Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-34283940-20180113182430/@comment-33398500-20180113203020

“You wouldn’t shoot your new stepmom, would you?”

My entire body started to shake once that question came out, even if she didn’t break pace having her way with father right in front of me. “W-what...? T-that can’t be true...” I stammered, weapon continuing to shake as I attempted to aim at her. There was no way my father, true hero of the order and defender of what was right in the world, would surrender to one of the monsters he was sworn to destroy, right?

“V-victor! Hold!” the second voice, my father, now let out between gasps and groans “Liz-! At l-least let up in f-front of him...” he then gasped out. Groaning to herself, the echidna then released him for the moment.

Looking over at me as she did so, she then said “You owe me one... we were so close to giving you a stepsister, too...” giggling slightly.

“F-f-father... w-what is going on...?” I started to ask, completely staggered by what was going on.

“Well... Victor... this is Elizabeth... she’s your new stepmom... I met her during my last expedition...” he started, rubbing the back of his head as Elizabeth slithered over to me, her coils surrounding me a moment as she looked me over.

“Hmm... not bad, not bad...” she let out “...he’ll make a mamono very lucky one day~”

“First off... wouldn’t touch a mamono with a ten-foot pole...” I told her defiantly, stepping out of her coils as she hadn’t bound me, “Second off... not what I meant...! You always taught me what terrible beings mamono were, that we had to put a stop to them! H-h-how did you fall to one!?” I practically shouted at him, starting toward the door to leave.

“Victor!” My father then said incredulously. “That’s no way to speak to your stepmom! But if you must know the story... I met her when I made my way through a dungeon, seeking a relic for the sake of the order... but when I reached the end of the dungeon, the only thing there was her... being caught by her... she convinced me of the error of my ways... mamono don’t EAT people, they’re not the bloodthirsty killers and destroyers we have been led to believe, Victor...”

“Ah, it seems your son will not learn until he has been properly introduced to a mamono...” Elizabeth then sighed to herself, before commenting “...but I’m not that kind of snake, so we’ll have to introduce him to someone once we get out of here...”

“Wh-what kind of blasphemy is that...?” I started, before realizing what she said “Out of here? What are you talking about?”

“We have to go, son...” my father then told me “...no matter how powerful your new stepmom is, if we remain in order territory, the others will hunt us down to attempt to kill her... so we have to leave...”

“No! I don’t want to leave for the sake of... the sake of... one of them!” I then started, going for the door before she darted over to me, running her hand over my forehead before I could leave, her hand glowing slightly “Good night, son...” she cooed before everything went black.

I had a strange dream, like the whole world was bobbing slowly up and down while I stayed in the comfortable grip of a large, coiling pillow, hugging into it passively until it turned into a giant snake... no... it was her, but younger! Coiling me and trapping me in her body, a voice called to me from outside “Just let your sister have you~” as she made ready to do what that woman did to my dad...

When next I came to with a start, we were in a small bedroom in a strange house “Oh, he’s waking up~” a young girl with cow horns, a holstaur, then jumped up, going out of the room “Mommy! Miss Elizabeth, Mister Slade! He’s awake!” she called out before I realized what was going on, now seeing the young holstaur child and three others stepping, or in her case, slithering, into the room.

The girl’s mother was a tall, well-developed holstaur, accompanying my parents into the room. “Hey, Victor...” my father then started. “You feeling all right?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“All right...? I just left everything I ever knew and am currently surrounded by mamono and my father who has been claimed by one... I am most definitely NOT all right!” which seemed to take the two holstaurs aback.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Victor-!” he then chided, whacking me over the head with two fingers. “I won’t have talk like that in front of the neighbours! And definitely not in front of your stepmom!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“I-i-it’s okay... I get it...” the adult holstaur then commented “Most guys in order territory aren’t used to mamono... even partially-accepted ones like us...”

<p class="MsoNormal">“’Cause he’s never been close to one before!” the daughter then exclaimed, now jumping onto my bed and hugging me as I struggled against her “He’s a lot warmer than he looks!” she cooed as I continued to struggle.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Though he was far more cuddly on the boat...” Elizabeth commented.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Get her off me!” I continued, attempting to struggle against the holstaur, but as my limbs were drained by a very long time of sleep, I couldn’t really resist the soft warmth of her body against mine, even over the blanket, neither of us old enough to do anything anyway, so I didn’t have to fear.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Hey, Victor, we’re lucky to have neighbours like Vivian and her husband... though his other wife is a bit odd, I’ll admit...” Slade then commented, before continuing on his actual thought “We came out here to start a new life, and there’s a lot of mamono that live out here, I’m pretty sure they outnumber humans in this area, so you’re going to have to calm down...”

<p class="MsoNormal">“...and get ready, because of those numbers, you’re going to be in high demand when you’re a little older~” Elizabeth giggled “But don’t get used to the solitary bedroom once your stepsisters start coming~” to my surprise, I then realized I must have been out a long time, as Elizabeth’s belly had a slight bulge to it: she was pregnant!

<p class="MsoNormal">“Father, you didn’t!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Why would I not have a child with my wife? Where do you think you came from!?” he continued, shaking his head.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I came from mother! B-but this is... different...” I tried to say, though the warm holstaur atop me made this situation rather awkward.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Maybe to you... it’ll take a lot to accept... but I am your stepmom...” Elizabeth stated.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Okay, dear, get off him, you’ll get a chance when you two are older~” Viv then told her, leading to her daughter clambering off my bed.

<p class="MsoNormal">I guess it was something I’d have to get used to, as there was nothing I could do about it.

<p class="MsoNormal">Over the course of the next several years, I was practically raised alongside Vivian and Abagail’s (the neighbour’s other wife, a rather strange wererabbit known as a March Hare) daughters, as well as helping to raise Elizabeth’s daughters, quickly going from one to a half-dozen, only one being an echidna, another being a lamia, a weresheep, a succubus, a lizardman and a dragon.

<p class="MsoNormal">Spending years living alongside so many different mamono, my initial apprehension was ground away at by them being constantly there, always there, I had to learn to accept them, really hoping mamono didn’t believe in incest, though this fear was quickly dispelled by Elizabeth as soon as I mentioned it “Only specific ones, dear, none of your sisters would do that... though you may want to watch for Abby’s girl...” referring to the young march hare that had tried to seduce me several times already.

<p class="MsoNormal">She wasn’t the only one, actually, every time I went into town, young mamono would remind me who the single girls in town were, always including themselves when they did so...

<p class="MsoNormal">“But... if you don’t pick a girl soon, we might get mobbed...” she bubbled, proud her stepson had such a following.

<p class="MsoNormal">However, I knew she was right: despite my reluctance, I did notice how well and how quickly the neighbour’s daughters were developing (their eldest daughters, anyway, it seemed local families were all very ‘productive’, them having seven daughters as well) as well as some of the girls in the classes I went to, taught by a lovely hakutaku. It was no wonder there were so many more of them than males in the area, I only knew three or four other single guys in the area I could talk to for support, but there were DOZENS of single mamono in the area, so they had no intention of letting us choose ‘none’, merely having a choice of WHICH mamono.

<p class="MsoNormal">“W-what do you think I should do?” I found myself asking my stepmom, fidgeting in embarrassment.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Choose who you love, and let her know how you feel~” she told me “But if one of them tries to give you her heart, don’t turn her away...”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Victor? Can you come out here, please?” Viv’s oldest daughter, Lily then called to me to come out of the house.

<p class="MsoNormal">As I made my way out, I noticed my sisters all giggling “Looks like the moment of truth! Our brother won’t be alone anymore~” my eldest sister, the echidna then told me, amused.

<p class="MsoNormal">Once I made my way out, I found out what she meant: not only was Lily out here, Abby’s oldest daughter, Charlotte, was there as well, not to mention, Jennifer, a lamia I knew from in town, Zoe, a succubus who sat next to me in class and made sure I got a look at her butt at every possible opportunity, and Victoria, a centaur who lived down the street from me, whom I saw just about every day, helping her with whatever she was doing when I passed her house, convinced there was a meaning in how close our names were.

<p class="MsoNormal">Bright red as all five of them stood in a line, I stepped toward them, as each held out a prisoner fruit toward me “Please accept my feelings, Victor!” they all said as one.

<p class="MsoNormal">“If one of them tries to give you her heart, don’t turn her away...” 

<p class="MsoNormal">My stepmom’s words echoed in my brain as all five of them looked at me expectantly while I stepped toward them, now stopping in front of them “Ummm... I... I... I can’t turn you away!” I then let out, all five of them looking positively elated, before all five of them seemed to jump me as one, none seeming to care we were in my front yard in their extremely excited state.

<p class="MsoNormal">This was going to be a big wedding, I think...