I woke up long before Lexi and sealed her in the room with a note saying that I would be back. I had been being a lazy bitch, and I still had Karma's System with me, so I was going to find Martha and get her to do some training with me before we left for the next layer. I left Lexi sleeping, then headed out to the cave.
Once I left the inn, I found Martha waiting for me with a smile on her face.
"Where is Lexi?" She asked, but I shook my head.
"She is still sleeping. I was hoping that you would help me get some training in, and we should work on some coordination. Since there will be the three of us, we are really going to have to be on guard and ready to go all out. I am sure that Bellazibub will be there waiting for me with her cronies. She is going to want to make an example of me and will actually bring scary Demons to the arena," I explained, and Martha nodded.
"Of course! As long as you do something for me," Martha said, but I shook my head.
"Don't ask for sex. You either train or become cannon fodder. You can just be reborn as a little wurm again if you want, or you can get back into your Hellion form and fight me without destroying the town," I said, and Martha's face fell.
"Alright, I will train with you," she said, and I smiled.
"Good. Let's start by doing some basic exercises to strengthen our bodies for what is ahead of us," I said, but she gave me a look to ask if I was stupid.
"I am a wurm. I am as good as-heee!" Martha screamed as I cut her off and kicked her across the cavern, but before she hit the wall, her body exploded with growth.
"Good, now start digging walls, and try to get me while I run!" I called as I started to cast some spells to make my body much heavier, but then I used more magic to increase my speed. Of course, this would be the time that the Primal Magic decided to start pissing when I hit the speed spell, and I was heavier than anything.
I started to run the course and pushed myself to go harder while also being wary of the tremors in the ground. They started to come right at me, but they veered away at five feet below me, and Martha started to head away from me, but she suddenly sped up. A second later, I was thrown into the air as Martha's tail snapped up from under me.
Twirling through the air with the rocks, I righted myself, kicked off a few rocks, and then landed running, just barely avoiding Martha, who came crashing up from the ground right beside me.
"You will have to be faster than that if you want to catch me," I said as I bolted off. "Try again!"
I kept running for a few hours until my lungs were burning, and Martha was exhausted. But we did it, and soon enough, I was able to dodge her attacks time and time again without any difficulty.
"You have gotten better," Martha said when we stopped for a break, and I smiled.
"I'm not bad at this," I said with a smirk, and Martha just laughed.
"Neither am I," she said as she tried to catch her breath, and then we started to head back towards the inn.
We didn't say much on the way back, just happy to be alive and training again. No matter what happened next, Lexi and I had someone that could help us fight if things got dangerous. With Martha in our corner, I felt like nothing could stop us, except for two or three ancient Demons, but Bellazibub would never get that many to work together.
Now, I just had to go get Lexi while also making some changes to the town and fixing all the holes that Martha had made. Hopefully, Lexi was feeling a bit better about Martha, but we were in the Underworld, and this is where Demons lived. Lexi was going to have to get over her newly developed realization that Demons are actually horrible people that loved things that normal people would find revolting, but Demons also hated happy-go-lucky fun, so there was that.
Once we were back at the inn, I turned to Martha. "Can you wait out here for a minute? I have to change some things inside, then I will be back out with Lexi," I said, and Martha frowned at me.
"Why can't I come in?" Martha asked, and I smirked.
"Because you are a scary Demon, and you give Lexi the creeps," I said, and Martha's eyes lit up.
"Really, did she say that?!" She asked excitedly, and I nodded.
"Mostly," I said, and Martha danced off as I went inside.
Lexi was waiting on the other side of the door, giving me a confused look. "Why did you say those things to her?!"
"Because it was what she wanted to hear. Just show some spine, and discipline her if she tries anything with you. I can do it, but it will be more effective if you do it," I explained as I started to pull in Primal Magic.
"You want me to discipline her? Do you mean to hurt her? Won't she like that?" Lexi asked, but I shook my head as I started to change things in the inn. I changed the bed for sparsely spaced nail beds and switched the bath water for acid. Of course, the Primal Magic flooded me, and then bed only got 5 nails and magic to pull anyone on to then that got close, and the acid would mostly likely not leave anything left of anyone that got in it.
"After she pulls off one of your scales, it will be a lot easier to do. Living with Demons is a learning experience, one that you either learn or wish you had. I will watch her the best I can, but you are the one that got all friendly with her and didn't listen to us. You have to lie in the bed you make," I said with a grin, and Lexi let out a long sigh as I gestured for the door. "Shall we? There is a bloodthirsty Demon wurm girl waiting for us!"
The trip to the next layer was like a car ride from hell... no, it was a car ride in Underworld. I really shouldn't have expected any less.
"Can I just take one of them?!" Martha asked as she narrowly dodged a bolt of lightning.
"Stay away from me!" Lexi screamed, nearly blowing out my ear drum as she summoned a large ball of fire and hurled it at Martha.
She caught the burning ball and then made her mouth open huge, stretching out her face horribly, making Lexi put her hand to her mouth as she gagged from watching the disgusting sight. Martha swallowed the three-foot-wide fireball whole, and it stretched her stomach out.
We all stopped, and I looked at Martha, who had a strange look on her face like she was concentrating on something; then, her stomach shrunk fast as a surprised look came over her face. Then she let out a fart that spits fire out her ass and roared across the cavern back towards the town. The problem was that instead of shit, she fired out rock shrapnel.
All I could do was watch in horror as the village that I had just fixed was torn apart by thumbnail-sized bits of rock fired out of Martha's ass at subsonic speeds.
"Martha! What the hell?" I yelled, and Martha just looked at me sheepishly.
"I really needed that! I had some serious blockages! And look how much better the town looks now?!" She said, using both arms to gesture at what could only be described as a war-torn landscape or the epicenter of an apocalypse.
"Martha, you can fucking control your ass fire," I said, and Martha just looked at me innocently.
"I just eated the fireball." She said, and I just shook my head.
"No more fireball eating," I said as I crossed my arms, and Martha just nodded in agreement while a look of horror seemed permanently etched on her face after what she had just witnessed.
I wanted to feel sorry for her, but feeding fire to someone that had insides like a volcano was not a good idea, but it seemed she had learned her lesson. Martha tried to bother Lexi again, but I hit her with a bolt of lightning so hard that she farted again, but this time her ass was pointed down, so it sent her flying off like a rocket.
Once we got to the next layer, we were all exhausted, but at least Martha had learned her lesson. No matter how much she wanted something, it was never worth destroying an entire town with her ass.
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