The First Challenge Part 3: Beach Volleyball.

Delilah had placed the net, so it was right in front of Zach’s throne, which resumed its usual shape, and the parasol was replaced with a full cabana, including a bar which Pita manned, for him to watch the game from.

Delilah turned to the assembled women, “So, the game is beach volleyball. It will be a 3v3. And yes, for those of you who are idiots, that means everyone on your team gets three points when you win. Now, so no one complains about teams, they will be randomized, and you will be playing three games with different teams each time. That way, no one can complain that they just got unlucky and had horrible teammates every time. The games will be first to five points.”

Heather looked over at Zachary and was practically bouncing in place from her excess energy. She also felt grateful, as she realized his command to her would definitely help her in this part.

Pita brought out the box with numbers again to determine teams. After everyone had picked a ball, the first set of teams wound up being: Xin, Heather, and Caroline versus Melinda, Lynn, and Piper. By coin toss, it was determined Caroline’s team would serve first. As the players got into position, Pita joyfully asked, “Master Blackstone, can I get you anything to drink?”

“No, thank you, Pita.”

Pita nodded as she simply handed a prepared mojito to Delilah. Delilah whispered, “I hope you don’t think you snuck that boon you gave Heather for this competition past me.”

“Are you going to do anything about it?”

Delilah shook her head. “Why should I? I’m certain Lynn will be just ecstatic to learn you gave Heather a command to help her in the challenge and not her. Besides, if you want to tilt challenges in someone’s favor, that’s your call as the Master.” Delilah grinned. “Just like you could order them to let Heather and Caroline win their games of volleyball”

Zach narrowed his eyes at Delilah. “You’re messing with me.”

Delilah smiled and let out a quiet laugh. “Oh no.” She leaned in and whispered. “I’m telling you this, so when I eliminate Heather in a little bit, you know it was completely within your power to stop it, and you chose to let it happen.”

Zach’s jaw clenched in anger as he glared at the demoness.

Delilah just shrugged. “You must decide what sort of man you’re going to be.” Delilah raised her voice. “Let’s get this moving, shall we?”

On either side of the net, the women took their positions. Heather was serving first, with Caroline and Xin up front close to the net. The other team decided to only have Melinda up front, with Lynn and Piper taking positions in back. That ended up being a mistake, as Heather tossed the ball up and jumped to serve overhand and beamed Melinda in the face with the ball.

Heather covered her mouth while exclaiming, “Oh shit!” The ball lay on the sand, and Melinda had gone down to one knee. “I’m so sorry, I really didn’t mean—”

Melinda said, “Save it. I don’t care.” She was going through a checklist of things to make sure she didn’t have a concussion, at least a severe one. Once she felt okay, she stood back up while grabbing the ball, and tossed it back to Heather. “Your serve still.”

Heather looked apologetic as she really hadn’t meant to hit Melinda like that, even if she had intended to go hard and score a point on the serve. Her guilt only went so far and didn’t stop her from repeating the serve; this time Melinda was ready and set the ball, and Piper managed to get it back over the net. Only for Xin to barely hit it with her fingers, sending it back as it bounced off the top of the net and onto the other team’s side. Bringing the game to 2-0.

The first match continued, and Lynn rotated to the front to help Melinda prevent a repeat of what just happened. Unfortunately for Lynn, Piper, and Melinda, every time they adjusted their positioning, Heather would serve the ball to target the opening. Melinda was getting frustrated after the score had gone to 3-0, as her body wasn’t moving how she was used to it moving because of her new curves. Piper was annoyed that her earlier plan wasn’t really much use right now.

Piper hadn’t just been giving a play-by-play of things during the swimsuit contest for kicks. She felt guilty about what she did, but she figured her mom would wind up sabotaging herself out of sheer stubbornness. She took matters into her own hands and made sure to be as graphic as possible in the hopes of riling Xin up so she would be horny for the next segment. It had worked extremely well. On the fourth serve, Xin dove to save the ball and let out a moan of pleasure as her breasts got squished beneath her body. The ball went back over the net; Melinda was able to set the ball for Piper, and with Xin still down, she aimed there. However, Heather was swift enough to cover for her downed teammate and returned the ball, scoring their fourth point.

On the fifth serve, Heather simply shut out the other team completely for the first game.

Lynn grumbled, “Right, like this was ever going to be a fair competition with Heather playing. How are we supposed to compete with a former college varsity volleyball player?”

Melinda and Piper both heard what Lynn said. Melinda asked, “Wait, Heather, you played volleyball in college?” She also made sure to be loud enough so everyone could hear her. Heather awkwardly looked away. Melinda joined Lynn in the grumbling, “So we have a ringer playing with us. How is this going to be even remotely fair?”

Delilah just looked on, bored, and sipped her mojito.

Caroline hadn’t been the only one to get a clue to the upcoming challenge, even if Zachary didn’t realize it at the time. Zachary had seen Caroline on the monitors examining the statues intently, and while he couldn’t read the statues, they each clearly showcased something as well. When he saw Caroline’s expression right after the numbers were drawn, he figured she knew something the others didn’t, and when Delilah essentially confirmed that a moment later, his mind went back to the statues. One of a flat chested woman in a bathing suit in a sexy pose and the one next to that one was a bikini wearing woman serving a volleyball.

His decision to give Heather the stamina boost and dull her aches and pains wasn’t a coincidence; rather, he knew she’d be able to play like she was back in her prime if he did that. Age had slowed her down considerably. This match would likely have been favored towards Heather’s team without his intervention, but because of it, it would likely continue to be a slaughter.

Delilah said, “New teams are: Heather, Lynn, Caroline, versus the rest of you bitches.”

Lynn traded spots with Xin, and they set up for the next game. Piper’s team won the coin toss for first serve. None of them felt confident serving, but Melinda volunteered to do it. She served it and did her best to send it away from Heather and towards Caroline, figuring she would have a similar issue moving around as she did. Melinda was correct. Caroline struggled to move with her big, bouncing bosom, but she did manage to set the ball, even if poorly. Lynn considered just letting the ball drop to spite Heather, but she hit the ball, positioning it perfectly for her instead. Heather spiked the ball, once again hitting someone directly in the face, as Xin went down.

Delilah called out from the sidelines with laughter, “One might think you’re doing that on purpose if you keep it up.”

Xin stood woozily. Melinda went over and performed several checks on Xin, but was stopped when Delilah once again called out from the sidelines, “Quit your worrying. She’s fine. Random injuries aren’t sexy; neither are concussions. She’s just horny and a tiny bit dumb right now.”

Melinda did not stop worrying as she finished checking on Xin.

The teams honestly expected this game to go like the previous one, now that Heather got the ball back. Except Piper was more coordinated, even if she wasn’t as athletic as Lynn. This was mostly due to her choice of swimsuit squishing her breasts against her chest. She and Xin were able to set the ball for Melinda to send back over. Melinda had also gotten used to her new body some more. All that, combined with Melinda solely sending that ball in Caroline’s direction, and the teams being forced to rotate servers, brought the game to match point with Melinda serving. Once again, she sent it towards Caroline, who managed to get the ball back in the air for Heather. It wasn’t a great set, however, resulting in a pretty easy return for the others, which Melinda spiked, earning them the victory.

Delilah had Caroline and Piper swap teams, causing the nurse to gripe, “Of course I never get the ringer on my team.”

Heather’s team won the coin toss, and to no one’s surprise, Heather served first. Immediately scoring a point. Then another… and another.

On one hand, Piper felt she should be happy; her team was winning. On the other hand, that meant her mom’s team was losing. Of course there wasn’t anything she could do about it if they couldn’t even return the serve. On the fourth serve, Xin finally managed to get to the ball, and Melinda sent it back across the net. That was when Piper made a decision, and she went for the ball despite it being a bit outside her zone. She did her best to make it look accidental, but she deliberately collided with Heather. Causing the ball to hit the ground.

Heather sighed as she stood. She was annoyed but didn’t think anything malicious about the mistake. “Hey, Piper, just leave the back to me. Stay up front, and we’ve got this.”

Piper did not stay up front, and they did not have it. After the score tied up, it was apparent to everyone that Piper was deliberately throwing the match.

Heather complained, “Seriously, Delilah, she’s practically on the other team right now.”

Delilah shrugged, “Not my problem.”

Heather walked over to Piper and quietly snarled at her, “Seriously, what the fuck! I’m currently tied for last with Lynn; I need this!”

Piper defiantly looked Heather back in the eyes and whispered back, “Yeah? And? If we win, then the scores will be such that we’re all within a few points of each other.”

Lynn stomped over, and despite Piper’s attempt at whispering, she had heard her. “Fucking hell, seriously, Piper? Are you a moron? Yeah, I guess you’re right that your mom would be safe if we lose, but Heather is then in real danger. The only way she survives is if she beats someone in the audience vote, and if it is anyone besides me, she has to win by several places. If we win, on the other hand, all Heather and Caroline need to do is not take last place. Even then, if your mom takes last place, she’d tie with Xin, and that’s only if Xin took first.”

Piper said, “Yeah, and Delilah has already made it clear that ties are unfriendly. I’m sure she’d take away fifteen points from both of them if that happens. I’m not risking it.”

Delilah was getting annoyed. “Less talk and more playing. If you don’t serve in the next thirty seconds, I’m taking 5 VP away from everyone.”

That shut the conversation down. Melinda waited only ten seconds for the three of them to get into position before she served the ball towards Piper. While taking their positions, Lynn and Heather gave each other a nod; they were in agreement that Piper was a problem. The ball came towards Piper, who at this point was giving up all pretense of actually trying and was going to spike the ball out of bounds. Lynn rushed towards her and shoulder-checked her off the court and down into the sand, to allow Heather unrestricted access to the ball. Heather managed to return the ball. She was concerned they were screwed, though, as three vs one was likely going to be too much for her. This was when Caroline did something unexpected and mimicked Lynn, albeit a bit gentler, as she grabbed Melinda by the waist and pulled her to the side. Causing the ball to land on the ground.

Melinda groaned, “SERIOUSLY!”

Caroline said, “Sorry, sweetcheeks, I just needed to get me some of this fine ass.” Caroline pinched Melinda’s butt as she said that.

Melinda was about to complain about Caroline touching her and pinching her butt, but found she couldn’t. OH FOR FUCK’S SAKE! She realized her earlier complaint had gotten through because it hadn’t been about Caroline grabbing her but because she thought Caroline was throwing the game.

Caroline didn’t let go of her for several seconds then she blushed. She didn’t apologize this time as she knew Melinda was getting tired of it. Xin had picked up the ball and gently tossed it over the net to the other team. Melinda was concerned as she saw Xin was panting heavily, almost like she was in heat. Melinda asked, “Are you okay?”

Xin shook her head. “Like, not really.”

Melinda thought about whether there was anything she could do for her. “I have an idea to help if you’re willing.”

Xin nodded. “Totally, if you think it would like help.”

Melinda gestured for Xin to come to the side of the volleyball court and shouted at Zach, “Hey Zach, look over here!” Then she pulled Xin’s swimsuit down from behind to flash him.

Xin shrieked in surprise as she tried to cover herself. She tried and failed to get her swimsuit back up as Melinda was holding it down. Melinda said, “Honestly, you should consider taking this off if you want to win.”

Xin vehemently shook her head. “Like, no way. Let go of me!”

Melinda complied, and Xin pulled her swimsuit up. Xin was about to turn and berate Melinda, but as she faced the woman, she realized that it had actually helped a bit to show Zachary her boobs. “We’re totally going to talk about this later.” Was all she said instead.

Everyone had taken their positions. It was Lynn’s turn to serve, and she realized that unless the game ended on this point, the other team would likely win. Lynn tried to mimic Heather’s serve and overhand the ball, but it wound up hitting the top of the net and barely going over, allowing Melinda to set it and Xin to come forward and send it over the net. Piper full-on tackled Heather, but not before Heather managed to knock the ball up into the air. Allowing Lynn to try and pass it back again, but Melinda moved to block the return, and the ball sat on the ground on Lynn’s side of the net a moment later.

The last serve of the game was by Melinda. Seeing that Piper was practically on their team, instead of serving to her, which might allow Lynn to tackle her and Heather to return the ball. She served to Heather. It worked as expected. Lynn had rushed towards Piper the moment the ball was in the air, but Piper saw where it was headed and moved towards Heather. The three wound up in a tangled mess on the sand.

Delilah stood and gave a golf clap at the antics. She said, “Everyone, come here.” No one was willing to disobey the demoness. Even though both Heather and Lynn were glaring at Piper in outrage. Caroline was avoiding looking at Heather guiltily. Normally, she would have reproached her daughter, but given the circumstances, she just couldn’t bring herself to.

Delilah waved the scepter again, and a television appeared hanging from the ceiling of the cabana. It displayed the current challenge scores.

• Caroline: 11
• Melinda: 8
• Xin: 6
• Piper: 5
• Heather: 4
• Lynn: 4

Delilah said, “What an interesting performance.” Delilah moved over to Piper and stroked her cheek. “Ah, what a touching sacrifice, but will it be enough?”

Piper was confused about what Delilah meant. There shouldn’t be any way for Mom to take last place. At worst, she should tie with me for fourth.

Delilah explained, “See, I figured there might be some of you trying to game a result. Which is fine, but I want a bit of suspense, so I kept a final twist in store. The audience will be voting on the best swimsuit contest, which will have two segments: one for best in show, where the audience is asked to vote based on who they think had the best swimsuit, and one for best performance, which is who did the best to seduce their Master. In addition, I’m going to award additional points to whoever is deemed to have asked the best questions in the first segment, and the Most Impactful Player in each round of the volleyball. To my loyal, wicked viewers, I look forward to your choices. Will Heather survive? Is Caroline truly safe? Find out next time on Harem Hotel: VENGEANCE BITCHES!”

As Delilah finished explaining the voting, the color drained from Piper’s face as she started becoming anxious that her plan might wind up backfiring on her.

Polls are open!
Best Question Giver (Part 1): https://strawpoll.com/40Zm4rGJkga
Best in Show Swimsuit Contest (Part 2): https://strawpoll.com/YVyPvMNL7gN
Best in Performance Swimsuit Contest (Part 2): https://strawpoll.com/jVyG25eAKZ7
Most Impactful Player Game 1 Beach Volleyball (Part 3): https://strawpoll.com/Q0Zp7EGawgM
Most Impactful Player Game 2 Beach Volleyball (Part 3): https://strawpoll.com/1Mnwk73pdn7
Most Impactful Player Game 3 Beach Volleyball (Part 3): https://strawpoll.com/Dwyo3OdzxyA

Author's note: For transparency, Best Question Giver, and all three Most Impactful Player polls will give only whoever gets the most votes 1 challenge point per poll. Best in show and performance will be scored just like the other two segments.

The Q&A will also be published at the transformation polls go live but before the transformation results occur.
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