User blog:Denzel Crocker/Chapter 10

I found Damhan-allaidh's shop quite easily. However upon approaching it I got a bad feeling. I ignored it and knocked onthe door. The door slowly opened in a ominous way. That is not helping the bad feeling at all. I noticed that no one had opened the door as I entered. Eimhear Whimpered and hid behind my head Saying "I'm scared." I ignored her and walked in. "Hello" I said in a loud voice. Inside the shop were many different kinds of cloths. At this point I noticed that the shop was unlit but I could still see quite clearly. I just chalked it up to having "wizard eyes". But non the less it was still creepy. There was an unmistakeable feeling of fear in air here.... or was it just me?"Hello? Ms. Damhan-allaidh?" I said in a loud voice.

As walked about the shop I stepped right into a cob web and started to freak out. As a waved my hands about and tried to remove the web I walked right into several others. Eimhear flew off my shoulders and started to laugh at my antics. I heard another voice laugh as well but was too concerned about the webs to do anything. A few laughter filled moments later I finally removed the webs from my face. I then was able to see. I looked about but Eimhear did not seem to be about. "Eimhear?" I called out. But I heard nothing in response.

I could feel something behind me the way you feel something is watching you in the dark. Which now that I think about it, is happening right now as well. As i turned around something snagged my foot and I was raised to ceiling. As soon as I reached the ceiling I was spun around and wrapped with some sticky rope. When the spinning stopped I was face to face with someone. "Hello handsome little prey. What brings you to my shop so late in the night?" Said the woman in my face. Her voice was soft and sweet but held a bit of a condescending tone. "I came to buy some cloths. I was told you are still up this time of night." I stated as calmly as some who was hanging upside down with a stranger in their face could. "Do you have PAYMENT?" she inquired. "I have some money in my satchel... but I seem unable to reach it like this." I replied. She did not respond and I could not see what if she was doing anything as I was now slowly spinning.

That's enough of this I thought. I gathered up spirit energy and applied it as force against my bindings. They did not break but simply stretched. What kind of incredible material is strong enough to bind be like this? It would have to be as strong as steel and stretch like spandex. Maybe I should buy myself more time as I try to escape this situation. "So are you going to take my money?" I asked While building up the pessary magic to cut though these bindings. the voice came from behind me. "I see you squirming prey, but I do not accept money as payment at this time of night" came the response. If she did not want money then what did she want? I pondered. Well I hope I don't find out. I formed my magic into a blade slit the ropes holding me. I landed in a heap on the floor but recovered quickly.

I was now able to properly see who had captured me. "Impressive, my little prey. You escaped my web." she said in a sweet voice lacking the condescending tone from earlier. I looked her over. She had a large black spider body with a red hour glass spot on the back. From the waist up she had a human body. Her hair was long, straight, silver, came down to her abdomen, and was decorated with a large red ribbon near the bottom. Her six eyes were red, thought the two smaller sets were for the most part hidden beneath her bangs. She had large breast that I would assume were 40 E's as they were practically popping out of the dress top. She had on a bell sleeved, red, dress top with black silk laces in the front and webbing on the half of the breast reaching a collar the locked it in place. The part where it was laced was black and the whole thing shimmered like silk and had black webbing designs here and there. She also wore red leg warmers at each joint on her legs made of the same material with the same black webbing designs on them. I think I remember reading about this kind of monster girl. I believe she is some kind of arachne?

"I think you know what I want" she said seductively as she pulled at the collar that kept her bountiful bosum hidden. She started moving tword me but all I could do shiver in place. I was not sure whether I was turned on or scared !@#$less. When she got to me her huge breasts fell out of her dress and giggled. I was correct on my assumption of their their size and was surprised at their firmness for their size as they only jiggled a bit and stay right in place for the most part. I also noticed that she stood about a half a foot taller than me. Now that she was so close I could see her teeth were quite sharp and her presence was imposing. Imposing or not I was going to come out on top no matter what.

THE NEXT DAY

She just regaining consciousness as daylight was coming through the window. I had re-clothed, found and released Eimhear whom had been tangled in a web. She was now scribbling furiously in her book. Probably about my performance last night. No doubt Damhan-allaidh would sell me some cloths today as she was quite vocal with her praises last night. Though I am glad Bronwen was not here. I'm not sure what she would think of me after this. "Good morning, my powerful prey." Damhan-allaidh said grinning, stretching, and then re clothing. "I'm not your prey" I responded "Aw, don't be like that don't all lovers give their partners nicknames?" She cooed at me. I remained silent. "Next time you won't surprise me with that Strength and we will get a little rope play in." She said winking at me.

"Anyway, I was meaning to buy some cloths from you." I stated flatly. She looked at me with a coy smile. Then feigning emotional injury stated "You mean I was not purpose of your visit?" She said with a pout. I crossed my arms and just waited. "Alright. I will stop teasing you my prey." she said with a litte sigh. She went into a adjacent room and came back out with a quill, ink well, and a measuring tape. She came up to me took my measurements down. It was a little hard to remain stoic as she would purposely rub her chest against me when she clearly did not have to and would linger and message areas sensitive to touch. But as the light really began to beam though the window her attitude seemed to change with it and she became more subdued.

As she finished the measuring she started more polite conversation. "What kind of garment where you thinking of ordering?" she asked "I suppose another robe." I responded. She stopped her measurements and looked at me funny for a moment. "Are you with the order or something?" she questioned "No I'm a wondering wizard of sorts" I responded. She gave me another long look up and down. Then she picked up the piece of paper and made some notes. "I would suggest you get travelers clothing. It will keep you better protected from elements and its low key " she said.

"But for now take these" she went over to a rack and pulled out a pair of blue overalls. "Can't have my prey walking around like that." she giggled. I noticed my pants were sagging without my belt and due to the white color of the night cloths it had already stained with dirt. "How much do I owe you for all of this?" I asked. She looked at me with a smile and said "You already payed. However that is the only form of payment I will accept from you from now on." She gave me a large smile. "Thank you?" I said not sure if I just made out like a bandit or had been duped.

Leaving her shop I began my track back to Bronwen's. Eimhear kept staring at me and blushing. It almost looked like she wanted to say something but the moment I thought she would no sound would issue forth. We were nearly half way there by the time she finally said what she wanted. "You know you look long enough getting me out of that web." she Whined

"But you looked like you were enjoying the show." I jeered "Well maybe I wanted to join in on the fun" she said in a shy tone eying me to see my reaction. "I could hear and feel the wetness of your special place the whole way here so I know you did as you were sitting right next to my ear. But the question is how would it fit?" she turned red and squeezed her legs together " J..J..Jerk ...It would fit...half way." she sputtered. I looked at her "I'm not sure about that, but lets assume it would. When, where, and what of Bronwen's feelings?" I asked her. "Well I dont mind sharing." she said in a light tone still red as a beet and now hiding her face behind her hands. "Sorry if I led you on with this talk but I just don't see that happening yet. However if it makes you feel any better when the time does come I wouldn't mind at all." She pouted a little but then she gave me a grin that reminded me of someone who just formed and evil plan.

We where at Bronwen's house. I entered with out knocking. Upon entering I startled Bronwen who was "keeping herself busy". She quickly shifted the front of her clothing to hide what she was doing. "Huh S.S.S.Steaven.. Welcome back!" she said quickly shifting her clothing. "Thank you. It was a long night" my body felt worn down but I had plenty of energy left in my body. "I..I am surprised you came came back." "......What? Why? Wait what?" "Honestly I sent you to my friend at night because I knew how she was at that time of night. I knew that if you did not return then you where not the kind of man I needed in my life. I know you are strong and that you have ...." She put her finger in to the a hole she made with her other fingers and blushed while she did so. "But I still wanted to be with you. To convince myself that you had what it took to be with me I sent you there as a test." I turned on my heel and left her home.

I did not know how to take that or how to feel about it. All I did know was I needed to be by myself in nature and just be. I ran out of town faster than Bronwen or Ehimer could follow. I was using wind magic without even thinking. I had made it out of town and through the farms in less than 10 mins. I was almost fully flying. I only touched the ground occasionally. I drew the symbol for air and filed it with spirit energy saying "Air aid me in my flight." I could feel someone right next to me matching my pace. It was the green wind girl I saw atop the trees when I fist arrived. No doubt another elemental. I just kept going and she just kept up with me smiling. Eventually we reached a spot I felt was right and just hovered.

Before speaking I reached out with my magic to search and feel around me. I could feel her. She seemed almost like an extension of me. "Are those mages wrong... because I feel they and the book are wrong." No answer came. "I formed you with my energy not monster girl or demon energy like the book said so you are different right?" She shook her head. I looked deep inside myself. "Then you are formed by pure elemental energy witch is why I can use my own, now uncorrupted energy to form or support you?" She smiled nodding in agreement while swirling around me.

I thought about it more and realized that it did not matter much right now because I was in the perfect situation. I can summon and banish my elementals at will and now have a trump card if things become out of hand. Granted I don't know what the trump card will do but I have a pretty good idea. The Air Elemental laughed and flew around me lightly touching my more sensitive spots as she did so. I tried to catch her but she kinda went intangible. She giggled again and we played a game of catch me if you can in flight. After a while my spirit energy began to dwindle and she dispersed into wind energy though I could still lightly feel her presence.

I was in the woods, alone, again. I basically knew the direction back to town and started my track back. I thought about my reaction to the Bronwen situation and what might happen upon my return. It was a bit of a bad situation I walked into but if I had been more alert and used my aura vision I would have seen the spider woman before she jumped me. I suppose I should be flattered that a pure virgin would be interested in someone like me. I know that if I ever take the relationship too far she will no longer be a unicorn. But she is already kinda acting like a Bicorn by hooking me up with her friend. Is my mere presence corrupting her? I should stop worrying and just do what feel natural. So to me that means to stop working with the weaklings take them over and to make who ever pleases me mine. Is this too selfish? Nahhh. I have the power now to make it all right. Should I continue with the Morrigan or try to overpower her too?

My mind wondered and my eyes lost their focus inadvertently tuning in my aura sight. Before I knew it I was standing in front of a tree whose flowers were ablaze with manna which caught my attention and my mind snapped back into focus. I checked out the tree. It was some kind of ash tree about 10 meters tall and 3 in circumference. I guess I will call it a manna ash because of the flowers. I plucked one of the flowers and examined it closer. I learned nothing new upon closer inspection other than it smelt really good, had a blue color, and seemed to still have the manna even when removed from the tree. I tried eating the flower as I did need some spirit energy and it did not seem Poisonous. I did not feel a big boost in manna from it but it did seem to restore a little bit. I picked a bunch more of them placing them in the satchel with my cloths. I walked around the tree one more time to check it out.

I spotted a tiny manna ash growing by the tree. It was just a seedling. I scooped it up and the soil under it. It felt like it wanted to be with me. I carried it with me until I reached that lake from before. Shoot! I was still a good distance from town. Well now is as good as a time as ever for a break. I planted the sapling by the water so it could drink from the fresh spring as I did. I drank the rest of the water from my jug, that I was carrying in my satchel. I then refilled it from the Spring. I stretched and took a small break by the spring.

I checked myself over before I continued. Upon my self search I then noticed that the flower had been slowly releasing energy to me as I now had small amount more than when I had originally eaten it. Maybe If I made it into a tincture I could extract all the manna at once. I looked at the tiny sapling. It looked kinda happy here for some reason. But I did not want to leave it as is. I ate a few more flowers. I then began to channel earth energy into tree. It began to grow rapidly. As it did so I noticed I could shape its growth. I shaped it into a woman's form. I had used most of my energy getting the trunk to about 6'3". I rested again until a loud voice shouted "I found you boyfriend!"

It was the bird girl from before which I now knew was a harpy. She descended on me with great speed. This time I had no fear for I knew what she wanted and that she was not going to eat or kill me. She landed right on top of me knocking me down and straddling me in a girl on top position. I got a good look at her this time. She had a the feathers of a pigeon. Her breast were about 34 A's. She was wearing a torn pair of denim short shorts and a brown cloth top that just barely covered her breast.

"You are really good at hide and seek boyfriend! It took me days to find you." she said loudly in a happy voice . I just laughed at the silliness of the situation. "Boyfriend I really need you right now." She wined "What is it?" I said with a smile still on my face. I could only imagine the next silly thing to come out of her mouth. "I am very lonely. Will you keep me company today?" She said with a cute pleading face. I could not resist the cuteness and I sighed "I guess I will spend some time with you, however I have a few conditions." She was looking at me with what I assumed was honest concentration. "Number 1 I am not your boyfriend. Number 2 I am conducting a magical experiment right now and need you to stay out of the way. Number three you need to be quiet so that I can concentrate. Got it?" She was still looking at me with that same expression. "O.K., But just in case could you say the hole thing over again. I was not listening" I face palmed. What was I going to do about this distraction?

I tried to just continue with what I doing but the constant "What are you doing? Why? That sounds boring. Lets do something fun. bla bla bla. " wouldn't let me. I was annoyed now her cute factor had dropped several point to me now and I needed a way to get her to shut up and if at all possible go away. A devilish thought struck my mind. "OK I have an idea that sounds like it might be more fun. Lets play hide and seek again but this time you hide. " I suggested to her. She nodded her head no "I don't like that game. You are too good at it." "Blast! Now I need a new plan." but a seconded one easly came to mind and was better that the first I thought to myself. " Then how about a message? You must be a little sore after all that looking around for me." I asked planning to drain her of her energy though touch . "Nope! I was built to fly." She said cheerfully "Drat! Foiled again" I thought to myself "How hard can it be to get rid of one harpy?

"Oh I know! Lest play the in and out game!" she said again flying right into me toppling me over and this time began to undress me. I was a little took back by the sudden impulse in her but by her actions I had figured out what the in and out game meant. Should I just go along with this? I could only think for a few more seconds to decide. I decided it would not be a bad idea to have some fun, but when I was done to drain her energy and use it to help finish what I was doing. Maybe this was for the best.

A Long While Later The day had now turned to twilight and was coming to an end. I inspected the tree I had grown. It was looking more mature and something else. It was flowering now and putting off manna but something else was happening. I checked the tree out physically and it now seemed like it was about to open its eyes and walk around. It definitely had a more feminine feel to it now. Even more than before. I tuned my eyes so see it aura and noticed it had absorbed some of the monster girl energy from the harpy. Maybe due to the close proximity to our copulation? I walked around the tree a few more times to thoroughly examine it.

It was definitely the monster girl energy that was causing this change in the tree. If I just feed some more of this energy to it.... but I did not produce that energy and my "girlfriend" seemed.... spent. Could I bottle it up and bring it back? Seemed doubtful besides that would require more work and materials. Not to mention more work on my spell crafting. Maybe if I was able to channel it from Emiear and Bronwen? I sighed might as well test out my theory.

I made it to Bronwens in no time flat due to my now much improved skill. I did not realize how fast i was improving my skill. I knocked on her door this time. She opened it after a moment and as soon as she saw me hugged me and began to weep. I hugged her back and gently patted her back to try and bring her some comfort. Eimear appeared a moment latter. She rushed over to join in the hug. Before the moment was over I noticed a new face in the house. A young blond woman with blue eyes just sitting there smiling watching the turn of events. She saw that I had noticed her and she cleared her throat loudly. Bronwen recovered her composure and introduced the you lady. "Oh. Steaven this is Velvet the merchant." Velvet stood up smiled and gave a slight bow. "Very nice to meet you Steaven." she said with a smile. I immediately got a bad feeling about her. I now knew that bad feelings are not just superstitious senescence here. I checked her out with my aura vision but she seemed alright. Just a normal human women. Still I could not shake the feeling that something was off. "Nice to meet you too." I replied. "Bronwen explained further. She is staying in the guest room for the next few days until she moves on." "Its your house, so of course I have no complaints" I replied "Umm, Velvet. What brings you here?" I asked as Bronwen ushered me inside and shut the door behind me. "I heard there was a wizard here that was making the locals a lot of money so being the merchant I am came here to investigate and see if I could not find a profit in it. That is when I ran into Bronwen here who said she knew the wizard and could rent me a room for my stay. I assume you are the wizard she spoke of?" "I am a wizard of sorts." I confessed. "I have many wares that would be useful to you would you like to peruse them?" she asked I shrugged "I don't see why not." She went into the room and came back out with a large back back with many items in it. Way too many for a girl of her frame to carry. She also seemed to be muttering to herself as she drew closer. That had to be a spell she was casting. I immediately threw up my protection spell in covert. She took out a mat and laid the items in her back back on the mat. There were several interesting looking weapons, some gem stones, a few ingots, a couple bottles of different potions, some random fruit, seeds, flowers, and what I was looking for demon realm silver ore. Well I was looking for the silver but the ore should be just as good. She saw that had caught my and stopped her muttering. As she stopped the muttering I could feel several spells being cast at once. I let the first one through and absorbed it as manna as I knew it to be a lust spell. I did the same with the second, a entrapment spell. The third I shielded as I had not felt that kind before. I will have to watch the girls to see what effect it has on them. At least I assume those where area of effect spells from what I felt. "I see you have an eye for demon realm ore. What use could you have for wanted cursed ore?" she asked I decided to play along for now and answer her questions albeit not truthfully or at least not fully "I wanted to experiment with absorbing magic" "You know that would turn you into a incubus correct?" "Yes but with a devil gem that has a high capacity and a strong protection spell in it. It could in theory absorb most if not all magic thrown at you." she rubbed her chin appraising me or at least my words. I tried to look like the magic was working by staring at her tits and letting my mouth hang open. I pretended to blink and shake away the fog. She smiled and nodded. "so you must be accomplished magician of which collage?" she inquired "Oh I studied her and there but none of the collages had much to interest me for long." "is that so? So no colleges would come looking for you if you where to go missing." "Just the ones you see here" I gestured to the girls in the room but their attention was fixated at me. Both of them seemed blushed and seemingly had heard nothing of what she had to say. I assumed at this point the other spell was to stupify the target so she could swindle them. "So I really want that ore how much were you asking?" "for you .... I would let it go for a pittance. But that sword there." She pointed to a deadly looking black sword. "that is really what you want" "It is" I played along "It is. It is Demon realm silver, already forged so it would save you time and money to just buy it as it is. However that sword is special to me and has a special price. A contract" "sounds like a steal" i said rubbing my eyes and trying to shake my head in a false effort to convince her that her spell was still in effect. She took a piece of parchment out of her back back and laid it on the mat. I read it. It said I would be her contracted slave and had to work off a ridicules amount of debt or 20 years which ever came last. I had now formed a plan as to how to deal with her. "could you read that to me I seem to be having a hard time with it for some reason." I rubbed my eyes again for effect. she said some bologna and i pretended to buy it. I moved in for kill "could we talk about this outside it's feeling a little hot in here and my mind feels very cloudy." "of course" she said with a smile. She picked up the contract and followed me outside. The girls eyes followed us but they seemed to stupefied to do much else. As soon as the door shut behind us. I turned to her "I really want to sign that contract but I feel you are somewhat distant if you could just give me a hug to reassure me I would sign it." I said with face to match the neediness in my voice "that would normally cost you extra but for you I am will to cut you such a deal." She hugged me and held her tight. I then jumped straight into the sky. I flew up a hundred feet or so then just started hovering. "what are you doing? Are you insane?" She screeched at me. Her image shifted for a moment which startled me and I let my grip loosen for a moment. "Ok! OK! So I tried to swindle you. Just let me down and I will give you a better price?" she asked. I let get go of her and she clung to me. "What then? Whats your price?" she shouted "First reveal yourself." Her image shifted to something resembling a racoon woman. "what are you?" "A Gyoubu Danuki " that monster girl was not in the book I read. I knew nothing about her but I would go ahead with the plan "Alright then. Sign the contract or free flying lessons." "Alright just let me down and I will get the ink to sign it." I laughed at her. I then grabbed her hand and formed a tiny magic blade at the end of my finger. I jabbed her thumb with it just hard enough to draw a drop of blood. "Ouch!" "you will sign in blood" I demanded in a cold hard tone. She looked down at the ground "one way or another" I stated even colder than before. She whimpered a little but reluctantly pressed her thumb to the paper. I took the paper from and and began to descend but about twenty feet down I noticed she had not actually touched the paper there was no blood on it. She tried to swindle me again. Damn this girl was tricky. So I grabbed her ass hard and what a nice one it was. Her reaction was as I thought to grab for my hands. I instead grabbed her wrists and she dropped a bit. The off balance weight caused us to drop another five feet. "last chance. Unless you have a flying potion in your pocket." I said with mild amusement. I put the contract in her left hand. She looked at me with puppy dog eyes. So I let go of her left hand. She now quickly touched the paper to her right hand thumb using her free left hand. The paper absorbed the blood then the letters glowed. The letters then flew off the paper and and binded themselves to her right forearm. As they attached themselves they stopped glowing. "What kind of a crazy contract was that?" I asked incredulously. "I am now bound to you by the contract if I break it those words that seared into my flesh will poison me and I will die." She explained

I lowered her to the ground. She looked at me with anger and flailed her arms against my chest. It was cute, her little pouting. She then looked up at me. "I have never been on the loosing end of a deal before. You have to be the most devious, underhanded, swindling, deceitful, and unscrupulous, bastard I have ever met! I now know what love is." I thought I knew were that was going but ...Wow! She snuggled right up to me and griped my "family jewels". Contract or not I am proclaim you as my husband. She then went on her tip toes grabbed me by the neck of my cloths and give me a full mouthed kiss. "Steaven! You would marry some one you just met before me!" I had not realized Bronwen was right behind me or that I had landed in the exact same place that I took off from. I spun on my heel "I did no such" she cut me off with a french kiss. She blushed and apologized but explained she was not going to be outdone or seconded by some new girl. Eimear was scribbling away. I was about to argue that I did not agree with them and was not bound to them. but they had each taken an arm and were dragging me to the bedroom each proclaming they would be first to lay with me.

Before they could get me there, I pulled out of their grip and flew out of the house. I flew back to tree I had planted. My "Girlfriend" was not there anymore. So I leaned against the tree. I still had plenty of spirit energy. So I continued with my experiments. This time I drew a pentagram around the tree and myself. I filtered some spirit energy into the pentagram as a protection spell to keep out negative or unwanted energy. I than started at the east calling out to each of my elementals and sending them enough spirit energy to manifest. I mentally ushered them to hold hands around the tree. They all seemed so much more subdued than usual. Maybe I was mastering control over them, my magic, and maybe even myself. "I have gathered the elements and myself to this sacred spring to ask for the Morrigans blessing. I ask you for the gift of life on this night." With that I began to send the tree energy by filtering it through Morrigan's symbol on my body. My elementals followed suit. After I had just about drained my self I heard a yawn. I stopped and looked at the tree. Nothing. Guess it was me.I was drained and the elementals had lost their physical bodies. I closed the ritual by thanking the elements and Morrigan for their assistance in this ritual and closed the pentagram. I leaned back against the tree and slept there the rest of the night.