Three Square Meals Ch. 072

Jade sat on the nearest unoccupied bed, and beckoned Irillith over as she purred, "Come here little kitten, let me look after you."

Irillith smiled despite herself, then leaned in to kiss Jade before climbing on the bed, and letting the Nymph cradle her in her arms. She latched on easily enough, having fed this way plenty of times in the past. As she suckled, her eyes rolled back in ecstasy as John's sweet-tasting cum filled her mouth, and she stopped to savour the taste, letting it wash over her tastebuds. Jade stroked her silky white hair and murmured soothing, loving words to the troubled girl, smiling as Irillith swallowed repeatedly. After she'd taken about half-a-pint, John helped Irillith sit up, and she smiled self-consciously at her audience.

"That was the weirdest thing I've ever seen," a second blonde muttered, staring at them all in astonishment.

Irillith walked over to her audience, then sat next to them on the bed so they could clearly see her broken nose, and the blackened marks around her eyes. "Just watch, this won't take long," she said matter-of-factly.

Sure enough, the black bruising under her eyes receded, and her nose straightened as the swelling went down, healing before their very eyes. It only took a couple of minutes, and her gloriously beautiful blue face was restored to its natural perfection.

"Thanks, Irillith. Sorry to disturb you, you can go back to Tashana now if you want," John said to the Maliri girl.

She gave him a grateful smile, and as she passed him by, she stopped to give him a tender kiss. He held her briefly and stroked her back, before releasing her to let her return to her twin's side.

"So we'd need to swallow your cum to get healed?" the Latina balked incredulously.

John nodded, and replied, "After everything you've been through, you can see why I wasn't sure how to bring this up." With an apologetic shrug, he added, "It's just how my abilities work, I'm afraid. I can heal everything I promised, but my abilities only work if you have my cum inside you."

Tanya glanced at the other women, and climbing off the bed, she said boldly, "I'll do it!"

He smiled at her as she walked over to him, then helped her onto the bed with Jade as he said, "Thanks for letting me help you."

Jade held her arms open invitingly, and John helped Tanya lean back in her arms as the Nymph said, "We'll take good care of you, little kitten. Don't worry, John can fix everything."

Before she latched on, John squatted down beside her, and said, "You'll get drowsy and fall asleep for a few hours. During that time, I'll do my best to heal everything, so just let me know if there's any other health problems you might have."

"I've got Chrohn's disease, and whip scars all over my back," she said, staring at him with her big green eyes.

"When you wake up, you won't," he told her with confidence.

Not wasting any time, Tanya leaned forward and eagerly sought out Jade's nipple, sucking eagerly. She blinked in surprise at the sweet taste, before swallowing it down with a big gulp. The Nymph stroked her slim stomach, and purred, "That's right, fill up your tummy."

The blonde's eyes closed as she suckled, her face relaxing and any tension easing as she swallowed down his spunk. John stood up and looked at the other women, and said, "I appreciate this is weird, so just let me know if you don't want to go through with it. No one will make you do anything you don't feel comfortable with."

They just stared at him in awe, but no one turned down his offer of assistance.

***

After Jade had fed each of the six young women, they tucked them up in bed, and let them sleep off their meal. John closed his eyes, and he could see the temporary compartments in his mind, with the six girls nestled under Alyssa. There was a soft glow coming from their bodies, now that he had an active connection with each of them, and he focused on healing the various injuries and ailments they were suffering from.

He also focused on stripping out the emotional pathways that tied all the traumatic memories together in their minds. It proved to be far easier than rebuilding them would have been, which he'd had to do when reshaping Edraele's mind.

*It's much easier to destroy than to create,* she told him softly, and he could hear the sincere appreciation in her telepathic voice for everything he'd done for her.

John nodded his agreement distractedly, but his attention was focused on the mental compartments in his mind. Aside from the ones to track the dozens of Maliri and the girls aboard the ship, there was the wide block that he'd permanently allocated to keep his herculean strength engaged. Devoting so much of his mental capacity to running that ability passively had left with him with a mere handful of free compartments for his other abilities.

Up until recently, those new abilities had included the occasional foray into telekinesis, for shaping psychically-responsive metals, along with elemental auras for his sword. It seemed that he'd undergone a significant growth in mental capacity since he'd last checked, and he now had a couple of dozen empty mind compartments to work with. Keeping his eyes closed, he activated psychic-speed, and all but a handful of the metaphysical boxes were now full.

*You're definitely getting stronger,* Edraele said with certainty. *It's probably due to a combination of adding Sakura to the crew, as well as unlocking new abilities like that wall of telekinetic force, and the enhanced speed.*

Alyssa waited a moment as she listened to his inner voice thinking about Edraele's observation, then said eagerly, *You've got six more girls lying there with tummies full of your cum! Can we keep them? Please? I'm sure I could find something fun for them to do around the ship!*

John opened his eyes and looked at the six women they'd freed, who were now all sleeping peacefully. The bruises were already starting to fade from their pretty faces, and he knew their internal injuries were healing just as quickly.

He smiled with satisfaction as he replied, *You know I'm planning to send them back home. They've been through enough, they deserve a chance at leading peaceful lives.*

*Boo! You're a rubbish Progenitor,* Alyssa objected playfully. *I was hoping you'd at least consider knocking them up. You're being so stubborn about it with the rest of us!*

John smiled at her teasing, but he couldn't help get turned on by the thought of the six women slowly absorbing his cum in their stomachs. He knew it wouldn't take much; just some kind words, and their gratitude for the healing would do the rest. Another couple of blowjobs, and they'd be eagerly tumbling into bed with him, their young wombs ready to bear his children...

He shook himself out of that train of thought with a frown, feeling guilty for the raging erection in his trousers. It seemed that despite his best intentions, some instinctive Progenitor urges still ran unchecked under the surface.

Alyssa's amusement was quite apparent over their empathic bond, and she giggle as she said, *You're not the first man who's had raunchy thoughts about screwing a pretty girl, and you certainly won't be the last! Being a Progenitor hasn't got anything to do with it.*

Feeling relieved, John realised he was being overly paranoid, and he smiled at his girls in the Medical Bay as they walked over to join him. Jade was clothed again, her figure back to its relatively-normal luscious dimensions, and she held his hand as she arrived at his side. Irillith was distracted by her sleeping twin, and kept glancing back at her until Rachel slipped an arm around her, and squeezed her gently.

Smiling at the troubled Maliri girl, she said, "She'll be asleep for the rest of the night. Come and see her in the morning."

Irillith looked at John and said, "I'd rather stay with Tashana, if that's okay?"

Faye winked into existence in a purple flash, and her expression was earnest as she said, "I'll keep an eye on her for you! I promise I'll tell you the moment she wakes up!"

"She's in good hands," John said reassuringly, unwilling to let Irillith spend the rest of the evening torturing herself. "We'll be able to make everything better for her tomorrow, but until then, she'll be fast asleep."

Irillith gave him a reluctant nod, and let herself be led away. She tore her gaze away from Tashana, and glanced across the Medical Bay at the sleeping Terran women, who were all looking visibly healthier already. It was a potent reminder of just how effective John's healing abilities were, and remembering how quickly he'd been able to heal Sakura's grievous surgical scars, she felt a flare of hope for her relationship with her sister. If he was able to heal her twin in the same way that he was healing those women's physical and mental pain, it might be enough to help Tashana forgive her for everything she'd been through.

***

Edraele stayed quiet as she listened to John's conversation with his girls. Although she was worried about Irillith, and deeply upset about everything that had happened to Tashana, she was also secure in the knowledge that John would be able to heal her daughter, just as he had those six Terran girls. It was only a matter of days until he arrived home to Valaden, and she felt giddy with excitement at the thought of telling him everything she'd accomplished while he'd been away.

"They're getting more obstinate," Nyrelle Aeberos said, glancing at Edraele with a worried frown. "I can see Kalmaera thinking twice about every fleet order I give her."

Leena Ghilwen looked deeply troubled as she added, "I hate having to be so horrible to Nymaleth to get her to follow orders. Are Fleet Commanders always like this, Edraele?"

Edraele turned her attention away from John and focused on the four Maliri girls who were sitting together on the comfortable chaise-lounges in her study. They met like this daily, with the young matriarchs seeking support and advice from each other, and deferring to her own expertise when they were unable to come up with solutions to leadership problems on their own. She was proud of her young charges, but she also knew that such an unusual arrangement couldn't last forever. Something much more permanent was needed. And needed soon.

Hesitating for a moment, Edraele eventually replied with a bright smile, "Truthfully, no. Once you've personally flayed a few insubordinate underlings to death with a neural whip, they'll learn to fear you enough to obey your every whim."

Valani Naestina gaped at her in shock, and gasped, "That's appalling! I couldn't do that!"

Nudging her playfully with an elbow, Nyrelle Aeberos grinned as she said, "Relax, Edraele's just joking." Looking at the older woman, she added nervously, "You are only joking, right?"

Edraele smiled at the Aeberos matriarch, and walked over to join them, sitting beside her on the long seat. She stroked the girl's back and said sadly, "Would that I were, although I'm not suggesting for one moment that you take that approach." Letting out a forlorn sigh, she continued, "Maliri society has been warped by centuries of abuse by the Matriarchs in charge. It's not going to be an easy task convincing women to change their ways, and trying to earn their respect without threats and violence is going to be difficult; at least, not without some powerful assistance."

"You're talking about John, aren't you?" Kali asked, her indigo eyes gleaming with excitement. As the youngest of the group, she'd been fascinated by Edraele's stories of the man who the Valaden Matriarch had described as the antithesis of the Mael'nerak.

"He'll be here in a few days, and then everything will be wonderful," Edraele told them all earnestly.

The sense of relief in the room was palpable, with all four young matriarchs sharing eager smiles of anticipation at the thought of meeting the man Edraele held with such reverence.

***

John was currently in the middle of another group hug, his arms wrapped around Rachel with the rest of the girls surrounding them. The brunette had a sparkling smile on her face, enjoying being the centre of attention after missing out on their first victory celebration. The outer layers of their huddle peeled off and the girls went to their chairs, with John waiting for the others to sit before he took his seat.

This was the first time Sakura had sat with them since she'd completed the Change, and she smiled at Rachel when the brunette patted the chair next to her. Now, with John at the head of the table, Alyssa, Dana, Rachel, and Sakura were on his right, with Calara, Jade, and Irillith on his left. Faye sat cross-legged in her customary place, sitting opposite John on the long table itself.

He glanced around at the eight beautiful girls, and said, "Alright, let's get this AAR going. First of all, excellent work everyone. We achieved our primary objective, and Tashana's safe now, sleeping in the Medical Bay."

Irillith smiled at the gathering of her friends and lovers, and they could all hear the heartfelt sincerity in her voice as she said, "Thank you so much for saving her. You can't know how much it means to me, having a chance to make amends with my sister."

Calara gave her a warm smile as she said, "I'm so glad I was able to help. After everything you did to save my father and brother, helping you rescue Tashana felt wonderful!"

Jade slipped an arm around the emotional Maliri girl, and said, "We all love you, and we're overjoyed to see you two reunited."

John nodded, and said, "I agree completely. If there's anything you need from any of us to try and help your sister, don't give it a second thought, just ask."

She gave him a grateful smile, which she turned to the rest of the girls when she looked around and saw lots of nodding heads and supportive smiles. Her violet eyes filled up with tears, although she fought them back stubbornly.

It pained Alyssa to see the Maliri girl looking so troubled, so she reached out to Irillith, and swaddled her mind in loving, soothing emotions. Those enchanting angular eyes darted her way, and Irillith smiled in gratitude, her emotional burden lifting somewhat.

To give Irillith time to compose herself, John shifted his attention to Rachel, and his voice glowed with pride as he said, "Your psychological profile of Hades was incredible! He reacted just as you predicted he would."

She smiled at him, glowing under his praise, and replied, "It was actually relatively simple to compile, considering the wealth of information that Edraele provided about him. If you could thank her for me, I'd appreciate it. All the data hinted at him being totally self-serving, with a strong instinct for self-preservation, tempered with his arrogance from living virtually unopposed in command of the Underworld. All we needed to do was crush his feelings of superiority by a massive show of force, and I knew he'd be desperate to keep Tashana safe at any cost, in an attempt to buy his way out of trouble."

Dana grinned as she said, "I bet that fucker wished he'd chosen the easy way after all!"

*Did you hear what Rachel said?* John asked Edraele kindly. *Your data played a pivotal part in rescuing your daughter.*

*You're both very... sweet,* she replied, struggling to find the right vocabulary to describe such unfamiliar behaviour.

Turning to look at the other girls now, John said, "Talking of massive shows of force, your shooting and squad discipline was breathtaking to behold." Smiling at Sakura, he added, "You performed brilliantly for your first mission. Your marksmanship was excellent, and you fit seamlessly into the group. You showed the same level of skill as a seasoned special forces vet!"

Sakura blushed at the praise, and said shyly, "It was easy, I just followed all of Alyssa's orders." She glanced at Dana, and added with a grin, "You're right, she gets very bossy in combat."

"I make no apologies for that. Killing all the bad guys as fast as possible keeps each of you safe," Alyssa said archly, but she couldn't maintain her smug facade, and smiled at Dana's mischievous giggles.

John turned to Calara next, where she sat adjacent to him, and reaching out to place his left hand on top of hers, he said, "You were as phenomenal as always when you tore through the pirate fleet, but it was great to have you with us on the ground for once. Everything I said to Sakura applies to you too, you handled yourself like a seasoned professional."

She smiled at him, but her eyes narrowed as she said, "I'm not going to lie, shooting those Largath felt personal. Seeing them again brought back everything that happened to those poor girls from the Griffon. Thank you for bringing me along for that one."

"You fucking kicked ass!" Alyssa said fiercely, proud of her girlfriend. "You've come a long way from that frightened girl we rescued months ago. I bet you'd have charged in there and torn them a new one, even if you had to fight them bare-handed!"

"Her bare hands are pretty lethal," John said smiling at the Latina. He winked at her as he continued, "I feel sorry for the poor bastard who tries to take you in a fistfight."

"Actually, could I be that poor bastard?" Sakura asked tentatively, earning some light laughter from the girls. Glancing at John and giving him a playful smile, she added, "I'd love to learn some martial arts, and I heard Calara's the best on the ship."

"Hey!" John said indignantly, pretending to be offended.

Calara patted him on the shoulder, and grinned as she said, "I did kick your ass last time."

He rolled his eyes, and conceded, "Yeah, true enough." He glanced at the brunette and the raven-haried Asian, and added, "I'd be interested to see you train, if that's okay?"

Alyssa laughed, and quipped, "Two girls in a catfight... I bet you would, you horny old goat! They aren't going to get much training done with you hauling them off to bed for a good fucking."

"Hey, less of the old please!" John protested with a mock frown. He winked at her lewdly, and added, "Besides, the matting in the Training Dojo is pretty soft; why would we bother leaving the Dojo?"

When the laughter died down, Sakura gave him a hooded glance, as she said seductively, "Come and watch the end of the fight. We'll be good girls for you afterwards, won't we Calara?"

Both brunette's eyes met, and they smiled coyly at one another before Calara replied, "Tomorrow morning?"

"Perfect," Sakura agreed.

John smiled at the prospect, looking forward to seeing Calara train her first student, as well as the post-match fun to be had afterwards. He turned to look at the blonde on his right, who gave him a broad grin as she read his salacious thoughts, and said, "Talking of being good, or not in this case, how on Terra did you tag all the bad guys in red like that?"

Alyssa met his searching gaze, and replied, "It was one of Athena's tricks, she guided me through it." She went quiet for a moment before continuing, "When I saw your Progenitor-half through the crack in your mind-shield, it was like I could feel how evil he was; it kind of radiated off him. What I did in the Underworld felt a bit like that, just brushing over people's minds and getting a feel for their nature."

"Why the red auras?" John asked curiously.

She shrugged, and looked grim as she replied, "It felt fitting, considering all the blood on their hands."

John nodded as he said, "It was very effective for sorting the wheat from the chaff. Going by my combat experiences with the Terran Marines, having that kind of moral confidence in your actions was a pretty rare thing."

"It felt good though," Sakura said in a quiet voice, "knowing that the people I killed deserved it this time. I can't say the same about many of Shinatobe's victims."

Rachel gave her a comforting smile, and put her arm around the Asian girl, giving her a hug.