Puzzle Box Genie 2.0
Copyright© 2022 by Max Walker
Chapter 44
Fantasy Sex Story: Chapter 44 - When Thor wandered into an occult store on Christmas Eve, he had no idea his life would never be the same again. (Repost -Please read foreword)
Caution: This Fantasy Sex Story contains strong sexual content, including mt/ft mt/Fa Fa/Fa ft/ft Fa/ft Teenagers Mind Control Lesbian BiSexual Heterosexual Paranormal Genie Incest Mother Son Brother Sister Daughter Group Sex Harem Anal Sex Double Penetration First Facial Lactation Oral Sex Pregnancy Sex Toys Squirting Tit-Fucking Big Breasts Body Modification Small Breasts Teacher/Student
The first leg of our journey was in the opposite direction from Oxford, as Mom insisted on giving Maya a lift home. She didn’t live that far from here, but the wind was picking up and it was getting late.
“You’re more than welcome to stay the night with us. You already have your swimsuit for tomorrow, and between all the girls we’re bound to have some clothes that you can borrow,” I said after Mom managed to pull free from the congested mess of cars all trying to leave at once.
“No, but thank you. You really don’t need to,” she replied entirely unconvincingly.
Had she known that she would become part of my growing family tomorrow, she might have answered differently.
Knowing what I did of her home life, I couldn’t imagine why she might prefer that over a night with us. The changes I had made to her parents might have made her situation slightly better, but I didn’t think much would have changed in such a short time.
“Are you sure? It will be like a sleepover. There might not be much actual sleeping though...,” Amara smirked.
Maya blushed, quickly catching on to what Amara was not-so-subtly hinting at.
“Um, no. I- I don’t ... I mean, I- I shouldn’t,” she stammered, obviously flustered at Amara’s forwardness.
Amara tried to sweet-talk her some more, but for whatever reason, Maya continued to refuse. She was slightly overwhelmed when all the girls gave her warm hugs before she got out of the car, and blushed furiously when Amara and I kissed her soft lips before letting her go. She wasn’t used to such genuine and direct affection.
I climbed back into the car and found Emily kneeling in front of my seat, completely naked. When I slid into my seat, she leaned in between my legs and looked up at me.
“Hello, Master. Please, can you fuck my throat?” she said sweetly, opening her mouth and sticking out her tongue, presenting me with a wet and needy hole.
Even though I had been trying to work on my self-control, in an attempt to restrain my desire to fuck every pretty girl I set eyes on, declining sex when it was explicitly offered so directly was a completely different animal. When a petite, busty little sub asks you to use her throat like a fleshlight, it was hard to say no.
Without saying a word, I fished out my cock and dropped its fat head onto her tongue. Using her hair buns as handles, I pulled her down the length of my cock until my balls were pressed against her chin.
“Your idea?” I asked Lauren, turning to face her while keeping Emily’s face impaled on my dick.
“No, it was hers actually. She’s been a good girl today, so I decided she deserved a reward.” she answered, leaning forward to watch her punky lover over my shoulder.
I groaned at the feel of her throat stretching around my cock, and her tongue snaking out to tease my balls.
“Okay, how does that work exactly, the whole punishment and reward thing? How do you punish someone, when they enjoy the punishment?” I asked once the moment had passed.
“If you’re a good boy, I’ll teach you,” my older sister whispered breathily to me, before nipping my ear and retreating to the back seat with a smirk.
Shuddering, I pulled Emily off my cock, and a small stream of saliva dripped out to smear over her tits. Her chest heaved as she panted heavily. I gave her just enough time to catch her breath before I drove my cock down her throat again, this time only holding her down for a few seconds before starting to properly fuck her face. My hips started thrusting up off the seat to meet her face as I pulled and pushed her head, yanking sharply on her hair. The wet schlock schlock of my cock thrusting in and out of her throat was soon layered with soft moans and gasps of pleasure as the rest of my harem indulged themselves.
My sisters has ended up in an incestuous three-way in the back seat. Elsie was kneeling between Lauren’s legs with her face buried between her thighs, and was busy showing her big sister how talented her tongue was. Elsa was laying back in Lauren’s lap, sucking on her big tits while Lauren’s hand was busy fingering Elsa. Laura made her way back from the front seat, and dove tongue-first between Pip’s legs. Lacey had managed to climb over my girlfriend and the pair were eagerly trying to make the other cum in their weird, seated, vertical 69. I wasn’t sure who would win that contest, but I don’t think either of them would really care.
I felt a bit sorry that Mom couldn’t join us. Being stuck driving while the rest of us had all sorts of sex seemed cruel. Maybe we should hire a driver. Not full-time, but just someone we could keep on retainer to step in when my whole harem needed to go somewhere at once. I could probably speak to Vanessa at the party tomorrow and work something out. Then again, Pip, Emily, Laura, and Lauren all had their licences, so maybe if we got a second vehicle they could all just take turns driving.
Before I could think any further on the matter, I felt a tightening in my balls and a buildup of pressure in the head of my cock signalling an imminent orgasm. I pushed Emily’s head back until just the tip remained in her mouth. I groaned as her small tongue ran over the head of my dick, and immediately cum rushed up my cock to fill Emily’s mouth. The punky Sub swallowed rapidly, working overtime to swallow every drop of cum that poured into her.
“Fuck you’re good at that. You love it don’t you? You love being my little cum dumpster,” I groaned, Emily’s reply was reduced to an indecipherable, gargled mess by the dick stuffed in her mouth.
“You’re such a good little cum slut, and good, obedient whores like you get rewarded,” I said.
It was harsher language than I preferred to use, but Emily got off on it. She was a masochistic, submissive, pain-loving slut, and loved getting used by her partners.
Kicking my jeans and boxers the rest of the way off, I pulled Emily up and into my lap, and filled her pussy in one hard thrust, earning a shout of ecstasy from my lover. Her cunt locked down and shivered around my cock, stretched to the limit by the sudden invasion of cock. The naughty little pain slut moaned and twisted her hips as she got used to the feeling of complete penetration. The noticeable bulge in her stomach from my cock was shifting with her movements, a visual I would never grow tired of.
“Oh Master, your cock fills up my little pussy so much,” she gasped, her hands on my shoulders.
“You’re such a needy slut, you know that?” I teased, making her gasp as I wrapped my hands around her waist.
My fingers dug into her flesh, creating sizable dents almost to the point of breaking the skin. Her breath hitched and her cunt quivered as I felt a small rush of power from the small pain-induced orgasm. Emily’s body was one of the most responsive ones in my harem, and I was continually amazed by how much punishment her body could endure and turn into pleasure.
I caught one of her nipples between my teeth and moaned as her delicious milk began to flow into my mouth, giving me some energy to help me recover from my recent exertions. I used my teeth to pinch, scratch, and bite her sensitive nipples and the soft pillowy flesh of her DD tits. Tits, that on her petite 5’2” frame, appeared almost comically huge compared to the rest of her. A trait she shared with Lauren, who was noticeably bustier than our mother and younger sisters. Since giving my older sister the breast milk enhancement, Lauren’s own DD’s were now the largest out of all my girls.
After drinking my fill from both of her breasts, leaving numerous small bite marks and hickeys over the twin peaks, I bucked my hips and shuffled myself over the edge of the seat. Releasing my grip on her waist, I pulled her down onto my chest, holding her against me. As I started to powerfully fuck into her gushing cunt, I slowly dragged my hands down her back, leaving several long scratches in their wake. The cry of pain and pleasure she let out from that was like music to my ears, harmonising perfectly with the sounds of my harem in heat.
Emily was gasping, sobbing, moaning, and whimpering, as the mix of pain and pleasure threatened to overwhelm her. The further my fingers made their way down her back towards her ass, the faster I moved my hips. The staccato slapping of our bodies mixed with the sounds of sex from the rest of the car, creating a symphony of ecstasy. Emily came twice as I fucked her, creaming copiously over my cock. Just as my fingers got to the top of her ass, I gave one last thrust into her, planting my cock deep inside her and moving my hands down her ass and onto her thighs.
I moaned into my lover’s sweaty neck as my cock exploded, flooding her with cum. Emily’s orgasm redoubled, and her eyes rolled up into the back of her head as she passed out from the overload of pleasure, her body spasming and convulsing like she was having a seizure. I managed to maintain my own consciousness, enjoying the chaotic spasms that wracked her body that were mirrored by her pussy.
“Holy fuck, that was hot!” I heard Lauren say.
“Look at Emily’s face. I want him to use me like that!” Pip whispered to nobody in particular.
As my awareness of my surroundings returned, I realised we had an audience. Eight sets of hungry eyes stared back at me as I looked around the car. I hadn’t noticed that we had arrived at the hotel, or that everyone had watched Emily and I finish. I had a moment of regret for all the marks I had made on Emily, but with two loads of my cum inside her, her skin would be back to normal before the night was over.
I pulled on my clothes and felt a slight tingle as Amara cleaned everyone up. Before Emily could get dressed though, Lauren reached out and clipped a leash to the collar she was wearing. Where she had gotten the leash from, I have no idea.
“Don’t get dressed, you should wear your master’s mark with pride.”
“Yes, Mistress,” Emily replied.
It was already dark out as Lauren led her sub across the carpark towards the hotel. By using the back entrance and our private VIP lift, there was very little chance of Emily and Lauren’s display getting spotted. The risk of being seen and the display of submission to my older sister had Emily practically dripping the entire way back to our penthouse.
“Elsie, Elsa, I want you both naked and in my bedroom in five minutes,” Mom said as we entered the main suite.
The twins immediately rushed off to comply, leaving a trail of clothes and girlish laughter in their wake. Lauren, Emily, and Laura followed them out, giving Amara, Pip Lacey, and I a passionate goodnight kiss before making their exit.
“Your sister and I will be giving the twins some private tuition tonight, since Ruby will be joining us tomorrow.” Mom explained
“So you think I was right about Ruby?” I asked, my hands snaking around her waist as I pulled her close to me.
“Oh, she definitely has a submissive streak within her, that was never in doubt, but I think there is more nuance to her desire.
“Like how Emily’s really into BDSM?” I asked, the whole dom/sub thing still being an area I was a little foggy on.
“In part, yes. But there are a whole array of types of submission. There is pain, and bondage, like you said, humiliation, degradation, free use, exhibitionism, daddy-daughter, teacher-student, to name a few. It’s going to be an ongoing project for the twins to fully draw out all Ruby’s tendencies.”
It made sense. Mom had the knowledge from her research and experience with the more caring side of things. Her relationship with Laura started as something protective and nurturing, then grew into teacher and student, and now ... well, now it was something more. Closer to equals, but still with a clear understanding of who was in charge.
Lauren could show them the kinkier side of things. How to read not only what their sub wanted or needed, but how to give it to them. There was more to handling a pain lover like Emily than just violence. With mom and Lauren’s tutelage, helped by Laura and Emily as training aids, the twins were in good hands.
“I trust you to guide them every step of the way,” I said before kissing her good night.
I didn’t doubt the twins would perform spectacularly. Elsa and Elsie where Mom’s doppelgangers in almost every way, their personalities in bed no exception.
With the larger part of my harem spending the night together, I invited Pip and Lacey to bunk with Amara and I, which they eagerly accepted. Although Amara and her ever-useful cleaning magic has us all feeling and smelling fresh, we took a shower together anyway, enjoying the act of soaping each other up and scrubbing each other down. Once we had all dried off, we all tumbled into the large bed in a tangle of limbs.
We spent about an hour together before we fell asleep, taking our time and enjoying a soft intimacy. There was lots of kissing, soft touches, and warm embraces before I filled each of them with cum. There was a good deal more foreplay than actual sex, but that sex was some of the most satisfying and emotionally fulfilling I’d had all week. While I didn’t think I would ever tire of sampling all the beautiful girls the world had to offer, nothing could compare to being with the people you love. I loved Amara, I loved my family, and I loved my little harem. Different kinds of love, but love nonetheless.
We all cuddled up together enjoying the lingering afterglow of our orgasms, and drifted off to sleep. With the plans for the weekend, there was a distinct chance that it would be a day or two before we got another full night’s sleep. Since bonding with Amara, I usually ran off of about four hours of sleep. Even with their own enhancements, my girls still needed a full night’s sleep though.
I woke up in the same position I had fallen asleep in. Amara was curled up against my right side with her head resting on my chest, Pip mirrored her on my left side, and Lacey was spooned up against Pip’s back. I wasn’t sure what time it was, but I was able to sense that no one else was awake yet, so I assumed it was fairly early. Mom was almost always up by six at the latest, even on the weekend.
Pinned in position by pretty girls and unable to leave without disturbing them, I figured I should do something productive. I decided it was time I made the changes to my harem commands. With the pool party later today, the wild orgy following it, and the addition of Ellie, Maya, and Ruby, it felt like the right time. My hope was that if all the girls knew about my powers, they would be able to come up with some fun and interesting ways to use them. My sisters had already begun exploring what was possible, and looked to be on a track to use me to fulfil their every fantasy, an endeavour I fully supported them in.
There were some aspects I wanted to remain unchanged. The girls would continue to feel no jealousy towards each other, would be unable to tell anybody outside of my harem about my powers, and would remain unquestioning in the face of improbable sexual situations. The main adjustment I made was that instead of ignoring the abilities and powers Amara and I displayed, they would now be able to consciously recognise and respond to them.
I also decided to make a few changes to the standard physical enhancements I applied to every girl in my harem. Currently, the enhancements enabled them to take the full length of my cock no matter what size it happened to be. They would still be able to do that, but I tweaked it automatically adjust how difficult that was based on their current mood/desires. In practice that meant if they wanted to feel like they were completely stuffed full and torn apart by cock, their insides would constrict more in an effort to resist penetration. It also meant that if all they wanted just a nice, leisurely tumble in bed, I’d be able to slip right in without having to fight her body.
With that done, I moved on to the two blondes in bed with me. Pip and Lacey were the only girls in my harem that couldn’t lactate yet, so I made that change to both of them as they slept, and added the breast milk enhancement to my ‘Harem Pack’. Unlike previous iterations, I made sure there were no changes to the shape, size, or perkiness of their boobs. Both girls sighed softly in their sleep but didn’t wake up.
Making these changes to all my girls took hardly any energy at all, barely putting a dent in what I had amassed at school, at home, and at the game last night. I had briefly considered just quitting school. Educationally, it was a dead end at this point, my enhanced brain able to absorb and retain any and all information thrown its way. There were a number of reasons to stay in school that I hadn’t initially considered though. Amara enjoyed the experience of being a student. The lessons, the social interactions, and being a part of the cheer team were all things she thoroughly enjoyed. I didn’t want to take that from her, and I knew that if I left, she would follow me.
I also couldn’t ignore the fact that a school full of hormonal teenagers was an all-you-can-eat buffet of hot girls, and power. I may not still go every day, but it would be silly to completely cut myself off from such an accessible and plentiful source of sexual energy.
There was also the small fact that Mom would probably not be amused if I just dropped out of school in order to have sex all day instead, and I didn’t really want to find out what she’d do if I tried. Most mothers would just take away their teenage son’s Xbox, or ground them for six months. Mine now had the option of cutting off my supply of pussy. The girls, especially the twins, wouldn’t be happy with that scenario either, but they were more than capable of satisfying each other without me.
I was disturbed from my musings by a delicate hand wrapping around my cock.
“Good morning,” I said, turning to Pip.
“Mhmm, ditto,” the cute blonde said with a smile, tilting her head up for a good morning kiss.
“Did you sleep well?” I asked, keeping my voice quiet.
“Uh-huh.” she replied, while her hand began slowly stroking my morning wood.
Slipping out of her girlfriend’s embrace, she clambered over top of my thighs, and started using both hands to stroke me. The steadily oozing beads of pre-cum allowing her hands smoothly glide along my shaft. Lacey made a soft whimper in her sleep and wriggled her way into the warm spot left by Pip, nuzzling into my shoulder.
Rising up onto her knees, Pip directed my cock towards her pussy, which was already slick with her own arousal, and slowly sank down the full length of my dick. She let out a small gasp that stretched out into a satisfied moan as my dick filled her completely. She clenched her muscles, squeezing her pussy around my cock, and then leaned forward, pressing her breasts into my chest as she kissed me. She rocked herself back and forth, repeatedly impaling her snatch on my rock-hard erection.
The feel of her pussy clinging to my cock was amazing, I could feel just how tightly she held onto my length. It looked like my new adjustments were working, because her pussy felt even tighter than the first time I met her. Even then, her insides had clung to me like her pussy was made for my cock, in spite of her extensive collection of some truly imposing dildos.
“I never did thank you for my new tits,” she said, sitting back up and rolling her hips in small circles, while she fondled her moderately sized C-cups, drops of milk beading up and running down between her fingers.
I guess changes to the harem commands could be applied retroactively, allowing Pip to recognise what I had done, even though she had only just become fully aware of my powers.
“Hmm, keep moving your hips like that, and we can call it even,” I responded.
“Deal,”
The delicious friction created by her cunt squeezing the length of my cock as she rode me was fantastic. The passionate press of her lips against mine when she fell back onto my chest only heightened my arousal. Now that Pip was fully aware of my powers and what I could do, I wanted to test out an idea I had been toying with.
I clenched my pubococcygeal muscle, making my cock jerk inside Pip, earning me a small squeak of enjoyment from the sporty blonde. I let the muscle relax for a moment before I repeated the action. Then I did it again, and again. I kept this up, going faster and faster, putting my magically enhanced, superhuman physique and physical mastery powers to use until my cock was essentially vibrating inside her. Pip let out a short scream before slapping hand over her mouth in an effort to keep from waking everyone else up. Sitting she trembled and jerked as my cock buzzed inside her, vibrating right against her G-spot.
Her tits shook as she came on my cock, small drops of milk flying into the air or running down her body. She went from the first orgasm right into her second, and then her third. My new trick driving her to a run of continuous orgasms, one after the other overlapping each other.
Her pussy was a fountain of girl cum as it convulsed around my cock. The wild acrobatics of her pussy, along with the vibrations of my cock, which I felt almost as much as she did, pushed me to my own climax. My cock erupted, the flood of hot cum filling her pussy igniting ‘Pip’s final, epic orgasm.
Her eyes rolled back, her entire body went rigid, and then she collapsed limply onto my chest.
“Holy crap, what did you do to her?!” Lacey asked.
Awoken by Pip’s mind-blowing train of orgasms, she was staring in amazement and envy at her blissed out girlfriend.
“He made his cock vibrate inside her, right against her G-spot,” Amara replied from my other side as I caught my breath.
I wasn’t quite sure how she knew what I had done, but I wasn’t surprised that she did. She had a real knack for just knowing things about me without being told. It was probably something to do with her being bound to me. I had given up trying to figure out how the magic of our magical bond worked at this point.
Lacey brushed a few flyaway hairs from Pip’s forehead, and gently stroked her cheek. She looked a little concerned for the older blonde’s well-being.
“She’ll be fine. She’ll wake up in half an hour and feel better than ever,” I reassured her.
Lacey started fumbling around on the bed, collecting a few pillows and piling them together to prop herself up against the headboard. I gave her a hand and carefully lifted the still comatose blonde into her Lacey’s lap. She pressed a bright pink nipple to Pip’s lips, who latched on and started to drink from Lacey.
With the two loads of cum I had pumped into either end of her, and Lacey’s magically enhanced milk, Pip would be back to her normal perky self in no time at all. With the same instant and unlimited production enhancement that I had copied from myself, Lacey would be able to nurse Pip all day. Her having the smallest breasts in my harem would have no effect on how much milk she could produce, her B-cups able to express as much as Lauren’s nearly E-cups.
Amara busied herself licking my cock, balls, thighs, and stomach clean of Pip’s cum and milk. This had the predictable side effect of making me harder than steel, and making Lacey eye the column of cock with intense interest.
“Come on lover boy, I want to feel your new trick for myself,” Amara said dragging me from our bed.
“She’ll be fine on her own if you want to join us,” I told Lacey as Amara led me to the master bathroom.
Lacey bit her lower lip and seriously considered the offer for a moment. Anything that could render Pip ‘cum-a-tose’ that quickly was an extremely tempting proposition. But with her girlfriend slowly regaining consciousness and drinking more eagerly, she gave a small shake of her head and waved us on. No sooner had she declined the offer, than Amara yanked me through the door to the ensuite and shoved me into the spacious shower.
Amara set the shower to a warm tropical rain, and pulled me close. She rose onto her tiptoes and pulled my face down for a deep kiss, her cherry-red lips parting against mine as she slipped her talented tongue into my mouth. I drank in the feel of her perfectly sculpted body moulding itself against mine, the warmth of her smooth golden skin was noticeable even with the head of the water cascading over us.
There wasn’t a single part of her that wasn’t absolutely perfect. From her long legs that stretched from her dainty little feet to her beautiful bubble butt, to her sweet pussy that was perfect shape and size to fit my cock. Her smoothly flared hips that tapered down to a narrow waist and flat, toned stomach. Her gravitydefying DD’s that somehow managed to simultaneously be firm yet pillowy soft, and perky yet weighty, giving them the perfect amount of bounce and jiggle. Her slender neck, smooth back, exotic mix of facial features, stunning golden eyes, and silken hair.
All were completely perfect. There was nothing else I could say about her, and she was mine.
“Show me,” she moaned into my ear.
“Show you made her pass out like that.”
I reached down and lifted her up in my arms and pressed her against the glass wall. Her legs wrapped around my waist as her arms did the same around my back. I stared into her brilliant golden eyes as I lowered her onto my throbbing cock, and watched her pupils dilate and breath hitch as the head of my cock nestled solidly against the entrance to her womb. No matter how much sex I had with the girls in my harem, the sister who took my virginity, the sisters whose virginities I took, or my own mother, nothing compared to this intimacy with Amara.
“Are you ready?”
“Yes, my love. Show me.”
My cock revved into action, vibrating more than twice as fast as it had with Pip. Immediately, Amara screamed into my ear, and her limbs tightened around me hard enough to hurt a lesser man. But I was no lesser man. I was the ultimate sex machine, the most potent lover of women in all of existence.
“Ho-ly, fuuuck!” she cried, so loud I had no doubt everyone heard it despite the thick walls and heavy doors.
“This is- I can’t- I-Ahhhh!” Her attempts at expressing herself were completely ruined by her gasps, moans and screams.
She gave up trying and instead buried her face in my neck, screaming and whimpering in ecstasy into my shoulder. I started to slowly fuck her, drawing her supreme snatch along the length of my delightful dong, adding yet more sensations to her experience. Amara came before I had even pulled out more than a half way, her pussy desperately fighting to suck me back in.
It wasn’t often I got to give Amara and entirely new sexual experience; she made the Kama Sutra look like Sex for Dummies. So I savoured this rare opportunity to give her a new experience. So I continued to drive all nine inches of cock into her, keeping her in a state of continuous ecstasy.
It took every trick I knew, and ability I had, to keep myself from spewing inside her. No matter what I did, how hard I tried, nothing could keep me from my own climax, and just twelve minutes later, I reached my limit.
“Fuck! I’m gonna cum babe!”
Amara was too lost to her pleasure to reply. I’m not sure she even heard me.
With a loud shout, I buried my vibrating prick fully inside her and unleashed a monumental torrent of cum. My balls clenched madly, again and again, flooding Amara’s pussy until her belly swelled slightly before the pressure reached a critical mass and it started to gush out from around my cock. Not that I noticed any of that, as I continued to cum, surpassing my largest cum load ever by a fair amount.
I joined Amara in complete ecstasy, utterly consumed by this new levels of pleasure, my cock ceasing its vibrations before I let the light take me.
At some point we ended up on the floor of the shower, with Amara clinging to me, my cock lodged inside her, and a comically large puddle of thick, viscous cum around us, slowly being washed down the drain. I had no idea how long we had been there for, or how long we spent too drunk on pleasure to notice anything else.
“Hmmm, we better not tell your sisters about this or they will cancel their party just to ride your cock all day.” was the first coherent thing Amara managed to say.
I chuckled at that, which made my cock shake inside her, which made us both gasp because of how hypersensitive we still were.
“You’re probably right. It’s hard enough keeping them satisfied long enough to give everyone else the attention they deserve without them knowing I’m also a vibrator.”
“Maybe Ruby joining us will take some of the pressure off you.”
“Maybe. But I think the more likely scenario is that I’ll have three cock-hungry, fourteen-year-olds to deal with instead of just two,” I said, making Amara laugh.
“Oh dear, what a troubled life you lead,” she smirked.
“It’s a hard job, but someone has to do it.”
“Hmm speaking of ‘doing it’, where did that come from?”
“You enjoyed that did you?” I asked, to which Amara just huffed in a sort of ‘you really need to ask?’ kind of way.
“I actually got the idea when Lauren and I were double teaming Emily. She was using that big yellow vibrating strap-on that Laura bought the other day, and I could feel it through Emily.”
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