22 Scavenger

22 Scavenger Announcement I keep forgetting to post the power scale. S, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I.

I is the lowest (base human) at 0-99, H is 100-199, and each letter above adds 100 to end with S at 900-999.

I stayed inside Tiona, and the Loki Compound, for the rest of the morning. I had pounded the poor girl into her mattress and she loved every second of it. Surprisingly, Aiz had stayed right there beside her the whole time and watched us as we did... well, everything.

I had to show the both of them a few things, like giving a proper blowjob, and made them promise to only do it with someone they cared deeply about. That had earned me an odd look from Tiona and a very curious one from Aiz.

I gave the both of them a long and tender kiss each and told them that even though we just met, I did care a lot about them and I would visit them whenever they had free time. Tiona looked a little conflicted, probably because her people only sought out men for sex and then left.

My explanation of trying to make her pregnant had her relax, which was definitely a part of her people's culture, and Aiz still had that curious look on her face. With her, I promised that if she ever decided she wanted to do more things like what Tiona and I did, besides the blowjobs she had already tried as practice, I would be honored for her to accept me as a partner. That earned me a nod and a small smile.

A knock on the door gained our attention. It opened and Tione stood there wearing a red bikini top and the pavna around her waist. She also had a blush on her face. “It's almost lunchtime, Tiona. You will be... ahem... expected to make an appearance. We need to decide where to go to eat.”

Those words gave me a great idea and I smiled. “Do you have a kitchen and some food here?”

“I think... I would have to check and...” Tione whispered.

“Not a problem.” I said and cast a cleaning spell on myself and the fluids on me disappeared.

Both amazonnesses gasped and Aiz raised her eyebrows at me.

“Right, you two as well.” I said and waved a hand over Tiona and then Aiz to clean them up. I dressed in only a moment and that really surprised them. “Aiz, give Tiona a hand getting dressed while her sister leads me to the kitchen. I'll see if I can take care of the lunch situation for you all as an apology for the disturbance.”

Tione nodded and left the room with me right behind her. When we were far enough away from the open door, she looked back at me. “How did you know how to do all of that?”

I successfully ignored teasing her about her admission of watching us the whole time. “I'd like to say lots of practice, except your sister is the first girl I've been with here.” On this world.

Tione blinked her eyes at me, probably because she knew I hadn't lied.

“The kitchen?” I asked and she nodded several times and led me down the stairs and into a kitchen that would have made a restaurant jealous. “You have all this and you go out to eat?”

“None of us knows how to cook anything more than trail rations. We usually hire a temporary cook for longer expeditions.” Tione said and sat down at the counter.

“Pantry?” I asked and she pointed at a cupboard. I went over and opened it and examined everything inside. I could work with a lot of it and just had to decide if I should settle for sandwiches with a light soup or go all out and make a nice pasta dish. “How many people are meeting here for lunch?”

“Just the seven executives of the main Familia and Loki herself.” Tione said.

“What about the rest of them?” I asked and decided on the pasta dish. There were fresh tomatoes and some good spices that I could easily make into a nice spaghetti sauce. I would have to thin it with a bit of olive oil and might need to send out for some more meat. Eight people could eat a lot and I couldn't do my enlarge trick here.

I started making the pasta dough and Tione looked fascinated as I worked. Tiona and Aiz came down the stairs and sat on either side of Tione and looked just as enthralled. When I asked for a meat grinder, or if they had such a thing, Tiona went into a side cupboard and handed me an old hand-crank one. It looked like it had never been used.

“Any chance you can send out for more meat? I doubt eight people can be fed by this much.” I said and indicated the one foot wide slice of beef roast.

“It should be enough. One of us is a high elf and one is a prum.” Tione said.

“She means they don't eat meat.” Tiona said with a roll of her eyes.

“Ah, then I should make more salad for them.” I said and quickly ground up the meat in only seconds.

This surprised the three girls and they stared at me as I cleaned the device with the same cleaning spell as I used on them. Maybe they hadn't seen a versatile spell before? I ignored them for now and turned on the oven to heat it up.

I grabbed a dry loaf of bread and sliced it up into very thin pieces, blocked the sight of the girls for a second, and dried the bread out even more. I crumbed the thin pieces up into the bowl of ground meat and mixed it up to almost double the amount of meat, then I rolled them up into meatballs.

“What in the world are you doing?” An authoritative female voice asked.

I turned to see a proud high elf staring at me. “I'm cooking. What does it look like I'm doing?”

The woman opened and closed her mouth without speaking.

I chuckled and grabbed a large pan and looked through the cupboards for small racks. I found a large mesh thing and shrugged. It would do. I just had to bend it to make troughs for the meatballs to stop from rolling away. I continued to ignore the four girls at the counter as I continued to work.

I rolled out the dough and stretched it, and stretched it, and then used a chef's knife to slice it into thin strips. Once I had those, I rolled each one quick as a flash and each strand stretched out to the length of the entire long counter. The shocked looks on the watching faces made me laugh.

“You have yourself a deal. I'll be back as soon as I make sure this backpack is what I want.”

The guy chuckled at the wording. “I'm not going anywhere.”

Half an hour later, a clearly struggling dark-grey haired person showed up at the desk, turned to show he was wearing the backpack, and placed 300 valis on the desk. “A tip for... great service.”

The guy laughed and scooped the money up and tucked most of it into his pockets.

“When are you working again?” The person asked.

“I'm stuck here for a month.” The guy said.

The person smiled and nodded. “I should be back... next week.”

The guy nodded back and watched as the person struggled as he walked to the elevator and then he was gone. He counted out 50 valis to add to the register and marked the sale of the defective backpack. His eyes went to the clock and saw that he had another seven hours of sitting there with nothing to do and laid his head back down onto his desk.

*

It took me a long time to carefully walk all the way back to the rundown church without falling. I made my way down to the hidden apartment and sat down on my couch with a groan of pain.

“Ow ow ow.” I groused as I finally slid the straps of the heavy backpack off of my shoulders. I didn't take off my shirt, because I knew there would be huge red lines there that were going to bruise quickly. I rubbed them and wondered if I should have stopped off to buy a healing potion, then I sighed when my shoulders ached.

It would be a waste of money to take something that my own body would heal on its own eventually. There were much better things to buy, like groceries. That thought reminded me of my plan to make a bunch of money by repairing junk to sell and to take Hestia shopping. I had spent 300 valis and it was worth the money, even though I felt a little guilty about the trick I played on the store clerk.

His offer to stuff the backpack and carry it out, had sparked an idea and I couldn't help abusing it. I hadn't just filled the backpack I carried, though. I filled all six defective backpacks and put five of them inside the first one. I did successfully carry it out, too.

Holy hell, I managed to get a lot of stuff. I thought as I sat there and let myself recover. An hour or two would be enough, I was sure.

“BELL! I'm back!” Hestia shouted from the top of the stairs.

I didn't even hear the secret door opening. I thought and smiled at her as she hopped down every step.

*JIGGLE! JIGGLE! JIGGLE!*

I stared at her breasts as they did a very enticing dance for my utter enjoyment. I sprang right up for her and didn't bother trying to hide it. It was a great show.

Hestia came to a stop at the bottom of the stairs and had a huge smile on her face. She also had a large paper bag in her hands. “Guess who earned three times her normal tips today and brought home potato snacks!”

“The receptionist at the guild?” I asked and pretended not to know.

“BEEELLLL!” Hestia loudly whined.

I laughed and opened my arms for her. “Of course it was my favorite Goddess, the beautiful Hestia! Who else could it be?”

Hestia laughed and jumped at me. I easily caught her and settled her onto my lap, careful of my erection. The smile on her face seemed to freeze as she felt me pressing against her thigh.

“Um... Bell... there's... um... I can... feel...” Hestia said, hesitatingly.

“You gave me that when I saw you, my lovely Goddess.” I said and she blushed. “It's all right, Hestia. You don't have to be embarrassed.” I said and kissed her cheek. “I couldn't help but react to someone that's so sexy being so happy.”

Hestia looked at my face and I didn't try to hide anything from showing on my face. “You... do you really... think of me like that?”

I hugged her and nuzzled her earlobe. “You are my personal Goddess, Hestia. The embodiment of everything I ever desired in a woman.” I whispered into her ear. “Fate brought me to you and I would be a fool if I didn't think you were the most desirable woman on the entire planet.”

Hestia let out a little squeak, as if she was out of breath, and went limp in my arms.

I quietly laughed at her reaction to the truth and stood with her in my arms. I laid her down on her bed and took the potato treats from her. I set them on a pan in the oven and made some gravy from the meat drippings from yesterday.

By the time she woke up, it was ready, and we shared a plate of delicious gravy covered potato treats.