Stacking The Deck - 23.1 (Patreon)

"Master, master~" the gently whispering voice of Dark Magician Girl roused Yarden from his slumber.

He yawned, eyes blinking open sleepily to find himself seated on the couch. He'd fallen asleep sitting up. A rare thing for him to do. Odd as it was, with how good he was with cold temperatures, even in his new body, he preferred sleeping with a cover on him.

He honestly had an easier time sleeping upside down on a chair than sitting up. 'Heh.' he smirked sleepily as he remembered waking up in the position once. He'd fallen asleep like that as a joke, just to prove he could. His best buddy had woken him up like two hours later, and the first thing he saw was an older chick stripping on webcam.

It was a girl they'd met on an online game who'd been totally into his pal. An English chick. Good times, good times. The chick totally wanted his buddy and invited them down to meet her, and she even had a cute friend to keep him company if he went along.

Though, that was a story for another time.

Yawning again, Yarden stretched his arms up and out and felt the stiff bones in his body pop. After a moment of stretching, he stood up and did the same with his legs.

"Thanks." he nodded gratefully to the beautiful scantily clad monster spirit sitting on the couch besides where he had been sleeping.

"No problem!" Dark Magician Girl beamed flashing him a cheery thumbs up, "I didn't want to leave you sleeping in that position too long and give you a sore back! Honestly, it's too bad you haven't bonded with me yet or I'd have let you sleep and use these as a pillow." the blonde spirit pat her luscious bare thighs, drawing his attention to them.

Truly a travesty. Yarden cursed his soul for not being strong enough to adapt even quicker. Those curvy thighs looked way more tempting than his very expensive goose feather pillows.

Not that he could truly complain. After all, with the evolutions of Hundred Dragon, Ranryu and Rare Metal Dragon, his soul had jumped considerably in strength and didn't need to adapt to their own growth in strength. Which meant the time table had been sped up considerably.

Today was the day he would start taking the first of his strongest spirits into his soul. Relinquished.

"Still, you surprised me last night master," Dark Magician Girl grinned impishly at him, "Even after teasing the girl about groping her and have her practically welcome you to do it, you didn't take advantage. Do you have performance issues?" she wiggled her eyebrows teasingly.

Yarden snorted, "Just wait until I bond with you and I'll show you which one of us will end up with performance issues." he retorted mock threateningly.

Dark Magician Girl raised a hand to her mouth and gape a mock gasp, pretty blue eyes lighting up with a fake shock, "Oh no, is master going to punish me?" she said with a fake trembling voice. Without making a single motion, she suddenly began to float up into the air until she was eye level with him before casually spinning in the air and presenting her scantly clad, curvaceous rear end to him, "Have I been bad master?"

The Scottish teen tore his eyes from the sight before he ended up with a horrible case of blue balls, "You sure have, I'll be keeping this in mind," he replied, before letting his eyes drift over to his bed where Alexis lay slumbering under the covers, head atop one of his pillows, "She fell asleep within an hour, there wasn't exactly a lot of time to get into it."

All the information he dropped on her must have been hella draining. He was a massive prick. A horny one at that. But he wasn't that big a piece of trash to take advantage of the situation when she was reeling about the information about the missing brother she'd been searching for answers on for months, whom she thought dead all this time and the reason behind his disappearance.

"Heh, you're not as big a tough guy as you like to claim master~" Dark Magician Girl teased one last time before fading out of sight.

"Yeah I fuckin' am." Yarden grumbled petulantly under his breath. Did she not see what he did to those fuckers yesterday?

He even took that one big pricks sunglasses with him as a trophy of his conquest.

He put that out of mind and looked back at Alexis sleeping in his bed and just eyed her for a moment. She looked good there, sleeping in his bed. The only way to make that image of her being there look even better was to have her in there wearing one of his shirts.

She clearly needed the rest. "I can leave her for a little bit longer." he mused quietly.

After all, it was time to get the next part of his bonding underway. He eyed his deck box on the coffee table in front of his couch and picked it up, pulling one card from it and bringing it up to eye level.

Relinquished - Level 1 - Dark/Ritual/Spellcaster/Effect: 0/0

As he looked the card over, a sphere of light gently seeped out from the card image and expanded outwards, forming into a large plate bodied demonic looking behemoth twice his size.

The one glowing green eye figure Relinquished had examined him intently for a moment, before the monster bowed to him.

"Today's the day mate." Yarden grinned and despite the terrifying appearance Relinquished had, he only felt happy as he reached his hand out to touch it, though his hand phased right through the second he did.

He didn't really know much about Relinquished. Amongst his spirits, it was the one that communicated the least and couldn't speak. And it tended to stay in its card for the majority of the time.

He did know it was sensitive about reactions to its appearance and the way its green eye glowed brightly at his attempt to touch it, told him a lot. Relinquished was probably tossed aside because of his looks despite his amazing power.

He would never understand the fools at this academy. Relinquished was fucking badass looking, right up there with dragons. And its fusion form, Thousand Eyes Restrict was utter nightmare fuel, perfect for intimidating people.

A moment later, Relinquished phased out of view, body disappearing bit by bit as the demonic looking spirit eased forward and sunk into his body. He felt a rush of energy flow through him and grimaced a bit.

It was hard to describe. But, his power felt...bloated? It was a bit uncomfortable, that was for sure. And it was really the first time he'd felt anything like that while bonding to his spirits.

"So the stronger spirits really are no joke, huh?" he mused. With how powerful he'd become over the month here and all the spirits he'd bonded with. It said a lot about Relinquished's strength that this was the first time he'd felt like this
He was tempted to sit down for a bit to get used to and be better able to deal with the feeling.

But that was little bitch talk.

And he was already shirtless. So, Yarden decided to spend the next near half hour getting a light work out in. Some stretches, some planks, some pull ups, some push ups, some sit ups and more.

Y'know, the basic bitch stuff to get ready for the day and wake his body up. Even though he'd still most likely just sleep through most of his classes.

Once he was done, he threw his clothes on for the day after a quick shower and decided it was about time to wake up Alexis.

She still needed to head back to her dorm to get a change of clothes after all. As fun as it would be to have her turn up in a rumpled uniform after staying the night in his room, it might aggravate Crowler or something.

And honestly, he quite liked having Crowler in his corner.

"Hey sleeping beauty," Yarden gently touched his hand to Alexis' shoulder and shook her lightly, "Time to get up."

Alexis groaned cutely, but interestingly, didn't fight the rousing and opened her eyes with a small yawn. "Yarden?" she said his name groggily, eyes half shut.

"That's right, you fell asleep in my room last night, remember?" he replied.

She nodded slowly, "I remember," the blonde replied, eyes opening fully. She raised her arms into the air stretching them out and then surprised him by grabbing him around the shoulders and pulling him down, "By the way." she said staring right into his eyes, their noses touching and her hot breath washing over his face.

"Yeah?" Yarden asked, swallowing heavily and voice coming out hoarse at the sudden turn of events. He was not at all expecting this.

"I'm not such a wimpy little girl that I'd let my emotions carry me along and attempt what I did last night." Alexis suddenly rebuked him sharply, eyes narrowing angrily.

And suddenly her lips were on his and her tongue was forcing its way into his mouth.

Yarden's eyes widened.

Huh!?

They only separated a few minutes later, both of their lips bruised and faces flushed, "Alright," Yarden chuckled, "I take back my words from last night, happy?"

Alexis smirked, "A little bit," she replied sitting up and rubbing at her lips, "I enjoyed that more than I thought I would." she admitted.

"You weren't so bad yourself considering it was your first." he grinned at her.

"Considering how much of a man slut you are, I'll take that as a complimented." she snorted

"Good, it was one," he shrugged, "Now as fun as this is and as much as I would love to help you get even better at tongue wrestling, we kinda need to get a move on if you want to get back to your dorm and get some fresh clothes before classes start up."

Her eyes widened lightly at his words and her head whipped around to the night stand beside his bed where the clock sat, "...Only forty minutes till classes start.." she bit her lip. She continued staring the clock for a few moments before sighing and shrugging. Alexis turned back to him, looking him in the eyes and a small grin spread across her lips, "Honestly, I don't really feel like it. How about we just stay here and skip class for the day? You can teach your new girlfriend here all about how to be a better kisser."

His eyebrows rose, "Are you feeling okay? You, Alexis Rhodes, practically the class president and all around good goodie perfect student want to skip class?" he asked in disbelief. Dipping out of a free period to look for a missing classmate was one thing, but skipping school for the day entirely? "And girlfriend?" he asked.

That was a quick jump. Not that, he was at all against it. Besides one little thing.

Alexis laughed, "What can I say, you're a real bad influence on me," she replied, "And yeah, girlfriend. That's what you were aiming for right? I've decided I kinda like the idea of that. And I'm not the type to hang around and let what I want slip out of my fingers."

She was that type yeah. "I'm all for it," his smile almost split his face in half, "What about Jasmine and Mindy though?"

Alexis shrugged, "What about them?" she replied, seemingly unbothered, "Your flirting with them didn't bother me before, and you're intentions have been up front and blatant the entire time, why would it now? Frankly, I think you wanting to snatch them up as well will be good for me in the long term."

....Huh.

"Well okay then," Yarden rubbed his hands together excitedly, "Scooch over beautiful." he told her, motioning for her to move a bit further over the bed and free up some space for him.

Alexis did as bid, sliding across and gesturing for him to get into the bed beside her.

He wasted no time at all kicking off his shoes, jacket and top.