User blog:IonicZach/Lizardman WDYD? Response

A lizardman you have known for a while has entered a competition of swordsmanship and you came to watch. She makes it through the duelling round without a sweat and thus enters the feats of swordsmanship round. She brings on a colomb of black granite, unleashes a flurry of slashes on it and... Her clothes fall off in ribbons. She instantly runs home bawling in embarrassment, not of her nudity but of her failure to even dent the rock. Just after she passes over the horizon a wind picks up and carries away the rock like fine black sand leaving only a perfectly intricate statue of a black swan. She is eventually declared the winner however because she left they ask you to take the traditional masterwork sword prize to her as you live close to her.

What do you do?

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 "Hey Liz! You in there?" I yell, as I knock on her front door. "There's no need to hide. You won, I got your prize right here."

Suddenly, I hear her voice yell out "In that case, come in! The door's unlocked!"

I shrug and let myself in. Once inside I don't see Liz anywhere but I do hear water running so she must be preparing a bath. I lay the sword down and make myself at home by finding a place to lounge around, but I quickly grow bored of just sitting around and decide to look around.

The house itself isn't too big, the first floor has a kitchen, a living room, etc. After inspecting the first floor, my eyes are drawn to the alluring stairs to the second floor, where I heard the flowing water, which has thus stopped. Hesitating, I go up the stairs.

At first, I find a bedroom belonging to Liz, a closed door to the bathroom with humming coming from behind, a store room, etc. As I'm finishing up my snooping, I walk back through the hallway to the stairs, when suddenly the closed bathroom door opens up in front of me, and out walks Liz covered only by a towel.

She jumps in surprise upon seeing me, causing her towel to drop and exposing her well toned body. She quickly tries to cover herself using her hands and screams "Don't look at me!" and, in one motion, picks up the towel to cover herself more effectively, gets behind me, and starts shoving me towards the stairs.

Giving the girl some privacy, I rush down the stairs and stay put until she comes down the stairs now completely dressed, but still blushing. "So, you said I won, but how could that be? I didn't even dent the stone." she asks as I hand her the sword.

"It turns out you decided to leave a little too early. Right after you left the wind picked up and the stone turned into a beautiful black swan sculpture. Is that what you were going for?" I ask.

"I was actually going for a raven, but I guess a swan works." She says smiling a bit. Then another thought hits me.

"Why did your clothes fly off, when you were trying to cut the stone? It's not like you to miss your swings like that."

She doesn't answer, and instead blushes. Suddenly, she throws me a sword which I just barely catch.

"Now, onto the subject of your punishment for snooping around my house and seeing me naked. We are going to spar." She challenges me, picking up a spare sword for herself.

"But I don't know how to sword fight."

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">"I know. That's how this is a punishment." She says grabbing my hand, with an odd gentleness, and leads me outside.

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">Once outside, she takes her sparing stance, which I try to mimic. She speaks up "First one to be injured loses." With that she charges at me.

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">I could tell she was going easy on me, almost as if she was letting me block her strikes, which went on for a good long while. Suddenly, I think I find an opening and go in for an attack that somehow connects, slightly cutting her and making me the winner.

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">I take her inside and to her bathroom, where it only takes basic first aid to fix her up, but as I try to leave she grabs my arm. "Listen, sorry about challenging you all of a sudden, it's something we lizardmen have to do sometimes, to get our heads straight."

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">I tilt my head at her and say "Huh?" Suddenly she pulls me close and starts to nuzzle me.

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">"Come on did you, really think you could've taken me on your own. I needed an excuse to do this so my friends wouldn't think any less of me for marrying a man I didn't lose to."

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">Suddenly it all makes sense, the reason she ran away from the tournament after ripping off her clothes, letting me in even though she was bathing, letting me win in a fight. "You did cut your own clothes at the tournament on purpose?"

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">She shakes her head. "No, my sword arm was tired after most of the tournament so I got clumsy. It was only after you came here with the prize that I saw my chance to claim you. I'm not that clever."

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">"So how long have you felt about me this way?" I ask.

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">"Since the day we first met." She says, smiling. Suddenly, her hands start to drift lower. "You know what I want to do now, right?" She asks, her voice taking on a more lustful tone. My face heats up.

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">"Actually, I think I might've left my oven on." I say trying to get up, but she keeps me in place.

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">"This isn't your decision, hubby." She says giggling. "Your only choice is whether you wanna do it here or in the bedroom." She flashes me a wink, I sigh, letting her kiss me and accepting my fate, mostly cause I've heard of how persistent Lizardmen are after they "lose" a fight. We do the dirty deed, and, as far as she's concerned, we're married. She eventually trains me how to swordfight, so that one day I might beat her for real. All things considered, things could've turned out worse.