Chapter 30 - Sex Fight!
When I truly awoke in the morning, it was not as gentle or even as sexual an event as I had expected. It was to an explosion, followed by horrific banging! My eyes shot open, and I looked around frantically for what had happened. It was surreal to find the wooden door folded in half by the stove-splinters filling the room. Where the door had been was a smoking crater.
Aamalyn was up in an instant-pulling away the ribbons that had kept me bound through the night.
As soon as I was able, I was jumping out of bed and trembling as I waited to see what was happening.
Aamalyn was not nearly so passive. She reached for a box under her bed, grabbed a handful of ball-bearings, and donned her previously bundled robe of the Non-sorcerer.
A familiar figure entered the room-the naga who had taken me away to add to his collection. The one Aamalyn had called Jagras. He was armed with his ornate walking cane and carried a grimace. Almost as if he couldn't believe he was here. He looked between us-myself and Aamalyn-and finally spoke. "There's my cow-human. And the Non-sorcerer who took her in the first place. Honestly, I was surprised not to find your prize already being auctioned off. But that you kept her ... in a place like this. I nearly didn't believe it when word came to me."
"Yes, my prize," Aamalyn said, disguising her voice as she did so. "And don't think for a moment that I can't break you in half like I did your guards and farmhands."
"See, there are two issues with that," the naga said, twirling his cane between both hands as it began to let out sparks. "First, I rather need your prize back. It seems my ceratopsian ponygirl was rather taken with her. While I can't say I like it when my things are taken from me, I know the nature of this place. It's an inevitability that we all have to deal with. But two of my rarest possessions in one day is a loss that a collector such as myself would be remiss not to try to rectify."
Did that mean ... Namali had escaped? An unexpected relief washed over me, though I now worried about her being alone and even more so about whatever she might have thought happened to me.
"Second," the naga continued. "I like my chances against anyone who cannot wield magic."
"Do you, now?" Aamalyn asked. With a sudden and elegant whip of her arm, I saw a familiar glint as the ball bearings were launched at the naga.
The naga made a wide sweep with his staff. And while he could not have possibly deflected all the projectiles-the arc of electrical energy seemed to catch the bits of metal and sent them flying in every other direction in a chaotic charge of raw power.
Aamalyn and I both dove for cover as the attack blew holes through the ceiling and walls that light then poked through.
The naga broke out into a hissy laugh, seeming completely unconcerned with us.
Aamalyn and I looked at each other from the ground. Then, she glanced over at the longer of the pink ribbons resting on the ground. Barely extending her hand, she caused the fabric to begin wriggling.
I wasn't sure how helpful this would be. It was encouraging that her magic was back, but I didn't see what that could do for us against some rich jerk with his overpowered magical artifact that probably could have defended him against actual bullets. Not to mention that he could incapacitate us just by hitting somewhere in our vicinity, like when I had tried to fight him the first time.
However, the ribbon did not move to the naga. Rather, it slithered up to me-looping around my neck and tying itself into a non-slip little bow.
Aamalyn smiled and pointed at where the wounds had been from the boner attack. I wasn't sure what she meant...and began to panic when she stood confidently over me-fully exposed to attack. She folded her arms, seeming entirely unconcerned with what was happening. Then she gave my makeshift leash a little tug so that I was on my knees beside her.
Aamalyn looked at the naga and said, "Unfortunately for you, the prize I took from you happens to be a good attack cow. What need do I have for magic when I have a vicious little sorcerer at my feet?"
Suddenly, the position that she had put me in made all the sense in the world. While the naga let out a laugh and said something else in reply, I was lost to it. Because I was already focused-focused on circulating my arousal between myself and the goddess standing over me with my leash in hand. Even with her disguise, I knew and could visualize the person underneath. The smoothness of her dark, speckled skin. The hair rising and tied like a powerful volcano spilling over. Her authenticity of self ... beginning to learn who she was and loving herself for it. And when she lifted her bare foot and placed it possessively on my shoulder, I felt a power spike between us.
I glared at the cane that the naga held, the only true threat here. The trauma-bubble in my head shot out from me and caught the artifact-thrashing it wildly at the ground with a crack.
The naga's eyes widened as light emerged from the center of the cane-spreading through it like a splinter in glass. Sparks emerged and cascaded from it with a wave of energy that sent the naga flying out the doorless entrance to the shack.
Aamalyn and I just stood there, speechless for a moment-eventually glancing between one another with unbelieving expressions. It lasted until we heard a raspy breath shout, "Bring ... both of them ... to me ... in collars!"
Aamalyn led me to the entrance, where we glanced out to see nearly two-dozen uniformed individuals on either side of the naga's familiar chariot and hitched ponygirls. To one side were individuals of various genders wearing very sharp butler tuxedos, exactly like the orc who managed the naga's estate. To the other side were an equal variation of individuals wearing maid outfits. All of the members of both groups were staring at us, channeling fireballs, arcs of electricity, swirls of chains and ropes.
Such were my feelings of being overwhelmed that I momentarily lamented how unfair it was that they got to enhance their magic with maid uniforms. I shook my head, doubting that they would resolve the issue out of any spirit of fairness.