Authors Note: Few things to go over before continuing on- please note that this chapter does contain violence, fight scenes and drama. Also sexual themes too, just in case you forgot you were on Literotica. (Gotta cover all my bases here.) If any of these things are offensive to you then please do not continue on- you have been duly warned. Also, this story takes place in the MGE universe- there is a Wiki for it if you do not know what that is and if you are a new reader please refer to the first 5 chapters before reading onward.
I would also like to credit this story to Moongrim that co-wrote this with me. With his invaluable input, I feel that one of my favorite characters, Arawn was properly represented in this fantastic cross over.
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March 13th (cont...)
What the hell?
"And Arawn, allow me to introduce to you, Donnie. He's the husband to one of my granddaughters and interestingly enough also a dimensional Traveler such as yourself. He's from a place called Earth, have you heard of it before in your travels?" The Maou asked.
With a blank, neutral expression on his face, Arawn raised an eyebrow and looked from her over to me curiously and said,
"Indeed Great Maou, I have encountered the Shadow known as: 'Earth' in its many variations during my extensive perambulations through the Multiverse. I look forward to discovering how he managed to find his way to this world."
A 'boys night out' with this guy? Seriously, what was the Maou smoking and could I possibly get some of it, because that had to be some good shit.
I didn't know him. But what they both just said did make me incredibly curious. Homeboy over there wasn't from around these parts either. The scientific side of me was very eager to chat it up with him for some info. Exactly how many planets and dimensions were out there that could support life? What the shit was the Multiverse? Was it possible to travel to other worlds? As tired as I was in dealing with other dimensions bullshit, it was always my childhood dream to be a space explorer. In fact it was the whole reason I got into engineering
"A gesture of good will." Said the Maou, interrupting my thoughts, as she opened a drawer of her desk and withdrew a familiar belt and holster. Tossing it to me, she added mysteriously,
"Just in case."
Buckling the belt around my waist, I was instantly comforted by Winona's weight on my hip. Still, all in all this was a little strange...
"Not exactly best practices to arm your prisoners." I said suspiciously as I pulled out Winona and checked the chamber to see if she was empty. Oddly enough, she was full up with Silver rounds. I reholstered her as the Maou looked on with amusement and Arawn with interest.
"Everything in order?" She asked pleasantly.
I nodded with a frown, not quite trusting Maou ma's generosity.
"And to answer your remark, you were never a prisoner, Donnie."
"Really?" Raising an eyebrow of my own, I sarcastically said, "Well, you could have fooled the hell out of me. You know with the jail and the bars and all."
"You could have left anytime you wanted to. At no time did I ever say you were a permanent captive, did I?" She said with a hint of a laugh.
"But I... But you said... With the keeping locked up..."
The Maou stared at me as I struggled to form a complete sentence. Finally I blurted out,
"...So I didn't have to sleep in the dungeon all night on that hard ass cot, while your Ogre guard was rubbing like twenty out, peeping on me as my wife decided to have her way?"
"I did think it was rather strange you did, but I didn't want to say anything for fear of insulting you." She replied with a shit-eating grin, "By the way, Amaya does send her thanks to both of you. She said it was the best shift she ever had down there."
Oh. My. Fucking. Lord.
I kept in my screams of frustration, choosing to go the adult route and take many deep, calming breaths. Finally, with as much maturity as I could muster, I said,
"You know what... I deserved that."
The Maou simply smiled and tossed both Arawn and myself each a small, heavy sack. Looking inside I saw it was filled with gold coins, more than enough to hit the town up and get shitfaced. It seemed Tenchi also had around the same idea as he stared at the coin sack longer then I did. Maybe the guy was a real party animal?
"What about Romie? I need to let her know where I'm going."
I didn't want her to worry, or worse yet, her switching to Red Romie to do a search and rescue. Pretty sure this place didn't have a Demon Realm FEMA to handle the aftermath.
"While you're having your night out, my granddaughter and I will have our night in. Both of us have much to catch up on and I've been craving a little girl talk as of late. Now you two boys have fun and don't get into too much trouble. Remember Donnie, you now count as royalty here so do behave,"
The Maou warned, then turning her attention to Arawn, "And you, Yokai Arawn, you are still bound by our original agreement as well."
Arawn nodded and said, "Of course Great Maou, I was fully aware of what it entailed when I offered you my sword after you freed me from my Covenant. I do not now, nor do I ever take oath-breaking lightly."
He glanced at me for a second before turning his attention back over to the Maou,
"So, do you have any recommendations upon what city sights I should avoid so as to preserve what is left of his virtue?" Arawn asked the Great Maou cheekily, with just a hint of a smile upon his face.
The Maou gave Arawn a cold stare for a moment and blew out a breath of exasperation.
"Since his wife, Romie, will not be with him," she answered dryly. "I suggest you both avoid the Royal Art Museum, at the very least."
What the hell was in the Art Museum? Just art, right?
"I will comply." Arawn replied. "What condition do you require him to be in upon his return?"
"Drunk is fine if it comes to it, but remember that he's capable of getting a hangover. So no Satyros Wine for either of you!"
I rolled my eyes at them both. Jesus it's like they were negotiating the fucking Geneva convention.
"Yeah, yeah, fine. Be good, don't set your Demon Realm on fire, wipe our feet before we come back in, whatever. Let's go."
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"Don't suppose this place has a Dave and Busters?" I asked as we walked outside.
He looked sideways to me, questioningly.
"I assume that is the name of an establishment? If so, I am not familiar with it."
"Yeah, I guess that was too much to hope for. So what's fun to do around here other than avoiding horny Mamono?"
"To answer you in the reverse order, I assume that what the Great Maou has undoubtedly bequeathed us with is..." Arawn began as he opened up the bag containing his share of the 'Night-out' fund. When he did he saw something that made him smile.
"Ah! Just as I surmised." He stated as he reached inside and pulled out an odd-looking object, and then held it up for me to see. "This is a Periapt of Concealment. It will generally mask you and your Spirit Energy emanations from any hungry or 'horny' Mamono. You probably have one within your bag as well."
Frowning, I checked my own bag, digging through the coins to see it had the same thing inside. Holding it up, I turned it from side to side.
"So this thing acts as kinda cloaking device keeping the ladies out there from getting too frisky? Nice."
"You assume correctly Donnie, I would not be the least surprised if they were not also 'tracking-devices'." Arawn said as he examined his own.
Well nothin like being LoJacked by Maou ma to give a guy that warm, fuzzy feeling.
"As far as general entertainment goes. You will find that Royal Makai is similar to any other city in that it sports Theaters, Museums of every variety, sporting events that include Martial Arts competitions and the like. Though ever since my first experience as Ship's Captain and my crew's needs, I would imagine that those venues are probably not what you are desirous of." He described as we made our way through the streets of the city. The buildings around us were well made with brick or wood and the road below our feet was upkept without potholes. If I pretended hard enough I could almost imagine myself back home.
Various Mamono passed by but where normally two guys like us would be getting stares and catcalls like a couple hot blondes walking by some construction workers, we were largely ignored. I guess the... parapa whatever doohickey was working.
Museums didn't exactly sound like a fun time, don't get me wrong, I do like a bit of culture every now and then but not for a boys night out. Theaters might be something but maybe as a Plan B. I doubted they had the newest Hollywood hit playing but hey, who knows. Martial Arts sounded kinda cool, something like UFC maybe?"
"Martial Arts? They got MMA here?"
"The sporting events such as the Martial Arts institute- also have active participation. Though as a male, I would caution against doing so. As the winners reserve the right to claim the losers for the night."
...Then again being in a room full of horny, buff, muscled Mamono that weren't too concerned about trivial things like consent might not be such a good idea after all.
"Ehhh... What else?" I asked as we passed by a couple little shops showcasing clothes that would make a stripper bashful and gawdy jewelry meant to be placed on particularly naughty parts of the body.
"There are also bordellos and taverns on practically every corner. Or, we could just simply walk around and choose our way at random."
"The second option sounds good, it's my first time here and with the parpawhatever keeping us on the DL, it'll be fun to explore around." Arawn raised an eyebrow at my slaughtering of the little devices name but he nodded in agreement and said,
"There is one thing I am desirous of locating is an 'Adventurer Supply Shop'. The reason being; is undoubtedly we could find useful items located within. Magical book shops also include a number of artifacts."
