Sabrina closed her eyes and savored the descent. Her life on the surface was growing new wrinkles of complication with every step. Right now, she just needed to leave reality altogether, with only her loved ones beside her. More than anything, she needed to kill something. Preferably, she’d kill a lot of somethings.

  The elevator gave a cheery ‘ding’ as it reached the second floor. Sloan opened the scissor gate that acted as a door, and the party stepped out. The space that welcomed them was beyond grand. Sabrina stepped out, already in her succubus form. With Red on her back, they made a cute demonic pair.

  The st time that the party came down here, it was through a ckluster stairwell, into a simple hotel hallway. The elevator’s entrance, conversely, brought them to a lobby that could have fit her whole apartment building, and still have enough space to stack another one on top of it. To be fair, though, it could have taken them into a septic tank, and it would have been a better introduction that the st time was. Sabrina winced and reminded herself that Dougs Bckwall couldn’t reach her here. The image of him flinging Jade to the floor like she was merely an object haunted her.

  The lobby was vast and gaudy, with a clear Art Deco theme. It felt like stepping into a roaring twenties version of the Overlook Hotel. Straight ahead from the elevator, there was a desk with nobody at it. Behind that a two-story tall brass statue of an elegant danger. A grand double staircase bookended each side of the statue. Double doors were spaced equally along the walls of the lobby itself.

  Sabrina strode with urgency along the lobby and to the desk. She didn’t have the patience for the hotel’s monsters to be coy— she wanted a fight. With her party gging behind, she reached the desk and spammed the bell atop it. The hotel’s twisted staff was eager to answer her call.

  Rising from behind the desk, and descending from the mezzanine level above, were two dozen humanoid monsters. They weren’t any typical fantasy monster that Sabrina could think of. They were slim and acrobatic women with bald heads, bck eyes, gray skin, and bck freckles. They were all dressed in red bellhop uniforms, albeit with short-shorts and hosiery. With cwed hands, they adopted a combat posture and grinned sadistically.

  “Who’s got dibs on fight music?” Jade asked, squaring up with a couple of the bellhops.

  “Me,” Sabrina answered, raising her sword. She was in her feelings and wanted to get it all out. The only proper soundtrack to that would be emo music she liked in high school.

  >Sabrina is pying: I’m not okay — My Chemical Romance

  Sabrina chopped the desk in half, violently flinging debris around her. This signaled all present to csh at once. These bellhops were fast as hell. With her first few swings, Sabrina couldn’t connect with flesh for the life of her.

  In a fsh, the one Sabrina was going for danced around her sword and cwed her right in the face. It stung like hell, but it put the creature where Sabrina needed her. Sabrina head-butted the gray woman, stunning her, and then chopped straight though her chest diagonally.

  Another cw rending the flesh on Sabrina’s back made her suck her teeth in pain. Clearly Sabrina needed to turn up the heat. She had just the spell for the occasion.

  >Spell: in heat. Project an ongoing heatwave over a 45-foot radius. Within your sphere of influence, the ambient temperature is set to 220 degrees Fahrenheit. Your body temperature is set to 500 degrees Fahrenheit. Only enemy creatures experience this effect. Allies, passive creatures, and unintended objects are spared and experience no change in temperature. Cost: low mana drain over an ongoing period until the effect is dismissed. Time until mana depletion at this rate: 22 minutes.

  Instantly, this turned the tides. This unreasonable level of heat not only slowed the bellhops down, but put panic in their eyes. Sabrina swung and thrashed at nearby bellhops. Whenever one lunged and scratched her, they were punished with burns on contact.

  The rest of the team was treated to sluggish and anguished enemies. For the first time that Sabrina had ever seen, even Red joined in the mayhem. She peppered the bellhops with pellets of hellfire from above. This compounded with their heat-issue. For a couple of them, it was enough to set their clothes on fire.

  The bellhops were truly formidable, and without the heat, the party might have really been in trouble. Any wound short of fatal barely bothered them. One of them even kept moving and scratching after being decapitated, if only for thirty seconds or so.

  The heat, however, meant the bellhops’ situation only got worse and worse with time. There was only so much that one could trade blows while cooking to a crisp. After a solid five minutes of giving their all, the st of the gray dies perished, with a smoky fvor to boot.

  The girls gathered loosely together, letting out breathy ughs and ‘whoo’ s as the adrenaline wound down. Jade gave the telltale dead-eyed stare of someone looking at their imaginary stat-dispy, before raising her eyebrows in surprise.

  “Holy shit,” Jade remarked. “Those bitches dropped like five jellies each. How many did you get, Sabrina? You were kicking ass.”

  The crash of realization washed over Sabrina. She knew she was forgetting something. “Fuck, I forgot to mention…. I don’t exactly… loot jellies anymore.”

  The others seemed shock, but Red simply said, “Oh yeah, I was wondering about that. Monsters don’t get loot off each other.”

  This confirmation prompted a chorus of disapproval and irritation. “That’s bullshit,” came from Sloan.

  “This complicates things,” Alice added.

  “Wait, wha… no,” Sabrina interjected. “I just don’t loot jellies anymore.”

  Alice cut in, asking, “Monster essences?”

  “No, unfortunately I can’t have a subcss anymore like this.” Before continuing, Sabrina checked her inventory. The loot was different from st time but seemed to follow the same theme. Each of the monsters dropped:

  >1 frisky blood stone.

  >1/2 oz meager soul cinders.

  “Blood stones, and soul ash or cinders, I guess. I think the ones I killed yesterday dropped lower valued variants. I was gonna ask you about it, Red.”

  Red looked perplexed. “I… don’t know. I’ve never heard of anything like that. Normally I’d guess it’s loot from a rare subcss, but… I don’t know. Hold on to it, obviously.”

  “Wait,” Sabrina asked, armed. “If I can’t use jellies, how am I supposed to level up?!”

  Red brushed this off. “You can still use jellies, you just can’t loot them.”

  “Can you use jellies?” Alice asked.

  “Of course. I’m sure a dog could use jellies. I don’t wanna think about what the Lust perks would be, though,” Red answered.

  Shyly, Alice produced a handful of jellies and held them outwards towards Red. Red chuckled and rolled her eyes. “You really don’t have to do that. The effects are a lot more potent in humans. I’m inherently magical.”

  Sloan backed Alice up, holding out a handful of her own jellies. “You’re part of the team,” Sloan stated matter-of-factly.

  Not wanting to be the one asshole to not pitch in, Jade joined in offering jellies. Red gritted her teeth and tossed her head back with a groan. “Fine! You bitches are so overly sentimental sometimes, it’s embarrassing.”

  Red grabbed the jellies and popped them impatiently. When she was done, she said, “Happy? I’m now a level four red imp.”

  “Any perks?” Jade asked, studying Red’s body for changes.

  “Monsters don’t get the incremental perks for every little thing, just a big leap up when we level up. But… yeah, a few. The only one that should really affect you guys is… well, better to show you. Smell my pussy.”

  Red hovered up, raising her hips towards Jade’s face and spreading her legs. Jade bobbed her head forward, first taking only a small whiff. Once she had that first taste, she grabbed Red and pressed her firmly against her face, huffing desperately. Sabrina felt as the Living Dildo, attached to Jade, stiffened up harder than it had ever been and leaked a steady string of precum. It was nearly at the edge of cumming from that arousal alone.

  “Oh my god!” Alice excimed. “I’m never putting you down! You live here, now.”

  Red smirked, saying, “Whatever you say. You know I’m happy to be of service.”

  After thirty seconds, it was apparent that Jade wasn’t entirely joking. Sabrina only experienced the uncomfortable level of arousal, without getting whatever Jade was so enraptured about.

  “Okay, clue us in,” Sabrina said. “The boner is getting painful.”

  Jade only waved Sabrina over to join her in smelling, unwilling to pull her face away. Sabrina approached, and awkwardly wedged her face in next to Jade’s. Despite her superhuman senses, she smelled no trace this until she got in close. Once she did, though, it was overpowering.

  The only way to describe the aroma was amazing, and the word’s many synonyms. There was no other scent or fvor that she could draw comparisons to. Even the base-fvors, like sweet, sour, or savory, had absolutely no baring over what this was. It was simply the single scent that triggers every possible reward and pleasure center of the brain. It was the olfactory equivalent of unbelievably great sex. Even that comparison did a disservice to this smell.

  Beyond the smell itself, it must have been completely saturated with drug-like pheromones. Sabrina’s knees went weak, her cunt throbbed and flooded with sweet nectar, as did her magically-acquired ass-pussy. Her nipples perked to new lengths, and her body was awash with euphoria. It reminded Sabrina of the effects of Jade’s pussy juice, but far more intense.

  With both of them taking in the scent, and both of their kinds linked to the Living Dildo, its arousal doubled, and the steady leak of precum escated to full-on cum. With every speck of willpower she had, Sabrina pitched, “We have to stop this.”

  “It can’t be done,” Jade said, muffled.

  “I need to stop smelling her pussy so you can fuck her pussy,” Sabrina demanded. Then, she sweetened the pot with, “I’ll eat your ass while you do it.”

  Jade huffed Red’s pheromones down into the deepest part of her lungs, before moving Red away all at once. Once they were both free from the spell, Sabrina got down on her knees behind Jade. Jade kept her grip around Red’s waist, then lined her up to fuck her like a miniature sex doll.

  Sabrina tickled Jade’s back door with her tongue while teasing her own cunt with her fingers. Unable to take things slow in this state, Jade pulled Red towards herself, plunging in the oversized demonic form of the Living Dildo.

  Watching this little three-way, Sloan didn’t seem bothered, while Alice’s face flushed red. It seemed that she was letting her suit ravish her while she took in the live porn show. She was pretty much always getting sucked and fucked by her suit, to varying degrees of intensity. Nobody called her out on it, as they would all do the same if they could.

  Fully soothing away their arousal wouldn’t be possible, for Sabrina and Jade. The depths of their horniness truly knew no bounds. Eventually, though, they were satisfied enough to break away and move on.

  Sabrina shakily got to her feet. What was she doing? Oh yeah, she was briefly done with sex, now it was time to get back to violence. The party picked a direction and delved on.