[Nanya01]

Originally Posted by Lhklan

Anyone want a harem, look for Nanya. I'm not good with stuff like that.

Nanya-muse: Mouuu... You make it sound like I make him write only harems!
DC-muse: And you don't?
Nanya-muse: *Dramatic pose* That's besides the point!
DC-muse: Uh huh, I think I'm going to leave now...
Nanya-muse: *Glomps DC-muse* WAAHHH! Don't leave me! Besides, I haven't washed your clothes from last night yet!
DC-muse: *Red* Guh! I told you not to bring that up!

My muse is weird.

StrikerS

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SSX 1-5

Spoiler for Blood That Flows - SSX 6:

It was getting to be late in the day when Teana found herself in a small cafe. "Thanks for meeting me, Mr. Zelgadis."

The older man nodded and sat down across from her. "While I appreciate the meeting, Enforcer Lanster, I wonder why we didn't meet at the Riot Force building or at the Midorya cafe."

Teana shook her head. "The Riot Force is under-staffed at the moment and I don't want too many people over-hearing. If I had my own apartment, I would have invited you to my place to talk." When Zelgadis raised an eyebrow and smirked, Teana blushed and shook her head. "Not like that. I meant over this case."

Zelgadis chuckled at her embarrassment. "It's fine, you're lucky that this place is slow right now, what did you want to talk about?"

"It's about this case, actually." Teana sighed and looked at her drink. "Tell me," she looked back at him, "what do you know about necromancers?"

Zelgadis raised an eyebrow. "Necromancers? Even where I was from, they weren't very common. Mazoku were the most common type, since they could animate bodies easily. But for humans, well, it depends. A novice necromancer can maybe control up to three zombies at a time. A more experienced one can have an entire army, the size depends on the amount of power they have. For example, if you were a necromancer when you joined Riot Force and had some skill, you could control maybe twenty zombies at a time. If Hayate was the one who made the zombies, she could control several thousand easily."

Teana stared at him. "There were necromancers that could do that?"

"Very rare, despite how strong myself or Lina are, most people where we came from aren't quite at that level." Zelgadis leaned back in his chair and thought for a few minutes. "Actually, if you want to know, if my grandfather was into that stuff, he could have revived every dead body on a continent within an hour. But then again, his skill and power was practically unmatched by any human."

Teana shuddered, she couldn't imagine having someone that could do that raise an army of undead to fight again.

"Of course, this assumes that you're just wanting cannon fodder that can march forward without fear of death against your enemies. If you put some actual effort into creating a zombie that's a bit tougher than those or has special tricks, you'll create less of them, but the rewards are more impressive."

Teana sweat-dropped as she listened to Zelgadis. "You... Know a lot about this. Why?"

Zelgadis sighed softly. "When I was younger, I searched tirelessly for a cure to a problem I had. Along the way, I came across several scrolls and tomes that described necromancy in various forms and details. Some even described just how much power was needed by comparing how much energy it took to develop a fireball spell and how much it took to create one zombie and explained how the energy requirements worked at higher levels. I just used math to figure out the rest."

Teana nodded and lightly bit her lips. "Actually, is there anything in there about turning fresh corpses into zombies?"

"Fresh corpses?" Zelgadis blinked and thought about it. "Well, I never heard of anyone turning a fresh corpse into a zombie right away, unless they made it so that their zombies could do it, why?"

"Because I'm thinking that there's a necromancer that's turning fresh corpses into zombies." Teana twitched as she thought about her choice of words. "Okay, I'm never going to use fresh and corpse in the same sentence ever again."

Zelgadis chuckled at her discomfort. "I wouldn't worry too much about it. If there was a necromancer with that kind of skill, I'd like to think we would have heard of them by now." Teana nodded at that. 'Actually, I'm more worried about the fact that she might be right.' If Zelgadis could read minds, he would have found that Teana was thinking the same thing that he was.

"Still, I should be going, it's late, and I need to get home before Subaru gets too worried about me." Teana's face went red when Zelgadis chuckled and gave her a knowing smile. "Knock it off, it doesn't mean anything."

Besides, Teana wanted to get rested up for the next day, Caro and Erio were going to be coming in and she couldn't wait to see the two of them again.

(---)

The next morning...

Blinking as he woke up, Kuma merely raised an eyebrow as he saw Kyrie on the left side of his body while Amitie was laying on top of him. The two girls were wearing over-sized, long-sleeved shirts that covered their upper bodies but revealed a hint of their panties as the two girls moved. "Bad dreams again?" He whispered when he noticed that the girls were both awake.

"Yeah..." Amitie said as she moved her arms to hug him more and push her chest against his. "I'm sorry, I just..." She trailed off and smiled as he put an arm around her shoulders. "Thank you."

Kyrie was practically purring as she molded her body against Kuma's. "Mmm..." She put her head on his shoulder and sighed happily. "Can we stay like this for a little bit?" As Kuma's arm wrapped around her lower back, she smiled happily and looked up at him. "Hey, Kuma... Want to have some fun?" She let out a yelp as she felt him pinch her sides. "Hey, come on, I'm serious."

"That's why I pinched your side." Kuma rolled his eyes. If it wasn't for certain things, he wouldn't mind taking Kyrie or Amitie up on their advances. But whenever he thought of what they went through, it was hard on him to reciprocate the feelings.

That didn't mean that he didn't entertain fantasies of the two of them at various points. He did have an appreciative eye for good looking women, after all.

"Why?" Amitie asked softly as she looked at him. "Why do you keep pushing us away?"

Kuma took a deep breath as he thought about his answer. "Because, you two are hurting." Ignoring their confused looks, Kuma hugged them tightly. "If things were different I would have already taken you up on your offers."

"Kuma..." Kyrie whispered, burying her face against his chest. "I'm sorry."

"It's okay," he smiled at her and looked at Amitie, who was looking as depressed as Kyrie sounded, "you two aren't bad girls, and I do like you. I'm just worried that if I got into a relationship with you right now it would hurt you."

"Because we were used by our former masters?" Amitie asked, sighing as she felt his hand gently squeeze her back.

"Partially. I just don't want a relationship where you two would think of me as your master. You aren't my slaves, and I don't want that type of relationship." Kuma moved his arms so that he could caress Amitie and Kyrie's cheeks. "Maybe one day, but for now, I just want to make sure that you two are able to live happy."

Kyrie looked at Amitie out of the corner of her eye and sighed as her sister snuggled against Kuma. She didn't blame Amitie, Kuma was comfortable. "Can we still stay like this?"

"Sure." Kuma said and went back to rubbing their backs to get them to relax.