Descend- Seeing Stars by Sean Oswald (the ebook reader .TXT) 📕

him. I am too, but we have to be smart about this. I need to learn to use the power that I have now,” Jay replied, trying to sound comforting.

      “You are afraid. I can sense the fear. Shouldn’t your fear for our son be greater,” Meikiyo accused him.

      He was taken back by the accusation but instead of immediately denying it he examined what she had said for a moment. “You are right. I am afraid of losing myself. I am afraid of you losing yourself. Higen deserves to have his parents be sane people when we get him back. Who knows if we lost ourselves too much, we might not even care. So, we will do this slowly.”

      Jay took her into his arms, and she softly cried against his shoulder there in front of all the rest of the cluster. He held her and wished he had Jasmine's power to soothe emotions. Instead, he had to comfort her the old-fashioned way, but he was still able to push his strength and confidence through the fusion they shared and joyfully he felt all the other seventeen parts of them pushing back towards their hurting part, Meikiyo. They truly were not alone.

      Ultimately it was decided that he would fuse with one new girl each day starting tomorrow. There was a brief argument about the order they should be chosen in, but he put his foot down. Since each of the fuses now controlled a pod, he decided to let them take turns picking the next fuse in the order that he had fused them. Amelia was upset, but the calm satisfaction from the rest of the fusion helped smooth that over. Either that or the fact that he was still holding Meikiyo and even Amelia wasn’t willing to upset a grieving mother any further.

      After that he was finally free to go to one of the areas that they had set up as a training area. The ship’s artificial gravity system had been tinkered with by Ava and they were able to increase the gravity in this area by a factor of ten. It wasn’t that much but it would help as he increased the mass effect in the area as well.

      Of course, the physical changes were just the beginning. He needed to push his physical abilities, but he needed to also work on his numerous skills. His enhanced processing helped him keep everything straight otherwise he likely would have needed a spreadsheet just to track what abilities he had now.

      While he was stretching and starting to perform high-speed movements to get his body ready for the strain, he pulled up the list that his wives had prepared for him. It was great how they had made it so he could access it at any time. With one hundred and eleven women in Team Jay, or as the wives liked to call it, his harem, he needed the list.

      They had broken it down by pod and placed in bold the names of each of the women who either were fused or were willing to fuse with him. Some were downright begging after learning about all of the benefits. Fortunately, once being told it was a lifetime commitment, which might mean an exceptionally long time, and an exclusivity commitment the majority of the non-fused girls were undecided.

The ones who had already stated that they were happy to be part of the team but had already decided that they didn’t want to be stuck with him forever, they were marked in italics. For most of them that even meant sleeping with him, but somehow that was different than a long-term commitment. He felt funny that he was the one dealing with numerous girls unwilling to make a commitment. Jay realized it was a sexist assumption, but it still made him laugh.

At least it was nice that the list organized the girls. Names listed in bold were either already fused or wanted to be. The ones in italics did not want to join the fusion while the rest were undecided.

PODS

Mia- empathetic bond, shared potential

Emma- Induce pain, intellect fortress

Cecelia- assimilate, chameleon

Tiana- Pattern recognition, variance detection

Jaylene- Soothing emotions

Thalia- subspace projection

Macey- dysfunction

Hope- attraction and repulsion field

Ava- wrench, extra-dimensional space/holes

Veronica- technomancy, data processing

Clara- centrifugal force

Victoria- harden or soften

Scarlett- Self Duplication

Deja- Tech interface

Kamari- psionic construction

Amelia- shadow sheath, visual shroud

Harper- sonic kinesis, concert

Grace- disarming presence, ethereal state

Trudi- metalmancy

Martina- Illusions/mental traps

Clarissa- puppet control

Elliana- null field

Carmen- temporal regression

Huong- cellular regeneration, scavenger crafting

Skylar- (S) creation

Felicia- (S) transmute similar materials

Samara- hyper cognition

Audrey- meta faculty

Aliza- precognitive

Bethany- remote viewing

Meikiyo- pyrokinesis, flame form

Kenzie- ice, healing

Olivia- electric

Jade- acid creation

Willow- areokinesis

Aurora- light control

Ellie- telekinetic shielding

Jessie- bestial control, primal adaptation

Hanna- summons objects, melee combat

Rosa- trajectory deflection, vector step

Riley- sustenance, telekinetic thrust

Bella- concussive blast, damage resistance 

Zuri- energy adaptation, health conversion

Morgan- body recomposition

Trina- necrotic absorption and projection

Kayla- enhanced strength, combat reflexes

Sora - flesh manipulation, vitality generation

Uremi- flight, enhanced coordination

Abby - projectiles, rebound

Bianca- ecto spider

Zariah- diamond body, energy refraction

Jamiya- immovability, free step

Bong-Cha- speed, strength, extreme regeneration

Molly- inertial barrier

Isabelle- venomous touch

Addison- enhanced speed, stutter step

Sabrina- psychic vampire

Malia- modified breath

Jayda- body adaptation

Alexis- sees psionic connections, ethereal form, power guidance

Tara- duo dimensional

Lilly- grafted technology

Karma- sustenance, body purification

Nyasia- combat prowess, levitation

Chanel- spatial push, detect movement

Callie- beast form

Nalani - metal fibers, matter absorption

Taylor- force whip

Mariela- empathic transfer, accelerated healing

Giovanna- hex of improbability

Amani- iron body, psi blast

Janiah- death recall

Francesca- focused fusion blast

Sofia- molecular separation

Makayla- affinity field

Esther- enhanced durability, emotional drain

Giada- enhanced speed, positive impression

Cherish- dream travel, pre-cognition

Greta- telekinesis

Karla- shared fate

Cadence- Chemical Creation

Sophia- physiology manipulation

Liberty- cellular restructure

Phoebe- chemical mutation

Giselle- cyber mind

Amaris- dark matter kinesis

Jimena- magnetism

Madison- mass control

Rachelle- bio-plasma generation

Angel- winged flight, light burst

Gabriella- Ability duplication

Joslyn- power acceleration

Kaylee- construct form

Whitney- hydrokinesis