Chapter 3: Lost
"What was that back there?"
"What was what?" the witch asked him.
"That guy tried to swallow your soul or something?" the Minotaur still had a headache from recovering from nearly dying back there on the side of the road. It was soon about to be evening time here in this deserted prairie.
"Sometimes what you see is not always what was truly happening," she shut him down.
"What do you mean?" he asked her.
"I wasn't in danger."
"What? But I saved you."
"I was fully in control and way ahead of him," she said, completely, as a matter of fact, not showing a lot of emotion as she explained this to him.
"Do you mean to say, that you were actually stronger than that assailant back there?"
"Stronger than you, too," she revealed.
"Are you really certain? Pretty sure I could kill you in one punch as well as I did to this guy earlier today."
"You didn't punch him. You bitch-slapped him."
"I don't care. He's done for anyway."
"Sure. That's a given," the witch was slowly revealing herself to be more and more of a cold soul.
"You are not even glad I saved your life?" he asked her.
"Saved my life?" she asked him, still entirely emotionless as she asked him this question.
"Yeah," he didn't understand what she meant by that.
"I just told you I was in control of everything. I appreciate what you've done, though it was to be expected. This wasn't much of a real test anyway. Under normal circumstances, I wouldn't require your services to deal with a regular thug like this," she told him.
"What the hell are you talking about?" he felt himself getting frustrated as he continued following her. He didn't even know why he was following her in the place. He felt awkwardly attracted to her and felt safer where her tits were. In other words, where her magical milk that apparently saved him was.
"I pretended to be in trouble just to see what you can do," she revealed to him.
"Are you kidding me?"
"I'm afraid not. I had both ample time and mana to summon a number of minions with my grimoire back there. Instead, I waited for him to get behind me. It was crucial for me to see if you were worth my time," she explained to him.
"Worth your time?"
"..."
"I'm sure this is all bullshit. You can't summon shit."
"Let me show you, then," the witch quickly pulled her grimoire back from her leather satchel, opened it up, read a passage of it as she moved her right hand in the air over the old book and had her index and middle finger pointing toward the sky. Then, all of a sudden, the Minotaur felt a strange presence behind him.
"What?" he turned around, there, in his back, he found a winged imp which was flying his way. Attempting to attack him. Claw him. The beast grabbed his head with the palm of his left hand at the last second before he was successfully assaulted by it. He held the head of the winged creature in his hand. Holding him hostage. "What the fuck is that?"
"Do you believe me now?" she sensually asked him.
"What is it?"
"This one? He's named Dormir."
Then, the Minotaur crushed his skull, killing him.
"No more."
"What a brute. You are going to have to repay me for that one. Do you know that?" she said, chuckling.
"How?" he asked her.
"By breeding me a new collection of monsters. My new army," she briefly explained to him.
"Right. What kind of breeding are we talking about here?"
"Oh, no, that is not what I meant. I don't have sex with own monster if this is what you are insinuating. I don't have sex with anyone, period. I'm the Witch Queen."
"I see. Fuck the Queen."
"Oh? You think that kind of language will surprise or offend me? How naive. I am in the process of acquiring the services of only the most sexually aggressive and virile creatures to breed my monster army. All of my horny, loyal conscripts are fully expected to think with their cocks and harbor such opinions of women. If they didn't at least have that, then I would be failing at my task of selecting prime studs to head my vile forces. So no, your childish name-calling doesn't bother me in the slightest. Quite the opposite, in fact," she informed him, as she sensually approached the towering monster, and placed the fingers of her right hand on his forehead before he even had time to react. Then, the very next second, the Minotaur was stunned. Paralyzed. He was hers. He always had been, but now, there was nothing he could do to protest. He couldn't go anywhere nor stop her.
"What are you doing to me?" The beast managed to utter.
"I just wanted you to know that you won't ever be able to shock me or disgust me. I've seen and heard far worse. There is no need to restrain or modify your naturally perverted behavior around me. It is part of the reason you were chosen, after all. Call me a whore, or whichever derogatory term you'd like, to your heart's content. It will only serve as a testament to my judge of your unsavory character," she explained to him.
"I- I understand!" he struggled. Pain birthing in his temple like a migraine.
"Good," then, she removed her fingers from his forehead and he was no longer paralyzed. He was free again. His body responded to his own command once more. A drop of blood seeped out of his left nostril. She'd said all of that, inviting him to continue levelling degrading remarks towards her, but the witch's overwhelming magic had spoken louder than mere words ever could. While everything she had said was the honest truth, her real message, however, had been a warning of what would happen to him if he ever attempted to lay a finger on her. She would permit him to say or do as he liked in her presence, but there was a clear line. And after that display, that small taste of her power, the mighty creature dared not cross it.
"You... You're pure evil!"
"Of course I am. But don't be fooled, in this cruel world, there exists far worse than I. Trust me."
"If you are so strong, why do you need me so much?"
"I need an errand boy. A protector that can do some dirty work for me. That, and the other goal I already mentioned to you earlier: The breeding," she replied to him.
"What if I don't want to do that?"
"Well, then, no more mana milk for you. Which means that you die. Sadly. You are only still alive because of the dose of mana milk I gave you earlier today. That's all. I'd like to keep you with me. Is that so complicated?" she explained to him.
"I guess that's not the worst deal I could have thought of."
"I'm glad to be hearing that," she smirked.
"So, you don't want to have to fight?" he asked her.
"Never."
"I don't like fighting, but if you want me to do that for you in exchange for milk, it's something I can live with. Can I have more milk now?"
"Once we've reached our first destination."
"Where are we going?"