Saturday, December 17, 2022

Low Blow Quest chapter 10

“Ugh, it feels like we have been walking for a whole year!” Complained Glysh the goblin as they trekked through the woods. She was leading the group, even if the top of her head came up to only the belly button of an average human. She had the pointed ears and long nose typical of her greenskin race and also happened to be blessed with a derriere that would be the envy of a creature more than double her size. She kept at the ready a kusarigama, the chain of her oriental weapon coiled around her arm gently bounced along her rump with every step she took. Following close was Kuni the oni. She towered head and shoulders above even a full blooded orc. The oni had a solid muscular frame, criss-crossing scars on her carmine red skin, and large double headed battle ax who spoke of a lifetime of battle. Her bright ruby skin and snow white hair stood out greatly in the green and browns of the forest. Her breasts were massive, so big that they would become a liability in a battle. Her usual recourse was to bind them tightly but that was not an option at the moment, as much as she wished as she was forced to awkwardly cross her arms to provide support against unwanted painful bouncing. Coming last but not least was Morn. The orc vixen wasn't as vibrant a shade of green as Glysh nor were her features as harsh and savage as that of most of her kin. Still, she carried herself with confidence and pride. Over her shoulder she carried a demonic club, the prize won from the dungeon they had all recently escaped. In the other she held aloft the skull of the undead human wizard Kozor, whose hollow eye sockets glimmered with a faint light. His soul was bound to his limited remains due to dark magic and his obstinate refusal to pass on. The adventurers had been teleported to an unknown location, after triggering the last trap of an ancient dungeon. To add insult to injury, a previous acid trap had left them all in the nude, with the fabric of their clothes eaten away and the metal of their weapons stained an unnatural shade of green.



“It's only been a few hours, stop complaining.” Kozor shot back. His teeth clattered as he spoke, his jaw mimicking the same movements a normal human would make with their mouth when they spoke. 



“You're not the one walking barefoot through this wilderness. Also, why am I even getting sass from a talking skull? I’ve never seen a necromancer who lets their thrall mouth off that much.” The goblin rogue said, her dark green skin already pearling with beads of sweat.



“Morn is not a necromancer! I’m the caster of this magic. Before my demise, I performed a little dark ritual to keep my soul in the mortal plane. Best I could achieve was keeping my skull animated. Alas, I'm still only an amateur wizard.” The skull bemoaned angrily.



Morn raised the skull of her friend to be eye level with him. She was forced to carry the undead wizard by hand now that the acid trap they triggered ate away the leather strap she used to fasten him at her waist. “Easy there, bone lord.” Chastised the orc in an almost condescending manner. Looking to address her fellow greenskin, “To tell you the whole story, a while back I fell captive to some Golden Lord goons who tossed me in a cell. Kozor was already like this when I found him. Combining his magic and my muscles we managed to escape. He decided to help me in my journey as he has nowhere else to go really.”



Happy to see the orc girl confirm his story, the wizard continued. “Yes, not only that I'm also glad to see pain brought to the Golden Order, given they are responsible for my demise. If you really want to know everything, only cast spells when I possess someone else’s body. This can only occur when I've had time to recharge and of course with their consent. I do believe however I could get more proficient with some practice.” As if he was ashamed by his own confession, he concluded “And I should add that I am grateful to Morn for getting me out of that damned prison cell.”



“Ah, you zombie lug.” The orc said as she gave the skull a noogie.



“I see.” Glysh said, still processing everything she just heard. She had seen many things on her travels, but a buddy-buddy orc and a self-made undead magic user were both firsts. “Well I've seen odder team-ups.” She turned to face her new oni companion, before asking bluntly, “If I’m correct, something was said about you growing some twig and two berries?”



Kuni’s face turned a brighter shade of red as she scratched the back of her head. She looked to Morn for help.



“I'll fill you in. Kuni tends to be a little shy, when it comes to this sort of thing. Anyway, as far as I can tell her tribe has been cursed in such a way that every oni is born female. Then, instead of getting periods they grow a fat set of dick and balls. Their organs won't go away ‘til someone else makes them cum or their nuts get destroyed. Then, boom! Back to all female.”



Kuni hid her face in her hands, too embarrassed to speak. Glysh looked back at her ruby traveling companion to give her a once over. “By all that glitters I’ve got to see this happen.” With no feigned astonishment.



“Oh, believe me it's something else.” Morn said with a grin.



“Guys can we please stop talking about this?” Begged Kuni, still hiding her face.



“She will change her tune as soon as she gets her balls. All guys do.”



Morn took the lead, her upbringing in the unforgiving jungle wilderness her tribe called home giving her unparalleled survival skills. She began by seeking out fresh water, as she was able to sniff out the faint scent of moisture, which led them to a clearing. The landscape became more mineral, with crags strewn about and no trees were growing in this desolate area. Standing on the neck of the woods, Morn tried to gaze further in the clearing by climbing atop a boulder. “Looks like there's some small lakes near the center. I don't see much else.” Her report was interrupted by the sight of a small shimmer of reflected light in the grass by the bodies of water. She first dismissed it as a trick of her eyes. When she saw the shimmer again, this time darting closer she knew it was real. It closed the distance to her quickly and she swung her club down at it hard enough to crack the stone ground. A clear amorphous blob of water coiled its way up the club and onto her arm. She let out a yell and frantically swiped at, only to find it swiftly dodged her every swing. 



“Hey wait, that's a water sprite.” Kuni exclaimed “And I would really recommend not pissing them off. Where there is one there is at least a dozen more. But they are usually friendly.”



“Friendly and way too touchy.” Morn said as she shook her arm to whisk away the clear shape clinging to her skin.



Kozor clattered his teeth. “Lucky you, guys. Small water sprites pose no danger to humanoids. In fact some spas use them in treatments as they eat dead skin and debris on the pores. They often reside near hot springs or other fresh bodies of water. They’re said to be scavengers and pick apart the last bits of meat from the dead.”



Less agitated now, Morn examined the creature on her arm. It went from a shapeless blob to the shape of a fairy maiden. It was still made of water and thus translucent but still faintly visible. “And this thing wants to eat away at my skin?”



Glysh walked past Morn. “Dead skin. One time, I had to prepare myself for an infiltration mission to some high society place. Fancy bastards who can't appreciate the natural musk of a real goblin. I hit up a spa to fully clean myself off and they had domesticated sprites like these. Little guys were cleaning every nook and cranny of me. Felt divine and I came out as fresh as a newly minted gold piece.” Adding on to this while picking up her pace, with obvious glee in her voice. “If we are lucky these sprites can take requests too!”



Morn raised an eyebrow as to what the shorter greenskin could mean by request. Still, she followed, excited to experience a relaxing hot spring. Kuni trailed behind, forced to hold her large breasts in her arms to stop them from shaking painfully as she tried to catch up with her team. She desperately needed more binding to hold the girls in place. The group walked further in to find a myriad of pools strewn across the landscape. The bodies of water all had a beautiful light blue hue, with volutes of steam gently rising off their surface. Some seemed to go much deeper underground, as if they were somehow connected by a submerged network of faultlines. The goblin laid her weapon on the ground and slowly dipped a toe into one of the pools. She sunk herself up to the hips pleasingly hot water greeting her. “Just fuck my ass and call me a whore!” Said the goblin as she lowered herself in and sat in neck deep water, with an almost orgasmic bliss apparent in her voice.



Kuni couldn't help but giggle at her friend's crude language and followed suit, taking a mental note of the proposition for later. The uneven pools let her find a deeper spot to sit in. Still curious, Morn felt a little uneasy and looked around for any signs of danger. She cast her gaze to the ground and saw several water sprites urging her into the water. The one that clung to her now seemed to be a couple inches taller, her body more clearly defined and details much sharper. At first glance it almost looked like a fairy. Several other sprites joined around her companions, taking on similar detailed shape as they motioned to rub the skin clean or rinse the travelers hair. She still felt off about something but decided to join in anyway. As she sat in the water she held Kozor above the water but he slipped from her hands. He dunked in the water and she frantically fumbled to hold him in the air. “Are you ok?”



“Yes. why wouldn't I be?” The skull asked.



“I don't know. I was worried you could drown or something.”



“I don't have lungs or can even breathe.” He said incredulously 



“You can still talk without lungs.” She said defensively.



“Fair. But yes, I am fine.” And much more quietly he added “I do appreciate your concern.”



Morn placed the skull at the lip of the water. She leaned back, sliding her rump across the smooth stone of the pool until her whole head went under the water. Feeling the cleansing liquid rush over her put her more at ease. She rose from the water and looked at her companions. Kuni was leaning back with her chin touching the surface. Morn did note with some amusement that her generous breasts bounced above the surface, as a diligent sprite was leaning on its hands and knees to clean her exposed skin. A duo of sprites were pulling back her hair and running wet fingers through the strands to clear it of dirt. Glysh singled out a sprite who was standing on the water. “Please understand basic. Can you turn into a goblin?” The sprite lost its shape but quickly reformed into a pointy eared goblin, one with the same body and proportions than Glysh, albeit only half a foot tall. With a hint of excitement, she added, “OK, but can you do a male goblin. A naked one?” The sprite once more lost its shape to turn this time into an anatomically correct (and very well-endowed)male goblin. “That’s golden! The rest of you, can you all do like him?” Hearing this request, the water creatures working on pampering Glysh all took on the shape of a hunky naked goblin. “There we go '' She said to herself as she sat down to relax. “My luck is going good so far with you guys. When I hit the big score this is what I want. A big house with a pageant of hunks doing whatever I say. Maybe I'll have a hottie from each species. Each big, dumb, and waiting on me hand and foot.” 



Kuni saw the requested transformation and opened her mouth. Just as quickly she closed it, biting back a sentence before it could be given life. “This form is all right.” She said, noting in her head that requesting the form of a bottom heavy goblin or well muscle orc would sound too awkward. She let out a sharp moan as the sprites moved from the top of her breasts to the nipples. “Hey, easy with those!” She said, The sprites moved a hand in front of their mouths and bobbed their head, miming giggling. They resumed their cleaning at a much gentler speed. Below the water fairy shaped sprites had already begun work on the toned body of the oni, running small hands across her abs and hips. As if inviting them in she slowly opened her legs. She thought to herself this is just to get a full cleaning, nothing more. 



Morn decided to have fun with these sprites and singled one out. “Can you do a kobold, but with huge fat nuts? Like they are almost dragging on the ground, they are so fat.” The fairy-like creature had to draw in some extra water before it changed into a small dagonic form. It was forced to stand with its legs far apart as the balls of liquid that made up its fake testicles took up almost half its total body mass. It slowly attempted to waddle forward towards Morn, who couldn't help but laugh at this display. Kozor watched on “It seems these sprites have encountered a fair few travelers before if they can copy them like this. And they are very hospitable.” One sprite emerged from the water and approached the talking skull. Hesitantly it reached a hand out and started to wash away dirt collected on the bone. “I won't bite, don't worry. I wont get as much enjoyment out of this as my companions but I do appreciate a good cleaning.” When Morn was done watching her big-balled kobold struggle in its new form, she leaned towards her undead friend. “This has to suck for you. Three naked women all wet and splashing around and you can't do anything. Can you even feel aroused anymore? What’s with the lack of boy bits and all.” 



Kozor let out a listless sigh, “The spirit is willing but the flesh has vanished. I lack the physical sensation, but I can still feel it somewhat within me. It's a little like a phantom limb.”



Morn chuckled. “Well if you ever get a phantom limb that you can use on three women, I'm sure you'd love to. I won't forget the first thing you did when you got control of my body was to feel me up. Even if a man’s just a head he will still be driven by his other head. Even if you don't have it.” 



Kozor grumbled at this and turned his attention to his lone sprite cleaner. “Don't suppose you can do a redhead, can you?”



Kuni got self-conscious, thinking she looked suspiciously like she was enjoying the sprites cleaning too much and spoke up. “Hey Morn, what is this lizard martial arts teacher like? You said you wanna bring the demon club to him, yet you never spoke of him.”



“He is different. Not what I expected from a legendary hero. He's a pervert but he's also a very good fighter. Saw him punch a tree down by barely hitting it. So hard in fact that a fireball was created.” Morn stated with some awe evident in her voice.



“Pervert?” Glysh asked, her ears twitching. “Does he ever try to, ya know, use you?”



Morn shrugged “Nah, he never even tried anything. He did feel me up but he said it was to test my muscles. And he did make me do some very odd exercises. Would always go to his hut to ‘meditate’ a lot.” She said while she moved her hand under the water to stroke an imaginary dick. Glysh giggled at this. Kuni crossed her thighs and stammered her next question, obviously flustered. “Can you show us these special exercises he would make you do?”



Morn stood up with her waist above the water, liquid cascading down her naked body. “According to him his previous master made him do these as well, so there must be something to them.” The muscular woman squatted down and pushed her toned butt back. She began to make that fine green booty pop as she shook it rhythmically in a dazzling display. The sprites, in whatever form they were in, all stopped their cleaning to watch the sudden motion. They all gave off different forms of appreciation at this, be it silent cheers or clapping their hands. Kuni sneakily, at least she hoped, slid a hand below the water to start washing at her inner thigh. “I think your master may have been on to something.” She said as casually as her hormone-addled brain could muster.



Glysh rubbed her chin as she watched. “I may have seen some women do this as a form of rain dance. But they were looking to make it rain money.”



Morn stopped her special workout and turned to face the goblin. “And like I said he would go back to his hut and meditate. I bet it looked like this.” She got an evil grin as she leaned down to make a fist just above the water line. She let out an over the top orgasmic moan while squeezing her fist to squirt water at Glysh’s face. “Hey!” the smaller greenskin said with a giggle “Dont cum on me. And not so fast too!”



Lowering her voice a few octaves to sound more masculine, Morn replied “Oh, you're just so hot I couldn't help myself.” 



Glysh stood up, causing a few water goblins to fall off her body “If you cum like that it just might make me” She cupped a small amount of water in her hand and splashed it wards, hitting Morn in the head. “Cum as well.” The two women began to chase each other around the pool, splashing each other while giggling.



Kuni watched on silently, and all the while fingering herself below the water. 



Kozor unceremoniously stated “I can't even look downward and yet I can tell you are touching yourself.” 



The oni quickly lifted her hand up and slapped it onto the stone lip of the pool. “What? No, I would never. I only do that kinda thing when I turn male. I would never- no I couldn't do something like that.”



If Kozor would have been physically able to, he’d arch an eyebrow. “You know it's nothing to be ashamed of. You're allowed to be horny without blaming it on your transformations. Speaking of, aren't you due soon?”



The ruby-skinned woman placed a hand on Kozor’s skullcap and forced his mouth shut, silencing him. “None of your business. And if I were horny, which I'm not, it would just be my male half. You probably don't get it as you don't have a dick anymore but when it comes up it totally takes over. If I had some meat on me I'd be going wild. Seeing all those soft jiggly tits and asses skipping around all giddy would be too much for any man to take. Again not like you'd understand anymore.” 



She let go of Kozor’s head as she felt something glide its way up her leg. She didn't need to look and assumed it was another water sprite. This one was being forceful and made her way to her crotch, slowly entering her. The oni did all she could to stifle a moan as she enjoyed this welcomed sensation. Kozor, fuming at the ease with which he was ignored, went back to focus on his lone water sprite. It now had taken the form of a slender woman in a simple wizard robe, water flowing behind her to simulate flowing curly hair. “At least you listen to me.”



Once the greenskins had their fun with pretending to ejaculate on each other, they settled down once more. Glysh decided to lean over the lip of the pool to allow her hunky male servants to clean her butt cheeks. “Hey, if your lizard master is such a perv, why do you put up with him? I know you wanna get stronger and all but why do you want it that bad?”



Morn flicked her hair so that it wasn't covering her face anymore. “What do you mean, do I really need a reason to want to get stronger? It's the proper orc thing to do.” She said as she puffed her chest out in pride. 



“You can't just be an orc. You are a person and in the short time I’ve known you seem a lot more clever than most. What makes you want strength?” Glysh asked, not moving from her position and enjoying the booty massage.



Morn scratched her head to think “Well, I had just lost the tribes fighting tournament to a hunter in the first round. Again. Even though I train as a warrior I'm much smaller than the rest of my tribe. Always have been a runt.” She said, in a bitter tone.



“You don't gotta tell me about being small. But you can't blame your size on yourself, it's your parent’s fault.”



Snapping back the orc growled. “Don't talk bad about my parents. I never knew them but I'm sure they were great warriors.”



The goblin rolled over to face Morn belly up in the water. “Easy. How could you know that if you never met them?”



Morn sat back in the water, sighing, “I thought about this a lot. You see, I was found as a small child by my tribe. I was abandoned by them. I'm guessing my parents were massive badass fighters and given how small and runty I was they just left me in the wilderness.”



Surprised by this sudden news Glysh spoke “Damn, I’m sorry. You alright?”



Morn sneered “Of course. I was too small and weak to stay with them so I have no right to complain. When the weak get trampled it's no one's fault but their own. My folks did nothing wrong anyway. It was my fault for coming out all-” She gestured with her hands all over herself “-like this. Not as green as the other orcs. Not as big as them. Face more pretty like a human too. But complaining and crying is for weak races, like humans anyway.”



“Uh-huh” Glysh said, feeling a little awkward about this. “And if you were a sissy human what would you complain about?”



Tilting her head the proud orc spoke, “Some lame stuff like ‘oh why'd you leave me to die, didnt you want me, sorry I’m born wrong’ and waste a lot of nights crying to themselves as they sleep. Thankfully I am a full orc so I don't do lame shit like that.” She said with cold dismissal evident in her voice.


“Yeah. I can totally see that.” Glysh said, desperately looking around for a new topic. Her eyes lit up when she saw the oni. “Oh shit, she turned purple!”



Kuni sat uncomfortably on her side of the pool. Just like Glysh said, she was no longer a vibrant shade of scarlet and had turned to a deep purple. “Don't mind me, you guys just focus on yourselves.” She said, while trapped painfully between her genders. The water sprite who was inside her vagina refused to leave, even as she shifted sex, leaving her with half a pussy and awkward nubs for male bits. She was hoping the spirit would get the hint soon and leave her so she could finish her transformation.



Glysh stood up “I don't want to miss the change! Also damn she is really hung.” She said as she looked below the water at Kuni’s crotch.



Morn followed the goblins' eyes. “Last time she swapped in only a few seconds.” Looking in the water she saw a long dark gray cylindrical object between the oni’s legs, but not the kind she was expecting. It went past her legs and down deeper into the water, into one of the dark abyss. “And no one is that hung.”



The smaller greenskin let out a yipe and hopped in the water. “Something almost went up my butt!”



Out of the depths she saw several shapes squirm their way upward. More and more broke the surface of the water and towered over them. Each had suction cups lining one side as they curled and twisted in the air. Morn shouted “We got a giant octopus”



“Worse!” Kozor shouted “This is a Creeper in the Water. A horrible cephalopod known for laying its eggs in other species.”



Morn grabbed her club and batted away an offending tentacle as it darted towards her crotch. With a sneer of disgust she saw the tip of the tentacle looked too much like the head of a penis. It moved forward and found itself between Morns legs and up her green snatch. She yelled in shock and pain as she yanked the perverted limb out. She swung her weapon down and crushed the tip to the ground. A roar from shadowy depthshuttered in the ground. Kuni reached between her legs and yanked out the pseudo penis. With room to change her body finally turned blue, while a large set of dick and balls fully formed. The tentacle wriggled and writhed until it freed itself from her grasp. It went back to her crotch, only to feel up her nuts. “Nothing there to fuck now!” She shouted as she reached for her acid stained ax, hoping to chop a gash into the offending cephalopod limb.



Another roar shook the pooland all the tentacles flew to the ground. Each pushed down with all their might and soon the body of the Creeper broke the surface. Its skin was smooth and shiny, it had four eyes the size of dinner plates that darted around in different directions. Now able to use its sense of sight, the tentacled creature became a much more formidable opponent. All of the water sprites began to move together, forgoing any shape requested of them by their visitors to coalesce into a blob of living water shambling several feet tall. 



“Great Mellon” Kozor swore “The sprites and Creep have a symbiotic relationship. This is fascinating!”



“I'm about to fascinate my club up this thing’s ass.” Morn shouted as she ran towards the head of the beast. “You need to ask before you shove strange things up me, gods dammit” Her advance was halted by several tentacles whipping towards her. 



“I think I know how to kill this thing, I once had to kill smaller octopussies on a fishing trip. I just hope this thing has a similar anatomy. Just get me close to its head.” asked Kozor.



Glysh had retrieved her weapon and swung the bladed end around her body giving several cuts to multiple sloppy limbs. “We are surrounded by heads here, take your fucking pick.”



Kuni made several great swings with her ax, failing to connect and sever a tentacle. One giant eye of the creeper fixed on her and saw the massive dick and balls flopping between her legs. It let out a howl of jealous anger at the sight of this competition and slid a long appendage below the shallow water out of sight of Kuni. When it reached her it shot up, wrapping tightly around the oni’s newly developed boy bits. It flexed and applied a crushing pressure to the futas dick and balls. The blue oni let out a howl of male agony and dropped her ax in a panic. She frantically tried to free herself from the octopus’ grip. The sprite blob moved in and surrounded Kuni now that she was defenseless. It seemed to understand that males are for killing and eating, while females were for the Creepers' uses. Kuni thrashed in pain and let out air bubbles as she was trapped in place and surrounded by water. Kozer looked on helplessly and could only call out for help in a panicked voice. When he saw that the other adventurers failed to notice the oni’s plight, he cursed his predicament. He wished he had a body to do something helpful. The wizard was fully charged, but also knew he couldn't take over any of the women in time to cast any useful spell. In a panic he did what he could. Kozor forced the withered weak image of his spirit out of his skull and lunged towards the spirit blob. The undead wizard had no idea if possessing something that was essentially a hive mind could even be attempted, nor what it would entail but he couldn't sit idly by anymore.



A shimmer of ghostly light passed through the sprite body, causing it to glimmer and lose its shape. In a sudden motion, the blob threw itself away from Kuni and onto the lip of the pool, lunging directly at Kozor’s skull. Kuni gasped and coughed out water as she was once again able to breath. She desperately forced the nails of her thumbs into the skin of the tentacles until it started bleeding. Pulling apart her digits, she tore a nasty gash that started to muddy the water. With a yell the appendage let go and retracted. The blue oni got out of the water and sat clutching herself in pain, nevertheless happy her new nuts had managed to survive. She looked over to where Kozor was, with the intention to thank him for the save, but saw his skull was now floating up into a new sprite body. The watery envelope took the rough form of a humanoid, looming over them about eight feet tall. The human bone found its way to the head of this colossus, as it thrashed and stumbled around. The ghostly light began to eb and fade, flashing and shimmering. It looked as though Kozor and the sprites were struggling for control.



Morn once more tried to move towards the main body of the Creeper but found her foot to be shackled inplace by a wrapping tentacle. When she moved to free herself,other tentacles likewise tangled up her remaining limbs, before forcing them apart. She dropped her club, which clattered now useless to the ground. The limbs of the orc were all forcefully splayed apart as if she was on a torture rack. She struggled and tried to force herself free but the tentacles were too strong. A fifth tentacle appeared and slowly, tauntingly, made its way to the orc’s womanhood. It slid inside and elated a gasp of surprise from Morn. “Im getting fucked here, a little help?”



Glysh was successful in defending herself by using the spinning blade of her kusarigama to keep the limbs at bay. She knew the light weapon did not have the force to sever any of them to put them out of commission but it caused enough pain in their sensitive tips to keep them away from her. She looked up to Morn who had been lifted high and swore, hoping her curse would affect a monster as much as it did a man. She shouted “Repent, sinner!” and threw the weighted ball of her weapon into one of the tentacles holding morn in place. The monster’s limb shone with an ethereal light and began to shrink. In such a diminished state, the tentacle had lost its strength and could not hold onto the female anymore. With one arm free the orc was able to twist her body and bite the tentacle that was holding her other arm. Blood gushed and the Creeper retracted its limbs to the safety of the deep, dropping Morn to the ground. Glysh shouted “I can't do that all day so try not to get too friendly with this beasty again.”



The duo looked to see what the oni had been doing this whole time and saw the shape of the water sprites standing before a sitting Kuni. Morn saw the skull of Kozor within the head shape and was happy thinking he helped them gain a big advantage. Then she saw the body stumble and hold its head. In the voice of the wizard human it let out a bellow that sounded like a mix of agony and confusion. Eventually it stood upright and looked down at Kuni. In a slow deliberate voice it stated “I’m not a man?”



Before the oni could react, the leg of the water monster came crashing down upon the exposed male genitals of Kuni. She let out a shrill yell of agony as the parts that made her male were compressed between the oddly solid foot of the monster and the hard ground. The inevitable moment came and the balls flattened out and popped with an audible squelch. Kuni, now free, returned to her female red body and curled up in horrible agony. The shapeless head of the water sprites now given form with the skull within turned to face Glysh and Morn. It repeated, with anger in its voice “Not a man?”



“Gods dammit. He's gone wild.” Glysh uttered as she began to spin the chain connected to the blade in her hand. “I'll try to figure this mess out, you kill that damned rapist squid”



The goblin circled around the water monster, who now disregarded the downed oni. The aquatic aberration reeled back an arm of clear liquid to strike. “Come on you undead fucker. I don't want to have to hurt ya, just calm down.” The glowing eyes of the skull looked at Glysh and it froze in place. It stayed still and seemed to move back before it suddenly yelled in frustration. The water monster threw its fist forward like a whip and smashed into the ground, narrowly missing the goblin rogue. As she dodged away she raked the blade across its arm, using a practice counter attack for such events. It pulled its wounded limb back and let out a howl of pain, the liquid body shuddering and struggling to maintain its form. The short greenskin could see that the body of water had a sort of skin and the cut she made was gushing out water like an open wound of a flesh and blood creature.



“This is something new.” Commented Glysh as she sidestepped a wild swing. She thought to herself that it seems the mind of the human and the sprites are all mixed up. And he has enough memory of pain to know that a cut should hurt. SheI still don't know how to stop him.



The water sprite body shifted much of its mass to one leg to stomp, almost flattened the little greenskin. She cussed. “Whatever you are, you're a huge pain in the ass!”



With that she saw that the backside of the monster took on a larger more defined form. Honestly for a moment she was jealous of how round that rump was. She then realized that the sprites must still be receiving requests for their shape. And if the male Kozor is in there he surely must know what the pain all men share. At the top of her lungs she shouted “Big fat swinging hyper sensitive testicles!”



By automatic response the beast drew in water and a set of dangling nuts formed between the legs of the beast. With a smirk she tossed her blade out, looking to slice the new berries. Kozor threw himself back to avoid the low blow. Seems he remembers to keep them safe. As he walked backwards he came to Kuni who managed to repress her now phantom pain. She gripped her battleax in both hands and held the blade flat. “Let's see how you like getting your nuts crushed!” She screamed as she swung the metallic weapon between her castrator's legs. A thunderous crash echoed out as steel met solid water. The round nuts became concave as they were flattened up to the beasts pelvis. It let out a howl of agony and clutched itself before melting and becoming a puddle of water and human bone.



Morn, still angered by the attempted penetration, took a furious sprint towards the head of the creeper. She swatted away and dodged attempts to grab at her again. The orc girl got close enough to the main body and lept on. The creature was smooth and slimy but she wrapped her arms around it and dug her nails in. The rape squid panicked and started to submerge itself to attempt an escape, but Morn wouldn't let it scutter away. She brought her mouth to the center of the monster's forehead and briefly gnawed around a few spots. The orc felt what seemed to be a lump and clamped down. She hoped this thing's brain was in a similar spot to the smaller octopi she dealt with before. The wounded beast spasmed and thrashed. She opened her mouth and forced more cephalopod gray matter in before biting down again as hard as she could. All at once the trashing stopped and the beast fell still, its limp tentacles splashing and crashing down all around the pool .



Kozor found the light of day filling his ghostly sight again. “Ow! My head is pounding. I don't know how but every part of me hurts.” He looked around and saw Morn emerge from a pool, followed swiftly by the limp body of the Creeper in the Water. “We killed it. What happened?” As if suddenly remembering he shouted “Is Kuni allright?”



The now red oni walked gingerly into the skull's view. “I'm fine, but the question is if you still wanna kill us.” She said as she hefted her ax with menace.



“I don't know what happened,” Kozor stated, his teeth clattering in alarm. “I projected my spirit into the water sprites. I wanted to see if i could possess them but I was weak, and they have so many minds. I was struggling but they are like water. They washed over me and mixed with my soul. Then everything was like a dream. I was controlling my body again and I was happy. I saw you and remembered what you said and got mad. Then all the little sprites shouted at me to hurt, hurt, kill, kill. I don't remember much after that.” He said, before groaning in pain “Except for a lot of pain.”



Kuni scoffed. “Well that's nice to hear. I gave as good as I got. Still, can we trust him?”



Morn walked up and gripped the human bone. She held it so they were facing each other, eye to hollow socket. “Did you mean to attack us?” 



Kozer did his best to meet her gaze. “I did not. I possessed the sprites to save Kuni and then to fight the Creeper. But it was my one mind against their many. It was too much for me. I apologize and take full responsibility for what happened. If you cannot trust me and leave me to my fate, I understand.” He said, a quiver of fear in his voice.



The orc kept them staring down for some time in dead silence. Then she shrugged and began to walk off with the bone head. “So dramatic. You're fine. I say he's still good. Let's get the hell out of here.” 



Glysh was surprised by the sudden turn around. “That easy?”



Morn kept her pace “He said he was sorry. And I can tell he feels terrible about it, he offered up something that terrified him as punishment. And we are to blame as well. Even if he is just bone he still has feelings and we did hurt his male pride. I think we can both reflect on this.” 



“He did castrate me.” Grumbled Kuni as she hefted her ax over her shoulder. 



Morn bent over to pick up her club. “And you castrated him in return.”



Kozor clattered his teeth as he spoke. “Thank you Morn, I do appreciate this. Again I am so sorry.”



“Oh I know you are.” She said and got a wicked grin. “And as soon as I find some good sap Im going to seal your mouth shut as punishment for as long as I see fit.”



Happily the skull stated “fair.”



The woman all commented to each other how smooth and clean they all felt, despite the life or death battle they had just been in. Kozor himself felt as though his bones were as white as they had ever been. As Morn walked off she held the bone in a relaxed grip, giving him a view of the water spirits as they recovered. They all gathered together and assumed their previous forms of hunky goblins or fairies. They all waved and beckoned for the wizard to return to them. The one most enthusiastically trying to get the undead man to return was the one he requested to be in the shape of the redhead. He had mixed feelings about this, enjoying the time he had a body to call his own, yet hating that it almost cost him his adventuring party. Kozor wished he had the ability to display emotions silently or gesture. In the end he settled on watching them as much as he was able, remembering the one flesh and blood redhead he could have had in a previous life.

Journeys of Cyrus: first part

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