HyperDimension Neptunia Ascension
(Very Early Morning Hours – Southern Fields – April 26, XX18)
Fuuin's eyes were wide like saucers, staring in questioning shock as he watched the blue jelly crawl vigorously all over his girl companion. He couldn't understand how they broke into the tent. As the thought trailed through is mind for barely a few seconds, he let his head fall. There was no security for this cheap tent. He opened his eyes.
"Alright, that's enough." Fuuin began to reach for MarvelousAQL, but was quickly met with a retaliation by whip. A long semi-translucent jelly tentacle rose ominously high and hung down before swinging with a strong might. Having little room to dodge, the boy was quickly thrown outside of the tent, carrying the whole thing along with him. He took a short flight before plummeting into the ground. With a small grimace and an eye closed in annoyance, he looked up to see the oddly shaped mass of blue jelly all over his friend, covering her practically from head to toe in a very suggestive fashion.
Her clothes were being slowly pulled apart, she was squirming and moaning, her arms were being held down by stronger portions of the jelly organism. Fuuin could only assume it was a big group of dogoos that had combined their bodies to form this aberration. As he was aware, dogoo were mainly attracted to members of the female species, using females of any species to procreate. Males of any species were generally left alone and mainly seen as a nuisance. In this world, females dominated primarily, with many exceptions lurking around here and there. Sadly, most of those exceptions would be on the wrong team so to say.
Fuuin was at a loss with this situation, he wasn't sure what to do or how to confront it. The jelly was all over her, if he were to try anything dangerous, chances were strong he'd end up injuring her. That was the last thing he wanted to do.
"Marvy, can you hear me?"
She muffled some words, the jelly all over her started to move more violently, in turn making her stretch her body out. Fuuin's eyes widened briefly before he turned away by instinct. "Huph eee!" she muffled loudly.
He somehow understood what she said. She yelled "help me". He sighed. "If I hurt you, please forgive me." She managed to nod enthusiastically. The boy clasped both of his hands together and took a deep breath. Separating them, he looked highly onto the ninja girl's body and found himself being mesmerized. The position, her situation, how vulnerable she was at the moment, he found himself being turned on. He balled his hands into fists and shook, his head looking to the ground as he mentally cursed himself, then he made a dash for her.
Fuuin knelt down by her side and grabbed the jelly. Instantly, he felt the substance latch onto his bare hands and pull them deep inside. Marvelous moaned upon feeling his warm hands come against her bare ribcage. Fuuin began to panic. "Oh god, that feels good." Finishing his sentence, he began to pull away, not much effort was needed for him to release himself from the jelly hold. He examined his hands to find strong traces of the jelly on him. He looked at it with dismay and curiosity before turning back to Marvelous. "Give me a minute. This is going to be tricky."
MarvelousAQL managed to spit some jelly from her mouth. "Just please get it off, I don't care how. I can't take it anymore!"
Fuuin looked around. He had no idea as to how to confront this. Let's see, they are monsters composed of jelly, yes? So… what could make jelly come off… Water was the first thing to come to his mind, but he was sure it'd just slide off. The only other thing he could think of was super heating it, but that might put MarvelousAQL at risk. He sighed. "It's the only choice I got..."
He walked to the remains of the camp fire and struck a spark. The boy replaced the wood and allowed the fire to come to life. As soon as it was at a reasonable size, Fuuin turned to MarvelousAQL, who was still trying to fight off the dogoo, to no avail. With a high hope he wasn't going to regret his decision, he steeled his gaze and strolled over to his companion. He reached into the jelly and locked his grip under her armpits. Her skin still felt amazing, and a blush came over his face.
MarvelousAQL looked towards him and Fuuin began to drag her over to the cackling fire. She could feel the heat. Despite the size, the fire burned hot, and just being two feet near it put someone into a blazing temperature. But, she could feel the dogoo begin to vibrate. Slowly, blue smoke started to rise from their gelatin bodies as their skin began to sizzle. Shortly after, it began to turn into a pasty goo which slowly trailed down her body until it was all off of her being and burning on the ground. Without a second thought, the girl hastily crawled away from source of heat.
"Wow." She looked herself over, lifting up a part of her shirt to see some remnants of the goo on her left breast. "You did it, Fuuin! Thank you very much." She smiled brightly at the boy, at which he let his head down and returned it. She sat up on her arms and promptly got up to her feet. The girl then dusted herself off and turned to Fuuin. "So, do you think we should just continue forward on our journey since we are already up or try to sleep?"
Fuuin rubbed his head. "Honestly, we should get out of this field. If we go to sleep again, chances are high this will just happen all over again."
Marvelous gave a nod. "Alright then, I'll get the tent packed up, can you handle the kitchen ware?"
"Yeah."
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(Morning – Southern Fields – April 26, XX18)
The sun was now beginning its ascent into the sky, its light already shining nicely across the southern fields of Planeptune's territory. Fuuin and Marvelous stood atop a plateau looking over the varying land scape. The shapes the land out here took was something akin to a fantasy realm, high natural arches, one two kilometer high teal colored oak tree, a couple of floating islands and high hills placed around like waves in an ocean.
Fuuin took out a black electronic stick and flicked it open with his wrist, revealing a map. MarvelousAQL looked over his shoulder as he scrolled through the map with his finger, looking for their location. Upon spotting the giant tree, he looked forward and then back down. "Seems our destination is over to our right, among those ravines." He pointed towards some high ground that had a large opening, similar to a large crack in the earth. The area was covered in shadows from the high terrain, but appeared non-threatening.
Fuuin put his map up.
"I can guarantee there may be some mobs waiting for us in that darkness."
Marvelous turned over to him with a smile. "Not to worry, if we get in a pinch, I'll get us out in no time flat. I excel at escaping from traps, except the kind set up by tentacles and dogoo." A bead of sweat rolled down the side of her head as she smiled at him. Fuuin wasn't sure he should hold her up to that, but she's shown more than enough combat prowess, in fact, she is fully capable of killing him at his best if she wanted to.
"Well, we're not going to get anywhere just standing around. I'm as ready as I'm going to be, how about you?"
"Mm!" MarvelousAQL gave a bright nod. "I'll go on ahead!"
"Wait!-"
The ninja girl was off in a flash. She bolted down the cliff and ran down the rocks. Fuuin looked over the ledge to see her effortlessly reach the bottom of the cliff. A flat expression came over him.
"Girls..."
He shook his head and walked away from the cliff. Down below, Marvelous was making a dash forward. She ran towards a small stream and expertly leaped across. She slid to a short stop and continued forward, taking a high jump and landing on the side face of a large boulder and quickly jumping to another. Upon landing, she jumped off and came to a stop in front of the entrance to the ravine. The girl began to hum a small tune as she held her hands behind her back, joyously beginning a slow pace back and forth. "I hope Fuuin doesn't take too long, I think I may have gotten far ahead of him."
… Meanwhile…
The mentioned boy swatted away a fly. "Wow, I can't believe I lost her, just like that." He jumped down a small scaling in the land. "She just bolted and left me here. Did she think this was a race?" Fuuin's eyes opened wide. He felt his foot get caught into a root from a nearby tree and tripped forward. The boy fell onto his face and quickly rolled down a hill. A few seconds later, he came to halt, coughing up dust and shaking his head before looking forward in dismay.
…
MarvelousAQL turned towards the sky. "I wonder what is taking him so long?"
...
Fuuin approached a stream. Taking a look to see how deep it went, he found it went about six inches in. Slowly, he treaded across the water current, finding no stones or pathings to use to get across without getting wet, but in an instant, his footing was lost and he slipped and fell onto his rear. Water splashed everywhere as he looked forward with a glare at nothing in particular.
…
The orange-haired, red-eyed ninja turned towards the direction she came from. "Fuuin is sure to be fine, he can take care of himself in most situations, I'm sure." She smiled to herself as she thought of his heroics inside of that cave of tentacles she had come to loath, then her thoughts started to dwell elsewhere. Her eyes closed halfway in abasement. "I just wish… it hadn't come to that..."
…
Fuuin ran fast as a large bird-like monster covered in blue feathers ran after him, screeching loudly. He was screaming out. "How did it come to this, I didn't even go near this damn thing!?"
…
MarvelousAQL looked towards the sky and closed her eyes. "I'm just going to have to live with it. I may no longer have my virginity, but I still have my pride." The words "damaged goods" came to her mind, and about what they could entail for her romantic future. If anyone realized she had been defiled by nasty tentacles, she was sure they'd turn her down in a heart beat. Men were like that, most wanted to be the one to take the girl's virginity, otherwise, they wouldn't be able to think of who else that girl may have had. She looked down to the ground, then a twig snapped.
Her heart skipped a beat and she quickly turned to the source of the noise to see the purple haired boy leaning against a large stone boulder with his arm, heaving and panting, looking like he went through a hurricane. His pants were dark and dripping with water, and his hair was more disheveled than usual.
The girl's eyes widened upon seeing his person. "Are..." She swallowed. "Are you okay?"
The boy blinked, his expression full of discontent. "Yeah, I'm fine." He pushed himself off the rock and strolled over to her. He placed a hand on his hip and looked her up and down. "I see you made it here in one piece, I didn't keep you waiting, did I?"
She smiled at him. "Not at all. I was kind of interested in timing you." She looked over him once again. "Are you normally this clumsy?"
"I guess." He sighed. "I can prepare for threats, but not for sudden inconveniences..."
Marvelous smiled brightly at him and closed her eyes. "That's what training is for."
"Ahahahaha..." he shook his head side to side with each syllable. "Funny." He began forward. "Let's go."
"You're going to go in with soaked pants? You sure you don't want to try drying them off? You may catch a cold."
He stopped. "I don't have any spares. I don't have the time to afford that luxury."
Her eyes rolled upwards as she smiled to herself coyly. "Well, I suppose you'll just have to take them off and hang them to dry..."
Fuuin's own eyes half-closed as a dull look came across his face. "… No..."
Marvelous shrugged her shoulders. "Worth a shot. But you don't need to get sick."
"I only have six days left before I have a bounty on my head. I can't afford to wait any longer."
"I'm just trying to look out for your health, Fuuin." Her voice was laced with sadness. Fuuin could only sigh, he didn't know what to say.
"I know you are… And I'm sorry, but six days isn't exactly a lot of time. One month wasn't even enough." He looked away. "I just had to go and open my big mouth to Mr. Leon, requesting more time like an idiot." He looked to the ground. "I should have already been dead."
"Hey." MarvelousAQL ran over to him. "Don't beat yourself up, you'll get through this. I'll help you." She placed a hand on his shoulder. "I don't exactly understand your situation, I wish you'd talk to me about it-"
"Because, if I do, they might find out, and you'll be dragged down with me." He shot a desperate look towards her, then gritted his teeth and looked away darkly in despair. "I don't want you to get hurt..."
The girl could only blink before she sighed. "Geez, you're hopeless. Come on, let's go. Slepnir Ravine awaits, right?"
Fuuin nodded. "I can only hope what we came here for is actually here. There are so many odds I'm playing against here, whether the fact it never was where I am looking, I may have missed it where I may have looked, or that someone else has already taken it."
"Well, rest assured, if someone did take it, it's common knowledge to leave some sort of trace or mark that the item has already be apprehended, possibly by some famous explorer like Jones or some national treasure hunter, you know?"
"Eh… I'm not really sure about that, but I'll take your word on it."
The two teens looked into the shadows of the large ravine before Fuuin took in a deep breath. "Alright, let's go."
He set forward first, with MarvelousAQL trailing closely behind him.
Review Corner
Um, hi, it is me, the author of this story. We've come up to chapter ten, kind of a milestone I guess, but you know, I wanted to do something special, and well, uh, why not do something like publically responding to your reviews or something, or just letting you all know how much they mean to me.
For one thing, I'll go ahead and get it out of the way, thank you, ALL OF YOU, for your reviews, every single one of them. It brings my heart and mind joy when I open up my inbox and find ""Subject" Review: Ascension", and I will let you know your time spent writing those reviews are very touching to me, even the smallest of ones. I've also received many follows and even some favorites which are always very nice too. I give you guys props, now for answering some questions (if there are some) while avoiding spoilers or just giving you a nice personal and public respond.
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