DESCEND – SEEING STARS
by
David Burke
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Descend- Going Deeper
Copyright © 2021
David Burke
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Contents
Chapter 1- Final Steps
Chapter 2-Organizing
Chapter 3- Red
Chapter 4- Expanding the Team
Chapter 5- Breaking into Pods
Chapter 6- Refining
Chapter 7- New Ways To Do It Wrong
Chapter 8- Time Is So Unfair
Chapter 9- Fusing Skills
Chapter 10- Family Time
Chapter 11- Momma Mia
Chapter 12- Rebellion?
Chapter 13- Three of a Kind
Chapter 14- One Man’s Stand
Interlude 1- Amongst the Wives
Chapter 15- Nanium
Chapter 16- Giving Her What She Wants
Interlude 2- Let Him Sleep
Chapter 17- Forgot to Set the Alarm
Chapter 18- Jay Gets Angry
Interlude 3- To Flee Fate
Chapter 19- Alliances
Interlude 4- Final Reckoning
Chapter 20- Expanding the Fusion
Chapter 21- Three Million Years Ago
Chapter 22- Feeding the Flame
Chapter 23- Really Meeting Eesa
Chapter 24- Throwing and Jumping
Chapter 25- Refining Eesa
Chapter 26- To Be Tamoori
Chapter 27- Bonding with Eesa
Chapter 28- Snipe Hunt
Interlude 5- Too Late
Chapter 29- Scope of the Problem
Chapter 30- The Battle to End all Battles
Chapter 31- It Comes Down to Jay
Chapter 32- Chasing Fire
Chapter 33- Battlefield of the Mind
Chapter 34- But You Can Do Anything
Epilogue- New Beginnings
Chapter 1- Final Steps
Approximately 1 week before Book 4, Interlude 8
Jay was running laps through the Ark. Physical exercise was simply a good distraction to everything that was going on. The trip towards the other leviathan was going to take almost a month. It sounded long and boring, but the ship was massive; it wasn’t like being stuck in a confined area.
Still, he felt constrained. For the first time since they were taken from Earth there were no monsters to fight, no dungeons to explore. They had a target they were headed for even if they didn’t fully know what to expect when they got there. Of the month needed to reach the other leviathan, only a week had passed, and Jay was already starting to feel stir crazy.
He couldn’t help but wonder if this was a sign of permanent changes in his personality or if it was related to anxiety from Higen’s kidnapping. It wasn’t as though there wasn’t a great deal for him to do every day. He still regularly had to cheat time in order to make time for everyone.
The other clusters wanted time from him to figure out how humanity was going to be organized moving forward, his wives and for that matter all of Team Jay had expectations on his time, and then there was Meikiyo who was stuck in a dark place. Higen’s capture weighed heavily on Jay but it tore her up. Jay at least was able to find solace in activity.
The thing that surprised him most of all was that despite the fact that they had a new growth stimulant that had no aphrodisiac effect, he was in no less demand than before. Sure, there were some of the girls that didn’t seem to be that interested in sex anymore, but there were others who were even more interested. He chalked it up to the realization that they were free and the desire that came with knowing they were making the decision on their own, not because they were chemically induced.
Of course, he also prided himself on having learned some pretty top-notch technique by this point. Between simple physical practice, fused connections, and his sensual projections, sex was every bit as superhuman in quality as their other abilities.
That thought brought around another tension. Of the fifty-nine girls in Team Jay fifty-four of them still wanted to be with him on a regular basis, and most of those expected him to make time every day for them even if it was with a group. At least the pods helped with those.
Then there was the fact that he had seven wives and eighteen fuses. About twenty more girls wanted to fuse with him and a few of the non-wives, fused and non-fused alike, wanted to be made into wives. There were days that Jay felt he was stretched and pulled in too many directions.
One of the best things that he had done was assigning Trina to be in charge of organizing the other humans. She and her team had taken over setting up living arrangements and had set schedules for them to have their implants removed and replaced with new ones. About half of the other clusters decided to have the new implants put in to guide their development.
That left another half though that decided they didn’t want any further evolution. They didn’t take the new stimulant or get implants. They all possessed some abilities but many of them were no more than Tier 3 and far removed from Team Jay in terms of power. Of course, even within Team Jay there were clearly two classes. The fused girls had power at a level the others couldn’t imagine.
The fuses had all their stats at well over one hundred with each of them possessing at least one stat over one thousand. Their stat totals were all over three thousand with the earlier fuses being more evenly balanced and the later fuses tending to have most of their power in a single stat. It made for some interesting tensions between even the fused girls. The one thing that it made crystal clear though was the need for skill increases.
