Puzzling Chapter 2

[muscle-ace]

Puzzling ? Chapter 2 ? Making a gamble

There was silence as we saw the red light turn off. I don?t know who it was, but someone had said, ?I guess they didn?t make it.? There was a mumbling of agreements among us. We had heard the familiar beep that always preceded the mechanical voice. Several of the group shuttered.

?Well, I guess we will have to start a pair short,? the voice said almost teasingly. ?I wouldn?t worry about them now. They should be, hehe, getting along swimmingly.?

?Is this some kind of joke you sick fuck!? Don shouted to the ceiling. ?You just fucking drowned two people. You?re a murderer.?

?Oh I assure you this is no joke. And I murdered no one. I just helped them move on into a new life?

?You are fuckin psycho!?

?Again with the psycho insult. Yah know if you keep that up, I won?t be so nice to you.?

?What?s so nice about locking us up and forcing us to play your messed-up game,? Miles added in.

?Well, there is a prize at the end for everyone that makes it to the end, but it?s a secret,? there was a sound. Nobody knew if it was static or snickering. ?Anyway, I?ll be really nice to you now. You can switch partners once and when you all are ready, step by the lit up doors and swipe your bracelets by them to get in. And don?t even think about trying to get than one person in each. There will be consequences!?

The mechanical beep sounded again signaling the message was over. We all looked at each other. ?So I guess our partners are who we woke up with,? Jacob piped up. ?So who woke up with who?? Everyone paired up: Shaun and Miles, Hunt and Dave, Don and Mike, Tyler and Landon, Wes and Jacob, and lastly Rich and I. Everyone seemed to be ok with that except Don.

?Hey Mike and Miles I hope you don?t mind, but I?d like the bruthas to stick together,? Don said standing over them. ?Mike, can you switch with Shaun??

?Sure thing man. Miles, Shaun, you guys ok with this?? Shaun nodded in silence while Miles just grunted. After the switch, the rest of us decided not to switch our groups. We walked in front of our doors and tentatively swiped our bracelets. The doors clicked open and we all stepped in.

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Rich and I step into the room and we were surrounded by what seemed to be a casino. ?Wow?? I examine the exquisitely designed room. ?Now what are we supposed to do.?

Rich spotted a piece of paper on the pool table. He grabbed it and said, ?Hey, look at this.? He proceeded to read the slip of paper ?Here in this room you have a lot more to lose than your shirt. Look to the door to find your lock with two missing parts. The keys being spades, clubs, diamonds, and hearts. If you waste your time, it might hurt. Now your time starts. There is a roulette, slot machine and table, but no darts. Run out of time and the lock will remain inert. One key happens after you eat. You just don?t want to taste defeat. The other key you need to solve if you can. It has already killed one man. I?ll give a hint and? you hold a hole in your hand.?

?A hole in my hand? What is that supposed to mean?? I ask.
?I dunno. Where?s the door?? Rich responded and I motion across the room. There was another vaulted door with a timer above it that read 58:23 and was counting down. I looked around the door to see the lock. All I found was the roulette table, slow machine, a frame with some cards in them, and another door.

?Wait, did it say anything about another door?? I said as we moved toward it. There was a sticky-note on it: for whatever you need it for.

?No, but lets see what?s inside,? Rich said as he opened it. He sighed, ?It?s only a bathroom.?

?Well that won?t help. Lets just figure out these clues,? I started as I mulled over the note in my head and mumbled to myself, ?two missing parts?the suits?after I eat?taste defeat?killed a man?a hole in my hand??
?Hey James,? Rich called to me from the first door, ?Look at this thing.? He was examining the frame by the door.

?What?s with it??

?It looks like there are cards missing.?

?What do you mean??

?Well? there are two aces, one heart and diamond, and one eight, but it look like there are two spaces left.? He pointed to the areas by the cards that seemed out-of-place.

?So if this is the lock, then we are looking for cards in a Casino??? I ponder.

?I guess so, but which cards? That?s the question of the hour.?

?Well, one happens after we eat and the other is in a hole in our hand?? We both look at our hands at the last remark. ?I don?t see anything.?

?What have we eaten then?? Rich asked?

?Huh??

?The note was taking about what we ate.?

?Yeah, what we ate?we ate?ate?. Oh my God, Rich you are a genius!? I shouted in amazement.

?What? I am?? he recoiled a bit in shock.

?Yeah, eight! We are looking for an eight!?
?Wha- why??

?What happens after we eat. We ate something!? I said spilling the cards on the table. ?It?s a bit of a stretch, but it?s all we got.? I continued to search feverishly. ?Found one!?

Rich and I continued to look through the deck. We separated all of the cards into piles but could not find another eight. ?Did we miss one??

?No, they are all here. What was it about the second clue?? I wanted to reconfirm.

?It said, ?you hold a hole in your hand,?? he repeated. ?I got nothing. How about you??

?Maybe we can figure out from the left over cards,? I began to look over the cards again.

The clock only said 10 minutes were left. I grew frantic. I didn?t want to die in here. Then, Rich picked up a card. It was a seven. ?There is only one of these.?

?Well lets try it!? We stuck the cards in the frame and heard a click.

We both pushed on the door at the same time and fell into the hallway. We untangled ourselves and looked up. Mike and Miles were walking toward us.

?Good you guys figured it out,? Mike said, ?I was worried someone without medical knowledge wouldn?t get through.?

?Medical knowledge? How does that work into it?? I was curious.

?The hole in your hand. It?s a 7 made by your Thenar crease and proximal palmar crease.? He explained.

?So then what is a hole?? Rich inquired.

?It?s the unknown card that is face down in a game of cards,? it was Miles?s turn to speak. ?We play a lot of cards in the frat.?
And with that explained, we waited. Pair by pair, everyone got out of the room. Everyone except Don and Shaun.
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There were only five minutes left on the clock and the panic was evident on their faces.

?Fuck,? Don shouted at Shaun. ?Do something!?

?Like I know what the fucking riddle means!? Shaun shouted back in frustration.

The clock was in the last minute. Shaun walked to the bathroom.

?Where the fuck are you going pussy!??

?To die in private. I don?t care to die listening to you barking orders at me,? he shut the door and locked it. Just as he did so, they both felt a prick in their wrist under their bracelets.

Shaun stared at his half-black skin and dull eyes and thought to himself, ?So I?m gonna die a virgin. Wonderful?? His cock sprung an erection. ?I?m even gonna die horny.?

Shaun noticed that his skin began to darken. He watched as his lips puffed out some more. Hair grew back into his head until it was buzzed. He thought to himself as he changed, ?The nano-bots must simulate cancer.? He felt his bones ache, ?I guess it does.? In reality, he was just growing taller. He grew to 6?5?. It began to feel exceedingly hot and he felt the need to get out of his clothes. He didn?t realize as he stripped, he did it like a stripper. Soon, he was just left in his boxers which changed right before his eyes into a white jockstrap that contrasted with his dark African skin.

Growing taller wasn?t the only thing that was happening to him. The heat intensified as his muscles began to grow.
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Meanwhile in the main casino room, Don had begun to sweat. He was sweating the fat out of himself. His cop clothes got looser on him more ways than one. He began to shrink from his 6?4? to a 5?8?. ?Man it?s hot,? he thought to himself. He stripped more messily out of his clothes. If he was paying attention to himself, he would have noticed the black jockstrap he now wore and that his skin was no longer dark. It was now a honeyed tan.

He felt a pleasurable sensation radiate from his cock. It spread from his crotch to his abs. Slowly, but surely, abs emerged from his stomach. They were slick and hairless. The growth spread up from his abs to his pecs. His pecs pushed out until they were plump mounds of muscle. The nipples on the ends of them now pointed down. The nips grew large and stuck out ? an inch, becoming super sensitive. He places his hands on his hips. The biceps swelled out with muscle. His forearms grew thicker as the hair on them fell out. Once his shoulders grew wider and filled out, he bounced his pecs.

?Yeah, the guys at the club love when I do that,? he thought to himself. ?Where did that come from??

He shook his hips as his legs swelled with defined muscle. His thighs quaked as they became stuffed with muscular beauty. Veins came over them as the growth passed to his calves. They became taut diamonds of muscle. His hairless legs shuddered as they were covered with a sweaty sheen. His hips switched from shaking to gyrating as his ass bubbled out.

?Yeah, the guys love my ass,? he purred. ?Yeah, they love Juan?s sexy ass.? The nerves in his ass changed so that he loved getting fucked up the ass. His hair became greasy as it snaked out of his head, He now had a long mane of black hair.

He felt himself up as the bathroom door opened. Behind the door was a behemoth of a man. He took up most of the doorway as he walked out. ?There you are Juan,? the voice from the man had an impossibly low rumble. ?I thought you?d be messing with my clothes again.?

?I?m sorry Shaun,? Juan, formerly Don, said as his mouth watered for the giant pecs of this man. ?I just liked how hot they looked on you and wanted to see how?d they would look on me.? He put one hand on Shaun?s pec and they other ran down Shaun?s abs.

?Yeah, save it,? Shaun grunted. ?I?m horny and I need ass now.? He took out his massive, throbbing 14 inch cock. Juan eagerly turned around and offered up his ass.

?Come on then, put it in me.? He said as the 14 incher invaded his tight ass. The new nerves he had deep in his ass caused his own cock to become erect. His former 7 incher stretched and thickened into a nice and hard 11 incher.

?That?s it, take my cock bitch,? Shaun grunted as he increased his pace. Juan sped up too to match him. ?Damn your ass is tight.? As he said this, Juan?s ass clenched down on Shaun?s cock. That caused both of them to moan in ecstasy. Soon, both of them came with such for that they fell to the floor.

They picked themselves up and Shaun picked up Don?s old clothes. They were stretched tight across his mammoth pecs and broad shoulders. Juan picked up a separate set of clothes. They were a black wife-beater and some jean shorts that had holes in them.

?Come on,? Shaun motioned to a new opening in the wall. ?The club is waiting for us and you need to sell your ass tonight.? Juan gleefully bounced up and followed Shaun out of the room.
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The light outside their room turned off.

[arcto]

does anyone know if the author is going to continue this

[muscle-ace]

I do plan to continue this. I have been very this past month and plan to get back to writing this, ASAP.