All that was left was to return to the States and confront the lamia and her followers, to obtain the other half of the sun disk. From there, I imagined the fun would just be getting started.

  But first, Ahlaksiz insisted we stop by to check on Yuki. With more time in Japan, I wasn’t about to complain. Plus, with everything that had happened, and this new power still feeling like it was threatening to explode out of me, I didn’t mind at all the idea of at least getting a chance to catch my breath.

  We came in low over a Ferris wheel—yes, I’ve always liked them for their name—while cloaked, of course. Ahlaksiz had to circle to get her sense of direction right. When she spotted a large shopping center, she turned to us with a wide smile and said, “Even after fifty or sixty years, I’ve still got it.”

  Hearing those words from a woman who looked so young was just wrong. I had to laugh and shake my head at the thought. While Mizuki had left with the Eye of Ra for safekeeping with the Monkey Princess, the youth that it had brought Ahlaksiz wasn’t fading anytime soon, from what I could tell.

  She landed between a low stone wall and the back of a house—a road, I supposed, but one of the narrowest I’d ever seen. From there, she pulled into a driveway, uncloaked, and said, “I just need to run in, to check on them. Does anyone want to come with?”

  “Actually, I wouldn’t mind,” I said. Even if the guy had betrayed me, the woman had helped us out—and he’d proven to be okay in the end. I wanted to give him another chance. To try this whole talking thing when he wasn’t trying to fuck me over.

  “I’ll wait here,” Kinara said. “Need to… close…” She was out.

  “Same.” Koharu leaned against the wall, closing her eyes.

  “Someone has to watch over them,” Milrae said, and Jalee just shrugged, mumbling about not wanting to impose. Considering Suiko was back in me—yeah, a weird thought—and Basty was around my neck as a scarf again, I figured they were both joining us. That was a relief because I still wasn’t completely trusting of this Greg guy. True, he’d come through, but for all I knew he could still be planning something.

  I tried to get those thoughts out of my head and followed Ahlaksiz around to the front door.

  30

  “Welcome,” Yuki said, opening the door with the baby at her breast. That was a bit awkward, but I wasn’t a perv about it. I simply turned to Greg as we entered and offered him a smile.

  “You made it,” he said, while Ahlaksiz stood with Yuki, talking about how adorable the baby was.

  “We made it,” I replied. “Thanks to you.”

  “And you… succeeded?” Yuki asked, taking the baby to her shoulder and rubbing its back as she bounced lightly, breast still out and slightly dripping. I quickly averted my gaze back to Greg, who eyed me with humor and shrugged.

  “Dude, breastfeeding is natural. No need to be shy.”

  “I just…”

  He laughed, then motioned to Yuki. “He’s not used to it. Take it easy on him.”

  “I’m not about to apologize for doing my thing,” Yuki said to me with a laugh and handed the baby to Ahlaksiz. She took a cloth to wipe the milk drop from her nipple, then covered herself. “But I won’t torture you anymore, either.”

  Seeing a breast was hardly torture, but I certainly didn’t need to point that out, especially in front of her husband.

  “Ah, yes, success,” I said, grinning and trying not to look like I’d been embarrassed. “And you two? Talked it through?”

  “We did,” Greg said. “Her mom’s still sleeping, and the baby was until about a minute before you arrived, so we had a good chance to talk.”

  I nodded, glad for them.

  “But… we can’t stay, and neither can her mom,” Greg said. “STP will find us, and they’ll definitely be looking. Since I was never intending to betray them, I didn’t cover my trail very well. Plus, if they find Yuki’s mom, that could be bad for everyone.”

  My curiosity was killing me in terms of who her mom might be—some ancient Japanese Myth? A goddess? But for now, I simply asked, “What will you do?”

  “We don’t know yet.”

  “I do,” Ahlaksiz said. “They’ll come to join us.”

  “Join…?” My eyes went wide. I was ready to forgive this guy, but to have them live with us back in the States? And with STP after them? It seemed a bit much. “Where?”

  “I have some thoughts,” Ahlaksiz said. “It will take some time to get everything ready though.” Eyeing Yuki, and handing back over the baby, she asked, “Can you find temporary housing in the meantime? Because if not, I can put in a call to Goldie. I imagine she could help for a couple of days, and that’s all we’d need, at most. I hope.”

  “That would be great,” Yuki said, then cringed slightly. “Even if Goldie never liked me much.”

  “She’ll learn to.”

  They beamed, and I turned to look out the window, eyeing the little garden outside. “Close to Tokyo Disneyland, right? This house?”

  “We are,” Greg said.

  I shook my head. “A shame we have to leave. That’s on one of my top ‘Gotta visits’ of all time.”

  “Yeah, you said so,” Greg replied, then eyed Yuki as if sharing a secret.

  “What is it?” I asked.

  “Tell him,” Greg said, excitedly.

  “Actually, I can pull some strings,” Yuki said, glancing at the clock. It was still six in the morning. “Greg mentioned your obsession, and I think we can get you in before they open. Would you like that?”

  “Are you serious?” I put my hand to my mouth. Judging by the look I got from Ahlaksiz, this was a bit of an overreaction. Still, I couldn’t let this opportunity pass by. “We can spare a couple of hours. I mean… right?”

  Ahlaksiz considered, then nodded. “You deserve to reward yourself, and if this is how you’d like to do it—”

  “Yes! Yes, it is, or I would. Ahhh! I’m so excited.”

  “Bro,” Greg said, hands out; one went to his lips before he gestured to the baby in Yuki’s arms. “Baby’s sleeping.”

  “Oh, right. When do we go?”

  “I’ll make the call, you all get moving so you can make it,” Yuki said.

  “You’re not coming with?”

  “Not this time,” she replied.

  Greg nodded, taking her hand in his. “We… need some time to talk. To heal. But when we come to visit you in Cali, it’s on.”

  “Deal.”

  I couldn’t believe we were doing this; when we said our goodbyes and I skipped out to the car, the others were full of disbelief as well.

  “We’re doing what?” Koharu asked.

  “Tokyo Disney!” I said. “Just briefly, before the park opens to the public. We’ll be able to get there in a flash with this car thing, and Yuki has connections. So wake up, sleepyheads, it’s time to have some fun!”

  “How… how are your eyes even open right now?” Jalee asked, stretching and moving her head to rest on Milrae’s breast like a pillow. The latter didn’t care; she was too busy glaring at me.

  “Listen,” I said, “I’ll get you all coffee, okay? I…” Glancing around, I was ecstatic to see a vending machine—the kind with hot coffee. “There, I’ll get you coffee. Please, do this for me? I’ll owe you all.”

  “On the coffee,” Ahlaksiz said, already heading for the vending machine and chuckling to herself.

  They mumbled their surrender, and soon we had coffee and were airborne, me bursting with excitement. I nearly burnt my tongue on the drink, I was so excited to chug it.

  Then we were there. I ran out of the car, turning back to pull them along—you get the idea. I was like a little kid who had never been before. I had been to California Disneyland plenty of times. This was different, and yet, the same in many ways.

  Once we had been let inside and given free access to the park with a guide who would get the rides going for us, I was walking on sunshine. Being given early access to the park was a dream come true. There were staff members here and there, but mostly it was just us, walking around without worrying about bumping into people.

  And no lines! We quickly took our picture with Ahlaksiz’s phone at the castle and in front of the Pirates ride, then I insisted we start the rides with Splash Mountain. The ladies weren’t sure what to think of the animatronics, but when we got to the drop, Kinara grabbed me from behind while Milrae—who’d had my arms on her stomach as I sat between the two—grabbed my hands and randomly thrust them to her breasts. That made it all the more fun for me. It was great to have flotation devices when needed.

  Next, we ran to the Haunted Mansion, followed by Pirates of the Caribbean. Everyone thought the Haunted Mansion ride was a hoot, especially Suiko, who was pleased to see humans grasping the idea of spirits and death with such levity.

  The pirate one confused them, though, so Ahlaksiz had to give them a little history lesson as we headed over to the Indiana Jones ride.

  “Don’t tell me,” I said, leaning in, “you were around then, and met Blackbeard firsthand?”

  She laughed. “No, I was in China during most of that time.”

  If it were possible, my eyes went even wider. Indiana Jones ended up being Koharu’s favorite ride, but I was pissed because this wasn’t the ride I was used to. This was some weird Crystal Skull version. Ugh.

  Of course, only Ahlaksiz got the movie connection, a point which I would have to fix before too long—once we were all back in my apartment, maybe? Imagining them all in my little place was both exciting and scary. Did I even have room for them? How would we be… personal, with Suiko and Koharu around? That was all very confusing, but a question for another day. Right now, it was time to focus on having fun at Tokyo Disney.

  To my surprise, on the Matterhorn, Kinara complained that she was bored. It was over so quickly, and not as if these ladies lacked thrills in life.

  “Come on,” I said, leading them to Toon Town and the Roger Rabbit ride. I figured going for whacky above thrills would be better. They were having fun, but Kinara, sharing a car with me as we spun, leaned over and said, “I think it’s all great, but you know what I’d rather be doing?”

  “What?” I asked.

  Instead of answering with words, she used her extra strength to push the bar back, sank to her knees, and pulled out my cock. As I spun and watched neon spirals, she went down on me. I’d always enjoyed the ride, but this was a whole new level of excitement.

  “Oh, my,” Jalee exclaimed as the cars spun and she and Milrae faced us; there was no way they would have missed what was going on. I shrugged.

  We started to spin again, but Jalee suddenly pushed herself up and leaned over, touching me with a shock that sent me into immediate orgasm mode. I came hard and without warning, and Kinara came up gagging a bit. But she licked her lips, smiled, and went back down to ensure she hadn’t missed any.

  At least we were cleaned up and back in our seats when the ride came to a stop and the worker helped us out.

  I stumbled, caught myself on the railing, and blamed it on the sudden stop of movement. Kinara giggled, leading the way out of there with a bounce in her step. We ended the morning on Space Mountain, which I guess had some new name to it, but I ignored that and stuck to the original. In my mind, it would always be Space Mountain, as much as I loved Star Wars.

  On our way out, they were starting to get everything open, and early “Magic Hour” guests were arriving. We bought churros and lollipops, a turkey leg for me, and, lastly, stopped to get a bucket of strawberry popcorn, then one black pepper-flavored. To my surprise, the latter was my favorite; the strawberry had been too sweet.

  “So this is the real you?” Koharu asked.

  I turned back with a mouthful of popcorn and tried to say, “What’ya mean?”

  It went everywhere, earning a mixture of groans and laughter.

  “When you’re not training with spirits or fighting STP, you’re a kid in a candy shop? That’s how the saying goes, right?”

  I considered her question, then nodded. “Pretty much, yeah.”

  She considered this, then gave me an approving smile and nod. “Fun. I like fun.”

  “Me too,” I replied, with a wide grin. Seeing Kinara nodding off in the backseat, and Jalee yawning, I decided I’d completely exhausted them. It was time to let them sleep, and to close my eyes as well. As I did, images of our fun morning at Tokyo Disney rushed through my mind; then Suiko was there, looking at me as she took the images and pulled them into a little ball.

  “That was fun,” she said, holding the ball and staring into it as if it were a snow globe with moving images. “Oh, this place?” She grinned as if debating whether to explain. “It’s a new spot you opened during your training with Vaper, one where you can retreat to when you need it, or visit me when you’d like to… chat.”

  I wasn’t sure if I was mistaken about the tone in her voice as she’d said “chat,” or the way she then smiled. Considering this was in my head, I wasn’t even really sure if it was happening or was some sort of dream. Regardless, I found myself there, accepting the memory ball from her.

  “What’s this?” I asked.

  “Something fun. I don’t know if it’ll ever prove useful in any meaningful way, but it’s a little trick I learned long ago. This way, you can access the memories whenever you want, and it’s not like a blurred recollection you’re not even sure of, but as if you were living it over again. Go on, give it a try.”

  She was right. In a flash, I was back at Tokyo Disney, but I was able to move through the memories as I desired. At one instant I was clutching Milrae’s breasts again on Splash Mountain; the next orgasming into Kinara’s mouth during the Roger Rabbit ride. Then there was that first bite of churro, warm and full of cinnamon goodness. And it all seemed as real as it had been in the moment.

  Pulled out of it, I stared at the crystal ball, then bowed to Suiko. “Nothing could be more meaningful. Thank you.”

  “I should note, that part where you became intimate with Kinara…” She grinned. “I’d never experienced an orgasm through a man’s point of view before. It was fun.”

  My eyes went wide. “I—er—I’m… sorry?”

  “For what?”

  “Not thinking about that, in the moment. You were with us, but that wasn’t appropriate.”

  She looked at me, considering, then chuckled before turning, starting to fade. “Go, sleep now. While you may rest in this state, it isn’t a replacement, exactly. We will visit here again, I am sure.”

  “I would like that,” I replied, still feeling slightly mortified, or at least quite embarrassed, at the idea that she’d been inside me during that quick blowjob.

  As she and that place faded, I felt sleep starting to come over me. Before allowing it, I opened my eyes and looked out the window to see us flying out toward the water. I’d be sad to leave Japan behind but was sure we would come back someday. And now I had friends there I could visit, too, if I could count Yuki and Greg as friends. That was a slippery one, but I thought I could grasp the idea of doing so. Maybe after Greg treated me to a few shots of sake.

  We had so much to do before such vacations could be a reality. For now, it was time to challenge Rand Jacobs and the mansion of monsters.

  Well, after some well-deserved sleep.

  THE END

  Meet the Ladies

  Here are your favorite monster ladies!

  (1) Kinara (AKA Chirop): A bat girl who Ferris first summoned in his closet thanks to an obsidian bat his brother gave him. His brother didn’t know what it was, of course. Her favorite foods include raw meat, squirrel, and whatever she can catch.

  (2) Jalee (AKA Thunderbird): The thunderbird, first summoned out at Big Bear Lake. Her wings come out with electricity. She likes a little spark in her relationships.

  (3) Milrae (AKA Milkshake): She’s a bit of a red-panda hybrid with regular panda, meets demon. Kind of. We’ll find out more soon! For now, suffice it to say she enjoys milkshakes and hamburgers.

  (4) Ahlaksiz: The older woman of the group, and ironically a cougar. On the nose? Sure, but why not! She owns the shop where Ferris first got the totem, and has now joined them in their fun. She looks a bit younger here, and if you’ve read, you might know why.

  And don’t miss out on the rest of them in the next book! Be sure to follow me on Amazon and join my Facebook group to ensure you’re caught up.

  Author Notes

  Now that we've completed book 3, I want to take a second to say thank you so much! Some of you were able to hop into the Kickstarter for the audiobooks, or my other campaigns -- and none of this could have been possible without you.

  I'm really loving these books, and hope you are too. In fact, I already have the cover for five, and the artist is working on more.

  Book 4 is in progress, and I've included a sample below, just for you. Enjoy!

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  SAMPLE:

  Book 4 - Chapter 1

  Every bone in my body tingled, every part of me fully aware of itself and the power coursing through it, as I sat on the rooftop of my apartment building in meditation.

  We had arrived back to the states at dusk, fully rested, but had decided to wait for nightfall before we would ride over to La Canada and commence with our plan. Namely, to infiltrate the mansion and steal the other half of the sun disk, so that we could open a portal to the monsterverse. A crazy idea, but one I believed I was as ready for as I could ever be. There was my new ability to reach into my energy core, to advance in ways, first, my team and then, Vaper, had shown me. Suiko the ghost and Koharu the monkey woman had both joined us, and were downstairs preparing dinner and washing up with the others. What brought me the most confidence—as well as worry—was the latest monster I’d managed to summon, thanks to the Iridant and Vaper’s training. Ifrit meets lava monster, Devasla.