After embracing for a short while, We amicably reached a point of contentment and pulled away from one another and moved to the couch. As we sat down, Kathrine still chose closeness and sat on my lap as she leant against me.
"So, where are we going to eat? Oh let me guess! You didn't pick a place as you know I can get in anywhere I want?" She said before smiling victoriously as she judged my reaction, knowing she got it right.
"Well, I would prefer we go somewhere you like instead of just a random place after all. And you might be craving a certain type of food. It is technically lunch after all, but that being said, I could eat an ox right now."
Kathrine rubbed my chest and breathed heavily in place of a laugh. "I could eat a lot as well if we are being honest. With our bond, I am getting slightly stronger. It is leaving me rather famished, and the fact that whatever happened has boosted my metabolism, I don't have to watch my carbs.... OOooohhh, I could kill for some pasta right now, I know just the place, let me go book a table!"
After watching Kathrine leave the room, admiring her current attire once more, I swiftly closed my eyes to check on my Inhabitants. "Are you all behaving in here?" I jested, as I opened my Avatar's eyes.
Immediately I had Onyx attached to my torso like a backpack. "My universe, I have changed my mind, I want a date! The raw passion the two of you just expressed, Mmmh the emotion that permeated through here was delicious, I want more!"
I hastily manoeuvred my body, rocketing Onyx over my body, grabbing her mid air and planting her against the ground, using my weight to keep her in place. "Oh my beautiful protector wants a date? Oh well she will get one."
I then leant down and sadistically licked her cheek causing her to audibly shiver below me. "But what type of date? The kind I am going on with Kathrine? Or perhaps you wish to hunt together? It would give me a chance to try out your gift after all..."
I may have taken things a step too far with the lick across the cheek, it was impulsive, but I just went for it and it seemed a certain future Onyx decided to be a bad girl again for a moment as Onxy's eyes began seeping green energy.
In response to this assault, Onyx had to resort to freeing herself from my grasp by morphing into her five meter tall Stalker form to calm her emotions. She then picked me up as she stood up from the ground and proceeded to lick my face in response.
"I am not sure Apollo, I will think it over while I observe your date. Though a hunt... That does sound sublime..." Onyx suddenly let go of me as her emotions evaporated from her presence. The chains that were lying loosely around her limbs suddenly became taught as she ironically stopped resisting against them. She had a serious decision to consider, this required her full mental faculties.
Leaving Onyx to it after a quick heatpat, I walked over to Sol who had observed the whole interactment with a smile. Before I had a chance to greet her, the entity that had limited itself to a body suddenly materialised behind me and clasped my shoulders tight as she pressed up against my back.
"That was breath-taking, Apollo. The display of your love, you felt it didn't you? Your Origin? The tether? Mmmh, you fuelled your fire with your true purpose, I felt myself become stronger in a heartbeat. Your love is so pure, it feels amazing to be empowered by it instead of greed, ambition and destruction. It is addictive, I am beginning to wonder how it's going to feel when we fuel ourselves with mutually given love?"
Sol's words had a trace of teasing mixed with genuine curiosity as she tried to lead my body with her own. While it was true that I was incredibly curious by what she just said, my science brain wanting those answers, another matter had to be settled first.
Materialising behind Sol, I clutched her waist tightly with one arm and with my free hand, I applied pressure to her throat region, causing her to look up at me as she took a sharp breath, billowing her horns in the process.
The gesture was merely symbolic as the entity did not need to actually breathe, but she understood what I was doing and my next words only solidified the point. "I told you Sol, I am in charge, no power moves on me, got it?."
Sol's fiery eyeballs were somehow glistening up at me with excitement as I held her by the throat. "Harder!" She spoke with difficulty and eagerness, giving me a mild sense of Deja vu. I did as she asked just for a few seconds before pulling away.
Sol's regal form fell to the floor on her knees, giving me a satisfaction I did not know I was capable of. 'Another thing to add to the list...' I mused with a slight chuckle before walking over to the good girls of my Mindspace.
First my trusty Zircon, who was vibrating in her chains as I approached. "Hey, my perfect sword. How are you feeling? How is your shadow doing?" At my Request, I could 'feel' Zircon exert herself in the chains to show off her former shadow.
The fifty meter tall fallen queen stood on its three legs, its large chitinous thorax, large bulbous head with compound eyes and pincers were fully healed from the holes it once had and was starting to show some of the green it had expelled to talk to me during the hunt.
The shadow didn't stay out for long, as the mere activity of making its thoughts coherent and collective made my Mindspace shudder with the raw power it once wielded. Rubbing the temples of my avatar in a soothing motion, I then proceeded to run my finger down Zircons fuller and seductively whispered.
" Don't worry, I am sure I can get you more to eat soon, that isn't just Orchid. I am going to get you big and strong again, I promise." To my words, Zircon began vibrating so aggressively in her chains that for the first time, I heard the bastards creak at the pressure being exerted from Zircon.
The sword seemed to notice this and calmed down, It liked its bondage after all. It enjoyed the feeling of being bound within Apollo's chains. There was a safety, a purpose within.
After rubbing Zircon's pommel a couple more times, I then left her and was about to go over to chonktimus prime, but she was snoring heavily underneath the Origin and I didn't want to disturb her.
It was a good decision on my part. As I opened my eyes, I was witness to Kathrine entering the living room with a smile on her face. " I managed to get a table on short notice at Guigino's! ooh, I am so excited! Come, I need a pre-drink while the air cab makes its way here."
I stood up and followed Kat who had already ran over to her bar, worryingly quickly, and began pouring herself a red wine. She then reached under a cabinet and a few moments later a familiar aroma wafted through the air.
"You stole one of my presents?" I teased as I took the glass from her. Kathrine tutted. "Hey, this is your home as well dear, It's good to be prepared. Now, you are going to drink two of those here and then take a flask with you to give yourself a little buzz."
I shrugged my shoulders and did as she asked, considering I drank a full barrel and only felt drunk for five minutes before the effects wore off, a couple was in fact perfectly fine.
It wasn't long after our pre date drinks, which naturally came with a side of light flirting, that the Air cab arrived and shuttled across the beautiful city space below us for ten minutes before arriving at our destination. After helping Kathrine out of the cab, I turned to look at the restaurant and was immediately pleased by the atmosphere of Guigino's as it appeared to be a mostly outdoors establishment with expensive drapes above the outdoor space.
"Hot diggity dog, this place is magnificent." I cheerfully said, causing Kathrine to look at me and giggle. "Wuh what?" I then waved my hand in the air to drop my random outburst and locked arms with Kathrine and walked towards the restaurant.
It was at that moment, I forgot Kathrine was actually famous on this planet and this restaurant was a high profile magnet, as such Paparazzi were all outside and the moment they noticed the two of us, the flashing began...
Reliving the hell of Ecumenopolis 1 again, I leaned in close to Kathrine and whispered.
"Maybe we should go somewhere with walls instead?"