Mercy Makes Three Of A Kind

First and foremost, this is a rewrite of my original posting. I must confess that the original story was a grammatical minefield. It has been a source of pride and shame for me. I'm hoping that this rewrite will better represent me and my writing. Though I've no illusions that I'm talented, I still hope it impresses.

*Summery,* This Story is based on a new group of young female adventurers who hope to make a name for themselves. They find more success in their missions after allowing a rough, older adventurer to join them. This newcomer has a dark past and possibly ulterior aspirations for our naive group of adventurers.

*Beware, this story is a lesbian D/s, set in a fantasy world. This entry is particularly heavy on BDSM, and some nonconsenting/reluctance.

*A very big thank you to Jordan Church for editing and helping me out.

Mercy makes three of a kind.

"Almost there..." I said, my tongue sticking out the side of my mouth. I was in full concentration mode, trying to roll the last few tumblers in place. My adventuring team stood behind me, watching quietly.

" Almost... there..."

CLICK

The lock clicked open, and I was jostled back to the moment when Kelsey started shaking me by my shoulders. "You got it opened!" Kelsey shouted. This was our third successfully completed notice board quest. Well, it'll be done when we return the contents to the guild and report our success to the guild manager.

"What's inside?" Alice asked as she moved me to the side to open the chest. She pulled out some scrolls, a pair of boots, and matching gloves.

"That's not right. There's supposed to be an enchanted ring," I said, pulling out my copy of the quest from the noticeboard.

Alice closed her eyes and started to cast a detect magic spell. She then turned the left boot upside down, and with a shake, the ring popped out. Then she turned and gave us that slow smile she knew I hated.

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"Here's your cut," Kelsey handed Alice and me our share. It was not too much for this job, but it was a reasonably safe quest. The posting had been a request to retrieve a stolen ring from some guy who kept it after their breakup. The whole situation seemed messy. He was away for work today, making it the best time to break in.

"Now that we have some walking around money, let's go get some grub!" declared Kelsey as she thrust her fist in the air.

Ever since Alice, Kelsey, and I split from our old team, we've only had success. I know it's only been simple, low-danger jobs, but success is still success. Sure, we only have to split the rewards three ways now instead of eight, but it's not much reward to split.

Our team is comprised of Alice, Kelsey, and me. Alice is our leader, because she's awesome! Also, and probably more importantly, she can use magic. It's pretty rare, you see. Most magic users go into Alchemy or Enchantments. I think there are big coins to be made there, but Alice is more of a healing and minor damage kind of magic user.

Alice is roughly 5'5" and fairly busty, with porcelain-like skin. She's got that hourglass figure, but you can only really tell when the wind pushes her robes the right way. She has long sandy blonde hair that she normally wears up and a flat stomach, but it was not incredibly defined like Kelsey's or mine.

Then there's Kelsey. She's been our front-line brawler, and she's my best friend. She's usually up front any fight with her custom brass knuckles. Being the focus must come naturally to her because she tends to be the focus most places we go, with her loud personality, shoulder-length strawberry blond hair, which she keeps tied in a ponytail. Kelsey is naturally tanned. Her tan compliments her beautiful features. Seriously, all that fighting keeps her fit.

When Alice approached me about starting our own party, I told her I'd only be down with it if Kelsey joined us. To say that Kelsey was overjoyed would be an understatement. I'd not seen her that jubilant since her 19th birthday. She is a little younger than Alice and me, but not by much. Alice is 20, and I'll be joining her in a week.

Finally, there is me. My name is Ren, and I'm a scout/thief. It's a long story about how I came to this as a profession, but to cut the story short, when you've got talent like mine, it's a shame to waste it picking pockets.

I stand at 5'2" with short bright red hair and naturally fair skin. I was born with more of a copper color but dyed it with perma bright red to stand out more. I'm the shortest of us three. Kelsey is 5'6" but you'd think she was a giant the way she keeps attention in combat.

"To another notch on our adventurer's belt!" Kelsey toasted.

"Here, here!" Alice and I chimed in, raising our mugs.

We'd been a few hours in the inn, and Kelsey was getting blitzed. It was turning into a tradition for her to get drunk after a quest. Alice gave me a sidelong glance. "Tomorrow, we should try and get a notice board job with more meat on it."

Kelsey practically shouted, " I love meat!" gaining a lot more attention from the other patrons in the bar/inn. We ignored her. She's normally loud, but drinking always magnifies it.

I nodded to Alice in agreement. These jobs were safe, but you don't get into adventuring to be safe. Plus, the higher the Danger rating, the higher the pay.

"We should call it a night. It could be a big day tomorrow," I said. I helped Kelsey up, and we three headed for the stairs leading to our rooms. But then, without Alice noticing, I slipped off to join those boys over there gambling. Maybe there would be a little more fun for me before bed.

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The next morning, I was not in a good mood. I'd lost more than I cared to say playing dice, so whatever job we were going to do had better be big.

I met up with Alice and Kelsey at the guild notice board with a loaf of bread for breakfast. I had heard bread is supposed to help fill you out. My body never seemed to get that. My small breasts made my sneaking around easier. My lesser overall weight made the wood of board floors much less likely to creak. Still, I was envious of Kelsey and Alice's larger breasts. Kelsey wasn't as busty as Alice but had apple-sized breasts that fit her figure well.

Kelsey looked as alert as usual. Alice looked downtrodden.

"How is it that Kelsey is never hungover, and you look like shit after only four drinks?" I chided Alice, who simply grumbled in response.

Kelsey, ever the bubbly one, said, "Look at this one!"

She pulled down a job notice, "Need A spider's den cleared out immediately."

"No fucking thanks. I hate walking into small spider webs, and I am not going into their house for all the gold in the world. "Maybe something else," I said as I grabbed the paper and put it back on the board.

"How about this one?" I pulled down a job posting and read it to the girls.

- Bandit camp clear-out --

There's a small camp of bandits southeast of Millerton. We need to eliminate this threat before it causes any more damage, dead or alive.

The reward is 400 gold plus anything the bandits have.

Danger lvl 4

Open Job (multiple parties allowed)

Alice looked mortified. "Is it slavers or just bandits?" she asked.

"It's Hard to say. It only says bandits, but they might be slavers. Does it matter? It says dead or alive." Kelsey replied.

"Kelsey's got a point. With a reward like this, we are taking the job. Kill 'em all, I say." I marched the paper over to the guild manager.

"I'm glad that this post has picked up more attention. I think this job was posted from Cobberry, the village from the south, a few days ago," the manager said somberly. "I expect there may be a few other adventures working on this. This one isn't a competition. I recommend joining up with anyone else from the guild you see out there. Bandits are no joke."

I think I heard Alice gulp. I could tell she was nervous.

We packed our gear for the possibility of a few days out in the woods. Our collective bag of holding could hold a lot, but being magic, it had cost us a lot to buy just one. My daggers and lock picks I always kept on me.

We headed south down the trail once we were all ready to go.

As we neared the bandits' estimated camp area, things really slowed down. Kelsey and Alice had me scout ahead, which is my specialty.

I crept through the brush, careful where I stepped. The trick was to locate the camp and not stumble into it. That thought was always in the back of my head, worrying me.

Slowly, I approached something. The smell pulled me in that direction, followed by conversations, and loud clanging sounds. As I approached, I saw that there were eight of them sitting around a fire preparing dinner. Two more were posted up in trees--lookouts, most likely. But those dummies were paying more attention to the conversations below.

Time to relay this information to the others and come up with a strategy.

Upon returning to our small camp, I was surprised. A third figure was sitting between my friends, smiling big and chatting with Kelsey. This mountain of a woman had a dark tan and was all muscle, bigger than most of the men I'd met.

Alice looked irritated with the stranger, but when she noticed my return, she then looked relieved. She nudged Kelsey with her foot, who then looked over to see me.

"Hey!" Kelsey waved at me with a full arm wave, like I'd miss her if I didn't see her waving.

"It looks like I'm not the only one who has found people," I said, smiling awkwardly.

"This is--," Kelsey started.

"My name is Marcy, but everyone just says Mercy," Mercy interrupted. She stood up to shake my hand, and I think I shrank back a bit. She was big, like real big--maybe a foot taller than Alice. Yet somehow, she was graceful as she approached me with her hand stretched out.

As I regained my senses, I reached out to shake her hand. Quicker than I would have imagined, she pulled me into an unexpectedly tight hug. The first thing I noticed was the smell of lilacs--just this incredible smell of lilacs. Then she released me from the hug.

Once I was back on my feet, I said, "It's nice to meet you. My name is Ren."

"I'm with the guild branch from Cobbery. I took this contract a few days ago, but I've been having trouble finding their camp," Mercy said.

"You found our camp no problem," Alice huffed. Mercy gave her a smirk. I liked seeing that type of smile turned around against Alice for once.

"You said you found something. Was it the bandit camp?" Mercy continued, ignoring Alice's snide comment. " I'll join you three if you'll have me. I'm a pretty good fighter. I'm not attached to any groups. I'm more like a freelance contractor."

I looked at Alice, who seemed to be in thought over the matter, while Kelsey looked elated to have another adventurer join our group. Kelsey gave Alice a pleading smile.

"The more, the merrier, plus there's like ten of them. It might be a bit tough for just us three," I said, feeling the situation called for some extra help. Alice thought a bit longer before nodding her head in affirmation.

Our strategy wasn't too complicated. Alice would magic the two lookouts to sleep. I was to sneak in from the west. Mercy would charge in from the east, and Kelsey and Alice would approach from the south, keeping with our motto of never leaving the healer unguarded.

I watched as the lookout nearest me immediately slumped over, snoring. That was what I was waiting for. I snuck out of the brush to enter the battle.

Truth be told, I've not been adventuring for all that long, but I've never seen someone fight like Mercy did. When she burst out of that thick brush, I was just as startled as the bandits. I froze in place, watching the destruction she caused in her first few swings of that massive hammer she carried.

When all was said and done, Mercy had killed six of the ten bandits. Even though Kelsey and I had only taken out two bandits each (two of whom were asleep), we were still covered in blood and dirt, while Mercy looked fresh and ready for more.

Mercy was amazing.

It was getting late, and with our job done, we decided to set up camp by a nearby lake. Alice started the fire while Kelsey and I got out the bedrolls and found more wood for the fire. Mercy, for her part, found a stump and started drinking. I wasn't about to order her to help after seeing her fight.

Alice was about to pull food out of her bag when she sniffed loudly and glared at Kelsey and me. It seemed that all the hustle and bustle of today had left us smelling a bit ripe.

"No food until after we get cleaned up," Alice said.

Kelsey whined, "Come on, I'm so hungry,"

That's when Mercy unexpectedly tossed me a red bottle. "That's a special body wash. It should help you ladies scrub off quickly, and it smells amazing. It'll keep a long-lasting fragrance, too. You've really got to lather it on for that staying power, though," she said with a big smile.

Alice perked up at the news that the body wash was long-lasting and nice smelling. Alice insisted on joining us in the bath.

The water felt amazing, and the body wash amplified the experience. It seemed to foam up on the washcloth and soaked right in. Mercy was right; this body wash smelled incredible of lilacs and left me tingling. If only the water wasn't so damn cold.

Refreshed and well-fed, we relaxed around the fire. We told Mercy about how we met in our old, bigger team and decided to split off and become a three-woman adventuring team. Truth be told, some of the guys in the old team just either couldn't stay focused or couldn't accept the word 'no'.

"Now, our big dilemma is that the quest board is only posting either jobs that are far too easy for no pay or jobs that are too extreme and will probably get us killed," Alice explained. She was definitely drunk; she had never talked this much, let alone to a new person.

Mercy had pulled out a damn small keg of beer from her bag, and she was extremely generous with it. I have to say, I was feeling the drink as well.

"Why don't we have Mercy join us full-time and take on some more big jobs?!" Kelsey shouted, interrupting Alice in her ramblings.

"I like the idea, too. She's like a monster on the battlefield, and she's got the goods," I said with a smile as I shook my empty mug toward Mercy and her barrel of booze.

"Well... how about a trial run?" Alice said after a few moments of thought, swaying a bit. "I mean, we don't really know you, Mercy. You said you're freelance? Does that mean you'll leave us high and dry when something better comes along?"

"Oh, I'll never leave you dry." Mercy flirted with a big smile and quickly pinched Alice's bum. I nearly snorted beer out of my nose when I saw Alice's reaction. Kelsey was less calm, and she fell off her stump, laughing.

I wobbled to my bedroll a little while later. Alice had already gone to bed and was snoring loudly. Mercy and Kelsey stayed up, still chatting and joking. I didn't know how they could still be drinking. I must've conked out moments after my head touched my pillow.

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We headed back to Millerton the next morning--well, let's say afternoon. We walked at a lazy pace, mostly enjoying the quiet of the forest. Or at least I was trying to enjoy the quiet. Kelsey just wouldn't shut up about her new friend, Mercy. The giant of a woman was leading the way up front with Alice beside her while Kelsey talked my ear off as we walked behind the two.

"Not only that, but she also said she worked with slavers. She said she got to travel across the sea with them." Kelsey continued.

"Whoa. Slavers? Are you sure?" I asked.

Kelsey nodded enthusiastically. "Yup, she didn't go into too much detail with me. She just said that being freelance had opened up a lot more opportunities... to travel...maybe. I think that is what she said," Kelsey said, trying to remember her conversation last night.

We arrived back in town near dawn. "It's good timing," Alice said. "The guild should still be open. We can cash out this job and go for a warm bath this time. I don't know about you girls, but I've been feeling warm all day. I hope there weren't any bugs in that lake."

I'm glad Alice said that aloud; I felt rather warm all day. I mean, I've had plenty of hangovers, but today, I felt not just out of it, but warm, sensitive even.

At the guild hall, the manager congratulated us and paid us out, closing the posting. We left for the bathhouse. Being close to dinner time, the place wasn't too busy, at least on the lady's side.

The bathhouse consisted of two rooms separated by a loose curtain. The first was a changing room, the other, much bigger room was the bath. It was just a big rectangular hot tub that was only about two feet deep, with three benches submerged on three sides. the fourth side was the entry steps.

That's when I really got to see Mercy in all her glory. She was in the bath with us, and I felt rude staring. She was almost all muscle and was incredibly defined. Her tits, though not as big as Alice's, looked amazing. she had a nipple piercing on her left tit. It was a barbell.

Her dark hair was shorter than my bright red pixie haircut. Half of her head of hair was shaved and the other half went down to about her cheekbone. The whole look framed her face well.

"I've got more of that body wash for you ladies," Mercy said while putting some on a washcloth. She then reached over to Kelsey, who was sitting close to her and pulled her in. She proceeded to scrub Kelsey with the washcloth, unasked.

Kelsey giggled the whole time like a child being tickled. The contrast in size was insane. Mercy's big, tanned hands were massive and could cover so much of Kelsey's body. I think she groped Kelsey's chest a bit, too. Kelsey stopped giggling as much and breathed heavier.

"Your turn next, Ren," Mercy said, standing up from the bench and walking my way. Kelsey was still leaning back against the wall, rather flushed and panting.

Mercy sat beside me on the bench. She loaded the washcloth with more of the red, lilac-smelling body wash, and to my surprise, she didn't just pull me close. She lifted me up and put me on her lap. I squeaked in surprise, which only caused her to chuckle.

I'd never had anyone wash me before, but Kelsey looked like she had so much fun that I couldn't refuse. I don't know if Mercy would have taken no for an answer.

Mercy proceeded to wash me. She started with my shoulders and moved down my arms. Got my pits and back. She worked from my back to my belly and up to my chest. It still smelled incredible and left a strong tingling feeling wherever it passed. She seemed to put a lot more pressure on my small tits.

"You have a beautiful little body, Ren. Just like a little pixie," she whispered into my ear. Her deep voice seemed to vibrate through my body straight to my groin. I felt my cheeks flushing. She then took the cloth south. I went to stop her, using both hands to push her arm away, but I don't think I even slowed her down.

She was rough and thorough cleaning my privates, and without me noticing at first, her other hand had cupped my left breast. I felt a squeeze, and she pinched my nipple. I can't believe it, but I moaned.

Alice was staring, her face flushed. I think she was holding her breath a little, her hands both folded on her lap. I swear I could see her squirming.

"Alice, you're next up," Mercy said, then stood up, and I unceremoniously fell to the floor. I was so thrown off by what happened that my legs had a hard time getting me back up.

Alice seemed to click back to reality and said loudly, "Thank you for the offer, but I'll pass."

Mercy just chuckled, "Next time, then." Mercy then tossed the cloth and the bottle to Alice and walked back out to the changing room.

All three of us took our time leaving the bath. Nervous that Mercy would still be in the changing room. Kelsey got the short straw and had to go check for us. "All clear, you two scaredy cats," she said bravely now that she knew Mercy was gone.