Chapter 384: Obsession
Laz left the field with Nora in tow and a lot more questions than answers. It wasn’t something he was overly concerned with, seeing as how whatever was down there had been down there for a long time. It wasn’t like it would wake up just because he had shown up or something. Therefore, Laz’s brain told him the best thing to do would be to keep an eye on things and take it one day at a time.
Following his own advice led him to leading more fights amongst the girls using their own power. As an insurance policy though, Laz would make sure that Wilma, Gretchen, Celes and sometimes Nora were present during these times. It’s important to note that while the strength of Gretchen and Wilma wasn’t as strong as it could be since they were no longer young and their blood had been aged just like their bodies, they also had years of experience to lean on and that was something that couldn’t be taught. Due to that, they made the perfect enforcers even when an all out brawl was going on.
Laz also kept his word to Celes, teaching her things she would have never come up with on her own. Her abilities were perfect for manipulation, stealth and assassination. She could hide in shadows or even in plain sight. She even had the ability to travel within shadows, make her approach that much more silent and deadly.
After one such training session when Celes had tried to hid within shadows and get the jump on Laz, she asked him a question.
"You can’t do this yourself right? So how do you know so much about my abilities?"
"Well... would you believe me if I said I just kind of make it up?"
"Really?"
"Kinda yeah. I mean, I’ve read some good horror stories back when I was younger and ’Shadow Stalker" was one of my favorite’s. So basically, I’m just thinking of the ways he used to kill and suggesting them to you," Laz admitted. While this was a half truth, there was more that he was leaving out. The Asura race had been all over in the hundreds of thousands of years when they ruled the cosmos. As such, they had encountered many different types of lifeforms and either fought against them or with them. As such, while the things from the horror story were actual real, the only things that Laz was really suggesting were those he remembered from a shadow type race that lived on an invisible planet that he sort of, kind of remembered. While the horror story was nice and all, the things suggested were for killing those much weaker than you. If you tried to do those things to someone who was just as strong, if not stronger than you, you’d surely die. So those types of moves got left out, things like turning your body into a cloud to evade an attack? Even if Celes could do it, there was no point in trying to get her into that mess in the first place. Instead, it was better for her to hide and strike and hide and strike as opposed to fighting someone head on. If Laz’s memory was accurate, then that was the tactic those shadow people used that gave the Asura race such trouble.
As the days went on and Laz spent more time with Celes, she started opening up to him and wanting to be around him more. While that wasn’t a bad thing, he also knew that she would follow him when he went to spend time with Nora. When he knew she was around, they wouldn’t get physical with each other. Nora may not be concerned with Celes watching, but to Laz it felt a bit awkward.
After a while of this and speaking with Gretchen about it, Laz felt like Celes had gotten the hint and stopped trying to snoop on them. At least,. he did for a while.
...
When Laz got together with Nora, things were kind of normal at first. But as Nora got more comfortable with Laz, she started getting more and more extreme in her needs. After explaining why though, Laz did his best to accommodate her. Imaging spending years of your life not being able to feel anything. As such, with Laz as a helpful and willing partner along with the stimulation of his blood, Nora wanted to feel stronger and stronger sensations.
Tonight’s experience involved Nora being tied up and hanging upside down from the ceiling while Laz whipped her sensitive areas with a crop along with occasionally forcing himself down her throat to the point of her gagging and almost throwing up. And this was a toned down version of what she really wanted which including using two baseball bats as... toys...
"Erf... Grrhhh. Erffff....." The sounds of Nora gagging as she had trouble breathing echoed throughout the basement. Laz had just assaulted her once again as dozens of red and soon to be black and blue welts covered her breasts, ass, back, thighs and stomach. Occasionally, Laz would even go so far as to pull her hair and use her like doll, meaning that several strands of bright red hair covered the ground. Even then, when Nora got down choking, she couldn’t hide a smile.
"Try it. Just fucking try it daddy. Try sticking your whole hand in and using me like a fucking sock puppet," Nora begged.
While Laz was considering her request, he heard a glass vile hit the ground as he turned his head to see what had happened.
"How the hell did that thing get knocked over?" Laz asked himself as he walked over to Nora’s work tables and looked at the oversized test tube that had been sitting on the drying rack just minutes before.
"I thought you cleaned this stuff kitten? Why is this tube covered in slime?" Laz asked, getting Nora’s attention.
"Slime?" Despite her weird fetishes, Nora had no trouble getting into or going out of the zone. Seeing the triple sized and reinforced glass tube in pieces was enough to confuse even her. While it was just a bit of broken glass around the lip, it was still enough to hold their attention since Nora was never lazy or inconsiderate of her tools.
"Hmm... Bring it here," Nora requested, still upside down and restrained. Laz complied, bringing it to her so she could get a closer look.
"No. No... my nose. Yes... hmm..." Nora took a big sniff of the glass after not recognizing the liquid and then started laughing.
"What?" Laz asked, confused.
"Come out! I know you’re still here. Come on. I obviously can’t bite right now," Nora called out, looking left and right as much as she could.
"Don’t make me make him look for you. You’ll be even more embarrassed when he finds you..." Nora then added on while Laz still was confused.
As Laz looked around too although not seriously, a black shadow emerged from one of the corners of the room and stood there silently. While still enshrouded in her battle form, Celes didn’t end up saying anything, but Laz got the impression that if her face could actually be another color, it would be red.
"Well damn. I didn’t think you could actually escape my senses. Nicely done," Laz commented, not at all concerned about why she had shown up here so suddenly.
"He he... that’s not all she was doing. Seems that this test tube was contaminated by her... if you get my drift? I’m guessing she enjoyed the show." Nora laughed and kept on laughing. She recognized the smell from the tube and quickly put two and two together. While Laz might have been oblivious, Nora had a bit more of an idea as to what kind of girl Celes really was.
"Oh? Well then... Do you want to stay? I mean, I don’t think Nora minds the audience?"
"Nope, not at all. If fact, I’m sure that my little man here would be more than willing to tie you up as well..." Just as Nora was finishing her offer, Celes vanished on the spot, disappearing into a shadow on the floor.
While Laz might have been taken by surprise, that was because Celes had no harmful feelings while here. As such, his sense never tingled. But now that he knew she had been here, he quickly used his Heaven’s Gaze skill and with a flash of gold lasting less then a breath, he scanned the entire room.
’She’s still here huh?’ Laz laughed to himself.
:She’s still here, isn’t she?: Nora’s voice rang in Laz’s head. As they had gotten closer, they trusted each other enough to speak mind to mind. It was also helpful that Nora’s mental strength was immense. Laz had stopped doing it for a while now since if he tried doing it to someone with a low mental strength, it could cause damage to their minds. Luckily, Nora was an exception.
:Oh yes she is. And her eyes can’t stay off of us,: Laz laughed as he could now make out her outline even without his skill. What more than that, Laz could even capture her general movement without much trouble. This was helped by the long practice sessions they had done together.
:She’s been repressing it for so long. Girls are... in many ways, sexual creatures. Once the fuse has been lit, it’s hard to put it out. Guys are just a lot more vocal about it. But when it comes down to it, women really are more crazy,: Nora laughed as she explained, probably thinking about how she was currently hanging upside down from the ceiling of her own lab while naked and getting whipped by a guy she only knew for a week.
"Back to me my little puppet master. I don’t want you to stop even if I start crying like a bitch. Unless it’s my safe word, there is no red light!" Nora said to everyone listening.
"Your wish... fuck it. I’m doing what I want tonight," Laz said as he once again started using Nora like a pinata. And while Laz’s hands weren’t huge, Nora’s tight holes proved to be too much for him to actually give her the puppet like experience she wanted. He did try, but his senses gave him a deep understanding about just how much her body could take and he wasn’t going to hurt her that badly. By the time he was done, Nora laid in a heap on a rug on the floor, body covered in various liquids with a smile on her face that could have charmed demons.
This was exactly the kind of experience she wanted, something so extreme that she would remember it forever, even if her ability to feel was again sealed away someday.
And she still wanted more, just not tonight.
As Laz cleaned himself up in the sink, he noticed that Celes had finally vanished. Throughout the night, he had taken note of her, but it was only at the end of the ’session’ that he understood that Celes had been watching him the whole time. In fact, every time he saw her, she was masturbating with her eyes locked solely on him or a part of his body as though she was trying to burn his image into her mind. At first, Laz paid it no mind. But as the night went on, he started to wonder just what was going on. Ever since she had said she wanted to kill him while also agreeing to be trained by him, her mindset towards him had changed. From being the guy causing all the trouble who she wanted to get ride of and didn’t understand why her grandma wanted to keep him around to now not taking her eyes off of him for a single second.
And more than that, her gaze was something that could send chills down even a stone statue’s spin. It was one of longing, desire and obvious obsession.
Laz didn’t know what to make of that.
As Nora got up and crawled over to the small loveseat that had been moved from upstairs to down here, she climbed up on Laz’s lap and laid down, just the same way a cat would. While snuggling in, she asked,
"Is she still here?"
Laz laid his hand on her head and slowly stroked her hair.
"The moment you hit the ground, I think she knew we were done and left," Laz answered back.
"Heh. No doubt she’s going to be finger blasting herself to sleep tonight," Nora laughed at her own comment.
"Not sure how... That thing must be sore considering she had been doing it all night already," Laz responded back.
"Really? Hmm... maybe... that’s not good."
