Chapter 4: The Serpent Goddess of Morningwood

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#4 of Shadina's AO Video Game Adventure


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Shadina's AO Video Game Adventure

Chapter 4: The Serpent Goddess of Morningwood

Our lovely panther heroine sleeps peacefully after her sexual conquest over the three Cheetah Sisters. However, during her training as a Seduction Mage, the powers of evil have not lain dormant. Though the central city of Noctup remains mostly untainted by the encroaching enemy, the eastern city of Morningwood has come to feel the full wrath of the Overlord. May our lovely panthress have slept well, for the fate of her entire world lay inexplicably on her feminine shoulders.

***

Shadina awoke feeling woozy. It took her several moments to separate her dreams from the unfamiliar reality around her. She remembered a voice calling out to her from the darkness with promises of wild fantasies fulfilled. She'd felt her body grow larger and stronger, her already ample bust grow yet more so, towering over the mortals below her. It had been a strange, but erotic dream, and Shadina's crotch was a mess because of it. Peeling herself from a very messy bed, she took advantage of the bathing facilities in the Cheetah Sisters' home. Those lovely kitties had long since awakened and gone to work, it seemed, so Shadina was relatively alone with her thoughts.

"Are you alright? You mind seemed oddly clouded last night," Night inquired, reminding Shadina that, for good or ill, she was never alone these days.

"I don't know what you're talking about," she thought back to the shadow goddess. "I was asleep, how would I know?" She scrubbed her fur religiously and brushed it to a proper sleekness before getting fully dressed again andmaking to depart.

"Well, as long as you feel alright. You have to prepare to depart. Now that you're fully trained, you have to depart for Morningwood. They need you there," Night tells her. Shadina groans in exasperation.

"Awww, you're serious? Couldn't this whole 'quest to save the world' thing have waited? I have sexy people to screw. I can't be bothered with this."

"Would you like some cheese with that whine? We talked about this before. If you don't stop the conquest of the Overlord, your sexy friends are going to suffer a fate slightly worse than being Hogereign's sex slave," Night countered.

"Uuuggh! Is that even POSSIBLE?" Shadina thought back in shock and disgust.

"Yes, but only barely," Night admitted. Shadina sighed in resignation. If she could prevent such a horrid thing from happening to such sexy friends as Sierra and the Cheetah Sisters, then she had to do it. She couldn't forgive herself otherwise.

"Alright, so where is this 'Morningwood' place?" Shadina asked.

"To the east, of course." Night replied. "You'll have to pass through the actual Morning Woods first, before you arrive at the city, but I think you've been through worse places."

With that, the panthress departed, traveling to the eastern gate of the city, and stepping out from there. To Shadina's delight, the landscape once again spread out before her, the entire city of Noctup looking like little more than a model at her feet. Even from this great vantage, she could only barely make out the very edge of the Morning Wood on the Eastern horizon. With steps that devoured leagues at a time, she made her way towards it.

Three quarters of the way to the edge of the Woods, however, Shadina's journey was rudely interrupted. The feeling of reality wavering was rather familiar to the panthress by now, and she found herself once again at her normal height, face to face with an odd figure. He was reptilian, with pearly white scales in the few places they could be seen. Mostly, he was covered in polished steel plates, wielding a gleaming sword. He stood with practiced, gallant grace, like a sworn guard or protector.

"I'm sorry, miss, but the Overlord has decreed that none may pass this way, though exceptions can be made for those willing to wear the white robes of his order, and behave in a chaste manner." the lizard man told Shadina. She blinked in confusion.

"Chased? Chased by who?" she inquired.

"No, miss. Chaste. Refraining from sexual activity. You must swear to be celebate." he told her. Her eyes went wide in shock.

"You've got to be kidding! What kind of monster are you?! I get it now... You are SO going down!" Shadina declared.

"Must I slay you, harlot? If so, then so be it." He flourished his sword in readiness.

"He may feel all cocky, but he's male, and he's in my world now," Night said, almost more to herself. Shadina bared her teeth at the raptorish opponent.

"Let's see how that codpiece feels after this!" She cast a spell at her opponent, and his eyes went wide. He nearly dropped his sword as his left hand went to his crotch and he grunted in discomfort.

"What is this feeling?! I must slay thee before it gets worse!" He staggered her way and took a swipe with his sword, but with the massive discomfort in his loins, his aim was way off.

"Oh, it is going to get worse! Orgasm!" Shadina cast another spell, and the armored lizard tensed up, his jaw hanging open. As Shadina watched, she saw numbers briefly appear over his head, the same as when she struck things with her claws.

"What...?" she thought to Night. "Cumming HURTS these people?"

"Particularly the males of their species," Night answered. "Their life force is tied inexorably to their semen supply. Every ejaculation kills them just a little."

"That's totally weird," Shadina thought back. The knight fell to his knees, panting and weak.

"I... I submit. I'm no match for you power, cursed harlot. I know not what you do to me, but it has left me weakened and... messy," he admitted begrudgingly. Shadina grimaced.

"Now what do I do?" Shadina thought to Night. "He's given up... I can't just kill him or something, but I can't let him go, either. He'd just rejoin the enemy and tell them about me."

"You can convert him. Use the power of the Harpy's Gloves to pull off his lower armor and shove the end of your staff into his tailhole," Night suggests.

"That sounds a little painful, what will it do?"

"You'll see," Night replied. Shadina nodded, then focused her attention back on the knight.

"Alright, if you're submitting to me... remain on hands and knees and face away from me." she ordered. The knight grimaced and did as commanded. "Now raise your tail." He did so. Shadina approached and found the upper edge of his lower garments. Gripping them securely, she tugged, and as if they were little more than an illusion, they pulle cleanly off the reptilian knight's body, leaving his hips bare. He grunted in surprise at his sudden exposure.

"Why must you humiliate me so? Was not my defeat embarrassment enough?" he demanded.

"Shut up and relax. Take some deep breaths and close your eyes," Shadina ordered. Begrudgingly, he complied, and before he could do much about it, Shadina placed the phallic tip of her staff to his tail-slit and pressed in. He gasped and tensed and grunted in surprise and discomfort for several moments before his groans turned to pleasure. Shadina could see dark tendrils of shadowy magic slithering down the length of the staff into the knight's rear, and it was visibly changing him. From his tailhole outward, his scales were shifting from a pearly white to a shimmering black. Also, Shadina noticed that his formerly modest, softening penis was swelling, growing a fair bit longer and thicker, despite its softening state. As the blackness overcame the former knight's head, he began encouraging the staff, driving himself back upon it.

"Oh, yes, harder, please!" he grunted. His cock began to harden rapidly, extending out from his body over a foot and a half, throbbing as his transformation completed, and finally, he grunted and tensed again, spilling a massive load of seed on the ground beneath him. This time, no numbers appeared over his head.

"You can remove the staff now. He's fully converted." Night informed Shadina. She nodded and pulled the staff out with a moist plop. The new black raptor male fell to the ground panting. With what energy he had, he began unbuckling the rest of his armor and removing it.

"That crap is so restrictive. Thank you, m'lady, for helping me. I see things clearly now," he told Shadina. She nodded in reply.

"You're welcome. When you can, head back that way," she pointed off to the west. "To Noctup. You should be fine there." The converted knight nodded in response, and Shadina continued on her way.

***

Soon after, Shadina arrived at the Morningwood itself, and began to venture into it. The attacks of monsters resumed their typical pace, and Shadina found that battling as a Seduction Mage was different from her old style. The lust beasts who would often have their way with her before, taking up valuable time and energy, could be easily subdued now with simple orgasm spells. Many of the odd invading creatures had to be physically beaten down, however, as it seemed many of them were completely asexual, and thus immune to her magic. Luckily for her, these foes tended to be weak, and several whacks with her staff was enough to defeat them.

Deep inside the Morningwood, the panther adventuress came across something unusual, though. It was another raptor, like the one she'd faught earlier, but this one was black, female, and on the ground feverishly trying to pleasure herself. She looked and smelled desperate with need.

"What's up with her?" Shadina thought to Night. Watching the raptoress was definitely turning her on, but it seemed odd that she'd be out on the path doing this, and not in town where she could be screwed properly.

"Likely as not, she's an escapee from the events at the town, and it seems to me that she hasn't gotten laid in far too long. You would be kind and wise to give her a good screw," Night informed her.

"Well, it does give me an opportunity to put more of my new magic to work," Shadina thought. Without hesitation, she pulled off her tight cotton shorts, revealing her large, plump, leaking pussy. She concentrated and cast a spell, and with a bit of shifting and tingling that pussy was replaced completely by an admirable sheath and large balls more than befitting a male panther. She grinned and stroked the sheath, which pulled back to reveal a stiffening feline maleness that throbbed with the desire to give the raptoress what she needed.

The black reptilian beauty wasn't oblivious to Shadina's presence. When she saw what was going on, she panted and pulled her soaked fingers from her vaginal slit and spread her strong, beautiuflly-toned legs for her sexual savior. Shadina didn't hesitate, but moved in quickly, slipping her tip between the raptoress's legs and shoving in fully. It was obvious that the raptoress was used to taking larger shafts than this, but she was happy to be filled at all. Greedily, she wrapped her powerful legs around Shadina and began bucking up against her furiously.

Being a virgin to her maleness, Shadina fought to maintain control and press back against her lust-crazed lover, grinding her hips roughly in time with the mad bucking of her strong partner. Tight, strong walls gripped her sensitive meat. Pungent juices bathed and lubricated it. The raptoress's sculpted legs flexed with muscles rolling like fluid under her smooth black hide as she pumped. it was all Shadina could do to hold back the flood of seed from her new balls that were already pulling tight to her body. Still, it was over too quickly. The raptoress arched her hips, using her powerful tail for leverage as she let out a shrill cry of ecstasy, gushing hot essence over Shadina's crotch, and the panthress lost control, feeling her body tense as seed spurted from her temporary male endowment.

Slowly, the two settled down. The raptoress released her leg lock around Shadina, and the panthress reverted back to being female and put her shorts back on. The raptoress got to her feet and gave a grateful bow.

"Thank you. I needed that desperately. I'm Talon, one of the defenders of Morningwood," she introduced herself.

"I'm Shadina, from Cumholm. It's nice to meet you." Shadina replied.

"If you're looking to go to Morningwood, though, I'd suggest you turn back. Some evil force has taken over the town, and imposed terrible laws upon those residing there. They've even sealed the temple to our goddess. I was going to Noctup to see if I could get help for a reconquest, but it had been so long since I was fucked... I just had no energy..." Talon told her. Shadina nodded sagely.

"Yeah, that really sucks. Well, I'm the reinforcements you were looking for. I guess I'm on some holy quest or something from the goddess Night to come save your town or something, so rest assured and leave it all to me," the panthress replied. Talon blinked in surprise.

"You're gonna take it on alone? You may be a decent seduction mage, but they have nasty monsters and ruthless soldiers... and some of them aren't even sexy..." Talon answered skeptically.

"Well, give me some credit. I'm not a total noob. I've had my fair share of scraps. I've gained some levels. Besides, I got the power of Night on my side. I've even got two of her artifacts. I'll be fine," Shadina reassured her. Talon shook her head.

"I'm going with. I'm a guardian of Morningwood, a strong fighter, and I'm not just going to sit back and fuck while someone else saves my hometown. Besides, I owe you for the timely screw," Talon stated determinedly. Shadina shrugged in response.

"Well, no one said I HAD to do this alone, I guess. If a sexy reppie girl who might also be a good fighter wants to join me on my quest, I'm all for it," Shadina answered. She thought silently to Night "It's true, though, right? I don't have to do this alone?"

"Not only need you not do this alone, but I'd rather that you did bring Talon along. Not only is she talented in combat, she has a big destiny awaiting her as well," Night replied.

"Then it's settled. If you really have the power of Night behind you, then lets go show these sadistic bastards what for!" Talon said. Just like that, Shadina felt a little more bonded with Talon, and the raptoress fell in behind her, following her every step with amazing precision as the two began to continue through the forest to the town at its eastern edge. Having Talon along quickly proved very useful, as she could dispatch the sexless little monsters with one kick of her powerful legs or one rake of her talons. This was made even more useful as it became apparent that those sorts of beasties were the only ones they were encountering, and they were showing up in greater numbers.

Finally, they reached the entrance to the town of Morningwood. At the gate, they found two tall, robed figures who seemed a bit rotund under their robes. Deep cowls obscured their faces, however. As the two approached, one held of a thick, black-furred hand.

"Visitors to Morningwood, the town has decreed a new law. Everyone in town is required to wear these stylish new undergarments," one of the hooded figures proclaimed as the other one held up a pair of briefs that had a bit too much metal in its design for Shadina's liking. "Wearing this is not only fashionable here, but also shows your admiration for the goddess Anaconda, so please allow us to accessorize you for your visit to Morningwood."

"Don't let them put that on you!" Talon hissed in Shadina's ear. "You can't take it off without the key, and only their leader has it!" Shadina grinned. To Talon's horror, she nodded to the robed figures and turned back to Talon briefly.

"Just go with it. I got this covered. We'll get past these bozos and find this leader and take him out. No need to draw attention to ourselves too quickly." she whispered to Talon. Talon reluctantly agreed, and the robed figures snapped the garments into place around the groins of the two female visitors.

"Be well, and please enjoy your visit to Morningwood," the greeter told them. The two proceeded inside and looked around. The streets were unusually empty. Occassionally, in some back alley, they'd find a raptor, lamia or lizard whimpering, clawing at thier metal underwear and crying out for sex. As they passed by the blacksmith shop, a male raptor was tossed from the shop to land heavily on the ground with a whimper, and an armored enforcer, not unlike the one Shadina had fought on the road stepped out of the shop.

"The smithy is closed. The belts don't come off until the high priest says they come off," the enforcer told the raptor, and with a glance of his eye, made it clear that the message was for Shadina and Talon as well. The raptor moaned in pain and frustration. The two heroines gritted their teeth at all the suffering they beheld, but continued on, determined to get to the heart of the problem. Search as they might, the high priest the soldier had spoken of was nowhere to be found. Instead, they turned their attention to the temple of Anaconda, certain that if the seal was released, the goddess would visit her wrathon those who had imprisoned her and oppressed her most loyal followers.

In short order, the two reached the massive temple. It rested in the middle of a small grove on the edge of a river that flowed past the town. The temple was covered in greens and blues, and covered in motifs of giant serpents, often entwined in copulation. The gate to the temple was enormous, and closed. A glowing metal seal bound the two massive doors shut.

"Now what? And how do you plan to get us out of these accursed belts?" Talon asked. Shadina grinned smugly. She rubbed her hands together.

"Watch and learn." She reached for Talon's belt and gripped it in her hands, then tugged. With the power of the Harpy's Gloves, she removed the belt instantly, making it insubstantial for a moment as it pulled away from Talon's body, leaving the black raptoress naked, as she preferred to be. The panthress then repeated the proceedure on herself, though it wasn't quite as easy. "There, now we're free of that heavy metal, but we still don't know how to break this seal." she muttered.

"Nor will you ever!" came a deep. masculine voice behind them. Looking back, they saw a large, thick figure in white robes. His robes were more orname than those of the shrouded figures from the gate, and his cowl was down, to the horror of the two heroes. It was obviously the face of a rhino with off-white hide an a pearlescence to his horn. "My master, the Overlord told me to be suspicious of strangers arriving at the town, that they may seek to unseal that loathsome goddess and unleash her filth back upon the world, and so I've been waiting for you. Here, at the doorstep to your serpentine savior, you will perish in your futile effort to halt our purification of your world. Behold the face of your destroyer!"

He raised his hands grandly, and there was a bright flash filling the air between him and the two shocked heroines. When the flash faded a huge pink ball of fluff with massive watery eyes, cute white feathery wings, and four stubby feet with long talons hovered inexplicably in the air before them. Shadina estimated that the thing had to be at least twelve feet in diameter, if not a bit larger.

"Oh goddess, it's hideous!" Talon exclaimed.

"No kidding. Making it bigger only made it more ugly," Shadina agreed.

"Say what you will, dirty, promiscuous infidels, but the Puff Princess will cleanse this world of your filth forever! Rejoice that your land of darkness and corruption will someday soon see the light and the purity that comes with it! Such a fate is too good for the likes of you, however! Say farewell!" the high priest proclaimed from behind Puff Princess.

"Man, that guy can monologue," Shadina grumbled.

"No kidding," Talon agreed.

Before the high priest could rant any more, reality shifted as Shadina, Talon and Puff Princess were pulled into the battle. They stood face to face in an even larger looking version of the temple courtyard, with no one around to interrupt the fight.

"This is a nasty boss, and your sex magic isn't going to work on it. It's time to get serious and merge again," Night informed Shadina.

"So what's the plan?" Talon asked, watching the huge puffball nervously.

"Hit it with your best shot, see if you can keep it distracted for a moment while I get my serious game on," Shadina told her. Talon nodded and took her turn, giving the Princess a hard talon rake. Puff Princess winced, but seemed mostly unphased.

"Man, that would have killed one of the smaller ones flat out," Talon said. "But this one barely noticed." Puff Princess counterattacked Talon, who dodged it nimbly.

"Alright, here goes! Shadow Merge!" Shadina cried, and she felt the rush of power as she and Night became one once more, though it was stronger this time, since she had both the Shadow Bra and the Harpy's Gloves. Her body grew and swelled to ten feet tall, her legs shifting to look more like Talon's own, her tail becoming thicker and longer, her body becoming more muscular, especially in the legs, and two rows of shadowy tentacles, like wings, emerged from her back and waved in the air behind her. Talon looked upon this in wonder, squirming a bit at the sight of it.

"Damn, that's kinky," she said, admiring the transformed panthress. Shadina grinned that smug grin again.

"Isn't it, though? I love this," she told Talon. Privately, she suddenly flashed back to the dream she'd had back in Noctup. Words she hadn't recalled clearly upon waking suddenly echoed in her head crystal clear: 'I will give you the power that Night has denied you.' For a moment, she was all but paralyzed in confusion and indecision, but this moment was quickly brought to an end as Puff Princess raked her claws through the transformed panthress's being, causing her serious pain.

"Get your head out of the clouds! It's your turn!" Talon cried to her. Shadina-Night grunted and nodded, and gave Puff Princess a talon-raking kick of her own, doing serious damage to the creature, if Shadina was interpreting the numbers that appeared over its head correctly.

The fight wore on, and Puff Princess proved to be able to take a fair load of damage, and dish it out as well, but between their strength, agility and healing potions, Shadina and Talon finally managed to defeat the massive, asexual puffball. Both heroines experienced a deep, fulfilling orgasm as they leveled up from the fight.

Finally, they returned to reality to find a shocked high priest who gazed at Shadina's transformed state in horror. He pointed the finger of a badly shaking arm at her accusingly.

"It's... it's YOU! The tentacle monster that interfered with our master's plans before! I must warn him!" He turned to flee, but was tackled by Talon, who pinned him down and fleeced him for the key to the chastity belts. She looked back to Shadina.

"Maybe with the power of Night you can break the seal. Give it a try," she suggested. Shadina-Night nodded and turned to the gate of the temple. She lashed out at the seal with a hard, talon-bearing hook kick, and ripped it from the door with a bright flash. The doors flew open, and a wash of bluish energy, rolling like a flash flood, rushed from the door and over the town. As the two heroes watched, every invader touched by it vanished in a bright white flash, and every chastity belt melted away as if corroded by powerful acid .

The miracles from within the temple did not cease, however. A second flood, this time of snakes, slithered out into the town, and saught out the inhabitants. They plunged into pussies and sucked on cocks until every last citizen was satisfied. Finally, a massive serpentess surged from the great temple door and encircled the two heroes, looking down at them with a devilish grin. To Shadina's mind, she was beyond huge. Her average body diameter was easily six feet or more, and she seemed to stretch on forever. The panthress couldn't even begin to estimate it. The serpentess's head was likewise easily as large as Shadina, now back to normal, and Talon put together, and then some. As she parted her scaley maw to speak, it was obvious, and a bit erotic, to Shadina that this creature could swallow her whole with no difficulty.

"Ahh... Night has delivered to me a couple of servants. Very good. I have need of you," she said in a deep, amazingly soft and motherly voice. Shadina and Talon were both left with the impression that this was a request they wouldn't be able to refuse.