CHAPTER TWELVE: Love at first sight?
(Special thanks to PervySageChuck for "The Lizard" idea, also a mature content warning for this chapter)
Tessika looked down at her new friend. She was still unable to move but her eyes were moving around now, her mind had wokened up, she seemed to be scared for some reason.
"Hey hey! Don't be scared! I promise I won't hurt you!" Tessika said bringing her face up to the paralyzed and naked girl that she sat upon. The girl couldn't talk naturally, but her eyes still held some anger in them, that was no good. Tessika lightly played with the girl's hair.
"You have cute brown hair, and I like your eyes too... you may be a girl... but I'd still say you're my type!" Tessika whispered into her ear. Tessika giggled as she brushed the girl's bangs from her face. She still had an unfavorable look in her eyes when she looked at Tessika, that'd have to change...
"Look, if you just relax and look at me a little nicer, I promise you will really enjoy this!" Tessika leaned down and lightly kissed Ridda's cheek. She gave Ridda a big smile as she looked hungrily at the girl she had on the ground.
"I'll even tell you a secret about me! Growing up I had a gross and mean nickname..." Tessika looked sad, but her hips were still slightly rubbing into Ridda's hips, so she was clearly still enjoying herself.
"Growing up people would call me "The Lizard"... how mean, right?" She asked the girl who could not answer. But the look of fake sadness then was replaced with a smile as her tongue stuck out much longer than usual and she licked the top of her eyebrow. She giggled as it returned to her mouth and she dismounted Ridda, kneeling next to her instead.
"So you can see, I only show that trick to people who I really like, okay? So just relax and let "The Lizard" do her work!". She let her right hand run down Ridda's body, stopping between her legs and pushing her fingers in. She could feel Ridda's muscles tense up and how wet she was. Tessika laughed with a lustful tone.
"Well your eyes still aren't looking at me the way I want... but I can tell how honest your body is, you are absolutely soaking down there! Now let's soften you up with a kiss, I want this to be fun for both of us after all!" Tessika giggled as she held Ridda's jaw slightly, making her mouth open and tilted her face so she could lean down and give her a kiss. Tessika let her tongue slide out at full length and led it onto Ridda's mouth, as their lips connected she slid her tongue far down Ridda's throat as she let out a loud moan, however...
She pulled her long tongue out of Ridda's mouth. She tasted the fluid in her own mouth, it wasn's saliva or even bile. It was an unexpected taste... blood. Confused she looked at the girl and sure enough, she was bleeding from her nose and mouth, even her eyes and ears were leaking blood. Her eyes also had rolled up into her head, and not from pleasure either!
"What the heck? Tessika wiped the girl's blood from her own mouth and looked at her fingers, they were covered in blood as well, what was wrong with her? Tessika looked and saw she was bleeding from everywhere, how horrible!
"HEY! Quintia!" She cried out in panic. His annoyed voice called back.
"What?"
"Did you use some kind of poison on her? Shes bleeding really bad!" Tessika called out, he didn't respond but came back over the hill and saw what she meant, he did roll his eyes as he saw the girl splayed out on the ground, but saw the blood.
"No, that nothing from my pets, I saved her just like you wanted... she must be sick... which means you really should get yourself checked out after this..." He said shaking his head, it'd be a shame to lose a member of the Black Scripture to something so... pointless.
"What should we do?" She asked tears welling up in her eyes and she hugged the unconscious Ridda in her arms.
"What else? We leave her here to die and continue our journey, we ONLY stopped here because you wanted to play with her, remember?" He rebuked Tessika the ire in his voice growing.
"NO! I love her! We've been through so much... I want to save her!" Tessika was sobbing like a child and cradling Ridda's limp body in her arms. He let out a loud annoyed sigh. She'd never shut up if this girl died, and he had so many more hours on the road with her... he thought to himself.
"Okay... FINE, but if I heal her, you have to promise to stop acting like... well like you always act." He pleaded, she nodded enthusiastically holding Ridda to her bare breasts. Quintia sighed loudly and held up his hand. At once a huge magical beast appeared and four very smaller ones.
It was a giant blue Lizard, much like an iguana, next to it was a smaller version about the size of a dog, it was the one that had bit her leg and stunned her, next to that one was two small mice, one blue the other gold. Tessika offered up the bleeding naked body of Ridda to the Lizard. It opened it's mouth and vomited a thick rainbow-colored liquid all over the girl. The creatures magical saliva soaked into the skin of Ridda, at once color returned to her skin and her breathing stabilized. Ridda's eyes came back to life and her whole body could move. She tried to speak but the smaller lizard bit her once again, and a familiar numbing sensation rendered her body useless once again, but her mana had been refilled, such as it was. Yet she still could not move. Then the blue mouse ran up Ridda's body to her ear and bit her earlobe and latched on, it looked like a small mouse earring. A gold mouse that matched did the same to her other ear.
"Pretty sure that girl is a caster, so that will keep her from using any magic, also block any [MESSAGE] magic as well" He explained. A huge smile appeared on Tessikas face. She hugged Ridda tightly tears of joy and lust.
"Oh! Thank you! You saved her!" Tessika cried out. He cocked an eyebrow at her, while Tessika was a sexual deviant that knew no rival, she seldom became emotional over her toys, and rarely did she fawn over a female so much.
"What's your deal with her? I thought you were more into guys?" He asked, instantly regretting that he had. She just shook her head back and forth.
"This one is different, we have so much in common, she's like me. I think I might switch teams!" Tessika said caressing Ridda's face. He looked at her with a shocked expression, he'd defiantly never heard her say something like this before. But a typical smile returned to Tessikas face.
"Let's get you cleaned up... me too now that I think about it!" Tessika realized she was covered in the little girl's blood.
"Well I parked the carriage close on my side, you can clean yourselves up in there, but that's it, we've wasted too much time and we need to get going again." He said noting the time of day.
"That's fine! I'm keeping her! So we will have plenty of time to get to know each other!" Tessika squealed as she took Ridda to the carriage that was not far off. She took great care in cleaning her off using water and a rag. Before long both women were cleaned.
By this point Riddas muddled mind was clear and she was very confused why this woman was giving her such a loving bath. But her strength had returned, even if the use of her body hadn't, also she could not cast [MESSAGE] even though she had the mana for it now. This woman must have done something to her.
"Okay! We're all set!" Tessika said as she dried them off and got dressed, equipping all of Ridda's Magical gear and trinkets on herself. Quintia looked disapprovingly at her.
"You're not going to put anything on her?" a naked Ridda was laying on one of the benches of the carriage, her arm and leg dangling off the edge of the seat like a toy dolls would.
"Well, no... I was gonna play with her on the way to E-Rantel, she's got that look in her eye's that I don't like again!" Tessika whined.
"Part of the deal of healing her was you don't subject me to your perversions when we travel... put some clothes on the poor child, and get in the carriage, we're going now! Also, I don't feel good about heading to E-Rantel any more now that we caused a commotion, we will double back to lose anyone tracking us and head back to The Slane Theocracy." He ordered. Tessika frowned and sat in a way where she was cradling Riddas body. She begrudgingly put a blanket around Ridda, who was laying on her lap, she still would try to get away with some sneaky fun under the blanket.
"I can still kiss her though, right?" Tessik looked at Quintia with a worried look. He sighed loudly, facepalming, his patience was running thin.
"Just keep it down, I'm going to be concentrating on my new pet as well." He said looking at the ring that housed a captured Hamsuke. She smiled and clapped as she brought Ridda close to her.
"Let's change that look in your eyes, just you wait! I'll make you feel good, don't worry." She purred into Ridda's ear. Her limp body was not able to offer any resistance as Tessikas hand ran up and down Ridda's body beneath the blanket. When they were ready, he summoned two normal horses that pulled the carriage to E-Rantel.
Some miles away Nabe flew over the land, she had kept her eyes opened for anything suspicious, especially in any plains, but had come up fruitless. She wasn't so sure why, but the thought of Ridda dying was displeasing to her... probably because of how her Lord would react, that had to be it. She flew in a zigzag pattern trying to cover as much visual ground as possible, but all she saw was a few carriages headed north and some Adventure groups walking to the newly created caves made by her Lord for them to explore, nothing that looked like a fight.
"Have you found anything?" Ainzes voice asked in Nabe's head.
"No Lord Ainz, I haven't been able to spot anything yet, and I will be coming up on your position in about two hours," Nabe informed her Lord.
"Okay, keep a lookout, I will head out and help you join the search as it seems she never arrived here, also the enemy seems to be blocking my [MESSAGE] to her, I cannot connect to her" she promised that she would and increased her speed.
"Lord Ainz... that could mean she is..." Nabe said but realized he was aware that this could also mean she was dead, no reason to spell it out further.
"Anyway, I will keep a lookout for her and Hamsuke!" Nabe informed Ainz. He walked outside of the cave entrance and used an amulet around his neck to cast [FLY] as he joined in the search. Sometime later he received another [MESSAGE] from Nabe.
"Lord Ainz, I have found something..." She told him and where to meet her. As he flew where she directed he saw Nabe standing over a puddle of recently dried blood. She looked at her Master as he floated down next to her.
"Lord Ainz..." She began and looked to the blood, there was a considerable amount of it. Also, she seemed to be holding several metal blades, they looked like the kind Ridda would make in a fight, jagged and rough.
"Do you think it's Ridda's blood?" He asked examining it closer.
"It's fresh, so I would think so, this doesn't look like an animal kill or hunt at all. Also, there is this..." She said pointing to a pair of black boots and gloves. They belonged to Ridda.
"With the blood and these, as well as how we can't contact her..." Nabe said clicking her tongue in anger.
"Then... she's dead isn't she?" Ainz asked in slight disbelief, her message made it seem like she was in trouble, not life-threatening... something must have gone wrong he mused to himself.
"It.. would seem that way Lord Ainz..." Nabe said standing up and holing the gloves and boots of Ridda. She glared angerly at the gloves.
"Stupid girl... why didn't you just try and run?" Nabe said to herself in a voice wavering on almost caring.
"They probably noticed her gear and took it... but who could easily beat her and Hamsuke like this?" She asked, still in disbelief. No normal bandit group could take them both down. Ainz just sat in silence, not moving. As he seemed very displeased she decided to not talk anymore.
"I found carriage tracks not far from here as well, also some of Ridda's knives she uses in battle... the tracks lead to the main road, heading North. I could no longer track them once they got to the road I'm afraid." She bowed with apologies.
"Here blades? Then she as least put up a fight... very well Nabe, good work, please keep searching, they may be headed to E-Rantel, so we need to set up lookouts in the city for anyone suspicious as well.
"I will continue to look for her or her attackers Lord Ainz," Nabe said with a bow, he just nodded as she flew off in the direction she'd come. He just stood in silent anger, waiting for his emotions to stabilize so he could think clearly.
He thought what she'd said in her final moments, it just didn't add up, unless she was in danger, but wanted Hamsuke rescued first? At this point conjecture would do nothing, he'd find this new enemy and stamp it out, he thought to himself as he collected some of Ridda's blood and put it in an empty vial.
Nabe flew to E-Rantel while casting several [MESSAGE] spells to inform everyone of what was going on, Nazarick and E-Rantel were going on a subtle "yellow alert". She decided to head down South, it was entirely possible they double backed to try and throw off anyone tracking them. She stopped and flew at full speed in the opposite direction, informing her Lord as what she was planning to do and where she was going, he approved her idea and wished her luck.
"...I will be in Nazarick talking this over with Demiurge and Albedo," He ended with.
Inside the carriage headed south Ridda could still not move her body, and the woman's whose lap she lay in had her mouth to her own forcing her to breathe shallowly out her nose. The woman known as Tessika would moan every so often as her hands hungrily worked on Ridda beneath the blanket. In truth, she was glad the man had no interest in her.
While sex was not something Ridda though about very often, given a choice... she would choose someone of the same gender as herself. Honestly, there was one that Ridda was very attracted to, but never cared to bring it up, as she knew the feeling was not mutual, Nabe barely even seemed to like her...
"Occupants of this carriage, stop your driverless horses and stop for inspection under the authority of The Sorcerer King!" A female voice demanded from above them. Quintia shot Tessika a glance who had come around to the situation and was gagging Ridda with a delicate article of clothing, she didn't want to cause discomfort to her, but losing her new girlfriend was out of the question As well! So also tied her hands behind her back and bound her ankles as the carriage came to a halt. Tessika did stop to admire the helpless and tied up body of Ridda with a lust filled smile before throwing the blanket over her.
"Just behave Ridda and we can have lots of fun later... but I really don't want to hurt you, truly I don't.. so please just be a good girl!" Tessika pleaded, but Ridda heard the voice of Nabe, she was sure her resue had come.
"Of course! Allow me to slow down my horses as you commanded!" Quintia called out, but getting in position to attack. Tessika also grabbed her bag and now pointed it up at the ceiling. Quintia nodded and she opened it up. From the bag a large slick black creature appeared, it was made of some kind of black and purple thick liquid but from it sprang a huge set of jagged pearl white teeth, it's mouth stretched open and in one giant bite consumed everything within three feet in front of her.
The roof of the carriage was gone, but the attack had missed. Above them flew a girl with black hair and pale skin, a brown cloak flapped menacingly behind her as her hands crackled with energy. The look on her face reminded Tessika of how one looked at a gross bug.
"Maggots... you are clearly the culprits that killed our team member... turn over the magical beast and I will make your deaths almost painless," Nabe commanded as she prepared to counter-attack with lighting magic. Quintia rose his hands up but a green flash alerted Nabe to an attack and she pulled back just in time to dodge an attack from three large bats. She sneered and caught all three with a single shocking blast and they fell from the air, dead.
"You... YOU BITCH!" He cried out in anger as the carriage, which was stopped, became surrounded by large wolf-like creatures, but each had a different color coat. Above her was a bird creature that had electricity running along it's wings. Nabe instinctively fired at the close bird enemy, but her lightning attack did nothing to it, in fact, it's feathers and color seemed to grow even more beautiful. Nabe clicked her tongue, immune to lightning attacks huh? She thought.
"Go!" Quintia commanded as all the wolves breathed out a thick blanket of fog. The whole carriage and surrounding area below Nabe was covered in a thick fog. Nabe glared angerly at the bird in front of her. This was a bad fight for her. Instead of wasting time with the bird she would like to teleport into the fog... but that black thing with the teeth would probably get her if she did that. She cast [INVISABILITY] first then [TELEPORT].
In an instant, she was right next to the man who looked shocked. Nabe thrust her fist at his face but a wolf jumped in the way to intercept the attack, it's head exploded in brains and skull fragments. Nabe expected an attack from the female that should have been behind her, but as she shot a glance, there was nothing there. She quickly turned her attention back to the man who was falling back out of the carriage and holding his hand up.
A large gorilla type monster appeared, only much bigger, Nabe wasn't impressed and [DRAGON LIGHTNING] was cast and it killed the ape in a flash, it also cut it's path into three more magical beasts, all four died as smoke rose from the holes left by her attack. Once again Nabe spun around, expecting the other one to attack, but they were alone. She figured out they had used this time and this fog so she could retreat, meaning she had what Nabe was after probably, or at least was the more important of the two.
By this time the lightning bird was diving to attack Nabe from the back but a cast of [DIMENTIONAL MOVE] put her out of the way of the dive attack and directly behind the blonde man. She brought her hand down in a karate chop motion, hitting him in the head and knocking him out in a single strike.
As soon as he hit the floor all the remaining animals attacked her at once trying to protect their master's body, but a cast of [ELECTRO SPHEAR] easily wiped them out. Shortly after there was a flash and Hamsuke was standing there in front of a very surprised Nabe. She jumped past her and delivered a powerful tail attack to the bird, slamming it into the earth, after two or three more slaps for good measure, she turned to face her team member.
"OH! Mistress Nabe! What a surprise it is to see you, that it is!" the hamster said happily.
"OH! It's you Hamsuke... uh, what's going on? We heard you'd been captured from Ridda," Nabe said.
"Yes! We were attacked by two people, that is one of them there... I was captured after that, that i was! Where is Ridda? She fought well, that she did!" but Nabe's face changed.
"Uh, we... we can't contact her by message... and we found a lot of what we think is her blood where you guys fought... so her condition is um.. unknown, as we never did find her body so..." but Hamsuke saw that she was trying to spare her feelings, she knew what those things probably meant.
"I see... that is unfortunate... that it is..." She said crouching down with a sad expression. Nabe then flew up in the air, remembering the other one... but nothing was visible, she'd allowed the other one to escape. But maybe her partner would be willing to share some information regarding that. Nabe cast yet another [MESSAGE] to tell her Lord of the development.
"Lord Ainz, I have successfully rescued Hamsuke, she is unharmed, and i captured the one responsible," Nabe informed her Lord, he seemed very pleased.
"Good work! I knew you would not disappoint me! And um, Ridda?" he asked. But nabs frowned.
"I did not see her, but one other was with him... she escaped, but I did not see Ridda with her either, I don't know where her bod... where she is at still." Nabe said, she really would have liked to capture them both to confirm Ridda's condition, as grim as it likely was, they probably buried her so resurrection would not be possible.
"I see, good work nonetheless Nabe, I will be sending my fasted tracking units through a [GATE] to your location, please be ready for them." And as he informed this, a familiar black portal appeared and twenty or so shadow wolves all jumped out, they sniffed the air and all went off in the same direction, they knew where they needed to go. Nabe and Hamsuke used the portal to return their prisoner, but nabe did not follow.
"I will follow the units best I can," She informed Hamsuke to relay to Ainz. And she flew off in the same direction as the shadow wolves had gone.