Several weeks after the end of the tournament, which I lost (Don’t think that I’m not still sore about that), all of the fighters in our group, plus a few additional members, were  asked to train at the royal palace of Queen Annabelle Foseel. Those of us in attendance were my boyfriend Jason, my brother Sora, Yukon and the newcomers were Rebekah and Kelder. Master Chow had also joined us as he would assist his sister in our training.

The new training regime started off just like the old one had under Master Chow’s tutelage. The only difference was the weights were much heavier. Well, the three of us who had already trained under Master Chow had heavier weights. The other three started where we had.

For the next six years we drastically improved our skills and got stronger. Despite the grueling work, I had a lot of fun. It was probably because I was able to spend a lot more time with Jason than I ever got in the other world because we were both so busy. Also, we got a lot of free time, and boy, did we use it.

Since Queen Annabelle’s palace was atop a mountain, there weren’t many, if any, people around. Because of that we had to entertain ourselves. We would either play sports or watch movies, but mostly we hiked the varying trails that wound around the mountain. It was very reminiscent of my scouting expeditions when I was a kid….the first time.

Three years into the training we all participated in the next tournament. Jason didn’t make the top four that time, but Kelder and Yukon did. It was mostly because he had to go up against Sora in the quarter-finals. He never stood a chance. The semi-final rounds had me against Yukon and Sora up against Kelder….again. Kelder had improved so much in such a short amount of time, but he never stood a chance against my brother. Sora and I won our matches and had to face one another in the finals just like we wanted the last time we entered.

My match against Sora was so much harder than even when I fought my father. He had grown four inches where as I only grew two inches in three years, so that slight height advantage for him was astounding. However, it wasn’t enough for him to beat me. The fight was close for a while, but I pulled an upset in the last second. We each had mastered three more dragon transformations by that point, so we had use of all of the elements including manipulation of light and shadows. I had better control of the elements, so it was easier for me. He had somehow managed to surpass me in strength, so I had to fall back on my superior elemental skills. I won it all in the end. Needless to say, I was very excited to finally win a major fight. I wasn’t even holding back any longer, though my telepathy was starting to give me problems. I had begun to hear all thoughts across the dimensions as well as most of the universe and I couldn’t block it out. It was getting where I would need to close off that power just to get sleep every night. By the end of our training, I had my telepathy blocked off completely. I could hear almost every universe at that point and it was a painful experience. That meant I had to work harder at everything else.

Three years after my win, we did it again. I had surpassed everyone in strength (and grew another eight inches, so I was also taller than all except for Jason), and didn’t see the point in fighting in the tournament again. The tournament committee required the reigning champion to fight every time, so I didn’t really have much of a choice. Though, it was a new rule that came out after I won the last one, so that was a little bit annoying. At any rate, I and my friends participated for the third time.

In that go around, it was Rebekah and I in the finals. We had to hold back so as not to destroy the whole island, and because of that I barely won, but there it was. I won the tournament again. Oh joy and rapture. But, it served a purpose. Though I knew I had to save my universe, or rather every universe, I wouldn’t have to do this type of fighting, it did help me get stronger which was the whole point in the adventure I was in.

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Our training was finally complete and we were to go off on our own to gain more strength. Master Chow and Queen Annabelle called it ‘learning about you’. So, we said our goodbyes. Sora went off with his new wife Princess Cecilia who had come up to train with us three years prior. Yukon decided he would go back to school to finish his lacking education. He moved to Westlake City where Betti was and not long after proposed marriage to her. She happily said yes.

Jason and I also moved back to Westlake City because Dr. Coates wanted me to become head of his security and secret affairs. Apparently there had been a lot of spies trying to take his research, so he needed someone to do the same. And that always struck me as odd; his research was the best on the planet. He was that Earth’s Einstein so it made since that people would try to take said research. No one else had anything worth stealing, especially because he had Betti and me who were also high class geniuses. I believed the two real reasons I was put in that position had more to do with I was a great theft deterrent being the champion of two tournaments and also so I could easily work with his son, Jason. Speaking of Jason, he was made president of the company with Betti as his vice-president. Betti was also made head of Research and Development. I was her number two in there.

Kelder Ramyu came back to the city with us as well. We got him an apartment nearby so we could easily visit him. The main reason he came was to get help and we were going to do what we could. The first thing we needed to do was get his ship up and running again. After that was done, which took us a few months, we offered to go and help him with his planet’s civil war, which still raged on. He had managed to receive reports over the past few years of the state of things. There was an on-board com-link that he repaired a few years prior that allowed that to happen.

When Kelder’s ship was repaired, he took Rebekah and me to help fight his war. It had been a year since we stopped our formal training and because of either school or work, no one else could go. Plus, it was better if humans didn’t help with a war on Venus. We didn’t want there to be any grudges against Earthlings and neither Rebekah nor me were from Earth. Though the two of us did live there, so the whole idea could have still blown up in our faces, we figured it was the right thing to do.

Sora was also an alien, but he decided to go to school for a degree in finance. It was probably because he had won all of that money from the tournaments and didn’t know what to do with it. Not to mention, Princess Cecilia just had a baby boy, so he wanted to be around to help her take care of him. Yukon and Betti six months earlier had twin boys and had replaced me as head of security. I didn’t want to be in a public position if I were to be the head of a corporate spy network. Yukon loved the new job anyway, because he got to work closely with his wife. He was a better man than me however. I never knew how he was able to juggle a job, school and two new babies. I had one job and it was consuming all of my time.

So, it came down to just three of us to quell the war of an entire planet. I later realized that my fears were totally unfounded. The people of Venus were much stronger than those of Earth, but not even close to as powerful as I had been at twelve before my training with Master Chow. Rebekah and I made short work of the factions that had arisen in Kelder’s absence. Kelder was the prince, which he never once told us. He once mentioned being a high ranking official, but that could have been anything, certainly not a prince.

After the initial wave of fighting, Rebekah and I split up to take care of the bulk of the problem. The opponent’s armies were grand in size and Kelder’s army was not. I handled one army in the northern hemisphere myself. Whenever there were too many opponents to handle at one point, to lessen the body count, I would go into my dragon form. I did it mostly to scare them all away and for the most part, it worked. In the end, we had the war stopped in about three months. The sad thing however was that it had lasted for more than 40 years and the king had lost his life just before Kelder returned to Venus.

It took us a few more weeks to get Kelder situated as the new king, but after that, Rebekah and I went back home to Earth.

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Life had returned to something that resembled normal again. We all trained every day, but since nothing was going on, it was more like exercise and less like preparation. Kelder would visit us every now and again to tell us how things were on Venus. Jason and I visited him once and that was only because it took us a few years to build a spacecraft that could make the journey. I had to make a new propulsion system with Betti’s help. Like Star Trek had warp speed and Star Wars light speed, we had made focused speed. It was basically the same concept as those others, but it used a different engine really. We combined a fusion reactor with something new; a neutron reactor. It took us two years to perfect it, but when the first test succeeded, we threw a big party. It was a major breakthrough for Earth. They could finally explore space like they always wanted and not have to leave family behind to age and die without them. So, three years after the Venutian civil war, Earth sent me and a small contingent of scientists to Venus to learn about the planet first hand. We stayed for six months and then returned home. And that’s how it was for five years after our formal training. Life basically went on.

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When I turned eighteen, I was still in the midst of my training. One day, after an intense session with the Queen in the sparring ring, I was on the lawn toweling off when Jason came up to me and grabbed both of my hands.

“You know what today is, right?”

I had almost forgotten. “Yes, it’s my birthday. I’m glad one of us remembered, because it completely slipped my mind.”

Jason gave me his more serious look ever and said, “I wouldn’t forget this special day. You promised it to me when we first reconnected six years ago.” The tension coming from him was palpable.

“What are you….?” His stern look turned into a smirk. I knew what that meant. It was that time already. “Ah, I get it now. You’re not just here to wish me a happy birthday, but to also give me my long awaited present.”

“Don’t be coy. It’s time that I fuck your brains out.  That’s what I want. I’ve been patient these six years, only jerking off. But I was always jerking it to you. You’re face got me through a lot of lonely nights. I’m getting hard just thinking about it. To feel those tight ass cheeks between my hands again has sustained me all of this time.”

“Jesus Jason; anyone could be walking by!” I exclaimed.

“I don’t care. I can’t wait any longer. My blue balls have blue balls,” he whined.

I laughed, but I knew how he felt. I had begun to lose my patience as well. Jerking off wasn’t working any more.

I could also tell that being so close to one another was having an embarrassing effect. Jason was getting hard and it was really visible in his pants. I felt myself growing as well, and as much as I wanted him to rip off my clothes and mount me right there, I told him we should wait until the training was totally done. I didn’t want to have to hold back just because Sora and Rebekah were in the next rooms. I kinda felt we would shake the rafters because it had been so long.

Jason understood and acquiesced, but he gave me the most passionate kiss I had ever received from him. It turned into a make-out session and I felt his excitement through his pants. It was so ready to escape its prison after a long hiatus. I was sure he felt mine too. I was fit to burst. I had to push him away or we really would have had sex right there next to the ring. He was breathing so hard. I told him to go back to his room to take care of his big problem and he happily agreed. I used super speed to get back to my room so I could do the same. I was so hot and bothered that it didn’t take me long to finish.

Our training was over a few months later and after that, Jason and I found a secluded place so we could ‘fuck our brains out’ as he put it. We probably used every position in the book. Obviously there was a 69 position in there, but there was also a 72, an 84 and beyond that I started to lose count. We lasted for over 24 hours. Our stamina was legendary. We had so much fun that afterwards it took us a while to catch our breaths. It was so amazing. And then, just like that, the sex fog had finally been lifted after eighteen years of doing nothing. And then we did it again.

Once our marathon sex day was over, I went to a quiet spot and meditated. I was still trying to break down the door in my head so my angelic powers could be freed. I wasn’t having much luck. And it didn’t help that my mental powers were going out of whack. I had to enclose them so as not to go crazy. That day however, I was sitting in front of the angelic door, and I noticed that there had been a change. A few of the chains that barred the door were gone. It must have happened after Jason and I had sex. The sexual tension must have been one of the barriers on the sealed door.

I walked up to the door and tried to move some of the other chains, but they wouldn’t even budge. It was still going to take some time to get through the door. Though, five years later, after training was done, the barrier had loosened considerably.

I was able to use my powers inside my mental warehouse which allowed me to further the door opening process. There was one night while Jason was asleep next to me that I sat up in bed and started working over the barrier again. I was using my ice elemental powers to freeze the chains off. It seemed to work until Jason broke my concentration. Apparently I had frozen the bed in the process. That was a good reason to build a training room. I had told Jason as much months before so stuff like that wouldn’t keep happening. But honestly, not since my sexual revolution had the barrier actually weakened. I was running out of options.

After I returned from my stint on Venus, I was working full time and didn’t have as much time to focus on meditation; except for the weekends. One weekend, I meditated both Saturday and Sunday. Nothing seemed to work. My mental angel power door took everything I threw at it and still nothing changed. I tried just sitting there and working on any issues I might have had, and still nothing happened. In my frustration, I launched another attack, but unconsciously I mixed my powers together. When the energy ball hit the door, it shook violently and one of the chains-links cracked. I tried it again, but I used all my powers and launched it as one attack. That time, part of the door splintered. For the longest time I had thought the reason the door was barred was because I had to resolve some past issues. Who knew it was something as simple as combining powers? I thought to myself. Though, I hadn’t always had all of my then current powers, so maybe it wasn’t that simple.

I took a few steps back, gathered up all of my power….every single drop I could raise. I even threw in any lingering issues I might have had, like why I had to save the entire universe by myself essentially. Next, I formed all of my elemental powers and physical strength into a massive energy ball. It was really heavy and was as big as a blimp. The ball was so densely packed that it took all I had to keep it above my head and not break my neck doing it. I threw it and it collided with the door. The factory shook, fixtures were crashing to the ground, windows shattered and I fell to the ground hard. The door first cracked and then disintegrated and the room holding my powers exploded in a fierce and blinding light. I shielded my eyes.

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I slowly opened my eyes and had a look around. The structure of the warehouse had changed. For one thing, it was no longer a warehouse, but more like a heavenly waiting room because it was all in white. Though in reality, heaven’s waiting rooms had many colors, not just the one. The waiting rooms for the recently departed were easily twice as big as Grand Central Station in New York. Where I was reminded me of both of those places actually; like I had been transported there. The new place had the look of a train station, but not a recent one. It had a European vibe with its old world columns and seats and cobblestone streets where the tracks should have been. There were rows and rows of extremely tall pillars that stretched off in both directions. It seemed to go on forever, but not quite. I could just make out the edge of the building, but I had to strain to see it. When I had my angel eyes, I could see for thousands of miles. It ended farther than that.

The floors were a white marble with bits of gold flakes embedded in them. The walls were also done in marble, but were pure white; no color in them at all. The ceiling was vaulted and had a glass roof. It looked out on to a perfectly blue sky with puffy white cumulonimbus clouds.

The building itself was half as wide as it was long. There wasn’t a door or window in sight, save the ceiling. Despite that, I felt a sense of calm from this place. The room, or humongous building, reminded me of a place I would go to when I was still Adonael. It was a place I made in my mind when I first was sent to Earth. Since I couldn’t go home, it was the only thing that reminded me of heaven.

I had a small problem with this new place however. With no doors or windows that could open, I didn’t know how I was going to leave. The place I made as Adonael had an open roof, so I would I just fly out, and my last place had several doors that I could use to come and go. I decided to try something. I closed my eyes and concentrated on being home. I thought about Jason snuggling up against me when it was cold and he didn’t want to use a blanket. I thought about Betti yelling at Yukon for doing something dumb, and then giving him a peck on the cheek after he would apologize. I thought about Sora smiling his goofy grin. Suddenly, the calm and serene feeling I had was replaced with contentment. I could also smell cinnamon rolls for some reason. I opened my eyes and looked around. I was back in my bedroom sitting on the bed Jason and I shared. The rolls must have been baking in the kitchen. Jason had learned to cook because I complained once that I did all of the cooking, so I taught him how to do it too. He always looked so good cutting up vegetables and tenderizing the meat. He insisted on wearing an apron that said ‘Kiss the Cook’ which I always did. So, the key to leaving that new place was to think of my friends and family. I told myself that that wouldn’t be difficult. But I could always learn to make a door too.

I had brought something back with me. I had a glow of pure white all over my body. My powers had finally returned, but I could tell that I was far more powerful than when I had lost them. It seemed that when I combined my Draglorian powers to unlock my angel ones, they co-mingled and united to form something new and greater. I felt a hundred times more powerful than when I woke up the day before. It was amazing. I clenched my fist and the house shook. I felt Jason tense up in the kitchen, so I unclenched my fist and the shaking stopped. Jason was still on edge so I had to put his mind at ease as soon as possible. I teleported myself downstairs right in front of him and smiled. He let out a very girly gasp. “Calm down babe, it’s just me,” I said while trying not to laugh.

“How did you get past me? With your super speed, even as fast as you can go, I still should have felt your presence.”

“I was able to teleport here! I got my powers back!”

Jason dropped the tray of cinnamon rolls he was carrying. They crashed to the floor leaving a gooey mess in front of us.

I snapped my fingers and the mess disappeared and then reappeared in its proper fashion in Jason’s hands. “See, I told you! My powers are back and they’re better than ever I might add.”

Jason stood there holding the hot tray of sweets in stunned silence. It hadn’t sunk in yet. He finally snapped out of it. “I had just gotten used to you without them. Even though you worked hard to get them back, you seemed freer without them.”

“You think so?” I asked.

“Yeah, I do think so. But if this makes you happy, then I’m happy for you!” He set the tray of cinnamon rolls down on the counter and gave me a big hug. He then lifted me up and spun me around and around like he used to when good news was shared. I loved it when he did that. It always made the day seem so much better and brighter.

After the merriment, we went upstairs to our bedroom and made sweet love. It was epic. Honestly, every time we had sex it was epic. We were just so good together that I never left the bedroom on steady legs. He always had me walking funny the next day. Also, I no longer had that blockage in my mind so I was free to let loose and Jason really appreciated that.

And life then resumed to its normal pace, with all of us working and training. It was very dull, until one night…

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