Finding Sanctuary

Chapter 6

As he stood there looking at his new body in the mirror, Jason felt the telltale blaze of Aayla\'s power approach. He was facing her as she appeared in the doorway. She gave his new body a long look from head to toe.
She spoke first:
\"Looking good. Maybe you\'re willing to spar with me now?\"
\"Oh, most definitely. Lead the way and I shall eagerly follow.\" He followed her through the house.
As they neared the Salle D\'Armes she said, \"Let us make a bet on the outcome. If I win I get to have my way with you and you won\'t win so there is no need to discuss what you\'ll get.\"
He chuckled, \"I\'ve heard you consider a duel with lethal weapons to be foreplay.\"
She chuckled in return, \"I\'m sure you\'ve heard a lot about me from Myra but I ask that you keep an open mind and decide for yourself and I\'ll do the same.\"
\"Its a deal.\"
Inside the Salle she showed him the Sabr\'ets and how they worked.
\"Well these are swell and all but let\'s make this bet really interesting.\" Jason said. \"Are you game for a few surprises?\"
She asked what sort of surprises and was immediately surrounded by a mental illusion that filled the room with the sights, sounds and smells of an alien jungle. Jason\'s voice came from all around her.
\"I think this will make the fight more even. You are obviously much better at these weapons than I since only a Supremis may use one and you are still much stronger regardless of how I\'ve been enhanced. But before you can defeat me first you have to find me.\"
\"If you need this then by all means bring it on. I can still defeat you.\" She was not worried. She had never lost a duel to anyone but family. His energy sword struck the seat of her pants setting the denim she was wearing on fire but leaving her unharmed..
\"On the other hand. I can see you just fine but my sword seems to do you no damage at all.\"
The voice from all around her paused and she quickly scanned in all directions with her tachyon vision but since the illusion was mental not physical her enhanced vision showed her only what her normal vision did.
\"This is a real jungle on the planet Yoth. The locals call it the deathlands but the young men and women still venture into it and spend a full day from sunrise to sunrise in it to prove themselves worthy. Even the plants bite on this world and rain forests are incredibly deadly. I\'ve been to this world and spent a day in this jungle to gain a trade treaty with the people the Elders seeded here. What we buy from them helps us live for several centuries.\"
A lightning bolt came from what seemed to be a clump of vines. It stung but she was not injured.
\"I have many years of combat experience. Can you say the same?\"
When the next larger bolt came in she noticed the illusion became static just before it came. Armed with this knowledge she managed to dodge the one after.
\"It seems we are again even. You illusion grows still as you concentrate on your spell.\" She turned on her energy sword and flew a quick circle around the room by memory but hit nothing.
\"Thank you for advice. I will correct it in the future,\" Jason replied, his voice sourceless and seeming omnipresent.
She reached out with her mind to try to find him but he was no longer comatose and his active defenses defeated her seeking. This search however gave her an idea. If the illusion was purely mental perhaps she could shake it off.
She decided she would try to distract him and, remembering her duel with Ben, decided she felt she had the perfect way to do it. She reversed the weapon and slid the handle into herself. The buzzing warmth of the generator felt good and she took care to show the surely watching Jason how good it felt.
\"Mmmmm!\" she cried out in wordless pleasure.
\"Nice try but I don\'t get distracted that easily.\"
He threw a lightning bolt directly at where the energy blade emerged from the handle. The energy sword exploded knocking her off her feet and engulfing her in flames. The flames died down and her body absorbed the heat and converted it to orgone.
The only lasting effects were that she was now weaponless, her clothes were completely gone, and somewhat to Jason\'s surprise she was better endowed.
\"So its true that Supremis store energy in their breasts huh? Well lets see if there is a limit.\"
He had felt a little odd casting the first spell, as if the energy had wanted to go elsewhere and greater than normal concentration had been required to make sure everything worked properly. He decided it must be the retrovirus. He was still Diaboli but he was partly Supremis now and his new body reacted differently to the energies he used. He hoped it was temporary only but feared it was not.
He carefully kept the hallucinatory terrain moving and cast one combat spell after another at her. He cast fireballs and lightning bolts and laser bursts and even one spell that spewed molten iron across her chest in an attempt to overload her energy storage.
Aayla was nowhere near overload capacity. The brief respites between one spell and another made the attacks more pleasurable than dangerous. He had to know that this was why Diaboli always attacked in numbers to give their target no respite to convert the energy and no chance to use to use it. She could have escaped if this had been combat by flying away but she wanted to defeat him not escape him.
She looked down at the iron that still clung to her breasts. It was cold now but her breasts were sore and uncomfortably swollen. As she looked down his energy sword came down on her back.
It was a hard, two-handed blow. It might have killed an ordinary Velorian and even a mighty Protector might have gone to her knees at the blow but Aayla was more than a protector and far from ordinary. Her knees bent but then straightened and she leaned back into the pain and the buzz of the sword grew dangerously loud as the Sabr\'et tried to puncture her invulnerable skin. Something had to give and it was the energy sword. It exploded sending her and Jason in opposite directions and dispelling his illusion completely.
Jason shook his head. Well, that hadn\'t worked. He should have known better than to attack directly; but the battle and the feel of the sword in his hand seemed to awaken some primal instinct in him to do battle up close and personal.
Wait...
Primal instinct indeed.
He would need time to get used to this body; but first he must stand back up and finish this duel. He stood and saw Aayla stand opposite him. Good lord! Her breasts glowed with the energy they absorbed and were larger than he\'d ever seen!
She glared at him and it was suddenly way too hot. He hurriedly went invisible and got out of the path of the beam. He made an illusion of his voice come from the wall behind her, \"Well that sure hurt didn\'t it? I think I\'m glad we are both unarmed now. I don\'t suppose you want to surrender? Or at least hear what I want if I win?\"
Aayla looked around desperately trying to spot him before he attacked again. She was at her limit for energy storage. Any other Velorian, even a virago would have have gone into Ples\'tathy already but not her. She was proud of her ability to store so much energy but her breasts had expanded until they stood out more than seven inches from her chest and even she had no more room than that. If she could not find him soon she\'d lose and who knew what he\'d do to her once she was helpless.
A part of her urged her to goad him into pushing her over the line into Ples\'tathy. That part wanted him underneath her as she burned off all that stored energy in one long orgone fueled marathon. But she quelled that part of her knowing that while a Prime would not have much trouble with making love to her he would not survive her if she entered Ples\'tathy.
It occurred to her that he did not know about Ples\'tathy or the danger he was in from that state of supercharged strength and sexual desire, so she called out to him hoping to end their game, \"Ok Jason, what do you want if you win? I\'m assuming its not my body. Or is it? Maybe what you want is what I wanted? To have me and ravish me as you please?\"
\"Not what I had in mind but maybe after what I have in mind. I was thinking that since you thumbed through my thoughts as I slept you might let me look through yours. That\'s what I want if I win, a chance to look into your mind and peek through your thoughts. I probably will never get another chance and I\'m very curious about your stint as a goddess on Rostran. I\'ve never met anyone who was worshipped before I came here. It must...\"
\"No!\" She couldn\'t let him see those memories! Her pride was still stinging from her mother sending her little sister to go clean up the mess she had made and she certainly did not want anyone to see her own doubts about what had started with the best of intentions. \"I\'ll never let you into my mind. Ever!\"
\"Well your active defenses might keep me out but if I manage to overload you and knock you unconscious then who knows?\"
He was not planning to do that. It would be taking unfair advantage and he would not do that to any of Ann\'s daughters. Even his least favorite so far. However maybe the thought would make her surrender. It was a bluff and he believed you should always raise when you bluff.
\"I think one more fireball ought to do it.\"
He concentrated past that strange dragging feeling and as he did so she finally looked alarmed.
\"No,\" she cried, \"Wait!\" He cast the fireball and it landed right on her glowing chest.
The fireball pushed her over the edge into Ples\'tathy. If he had had any experience on a combat team that had one of the rare overt clashes with a Supremis he would know that his danger only increased at that point and would have at least attempted to leave but he lacked that specific experience so he was shocked to see her fall to ground in what seemed almost like some sort of seizure until he recognized from her moaning that she was experiencing extremely strong and rapid orgasms.
Her body needed to burn off the energy she had absorbed and the Galen who had created both the Velorians and the Kryp\'terrans had made sure that unless required immediately for attack or defense it would induce the condition known as Ples\'tathy in the Velorian tongue.
It caused involuntary changes in her system that drastically increased her already incredible strength and increased the amount of pheromones she released as well as sending her sex drive far into overdrive. Covering her naked body with sweat and driving her to stroke herself to orgasm over and over again as she panted and looked around for someone to slake her burning thirst.