End Party 1/3
Part 1
With sunrise fast approaching. Deep underground the manor of Relaks runs the bunny girl.
Busy with the body of an unconscious hooded man she brought along in a princess carry. Her feet's kicking through a tunnel flooded in dirty rain water reaching to her thighs. The flooding had only worsened as the walls of the tunnel neared total collapse.
Her surroundings swallowed in nothing but pure darkness and a strange trail of fluorescent sugar that floated over the dirty rain water.
Esther wondered how and when that had gotten there, but had no time to stop and worry about it. Her mission was to evacuate the manor and gather her party members before the Lightning Tyrant.
As she ran through the flooding tunnel, a group of cute creatures felt alarm bells ring over their heads.
"W-whose there kupo!?" Moop of the Melodic Mascots called.
His fur puffing as the intruder runs into the light coming from the ethereal flame left by Bergamo.
"Kupo!! It's the boss kupo!! The rabbit chimera got him kupo!! We need to save him ku—"
"Buk, buk, buk, bagawk!!!"
"Woah kupo!! Pomelo wait, don't chicken out and run she's got the boss— we have to save him kupo!!"
"Buk, bagawk!!!" Pomelo ran for his feathered life, clucking sounds no proud chocobo should ever make.
Lest that vicious creature catches up and fries him and his friends alive.
"Hey! I just heard a bunch of really rude things said about me! You four get back here and explain yourselves!" Esther calmly called.
Her pace slowed by being unable to use her powers over the thigh high rain water, less she electrocutes Sigma and casually finish's him off for good.
Under the effect of a tremendous adrenaline rush and the flight or flight harder response. Pomelo flew over the rain water of the tunnel faster than a hawk diving speed. Ran up the spiral stairs faster than a Coeurl and kicked the door of the storage room off its hinges before reaching the right wing corridor, and with a loud glass shattering crack he would burst out the window and into the morning dawn.
"BAGAWK!!!"
In rain leftovers from the storm and flooding over the greenery hills. The world outside the manor shines and sparkles under the rising sun.
With a bright big rainbow adorning the morning sky, Pomelo and the Melodic Mascots fly towards the Dawn. Bodyguard work was way tougher than they had expected. They would stick to singing songs from now on.
Meanwhile back on the right wing corridor, the Precursor of the Storm had just arrived back on the surface.
"Rylak where are you!? And you, move out of the way this instant!" She screams at one of the charmed guards blocking her way.
"B-but milady, I was ordered to bring this to you..." The charmed guard started reaching behind his back.
"No time! Get out of the way…"
It was Esther precious attire, the one she had to change out from when the party started.
Her heels dug on the red carpet dragging smoke until she came to a sudden stop. Her eyes gleaming with gratitude.
"Rylak told you to get this for me!? I knew she was a really good girl!" Not that she ever doubted her trusty junior.
The rabbit Precursor dropped Sigma over the guard arms with a, "hold this for me." And quickly snatched her attire before entering an empty room nearby to change.
Meanwhile inside the restroom connected to the main hall.
"Please forgive my father lord Karten! I swear he didn't mean to offend you!"
"Yeah, I know…" The proud Lycanthrope washes his face by the sink.
What he thought would be a chill drinking night had become a body positivity intervention.
"Start by eating six meals a day and with plenty of meat before moving over to the big boy stuff."
"I'll have my servants mail your state a few recipes that are sure to help you with those gains. Meals so good you just won't want to stop."
"Let nobody say your goals are impossible. I was once a twig under 200 pounds and look at me now."
"If those stinking peasants say anything about your weight not being good enough for a lord, then just hang them like it's nobody's business!"
"As you can see lord Silverscale, there's nothing to fear amongst us blue bloods. We don't discriminate against our own, that's what the commoners are for."
"Oh! You're all so kind to my poor Netrak, we're so grateful— bow your head husband of mine! Show them your gratitude!"
Karten head felt like it was spinning from all the liquor it took to get through it all.
"I'm fine, I've seen worse. Go back and watch over your father for when the others return."
"R-right lord Karten…" With a polite bow, Wilbert exits the restroom.
Karten breathed a sigh of relief, looking over his right hand as it had started to grow claws slightly, and fangs showed when he flashed a grin at the mirror.
The party had taken his toll on him far more than he had expected. It almost felt like a waste to have such a good time to relax going down the drain like that, but it was now morning, and his curse had gotten easier to control at the very least.
Yet the Precursor of Shadows just couldn't feel at ease. Something bugged him, almost like he could feel sinister eyes watching over his every move.
An evil presence was lurking around, holding malignant intent towards him. And then he heard someone walking inside the restroom, a person running barefooted was approaching.
"Karten dearest, oh I'm so glad I found you!" It was the lovely junior of their group.
"Rylak… what happened?"
Before him stood the 'youngest' member of their party.
Her breath ragged, her hair tied on a bun with some strands sticking out. Her minidress torn with large gaping holes like it had been tossed inside a grinder, needles sticking out of her small frame, her feet bare as she had lost her heels and few hundred blemishes over the pale skin.
"Don't worry about me, we have more pressing matters, the guests are in danger!" She cried out.
Karten was impressed by her tenacity and kindness. To have found herself in such a state and yet her only concern was for the safety of the innocent.
"I got separated from Esther due to circumstances, but I managed to find Tel-Fulsanis!"
The name alone sobered the mighty lycanthrope. The time for partying was now over, the monster they've set to annihilate had finally been found and a sense of urgency fills the air.
"He's trapped inside a cage underneath this manor! I know a way we can take to get to him but we must hurry! That cage won't hold him down for much longer!" The witch had said.
Hearing of their circumstances, Karten was quick to make his mind and strides towards her. On one hand a snap of his fingers and on the other a dark magical flame had burst out with a fwoosh.
"Eek!" Kryla jolted in place as she was soon engulfed inside the purple flames in her entirety.
Below her the ground carbonized and cracked, and the ceiling above her left a blackened hole, leaving the witch herself free of all wounds, needless and blemishes.
The frightened squeal and jolt she made caused Karten to realize what he had done and explain himself.
"Sorry I… I forget you're not familiar with this. I meant to heal you with my power."
"T-thank you Karten dearest!" She thanked him profusely after witnessing the results.
She was indeed familiar with the way his powers worked already from their time together… before he turned out to be a dirty cheater and she justifiably had to ruin his entire life as payback!
But the girl she's pretending to be wouldn't know he can use his own offensive power to heal others and himself.
It was well known that all Precursors hold dominion with the elements they rule over, and could regenerate from attacks of said elements, their own attacks included, but not all of them did so to they point they could even pass that power on to others around them.
"There's no time to lose! I tried meeting up with Esther and Reberta but none of them seem to be around. There's no time to evacuate the guests either, we must hurry to the cage and slay the Lightning Tyrant or else it would be too late to save anyone!"
Having healed Kryla, Karten picked her by the hand and they began running out of the restroom.
Completely unaware of the malicious tricks at play by the hand of the witch he's holding onto.
"I got it, lead the way."
The two entered the large main hall where they soon came into view of the rest of the guests from the major's party.
Paying no heed to the looks and whispers, Kryla pointed towards the right wing and Karten ran dragging her along.
Going through the door they found the right wing first floor to be completely empty, and Kryla leads the way until they arrived at a room used to store excess furniture.
There they found a trap door and Karten opens it to find a flooded spiral staircase.
"It's down there Karten dearest! There's a tunnel right underneath that wasn't like this before and it leads into an underground lab where the Tyrant is!"
Karten nods and using his control over the water element, splits a way for them to walk through, causing the rain water to hug the wall as he passes by holding Kryla's hand, before leaving the water to close behind them.
And as the two head deeper underground, one of the doors from the right wing corridor opens and out steps a guard holding a fainted hooded man in his arms.
He takes a quiet step and stands solemnly over the corridor for a few seconds before another door opens nearby.
"Wooh! Feels good to be back in my usual getup. Oh, thank you for holding this guy for me!" The rabbit thanked the guard, receiving Sigma like she was picking a bag of groceries from a neighbor.
"You're welcome milady! I live to serve!"
Esther sported her classic bunny eared white hooded along her skirt and a leather corset underneath, with her trusty storm kickers and pair of gloves.
"And hey, haven't you seen the girl that was with me before? Or any grumpy man or woman of white hair walking around while I was in there changing?"
"Non milady, and I haven't moved from this spot at all!"
"Ah well, they must still be partying around at their leisure while SOME of us have to do all the work around here…! I'll need to have a word with them later… but you're fine! Mighty help ya given me. Charming you was worth the shame after all!"
"It is my pleasure! I live to serve!"
"And hey, wasn't there another guy with you…?"
"He said he had to… pardon the phrasing, go release the dragon milady!"
"Oh, he went to use the restroom then."
With pleasantries exchanged with her poor charm victim, Esther heads towards the door of the main hall, unbeknownst to her that the guard she just spoken to, would head inside one of the empty rooms and collapse like a puppet cut off its strings.
Perishing quietly after the witch had ran out of uses for him.
Part 2
The silver haired beauty of the Silverscales family found herself inside the left wing first floor kitchen.
By request of one of the guards from the manor, she had followed him into the left wing corridor and then continued following until they entered the kitchen.
"You guard, are you listening? This is far enough, explain yourself!" She commanded, keeping a sharp eye on the person before her.
She'd been approached as she stood outside the restroom waiting for her pretend husband to come out.
The guard had them made his appearance and urged her to follow discretely if she didn't want to alarm the guests or other servants.
Having come morning, Reberta expected the kitchen to be busing with life as the chefs busy themselves with breakfast and their after party cleaning duties. But the kitchen was suspiciously deserted.
Even by the main hall she'd noticed a substantial decrease in the number of active personnel working at the state.
Only the few maids and butlers remained to see the closing ceremony going off without a hitch.
Inside the kitchen none but the white haired beauty and the unarmed guard found themselves at the moment.
"Yes… I believe this is far enough." The guard had said.
Through firm with her poise, the silver haired beauty was ready to fell the suspicious individual at any second.
And with her undivided attention, the suspicious guard sits down before lying on his back, where he began to unzip his pants.
Unzipping sounds.*
"Please step on me milady!" He cried lustfully.
Reberta felt her cheeks flush till they matched her wine stained satin gown and red irises.
With a deep horny voice the guard said.
"I'd like to lick those feet with my morning breakfast! Kick me bitch! Strangle my neck under those lusty thighs of tee! Ride my cock and bounce those glorious tits as you moan for me! Tie me to a chair and feed me some cake sugar! Sweat that porcelain skin while I pull your hair…" The guard continues to go on.
Solemnly, Reberta walks over and glaring down with darkened eyes, raises a heel clad leg.
"Ugh! Ouch! Harder slut! I live to serve!" The guard didn't shut up.
A long stomping later and lots of profanity requested at her expense. Reberta exits the kitchen with skin redder than the carpet and fuming like a steam pipe.
She had thought it was something important and yet it was merely a drunken horny guard.
Coming around the door leading back into the main hall, a loud ruckus catches up to her and she starts to hurry up in case something had happened.
"What is going on— Kyah!!" Reberta cried as an stampede ran over her.
The second she touched the door handle it came bursting open with several dozens rich and two-seats wide nobles along with their wives and the remaining servants rushed over.
Reberta was knocked down and mistaken for the red carpet as they ran over her.
"Kyah! Ouch! Eek! HELP!!!"
Her arms, her back, her head, her toes, her fingers, her entire body was stomped over by every shoe and heel dancing at the party.
A noble tripped and rolled over her like a large boulder and later a rich lady sunk her heel on the dragoon girl arse as she ran over.
"To the airship! Go, go, go before the summoning it's completed!" Cried the major as he forcibly drags his son along and they run over Reberta.
What was left under their wake was a splayed, torn gown dragoon girl with messy hair and dozens of shoe prints over her body.
"Ugh…" She moaned weakly as she tried to push back to her feet.
Soon she was found by the confused bunny Precursor who had been looking for her.
"Reberta… is that you? Are you alright…?"
Catching up to her dear friend, Esther was quick to help her stand up and explained their circumstances as the dragoon girl casted healing magic over herself.
Esther delivered the fainted Sigma at the hands of the major and explained what was hiding underground to the rest of the guests so they could begin evacuating.
Strangely, none sounded too surprised to hear what Esther had to say. Yet they've left in a rush anyways. Leaving the bunny Precursor to wonder just how much everyone at the party knew about what was going on, and what where they expecting would happen now.
"And you haven't been able to find Karten or Rylak?"
"No! And I've looked everywhere! Even the men's bathroom!"
"Where are those two when we need them the most!? Ugh…! We'll have to do everything ourselves! Lead the way Esther."
"Right… Follow me!"
Esther kicked off running and Reberta follows as she whistles loudly.
Through one of the windows and it's curtain's, burst in a small baby red dragon carrying a crimson polearm and a large chunk of metal in the shape of a greatsword.
"Gawr!"
"Thank you Ignitos!" Esther caught her Asterisk Alpha.
The baby dragon soon perched over the shoulder of his caretaker, and together with the Crimson Malice spear. The heroines and Ignitos headed for the right wing of the manor.
Part 3
Inside the right wing, by a room used to store excess furniture. The heroine's found a trap door from which dirty rain water was spilling out.
"This is it, these stairs lead into a tunnel which will take us to the lab."
"But it's completely flooded…"
"No matter! We'll just have to hold our breaths and dive in. I can take you there in tenth seconds. Hold my hand…." The rabbit extended a hand towards Reberta.
The silver haired beauty looks over the flooding spiral stairs, then back at her partner outstretched hand.
"Esther… I just need to make sure I heard you right before. You said we need to find a way to keep Tel-Fulsanis alive…?"
"Yeah… don't know the reason why, but the evildoer said something about annihilation and whatnot… Whatever it is, he needs to kill the Lightning Tyrant for his plan to work, and I believe what he said was true."
Having confirmed her worries, Reberta nods back.
"Then let us hurry, before he succumbs to the cage he's in."
"Leave the speed to me, now hold on!" Esther urged.
Reberta reached and grabbed hold of Esther hand. Catching Ignitos under her armpit and holding her spear with her free hand.
With a nod full of determination. Esther pulled and dragged Reberta off her feet.
"AAHHHHHHH— BLUBLUGLUBLURGLU!!!" Reberta cried, completely freaking out by the unexpected burst in speed.
Even without the use of lightning powers and though powerful that Reberta was in her own right, she simply couldn't keep up with Esther speed.
The poor dragoon girl was dragged trough the dirty water at torpedo speeds as Esther cuts through the flooded tunnel. With her hands full, her lips fluttering and Ignitos crying in fright, she watched helplessly as her satin gown ripped to pieces, then her bra followed, leaving her breast bouncing to the high pressure water current, then her black panties came down to her knees where she managed to catch them by spreading the legs.
She tried to call up to Esther to slow down, but all she managed was to create bubbles and swallow dirty water.
In the end she unceremoniously got dragged along, holding onto Esther, Ignitos, her Crimson Malice spear and her black panties as the last vestiges of her dignity.
Soon Esther came through the door of the lab and like crossing through a wall of water. She soon found herself gliding in the air.
The bunny Precursor dug her heels at the metallic floor and creates a drag to slow herself down.
Reberta flew off like a bullet when Esther let's go and crashed into a pile of craters with a loud PRACK!
Seconds later quietly jumping up to her feet, pulling her black panties up and holding Ignitos with his wings spread to cover her breast.
Her flushed tomato skin betraying the poker face of the silver haired beauty.
"What's taken you two so long?" A scornful voice boomed through the underground lab.
Esther and Reberta's attention was brought over to the source. It came from a white haired half man, half wolf lycanthrope of a glowing left arm and wearing a black frock coat. Besides him stood an entranced red haired girl with a torn crème minidress, holding a huge grin she couldn't control anymore.
Through his mastery over the water element, Karten created a floodgate and held back the rain from spilling inside the lab.
"Had it not been for Rylak finding me, this place would've flooded and this cage would stopped working long ago." Karten sounded almost reproachful.
The boom and blast of the Lightning Tyrant beating against the cage echoes across the lab.
Had he been a few seconds later, the flooding would've freed Tel-Fulsanis, but a being the Lightning Tyrant despises most, had showed up to stop it from happening.
The palm of the world ending aberration erupted in blue flames and he beats against the cage with unyielding viciousness.
"Nice trick, but where did you learn how to do that?" The lycanthrope asked with contempt, as he too flared his claws in blue flames.
It took not one second more before the cage mechanism triggered and blasted Tel-Fulsanis with a discharge, but his rage knew not when to quit and he pushed through the pain to continue attacking the cage.
Causing Esther to fear the aberration might kill himself in his rage.
"Wait! He's going to die like this! We need to get him out of there!" Esther quickly brought the Asterisk Alpha over her shoulder and dashed at the cage.
Karten raised an eyebrow at the strange things Esther had said. Keeping an eye out but taking no action despite the contradictions he'd heard towards what was supposed to be their mission, and soon found out by her movements that she truly intended to wreck the cage.
CLANK.
Embers of blue flames flew with the spark of yellow lightning as Karten blocked the Asterisk Alpha with the palm of his hand, and swung it away, sending Esther spinning back in the air to land with the heavy cry of the metal floor underneath.
"What do you think you're doing stopping me like that!? We need to get him out— there's no time!"
"I should be the one asking, Storm. Why did you tried freeing him? When this contrivance of a mechanism is about to do our job for us. Explain yourself." The two halted in confusion.
Reberta eyes reflected the both as she too had gone quiet in doubt of what was happening. But decided to clear things up before they'd run out of time.
"Karten, we cannot allow the Lightning Tyrant to fall yet. Esther heard from the hooded man that if he where to perish under the current circumstances, something horrible could happen. We need to capture Tel-Fulsanis alive!"
"Nonsense! What could be worse than risking this creature getting away?"
"Listen to her Karten, it's true! We need to capture Tel-Fulsanis alive until we know for sure what to do with him!"
To the shock and surprise of Karten, two of his companions rejected the idea of killing the Lightning Tyrant, their mission, but it was out of concern for something the man under the hood had said.
To allow such aberration to live longer just because of such vague words coming out the mouth of an enemy no less.
But as his mind worked with what he'd just heard, the lycanthrope soon felt his last party member pressing herself against his back.
"That can't be! I'm a mage and I sense nothing magical affecting this place! Karten dearest something is off here! Don't let them anywhere near the cage!" Their youngest party member had to said, casting doubt over the information Esther had gathered.
Unbeknownst to any of them, was the ear to ear grin salivating against the back of Karten frock coat.
The rampage going on inside the cage grew fiercer, and so did the lethal discharges. Sending Esther and Reberta into a panic.
"Karten please listen to me! I was here when the evildoer explained his plan, and I don't believe he was lying!"
"Just think about it, Karten. Why build a cage to kill the creature if what Esther said wasn't the case!?"
"Don't listen to them Karten dearest! They've fallen for the hooded man scheme! They don't even know what will happen if the Lightning Tyrant is slay! If they break the cage now, Tel-Fulsanis could escape or even recover to his full power!"
"Karten, listen to us please!"
"Karten!"
"Karten dearest!"
The demands drowned the noise coming from the cage and Karten fell into doubt and disarray, giving way for his curse to transform him even more in the likeness of a wolf.
His gaze wandering through his two teammates, pleading for him to listen. Then his head turned back when he heard a sob.
"I'm… I'm scared… Karten dearest please, listen to me…" Kryla begged, almost trembling behind the Precursor of Shadows back.
Karten regained his composure and made his mind, adopting a firm stance between Esther, Reberta and the Lightning Tyrant cage.
"Karten, Rylak, why can't you two trust us!? Do you really believe we would deceive you…?"
"Is not that I don't trust you, Storm. What I don't trust is your judgement. And I believe the hooded man has snared you in his plans."
The lycanthrope turned around and gently pushed Rylak away, then glared at the aberration inside the cage.
"He will die right now, wether by this contraction or I shall kill him myself." Karten said.
The party went quiet shortly after. Only the discharge from the cage boomed inside the lab room.
Kryla sneered with her back facing the others. The discord she'd sow, so delectable she could barely contain her excitement. The fate of the world was at stake, nothing she could ever hope to achieve on her own.
Cast in the silence that drowned the four, Reberta tightens her hold on Ignitos with remorse, and a down-gazed Esther sigh's, before decisively looking up.
The deafening boom of thunder cracked inside the underground lab as the Precursor of the Storm blitzed, bringing an enormous greatsword over the left shoulder of her party member, the Precursor of the Shadows.
Before anything else, they where Visions, memories perhaps but not the real deal themselves. Esther knew this very well and so did the others. Their mission and the safety of the civilians takes priority above all else. Even if it meant having to fell an ally she'd grown to trust and care for.
Through pure martial prowess, Karten read her movements before the blitz and ignited the palm of his hands in blueish purple flames, catching an over the shoulder cleave death in place after the Precursor bunny reappeared again.
CLANK.
The lightning sparks of the blade clawed at the flames and a shockwave ripples across the lab room, smashing to pieces everything in its wake.
"Out of the way!"
"I will have to refuse!"
Karten dark magic produced a magical seal to hold his footing, less the brute strength of his clash with Esther ends in him getting dug underneath the steel floor like he where standing on deep mud.
Overhead their clash flew a red polearm coated in blazing fire. A throw from Reberta herself aimed at the cage holding back Tel-Fulsanis.
Karten power erupted and he pivots on the ball of his right foot, forcing Esther aside before swinging a roundhouse kick of dark flames with his left leg.
The resulting dark fireball impacts with the Crimson Malice spear and knocked it off the air with a booming explosion.
Following the blare of the blast soon pierced the leftover flames yet another fireball, but this time coming from the baby dragon Ignitos.
Karten cursed under his breath as he attempted to kick a new dark fireball, but soon found himself pushed off his footing and into the air at sonic speeds.
"Haahhh!!" Esther roared a battle cry.
Underneath her feet formed a vertical lightning magic seal she used as footing to swing against Karten center of gravity. Pushing him off the ground and sending him crashing against the wall with a quake and a sonic boom.
The red fireball coming from Ignitos made collision with the Lightning Tyrant cage and fried the mechanism from the outside, causing the energy barriers to come undone and power to swell up inside. Producing so much energy that frightened even Esther.
"It's power it's going out of control… it's going to blow!!" She cried.
Blaring dark lightning magic began imploding and collapsing inside the cage and beams of energy shoot out melting steel. Esther felt an immense pressure coming and rushed over towards Reberta and Ignitos before triggering her Brave Shift.
Dark power swelled from the inside, tainting her pure white hoodie to the color of the night and a lightning bubble erupted around them, shielding from the beams coming out of the cage.
"Rylak, Karten hurry inside!!" She cried extending a hand as the blare coming out the cage becomes blinding.
Her last sight of the dazzled Kryla becomes one where she's reached by Karten, and then it all goes white, and a ringing of the ears follows.
The manor of Relaks, pride of the small peaceful village was blown sky high under a monstrous explosion, and became nothing but debris falling down the air of a giant flaming mushroom.
Part 4
Writer
Sorry, the chapter will have to wait for another weekend. Too stressful a week, but the clowns appear to have calmed down with the wanton death threats at least.
Now let us hope they take the hint and stay away, PERMANENTLY this time! The fastest I forget they exist the better. I already told them everything I wanted to say so I'm not looking forward to meeting the chicken boss anymore.
Going back to blocking everything that has to do with them and I hope the PERMANENTLY was heard loud and clear this time!
On the bright side, I finally got the Rain I was looking for, and took him straight to EX 2. I also got my hands on the new Legend of Zelda at long last.
Had one of the most hilarious falls off a mountain trying to get those Zonai Wings to fly, but that's a story for another day.
