Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-35898511-20191209171545/@comment-33398500-20191209230840

Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me…

Starting to follow the young woman across the campus towards the female dorm, putting a call through to the police for help, I started to wonder what exactly I should do: I was being asked to break up a group of mamono going after the students, so there was zero doubt that I had to do it.

The question was: could I?

It had always been deterrence that had actually kept the mamono off the campus: they were, after all, physically much stronger than most people, and so would prove difficult to remove by any means other than persuasion or escalation of force.

I didn’t want to see what would happen if the latter were to occur.

So now, as Jack and I approached the dorm, where a small crowd was gathered at the main door, loud crashing able to be heard, able to see a lamia and a minotaur running into the door. “Come on, Jack. Let’s get this done.” I stated, moving over toward the crowd before Jack murmured “How…?”

“Cops are already on the way to help break this up…” I mumbled to him “…we just have to stall them.” Before now addressing the group loudly “All right, you’ve had your fun, break this up!”

Looking around as many of them turned to face me, I recognized many of the mamono present from earlier protests, some of them even having brought their boyfriends (who were in various stages of becoming an incubus), the situation was not good. We were outnumbered roughly 10 to 1 at present, with the few security personnel on duty at this time of night.

“No!” A succubus, clearly the ringleader of this particular group from the way she carried herself, shouted. “We are TIRED of this place, and of its corrupt message against the very EXISTENCE of mamono! So, we’re going to teach the students ourselves about the truth of mamono!” to a general, roaring approval from the crowd around her.

This succubus, she was also one that I recalled from several other protests, though her role would typically vary. It was possible she was the one who’d had enough and incited the rest of them.

I knew something like this might happen eventually, but I was never sure when it would happen. I had to try to keep things under control until our help from the police arrived.

“You know doing something like this isn’t going to change the minds of the higher-ups!” I retorted. “All it does is make mamono look worse to the public, and prove the university right about you!”

“Oh yeah?!” the succubus countered “If we monsterize the entire female student body, they can’t expel EVERYONE!” again, to a roar of approval from the crowd, before starting toward me, now standing directly in front of me, as none of the other guards were saying anything at the moment. “What about you, sweetie? How’d you like to learn what mamono are really like first-hand? Pretty sure we could find a volunteer~” At this point, anyone who heard it basically started giggling and laughing.

Personally, I had no animosity toward mamono, had even kept some of the other guards from reacting too harshly to a mamono accidentally wandering onto campus after seeing her boyfriend to class, but this was just ridiculous.

“Thanks, but no thanks.” I responded, trying to keep from escalating the situation. The sight of her still seemed strange to me: it was a rather chilly evening, and yet most of them still dressed like they were spending the day at the pool or a beach. As nice as it was for my eyes, it was actually somewhat concerning. “You know, even if you get away with this physically…” I started “…you’ll still end up in deep if you go through with this. We can see who is on campus, and if you don’t get caught here, they can still come find you afterwards.” Tilting my head now toward a camera nearby.

“Concerned, are you? How nice of you.” She commented, still smirking. “But we’re a step ahead of you. A friend of mine is introducing herself to one of your friends right now~”

It took me a moment to figure it out, before going on the walkie “Schmitt? Schmitt, talk to me. What’s going on?” Trying to contact our man in the security station with the camera controls to make sure he was all right.

The only thing that came back from the walkie was static, then groaning, moaning and a female voice responding “Sorry, your friend can’t come to the phone right now~ He’s busy~”

Well, that’s not good.

“You were saying?” The succubus, who was watching the whole time, asked, her smirk widening to a grin, just before a loud crash could be heard behind her. “Did you think you were the only one stalling?”

I could see the distinct, scaled form of a wurm smashing the door down. She’d been waiting on a friend to come take down the door properly.

“Damn it. Now we have to get unpleasant.” I commented irritably, as I still couldn’t even hear any sirens in the distance yet. Unfortunately, we would now have to force them out of the dorm, as the closer part of the crowd now rushed into the dorm building.

“Oh? Can you actually do that, sweetums?” the succubus asked, stretching provocatively, bringing her hands together and stretching her arms behind her head to demonstrate her seductive form “Come get me~”

She was teasing me to try to make a move on her, which I had little choice but to try to do, stepping toward her, I drew a small, silver club before taking a swing at her, taking a swing at empty air, the succubus now flying a little above my swing. “Well, guess that’s that.” She commented before everyone seemed to move at once.

With how few of us there were, the result was never in doubt, as we were overwhelmed without any real diversion from their purpose. Once we had been overtaken, the succubus brought all of us together, and said with a smile “All right, we’ve got a line-up of the guys who’ve been harassing and intimidating us since day one. Any takers?”

It was a land rush.

Jack had gotten snatched up immediately by an arachne that he’d been ready to taze after an argument to try to get her off the campus, the others being grabbed and taken from the line-up by mamono with similar stories, and into the dorm: doubtless to find a spot to have their own fun with the building secure.

Moans could already be heard from inside even as I was relatively un-assailed. “Something in mind?” I asked the succubus, as she motioned for the others to stay clear of me.

“Someone already has dibs~ She asked me beforehand and it was too cute to refuse~” the succubus bubbled, before I felt myself leave the ground.

“H-hey, don’t say it like that…” a voice stated from below me, now resting my gaze on the slightly-embarrassed minotaur that was now lugging me into the dorm building with a smirk on her face. “Fighting was dumb.” She spoke up to me. “But I like the spirit of it~”

“R-right…” I started, trying not to focus on the fact that she was carrying me with one arm and no discernable change in gait, like I didn’t even register as heavy cargo, and trying not to stare at her chest which was bouncing with every step, getting out my question “So why exactly did you claim… dibs?” the word felt strange for me to pronounce, as I never really used it. I’d never met this minotaur before, so why would she have an interest in me?

“Oh, yeah!” she responded “You don’t know me, but you know my little sister! She was the kobold you stopped from being attacked by the other guards when she refused to leave her boyfriend.”

Kobold…? Oh, she might be the one who was so persistent on staying with her boyfriend, that even HE couldn’t get her to leave while he went to school for the day. It almost got violent, but I just barely managed to defuse the situation. But how was she the younger sister of a minotaur.

“Mom’s an echidna.” She then told me, seeming to predict my question as she suddenly kicked down the door of a quiet dorm room. “We’re in luck~ The guests must be in other rooms, being introduced to how good it feels to be with a mamono~”

Unfortunately, there didn’t seem to be a damn thing I could do to help the girls living in the door, as a minotaur I just met hefted me onto one of their unoccupied beds, and quickly got on top of me “I figured, any guy who’d do that can’t be all bad, and trying to fight anyway, even completely outnumbered? That’s some guts right there. Hmm… I wonder what the inhabitants of this room will be like when they come back? You may have your hands full later~ But for now, you’re mine~” she cooed, leaning in for a kiss as one hand shredded my shirt without much effort.

How the hell am I going to explain this to the higher-ups?!