Treasure Chest: Venus Online 3 (LitRPG Sci-Fi Harem) Read online

  As he hoped, she caught on. Her face brightened, and she gave a wink back. Her hand brushed against her neck.

  "Goodbye." His hands reached for the console.

  Xana touched her necklace to make her clothes vanish before disappearing herself.

  He grabbed Fala and shoved her into the airlock.

  Fala screamed as she went flying inside.

  She landed on the floor of the airlock, and stumbled to her feet before lunging for the door.

  Before she could escape, he pushed the button on the console.

  The airlock door on his side slammed shut.

  Through the glass, he could see her pounding on the airlock. Even with the glass muffling her voice, he could hear her through the door, yelling, "Let me out right now, you stupid asshole. I will kill you with my bare hands when I--"

  That made it easier for him to push the second button.

  Fala's face contorted in a silent scream as the door behind her opened. She was sucked out of the airlock and vanished into the blackness of space.

  As he hoped, Xana reappeared outside the airlock by his side, naked but alive. She had caught his reference to "switching" and glancing at Fala, and made herself invisible so she could slip out unnoticed.

  Jokah frowned as she watched the airlock slide shut. "Well, that sucked."

  She laughed while shrugging her shoulders. "I was gonna kill her anyway, so you saved me a job. Can't see how that helps you, though."

  He grinned. "You need us now. Without Fala, all you know is that the gem is on that moon and it's a big moon. We're the only ones who know how to get the exact location of the gem."

  She smirked as she drew a knife and pointed it at him. "Then I only need one of you, the one who can track the gem."

  "Yeah, but you don't know which one of us it is."

  She rolled her eyes. "Then I'll just torture you all and find out. Honestly, you're making this way too complicated, darling."

  "You could do that, but it would take a long time. It would be quicker just to keep us alive."

  She pushed down the corners of her mouth as she nodded. "Oh, well done. All right, we'll play your game. You get to live until we get the gem, and then I'll kill you all slowly. Sound like a plan? Good."

  She poked her knife at the airlock leading to the Icarus. "Come on, off we go. Want to check out my new ride."

  Byron and his ladies trudged ahead of the pirates through the Black Thorn to the Icarus.

  As they walked, Scarlett wrapped her arms around his waist and squeezed. "Hey, hope you're not too pissed off at us for not killin' ya."

  He chuckled. "No, I appreciate it."

  Chetaara looked worried. "Are you certain you are not angry at my disobedience, Master? I would never ignore an order from you again, and beg for your forgiveness."

  He kissed her. "No, it's okay. We'll get through this without anybody getting killed. That's my promise to all of you."

  As they crossed over into the Icarus, Jokah looked around his ship with a shrug. "Well, we'll have to redecorate, but it's not bad. Couple throw pillows, a new gun rack right over there, and we're good. Get him a medpack, eh?"

  He felt a burst of pain in his side that brought him to his knees, the result of one of the pirates yanking the knife out of his side. As he screamed, the pirate tossed the bloody knife to the floor, pulled a medpack out of her belt, and pressed it into his back. His health bar grew as the pain eased, but not all the way. Just enough for him to recover and stand up again.

  Jokah jerked both thumbs over her shoulder. "Right, I'm going to the main quarters. My girls, take Captain Jones' harem to the cargo hold and lock them up for now."

  She pointed a dark blue finger at Byon and crooked it. "You, my lad, are coming with me."

  Jokah led the way through the Icarus to the crew quarters. He wanted to scream with rage at the sight of her walking through his ship like she owned it. Yet he couldn't stop watching the swing of her ass as she walked ahead of him. He wished he hated her enough to find her repulsive but she did have an amazing body.

  When they reached his quarters, she turned and gave him a shove inside. When the two of them stood alone, she closed the door and looked at him with narrowing eyes.

  He bared his teeth. "What do you want with me? I told you I won't tell you how to find the gem."

  She waved a hand and snorted. "Oh, fuck the treasure right now. I just thought you might like to have a go at this pussy."

  Her hands went to her bikini and popped it off, leaving her naked again. The bioluminescent lines glowed even brighter along her body, tracing her nipples and the curve of her hips.

  She held up her hands. "I know, I know. You won't help me find the treasure, you won't join my crew. Well, fuck all that. I've seen the way you look at me, and you know I'm dying to have some of that fat cock inside me."

  She took a step forward and ran her hand along the inside of his thigh, pausing as she reached his swelling member. "So I thought you might want to play with no strings attached. Sort of one last go."

  He wanted to argue, to knock her hand away, and say he didn't want to even look at her, let alone touch her. But as he looked down at her full breasts and tight stomach, he knew she could feel how hard it made him. He might die, but he didn't want to die like this.

  He stepped towards her, buried his fingers in her long, braided hair and pulled her up against him. He pressed his mouth against hers, and their tongues explored each other in kind.

  Then she bit down on his lower lip, and the surge of pain made him shove her away.

  She slammed against the wall, laughing and running her hands down her tits. "Yeah, that's it. I like it rough, baby."

  He reached out to grab her by the throat. Instead of pulling away or showing fear, her eyes widened and her smile grew. She really did want it.

  For a moment, he glanced around, wondering if this was sort of trick. But he couldn't see how she could trap him in his own ship.

  He shoved her to the ground, and she dropped onto her side. She looked up at him, breathing heavy, and he could almost feel the hunger coming off of her.

  He unzipped his jumpsuit and let it fall. She hummed as her eyes followed the broadness of his shoulders, down to his waist where he peeled away his boxers to let his flesh throb before her.

  "Wow," she breathed. "That's even bigger and better than I thought, love."

  He said nothing, not wanting to give her the satisfaction of hearing his response. He wanted her to know this was only about sex, not about his feelings. He only reached down to hold the back of her head. She obeyed the unspoken command, opening her mouth to take him in.

  He bit his lower lip to hold back the groan as her lips surrounded his cock. He felt her hands running down his back until they cupped the cheeks of his ass. Even though her fingers made goosebumps spring up on his skin, he reached back to pull her hands away. He held her wrists together in his hands, pinning them over her head. He wasn't sure why, maybe wanting to take away her control of his pleasure.

  He watched her as she stuffed her mouth with his dick. Her hair fell over her face, but her eyes still shone through, looking up at him as he filled her. He forced himself deeper, wanting to make her choke, but she frustrated him by taking his length down her throat with ease.

  As he felt himself responding to her mouth, he stopped her again, drawing himself out with a pop.

  She ran a pink tongue over her moist lips. "Aw, I was just getting started on the appetizer, baby. Ready for the main course?"

  "Shut up." He wanted to strangle and kill her right then, knowing he could end her reign of terror quickly. But he couldn't become the cold-blooded murderer she was or that the game seemed to want him to be. He wanted her to be armed and fighting if she was going to die at his hands.

  He yanked her to her feet, and threw her onto his bed. She landed on her side, showing the curves of her ass and breasts still jiggling as she looked up at him. He finally saw something like fear in them, ma
ybe thinking she had pushed him too far. He was glad. He wanted her to be scared.

  Byron reached out to grab one of her ankles and pull it. He expected to just tug her, but didn't know his own strength because he completely flipped her over.

  She giggled as she landed on her stomach. "Wow, you want it bad, huh?"

  He didn't answer her. He didn't want to give her the satisfaction. He climbed onto the bed, wrapped an arm around her waist and yanked her up onto all fours.

  She cried out as he slammed into her. "Oh, God, yes. Give it to me, baby."

  He began to drive into her as deep and hard as he could.

  Byron had heard the term "hate fuck" before, but he never really understood it until that moment. He put every ounce of his anger and rage into the thrust of his hips. His cock became a weapon that he used to punish her for all that she had done to him and those he cared about.

  At the same time, she felt amazing and he wanted more of her.

  "That's it, love," she moaned. "Hurt it, make it bleed."

  He felt wild as he reached over her arched back to grab a handful of her hair. She let out a cry as he yanked her head up and back. He held it firmly while his other hand gave both cheeks of her ass a slap until they turned a darker shade of blue.

  The more he hurt her, the more she cried out in pleasure. She really did like it rough. He figured he could probably go further, but the way he felt, he'd accidentally kill her.

  She let out a deep groan and he felt her body clench as her orgasm ripped through her. He pulled harder on her hair, wishing he could stop her pleasure, but it only seemed to make her cum harder.

  He thrust faster, wanting to fill her, and his body responded. He shuddered as he launched his cum deep into her like bullets shooting into her womb.

  When his climax faded, he shoved her away, stumbling back on unsteady legs. With his arousal fading, he felt his anger coming back again.

  She sprawled on his bed, gasping for air, and moaning under her breath.

  "Oh, that was good." She looked up at him through a tangle of hair tumbling down her face. "You're bloody marvelous, baby. Next time, you can punch and choke me though, yeah?"

  Byron started pulling on his boxers. "There won't be a next time."

  She rolled over onto her back. "Oh, come on. We've still got some time before we find the gem and I kill you. We can squeeze in another quickie."

  He lunged at her with clenched fists. "Are you crazy, lady? I don't want to fuck you again. I want to get you off my ship or kill you or both!"

  Her eyes widened as she let out a burst of laughter. "Yeah, that's the fire I love to see. Don't blame you a bit, Sweet Cheeks. Thought even once would be too much to ask."

  The intercom above his door spoke in a woman's voice. "Captain, we're at the moon. Awaiting your orders."

  Jokah clapped her hands and wriggled her naked body off the bed. "Right, enough fun and games. Back to business. Let's get that bloody treasure, eh?"

  Chapter 20

  Byron got dressed with Captain Jokah's gun at the back of his head. She slipped back into her bikini before she marched him out to the bridge. He found the other pirates gathered there along with his girls.

  Outside the main window, the moon glowed beneath them, as big as a planet with green visible through patches of clouds.

  Captain Jokah slipped her gun into its holster and clapped her hands. "Marvelous. Now, let's see how this is gonna work. I need the gem's location. Which one is gonna give it to me?"

  Scarlett and Chetaara looked at Xana, who looked at Byron and said, "He'll do it."

  Byron almost said, "I can't find the gem" out loud but Xana rushed up to him and threw her arms around around his waist.

  Xana burst into sobs. "I'm sorry, Captain, we can't pretend any longer to save you."

  He was about to protest when he felt something slip into his hip pocket. When she stepped away from him and gave him a wink, he understood to play along.

  "That's okay, sweetie." He kissed her and nodded. "You did the best you could."

  Jokah laughed. "Well, this is too perfect. I only wanted Byron, anyway. Girls, kill this lot for me, will you?"

  The pirates aimed their weapons at Chetaara, Scarlett, and Xana.

  He couldn't let them die. He thought fast.

  He held out his hands. "Wait! The only reason I'll give you the gem's location is to save their lives. You kill my crew, and that's over. I'll put a gun to my head and kill myself if I have to. You want the gem? You keep them alive. It's a package deal."

  Jokah giggled. "Wow, you really do like these girls, eh?"

  She held up her hand and swung it in a circle. "I've got a few ladies myself, you know. I can loan you a couple. No? All right, we'll keep playing this out. If you'll give us the general coordinates, good sir?"

  He pulled the object Xana had slipped him out of his hip pocket. It was her tablet, and it showed a glowing outline of the moon below with a blinking red "X." He pretended to tap the screen a few times before holding the tablet out to Jokah.

  She snapped her fingers.

  One of the pirates sat down at the controls and punched buttons until the engines rumbled. "Setting coordinates."

  The moon grew outside the windows until it filled the view and the ship plunged into its atmosphere. Clouds swirled past until the Icarus broke through to soar over a forest of green.

  Jokah pointed to the tablet. "All right, what's it say next?"

  Byron tapped the screen. Xana must have set up the tablet to automatically shift, because the image of the planet changed, zooming in on one location, and showing numbers. "Okay, head to these coordinates."

  The pirate pilot worked the controls, bringing the Icarus around.

  Scarlett thrust her finger at her. "Hey, easy, easy. You can't turn this ship on a dime. You'll warp the steering fins. You gotta take it slow, like your Daddy taking it up the ass."

  The pirate pilot bolted out of her seat, reaching for her gun, when Captain Jokah held up her hand.

  "Easy, Trudy, easy. She's just tryin' to get under your skin. And you gotta admit that was pretty bloody funny." Jokah giggled.

  The pirate pilot looked like she wanted to rip Scarlett's head off, but growled, "Yes, captain" and dropped back into her chair.

  The Icarus continued its course, flying over the trees, and passing over rivers. It began to slow just as a huge stone pyramid could be seen rising from the forest.

  Jokah pointed. "I'm guessing that's what we're looking for. Bring us down."

  The Icarus flew over a clearing, ignited its landing jets, and slowly dropped onto the ground.

  Once the ship touched down with a shudder they all felt, Captain Jokah drew her pistol and pointed it at Byron. "All right, my lad. Time to earn your keep. You're coming with us. We're off to find the treasure. Your other ladies are staying here. We don't come back with that gem, my girls will kill them all. Everybody got that? Good. Come along, that treasure won't find itself."

  They forced Byron to walk ahead as they opened the airlock. Hot, humid air poured over him as they stepped out onto the planet's surface.

  Leaves crunched under his boots as he looked up at the trees surrounding them. Once again, he was amazed at the realism of the game. It felt like he really stood in the sun's heat, looking up at towering green trees. An unearthly warble rang out before creatures with feathers and bat's wings fluttered out of the branches in a flock.

  At the center of the clearing stood a stone pyramid with steps running up the sides that reminded him of pyramids in South America.

  Jokah poked him in the back with her gun. "No time for sightseeing. Let's have it."

  She snatched the tablet out of Byron's hand and began tapping the screen. "We can stop pretending now. You're cute, but I know you're not smart enough to be the one who's tracking the gem. I'm guessing it was programmed by the little green one, yeah?"

  He clenched his fists. "If you knew, why didn't you kill the rest of us?"


  She laughed. "Because you're so cute when you think you're getting one over on me. And I'll need you on this little trip. You're gonna be my canary in a coal mine, my crash test dummy. Any trouble, and you're going first."

  He was about to speak when something flashed out of the trees next to him. A spear slammed into the chest of one of the pirate girls, pinning her to a tree behind her.

  More spears came flying out from all directions. Byron crouched and used the menu to call up his shield to block some of them, but the spears impaled some of the other pirates. Jokah and the pirates began firing their guns into the trees while forming a circle.