CHAPTER 52 FIRST CASE
Asher was able to pass all the tests in one day. His head about exploded by the end of it, but he passed. He and the girls had a celebratory all night romp session afterward. This of course had included a suitcase full of cash and a diamond heist. No new skill, but it was very fun. Now the 2 girls were passed out on their giant bed as he got ready for work.
A full ceiling height mirror was on one of their walls. He stood in front of it staring at himself. In only underwear he flexed. His muscles had become bulky at some point, and he was just now noticing. A little upset at losing his slim figure he wanted to try to look a little thinner. Using his skill Full Body Control he pushed mana into his chest, arms, and legs. Stretching himself out slowly, he made his new height somewhere between 6’-4” and 6’-5”.
His clothes shouldn’t be too strained with that, and he didn’t look so bulky anymore. Asher wanted to make this his new normal, so he focused his Intellect to remember the look and feel of it. Satisfied, he put on his white button down shirt and tie. After a few Youtube videos on how to tie a tie he was happy with the look. The shirt was now a little short on him, but the girls would be more than happy to get him new stuff. He kissed the girls goodbye, they grunted replies as they cuddled, and soon he was off to the local PD. Amanda was waiting for him at the entrance.
“There you are,” she said as he got out of his truck. “Here is your parking pass. Use the backlot after today,” she said. “We need to fill out a little more paperwork. I’ll show you to your desk, then we have our first case.”
“Already?” He asked as they walked inside.
“Yep, happened over the weekend. A little weird, but might be System related.” Amanda was almost giddy as she walked inside.
“Excited to start this new assignment?” He asked. She had threatened him with bodily harm if he failed the test the Friday before. Ash tripped on a step, grunting. He still needed to get used to being taller.
“A little,” she admitted. They hadn’t repeated the event in the library, but Ash knew it wasn’t a long term thing between them. Zora and Tiff were his wives, and maybe Joon, but they were enough for him. Besides, Ash didn’t feel for Amanda like he did the others. Tiff simply had a tendency to want some strange now and then. As long as she kept him the only man, he didn’t mind at all.
“Well, partner,” he said. “Let’s get to it.”
Amanda walked him around. Introducing him to this person or that person. Ash made sure to remember their names. Amanda was a real police officer, so she had access to everything from case files to evidence. Whenever something needed to be done with real authority, he had to go through her. He was more than happy with the arrangement since he was allowed to keep his own hours after a few weeks. He could go on raids as long as they didn’t take too long, but he was expected to be there a minimum of 3 days a week. Amanda would work her full 40, and would fill her time with detective work when there weren’t any weird cases.
Asher was technically an outside contractor, and not part of the union. He had to get his own insurance, but for now he had an actual paying job. Tiff said she had already worked out how to give him OT and real pay so they could launder some money to them for tax purposes. Though he wouldn’t work a full 40 hours, he would still get paid 60. She would provide the cash, and magically the money would appear in his account, minus some hush money they passed out. All in all it felt good to break the law to help uphold it.
After he was given a desk he was brought into Wayne Tyler’s office. As a police captain he had his own department to run, Amanda and Ash fell under that department. “My boss’s boss is a System user in the guild. I won’t say who, but he is the only reason I got you approved. Don’t fuck it up,” he said.
Asher was still picturing having sex with Wayne’s daughter on her empty desk outside, but snapped to attention with that. “Yes sir.”
Wayne looked him up and down, Amanda chuckled nervously. Wayne threw a folder at them. “This may be System related,” he said pointing at it. Amanda opened the folder revealing pics with pentagram type drawings written in blood. “A local hospital has been finding these under hospital beds. It wasn’t noticed till last week when someone died and they cleaned the room. They did a sweep and found every bed on the floor had one of these drawn somewhere on or under the bed. Could be a satanist thing, but don’t really know.”
“On it,” Amanda said.
As they walked outside Asher asked, “So do I get a gun?”
“Not yet. After your probation you do.”
“Too bad,” he said, willing out an Uzi. “Guess I’ll have to stick to these.”
“You aren’t shooting anything,” Amanda chided as they got into the unmarked police car. “We investigate. If any shooting is required we call it in.”
“And if another Superman shows up?” He asked as she began to drive away.
“You think a gun will help then? Stick to your sword. Subdue him, but we don’t kill.”
“If we can help it,” he corrected.
“If we can help it,” she repeated with a sigh.
They sat in silence for a time. “This is exciting. Amanda and Ash on the case. I’ll be Lucifer, your dashing and joke cracking sidekick with superpowers. You can be that one girl that ran around with him.” She rolled her eyes but chuckled. “You have any cool Detective skills?”
“Some. Mostly truth detection, a disguise one, some identification skill that tells me stuff about people.”
“Oh cool. Anything on me?”
“Nope, I can see a lot of stuff on System and non-System people. But you’re hidden for some reason. Which threw me off when I met you in that hotel room,” she said.
Asher began laughing. “I forgot about that. You sure wanted to catch me then,” he said. “I didn’t think anyone would.”
“I was new to the force. Had to prove myself. In all honesty, I should thank you. You bringing the videos from Aleksi’s place got me out of that department. I was able to get some real credit when he was killed. I mean I would have preferred an arrest, but all the stuff I gathered made it an open and shut case.”
“Oh yeah. I forgot about the videos. They’re gone I hope?”
“Yep, burned them with the rest of the evidence from your rampage at the mansion,” she said, giving him a glare.
“Good. Thanks,” he said uncaringly. “You should tell Zora that. Maybe we should stop by there for lunch,” he said.
“Oh no. If I let you go home I know what that turns into for you lot. When you’re here, you are working,” she said.
“Hey, I can be serious sometimes,” he said but left it at that.
They were soon at the hospital. Amanda did most of the talking. With his new height he towered over everyone. Walking around to get a better feel for his center of gravity he let Amanda lead.
“This is the room,” a nurse said walking them in. Everything was pushed against the wall and in the center was a small drawing. Ash walked over to it. It was a 10-pointed star with a weird question mark like symbol in the middle. He leaned in close, sniffing it. “Blood,” he confirmed.
“How the hell do you know that?” Amanda said.
“I have a Tracking Skill, oh and it smells like blood. If I taste it I can tell you whose it is.”
“Seriously,” both girls asked.
“No,” he admitted, cracking a smile. Amanda sighed heavily.
“Do you mind if we interview the people on the floor?” Amanda asked.
“No, I mean those on shift anyway. But we run 2 shifts, so you’ll have to come back for the night shift,” she said walking out.
“Ugh, here it goes,” he said with a groan as they followed her out.
They interviewed people one by one. It typically only lasted 5 minutes between each person. Mainly general questions were asked and Amanda used her lie detection skill. Ash watched most of them in the corner with his Identification Glasses, but none were System users.
After everyone had been interviewed they were given a list of people who worked the night shift. Rather than wait all day they agreed to wake people up and go door to door. Mostly nothing came of it.
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They were half way down the list, and it was already night time. They had interviewed people that worked that night already, but now they were on the part of the list of those who didn’t work that night.
“It’s him,” Asher said, looking at the hospital’s file on him.
“You said that for the last 3,” Amanda reminded him from the driver’s seat.
“Yeah I know, but come on. He looks like the type. Pale, has worked there for only a few months, and besides, only a villain has a name as bland as Jack Smith. Obviously an alias.”
“He works the night shift, of course he’s pale,” Amanda said with a laugh.
She pulled into the street outside his house. It was a little run down. A small 2-story with a chain link fence. Nothing set it apart from others besides the fact that the lawn hadn’t been mowed in a little while. “Lawn hasn’t been cut. He’s prolly dead inside, killed by some weird demon he summoned with his blood sacrifices.”
“He works the night shift. He’s awake at night, of course he isn’t going to mow,” she said. “Stop with the demon shit. You’re freaking me out.” She shivered.
They walked up to the door. There were no lights on which made it extra creepy. “If I find a severed head I’m gonna be pissed,” Asher said as she knocked. They waited but no lights came on. They heard nothing. She knocked again. Nothing. When she moved to knock extra loudly an ear splitting scream sounded. Like a wilhelm scream it echoed between houses.
“I’m guessing that came from here,” Asher said as his heart pounded.
Amanda nodded. “That’s probable cause,” she said. “I’ll take the back. Give me 30 seconds then come in,” she said.
Asher nodded. She ran around the house and disappeared. Asher counted to 35 then pushed the door lightly until the locks broke. It didn’t take much. The inside reeked of cats. Gagging he could almost taste the fur balls. The lights were off, and his adrenaline was pumping too much for him to think of turning on a light.
“Police,” he said. Chiding himself, he should have said that before barging in. “I knocked and said police before entering,” he said out loud. Assuring whatever ghost was inside. “We just want to talk to you.” The only sounds were the floorboards creaking with each step. “I’m getting really freaked out,” he whispered to himself. “Police!” He yelled. “Amanda?” He whispered less confidently.
When he was in the kitchen he noticed the creepy stairs down to the basement. In the gloom he stared at the door for a little while. He had seen too many horror movies to immediately go to the basement. Like an idiot he had watched Barbarian the other day. It was too fresh in his mind, and he didn’t want to become some inbred creature's weird baby prisoner.
He then heard a loud yelp. Turning his head from the door he backed away from it till he was at the kitchen window. There was a garage out back, and the lights were on. Maybe Amanda had seen it and checked it out before entering. Gulping in air he forced himself to calm down. The back door was unlocked so he walked out. Pulling an Uzi from his ring he was already angry at himself for not pulling a weapon out sooner.
The yelp he heard had turned to groans, like zombie groans. This wasn’t helping his imagination. Asher gulped and peaked in the open door of the garage. Inside he watched Amanda getting attacked by a demon.
It wasn’t the demon he had imagined before though. This one was a succubus. Black bat wings, pale skin, black fur on her chest that ran between her cleavage down to her crotch, and a black tail with a spade on the end. The demon was currently eating Tiffany. Her pussy gushed as the succubus had her face between the poor woman’s legs.
No longer scared, he was mostly angry and turned on now. Stepping into the garage he noticed their target standing there. He was pale, with greasy hair, and was wearing a black robe. Asher ignored the guy’s erection as he watched the show. Grabbing his hand Asher pulled out his handcuffs and slapped them on a wrist and on the metal leg of a shelf inside the garage.
“Who are you?” Jack Smith asked.
“Police,” he said. “So is she,” he said pointing at the girl. “We can talk later. Call your succubus off my partner.”
“Dude, I don’t know how I got her on your partner. I told the succubus to hold her off so I could run, and this was her solution.”
“And why didn’t you run?” Asher asked. The guy’s eyes were locked on the scene in front of them. He knew why. “Well can you end the summon?”
“It only lasts 10 minutes, so it should wear itself out,” Jack said, his eyes transfixed.
“Ugh,” Asher said. “I need answers from the succubus too.” He thought he recognized her, but wasn’t sure. He didn’t like this plan, but a part of him really needed answers. Another part really wanted to fuck a succubus and find out who had stronger skills.
“Hey Succubitch,” Asher yelled, drawing her attention. He began undoing his pants as his dick grew larger than ever. Thick and veiny it looked weird to him as he forced it erect. “Pick on someone your own size.”
The succubus looked up from Amanda’s crotch, licked her lips and attacked. Asher did recognize her. He was starting to get into this now. She leapt for him, but he grabbed her arms before she could do anything. She squirmed in his grasp staring at his large dick. He raised his pheromones to 100 and focused them all on her. She came instantly. Juices squirted out of her onto his dick with the pheromones.
This was a mistake, Asher realized too late. Her juices must have acted as some sort of aphrodisiac, because once they touched his skin he was unnaturally horny. A quick look at his screen and his libido had raised to 30. He was able to force it back down to 20, but that’s as far as it went.
Grunting, he pulled the succubus closer. With her arms in his she was still able to guide her cunt to his dick. She slid it in slowly. Her eyes bulged as he forced her deeper and deeper. When he was all the way in a bulge appeared in her stomach.
She came instantly. Convulsing she began to scream. Her wings flapped, tail waggled, and drool fell from her mouth. He slowly began fucking her then. Moving his hands to her sides he began raising and lowering her on him. Her arms grabbed onto her tits as his dick filled her up beyond what he thought was possible. The succubus screamed in glee as he pumped her full of pheromones. Every thrust gave her an orgasm as he pulled out then slammed back in. He then picked up speed. She began cursing then. In English and a German sounding language. She lost herself in the feel of it.
Juices poured out of her, but Asher was getting used to the aphrodisiac. Forcing himself not to cum he picked up speed and slammed her a few more times until pulling her down extra hard onto his crotch. The succubus screamed harder as she squirted on him. Her legs wrapped around him, her tail came around the side to touch him. He let her finish, then focused on her as he drew his pheromones back in.
She had a relaxed look on her face. Tongue on the side of her mouth she took in great gulps of air. “Hey,” He said, slapping her lightly on the cheek. He began to shrink his dick as well. The bulge sadly left her stomach. “You’re Emma right?”
As if the spell was finally lifting she snapped to attention. Looking confused she looked to Ash. “Asher?” She asked. “What are you doing here?”
“Me? What about you? I thought you were blonde,” he said. Her hair was now jet black. “And human.”
“Oh, this is a new skill,” she said in her slight Austrian accent. “I also got a quest to answer a Warlock’s summon. Yeah him,” she said pointing at Jack. The poor guy stared at them in a daze. “This was the first time I used the form, it kind of took charge. Shit, is that Amanda?” Emma asked looking behind her. Yes this was the succubus from their guild. Emma Keller worked for Doug now and then, and had helped them with the red quest. Asher knew her by sight but that was it. “Oh God. She and Tiff are going to kill me,” she said putting her head in her hands. He still held her up and was inside her. Lifting her they both grunted as he exited her perfect feeling pussy.
“It’s alright. I didn’t cum. I’ll have a talk with both,” he assured her, setting her down on the ground.
“Didn’t cum?” She asked. “That’s impossible,” she said, pouting. “You literally cannot fight my skills,” she said. “Aren’t you an Actor System?”
“I have some sex skills too,” he admitted. “Don’t worry about it. I was really trying to snap you out of it. Your juices worked, that’s for sure.”
She still pouted, like she had lost some fight. “Shit, the summon is ending. We aren’t done here,” she said. “Call me.” Then with a puff of purple smoke she disappeared.
Asher looked to Jack who still stood there shocked. “Alright. I’m gonna wake my partner up, and you’ll do some talking,” Asher said as he bent down to pick up Amanda.
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It took way longer than Asher expected to knock her out of her stupor. Whatever skills Emma had, they were strong. He might have to talk Tiff into trying them out. The succubus was one of his fantasies, and he did nearly lose himself, but his girls were too precious to him to risk losing them over some sex. Why he had chosen to fight her with his dick instead of fists, he couldn’t answer. He blamed it on some lust aura the girl let off.
“Ok,” Asher said to Jack. They were back inside now. The lights were on, and it was much less creepy as Jack drank from a cat coffee cup. “I know you have a System. Level 5 it looks like. Walk me through your System and what happened tonight. Also why you’ve been drawing creepy shit under people's beds at work.”
“I read you’re not supposed to tell people this stuff,” Jack said.
“Too bad. We are cops, if you don’t want to get arrested then start answering,” Asher said. Looking to Amanda she sat beside him, but had a dreamy look on her face. Ash nudged her and she bolted upright.
“What he said,” she said, pretending to be angry. Ash thought she might have a new crush.
“Fine. Yes, I awoke the Warlock System. When people die I can make a Soul Fragment if I’m near them. Well it’s really hard to guess when someone is about to die, so I used these drawings to make it for me. If they die, I clean their rooms and pick up the Soul Fragment. I’m not hurting anybody, honestly.”
“What do you use these fragments for?” Amanda asked finally out of her daydream.
“I can combine 6 to make a Soul Gem. Then with a Soul Gem I can do stuff like summon demons, that Succubus was supposed to be my new contract, but then you showed up,” he sounded angry.
“What was that scream we heard earlier?” Asher asked.
“That’s the sound the Soul Gem makes when it’s formed,” Jack admitted like it was obvious.
Asher thought for a bit. It all fit together. “I assume you have an ability to make a Soul Fragment if something dies in front of you.”
Jack nodded. “But I’m not about to go kill stuff from the pet store or something.”
“I wouldn’t expect you to,” Asher said. “Let me tell you a little truth of the world. First of all there are these things called dungeons, inside these dungeons are monsters….”
It took a while for the guy to believe them. When they showed their storage rings, and website of the guild he began to trust a little. With that they had a new dungeon delver. A new Gamer in the guild was recruiting anyway. All in all it was a long day, and he was happy to be done with it.