Fantasia
Arc4: Seeking the origins
Chapter6: Proceeding with the plan
And so with a bit of skill and a ton of luck, Juan and his friends managed to infiltrate the Neburan guild of thieves safely, where they met Nimmy in the harem chamber, along with Makai the nurse and other abducted girls who seemed to have absolute malice against Queen Vivian.
After learning few facts about the queen such as kidnapping girls in order to steal their powers, and using a special charm making her totally immune to any attempt to be hurt by any man, and that she cancel's her victim capability to perform any magic, the rescue group felt a bit of despair.
But somehow, Nimmy's spontaneous act of showing her invisibility magic which enigmatically remained usable albeit losing her powers to the queen earlier pushed Tsuki to some conclusion that might be the salvation for their problem.
"So you had an idea?" Zolu asked.
"I cannot guarantee it but I might be able to defeat the queen easily if my theory was right" the imp answered.
"So you need any help?" Juan suggested.
"No, according to this woman, men are useless against Vivian's charm, so I'll be the only one capable to fight her, I need you two to distract the other guild members while I assault Vivian" was Tsuki's plan.
"Very well, I know you've been hearing this from me a lot but this time…" Juan was about to advise his friend but she interrupted "Don't worry I'll control myself" she said.
"I meant the opposite, this time, please crush her…" the shepherd said showing an unusual violent side.
"Whoa! That's what I'm talking' about!" Zolu got excited.
As Tsuki grinned with her tongue pressing along her canines summoning some of her beastly instincts, her inside was more worried about Juan's personality shift.
"Now, about my and Zolu's role, we need to keep the thieves as far as possible from the queen, so we'll lead them to higher floors" Juan started explaining his plan to his friend by drawing a sketchy map on the ground.
It was simple yet understandable; showing their current position, and the main routes that Juan seemed to remember vividly, while the bedroom was hidden behind the throne chamber at the farthest room inside the valley's depth to the west, the place Juan and his friend are supposed to be is north where the weapons are stored.
They were supposed to use the moment when a thief takes Juan to jail -Which was by north as well- Zolu will follow them secretly and free Juan from his magic suppressing shackles then they both try their best to create a major distraction drawing too much attention to them, at the mean time Tsuki will be hiding beneath Nimmy's shadow, and slither silently with the harem who'll be taken to the queen and then her role begins.
"One question dude…When you are with the thief, he'll sure cuff you with anti-magic cuffs, how am I supposed to know where you are then to free you? And whether I can get to you by water? Because you know, there're some water passages that are quite small for me to slip through, and I'm not that good at sneaking around on the land" the ragon asked.
"Who said anything about going through water or sneaking?" Tsuki responded unbraiding Zolu's hair.
"Seems a brilliant idea to me" Makai smirked understanding what Tsuki meant.
"I know I didn't tell about this Zolu but there has been a change in the plan" Juan apologized blushing.
"What the hell dude? What's going on?" he asked.
"Oh, Nimmy finally got it, here, let Nimmy suggest!" the nymph said while looking in the pile of dresses.
He finally got it; the poor ragon is going to disguise himself as a woman to escort Juan, it was simply embarrassing because and beyond his friends' knowledge he was extremely sensitive about his lady-like face.
"No freakin' way! I'm a dude! I ain't wearin' no freakin' dress!" he exclaimed but Makai shushed him.
"It's not our fault that you have such an epicene face, now be a civilized man and wear this dress" Tsuki smiled slyly picking a revealing red belly dancer dress for the ragon.
"Dude! Do somethin'!" he asked his friend.
"Sorry Zolu, but this is the safest way, please, I want you to talk a bit soft from now one so nobody can tell that you are a man" the shepherd apologized.
"Here Nimmy will brush fish boy's hair like a princess" the nymph added.
"Nina, Popuri, come and help me fix this nice boy" Makai called for two girls who helped her turn Zolu's barely feminine aspects into a complete womanly figure, as he was swallowing his pride for his friend his heart was aching to grab Tsuki -whose laughter hissed- and strangle her.
After half hour, the girls came out of the dressing room surprising the shepherd and the imp with their "new" member; Zolu was simply turned into a beautiful young lady, wearing a puffy pink dress, his hand were hidden under a pair of silky gloves, wearing a silver tiara with a small pearl hanging from it, having his eyes shaded with blue, cheeks with pink, and his hair braided in a twin-tails style.
"You know I think if he was born a girl he'd win any female beauty contest" Tsuki whispered.
"Cut it out Tsuki! It's a great sacrifice for someone who's boasting his manhood all the time, the best thing happened is that Roné isn't here to see this" the shepherd replied with a low voice "But in the end I agree with you" he added with a grin.
"Okay dude shall we start?" the ragon talked with a deep voice.
"Behavior young Selma, don't be such a tomboy" Makai instructed holding her laughter.
"Selma? What kind of names is that?" Zolu asked.
"Nimmy thinks that fish boy looks amazing like a princess!" the nymph commented.
"Yeah as soon as we get done with this, y'all will be owin' me!" he claimed with anger.
Suddenly the rusty door creaked from a distance alerting everyone to rush to their positions; Juan laid down the bed acting sick, Zolu mingled with the girls and tried to keep a feminine act, Tsuki merged with Nimmy's shadow, while the latter joined Clara and Mariana in the dressing room.
And as expected three men entered the chamber, unluckily for Juan and friends none of them was Barth, which would make the plan a little hard to succeed.
"The queen wanted her new harem for the night, bring them Makai" the first one ordered.
"Yes sir" she responded bowing then clapping summoning the three girls.
"And yeah, Barth mentioned somethin' about the kid who beaten Saimon, guess he had enough pink time with the chicks, so he'll be hittin' the bars soon" the second thief mentioned while looking at Juan.
"Yes sir, he's right there, but his injuries are still a bit unhealed so I recommend Selma (she called for Zolu) to take care of him in jail" the nurse suggested.
"Wha…he's a prisoner not our mama boy!" the third one objected.
"But the queen needs her victims perfectly healed, I don't want anyone accuse me later for not doing my job sir, please understand" she explained while following "Selma's" steps.
"Okay! Fine, bring him on!" the third one muttered while the second one carried Juan on his shoulder.
"Let's get movin' girls" the first one said.
As the third thief overtook Zolu with a spank on the buttocks that angered him, the ragon tried his best to act like a girl at that moment and walked shyly escorting Juan with the two thieves to jail.
The two groups were walking together across the hall, probably to reach crossroads and then separate each to his perspective chamber, there they met Zane the man who's supposed to be the second in charge after Vivian.
"So the queen wants to start with the new girls early this time?" the large man asked.
"Yeah, master Zane, no wonder, these new chicks are hot" one of them commented.
"Ho ho, and who's this one? I never saw her before" Zane asked looking at Zolu who put his head down praying for his trick not to be revealed.
"She's Selma, Makai recommended us to let her take care of this boy until the queen has his powers, I don't recall when she joined but she's a beauty"
"Oh, so this skinny brat was the one who defeated Saimon, better put him away from that mad dog, or we might be in trouble" Zane commented with a laughter.
"Tell you what, I think I'll be coming with you to jail, there are things that are needed to be taken care of" he added spanking Zolu who was steaming of anger.
This was it, this will be with no doubt what'll kill their plan, and Tsuki concluded that in an instant by measuring Zane's power, knowing that the boys are no match for him.
She already imagined the worst scenario; the bulky man will follow Juan and Zolu, he'll start harassing Zolu probably away from Juan, and knowing the ragon's short temper he'll end up revealing his truth, then their lives will be at vain.
But she won't allow that for her mind glanced with a desperate idea in that moment that might save them, she swiftly slithered from her friend Nimmy's shade to Zane's with no one to notice and changed the track of her movement, Juan noticed this but fearing of failure left nothing to him but to wish that the imp has a plan to save them.
The harem left to the throne room, while Zane joined Juan and Zolu to the jail keeping a distance, they mounted the stairs that led them to the northern part of the fortress, where the thief put Juan in a cell, and for anyone who lived enough under Zane's mastery he understood that he had his eyes on "Selma" so he left them.
The large man was steps behind them, his eyes glanced with lust, as he ascended the rocky slide, but suddenly a cold withered hand pulled him violently to fall down crashing beneath the stairway.
"What the hell!" the man exclaimed
Then he raised his eyes to see her, a tall slender white haired woman with a spear, with her right eye glowing with a red color of doom.
"You…stand up!" she pointed her weapon at him.
The man wiped his lips grinning, and with a quick clap he locked them both with two summoned stone walls behind each.
"I don't care who you are, or what do you want, but…I love a tough woman" he commented laughing deeply.
"Then come to me…face me!" Tsuki boasted.
This act drew the attention of the guard who escorted Juan and Zolu, so he checked the summoned wall.
"Um sir please, I need to get this man out of the prison, he's hardly breathing!" Zolu begged with a feminine voice.
The man was worried so he didn't have time to think, so he entered the cell, and examined Juan who seemed unharmed.
"Hey he's fine…" he said when he suddenly felt a stinging pain down his back.
"This is for touching my ass!" Zolu shouted at him following it with a kick that sent the man to the wall knocking him out.
Then he headed to Juan and picked his shackles freeing him to use magic.
"Let's get the goddamned hell outta here!" the ragon complained shredding his dress, wiping make up off his face, and messed his hair.
"Take it easy Zolu, you are just angry because they groped you" Juan tried to calm his friend down giggling at the knife stabbed in the thief's buttocks.
"Take it easy! Dude you crazy?! I've never had my bum touched by men like today!" the ragon expressed his anger.
Meanwhile, Tsuki managed to land several hits on Zane's body, but her attacks were as useless as trying to break a stone with a pin, because the man had his whole body covered in a pale grey skin to protect him from the toughest hits.
"Ho ho, I hope your hands are as soft as your lance my beautiful lady" the man boasted.
"For a human filth who's enslaved by lust you sure are interesting" she started spinning her spear slowly.
"Oh you are persistent, a beautiful yet foolish woman, guess I'll be enjoying every second with those hips of yours" Zane commented.
But the woman ignored his taunting and approached him slowly with firm steps.
"Oh babe, please you are trapped, and your hits can do nothing to me…very well (he spread his arms) I'll let you hit me as much as you want" Zane laughed.
"Trapped, I love when my rules are fulfilled…but what I love more is to crush ignorant fools like you" the imp claimed spinning her weapon even faster summoning a gust of wind that gathered like a twister around the spear's tip.
At this moment, Zane saw the thickest aura he had ever felt, and soon his arrogance switched to fear knowing that even his magic armor won't protect him from this, he stepped back but alas the wall countered him.
"Wait! Don't!" he begged sweating with shivers of fear.
"I'll let you hit me as much as you want you said eh?" the imp laughed creepily "See you in the next life…Zane!" she added before smashing her storming weapon to the thief's body causing his enhanced skin and the wall behind him to crumble to pieces.
"And my new enchantment is… "The imp boasted hiding her enchanted spear with magic up her sleeves "Alive! Hmm, I believe I'll need to spin it more next time" the woman added in disappointment.
-Windmill: is the name of the power granted by Tsukiname to her spear; being restrictively used for physical damage, this enchantment's conditions are weaker than her magic dispelling sword the (Phantom slayer)
She imbued her weapon with the power of wind that grows stronger the faster her weapon's spins were, keeping the lowest magic usage possible.
However as a restriction; she must land a hit with her weapon the moment she stops spinning it if not the stocked wind will fire back at Tsuki and damage her instead-
The wall behind the imp was pulled back as well, she turned quickly to see that Juan and Zolu already took care of the guard so she smiled at them and raised her thumb giving them her back, and so they did the same.
"Hey don't die!" Tsuki yelled merging with the shadows leaving to catch up with the harem.
"Yes, you too!" Juan replied mounting the stairs with his friend.
And so the two teams separated each for his mission to save Nimmy, and put an end to this so called Queen "Vivian".
To be continued
Well, there's something I want to make clear:
-Zolu was originally supposed to be a mermaid (A female, there's no such thing as merman though) so this cross-dressing idea was just a residual thought of the old design for the character...Trust me I dunno what kind of cosmic miracle that changed my mind and turned the mermaid into a manly handsome hunk aqua lad (There was actually an intermidiate idea about Zolu but I'd rather not talk about it XD sorry fangirls _)
-I apologize for this unusual perversion my story is going too, but trust me it'll soon return into an innocent tale full of moralities *Lie detective rings*
-Oh one last thing, I'm out of good titles and that's the reason behind the wierd names I give for my chapters.
However, if you liked the chapter or found any flaw (Hopefully you came out with a better title) just let me know...BYE :)