AN: Yo. I feel like there's a lot I could say, but in reality, I had a 57 hour How I Met Your Mother marathon. Zero regrets.

Btw, some of the readers seemed to have not realized I posted two chapters last time. If you were in a rush and missed out, go back to read 5.6.

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Disclaimer: I own no source material.

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Chapter 5.8: The Auctions Results and a Drunken Adventure.

"Everything sold?"

"What are you daft?! Of course it sold! That snake was a millennia old, and it was a fucking basilisk. Damn thing was the most valuable piece of magical creature to hit the underground market in decades. We made a killing!"

Gorluff chugged his drink cheerfully and slammed the mug on the tavern's table. The two were meeting in a backstreet bar that Jin only got into because Gorluff was with him. Although the second the goblins in the place took a good look at him, no one raised a complaint.

Gorluff hadn't been kidding about Goblins being able to sniff out a bloodied warrior from an unblooded one.

The Silencing Charm around their table kept out eavesdroppers. "How much we talking?"

The Goblin smirked back at him. "Eighteen big ones."

Jin's eyes widened. "We made 18,000 Galleons?!" His mind ran the numbers in seconds as he recalled a distant memory. 'I remember there was a reddit page that had gone into detail of someone calculating the Potter's fortune before, and the numbers had reached over fifty thousand galleons. With a single corpse, we made a third of an ancient families liquidated wealth.'

Gorluff laughed joyfully. "Damn straight! And it would have been a hell of a lot less without my connections. I took your warning to heart about not selling in Britain, and some crazy bastard in India bought up almost everything himself. Said something about the snake speakers honoring the fallen monarch or some shit. Who cares, we made it big!"

Jin's own joy lit up as he laughed and smashed his mug into Gorluff's as they drank to it. "Wait, wasn't yours empty?"

"Ha! This is a goblins joint Jin; mugs refill the second you put em on a table. You're getting charged per cup, and for your seat."

Jin spat. "Fucking goblins, are you guys Jewish by any chance?"

"Bah, that muggle stuff? Who needs religion when you have gold?"

Jin chuckled at that. "You know, I think that's the first time you used my name."

"Aye, you became a warrior since I last saw you. Found something fun to hunt did ya?"

"Meh, just some fucking spiders. Damn things jumped me when I was with my girl."

"Ha! Goblins would have gone at it over their corpses. But good riddance, damn things are universally hated."

"Because they eat everything?"

"Aye. And they're so stuffy about their precious webs. So what if we want to harvest some of em, they can make more easy. But noooo, they get all hissy over it."

Jin hummed at the semi-friendly Goblin. The guy had been more open with Jin than expected the second he realized how much blood Jin had spilled. Making him rich also helped their semi-friendship.

"Not that I'm defending them, but the webs are their homes you know."

"Who needs a home when you can literally shit out one of the most valuable materials on the planet? The things you can do with Acromantula silk are endless. And the market is always screaming for more. Damn wizard families have a monopoly on the few farms out there."

Jin tapped a finger on the table. "You know, if I could get some silk, you think a goblin smith would be more willing to forge for me?"

Gorluff hummed thoughtfully and sat back. "You got gold, you spilled blood, and you got the silk? I think I could make that work. The real good smiths are cranky even for a goblin, but with those qualifications I could pull some strings."

Jin narrowed his eyes. "For what price?"

"Forty percent of the total cut."

"We agreed on thirty."

"How difficult do you think it is to find a goblin smith, let alone have someone willing to get you a connection?"

"I could always pay someone else less."

"You could, and they would walk you in circles for years." Gorluff leaned forward. "You might have gotten your blades wet Jin, but don't go thinking you're better at word games then the race that practically invented the book. When warlike bloodthirsty goblins were forced to hang up their axes, they took up the quill with the same exact zeal. Never forget that."

Jin growled slightly but understood the logic. Frankly, he got lucky with meeting Gorluff. "And why didn't you do that?"

The Goblin smirked. "I planned on it, until you brought me a fucking millennia old Basilisk. I didn't even need to rip you off, that's like trying to mug someone giving you a gold mine."

"….Fair. Fine, take forty. But I want something forged for me by June at the latest."

Gorluff winced and did some mental math before grudgingly nodding. "I can make that work. I know a guy. Although, I'll need half of your cut to prove to the smith you can afford it."

"How much does this shit cost?"

"It ain't cheap Jin, otherwise everyone would have a Goblin Silver weapon. Not to mention that every smith only makes a single item for anyone. Don't matter how much you offer em, they won't change the rule."

"Why the hell not?"

"Don't look at me, it's a secret among the smiths."

"Fine, but I want you to do something else for me."

"It's gonna cost ya."

"I figured. I want spell tomes. Strictly on Charms outside the Hogwarts curriculum. Nothing else."

"Any charms?"

"No dark charms, jinxes, curses, or anything. Just charms."

"Bah, why the hell would you want that? All the fun stuff is in the Dark Charms category."

"Maybe for you. Can you do it or not?"

Gorluff rubbed his chin. "I can put something together. I'll send out a few feelers. You know how anal wizards are about their charms right? Easier to pop open a tomb and peel em from their cold dead fingers than get them to hand over the tomes locked away in their libraries."

Jin sighed at the truth in that. 'Why can't this just be a normal easy Harry Potter world where everything I want just so happened to be in the Room of Requirement.' He looked back at the Goblin. "Just do what you can. My limit is three thousand Galleons."

'With 10,800 Galleons as my cut, almost 5,500 is going as collateral to prove to the smith I can afford it. It's going to cost me 2,000 for the three tents I ordered through Fleur, and another few hundred to outfit them. I can afford to spend 3,000 on getting more charms. The school is lacking an insane amount of charms I read about in fiction. Gol can't even explain to me how he knows how to use a Preservation charm on food. But money is power in its own way.'

Gorluff whistled. "For that much, I should be able to convince a few families on hard times."

Jin nodded, and the two signed a contract on it.

"And now we drink to celebrate!"

"I actually have to get back soon, my girls not really happy with me at the moment."

"Oh? So you're a pussy huh?"

"…..Oi Bartender! Get me something harder than this piss water!"

00000

Jin woke up naked and shackled to his bed with a killer headache. "Oohhh, what hit me?"

"Have you returned to whats left of your sanity, Mon Tigre?"

Jin blinked at the bright light shining into his room and looked to the window sill, where a vision of beauty stole his breath away. "Fle….."

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Half-dressed and sipping a cup of coffee, Fleur looked at him in amusement. "Cat got your tongue, Mon Tigre~?"

Jin wet his dry mouth and looked around his bedroom. "Did I die? I didn't expect angels when I died. I was sure I'd see the smug face of that damn Vampire."

A giggle was his answer as she strode over to the bed and sat by his side, idly running a hand over his exposed chest. "Non, Jin, you didn't die, yet." She punctured her statement by digging her nails into his skin and making him wince. "You don't remember a thing, do you?"

Jin looked at her in askance. "Whatever I did, it wasn't me."

She rolled her eyes and sat back against the headboard. "What am I supposed to do with you? First, you seduce my mother…."

"Hey, I did nothing!"

Fleur giggled. "I'm joking. She's ready to adopt you though if I don't put a ring on you. Or a leash."

Jin groaned. "Is she going to keep making marriage comments till we do it? Everything aside, and I would burn the school down for you, but we've known each other for like half a year."

Fleur laid a gentle kiss on his forehead. "I know Jin, trust me I know. But like I've said, Veela can bond in days if they are sure. My mother thinks us dating for a few months is more than enough." She smiled fondly and ran her free hand through his brown hair. "She'll back off, for now."

"Oh, that's good."

"Mn."

Jin closed his eyes and enjoyed the way her nails scratched over his scalp for all of ten seconds before he jerked his hand and pulled at his shackle. "Hey babe?"

"Mn?"

"Why am I shackled to the bed?"

"I don't know, why are you?"

Jin turned to see her amused yet not amused expression. "What did I do?"

She snorted. "What didn't you do Jin?"

He held up his palms in defense. "Whatever I did, it was not my faul…."

His gaze lowered to her wide open chest and her lip twitched as her finger tilted his chin up. "Eyes up here darling."

He shook his head. "Ah, my bad. God those things are distracting. Did god carve you from a fucking Greek sculpture or something?"

She looked at him in extreme amusement and bent to steal a kiss before pushing his head back down. "Good one, but not enough."

Jin winced. "Ok, so I got black out drunk. In my defense, I was challenged by an asshole I met for the second time in my life in a bar. And he was like three feet tall. How the hell did I get home?"

"I came to collect you."

Jin groaned. "Shit…. tell me I didn't wind up in a brothel or something?"

Fleur half choked on her drink and patted his head mockingly. "Oh, please Jin. As if you could even get a boner for one of those skanks after all we've done."

Jin opened his mouth to respond and closed it with a thoughtful look as Fleur silently swore and looked away. His gaze traveled from his groin and back to the Veela's actions. "Babe….have you been training my dick?"

"No." Her abrupt answer without making eye contact did not reassure him.

"You've been training my dick! No wonder I didn't even pop a boner when your mom hit me with her allure."

Fleur coughed into her hand and had to stop herself from breaking into laughter while Jin shot her an incredulous look. "Am I unable to get it up Fleur? Cuz I'm pretty sure I took one look at your boobs and I'm rock solid right now."

She licked her lips and smirked at him. "After last night, I'm surprised its still standing. Your stamina is improving Mon Tigre."

"Uh, uh, don't you Mon Tigre me Sparkles. I want to know what has been done to my precious boy."

Fleur slapped his shoulder playfully. "Oh don't be a baby. Heavy exposure to Veela allure for prolonged periods will result in men having more self-control around average women while those who you have stronger emotions too will enflame your emotions, specifically your lust."

Jin blinked. "So, I'm less likely to be led astray by thinking with my dick on women I'm not emotionally connected to?"

Fleur smiled and nodded shamelessly. "Oui~. Considering your boy as you call it, is ready to pierce the heavens, I'll take it as a compliment. You have to both be emotionally connected and sexually attracted."

Jin tilted his head in thought. "I feel like I should be more annoyed, but at the same time I'm kinda relieved. Horny thoughts can really screw with logical thinking."

Fleur left her cup floating and wrapped her arms around his head as she pulled it into her bosom. "And that's why I keep you."

"I'm not a pet tiger Sparkles."

"Non, you're MY pet tiger, especially after last night."

"What the hell did I do?"

Fleur hummed with her cheek on top of his head. "Hm….well, I guess I should start at the beginning. When Gol came to get me."

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"Ah~, I needed this."

Fleur enjoyed every single day with her lover. She enjoyed the time they spent together. The time they laughed, played, and ravished each other over and over.

It was in her nature to be as passionate as a burning flame. And her time with Jin was very passionate. But her nature wasn't her everything, and she still had a mind that could grow weary after various stressful hurdles.

Her studies took up hours every day, and while many had told her to relax, she wanted to succeed in life, and to do that, she had to keep up the daily grind. Knowing the challenges Jin would have to face in the future only enflamed that fact in her mind. So she pushed herself, every day.

And when she wasn't studying or spending time with Jin, she trained her spell casting. She used the Room of Requirement Jin showed her to summon obstacles and train in the combat aspects of magic as well as the capabilities of her inner fire.

Veela required no wand to summon fire, but it was tied into their emotions and was difficult to control at the best of times. Only the Veela who actually pushed themselves to control it could be a true force to be reckoned with.

The Centaurs, the Vampires, the Werewolves, the Goblins, the Merfolk, etc. Each intelligent magical species had their talents, and history had told of champions for all of them. Each faced their own difficulties to become powerful, but just like the Wizards and Witches, time and training could take them far.

Fleur knew that; she knew the history the Veela only taught their own. Of the names that rang in the annals of time. She knew she could go far. But the cost was enough to make any casual challenger back down, for there had been less than ten in history to reach the heights she aimed for.

She had always been prideful and trained hard for her goals. Knowledge was power in a sense, but power itself was also needed.

So she pushed harder. Jin obviously knew it. He never questioned her on it, as how could he when he cast himself into the spider's den day after day? They both wanted to grow, and they silently supported each other and tried to push them up.

However, occasionally, even for a strong will, a break was still needed. A moment that even something as delicious as ravaging your partner with repeated climaxes couldn't do for a magical species that took on the aspect of lust and love.

That's what spa days were for.

"Ah~! Right there."

Fleur relaxed in the Beauxbatons spa room in their expanded carriage, a place every one of the present forty students could reserve once a month for a few hours. Lit candles, a bewitched harp, scented oils, and a professional female masseuse undoing all the built stress in the muscles of the body.

"My, this tournament must really be pushing you young lady."

Fleur groaned as the large, muscled woman dug a knot out of her back before sinking limply onto the table when she was done. "Ah~, you have no idea. Francesca, you're a miracle worker."

Francesca laughed as she placed a warmed towel on the younger girl's neck. "I do what I'm paid to do. Do you want the room for a bit? I don't have another appointment for an hour."

Fleur hummed. "Yes please. Thank you." She drifted off sleepily while the bodybuilder-looking woman shook her head and made for the door.

"Sleep well deary."

She turned off the lights on the way out, and Fleur slumbered in blissful peace.

For five minutes.

A soft pop appeared in the room as a hurried voice shook her back to wakefulness. "Ma'am."

"Hmm."

"Ma'am. Please wake up."

"NNnnn gosh away Jin."

"Ma'am! The lord is in danger!"

Fleur blinked groggily and sat up as her fierce loyalty reared its head. "Wha..?" She rubbed her eyes and pushed the sheet off her body to see an anxious-looking Gol holding her clothes out to her.

"Ma'am. Please, we must go."

She shook her head as her mind jumpstarted. "Wait, what? Whats going on? Where's Jin? He was supposed to be meeting his goblin friend in Diagon."

Gol took a look at the beauty products on her face and summoned a towel to his hand. "That's correct Ma'am."

Fleur grumbled about ruining her facial treatment as she rubbed it off. "And? What happened?"

"Well, it seems he got drunk, ma'am."

"Oh, for the love of….what did he do?"

"There was a fight in the bar. A physical one."

"Between wizards?" She asked incredulously.

Gol shook his head. "No, well, there may have been one or two in the mix. But between goblins. Maybe a few others. I believe Bron took inspiration from those….what did the muggles call it….ah, UFC? He has been titled the warrior elf by the goblins."

Fleur blinked and chose to focus on the main point. "….Jin started a bar fight?"

"Indeed."

"Oh god, is he in the hospital or something?"

"No, he seems to have won."

Fleur deadpanned. "…..Of course he did. So? He should be home then. Why are you here?"

The house elf winced. "Er….sir didn't return home, ma'am."

"He didn't?"

"No."

"Where did he go, Gol?"

Gol sighed. "The forest ma'am."

Fleur's eyes widened. "He went to fight the spiders drunk and alone?!" She shot to her feet and used a cleaning charm to remove all the massage oil on her, and threw on her clothes.

"Not exactly Ma'am."

She shot the elf a look. "Just say it already!"

Gol sagged tiredly. "The sir seems to have formed an adventurer party and took off to fight the boss monster."

"….Excuse me?"

Two minutes later, Gol popped Fleur to the border of the spider's nest deep into the woods. She didn't even have time to blink before a sword was leveled at her neck.

"Hold!" A strong voice called out, and Fleur turned her head to see a centaur warrior pulling back his blade.

A dozen centaurs stood on edge as one pushed forward and sniffed the air. "A Veela? My lady, what are you doing out here?" The Centaur respectfully inclined his head, and Fleur found herself thankful for their species being at peace.

"I'm here to collect my idiot lover. Would any of you happen to see a six foot two brown haired, amber eyed, slightly wild wizard around here?"

The lead Centaur processed her words and seemed to sag and look at her with sympathy. "Ah, Jin then? That must mean you are Fleur?"

Fleur blinked and nodded. "He spoke of me?"

Orios's brow twitched. 'More like we fought for two hours on who had the more beautiful partner.' Outwardly he coughed. "Something like that. If you're looking for the annoying one, I'm afraid you're a bit late. He went in there. The names Orios by the way." The Centaur nodded to the forest, and Fleur looked over his shoulder to see a trail of spider corpses.

"Oh for fucks sake. How long ago did he go in?"

Orios sighed. "Our scouts caught sight of him with a group of five others entering around an hour ago, I was called as they thought he was being used as bait by a band of goblins."

"Was he?"

"…I don't believe so based on the alcoholic bottles they left behind." He pointed to the side where the centaurs had gathered a dozen empty bottles in a pile.

Fleur turned irritated eyes on the tired Gol. "You couldn't keep him out of trouble?"

"Ma'am, I cannot go against direct orders."

"And what were those orders?"

"In order: 'Let me drink so I can show this pissant whats what'. 'Sing with us'. And 'Don't get in the way of the quest, stand aside little bro'. I came to get you after the last one."

Fleur's eye twitched. "Of course he did. What about Sil and Bron?"

"Sil has received the same final order. And Bron is by his side."

"To watch over him?"

"….No, I do not believe so. He took his knife for 'big baddies'."

The air around Fleur steamed. "Who else was in this 'party' of his?"

Gol and Orios took a step away from the steadily building volcano. "Three goblins and a vampire."

"Vampires can't get drunk!"

Orios interrupted. "Well, actually, magical liquor affects the mana just as much as the body so if they drink enough, even they can get drunk."

The temperature only increased. "Right. Excuse me while I go drag my idiot out of there."

Orios was quick to stand in her way and only wavered slightly in front of her fiery glare. "Miss, please hang on. Only death awaits in there. Jin is the only one to repeatedly go in and come back out. You cannot even see without a light, and the light will only bring a horde down."

She ground her teeth. "Then how did he bring others with him?"

"Vampires can also see in the dark."

"And the goblins?"

"They are creatures of the earth, darkness shouldn't be a problem."

Fleur growled. "How is their territory impossible to cross then?!"

Orios scratched his cheek. "Centaurs can't see in the dark. No goblin or vampire clan lives in this forest."

"And you never asked for help?"

"This is our war!"

Fleur snorted and pushed past him. "Unbelievable. I'm the only one with any balls around here. I'm going to go get my man myself."

Orios's pride took a hit and he quickly walked after her while signaling his men. "Stay on guard, I'll bring her back." He left them behind and chased after her. "Miss, this is a terrible idea. You cannot see and conjuring light or fire is suicide."

"Oh please, who do you think helped Jin learn how to make blue flames?" Her wand pointed at her hands, and Bluebell flames ignited with a dim, ghostly glow that only spread a bare dozen feet around her. However, the illumination was enough to reflect off the cold black eyes of a spider corpse not ten feet away. "Ah! Goddamn it, Jin." A low scream left her lips before she brought it back down. "Clean up after yourself."

Orios examined it. "A clean axe blow to the brain. It's too clean for Jin, probably one of the goblins."

"Yes, wonderful." She kept walking and Orios refused to leave her side out of a mix of pride and honor.

"This is a terrible idea. We should go back."

"You're welcome to turn around."

"That would be an act without honor."

Fleur rolled her eyes and pushed on. "Of course."

The two made it another five minutes of slow walking before Orios stopped them and raised his blade. "It's been too quiet. The corpses show the sectors guards are dead, but there should have been a commotion by now. I hear nothing."

"Jin said if you defeat the guards fast enough without alerting the web, you can make it through undetected."

"Yes, but the numbers increase the deeper you go in. Being found is inevitable, no centaur has done such a thing."

"My Jin is no centaur."

Orios made a disgruntled noise before they both froze. "Did you hear that?"

"Was that….giggling?"

The two crept forward slowly and made out a dark humanoid shadow in the tall grass. Orios walked forward first with his sword held out and aimed at the creature, only for a loud clang to ring out as an axe met his blade. "Who be daring to point a blade at…at….at….who am I again? Hic."

Fleur held up her blue flame, and the form of a small ugly goblin appeared with red cheeks. Orios scoffed and pulled back his blade. "One of Jin's party members it seems."

Fleur strode forward with a growl. "Oi! Where's Jin?!"

The goblin hiccupped and giggled disturbingly. "Eh? You looking for the cap? He's be that way." He pointed over his shoulder into the dark.

"How far away?"

"Hell if I know. I'm seeing four of ya at the moment."

Orios scoffed. "Why were you left here goblin?"

It hiccupped. "Too much venom, ya hear? Can't really feel me legs at the moment. The rest be coming back this way any minute now. Unless their dead of course. In that case, I'm dead too, hahaha."

Fleur turned up the heat without the light. "Take us to him."

The goblin waved a hand. "Nah. He's on his way back already."

"How do you…."

Orios spoke up. "Goblins are creatures of the earth; they can feel vibrations nearby."

The goblin pointed at him. "Aye, horse breath got it."

"Oi."

"Ho? You wanna go ya sack of meat? Bring it on, I've taken on twenty of ya…..Zzzzz."

Fleur and Orios sweatdropped as the goblin fell face-first into the ground, asleep with his axe still raised.

"Well…."

"Yeah, should we continue?"

"No, he was right. Listen closely."

Fleur tried to focus, and gradually she began hearing a whisper in the air.

'…..ake…..dw…..pa…..nd….'

'…ake…one….dw….pas….i…aro….'

'…take…one…down…..pass…it…around…'

The voices grew until a group of singing voices came over the tree line. "Take one down, pass it around, thirty seven barrels of mead on the wall~!"

Fleur increased the light of her flame ever so slightly and caught the feet of a group of bodies with their arms over their shoulders.

Her eyes softened for a moment at the goofily smiling face of her man, before turning to the two other goblins, a vampire of all things, and Bron, all walking in a line. Or stumbling more like it.

"Thirty six barrels of mead on the wall, thirty six barrels of mead! Take one down, pass it around, thirty five barrels of….sparkles? Sparkles!"

Jin's eyes turned her way and lit up as he pushed off his fellows, uncaring of how they stumbled over each other in a pile as he approached her. "Babe, I've been looking everywhere for you."

"In a spider infested nest?"

"Huh, I guess you weren't that tree back there. No wonder you got angry when I smacked your ass."

"So you're the one who smacked my ass, you fucker!" Gorluff threw his axe at him, and he jumped over it casually before face-planting.

Fleur sighed as she approached and started checking him over for injuries. "Are you alright? Are you hurt?"

Jin laughed goofily and bear-hugged her. "Babe, babe, my pants hurt."

"Your pants?"

"Yeah, I saw you and they got too tight."

"…."

"Hehehe."

Orios slapped his forehead. "I risked my life for a moron."

Fleur pushed Jin back with a scoff. "You knew that before you came in here." She focused on Jin's face and narrowed her eyes.

A loud slap rang out in the clearing as even the drunken party turned to see her laying into Jin. "What do you think you were doing?! You were supposed to be gone for an hour to meet a goblin in Diagon. Not go drunkenly gallivanting into the worlds most dangerous Acromantula nest!"

Jin rubbed his red cheek with droopy eyes and raised a finger. "I had a great reason."

"Which is?"

"Gorluff called me a pussy. You can't let that stand as a man! It goes against the code."

Fleur was the only one there who didn't nod her head to those words of wisdom. Even Orios fell into it. "I'll call you much worse things if you don't get your ass out of this place right now! Come on, Gol is taking us all out."

"Wait! We can't do that."

"And why not?"

Jin hiccupped and raised a bottle to his lips with a finger held up, and Fleur developed a severe twitch. "Bah, good stuff. What were we talking about again?"

"Why you can't leave right this second before I fry you."

His eyes lit up. "Oh right!" He turned around. "Jim you crazy bastard, bring the sack up."

Fleur turned to the others as the Vampire of the group wobbled forward with a sack. "Got it cap." He opened a large sack on his back and showed the newcomers a large pile of glowing green orbs.

Orios sucked in a cold breath. "Are those spider eggs?! Burn them! Wait, you found the queen spider?!" He grabbed Jin by the shoulders and shook him as his head bounced back and forth.

The Vampire hissed and hugged the sack to him. "Never! My research will be completed!"

Jin was getting sick from the rapid movement. "Wo…wo….wo…calm the fuck down dude…."

"Calm down?! You found the creature responsible for laying the eggs of our enemies for the last fifty years and you expect me to calm down? Did you kill it or not?!"

The two remaining goblins wobbled forward shoulder to shoulder. "Aye, the big ones dead hahaha!"

"Struck our axes deep in the flesh we did!"

Orios dropped Jin like a sack of potatoes and stepped forward. "But…but…how?!"

Bron hiccupped and laughed insanely. "Fire! Fire everywhere! Burn the baddies! Hehahehaheha."

Orios and Fleur sweatdropped, and the first turned to the goblins for an answer while the second fussed over the fallen Jin. "Open wide, Jin."

"Nuh-uh."

"Jin."

"My mother told me not to."

"You don't remember your mother."

"I don't? Well shit, no wonder dad was an alcoholic."

"You don't remember your father either."

"….How was I created?!"

Fleur sighed and shoved open his mouth to blast his insides with a Featherlight charm and lower his weight so she could lift him up. Trying to levitate only his insides was a bad idea.

Meanwhile, Orios was trying to shake down Gorluff and his female goblin friend. "How did you reach the queen?!"

Gorluff laughed. "Listen to the elf horse boy, we did it with fire!"

The female laughed with him. "Aye, distractions."

"What do you mean distractions?"

Bron pushed himself off the floor with a suddenly sober face. "I gotta pee." He wobbled off to the edge of the clearing without anyone noticing.

Jin got a cold blast of water to the face and sobered up for all of five seconds. "We set fire to three different locations on the other side of their territory."

"But that wouldn't do much damage! You would only make the horde descend on you!"

"Yeah, if we were on that side."

"But you would still have to defeat all the perimeter guards without setting off the alarms."

"Ha, yeah, holy shit, is that Grabass?"

Everyone turned to where he was looking and saw the fallen goblin Fleur and Orios first met with his axe still raised.

"Grabass?"

"What kind of name is that?"

Gorluff and the female goblin wobbled over and kicked him. "Oi, still alive ya fucker? Next time don't fight em barehanded like that moron."

Jin reared up at the backhanded insult. "Oi! You're just jealous cuz your dick is the size of my pinky!"

"At least I have a penis!"

"You take that back!"

"Make me bitch!"

"Sparkles, tell the little shit I've got a dick bigger than his head."

Fleur rolled her eyes and slapped Jin on the back of his head. "Leave me out of your dick measuring contest. But I like what you have."

"Ha! Take that!"

"She didn't confirm the size dipshit!"

Orios was growing increasingly frantic. "Would someone tell me what happened?!"

Bron taking a piss narrowed his eyes at the weird tree he was urinating on. 'What kind of tree is hairy? Heh, hairy, like Harry Potter.' He finished his business and looked up at a dozen cold black eyes.

Jin and Gorluff turned to Orios with annoyed eyes before a scream set them all on alert. Only to see the female goblin smashing Grabass over the head. "Die you little perverted shit!"

Fleur dropped a fist into her palm and accidentally dropped Jin. "Oh, so that's why he's called Grabass." Then she noticed Jin. "Oops, sorry." She threw his arm back over her shoulder.

Only for a second scream to ring out and Jin to sigh. "Guys, I know we did good being silent but can we not all start screaming. The fires should have died out by now."

Fleur looked at the group. "Er…Jin…that wasn't one of us."

"Huh?" Unfortunately for Jin, being drunk seriously impaired his senses. Like his sense of hearing.

"Ahhhh! Run for your lives!" Bron came running through the group without his pants, with his hands over his head, and still drunk enough to forget he could actually teleport.

The group blinked at his streaking form and then blinked again at the direction he came from, where more and more giant black spiders appeared in the dim lighting of Fleur's blue flames.

Orios paled.

Fleur shivered.

Gorluff raised his axe with a crazed laugh.

The female goblin and Grabass held each other and backed away slowly.

The Vampire was already running alongside Bron.

And Jin popped the lid on another bottle of Firewhiskey and chugged. "We should probably run now." He smashed Gorluff over the back of the head with the empty bottle and tossed him to the female goblin and Grabass while hitting him with a featherweight charm.

That seemed to be the signal as hundreds of spiders burst forth, and the group ran for their lives.

Orios kept smashing into trees every time he stepped out of Fleur's light source and was forced to slow down.

The goblins hefted Gorluff and ran as fast as their stubby legs could take them, which was surprisingly fast.

And Fleur snapped at Jin with a nervous face. "You just had to get drunk didn't you!?"

Jin raised a finger from where he was riding over her shoulder and absently tossed out charms behind her to slow down the horde. "In my defense…."

"You have no defense! You're still drinking!" Fleur grabbed the bottle on his lips and tossed it behind them on fire, where it exploded and set three spiders on fire.

Jin blinked. "Uh, babe, maybe less explosions. I don't think the main group knew where we were just yet."

"I'm a little busy trying to run at the moment to care!"

Jin drunkenly focused his hearing and could barely make out the sounds of a LOT more moving legs coming their way. "Right….lets switch off. Hit me with blue fire!"

"Wha..!? Jin!"

Jin didn't give her time to respond as he turned into full tiger mode and grabbed her by the back of her clothes to throw her over his back.

The only problem was that he was still drunk, and he had gone in the wrong direction.

Orios lost his light source, and the spiders split into two groups, with the main force following the light.

"Jin! Go left! Left!"

Tiger Jin's world was spinning. 'Left?' He turned toward the spiders, and Fleur shrieked. "Other way!"

Tiger Jin yelped and ran as Fleur unleashed her birthright and poured all the flames she could out of her palms. The fact that it would alert every spider in the nest didn't matter anymore as Jin ran like a brain-damaged horse, with only his innate sense of balance keeping them going.

Fleur absentmindedly followed his last order and hit his fur with blue fire, where Jin poured his own mana out and took control of it. He couldn't cast as a tiger, and his skin was still resistant to magic, but he still had mana, and his fur didn't follow the same rule as his skin.

The chase went on for minutes as spiders kept trying to cut them off, only for Jin to ignite in heat and slash through them like a hot knife through butter, leaving streaks of ghostly blue flames in the wake of his claws.

Fleur found the entire situation insane and yet couldn't fight off the laugh that escaped her lungs as her legs clung to her steed like a vice and unleashed hell on the charging swarm.

This was the excitement and adventure she craved. Albeit, maybe with a warning in advance. Her charge into the forest had as much to do with saving Jin as it was about seeking adventure. So when they broke the tree line of webs above minutes later into the moonlight, she felt herself be as saddened as she was relived. 'I'm running low on mana anyway.'

She shook her head in exasperation and hugged Jin's body. "We're out Jin, slow down." Her words only just left her mouth when the spiders decided to continue their chase. "Oh shit! Speed up! Speed up!"

Tiger Jin confusedly looked behind him, and his eyes widened. 'Oh my.'

He took off like a bat out of hell and, by some coincidence, came up upon the wide-eyed face of Orios, having lost his sword and running with a red face as the goblins clung to his sides and shot crossbow bolts at the chasing spiders, as well as the Vampire with the egg sack still clutched to his chest possessively running at the same speed.

Orios eyed Jin and Fleur and yelled. "You left me!"

Fleur scoffed and shot another fireball. "Oh please, you just didn't follow us."

"I was running straight!"

Fleur chose the road of defending her man in this instance. "You sure about that?"

"I'M A CENTUAR! WE RUN STRAIGHT!"

Grabass laughed and slapped the horse's ass. "Then run faster! They be gaining."

"I'd be a hell of a lot faster right now if you three weren't on my back!"

"What happened to your warriors?"

Orios glanced around. "We came out in a different direction, no help from them for this!"

Fleur glanced at the Vampire. "Oi, anything you want to add?!"

The Vampire ignored them all and kept running like a mad scientist. "They can't have my precious!"

Fleur's eye twitched, and the female goblin spoke up. "Ignore him, lassie! He's the researcher type. Just keep on the fire!" Fleur obliged.

The spiders kept gaining ground, and when Jin was deciding if Fleur would be mad at him for calling a timeout to get a drink, Bron reappeared with a pop.

And he was holding his big fuck off knife. And it was coated in oil and on fire. "Bron doesn't run from the food supply! For my masters meals!" He charged forward with a war cry and slammed his blade down, creating a massive cloud of dust, and effectively distracting the spiders with the bright light.

The three runners almost tripped, but Grabass cheered. "That's the way you crazy fucker! Get some warrior elf!"

Orios called out in worry. "Should we go back for him?" Jin was a step ahead of the call and was getting ready to turn back; as crazy or not Bron was still his elf, but Gol chose that moment to reappear, standing on the Centaur's back with a stiff posture.

"That won't be necessary. Sil has gone after him. Please keep running master, ma'am, others."

The female goblin scoffed. "Others? Fuck your mother!"

"She is dead madam."

"Fuck her corpse!"

Gol pinched his nose with a look only a well-aged disgusted French butler could make. "You are unpleasant."

"Excuse me?!"

Grabass saw his chance to grab some ass. "Her ass is just fine!"

Fleur sighed and sagged against the luscious flaming fur of her tiger as she ignored the female goblin choking out Grabass while Gol critiqued her technique. 'So much for a spa day….'

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"And then we all went home."

Jin blinked with wide eyes at the story. "Let me get this straight. I got drunk, started and won a goblin bar fight, which I'll add is awesome, then formed a drunken D&D party of two goblin thieves with crossbows, a goblin warrior with an axe, a vampire researcher nerd, and Bron, and then invaded the spiders nest all the way to the core where the eggs were kept….wait, how did we do that?"

"You apparently set fire to multiple directions of the forest to get their numbers to move away from the nest."

"Ah, weirdly smart. But then we still had to fight dozens of spiders on guard duty to reach the center, where we somehow killed the spider queen, grabbed a large expanded sack of Acromantula eggs….why did we do that?"

"The vampire researcher wanted to publish an in depth study on the creatures and the goblins wanted to farm them for silk and break the wizard family monopoly."

"Ah, power to them I guess. Did we leave behind the queen spider corpse?"

"Non, Sil took it back. It seems the trip took a lot out of him and that's why he was delayed in coming to help."

"Huh, cool. Wonder if Gorluff can sell that. Or maybe the Centaurs are interested." He shook his head. "Not the point. We did all that, then walked away while singing?"

"You seemed to have created a silencing bubble around you, somehow. I figured it out an hour ago. You were probably drunkenly adjusting a charm."

"Damn, I'm awesome."

"Don't get a big head."

The two laughed, and Jin went on. "Then we ran into you and Orios, who I'm still amazed actually came out there at all. The Centaurs are like war victims with PTSD about heading inside."

Fleur shrugged. "He speaks of honor, but I think insulting his pride pushed him on."

Jin chuckled. "Don't be too harsh on him. He's a dick, but he's a good man…er…horse…I mean Centaur. He's a good guy."

Fleur laughed and kissed his head. "I know. I thanked him before we split up."

"That's good. I guess the rest you already explained. Is Bron alright?"

"He went back to work with a hangover this morning."

"…You didn't let him take any spiders back to cook right?"

Fleur's hand froze from where it was roaming his chest. "…We should warn Gol."

"Right. And then we came back home. That's one wild night. I can't believe you rushed out without hesitation to come get me."

Fleur giggled and rubbed her cheek on his head in affection. "Oui. And I would do it again. You're Mon Tigre, Jin. Don't forget that."

He chuckled and rubbed back against her. "And you're Mon Soleil Fleur. Thank you."

"You never have to."

The two bathed in the moment, and Jin's feline side immensely enjoyed the physical affection. That lasted a solid minute before his mind came back to one crucial detail. "Hey, babe?"

"Hm?"

"You know, none of that story explained why I'm tied to our bed."

Fleur flushed and averted her eyes. "I may have gotten slightly aroused during our little adventure."

"A little? Fleur, I think my boner is actually a little painful right now."

She licked her lips. "Hm, maybe I should take a look at that."

"What? Wait, babe, it really, ooooohhhh, never mind!"

Fleur discovered her love for the thrill that night. And Jin discovered just how aroused it made her.

On a side note, Jin decided to take her on more hunts after that day. For pure reasons of course.

Chapter end.

AN: Thoughts? Before anyone says anything, the death of the spider queen actually is tied into the plot of the spiders. There is a reason Jin succeeded beyond semi-crack.

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