The Adventures of Jacob Snow: Chapter 8

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Chapter 8

Jacob awakes to the sun shining on his face, he stands up and folds the blanket that was over him and sets it on the rock he was leaning against. He stretches and sees his people making themselves at home in his creations, he hears the muted voices of people all around him exclaiming delight and joy at the fully furnished stone buildings. Jacob had tried to style them like the much older ruins in the area, but the end result turned out to be somewhat more unique and bearing formations and decorations resembling things he does with ice magic. Seeing his work a day later is like seeing it for the first time, but remembering the process of making it. Jacob prepares to head into this village of stone buildings and odd mushroom looking treehouses which he does not remember making, when a familiar fairy flies right up to his face and cries "Here you are! Dragon want see you!" Jacob's still sleepy eyes take a moment to focus on the little lady fliting to and fro just inches from his nose. He unwittingly reaches out and grabs the annoyance before he recognizes her. She squeals in surprise and trails off in a very distinctly naughty sounding way. Jacob blinks slowly as he inspects the thing in his hand, and then what she said clicks in his mind and wakes him up, Onyxia!

Jacob releases the fairy and dashes towards Onyxia's nest. He smells her before he sees her and notices a small stream of Mana trickling down hill. Once he climes the edge of her nest he sees the source, Onyxia is clawing a tree with her tail up and gushing Mana, as well as an egg every few seconds. The pile of eggs is almost overflowing out of the massive nest. Onyxia sees him and cries "Make it stop! They won't stop!" Jacob hurries over to her, and turns down the Mana gathering spell. Onyxia immediately appears relieved as she slumps down the tree and deflates. She rubs her sore rear and asks annoyed "What the heck was that about? Your magic just went crazy and didn't stop!? ... Are you ok?"

Jacob sighs in relief when he sees she is unharmed, save for some soreness and tender bits and replies "Yes, I am fine. I was creating things. Last night I built, well, a small town. And during the process I mastered the art of molding stone and manipulating lava. I am so sorry for what happened to you. I think I have an idea of how we can prevent this from happening again though... It may be possible to give you control over how much Mana you gather. Give me a moment to work on it." Jacob stands back and makes the spells on Onyxia glow. He reads them with an entirely new understanding of magic and what he can make it do. The change he makes is an anticlimactic drawing of one simple symbol and moving another behind it.

"That's it?" says Onyxia incredulously "That's all you have to do? I don't feel any... oh, there it is." She plays with the spell a bit, and then grins at Jacob and rolls onto her back. "You might not-" Onyxia interrupts him by maxing the spell for one second, and inflating to absurd proportions while geysering Mana like never before. Even after she cuts the flow to the bare minimum eggs pour out of her in a tapioca like slime of the thickest Mana she has ever produced. Her tongue lolls out as she lets the eggs just spill out of her nest, not a care in the world.

Jacob outright laughs as Onyxia's hind legs twitch and spasm as she lays pinned under her slowly deflating belly. He lovingly pats her and leaves her to have her fun. Only to turn and almost faceplant into the little fairy again. "Ahhg you again! What do you want?" Jacob asks the persistent little stalker. She jabbers too quickly to understand and Jacob gets fed up with her and interrupts "Fine, lead the way, I can't understand you at all when you talk like that." The fairy pouts for a second, and even looks like she's about to cry, but then remembers her task and forgets her hurt feelings in the blink of an eye, she grabs one of Jacobs fingers and tries to pull him in the direction of the thickest part of the forest. Jacob sighs and lets her lead him.

The farther into these darker woods he goes the more fairies he sees. 'Must be a hive pretty close to our village... I hope that doesn't turn out to be a bad thing.' He thinks as the hyper little creature eagerly leads him to a single crude hut build out of plants. He is starting to realize why he is here and stifles a smirk as he pictures what he will surely see inside that half size hut. The fairy leads him inside and sure enough he finds himself face to face with a fairy princess, or queen, or something that looks a lot like a very large fairy. Jacob clears his head of the pheromones that are so thick in here, and easily dispels the fairies combined efforts to use magic to put him in "the mood".

Jacob puts a single finger on the large fairy's forehead and pushes her back when she crawls towards him intoxicated by his magic. Her eyes roll back and she collapses on his lap at his touch. Jacob rolls his eyes and puts a barrier on her that protects her from most of his magic. She wakes up almost instantly and looks confused as she looks around then flinches when she sees him sitting cross-legged and looking at her with waning patience. She stutters as she tries to explain "Oh... this isn't, I'm not, I wasn't... uhmm... sorry?" Jacob lets her squirm for a few more seconds. Then he finally says "What's your name, royal fairy?" She sits across from him on her knees and looks up into his glowing eyes and says in her cute girlish voice "Luna..?"

Jacob extends his hand to her in a gesture of goodwill as he says "I am Jacob Snow, my people are going to be living in the village I built last night. It's far from here, and you are welcome to visit any time." Luna takes his hand and the moment she touches him she squirts cum and a moment later her breasts bulge and harden, then milk burbles out of her nipples. She shivers and looks into Jacob's eyes as her body reacts to his Godlike power. Jacob stifles a snicker, and completely cuts off the magic in his arm freeing the fairy from his power. Luna pants huskily and tears off her little white sundress, she keeps her eyes locked on Jacob like some cute little predator. Jacob still isn't in the mood to go all the way, but decides there is no harm in having a little fun with the lusty fairy. So he stands up, and towers above her as he watches what she does next. The voluptuous fairy crawls over and starts grinding against his leg, seemingly content with just touching him as her body's natural instinct to be attracted to beings of strong magic go nuts. After a few moments of this Jacob bends down and picks her up like a child, he looks at her and sees she is growing, already she is at least 4 inches taller, her originally impressive breasts are now in hyper mode as they grow with her, her hips are matching maintaining her overly fertile proportions as she continues to grow.

Jacob holds her out in front of him and decides to give her a taste of what his power can really do. He levitates her where he was holding her, and turns her around, he bends her over and spreads her legs unleashing a tiny waterfall of mixed fluids. Luna looks over her shoulder with carnal need in her gaze. Jacob decides he is going to keep this cute little lust monster right then. And decides to let her become so addicted to his power she will never want another man in her life. He does so by gathering so much magic in his right hand that the very skin glows and makes a humming noise as the air around his skin is excited and vibrates. He takes this glowing hand and pushes it up the captive fairies endlessly orgasming vagina. She shrieks with joy and the overwhelming feeling of it. Her belly bloats as she grows 4 more pairs of ovaries and her womb sucks on his hand like some kind of perverse mouth. Jacob grins as he watches the fairy squirms and writhes as she tries to take even more of his arm into her entirely uncaring or perhaps unaware that she has already bottomed out.

The more magic Jacob dumps into this poor fairy the more her body grows and the more it prepares itself to have the biggest batch of babies possible. Jacob is actually enjoying the show now, and puts his other hand on her ass and feeds her even more magic just to see what happens. Luna's body morphs and grows another pair of breasts, and her torso lengthens and thickens. Her body takes on a caterpillar-esque appearance with a networked chain of wombs and hundreds of ovaries. She grows breasts where a caterpillar has legs and her own legs become essentially useless. Her body fills the little tent and then smashes out of it as she continues to grow. Jacob feels her chain of wombs trying to suck him in through her massive vagina. On a whim Jacob decides 'what the hell, this might be fun.' And magically slips out of his cloths and lets her pull him inside herself. Once he is fully inside her he feels her undulating flesh pulling him forward, closer to the front of this horribly sexual monster's original and largest womb, where all of her eggs are piling up.

The young mage looks around and sees what he has done to her, a quiet slowly rising tide of guilt washes over him as he sees her humanity (a term used by all sentients for the same thing, it originated from the human language and was assimilated into all the other creatures vocabularies.) fading into little more than a monstrous breeding abomination. Jacob emerges into the largest chamber at the end of this throbbing tunnel of flesh, and feels Luna rubbing her belly maternally. An idea sparks into the young man's mind, 'what if, I can use this monstrous brood mother to produce something, like a fairy, but more useful... more powerful...' Jacob floats in the middle of Luna's first womb and sits cross legged as he focuses on the magic of her body.

He sees her stomach elongating into one giant tube, and replacing her intestines. He sees her bladder doing something similar, and sees all of her organs except for her heart stretching downwards as they grow and try to keep up with all this new flesh. Then he turns his focus to her hundreds of ovaries and the naturally occurring magic that allows her to take semen from any male creature with sufficient magical power, and use it to create fairies. He opens the design for the fairies her body will try to produce and crackles his neck as he prepares to alter the very genetics of a species.

As he locates the parameters her body is set to produce creatures of he starts changing them.

Gender= If Queen (female) population low then Princess. If Common population not over populated then Common (female). If both population low then Both (female). Jacob adds the line 'If ordered by any of the bloodline of Jacob Snow can produce 1 Broodmother per batch, must cycle out all active pregnancies to completely empty all wombs before beginning construction of a Broodmother.

Height = 8 inches +- 2 inches. He changes to 2 foot +-5 inches

Weight = 1lbs to 3lbs. Jacob changes this to 20lbs to 50lbs and specifies sturdier composition. (Harder bones, denser muscles, tougher tissue)

Wings = 2 small fairy wings. Jacob enlarges the design and adds more muscle to allow these heavier fairies to fly even better than their lighter kin even if they are to wear light armor.

Reproductive capabilities = Common, none 0-0. Princess, high, 8-25 Commons, 1 Princess. (Jacob gives the commons the capability to become pregnant with 1-3 commons. And the Princess's he adjusts from high to ultra, 10-100. And adds Broodmother at Insane, 40-999+.

Ratio of magical to physical consumption needs = 30/70. Jacob changes this to 100/100 (allowing them to fully sustain themselves on either a diet of non-magical food only or a diet of only magic. Or any combination of the two.

Sex drive = Princess 90 units. Common 60 units. (Humans are on average 50). Jacob adds Broodmother to the list at 150.

Magic = Common, Fairy magic. Princess, Fairy Princess magic. Jacob adds, 1/1000th the power of Jacob Snow to commons, 1/100th to Princesses, and 1/10th to Broodmothers.

Psychic Link = Commons<Their mother. Jacob adds Commons<Jacob Snow. Princess<Jacob Snow. Queens<Jacob Snow. Broodmothers<Jacob Snow. (This will make all future generations from the line of Luna bonded to and completely loyal to himself. Which will make controlling them as effortless as thinking a command so long as he is connected to the Psychic network. It will also allow him to give a message to one of his fairies and have her take it to the others.)

Jacob finalizes the changes and applies them to Luna.

Now he realizes he has been holding his breath this entire time, and desperately needs air. He zaps Luna's womb with a jolt of electricity and stimulates contractions. He feels himself sliding out of her. Finally his face erupts from her, and breaths in the cool fresh air. "Ha, Haa ha ha... close one. Whew. Ok, last step. Jacob snaps his fingers and releases the spell keeping him immune to the fairies pheromones, and feels himself become warm. The world blurs and he blacks out.

He awakes hours later to find Luna already laboring away at producing Ultra-Fairies. Jacob quickly reapplies his protection spell, and stands up to survey his work.

Luna appears to be sleeping as her massive reproductive factory rhythmically pulses downward, as it sorts the growing fairies the oldest farther down as they get close to being ready to be born. She is a masterpiece of reproductive engineering. Jacob makes one last change, he gives her the ability to use her belly breasts as legs, and gives her several synchronized adaptive levitation spells to reduce her weight to the point where her belly breasts are actually firm enough to work as legs should she ever need to relocate herself.

Jacob smiles at a job well done, and walks back towards his camp, but then realizes he never gave Luna an energy source... He looks up into the trees and calls down a fairy.

"Hey, you! Come here a moment." -Jacob

"Yes?" -Fairy

"Make sure you and your sisters bring Luna one of those glowing dragon eggs when she gets hungry. They are the only thing that will satisfy her for long." -Jacob

"Okay!" -Fairy

Jacob nods and continues back to town. But before he gets there, he sees several men sneaking through the shadows towards his stone village. He scowls and walks towards the group.

"You sure this is the place?" -man

"Shh, must be. Look at this stuff..." -older man

"You got the amulet?" -man

"Shut up, you're going to give us away." -older man

"Too late for that I'm afraid." -Jacob

"FFFuu-! Get him!" -man

Jacob easily side steps the clumsy rushed charge and pushes the man into some bushes with a twirl and one hand tucked behind his back. Then he takes a relaxed 'I only need one hand to deal with you' stance.

"Are you Jacob Snow?" -older man

"Yes." -Jacob

The older man throws a net which Jacob incinerates with a wave of his hand even before it gets half way to him.

"We need to capture you Milord, it's nothing personal. We just need you to come with us, no need for violence." He says as he draws a curved knife.

"I'm listening" Jacob says calmly as he sidesteps and shoves the other man again, without even looking at him, sending him off balance and into another bush.

"Our country is Tel'Vintria, the desert nation to the far east. We are in search of supporters to help us win our freedom from the Mage's Guild." The old man swipes at Jacob with a series of skilled jabs and slashes aimed at non-vital areas.

Jacob dodges and deflects the blows with his hand as he continues to speak calmly with the man.

"You have my interest, but I have several ties to this place. A mate who is expecting children, and a project to turn useless fairies into useful minions, both of which are progressing nicely. Oh and did I mention my dragon is laying eggs every day? She's rather comparable to a great fertile chicken goddess right now." -Jacob

"That... is rather, odd?" -older man

Jacob catches the blade of the older man's knife and the face of the other man in each hand at the same time. He disarms the older man, and throws the other man at the older one. Then an arrow pierces Jacob's shoulder and his vision blurs, Poison! Sleeping poison...

"Haha, ha... you got me." -Jacob

Jacob decides not to dispel the poison, and see what these men want from him.

Jacob's face falls into the dirt as he passes out.

"I can't believe we got him!" -man

"He let us..." -older man

"Doesn't matter. We got him, let's go quickly before, did he say he had a dragon? Let's go quickly." -man.

"Hahahahaha! Take that mage!" -female archer

The man and the older man carry Jacob to a cart and tend his wound as they turn around and head back east.

Jacob relaxes as he feigns unconsciousness for several hours after his body neutralized the poison. The archer who shot him sits by him and changes his bandage, she is a pretty girl of perhaps her early 20s. She has dark tan skin, brown eyes, thick eyelashes, a face like he has never seen before, and they all have a remarkable accent. It's not hard to understand, but it is very foreign to him. He grins as she sits on the bench by his head and he gets a nice view of her shapely butt. The way she talks about him lets on that she hates all mages however. Jacob makes a mental note of her distaste for magic. She also seems particularly keen on keeping him drugged all the way back to their country. Jacob won't allow that though, and every time she gives him something to drink, he disables the poison in it. Jacob feels the growing psychic network of his Ultra-Fairies, and instructs them to send scouts after him, keeping close enough to maintain his connection to the network but not close enough to be spotted. He feeds magic to the scouts to sustain them as the chain of fairies extends into the desert and food and water become scares. The chain of fairies holds as the group travel farther and farther from Jacob's stone village.

He decides to inform Onyxia of the situation and sends her a messenger fairy. He also sends a fairy to McGuff, and to Aria. They keep him informed of the little events of the day, and any news they hear from the people they have found at the forest's edge. Jacob instructs McGuff to prepare to begin trading with that village for food, and tells him to say that our village is a mining outpost. And so they should pay the villagers with uncut gems, or ore. Which causes McGuff to ask where they are to find such things. Jacob remembers he hadn't told anyone about the rich mineral veins he felt below the stone of the mountain, and proceeds to tell McGuff about them, and where to mine. He makes good use of the fairies, and it begins to feel like Jacob is everywhere, but when you look for him he is nowhere. The men simply accept it as magic things that they aren't able to understand. But the women begin to question if Jacob is still with them.

Jacob drops the act the next day, and uses several fairies to demonstrate how he is still effecting current events, while he is traveling to the east with some people who need his help. He tells them what he knows, and promises to return when he can. He visits Aria in the form of a starry face in the night sky in the enchanted ceiling of her bedroom. He uses the fairies to help the servants he hired to take care of her, as well as to bring them supplies. The Ultra-Fairies work like bees flying from place to place helping everywhere and with pretty much everything. Their eyes glow like Jacob's and their hair is white like his, which helps people see them as an extension of Jacob's will. Luna appears to be doing well, and has taken to exploring as she continually births more Ultra-Fairies every few minutes, her body has strengthened to the point that the births are barely any effort at all now. She wanders the forest and enjoys exploring places she never got to as a princess. Onyxia has slimmed down significantly, and has taken to hunting by day, and setting her womb to produce eggs casually at night, which she lays all at once in the morning. She enjoys this most, as she gets the freedom to explore and experience the thrill of the hunt while still producing 'Jacob's magic eggs' as she has taken to referring to them as.

McGuff makes good progress with the mine and has his men working shifts at all hours. It is good to be working at something, and his men are glad to have something to do. They are especially happy with the stone magic Jacob is teaching them to mine with, and have taken to playing games with it after work such as Boulder's Gate, a game where each team tries to hurl a 100lbs lump of rock through the enemy team's gate. The games become extremely popular and they end up building a permanent arena for them with seats so everyone can watch. The women who were once slaves have married a few of the ex-bandits and the rest are divided between working with the men, and setting up shops where they learn trades such as weaving, cooking, bartending, inn keeping. Others prefer to be out in the wild, and forage for food, or half farm the wild plants to increase their yields. And others hunt, or scout, or simply explore to find and make paths to places of potential value.

Meanwhile Jacob gets bored of just lying in the back of the cart and decides to get up and move around. He sits up and comes face to face with the woman as she tries to gently remove his pants to clean him. Her eyes go wide and she stutters as he looks into her eyes with an expression of annoyance. "What'sa matter Lori? Find something you like in there?" asks the man driving the cart with a laugh.

"He's awake! Tuko get him!" cries Lori.

Tuko turns around and sees Jacob sitting up, and almost falls off the bench.

The older man says swiftly "Do no such thing! Lori, Tuko, back off."

Lori says reluctantly "Yes Kadar..."

Jacob points at Lori and says "Lori," then at Tuko, "Tuko," then to Kadar "Kadar?"

Kadar smiles and sits on the edge of the cart as he says "Yes, those are our names. And you are Jacob Snow, yes?"

"That's me." Jacob says as he stretches his stiff body.

Kadar asks curiously "Can you really make ice grow from nothing?"

Jacob looks at him as if insulted that he ask that "That's it? That's the extent of what you want to see me do? Oh my poor man, the rumors have not spread far enough yet. I can do that, and so much more." Jacob makes pillars of ice shoot out of the sand and tower over them without even blinking an eye. Then he decides to make it even more impressive by making them start growing closer and closer to the cart as they roll along. Still not satisfied he starts making them fall towards them and shattering into a beautiful display of sparkling ice dust and jagged glistening fragments that fly all around them. The three desert people duck and cry out as razor sharp chunks of ice fly around them in a terrifyingly deadly but beautiful display of power and control.

"So, yes, to answer your question, I can make ice anywhere." Jacob says casually as the ice show ends.

The three foreigners cling together and stare at Jacob with wide eyes as they look around nervously expecting more ice to almost fall on them.

Jacob sits on the other side of the cart and watches them while looking amused.

"So, Tel'Vintria? Tell me about it." Jacob says in a softly commanding way.

"It's a massive land, larger even than your Empire, but it is mostly uninhabited. We have several large cities, and a vibrant trade system. There are many reasons to love our land and its people, but the Mage's Guild has taken over the cities. They control everything now, and are making us poor by taking all of our profits with unfair taxes. We have tried to fight back, twice. It ended with our resistances being crushed and our families sold as slaves. We need help, we need magic to be able to fight magic." -Kadar

"I see. Your Gods must be very fond of you 3. I may be one of the few who are able to help you, and willing to help you."

The three Telvinter agents show mixed expressions: Hope, Fear, and the desire to fight back.

The next day they make it out of the flat desert to a region where rock seems to jut out of the ground as if by magic. Sheer rock walls tower hundreds of feet straight up as far as the eye can see. Some places appear to have collapsed or been eroded away creating paths that go into the precarious domain known as The Stone Forest. One of these paths has a single faded flag marking it, and this is the crack the Telvinter take. Jacob feels traces of the ancient magic still clinging to the stone, powerful old magic not so unlike his own power.

Jacob explores the area with astral projection as his body is carried slowly along the narrow path in the Fau drawn cart. Even the wildlife here is strange and alien to him. He sees massive insects hunting like wolves. He sees spikey plants that coil tightly like springs, and violently unwind when something touches them, ripping them to pieces. Many of the creatures here are insectile, or reptile. While the plants all seem to be cactus-like. There are more familiar shapes here as well however, like the birds. There are little brown birds who fly from cactus to cactus and nibble on the flowers at the top without setting them off. And there are little foxes with big ears and short fur that playfully bounce around, full of life and curiosity. This truly is a wonderful place, and he sees more now why the Telvinter want to free it from the clutches of the out of control Mage's Guild.

Night falls and they make camp in a cave. Jacob helps them set up some light fortifications and the tent, then sits down and connects to the Ultra-Fairy network and reports what he has seen and learned. There is no significant news from the forest, aside from a trader coming to the village for a visit and buying something from everyone who is selling. Luna speaks with Jacob for the first time through the network, and chats about how much she is coming to love her new body. She tells him about her adventures and proudly reports she has birthed over 400 fairies today and she feels that tomorrow she may even be able to beat that number! Jacob congratulates her for her industrious production and tells her how beautiful she is with the perfect combination of words to make her love her new form even more. (From a Fairy Queen's perspective her body is miraculous in that it is able to produce more babies more quickly than ever possible with a humanoid shape and the limitations of having a humanoid reproductive system, while retaining the ability to move around and still be mobile, it is unthinkably wonderous, even if the shape she now has would likely be seen as disgusting or monstrous to the eyes of most.

Jacob connects to the fairy who stays with Aria, and talks with her for a while next. She has been teaching her caring and attentive servants what she wants them to do as a daily rouine, and shares the gossip she heard from her friends that visit her daily. Nothing of importance, but Aria enjoys talking with her mate.

Next Jacob checks on Onyxia, but she is in the middle of hunting a demon stag, so he is about to leave her to it, but he realizes that demon stag may be partly responsible for the overabundance of deer in the region and sends the fairy to whisper in Onyxia's ear "Onyxia, instead of killing this creature, watch him for me. Demon Stags, and Demon Does may be the ones responsible for the abundance of deer you so enjoy hunting. And if that is the case, and if there are only one of each, you do not want to kill them. Quite the opposite, you are going to want to keep them alive and free to roam and breed."

Onyxia looks at the fairy Jacob is controlling and says "I hadn't thought of that! Good idea, I'll let you know what I see."

Jacob instructs the fairy to stealthily follow Onyxia and to send word of anything she reports immediately.

Jacob then speaks with McGuff about the day and talks about the Mage's Guild, what they are, what they stand for, and asks him to gather any information that could be useful about them and have it sent to Aria's tower for filing in the library. McGuff did not know there was a library in Aria's tower, and is very excited to visit it and begin collecting useful books. He admits that he has always loved reading, but was never wealthy enough to afford proper books till now.

Jacob smiles as he thinks to himself 'I learn things every day through this network of intelligence...! I need a brain to start collecting all the information I don't have time to view! I could make a creature for that, or modify one that I already have to be that mind... Choices choices...'

A strange noise causes Jacob to lose his connection to the network. It sounds like heavy skittering, almost like a scorpion, but massive. He sees the Telvinter agents douse the fire and grab their weapons. Jacob joins them and readies his magic for combat wordlessly. Now there are more than one large creatures skittering around outside their cave. Lori whispers to Jacob "Sand Wolgs. Think ant, wolf, and spider all mixed together, and as big as a bear..." Jacob's eyes widen as he has a terrifying image come to mind.

Jacob jumps when he hears the cart being ripped to pieces by something very strong. Wood splinters and thick beams crack loudly as the Sand Wolgs destroy everything that smells like human. Jacob feels intelligence and hate, as well as sensitivity to magic from the creatures. They know he is in the cave. Jacob turns the stone to lava at the end of the cave, and hears shrieking as something steps in it. The sand wolgs hiss at the heat, and retreat. Jacob didn't get a good view of the beasts, but what he did see was enough to make him never want to see them again.

The rest of the night is calm and quiet. But Jacob senses the wolgs several more times in the distance.

After packing up and carefully leaving the cave the 4 find the Fau slaughtered, and the cart destroyed. Jacob tries to repair the cart, but gives up as it is too far gone.

For two more days the group travels through the Stone Forest, and one the third they see why the region is named the Stone Forest. The canyon like paths through the rock give way to a more open expanse of sand and dirt with more abundant plants and trees. Some trees are as tall as the unnatural rock formations that jut out of the ground. They make better time here, and come to a small village in the thinnest area of the Stone Forest. The rock spires are much less common out here, but the vegetation has given way to sand again. The village is located around an oasis, but the oasis is almost dry. Things looks bleak for the primitive village if they don't get rain soon. Fortunately for them, Jacob is most adept at controlling water.

"Welcome to Oasis Village!" Tuko says proudly. "This is my home, come! Let's introduce you to everyone!"

Jacob smiles and lets himself be led by the young man ahead of Lori and Kadar who don't seem nearly as thrilled to be here. Jacob who was just ordering his Ultra-Fairies to start a rotation of fairies to make this trip and work on improving the path and setting up a base of sorts for rest and exchange of personnel with this village, finishes his instructions as he is brought to the center of the village and pulled up on a small stage of sorts.

Now that Jacob's full attention is on the scene at hand, he notices just how dirty and underfed these people are. They look thirsty, like they haven't ate in days, and like they haven't been able to bathe in weeks. Pity overwhelms Jacob and he feels the desire to help these people grow strong in his heart. The crowd gasps when an Ultra-Fairy flies up to Jacob and salute him. This one has cut her hair short, and wears tight fitting clothing made of plant fibers, and belts to hold her breasts tight. She barks out a short report that his commands have been received and supplies are being carried to begin construction of a small base here, and waits for orders. Jacob thinks a moment and sits on the stage and beacons over a young girl with a doll. The child seems hesitant to approach Jacob, in his gleaming white robes that look like they are made of snow that has been turned into fabric, and trimmed with frozen Mana. Jacob takes off his white gloves and shows her his hands as he softly says "see? I'm just like you! Do you want to see the fairy?" Jacob grabs the fairy by her leg and pulls her down to his level as she was trying to sneak away. The child cautiously comes over, and Jacob hands the fairy to her like a doll. "Be gentle now, she is alive." The child looks at the fairy with pure innocent wonder in her eyes, and the fairy shoots a glare at Jacob who laughs and leans back on the stage as he enjoys the show for a few moments. "Can I keep her?" the little girl asks hopefully. Jacob makes a show of thinking about it, and makes indecisive noises as if puzzling over a massive decision. "Hmmm, if you promise to take good care of her, and feed her, and not be mean, and if she says she needs something or to stop something you listen to her. Then, yes." The little girl squeals with glee and spins around with the fairy in her arms.

Another fairy flies over to Jacob and salutes, this one is dressed more femininely and has long blond hair, and she wears a light blue shirtdress which reveals her panties every time she flies forward. This fairy watched the whole thing, and asks to be the girl's fairy instead of the short haired one. Jacob calls the little girl over again, and tells her "little girl, this fairy wants to be your fairy very badly, she asked me to take back that one, and give you her instead. Would you like that?" The little girl looks at the more feminine fairy in the dress who smiles at her, and then to the tough girl fairy in her hands who is squirming and trying to get free. She hugs the fairy in her arms and lets her go. The tough girl fairy holds he pants up because they tore in the little girl's hug, and flies away as quickly as she can greatly relieved to be free. The little girl watches her fly away for only a moment before turning to the friendly fairy in front of her and holding her arms out. Jacob says "you must be gentler with this one, girl. She isn't as tough as the last one. Ok?" The child nods solemnly and holds her hands out for the feminine fairy hug her, she does and the child is overjoyed. She rambles on about dresses and dress up, and the fun they will have. Jacob smiles approvingly and raises his gaze to see how the crowd is taking this, they are eating this up. His approval in these people's eyes couldn't be higher right now.

But that doesn't stop him from moving to the next step in his plan to win the hearts and loyalty of these people. "And now, for my next display of good will, how about some rain?" Jacob says and poses with grandeur as he smiles down at the people. His robes shimmer in the bright sunlight and flow in some perfectly timed cinematic wind. No one speaks, they just watch. Jacob's eyes glow brighter and brighter as he looks upwards and holds his exaggerated pose. Clouds swirl and billow rapidly as they form directly above him only a few hundred feet off the ground. The air grows cooler, and damp. And it begins to sprinkle on the crowd. But it pours heavy rain behind Jacob into the oasis. The crowd goes wild and dances in the rain. The little girl and her fairy jump in the growing puddles, and wash the dust off themselves.

The elder of the village walks up to Jacob as he sits on the stage and enjoys the cool damp of the rain. The wrinkled old man looks at this strange man who appears more like some kind of God than the tapestries in their shrine. The old man says with a voice that wavers from age "Who are you? What are you? A man? A God? Why are you here?"

Jacob looks at the man and his happy smile fades as he becomes serious "I am Jacob Snow, as to what I am... I am not certain, a little more than a week ago, I was just a boy in the north who was better at magic than hunting. But then my village was destroyed by a dragon and I lost everything I knew and loved, except for my magic. I ended up making the dragon my own, and spent every spare moment I could from that day on to strengthen my magic, and learn new things about it. I grew rapidly, and became far more powerful than I was. Now I am the leader of my own village, and the friend and master of a dragon. Mate to a centaur, and a Fairy Queen. And father to many children, including these fairies. All in just a few weeks. Magic is a wondrous, and terrifying thing. My power grows with every passing day, as does my ability to use it for almost anything I can think of. I have come to this land to help free your people from the Mage's Guild, and see what I can see, meet who I can meet, and have some adventures to tell my kids. I left my pregnant centaur mate in a grand mansion tower in the care of servants who are well paid to tend to her every need. And my Fairy Queen mate I have given magic allow her to move even though she gives birth to a fully grown child every few minutes. Fairies are strange creatures like that even before I used my magic on her to make it easier for her.

The elder listens attentively, and seems to believe Jacob's genuine account of his journey so far. He understands that what seems impossible, with magic like Jacob's, is perhaps not so impossible. He then says "If you truly hope to help save us from the Mage's Guild, I will do everything I can to help you do it. Too long have we lived under the shadow of oppression from those, honorless bastards. They take everything from us, our gold, our water, our food, our men, our women, even our children." He trembles from the rage of just thinking about what all the Mage's have done to them.

Jacob hears the man, and wonders what the Mages need all these resources for. He jumps to his feet, and says "There is no time for action like the present!" His arrogant yet good humored and highly contagious grin flashes back to life and he strides to the center of the stage where he raises his voice for all to hear "People! You have convinced me to aide in your struggle against the corrupt Mage's Guild. I will build an army, and free this land!" Lightning strikes the oasis dramatically as if to show the force behind his words. "Which of you will follow me on this quest?" Hands begin to rise up hesitantly at first, but then more and more courageously until every single person, man, woman, and child raises their hands and shouts in agreement!

The rest of the day is spent putting Jacob's ability to heal injuries to use, and then talking about finding a place to start building an army. One young man tells of a place to the north where there is a massive ruin of what was once a great temple. He says it is mostly intact and made from huge sturdy blocks of stone. Jacob likes the sound of this place and asks the man how soon he can take him there. The boy says "Right now if you want!" but Jacob looks at the sun and says "Tomorrow then." By the time Jacob finally gets to lay down it is well into the night, but he sleeps soundly.

Jacob forgot about the rain before he went to sleep, and wakes up to cold water seeping through his bed and the very startling feeling of having his butt soaking wet when sits up. He wonders what the heck is going on, and then realizes. It's still raining... Children are swimming around, but the adults are less pleased. The oasis has filled higher than it has ever filled before, and the water level is well into the buildings. Jacob slaps his forehead, and cancels the spell. Then he draws the excess water into a giant ice crystal at the center of the oasis, which will slowly melt and keep the water level where it should be. Everyone is more ready than ever to leave now that their homes have been filled with mud and sand. Not long after Jacob gets up, the entire village sets out to find this ancient temple.

It takes them half a day to get there with the young man leading them. Once it comes into view everyone stops and gazes at the incredible structure. Almost entirely carved out of a massive rock much like the ones seen in the Stone Forest, this masterpiece of stonework and engineering has endured the years quite well. The entire village could build a whole town just inside the front doors. In fact it seems that is what its last inhabitants had done. Old fire pits and crumbling tents are found everywhere. As wonderful as this temple is, it is too far from the trade routes or any civilization to be a viable city under normal circumstances. But for a growing rebellion? It is perfect.

Jacob lights the ancient braziers, and walks the great hall as he breathes life back into the halls by simply creating light. He creates a whirlwind to clean up the dust and debris, and has it sweep the floor as he explores. This temple is much larger than he first thought. And it has the telltale markings of dwarven craftsmanship as well as human designs. Everything is oversized and seems made for giants. In one chamber Jacob finds a treasure trove of books. Which he seals for translation and archival at a later time. Next he finds a massive mess hall, and kitchen. Then he finds what look like offices or bedrooms, or perhaps storage rooms, whatever they were there are a floors and floors of them. Most are empty, but some have various miscellaneous things in them.

And then he goes farther down, and comes to a very large, very dark room with only a single carved stone staircase leading straight ahead into the darkness. The ceiling is high it is invisible in the darkness, and the walls so far away that he can't see them either. The floor seems to go down forever, and only the staircase into the abyss is visible. Jacob's skin prickles from the powerful magic of some beast he has not felt before. It's a dark magic, thick and tarlike. If magic had a smell to it he suspects it would smell like death. He takes the first step down and the aura becomes that much stronger, whatever is making this awful magic is ahead. Jacob begins to realize that this could be a gateway to hell, and that would explain such this ominous feeling that he should turn around and flee from this place, flee and never return.

Several hundred steps down Jacob marvels that there hasn't been a switchback, the stairs keep going straight ahead, this room must be unthinkably massive, if it is actually a room, and not a tunnel. Finally he reaches the floor. The moment his foot touches the ground he feels something stir in the darkness ahead. A shadowy silhouette towers over him and a menacing voice thunders forth "Who do you think you are to invade my sanctuary?!" Red eyes glow wide with rage in the darkness. Jacob draws on the full force of his power and causes the thin layer of frost on his skin to glow a blinding white with such intensity the he lights the whole room up. It is in fact a room, not a tunnel, or perhaps more like a cage or a prison for this creature. The creature once illuminated by Jacob's brilliance is revealed to be a tall, but emaciated and withered looking demon. She is a pitiful sight, clearly without sustenance for many long years. She loses all of her wind and the illusion of her power is broken by the light. The stairs that seemed so long are still an impressive distance for a single line of stairs to extend, but are not nearly as long as Jacob originally thought. The demon falls backwards and covers its eyes as it shrieks and hisses at him.

Jacob walks over to the now pitiful and helpless creature, he circles her as she cowers, as he looks at her having never seen a demon like this before she rasps "What are you?! Who are you!?" Jacob stands in front of her and puts a hand on her head. She looks up at him, surprised that his touch does not burn her. Her eyes change from red to purple, and then become blue. The demonic writing that is tattooed on her body begins to glow this same blue as Jacob's power flows into her like a cleansing, healing, nourishing flood of life. The demons face relaxes and her eyes half close as she basks in this liquid light, at first she was afraid that this brilliant power would burn her to ashes with holy fury. But this is not holy magic or anti demon magic, it is, life. Just life.

The demon's body begins to heal and recover from her starvation, her skin regains its elasticity, her muscles grow back, her breasts start to grow back, her hips and butt, everything begins grow back to their former glory. Even her gray hair regains its color, body and luster. She revels in this seemingly endless ocean of life, and never wants to be separated from it again.

Jacob sees these changes, and senses the hatred in her mind being dissolved by his power. It reminds him of Onyxia, and her transformation from demonic killing machine to the happy horny playful creature he knows and loves. When the demon shifts positions from a cowering and fearful position to pressing her head into his hand while standing on her hands and knees, he begins to prepare a speech in his head offering her a place at his side, in exchange for her vow to serve him and obey his every command. Once she starts drooling from both ends, and her breasts start dripping he withdraws his hand from her forehead and lifts her chin to look into his eyes. He speaks in a calm, kind, and powerful voice "You poor creature, left here to starve and die. Your old masters are long dead, this temple abandoned for hundreds if not thousands of years. You have nothing left, except for this fateful encounter." Jacob releases her and stands to his full height and lets his glowing robes, skin, eyes, and hair dazzle her a second longer before continuing "I can rescue you from this place, and give you a place in the world outside of this prison by my side. I do not offer it freely however, you will swear to me your everlasting loyalty, and complete obedience. I will not risk you harming my people needlessly. This is a simple thing, all you have to do is say 'I swear it.' and you agree to my terms."

The demon gazes at this creature before her, and doesn't give it even a second thought before she eagerly says "I swear it! Take me with you!" Jacob smiles and releases what looks like the northern auroras from his glow, they fly around like they were astral fabric in the wind, and paint this dark room in the colors of the night sky during the festival of Dancing Colors in the north. Some of them stick to the walls, some to the ceiling, some to the floor, but most of them fly over to the demon and wipe away the demonic writing on her flesh, and replace it with northern drawings of the sky and stars. Jacob says proudly "I give you the name Aura of the Northern Light. When he speaks these words she feels their power bind her to him, and feels a connection to his power. She feels his will flowing into her along with more of his glorious Life Magic. She says in almost a whisper "I don't even know your name, master." Jacob hold out his hand to help her to her feet, and says "I am Jacob Snow."