Pushing Things Too Far?

Laura wasn’t sure how she found herself in this situation. Okay, that wasn’t totally true; she knew the events that had led to this and that it was likely at least partially because of Talia’s Anime Physics, but she was still bewildered by the fact that this had happened.

Talia’s face was planted between her breasts. That wouldn’t have been unusual at all. Her girlfriend really enjoyed using her as a pillow. No, the unusual bit was the squeezing sensation pushing Talia’s whole body against her own. Her arms were pinned to her sides, and she was wrapped up like a burrito. Sam was coiled around them both. Sleeping contentedly. Laura started wiggling her fingers against Sam’s scales to try and get her attention.

She got it, but Sam just squeezed down tighter on her hoard.

Laura started straining against Sam and said, “Sam, getting kind of hard to breathe here. If it’s hard for me, then it’s worse for Talia.”

Talia slipped a hand up and put her fingers on Laura’s lips, surprising her. “Shhh… It’s cuddle time.” Talia sounded like she drifted right back to sleep. Laura was confused about how Talia had gotten her arm free of Sam since she couldn’t.

“Sam, seriously, could—”

Sam rapidly shrank as her body uncoiled around Laura. Sam ended up as the size of a house cat, resting right next to Talia’s head on one of Laura’s boobs.

“Thank —” Laura got cut off.

Sam had placed a claw on Laura’s mouth. “SHHH! Cuddle time.” Sam pulled back her claw and wiggled slightly to get comfortable atop her hoard.

Laura rolled her eyes as she wrapped a hand around Talia’s waist and gently placed her other hand on Sam’s back. I guess I can let them have a little longer.

Brooke and Sadie got up from the other side of the bed, slightly annoyed at Laura and her girlfriends. The two had come back late in the evening, finding the three hogging the bed. They squeezed in up against Sam and did their best to get some sleep. Which didn’t come easily, as Talia kept making pleasurable sounds for almost the entire night.

Sadie started speaking, “So, this isn’t—” Sadie found herself in a time bubble, making her sound like someone speaking in super slow-mo.

That was the last straw for Laura as she flicked Talia’s head. “Let her out of that right now, or I’m tossing you out of bed.” The time bubble popped.

Sadie continued, hardly noticing that she had been put in a bubble. “Going to be a thing. Laura, I know you’d like to spend time with Talia, but we aren’t sleeping all in one bed again. Understand?”

Laura nodded. “Yeah, it is sort of crowded for so many in one bed.”

Sam started stretching as she arched her back and let out a yawn. “Sooo, what’s the plan for today?”

Sadie looked to Talia. “I’m open to suggestions, but I figure it will depend on several things, like if Mary will be joining us.”

Sam replied, “I think she will be.” Sam let out another yawn as she shifted into her humanoid form. “At least she seemed much better last night.”

Sadie asked, “What was wrong with her anyway?” Sadie looked away from Sam, Laura, and Talia when she noticed that the three were all naked.

Sam stood and started getting dressed. “Not talking about it. I’d suggest you not press Mary about it either. If you want to know, ask her, but do so delicately, and make clear you aren’t demanding answers but are asking out of concern. Also accept it if she tells you she’s not talking about it.” While Sam was talking to Sadie, everyone could tell that the message wasn’t meant for just her.

Brooke asked, “So… what am I supposed to do today? Since I got incapacitated?”

Laura shrugged as she finally managed to peel Talia off of her and got up. “Hang out with Allie and Isa. It wouldn’t hurt you to get to know them.”

Talia said, a little groggily, “Depends on how long the chastity temple takes. Ethel is working to reposition the Empire forces; we could, in theory, attack today.”

Sam looked at Talia like she was being an idiot. “With three people down? Why would we even consider doing that?”

Talia just yawned. “Why would three people be down?” Talia walked over to a wardrobe and grabbed a black bra and panty set for the day.

Sam replied, “Did you forget that Allie, Isa, and Brooke all got incapacitated? They aren’t able to do anything today.”

“Oh, that. No, I didn’t forget. I just don’t see why that would prevent them from helping if we decide to attack today.”

Sam asked, “How are you planning on handling their incapacitation then? I didn’t think we had any way of removing incapacitations besides Mary, and she has to remove it shortly after it occurs.”

Talia finished putting on her outfit before answering Sam. “I’ll do the same thing I did for you and Mark. I was actually planning on saving that for the assault, as that way I could bring three people back up if we can fall back and regroup, but if we think attacking early would be a better idea, I could do it so we can attack today instead.”

Sadie asked, “Why didn’t you mention this before?”

Talia shrugged, “Um… it isn’t like I hid my ability. You all knew I had this. Not my fault if you don’t remember.”

Laura tried to diffuse the situation. “Well, I think it would likely be better to wait. Maybe we can power level everyone up to seventeen. Talia and I got really strong abilities at that level. Actually, Sam, what’s your level seventeen ability?”

Sam pulled up her ability menu. She frowned, reading over what she got. “I’m… not sure… it just says Dragon’s Breath. It has a long cooldown, though.” Sam started reading it over more. “This… this seems to just be a fire version of my other two breath weapons.”

Laura frowned. “Um… I’d be careful. I doubt it’s just your breath weapon, but fire. Considering it should be on par with abilities like time stop and meteor swarm.”

Brooke said, “Wait, did Cassandra really just give you guys 9th-level spells? Huh, I thought the jokes about her lazy writing were just you all throwing shade her way. Yeah, level seventeen is the right level for that too.”

Everyone turned to look at Brooke, not certain what she was talking about.

Brooke said, “Dungeons & Dragons. Seriously?”

Laura said, “I never played at high levels; I was always told that high levels were bullshit and impossible to balance encounters for.”

Brooke nodded. “That’s pretty accurate.” She looked around the room. “Who here hasn’t ever played D&D before?”

Sadie raised her hand. Talia raised her hand, but to ask a question: “Does Pathfinder count?”

Brooke said, “Yes, so just Sadie. Well, we’ll have to fix that.”

Sadie asked, “Why?”

Brooke pinched the bridge of her nose. “Because I can already tell that you knowing nothing about nerd culture is a problem for your relationship with Mary. Considering that a lot of this challenge is a live-action version of the tabletop game, at least you’ll be familiar with the concept.”

Sadie pouted, “Look, it isn’t my fault that I don’t know about this crap! My parents always insisted this sort of thing was a waste of valuable time.”

Brooke walked over and smacked Sadie upside the head. “Don’t call it crap. Especially around Mary.”

Laura said, “Brooke, you really need to stop hitting people like that. I know your boon allows you to fix things by hitting them, but it’s a bad habit to get into. Especially with the normal rules for the show prohibiting violence. I think Cassandra is relaxing them because of the challenge, but it could be really dangerous to do that after this round.”

“I’ll keep that in mind,” Brooke replied, in an unconcerned tone.

Laura got up and took an annoyed step towards Brooke. “Don’t keep it in mind. Stop it. Do I make myself clear?”

“I hear you, but if you think I’m going to be intimidated by you, think again.” Brooke pulled her hair out of her top. “I’m going to go get some breakfast. Do any of you want to come with?” There were a few nods as Laura continued to scowl. Brooke left with Talia and Sadie following quickly behind her.

Laura was about to follow, as she did need to eat too, but Sam grabbed her arm. “What? Going to tell me off for talking to Brooke like that?” Laura said with a little heat in her voice.

Sam frowned. “No. I was going to thank you for being concerned about my best friend’s well-being, even if she blew off your concerns.”

Laura sighed. “Sorry, I shouldn’t have gotten snippy with you.”

“You’re forgiven. Now, would you tell me why exactly you were so annoyed?”

Laura didn’t immediately respond, as she thought over her answer. Sam slipped her hand into Laura’s and the two started making their way to breakfast, deliberately lagging behind the others. Laura eventually said, “I’m not entirely sure, but it’s the way she’s been handling things. On one hand, she’s been super helpful for a lot of things, but she’ll also go directly to using force if she feels like that will work. Like when Talia dragged me to her and asked for her help, she just slammed our heads together without warning.”

“Did it hurt?” Sam asked.

“Not much. Her boon caused it to be mostly an annoyance.”

Sam said, “I’ll talk with her, but I wouldn’t expect head swats to stop. Especially since she has that boon. Not unless you get Mary involved, which I’m not sure would be for the best.”

“And you’re okay with that?” Laura asked, surprised. “With her just hitting people?”

Sam took a moment to think about her response. “Laura… I get where you’re coming from. I really do, but you realize something like a swat to the back of the head amongst the military really isn’t anything to write home about. Brooke might be a civvy, but she’s steeped in the same culture. As for your concern about Cassandra… I don’t think she’ll do anything if Brooke’s boon works as you said.”

“Seriously?” Laura asked skeptically. “Because everyone was fairly certain that Kitty’s claws would be an issue.” Laura narrowed her eyes in confusion at what she had called Flora.

Sam nodded. “Sure, and I think they would have been if something had happened. Heck, I think mine could still be an issue. The difference is the transformations that gave those to us weren’t boons. We’re supposed to figure out how to deal with these. Boons are supposed to be just that. If she isn’t supposed to hit people using it when that clearly works, I’m fairly certain Cassandra will tell her. I’ll talk to her about it anyway and try to get her to knock it off somewhat. It probably just won’t happen overnight.”

“Good, because I’m not letting her get away with doing that to me anymore,” Laura replied.

“Speaking of issues regarding Brooke, what was with you ordering her last night?” Sam was clearly not thrilled with what had happened initially, but considering Brooke hadn’t mentioned anything about it, either last night or this morning, Sam didn’t push the matter.

“I was upset that she had just barged in while we were talking. I wanted her to leave, and that seemed like a fast way to get that to happen while also giving her something she wanted.”

“She wanted you to order her to go down on Sadie? Sorry, but I find that hard to believe.”

“I mean, she’d probably prefer if you’d have been the one to order her about, but yes. That desire is a part of her now. I know you’re worried about people taking advantage of her like that, but she really does want it now. We’ve been over this; it isn’t a compulsion or a need, but a desire. A really strong desire from the looks of things. We’d almost be doing her a disservice if we refused to order her to do that.”

“I’m not mad; I was just curious, as it seemed a bit out of character for you last night.”

Laura looked at her new girlfriend, confused. “How so?”

“Just… the go fuck yourself, take-charge attitude you had. Don’t get me wrong, you’re plenty confident and forward, but you haven’t really been controlling at all from what I’ve seen before.”

“Is that a good or bad thing?” Laura asked.

“I like you for the woman I’ve gotten to know, Laura. I’ll be honest, you not being controlling is generally a plus, but I have to admit I found what you did sort of hot, which also sort of bothered me because that’s my best friend we’re talking about. My best friend, who I came onto in the past, and was told very clearly by her that she didn’t want me like that.”

“Ah, and now in your mind you’re smacking those thoughts with a mental newspaper, saying ‘Bad Samantha. Bad! Don’t think sexy thoughts about Brooke. Bad!’ or something similar, right?”

Sam chuckled, “Or something, yeah.”

Laura slipped her arms around Sam. “You should definitely talk to her about this more, but if you want my advice, tonight I think you should order her to go down on Mary, and maybe yourself as well.” Sam looked up skeptically at Laura. Laura continued, “That isn’t just my opinion from my observations either. I… you know how you were concerned about my goddesshood possibly affecting her?” Sam nodded. “You weren’t totally wrong. Focusing on her, I can sort of feel her desires. Same with yours, actually. Like how I know you’d prefer if we skipped breakfast and went back to the bedroom for some more quality time.”

Sam laughed, “That’s just being a new horny couple talking, not magic goddess powers.”

“Yes, but is…” Laura leaned over and whispered something into Sam’s ear. “Is that just normal?”

Sam stopped in her tracks as her face and ears went scarlet. “Um… no… no, it is not.”

“So, when I suggest that you order her tonight, I’m telling you I’m getting a similar feeling from her that I feel from you about what you’d really like for the two of us to go do right now.”

“I… I see…” Sam held her cheeks, really hoping Laura would drag her back to bed.

“Also, sorry to disappoint, but that will have to wait for another time. One, I’m hungry, and two, apparently I need to go deal with the temple of chastity this morning. So let’s go join the others.” Laura grabbed Sam by the shoulders, turned her around, and started moving the daydreaming dragon towards food.

Mary’s nose was being gently tickled by two pairs of wolf ears brushing up against it from either side. Allie and Isa had sandwiched Mary between themselves and hadn’t let go all night long. Mary was content to lie in bed all morning if fate allowed her to. She knew that the challenge was important, and it was only right that she get up and help this team, as her other half certainly would be doing the same. She also had a feeling that her other half hadn’t taken a break to recover as she had. Then again, she knew that between the two teams she had definitely contributed more to this one, so on balance she hadn’t been too worried, especially since Brooke’s addition also unbalanced the teams further, and that had been her doing.

Isa started rubbing her cheek against Mary’s, indicating that Isa was definitely awake and wanted attention. (Mary Pretty. Isa and Mary - lying in bed - K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes headpats - then comes walkies - then comes Mary with the tasty teats.) Mary blinked her eyes a few times and realized that maybe Isa wasn’t awake, as her body had never done that before. Mary just watched for a bit longer, and Isa and her body both remained silent.

It wasn’t long, though, before Allie noticed Mary was awake and yawned as she stretched. “Morning, lovelies. Sleep well?”

Mary nodded as she scritched Isa’s wolf ears. “Yeah, how about you, Princess?”

Isa let out a low contented whine. (Isa was sleeping great until you woke me. Let Isa go back to sleep and dream of Mary’s titties.)

“Or you know you don’t have to dream about my titties, as they are right in front of you,” Mary said, slightly confusing Allie.

Isa opened one eye conspiratorially as she stared at Mary’s tits. (Really? Isa was pretty sure Mary wasn’t up for more than cuddles.)

Allie said, “What’s she saying?”

At Allie’s question, Isa sat up and stretched herself, while giving Mary a dirty look. (Don’t you dare tell her! It’s bad enough that you can read my body. I don’t need you giving away its secrets.)

“I think she would prefer I not tell you,” Mary replied. “Then again… considering everything I’ve learned, maybe an upgrade to that transformation is in order so you can hear her body too.”

“NO!” Isa shouted in panic. (Mary, you naughty little minx! Just because Isa would find that really hot does not mean Isa wants that at all!)

Mary said, “It looks like that might take a bit more work before Isa is ready for that.”

Isa glared at Mary, with her tail poofing out behind her. (IF YOU WEREN’T SO ADORABLY CUTE, ISA’D BITE YOU!) The tone of Isa’s body was only partially playful, as Mary heard a low growl coming from the woman. There was a clear indication that Mary was treading towards dangerous waters.

Allie tactfully diffused the situation by asking, “How about we leave that for now? Mary, are you doing better?”

Mary nodded. “Yeah… still not up for much this morning, but teasing Isa here is just so much fun and so easy.”

Isa’s ears went flat against her head as she pouted. (Damnit, why is this so hot?)

Allie came to Isa’s rescue and wrapped Isa in her arms. “Well, Mary, I’m drawing a line here. No more teasing my fiancée. You’ve got your own new fiancée to tease instead.” Allie was clearly joking. “Maybe at least get Isa to accept you as her girlfriend officially before you tease her mercilessly.”

Isa nodded along to Allie’s words. (YEAH! I’m Allie’s!) Then, when Allie got to the part about teasing her, Isa froze. (Wait… What?! Dios mio! This shouldn’t be such a turn-on.)

Allie continued, “Then we can both tease her together.” Allie playfully nipped at Isa’s ears.

Isa pushed Allie away. “Hey, that’s not fair! I’m not your pet.” Isa crossed her arms and pouted as she let out a harrumph. (Even if Isa sometimes wishes Allie and Mary would take her on walkies. Embarrassing walkies where she is naked.) Isa got up before the two could continue her pleasurable torture and went to get dressed. She started putting on her gear, not even thinking about the fact that she was incapacitated for the rest of the day and didn’t need to wear the extremely revealing clothes.

Mary sighed, got up, and got dressed as well. She didn’t hesitate to ask Isa about her choice of clothes, but began playfully. “So… interesting choice there, Isa. I mean… it’s almost like you’d like to be put on display.”

Isa furrowed her brow in confusion. (What is Mary talking about? Isa has to wear this. She definitely wouldn’t wear this otherwise. Nope… definitely not.)

Mary continued, “I mean, why are you wearing your gear? I’m wearing my gear because I’m likely going with Laura and Talia to the Temple of Chastity. You aren’t going anywhere today?” Mary looked over to Allie, who was picking a normal blouse and skirt combo. “See, Allie isn’t putting on her armour. Why are you?”

Isa swore, “Damnit! I totally forgot about that. It isn’t like I want to wear this.” She stomped her foot in annoyance. (Isa might have worn this for Mary if she wasn’t being such a meanie about it.) Isa started getting changed and put on a yellow sundress instead. “I’m going to go get some breakfast and see if they need anything from you.” Isa just strode towards the door and slammed it on the way out.

Mary blinked and panicked as she ran towards the door after Isa. “ISA, WAIT!” Mary opened the door to find Isa waiting and staring at her. “Your panties!” Mary huffed. “Wait… why were you just waiting here?”

Isa leaned over and let out a low growl. “Doesn’t feel good now, does it?” (Isa might like being teased, but you’ve been going overboard. How’s it feel?)

Mary blinked in surprise. “You left without giving me your panties on purpose? Isa, you could have also put Allie in danger! You’re considered one contestant.”

Isa waved her paw mitten covered hand. “No. That rule was removed last night. Though the other two haven’t been yet. You should seriously consider giving back those panties, considering we have to spend BP on new clothes otherwise.”

Mary scowled, and she looked at Allie. “Were you in on this, love?”

“No.” Allie shook her head. “Though I agree with Isa. Both about the panties and the sentiment that maybe you’ve been going a bit too far in embarrassing her. She was bound to crack eventually.”

Mary pouted, “But… my hoard…”

“Did you really make a hoard of our panties?” Allie asked, “You aren’t planning on wearing them yourself, are you?”

Mary tilted her head to the side. “What? No. Not at all. Why would you think that?”

Allie shrugged. “I don’t know. You’re a woman now, so maybe you have a kink about that. Can you really blame me for thinking that is a possibility, considering all the things I know that you’re into?”

Mary frowned. “I guess not…” Mary then turned to Isa. “I’m sorry if I pushed you too far, Isa, seriously, but you had me genuinely worried for your safety just now.”

Isa leaned over slightly and wrapped Mary in a hug. “Sorry, I should have considered the timing better.” (Isa really didn’t mean to be a bad girl.)

Isa said, “We should go meet up with the others, and Mary, I know the urge to keep our panties must be strong, but you really should give them back. Otherwise, this is going to grow into a problem in the future.”

Mary scrunched up her face, which both Isa and Allie found adorably cute. Then, with the look of someone who'd just been told they would have to have several teeth pulled, Mary stomped over to the wardrobe and collected her hoard. She came back with everyone’s panties. Allie and Isa noticed it was more than just their team’s panties. There were way too many for it to be just from their team. Mary rifled through the pile in her arms and hesitantly held out several panties to Allie. Mary’s arm was trembling, and it was clear this took a lot of effort for her to do. Allie took the offered panties and said, “Thank you, love. I know that must have been hard.” Mary nodded and did the same thing for Isa.

Mary let out a sigh. “Let’s just get this over with.”

The three of them headed towards the banquet hall, finding everyone else eating breakfast and waiting for them there. Mary immediately went over to Sam and practically threw herself into her arms. “I need you to take these…” Mary shoved all the panties towards Sam. “I… I gave Allie, and Isa’s theirs, but it was awful.” Sam took the hoard of panties.

Sam put a hand on top of Mary’s head. “I know just how hard this is; even just asking me, I’m certain, is difficult. I’ll take care of it. Thank you.”

Mary grabbed some breakfast, making a real effort not to watch as Sam dismantled her hoard. Laura moved to sit next to Mary and asked, “So, are you okay?”

Mary nodded. “Yeah, I should be.”

“Are you up for coming with Talia and me to the temple of Chastity? You’ll probably get aroused quite a bit from it.”

Mary nodded. “Yeah, I should be okay. Just dealing with some old baggage.”

“If you want to talk about it…” Laura let her statement just hang.

“Not right now, but we can later if you want.”

Laura nodded as she continued munching on cereal.

After everyone had their underwear returned to them, Sadie floated slightly in the air to get everyone’s attention, as standing wouldn’t really have the same effect due to her height, and she said, “Okay, so I wanted to go over the plan for the day. There are currently two trains of thought. The first is we finish the temple of chastity quickly, and then we launch an all-out assault on the enemy lair today.” Before Allie and Isa could raise objections, Sadie said, “Allie, Isa, if we did this, we have a method to get you two and Brooke back into the action. The other option is we power-level today, but I don’t really see that as a great option, considering only Mary and I aren’t nearly max level out of those who aren’t incapacitated.”

Sam replied, “Well, Sadie, I can probably push you up some, plus we probably want to try out my new dragon breath ability. It’s a shame we don’t have a horde to use it on.”

Talia asked, “Why not just go blow up the castle full of cumpires? I mean, let’s be real, that place definitely still has cumpires in it. Cassandra almost certainly filled it, so if we went there searching for the other team, we would have an encounter because of it, but you should wait until we’re done with the temple; that way you can take Mary too. She’s nearly level seventeen and should get something good when she levels up.”

Sam nodded. “Fine with me, but Laura and I are max level, so we should really consider pressing our advantage today.”

Sadie didn’t meet everyone else’s gaze. “We’ll… we’ll see after the chastity dungeon is complete.” Internally, she was worried about the other two rules still being in place, as she really didn’t want them in place when they made their move on the lair. “I’m going to look through the merit store to find items to help us in the final fight. Also, Sam, not to seem like I’m favoring the others. But you have a massive lead over everyone else; I’m going to use the merit to shore up everyone else’s scores.”

Sam just nodded, not minding in the least. “Fine with me, since Mary returned what she borrowed from me already. It would be another story if you were taking my gear away too. Besides, I’ve got some unfinished business to take care of that should more than make up for you not spending merit on me.”

Everyone looked at Sam curiously, as she had an eager grin on her face. Time for that bout with Little Miss-ter.