Day ~48~Part Two~

"Rea," *shake shake* "Rea wake up."

Corn had noticed that he was alone this morning and went out to the barn to find his mom, he'd been surprised to see Rea there as well. Ignoring the fact that his mom was there too, he quickly shook Rea awake.

"Morning Corn, something wrong?" she answered, still feeling a bit drowsy.

Corn still had a perplexed expression, "Are you alright? You said you'd be back yesterday so we were really worried."

After muttering a slight apology to Corn she proceeded to roll over and nestle back in... at that moment she realized that Melody was totally sleeping right next to her. As Rea picked Melody's arm up and unwrapped herself she muttered under her breath again while sitting up to face Corn. Thanking the gods that she hadn't undressed before going to sleep, and been too exhausted to take advantage of the remorseful farmer this morning Rea asked him, "Melody is really out of it huh?"

Corn looked over at his mom and sighed, "She barely slept last night, I think she was pretty worried about you to."

That explains how she showed up as soon as I scurried in this morning. Rea looked back up at Corn, luckily he doesn't seem to suspect anything, "So back to training?"

"Right, more digging," Corn looked at his mom who was sleeping like a log, "wait for mom to get up and make breakfast?"

"I'll make us breakfast," as she got up to go inside Corn let out a startled gasp, Rea noticed that her gloves were still off. "I know it isn't the most pleasant arm, what with all the scars, but you could hide the shock a little better kid."

Feeling a bit guilty now Corn apologized to Rea, he hadn't expected her arm to look so mangled. After they had made their way inside Corn was eating a fried egg with toast and bacon, he decided to apologize again. When Corn explained that scars weren't all that uncommon, because of the whole monsters everywhere thing, Rea nodded in agreement. He then went on to tell her that she shouldn't worry about it. Rea gave him a playful grin and finished prepping two more plates.

"I'm gonna go see if I can't wake Melody up, I'll be back when I finish eating," she explained.

Corn warned Rea at that point, "Be careful, mom might be angry that you made her fall asleep in the barn."

Rea ignored that and held herself back from saying that it was definitely not the first time she'd made his mom sleep in the barn. When she made her way into the barn Rea placed both plates on a crate near the bed and proceeded to climb in over her. Looking down at the sleeping woman Rea began to remember the first morning they had spent together in the barn. That was all it took for Rea to decide on the way she'd wake Melody up...

Melody stared vacantly at Rea and hoped that she wouldn't get used to waking up like that. Resting on toned washboard abs with arms wrapped around Melody's waist again, Rea was gazing back up at her. "Morning Melody."

Melody let out a slightly fatigued sigh, "Good morning Rea... did you make breakfast?"

As Rea removed her arms from Melody's torso and got up to retrieve the plates she commented, "Pull up your pants so I'm not tempted to eat the wrong thing."

Melody blushed profusely and began to do as told... however, her personality was starting to get warped by Rea. With both plates in hand Rea turned around to find a now completely nude woman sitting on the bed's edge in front of her.

*Crash!* Rea looked down at the broken plates vacantly, "Sorry Melody, I broke the plates," her voice was completely flat.

Melody chuckled ruefully, "It's my fault Rea...," with Rea now looking right in her direction Melody slowly began to spread both legs while leaning back, "don't let their sacrifice be in vain."

Rea was feeling a bit bad for twisting the farmer's personality, but at this point she really couldn't give a damn. As Rea stepped closer and went down on her knees she spoke one more time, "If only breakfast was always so fun."

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Rea was looking up at the ceiling of the barn again feeling like she'd forgotten something important. As Melody absently toyed with Rea's hair she realized that the sun was rising, "Think I should go, I need to get breakfast ready for my son."

Rea hit her face with a palm, "Uhhhh, I cooked him breakfast and told him I was bringing you breakfast..."

Melody was gaping at Rea now, "How long ago?"

"..." Rea looked away from her.

Melody was getting a bit worried now, "Rea how long?"

"Two hours, maybe three? I don't know you were here too, and you're the one who got us off track..."

Melody sighed audibly, "How do I explain why I just spent three hours eating breakf... We didn't even eat breakfast, he's gonna see the broken plates and wasted food!"

Rea shot Melody a flat look as she finished getting dressed, "Good luck!" Now dashing for the exit she was tackled from behind by a furious Melody. "Hahaha get off, it was a joke, a joke."

"I don't know what I'm gonna say! Help me out here, this is mostly your fault!" The woman was obviously falling apart at this point.

Just then Rea realized that she should, as always, lie through her teeth. "Tell him my wrists were hurting so much that I dropped the plates and you were massaging them for me!"

Now Melody was giving Rea a flat look, "For three hours?"

Rea cocked her head sideways, "It was a deep tissue massage?" That one earned her a slap, "You could tell him the truth, he's sixteen... most kids are on their own by eighteen, some are even married. Your son is a genius on top of that, trust me when I say he probably figured a few things out by now, with or without you telling him."

Melody shook her head, "That's way too embarrassing. Hey Cornelius, I've been doing untoward things to Rea in the barn since the day we met her... I wouldn't be able to look my own son in the eye for a year Rea!"

Rea shrugged, "Then we're going with massage?"

Melody nodded in approval and got up off of her. When Melody slid the door open her world shattered. Standing there gaping with his jaw on the ground was Corn. At that point Rea busted out laughing until her face got stomped on. As Rea rolled around on the ground she also mentioned that Melody had forgotten to put her clothes back on... Which would explain half the reason Corn was catatonic. After slamming the door shut, and going out of her way to stomp on an ophidian who was dying from laughter, Melody put her clothes back on. Spending about a minute to snap Corn out of his daze really hadn't helped so Rea suggested that she should flash her son again... Rea got stomped again instead.

When Corn did respond he only went "ah" "oh" "ah", Melody was pretty much at a loss now. This time Rea suggested that she just send her son to a local brothel... that woke Corn right up. Melody ignored the kid's hopeful eyes and stomped on Rea one more time. When Melody realized that even though Corn was back in the real world he was still averting his eyes constantly, she decided that it was best to give him some space today. So Melody gave Corn a gold and told him to go have fun in town for the day. When Rea suggested that he should go have fun she got sat on. Corn sensed that this would also be for the best, after promising Melody he wouldn't go anywhere near a brothel he left for the day.

Rea chuckled at the still shaken kid as he sauntered off into town, the kick in his step was unmistakable to her seasoned eyes. "You know he's going straight for the brothels right?"

Melody looked down at the woman she'd been sitting on, "I know."

"That's alright?" Rea asked a bit worried.

Melody let off a toothy grin, "Yeah it's fine, they just throw anyone under eighteen in the stockade for a day and take your gold."

*pftahahaahah* "That's great! I can't wait to see the look on his face, well played Melody," Rea noticed a rather sadistic expression coming over the normally calm woman's features, "...what?"

"Academia starts in less than two weeks and you've been missing too many lessons, you'll work on the farm with me to cut down on my hours. After we finish all the chores and in between feeding times we'll continue your training, I doubt Corn is gonna want to work with you for a few days, he may not even come home for a while..."

Rea smiled happily at the prospect of working with Melody but she was curious about that last bit, "Why wouldn't he be home tomorrow when they let him go?"

Melody gazed longingly at the unused smithy, "That boy is his father's son, he decided to pop his cherry... I doubt a day in the stocks is gonna stop him."

Rea silently admired the somber expression Melody was making, "I wish I could love someone like that."

Melody realized what she was doing and looked back down at her seat, "I'm sure you will one day, especially if you live a hundred years. I'm sure of it."

Rea decided not to argue the point and brought up a touchy subject, "You know if he gets thrown in the stocks too often Corns gonna end up with the wrong cherry popped."

Melody gaped at Rea for a good five seconds before bursting into helpless laughter, "I guess that would be learning his lesson the hard way."

After a slight interlude that didn't even get moved to the bed, Melody sent Rea to a place where she knew there was fertile land and told her to start digging. Five earth spirit stones and thirty minutes later Melody showed up and told Rea to fill the holes back in and move to a new area. This process went on for a good two hours before Rea finally got what she was after.

Ability [Digging Mastery Lv. 3] learned.

Ability [Prospecting Mastery Lv. 1] learned.

Ability [Job-Miner] learned.

Ability [Hardiness] learned.

Once she was done with that Rea sauntered off to join Melody. The farmer was currently using a sickle to harvest some wheat rather skillfully. It only took Melody a few moments to shoo Rea off and tell her to go do some weeding for a while in the cabbage patch. After about ten minutes of weeding Rea gained another ability.

Ability [Weeding Master] learned.

After letting out a slight chuckle Rea continued to do as told... as she got progressively bored Rea started to act out.

"Muwhahahaha, feeble weeds you shall fall before the might of Rea!" ten weeds fall, "Oh, what was that!? I'm not the prettiest of them all!? How dare you weeds! Off with your heads!" twenty weeds lose their heads, "I am She-Rea, I have the power! By the power of..."

*pft-hahahahahahahahaha!*

Rea's fun was interrupted by a bout of laughter from behind her... slowly turning to face Melody Rea spoke in a deadly serious tone, "None shall ever hear of this, are we clear?"

Melody gave her a challenging glare, "Nope."

Rea closed her eyes and looked down while clutching a fist close to her chest, "You shall rue the day Melody Horsemonger, rue the day."

Snickering at Rea's continued antics Melody pushed the issue, "I had no idea your names actually She-Rea."

That ticked Rea off a bit too much, with some careful consideration Rea decided to put her plan into action immediately. As she brushed the dirt from her hands Rea waltzed up to Melody proudly and locked lips. Melody reveled in the sensation as Rea gave her one of the most intimate exchanges they'd shared yet. Nearly twenty seconds later Rea pulled back as they both gasped, feeling just a bit winded Melody instinctively looked towards the barn. "Care to take a breather Rea?"

Rea gave her a flat look, any sign of the moments prior were already gone, "Nope, back to training, what's next?"

Melody almost couldn't believe what she'd just heard, "Uhh, yeah right, uhh, next was tracking and gathering."

Rea cocked her head, "I've already got those."

Melody gave her a forlorn smile, "Alright then you move straight to sprint and stamina." As Rea cocked her head the other way Melody didn't even have to hear her speak, "Let's see... after that is carving..." Rea grinned slightly, "... really? Uhhh, I think it was right, basic strength training to gain power boost, just the initial level."

Rea dropped the smile, "How do I go about that?"

"Well you wouldn't get it naturally, it's something you gotta intentionally work towards. By that I mean even if you spend all day fighting or carrying around heavy things or..." Melody looked at the barn again...

Rea noticed and gave her another very passionate kiss, "You were saying?"

"Care to take a breather?" Melody was looking pretty heated at this point.

Rea gave her a flat look, any sign of the moments prior were already gone, "Nope, what were you saying?"

Melody gave her a really perplexed look and continued, "Even if you spend all day fighting or carrying around heavy things you won't get strength boost, you'll just gain muscle. What you want is the passive power boost that... my son explained this part right?"

Rea nodded, "He already told me about how that works when I was getting lung capacity. Something along the lines of, even if two people have the same [Major Lung Capacity] ability that doesn't mean they can hold their breathe for the same amount of time. The passive boost is the same but the natural ability of the person is also taken into account. So by that example, a macho man is gonna be stronger than me even if we both have the same level of [Power Boost]."

Melody nodded in agreement, "That's exactly right, couldn't have put it better myself. So in order to generate power boost you have to do obvious strength training meant to build muscle, not take any old action that'll build your natural limits. Go do push-ups, sit-ups, and explosive power exercises like high step ups and weighted squats. Explosive power is harder to generate but since you've got that handy blessing I say you should get both."

Rea nodded in agreement, gave Melody one more steamy kiss, then left to get started. Melody cursed under her breathe towards Rea's back, she'd realized by now that Rea was doing it on purpose. Mulling over the fact that teasing Rea may have actual consequences, she decided to just return to work for the time being.

On her way to the large irrigation area that Rea was so fond of she picked up a large crate as well as a long stick and four empty buckets. Once she'd made it to the irrigation canal Rea proceed to fill the buckets then thread the stick through their handles. With that done she started with push-ups. Hitting her limit at about forty she moved on to sit-ups. Hitting her limit at about one hundred she moved on to step-ups. Alternating which leg she placed atop the crate and raising her entire body weight onto the crate in a single motion was rather difficult for Rea, she topped out at fifteen with both legs. That done, Rea picked the stick up and curled it with her biceps while ducking her head low and under. As the stick with water buckets rested on her shoulders she began to do squats. Following the step-ups had caused her to only hit about twenty before feeling like she was about to fall over. Rea had gotten a little heated when she noticed Melody watching her. Deciding to tease the woman more Rea removed her vest leaving only the cloth undershirt on, she then made a very appealing pose while slowly pouring the buckets of water over herself. Rea had been a fan of the local wet t-shirt contests during her dying, drunken phase... After chuckling quietly at the blushing Melody, she refilled the buckets and repeated the whole process.

Ability [Power Boost Lv.1] learned.

Ability [Job-Wrestler] learned.

[Job-Wrestler] Level 3!

Ability [Choke +] learned.

Ability [Explosive Power Lv. 1] learned.

[Job-Wrestler] Level 8!

Ability [Throw +] learned.

By the third time Rea was pouring buckets of water over herself she had already gotten more than she expected to get. Rea made a mental note that jobs would gain experience immediately upon acquisition from any corresponding abilities you had learned and used. Rea had made sure Melody was looking every time she took a little birdbath and now, having achieved her goals, she made her way to the barn to dry off. Rea turned and looked directly at Melody from across the field and suggestively removed her wet clothing before shutting the barn door. Melody, having gotten the message loud and clear, briskly marched across the field and hastily flung the door open. To her dismay a fully clothed and dry Rea walked right out the door past her.

"What's next Melody?"

"... I'm sorry."

Rea leaned in closer with a coy smile, "What?"

Melody fell to her knees with tears in her eyes, "I'm sorry! I won't tell anyone about She-Rea, so please, please!"

Rea was still a bit upset but she decided to give Melody a reward for trying. Without responding with words Rea pushed Melody past the barn's threshold, she then slammed the door shut behind them while forcing her to the ground. With Melody being completely submissive Rea quickly tore off her leather trousers and got to work. With every gasp and moan Melody grew more intense, the woman had gotten capable at matching the movement of her hips to Rea's timing. Just as she could feel that her prey was getting to a near climax Rea retreated and sat down on a crate.

Melody looked up at her helplessly, "Why?"

Rea twiddled her thumbs, "I'm still a bit angry, that's it for now."

Melody was about ready to cry as she sat up, "Please don't stop here, that's too mean... I'm really, really sorry..."

Rea grinned maliciously and eyed her prey again, "Well I suppose I could forgive you if you did just one thing..."

Melogy sighed with relief and fell back again, surrendering herself, "What do I have to do?"

Rea let out a chuckle, "I wanna watch, finish yourself."

Melody gaped at Rea, "What!?"

Rea gazed very suggestively while using her own hands to give a slight demonstration, "You heard me, now spread your legs I want a good view."

After a few moments of battling her inner morality Melody did as told and gave Rea a full view, she was surprised with herself, this wasn't entirely displeasing. As Rea watched like a hawk the heated woman continued without her. Every moan, every shiver, every gasp nearly broke Rea's will to stay away. Melody reveled in the newfound sensation and had no trouble completing her task, Rea grinned at the sight of her toes curling and body convulsing in ecstasy. As Melody lay on the ground half delirious, Rea picked her up in both arms and carried her to the bed.

"That was incredible Melody," Rea drew closer and whispered in her ear, "I was never really angry at you, but I'm happy with the results of my charade, aren't you?"

Melody sighed and placed a hand on Rea's abdomen, "Very, now shut up and kiss me."

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