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Suikoden III - Sextain of Destiny	By : Streti Category: +S through Z > Suikoden Views: 7009 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 15 - Royal Bath
by Streti, thestreti@gmail.com

"Ahhh... so much cum," sighed Millie, scrunched up against the lounge chair. She could feel the wet, slimy mess all over her behind, trailing down her sides and her butt. She didn't feel the trail of semen slowly oozing down over her pussy, adding to her wetness. Only the pleasurable heat of her well-fucked sex came through to her, and she was content to just lie there as if someone had just discarded her there. She lazily moved her head at last when she noticed that Wan Fu got up from the floor, and slapped her on a cummy buttock. He didn't wait for more reaction, and she wasn't going to give any more. She just followed the man and his tattooed back with her gaze as he walked off to the older Raftfleet woman, already surrounded by three men.
Wan Fu grinned at the sight of the black-haired Falenan Knight, showered with sperm by the Prince and Hugo. And he noticed how the beautiful brown-haired Nell looked at him with interest from the bath as he passed. But his own interest was captured by the voluptuous round curves of Lun, and the sensual scene she was the centerpiece of. Behind her, Toma the Knight was ramming his cock deep into her, holding tightly onto her ample butt. In front of her, the fop and the ninja were visibly enjoying themselves as she eagerly worked their cocks between her huge tits. Wan Fu got on his knees next to her, and trailed a hand across the smooth skin of her back. It was the hand that had slapped Millie's sperm-splattered asscheek, and he still had some of sticky stuff left when he grabbed her brown hair, a touch lighter than Nell's dark brown, and turned her head to his softened but still sizable slab of meat.
"Mmm... someone's a big boy," said Lun and smiled at Wan Fu, then took his sloppy member in her mouth, all without missing a beat in her ministrations of Augustine and Sasuke.
"She's popular," commented Hugo, watching the crowd forming around Lun.
"You should see her back home," replied Faroush with a chuckle.
"I bet that would be fun," affirmed Hugo.
Their attention shifted to Nell, who was moving towards them, droplets of bathwater on her naked skin adding even more allure to her beauty. As they took in the sight of her, Hugo was reminded of her in a similar state at Lake Karashu, but there was something different about her now.
Hugo got his confirmation when Nell came straight to him, and without a word, kissed him. He was surprised, but that didn't stop him from returning the kiss, and placing his hands on her waist. When the kiss went on, he moved one hand to her breast, and opened his eyes long enough to see Faroush give them an approving nod. Only after a while did she break off, gasping for breath, and looking at him intently.
"Aren't you going to give any attention to the Falenan Prince?" said Hugo, half-jokingly, but Nell started turning around, only to stop at the sight of Lyon.
"Oh, wow," she commented. With Lyon's disheveled hair, streaked white with cum, it now resembled the Prince's wild silver hair more. Her face and upper body were a mess of jizz. It looked like ten men had used her, emptied their balls on her, and vanished into thin air, not just Hugo and the Prince.
"They just like leaving me like this, and already they're looking for the next woman to do the same thing to," said the cum-splattered Queen's Knight, idly playing with the sperm on her breasts. Nell couldn't tell if she was mock-pouting or not.
"Is that so, Lyon?" asked Faroush.
"It's just so," she replied and blew a cum bubble.
"Then go and have fun with the others," said Faroush sternly.
"If you insist," said Lyon and made no move to move.
"I do," he said.
"Fine," she said.
Hugo and Nell watched with some puzzlement as Lyon got up from the lounge chair, an outline of cum left where she had lain, the strings of cum swinging this way and that from her chin. She stomped off towards Lun's fivesome, breasts and butt jiggling, dripping semen in her wake. As much as she could stomp off with her bare feet against the soft bath floor.
"Now," said Faroush with a smile, at Nell in particular, "are you going to give me any attention?"
Looking briefly after Lyon, Nell's eyes shifted back to Faroush, and she went in for a kiss, much as she had done with Hugo. This time, Hugo soon joined from behind, kissing Nell's shoulders and back, his renewing hard-on pressing against her butt. After a while, she turned to kiss Hugo, then Faroush again, then Hugo, and soon she had her arms around the necks of both the men, swapping quick kisses with both of them, and they started kissing and licking the side of her neck, and her breasts, and running their hands around her body. She followed by running her hands down their taut bodies, to their hard cocks, feeling the staffs of flesh in both of her hands.
Toma groped Lun's buttocks forcefully, placed a heavy slap on her right cheek and then pulled Lun's hair. She yelped with delight. "Yesss..." she said, and turned to look at Toma. Then she saw Lyon.
"Wowie. They got ya good," she said to her. Without a word of warning, she let go of the men and rose up to meet Lyon. Augustine and Sasuke were left staring at each other, scissoring each other, their throbbing, precum-dripping cocks in close contact with no round feminine forms in any contact at all. Sasuke got up so fast that his hard-on wobbled like fleshy jello.
Lun kissed Lyon on the lips, then lapped up her sperm-splattered tits.
"Mmm... Karayan cum," she said, pushing her abundant bust against Lyon's as she took her in for a hug. "An' the Prince's, but that's old news," she said with a wink. "Ya want more?"
"Y-yes," replied Lyon meekly.
"Pick one," she said and looked at the men. Lyon looked at them, and they looked at her, intent desire in their eyes, their strong, sweaty bodies drawing in Lyon's gaze, their hard cocks poised at the ready.
"Ahhh, the bearded one," she decided.
"Sasuke, come here," commanded Lun, and the ninja obliged with a smile on his lips.
Lun let go of Lyon and practically pushed her onto Sasuke, who took hold of the cum-stained woman with lightning-fast reflexes, and just like that was kissing her. After the initial shock, Lyon eased into it and started feeling the man's muscular body with both hands.
As Lyon and Sasuke enjoyed each other, Lun went around the other men, her full butt swaying alluringly. She kissed them and fondled their cocks, and let them grope her breasts and grab her soft curves briefly, before moving onto another one, all the time keeping an eye on Lyon and Sasuke. She smiled when she saw that Lyon had kneeled in front of him, and taken him in her mouth. She went behind the ninja, and pressed her heavy tits against his back.
"Wat'cha thinking?" she asked, her mouth close to Sasuke's ear.
"She's beautiful," he answered.
"Ya wanna nut on her?" she continued. The other men had started jerking off on their own.
"It's not often -ahhh- that my jizz has joined that of princes and chieftains," he replied, looking at the woman sucking him off. A film of partially dried sperm coated her face, and her long black hair was messy, messy with the cum dried in it, and messy with how it made some of her hair stick out haphazardly, looking like she had a particularly bad hair day.
"Was that a yes?" asked Lun.
"Oh yesss..." breathed out Sasuke.
Lun pressed her breasts tighter against Sasuke's back, and reached around, first to push Lyon's face forcefully off from his cock, and then to take hold of it. She started to stroke the member, sloppy from Lyon's saliva and his precum, and peered around from behind Sasuke's back to look at Lyon. She knew what to expect, and she was hanging her tongue out, a flush on her cheeks, her eyes glazed with lust. Lun slapped Sasuke on the ass, and pushed him forward, even closer to Lyon, and beat off his slick, hard meat at a rapid pace.
"Hnngh... I... aaargh!" roared Sasuke, and his cock spasmed in Lun's hand, and spewed a thick jet of jism on the waiting Queen's Knight, all across her face and hair. Lun yelped with delight and took another hand to fondle his balls, as he spewed load after load of hot manmilk on Lyon. She already tasted it in her mouth and felt the fresh coat of white paint on her features, as Lun stroked Sasuke off onto her. The other men looked on with appreciation as the beautiful Lyon was coated with more semen, stroking their cocks as they watched the exquisite show.
"Ya done?" asked Lun, and gathered some final drops of his jizz into her hand. Sasuke was panting heavily, looking down at Lyon, who was once again dripping with cum. Haphazard trails of white slime crisscrossed over her eyebrows, closed eyes, nose, cheeks, and on her tongue. More spooge stained her hair, heavy strands hung from her chin, and fell to her breasts or her legs.
"How're ya feeling, Lyon?" the busty woman asked between licking Sasuke's essence from his hand.
Lyon swallowed the cum from his mouth before replying. "Goo-- good."
"Hahhh... you look gooed all right," joked Sasuke.
Nell was on her knees in front of Hugo and Faroush, her breasts jiggling with quick her movements as she alternated between sucking off both of their cocks. Both the Karaya Chief and the Falenan Prince enjoyed the sight of the beautiful adventurer from their vantage point, and her eagerness in mouthing them. She focused her eyes on their hard rods, but occasionally she looked up at them, and the look in her eyes was mesmerizing, with either a darker or lighter skinned dick in her mouth. She worked them with her lips and tongue, focusing completely in the moment on the two hard-ons.
"Oh. Do you even need me?" came a feminine voice from behind them, and then Millie pressed her naked body against Hugo's back.
"The more the merrier," he said, as she caressed his taut abdomen and chest from behind him. When Nell moved back to Faroush, Hugo turned around to Millie and kissed her. He groped her breasts and fondled her butt, feeling the remains of Wan Fu's abundant load on her back. Then he put two fingers into her pussy, feeling her wetness and heat and making her moan into his mouth.
Without having to contend with Hugo, Faroush took hold of Nell's chin and brown hair and pushed his meat deep into her mouth. She coughed and sputtered a little, but recovered quickly and Faroush started fucking her in the mouth. He got into a good, fast rhythm, thrusting past her accommodating lips, while Hugo kissed and fingered Millie. After a while Nell backed off, some drool spilling out from her mouth as she caught her breath, looking up at Faroush with those mysterious blue eyes of hers.
"That looked like fun," said Hugo, and stepped off from Millie. He took hold of Nell's hair with both hands, and she closed her lips around his shaft as he pushed into her mouth.
Faroush wasted no time in swapping to Millie, grabbing her breast and kissing her. He guided her hand to his rod, and resumed Hugo's fingering of her, and she moaned again.
Hugo fucked Nell's mouth like a second pussy, easing into a pleasurable rhythm that also made her let out muffled sounds. After a while he stopped, and she just looked up at him, their eyes locked in an intent gaze.
"Your mouth's good. Now let's see what your pussy's like," said Hugo.
"Let's," replied Nell.
He offered a hand to her, and she wiped some drool from her mouth and chin onto her arm, then took his hand and got up.
Lyon stood up and Lun moved to her, then wrapped her arms around the other, cum-adorned Queen's Knight, and kissed her on the mouth. She could taste Sasuke's semen on Lyon's tongue and on her lips, and she could feel some of it rubbing off onto her ample boobs as they pressed against hers.
"Get him hard again for me, will ya?" said the busty Knight, then broke off. She approached the three men and they slowed down the pace of their stroking in anticipation, taking in her figure with hungry eyes.
"I better take care of ya boys so ya don't go cumming on the floor," she said to them. She moved to Wan Fu, placed a hand on his shoulder and circled around him. "That's a nice tattoo ya got," she said, caressing his back. A quick flash of annoyance appeared in Wan Fu's eyes. "Don't mind putting it against the floor?" continued Lun. He gave a brief, almost imperceptible nod, and without a word, got down, his hard shaft standing straight up. "Ooh," cooed Lun, and lowered herself onto it in reverse cowgirl position, offering her round ass to Wan Fu's view and to his hands. She started riding him like that, her heavy tits hanging down and jiggling lightly, then more as she picked up her pace.
"C'mon boys, don't be shy," she said to Augustine and Toma, and they quickly approached her. Augustine grabbed her hair and offered his cock to her mouth, Toma grabbed one of her abundant mammaries and fondled it with delight. After a while, Lun moved around to take Toma in her mouth, while stroking Augustine. At the same time Wan Fu caressed and slapped her asscheeks, spurring her on as she rocked over him, his poker deep in her wet pussy, squeezing tight against the large member.
After a while, Lun paused and leaned back, looking at Augustine and Toma. "Wanna fuck my tits?" she asked, said tits now resting tantalizingly in the men's view. Augustine was quicker on the uptake, and he straddled her chest, taking hold of her tan-lined jugs to press them around his skewer. He started an eager fucking of her titflesh, wet with sweat and steam, while she gyrated slowly on Wan Fu's rod.
"Ohhh..." moaned Augustine.
"That good?" she asked, grinning mischievously.
"So beautiful... so soft... so... nghhh... ah!" he spurted, and spurted the first of his load, all the way up onto her face, and even some into her hair, running down over her forehead, eyebrow, eye, and cheek. He spewed more jizz from between her cleavage, copious jets flying left and right over the round curves of her bust, and more landing right over her cleavage, running straight down between her mounds, over her navel and rounded stomach and down into her pubes. Then Augustine let go of her bosom, and stroked off the rest of her ejaculate onto her, on her chest, breasts, and stomach, until he was finally done, and she had been showered with sperm.
"Ohhhh..." he moaned again.
"I look good right?" she asked with a smile, one eye closed under cum.
Augustine looked at the voluptuous naked woman, now covered with his ample seed all over.
"Absolutely... magnificent..." he managed to utter.
On the lounge chair, there were still some remains of Hugo and Faroush's dual load on Lyon, but Nell didn't mind. It only made her feel more sordid as she focused all her attention on Hugo, his muscular frame and and his hard cock. She watched him with silent anticipation, as he straddled her on the chair, pushing her legs further apart as he settled his manhood on her feminine folds, and then thrust in. Nell moaned as he penetrated her, his cock big and hard inside her. He smiled at her, kissed her, and then started moving. Just like that, they were fucking. Hugo started slow, pushing deep into her, fondling her breasts and body.
"So how is it?" asked Nell.
"Hahhhh..." sighed Hugo. "Feels real good."
"Good. Me too," said Nell with a smile. Hugo kissed her again and picked up his pace slightly, getting into a good rhythm as he thrust into her wet pussy, making the lounge chair squeak.
Millie was bopping his head up and down on the bearded Prince's tool, doing her best to pleasure the hard organ.
"They got to a good start," said Faroush, looking at Hugo and Nell. "They an item?" he asked, looking at Millie. She shook her head.
"No they aren't or no you don't know?" he continued, and lifted Millie's head off from his dick.
"I don't knomph," she said as she wrapped her lips around his rigid piece again. Faroush grinned at her, pulled his dick back out, and slapped it repeatedly on her face.
"Let's go ask," he said, and held out his hand to help Millie stand up. But when she did, he grabbed her into a tight embrace and kissed her deep, leaving her slightly dizzy when he detached.
"Mind some company?" asked Faroush of Hugo and Nell, expressions of sensual pleasure on their faces.
"Huhh... Nell?.." asked Hugo.
"N...ahhh... no..." she moaned in reply, looking at Faroush in the abandon of desire. "I mean, yes... I mean, don't mind..."
"Hhhh... never been the kind to mind company," said Hugo with lust in his eyes, all the while pleasuring Nell.
Faroush pulled another lounge chair right next to them, and guided Millie onto it, ass up. She let out a sensual sigh when he entered her snatch, and Faroush started breathing heavier as he got up to vigorous thrusts, filling the Dunan woman's pleasure cove again and again. As the two couplings fucked right next to each other, their eyes started to wander. Millie, holding onto the chair's backrest as Faroush made her hanging breasts jiggle, and Nell, a vision of sensual beauty as Hugo drove into her, the women got most of the attention from both the men and each other. All of them were excited to have the other couple so intimately close, sharing their love-making.
Sasuke had an incredible sight in front of him, as Lyon suckled his spent dick. The Knight looked up at him, and her eyes looked innocent despite the mess of semen all over her and his member in her mouth, a mask of crisscrossing trails of cum on her face, her disheveled black hair wet and stained with spooge. It was that sight together with the soft embraces of Lyon's mouth that made his meat harden again in no time at all. He couldn't resist pulling it out and slapping it on her sloppy skin.
"Aww, you're so naughty," she said with mock disapproval. "Now I'm going to have to clean you up again," she continued and took him back in her mouth.
After a while of sucking his hard cock, she said, "There. Now go to Lun."
"What's it gonna be, Toma?" asked Lun, trailing a finger from her lips, down her jizz-adorned features, onto her cummy boobs, to briefly lift one of her heavy breasts. Then she lowered her hand to the floor to support herself as she gyrated around Wan Fu's babymaker.
Toma stopped jerking off, and quickly straddled her, pointing his rock hard erection at her mouth. She was about to say something, but didn't get a chance when Toma grabbed her hair and pushed his meat into her mouth. She looked up at him with a sensual expression as he started fucking her mouth, thrusting his cock eagerly past her lips. Lun was starting to get even redder in the face from holding her breath, when Toma let out a loud groan and gritted his teeth, and pulled out. His first spurt flew into her mouth and she instinctively swallowed it, but then he blasted her face with his thick spew. Jet after jet of jism landed on her features, to add to Augustine's load, some on her hair and sidebangs, and soon it started running down her face and dripping from her chin onto her chest and breasts, coating her ample mammaries in even more seed. All the time Toma groaned and grunted with his climax, holding onto her hair as he covered her in spooge. Sasuke and Augustine got an excellent view of the beautiful older woman getting showered with proof of Toma's lust.
"Mmm... you've been holding back," commented Lun, as Toma came down from his peak, and his ejaculation slowed down. She was a mess of cum, even more so than before. He just stared mouth open at the busty woman, glazed with spooge.
Dripping cum all over herself and Wan Fu's legs, Lun picked up speed in her grinding, rocking harder against his slab of meat inside her, then she noticed Sasuke.
"Beardy! I want more!" she said, and pointed at her mouth in the middle of her jizz-splattered face, extending her tongue out.
"You're gonna have to work for it," he said as he stepped closer.
"I'm holding y'up to that," she said. Then she looked at Augustine and Toma. "Take care of the Prince's cutie why don'cha." Then she said to Lyon, "Ya get to keep those," just as Sasuke grabbed her hair and plugged her mouth with his cock.
As Nell looked at Millie, she saw that the hat-wearing woman had a curious look in her brown eyes. The traveler soon learned why when Millie bent over, and, looking at her, slowly licked her erect nipple, then the other. She paused for a moment, and as Nell just looked at her curiously, she kissed her nipple and breast, then the other. She paused again, and now Nell nodded slightly. Millie went back to her breasts, licking and kissing them and fondling them with one hand. Then she looked at Nell again, then lowered her head and gaze, gesturing at her own breasts, hanging down in her easy reach.
Nell extended her hand and took hold of one of Millie's tits. It was a breast. Soft, supple, with a hard nipple. A lot like her own, with the exception that she enjoyed touching her own breasts and playing with their nipples more, like she also found herself enjoying Millie's attention on them. But she also noticed that Hugo pushed harder into her, and Faroush looked at them with an eager enthusiasm. That made her look back at Hugo.
"Not inside me," she said, and sounded more abrupt than she had intended.
"Hahhhh... not a problem," replied Hugo.
Faroush slapped Millie's ass. "And you?" he asked.
Millie let go of Nell's tits and looked at Faroush.
"Where do you want me to come?" he clarified with a smile, never breaking pace with his thrusts.
"Ahhh... anywhere," answered Millie. Then Faroush suddenly pulled out from her, and walked around the lounge chairs.
"Like... here?" the Prince asked, pointing at Nell's bust. She half expected him to come right there and then, on her face and on her breasts, but then he grabbed her hair and face and thrust his piece deep into her mouth. "Or... here?" he asked, fucking her oral orifice. "Deep in your throat?"
"Mhhhmm... mhmmmm!" affirmed Millie, nodding against Faroush's tight hold. Nell watched with widened eyes from close range as Faroush rammed Millie's mouth, some drool spilling out onto her bosom, and Millie's face reddening, until Faroush let go and she gasped for air, some more of her drool dripping onto Nell's breasts.
"Or..." said Faroush, and pointed his cock at Nell's mouth, looking at her intently. Then he grabbed her hair and pushed his sloppy hard-on into her mouth. "...here?" he asked Millie as he thrust lightly between Nell's lips.
"Mmmm... yes," uttered Millie.
Faroush pulled out from her mouth, but looked down at her intently, and nothing happened except that Hugo continued fucking her and Millie spread her droplets of saliva around the blue-eyed beauty's mounds. "Yes," Nell finally answered.
Faroush smiled at her, then looked at Hugo and twirled his finger around in the air. "Willing to swap?" he asked.
Hugo looked at Nell, who nodded, and then at Millie, whose eyes were lit with enthusiasm. "Sure," he said, and slowly pulled out from Nell's sex, his penis dripping wet. He moved around to the side of the lounge chair where Millie was now partially resting, and moved her to her side, lifting up her leg to fit himself between her legs. His well-lubricated prick slid easily into her even better lubricated snatch, and Millie sighed as he started fucking her. She rested her head on Nell's chest, and the slightly younger woman started softly caressing her skin, feeling the remains of Wan Fu's cum shen she got down to her back.
The Falenan Prince prodded Nell's nether lips with his cockhead. "But not here?" he asked and slowly brushed his cockhead up and down against her.
"Not there," affirmed Nell. At that, he took an appreciative hold of Nell's buttocks, and thrust in, prompting a gasp from her.
"Lyon..." said Toma.
"What a beautiful woman!" said Augustine to the cum-stained Lyon, her hair disheveled and starched with sperm, wetness trailing visibly down her thighs from her pussy. The gentleman grabbed her for a kiss, into which she quickly eased. Toma moved behind her, kissing her neck, shoulders and back, trailing his hands down her soft skin onto her round ass, and then between her legs, plunging two thick fingers into her wet pussy.
"Ahhh... Toma..." she said.
Augustine started moving lower, kissing and licking her semen-coated boobs, then her stomach, then her upper thighs... then he pushed Toma's fingers away, and lapped her twat with his tongue, then started probing her wet folds. "Mmhm," she moaned.
Toma took hold of her cum-crusted black hair and kissed her on the mouth. "What do you want?" he asked her.
"Fuck me," she said without hesitation. "Fuck me and make me come!" she exclaimed, covertly looking over at Faroush. "In my butt, too," she added with less volume.
"We're gonna need the oil," commented Toma and went off, leaving Augustine to eat Lyon's pussy.
Lun spat out the ninja's hard meat, sloppy with saliva. Then she scooped some of the cum from her tits and rubbed it all over Sasuke's cock. "Lemme try sittin' my ass on this," she said.
"On the floor again?" asked the bearded man.
"On the floor ya go, beardy," she replied.
Sasuke lay down, and Lun quickly got off from Wan Fu, then sat down on the slightly less endowed man's stomach. "Oh yeah..." she commented, a wide smile on her lips when she eyed his cum-coated erection.
"Hey," came a voice from behind her, and she turned to look. "You need any of this?" asked Toma, holding a flask of oil between his fingers.
"Aren'cha gentleman!" said Lun with an even wider grin and took the flask from him. She poured some over Sasuke's rod, and some over her ass, then gave the flask back. "Thankies!" she said to him and winked.
"Sure," said Toma and walked back to Lyon, who was visibly enjoying Augustine licking and fingering her pussy at the same time.
"Ya mind rubbin' that in," she said to Sasuke, and wiggled her rotund butt at him. He reached over to her ass, scooped some of the oil into his fingers and then carefully pushed them into her anal opening. As she spread the oil around his meat, she turned to look at Sasuke, continuing to stroke his rod oily. He had already lubricated her butthole thoroughly, but continued fingering her butt. "Perfect," said Lun. Then she rose up just enough to face Sasuke and position her butthole over his lubricated meat, and slowly, carefully lowered herself onto it. His staff penetrated her tight anal cavity and she mewled softly, then she started a rocking motion, leaning back and giving him a great view. When he had woken up in the morning, Sasuke hadn't thought he would have his cock lodged in the ass of a Falenan Queen's Knight, a milf with huge tits, covered with jizz. She watched him with appreciation as she grinded his tool, and her attention was only swayed when Wan Fu got up and plugged her mouth with his fleshy club.
When Toma approached, Lyon pulled Augustine up by his blonde hair, and kissed him, tasting her own fluids on his lips and tongue. She gave a side glance to Toma, and soon moved to kiss him, giving him ample time to fondle her soft curves. When she broke from him, her eyes were hazy with lust. "Take me... use me... both of you..." Then she slowly made her way down Toma's body, taking her time and pleasure in kissing and licking his naked, wet skin over firm muscles. When she got to his cock, she mouthed it quickly, eagerly, then she moved off from it and rubbed the hard shaft against her face, and finally licked his balls before lying on all fours on the floor and looking imploringly up at him. Toma didn't need any more convincing, and he sat down on the floor, for Lyon to take his hard-on back into her mouth. Augustine approached from behind, groped her round butt and slapped it, then fitted his manmeat at her dripping wet snatch and pushed in. "Yesss," moaned Lyon.
"Wanna have a taste?" said Hugo, pointing his dick at Nell's lips, a moving target as Faroush banged her. She eagerly mouthed his piece and licked it clean of Millie's fluids, then backed off. Hugo started stroking himself eagerly, breathing heavily as he looked down at Nell and pointed his bulging cockhead at her face.
"Ohh... it really does have a taste... hers..." she said, looking up at him, and he was already imagining that pretty face covered in cum. Then she saw the hunger in his expression. "Oh. Want to give me more than a taste?" she asked, and placed his lips around Hugo's helmet. She sucked, suckled and licked his glans, milking it for his cream.
"Nell, I'm gonna..." he said, and she just nodded with his dick half in her mouth. It didn't take long before he grabbed her head and pushed his prick deeper, and came in her mouth. Nell swallowed eagerly as he spurted load after load of jizz down her throat, and she watched him as his cock spasmed again and again in her mouth. The muscular blonde was swaying his head erratically from side to side, an expression on his face as if he was blowing an invisible balloon. She started feeling like she was taking in a full meal, drinking spurt after spurt of his thick spooge, while Faroush and Millie watched with rapture.
"Ahhhh..." gasped Hugo finally, and looked down at her with a wide smile as she sucked the last drops of his hot seed from the tip of his cock. "Just keep going," he said to her.
"You don't need any rest?" asked Nell.
"Keep going like that and I won't," he said. So she kept suckling him and pleasuring him with her lips and tongue, and at no point did he go soft.
"Me too," said Millie and pointed at her open mouth, and Hugo obliged her, offering his cleaned up erection to her upper lips this time.
With Nell free, Faroush leapt next to her with effortless agility. "What about this for a taste?" he said, and turned her face towards his sloppy dick. She took it in and licked her own taste off from his member.
"Guess what?" said Nell, and paused for a moment. "We're not the same," she said to him, eyes wide and teasing.
"Maybe you should have another taste," said Faroush, grabbed her hair, and pushed back into her mouth.
"Mmmph," commented Nell as the Falenan Prince fucked the brown-haired traveler's face, and Hugo took the chance to get back between her legs, starting a quick thrusting when he got inside her pussy.
"Hey!" exclaimed Millie when she realized both of the men were focused on Nell again, driving their organs between both sets of her lips in unison. She got up, adjusted her white, cumstained hat, moved around, and plopped her waist right over Nell's abdomen. The sudden weight over her surprised Nell, and she sputtered against Faroush's hard rod. He pulled out, and found Millie spreading her folds at him. "It's better than her mouth!" she claimed.
"I'm not so sure about that, but let's put it to the test," said the Prince, and moved his meat to Millie's lower lips. She moaned loud as he entered her, and Nell got to watch up close as Faroush started fucking Millie on top of her. Soon they were a weirdly moving mass of flesh, Hugo working up a sweat filling Nell's channel, and Faroush thrusting eagerly into Millie's willing womanhood. Briefly, he would avert his eyes from the two brown-haired beauties in front of him, and look over to Lyon, who was getting spitroasted by Toma and Augustine.
Lun had her mouth full of Wan Fu's pole, and her ass full of Sasuke's dick. When the tattooed warrior grabbed her hair and started facefucking her, it was all she could do to keep her lips wrapped around the slab of meat as it went back and forth. Sasuke couldn't get enough of her milky jugs, most of the cum on them now in the ninja's hands or dried off into her skin. She gyrated slowly with his member inside her asshole, but she knew it alone wasn't enough for her, so he spat Wan Fu's tool out, drooling some built up saliva onto her tits and Sasuke's hands. He just rubbed it into her ample titflesh, making her boobs wet and slimy again.
"Fuck me," she said as Wan Fu rubbed his sloppy penis on her face, still holding her hair with one hand. "Fuck me at least half as good as ya fucked that poor little gal." Then she spun around on Sasuke's stick, to lean back on him. He welcomed her weight on her, her cheek just in reach of his kisses when she turned to him, her shoulder when she turned her head back up, and her big, sloppy titties begging for his kneading and groping. He pushed a couple of fingers into her mouth, and she licked the jizz off from them, then from his hand, as Wan Fu bent down to her, and guided his fat rod to her soppy cunt. She moaned as he entered her, and even Sasuke could feel him, his thrusts in her pussy pushing against him in her ass. Groaning just slightly, Wan Fu worked himself up to a fast pace, driving his slab of meat into the depths of the curvy woman.
Lyon took off from her mouth from Toma's hard cock but continued stroking it. "I want -ah!- both of y-ngh!" she said, as Augustine thrust eagerly into her.
"What do you call this?" asked Toma. Then he took hold of her messy black hair and slapped her on the face with his cock for good measure.
"Not like this..." she said and wiggled out of Augustine's hold. He reluctantly pulled back, and Lyon stood up, followed by Toma and Augustine. She wrapped her arms around the neck of the other Queen's Knight, and stood on her toes, stretching her legs as far as they would go to fit his erection inside her. Then she pushed herself off the floor and into his lap, kissed him, and looked at Augustine.
"The oil's over there," said Toma and nodded at where he had left it. As he retrieved the flask, Lyon started moving lightly in Toma's lap, moaning as his skewer pleasured her slit. The blonde man soon joined them, rubbing the oil over his hard shaft, then she spread it around and inside Lyon's butthole.
"Yesss," she sighed, as Augustine pushed his slick dick past her sphincter and into her ass. The two men started moving, slowly at first, but they quickly found a rhythm, Toma pushing into her pussy and Augustine ramming her rump, her breasts pressing against Toma's chest, their strong hands simultaneously supporting her and groping her, Augustine kissing her upper back and Toma her lips, and she moaned and whimpered between them, a part in a well-oiled machine, twin pistons in her wet snatch and her lubed up bunghole.
When Faroush was face-fucking Nell again, Millie moved completely over her, placing her pussy just above Nell's and giving Hugo a hard choice. She was soon satisfied when he pulled out from Nell and pushed his dripping wet, hard cock into her. Millie had been watching the Prince stuff Nell's mouth, but she suddenly found herself moaning, and pressing her head against her neck and shoulder, and her breasts against hers. But it was only for a moment before Faroush took hold of her chin, and pressed his cockhead against her lips, still wet with Nell's saliva after she had cleaned the hard organ of Millie's pussy juice.
Now it was Nell's turn to watch and wait, as Hugo and Faroush screwed Millie from two ends, all on top of the bewildered traveler. But then Hugo pulled out from Millie, and moved over to Faroush, tapping him on the shoulder. "Hey, buddy. Tag." The Prince cheerfully nodded and moved between the legs of the two women, taking a moment to appreciate the beautiful sight of two wet quims, both ready for him. Hugo took equal time to admire the two beautiful women, pressed tightly together, though it looked like it was more of Millie's initiative. "Who wants a taste?" asked Hugo, his sloppy erection standing over them. It was Millie who took it in her mouth, sucking his meat clean of her own fluids, and maybe some of Nell's. Hugo looked at the two of them, and gritted his teeth. At the same time, Faroush slipped inside Nell's snatch, but he also slipped his fingers inside Millie, playing with her pussy as he fucked Nell.
Nell was panting as Faroush's thrusts made her body rock just slightly under the other woman's, and she watched Millie caress Hugo's erection with her mouth, her lips and her tongue, and she heard her moan against it. She wondered what she had gotten herself into, feeling like she was in over her head.
"Ahhhh... yes... more," pleaded Lun, as Wan Fu drove into her.
"More?" asked Wan Fu. "Hahahaha... hrrrgh!" he responded, and Lun's eyes widened as he thrust even deeper into her, and touched parts of her cunt that barely any men touched, and it felt like Sasuke also probed her ass even deeper now. Lun grabbed his hands on her tits, and pressed them tighter and harder onto her massive mammaries, and when he put his fingers in her mouth again, she sucked on them hungrily, drooling on them and on herself, and she pinched and caressed her own nipples when he fondled the rest of her body.
"A lil' more... a lil' more... more... more!" she kept moaning and pleading, as the two men's hard organs roughly filled her orifices again and again. The tattooed man rammed her with animalistic lust and vigor, sweat all over his body, and the increasingly loud Lun looked at him with a mixture of desire and surrender, the sharp features of an aged mother gone from her face, and replaced by those of a teen girl begging to be fucked, at the brink of her climax. And then it came, making her scrunch up her face as if in pain, and then breaking up in loud moans, her pussy spasming and shudders passing through her body, the two hard cocks inside her feeling bigger than ever. Spikes of pure pleasure pierced her, making her jolt in pace with them, driven by Wan Fu's hard thrusts. Sasuke couldn't take it either, and he grabbed her tits hard, by instinct, and rammed his cock deep into her asshole, then spurted his cum into her bowels.
The bearded ninja let out a long, droning hiss as his rigid rod spasmed inside Lun's butt, filling her anal canal with semen. Lun gasped and moaned desperately, only faintly feeling that her rear was being pumped full of hot manmilk, until it stopped and Sasuke just slumped under her, his hands falling to her sides. Then her own moans quietened down to gasps, and her shudders eased into shivers, and she was so wracked by her high that she barely realized what was happening when Wan Fu pulled out from her and sprayed a thick rope of hot jizz all over her.
Wan Fu roared like a lion as he spurted his spooge over the voluptuous woman, his big cock twitching forcefully with each jet of his seed on the barely conscious Lun. Her huge tits, a hard to miss target, received a lot of his load, soon covered with slimy strands of semen running all over the round curves of her mounds and decorating her nipples and areolas. A high-flying blast of sperm even hit her face, which she barely even registered in her post-climactic state. Soon she had manmilk running down between her breasts, all over her stomach and into her pubes over her well-fucked pussy. Recognition returned to her eyes as the last of Wan Fu's load left him, and she gave him a wide but exhausted grin, then looked at the mess of cum all over her.
"Ya don't do things... ahhh... by half measures, do ya?" she said.
Lyon moaned and whimpered as the two men fucked her, their hard cocks filling her more than felt possible. She had her eyes closed, but she wondered if Faroush was watching her, squished between the bodies of two men as they used her pussy and ass, groped her breasts and kissed her all over her naked, glistening skin. It felt like they never left her, their rigid male members just pounding deeper and deeper inside her, pulses of pleasure spreading from her quim and butt, making her body jello in the men's hold. And then it came, suddenly, and she bit into Toma's shoulder, making him hiss, but he didn't stop, and neither did Augustine, and she was overwhelmed with sensual ecstacy filling her body and mind, going crazy with the sensations of them ramming deep and hard into her. She held onto Toma for her life, and whimpered desperately against his shoulder, as Augustine held her head against him, her whole body twitching and jerking with spasms of bliss. Then it passed, and she moaned with relief, panting with exhaustion, powerless in the men's hold. They had stopped, softly and slowly caressing and fondling her, standing still with their dicks still lodged inside her.
"Ahhhh... Feels so good..." said Lyon softly. "...Want to keep going?" she asked after a while.
"Huhhh... I must apologize... ahhh... but I cannot," said Augustine. "The tight squeeze of your lower passage is too sweet for my humble penis."
"Uhhh... thanks," said Lyon. When Augustine pulled out from her, Toma took fully hold of her and lay her down on the floor.
"Want to come on me?" she said to Augustine, desire in her eyes, trailing a finger down her face, to her chest, breasts and nipples, and to her abdomen, stopping at her navel before heading to her pubes and pussy.
"It would be my pleasure," he said and kneeled down next to her, stroking his slick, rock hard erection. Toma lifted her legs up and spread them, and fitted his cock back at her dripping wet cunt, and breathed hard as he pushed inside her.
"Hngh!" uttered Augustine, and spewed a rope of cum over Lyon's face from the side, and he sprayed more and more onto the Queen's Knight as Toma fucked her, breathing in ragged gasps. Her face and long, black, cum-stained and disheveled hair were soon covered with fresh, thick jizz, running down the side of her face that he was on, and he adjusted his aim, pumping even more sperm onto her round breasts, rising and falling with her heavy breathing, their nipples hard, and quickly splattered with strands of spooge.
"You must have really liked my ass," commented Lyon, one of her eyes plastered shut with semen. She started spreading around the spunk on her breast with her hand, but just then Toma groaned loudly and pulled out, not even touching his cock before it jerked and flung a rope of seed all over Lyon, splashing on her breasts and hand, and he groaned silently into the air, staring at Lyon with intense lust in his eyes as his tool spurted its ejaculate all over her. Her body got coated in even more male fluid, Toma's jism landing on her boobs and stomach mostly, glazing her round mounds with even more white slime, and making her tummy a landing pad for would be babies that got close to their target but would stay there. The last of Toma's load dripped on her black pubes, and when he was done, he wiped his cum-dripping cockhead against her pussy lips.
Lyon was once again a total cummy mess, with yet another arrangement of baby batter all over her.
"My turn to sit down," said Hugo and lay down on the free lounge chair. He flicked his cock with his finger, and the hard rod jittered slightly, pointing at the ceiling. "Nell, Millie. Who wants to sit down with me?"
"Ah!" yelped Nell.
"Me!" yelped Millie.
"Sorry Millie, but Nell was first," said Hugo, and took the traveler by her Rune-less hand.
Millie moved off with a pout on her face, but it was short-lived when Faroush took her naked body in his arms and kissed her.
"I'll be right back," he said and squeezed her butt, then went off. Millie watched the Prince momentarily, then turned his attention to Hugo and Nell. They were kissing, and Millie felt envious of his hands on her breasts. Then she straddled him, highlighting the beautiful curve of her back, her round ass, and the perfect way her tits hung in Hugo's view, their nipples begging to be touched. And he did just that, as she started riding him, leaning on his strong chest as his manhandled her supple bosom.
"Having fun, Lyon?" asked Faroush.
"Y-yesss..." his bodyguard whimpered in reply. She stared at his erect dick absent-mindedly, half out of it.
She was on the floor, her body just slightly arched so that the ninja Sasuke had easy access to her pussy as he fucked her. Faroush couldn't tell how many men had sprayed their seed on her already, and how many times. There was cum on the floor around her, and some of it hung down from her previously black and beautiful hair, now cum-stained and disheveled. One side of her face was splattered with jizz, and the appealing mounds on her chest had been decorated with ample amounts of spooge. Her body had been generously sprayed with seed, and from the way the ninja was intently banging her, soon there might have been even more to come.
"Ah," said Faroush when he found the oil flask. "I was here just for this."
He took a detour by way of Lun, who was on her knees in front of three men, Wan Fu, Augustine and Toma. His attention focused on her full buttocks, and even from afar he could see the thick spooge dripping from her gaping anus. He circled around to get a better view of her front and ample tits, and wasn't surprised to see her covered with cum.
"Hiya Prince," she said between sucking the three cocks. "Ya wanna get in?"
"Maybe on the way back home," the bearded Prince said with a smile. "Now I've got somebody waiting for me."
"Suit yerself," said Lun and went back to slurping the eager manmeat in front of her.
When Faroush came back to the lounge chairs, Hugo was upside down on the other chair, his feet hanging over the backrest, and both of the women on top of him. Nell was riding his cock, and Millie was riding his mouth, moaning as his tongue lapped her wet folds. The two women were pressing into each other. Or at least their chests were, their heads side by side. That's why Nell saw him first, and she noticed the oil, but said nothing. Faroush placed a hand on Millie's butt and squeezed its supple flesh. He leaned close to her other ear and maneuvered a hand between the two women, playing with both of their tits.
"Do I even dare take you off from him," said Faroush to Millie.
"I don't mind," she said and got up from him, and moved to the other lounge chair, thrust her ass up and placed a hand on her pussy. "What are you going to do?" she asked. Faroush looked at her butt appreciatively.
"My beautiful lady, I'm going to fuck you in the ass," he said.
"Ooooh," she cooed.
Nell was suddenly staring just at Hugo again, at his long blond hair, his brown skin, his muscled chest, his face covered in Millie's fluids. She leaned down, sliding her body over his, her breasts pressing against his chest, and kissed him, the other woman's taste on his lips. Suddenly his cock felt even better inside her, and she couldn't help moaning when she started grinding herself against it in the new position.
As Millie fingered her pussy, Faroush fingered her ass, spreading around the oil. With her tight asshole nice and slick, he placed his oiled up royal rod at her anal entrance, and slowly pushed in. Millie accommodated him easily, and the silver-bearded Prince started breathing heavier as he started plumbing the Dunan woman's rump, still wearing her cum-stained hat. Her hanging breasts jiggled with his thrusts, and she whimpered continuously, frigging herself with determination as the Prince laid claim to her ass.
Nell rose up just slightly, and started riding Hugo's dick hard, giving him a great opportunity to fondle her tits, and lick their nipples when he lifted his head up. She was visibly panting, she was flushed red all over, and her eyes told of her complete surrender to her lust. Her pants grew into moans, and her moans grew louder, until she let out a long, broken moan, and closed her eyes, her body rocking back and forth, up and down, as if great waves passed over her. She tensed up, her beauty on full display for Hugo, and Faroush and Millie, and she breathed in labored gasps between the sensual sounds of her climax.
Her snatch spasmed forcefully around Hugo's penis, milking it for its essence. Someday somebody was going to be unable to follow her orders of not coming in her pussy. But today was not the day. Hugo held her, and when she came down from it, he took her into his arms, and they just lay there, as Faroush rammed Millie's ass on the chair next to them.
"Mngah... ahhh.... come! Ungh!" moaned Millie.
"You want -huhhhh- me to come?" asked Faroush, filling her butthole again and again.
"No! Me! Ughhh... I want me to come!" she exclaimed, rubbing herself furiously.
"Let me," said Faroush. He slowed down the pace of his ass-fucking and reached around her, brushing away her own hand, and started working her clit and pussy with his fingers.
"Ahhh-- that-- feels good..." she said between heavy breaths. "Hahhhh..."
Faroush kept at it, alternating between her sensitive nub and wet folds, and pumping his cock into her ass at a steady pace. Then he put his whole hand to work, rubbing her button while also fingering her hot snatch.
"Ohhh... just like that... ahhh... ahhhh!" she moaned, and suddenly bolted upwards, arching her back, then she slumped against her shoulders, and rocked back and forth, and moaned, loudly, and Faroush didn't let up, frigging her with her full vigor now. Hugo and Nell watched keenly from the side as Millie came, eyes closed and her face locked in an expression of sensual abandon, trashing her head this way and that, her breasts jiggling with her forceful motions, shuddering helplessly in the hands of Faroush, her round butt pressed against his loins.
She breathed heavily as she finally came down from it, and when she opened her blissful brown eyes, she met Hugo and Nell's, and she smiled at them, exhausted, pleased that they had been watching her. Hugo watched her with fire in his eyes, then looked back at Nell.
"Nell, Millie. You two wanna kiss?" he said.
"Um," said Nell.
"Yes, said Millie curtly.
"Well?" said Hugo to Nell.
"What are you planning?" she asked. He pushed his cock further up into her pussy and lifted his eyebrows at her. "Oh. Again? I guess..."
Nell rose up from Hugo, and he followed. Millie eyed them with exhaustion and post-orgasmic bliss still visible on her face, then literally rolled off from Faroush and the lounge chair, and slumped to the floor. She rose up on her knees, and Nell sat next to her, looking at her apprehensively. The other brunette didn't hesitate, and just threw her arms around her, and then kissed her on the mouth. Her lips were soft, and eager, and Nell softly caressed her breast, as Hugo stood next to them, stroking himself. Faroush caught on and joined in, pumping his sloppy meat as he watched the two brunettes kissing. Nell opened her eyes to glance sideways at the men, taking in the sight of them watching her and Millie hungrily, jerking off their hard cocks with obvious intent. She closed her eyes and focused on Millie, kissing her back and putting her arms around her too.
There was only the warning of strained groans and then a louder one before a forceful jet of hot slime hit her on the face, and then another, and another. She continued kissing Millie, and she moaned into it, and Nell heard more groans as more seed splashed on them, on their cheeks and noses and foreheads and on their hair, and on their lips, getting mixed in their kiss, and she could taste the salty semen and feel its sticky texture on her tongue, she just didn't know which of the men it was from, or both.
Hugo and Faroush weathered the storms of their climaxes as they emptied their balls all over the two beauties, kissing under a rain of cum. Their beautiful features were plastered with spooge, running down all over their faces, hanging down in heavy ropes from their chins, and splashing on their breasts and the rest of their naked skin. Millie's hat also got decorated with fresh strings of spew, and Nell got splatters of white spunk onto her brown hair.
When the men were done, the women just stayed still for a moment, not sure that it was over, even with all the male lust covering them. Hugo and Faroush had sprayed them thoroughly with seemingly endless torrents of ejaculate, which now ran down their faces, necks, shoulders, chests, breasts, and the rest of them. They carefully separated, and slowly opened their eyes as much as they dared. Nell wondered at how different Millie looked with ample amounts of goop spurted over her, and imagined she must look the same. But Millie didn't give her much time to look before she kissed her again.
"I need a bath," commented Nell, as Millie kept kissing and licking her cum-covered face.
"Should I ask the other men here?" asked Hugo. "Lun and Lyon should have them ready right about now." He grinned.
"A less sticky one," she said, looking at Hugo from behind her mask of jism. Then she extended her tongue and caught a strand of jizz dripping down from Hugo's cock, and followed it up to its source, sucking his pole clean. "At least for now."
* * *
The party of six and Prince Faroush's entourage left the Royal Bath together in good cheer, then went their separate ways. The sun was setting, and in the evening light, the White City looked more like a Golden City. The streets of the Royal District were busier now with more people rushing this way or that, most of them in attire typical of servants.
As he admired the beauty of the White City at sunset, Augustine spotted someone familiar in the crowd.
"Is that Viki? Oh, what is that she's wearing?" he asked, directing the party's attention to a magician with long dark hair, and very little in the way of clothing.
"You mean not wearing?" quipped Sasuke. "But you know her too?" he asked from the moustachioned blonde.
Hugo joined in. "Oh yeah, she was from Dunan. Or at least, that's the impression I got. There was some... confusion." He looked at the familiar-looking magician, carrying a familiar-looking magic rod, which held an octahedron on one end, and within it a magical-looking orb. But what she was wearing didn't look familiar on Viki at all. Instead of her typical white robe with blue and gold decorations, the only part of her outfit that even remotely resembled her usual clothing was the dark blue flap hanging down from the front of her loincloth. But calling the rest of garment 'cloth' was needlessly generous, since the rest of it was just black leather strings barely covering the normally demure magician at all. It left almost all of her round buttocks bare, with the rest of her shapely legs. A tiny black leather bra was stretched tight over her perky breasts, and on her neck she wore a spiky collar with a metal link in the front, for attaching a chain. She also had long black fingerless gloves on her hands, but other than her black pumps, that was it for her clothes. She was drawing a lot of attention, not just from the party, but from a number of onlookers, as she walked towards the palace, arm in arm with a man in a dark coat.
"Has she been getting fashion tips from Jeane?" asked Hugo.
Nell didn't say it, but she recognized the woman too. But as the rest of them looked at Viki, who walked with the man without paying attention to the gazes of the people around them, Wan Fu was looking at the man. Viki appeared older now than when Wan Fu had last seen her, the man less so. While he looked much older than her, well in his fifties, he was much the same as how Wan Fu remembered him. He was bald, and had bushy eyebrows over beady eyes and some thickness on his cheeks and waist. His outfit looked new and well-made. The dark gray coat had red trimmings and opened to show a luxurious white puffy shirt underneath, with frills in the front. The black leather belt fastening the coat had a golden buckle, and was placed just so that the coat's lower edges gave way to his charcoal black pants, with a hue even darker than the blackish gray of the coat. He also wore white gloves, a rare sight on the other Camaroans in the warm early evening.
Just then, Wan Fu shouted, "You!" and took quick steps toward Viki. And that's when Nell realized who the man was.
Nell rushed after Wan Fu, grabbed the strong man and held him back with all her strength. "No no no!" she exclaimed, and when she looked at the man, she realized he was looking back at them. "He's dangerous!" said Nell to Wan Fu in a strained whisper, and then Hugo came beside them.
"What's going on?" asked Hugo.
"HE IS!---" started Wan Fu, but Nell wrapped her hands around his mouth and pressed herself against his tattooed back.
"He's dangerous!" said Nell urgently to Hugo, in a hushed tone.
Hugo looked at her a for a brief moment, then looked at the man, who was moving towards them, Viki in tow. He then pressed his hand on Wan Fu's bare chest, and from the True Fire Rune on his hand, a soft warmth emanated.
"Wan Fu, whatever it is, let's be careful. I don't want to see all this up in flames, ever." The warrior with a phoenix tattoo looked at the man, then at Hugo, with understanding in his eyes. He stood still, and Nell let go of him.
"On your toes, everyone," said Hugo to the rest of the party as they gathered around him and Wan Fu. "Don't say anything to Viki either. I want to see how this goes."
"Ah, the Flame Champion. I received word you were in the city," said the man with a smile that didn't reach his eyes. Viki was looking around, as if she didn't recognize Hugo or anybody else. An outline of a rune could just be made out on her forehead.
"Pleasure to meet you. I am Chancellor Nagna. Are you here on official business?"
"No, I'm not here in official capacity of Chief of Karaya, just as a common traveler with some friends," said Hugo, averting the truth.
"I see," commented Chancellor Nagna dryly. He was scanning their group, as if looking for someone. Hugo noticed that Wan Fu was more tense than he had ever seen him. And also that Nell had vanished. He wondered if he was heading out from the Royal District, since he couldn't see her anywhere in the direction of the royal palace that was more like a castle.
"Do you know my companion?" asked the Chancellor from Wan Fu, and took hold of Viki's hand. "It seems you were shouting at her."
"I was mistaken," said the warrior. "I thought I saw a friend." Hugo noticed Wan Fu was clenching his fist. Then, at the same moment, both he and Nagna looked at Viki.
Even years ago, when Viki had helped in the war with her powerful teleportation magic, Hugo couldn't have said that he actually knew her, not really. Even then, there was sometimes no telling what she might do or say. And now, looking at her in her barely there outfit, she felt more alien than ever, and Hugo really didn't know what she might say or do. A few words from her, and they would suddenly have a lot of explaining to do. And if the now absent Nell was right about him being dangerous, explaining might not have been enough.
"How lucky for you to have so many friends in our beautiful city," said Nagna. "Where are you staying, if I may ask?"
"At the White Inn," said Hugo, while invoking the spirits of the underworld in his inward curses.
"Outside the Royal District?" asked Nagna with a tone that reeked of theatrics. "Please, let me arrange more suitable accommodation for the Chief of Karaya."
"Thank you for your offer, but we're already settled in," replied Hugo with a light tone. "And speaking of that, we've made arrangements for a meal and we're already running late. Please excuse us."
"Of course. Enjoy your stay," said Nagna, but his words rang hollow.
The group made their way towards the White Inn with brisk steps. Sasuke trailed slightly behind and slipped into shadows, and observed as Chancellor Nagna just stood there, fixed in place, with beady eyes fixed on Hugo and the remaining party. Viki stood next to the man with an oblivious look on her face. He looked at Hugo and the group for a long time, before resuming his course with Viki, and Sasuke caught up with the party.
* * *
On their way to the inn, Hugo considered what Wan Fu had told him. It at least supported Nell's warning about the man before her disappearance. But did it mean that she had some history with Chancellor Nagna, who Hugo gathered had direct access to Camaro's King Frederick himself?
When they arrived, the rest of the party went to eat, but Hugo stayed behind to ask the innkeep if he had seen Nell. But he didn't even get that far, when Nell appeared at the top of the stairs leading to their room. Hugo slipped behind a wall and observed.
"Could you deliver this letter for me?" said Nell to the innkeep.
The innkeep took the letter.
"To Manneken? It will require an additional fee for crossing the mountains."
Nell took her pouch and placed some potch into the innkeep's hand, with extra.
"Is it urgent? An expedited delivery could be arranged for an additional--"
"No," interrupted Nell. "These travel tidings will not grow old overnight. My friend can read them at his leisure."
"Why of course. Thank you," said the innkeep. Then Nell headed for the dining room. It didn't look she was in a hurry to leave, or trying to hide.
"A friend in Manneken?" commented Hugo, approaching her from behind. She turned to him. "I thought you weren't Camaroan?" he probed.
"I didn't say that," replied Nell with a sweet smile. "Suspicious, aren't you?" she continued. "Were you spying on me?"
"I just happened to overhear," said Hugo. Nell looked like she didn't believe him. "What happened to you? We met your friend, Chancellor Nagna."
"Chancellor Nagna..." said Nell, pensive. "He's not my friend."
Hugo grinned. "I was joking. But who is he, besides an unpleasant man who goes around with Viki?"
"Viki..." repeated Nell. "It couldn't be... You all know her?"
"She's been around. In the war seven years ago, and in Dunan, and who knows where else."
"Who knows..." she repeated again, looking even more pensive.
Hugo gave her an admonishing gaze. "Look, I'm going to need some answers. At least some."
Nell looked around, then at Hugo. "Alright, alright. Let's talk after the meal. I promise," she said.
* * *
Hugo let the issue rest, and they went to eat. Nell eased up, Wan Fu said nothing further, and they had a pleasant meal, of a thick vegetable soup, grilled sardines, tender pork roast, small beer, and tea with milk. At Hugo's guidance, they paid Chancellor Nagna and Viki no attention, and talked instead of the city, of the Royal Bath, and of Prince Faroush Freyjadour Falenas' group, veering into such directions as the fabled beauty of Queen Lymsleia of Falena, with a bust to almost rival that of Queen's Knight Lun, as she herself had claimed.
The innkeep interrupted Hugo to let him know there was a delivery for him. He went to receive the messenger, and was pleasantly surprised to be handed the documents confirming his claim to the old Cervantes lands and mansion, signed by General Conrad.
"That was quick," commented Hugo to himself.
Having eaten enough, he told the group that they were to be ready to leave first thing in the morning. Then he arranged with the innkeep for him and Nell to have a separate room, just for the night. With a knowing smile, he obliged.
After the sun had set, Hugo and Nell were sitting in in their room. It was smaller than the one the rest of the party now occupied right next to them, but having just one bed left space for a desk, a couch and a couple of chairs. A big window gave a pleasant view of nightime Nossa Casa.
"So. Nagna," started Hugo.
"I don't know him, but I know of him," said Nell. She showed Hugo her right hand, where a rune rested, two lines arching symmetrically, like a simple picture of a river's bend. "I got this from that shrine."
"And you didn't think of mentioning that?"
"Sorry."
"Did you know about the snake?"
"No, really. I don't know how any of that happened."
Hugo nodded.
"Anyways, ever since I got this rune, I've been having visions... of that man."
"Visions?"
"In dreams, mostly. Some are just unpleasant, like him having sex with that woman... Viki."
"I don't understand why she's with him," commented Hugo. "But I never really understood her. Go on."
"And he abuses her."
"Argh," grunted Hugo, looking regretful.
"But that's not even the worst of it. I've seen him use some kind of magic to kill people. They're usually alone, him and his victim. He lifts his hand, and whoever he's with is suddenly struck by something magical. Sometimes he has to repeat it before they're dead, but he never leaves them alive. And he's always pleased with it."
"How can you tell?"
Nell fell silent, and averted his eyes.
"You're still not telling me everything."
"Err..." uttered Nell.
"You and your secrets. Are you sure it's the rune showing you these things?"
"There's nothing else that would explain it."
"We live in a strange world," commented Hugo. "Are you sure it's real?"
"That woman, Viki. I've never seen her before, before today, other than the dreams... the visions. And the killings, there's nothing I can prove, but I've been asking around, and I think they're real."
"You've been asking around?" said Hugo with sudden realization. "When we met Nagna, it looked like he noticed you had left. Do you think he knows about you?"
"I don't know. I've been trying to be careful."
"Why would the rune show you these things? Do you think it's a True Rune?"
"I really don't know if this rune is a True Rune. All I know about them is from stories. At least, before I met you." She looked at the True Fire Rune on his bare hand. "Does it tell you it's a True Rune? Does it feel different than normal runes?"
Hugo huffed, pondering the question. "Guess not. It just feels more powerful than this Rage Rune, or other runes I've had. I might not even know its name if I hadn't been hunting the damn thing and its previous owner all over Grasslands."
"I figured something like that," said Nell, and looked at the rune on her hand.
"This just sits there. I doesn't feel 'powerful', but I haven't had other runes to compare it to. I just used medicine before I got it."
"So it's a medicine rune?"
"No, that's a different rune. That much I at least learned. In any of the books that I checked, I couldn't find any that matched this. But there are all kinds of weird and exotic runes, and runemasters can even create new ones."
Hugo stood up and looked out from the window. The night was getting darker.
"When you have a rune, you can feel its presence." He looked at his True Fire Rune. "Maybe this has a stronger presence than other runes I've had. And this makes me feel warm, even during cold winter. But that's mostly it."
Suddenly, there was a loud knock on the door. "Open up!" demanded a man's voice.
Hugo looked at Nell, and she seemed equally surprised as he was. She rose up and looked cautious, and Hugo went to the door, hand at the hilt of his blade.
Huddled into the corridor were six Camaro knights, in green and orange tabards and light armor, with the innkeep behind them, looking sheepish.
"Good evening, Hugo, Chief of Karaya," started one at the front, a mustachioned man who had the air of a commander. He looked beyond Hugo at Nell, and nodded in her direction. "We are here to detain that woman. She is to be heard on charges of entering the Royal Bath without permission, and assaulting His Royal Highness, Prince Faroush Freyjadour Falenas of Falena."
"What?" said Hugo, and turned to Nell. "What is this?" he asked her. "What did you do to the Prince of Falena?" She looked at him with her eyes wide and mouth open, but he winked at her. Then he turned back to the commander.
"I didn't know anything about this. What did she do?" he asked.
"I'm not permitted to go into further details here," said the commander.
"Then maybe I and my friends can escort her there... where did you say you were taking her?"
The commander looked slightly uncomfortable. "Into the Royal District for questioning. This doesn't concern you, Chief of Karaya, or your party."
"Oh. Could you wait a moment? We were just in the middle of something... if you get my meaning," he said, and rubbed the front of his pants. Nell covertly pushed her bust forward, and tried to look more coy.
There were some grins on the faces of the knights, as the commander nervously looked between Hugo and Nell.
"...Fine," he grumbled. "You have a moment. Make good use of it."
Hugo bowed slightly, and turned to Nell. "What are you waiting for? Get it off!" he urged, and Nell started unbuttoning her red shirt as he closed the door in front of the knights' keen eyes.
'Get your things,' whispered Hugo to her, then moved quickly but quietly to the window, and opened it with equal care. The sloped roof of the stables was just under the window. Hugo gestured at her.
'Can you make it?' he whispered. She nodded, and climbed out of the window, her outer garments haphazardly dressed over her partially unbuttoned shirt.
Nell carefully moved down the thatching, then came to the lower edge. Peering down, she could see the wooden fence around the stable. She rested her spear on the sloped roof as she climbed down, and found footing on a post.
Just then, another window opened. The bearded face of Sasuke emerged, and he looked at Nell, then Hugo. He pointed at the corridor behind their rooms, then imitated fisticuffs.
Hoping he got the right idea, Hugo nodded clearly at the ninja, who vanished back into the room. Then Hugo followed Nell down the roof.
"They're escaping!" came a sudden shout. "They're escaping!" shouted one of the knights, at the door of the inn.
Nell quickly grabbed her spear, gracefully landed on the street, and stood fast with spear at the ready as more knights came out from the inn.
Hugo hastily climbed down from the roof and fell to the street, but quickly got back up, and readied his blade.
"I really don't want to use this here," he said and pointed at his Rune. "You sure that's not powerful?" he said and looked at Nell's.
"I'm sure," she said, as two knights rushed at them. Nell held them off with the tip of her spear, but two more approached from the side.
The commander appeared at the open window of their abandoned room. "You fucking schemers!" he shouted. "Get them, men!"
Nell wasn't able to cause much damage even against the knights' light armor, but Hugo's blade drew blood as he furiously fought against them. Then Sasuke emerged from the doorway, and attacked them with his claws. Millie followed, but she just ran to the stables. Wan Fu came out next, and instantly joined the battle, pummeling the knights from behind with his staff. Augustine joined them too, still pulling on his clothes.
"Healable force only if possible!" growled Hugo, as he stepped back from the reach of the knights' swords.
The knights didn't know which way to turn, being attacked from two sides, and soon they were whimpering on the street, or dropping their swords. The commander came down, but Augustine got his rapier in hand just in time, blocking his advance at the doorway. The commander quickly found himself outmatched, and Augustine was able to lock his sword, then give him a hard punch on the face. The commander fell backwards into the inn, and Augustine shook his hand, but his expression was completely self-assured.
Millie emerged from the stables with Napoleon in tow, then saw all the beaten knights.
"Ooh! Are we running away now?"
"I thought I was done running away from cities," commented Hugo.
And that is what they did, running as far as they could from the knights, until they were sure that they weren't on their trail. They tidied up their clothes, to not look like they had just escaped from an inn in the early hours of the night, and proceeded to walk through the sleeping city. Mostly sleeping, at least, since the streets were not completely empty, with their assortment of cheerful pub patrons and some drunkards, lovers hiding in alleys, some not even hiding, and some more serious looking people apparently returning from late shifts or going to even later shifts.
There were some guards patrolling the main street, but they didn't react to the party in any way beyond quick glances.
"Looks like we're not wanted by the whole city yet. Let's hope it keeps that way," said Hugo.
With their brisk pace, they soon arrived at the Cathedral of St. Roa, and to their surprise found Prince Faroush's party there. They were dressed in casual clothes, looking at the statues of the naked women. The Prince was wearing a red and yellow tabard over a white shirt and brown pants, a brown sash and brown gloves, looking quite un-Princely. Lyon was wearing pink baggy pants, a mauve top with a light and dark blue vest, while Toma was wearing a patched green and yellow jerkin and tunic, and his straw hat. Lun had a decorated light blue shirt and rose red top, which both exposed her ample bust to the night air, and a dark brown skirt and her headdress. They all had plain, earthy colored cloaks, making them almost indistinguishable from the few Camaroans and travelers still roaming the moonlit streets.
Lun was in turn lifting her commendable bosom and pointing at the statues when Hugo approached them.
"Nice to meet you here," called Hugo.
Faroush's party turned to him. "Likewise," said the Prince with a smile.
"Hey, Faroush. Don't mean to be disrespectful, but did you make a report to the Camaroans about the Royal Bath? Anything at all?"
"What? No, why would I have? What's going on?"
"Thought as much. Listen, we're kinda in a hurry to leave the city. Could I bother you to walk and talk while I explain?"
Faroush looked at Lyon, who looked concerned, then he nodded, and the expanded party of ten continued towards the southern gate. On the way, Hugo explained the situation in broad strokes, and Nell made some comments, also finally letting Wan Fu, Sasuke, Millie and Augustine know some of what was going on. Wan Fu was gritting his teeth, and Faroush didn't look any happier.
"That is disgraceful!" he fumed. "To use my name in such a way..."
"There is still a lot here that we don't know," said Hugo and glanced at Nell. "But it's good to know that those charges were trumped up, as I thought."
"We met that Chancellor earlier," said Faroush. "To tell you the truth, we thought there was something off about him."
"Oh, we're almost at the gate," said Hugo. "Thank you for the company, and the conversation."
"We're coming with you, if you'll have us," said Faroush. Surprised, Hugo looked at Nell and the rest of the party, and they were all nodding.
Faroush looked at Lyon, and she nodded eagerly. Then he looked at Lun and Toma. "Looks like we're going to plan B. Go get the rest of our equipment. We'll meet at the designated place."
At the southern gate, there were only two guards.
"Good evening, Prince Faroush," said the other, who looked even older than Prince Faroush. Nell's eyes widened when he recognized the Prince so quickly.
"Good evening, General Conrad," said Faroush to the man. He had hazelnut brown hair, keen blue eyes, and handsome features. He was wearing an orange cloak with Camaro's emblem over a green coat, brown pants and black boots, and an impressive looking sword in his scabbard. The other guard was wearing similar attire to the knights who had come to arrest Nell.
'So that's General Conrad,' thought Hugo, watching the exchange without comment. 'What's somebody like that doing guarding a gate?'
"Leaving us so soon?" asked Conrad of Faroush, in a casual tone.
"We just thought we might explore the Camaroan countryside while we're here," said Faroush amicably.
"Of course," said Conrad. "Who are these with you? I didn't know you had a larger party with you."
"I'm Schtolteheim Reinbach the Third!" said Hugo, moving forward. "I'm a jujube merchant from Karaya. We met with His Highness the Prince and he kindly enough asked us to escort him around the countryside!" he continued. Conrad's firm expression didn't budge.
"And I'm Wilhelmina Reinbach the Sixth, his wife!" said Nell, grabbing Hugo's arm. "The rest work for us," she said with a disarming smile.
Conrad's eyes stopped on Nell. He looked into her blue eyes, and there was the slightest twitch of his eyebrow.
"You don't look Karayan. Where are you from, young lady?" he asked.
"I'm from... uh, around," she said, trying to keep the smile on her face.
"Around, huh? Another child of the wars?" asked Conrad.
"I've managed to avoid any wars so far," replied Nell.
"Lucky you," commented Conrad. Then he looked at the rest of the party, and then back at Faroush. "Sounds like you'll have a pleasant late evening, Prince Faroush. Safe travels."
"Thank you," said the Prince, with a slight bow. Lyon joined in.
General Conrad nodded at the younger knight, and he went to open the wicket gate, then stood watch as the party of ten passed one by one to the other side of the city gate. Conrad kept an eye on them all the way, until they were all out from the city and the wicket gate closed after them.
* * *
Lun and Toma made their way through the docks at the Holy City of Roa, where the Prince's ship was docked. They were in their black and gold Queen's Knight uniforms, and the crowd watched the party that followed them, a bearded and silver-haired man in the regal armor of the Commander of the Queen's Knights, his beautiful female bodyguard with a pink ribbon decorating her armor, and some people the crowd had no reason to recognize, like a Karaya warrior, a dark-haired woman in a gray cloak, a bearded ninja in a mostly black outfit, and a well-dressed moustachioned blonde noble.
There were whispers of "It's the Prince of Falena!" and "Who are those people behind him? His servants?" from the crowd, but they gave way to the party. But when they got closer to the ship, there was a group of people that wasn't going to give way.
The way to the ship was blocked by Camaroan knights, and in his dark suit, Chancellor Nagna. Viki was beside him, in her skimpy outfit.
Lun and Toma approached the Camaroans first, and the rest of the party followed.
"Greetings, Prince!" said Chancellor Nagna with a wide grin. "I'm afraid we must search your party. You may have accidentally taken a fugitive with you when you left Nossa Casa so urgently."
There was a carefree look in the Prince's golden eyes. "What? Nah. They're just mercs," he said casually. "Search 'em all ya want."
Chancellor Nagna gave a humph and moved closer to the party. "Spread around!" he ordered. The Prince casually waved his hand, and the party members put some distance between them. "No tricks now!" said Nagna.
The Chancellor approached the woman in the gray cloak, with a distressed look on his face. He grabbed her right arm, and roughly pulled off her glove, looking at the back of her hand. Then he repeated it for her left hand, looked at her, and there was an indescribable expression in his beady eyes, his face twisted in a sour grimace. He threw her gloves on the ground, and looked at the other members of the party. On closer inspection, the Karaya warrior didn't look like Chief Hugo. The others looked somewhat like the people at Nossa Casa, except for a stocky man at the back. But there was something off about the party composition.
"Viki! We're going!" he snapped, and went to the barenaked magician, then dragged her off forcefully.
"Does this mean we're free to go!?" shouted Lun.
"Do whatever you want!" he shouted without even looking back.
"Ya heard him," said Lun to the knights and smiled.
"Happy to help!" shouted the Prince to Chancellor Nagna. His bodyguard nudged him with her elbow.
The knights exchanged some confused glances, then started moving off. Some of them looked at the Prince curiously.
* * *
"Thank you for your services," said Lun and placed some potch in the hands of the Karaya warrior and the mercenary woman.
"Anything for Chief Hugo," said the Karaya warrior.
"That was Chancellor Nagna? He was different than I thought," commented the woman in the gray cloak.
When the two mercenaries had left, Roy pulled off his fake beard and silver hair.
"Hahaha! I knew this gig would be fun!" the actor laughed.
"The Prince was right to keep ya on hand," said Lun with a smile.
"'N ya know, the extra potch helps with the troupe," replied Roy with a grin.
"It was so much fun to see you again!" said Faylen, in Lyon's armor, to Lun and Toma.
"I just wish we could have spent more time with the others," said the stocky Faylon.
"I just wish they're okay," said Sasuke. "Something's brewing, and I bet that Chancellor's doing the stirring. He took our bait, but now the bait is gone. He'll be searching for Nell again."
"Best of wishes to her and all our friends," commented Augustine.
"Yeah," agreed Toma.
* * *
Several days had passed since they had parted with the other group. Hugo, Nell, Faroush, Lyon, Wan Fu and Millie had taken a roundabout way to Chisana Pass, avoiding the main road and any towns, and with the Prince and Lyon traveling in their casual clothes. They looked like any other travelers, except for the strange but seemingly docile monster that followed Millie.
Other less docile monsters would at times attack them, but the party handled them without much difficulty. Faroush and Lyon were very capable fighters, the Prince with his three-sectioned nunchaku, and Lyon with her nagamaki sword, and they didn't even need to resort to their runes. And so, taking more time than they did when going to Nossa Casa, they were slowly approaching Chisana Pass.
"I have been thinking about something," said Faroush. "Back when we were going to the Royal Bath, we were told that it had been reserved for our use only. So we were surprised to see you there. But of course, we didn't mind the company at all," he said with a smile.
"Huh?" said Hugo.
"So we intruded upon you?" mused Nell.
"I'm not saying that you did," affirmed Faroush. "But the Camaroans could say that you did. And Chancellor Nagna could have used that."
Wan Fu just growled. He had been doing that a lot lately.
"And it looks like he tried to use it to get you, Nell. And just you," said Hugo. "Maybe he didn't want this Rune close to him," he continued and lifted his covered hand.
"I'm sorry," said Nell. "This is all my fault. You could have just let them take me."
"No I couldn't," said Hugo, and the rest of the group joined in agreement. "Back there, I couldn't have protected you if something went wrong. And everything about it just stank."
"T-thanks," said Nell.
"Sure. But now we're in this together. And even the Prince of Falena got involved."
"Lyon always says I tend to trust the right people," said Faroush with a grin. Lyon gave a slightly nervous smile.
Suddenly, on a nearby slope over Chisana Pass, there was a flash of light.
"There they are!" shrieked Chancellor Nagna. "Viki, attack them!"
Viki was leaning on her staff and panting, but on Nagna's order, she raised her staff, the Blinking Rune flashed over her, and out of nowhere, pans, pots, kettles and lids fell on them from the sky.
"What?" said Hugo. "Ouch!" he moaned, when a wooden lid hit him on the head.
"Not like that!" shouted Nagna. "Use the summon!"
Viki raised her staff again, there was a flash of light on her forehead, and then the Pale Gate Rune flashed over her.
Suddenly, a troop of centaurs appeared some distance away from the group.
"Take cover!" shouted Nell, as the centaurs started galloping towards them, lances at the ready.
Lyon leapt forward and slashed one of the centaurs with her nagamaki. "Prince!" she shouted, and he rushed in from behind, dealing heavy blows with his tri-nunchaku. The centaur fell to the ground and vanished, but the others were still rushing at the rest of the group.
"Hnngh!" grunted Hugo, as he deflected a lance with his blade. Wan Fu gave a mighty roar, and managed to topple another of the centaurs with his staff. Millie used the Groundhog Rune and had Napoleon attack one of the them, but then she cried out in pain, as another tore into her.
"Do it again!" shouted Nagna, and Viki followed. With another flash of the Pale Gate Rune, another group of centaurs rushed at them.
Faroush and Lyon looked at each other and nodded. The Prince lifted his right hand, the Dawn Rune flashed in the air, and a dazzling light cut into a column of the centaurs, weakening them and making them scatter off from the formation. Lyon raised her left hand, the Twilight Rune flashed in the air, and a blinding ball of fire fell from the sky, as if the Sun itself was coming down. It engulfed one of the centaurs, and then burned away, and the centaur just keeled over, dead.
But there were too many of them. Hugo, Nell and Wan Fu all received blows, but Millie managed to dodge, even as she was holding a bleeding wound where the centaur's lance had ripped through her halterneck.
"More! Keep going!" shouted Nagna.
Viki raised her staff again, and suddenly, and assortment of kitchenware and random items fell over her and Nagna.
"Ow! Ow! Ow!" cried out Nagna. "You stupid bitch! What are you doing?!"
"Oops!" yelped Viki, and the kitchen paraphernalia around her and the Chancellor disappeared.
"Use the strongest summon on them!" ordered Nagna, and with a grim expression, Viki raised her staff.
The Pale Gate Rune flashed again, and suddenly, the skies turned dark and cloudy, and the shadow of a ship appeared in the clouds. It flew straight at them, a monstrous ghost ship, with the skull of some massive horned beast on the bow. The ship turned into firing position, and opened its gunports. Hugo, Nell, Wan Fu and Millie were all injured, panting and grimacing, bleeding and hunched over. They couldn't take much more.
"Oh no!" cried Lyon, and she looked at the Prince. In unison, they lifted their hands, and an image of the Dawn and Twilight Runes joined together flashed in the air. As the monstrous ship started firing its cannons, the clouds around it dissipated, and the sky was colored crimson and vermilion. Lights as if the aurora borealis appeared above the flying ship, and wells of blinding white light appeared on the ground under it, and even as the cannon fire exploded around the group of six, they had to shield their eyes from the blinding light tearing into the ghost ship, and exploding all around them. And suddenly, it was all gone, the ship and the light, and there was a blue sky over them, and their wounds were healed, and it was as if they hadn't even been fired upon.
Both Nagna and Viki were looking at them in amazement, but it didn't last long. "You're useless!" he berated, and struck Viki to the ground.
"Sorry, Viki. Hope you get out of the way quick enough," said Hugo.
"Oh Fanged Rune!--" called out Nagna, and raised his hand, but Hugo had been quicker. The True Fire Rune flashed over him, and suddenly three fiery dragons appeared in the sky and hurtled down to where Nagna and Viki were.
Nagna recoiled in sudden shock, and yanked Viki forcefully up by her hair.
"Get us out of here! Now!" he screeched, and with one final wave of her wand, Viki and Nagna vanished in a flash of light, just as the dragons crashed into where they had been.
"Wow," uttered Hugo, summing up the collective sentiment of the party. Their hearts were pounding, and they were staring mouths open at the slope from where Nagna and Viki had assaulted them, the stone only slightly charred as if nothing much had happened there.
"Thank you so much, Prince Faroush, Lyon. I don't know what would have happened without you," said Nell.
"Yeah. Thank you, really!" said Hugo. Millie and Wan Fu joined in to express their gratitude.
"As you put it, we couldn't have done anything else," said Faroush. Then he too turned to look at the slope. "That really was Viki. Even in that outfit," he said. Lyon nodded.
"What? You know her too?" asked Nell, shocked.
"Why would she do this?" puzzled Hugo.
* * *
After the shock of the battle, the party resumed their journey, talking about all that had transpired and sharing their experiences about Viki, and their puzzlement about what was happening. Chisana pass was quiet, and the bandits were nowhere to be seen. They made their way straight to the old mansion by the lake, and Faroush and Lyon insisted on accompanying them all the way there.
When they got to the grounds, they were met with cheerful welcomes. Faroush and Lyon were looking around eagerly, their faces positively beaming, even when they got inside the mansion and to the dimly lit main hall. When Nera saw Hugo, she rushed at him and hugged him hard, then she kissed him even harder.
Sasuke and Augustine were already there, having arrived days ago.
"Prince Faroush!" called Sasuke, when he saw him. "Your ship is waiting for you at Manneken."
"Good. Was she easy on you during your trip?"
"Yes. And so was Lun..." he said. The two bearded men exchanged grins.
"Prince! Look!" said Lyon. Her Twilight Rune was shining when she brought it close to an inscription on the wall, a black circle with a line crossing over it.
Faroush looked at her with curiousity in his eyes, then he looked at the wall on the opposite end of the hall. There was the same inscription there. He tried lifting his Dawn Rune up to it, and it also started shining. With a nod to Lyon, she read his mind, and they pressed their runes to the inscriptions. Suddenly, the hall was flooded with a flash of light, which then softened, and their eyes got adjusted to the increased illumination. The inscriptions lining the walls had lit up, and it looked as if the walls themselves were giving out a soft light, brightening up the previously dim mansion interior.
Everybody present stared at their transformed surroundings with mouths agape.
"It looks so different now!" commented Anne.
"No kidding," said Hugo.
Even Faroush and Lyon were looking at their runes and the mansion in surprise. "From your reactions, it looks like this doesn't usually happen?" he said.
"No. We've been trying to light up the damn place for ages now. Never knew all we needed was a Falenan Prince and his personal bodyguard!"
"Glad to be of help," said Faroush pleasantly. "Now, you wouldn't happen to have baths in this castle, would you?"
"No," replied Nell. "But we have a lake," she said, and smiled at him.
Hugo looked forward to spending some more time with Faroush and Lyon before they would leave for Manneken, but he couldn't put all his worries behind. After their encounter with Nagna and Viki, he was sure they were going to need the old mansion. He could sense something worse than a brief encounter with the Chancellor approaching.
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