly came over and acted like a poor, cute kitty, purring as he rubbed up against her leg.

“I reached level ten today, Arnold, thanks for the help and instructions,” John said seriously. John was really grateful for the help Arnold and Cynthia had provided him today. He felt like the more he practiced in here, with them around to save his ass if needed, the more confident in his skills he got and the easier it became to hunt. Practice made perfect after all.

Arnold patted him on the back. “No worries, helping you helps us too. Artemis has high hopes for you, and we are not in the business of disappointing our goddess.” He took a pocket watch from one of his pouches after that, clicking it open before nodding. “It’s getting late, you just leveled up, I think it’s time to call it a day.”

John then walked up to Cynthia, kissing her tenderly when she looked up. “Thanks for the help, babe. Come, let’s head out.” Cynthia nodded, and with one hand tickling Jack between his ears and the other patting Toph’s head, she started to walk after John and Arnold. It took them another fifteen minutes to exit the barrier. The three of them were covered in sweat and dirt by now; even after John switched to his mundane clothing, his face and hands showed he had had a busy day.

As they walked, John and Cynthia hand in hand, Arnold stretched his arms and popped his joints back into the right place. “Hmmm, John, how about I get the SUV and drive you home right away? Not that we don’t want you around, but you look like you could use a good rest and knowing our camp… at least part of you won’t be resting anytime soon if you come to the camp with us,” the senior hunter teased much to Cynthia’s dismay.

“Damn it, Dad! Ugh, fine. But tomorrow…” Cynthia grinned wolfishly at John. “We have some other training to do…” she whispered into his ear as she cupped his crotch. “And you have a promise to keep.” Her hand shifted and placed his free hand on her ass, winking as John blushed yet nodded with a ravenous grin.

“Oh, trust me… Cinnabun,” he whispered back, groping her cheek teasingly, “ I plan on getting started on training it as soon as I can.”

Cynthia’s eyes sparkled, whispering into his ear, “I might have an idea for that.” After which she followed Arnold into the camp, the friendly older man having walked in halfway during their shameless flirting. A few minutes later the hunt mobile, as Arnold liked to call it, rolled out of the wall, the door popping open to let him in.

When the car rolled up in front of John’s house, Arnold shook John’s hand once more. “John, I’m sorry. Sorry we let you go into the forest on your own. Sorry we didn’t prepare you enough. I guess we were a bit blinded by what you were and not who you are. Yes, you are a late bloomer and you have great potential, but you are also just a kid, no offence. We will help you grow from now on, okay?”

John felt a tug on his heartstrings as he shook the heavy hand. “It’s alright, Arnold, I fucked up too. I shouldn’t have even tried going in there on my own. I don’t blame you guys, I blame myself.”

Arnold sighed, ran a hand through his graying hair and nodded. “Get some rest, John. We’ll see you tomorrow.”

John then got out of the car, waving at Arnold as he walked up to his own front door and Arnold drove off, back to the camp to no doubt tend to some other, very important things on his to do list.

John unlocked the door, kicking his shoes off in the hallway a few moments later when he heard some strange sounds coming from the living room. Call it repeating something over and over for the better part of a day, but instead of saying something, John lowered his center of gravity and snuck towards the door frame, peeking around it to see his mother, kneeling in front of the couch dressed in a pair of thigh hugging panties and a corset style bra, containing her motherly mammaries. Brenda’s lips were tightly wrapped around a certain man’s cock, slurping slightly as she welcomed her husband back home.

The man on the couch was loudly vocalizing his enjoyment of it all and moaned like a wounded narwhal. “Hmmm, god, I miss being home, Brenda babe,” Eric Newman moaned as Brenda bobbed up and down on his cock.

Just as Brenda came up to speak, a dry cough was heard from the hallway. “Guess we are even now, Mom,” John’s tired but amused voice pulled the parental couple out of their fun.

Brenda quickly got up, looking for her bathrobe as her husband didn’t know how quickly he had to get his pants back up.

“Oh, don’t let me stop you. Mom kinda walked in on me and my girlfriend the other day, we talked and she said it was quite normal, and I mean it is your house. I’m going to shower and head to bed, camping was fun. Goodnight, Mom. Dad, glad to have you home again.” The open nature of the camp seemed to be rubbing off on him as he waved at them and headed up the stairs, leaving a slightly baffled set of parents behind. Though, the giggling and laughter he heard as he made his way up the stairs showed his parents found it just as amusing as he did.

The tired gamer found himself naked under the hot shower a little later, staring up at the ceiling as he touched the scar on his shoulder. He went over all that had happened during the weekend as the water rinsed his body from the dirt and grime of a day’s hunting. The difference that a few days could make was clear to him now.

The awful hunt, resurrection, meeting Cynthia’s ex, sharing the goth psychiatrist with his girlfriend and all the lewd things that came from that and then finally today and his long day of hunting. His life was a rollercoaster at the moment. Exactly one week ago his biggest worry was clearing the latest raid tier. Now he was thinking about learning to survive in a hostile magic world, not that he minded, he was actually starting to enjoy his time in the Abyss. But he also knew that he would need to learn and grow into the role he would need to take on.

He shook his head, sending water drops flying everywhere when he turned the shower off. “I will need to improve, but I can only do it one step at a time, you can’t clear a mythic dungeon day one, you need to go past normal and heroic first. No need to sweat it right now, just take it one step at a time, John,” he spoke to himself, nodding as he cast cleanse on himself, getting rid of the water. Yes, he could have done this to start off with, but taking a shower has its advantages too. Depositing the collected water back into the shower to let it go where it should go, he wrapped a towel around his waist and walked to his bedroom, the sound of a couch slamming into the wall indicating that his parents had decided to continue what they were doing before.

As John curled up in his bed, even though it was barely seven pm on a sunday, he got a text from Cynthia. He opened the attachment, seeing a small clip of Cynthia’s ass in close up, with a finger slowly teasing the smallest hole, slowly prodding at it as the lewd sighs of his girlfriend could be heard ever so faintly.

Author's note: This ends the first week of IzixJohn's story. A while ago I promised you lot a Q&A at the end of the first week. This is a friendly reminder to actually input some questions :P Question input ends Jan 27th 2019