A New Beginning In A Mana Apocalypse

Eight of Them

I found myself back on the large bed I had been sleeping on breathing heavily trying to catch my breath. With the five of them in the same room things had quickly began to devolve. I insisted we change rooms, Emily did not need to wake up and witness an orgy, before succ.u.mbing to my own desires and the insistence of the bonds.

I was surprised that Rebecca seemed to be a very willing partic.i.p.ant, but I didn"t want to think about it as the girls played with each other as I made my rounds.

While we were immersed in our pleasures Calidia and a black haired woman burst into the room and joined us with a wild hungry look in their eyes. My bonds confirmed they were part of the group though it took me a moment to recognize the dark haired woman as Heather. Obviously she had awoken a body ability, and it suited her. Hidden under her weight was a dazzlingly beautiful woman who fit well with the company of beauties that had already gathered.

"So what the h.e.l.l is going on?" Heather finally asked as we all lay on the now too small bed, satisfied.

Megan volunteered and explained what little we knew. While I reached for Karen to confirm if she had awakened amongst everything else that happened. Thankfully she had and even had a red mana core.

Calidia groaned after the explanation was over.

"Have something you want to share?" Megan asked giving Calidia a sharp look.

"A miscalculation." Calidia told us.

"Was what you told me about bonds wrong?" Megan asked.

"No, that was all true, it wasn"t everything I knew, but we hardly had time to go into the intricacies of the bond, how they were formed and the various was they could manifest." Calidia replied drolly.

Megan sighed, "Fine, but what was your miscalculation?" she asked.

"Daryl." Calidia replied.

"Me?" I asked with a frown.

"You became a gold core right?" she asked me.

I nodded as my hands began to subconsciously rub a pair of b.r.e.a.s.t.s. No idea whose they were as we were all sprawled out on the bed and half on top of each other.

"Daryl!" Heather and Karen screeched as I pinched there nipples.

"Control yourself." Megan told me with a glare despite the fact her own hands had found there way in between the legs of two other girls. Mary and Nala shuddered and growled respectively.

"Please tell me we won"t stay hyped up on l.u.s.t like this." Rebecca said her face flushing as someone began to toy with her.

"We won"t, we just need to complete the group." Calidia told us.

"But how did it happen?" Megan asked.

"I am not completely sure, but my best guess was Daryl went through too many changes yesterday and his body and mind weren"t able to keep up. When he went to sleep his mind and body were finally able to catch up to the changes his mana core and abilities made in him." she explained to the rest of us then hesitated. "The rest is just a guess, because it is incredibly rare for a gold to develop like he did. Usually it takes a lot more time making it easier for him to adjust."

"Alright its a guess, got it, now what is it?" Karen said then moaned, Mary wasn"t even paying attention anymore and had begun to attack Karen b.r.e.a.s.t.s hungrily.

I reached out and pulled the green haired anime girl off Karen. Karen gave me a grateful yet disappointed look. We really needed to get dressed and have this discussion anywhere else besides a bed. We were all far to easily distracted at the moment. My point was proven as Rebecca"s fingers began playing between Calidia"s legs despite the fact that she was supposed to be explaining things to us.

I made the executive decision and climbed off the bed then pulling the girls apart one by one. It took a stronger will than I realized I had as the girls switched their attention to me and we nearly devolved back into a squirming ma.s.s of orgy on the bed. A timely knock on the door and a sweet angelic voice of Emily calling for her mother was enough to sober us all up.

We dressed quickly, Nala and Mary stealing some clothes from the bags Megan had packed. None fit very well as Mary was too thin at the waist and big at the bust, while Nala was better off just being thinner at the waist, depending on who you asked.

We reconvened in the living room which was definitely not big enough, as we ate from the stock I had stored and continued the discussion.

"My best guess is he had a lot of pent up emotions that went wild during his transformation, combined with being in a dream state where all of his desires aren"t inhibited from manifesting, like say having a bevy of beautiful women at his beck and call, which resulted in this harem we find ourselves in." Calidia told us.

"So it is his fault." Megan grumbled glaring at me.

I had no idea how to respond. Like any healthy male I had dreams of being pleasured by and pleasuring multiple women, my choice of reading didn"t help to defer that little dream, but reality was never as clean cut. Women were just as jealous and possessive as men were. Sharing and playing around from time to time was fine, but a functioning harem that got along with each other, without in fighting was not something that the american culture could handle, not in the long term anyways. Monogamy was too deeply rooted in our culture. Someone would get the short end of the stick eventually, get jealous of the others, then everything would start to unravel. It had been a fantasy but not one I had ever thought to create.

"So who are the other three?" Karen asked before we could get into the blame game.

"Others?" Rebecca asked.

"Daryl said he had ten of these special bonds." Karen replied. "There are only seven of us here."

"Is one Momma?" Megan asked me.

I stared at her in surprise.

"What? This all started from your subconscious desires and she isn"t blood related to you." Megan defended her question.

I didn"t like the thought, I had never thought I had such thoughts about Momma, she was more of a mother to me than my actual mother. Yet she had a point. I wasn"t even sure of my own subconscious desires. I closed my eyes to "feel" where each of my last three bonds were. After a moment I glanced at my phone to orient myself. "Shouldn"t be." I told them feeling a bit relieved. "I am not great with distances, but one isn"t too far away, while the other two are to the west." I replied.

Megan sighed obviously relieved.

Karen giggled then leaned over and molested Rebecca who was sitting near her. "No worries Meg, he already has a motherly type right here." she told her.

"Not in front of Emily," Rebecca hissed but didn"t try and stop her.

"So now what?" Heather asked as she sat beside Bryan"s car seat while feeding him a bottle of formula.

Looking at Heather for a moment she began to blush. "We need to hit the store. We need more supplies and clothes." I told them. "Then we need to find the other three." I started then looked at Calidia. "And I need to figure out how to make a haven."

Calidia nodded. "That would be good. Why the supplies though, don"t you have enough already?" she asked.

I shook my head. "We need formula for Bryan, clothes and toys for Emily, more real food, not just snacks, and Nala, Mary, Calidia, and Heather need clothes that fit them." I replied. It felt kind of like déjà vu, didn"t we have this conversation yesterday?

A loud knocking interrupted us. Karen got up to open the door revealing Michael and Courtney. Michael didn"t seem to happy at the moment while Courtney looked happy and triumphant. Behind the pair was Marshal who looked sheepish standing next to a pretty Latina in a police uniform.

Looking at the hot police officer I felt something stir in my chest but seeing how close she was sticking to Marshal it disappeared quickly. I wondered for a moment if I was about to create another bond but stopped when it was apparent she was taken? Does that mean I was going to form more bonds. The accident when I was pa.s.sed out could be forgiven, but making more would get me lynched. I closed my eyes and put out a strong thought that I could not form more bonds.

My inner s.p.a.ce seemed different in some way. There were changes to my abilities again, but I didn"t have the time to figure out what they were. A second circle of abilities was floating above the first. In the center of that was a golden ring. When I thought about not making anymore bonds the golden ring flashed then turned silver. I couldn"t be positive but I thought that whatever it was that was creating the bonds had turned off. A quick count and I thought I was right as there were ten new "abilities" around that ring. One for each of my bonds.

Relieved that I had stopped a potential nightmare I opened my eyes to see what the pair of couples wanted.

The four of them came into the already overstuffed apartment but before anyone could say anything my phone began to ring. I glanced at it on the table where I had sat it down after trying to determine if Momma was one of my bonds.

It was an unfamiliar number so I silenced it without answering it then set it back on the table.

"h.e.l.lo!" a voice came out of my phone.

Everyone turned to look at my phone, Jessica had appeared on my phone through a video call. "Daryl?" she called out.

I groaned. "Eight." I said aloud. While she wasn"t physically in sight, looking at her image I was able to confirm that one of my bonds was linked to her. It surprised me, I had been attracted to her earlier and impressed by her shadow fire, but I had already nearly forgotten about her. "Here." I said picking up the phone so she could see me through the camera. "Did you hack my phone?" I asked.

"Nope, just an override it, I have some people who want to talk to you no matter what." Jessica told me.

"Who?" I asked.

"Brigadier General Forel, the officer in charge of the army handling the beings and beasts here in Phoenix." Jessica told me. "He"s also my father." she added.

I did not want to get involved with the military. Not in the least.

"You will talk to him." Jessica told me sternly, "It"s the least you can do after what you put me though this morning, and you need to explain how you pulled that off." she gave me a glare through the phone which made my other ladies except Mary and Nala laugh. As they weren"t human there senses of humor seemed a bit different.

"Fine." A told her. "But we need to hit a store on the way. We have some new additions who awakened and need new clothes." I told her.

"That is fine, we have a few cars near you to escort you to us. I will let them know about your needs." a male voice said from off screen. "Though it would be best if you came here directly while your companions go shopping on their own."

I thought about it for a moment. "What do you need my help with?" I asked.

"The zoo." Jessica told me.

I groaned. "I will need Nala for that but she needs clothes." I grumbled.

"Megan can buy them for me." Nala spoke up.

I sighed then looked to Megan. "I need Nala at the least, but Calidia would be a good idea too." I told her.

Megan blinked then smiled at me warmly. "Take Mary too, I have their sizes, should I go with a pokemon theme?" she asked teasingly.

"Hey, that"s all I had that fit!" Jessica objected over the phone.

"You or I should stay with him." Karen told Megan.

Megan looked at Karen then nodded. "Fine you go too." Megan agreed after a moment.

"Great see you soon." Jessica said through the phone a serious look on her face as she glared at me then ended the call.