Chapter 10: Funky Forest Romp

"SHIIIIIIIITTT!" Armen yelled while tumbling down a steep cliffside, the sounds of growing and barking clear as day behind him, having revived a nasty cut from his fall, he winced softly but continued on with the girl who's hand he was clutching onto for

Dear life, he had to get back to camp, to the girls, to safety, he knew he couldn't outrun them, they were gaining and he could literally feel the heat they were putting off from their bodies alone, their hot breath on the back of his neck and they'd deranged cackles of joy making his spine tingle with horror stricken terror, he was almost there, he could see the clearing, the girls, well a few at least but it was good enough, and he yelled out for them, but not before a heavy fist struck him in the face, and everything went black.

—-2 hours earlier—-

"SOMEONE HELP! ITS CHASING ME!" Squealed the timid snake woman slithering through the rustic campsite with a tiny rabbit bounding after her, the group had cleverly assimilated in a matter of hours, it was noon when they had arrived in the great forest and already it was late day and it felt like a milestone in complacency, in teamwork, Ariya despite her present circumstance had done an amazing job collecting firewood for their bonfire, Astraea being a natural born woman of the forest knew her way around like no one else, in the span of thirty minutes she had already collected a sizable amount of berries, small herbs and mushrooms, while they had adequate provisions thanks to Jones sponsoring their outing, Astraea felt rather comfortable foraging, plus it was good exercise in camping ettiequte, Ember, had surprised Armen, he imagined she would be complaining and begging to go back home to the warm confines of the sofa and the PS4, instead she had lit their fire, helped Astraea set up the tents and caught them a sizable boar, why? When they had adequate food? Just because it felt good to hunt again...

"Ariya! Ariya! Chill out it's just a bunny!" Armen crooned grabbing the frightened basilisk by her shoulders,trying to resist her squirming and protests of"No! No no No no! It's wants to eat me! It wanted to eat me alone just look into it's red eyes! It likes the taste of snaky meat! I'm snaky meat! It wants to chew on my tail!" She screamed, her slitted eyes filling with tears, scrunching herself up behind Armen , tucking herself behind his arms, Armen took a quick look at Ariya, seeing something orange sticking out of her hair, orange with green stem, and soon it had all made sense to Armen," I don't think it's You the little rabbit wants, but rather...that little delectable treat stuck in your hair..."

"W-what?" Ariya squeaks, letting out a yup while armen pulls the small carrot from her purplish locks, smiling gently as her whimpering quieted to a soft coo as Armen bent down and offered the treat to the small creature, the little white fuzzball snapping it up and scurrying off into the undergrowth," you know Ariya, nature can be a a cruel mistress...but at the same time...she can be nurturing, caring and sweet...delicate flowers like you need to take these things slowly, I'm surprised, didn't you come from a place rich In natural beauty? Like most liminals?"

"O-of course I did..but...this..forest, it isn't the same...where I came from there were lush jungles and grasslands...h-here, the air and lands are so cool under m-my tail, end the birds and animals are so drastically different, it's like being in a completely different world!" Ariya went on to say" but that's what makes it all scary too..."

Armen smiles gently, and rose a hand to pat down her head, stoking back and forth calmly," even if it's scary, it's still an experience you need you know? You balance out the scary with the fun and exciting, I know that doesn't make much sense, but trust me it's nothing to shake a stick at..." armen cooed, rounding an arm around her wide waist, leading her back to the active fire, trying her best to settle her down, meanwhile Astraea and Ember nommed on the two pigs they caught, handing Armen a chunk of the well cooked meat, taking it graciously he held out a smaller piece for ariya to pop into her mouth, sliding out her tongue she wrapped it up within it and pulled it into her tiny mouth, felling a question tugging away at his conscience, combined with him looking around where was Stella? Just the his phone started ringing, nearly scaring him out of his skin as he got calls so rarely, it was jones, feeling a pang if annoyance claw at him he reluctantly picked up, and walked away from the campfire for just a quick moment,"...so the paragon of wisdom blesses me with the phone call she promised me 2 hours ago.."

"Hahaha..ahh..sarcasm! You wear it well sugar, cmon don't be such a downer, it was hard to schedule this little"outing" with the permission if the national wildlife protection agency...a lot of haggling and...persuasion..I'm an H cup sugar...you should be grateful I'm willing to take a groping for you.."Jones chided.

"How...generous Jones...I didn't ask you for you cup size nor did I think it was a good idea to bring the girls to a forest teeming with wild liminals..don't you think this is a bit..I dunno..dangerous?!" Armen snapped back.

"Seriously Armen...chill...do you forget who these girls are?...you don't have anything to worry about...and besides...you're kinda there on a mission as well..."Jones added.

"Yeah, yeah.. I remember...I'm bait to draw the attention of those crooks...again Jones..why am I the bait again?.." Armen asked.

"Because you're one of our best..and you personally have a history with these folk, remember philia?..." Jones inquires

"How could I forget the claws raked through my chest and the black kobold that nearly killed me...?...I can't actually believe those...delinquents...were in on it...what is it you even expect me to do Jones?" Armen asked in return.

"Simple, enjoy your day with the girls! Make them feel good! Bond with them! But keep an eye out..if you hear or see anything take a peak and call me and tell me about what you've seen, MON had been surveying the area for about a week now, they took infrared images and drone based footage high above the canopy and we spotted a massive concentration of head near the heart of the forest and the photo and video revealed there were several liminals in a..large camp of sorts...restraining other liminals...I don't mean to put you in danger sugar...but you're literally the only host I trust with this kind of thing..."

Armen let out a strained sigh and bit his lip, looking back to the campfire and the laughing girls both Ariya and Astraea giggling at a choking Ember who was choking on a chunk of meat, billowing a massive torus of fire expelling here burnt hunk of meat into the ground shouting indignations at the both of them, smiling at his girlfriend, Armen relented,"fine jones...I'll play along for now...but I'm..only doing this to keep them safe..."

"Good boy! I knew you were up to the challenge! Just remember...I wouldn't ask this if you if I didn't think you had the stones or were man enough for the job...you're pretty brave...if not stupidly reckless and sympathetic...but I love that about you.." she crooned that last part with every bit of a loving purr as she could, giggling over the line, making Armen blush a bit, he couldn't tell if she was just messing with him or if she actually meant what she was saying,"I'll take that silence of yours as you blushing.."

"Hey fuck you!"

"Alright alright stop being all sensitive...I love you too...of course you already knew that...get back to your girls..."

"Armen?! Armen! Cmon you're missing all the yummy meat!" Ariya called out to Armen, she adored the taste of the well cooked meat so much her cheeks were stuffed full of it, Armen gave her a happy smile, and hung up his phone before shouting,"go ahead and gorge yourself silly Aryia, Ember, Astraea! I gotta step away for a sec!"

"Master where are you going?..." asked a Worried looking Astraea, as Armen skirted the campsite, "oh I'm just going for a walk, seeing if I can't find Stella! She's been gone for quite a while now... "

Ember took the initiative and got up first, swallowing her mouthful of boar meat, she glared heavily and disapprovingly at Armen, strutting up up him and blocking his way, flaring out her wings saying," yeah...don't think so champ..you go..we go too, I don't trust you out alone anymore after the events of the past two weeks..."

" in all those times how many have I actually been wrong? Just name one! And I'll sit my ass back down next to ariya!" Armen challengingly shout back, he understood where ember was coming from and leaving to do things ok busk one typically spelled disaster, but if had hadn't, he'd have never met, Ariya or Stella, he'd have never met two more of the group of girls that were slowly changing his life.

"look it doesn't matter you smartass! I'm not letting my boyfriend put himself into any other compromising situation because he feels some obligation to be some paraded gentleman!"

Armen sighed deeply and grunted a reserved,"alright ember...you asked for this.."

"Asked for w-MMPH?!" She squeals as Armen lunges for her lips, devouring them for a quick respite before pulling off and dashing into the woods leaving a disoriented Ember stumbling backing howling out a disoriented "A-Armen! YOU FUCKING ADORABLE ASSHOLE!"

Armen jogged into the forest, aware that his actions would probably result in him being trapped in his room for hour's with a ravenous dragon girl on top of him, but for the time being he'd made his way clear to search for the vampire girl who'd seemed to disappear like a phantom, though she was as pale as a ghost, he'd assumed she wasn't at least as dead as one, he stepped over thick branching roots the jutted out of the ground like large limbs using his flashlight clipped into his belt to guid his way, conserving as much energy as he could, very strange for this forest being that they actually looked like legs and the tangled vines and darkening canopy gave it the look that this part of the forest may have been home to something that perhaps didn't want to be found,"Stella?! HEY STELLA?! Where are you?! Everyone's waiting for-" Armen stopped whet he heard a piercing, powerful wail, like as if someone had given a banshee a ballon full of helium and allowed her to sample it, it was enough to disorient Armen who started to tremble and stumble around at the sound, it made his head her and his brain throb like crazy, the sound stopping seconds later sounding like it had come from within the deepest part of the forest," w-what the fuck was that?!...shit..." Armen grunted, whoever it was they sounded like they were in pain, afraid, it took everything within him to resist the temptation to see what or who it was, but since when was he one to ignore a cry for help? Why this heroic streak developed? He would never know.

—-

Far off in a bald spot of the forest, Stella sat sheltered underneath one of the everwoods away from the deathly rays of the sun that if she'd touched even for a second would spell her doom, perched up on a branch she shimmied her shoulders left and right, her large glossy plots of land jiggling and swinging, though not matching her mood or what was currently going through her head. She had a choice right now, see through her secret"objective" or go running back into Armen's arms and forget she was ever involved in this bullshit in the first place.

Her thoughts were cut short though when she heard a gaggle of cackles echo through the tree line along with the sound of rustling leaves getting closer and closer to her, it only managed in bringing out a deep sigh of resentment from Stella,

" I should have guessed you'd show up sooner or later..." she grunted, already knowing who it was that was laughing before she came thumping down on the branch she was on, managing to sashay up to her with an elegance and grace unknown to one of her species, a manticore.

"Well well...if it ain't the porcelain princess...lying down on the job...what brings you to this side of the forest sugartits?...did you miss me?..." asked the. Voluptuous cat scorpion woman, her maroon hair dipped over her left eye and swept over her ear, her cherry red lipped smile devious and her slitted forest green eyes glared almost lustfully at Stella, remarking every single one of her curves with a wanton malice and desire she hadn't let go of, her large bat wings folded inward, her spike covered tail wrapping itself around Stella's waist, her own voluptuous J cupped physique plopping down right next to her nuzzling Stella with sickly sweet cheek rubs,"...what do you want Nowi...?.."

"Aww why so glum aren't you happy to see me again?" Now I shot back.

Grabbing her tail and peeling it away from her waist Stella scoffs woth disgusting,"no...I'd rather forget you even exist..."

Her tail simply coiled back around Stella's waist and pulled her close enough that their thighs were touching and so nowi could lick her cheek," Cmon baby...don't be like that...have you already forgotten..?...how we used to be...like a passionate hentai couple...?"

"...Dear god do I try to forget..." Stella replied in a deadpanned, uncomfortable, grunt, shivering at her touch and her tongue, that period of confusion was over in which Stella had a crisis of sexuality, after the "incident" with her previous boyfriend she switched teams for a bit just to spite him, but she'd gotten too deep into it with nowi, that's she'd become so insanely possessive and lustful that Stella just had to duck out. And now, now that she's found Armen, she just felt disgust knowing she'd been that way with a girl like her to begin with,"nowi I'm not like that anymore...ok?...please remove your tail before I do it for you..."

"Not like this...baby it's not something you can just run away from...you like girls too...you won't escape that..and I told you before..." nowi simply got close when closer moving a hand up to squeeze one of her breasts, making Stella gasp softly." You were mine...and you'd always be mine...your ex knows it...and whoever you have now..will know it too...—dudes are trash...the only thing that can understand a girl is another girl...to satisfy a girl is another girl...damn these are still so soft...you kill me with these big old knockers..."both of her hands have Stella's perky L cups a generous groping, kissing down her neck, while Stella whines softly before grabbing nowi's shoulder and slamming her up against the tree," I SAID IM NOT THAT WAY ANYMORE YOU DISGUSTING SLUT! AND IM DONE WITH YOU! THIS ORGANIZATION! THIS SHIT IS INSANE! ITS CRUEL!" She tunes away thinking about Armen, how she couldn't keep up this ruse around him, he was smart enough to know she was hiding something, and with how much she loved him, she couldn't keep it a secret anymore.

Nowi was confused thoroughly, floored that she was being tested this way by her,"Babe..." feeling a fury beginning to well up within her, her tone grew cold and cruel." You have a fucking job to do...you're too far in to give up now...you were sent to watch that idiotic pleb...and now you want to give up?! No... I'm not letting you...kill that fucker...so we can save the lininals he's holding captive-" nowi growled.

"HES NOT HOLDING THEM CAPTIVE! AND HES NO SLAVE MASTER! HES THE SINGLE MOST WONDERFUL MAN IVE EVER MET IN MY LIFE!" Satella howled with rage.

"NO!" Nowi howled as she backed Stella inti said tree, slamming her against it while kneading her body into hers, mashing her breasts into hers," NO YOU FUCKING WHORE! I TOLD YOU,YOU 'D NEVER LIVE ANYONE ELSE! YOUR BODY AND UNDEAD SOUL BELONG TO ME AND ME ALONE! I NEED YOU! I CRAVE YOU! ANS IF HE THINKS HE CAN TAKE YOU FROM ME THEN ILL KILL HIM! AND FUVK YOU INTO THE GEOUJD SO YOU KNOW WHO YOU BELONG TO AGAIN!" Nowi shot back.

Stella, feeling her own rage boiling let out a vicious his and snarl cocking a fist back, and punching nowi dead in her jaw sending her reeling back," YOU WONT TOUCH HIM YOU FUCKING INSANE WHORE! AND IM NOT YOURS! I NEVER WAS! YOU DINT DICTATE MY LIFE! WE WILL NEVER EVER BE TOGETHER AGAIN! NOW BACK THE FUCK OFF BEFORE I MAKE YOU WHORE!" Stella howls with anger." This shit is over...tell the boss's that in through being her little errand girl..."

"Ohh no no no baby..that's not how this works...here's how it's gonna go...you either see your mission through and kill that sorry bastard...or...I kill him and I drag you to the boss herself and make you attest to treason...remember she and that she devil of a confidant sealed you away...your little cosmic reality bending powers belong to her...I may not be able to kill you...but she can...all of GHOUL will bare down on you and him...you can't get away from me...your little proclamations mean dick...you're mine...no matter how much you fight it..." Nowi rushed Stella again but this time shiver her lips up against hers while she rubbed her breasts back and forth and up and down on Stella's chest while she flairled about abd tried desperately to get the moaning manticore off her, only getting a gasping whining breath in when nowi pulled away to take a breath,"...damn I missed your soft ass lips...and just as a little treat...I'm finna milk that little prick I smell on you for thinking he can take my girlfriend...get your ass in gear and get your fucking head in the game...there's no way out of GHOUL...or being mine...were together forever baby...forever and ever..." Nowi sighed blissfully, taking off the branch while speaking whe wings and shooting above the canopy meanwhile Stella wipes her lips clean and spit out whatever taste of that girl was in her moth until she didn't feel nauseous anymore, turning her attention to the forest once more...," FUCK! ARMEN! OH ARMEN...PLEASE BE SAFE PLEASE?! Damnit! Why do they have to be here now?! WHY NOW OF ALL TIMES?!" Satella wailed, leaping off the tree and soaring off into the forest, determined to get to Armen first before Nowi.

Arden had been following the nonexistent trail for about 30 minutes now, soon after entering the deep wood he picked up a strange scent, a scent that seemed to pull him in deeper and deeper and guide his way, the scent of honey, unlike any he'd smelled before, it smelled warm, with a twinge of cinnamon, like the glazed cinnamon rolls his mother used to make him when he invited friends over to their house, it was nostalgic, euphoric slimiest as Armen blindly groped through the darkening foliage, his entrances, dream like state came to an abrupt halt when a dull clank of metal rang out and a deep throbbing pain ripped through his leg.

"GHH! SHIT! WHAT IS—-...this?.." he looked down and saw a cage, a cage with metal bars broken and constricted with strong looking limbs of tree roots, reaching down to touch it his hand retracted when he saw that some of the roots present looking stagnant on the ground slithered into the deep foliage, on the trail of some heel shaped footprints with little dabs of amber gold viscous liquid which grew small patches of fertile grass with each proceeding footsteps he took to get closer and closer to who or what he perceived to be its source and the source of the amazing scent he couldn't get enough of. A glow from the break in the forest gave him some type of closure as to if or if not he was close, hearing the sound of soft giggling from behind the shrub he'd ducked under, lifting his head above it, he was struck with a sight that literally made him say,"...Whoa..."

There on a bright patch of low growing glittering moss sat by far the most beautiful girl he'd seen since he'd first met Ember, a girl literally made of nature herself, caramel/ coppery glossy skin glistening in the sunlight, her long forest green hair, appearing to be made almost entirely of large strands of grass swept down her back following the arc of her curvy figure, with two bark like antlers jutting out from her temples framing two bangs that settled down next to her round youthful cheeks, cheeks without a flaw save for a cherry red dash of color, her eyebrows and eyelashes that same shade of vibrant lime green, whereas her eyes too on a more amber gold color with dark brown chocolate colored sclera, her arms and indeed her legs were covered in sturdy looking bark braces, her fingers looking to be exposed through little holes in the gauntlets of winding wood, her legs and midriff protected by bark themed undergarments and her thigh while partially exposed with an unnaturally voluptuous flare of enormous hips, were protected by a long winding sweep of bark that swirled down her thick legs in a strange spiral arcs, though the features that dared stand out the most were the perky mountains that jutted out of her chest at a criminal size of T cup, protected only by two leaves that covered her nipples but barely covered her large shiny pink areolae, a vine bra meeting each strap that wound its way around her back her arms legs and even the crown of her head decorated with flowers of all kinds.

the honeyed scent he'd been smelling was literally coming from the substance that had been dribbling from her nipples and into the ground in little globed dabs, her plushy bright pink lips pursed into soft, happy smile as she pulled a clump of dirt out of the ground with a budded flower inside of it, cooing a soft," wake up little one...its time to see the world for the first time.."she brought her lips down to kiss the little bud who then exploded to life under her touch, making the genuinely happy girl bury the flower back into the ground, the fireflies and butterflies that were fluttering around her resting themselves safely into her hair and shoulders and even her cheeks.

Armen was struck speechless at seeing such a thing, he could believe what he was seeing, he'd never known dryads to be this sweet and loving, typically they were very stuffy, reserved and sometimes unintentionally malicious and protected forests like this with an iron fist, despite the fact the only experience he'd had with their kind was Kii, and she was a stick in the mud in every sense of the word but her worries and distrusts weren't misplaced about humans, some were destructive toward nature more than others, but seeing a creature as carefree and naïve as her triggered something in Armen that made him lean in closer, unfortunately snapping one of the supportive branches of the bush he was rested on making him come tumbling into the clearing with a dull" THUMP", making the frightened plant girl squeal with surprise the butterflies and fireflies all scattering time the winds.

"KYYAAA! MEAN PERSON! STAY AWAY! STAY AWAY YOU CANT TAKE ME AWAY FROM MY HOME! I WONT LET YOU! PLEASE GO AWAY! GO AWAY!" The girl shouted cussing large writhing roots to come shoot out of the ground and bare down on him.

"I-I'm sorry! I didn't mean to scare you miss! I just...I...I couldn't help but be attracted to the smell you put off!...y-you...you're a dryad right?...a nature girl?" Asked Armen, getting onto his knees and bowing he pressed on to say," I saw that cage as I was walking through the bushes! I can only assume it was yours and you'd been captured! Don't worry I don't have the soul or fortitude to capture someone as beautiful and innocent as you! To show you can trust me...My name is Armen...Armen Mahoney...I'm a homestead for the Interspecies exchange program! A program that cares for liminals like you...I take care of four girls already!"

The girl's initial fear was slowly evaporating, but she still kept a wary eye on him as she slowly drew away the root tendrils" Inter...species...exchange..?...dont they put..monster girls in..homes with humans?..."

"Yes! Yes! You've heard of it! I mean you no harm miss! At all! In fact of anything I'd be willing to protect you from whoever put you in that cage! So we're not strangers...your name is?.." Armen asked as he saw fit to scoot a little closer, making the girl shrink back some more, drawing the tendrils closer to him "K-Kaela..."

"Kaela...that's gorgeous! See?! Now we aren't strangers anymore are we?! Kaela...Armen! Armen...Kaela!" Armen gestured back and forth with a silly grin, making Kaela snicker a bit and draw the tendrils all the way back." You're strange for a human..."

"Eh I get that a lot...now...Kaela...who is it that wants you?...that would put you in a cage? That would terrify you this much? And are you really a dryad?..."

She shook her head and murmured," no...I'm not, I'm a special type of mandragora. One so rarely spawned in forests just like these once every millennia in a new moon...I am an everwood...a very rare variant of our kind that have a direct connection to the goddess of the forests...I am like a daughter of her example...and...t-those mean people...they wanted me to join them to join their leader...in "freeing" lininals from humans...they said their...one eyed boss wanted me because I am like a tree goddess...a-and that my honey sap can supposedly grant...everlasting life..."

"So..whoever wants you just wants to use you to get immortality?...what a rip...what a selfish dick move...god Ember is gonna kill me for this...but...Kaela?..."

"W-what?..." asked the meek plant girl.

Armen drew in a deep breath before saying," I know somewhere that I can keep you safe...somewhere where you won't have to worry about those mean people anymore."

"B-but they always find me! And they'll find me now too! If I stay any longer!" Kaela spoke with a panicked tone.

"Which is why if we leave now and hurry we can make it back to my camp and my friends! We can invite you to be part of our family and keep you safe! I promise we can keep you safe! Trust me!" Armen held out his hand for her to take, but Kaela was still hesitant, answering back with a mousy,

"B-but if I go...Kii will miss me...mama will miss me...what if they think I'm...-"she drawled, Armen moving closer to place his hands on her shoulders, looking her dead in the eye while saying,

"After we get you safely back to town...and those mean people are no longer chasing you...I'll bring you back so you can see them! You have my word! I won't let a thing happen! I will not allow you to feel fear anymore...not as long as I draw breath..."

She stared deeply into his eyes, a look that easy scrutinizingly his words and his resolve, he had this aura about him, he seemed so sure if himself like his soul purpose was to protect those he loved and those who valued him, "I-I...-" she gasped when a large shadow descended from the skylight shining down on them, a looming shadow with huge veined wings and a whipping tail bared down on them with a silhouetted face obstructed by the sun's glare, but a pair if slitted like green eyes piercing their flesh and bone.

"Well well well...if it isn't our little runaway...! I knew I'd find you eventually! Seriously sweetie you leave a scent trail so irresistible I couldn't help but follow! Why'd you break out of your cage?! We were only trying to help you!" The girls sickly sweet, sinister voice rang out as she leapt down from the branch, Kaela squealing fearfully and hiding behind Armen.

"Hey! who are you?!" Demanded Armen who tucked him further behind his back glaring angrily at the winged girl, stepping into the light it was revealed that she was a dragonnewt, a dragonnewt with amber colored scales and bob-cut hair wearing a black latex jumper with the initials GHOUL on her left breast.

"A girl you don't wanna cross buddy boy...so you're that Human the boss has heard about...the little HERO...who Stella was sent to babysit...gotta say you don't look like much baby cakes..but you sure are cute!" The dragonnewt cooed, leering at him with an interested eye," but I'm not here to chit chat...gotta take the floral floosy to the boss...only way she can get the ok from the forest guardian!"

"What...? How do you know me. Who's your boss?! A-and what is...that symbol ok your shirt?!" Armen slowly backed up

With Kaela behind him, feeling fear, but knowing what stood between Kaela and Thai dangerous looking monster girl was him, and as much as he wanted to, he wouldn't concede," look I don't know what the hell is going on...or who you are...but I can't let you take this girl! She doesn't want to be a part of whatever you're tied into!"

The dragonnewt girl giggled a bit before sighing and growling a stern," too bad...she doesn't have a choice...whatever the boss wants...she gets...this is bigger than you boy...I'd scurry back to your little homestead program of I were you...this had nothing to do with you..and I have no problems killing a human to liberate my kind...you little mongering parasites have ruled long enough...little puny weaklings shouldn't have even been labeled dominant life forms...you should all be extinct!"

"We aren't all that bad! Seriously! I'm living proof of that! Look...while I don't know what the hell is going on or what this even is or what that symbol on your shirt GHOUL even means...I simply can't let you take this grip who is clearly afraid of you...I know where I sit on the food chain...but it didn't have to be this way! We can change this! Humans and monsters don't have to be enemies like in the past!—" Armen was forced to turn his he'd when he felt Kaela squeezing down tighter on his arm and whimpering softly into his back, feeling his blood run cold when he saw a pale whitish/lavender skinned women with dead violet colored eyes, a v cut silken plum colored dress skirt, hair cupped into a pale blonde and silver streaked bun coke phasing through one of the everwood trees and giggling in a reverberated echo, typical of the ghost like creature the wight was.

"Awww...lookie Gwen! He's trying to be the little diplomatic hero! How cuuuute...listen kid...were just doing our job...my scaly friend is right...this is beyond anything you can convince us of...it's time for a different kind of order to rise in this world...and for that to happen...we need that sweet little honeycomb or the boss is gonna blink us...sorry it has to be this way...but...ITS REALLY THE ONLY WAY!" Shouted they wight girl as she pulled a sadistic, disturbing, Cheshire grin onto her face, as she reeled an arm back and formed a wispy claw of protoplasm out of thin air, bringing it down at startling speed toward Armen who pulled Kaela away with him to dodge the quaking him pack as she hit the forest floor, Gwen, the dragonnewt, came out of nowhere hurtling toward Armen with an outstretched leg, unable to react full on time Armen being s split second too late got a nasty cut on his forehead from her passing claw, but realizing he had an opportunity to make a break for the tree line, he knew he had to take it, so, grabbing Kaela, he charged for it as fast as his legs could carry him, dodging foliage left and right.

"Awww he's getting away! Wow! He's pretty fast toooo!" The wight Cooed softly, giggling a little.

"Oh don't worry Suzu...he won't get far! Heh...he's kinda interesting..." Gwen cooed zipping you toward the canopy kicking off trees while Suzu soared into the foliage.

"SHIIIIIIIITTT!" Armen shouted was he came face to face with a steep cliff side leading down from the forest bald spot, Kaela held in his arms as tightly as he could manage, she screaming all the while

As they went tumbling down, creating a netting of thick roots around them, they cake to a crashing halt at its base sending the both of them skidding along the ground. Armen looked up to see if the both of them had been followed, thankful that they at least had gotten a head start and lost those two terrifying girls.

"Kaela are you ok?!" Asked Armen, he'd gotten some minor scrapes but he wasn't that much worse off, but Kaela had looked like she'd softer from a minor head injury as blood was trailing down her forehead.

"I-I'm fine!...are...are we...safe?..." she asked, wincing at the pain she was in, the scar that had damaged her flawless skin was slowly closing up, yet healing remarkably quickly, a kudos to her purpose to those women...and their want to take her, no wonder she was considered a goddess.

"Looks that...—" just then a figure with two massive wings cane bursting out of the canopy and screeching down at them, spurring Armen into action," FUCK FUCK I WAS WRONG! KAELA CMON! MY CAMPSITE ISN'T FAR AWAY!" Armen noticed that a black plum of smoke was cresting over the tree line, he was glad he went camping when he was a kid and could recognize the signs of safety, taking the initiative he made a break across the brook with Kaela in arm, panting fearfully. As soon as he entered the woods it seemed he was hearing voices, maniacal giggles, he'd wished to any god that's as listening that it was the girls but every instinct in him was screaming that it wasn't them, he was running low on stamina and his vision was getting blurry but he could see it, the campfire, the girls, he could do it, he could make it, it was almost over, taking in the deepest breath he could, Armen was about to yell the loudest call for Ember he could, that was, until something hard and painful struck him in the face and he flew back about 10 feet before he hit the trunk of a tree, his vision swimming, and blurring out, seeing Kaela run toward him screaming," ARMEN?! ARMEN?!..." before everything faded to black...

"Sorry kid...I can't allow that to happen...we worked to hard to let some little heroic brat screw up our progress...and I worked too hard to keep my girlfriend from falling into the clutches of some dirtbag guy like you..." Nowi grunted sadistically, flexing her bloodied fist fresh from the blood from Armen's nose, baring down on Kaela who was desperately trying to shake Armen awake, clutching onto him as if he were a lifeline " ARMEN?! A-ARMEN!? ARMEN PLEASE! PLEASE G-GET UP! GET UP!"

"Don't waste your breath cutie...he's so weak I probably put his pathetic little ass in a coma.." she moved to grab Kaela and lifted the poor girl up by her hair, making the girl squeal with pain as she case held up to Nowi's glaring face," you gave us a shittion of trouble we didn't meet to endure...if you hadn't fucking destroyed the cage...this shit wouldn't be happening...all you had to do was give the boss immortality...you had one job you dumb little melon tittied cunt...if you won't come willingly we'll liberate you by force...but first..." she thew the struggling and squealing Kaela down, moving to pick up Armen by one of his arms dangling him in front of her face," just what the fuck does she see in a shrimpy little pussy like you that she can't in me anymore?..."she turned back to look at Kaela noticing Gwen and Suzu has been looming over her shoulders from the canopy,"take the girl back to the camp...I have something to take are of.." growler Nowi while Suzu tried to squirm away squeaking Armen's name under her breath," Armen...a-Armen...please...help me...p-please! She whines.

"Shhh shhh...don't be scared little tree cutie...we just wanna milk those yummy...yummy boobies of yours...and maybe...have a little fun afterwards as a reward for saving you from him..." Suzu coos, bending down to grab one of Kaela's hands, Gwen did the same with her tail, wrapping it around one of the girl's legs to keep her steady,"she does look pretty good...thank the gods I swing for the dick less team like Nowi...—"

"And that itself will be the reason I turn you into a twitching knot of scales..." both Gwen and Suzu turned towards this new voice that cut through the air like a knife, even going as far as to get Nowi's attention recognizing it almost immediately, turning around with a picked up heartbeat, and a small smile in her lips," hey babe...see...I'm just about ready to kill him so there will be nothin the way...I'll take Kaela back to the boss so we can really see if she can give us immortality then we can transcend that boundary again..and we can bang until the cows come home!"

"How fucking delusional are you...?!" Satella growled, her tiny red eyes glaring so intensely an ocular trail of red lighting trailed off of them the closer she wandered up to Nowi, both Gwen and Suzu were spurred into action but where quickly disabled by two well placed kicks from Stella's well toned legs actually harming Suzu, who was supposedly intangible to conventional means embedding Gwen into the trunk of a tree and draping Suzu over a branch of the same tree Gwen was launched into,"put...him...down..."

"And why should I?! What the fuck is so special about this little weakling that I haven't given you?! I've given you better sex! Better love! Better fucking everything! I bet you didn't even take his dick did you?! I know you still love pussy! So stop pretending like he's anything more than a reason you're trying to ignore your love for me!" Nowi growled, deciding to mock Stella's feelings by kissing the unconscious Armen dead in his lips angrily, this didn't just piss her off, it set a fire under Stella, never had any real anger ever accumulated in her like this, to make her fangs pop out of her mouth, night was slowly coming, and the ruby tint of her eyes had become a simmering glowing vortex of fury, the wings she'd rarely used for flight unfurled like a fiendishly terrifying blood red cloak, her long fangs protruded out from her mouth and her claws and even the blood in her veins began to boil and glow alongside her eyes," because...he's...not...YOU!" She howled her boy practically moving on it's one at this point, as she cocked back her fist and punched Nowi square in the jaw with everything she had, sending the manticore screaming and flying through the tree long knocking down smaller everwoods from the sheer force if the punch she delivered which knocked teeth out of the girl's mouth. catching the flying Armen in her arms Stella gently floated back down to the ground and set him up against a tree, growing at him mournfully," my beautiful dark prince...please forgive me...I betrayed you...and everyone else...but...I'll make this right...I swear it Armen...my love..you adorable...stupid heroic boy..." she too snatched a quick kiss from his unconscious lips, but hers, much softer, loving passionate,"coming to find me...god I love you...a man like you Is so rare...Hehehehe..sad that I took your second kiss when you were asleep...Ember's gonna be soooo jealous..!" Realizing that punch wouldn't keep Nowi away for long Stella turned to Kaela who was staring at her with bewilderment.

"Hey...you the next cutie who's gonna join our little harem?...damn...don't you got some huge titonskers! They're bigger than mine! And I'm the biggest in the harem! Hell they look like they'd suffocate me if you hugged me! But...we're not here to talk boon sizes...can you walk..,"

Kaela nodded furiously, tucking her legs closer to herself.

"Good, listen carefully...I need you to head towards that smoke plume...our camp is about half a mile away from here, when you get there...tell them..Armen is in danger...they'll know what to do..." Stella stood up and turned her attention back toward the snapper grove of trees brought to light by the enraged roar of a manticore making Kaela jump fearfully," listen to what I say girl! GO! GO NOW!"

"O-OK!" Kaela cooed; running up to Stella and hugging her, saying,"thank you for saving us..." kissing Stella's cheek, before moving down to Armen, don't worry Armen...I'll return the favor ...for you saving me from those girls...I'll save you.." she pressed a soft kiss to his forehead and encased his body in a thin layer of bark like armor, tucking him up a tree, caressing his cheek with a gentle hand, turning away to sniff out the campfire taking a running sprint toward the notable scent until a deranged looking Nowi charged from out of the snapped grove with thorns brimming from her arms legs wings and tail primed with rage,," YOU AREN'T GOING ANYWHERE YOU LITTLE PLANT SLUT!" She Wales indignantly, until she was intercepted by Stella, holding her palms locked in her own in a battle of pure strength of which Stella had a great surplus of to rely on, "THIS IS BETWEEN YOU AND ME BITCH! GO KAELA! GET THEM ALL! ILL KEEP ARMEN AS SAFE AS I CAN!"

Kaela heeded no further prompting as she disappeared into the foliage, having recovered both Gwen and Suzu were ordered a stern,"

GO BOTH OV YOU GET THAT LITTLE

CUNT AND IMMOBILIZE HER SHE DOESN'T NEED THOSE ARMS

AND LEGS TO GIVE US HER TITTY MILK!" Both rogue lininals nodded and made like bats out of hell and soared in the direction Kaela had run, Stella, drop kicking Nowi in the jaw again appeared in a rift of dark magic in front of the both of them growling," I DONT THINK SO BITCHES!" Before nailing them both with roundhouse kicks, sending them hurtling toward the ground.

Wiping her jaw clean of floor, a relatively calmed Nowi growled a soft," you can't fight all of us Sexy...one if ya will get away, one of us will kill that run at and finally knock some sense of reality back into you...that kiss I heard you give up...will be the last one you ever give him..." Nowi let out a lecherous growl while she printed her thorns once again, Suzu primed massive protoplasm claws and Gwen's blood superheated to give her claws and scales an extra kick of heat without any truly firepower to call her own, but Satella stood unfazed and giggled a bit before cooing a soft,

"Come and get me then...bitches..."