Round 1
Ashley Valentine was lying on the bottom bunk of her room and pissed off about it. The fiendish blood within her boiled at the thought of being cooped up in a small ship while it sailed between terra firma and Gallefri, their nearest moon. The mercenary company she was serving with was currently negotiating for more members with a group of constructs who had taken up residence in the airless environment of Gallefri, and the deal was that they would receive several units in exchange for their services. Apparently the moon had quite a variety of native wildlife, most of which was hostile to intruders.
However, the distance between a satellite and the planet it orbited was greater than the circumference of the planet, which meant that it would take at least a week to get there. The thought of spending so much time sealed in, without a glimpse at the sky or a breath of fresh air, was almost enough to drive her stir crazy.
Long black hair was raked in frustration at the situation. Ashley's roommate was out on bridge duty at the moment and the ship's dog had gone and hidden herself in the cargo hold due to the discomfort of space travel, which left her with nothing to do. Socializing with the rest of the crew was a possibility, but Ashley found most of them mildly irritating. She conjured up a ball of magic in her hands and began to practice manipulating it in hopes of driving off her boredom.
Soon after, the entrance portal to her room briefly glowed blue and a red haired, green eyed tiefling with curling ram's horns and a swaying tail stepped through. Ashley bared her teeth at the intruder; Kathryn Vern was the bane of her existence.
"How did you get in here?" Ashley growled, glaring daggers with her blood red eyes.
Kathryn scoffed at the question. "Witch please, I'm an assassin. It's my business to get in places."
"And to what do I owe the pleasure of this visit?"
"Oh, I just thought I'd keep you informed. Don't want you missing out on the latest gossip, you know," Kathryn said with a malicious glint in her eye. "I stopped by the cargo hold on my way out of the bridge, and guess what I saw?"
Ashley opted to say nothing and stare at Kathryn coldly.
"Antonia and Richard sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G."
"Are you having trouble pronouncing words again?" Ashley sneered, in an attempt to hide the discomfort in her stomach. She had long desired the blue eyed blonde for herself despite the fact that Antonia had, over the course of a very thorough conversation late one night, made it very clear that she was entirely heterosexual.
"Aww, is someone upset that her roommate bats for the other team?" Kathryn pressed on. "Trying the hot dog instead of the bun? Going for the burrito instead of the taco? Visiting the lighthouse instead of the -"
Ashley was a spellcaster and poorly trained in the art of combat, but Kathryn's taunts hit a sore spot and she to socked the assassin hard in the mouth. Kathryn stumbled back from the punch with blood on her lips and murder in her eyes.
"You're dead," she snarled, drawing a dagger and thrusting it at Ashley's throat. Ashley quickly created a magical barrier to block the attack and retaliated by sending blinding Kathryn with a cloud of glittering dust. The assassin swore and body slammed Ashley into the frame of the bunk bed, then grabbed onto her robes. The dagger rose high in the air, but Ashley quickly stopped it from coming down by grabbing the tiefling's wrist with both hands.
Despite using both her arms, Ashley was unable to stop the stronger woman. Kathryn broke the sorceress' hold and Ashley turned away just in time for the dagger to plinge into the top bunk's mattress. Ashley pushed off of the floor with all her might and rushed Kathryn into the wooden desk opposite the bunk. She tried to pin the assassin down, but Kathryn simply wrapped her legs around Ashley's light frame and twisted, causing the sorceress to lose her footing. The girl landed on her back and was immediately pinned to the ground by the assassin, whose forearm ended up across Ashley's throat.
"Not so mouthy now, are you, bitch?" Kathryn gloated as she crushed Ashley's windpipe.
Ashley quickly activated one of the magical trinkets she was carrying and teleported to the entrance portal. She tried to run through it, only to bounce off of the cold blue surface and land on her back again.
Fuck, Ashley thought. Her quarters, like most others, existed as an extra-dimensional space so that the ship could have more room. This meant that the only way in or out was through the portal.
"Did I forget to mention that another part of being an assassin is making sure your victim can't escape?" Kathryn said as she pulled her dagger out of the mattress and walked towards Ashley.
"You came in here to kill me?" Ashley asked tensely as she prepared to cast another blinding spell.
"Force of habit," Kathryn replied. "Came in handy, though.
Kathryn feinted with her dagger and grabbed hold of Ashley again in an effort to hinder her spellcasting. Ashley found herself pressed against the portal with a dagger coming at her head. There were several spells that Ashley could have cast to escape the situation, but for some reason the same primal urge that made her to physically attack Kathryn drove her to take a different course of action. She rolled her head to the side so that the dagger would hit the portal and leaned forward to bite Kathryn hard on the neck. Her fangs were sharp enough to sever a normal person's jugular vein, but she chose to bite the skin on the side instead.
A small amount of blood flowed from the wound as Ashley's teeth broke Kathryn's skin. Ashley was no vampire, but the blood tasted good - there was no other way to describe it. If given the choice between Kathryn's blood and ambrosia, Ashley was almost certain that she would have chosen the former.
Kathryn froze in place as Ashley sucked on the wound in an effort to draw more blood through the small punctures she had created. Her grip on her dagger loosened to the point where it fell out of her hands and onto the ground. Kathryn's breathing became rapid and shallow as her pupils dilated. If there had been an observer, he might have reasonably concluded that the assassin was having an orgasm.
Eventually, Kathryn tore Ashley away from her neck and stared at her with a look of pure lust in her eyes. She fumbled with the sorceress' robes for a moment before growing frustrated with the garment and demanding that Ashley take care of the situation.
"You are getting us out of our clothes. Now." Kathryn ordered in a voice that did not invite dissent.