User blog:Ore-samma/Short-shot My Minotaur (Trial) (innocent)

Hello Fans, Ore-samma here!

This one goes out to a fan who requested to have Bess, the minotaur from this one-shot to be put on trial for what she had done.

https://monstergirlencyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Ore-samma/My_Minotaur_(transformation)

This sense of "unpaid" justice is a morality issue that KC and MGE at large seems to ignore. Well, in the prior one-shot and in this one, I was brought to the issue and asked to give accounting for it. And thusly I have.

My own representation of what was once monsters that are now mamono is thusly; The prior monster ceased to exist when the transformation took place, and so; the newly created mamono is innocent of killing humans.

Period.

Wave your hands, sparkle the fantasy magic at me if you wish, but if justice is repaid all the way down the blood soaked pages of history, and it's likely no one would be left alive.

Because people will often find that unpaid justice is a tricky little thing, and will certainly come back to haunt those that demand it.

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I woke.

The first thing I noticed was Bess, sleeping away with her head curled into my chest. The next thing I noticed was she had moved the boulder and the mountain path back to the village was just beyond the exit.

“Bess? You wake?” I murmured.

“Mmmm? Wuzzat?” She snorted and lifted her head, her ears twitching.

“Huh?”

“Many people coming! Oh! Quick! Husband! We must clean the house! Guests are coming!”

I looked in bewildered confusion when a frenzied shout started me.

“''There! Get her! Get them both''!”

I was immediately mobbed by several people, as was Bess. She mooed and cried, trying to get to me as the townsfolk, aided by several knights tied us up and carried us away.

“You are under arrest for the murder of dozens upon dozens of citizens of the Empire!” One of the kings stated to Bess. He looked at me. “As are you! For conspiring to their deaths!”

“What are you talking about!” Bess cried out. “I didn’t do anything wrong!” She wailed.

“Save it! Shut them both up.”

The last thing I saw was the butt of a spear bearing down upon my vision.

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(later)

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“Are you Kyle?”

I groaned, and rubbed my head and noticed a Master Druid looking at me from the other side of a wall of bars.

“Yes. Wh- who are you?”

The Druid removed her hood and gave a slight head tilt. “I am Valaris. I stopped your execution and that of the Minotaur woman.” She sighed and placed her hand to her forehead. “They were all ready to surrender both your heads to the swordsmen, when I happened to pass by and demand that you be given a trial. They did not take too kindly to this, and I had to break a few faces and bones to get them to see reason.”

Valaris sat down and adjusted her grip on her staff. “Kyle, there has been an extreme upheaval in the balance of the world and the natural order of things. The demon lord has fallen, and a succubus has taken his place. This is why monsters all over the world are morphing into a form that is heavily influenced by succubus magic.” She shook her head. “But the most peculiar thing of all, is that the changed monsters seem to have no memory of their former lives where it concerns killing or consuming humanity.”

“Wait a second! How do you know this? Bess only changed yesterday!”

Valaris held out her hand and a few birds from the window hopped into it, they twittered and warbled and flew off again.

“You forget I am a Master Druid, Kyle. I can hear the animals, the trees, and the whispers in the wind. I am attuned to the natural order in ways you cannot dare to imagine.” She leveled her sharp green eyes to me. “And I want to help you have justice here! I did not come here to save you. No, in fact several families reported their loved ones; all adventurers or cartographers missing in these mountain ranges and-”

“The town!” I cried out. “They hired me to chart the mountain pass! They set me up to be killed!”

Valaris nodded and finally smiled. “That was what I was told from the birds and rodents of this mountain. Even the stones woke up to speak to me, telling me of the atrocities and betrayal the townsfolk here are capable of.” She stood and sighed. “They will commence your trial tomorrow. But I think they have no idea of the Justice I will visit upon them.”

She reached through the bars and placed her hand on my shoulder. “Kyle, are you strong? Can you run? For days?”

I felt as though Valaris’s question was multifaceted and shook my head. “No, I don’t think I can.”

She drew out a potion from her robe and handed it to me. “Drink this when the time is right, and when you do- take Bess and run. Do not look back.”

“What are you going to do?” I whispered.

Valaris didn’t answer for a while, she just withdrew her hand and dusted her druid’s cloak. “Justice is often most needed to be dispensed to those who cry for it the most; hiding their own transgressions. I will deal with the murders this town has willingly participated in. But you are innocent, and so is Bess. You must not be consumed in what is to happen….by what must happen.” She turned and left.

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(later)

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The trial was a farce. So many people came before the Valaris, claiming to have had loved ones that were snatched in the dead of night, that the minotaur made a habit of coming to the town in broad daylight to consume the townsfolk. So many lies and ‘witnesses’

All the while Bess kept shaking her head and her eyes poured tears, her mouth gagged.

“I think I have heard enough.” Valaris said, taking the stand herself. “Would the townsfolk agree that the accused would lie if brought to the stand?”

The town all seemed to mutter an agreement.

“Very well, to get the absolute truth, how about I use my Truthwynd potion? I can cast it as a mist, so that when she breathes it in, she will be under its effects.”

Again another agreement.

Valaris gestured about the potion that belched a thick mist that spread throughout the entire village. She made another gesture and the mist illuminated and winked out.

“Bess, stand before the podium.” She tapped her staff, and her gag fell free. “Did you commit the crimes you are accused of?”

“No!” Bess cried out. “I never hurt anyone!”

The townsfolk seemed to become slowly aware that something wasn’t right and a few shouted.

“No! I did!” One voice called out.

Valaris and the entire town slowly turned to the mayor’s aide who hired me.

“He doesn’t know what he is saying!” The mayor quickly spoke out, clasping his hand to his aide’s mouth. “He was only acting on my orders anyway!” His face flashed to an expression of alarm, and he used his other hand to cover his own mouth.

“Well, it was only after I told the mayor about the chance to sell those adventuring schmucks provisions that I would give him a kickback towards!”

“Don’t forget the tavern rooms! Those adventurers will pay through the nose for-”

“Enough!” Valaris cried out, and smacked her staff to the ground, triggering a bolt of lightning to strike it and lit up her eyes as she gazed upon the entire town.

She strode to Bess and with her bare hands, broke her chains and shackles free. By this time I had edged closer, and she removed  my bonds too.

“Run, Kyle. Take your wife Bess with you. Never look back!” Valaris whispered. “If you love happiness, sweet dreams, and blissful sleep….never look this way again.”

I quickly grabbed Bess and had her ride piggy-back and started to run. Several of the townsfolk tried to stop me, but I was able to jump high above them.

I ran, hearing Bess crying, feeling her sobs in the space between my shoulders.

I ran, feeling a strange light haze wash over my vision and my mind.

I ran, never tiring, never hungry, or thirsty.

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I ran….until I collapsed.

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“Husband! Kyle! Please! Wake up!” A voice cried.

I moaned, feeling my head pound as if in a vice.

“Please! You must wake! Husband! I love you!”

“Bess!” I cried out and sat up. My mouth and tongue felt swollen and Bess was trying to shove the lip of a bowl in my mouth.

I gulped….it was water! Oh! I placed my hands on the bowl and quaffed down the crystal clear water. Bowl after bowl of water! Oh! Was I ever this thirsty?

“Where are we?” I muttered, looking about- and my jaw dropped.

The mountains and forests were gone! We were on the edge of the ocean itself! A vast tropical jungle was behind me, and the roaring ocean in front.

“I don’t know!” Bess mooed. She sniffed and wiped her eyes. “You wouldn't stop running! You wouldn’t let me go! No matter how much I begged. You wouldn't let me down to eat, drink or to even to relieve myself!”

“How long was I running?”

Bess shrugged. “The sun went down and up so many times! I don’t know! You ran faster than birds! Than horses! And men who tried to use spells to fly after you!” She sniffed and wiped her face. “You only stopped when you reached the big water! You were sleeping for two days now!”

I looked at the bowl in my hand and noticed it was a coconut Bess must have broken open and polished smooth.

“Hungry.” I whispered, feeling my stomach flare up with so much pain.

“Yes! Here! Quick! You’re nothing but skin-and-bones!” She cried out, handing me a large armful of fruit.

I gobbled down Kiwi’s bananas’ oranges, pineapple and even a fish or two that Bess caught. We spent the day just foraging the jungle, the beach and eating, drinking, bathing in the nearby river and waterfall, making love, drinking and eating.

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“Ooof!” I’m so full! I moaned as I reclined back into a makeshift chair I made near the fire Bess started. I looked to the stars and couldn’t even begin to fathom where I was….no wait! The Eastern Star! It was so low in the horizon that I must have traveled over fifteen hundred Yebeths!

“Husband.” Bess mooed as she snuggled in the same chair I was in, abandoning her chair. “What are we going to do now?”

I sighed, my thoughts starting to pass over the ordeal at the village….but I remembered Valaris’ words and let the thoughts go with another sigh.

“Tomorrow, let’s build a house, and live here.” I said, wrapping my arm around my lovely minotaur wife. “I think we are far enough away from everyone to not have to worry about being afraid.”

“Hmmm, I agree.” Bess said, rubbing my chest and snuggling deeper. Her breathing slowed and became even, signifying a deep sleep that I felt starting to drift over my own senses as the warmth of the fire and the good food spread to my tired body.

I noticed a beautiful multi-colored bird light down upon Bess’s chair and seem to stare right into my soul. “Thank you.” I muttered to the beautiful bird. “Tell Valaris I said, thank you.”

I yawned once more, kissed my lovely wife on her forehead and drifted to sleep, completely at peace.