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Chapter 2: First Witch Hunt P1
The next morning.
"Welcome, thank you for coming," one of the residents of Hogsmeade said.
"You are welcome."
As the one to represent their group, Luna talked to one of the important residents of the town about her intentions.
Luna was with 3 other people. They were all men and were trustworthy as they had done many assignments together in the past. This men have came across Luna before when she visited this town for any purposes.
Luna was back to her dreamy self, yet still acknowledging the presence of the 3 men with her. It was easy for Luna to notice that these men was inexperienced with hiding their feelings towards her. They smiled and spoke nicely every time she happened to make eye contact with them.
Given that they were just acquaintances with her, they might be able to improve their relationships with the beautiful blonde witch if they help her. It could also be said that their actions were out of wicked self-interest. But Luna did not mind at all. She really needed all the help she could get.
Luna asked the resident a few questions, also answering some of his too.
Meanwhile the three wizards took out things from their luggage from the wagon that would store their items somewhere safe. They cannot bring too many items for this trip. Luna probably should have helped them as well, but they were taking care it quite well and rejecting her offer for assistance. Maybe they wanted to show off their good points.
With everything prepared, Luna's group climbed up the nearby hill as planned, arriving at the entrance to the abandoned cave.
It was still early in the morning. The weather was good, too, so it probably would not begin storming with how things were. Animals were doing their own business.
As the group advanced, they compared the map of the town's local area they were using to the geography around them, so they managed to arrive faster than expected. It showed how experience they were in such environment.
"Doesn't look like there's anything here."
Of the three wizards, the one to speak was the eldest man called Nigel. The 4 people concealed themselves in the surrounding vegetation and watched the abandoned cave entrance.
"Is our prey inside?" The youngest one, Adam guessed. "Maybe somewhere else…?"
"There's also the chance it left the area."
"True. But we can't be sure unless we enter."
The 3 men discussed among themselves, deciding on what would be their next move.
All these while, Luna kept quiet. She trusted these people who were more experience than her so she let them be.
Whatever it was, it attacked humans and animals. It was possible that it would expect wizards like them to come and subjugate it at the cave. It was within the realm of possibilities that their target was a human, but no person have ever been this thorough and undetected this far.
Eventually, they decided explore the abandoned cave after this to look for clues for where this creature might be. As for them staking out the entrance, the reason was that there was a small chance the creature were not too wary of adventurers and kept the area as their roost all the same. So for now, this had to be done.
It was decided that Adam and the other men would make up the vanguard with Luna and Nigel comprising the rear guard.
Preparing their wands, Luna chanted the spell, Lumos, illuminating the surroundings.
"It's dark, as well as damp in here," Adam said. "Luna, watch your step okay?"
"Thanks for the reminder. I will."
To Luna, she felt that Adam was too protective and a bit naive. He was the youngest person here so he was quite inexperienced with women. But Luna would not say all those out loud.
Despite it being so bright nearby the entrance from the outside light, the abandoned cave quickly grew darker as they advanced despite their illuminated wands. This abandoned cave had an uncannily cold atmosphere. That much should be obvious, though. No one had come into this place for a few years already. Clearly, there were no signs of people inhabiting the area.
Not using his wand for any spells yet, Adam kept one hand firmly gripped on his wand in case there was a need to use spells.
"Alright, let's keep moving."
Without any further speaking, the 4 continued their advance.
Everyone began to come to that conclusion as they moved further in, not seeing any indications towards the presence of people. It would be impossible for them to explore all of the passageways in a single day, they had talked about it beforehand. Luna told the man back in the town that they were planning on allocating three days to search through the abandoned mine. In the case of an unexpected event, she told him that they should request the aid of Aurors from the Ministry of Magic if they wound up not returning to the town on their 4th day.
"Nothing here either,"Nigel said.
How long had they walked since entering the abandoned cave?
"Maybe we should head back and take a rest?" Adam suggested.
"Sounds good, but keep your eyes peeled, we don't want to injure ourselves from rushing," Nigel being the eldest, would not let his guard down.
That said, despite her enthusiasm, even Luna knew not to be restless and rush the search.
"Well then Luna, let's go back."
"Yes. I guess we can have lunch outside."
Nigel nodded in agreement.
Luna's black robe hid her in the darkness of the cave despite the wand's light, but her golden blonde hair shined vaguely. Her doll-like short figure and her relaxing mood seemed to stand out and sparkle to those who saw her in the cave.
As for these men, seeing Luna like this calmed their nerves. The existence of an adorable and beautiful girl like her was like healing to them. Who would expect that a woman like her would enjoy going to these places? It was just so rare for witches to accompany them.
Like so, they retraced their path and exited from the abandoned cave.
They ate their lunch that was not too far from the entrance Their meal was comprised of some dried meat and bread they'd received at the town. That was as much the town could provide with the current situation.
Nearby the abandoned cave's entrance, in the shade of a rock where light did not reach, was something wriggling, the red slime.
The slime immediately judged that the humans taking up position outside of the entrance were wizards that had gathered together. The slime knew that these were different from other humans it have eaten. They were quite strong.
Completely absorbing these strong wizards, the slime's intelligence and strength would rise to another level. It had not yet secured a method of using magic, despite absorbing a few wizards.
A lot have change for this slime ever since that day. Since it starting killing humans, it gained the knowledge of mankind. So far, all the humans it have eaten were male. So it now knows what wizards were, it knew about human life.
It also learned… sex.
How to pleasure them.
About impregnating women to propagate its population.
Anyway, there were 4 humans right in front of it, 3 man and a woman. It was able to tell both of them were able to use magic from their wands that they were holding. This was the first time it came across a witch.
The slime decided.
It would eat off the men and rape the woman.
The slime reduced its body's volume so that the wizards would not notice it from the rock's shadow. Its mass did not change, but it could hide itself through changing its body size.
It did not have something like a sense of boredom at the passing of time, so the slime simply continued to wait for the adventurers to make their move.
If it were a normal creature, it would simply follow its instincts and attack those coming straight at it. However, this slime was able to think. It would disempower its greatest enemy the first chance it got.
This was something no other creature or monsters until now could do. This slime could plan ahead.
"Luna, be careful of these," Adam said, using his wand to push sharp objects aside.
"Hmph."
The group passed by it, not realising a thing. When their footsteps faded, it finally undid its camouflage. Ascending the face of the wall with its soft and pliable body, it skilfully moved along the ceiling as it think on how to attack these people.
"Look here, there are some bones," Nigel noticed.
"Rather, it'd be damn weird if there weren't any yes?" Adam retorted back.
"True."
Nigel find this young man a bit annoying, but they have to cooperate since Luna was with them. He would not want to lose face here.
The 2nd day in the evening.
The group were still cautious, and they went like they did with the first day, they advanced steadily until they came to forks in the path. The group did not take any futile risks on the second day either.
And so the red slime also continued doing what it had been doing, it kept itself concealed as it tried to think of something.
As they approached a fork, they divided into two groups, so their efficiency doubled.
The slime was slightly surprised. It have been thinking for so long and now was the luck it needed.
The first thing the slime followed? The woman. There was nothing to be done about it.
It was just natural.
"We've gone pretty far in huh," Adam said, getting slightly breathless.
"Yes. Maybe we should rest."
It was not shown in her expression, but Luna's shoulders were moving up and down slightly.
Advancing while covering their mouth due to the dust quickly drained their stamina. They decided that it was a good time to take a break.
Sitting down in suitable spots, the pair sighed. At that moment, a drop of liquid fell on the neck of the the youngest person in the group
By the time that Adam wondered what it was, it was already too late. He collapsed immediately and Luna quickly rushed to him.
"Adam, what is…?"
Before she knew it, the witch also found herself crumbling to the ground.
While thinking that, the field of view of that man who had been gripping his wand was enveloped by an exhaustive amount of dark red mucus. Luna encourage her numbed body to get up, relying on her wand.
The same moment that Luna prepared her wand, a tentacle twined around it.
However, before the staff was tossed away, the woman used the wand as her voice echoed. "Incendio!"
The flame in front of her to light up the abandoned cave's darkness.
"A tentacle slime!"
Seeing the appearance of a creature that she only read in books that shined due to the flames, Luna called out the name of the monster with a surprised look on her face. However, that lasted for only a moment.
Luna's shocked emotion was quickly again concealed behind her usual dreamy expression. The tentacle that was coiling around her wand quickly extinguished the flame by parting some of its body.
The witch fell to her knees.
The red slime had used paralytic poison on Luna, but it appeared that the potency was too low this time. It was able to render Adam powerless immediately due to using its highest potency on them, but it diluted the woman's too much.
Luna body was small, so it used an even smaller dose than what it had used on men. However, that backfired. The slime felt that it was troublesome disempowering women especially witches.
"What the hell is this? No fucking way," Luna said, still maintaining her usual expression.
It could not be called magic but it just expelled magical flames, once again tearing down Luna's usual feelings, astonishing her.
Dragging her numbed legs, Luna started to take a small distance from the slime. She was slightly troubled as to why the paralytic poison was weak on her, but she did not have the time to think about it. Getting away was far more important right now.
The slime absorbed Adam slowly.
"Shit! Adam no!"
Actually Luna could fight this slime. She had used fire magic on the spur of the moment in order to see in the darkness and maybe injure whatever it is, but if caused an explosion, the worst case would be the cave collapsing down on all of them.
Luna wondered why there was a slime in a place like this. Thinking that she absolutely had to escape this place to warn the others of the danger, she moved her numb body. She skilfully moved her wand, dragging the lower half of her body along the way due to its slowed reactions.
Fortunately, the slime moved even slower than Luna. It was because it was digesting the young man as its prey, but Luna kept herself from thinking about that. It was such a horrifying thought.
"Adam… I'm sorry…"
The woman never felt so helpless.
Even so, as though to ridicule her efforts, a tentacle shot out from the slime's main body and seized the boot on Luna's right leg. Turning behind her in a panic, Luna could barely see that Adam had already been completely absorbed by the slime.
The witch could not shake it off with her numbed body. Her small body was not that strong to begin with.
"Get away from me!"
Luna was sure she was going to be absorbed by the slime. It was unfortunate for Adam, but she could not save him. Moreover, she would be alive as it happened. A stiffened cry escaped her lips due to the horror of seeing herself dragged into hell.
Luna kept trying to free herself, but her paralysed leg would not move. Although she could somewhat feel it rubbing against the ground, it would not listen to her and remained still.
"Incendio!"
Using that, Luna burned off the tentacle seizing her leg with very weak fire. Trying to escape, a subtle sound reached her ears.
At that moment, Luna's wand was yanked out of her hands and tossed away.
Before Luna even noticed she had lost her wand, tentacles captured her thin arms and legs. Her short body was lifted into the air and with her hands and legs stretched wide.
Despite her fervent attempts to jolt her body free, Luna's paralysed body was not responding to her that well. By the time she was lifted into the air, she had become unable to resist.
Cold sweat flowed down Luna's numbed body as she continued trying to break free somehow. However, her resistance was futile. She gradually became aware that she lost feeling in her arms and legs. By her frantic movements, she had simply quickened the poison's speed.
Setting its caution aside, the slime carried Luna before its main body.
Luna's small limbs were covered entirely by her black robe. Her bright blonde hair was brought together on the left side, some of it stuck to her sweat-soaked cheek. Her usually dreamy eyes now looked as though they were glaring at a bitter enemy, forcefully glaring at the red mass of mucus. Even so, she could not hide the fear swirling about in her eyes.
Not seeming to mind any of that, the slime exposed two of its tentacles. For some reason, it did not look like the slime intended to kill Luna immediately. Understanding that, the witch somehow subdued her urge to scream out of fear.
Nigel and the other guy will definitely come here. They definitely will notice my use of magic in this cave.
However, in the next moment, the girl's eyes opened wide from astonishment. For some reason, the 2 tentacles the slime showed entered her clothes from the rim of her robe.
That part of the robe was still slightly darker than the rest, emitting a slight smell. It was from Luna's drool due to her masturbation back at that house. Luna was slightly disgusted by it, reminding her of that shameful act.
The tentacles, covered in a viscous liquid, ran along Luna's thin legs, passing over her white panties as they slowly climbed towards her abdomen.
"No… That is…"
Luna had goosebumps from the disgusting sensation as she attempted to shake her numbed body to drive out the tentacles. Because of her roughened breathing and sweat, her body's metabolism increased, causing the paralytic poison to show its effect even faster.
As though satisfied by the result, the red slime wriggled its tentacles. It stroked Luna's abdomen, stimulating her as it smeared a viscous liquid onto her backside.
This action seemed entirely like what a man would do to caress a woman. Luna never have gone through with a real man, but she knew about this.
"No! How can this be so..."
Amazing. That was what this woman wanted to say out loud.
Luna hated that it was moving across her abdomen, she was irritated that she was feeling it, but the thing that disturbed the witch's thoughts the most was her butt being caressed. Her robe quickly absorbed the mucus, snugly sticking to Luna's limbs. There were undulations up and down her limbs, but they were all simply tentacles wriggling about under her robe.
"Nigel… anyone… please help me…"
With her small, weakened voice...
Luna begged for her help.
